This thesis argues that, catalysed by technological and architectural developments, as well as by altering moral codes of conduct, by the early twentieth century, Manhattan had become a nexus of spectacle, its culturally distinct districts and numerous heterotopic spaces providing quasi stage-sets for impromptu and everyday performance. The theatre extended its embrace across the modern metropolis and conceptual stages could be found almost anywhere and everywhere: the subway, the elevated railway, fire-escapes, roof-gardens, shop windows and skyscrapers. These unofficial stages took their place alongside the busy lives of city dwellers. Using examples from literature, as well as elements of magazine culture, cinema, theatre, visual art, photography and music, this interdisciplinary thesis demonstrates the ways in which everyday theatre came to be played out day-to-day in the districts of Greenwich Village, Harlem and the Lower East Side. I explore how performative language and themes infiltrated mass culture, as literary and artistic representations of the city intermingled reality with the theatrical, often providing a smoke-screen for harsher truths. I incorporate works from a cross-section of writers including Djuna Barnes, Floyd Dell, Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Langston Hughes, Mike Gold and Anzia Yezierska, as well as artists such as John Sloan, Aaron Douglas and Jerome Myers.

The events of 9/11 deeply impacted the Arab American community, initiating a renewed Orientalist narrative that framed them as the “enemy within”. This thesis examines how Arab American playwrights are reclaiming their voice and agency to offer narratives of self-representation that unsettle and counter the discourse of Otherness that entraps them. Through an exploration of selected Arab American plays, this thesis examines the newly articulated Arab American identity, which aims to transcend an either/or dichotomy, despite being positioned on the periphery. Focusing on the racial, national, social, gender and sexual components of Arab American identity, this thesis problematises definitions of the “suspect” Arab, the “sexual” Arab and the “victimised” Arab woman and homosexual. It further questions the politics of visibility/invisibility influencing Arab American playwrights and theatre platforms as they attempt to defy their marginal positioning. It investigates the possibility of alternative theatrical spaces where Arab American playwrights can overstep the political and cultural limitations/demarcations imposed on them by a hegemonic “multicultural” discourse that privileges whiteness. In doing so, it celebrates the emergence of a resistant discourse within an Arab American theatre movement that liberates Arab American identity from Otherness.

