Th. Lettres Berne, 1962. / Thèse inaugurale présentée à la Faculté des Lettres de l'Université de Berne pour l'obtention du grade de docteur.

Inaug.-Diss.--University of Cologne. / Bibliography: p. 208-214.

Thesis--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-266).

Thèse--Univ. de Paris. / Bibliographical footnotes.

Th. 3e cycle--Litt. fr.--Paris 4, 1988.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-87). Also available via the Internet.

Socrate prônait, jadis, la connaissance de soi comme l’un des fondements de la sagesse. Aujourd’hui, l’Homme tourmenté par son existence, se livre encore à cette étude du moi : c’est le cas de Julien Green qui, depuis son enfance, pose la question de son identité : « Depuis ma jeunesse, j’ai été préoccupé par le mystère de l’identité […] Je me demande […] si nous savons qui nous sommes ». Si Julien Green s'interroge avec tant d'avidité sur lui-même, c'est que sa situation est mise en question et qu'il lui faut retrouver les assises d'un nouvel équilibre dans un monde où il se sent parfois étranger. Il n'est pas sûr qu'il les ait trouvées, mais il est certain que le Journal intime, en tant que genre pratiqué et reconnu, exprime l'interrogation de l'individu face à lui-même et face à sa position dans le monde : « Le journal que je me propose de tenir le plus régulièrement qu’il me sera possible m’aidera, je crois, à voir plus clair en moi-même. » Ces pages du Journal nous permettent donc de pénétrer les arcanes de son imaginaire, de plonger avec lui dans son monde intérieur et de comprendre par empathie le drame spirituel qui déchire son être. Julien Green est perpétuellement en lutte contre lui-même, contre un moi désirant et un moi qui refuse de succomber aux flammes de son homosexualité. Si son âme est avide de spiritualité, son corps, lui, est à l’affût du plaisir charnel. Il lui faut, spirituellement, choisir entre Dieu et le profane du quotidien. C’est ce déchirement de l’être incapable de choisir entre deux réalités qui habite Julien Green. Malgré cette souffrance, le Journal de Green n’est pas l’œuvre d’un esprit pessimiste. Le diariste peut être triste et nostalgique d’un ailleurs, mais il a une exceptionnelle aptitude au bonheur. En effet, le bonheur triomphant de vivre, d’aimer et d’écrire ; la certitude de l’amour divin et de la foi qui dominent le Journal procure à son auteur, au-delà des angoisses, une forme de bien-être. L’œuvre de Green s’inscrit au nombre de celles qui font voir « qu’à travers toute vie il y a le fil d’or de l’amour de Dieu . » / Formerly, Socrates used to recommend the knowledge of the self as one of the fundament of wisdom. Nowadays, Man, troubled by his existence, goes on with that study of self: It is Julien Green’s case who wonders about the question of his identity since his early childhood: “From my youth, I have been wondering about the mystery of my identity [...]. I wonder [...] if we really know who we are ”. If Julien Green eagerly wonders about himself, it is because his situation is called into question and because he must find the basis of a new balance in a world where he sometimes feels foreigner. He may not have found them but what is certain is that his Journal, as a practised and acknowledged genre, expresses the questioning of the individual facing himself and opposed to his position in the world: “The diary I intend to keep the most regularly will help me, I think, to see more clearly in myself. ” These pages of the Journal will then allow us to enter the mysteries of his imaginary world, to plunge with him in his inner world and to understand by empathy the spiritual drama which tears his being. Julien Green is always struggling against himself, against a desiring self and another one who refuses to fall into the flames of his homosexuality. If his soul is eager of spirituality, his body is on the look-out for bodily pleasure. He needs, spiritually speaking, to choose between the sacred and the profane of everyday life. It is this tearing of the human being, unable to choose between both realities, which inhabits Julien Green. Despite this perpetual suffering, the Julien Green’s Journal it is not the work of a pessimistic spirit. The diarist can be sad and nostalgic of a distant world but he possesses an unusual aptitude to fortune. The triumphant luck to live, to love and to write, the certainty of faith and of the divine love which predominate in the Journal, provides the author, beyond the anxiety, with a vulnerable soul. The Julien Green’s whole work is part of those which let us show that “throughout the whole life, there is God’s love gold thread .”

