O presente trabalho consiste no estudo da adaptação de Dom Quixote das crianças (1936), de Monteiro Lobato, tendo com base o diálogo intertextual que a referida obra mantém com o Dom Quixote de la Mancha de Miguel de Cervantes (1605). Apesar da distância temporal que separa as duas obras, muitos aspectos as unem, em particular a preocupação com a leitura e com o próprio leitor da obra. A partir, portanto, do estudo da leitura e da condição do leitor correspondente a cada um dos períodos históricos, pretende-se desenhar possíveis análises e interpretações da obra de Monteiro Lobato, focalizando, em especial, as eventuais contribuições do escritor brasileiro para a formação de jovens leitores. / This work is subject for study of the adaptation of Dom Quixote of the children (1936) of Monteiro Lobato, based on the intertextual dialogue between the work mentioned and Dom Quixote of Miguel de Cervantes (1605). Despite the secular distance that separates the two pieces of work, many aspects join them, in particular, the concern with the reading and the proper reader. It intends to draw possible analyses and interpretation of Monteiro Lobato\'s work taking as a starting point the study of the reading and the condition of the corresponding reader to each one of the historical periods, focusing, in special, the eventual contribution of the Brazilian writer for the formation of young readers.

This thesis deals with a reading portfolio as one of the means, by which children's reading can be developed and monitored at elementary schools. It focuses on strategies and methods of children's reading skills' development. It researches other options to support their development and evaluation, too. The main emphasis is placed on the portfolio and its elements, which means children's work selection and classification, type of portfolios, working with portfolio and its evaluation. In a small way thesis deals with the reading books and their characteristics. The practical part of the thesis is focused on options how reading portfolio in education at elementary school could be used. The thesis is concluded by the main findings arising from the focus group method application and observation, including in particular the definition of the reading portfolio's purpose, its content, its use and evaluation. KEY WORDS Reading, reading skills, interest, development, evaluation, portfolio

D.Litt. et Phil. (Library & Information Science) / One of the characteristics of publishing in South Africa is that it does not reflect the demographic make-up of South Africa. Publishing in South Africa has been largely financed and controlled by whites and little effort until recently has been expended on the incipient black reader. This has contributed to the lack of a reading culture amongst black people in South Africa. Oral cultures or even cultures with residual amorality Her from Western literate societies. These differences affect cultural products, such as stories, and responses to cultural products. Readers whose norms and expectations of formal discourse are governed by residual oral mindset relate to a text quite differently from readers whose sense of style is fundamentally textual. When an author writes, he postulates an audience. He has to know the tradition - the intertextuality - in which he is working. He can then create fictional roles that the reader is willing and able to play. It is not easy to get into a reader's mind, but it is not an impossibility if both the reader and writer are familiar with the 1iterary tradition in which they work, whether this tradition is oral or literate. There are major differences between an oral and literate culture in their thought processes, perceptions of the world, narrative structures and understanding and response to literature. This must affect cultural accessibility of text. An oral culture, such as black South Africans, will look for different structures, characters and types of discourse in their literature.

This quasi-experimental study (N = 139) measured the effect of a reader response based instructional unit of the novel Speak on adolescents’ rape myth acceptance. Participants were eighth grade language arts students at a Title I middle school in a major metropolitan school district. Seven classes were randomly assigned to treatment (n = 4) or control (n = 3) condition. Two teachers participated in the study and both taught both treatment and control classes. The study lasted a period of five weeks. Participants were pretested using the Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Burt, 1980) and a researcher created scale, the Adolescent Date Rape Scale (ADRMS). Analysis of pretests showed the ADRMS to be a reliable and valid measure of rape myth acceptance in adolescents. Factor analysis revealed it to have two major components: “She Wanted It” and “She Lied.” Pretests supported previous studies which found girls to have significantly lower initial levels of rape myth acceptance than boys (p < .001). A 2 (group) x 2 (instructor) x 2 (sex) ANCOVA using ADRMS pretest as a covariate and ADRMS posttest as a dependent variable found that treatment was effective in reducing rape myth acceptance (p < .001, ή2 = .15). Boys with high rape myth acceptance as demonstrated by pretest scores of 1 standard deviation above the mean on ADRMS did not have a backlash to treatment. Extended analysis revealed that participants had significantly lower scores posttest on Factor 1, “She Wanted It” (p < .001, ή2 = .27), while scores on Factor 2, “She Lied” were not significantly lower (p = .07). This may be because the content of the novel primarily deals with issues questioning whether the main characters assault was a rape rather than a false accusation. Attrition rates were low (N = 15) and attrition analysis showed that drop outs did not significantly alter the treatment or control groups. Implications for reader response instruction of young adult literature, for research on rape myth acceptance in secondary schools, and for statistical analysis of effect size using pretests as filters are discussed.