Submitted by Sara Ribeiro (sara.ribeiro@ucb.br) on 2017-05-22T16:24:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 SueliPereiraCaixetaTese2017.pdf: 1493452 bytes, checksum: db8d20a998eb444dd1506227bb00527b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Sara Ribeiro (sara.ribeiro@ucb.br) on 2017-05-22T16:24:47Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 SueliPereiraCaixetaTese2017.pdf: 1493452 bytes, checksum: db8d20a998eb444dd1506227bb00527b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-22T16:24:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SueliPereiraCaixetaTese2017.pdf: 1493452 bytes, checksum: db8d20a998eb444dd1506227bb00527b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-27 / The present doctoral thesis deals with the repercussions of students??? psychic suffering in the subjectivity and practice of professors. Aiming to understand the complexity that crosses the relation between professor and students in the academic environment , and the importance of considering such complexity as a relevant educational dimension, this research seeks to apprehend how the experiences of students??? psychic suffering affect the professor. The problem studied has been unfolded in the following questions: Why is the listening to the suffering demand addressed to some professors? What referral does the professor make to such demands? Institutionally speaking, what is the support the professor gets so that he or she can deal with this questions? And how does the students??? suffering situations touch the professors??? subjectivity and practice? The primary objective of this research is to investigate if the student??? suffering situation resonate in the subjectivity of the professor, also causing him or her suffering and implications in his or her pedagogical practice. To achieve this goal, the present study sought to set up the relation between the academic demands and the students??? and professors??? psychic suffering factors; debate aspects of the subjectivity of professors and students that have implications in the processes of teaching and learning; ascertain if the singular subjective position of professors made them recipient to listening students??? suffering through transference; describe the individual, coll ective and institutional coping strategies of professors??? suffering; and identify modalities of referrals made in students??? and professor??? suffering situations. This investigation has adopted as its theoretical background the psychoanalysis and its connect ions with education. Such a choice enabled the researcher to discuss the importance of some unconscious psychic records as relevant and peculiar elements presented in the relationship established by the professors with students and their profession, through the teaching and transmission of culture. The researcher has applied the intervention research method for the present study, and used devices for group and individual clinical listening to collect and construct data. Eight professors of a community highe r education institution based on the state of Rio Grande do Sul have participated at the investigation. In the data analysis, one used the construction of nuclei of meaning as a tool to apprehend the constitution of the meanings expressed by the subjects in their narrative about the psychic suffering and the repercussions in exercising their profession. One has also debated the following nuclei of meaning: students??? suffering, professors??? suffering, destitution of teacher???s place, position of the adult that teaches, and individual, collective and institutional coping strategies of suffering. The findings point out to the existence of psychic suffering of the student and its interference in the professor subjectivity, provoking malaise in the pedagogical practice; identify the main symptoms forming the professors??? suffering situation and relate them to the non - recognition of their profession in social terms by students and society; highlight the transference relation between professor and student as creative power of the teaching practice, as long as he or she clearly occupies the place of authority of the adult in the role of educating; identify the conflicts between generations as points of standoffs and production of teacher suffering. The results also point out the main coping and overcoming strategies of the psychic suffering used by the subjects. / Esta tese versa sobre as repercuss??es do sofrimento ps??quico de estudantes na subjetividade e na pr??tica dos docentes universit??rios. Numa tentativa de compreender a complexidade que constr??i a rela????o dos sujeitos nos ambientes educacionais, a import??ncia de considerar-se tal complexidade como elemento educativo, buscou-se, nesta pesquisa, apreender como as experi??ncias de sofrimento ps??quico de estudantes afetam o professor universit??rio. Apresentam-se como problema as seguintes quest??es: por que a demanda de sofrimento ?? endere??ada a determinados professores? Que encaminhamento o professor d?? a tais demandas? Institucionalmente, qual o suporte que o professor recebe para lidar com essas quest??es? E, principalmente, como as situa????es de sofrimento do estudante tocam a subjetividade dos professores? Essa pesquisa objetivou estudar, a partir da pesquisa interven????o, a rela????o estabelecida entre a situa????o de sofrimento do estudante e suas repercuss??es na subjetividade do professor, seus sofrimentos e as implica????es disso em sua pr??tica pedag??gica. Para isso, busca estabelecer a rela????o entre exig??ncias acad??micas e os fatores de sofrimento ps??quico de estudantes e de professores; discutir aspectos da subjetividade de professores e de estudantes que t??m implica????es nos processos de ensino e de aprendizagem; demonstrar que a posi????o subjetiva (transferencial) dos professores os torna destinat??rios da escuta de sofrimento do estudante; descrever as estrat??gias de enfretamento do sofrimento que os professores acessam pessoal e institucionalmente; verificar se o sofrimento dos estudantes ?? fator desencadeador de sofrimento no professor e identificar as modalidades de encaminhamentos realizados em situa????es de sofrimento de estudantes e professores. Adotou-se, como base te??rica neste trabalho de investiga????o, a psican??lise e suas conex??es com a educa????o. Tal escolha possibilitou compreender que os processos ps??quicos inconscientes oferecem elementos importantes e peculiares para pensar sobre o sujeito em sua rela????o com a sociedade e a cultura. A pesquisa foi de natureza qualitativa. Utilizou-se a pesquisa interven????o como instrumento de produ????o e coleta de dados a partir da escuta cl??nica em grupo e individual. Participaram voluntariamente dessa investiga????o oito professores de uma institui????o de ensino superior comunit??ria do Rio Grande do Sul. Na an??lise dos dados recorreu-se ?? constru????o de n??cleos de significa????o como meio para apreens??o da constitui????o dos sentidos expressos pelos sujeitos na sua narrativa acerca de seu sofrimento ps??quico. S??o discutidos os seguintes n??cleos de significa????o: sofrimento dos estudantes, sofrimento dos docentes, destitui????o do lugar do mestre, lugar do adulto que educa e estrat??gias de car??ter individual, coletivo e institucional de enfretamento do sofrimento. Discute a rela????o do sofrimento do estudante e sua interfer??ncia na subjetividade docente provocando tamb??m mal-estar, identifica os principais sintomas que indicam a situa????o de sofrimento dos sujeitos e os relaciona ?? demanda de reconhecimento n??o identificada atualmente na profiss??o docente. Compreende a rela????o transferencial professor-aluno como pot??ncia para o fazer docente, em que o docente ocupa claramente a lugar do adulto que educa, identifica os conflitos de gera????es como um ponto importante para a condi????o de sofrimento docente. Os resultados apontam, ainda, as estrat??gias encontradas, individual, coletiva e institucionalmente, para o enfrentamento e supera????o do sofrimento ps??quico.

