Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-02-27Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:53:05Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 pizzi_mcb_me_arafcl.pdf: 911749 bytes, checksum: ef12a4d4f34d9ef309c6cdd05c184c74 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Alice Munro destaca-se como grande autora de contos que, elaborados de forma renovada, desafiam a classificação do gênero e são caracterizados pelos finais em aberto. É no contraponto entre realismo, modernismo e pós-modernismo que Alice Munro constrói suas narrativas, um momento de transição e concepções renovadas a respeito do trabalho literário que, expresso em sua obra, conjuga os contrastes por meio de técnicas sofisticadas. A obra Lives of girls and women (2001), em destaque neste trabalho, é classificada como romance por alguns críticos - e até pela própria autora -, assumindo, por vezes, características de um Bildungsroman. No entanto, é constituída por contos, fragmentação que favorece a independência de cada narrativa, mas que não rompe definitivamente com a noção de continuidade, característica do romance. É nessa forma de trabalhar com o conto na obra citada que o projeto em questão se detém, buscando verificar como essa questão se dá dentro da estrutura do livro estudado e seus efeitos de sentido. Também constitui o objetivo do estudo identificar, em meio a essa fragmentação, o labirinto de vozes que, em parte, é responsável pelo efeito de reminiscência. / Alice Munro stands out as a great short-story writer with texts that, elaborated in a new form, defy the genre qualification and are characterized by the open endings. It is in the counterpoint between realism, modernism and post-modernism that Alice Munro builds her narratives, a moment of transition and renewed conceptions related to the literary work that, expressed in her pieces, conjugates the contrasts by sophisticated techniques. The piece Lives of girls and women (2001), in prominence in this work, is classified as a novel by some critics - and the writer herself -, having, sometimes, the characteristics of a Bildungsroman. However, it is made of shortstories, fragmentation that favours the independence of each narrative, but that does not break definitively the notion of continuity, characteristic of the novel. It is this way of working with the short-story in the cited piece that the project in question studies, trying to verify how this situation happens inside the book structure and its meaning effects. It is also an aim of the study to identify, in the middle of this fragmentation, the maze of voices that, in part, is responsible for the reminiscence effect.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-04-24Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:34:48Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 goncalves_pm_me_arafcl.pdf: 729771 bytes, checksum: fd6e1b1cc748875041b06cd92ad3bc37 (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Este estudo comparativo tem como objetivo mostrar como se dá a representação da memória no discurso ficcional da escritora canadense Alice Munro e de Clarice Lispector. As narrativas selecionadas, pertencentes, respectivamente, aos volumes Lives of Girls and Women, de 1971, e Felicidade clandestina, também do mesmo ano, evocam o período da infância por meio da memória e mostram que a volta ao passado possibilita a reinterpretação dos acontecimentos e o surgimento de novos significados não pressentidos na época de sua ocorrência, o que influencia na formação da identidade do narrador que reconstrói fatos já consumados em um processo mediado pela linguagem e auxiliado pela imaginação criativa. Adota-se o conceito de memória inconsciente, elemento indispensável para a formação do aparelho psíquico, proposto por Freud em obras como A Interpretação dos Sonhos, “O bloco mágico” e “Recordar, repetir e elaborar”. O evento, ao ser trazido para o presente, é atualizado e reelaborado, constituindo um passado que não se mantém fechado e inalterado nos vastos palácios da memória, para utilizar as palavras de Santo Agostinho, mas que se modifica com o tempo. As recordações sofrem um deslocamento espaciotemporal e, longe de serem fieis ao que ocorreu, apresentam associações entre a memória, os contextos externos e as fantasias imaginadas. Além da movimentação pelo relato e da composição de um discurso fragmentado, há um cuidadoso trabalho com a voz narrativa e com o tempo, de modo que as narradoras-protagonistas, em ambos os casos, repetem o que foi vivido, mas de forma elaborada, admitindo atualização e revelação de novos significados e constituindo a memória como algo em processo contínuo de renovação / The aim of this comparative study is to analyze the representation of memory in the fictional discourse of the Canadian writer Alice Munro and the Brazilian Clarice Lispector. The narratives selected belong respectively to the 1971 books Lives of Girls and Women and Felicidade clandestina, and they evoke childhood through memory. As a result, it is noted that the revision of the past