This thesis examines the potential power of internet users to use the internet in the conduct of their everyday lives by discussing the impact of state and non-state actors on cyberspace. The debate about ‘who controls the internet?’ has avoided the question of the power of internet users, which is needed to understand the character of cyberspace. Theoretical debates identify the overwhelmingly territorial nature of cyber governance through nationally developed and enforced legislation, which is in direct opposition to the power of transnational ICTs. This thesis contributes to this theoretical debate through the use of the concepts of alternative and radical media, which are usually categorised as anti-establishment resistance strategies. I use Michel de Certeau’s notion of the heterological practice of everyday life to develop a perspective on the power of the powerless on the internet. I also adopt Franklin’s theoretical stance on the relations between state, non-state, and social actors, which is influenced by de Certeau’s ideas about the plurality of space. In order to illustrate this argument, I discuss the Korean ‘cyber asylum seeker’ phenomenon, which arose when Korean internet users migrated from local web portals to global corporations, such as Google and YouTube, who had refused to comply with the restrictions that the Korean government policies imposed on the local internet. This development allowed Korea cyber asylum seekers to become power holders, thus expanding the reach of Korean cyberspace. The Korean cyber asylum phenomenon was a result of both the Korean government’s cyber intervention following the 2008 Candlelight protest and Korean web portals’ compliance. I therefore understand the Korean cyber asylum seeker phenomenon from the perspective of a tripartite inter-relationship between the Korean government, the web portals, and internet users. This tripartite approach sheds new light on current debates about the questions: ‘Who controls the internet’, ‘Why is it controlled?’ and ‘How is it controlled?’ by adding the question, ‘What other groups have had an impact on power formations in cyberspace?’ My field research points to the significance of internet user mobility for a more complete understanding of the effect of the Korean government and the web portals on the expansion of Korean cyberspace. The research project is based on an analysis of the Korean government’s internet policy, business reports of Korean web portals, and interviews with officials from government bodies, the Korean internet industry, activists, citizens and online community members, as well as online community observation.

Accompanying materials housed with archival copy. / The purpose of this study is to research the role of documentation in a cycle-two, year one classroom (Grade 3) in a suburban community in Quebec. As the teacher-researcher, my overarching question is to come to a better understanding of how documentation is carried out in the classroom. There are several questions that guide this research: (1) What kinds of documentation are used and what purposes do they serve? (2) What role(s) does the teacher play in the documentation process? (3) What role(s) do the children play in documentation? For the purpose of this study documentation is any recording of or about classroom activities, students, or events influencing learning (Dahlberg, Moss, & Pence, 1999). Data forms included fieldnotes, video tapes, and classroom artifacts. I used complementary categorizing (Maykut & Morehouse, 1994) and contextualizing (Erickson, 1986, 1992; Merryfield, 1990) approaches for analysis, aided by the computer software program Atlas.ti (Muhr, 1997). / Three main categories of documentation were uncovered in the data. These are interactive documentation, reflective documentation, and process-oriented documentation. The activities that supported and sustained the creation of this documentation are explored in detail. The consequences of the documentation process resulted in what is described as an interactive classroom. The major conclusions concern the importance of communication cycles, flexible teacher roles, and the space provided for student participation.

Code comments improve software maintainability, programming productivity, and software reliability. To address the comment scarcity issue in many projects and save developers’ time in writing comments, we propose a new, general automatic comment generation approach, which mines comments from a large programming Question and Answer (Q&A) site. Q&A sites allow programmers to post questions and receive solutions, which contain code segments together with their descriptions, referred to as code-description mappings. We develop AutoComment to extract such mappings, and leverage them to generate description comments automatically for similar code segments matched in open source projects. We apply AutoComment to analyze 92,140 Java and Android tagged Q&A posts to extract 132,767 code-description mappings, which help AutoComment generate 102 comments automatically for 23 Java and Android projects. The number of generated comments is still low, but the user study results show that the majority of the participants consider the generated comments accurate, adequate, concise, and useful in helping them understand the code. One of the advantages from mining Q&A sites for automatic comment generation is that human written comments can provide information that is not explicitly in the code. In the future, we would like to focus on improving both the yield and quality of the generated comments. To improve the yield, we can replace the token-based clone detection tool with one that can detect addition and reordering of lines to increase the number of code matches. To improve the quality, we can apply advanced natural language processing techniques such as semantic role labeling to analyze the semantics of the sentences, or typed dependencies to analyze the grammatical structure of the sentences.

