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1	Electric Fence to PC Wireless Radio Frequency Communications Interface Gomez Poo, David Fernando January 2006 (has links) Electric fencing is commonly used on New Zealand's farms. Modern technology is used in farm management systems to solve old farming problems in a more efficient and simple way. Engineers have researched the use of the electric fence as a communication medium and new technologies based on transmission line theory are used at present to monitor and troubleshoot problems occurring in electric fences. The next stage of the development is to use wireless devices to accomplish those same tasks from remote locations. This project aims to develop a prototype that provides a wireless link between an electric fence and a personal computer in a remote location. This prototype is expected to prove concepts that lead to the future design of useful, marketable products. The project was supported by Gallagher Electronics and is implemented using their existing products where possible. electric fence electric fences fences monitoring monitoring devices monitor gallagher radio frequency monitor radio frequency
2	The communication of the Cristian ] message in a secularized society a study of the pastoral theological consequences of the writings of Harvey Cox, John A.T. Robinson and Johannes Metz, with special concern for the area of the sermon / Doherty, John Joseph, January 1975 (has links) Thesis--Freiburg i. B. / Mimeographed copy of typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 532-550).
3	The communication of the Cristian ] message in a secularized society a study of the pastoral theological consequences of the writings of Harvey Cox, John A.T. Robinson and Johannes Metz, with special concern for the area of the sermon / Doherty, John Joseph, January 1975 (has links) Thesis--Freiburg i. B. / Mimeographed copy of typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 532-550).
4	Multisensory integration, predictive coding and the Bayesian brain : reintegrating the body image and body schema distinction into cognitive science Watson, Ashleigh Louise January 2017 (has links) The classic distinction between the body schema and the body image received renewed interest in cognitive psychology, in part because of the attempts by the leading psychologist Charles Spence and his co-authors to synthesise a mounting body of research into the multisensory nature and functional properties of the neural structures in primate cortex that are sensitive and responsive to cross-modal stimuli generated from the body and objects located close to the body, and the famous rubber hand illusion which purported to illustrate how the perception and understanding of what counts as one’s body, i.e., our body image, can be manipulated to include foreign, body-part-like, objects such as a rubber hand. This approach was intended to settle age old questions about how the body schema – the system sub-personal sensorimotor system that shapes, facilitates and regulates motor control – is implemented in the brain and address historic confusions about how the body schema should be understood as an explanatory concept, as well as the problems surrounding the body schema and image distinction on the grounds of the persistent conflation between the two concepts. However, after offering several proposals as to how the body schema should be used to organise and interpret the empirical data, the distinction fell out of favour with Spence and his colleagues on the grounds of the very problems they intended to resolve. The proposed solution is an alternative theoretical framework that, I shall argue, never materialised. Instead, the various definitions they disseminate, I will claim, simply serve to further perpetuate the same problems and confusions about the body schema. Thus, the current state of the literature on the body image and schema in cognitive psychology is in dire need of a conceptual framework that would help us situate and interpret the important empirical data. I propose that we revisit the philosophical debates that were inspired by the philosopher Shaun Gallagher as part of his project to provide a conceptual analysis of the body schema and image distinction and vindicate its status as an important explanatory device for the explanatory ambitions of embodied cognition. Gallagher’s analysis opens up important questions about how the sub-personal multisensory processes of the body schema not only facilitate moment-by-moment motor behaviours, but how they shape and optimise motor control across developmental timelines, as well the importance of the embodied configuration of an agent and its particular eco-niche for shaping and facilitating its motor behaviours. The second important argument of the thesis is that the response to Gallagher’s analysis has simply served to suppress the line of research that Gallagher inspired because the questions his analysis raises have been overshadowed by more general disputes between Gallagher and his opponents about the shape an analysis of the body schema from the perspective of embodied cognition should take. As such, potentially promising lines of research in relation to the body schema have since dried up. As part of my attempt to make progress on the issues that are laid out at the first and second stages of the thesis, the third stage will involve an exploration into the seminal Bayesian approach to understanding cross-modal cue optimisation as it applies to object perception (Banks & Ernst, 2002) and the recent extension of this paradigm to the multimodal sensorimotor processes that underpin motor behaviour in action-oriented cognitive science (e.g., Friston, 2010). The conclusion of the thesis is that the move from an embodied to an action-oriented analysis of the body schema, and the conceptual distinction of which it is part, provides us with the right kind of theoretical resources to begin to pursue fruitful avenues of research that allow us to begin to address the questions set out by Gallagher’s analysis whilst avoiding (some of) the pitfalls that beset the embodied approach. In the final chapter I use this model of the body schema to illustrate how it can provide the basis for working back up towards a comprehensive theory of the body image and schema distinction, which I then bring to bear on current, as-yet-unaddressed, issues in developmental psychology. 612.8
