Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1975.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Texas, May, 2009. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2005. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-56).

abstract: My job in this thesis is to explore a supposedly dragon-filled area of philosophy, tropology. By 'tropology,' I only mean the study of figurative speech, or, more particularly, metaphors. It seems clear to most people that metaphors have meaning. But this fact flies in the face of several different theories of meaning. Such as, the meaning of a metaphor can't be properly conveyed by Possible Worlds Semantics or Truth-Conditional Semantics. Tropology is also an area of philosophy with very few commonly accepted theories. It is not like the study of reference, where there are two theories, each having a large following. The the various theories in tropology are so radically different, with each having relatively few followers, that the it is widely unexplored in philosophy. Some theories claim that metaphors is the exact same as another use of speech (namely, similes). Another claims that metaphors lack “meaning.” And a third claims that metaphors do 'mean' but getting at that meaning requires some special mental operations. By the end of this thesis, you will not only have my map of tropology, my theory of metaphors, but also some experimental philosophy about them to help put to rest some theories. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Philosophy 2016

O termo \"Psicossomática\" utilizado para designar a inter-relação entre sintomas físicos e fatores emocionais nas diversas patologias variou durante anos provocando confusões. Os diversos tratamentos médicos podem elevar gastos nos serviços de saúde. O presente estudo busca caracterizar a demanda de pacientes do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo (HCFMRP-USP) no período de 1996 a 2004 cujo diagnóstico é Doença Psicossomática. A coleta de dados foi realizada em prontuários médicos, no Serviço de Arquivo Médico (SAME), com a categoria diagnóstica F 45 que, de acordo com o CID-10, significa Transtorno de Somatização; essa categoria foi utilizada como palavra chave no banco de dados. Na busca pelos prontuários foram encontrados 397, porém apenas 136 registravam o diagnóstico F 45, amostra do presente estudo. A coleta foi dificultada devido às letras ilegíveis e à falta de dados nos prontuários relacionados aos itens do instrumento de coleta. A população constitui-se pela maioria nascida no Estado de São Paulo com 43% da amostra, desses 14% nasceram em Ribeirão Preto-SP e 29% nasceram em outras cidades do Estado; são moradores do Estado de São Paulo 48%, desses 26% moram em Ribeirão Preto e 22% moram em outras cidades do Estado; 74,2% dos indivíduos são do sexo feminino; 87% têm cor de pele branca; 57% têm 1º grau incompleto; 70% professam a religião católica. Quanto ao estado civil, tem-se que 57% dos indivíduos são casados/amasiados; 52,96% possuem filhos; 32% dos indivíduos vivem com uma pessoa na mesma casa; 43,4% exercem a ocupação do lar e 14% dos indivíduos possuem como fator estressor problemas de saúde. Os indivíduos atendidos na Unidade de Emergência, em sua maior parte, comparecem numa freqüência de até cinco vezes (35%); os atendidos nos ambulatórios do HC, em sua maioria, comparecem numa freqüência de 20 vezes (49%). Os internados possuem a freqüência de zero a cinco vezes com 57% dos indivíduos. O local com o maior número de atendidos é a Unidade de Emergência com 43% dos indivíduos da amostra. Os dados encontrados caracterizam a população de indivíduos portadores de Transtorno de Somatização como: mulheres, casadas ou amasiadas, de baixa renda, sem filhos, do lar, com faixa etária entre 43 e 53 anos, de cor branca, com 1º grau de escolaridade incompleta, católicas, que moram com uma pessoa na mesma casa, nascidas em outras cidades do Estado de São Paulo, residentes em Ribeirão Preto e que freqüentam a Unidade de Emergência sem seguir um tratamento médico. Dessa forma, esses pacientes com Transtorno Psicossomático, isto é, pacientes com Transtorno de Somatização, contribuem para elevar os custos e a demanda dos Serviços de Saúde. Se esses indivíduos fossem atendidos de acordo com suas necessidades individuais, as filas de espera poderiam diminuir e suas condições de saúde poderiam ser melhores. / The term \"Psychosomatics\", used to designate the interrelation between physical symptoms and emotional factors in different diseases has varied over time, provoking confusion in medical treatments, and has increased health service expenses. This study aims to characterize the demand of patients who attended the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto Medical School (HCFMRP-USP) between 1996 and 2004, and were diagnosed as Psychosomatic Disease. Data were collected in medical files at the Medical Filing Service (SAME), which contained the diagnosis category F 45. According to the ICD-10, this means Somatization Disorder. This category was used as a key word in the file search. We found 397 files, only 136 of which contained registries of the F45 diagnosis and constituted the study sample. Data collection was impaired by unreadable handwriting and lack of data about items for data to be surveyed. The population consists of a majority born in the State of São Paulo (42%), 29% born in other cities in the same state and 14% in Ribeirão Preto; most participants (26%) live in Ribeirão Preto, while 22% live in other cities in the same state; 74.2% of individuals are women; 87% of the sample are white; 57% have not finished primary education and 70% proclaim themselves Catholic. As to civil status, 57% of participants are married or have a fixed partner; 52,96% have children; 32% of individuals live with one person in the same house, 43.4% are housewives, and 14% of individuals possess health problems as a stressor. Most of the participants (35%) attended at the Emergency Unit make up to five visits; individuals attended at the HC outpatient clinics mostly (49%) make 20 visits. Hospitalized patients make between zero and five visits, with 57% of the sample. The Emergency Unit attends the largest number of patients (43%). These data characterize the patient population with Somatization Disorder as: women, married or with a fixed partner, low income, without children, housewives, age range between 43 and 53 years, white, unfinished primary education, Catholic, live with one person in the same house, born in other cities of the State of São Paulo and living in Ribeirão Preto, and visit the Emergency Unit without receiving further medical follow-up treatment. Thus, patients with psychosomatic disorder, that is, patients with somatization disorder, contributing to high health system costs and also generate high care demands. If this population s needs were adequately attended to, waiting lines could decrease and these individuals could improve their health conditions.

