In this thesis we investigate different domination-related graph polynomials, like the connected domination polynomial, the independent domination polynomial, and the total domination polynomial. We prove some basic properties of these polynomials and obtain formulas for the calculation in special graph classes. Furthermore, we also prove results about the calculation of the different graph polynomials in product graphs and different representations of the graph polynomials. One focus of this thesis lays on the generalization of domination-related polynomials. In this context the trivariate domination polynomial is defined and some results about the bipartition polynomial, which is also a generalization of the domination polynomial, is presented. These two polynomials have many useful properties and interesting connections to other graph polynomials. Furthermore, some more general domination-related polynomials are defined in this thesis, which shows some possible directions for further research. / In dieser Dissertation werden verschiedene, zum Dominationspolynom verwandte, Graphenpolynome, wie das zusammenhängende Dominationspolynom, das unabhängige Dominationspolynom und das totale Dominationspolynom, untersucht. Es werden grundlegende Eigenschaften erforscht und Sätze für die Berechnung dieser Polynome in speziellen Graphenklassen bewiesen. Weiterhin werden Ergebnisse für die Berechnung in Produktgraphen und verschiedene Repräsentationen für diese Graphenpolynome gezeigt. Ein Fokus der Dissertation liegt auf der Verallgemeinerung der verschiedenen Dominationspolynome. In diesem Zusammenhang wird das trivariate Dominationspolynom definiert. Außerdem werden Ergebnisse für das Bipartitionspolynom bewiesen. Diese beiden Polynome haben viele interessante Eigenschaften und Beziehungen zu anderen Graphenpolynomen. Darüber hinaus werden weitere multivariate Graphenpolynome definiert, die eine mögliche Richtung für weitere Forschung auf diesem Gebiet aufzeigen.

Thesis (PhD (Mathematical Sciences. Applied Mathematics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2004. / Suppose a lottery scheme consists of randomly selecting an unordered winning n-subset from a universal set of m numbers, while a player participates in the scheme by purchasing a playing set of any number of unordered n-subsets from the same universal set prior to a winning draw, and is awarded a prize if ...

L'un des problèmes les plus cruciaux qui se pose aux Sportifs de Haut Niveau (SHN) est la reconversion. Celle-ci constitue une période transitoire particulièrement difficile qui doit être préparée. Le double projet (se former durant la carrière sportive) constitue l'un des processus qui devrait faciliter cette transition. S'il existe, a priori, une volonté politique, maintes fois réaffirmée par différents Ministres et Secrétaires d'Etat, pour que les SHN puissent s'engager dans le double projet, la réalité semble toute autre. Quelques uns anticipent leur reconversion dès leur arrivée dans les Centres nationaux ou les clubs professionnels. Construisent un projet professionnel. Suivent des formations. A l'inverse d'autres sont dans l'obligation de trouver des solutions urgentes à l'issue de leurs carrières sportives ou à la suite d'une blessure. La question se trouve donc posée : « Comment interpréter le fait qu'un grand nombre d'athlètes ne s'engage pas dans le double projet malgré les dispositifs mis en œuvre et les discours politiques les y encourageant ? ». Pour y répondre 60 SHN appartenant à 5 sports différents et 12 cadres institutionnels » ont été interrogés sous forme d'histoire de vie ou de récit de pratique professionnelle. L'analyse révèle un système complexe dans lequel, en l'absence de pilotage institutionnel, se confrontent des stratégies antagonistes et des relations de pouvoir et de domination. Les politiques fédérales se distinguent entre « éthique de la responsabilité » (l'athlète est au centre du projet) et « éthique de la conviction » (seul le résultat sportif compte). Si les SHN subissent de nombreuses contraintes, celles-ci constituent autant d'obstacles que d'excuses à ne pas se former. C'est dans l'histoire singulière de ceux qui ont décidé de se former, parfois à l'encontre de la politique fédérale, que se lisent tout à la fois la volonté et les stratégies mises en œuvre. Les acteurs institutionnels tentent de faire vivre le double projet. Ce dernier étant « imparfaitement défini », non encadré légalement, leur cadre d'action se trouve considérablement réduitL'un des problèmes les plus cruciaux qui se pose aux Sportifs de Haut Niveau (SHN) est la reconversion. Celle-ci constitue une période transitoire particulièrement difficile qui doit être préparée. Le double projet (se former durant la carrière sportive) constitue l'un des processus qui devrait faciliter cette transition. S'il existe, a priori, une volonté politique, maintes fois réaffirmée par différents Ministres et Secrétaires d'Etat, pour que les SHN puissent s'engager dans le double projet, la réalité semble toute autre. Quelques uns anticipent leur reconversion dès leur arrivée dans les Centres nationaux ou les clubs professionnels. Construisent un projet professionnel. Suivent des formations. A l'inverse d'autres sont dans l'obligation de trouver des solutions urgentes à l'issue de leurs carrières sportives ou à la suite d'une blessure. La question se trouve donc posée : « Comment interpréter le fait qu'un grand nombre d'athlètes ne s'engage pas dans le double projet malgré les dispositifs mis en œuvre et les discours politiques les y encourageant ? ». Pour y répondre 60 SHN appartenant à 5 sports différents et 12 cadres institutionnels » ont été interrogés sous forme d'histoire de vie ou de récit de pratique professionnelle. L'analyse révèle un système complexe dans lequel, en l'absence de pilotage institutionnel, se confrontent des stratégies antagonistes et des relations de pouvoir et de domination. Les politiques fédérales se distinguent entre « éthique de la responsabilité » (l'athlète est au centre du projet) et « éthique de la conviction » (seul le résultat sportif compte). Si les SHN subissent de nombreuses contraintes, celles-ci constituent autant d'obstacles que d'excuses à ne pas se former. C'est dans l'histoire singulière de ceux qui ont décidé de se former, parfois à l'encontre de la politique fédérale, que se lisent tout à la fois la volonté et les stratégies mises en œuvre. Les acteurs institutionnels tentent de faire vivre le double projet. Ce dernier étant « imparfaitement défini », non encadré légalement, leur cadre d'action se trouve considérablement réduit

