This thesis examines the multifaceted and interdisciplinary means through which the “rebel” trope is used as a groundwork for complex characterization in Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy’s Heathers the Musical (2018). Using Jamie Muscato’s performance as Jason Dean (“JD”) as an exemplar, I employ a three-stage analytic process through which nuanced, embodied subjectivity is realized, and the performer is highlighted as a vector for intersectional interpretation. The first stage examines the narrative impacts of the text and music written for JD and explores how they serve to individualize him. The second considers the musical mechanics and rock informed stylization of the character using an analytic model for embodied subjectivity, which I extend to account for theatrical elements of performance. The third considers the analytic findings of the first two chapters through an intersectional lens, highlighting the musical and theatrical interpretation of the text posited by the performer as being the main vehicle through which the “rebel” trope is expanded upon.

[pt] Este trabalho apresenta os primeiros passos em direção a uma abordagem arquetípica para análise e percepção de enredos. A ideia principal é usar o conceito de arquétipos como uma lente para observar essas histórias e avaliar tropos. Arquétipos são tipos de personagens recorrentes e relações seguidas em narrativas. Usamos a definição de arquétipos de Vogler que atribui funções dramáticas e psicológicas a cada arquétipo para apontar seus papéis e objetivos na história. Primeiramente, fazemos uma análise completa do que são os arquétipos e como cada um é definido. O segundo passo é a criação de um instrumento argumentativo que denominamos Lente, para analisar narrativas sob a ótica dos arquétipos e, com base nos resultados, criar um modelo. O terceiro passo é aplicar esse novo modelo a trabalhos existentes de narratologia computacional e geração de enredo. Essa estratégia permite a análise crítica do uso de arquétipos para auxiliar na definição e percepção de uma trama. Decidimos usar a geração de enredo baseada em blending, porque esse tipo de geração de narrativa lida com uma situação complexa de geração de enredo. Neste trabalho, propomos incorporar vetores de peso arquetípicos nos operadores de planejamento automatizado que representam a história. Esses vetores são então ponderados usando a função dramática de cada arquétipo para ter um vetor arquetípico final representando o personagem. A criação da Lente busca padronizar a percepção e análise de narrativas. É fundamental que a metodologia de análise seja instrumentada, para usarmos seus resultados como reguladores dos pesos arquetípicos. Empregar a Lente do arquétipo em obras pode nos fornecer uma nova visão sobre a geração do enredo e a construção da narrativa. O resultado final de nossa pesquisa, aplicado no contexto de narrative blending, gera uma categorização dos arquétipos que cada personagem interpreta ao longo da narrativa. Esse resultado é apresentado de forma geral e episódica, para cada variante gerada. Essa categorização serve de base para analisarmos a qualidade da narrativa observando a relação de intenção e resultado. / [en] This work presents the first steps towards an archetypal-oriented approach to plot analysis and perception. The main idea is to use the concept of archetypes as a lens to look at these stories and evaluate tropes. Archetypes are recurring character types and relationships observable in narratives. We use Vogler s definition of archetypes which assigns dramatic and psychological functions to each archetype to pinpoint their roles and goals in the story. First, we do a thorough analysis of what archetypes are and how each is defined. The second step is the creation of an argumentative instrument that we call Lens, to analyze narratives from the perspective of archetypes and, based on the results, create a model. The third step is to apply this new model to existing works on computational narratology and plot generation. This strategy allows a critical analysis of the use of archetypes to help define and perceive a plot. We decided to use blending-based plot generation because this type of storytelling deals with a complex plot generation situation. In this work, we propose to incorporate archetypal weight vectors into the automated planning operators that represent the story. These vectors are then weighted using the dramatic role of each archetype to have a final archetypal vector representing the character. The creation of the Lens seeks to standardize the perception and analysis of narratives. It is fundamental that the analysis methodology be instrumented, so that we can use its results as regulators of archetypal weights. Employing the Archetype Lens in works can provide us with new insight into plot generation and narrative construction. The final result of our research, applied in the context of narrative blending, generates a categorization of the archetypes that each character interprets throughout the narrative. This result is presented in a general and episodic way, for each generated variant. This categorization serves as the basis for analyzing the quality of the narrative, observing the relationship between intention and result.

