Thesis (doctoral)--Johannn Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2009. / Title from PDF title page (February 16, 2010) Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-41)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-06T17:07:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_Patrick.pdf: 1347921 bytes, checksum: cd3ae830d3cf9a626e08ce7adf2c5862 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-09-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The objective of this study was to describe the psicomotors and social parameters of an aged competitor tri-athlete of tests of Iron Man. Front to the parameters social and psicomotors, representative aged in the category was structuralized a study of descriptive case the 70-74 years, participant of competitions of Iron Man in the South American, by means of a sampling proposed. The following materials had been used: a) Postural examination fiche of the postures of Miranda (2003); b) Psicomotor examination with Motor Escala for Elderly of Rosa Neto (2002); c) Interview half-structuralized for psicomotor and social profile: it motivates, it stress, clinical history, sportive and socio-economical; d) Formulary of the activities of the life day. The results had disclosed a position inclining of front, with diverse postures shunting lines, a high general motors levels of 120 points, motivated to train and to compete, as much in level conscientious, how much unconscious, as well as it presents a stress and agitated profile. / O objetivo deste estudo foi descrever os parâmetros psicomotores e sociais de um idoso triatleta competidor de provas de Iron Man . Foi estruturado um estudo de caso descritivo frente aos parâmetros psicomotores e sociais do único representante idoso na categoria 70 a 74 anos, participante de competições de Iron Man na América do Sul, mediante uma amostragem de conveniência. Foram utilizados os seguintes materiais: a) Exame postural ficha de anotação dos dados posturais de Miranda (2003); b) Exame psicomotor com a Escala Motora para Terceira Idade (EMTI) de Rosa Neto (2002); c) Entrevista semi-estruturada para perfil psicomotor e social: motivação; estresse, história clínica, esportiva e sócio-econômica; d) Inventário das atividades da vida diária. Os resultados revelaram uma postura anteriorizada, com diversos desvios posturais, uma aptidão motora geral superior de 120 pontos, motivado para treinar e competir, tanto no nível consciente, quanto inconsciente, assim como apresenta um perfil estressado e agitado.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:00:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RodrigoCNX_DISSERT.pdf: 2125715 bytes, checksum: af08f814b4492642e0f887f419e8806b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-25 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / Since the 1970s, the world observes the fragmentation, hybridity, plurality and miscegenation that are taking over the scenic arts. The contemporary poetry feels free of the classical rules; theater no longer obeys the requirements of the poetic "manuals"; the rigid boundaries between genres disappears; artists cease to represent to the public to talk with him. In the last decades of twentieth century and in the twenty-first century, emerges the laughable phenomenon of One-man Show in the brazilian scene, object of this research, as a result of this evolution of the performing arts. It is a form of theater that emerged in the brazilian context, snatching public attention in alternative spaces, theaters and, as it should be, also on the Internet, often confused with the Stand-up Comedy. It is necessary a research that delimitate and pursue to identify the essential characteristics of the brazilian One- Man Show, not only by the absence of theoretical references concerning this, but also to understand some aspects of the brazilian scene and the situation of laughter and comedy in it. In the first chapter, a discussion about comedy and laughter in classical antiquity is presented, using the writings of Plato and Aristotle as a starting point; in the second, some of the main classical theories of laughter are reviewed, attempting to identify the general characteristics that enable to understand the construction of the comedy; the third chapter generally dicusses about the moment of the brazilian theatrical scene in which emerges the One-man Show; and in the fourth chapter, there is an explanation about this phenomenon and a description of the practical exercise titled