Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-07-07T11:52:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 deborafaccion.pdf: 3400493 bytes, checksum: 48851c82e680cbb2aeca1d46df5f4c40 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-13T16:31:21Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 deborafaccion.pdf: 3400493 bytes, checksum: 48851c82e680cbb2aeca1d46df5f4c40 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-13T16:31:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 deborafaccion.pdf: 3400493 bytes, checksum: 48851c82e680cbb2aeca1d46df5f4c40 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-13T16:31:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 deborafaccion.pdf: 3400493 bytes, checksum: 48851c82e680cbb2aeca1d46df5f4c40 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04-17 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O objetivo principal desse trabalho é, a partir de uma proposta metodológica centrada na abdução, desenvolver um estudo da obra <Content= No Cache> (2001) da artista Giselle Beiguelman. Partindo de uma listagem cuidadosa das características desta obra, procuramos identificar questões primordiais para a sua classificação enquanto net.art. Para o estudo da net.art, realizamos uma pesquisa inicial dos conceitos de pensamento artístico e de arte contemporânea. A adoção, por parte da artista, de determinados temas e a escolha de padrões de imagem formados por letras indicaram questões estéticas que puderam direcionar o estudo de <Content= No Cache>. A proposta de Beiguelman de promover a cyber -alfabetização é aqui vista em relação a outras formas de arte que se preocuparam com a crítica da semântica tradicional, o uso do texto enquanto imagem, a estética do código e as políticas do software. Assim, por meio do estudo de características estéticas específicas dessa obra, procuramos compreender questões da arte contemporânea e que foram aqui considerados necessários para a leitura da arte no contexto digital. / The main objective of this work is, from a methodological proposal centered on abduction, to develop a study of the work <Content= In Cache> (2001), of the artist Giselle Beiguelman. From a list of the characteristics of this work, we sought to identify key issues for its classification as net.art. For the study of net.art, we conducted an initial survey of the concepts of artistic thought and contemporary art. The adoption by the artist of certain themes and the choice of image patterns formed by letters indicated aesthetic issues that could direct the study <Content= In Cache>. Beiguelman's propose to promote the cyberliteracy is seen here in relation to other art forms that were concerned with the critique of traditional semantics, the use of text as an image, the aesthetics of code and the software policies. Thus, through the study of specific aesthetic features of this work, we seek to understand contemporary art and issues that were considered necessary here to read the art in the digital context.

Inter-tribal clashes have emerged to be one of the biggest contributors to rampant insecurity witnessed in South Sudan and in Jonglei state the clashes revolve around cattle rustling. Efforts to quell the violence from government, the international community, religious movements, and other South Sudan national organizations have not yielded significant fruit yet. This qualitative case study research explores the underlying manifestation of the conflicts among three communities Nuer, Murle and Dinka, who live in Jonglei. The main objective was to explore the changing context of cattle rustling and understand the effects of conflicts related to cattle raiding in Jonglei. The approach of the dissertation is unique in that it examines both historical and current trends in cattle rustling to create a better understanding of the conflict situation. The dissertation focuses on Jonglei state because it has produced the highest number of conflicts related to cattle raiding.

We discuss two ways of using abduction to explain missing entailments from description logic knowledge bases, one more common, one more unusual, and then have a closer look at how current results/implementations on abduction could be used towards generating such explanations, and what still needs to be done. / This is an extended version of an article submitted to XLoKR 2021.

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The periodic repetitions of laryngeal adduction and abduction gestures were uttered by 16 subjects. The movement of the cuneiform tubercles was tracked over time in the laryngoscopic recordings of these utterances. The adduction velocity and abduction velocity were determined objectively by means of a piecewise linear model fitted to the cuneiform tubercle trajectories. The abduction was found to be significantly faster than the adduction. This was interpreted in terms of the biomechanics and active control by the nervous system. The biomechanical properties could be responsible for a velocity of abduction that is up to 51% higher compared to the velocity of adduction. Additionally, the adduction velocity may be actively limited to prevent an overshoot of the intended adduction degree when the vocal folds are approximated to initiate phonation.

