This work is focused on the techniques for overcoming the problem of scale in the evolutionary design of the combinational multipliers. The approaches to the evolutionary design that work directly with the target solutions are not suitable for the design of the large-scale structures. An approach based on the biological principles of development has often been utilized as a non-trivial genotypephenotype mapping in the evolutionary algorithms that allows us to design scalable structures. The instruction-based developmental approach has been applied to the evolutionary design of generic circuit structures. In this work, three methods are presented for the construction of the combinational multipliers which use a ripple-carry adder for obtaining the final product.

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The West has long been an important geographic and symbolic space for the United States. In the 19th and 20th centuries that space became the subject of numerous popular works of fiction, first in print and later in the cinema. These texts eventually formed a specialized genre, the Western, which had its own conventions, styles, and themes. Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose and Fred Zinnemann's High Noon, both seminal western texts from the mid-twentieth century, seek to reinterpret those conventions. While the Western is often characterized as a genre of violent masculinity and rugged individualism, these two texts employ conventional Western motifs in an effort to articulate a metafictional criticism of those ideas. Ultimately, they posit a reality in which traditional portrayals of the West lead to alienation, while also advocating an escape from that alienation.

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At the turn of the 20th century two contemporaries in their respective fields teamed up to develop a solution to an acoustic problem with the hard-surfaced vaulted ceilings being installed in many large spanning rooms being built at the time. In the spirit of their ingenuity, this research explores a 21st century solution to a similar problem in contemporary buildings; the desire for a durable, hard surface wall or ceiling material treatment that is more sound absorbent than other common surface treatments. To find a material answer to this desire an impedance tube was used to analyze the mid-frequency octave band absorption coefficients of various re-purposed existing materials and tiles created utilizing 3D print technology and Helmholtz resonators. Additionally, an empirical study of Helmholtz resonator geometry was performed by analyzing the sound absorption of resonant cavity shape changes. Finally, plots of the absorption coefficients for each material tested were created to provide a visual comparison against two common surface treatment materials, tectum and gypsum wall board. / Master of Architecture

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Ce mémoire propose une analyse transversale de deux versions d’un même récit: le roman Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportionsde Daniel Wallace (1998) et le film Big Fishpar Tim Burton (2003). L’intrigue présente les dynamiques d’un rapport complexe entre un père et son fils. Leurs confrontations à propos des souvenirs d’Edward mènent les deux hommes à réaliser leur quête identitaire personnelle. Will découvre également l’importance de l’héritage familial lorsque, reprenant l’esprit de conteur de son père, il perpétue la tradition de passation des contes. Le film est la version cinématographiée du roman. Pourtant, Big Fishestà considérer comme une seule œuvre. La connaissance des deux versions offre au lecteur-spectateur une compréhension plus complète du récit. La transécriture permet de représenter le récit romanesque, son intrigue et ses thèmes majeurs, sur un support filmique. Notre étude considère la transécriture comme la représentation matérielle du thème de l’héritage développé dans le récit de Big Fish. À ce double processus de transmission s’ajoute l’enjeu du style artistique. Le roman comme le film appartiennent principalement au Southern Gothic. Les caractéristiques majeures du genre permettent une analyse de Big Fish, car les éléments gothiques utilisés sont porteurs de significations. De plus, le récit se place dans une continuité historique des genres littéraires et cinématographiques. De la figure du héros épique aux passions romantiques, en passant par l’adoration pastorale de la nature, Big Fishest construit grâce à des spécificités que divers styles artistiques ont légué à la postérité.La forme et le fond de l’œuvre sont donc liés, démontrant que la transmission est un processus inévitable. Edward et Will sont la représentation fictive d’un processus réel: la transmission du savoir et l’apprentissage par le passé en vue d’une amélioration de l’homme et de ses relations sociales. / This study proposes an inter-disciplinary analysis of two versions of thesame narrative: Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportionsnovel by Daniel Wallace (1998) and Big Fish movie by Tim Burton (2003).The plot concerns the dynamics of a complex relationship between a father and his son. Confrontations about Edward’s memories lead both men on a quest for their own identity. Will also discovers the importance of family legacy. By taking on his father’s propensity for storytelling, Will perpetuates the family tradition.The movie is a cinematographed version of the novel. However, Big Fishmust be seen as a work of art on its own. By knowing both versions, the reader-spectator has a better understanding of the central narrative. Invoking the transwriting process, the plot and major themes of the novel are translated into a new medium, a movie. In this study, transwriting is conceptualized as a concrete representation of the legacy developed throughout Big Fish.The double-transmission of narrative is linked to an aesthetic preoccupation rooted in the politics of oral storytelling. To this end, the novel and the movie borrow from the Southern Gothic genre. Analyzing its major characteristics allows for abetter understanding of Big Fish, for the gothic elements carry hidden meanings. The story is also a result of the historical continuity that interweaves literary and filmic genres. From the mythical hero figure and the intense romantic emotions to the nature-loving pastorals, Big Fishaccumulates intertexts that a wide variety of artistic styles have handed down to posterity.The story’s style and content are thus interlinked, which shows that transmission is an unavoidable process. Edward and Will are fictitious representations of narrative process in constant evolution and development: the passing down and inheritance of knowledge. People learn from the past so as to evolve and improve man and his social relationships.

