Slaget om Malta, under andra världskriget, hade en avgörande roll vad gäller kriget i Medelhavet. Maltas strategiska läge gjorde att det var en åtråvärd ö för axelmakterna och britterna kämpade för att försvara sin position. I kampen om sjöherraväldet hade luftrummet stor betydelse och hur flygstridskrafterna användes var direkt avgörande. John A. Warden III och John Boyd är båda framstående luftmaktsteoretiker och deras teorier har fått stort genomslag, framförallt i västvärlden. Syftet med denna uppsats är att tillämpa dessa teorier på ett empiriskt exempel, slaget om Malta, beträffande luftstridskrafternas användande. Undersökningen bär mot att utröna hur långt teorierna är användbara för analysen av slaget om Malta. Uppsatsen genomförs med en kvalitativ innehållsanalys och komparativ analys för att jämföra teorierna med händelseförloppet. Resultatet av undersökningen visar att teorierna är tillämpningsbara för händelseförloppet under slaget. Hela Boyds teori samt delar ur Wardens teori är långt användbara för analysen.

Shelters, as preventive conservation methods, have traditionally been considered a better option than leaving the site exposed. However, there has been limited research on their effect on the preservation of heritage materials and, as a result, there is no clear scientific evidence to support sheltering. This study aims to provide the first rigorous scientific assessment of the effect of lightweight, open shelters on limestone deterioration at archaeological sites. A method based on the use of low-cost environmental monitoring equipment and limestone blocks and tablets (as indicators of decay) has been developed to determine the degree of protection provided by the shelters at the Bishop' Palace (Witney, England) and Hagar Qim (Malta). Preliminary visual assessments of the field sites were followed by 12-18 month exposure trials. Temperature extremes and fluctuations, frost events, relative humidity extremes and fluctuations, NaCl crystallisation events, solar radiation, wetting events, salt content, atmospheric pollutants and dust deposition were monitored. In addition, stone decay was studied by analysing changes in weight, elasticity, surface hardness, ultrasonic pulse velocity, surface colour, moisture content and general appearance (microscopic and macroscopic pictures) in stone samples. An exhaustive assessment of the shelter at the Bishop's Palace was carried out using Chalk, Cotswold and Portland limestone blocks as well as Portland limestone tablets (specifically for studying dissolution, soiling and biological growth). Additionally, a comparative assessment of the effects of the two shelters in contrasting climatic environments, the Bishop's Palace (temperate maritime) and Hagar Qim (Mediterranean), was undertaken by monitoring Globigerina and Coralline limestone blocks simultaneously at both sites. The research has shown that lightweight, open shelters do not exclude decay completely but minimise it. However, there are some areas at higher risk of decay, i.e. top parts of the walls and the periphery. In addition, problems with the shelter design can enhance some decay mechanisms, such as biocolonisation on the periphery at the Bishop's Palace and dust deposition under the shelter at Hagar Qim. Therefore, the effectiveness of shelters should not be assumed.

Orientador: Roberto Cesar Pires / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T17:05:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sanchez_LeonardoPellegrim_M.pdf: 19691700 bytes, checksum: 46603964898ee52bf14e96b6110c5b62 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Este estudo busca compreender de que forma a atuação de Carlos Malta como compositor/arranjador, educador e instrumentista está presente em sua obra. Tomamos como objeto de análise os quartetos de saxofones Ponto de Bala e Paradindonde, compostos por Carlos Malta, e Baião de Lacan e Catenga, de Guinga e Hermeto Pascoal, respectivamente, arranjados e interpretados por Carlos Malta e gravados pelo grupo JPSax. Analisamos, através destes quartetos, as mediações entre os elementos composicionais, educacionais e performáticos e como estes estruturam o processo criativo de Malta. São de especial importância em nossa pesquisa: a relação metafórica proposta por Swanwick, a construção de imagens aurais e internas, o uso da ambigüidade harmônica gerada pelos aglomerados harmônicos quartais, a utilização de padrões rítmicos que se remetem à música brasileira, as relações destes elementos com seus fazeres artísticos e educacionais. Com essa atenta observação e munidos do arcabouço estilístico já catalogado, propusemonos a compor uma obra, Negra Ozória, e um arranjo, Arrastão (Edu Lobo), utilizando os materiais percebidos que constituem a poética de Carlos Malta. / Abstract: This study tries to study and understand the way that the Carlos Malta's actuation like composer /arranger, educational and musician is present in his play. We take like object of analysis the quartets of saxophones Ponto de Bala and Paradindonde, composed by Carlos Malta and Baião de Lacan and Catenga, by Guinga and Hermeto Pascoal respectively, arranged and interpreted by Carlos Malta and recorded by JPSax group. We analyzed them through those quartet as intercession in the composing elements, educating and performing and like these build themselves the creative process of Malta. The metaphorical relation proposed by Swanwick , the inside and hearing image construction, the ambiguity use harmonic made from the joined harmonic quarts, the rhythm pattern uses that send the Brazilian music and the relations these elements with their artistic and educational. According to the careful observation and with the stylistic argument even studied, we purpose to compose the play, Negra Ozória, and an arranging, Arrastão (Edu Lobo), using the materials noticed that build the Carlos Malta poetic. / Mestrado / Mestre em Música

