This thesis is focused on interpreting constitutive components of Michel Foucault's political thought (power, knowledge, subjectivity) from the viewpoint of the subjectification. The first goal of this work is to pursue the technique of confession as a crucial mechanism that participates on constructing the subjectivity in Foucault's work. To uncover in which connections it is usually pursued and what forms according to Foucault did it gain during history depending on various configurations of bonds between power and knowledge. The work's second goal is to substantiate a technique of confession defined by Foucault in contemporary human sciences, specifically in the foundations of the processes of data collection and then to demonstrate confession as a necessary element for creating an empirical type of knowledge.

Släckvatten är den biprodukt som blir kvar efter att en brand är släckt och innehåller många olika föreningar som är skadliga för miljö och hälsa. Till exempel kan ett utsläpp av släckvattenslå ut en vattentäkt som tar många år och kostar många miljoner att återställa, om det ens går. Vissa av föroreningarna kan även stanna i organismer genom hela näringskedjan. Ett bättre handhavande av släckvatten skulle med andra ord kunna leda till stora ekonomiska och miljömässiga vinster. Syftet med denna rapport är att undersöka hur svensk släckvattenshantering kan utformas. Rapporten undersöker hur organisation, utbildning, rutiner, teknisk förmåga, förmågan att rena släckvattnet kan se ut runt en släckvattenresurs hos svenska räddningstjänster. Dessutom undersöker rapporten om det finns behov av stöttning från en annan aktör när det gäller släckvattenshanteringen. Rapporten berör endast hantering av släckvatten på skadeplatsen. Metoden som valdes för rapporten är fallstudie, där det ingick en litteraturstudie samt en intervjustudie. Tre organisationer valdes ut för intervjuerna: Södra Älvsborgs Räddningstjänstförbund, Eskilstuna Räddningstjänst, Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap (MSB). Resultatet visar att de två räddningstjänsternas släckvattenresurser liknar varandra i alla de områden som rapporten berör. Det framkom även att MSB påbörjat ett arbete för att utveckla släckvattenshanteringen med riktlinjer och vägledningar. De slutsatser som kan dras av resultatet är att organisationen runt en släckvattenresurs bland annat är att resursen inte ingår i någon larmplan utan larmas ut separat av RL. Resursen har placerats på en RIB- eller värnstation för att sprida kompetensen i organisationen samt så att resursen inte ska störa styrkeuppbyggnaden för andra stationer. Resursen har eget befäl och mellan 3–4 brandmän. Det finns samarbete mellan kommuner/förbund både ekonomiskt och operativt för de undersökta släckvattenresurserna. När det gäller utbildning för dem som arbetar med släckvattenresursen hålls årliga helgövningar plus ytterligare 3h utöver det hos Eskilstuna och hos SÄRF övas materialkännedom kontinuerligt. Befälen som arbetar med resursen har ingen påbyggnadsutbildning om vilka föroreningar som finns i vattnet utan ska kunna bedöma släckvattnets farlighet utifrån vad som har blivit släckt. Alla insatser utvärderas av personalen som varit på insatsen som sedan berättar för dem som inte varit med. Det är enligt respondenterna svårt att samla upp släckvatten då förutsättningarna kan se olika ut på olika insatser. Detta gör att det inte går att ha några förbestämda rutiner, checklistor eller lathundar. En taktik som dock finns är att leda vattnet mot en svacka eller dagvattenbrunn som förses med en pumpgrop för att sedan pumpa vattnet till en bassäng eller ett uppsamlingskar. Det finns rutiner för bränder på vattenskyddsområde som bygger på försiktighetsprincipen. De rutiner som finns för uppsamling inomhus är att brunnar i industrilokaler täpps till. Uppsamlingen påbörjas oftast efter att livräddande insats är klar och uppsamlandet sker mellan kall och varm skyddszon. Den tekniska förmågan för släckvattenhantering i basbilarna, där släckande styrka åker, är begränsad och förväntningen är att kunna samla upp genom att täta dagvattenbrunnar och lägga ut fylld grovslang som barriär. Fordonet som de undersökta släckvattenresurserna baseras på är en pick-up med släp. Släpet får max väga 750kg för att undvika krav på utökad körkortsbehörighet. Personalen bär larmställ, hjälm, stövlar med stålhätta, gummihandskar, skyddsglasögon och har även tillgång till tryckluftsapparat. Hanteringen av kontaminerad utrustning följer Skellefteåmodellen för friska brandmän. Utrustningen på resursen består främst av: brunnsmattor och brunnstätningar, självresande kar, dränkbara pumpar, spillbarriärer, vattendammsugare, pumpgrop och bärbara elverk. Uppsamlingsförmågan varierar mellan 10 – 26 m3 vilka gör att uthålligheten för uppsamlingen varierar mellan 20 minuter och 2,5 timmar beroende hur många av pumparna som används. Förmågan för rening är i dagsläget lika med noll och det beror mycket på att räddningstjänsterna inte har råd med reningsverk. Stöttning från MSB efterfrågas främst kring det otydliga juridiska ansvaret för släckvatten samt metodutveckling. Sedan efterfrågas stöttning rent operativt när det gäller rening och provtagning av släckvatten. Det kan