No abstract available. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1995.

Les critères de sûreté exigés pour les réacteurs rapides au sodium de Generation IV (RNR-Na) se traduisent par la nécessité d'incertitudes réduites et maîtrisées sur les grandeurs neutroniques d'intérêt. Une part de ces incertitudes provient des données nucléaires et, dans le cas des RNR-Na, des données nucléaires du sodium, qui présentent des différences significatives entre les bibliothèques internationales (JEFF-3.1.1, ENDF/B-VII.0, JENDL-4.0). L'objectif de cette thèse est d'améliorer la connaissance sur les données nucléaires du sodium afin de mieux calculer les paramètres neutroniques des RNR-Na et fournir des incertitudes fiables. Après un état des lieux des présentes données du Na23, l'impact des différences est quantifié notamment sur les effets en réactivité de vidange du sodium, calculés avec des outils neutroniques déterministe et stochastique. Les résultats montrent qu'il est nécessaire de ré-évaluer entièrement les données nucléaires du sodium. Plusieurs développements ont été effectués dans le code d'évaluation Conrad, pour intégrer de nouveaux modèles de réactions nucléaires et leurs paramètres ainsi que pour permettre de procéder à des ajustements avec des mesures intégrales. Suite à ces développements, l'analyse des données différentielles et la propagation des incertitudes expérimentales avec Conrad ont été réalisées. Le domaine des résonances résolues a été étendu à 2 MeV et le domaine du continuum débute directement au-delà de cette énergie. Une nouvelle évaluation du Na23 et les matrices de covariances multigroupes associées ont été générées pour de futurs calculs d'incertitudes. La dernière partie de la thèse se focalise sur le retour des expériences intégrales de vidange du sodium, par des méthodes d'assimilation de données intégrales, afin de réduire les incertitudes sur les sections efficaces du sodium. Ce document se clôt sur des calculs d'incertitudes pour des RNR-Na de type industriel, qui montrent une meilleure prédiction de leurs paramètres neutroniques avec la nouvelle évaluation.

This thesis is premised on the notion, drawn mainly from a postcolonial perspective (which is subsumed under the poststructuralist as well as the postmodern), that Conrad's early writing reflects his abiding concern with how people construct their identities vis-a-vis the other/Other in contact zones on the periphery of empire far from the reach of social, racial and national identities that sustain them at home. It sets out to explore the problematic of race, culture, gender and identity in a selection of the writer's early works set mainly, but not exclusively, in the East, using the theoretical perspective of postcoloniality as a point of entry, nuanced by the configurations of spatiality which are factored into discourses about the other/Other. Predicated mainly on the theoretical constructs about culture and identity espoused by Homi Bhabha, Edward Said and Stuart Hall, this study proposes the idea of an in between "third space" for the interrogation of identity in Conrad's work. This postcolonial space, the central contribution of this thesis, frees his writings from the stranglehold of the Manichean paradigm in terms of which alterity or otherness is perceived. Based on the hypothesis that identities are never fixed but constantly in a state of performance, this project underwrites postcoloniality as a viable theoretical mode of intervention in Conrad's early works. The writer's early oeuvre yields richly to the contingency of our times in the early twenty-first century as issues of race, gender and identity remain contested terrain. This study adopts the position that Conrad stood both inside and outside Victorian cultural and ethical space, developing an ambivalent mode of representation which recuperated and simultaneously subverted the entrenched prejudices of his age. Conceived proleptically, the characters of Conrad's early phase, traditionally dismissed as those of an apprentice writer, pose a constant challenge to how we view alterity in our everyday lives. / Thesis (Ph.D. (English))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2004.

<p>This dissertation seeks to position the music of American arranger-orchestrator-composer Conrad Salinger (1901-62) as one of the key factors in creating the larger camp aesthetic movement in MGM film musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. The investigation primarily examines Salinger's arranging and orchestrating practices in transcriptions and conductor's scores of musical numbers from MGM films, though some scores from Broadway shows are also considered. Additionally, Salinger's style is frequently compared to other arrangers, so as to establish the unique qualities of his music that set it apart from his contemporaries from both a technical and an aesthetic standpoint and that made it desirable as an object of imitation. By inquiring into his musical practices' relationship to his subjectivity as a gay person in the era of "the closet," this analysis both proposes and confirms Salinger's importance to the MGM camp aesthetic. With the concept of "musical camp" thus established, the dissertation subsequently demonstrates its capacity to produce new readings of the politics of national belonging and gender that manifest in various musical numbers.</p> / Dissertation

This thesis aims to contribute to an answer to the question, “What would a philosophy, and more specifically, an ethics, based on Christ, look like?” My first contention is that we find, in the ethical thinking of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, two particularly radical and complementary attempts to point toward Christ as the basis or foundation of any genuine ethics. What sets the views of Barth and Bonhoeffer apart from many of the other philosophical and theological approaches to ethics, is the extent to which they seek to take seriously the ethical implications of the gospel – the revelation of God's grace in the Word and work of Jesus Christ – for ethics. My second contention is that, even if we follow neither Barth nor Bonhoeffer in the detailed outworking of the character of a Christologically grounded ethics, we nevertheless cannot avoid facing the radical challenge each of these men poses, in their own related but distinct ways, that in thinking about ethics we must take Christ as our standard and foundation. In the first two chapters, on Barth and Bonhoeffer respectively, I identify the structure and content of their arguments and display their textual basis in the texts most relevant to the topic, namely Barth’s Church Dogmatics and Bonhoeffer’s Ethics. I also present an outline of the character of a Christologically-grounded ethics as each of these theologians derives it from its Christological basis. In the third chapter I examine the cogency of their arguments.

Denna studie är en analys av romanen Heart of Darkness (1902) och novellen An outpost ofprogress (1898) av Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) i syfte att undersöka berättelsernashuvudsakliga tematik ur en postkolonial infallsvinkel samt vad Conrads avsikt tycks ha varitmed porträtteringen av elfenbensagenten Kurtz. För att genomföra denna analys har jag gjorten närläsning av Heart of Darkness samt An outpost of progress och samtidigt tolkathändelseförloppen.Tolkningarna är delvis mina egna samt delvis baserat på tidigare forskning. Efter att hagenomfört dessa närläsningar är min slutsats att Conrads huvudsakliga avsikt var att skildaden mänskliga moralens förfall genom den ondskefulla girigheten. Det är denna girighet somhan definierar som det mörka i en människas hjärta. Genom framställningen av Kurtz visarhan exempel på detta samt hur farlig en skicklig retoriker kan vara.

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met lit. opg., reg. - Met samenvatting in het Engels.

Diss.--Tübingen--Universität, 1988.

Bonn, Phil. Diss. v. 29. März 1934. / Auch als : Beitr. z. Gesch. d. nachbismarck. Zeit u. d. Weltkriegs. N.F. 1.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2007. / Title from title screen (viewed 28 January 2010). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2007; thesis submitted 2006. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.