Microhabitat use by adult speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus), adult longnose dace (R. cataractae), and juvenile dace (R. spp.) was investigated during the summer of 1992 in an Oregon Cascades stream. Selected areas were snorkeled day and night in order to evaluate differential use of habitat resources both temporally and spatially. Speckled dace were active both day and night but longnose dace were only observed at night when they were found primarily in fast flowing midstream areas. Small speckled dace (<8 cm TL) shifted from relatively fast flowing midstream daytime habitats to slower inshore areas at night. Large speckled dace (8-14 cm TL) used slower areas during the day and faster water at night. Potential competition between large speckled dace and longnose dace (8-20 cm TL) at night may be deflected by spatial microhabitat segregation. Within the fast water habitat at night, longnose dace used the fastest, shallowest areas with large substrates and were usually on the bottom. Large speckled dace used relatively slower, deeper water with smaller substrates and were near, but not on, the bottom. / Graduation date: 1994

Cette thèse se présente comme une traversée de ma pratique artistique. A travers l’étude de divers objets hétéroclites, comme les arbres et le bois, les miroirs et le verre, des « choses » qui pour des raisons contingentes sont apparues au cours de mes expériences comme des su-jets dignes d’intérêt, elle se propose de mettre en évidence une manière de penser les objets dans leur singularité. J’essaye de faire échoir la vision familière que nous portons sur eux, pour montrer une « histoire blanche ». C’est par exemple : Fissurer la surface pour montrer la matière, continuer à creuser pour constituer une faille dans nos systèmes de représenta-tions, c’est créer des travaux où ce que nous voyons et percevons ouvre sur ce que nous ne pouvons voir et percevoir. C’est trouver les procédés plastiques qui puissent montrer les in-connus de ces matériaux et phénomènes, c’est chercher des moyens poétiques pour faire émerger la puissance de ces objets uniques. Pour ce faire, cette thèse s’est construite par des allers-retours incessants entre pratique et théorie, trouvant son inspiration dans l’analyse de techniques industrielles et artisanales de confection d’objets : sylviculture, scierie, menuiserie, miroiterie. Elle s’est également consti-tuée par la comparaison de travaux et réflexions d’artistes de la seconde partie du XXe siècle, comme Giuseppe Penone pour les arbres et le bois, et Roberts Smithson pour les miroirs et le verre. Enfin, elle articule mes travaux avec la notion d’Index, développée par le philosophe Charles Sanders Peirce. / This doctoral thesis is a journey throughout my artistic practice. It will be driven by the study of dissimilar objects, such as a tree or wood ; a mirror or glass. These « objects » emer-ged spontaneously during my experiments and proved themselves worthy of interest. From this, I will carry out a new mindset on « objects », focusing especially on their singularity. I will attempt to overturn the familiar vision we normally exert on them, to exhibit a «white history ». This may occur, for instance, by breaking the surface, exposing the material or by delving deeper into it. These kinds of gestures establish a breach in the usual idioms of re-presentation. It creates a showcase where what we see and get opens also on what we cannot see and cannot get. All this leads to the importance of finding the Artistic processes capable of showing the unbeknownst of these materials and phenomenon to us. It all comes back to the research of a poetic sense that makes the puissance emerge from these unique objects. For this purpose, the thesis’s construction will move back and forth between Praxis and theory. Its inspiration in found in the analysis of industrial and craftsmanship techniques as much as in the fabricating of objects ; sylviculture, saw milling, carpentry and mirror manu-facture. Once again we shall alternate in between the works and reflections of artists of the second half of the 20th century, such as Giuseppe Penone for trees and wood, and Roberts Smithson for mirrors and glass. Finally, the thesis articulates my personal work by use of the Index notion, brought out by the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.

Design of the territory and revitalization location

The study of Civil War prisons is relatively new within the broader study of the Civil War. What little study there is tends to focus on bigger prison camps. It has been established in the historiography that prisoners suffered across the divided nation, but it has not been ascertained how the decisions and policies of the government, as well as the role of the press in those decisions, effected the daily lives of Civil War prisoners. Belle Isle, a Confederate Prison, and Point Lookout, a Union prison, will be analyzed for key differences to provide a fuller picture of life inside a Civil War prison camp, as well as how the press and government affected that daily life. It was discovered that the role of the government and the press was heavily influential in the lives of Civil War prisoners, leading to much suffering.

