« Comparaison n’est pas raison ». Célèbre pamphlet formulé par René Etiemble en 1963, qui fait date, aujourd’hui encore dans toute tentative de comparabilité poétique. La présente thèse essaie d’aller au-delà de cette prescription théorique, sans toutefois perdre de vue la mesure et la pertinence qui la supposent. Maurice Blanchot et Léopold Sédar Senghor. Deux auteurs que tout semble éloigner. Le premier, Européen de culture, a produit une œuvre marquée par la distance heuristique, le désœuvrement infini et la discrétion interminable d’un sujet qui va disparaissant. Le second, Africain et académicien a écrit des recueils de poèmes et des essais sur le Socialisme et l’Esthétique négro-africaine. Rien ne présageait une quelconque rencontre entre ces deux écrivains. Ils ont cependant en commun la poétique de la Nuit, espace d’expression thématique qui structure ce travail. Blanchot et Senghor sont distants à l’égard des modes traditionnels de la Raison. L’un a écrit des fictions fragmentaires, des récits marqués par des apophtegmes ainsi que des textes critiques iconoclastes. L’autre a jeté un soupçon radical sur la Raison discursive et la pensée géométrique. La Nuit est le lieu de ces renversements herméneutiques. A partir d’une approche ouverte, la thèse procède à la réévaluation des outils classiques de lisibilité des textes littéraires, en tentant de répondre à trois questions cardinales : Pourquoi et Comment la Nuit chez Blanchot et Senghor ? Quelles sont donc les discontinuités qui s’étendent dans cette région obscure et étrange ? Mais encore, Comment surmonter l’absence d’échanges effectifs, pour approcher le débat ainsi manqué chez ces deux auteurs ? Telles sont les apories principales qui gouvernent cette recherche. Pour s’y risquer, une poétique transversale est convoquée : les Psychanalyses littéraires, pour saisir les frustrations initiales qui se métamorphosent dans le Jour et fondent le texte dans la Nuit. La Mythocritique et son dispositif triangulaire, pour observer les rapports entre le héros mythique, le personnage romanesque (ou poétique) et l’écrivain. Et enfin, la Déconstruction, pour suivre le réceptacle théorique qui est le point de condensation de ces dissymétries. La Nuit apparaît alors comme une opération de démantèlement des institutions du Savoir, qui étire la parole littéraire jusqu’à l’abolition radicale des différences : inaccessibilité de l’Altérité chez Blanchot, hétérogénéité du rythme intuitif, l’Autre de la raison chez Senghor. / "Comparison is not reason." Pamphlet made famous by Rene Etiemble in 1963, which today, has aplace in all attempts of poetry comparison. This thesis tries to go beyond the theoretical limitation without losing sight of the relevance and pertinence that it is supposed by.Maurice Blanchot and Léopold Sédar Senghor. Two authors that differ in every respect. The first, influenced by European culture in order to produce a piece of work marked by heuristic difference, infinite boredom, and an endless discretion of a topic that will eventually disappear. The Second, an African academic that wrote collections of poems and essays on Socialism and the Negro-African Aesthetics. Nothing boded any meeting between these two writers. They have in common the poetics of the Night, a thematic expression that structures this work. Blanchot and Senghor are far from the traditional modes of reason. One wrote fragments of fiction and narratives marked by sayings and iconoclastic critical texts. The other had cast suspicion on radical discursive reason and geometric thinking. Night is the place of these hermeneutic reversals . From an open approach, the thesis is re-evaluating the standard tools of readable literary texts, trying to answer three cardinal questions: Why and how do Blanchot and Senghor use night in their work ? What are the discontinuities that lie in this strange and dark region? Moreover, How to overcome the absence of effective exchanges, in order to approach the missing debates within in the works of these two authors? These are the main aspects that govern this research. To take the risk, a poetry section is called : the litery psychoanalysis, to capture the initial frustrations that are transformed in the day and melt the text in the night. The Mythocritique and its triangular form of analysis is used in order to observe the relationship between the mythical hero, the fictional (or poetic character) and the writer. Finally, Deconstruction is used, to monitor the theoretic receptacle which serves as the point of condensation of these asymmetries. Night appears as an operation to dismantle the institutions of knowledge, whilst stretching the literary language until the radical abolition of differences: inaccessibility of Otherness in Blanchot, intuitive rhythm heterogeneity, the other of reason in Senghor.

