Doctoral thesis--Göteborg, 2001. / Bibliogr. p. 316-338. Index. Résumé en anglais.

The aim of this dissertation is focusing on environmental aesthetics of Arnold Berleant. Firstly we concentrated on his theoretical aesthetics opinions and then we passed to use them on field of environmental aesthetics. To draw a comparison we used writings of another American aesthetician, Allen Carlson. In sphere of Berleant's theoretical aesthetics opinions it is not possible to omit concepts of aesthetical experience, value and social factor. These points are important ideas of aesthetics of engagement, which we would like to present. As useful for environmental aesthetics we also see Berleant evaluation of negative and positive aesthetics values. In case of Allen Carlson we use several models in the field of theoretical aesthetics. The author assessments the functionality of these models for environmental aesthetics. The last point of this dissertation is focusing on a certain type of environment, to architecture and "Disney World", respective. In this field we wanted to demonstrate how the Berleant works with certain type of environment. Allen Carlson chooses as certain type of environment American farms. He concentrates on point how these farms have changed during one century. KEYWORDS: Arnold Berleant, Allen Carlson, environmental aesthetics, aesthetics value, aesthetics experience

Mitjançant tècniques geomètriques, abordem les qüestions següents:(i) Estudi (caracterització, classificació, famílies diferenciables,...) d'una classe destacada de subespais invariants, els anomenats "marcats".(ii) Existència i construcció de solucions de l'anomenat problema de Carlson.(iii) Pertorbacions de matrius conservant un subespai invariant.I. Gohberg, P. Lancaster i L. Rodman defineixen una classe de subespais invariants, els marcats, com els que admeten una base de Jordan relativa a la restricció que sigui extensible a una base de Jordan de l'espai.J. Ferrer-F. Puerta-X. Puerta caracteritzen els subespais marcats en termes geomètrics i els classifiquen. Aquí, els caracteritzem de dues formes diferents: la primera utilitza la filtració doble de Jordan formada per les interseccions dels nuclis i les imatges de les potències de l'endomorfisme, i en particular retroba el resultat abans referit; la segona és en termes de la filtració triple, que resulta d'intersecar l'anterior amb les imatges de les potencies de la restricció, que permet generalitzar el teorema de classificació anterior.En relació amb la segona qüestió, recordem que el problema de Carlson consisteix en preguntar-se per l'existència d'una matriu amb una forma de Jordan determinada si són fixades les formes de Jordan d'un subespai invariant i del quocient. Mitjançant T. Klein es redueix el problema de Carlson a l'existència de les successions de Littlewood-Richardson. Recentment, com es pot veure en un article resum de W. Fulton, s'han trobat condicions a l'efecte. No obstant, no hi ha algorismes per construir solucions explícites. Aquí presentem una demostració geomètrica constructiva del resultat anterior que permet un algorisme per a l'obtenció de solucions.Com una aplicació important, obtenim que, fixades les característiques de Segre del subespai i del quocient, totes les característiques de Segre compatibles tenen alguna realització en qualsevol entorn de les que corresponen a un subespai marcat. Resulta, doncs, que totes les solucions al problema de Carlson apareixen pertorbant les solucions marcades elementals.Això motiva que en la tercera part d'aquest treball estudiem les deformacions d'una matriu que deixa invariant un subespai. Apliquem les tècniques usades per V.I. Arnold per a matrius quadrades per estudiar les matrius del mateix tipus que li són properes. N'obtenim l'expressió implícita d'una deformació miniversal i l'apliquem per obtenir explícitament una deformació miniversal d'una matriu marcada.Els dos primers problemes els tractem també per al cas de sistemes lineals, representats per parelles horitzontals de matrius (A,B). Per dualitat, és equivalent considerar parelles verticals, habitualment escrites (C,A), les quals es poden tractar com a aplicacions lineals definides en un subespai.I. Gohberg, P. Lancaster i L. Rodman estenen la definició de subespai invariant per una parella de matrius. Els subespais (C,A)-invariants també reben el nom de subespais invariants condicionats.Un subespai invariant condicionat es diu marcat si existeix una base de Brunovsky relativa a la restricció extensible a una base de Brunovsky del