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201	'The King's Irishmen' : the roles, impact and experiences of the Irish in the exiled court of Charles II, 1649-1660 Williams, Mark R. F. January 2010 (has links) This thesis represents an important investigation into the much-neglected period of exile endured by many Royalists as a consequence of the violence and alienation of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639-1651).Drawing from extensive archival research conducted in Britain, Ireland and Europe, this study expands upon existing literature on royalism, British and Irish interaction with Continental Europe and seventeenth-century mentalities more generally in order to illumine the unique issues faced by these exiles. Central to this study are the roles and experiences of the Irish element within Charles II’s exiled court. Recent studies focussed upon the place of Ireland within Europe and the North Atlantic are employed to assess such issues as confessional division, court culture, the impact of memory and the influence of conflicting European ideas upon the survival of the exiles and the course of the restoration cause. A thematic, rather than chronological structure is employed in order to develop these interpretations, allowing for an approach which emphasizes the place of individuals in relation to broader Royalist mentalities. Dominant figures include Murrough O’Brien, Lord Inchiquin (c. 1614-1674), Theobald, Lord Taaffe (d. 1677), John Bramhall (1594-1663), Church of Ireland bishop of Derry, Daniel O’Neill (c. 1612-1664), Father Peter Talbot (SJ) (c. 1618/20 – 1680) and James Butler, marquis of Ormond (1610-1688). Through investigation of Irish strands of royalism and the wider issues in which they were set in the course of civil war and exile, this thesis makes a powerful argument for the need to consider seventeenth-century ideas of allegiance and identity not only within a ‘Three Kingdoms’ approach, but Europe more generally. It also makes a compelling case for the centrality of Irish Royalists in the formation and implementation of policy during the exile period through their familiarity with and access to European centres of power and influence. 941.506
202	Lygia Fagundes Telles : imaginário e a escritura do duplo Lamas, Berenice Sica January 2002 (has links) Este trabalho realiza a análise simbólica do tema do duplo nos contos fantásticos de Lygia Fagundes Telles, sob a perspectiva teórica dos regimes do imaginário de Gilbert Durand. Como questão central, sustenta o desvelamento dos caminhos singulares da representação que toma o duplo nos contos escolhidos da autora e como este se imbrica na teoria do imaginário. Adotam-se os seguintes procedimentos metodológicos: levantamento bibliográfico da obra e fortuna crítica da autora e pesquisa bibliográfica sobre as questões teóricas pertinentes. Após, realiza-se análise simbólica de sete contos selecionados da escritora. Encontrando-se o homem moderno fragmentado e com seu eu cindido, a temática do duplo associa-se à busca de identidade e de unicidade. A morte como tema recorrente na obra de Lygia Fagundes Telles aparece principalmente nos contos da vertente fantástica, constituindo-se como o domínio principal de representação do duplo, no momento em que se apresenta a questão da sobrevivência da alma (após a morte). Destaca-se a predominância do regime diurno do imaginário, pois esta polaridade é o regime das antíteses, condizente com os resultados alcançados pela análise do duplo. O trabalho ainda mostra a validade das hermenêuticas instauradoras de sentidos como um percurso produtivo e fecundo na interpretação de textos literários. A busca incessante da experiência da interioridade marca a essência da escritura de Lygia. Ela recusa os caminhos fáceis de uma escrita linear para embrenhar-se no discurso labiríntico do fantástico e, através dele, legitimar sua visão de mundo e suas denúncias da realidade social. Fantástico na obra de L.F. Telles Imaginário na obra de L.F. Telles Duplo na obra de L.F. Telles
