Wladimir Vogel's (1896-1984) interest in twelve-tone composition began to develop in 1936 after hearing a series of lectures by Willi Reich, a music critic and supporter of the new music of the Second Viennese School. The transition for Vogel from a large-scale orchestral “classical” style, influenced by his study with Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin in the early 1920s, to a new technique involving dodecaphony is apparent in his instrumental writing, the third and fourth movements of the Konzert für Violine und Orchester (1937), as well as in his vocal writing, the Madrigaux for mixed a cappella choir (1938/39). Vogel's twelve-tone works exhibit tertian structures which are particularly emphasized by triads located as consecutive pitches within the rows. Emphasis on tertian structures are not limited to small-scale segmentation of the rows but can also be seen in the structural and tonal organization of complete movements and works. A primary example is the Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester (Cello Concerto) (1955) in which, on a smaller scale, the presentation of the row emphasizes both diminished and minor triads, and at the macro level, the structural triadic relationships unify passages within individual movements as well as the concerto as a whole. Since the work is composed using the twelve-tone method, consideration is given to the structure of the serial components. In addition, the concerto is analyzed in terms of its cognitive features-those elements that are demonstrably related to traditional practice- such as tertian melodic/harmonic outlines reinforced by rhythmic features that are common to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century practice. The compositional features evident from the serial structure of the work are addressed in conjunction with references to traditional practice made evident through the serial technique. The findings in the analysis of the Cello Concerto support the argument that the inclusion of consonant sonorities and tertian structures in Vogel's works results in a certain degree of tonal coherence while the large-scale compositional framework is dodecaphonic.

Psychological traumas surface in Paula Vogel’s portrayal of Li’l Bit and Uncle Peck in How I Learned to Drive (1997). Theorizing Peck’s fixation on Li’l Bit is necessitated by his drive to recapture his innocence—an innocence he lost as a young man during WWII—this thesis will seek to explain how Drive can be viewed as a love story by revealing the motivations behind Li’l Bit’s sympathy for Uncle Peck. Recognizing war trauma as the fundamental catalyst for both the action and the tone of the play situates Drive in a territory not yet explored. Furthermore, this thesis will explore the dubious relationship between war-traumatized veterans and pedophilic tendencies by examining this theme in other literature, particularly, J.D. Salinger’s “For Esmé—with Love and Squalor” (1950) and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955), thus, placing Drive at the nexus in which American drama and war literature coalesce.

Studies exploring the first wave of digital performance foregrounded technology by cataloging experimentation and novel interactions between liveness, projections and code. As exercises in medium, these high tech spectacles demonstrate the aesthetic potential of digital media while introducing key media concepts. Jennifer Haley is a writer with one foot in theatre and one in code. She is uniquely positioned in two interdependent spheres, which makes her particularly suited to engineer a theatrical bridge into the virtual, because at the heart of the contemporary technological revolution is a new level of writing and media literacy. Theatre has been effectively accessing the virtual imagination for millennia, and new technologies create new intricacies for engaging the virtual within theatrical space. Each is a medium defined by action, which host other media, and provide in depth simulations. Haley’s plays push beyond the fascination and spectacle of technology to incorporate the mundane reality of the digital into the structure of her work. Haley writes plays specifically to resonate with the similarities she sees between theatre and virtual worlds. Utilizing techniques and tropes from other media and then framing the narrative from within a theatrical world Haley exploits the essence of an active, critical audience and opens a dialog between virtual worlds and the perceptions of the audience. She treats her media generated worlds as places. Other digital theatre plays may peer through a window into the virtual by dramatizing a conversation through media; Haley sends an expedition over the threshold into another world. A flesh version of an avatar breathing before the audience establishes a material existence unattainable in two dimensional screen media. Haley illuminates the constructed nature of mediatized communication, but she does it dramaturgically deemphasizing the technology and re-centering the human within the virtual drama. Her approach builds a metaphorical bridge between theatre and virtual digital realities. Through a close reading of Haley’s plays I will demonstrate how Haley takes the artistic next step for computer technology and theatre.

