Thesis (Dr. rer. nat.)--Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. / Martin Savelsbergh, Committee Member ; Joel Sokol, Committee Member ; Earl Barnes, Committee Co-Chair ; Ellis L. Johnson, Committee Chair ; Prasad Tetali, Committee Member.

The larvae of coastal species interact with nearshore currents that are complex and can alter dispersal. I investigated two sites in southern Oregon with different nearshore hydrodynamics: the first site, Sunset Bay, is a small cove with a topographic front that extends across the mouth during upwelling-favorable winds. Using holey sock drogues at 1.5 m and 5.5 m depths and surface drifters at 10 cm depth, I found that, when the front was present, water at 1.5 m was retained within the bay whereas water was exchanged across the front at a depth of 5.5 m. Surface drifters indicated a surface convergence. Surface plankton tows on either side and within the frontal convergence (a shore-parallel foam line) found significantly higher concentrations of barnacle cyprids, crab megalopae and zoea, polychaete larvae, platyhelminthes juveniles, isopods, amphipods, harpacticoid copepods, and fish eggs. Crustacean nauplii (barnacle, euphausiid, and copepod) and calanoid copepods were not concentrated in the convergence, and when the front and foam line were absent, no taxa were concentrated. Plankton tows taken within the foam line as it dissipated shoreward during a wind-reversal event found that concentrations of cyprids, megalopae, and gastropod veligers remained high as the foam line moved, suggesting that it acts as a moving convergence propagating competent larvae shoreward. I measured settlement of two taxa at Sunset Bay and Shore Acres, an open-coast site <2 km away. Barnacle settlement measured every other day from June-September 2013 was significantly cross-correlated with the maximum daily tidal height at lags of -2 days at Sunset Bay and +2 and +4 days at Shore Acres. Settlement was also significantly negatively cross-correlated with wave height at a lag of -4 days at Sunset Bay. Coralline algae settlement measured during eight 48-hr periods in July-August 2013 was significantly negatively correlated with wave height (n = 8, R2 = 0.76, P = 0.0049) at Shore Acres but not at Sunset Bay. Despite the close proximity of the Sunset Bay and Shore Acres sites, settlement patterns differed between taxa, suggesting that differences in nearshore hydrodynamics might affect the supply of water and larvae to shore. This dissertation includes unpublished co-authored material.

This study examines the role of the reporter in the newsroom amid economic challenges and changes to technology over the past 10 years and how reporter routines have changed in response to those challenges and changes. The past 10 years are significant from a technological standpoint because of the rise of social media and the growth of video and use of smartphones. During that same time period, the recession of 2007 hit and caused a large number of layoffs and the need to restructure the newsroom due to smaller staffs—all of which affect reporter routines. This study employed in-depth interviews conducted at three newspapers across the country with business, features, news, and sports reporters. In addition, the managing editor and executive editor at each newspaper were interviewed because they, too, influence reporter routines. This study finds that reporters are working increasingly longer hours to address new duties created by technologies and social media. Sports, which was first to adopt new technology, was also the one to most harness the power of technology and enthusiastically use it in a variety of ways, from tweeting to blogging to creating video. Features came in second for embracing technology, while the news section adapted to it to a lesser degree, and business not at all. This finding was true at all three newspapers. On the economic side, staffing cutbacks have resulted in the elimination of investigative teams, as those reporters are needed for daily work. In addition, the cutbacks to copy editors, as well as the need for speed, have resulted in “community editing,” the reliance on readers to help edit materials once they have been posted. As surprising was the widespread shift to immediacy first, in that reporters are encouraged to write short stories for online posting, if necessary, followed with continual updates throughout the day until the story for the print edition was ready to be filed. All this results in a change of routines for reporters.

