H.D., Djuna Barnes et Laura (Riding) Jackson incarnent trois visages du modernisme américain expatrié. C’est autour de leur place paradoxale dans le contexte d’instabilité et de circulation de ce moment littéraire que s’articulent leurs parcours respectifs. Cette thèse cherche à montrer comment l’expérience du déplacement géographique s’incarne dans le texte thématiquement, stylistiquement, grammaticalement, génériquement et dans le genre (gender) pour produire une écriture autobiographique déplacée qui interroge et transgresse les frontières. On analysera comment l’expatriation des trois auteurs et leur marginalité dans la communitas des expatriés produisent une écriture qui remet en question la limite entre personnel et impersonnel. On explorera les représentations du déplacement géographique lui-même comme thématique et esthétique. En adoptant une méthode de cartographie littéraire, nous mettons au jour une écriture nomade et interrogerons le rapport à la nation dans les textes qui travaille le trope du Grand Tour. L’analyse de l’esthétique du déplacement de l’autobiographie sur les éléments organiques du texte met au jour la métaphorisation du déracinement et le processus de déterritorialisation/reterritorialisation de l’expatriation et du genre féminin chez H.D., Barnes et (Riding) Jackson. / H.D., Djuna Barnes and Laura (Riding) Jackson embody three facets of American expatriate modernism. Their trajectories hinge on their paradoxical place in modernism’s context of instability and circulation. This thesis purports to show how their works are imbued with the experience of geographical displacement at various levels (thematic, stylistic, grammatical, generically and in gender). This porosity between life and work results in a displaced autobiographical writing which questions and transgresses frontiers. The first section deals with how these authors’ expatriation and marginality in the expatriate communitas produce texts which probe the limit between the personal and the impersonal. The second part focuses on the representations of the geographical displacement itself—both as theme and aesthetics. By resorting to a literary cartography method, we argue for a nomadic writing and interrogate the writers’ relation to the concept of nation in texts which deploy the Grand Tour trope. The final section analyzes the aesthetic transference of the autobiography on the organic elements of the text. These motifs act as metaphors of the subject’s uprootedness and of the deterritorialization/reterritorialization process at work for expatriate women writers.

Within the different types of unmanned areal vehicles, multi rotor drones may be used for recreational use. One use case is for the drone to follow the user while keeping a set distance and the correct angle. This may be done by combining a camera with an embedded system powerful enough to run an AI which handles face recognition, tracking the user. This project aims to discover a new method for finding direction which may be used within the same field. With the help of practical methodology, a bream riding system was created to keep a constant track of the direction of the user. / Inom olika typer av obemannade luftfarkoster, quadkopters må användas för fritidsändamål. Ett av dessa är att följa användaren samt hålla en satt distans och korrekt vinkel från dem. Detta kan implementeras med hjälp av en kombination av en kamera samt ett kraftfullt nog inbyggt system att den en lokal AI kan hantera ansiktsigenkänning för att hålla reda på användarens position. Detta projekt har i mål att upptäcka en ny metod att finna användarens riktning, som i sin tur kan användas inom samma område. Med hjälp av en praktiskt metodologi så har ett beam riding system skapats för att konstant hålla reda på användarens riktning.

This thesis explores the origin and expression of dialectical thought in the life and writings of the American modernist Laura Riding. Within a biographical framework, I trace the steps by which it became the defining characteristic of her poetic, literary and critical works. A few have noted Riding's dialectical manner; none have appreciated its centrality. This is the first detailed study. An introductory outline of the origin and definition of dialectic provides a working theoretical context for the study that follows. Riding was born Laura Reichenthal in New York City, 1901. Her father, a Jewish émigré, was a committed activist for the left and included Riding in his campaigning at a very young age, immersing and educating her in the political and philosophical radicalism thriving in New York's Jewish communities of the era. There she internalised the revolutionary dialectics that would inform her aesthetic practice. Breaking with her father in her teens, she abandoned politics for literature. As Laura Riding - the name she adopted in 1927 and with which her literary writings continue to be associated - she moved to London and began collaborating with Robert Graves, relocating with him to Majorca in 1929. Producing poetry, fiction, criticism and experimental philosophico-literary works, she became a formidable presence within European literary modernism. Many aspects of her work are dialectical. Paradox, inversion and negation are perennial textual features. Key events in her life were also experienced as dialectical. Her insistence upon 'death' as an inverted sigil of unmediated vitality points toward a negatively dialectical mode of thought. In this regard, the theories of Theodor W. Adorno prove invaluable. Adorno provides a unique lexicon of terms - 'constitutive subjectivity', 'administered world', 'true object' - with which to draw out Riding's dialectical subtleties. Reading them alongside Adorno's negatively dialectical theory of modernist art and aesthetic praxis, certain aspects of Riding's writings are illuminated and, in some respects, they correspond. After a suicide attempt in 1929, Riding's perspective changed. Before it, her point of view was positioned within institutionally determined 'reality', and 'truth' beyond it was adumbrated by dialectical means. Afterwards, she believed herself transfigured: the embodiment of immediate, consciously apprehended noumenal objectivity. But the written word remained recalcitrant toward her attempts to inscribe this newfound positive 'truth'. This frustration contributed to her abandonment of poetry at the end of the 1930s. Re-emerging in the 1960s as Laura (Riding) Jackson, her disavowal of poetry and exploration of 'truth-potential' in language utilised dialectical approaches derived from her earlier experiences and writings.