Magistrinio darbo problema kaip buvo skleidžiama Japonijos propaganda dėl Š. Korėjos įvykdytų pagrobimų ir kokios jos sklaidos pasekmės išryškėjo. Baigiamojo darbo objektas - Japonijos propaganda 2002 – 2011 m. Š. Korėjos inicijuotų pagrobimų atveju. Šio darbo tikslas išanalizuoti Š. Korėjos įvykdytus Japonijos piliečių pagrobimus ir atskleisti Japonijos propagandos dėl šių pagrobimų organizacijos struktūrą, sklaidos priemones ir rezultatus. Šiam tikslui pasiekti išsikelti tokie uždaviniai: 1.Remiantis teorinės literatūros šaltinių analize apibrėžti propagandos sampratą ir jos skaidos priemones bei parengti Japonijos propagandos analizės modelį; 2. Išryškinti prielaidas Japonijos vyriausybės propagandos formavimui1970 – 2005 m.;3. Atlikti propagandos modelio taikymo Japonijoje analizę.; 4. Išnagrinėti Japonijos vyriausybės propagandos dėl Š. Korėjos įvykdytų pagrobimų poveikį Japonijos visuomenei. Baigiamajame darbe naudojami šie metodai: Lyginamasis, aprašomasis ir analitinis. Atlikus tyrimą prieita prie tokių išvadų: 1. Remiantis užsienio ir Lietuvos autorių propagandos sąvokos lyginamąja analize, iškirtais propagandos tipais ir jos sklaidos priemonėmis bei G.S. Jowett ir V. O‘Donnell propagandos analizės 10 žingsnių metodu buvo sudarytas 7 žingsnių Japonijos propagandos analitinis modelis. 2. Įvertinus propagandos formavimosi kontekstą ir atskleidus Japonijos ir Š. Korėjos santykius 1971 – 2005 m., pavyko identifikuoti pagrindinius propagandos šaltinius Japonijoje: neo... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Problem of this master thesis is how propaganda of Japan regards North Korea initiated Japanese abductions is distributed and what are the consequences of this propaganda is in general. Subject in the final thesis is propaganda of Japan in 2002 – 2011: North Korea initiated Japanese abduction case. Objective of this research is to analyze North Korea initiated Japanese abductions and following it clarify structure of Japanese government propaganda, its distribution techniques and results. To reach this objective these following tasks are made: 1. define propaganda concept and ways of propaganda distribution based on theoretic scientific literature analysis and prepare model of Japanese propaganda analysis. 2. Highlight assumptions of Japanese governmental propaganda development in 1971 – 2005. 3. Accomplish research analysis based on model of propaganda of Japan. 4. Analyze Japanese government propaganda on North Korea initiated Japanese abduction case influence to Japanese society. In this research three methods are used: description, comparative and analytical methods. Accomplished Japanese propaganda analysis of this research led to these conclusions: 1. based on comparative analysis of Lithuanian and foreign authors on concept, sorts and ways of distributing propaganda, and G.S. Jowett ir V. O‘Donnell 10 steps of propaganda analysis method, 7 steps model of propaganda of Japan is shaped. 2. From propaganda development context based on Japan’s and North Korea‘s relation... [to full text]

Daktaro disertacija parengta tėvų atsakomybės vaikams tematika. Jurisdikcijos taisyklės, bendrosios nuostatos ir jų taikymas bylose dėl tėvų pareigų vaikams pagal Reglamentą Briuselis IIa yra pagrindinės problemos, patenkančios į empirinio tyrimo sritį. Disertacijoje pateikiama Europos Sąjungos Teisingumo Teismo praktikos analizė, o taip pat Lietuvos Respublikos bei kai kurių kitų Europos Sąjungos valstybių narių teismų praktikos analizė. Disertacinio tyrimo objektas apima jurisdikcijos taisykles ir bendrąsias procesines nuostatas reglamentuojančią tarptautinės teisės ir Europos Sąjungos teisės aktų sistemą bylų dėl tėvų pareigų vaikams vykdymo, kurios turi Europos Sąjungos elementą, nagrinėjimui. Tyrimo tikslas – išanalizuoti Reglamento nuostatas, reglamentuojančias jurisdikcijos taisykles ginčams, kylantiems dėl tėvų pareigų vaikams vykdymo, spręsti, atskleisti jų autentiško aiškinimo problematiką, taip pat atlikti išsamią bendrųjų procesinių nuostatų tokiose kategorijose bylų analizę bei empiriškai nustatyti, ar Reglamento nuostatos yra pakankamos ir veikia efektyviai, o taip pat, ar Lietuvos Respublikos teisinis reguliavimas bei tiesioginio Europos Sąjungos teisės taikymo praktika, nagrinėjant šeimos bylas dėl tėvų pareigų vaikams vykdymo, atitinka Europos Sąjungos Teisingumo Teismo formuojamą praktiką. Pabaigoje pateikiami Reglamento bei nacionalinio teisinio reguliavimo tobulinimo pasiūlymai. / Doctoral dissertation is devoted to the theme of parental responsibility. Rules of jurisdiction, common provisions and the application of them in parental responsibility cases under the Regulation Brussels IIa are main issues that fall within the scope of empirical research. The thesis produces a comprehensive analysis of the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union as well as the judicial practice of the national courts of the Republic of Lithuania and some other European countries. The object of the research encompasses the system of international and European instruments that regulate the rules of jurisdiction and common provisions for hearing parental responsibility cases that have European element. The goal of the research is to analyse the provisions of the Regulation, regulating the rules of jurisdiction for disputes arising in parental responsibility matters, also to reveal the problems of interpretation of these provisions and to fulfil a comprehensive analysis of common provisions that are applied in the above mentioned cases. Then to identify empirically if the provisions of the Regulation are sufficient and work effectively, and the national legislation, implementing the Regulation, and direct application of the Regulation is compatible with the aims of the European Union and the practice of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Finally, the proposals for the refinement of the Regulation text and national legislation are given.

