Thesis (MTech (Business Administration))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, 2009. / Bibliography: leaves 82-84. Also available online.

TESIS PARA OPTAR AL GRADO DE MAGÍSTER EN MARKETING / Este Plan de Marketing trata sobre la comercialización a través de arrendamientos y ventas de las oficinas en la Torre de Oficinas del World Trade Center Panamá, un centro empresarial internacional de uso múltiple, afiliado a la red de 324 WTC’s en 89 países del mundo. El WTC Panamá cuenta con una gama completa de servicios y amenidades bajo un solo techo, así como una excelente ubicación y fácil acceso vía terrestre y con la posibilidad de acceso aéreo en algún futuro, aprovechando de su helipuerto en el techo de la torre. La marca WTC es reconocida a nivel mundial por las torres gemelas en la ciudad de Nueva York que sufrieron la tragedia del 9/11. Ahora, el imponente “Freedom Tower”, conocido también como “One World Trade”, fue construido a solo algunos pasos del sitio original. En muchas ciudades del mundo, incluyendo a Santiago de Chile, hay un World Trade Center. El WTC Panamá fue inaugurado hace 20 años. Su oferta inmobiliaria no es nueva y compite en el mercado de espacio B. La construcción de nuevas torres, clasificadas con espacio A+ y A, combinada con el inventario actual de oficinas de torres existentes de Clase B, A y A+, crea un desafío competitivo, así como un reto para la industria para absorber las nuevas ofertas de oficinas para mantener tasas de desocupación razonables en la industria. En este Plan de Marketing para la torre de Oficinas del World Trade Center Panamá, se toma en cuenta estas variables y otras más, incluyendo los resultados de nuestros estudios de mercadeo, para crear una propuesta contundente de valor, respaldado por un Plan integral de Marketing para el año 2017, que incluye KPI’s, Carta Gantt y Presupuesto, entre otros detalles requeridos. Este Plan de Marketing bajará la tasa de desocupación de la torre de oficinas del WTC Panamá en el año 2017 a 0%, mientras que subirá sus arrendamientos promedios por aproximadamente 30%, para concordar con estudios internacionales que muestran que los espacios de oficinas de los WTC’s en otras latitudes, logran arrendamientos más altos de oficinas sin la marca.

An entry for the World Trade Center Memorial Competition was expanded upon as a study into the nature of design. The project influenced its own evolution and revealed exciting outcomes. The memorial is a reinforced concrete tower with an acrylic water tank at the top. The water tank acts as a prism casting colorful light displays both in the tower and around the site. The tank is also the source for continually falling droplets of water. The drops fall 450 feet through an open chamber to land in a shallow overflowing pool and then wash over a stone sepulcher containing the unidentified remains of victims. / Master of Architecture

C-uppsats kandidat 2011 Title: Media – terroristens medhjälpare? Författare: Christoffer Wiklöw Språk: svenska Instution: JMK, Stockholm Universitet   En kvalitativ studie om New York Times språkbruk kring terrorism. De valda frågeställningarna blev: Hur är New York Times språkbruk kring terrorism och 9/11 2001, respektive 2011? Hur har mass-mediated terrorism-diskursen förändrats mellan året 2001 och året 2011 i New York Times nyhetsartiklar om terrorism och 9/11? Hur ser en reporter på sin roll som skribent om 9/11, och hur kommer detta att indikera på att journalisten kanske faller offer för att vara terroristens medhjälpare? Och materialet för studien blev fyra artiklar från New York Times, och en intervju med en skribent bakom en av artiklarna.   Teorival blev en kritisk teori-inriktad del med en socialkonstruktionisktisk infallsvinkel som stöd. Birgitte L. Nacos (2002) har teorier om ”mass-mediated terrorism” som stöd. Det finns även framing, nyhetsvärdering med i valet. Metodval blev Peter Berglez tolkning av van Dijks strukturerade nyhetsschema, vilket fick stöd av Norman Fairclough’s CDA.   I resultatdelen ser vi hur New York Times språkbruk kring terrorism, och dess val av nyhetskonstruktion gör att de ändrar nyhetsvärdering till allt som kan beröra något av dessa tre: terrorister, makthavare/regering, och samhälle. Helst alla tre tillsammans. En intervju med en reporter fick ge en belysning på hur denna konstruktion av nyhet kan se ut, och även om denne var införstådd med känsligheten att rapportera om terrorism så fanns det tendenser för att han blir terroristens medhjälpare omedvetet.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duquesne University, 2005. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-184) and index.

