The experience of starting a parish nurse or health care ministry program
Armes, Nancy
The practice of parish nursing is a reappearance of the nursing of
Florence Nightingale's time. Parish nurse or health care ministry
programs focus on the physical, emotional and spiritual aspect of a person
and the interconnectedness of those aspects. Nurses practicing as parish
nurses or health care ministers are entering a place of employment, the
church, which is new and uncommon territory for nurses.
In this phenomenological study, four nurses who have or are in the
process of establishing a parish nurse or heath care ministry program
were interviewed. They shared the lived experience of establishing this
type of nursing ministry program. They identified aspects of the process
that were exciting, rewarding and spiritually fulfilling. They also shared
those aspects of the process that were discouraging, disheartening and
frustrating. The themes which emerged included: the need for special
educational preparation to function as a parish nurse; the spirituality that is
part of the parish nurse role; the importance of support for the ministry
from various people within and outside the church; the significance of
water; the parish nurses expectations regarding the ministry; the
perceived value of the ministry and of the parish nurse; the feelings
experienced by the parish nurse, moments of joy and stumbling blocks or
roadblocks. Findings and implications for practice and research are
discussed.
The experience of starting a parish nurse or health care ministry program
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Han Opera as a Public Institution in Modern Wuhan
Han Opera as a Public Institution in Modern Wuhan
Long, Lingqian
Wuhan Han Opera Theater (WHOT, formerly Han Opera) is a 400-year old regional opera based in Wuhan, in Hubei Province, in China. WHOT’s recent designation as a public institution under China's neoliberal creative economy initiative to enter the global market has necessitated its transformation from a cultural institution (wenhua jigou) into a creative industry (wehua chanye). As such, WHOT must now create adaptive strategies, alter traditional conventions of performance, infrastructure, education and community presence, reconstitute traditional social functions at the national level, and most importantly, manage a relationship with the government that is entirely novel for both. In the summer of 2016, WHOT participated in two government-led projects: Opera into Campuses and the Chinese National Arts Fund. These programs were the focus of my ethnographic fieldwork, to identify possible effects of the creative economy initiative on a traditional musical institution. Specifically, inquiry was made as to whether and how creative musical and organizational adaptations were being decided, implemented and executed, and as to how the outcomes of these adaptations were being evaluated. Despite using an ethnographic approach, findings from the preliminary study were found to be much more broadly generalizable and applicable across disciplines than expected. As a result, this thesis makes the following arguments: for modernization of an institution of traditional music to be effective, a relationship must exist whereby the transitioning institution is given creative license to generate continued socio-cultural productivity through its creative class ("talent") in joint cooperation with, rather than dependence on, government agencies. The goal must be to revitalize rather than simply preserve such an institution, and to avoid cultural attrition of unique musical qualities of the institution.
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Chemical and Microbial Processes for Rhodium Recovery
Chemical and Microbial Processes for Rhodium Recovery
Zhu, Kechen
This is the first report that demonstrates the ability of anaerobic methanogenic granular sludge to reduce Rh(III) to Rh(0). Recovery of rhodium(Rh) during anaerobic incubations under abiotic and biotic condition with different electron donors was studied. H2 and formate reduced Rh(III) to Rh(0) nanoparticles(NPs) in the absence of microorganisms. However, the presence of microorganism was crucial for Rh(III) reduction with ethanol. Results of X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) confirmed the formation of Rh(0) NPs and indicated the localization and morphology of the formed Rh(0) NPs varied with electron donor utilized. Rh(III) reduction with H2 and ethanol obeyed 1st order kinetics. Rh(III) caused a moderate inhibition to methanogenesis. Rh(III) reduction often ceased before coming to completion but this effect is not due to unfavorable thermodynamics. A hypothesis was developed which ascribes the biological reduction of Rh(III) with ethanol as being due to the biological formation of H2 (that subsequently chemically reacts with Rh). The results obtained indicate the potential of utilizing anaerobic granular sludge bioreactor technology as a practical and promising option in Rh(III) recovery.
