Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2004. / Advisor: Dr. Jerrilyn McGregory, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Jan. 12, 2005). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [192]-208).

Thesis (M.S. in Systems Engineering Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010. / Thesis Advisor(s): Calvano, C. N. ; Second Reader: Whitcomb, C. "June 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 15, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Department of Defense Architectural Framework, DoDAF, Systems View, Operational View, Missile Defense. Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-76). Also available in print.

The aim of this thesis is to examine and analyse if it is possible to distinguish a new perception of time and temporality in the Swedish fashion magazine Magasin för konst, nyheter och moder, and in that case how it is expressed. To discover this, I have used the theories of the philosophers and historians Reinhart Koselleck and Marshall Berman. In their works they have pointed out and described how the early decades of the nineteenth century was a crucial time for our perception of the modern world, in the sense that we ever since then have experienced a gap between the past and the future where we cannot derive our expectations from our past experiences anymore. I have studied if this notion is communicated in the articles, and came to the conclusion that there is a new awareness of time articulated in the magazine. Mainly  there are three different understandings of time and temporality expressed within the magazine – first are those articles that shows a general new awareness of time in a constructive way, neither through a positive or negative perspective. Furthermore, there are also expressions for connections between the materialistic content in the magazine and the view on temporality, where the acknowledgment of a new temporality in fashion seems to also have an impact on a more ideological perception of time. Finally there are articles which portrays the discrepancy between expectation and experience as something with a negative significance for the future, but similarly puts this in a way that illuminates that the future is now something adaptable and possible to influence in a certain direction. This shows a new way of understanding how, in a Swedish nineteenth century context, material culture could affect people’s awareness of time and temporality and hence also their thoughts and outlook of the future even in more abstract issues. The upcoming becomes possible to interpret as something materialistic, and therefore also something more concrete and arguable.

Kadlec, T. Forex interventions of CNF in front of the door to Eurozone. Di-ploma thesis. Brno: Mendel University, 2015. This thesis study the foreign exchange intervention of Czech National Bank, launched in November 2013. Under the circumstances have been chosen to use the Marshall-Lerner condition which finds the economy suitable for cur-rency devaluation or not. For reach this goal have been calculated regression analysis with two alternative results for calculating the condition. In the first alternative, full Marshall-Lerner equation, could not be satisfaction of condi-tion proven, but nor was dissatisfaction. In the second one, where was import of Czech Republic calculated with zero value according to regression analysis result, was the condition satisfied. Results have been compared with numbers from United Kingdom and found opposed. In comparison to Slovak Republic was found Czech development of macroeconomic indicators better.

Submitted by Hugo Giazzi Senhorini null (hugogiazzi@hotmail.com) on 2017-09-04T17:38:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação - versão final.pdf: 1000536 bytes, checksum: 19a7d076f6a91f56985e231e39658bda (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com) on 2017-09-06T14:34:28Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 senhorini_hg_me_sjrp.pdf: 1000536 bytes, checksum: 19a7d076f6a91f56985e231e39658bda (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-06T14:34:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 senhorini_hg_me_sjrp.pdf: 1000536 bytes, checksum: 19a7d076f6a91f56985e231e39658bda (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-09 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / This dissertation aims to discuss expressions of modernity in In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka. More precisely, it discusses how this literary work explores and critically represents worldly elements such as extreme rationalization, and disorientation of the modern individual. This work is the result of an investigation which works with the hypothesis that it is possible to read Kafka’s narrative as an allegorical representation of modernity itself. The first chapter of this text discusses, based on philosophical and sociological sources, some of the most characteristic phenomena of that which is understood as modernity, in order to eventually formulate a sufficiently stable concept of modernity that may support the subsequent literary analysis. Within this discussion, a concept such as the Disenchantment of the world receives special attention. In addition, modern literature and Modernism are exposed in the first chapter. The second chapter introduces, firstly, a brief critical revision on Kafka’s oeuvre. Subsequently, it presents the reading of In the Penal Colony, which is separated in two parts, or two “levels”. The first level exposes an immanent analysis of the narrative, and its meaningful, more formal elements are outlined, thus creating, through this close-reading process, an array of interpretative elements that are supported by the literary text; in the reading’s second level, the elements outlined by the previous analysis are related and studied in relation to the modern world elements as these have been previously defined. Thus, the second chapter tries to build an interpretation of the narrative that can outline and comprehend, in a cohesive reading, the exploration, expression, and criticism of those modern characteristics made by the literary work. This process verifies that Kafka’s work can, on an interpretative level, express modernity critically, and rebuild it within a complex allegorical construction. / A presente dissertação discute expressões da modernidade em Na colônia penal, de Franz Kafka. Mais precisamente, discute a maneira como essa obra literária explora e representa criticamente elementos de mundo como a racionalização extrema e a desorientação do indivíduo moderno. Este trabalho é fruto de uma investigação que considera a hipótese de que é possível ler a narrativa de Kafka como uma figuração alegórica da própria modernidade. O primeiro capítulo do texto discute, a partir de fontes filosóficas e sociológicas, alguns dos fenômenos mais característicos daquilo que se entende como modernidade, para eventualmente formular um conceito de modernidade suficientemente estável, que possa embasar a análise literária posterior. Nesse caminho, um conceito como o de desencantamento do mundo recebe especial atenção. O segundo capítulo introduz uma breve revisão crítica sobre a obra de Kafka; depois disso, constrói-se a leitura de Na colônia penal, que está dividida em duas partes, ou dois “níveis”. No primeiro nível, apresenta-se uma análise imanentista da narrativa, e são ressaltados os seus elementos significativos mais formais, criando-se, a partir desse processo de close-reading, uma rede de elementos interpretativos que se fundam no próprio texto; no segundo nível da leitura, relacionam-se os elementos que a análise literária traz à tona àqueles fenômenos de mundo reconhecidamente modernos, isto é, busca-se construir uma interpretação da obra que ressalte e compreenda, numa rede coesa de sentido, a exploração, exposição e crítica, por parte da obra literária, das características da modernidade conforme as reconhecemos e definimos no primeiro capítulo. Nesse processo, verifica-se que a obra de Kafka pode expressar criticamente a modernidade e representá-la em uma construção alegórica complexa.

