隨著西方工業革命之後「第二現代」社會的來臨，人們越來越關注自身，親密關係轉而成為個人日常生活中最重要的事務之一，親密關係也逐漸擺脫外在社會的約束，而將其基礎置於關係之中兩人對彼此的承諾上。這樣的特性，符合了英國社會學家Antony Gddens所謂民主化發展的「純粹關係」。本研究從社會學的角度，透過質性研究方法，以理解個人在現代社會中實踐多重親密關係之特性與其意義。 研究結果指出，臺灣現代社會的親密關係正邁向Giddens所指之「匯流愛」的發展趨勢，並有著下列幾個特點：第一，現代社會環境所組成的機會結構，暗助多重親密關係的醞釀與發展：；第二，「曖昧」是為多重親密關係逾越社會對於親密關係規範的跳板；第三，多重親密關係更能使當事人滿足自我；第四，實踐多重親密關係具有「堅守一對一」與「被揭穿」的雙重風險；第五，經濟與性別在多重親密關係的脫勾性。 然而，正處於轉型期的臺灣社會，多重親密關係的實踐仍面臨父權社會殘留與新舊價值的衝突現象。於是，我們也同時從經驗資料中發現類似英國社會學家Jamieson對Gidden論述的質疑，包括：第一，「性別」在多重親密關係中是最終的影響變數；第二，自我內在對於實踐多重親密關係所存在的矛盾感；第三，「一對一關係」的交往規則對多重親密關係來說，具有「限制」與「機會」的雙重意義；第四，現代社會下的「婚姻制度」對親密關係來說是更嚴格的「遊戲規則」，但卻也是多重親密關係的實踐者願意接受的遊戲方式。 / After the western Industrial Revolution comes the so-called “second modernity.” As people are more concerned about themselves, they cherish intimate relationships much more in their daily life. Intimate relationships have thus disposed of external social control and focused more on the promise between two lovers. This feature is similar to the democratization of pure relationships presented by English sociologist Antony Giddens. From a sociological perspective and through qualitative research methods, this study aims at understanding the characteristics and meanings of multiple intimate relationships as well as the individuals practicing multiple intimate relationships in modern Taiwan. The findings show that intimate relationships in the modern Taiwan society are approaching the “confluent love” stated by Giddens. Multiple intimate relationships are found in this study to carry five characteristics. First, the opportunity structure in modern society facilitates the fermentation and practice of multiple intimate relationships. Second, dubious relationships serve as a jumping board for individuals to bypass the social canons of intimate relationships. Third, people are more satisfied by involving in multiple intimate relationships. Fourth, the double risks of practicing multiple intimate relationships involve the risk for keeping monogamy and the risk for revealing the practicing multiple intimate relationships. Fifth, there is a disjunction between economy and gender in multiple intimate relationships. As Taiwan go through social transformations, the practice of multiple intimate relationships nevertheless remains controversial in a society in which the patriarchic elments remains and the modern values are in conflict with the traditional ones. The empirical evidence demonstrated in this study supports some challenges raised by English sociologist Lynn Jamieson to Giddens’ arguments. First, gender still serves as an ultimate variable in affecting the practice of multiple intimate relationships. Second, individuals often experience a dilemma between a sense of guilt and the pursuit of gratification in maintaining multiple intimate relationships. Third, monogamy implicates both a restraint and an opportunity to develop multiple intimate relationships. Fourth, in the “game” of intimate relationships, the marital system is considered a stricter rule and yet individuals practicing multiple intimate relationships are willing to accept it.

Ce mémoire consiste en une reproduction et une extension du Modèle Confluent de l’Agression Sexuelle (MCAS) de Neil Malamuth. Le MCAS est un des seuls modèles développementaux de l’agression sexuelle d’hommes sur des femmes adultes à avoir été validé empiriquement. Dans ce modèle, deux trajectoires (la promiscuité sexuelle et la masculinité hostile) convergent et mènent à l’agression sexuelle. Pour la première fois, ce modèle est appliqué séparément à quatre paramètres de la carrière criminelle sexuelle (gravité, fréquence, précocité, spécialisation) au sein d’un échantillon d’agresseurs sexuels de femmes adultes judiciarisés (n=180). Les quatre modèles qui en résultent s’ajustent bien aux données. Tous les liens postulés dans le MCAS sont validés dans ce mémoire, à une exception. En effet, contrairement aux résultats obtenus par Malamuth, une seule des deux trajectoires du modèle présente un lien significatif avec chacun des paramètres de la carrière criminelle sexuelle à l’étude. La trajectoire de la promiscuité sexuelle est liée à la précocité et à la non-spécialisation (lien négatif avec la spécialisation) alors que la trajectoire de la masculinité hostile est associée à la gravité et à la fréquence. Ces résultats sont congruents avec une approche typologique des agresseurs sexuels de femmes adultes. Chacune des deux trajectoires du MCAS englobe des caractéristiques spécifiques à certains types de violeurs (opportunistes, colériques, sadiques) qui, pour leur part, se distinguent quant aux paramètres de leur carrière criminelle sexuelle. / The purpose of this thesis is to replicate and extend Malamuth’s Confluence Model of Sexual Aggression (CMSA). The CMSA is one of the few empirically validated developmental models of men’s sexual aggression against women. In this model, sexual aggression is resulting from the convergence of two paths (sexual promiscuity and hostile masculinity). For the first time, in this thesis, the CMSA is applied to four parameters of the sexual criminal career (seriousness, frequency, age of onset, specialization) within a sample of convicted rapists (n=180). Each of the four resulting models yielded a good fit of the data. All but one of the relationships hypothesized in the CMSA were replicated in this thesis. Indeed, our results suggest that only one of the CMSA’s paths is related to each of the sexual criminal career parameters tested in this thesis. The sexual promiscuity path is related to age of onset and non-specialization (sexual promiscuity being negatively related to specialization) while the hostile masculinity path is related to seriousness and frequency. Our results are congruent with a typological approach of rapists. Each of the two CMSA’s paths is operationalized using some specific characteristics which are known to be linked to certain types of rapists (opportunistic, angry, sadistic types). In turn, those types of rapists present distinctive relationships to the sexual criminal career parameters investigated in this thesis.

