15 research outputs found
Low-cost smart sensor interfacing
No full textElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
A low noise, low power dynamic amplifier with common mode detect and a low power, low noise comparator for pipelined SAR-ADC
No full textThis thesis presents a high gain, low noise and low power dynamic residue amplifier and a low power, low noise dynamic comparator designed in TSMC 28nm process for a two step Pipelined SAR-ADC. The cascoded integrator dynamic residue amplifier (CIDRA) achieves a gain of 30dB with THD of 47dB (11 mV pp input). The input referred noise across tem- perature and process corner is 55 µV and it operates at a frequency of 500MHz while the energy consumption is 390 fJ. The low power and low noise pseudo-latch preamp dynamic comparator (PLPDC) shows a delay of 250pSec for a differential input of 16 pV and consumes 91 fJ (current is 91 µA for 100 MHz clock) of energy. The input referred offset is 4 mV (?).Microelectronics & Computer EngineeringElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Verbeteren van de Beneden- en Midden-IJssel als scheepvaartweg
No full textHet beleid met betrekking tot de Nederlandse waterwegen is erop gericht beter gebruik te maken van de aanwezige potentie als transportnetwerk. In het Tweede Structuurschema Verkeer en Vervoer (SVV2) en het Nationaal Verkeer- en Vervoerplan (NVVP) is de IJssel als hoofdvaarroute aangeduid en moet geschikt zijn voor tweestrooksverkeer van scheepvaartklasse Va. De IJssel is een belangrijke Noord-Zuid route in Nederland. Het maatgevende schip van scheepvaartklasse Va is een Groot Rijnschip of duwbak. Deze schepen kunnen maximaal 3.000 ton vracht vervoeren. De lengte van deze schepen ligt tussen 95 en 110 meter, de breedte is 11,40 meter en de maximale diepgang ligt tussen de 2,50 en 4,50 meter. De vaarbaaneis voor scheepvaartklasse Va houdt in dat over het grootste gedeelte van de IJssel tweestrooksverkeer met het maatgevende schip mogelijk moet zijn. Dit vereist een bepaalde minimale vaarbaanbreedte (die o.a. afhankelijk is van de bochtstraal). De eisen ten aanzien van de vaarbaanbreedte zijn afkomstig uit twee studies (Verkenning IJssel en Planstudie van de Boven-IJssel). De eisen uit de Verkenning IJssel zijn binnen dit onderzoek gebruikt. Over deze vereiste vaarbaanbreedte moeten de schepen kunnen varen met een minimale diepgang van 2,50 meter bij Overeengekomen Lage Rivierstand (OLR). De OLR is een referentiewaterstand die op de IJssel optreedt bij een Overeengekomen Lage Afvoer (OLA) van 172 m3/s. Dit is een lage afvoer, want het gemiddelde van de IJsselafvoer is ongeveer 300 m3/s. Het doel van het onderzoek is het bepalen van de scheepvaartknelpunten en vervolgens onderzoeken hoe de bevaarbaarheid van het projectgebied verbeterd kan worden. Het projectgebied bestaat uit de Midden- en Beneden-IJssel. De Midden-IJssel begint bij het Twentekanaal, kilometerraai (kmr.) 931, en eindigt bij het Katerveer in Zwolle (kmr. 980). De Beneden-IJssel begint bij het Katerveer en eindigt bij het Keteldiep (kmr. 1001,4).Civil Engineering and Geoscience
The course towards home: The path through seamed spaces
No full textDwelling StudioArchitectureArchitectur
Council cottages and community in inter-war Britain: a study of class, culture,politics and place.
No full textPhDThis thesis makes a contribution to the debates surrounding the idea of community
on the cottage council estates of inter-war Britain. It questions the conventional
wisdom that community was lacking upon these estates. Recognising the
problematic nature of the notion of community, this thesis overcomes the confusion
inherent in the term when it is used to describe social structures by viewing
community instead as a structure of meaning, as a discursive rather than material
reality. This guides my examination of community on the estates. Rather than
there being no community, it is argued that there were at least three different
discourses of community, and what is important is the relationships between them.
