Wong Nga-lai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-112). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii-v / Introduction / Homosexuality: a sin versus a choice --- p.1 -5 / Chapter Chapter One --- Wilde and his sacrifices --- p.6 -38 / Chapter Chapter Two --- Forster and his private novel --- p.39 -70 / Chapter Chapter Three --- Rechy and his new order --- p.71-104 / Conclusion / Still a long way to go --- p.105 -107 / Selected Bibliography --- p.108-112

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T14:16:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Paula Oliveira Pereira de Morais Brito.pdf: 798875 bytes, checksum: c1cd52c0cd418f55bb2b6e65cd0b9ffe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present research analyses Thomas Hunt Morgan s studies on sex-determination (1900-1913) and tries to elucidate: which were Morgan s main hypotheses to explain such a phenomenon; whether they were well grounded or not and whether there were any changes in his thought in that period. Besides that, it tries to find whether Morgan s contribution concerning sex-determination were significant as compared to those of other scientists of his time, as well as the kind of strategy he used to become the most frequently cited scientist on the subject. This thesis contains an introduction and five chapters. Chapter 1 deals with the hereditary precedents and the general scientific context in which Morgan presented his contributions concerning the subject. It also presents a short account of his career, background and professional interests. Chapter 2 describes the different explanations concerning sex-determination presented by several scientists in the first decade of the 20th century. Chapter 3 discusses some results obtained by Morgan in his studies on sex-determination during the period from 1900 to 1910. Chapter 4 discusses whether the evidence got from Morgan s studies on sex-determination from 1910-11 to 1913 was enough to explain his change of opinion concerning the relationship between sex-determination, chromosomes and Mendel´s principles. Chapter 5 tries to answer the questions presented in the Introduction and provides some final remarks on the subject. This study led to the conclusion that Morgan s belief in a cytoplasmic inheritance of sex-determination till 1910 was grounded on the evidence he got from his embryological studies, as well as his studies on sex-determination in parthenogenetic insects. Even when he admitted in 1909 that chromosomes could contribute in some way to this phenomenon, he supposed that this was a quantitative effect. The evidence got from Morgan s studies from 1910-1911 to 1913 related to sex-linked inheritance in Drosophila, in our view, were not enough to justify his change of mind on the subject by adopting a quantitative Mendelian-chromosome interpretation. Besides that, his old criticisms on the Mendelian chromosome theory as a whole were not answered. This study confirms the interpretation that Morgan s change of view was mainly due to a professional strategy, since he considered this could be a fruitful working hypothesis of work. He admitted students which were of a low academic status in spite of being skilful and well-trained in cytology. Moreover, he chose a cheap and easily breeding experimental material and wrote several works individually or together with his collaborators in a popular style, such as Heredity an sex. Morgan s strategies worked, since after 1910-1911 the works of the Drosophila group were widely cited in the relevant literature / Esta pesquisa, que trata dos estudos de Thomas Hunt Morgan sobre determinação de sexo (de 1900 a 1913), procura elucidar quais foram as principais hipóteses levantadas por Morgan para explicar tal fenômeno; se elas estavam bem fundamentadas; e se houve alguma mudança em seu pensamento durante o período. Além disso, procura saber se as contribuições de Morgan referentes à determinação de sexo foram significativas em comparação àquelas de outros cientistas de sua época, bem como que tipo de estratégia ele utilizou para se tornar o cientista mais citado em relação ao assunto. Esta tese contém uma introdução e cinco capítulos. O primeiro capítulo trata dos precedentes sobre a hereditariedade e o contexto científico em geral em que Morgan apresentou suas contribuições em relação ao assunto. Apresenta também uma curta descrição de