Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Hispánica / Planteo la metonimia del cuerpo con relación al corpus escritural, dando cuenta de una vinculación que implica la inclusión de estos dos conceptos en una sola comprensión, entendiendo sus (dis)continuidades en devenir1. Siendo la conceptualización del cuerpo anatómico-fisiológico un referente para instalar preguntas sobre la escritura que se debate en el cerco de lo inasible, ensayo. Es decir, me movilizo en lo errante, en el error constante que soslaya la objetividad e instala la puesta en abismo de mi escrito con respecto a la antinovela (neo)barroca de Sarduy De dónde son los cantantes.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Trata-se de uma leitura psicanalÃtica dos dois Manuscritos de AntÃnio Conselheiro. Supusemos em relaÃÃo a estes, dois pontos: (1) suas prÃdicas revelam culpa e identificaÃÃo naquilo que Freud chamou de ReligiÃo do Filho. Considerado legÃtimo no perÃodo do ImpÃrio, com o advento da RomanizaÃÃo e da RepÃblica, AntÃnio Conselheiro passou progressivamente a ser visto como inimigo da Igreja e do Estado; (2) os Manuscritos expressariam tambÃm uma resposta a esta nova condiÃÃo: por meio de uma intensificaÃÃo de sua fÃ, AntÃnio Conselheiro se legitima pela renÃncia ao desejo, o sacrifÃcio de si e aquilo que Freud chamou de reconciliaÃÃo do filho com o Pai.

Análise dos dois primeiros capítulos que integram o livro de 1 Samuel da Bíblia Hebraica, com ênfase nos aspectos históricos, lingüísticos e literários. Neles encontra-se registrada a história de Ana, uma mulher que sofria muito por não ter filhos, uma vez que a outra esposa de seu marido os tinha. A esterilidade de Ana é revertida após ela orar a Deus, e prometer-lhe entregar o filho que viesse a ter ao serviço religioso. Uma comparação com outros personagens da Bíblia Hebraica é feita, para demonstrar quais atitudes de Ana fazem dela uma das personagens femininas mais notáveis do Antigo Israel. Ao final, verifica-se também como o poema inserido nessa narrativa influenciou a literatura cristã. / Analyses of two first chapters that integrate the 1 Samuel book of Hebrew Bible, with emphasis in historical, liguistics and literary aspects. In these chapters we find the history of Hannah, a woman that suffered very much because she hasn\'t childrens and because the other wife of her husband has got them. The Hannah\'s sterility changed after she prays to God, and promisses to give the son that wasborn to the religious service. A comparision with others Hebrew Bibles characters is done to demonstrate which actitudes of Hannah make of her one of the most notable females characters of Ancient Israel. At the end we notice too how the poetry inserted into this narrative has influenced the christian literature.

La plupart des études menées sur la dimension scénique du théâtre français et européen pour la période couvrant la fin du XIXe siècle et le début du XXe siècle portent sur la scénographie (espace, décor, éclairage, liens avec la peinture et le nouveau média cinématographique). Si les éléments sonores sont souvent mentionnés et parfois analysés, c’est de façon compartimentée, selon des catégories (voix – déclamation et diction–, musique, bruitage) qui ne sont pas réinterrogées. La dimension acoustique en tant que telle n’est pas problématisée. Or, l’art du théâtre se fonde sur un dispositif où l’écoute importe autant que la vue, la première pouvant l’emportant sur la seconde, et la période étudiée constitue dans l’histoire du son un moment-charnière, avec l’apparition groupée du téléphone, du phonographe et du microphone (1875-1878), les progrès de l’acoustique scientifique et de l’otologie, la transformation des pratiques de l’écoute. Les raisons de l’oubli du sonore sont complexes : la prééminence accordée à la vision dans la pensée occidentale, l’invention de la « mise en scène », la résistance du théâtre aux nouvelles technologies sonores. Nourrie de l’apport des Sound Studies, la thèse remet le son dans le jeu : après avoir dressé un panorama de la pensée et du paysage sonore intermédial à la fin du XIXe siècle (théâtrophone, enregistrements d’acteurs, etc.), elle observe les effets plus profonds du « tournant acoustique » sur l’espace dramatique, sur la figure scénique, sur la vocalité, respectivement étudiés à travers les pratiques de trois poètes-hommes de théâtre : Maeterlinck, Jarry, Charles Cros. Ce sont les bases du théâtre qui ont été interrogées. / The majority of studies on scenic dimensions of late 19th - early 20th century French and European theatre center on scenography (space, scenery, lights, relations to painting and new cinematographic media). If certain aspects of sound are mentioned, and sometimes analyzed, the approaches are often compartmentalized into categories including voice (declamation, music, sound effects, which are never themselves questioned). The acoustical dimension is never fully problematized. However, the art of theatre is founded on a schema where listening matters as much as seeing, if not more. In the history of sound, the period on which this study comports constitutes an important turning point, with the invention of the telephone, phonograph, and microphone (1875-1878), progress in the fields of acoustical science and otology, and the transformation of listening practices. The reasons for sound’s oversight are multiple, including the pre-eminence accorded to vision in Occidental thought, the invention of the “mise en scène”, theatre’s resistance to new sound technologies. Nourished by Sound Studies, this dissertation seeks to bring sound back into play. After presenting a panorama of the activities and thought emerging from the intermedial soundscape at the end of the 19th century (théâtrophone, actor’s recordings, etc), it observes the deeper effects of these acoustical phonomena on dramatic space, the scenic figure, and vocality through respective studies of three poets-theatre creators: Maurice Maeterlinck, Alfred Jarry and Charles Cros. The very bases of theatre are interrogated.

