É este um estudo sobre a quebra entre o passado e o futuro na cozinha caipira. Mais uma vez vemos agora surgir a lembrança da cozinha caipira, após um longo esquecimento do paulista da roça. Sérgio Buarque de Holanda nos mostrou que a origem da cozinha paulista no tempo dos bandeirantes estava no caminho que convida ao movimento, dando margem à maior influência dos hábitos alimentares indígenas sobre os portugueses. O sustento da viagem ao sertão eram os produtos da caça, pesca e coleta. Ao longo dos caminhos, os paulistas ainda plantavam as roças de milho e feijão. Antonio Candido observou a crise da cozinha caipira, diante do processo de modernização do país. Assim, ocorreu a manutenção da dieta básica e a perda da dieta complementar devido às transformações no mundo do caipira. O feijão com toucinho e a farinha de milho puderam se manter vivos no presente. O que caiu no esquecimento do passado foram os produtos da caça, pesca e coleta. O objetivo deste estudo é reconstruir o passado da cozinha caipira no presente, por meio de uma pesquisa de campo. A hipótese deste estudo é que a moderna cozinha brasileira, na procura incessante do novo, busca inspiração no passado colonial não para ser relançada outra vez à escala nacional e sim à escala mundial. O menu Caminhos & Fronteiras, fruto dos estudos compartilhados com o chef de cozinha Jefferson Rueda, pretende homenagear as origens da cozinha caipira. A criação dos pratos nos levará às viagens ao sertão, pelas antigas capitanias de Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso e Goiás, apresentando os ingredientes das terras paulistas, cuja produção será compreendida por meio das entrevistas com os pequenos produtores rurais. Recolher o tesouro perdido não só do milho, feijão e carne de porco, mas também das carnes de caça, pescados, palmitos, frutas silvestres e mel de abelhas nativas poderá contribuir para construir a ponte entre o passado e o futuro na cozinha caipira. Mas será que a perda da tradição na cozinha caipira significa a perda do passado? A questão da memória e da história benjaminiana irá guiar a busca por uma nova relação com o passado. O estudo chega ao fim com uma leitura psicanalítica que irá compreender a gastronomia como uma sublimação do prazer oral / This is a study about the break between the past and the future in the Caipira cuisine. Once again, we currently see the remembrance of the Caipira cuisine arise, after a long forgetting of the paulista da roça. Sérgio Buarque de Holanda showed us that the origin of the Paulista culinary in the age of the bandeirantes was in the path that invites for movement, allowing for the bigger influence of natives eating habits over the Portuguese ones. The sustenance on the journey inwards was the goods from hunting, fishing and foraging. Along the way, the paulistas also planted corn and bean crops. Antonio Candido observed the crisis of the Caipira cuisine in face of the modernization process the country underwent. Thus, preservation of the basic diet and loss of the complementary diet took place due to transformations in the world of the Caipira. Beans with bacon and corn flour were able to keep themselves alive in the present. What fell into forgetting were the goods from hunting, fishing and foraging. The aim of this study is to reconstruct the past of the Caipira cuisine in the present through a field research. This studys hypothesis is that modern Brazilian cuisine, in the ceaseless quest for the new, seeks inspiration in the colonial past in order not to be relaunched in national scale, but in global scale. The Caminhos&Fronteiras menu, fruit of shared studies with Chef Jefferson Rueda, sets out to pay homage to the origins of the Caipira cuisine. The creation of dishes is to take us to the voyages inwards, throughout the ancient states of Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso and Goiás, presenting the ingredients of Paulistas lands, whose production will be understood by the means of interviews with small producers. Recollecting the lost treasure not only from the corn, beans and pork meat, but also game, fish, hearts of palm, wild fruit and indigenous bees honey may contribute towards bridging the gap between the past and future in the Caipira cuisine. However, does the loss of tradition in Caipira cuisine mean the loss of the past? The question of Benjaminian memory and history will guide the search for a new way to relate to the past. The study reaches its end with a psychoanalytic reading that is to understand gastronomy as a sublimation of oral pleasure

