Människan har i alla tider avbildat naturen, något som även gäller inommönsterformgivning. I detta arbete kommer jag att jobba inom denna traditionoch samtidigt undersöka hur man kan skildra naturen med ett mer kritisktperspektiv. Ser naturen verkligen ut så som den skildras i mönster idag?Jag har formgivit kritiska mönster för tapeter som kommenterarmänniskans inverkan på naturen. Syftet är att via mönster uppmärksammaoch skapa eftertanke kring hur vi påverkar naturen och även ifrågasätta denidealiserade skildringen av naturen som är rådande inom mönsterformgivning.Critical design, dvs. en design som ifrågasätter snarare än löser praktiska/tekniska problem används som en teoretisk utgångspunkt. Samtida kritiskamönster analyseras med en semiotisk bildanalys med fokus på denotation ochkonnotation.De mönster som jag formgivit gestaltar nedskräpning av haven som ärett påtagligt problem. Slutresultatet är en mönsterkollektion med tre mönsterdär både samtida kritiska mönster och mer traditionella mönster samtperseptionspsykologi legat till grund.

In the 1990s, multiracial advocacy organizations emerged as a national movement. The primary purpose of this movement was to obtain recognition of multiracial identity by the U.S. government. Though possessing a common goal, the organizations within the movement advocated for multiracialism through different racial frames. Using extended case methodology, this study seeks to identify the racial frames utilized by the multiracial movement. Through in-depth interviews with founders and presidents, current and past, of multiracial advocacy organizations, I extend the current literature on racial framing. After critical analysis of my interviews, I identify the presence of the traditional white racist frame as well as a racial counter-frame. Reviewing the elements of both frameworks, I discuss how the use of these frames affects the struggle for racial justice in the United States. Finally, using Bell's principle of interest convergence, I conclude with an examination of how the utilization of the traditional white racist frame by the multiracial movement and the interest of whites in maintaining social domination resulted in the "mark all that apply" decision by the Office and Management and Budget.

This study aimed to explore teachers&rsquo / conceptions of critical thinking and practices for critical thinking development in Turkish, social studies, science and technology and mathematics courses at seventh grade level. The study was conducted with a phenomenological approach in which 70 teachers from 14 elementary schools in Ankara participated. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with teachers. The findings of the study revealed that there were cognitive skills, dispositions and criteria that teachers perceived to relate to critical thinking. The results also shed light on teachers&rsquo / perceptions on the acquisition of critical thinking, the roles that they assumed in the process of enhancing students&rsquo / critical thinking, teaching approaches they held with regard to the enhancement of students&rsquo / critical thinking, and the conditions that they deemed necessary to develop critical thinking in class. Moreover, teachers&rsquo / planning for the integration of critical thinking into their instruction revealed the limitations of the programs in teaching for critical thinking and the alterations that they made to eliminate these limitations and set the stage for students to think critically. In addition, teachers&rsquo / practices for the incorporation of critical thinking into instruction at seventh grade level illuminated instructional strategies that teachers used, in-class activities that they conducted, and assignments that they gave to students for the purpose of fostering their critical thinking. Furthermore, perceptions on teachers&rsquo / assessment of students&rsquo / critical thinking provided insight into the instruments that teachers used in the assessment of students&rsquo / critical thinking, the kind of critical thinking skills and dispositions that they aimed to assess, their perceptions on criteria by which they judged students&rsquo / critical thinking, and reasons behind any reservations about the assessment of students&rsquo / critical thinking. Besides, teachers&rsquo / perceptions on obstacles to and opportunities for the development of students&rsquo / critical thinking helped to identify the factors that inhibited or fostered their ability to focus on critical thinking skills in their classes. Finally, it should be noted that with regard to all the aforementioned issues, discipline-specific categories, as well as the categories across all four disciplines, emerged.

The study examines the critical success factors(CSF) of Operating Performance for the listed electronic companies in Taiwan. The listed electronic companies were divided into the higher/lower operating performance groups by financial indexes, then there are three questionnaires designed in order to get a better understanding on recognition of critical success factors and doing of critical success factors by top management. Five dimensions of CSFS are identified¡Gcapability in process and marketing, design and planning, R&D and brand, manufacturing and low-cost, technical support and raw materials support. Using statistical analysis approaches such as factor analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA¡Athe results of the study as follows¡G 1. There are significant differences on the two dimensions of recognition of critical success factors: design and planning, manufacturing and low-cost, between the higher/lower operating performance firms. According to the recognitions of the higher operating performance firms OEM and ODM are key points for critical success factors. 2. There are significant differences on the three dimensions of doing of critical success factors¡Gprocess and marketing, design and planning, R&D and brand between the higher/lower operating performance firms. The higher operating performance firms focus on add-value field (process and marketing, design and planning, R&D and brand). The higher operating performance firms take risk of marketing and R&D than those of the lower operating performance firms, therefore the higher operating performance firms get better performances. 3 (1) Comparing recognition of critical success factors with doing of critical success factors, the study find two dimensions of process and marketing, design and planning are significant differences for all of firms. In other words they should make improvements of two dimensions to keep up with the lead firms all over the world. (2) The higher operating performance firms should establish independent technique capability to avert the foreign firms from technique control. (3) The lower operating performance firms should focus on capability of R&D and brand. but, in fact, there is no strong evidence that the paradigm of the listed electronic companies in Taiwan.

A systematic procedure is proposed in this thesis to study the effect of temperature change to the power system load demand by using the typical load patterns of customer classes. The billing data of all service customers are retrieved to derive the daily load profile of the selected Taipower district. To verify the accuracy of the estimated load composition, the simulation results are compared to the actual load profile collected by the SCADA system. The sensitivity analysis of load demand with respect to the temperature change for each customer class is performed by statistic regression according to the actual customer power consumption and temperature data. With temperature rise, the load contribution by each customer class is updated by the corresponding temperature sensitivity and integrated together to form the new load profile of the service district. To investigate the effect of customer load characteristics to system stability, the equivalent circuit of Taipower 345 KV network is created. With the integration of the load composition by load survey study and temperature sensitivity of customer load, the load demand of each load bus is derived. For fault contingency of system buses, the transient stability analysis has performed to determine the critical clearing time under different temperature conditions.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--National-Louis University. / Bibliography: leaves 150-154.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Drexel University, 2003. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-73).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 2001. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-139).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Queensland, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.