This thesis deals with the near-field of confluent jets, which can be of interest in many engineering applications such as design of a ventilation supply device. The physical effect of interaction between multiple closely spaced jets is studied using experimental and numerical methods. The primary aim of this study is to explore a better understanding of flow and turbulence behavior of multiple interacting jets. The main goal is to gain an insight into the confluence of jets occurring in the near-field of multiple interacting jets. The array of multiple interacting jets is studied when they are placed on a flat and a curved surface. To obtain the boundary conditions at the nozzle exits of the confluent jets on a curved surface, the results of numerical prediction of a cylindrical air supply device using two turbulence models (realizable 𝑘 − 𝜖 and Reynolds stress model) are validated with hot-wire anemometry (HWA) near different nozzles discharge in the array. A single round jet is then studied to find the appropriate turbulence models for the prediction of the three-dimensional flow field and to gain an understanding of the effect of the boundary conditions predicted at the nozzle inlet. In comparison with HWA measurements, the turbulence models with low Reynolds correction (𝑘 − 𝜖 and shear stress transport [SST] 𝑘 − 𝜔) give reasonable flow predictions for the single round jet with the prescribed inlet boundary conditions, while the transition models (𝑘 − 𝑘l − 𝜔𝜔 and transition SST 𝑘 − 𝜔) are unable to predict the flow in the turbulent region. The results of numerical prediction (low Reynolds SST 𝑘 − 𝜔 model) using the prescribed inlet boundary conditions agree well with the HWA measurement in the nearfield of confluent jets on a curved surface, except in the merging region. Instantaneous velocity measurements are performed by laser Doppler anemometry (LDA) and particle image velocimetry (PIV) in two different configurations, a single row of parallel coplanar jets and an inline array of jets on a flat surface. The results of LDA and PIV are compared, which exhibit good agreement except near the nozzle exits. The streamwise velocity profile of the jets in the initial region shows a saddle back shape with attenuated turbulence in the core region and two off-centered narrow peaks. When confluent jets issue from an array of closely spaced nozzles, they may converge, merge, and combine after a certain distance downstream of the nozzle edge. The deflection plays a salient role for the multiple interacting jets (except in the single row configuration), where all the jets are converged towards the center of the array. The jet position, such as central, side and corner jets, significantly influences the development features of the jets, such as velocity decay and lateral displacement. The flow field of confluent jets exhibits asymmetrical distributions of Reynolds stresses around the axis of the jets and highly anisotropic turbulence. The velocity decays slower in the combined regio  of confluent jets than a single jet. Using the response surface methodology, the correlations between characteristic points (merging and combined points) and the statistically significant terms of the three design factors (inlet velocity, spacing between the nozzles and diameter of the nozzles) are determined for the single row of coplanar parallel jets. The computational parametric study of the single row configuration shows that spacing has the greatest impact on the near-field characteristics.

