Abstract This thesis offers the first detailed critical account of the Greek-Australian writer, Alex Doucas (1900-1962) who came to Australia in 1927 as a migrant from Asia Minor. It attempts to place his work in the perspectives of Greek and Australian literatures and to evaluate his position both as a migrant and as a writer. The Asia Minor Catastrophe and the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey in 1923, as well as the Great Depression he faced in Australia along with many other Australians had a profound effect on his social outlook. Considered one of the pioneers of Greek-Australian Literature, Doucas played an important role in the development of Greek community life in Australia during the pre- and post-World War II periods. His work consists of two published novels (one posthumously) and a significant body of published and unpublished, stories, poems, translations and essays. Out of print for some decades, it remains largely unknown to the general public or even to academic circles in Greece and in Australia. It was, however, a landmark of Greek-Australian Literature and continues to have more than historical interest in its treatment of migration, exile and displacement, and in its use of intercultural perspectives to forge a positive vision for humanity. Although forced into ill-paid manual labour for much of his life after his arrival in Australia, Alex Doucas tried to develop links and relationships with Australian intellectual circles and to become involved in Australian life in the broadest way. At the same time, he never lost contact with social, political and literary developments in Greece. Alex Doucas maintained close relations with both the Greek and Australian literary traditions. As a writer he belongs to the Greek generation of the 1930s and its literary traditions. In his work, he dealt with events which took place in Anatolia before the Asia Minor Catastrophe as well as with the impact the catastrophe had on Greek society. He is one of the first writers of his generation who turned his attention to the “other side of the coin” and investigated the impact of the Catastrophe on the Turkish people. This perspective was adopted mainly due to the openness that he found in Australia, an openness that led to Multiculturalism. Alex Doucas was a multiculturalist before his time. His work is a fine example of the Australian version of Multiculturalism. Through his brother Stratis Doucas (also a writer) and others, he kept himself informed on all sorts of changes and developments in his native country, Greece, especially as it was shaped after the Asia Minor Catastrophe. At the same time, he tried to understand the Australian way of life, its culture and its literary traditions. His bi-cultural position gave him a powerful perspective. He attempted to understand the Australian way of life through his Greekness and to find answers for problematic events that happened in Greece through his Australian experience. Across the entire span of Doucas’s work, it is clear that his political philosophy and his belief in the goals of socialism played a crucial role in his consciousness of himself as a writer whose role was to provide the artistic equivalent of the philosophical basis of Marxism, best expressed in the Theses on Feuerbach (1845) by Marx, in his famous dictum, "Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it". In other words, it was never enough for Doucas simply to describe in social realist terms the conditions of life and the aspirations of human beings. His aim was to show how these conditions might be changed for the better, not only for the individual, but for the community as a whole. Equally, he wished to show how people’s aspirations, particularly those of an immigrant community familiar with exile, suffering and loss, might be more fully realised.

Taking my own personal history as a starting point this paper will look at how we inherit culture and in turn shape it through the stories and objects that drive its formation. This extends into how these objects proliferate within our culture and the way in which the passing of History impacts on the way we view them and as a consequence ourselves as individuals and as a group. Identity is then passed on through generations through the act of storytelling, and this process is integral to this research paper. This is also a personal journey, taking place in varying sites, from a rusting car hulk in a back yard in North Canterbury, to a University in Wellington and another rusted car, which has gone through a strange restoration. The Morris Minor has been embraced as a narcissistic object that I have chosen to double in order to explore my individual and wider national cultural history and identity. One of the key themes of this inherited identity is largely based around Nostalgia for an ideal past. This ideal is a fiction, a layering of intended futures as well as a selective past. This works in the same way as the modern artistic preoccupation with gothic histories, but instead of a positive ideal we have the creation of a basement of horrors that lurks beneath the surface. Be it positivist idealism or Gothic inversion, one way of focusing on the way these fictions differ markedly from the reality of the objects existence, is to show the artifice of the stories told by enhancing the components of the story that are already exaggerated, for the Morris Minor this means getting as far away from its existence as a rusting hulk in the backyard as possible. The longing for a past that may or may not exist, is less important as existing in reality but instead for what these fictions supply in their retelling. The concept of the Uncanny is integral to this retelling of memory, in that through a memories reanimation it can only approximate the original event leaving gaps for circumspection and invention. This retelling necessitates a reorientation in the relationship between the teller of the tale and the listener and between the viewer and the object viewed. The research culminates in the alteration of a Morris Minor to appear as one continuous surface. The intention of which is to engage with the differing versions of the objects past through taking an active part in its reconstruction as artwork with the aim of reassessment not only of my individual approach to the object but also the viewers.

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of English, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-61).

Although theoretically practical algorithms for torus embedding exist, they have not yet been successfully implemented and their complexity may be prohibitive to their practicality. We describe a simple exponential algorithm for embedding graphs on the torus (a surface shaped like a doughnut) and discuss how it was inspired by the quadratic time planar embedding algorithm of Demoucron, Malgrange and Pertuiset. We show that it is faster in practice than the only fully implemented alternative (also exponential) and explain how both the algorithm itself and the knowledge gained during its development might be used to solve the well-studied problem of finding the complete set of torus obstructions.

