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Yes / The cadence and resolution of solar images have been increasing dramatically with the launch of new spacecraft such as STEREO and SDO. This increase in data volume provides new opportunities for solar researchers, but the efficient processing and analysis of these data create new challenges. We introduce a fuzzy-based solar feature-detection system in this article. The proposed system processes SDO/AIA images using fuzzy rules to detect coronal holes and active regions. This system is fast and it can handle different size images. It is tested on six months of solar data (1 October 2010 to 31 March 2011) to generate filling factors (ratio of area of solar feature to area of rest of the solar disc) for active regions and coronal holes. These filling factors are then compared to SDO/EVE/ESP irradiance measurements. The correlation between active-region filling factors and irradiance measurements is found to be very high, which has encouraged us to design a time-series prediction system using Radial Basis Function Networks to predict ESP irradiance measurements from our generated filling factors.

La Vie grecque d’Adam et Eve (VGAE) a été classée parmi les apocryphes de l’Ancien Testament et serait un texte composé entre le Ier siècle avant notre ère et le Ier siècle de notre ère, à partir des traditions judéo-hellénistiques. Attesté par vingt-sept manuscrits grecs, cet ouvrage présente l’histoire d’Adam et Eve avant et après leur expulsion du Paradis. Ces manuscrits font partie d’un ensemble plus vaste, la Vie d’Adam et Eve (VAE), connu par huit versions différentes (en grec, latin, géorgien, arménien, slave, roumain, copte, arabe).La problématique de notre thèse consiste à analyser la représentation de la femme et l‘invention de la notion du "péché de la chair " ; d’une part, conformément à l’étude des manuscrits de la VGAE et, d’autre part, à partir d’une comparaison de la VGAE avec les restantes versions de la VAE et avec d‘autres sources témoignant d’une perspective similaire.Premièrement, nous nous consacrons à la polémique autour du milieu d’origine et de la datation de la VGAE, avec une exposition de l’état de la question (selon trois thèses : l’origine juive, l’origine chrétienne et la « position prudente »). A l’intérieur de cette discussion, nous incorporons une deuxième polémique, concernant la priorité de la version grecque dans l’ensemble de la VAE.Deuxièmement, nous abordons la représentation de la femme, à partir de la considération conjointe de l’innocence et la culpabilité d’Eve dans la VGAE. En incluant ces représentations dans le contexte des sources du Second Temple, nous assignons une compréhension plus complexe et hétérogène de la VGAE.Troisièmement, nous considérons l‘invention de la notion du "péché de la chair ". Cette notion propre à la VGAE, introduit un type de transgression sexuelle rattachée à Eve. Nous recherchons les sources de ce type de transgression pour élucider ensuite son rapport avec d’autres péchés liés également à Eve dans la VGAE. / The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (VGAE) has been classified among the Apocrypha of the Old Testament and would be a text composed between the 1st century BCE and the 1st century CE, from some traditions belonging to the Hellenistic Judaism. Attested by twenty-seven Greek manuscripts, this book presents the story of Adam and Eve before and after their expulsion from Paradise. These manuscripts are a part of a larger whole, the Life of Adam and Eve (LAE), acknowledged by eight different versions (Greek, Latin, Georgian, Armenian, Slavonic, Romanian, Coptic and Arabic).Our dissertation analyzes the representation of the woman and the invention of the notion of "sin of flesh"; on one hand, according to the study of the manuscripts of the GLAE and, on the other hand, from a comparison of the GLAE with the remaining versions of the LAE and with other sources showing a similar perspective.First, we dedicate to the polemic regarding the origin’s milieu and dating of the GLAE, with an exposition of the actual research (according to three theses: Jewish origin, Christian origin, and the "prudent position"). Within this discussion, we incorporate a second controversy, concerning the priority of the Greek version inside the LAE.Second, we concentrate on the representation of the woman, from the cohesive consideration of the innocence and the guilt of Eve in the GLAE. By including these representations in the context of the sources of the Second Temple, we assign a more complex and heterogeneous understanding to the GLAE.Third, we consider the invention of the notion of "sin of flesh". This concept specific to the GLAE, introduced a type of sexual transgression attached to Eve. We look for the sources of this type of transgression to elucidate then its relation with other sins also associated with Eve in the GLAE.

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Garden of Eden imagery is ubiquitous in contemporary print advertising in North America, especially in advertisements directed at women. Three telling characteristics emerge in characterizations of Eve in these advertising reconstructions. In the first place, Eve is consistently hypersexualized and over-eroticized. Secondly, such Garden of Eden images often conflate the Eve figure with that of the Serpent. Thirdly, the highly eroticized Eve-Serpent figures also commonly suffer further conflation with the Garden of Eden itself. Like Eve, nature becomes eroticized. In the Eve-Serpent-Eden conflation, woman becomes nature, nature becomes woman, and both perform a single narrative plot function, in tandem with the Serpent. The erotic and tempting Eve-Serpent-Eden character is both protagonist and antagonist, seducer and seduced. In this dissertation, I engage in an ecofeminist narratological analysis of the Genesis/Fall myth, as it is retold in contemporary fashion magazine advertisements. My analysis examines how reconstructions of this myth in advertisements construct the reader, the narrator, and the primary characters of the story (Eve, Adam, the Serpent, and Eden). I then further explore the ways in which these characterizations inform our perceptions of woman, nature, and environmentalism. Using a narratological methodology, and through a poststructuralist ecofeminist lens, I examine which plot and character elements have been kept, which have been discarded, and how certain erasures impact the narrative characterizations of the story. In addition to what is being told, I further analyze how and where it is told. How is the basic plot being storied in these reconstructions, and what are the effects of this version on the archetypal characterizations of Eve and the Garden of Eden? What are the cultural and literary contexts of the reconstructed narrative and the characters within it? How do these contexts inform how we read the characters within the story? Finally, I examine the cultural effects of these narrative reconstructions, exploring their influence on our gendered relationships with each other and with the natural world around us.