Chapter One discusses the contexts in which these estates were built, and then sets
out the ways in which community is understood in this thesis. Chapter Two
explains the methodology that was used, a combination of archival and oral histoiy.
In Chapter Three Roehampton and Watling - the two estates this research focuses
upon - are described in order to provide the contextual setting for my interpretation
of the discourses of community that were present there. Chapter Four is concerned
with community from the viewpoint of the residents who lived on the estates.
Chapter Five considers discourses of community from the point of view of the
tenants' and residents' associations that developed upon Roehampton and Watling.
Chapter Six explores the discourse of community that was promoted on the estates
by the Community Association movement.
Overall the thesis argues that the discourses of community on inter-war
housing estates have to be understood in terms of the occupational structures,
cultures and politics of these estates
The Gothic threshold of Sabine Baring-Gould : a study of the Gothic fiction of a Victorian squarson
No full textThis thesis is a study of the Gothic fiction of Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-
1924), with particular attention given to Baring-Gould’s roles as squire and parson. I
have chosen to analyze two of Baring-Gould’s Gothic works, the novel Mehalah
(1880) and the novella Margery of Quether (1884), both which allow a particularly
profitable examination of the influence of Baring-Gould’s roles on his fiction.
In studying these texts I apply my theory of Gothic fiction as a particularly
modern genre built upon a "Gothic threshold," a meeting point of extreme opposites
which ambivalently contrasts and merges the categories of the modern and the
medieval.
In the first chapter I describe how Baring-Gould’s unique Hegelian-influenced
Tractarian philosophy influenced his creation of the dialectical setting of Mehalah. I
argue that because of this influence Mehalah should be recognized as a significant
contribution to the literature of the Oxford Movement.
In the second chapter I argue that Mehalah’s historical setting in the time of
the French Revolution and the influence of Wuthering Heights reinforce Mehalah’s
use of the “Gothic threshold” structure and contribute to its theme of ambivalent
progress.
In the third chapter I discuss the influence of Baring-Gould’s sermon-writing
on Mehalah and consider connections between Baring-Gould’s role as parson and the
novel’s botched marriage theme.
In the final chapter I discuss Margery of Quether as an innovation in the
Gothic and vampire tradition as perhaps the only Gothic work that directly dramatizes
the Land Law debate and presents that debate as a "Gothic" contest. I argue that
Margery channels Baring-Gould’s tensions as a landowner.
In the conclusion I argue that Mehalah and Margery display Baring-Gould’s
technique of constructing miniature Gothic battles that relate to larger confrontations,
and that the ultimate terror presented in these works is the conclusion of the battle
between ancient and modern forces
Reading the inventory: household goods, domestic cultures and difference in England and Wales, 1841–81
No full textPhDThis thesis employs almost five hundred household inventories relating to properties in England and Wales between 1841 and 1881; they provide the first large-scale evidence for what people’s houses during this period actually contained. Taking a material culture approach, investigation moves between aggregate analysis, interpretation of individual cases and a qualitative reading of contemporary texts to consider the practical, social and cultural meanings of the contents listed in the inventories.
Firstly, differences between the ways that different categories of people equipped and laid out their homes are identified. This calibrates existing class-based accounts, which are based on sources further removed from actual practice, and finds that differences relating to personal wealth and occupation were substantially moderated by geographical location.
Secondly, the thesis addresses the functional specialisation of space that has been understood as a fundamental principle of nineteenth-century domestic organisation. It finds that, although some specialisations were widespread, in the area of hospitable provision many homes manifested a flexible, pragmatic, approach; strict specialisation was confined to the wealthier middle classes.
Thirdly, the meanings of bedroom goods are tracked in contemporary texts. The bedroom, which has been relatively ignored by historians of the nineteenth-century home, appears as a focal site for ideas about cleanliness, convenience, class, health, science and progress; it was here, in the middle of the century, in the private reaches of the private home, that there was a voluntary adoption of public health measures.
Throughout, detailed interpretation of single inventories counterbalances aggregate analysis. This reveals the complicated ways that individuals adopted, rejected or negotiated norms and throws into relief the way that ‘ideal’ separations, such as that between home and work, were in practice impossible