Certaines œuvres de Roberto Bolaño, Antoine Volodine, Sami Tchak, Umberto Eco, Alberto Mussa, Jasper Fforde et Julio Cortázar sont fondées sur le mélange entre littérature savante et paralittérature. Cette rencontre entre ces deux genres révèle une manière particulière d'envisager la littérature mineure. Nous considérons les expressions du mineur comme des espaces d'expérimentation et de commentaire sur la littérature. Grands connaisseurs de la paralittérature, les auteurs du corpus s’approprient ses codes pour ensuite les transgresser et leur adjoindre des éléments de commentaire sur la littérature, qui trouvent dans la paralittérature un territoire d'expansion parfaitement libre. Car ce mélange instaure un jeu entre le connu figuré par les codes de la paralittérature et l'inconnu qui réside du côté du commentaire sur la littérature. Ces écrivains s'occupent ainsi des failles et absences de l'histoire littéraire, de ce que celle-ci ne reconnaît pas ou ignore, autant que de ce qu'elle rejette. Cette thèse est consacrée à l'étude de ces auteurs ouverts à une nouvelle forme de littérature mineure. / Some works of Roberto Bolaño, Antoine Volodine, Sami Tchak, Umberto Eco, Alberto Mussa, Jasper Fforde and Julio Cortázar are founded on the mixture between scholar literature and paraliterature. This reunion between those two genres reveal a particular way to approach the minor literature. We consider the expressions of the minor as spaces of experimentation and of commentary about literature. Well-known paraliterature experts, the authors of the corpus take over its codes to immediately transgress them and add into them elements of commentary about the literature, that they found in the paraliterature a territory of expansion perfectly free. Because this mixture is a set up game between the well-known, figured by the codes of the paraliterature, and the unknown, that reside in the side of the commentary about the literature. Thus, these writers deal with gaps and absences of literary history, of which this one doesn't recognize or ignore, as much as it rejects. This thesis is dedicated to the study of those authors opening to a new way of Minor Literature.

Cette thèse a pour but de traiter l’idéologie du règne d’Antonin le Pieux et sa transmission dans la province d’Égypte grâce aux monnaies frappées à Rome et à Alexandrie. À cette fin, deux volumes sont proposés. Le premier est un commentaire historique, s’appuyant sur les monnaies frappées dans les deux cités, afin de dégager les principaux thèmes représentés. Le deuxième volume se consacre à la numismatique, avec un catalogue des monnaies frappées à Rome issues de la Collection du Cabinet des Médailles de Paris, et d’une introduction proposant des datations des émissions et des explications pour plusieurs types représentés. La comparaison entre les monnaies émises dans les différents ateliers a permis de constater que les principaux thèmes diffusent les idées de paix, de prospérité, d’abondance, de l’éternité de Rome et du système impérial, grâce à la famille de l’empereur, qui permet d’assurer la succession. Ces thèmes sont présents, tout au long du règne, à Rome, et adaptés à Alexandrie grâce à un répertoire iconographique local. Bien qu’utilisant les cultes locaux pour diffuser des messages, l’atelier provincial est donc soumis au contrôle du pouvoir central, qui diffuse l’idéologie du règne d’Antonin. / This thesis aims to treat the ideology of the reign of Antoninus Pius and its transmission in the province of Egypt thanks to the coins minted in Rome and Alexandria. To this end, two volumes are proposed. The first is a historical commentary based on the coins struck in the two cities in order to identify the main themes that are represented. The second volume focuses more on numismatics with a catalog of coins minted in Rome from the Collection of the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris, and an introduction proposing datings of the issues and explanations for several types represented. The comparison of the currencies issued from the various workshops revealed that the main themes spread the ideas of peace, prosperity, abundance, the eternity of Rome and the imperial system, thanks to the Emperor's family, which ensures the succession. The themes are present, throughout the reign, in Rome, and adapted to Alexandria thanks to a local iconographic repertoire. Although using local cults to spread messages, the provincial workshop is therefore subject to the control of the central power, which diffuses the ideology of the reign of Antoninus.

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abstract: The boom in publicly-funded sports facility construction since the 1980s resulted in studies that generally found the economic benefits accruing from facility construction do not justify the costs. However, focusing narrowly on economic costs in large cities leaves out an important part of the story. The author is interested in the possible non-economic benefits to a city from having a sports team and stadium, and focuses on determining any relationship between minor league teams and stadiums and community self-image. The methodology for this review is an assessment of the websites – primarily the website's front page – for 42 cities with minor league baseball teams. In addition, a survey of local government officials provides a layer of corroboration for the website review results. Through this assessment, the author brings together elements that contribute to three different fields – facility financing, e-government, and small and mid-sized cities. The website reviews have two elements. First, the author assesses the extent to which the website provides information about the team and stadium on the front page or a website page within two links from the front page. The result is that a relatively low amount of information about teams and stadiums is available on the 42 city websites. Second, the author assesses all the active links on the website front page and categorize the links regarding whether they are primarily directed toward residents, businesses, or tourists. On average 67 percent of the links on the 42 city websites' front pages are directed toward residents. In addition to the website reviews, the author reports on a survey of local government executives and managers regarding the city websites. The key findings from the survey are that residents are the group of most interest to the website creators; the websites' content and appearance generally are intended to reflect the communities' self-image, and; in general, the low amount of information about the teams and stadiums on the website front page accurately represents the importance of the teams and stadiums to communities' self-image. The survey results generally corroborate the website reviews. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Public Administration 2012

