This thesis examines the methods and actions of selected Virginians who chose to adopt irregular tactics in wartime, and focuses on the reasons why they fought that way. The presence of the Cavalier image in Virginia had a direct impact on the military exploits of several cavalry officers in both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War. The Royalist cavalry during the English Civil War gave rise to the original Cavalier image, but as migrants came to Virginia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the image became a general term for the Southern planter. This thesis contends that selected Virginia cavalry officers attempted to adhere to an Americanized version of the Cavalier image. They either purposefully embodied aspects of the Cavalier image during their military service, or members of the Southern populace attached the Cavalier image to them in the post-war period. The Cavalier thus served as a military ideal, and some cavalry officers represented a romanticized version of the Southern martial hero. This thesis traces the development of the Cavalier image in Virginia chronologically. It focuses on the origins of the Cavalier image and the role of the Royalist cavalry during the English Civil War. After the Royalist migration, and especially during the American Revolution, Virginians like Henry Lee embodied aspects of the Cavalier image during their military careers. Between the end of the American Revolution and the beginning of the Civil War, some Southern authors perpetuated the image by including Cavalier figures in many of their literary works. In the Civil War, select Virginians who fought for the Confederacy personified the Cavalier hero in the minds of many white Southerners. Despite a Confederate defeat, the Cavalier image persisted in Southern culture in the post-Civil War period and into the twentieth century.

This dissertation combines performance analysis, rhetorical criticism, and psychoanalytical theory to analyze three performance “texts” as sites of haunting in post-9/11 America: Tony Kushner’s 2001 U.S. debut of Homebody/Kabul, the Broadway musical Wicked, and ABC’s television drama Lost. It contributes a nuanced, theorized reading of the civil implications of post-9/11 popular American culture as “more than memory” by demonstrating how these performances suggested “what might be” in ways that subverted Bush’s responses to the attacks. The first chapter reads Homebody/Kabul against the national addresses delivered by Bush in the first weeks after the attacks and argue that the 2001 New York Theatre Workshop performance created a space for audiences to reconsider the version of “mourning” encouraged by the Bush administration. The type of mourning modeled/enabled by Homebody/Kabul, I assert, is different from that against which Derrida warns. Rather than “silencing ghosts” (Gunn 82) through the integration of loss, Homebody/Kabul makes a space for conversing with, and models living with, ghosts. The second chapter argues that the Wicked’s Ozians are stuck in a state of melancholia, refusing to speak to/with the ghost of Elphaba. Because they refuse to reckon with Elphaba, they literally finish exactly where they began—with “No One Mourn[ing] the Wicked.” By reading Wicked against the celebratory rhetoric of the Bush administration after declaring “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq, we can understand the way the United States as a nation was (and may still be, in 2010) haunted by the Bush administration's failure to lead the nation in mourning effectively and ethically and by its incessant rhetoric of evil. The third chapter advocates for Lost as a hauntological reckoning with 9/11 that models ethical witnessing as a potentially generative meeting of human beings across cultures at the site of trauma. An alternative to the fear that the Bush administration encouraged leading up to Lost’s premiere and through its final season, ethical witnessing as modeled on Lost suggests that civilization stands to thrive where difference is honored—and risks toppling into chaos where the alternative “us against them” mentality (Other anxiety) prevails. / text

Disertacijoje nagrinėjami GSM kanale vykstantys balso paketų praradimai. Nagrinėjama galimybė vertinti trumpų balso segmentų kokybę PESQ algoritmu. Pasiūlomas naujas, mažos trukmės balso signalų kokybės vertinimo PESQ algoritmu metodas. Pristatomas originalus balso kokybės vertinimo metodas mobiliojo ryšio sistemoms, paremtas balso kokybės klasėmis. / Thesis presents the research of voice frame losses in the GSM. The possibility of evaluation of quality of short duration signals using PESQ algorithm is analysed. New method for preparation of short duration signals for PESQ measurements is proposed. Original method based on quality classes for voice quality evaluation in mobile communications is presented.