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Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis with a focus on C9orf72 Hexanucleotide GGGGCC Repeat Expansion Associated ALS with Frontotemporal Dementia
Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis with a focus on C9orf72 Hexanucleotide GGGGCC Repeat Expansion Associated ALS with Frontotemporal Dementia
Workinger, Paul M.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disorder resulting in the loss of motor neurons from the spinal cord and frontal cortex. The patterns of neurodegeneration, affected regions, age of onset, and time course of disease progression are all highly variable between and within variants of the disease. Familial ALS (fALS), inherited versions of ALS due to genetic changes, accounts for between 5-20% of all ALS cases, while the rest are sporadic, with either no causative mutation identified or no familial history of ALS. Recently, the discovery of C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansions have been identified as one of the most common causes of familial ALS, with some patients presenting with dual phenotypes of ALS and frontotemporal dementia, leading to new hypotheses about the nature of neurodegenerative diseases. Despite the continued discovery of new ALS causative genes, little is known about the pathogenesis of the disease. While almost all variants include the presence of intracellular protein inclusions, the site of the protein plaques and involved proteins varies between genetic and phenotypic variants of this disease. Due to the lack of clear pathogenic mechanisms, several hypotheses have been developed to explain the process of neurodegeneration. Autophagy, the process of self-eating, leading to destruction of damaged or excess proteins and organelles, has been implicated as being altered in ALS. Multiple variants have demonstrated altered mitochondrial morphology and cellular energetic dynamics, which could explain previous observations that implicate the process of apoptosis in cellular death. Many of the involved proteins in ALS have functional roles for intracellular, nucleocytoplasmic, and axonal transport of various proteins or RNA. These three competing hypotheses are currently the most prominent hypotheses in the pathogenesis of ALS, and have largely been considered as separate and competing in past research. Is there a chance that the true pathogenesis leading to neuronal destruction via apoptosis involve all three hypotheses? Altered protein and RNA transport dynamics could lead to changes in cellular stress responses or overload autophagy pathways, leading to exacerbated cellular stress responses, leading to alterations in mitochondrial morphology and eventually cell death via apoptosis.
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Generalizability of Universal Screening Measures for Behavioral and Emotional Risk
Generalizability of Universal Screening Measures for Behavioral and Emotional Risk
Tanner, Nicholas Andrew
Data derived from universal screening procedures are increasingly utilized by schools to identify and provide additional supports to students at-risk of behavioral and emotional concerns. As screening has the potential to be resource intensive, effort has been placed on the development of efficient screening procedures, namely brief behavior rating scales. This study utilized classical test theory and generalizability theory to examine the extent to which differences among students, raters, occasions, and screening measures affect the meaningfulness of data derived from universal screening procedures. Teacher pairs from three middle school classrooms completed two brief behavior rating scales during fall and spring screening administrations for all students in their respective classrooms. Correlation coefficients examining interrater reliability, test-retest reliability, and concurrent validity were generally strong. Generalizability analyses indicated that the majority of variance in teacher ratings were attributable to student differences across all score comparisons, but differences between teacher ratings for particular students accounted for relatively large percentages of error variance among student behavior ratings. Although decision studies showed that increasing the number of screening occasions resulted in more generalizable data, the impact of increasing the number of raters resulted in more efficient screening procedures.
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Creating a Sustainable House for Klong Toey
Creating a Sustainable House for Klong Toey
Lastine, Michael
This capstone looked at a housing problem in Klong Toey which is a slum in Bangkok, Thailand. Currently 100,000 people live in Klong Toey which is only on a 1 square mile plot of land. (Sapsuwan, Peewara, n.d.) The goal was to come up with a new sustainable housing design that could not only solve their housing issue, but also solve power and water shortages and health issues that arise due to their current living situation. The capstone looks at a resource called “Community Action for Sustainable Housing: Building a Low-Carbon Future” to help understand what goes into making a sustainable home. Two case studies were looked at to take ideas that had previously worked. There is also a cost benefit analysis to compare the design of just a simple house to one with more sustainable features added on. In the end it was concluded that there is not enough money to build the most sustainable home so it would be better to just go with the simple design.