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnologico / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-08T18:36:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 101285.pdf: 2179062 bytes, checksum: bbe628dfa92a51359a9627bff0f391c3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1994 / Utilização do Método da Função de Green Local Modificado (MFGLM) para resolver problemas da eletrostática tridimensional. O formalismo matemático do MFGLM é apresentado a fim de mostrar como é utilizada a função de Green sem o conhecimento de sua forma explícita, através do uso das propriedades do operador adjunto. O MFGLM utiliza as projeções da função de Green sobre o subespaço gerado pelas funções de interpolação definidas sobre o contorno e no domínio e não utiliza derivadas da função de Green. As projeções das equações integrais são feitas de maneira similar ao Método dos Elementos de Contorno de Galerkin, obtendo-se as projeções da função de Green sem o conhecimento da mesma. Isto é feito através da discretização das variáveis desconhecidas de maneira similar ao Método dos Elementos Finitos ou ao Método dos Elementos de Contorno. O método para a obtenção das projeções da função de Green para o caso tridimensional é detalhado e também são apresentados os elementos utilizados para a geração das malhas auxiliares de elementos finitos e de elementos de contorno. O MFGLM é utilizado para a solução dos seguintes exemplos de aplicação em elasticidade tridimensional: barra prismática sob tração uniforme, bloco submetido à cisalhamento simples, flexão de uma viga curta uniformemente carregada, cilindro de parede espessa com pressão interna, flexão de uma viga curva por uma força na sua extremidade e flexão pura de uma viga prismática.

Since the turn of the century, the proliferation of virtualization and cloud computing has led to an increase in data centres and consequently an increase in power consumption for computing. Today, approximately 2% of global energy consumption is attributed to data centres alone. As a result, optimizing power usage effectiveness in enterprise data centres has become a laudable goal and a critical requirement in IT operations all over the world. While a significant body of research exists to measure, monitor, and control the “greenness” level of hardware components, significant research is needed to relate hardware energy consumption to energy consumption stemming from (software) program execution. In this dissertation, we argue that the true energy cost of program execution must focus on the digital ecosystem within which a particular software program is executed. We investigate the interplay between energy consumption, task scheduling and execution decision making using dynamic runtime models of digital ecosystems based on the execution context of software. Single instances of software applications are no longer confined to a single device or machine. Instead software commonly interacts with resources and services outside of its own hardware unit. The scope of this interaction defines the application’s digital ecosystem. Smartphones interact with cloud resources; cloud resources include databases, specialized compute or storage clouds, specialized hardware and virtual machines (VMs). Combining processes of varying complexity with varying resource allocations produces different energy consumption levels. The challenge is to investigate the variability of software process orchestration based on a power consumption framework to accrue and optimize energy savings in digital ecosystems. The contributions of this dissertation include: i) an adaptive energy consumption framework; ii) self-adaptive energy management systems based on this framework; iii) deployment mechanisms for applications to use this framework; iv) models at runtime models for self-adaptive energy management systems. Our ultimate goal is to develop smart, self-adaptive, green computing techniques, such as adaptive job scheduling and resource provisioning, to reduce overall power consumption in data centres, on individual devices (e.g., mobile, desktop, laptop or server), and in digital ecosystems. / Graduate

One of the major problems encountered in collecting data for use in analysing the internal environment of a greenhouse is the time required to read and record the many environmental parameters. This problem severely restricts the analysis of factors affecting the environment by limiting the number of locations that can be conveniently sampled and the frequency with which each location can be sampled. The time and cost factors also limit the number of parameters which can be measured at each location. A sensor module has been developed which will automatically measure environmental parameters at any number of pre-determined points along a fixed track. The module is capable of sampling 15 variables at a single location and transmitting via one cable all 15 signals for interpretation by a main decoding and recording station. The module is capable of automatically making 10 stops and measuring 15 parameters at each stop in about 10 minutes; a task which is very time consuming or expensive by other methods. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Chemical and Biological Engineering, Department of / Graduate