Thesis presents the research of voice frame losses in the GSM. The possibility of evaluation of quality of short duration signals using PESQ algorithm is analysed. New method for preparation of short duration signals for PESQ measurements is proposed. Original method based on quality classes for voice quality evaluation in mobile communications is presented. / Disertacijoje nagrinėjami GSM kanale vykstantys balso paketų praradimai. Nagrinėjama galimybė vertinti trumpų balso segmentų kokybę PESQ algoritmu. Pasiūlomas naujas, mažos trukmės balso signalų kokybės vertinimo PESQ algoritmu metodas. Pristatomas originalus balso kokybės vertinimo metodas mobiliojo ryšio sistemoms, paremtas balso kokybės klasėmis.

Zugl.: Darmstadt, Techn. Univ., Diss.

Universiẗat, Diss., 2006--Mannheim.

Revision of the author's Thesis (Universität zu Köln, 1993). / Includes bibliographical references and index.

Revision of the author's Thesis (Universität zu Köln, 1993). / Includes bibliographical references and index.

L'architecture spatiale du désert est un principe d'unité par lequel se noue d'une façon novatrice, la rencontre de Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Ibrahim Al Koni et Rachid Boudjedra, au travers de Désert, La Petite Waw et Timimoun. Une telle topographie apparaît dans ces romans, qui prend pour point de départ le désert, lieu de la transparence et d’un possible retour vers un centre mythique d’avant la création. Ce choix permet d'apprécier les perspectives d'une quête initiatique, d'une géopoétique isomorphe de « lieu de l'u‑topie, du non lieu », qui se constitue chez nos auteurs comme un espace originel et original, foyer de création, tentative de dépassement vers un absolu, qui rejoint, d'une certaine manière, le pôle mythologique du « Paradis perdu » dans le contexte d'un imaginaire cosmique. Ce point central, s'inscrit à la fois au plus profond du désert et de l'être, offre en reflet la vision d'un espace qui abolit toutes les limites et englobe le monde entier? Le texte ici, est une réécriture, une épopée inversée, de la Genèse, la négation de son itinéraire? L'étude interroge les lieux vierges évoqués par le désert : qu'en est-il de leur actualisation au fil des œuvres, et aussi, de leur répercussion sur le tissu même de l'écriture? L'écriture est-elle une destinée à assumer et une lumière à atteindre dans l'alchimie du bonheur parfait? Est-ce que ce lieu de l'expérience transfiguratrice, cet espace de la Terre Promise se révèle être une immensité heureuse? Notre démarche s'intéresse aussi, aux images primordiales suscités par ce voyage vers l'origine pour examiner des thèmes très divers, mais qui obéissent à la même structure. En analysant d'une part, la nature de la dualité des couples opposés, complémentaires, insécables (racines-exil, nature-ville, masculinité-féminité, langage-silence, rêve-réalité, vie-mort, instant-éternité) et d'autre part, les éléments invariants qui la sous-tendent et ses trames fécondes (aventures et épreuves, espace-temps particulier, traversée et errance); un portrait plus profond se fait jour. / The spatial architecture of the desert is a principle of unity which is tied by an innovative way of meeting Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Ibrahim Al Koni and Rachid Boudjedra through Desert, Little Waw and Timimoun. Such topography appears in these novels, which takes as its starting point the desert instead of transparency and a possible return to a mythical center before creation.      This choice allows to assess the prospects for an initiatory quest, a geopoetic isomorphic "instead of utopia, the non-place" which is among our authors as an original space and the original home of creation, attempt to overrun an absolute, which joined in some way, the pole mythological "Paradise Lost" in the context of a cosmic imaginary. This central point fits both deep in the desert and be reflected in the vision provides a space that abolishes all limits and encompasses the whole world? The text here is a rewriting an epic reverse of Genesis, a denial of his route?       The study questions the virgin places mentioned by the desert what about updating them over the works, and also their impact on the fabric of writing? Writing is her destiny to fulfill and achieve a light in the alchemy of perfect happiness? Is this place transfiguring experience this space to the Promised Land is proving to be an immense happy?      Our approach is also interested, the primordial images generated by this journey to examine the origin of very diverse topics, but follow the same structure. By analyzing the one hand, the nature of the duality of opposing pairs, complementary, indivisible (root-exile, nature-city, masculinity-femininity, language, silence, dream-reality, life and death, time-eternity), and on the other hand, the invariant elements that underlie and fruitful fields (adventures and hardships, space-time particular, crossing and wandering), a deeper portrait emerges.

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