In this dissertation I provide an ethnographic account of the testimony of four expert witnesses who appeared before the Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada (the Krever Inquiry) as they described the production of scientific knowledge and the role that knowledge played in the struggle to protect the blood supply from being contaminated by AIDS during the early 1980's. In doing so, I bring together the experts' testimony with contemporary documents gathered by the Commission and interviews I conducted with participants in the proceedings. Using insights drawn from the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and history, I explore what the witnesses' accounts reveal about their understandings of their professional world and its relationships with other worlds, especially that of public health policy making. The Krever Inquiry offered a valuable opportunity for carrying out such an investigation. It provided a site where science was not only used, it was talked about. The Inquiry invited those involved in the blood system in the early 1980's to reflect upon and explain the beliefs and actions which surrounded one of the worst public health disasters in Canadian history and it asked the witnesses how similar catastrophes could be avoided in the future. As a result, many of the issues addressed at the hearings reflect matters of current concern in public health and medicine. The Inquiry addressed difficult issues surrounding the nature of scientific knowledge and its application in health decision-making and policy formulation. This study, therefore, may be of interest to those dealing with the problems surrounding uncertainty and the management of public health crises. It may also be of interest to those dealing with conflicts rising out of the intersection of different worlds of experience and practice, as well as to those involved in the current initiatives to both make medical and public health institutions more proactive, and inclusive, and public health decision-making more transparent. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate

Au sortir de la Révolution, les collections du Garde-Meuble présentaient un aspect singulier : on avait dispersé bon nombre de chefs-d’œuvre du mobilier royal, et dans le même temps, saisi chez les émigrés et condamnés beaucoup de meubles et objets de grande valeur. Napoléon Ier dut compter sur cette dotation pour meubler les palais dont il prenait possession avec le faste adéquat. La valeur de ces remplois de mobilier évolua au fil des régimes: à une valeur purement utilitaire succédèrent bientôt d’autres qualités attribuées à cet héritage, sur les plans historique, artistique, et symbolique. Sous la Restauration, on ne prêta guère attention à ce patrimoine, pourtant quasi familial, et les ventes de rebuts organisées dans les années 1820 contribuèrent à disperser encore des meubles royaux du XVIIIe siècle. C’est sous la Monarchie de Juillet que se fit jour un intérêt historique pour ces collections, largement mises à profit pour les ameublements des palais. Dans le même temps, le Garde-Meuble initia une véritable politique d’acquisition de mobilier ancien, à l’effet de se procurer des modèles authentiques et de compléter les collections. Ce dernier aspect fut d’autant plus important sous le Second Empire. À l’initiative de l’impératrice Eugénie, qui érigea le style Louis XVI en quasi-style officiel, on racheta des pièces importantes du mobilier royal, dont la plupart servit à l’exposition consacrée à Marie-Antoinette au Petit Trianon en 1867. Finalement, l’étude de ces remplois aura conduit à définir un processus de patrimonialisation du mobilier au XIXe siècle, qui mena à la reconnaissance de la valeur historique de ces objets et à leur présentation au musée. / After the French Revolution, the collections of the Garde-Meuble were divided into two parts : on one hand, all pieces of royal furniture that were not sold at auction, and on the other hand, many objects confiscated from convicts and émigrés. By ascending the throne, Napoléon Ist used this endowment to furnish the palaces with all necessary ceremonial. This is considered as simply utility reuses of ancient furniture ; the same situation is to notice for the Restauration, although Louis XVIII and Charles X could have seen those collections as a familial heritage. When Louis-Philippe Ier came to power, the value of ancient furniture reuses evolved, due to a new interest in historic heritage. By creating historicist interiors in the palaces and by refurnishing historic appartements, the Garde-Meuble developed an acquisition policy on the art market to enrich its collections. This phenomenon was enhanced during the Second Empire, on the initiative of Empress Eugénie, a period that saw the first retrospective exhibitions, for instance the one hold at the Petit Trianon and dedicated to the Queen Marie-Antoinette in 1867. Last but not least, this study underlines the process of ̏ patrimonialization ̋ that characterized the fate of French royal furniture during the 19th-century, and led to its permanent exhibition in museums