Le vieillissement de la population s'accompagne de l'augmentation du nombre de patients souffrant de maladies chroniques. Ceci entraîne une augmentation du nombre de visites et d'examens à l'hôpital. La télémédecine peut apporter un bénéfice tant en matière de qualité et de sécurité des soins qu'en matière de réduction des dépenses de santé. Elle apparaît comme une piste prometteuse, mais encore insuffisamment déployée. Nous avons déterminé les pathologies chroniques les plus fréquentes compatibles avec la télémédecine, à savoir l'insuffisance cardiaque, le diabète, l'insuffisance respiratoire et l'insuffisance rénale. Cette étude a mis en exergue la présence d'un ensemble de comorbidités associées à ces quatre pathologies et montré la nécessité d'une prise en charge globale du patient. Un état de l'art des différentes expériences de télémédecine dans le monde pour ces maladies a mis en évidence que les différentes applications proposées sont partiellement redondantes et ne sont pas interopérables entre elles. Ainsi, les patients peuvent réaliser deux fois la même mesure pour le même examen médical, mais pour deux pathologies différentes. Ces deux problèmes peuvent induire des développements redondants pour chaque application de télémédecine, des risques de diminution de l'efficience des applications de télémédecine lors de leur déploiement, ainsi que des risques d'aggravation de la santé du patient dès lors que l'action d'un professionnel de santé sur une pathologie peut avoir des répercussions sur une autre pathologie. Par ailleurs, cette étude a fait apparaître les besoins communs à ces pathologies. Nos travaux ont donc consisté à développer une architecture générique permettant à différentes applications de télémédecine spécifiques à une pathologie chronique de partager un plateau technique commun. L'originalité de ce travail porte d'une part sur l'étude des normes et des standards de communication nécessaires à l'interopérabilité de l'infrastructure envisagée, et d'autre part sur une modélisation des données relatives aux signes vitaux analysés et à leur contexte. En effet, ces dernières contiennent toutes les informations pouvant influer sur l'interprétation des résultats, telles que la date et l'horaire de la mesure réalisée, la nature de la donnée acquise et les caractéristiques des capteurs utilisés. Pour valider notre modèle d'application de télésurveillance des maladies chroniques, nous avons réalisé deux expérimentations. La première, menée en collaboration avec la société AZNetwork, a consisté à mettre en œuvre une plate-forme digitale de recueil et d'archivage des données médicales pour les seniors dans le cadre du projet Silver@Home. La seconde expérimentation réalisée en partenariat avec le réseau de soins TELAP sur le projet Domoplaies a permis d'étendre notre modèle à un système d'échanges d'information médicale entre les professionnels de santé. Ces travaux constituent une proposition de modèle d'application de télémédecine qui est non seulement conforme au Cadre d'Interopérabilité des Systèmes d'Information de Santé (CI-SIS) de l'Agence des Systèmes d'Information Partagés de Santé (ASIP Santé), mais qui constitue une proposition d'extension de ce dernier à l'acquisition des données au domicile du patient. / The current trend in aging population leads to an increasing number of chronic diseases cases and consequently, to an increase of the number of medical examinations and hospital stays. Telemedicine system can contribute to both increase or maintain care quality and safety, as well as to reduce costs. In spite of this potential, telemedicine deployment is currently limited. We identified the most frequent chronic diseases consistent with telemedicine, namely heart failure, diabetes, respiratory failure and kidney failure. This study highlighted a number of comorbidities associated to these four diseases, reflecting the need for overall patient care. A state of the art report on worldwide Telemedicine experiments for the four chronic diseases showed that the current applications are partially redundant and hardly interoperable. Thus, the same measure can be performed twice for the same medical examination, but for two different diseases. These two problems can induce redundant developments, a risk of a decreased efficiency of a telemedicine application during its deployment, as well as risks of making the patient health worse when the intervention of a healthcare professional can have an impact on another chronic disease. Furthermore, this study revealed common requirements for these chronic diseases and their specific features. We developed a generic architecture that allows different telemedicine applications associated with specific diseases to share a common technical platform. The original aspects of this work are first, a study of communication standards to achieve an interoperable system, and, on the other hand second, a health data model for the patient's vital signs. This model contains all the necessary information to interpret the results, such as the date and time of the measurement, the acquired data format and the sensor characteristics. To validate our telemedicine application model, we conducted two experiments. The first one was a collaboration with AZNetwork company. It consisted in the development of a digital platform to collect and archive seniors' data in the context of the Silver@Home project. The second experiment was a partnership with the TELAP network on the Domoplaies project. It allowed us to extend our telemedicine model to a medical data exchange system among healthcare providers. This led us to propose a telemedicine application model, which is not only in conformity with the Health Information Systems Interoperability Framework (HIS-IF) of the "Agence des Systèmes d'Information Partagés de Santé" (ASIP Santé), but also constitutes a proposed extension of this framework to the patient's home.