total. Obtenim una caracterització geomètrica dels subespais (C,A)-marcats, una família completa d'invariants que els classifiquen i condicions suficients per a la existència d'una base global de Brunovsky per a una família diferenciable de subespais (C,A)-marcats.El problema de Carlson també es generalitza de forma natural a parelles de matrius. Aquí, demostrem un teorema, anàleg al fet en el cas quadrat, quan la parella és observable i el quocient és un endomorfisme amb un sol valor propi. Aquest últim problema també ha estat resolt per I. Baragaña i I. Zaballa usant mètodes matricials. És remarcable que una relació directa entre les particions que caracteritzen els blocs de les matrius, que en el cas quadrat és solament necessària, és suficient per a garantir l'existència de solucions en aquest cas. Igualment generalitzem l'algorisme per a l'obtenció explícita de solucions. / We study the next items geometrically:(iv) Characterization, classification, differentiable families,...of an important type of invariant subspaces called marked subspaces.(v) Existence and construction of Carlson problem solutions. (vi) Deformations of matrices that preserve a subspace.(vii) I. Gohberg, P. Lancaster and L. Rodman define the marked subspaces as the ones that have a Jordan basis of the restriction extensible to a Jordan basis of the whole space.J. Ferrer, F. Puerta, and X. Puerta characterize the marked subspaces geometrically and classify them. Here, we characterize them in two different forms: the first one uses the Jordan double filtration formed by kernels and images intersections of the powers of the endomorphism, and in particular find the above result again; the second one is in terms of the triple filtration formed by the intersection of the sets of the above filtration with the images of the powers of the restriction, that allows us to generalize the above classification theorem. In relation to the second item, we recall that the Carlson problem consists of asking by the existence of a matrix with a certain Jordan form if the Jordan form of an invariant subspace and his quotient are fixed. T. Klein reduces the Carlson problem to the existence of the Littlewood-Richardson sequences. Recently, as we can see in a W. Fulton summary paper, existence conditions for them are obtained. However there are not algorithms to construct explicit solutions. Here we present a geometrical proof of the above result that allows us an algorithm for that.As an important application, we obtain that, if the Segre characteristic of the subspace and the quotient are fixed, all the compatible Segre characteristics can be realized in a neighbourhood of some realization corresponding to a marked subspace. It follows that all the Carlson problem solutions appear perturbing the marked solutions.This fact causes that we study the deformations of matrices preserving a subspace in the third part of this paper. We apply the techniques used by V.I. Arnold in the study of deformations of square matrices to study the same kind of matrices that are near them. We obtain the explicit form of a miniversal deformation of a marked matrix.We also study the two first items in the linear system case, done by horizontal pairs of matrices (A,B). By duality, it is equivalent to considerate vertical pairs written habitually (C,A), that we can see as linear maps defined in a subspace.I. Gohberg, P. Lancaster and L. Rodman give the definition of an invariant subspace by a pair of matrices. The (C,A)-invariant subspaces are also known as conditioned invariant subspaces.We say that a conditioned invariant subspace is marked if there is a Brunovsky basis of the restriction extendible to a Brunovsky basis of the whole space. We obtain a geometrical characterization of (C,A)-marked subspaces, a complete family of invariants and sufficient conditions in order to guarantee the existence of a global Brunovsky basis of a differentiable family of (C,A)-marked subspaces.We can also generalize the Carlson problem for pairs of matrices in a natural way. Here, we prove a theorem, similar to the one for the square case, when the pair is observable and the quotient is an endomorphism with an only eigenvalue. I. Baragaña and I. Zaballa also solved this problem using matricial methods. We want to note that a direct relation between the partitions that characterize the blocks of the matrices is sufficient to guarantee the existence of solutions while it is only necessary in the square case. Also we generalize the algorithm to obtain explicit solutions.