<div><p>Analyzing behaviors of objects on the road is a complex task that requires data from various sensors and their fusion to recreate movement of objects with a high degree of accuracy. A data collection and processing system are thus needed to track the objects accurately in order to make an accurate and clear map of the trajectories of objects relative to various coordinate frame(s) of interest in the map. Detection and tracking moving objects (DATMO) and Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) are the tasks that needs to be achieved in conjunction to create a clear map of the road comprising of the moving and static objects.</p> <p> These computational problems are commonly solved and used to aid scenario reconstruction for the objects of interest. The tracking of objects can be done in various ways, utilizing sensors such as monocular or stereo cameras, Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensors as well as Inertial Navigation systems (INS) systems. One relatively common method for solving DATMO and SLAM involves utilizing a 3D LIDAR with multiple monocular cameras in conjunction with an inertial measurement unit (IMU) allows for redundancies to maintain object classification and tracking with the help of sensor fusion in cases when sensor specific traditional algorithms prove to be ineffectual when either sensor falls short due to their limitations. The usage of the IMU and sensor fusion methods relatively eliminates the need for having an expensive INS rig. Fusion of these sensors allows for more effectual tracking to utilize the maximum potential of each sensor while allowing for methods to increase perceptional accuracy. </p> <p>The focus of this thesis will be the dock-less e-scooter and the primary goal will be to track its movements effectively and accurately with respect to cars on the road and the world. Since it is relatively more common to observe a car on the road than e-scooters, we propose a data collection system that can be built on top of an e-scooter and an offline processing pipeline that can be used to collect data in order to understand the behaviors of the e-scooters themselves. In this thesis, we plan to explore a data collection system involving a 3D LIDAR sensor and multiple monocular cameras and an IMU on an e-scooter as well as an offline method for processing the data to generate data to aid scenario reconstruction. </p><br></div>

This thesis deals with the designing of a garbage collector for the PNtalk virtual machine. It describes and rates the approaches and algorithms for an automatic memory management. Four algorithm families ale presented: mark-sweep, mark-compact, copying algorithms and reference counting. At first it describes sequential forms, that pauses running of the main program (mutator), then it describes parallel and concurent forms, that do not pauses the mutator. The thesis also presents generational model of garbage collecting. The following sections briefly introduces object orientated Petri nets. The result of this thesis is the design of the generational garbage collector for the PNtalk virtual machine.

Wilhelm von Bode and the International Art Market: the Unpublished Correspondence with Rudolphe Kann and Joseph Duveen This dissertation explores changing trends in the European and American art market in the late 19th and beginning of the 20th Centuries, in particular their influences, presented from the perspective of Wilhelm von Bode, renowned connoisseur and, at the time, director general of the Berlin Museums and explored predominantly through his relationship with the private collector Rudolphe Kann and art dealer Joseph Duveen. At the time, the collection of Rudolphe Kann was considered to be one of the most refined among the European private collections, yet it hasn't received much attention by contemporary scholars. This dissertation therefore offers the most systematic review of Kann's collection since 1907, the year when Bode compiled the revised catalogue. Wilhelm Bode was actively involved in building the Kann collection, as shown by the extensive numbers of private, previously unpublished, correspondence, which provided the foundation of this research. After the dealer Joseph Duveen bought the entire art collection of this prominent Parisian collector in the summer 1907 and subsequently sold almost all of the artworks to American collectors, the competitiveness of European private...

Wilhelm von Bode and the International Art Market: the Unpublished Correspondence with Rudolphe Kann and Joseph Duveen This dissertation explores changing trends in the European and American art market in the late 19th and beginning of the 20th Centuries, in particular their influences, presented from the perspective of Wilhelm von Bode, renowned connoisseur and, at the time, director general of the Berlin Museums and explored predominantly through his relationship with the private collector Rudolphe Kann and art dealer Joseph Duveen. At the time, the collection of Rudolphe Kann was considered to be one of the most refined among the European private collections, yet it hasn't received much attention by contemporary scholars. This dissertation therefore offers the most systematic review of Kann's collection since 1907, the year when Bode compiled the revised catalogue. Wilhelm Bode was actively involved in building the Kann collection, as shown by the extensive numbers of private, previously unpublished, correspondence, which provided the foundation of this research. After the dealer Joseph Duveen bought the entire art collection of this prominent Parisian collector in the summer 1907 and subsequently sold almost all of the artworks to American collectors, the competitiveness of European private...