This research aims to fill an important gap in focusing on why individuals are able to take part in and/or support activities that have effects on economic, environmental, and social dimensions that are not consistent with their sense of right and wrong. The research focuses on the relationship between supply chain management and moral disengagement, and how this relation affects social responsibility. After observing individuals avoiding responsibility for misconduct an explanatory concept, moral decoupling, was proposed. Moral decoupling considers moral responsibility a flow in the supply chain. Moral decoupling occurs when the flow is restricted. If moral decoupling occurs at an identifiable point it is called a moral decoupling point. The concept was developed by identifying and linking specific supply chain activities and structures with moral disengagement, a theory that explains the deactivation of self regulation. Moral decoupling was able to suggest how to reduce moral disengagement and improve social responsibility. To validate the suggestions a literature review on social responsibility was conducted and identified sixteen elements of social responsibility in supply chain management. The suggestions based on moral disengagement were compared with elements of social responsibility and a large overlap was found. Lastly, suggestions on how to reduce moral disengagement and map moral responsibility in a supply network are proposed, links between elements of social responsibility are presented, and moral coupling is added as a complementary term to moral decoupling. A model explaining the relationship between ethical guidelines, moral responsibility, moral decoupling, and social responsibility is proposed. In relation to current theoretical knowledge the thesis has contributed to the field of socially responsible supply chain management with an application of a new theoretical lens that gives one explanation as to why identifed elements of social responsibility are important. The understanding of social responsibility has reached an increased explanatory depth following the identification of moral disengagement as a generative mechanism, subject to conditions in supply chain management. The research has also applied moral disengagement in a context not identified in earlier research, and shows some of the complexity of applying it to a real-world global context. The elements of social responsibility and moral (de)coupling help practitioners identify what they should focus on to increase social responsibility and also offer an explanation for `why?'. The findings can be used to construct supply chains that are less prone to misconduct and to identify where in the chain it is important to be aware of immoral behavior. The value and originality of this research is centered on the application of a new theoretical lens for socially responsible supply chain management. It is the only identified research in the area which identifies mechanisms on a generative level that explains human behavior and conditions to which those mechanisms are subject. This is also in itself a novel application of moral disengagement in a new research context. / <p>Doctoral thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Textile Management at the University of Borås to be publicly defended on Wednesday, December 10, 2014, at 1:00 p.m.,in room M404, University of Bor as, Allégatan 1, Borås</p>

The Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption was agreed upon in 1993 at the Hague Conference on Private International Law to address growing allegations of abduction, sale, and trafficking of children around the world. The Hague Convention guides countries to attend to the “best interest of the child” in making decisions on intercountry adoptions, and to apply the “principle of subsidiarity,” which calls for the consideration of family and kinship placement and national adoption prior to the consideration of intercountry adoption. This dissertation research focused on the experience of Guatemalan mothers reporting the abduction of their children for intercountry adoption. It examines implications for human rights and the child welfare system. In countries where child abduction allegations have been widespread, illegal adoption has been found to be a common practice and is the result of international child trafficking. Large financial gains are implicated in this type of organized crime, which appears to promote baby selling. In countries enacting the Hague Convention, the continuation of these allegations points to the governments’ inability to prosecute and penalize those responsible. Illegal adoptions pose significant threats to the ethical standards set by the Central Authorities established to implement the Hague Convention. Child abduction has been found to complicate and delay the determination of adoptability, and to undermine due process for legitimate intercountry adoptions. Child abduction has profound effects on grieving mothers and their families after the loss of their children with