sua formação, carreira e interesses profissionais. O capítulo 2 descreve as diferentes explicações para a determinação de sexo que foram apresentadas por diversos cientistas durante a primeira década do século XX. O capítulo 3 discute alguns resultados obtidos por Morgan em seus estudos sobre a determinação de sexo durante o período compreendido entre 1900 e 1910. O capítulo 4 discute se as evidências obtidas nos estudos desenvolvidos por Morgan entre 1910-1911 e 1913 foram suficientes para explicar sua mudança de opinião no que se refere à relação entre determinação de sexo, cromossomos e princípios de Mendel. O capítulo 5 procura responder às perguntas apresentadas na introdução e tece algumas considerações sobre o assunto. Este estudo levou à conclusão de que a visão adotada por Morgan até 1910 baseou-se nas evidências obtidas em seus estudos embriológicos, bem como nos estudos sobre determinação de sexo em insetos partenogenéticos. Quando ele admitiu em 1909 que os cromossomos poderiam contribuir de algum modo, foi de uma maneira quantitativa. As evidências obtidas através dos estudos desenvolvidos por Morgan de 1910-1911 a 1913 relacionadas à herança ligada ao sexo em Drosophila não foram suficientes, a nosso ver, para justificar sua mudança de opinião ao adotar uma interpretação mendeliana-cromossômica, qualitativa. Além disso, suas antigas críticas à teoria cromossômica como um todo não foram respondidas. Este estudo confirma a interpretação de que a mudança de visão por parte de Morgan se deveu principalmente a uma estratégia profissional, uma vez que isso poderia ser uma hipótese de trabalho frutífera. Ele admitiu estudantes que embora tivessem um status acadêmico baixo, eram habilidosos e com treino em citologia. Escolheu um material experimental de custo baixo e que facilitou os cruzamentos. Escreveu trabalhos em estilo popular, como Heredity and sex. Suas estratégias funcionaram, já que a partir de 1910-1911 os trabalhos do grupo Drosophila começaram a ser muito citados na literatura relevante sobre o assunto

Cette thèse propose et analyse de nouvelles méthodes de synthèse logique. L'analyse concerne des outils de la "troisième génération" d'écriture de bases irrédondantes de fonctions booléennes, à savoir les minimiseurs dits symboliques. Cette génération de minimiseurs conduit à la solution optimale plus rapidement et avec moins d'espace mémoire que les heuristiques de la minimisation explicite. Elle permet également le calcul de la forme complémentée minimale sans être exposée à des problèmes d'explosion en complexité, ce qui permet d'aboutir à un choix efficace entre une fonction et son complément. Nous avons abordé ensuite les problèmes de granularité des expressions factorisées. Nous avons proposé une méthode originale de réinjection qui intègre d'une façon concurrente une phase de minimisation symbolique des expressions booléennes. Cette méthode a permis de "corriger" la granularité: d'une part, des expressions booléennes obtenues par la factorisation, d'autre part, des équations obtenues par une description de haut niveau de type VHDL. La méthode proposée peut être également appliquée en tant que minimiseur logique qui tient compte du partage de la logique entre les expressions booléennes, ce qui n'est pas possible avec un minimiseur logique local ou global. Les expériences pratiques et l'application sur les réseaux programmables de type CPLD sont concluantes. Enfin, nous avons proposé une méthode originale de l'exploration de l'espace des solutions des macro-générateurs de type additionneur. Cette méthode est fondée sur le filtrage des solutions générées et l'amélioration par dérivation d'une solution donnée. Cette approche peut être efficacement appliquée sur la macro-génération sous contraintes temporelles

Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As a society that is only in its adolescence as a democracy, South Africa faces massive inequalities, both politically and socially. Within this context, Fanie du Toit of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation urges us to remember that “nation-building in our young democracy requires opportunities for South African voices to be heard, particularly those from the margins of society, so often excluded, ignored or forgotten” (1). This thesis thus focuses on story-telling and representational acts of the marginalized in post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) texts. The term “post-TRC” is an indication of the framework I use to explore the poetics and politics of representation, as well as the past‟s impact on contemporary South Africa. In my overview of the TRC, I focus not on actual testimonies, but on the space provided for the marginalized to speak, as well as methodologies and techniques of representation that stem from the TRC process. Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull (1998), which mimics and expands on the TRC's work, sets the platform for my discussion as Krog incorporates many of the victims' testimonies into her narrative. In my second chapter, I explore the tension between advocacy and appropriation as various factors influence Krog's act of representation. In Chapters Three and Four, the complexities of representation are investigated in four post-TRC texts which feature a protagonist who is either represented as marginalized, or who engages with marginalized individuals. In Chapter 3, I turn to the homeless and the foreigner in Jonathan Morgan and the Great African Spider Writers' Finding Mr Madini (1999), and Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001). In Finding Mr Madini, Jonathan Morgan consciously employs a framework for interacting with the homeless that draws on processes of the TRC, and turns away from representing others towards providing a space for self-representation. Welcome to Our Hillbrow highlights the power of narrative in effecting marginalization or belonging, while demonstrating the fluidity of the identities of the self and the stranger. In Chapter Four, I look at novels featuring youth protagonists to investigate how genre and literary form shape representation. Using Patricia Schonstein Pinnock's Skyline (2000) and K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents (2000), texts which evoke and deviate from the Bildungsroman form, I explore the ways in which these protagonists navigate their fragmented urban spaces. I also end with these novels to see what kind of future awaits these young people in which the marginalized have (not) been given a space to speak. All these protagonists grapple with the complexities of representation in various ways, as they create stories of self and others to restore a sense of home or belonging in contemporary South Africa. Furthermore, the past is shown to be implicated in the present as colonial and apartheid structures of domination and marginalization are shown to still play a significant role in shaping people's interaction with each other. At the same time, the collective indeterminacy of these texts' endings signals openness to the future, as well as the unfinished nature of the past. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: As demokrasie staan Suid-Afrika nog in sy kinderskoene. Die Suid-Afrikaanse samelewing staar daarom omvangryke ongelykhede, beide polities en sosiaal, in die gesig. Met hierdie konteks in gedagte noop Fanie du Toit van die Instituut vir Justisie en Versoening ons om in ag te neem dat “nasie-bou in ons jong demokrasie geleenthede vir Suid-Afrikaanse stemme, veral dié wat deur die samelewing gemarginaliseer, en sodoende dikwels uitgesluit, geïgnoreer en vergeet is, vereis” (1). Hierdie verhandeling fokus dus op vertelling en die voorstellingshandelinge van die gemarginaliseerdes in post-Waarheid en Versoeningskommissie-tekste. Die term “post-WVK” vorm die basis vanwaar ek die poëtiese en politieke aspekte van voorstelling, maar terselfdertyd ook die verlede se impak op die hedendaagse Suid-Afrika, ondersoek. In my oorsig van die WVK fokus ek nie op getuienisse nie, maar eerder op die ruimte vir seggenskap wat vir die gemarginaliseerdes daargestel is. Ek neem ook metodieke en tegnieke van voorstelling wat vanuit die WVK-verwikkelinge spruit in oënskou. Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull (1998) wat die WVK se werk weergee en bepeins, maar ook daarop voortbou, verskaf die basis vir hierdie bespreking aangesien Krog menigte slagoffers se getuienisse in haar boek vervat. Ek ondersoek verder die spanning tussen voorspraak en toe-eiening aangesien verskeie faktore haar voorstellingshandeling beïnvloed. Die daaropvolgende twee hoofstukke ondersoek die ingewikkeldhede van voorstelling in vier post-WVK-tekste. Hierdie tekste word telkens gekenmerk deur 'n protagonis wat óf self gemarginaliseer is, óf met gemarginaliseerde individue omgaan. In Hoofstuk Drie ondersoek ek die daklose en die buitelander in Jonathan Morgan en The Great African Spider Writers se Finding Mr Madini (1999), en Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001). In Finding Mr Madini maak Jonathan Morgan doelbewus van 'n benadering, in pas met en beïnvloed deur WVK-werkinge, gebruik om met die daklose om te gaan. Hiermee beweeg hy dan weg van die voorstelling van ander na die skepping van 'n ruimte vir self-voorstelling. Welcome to Our Hillbrow plaas weer klem op die mag van vertelling om marginalisering, maar ook samehorigheid te bewerkstellig, terwyl dit ook die onstabiele aard van die identiteite van die self en die vreemdeling illustreer. In Hoofstuk Vier ondersoek ek romans met jong protagoniste om te toon hoe genre en literêre vorm voorstelling beïnvloed. Deur van Patricia Schonstein Pinnock's Skyline (2000) en K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents (2000), tekste wat aan die Bildungsroman-genre herinner, maar ook daarvan afwyk, gebruik te maak, verken ek die maniere waarop hierdie protagoniste hul stedelike ruimtes reël en betree. Verder sluit ek met hierdie romans af ten einde te sien wat die toekoms, waarin die gemarginaliseerde seggenskap gegun is, al dan nie, vir hierdie jongmense inhou. Al hierdie protagoniste worstel op uiteenlopende maniere met die ingewikkeldhede van voorstelling. Dit is duidelik aangesien hulle stories van self en ander skep om 'n sin van tuiste en samehorigheid in hedendaagse Suid-Afrika te bewerkstellig. Die verlede blyk verder in die hede verwikkel te wees aangesien koloniale- en apartheidstrukture van onderdrukking en marginalisering steeds 'n betekenisvolle rol in die aard van mense se interaksie met mekaar speel. Terselfdertyd dui die kollektiewe onbepaaldheid van hierdie tekste se aflope op 'n oopheid vir die toekoms en die onafgehandelde aard van die verlede.

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is in interested in the potential of (New) Queer Cinema, with its often cited subversive qualities, as a means to delineate the historical and discursive dimensions of an ongoing relationship between the politics of nature and sexual politics, and to articulate the complex array of ideas that result from this relationship. In this thesis, I investigate how a selection of films actively reproduce, question, deconstruct, or reinforce particular constructions of nature and/or epistemologies of (homo)sexuality, often demonstrating such ideas through particular expressive modes, such as nostalgia, mourning, melancholia, and postmodern play, and by referencing certain literary forms, such as the pastoral, georgic and elegy. To facilitate the analysis I outline above, I have chosen to investigate three films which enable me to move from national to transnational and postcolonial cinematic contexts. I read these films alongside a selection of literary/historical texts that I feel inform or preface each filmic text. The first film is James Ivory’s adaptation (1987) of E.M. Forster’s novel, Maurice. The second is Derek Jarman’s elegiac film, The Garden (1990), which I read alongside the English filmmaker’s journal, Modern Nature (1991). And finally for my third chapter I turn to the work of Canadian filmmaker, John Greyson; specifically Proteus (2003), his recent collaboration with South African activist/filmmaker, Jack Lewis. This final filmic text prompts questions of postcoloniality and Eurocentric modes of knowledge production. I provide context for my argument by outlining recent developments in the history of Queer Cinema and by introducing two distinct but related areas of recent academic enquiry – firstly the notion of Queer Ecology (alongside related studies on the “gay pastoral”) and, secondly, the field of Green Film Criticism or Ecocinema. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis handel oor die potensiaal van (Nuwe) “Queer Cinema”, met sy bekende ondermynende eienskappe, om die historiese en diskursiewe dimensies van ’n voortgesette verhouding tussen die politiek van die natuur en van seksualiteit af te beeld, en om die komplekse verskeidenheid van idees wat volg uit hierdie verhouding, te verwoord. In hierdie tesis doen ek ondersoek na die wyse waarop ’n versameling films sekere konstruksies van ‘natuur’ en/of epistemologieë van ‘(homo)seksualiteit’ aktief herproduseer, bevraagteken, dekonstrueer of versterk. Hierdie idees word dikwels uitgebeeld deur middel van sekere ekspressiewe modusse soos nostalgie, rou, melankolie of postmoderne speelsheid, en deur verwysing na sekere literêre vorme of genres soos die pastorale of landelike gedig en die elegie. Die bostaande analise is gebaseer op drie films wat my in staat stel om te beweeg tussen nasionale, transnasionale en postkoloniale kontekste. Ek beskou elk van hierdie films in die lig van ’n gepaardgaande versameling literêre/historiese tekste wat volgens my sentraal staan tot die volle verstaan van die filmiese tekste. Die eerste film is James Ivory se aanpassing (1987) van E.M. Forster se roman, Maurice. Die tweede is Derek Jarman se elegiese film, The Garden (1990), wat ek tesame met hierdie Engelse filmmaker se joernaal, Modern Nature (1991), beskou. Laastens kyk ek na die werk van die Kanadese filmmaker John Greyson, met spesifieke fokus op sy onlangse samewerking met die Suid-Afrikaanse aktivis en filmmaker, Jack Lewis, in die verfilming van Proteus (2003). Hierdie finale filmiese teks vra vrae oor postkolonialiteit en Eurosentriese vorme van kennisproduksie. Ek kontekstualiseer my argument deur ʼn beskrywing te bied van die onlangse verwikkelinge in die geskiedenis van “Queer Cinema” en van twee afsonderlike, maar verwante akademiese gebiede wat onlangs aandag geniet, naamlik die idee van “Queer” Ekologie (en die nou-geassosieerde ‘gay pastorale’) en Groen Film Kritiek of “Ecocinema”.

SOUZA, José Ailson Lemos. Howards end: o espaço nas narrativas literária e fílmica. 2012. 109f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Literatura, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, Fortaleza-CE, 2012. / Submitted by Liliane oliveira (morena.liliane@hotmail.com) on 2012-06-29T15:23:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_DIS_JALSOUSA.pdf: 1357376 bytes, checksum: 19239b4ce6783a5541487f122daf3642 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-24T11:18:35Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_DIS_JALSOUSA.pdf: 1357376 bytes, checksum: 19239b4ce6783a5541487f122daf3642 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-07-24T11:18:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_DIS_JALSOUSA.pdf: 1357376 bytes, checksum: 19239b4ce6783a5541487f122daf3642 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / This dissertation examines the construction of space in two narratives: the novel Howards End (1910), by E. M. Forster, and the homonymous film (1992), directed by James Ivory. Our hypothesis is that the film makes use of spatial elements to comment on the film genre itself: the heritage films; and so, it reformulates the initial discourse with which such narratives were related to. Thereby, the function of space in the film is different from that function used in the novel. It is, therefore, a translation strategy which places Ivory’s text in a dialectical relation with its own time, although it tries to recreate Edwardian period on screen. In order to demonstrate our interpretation, we firstly examined the space in the novel. We concluded that, in this text, the space has the following functions: to symbolically discuss the complexity of male and female genres, showing the arbitrary way by which this question was seen at the beginning of the 20th century, and the representation of the house as a place of refuge from the feeling of fragmentation in society; exterior places function as sceneries in which the deep changes brought by modernity are reflected. In the film, however, space is used to construct the aesthetics of display, a typical characteristic of heritage films, to modify the notions on English identity commonly related to these narratives. If, at the beginning, heritage films discourse attempted to redeem British imperialistic position, Ivory’s film deconstructs such attempt and indicates its impossibility. Our work is based on concepts from Descriptive Translation Studies, from polysystem theory by Even-Zohar (1990), Lefevere’s concept of rewriting, and on studies that deal with film narratives such as Vanoye & Goliot-Lété (1994), Aumont (1995), Silva (2007) and Gaudreault & Jost (2009) / A presente dissertação examina a construção do espaço em duas narrativas: o romance Howards End (1910), de E. M. Forster, e o filme Retorno a Howards End (1992), dirigido por James Ivory. Nossa hipótese