[pt] Esta tese constrói uma perspectiva teórica que considera a miniatura como dispositivo de criação em práticas artísticas e literárias, em articulação com o pensamento de Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) e de seu projeto de escrever um comentário sobre o tema da miniaturização (Verkleinerung), a partir do conto de fadas A nova Melusina (Die neue Melusine), de Goethe. Esse desejo de escrita é o ponto de partida deste estudo, que investiga a imagem do escritor judeu-alemão como colecionador, com uma atenção especial por sua coleção de pequenos objetos (miniaturas, velhos brinquedos, globos de neve, livros infantis, selos e cartões postais) e por seu interesse crítico, no contexto do exílio, pela infância, ao redor da qual constelam conceitos (mônada, coleção, técnica) e figuras-chave de seu pensamento (criança, colecionador, trapeiro). Tais conceitos e figuras operam como ferramentas metodológicas da pesquisa, que pensa a miniatura como uma forma estética vinculada à infância e a miniaturização como uma técnica de reprodução. Sob a forma de um caderno de leitura e escrita, a investigação apresenta anotações e comentários sobre a miniatura e a miniaturização como dispositivos de criação no campo da literatura e das artes, elegendo como corpus tanto trabalhos de artistas que compõem séries com miniaturas, quanto ficções literárias que tematizam a miniatura como signo do pequeno. / [en] This thesis explores Walter Benjamin s work and, more specifically, his ideas for a commentary on miniaturization (Verkleinerung) that would be inspired by Goethe s The New Melusine (Die neue Melusine), to elaborate a theoretical perspective that envisions the process of miniaturization and the miniature itself as creative apparatuses for artistic and literary practices. This study also investigates Benjamin as a collector, focusing on his collection of small objects -such as miniatures, old toys, snow globes, children s books, stamps, and postal cards- and his interest on the topic of childhood, which emerged during his time in exile. This later interest would also allow the Jewish-German writer to develop not only the key concepts of monad, collection, and technique, but also the imagery that would become crucial to his work -namely, the child, the collector, and the ragman. This constellation of concepts and imagery will act as a methodological device in this thesis, which understands the miniaturization process as a reproduction technique and the miniature as an aesthetic form that is itself connected to the notion of childhood. By adopting the format of a journal composed of notations and critical comments that position both the miniaturization process and the miniature as creative apparatuses for literature and the arts, this study also investigates not only literary writings that adopt the idea of the miniature as a symbol, but the works of artists that touch on the topic of miniaturization as well. / [fr] Cette thèse propose une perspective théorique qui considère la miniature comme un dispositif de création dans des pratiques artistiques et littéraires, en articulation avec la pensée de Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) et son projet d écrire un commentaire sur le thème de la miniaturisation (Verkleinerung), à partir du conte de fées La nouvelle Mélusine (Die neue Melusine) de Goethe. Ce désir d écriture constitue le point de départ de cette étude, qui explore l image de l écrivain juif-allemand en tant que collectionneur, avec une attention particulière portée à la fois à sa collection de petits objets (miniatures, jouets anciens, boules à neige, livres pour enfants, timbres et cartes postales) et à son intérêt critique, dans le contexte de l exil, pour l enfance, autour de laquelle se retrouvent des concepts (monade, collection, technique) et des figures clés de sa pensée (enfant, collectionneur, chiffonnier). Ces concepts et ces figures procèdent dans la thèse comme des outils de recherche méthodologique, afin de donner à voir la miniature comme une forme esthétique liée à l enfance et la miniaturisation comme une technique de reproduction. Le travail de recherche présente, sous forme d un cahier de lecture et d écriture, des annotations et des commentaires sur la miniature et la miniaturisation comme dispositifs de création dans le domaine de la littérature et des arts, choisissant comme corpus des oeuvres d artistes composant des séries de miniatures que des fictions littéraires qui thématisent la miniature comme signe du petit.