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Comunicação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação, 2014. / Submitted by Albânia Cézar de Melo (albania@bce.unb.br) on 2014-05-07T14:02:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_RodrigoMirandaBarbosa.pdf: 2835738 bytes, checksum: 8f9bd3fc053b753e9726f79c2e73c082 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Guimaraes Jacqueline(jacqueline.guimaraes@bce.unb.br) on 2014-05-13T14:07:50Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_RodrigoMirandaBarbosa.pdf: 2835738 bytes, checksum: 8f9bd3fc053b753e9726f79c2e73c082 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-13T14:07:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_RodrigoMirandaBarbosa.pdf: 2835738 bytes, checksum: 8f9bd3fc053b753e9726f79c2e73c082 (MD5) / Na história do campo comunicacional percebemos uma dificuldade em encontrar critérios que estabeleçam o que é preciso para que uma teoria seja considerada como pertencente ao campo comunicacional. Tal fato repercute também no uso de denominações frouxas (escola, tradição, corrente, etc.) sem que haja um engajamento epistemológico a fim de dar rigor às denominações. A presente tese propõe a elaboração de um programa de pesquisa comunicacional tendo como guia a proposta do epistemólogo Imre Lakatos a partir do trabalho dos canadenses Harold Adams Innis e Marshall McLuhan. Autores, estes últimos, que se dedicaram a análise dos meios de comunicação enquanto tecnologias como elementos centrais para compreender a sociedade. Para estabelecer um programa de pesquisa comunicacional sistematizamos as principais teses dos dois autores, assim como as críticas a estas teses e os pontos de contato epistemológico que existem entre ambos os autores. Procuramos então, estabelecer um núcleo duro capaz de sustentar um programa de pesquisa assim como as hipóteses auxiliares que compõe o círculo protetor do mesmo. ______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / In the history of communication field we perceive a difficulty to find criteria that establish what is needed for a theory to be considered as belonging to the communication field. This fact also affects the use of loose designations (school, tradition, current, etc..) without an epistemological commitment to give rigor denominations. This thesis proposes the development of a communication research program under the guidance of the proposal by the espistemologist Imre Lakatos from the work of the Canadians Harold Adams Innis and Marshall McLuhan. These authors who dedicated themselves to the analysis of media as technologies as central elements to understand society. To establish a communication research program we systematized the main theses of the two authors, as well as the criticisms against their thesis and the epistemological points of contact between them. Thus, we try to establish a core capable of sustaining a research program as well as the auxiliary hypotheses that composes the protective circle around the core.

Ce manuscrit présente une approche synthétique de la Mirabaline, macrocycle complexe d'origine marine. La synthèse du fragment nord a été achevée en utilisant des réactions clefs de Marshall et d'hydrogénation asymétrique associées ou non à un processus de dédoublement cinétique dynamique. La synthèse des fragments C et D a également été terminée. Des méthodes de contrôle de motifs aminoalcool 1,2 ont également été développées à l'aide de réactions d'hydrogénation asymétrique et de transfert d'hydrogène asymétrique via un dédoublement cinétique dynamique. / This manuscript presents a synthetic approach of Mirabalin, a complex macrocycle isolated from a marine sponge. The synthesis of the north fragment has been completed by using as key reactions a Marshall reaction and asymmetric hydrogenation combined or not with dynamic kinetic resolution process. The synthesis of fragments C and D has been completed as well. Methodologies for the control of 1,2-aminoalcohol moieties have also been developed using the asymmetric hydrogenation and asymmetric transfer hydrogenation via dynamic kinetic resolution.

The diploma thesis is focused on the economic support to Czechoslovakia, especially offered by the U.S.A. in the period between 1945 - 1948 and its reaction in the historical daily press. One of the goals is to specify what led the United States to organize this aid, based on the evaluation of the Truman's foreign policy, as the beginning of the Cold War. There are described position and development of the Czechoslovak economy and its problematic foreign policy orientation between the West and the Soviet Union, in which the provision and acceptance of foreign aid has become a key element. The author tries to define the most outstanding journalistic personalities, journals and historical newspaper which created the media image of what was happening on the Czechoslovak political scene to the general public. The main finding of this study is the presentation of the historical contemporary press which played an important role in the communist propaganda that since the end of the war helped the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia to the takeover in 1948.

The aim of this thesis is to explain running of new media in the television's process in Czech republic. First part is dedicated to theoretical determination of new media include the Marshall MuLuhan's theoretic work. Second part describe czech televison market, characterization modern television's viewer and define practical using of new media in each television organization. The hypothesis described in the introduction are confirmed in conclusion.