Experimento One-person Show: Damas / Desde a d?cada de 1970, o mundo observa a fragmenta??o, o hibridismo, a pluralidade e a miscigena??o que v?m tomando conta das artes da cena. A poesia contempor?nea sente-se livre das regras cl?ssicas; o teatro j? n?o mais obedece ?s prescri??es dos manuais po?ticos; desaparecem as fronteiras r?gidas entre os g?neros; os artistas deixam de representar para o p?blico para dialogar com ele. Como consequ?ncia dessa evolu??o das artes c?nicas, emerge nas ?ltimas d?cadas do s?culo XX e in?cio do s?culo XXI na cena brasileira o fen?meno derris?vel objeto de estudo dessa pesquisa, o One-man Show. Trata-se de um formato teatral que despontou no cen?rio brasileiro arrebatando a aten??o do p?blico em espa?os alternativos, teatros e, como n?o poderia deixar de ser, tamb?m na internet, sendo muitas vezes confundido com o Stand-up Comedy. Uma pesquisa que delimite e busque identificar as caracter?sticas fundamentais do One-man Show brasileiro, fazse necess?ria n?o somente pela aus?ncia de estudos sobre o referido assunto, mas tamb?m para se compreender alguns aspectos da cena brasileira e da situa??o do riso e do c?mico dentro dela. No primeiro cap?tulo, apresenta-se uma discuss?o sobre a com?dia e o riso na Antiguidade cl?ssica, tomando os escritos de Plat?o e Arist?teles como ponto de partida; no segundo, s?o analisadas algumas das principais teorias cl?ssicas do riso procurando identificar caracter?sticas gerais que permitam entender tamb?m a constru??o da comicidade; no terceiro, aborda-se de um modo geral o momento da cena teatral brasileira em que emerge o One-man Show e, no quarto cap?tulo, h? a explana??o acerca de tal fen?meno e a descri??o do exerc?cio pr?tico intitulado Experimento One-person Show: Damas

Nos últimos trinta anos observa-se uma abertura gradativa de espaços para cantores e cantoras de Rap e Funk nos grandes meios de comunicação em massa. Percebe-se, também, conforme essas culturas musicais extrapolaram os limites de circulação do seu lugar de origem, a periferia, um aumento do interesse de jovens e intelectuais oriundos da classe média. Principalmente depois do fenômeno de projeção dos Racionais MC\'s, ocorrido nos últimos vinte anos. E, atualmente, com o sucesso de Criolo, Rael, Emicida, Rincón Sapiência, Baco Exú do Blues, Raffa Moreira, Coruja BC1, Rico Dalasam, Karol Conka, entre outras e outros. Quais interesses, conflitos e perspectivas estão em jogo nessa movimentação? Rastreando a construção e transformação da originalidade artística de Athalyba-Man, um dos primeiros artistas de Rap nacional a assinar contrato com gravadora multinacional, o referente trabalho busca compreender como se deu a formação e a introdução da cultura musical Rap no mercado fonográfico hegemônico, assim como sua difusão, conflitos e perspectivas. / In the last thirty years, there has been opening of spaces for Rap and Funk singers in the mass media. It is also perceived, as these musical cultures extrapolated the limits of circulation from their places of origin, the periphery, an increase in the interest of young and intellectuals coming from the middle class. Mainly, after the gradual phenomenon of projection of the Racionais MC\'s, occurred in the last twenty years. And now, with the success of Criolo, Rael, Emicida, Rincón Sapiência, Baco Exú do Blues, MV Bill, Raffa Moreira, Coruja BC1, Rico Dalasam, Karol Conka, among others. What interests, conflicts and perspectives are at stake in this movement? Tracking the construction and transformation of Athalyba-Man\'s artistic originality, one of the first national Rap artists to sign a contract with a multinational record company, the aim is to understand how the making of and introduction of rap music culture in the hegemonic phonographic market took place, as well as its diffusion, conflicts and perspectives.

This thesis will cover the use oftheinfluence map technique applied to the retro game Ms. Pac-Man. A game thatis easy to learn but hard to master. The Ms. Pac-Man controller is implemented with five main parameters that alters the behaviour of the controller while the Ghost controller have three parameters. The experimental results of the controllers is explored to using the alterations of the parameters to find its peak of performance. The conclusion from using the influence map for this game shows that you can easy achieve a certain degree of success fairy easily but as with the game itself it is hard to master same goes for developing a sophisticated controller for this game.

