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Father Andrew Mullen 1790-1818: a study in early nineteenth century spirituality
No full textThis thesis is laid out in three parts: Part I. The life and death of Andrew Mullen. The life is based, to a large extent, on a long letter to his mother, Catherine Mullen, dated 7 January 1810. The letter gives a definite insight into his spirituality based on his membership of the Archconfraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. There is a hint that he had a premonition of an early death. Part II. The burial of Andrew Mullen and the immediate cult to him This is based on documentary evidence. Part III. Most of this part is a catalogue of testimonies taken from 1993 onwards. Then there is the conclusion on the popular devotion to Andrew Mullen stressing the theological aspect of the subject. In the course of writing the thesis it was decided to separate the documentary evidence from the oral tradition. This was advantageous in developing the thesis, and the documents provided a secure basis for the oral tradition. Two pieces of information were found in March 1997. They are death notices: 2 January 1819, The Leinster Journal and 7 January 1819, The Car low Morning Post. There is a slight discrepancy between the two on the date of his death. Also this discrepancy shows a slight difference from the date of the tombstone
An investigation of the factors and processes that influence the distribution of hydropsid caddisfly larvae in upland streams in southeastern Australia
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 2002 Andrew Kenneth Sharpe.Stream ecology is dominated by studies that describe the distribution of invertebrate populations and communities. Many of these studies make untested assumptions about the various ecological processes that influence these distributions. The most common assumption, which is often unstated, is that distribution patterns reflect habitat selection by individual animals. However, very few studies have directly tested the relative importance of this process or considered other processes that may also affect the distribution of stream invertebrates. In this thesis I use a correlative survey in combination with manipulative field experiments and behavioural observations to investigate the factors and ecological processes that are associated with the distribution of hydropsychid caddisfly larvae in rocky upland streams in southeastern Australia
The Study of Music Therapy: Current Issues and Concepts (Kenneth S. Aigen)
No full textThis is a review of the book "The Study of Music Therapy: Current Issues and Concepts" authored by Kenneth S. Aigen.
Title: The Study of Music Therapy: Current Issues and Concepts | Author: Kenneth S. Aigen | Publication year: 2014 | Publisher: Routledge | Pages: 280 | ISBN: 978-041562641
A kinematic model of baroclinic tidal currents at the head of Monterey submarine canyon
No full textby Andrew Justin Heard"A thesis presented to the faculty of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories."Thesis (M.S.) -- San Jose State University, 1992."A thesis presented to the faculty of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.
The teaching of non-professional artists in eighteenth century England.
No full textPhDThe introductory chapter explains terms used throughout
this thesis and why this period was chosen for study. The
history of the introduction of drawing to the curriculum of
Christ's Hospital, the Lens family who were the drawing
masters there, and their drawing manuals and teaching
methods are the subject of the second chapter. The third
deals with the teaching of drawing at private academies,
particularly Thomas Weston's in Greenwich, and with his and
the Bickham family's activities as drawing masters to the
pupils of this academy and the children at the Royal Naval
Hospital. William and Sawrey Gilpin at Cheam Preparatory
School are examined through the surviving correspondence of
the Grimstons of Kilnwick in chapter four.
Alexander Cozens's activities as a drawing master
occupy the remaining half of the thesis. Chapter five
explains how he himself learnt to draw and describes his
earliest known employment as a drawing master at Christ's
Hospital from 1749 to 1754. Chapter six traces his
activities through the 1750's as a private drawing master
and as the author of publications intended to assist the
artistic invention of amateurs and professionals alike. It
also examines his relationship with his son, John Robert
Cozens, with Sir George Beaumont at Eton College, and with
Henry Stebbing who studied Cozeris's 'blot' method. Chapter
seven examines the activities of three of Cozens's private
pupils through their surviving work and family papers in
order to ascertain the element of original artistic
creativity in the landscapes produced under his instruction.
The concluding chapter considers why art education
gained considerable importance in the education of young
gentlemen and gentlewomen during this period, and whether
the drawing masters' methods of teaching them changed.
Finally, the role of drawing masters as creators and
disseminators of artistic theories and their contribution to
the development of English landscape watercolour painting
are discussed.Central research Fund of the University of Londo
Inverse design of self-assembling colloids via landscape engineering
No full textThis dissertation applies machine learning to the study of colloidal self-assembly to provide insights on the microscopic mechanisms driving assembly phenomena and drive towards a design framework capable of rationally manipulating the free energy landscape for self-assembly to derive building blocks that preferentially form into a target aggregate structure. The methodologies derived within are applicable to a wide class of self-assembly systems, both simulated and experimental, enabling a new frontier in the computer-aided design of self-assembling materials.
The first portion of this dissertation focuses on the development of the many-body diffusion map and its application to the study of self-assembly. Diffusion map dimensionality reduction has shown great promise in the study of the low-dimensional folding landscapes inherent to protein folding. We extend this technique to handle multi-body systems via a graph-based distance measure that treats aggregate structure as a bonding network. In comparison to other techniques that utilize pathway engineering or heuristics, diffusion mapping of self-assembly systems is shown to systematically infer the low-dimensional manifold on which self-assembly occurs, detailing the structural pathway information and providing a framework for computation of both thermodynamic (what will form) and kinetic (how will it form) properties in a unified framework.
