Zonal geostrophic velocity fields above 1975 dbar have been estimated for the Southern Ocean from 2004 to 2014 based on sea surface topography observed by Jason altimetry and temperature/salinity measured by Argo autonomous floats. The velocity at 1000 dbar estimated has been validated against Argo drift trajectory at the same pressure level available from the Asia Pacific Data Research Center (APDRC). Errors in mapping of dynamic ocean topography, temperature, and salinity have been quantified using the Southern Ocean State Estimate (SOSE). Analysis of errors reveals significant correlations between depth-dependent and –independent contributions to the integrated transport. Further analysis revealed optimal locations of historical ship casts to compliment the transport time series as observed by Argo. Quantifying the error associated with the historical hydrographic section indicated little benefit in combining hydrographic data obtained from ships. The anticorrelation between depth-dependent and – independent contributions was again significant in sampling by ships. The proposed explanation of the anticorrelation in error is underestimation of reference velocity by attenuation and overestimation of depth-dependent transport by attenuation of the velocity shear.

La thèse a pour objectif l’étude comparative des avatars de trois figures mythiques – Don Juan, Ulysse et Jason – dans le roman contemporain francophone. La première partie « Art donjuanesque et art romanesque. Le libertinage kundérien » aborde la genèse du paradigme donjuanesque kundérien réactualisant les gestes du burlador baroque ainsi que les métamorphoses et expériences romantiques, modernes et postmodernes du patron mythique évoluant vers une posture distanciée et critique. Dans la deuxième partie « Variations romanesques sur héritage mythique. Avatars et aventures de Don Juan et d’Ulysse » nous nous focalisons sur les stratégies intertextuelles participant de l’élaboration de la typologie libertine contemporaine dans l’œuvre kundérienne et dans trois cas de donjuanisme morbide dépeints par Pierre-Jean Remy, par Denis Tillinac et par Béatrix Beck pour les confronter aux techniques de réinvention de l’aventure odysséenne revisitée par Maurice Audebert et par Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. La troisième partie « Figures mythiques de voyageurs – Ulysse et Jason. Expériences du retour et de la quête » étudie les procédés de démythologisation utilisés par Milan Kundera, l’enchevêtrement des intertextes homérique et joycien dans le cycle de Cyrtha de Salim Bachi et les transformations du syntagme de base du mythe de Jason dans trois œuvres de Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. Les résultats de nos analyses sont systématisés en vue de circonscrire les traits dominants des écritures mythologiques et de les situer par rapport aux tendances du roman contemporain francophone. / The purpose of this thesis is the comparative study of the resurgences of three mythical figures – Don Juan, Ulysses and Jason – in the contemporary francophone novel. “Part One : The Art of Don Juanism and the Art of the Novel: Milan Kundera’s libertinage” discusses the genesis of the Kunderian donjuanesque paradigm reviving the gestures of the baroque burlador and the romantic, modern and postmodern metamorphoses and experiences of the mythical pattern moving towards a distanced and critical posture. “Part Two: Novelistic variations on the Mythical heritage: Avatars and Adventures of Don Juan and Ulysses” focuses on the intertextual strategies involved in the development of the contemporary libertine typology in Kundera's oeuvre and in three cases of morbid Don Juanism portrayed by Pierre-Jean Remy, Denis Tillinac and Béatrix Beck in order to compare them to the techniques of reinvention of the Odyssean adventure revisited by Maurice Audebert and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. “Part Three: Mythical travellers – Ulysses and Jason. Experiences of the return and the quest” studies the devices of demythologisation used by Milan Kundera, the entanglement of Homeric and Joycean intertexts in the Cycle of Cyrtha by Salim Bachi and the transformations of the basic syntagm of the myth of Jason in three works by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. The results of the analyses are systematized in order to identify the main features of the mythological writings and to relate them to the trends in the contemporary francophone novel.

Projektet hade sin bakgrund i önskan att tillhandahålla en virtuell träningsmiljö för lärare där de kan öva på sin icke-verbala kommunikation med elever. Före det här projektet hade utvecklingen av träningsmiljön lett fram till ett visualiserings-system för ett tredimensionellt virtuellt klassrum med animerade karaktärer samt ett system för upptagning och igenkänning av användarens rörelser. För att en sådan träningsmiljö skall vara användbar krävs dock att de virtuella studenterna uppvisar ett trovärdigt mänskligt beteende. Den här rapporten avhandlar implementationen av mänskligt beteende i agenterna förkroppsligade i visualiseringssystemet. För detta ändamål användes det BDI-baserade multi-agent-systemet Jason tillsammans med inspiration från personlighetsteorin OCEAN, affektionsteorin OCC och beteendearkitekturen PMFserv. Rapporten avhandlar även resultatet av ett experiment som utfördes för att utvärdera systemet. I experimentet blev 16 testpersoner introducerade för två olika lärar-scenarion, varpå de, för var och en av dessa scenarion, fyllde i en enkät om deras upplevelse. / The project had its background in the desire to provide a virtual training environment for teachers in which they can exercise their non-verbal communication (e.g. gestures and orientation) with students. Prior to this project, the development of the training environment had led up to a visualisation system for a 3D virtual classroom with virtual students and a motion recognition system for capturing and recognising the user's movements. For such a training environment to be useful however, the virtual students need to express believable human behaviour. This report covers the implementation of human behaviour in the agents embodied in the visualisation system using the BDI-based Jason multi-agent simulation platform with further inspiration taken from the OCEAN personality theory, the OCC theory of emotions and the PMFserv cognitive architecture. It also covers the results of an experiment that was conducted to evaluate the system. During this experiment, 16 test persons were introduced to two different teaching scenarios and were asked to fill in a questionnaire about their experience after each scenario.

