Search for drowned human body by divers is a highly technical dependent, difficult and dangerous work. How to improve this kind of underwater rescue work, under the considerations of the safety of divers and the effectiveness in detection of the target within a limited period of time, is a major subject for fire fighters. For the time being, a normal search and rescue procedure basically includes visual observation of the bank area and surficial water area. In addition, divers are sometimes sent out to complement the search procedure by either visual observation or tactile. A much more efficient way to conduct this kind of recovery activity is to incorporate the state of art of the underwater acoustics technique, such as scanning sonar, into the operation procedures. This investigation was focused on the application of scanning sonar and image analysis techniques as well as seafloor object identification skills for the detection of drowned human body. In addition, safety of divers under water and their activities could be improved and monitored. Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and towed operated vehicle (TOV) should be incorporated into the normal search procedure for the purpose of improving target identification in the future. Under this circumstance, both target searching rate and divers¡¦ safety could be effectively improved or guaranteed. The proposed procedure which incorporated both acoustical (i.e., scanning sonar) and optical (i.e., ROV or TOV) apparatus are expected to simplify and improve the underwater target search and identification activities and will allow fire fighters a more professional and safety way in conducting drowned human body recovery activities.

Reproduction de : Thèse de doctorat : Génie civil : Lille 1 : 2005. / N° d'ordre (Lille 1) : 3607. Titre provenant de la page de titre du document numérisé. Bibliogr. [23] p.

This study examined the informal learning strategies of individuals who were among the first to belong to the original small group of British Columbian recreational divers. These individuals included breath-hold divers, users of Oxygen Re-breathers, and users of Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (scuba). Through the narratives provided by the divers themselves and other corroborative evidence, this qualitative investigation looked at who the divers were and how they approached learning to dive in this context of informal learning: that is, how they learned about and acquired the skills and knowledge needed for diving, and the changes in attitude and aspirations they acquired which stemmed from those learning activities.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-65). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-65).

x, 30 leaves ; 28 cm Notes Typescript Thesis (M.S.)--University of Oregon, 1983 Includes vita and abstract Bibliography: leaves 28-30 Another copy on microfilm is located in Archives

Édouard Glissant est un poète complet, le sel du Divers.C’est dans ses rapports à Victor Segalen (celui qui lui a donné le mot de Divers) mais aussi avec William Faulkner et Saint-John Perse que nous exposons tout d’abord les origines du Divers glissantien. Dans cette première partie, il nous est déjà permis d’entrevoir sa fabrique de l’auctorialité, c’est-à-dire le procès de son inscription en littérature. Afin de mieux situer notre approche, il importait d’emblée, s’agissant de l’examen d’une œuvre hors norme, de poser dans le même balan la question du genre chez Glissant: sa philopoétique ; c’est notre façon de nommer le discours « entre philosophie et poétique » d’Édouard Glissant.Nous émettons l’hypothèse que cette philopoétique privilégie la poésie ; que le corpus de poésie de Glissant constitue le noyau de son œuvre. Cette poésie fut d’abord publiée de manière éparse et comme enfouie sous un foisonnement générique, puis elle fut enfin rassemblée en « Poèmes complets ». C’est tout l’objet de notre deuxième partie : une étude formelle consacrée à la poésie de Glissant. Il s’agit d’une analyse autour de Poèmes complets, dans la mesure où il ne faudrait pas couper cette poésie de ses ramifications avec le restant de la philopoétique glissantienne.Dans une troisième partie, notre propos est cette fois d’interroger plus spécifiquement le sens du Divers glissantien, puisqu’il se situe au cœur de son engagement poétique. Pour représenter ce Divers gouverneur de sa poétique Glissant recourt souvent à des philosophèmes tout autant qu’à des personnages, des paysages, des métaphores ou des allégories, car sa palette de philopoète est, par définition, multiple et en symbiose avec d’autres pensées et visions sensibles du monde.À partir de cette thématique du Divers chez Glissant s’appuyant sur la dynamique textuelle de sa philopoétique, il nous est donné de saisir (à la fois de façon globale et fragmentée) toute l’étendue de son expression. / Édouard Glissant is a full poet, salt of Diverse.It is in its relationship to Victor Segalen (who gave him the word Diverse) but also with William Faulkner and Saint-John Perse that we first expose the origins of glissantian Diverse. In this first part, we already provide a glimpse into his factory of authorship, that is to say, the process of his registration in literature. To better situate our approach, it was important before all, with regard to the consideration of a non standard work, to raise at the same time the question of gender impulse in Glissant’s work: his philopoetics : it is our way of naming the discourse “between philosophy and poetry” of Édouard Glissant.We hypothesize that this philopoetics favors poetry ; that the corpus of poetry is the core of his work. This poetry was first as dispersed and buried under a flurry generic, then it was finally gathered in “Collected poems”. It is the second part of our subject : a formal study devoted to Glissant’s poetry. This is an analysis around Collected poems, insofar we should not cut this poetry from its ramifications with the rest of Glissant’s philopoetics.In a third part, our purpose this time is to examine more specifically the meaning of glissantian Diverse, since it lies at the heart of his poetic engagement. To represent this Diverse governing of his poetics, Glissant often uses philosophemes just as much of characters, landscapes, metaphors or allegories, as its range of philopoet, is, by definition, multiple and in symbiosis with other thoughts and sensitive world’s visions.From this Glissant’s Diverse theme based on the textual dynamics of its philopoetics, we get the opportunity to access (both globally and in fragmented manner) to the full extend of its expression.

