W. H. Auden represents an important example of a twentieth-century poet who has developed his style and technique under the influence of traditional and modernistic ideas. Though Auden's poetic stance is a modern one, he is an interesting example of a contemporary writer whose fascination for Romanticism is reflected in his work. This thesis looks at the influence of Romanticism and Modernism in his short poetry.

Master of Arts / Department of Communication Studies, Theatre & Dance / LeAnn Brazeal / President George W. Bush's September 20, 2001 televised address to a Joint Session of Congress stands in history as his Administration's first deliberate official rhetorical response to the events of 9/11 and the first instance of the "Bush Doctrine." Although 9/11 has become an increasing topic of scholarly review and this speech is the first presidential policy response, few have explored Bush's choice of metaphors in this speech. Metaphors are a powerful tool of rhetoric, especially in political rhetoric, because metaphors are uniquely adept at simplifying complex topics, and a study of metaphor can reveal a speaker's underlying worldview and beliefs. Through metaphorical analysis, this study identifies nine clusters of metaphor in Bush's September 20, 2001 address: FORCE/WAR, BODY, FEAR, LIGHT/DARK, NEAR/FAR, UNITY, FAITH/FATE, GOOD/EVIL and SAVAGE. This study contrasts metaphor clusters to "prophetic dualism," a worldview that defines foreign policy within the context of a specific set of moral beliefs, and concludes that the artifact meets all tenets of prophetic dualism as well as the core characteristics of presidential crisis rhetoric and civil religion (although the artifact does not meet all characteristics of presidential war rhetoric). The study closes with a discussion of practical, rhetorical and methodological implications that may be useful to scholars of rhetoric and political science, including suggestions for future research of prophetic dualism and presidential war rhetoric.

Master of Science / Department of Geology / Saugata Datta / Tungsten (W) has become an element of greater concern in recent years. Investigations by the Centers for Disease Control implicated W as a possible link to several cases of childhood acute lymphatic leukemia (ALL) clusters in the western United States. In Fallon NV, 17 cases of ALL were reported from 1997-2001. Previously, it was difficult to attain knowledge about the geochemical behavior of W due to low concentrations and difficulties in detection in natural environments. Modern analytical techniques allow for a greater range of sensitivity, allowing for in depth W analysis. Elucidating information on the factors contributing to the fate and transport of W in low temperature environments will provide insight into how W moves through the environment and provide information to help mitigate W contamination in the future. Three sites were chosen for comparison of W concentration and how that may be linked to local geochemical factors. Fallon NV, Sierra Vista AZ, and Cheyenne Bottoms Refuge KS were chosen based on published literature and personal communications. The objectives for this study were to characterize W concentrations in these three climatologically distinct areas followed by using methods to speciate and semi-quantitatively characterize W phase association within the surficial sediments and using synchrotron X-Ray methods to define W valencies and elemental associations within the sediments. Tungsten occurs in varying concentrations in the study areas, from 17.8 mg/kg to ~25,907 mg/kg. Fallon has the highest average W concentration of the three sites as well as the highest amount of W associated with phases other than the organic matter or residual phase. Speciation of soluble W revealed no polytungstates, however tungstates are present in the samples as well as undefined W species, suggesting there are other forms of W that are readily soluble in water, hence bioavailable. Tungsten has a very heterogeneous distribution in sediments, creating dispersed but highly concentrated clumps of W hotspots. Spot analyses under X-Ray mapping reveal W may co-localize with other metals such as Ti, Co, and Zn.

