"August 2003." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 294-333) / 2 v. (xxxi, 333 leaves) ; ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Agriculture and Wine, Discipline of Plant and Pest Science, 2005

"September 2001" / Bibliography: leaves 144-159. / xix, 159 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / The two main aims of this study were: 1) to determine if the presence of Calcium carbonate in soil was the reason behind soils from Yorke Peninsula having relatively high OC (organic carbon) contents, given local farming practices, and 2) to determine the effect that the composition of the soils' OC has on the mineralisation rates. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Agronomy and Farming Systems, 2002

Senior Honors Thesis--Regis University, Denver, Colo., 2007. / "May 2006." Date of submission on Certificate of Authorship: 30 April 2007. Title from PDF title page (viewed June 26, 2007). Includes bibliographical references.

We study some topological properties of dynamical systems. In particular the rela- tionship between spatio-temporal chaotic and Li-Yorke sensitive dynamical systems establishing that for minimal dynamical systems those properties are equivalent. In the same direction we show that being a Li-Yorke sensitive dynamical system implies that the system is also Li-Yorke chaotic. On the other hand we survey the possibility of lifting some topological properties from a given dynamical system (Y, S) to an- other (X, T). After studying some basic facts about topological dynamical systems, we move to the particular case of interval maps. We know that through the knowl- edge of interval maps, f : I → I, precious information about the chaotic behavior of general nonlinear dynamical systems can be obtained. It is also well known that the analysis of the spectrum of time series encloses important material related to the signal itself. In this work we look for possible connections between chaotic dynamical systems and the behavior of its Fourier coefficients. We have found that a natural bridge between these two concepts is given by the total variation of a function and its connection with the topological entropy associated to the n-th iteration, fn(x), of the map. Working in a natural way using the Sobolev spaces Wp,q(I) we show how the Fourier coefficients are related to the chaoticity of interval maps.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T19:25:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Romeu Szmoski.pdf: 12436289 bytes, checksum: 6e754552b30a293cd49e5368fbb3bfd0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-03-03 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The Brownian motion is one important topic of the non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and it is related to many natural phenomena. The first observations and theories on this motion were essential for understand the microscopic behavior of the nature and its influence on macroscopics observables. In this dissertation, we studied the dynamics of a system composed of several interacting Brownian particle from the point of view of coupled maps lattices. We use a map with a direct correlation to the abovementioned motion and we employ four different kinds of couplings in order to represent several ways of interaction among the particles. Using nonlinear dynamics tools, we observe the situations in which the particles velocities synchronize or show a tendency to the synchronized state. We also obtain algebrics expressions for the Lyapunov spectra of lattices with regular couplings whose interactions decays with distance as a power-law and we raise two hypotheses about Lyapunov exponents of a lattice with the coupling probability decreasing with the distance, as follows: the exponents of this lattice converge to the exponents of the lattice whose interactions decay with the distance in agreement to a power-law when the number of particles is very large; and the Lyapunov exponents of this lattice are given by the sum of the probabilities products of the each coupling matrix by eigenvalues of these matrixes. The values obtained for the Lyapunov exponents by means of the expressions deducted are in agreement with those obtained by numerical approximations techniques. Regarding distributions of the velocities of the particles, we observed that occur an aproximation to a Gaussian distribuition when the intensity of the coupling tends to its maximum. / O movimento browniano e um dos assuntos mais intrigantes da mecanica estatıstica de nao-equilıbrio e explica uma serie de fenomenos observados na natureza. As primeiras observaçoes a respeito deste movimento e as teorias propostas para descreve-lo foram fundamentais para entender o comportamento microscópico da natureza e a influência deste sobre observáveis macroscópicos. Nesta dissertação, estudamos a dinâmica de um sistema composto por várias partículas brownianas interagentes a partir de modelos de redes de mapas acoplados. Utilizamos um mapa que possui uma correspondência física direta com o movimento mencionado e empregamos quatro formas distintas de acoplamentos a fim de representar as várias formas de interação entre as partículas. Por meio de ferramentas da dinâmica não ao linear, observamos as situações em que as velocidades das partículas sincronizam ou tendem para o estado sincronizado. Também em obtivemos expressões exatas para determinar os expoentes de Lyapunov das redes com acoplamentos regulares cujas interações decaem com a distância segundo uma lei de potência e levantamos duas hipóteses sobre os expoentes de Lyapunov de uma rede com probabilidade de acoplamento decaindo com a distância, a saber: que os expoentes desta rede convergem para os expoentes da rede cujas interações decaem com a distância segundo uma lei de potência quando o número de partículas é muito grande; e que os expoentes de Lyapunov desta rede são dados pela soma dos produtos da probabilidade de ocorrer cada matriz de acoplamento pelos respectivos autovalores destas matrizes. Os valores obtidos para os expoentes de Lyapunov por meio das expressões deduzidas mostraram-se em acordo com aqueles obtidos por técnicas de aproximações numéricas. Em relação às distribuições das velocidades das partículas, observamos que elas se aproximam de uma gaussiana quando a intensidade do acoplamento tende a seu valor máximo.

Bibliography: leaves 98-103. Examines the role of public participation in coastal protection and coastal management in two marina developments proposed for Yorke Peninsula. The study concluded that there was potential for the South Australian Planning System to incorporate sustainable development and involve the public to a greater extent. The Environmental Impact Assessment process has been perceived as a means of incorporating the principles of ecologically sustainable development at a community level, but the extent to which this has occured for the marina developments at Port Vincent and Wallaroo is limited.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1943. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-234).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1943. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-234).

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In der Natur und in technischen Anwendungen findet man viele dynamische System mit zeitlicher Verzögerung (delay),zum Beispiel die Mackey-Glass Gleichung, die als Beschreibung vom Aufbau der Blutzelle angewendet wird, und die Ikeda Gleichung, die ein Modell von einem optischen Resonator ist. Hier ist zeitliche Verzögerung τ eine Konstante, aber sie ist nicht immer konstant in der Natur und in der Praxis. Wie sieht das System aus und welche Stabilitätseigenschaften hat es, wenn die Verzögerung schwankt? In dieser Arbeit benutze ich einige einfache diskrete Abbildungen, um die resultierenden Effekte zu untersuchen.