Ce projet porte sur les romans de john banville et avec les théories psychanalytiques. l'argument principal de cette recherche sera que le narrateur névrosé qui est utilisé dans les œuvres de banville réalise une conscience qui est proche de ce que toshio kawai a appelé 'la conscience post-moderne' qui est associé à nombreux attributs du postmodernisme (en particulier les théories de baudrillard). ce nouveau type de conscience a pour sa composante d'un type de distance, ou plutôt, une dissociation de la notion de la réalité et elle est associée à l'arbitraire, (surtout revendication de lacan que l'objet de notre désir est arbitraire), ainsi que la virtualité (baudrillard, adorno et horkheimer). selon kawai, encore une fois, il existe une conscience moderne qui a comme conséquence un degré de répression dans la psyché de l'individu qui, prenant la parole psychanalytique, suggèrent un certain degré de névrose ou à des moments de psychose sens partiel ou total sentiment d'être perdu entre l'imagination et réalité.la recherche vise à explorer les questions initiales suivantes:1 - quelle est la relation entre la névrose et ce qu'on appelle le postmodernisme?2 - comment cette relation peut être vu dans la fiction de banville?3 – dans quelle façon banville utilise un narrateur névrotique pour obtenir un effet post-moderne?4 - si, selon kawai, la modernité est associée à la répression et donc la névrose, alors, est-il possible de penser que la postmodernité est associée à la psychose, de schizophrénie ou d'autres anomalies psychopathologiques? comment cela se voit dans la fiction de banville?5 - y a t-il un mouvement de modernisme au postmodernisme dans la fiction de banville?comment cela peut-il être considéré dans un contexte psychanalytique? / The present project sets to complement the previous readings of the “self” in John Banville’s fiction by reproblematizing the precariousness of the author’s “subject of narration.” It examines the way in which the author constantly manipulates various narrative elements and consequently creates new experiences. Jacques Lacan’s understanding of the relation between the subject and the signifier, I argue, provides an excellent set of tools to address the way in which the notion of subjectivity is dissected, enhanced, and even extended, in Banville’s philosophically imbued fiction. The central thesis is that Banville creates a narrative universe in which his protagonists’ perception moves in interesting ways as the aspects of the Lacanian triad (the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real) are reshuffled, resulting in a precarious sense of self and reality. Although other thinkers (especially the ones hinted at in the narrative, most notably, de Man, Kleist, and Nietzsche) are drawn upon, the theoretical backbone relies on Lacan’s theory of subjectivity as well as recent Lacanian thinkers, most notably, Slavoj Žižek, Mladen Dollar, and Stijn Vanheule. Žižek’s reading of Lacan is of special interest to this study as he theorizes virtuality as a concept using Lacan’s triadic model. In addition, using Žižek’s definition of postmodernism as “symbolic inefficacy” allows us to shed new light on the long debate over Banville’s modernism versus his postmodernism. The dissertation consists of three parts. The first part focuses on Banville’s earlier work, namely, Birchwood, Mefisto, and The Book of Evidence. Here, I examine how the narrators’ preoccupation with finding certainty and truth results in a psychotic universe in Mefisto and a hysteric one in The Book of Evidence. Focusing on the latest trilogy, Eclipse, Shroud, and Ancient Ligh the second part examines the way in which Banville uses the category of the uncanny to create a Gothic narrative in Eclipse. Moreover, the concept of object a is used to demonstrate how the subject/object distinction collapses and gives rise to the Real dimension of the subject. The third and final part argues that the narrators seek to counter the undecidability generated in their uncanny narrations via the rehabilitation of the surface, one with which they hope to restore their precarious sense of self. Both chapters in this part address Banville’s engagement with Paul de Man’s deconstructive theory of language and representation and argue that Banville stages de Man’s ideas as well as his life-story in order to advance his own conception of representation and selfhood. Friedrich Nietzsche, I claim in both chapters, provides the narrators with a way out of the predicament posited by de Man. The underlying idea explored throughout the project is that Banville’s epistemological project can be summed up as an attempt to find a mode of articulation independent from the Symbolic order as most of his narrators, in one way or another, express a fundamental incredulity towards the Symbolic Other. By stripping reality of its Symbolic underpinnings, the Banvillian protagonist allows the Real to emerge and then domesticates it as magic. He does so using the surface of the written pages of his narrative, a surface onto which he can fuse word and image.