Orientador: Jose Claudinei Lombardi / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T20:51:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bonato_NaildaMarinhodaCosta_D.pdf: 13288703 bytes, checksum: abe52c0e0d977f216def2add63d6ed64 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 / Resumo: A tese estuda a Escola Profissional para o Sexo Feminino tendo como fonte privilegiada a imagem fotográfica. Esse tipo de escola foi instituída na esfera pública de ensino do Distrito Federal na Primeira República como Instituto Profissional Feminino (1898), Primeira Escola Profissional Feminina [Bento Ribeiro] e Segunda Escola Profissional Feminina [Rivadavia Correa] (ambas em 1913) e Escola Profissional Paulo de Frontin (1919). A investigação ao ¿olhar¿ para as imagens produzidas da escola busca os motivos do registro, reconstituir as atividades didático-pedagógicas do seu cotidiano, sua estrutura e funcionamento e o que representou para a educação feminina no projeto educativo republicano do poder municipal, considerando que as imagens trazidas foram produzidas por Augusto Malta, contratado da Prefeitura como fotógrafo, cargo criado na gestão de Pereira Passos (1902-1906) para documentar visualmente as obras de transformação da cidade naquele período, permanecendo na função até 1936. À ¿leitura¿ da imagem foram trazidas outras fontes documentais, como relatórios, ofícios, livros de ata, decretos, leis, jornais / Abstract: The present thesis aims at studying the Professional School for Women having photographic image as privileged source. This type of School was instituted in the sphere of public education at the Federal District during the First Republic, as Instituto Profissional Feminino ¿ Professional Institute for Women (1898), Primeira Escola Profissional Feminina ¿ First Professional School for Women [Bento Ribeiro] and Segunda Escola Profissional Feminina ¿ Second Professional School for Women [Rivadavia Correa] (both in 1913), and Escola Profissional Paulo de Frontin ¿ Paulo de Frontin Professional School (1919). A ¿look¿ at those School images helps research to seek a motive for the recording, trying to reconstruct the didactical-pedagogical every-day activities, their structure and work, and what this republican city-level educational project represented for female education at the time. The images were produced by Augusto Malta, who was hired by Town Hall as photographer, post created during Pereira Passos Administration (1902-1906), to make a visual documentation of the works that were transforming the city during that period; he remained in the post until 1936. The ¿reading ¿ of those images was helped by other documents such as reports, official letters, minute-books, decrees, laws, newspapers / Doutorado / Doutor em Educação

The increased moisture of the building materials causes the change of its mechanical and physical characteristic. In particular the high amount of loose water in construction shorten the lifetime of the building, is harmful to human beings due to biotic factors and increase the economic expenses of usage of the building. Apart from the costs of rehabilitation the loose water deteriorates the thermal insulative ability (thermal conductivity coefficient ) of perimeter masonry as well. The moisture gets into masonry not only through its deffects but also due to many different reasons. In order to improve the utility value of the buildings we have to deal with the rehabilitation of damp masonry with view to all possible causes. Only the properly working damp proofing ensures the protection against the water leaking from the subfoundation of the building. One of the direct techniques which have undergone rapid progress in last few years is the injection procedure. With use of experimental methods in my dissertation I deal with evaluation of two injection compounds used in Czech Republic and with its impact on the characteristics of the mortar. With the modern hollow bricks (system THERM) it is possible to create horizontal infusion into the lateral mortar grooves in future.

Currently, increasing reinforced concrete structures and concrete structures that require repair in the form of remediation. The master’s thesis deals with the development of repair mortars with resistance to high temperatures, which would allow the re-profiling of the fire damaged parts of the structures and restore its function. Development of repair mortars is based on a literature review of articles dealing with research materials resistant to high temperatures.

The theoretic part of this diploma thesis interprets historical procedures of lime mortar manufacturing and modern options for the historical lime plaster renovation. The experimental part of this diploma thesis aims for the comparison of physical-mechanic characteristic of lime mortar manufactured with different kinds of lime. The main goal is verifying of positive influence of using the aged lime mortar on its physical-mechanic characteristics.