makes possible the reinterpretation of the happenings and the appearance of new meanings which were not felt when they occurred, what affects the identity’s formation of a narrator who reconstructs facts already passed in a process intermediate by language and by the support of creative imagination. As theoretical support it is used the concept of unconscious memory as a fundamental element in the psychic apparatus’s formation, which was proposed by Freud in works such as The Interpretation of Dreams, “A Note Upon the Mystic Writing Pad” and “Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through”. The happening when is being brought to the present is updated and re-elaborated, which constitutes a past that is not closed and kept unchanged in the vast palaces of memory, to use the words of Saint Augustine of Hippo, but something that changes along with time. The recollections suffer a spatial and temporal dislocation and far from being fair to what happened they present associations between memory, external contexts and imagined fantasies. Beyond the movement registered in the narration and in the composition of a fragmented discourse there is a careful work with the narrative voice and time so that the protagonist in both cases repeat what was experienced but in an elaborated manner which accepts the actualization and the revelation of new meanings that constitute memory as something in a constant process of renovation

<p>The following study of Alice Munro's collections of short stories, Who Do You Think You Are?, The Moons of Jupiter, and The Progress of Love, closely examines the feminine perception of human relationships and traces Munro's theme of lithe pain of human contact. Chapter I explores the changing perception of life and relationships as seen through the eyes of the central character of Who Do You Think You Are? and discusses the paradoxical view of life articulated by Munro, a view which asks that the abuse which characters inflict upon one another be seen as both savage and splendid, as perversely necessary in any relationship between her characters. This idea of a necessary pain is discussed in Chapter II in light of Munro's more intense fascination with it in The Moons of Jupiter. Her vision of the humiliating necessity of inflicting and enduring pain does not, however, culminate in a clearly-defined resolution to the paradoxes of experience; indeed, The Moons of Jupiter suggests Munro's growing hesitancy to solve the puzzles of human experience. Chapter II also examines Munro's experimentation with narrative time shifts and discusses this new interest in technique as it pertains to her preoccupation with the disparity between illusion and reality in the lives of her characters. The shifting back and forth between past and present is a technique which Munro continues to employ in her next work, The Progress of Love, which I examine in Chapter III. This most recent work, like Who Do You Think You Are? and The Moons of Jupiter, looks closely at the delicate moments of exposure in experience and at the necessary painfulness of those moments, but with a difference. In The Progress of Love Munro seems to allow her characters moments of serenity and moments of self-knowledge; the feminine perception of experience has altered to the degree that her characters appear able to move beyond disillusionment through to a kind of survival of those moments of exposure which in the Moons of Jupiter appear to overwhelm and almost paralyze the characters. </p> / Thesis / Bachelor of Arts (BA)

<p> The Potterdoal volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit is hosted by a tholeiitic/komatiitic succession located in northern Munro Township, Ontario. An integrated surface and drill core study of this property was undertaken to document the three dimensional structure and stratigraphy of the deposit. Petrography focused on mineralogical changes associated with the hydrothermal alteration within specific units. Several geochemical methods were used to determine the effects of hydrothemal alteration (as quantified by elemental mobility) as well as source magma affinities and tectonic setting. Based on this information, a model for ore genesis was developed. </p> <p> The Potterdoal deposit is hosted by volcanic rock of an iron tholeiite affinity, emplaced within an ocean floor rifting environment. The chemistry of the tholeiites shows similarities to that of large deposits like Kidd Creek, but lacks the felsic component of bimodal volcanism. It is suggested that felsic volcanics are absent because the local crust did not achieve sufficient thickness to allow partial melting of lower crustal material. </p> <p> The deposit consists of a stockwork zone overlain by an extensive massive sulphide lens which lies along a scarp structure defmed in the paleosurface. Stockwork mineralization is narrowly confined to conduits within a fault breccia in the footwall Ore Flow. gabbro, and widens into an overlying tectonic breccia. Sulphide paragenesis appears to be controlled by the thermal solubilities ofthe