The Problems of Protest and the Persistence of Domination: Social Movement Theory and Bourdieu’s Economy of Practice is a normative intervention into social movement theory and debates about social movement goals, strategies and tactics. The project asks: what normative implications derive from incorporating Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological framework into social movement research? My core arguments are that Bourdieu’s framework has the potential to sensitize activists and analysts to the tension between conformity and failure and that escaping radical/reformist debates requires working through this tension. The dissertation intervenes in social movement theory from within the critical theory tradition by refusing to separate empirical and normative questions. I develop my argument using two strategies. First, I undertake a close reading of Bourdieu’s most important works and the debates they have provoked. Second I apply the conceptual tools this close reading offers to reconsider the logic behind two key social movement theory concepts: collective identity and repertoires of contention. Following a general introduction and literature review, I undertake a close consideration of habitus and an argument for how attention to the suffering produced by symbolic power constitutes grounds for normative justice claims. I then consider how collective identity formation in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer mobilization indicates the presence of symbolic violence, primarily in the form of epistemic violence. Next I argue that the nature of neoliberal symbolic power creates political antinomies for representation and affinity-based segments of the alterglobalization movement. Finally I argue that Bourdieu needs to be balanced by Nietzsche and that an orientation toward ‘overcoming’ offers a way out of the tension between conformity and failure. My findings point to the need for more sophisticated instruments for understanding the relationship between objective interests and subjective perception, impositions of, and challenges to, ‘logical consensus’, and strategies for counter-training and other mechanisms to support activists in resisting symbolic violence. / Thesis (Ph.D, Political Studies) -- Queen's University, 2013-01-29 14:14:16.699

Benzenoids are graphs representing the carbon structure of molecules, defined by a closed path in the hexagonal lattice. These compounds are of interest to chemists studying existing and potential carbon structures. The goal of this study is to conjecture and prove relations between graph theoretic properties among benzenoids. First, we generate conjectures on upper bounds for the domination number in benzenoids using invariant-defined functions. This work is an extension of the ideas to be presented in a forthcoming paper. Next, we generate conjectures using property-defined functions. As the title indicates, the conjectures we prove are not thought of on our own, rather generated by a process of automated conjecture-making. This program, named Cᴏɴᴊᴇᴄᴛᴜʀɪɴɢ, is developed by Craig Larson and Nico Van Cleemput.