In 2011 the public libraries of Gothenburg city implemented so-called floating collections. In floating collections the items are not housed permanently at a specific library instead they move between libraries depending on where the item is picked up and left off. Therefore, floating collections are controlled by the library users. Making it a part of a user-centered trend found within Swedish libraries. Literature both praise the benefits with floating as well as highlighting the risks of unpredicted challenges. In the case of Gothenburg city, the public library’s collection management and development has caused debate in the media. Especially the library staff has expressed dissatisfaction. In this thesis seven public librarians have been interviewed about how they perceive working with floating collections, the benefits and drawbacks, as well as the larger effects it has on society. They express certain positives that mainly benefit active and knowledgeable users. One of the greatest drawbacks of flowing collections is the uneven flow between libraries. It leads to stagnated pools of items in some areas and draught in others. The librarians also feel they have been excluded in the process of implementing floating collections as well as during further centralization of the collection management in 2022. The centralization and user centered perspective have decreased the librarian’s control and knowledge of the collection. The data from the interviews has been analyzed in relation to existing literature on floating collections and with the perspective of following theoretical concepts: democratic equality, segregation, periphery and peripheralization. I conclude that the drawbacks of floating collections outweigh the benefits from an equality point of view. The structures of floating collections do not take the full spectrum of library users into consideration, which connects to an uneven flow of items in the city. Items tend to flow from socioeconomic peripheries to socioeconomic centers which increases the peripheralization and segregation of Gothenburg city. The public libraries of Gothenburg need to reconsider their collection management and readjust the structures to create more equal conditions for all users regardless of digital knowledge, age, and other social factors. This includes giving the librarians increased influence over the collections to increase and practice their knowledge. The librarians should also be encouraged to maintain the local perspective at each library while simultaneously seeing to the needs of the city as a whole. The users’ needs could still be the center of the system without being at the expense of the librarian’s ability to influence the collection. Many users are dependent on the librarians to use, affect and be inspired by the collection. This is a two years master's thesis in Library and information science.

From the perspective of debt collectors, the goal of debt collection processes is to maximize the chances of a debt being repaid, while minimizing the time to repayment taking place. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate what measure that is most commonly leading to debt being repaid within 30 days. Against a background of males being overrepresented among debtors in terms of the share of the population in Sweden, the purpose has also been to use data analytics methods to explore whether the measures from debt collection companies affect males and females differently and how they affect them. Finally, the purpose has furthermore been to explore whether existing data provided by the debt collection company Visma can be used to optimize the debt collection process so that the debtors' time in it becomes as short as possible. The report has found that invoicing seems to be the measure most strongly associated with debt resolvance, suggesting that this measure is an important tool for debt collection agencies. The report has found that the measures affect males and females differently, which may be related to gender differences in attitudes to financial risk. Furthermore, it has been shown that it presumably is possible to create prediction models to know which debtors will be able to pay their debt. These models should be divided by gender as males, tend to take more risks. Lastly, machine learning and other modern tools, such as Open banking, should be used to optimize the debt collection process. / För ett inkassoföretag är målsättningen med varje indrivningsprocess att uppnå full återbetalning av skulden så snabbt som möjligt. Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att undersöka vilken åtgärd oftast som leder till att skulder återbetalas inom 30 dagar. Då män är överrepresenterade bland gäldenärer, sett till andel av befolkningen, har ett vidare syfte varit att använda dataanalysmetoder för att undersöka om åtgärderna från inkassoföretag påverkar män och kvinnor annorlunda och hur de påverkar dem. Slutligen är syftet också att se om det finns en möjlighet att använda befintliga data tillhandahålla av inkassoföretaget Visma för att optimera inkassoprocessen så att gäldenärernas tid i den blir så kort som möjligt. Rapporten har funnit att fakturering verkar vara den mest effektiva sista åtgärden som inkassobolagen har att tillgå idag. Rapporten har funnit att åtgärderna påverkar män och kvinnor annorlunda. Vidare har det visats att det förmodligen går att skapa predikteringsmodeller för att veta vilka gäldenärer som kommer att kunna betala sin skuld. Dessa modeller bör vara uppdelade på kön då män, är mer riskbenägna. Slutligen bör maskininlärning och även andra moderna redskap, såsom Open banking användas för att optimera inkassoprocessen.