5	Propriétés multiplicatives d'entiers soumis à des conditions digitales Col, Sylvain 22 June 1996 (has links) (PDF) Pour une base fixée, les entiers ellipséphiques (c'est-à-dire les entiers dont l'écriture n'utilise que certains chiffres) et les palindromes forment des sous ensembles éparses des entiers, ensembles définis par des conditions digitales. Nous étudions si ces ensembles ont des propriétés multiplicatives similaires à celles des entiers.<br>Nous évaluons d'abord les grands moments de la série génératrice des entiers ellipséphiques. Comme application, nous en déduisons l'existence d'un 0 < c < 1 tel que pour tout entier k, une infinité d'entiers ellipséphiques n possédant un diviseur p^k de l'ordre de n^c, p désignant un nombre premier. De plus, le nombre de tels entiers est de l'ordre de grandeur attendu.<br>Nous établissons ensuite un résultat de crible où les modules possédant un nombre anormalement grand de diviseurs sont écartés du terme d'erreur. Nous en déduisons l'existence d'une proportion positive d'entiers ellipséphiques friables c'est-à-dire possédant tous leurs facteurs premiers majorés par n^c, pour une constante c < 1 fixée.<br>Nous montrons enfin à l'aide de techniques élémentaires comment réduire l'étude de la série génératrice des palindromes à une série proche de celle des entiers ellipséphiques ce qui permet d'étudier la répartition des palindromes dans les progressions arithmétiques et ainsi d'obtenir une majoration de l'ordre de grandeur attendu du nombre de palindromes premiers. Nous en déduisons en particulier l'existence d'une infinité de palindromes possédant en base 10 au plus 372 facteurs premiers (comptés avec multiplicité). [MATH] Mathematics conditions digitales nombres ellipséphiques palindromes nombres premiers et presque premiers entiers friables méthodes de crible exposant de répartition somme d'exponentielles série génératrice
6	Telling tales, hearing stories, imagining difference : the role of imagination and the dramatic arts in educating students as agents of social change Marken, Kari Anna 27 April 2007 How do conventional performance-based models of drama in high schools serve to oppress students? How can Applied Drama models serve to emancipate students? This thesis invites educators to imagine drama programs in high schools as being capable of employing the use of imaginative dramatic arts processes for their emancipatory potential aimed to break oppressive habits and to rehearse alternative dialogue and action in the lives of students. Drama processes in high schools could be designed within an emancipatory paradigm of curriculum-making. Instead of designing drama programs around the goal of producing scripted theatre performances, drama programs in high schools can be designed with the goal of engaging students imaginations. Specifically, Applied Drama processes have the potential to nurture students social and moral imaginations which, in turn, allow students to become more empathetic. Moreover, through dramatic role-play, students enter an imaginary world and rehearse alternative ways of acting in the world. If the dramatic role-play addresses issues of oppression in the world, then the imaginary world presents scenarios in which students can rehearse emancipatory ways of acting and thinking about their lived reality. Specifically, Applied Drama processes are best suited for emancipatory, imaginative drama programs in high schools. In this thesis, I also discuss the importance of reflection in emancipatory drama processes. Canadian High School Drama pedagogy Kathleen Gallagher Sherene Razack Shirley Grundy Feminist Critical Pedagogy Boal process drama anti-bullying transformative education experiential learning
7	Telling tales, hearing stories, imagining difference : the role of imagination and the dramatic arts in educating students as agents of social change Marken, Kari Anna 27 April 2007 (has links) How do conventional performance-based models of drama in high schools serve to oppress students? How can Applied Drama models serve to emancipate students? This thesis invites educators to imagine drama programs in high schools as being capable of employing the use of imaginative dramatic arts processes for their emancipatory potential aimed to break oppressive habits and to rehearse alternative dialogue and action in the lives of students. Drama processes in high schools could be designed within an emancipatory paradigm of curriculum-making. Instead of designing drama programs around the goal of producing scripted theatre performances, drama programs in high schools can be designed with the goal of engaging students imaginations. Specifically, Applied Drama processes have the potential to nurture students social and moral imaginations which, in turn, allow students to become more empathetic. Moreover, through dramatic role-play, students enter an imaginary world and rehearse alternative ways of acting in the world. If the dramatic role-play addresses issues of oppression in the world, then the imaginary world presents scenarios in which students can rehearse emancipatory ways of acting and thinking about their lived reality. Specifically, Applied Drama processes are best suited for emancipatory, imaginative drama programs in high schools. In this thesis, I also discuss the importance of reflection in emancipatory drama processes. Canadian High School Drama pedagogy Kathleen Gallagher Sherene Razack Shirley Grundy Feminist Critical Pedagogy Boal process drama anti-bullying transformative education experiential learning