Mini Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the M Tech: Business Administration in the FACULTY of BUSINESS at the CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 2009 / The tourism industry is subject to the perception of the tourist whether the chosen destination is perceived as a safe destination. No tourist wants their planned vacation interrupted by acts of violence, placing his and his family’s lives in danger. The attacks on the World Trade Centre in September 2001, has changed the way we travelled for ever. The tourism industry realized that no destination, no mater how far removed from the so called “hot spots” (areas of conflict), could be seen as a safe destination. Acts of violence can occur at any destination at any time. This attack also had a significant impact on the way tourist travel and how they plan their vacations. Added security at all international airports were upgraded to ensure passenger safety, but with that came delays and longer check in times. All of these have a negative impact on the airlines. Tourist also opted for the more safer destinations, those that are removed form potential conflict areas. In the months following directly after the attacks, most popular destination experienced a significant decline in tourist numbers. Major airline across the globe also lost out on revenue, with some of them being forced to close their operations. This had an impact on employment figures in the tourism industry. The attacks however had a positive side to it as well. Some destinations benefited in tourism numbers, due to the fact that these destinations were seen a safe areas to spend one’s vacation at. South Africa, and in particular the Western Cape, is one of these areas that benefited with increasing tourism numbers, due to its status as a safe destination.

Penser la mise en récit de l’espace permet de circuler dans des marges que sont celles de l’art, de la littérature, de la politique, du cinéma. L’analyse rhétorique des processus de mise en récit de l’espace montre, en trois temps, que l’apport architectural définit et redéfinit les possibilités de déplacements des discours dans leur ouverture ou leur fermeture. Dans un premier temps, le passage du modernisme au postmodernisme, par l’analyse du Mémorial des vétérans du Vietnam, à Washington, qui déconstruit le récit programmatique d’un ordre, permet une nouvelle performativité du réel. Dans un deuxième temps, la monumentalité du Lower Manhattan, par sa verticalité, présente sa mise en récit comme un palimpseste dont toutes traces, idées, pratiques, utopies et destructions constituent des éléments légitimant et critiquant le récit en train de s’écrire. Par un passage de sa représentation, dans la littérature, notamment, la verticalité est alors une ligne de fuite dont le mouvement ascendant, puis descendant, montre l’inachèvement du récit. Dans un dernier temps, l’édification du Mémorial du World Trade Center, se réinscrit dans un modèle discursif unitaire compris comme un vaste dispositif qui réaffirme un retour à un ordre du discours, à un âge politique de la mémoire. Cet espace, c’est celui du pèlerinage, du lieu sacré qui fait parler ses morts au nom d’une autorité, la catastrophe, l’indicible, qui met en suspend la possibilité de la parole qui est autre. Cette réflexion entend présenter ces espaces qui se mettent en récit. / Thinking space narrative helps circulate in the margins of those of art, literature, politics, film. The rhetorical analysis of space narratives and its storytelling process shows, in three stages, that architectural contribution defines and redefines the possibilities of movement of speech in their opening or closing. First, the transition from modernism to postmodernism, by the analysis of Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, which deconstructs the programmatic narrative of an order allows a new performativity of reality. Secondly, the monumentality of Lower Manhattan, by its verticality, presents its narrative process set as a palimpsest where all traces, ideas, practices, utopias and destruction are legitimizing and criticizing elements in the narratives being written. By passing its representation in literature, in particular, the verticality is then a leakage whose upward movement, then down, shows the incompleteness of the story. Last, the building of the World Trade Center Memorial, re-entered into a unitary discursive model understood as a wide dispositif that reaffirms a return to an order of discourse, a political age memory. This space is one of the pilgrimage, the sacred place which makes his dead speak on behalf of an authority, which withhold the possibility of speech form outside. This reflection intends to present those spaces which are put in narrative.

This project involves a failure analysis of the internal structural collapse that occurred in World Trade Center 5 (WTC 5) due to fire exposure alone on September 11, 2001. It is hypothesized that the steel column-tree assembly failed during the heating phase of the fire. The results of this research have serious and far-reaching implications, for this method of construction is utilized in approximately 20,000 existing buildings and continues to be very popular. Catastrophic failure during the heating phase of a fire would endanger the lives of firefighters and building occupants undergoing extended egress times (e.g., high-rise buildings), or relying upon defend-in-place strategies (e.g., hospitals). Computer software was used to reconstruct the fire event and predict the structural performance of the assembly when exposed to the fire. Results from a finite element, thermal-stress model confirms this hypothesis, for it is concluded that the catastrophic, progressive structural collapse occurred approximately 2 hours into the fire exposure.