203	Lygia Fagundes Telles : imaginário e a escritura do duplo Lamas, Berenice Sica January 2002 (has links) Este trabalho realiza a análise simbólica do tema do duplo nos contos fantásticos de Lygia Fagundes Telles, sob a perspectiva teórica dos regimes do imaginário de Gilbert Durand. Como questão central, sustenta o desvelamento dos caminhos singulares da representação que toma o duplo nos contos escolhidos da autora e como este se imbrica na teoria do imaginário. Adotam-se os seguintes procedimentos metodológicos: levantamento bibliográfico da obra e fortuna crítica da autora e pesquisa bibliográfica sobre as questões teóricas pertinentes. Após, realiza-se análise simbólica de sete contos selecionados da escritora. Encontrando-se o homem moderno fragmentado e com seu eu cindido, a temática do duplo associa-se à busca de identidade e de unicidade. A morte como tema recorrente na obra de Lygia Fagundes Telles aparece principalmente nos contos da vertente fantástica, constituindo-se como o domínio principal de representação do duplo, no momento em que se apresenta a questão da sobrevivência da alma (após a morte). Destaca-se a predominância do regime diurno do imaginário, pois esta polaridade é o regime das antíteses, condizente com os resultados alcançados pela análise do duplo. O trabalho ainda mostra a validade das hermenêuticas instauradoras de sentidos como um percurso produtivo e fecundo na interpretação de textos literários. A busca incessante da experiência da interioridade marca a essência da escritura de Lygia. Ela recusa os caminhos fáceis de uma escrita linear para embrenhar-se no discurso labiríntico do fantástico e, através dele, legitimar sua visão de mundo e suas denúncias da realidade social. Fantástico na obra de L.F. Telles Imaginário na obra de L.F. Telles Duplo na obra de L.F. Telles
204	Lygia Fagundes Telles : imaginário e a escritura do duplo Lamas, Berenice Sica January 2002 (has links) Este trabalho realiza a análise simbólica do tema do duplo nos contos fantásticos de Lygia Fagundes Telles, sob a perspectiva teórica dos regimes do imaginário de Gilbert Durand. Como questão central, sustenta o desvelamento dos caminhos singulares da representação que toma o duplo nos contos escolhidos da autora e como este se imbrica na teoria do imaginário. Adotam-se os seguintes procedimentos metodológicos: levantamento bibliográfico da obra e fortuna crítica da autora e pesquisa bibliográfica sobre as questões teóricas pertinentes. Após, realiza-se análise simbólica de sete contos selecionados da escritora. Encontrando-se o homem moderno fragmentado e com seu eu cindido, a temática do duplo associa-se à busca de identidade e de unicidade. A morte como tema recorrente na obra de Lygia Fagundes Telles aparece principalmente nos contos da vertente fantástica, constituindo-se como o domínio principal de representação do duplo, no momento em que se apresenta a questão da sobrevivência da alma (após a morte). Destaca-se a predominância do regime diurno do imaginário, pois esta polaridade é o regime das antíteses, condizente com os resultados alcançados pela análise do duplo. O trabalho ainda mostra a validade das hermenêuticas instauradoras de sentidos como um percurso produtivo e fecundo na interpretação de textos literários. A busca incessante da experiência da interioridade marca a essência da escritura de Lygia. Ela recusa os caminhos fáceis de uma escrita linear para embrenhar-se no discurso labiríntico do fantástico e, através dele, legitimar sua visão de mundo e suas denúncias da realidade social. Fantástico na obra de L.F. Telles Imaginário na obra de L.F. Telles Duplo na obra de L.F. Telles
205	A 5 GHz BiCMOS I/Q VCO with 360° variable phase outputs using the vector sum method Opperman, Tjaart Adriaan Kruger 08 April 2009 (has links) This research looks into the design of an integrated in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) VCO operating at 5 GHz. The goal is to design a phase shifter that is implemented at the LO used for RF up conversion. The target application for the phase shifter is towards phased array antennas operating at 5 GHz. Instead of designing multiple VCOs that each deliver a variety of phases, two identical LC-VCOs are coupled together to oscillate at the same frequency and deliver four outputs that are 90 ° out of phase. By varying the amplitudes of the in-phase and quadrature signals independently using VGAs before adding them together, a resultant out-of-phase signal is obtained. A number of independently variable out-of-phase signals can be obtained from these 90 ° out-of-phase signals and this technique is better known as the vector sum method of phase shifting. Control signals to the inputs of the VGAs required to obtain 22.5 ° phase shifts were designed from simulations and are