abstract: This project uses fourteen transcriptions of Pete Fountain’s solos as examples to demonstrate traditional jazz clarinet techniques and language in terms of motives, patterns, and a variety of articulations. This project also includes guidelines on how to practice jazz improvisation as well as how to apply Fountain’s techniques and jazz language to one’s own improvisation. Though there are countless musicians who have made remarkable contributions to the development of the jazz language, Pete Fountain’s unique style is particularly worthy of study due to his massive media presence, effortless playing techniques, unique tone quality, and showmanship throughout his career. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2019

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Throughout the country, new development continues at a rapid pace, sprawling away from city centers leaving behind gaping holes in the community structure. This new development contains a disappointing sameness creating places devoid of unique identity or character. As a result of this movement outward, inner city neighborhoods are left struggling to survive. These older neighborhoods lose residents and businesses, and suffer both socially and economically as residents flee to the suburbs. Such flight leaves pockets of decaying, deserted areas within the urban core.In order to decrease the incidence of this characterless new development from occurring, older neighborhoods need to be revitalized to provide interesting, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods that are desirable places to live. Most of these older neighborhoods contain desirable characteristics that distinguish them from other places such as distinctive architecture and a unique identity. They were built to a human scale that is far superior to the automotive scale of suburbia. These neighborhoods can be revitalized to emphasize their inherent community character, making them more memorable and lasting. Through such revitalization efforts, these neighborhoods would provide a higher quality of life.This creative project identifies neighborhood design principles necessary to restore deteriorating areas of urban neighborhoods and demonstrates that these renewed neighborhoods can, over time, redevelop a unique sense of place. Application of these restorative principles will be illustrated in a revitalization of an urban pocket of the Fountain Square neighborhood in Indianapolis, Indiana. / Department of Landscape Architecture

abstract: ABSTRACT The accretion of juvenile island-arc lithosphere by convergent tectonism during the Paleoproterozoic, in conjunction with felsic volcanism, resulted in the assembly, ductile to partial brittle deformation, uplift, and northwest-directed thrusting of rocks in the McDowell Mountains region and adjacent areas in the Mazatzal Orogenic belt. Utilizing lithologic characteristics and petrographic analysis of the Proterozoic bedrock, a correlation to the Alder series was established, revising the stratigraphic sequences described by earlier works. The central fold belt, composed of an open, asymmetric syncline and an overturned, isoclinal anticline, is cut by an axial-plane parallel reactivated thrust zone that is intruded by a deformed Paleoproterozoic mafic dike. Finite strain analyses of fold geometries, shear fabrics, foliations, fold vergence, and strained clasts point to Paleoproterozoic northwest-directed thrusting associated with the Mazatzal orogen at approximately 1650 million years ago. Previous studies constrained the regional P-T conditions to at least the upper andalusite-kyanite boundary at peak metamorphic conditions, which ranged from 4-6 kilobars and 350-450⁰ Celsius, although the plasticity of deformation in a large anticlinal core suggests that this represents the low end of the P-T conditions. Subsequent to deformation, the rocks were intruded by several granitoid plutons, likely of Mesoproterozoic age (1300-1400 Ma). A detailed analysis of Proterozoic strain solidly places the structure of the McDowell Mountains within the confines of the Mazatzal Orogeny, pending any contradictory geochronological data. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Geological Sciences 2012

Une fontaine peut se créer quand la flottabilité d'un rejet vertical s'oppose à sa quantité de mouvement. Ce type d'écoulement connaît beaucoup d'applications que ce soit dans la nature (panaches issus des éruptions volcaniques) ainsi que dans l'industrie du bâtiment (chauffage et refroidissement) ou dans le domaine des risques (rejets accidentel de gaz lourd). Dans cette thèse, nous nous focalisons sur l'étude des fontaines turbulentes miscibles. Dans le premier chapitre nous reformulons le modèle théorique de Morton et al. (1956) pour traiter le cas des fontaines en milieu linéairement stratifié. La résolution de ce modèle permet d'obtenir des relations analytiques pour la hauteur de la fontaine et sa hauteur d'étalement. Ce modèle est, par la suite, étendu au cas des panaches et des jets turbulents en milieu linéairement stratifié. Dans le second chapitre, nous proposons un modèle théorique permettant d'étudier une fontaine turbulente miscible en régime établi. Pour calibrer ce modèle, des simulations numériques aux grandes échelles (LES) sont utilisées pour obtenir une estimation des valeurs des constantes associées aux phénomènes d'échanges turbulents entre les parties ascendante et descendante de la fontaine. L'objectif du dernier chapitre est d'apporter, à partir d'expérimentations en laboratoire, des informations quantitatives sur l'influence de forts écarts de masses volumiques dans les écoulements de type fontaine. Les expériences sont réalisées pour des fontaines gazeuses (mélange air/hélium) en régime établi. / A fountain can occur when the buoyancy of a vertically released fluid opposes its momentum. Such flows have many applications in nature (plumes issuing from volcanic eruption), building industry (cooling or heating) or in the area of risk management (accidental release of heavy dangerous gas). In this thesis, we focus on the study of miscible turbulent fountains. In the first chapter, we revisit the theoretical model of Morton et al. (1956) to handle the case of fountains in linearly stratified fluid. The resolution of this model allows us to obtain analytical relations for the fountain height as well as the spreading height of its horizontal layer. This model is subsequently extended to the case of turbulent jets and plumes in linearly stratified fluid. In the second chapter, we propose a theoretical model for the study of a turbulent miscible fountain in a steady state. To calibrate this model, large eddy simulations (LES) are used to obtain an estimate of the values of the constants associated with the additional terms appearing in the equations. The objective of the final chapter is to provide, from laboratory experiments, quantitative information on the influence of strong density differences on the behaviour of a turbulent fountain. These experiments shows that all the classical relations valid for the Boussinesq case can be extended to the non-Boussinesq case by using an appropriate definition of the Froude number.

An exploration of the various ephemeral sources of Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers. This thesis brings together other authors' observations of Baroque ephemera. Additional sources are proposed by the author to create a more complete discussion of the fountain and its relationship with Baroque ephemera.

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This thesis focuses upon the redesign of McKeldin Plaza in Baltimore, MD. Situated beside the Inner Harbor and at the intersection of Pratt and Light Street, this occupies an important space in the city, functioning as a crossroads between several important urban landmarks. However, a reconfiguration of this plaza has become necessary due to the growth in traffic around the area, both automotive and pedestrian, as two 5-lane streets surrounding the plaza has left the site physically cut off from the Inner Harbor. Additionally, a beloved but under-functioning fountain awkwardly divides up the space, ultimately rendering the large plaza unused except the sidewalks at the edges. Through redesigning the street layout and traffic patterns, this thesis offers an alternative to the current scheme, one which offers a new connection to the Inner Harbor and an active, pedestrian-friendly space. In joining the plaza with the Harbor, a new urban nexus is created which seams together the upper and lower Inner Harbor. The redesign focuses on three key elements: a new fountain to pay homage to the old, bringing the harbor into the plaza, and creating spaces which are both accessible and inviting, yet astute in addressing functional and contextual needs. While maintaining some of the original qualities of the space, such as materiality and surrounding building footprints, this design also encompasses the addition of a new arcade in order to allow a greater flow between the interior, commercial and exterior, civic spaces. / Master of Architecture