Esta tese gira em torno da obra do escritor estadunidense John Dos Passos (1896-1970), mais especificamente em torno de seu romance Manhattan Transfer (1925). Esta investigação é uma leitura crítica de sua ficção, especialmente no que toca à intensidade de experiências auditivas promovidas pelo autor, em sua maioria baseadas em passagens perturbadoras e ruidosas, representativas da experiência metropolitana do começo do século XX em Nova York. O arcabouço crítico e teórico utilizado varia desde as escolas literárias tradicionais de análise textual, crítica em âmbito público até os Estudos de Som e abordagens de intermidialidade. Com esse apoio, o ruído trazido por Dos Passos pode ser listado sob variadas categorias: o uso de canções e diferentes estilos de música popular da época; a impossibilidade de silêncio; o incômodo do ruído urbano, produzido por máquinas ou pessoas; a audiografia dos personagens, com a transliteração dos sotaques e línguas estrangeiras das personagens. A provocação sonora é contextualizada, visto que Manhattan Transfer foi escrito após a invenção e a popularização do fonógrafo como um aparelho doméstico, que fornecia uma possibilidade inaudita para que se pudesse escutar música em casa a qualquer hora, dando acesso a novas possibilidades de relacionar-se com som para as pessoas em geral. Esta pesquisa segue as narrativas-fonógrafo de Dos Passos, investigando o interesse do autor em sons que eram desprezados ou deveriam ser eliminados da constante mecanização da sociedade do século XX. As idiossincrasias de sua ficção são analisadas em conjunto com a representação do ruído como uma perturbação social, um elemento indesejado que torna a interação humana problemática, porém chave para apreender as relações entre personagens no romance. As perturbadoras impressões acústicas comunicam, em sua literatura, um estado de fragmentação e empolgação dos humanos da modernidade. Finalmente, esta tese aspira recuperar a obra de John Dos Passos, trazendo-a de volta às discussões literárias acadêmicas e generalizadas, opondo tendências em teoria e crítica que vinham, nas últimas décadas, gradualmente relegando sua obra à obscuridade. Este texto argumenta que a presença da obra de Dos Passos tem sido relevante e aplicável a objetos estéticos produzidos além dos anos modernistas, atingindo pertinência contemporânea. / This dissertation revolves around the work of American writer, John Dos Passos (1896-1970), more specifically around his novel Manhattan Transfer (1925). This investigation is a critical reading of his fiction, especially concerning the intensity of aural experiences promoted by the author, mostly based on disruptive, noisy passages which are representative of metropolitan experience of the early twentieth century in New York. The critical and theoretical assumptions used vary from traditional literary schools of text analysis and public criticism to Sound Studies and intermediality approaches. With this support, the noise brought by Dos Passos can be listed under assorted categories: the use of songs and different styles of popular music of the time; the impossibility of silence; the annoyance of urban noise, produced by machines or people; the audiograph of characters, with the transliteration of characters' accents and foreign languages. Sonic provocation is contextualized as Manhattan Transfer was written following the invention and popularization of the phonograph as a domestic device, providing a newfound possibility of one being able to listen to music at home at any time, and giving access for new possibilities of relating with sound for people in general. This research follows Dos Passos's phonograph-like narratives, investigating the author's interest in sounds which were despised or should be eliminated from twentiethcentury ever-growing mechanization of society. The idiosyncrasies of his fiction are analyzed combined with the representation of noise as a social nuisance, an unwanted element that makes human interaction more troublesome, yet key to apprehending characters' rapport in the novel. Disruptive acoustic impressions convey, in his literature, a state of fragmentation and excitement of humans of modernity. Finally, this dissertation aspires to recuperate John Dos Passos's oeuvre and bring it back to academic and general literary discussions, opposing tendencies in theory and critique that had, in the past decades, gradually relegated his work into obscurity. This text argues that the presence of Dos Passos's work has been relevant and applicable to aesthetic objects produced beyond modernist years, reaching contemporary pertinence.

Context An influence map and potential fields are used for finding path in domain of Robotics and Gaming in AI. Various distance measures can be used to find influence maps and potential fields. However, these distance measures have not been compared yet. ObjectivesIn this paper, we have proposed a new algorithm suitable to find an optimal point in parameters space from random parameter spaces. Finally, comparisons are made among three popular distance measures to find the most efficient. Methodology For our RQ1 and RQ2, we have implemented a mix of qualitative and quantitative approach and for RQ3, we have used quantitative approach. Results A* distance measure in influence maps is more efficient compared to Euclidean and Manhattan in potential fields. Conclusions Our proposed algorithm is suitable to find optimal point and explores huge parameter space. A* distance in influence maps is highly efficient compared to Euclidean and Manhattan distance in potentials fields. Euclidean and Manhattan distance performed relatively similar whereas A* distance performed better than them in terms of score in Ms. Pac-Man (See Appendix A).

In the first phase of my thesis I seek to explore how novelist use the fictional architectural environments in order to propel narrative and create an immersive experience for a reader, using the well-known 1984 by George Orwell and The Castle by Franz Kafka as the primary vehicle for investigation. The thesis studies the narrative and architectural typologies, physical settings and imagined spaces used to connect the viewer to the narrative’s highly detailed world. In the second phase of my thesis, I used elements learned from this two novels and applied them to propose a building in Midtown Manhattan in New York. I chose misinformation and fake news as the my main theme in order to design a mixed use proposal as it is one of the biggest challenges of our era. I end my thesis with a comic-style story using my proposal building as the main key in the comic-strips. If the first phase is about how architecture is used in fiction, the second phase is about creating a fictional story using architecture.

