Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T14:16:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Patricia Paula de Oliveira.pdf: 553874 bytes, checksum: 2ba4392f3d95ae8fad7d6de1092e762e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-10 / The subject of this dissertation is the study of plants carried on by Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira (1756-1815) during his journey to Rio Negro between 1783 and 1786. The objectives were to gather plants references contained in the trip diaries, as well as in botanic memories written by the author, in the attempt to establish the disciplinary record that guided the naturalist s look. The first chapter brings the biographical aspects of Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, his graduation at Coimbra, his planning for the philosophical journey in the context of the introduction of modern science in Portugal, as well as the destination given to the naturalist´s work. The second chapter discourses upon the History of Botany with the purpose of situating the reader in the scientific context in which the naturalist was in, namely the XVIIIth Century s Portugal. In this same chapter is made an analysis of the minor botany memories left by the naturalist. The third chapter brings a discussion supported by information we gathered from plants references made by Alexandre Ferreira in his Diary of the Philosophical Journey to Rio Negro. At the end, in our Final Considerations, we present the conclusions based on the results achieved in our analysis. Along our research we identified the aspects referred by the naturalist to describe the plants according to several disciplinary records. The methodology used consisted in marking all Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira references about plants and indicate which current knowledge context we believe they fit in. We found Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira references to plants according to the following areas and subareas: Botany (morphology, physiology, and identification), Agriculture (food, planting, economy/production, and general comments), Medicine (medicinal plants) and General (food, drinks, construction, furniture, objects, clothing, textile, dye, no cultivated plants, conservation and general comments). Our research allowed us to identify this mix of approaches, bringing into attention, quantitatively, the agricultural focus. In our opinion, Alexandre´s records were according to his background at Coimbra University, as well as in tune with the botanical production of the period / O objeto desta dissertação é o estudo das plantas realizado por Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira (1756-1815) durante viagem realizada ao Rio Negro entre os anos 1783 e 1786. Os objetivos foram os de realizar um levantamento das menções a plantas presentes dos diários dessa viagem, bem como em memórias botânicas escritas pelo autor, procurando estabelecer por quais registros disciplinares guiava-se o olhar do naturalista. O primeiro capítulo aborda aspectos biográficos de Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, a sua formação em Coimbra, o planejamento da viagem filosófica no contexto da introdução das ciências modernas em Portugal, bem como o destino dos trabalhos realizados pelo naturalista. O segundo capítulo apresenta um panorama da História da Botânica com a intenção de situar o leitor no contexto científico em que estava inserido o naturalista, principalmente em Portugal no século XVIII. Nesse mesmo capítulo é feita uma análise dos conteúdos de pequeninas Memórias de Botânica deixadas pelo naturalista. O terceiro capítulo traz uma discussão, alimentada e permeada pelo levantamento que realizamos das menções a plantas feitas por Alexandre em seu Diário da Viagem Filosófica ao Rio Negro. Ao final, nas Considerações Finais, indicamos as conclusões derivadas dos resultados alcançados ao longo de nossa análise. Em nossa pesquisa, identificamos os aspectos utilizados pelo naturalista para descrever as plantas de acordo com diversos registros disciplinares. A nossa metodologia consistiu em marcar todas as menções feitas por Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira sobre plantas e identificar uma esfera atual do conhecimento à qual acreditamos pertencerem. Encontramos menções de Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira às plantas segundo as seguintes áreas e subáreas: Botânica (morfologia, fisiologia, identificação), Agricultura (alimentação, plantação, economia/produtividade, comentários gerais), Medicina (plantas medicinais) e Geral (alimentação, bebidas, construção, móveis, objetos, adornos/vestimentas, têxteis, tintura, plantas não cultivadas, conservação e comentários gerais). O nosso levantamento permitiu identificar essa mescla de abordagens, destacando-se, quantitativamente, o enfoque agrícola. A nosso ver, os relatos de Alexandre mostram que seu trabalho estava de acordo com a formação que ele recebeu na Universidade de Coimbra, bem como em consonância com a produção botânica de sua época

Aesthetic criticism very often has been overlooked and considered a lesser form. However, many interpretations, applications and discernments can be obtained from this kind of art writing. Using Osvaldo Sánchez's work as a case study, this thesis examines how writerly art criticism offers an active reading framework of the work of art by using philosophical, literary and poetic constructions. In this regard, I will see how the "writerly" condition has contributed compelling insights to the History of Aesthetics, highlighting the connections and disconnections between Sánchez and other writerly critics, which demonstrates the significance of developing a flexible, available and aesthetic learning model of art appreciation. I will analyze as well various models of experience, subjective and objective, that release certain "openness" as a premise for their existences. Here are included the Kantian sublime, Heidegger's ontological Being, the surrealist cultivation of chance, Kaprow's happenings, and the attitude of disinterest developed by the vanishing poets as defended by the scholar Rafael Hernández Rodríguez. I will show that, by choosing an accommodating approach to discover forms of knowledge, an assortment of valuable empirical content can be found. Finally, I investigate the writerly work of Cuban critic Osvaldo Sánchez that does not adopt a fixed critical pattern. Instead, Sánchez's art writing passes through fields, providing us with a heuristic methodology in which the aesthetic emerges not as a preconditioned set of principles/procedures, but as a true lived experience.