sulphide minerals, and consists of pyrite, sphalerite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite in both stockworks and the massive sulphide lens. The lens occurs at the top of the tectonic breccia near the paleo-seawater interface, and formed by direct replacement of the tectonic breccia. The lens locally exhibits ore grade base metal values (i.e. combined Cu and Zn content of at least 3% ), and shows an upward and outward gradation from chalcopyrite to sphalerite-dominated ore. These features suggest that exhalation of the hydrothermal system was focused into local vent sites. </p> <p> Mass change associated with the hydrothermal alteration envelopes surrounding Ore Flow fault breccia conduits involve loss of Si, Ca, Na and Sr, and gain of Fe, Mg, K, Cu and Zn. These changes are attributed to fluid-rock reactions which are consistent with hydrothermal alteration associated with other VMS deposits, The genetic model suggested for the Potterdoal deposit involves a hydrothermal system driven by heat from the intrusion ofthe Munro-Warden Sill at a high stratigraphic level. The relatively small size of the deposit is probably due to the rapid cooling of the sill, which shortened the life-span of the hydrothermal system. The primary source of metals was the upper portion of the Munro-Warden Sill, as indicated by the high degree of pervasive hydrothermal alteration of this part of the gabbro. </p> <p> Drill core information has also revealed the importance of the Buster Fault in the construction of the currently exposed Potterdoal stratigraphy. Thrusting subparallel to bedding along the Buster Fault during the Kenoran compressional event(~2.6 Ga) was responsible for the local repetition of tholeiitic flows, and has effectively removed the deep footwall rocks originally associated with the Potterdoal mineralization. </p> / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-26T13:44:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 1866007 bytes, checksum: 27c8a4b2ed255141f451727982e3690b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-22 / This study aims to reflect upon the constitution the formation of the woman subject through the fictional language of two contemporary Canadian novels, Lives of Girls and Women (1971) and The diviners (1973) by Alice Munro and Margaret Laurence, respectively. Having been published in the early seventies, both novels include a series of questions about the search for an identity of its own, according to a new demand which is allied to critical gender studies. Therefore, it constitutes a major factor to this research, the manner in which the narrative protagonists, Del Jordan of Lives of Girls and Women (2001) and Morag Gunn of The Diviners (1993) perform this process. As a strategy, both appropriate the Bildungsroman genre questioning the discourses with which it dialogues. Starting from childhood, when there is both the immersion of Del Jordan, as of Morag Gunn in environments that favor the activity of reading, one realizes that, not coincidentally, both will take the profession of writers in the age coming. From that perspective, discussions about language studies, gender, and female development novels are established to which the approaches of Chris Weedon (1989), Teresa de Lauretis (1994), Cristina Ferreira Pinto (1990), Sylvia Molloy (2004), Coral Ann Howells (1998), among others will prove as essential ones to rethink the process by which the protagonists go through until the discovery of their subjectivities. / O presente estudo se dispõe a realizar uma reflexão acerca da formação do sujeito mulher por meio da linguagem em um recorte da ficção de duas autoras canadenses contemporâneas, a saber, Lives of Girls and Women (1971) e The Diviners (1973) de Alice Munro e Margaret Laurence, respectivamente. Tendo sido publicados no início da década de setenta, ambos os romances compreendem uma série de questionamentos em torno da busca pela construção de uma identidade própria, atendendo a uma nova demanda crítica que se alia aos estudos de gênero. Portanto, constitui-se como fator preponderante à pesquisa a maneira pela qual as protagonistas das obras, Del Jordan, de Lives of Girls and Women (2001) e Morag Gunn de The Diviners (1993) realizam esse processo. Como estratégia, ambas se apropriam do gênero Bildungsroman visando o questionamento dos discursos com os quais dialogam. Partindo da infância, quando se dá a imersão tanto de Del Jordan, quanto de Morag Gunn em ambientes que privilegiam a atividade da leitura, percebese que, não coincidentemente, ambas assumirão a profissão de escritoras na chegada da maturidade. Inserem, portanto, nessa perspectiva, discussões estabelecidas em torno dos estudos da linguagem, do gênero, dos romances de formação femininos aos quais as abordagens de Chris Weedon (1989), Teresa de Lauretis (1994), Cristina Ferreira Pinto (1990), Sylvia Molloy (2004), Coral Ann Howells (1998), entre outros, se mostrarão preponderantes a fim de se repensar o processo pelo qual as protagonistas atravessam até a descoberta de suas subjetividades.