How do we humans feel the light? Is there a correspondance between our inner feelings and emotions and the outer space that surrounds us? Are we aware/conscious of it? Which personal meanings-values and emotions arise in us and how we consequently link them to a certain light-environment Atmosphere (indoor and outdoor) lit by natural or artificial light? Driven by these questions, this thesis will investigate via a visual qualitative experiment driven among photography amateurs, how their emotional sensibility is deeply bonded with light and how this emotional atmosphere is felt and portrayed throughout the day. A collection of two pictures per day, for one week, in the morning and in the evening will be firstly analyzed under the lens of each singular participant’s emotional sensibility, and then collectively grouped into common lighting Atmospheres. The wide and colorful spectrum of the possible combinations between light and emotions investigated in this research shows the richness and the complexity of the human sensibility towards light, and raise awareness in consider these intangible human factors as essential in the lighting process.

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This dissertation is a three-pronged study examining American themes, celebrity, and collective identity associated with the television program American Idol. The study includes discourse analyses of the first seven seasons of the program, of the season seven official American Idol message boards, and of the 2002 and 2008 show press coverage. The American themes included a rags-to-riches narrative, archetypes, and celebrity. The discourse-formed archetypes indicate which archetypes people of varied races may inhabit, who may be sexual, and what kinds of sexuality are permitted. On the show emotional exhibitions, archetypal resonance, and talent create a seemingly authentic celebrity while discourse positioning confirms this celebrity. The show also fostered a complication-free national American collective identity through the show discourse, while the online message boards facilitated the formation of two types of collective identities: a large group of American Idol fans and smaller contestant-affiliated fan groups. Finally, the press coverage study found two overtones present in the 2002 coverage, derision and awe, which were absent in the 2008 coverage. The primary reasons for this absence may be reluctance to criticize an immensely popular show and that the American Idol success was no longer surprising by 2008. By 2008, American Idol was so ingrained within American culture that to deride it was to critique America itself. In sum, the findings were that American Idol presents an ideal version of American culture, where gender, race, and class issues are non-existent, power is shared democratically, the American national identity is fair, generous, familial, and celebrity and success are easily attainable. This idealization of contemporary American culture functions to sustain the current status quo of economic and cultural standards. / Mass Media and Communication

In interpretations of The Dance of Life (1899-1900) by Edvard Munch, the femme fragile and the femme fatale have been considered jointly (i.e. as allusions to the cyclicality of life) or as individuals. Their unique characteristics have been recognized as such: whereas the femme fragile dons white to signify her prepubescent state and thus her innocence, the femme fatale wears red to suggest her sexuality and even her availability. Yet, scholars have failed to probe their iconographical complexities. Doing so would not only lend greater conviction to Munch’s historical identity as a Symbolist (as his archetypes would be recognized for their multivalence), but it would also reveal the didactic possibilities of the work of art itself. Given this void in the literature, the purpose of this thesis will be to elaborate on the formal and narrative qualities of the femme fragile and femme fatale in this painting. These archetypes ultimately allude to misogynistic anxieties, with the femme fragile in particular representing the sickly female body. / Art History

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Governance is one aspect of university restructuring that in the last 20 years has become ubiquitous worldwide. The restructuring is in part a response to calls for improving governance in higher education. Keller (1983), for example, describes governance in higher education as limiting the capability of universities to make critical strategic decisions. Higher education researchers are seeking to understand governance restructuring. A few studies have been conducted in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Europe. However, developing countries in the Western World have also recognized the limitations of traditional higher education governance and have restructured their systems. This has prompted a need for research on higher education governance restructuring in developing nations. In the English speaking Caribbean, governance restructuring occurred in 1984 and 1996 at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and occurred again between 2004 and 2008. The purpose of this study was to examine the most recent governance restructuring at the UWI. The focus was on exploring three dimensions of organizational change: the antecedents or the factors that prompted the change in governance, the content of the change, and the change process. Three categories of antecedents were discovered: organizational, environmental, and relational antecedents. The organizational antecedent had two sub-themes: performance aspiration and institutional coherence. The environmental antecedents were global competition among nation states, competition from other tertiary education providers, and stakeholders' demands for greater access to higher education. The relational antecedent was a desire to strengthen the relationship with external stakeholders. Four themes related to the content of restructuring emerged from the data: (a) incremental change; (b) corporate/managerial decision-making approach; (c) university-wide strategic planning; and (d) responsiveness to stakeholder demands/needs. Using an archetype approach, the analysis revealed that although the UWI retained the collegiate archetype tradition, elements of another archetype were infused with the collegiate model creating a hybridized governance system. The process of the restructuring revealed three broad stages: initiation, negotiation, and the implementation stage. Collectively, the results suggest that UWI is moving, albeit slowly, away from collegiate governance towards a managerial model. More research is needed to explore the long-term impact of this shift. / Ph. D.

