Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of New South Wales, 2000. / Also available online.

This paper is divided into two parts. The first part traces (in details providing proofs and examples) the history of the solutions of polynomial equations(of the first, second, third, and fourth degree) by radicals from Babylonian times (2000 B.C.) through 20th century. Also it is shown that there is no solution by radicals for the quintic (fifth degree) and higher degree equations. The second part of this thesis illustrates both numerical and graphical solutions of the quintic and higher degree polynomial equations using modern technology such as graphics calculators (TI-85, and HP-48G) and software packages (Matlab, Mathematica, and Maple). / Graduation date: 1995

The aim of this thesis is to explain the change in the debate about police accountability in Britain that took place in the 1980s. In seeking such an explanation in the reinvention of police accountability over this period, a four dimensional analysis of accountability is presented. This is used to examine, in turn, the history of police governance in London, the debates about police accountability that took place in the 1980s, and the implications of the growing influence of community policing that culminated in the introduction by the Metropolitan Police of a new style of ‘sector policing’. A series of questions about whether and how police accountability was reinvented in the 1980s are posed, and the implications of the reconceptualisation that took place are assessed in their historical and theoretical contexts. Use is also made of empirical data drawn from a study of the implementation of sector policing on an inner city police area in North London. It is argued that far-reaching changes took place in the conceptualisation of police accountability during the 1980s on all four of the dimensions identified, and that this reinvention of the relationship between police and people made policing in London neither more democratic nor more consensual.

The Diploma Thesis is based on the Analysis of the real estete market of flats in Brno – mesto focusing on Brno-stred and Brno – Bystrc. Description and characteristics of selected places in Brno – mesto, the analysis of real estate market with flats for selected places, the description of factors affecting the price of flats, the explanation of pricing definitions, the description of the valuation methods and the history of valuation.

In my thesis, I will discuss the draft strategy for the management of business in society. The first part will discuss the theoretical knowledge related to retail. In the second part I introduce. I also worked with the cooperative Jednota, consumer cooperative in Mikulov, which gave me the necessary information so that I could analyze the current state of retail. Based on the current state of retail, I created a proposal for improvement.

In this dissertation, I investigate interactive visual history for collaborative exploratory data analysis (EDA). In particular, I examine use of analysis history for improving the awareness of the dimension space coverage 1 2 3 to better support data exploration. Commonly, interactive history tools facilitate data analysis by capturing and representing information about the analysis process. These tools can support a wide range of use-cases from simple undo and redo to complete reconstructions of the visualization pipeline. In the con- text of exploratory collaborative Visual Analytics (VA), history tools are commonly used for reviewing and reusing past states/actions and do not efficiently support other use-cases such as understanding the past analysis from the angle of dimension space coverage. How- ever, such knowledge is essential for exploratory analysis which requires constant formulation of new questions about data. To carry out exploration, an analyst needs to understand “what has been done” versus “what is remaining” to explore. Lack of such insight can result in premature fixation on certain questions, compromising the coverage of the data set and breadth of exploration [80]. In addition, exploration of large data sets sometimes requires collaboration between a group of analysts who might be in different time/location settings. In this case, in addition to personal analysis history, each team member needs to understand what aspects of the problem his or her collaborators have explored. Such scenarios are common in domains such as science and business [34] where analysts explore large multi-dimensional data sets in search of relationships, patterns and trends. Currently, analysts typically rely on memory and/or externalization to keep track of investigated versus uninvestigated aspects of the problem. Although analysis history 4 mechanisms have the potential to assist analyst(s) with this problem, most common visual representations of history are geared towards reviewing & reusing the visualization pipeline or visualization states. I started this research with an observational user study to gain a better understanding of analysts’ history needs in the context of collaborative exploratory VA. This study showed that understanding the coverage of dimension space by using linear history 5 was cumbersome and inefficient. To address this problem, I investigated how alternate visual representations of analysis history could support this use-case. First, I designed and evaluated Footprint-I, a visual history tool that represented analysis from the angle of dimension space coverage (i.e. history of investigation of data dimensions; specifically, this approach revealed which dimensions had been previously investigated and in which combinations). I performed a user study that evaluated participants’ ability to recall the scope of past analysis using my proposed design versus a linear representation of analysis history. I measured participants’ task duration and accuracy in answering questions about a past exploratory VA session. Findings of this study showed that participants with access to dimension space coverage information were both faster and more accurate in understanding dimension space coverage information. Next, I studied the effects of providing coverage information on collaboration. To investigate this question, I designed and implemented Footprint-II, the next version of Footprint-I. In this version, I redesigned the representation of dimension space coverage to be more usable and scalable. I conducted a user study that measured the effects of presenting history from the angle of dimension space coverage on task coordination (tacit breakdown of a common task between collaborators). I asked each participant to assume the role of a business data analyst and continue a exploratory analysis work which was started by a collaborator. The results of this study showed that providing dimension space coverage information helped participants to focus on dimensions that were not investigated in the initial analysis, hence improving tacit task coordination. Finally, I investigated the effects of providing live dimension space coverage information on VA outcomes. To this end, I designed and implemented a standalone prototype VA tool with a visual history module. I used scented widgets [76] to incorporate real-time dimension space coverage information into the GUI widgets. Results of a user study showed that providing live dimension space coverage information increased the number of top-level findings. Moreover, it expanded the breadth of exploration (without compromising the depth) and helped analysts to formulate and ask more questions about their data. / Graduate / 0984 / ali.sarvghad@gmail.com