no resolution in sight. This constructivist research documents the story of three Guatemalan women who reported to public authorities the separate and unrelated abduction of their respective daughters in 2006. The case study report is a “thick description” of the lived experience of these mothers before, during, and after the child theft. The narration comprises an interpretation of their experience, or the participants’ meaning-making of such experience. Based on the mothers’ accounts, their victimization at the hands of child traffickers was followed by victimization by public authorities, who did not exercise due diligence in these child abduction cases. After these survivors exhausted their individual searches for their children, they approached the Fundación Sobrevivientes, who provided them with legal representation and psychosocial support. Together with other mothers, these women publicly advocated for their rights and the rights of their children. Their collective response to this form of violence was critical to accessing the case files in which they identified their abducted children. By engaging in individual legal claims, the participating mothers have sought nullification of each intercountry adoption and the prosecution of those involved in the corresponding illegal and corrupt activities. To conduct this constructivist inquiry, the researcher spent a year in Guatemala, completing prior ethnography for the emerging design and carrying out the interviews. This involved engaging participants with the researcher in a “dialectic hermeneutic process” through multiple “waves” of interviews (at the personal, practice, and policy levels), concluding with two phases of “member checking” or participants’ review of the research findings. To enhance rigor, besides analyzing the relevant literature, the process involved peer and translation reviewers and consultations with national and international scholars with relevant knowledge and expertise, including dissertation committee members. The four elements of the working definition of child abduction developed from the literature review (child theft, deceptive, coercion, and fraud) and other hypothesis on child abduction were confirmed in the mothers’ stories and by the research participants. The tentative findings or lessons identified in this constructivist inquiry should not be considered generalizable, but as “joint constructions” or co-creations between the research participants and the researcher. Based on general guidelines, the readers are encouraged to make their own assessment of the case report, and decide on whether the findings are relevant or may be replicable in other contexts.

Les mouvements sont le résultat de contractions musculaires dont l’organisation spatio-temporelle est régie par des structures cérébrales et médullaires. Etudier les circuits qui les sous-tendent est une étape indispensable pour renforcer nos connaissances des mécanismes à l’origine de la commande des mouvements volontaires et pour mieux comprendre la pathophysiologie des mouvements anormaux. Les muscles squelettiques sont innervés par les motoneurones alpha de la moelle épinière qui à leur out sont influencés par des neurones des aires corticales motrices. Cette voie descendante constitue la voie corticomotoneuronale (CM) et est responsable de l’exécution des mouvements volontaires. Le cortex moteur primaire est considéré comme une structure clé, au cœur du système, permettant l’intégration complexe de nombreuses influences multi-régions pour conduire aux comportements moteurs adéquats. Les interactions qui existent entre les différents groupes de neurones au sein de M1 influent en dernier lieu sur la sortie motrice. De la balance complexe entre ces influences inhibitrices et excitatrices, locales ou à distance va dépendre l’état d’excitabilité des cellules CM contrôlant les différents muscles. L'objectif de ce travail de thèse était d'étudier comment évoluent certains de ces mécanismes excitateurs ou inhibiteurs du cortex moteur primaire lorsque la commande motrice volontaire d’un muscle de l’index est modifiée. Nous avons étudié le rôle de ces mécanismes dans les changements d’excitabilité de la voie CM qui accompagnent la contraction tonique volontaire du muscle premier interosseus dorsalis (FDI) en comparant une tâche simple mais peu naturelle : l’abduction de l'index, une tâche naturelle plus complexe: la pince pouce-index et la condition de repos musculaire. Nous avons également étudié l’effet de la commande motrice sur l’interaction entre deux de ces mécanismes inhibiteurs l’un à longue latence, la LICI, l’autre à courte latence, la SICI. Enfin nous avons souhaité évaluer le décours temporel de ces mécanismes dans un cadre pathologique tâche-dépendant: la crampe de l’écrivain. Pour cela, nous avons utilisé la technique d’electromyographie de surface pour enregistrer les potentiels moteurs évoqués par la Stimulation Magnétique Transcrânienne. Nous avons mis en évidence une modulation tâche-dépendante de la LICI. Par rapport à la tâche