La méthode de polarisation spontanée (PS) consiste en la mesure du potentiel électrique naturellement présent dans le sol. Elle est la seule méthode sensible aux écoulements d'eau souterrains. Les principaux objectifs de cette thèse ont été de (1) déterminer l'influence de la conductivité de surface et du régime d'écoulement sur le coefficient de couplage électrocinétique (paramètre crucial pour l'interprétation des signaux de PS), (2) de montrer l'efficacité de la PS dans la mise en évidence des phénomènes hydromécaniques et (3) de caractériser les écoulements de fluides en contexte volcanique. Nous avons développé un modèle corrigeant le coefficient de couplage électrocinétique à la<br />fois des effets de la conductivité de surface et du nombre de Reynolds. La validité de ce modèle a été confirmée grâce à des expériences réalisées sur billes de verre. Lors d'expériences en cuve, la méthode du potentiel spontané associée à un appareillage de haute sensibilité nous a permis de caractériser la signature électrique liée à des phénomènes<br />hydromécaniques. Utilisées à partir des enregistrements de PS réalisés à la surface de la cuve les méthodes d'analyse en ondelettes et d'intercorrelation ont montré la nature dipolaire de la source électrique liée à de telles perturbations et ont permis sa localisation. Sur le Stromboli en Italie, nous avons utilisé une approximation au premier ordre de la relation entre l'épaisseur de la zone vadose et l'anomalie de PS afin de déterminer la profondeur d'un aquifère situé sur le flanc est du volcan.

De nombreux développements sont actuellement en cours dans le réseau Internet, particulièrement sur la gestion de la QoS et sur l'intégration des différents services. Les aspects portant sur l'amélioration des performances des flux élastiques ont été quelque peu négligés par la communauté scientifique. Le travail effectué porte sur l'évaluation et l'amélioration des performances des flux élastiques. Plus exactement, nos études mettent en avant l'importance d'assurer une bonne qualité de service à ce type de trafic. Deux architectures de QoS ont été proposées. La première architecture est basée sur la classification et le contrôle d'admission appliqués sur les deux types de flux TCP: courts et longs. La classification des flux nous permet d'avoir un système plus prévisible et plus facile à dimensionner puisque les flux d'un agrégat parviennent à partager équitablement la bande passante qui leur est allouée au sein d'une même classe. Le contrôle d'admission prend en compte la caractérisation en flux longs et flux courts ainsi que les contraintes de QoS propres à chaque type de flux. Un modèle analytique ainsi que des simulations ont été réalisés afin d'évaluer les avantages de l'architecture proposée et d'analyser l'impact des seuils d'admission. Il est important de signaler que, outre l'amélioration des performances dans les cas étudiés, l'approche proposée fournit un outil de dimensionnement du réseau permettant d'atteindre, pour une structure de trafic donnée, les mesures de performances attendues. La deuxième architecture est basée sur le traitement préférentiel. Ce dernier est appliqué aux premiers paquets de chaque connexion favorisant ainsi les connexions courtes. Nous comptons sur l'architecture DiffServ pour classifier les flux aux bordures d'un réseau. Plus spécifiquement, nous maintenons la longueur (en paquets) de chaque flux actif aux routeurs de bordures et l'employons pour classifier les paquets entrants. Cette architecture a la particularité de ne pas nécessiter le maintien en mémoire d'un état par flux au coeur du réseau. Dans ce dernier, nous utilisons la politique de gestion de file d'attente RED avec des seuils différents pour les deux types de classes. Ceci nous permet de réduire le taux de pertes éprouvé par les paquets des flux courts. Nous montrons, à travers des analyses et des simulations que notre modèle peut réaliser une meilleure équité et un temps de réponse plus petit pour les flux courts que les modèles sans traitement préférentiel.

