Daniel Meyer – författare

This monograph is devoted to the study of the dynamics of expanding Thurston maps under iteration. A Thurston map is a branched covering map on a two-dimensional topological sphere such that each critical point of the map has a finite orbit under iteration. A Thurston map is called expanding if, roughly speaking, preimages of a fine open cover of the underlying sphere under iterates of the map become finer and finer as the order of the iterate increases. Every expanding Thurston map gives rise to a fractal space, called its visual sphere. Many dynamical properties of the map are encoded in the geometry of this visual sphere. For example, an expanding Thurston map is topologically conjugate to a rational map if and only if its visual sphere is quasisymmetrically equivalent to the Riemann sphere. This relation between dynamics and fractal geometry is the main focus for the investigations in this work.

Since the introduction of steel as a building material in the early twentieth century, its superior performance has challenged conventional wisdom about construction, enabling designs of surprising lightness and span. Steel offered the opportunity to significantly expand buildings vertically and thus emerged as a symbol of the conflict between technological progress and the architectural ideal. More recently, the use of exposed steel elements in modern architecture ushered in a rediscovery of buildings' metamorphoses.Building Additions in Steel looks at the largely ignored topic of steel additions in architecture and engineering, documenting an ambitious, interdisciplinary research project by architects, engineers, teachers, and students at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Constructive Design. The book offers basic theoretical and technical information on a selection of outstanding steel additions alongside more than 100 illustrations, including plans and photographs. With contributions by Jürg Conzett and Roger Diener, Lorenzo De Chiffre, Yves Dreier, Patric Fischli-Boson, Patric Furrer, Matteo Iannello, Daniel Meyer, François Renaud, Astrid Staufer, Daniel Stockhammer, and Martin Tschanz.

Sammelband aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Sammelband aus drei Texten. Das Ziel der ersten Arbeit ist, neben den theoretischen Ausfuhrungen zum Thema Archetypen, die Zuordnung der Archetypen zu den neuen Star Wars Charakteren. Dadurch, dass Frauen in Star Wars mittlerweile einen hoheren Stellenwert zugeschrieben bekommen, muss das veraltete Archetypen-Modell von Vogler und Campbell, welches eher mannliche Archetypen beschreibt, uberarbeitet und auf den neuen Zeitgeist unserer Generation angepasst werden. Biblische Motive in Science-Fiction-Filmen? Anakin Skywalker in Analogie zu Jesus Christus? Warum dieses Thema in einer religionspadagogischen Arbeit? Diese und weitere Fragen werden in der zweiten Arbeit beantwortet. Im Fokus steht dabei vor allem der Einfluss moderner Medien auf die religionsgeschichtliche Bildung. Zwei Filmtrilogien, unzahlige Bucher, Comics, Videospiele, Actionfiguren, T-Shirts, Stofftiere und Bettwasche. Seit nun mehr 30 Jahren trotzt Star Wars allen Krisen und zahlt im Zeitalter der Medienkonvergenz zu den erfolgreichsten medienubergreifenden Erzahlungen. Doch was ist das Besondere an der transmedialen Star Wars Saga? Und welche Rolle spielt der Animationsfilm in einem filmischen Universum, dessen Macher seit Beginn der Reihe zu den Trendsettern in Sachen Spezialeffekte und Animation zahlen? In der dritten Arbeit wird zunachst der Begriff der Transmedialitat untersucht, bevor er dann auf das Star Wars Universum angewandt und zur naheren Beleuchtung des Franchise aus einer historischen Perspektive herangezogen wird.

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 2.0, University of Plymouth (Business School), language: English, abstract: Consumers' environment has always been influencing consumers' decision-making processes. With the end of the seller dominated marketing approach and the rise of a customer orientated marketing approach, at the end of the 1960's, the significance of marketing communication increased, in order to inform consumers and to establish a customer relationship. The dissemination of new technologies and innovations such as colour television, home computer and the internet has contributed to an increasing benefit for consumers and organizations. Consumers' choices increased in terms of product variety and hence the complexity of consumers' decision-making processes rose. Therefore, it has been ever since relevant for marketers to analyse and evaluate consumers' decision-making processes and consumers' behaviour. With the evolution and diffusion from mobile phones to smart phones a newdf horizon for consumers opened and a new dimension to mobile devices added, consisting of the accessibility and availability of information regardless location and time. Consequently, consumers' decision-making processes have been influenced and the relevancy of mobile-location based marketing and related services for consumers and organizations increased. The present master dissertation constitutes on the increasing importance of mobile location-based marketing and services. The objective is to investigate the impact of location-based services on consumers buying behaviour which is significantly impacted by consumer-decision making processes. Therefore, relevant theoretical models and theories concerning consumers decision-making process and buying behaviour are described and evaluated. Furthermore, primary data is collected via online questionnaires and face-to-face interviews, in order to conduct an empirical analysis. The results reveal that consumers requirements, towards mobile-location based marketing including location-based services such as shopping apps and mobile advertisement, are segmented. It is identified that technology affine consumers are more likely to purchase across-channels. Further, these consumers show a higher acceptance of stimuli conveyed by mobile advertisement. Personal and psychological factors such as price sensibility, lifestyle orientation and consumers involvement are identified as impacting factors on consumers decision-making process within this research.