O objetivo desta dissertação é apresentar uma leitura de O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes (1847), de Emily Brontë, e de Jane Eyre (1847), de Charlotte Brontë, com foco nas convenções góticas contidas nas duas obras e observando as maneiras como tais convenções interferem nos movimentos das duas protagonistas, Catherine e Jane, cada uma lutando para se adaptar ao seu espaço e, ao mesmo tempo, para realizar seus anseios. Apesar de as duas obras serem estruturalmente diferentes uma da outra, ambas compartilham uma atmosfera gótica intensa, bem como uma consequente densidade psicológica que influencia a disposição mental das duas protagonistas. A leitura dos dois romances foi conduzida com a finalidade de explorar as relações encontradas entre os aspectos estruturais, sociais e psicológicos envolvidos, ressaltando os elementos góticos que representam os desafios que Catherine e Jane são forçadas a enfrentar. A obra The Coherence of Gothic Conventions (1986), da crítica literária Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, é utilizada para identificar e contextualizar a capacidade que as imagens góticas têm de traduzir o peso imposto pelas convenções sociais sobre o processo natural de crescimento das duas protagonistas. Considerando que esse peso é consideravelmente ampliado pelas práticas sociais ligadas a questões de gênero, foi explorado o conceito de Gótico Feminino, como apresentado pela Professora Carol Margaret Davison. Especial atenção é reservada para as imagens relacionadas com espaço – o espaço psicológico necessário para o crescimento emocional das protagonistas; e o espaço físico, que determina onde e como elas devem se movimentar. Aqui o suporte teórico é oferecido pelas poéticas dos elementos primitivos, de Gaston Bachelard, para análise do corpo de imagens apresentadas nos dois romances. A conclusão comenta as soluções encontradas por Catherine Earnshaw e Jane Eyre para abrir caminho e superar os obstáculos que se lhes apresentam; e também ressalta o quanto as convenções góticas conseguem revelar sobre a estrutura social que elas representam. / This thesis consists of a reading of Emily Brontë‘s Wuthering Heights (1847) and Charlotte Brontë‘s, Jane Eyre (1847), focusing on the body of Gothic conventions they hold, and the ways in which such conventions interfere with the movements of the two female protagonists, Catherine and Jane, each struggling to fit into their space, while trying to accomplish their desires. Although the two works are structurally different in several ways, they share an intense Gothic atmosphere and its consequent psychological density, which influences the mental frame of the two protagonists. In order to explore the relations among the structural, social and psychological aspects involved, a reading of the novels has been conducted, focusing on the presence of Gothic elements that stand for the challenges Catherine and Jane are bound to face. Literary critic Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick‘s work The Coherence of Gothic Conventions (1986) is used to identify and contextualise the capacity of Gothic imagery to reveal the weight of social conventions upon the natural process of growth of the two protagonists. Inasmuch as the pressure becomes intensified by the rules of gender settlements, the concept of Female Gothic is explored, as presented by Professor Carol Margaret Davison. Particular attention is paid to the imagery related to space – psychological space for the protagonists to grow emotionally, and physical space, as determinant of where and how they must move. Here the theoretical support is offered by Gaston Bachelard‘s poetics of the primitive elements, unveiling the body of images presented in the two novels. The conclusion indicates the solutions found by Catherine Earnshaw and by Jane Eyre to find their way and overcome the obstacles they meet; with comments on how revealing Gothic imagery is of the social conventions it represents.

Dans cette thèse, nous appliquons des outils issus de la théorie d’Arakelov à l’étude de problèmes de géométrie diophantienne. Une notion centrale dans notre étude est la théorie des pentes des fibrés vectoriels hermitiens, introduite par Bost dans les années 90. Nous travaillons plus précisément avec sa généralisation dans le cadre adélique, inspirée par Zhang et développée par Gaudron. Ce mémoire s’articule autour de deux axes principaux. Le premier consiste en l’étude d’un remarquable théorème de géométrie diophantienne dû à Faltings etWüstholz, qui généralise le théorème du sous-espace de Schmidt. Nous commencerons par retranscrire la démonstration de Faltings et Wüstholz dans le langage de la théorie des pentes. Dans un second temps, nous établirons des variantes effectives de ce théorème, que nous appliquerons pour démontrer une généralisation effective du théorème de Liouville valable pour les points fermés d’une variété projective fixée. Ce résultat fournit en particulier une majoration explicite de la hauteur des points satisfaisant une inégalité analogue à celle du théorème de Liouville classique. Dans la seconde partie de cette thèse, nous établirons de nouvelles mesures d’indépendance linéaire de logarithmes dans un groupe algébrique commutatif, dans le cas dit rationnel.Notre approche utilise les arguments de la méthode de Baker revisitée par Philippon et Waldschmidt, combinés avec des outils de la théorie des pentes. Nous y intégrons un nouvel argument, inspiré par des travaux antérieurs de Bertrand et Philippon, nous permettant de contourner les difficultés introduites par le cas périodique. Cette approche évite le recours à une extrapolation sur les dérivations à la manière de Philippon et Waldschmidt. Nous parvenons ainsi à supprimer une hypothèse technique contraignante dans plusieurs théorèmes de Gaudron, tout en précisant les mesures obtenues. / In this thesis, we study diophantine geometry problems on projective varieties and commutative algebraic groups, by means of tools from Arakelov theory. A central notion in this work is the slope theory for hermitian vector bundles, introduced by Bost in the 1990s. More precisely, we work with its generalization in an adelic setting, inspired by Zhang and developed by Gaudron. This dissertation contains two major lines. The first one is devoted to the study of a remarkable theorem due to Faltings and Wüstholz, which generalizes Schmidt’s subspace theorem. We first reformulate the proof of Faltings and Wüstholz using the formalism of adelic vector bundles and the adelic slope method. We then establish some effective variants of the theorem, and we deduce an effective generalization of Liouville’s theorem for closed points on a projective variety defined over a number field. In particular, we give an explicit upper bound for the height of the points satisying a Liouville-type inequality. In the second part, we establish new measures of linear independence of logarithms over a commutative algebraic group. We focus our study on the rational case. Our approach combines Baker’s method (revisited by Philippon and Waldschmidt) with arguments from the slope theory. More importantly, we introduce a new argument to deal with the periodic case, inspired by previous works of Bertrand and Philippon. This method does not require the use of an extrapolation on derivations in the sense of Philippon-Waldschmidt. In this way, we are able to remove an important hypothesis in several theorems of Gaudron establishing lower bounds for linear forms in logarithms.