Desde 1814, quando então se deram seus primeiros estudos, a mecânica de sistemas de massa variável tem se constituído como um ramo particular dentro da mecânica clássica. Suas aplicações encontram-se espalhadas por diversas áreas do conhecimento e vão desde a engenharia até a medicina, por exemplo. No entanto, apesar dessas aplicações de sucesso, ainda hoje são encontradas na literatura discussões acerca dos fundamentos da mecânica de sistemas de massa variável. Nesse cenário, figuram os chamados aparentes paradoxos que envolvem diferentes equações de movimento para um mesmo sistema de massa variável. É o que pode ser encontrado, por exemplo, com relação ao problema de Wagner, no âmbito do estudo do impacto de corpos sólidos contra superfícies de líquidos, e ao problema da corrente em queda. Nessa tese, questões como essas serão abordadas. Mas o cerne do escopo do presente trabalho é a apresentação de uma discussão de caráter mais geral e interpretativa sobre a teoria e aplicação da mecânica de sistemas de massa variável, mantendo-se como foco principal a contribuição para um melhor entendimento desse importante ramo da mecânica. Para tal, resultados teóricos originais serão apresentados, e discussões e aplicações sobre os mesmos serão feitas. Inicialmente, uma discussão sobre os primeiros trabalhos que fundamentam a dinâmica de uma partícula de massa variável é feita. Nesse contexto, interpretações originais do autor dessa tese são apontadas. Em seguida, a aplicação da equação de Lagrange a sistemas de massa variável é abordada. Nesse cenário, esse autor apresenta a chamada equação de Lagrange para um volume de controle onde a massa varia com as coordenadas e velocidades generalizadas. Esse também é um dos resultados originais dessa tese. Por fim, é apresentada a extensão do princípio variacional para um líquido para um volume de controle, que também é um resultado original desse trabalho. Dois problemas clássicos dentro da teoria de sistemas de massa variável são então tratados, i.e. o problema da corrente em queda e o problema de Wagner. Trata-se de dois problemas aparentemente paradoxais. A resolução desses aparentes paradoxos é abordada, o que também se constitui em um dos resultados originais dessa tese. Uma breve discussão sobre o problema do colapso das torres gêmeas do World Trade Center à luz da mecânica de sistemas de massa variável é também feita. / Since 1814, when the first researches on the topic were carried out, variable mass system mechanics has become a particular branch within classical mechanics. Applied problems involving variable mass systems are sparsely distributed over a wide range of different areas of knowledge, and go from engineering to medicine, for example. However, despite these successful applications, even today one can find in the specialized literature discussions on the fundamentals of the variable mass system mechanics. In this scenario, apparent paradoxes, which are based on different equations of motion for a same variable mass system, figure out. In this sense, the Wagners problem, in the context of the study of the impact of solid bodies into liquid surfaces, and the falling chain problem can be cited as didactic examples. In this thesis, topics like this one will be treated. However, the main scope of this work is to present a more general and interpretative discussion on both the theory and application of the mechanics of variable mass systems, but keeping the focus on contributions that enable a better understanding of such an important branch of mechanics. For that, original theoretical results will be presented, as also discussions and applications of them. In the beginning, a discussion on the first fundamental works about the dynamics of a variable mass particle is done. In such a context, original interpretations of this author are pointed out. Then, the application of Lagrange equations on variable mass systems is discussed. In this scenario, this author shows the so-called Lagrange equation for a control volume where mass varies with generalized coordinates and velocities. This is also an original result of this thesis. By the end, an extension of a variational principle to a control volume is shown, also an original result of this work. Two classical problems within the theory of variable mass systems are then treated, i.e. the falling chain problem and the Wagners problems. Both are apparently paradoxical problems. The resolution of such apparent paradoxes is addressed, what is also an original result. Within the present context of the mechanics of variable mass systems, a brief discussion on the problem of the collapse of the World Trade Center twin towers is also done.

Serving as an unfortunate benchmark for the twenty-first century, 9/11 has completely altered society’s perceptions of personal safety, security and social identity, along with provoking intense emotional reactions. One outlet for these resulting emotions has been through art and literature. Five years have since passed and contemporary authors are still struggling to accurately represent that tragic day and its consequent impression. This paper provides an analysis of how the events of 9/11 have been incorporated into adult fiction. Variations of themes related to psychology, interpersonal relationships, political and social perspectives, and heroism were found to be used most frequently among authors.