The central concern of this thesis is to describe the views of the young men in Feridun Zaimoglus book Kanak Sprak (2000) on their own identity ("Kanaken"), on the identity of other foreigners such as (college "Ali") and the Germans ("Alemannen") with help of close-reading. The book contains short-stories or "protocolls", written in the special language "KanakSprak", a mixture of Turkish and German street gang slang. There are claims that Zaimoglus texts are written based on hiphop/rap language. The categories in this work are identity, youth(sub)culture, territory, style and Hiphop. Other than close-reading the analysis will also take help of different research areas such as youth research and soliology.

Technological advancements and widespread adaptation of new technology in industry have made industrial time series data more available than ever before. This trend is expected to continue, especially with the introduction of Industry 4.0, where the goal is to connect everything on the industry floor to the cloud and the Industrial Internet of Things. With this development grows the need for versatile methods for mining industrial time series data. Time series motif discovery is a sub-set of data mining and is about finding interesting patterns in time series data. The state of the art in time series motif discovery is the Matrix Profile proposed in 2016. However, there are few publications where the Matrix Profile has been applied to real-life industrial time series data despite its popularity. The goal of the thesis has been to create a tool that enables joint human-machine exploration of industrial time series data using the Matrix profile and present the challenges involved. The result is a human-machine exploration procedure called IUSE that has been applied to three data sets containing real-life industrial time series data. IUSE enables the user to extract semantic information, detect cycles, find deviating patterns and helps the user to get a deeper understanding of a time series. The description of IUSE comes alongside learned lessons, faced challenges and experience from applying the Matrix Profile to actual industrial time series data.

The study makes an analysis of Charles Mungoshi's Shona works from a Modernist perspective. In this study, Modernist literature is shown as full of change and adventure that has seen characters failing to catch up with the speed at which their social lives are going. The change is continuos and has resulted in many characters continuously failing to cope, which in turn has resulted in continuous frustrations, here described as despair. The study also shows how the despair is being nurtured in the circumstances of crumbling social institutions which, in the past, had acted as the haven for devastated individuals. The crumbling social institutions are shown to be triggering the despair and the characters are given no room to recuperate. The study makes an analysis of what brings this despair and how in the end, particular individual characters fight to ward off the despair. / African Languages / M.A. (African Languages)

Cette thèse s’inscrit dans le cadre de l’information quantique avec des variables continues, en utilisant des états quantiques du champ électromagnétique. En combinant les outils propres aux variables discrètes, o`u la lumière est décrite en termes de photons, avec les outils des variables continues, où la lumière est décrite en termes de quadratures, nous pouvons étudier théoriquement et produire expérimentalement des états non-classiques, ainsi que des protocoles élémentaires d’information quantique. Ainsi, nous avons produit expérimentalement un état «chat de Schrödinger», superposition quantique de deux états lumineux quasi-classiques, sur lequel nous avons appliqué une porte quantique introduisant une phase dans la superposition. Nous avons ensuite analysé la qualité de cette porte en utilisant un modèle simple de notre expérience. Nous nous sommes ensuite intéressés aux corrélations quantiques, mesurées par la discorde quantique, pour une classe d’états particulièrement importants en information quantique. Nous avons quantifié la précision de nos mesures en les comparant aux bornes de Cramér-Rao classique et quantique. Enfin, nous avons étudié théoriquement l’utilisation d’un amplificateur quantique non-déterministe en cryptographie quantique. Cet amplificateur possède la propriété de pouvoir amplifier des états quantiques sans en amplifier le bruit quantique associé. Ainsi, nous avons montré qu’il permet une amélioration de la distance maximale de transmission d’une clé secrète, ainsi qu’une amélioration de la résistance au bruit introduit par le canal quantique. / This thesis is concerned with different aspects of quantum information with the continuous variables of quantum states of light. Through the combination of the continuous and discrete descriptions, where the light is either described in terms of quadratures or photons, non-classical quantum states and elementary quantum information protocols have been theoretically studied and experimentally implemented. We have experimentally implemented a quantum superposition of two quasi-classical states of light, a “Schrödinger cat state”, which was used to feed a quantum phase gate. We have analysed the quality of this implementation by using a simple model of the experiment. We have then studied quantum correlations, as captured by the quantum discord, for an important class of states in quantum information. We have compared the precision of our measurements by using the classical and quantum Cramér-Rao bounds. Finally, we have theoretically studied the use of a non-deterministic quantum amplifier in quantum cryptography. This amplifier has the property to amplify quantum states without amplifying their quantum noise. Using this property, we have shown that it is possible to increase the maximum distance of transmission of a secret key, as well as the tolerance to the noise added by the quantum channel.

