THE JORDANIAN CONTEMPORARY ART CRITICISM : A METHODOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF CRITICAL PRACTICES

HADDAD, ZIYAD SALEM Ohio State University 1988 해외박사

RASHID RIDA AND THE THEORY OF THE CALIPHATE : MEDIEVAL THEMES AND MODERN CONCERNS (CALIPHATE, RIDA RASHID, EGYPT, OTTOMAN EMPIRE)

HADDAD, MAHMUD OSMAN Columbia University 1989 국내박사

Grundzustand und thermonukleare Eigenschaften relativistischer Kerne in einer selbstkonsistenten semiklassischen Behandlung

Haddad, Sami 1995 국내박사

The American Marco Polo: Excursions to a virtual China in United States popular culture, 1784--1912

Haddad, John Rogers The University of Texas at Austin 2002 해외박사(DDOD)

From the launching of the first American trading vessel bound for Canton to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, ordinary Americans demonstrated a strong fascination with China. To capitalize on this curiosity, enterprising individuals organized popular events designed to simulate actual travel to China: museums, store layouts, travelogues, panoramas, battle reenactments, stereographic guided tours, and moving pictures. While learning about China, ordinary people could play the role of Marco Polo. In the past, representations of the Asian “other” have been understood mostly in terms of power. According to historians, Americans described China with mainly malevolent intentions: to celebrate their own racial and cultural superiority, to justify the economic domination of China, or to marginalize Chinese immigrants inside the United States. Though nationalism, imperialism, and racism do play prominent roles, other factors complicate this story in ways that historians have thus far overlooked. This dissertation offers a revisionist view of American representations of China that is more sensitive to their complexity. First, the individuals who described China never reached an anti-Chinese consensus. Since they came from different backgrounds, possessed different ideologies, and viewed China during different historical eras, they each constructed China in a unique fashion. Indeed, many confronted in China a rich culture that earned their admiration—not their condemnation. And since they all hoped to influence popular opinion, they were far too busy contesting one another's ethnologies to align themselves against the Chinese. Second, representations did not emanate solely from a white consciousness and reflect only white power. The Chinese, far from being passive and powerless, often participated in the representation process in overt or subtle ways. And finally, audiences looked to China to fill a variety of needs, only one of which was a complacent desire to confirm their own superiority. Many hoped to acquire knowledge about the outside world; others sought a brief escape from their own customs and institutions. That audiences possessed not one but many motivations adds to the overall complexity argued for in this dissertation.

A conceptual guide to the political present: Temporal order as political order in Diderot, Augustine, Hobbes and Arendt (Denis Diderot, Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Thomas Hobbes, Hannah Arendt)

Haddad, Khristina Hamilton University of Michigan 2003 해외박사(DDOD)

While theories about the past and the future are more familiar in the field of political thought, my dissertation offers a theory of the present. Based on comparative case studies of Augustine, Hobbes, Diderot, and Arendt, I argue that the present—the temporally bounded space of the “here and now”—is crucial to politics. How and with what political consequences do political theorists craft the present? I focus on these four political theorists because their different conceptions of the present condition the regimes they propose. Starting with the infinite time of nature as imagined by Diderot, my work frames the moment of the political present as an ideological construction, an ordering device that has largely remained beyond contestation. For Augustine, time is the unanswered question that undermines his ability to offer a coherent account of the world. I demonstrate how his struggle to conceptualize time defines relationships of hierarchy and obligation. In my reading of Hobbes, I show the epistemological and hermeneutic elimination of the past and the future as effective strategies to protect the absolute sovereign as a single source of present authority. As a form of government, Hobbesian absolute sovereignty requires the closure of the present. By contrast, Arendt's analysis of totalitarianism leads to the demand for a temporality of spontaneity in the political realm. I argue that the centrality of time in Arendt's thought must be understood in the context of postwar efforts to renew politics by creating a new time. One way to come to terms with the past is to consider the shape of its present. My study conceptualizes time as temporal regime—the marshalling of time into a particular formation that enables a specific political project.

An options approach to quantify the value of decisions after prognostic indication

Haddad, Gilbert University of Maryland, College Park 2012 해외박사(DDOD)

Safety, mission and infrastructure critical systems have started adopting prognostics and health management, a discipline consisting of technologies and methods to assess the reliability of a product in its actual life-cycle conditions to determine the advent of failure and mitigate system risks. The output from a prognostic system is the remaining useful life of the host system; it gives the decision-maker lead-time and flexibility in maintenance. Examples of flexibility include delaying maintenance actions to use up the remaining useful life and halting the operation of the system to avoid critical failure. Quantifying the value of flexibility enables decision support at the system level, and provides a solution to the fundamental tradeoff in maintenance of systems with prognostics: minimize the remaining useful life thrown while concurrently minimizing the risk of failure. While there are cost-benefit models to quantify the value of implementing prognostics, they are applicable to the fleet level, they do not incorporate the value of decisions after prognostic indication (value of flexibility or contingency actions), and do not use PHM information for dynamic maintenance scheduling. This dissertation develops a decision support model based on 'options' theory- a financial derivative tool extended to real assets---to quantify maintenance decisions after a remaining useful life prediction. A hybrid methodology based on Monte Carlo simulations and decision trees is developed. The methodology incorporates the value of contingency actions when assessing the benefits of PHM. The model is extended and combined with least squares Monte Carlo methods to quantify the option to wait to perform maintenance; it represents the value obtained from PHM at the system level. The methodology also allows quantifying the benefits of PHM for individualized maintenance policies for systems in real-time, and to set a dynamic maintenance threshold based on PHM information. This work is the first known to quantify the flexibility enabled by PHM and to address the cost-benefit-risk ramifications after prognostic indication at the system level. The contributions of the dissertation are demonstrated on data for wind farms.