The following project will examine the scientific, metaphysical, and aesthetic themes connected to Goethe's vision of Natur during and surrounding the years of his famed Italian Journey. Goethe's progressing conceptualization of the Urpflanze during this period, as witnessed in his autobiographical Italienische Reise and the Versuch, die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklaren, will be of special concern because of its pertinence to a number of vital natural scientific themes in Goethe's scientific work. I will also trace the progression of these themes over time as seen in Goethe's related theories of the intermaxillary bone and of the morphology of plant organs so as to maintain that the Italian Journey may be seen as a period not only of literary revitalization as commonly cited, but also of scientific progress in connection with Goethe's deepening understanding of Natur as well as its inherent laws and archetypal nature. The first chapter will introduce the project's problem in detail as well as the textual and critical obstructions associated with the project. I will maintain in Chapter II that Goethe's biography during the 1780s shows a systematic progression in the understanding of Natur in his scientific projects and in the Reise, which also helps to demonstrate that Goethe's Journey was a period during which Goethe was able to develop, in greater detail than heretofore, his metaphysical vision of Natur. In Chapter III, I will investigate the primary textual material on Goethe?s notion of the Urpflanze within the Italienische Reise and its resulting extension in his 1790 study of plant morphology, the Metamorphose der Pflanzen. Chapter IV will discuss the topic of the Eins in Nature and anschauende Urteilskraft as detected in Goethe's scientific writings. Chapter V will continue and conclude this argument by linking Richards' argument regarding "Romantic biologists" to Goethe?s natural science during the time of the Italian Journey, thus making a connection between Kunst and Natur in the Italienische Reise and in Goethe's scientific projects during and surrounding the Journey.

隨著資訊科技的發展，網際網路成為個人獲得資訊的主要來源之一。但是過多的資訊產生資訊爆炸(information overload)的現象，人們除了要在眾多資訊中找尋想要的資訊外，還需要擔心所尋找到的資訊的品質是否良好。因此，推薦系統提供了一個良好的解決方法。推薦系統透過分群與推薦的技術來達到減少資訊量與推估使用者潛在興趣的目的。目前推薦系統多應用在單一維度的推薦，本論文希望藉由某一情境來探討多維度推薦的應用，所以選擇助理軟體來實現多維度推薦的應用。選擇助理軟體是由於其已經成為個人日常生活中時常使用的工具，且由於助理軟體管理個人日常生活中的大小事務，成為最貼近個人的工具。若專注在個人行事曆的安排上，我們可以發現個人行事曆安排牽涉到有人、事、時、地、物五個維度。因此我們以五維度做分群，透過合作推薦(Collaborative Recommender)的方式將可以達到個人潛在興趣的多維度(Multi-Dimensions)推薦。本研究將以行事歷排定為情境，來說明如何將五個維度的各種可能組合依照其契合個人興趣的程度來進行推薦，這將使得助理軟體的內容更加豐富，且能貼近使用者的需求，提供意想不到的資訊組合。 / With the development of information science and technology, assistant software becomes a tool which often uses in personal daily life, and because all kinds of affairs in personal daily life that assistant software is managed, so assistant software becomes a tool which personally close to people. Intelligent assistant software hopes to make assistant software have intelligence which is similar to the mankind. Just like a personal general secretary, arrange the most proper individualized journey. Further, it can combine the idea of Recommender system to recommend the journey of the potential interest while arranging in the personal journey. This research proposes an intelligent assistant software with five- dimensions include of people, thing, when, location and things, uses cooperative Recommender approach to reach multi-dimension recommendation of personal potential interest. This research will give example of meeting as the situation to explain how to make five-dimensions recommendation according to personal interest. This will make the content of assistant software more abundant, and can press close to the user's demand.

