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Trance-scripts : the poetics of a reflexive guide to hypnosis and trance talkMacMillan, Katie January 1996 (has links)
Trance-Scripts is an analysis of the social construction of hypnosis, looking at the way in which versions of hypnosis are constituted in various kinds of texts and talk. The analysis is reflexive, in that it highlights its own constructed nature, including how it textually constructs the textually constructed nature of hypnosis. Taking a relativist and social constructionist perspective, hypnosis is revealed (or constructed) as a discursive and social practice, in how it is realized, conducted, reported, disputed, theorized, accounted for, debunked, and so on. The analysis examines a range of written materials on hypnosis, including historical, clinical, and social psychology textbooks, popular media, as well as transcriptions of hypnotic inductions. The thesis uses alternative literary forms (ALFs) as a way of highlighting the textual construction of its own, and others', claims to knowledge, and of creating, caricaturing, and analysing through parody, the thesis's topics. These topics include the connections between poetry, hypnosis, therapy and reflexivity proposed in the thesis, and also the standard uses of ALFs in reflexive work of this kind. Reflexive analysis is produced via a self conscious use of a metaphoric spiral, where analysis can take another turn upon a topic and offer another perspective. Thus, in a discussion on therapy, reflexivity becomes a therapeutic tool with which to confront and quieten the argument that reflexive analysis will result in an infinite regress. The presence of poetry in a social science thesis is intended to challenge conventional sociological and psychological analysis, in which poetry features (if at all) as some kind of social phenomenon, that folk called 'poets' produce, rather than being an appropriate and challenging analytic language, as it is used here. This abstract, given its contents, may be taking its work as a conventional abstract rather seriously. Time for the next turn.
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Grafický modul databázového projektování / Graphic Module of Database DesignKolář, Michal January 2016 (has links)
Within the master’s thesis a design of the graphic module of database design for generate grawing documentation was worked out.
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Cooperative MIMO techniques for outdoor optical wireless communication systems / Techniques MIMO coopératives pour les systèmes de communication optique sans fil en espace libreAbaza, Mohamed 01 December 2015 (has links)
Au cours de la dernière décennie, les communications optiques en espace libre (FSO) ont pris de l’ampleur dans les deux domaines académiques et industriels. L’importance de FSO s’appuie sur la possibilité de faire un système de transmission économique et écologique avec un débit élevé et sans licence à l’opposition des systèmes de transmission radiofréquences (RF). Dans la plupart des travaux antécédents sur les systèmes multi-émetteurs, seulement les canaux décorrélés ont été considérés. Un canal décorrélé nécessite un espace suffisant entre les émetteurs. Cette condition devient difficile et non-réalisable dans certaines applications. Pour cette raison, nos études se focalisent sur les performances des codes à répétition RC (Repitition Codes) et les codes OSTBC (Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes) dans des canaux log-normaux corrélés en utilisant une modulation d’intensité et une détection directe (IM/DD). En addition, les effets des différentes conditions météorologiques sur le taux d’erreur moyen (ABER) sont étudiés. Les systèmes FSO à multi-entrées/ multi-sorties MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) avec une modulation SSK (Space Shift Keying) ont été abordés. Les résultats obtenus montrent que la SSK est supérieure aux RC avec une modulation d’impulsion (Multiple Pulse Amplitude Modulation) pour toute efficacité spectrale égale ou supérieure à 4 bit/s/Hz. Nous avons aussi analysé les performances d’un système à sauts multiples (Multi-Hop) et des relais à transmission directe (forward relays). Nos simulations montrent que le système ainsi considéré est efficace pour atténuer les effets météorologiques et les pertes géométriques dans les systèmes de communication FSO. Nous avons montré qu’un tel système avec plusieurs entrées et une sortie (MISO, i.e. multiple-input single-output) à sauts multiples est supérieur à un système MISO avec un lien direct (direct link) avec une forte atténuation. Pour satisfaire la demande croissante des réseaux de communication à débits élevés, la communauté scientifique s'intéresse de plus en plus aux systèmes FSO avec des relais full-duplex (FD). Pour ces derniers systèmes, nous avons étudié la probabilité d'erreur moyenne (ABER) et nous avons analysé leurs performances. En considérant des différentes