Comment expliquer la présence invasive des documents encadrant la circulation du bioart et leur influence sur la constitution, le fonctionnement et la réception des œuvres, alors que ce courant partage avec les arts vivants ou le body art une dimension live, incarnée et performative qui impliquerait une réception directe et non médiate de la part de l'audience? Car si la documentation semble servir à compenser la rareté des expositions de bioart en assurant aux œuvres une visibilité médiatique, elle paraît aussi nécessaire sur leurs lieux d'accrochage pour garantir l'efficacité de leur réception directe, en paramétrant l'expérience sensible éprouvée par l'audience. En effet, d'abord produite par les artistes puis reprise par divers commentateurs, la documentation discursive et visuelle du bioart se compose d'une variété de déclarations, d'entrevues, de commentaires et de discours théoriques accompagnés d'illustrations des œuvres qui sont publiées dans les catalogues d'expositions, les revues spécialisées, la presse ou bien encore sur les sites Internet des artistes. Ainsi, si, à travers leurs récits, les artistes trouvent l'occasion d'en dire plus sur leurs créations, en dévoilant leurs recettes de fabrication et leurs démarches, les intentions qui les poussent à s'approprier les biotechnologies constituent l'argument principal prélevé par les discours d'experts qui visent à interpréter leurs sens au-delà de leurs qualités formelles, en valorisant leurs significations symboliques. Les images produites par les artistes sur leur travail illustrent aussi cette volonté de rattacher l'œuvre bioartistique à un sens caché. Pourtant, malgré la présence manifeste de ce réseau de significations véhiculé par la documentation autour des œuvres, c'est en fonction de leurs propriétés formelles intrinsèques que certains experts défendent l'intérêt d'en faire la perception sensible. En l'occurrence, selon le commissaire Jens Hauser (2008), le bioart devrait être expérimenté sur un mode phénoménologique de « co-corporéité » parce qu'il va « au-delà de la représentation » pour produire des « effets de présence » à travers la mise en scène performative de « bioartefacts » (Andrieu, 2008). Mais l'auteur ajoute que l'efficacité de cette expérience « co-corporelle » repose néanmoins sur une médiation verbale « liminale » placée entre le bioartefact et le spectateur pour l'informer des processus sous-jacents et imperceptibles que met en œuvre l'artiste. Du coup, bien que le bioart soit valorisé pour l'expérience esthétique inédite procurée par sa dimension biofactice, il paraîtrait que sans l'aide des documents, ses prestations resteraient sans effet sur l'audience... En partant de l'hypothèse qu'il existe un lien de dépendance entre les prestations bioartistiques et leur documentation pour structurer et garantir ainsi l'efficacité de leur réception comme œuvres d'art, cette thèse explore la dynamique qui s'instaure entre les médiations langagières et visuelles du bioart et les œuvres auxquelles elles réfèrent à travers des approches médiatiques et empiriques. Les résultats montreront que malgré sa sortie du paradigme mimétique et le processus de « rematérialisation » qu'il engage dans l'histoire de l'art (Hauser, 2008), le bioart détient un fonctionnement esthétique proche de celui de l'art dématérialisé parce que l'expérience qu'il génère ne dépend pas directement des propriétés esthétiques intrinsèques des prestations mais du réseau extrinsèque de significations qui leurs sont attribuées et par l'intermédiaire desquelles leurs compositions tangibles et symboliques en tant qu'œuvres d'art sont dévoilées au spectateur. Le fait que les prestations bioartistiques aient besoin du document pour véhiculer leur principe d'intelligibilité à l'audience remet donc en cause leur autonomie en tant qu'œuvres dotées de propriétés esthétiques intrinsèques et matérielles, et ébranle la croyance qui privilégie l'expérience phénoménologique de cette forme d'art. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : bioart, art, biotechnologie, vie, vivant, documentation.

