A content analysis and post hoc content analysis of 362 news articles in national newspapers, regional newspapers, and Internet news Web sites investigated the prevalence of issue-specific and generic frames, frame valence, and the personalization of media coverage of the steroid scandal in Major League Baseball. Research guided by framing theory found 2,353 frames present in the initial analysis and 2,834 frames present after the post hoc analysis. Generic frames were more prevalent than issue-specific frames in coverage in initial analysis. The post hoc analysis, however, indicates that issue-specific frames were more prevalent than generic frames in terms of times present. Frames are valenced negatively more frequently than neutrally or positively in coverage. Media coverage was focused on the individuals more often than on the organization, however, both the individuals and organization were treated similarly in terms of valence of frames. The findings of the analyses supported scholarship calling for more analysis of generic and issue-specific frames, the presence of valence in frames, and the personalization of media coverage in the political communication context that in this case is present in the sports media context as well. Findings merit further scholarship on broader source comparison in coverage of this scandal, agenda-setting in various forms, and further frame analysis in the sports media contexts and other contexts outside of the political communication context as well. / Master of Arts

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-11-06T14:10:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 juliaaparecidagoncalvescampos.pdf: 6444524 bytes, checksum: f10ae45b44ceb730affe5711343a7b2d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-11-09T14:24:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 juliaaparecidagoncalvescampos.pdf: 6444524 bytes, checksum: f10ae45b44ceb730affe5711343a7b2d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-09T14:24:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 juliaaparecidagoncalvescampos.pdf: 6444524 bytes, checksum: f10ae45b44ceb730affe5711343a7b2d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-07 / O presente trabalho, no escopo da Linguística Cognitiva, buscou os elementos-chave para a compreensão do fenômeno da significação e a proposição da formalização em um modelo conceitual ontológico, que subsidiasse processos de inferência na interpretação por máquinas da relação partitiva. O objetivo principal foi estudar a relação semântica partitiva tal como manifestada na semântica das línguas humanas e para isso, avança o estudo da relação a partir da perspectiva clássica lexical, limitada às expressões “é parte de” ou “tem parte” presentes em sentenças criadas, como “a asa é parte da xícara” ou “xícara tem parte asa”, para ocorrências reais extraídas de corpus, como na sentença: “a asa da xícara quebrou”. Na perspectiva da Semântica de Frames, para entender um item linguístico, é necessário entender o frame que ele evoca e as relações deste frame com outros frames. Além da descrição da relação partitiva no escopo da Semântica de Frames, o objetivo foi formalizar a relação partitiva entre frames em um modelo ontológico, apresentando a proposta de uma ferramenta para o reconhecimento da relação partitiva em sentenças. Para isso, combinamos a notação descritiva, representada na FrameNet, com informações provenientes da WordNet e da ontologia SIMPLE, recursos lexicais que assumem a Teoria do Léxico Gerativo (Pustejovsky, 1996). A criação de uma base de dados ontológica (das entidades e suas partes), como resultado do esforço de anotação de frames de uma língua, auxiliou o reconhecimento da relação partitiva em sentenças diversas e a promoveu sua legibilidade por máquinas, através da explicitação dos tipos semânticos dos elementos vinculados partitivamente. / In the scope of Cognitive Linguistics, the present work sought the key elements for the understanding of the phenomenon of signification and the proposition of formalization in an ontological conceptual model, which subsidized processes of inference in the machine interpretation of the partitive relation. The main objective was to study the partitive semantic relation as manifested in the semantics of human languages and, for this purpose, the study advances from the classical lexical perspective, limited to the expressions “is part of” or “has part” from created sentences, as “the handle is part of the cup” or “cup has the handle as part”, for real occurrences extracted from corpus, as in the sentence: “a asa da xícara quebrou” [the cup handle broke]. In the Frame Semantics approach, in order to understand a linguistic item, it is necessary to understand the frame that it evokes and the relations of this frame with other frames. In addition to the description of the partitive relation in the scope of Frame Semantics, the objective was to formalize the partitive relation between frames in an ontological model, presenting the proposal of a tool for the recognition of the partitive relation in sentences. For this purpose, we combine the descriptive notation, represented in FrameNet, with information from WordNet and the SIMPLE ontology, which are lexical resources that assume the Generative Lexicon Theory (PUSTEJOVSKY, 1996). The creation of an ontological database (of the entities and their parts), as a result of the effort of annotation of frames of a language, helped the recognition of the partitive relation in various sentences and promoted its readability by machines, through the explicitness of the semantic types of the elements linked by partitive relation.

By using a nonlinear computer analysis, a parametric study is developed in order to examine the accuracy of the Moment Magnifier Method of the American Concrete Institute Code (ACI 318-83). The variables used in the parametric study are: axial load intensity, P/Po; column reinforcement ratio, rho; slenderness ratio, klu; shape of column cross section, flexural stiffness ratio, and distribution of axial loads. In the parametric study, 216 cases of single bay fixed-base portal frames are examined. The higher moment for each one of these frames at failure are then compared with the design moment predicted by the Moment Magnifier Method of the American Concrete Institute Code (ACI 318-83). The Moment Magnifier Method proved to be very conservative when the columns are subjected to high level of axial loads and when the slenderness ratio is increased.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 20-23, 2003 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Reduction of signal transmission is of paramount concern to many in the telemetry and wireless industry. One technique that is available is the compression of the data before transmission. With telemetry type data, there are many approaches that can be used to achieve compression. Data compression of the Advanced Range Telemetry (ARTM) PCM data sets in the frame and packet modes, and for the entire data file will be considered and compared. The technique of differencing data will also be applied to the data files by subtracting the previous major frame and then applying compression techniques. It will be demonstrated that telemetry compression is a viable option to reduce the amount of data to be transmitted, and hence the bandwidth. However, this compression produces variable-length data segments with implications for real-time data synchronization.