Canais de marketing proliferaram nos últimos anos. Por meio da integração de canais virtuais, as vendas de varejistas tradicionais se expandiram. Num ambiente multicanal, os consumidores podem se movimentar facilmente entre diferentes canais. O free-riding acontece quando os consumidores realizam pesquisa on-line ou em sites de comparação de preços e acabam realizando a compra em outro varejista não pesquisado. O cruzamento entre canais pode levar a perdas para o varejista e se torna questão-chave do varejo multicanal na retenção do consumidor. Lançando luz sobre esta questão foi utilizado um modelo teórico originário da geografia humana, o paradigma Push-Pull-Mooring para explicar o comportamento de alternância do consumidor. Este estudo propõe um modelo teórico para explicar o comportamento de alternância do consumidor e o impacto na intenção de free-riding. O modelo final apresentou antecedentes para autoeficácia (push): a experiência prévia com internet e a satisfação em free-riding; para retenção na firma (mooring): o alto custo de mudança e a busca de variedade e, para atratividade do varejo tradicional (pull): qualidade percebida, risco percebido e satisfação com loja física. Foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa e quantitativa do tipo survey, aplicada em consumidores com experiência de compra na internet, e modelagem pela análise de equações estruturais. Os resultados empíricos revelam efeito mediador para a variável atratividade do varejo por meio do alto risco percebido na interação com lojas virtuais. Há efeitos moderadores dados pela idade, gênero, renda, busca de informação e hábito de compra. Há fortes evidências de motivação para retenção na firma. / Marketing channels have proliferated in recent years. Through integration of on-line channel, sales of traditional retailers have expanded. In a multichannel environment, consumers can move easily between different channels. Free-riding occur when consumers perform on-line search or consult price comparison sites and end up performing purchase at a retailer not searched before. The crossover between channels can lead to losses for the retailer and becomes one the main issues of multichannel retailing in the area of consumer retention. To shed some light on this issue, a theoretical model from the literature on human geography was used, the Push-Pull-Mooring paradigm to explain the switching behavior of consumers. This study proposes a theoretical model to explain the switching behavior and its impact on free-riding. The final model presents antecedents to self-efficacy (push): previous experience with internet and satisfaction in free-riding; with-in firm lock-in (mooring): the switching costs and the variety seeking; and attractiveness to the competitor\'s offline retail store (pull): perceived quality, perceived risk and satisfaction with offline stores. A qualitative and quantitative survey research was applied to consumer regarding their shopping experience with the internet. The technique of structural equation modeling was performed. The empirical results reveal mediating effect of with-in firm lock-in when the consumer realizes that he/she is serviced on his/her need for variety of products and brands. The mediating effect of attractiveness of competitor\'s offline store is given by perception of satisfaction with retail stores and perceived high risk in interacting with on-line stores. Moderating effects were also found: age, gender, income, information search and buying habit. There is strong evidence of motivation for with-in firm lock-in.

Research questions, results and Empirical Data This book studies the allocation of scarce resources among competing needs and wants. Chapter 1 – Luck, effort and Redistribution on procedural justice provides one possible explanation for the vast differences between US and Western European tax an redistribution levels. Chapter 2- Participation and Peers in Social Dilemmas on social norms investigates two potential reasons why solutions to social dilemmas in for instance insurance systems can persist without being destroyed by the negative forces of free-riding. Chapter 3 - Commitment and Impasses in Negotiation on conflict shifts focus to bilateral bargaining and the reasons for conflict and impasses. Whether they manifest as strikes, job resignations, or trade embargoes, failures of the negotiation process create tremendous loss of social welfare and are therefore important to further understand. Each chapter is based on observations of real human behavior in the lab. The empirical data consists of: 204 M.B.A. students and 96 M.Sc. students from Harvard university, the Stockholm School of Economics, the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm university and Karolinska Institutet; 5 experiments over 21 experimental sessions generated 2,520 observations.