L’objectif de cette thèse est l’étude de la fonction zêta des hauteurs motivique associée à un problème de comptage de courbes sur les compactifications équivariantes d’espaces affines, résolvant au chapitre 6 l’analogue motivique de la conjecture de Manin pour celles-ci. La fonction zêta des hauteurs provenant du problème de comptage considéré est récrite convenablement à l’aide d'une formule de Poisson motivique démontrée au cinquième chapitre, qui généralise celle de Hrushovski-Kazhdan. Chaque terme est alors décomposé sous la forme d'un produit eulérien motivique, dont la définition et les propriétés sont établies au chapitre 3. La convergence de ces produits eulériens doit être comprise pour une topologie des poids que nous introduisons au quatrième chapitre et qui repose d'une part sur la théorie des modules de Hodge de Saito, et d'autre part sur une mesure motivique sur l’anneau de Grothendieck des variétés avec exponentielles, construite dans le chapitre 2 à l’aide de la notion de cycles évanescents motiviques. On en déduit ainsi une description de l'asymptotique d'une proportion positive des coefficients du polynôme de Hodge-Deligne des espaces de modules des courbes sur la compactification équivariante donnée, lorsque le degré tend vers l'infini. / The goal of this thesis is the study of the motivic height zeta function associated to the problem of counting curves on equivariant compactifications of vector groups, solving in chapter 6 the motivic analogue of Manin's conjecture for such varieties.The motivic height zeta function coming from this counting problem is rewritten in a convenient way using a Poisson summation formula proved in chapter 5, and which generalises Hrushovski and Kazhdan's motivic Poisson formula. Each term is then expressed as a motivic Euler product, the definition and properties of the latter being established in chapter 3. The convergence of these Euler products must be understood for a weight topology which we introduce in the fourth chapter and which relies both on Saito's theory of mixed Hodge modules and on a motivic measure on the Grothendieck ring of varieties with exponentials, constructed in chapter 2 using the notion of motivic vanishing cycles. We deduce from this a description of the asymptotic of a positive proportion of the coefficients of the Hodge-Deligne polynomial of the moduli spaces of curves on the given equivariant compactification, when the degree goes to infinity.

One of the main problems of current physical geodesy is the unification of local height systems and the creation of the unified global vertical reference frame, whose primary definition constant will be the geopotential value of W0 on the level surface, such as geoid. This problem encounters several pitfalls, such as different types of physical heights used in the world, ways of eliminating the effects of tides on the shape of the Earth's body. The first parts of the thesis describe the theoretical foundations concerning the description of the Earth's gravitational field, the basics of height theory and the solution of the boundary value problems used in geodesy, together with the solution of the Hotine's and Stokes' integral by convolution. Due to the fact that the data of directly measured gravity acceleration for the territory of the Czechia and the Slovakia are not freely available with sufficient coverage, these data were replaced by gravity disturbances calculated from the Global Gravity Model of the Earth. To improve the data obtained from geopotential models, so-called residual terrain modelling was used. It is a spectral combination of gravity field models with relevant Earth's gravitational field quantities, which are obtained by modeling from a digital terrain model and a height model that represents the mean value of topography. The combination of these data consists of calculating those frequencies of the gravitational signal from the digital terrain model that are not a part of the signal obtained from geopotential models that in general have a lower spatial resolution. Two methods were used to connect the local height systems of the Czechia and the Slovakia. The first method was to use the solution of Molodensky's problem. The second method used is originally a method developed to test geopotential models. Both methods were tested on a set of measuring points (GNSS/levelling points).