M.A. / South Africa is a multiracial and multicultural society, and the diversity of languages reflect a complex and differentiated nation. This investigative study attempts to show how South Africans from different cultural and linguistic groups experience the humour in the Madam & Eve comic strips and whether, to some extent, they share a common sense of humour. The study starts with an investigation into the relationship between culture and language through the Sapir and Whorf hypothesis. Furthermore the study discusses the relationship between culture, language and humour to show that humour is in many instances culture specific. In culture-specific humour, the humour tends to be at the cost of people from a different cultural group; thus “we” can laugh at “them”. The study also defines humour and investigates the working of humour through the superiority theory, the relief theory and the incongruence theory. The discussion shows that participants in humour need to share the right context and knowledge before they can enjoy the humour. The study looks at comic strips as a genre and how humour operates in comic strips. The investigation also discusses the background on and the characters in the Madam & Eve comic strips. The discussion shows the humour in the Madam & Eve comic strips depicts social issues, racial relationships, especially the relationship between the white Madam, her elderly mother and the black Eve, crime in South Africa and politics. An empirical survey serves as the vehicle to investigate how respondents from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds experience the humour in Madam & Eve. The different examples were chosen to see if respondents experienced certain types of humour depicted in the comic strips in a negative way. The study includes analysis of the different racial and linguistic groups’ experience of the humour depicted in the comic strips included in the questionnaire to show differences in different groups’ experiences. Although some of the respondents took a more neutral stance to some of the ethnic humour depicted in Madam & Eve, generally speaking the respondents experienced the humour depicted in the comic strips in a positive way.

Garden of Eden imagery is ubiquitous in contemporary print advertising in North America, especially in advertisements directed at women. Three telling characteristics emerge in characterizations of Eve in these advertising reconstructions. In the first place, Eve is consistently hypersexualized and over-eroticized. Secondly, such Garden of Eden images often conflate the Eve figure with that of the Serpent. Thirdly, the highly eroticized Eve-Serpent figures also commonly suffer further conflation with the Garden of Eden itself. Like Eve, nature becomes eroticized. In the Eve-Serpent-Eden conflation, woman becomes nature, nature becomes woman, and both perform a single narrative plot function, in tandem with the Serpent. The erotic and tempting Eve-Serpent-Eden character is both protagonist and antagonist, seducer and seduced. In this dissertation, I engage in an ecofeminist narratological analysis of the Genesis/Fall myth, as it is retold in contemporary fashion magazine advertisements. My analysis examines how reconstructions of this myth in advertisements construct the reader, the narrator, and the primary characters of the story (Eve, Adam, the Serpent, and Eden). I then further explore the ways in which these characterizations inform our perceptions of woman, nature, and environmentalism. Using a narratological methodology, and through a poststructuralist ecofeminist lens, I examine which plot and character elements have been kept, which have been discarded, and how certain erasures impact the narrative characterizations of the story. In addition to what is being told, I further analyze how and where it is told. How is the basic plot being storied in these reconstructions, and what are the effects of this version on the archetypal characterizations of Eve and the Garden of Eden? What are the cultural and literary contexts of the reconstructed narrative and the characters within it? How do these contexts inform how we read the characters within the story? Finally, I examine the cultural effects of these narrative reconstructions, exploring their influence on our gendered relationships with each other and with the natural world around us.

The pursuit of the perfect language intrigued and obsessed the literary circle of the seventeenth century, as political turmoil and chaos initiated the desire for the stable even in the aspect of language. As the perfect language is self-explicative, it indicates a perfect correspondence between the signifier and the signified in order to guarantee the purity and singleness of the meanings to avoid confusion and ambiguity inevitably occurring, for instance, in postlapsarian language. The concept of the perfect language, nevertheless, finds evidence in Milton¡¦s prelapsarian world, where unfallen Adam is endowed with divine insights to discern the nature of the animals and translate his comprehension into perfect matching names. However, the presumption of the perfect language in the prelapsarian Eden is challenged by critics as the preconditioned absoluteness could not possibly exist for it would have preempted any possibilities of inferring, implying, and guessing from the context. In my thesis, I argue that languages marked by gender as masculine and feminine dominate in the characterization and narratives of Adam and Eve, for gender is the sole mark distinguishing the first couple along with their hierarchical roles as man and man¡¦s helper. I examine Eve¡¦s gendered discourse in particular as Eve as a lesser vessel turns out to be the main target of Satan¡¦s verbal temptations and sophistries. I analyze the traits of gendered discourses and discuss how they render Eve more vulnerable, disadvantaged, and disempowered in face of Satan¡¦s rhetoric and eloquence. Also scrutinized are the critics¡¦ viewpoints concerning Eve¡¦s gendered discourse, which significantly reveals certain ingrained biases attached to stereotypical expectations for women shown in the critics¡¦ word choices and arguments in regard of Eve.

Thesis (M. A.(Biblical and Religious Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, (2000). / Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-348) and indexes.