Berlin est une ville qui suscite un nombre impressionnant d'images liées à l'histoire du 20eme siècle. Rares sont les villes qui condensent autant d'empreintes dans lesquelles on peut lire les grands événements qui marquèrent l'Europe et le monde. Sur les ruines du siècle passé, Berlin tente aujourd'hui de s'ériger en capitale allemande, un centre du pouvoir politique et économique, la ville reflet d'une démocratie allemande qui se veut modeste et exemplaire. La chute du Mur est un événement qui, pour ses contemporains, a sans conteste débouché sur une rupture d'intelligibilité. Si elle ouvre de facto de nouvelles perspectives à venir, cette rupture d'intelligibilité n'en préfigure pas moins un rapport radicalement nouveau au passé. En Allemagne réunifiée, et plus particulièrement à Berlin, un vaste travail de réévaluation des passés s'est amorcé, ayant pour objectif de combler de sens la nouvelle donne née de l'événement 1989. Le traitement des hauts-lieux du communisme, qui s'effectue de concert avec un vaste travail sur le passé de la RDA, répond à de multiples exigences qui se déclinent en termes politiques, identitaires et économiques. Il importe à la fois de comprendre comment la construction de récits officiels du passé communiste s'inscrit dans une dynamique globale de constitution et 'inscription de récits nationaux de la nouvelle Allemagne dans l'espace urbain de la capitale, et de porter une attention particulière à la réception de ces reconstructions du passé au sein des "publics" berlinois. Comment des références communes à la RDA se construisent-elles? Et comment, en retour, des récits alternatifs de la ville et de ses passés viennent-ils s'opposer aux interprétations, parfois homogénéisantes, que propose le« Nouveau Berlin»? / Berlin is a city that spawns an irnpressive imagery related to the history of the 20th century. Few other cities contain so many !andmarks of the great events that shaped Europe and the world. From the ruins of the past century, Berlin is now trying to set itself up as German capital, center of political and economic power, which embodies the German democracy that sees itself as modest and exemplary. The collapse of the Wall is an event that has undoubtedly led to a break of intelligibility for those who lived within it. However much it opens de facto new prospects for the future, this break of intelligibility also foreshadows a radically new relationship with history. ln reunified Germany and especially in Berlin a large scale job of reevaluation of the past has begun, airning at bringing sense to the new historica~ political, economie and social order born from 1989. The treatrnent of the high places of communism, which takes place in conjunction with an extensive work on the past of the GDR, addresses multiple requirements formulated in political and economie terms as weil as in terms of identity. It is important to understand both how the construction of official narratives of the communist pastis part of an overall dyoamic of incorporation and of registration of narratives of the new Germany in the urban space of the capita~ and to pa y special attention to the reception of these reconstructions of the past within the 11public arena" in Berlin How does a common history of the GDR take shape? And how, in turn, do alternative narratives of the city and its past contradict the interpretations sometimes homogenizing proposed by the "New Berlin"?

Contrairement à l'opinion populaire l'oubli pourrait être utile: il permettrai le filtrage des informations non-essentielles. Le travail de cette thèse vise à déterminer les bases biologiques de cet oubli adaptatif, en particulier dans le contexte de la mémoire de travail (MT). Nous avons adopté une approche comparative grâce à l'entrainement de rats dans un trois taches comportementales dans un labyrinthe radial visant à tester trois processus cognitifs distincts: la mémoire à long terme, la MT et le traitement des interférences proactive (IP). Nous avons montré que l'information supposée être stockée en MT pouvait perdurer plus longtemps que nécessaire et interférer, plus tard, avec le stockage de nouvelles informations. L'oubli des premiers essais est donc nécessaire pour éviter les IP. Pour comprendre les bases biologiques de cet oubli, nous avons utilisé trois approches. Nous avons effectué une étude immunohistochimique visant à comprendre dans quelle région du cerveau le traitement des IP se produit. Cette étude a montré que ce traitement requiert l'inactivation du gyrus denté de l'hippocampe. Nous avons ensuite effectué une analyse en western-blot pour identifier les processus moléculaires à la base de cette inhibition. Cette étude montre que, dans l'hippocampe, différents processus de plasticité synaptique pourraient se produire pendant le traitement des IP. La troisième approche, vise à comprendre à quel moment ce traitement se produit. Cette étude montre un rôle du sommeil lent dans le traitement des IP. Ces travaux nous aident donc à identifier les mécanismes responsables de l'oubli utile d'informations et donc à mieux comprendre comment le cerveau gère les IP / Contrary to popular opinion forgetting can be useful: it will allow the filtering of non-essential information. The work of this thesis is to determine the biological basis of such adaptive forgetting, especially in the context of working memory (WM). We have adopted a comparative approach through the training of rats in a three behavioral tasks in a radial maze designed to test three distinct cognitive processes: the long-term memory, WM and treatment of proactive interference (PI). We have shown that information supposed to be stored in WM could last longer than necessary and interfere later with the storage of new information. Forgetting the first tests is therefore necessary to avoid PI. To understand the biological basis for this forgetting, we used three methodological approaches. We performed an immunohistochemical study aiming to understand what the brain region underlies the PI processing. This study showed that this processing requires inactivation of the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. We then performed Western blot analysis in order to identify the molecular processes underlying this inhibition. This study shows that, in the hippocampus, different synaptic plasticity processes may occur during treatment of PI. The third approach is to understand when this processing occurs. This study shows a slow sleep role in the treatment of PI