Une recherche du boson de Higgs est effectuée dans le canal WW → lνlν en utilisant l’ensemble des données de 2011 à une énergie dans le centre de masse de √s = 7 TeV et une partie des données de 2012 à 8 TeV prises par l’expérience ATLAS auprès du LHC. Les luminosités intégrées correspondantes sont 4.7 fb−1 et 5.8 fb−1, respectivement. L’analyse est effectuée avec des coupures. Plusieurs méthodes sont introduites pour estimer à partir des données la contribution de bruits de fond des différents processus afin de minimiser l’utilisation de simulation. Pour la contribution du bruit de fond top dans le canal dominant avec zéro jet, elle est estimée avec une méthode que nous avons proposée. Une autre méthode pour corriger la forme de la distribution de l’énergie transverse manquante dans les événements Drell-Yan à partir des événements W +jets est également présentée. En 2011, le boson de Higgs du modèle standard avec la masse du Higgs de 133 à 261 GeV est exclue à 95% de niveau de confiance, tandis que la plage d’exclusion prévue est de 127 à 234 GeV. En 2012, un excès d’événements au-dessus du bruit de fond attendu est observé dans une plage de masse autour de 125GeV. En combinant les deux échantillons, la probabilité minimale (“p-value”) pour que l’hypothèse bruit de fond seul fournisse autant ou plus d’événements qu’observé dans les données est de 3 × 10−3, ce qui correspond à une signifiance statistique de 2,8 écarts types. Le taux de production mesuré du signal par rapport au taux prédit pour le boson de Higgs du modèle standard à mH = 125GeV est de 1,4 ± 0,5. La probabilité attendue pour un Higgs avec mH = 125GeV est de 0,01, soit de 2,3 écarts types. La limite d’exclusion d’un Higgs dans un modèle avec une quatrième génération est également présentée en utilisant une partie de l’échantillon de données 2011, la gamme de masse entre 120 GeV et 600 GeV a été exclue à 95% de niveau de confiance. Enfin, l’étude sur le temps de dérive dans le calorimètre à argon liquide du détecteur ATLAS est effectuée en utilisant tous les échantillons de données du rayonnement cosmique, du faisceau splash et de collision. Les résultats ne montrent aucune non-uniformité significative sur la largeur de l’espace cellulaire mis à part un effet de “sagging” dans les régions de transition dû au poids du calorimètre. / A Higgs search is performed in the WW → lνlν channel using the full 2011 data at a center-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV and part of 2012 data at 8 TeV taken by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The corresponding integrated luminosity values are 4.7fb−1 and 5.8fb−1, respectively. The cut based analysis is performed and several data-driven methods for background estimation are introduced. The jet veto survival probability method for top background estimation in 0-jet bin is proposed and used in the Higgs search. Another data-driven method to correct the shape of the missing transverse energy distribution in the Drell-Yan process is also presented. In 2011, the standard model Higgs boson with the Higgs mass from 133 to 261 GeV is excluded at 95% CL, while the expected exclusion range is 127 − 234 GeV. In 2012, an excess of events over expected background is observed at mH = 125GeV. Combining the both samples, the minimum observed p0 value is 3 × 10−3, corresponding to 2.8 standard deviations. The fitted signal strength at mH = 125 GeV is μ = 1.4 ± 0.5. The expected p0 for a Higgs with mH = 125 GeV is 0.01, or 2.3 standard deviations. The exclusion limit for a Higgs in a fourth generation model is shown using part of the 2011 data sample, the mass range between 120GeV and 600GeV has been excluded at 95%CL. The study on the drift time in the liquid argon calorimeter in ALTAS is performed using all special data samples from cosmic muon, beam splash and beam collision data. The results show no significant non-uniformity on the cell gap width and a sagging effect due to gravity is observed.

