In 1849, President Brigham Young commissioned a fifty man company, headed by Parley P. Pratt, to explore Southern Utah for possible colonization. The four month trek spanned the coldest months of the winter, and afforded some very harrowing and hazardous experiences. These events weave a heroic story filled with excitement and adventure, while simultaneously revealing the tremendous dedication and fortitude on the part of the explorers to successfully complete their mission.Many of the Southern Utah colonies that were initiated in the subsequent years following the expedition were based on information gathered during this seven-hundred mile expedition. In addition, their findings provided a crucial link in Brigham Young's imminent decision to colonize southern Utah.

The purpose of this study is to recreate the theatrical lives of three Mormon actresses through an appraisal of the critical reviews of the press, the primary source of available material.

The thesis deals with gender analysis in films studying metamorphoses of archetypes in film Bitter Moon directed by Roman Polanski. The methodical and theoretical sections of the thesis analyse the influence of archetype changes of film characters in gender roles. The thesis identifies and analyses mainly woman film characters appearing in some classical feminist texts, feminist film theoretical and critical articles, in some psychoanalytical works, in dramatheraphy and film science. The sources mentioned above became primary resource materials for our archetypal research. The analysis of each of the film character is focused on the most distinctive archetype with respect to its metamorphosy. Apart from the archetype research the thesis is marginaly concerned with problems linked to the female ideal and her sexuality usually portrayed in an unalterable way, and archetypal patterns are in such a way transmitted to audiences through femininity and masculinity in the context of gender roles. Keywords: archetype, Roman Polanski, Laura Mulvey, Annis Pratt, cinematic archetypal coherence, feminist film criticism, film narrative analysis, archetypal masculinity, archetypal femininity.

The Long Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) program is an organization within the Federal Highway Administration that inspects, tests, analyzes, and observes, for an extended period of time, a variety of bridge types throughout the United States. Part of the program includes periodic testing of select bridges of a span of 20 years. The Kettle River Bridge located outside of Sandstone, Minnesota was selected for study due to its unique design. The Kettle River Bridge is a historical steel cantilevered deck arched Pratt truss bridge. The bridge was instrumented with 151 strain gauges on various floor and truss members along with eight displacement gauges strategically placed along the truss. All gauges were read simultaneously as the bridge underwent non-destructive live loading. The recorded gauge readings were analyzed to determine bridge behavior and then used in the assistance of calibrating a working finite-element model. After a working model was verified the distribution factors for the interior and exterior floor stringers were determined. By using the controlling distribution factor, a load rating for the bridge was determined for both inventory and operating. The distribution factors and load ratings determined using the working finite-element model were then compared to the AAHSTO LRFD specifications.

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La complexité croissante des applications technologiques et scientifiques, le cycle de vie plus court des produits et la mondialisation des marchés imposent aux entreprises oeuvrant dans des industries de haute technologie de nouvelles pratiques comme l'ouverture et la collaboration. Le changement des structures et des modes opératoires des entreprises exige une révision des modèles d'affaires. Depuis le début des années 90, le courant de la recherche sur le modèle d'affaires s'est attaché à analyser ses fonctions et ses logiques. Les éléments clés constituants le modèle d'affaires sont: l'envergure de produits et de marché, une stratégie axée sur la différenciation, la clientèle cible, le réseau de valeur, les sources de création de valeur, l'organisation de la chaîne de valeur, les ressources stratégiques, les compétences et les ressources distinctives. Néanmoins, nous avons identifié peu d'études qui s'intéressent particulièrement au test du modèle de l'innovation ouverte au secteur aéronautique. L'objet de notre recherche consistera donc à répondre à la question suivante: « Comment les concepts d'innovation ouverte influencent-ils les logiques des modèles d'affaires des firmes, oeuvrant dans l'industrie aéronautique au Québec? » La démarche méthodologique se base sur une approche qualitative de type exploratoire. La stratégie de recherche a favorisé la réalisation d'une étude de cas d'un des maîtres d'oeuvre de l'industrie aéronautique au Québec, soit Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC). Ce choix a visé à expérimenter le cadre théorique développé dans la revue de littérature, pour répondre à notre question de recherche. Le modèle d'affaires de la compagnie a été analysé dans le but d'identifier le degré d'influence des concepts du modèle d'innovation ouverte sur les logiques du modèle d'affaires de la compagnie (logique expertise, logique client, logique réseau et logique génération de revenu). Pour ce faire, nous avons d'abord procédé à une étude documentaire, puis nous avons réalisé trois entrevues exploratoires auprès de hauts cadres ayant des connaissances sur les stratégies de développement du secteur aéronautique au Québec et des défis que l'industrie a relevé. Ces entrevues ont eu lieu à la Commission des Partenaires de Marché de Travail (qualification de main d'oeuvre en aérospatial) et la Comité sectorielle de Main d'oeuvre en Aérospatiale Québec (CAMAQ). Ensuite, sept entrevues ont été réalisées auprès des directeurs et hauts cadres de P&WC ayant une expertise en lien avec l'objet de notre étude. Les résultats de l'analyse nous permettent d'identifier les fonctions du modèle d'affaires de P&WC qui s'avère traduire une approche systémique conforme au six principales fonctions du modèle d'affaires. Il s'agit de la proposition de valeur, le segment de marché, la structure de la chaîne de valeur, la structure des coûts et les marges cibles, la position de l'entreprise dans le réseau de valeur, la stratégie concurrentielle. La conception et la mise en oeuvre des modèles d'affaires de P&WC (par conséquent les fonctions de ces derniers) sont guidées par les enjeux stratégiques préoccupant actuellement la compagnie, soit: la productivité et la création d'avantages concurrentiels. En outre, nous constatons que l'approche systémique se traduit dans les choix stratégiques du modèle d'affaires de P&WC. L'influence des concepts du modèle d'innovation ouverte sur les logiques du modèle d'affaires de P&WC est importante durant les premières phases de maturité de la technologie. À ce stade, la collaboration touche à la recherche fondamentale et favorise le partage des investissements, des risques et de la recherche avec des partenaires. Toutefois, cet impact est moins considérable à des phases plus avancées de la maturité de la technologie. Une fois que la production atteint un stade avancé, le risque technologique diminue et le coût de développement augmente. La maturité de la technologie conduit à une augmentation du risque, de perte du contrôle sur l'utilisation des nouvelles technologies développées et une baisse des opportunités de collaboration. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Fonctions du modèle d'affaires, Logiques du modèle d'affaires, Création de valeur, Processus d'innovation, Commercialisation de l'innovation, Modèle d'innovation ouverte, Chaîne de valeur, Transfert du savoir, Aéronautique.

