VictorJuiz/thesis huggingface dataset:
The monumental architecture of the Cyclades in the classical and Hellenistic periods

The aim of this study is to establish the existence of a distinct regional architecture on the Cycladic islands during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. It presents a record of materials and of certain constructional techniques, proportions and forms of Cycladic monumental architecture, from which it is possible to establish and explain the differences and similarities of Cycladic practice with other Greek architectural traditions. It is based on a close examination of all the known major buildings and many fortifications on the Cyclades and Thasos, a colony of Pares with certain similar architectural traits.
The first section of the thesis (Chapters 2-4) treats the principal constructional techniques, with separate detailed examinations of the various materials employed, the types and nature of foundation, euthynteria and wall construction. The materials available to the builders played a major part in the nature of these parts, all of which display a pronounced conservatism in technique despite strong influences from outside the archipelago. The second section (Chapters 5-6) looks at a number of significant proportions within Doric colonnades and entablatures, principally outlining the Cycladic tendency for slender columns and a less well established tendency for relatively low architraves throughout the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods; accompanying tables and graphs detail and illustrate the proportions discussed. The final section (Chapters 7-8) studies two particular architectural forms - the tops of triglyphs and Ionic capitals; in the former, particular regional preferences of form are noted, while in the latter there are both conservative and innovative tendencies, as well as strong outside influences.
There emerges from this study a local architecture that is conservative in many aspects of its architecture while being receptive to outside influences and even having a certain notable originality of its own.
Appendix 1 lists many of the typical traits of essentially Archaic Cycladic architecture, some of which continue into the Classical period. Appendix 2 includes graphs detailing the effect of lower column diameter and column height upon column slenderness. A Catalogue of the Classical and Hellenistic Cycladic and Thasian monuments, together with their bibliography, is included at the end of Volume I.
Pricing of European, Bermudan and American Options under the
Exponential Variance Gamma Process

This dissertation reports on a study of the pricing of European, Bermudan and American put options where the stock price is driven by an exponential Variance Gamma process. Closed-form solutions (for European options), Monte Carlo methods (for Bermudan options) and Finite Difference methods (for all three types) were implemented to value the options. The performance of the various algorithms was investigated and the option values produced by the different algorithms were compared. Finally, the delta and gamma greeks were calculated for these options using finite difference and Monte Carlo methods.
British radio broadcasting and its audience, 1918-1939

After 1918, radio broadcasting was an important example of the wide range of technological developments which greatly influenced British society. Previously, very little detailed attention has been devoted to the social consequences of the enormous increase in listening to broadcast programmes which occured before 1939.
This analysis commences with an investigation of the growth, distribution and structure of the radio audience. It also establishes the main economic and technical influences on the pattern of transmission and reception. The response of the audience to the medium is displayed by reference to the comments and activities of listeners' pressure groups, whilst the views of a rival medium - the national press - are collected by means of a content analysis. The work of inter-war social surveyors is used to place broadcasting in the context of other important social changes which were occuring. The reaction of the BBC is analysed to discover the evolution in the relationship between the two sides of the microphone, whilst an examination of BBC listener research material provides detailed evidence on audience tastes and habits. Finally, three localities are examined to expose the important facets of grassroots behaviour and verify other findings.
Throughout the period, the dominance of economic and technological influences on broadcasters and listeners alike is very clear, particularly in the context of an emerging consumer society. Some of the changes in social behaviour attributable to broadcasting were predictable, some unexpected: others depended on the circumstances of listeners and there were many variations in the rate and extent of these changes. Some themes stand out: broadcasting brought immediacy to the reporting of national issues, creating a greater sense of national identity and involvement. Listening also changed the pattern of leisure activity, modified the structure of the family and helped to create a more knowledgeable population.
Experimental studies of viscous effects on cavitation