本研究旨在探討公共圖書館電子資源對於新北市國小教師支援教學之需求，透過網站內容分析對八所國立及直轄市立公共圖書館之電子資源網站進行分析，以瞭解可支援新北市國小教師教學需求之電子資源概況，接著對十位曾使用公共圖書館電子資源融入教學中之新北市國小教師進行深度訪談，透過網站內容分析及訪談分析，本研究發現如下： 一、公共圖書館電子資源館藏方面： (一)公共圖書館電子資源種類繁多，各館資源重複者不多，且自購或自建之電子資源數量、比例，各館差距大。 (二)部分相同之電子資源於各公共圖書館網站中所列名稱及資源類型劃分略有不同。 (三)各圖書館網站之內容主題區分與國小學習領域不相符。 (四)大多公共圖書館資源數量最多的主題為「語文」與「社會」領域，而「數學」則是普遍資源數量最少的主題。 (五)公共圖書館以中文電子資源為大宗，其次是英文。 (六)國小學童學習需求差距大，公共圖書館電子資源之適用年齡大多僅以「兒童」分類。 (七)大部分公共圖書館之電子資源需要閱讀證方可使用；少部分電子資源具有取用地點限制；部分電子資源可選擇下載閱讀器方便離線閱讀。 二、國小教師使用公共圖書館電子資源的教學需求方面： (一)國小教師使用公共圖書館電子資源融入教學的因素為：「補充課程內涵與課外知識」、「增長教師專業知能，確認教學內容正確性」、「提升學生的學習興趣」、「方便好用」。 (二)新北市教師認為公共圖書館電子資源適合使用於「準備活動」與「綜合活動」。 (三)新北市教師偏好可互動、具有影音效果的電子資源，因此在課堂上經常「直接播放」公共圖書館電子資源，或輔以Powerpoint及Word重新組織成教材。 (四)新北市國小教師認為使用公共圖書館電子資源於教學的成效為：1.容易引起學生的興趣與動機；2.教師自覺更有教學效能；3.教師能夠自我成長、添增新知；4.擴大學生學習的層面；5.提升學生的學習成就。 (五)可能影響國小教師使用公共圖書館電子資源意願之因素為：1.備課時間不足；2.夥伴教師少；3.教學進度的壓力；4.電子資源內容不符合教學目標；5.電子資源可借閱量不足；6.電子資源分類方式與適用年齡不合使用；7.電子資源的檢索及取用方式不熟悉。 (六)新北市國小教師最常瀏覽新北市立圖書館電子資源，除此之外對於公共圖書館的瞭解所知甚少。 (七)「Google搜尋引擎搜尋」是獲知可使用於教學的公共圖書館電子資源之優先管道。 最後再依據訪談過程中新北教師的建議及研究的結果，提出對教育主管單位、公共圖書館、國小教師及未來後續研究的建議。 / The purpose of this study was to explore the information need of elementary school teachers in their usage of public library electronic resources for teaching in New Taipei City. The content analysis approach and in-depth interview were developed by the research. The major findings of this study are listed as follows: 1. Public libraries electronic collection: (1) There are many kinds of electronic resource in Public libraries, such as the percentage of procurement electronic collection. (2) The same electronic resource were classified to different resource type by different library. (3) The most subject of electronic resource is “Mandarin” and ” Social Studies”in Public library. The less subject is “Mathematics”. (4) The amount of Chinese electronic is more than English. 2. The information need of elementary school teachers in their usage of public library electronic resources for teaching: (1) The factor of using public library electronic resources for teaching is that using as supplementary teaching materials, enhancing the professional knowledge and skills of teachers, lifting the student’s learning interest. (2) Public library electronic are Suitable for “Warm up” and “Wrap up” activities. (3) The elementary school teachers prefer using interactive electronic resource. (4) The negative factors of elementary teacher use electronic resource in teaching is about to be short of time, partner…etc. (5) Google have high priority in searching public library electronic resources for teaching. Accroding to the research finding, there are some suggestions for educational administration, public library, elementary school teachers and follow-up research.