"This Is How It Feels": The Lived Experience of High School Musical Theater

Haddad, Kary Thomas Boston University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 2018 해외박사(DDOD)

In this study, I seek to explore the phenomenological question: What is the lived experience of rehearsing for and performing in a high school musical? Employing a research methodology inspired by Max van Manen, I outline a theoretical framework highlighting the intersection of Martin Heidegger's phenomenology and Constantin Stanislavski's acting theory. Because this intersection rests on a mutually compatible view of being-in-the-world as an experience of both temporality and sociality, I also identify two sub-questions: What is the lived experience of time, as set apart, for the high school musical? and What is the lived experience of encountering and being-with others in a high school musical? Further, because high school musical theater is an activity that occurs in schools, which are spaces of learning, a third sub-question becomes: What is the lived experience of learning in a high school musical?. I explore this phenomenological question by collecting lived experience descriptions from five high school students participating in a production of South Pacific. Using data gathered from three interviews taken at periodic intervals over the course of the rehearsal and production period, as well as weekly personal journals created by the students, I present a narrative that seeks meaning and understanding through an encounter with the students' unique experiences. An important rationale for conducting phenomenological research is that encounters with experiences outside our own can foster empathetic reactions and, when undertaken in the context of educational research, this empathy can lead to more thoughtful pedagogy. In discussion of my findings, I propose that a view of the musical theater process that focuses on training students to stage a final production and concentrates primarily on instilling an understanding of performance skills in order to do so may limit opportunities for students to find deeper levels of meaning, and that structuring a rehearsal process that specifically seeks to encourage the discovery of meaning by students could enhance both the journey and the destination of high school musical theater.

Green processes in drug delivery systems

Haddad, Majdi F University of Massachusetts Boston 2008 해외박사(DDOD)

The release rate of a therapeutic agent from a drug delivery system can be manipulated by altering the dissolution rate of the drug material as well as adjusting the cross linking density between the polymers entrapping it. The present study investigates these two parameters employing environmentally benign concepts. First, the dissolution of terephthalamide crystals and hydroquinone-terephthalamide cocrystals were monitored using a particle size analyzer. The ability to control the dissolution rate of hydroquinone using crystal engineering was demonstrated. The factors determining the crystal dissolution rate are discussed. Second, the crosslinking density of drug entrapment polymers, such as polyethylene glycol (PEG) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) was controlled via photo-activated crosslinking using a novel epoxy thymine crosslinking agent. The effect of the crosslinking density on the mechanical properties of the polymer was achieved by either varying the UV-irradiation time or changing the ratio of crosslinking agent in the polymer system.

Concentrated ownership and equilibrium asset prices

Haddad, Valentin Paul Toufic The University of Chicago 2012 해외박사(DDOD)

I study the dynamics of asset prices in an economy in which investors choose whether to hold diversified or levered concentrated portfolios of risky assets. The latter are valuable, as they increase the productivity of the corresponding enterprises. I capture the tradeoff between risk sharing and productivity gains by introducing what I call "active capital": people who participate in such investments are restricted in their outside opportunities but receive extra compensation. In equilibrium, active and standard capital coexist. The willingness to provide active capital is mainly determined by risk considerations. Therefore, the quantity of active capital fluctuates jointly with risk premia, amplifying their variations. As a consequence, the price of volatility risk exposure can be large and return volatility is mainly induced by fluctuations in future expected returns. These results are particularly strong when fundamental volatility is low, because at such time, a large number of concentrated owners are likely to exit their positions and sell off their assets.

Derrida, Arendt, and the inheritance of democracy

Haddad, Samir James Northwestern University 2006 해외박사(DDOD)

In this dissertation I demonstrate the central role played by inheritance in Jacques Derrida's theorization of democracy. I then expose some of the limitations of Derrida's account through a reading of the work of Hannah Arendt. My aim is thus to develop the Derridean position linking inheritance and democracy, while at the same time maintaining a critical attitude towards this position. I begin by articulating a general account of the inheritance of ideas as it is implicitly theorized in Derrida's writings. For Derrida conceptual legacies are always aporetic---they are contradictory in a way that resists resolution. Narrowing my focus, I then show how Derrida reads democracy to be one such aporetic legacy. Further, I argue that for Derrida not only is the concept of democracy inherited, but also that the injunction to inherit is a democratic injunction. That is, Derrida's work implies that to be democratic we need to inherit. To further illuminate this idea I examine one aspect of Derrida's own inheritance from the democratic tradition, his analysis of the concept of fraternity. Derrida argues that fraternity operates as a term of exclusion and he warns against its use in political discourse. This claim is grounded in the assertion that fraternity is linked to a conception of birth connoting necessity. Against Derrida, I argue that this link is not necessary because birth can be divorced from necessity, as is demonstrated by Arendt's use of birth as a figure for contingency in her theorization of political action. This reading of Arendt thus highlights a point where Derrida is overly conservative of the tradition that he seeks to call into question. Further, I argue that Arendt's conception of birth also provides an alternative theorization of democratic inheritance. While not without its own problems, Arendtian inheritance proves useful in bringing to light certain blind spots in the Derridean position, as the case of birth illustrates. I conclude by proposing that the Derridean project of democratic inheritance can be further advanced through a continued interrogation of Derrida's writings from this Arendtian point of view.