Thèse--Lettres. / Bibliogr. p. 316-355.

Thesis (doctoral) - Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (PH. D.)--Cornell University. / Reprinted from the American Journal of Mathematics, vol. XXIX, no. 4.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Physics, August 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006. / Gregory B. Lewis, Committee Chair ; Douglas Noonan, Committee Member ; Sally Wallace, Committee Member ; Michael Rushton, Committee Member ; Bruce Seaman, Committee Member.

Thesis--University of Florida. / Description based on print version record. Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (vol. 2, leaves 780-785).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-184). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Amergin and Cessair is a musical setting of the text "Amergin and Cessair: A Battle of Poetic Incantation" by Michael Meade and Erica Helm Meade. The music takes the form of a dramatic "duet," scored for double choir and chamber orchestra. It depicts an exchange of self-exalting verses proclaimed by the two demigods Amegin and Cessair. Cessair--an early inhabitant of Ireland--uses her verses to churn the sea and fend off ship-borne Amergin, who in turn calms the sea with his verses. Musically, the two characters are distinguished by their own unique melodic motives, harmonic sonorities, and instrumentations. The drama of the battle unfolds over the course of the fifteen-minute work, and ultimately Amergin is the victorious one. Overall, the work expresses the pride, determination, and intense emotionality of the two characters objectively, without taking the side of either one, and it is an allegory for cultural conflict.

The application of the discrete Fourier transform to the determination of the frequency content of unevenly-sampled astronomical time series is discussed, and an interactive computer package which incorporates a variety of power-spectrum and time-domain techniques is described. A frequency analysis of the light curves of two hot, extreme helium stars, BD-9°4395 and HD160641, shows that their photometric variability is caused by non-radial pulsation. Spectroscopic evidence in support of non-uniform mass loss is presented for BD-9°4395. Spectroscopic and photometric observations of two early-type eclipsing binary systems, AL Sculptoris and DM Persei, have been analysed to yield their absolute dimensions. AL Scl is found to be a detached system in which both components rotate faster than synchronism. The origin of distortions in its light curve is unclear. DH Per is shown to be part of a triple system in which the third component is most probably a late-B star in a 98-day orbit with a semi-major axis of 0.9 A.U. The binary system is confirmed to be semi-detached and to have evolved through a phase of rapid mass transfer. DH Per joins a small group of massive, semi-detached systems whose characteristics differ significantly from the classical Algols, and which may result from case-A, mass-transfer processes. Spectroscopic and photometric observations of the F4V star HD123058 do not support the hypothesis that it is a binary system. Broad lines in its spectrum are attributed to a somewhat enhanced rotation rate, and the star is shown to be essentially unevolved. The derivation of the equation of condition in Sterne's rigorous method for the analysis of the spectroscopic elements of binary systems, and its modification for incorporating observed times of minimum light into the adjustment of the elements, are outlined. A computer code for the determination of orbital elements according to this scheme is described.

Abstract The aim of the study is to reveal the nature of learning in local land-use planning activity and to examine the possibilities for the development of planning as a form of learning activity. The theoretical approach draws on the pragmatist and dialectical reorientation of systems theory and the related theory of learning organizations. The traditional, positivist systems approach to land-use planning is considered both to depoliticize planning and to make it unreflective. Critical theory as a basis of planning theory is also shown to be inadequate. Communicative planning theories that draw on critical theory are rather theories of emancipation in the context of planning than theories of planning per se. An alternative systems-theoretical view to land-use planning activity is presented, where critical and constructive aspects as well as ethical and pragmatic aspects are interlinked in the dialectical dynamics of planning as organizational and inter-organizational learning activity. Three subsystems within the system of local land-use planning are identified: expertise, politics and economics. The subsystems of land-use planning build upon the basic distinction between legitimate and illegitimate conduct. For each subsystem, the context of its existence is formed by the interaction of all subsystems. By acting, each subsystem inevitably changes its dialectical relationship to this context. Harmful changes are felt within the subsystem as inner contradictions that interfere with its decision-making activity. If the subsystem is unable to face these contradictions but instead resorts to the use of pathological power, they may develop into paralyzing double bind situations. The resolution of a double bind situation requires expansive learning by the subsystem. However, there are also contradictions in land-use planning that the subsystems are unable to resolve by expansive learning. Such inter-systemic contradictions stem from the dialectical relationship between the overriding requirement of legitimacy on one hand and the basic goals of expert knowledge and economic profit on the other. In the study a hypothesis is formulated, according to which these basic - and, in the conditions of modern society, permanent - contradictions in local land-use planning require such inter-organizational learning, which enables the creation of planning solutions that provide means for their task-related harmonization, and, in the longer term, contributes to the emergence of a participative planning culture where the contradictions can be handled legitimately, if not resolved.