Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Against the background of a rapidly collapsing socialist empire in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, socialist China has since the late 1970s consciously endeavored to develop a "socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics." This thesis assesses the process of economic and spatial transformation in the Zhujiang (Pearl River) Delta, one of the fastest growing economic regions in China. The purposes are to identify the general pattern of economic and spatial changes, to determine the key forces responsible for such changes, and to explore the theoretical implications of these changes in the broader context of interpretation about the operating mechanism of regional development. The overall objective is to understand how a regional economy under socialism is transformed after the intrusion of global market forces. My analyses of regional data and indepth case studies reveal that the Zhujiang Delta has since 1979 moved away from the previous impasse of involutionary growth or growth without development and entered a new era of real transformative development in which dramatic growth has occurred not only in agricultural and industrial output but also in labour productivity, per capita income, and employment. The take-off of the delta's regional economy has owed little to the expansion of state-run modern manufacturing, but has been fueled primarily by numerous small-scale, labour-intensive, and rural-base industries. The spatial outcome of this rural industrialization has been a rapid urbanization of the countryside, especially of the area adjacent to and between major metropolitan centres. There has been no increasing concentration of population in large cities as the conventional wisdom of urban transition might have predicted. Regional development in the Zhujiang Delta during the 1980s was not an outcome of any active state involvement. It was instead a result of relaxed control by the socialist central state over the delta's regional economy. Local governments, along with the collective and private sectors, are found to be the chief agents responsible for the transformation of the peasant economy and the development of the transport infrastructure. The penetration of global market forces via Hong Kong into the Zhujiang Delta has significantly facilitated the process of economic, spatial, and social transformation. This study of the operating mechanism of regional development in the Zhujiang Delta presents a dialectical model of local-global interaction to combat the two prevailing schools of exogenism and endogenism. It also suggests that previous theories on Chinese regional development, which assumed a strong socialist central state monopolizing local economic affairs, might need fundamental modifications. For the Zhujiang Delta, the development of which is still in the early take-off stage, the establishment of a modern transport infrastructure has shown remarkable effects, leading to rather than following the growth of the delta's economy. Finally, the relocation of transnational capital and manufacturing production from Hong Kong to the Zhujiang Delta has not displayed a spatial tendency of high concentration in the primate city as the conventional theory of globalization would suggest. Non-economic factors such as historical, cultural, and social linkages between investors and their target regions are found to have played a major role which should not be overlooked in understanding the mechanism and spatial patterns of the internationalization of production. / Arts, Faculty of / Geography, Department of / Graduate

Spaceborne radar sounders are an important class of remote sensing instruments which operate by recording backscattered electromagnetic waves in the vicinity of a solid planetary body. The incoming waves are generally transmitted by the radar itself (active sounding), although external signals of opportunity can also be used (passive sounding). There are currently two major planetary radar sounders under development, both headed to the Jovian icy moons (Europa, Ganymede and Callisto). Designing a radar sounder is a very challenging process involving careful leveraging of heritage and predictive tools, and in which backscattering simulators play a central role. This is especially true for coherent simulators, due to their higher accuracy and the possibility they offer to apply advanced processing techniques on the resulting simulated data, such as synthetic aperture radar focusing, or any other operation which requires field amplitude, phase and polarisation. For this reason, designing computationally-efficient coherent simulators is an important and active research area. The first contribution of this thesis is a novel multilayer coherent simulator based on the Stratton-Chu equation and the linear phase approximation, which can generate realistic simulated radar data on a wide range of surface and subsurface digital elevation models (DEM), using only a fraction of the computational resources that a finite-difference time-domain method would need. Thorough validation was conducted against both theoretical formulations and real data, which confirmed the accuracy of the method. The method was then generalised to noisy active and passive sounding, which is an important capability in the context of the proposed use of passive sounding on the Jovian icy moons. Provided that representative information about the surface and this external field exists, the simulator could compare the relative scientific value of active and passive sounding of a given target under given conditions. However, quality DEMs of the Jovian icy moons are scarce. For this reason we also present a comparative study of the fractal roughness of Europa and Mars (a much better studied body), where we derive fractal analogue maps of twelve types of Europan terrains on Mars. These maps could be used to guide the choice of Martian DEMs on which to perform representative backscattering simulations for future radar missions on Europa. Finally, we explore the possibility of entirely new radar architectures with the novel concept of the distributed radar. In a distributed sounder, very large across-track antennas can be synthesised from smallsats flying on selected orbits, providing a way to obtain a highly-directive antenna without the need to deploy large and complex structures in space. We develop an analytical formulation to treat the problem of beamforming with an array affected by perturbations on the positions of its array elements, and propose a set of Keplerian parameters that enable the concept.