Ziel dieser Studie war es, die Verträglichkeit sowie die Pharmakokinetik des Angiotensin-Converting-Enzyme-Hemmers Enalapril nach oraler Applikation bei Brieftauben zu untersuchen. Hierdurch sollte eine effektive und sichere Dosierung für den Einsatz bei Vögeln am Beispiel der Taube bestimmt werden. Im ersten Teil der Studie wurde zur Überprüfung der Verträglichkeit drei Gruppen mit je acht Tauben über 21 Tage Enalapril in einer Dosierung von 5 mg/kg Körpermasse (KM), 10 mg/kg KM beziehungsweise ein Placebo in jeweils identischer Flüssigkeitsmenge in den Kropf appliziert. Während der Versuchsdauer wurden der Gesundheitsstatus sowie die Wasser- und Futteraufnahme regelmäßig kontrolliert und es wurden klinische, hämatologische, blutchemische und elektrokardiographische Kontrolluntersuchungen durchgeführt. Zwischen den Gruppen ergab sich an wenigen Tagen ein signifikanter Unterschied in der Wasseraufnahme. An zwei Untersuchungstagen waren die Kaliumwerte in allen Gruppen signifikant gegenüber den anderen Untersuchungstagen erhöht. Beide Veränderungen konnten aber nicht mit der Applikation bzw. der Dosierung von Enalapril in Zusammenhang gebracht werden. Weitere signifikante Unterschiede zwischen den Gruppen wurden zu keinem Zeitpunkt und bei keiner Untersuchung festgestellt. Die Ergebnisse dieser Studie belegen die gute Verträglichkeit von Enalapril nach oraler Verabreichung auch in höheren Dosierungen und über einen längeren Zeitraum. Der zweite Teil der Studie diente der Festlegung einer geeigneten Dosierung von Enalapril bei Vögeln. Hierzu wurde zunächst 12 Tauben eine Dosis von je 2,5 mg/kg KM Enalapril in den Kropf appliziert und es wurden nach 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24 und 36 Stunden Blutproben entnommen. Mittels High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) wurde eine Verlaufskurve zur Enalaprilat-Konzentration im Blutplasma erstellt. Die maximale Konzentration (Cmax) wurde hierbei bereits bei der ersten Blutentnahme gemessen und erwies sich mit im Mittelwert 388,2 ±174,1 ng/ml als im Vergleich zu Werten beim Säuger sehr hoch. Im Anschluss wurde 12 Tauben eine Dosis von je 1,25 mg/kg KM Enalapril in den Kropf appliziert und es wurden Blutproben nach ½, 1, 1½, 2, 4, 6 und 8 Stunden entnommen. Der mittlere Cmax-Wert lag bei 116,1± 70,2 ng/ml und stellte sich ebenfalls bei der ersten Blutentnahme ein. Die Halbwertszeit lag im Mittel bei 2,68 Stunden, die Area under the Curve (AUC0-8) betrug 396,25 ng*h/ml. Bei beiden Versuchen lag die Wirkstoffkonzentration nach 8 Stunden unter 15 ng/ml. Die nach Applikation von 1,25 mg/kg Enalapril berechnete AUC entspricht weitgehend der für Hunde nach oraler Applikation von 0,5 mg/kg Enalapril angegebenen AUC. Dieser Parameter wie auch die kurze Halbwertszeit und die bereits bei den ersten Messungen erreichte Maximalkonzentration belegen die rasche Absorption, Metabolisierung und Elimination des Wirkstoffes und rechtfertigen die Empfehlung einer Dosierung von 1,25 mg/kg KM Enalapril zweimal täglich.

vii, 130 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel, playwright and educator, has blazed a trail in American theatre, opening new avenues for female playwrights. In 2005 Vogel's student Sarah Ruhl burst onto the scene with her play The Clean House. As one of the most produced playwrights of 2005, Ruhl has been celebrated as the new voice of American theatre. There are similarities, as might be expected between teacher and former student, but some of the similarities suggest something more: a dynamic shared between Vogel's and Ruhl's plays which suggests an ongoing theatrical conversation and may suggest directions for future American drama. / Committee in Charge: Dr. John Schmor, Chair; Dr. Jennifer Schlueter

