<p>We study universal integral means spectra of certain classes of univalent functions defined on subsets of the complex plane. After reformulating the definition of the integral means spectrum of a univalent function in terms of membership in weighted Bergman spaces, we describe the Hilbert space techniques that can be used to estimate universal means spectra from above. Finally, we show that the method of norm expansion used in that context can be applied in a more general setting to reproducing kernel spaces in order to explicitly compute kernel functions.</p>

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"The Journey Within" deals with how the receiver (reader/viewer) engages with the novel and the film. The thesis primarily focuses on Faulkner's novel, incorporating Persona largely as a means by which to illustrate the more carefully concealed reader-engagement strategies in Absalom, Absalom! Starting with a review of Faulkner criticism that opens itself up to this inquiry, the thesis leads into a detail study of the engagement strategies used to foster identification, alignment, sympathy, and empathy among receivers. Employing Umberto Eco's criticism involving "Model Readers" who "actualize" texts, as well as other reader and viewer response theory, I demonstrate that certain receivers experience a specific, heightened engagement with the work. This "Model" receiver restructures her ideologies to accord with what the work expects from her. Ultimately, this particular engagement leads to ontological participation in the work among its receivers. Martin Heidegger's phenomenological investigation, Being and Time, helps illustrate this ontological participation.

<p>This dissertation uses Nietzsche's writings on truth and metaphor as a lens through which to reconsider the contribution that modernist art sought to make to both the understanding and, ultimately, the reconstruction of everyday life. It begins with a consideration of the sentiment, first articulated on a wide scale by the artists and philosophers of the romantic era, that something essential to the cohesion of individual and social experience has been lost during the turbulent transition to modernity. By situating Nietzsche's thought vis-à-vis the decline of nineteenth-century idealism in both its Continental and Victorian forms, I demonstrate how his principal texts brought to an advanced stage of philosophical expression a set of distinctly post-romantic concerns about the role of mind and language in the construction of reality that would soon come to define the practice of modernism in philosophy and the arts. Nietzsche's contribution to moral philosophy is typically regarded as a skeptical, and even wholly negative, one. Yet a central element of his thought is obscured, I argue, when we fail to account for its positive conviction that "higher moralities are, or ought to be, possible." Because his philosophy attempts to diagnose "genealogically" the concrete social, historical, and psychological conditions under which truth-relations are generated and maintained within a given cultural framework, it is in fact every bit as constructive as it is deconstructive, involving a sustained and ethically significant reflection on the character of normativity itself.</p><p>This initial confrontation with Nietzsche's philosophy sets the stage for the studies of individual artists--the American poets Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens, as well as the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman--for whom these traditionally epistemological concerns about the nature of representation also shade naturally into the domain of ethics. In these chapters, I demonstrate how aesthetic modernism produces a range of sophisticated responses to the predicament of relativism that Nietzsche articulated while reaching sometimes radically different conclusions than Nietzsche about the nature and extent of human agency in the modern world. This enables us to see how modernism makes an essential contribution to what the philosopher Charles Taylor has characterized as the broader cultural effort to "overcome epistemology" by exploring the structures of intentionality and fostering in us a basic "awareness about the limits and conditions of our knowing"--a project to which modernist art and philosophy both make essential contributions.</p> / Dissertation

Optimized methods for the regioselective and stereospecific synthesis of both trisubstituted and tetrasubstituted olefins as single isomers from E-β-chloro-α-iodo-α,β-unsaturated esters have been developed from previous work done in the Ogilvie lab. These optimized methods have led to the synthesis of trans isomeric enediynes that can be photoisomerized to their respective cis isomers and subsequently undergo microwave-assisted Bergman cycloaromatizations. Furthermore, both cis and trans isomeric enediynes that have propargyl ether substituents have been found to be able to undergo photoactivated Bergman cyclizations without the need for an intermolecular hydrogen donor. A mechanism study has confirmed that the Bergman cyclization products that form without the presence of an intermolecular hydrogen donor undergo a series of 1,5-hydrogen shifts as intermediates. A series of optimizations to these reactions were carried out, in part by utilizing electron-donating or electron-withdrawing functional groups to help stabilize the resulting radicals that form on the intermediates, and thus increase the yield of the associated Bergman cyclization products.

Diss. Uppsala : Univ., 2003.

Diss.--Hamburg. / Bibliography: p 301-304.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Mathematics)--Vanderbilt University, Aug. 2006. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Esta dissertação se propõe a investigar a comunicação a partir da obra cinematográfica do diretor sueco Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007). Em oposição a uma ideia corrente na literatura sobre esse cineasta, a de que seus filmes seriam uma expressão da incomunicabilidade, buscamos caracterizar a partir deles uma comunicação de caráter afetivo, que está relacionada ao uso por parte do diretor do rosto em primeiro plano. Nossa fundamentação teórica tem como centro os conceitos de imagem-afecção, de Gilles Deleuze (1985; 2011), e de rostidade, de Deleuze e Félix Guattari (2012). Realizamos nossas análises com base em 16 filmes de Bergman, a partir de um procedimento de desmonte e arranjo, que deram a ver o que compreendemos como figuras da comunicação afetiva em Bergman: mãos, relógios, óculos, máscaras, espelhos, estátuas e multidão. As análises permitiram identificar os parâmetros dessa comunicação afetiva. / This dissertation aims to investigate communication in the cinematographic work of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007). In contrast to a recurrent idea in the literature about this filmmaker – that his movies are an expression of incommunicability –, we look to characterize a form of communication that is affective and related to the use by the director of the face in close-up. Our theoretical foundation has at its center the concepts of affection-image, by Gilles Deleuze (1985; 2011), and that of faciality, by Deleuze and Félix Guattari (2012). We did our analyses of 16 Bergman movies based on a break and rearrange procedure, which led to what we see as figures of the affective communication in Bergman: hands, clocks, glasses, masks, mirrors, statues and the multitude. The analyses have permitted us to identify the parameters of that affective communication.

In the first part of this thesis, we prove two density theorems for quadrature domains in Cn ,n≥2. It is shown that quadrature domains are dense in the class of all product domains of the form D×Ωwhere D⊂Cn−1 is a smoothly bounded pseudoconvex domain satisfying Bell’s Condition R and Ω⊂Cis a smoothly bounded domain. It is also shown that quadrature domains are dense in the class of all smoothly bounded complete Hartogs domains in C2. In the second part of this thesis, we study the behaviour of the critical points of the Green’s function when a sequence of domains Dk⊂Rn con-verges to a limiting domain Din the C∞-topology. It is shown that the limit-ing set of the critical points of the Green’s functions Gkfor domains Dk⊂Care the zeroes of the Bergman kernel of D. This generalizes a result of Solynin and Gustafsson, Sebbar.