The work reported in this thesis falls into three distinct, though intimately related parts. Part I is concerned with the production of a variable temperature two-phase flow test facility for studying single and two-phase flows around arbitrary two-dimensional bodies. It includes the initial design study required to define an operational envelope for the facility, and the design and constructional features of its main components and ancilliary systems. The design of a two-phase flow vapour ventilation experiment is described, together with the operating procedure for the facility.
Part II reports single and two-phase experiments with a two-dimensional circular cylinder, the two-phase flows being generated by inducing natural cavitation. The cavitation inception flow regime was found to be strongly influenced by viscous effects. Three forms of incipient cavitation were observed, two attached or very close to the cylinder surface, and one of a detached nature, occurring well downstream in the wake of the cylindrical test body. These inception modes have been related to the fully wetted viscous flow around the cylinder in the Reynolds number range 105 d
<106. The development of cavitation from these three aforementioned incipient states was investigated. Viscous effects were found to influence both the limited and developed cavitation flow regimes. For development of cavitation at Reynolds numbers corresponding broadly to the supercritical range for fully wetted flow, a critical cavitation number was found at which the apparent free stream lines of the flow changed from a concave to a convex disposition. For the experimental configuration used, this critical cavitation number was independent of Reynolds number, for Reynolds numbers above the critical value. With development of cavitation at Reynolds numbers corresponding broadly to the subcritical range for fully wetted flow, no such gross changes in flow pattern were observed, the displacement of the apparent free streamlines of the flow between the limited and fully developed cavitating states being minimal.
Part III contains recommendations for modifications to the experimental facility and suggestions for further studies arising from the results reported herein.
Nuclear magnetic resonance data processing methods

This thesis describes the application of a wide variety of data processing methods, in particular the Maximum Entropy Method (MEM), to data from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) experiments. Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to NMR and to data processing, which is developed in chapter 2. NMR is described in terms of the classical model due to Bloch, and the principles of conventional (Fourier transform) data processing developed. This is followed by a description of less conventional techniques. The MEM is derived on several grounds, and related to both Bayesian reasoning and Shannon information theory. Chapter 3 describes several methods of evaluating the quality of NMR spectra obtained by a variety of data processing techniques; the simple criterion of spectral appearance is shown to be completely unsatisfactory. A Monte Carlo method is described which allows several different techniques to be compared, and the relative advantages of Fourier transformation and the MEM are assessed. Chapter 4 describes in vivo NMR, particularly the application of the MEM to data from Phase Modulated Rotating Frame Imaging (PMRFI) experiments. In this case the conventional data processing is highly unsatisfactory, and MEM processing results in much clearer spectra. Chapter 5 describes the application of a range of techniques to the estimation and removal of splittings from NMR spectra. The various techniques are discussed using simple examples, and then applied to data from the amino acid iso-leucine. The thesis ends with five appendices which contain historical and philosophical notes, detailed calculations pertaining to PMRFI spectra, and a listing of the MEM computer program.
Curves of genus 2 with real multiplication by a square root of 5

Our aim in this work is to produce equations for curves of genus 2 whose Jacobians have real multiplication (RM) by Q(
√
5
)
, and to examine the conjecture that any abelian surface with RM by Q(
√
5
)
is isogenous to a simple factor of the Jacobian of a modular curve X0(N)
for some N
. To this end, we review previous work in this area, and are able to use a criterion due to Humbert in the last century to produce a family of curves of genus 2 with RM by Q(
√
5
)
which parametrizes such curves which have a rational Weierstrass point. We proceed to give a calculation of the \ell
-adic representations arising from abelian surfaces with RM, and use a special case of this to determine a criterion for the field of definition of RM by Q(
√
5
)
. We examine when a given polarized abelian surface A
defined over a number field k
with an action of an order R
in a real field F
, also defined over k
, can be made principally polarized after k
-isogeny, and prove, in particular, that this is possible when the conductor of R
is odd and coprime to the degree of the given polarization. We then give an explicit description of the moduli space of curves of genus 2 with real multiplication by Q(
√
5
)
. From this description, we are able to generate a fund of equations for these curves, employing a method due to Mestre.
A typological and archaeological study of human and animal representations in the plastic art of Palestine during the Iron Age

Palestine has one of the longest histories of archaeological exploration in the Near East "because the recovery of its material remains has "been of great value in interpreting biblical literature, which in turn has shed much light on the ancient history of the Levant in general. In order to establish the chronological setting, Sir Flinders Petrie was the first Near Eastern archaeologist to devise a system of sequence dating based upon the scientific study of pottery in its stratigraphical position within a mound. As a result of his researches in Palestine, the first systematic attempt was made to record a corpus of pottery representing all periods of occupation during which pottery occurred. The result was the publication by Duncan of the Corpus of Palestinian Pottery (London, 1930). Since 1930, the study of pottery types has been greatly refined and enlarged so that at least the general periods of Palestine's history can now be defined in some detail by known pottery types. The best modern compilation of the pottery from its beginnings in the Neolithic period to the end of the Iron Age is Amiran's Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land (Jerusalem, 1969). Many special studies of pottery, the latest being Franken's In Search of the Jericho Potters (Leiden, 1975), employ both old and new methods of typology in ceramic studies in an effort to understand more completely the cultural and chronological changes within the various periods of Palestinian history ... [see pdf file for full abstract].
Forms of persuasion: art and business in the 1960s