Bakgrund: Omvårdnad ska bedrivas på individnivå med fokus på fysisk miljö, socialt stöd och de förmågor patienten själv har. Ambulanspersonal ska kunna upprätthålla en god omvårdnad, både fysik och psykisk, oavsett förutsättningar och arbetsmiljö. Sjuksköterskan har ett ansvar för att en säker och en hälsofrämjande miljö upprätthålls. Syfte: Syftet med föreliggande studie var att beskriva omvårdnaden inom ambulanssjukvården under olika delar av dygnet. Metod: Denna studie är av kvalitativ design, och sammanlagt elva semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts med grundutbildade sjuksköterskor samt sjuksköterskor med specialistutbildning mot ambulanssjukvård verksamma inom den prehospitala vården. En kvalitativ innehållsanalys har använts för att analysera det insamlade materialet. Huvudresultat: Omvårdnad inom ambulanssjukvården påverkas både positivt och negativt beroende på tiden av dygnet den utförs. Två teman framkom, vilka var Utföra god omvårdnad och Utföra bristande omvårdnad. Utifrån det första temat framkom det att omvårdnad under dagtid samt i början av arbetspass ansågs vara god, medan det utifrån det andra temat framkom att omvårdnaden under nattetid och i slutet av arbetspassen ansågs kunna bli bristfällig. Slutsats: Under vissa delar av dygnet utför ambulanspersonal bristande omvårdnad, som i sin tur kan leda till risker kring patientsäkerheten. Det är av stor vikt att ambulanspersonal ger en god omvårdnad dygnet runt. Detta för att kunna upprätthålla en god patientsäkerhet samt minimera potentiella risker för patienten. / Background: Nursing care should be conducted on an individual level with a focus on physical environment, social support and the patients own abilities. Ambulance staff should be able to give good care, both physical and mental, regardless preconditions and environment. The prehospital care is performed 24 hours a day. The nurse has a responsibility for ensuring that a health-promoting environment is maintained. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the ambulance care during different parts of the day. Method: This study has a qualitative approach. A total of eleven semi-structured interviews have been carried out with registered nurses and specialist nurses specializing in ambulance care active within the prehospital care. A qualitative content analysis has been used to analyze the collected material. Main result: The ambulance care was affected both positive and negative due to the time of the day it was performed. Two themes emerged from the result. The first was Perform good care and the second was Perform insufficient care. The first theme included that the ambulance care that was performed during day time and in the beginning of the shift was considered positive, while the second theme included ambulance care that was performed during night time and in the end of the shift was considered negative. Conclusion: During some parts of the day, ambulance staff perform inadequate care, which in turn can lead to patient safety risks. It is important that the ambulance staff provides good nursing 24 hours a day. This in order to maintain good patient safety and minimize potential risks to the patient.

The trumpet and electronics genre of music has been in existence since 1965. While various dissertations have discussed other composers and their works in this field, there is still a need for a treatise exploring appropriate performance practice for the electroacoustic trumpet music of Meg Bowles. There has been no study of the compositional process nor trumpet techniques required for performance of these works and other electronic compositions. This dissertation will study the compositions for trumpet and electronics by Bowles, develop strategies for performing these works, and explore compositional techniques used to create them. Interviews have been conducted between the author and composer (Meg Bowles), as well as the author and collaborating performer (David Bilger). In addition, existing interviews with the composer are included from journals and websites. This document is presented in two parts: Part I, “Introduction to Music for Trumpet and Electronics,” “Biography of Meg Bowles,” “Compositional Techniques,” “Night Sun Journey,” “Places Where Rivers Meet,” “Shapeshifter,” and “Twilight Embrace.” The second part of this dissertation contains materials which are pertinent to the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree and includes recital programs, program notes, and vita.

QC 351 A7 no. 69 / The history of modern wide -field, high-speed catadioptric lenses is reviewed. One system comprising only spherical curves and representative of the current art for low-light-level systems is evaluated and used as a baseline design in a weight-reduction study. Five aspheric designs are computed and evaluated. It is found that the use of aspherics will permit weight reduction only in certain instances, i.e., if one element of an all-spherical design can be eliminated or if a fundamentally different configuration that is possible only with aspherics is substituted for the all-spherical configuration. Of these possibilities, the elimination of an element is the best replacement for the baseline design. The case of a highly constrained, purely refractive triplet is studied in some detail. Four designs are computed -from the all-spherical case to the most complex polynomial aspheric. It is found that, if only conic aspherics are employed, significant improvement can be obtained and the problems involved are sensibly the same as those in all-spherical designs. When complex aspherics are applied, the problem becomes surprisingly difficult, and there is some indication that a computer can deal with it better than can a human lens designer.

