832 research outputs found
Survey report 2013/14 summer season Geoscience Australia, Author - Ryan Ruddick
No full textProgress Code: completedThis survey report describes surveys done by Ryan Ruddick of Geoscience Australia at Casey during the 2013/14 summer season. In addition to survey work for Geoscience Australia, Ryan also carried out some tasks for the Australian Antarctic Division. The latter included levelling to the reference mark of the tide gauges at the wharf, surveys of buildings new or modified since the last survey and a survey of the fire hydrants.<br/><br/>The survey report is yet to be completed.<br/>The Related URLs include links to where the following can be downloaded:<br/>1 Data from the surveys of the buildings and fire hydrants;<br/>2 GIS data representing features such as buildings at Casey. Data resulting from the 2013/14 survey has Dataset_id = 315 in the attribute table
Cult: A Composite Novel
No full textCult (redacted)
The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence.
Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults.
The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic.
Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form
The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts
General educators’ experience with response to intervention.
No full textUniversity of Minnesota M.A. thesis. May 2010. Major: Education, Curriculum & Instruction. Advisor: Lori A. Helman, Ph.D. 1 computer file (PDF); ii, 76 pages, appendices A-C.Since the reauthorization of the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in
2004, “Response to Intervention” (RtI) has permeated the field of education. With this
new educational framework, general classroom teachers are taking on many new
responsibilities. They are teaching more than just core reading instruction and using
assessments in ways that they did not before RtI. RtI also requires that they collaborate
more intensely and participate in staff developments more intently. The current study
aims to focus on classroom teachers and describing their experiences. The researcher
provides a review of literature concerning RtI and specific implications for the context
studied and includes a summary of descriptive research design. Using the framework
created by the literature review, the author describes the experiences of fifteen classroom
teachers in an early total immersion program. To conclude, the author specifies
limitations of the study, as well as implications for practitioners and researchers.Higbea, Ryan David. (2010). General educators’ experience with response to intervention.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/93144
Ancestral Trauma, Animist Poetics: African Literature's Regenerative Death Drive
No full textIn this thesis I ask, what kind of trauma theory is immanent to modern African literature? Informed by psychoanalysis and deconstruction, I explicate from African texts a form of collective trauma that I term ancestral trauma and a regenerative logic of survival that I term animist poetics. Ancestral trauma names the process through which colonial modernity ruptures the cosmological frame of reference upon which the cultural memory of a colonized people depends. Desecrating the very form of intergenerational remembrance, ancestral trauma operates beyond the purveyance of memory studies. So does animist poetics. Rather than representing traumatic memory, animist poetics regenerates desecrated ancestral ties by paradoxically ritualizing their erasure. Animist poetics is thus an aesthetic logic immanent to modernity, which challenges dichotomies between African animism and Western modernity. Operating beyond the therapeutic framework of recovery and the Manichaeism of postcolonial critique, animist poetics reinvents precolonial cosmologies as responses to colonized modernity—not historic redemption, but collective survival. Authors such as Yvonne Vera and Wole Soyinka craft such a survival by aesthetically ritualizing death, which leads to a new theory of the death drive. Freud’s theory equates death with ontological stasis, but Vera and Soyinka posit an animist revision in which the deaths enforced by colonial and postcolonial regimes become transitions into new forms of collective life. This regenerative death drive at the heart of animist poetics both extends and overturns Freud’s most radical insight. Thus, in this thesis, through offering a postcolonial trauma theory, I ultimately gesture toward a post-secular theory of time in which the living, the dead, and the unborn can, in response to an erasure of the past, inherit the possibility of a future
Naval applications of enhanced temperature, vibration and power monitoring
No full textThesis: Nav. E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2015.Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, 2015.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-133).Navy ships require reliable information regarding their power and mechanical systems in order to perform their mission effectively. While today's shipboard systems are quite sophisticated, there are areas for improvement in monitoring individual loads, managing the loads to fit the ships mission, and continuously monitoring mechanical equipment. This thesis presents a method to continuously assess the condition of a rotating machinery system using vibration analysis during the machine's spin-down. A method to determine the thermal storage capacity of a structure, so that HVAC loads can be more effectively managed, is also explained. Finally, the potential impacts of a Non-Intrusive Load Monitor (NILM) on a ship are investigated.by Ryan David Zachar.Nav. E.S.M. in Engineering and Managemen
Survey report 2008/09 summer season Geoscience Australia Authors - Ryan Ruddick and Alex Woods / Geoscience Australia
No full textProgress Code: completedStatement: The survey at Davis used the ITRF2000 at 2000 horizontal datum. Henk Brolsma (AAD Mapping Officer advised that an adjustment of 1.175 metres in a direction of 354 degrees 03' True was needed to bring the data onto the Davis WGS84 datum (as it was in 1996) - the datum on which the Australian Antarctic Data Centre's GIS data for Davis is stored.
