Miestas naktį“ tai trijų darbų kolekcija. Kolekcijoje dominuoja bordo (ochros) spalvų koloritas, vertikalių ir horizontalių ritmas. Atlikimo technika - pastozinė tapyba. Diplominis darbas susideda iš dviejų dalių: teorinio aprašo ir praktinio kūrybinio darbo. Teorinėje dalyje apžvelgiama idėjos formavimasis, temos nagrinėjimas istoriniame kontekste, abstraktusis menas, veiksmo tapyba, analogų paieška ir darbų analizė, pedagoginis pritaikomumas. Taip pat pateikiama kūrybinio darbo eiga, technika, priemonės. Praktinį darbą sudaro trijų darbų kolekcija, pavadinimu ,,Miestas naktį.“ ( akrilas, drobė 110 x 85). Darbai yra abstraktūs, būdingas ekspresyvumas, emocinė įtampa, kontrastingos spalvos, konstruktyvumas. / “The City at Night” is a collection of three paintings. The burgundy (ochre) colors and the rhythm of vertical and horizontal lines prevail in the collection. The technique applied is impasto. The final paper is comprised of the following two parts: a theoretical analysis and a creative practical part. The theoretical part is focused on the formation of an idea and an analysis of the topic in the historical context, abstract art, action painting, analogue search, analysis of works and possibilities of educational application. Also, the procedure of the creative task as well as the applied technique and tools are presented. The practical part of the paper consists of a collection of three paintings called “The City at Night” (acrylic paint, canvas size 110 x 85). The paintings are abstract with inherent expressiveness, emotional tension, contrasting colors and constructivism.

A numerical model (BioClog) is developed to examine changes in key municipal solid waste (MSW) leachate characteristics and the porosity of porous media (clogging) as the leachate passes through the drainage layer of a leachate collection system (LCS). The model considers multiple-species reactive leachate transport through porous media. It simulates biofilm growth and loss, deposition of suspended particles, and precipitation of minerals on the surface of porous media. It is used to examine the long-term performance of both the granular porous media and nonwoven geotextiles in LCSs. Modelling of laboratory mesocosm cells filled with gravel usually used in landfills and permeated by landfill leachate shows encouraging agreement between the observed and measured effluent chemical oxygen demand (COD) and calcium concentrations as well as the gravel porosity within the saturated drainage layers. Studies of early generation LCSs involving finger (French) drain systems show that the finger drains are not effective at controlling leachate mounding within the landfill and the calculated leachate mound thicknesses agree well with observed field data. A numerical examination of the recent generation of LCSs, comprised of the granular drainage blanket and perforated drainage pipes, shows that an increase in grain size increases the service life and that increasing the spacing between collection pipes (i.e., the drainage path) decreases the service life of LCSs. Filter-separator layers between the waste and granular drainage layers are shown to increase the service life of LCSs. The modelling results indicate that the calculated clog mass within the saturated drainage layer is dominated by the inorganic material and the calculated service life of LCSs is dependent on the leachate strength examined. Finally, a new practical model for estimating the service life of LCSs is developed and calibrated against the data from the BioClog model. The simplified model could be used by the practicing engineers for estimating the service life and optimizing the design of LCSs in MSW landfills. / Thesis (Ph.D, Civil Engineering) -- Queen's University, 2012-04-26 14:03:22.666

This essay focuses on Philip Larkin’s The Less Deceived, a collection of poems published in 1955, and tries to demonstrate how the poems within it can be organized and understood according to a contrast between more and less deceived. Through close reading and comparative analysis this overarching contrast is shown to be expressed by recurrences of imagery and thematic material as well as by a series of related opposing terms which inform many of the viewpoints expressed within the collection. These oppositions include those between illusion and disillusion, distance and proximity, surface and depth, artifice and reality as well as innocence and guilt. The essay also concludes that the overarching categories of greater and lesser deception are expressed to varying degrees by the different poems and that neither category can thus be considered as favoured above the other.

