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A software package based on recent knowledge on sound propagation models and on traffic noise emission has been developed for the optimal abatement solution for traffic noise. The software, called CEEPA, is integrated with a signal processing algorithm to provide…

This thesis studies al-Ghazali's theory of knowledge, particularly his concept of knowledge of God in his three later works: "The book of Knowledge" of the Ih&dotbelow;ya', al-Munqidh, and Iljam al-`Awamm. From his conception of knowledge of God the first book…

The contemporary study in the philosophy of language concentrates extensively on a cluster of questions defining the problem of linguistic knowledge (Evans 1981, Davies 1989, Dummett 1991). What explains a speaker's language mastery? Is it knowledge that underwrites our linguistic…

El punto de partida de la presente investigación sobre el significado y la función que la mimesis tiene en el pensamiento de Aristóteles está dado por la adopción de una perspectiva de estudio "amplia", i.e. no restringida a la esfera…

Le phénomène de la création dans le cadre d’un discours sur la création – la production littéraire et artistique – ne va pas de soi. La tâche de le circonscrire comme un objet est antinomique : l’expérience du discours est…

Dans le contexte actuel de l’éducation au Québec où la réforme des programmes de formation des jeunes appelle un renouvellement des pratiques d’enseignement, notre recherche s’intéresse au développement de la dimension didactique de la pratique liée à l’enseignement des mathématiques…

Focusing on the A-text (1604) version of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus , this study further assesses biographical information on the poet and intellectual currents of the Counter Reformation, so as to investigate the play's relation to emergent trends of individualism in…

This thesis considers the design of receivers for multi-user communication systems based on asynchronous direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA). Its primary aim is to improve current receiver designs which exhibit shortcomings in systems using long sequence spreading (where the spreading sequence…

This dissertation offers both a theoretical investigation into the relationships between narrative, knowledge and personhood and a literary critical analysis of a group of Samuel Beckett's works in which narrative, knowledge and personhood are the central themes., I present an…