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The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the teacher as represented through characters in successful American commercial drama.

Commercial aviation has become an integral part of modern society and enables unprecedented global connectivity by increasing rapid business, cultural, and personal connectivity. In the decades following World War II, passenger travel through commercial aviation quickly grew at a rate of roughly 8% per year globally. The FAA's most recent Terminal Area Forecast predicts growth to continue at a rate of 2.5% domestically, and the market outlooks produced by Airbus and Boeing generally predict growth to continue at a rate of 5% per year globally over the next several decades, which translates into a need for up to 30,000 new aircraft produced by 2025. With such large numbers of new aircraft potentially entering service, any negative consequences of commercial aviation must undergo examination and mitigation by governing bodies so that growth may still be achieved. Options to simultaneously grow while reducing environmental impact include evolution of the commercial fleet through changes in operations, aircraft mix, and technology adoption. Methods to rapidly evaluate fleet environmental metrics are needed to enable decision makers to quickly compare the impact of different scenarios and weigh the impact of multiple policy options. As the fleet evolves, interdependencies may emerge in the form of tradeoffs between improvements in different environmental metrics as new technologies are brought into service. In order to include the impacts of these interdependencies on fleet evolution, physics-based modeling is required at the appropriate level of fidelity. Evaluation of environmental metrics in a physics-based manner can be done at the individual aircraft level, but will then not capture aggregate fleet metrics. Contrastingly, evaluation of environmental metrics at the fleet level is already being done for aircraft in the commercial fleet, but current tools and approaches require enhancement because they currently capture technology implementation through post-processing, which does not capture physical interdependencies that may arise at the aircraft-level. The goal of the work that has been conducted here was the development of a methodology to develop surrogate fleet approaches that leverage the capability of physics-based aircraft models and the development of connectivity to fleet-level analysis tools to enable rapid evaluation of fuel burn and emissions metrics. Instead of requiring development of an individual physics-based model for each vehicle in the fleet, the surrogate fleet approaches seek to reduce the number of such models needed while still accurately capturing performance of the fleet. By reducing the number of models, both development time and execution time to generate fleet-level results may also be reduced. The initial steps leading to surrogate fleet formulation were a characterization of the commercial fleet into groups based on capability followed by the selection of a reference vehicle model and a reference set of operations for each group. Next, three potential surrogate fleet approaches were formulated. These approaches include the parametric correction factor approach, in which the results of a reference vehicle model are corrected to match the aggregate results of each group; the average replacement approach, in which a new vehicle model is developed to generate aggregate results of each group, and the best-in-class replacement approach, in which results for a reference vehicle are simply substituted for the entire group. Once candidate surrogate fleet approaches were developed, they were each applied to and evaluated over the set of reference operations. Then each approach was evaluated for their ability to model variations in operations. Finally, the ability of each surrogate fleet approach to capture implementation of different technology suites along with corresponding interdependencies between fuel burn and emissions was evaluated using the concept of a virtual fleet to simulate the technology response of multiple aircraft families. The results of experimentation led to a down selection to the best approach to use to rapidly characterize the performance of the commercial fleet for accurately in the context of acceptability of current fleet evaluation methods. The parametric correction factor and average replacement approaches were shown to be successful in capturing reference fleet results as well as fleet performance with variations in operations. The best-in-class replacement approach was shown to be unacceptable as a model for the larger fleet in each of the scenarios tested. Finally, the average replacement approach was the only one that was successful in capturing the impact of technologies on a larger fleet. These results are meaningful because they show that it is possible to calculate the fuel burn and emissions of a larger fleet with a reduced number of physics-based models within acceptable bounds of accuracy. At the same time, the physics-based modeling also provides the ability to evaluate the impact of technologies on fleet-level fuel burn and emissions metrics. The value of such a capability is that multiple future fleet scenarios involving changes in both aircraft operations and technology levels may now be rapidly evaluated to inform and equip policy makers of the implications of impacts of changes on fleet-level metrics.

abstract: This dissertation considers how adolescent identity is constructed and represented in commercial musical theatre for youth (e.g. Broadway and Disney Theatrical Group) by examining two commercial productions with adolescents in lead roles--Spring Awakening and Disney's High School Musical. My theoretical framework is intersectionality which creates a foundation for my research within the field of childhood studies, gender studies, and performance studies to illuminate current US American trends in youth oriented art and research. My framework extends into a case study methodology exploring the world of childhood and youth sexuality through a close read of the popular Broadway musical adaptation, Spring Awakening. In addition, a second investigation chronicles the world of Disney's High School Musical through my own intersectional tool, the Disney Industrial Complex. I claim that adolescence, as a constructed identity, exists as a multi-faceted intersectional category composed of multiple and conflicting intersections such as gender, race, sex, ethnicity, and so on. These intersections develop over the course of the period known as "adolescence" and "youth." The goal of this dissertation is to serve as a reference for other theatre educators and their work with young people creating art. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Theatre 2012

Beneath the Foundation is a work of fiction, a detective novel that follows protagonist Cheryl Simpson as she’s thrust into the middle of a murder mystery. Cheryl lives a quite life, an attempt at hiding from her past, but when she arrives at work one Saturday morning and finds her boss dead of a gunshot wound, she finds herself pulled into the middle of the investigation. Clues start popping up all around her, and once they start showing up in her apartment, she realizes there’s more at stake than figuring out who killed her boss. As Cheryl works through the mystery with her friends Alice and Brandon, she is forced to confront what happened in the past in order to survive the present.