<p>A solid-phase extraction (SPE) method was developed for the determination of organochlorine pesticides, namely aldrin, alpha-BHC, beta-BHC, delta-BHC, dieldrin, endosulfan I, endosulfan II, endosulfan sulfate, endrin, endrin aldehyde, lindane, heptachlor, heptachlor epoxide, 4,4’-DDD, 4,4’-DDE and 4,4’- DDT in water. The effect of extraction conditions, such as the addition of sodium chloride and methanol to the sample prior to loading was studied. The sample was concentrated by a plain polystyrene-divinylbenzene resin, and the extract was eluted by ethyl acetate. Qualification and quantification of the target pesticides were performedby gas chromatography/ mass spectrometry (GC/MS) in the full-scan and selected ion-monitoring mode, respectively, and for better detection of pesticides in field samples the mass spectrometer was altered from electron ionization (EI) to chemical ionization mode (CI). The repeatability of the method for MilliQ-water fortified with pesticides at a level of 0.1 to 0.6 µg/l ranged from 8 to 18%, and the obtained recoveries ranged from 67 to 135%. </p><p>The method was evaluated for the determination of organochlorine pesticides in fourteen surface- and groundwater samples taken from locations along King Talal Dam, King Abdullah Canal and Zarqa River in the Jordan Valley. The limit of detection of the pesticides residues in 500-ml field water samples ranged from 0.0009 to 15.7 ng/l. The obtained results confirmed the presence of trace amounts of some organochlorine pesticides in the analyzed samples, i.e. lindane and endosulfan compounds.</p>

A solid-phase extraction (SPE) method was developed for the determination of organochlorine pesticides, namely aldrin, alpha-BHC, beta-BHC, delta-BHC, dieldrin, endosulfan I, endosulfan II, endosulfan sulfate, endrin, endrin aldehyde, lindane, heptachlor, heptachlor epoxide, 4,4’-DDD, 4,4’-DDE and 4,4’- DDT in water. The effect of extraction conditions, such as the addition of sodium chloride and methanol to the sample prior to loading was studied. The sample was concentrated by a plain polystyrene-divinylbenzene resin, and the extract was eluted by ethyl acetate. Qualification and quantification of the target pesticides were performedby gas chromatography/ mass spectrometry (GC/MS) in the full-scan and selected ion-monitoring mode, respectively, and for better detection of pesticides in field samples the mass spectrometer was altered from electron ionization (EI) to chemical ionization mode (CI). The repeatability of the method for MilliQ-water fortified with pesticides at a level of 0.1 to 0.6 µg/l ranged from 8 to 18%, and the obtained recoveries ranged from 67 to 135%. The method was evaluated for the determination of organochlorine pesticides in fourteen surface- and groundwater samples taken from locations along King Talal Dam, King Abdullah Canal and Zarqa River in the Jordan Valley. The limit of detection of the pesticides residues in 500-ml field water samples ranged from 0.0009 to 15.7 ng/l. The obtained results confirmed the presence of trace amounts of some organochlorine pesticides in the analyzed samples, i.e. lindane and endosulfan compounds.