University of Macau / Faculty of Arts and Humanities. / Department of English

書院在中國學術史、中國教育史上占有重要的地位，是中國文化史上的燦爛明珠。從唐代產生到清末改制，書院歷經了千年之久的辦學歷史，形成了一套獨具特色的教學方法、管理制度和學術風格，使源遠流長的傳統私學趨於成熟及完善。書院因此成為中國古代的重要教育機構，受到宋以後許多思想家和教育家的重視。 　　歷來有關書院研究的專書與論文甚多，唯諸書大抵用力於書院制度本身的研究，罕能及於書院精神的探索，對於理學家從事的書院教育活動尚缺乏專題性的研究。朱熹從事書院教育長達五十年之久，於乾道、淳熙年間，曾先後建設了寒泉、武夷和竹林三個精舍，以及修復白鹿洞、嶽麓兩所書院，弟子遍滿天下。其創辦書院且講學於書院，培養大批人才，從而形成歷史上最大的理學學派，對中國日後的思想、文化和教育產生了極其深遠的影響。 　　本文意欲對朱熹與書院的關係，作一探討，期望能對朱熹的書院運動在中國學術史及中國教育史上的貢獻，給予全面的探索與分析。關於本文研究的次第，茲略敘述如下：　　第一章為「緒論」，旨在探討書院制度的起源與書院教育的特色。第二章為「朱熹的書院教育活動」，主要論述朱熹建築寒泉、武夷、竹林三精舍，以及修復白鹿洞、嶽麓兩所書院的教育活動。 　　第三章為「朱熹的書院教育思想」，闡述說明朱熹從事書院教育的宗旨與目標、內容與方法。第四章為「朱熹對書院的管理情形」，分別就書院的職事、藏書、刻書、祭祀與經費等方面，剖析朱熹對管理所設立的各種書院制度。 　　第五章為「結論」，總述朱熹對書院發展的影響及其對書院運動的貢獻。

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Thesis (Ph. D., Education)--University of Idaho, August 2007. / Major professor: Karen Guilfoyle. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-98). Also available online (PDF file) by subscription or by purchasing the individual file.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:48:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CamilaA.pdf: 551643 bytes, checksum: c211e0d0bbaf86da86337efffe6f407b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-07-28 / The Reconfigurables Architectures had appeares as an alternative to the ASICs and the GGP, keeping a balance between flexibility and performance. This work presents a proposal for the modeling of Reconfigurables with Chu Spaces, describing the subjects main about this thematic. The solution proposal consists of a modeling that uses a generalization of the Chu Spaces, called of Chu nets, to model the configurations of a Reconfigurables Architectures. To validate the models, three algorithms had been developed and implemented to compose configurable logic blocks, detection of controllability and observability in applications for Reconfigurables Architectures modeled by Chu nets / As Arquiteturas Reconfigur?veis surgiram no ambiente acad?mico como uma alternativa aos ASICs e aos GGP, mantendo um equil?brio entre flexibilidade e performance. Este trabalho apresenta uma proposta para a modelagem de Arquiteturas Reconfigur?veis com Espa?os de Chu, descrevendo os principais assuntos relativos a esta tem?tica. A solu??o proposta consiste em uma modelagem que utiliza uma generaliza??o dos Espa?os de Chu, denominada de Chu nets, para modelar as configura??es de uma Arquitetura Reconfigur?vel. Como forma de validar os modelos, foram desenvolvidos e implementados tr?s algoritmos que realizam a composi??o de c?lulas l?gicas program?veis, detec??o dos vetores de controlabilidade e observabilidade em aplica??es para Arquiteturas Reconfigur?veis, que est?o modeladas atrav?s das Chu nets