Dans ce travail, nous montrons qu'il est possible d'effectuer un passage adiabatique efficace dans un système quantique non-linéaire quadratique à deux états décrivant la formation de molécules faiblement liées dans les condensats atomiques de Bose-Einstein par la photo-association par champs laser.Un transfert adiabatique efficace est également possible si on prend en compte les non-linéarités de troisième ordre décrivant les collisions élastiques atome-atome, atome-molécule et moléculaire-molécule.Le transfert est obtenu en choisissant un désaccord approprié calculé en résolvant le problème inverse.Nous montrons également que l'on peut effectuerun suivi Raman stimulé exact dans un système non-linéaire quantique à trois états.Dans le passage d'atomes libres à l'état moléculaire stable, les pertes irréversibles de l'état moléculaire intermédiaire faiblement lié peuvent être évitées par un schéma à trois états en deux couleurs dans le cas avec résonances à un ou deux photons.Ceci est obtenu par une technique de suivi exacte.Nous avons également étudié des modèles linéaires à deux états bi-confluents de Heun, dépendant du temps, avec des solutions en termes de combinaisons linéaires d'un nombre fini de fonctions Hermite d'ordre non entier.Nous avons présenté un modèle dont la solution implique seulement deux fonctions Hermite. Il s'agit d'une configuration de champ avec croisement par résonance donnée par une fréquence Rabi exponentiellement divergente et un désaccord qui commence à partir de la résonance exacte et diverge exponentiellement à l'infini. Le modèle prend en compte les pertes irréversibles du second état. / In this work we show that it is to perform an efficient adiabatic passage in a basic quadratic-nonlinear quantum two-state system describing weakly bound molecule formation in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates through photoassociation by laser fields. An efficient adiabatic transfer is also possible if the third-order nonlinearities describing the atom-atom, atom-molecule, and molecule-molecule elastic scattering are taken into account. The transfer is achieved by choosing a proper detuning derived by solving the inverse problem.We also show that one can perform a stimulated Raman exact tracking in a quadratic-nonlinear quantum three-state system.The irreversible losses from the intermediate weakly bound molecular state in a passage of free atoms to the stable molecular state can be avoided by a two-colour three-state scheme in the case of one- and two-photon resonances for the associating laser fields.This is achieved by an exact tracking technique.We also studied the linear time-dependent two-state bi-confluent Heun models with solutions in terms of linear combinations of a finite numberof the Hermite functions of non-integer order.We have presented a model the solution for which involves just two Hermite functions.This is a resonance-crossing field configuration given by an exponentially diverging Rabi frequency and a detuning that starts from the exact resonance and exponentially diverges at the infinity. The model takes into account the irreversible losses from the second state.

This study presents air distribution systems that are based on confluent jets; this system can be of interest for the establishment of indoor environments, to fulfill the goals of indoor climate and energy-efficient usage. The main objective of this study is to provide deeper understanding of the flow field development of a supply device that is designed based on wall confluent jets and to investigate the ventilation performance by experimental and numerical methods. In this study, the supply device can be described as an array of round jets on a flat surface attached to a side wall. Multiple round jets that issue from supply device apertures are combined at a certain distance downstream from the device and behave as a united jet or so-called confluent jets. Multiple round jets that are generated from the supply device move downward and are attached to the wall at the primary region, due to the Coanda effect, and then they become wall confluent jets until the floor wall is reached. A wall jet in a secondary region is formed along the floor after the stagnation region. The characteristics of the flow field and the ventilation performance of conventional wall confluent jets and modified wall confluent jets supply devices are investigated experimentally in an office test room. The study of the modified wall confluent jets is intended to improve the efficiency of the conventional one while maintaining acceptable thermal comfort in an office environment. The results show that the modified wall confluent jets supply device can provide acceptable thermal comfort for the occupant with lower airflow rate compared to the conventional wall confluent jets supply device. Numerical predictions using three turbulence models (renormalization group (RNG k– ε), realizable (Re k– ε), and shear stress transport (SST k– ω) are evaluated by measurement results. The computational box and nozzle plate models are used to model the inlet boundary conditions of the nozzle device. In the isothermal study, the wall confluent jets in the primary region and the wall jet in the secondary region, when predicted by the three turbulence models, are in good agreement with the measurements. The non-isothermal validation studies show that the SST k– ω model is slightly better at predicting the wall confluent jets than the other two models. The SST k– ω model is used to investigate the effects of the nozzle diameter, number of nozzles, nozzle array configuration, and inlet discharge height on the ventilation performance of the proposed wall confluent jets supply device. The nozzle diameter and number of nozzles play important roles in determining the airflow pattern, temperature field, and draught distribution. Increased temperature stratification and less draught distribution are achieved by increasing the nozzle diameter and number of nozzles. The supply device with smaller nozzle diameters and fewer nozzles yields rather uniform temperature distribution due to the dominant effect of mixing. The flow behavior is nearly independent of the inlet discharge height for the studied range. The proposed wall confluent jets supply device is compared with a mixing supply device, impinging supply device and displacement supply device. The results show that the proposed wall confluent jets supply device has the combined behavior of both mixing and stratification principles. The proposed wall confluent jets supply device provides better overall ventilation performance than the mixing and displacement supply devices used in this study. This study covers also another application of confluent jets that is based on impinging technology. The supply device under consideration has an array of round jets on a curve. Multiple jets issue from the supply device aperture, in which the supply device is positioned vertically and the jets are directed against a target wall. The flow behavior and ventilation performance of the impinging confluent jets supply device is studied experimentally in an industrial premise. The results show that the impinging confluent jets supply device maintains acceptable thermal comfort in the occupied zone by creating well-distributed airflow during cold and hot seasons.