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Sustainably Covering the Central Arizona Project
Sustainably Covering the Central Arizona Project
The Central Arizona Project is second largest and expansive aqueduct system in the entire United States. It moves more than 1.5 million acre feet of water annually which is only half of its capacity. This engineering marvel is truly incredible that supports millions of people in the state as well as well as millions of people around the United States that are in need of crops year-round. The Southwest is one of the fastest growing regions in the country. With climate change affecting yearly temperatures and water needs in this region increasing, infrastructure of the Central Arizona Project needs to be retrofitted with new technologies to combat against the water loss that comes from evaporation due to the open aired canal. This study was designed to look at three different technologies with the capability of covering the Central Arizona Project canal and reduce the amount of water that is lost annually.
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Congestion Control Along Tucson's Streetcar Route: A Case Study Analysis of Implementing Dedicated Lanes
Congestion Control Along Tucson's Streetcar Route: A Case Study Analysis of Implementing Dedicated Lanes
Bramhall, Beatrice
This paper discusses the relationships between traffic congestion and public transit within Tucson, Arizona in attempt to pinpoint the direct repercussions traffic congestion has on public transit operating systems and suggest potential solutions to these issues. This paper focuses on Tucson’s most recent public transportation development of the local streetcar system, also known as the SunLink. The significance of traffic congestion along the SunLink route was measured both currently and in the future in respect to estimated population growth and increased automobile dependency. In attempt to distinguish these potential traffic concerns along Tucson’s streetcar route, a case study analysis of two different cities was incorporated within this study. The reported traffic concerns along the streetcar systems of these two cities were compared with Tucson’s streetcar system by similarities in trends that created traffic issues along the routes. Both of these case studies presented in this paper initially implemented a streetcar plan where the public transit systems shared a lane with mixed traffic, similar to Tucson’s initial plan of the streetcar. Each of these cities identified the shared lanes as the underlying reason for traffic concerns along their streetcar routes and later adopted dedicated lanes for the streetcar to alleviate these concerns. Ultimately, this paper seeks to determine whether similar modifications should be adopted along Tucson’s streetcar route and if so, whether these modifications are even feasible for Tucson.
Sustainable Built Environments Senior Capstone Project
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Renovation and Revitalization of Imuris, Sonora River and Downtown.
Renovation and Revitalization of Imuris, Sonora River and Downtown.
Angulo, Denisse
Revitalization and Restoration of the zone composed of the River and Imuris downtown, is a main emphasis of development purpose. Based on a mixed methodology studies, it is intended to achieve a sustainable development on the community, by starting with the redesign of downtown and then, following with the river to revitalize it, where residents and non-residents can spend mornings and afternoons enjoying a nice, environmental and sustainable moment. It is focused for all the public, where will be enjoyable to hang out and spend time with friends, couple, kids or the entire family.
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Rede CUCA: A Precedent for Environmental Education
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Rede CUCA: A Precedent for Environmental Education
Bennett, Andrea
In the area of sustainability, community outreach and engagement is a crucial part in encouraging communities to make more environmentally conscious decisions, such as through environmental education. An important process in the implementation of community engagement programs is the evaluation of the programs to determine whether they are working as intended. This report will use the organization Rede CUCA as a case study. The report will research different methods of program evaluation currently used at CUCA and an independent evaluation of the organization will also take place to analyze its effectiveness. The purpose of the research is to study how to evaluate programs by analyzing current assessments on CUCA as well as through the practice of conducting an evaluation. The gatherings will provide insights on best evaluation practices and processes which programs and organizations can use to analyze their impacts and make improvements where necessary.
Sustainable Built Environments Senior Capstone Project
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Straining of cryptosporidium parvum in natural porous medium
Straining of cryptosporidium parvum in natural porous medium
de Araujo, Juliana Botelho
Major waterborne outbreaks have occurred due to Cryptosporidium parvum
presence in potable water supplies in the U.S. and Great Britain. Accurate knowledge of
the processes affecting the transport of oocysts in saturated porous media is vital in
assessing the susceptibility of groundwater and bank filtration processes to
contamination. The overall goal of this study was to examine the transport and fate of the
target pathogens in model systems using natural sands. Specifically, this research sought
to quantify the transport of Cryptosporidium parvum through saturated porous media,
focusing on straining as a possible retention process.
