Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-85).

Zugl.: Flensburg, Univ., Diss., 2009

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy / This thesis focuses on a selection of biographical treatments of Charles Darwin dating from 1887 to 1991, and through these explores certain shifts in the purposes and assumptions of biography since the Victorian period. An introductory discussion of problematic features in standard histories of biography is followed by an overview of the biographical material that surrounds Darwin. Four works are then analysed in detail. These are: The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin edited by his son Francis Darwin. (1887); Charles Darwin: The fragmentary man by Geoffrey West (1937); Darwin and the Beagle by Alan Moorehead (1969); and Darwin by Adrian Desmond and James Moore (1991). The disparities between these works - disparities in purpose, form, and the image of Darwin that each presents - are so great that one must question whether biography is a continuous, evolving family of texts. Is it not, rather, a conglomeration of approaches to life-writing - approaches which critics have grouped into a single genre much as the ancients grouped whales with fishes, on the basis that "because certain of their structural features are analogous, they must be generically-related"? The findings of this thesis do not supply a comprehensive answer, but affirm that we need to re-evaluate concepts like "the evolution of biography". In an appendix I analyse The Life of Richard Owen by R.S. Owen (1894) and thereby reconsider certain of my conclusions about Victorian biography. (Owen was the most eminent naturalist of the era and is often supposed to have been Darwin's greatest rival, hence my choice of this particular work.) / AC 2018

Orientador: Milton Jose de Almeida / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-23T07:14:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Camargo_LilianaGuimaraesPompeude_M.pdf: 5715692 bytes, checksum: 96ccd244b7109b2e40a9c4331cecb7e1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1997 / Resumo: O estudo das idéias e valores acerca do mundo natural nos faz ver que a relação do homem com a natureza assume diversas formas, dependendo dos interesses da sociedade da época. Atualmente, com a contribuição da enorme divulgação e circulação das questões ecológicas, tudo o que se relaciona à natureza é considerado bom e verdadeiro e ruim quando o homem a degrada. Imagens ligadas à natureza atribuem idéias de verdade e confiabilidade a valores sociais. Assim, a produção dos vídeos, devido ao aprimoramento do desenvolvimento tecnológico, toma-se cada vez melhor e mais elaborada no sentido de transmitir imagens/sons cada vez mais carregadas de realismo. Esse realismo aliado à linguagem exageradamente antropomórfica das fitas de vídeo sobre comportamento animal nos dá a idéia/imagem de que os animais são dotados de ações e sentimentos morais. E os animais, pertencendo ao mundo natural. fazem com que essas ações e sentimentos sejam considerados verdadeiros e, portanto, aceitos / Abstract: The study of ideas and values about the natural world makes us perceive that the relationship between man and nature assumes a variety of forms,depending on the interests of society at that time. At the moment / Mestrado / Ciencias Sociais Aplicadas à Educação / Mestre em Educação

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-126). / vi, 126 leaves, bound ill. 29 cm

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 237-245).

Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2005. / Thesis advisor: Jason B. Jones. "... submitted as the capstone requirement for the Master of Arts Degree in English." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-69). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2006. / "May, 2006." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-126). Online version available on the World Wide Web.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Tecnologia, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, 2016. / Submitted by Marianna Gomes (mariannasouza@bce.unb.br) on 2016-12-13T18:55:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_LuizHenriqueMoraisAguiar.pdf: 16115783 bytes, checksum: ad7604ccf3f5d5bec7110b8b1cf614ef (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana(raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2017-02-09T21:17:48Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_LuizHenriqueMoraisAguiar.pdf: 16115783 bytes, checksum: ad7604ccf3f5d5bec7110b8b1cf614ef (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-09T21:17:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_LuizHenriqueMoraisAguiar.pdf: 16115783 bytes, checksum: ad7604ccf3f5d5bec7110b8b1cf614ef (MD5) / O presente trabalho propõe um modelo evolucionário para simulação da evolução da camuflagem em seres vivos virtuais na presença de seus predadores. Neste modelo contém gerente, ambiente, presas, predadores, recursos para as presas, recursos para os predadores e recursos compartilhados. Foram definidos seus atributos e comportamentos básicos incluindo as relações entre eles. A partir do modelo geral, duas aplicações específicas foram propostas: (a) o caso particular dos lebistes (Poecilia reticulata) estudado por John A. Endler. Os predadores se alimentam dos lebistes que, por sua vez, se alimentam de outros recursos. Os três elementos do modelo (predador, lebiste e os recursos dos lebistes) estão inseridos no ambiente; e (b) um cenário fictício que simula um ambiente com espécies terrestres de presas e predadores, onde as presas representam uma espécie herbívora que possue plantas como recurso alimentar ao mesmo tempo que são recursos alimentares dos predadores. Além disso, há lagos que representam recursos compartilhados por ambas as espécies. Os atributos e comportamentos dos organismos simulados foram modelados a partir de pesquisa por observação. Um software computacional de simulação foi desenvolvido com base no modelo proposto com a finalidade de validá-lo. Os resultados obtidos a partir de simulações utilizando o software mostram que o modelo proposto atinge um nível satisfatório em relação ao trabalho biológico utilizado como referência. A ferramenta de simulação pode principalmente ser utilizada por pesquisadores que precisam trabalhar com diversas variáveis para compreensão de modelos complexos de interação entre presas e predadores, podendo auxiliar na tomada de decisão sobre problemas de conservação de espécies além de possuir um carácter didático, podendo ser utilizado para demonstrar e estudar o processo de evolução dos seres vivos pela seleção natural. / This paper proposes an evolutionary model for simulation of the evolution of camouflage in virtual living beings in presence of predators. In this model contains a manager, an environment, preys, predators, resources for preys, resources for predators and shared resources. Their basics attributes and behaviors were defined beyond the relations among them. From the general model, two specific applications have been proposed: (a) the particular case of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) studied by John A. Endler. The predators feed of guppies and they feed of other resources. The three elements of model (predator, guppy and resource of guppy) are inserted in the environment; and (b) a fictitious scenario that simulates an environment with terrestrial species of preys and predators, which preys represent an herbivorous specie that take plants as food resources and are food resources for predators. Furthermore, there are lakes that represent shared resources for both species. The simulated organism' attributes and behaviors were modeled from researches through observation. A computational software was developed based on proposed model in order to validate it. The results obtained by simulations using the software show that the proposed model reaches a satisfactory level in relation to the biological work used as reference. The simulation tool can mainly be used by researchers who need to work with several variables for understanding of complex interaction models between preys and predators to assist in decision-making on species conservation issues and it has a didactic character and can be used to demonstrate and study the process of evolution of living beings by natural selection as well.