Orientador: Lauro José Siqueira Baldini / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T09:50:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MachadoTeixeira_MariaEunicedeGodoy_D.pdf: 1789936 bytes, checksum: 3337a0104c5a201a4df71987f8650685 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Este trabalho é uma reflexão sobre a presença, nos últimos 40 anos, da Análise de Discurso no Brasil. Na perspectiva da História das Ideias Linguísticas em articulação com dispositivos teórico-metodológicos da Análise de Discurso Pechetiana, compreender, nas formulações dos enunciados de entrevistas realizadas com pesquisadores que estudam esta teoria, gestos de interpretação que historicizam sua presença e determinam diferentes direções no processo histórico de surgimento, desenvolvimento e constituição da área da Análise de Discurso no país, compondo, assim, diferentes lugares teórico-metodológicos para a teoria. O recorte dos pesquisadores a serem entrevistados foi feito pelos cursos de Letras, Linguística, Ciências Sociais, Ciências Políticas, História, Psicanálise, Psicologia e Comunicação Social, cujos mestrado e/ou doutorado fossem recomendados pela Capes. No início de 2011, foram encontrados 317 cursos nessas condições. A partir daí, passou-se a pesquisar o currículo Lattes dos docentes dos cursos, no qual deveria constar o termo Análise de(do) Discurso, seja no texto de apresentação, nas linhas ou projetos de pesquisa, ou ainda, em disciplinas ministradas. Foram consultados mais de 900 currículos Lattes de professores e se chegou ao número de 369 pesquisadores para os quais foi enviado, por e-mail, um questionário. As primeiras leituras se deram com 104 entrevistas recebidas e, a análise final, com 44 delas, cujos enunciados constituíram o corpus desta pesquisa. Ao final desse trabalho, foi possível compreender que a Análise de Discurso se configura nas relações que estabelece entre interfaces, flutuações teóricas e suas bases fundadoras. Sua constituição plural se faz em um constante movimento de construção e reconstrução de seu território, em um espaço tensionado, no qual a teoria é compreendida, ora como um campo aberto de conhecimento, ora um campo demarcado. E, nesse movimento, sua identificação é significada, em muitos dizeres, pela contraposição ao Outro; ou seja, por aquilo que não é em relação ao que é o Outro. O sentido de identificação pela negação, nos dizeres analisados, marca, entre outros, o modo de enfrentamento de um embate em torno de uma questão central entre a Análise de Discurso e outras teorias linguísticas, a saber: a compreensão da língua. Compreendeu-se, ainda, que o percurso da Análise de Discurso no Brasil se fez em diferentes temporalidades, sejam em torno de distintas inscrições teóricas dos pesquisadores; sejam temporalidades nas quais a Análise de Discurso foi posta como um divisor de águas nos estudos linguísticos, uma ruptura ou novidade em uma determinada ordem; ou mesmo, nas temporalidades em que os sujeitos-pesquisadores foram se constituindo em diferentes posições teóricas no interior de desdobramentos da Análise de Discurso. Nesta pesquisa, não se tratou de recorrer à memória de arquivo, mas ao interdiscurso e o trabalho lidou com fragmentos, sentidos à deriva, muitas vezes, contraditórios e que retornam ou avançam, conforme diferentes posições-sujeito assumidas nos dizeres dos entrevistados / Abstract: This research is a reflection on the presence, mainly in the last 40 years, of Discourse Analysis in Brazil. It aims to comprehend, on the perspective of the Linguistic Ideas History in articulation with Pecheut¿s Discourse Analysis theorical-methodological dispositives, in the formulation of the statements formulation in the interviews performed with researches that study such theory, interpretation gestures that historicize its presence and determine different directions in the historic process of coming through, development and constitution of Discourse Analysis area in the country, forming, this way, different theorical-methodological places for the theory.The researchers scrap to be interviewed was performed in graduation courses of Languages, Linguistics, Social Sciences, Political Sciences, History, Psychoanalysis, Psychology and Social Communication, whose mastering/doctoring were recommended by Capes. In the beginning of 2011, it was found 317 courses in this condition. From then on, Lattes curriculum of the professors in the courses started to be researched in order to find the term Discourse Analysis, in the presentation text, as well as in the research lines or projects, yet in the topics taught. More than 900 professors¿ curriculum were checked and it was approached a number of 369 researchers, to whom it was sent a questionnaire through email. The first readings were performed through 104 interviews received and, the final analysis, with 44 of them, whose statements constitute the corpus of this research. At the end of this research it was possible to comprehend that Discourse Analysis configures itself in the relations that it establishes among interfaces, theorical flows and its founding basis. Its plural constitution is formed in a constant construction and reconstruction movement of its territory, in a tension space in which theory is comprehended sometimes as an opened space of knowledge, sometimes as bordered one. And, in this movement, it identification is meant, in a lot of sayings, by the counter position to the Other; that is, by which it is not in relation to the Other. The meaning of identification through denying, in the statements analyzed, marks, among others the confront way of a facing surrounding the main question among Discourse Analysis and other linguistic theories, that is, language comprehension. Yet, it was considered that the route of Discourse Analysis in Brazil was performed in different temporalities, no matter if around distinct theorical inscriptions of researchers or in those temporalities in which Discourse Analysis was placed as breaking point in linguistic studies, a rupture or news in some order; as well as in temporalities in which subject-researchers were configuring themselves in different theorical positions inside Discourse Analysis. In this research, it was not a case of going through archives memory but to the interdiscourse and the research took care of fragments, derive senses, most of times contradicting and that come back or go further depending on the different subject position which are taken in the statements of the interviewed ones / Doutorado / Linguistica / Doutora em Linguística

