Ces travaux visent à inscrire le monitoring des plages récifales de l'île de La Réunion dans la « Stratégie Nationale de Gestion Intégrée des Zones Côtières » (2012). Elle oriente les recherches vers une démarche labellisée sur le long terme qui se concrétise par la mise en place de protocoles de mesures normalisés déployés sur des sites ateliers. Le site de l'Ermitage devient, en 2012, le premier site atelier en zone tropicale et de type bioclastique labellisé à l'échelle nationale (AllENVI, puis INSU en 2014). La dynamique des plages d'arrière-récif demeure à ce jour peu étudiée à travers le monde. Les plages bioclastiques de La Réunion sont le produit de récifs coralliens décrits comme dégradés par les biologistes depuis les années 80. Elles sont confrontées à une très forte anthropisation. Des formes marquées d'érosion se lisent dans ces paysages littoraux. La révision des protocoles de suivi de la topographie des plages tout en exploitant les suivis historiques, vise à illustrer la pluralité des dynamiques en contexte d'arrière-récif. La diversité des processus et des échelles spatio-temporelles impliqués dans le fonctionnement hydro-sédimentaire des plages récifales nécessite la mise en œuvre de méthodes d'observation in situ adaptées, comparables et reproductibles. Dans cette étude nous exploitons surtout les suivis topographiques des plages à l'échelle évènementielle, saisonnière et pluriannuelle. Par l'analyse morphologique et volumétrique des séries de profils topographiques, la variabilité morphosédimentaire en zone intertidale et supratidale est décrite. La significativité de la mesure de la mobilité du trait de côte est également questionnée. / Long-term assessment of beach morphodynamic is a great challenge to understand future trajectories of these landforms. In France, in 2012, a national strategy for an integrated management of shoreline has been adopted. This one lead to creation of research labels (SOERE and SNO) which aim to sustain scientific researches dedicated to sandy beach morphodynamic in response to various hydrodynamics forcing. Shoreline monitoring on selected pilot sites is conducted within network where normalized protocols and high quality data are guaranteed at long-term scale. The French coastline also extend in tropical zone through its ultramarine territories. Tropical shoreline are among the most sensitive environment however they remain poorly studied. Since, 2012, Reunion island, a French department in Indian Ocean, integrated the SOERE network. Coral reef and coral beaches which preferentially developed on the western coast are frequently threatened by major swell event associated with tropical cyclones or long period swell. Since now, the beach trend evolution and morphogenic processes have not been quantified. However past monitoring exists which has consisted in topographic measurement along beach profile based on empirical protocols which produced biaised data. Since its integration within SOERE network, DGPS survey are now conducted along the different coral beach compartments of Reunion Island at seasonal and post-storm scale. This study aims to capitalize historical and DGPS beach topographic data in order to quantify long term and post-storm beach response and recovery from Cap Champagne to Trou d'Eau.

[pt] Esta pesquisa parte do princípio que corpo e moda sempre dialogaram no sentido em que um modela o outro. O corpo humano é mutável se modela e remodela de acordo com os códigos sutis de cada cultura e época. É um corpo da subjetividade, fluído, biológico e social. No Brasil a forte cultura de praia e a hipervalorização do corpo possuem ligação com o design de biquíni através dos tempos. Nesta dissertação propomos entender como ocorrem as relações entre o design de biquíni e o corpo, em especial, o corpo remodelado através de esportes, nutrição e cirurgias plásticas em um contexto atual da cultura de praia do Rio de Janeiro. Foram feitas pesquisas exploratórias e pesquisas de campo com designers de moda-praia, cirurgiões plásticos, vendedoras e usuárias de biquíni. A pluralidade sociocultural e corporal permitiu uma visão mais complexa sobre o objeto de pesquisa, chegou-se a diversas relações entre corpo e design de biquíni: relações de influência, dependência e interdependência. O Brasil é referência na moda-praia, contudo há escassez de pesquisa na área tornando assim esta pesquisa oportuna para a área de Design e para a indústria de moda. / [en] This research assumes that body and fashion always conversed in the sense that one shapes the other. The human body is changing and remodeling, is modeled according to the subtle codes of every culture and time. It is a body of subjectivity, fluid, biological and social. In Brazil the strong beach culture and the overvaluation of the body have link with the bikini design through the ages. In this thesis we propose occur to understand how relationships between design of bikini and the body, in particular the body redesigned through sports, nutrition and plastic surgery in the current context of the beach culture of Rio de Janeiro. Exploratory research and field research with beach fashion designers, plastic surgeons, sellers and users of bikini have been made. The sociocultural plurality and body has enabled a more complex view of the object of research, we have reached several relationships between body and bikini design: relations of influence, dependence and interdependence. Brazil is reference in beach fashion, however is no dearth of research in the area thus making this timely research in the area of design and the fashion industry.