Experiments conducted using fine Vinton and Eustis sand resulted in high levels
of oocyst removal, with effluent recoveries less than 0.5%. To observe the effects of
larger pores on the transport of oocysts, three experiments were conducted using coarse
Vinton sand under different conditions. First, an experiment was conducted using
105oocysts/ml C. parvum in NaCl solution. Second, an experiment was performed under
similar conditions, except with a larger pore water velocity. A third experiment was
conducted, this time changing the electrolyte solution to deionized (DI) water. The
breakthrough curves were analyzed for oocyst recovery in conjunction with the oocyst
distribution in the soil column. On average, effluent removal for the coarse sand was
22%-33%.
The results of this study indicate that straining was involved in oocyst removal.
There was no significant increase in the effluent recovery of oocysts when using the
different residence time and electrolyte solution, suggesting that attachment is not the
principal mechanism of oocyst removal. Spatial distribution curves, relating oocysts
removed by the soil and distance traveled within the column, also do not agree with the
classic colloid attachment theory. The results of scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
analysis suggest that the coarse sand grains may significantly impact straining and
attachment due to grain angularity and the presence of internal porosity.
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Water Law and policy in the Sonoita Creek Basin
Water Law and policy in the Sonoita Creek Basin
Blomgren, Nathan Frederick
The Sonoita Creek Basin covers 270 square miles in southeastern Arizona, Santa
Cruz County. The city of Patagonia is the main population center in the watershed with
about 1000 residents. There are numerous surface water rights and applications to
appropriate the waters of Sonoita Creek, which flows perennially from the city of
Patagonia to Patagonia Lake. The relatively small flows of the Creek are divided among
numerous users, including ranching, irrigation, municipal water supply, domestic water
supply, recreation and wildlife. The separation of groundwater and surface water in
Arizona water law makes the legal determination of rights difficult in many
circumstances. The eventual status of many vested water rights is unknown because the
law is being written at the time of publication. A Court decision on a method to identify
wells that are pumping appropriable water is pending, after which the Gila River
Adjudication will examine all water rights in the watershed and decide on their
legitimacy.
Water quality regulation in the Sonoita Creek Basin is limited to drinking water
and effluent standards, and monitoring of abandoned mines. The determination of the
source of water supply for Patagonia will dictate their treatment requirements. The
struggle to replace an aging wastewater treatment plant is ongoing. High acidity and
metal content in waters percolating through abandoned mines continues to be monitored
and the threat to downstream targets assessed.
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STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE WATER MANAGEMENT IN MEXICAN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS: A CASE STUDY IN SONORA
STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE WATER MANAGEMENT IN MEXICAN IRRIGATION DISTRICTS: A CASE STUDY IN SONORA
Palacios-Velez, Enrique
Few studies have been made regarding the efficiency of water use
in irrigation systems in operation. Therefore, in this work the search
for methodologies to evaluate the actual efficiency of water use in a
Mexican irrigation district as well as methods which may improve this
efficiency is emphasized .
. The work has been divided into four parts. In the first part,
the analysis of the economic activities in the irrigation district by
means of linear programming has permitted finding the marginal productivity
of water which is used as a shadow price for economic evaluation
of the operating rules. In this part a relationship between the marginal
productivity of water and the conveyance efficiency has also been found.
In the second part, using hydrological historical data and a
pattern of monthly water demand for crops obtained in the first part,
control curves of the reservoir levels which permit knowledge of the probability
of risk of spill and shortage were computed. Utilizing these
curves and a simple linear programming model for finding the optimal
economic annual average release, operating rules for the reservoir have
been deduced. These rules were tested by means of a simulation model and
their economic effectiveness was estimated using a benefit-cost analysis,
showing a significant improvement in benefits for the farmers as a cons·equence of using these rules.
In the third part, the conveyance losses in the canal network are
analyzed using a linear regression between releases and deliveries. The
proposed model permits an estimation of the conveyance efficiency and its
division into two component factors, the intrinsic efficiency directly
related to the physical characteristics of the canals, and the operational
efficiency related to water management in the canal network.