generated using 16-bit DACs. The design is implemented and manufactured using a 0.35 µm SiGe BiCMOS process and the complete prototype IC occupies an area of 2.65 × 2.65 mm2. The I/Q VCO with 360 ° variable phase outputs occupies 1.10 × 0.85 mm2 of chip area and the 16-bit DAC along with its decoding circuitry occupies 0.41 × 0.13 mm2 of chip area. The manufactured quadrature VCO was found to oscillate between 4.12 ~ 4.74 GHz and consumes 23.1 mW from a 3.3 V supply without its buffer circuitry. A maximum phase noise of -78.5 dBc / Hz at a 100 kHz offset and -108.17 dBc / Hz at a 1 MHz offset was measured and the minimum VCO figure of merit is 157.8 dBc / Hz. The output voltages of the 16 bit DAC are within 3.5 % of the design specifications. When the phase shifter is controlled by the 16 DAC signals, the maximum measured phase error of the phase shifter is lower than 10 %. / Dissertation (MEng)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering / unrestricted Vector sum method Variable gain amplifier Vga Inductor capacitor Phase noise Vco Silicon germanium Sige Lc Digital-to-analogue converter Integrated circuit Ic Rf Radio frequency Local oscillator Gilbert mixer Bicmos Bipolar cmos Voltage controlled oscillator Phase shifter Phased array antenna Lo Dac UCTD
206	The classical in the contemporary : contemporary art in Britain and its relationships with Greco-Roman antiquity Cahill, James Matthew January 2018 (has links) From the viewpoint of classical reception studies, I am asking what contemporary British art (by, for example, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst, and Mark Wallinger) has to do with the classical tradition – both the art and literature of Greco-Roman antiquity. I have conducted face-to-face interviews with some of the leading artists working in Britain today, including Lucas, Hirst, Wallinger, Marc Quinn, and Gilbert & George. In addition to contemporary art, the thesis focuses on Greco-Roman art and on myths and modes of looking that have come to shape the western art historical tradition – seeking to offer a different perspective on them from that of the Renaissance and neoclassicism. The thesis concentrates on the generation of artists known as the YBAs, or Young British Artists, who came to prominence in the 1990s. These artists are not renowned for their deference to the classical tradition, and are widely regarded as having turned their backs on classical art and its legacies. The introduction asks whether their work, which has received little scholarly attention, might be productively reassessed from the perspective of classical reception studies. It argues that while their work no longer subscribes to a traditional understanding of classical ‘influence’, it continues to depend – for its power and provocativeness – on classical concepts of figuration, realism, and the basic nature of art. Without claiming that the work of the YBAs is classical or classicizing, the thesis sets out to challenge the assumption that their work has nothing to do with ancient art, or that it fails to conform to ancient understandings of what art is. In order to do this, the thesis analyses contemporary works of art through three classical ‘lenses’. Each lens allows contemporary art to be examined in the context of a longer history. The first lens is the concept of realism, as seen in artistic and literary explorations of the relationship between art and life. This chapter uses the myth of Pygmalion’s statue as a way of thinking about contemporary art’s continued engagement with ideas of mimesis and the ‘real’ which were theorised and debated in antiquity. The second lens is corporeal fragmentation, as evidenced by the broken condition of ancient statues, the popular theme of dismemberment in western art, and the fragmentary body in contemporary art. The final chapter focuses on the figurative plaster cast, arguing that contemporary art continues to invoke and reinvent the long tradition of plaster reproductions of ancient statues and bodies. Through each of these ‘lenses’, I argue that contemporary art remains linked, both in form and meaning, to the classical past – often in ways which go beyond the stated intentions of an artist. Contemporary art continues to be informed by ideas and processes that were theorised and practised in the classical world; indeed, it is these ideas and processes that make it deserving of the art label.