商業設施活動類型由傳統的零星雜貨店鋪、市場、超市、百貨公司、量販店至大型購物中心等，發展型態，由據點、沿街路線、核心商業區、至目前郊區化發展的大型購物中心，整個商業活動蓬勃發展。但相對的也衍生了各種商業空間結構問題，致使都市機能品質日益惡化。因此，本研究擬從臺北市商業發展體系內之主要商業核心區進行實證分析，探討商業核心區空間層級如何界定及商業核心區區位如何選擇與競爭？期使商業活動發展由空間結構所規範。建立完善之商業空間體系。 　　本論文共有六章，二十二節，相關內容如下： 　　第一章：介紹研究動機、目的、研究範圍、內容、方法與流程。 　　第二章：說明商業空間結構相關結構理論基礎與研究模式，並對重要名詞加以定義，回顧相關文獻，以作為本研究分析乏基礎。 　　第三章：依中地理論背景，由供給面分析台北市商業空間結構，以商業設施規模複雜性分析、商業機能分析與二元變數法分析，界定出台北市25個商業核心區為四類空間層級。 　　第四章：依消費者行為活動理論，由需求面分析台北市商業空間結構，以消費者社經層級、消費型態、消費行為活動分析與群落分析，分別界定出台北市25個商業核心區各屬性的空間層級劃分。 　　第五章：以同層級商業核心區進行區位選擇競爭分析，本文以第三層級商業核心區進行供需因素綜合評比，並選出最佳區位地點南港商業核心區。 　　第六章：綜合前文分析，認為空間結構應由中地理論與消費活動理論一同建構，並依同層級商業核心區作為區位設址選擇分析之基準，最後，提出本研究之結論與建議。

German banking is distinguished from neighboring European banking systems by the influence of its public sector banks. Nearly 50 percent of German banking is carried out by government owned state banks (ländesbanken) and regional savings banks (sparkassen) whose roots date from the 18 th century. German banks play a particularly important role in the economy and exert more control over firms and corporations than do their American counterparts. German banks tend to be less profitable than foreign counterparts. German public banks were originally founded to foster local and regional business. However, the operations of German public sector banks now extend into all forms of international investment. German public banks are currently seeking new business models to increase profits as they are being forced to compete in the global financial market under liberal market practices dictated by the European Union. Turbulence in the global financial market precipitated by the U.S. sub‐prime mortgage meltdown has severely impacted German public sector banks, precipitating a banking crisis that leaves German taxpayers exposed to staggering losses. These global financial pressures dictate the restructuring of the German financial system. This restructuring has forced a breaking point in the traditional German corporatist banking model and is associated with significant risks to the stability of the German banking system.

在都市活動體系中，土地使用與交通旅次之間互相影響，因為土地使用與發展，需要 良好之交通設施系統配合，而交通系統之規劃建設，亦影響土地使用與發展，然而兩 者之間缺乏適當配合措施，以致土地使用與交通建設間無法協調解決問題，即使是兩 者間關係的基本資料，亦付缺如。因此本研究之目的在於建立二者間關係之基本資料 與關係模式，以為今度市政建設規劃土地使用與交通設施建設之參考。 本研究限於時間與人力，無法多層面調查研究，經以七十年度工商普查報告之商業部 分資料分析結果，發現零售業細分行業繁雜難予調查，再以觀察判斷，發現批發業常 以電話交易，進出口貿易則集中於辦公大樓中，唯餐館業為旅次吸引較顯著而營業時 段集中，宜於調查之行業，故本研究以餐館業為例，探討其土地使用與旅次吸引之關 係，並建立關係模式，以為商業土地使用與交通系統配合之基本參考。 本研究之內容約如下述： 第一章 緒論，分為問題陳述，問題分析，並提出研究目的。第二章 相關理與文獻 回顧，分析交通旅次之概念，土地使用與商業活動相關理論，參考相關研究，藉以明 確解析本研究立論依據，並建立基本假設。第三章 研究方法，解析研究設計之架構 、流程、分析方法、資料蒐集與樣本選定。第四章 分析與討論，建立旅次吸引迴歸 模式，分析餐館業土地使用之影響旅次吸引因素，顧客旅次活動分析，以便深入瞭解 土地使用與交通旅次之關係。第五章 研究發現，各就旅次吸引模式、旅次活動特性 、社經屬性關係等加以分析判斷。第六章 結論與建議，扼要說明研究成果，提出研 究限制與相關建議。 全冊預計約五萬餘字，以上共分六章，約十六節，合為壹冊。

The main aim of the diploma thesis is to describe the way that magazines for parents communicate with their readers and to identify the role of the representation of children. A selection of articles representing both commercial and noncommercial communication is analyzed using the method of semiotic analysis. The introductory part of the thesis, briefly presenting the history of media research, is followed by a section describing the way that motherhood and the status of a child has been perceived throughout history, with special attention to the influence of Christianity. Following chapters focus on the changes of the social role of women that enabled the rise of women's periodicals, both in the USA, Europe and also in the Czech lands. The part dedicated to legislation introduces the most significant legal definitions of children and childhood in relation to media. The analytical part of the thesis is preceded by a brief characterization of the selected magazines and an explanation of the method of semiotic analysis. The analysis results in the description of meaning bearing elements of the individual pieces of information which are placed in a wider social context. The summary offers a review of the most significant findings relating to the communication of periodicals with their readers, the...