The toxicological screening of the numerous chemicals that we are exposed to requires significant cost and the use of animals. Accordingly, more efficient methods for the evaluation of toxicity are required to reduce cost and the number of animals used. Computational strategies have the potential to reduce both the cost and the use of animal testing in toxicity screening. The ultimate goal of this thesis is to develop computational models for the prediction of toxicological endpoints that can serve as an alternative to animal testing. In Paper I, an attempt was made to construct a global quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR)model for the acute toxicity endpoint (LD50 values) using the Munro database that represents a broad chemical landscape. Such a model could be used for acute toxicity screening of chemicals of diverse structures. Paper II focuses on the use of acute toxicity data to support the prediction of chronic toxicity. The results of this study suggest that for related chemicals having acute toxicities within a similar range, their lowest observed effect levels (LOELs) can be used in read-across strategies to fill gaps in chronic toxicity data. In Paper III a k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) classification model was developed to predict human ether-a-go-go related gene (hERG)-derived toxicity. The results suggest that the model has potential for use in identifying compounds with hERG-liabilities, e.g. in drug development.

Thesis (M.A.)--Northern Michigan University, 2009. / "14-62709." Bibliography: leaves 54-59.

The giant Kidd Creek Mine is an Archean Cu-Zn-Ag deposit in the Abitibi Greenstone belt, located in the Superior Province of Canada and is one of the largest known base metal massive sulfide mines in the world with a tonnage of 170.7 Mt (Past production, Resource and Reserve). The massive sulfides in Mine D comprise a number of ore lenses that are interpreted to be the downplunge continuation of the Central orebody from the upper mine. These are referred to as the West, Main, and South lenses. The massive sulfides overlie a silicified rhyolitic unit at the top of a mixed assemblage of rhyolite flows, volcaniclastic sediments and ultramafic flows. The sheared nature of the fragmental units in the hanging wall of the deposit, at depth, illustrates the greater deformation that has occurred than in the upper mine. Metal zonation and the distribution of Cu stringer mineralization suggest that the West and Main lenses may be part of a single massive sulfide body (Main orebody) that has been structurally dismembered. The South Lens is a detached body, separated by late faults. The large Cu stringer zone beneath the West and Main lenses has a thickness of up to 150 metres, and is much broader and structurally remobilized in Mine D partially due to a newly identified series of vertically trending offset faults, that extends along the entire length of the massive sulfide bodies. A number of features of the North, Central and South orebodies in the upper part of the mine (e.g., Se-rich halo around Cu-rich zones) have been recognized in Mine D and provide an important framework for correlating the deep orebodies with the upper levels of the mine. Drilling below the current mine levels indicates that the massive sulfide and Cu stringer zones continue below 10,200 feet (3109 m) and highlight the remarkable continuity of the deposit downplunge with no end in sight. Two main ore suites have been recognized in the upper part of the mine and in Mine D: a low-temperature, polymetallic assemblage of Zn, Ag, Pb, Cd, Sn, Sb, As, Hg, ±Tl, ±W, and a higher-temperature suite of Cu, Co, As, Bi, Se, In, ±Ni. More than 25 different ore minerals and ore-related gangue minerals are present, including Co-As-sulfides, Cu-Sn-sulfides, Ag-minerals, and selenides. The massive ores consist mainly of pyrite, pyrrhotite, sphalerite, magnetite and chalcopyrite, together with minor galena, tetrahedrite, arsenopyrite, and native silver with a quartz and siderite gangue. Despite the high Ag content of the ores, the majority of the massive sulfides are remarkably Au poor except for a local gold zone that has been recognized in the deep mine in association with high-temperature mineralization. The trace elements in the ores exhibit strong zonation and diverse mineralogy. Spectacular albite porphyroblasts, up to 1 cm in size occur in the most Cu-rich ores of Mine D which are coincident with the peak of regional metamorphism and likely represent higher metamorphic or hydrothermal temperatures. Overall the orebodies have remained remarkably similar downplunge. However, unlike the upper part of the mine, pyrrhotite is dominantly hexagonal, only tetrahedrite was observed as the dominant sulfosalt, and magnetite occurs as both blebby porphyroblasts and as abundant intergrowths with sphalerite-chalcopyrite ores and siderite. These characteristics suggest that the deep mine has been subjected to higher metamorphic temperatures, possibly related to depth of burial, and that the original hydrothermal fluids may of had a lower H2S/CO2 and/or higher temperatures.