The major advantages of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology over barcodes are that the RFID-tagged objects do not require to be in line-of-sight with the reader for their identification and multiple objects can be read simultaneously. But when multiple objects are read simultaneously there is always a problem of collision which reduces the efficiency of the system. This thesis presents a comprehensive study of the dynamic framed slotted ALOHA (DFSA)-based anti-collision multi-tag identification algorithms for passive RFID system. Performance of various DFSA algorithms is compared through extensive simulation results. In addition, a number of simple performance improvement techniques have also been investigated in this thesis, including improved estimation techniques for the number of tags in each read cycle and a low-complexity heuristic stopping criterion that can be easily implemented in the practical system.

abstract: In the last decade deep learning based models have revolutionized machine learning and computer vision applications. However, these models are data-hungry and training them is a time-consuming process. In addition, when deep neural networks are updated to augment their prediction space with new data, they run into the problem of catastrophic forgetting, where the model forgets previously learned knowledge as it overfits to the newly available data. Incremental learning algorithms enable deep neural networks to prevent catastrophic forgetting by retaining knowledge of previously observed data while also learning from newly available data. This thesis presents three models for incremental learning; (i) Design of an algorithm for generative incremental learning using a pre-trained deep neural network classifier; (ii) Development of a hashing based clustering algorithm for efficient incremental learning; (iii) Design of a student-teacher coupled neural network to distill knowledge for incremental learning. The proposed algorithms were evaluated using popular vision datasets for classification tasks. The thesis concludes with a discussion about the feasibility of using these techniques to transfer information between networks and also for incremental learning applications. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Computer Science 2020

Retrieval induced forgetting är ett fenomen som uppstår när återkallande av information skapar glömska för annan relaterad information. Detta tros vara en av processerna som understödjer adaptiv glömska, en process där icke-relevant och störande information inhiberas för att premiera minne för relevant information. Tidigare forskning har sett samband mellan låga nivåer av adaptiv glömska och negativa tankeprocesser. I denna studie undersöktes sambandet mellan svårigheter att glömma irrelevant information och oro, ruminering och påträngande tankar. 34 deltagare rekryterades i Örebroregionen. Deltagarna fick genomgå ett minnestest för att sedan fylla i enkäter kopplade till oro, ruminering och påträngande tankar. Nivå av störning från irrelevant information hos deltagarna korrelerade negativt med nivå av oro och ruminering. Dessa resultat är motsatta de resultat som kan förväntas utifrån teorin. Alternativa teorier och förklaringar till detta resultat diskuteras. På grund av omständigheterna för studien bör resultaten tolkas med viss försiktighet.

Studies have shown that there are several advantages to armed forces in having a well-developed learning organization. Scholars mainly argue two things on the subject, firstly, the military organization with the stronger organizational learning capability will win contemporary wars and conflicts. Secondly, the academic interest on the subject have been small and thus studies on military learning organizations are lacking in numbers.   The organizational learning capability of the Swedish naval forces might be built in peacetime, but by testing theories on organizational learning in combat we might get a chance to see how it could or could not hold up in a wartime setting. With a theory consuming research design the purpose of this study is to use Frank Hoffman and Meir Finkel’s theoretical frameworks to investigate the Swedish naval forces more closely.   The result of the analysis shows that the Swedish naval forces have a strong ability to engage lower level learning which leads to adaptation. The analysis also shows that the ability to engage higher level learning in combat situations are lacking. Adaptation without an ability for organizational learning have shown to almost always lead to organizational forgetting, the price of which historically have shown to be dire both economically and in human lives.