antingen komma från MSB men kan också komma från samarbete mellan räddningstjänster/förbund eller med andra kommunala verksamheter så som miljö- och servicekontor eller VA. / Extinguishing water is the by-product remains after a fire has been extinguished. It contains many different compounds that could harm the environment and health. A spill of extinguishing water could e.g. destroy a water source that might take many years and costs many millions to restore, if even possible. Some of the pollutants can also stay in organisms throughout the food chain. In other words, better management of extinguishing water could lead to major economic and environmental benefits. The purpose of this report is to investigate how Swedish extinguishing water management can be designed. The report examines how organization, training, routines, technical ability, the ability to purify the fire water can be done around a fire water resource at Swedish rescue services. In addition, the report examines whether there is a need for support from another actor in terms of fire water management. The report only concerns the handling of extinguishing water at the accident site. The method chosen for the report is a case study, which included a literature study and an interview study. Three organizations were selected for the interviews: South Älvsborgs Rescue Services Association, Eskilstuna rescue service and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency. The results show that the two examined extinguishing water resources are very similar in all the areas covered by the report. It also emerged that MSB has begun work to develop guidelines for extinguishing water management. The conclusions that can be drawn from the result are that the organization around an extinguishing water resource is, e.g., that the investigated resources are not included in any alarm plan but is alerted by RL. The resource has been placed at a RIB or part time station to spread the competence in the organization and so that the resource does not interfere with force building for other stations. The resource has its own commander and between 3-4 firefighters. For both investigated resources, there is cooperation between several fire departments both financially and operationally for the extinguishing water resource. When it comes to training for those who work with the fire water resource, annual weekend exercises are held plus an additional 3 hours per year. Knowledge of how to use the equipment is practiced continuously. The commanders who work with the resource have no additional training in what contaminants that could be expected to be present in the water but must be able to assess the danger of the extinguishing water based on what has been extinguished. All rescue efforts are evaluated by the staff who have been on the rescue, who then tell those who have not participated. According to the respondents, it is difficult to collect extinguishing water as the conditions vary a lot for different rescue efforts. This means that it is not possible to have any pre-determined routines, checklists or guides. One tactic that exists, however, is to direct the water towards a depression or stormwater well provided with collection vessel and then pump the water to a pool or a collection tank. There are routines for fires within water protection areas that are based on the precautionary principle. The routines that exist for indoors collection are that wells in industrial premises are being clogged. The collection usually starts after the life-saving operation has been completed and the collection takes place between a cold and a warm protection zone. The technical ability for extinguishing water management in the base cars is limited and the expectation is to be able to collect by sealing stormwater wells and laying out filled coarse hose as a barrier. The vehicle on which the fire water resource is based is a pick-up with a trailer. A trailer that may weigh a maximum of 750 kg as then no extended driving license is required. The staff wears alarm racks, helmets, boots with steel caps, rubber gloves, goggles, and also has access to a compressed air device and the handling of contaminated equipment follows the “Skellefteå model” for healthy fire fighters. The equipment on the resource mainly consists of well mats and well seals, self-erecting tubs, submersible pumps, spill barriers, water vacuum cleaners, pump pits and portable power plants. The collection capacity varies between 10 - 26 m3 which means that the endurance for the collection is between 20 minutes and 2.5 hours depending on how many of the pumps that are being used. Today, the capacity for treatment of the extinguishing water is equal to zero, largely since the rescue services cannot afford mobile treatment plants. Support from MSB is requested regarding the unclear legal responsibility of the extinguishing water, as well as for method development. Also operational support is asked for, in terms of treatment and sampling of the extinguishing water. Such support could either come from MSB but also from cooperation between rescue services or with other municipal activities such as environmental and service departments or water and wastewater departments.