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This project examines contemporary performances that disrupt normative understandings of time/history. I argue that the complimentary regimes of heterosexuality and capitalism produce the temporal logics that create the psychic and material conditions under which U.S. queer subjects experience everyday, national, and transnational trauma. These logics include the construction of time/history as linear, teleological, and progress-oriented, and the idealized citizen as similarly straight, productive, and amnesic. I then analyze the ways in which queer performance can resist and transform chrono-normativity by creating "time slips": worlds in which past and present are given permission to touch; history/memory to repeat; and the future to reside in the now. Case studies include Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom's Geyser Land (2003); floodlines (2004-2010), which I conceived and directed; and Peggy Shaw and The Clod Ensemble's Must: The Inside Story (2011). I situate my analysis against the backdrop of a post-9/11 security state that makes these performative disruptions particularly vital at this historical moment. / text

Wise the Wizard is a feature-length documentary by Daisy Sara Blakelock, made as part of the requirements for earning a Master of Fine Arts in Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema from the University of Central Florida. The film focuses on the late Harry Wise, a magician from Sanford, Florida, as remembered by the people who knew him best. Interview subjects include the following: author and TV Producer Charlie Carlson, who wrote a biography about Harry Wise entitled A Wizard's Tux and Tales (Luthers Press, New Smyrna Beach: 2004); Brendan and Anna McWilliams, who accompanied Harry on countless adventures throughout Sanford and the surrounding areas; Art Litka, who dedicated a portion of his Halloween Village to Harry Wise; filmmaker and magician Gary Lester, who studied magic under Harry Wise and acquired and restored many of Harry's former props; and Lynn Ashe, Harry Wise's best friend.

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The thesis Sexual Harassment in the Media on the Example of American Television Fox News aims to describe the sexual harassment affair in the American television company Fox News and compare it with similar cases in other American media organizations. The 2016 case led to the dismissal of Roger Ailes, the company's longtime director, and set off a wave of accusations of sexual harassment in other media, leading to the discrediting of several moderators and prominent figures in the American media. The main goal is to find out whether sexual harassment is a known, systemic phenomenon in America or not. Sexual harassment is also associated with the world-wide anti-sexual harassment movement Me Too, which emerged shortly after the Ailes scandal broke out. Therefore, I want to refute or confirm the hypothesis whether most cases of sexual harassment in the media began to appear only after Me Too became a world-famous movement. The main research method is a search of selected media, such as the New York Times, which has dealt extensively with the case. One of the main results should also be to find out whether harassment has always led to the release of the culprit and whether the victims have received apology or compensation from the media.

Jiang (1997) 首先提出多變量d轉換與其性質。利用多變量d轉換，我們可以定義新式的特徵函數，並且稱它們是多變量d特徵函數。在這篇論文中，我們將使用多變量d特徵函數來證明在普通的條件下，Dirichlet隨機向量的線性組合會分配收斂（converge in distribution）到一個對稱的分配。此外，當給定一個分配函數的多變量d特徵函數，我們將建構一個方法來決定此分配函數。另一方面，我們將證明多變量d特徵函數擁有很多類似傳統的特徵函數的性質。 / A multivariate d-transformation and its properties were first given by Jiang (1997). By means of the multivariate d-transformations, we can define new kinds of characteristic functions and call them multivariate d-characteristic functions. In this thesis, we will use the multivariate d-characteristic function to show that the linear combinations of Dirichlet random vectors, under regularity conditions, converge in distribution to a spherical distribution. Moreover, We will construct a method for constructing the distribution function with a given multivariate d-characteristic function. In addition, we will show that the multivariate d-characteristic function has many properties which are similar to those of the traditional characteristic function.

The purpose of this case history was to view the development of the Saskatchewan Adult Attendance Centre Project through the perspective of currently accepted, but selected, adult education philosophy, principles, and techniques. The Project was a mandatory adult education component of Probation Services, a program for adult offenders operated by Saskatchewan Corrections. The story of the evolution from 1979 to 1984 of the two Adult Attendance Centres of the Project, based in the cities of Regina and Saskatoon, was presented in the context of an historical overview of the education of adults in the Corrections systems of Britain, the United States, and Canada. The Attendance Centres were not set up as adult education institutions. They were intended to be cost effective alternatives to incarceration. The study maintained that sentencing that included attendance at the Centres was more cost effective for the provincial government than incarceration or traditional probation. It argued that the kind of education presented to adult probationers in the Centre programs often strayed from currently accepted adult education philosophy, principles, and techniques. None the less, significant potential existed in the Centres for the creation of more meaningful adult education opportunities for persons on probation.