Resumen: La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo principal describir las relaciones entre las dimensiones de Apego (Ansiedad y Evitación) y las de Ira: Ira-Rasgo, Ira-Estado, y Expresión de Ira (esta última conformada por sus sub-dimensiones Ira Manifiesta, Ira Suprimida, Control de Ira Suprimida, y Control de Ira Suprimida). En específico, se hipotetizó que ambas dimensiones de Apego se relacionarían con Ira-Rasgo; y en segundo lugar, que las dimensiones de Apego se relacionarían con las sub-dimensiones Ira Suprimida e Ira Manifiesta. Los resultados solo brindan sustento para la relación entre Ira-Rasgo y Ansiedad (rs=.32). Los datos se recolectaron mediante la aplicación virtual de cuestionarios de autorreporte (ECR-S y ML-STAXI) en 112 adultos jóvenes peruanos, y se analizaron mediante análisis estadísticos no paramétricos. Por otro lado, a nivel descriptivo, se observa que aquellos que obtuvieron altos puntajes en la dimensión de Ansiedad evidencian mayor Ira Estado (rs =.20), menor Expresión de la Ira (rs= -.21), y mayor Control de la Ira Manifiesta (rs=.19) y Suprimida (rs=.20). Los resultados, de ser replicados, podrían ser útiles para los terapeutas trabajando con personas con altos niveles de la dimensión de Ansiedad. En específico, entender cómo esta se relaciona con la Ira podría derivar en el desarrollo de estrategias que resulten más efectivas para la expresión de dicha emoción. / Abstract: The present study assessed the associations between the dimensions of Adult Attachment: Avoidance and Anxiety, and Anger components: Trait Anger, State Anger, and Anger Expression (with its sub-dimensions of Anger Out, Anger In, Anger-Out Control, and Anger- In Control). Computer-based self-report measures were used (ECR-S and ML-STAXI) for data collection, and non-parametric analysis were used to find the correlations. The results, obtained from 112 peruvian young adults, confirmed only one of the hypothesis: the relation between Attachment-oriented Anxiety and Trait Anger (rs=.32). There was no evidence for the other hypothesis, which stated a relation between Avoidance and Trait Anger; and also, relations between Attachment dimensions and Anger sub-dimensions Anger In and Anger Out. At a descriptive level, the data states that Anxious participants had higher State Anger (rs =.20), lower Anger Expression (rs= -.21), higher Anger-Out Control (rs=.19) and higher Anger-In Control (rs=.20). These results, if replicated, could be informative to therapists working individuals with high levels of attachment-oriented Anxiety, as a better understanding of this could be used to develop more effective interventions for expressing their anger. / Tesis

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-163).

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In Shannon’s seminal paper, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”, he defined ”Channel Capacity” which predicted the ultimate performance that transmission systems can achieve and suggested that capacity is achievable by error-correcting (channel) coding. The main idea of error-correcting codes is to add redundancy to the information to be transmitted so that the receiver can explore the correlation between transmitted information and redundancy and correct or detect errors caused by channels afterward. The discovery of turbo codes and rediscovery of Low Density Parity Check codes (LDPC) have revived the research in channel coding with novel ideas and techniques on code concatenation, iterative decoding, graph-based construction and design based on density evolution. This dissertation focuses on the design aspect of graph-based channel codes such as LDPC and Irregular Repeat Accumulate (IRA) codes via density evolution, and use the technique (density evolution) to design IRA codes for scalable image/video communication and LDPC codes for distributed source coding, which can be considered as a channel coding problem. The first part of the dissertation includes design and analysis of rate-compatible IRA codes for scalable image transmission systems. This part presents the analysis with density evolution the effect of puncturing applied to IRA codes and the asymptotic analysis of the performance of the systems. In the second part of the dissertation, we consider designing source-optimized IRA codes. The idea is to take advantage of the capability of Unequal Error Protection (UEP) of IRA codes against errors because of their irregularities. In video and image transmission systems, the performance is measured by Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR). We propose an approach to design IRA codes optimized for such a criterion. In the third part of the dissertation, we investigate Slepian-Wolf coding problem using LDPC codes. The problems to be addressed include coding problem involving multiple sources and non-binary sources, and coding using multi-level codes and nonbinary codes.

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Many scholars who have studied nations and nationalism have observed that nationalist movements draw upon mythologised narratives of figures from their nations' pasts to build a sense of national identity and to articulate their vision. Drawing upon the ethno-symbolic approach to nations and nationalism, this thesis seeks to identify the major hero myths, as one form of mythologised narrative, drawn upon by the Provisional IRA during the period of conflict in Northern Ireland between 1969 and 1998. In so doing it examines the origins and development of those myths across the history of Ireland, and of the republican strand of Irish nationalism since the turn of the twentieth century. It identifies the pivotal role of the early twentieth century republican, Patrick Pearse, as republicanism's political archaeologist par excellence, and examines the enduring influence of three factors on the form that such myths took: Celtic culture, Roman Catholicism, and socialism. The thesis further situates the narrative chain of the hero myths within the broader context of the Provisional IRA's wider mythological system, and interrogates the purposes that these myths fulfilled for the movement. In so doing, it reveals that not only did the hero myths, as symbolic resources of the Irish nation, fulfil purposes related to the nation itself, but that the strategy employed in pursuit of the national objectives, insurgency, also imposed its own requirements on those purposes. This has profound implications for orthodox understandings of the role of “blood sacrifice” within the ideology and world-view of the Provisional Republican Movement, as this thesis argues that the role of that concept has been misinterpreted to this point. On the theoretical level, this thesis amends and refines the conception of myth within the ethno-symbolic approach to nations and nationalism, bringing it into line with the work of scholars who have studied the theory of myth. Furthermore, it has considered how the means of pursuing the national objective helped to shape the concept of the nation and ideas of national identity.