Given that Grid North for the UTM zone 43 projection is 2 degrees 46' west of True North in this area, this meant an x shift of -0.004 metres and a y shift of 1.173 metres on the UTM grid.
This shift was not applied to the polygon representing the Library Lounge as Ryan Ruddick advised that this building was surveyed by offsets measured from the Living Quarters and consequently the outline of the Library Lounge was derived from the WGS84 Living Quarters polygon.
The stairways surveyed included two sets adjacent to the Summer Accommodation Module which was not surveyed as it had been surveyed in 2006/07. So after the shift was applied to these stairs an additional small translation was made to align the stair polygons with the Summer Accommodation Module polygon that resulted from the 2006/07 survey.This metadata record details a number of survey reports produced by Geoscience Australia surveyors, during the 2008-2009 Antarctic season.<br/><br/>The available survey reports in pdf format are:<br/><br/>Davis gravity mark<br/>Davis station spatial infrastructure report Larsemann Hills 2009 Macca TGBM Level Survey Tide Gauge Levelling 2009 Vestfold Lake Levelling 2009<br/><br/>Also included is a Summary text file providing further information:<br/><br/>Ryan Ruddick and Alex Woods, Geoscience Australia surveyors, carried out some survey work for Geoscience Australia and the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) during the 2008/09 summer.<br/> <br/>At Davis and the Vestfold Hills the work included:<br/>1 Installing an absolute gravity benchmark at Davis;<br/>2 A survey mark traverse at Davis and the survey of new buildings;<br/>3 A Davis tide gauge levelling survey;<br/>4 A survey of the Old Wallow for John van den Hoff of the AAD;<br/>5 Measuring relative height differences between lake bench marks and lake water level, for 23 lakes in the Vestfold Hills.<br/><br/>At the Larsemann Hills a GNSS campaign and high precision level survey was conducted across the eastern portion of Broknes. Precise orthometric height differences were observed between survey marks to be used together with the GNSS derived ellipsoidal heights of survey marks, obtained over the last decade, to develop a model of the geoid/ellipsoid separation in the area which encompasses Law-Racovita, Progress II and Zhongshan.<br/><br/>At Macquarie Island precise orthometric height differences were observed from the tide gauges in Garden Cove to the Macquarie Island ARGN station and its reference marks. The level run made direct connections to survey monuments observed in previous tide gauge benchmark level surveys conducted on the island. They also did a site survey of a proposed power house site. <br/><br/>Their work also took them to the Grove Mountains, Wilson Bluff and Dalton Corner. <br/><br/>Ryan and Alex provided documents describing most of the tasks listed above. A zip file containing these documents is available for download from a Related URL below.<br/><br/>Also available for download from the Related URLs below are:<br/><br/>1 The data that was the product of the survey mark traverse and the survey of new buildings at Davis and which is on the ITRF2000 at 2000 horizontal datum.<br/><br/>2 The final Davis buildings and stairways data from the survey at Davis after the data was converted from the ITRF2000 at 2000 horizontal datum on which it was collected to the WGS84 horizontal datum on which the Australian Antarctic Data Centre's GIS data for Davis is stored. See the Quality field for more details about the datum conversion.<br/>The final buildings and stairways data is included with the Australian Antarctic Data Centre's other buildings and stairways data for Davis and has Dataset_id = 279 in the attribute table
Computational Worlds: An Information Ontology
No full textRyan D. Mullins Computational Worlds: An Information Ontology Abstract of the Master-Thesis In this thesis, 'the world', that unified, all-encompassing domain about which we speak and make apparent discoveries every day will be declared another mythology. Instead, reality will look radically different. Reality comprises distortive, aesthetic simulations. The reality that will emerge will be a computational reality, a metaphysical pluralism in which actuality and possibility vie and vex, ultimately 'collapsing' into unified information states. This is a philosophy of the transfinite; more negatively, an anti-Kantian, anti-monistic philosophy. The author seeks nothing less than a new prism through which to view traditional philosophical problems and, in the best-case scenario, create possible solutions
The All Whites are alright with us: An analysis of New Zealand national media coverage surrounding the 2010 All Whites World Cup finals campaign