Product placements are gaining more importance in corporate marketing communication budgets and marketers need to understand the effectiveness of these placements to justify investments into them. Three studies were conducted to study the effectiveness of product placements in movies. Essay one studied the economic worth of product placements on the long term profitability of the firm through an event study. Analysis of 467 placements of movies released during 1968-2007 shows that product placements generate a mean cumulative abnormal return of 0.21% during the (-1, +2) event window. Hierarchical linear modeling of the abnormal returns in cross-sectional analysis indicates that placement duration positively impacts the abnormal returns. Placement blatancy was found to negatively affect placements' worth. We did not find any support for the effect of critical reviews or presence of a star director on the worth of product placements. Crime and comedy genres were found to positively affect abnormal returns of placements. Additional MANCOVA analysis, using different event windows as the dependent variable, suggests that a period of two weeks might be required after a movie's release for the information about placement execution factors to be incorporated by the market in its evaluation of the firm. In essay two we study the effectiveness of product placement from a memory perspective by means of a longitudinal study, using a student subject panel. Subjects were exposed to a full- length movie and recognition was tracked at weekly intervals for a period of four weeks. Results of a dynamic panel analysis using generalized estimating equations indicate that audience recognition for a movie placement significantly diminishes one to two weeks after exposure to the movie. In addition, recognition of placements is enhanced by audiences' attitude toward product placements. Recognition is further affected by placement execution factors. Specifically, we found that audio placements and placements of longer duration positively affect placement recognition. Plot connectivity and character association did not significantly impact recognition over time. Essay three examines the impact of brand-character association on consumer attitude toward the placed brand. A 2x2 within subjects experiment, using a full-length movie as a stimulus, was conducted on a panel of student subjects to assess the interaction effect of character-brand valence on consumer attitude. Results support a significant interaction between character and brand valence. Analyses also indicate that congruency between character and brand valence enhances affective measures toward the placed brand, supporting the congruency theory and Meaning Transfer Model. Additionally, we found that brand familiarity fully mediates the character-valence interaction. Limitations and Implications of the studies were also discussed.

This thesis addresses the issues of traumatic war memory concerning remembering and forgetting as presented construction of war memory in popular culture by closely examining the Japanese television anime series The Big O. The thesis proposes that the story told in The Big O can be seen as a vehicle for understanding why the Japanese wished to forget traumatic war memories related to the defeat of Japan in World War II. The Big O is a science fiction story that is set in a postwar defeated society. The protagonist of the story is Roger Smith, who searches for his lost memories. He is a social advocate for the people who want to recall their lost memories and acts as a negotiator in Paradigm City, a city that lost its own memories forty years ago. Drawing upon memory studies, the thesis explores various aspects of Japanese ambition and social concerns that emerged in Japan’s postwar society, including the national pride for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the rising economic success, and the revision of World War II’s history in school textbooks. The thesis examines dialogues by the characters in The Big O by paying attention to two major arguments surrounding memories: remembering and forgetting. By doing so, the thesis attempts to elucidate the ways in which war memories are at times remembered and often forgotten by those recovering from the wounds of war.

The present study set out to evaluate the relationship between list-method directed forgetting and one’s individual differences. Previous research has found personality and emotion as having an influence in how well participants were able to intentionally forget stimuli. Participants were split into a remember group and a forget group of 22 each and tasked to memorize a list of 10 words. They were then given a free recall test and the results for individual differences such as Need for Cognition, Mini-IPIP personality test, and Beck’s Depression Inventory were analyzed. Our first hypothesis presumes that participants in the forget group will have impaired recall of words. The second hypothesis predicts that individual differences have an effect with how many words participants recall. Results in this study indicated that while individual measures proved not significant between both groups, overall recall for the first list was lower than recall for the second list. There were also indications of an interaction between amount recalled from lists and whether they were in the remember group or in the forget group. Analyses showed that remember group had a recall mean similar in lists 1 and list 2, while the forget group had a higher recall mean in list 2 and a lower recall mean in the list 1, indicating that directed forgetting had taken place in the forget group.