Cette thèse retrace les parcours croisés de deux éditeurs de presse : Lucien Vogel (1886-1954) et de Michel de Brunhoff (1892-1958). Après La Gazette du bon ton en 1912, les deux beaux-frères lancent Vogue français et le Jardin des modes en 1920. Ces revues, qui accordent une place majeure à l'illustration, contribuent à moderniser radicalement la presse féminine. Le parcours éditorial de Vogel et de Brunhoff, centré autour de la presse féminine. La presse d'art (Feuillets d'Art, Arts et métiers graphiques) et la mode, est semblable jusqu'à la fin des années 1920 avant de diverger en 1928 lorsque Vogel fonde le magazine photographique Vu. À partir de cette période, alors que Brunhoff reste attaché à la réalisation de magazines de mode, Vogel s'engage sur la voie de la politique, défendant avec Le Petit Journal, Marianne et Messidor, des idées de gauche et un antifascisme prononcé. Afin d'appréhender l'itinéraire général de Lucien Vogel et de Michel de Brunhoff tout en en saisissant les singularités - leur rôle dans le renouvellement de la presse féminine, leur intérêt pour les questions techniques liées à l'illustration ainsi que les choix opérés par Vogel en 1930 -, c'est une étude chronologique et comparée que cette thèse a entreprise. En grande partie biographique, afin de mettre en lumière la personnalité et le parcours de Vogel et de Brunhoff de leurs débuts professionnels à leur fin de carrière, cette réflexion se veut aussi une contribution plus générale à l’histoire culturelle, à l'histoire de la presse illustrée, et celle de la presse féminine du début du XXe siècle dans laquelle ces éditeurs ont laissé l'image d'innovateurs de presse et d'éditeurs esthètes. / This thesis recounts the crossed career paths of two publishers : Lucien Vogel (1886-1954) and Michel de Brunhoff (1892-1958). After La Gazette du bon ton launched in 1912, the two brothers-in-law published French Vogue and Le Jardin des modes in 1920. These three journals, which give a major role to the illustration, contribute to radically modernize women's magazines. The editorial career of Vogel and de Brunhoff, centered around women's magazines, art press (Feuillets d'Art, Arts et métiers graphiques) and fashion is similar to the late 1920s before diverging in 1928 when Vogel founded the photography magazine Vu. From this period, while Brunhoff remains committed to achieving fashion magazines, Vogel is committed towards politics, defending with Le Petit Journal, Marianne and Messidor, leftist ideas and a pronounced anti-fascism. To understand the general career of Lucien Vogel and Michel de Brunhoff while understanding its singularities - their role in the renewal of women's magazines, their interest in technical issues related to the illustration and the choices made by Vogel in 1930 - this thesis study is based on a chronological and compared work. Largely biographical, to highlight the personality and career of Vogel and de Brunhoff from their profession al beginnings to the end of their career, this reflection has also to be taken as a more general contribution to cultural history, to illustrated press history, and to the history of women's magazines of beginning of the twentieth century in which both publishers have left an image of groundbreaking and aesthetes publishers.

This work provides a semi-analytical development of the pressure-mobility behavior of solution gas-drive reservoir systems producing below the bubble point pressure. Our primary result is the "characteristic" relation which relates normalized (or dimensionless) pressure and mobility functions. This formulation is proven with an exhaustive numerical simulation study consisting of over 900 different cases. We considered 9 different pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) sets, and 13 different relative permeability cases in the simulation study. We also utilized 7 different depletion scenarios. The secondary purpose of this work was to develop a correlation of the "characteristic parameter" as a function of rock and fluid properties evaluated at initial reservoir conditions such as: API density, GOR, formation volume factor, viscosity, reservoir pressure, reservoir temperature, oil saturation, relative permeability end points, corey exponents and oil mobility: We did successfully correlate the characteristic parameter as a function of these variables, which proves that we can uniquely represent the pressure-mobility path during depletion with specific reservoir and fluid property variables, taken as constant values for a particular case. The functional form of our correlation along with all relevant equations are shown on the body of this document.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007. / Title from file title page. Matthew C. Roudane, committee chair; Pearl McHaney, Nancy Chase, committee members. Electronic text (208 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Feb. 28, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-208).