Knowing these components, it is possible to classify the conveyance
losses as well as deduce operating rules for improving the operational
efficiency. In making decisions about the methods to be used for
improving the conveyance efficiency, benefits and costs must be taken
into account. Therefore, a practical relationship for evaluating the
economic feasibility of lining canals, considering those benefits and
costs, is found as well as a method for economic evaluation of the
operating rules.
Finally, in the last part of this work, a practical methodology
for estimating the application efficiency at the farm level in an irrigation
district and small divisions as well is shown. This method is useful
in finding where the problems in water use are more important within
the district and which could be their principal causes. Utilizing data
from experiments, which are available in most of the ~1exican irrigation
districts, production functions relating yields of crops to the amount of
water applied and the percentage of moisture depletion in the soil
before and during the flowering season of the crop, have been found.
These functions can be used not only for obtaining the optimal economic
depth of water to be applied and irrigation timing but also for deriving
the optimal water use efficiency, which, when related to actual values
of this water efficiency in each subdivision of the district, permits
the deduction of a practi~al water use efficiency index which is useful
for detecting where the problems in water use are and what are the
potential returns for the farmers in each of the considered subdivisions.
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The reduction of copper in Streptococcus pneumoniae by thioredoxin and copper chaperone CupA
The reduction of copper in Streptococcus pneumoniae by thioredoxin and copper chaperone CupA
Hosur, Preetham
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Measuring First Graders’ Growth on Word Identification Fluency: A Prognosis for Later Performance?
Measuring First Graders’ Growth on Word Identification Fluency: A Prognosis for Later Performance?
Allen, Caitlan E.
Background and Objective: Research has repeatedly found that students who have not developed sufficient reading skills by the third grade have lower rates of high school graduation and post high school outcomes. A growing body of literature has examined how the use of curriculum-based measurements (CBMs) can be used to identify these struggling readers earlier, with the hope of providing earlier interventions. The current study aims to build upon this past research, and investigate whether a student’s growth on an early reading skill CBM helps to predict third grade reading performance.
Methods: The study utilized an existing data set from a southern Arizona school district that employs CBMs in school wide screenings three times a year. The sample consisted of 1304 students who were enrolled in first grade between the 2009-2010 and the 2011-2012 school year. Participants were 51.5% male and 48.5% female, with 64.6% of the sample identified as White, non-Hispanic, 25.8% Hispanic, 4.6% African American, 4.3% Asian, and 0.7% Native American. The dependent variables used were third grade Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) and the Reading Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (Reading AIMS). The main independent variables were end of first grade Word Identification Fluency (WIF) scores, and a simple computation of WIF growth during first grade. Demographic variables including the percentage of students on free and reduced lunch at the student’s school, ethnicity, and gender were utilized in the analyses.
Results: Analyses showed significant correlations between end of first grade WIF, end of third grade ORF, and third grade Reading AIMS. Significant correlations were also found between growth in WIF, end of first grade WIF, and end of third grade ORF. WIF growth did not show a significant correlation to Reading AIMS. Based on the results from a hierarchical multiple regression, the addition of end of year WIF performance to the regression model with only demographic information resulted in a statistically significant increase in the proportion of variance explained with an R2 of 51.1% for the model, F(1, 1400) = 1473.830, p <.001. additionally the simple measure of wif growth significantly added to prediction end third grade orf performance especially for those students in range at winter screening. a separate hierarchical multiple regression was used assess value year and when predicting reading aims performance. results indicated that gender ethnicity accounted about variation scores but adding into model resulted an increase proportion variance explained with f p addition provided less than one percent improvement explained. conclusion: on first related both their aims. also suggest assessments is demographic variables including gender. current study demonstrated student during predictive who were classified screening grade. however this did not improve>
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Mountains and Earth’s Climate: Insights from Two Earth System Models
Mountains and Earth’s Climate: Insights from Two Earth System Models
Naiman, Zachary
Earth’s land surface topography, including mountains and ice sheets, is known to impact climate on various spatial and timescales through a variety of mechanisms. However, the role of mountains in shaping the most basic, large-scale characteristics of Earth’s global climate system is debated, and changes in Earth’s mountains have been linked to long-term climate change such as the Cenozoic cooling trend. Here I present analysis of numerical modeling experiments intended to shed light on the impact of mountains on Earth’s climate, as well as the mechanisms by which Earth’s topography influences the climate system.
