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In the Company of Gentiles: Exploring the History of Integrated Jews in British Columbia, 1858-1971Nordlinger McDonnell, Lillooet January 2011 (has links)
By way of five microhistories focusing on the lives of Cecelia Davies Sylvester, Hannah Director, Leon Koerner, Harry Adaskin, and Nathan Nemetz, this study examines various modes of integration for Jews within particular periods of British Columbian (BC) history. Each microhistory explores the boundaries that were crossed and fostered by Jews whose careers and social contributions led them outside the confines of the established Jewish community. These Jews represent the vanguard of Jewish integration for each era to which they contributed.
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Latent Semantic Analysis, Corpus stylistics and Machine Learning Stylometry for Translational and Authorial Style Analysis: The Case of Denys Johnson-Davies’ Translations into EnglishAl Batineh, Mohammed S. 22 April 2015 (has links)
No description available.
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The influence of Wordsworth on twentieth-century Anglo-Welsh poetsProthero, James January 2005 (has links)
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Walter Richard Sickert and the theatre c.1880-c.1940Rough, William W. January 2010 (has links)
Prior to his career as a painter, Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1940) was employed for a number of years as an actor. Indeed the muse of the theatre was a constant influence throughout Sickert’s life and work yet this relationship is curiously neglected in studies of his career. The following thesis, therefore, is an attempt to address this vital aspect of Sickert’s œuvre. Chapter one (Act I: The Duality of Performance and the Art of the Music-Hall) explores Sickert’s acting career and its influence on his music-hall paintings from the 1880s and 1890s, particularly how this experience helps to differentiate his work from Whistler and Degas. Chapter two (Act II: Restaging Camden Town: Walter Sickert and the theatre c.1905-c.1915) examines the influence of the developing New Drama on Sickert’s works from his Fitzroy Street/Camden Town period. Chapter three (Act III: Sickert and Shakespeare: Interpreting the Theatre c.1920-1940) details Sickert’s interest in the rediscovery of Shakespeare as a metaphor for his solution to the crisis in modern art. Finally, chapter four (Act IV: Sickert’s Simulacrum: Representations and Characterisations of the Artist in Texts, Portraits and Self-Portraits c.1880-c.1940) discusses his interest in the concept of theatrical identity, both in terms of an interest in acting and the “character” of artist and self-publicity. Each chapter analyses the influence of the theatre on Sickert’s work, both in terms of his interest in theatrical subject matter but also in a more general sense of the theatrical milieu of his interpretations. Consequently Sickert’s paintings tell us much about changing fashions, traditions and interests in the British theatre during his period. The history of the British stage is therefore the backdrop for the study of a single artist’s obsession with theatricality and visual modernity.
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Applications of Adaptive Antennas in Third-Generation Mobile Communications SystemsLau, Buon Kiong January 2002 (has links)
Adaptive antenna systems (AAS's) are traditionally of interest only in radar and sonar applications. However, since the onset of the explosive growth in demand for wireless communications during the 1990's, researchers are giving increasing attention to the use of AAS technology to overcome practical challenges in providing the service. The main benefit of the technology lies in its ability to exploit the spatial domain, on top of the temporal and frequency domains, to improve on transceiver performance. This thesis presents a unified study on two classes of preprocessing techniques for uniform circular arrays (UCA's). UCA's are of interest because of their natural ability to provide a full azimuth (i.e. 360') coverage found in typical scenarios for sensor array applications, such as radar, sonar and wireless communications. The two classes of preprocessing techniques studied are the Davies transformation and the interpolated array transformations. These techniques yield a mathematically more convenient form - the Vandermonde form - for the array steering vector via a linear transformation. The Vandermonde form is useful for different applications such as direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation and optimum or minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming in correlated signal environment and beampattem synthesis. A novel interpolated array transformation is proposed to overcome limitations in the existing interpolated array transformations. A disadvantage of the two classes of preprocessing techniques for UCA's with omnidirectional elements is the lack of robustness in the transformed array steering vector to array imperfections under certain conditions. In order to mitigate the robustness problem, optimisation problems are formulated to modify the transformation matrices. / Suitable optimisation techniques are then applied to obtain more robust transformations. The improved transformations are shown to improve robustness but at the cost of larger transformation errors. The benefits of the robustification procedure are most apparent in DOA estimation. In addition to the algorithm level studies, the thesis also investigates the use of AAS technology with respect to two different third generation (3G) mobile communications systems: Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA). EDGE, or more generally GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network (GERAN), is the evolution of the widely successful GSM system to provide 3G mobile services in the existing radio spectrum. It builds on the TDMA technology of GSM and relies on improved coding and higher order modulation schemes to provide packet-based services at high data rates. WCDMA, on the other hand, is based on CDMA technology and is specially designed and streamlined for 3G mobile services. For WCDMA, a single-user approach to DOA estimation which utilises the user spreading code and the pulse-shaped chip waveform is proposed. It is shown that the proposed approach produces promising performance improvements. The studies with EDGE are concerned with the evaluation of a simple AAS at the system and link levels. / Results from, the system and link level simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of AAS technology in the new mobile communications system. Finally, it is noted that the WCDMA and EDGE link level simulations employ the newly developed COST259 directional channel model, which is capable of producing accurate channel realisations of macrocell environments for the evaluation of AAS's.
