Designmönster är beprövade och återanvändbara designlösningar på återkommande designproblem inom en viss kontext. Designmönster handlar om att inte behöva uppfinna hjulet om och om igen. Designmönster fångar lösningar och kunskap inom mjukvaruutveckling. Vi har försökt beskriva och förstå hur IFS och Intentia tar sig an arbetet som omfattas i våra frågeställningar. Våra frågeställningar har varit hur designmönster kan hittas, dokumenteras och katalogiseras samt hur designmönster kan spridas till medarbetare. Vi har i denna undersökning anslutit oss till de tankegångar som finns inom hermeneutiken och vi har därför valt att använda oss av en kvalitativ metodteori, vars drag ligger mer åt det hermeneutiska perspektivet. Vi har genomfört intervjuer med representanter från ovan nämnda företag. Undersökningen har visat att bägge företagen har grupper med erfarna utvecklare som finner nya designmönster. IFS dokumenterar inte sina mönster medan Intentia gör det, men dock inte enligt någon standard. Dokumenten katalogiseras på ett intranät. IFS katalogiserar inte sina mönster, men de kanske kommer att kategoriseras utifrån sin funktionella tillhörighet. Intentia kategoriserar sina designmönster utifrån vilken typ av designmönster det är fråga om. Varje designmönster hör till en viss grupp av designmönster. De katalogiserar ett designmönster där liknande designmönster finns. När det gäller spridningen av designmönster till medarbetarna inom företagen så hävdar IFS att själva kunskapsöverföringen i deras utvecklingsmiljö. Intentia menar att de erfarna utvecklarna i gruppen som hittar nya mönster även är skickliga på att förmedla designmönster till andra utvecklare i organisationen.

For hundreds of years immigrants have been coming to Canada to start life afresh in hopes of a better future. Many choose Canada because they consider this country a peaceful, tolerant and welcoming place where people and institutions are open and supportive towards cultural diversity. This perception has led many newcomers to believe that with hard work and perseverance, they can in time achieve a fulfilling life. However, the reality of everyday life for many immigrants and their families has shown that significant challenges threaten the attainment of these goals. Research into the life of immigrants makes clear that not every newcomer is able to gain full inclusion in Canadian society. As well, not everyone arrives on equal footing. Many families arrive with few resources. These new Canadians need help not only to gain access to key necessities (i.e. housing, income, education and employment) but also to understand the countless and often perplexing new cultural experiences that await them. This group of newcomers become particularly vulnerable to falling into a downward spiral of poverty that can be difficult to escape. Considering the fact that finding a safe and satisfying home is a critical step in smooth transitioning, it becomes important to ask how the work of architects contributes to the well-being of immigrants attempting to settle and integrate into their newly chosen home. The thesis studies the potential of making settlement easier by proposing an architecture of belonging. The goal is to create a welcoming place for newcomers that supports both a robust communal life and responds to everyday needs. The positive momentum of inclusive community building further fosters a strong neighbourly bond among residents of all cultures and beliefs, which in turn strengthens the Canadian visions of multiculturalism. The thesis explores the design of a housing prototype that brings a neighbourhood house and housing development on the site of St. Christopher House in Toronto.

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 10, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Thesis advisor: James Calvin. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Inaug.-Diss.--Bonn. / Lebenslauf. "Bibliographie: " p. vi-viii.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

In a modern theatre increasingly preoccupied with the mundane, the sordid, the perverse, and the hopeless, Christopher Fry's plays loom like beacons~ For Hr. Fry finds the world, however chaotic, magnificent; and he chooses to explore its more civilized areas in a language undauntedly poetic, through characters cultivated enough to speak that poetry...

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The Prelude, Chorale and Fantasy is a tonally conceived work for orchestra with a duration of approximately twenty minutes which uses as its inspiration the final chapter of Ecclesiastes. It is constructed from a relatively small number of germinal elements which function throughout the work as connecting forces and icons. In it can be found musical ideas used to represent the Trinity, the most significant of which are the quotations of the hymn "How Brightly Shines the Morning Star" which appear throughout. / A greater understanding of the work can be gained by approaching it first on a philosophical level, making connections between the Biblical text and the music and extrapolating from those connections. Following this, a step by step analysis will show the microscopic structure of the work and its relationship to the larger form.

Summary: It is probably true that the Anglo-Maori Wars have received more attention from historians than any other single topic in New Zealand history. This is as it should be, because that event was a watershed - albeit an unhappy one - in the settlement in this country. I therefore make no apology for adding another piece of research which includes a consideration of events in 1859 and 1860. I first �discovered� C.W. Richmond when asked to present a tutorial on him whilst engaged in post-graduate studies at the University of Otago. Regular histories of the period of the Anglo-Maori Wars were consulted, but they dealt with Richmond only in passing. It was at this point that G.H. Scholefield�s two volume edition of the Richmond-Atkinson family papers came to my attention and I discovered in them a wealth of information hitherto unrevealed about the Minister for Native Affairs. Accordingly, I was attracted to a study of the man, and the present paper is the result. The wonder is that so little has been written on a man who played a key role (one could argue the key role) in the Waitara dispute which led the Anglo-Maori Wars. One thesis was written on him in 1948, and W.D. Stewart wrote a short book on him in 1947.