Since the completion of the CPR, the railway has held an important place in the Canadian imagination as a symbol of national unity, industry, and cooperation. It would seem to follow, given the widely held belief that national literatures help to engender national self-recognition in their readers, that Canadian literature would make incessant use of the railway to address themes of national community and identity. This assumption is false. With a few notable exceptions, Canadian literature has in fact made very little deliberate effort to propagate the idea that the railway is a vital symbol of Canadian unity and identity. / Literary depictions of the railway do, however, exhibit a tension between communitarian and individualist values that may itself lie at the heart of the Canadian character. Some of the earliest representations of the railway, in travel narratives of the late nineteenth century, make explicit reference to the notion that the railway was a sign and a product of a common national imagination. But poets of this period virtually ignored the railway for fear that its presence would disturb the peaceful contemplation, and thus the identity, of the individuals who populated the pastoral spaces of their verse. Modern poets did eventually manage to include the train in their work, but used it most often as a vehicle to continue the private musings of their individual lyric speakers rather than to explore the terrain of the national consciousness. One prominent exception to this tendency is E. J. Pratt's Towards the Last Spike, in which imposing individuals such as Sir John A. Macdonald and William Van Horne and thousands of unnamed rail workers combine their efforts in order to construct the railway, which stands as a symbol of how individuals and communities can work together in the national interest. Canadian fiction demonstrates the same impulses as Canadian poetry by using the railway as a means of depicting the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of individuals, but it also challenges the myth of the railway's creation of a unitary national culture by showing how diverse communities---of race, class, and region---imagine their relationship to the railway in very different ways. / The varied character of Canada's literary treatment of one of the country's central national symbols suggests that a tension between individualism and communitarianism also informs Canadian literature itself, whose writers have used the railway to fulfill their goals in individual texts but have rarely employed it as a symbol of national community.

This document was created in addition to a recital for the seminar Pattern Matching at Chemnitz University of Technology in term 2001/2002. It is a description of basic text search approaches, which are the algorithms of Brute Force, Knuth-Morris-Pratt, Boyer-Moore and Boyer-Moore-Horspool. / Dieses Dokument entstand parallel zu einem Vortrag für das Proseminar Pattern Matching im Wintersemester 2001/2002 an der Technischen Universität Chemnitz. Es stellt die Funktionsweise der grundlegenden Suchalgorithmen Brute Force, Knuth-Morris-Pratt, Boyer-Moore sowie Boyer-Moore-Horspool dar.

The colorful history of Mormon polygamy has many interesting stories to tell, and one of the most interesting is that of Rev. Dr. J. P. Newman's debate with the Mormon Apostle Orson Pratt on "Does the Bible Sanction Polygamy?" This debate was held at the New Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah, on August 12, 13, and 14, 1870. Newman was the Chaplain of the United States Senate and one of the foremost preachers of Washington, D.C. His appearance in Salt Lake City to debate the question of polygamy was a national topic. Probably never before, nor since, has so much been said in such a short time by non-Mormon presses on a question respecting Mormonism. And never before, as far as the author has been able to discover, has a chaplain of the Senate engaged in a public debate of such wide-spread interest.

This dissertation will examine the efficacy of peer-led team learning (PLTL) in a humanities and social sciences program, at a midsize Texas university. It will be conducted exclusively within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), and the academic subjects to be evaluated include English, history, and philosophy. Its primary function is to disclose whether or not PLTL facilitates in student participants improvement in critical thinking skill acquisition and deeper process content knowledge. Of primary interest in this qualitative, narrative case study is deducing how breakout sessions – supplementary meetings led by student participants, in the absence of instructors, designed to enhance classroom instruction – aid in concept synthesis and retention. Of equal importance is evaluating how the implementation of a PLTL instructional framework cultivates in its participants the acuity necessary to demonstrate that positive learning outcomes are occurring, or have the potential to occur; thereafter, collected data, in the form of participant and instructor narratives derived from questionnaires, interviews, researcher observations, writing samples, and essay-based examinations will support or refute whether improvement in critical thinking skill acquisition and deeper process content knowledge is evident in student participants. Keywords: Peer-led Team Learning (PLTL), Critical Thinking Skill Acquisition, Deeper Process Content Knowledge, Positive Learning Outcomes, Humanities and Social Sciences, Qualitative, Narrative, Case Study