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61	Strukturální a tematické srovnání dvou románů Harper Leeové, To Kill a Mockingbird a Go Set a Watchman / A structural and thematic comparison of Harper Lee's novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman Friedlová, Michaela January 2020 (has links) The aim of this diploma thesis is to analyse and compare Harper Lee's canonical coming-of- age novel To Kill a Mockingbird to its original forerunner, the novel Go Set a Watchman, which was, however, published several years later. The theoretical part provides a brief synopsis of each of the novels and outlines Lee's life, as well as the main aspects of the historical and social background relevant to the stories, namely the Great Depression, Jim Crow laws, and the Scottsboro Trial. The practical part then investigates and juxtaposes the two novels from thematic and structural perspectives, and considers them specifically through the psychological, sociological, and stylistic prisms. Besides, it compares the factual similarities and differences in storylines and characters, who are often based on Lee's real-life acquaintances. The overall comparison shows how To Kill a Mockingbird, a gently tuned novel of children growing up yet packed with diverse topics, evolved from a rather intricate novel, Go Set a Watchman, dealing with a difficult task of one's individuation and realising that one's father is only a human. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the 1930s and takes place over several years, while the story of Go Set a Watchman is situated some twenty years later, and its plot culminates in the...
62	Casual Things: Poetry, Natural History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century America Yoon, Ami January 2023 (has links) This dissertation tracks the literary afterlife of natural history in American literature, long past its term of relevance for scientific experts, and examines how natural history persists as idiom, cultural metaphor, and discursive framework in nineteenth-century literature in a way that informs poetic production. At the juncture of literary and cultural history, history of science, and environmental studies, I reconstruct the enduring literary rapport between poetry and natural history in US culture, showing how the aesthetic innovations of a wide current of poetic experimentalism variously draw upon natural history as a resource. I therefore push against major received narratives about natural history’s disappearance after the eighteenth century and the development of American poetry as a filiation of European Romanticism. As I read the texts of familiar literary figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Frances Watkins Harper, and Herman Melville, I recontextualize these figures into a shared poetic strain that reflexively develops upon natural history as a mode of thinking about the New World as a biophysical, social, and cultural habitat. My chapters analyze these writers’ accounts of poetry and their various experiments with not only the capacities of poetic genres—such as epic or elegy—but also the material production of their poems as objects in the world. In the process, I also show how the different poets of my dissertation confront the violent historical and social repercussions of scientific modernity, colonialism, enslavement and racism, mass extermination, or war, as they advance poetry as the fit vehicle for rethinking the grids of normativity and possibility in modern America. American literature American poetry Romanticism Natural history Nineteenth century Imperialism Racism Slavery Genocide Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911
63	Relégué aux oubliettes ou toujours vivant? : la place du Québec dans la stratégie de marketing électoral du Parti conservateur du Canada de 2006 à 2011 Pineault-Desrosiers, Samuel 23 April 2018 (has links) Peu de recherches en marketing politique se sont intéressées à la sélection des territoires (provinces, États, régions) ciblés par les partis politiques en période électorale. En analysant les déplacements de Stephen Harper et les plateformes électorales du Parti conservateur du Canada (PCC) lors des trois dernières élections fédérales, nous vérifions si les provinces ciblées sont celles qui détiennent le plus de circonscriptions de type champs de bataille. Malgré certaines nuances, le PCC cible davantage les provinces qui comptent le plus de champs de bataille. Toutefois, les champs de bataille perdus aux élections précédentes prédisent plus précisément quelles provinces seront ciblées dans les efforts de communication électorale. Lorsque le PCC contrôle plus de la moitié des circonscriptions d’une province, il semble confier la campagne aux exécutifs provinciaux. Enfin, le Québec semble détenir une place particulière dans la stratégie conservatrice, indépendamment du faible nombre de circonscriptions où le parti est compétitif. / A limited body of work in political marketing research has focused so far on the selection of territories (provinces, states, regions) targeted by political parties during election periods. By analyzing Stephen Harper’s appearances and the election platforms of the Conservative Party of Canada, we wanted to know if the targeted provinces were those that held the largest amount of battleground ridings. Our analysis reveals that, indeed, the CPC targets provinces that contain the most battlefields. However, this finding should be nuanced. For instance, lost battlegrounds are the most important ridings in the development of a strategy and more effectively predict targeted provinces. Also, when the CPC controls more than half of the constituencies in a province, the national executive appears to entrust its regional campaign to the provincial executive. Finally, Québec seems to hold a special place in the conservative strategy, regardless of its limited share of battleground ridings. P 90.5 UL 2015