This study examined the informal learning strategies of individuals who were among the first to belong to the original small group of British Columbian recreational divers. These individuals included breath-hold divers, users of Oxygen Re-breathers, and users of Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (scuba). Through the narratives provided by the divers themselves and other corroborative evidence, this qualitative investigation looked at who the divers were and how they approached learning to dive in this context of informal learning: that is, how they learned about and acquired the skills and knowledge needed for diving, and the changes in attitude and aspirations they acquired which stemmed from those learning activities. / Education, Faculty of / Educational Studies (EDST), Department of / Graduate

This dissertation investigates the historical construction of the foreigner as a category of subjectivity. It does so by tracing a set of procedures and regulations devised by British imperial authorities to bring the Gulf pearl industry, which was one of the largest sources of natural pearls in the world for several millennia, under their control in the period between the signing of the first Anglo-Arab treaty at the turn of the nineteenth century and the effective demise of Gulf pearling in the early 1930s. I argue that imperial concerns about the mobility of pearl fishers shaped the production of this novel category of subject, the migrant foreigner, in three ways. In the first place, the yearly influx of scores of pearl fishers to the shaikhdoms that lined the Gulf's western littoral at the advent of the main diving season hindered British attempts to establish expansive jurisdictional claims in these polities. It was in the context of the effort to rein in the excesses of pearling labor mobility that British imperial institutions were first constructed in the Gulf shaikhdoms. In the second place, Britain also shaped the comportment of these mariners by policing their movement. Since Britain portrayed itself as a guardian of the Gulf pearl trade through the treaties and agreements it signed with Gulf shaikhs throughout the nineteenth century, it restricted behaviors that it considered detrimental to the success of that trade. Chief among these was the ability of indebted pearl fishers to run away to neighboring shaikhdoms to take on a fresh cash advance unencumbered by the debt they had accumulated elsewhere, a practice that British officials deemed absconding. In the third place, Britain eventually institutionalized the measures it took to govern migrant pearl fishers in the shaikhdom of Bahrain, which became ground zero for British operations in the region from 1900 onward. In doing so, British officials incorporated methods of governance initially devised to regulate the movement of an itinerant group of workers within the juridical scope of their jurisdiction over all foreigners in Bahrain. By demonstrating the constitutive effects of this effort, which rendered deportations and constraints on collective labor agitation a regular tool in the repertoire of imperial and shaikhly power, this dissertation presents a new way to understand the nature and legacies of British rule in the Gulf and a different set of historical coordinates to locate the origins of the foreign worker as a category of legal and political subjectivity in the region.

Notre représentation collective du fait divers a considérablement évolué au tournant des années 80 ; ainsi que le signale Marine M’sili, « si unanimement décrié, fustigé, condamné, [il] voit son statut se modifier jusqu’à prendre une valeur positive », y compris chez l’élite intellectuelle. Dans ce même tournant des années 80, la littérature évolue, selon Dominique Viart, vers la « transitivité », c’est-à-dire qu’elle ne se suffit plus à elle-même et nécessite un complément d’objet direct, le monde. Ce double « tournant » favorise la fréquence et le renouvellement des modalités de rencontres entre littérature et fait divers.Cette thèse se situe dans le prolongement de ces travaux mais vise plus spécifiquement à manifester l’importance des métamorphoses du fait divers criminel tel que recyclé dans la littérature contemporaine. Le corpus sélectionné comprend vingt-cinq œuvres à valeur d’échantillonnage, publié dans la période 1990-2012. Par une analyse des influences et des modalités de l’enquête et une exploration relevant à la fois de la criminologie littéraire et du mémorial aux victimes, la thèse démontre la richesse et la diversité des écritures du fait divers aujourd’hui.En effet, le renouveau du traitement de cette matière, ouvert aux avancées des sciences humaines, a majoritairement rompu avec les esthétiques réalistes du XIXe siècle aussi bien qu’avec les usages plus ludiques et expérimentaux du XXe siècle. De même, bon nombre d’écrivains se refusent à perpétuer la tradition paralittéraire et médiatique du monstrueux archaïque au profit de mises en questions socio-historiques et d’interrogations plus posées quant à la monstruosité, logée au vif de notre humanité. / Our collective representation of the « fait divers » underwent considerable revision in the early 1980s, as Marine M’Sili points out : « from being universally decried, denounced and censured, [it] sees its status change to the point of taking on a positive value », even among the intellectual elite. At the same time, according to Dominique Viart, literature takes on a new « transitivity »; it is no longer self-sufficient but requires a direct object, the world. These two developments provide a meeting ground where new and more frequent interactions between literature and the « fait divers » can take place. This thesis builds on these insights but aims more specifically to demonstrate the significance of the changes that the criminal « fait divers » undergoes as it is recycled in contemporary French literature. The sample corpus includes twenty-five representative works, all published in the period from 1990 to 2012. Through an analysis of investigation procedures and their influence, and an exploration that is part literary criminology and part commemoration of the victims, the thesis demonstrates the richness and diversity of the literary « fait divers » today. Indeed, the revival of interest in the topic, in tune with advances in the humanities, has for the most part broken both with the realist aesthetics of the nineteenth century and with the twentieth century’s more playful and experimental approaches. Many writers have also abandoned the traditional paraliterary and media representations of an archaic monstrosity in favour of a broader socio-historical reflection and more pointed questioning of the monstrousness that lies at the very heart of our humanity.