Bakalauro darbe „GOD IS A DJ“ nagrinėjamas šiuolaikinės šokių muzikos atlikėjų sceninis įvaizdis, kaip muzika įtakoja, užgožia ar padeda atlikėjui išsiskirti iš minios šokių aikštelėse. Aiškinamasi, kaip šiuolaikiniai diskžokėjai ir aprangos dizaineriai sprendžia šią problemą. Bakalauro darbą sudaro dvi dalys: teorinis aprašas ir vyriškų drabužių kolekcija bei jos fotosesija. Pirmame teorinio aprašo skyriuje analizuojama, koki poveikį daro šiuolaikinė muzika asmenybės formavimuisi, kaip žmogus reguoja į harmoninius ir disharmoninius garsus ir kokios gali būti jų pasekmės. Antrame skyriuje analizuojama naujoji šokių muzika ir jos atlikėjai. Aiškinamasi, kokie yra klubinės muzikos stiliai bei Dj‘ėjų atsiradimo istorija ir nagrinėjami diskžokėjų sceninio įvaizdžio ypatumai. Trečiajame skyriuje pristatomos įvairių dizainerių drabužių kolekcijos muzikos tema, apžvelgiama elektroninių parduotuvių išskirtiniai aprangos pasiūlymai šiuolaikinės klubinės muzikos scenos žmonėms. Ketvirtajame skyriuje aptariami kūrybinės darbo dalies - kuriamos kolekcijos realizavimo etapai, pagrindžiama idėja, pateikiami eskizai, projektai, technologijos. Aprašomos drabužių kolekcijos kūrimo procesai – konstravimas, modeliavimas, siuvimas. Taip pat pateikiamos įvykdytų drabužių modelių fotografijos ir numatomas kolekcijos pristatymo planas. Penktame skyriuje aptariamos sukurtos drabužių kolekcijos realizavimo galimybės, pateikiama kolekcijos sąmata. Ši kolekcija skirta užsakovui bei ateityje planuojama... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In this bachelor work theme „GOD IS A DJ“ it is investigated scene image of contemporary dance music artists. How can the music have an influence, does it helps for an artist stand out of the crowd or other way round. Also it finds out how the deejays and designers are solving this problem in these our modern days. This bachelor work is made of two main points: theoretical description and menswear collection. In the first theoretical description chapter, it is analysed what influence the modern music has on human’s personality and how a person reacts to a disharmonious and harmonic sounds, and also what their consequences might be. In the second chapter, it is analysed nowadays dance music and its artists. There is an information about club music styles, moreover deejay’s history and it is examined their scene image features. The third chapter presents a music theme clothing collection of various designers, also an overview of special and unusual offers for modern club music artist in electric shops. In the fourth part of bachelor creativity part chapter, it is discussed the development of collections realization stages, justified an ideas, presented sketches, projects, and technologies described. What is more described clothing collections development processes – making and designing, modelling, sewing. It also includes clothing patterns pictures and the presentation of expected collection. The fifth chapter deals with clothing collections realisation possibility and... [to full text]

Real time detection of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) using Selected Ion Flow Tube – Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS) provides a unique opportunity for research into breath testing for clinical diagnosis. However, before engaging in research into breath analytes as markers of disease, appropriate breath collection methods are required. Collection of breath for SIFT-MS instruments fall into two categories, direct breath collection into the instrument and the remote breath collection onto a storage medium. This thesis describes the development and validation of both methods of breath collection equipment for SIFT-MS analysis. Development of the direct breath collection device involved standardising and optimising the way in which breath is sampled by SIFT-MS. Design considerations include ergonomics, patient safety, breathing resistance, materials, and appropriate operating conditions of the device. Results from materials testing showed that all materials emit VOCs and the best approach is to minimise VOC emission by careful material selection. To minimise flow resistance experienced by the patient, the capillary from which the SIFT-MS instrument samples, is placed as close as possible to the users mouth. The optimal operating temperature of the device was found to be 100°C - 120°C, which ensures that water vapour will not condense inside the capillary causing blockage. In order to ensure patient safety the device is adequately insulated using stagnant air which also minimises VOC emission from insulation materials. Because a SIFT-MS instrument is large and cannot be easily shifted around a hospital, a system of remote sample collection is required. It is also important to separately collect and analyse breath from the respiratory alveolar region. For this reason the remote breath collection device designed also fractionates collected breath samples into the breath from the upper airways and alveolar breath. The storage medium chosen for the collected breath samples is a gas sampling bag made from Tedlar™. Collection of breath into Tedlar™ bags allows breath to be stored as a whole air sample, the ideal form for analysis with the SIFT-MS technique. Alveolar breath is fractionated from deadspace gasses by measuring a subject's exhalation and collecting the portion of interest. The breath exhalation is measured by an averaging Pitot tube and pressure transducer. Signal processing and automation of the remote breath collection device is controlled by a Cypress Microsystems PSoC microcontroller. To validate the device isoprene and acetone concentrations in fractionated breath samples were compared with a whole breath sample. Results showed that the alveolar breath fraction had a higher concentration of acetone than the upper airway fraction, indicating that the breath was successfully fractioned. However, isoprene concentrations were lower in both fractions due to hyperventilation of the subject causing a dilution effect of alveolar VOCs. Therefore, a higher sample collection volume is required per exhalation, and regulating subjects' breathing rate will avoid the dilution effect observed in collected breath samples. Overall, this thesis had designed, developed and validated two forms of breath collection systems for use with SIFT-MS technology.