64	Interaktionskvalitet - hur mäts det? Friberg, Annika January 2009 (has links) Den tekniska utvecklingen har lett till att massiva mängder av information sänds, i högahastigheter. Detta flöde måste vi lära oss att hantera. För att maximera nyttan av de nyateknikerna och undkomma de problem som detta enorma informationsflöde bär med sig, börinteraktionskvalitet studeras. Vi måste anpassa gränssnitt efter användaren eftersom denneinte har möjlighet att anpassa sig till, och sortera i för stora informationsmängder. Vi måsteutveckla system som gör människan mer effektiv vid användande av gränssnitt.För att anpassa gränssnitten efter användarens behov och begränsningar krävs kunskaperom den mänskliga kognitionen. När kognitiv belastning studeras är det viktigt att en såflexibel, lättillgänglig och icke-påträngande teknik som möjligt används för att få objektivamätresultat, samtidigt som pålitligheten är av största vikt. För att kunna designa gränssnittmed hög interaktionskvalitet krävs en teknik att utvärdera dessa. Målet med uppsatsen är attfastställa en mätmetod väl lämpad för mätning av interaktionskvalitet.För mätning av interaktionskvalitet rekommenderas en kombinering av subjektiva ochfysiologiska mätmetoder, detta innefattar en kombination av Functional near-infraredspecroscopy; en fysiologisk mätmetod som mäter hjärnaktiviteten med hjälp av ljuskällor ochdetektorer som fästs på frontalloben, Electrodermal activity; en fysiologisk mätmetod sommäter hjärnaktiviteten med hjälp av elektroder som fästs över skalpen och NASA task loadindex; en subjektiv, multidimensionell mätmetod som bygger på kortsortering och mäteruppfattad kognitiv belastning i en sammanhängande skala. Mätning med hjälp av dessametoder kan resultera i en ökad interaktionskvalitet i interaktiva, fysiska och digitalagränssnitt. En uppskattning av interaktionskvalitet kan bidra till att fel vid interaktionminimeras, vilket innebär en förbättring av användares upplevelse vid interaktion. / Technical developments have led to the broadcasting of massive amounts of information, athigh velocities. We must learn to handle this flow. To maximize the benefits of newtechnologies and avoid the problems that this immense information flow brings, interactionquality should be studied. We must adjust interfaces to the user because the user does nothave the ability to adapt and sort overly large amounts of information. We must developsystems that make the human more efficient when using interfaces.To adjust the interfaces to the user needs and limitations, knowledge about humancognitive processes is required. When cognitive workload is studied it is important that aflexible, easily accessed and non assertive technique is used to get unbiased results. At thesame time reliability is of great importance. To design interfaces with high interaction quality,a technique to evaluate these is required. The aim of this paper is to establish a method that iswell suited for measurement of interaction quality.When measuring interaction quality, a combination of subjective and physiologicalmethods is recommended. This comprises a combination of Functional near-infraredspectroscopy; a physiological measurement which measures brain activity using light sourcesand detectors placed on the frontal lobe, Electrodermal activity; a physiological measurementwhich measures brain activity using electrodes placed over the scalp and NASA task loadindex; a subjective, multidimensional measurement based on card sorting and measures theindividual perceived cognitive workload on a continuum scale. Measuring with these methodscan result in an increase in interaction quality in interactive, physical and digital interfaces.An estimation of interaction quality can contribute to eliminate interaction errors, thusimproving the user’s interaction experience. interaction cognitive workload interaction quality measure measurement interaktion kognitiv belastning interaktionskvalitet mätning mäta kvalitet quality EEG Electroencephalography elektroencefalografi SWAT Subjective workload assessment technique NASA TLX NASA task load index pupil dilation Modified Cooper Harper Scale MCH skalan Modified Cooper Harper Skalan MCH scale mätmetoder measures subjektiv objektiv subjective objective Skin conductivity response Heart rate variability Functional near- infrared spectroscopy SCR HRV fNIRS kommunikation communication kognition cognition teknikstödd kommunikation ansikte mot ansikte kommunikation face to face interaktivitet information interactivity workload arbetsbelastning cognitive kognitiv Diagnosticity sensitivity upplösning mätinstrument känslighet utvärdering analys utvärderingsprocedur metod method kalibrering calibration Engineering and Technology Teknik och teknologier
65	Law and justice: Scott v. Canada and the history of the social covenant with Canadian veterans Minnes, Jonathan David 31 May 2019 (has links) This paper explores the issues underlying the Scott v. Canada veteran class action lawsuit. In particular it seeks to provide context to these issues by examining the cultural and legal structure of the Canadian military, the historic developments of veteran benefits in Canada, and the difficulties veterans face navigating the institutions that disseminate these benefits. The Scott v. Canada veteran class action lawsuit was launched against the Federal Government in 2012, in response to the Canadian Forces Members and Veterans Re-establishment and Compensation Act (the “New Veterans Charter”), which replaced the disability pension regime for many Canadian Forces Members and veterans under the Pension Act. / Graduate Veteran Law Justice Social Covenant Scott v. Canada Veterans Review and Appeal Board Pension New Veterans Charter Pension Act Military Culture Unlimited Liability Universality of Service Woods Committee Keeping Faith Veteran’s Assistance Commission Veterans Charter Borden Harper Trudeau Disability Supreme Court Court of Appeal Court Canada Canadian Veterans Affairs

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