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This dissertation enhances Marlovian studies by advancing ongoing scholarly efforts to demystify Marlowe’s stereotypical image as an outsider of his era. Specifically, it aims to challenge the prevailing perception of Christopher Marlowe as a subversive maverick, often delineated in contradistinction to William Shakespeare, England’s so-called national poet. Situating Marlowe in the context of nation-building in early modern England, this dissertation explores how Marlowe participated through his writing in the construction of English national identity. Through reading Marlowe’s five plays, Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine the Great Part One, Tamburlaine the Great Part Two, Edward II, and The Jew of Malta, my dissertation reveals that Marlowe’s ideal England is a political entity of complete sovereignty, a new empire of unprecedented achievement, and an imagined community ruled by its monarch and governors with good governance. With its emphasis on the inseparable fusion of nation and empire and the inevitable incorporation of outsiders, such English nationhood, I suggest, is an eighth form of nationhood in addition to the seven others proposed by Richard Helgerson. It is neither Patrick Cheney’s counter-nationhood nor completely Helgerson’s nationhood under royal absolutism. Since the monarch and patriotism are at its centre, Marlowe’s ideal English nationhood does not differ greatly from depictions offered by other contemporary writers. I argue that Marlowe shares more commonality with other authors of his era than has previously been understood, at least in terms of writing English nationhood. I propose that we should explore such commonality, rather than fetishizing Marlowe’s peculiarity, to gain a more nuanced, fuller image of Marlowe, who has long been obscured by his arguably more renowned contemporaries. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This dissertation reexamines Christopher Marlowe’s stereotypical image in current scholarship as an outsider of his era by looking at how Marlowe writes about England in the context of early modern nation-building. Focusing on Marlowe’s five plays, Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine the Great Part One, Tamburlaine the Great Part Two, Edward II, and The Jew of Malta, my readings reveal that what Marlowe envisions through his writing is an English nation marked by complete autonomy, remarkable achievement, and good governance. At the heart of this nationhood lies the patriotism similarly expressed by other Elizabethan writers in their literary fashioning of English nationhood. I argue that Marlowe, in this regard, shares more commonality with his contemporaries than has previously been understood. Exploring this commonality allows us to revalue the historical position of Marlowe, who has long been obscured by arguably more renowned writers of his day.

Au tout début du XXIe siècle, une équipe d’archéologues plonge sur l’épave d’un petit navire de guerre du XVIIIe siècle, au nord de l’actuelle République Dominicaine. Sa coque est de fabrication américaine, ses canons sont écossais et les boutons d’uniformes sont français. Après avoir suivi quelques fausses pistes, la recherche aux Archives nationales permet de résoudre l’énigme : il s’agit de la corvette française Dragon du chevalier de l’Espine, détruite en janvier 1783 à l’issue d’un court combat contre des vaisseaux britanniques assurant le blocus nord de Saint-Domingue. Cette identification sert de catalyseur à une recherche historique dont le chevalier Joseph de L’Espine du Puy (1759-1826) constitue le personnage central. L’enquête révèle le destin de l’officier de la Marine L’Espine, en amont puis en aval de son fait d’armes de janvier 1783. Jeune chevalier de Malte et officier de la Marine de Louis XVI, L’Espine participe à la guerre de l’Indépendance américaine, effectue un passage obligé dans la Marine de Malte, et participe à des missions secrètes françaises de renseignement naval. La Révolution française vient briser ses espérances et l’oblige à l’exil. En Autriche, il gagne la confiance des hautes autorités autrichiennes en s’engageant sans ambiguïté contre les armées de la France à partir de 1795. L’Espine devient rapidement l’un des cerveaux d’une Marine de guerre autrichienne remise en question à chaque traité signé entre la France et l’Autriche. Promu Feldmarschall-Leutnant en 1813, L’Espine décide de ne pas rentrer en France à la Restauration. Nommé Gouverneur de Milan en novembre 1825, il y meurt le 31 décembre 1826. / At the very beginning of the 21st century, a team of archaeologists dived on the wreck of a small 18th century warship in the north of the current Dominican Republic. Its hull is of American manufacture, its guns are Scottish and the buttons of uniforms are French. After having followed some false leads, the research in the National Archives makes it possible to solve this enigma: it concerns the French corvette Dragon of Chevalier de L’Espine, destroyed in January 1783 after a short action against British vessels ensuring the northern blockade of Santo Domingo. This identification serves as a catalyst for a historical research of which Chevalier Joseph de L'Espine du Puy (1759-1826) constitutes the central character. The investigation reveals the fate of the Navy officer L'Espine upstream and downstream of his gallant action in January 1783. Young Knight of Malta and officer of the Navy of Louis XVI, L'Espine participated in the American Revolution, did a mandatory service in the Navy of Malta, and took part in French naval intelligence secret missions. The French Revolution ruined his hopes and forced him into exile. In Austria, he won the confidence of the high Austrian authorities by unambiguously engaging with the armies of France from 1795. L'Espine quickly became one of the brains of an Austrian Navy questioned at each treaty signed between France and Austria. Promoted to Feldmarschall-Leutnant in 1813, L'Espine decided not to return to France at the Restauration. Appointed Governor of Milan in November 1825, he died there on December 31, 1826.