The study makes an analysis of Charles Mungoshi's Shona works from a Modernist perspective. In this study, Modernist literature is shown as full of change and adventure that has seen characters failing to catch up with the speed at which their social lives are going. The change is continuos and has resulted in many characters continuously failing to cope, which in turn has resulted in continuous frustrations, here described as despair. The study also shows how the despair is being nurtured in the circumstances of crumbling social institutions which, in the past, had acted as the haven for devastated individuals. The crumbling social institutions are shown to be triggering the despair and the characters are given no room to recuperate. The study makes an analysis of what brings this despair and how in the end, particular individual characters fight to ward off the despair. / African Languages / M.A. (African Languages)

Cette étude examine comment les élèves communiquent par écrit lorsqu'ils savent que leur interlocuteur est un autre élève humain par rapport à la façon dont ils communiquent lorsqu'ils savent que leur partenaire est un « chatbot », un agent conversationnel artificiel qui communique par écrit en utilisant le langage naturel. Les participants sont des lycéens d’un cours de français langue étrangère (FLE) en Suède. Les élèves ont écrit à leurs pairs via la messagerie instantanée (IM) et au chatbot via un site Webb. Les conversations ont été comparées, et leurs variables linguistiques ont été distinguées selon les dimensions suivantes : mots par message et par conversation, messages par conversation, diversité lexicale et fréquence d'émoticônes. Au cours des dernières années, tant les linguistes que les chercheurs en Intelligence Artificielle ont été contraints de traiter des problèmes de contexte, de syntaxe, de sémantique et de pragmatique (Rosenberg, 1975). Il existe des études qui abordent la question de la coopération entre la linguistique et le traitement automatique du langage naturel (TALN) qui se concentrent sur la façon dont les chatbots communiquent par écrit avec les humains. Cependant, cette étude est concentrée sur l'humain, évaluant la langue et distinguant les caractéristiques linguistiques utilisées du côté de l’humain conversant avec un chatbot. Les résultats ont montré que les messages élèves-chatbot contenaient moins de mots par message que ceux envoyés à un autre élève, mais les élèves ont envoyé plus de deux fois plus de messages au chatbot qu'à leurs pairs. L'étude a révélé qu'il existe un niveau de motivation plus élevé chez les élèves lorsqu'ils s'engagent dans des conversations avec l'agent artificiel par rapport aux autres étudiants.

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The diploma thesis describes the development of St. Anne and St. Lawrence Dominican convents in The Old Town of Prague during early modern period (mainly in the 17th and the 18th centuries). Both the indoor life and contacts with outside world are included in the description. Only three topics of the above-mentioned specialization could be seamlessly elaborated due to fragmentary sources. The introduction and first three chapters constitute a summary of sources and literature. Furthermore, they chronologically depict the history of the Dominican order and the particular convents. The fourth chapter deals with the relationship between the nuns and their dependants in the municipality of Radlice. The system of servile taxes withdrawals and visitations of the monastic farms are emphasized. The chapter finally records a concrete discord between the convent and Barbora Wlaška in the 16th century. The fifth chapter focuses on baroque sermon that were held during ceremonies of admission aspirants among the other nuns. The preachments were analyzed in light of their contents and spiritual thoughts. The last chapter studies the performance of the archiepiscopal authority to the convents in the 18th century and the relationships between the Dominican nuns and aristocratic families or bourgeoisie in the...

This thesis is a work of Christian theology. Its purpose is twofold: firstly to develop an adequate understanding of reconciliation at the level of peoples and nations; and secondly to make a practical contribution to resolving the problems in Australia for the welfare of all the peoples, and of the land itself. The history of the relationships between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Australia has left many problems, and no matter what the non-Indigenous people try to do, the Indigenous peoples of Australia continue to experience themselves as being in a state of siege. Trying to understand what is happening, and what can be done to resolve the problems for the peoples of Australia and the land, have been the implicit drivers for the theological development in this thesis. This thesis argues that the present generation in any trans-generational dispute is likely to continue to sin in ways that are shaped by the sins of the past, which explains why Indigenous peoples in Australia find themselves in a stage of siege, even when the non-Indigenous peoples are trying to pursue policies which they believe are for the welfare of all. The only way to resolve this is for the peoples of Australia to seek reconciliation. In particular, the non-Indigenous peoples need to repent, both of their own sins, and the sins of their forebears. Reconciliation processes have become part of the international political landscape. However, there are real concerns about the justice of pursuing reconciliation. An important part of the theological development of this thesis is therefore to show that pursuing reconciliation establishes justice. It is shown that the nature of justice, and of repentance, can only be established by pursuing reconciliation. Reconciliation is possible because God has made it possible, and is working in the world to bring reconciliation. Because land is an essential part of Indigenous identity in Australia, the history of land in court cases and legislation in Australia over the past half century forms an important case study in this work. It is shown that, although there was significant repentance within the non-Indigenous legal system in Australia, the degree of repentance available through that legal system is inherently limited, and so a more radical approach is needed in order to seek reconciliation in Australia. A final chapter considers what the non-Indigenous people of Australia need to do in order to repent.