conditions de transmission, les performances de relais FD ont été comparées à celles d'un système avec un lien direct ou des relais half-duplex. Les résultats obtenus montrent que les relais FD ont le minimum ABER. En conséquence, les résultats obtenus dans cette thèse sont très prometteurs pour la prochaine génération de FSO. / Free-space optical (FSO) communication has been the subject of ongoing research activities and commercial attention in the past few years. Such attention is driven by the promise of high data rate, license-free operation, and cheap and ecological friendly means of communications alternative to congested radio frequency communications. In most previous work considering multiple transmitters, uncorrelated channel conditions have been considered. An uncorrelated channel requires sufficient spacing between transmitters. However, this can be difficult and may not be always feasible in some applications. Thereby, this thesis studies repetition codes (RCs) and orthogonal space-time block codes performance in correlated log-normal FSO channels using intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD). Furthermore, the effect of different weather conditions on the average bit error rate (ABER) performance of the FSO links is studied. Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) FSO communication systems using space shift keying (SSK) modulation have been also analyzed. Obtained results show that SSK is a potential technique for spectral efficiencies equal or greater than 4 bits/s/Hz as compared to RCs with multiple pulse amplitude modulations. The performance analysis of a multi-hop decode and forward relays for FSO communication system using IM/DD is also considered in this thesis. It is shown that multi-hop is an efficient technique to mitigate atmospheric turbulence and different weather attenuation effects and geometric losses in FSO communication systems. Our simulation results show that multiple-input single-output (MISO) multi-hop FSO systems are superior to direct link and MISO systems over links exhibiting high attenuation. Meeting the growing demand for higher data rates communication networks, a system with full-duplex (FD) relays is considered. For such a system, the outage probability and the ABER performance are analyzed under different turbulence conditions, misalignment error and path loss effects. FD relays are compared with the direct link and half-duplex relays. Obtained results show that FD relays have the lowest ABER and the outage probability as compared to the two other systems. Finally, the obtained results in this thesis are very promising towards the next generation of FSO systems.
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[en] ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT BRAZILIAN NAVY LOGISTIC STRUCTURE, RELATED THE SPARE PARTS, DUE THE CHALLENGES ARISING FROM THE INCORPORATION OF THE NEW SUBMARINES / [pt] ANÁLISE DA ATUAL ESTRUTURA LOGÍSTICA DA MARINHA DO BRASIL, RELACIONADA AOS SOBRESSALENTES, FRENTE AOS DESAFIOS DECORRENTES DA INCORPORAÇÃO DOS NOVOS SUBMARINOSMARCELO REIS BEZERRA 11 February 2016 (has links)
[pt] A Marinha do Brasil presta o seu apoio logístico em cenários, por vezes, inóspitos, a partir de uma rede logística que, na sua origem, formou-se com base em conceitos e necessidades operativas, podendo também conviver com ineficiências e acomodações pela falta de concorrentes. Em 2008, fruto de uma decisão política e estratégica, dentro do contexto das relações internacionais no qual o Brasil está inserido, iniciou-se o processo de aquisição de novos submarinos convencionais (S-BR) e o apoio à elaboração do projeto e construção de um submarino nuclear (SN-BR), que se constitui no mais complexo e significativo projeto conduzido pela Marinha nos últimos tempos. Não obstante a importância desse projeto, estaria a cadeia de suprimento de sobressalentes (CSS) da Marinha pronta para prestar o devido apoio logístico ao novo meio operativo? O atual desenho de rede da Marinha atende as necessidades deste apoio? Qual o atual estágio de desenvolvimento da CSS e como promover uma maior integração dessa rede, com vistas a um melhor gerenciamento? Em meio a poucos estudos sobre o assunto e uma significativa carência de informações, o presente trabalho apresenta respostas a essas e outras questões correlatas, que se mostram cada vez mais prementes, diante da previsão de início dos testes de mar do primeiro submarino já 2017. Indubitavelmente, a Marinha é reconhecida pela sua grande capacidade de organização e pelo comprometimento de seus profissionais, mas serão necessárias algumas ações a mais para vencer este enorme desafio logístico. / [en] The Brazilian Navy provides logistics support in areas, sometimes inhospitable, using a logistics network that, in its origin, was formed on the basis of military concepts and needs, and, sometimes coexisting with inefficiencies and without competitors. In 2008, the result of a political and strategic