[pt] Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo entender quais são os sentidos que mulheres atuantes no mercado financeiro atribuem a seu trabalho. A metodologia de pesquisa escolhida para o estudo foi a pesquisa qualitativa, tendo sido entrevistadas 16 mulheres, de instituições de caráter financeiro, entre assets, corretoras e bancos de investimento, todas situadas no Rio de Janeiro. Os resultados desta pesquisa sugerem que as entrevistadas, em sua maioria, definem o trabalho como uma forma de financiar seu estilo de vida, por meio da realização de grandes projetos e da obtenção de conforto material, atribuindo ao trabalho uma importante parcela de suas realizações pessoais. Além disso, foi observado que o trabalho também é visto como uma fonte de prazer, a partir da qual as entrevistadas conquistaram independência financeira, crescimento pessoal e profissional. Todas essas representações são mencionadas pelas entrevistadas tendo como pano de fundo a agressiva remuneração típica do setor, recebida anualmente na forma de bônus. Este fato sugere que as inúmeras acepções positivas do trabalho propostas pelas entrevistadas se devem, não única, mas majoritariamente, ao patamar privilegiado de remuneração no qual muitas delas se enquadram. / [en] This study aimed to understand what meanings are assigned to work by women who work in the financial market. To this end, qualitative research methodology was chosen, using semi-structured interviews with 16 women, who worked in financial institutions in Rio de Janeiro, such as asset management companies, brokerages and investment banks. The findings of the study suggest that most of the interviewed women define work as a way to afford their life style, by accomplishing big projects and obtaining comfort. They also assign most of their personal achievements to their work. Furthermore, it was observed that work is considered a source of pleasure, whereby participants accomplish financial independence and personal and professional growth. All these work representations are mentioned by the participants combined to the typical aggressive compensation of the financial market, annually received as a bonus paycheck. This fact proposes that all work positive assumptions mentioned by the participants are, not only, by mostly, due to the high salaries that most of them earn.

[pt] A presente pesquisa explora a relação entre ambiente e produção de sentido, na experiência do escuro, utilizando como base teórica linhas de pensamento filosófico, como a fenomenologia de Merleau-Ponty, a experiência estética de Dewey, hegemonia da visão de Pallasmaa, a teoria do silêncio de Orlandi, dentre outras. O estudo visa entender se e como a experiência imersiva com a privação de um dos sentidos afeta os processos de significação do indivíduo. Dos anos 80 para os dias atuais, as funções cognitivas deixaram de ser consideradas mecanismos puramente intelectuais para darem espaço para uma abordagem que integra a corporalidade e o meio em que o indivíduo está inserido. Neste estudo, proponho que o ambiente físico funciona como contexto mental para os processos de significação dos indivíduos inseridos nele, e a experiência imersiva atuaria como experiência estética, no que diz respeito aos efeitos sobre a produção de sentido. Considero ainda que, nos processos de significação, a palavra e a imagem atuam da mesma maneira, domesticando o sentido. Baseada no estudo de Eni Orlandi sobre o silêncio, proponho a abordagem do escuro como espaço de subjetividade, incompletude necessária para o trabalho da imaginação na produção de sentido (Orlandi, 1997). / [en] The present research explores the relationship between the environment and the production of meaning, in the experience of the dark, using as theoretical basis lines of philosophical thought, such as the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, the aesthetic experience of Dewey, the hegemony of vision of Pallasmaa, the theory of silence of Orlandi, among others. The study aims to understand if and how the immersive experience with the deprivation of one of the senses affects the individual s processes of signification. From the 1980s to the present day, cognitive functions have gone from being considered purely intellectual mechanisms to welcoming an approach that integrates corporeality and the environment in which the individual is inserted. In this study, I propose that the physical environment serves as a mental context for the meaning processes of the individuals in it, and that the immersive experience functions as an aesthetic experience, regarding its effects on the production of meaning. I also consider that, in the processes of signification, the word and the image act in the same way, domesticating the meaning. Based on Eni Orlandi s study on silence, I propose the approach of the dark as a space of subjectivity, the incompleteness necessary for the work of the imagination in the production of meaning (Orlandi, 1997).

Patienter på IVA är utsatta för obehagliga upplevelser, både genom sjukdom, behandling och vårdmiljö. Närstående beskriver känslor av overklighet och skräck. Patienter minns drömmar, mardrömmar och faktiska händelser lång tid efter intensivvårdsvistelsen. Dagbok används på många IVA-avdelningar för att ge patienten ett underlag att bearbeta händelser och eventuella minnesluckor från vårdtiden. Syftet med litteraturstudien är att belysa betydelsen av dagbok för IVA-patienter och deras närstående. Studien grundas på nio utvalda och granskade artiklar. I analysen identifierades fem kategorier: kommunikation, trygghet, känslor, förståelse och acceptans samt värdefullt tids- och minnesdokument. / Patients at intensive care units are exposed for unpleasant experiences through illness, treatment and environment. The relatives describe feelings of unreality and fear. Patients remember dreams, nightmares and factual events a long time after discharge from intensive care. Diaries are used at many intensive care units, as a tool for understanding memories and loss of memories. The aim of this literature review is to illustrate the meaning of diaries for intensive care patients and their relatives. Nine articles were chosen and examined. Five categories were identified through the analyze: communication, security, feelings, understanding/accepting and a valuable document over time and memory.