Ein fundamentaler Baustein des Standardmodels, des heute am weitesten akzeptierten Models der Elementarteilchenphysik, ist die Selbstkopplung der elektroschwachen Eichbosonen gamma, Z und W. Waehrend andere Vorhersagen des Standardmodels mit hoher Praezision getestet wurden, ist ueber die Staerke der Selbstkopplung der Bosonen wenig bekannt. Erste indirekte Hinweise ueber solche Kopplungen wurden aus praezisen Messungen der Fermionpaarproduktion auf dem Z-Pol gewonnen. Diese Messungen sind sensitiv auf Strahlungskorrekturen. In dieser Analyse werden zum ersten Mal alle verfuegbaren elektroschwachen Praezisionsdaten, die unter anderen bei LEP 1, am SLAC und am TEVATRON gewonnen wurden, benutzt, um in einer globalen Anpassung die Kopplungsstaerken der elektroschwachen Eichbosonen zu ermitteln. Praezise direkte Messungen der Kopplungsstaerke wurden durch die Erhoehung der Schwerpunktsenergie am LEP-Beschleuniger im Jahre 1996 moeglich, die die Paarproduktion von W-Bosonen, e+e- -> W+W-, erlaubte. Zusaetzlich zu diesem Kanal wurde auch noch die Kopplungsabhaengigkeit des Wirkungsquerschnitts der einfach-resonanten W-Produktion, e+e- -> W e nu, und der Photonproduktion, e+e- -> nu nu gamma, benutzt, um die Selbstkopplung der Bosonen zu bestimmen. Zur Analyse wurden Daten, die einer Gesamtluminositaet von 77 pb^-1 entsprechen und bei Schwerpunktsenergien von 161, 172 und 183 GeV in den Jahren 1996 und 1997 mit dem L3 Detektor aufgezeichnet wurden, benutzt. Die Vorhersagen des Standardmodels sind in guter Uebereinstimmung mit allen Messungen. Insbesondere mit der Messung von g_1^Z konnte zum ersten Mal die Existenz des ZWW Vertex experimentell nachgewiesen werden. Zusaetzlich fordert das Standardmodel die Erhaltung der C- und P-Paritaet am ZWW Vertex. Diese Vorhersage wurde durch die Messung getestet und es wurde gute Uebereinstimmung mit der Standardmodelvorhersage gefunden. Die Messung der Kopplungsstaerken in drei unterschiedlichen Kanaelen entspricht der Messung in unterschiedliche Regionen von Impulsuebertraegen. Die Messungen zeigen keine Abhaengigkeit, so dass sowohl das magnetische Dipolmoment als auch das elektrische Quadrupolmoment des W-Bosons aus den Kopplungen hervorgehen. Diese statischen Eigenschaften des W-Bosons geben Informationen ueber dessen Groesse und geometrische Struktur. So folgt aus der Messung das der Radius der W-Bosons kleiner als 10^-18 m ist. Zusaetzlich zu diesen Informationen ueber das W-Boson, konnte der Parameterbereich einer Erweiterung der Standardmodels durch ein sequentielles Z'-Boson eingeschraenkt werden. Ein Model von Klein das die Vereinigung von Kraeften und Materie beschreibt wurde mit 10 Standardabweichungen ausgeschlossen. Zusammenfassung als PostScript-Datei / The couplings between the bosons of the electroweak interaction, gamma, Z and W, is one of the fundamental building blocks of the Standard Model, which was not yet tested with high precision. Indirect hints for the existence of boson self-coupling have been obtained by analysing Z pole data with respect to radiative corrections. This analysis uses for the first time all available electroweak precision data obtained at LEP 1, SLC, TEVATRON and at low energy experiments. The coupling strength between the electroweak gauge bosons is obtained by a global fit to all these data. A precise direct measurement of triple gauge boson couplings became possible in 1996 at LEP 2, where W bosons could be produced in pairs, e+e- -> W+W-. In addition single-resonant W production, e+e- -> W e nu, and single photon production, e+e- -> nu nu gamma, are evaluated with respect to boson self-couplings. In total a luminosity of 77 pb^-1 was collected with the L3 detector at 161, 172 and 183 GeV centre-of-mass energy in the years 1996 and 1997. The Standard Model expectations show good agreement with this measurement. The measurement is the first proof of the existence of a ZWW vertex. The LEP 2 data were further used to limit violation of parity and C-parity at the ZWW vertex. The results of the measurement for the three different channels, corresponding to three different regions of momentum transfer showed no dependence. Thus the magnetic dipole moment and electric quadrupole moment are derived. These two static properties of the W give information on the size and the geometrical form of the W, such that the W radius could be limited to 10^-18 m. In addition the coupling constants were used to limit the phase space of the extension of the Standard Model with a sequential Z' boson in terms of mixing angle and Z' mass. The unified matter theory by Klein is ruled out with more than ten standard deviations. abstract in PostScript