This dissertation consists of an interpretation of the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11-32) from the perspective of Greco-Roman moral philosophy. It is divided into three parts. Part 1 traces the history of relating the New Testament to Greco-Roman literature and philosophy. Despite the importance of this perspective for the study of Luke-Acts, the relationship between Luke 15: 11-32 and Greco-Roman moral philosophy has not been investigated before. The legitimacy of this approach is demonstrated by a literary analysis of the parable, which demonstrates the formal emphasis placed upon the liberal and compassionate words and actions of the father. The strong moral orientation of the parable is further illustrated by the formal, linguistic and thematic features which it shares with the other L parables. Part 2 consists of a study of the Greco-Roman moral topos On Covetousness. The use of the Greco-Roman topos as a critical tool for the study of the New Testament is evaluated, the term is defined, and the influence of the topos On Covetousness upon representative works of moral philosophy is studied. This part ends with a summary of the characteristic features of the topos and its use by writers with differing philosophical affiliations. Part 3 reads the whole parable in terms of the topos On Covetousness,with the emphasis being placed on the relationship between the Lukan text and works of Greco-Roman moral philosophy. The parable is seen to be structured according to the influential Peripatetic doctrine of the mean, with the father representing the virtue of liberality, and his two sons the opposing vices of prodigality and meanness. The comparison with the topos reveals Luke's strong rejection of the two vices, and his endorsement of the Greco-Roman virtue of liberality, which is modified by his emphasis upon the Christian virtue of compassion. The approach affirms and demonstrates the internal unity of the parable and its close relationship to the Lukan theme of the correct use of possessions.