This thesis investigates how architecture can go beyond basic programmatic requirements of a school to create a more pleasant environment for students and staff through the use of natural light and geometry. / Master of Architecture

Thesis (MEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the last few decades, wave run up prediction has gained the interest of numerous researchers and every newly-published paper has aimed to predict wave run up with greater accuracy. Wave run up is defined as the vertical elevation reached by a wave's, front water edge as it runs up a beach, measured relative to the still water line. Wave run up is dependent on the incidental wave height, the wave period, the beach slope and the wave steepness. The majority of publications incorporate all of these factors, but some do not, which has led to numerous debates. The goal of this study is to do a re-assessment of previously published wave run up formulae, to obtain a more informed understanding about wave run up and the available predictive empirical formulae. The study also seeks to evaluate the Mather, Stretch & Garland (2011) formula. The method for undertaking this objective comprised a physical model test series with 10 regular wave conditions on a constant slope, being 1/24, performed with an impermeable floor. Also, a beach study in the field was done on Long Beach, Noordhoek, where run up measurements were taken for 30 minute intervals, resulting in five test conditions. A numerical model was employed in conjunction with the beach study to determine the local offshore wave parameters transformed from a deep water wave rider. This information was used to correlate the run up measurements with known wave parameters. Firstly, the physical model assessment was performed to provide a proper foundation for run up understanding. Plotting empirical normalised run up values (R2/H0 ) versus the Iribarren number for different formulae, a grouping was achieved with upper and lower boundaries. The physical model results plotted on the lower end of this grouping, resulted in prediction differences of more than 10%. These differences may have been caused by the unevenness of the physical model slope or the fact that only one slope had been tested. Despite this, the results fell within a band of wave run up formulae located on the lower end of this grouping. An assessment of the beach measurements in the field gave a better correlation than the physical model results when compared to normalised predicted wave run up formulae. These measurements also plotted on the lower end of the grouping, resulting in prediction differences of less than 10% for some empirical formulae. When comparing these empirical predictions to one another, the results demonstrate that the formulae comparing best with the beach measurements were Holman (1986) and Stockdon, Holman, Howd, & Sallenger Jr. (2006). Extreme over predictions were found by Mase & Iwagaki (1984), Hedges & Mase (2004) and Douglass (1992). Nielsen & Hanslow (1991) only compared best with the beach measurements and De la Pena, Sanchez Gonzalez, Diaz-Sanchez, & Martin Huescar (2012) only compared best to the physical model results. This study supports the formula proposed by Mather, Stretch, & Garland (2011). Applying their formula to the measured results presented a C constant of 3.3 for the physical model and 8.6 for the beach results. Both values are within the range prescribed by the authors. Further reasearch minimized the array of possible „C‟ values by correlating this coefficient to Iribarren numbers. „C‟ values between 3.0~5.0 is prescribed for low Iribarren conditions (0.25-0.4) and values between 7.0~10 for higher Iribarren conditions are 0.75-0.8. However, this formula is still open for operator erros whereby the „C‟ value has a big influence in the final result. The best formulae to use, from results within this thesis, is proposed by Holman (1986) and Stockdon et.al (2006). These formulae are not open to operator erros and uses the significant wave height, deep water wave length and the beach face slope to calculate the wave run up. