Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1984. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 232-240).

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Title from PDF title page (viewed Apr. 12, 2005). Includes bibliographical references.

Vi ville, med en fysisk struktur som slutmål, undersöka och reflektera kring vilka svårigheter och möjligheter som byggd arkitektur möter. I ett försök att inledningsvis frigöra oss från en alltför formalistisk arbetsprocess utgick vi från leken som en kreativ katalysator. Leken, och speciellt den lekande människan, kom att informera projektet på era sätt. Exempelvis har det hela tiden funnits en stark känsla av serendipitet under projektutvecklingen som vi bejakat och tagit på allvar. Vi har drivits av ett lätt situationistiskt tankesätt, där handling, speciellt under projektets tidiga faser, tilllåtits gå före rigid logik. Med visst instämmande i Debords resonemang i Skådespelarsamhället har vi velat bryta mot skolans och samhällets passiviserande inverkan. / We wanted to, with a physical structure, investigate and reflect on the difficulties and opportunities that built architecture meets. In an attempt to initially free ourselves from an overly formalistic work process, we saw the art of play as a catalyst for creativity. The play, and especially the playful human, influenced the project in several ways. For example, there has always been a strong sense of serendipity during the project development. We have been driven by a situationist mindset, in which action, especially during the early stages of the project, has prevailed over planning. In agreement with Debord’s reasoning in “The Society of the Spectacle” and Lefebvres “Right to the City”, we saw an opportunity to go against the passivizing influence induced by school and society.

En el presente trabajo se establecen relaciones de afinidad y oposición en la literatura colombiana entre los autores del siglo XIX, Jorge Isaacs y José Asunción Silva y Gabriel García Márquez y Álvaro Mutis del siglo XX. A partir de los conceptos de escritura e historia pretende demostrar que es posible hacer una lectura de las obras centrales de la literatura colombiana no sólo en términos temáticos, sino estéticos e ideológicos. Por consiguiente, a medida que nos vamos adentrando en la lectura de las obras propuestas se hace evidente la existencia de dos corrientes dentro de una misma literatura. Estas dos variantes de una misma literatura se sustentan a través del carácter crítico de la modernidad que posee dos modalidades: la concepción de la historia como una sucesión de etapas que necesariamente llevan a la perfección y la fragmentación que se produce en los intercambios simbólicos que lleva acabo cada sujeto y que ha sido expresada en términos de subjetividad. La primera representada por Isaacs y García Márquez de tendencia marcadamente regionalista y política, la segunda cosmopolita y desesperanzada representada por Silva y Mutis. / This thesis establishes relationships of likeness and opposition in the Colombian literature among the authors of the XIX century, Jorge Isaacs and José Asunción Silva, and Gabriel García Márquez and Álvaro Mutis of the XX century. Starting from the writing concepts and history is sought to demonstrate that it is possible to not only make a reading of the central works of the Colombian literature in thematic terms, but aesthetic and ideological. Consequently, as we go going into in the reading of the works literary proposals it becomes evident the existence of two currents inside oneself literature. These two variants of oneself literature is sustained through the critical character of the modernity that possesses two modalities: the history’s conception like a succession of stages that necessarily take to the perfection, and the fragmentation taken place in the symbolic exchanges that it takes finish each fellow and that it has been expressed in terms of subjectivity. The first one is represented markedly by Isaacs and García Márquez like a regional and politics tendency; the second, cosmopolitan and hopeless, represented by Silva and Mutis.

En el presente trabajo se establecen relaciones de afinidad y oposición en la literatura colombiana entre los autores del siglo XIX, Jorge Isaacs y José Asunción Silva y Gabriel García Márquez y Álvaro Mutis del siglo XX. A partir de los conceptos de escritura e historia pretende demostrar que es posible hacer una lectura de las obras centrales de la literatura colombiana no sólo en términos temáticos, sino estéticos e ideológicos. Por consiguiente, a medida que nos vamos adentrando en la lectura de las obras propuestas se hace evidente la existencia de dos corrientes dentro de una misma literatura. Estas dos variantes de una misma literatura se sustentan a través del carácter crítico de la modernidad que posee dos modalidades: la concepción de la historia como una sucesión de etapas que necesariamente llevan a la perfección y la fragmentación que se produce en los intercambios simbólicos que lleva acabo cada sujeto y que ha sido expresada en términos de subjetividad. La primera representada por Isaacs y García Márquez de tendencia marcadamente regionalista y política, la segunda cosmopolita y desesperanzada representada por Silva y Mutis. / This thesis establishes relationships of likeness and opposition in the Colombian literature among the authors of the XIX century, Jorge Isaacs and José Asunción Silva, and Gabriel García Márquez and Álvaro Mutis of the XX century. Starting from the writing concepts and history is sought to demonstrate that it is possible to not only make a reading of the central works of the Colombian literature in thematic terms, but aesthetic and ideological. Consequently, as we go going into in the reading of the works literary proposals it becomes evident the existence of two currents inside oneself literature. These two variants of oneself literature is sustained through the critical character of the modernity that possesses two modalities: the history’s conception like a succession of stages that necessarily take to the perfection, and the fragmentation taken place in the symbolic exchanges that it takes finish each fellow and that it has been expressed in terms of subjectivity. The first one is represented markedly by Isaacs and García Márquez like a regional and politics tendency; the second, cosmopolitan and hopeless, represented by Silva and Mutis.