This report details the design of a garbage collection (GC) module, which introduces modern GC features to the domain of embedded implementations. The described design supports weak references and feeds reference queues. Its architecture allows multiple concurrent application cores operating as mutators on the shared memory managed by the GC module. The garbage collection is exact and fully concurrent so as to enable the uninterrupted computational progress of the mutators. It combines a distributed root marking with a centralized heap scan of the managed memory. It features a novel mark-and-copy GC strategy on a segmented memory, which thereby overcomes both the tremendous space overhead of two-space copying and the compaction race of mark-and-compact approaches. The proposed GC architecture has been practically implemented and proven using the embedded bytecode processor SHAP as a sample testbed. The synthesis results for settings up to three SHAP mutator cores are given and online functional measurements are presented. Basic performance dependencies on the system configuration are evaluated.

Under the current waste legislation in both European Union and Czech Republic, material recovery is preferred over other types of municipal solid waste treatment. However, waste collection systems have negative environmental impacts. This thesis deals with modeling and optimization of waste collection routes, which should lower their impact. The model makes use of the ArcGIS software system and operations research to optimize routes. Inputs of the model are the amount of waste produced in the region, locations of the final facilities, and their capacities. The amount of waste produced per district was estimated to be the portion of total waste produced corresponding to the number of inhabitants of given district. Final facilities are the assorting lines. Distances between districts and final facilities were computed by Network Analyst Extension of ArcGIS. The index method assigns the assorting lines to districts in a way that minimizes total distance traveled by waste collection vehicles, while respecting the capacity of the assorting lines. Outputs are waste collection routes and the distance, per waste type, traveled by the waste collection vehicles. The model allows changing the input data to observe changes in the waste collection system. The model was applied to the data from the capital of...

Over time, criminals have become more aware of the different types of trace evidence that are capable of being identified by forensic analysis. As a result, the frequency of actions taken to prevent the transmission of evidence, specifically biological fluids and subsequent DNA evidence, with the usage of condoms in the commission of sexual assaults, has increased. With the increased use of condoms, comes the increased awareness and probative nature of forensic analysis of the potentially unique chemical profiles residues may leave behind. This includes the identification of lubricant type and of any additives that may be present, such as spermicides, flavoring or topical anesthetics. The two predominate condom lubricants are polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and polyethylene glycol (PEG): PEG, a water-soluble lubricant, is soluble in polar solvents, such as methanol, while PDMS, a silicone-based lubricant, is reported to be soluble in non-polar solvents, such as hexane. A total of thirty condoms representing eight brands, each of a different type, were evaluated by Attenuated Total Reflectance - Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR). It has been reported that PDMS is the more prevalent condom lubricant compared to PEG; this trend was reflected in this small subset of products. Of the thirty condom lubricants analyzed, twenty-five were PDMS (approximately 83%), six PEG (approximately 7%), six glycerol (approximately 7%) and one “other” (approximately 3%). A direct extraction method was developed to isolate the lubricant from the condoms. Following the direct extraction of the condom lubricants from ten condoms of different brands and types containing PDMS, the extraction capabilities of three solvents: hexane, methanol and methylene chloride, in the presence of blood and saliva separately, were evaluated. Two different biological fluid/lubricant sample types were created: liquid suspensions of lubricant, biological fluid and solvent; and contrived casework samples consisting of a mixture of lubricant and biological fluid dried onto a cotton swab. Hexane was capable of isolating only the PDMS lubricant in the presence of biological fluids. In an effort to extract and identify the water-soluble lubricant PEG and any additional additives, two Trojan condoms marketed as containing the spermicide nonoxynol 9 (N9) and one Durex condom marketed as containing the topical anesthetic benzocaine were obtained. Methanol was used as the direct extraction solvent as much of the published literature has determined that additives, such as spermicides and topical anesthetics, are often found in combination with PEG, which must be extracted in a polar solvent. Although capable of extracting the lubricant PEG, PDMS, and the N9 from the condoms directly, the presence of biological fluids prevented the successful isolation of any condom lubricants or additives with the use of methanol. This extraction study established the solubility of PDMS in both methanol and hexane as well as the limited solubility of PEG in methanol. To identify a solvent capable of extracting both lubricant types as well as the spermicide additive N9 in the presence of biological fluids, the extraction capabilities of methylene chloride were assessed. In the literature, methylene chloride is often used to eliminate a two-step, or two-solvent, extraction for condom lubricants. The isolation of PDMS and N9 had mixed results when using methylene chloride as a solvent. PDMS and N9 were successfully isolated and identified in one of the Trojan brand spermicidal condoms, but not the other, most likely due to a difference in concentration of N9 in the two condoms. Only PEG could be isolated in the Durex condom marketed as containing benzocaine using methylene chloride. In the blood and saliva/lubricant contrived casework samples extracted with methylene chloride, the PDMS and PEG in the respective condoms were isolated but N9 was not. An evaluation of solvent extraction efficiency was made by comparing the ability of each solvent to isolate condom lubricant and additives in the presence of biological fluids. Methylene chloride was found to be the most effective solvent when compared to hexane and methanol for this purpose.