We study this machine learning algorithm on the self-assembly and self-organization of three systems. In the first study we apply many-body diffusion maps to a double ring patchy colloid model shown to form discrete polyhedral aggregates by varying the angles of the different patchy rings. Our method is able to validate previous studies showing that self-assembly of icosahedral aggregates occurs along two competing assembly-pathways, and we use this self-assembly landscape to suggest patch-interaction design criteria for robust icosahedral assembly. In a second study, we apply our many-body diffusion map approach to particle-tracking experiments of Janus colloid self-assembly. This was to our knowledge the first attempt at machine learning collective order parameters and deriving assembly landscapes directly from experimental particle tracking data. Here we demonstrate the ability of our many-body diffusion map to provide insights on the affect experimental controls have on the self-assembly process, proving in line with our physical interpretation and extending to predict experimental systems to improve the yield or specificity of a targeted region of the self-assembly space. In our third study, we apply the diffusion map to the self-organization of a digital colloid, a discrete colloidal cluster capable of storing information by adopting certain configurations. Here we extract the important kinetic and thermodynamic information driving transitions between colloidal bit states, deriving the engineering design tradeoff between information stability and the energy required to write information.
The second portion of this dissertation focuses on novel improvements to the sampling of diffusion map spaces to project free energy surfaces in the low-dimensional self-assembly landscape. The first part of this section proposes a novel extension of the diffusion map, so-called landmark diffusion maps, to enable the accurate and rapid embedding of out-of-sample points into a diffusion map landscape. Using this technique, we then propose a landscape engineering framework capable of manipulating the underlying free energy landscape for self-assembly to rationally design building blocks that aggregate into a desired structure. We use this design platform to study the self-assembly of the double ringed patchy colloid model, improving upon the expert-designed icosahedral building block's assembly rate by 76%, and then demonstrate that our technique can rapidly converge to new objective functions in the optimization of an octahedral forming patchy colloid.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2019-12-01The student, Andrew Long, accepted the attached license on 2017-08-22 at 09:19.The student, Andrew Long, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-08-22 at 09:59.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-08-22 at 15:21.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11609 on 2018-03-13 at 09:54:31Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-13T15:20:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4
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The diffusion of the internet amongst South African primary care doctors : an activity systems view
No full textIncludes abstract.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-436).
Has accompanying material on CD
Magic of music: a celebration of Latinos in theatre
No full textMany little girls around the world dream of being princesses and wishing upon stars. I was no different, so it’s no surprise to anyone when I say that animated Disney movies were the biggest part of my childhood. So, what better way to end my undergraduate experience than to make my childhood dream come true for one night? I came up with the idea of a bilingual cabaret while listening to “I See the Light” from Tangled, and while listening, I wondered how it would sound if it was mashed up with the Spanish version. I decided that I wanted to hear it, and my very dear friend Andrew Merkle was kind enough to sing it with me for a choir concert, where I sang most of my parts in Spanish and he sang his in English with some overlap in between. In the process of creating this arrangement, I realized that I was bringing together two of the most important parts of my life: my girlhood and my heritage, and I thought it would be the perfect concept for my capstone.Presented at the annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity while the author was an undergraduate student at Rutgers University-Camden
Observing and describing textual "reality": a critique of the claims to objective reality and authentication in new critical and structuralist literary theory, seen against a background of Feyerabend's ideas concerning paradigms, dominance and ideology
No full textThis thesis sets out to examine the claims to objective reality and authentication in New critical and Structuralist literary theories, concentrating on their claims to "objectivity" and "scientific validity." It examines the nature of these claims in the light of the original ideas proposed by some of the major New critics and structuralists in the development of their respective "sciences" of literary theory. Taking direction from the nature of reality and objectivity shown by the theorists, the thesis then attempts an assessment of the validity of some of the original perceptions and presuppositions concerning scientific objectivity and reality. It proposes that inconsistencies within the literary theories resulted from the theorists' inability to grasp the complexity and fluctuating nature of the borrowed terminology and principles that they were using. It does so by taking a closer look at the development of some of the more influential physical theories and the philosophical ideas raised by these developments. It then uses Feyerabend's work on paradigms, dominance and ideology to attempt an assessment of the reasons for the literary theorists' perceptions and presuppositions regarding objectivity and reality. This amounts to accounting for the specific scientific models chosen as bases, and also to accounting for the desire for the "scientific approach" at all. Its conclusions give an indication of the extent to which these original errors contributed to the theories' necessary adaptations of perspective and eventual loss of influence, and emphasises the need for the total understanding of concepts in one field by researchers in other fields, especially if those concepts are to be used by the researchers with any degree of precision
Precision navigation for aerospace applications
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2004.Vita.Includes bibliographical references (p. 162). Includes bibliographical references (p. 162).This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Navigation is important in a variety of aerospace applications, and commonly uses a blend of GPS and inertial sensors. In this thesis, a navigation system is designed, developed, and tested. Several alternatives are discussed, but the ultimate design is a loosely-coupled Extended Kalman Filter using rigid body dynamics as the process with a small angle linearization of quaternions. Simulations are run using real flight data. A bench top hardware prototype is tested. Results show good performance and give a variety of insights into the design of navigation systems. Special attention is given to convergence and the validity of linearization.by Andrew K. Stimac.S.M
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