To embody is to give a tangible or concrete form to an abstract concept. The use of the term Embodying Architecture notes a desire for an architectural structure that materially supports individuals concept of the way that they want to operate in the word. It is also notes that architectural space does not currently support this. Those individuals farthest away from the modes of cultural production are the least represented spatially. These occupants are therefore left in the position of being trapped in a space that denies them their desired way of being. Numerous critical theorist have noted the ways that architecture and urban design disenfranchise people, Beatriz Colomina, Sexuality and Space, Adrienne Rich, Politics of Location, Kim Dovey, Framing Places. More important perhaps, are writings by theorist such as Neil Leach and Julia Kristeva that connect space with a human need for articulation. This design project takes as its site Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved. The text is precisely about the space of disenfranchisement and the tasks of actualizing yourself when there seems to be no space in which to do so. Figurative and literal space are seen as interchangeable. In response to the novel, a house is designed for the mother and daughter characters that provides a physical space for them to both connect and forge their separate identities.

This thesis puts forth a model for analyzing and understanding the social construction of the concept of place. The Place Deconstruction Model (PDM) consists of a decentered and a centered perspective. The decentered perspective identifies three instances of sense making, at the levels of perception (crude place), meaning making (constructed place), and the building of artifice (commodified place). The centered perspective accounts for the subjectivity of the observer, as determined by memory, expectations, and the experience of the here and now. The method of analysis involves the juxtaposition of spatial (space, place identity, place image), temporal (time, history, heritage), and social (being, self identity, self image) lenses that require adjustment of parameters such as perspective and unit of analysis. The findings derived from the application of this model have both academic and practical applications.

Uppsatsen kommer handla om hur vi gör meningsfulla val i kompositionsprocessonav musik till film. Jag kommer undersöka vilka metoder som historiskt har använts,vilken praxis som uppstått och varför, och försöker i mitt eget arbete hitta alternativa vägar framåt. Vidare undersöker jag hur vi medvetet och omedvetet arbetar med förväntan och hur den arbetar i oss, hur imperfektion och sårbarhet i konstnärliga uttryck kan hänga ihop med empati och mänsklighet, och metoder för att skapa inre logik och kreativa begränsningar i min egen skapandeprocess. / <p>Till uppsatsen bifogas ett filmklipp ur processen med en slutproduktion från Stockholms konstnärliga högskola, "Tyst symfoni", av Astrid Ahlbom Andersson.</p>

The aim of this thesis was to study change in the meaning of the word cool, comparing the 1890s, the 1950s and the 2010s. Examples where the word cool was used were obtained from the Corpus of Historical American English, which is created by Mark Davies, and analyzed in terms of in which senses and text types they were used. The results show that the biggest meaning change in cool between the 1890s and the 2010s is that the most prominent sense in the 1890s is ‘calm’, and ‘slightly cold in a pleasant way’ not far after, and in the 2010s the most prominent sense was ‘pleasant, enjoyable or likable’. The most frequent senses of cool in the 1950s were ‘slightly cold in a pleasant way’, ‘temperature that is too cold’, and ‘calm’ as the most commonly used. The most prominent text type where the word cool occurred was fiction in all three analyzed decades.

本研究の目的は，機械が人間と自然な会話を行うために重要な能力である言語を理解する方法を実現することである．具体的には，基準となる言語資源に登録されていない単語（未定義語）の意味を提示するシステムの実現を目指す．未定義語の意味を推定するためには，ある単語から概念を想起し，さらに，その概念に関係のある様々な概念を連想できる能力が重要な役割を果たす．そこで，連想能力を表現するメカニズムである連想メカニズムを活用して，未定義語の意味を推定する方法を提案し，その有効性を評価する． / The purpose of this study is to realize a scheme to understand language, which is a significant ability for machines to have natural conversation with humans. Concretely speaking, we aim to achieve a system that can show meaning of words (undefined words) which are not registered in the reference language resource. In order to estimate the meaning of undefined words, two capability play an important role; one is recalling a concept from a word, and the other is associating various related concepts from the concept. Therefore, we propose a scheme for estimating the meaning of undefined words by using the association mechanism and evaluate its effectiveness. / 博士(工学) / Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering / 同志社大学 / Doshisha University

This thesis uses the uniform of the Stó:lō First Nation’s Lower Fraser Fishing Authority as a cultural, material item to inform and discuss Indigenous-Crown relationships, the history of the community the object belongs to, and the meaning that the object holds for that community. I use the uniform to argue that a single object can hold complex and contradictory meanings that can inform cultural history and relationships. This thesis adds to the historiography of the use of artifacts as an object of study, the history of the Lower Fraser Fishing Authority, and also larger discussions of Indigenous-Crown relationships in Canada. / Graduate

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