Removing all land-surface topography from two state-of-the-art Earth System Models results in large regional changes to Earth’s surface temperature and precipitation, but these changes largely cancel each other out on a global scale. Mountains are found to influence key aspects of the climate system, and this dissertation explores the changes to two atmosphere-ocean coupled phenomena in particular: one that occurs in the tropics, and the other at high Northern latitudes. The El Niño Southern Oscillation is less frequent and more regular when mountains are not present, and associated anomalies are much larger without mountains probably because deep atmospheric convection is no longer orographically moored to the Maritime Continent (Indonesia). The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is much weaker when mountains are not present because of the influence that mountains have on the strength and the shape of the winds in the North Atlantic and the impact on mixing of warm, salty waters from the subtropical gyre into the cooler, fresher waters of the subpolar gyre.
Finally, this work reports the changes in our experiments in a specific region – East Africa – and compares the changes to modern observations of climate variables in that region, and to climate changes induced from other perturbation experiments. This region is of particular interest because it contains the majority of hominin fossils that document the evolution of our own species, and also records in paleo-archives concurrent changes in climate and climate variability. Removing mountains has a much larger impact on East African precipitation than quadrupling atmospheric carbon dioxide, opening a Panamanian seaway between the tropical Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, or adding one million cubic meters per second of freshwater to the North Atlantic over the course of a century. The East African precipitation changes imparted by the other perturbation experiments are not large enough to distinguish from noise as estimated by historically poorly constrained observations of precipitation in East African.
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Wavelength Switching in Software-Defined Optical Transmission Systems
Wavelength Switching in Software-Defined Optical Transmission Systems
Mo, Weiyang
The continuous growth of Internet traffic, including HD video rendering, cloud computing, and the Internet of things (IoT), motivates more efficient optical communications capable of handling a wide range of applications. Dynamic reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) based wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) systems in which connections are established through real-time wavelength switching operations have long been studied as a means of achieving greater scalability and increasing the network resource utilization. While ROADMs are extensively deployed in today’s WDM systems, they remain quasi-static with wavelengths being provisioned to meet the peak traffic requirements and left in place. Recent advances in hardware and software greatly improve the multi-layer control and management of ROADM systems facilitating wavelength switching. However, ensuring stable performance and reliable quality of transmission (QoT) remain difficult problems for dynamic wavelength switching. A key challenge in converting today’s quasi-static ROADM systems into real-time wavelength routed ROADM systems is the optical power dynamics that arise from a variety of physical effects in the amplifiers and transmission fiber.
In this dissertation, we first discuss the model of the power excursion due to interactions between the wavelength dependent gain and automatic gain control of optical amplifiers. The power excursion is the main manifestation of optical power dynamics. In order to offer rapid wavelength switching capabilities for dynamic ROADM transmission systems, different hardware and software methods are investigated to mitigate power excursions. First, a dual-wavelength source is implemented to distribute a single optical signal over two wavelengths—one with a high gain and the other with a low gain—to equalize the average gain and mitigate power excursions. Second, we investigate non-disruptive and proactive probe methods to predict a variety of physical parameters and thus recommend optimal wavelength assignments with minimal power excursions. Third, a deep neural network based machine learning method is investigated to predict the optical power dynamics from data collection and training. The trained deep neural network can recommend wavelength assignments for wavelength switching with minimal power excursions.