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La nuit n’est pas seulement un phénomène astronomique mais elle nourrit aussi son imaginaire de nombreux fantasmes et inquiétudes. Pour cette raison, elle reste une source d’inspiration féconde pour les artistes, particulièrement en France autour de 1900. Cette thèse se propose donc de retrouver les traces du phénomène nocturne dans les musiques de la nuit de cette période et au-delà. Que retiennent les musiques nocturnes de cette expérience singulière de la nuit ? À partir d’une méthodologie inspirée des sciences de l’imaginaire et d’une analyse musicale approfondie d’une dizaine de pièces de cette époque, ce travail interroge les notions d’ombre et de lumière, de la nuit comme masque de la mort ou encore de la temporalité et de la spatialité nocturnes. Il aboutit ainsi à la compréhension de certaines formes d’analogies entre la nuit et ses représentations musicales. / For human being, night is not only an astronomic phenomenon but it also nourishes its imagination of many fantasies and fears. For this reason, it remains a great source of inspiration for the artists, particularly in France around 1900, and the purpose of this thesis is then to find the traces of nocturnal phenomenon is night’s music of this period and beyond. What do night’s music keep of this peculiar night experience ? From a methodology inspired by the sciences of imaginary and a musical analysis of a dozen score of this period, this work examine notions such as shade and light, night in his relation to death or to the dimensions of time and space. It leads so to the understanding of certain analogies between night and his musical forms.

Approved for public release; distribution in unlimited. / Different sensors exploit different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum; therefore, a multi-sensor image fusion system can take full advantage of the complementary capabilities of individual sensors in the suit; to produce information that cannot be obtained by viewing the images separately. In this thesis, a framework for the multiresolution fusion of the night vision devices and thermal infrared imagery is presented. It encompasses a wavelet-based approach that supports both pixel-level and region-based fusion, and aims to maximize scene content by incorporating spectral information from both the source images. In pixel-level fusion, source images are decomposed into different scales, and salient directional features are extracted and selectively fused together by comparing the corresponding wavelet coefficients. To increase the degree of subject relevance in the fusion process, a region-based approach which uses a multiresolution segmentation algorithm to partition the image domain at different scales is proposed. The region's characteristics are then determined and used to guide the fusion process. The experimental results obtained demonstrate the feasibility of the approach. Potential applications of this development include improvements in night piloting (navigation and target discrimination), law enforcement etc. / Civilian, Republic of Singapore

The conceptual foundation for my work lies in the idea of "interaction." I work towards exposing this idea in its more basic and routine form, as well as the broad scope of it. Ranging beyond the common associations made with human to human interaction, my work enters a number of realms including environmental, architectural, and intra-personal interactions, working amongst the subtleties of each. I seek to create an image of relate-able experience, thus I feel the medium of photography is necessitated, as it is rooted in the idea of documentary and realism, in effect, cataloguing images of or influenced by the outside world.

The following internship report is an overview of the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC). As a requirement of the Arts Administration Graduate Program at the University of New Orleans, I completed a 480-hour internship spanning three months in the center’s development and membership department. This report combines observational research with the knowledge gained from my studies and subjective research to provide an analysis of the CAC’s current position, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and provides recommendations on how the center can address specific issues with operations and financial management in order to grow as an organization in the future.

Este trabalho objetiva uma revisão da recepção crítica e literária de Noite na Taverna, de Álvares de Azevedo. Com sua Noite na Taverna, esse poeta romântico criou uma peça singular em nossas letras, que gozou de grande popularidade desde então. Busco, a partir disso, elencar e comentar os mais relevantes estudos críticos sobre a obra, além de relacionar uma série de emulações da novela, produzidas sob sua inspiração e dividindo com ela o mesmo clima macabro e de espírito de grupo. Cumbre lembrar que, apesar do seu sucesso literário, Noite na Taverna não foi suficiente para criar entre nós uma tradição de literatura fantástica. Cabe ainda, ao apontar influxos (ainda que indiretos) da literatura de horror no romantismo brasileiro, apresentar uma reflexão sobre os motivos góticos no projeto estético de Álvares de Azevedo. / The aim of this research is to review the critical and literary reception of Noite na Taverna, de Álvares de Azevedo. With that book, this romantic poet created a unique piece in brazilian letters, which enjoyed great popularity since 1855. For this, I list and comment on the most relevant critical studies on the work, further relates a series of \"emulation\" of the novel, produced under his inspiration and sharing the same macabre atmosphere and group spirit. Although their literary success, Noite na Taverna was not enough to create among us a great tradition of fantastic literature. It also point to inflows (albeit indirect) of horror literature in Brazilian Romanticism, provide a reflection on the reasons for the Gothic themes in the Alvares de Azevedo\'s aesthetic project.