This thesis presents topics in the grammar of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central Vanuatu as spoken in Erakor village on the outskirts of Port Vila. There has been no previous grammatical description of the language, which has been classified as the southernmost member of the North- Central Vanuatu subgroup of languages. In this description I show that South Efate shares features with southern Vanuatu languages, including a lack of serial verb constructions of the kind known for its northern neighbours and the use of an echo-subject marker. The phonology of South Efate reflects an ongoing change in progress, with productive medial vowel deletion and consequent complex heterorganic consonant clusters. (For complete abstract open document)

Thesis (M.S.)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute. / Keywords: hardware verification; language; timing diagrams; aspect-oriented programming. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58).

Report (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-54). Also available via the Internet.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-11-10T11:09:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014Bitstream added on 2014-11-10T11:58:45Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000795120.pdf: 1358289 bytes, checksum: 3532b3ccfd19d4eca39c3f148ee14f95 (MD5) / Esta pesquisa investiga a representação documentária do domínio da Economia, por meio da análise das estruturas de representação em Linguagens Documentárias e documentos específicos de Economia, a partir da identificação dos termos dos Boletins de Conjuntura Econômica do Brasil. Tem como objetivo geral, contribuir com o desenvolvimento da representação da informação do domínio da Economia, por meio dos resultados da análise de como a informação é representada nas Linguagens Documentárias e, como objetivos específicos: investigar os aspectos teóricos da representação documentária do domínio da Economia; identificar e descrever a informação nos Boletins de Conjuntura Econômica do Brasil; e, analisar a informação do domínio da Economia representada nas Linguagens Documentárias. Tendo em vista, portanto, a peculiaridade e a importância da informação do domínio da Economia, que serve de suporte para o desenvolvimento socioeconômico do Brasil, indaga-se: Como a informação do domínio da Economia é representada pelas Linguagens Documentárias? A tese desta pesquisa é de que o aprimoramento da representação da informação do domínio da Economia depende da delimitação do seu conceito e de estudos das Linguagens Documentárias que a representam. Realiza, então, um estudo teórico-metodológico da Representação do Conhecimento e da Linguagem Documentária, no contexto da Ciência da Informação. Apresenta e descreve três Linguagens Documentárias que abrangem o domínio da Economia: o Vocabulário Controlado da USP; o Tesauro ISOC de Economia; e a tradução da Library of Congress Subject Headings utilizada pela Biblioteca Nacional. Conceitua a informação do domínio da Economia. Utiliza, como metodologia, o “Modelo Metodológico Integrado para Construção de Tesauro”, proposto por Cervantes (2009). A pesquisa conclui que este modelo é um instrumento consolidado e exequível para construção... / This research investigates the representation documentary of the field of economics, by analyzing the structures of representation in the Indexing Languages and specific documents of Economics, from the identification of the terms of Bulletins Economic Conjuncture of Brazil. Has like overall goal, to contribute to the development of the information of the field of Economics, by means of the analysis results how this information is represented in the Indexing Languages and, like specific objectives: to investigate the theoretical aspects of representation documentary of the field of economics; to identify and describe the information at the Bulletins Economic Conjuncture of Brazil; and, to analyze information in the field of Economics shown in Indexing Languages. In view of, therefore, the uniqueness and importance of information in the field of Economics, serves as support for the socioeconomic development of Brazil, inquire: As the information field of Economics is represented by Indexing Languages? The thesis of this research is that the improvement of the representation of information in the field of Economics depends on your definition of the concept and studies of Indexing Languages that represent. Performs a theoretical-methodological study of the Knowledge Representation and Indexing Languages, in the context of Information Science. Presents and describes three Indexing Languages that covering the field of economics: the Controlled Vocabulary of the USP; the Thesauri ISOC of Economy; and the translation of the Library of Congress Subject Headings used by Biblioteca Nacional. Conceptualizes the information of the field of Economics. Used as a methodology the “Modelo Metodológico Integrado para Construção de Tesauro” proposed by Cervantes (2009). The research concludes that this model is an instrument consolidated and feasible to build of Indexing Languages. Prepares a documentary structure of the field of Economics having as...