Weather, how we tangibly engage with climate in our everyday lives, is a central underpinning to life in Canada and around the world. This thesis investigates relating to weather through a focused exploration of wind in the everyday lives of fire lookout observers in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Stitching together approaches from anthropology, phenomenology and mountain meteorology, it brings to bear insights on coexisting with weather changes through an understanding of lived mountain climates. Perched atop the front ranges of the Alberta Rocky Mountains are located a string of mountain fire lookouts. Tasked with discerning and detecting smoke plumes that may signal the start of a wildfire, lookout observers, who inhabit these remote lookout places for five to six months of the year, are attentive to the wind’s effect on visibility, its role in wildfire processes, and as a force to contend with in their daily lives on the lookout. Through participant observation, interviews and photo elicitation, I draw on fire lookout observers’ past and present experiences of wind, and its role in larger weather processes. With many lookout observers returning to their posts season after season, the breadth and depth of their experience stretches over three decades. Over the course of a summer’s fieldwork, I hiked in, and at times lived with, lookout observers. Walking, as a contemplative research practice, continued beyond the field and into analysis, engaging in a process I call ambulant listening as an alternative to transcribing interviews verbatim. This involved walking and listening to interviews multiple times, with notes later drawn out visually using mind maps. Through this process, I learned that wind stirs up much more than simply considering air in motion. Entwined in a variety of multi-sensory engagements, wind touches on broader themes of awareness, encounter and wonder that emerge as weather consciousness. This study offers a rare lens into a way of life that has been increasingly shuttered across Canada and around the world, while at the same time exemplifying ways of being and knowing weather inherent to coexisting with increasingly uncertain and unpredictable weather patterns in the midst of climate change. / Graduate / 0326, 0334,0314,0344 / kristen.walsh@hotmail.com

ABSTRACT The task was to design and assess the supporting structure of the lookout tower. Material steel and wood. The lookout tower is 27.22 m high and decreases in height from the base of the srka. Construction system with continuous columns and horizontal reinforcement.

Through this thesis I explore how a train station can serve as the platform for an experience that is more profound than simply coming and going, and instead can provide a moment that allows travelers to appreciate the location that they are traveling to or from. A train station is almost uniquely positioned to serve as the first or last building any train traveler encounters in a city, serving as the gateway to the modern city. This presents an opportunity where the station itself will have a direct influence on a traveler's initial or final experience of the city. And so, I propose a station that, through its architecture and relationship to the site, provides the traveler a space where they can stop, look, and take in the view of the city from which they are about to depart or at which they are just now arriving. It allows those new to the city to get an understanding of the basic urban layout and its relationship to its surroundings. It becomes a destination in itself, that allows the local population to regain knowledge of their city and to reinterpret what they already know about their home. / Master of Architecture

Point of this diploma thesis is analyzing of three railroad crossing controlled by institutions of South-Moravian region, which are chosen by author. For analysis were chosen problematic railroad crossing where happened in last five years traffic accidents with consequences of death. Next criterion of choosing was type of security device. Chosen railroads crossing are representing all types of normally used security devices. That is why was chose railroad crossing with only warning crosses, light security device and last one with light security device with barrier beam. Theoretical part aims on: Basic parameters, dividing, numbering, system of function and marking of railroad crossing. In practical part, there are used mathematical calculations for assessment of safety on chosen railroad crossing and for determination of possibilities of averting a collision of both participants. Corrective measures are made for each railroad crossing taking to account it’s financial conditions. For each railroad crossing is made polygon with help of program Virtual Crash 3.

Diploma thesis deals with the design and assessment of load-bearing structure of lookout tower in locality of Spálava peak in Železné hory. Structure is designed on fourt-pointed star ground plan with dimensions 12 x 12 meters. Lookout tower is 35 meters high, the viewing platform is at a height of 30 meters. Structure is designed as a spacial truss. Most load-bearing elements are made of solid or glued laminated timber. The central column is made of steel.

This thesis deals with the design and assessment of the load-bearing structure of the lookout tower. The tower is 37.45 m high with the layout in the shape of a regular octagon. The object is located within the city of Zlín. The project is provisionally drawn in two variants. Hand-static calculation, drawings and engineering report is processed only for one variant. The variants differ in the structure of staircase. The thesis is drawn up pursuant to the standards of ČSN EN.