In the 1960s, art and business engaged in a sweeping but now largely forgotten romance. Corporations rushed to install art in their foyers and on their urban plazas. Many bought or commissioned works of art to display inside their factories and offices. They reproduced art in their advertisements and annual reports, and profiled it in press stunts and photo ops. They developed promotional art exhibitions that toured across the country and around the world. This dissertation considers how such artworks supported – but also sometimes disrupted – the marketing, public relations, lobbying and personnel strategies of large-scale corporate enterprise. By reconstructing this diverse field, this dissertation contends that art was a key tool for the burgeoning ‘persuasion industry’ of the sixties. Both in the United States and further afield, artists and businesses worked together to make artworks function as ‘forms of persuasion’, instruments by which the consensus of the corporation’s constituents – workers, consumers and regulators – could be secured. The case studies focus on range of companies active in this field, exploring the phenomenon in three thematic chapters, covering the use of pop art by the packaged goods business, the role of abstract painting in the workplace and the value of metal sculpture for the steel industry. It is argued that the practices described through these examples represent a defining cultural phenomena of sixties art, one that challenges the conventional art historical alignment of its avant-garde with the decade’s famed radical politics, protest and counterculture.
Redistribution in parliamentary democracies: the role of second-dimensional identity politics

In this dissertation I explore the redistributive effects of second-dimensional identity politics in parliamentary democracies. Specifically, I focus on parties’ electoral incentives to manipulate the salience of the territorial-identity cleavage. My main argument is that a greater electoral salience of the second dimension distorts the nature of redistributive outcomes. Although the redistributive effects of second dimensions of political competition have been explored in majoritarian democracies, much less is known about their effects in democracies with proportional representation (PR). The dissertation brings “bad news” in that regard: when the territorial second dimension is salient, it is no longer true that parliamentary democracies with proportional electoral systems redistribute more –which is the prevalent view in the existing literature. In fact, the so called “left-bias” of PR systems vanishes when the territorial-identity cleavage is politically activated. This key insight therefore offers a fundamental qualification to the institutionalism literature, by making an effort to understand the way in which regional diversity interacts with institutions through multidimensional political competition.
The dissertation is divided in two parts: one theoretical and one empirical. First, I develop a formal model that illustrates the way in which parties’ second-dimension electoral incentives affect both the electoral stage and the subsequent post-electoral coalition bargaining among parties in national parliaments. The reason is that both right-wing and regionalist parties have incentives to increase the salience of the second dimension at the electoral stage to attract voters, and subsequently the coalition bargaining among parties in parliaments offers new opportunities for legislative coalitions. In the second part of the dissertation, I test the empirical implications at the macro-level, the meso-level and the individual-level. The main empirical results can be summarised as follows. First, I present empirical evidence according to which the legislative salience of the second dimension induces a negative effect on redistribution and a positive effect on the regionalisation of public policy. Second, I provide evidence which shows that both right-wing and regionalist parties strategically increase the electoral salience of the second dimension when they are “losers” on the first dimension. Finally, I illustrate the way in which the salience of the second dimension affects the formation of individual preferences for redistribution. In sum, this dissertation provides new arguments and empirical evidence that demonstrates how second dimensional politics can have profound redistributive consequences in parliamentary democracies.
An illustrious man and his uomini illustri

The thesis begins with a cursory discussion of the Classical literary and visual sources for Renaissance uomini illustri cycles. The conveyance of these specific Classical sources to medieval France is touched upon, which leads to the rebirth of the uomini illustri genre in the guise of the chivalric NeufPreux. The discussion of the conceptual and artistic genesis of the uomini illustri genre creates an extensive time line, with some lacuna, that allows us to visualize the development of this theme right up to Renaissance Italy. A synopsis of the many uomini illustri cycles on the Italian peninsula is then given. The significance that the cycles may have embodied in relation to the environment for which they were created, as well as the meaning that they may have held for the viewer and patron is examined.
Subsequently, a biography of Francesco di Marco Datini is given, touching on his early sojourn in Avignon, his activities in Italy during the construction and decoration of the Palazzo Datini, as well as his artistic patronage as a whole. Datini's friendships with the foremost humanist thinkers of the time is analyzed. This study, as well as the analysis of Francesco di Marco Datini as a merchant and a man living on the cusp between the Tre and Quattrocento, provides the context in which to visualize the creation of the uomini illustri cycle in Palazzo Datini, although the decoration of the cortile extends beyond simply the representation of historical figures to include virtues, vices, the sciences and philosophers, a trait common in other contemporary uomini illustri cycles. The complicated and diverse stages of the construction and decoration of Palazzo Datini is closely scrutinized, so that together with documentary evidence from the fecund Archivio di Stato di Prato (much of which has not been previously published) a clear reconstruction of the building of the palazzo and its decoration can be given for the first time. I discuss the careers of artists working for Datini, particularly Niccolo v di Piero Gerini, the main artist working on the extended uomini illustri cycle of Palazzo Datini. The final goal is the physical, iconographical, and conceptual reconstruction of the courtyard decoration of Palazzo Datini.
Price modelling and asset valuation in carbon emission and electricity markets