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Mångfald och variation i elevers uppfattning av sagan / Diversity and variation in pupils' perceptions of a fairytaleGullberg, Karolina, Olausson, Annette January 2009 (has links)
<p><strong>Bakgrund: </strong>Då skolan av tradition<strong> </strong>fokuserar mer på elevernas läs- och skrivförmåga än på deras förmåga att tala och lyssna anser vi att det är av vikt att verka även för dessa aspekter av lärande. Enligt styrdokumenten skall vi anpassa vår undervisning efter varje elevs individuella förutsättningar. En förutsättning för detta är att eleverna får möjlighet att uttrycka sig på varierade sätt. <strong></strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Syfte: </strong>Vår avsikt är att undersöka hur olika elever kan uppfatta en text i en högläsningssituation. Då det finns olika sätt att uttrycka sig på bör eleverna få tillgång till varierade kommunikationsmedel. Vi använder oss av bild och samtal, då vi vill se om dessa uttryck har möjlighet att komplettera varandra och samtidigt kan fylla en egen funktion. Vi vill även se om eleverna visar några tecken på att lära av eller påverka varandra. I sammanhanget är det intressant att se hur eleverna ger uttryck för tidigare påverkan av könsmönster. <strong></strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Metod: </strong>Vi har utfört en undersökning av kvalitativ art. Efter högläsning av en saga har eleverna fått ge uttryck för sin uppfattning i bild och samtal. I den påföljande analysen har vi tagit en hermeneutisk utgångspunkt då vi analyserat hur eleverna tolkat texten och vad som kan ha påverkat deras uppfattning.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Resultat: </strong>Eleverna visade en mångfald och variation i uppfattning av sagan och uttryckte även detta på olika sätt. Eleverna gav oss även prov på hur de genom interaktion och olika uttrycksmedel påverkar och/eller lär av varandra. Vi fick ökad förmåga att förstå och utveckla vårt elevperspektiv då vi fick inblick i elevernas egna perspektiv.</p>
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Mångfald och variation i elevers uppfattning av sagan / Diversity and variation in pupils' perceptions of a fairytaleGullberg, Karolina, Olausson, Annette January 2009 (has links)
Bakgrund: Då skolan av tradition fokuserar mer på elevernas läs- och skrivförmåga än på deras förmåga att tala och lyssna anser vi att det är av vikt att verka även för dessa aspekter av lärande. Enligt styrdokumenten skall vi anpassa vår undervisning efter varje elevs individuella förutsättningar. En förutsättning för detta är att eleverna får möjlighet att uttrycka sig på varierade sätt. Syfte: Vår avsikt är att undersöka hur olika elever kan uppfatta en text i en högläsningssituation. Då det finns olika sätt att uttrycka sig på bör eleverna få tillgång till varierade kommunikationsmedel. Vi använder oss av bild och samtal, då vi vill se om dessa uttryck har möjlighet att komplettera varandra och samtidigt kan fylla en egen funktion. Vi vill även se om eleverna visar några tecken på att lära av eller påverka varandra. I sammanhanget är det intressant att se hur eleverna ger uttryck för tidigare påverkan av könsmönster. Metod: Vi har utfört en undersökning av kvalitativ art. Efter högläsning av en saga har eleverna fått ge uttryck för sin uppfattning i bild och samtal. I den påföljande analysen har vi tagit en hermeneutisk utgångspunkt då vi analyserat hur eleverna tolkat texten och vad som kan ha påverkat deras uppfattning. Resultat: Eleverna visade en mångfald och variation i uppfattning av sagan och uttryckte även detta på olika sätt. Eleverna gav oss även prov på hur de genom interaktion och olika uttrycksmedel påverkar och/eller lär av varandra. Vi fick ökad förmåga att förstå och utveckla vårt elevperspektiv då vi fick inblick i elevernas egna perspektiv.
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Dance as Performance : Attending to Danceworks from the Perspective of David Davies' Performance TheoryJanke, Golondrian January 2022 (has links)
<p>Opponent: Anthony Allen Öhnström</p>
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A Pragmatic Standard of Legal ValidityTyler, John 2012 May 1900 (has links)
American jurisprudence currently applies two incompatible validity standards to determine which laws are enforceable. The natural law tradition evaluates validity by an uncertain standard of divine law, and its methodology relies on contradictory views of human reason. Legal positivism, on the other hand, relies on a methodology that commits the analytic fallacy, separates law from its application, and produces an incomplete model of law.
These incompatible standards have created a schism in American jurisprudence that impairs the delivery of justice. This dissertation therefore formulates a new standard for legal validity. This new standard rejects the uncertainties and inconsistencies inherent in natural law theory. It also rejects the narrow linguistic methodology of legal positivism.
In their stead, this dissertation adopts a pragmatic methodology that develops a standard for legal validity based on actual legal experience. This approach focuses on the operations of law and its effects upon ongoing human activities, and it evaluates legal principles by applying the experimental method to the social consequences they produce. Because legal history provides a long record of past experimentation with legal principles, legal history is an essential feature of this method.
This new validity standard contains three principles. The principle of reason requires legal systems to respect every subject as a rational creature with a free will. The principle of reason also requires procedural due process to protect against the punishment of the innocent and the tyranny of the majority. Legal systems that respect their subjects' status as rational creatures with free wills permit their subjects to orient their own behavior. The principle of reason therefore requires substantive due process to ensure that laws provide dependable guideposts to individuals in orienting their behavior.
The principle of consent recognizes that the legitimacy of law derives from the consent of those subject to its power. Common law custom, the doctrine of stare decisis, and legislation sanctioned by the subjects' legitimate representatives all evidence consent.
The principle of autonomy establishes the authority of law. Laws must wield supremacy over political rulers, and political rulers must be subject to the same laws as other citizens. Political rulers may not arbitrarily alter the law to accord to their will.
Legal history demonstrates that, in the absence of a validity standard based on these principles, legal systems will not treat their subjects as ends in themselves. They will inevitably treat their subjects as mere means to other ends. Once laws do this, men have no rest from evil.
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