Purpose of the Study To study how Apoteket AB can retain its customers after the government decision to implement de-regulation in Swedish pharmaceutical market. Apoteket AB was the only state-owned pharmacy for more than 38 years but now they are in competition with other pharmacy operators including supermarkets and gas stations. The main purpose of this study is to find out those vital factors which are important to customers in selecting pharmacy operators for buying prescription and non-prescription products. Approach The study begins by reviewing the Swedish pharmaceutical market and parliament decision of de-regulation about Apoteket AB monopoly. The literature then reviews the PESTEL framework, Porter model, customer relationship management and 7 P’s of marketing mix. We use Umeå university library for gathering material for our literature review. After that the authors reviewed different pharmacy operators and potential entrants in the Swedish pharmacy market. For this case study the authors have gathered the data through customer survey and semi-structured interview. The data was collected in Umeå (Sweden) with the help of questionnaire. We have collected the data with the help of convenience sampling technique at different locations in Umeå. Interview was conducted with Apoteket AB brand manager to understand their point of view about our research question. SPSS was used for analyzing the quantitative data, mainly descriptive statistic and Mann-Whitney U test were used for this purpose. Finally all the information’s were carefully analyzed by comparing with theories before drawing the final conclusion. Findings Four important aspects of customer’s retention were found; which are more community pharmacies, extended opening hours, low prices of over the counter products and added value to individual customers. Our respondents also show great confidence over the Apoteket AB personnel (Pharmacists). On the other hand we have also found that people appreciate the removal of Apoteket AB monopoly. Furthermore, we have found that after the implementation of de-regulation in Swedish pharmacy market over the counter (OTC) products have shown a 20% growth. The reason behind this growth may be the easy excess to such products and extended opening hours of supermarkets. The authors have also observed that people are willing to buy prescription products from other operators.

This thesis emerges out of a study of Thomas Pynchon’s work, from certain qualities and attributes that recur in his writing, notably the forces and hauntings of technology; the project is, further, alert to these phenomena as it is to Pynchon’s prose technique which exemplifies these aspects in its proliferative connections and modes of association. The study, whose title similarly derives from Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, offers readings of literary, historical and visual texts, and examines the radioactive substance, as well as the cultural implications and material manifestations, of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and of its support mechanisms. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, the thesis focuses on the interface between geography and technology, and identifies how missile technology is expressed, developed and linked to already existing narratives of particular US states. It uses methods and interpretations drawn from the creative mythologies of Alexis de Tocqueville and Thomas Jefferson, the fields of cultural and military studies, theories of technology formulated by Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard, Laurence Rickels and Paul N. Edwards, architectural and spatial theories developed by Henri Lefebvre and Anthony Vidler, and Cold War horror and science fiction movies, all of which frame the wider issues involved. The premise for the project is the representation of American power, or of the ‘American spirit’, in D.H Lawrence’s words, as a monster, a vampire which feeds on the subjects of the nation; this notion of vampirism is latent in the project’s four chapters, on Colorado, Kansas, Cape Canaveral and New York, which seek to address different aspects of the country’s flights into (nuclear) enclosures. The first chapter, ‘Excavation’, focuses on the state of Colorado and uranium mining, and examines the missile’s substance, its nuclear core, through close readings of Stephen King’s The Shining. The second chapter, ‘Preservation’, is concerned with the state of Kansas and the missile silo, and employs the writings of Thomas Jefferson, Allen Ginsberg, Thomas Pynchon, Frank Baum and a range of political and military studies to arrive at a consideration of the form of the missile silo as the epitome of an architecture of storage. The third chapter, ‘Evacuation’, homes in on Cape Canaveral, guided by J.G. Ballard’s Space Age short stories and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, and utilises archival material from James E. Webb, NASA administrator from 1961–1967, to argue that narratives of progress and possibilities of movement are bound to the need to seek refuge in static enclosures. The fourth chapter, ‘Transmission’, zeroes in on New York, and is concerned with missile defence; it deploys analysis of the works of H.G Wells, Jonathan Schell, Nikola Tesla, Ronald Reagan and Elaine Scarry to discuss the transmission of rays, and of rumours.

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