This thesis is intended for teachers and students of high schools and universities. It consists collection of solved problems from plane analytical geometry including various solutions and their comparison. The thesis aims to increase the student knowledge of the topic and to provide different approaches to problems and working materials for lessons for teachers. Pictures for better understanding are added for more difficult problems. The practical part focusing on common mistakes and their elimination is included.

"The purpose of this paper is to form an organizational pattern representative of art museum libraries. The writer's choice of this subject has grown out of an extended period of interest in art history and in museums as depositories of great paintings and works of art. In pursuing this interest, the writer has made pilgrimages to art museums in many parts of the country, often for the purpose of seeing a special exhibit. This interest has also resulted in the forming of a personal collection of some fifty volumes in the art reference field, the accumulation of many unbound copies of art magazines, and the preparation of a vertical file clipping and picture collection, particularly representative of modern painting. The ever increasing background information acquired through the pursuance of these projects finally led to a desire for closer contact with museum activities. The writer's comparatively recent interest in library service seemed to offer an opportunity for this fulfillment. The choice of art museum libraries, as the subject for a paper furnished an opportunity for investigation into this specialized field of library service"--Introduction. / "June, 1953." / At head of title: Florida State University. / Typescript. / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: Agnes Gregory, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-51).

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In the highly competitive aerospace industry, engine manufacturers must react very quickly and precisely to any demand emerging from aircraft manufacturers if they want to be positioned on the offer. This is especially true when answering to Requests For Information (RFI) based on preliminary design investigations of first level. In order to reduce the time needed to perform these costly operations while improving the performances achieved, Snecma wishes to develop tools for dimensioning the engine and also for assessing key parameters such as mass, emissions, fuel burn, costs, etc. Unfortunately, the set of tools and the process used at the present time for preliminary design investigations of first level are not sufficient to meet the high standards sought-after by the company in terms of time and performances. As a consequence, efforts must be spent on redefining the whole process and the tools it is based on; here is the mission that has been conferred upon me.   Multiple exchanges with performances engineers and specialists allowed to draw the current process for preliminary design investigations of first level and raise all the associated concerns. At the same time, a status of the existing tools (called modules in this report), mainly developed under Excel, has been realised in order to identify the range of action for today's investigations. A prototype has been developed under SDK Python with the aim of proving the feasibility of a solution to a difficulty that shows up in the process for each new investigation: the one of generating the workflow on the optimisation software Optimus. A target process has finally been discussed considering all the information collected, and would allow dividing by five the time needed to perform investigations compare to now. The prototype developed lead to interesting results and this solution could thus probably be integrated in the target process as it would allow saving one day of work for an engineer for each study to be carried out.   Solutions have been proposed to all the concerns identified in the process and they will have to be discussed with many actors and investigated further in the near future in order to set the target process that will allow meeting the final objective of answering all types of RFIs emitted by aircraft manufacturer in a very short time with a high level of confidence in the results.

A collection of poems.