The focus of the thesis is on the last supper and how that event is depicted on icons within the Eastern Orthodox Church. Two different methods have been used to study the motive: archive studies and literature studies. The motive in itself is studied from a religious perspective as well as from a gastronomical perspective. The composition of Jesus and his disciples and how they are placed around the table, which ones that have halos are studied from the religious perspective and the different kind of food elements and utensils for a meal are studied from the gastronomical perspective. The theoretical perspective combines parts of Eliade's theory of the religious man and Söderlind's theory of the gastronomical man. During the study of the icons it became clear that the food items and utensils that are depicted are markers of identity.

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La croissance rapide des applications interactives et ses demandes en termes de bande passante et de (QoS), a motivé le déploiement de la technologie optique aux réseaux métropolitains. Beaucoup de dispositifs optiques intelligents sont créés pour gérer efficacement la capacité énorme du réseau. L'explosion de la bande passante est principalement attribuable à la croissance du trafic de données dont la nature devient de plus en plus complexe. Actuellement, la plupart des trafics de données sont transportés dans les réseaux qui sont dominées par la technologie de commutation de circuit optique. Néanmoins, cette technique a quelques inconvénients tels que les propriétés inflexibles. Technologie de commutation de paquets optiques (OPS), qui offre des gains significatifs en termes de capacité de passage à l’échelle et d'efficacité de gestion des ressources du réseau, peut surmonter ces limitations. Cela a motivé l'orientation de la commutation de circuit optique à la commutation de paquet optique dans l’infrastructure future du réseau. En réalité, un réseau en anneau à commutation de paquet optique ( OPSR), qui combinent la flexibilité et la mise à l’échelle de la technologie de commutation de paquet avec les avantages de la topologie en anneau tels que la restitution rapide du service en cas de panne et un bon gain de multiplexage statistique du trafic, promettraient une bonne solution pour les réseaux MAN du future. Une nouvelle architecture du réseau OPSR qui se base sur l’infrastructure tout optique a proposé par des équipes de recherche chez Alcatel-Lucent. La nouvelle architecture offre des fonctions intelligentes, avec un coût moins élevé en optimisant le temps de traitement. Elle est envisagée de remplacer les architectures optoélectroniques existantes tels que Resilient Packet Ring. L'élément fondamental du réseau est Packet Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (POADM) qui est implémenté à l'intérieur des nœuds d’accès, permettant aux nœuds d'exploiter la transparence optique. Cette thèse se concentre donc sur l'évaluation des performances de la nouvelle génération des réseaux optiques métropolitains. Dans cette thèse, nous avons analysé des performances (en termes de délais d’accès et de la distribution du taux de l’occupation au tampon local des nœuds d'accès) d'un bus optique synchrone qui soutient des paquets à taille fixe. Nous avons modélisé chaque nœud d'accès par une chaîne de Markov à temps discret (EDTMC). La solution de l'EDTMC nous permet de calculer la probabilité approximative où les nœuds d'accès dans le bus peuvent "voir" slots libres dans la ligne de transit. En utilisant une technique d'analyse récursive, nous déduisons une formule mesurant le temps moyen d'attente des paquets du client venant de la couche supérieure, ainsi que la distribution du taux de l’occupation au tampon local des nœuds d'accès pour les deux cas: avec et sans garantie QoS). Pour caractériser des performances d'un réseau OPSR asynchrone, nous avons évalué l'impact de la création de containeur optique à taille fixe sur les performances du réseau. L’analyse des performances de ce système nous a permis d'identifier une combinaison raisonnable de certains paramètres (la durée de timeslot, les valeurs d’expiration des temporisateurs, le profil du trafic client, la charge du réseau) qui peuvent améliorer l'utilisation de la bande passante du réseau. Le point le plus important que nous avons mentionné dans la thèse est la