d’abduction simple, la LICI s’estompait plus tôt lors de la tâche de pince pouce-index, traduisant une désinhibition plus précoce lors d’un mouvement plus complexe. Nous avons observé, et ce pour la première fois dans la littérature, une phase de facilitation nette qui suivait cette désinhibition, et qui était absente lorsque le muscle était au repos. Ces résultats sont également visibles dans un muscle voisin du FDI, non engagé dans la tâche; cela suggère que les mécanismes à l’origine de la facilitation sont impliqués dans l’activité volontaire sans spécificité topographique. L’interaction entre la LICI et la SICI n’a pas été modifiée par la tâche effectuée, laissant penser qu’elle n’est pas impliquée dans les changements d’excitabilité tâche-dépendants. Enfin, il apparaît que la désinhibition est retardée chez les sujets dystoniques quand le muscle est engagé dans un mouvement complexe de pince pouce-index mais pas dans une tâche simple d’abduction de l’index en comparaison à des sujets contrôles. Ces résultats illustrent le fait que lors d’un mouvement plus complexe, l’efficacité des circuits inhibiteurs du cortex moteur primaire est modifiée, ce qui permet de réguler l’activité des cellules CM, afin d’adapter la commande motrice au mouvement souhaité. Le fait que cette désinhibition soit retardée dans une tâche complexe (proche de la tâche affectée) mais pas dans une tâche simple chez les patients atteints d’une crampe de l’écrivain suggère que les mécanismes à l’origine de la désinhibition pourraient participer aux troubles moteurs qui caractérisent la maladie. / Movements are evoked by muscles contractions whose spatial organization is mediated by both spinal and cortical components. It is important to investigate the underlying circuitry of movements to extend our knowledge on how voluntary movement are controlled and to better understand the pathophysiology of movements disorders. The spinal alpha motoneurons innervating distal muscles are controlled at least in parts by corticomotoneuronal neurons located in the motor cortical areas. Among them, the primary motor cortex is considered as a key structure, performing a complex integration of multi-regional influences leading to appropriate motor behaviors. Axons from corticomotoneuronal (CM) cells of the primary motor cortex reach the spinal cord via descending motor pathway. CM neurons are influenced by local or distant, inhibitory and excitatory components which determine the balance of excitability. The aim of this thesis was to explore changes of some of the excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms of motor cortex as a function of the task being performed. We assessed the time course of Long-interval Intracortical Inhibition (LICI), Late Cortical Disinhibition (LCD) and Long interval Intracortical Facilitation (LICF), which are mechanisms that potentially act to modulate the output of CM controlling the first dorsal interosseus (FDI) muscle. We compared three conditions : index finger abduction (a simple but not natural task), precision grip between index and thumb ( amore natural and complex task), and rest. We also evaluated the effect of task on interaction between LICI and Short Interval Intracortical Inhibition (SICI). Finally, we assessed the time course of LICI in patients suffering from writer’s cramp. For this purpose, we used surface electromyography to record motor potentials evoked by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.We showed a task-dependent change in late inhibitory and disinhibitory components. Compared with abduction task, the LICI induced during precision grip was shorter, suggesting an early disinhibition in more complex task. The disinhibition was followed by a period of facilitation only during the active tasks, i.e. facilitation was not observed when all muscles were at restat rest. However, long interval intracortical facilitation can be observed in a muscle at rest not engaged in an active task if a neighboring muscle is activated. It is therefore likely that mechanisms underlying facilitation are associated with voluntary contraction albeit with lack of topographic specificity. Interaction between LICI and SICI was not modified between tasks, suggesting that it was not involved in task-dependent changes of cortical excitability. Lastly, disinhibition was shown to be delayed in dystonic patients when the FDI was actively engaged in a precision grip but not in index abduction, compared with control subjects. An explanation might be that mechanisms underlying disinhibition are impaired in thumb-index precision grip (a task similar to that inducing unwanted contractions in writer’s cramp). Task-specidic disruption of LICI and late cortical disinhibition may therefore be at least in part responsible for pathophysiology of dystonia. It is likely that during complex task, the efficacy of LICI, and more generally of motor cortex inhibitory mechanisms, is modified to allow adaptation of CM neurons activity to the functional requirements of the motor task being performed.