Cette étude porte sur la distance parcourue pour commettre un crime à Gatineau en 2006. Peu d’études canadiennes récentes ont porté sur le sujet. De plus, il existe un vide de connaissances sur la mobilité des délinquants dans les petites villes et les banlieues. La présente recherche vise à comparer trois mesures de distance différentes, à vérifier si la distance parcourue varie en fonction du type de crime et à voir si les variables de temps (jour de la semaine, moment de la journée et saison) de même que certaines caractéristiques des suspects (âge, sexe et lieu de résidence) ont un impact sur la distance parcourue. Pour chaque crime, l’adresse du suspect et le lieu du crime ont été géocodées pour ensuite calculer la distance entre les deux points. Il ressort de l’analyse de la forme des courbes de distances que seules les agressions sexuelles présentent une zone tampon. Les résultats des analyses statistiques indiquent que les jeunes sont plus mobiles que les suspects plus âgés et que les hommes parcourent une distance plus élevée que les femmes. Étonnement, la distance parcourue ne diffère pas significativement selon la saison et le moment de la journée. Enfin, comparativement aux autres criminels, les délinquants qui ont commis un vol qualifié sont ceux qui ont parcouru les plus grandes distances. / This study focuses on the journey to crime of the offenders who have committed a crime in Gatineau in 2006. There are only a few recent Canadian studies on the subject. In addition there is a vacuum of knowledge on the journey to crime in smaller cities and suburbs. This research is designed to compare three different measures of distance, to check if the distance varies depending on the type of crime and see if the variables of time (day of week, time of day and season) as well as some characteristics of suspects (age, sex and place of residence) have an impact on the distance traveled. For each crime, the address of the suspect and the crime location were geocoded then, the distance between the two points was calculated. An analysis of the shapes curves pattern of the distances indicates that sexual assault is the only type of crime which possesses a buffer zone. The results of statistical analysis show that young people are more mobile than older suspects and that men travel a greater distance than women. Surprisingly, the distance does not differ significantly according to season and time of day. Finally, compared to the other criminal offenders, those who have committed a robbery traveled the greatest distances.

This research was based on the idea of creating a space of encounter and of an encounter in space. The initial idea was to create a participatory/immersive installation framed within relational aesthetics and contemporary circus: focusing on a vital language that celebrates movement /dance, play, imagination and the magic of life. But through the process I left the concept of installation and I aim for an encounter space: blurring the boundaries with fields such as Movement, Dance Theatre, Improvisation, Circus, etc… A research to explore and develop the relationship with others, specially the audience. And how the audience can become a participant through 1-2-1 performances. Furthermore, I wanted to focus on the process of the research (inspirations, methodology, detect obstacles, making space…) rather than the outcome. The main thread is: Connecting with the “Self” state. ____reVisionesA research in how to facilitate a state of connection, essence, spontaneity and honesty to oneself, though around the idea of an immersive experience for the visitor/participant. “reVisiones” aims to create a space of encounter where participants can focus on awareness of the connection between their Body/Mind/Spirit: a "Transitional Space" where they can observe, be moved or move within as they please.

Thesis (MA (English Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This project seeks to analyze the representation of identities in Shiva Naipaul's travel narrative North of South: An African Journey (1978) as encoded in the binaries of primitive / traditional; civilized / modern; settler / native; civic / tribal and neo-colonial / liberated. By analyzing this select series of identities, this project aims to explore the fractured nature of identity as constructed in the post-colony. It will argue that the identities are rendered unstable by the ungrounded nature of the post-colonial space in which they are located. Naipaul concludes his travel narrative by qualifying the postcolonial situation as an abortion of Western civilization in the trope of Conrad's Kurtz. Naipaul implies that any identity in Africa is a simulacrum, a phantom double, a copy of something that was not there to begin with. He attempts to articulate the diverse cultures that he encounters as though he were apart from them without recognizing that he is essentially and inextricably a part of the various cultural articulations themselves. It is easy to criticize Naipaul, therefore, as a non-starter. With the advantages of hindsight, however, it is possible for the contemporary reader to recognize these instabilities as evidence of the post-modern phenomenon in which reality is not an absolute. As a modernist writer, Naipaul's efforts to understand these instabilities of identity as an articulation of culture are circumvented by a Sisyphean struggle wherein he attempts to establish a sense of ontological alterity in the narrative yet implicates himself, as well as his invocation of archival literature and hence his ultimate position of disillusionment, hopelessness and doom. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie projek poog om die verteenwoordiging van identiteite in Shiva Naipaul se reisverhaal, North of South: An African Journey (1978), gekodeerd met die binere van die primitiewe / tradisionele ; beskaafde / moderne; setlaars / inheemse; staats / etniese; en neo-kolonialisme / vryheid, te analiseer. Deur die analise van die gekose reeks identiteite, neig die studie om die gebroke aard van identiteit in In post-koloniale omgewing te ondersoek, en te redeneer dat die identiteite bemoeilik word deur die ongegronde natuur van die postkoloniale ruimte waarin hulle voorkom. Naipaul omvat North of South om die post-kolonialistiese situasie te kwalifiseer as In aborsie van die Westerse beskawing in die metafoor van Conrad se Kurtz. Naipaul impliseer dat enige identiteit in Afrika In simulacrum is, In spookbeeld, 'n kopie van iets wat nooit was nie. Hy poog om die menigte kulture wat hy ondervind te omskryf asof hy van hulle verwyder is, sonder om te besef dat hy volledig deel uitmaak van die geleding van hierdie kulture, en dit is daarvolgens maklik om Naipaul as 'n mislukking te kritiseer. Met die duidelikheid van In moderne leser se terugblik is dit wei moontlik om hierdie onkonsekwenthede as bewyse te sien van die post-modernistiese verskynsel waarin realiteit nie In absoluut is nie. As In modernistiese skrywer is Naipaul se bemoeienis om hierdie onbestendigheid van identiteit as 'n omskrywing van kultuur te verstaan belemmer deur 'n Sisyphiesestryd waarin hy poog om In sin van die andersheid van die aard van die werklikheid in die storielyn te vestig, maar tog impliseer hy homself asook sy gebruik van argiefmateriaal, en vandaar sy uiteindelike posisie van ontnugtering, hopeloosheid en verwoesting.