This thesis is concerned with the mathematical analysis of electricity and carbon emission markets.
We introduce a novel, versatile and tractable stochastic framework for the joint price formation of electricity spot prices and allowance certificates. In the proposed framework electricity and allowance prices are explained as functions of specific fundamental factors, such as the demand for electricity and the prices of the fuels used for its production. As a result, the proposed model very clearly captures the complex dependency of the modelled prices on the aforementioned fundamental factors. The allowance price is obtained as the solution to a coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equation. We provide a rigorous proof of the existence and uniqueness of a solution to this equation and analyse its behaviour using asymptotic techniques. The essence of the model for the electricity price is a carefully chosen and explicitly constructed function representing the supply curve in the electricity market.
The model we propose accommodates most regulatory features that are commonly found in implementations of emissions trading systems and we analyse in detail the impact these features have on the prices of allowance certificates. Thereby we reveal a weakness in existing regulatory frameworks, which, in rare cases, can lead to allowance prices that do not conform with the conditions imposed by the regulator.
We illustrate the applicability of our model to the pricing of derivative contracts, in particular clean spread options and numerically illustrate its ability to "see" relationships between the fundamental variables and the option contract, which are usually unobserved by other commonly used models in the literature.
The results we obtain constitute flexible tools that help to efficiently evaluate the financial impact current or future implementations of emissions trading systems have on participants in these markets.

Keywords: Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equation
Electricity
Commodity Market
Derivative Pricing
Emission Market
Non-linear Partial Differential Equation
Advisor: Howison, S
The mirror of Tacitus? Selves and others in the Tiberian books of the 'Annals'

This thesis considers the geographical and chronological forms of ‘mirroring’ that offer a way of reading 'Annals' 1-6. It looks at how Tacitus’ depictions of non-Romans reflect back on Rome, and at the echoes of Rome’s past and future that can be discerned within his description of Tiberius’ principate. After an introduction that discusses key thematic and methodological questions, Chapter 1 shows that Tiberius’ accession and the Pannonian and German mutinies described in 'Annals' 1 echo Tacitus’ account in 'Histories' 1 of events of AD 69. Moreover, when the Romans attempt to conquer Germany, the Germans’ resistance to this and to other efforts to rule them shows up Roman responses to civil war and autocracy. Chapter 2 begins by examining potential similarities between Roman and both Parthian and Armenian history, and then focuses on Germanicus’ voyage in the east, recounted in 'Annals' 2. His actions associate him with many late republican and early imperial Roman figures, which suggests that there are continuities between those two eras. Chapter 3 extends this theme by discussing the echoes of Sallust and Caesar in the central books of the Tiberian hexad. Intertexts with Sallust’s 'Bellum Catilinae' especially hint that earlier civil conflicts are about to be replayed in some form, as the appearance of Sejanus, the ‘new Catiline’, confirms.
Chapter 4 further considers Tacitus’ inferences about the overlap between republican and imperial history, and then examines anti-Roman revolts in 'Annals' 2, 3 and 4. Foreign rebels’ relative success in attempting to reclaim their freedom correlates with their distance from Rome, and this has clear implications for the status of Roman 'libertas' under Tiberius. Finally, the outbreak of ‘civil war within the principate’, and indeed within the imperial house, is analysed. Chapter 5 traces the continuation of this ‘civil war’, and proposes that the last book of the Tiberian hexad again looks directly to 69, as well as to the excesses of other Julio-Claudians. It also considers Tacitus’ account of Roman intervention in Parthia: this episode confirms imperial Rome’s propensity for autocracy and civil war. There follows a short conclusion in which some speculation is offered about how some of the themes discussed in this thesis with reference to the Tiberian hexad may have been represented in the lost central books of the 'Annals'.

Keywords: Roman historiography
early principate
Tacitus
civil war
Advisor: Ash, R
Pelling, C