Orientador: Mariângela Spotti Lopes Fujita / Co-orientador: Isidoro Gil Leiva / Banca: João Batista Ernesto de Moraes / Banca: Dulce Amélia de Brito Neves / Banca: Milena Polsinelli Rubi / Banca: Walter Moreira / Resumo: Esta pesquisa investiga a representação documentária do domínio da Economia, por meio da análise das estruturas de representação em Linguagens Documentárias e documentos específicos de Economia, a partir da identificação dos termos dos Boletins de Conjuntura Econômica do Brasil. Tem como objetivo geral, contribuir com o desenvolvimento da representação da informação do domínio da Economia, por meio dos resultados da análise de como a informação é representada nas Linguagens Documentárias e, como objetivos específicos: investigar os aspectos teóricos da representação documentária do domínio da Economia; identificar e descrever a informação nos Boletins de Conjuntura Econômica do Brasil; e, analisar a informação do domínio da Economia representada nas Linguagens Documentárias. Tendo em vista, portanto, a peculiaridade e a importância da informação do domínio da Economia, que serve de suporte para o desenvolvimento socioeconômico do Brasil, indaga-se: Como a informação do domínio da Economia é representada pelas Linguagens Documentárias? A tese desta pesquisa é de que o aprimoramento da representação da informação do domínio da Economia depende da delimitação do seu conceito e de estudos das Linguagens Documentárias que a representam. Realiza, então, um estudo teórico-metodológico da Representação do Conhecimento e da Linguagem Documentária, no contexto da Ciência da Informação. Apresenta e descreve três Linguagens Documentárias que abrangem o domínio da Economia: o Vocabulário Controlado da USP; o Tesauro ISOC de Economia; e a tradução da Library of Congress Subject Headings utilizada pela Biblioteca Nacional. Conceitua a informação do domínio da Economia. Utiliza, como metodologia, o "Modelo Metodológico Integrado para Construção de Tesauro", proposto por Cervantes (2009). A pesquisa conclui que este modelo é um instrumento consolidado e exequível para construção... / Abstract: This research investigates the representation documentary of the field of economics, by analyzing the structures of representation in the Indexing Languages and specific documents of Economics, from the identification of the terms of Bulletins Economic Conjuncture of Brazil. Has like overall goal, to contribute to the development of the information of the field of Economics, by means of the analysis results how this information is represented in the Indexing Languages and, like specific objectives: to investigate the theoretical aspects of representation documentary of the field of economics; to identify and describe the information at the Bulletins Economic Conjuncture of Brazil; and, to analyze information in the field of Economics shown in Indexing Languages. In view of, therefore, the uniqueness and importance of information in the field of Economics, serves as support for the socioeconomic development of Brazil, inquire: As the information field of Economics is represented by Indexing Languages? The thesis of this research is that the improvement of the representation of information in the field of Economics depends on your definition of the concept and studies of Indexing Languages that represent. Performs a theoretical-methodological study of the Knowledge Representation and Indexing Languages, in the context of Information Science. Presents and describes three Indexing Languages that covering the field of economics: the Controlled Vocabulary of the USP; the Thesauri ISOC of Economy; and the translation of the Library of Congress Subject Headings used by Biblioteca Nacional. Conceptualizes the information of the field of Economics. Used as a methodology the "Modelo Metodológico Integrado para Construção de Tesauro" proposed by Cervantes (2009). The research concludes that this model is an instrument consolidated and feasible to build of Indexing Languages. Prepares a documentary structure of the field of Economics having as... / Doutor

The objektive of my thesis was to project the cycling trail in the vicinity of the town Slavonice.The cycling trail was projected around the village Maříž, which is the part of the town.The town Slavonice is located in Southern Bohemia, in region Jindřichův Hradec. At first, they were proposed two alternative. One of which was choise and her partial section was worked in the rang, which is submited for notification of constructions road, according to Decree 104/1997 Sb. Especially I went up from technical standards TP 179 - The Design of the cycle-way. I proposed a direction solution, vertical solution, constructional ordering and traffic signs. I situated in the proposed cycling trail picnick points, completed for notice board and bikes stand. In the framework of low possession relationships I wrote up lands, which can be touched of build-up the cycling trail. I have also done analyse existing cycling trails in surroundings. I refered in my thesis to diference between cycling trail and cyclo route too.