The main objective of this work was to analyze the social discrimination in Peru from historical social perspective. The work is divided into two main parts: theoretical and practical. In the theoretical part we dealt with the analysis of various concepts that have been formulated by leading international organizations. In the practical part we analyze discrimination in the media such as television and in addition, we are also dedicated to social discrimination against residents of Lima is perceived today. KEY WORDS: discrimination, racism, ethnicity, domination, Peruvian society, mestizo

This study is a descriptive research project which examines a purposeful census of the best selling children's books for 0-8 year olds in the United States in 2003. This cross-sectional study of these social artifacts evaluates the extent to which the ideologies of the environmental movement have been inculcated into culture. It evaluates how the environment is represented in children’s literature and the extent to which children's literature meets the goals of environmental education. Through narrative semeiotic analysis of the themes, as well as the manifest (text) and latent (pictures) content, varying degrees of pro and antienvironmental ideologies reflected by these representations emerged. Analytic induction revealed that these representations reflected ideologies of human domination over nature. In addition, in most cases, the representation of the environment did not reflect or meet the goals of environmental education. This finding sheds light on the role children's books play in the environmental socialization of America's youth.

In this paper, I will detail the process that went into the making of my thesis film, Extra Meat. The areas I will cover include: Writing, Directing, Production Design, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, as well as Technology. Special emphasis will be given to new casting and directing styles I have developed to encourage the strongest possible performances. I will then evaluate the success of the decisions I made.

Dès l’Antiquité japonaise, le référentiel dans lequel s’inscrivent les rapports avec l’étranger est concentrique ; autour d’une arborescence centrale d’où rayonne la civilisation gravitent des périphéries incultes dont le degré de barbarie est proportionnel à la distance les séparant de celle-Ci. Cette vision antagoniste, inspirée de la Chine, évolue pour devenir, à la fin du 15ème siècle, un « paradigme dichotomique du civilisé et du barbare à la japonaise » (nihon gata ka.i chitsujo). Une étude approfondie des rapports de domination dans le septentrion japonais nous révèle que, par la suite, malgré les deux siècles et demi d’ouverture sélective qui valent au Japon d’être qualifié de « pays verrouillé » (sakoku), cette figure du barbare effectue un glissement temporel, technique et géographique. Le barbare n’est plus un être à peine humain, souillé et arriéré, peuplant des marges périphériques contigües et qu’il faut soumettre, ni même un « barbare apprivoisé » dont l’altérité est mise en scène à des fins de domination. Au tournant du 19ème siècle, du fait de la présence grandissante des Russes à la frontière septentrionale, le barbare est devenu un adversaire potentiel dangereux, possédant une avance technologique à imiter, qui doit être maintenu à distance (jô.i). Le statut d’Ezo n’est plus celui d’antimonde, ou de terres incultes et vides, mais celui d’un territoire qu’il faut développer et protéger. Incarnée par ces métamorphoses et illustrée par les traités des lettrés prônant une défense maritime adéquate (kaibô-Ron), un développement agricole (kaitaku-Ron), une ouverture commerciale (kaikoku-Ron) ou un « pays prospère et une armée forte » à la fin du 18ème siècle, la première étape de transition entre fermeture et ouverture du Japon a pour origine l’influence de ces derniers dans les décisions concernant les relations avec l’étranger, accompagnée d’une transvaluation éthique qui transfère progressivement la vertu du sakoku (protection de la population contre le prosélytisme chrétien et protectionnisme commercial) au kaikoku (protection du peuple contre les agressions extérieures et contre la famine). / After the 5th century, Japanese relations with foreign entities fit in a multi-Layered concentric distinction between a central arborescence radiating civilization and uncultivated outer fringes gravitating around it, whose barbaric quality increases according to their distance from it. This oppositional vision, inspired by the antique Chinese world-Order, gradually evolves into a dichotomous paradigm, often referred to as "Japanese middle kingdom ideology" (nihon gata ka.i chitsujo) at the end of the 15th century. A thorough study of the power struggles in the Japanese north reveals that despite two and a half centuries of selective foreign relations which earn Japan its reputation as a "locked-Up country" (sakoku), the barbaric figure shifts in terms of time, space and technical abilities. The barbarian is no longer viewed as a barely human entity, impure and underdeveloped, inhabiting peripheral contiguous fringes, who must be subdued, or even a "tamed barbarian" whose otherness is staged to legitimate domination over him. At the turn of the 19th century, due to an increasing Russian presence at its northern border, the barbarian has become a potentially dangerous yet worthy adversary, technologically advanced, who needs to be kept at bay (jô.i). Ezo's status is no longer that of a netherworld, or of a vast and empty wasteland, but that of a territory worth developing and protecting. Embodied by such shifts and treaties written by scholars advocating an adequate maritime defense (kaibô-Ron), agricultural development (kaitaku-Ron), the opening of foreign commercial relations (kaikoku-Ron) or "a prosperous country and a powerful army" at the end of the 18th century, the first stage in the transition from a closed to an open Japan stems from their influence on the decisions regarding foreign relations, as well as an ethical transvaluation which gradually transfers virtue from sakoku (protecting the population against Christian proselytism and commercial protectionism) to kaikoku (protecting the people from foreign harm and famine).