This diploma thesis deals with a creation of a “Classification Document” of asynchronous motors with a short-circuit armature with axial heights of 355, 400, 450, 500, and 560 mm. Furthermore, it is concerned with a creation of an integral design documentation for the production and assembly of these motors at the company TES VSETÍN, s.r.o. By writing this diploma thesis I would like to achieve a simplification of communication with the customers during the processing of asynchronous motors orders and to speed up the processing of asynchronous motors orders not only in the design department but also the complete technologic preparation of the production which will surely be provided by this integrated documentation.

La quantification des impacts sanitaires et climatiques des aérosols nécessite de pouvoir quantifier précisément leur concentration, leur composition chimique et leur distribution en taille. Parmi les nombreux aérosols émis par les activités anthropiques et naturelles, les émissions de feux de végétation et leur transport sont encore très incertains. Ce travail de thèse vise à améliorer la caractérisation de ces feux, afin de mieux les représenter par modélisation. Afin de couvrir différents types de feux, l’étude portera à la fois sur des analyses de cas en Euro-Méditerranée et en Australie. L’analyse porte tout d’abord sur les informations nécessaires afin de calculer un flux d’émissions de feux : les surfaces brulées et les hauteurs d’injection sont quantifiées par analyse d’observations satellitaires. Les observations MODIS permettent de montrer que la végétation brûlée en Europe est principalement constituée et en moyenne de surfaces agricoles (70%), tandis que les feux de savane et de maquis dominent en Australie (50% et 40%). Au sein de cette moyenne, de très fortes hétérogénéités spatiales sont relevées, avec, par exemple, des feux de forêt représentant 13% au Portugal et 65% au Sud-Est de l’Australie du total observé. A partir d’observations MISR et CALIOP, il est montré que les hauteurs d’injection sont principalement près de la surface et vers 2000 m d’altitude pour les deux régions. Les plus grandes différences d’injection sont relevées au delà de 4000 m avec 4,6-6,4% des émissions en Europe et 8,9-11% en Australie... / To determine the health and climatic impacts of aerosols, the quantification of their precise concentrations, their chemical composition and their size distribution is needed. Among the several aerosols emitted from anthropogenic and natural activities, fire emissions and their transport are still a concern. This work aims to improve the characterization of these fires, to allow a better representation in models. To cover different types of fires, the study focuses on case studies in the Euro-Mediterranean region and in Australia. First, the information needed to compute fire emission fluxes is analyzed: the burnt area and injection heights are quantified using satellite observations. MODIS observations shows that the burnt area in Europe is mainly composed, on average, of cropland (70%), whereas savannah and shrubland fires are preponderant in Australia (50% and 40%). However, strong spatial heterogeneities are noticed, with by example forest fires representing 13% of the total observed burned area in Portugal and 65% in South-West of Australia. Using MISR and CALIOP observations of plume heights, it is shown that injection heights are mainly concentrated near the surface and at about 2000 m of altitude for the two regions. The highest differences are noticed above 4000 m, with 4,6-6,4% of emissions in Europe and 8,9-11% in Australia...

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This essay deals with the narrative structure of Emily Brontë’s 1847 Wuthering Heights. This famously dark and tumultuous novel has two narrators, the just-arrived country tenant Lockwood and Mrs. Dean, a housekeeper with a long story to tell. Mrs. Dean’s narrative is situated within and framed by Lockwood’s as he is the primary and she the secondary narrator. The concept of framing is of interest for this essay in several ways. Firstly, it considers how Lockwood as the intended recipient of Mrs. Dean’s narrative causes it to unfold the way it does, and secondly how both of their narratives combine to frame other characters in the novel, the most famous ones being Catherine and Heathcliff. The essay argues that both the narrators can be termed discordant, narrators who are “biased or confused” (Cohn 2000, 307) about the story they are telling. This is because they are similar in the way of wanting to suppress strong emotion while the characters whose lives they narrate, Heathcliff and Catherine, are strongly emotional characters. This causes the narration to remain distant from the subjects it concerns. Heathcliff and Catherine are further linked to two Romantic themes, personal authenticity in love and the high status of passion. Mrs. Dean in particular gives rise to Christian sentiments, and the essay finds a conflict between the Christian striving for a final end in the form of heaven and the Romantic high value placed on earthly striving in and of itself. It argues that the discordant narratory framing and dissimilarity of Heathcliff and Catherine to the narrators allow them to become more Romantic, and that the novel finally constitutes a love letter to the earth without God, with its abundance of human striving.  The essay uses narratological terminology adapted from Bal (2017) to describe different levels of narrative, namely narrative text, story, and fabula.

Denna uppsats redogör för och undersöker berättarperspektiv och maktrelationer i Emily Brontës roman Wuthering Heights. På vilket sätt läsaren tar del av romanens komplexa berättande, om det är samma berättare genom hela romanen eller om det skiftar, vilka maktrelationer som existerar mellan romangestalterna och förhållanden mellan makt och berättarperspektiv undersöks genom analys av verket.

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