The SEC relies heavily on ‘no-fault’ settlements in its enforcement, where targets avoid costly litigation by accepting sanctions without admitting or denying fault. This policy is argued to enable the agency to pursue greater numbers of violators. However, opponents argue that no-fault sanctions may be less effective, reducing fines to a ‘cost of business’. In an experiment, I examine the effects of fault assignment on managers’ cost perceptions, ethical framing and compliance. I manipulate the presence of fault assignment in prospective sanctions, and additionally manipulate sanction strength and sanction target - attributes that commonly vary in sanctions and which may interact with fault assignment. I find that all manipulated sanction attributes increase managers’ cost perceptions, and that managers’ cost perceptions are associated with greater compliance frequency and compliance quality. I also find that managers facing fault assignment in manager-targeted sanction conditions perceive their compliance differently – as an ethical, rather than economic choice. Consequently, these managers comply more frequently with costly regulations and select higher quality compliance than do managers in manager-targeted no-fault conditions. Targeting firms with sanctions also increases managers’ ethical perceptions, but adding fault to firm-targeted sanctions does not further increase ethical perceptions or compliance. My findings are consistent with sanctions facilitating greater ethical awareness and compliance when fault targets managers or when sanctions target firms, and with ethical awareness facilitating greater compliance. Supplementary analysis suggests that results are stronger among individuals high in ‘dark triad’ personality traits (narcissism, machiavellianism, and psychopathy), suggesting that findings generalize to subpopulations thought to be high in dark triad traits such as firm managers (O’Reilly et al. 2014).

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 27-30, 1997 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / The Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Conversion Device (ACD) System is based on state-of-the-art ATM technology. The system interfaces between high-rate ECL/RS-422 raw data bitstreams and Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) OC-3 fiber. The SONET OC-3 interface uses ATM Adaptation Layer Type Five (AAL5) format. The system exceeds its 50 Mbps raw data, single stream requirement and provides single stream raw data throughput at rates up to 75 Mbps. With ATM and SONET packaging overhead, this translates into 90 Mbps on the OC-3 fiber. In addition to high-rate throughput, the system provides multiplexing and demultiplexing of multiple stream throughput based on the ATM cell header Virtual Path and Virtual Channel Identifier (VPI/VCI) values. The system is designed with the flexibility to provide between three and six throughput channels. All of which are multiplexed/demultiplexed to and from the same OC-3 interface. Multiple stream cumulative raw data throughput rates of up to 80 Mbps, or 96 Mbps on the fiber, have successfully run.

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This thesis emphasizes the senses of the audience in reception of Jan van Eyck’s heroic Ghent Altarpiece. This pivotal work may have demanded the viewer engage in a hierarchy of devotion ranging from intimate and private to public and liturgical. Jan van Eyck engages in a strategy of representation that focus and specify various aspects of vision to create a multivalent devotional experiences for the viewer. This thesis compares some of the visual uses of frames in miniatures and how they relate to altarpiece formats and hierarchies of vision. Reception of the Ghent Altarpiece is also discussed in relation to Augustine of Hippo’s theory of tri-partite vision as well as his theory of cross-modal uses of the sense in dialogues of spiritual truth. Sound is also a vital component of the devotional experience of the Ghent Altarpiece. Issues of music and speech acts are discussed to underscore the multivalent devotional uses of the Ghent Altarpiece. / text

We discuss a systematic methodology that leads to the reconstruction of the material profile of either single, or assemblies of one-dimensional flexural components endowed with Timoshenko-theory assumptions. The probed structures are subjected to user-specified transient excitations: we use the complete waveforms, recorded directly in the time-domain at only a few measurement stations, to drive the profile reconstruction using a partial-differential-equation-constrained optimization approach. We discuss the solution of the ensuing state, adjoint, and control problems, and the alleviation of profile multiplicity by means of either Tikhonov or Total Variation regularization. We report on numerical experiments using synthetic data that show satisfactory reconstruction of a variety of profiles, including smoothly and sharply varying profiles, as well as profiles exhibiting localized discontinuities. The method is well suited for imaging structures for condition assessment purposes, and can handle either diffusive or localized damage without need for a reference undamaged state. / text

A new structural system for multi-storey timber buildings has been developed over the last seven years at the University of Canterbury. The system incorporates large timber structural frames, whereby semi-rigid beam-column connections are created using post-tensioning steel tendons. This system can create large open floor plans required for office and commercial buildings. Several material properties of the engineered timber used were determined based on small-scale experimental testing. Full-scale testing of beams, connections and frames resulted in a more comprehensive understanding of the behaviour of such systems. Numerical, analytical and framework models also led to the development of design equations and procedures which were validated with the acquired experimental data.