The use of washable baghouses for fines collection in milk powder plants has been investigated. The main aim of this study was to increase the fundamental understanding of both operation and design of washable baghouses for application in milk powder plants. This work has focussed on the industrial scale. Industrial plant operating data has been collected, plant designs compared and analyses conducted on powder produced at the industrial scale. The amount of powder that becomes fines, the small size fraction of powder entrained in spray dryer outlet air streams, has been shown to be significantly greater than the traditionally vague estimate of 10 % to 20 %. The ratio of fines flows to total powder flows ranged from 49 ± 8 % to 86 ± 2 % depending on the powder type and plant operating conditions. A simple yet reliable method was developed to quantify fines flows based on measured powder size distributions of samples taken from around the plant. These estimates were supported by readings from an online optical scintillation instrument, which was shown to be capable of measuring fines flows at concentrations approximately four times the supposed maximum stated by the instrument’s manufacturer. Observations in another part of this work supported previous Fonterra observations showing that the amount of bulk fat in skim milk powder (SMP) has a large influence on the baghouse differential pressure. Fines flows measured by the optical scintillation instrument and analysis of other plant operating data showed that a change in bulk fat in SMP does not appear to cause any change in fines concentration. Observations of the surface of SMP by scanning electron microscopy, and electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis, both showed that fat is over-represented on the surface of the particles, and that only small increases in the bulk fat content are required to cause large increases in the surface fat coverage. It is hypothesised that increased fat on the surface of particles increases the clumping of SMP before deposition on the bags. Consequently, the powder forms more porous cakes and is less likely to penetrate into the interior of the filter bags, which also makes it easier to pulse clean powder from the filter bags. Therefore, the baghouse differential pressure is reduced. The design of pulse-jet baghouses from the literature was found to rely heavily on the authors past experience and approach, giving rise to large variation in recommended values of the key design parameters. A procedure for determining the optimal combination of these parameters was developed. This procedure showed that the main Fonterra washable baghouses are far from optimal because of their high air-to-cloth ratios, long bags and high elutriation and annular velocities. This procedure also showed that the Fonterra vibrating fluid bed washable baghouses are much closer to the optimum, which is the probable reason these washable baghouses have had almost no operational issues. Observations of the movement of the bags from below showed significant movement for bags near the inlet of the baghouse, indicating that this was the probable cause of the high bag damage in this zone. It is suggested that increasing the outer gap (distance between the baghouse wall and the bag on the edge of the bag bundle) be investigated further in an attempt to slow the annular velocity around the edge of the bag bundle and reduce bag movement. It is also recommended that stainless steel inspection hatches installed in the wall of a baghouse for this research, be included in all current and future washable baghouses because use of these hatches reduced the overall clean-in-place turn around time by 20 %. Computational fluid dynamics simulations of the air flow patterns within the Clandeboye Dryer 2 chamber were carried out using a commercial code CFX10.0. These simulations are possibly the first to include the influence of a spray dryer’s internal fluid bed airflow on the flow patterns within a spray dryer. As expected, the simulations showed the main air jet oscillated and precessed about the central axis with no apparent distinct frequency. In turn, the recirculation zones between the main jet and the chamber walls fluctuated in size. Different fluid bed flows within the industrial range had only a local influence on the air only flow field by reducing the length of the main jet. A different outlet boundary condition (including a flow resistance representing the baghouse) also appeared to have little influence on the overall flow field. Good agreement was found between the movements of the main jet via simulations and from telltale tufts installed in the plant dryer. This supported other indications that the simulations were an accurate representation of the actual flows. It was concluded that this project achieved its main aim of improving the fundamental understanding of washable baghouse operation and design, especially for application in milk powder plants. Also this project, as well as a change in production schedules, has helped to reduce downtime associated with the washable baghouses in the Fonterra Clandeboye Dryer 2 plant by an estimated 50 hours per annum.