decision, in a context of international relations in which Brazil is inserted, began the process of acquiring new Brazilian hunter-killer Submarine (SSK) and the support for design and construction of the Brazilian Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarine (SSN), which constitutes the most complex and significant Navy project in recent times. Despite the importance of this project, the Navy spare parts supply chain (SSC) would able to provide the appropriate logistics support for the new submarines? The current Navy network design meets the needs of this support? What is the current development stage of SSC and how to upgrade the integration of this network for improve the SCM? Few studies about this subject exist and a significant lack of information, therefore, this presents answers to these and other related issues that are becoming increasingly pressing, given the early prediction of sea tests of the first SSK submarine in 2017. Undoubtedly, the Navy is known to be a great organizational due to her organizational skills and the commitment of its seamen, but this project will require a little more to overcome this huge logistical challenge.
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The Social Construction of Economic Man: The Genesis, Spread, Impact and Institutionalisation of Economic IdeasMackinnon, Lauchlan A. K. Unknown Date (has links)
The present thesis is concerned with the genesis, diffusion, impact and institutionalisation of economic ideas. Despite Keynes's oft-cited comments to the effect that 'the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood'(Keynes 1936: 383), and the highly visible impact of economic ideas (for example Keynesian economics, Monetarism, or economic ideas regarding deregulation and antitrust issues) on the economic system, economists have done little to systematically explore the spread and impact of economic ideas. In fact, with only a few notable exceptions, the majority of scholarly work concerning the spread and impact of economic ideas has been developed outside of the economics literature, for example in the political institutionalist literature in the social sciences. The present thesis addresses the current lack of attention to the spread and impact of economic ideas by economists by drawing on the political institutionalist, sociological, and psychology of creativity literatures to develop a framework in which the genesis, spread, impact and institutionalisation of economic ideas may be understood. To articulate the dissemination and impact of economic ideas within economics, I consider as a case study the evolution of economists' conception of the economic agent - "homo oeconomicus." I argue that the intellectual milieu or paradigm of economics is 'socially constructed' in a specific sense, namely: (i) economic ideas are created or modified by particular individuals; (ii) economic ideas are disseminated (iii) certain economic ideas are accepted by economists and (iv) economic ideas become institutionalised into the paradigm or milieu of economics. Economic ideas are, of course, disseminated not only within economics to fellow economists, but are also disseminated externally to economic policy makers and business leaders who can - and often do - take economic ideas into account when formulating policy and building economic institutions. Important economic institutions are thereby socially constructed, in the general sense proposed by Berger and Luckmann (1966). But how exactly do economic ideas enter into this process of social construction of economic institutions? Drawing from and building on structure/agency theory (e.g. Berger and Luckmann 1966; Bourdieu 1977; Bhaskar 1979/1998, 1989; Bourdieu 1990; Lawson 1997, 2003) in the wider social sciences, I provide a framework for understanding how economic ideas enter into the process of social construction of economic institutions. Finally, I take up a methodological question: if economic ideas are disseminated, and if economic ideas have a real and constitutive impact on the economic system being modelled, does 'economic science' then accurately and objectively model an independently existing economic reality, unchanged by economic theory, or does economic theory have an interdependent and 'reflexive' relationship with economic reality, as economic reality co-exists with, is shaped by, and also shapes economic theory? I argue the latter, and consider the implications for evaluating in what sense economic science is, in fact, a science in the classical sense. The thesis makes original contributions to understanding the genesis of economic ideas in the psychological creative work processes of economists; understanding the ontological location of economic ideas in the economic system; articulating the social construction of economic ideas; and highlighting the importance of the spread of economic ideas to economic practice and economic methodology.
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