With declining federal revenues, state governments are facing budgetary constraints that restrict the finances of local governments. The states' answer to requests of local governments for aid has been to encourage neighboring communities to join in regional efforts so as to economize in providing services. Some states have gone as far as to develop programs of economic incentives and disincentives that induce regional cooperation. This dissertation is based on the premise that state efforts to foster sub-state regional cooperation have been largely ineffective because of an "analysis gap" that restricts the scope of the inquiry to rational, economic considerations only. The intent of the examination is to broaden the arena of analysis by showing that a holistic approach is needed that takes into consideration the many other diverse factors that influence regional cooperation. The study applies Carl Jung's theory of archetypes to a subject community for purposes of showing how the analysis arena can be broadened and how practical strategies for attaining regional cooperation can be developed. / Ph. D.

Tesis por compendio / [EN] Healthcare domain produces and consumes big quantities of people's health data. Although data exchange is the norm rather than the exception, being able to access to all patient data is still far from achieved. Current developments such as personal health records will introduce even more data and complexity to the Electronic Health Records (EHR). Achieving semantic interoperability is one of the biggest challenges to overcome in order to benefit from all the information contained in the distributed EHR. This requires that the semantics of the information can be understood by all involved parties. It has been stablished that three layers are needed to achieve semantic interoperability: Reference models, clinical models (archetypes), and clinical terminologies. As seen in the literature, information models (reference models and clinical models) are lacking methodologies and tools to improve EHR systems and to develop new systems that can be semantically interoperable. The purpose of this thesis is to provide methodologies and tools for advancing the use of archetypes in three different scenarios: - Archetype definition over specifications with no dual model architecture native support. Any EHR architecture that directly or indirectly has the notion of detailed clinical models (such as HL7 CDA templates) can be potentially used as a reference model for archetype definition. This allows transforming single-model architectures (which contain only a reference model) into dual-model architectures (reference model with archetypes). A set of methodologies and tools has been developed to support the definition of archetypes from multiple reference models. - Data transformation. A complete methodology and tools are proposed to deal with the transformation of legacy data into XML documents compliant with the archetype and the underlying reference model. If the reference model is a standard then the transformation is a standardization process. The methodologies and tools allow both the transformation of legacy data and the transformation of data between different EHR standards. - Automatic generation of implementation guides and reference materials from archetypes. A methodology for the automatic generation of a set of reference materials is provided. These materials are useful for the development and use of EHR systems. These reference materials include data validators, example instances, implementation guides, human-readable formal rules, sample forms, mindmaps, etc. These reference materials can be combined and organized in different ways to adapt to different types of users (clinical or information technology staff). This way, users can include the detailed clinical model in their organization workflow and cooperate in the model definition. These methodologies and tools put clinical models as a key part of the system. The set of presented methodologies and tools ease the achievement of semantic interoperability by providing means for the semantic description, normalization, and validation of existing and new systems. / [ES] El sector sanitario produce y consume una gran cantidad de datos sobre la salud de las personas. La necesidad de intercambiar esta información es una norma más que una excepción, aunque este objetivo está lejos de ser alcanzado. Actualmente estamos viviendo avances como la medicina personalizada que incrementarán aún más el tamaño y complejidad de la Historia Clínica Electrónica (HCE). La consecución de altos grados de interoperabilidad semántica es uno de los principales retos para aprovechar al máximo toda la información contenida en las HCEs. Esto a su vez requiere una representación fiel de la información de tal forma que asegure la consistencia de su significado entre todos los agentes involucrados. Actualmente está reconocido que para la representación del significado clínico necesitamos tres tipos de artefactos: modelos de referencia, modelos clínicos (arquetipos) y terminologías. En el caso concreto de los modelos de información (modelos de referencia y modelos clínicos) se observa en la literatura una falta de metodologías y herramientas que faciliten su uso tanto para la mejora de sistemas de HCE ya existentes como en el desarrollo de nuevos sistemas con altos niveles de interoperabilidad semántica. Esta tesis tiene como propósito proporcionar metodologías y herramientas para el uso avanzado de arquetipos en tres escenarios diferentes: - Definición de arquetipos