Notre système sensorimoteur a développé une relation particulière entre nos actions et le retour sonore qui en découle. Les systèmes de captation gestuelle et les technologies audio permettent de manipuler ce retour sonore par la sonification interactive du mouvement. Nous explorons dans divers cadres expérimentaux la contribution de la sonification à l'apprentissage moteur dans les systèmes interactifs. Tout d'abord, nous montrons que le système auditif intègre des indices acoustiques issus du mouvement pour le contrôle moteur. Des représentations de l'espace émergent de ces indices et sont transformées en commandes motrices. Le cas d'un objet virtuel sonore nous apprend que ces représentations audiomotrices influencent les stratégies d'exploration et permettent des cas de substitution sensorielle par le son. Ensuite, nous mesurons qu'un retour sonore continu permet d'améliorer significativement la performance à une tâche de poursuite. La sonification de l'erreur et des paramètres de la tâche aident à la performance mais montrent des effets différents sur l'apprentissage. Nous observons également que la sonification du mouvement de l'utilisateur augmente l'énergie contenue dans le geste et prévient la dépendance au retour sonore. Enfin, nous présentons le concept de tâche sonore dans lequel la cible est présentée et s'exprime sous forme de paramètres sonores à reproduire. Les résultats montrent qu'une adaptation motrice peut être provoquée par des indices acoustiques seuls. Ce travail permet de dégager des principes importants du design de l'interaction geste-son, et présente des applications originales comme des scénarios interactifs pour la rééducation. / Our sensorimotor system has developed a specific relationship between our actions and their sonic outcomes, which it interprets as auditory feedback. The development of motion sensing and audio technologies allows emphasizing this relationship through interactive sonification of movement. We propose several experimental frameworks (visual, non-visual, tangible, virtual) to assess the contribution of sonification to sensorimotor control and learning in interactive systems. First, we show that the auditory system integrates dynamic auditory cues for online motor control, either from head or hand movements. Auditory representations of space and of the scene can be built from audio features and transformed into motor commands. The framework of a virtual sonic object illustrates that auditory-motor representations can shape exploratory movement features and allow for sensory substitution. Second, we measure that continuous auditory feedback in a tracking task helps significantly the performance. Both error and task sonification can help performance but have different effects on learning. We also observe that sonification of user’s movement can increase the energy of produced motion and prevent feedback dependency. Finally, we present the concept of sound-oriented task, where the target is expressed as acoustic features to match. We show that motor adaptation can be driven by interactive audio cues only. In this work, we highlight important guidelines for sonification design in auditory-motor coupling research, as well as applications through original setups we developed, like perceptual and physical training, and playful gesture-sound interactive scenarios for rehabilitation.

The full text of this thesis/dissertation is not available online. Pending permission from the author/supervisor access may be provided on <a href="mailto:upetd@up.ac.za">request.</a> Read the abstract in the section 00front of this document. / Thesis (PhD (New Testament)--University of Pretoria, 2007. / New Testament Studies / unrestricted

[From Introduction]. "God, ... through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation." "Among all churches throughout the world there is a growing conviction that God's great reconciliation in Jesus Christ is still the answer desperately needed by modern man." The United Presbyterian Church U.S.A.'s Confession of 1967 made "reconciliation the all-embracing category for describing God's work and man's response, including especially his response in social and political action".

This dissertation intends to reveal the theme of the conqueror, which is spread throughout the book of Revelation. I try to determine the identity and function of the conquerors who were faced with various problems in their present situations. Various present situations such as the political, economical, social, and religious phenomena that the first Christians confronted must be considered. Thus, the main aim of Revelation is to persuade compromising Christians to disengage from pagan idolatry and to sustain those who resist. One must remember the fact that the designated conquerors were absolutely embedded in their historical and sociological situation. We should recognize why John wanted to send his prophetic message through various symbolic references and universes, providing a different heavenly perspective in contrast with an earthly point of view. In general, the conquest can be linked with both a military and political meaning, such as Messiah and the son of David in Jewish literature and the Old Testament. But the conqueror figure in Revelation can be understood from a different angle. The characteristic of the conqueror is explained through the symbolic transformation of redemptive death and victory. It means that the idea of conquering has been changed. Conquering doesn’t depend on a military or political power that is the interpretation of the traditional messianic expectation, but self-sacrifice of the Lamb on the cross. The characteristic of the Lamb as conqueror is closely linked with the image of an atoning, sacrificial victim. The theme of suffering and death in Revelation is linked with the victory of the conquerors. That is, the conquerors can be defined as those who endure suffering, slander, poverty and tribulation unto death as Jesus has done. From a worldly perspective, Satan looks like the almighty figure as the conqueror that persecuted the people of God, but in terms of the heavenly perspective, he is defeated and conquered by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of God in 12:11. Therefore, conquering is provided from the heavenly perspective to encourage the conquerors as seeing the present reality. Just as the Lamb has conquered the evil ones by his blood, the conquerors should conquer the evil ones by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. Thus, the victory of the conquerors can be attained by means of witness and death. The idea that the conquerors are the victims might provide the people of God with a powerful symbolic transformation as a marginalized group in a hostile world. The conquerors are provided with a heavenly perspective, implying an eschatological fulfillment and God’s presence in the New Jerusalem. The image of the New Jerusalem provides a rhetorical effect that the people of God as conquerors will experience salvation in the future. Whereas the city of Babylon was drunk with the blood of the conquerors, the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven will dwell with God as the completion of the fulfillment God promised (cf. 21:1-22:5). / Thesis (PhD (New Testament Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / New Testament Studies / PhD / unrestricted