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Orientador: Adenil Alfeu Domingos / Banca: Marcos Américo / Banca: Roberto Reis de Oliveira / Resumo: Segundo Salmon (2007, 2008) storytelling é um tipo de discurso que usa da narrativa para persuadir e engajar emocionalmente indivíduos na política, nas empresas e na propaganda e no marketing. Para Nuñez, (2007) o storytelling é atualmente a principal ferramenta de comunicação, a única capaz de atrair nossa atenção em meio a tantas mensagens dispersas. A narrativa também pode aparecer na web como uma forma de seduzir e fidelizar um público. Blogs diários são como um storytelling, em que "blogueiros" relatam suas experiências de vida. Blogs informativos também recorrem à narrativa, que aparece junto a notícias como um discurso atraente. E o que dizer quando a narrativa aparece em um blog de um programa de TV? Seria uma espécie de propaganda? Este trabalho de pesquisa consiste em um estudo de caso sobre o blog Me leva Brasil, de Maurício Kubrusly. Através da observação e interpretação do corpus, pretende-se demonstrar como a narrativa do blog Me leva Brasil configuram um tipo de storytelling que promove na Internet produtos e conteúdos midiáticos da TV, bem como a participação do telespectador. Nesse percurso, são utilizados estudos sobre storytelling e blogs, bem como sobre o Advertainment / Abstract: According to Salmon (2007,2008) storytelling is a kind of speech that uses narrative to emotionally persuade and engage people in politics, business and advertising and marketing. For Nuñez, (2007) storytelling is currently the most important communication tool, and the only able to grab our attention among so many scattered messages. Narrative may also appear on the web as a way to lure and retain an audience. Daily blogs are like storytelling, in which bloggers describe life experiences. Informative blogs also make use of narrative, which appears along with news as an appealing speech. And what about when narrative appears in a TV show blog? Would it be a kind of advertisement? This research consists of a case study of the blog Me leva Brasil, by Maurício Kubrusly. Through observation and interpretation of the corpus, it is intended to demonstrate how the narrative the blog Me Leva Brasil resembles a kind of storytelling that promotes products and TV media content on the Internet, as well as viewer participation. Along the way, studies are used on storytelling and blogs, as well as on Advertainment / Mestre

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This thesis will examine the negotiation of kayfabe within the context of professional wrestling using a 2014 WWE storyline that arose from fan backlash as a primary text. The perceived marginalization of wrestler Daniel Bryan by the fans led to a disconnect between the narratives that were performed in-ring and the counter-narratives produced by the fans, which in turn led to an overtly co-authored narrative between in-ring performers and fans. In addition to studying the television narratives that characterize the “Yes Movement,” in WWE, I will analyze archived social media responses within fan communities on Twitter and Reddit to make sense of how professional wrestling fans constitute their collective identity and act upon their agency to alter live performances and narratives. This thesis will contribute to literature on professional wrestling specifically as well as performance studies and media studies about fandom in Communication. By analyzing the negotiation of kayfabe between professional wrestling audiences and performers, I will demonstrate how the Yes Movement backlash and eventual storyline illustrates the malleability of shared realities within subcultures.

In this thesis, we first obtain coincidence and common fixed point theorems for a pair of generalized non-expansive type mappings in a normed space. Then we discuss two types of convergence theorems, namely, the convergence of Mann iteration procedures and the convergence and stability of fixed points. In addition, we discuss the viscosity approximations generated by (ψ ,ϕ)-weakly contractive mappings and a sequence of non-expansive mappings and then establish Browder and Halpern type convergence theorems on Banach spaces. With regard to iteration procedures, we obtain a result on the convergence of Mann iteration for generalized non-expansive type mappings in a Banach space which satisfies Opial's condition. And, in the case of stability of fixed points, we obtain a number of stability results for the sequence of (ψ,ϕ)- weakly contractive mappings and the sequence of their corresponding fixed points in metric and 2-metric spaces. We also present a generalization of Fraser and Nadler type stability theorems in 2-metric spaces involving a sequence of metrics.