This thesis deals with the design of cost-effective large-scale RFID networks from both software and hardware aspects. To start with, different computer-aided tools were developed to maximize performance. The first set of algorithms focused on the elimination of redundant readers to minimize the cost and interference in large-scale RFID networks. For validation, uniform reader coverage was assumed, as widely used in most available publications. Then, both omni-directional and directional commercial reader antenna data were included for more reliability. Besides redundancy, an efficient physical placement of readers was also investigated by considering both uniform and random distribution over space. For this purpose, genetic-based algorithms have been proposed to increase reader coverage using commercial reader antenna beams. Energy consumption is also a critical design parameter for dense RFID networks. Therefore, a third set of algorithms was developed to efficiently minimize the energy consumption of large-scale RFID systems. Note that all above optimization techniques were achieved without compromising the whole RFID network performance. To further optimize cost and performance of large-scale RFID networks, a hardware approach through reader antenna design has been considered. In fact, since different RFID frequency bands have been assigned worldwide, large-scale RFID networks implemented in industrial parks, airports, or international trade zones, may deal with imported merchandise using tags operating at different frequencies. Therefore, in-house single and dual-band microstrip and CPW fed monopole antennas were successfully designed and tested to improve system adaptability to various RFID standards. These antennas were designed using both electromagnetic commercial simulators (HFSS) and in-house FDTD-based techniques. Finally, to further extend dense RFID network capabilities, one may implement a substantial number of readers and antennas with small reading ranges to cover a large monitoring area, or use high gain phased array antenna system for an extended reading range of an RFID reader for a smaller number of total reader deployments. Therefore, a phased antenna array system can be an efficient alternative for dense RFID networks. Thus, a switched beam network to control the phase of the radiating elements of the array has been successfully designed and tested.

M.A. (Library Science) / Children's literature transmits values regarded as important by society and is an important means of socialisation. It will tend to reflect those· values regarded as important and fundamental to the dominant social class. Alternative values and the questioning of traditional values only takes place in children's literature when society in general begins to question its values. Reading is a transactional process. Meaning is not "contained in the text" but the result of interaction between the reader and the text. The reader's cultural background and attitudes will play an important role in determining how a text will be understood. Children from diverse backgrounds will not necessarily understand a text in the same way, as they bring their background to the text and understand it or interpret it in the light of that background or schema. Values are the foundation on which people base their actions, beliefs and attitudes. Each culture develops its own value system in terms of which values will be ranked in order of importance. Through socialisation these value systems will be passed on to new generations...

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Objective of the Master Thesis was to bring in two solutions of miniature PC display. One of them uses the VGA signal as the source of the data. The second uses USB for communication. Display using USB was chosen to be produced. Device contains LCD screen, SD card reader and audio DAC with mini speaker. Software running on the PC allows user to watch part of the screen of the computer. Position and size of the chosen part may be varied. The display may be controlled by touch screen. One part of the software running on PC is a simple video player.

Methyl reader proteins recognize and bind to post-translationally methylated residues and have functional roles in diverse cellular processes including gene regulation, development and oncogenesis. The CBX polycomb paralog family of methyllysine readers recognize trimethyllysine lysine residues on histone tail 3 and repress transcription by compacting chromatin. The polycomb paralogs form multi-protein complexes that silence the expression of tumour suppressor genes, and play important roles in regulating cell cycle and differentiation. Each paralog is structurally similar, yet has distinct functions, of which many are unknown. My work has focused on the design and synthesis of CBX inhibitors and on the development of new methodologies for the discovery of inhibitors targeting methyllysine readers. In this work, I report on a series of potent peptidic inhibitors that selectively target the CBX polycombs, as well as the first selective inhibitor for the family member CBX6, and dual-active inhibitors that target CBX6/CBX8. The results demonstrate the potential to achieve selectivity through interactions outside of the methyllysine binding domain. Structural determinants in the binding pocket of each protein that differ within the family and give rise to selectivity were discovered. I will also report on a series of peptidomimetic CBX inhibitors that are active in cells. Cellular active inhibitors are critical for understanding the biological role of each CBX protein and their potential as therapeutic targets. New high-throughput approaches are needed to efficiently target methyllysine readers by chemical inhibition. I describe in this work a strategy for creating massive libraries of phage-displayed peptidic inhibitors containing methyllysine mimics. Synthetic optimization on cysteine-containing peptide phage constructs allowed for the successful installation of Kme3 mimics. This is the first report of a post-translational methylated peptide phage library. The methodology I developed can be used in a synthetic chemistry-driven adaptation of traditional phage display for the screening of millions of peptide-based compounds. Strategies that allow for diversity and high throughput screening will aid in future efforts in targeting the highly similar CBX proteins. / Graduate / 2021-06-01