Canais de marketing proliferaram nos últimos anos. Por meio da integração de canais virtuais, as vendas de varejistas tradicionais se expandiram. Num ambiente multicanal, os consumidores podem se movimentar facilmente entre diferentes canais. O free-riding acontece quando os consumidores realizam pesquisa on-line ou em sites de comparação de preços e acabam realizando a compra em outro varejista não pesquisado. O cruzamento entre canais pode levar a perdas para o varejista e se torna questão-chave do varejo multicanal na retenção do consumidor. Lançando luz sobre esta questão foi utilizado um modelo teórico originário da geografia humana, o paradigma Push-Pull-Mooring para explicar o comportamento de alternância do consumidor. Este estudo propõe um modelo teórico para explicar o comportamento de alternância do consumidor e o impacto na intenção de free-riding. O modelo final apresentou antecedentes para autoeficácia (push): a experiência prévia com internet e a satisfação em free-riding; para retenção na firma (mooring): o alto custo de mudança e a busca de variedade e, para atratividade do varejo tradicional (pull): qualidade percebida, risco percebido e satisfação com loja física. Foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa e quantitativa do tipo survey, aplicada em consumidores com experiência de compra na internet, e modelagem pela análise de equações estruturais. Os resultados empíricos revelam efeito mediador para a variável atratividade do varejo por meio do alto risco percebido na interação com lojas virtuais. Há efeitos moderadores dados pela idade, gênero, renda, busca de informação e hábito de compra. Há fortes evidências de motivação para retenção na firma. / Marketing channels have proliferated in recent years. Through integration of on-line channel, sales of traditional retailers have expanded. In a multichannel environment, consumers can move easily between different channels. Free-riding occur when consumers perform on-line search or consult price comparison sites and end up performing purchase at a retailer not searched before. The crossover between channels can lead to losses for the retailer and becomes one the main issues of multichannel retailing in the area of consumer retention. To shed some light on this issue, a theoretical model from the literature on human geography was used, the Push-Pull-Mooring paradigm to explain the switching behavior of consumers. This study proposes a theoretical model to explain the switching behavior and its impact on free-riding. The final model presents antecedents to self-efficacy (push): previous experience with internet and satisfaction in free-riding; with-in firm lock-in (mooring): the switching costs and the variety seeking; and attractiveness to the competitor\'s offline retail store (pull): perceived quality, perceived risk and satisfaction with offline stores. A qualitative and quantitative survey research was applied to consumer regarding their shopping experience with the internet. The technique of structural equation modeling was performed. The empirical results reveal mediating effect of with-in firm lock-in when the consumer realizes that he/she is serviced on his/her need for variety of products and brands. The mediating effect of attractiveness of competitor\'s offline store is given by perception of satisfaction with retail stores and perceived high risk in interacting with on-line stores. Moderating effects were also found: age, gender, income, information search and buying habit. There is strong evidence of motivation for with-in firm lock-in.

This paper presents the lives and early feminist works of two modernist era poets, Laura Riding Jackson and Muriel Rukeyser. Despite differences of style, the two poets shared a common theme of essentialist feminism before its popularization by 1950s and 60s second wave feminists. The two poets also endured periods of poetic silence or self censorship which can be attributed to modernism, McCarthyism, and rising conservatism. Analysis of their poems helps to remedy their exclusion from the common canon.