This research proposes a novel technique for authenticating and validating syslogs for forensic analysis. This technique uses a modification of the Needham Schroeder protocol, which uses nonces (numbers used only once) and public keys. Syslogs, which were developed from an event-logging perspective and not from an evidence-sustaining one, are system treasure maps that chart out and pinpoint attacks and attack attempts. Over the past few years, research on securing syslogs has yielded enhanced syslog protocols that focus on tamper prevention and detection. However, many of these protocols, though efficient from a security perspective, are inadequate when forensics comes into play. From a legal perspective, any kind of evidence found at a crime scene needs to be validated. In addition, any digital forensic evidence when presented in court needs to be admissible, authentic, believable, and reliable. Currently, a patchy log on the server side and client side cannot be considered as formal authentication of a wrongdoer. This work presents a method that ties together, authenticates, and validates all the entities involved in the crime scene--the user using the application, the system that is being used, and the application being used on the system by the user. This means that instead of merely transmitting the header and the message, which is the standard syslog protocol format, the syslog entry along with the user fingerprint, application fingerprint, and system fingerprint are transmitted to the logging server. The assignment of digital fingerprints and the addition of a challenge response mechanism to the underlying syslogging mechanism aim to validate generated syslogs forensically.

Randek is a company that develops machines. The machines are used to build prefabricated houses. They have developed a CNC machine called Nailing Bridge that creates house walls. One of their issues is that they must predict the time it takes to build a wall because their customers need to know how long it takes to deliver their house. Our project solves this problem by making a program that calculates the time it takes to build a wall on the Nailing Bridge with help from NC files (Numerical Control files) consisting of G-code. One NC file contains the machine's operations, such as sawing, nailing, and routing. The goal was to develop a program with a maximum margin of error of 3% from reality. The machine was tested to measure the time of different operations to develop the program, and the NC files were analysed. Calculations for the jerk, acceleration, deceleration, and velocity of the CNC machine were considered to predict the time of the movements with high enough precision. The calculations and implementation are written in C#. A GUI is created for the user to use the program easily. The end product is a program that can take in one NC file and gives output on the time it should take for the Nailing Bridge to go through the file. The margin of error was between 5% to 31% for one operation of sawing or nailing, which is significantly higher than the goal of 3%. The program was therefore debugged with unit testing and new tests of the Nailing Bridge to find the sources for this margin of error. The conclusion is that the program works but not exactly to the company's standards.

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