1. The biography of Crawford Munro (1904-76) describes his early life in Toowoomba and Sydney, and his maturation as an engineer, working for Sydney Water, Sydney Technical College and in the production of Cruiser tanks in World War II. He was a large confident man with a big voice and an optimistic, humorous personality. As the Foundation Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of New South Wales Munro was liberal, fostered humanist studies and developed the School of Engineering with a unique emphasis on water engineering. He recruited excellent staff for research and postgraduate education who led the nation across all phases of hydrology and hydraulics. Munro developed a remarkable, rational solution for flood mitigation at Launceston, and actively promoted research, partly through the Australian Water Research Foundation and the Institution of Engineers, Australia. He was much involved with predicting flood runoff, developing benefit/cost relations for irrigation schemes, which led him into public controversy, and other hydrological projects. Munro’s attempts to raise social consciousness about water problems, his multi-disciplinary approach to the evaluation of water resources and his campaigns for the collection of stream and rainfall data helped provide a better basis for proper planning. In his later years he undertook the first Australian environmental impact study. The concluding chapter outlines a vision for the current management of Australia’s water. Munro posed necessary questions about measuring the supply of water and bringing the demand of water into synchrony with its supply, while providing water security in terms of its availability and quality. He raised the debate about the balance between sustaining environmental flows, utilizing water for agriculture and secondary industry, and maintaining the health of communities. Munro hoped equitable decision making would emerge from public engagement on these issues. 2. Twentieth century science biography in Australia is the province of a group of elite male scientists, whose interests cover wide disciplinary fields; it is focused on popular imagination: health, food and adventure (Antarctica) accounting for fifteen of the seventeen scientists. Empathy for the subject is a significant feature of the nineteen biographers, of whom five are scientists. This small genre is often supported by institutions in small print runs. A key role of biography is to place through science history a more epistemologically plausible version of events. Public discourses of science treated in the essay include conflict about the attribution of scientific discovery, the vocation of the scientist as a contributor to a wider social polity, the light biography sheds on sources of creativity and the evolution of the research and culture of institutions. The biographer attempts to generate a personal portrait of the scientist which conveys authority about the significance and origins of his or her scientific discoveries and their impact in the wider social context. Thomas Söderqvist’s affirmation of the existential approach which ‘emphasizes the freedom and responsibility of the human individual’ resonates with the candidate as expressing characteristics of the lives of many Australian scientists in their passion for intellectual discovery, their motivation to self-empowerment, and their readiness to step outside their social conditioning. This essay extends Söderqvist’s paradigm to the context of Australian science biography and indicates some constraints on its depiction which arise in the practice of writing science biography. Some epistemological issues are raised in the texts, especially when dealing with oral history and family mythology, and thematic, thematic within a chronological framework or chronological structures of the text are compared. The level of detail and context influence the sustainability of the reader’s interest. Case studies of the biographies written by the candidate (Ian Clunies Ross, Samuel Wadham, Allan Callaghan, Victor Trikojus, Raymond Hoffenberg and Crawford Munro) illustrate issues which arise in the writing of science biography. The dominant question is the relationship of the biographer to the subject, and this determines the voice the reader hears. The motivation of the biographer may arise in varying degrees of empathy felt for the subject. The high affinity the candidate had for Clunies Ross and Hoffenberg causes him to offer a defence against the charge of hagiography, and the selectivity and subjectivity of the biographer is evident in the arrangement and presentation of factual material. The motivation of the biographer is additionally directed to the communication of the subject’s research outputs to the wider Australian community, and in the case of Callaghan, Wadham and Clunies Ross there was a specific programmatic function of advancing the status of agricultural science. It is argued that the description of the public life of the subject needs to be complemented from the private life if the biographer is ‘to view the world through the eyes of the subject’.

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