This dissertation explores how the concepts of ambivalence, horror, monsters and mise-en-scène can be used to interpret the ambivalent predator-monster/victim relationship of the characters Sonja Daneel, Adele and Maggie Joubert from the film Wolwedans in die Skemer (2012). In doing so, this dissertation investigates how Noël Carroll’s The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the Heart (1990) and Jeffery Cohen's Monster Theory (1996) can be used as a theoretical foundation to analyse and interpret the characters Sonja, Adele and Maggie. This research argues that within the horror genre, viewers are presented with two classic characters, namely that of the monster (often male) and the victim (often female), each with their own set of characteristics and traits that set them apart. However, I postulate that in Wolwedans in die Skemer these characteristics and traits are often blurred into one character, giving rise to a monster-victim ambivalence. This study also investigates the connection that the characters Sonja, Adele and Maggie have in relation to werewolves and to the characters of the Little Girl and the Wolf from the Red Riding Hood tales. Jones (2012:140) proposes that the wolf is the projection of her own inner predator - this suggests that the Little Girl and the Wolf can be seen as one character, a combination of victim and predator. Red Riding Hood can possibly be interpreted as recognising her inner self as the Wolf or a werewolf. A werewolf is a person who has been transformed, by force of will and desire, from a human (victim) into a predatory and monstrous wolf-like state. When women are werewolves, the traditional coding of horror - monster as male, victim as female, no longer applies. The "female werewolves" of Wolwedans in die Skemer each become, in some way, Little Red Riding Hood, Wolf, and Woodcutter fused into one. By analysing the characters Sonja, Adele and Maggie through the lens of the monster and victim with regards to the concepts of ambivalence, horror, and miseen- scène, it becomes clear that the roles of the monster and the victim in Wolwedans in die Skemer dissolve into one body, creating an ambivalent fluctuation between the two. / MA (History of art), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

This dissertation explores how the concepts of ambivalence, horror, monsters and mise-en-scène can be used to interpret the ambivalent predator-monster/victim relationship of the characters Sonja Daneel, Adele and Maggie Joubert from the film Wolwedans in die Skemer (2012). In doing so, this dissertation investigates how Noël Carroll’s The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the Heart (1990) and Jeffery Cohen's Monster Theory (1996) can be used as a theoretical foundation to analyse and interpret the characters Sonja, Adele and Maggie. This research argues that within the horror genre, viewers are presented with two classic characters, namely that of the monster (often male) and the victim (often female), each with their own set of characteristics and traits that set them apart. However, I postulate that in Wolwedans in die Skemer these characteristics and traits are often blurred into one character, giving rise to a monster-victim ambivalence. This study also investigates the connection that the characters Sonja, Adele and Maggie have in relation to werewolves and to the characters of the Little Girl and the Wolf from the Red Riding Hood tales. Jones (2012:140) proposes that the wolf is the projection of her own inner predator - this suggests that the Little Girl and the Wolf can be seen as one character, a combination of victim and predator. Red Riding Hood can possibly be interpreted as recognising her inner self as the Wolf or a werewolf. A werewolf is a person who has been transformed, by force of will and desire, from a human (victim) into a predatory and monstrous wolf-like state. When women are werewolves, the traditional coding of horror - monster as male, victim as female, no longer applies. The "female werewolves" of Wolwedans in die Skemer each become, in some way, Little Red Riding Hood, Wolf, and Woodcutter fused into one. By analysing the characters Sonja, Adele and Maggie through the lens of the monster and victim with regards to the concepts of ambivalence, horror, and miseen- scène, it becomes clear that the roles of the monster and the victim in Wolwedans in die Skemer dissolve into one body, creating an ambivalent fluctuation between the two. / MA (History of art), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

There have been many studies of Victorian asylums and their inmates, but the Edwardian asylum, and child inmates, have been largely unrepresented. This thesis attempts to redress these imbalances and contribute to the history of mental deficiency by describing the innovations, developments, and practices within the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum (WRPLA) and its annexe, Stanley Hall. As part of the Poor Law system Stanley Hall took in idiot and imbecile boys as young as three years, where, as part of the response of alienists towards mentally deficient children, an attempt was made to educate them to a degree of self- sufficiency. In this way Stanley Hall was an institution that went beyond its perception as a custodial establishment and practised new approaches to care, at a time when these boys were defined within the Poor Law under the universal category of 'lunatic'. This study focuses on the role of William Bevan Lewis, the Medical Superintendent of the WRPLA (1884-1910), and the 163 idiot and imbecile boys admitted to Stanley Hall between 1901 and 1910. Consideration is given to the early dissemination of knowledge from this asylum and its influence through the teaching and training of medical students and asylum medical officers. The function and operation of Stanley Hall and the 'experiences' of the inmates is explored through institutional records and the evidence of Bevan Lewis to the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded (1905-1908). Stanley Hall pre-dated other mental deficiency colonies and anticipated the conclusions of the Royal Commission which recommended specialised care for mentally deficient children. Issues of care for this group were intensely debated during the Edwardian period leading to the Mental Deficiency Act (1913) that defined this group and influenced their care for almost another fifty years. The records of Stanley Hall demonstrate the individuality of the boys, and allow the analysis of the involvement of their families in the committal of their children. The subsequent involvement (or lack thereof) in the care of their children is also examined. The ultimate fates of the boys are considered, and an attempt made to bring the regime at Stanley Hall 'back to life'.