8	Exploring 'optimal' states of consciousness in Michael Chekhov's psychological gesture : towards a new phenomenological paradigm Mastrokalou, Effrosyni Efrosini January 2017 (has links) This thesis examines key concepts from philosophers Nishida Kitaro, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Fredriche Nietzsche and applies them to elements of Michael Chekhov’s practice of acting. The three philosophers, in different ways, suggest an ‘optimal’ state, beyond a dualistic separation of the fictive from the real and the visible from the invisible, that challenges seemingly unbridgeable dualisms between inner and outer, subject and object, being and becoming and experiencer and experienced. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and understand these selected ‘optimal’ modes of consciousness in performance and, therefore, open up new ways of thinking about Michael Chekhov’s acting processes; in particular the ‘Psychological Gesture’. The thesis asks the following questions: 1. How can the application of selected philosophical paradigms to the Psychological Gesture through theory and practice further our understanding of Michael Chekhov’s work? 2. How do selected aspects of the fields of phenomenology, post-phenomenology, cognitive sciences, consciousness studies and philosophy of mind, aid in developing an articulation and understanding of an ‘optimal’ state of consciousness as a necessary aspect of the actor’s performance in Michael Chekhov’s work and theatre practice? 3. How can this project develop the way we are able to talk about Michael Chekhov’s work and wider acting processes?
9	Polyphony, Dialogism and Verbal Interaction in French Caribbean Novels: A Study of Texaco, Mahagony, L'Isolé soleil, and L'Autre qui danse. White, Joseph Dua 10 August 2022 (has links) No description available. Caribbean Literature Caribbean Studies Linguistics
10	Action in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: an Enactive Psycho-phenomenological and Semiotic Analysis of Thirty New Zealand Women's Experiences of Suffering and Recovery Hart, M J Alexandra January 2010 (has links) This research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) presents the results of 60 first-person psycho-phenomenological interviews with 30 New Zealand women. The participants were recruited from the Canterbury and Wellington regions, 10 had recovered. Taking a non-dual, non-reductive embodied approach, the phenomenological data was analysed semiotically, using a graph-theoretical cluster analysis to elucidate the large number of resulting categories, and interpreted through the enactive approach to cognitive science. The initial result of the analysis is a comprehensive exploration of the experience of CFS which develops subject-specific categories of experience and explores the relation of the illness to universal categories of experience, including self, ‘energy’, action, and being-able-to-do. Transformations of the self surrounding being-able-to-do and not-being-able-to-do were shown to elucidate the illness process. It is proposed that the concept ‘energy’ in the participants’ discourse is equivalent to the Mahayana Buddhist concept of ‘contact’. This characterises CFS as a breakdown of contact. Narrative content from the recovered interviewees reflects a reestablishment of contact. The hypothesis that CFS is a disorder of action is investigated in detail. A general model for the phenomenology and functional architecture of action is proposed. This model is a recursive loop involving felt meaning, contact, action, and perception and appears to be phenomenologically supported. It is proposed that the CFS illness process is a dynamical decompensation of the subject’s action loop caused by a breakdown in the process of contact. On this basis, a new interpretation of neurological findings in relation to CFS becomes possible. A neurological phenomenon that correlates with the illness and involves a brain region that has a similar structure to the action model’s recursive loop is identified in previous research results and compared with the action model and the results of this research. This correspondence may identify the brain regions involved in the illness process, which may provide an objective diagnostic test for the condition and approaches to treatment. The implications of this model for cognitive science and CFS should be investigated through neurophenomenological research since the model stands to shed considerable light on the nature of consciousness, contact and agency. Phenomenologically based treatments are proposed, along with suggestions for future research on CFS. The research may clarify the diagnostic criteria for CFS and guide management and treatment programmes, particularly multidimensional and interdisciplinary approaches. 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