This thesis is a narrative study that examines significant life experiences of six living artists that were pivotal in their decision to pursue careers in the arts. Although the examples found in these conversations are not exhaustive—many factors play into the individuals sense of identity and agency—they serve to give voice to the multiplicity of the learning experience, underscoring that creative education occurs in the home, the community, and among social groups as frequently as it does in the classroom. Through direct, open-ended conversations with artists, research explores the setting of upbringing and education, the pivotal experiences—catalysts—that propelled these individuals into art careers, and impact of their experience on both creative practice and notions of art learning. Interviews encompass artists whose work is located in public spaces, natural landscapes, and urban environments as often as it appears in the traditional exhibition settings, whose work is both collaborative and socially constructed. They comprise Rick Lowe, artist and founder of Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas whose community-centered social sculpture expands on our cultural assumptions about the artist and Anne Wallace, a public artist whose early work as a human right activist and bi-cultural experiences translate into videos about the complexities of the United States/Mexico border. It includes Vincent Valdez, a self-described “hyper-realist” who depicts his home city and composite life experiences of his family through allegorical paintings and drawings; Marie Lorenz, an artist explorer whose interest in urban waterways brings her work into the waters of forgotten canals and rivers; of Robert Pruitt, who critiques ever-changing political landscapes, conceptions of history, and globalism through hybrid drawings and sculptures; and Franco Mondini-Ruiz who fuses aesthetics of high and low in installations and creative economy widely accessible to people both within and outside the confines of the art world. Through narrative conversation, this thesis enriches overlapping theories that encompass our understandings of education and learning—mentorship, experiential learning, the aesthetic experience, place-based learning, communities of practice—through lived example, underscoring learning as a socially constructed phenomenon. Experiences of learning, unique and wholly individualized, contribute to a one’s sense of self and agency; in the case of the six artists featured in this study, creative experiences contribute to their identity as “artist” and motivated their pursuit of lifework and career. / text

Cette thèse se concentre sur ce que j'appelle «l’espace négatif» de la représentation dans la poésie de Stevens comme étant un véritable espace d'engagement politique, une interprétation qui se distingue de la plus grande partie de la critique sur Stevens. En suivant les écrits philosophiques d'Emmanuel Levinas, j'affirme que l'emphase que Stevens place sur la représentation de la représentation elle-même ouvre un espace au-delà des limites rigides de l'identité-ce que Levinas appelle « le je [sujet] semblable », permettant un contact authentique avec « l'Autre» ainsi qu’avec le concept de « l'infini ». Bien que Stevens s’est farouchement opposé à la notion Romantique de la sublime transcendance, c’est-à-dire d'un espace censé exister en dehors des limites de l'imagination humaine, il se concerne néanmoins avec l'exploration d'un espace au-delà de l'identité individuelle. Pour Stevens, cependant, « la transcendance» est toujours, nécessairement, liée par les restrictions reconnues du langage humain et de l'imagination, et donc par la réalité du monde perceptible. Toute « transcendance» qui est recherchée ou atteinte, dans la poésie de Stevens ne devrait donc pas - ma thèse affirme - être entendu dans le sens sublime déterminé auparavant par les Romantiques. Une connexion plus appropriée peut plutôt être faite avec la transcendance concrète et immédiate décrit par Lévinas comme le «face à face ». L’attention que Stevens accordent aux notions concrètes et immédiates est souvent exprimé à travers son attention sur les qualités esthétiques de la langue. Sa poésie a en effet la poésie pour sujet, mais pas dans le sens solipsiste qui lui est souvent attribué. En se concentrant sur le processus actif et créateur inhérent à l'écriture et à la lecture de la poésie, Stevens explore la nature de l'Etre lui-même. Je compare cette exploration dans le travail de Stevens à celle du dessinateur, ou de l'artiste, et dans ma conclusion, je suggère les liens entre l'approche d'enquête de Stevens et celle d’artistes visuels contemporains qui se sont également engagés à la figuration du processus créatif. L’ artiste sud-africain William Kentridge est mon exemple principal , en raison de sa conviction que la méthode est intrinsèquement liée à l'engagement politique et social. / This dissertation focuses on what I refer to as a “negative-space” of representation in the poetry of Wallace Stevens’s in order to explore what, contrary to the bulk of Stevens research to date, I understand to be a genuine politics of engagement. Drawing on the philosophical writings of Emmanuel Levinas, I argue that Stevens’s emphasis on the representation of representation itself opens up a space beyond the rigid limitations of identity—what Levinas refers to as the “I of the same”—allowing genuine contact with the concept of “the infinite,” or “the Other.” Though Stevens staunchly opposed himself to the Romantic notion of sublime transcendence—of a space purported to exist outside the limits of the human imagination—he nonetheless concerns himself with the exploration of just such a space “beyond” individual identity. For Stevens, however, “transcendence” is always, necessarily, bound by the acknowledged restrictions of human language and imagination and therefore by the reality of the perceivable world. Any “transcendence” that is sought, or achieved, in Stevens’s work should not, therefore, be understood in the sublime sense intended by the earlier Romantics—a more apt connection can instead be made with the concrete and immediate transcendence described by Levinas as the “face to face.” Stevens’s concern for the concrete and the immediate is often expressed through his attention to the aesthetic qualities of language. His is indeed a poetry about poetry—but not in the limited, solipsistic sense that is often assumed. In concentrating on the active, creative process inherent to writing and reading poetry, Stevens explores the nature of Being itself. I compare this exploration in Stevens’s work to that of the draftsman, or to the artist’s sketch, and in my conclusion suggest the connections between Stevens’s investigative approach and contemporary visual artists who are also committed to the figuration of the creative process. South African artist William Kentridge provides my chief example, due to his conviction that the method is linked intrinsically to political and social engagement.