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Relações Internacionais, 2008. / Submitted by Kathryn Cardim Araujo (kathryn.cardim@gmail.com) on 2009-10-15T15:28:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_CristianoGarciaMendes.pdf: 2165173 bytes, checksum: a3a3a7cdf6f3a5276d75711b2d9fac98 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marília Freitas(marilia@bce.unb.br) on 2009-10-15T20:07:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_CristianoGarciaMendes.pdf: 2165173 bytes, checksum: a3a3a7cdf6f3a5276d75711b2d9fac98 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2009-10-15T20:07:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_CristianoGarciaMendes.pdf: 2165173 bytes, checksum: a3a3a7cdf6f3a5276d75711b2d9fac98 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-22 / Esta tese analisa o uso do conceito de terrorismo nos discursos do ex-Primeiro-Ministro Britânico Tony Blair. Utilizando uma abordagem derridiana, o estudo identifica as principais mudanças ocorridas nas narrativas de Blair após os atentados de 11 de setembro de 2001, nos Estados Unidos, mostrando as estratégias utilizadas pelo ex-Primeiro-Ministro na tentativa de estabilização de sentidos discursivos. Partindo também de pressupostos schmittianos, segundo os quais ser soberano é decidir sobre exceções, o presente estudo mostra como esta exclusividade decisória é utilizada por Blair como principal estratégia de estabilização de suas estruturas discursivas. ___________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / This thesis analyses the use of the concept terrorism on the discourses of the former Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair. Using a derridian approach, the study identifies the most important changes the happened in Blair's narratives after the 9/11 of 2001, at the United States, showing the strategies used by the former Prime Minister in the attempt to stabilize the discourse meanings. Using also a schmittian assumption, that being sovereign is to be able to decide about exceptions, the present study shows how the decision exclusivity is used by Blair as a main strategy of stabilization of his discourses' structures.

Kan Prateepjinda Terrorism in Popular Culture: A Discourse Analysis of the Portrayal of IRA Terrorism in Films Abstract The paper begins by asserting that -terrorism‖ is a social construct based on discourse from a particular historical context, and that our understanding of terrorism is fashioned by that discourse. It goes on to argue that film, as a powerful medium of popular culture, generates meaning of social events and gives filmgoers a feeling of reality; film functions as a second view on the world, guiding audiences from reel to real. The study shows how the forty-year long (1968-2008) history of IRA terrorism is portrayed through a selection of eight films, and the -articulation‖ and -interpellation‖ are studied empirically through the portrayal of terrorism in these films. The discourse on terrorism is analyzed in terms of discourse productivity, and the study uses Foucault's genealogy to trace the -history of present-day IRA terrorism.‖ The findings show that discursive formations are displayed as four different features of IRA terrorism constructed by film language and textual language. These different features reveal the discontinuity of the discourse that is framed by particular time periods. The paper concludes that IRA terrorism (and the acts of IRA terrorists), as portrayed in the eight...

Denna studie tar avstamp i det mycket komplexa fenomenet terrorism. Ett stort problem med terrorism är svårigheten att förutspå när och var människor kommer använda detta verktyg. Terrorismens orsaker omgärdas av en tät dimma som denna studie ämnar hjälpa till att skingra i form av en teorikonsumerande fallstudie. Tre olika teorier om strukturella orsaker till terrorism appliceras på fallet Nordirland för att illustrera hur olika teoretiska ansatser kan användas för att förklara ett och samma fall. Dessutom görs ett försök att värdera dessa tre teorier gentemot varandra. Den tid som ledde fram till att vissa individer på Nordirland börjar använda terrorism som verktyg analyseras sedan ingående enligt de olika faktorer som sätts upp av respektive teori. Dess faktorer utgörs av bland annat urbanisering, typ av politiskt system och social ojämlikhet. Slutsatsen från denna analys blir att teorierna kan hjälpa oss att förstå fallet i olika grad men att djupare studier behövs för att en adekvat värdering ska vara möjlig.

One of the foremost reasons for the success of the Northern Irish Peace Process has been the ability of the national leadership of the Provisional Republican Movement to bring the majority of their membership away from the armed campaign and towards the acceptance of peaceful politics. This dissertation analyses how they were able to achieve this. This is carried out by considering the processes of the four major splits in modern day Irish republicanism from 1969 to 1997. Each split was analysed so as to derive why the split took place and why one side was more successful than the other in the aftermath. The cases were used to test a stage-based process model of split designed by the author. The data from thirty-eight semi-structured interviews were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). This analysis treated the three Provisional splits as three micro-processes within the macro-process of Provisional Republican involvement in the ‘Troubles', as it did the two Official splits with respect to the Official macro-process of involvement. The results of the analysis showed that the success of the later Provisional leadership was significantly tied to their method of changing strategies, tactics and policies one step at a time rather than by attempting to implement a variety of substantial changes within a short space of time as the leadership of the 1960s endeavoured to. This research outlines how the acceptance of peaceful politics for a terrorist organisation is a gradual stage-based process and that in order to be successful the significant changes must be implemented in a patient manner.