(in English) The thesis aimed to explore the topos of inn in relation to the topos of journey in fantasy literature. The first step was to define the term fantasy literature with regard to the set of texts selected for the analysis; namely their connection to mythology and fairy tales, genres working with hero's initiation journey. Integral part of the thesis was to consider theoretical works focused on the image of pubs in literature, as well as a short description of the form and function of this topos in other genres. The subject of the analysis were inns from six fictional worlds representing a cross-section of the genre from the half of the 20th century until present time, while the selected examples fall mostly into the sub-genre of epic fantasy. The analysis showed that the inns have four primary functions: hero's intimate space, place of meeting and cognition, place of transformation and place of stories. Each of these functions is connected to a specific part of the initiation journey and represents its beginning, or one of its tests. All these functions are also connected to certain issues related to hero's psychological journey, namely the issue of trust, identity and will. The inns which serve as hero's intimate space have a special position; they reflect his or her state of mind and...

The tone of this dissertation is in the first person as allowed by the lens of constructivism used in it. Being constantly self-reflective, the author takes the reader through his personal journey to be a therapist, and the ethical dimensions encountered in the process, to indicate that one cannot do therapy \\'ithout considering ethics in the fusion of the professional and personal selves of the therapist.- What is lost in the delineated field of observation is hoped to be gained, in the richness of its personal material. Not aiming at drawing any generalisable arguments, the purpose of the dissertation is to provoke a dialogue about our ethical conduct with clients, indicating that our therapeutic conduct is enriched by constantly involving ourselves in the ethical dilemmas that emerge in the therapeutic process. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology)

Notre recherche porte sur l’analyse d’un processus spécifique d’apprentissage par le concept d’ingegno du philosophe napolitain Giambattista Vico : La pratique du débat de l’Ecole Gelugpa du bouddhisme tibétain. Dans une première partie, à travers une anthropologie de son geste et de son imaginaire, nous présentons le déploiement de l’ingegno et la dimension transdisciplinaire de cette pratique traditionnelle de formation. Dans une deuxième partie, nous utilisons l’outil AT9 pour faire une lecture herméneutique de l’imaginaire de moines tibétains pratiquant le débat. A travers les projections de soi que constituent les AT9 réalisés, nous cherchons les traces des projections des apprentissages et leur dimension transdisciplinaire. Nous concluons ou plutôt offrons aux praticiens transdisciplinaires, la mise en débat d’un outil transdisciplinaire transformateur des pratiques de formation telles que les nôtres se sont métamorphosées au long cours de notre apprentissage de chercheur / Our research focuses on the analysis of a specific process of learning: The concept of ingegno by the Neapolitan philosopher Giambattista Vico: The practice of the debate of the Gelugpa School of Tibetan Buddhism. In the first section, through an anthropology of its gesture and its imagination, we present the deployment of ingegno and transdisciplinary dimension of this traditional practice of education. In the second section, we use the tool AT9 to do a hermeneutic reading from the imagination of the Tibetan monks in the process of discussions. Through the projections themselves, that constitute the AT9 realized, we looked for traces of projections of learning and their transdisciplinary dimension. It is concluded, or rather offered to the transdisciplinary practitioners, the debate of a transforming tool of the transdisciplinary training practices, such as ours have been transformed during the course of our learning researcher