On and Off the Stage at Atlanta Greek Picnic: Performances of Collective Black Middle-Class Identities and the Politics of Belonging

This dissertation presents a thick ethnography that engages in the micro-analysis of the situationality of black middle-class collective identification processes through an examination of performances by members of the nine historically black sororities and fraternities at Atlanta Greek Picnic, an annual festival that occurs at the beginning of June in Atlanta, Georgia. It mainly attracts undergraduate and graduate members of these university-based organizations, as they exist all over the United States. This exploration of black Greek-letter organization (BGLO) performances uncovers processes through which young black middle-class individuals attempt to combine two universes that are at first glance in complete opposition to each other: the domain of the traditional black middle-class values with representations and fashions stemming from black popular culture. These constructions also attempt to incorporate—in a contradiction of sorts— black popular cultural elements in the objective to deconstruct the social conservatism that characterizes middle-class values, particularly in relation to sexuality and its representation in social behaviors and performances. This negotiation between prescribed v middle-class values of respectability and black popular culture provides a space wherein black individuals challenge and/or perpetuate those dominant tropes through identity performances that feed into the formation of black sexual politics, which I examine through a variety of BGLO staged and non-staged performances.

Évaluation, par simulation, des performances de serveurs de commerce électronique : étude de cas : le serveur GNP

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Impact démographique et performances économiques des immigrants : une approche régionale au Québec (1976-1996) et au Canada (1996)

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La différence dans les performances visuo-spatiales des résidents en chirurgie et celles d'un groupe contrôle

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Impact of scatterer density on the performances of double-scattering MIMO channels

We investigate a MIMO double-scattering model with both local and remote scatterers, aiming to investigate the effect of scatterer density on channel performances, such as capacity, correlation, and the condition number of the channel matrix in flat and frequency-selective fading channels. The investigations are carried out in terms of scatterer density. It is shown that in flat fading channels the scatterer density has a marginal effect on channel performances when the area of the two scatterer zones is fixed, while a significant impact is observed when the area of the scatterer zones is allowed to change. In frequency-selective fading channels, no matter the area of the scatterer zones is fixed or not, scatterer density can affect the channel capacity to a certain degree that depends on the length of the coding block of the transmitted signals. © 2010 IEEE.

Évaluation, par simulation, des performances de serveurs de commerce électronique : étude de cas : le serveur GNP

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Impact démographique et performances économiques des immigrants : une approche régionale au Québec (1976-1996) et au Canada (1996)

Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

La différence dans les performances visuo-spatiales des résidents en chirurgie et celles d'un groupe contrôle

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.