Based on the author's "mémoire de maîtrise"--Université de Paris IV--Sorbonne. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-101).

Based on the author's "mémoire de maîtrise"--Université de Paris IV--Sorbonne. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-101).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kentucky, 1934. / Without thesis note. Bibliography: p. 282-288.

Thesis (M.S.)-- Brigham Young University. Dept. of History.

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University, Dept. of History. / Electronic thesis. Also available in print ed.

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This study provides heuristic approaches, including an ant colony optimization (ACO) inspired heuristic, to solve a crane scheduling problem that exists in most shipyards, where cranes are a primary means of processing and handling materials. Cranes move on a network of tracks, thus, blocking of crane movements is an issue. The crane scheduling problem consists of two major sub-problems: scheduling problem that determines the best overall order in which jobs are to be performed; the assignment problem that assigns cranes to jobs. The proposed heuristic consists of an Earliest Due Date sorting procedure in combination with an ACO assignment procedure that aims to satisfy the objectives of minimizing makespan while maximizing crane utilization. Test data sets of various sizes are generated and the results of the proposed approach are compared to other developed heuristics. The proposed approach outperforms others in both objective measures and obtains solutions in a timely manner.

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Titre : Les marsouins de 1880 à 1914. Etude anthropologique et prosopographique.Après la défaite de 1870-1871, la France renoue avec son expansion coloniale. Au préalable, les politiciens de tous bords, les économistes ou encore les investisseurs privés se sont attachés à justifier le « fait colonial » en vue de doter le pays de troupes spécialisées dans les interventions outre-mer. Dans ce cadre, l’infanterie et l’artillerie de la Marine reçoivent le rôle d’évoluer en dehors du sol métropolitain afin d’accomplir les trois étapes du processus colonial : la conquête, la pacification et l’administration.Cette étude vise à mieux cerner cette population de soldats, communément appelée « marsouin », en la suivant depuis le recrutement jusqu’à son déploiement outre-mer. En plus d’étudier spécifiquement les conditions de recrutement, il s’agit ici de s’interroger sur la formation afin de savoir si ces hommes disposent des qualités intellectuelles et physiques pour pouvoir exercer leur métier aux colonies.Pour le savoir, il a fallu dépouiller près de 4500 registres matricules en vue de réaliser des séries statistiques. L’exploitation d’une centaine de témoignages a également permis de suivre le quotidien de ces hommes et ainsi de comprendre leurs motivations, leurs difficultés, leurs déceptions, leurs satisfactions, leurs représentations ou encore leurs aspirations en termes d’avancement ou de récompenses.En outre, il en ressort généralement que le marsouin a su s’adapter aux différentes situations et circonstances en dépit de la quantité et de la qualité du recrutement qui font régulièrement défaut entre 1880 et 1914. Le soldat colonial souffre en plus de sa mauvaise réputation même si celle-ci tend à s’atténuer à mesure que l’Empire colonial se construit et se solidifie. Le marsouin, bras armé du gouvernement, est en effet la cible des critiques qui proviennent des anticolonialistes. L’armée peine le plus souvent à réagir en livrant une autre version. Nonobstant, à la veille de la Grande Guerre, la colonisation fait quasiment consensus et les marsouins jouissent progressivement d’une reconnaissance qui leur échappait jusque-là. / Title : French marine troops (“marsouins”) from 1880 until 1914. Anthropologic and prosopographical study.In the wake of the 1870-1871 military defeat, France resumed its colonial expansion. Politicians on all sides, economists or investors justified “colonialism” in order to provide the country with troops specialized in overseas operations. In this context, French marine infantry and artillery units were specifically tasked with operating outside French soil in order to carry out the three stages of the colonial process: conquest, pacification and administrative management.This aim of this research is to get a better knowledge of the soldiers nicknamed “marsouins”, from their recruitment up to their deployment overseas. In addition to paying attention to the recruitment process, we’ll also focus on their training, so as to know whether these troops were endowed with the intellectual and physical qualities needed to operate in French colonies.In order to achieve this research, it was necessary to study about 4,500 Army registers to compile statistics. The exploitation of about 100 testimonies also allowed us to have a better understanding of the daily life of these troops, their motivations to sign up, the difficulties they experienced, as well as their joys, expectations in terms of promotions and awards.Moreover, we could observe that the “marsouin” was able to adapt to the different situations and circumstances he was faced with, in spite of the poor quality of the recruits and their too limited number between 1880 and 1914. However, these troops had a bad reputation which tended to improve as the French colonial empire grew and got stronger.

International education has been practised by Siam/Thailand's elite classes since the late 19th century. However, studies of this practice are few and far between. This thesis investigates the practice of international education among Thailand's elites, examining international education as a strategy that is used to maintain or enhance an elite's status through the importation of deterritorialised cultural capital. This research employs in-depth semi-structured interviews of former international students, examining the logic and discourses behind the participants' decision to study overseas, their perceptions and practices while studying overseas, and how they deploy their new-found cultural capital upon their return to Thailand. These narratives are then analysed with respect to historical references outlining the ways in which Siamese/Thai elites have employed western-derived cultural capitals as status symbols in the past. It demonstrates a link between these historical engagements with western modernity to the contemporary practice of international education among Thailand's elite, influencing the participants' assumption of a hierarchy of culture, with western tertiary institutions seen as being automatically superior to Thai institutions. This study investigats the practice of international education as a strategy that has been influenced by the participant's family, notably through the schooling choices made for the participants by their parents. Participants who have been schooled overseas or at an international school demonstrated higher levels of ease with the Western other, enabling them to engage more closely with the 'source' of Western culture, allowing them to show greater nuance in their consumption of Western things and practices. Their schooling history placed them at an advantage to participants who have been schooled in the Thai educational system, whose narrative shows a more anxious, deliberative, and by-the-book approach to their engagement with western culture. This study confirms findings from previous studies into international practices. Specifically, it shows that narratives of openness to foreign others do not necessarily automatically indicate a cosmopolitan or globally reflexive world view, that these narratives need to be analysed within the context of the participants' frame of reference. In the case of this thesis, the participants' narratives of openness to foreign others and their valuing of international education prove to be a reproduction of a culturally hierarchical frame of reference, with roots in the unequal relationship between Siam/Thailand and western colonial powers. This frame of reference results in the west being perceived as the source of modernity and progress. Moreover, this thesis also expands upon previous research into deterritorialised cultural capital, broadening the concept by bringing attention to the nuance between high cultural capital participants, and very high cultural capital participants. This thesis also demonstrates how Thailand's intellectually bifurcated discourse of its relations to the west complicates the study of international education as a deterritorialised form of cultural capital. This finding demonstrates a need for an approach to deterritorialised cultural capital that is attuned to not just the nuances of a particular field's western lifestyle myth but also the nuances in how that myth was constructed.