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[pt] A equação de Isaacs é um exemplo importante de equação elíptica totalmente não-linear, aparecendo em uma grande variedade de disciplinas. Um fato de interesse particular é que tais equações são dirigidas por operadores não convexos. Portanto, são compatíveis com a teoria de EvansKrylov e apresentam delicados desafios quando se trata de sua teoria da regularidade. Descrevemos uma série de resultados recentes sobre a teoria da regularidade da Equação de Isaacs. Estas cobrem estimativas nos espaços Hölder e Sobolev. Argumentamos através de um método genuinamente geométrico, importando informações de uma equação de Bellman relacionada. / [en] Isaacs equation is an important example of fully nonlinear elliptic equation, appearing in a wide of disciplines. Of particular interest is the fact that such equations are driven by nonconvex operators. Therefore, it falls off the scope of the Evans-Krylov theory and poses additional, delicate, challenges when it comes to its regularity theory. We describe a series of recent results on the regularity theory of the Isaacs equation. These cover estimates in Holder and Sobolev spaces. We argue through a genuinely geometrical method, by importing information from a related Bellman equation.

This essay discusses rape and silence in J.M. Coetzee’s novel Disgrace, with focus on how and why the characters Melanie and Lucy are silenced after being raped. Paying special attention to gender and race, as well as the novel’s South African context, an attempt is made to consider how rape is represented in Disgrace, and how this representation is related to the silence of Melanie and Lucy. The discussion’s theoretical framework is based on feminist theories on sexual violence and rape, as well as theory on cultural scripts, sexual scripts, and rape myths. This essay finds that the rapes in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace are representations of South Africa’s inverted racial power structures, and its traditional gender structures; structures that contribute to silencing Melanie and Lucy. This essay argues that Coetzee has deliberately activated South African cultural scripts in the text in an attempt to expose problematic viewpoints regarding gender and race in society, as well as in the reader.

O objetivo desta tese é investigar aspectos práticos que facilitem a aplicação da teoria de controle H1 não linear em projetos de sistemas de controle. A primeira contribuição deste trabalho é a proposta do uso de funções ponderação com dinâmica no projeto de controladores H1 não lineares. Essas funções são usadas no projeto de controladores H1 lineares para rejeição de perturbações, ruídos, atenuação de erro de rastreamento, dentre outras especificações. O maior obstáculo para aplicação prática da teoria de controle H1 não linear é a dificuldade para resolver simultaneamente as duas equações de Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs relacionadas ao problema de realimentação de estados e injeção da saída. Não há métodos sistematicos para resolver essas duas equações diferenciais parciais não lineares, equivalentes µas equações de Riccati da teoria de controle H1 linear. A segunda contribuição desta tese é um método para obter a injeção da saída transformando a equação de Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs em uma sequencia de equações diferenciais parciais lineares, que são resolvidas usando o método de Galerkin. Controladores H1 não lineares para um sistema de levitação magnética são obtidos usando o método clássico de expansão em série de Taylor e o método de proposto para comparação. / The purpose of this thesis is to investigate practical aspects to facilitate the ap- plication of nonlinear H1 theory in control systems design. Firstly, it is shown that dynamic weighting functions can be used to improve the performance and robustness of the nonlinear H1 controller such as in the design of H1 controllers for linear plants. The biggest bottleneck to the practical applications of nonlinear H1 control theory has been the di±culty in solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs equations associated with the design of a state feedback and an output injection gain. There is no systematic numerical approach for solving this ¯rst order, nonlinear partial di®erential equations, which reduces to Riccati equations in the linear context. In this work, successive ap- proximation and Galerkin approximation methods are combined to derive an algorithm that produces an output injection gain. Design of nonlinear H1 controllers obtained by the well established Taylor approximation and by the proposed Galerkin approxi- mation method applied to a magnetic levitation system are presented for comparison purposes.