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Gedurende die afgelope paar dekades, het golf-oploop voorspellings die aandag van talle navorsers gelok en elke nuwe geskrewe voorlegging het gepoog om meer akkurate golf-oploop voorspellings te verwesenlik. golf-oploop kan definieer word as die vertikale elevasie bereik deur 'n golf se voorwaterkant soos dit op die strand uitrol, gemeet relatief vanaf die stilwaterlyn. golf-oploop is afhanklik van die invals-golfhoogte, die golfperiode, die strandhelling en die golfsteilheid. Die oorgrote mederheid publikasies uit die literaturr inkorporeer al hierdie faktore, maar sommige nie, wat groot debatvoering tot gevolg het. Die doel met hierdie studie is om vorige gepubliseerde golf- oploop formules te re-evalueer, om 'n meer ingeligte begrip van golf- oploop en beskikbare voorspellende formules te verkry. Die studie poog terselfdertyd ook om golf-opvolg tendense, uniek aan Suid Afrikaanse strande te evalueer deur die huidige formule wat tans hier gebruik word, te assesseer. Om hierdie doelwit te bereik, is gebruik gemaak van 'n fisiese model toets reeks bestaande uit 10 reëlmatige golfstoestande op 'n konstante ondeurlaatbaare strandhelling van 1/24. 'n Veldstudie was ook uitgevoer op Langstrand, Noordhoek, waar golf-oploopmetings met 30 minute tussenposes uitgevoer is, vir vyf toets-toestande. Tesame met die veldstudie, is 'n numeriese model aangewend om die gemete diepsee data nader ann die strand wat bestudeer is te transformeer. Hierdie inligting is benodig om 'n verband tussen tussen oploop-metings en bekende golf parameters te bepaal. Eerstens is die fisiese model assessering uitgevoer om 'n behoorlike basis vir die begrip van golfoploop in die veld te verkry. Deur die emperiese, genormaliseerde oploop waardes (R₂/H₀) vir verkeie formules teenoor die Iribarren getal te plot, is 'n groepering met hoër en laer grense gevind. Daar is gevind dat die fisiese modelwaardes op die laer grens plot, en het verskille met die emperiese waardes van meer as 10% getoon. Hierdie verskille is moontlik veroorsaak as gevolg van 'n oneweredige fisiese model strandhelling of deur die feit dat slegs een helling getoets is. Ten spyte hiervan, het die model oploop waardes binne die bestek van golf- oploop formules geval. Assessering van die veldmetings het 'n beter korrelasie as die fisiese modelresultate getoon, tydens vergelykings met genormaliseerde golf-oploop formules van die emperiese formules. Die oploop waardes van hierdie metings het ook geplot aan die laer grens van die groepering, met verskille van minder as 10% vir die meeste gevalle van die emperiese formules. Wanneer hierdie emperiese voorspellings vergelyk word, is gevind dat die formules wat die beste ooreenstem met die fisiese model, die van Holman (1986) en Stockdon, Howd, & Sallenger Jr. (2006) is. Die emperiese formules van Mase & Iwagake (1984), Hedges & Mase (2004) en Douglas (1992) het die golf-oploop oorvoorspel. Nielsen & Hanslow (1991) het slegs die beste met die strandmetings vergelyk, terwyl De la Pena, Sanchez Gonzalez, Diaz-Sanchez & Martin Huescar (2012) slegs die beste vergelyk het met die fisiese-model resultaat. Hierdie studie ondersteun die formule voorgestel deur Mather, Stretch, & Garland (2011). Deur hul formules op die gemete bevindings toe te pas, is 'n C konstante van 3.3 vir die fisiese model resultate, en 8.0 vir die stranduitlslae bepaal. Beide waardes lê binne die grense wat deur die outeurs voorgestel is. Verdere navorsing het getoon dat moontlike waardes vir die „C‟ konstante tussen 3.0 en 5.0 moet wees vir Iribarren waardes van tussen 0.25 en 0.4. Vir hoër Iribarren waardes, 0.75-0.8, moet die „C‟ kosntante tussen 7.0 en 10 wees; dog is die formule steeds oop vir operateur foute. Die hoofbevindinge van die tesis is gevind dat die beste golf-oploop formules, om tans te gebruik, die van Holman (1986) en Stockdon et.al (2006) is. Hierdie formules kan glad nie beinvloed word deur operateurs foute nie en maak gebruik van die invals golfhoogte, die golfperiode en die strandhelling om die golf-oploop te bepaal.