Os carrapatos são artrópodes hematófagos, vetores de doenças. Vacinas são uma alternativa para o seu controle, já que esses parasitas durante a infestação, estimulam as respostas imunes do hospedeiro, as quais são implicadas em sua rejeição. As glândulas salivares do parasita são importantes para permitir a alimentação e para mediar os mecanismos de escape às defesas do hospedeiro. Diversas evidências indicam que ocorre reatividade cruzada entre espécies de carrapatos e que reações de hipersensibilidade cutânea tardia (DTH) são correlacionadas com resistência ao carrapato. A possibilidade de vacinar cachorros que são parasitados pelo R. sanguineus com antígenos do carrapato do boi, o R microplus, foi investigada por meio da análise in silico de 45 GIs de R microplus clonados em vetor plasmidial (TOPO VR2001), dentre os quais 14 Gls de R microplus se revelaram mais similares a sequências do R sanguineus, e foram empregados para avaliar: 1) A capacidade em elicitar reações cutâneas tardias em cobaias imunes a carrapatos por meio de infestações prévias com R sanguineus. 2) A capacidade de vacinas contendo GIs individuais em afetar infestações de camundongos com adultos de R sanguineus. 3) a capacidade do GI induzir anticorpos específicos após vacinação em camundongos. Dos 14 GIs testados, apenas dois não induziram reações cutâneas, quatro não afetaram nenhum parâmetro parasitológico da infestação, e três não induziram a produção de anticorpos nesses animais. Dentre os GIs, sete foram escolhidos para compor uma vacina multigênica contra o carrapato do cão R sanguineus. A vacina foi capaz de induzir resistência á infestação por R sanguineus em camundongos e em cachorros vacinados evidenciadoa pela diminuição do número de fêmeas que conseguiram colocar ovos, do peso médio da massa de ovos produzidos por essas fêmeas, do índice reprodutivo dessas fêmeas, e da taxa de eclosão das larvas, demonstrando que GIs de R microplus podem ser alvos para formulação de uma vacina contra o carrapato R sanguineus. / Ticks are arthropod vectors of disease. Vaccines are an alternative to chemicals for controlling ticks because during infestations these parasites stimulate host immune responses such as delayed hypersensitivity skin reactions (DTH), which are involved in their rejection and are correlated with resistance to ticks. Tick salivary glands are important for the parasite to acquire blood meals because their products mediate escape mechanisms from host defenses. The possibility of vaccinating dogs against infestations with the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus, with antigens derived from salivary glands of the cattle tick, R. microplus, was investigated by in silica analysis of 45 genes from R. microplus. These genes were targeted because of their putative biological function and had been cloned into the plasmid vector TOPO VR2001. Of them, 14 were chosen to be evaluated in a vaccine because their sequences were the most similar to several genes expressed in salivary glands of R. sanguineus. The plasmids containing the genes of interest (GIs) were used to assess: 1) The ability of the product of the genes to elicit delayed skin reactions in guinea pigs immune to ticks by previous infestations with R sanguineus. 2) The ability of individual GIs delivered as DNA vaccines to affect infestations of mice with adult R sanguineus. 3) The ability of the genes to induce specific antibodies after vaccination in mice. Only two of the 14 genes delivered to guinea pigs via intradermal injection of DNA did not elicit delayed skin reaction, four used in a vaccine did not affect any parameter of tick infestations, and three did not induce production of antibodies in these animals after DNA vaccination. Of the 14 genes, seven were chosen to formulate a multigene vaccine against the dog tick R. sanguineus. The vaccine was able to significantly affect several parameters of infestations by R sanguineus in vaccinated dogs and mice. This was reflected in the reduction of the number of females that were able to lay eggs, of the average weight of the egg mass produced by these females, of the reproductive rate of these females, and of hatching rate of larvae, demonstrating that GIs from R microplus may be targets for development of a vaccine against the tick R sanguineus.

Os W-operadores são operadores invariantes por translação e localmente definidos dentro de uma janela W. Devido a sua grande utilidade em análise de imagens, estes operadores foram extensamente pesquisados, sendo que uma abordagem para o seu estudo é a partir da Morfologia Matemática. Uma propriedade interessante de W-operadores é que eles possuem uma sup-decomposição, ou seja, um W-operador pode ser decomposto em termos de uma família de operadores sup-geradores que, por sua vez, são parametrizados por elementos da base desse $W$-operador. No entanto, a sup-decomposição tem uma estrutura intrinsecamente paralela que não permite uma implementação eficiente em máquinas de processamento sequencial. Em um trabalho publicado em 2001, Hashimoto e Barrera formalizaram o problema de transformar a sup-decomposição em decomposições puramente sequenciais como um problema de encontrar soluções discretas de uma equação. Neste texto, estendemos o trabalho desenvolvido por eles. Estudamos e exploramos as propriedades matemáticas do problema, e desenvolvemos estratégias heurísticas para encontrar uma decomposição sequencial de um $W$-operador a partir de sua base que seja eficiente ao ser executado. / W-operators are defined as operators which are translation invariant and locally defined within a finite window W. Due to their great contribution to image processing, these operators have been widely researched and used, specially in Mathematical Morphology. An interesting property of W-operators is that they have a sup-decomposition in terms of a family of sup-generating operators, that are parameterized by their basis. However, the sup-decomposition has a parallel structure that is not efficient in sequential machines. In a paper published in 2001, Hashimoto and Barrera formalized the problem of transforming sup-decompositions into purely sequential decompositions as a problem of finding discrete solutions of an equation. In this work, we extend Hashimoto and Barrera\'s approach. We study and explore mathematical properties of this problem and we elaborate heuristic strategies to find a sequential decomposition of a $W$-operator from its basis that can be executed efficiently.

容保衡. / 複印手稿本. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學硏究院哲學部. / Fu yin shou gao ben. / Includes bibliographical references. / Rong Baoheng. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan zhe xue bu. / 序言 --- p.i-iii / Chapter 第一章： --- 導論 --- p.1-9 / Chapter 第二章： --- 意義與命題 --- p.10-35 / Chapter 第三章： --- 邏輯文法 --- p.36-71 / Chapter 第四章： --- 邏輯真理 --- p.72-103 / Chapter 第五章： --- 從標準邏輯到異制邏輯 --- p.134-147 / Chapter 第六章： --- 結論´ؤ評瑰英對約定主義者的批評 --- p.148-174 / 註釋 --- p.175-191 / 書目選錄

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