comparaison entre deux approches architecturales: le modèle de Variable Length - Optical Packet Format (VL-OPF) versus le modèle de Fixed Length - Optical Packet Format (FL-OPF). En plus de Cos-Upgrade Mécanisme (CUM) qui est proposé d'améliorer le taux de remplissage du conteneur optique, nous avons proposé un nouveau mécanisme appelé Dynamic Upgrade Cos-Mécanisme (DCUM), où les valeurs des temporisateurs sont modifiés dynamiquement en fonction de l'état des tampons locaux aux nœuds d’accès et le trafic circulant dans le réseau / The rapid growth in client application demands, in terms of bandwidth and (QoS), has motivated the deployment of the optical technology at Metro Access and Metro Core Networks. More diverse and more intelligent optic devices are required for efficiently management of huge capacity in the network. The explosion in demand for network bandwidth is mainly due to the growth in data traffic whose nature is also becoming more and more complex. In general, most of service-based traffics are transported in networks which are now being dominated by the optical switching technology. Nevertheless, such technology has some drawbacks such as inflexible and non-scalable properties. (OPS), which offers significant benefits in terms of both network efficiency and control scalability, may overcome these limitations. This has motivated the orientation from optical circuit switching to optical packet switching in the future network infrastructure. In reality, optical packet switching ring (OPSR) networks, which combine the packet switching technology with the well-known advantages of ring topology such as fast service restoration in cases of failure and high gain of statistical traffic multiplexing over the ring, appear to be the technology of choice for the next generation of Metro Area Networks. A new OPSR architecture which is based on the all-optical infrastructure that offers intelligent features with lower cost while maximizing processing time and is now considering being replaced existing opto-electronic architectures such as Resilient Packet Ring, have been presented in the scope of the dissertation. The key element of such network is Packet Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (POADM) which is implemented inside a ring node, allowing the node to exploit the optical transparency. This dissertation hence focuses on the performance evaluation of the new generation of OPSR network. In this dissertation, we have investigated the performance analysis (in terms of packet delay and queue-length distribution of access nodes) of an optical synchronous bus-based metropolitan network supporting fixed-size packets. We have modeled each access node by an embedded discrete time Markov chain (EDTMC). The solution of the EDTMC allows us to compute the approximate probability that access nodes on the bus “see” free slots in the transit line. Using a recursive analysis technique, we approximately outline the mean waiting time of client packets coming from the upper layer as well as an approximate queue-length distribution of local buffers at access nodes in two cases: with and without QoS guarantees. To characterize the performance of an asynchronous OPSR network, we have evaluated the impact of Optical fixed-Size Packet Creation on the network performance without and with different quality of services (QoS) requirements. Performance analysis of such systems has allowed us to identify a reasonable combination of some parameters (timeslot duration, timer expiration values, profile of client traffic and network load) which may be able to improve the bandwidth utilization of the network for a given traffic matrix. The most important point that we have mentioned in the dissertation is the comparison of two architectural approaches: Variable Length – Optical Packet Format (VL-OPF) model supporting empty packets versus Fixed Length – Optical Packet Format (FL-OPF) model. In addition to CoS-Upgrade Mechanism (CUM) which is proposed to improve the filling ratio of the optical container, we have proposed a novel mechanism named Dynamic CoS-Upgrade Mechanism (DCUM) where timers are dynamically changed according to the state of the local buffer of network nodes and the traffic circulating in the network, in order to create containers with a high filling ratio while limiting the time needed for their creation.