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La présente thèse vise à interroger les rapports qu'entretiennent le factuel et le fictionnel dans "Ardor guerrero", "Sefarad" et "Ventanas de Manhattan" d'Antonio Muñoz Molina. En effet, si ces œuvres se présentent respectivement comme trois modalités d'une écriture factuelle, à savoir des mémoires, des témoignages et un récit de voyage, elles ne peuvent néanmoins être exemptes de fictionnalité. L'hybridation des faits et de la fiction au sein de ce corpus apparaît non seulement comme inéluctable mais aussi porteuse de sens dans la mesure où elle permet d'approcher d'une part la vision personnelle de l'auteur sur le monde et d'autre part les histoires de l'Autre dans toute sa vérité et son intimité.

Penser la mise en récit de l’espace permet de circuler dans des marges que sont celles de l’art, de la littérature, de la politique, du cinéma. L’analyse rhétorique des processus de mise en récit de l’espace montre, en trois temps, que l’apport architectural définit et redéfinit les possibilités de déplacements des discours dans leur ouverture ou leur fermeture. Dans un premier temps, le passage du modernisme au postmodernisme, par l’analyse du Mémorial des vétérans du Vietnam, à Washington, qui déconstruit le récit programmatique d’un ordre, permet une nouvelle performativité du réel. Dans un deuxième temps, la monumentalité du Lower Manhattan, par sa verticalité, présente sa mise en récit comme un palimpseste dont toutes traces, idées, pratiques, utopies et destructions constituent des éléments légitimant et critiquant le récit en train de s’écrire. Par un passage de sa représentation, dans la littérature, notamment, la verticalité est alors une ligne de fuite dont le mouvement ascendant, puis descendant, montre l’inachèvement du récit. Dans un dernier temps, l’édification du Mémorial du World Trade Center, se réinscrit dans un modèle discursif unitaire compris comme un vaste dispositif qui réaffirme un retour à un ordre du discours, à un âge politique de la mémoire. Cet espace, c’est celui du pèlerinage, du lieu sacré qui fait parler ses morts au nom d’une autorité, la catastrophe, l’indicible, qui met en suspend la possibilité de la parole qui est autre. Cette réflexion entend présenter ces espaces qui se mettent en récit. / Thinking space narrative helps circulate in the margins of those of art, literature, politics, film. The rhetorical analysis of space narratives and its storytelling process shows, in three stages, that architectural contribution defines and redefines the possibilities of movement of speech in their opening or closing. First, the transition from modernism to postmodernism, by the analysis of Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, which deconstructs the programmatic narrative of an order allows a new performativity of reality. Secondly, the monumentality of Lower Manhattan, by its verticality, presents its narrative process set as a palimpsest where all traces, ideas, practices, utopias and destruction are legitimizing and criticizing elements in the narratives being written. By passing its representation in literature, in particular, the verticality is then a leakage whose upward movement, then down, shows the incompleteness of the story. Last, the building of the World Trade Center Memorial, re-entered into a unitary discursive model understood as a wide dispositif that reaffirms a return to an order of discourse, a political age memory. This space is one of the pilgrimage, the sacred place which makes his dead speak on behalf of an authority, which withhold the possibility of speech form outside. This reflection intends to present those spaces which are put in narrative.

by Hui See-mun Alice. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 51-53). / ABSTRACT --- p.i / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.ii / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.iii / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.3 / Chapter III. --- TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT - AN OVERVIEW --- p.5 / Importance of Quality to banks --- p.5 / History of TQM --- p.7 / Definitions on Quality.......: --- p.9 / Definitions of Total Quality Management --- p.10 / Critical factors for a successful TQM program --- p.14 / Chapter IV. --- TQM IN CHASE MANHATTAN BANK --- p.18 / Reasons for implementing TQM in Chase --- p.18 / Fundamental principles and values of Chase TQM --- p.18 / TQM implementation in Hong Kong --- p.23 / Chapter V. --- EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.29 / Evaluation of the system --- p.29 / Recommendations --- p.33 / Chapter VI. --- CONCLUSION --- p.39 / APPENDIX / Chapter 1. --- Overview of ISO 9000 --- p.41 / Chapter 2. --- HKMA Quality Award Criteria Framework --- p.43 / Chapter 3. --- TQM plan --- p.44 / Chapter 4. --- Problem solving process 8c Quality improvement process --- p.45 / Chapter 5. --- Deming's 14 principles --- p.46 / Chapter 6. --- Juran's 10 steps in quality improvement --- p.47 / Chapter 7. --- Crosby's 14 steps in quality improvement --- p.48 / Chapter 8. --- Malcolm Baldrige Award assessment system --- p.49 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.51 / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / Figure 1. Framework of Chase TQM --- p.19 / Figure 2. Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle --- p.21 / Figure 3. TQM Plan --- p.44 / Figure 4. Problem Solving Process --- p.45 / Figure 5. Quality Improvement Process --- p.45

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Tennessee, 2007. / Title from title page screen (viewed on Mar. 31, 2008). Thesis advisor: Michael L. Keene. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Syracuse University, 2007. / "Publication number: AAT 3295522."

The main purpose of this essay is to examine the narrative function of the city in the films of Woody Allen. This was achieved through a narrative and comparative analysis of four of his city films: Manhattan (1979), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Midnight in Paris (2011) and To Rome with Love (2012). The results of this examination show that the city has a variety of narrative functions throughout the films. The city provides a natural environment that enables character meetings. Living in the city can be so sought after, that the city itself becomes an important goal for the protagonist. Portraying the city is often an essential part of a reflexive narrative. The city is utilized for this and more in the films of Woody Allen.