sobre especificaciones sin soporte nativo al modelo dual. Cualquier arquitectura de HCE que posea directa o indirectamente la noción de modelos clínicos detallados (por ejemplo, las plantillas en HL7 CDA) puede ser potencialmente usada como modelo de referencia para la definición de arquetipos. Con esto se consigue transformar arquitecturas de HCE de modelo único (solo con modelo de referencia) en arquitecturas de doble modelo (modelo de referencia + arquetipos). Se han desarrollado metodologías y herramientas que faciliten a los editores de arquetipos el soporte a múltiples modelos de referencia. - Transformación de datos. Se propone una metodología y herramientas para la transformación de datos ya existentes a documentos XML conformes con los arquetipos y el modelo de referencia subyacente. Si el modelo de referencia es un estándar entonces la transformación será un proceso de estandarización de datos. La metodología y herramientas permiten tanto la transformación de datos no estandarizados como la transformación de datos entre diferentes estándares. - Generación automática de guías de implementación y artefactos procesables a partir de arquetipos. Se aporta una metodología para la generación automática de un conjunto de materiales de referencia de utilidad en el desarrollo y uso de sistemas de HCE, concretamente validadores de datos, instancias de ejemplo, guías de implementación , reglas formales legibles por humanos, formularios de ejemplo, mindmaps, etc. Estos materiales pueden ser combinados y organizados de diferentes modos para facilitar que los diferentes tipos de usuarios (clínicos, técnicos) puedan incluir los modelos clínicos detallados en el flujo de trabajo de su sistema y colaborar en su definición. Estas metodologías y herramientas ponen los modelos clínicos como una parte clave en el sistema. El conjunto de las metodologías y herramientas presentadas facilitan la consecución de la interoperabilidad semántica al proveer medios para la descripción semántica, normalización y validación tanto de sistemas nuevos como ya existentes. / [CA] El sector sanitari produeix i consumeix una gran quantitat de dades sobre la salut de les persones. La necessitat d'intercanviar aquesta informació és una norma més que una excepció, encara que aquest objectiu està lluny de ser aconseguit. Actualment estem vivint avanços com la medicina personalitzada que incrementaran encara més la grandària i complexitat de la Història Clínica Electrònica (HCE). La consecució d'alts graus d'interoperabilitat semàntica és un dels principals reptes per a aprofitar al màxim tota la informació continguda en les HCEs. Açò, per la seua banda, requereix una representació fidel de la informació de tal forma que assegure la consistència del seu significat entre tots els agents involucrats. Actualment està reconegut que per a la representació del significat clínic necessitem tres tipus d'artefactes: models de referència, models clínics (arquetips) i terminologies. En el cas concret dels models d'informació (models de referència i models clínics) s'observa en la literatura una mancança de metodologies i eines que en faciliten l'ús tant per a la millora de sistemes de HCE ja existents com per al desenvolupament de nous sistemes amb alts nivells d'interoperabilitat semàntica. Aquesta tesi té com a propòsit proporcionar metodologies i eines per a l'ús avançat d'arquetips en tres escenaris diferents: - Definició d'arquetips sobre especificacions sense suport natiu al model dual. Qualsevol arquitectura de HCE que posseïsca directa o indirectament la noció de models clínics detallats (per exemple, les plantilles en HL7 CDA) pot ser potencialment usada com a model de referència per a la definició d'arquetips. Amb açò s'aconsegueix transformar arquitectures de HCE de model únic (solament amb model de referència) en arquitectures de doble model (model de referència + arquetips). S'han desenvolupat metodologies i eines que faciliten als editors d'arquetips el suport a múltiples models de referència. - Transformació de dades. Es proposa una metodologia i eines per a la transformació de dades ja existents a documents XML conformes amb els arquetips i el model de referència subjacent. Si el model de referència és un estàndard llavors la transformació serà un procés d'estandardització de dades. La metodologia i eines permeten tant la transformació de dades no estandarditzades com la transformació de dades entre diferents estàndards. - Generació automàtica de guies d'implementació i artefactes processables a partir d'arquetips. S'hi inclou una metodologia per a la generació automàtica d'un conjunt de materials de referència d'utilitat en el desenvolupament i ús de sistemes de HCE, concretament validadors de dades, instàncies d'exemple, guies d'implementació, regles formals llegibles per humans, formularis d'exemple, mapes mentals, etc. Aquests materials poden ser combinats i organitzats de diferents maneres per a facilitar que els diferents tipus d'usuaris (clínics, tècnics) puguen incloure els models clínics detallats en el flux de treball del seu sistema i col·laborar en la seua definició. Aquestes metodologies i eines posen els models clínics com una part clau del sistemes. El conjunt de les metodologies i eines presentades faciliten la consecució de la interoperabilitat semàntica en proveir mitjans per a la seua descripció semàntica, normalització i validació tant de sistemes nous com ja existents. / Boscá Tomás, D. (2016). DETAILED CLINICAL MODELS AND THEIR RELATION WITH ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/62174 / Compendio