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This thesis analyzes Jason Brennan's paper "The Right to a Competent Electorate," then critiques his argument in favor of restricting voting rights to those deemed competent. I consider the practical and ethical implications of testing for competence, then conclude, contrary to Brennan, that granting all citizens voting rights is more just than restricting the voting population.

The remarks on this subject stem from the conditions spatial works engender in the encounter with the viewer. The aim has been to provide the reader with a framework within which to place individual experiences of the works. The exhibition Spatial Works, to which this research paper is connected, exemplifies variations within spatial work. By organizing an exhibition around this context, the variations presented is fleshed out. The research preceding the exhibition has resulted in the development of a specific terminology; an articulation of different practices in installation art. Psychodramatic, Thespian, Temporal and Permutation are here seen as mannerisms of spatial works of art. The expanded significance presented in this paper is a feature of composition, as the dramatic condition characterizes the encounter between object and subject. The polyphony of information encountered by the viewer is not only created by the art work itself, but also by its signifying composition, so to say `al fresco´ of the work, of which the observer gains certainty of the pieces spatiality as well as understands of the work of art. / WIRE, Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice

The sound ascending is a musical theater work for two actors, four singers and piano. This project was a collaboration with playwright, Jason Tremblay. The story is a loose adaptation of Orpheus descending, by Tennessee Williams. Displaced from the rural, American South, most of our story takes place in Mazer, Afghanistan. Jason and I attempted to create an untraditional model. The work lies somewhere between a musical, oratorio and a song cycle. We both walked away with mixed feelings about the success of the work, following a preliminary premiere. I believe that the work is successful in its drama and storytelling. But in such a confined presentation, the work needs more diversity of material and character strength. Although complete for now, Jason and I plan on revising The sound ascending in the coming year. Most significantly, this project has been a learning experience. We both take away valuable lessons about writing and collaboration. / text

For many, contemporary theatre is represented by the musical. The form remains, however, virtually unstudied by literary scholars. In part, this may be a result of the difficulty of accessing the texts. Reading a musical from a traditional codex is no easy matter. The integration of text and music in a musical make it inappropriate to separate the two. One can try to follow along with a cast recording. In most cases, though, this is awkward. Many cast albums record a significantly modified version of the score and lyrics and few include the entire work. Further, musical theatre texts often exist in many different versions. This work begins with a summary of the problems one encounters when editing a multi-authored text (musicals often have a lyricist, librettist, and composer) which may be revised for practical (rather than aesthetic) reasons. The merits of restoring the material changed during the production process are debated. In this discussion some attempt is made to identify who should be considered the dominating collaborator (or auteur) of a musical. Ultimately, this dissertation argues that the notion of trying to restore an "authorial Ur-Text" makes little sense given the multitude of collaborators involved in the process of making musicals. Instead, an electronic variorum edition is presented as an alternative means of studying and teaching musical theatre texts. The study concludes with a narrative of the authors own work on an electronic edition of the 1998 Broadway musical Parade and ends with a critical introduction to this text.

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Orientador: Maria Celeste Consolin Dezotti / Banca: Adriane da Silva Duarte / Banca: Brunno Vinícius Gonçalves Vieira / Resumo: Pretende-se levantar pontos da obra Argonáutica (Ἀργοναυτικά), de Apolônio de Rodes que possam demonstrar a caracterização das personagens Jasão e Héracles, em oposição. A análise parte da observação de C. Beye (Epic and Romance in Argonautica of Apollonius, 1982), que vê Jasão como um novo perfil de herói, próximo a um anti-herói, mais afeito ao gosto do Período Helenístico e Héracles como paradigma do herói da épica homérica visto pelos olhos da crítica e poética do Período Helenístico - principalmente do ponto de vista estético do poeta Calímaco, tido como mentor de Apolônio. Serão analisadas, então, as características desses heróis que serviriam a essa análise, como representações figurativas de cada um e metáforas da evolução natural das estruturas narrativas. Apolônio faria, portanto, além de literatura, uma crítica, análise e releitura do próprio épico nos moldes das narrativas helenísticas a ele contemporâneas. / Abstract: The intent is to raise points of the work Argonautica (Ἀργοναυτικά), of Apollonius Rhodius that can show the characterization of the characters Jason and Heracles, in opposition. The analysis comes from the notice of C. Beye (Epic and Romance in Argonautica of Apollonius, 1982), that sees Jason as a new outline of hero, near to an anti-hero, more wont to the taste of the Hellenistic Period and Heracles as a paradigm of the hero of the Homeric epics seen through the eyes of the critics and poetics of the Hellenistic Period - mainly through the aesthetic point of view of the poet Callimachus, taken as the mentor of Apollonius. It will be analyzed, then, the characteristics of these heroes that had served to this analysis, as figurative representations of each one and as metaphors of the natural evolution of the narrative structures. Apollonius would do, therefore, besides literature, criticism and analysis and re-reading of the epic itself in the form of the Hellenistic narratives contemporary to him. / Mestre