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This thesis examines narrative articulations in the films Bend It Like Beckham, Bhaji on the Beach, and American Chai as a complicated conversation in relation to bicultural-identity construction in the Indian diaspora. Unpacking the way desi identities are managed in/as a quantum (third) space – one that is continuously shifting and deferred – the films exemplify how "desi" is a heterogeneous cultural "group" without a homeland from which to speak or to return. The narratives of these films are considered cultural translations that expose inter-generational culture-clashes in the spaces between Indian and Western cultures. Screenplay pedagogy was used as a methodology to (re)read analysis of the films, revealing the ways that different movies employ and reinscribe themes of the multicultural pastoral, the carnivalesque, and melodrama, respectively. This thesis concludes by opening up some of the places from which individuals enunciate their desi identities, including the possibilities for (self)reflection.

The master thesis deals with investigation of customers satisfaction in selected Prague beach volleyball sports centre Beachklub Pankrac. The goal of this thesis is to analyse the customer satisfaction and suggest the steps, which leads to remove mistakes and increase satisfaction. In the first part, there is described theory of marketing research and customer satisfaction. The selected method for research was online questioning. Research sample was selected randomly from the visitors of sports centre. The results are arranged in graphs and detailed compare. The result of this research is to propose a recommendation which leads to increasing of customer satisfaction. In general, is the visitors satisfaction on high level.

Title Comparison of selected parameters of function and shape of the foot in volleyball and beach volleyball women players Objectives The goal of this thesis is to find out if there are differences in chosen parameters for competitively playing volleyball and beach volleyball women players. Compare the influence of the sports footwear and hard surface court on the shape and function of the foot with the bare foot on the sand in technically similar sports. Methods The research involved 10 women playing volleyball and 10 women playing beach volleyball. All the players were 19 - 34 years old and all were regularly playing at competitive level. Selected monitored parameters were the quality of perception of sensation in the foot, foot arch shape evaluated by using plantogram and examination postural stability by using the Véle test. The test results were evaluated in both sports separately and then compared with each other. Results The results of this thesis show better readings in all investigated tests in both lower limbs at beach volleyball women players. Only in the case of the shape of the foot arch test on the left foot was the result statistically significant. Other selected parameters in shape and function of beach volleyball women players feet did not show plausible statistical difference....

The thesis "Motor Skills of Volleyball and Beach Volleyball Players Depending on Their Anthropometric Parameters" discusses the distinctions in somatotypes of players of both sports. The thesis aims to define the influence of a somatotype for playing in each position. Furthermore, the thesis compares the differences in motor skills between beach volleyball and volleyball players. Nowadays, professional sports are characterized by growing pressure on athlete's performance. It leads to higher competition which lowers the differences between the individual athletes to minimum. As it gets more difficult for every athlete to be the best, room for science opens up in sport. For this reason, natural conditions of somatotypes and other anthropometric parameters play key roles. The aim of the thesis was to discover the differences in motor skills and somatotypes of beach volleyball and volleyball players. In the research, somatic and motor measurements were applied on players of the same performance categories. Thus, the thesis offers material that beach volleyball and volleyball coaches can later use in practise, for instance while spotting future talents, setting appropriate positions or creating game plans. Key Words Beach Volleyball, Volleyball, Anthropometric Parameters, Motor Skills

Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / Rip current spacings are compared with wave energetics and directional spreading in the Southern Monterey Bay. Southern Monterey Bay affords a unique environment to study rip currents owing to their prevalence created by near-normally incident waves on a sandy shoreline. It is hypothesized that rip current spacing is a function of wave directional spreading and energy flux, based on the morphodynamic modeling by Reniers et al. 2003. A gradient of wave energy flux exists due to headlands and refraction over Monterey Canyon. Rip currents are shown to occur between cusps in the shoreline, allowing cusp spacing to be a surrogate for rip spacing. Rip current spacing was inferred from beach morphology surveys, LIDAR imagery, and Argus cameras, and found to be O(150m) at Sand City and O(300m) at Marina, separated by 6km . Measured waves during a two month period using wave-rider buoys, show a gradient of across-shore energy flux between Sand City, 2 28000( / ) F Jm x . , and Marina, 2 33000( / ) F Jm x . . The two sites have the same peak directional spreading of energy value, 14 peak ̤= o , and slightly different bulk values for Sand City, 18 bulk ̤= o , and Marina, 20 bulk ̤= o . Therefore, the variations in rip current spacing could not be attributed to directional spreading but appear related to variations in energy flux. / Ensign, United States Naval Reserve