The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge of college students with regard to blood donation in order to be able to create an education program to recruit new donors. After creating a table of specifications, a questionnaire was designed and reviewed by a jury of experts, and then tested in a pilot study. In the final study, 782 usable questionnaires were completed; the majority of students from the convenience sample were female (60.9%), under the age of 21 (93.1%), white (86.2%), non-Hispanic (95.8%), and had earned some college credits (61.4%).The data were analyzed using mean, t-tests, and ANOVA to test five null hypotheses. The overall knowledge (60%) of the subjects was less (M = 13.11 out of a possible 22) than anticipated. Statistically significant differences in knowledge of blood donation was found between college males and females (p < 0 .028), among students by education level (p < 0.047), and among students who were frequent, occasional, and nondonors (p < 0.000). No difference was found in the knowledge of blood donation among students by age. / Department of Physiology and Health Science

Social media collections are becoming increasingly important in the everyday life of Internet users. Recent statistics show that sites hosting social media and community-generated content account for five of the top ten most visited websites in the United States [4], are visited regularly by a broad cross-section of Internet users [61, 67, 115] and host an enormous quantity of information [119, 48, 9]. The increasing importance and size of these collections requires that information retrieval systems pay special attention to these collections, and in particular pay attention to those aspects of social media collections that set them apart from the general web. Social media collections are interesting and challenging from the perspective of information retrieval systems. These collections are dynamic, with content being constantly added, removed and modified. These collections are time-sensitive, with the most recently added content often viewed as the most significant. These collections are richly structured, with authorship information, often threading structure and higher-level topical classifications. Although this type of collection structure is frequently critical for comprehension, it is rarely exploited in retrieval algorithms. This thesis investigates the hypothesis that we can improve retrieval performance in these collections by leveraging this type of structure. To evaluate this hypothesis, we present an exploration of search in several social media collections: blogs and online forums. We demonstrate the utility of leveraging collection structure in three different retrieval tasks: blog post search, blog feed search, and forum thread search. The techniques explored throughout these experiments include evaluating the representation granularity of collections of documents, and methods to incorporate content an author has written throughout the collection. Our results show that, although the retrieval tasks and techniques to leverage this type of collection structure are varied, in many cases substantial and significant retrieval quality improvements can be realized by leveraging this collection structure.

A consumer research panel is a representative collection of individuals whose consumption habits are continually monitored by a marketing research company. It is designed to study the behaviour rather than the attitudes of consumers in the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector. The analysed and interpreted reports help the retailer and manufacturing clients to better understand their markets and the changing dynamics within markets which are largely overseen by retail studies. It is shown that consumer research panels have a very high per panellist cost due to the nature of the data collection methodologies currently used being either very labour-intensive with the in-home interviewer visits, or due to the cost of the technology needed when using an in-home audit terminal to scan the barcode of items. The ubiquitous use of the mobile phone begs the question whether this technology, already in the hands of people, could be used as a data collection device. In 2007, Robert Adelmann demonstrated that it is possible to recognise linear barcodes using a mobile phone equipped with a camera and a barcode recognition algorithm. Three requirements are set for a mobile phone to be used as a data collection device in a consumer panel and are indicated by various studies researching each, focused on Gauteng, South Africa. The technology is shown to be quick and accurate enough to be used in everyday barcode scanning albeit not very prevalent among the responding sample. The data communication infrastructure needed to communicate the audited data was found to be 100% present although few of the respondents displayed their interest in joining a research panel based on mobile phones. It is, therefore, recommended that a phone-based consumer panel be used to supplement existing consumer panels to extend in hard-to-reach demographics like the upper-LSM households, and that the privacy and usage concerns raised by the respondents be addressed. It is also recommended that similar studies be conducted in developed economies where required mobile phone technology could be more prevalent. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2010.

A consumer research panel is a representative collection of individuals whose consumption habits are continually monitored by a marketing research company. It is designed to study the behaviour rather than the attitudes of consumers in the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector. The analysed and interpreted reports help the retailer and manufacturing clients to better understand their markets and the changing dynamics within markets which are largely overseen by retail studies. It is shown that consumer research panels have a very high per panellist cost due to the nature of the data collection methodologies currently used being either very labour-intensive with the in-home interviewer visits, or due to the cost of the technology needed when using an in-home audit terminal to scan the barcode of items. The ubiquitous use of the mobile phone begs the question whether this technology, already in the hands of people, could be used as a data collection device. In 2007, Robert Adelmann demonstrated that it is possible to recognise linear barcodes using a mobile phone equipped with a camera and a barcode recognition algorithm. Three requirements are set for a mobile phone to be used as a data collection device in a consumer panel and are indicated by various studies researching each, focused on Gauteng, South Africa. The technology is shown to be quick and accurate enough to be used in everyday barcode scanning albeit not very prevalent among the responding sample. The data communication infrastructure needed to communicate the audited data was found to be 100% present although few of the respondents displayed their interest in joining a research panel based on mobile phones. It is, therefore, recommended that a phone-based consumer panel be used to supplement existing consumer panels to extend in hard-to-reach demographics like the upper-LSM households, and that the privacy and usage concerns raised by the respondents be addressed. It is also recommended that similar studies be conducted in developed economies where required mobile phone technology could be more prevalent. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2010.