No full textIn June of 2010, the New Zealand men’s representative football team, the All Whites, contested the FIFA World Cup finals in South Africa for only the second time. Due to their credible on-field performances and unprecedented exposure in the national media, their campaign captured the attention of the New Zealand public like never before; surpassing even the national interest in the previous 1982 All Whites and their own storied World Cup finals campaign. Mainstream New Zealand’s sudden resurgence of interest and the accompanying rise in the All Whites’ media profile provided a rare opportunity to undertake a substantial survey of the media discourses surrounding the team in the hopes of better understanding the ways in which national audiences were likely to have (re)configured their understandings regarding the team and, in the broader sense, football’s place in the contemporary New Zealand socio-cultural landscape. Via an integration of poststructuralist textual analysis and content analysis, this thesis examined a sampling of national media coverage related to the All Whites’ 2010 World Cup campaign. Overarching themes relating to masculinity, nationalism and celebrity were identified, and I argue that audiences engaging with the media discourses surrounding these themes would likely have been encouraged to ascribe to the All Whites (a) an acceptably masculine status, (b) an authentic affiliation to New Zealand national identity, and (c) to ascribe to All Whites captain Ryan Nelsen a legitimated celebrity status. Furthermore, I suggest that these likely interpretations are indicative of an incremental but ongoing shift for football and the All Whites away from New Zealand’s socio-cultural periphery and towards its centre
Cinematoghrapic Storytelling and Playability in Videogames by David Cage
No full textV této magisterské práci se zabývám otázkami kinematografického vyprávění, vyprávěcích prostředků a hratelnosti ve třech videohrách Davida Cage. V první části předestírám téma klamu v interaktivním vyprávění, následně podrobně analyzuji hry Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two souls a Detroit: Become human. V závěru se dotýkám teze konfliktu autora a příjemce (v tomto případě hráče), kterou vztahuji ke Cageově tvorbě. V práci vycházím z narativní a videoherní teorie Sebastiana Domsche, Tamera Thabeta, Marie-Laure Ryan a dalších.In this Master thesis I adress the issues of cinematographic storytelling, narrative structure and playability in three videogames by David Cage. In the first part I present the topic of deception in interactive drama, then I analyze in detail the videogames Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two souls and Detroit: Become human. In the conclusion I adress the topic of the conflict between the author and the consumer (in this case the gamer) which I relate to Cage’s work. My thesis is based on narrative and videogames related theories by Sebastian Domsch, Tamer Thabet, Marie-Laure Ryan and others
David Mamet: Dramatic craftsman
No full textThe aphasic speech patterns that typify the vocabulary of so many of David Mamet\u27s characters is the objective correlative of the Russian theatrical giant Constantin Stanislavsky\u27s theory that words create behavior. Unable to find language capable of defining the gap between their spiritual needs as human beings and the reality of their everyday existences, Mamet\u27s characters frequently resort to using words that appear inappropriate or even incoherent on an objective level but metaphorically reveal the characters\u27 understanding of, and relationship to, the external world. Consequently, language functions as the solder that welds Mamet\u27s artistic technique and personal philosophy together, a poetic device through which the playwright portrays an entire culture\u27s failure to examine itself analytically. To stress the importance of his characters\u27 language, Mamet has often chosen to minimize the role of such traditional dramatic techniques as plot, setting, and conflict in his work so that the audience\u27s attention is riveted squarely upon the actors and the dialogue they are speaking, forcing not just plot but also theme to flow naturally from the linguistic rhythms intrinsic within the play. Further, the themes which Mamet explores are inextricably entwined with his subject matter, which encompasses such broad subjects as the mundanity of the American laborer\u27s life; two elderly Jewish men\u27s ruminations about ducks; a group of petty thieves\u27 ineffectual attempts to commit a robbery; the confusion of alienated urban singles; the machinations of real estate salesmen, doctors, actors, and lawyers; the moral dilemmas of a fictionalized version of legendary Chicago gangbuster Eliot Ness; and so on. Mamet\u27s diverse works are vehicles through which he confronts the fundamental mystery of human existence; as he has stated: thinspace\u27How can we live in a world in which we know we\u27re going to die?\u27 thinspace All of the characters in Mamet\u27s canon are personifications of an estranged and confused culture\u27s desperate need to discover worthwhile spiritual values. An examination of Mamet\u27s works, the writings of those who have influenced him, and extent critical commentary reveals the evolution of Mamet\u27s artistic vision, which is firmly grounded within the relationship between his characters\u27 use of language and the author\u27s understanding of human nature
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