207	Channel Modeling Applied to Robust Automatic Speech Recognition Sklar, Alexander Gabriel 01 January 2007 (has links) In automatic speech recognition systems (ASRs), training is a critical phase to the system?s success. Communication media, either analog (such as analog landline phones) or digital (VoIP) distort the speaker?s speech signal often in very complex ways: linear distortion occurs in all channels, either in the magnitude or phase spectrum. Non-linear but time-invariant distortion will always appear in all real systems. In digital systems we also have network effects which will produce packet losses and delays and repeated packets. Finally, one cannot really assert what path a signal will take, and so having error or distortion in between is almost a certainty. The channel introduces an acoustical mismatch between the speaker's signal and the trained data in the ASR, which results in poor recognition performance. The approach so far, has been to try to undo the havoc produced by the channels, i.e. compensate for the channel's behavior. In this thesis, we try to characterize the effects of different transmission media and use that as an inexpensive and repeatable way to train ASR systems.
208	F. A. Hayek's Critique of Legislation Holm, Cyril January 2014 (has links) The dissertation concerns F. A. Hayek’s (1899–1992) critique of legislation. The purpose of the investigation is to clarify and assess that critique. I argue that there is in Hayek’s work a critique of legislation that is distinct from his well-known critique of social planning. Further that the main claim of this critique is what I refer to as Hayek’s legislation tenet, namely that legislation that aims to achieve specific aggregate results in complex orders of society will decrease the welfare level. The legislation tenet gains support; (i) from the welfare claim – according to which there is a positive correlation between the utilization of knowledge and the welfare level in society; (ii) from the dispersal of knowledge thesis – according to which the total knowledge of society is dispersed and not available to any one agency; and (iii) from the cultural evolution thesis – according to which evolutionary rules are more favorable to the utilization of knowledge in social cooperation than are legislative rules. More specifically, I argue that these form two lines of argument in support of the legislation tenet. One line of argument is based on the conjunction of the welfare claim and the dispersal of knowledge thesis. I argue that this line of argument is true. The other line of argument is based on the conjunction of the welfare claim and the cultural evolution thesis. I argue that this line of argument is false, mainly because the empirical work of political scientist Elinor Ostrom refutes it. Because the two lines of argument support the legislation tenet independently of each other, I argue that Hayek’s critique of legislation is true. In this dissertation, I further develop a legislative policy tool as based on the welfare claim and Hayek’s conception of coercion. I also consider Hayek’s idea that rules and law are instrumental in forging rational individual action and rational social orders, and turn to review this idea in light of the work of experimental economist Vernon Smith and economic historian Avner Greif. I find that Smith and Greif support this idea of Hayek’s, and I conjecture that it contributes to our understanding of Adam Smith’s notion of the invisible hand: It is rules – not an invisible hand – that prompt subjects to align individual and aggregate rationality in social interaction. Finally, I argue that Hayek’s critique is essentially utilitarian, as it is concerned with the negative welfare consequences of certain forms of legislation. And although it may appear that the dispersal of knowledge thesis will undermine the possibility of carrying out the utilitarian calculus, due to the lack of knowledge of the consequences of one’s actions – and therefore undermine the legislation tenet itself – I argue that the distinction between utilitarianism conceived as a method of deliberation and utilitarianism conceived as a criterion of correctness may be used to save Hayek’s critique from this objection. Hayek legislation rules law rationality rational action rational social order equilibrium utilitarianism method of deliberation criterion of correctness Elinor Ostrom Avner Greif Vernon Smith Joshua Epstein complexity knowledge social cooperation information know-how the Hayek problem the invisible hand Adam Smith Mises Keynes Marx welfare state Gilbert Ryle Michael Polanyi theory of legislation legisprudence jurisprudence Neo-Kantianism historicism cognitive closure theory of prices competition syntax grammar game theory generative social science agent-based computational modeling institutional policy analysis normative primacy of economics primacy of politics Sheri Berman constructivist rationalism socialism social democracy Nozick Rawls distribution justice freedom Kant polycentric government process of experimentation speculative philosophy analytical philosophy freedom under the law liberty philosophy of mind consequentialist

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