Software-defined networking (SDN) is a key to providing software control capabilities that can be exploited to achieve real-time wavelength switching in large-scale multi-domain ROADM systems, but its scalability and flexibility are limited by various types of physical layer impairments. In this dissertation, we investigate a transparent software-defined exchange (TSDX) control system to guarantee service level agreement (SLA) requirements for multi-domain optical systems in which optical signals can be exchanged between domains entirely in the optical layer through Internet exchange points (IXPs). Advanced optical performance monitors (OPM) are implemented for real-time introspection of the physical system at different network locations without the need for optical-to-electrical-to-optical (OEO) processing. Real-time optical signal to noise ratio (OSNRs) measurements using OPMs together with inter-domain negotiation enabled by the SDN-based hierarchical control architecture allow impairment-aware wavelength rerouting and code adaptation in our 6-ROADM multi-domain optical network testbed.
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Sustainable Pool
Sustainable Pool
Virrey, Gloria
The following document addresses the importance of sustainability into design of a private swimming pool. It shows how easy it is to establish human thermal comfort, xeriscaping ideas for a cooler environment, and recycling water and recharging aquifers. All by powering the pumps, lights, heaters, and maintenance only by using solar energy from PV panels used as a Ramada for the pool design. The study was conducted at a residential home in Tucson, AZ. A house was chosen to see how these benefits will impact the thermal zone and how it will perish the water we don’t have much of in the southwest region of the US. Different materials were implemented into the design to show the comparison of the sustainable principles and products versus the non-sustainable products to show how you can save and how the payback period of all the costs to pay back in 2 years.
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Mercantilización Cultural, Gourmetización y Gentrificación de los Espacios Culinarios de Madrid como Consecuencia de la Estadounidensificación de la Ciudad
Mercantilización Cultural, Gourmetización y Gentrificación de los Espacios Culinarios de Madrid como Consecuencia de la Estadounidensificación de la Ciudad
Vázquez Blázquez, Laura
This dissertation explores the key role food has in transforming Madrid. It uses the relationships between food, culture and capital as a way to examine food effects on the urban process. The first two chapters highlight the connection between urban transformation, gourmetization of traditional and ethnic culinary spaces, and the concept of “selling place” in relation to the commodification of culture and urban regeneration. The first chapter focuses on the evolution and transformation of three food markets in Madrid. Some of these traditional food markets have been transformed into gourmet niches that satisfy the needs of foodies, residents, visitors, and tourists. The second chapter explores the emergence of Gourmet Mexican restaurants along with the new dynamics that take place within the postmodern city, in terms of consumption and production. This helps illustrate how the growth of many new and gourmetized Mexican restaurants operate as cultural venues to enhance the symbolic economy of Madrid, leading, in some cases, to a culinary and commercial gentrification, specially when these establishments are centrally located. My last chapter examines how the aforementioned urban processes are articulated in visual cultural artifacts. I particularly focus on two films where two major chefs and their high-end restaurants operate as part of the symbolic capital of different postindustrial cities. The analysis of Fuera de Carta (2008) and Chef ( 2014 )– among other secondary examples that are discussed– focuses on the gourmetization of culinary urban space , where food and chefs are the protagonists that help recreate the culinary imaginary.
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A Baroque Denouement: The Direct Influence of Theatre on Bernini's Artistic Work
A Baroque Denouement: The Direct Influence of Theatre on Bernini's Artistic Work
Francesco, Amelia Rose
Gian Lorenzo Bernini is the most prominent architect of the High and Late Baroque periods and there is a vast amount of scholarship addressing his architectural, sculptural, and pictorial works. However, studies on the other aspects of his life and work are underdeveloped, especially that of his long and dedicated involvement with the theatre. As scholars Robert Fahrner and William Kleb note in a 1973 essay published in the Educational Theatre Journal, “Art historians seem interested in it [Bernini’s theatrical activity] only in general, as an ‘influence’ on Bernini’s more important (and tangible) sculptural and architectural achievements. Theatre historians seem to have ignored it almost entirely.” This vast oversight, caused by the arbitrary separation of the visual and performing arts, has greatly hindered any scholarly attempts at a fully realized understanding of the Baroque master.
In this thesis, I discuss the traditions and styles in 17th century theatre of Italy and France as well as Bernini’s involvement in and use of theatrical conventions in his sculpture and architecture. By tracing both his theatrical activity and artistic career, the connections become extremely evident, shedding new light on Bernini’s life and legacy.
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