Submitted by Marco Antônio de Ramos Chagas (mchagas@ufv.br) on 2017-05-26T12:51:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 1269993 bytes, checksum: 2a2dc30e87e86075d0d1b4557e2a2c50 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-26T12:51:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 1269993 bytes, checksum: 2a2dc30e87e86075d0d1b4557e2a2c50 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O aumento na [CO 2 ] na atmosfera proveniente das mudanças climáticas pode gerar alterações na composição de comunidades e na estrutura e funcionamento de ecossistemas. Devido ao impacto das invasões biológicas no Cerrado, comparações envolvendo características funcionais de espécies exóticas e nativas contribuem para melhor compreensão das relações competitivas entre essas espécies. Nesse contexto, o presente trabalho objetivou avaliar as respostas morfológicas, fisiológicas e de crescimento de duas espécies ocorrentes no Cerrado, uma herbácea leguminosa nativa C 3 (Stylosantes capitata Vogel.) e uma herbácea invasora C 4 (Melinis minutiflora P. Beauv.). O experimento foi conduzido em CTA localizadas na UFV, Campus Florestal. As plantas das duas espécies cresceram sozinhas e em competição, em condições de baixa (350 ppm) e elevada [CO 2 ] (1000 ppm) por um período de 270 dias. Análises de trocas gasosas, fluorescência da clorofila a, crescimento e produção de biomassa foram realizadas quando as plantas apresentavam 210, 270, 330 e 390 dias de idade. Stylosanthes capitata e M. minutiflora apresentaram maior A máx em elevada [CO 2 ] no inverno, demonstrando que a elevação da [CO 2 ] estimula a fotossíntese dos dois grupos funcionais mesmo em condições de baixa temperatura. Stylosanthes capitata não apresentou diminuição da capacidade fotoquímica ao contrário de M. minutiflora, que apresentou redução ao longo do tempo de F v /F m e NPQ. Melinis minutiflora manteve o padrão de crescimento ao longo do tempo. Porém, S. capitata crescendo sozinha e em baixa [CO 2 ], investiu na produção de folhas, aumentando sua capacidade de captação de luz. A maior alocação de biomassa para raiz (MSR) em condições de elevada [CO 2 ] favoreceu S. capitata na competição por recursos com M. minutiflora. Melinis minutiflora apresentou maior produção de biomassa quando cresceu sozinha, o que mostra que a competição com S. capitata prejudicou a produção de MSC, MSF e MST. Embora, as espécies invasoras C 4 sejam inicialmente melhores na colonização das áreas invadidas, as espécies nativas C 3 de Cerrado podem realizar ajustes morfofisiológicos, quando crescendo em alta [CO 2 ] e desenvolver estratégias que lhes conferem vantagens na competição por recursos. / The increase in [CO 2 ] in the atmosphere from climate change can lead to changes in the composition of communities and the structure and functioning of ecosystems. Due to the impact of biological invasions in the Cerrado, comparisons involving functional characteristics of exotic and native species contribute to a better understanding of the competitive relationships between these species. In this context, the objective of this work was to evaluate the morphological, physiological and growth responses of two species from Cerrado, a native herbaceous C 3 (Stylosantes capitata Vogel.) and an invasive herbaceous C 4 (Melinis minutiflora P. Beauv.). The experiment was conducted in CTA located at UFV, Campus Florestal. Plants of both species grown alone and in competition, under low (350 ppm) and high [CO 2 ] (1000 ppm) for a period of 270 days. Analysis of gas exchange, chlorophyll a fluorescence, growth and biomass production were performed when plants were 210, 270, 330 and 390 days old. Stylosanthes capitata and M. minutiflora showed higher A máx in high [CO 2 ] in winter, demonstrating that the elevation of [CO 2 ] stimulates the photosynthesis of the two functional groups even under low temperature conditions. S. capitata showed no decrease in photochemical capacity, unlike M. minutiflora, which showed a reduction over time of F v /F m and NPQ. Melinis minutiflora maintained the pattern of growth over time. However, S. capitata growing alone and in low [CO 2 ], invested in the production of leaves, increasing its capacity of capture of light. The high allocation of biomass to root (MSR) under conditions of high [CO 2 ] favored S. capitata in the competition for resources with M. minutiflora. Melinis minutiflora presented higher biomass production when grown alone than in competition, which shows that competition with S. capitata impaired production of MSC, MSF and MST. Although C 4 alien species are initially better at colonization of invaded areas, native Cerrado C 3 species may adjust morphophysiological traits when growing at high [CO 2 ] and develop strategies that confer advantages on resource competition.

The thesis deals with the wear of rails in small radius curves and the possible influence of RailJet sets on the increase of wear in the section Brno-Maloměřice – Blansko. As part of the thesis, a search was made of the methods used to evaluate the use of rails. These methods are Vogel's method, Heumann's method and rail wear theory. Subsequently, these methods were applied to the selected sections and an overall evaluation was performed.