The subject of this diploma thesis is the novel Der Zauberberg by the German writer Thomas Mann and its existing Czech translations and reeditions of translations from 1930, 1935/1936, 1958, 1975 and 2016. The work is based on the following translatological bases: contemporary norms and conventions, paratexes and metatexts, and translation of the title of the work. The following part is devoted to the personality of the author and his work, the novel Der Zauberberg presents itself in the cultural and historical context of the time of creation and does not neglect the reception in the German environment. The benefit of this diploma thesis is to describe the reception of this novel in the Czech environment, where we will focus on the macrotexual (paratexty) and microtextual analysis of selected parts of the original and all Czech translations. The main methodological tool for microtextual analysis of selected passages of Mann's novel represents the typology of expression changes and shifts in the translation of Anton Popovič (1975, 1983).

(in English): The aim of the work is to reconstruct and interpret the method of historicized analysis and its employment to examine the phenomenon of "making up people". The concept is Hacking's description for the impact scientific classifications can have on classified people. The point of departure for the examination in the work is the thesis that historicized analysis employs the elements of philosophical conceptual analysis together with historical tools philosophy of science corroborates and whose strategies are often in opposition to the analytical tradition. As a follow-up of the main thesis the work also examines whether the historicized analysis can be understood as a history of the present. Moreover, it asks questions that come up in connection with the project of "making up people" such as: "What are the conditions for a scientific category to emerge? When categories emerge do new kinds of people emerge as well? What is the specific structure that enables the mutual interaction and effect scientific categories and classified people make? One of the aims will therefore be to elucidate to what extend the historicized analysis is able to answer those questions. Last but not least the work looks into the critical implications and usefulness of the method of historicized analysis.

Background: Policy initiatives to promote sustainable travel through the use of Internet based public information systems have increased during the last decade. Stockholm, in being one of the first cities in Europe to implement an Internet based service for facilitating sustainable travel is believed to be a good candidate for an analysis of key issues for developing sustainable travel planning services to the public. Aim: This thesis investigates the past development of two Stockholm based public information systems and their services in order to draw lessons on how to better provide for a public information service geared towards facilitating  environmentally sustainable travel planning through information and communications technology. The overall goal of the thesis is to contribute to an understanding on how to better design and manage current and future attempts at facilitating sustainable travel planning services based on historical case studies. Approach: The thesis draws ideas from the concept of organizational responsiveness – an organization’s ability to listen, understand and respond to demands put to it by its internal and external stakeholders – in order to depict how well or not the two public information systems and their owners have adapted to established norms and values of their surroundings. Results: Overall, the findings from the historical case studies suggest that organizations attempting to provide sustainable travel planning to the public need to design and manage their systems in such a way that it responds to shifting demands on how to provide for information. Implementing and embedding new technologies involves complex processes of change both at the micro level – for users and practitioners of the service – and at the meso level for the involved public service organizations themselves. This condition requires a contextualist framework to analyze and understand organizational, contextual and cultural issues involved in the adoption of new technologies and procedures. Conclusions: The thesis concludes with a discussion on how the findings from the historical case studies may provide lessons for both current and future attempts at providing public information systems geared towards facilitating environmentally sustainable travel planning to the public. Historical examples and issues concerning collective intelligence and peer to peer based forms of designing, producing and supervising public information services identified throughout the study are looked upon and discussed in terms of their possible role in increasing the potential for public information services to facilitate sustainable urban transport. / <p>QC 20140319</p> / TRACS, Travel Planner for Sustainable Cities