Wanghua Chu (b. 1941) is an outstanding Chinese composer and pianist, who has written extensively for piano. This dissertation offers a pedagogical analysis of Seven Chinese Folk Songs (1999), one of his most famous and well-regarded piano solo works. The present study has two broad and related aims: to introduce Wanghua Chu's Seven Chinese folk songs to a broader community of pianists outside of China; and to provide a pedagogical analysis so that pianists of a late-intermediate level and higher can learn it effectively and teachers can teach it successfully. Chapter 2 provides an overview of Wanghua Chu's artistic career and major works, as well as the composition background of Seven Chinese Folk Songs. Chapter 3 introduces the seven original Chinese folk songs that are used in this work, both the actual songs and the song types. Chapter 4 provides an analysis of the musical form of each movement of Seven Chinese Folk Songs. Chapter 5 analyzes the technical difficulties of this work and provides specific practice methods to solve them. Seven Chinese Folk Songs exposes the pianist to the diversity and richness of Chinese folk songs and offers them a different kind of learning opportunity in which they not only broaden their horizons through learning Chinese folk songs and ethnic cultures but also improve their piano playing techniques, as well as enhance their musical expression and imagination abilities.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-04-06Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:49:12Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 apolinario_lav_me_ilha.pdf: 1113492 bytes, checksum: 230832bf478b9499e8cf5963cb7fffbb (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Faltas permanentes em alimentadores de distribuição causam atuação do sistema de proteção interrompendo o fornecimento de energia elétrica aos consumidores. Um número considerável de faltas é ocasionado por animais e vegetação em contato com partes energizadas da linha. A redução do número de desligamentos indevidos provocados pela vegetação pode ser obtida através de um criterioso programa de podas das árvores que estão sob os circuitos alimentadores. Nesta dissertação o problema de programação de podas de árvores sob a rede de distribuição é formulado como um modelo de programação não linear binária dinâmica. Neste modelo busca-se a redução das taxas de faltas devido à vegetação e a alocação otimizada de recursos humanos e financeiros anuais disponíveis pelas empresas distribuidoras para manutenção da vegetação sob a rede, de modo a não violar a restrição de confiabilidade do sistema. O modelo matemático utiliza como parâmetro a taxa de faltas no alimentador devido à vegetação. Desta forma, foram propostas duas metodologias para determinar as taxas de faltas. Em uma dessas metodologias utiliza-se um modelo de crescimento da vegetação para determinar à taxa de falta, e na outra metodologia a taxa de falta é obtida diretamente dos dados históricos de interrupção do alimentador devido á vegetação, e não requer um segundo modelo para relacionar o crescimento da vegetação às taxas de falta. Para solução do modelo matemático é proposto um algoritmo genético dedicado de Chu-Beasley. A metodologia que utiliza a taxa de crescimento da vegetação foi testada em um sistema de distribuição teste composto por 15 alimentadores, e com diferentes tipos de vegetação sob os mesmos, em que deve ser realizado o planejamento anual de manutenção da vegetação. E a outra metodologia que não considera a taxa de crescimento... / Permanent outages in distribution feeders cause the action of the protection system, interrupting the electrical energy supply to the consumers. A considerable number of faults in distribution systems are due to animals and vegetation that come in contact with the overhead power lines. The reduction of the number of faults, due to vegetation under the overhead power lines, can be achieved by means of an adequate vegetation maintenance scheduling. In this dissertation, the vegetation maintenance scheduling is formulated as a non-linear binary and dynamic programming model. This model aims to reduce vegetation-related failure rates and to optimize annual human and financial resources available by electrical energy companies for vegetation maintenance, subject to the system reliability constraint. The vegetation-related failure rate is used as a parameter in the mathematical model. In this way, two methodologies for the vegetation-related failure rates were proposed. The first one utilizes a vegetation growth model to determine failure rates. In the second methodology, failure rates are gotten from historical interruption data that occur on the feeder due to vegetation. In this case, a second model to relate the growth of vegetation with a vegetation-related failure rate is not required. To solve the mathematical model a dedicated Chu-Beasley genetic algorithm is proposed. The first methodology was tested in a test distribution system with 15 sections and different vegetation types, under the circuit feeders where the annual vegetation maintenance scheduling must be found. The other methodology was tested in a real system composed of 27 urban feeders in a city inside the São Paulo’s state (Brazil)