A presente dissertação de mestrado é um estudo teórico fundamentado na Teoria Crítica da Sociedade e alguns conceitos da Psicanálise freudiana acerca da questão da dominação que recaí sobre os indivíduos da Sociedade Administrada. Com o objetivo de investigar o fenômeno de apropriação do inconsciente na Sociedade Administrada, o estudo se centrou em três obras principais dos autores T. W. Adorno e M. Horkheimer; Excurso I Ulisses - ou Mito e Esclarecimento, Teoria Freudiana e o padrão da propaganda fascista e Sobre a relação entre Sociologia e Psicologia. Além dessas obras principais, outros textos dos autores, bem como uma vasta seleção de escritos de S. Freud, e de autores contemporâneos, complementaram os materiais teóricos investigados. Cada uma dessas obras protagoniza, respectivamente, um dos três capítulos que organizam o trabalho e as articulações teóricas partiram dos elementos principais presentes nesses textos. Os resultados demonstram que parte do inconsciente se constitui a partir do processo de sedimentação de conteúdos conflituosos no decorrer do desenvolvimento contraditório da civilização; um depositário de conteúdos negados pela história. Embora a sociedade não possua um inconsciente, ela carrega consigo, em suas diversas instituições, a marca das contradições do progresso, influenciando assim, o desenvolvimento de seus integrantes de forma estrutural. A pesquisa ainda revelou que devido aos diferentes processos de enfraquecimento do indivíduo, as pessoas tornam-se mais suscetíveis a integrar movimentos de massa, nos quais conteúdos de seu inconsciente são manipulados pelos agitadores e discursos ideológicos para fins de dominação. A Sociedade Administrada demonstrou possuir uma complexa rede de controle sobre as pessoas, escamoteando as possibilidades emancipatórias de seus membros, que ficam aprisionados e incapacitados de perceber os mecanismos de controle que regem suas vidas. O nível de controle que a sociedade administrada exerce sobre seus membros, regularmente depende de níveis de influência que atingem seu psiquismo também na dimensão inconsciente para garantir o seu sucesso. Dessa forma, também foi possível investigar como existem diversos níveis de controle diferentes operando nas pessoas, podendo culminar na mais alta expressão dessa dominação, o sujeito reflexo, cujas determinações psíquicas inconscientes estariam completamente integradas às sociais / This dissertation is a theoretical study based on the Critical Theory of Society and some concepts of Freudian Psychoanalysis about the question of domination that falls on the individuals of the Administered World. With the objective of investigating the phenomenon of appropriation of the unconscious in the Administered World, the study focused on three main works by the authors T. W. Adorno and M. Horkheimer; \" Excerpt I Ulysses - or Myth and Enlightenment \", \"Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda\" and \"On the Relationship between Sociology and Psychology\". In addition to these major works, other authors\' texts, as well as a wide selection of writings by S. Freud and contemporary writers, complemented the theoretical materials investigated. Each of these works receives the central spot in one of the three chapters that organize the work and the theoretical articulations of the main elements present in these texts. The results demonstrate that part of the unconscious is constituted from the sedimentation process of conflicting contents in the course of the contradictory development of civilization; a depository of contents denied by history. Although society does not possess an unconscious, it carries with it, in its various institutions, the mark of the contradictions of progress, thus influencing the development of its members in a structural way. This research has further revealed that because of the different processes of weakening the individual, people become more susceptible to integrate mass movements, in which contents of their unconscious are manipulated by agitators and ideological discourses for the purpose of domination. The Administered World has demonstrated that it has a complex network of control over the people, by concealing the emancipatory possibilities of its members, who are imprisoned and unable to perceive the control mechanisms that govern their lives. The level of control that the administered world exerts on its members regularly depends on levels of influence that reach its psyche also in the unconscious dimension to ensure its success. In this way, it was also possible to investigate how there are different levels of control operating in people, and can culminate in the highest expression of this domination, the reflex subject, whose unconscious psychic determinations would be completely integrated with the social ones