Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2003. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 1990. / Thesis Advisor(s): McCaffrey, Martin J. Second Reader: Haga, William J. "December 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on March 31, 2010. DTIC Identifier(s): Expert Systems, Acquisition, Procurement Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledged Based Systems, Contracting for Expert Systems, Rapid Prototyping, Software Development and Acquisition, Theses. Author(s) subject terms: Expert Systems, Acquisition, Procurement Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledged Based Systems, Contracting for Expert Systems, Rapid Prototyping, Software Development and Acquisition. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-58). Also available in print.

Thèse--Geneva. / Without thesis statement. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-128a).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1965. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: l. 109-113.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1965. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: l. 90-92.

This thesis identifies and responds to a contemporary impasse in the curatorial, which is thought of as the realm that encompasses curating as a complex action and interaction; a verb that includes the conceiving, organising and executing of exhibitions as well as critical thinking around curation as a discipline. The current impasse in curation the thesis responds to is caused, on the one hand, through its rapid expansion since the late 1980s and, on the other, through its mainstream and populist appropriation, which confuses understandings of it. The thesis proposes a strategy for the recovery for curating’s most basic work of ‘taking care’ and situates the curatorial as a creative act. It adopts Duchamp’s inframince as an artistic concept, and uses it as a lens to reveal the role of the speculative, poetic and absurd, the personal and subjective and the instant of emergence of creativity in curatorial practice. This facilitates an essentially diffractive methodology as well as a textual method of ‘an imaginative leap’ through friction, rhythm and repetition, building on Whitehead and Barad, (among others) to connect ideas of non-linearity and relay in (art) history. Opening up this rich meshwork thus allows for a reconnection of the curatorial to its original provenance and connoisseurship. The poetic investigation of an invisible force, the inframince, which is seen as instrumental to the curatorial and meaning making in general, is underpinned by the investigation of two other major, intertwining narratives – laughter and cybernetics. This liberates the inframince’s versatility and makes it potentially an operative tool, following Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of becoming minor and O’Sullivan’s interpretation, within a wider trans-disciplinary framework of art-science collaborations. Through this discussion, the thesis then reaffirms the curatorial (as it is intended here) as a practice that shapes the collaboration between specific human and nonhuman elements: the curator, and the artist (and/or scientist) and texts, artefacts, spaces and time.

Methods of designing multivariable feedback control systems based on system eigenvalues and matrix diagonalization are discussed. It is shown that these methods allow single-variable graphical analysis and design techniques to be applied to multivariable systems. The experimental determination of system eigenvalues is shown to be feasible. The suitability of these methods in conjunction with simulation studies for investigation and design purposes is also shown. A simulated two-axis tracking system is used to compare the eigenvalue method and the diagonalized method. The eigenvalue method is applied to a system of four parallel-operated synchronous machines and graphical methods of stability investigation are discussed. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of / Graduate

The capacity of psychotherapeutic metaphors to play a facilitating role in the process of psychotherapy with adolescents is the research question under investigation in this study. To determine whether this process-facilitating capacity exists, the researcher will describe various case studies to illustrate this occurrence. To this end and because of the lack of research in this area, the aim of this study is to determine the facilitating role of metaphor in psychotherapy with adolescents. To achieve this, the basic concepts of cybernetic epistemology are explored, as well as the psychotherapeutic use of metaphors. These theoretical constructs are then applied to the therapeutic case studies where the facilitating role of metaphors are described, thus satisfYing the initial aim of this study. It is important to remember that the aim of this study is not to provide guidelines for therapeutic interventions, nor is it to propose a new psychotherapeutic technique. Rather, the aim of this study is to describe the facilitating role played by metaphors in psychotherapy. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2017. / Centre for Scientific Development / Psychology / MA / Unrestricted