é de que a narrativa fílmica serve-se de elementos espaciais para tecer comentários sobre o gênero ao qual pertence: os filmes de herança; e, assim, reformula a discussão inicial a que essas narrativas estavam atreladas. Desse modo, a função do espaço no filme difere daquela empregada no romance. Trata-se, portanto, de uma estratégia tradutória que coloca o texto de Ivory em diálogo com a sua época, apesar de buscar recriar o período eduardiano na tela. Para demonstrar a nossa interpretação, examinamos primeiramente o espaço no romance de Forster. Concluímos que, nesse texto, a construção do espaço apresenta as seguintes funções: discutir simbolicamente a complexidade dos gêneros masculino e feminino, o modo arbitrário com que a questão era percebida no início do século XX, e a representação da casa como local de refúgio contra o sentimento de fragmentação na sociedade; os espaços externos funcionam como cenário no qual refletem-se as profundas transformações trazidas pela modernidade no início do século passado. No filme, por outro lado, o espaço faz uso da estética da exposição, uma característica típica dos filmes de herança, para redimensionar a discussão sobre a identidade inglesa. Se, em seu início, o discurso do gênero em questão procurava resgatar o ideário imperialista britânico, o filme de Ivory desconstrói tal noção e aponta para a impossibilidade deste retorno. Nosso trabalho ampara-se em conceitos oriundos dos Estudos Descritivos de tradução, partindo da teoria dos polissistemas de Even-Zohar (1990), o conceito de reescritura de Lefevere (2007), e em estudos que enfocam a narrativa cinematográfica, como Vanoye & Goliot-Lété (1994), Aumont (1995), Silva (2007) e Gaudreault & Jost (2009).

This thesis aims to engage with the poetry of Scotland and Greek-speaking Cyprus, and examine the relationship between poetry defined as high culture and articulations of national identity in the two places. Scotland and Cyprus share characteristics that make the establishment of a single, coherent national identity with the appearance of permanence challenging, including their relationships with culturally dominant neighbours, competition between local and official languages, and the insecurity of their status as nations. Both Scotland and Cyprus have historically had hybrid identities; in Scotland, British identity is made problematic by England's cultural dominance, while in Cyprus Greek-speakers have a conflicted relationship with Greece. This is made more complex by the fact that Scotland's political union with England may be ending, while Cyprus is divided in half as a result of tensions between Christian and Muslim populations and the unsubtle past involvement of Greece and Turkey in the island's affairs. This thesis aims to locate trends of national identity through the analysis of poetry and its reception in three distinct contexts. Part 1 analyses the evolution of Scottish and Greek-speaking Cypriot 'national character' through the poetry of national poets Robert Burns and Vasilis Michailidis, and the poets Walter Scott and Dimitris Lipertis. Part 2 explores the effects of modernity on the expression of national identities in literature through the lens of the Modernist movement, and how this was adopted and modified in Scotland and Cyprus. This is discussed with reference to three poets, Hugh MacDiarmid, Kostas Montis and Edwin Morgan, and their treatment of the national past and search for a national literary language. Finally, Part 3 analyses deliberate engagements of poets with national identity and issues of national importance, using Seamus Heaney's idea of 'adequate' poetry as a guide. Two functions of poetry are considered: the role it can play in transforming the landscape into the national homeland, and its potential to address communal trauma, and transform it into a unifying experience.

Wilcox (1990) examined the Type I and Type II error rates for several robust tests of H0: σ12/σ22 = 1 in paired-data designs and concluded that a satisfactory solution does not yet exist. A confidence interval for a ratio of correlated mean absolute deviations is derived and performs well in small sample sizes across realistically nonnormal distributions. When used to test a hypothesis, the proposed confidence interval is almost as powerful as the most powerful test examined by Wilcox.

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