Si les fouilles archéologiques menées depuis la fin des années 1960 ont enrichi nos connaissances sur Marseille grecque, la documentation relative à la période archaïque demeure restreinte dans le domaine des productions locales. L’artisanat de la sculpture est très peu représenté : seuls les quarante-quatre édicules en calcaire, trouvés rue Négrel au XIXe s. dans un même contexte, témoignent de l’activité d’ateliers locaux. Ces œuvres appartiennent à un type créé à Marseille à partir d’un modèle grec d’Asie Mineure, probablement introduit en Occident par les Phocéens, ou peut-être par d’autres colons ioniens, après 545 av. J.-C. : dans un naïskos (petit temple ou chapelle en grec), est assise une divinité féminine. Les études antérieures ont porté principalement sur l’identité de la déesse : plusieurs possibilités ont été envisagées avant que soit privilégiée l’interprétation comme Cybèle, mais cette attribution reste très controversée. La description et l’analyse de la série marseillaise sous tous ses aspects, pour la première fois présentée ici, offrent le point de départ d’une étude de l’ensemble des naïskoi à femme assise dans les cités phocéennes, ioniennes et éoliennes à l’époque archaïque. Pour comprendre les sculptures de Marseille, il est indispensable de retracer la circulation et les variantes du type depuis sa création à Milet, au plus tôt dans le 3e quart du VIe s. av. J.-C., jusqu’à son adaptation dans les cités de Grèce de l’Est et dans leurs colonies respectives. Malgré des différences stylistiques imputables aux ateliers régionaux et l’ajout, dans de rares cas, d’un petit lion, les naïskoi à femme assise forment un ensemble relativement homogène. / Although the archaeological excavations, carried out since the end of 1960’s, have substantially increased our knowledge on Greek city of Marseilles, our documentation on the Archaic Period remains restricted in the field of local productions. Sculture and its craft are poorly represented and the important series of 44 aedicules in limestone, found in the rue Négrel during the 19th century, still the only testimony for the existence of local workshops, which produced an iconographic type directly derived from a Greek model, created in Asia Minor, and most probably introduced through the Phocaeans – or perhaps by other groups of Ionian settlers – after 545 BC. These pieces of sculptures represent of small temple or shrine (naiskos in greek), within which a female deity is seated. The previous studies have focused on the identity of the goddess : several possibilities were envisaged before the interpretation as Cybele was privileges, but this attribution has raised a considerable debate. The present research is devoted to the analysis of this ensemble and more generally, to the study of aedicules with seated woman in the Phocaean, Ionian and Aeolian cities in the Archaic Period. As a matter of fact, the series from Marseilles can only be understood within a large-scale reflection, embracing the whole development of the type, from its creation at Miletus in the third quarter of the 6th century to its diffusion in the cities of Eastern Greece and in their colonies. In spite of stylistic differences attributable to regional workshops and of the addition, in a few cases of a small lion, the naiskoi with seated woman form a relatively homogeneous series.

The problem of custody of children is demanded when the parents, due to separation of spouses or judicial separation, or in the dissolution hypothesis of the consensual marriage, do not live in the same house or in the cases where the parents never cohabited. Granting to the children the fundamental right to live in family, the custody should always take into consideration the welfare of the minor, which is to have the presence of both parents in his life. The jointed custody is the familiar arrangement which gives continuity to the affective boundaries established between the father and the mother, even after the family transformation. The Constitucional Grounds of the jointed custody are the equality principle of genus, of the best interest for the minor and the absolute priority for the child and adolescent. It can be executed with or without housing alternating. The problems faced in its applicability by the parents do not impede its implementation. The jointed custody gives advantages to everybody involved: the parents, children and the judiciary, and finds in the mediation the way to its effectiveness, since it promotes the family participation in the litigation involvement. In spite of the acceptance of this modality of juridical arrangement in the Brazilian juridical ordering, it is still being constructed its acceptance gradually and culture, on the contrary what happens in the compared law, where it is applied frequently. An empirical research proved its operation and necessity that the parents are informed by the law representatives about the existence and advantages of the jointed custody. / O problema da guarda de filhos é cogitado quando os pais, em decorrência da separação de fato ou de direito, ou na hipótese da dissolução de união estável, passam a não conviver sob o mesmo teto ou nos casos em que os pais nunca coabitaram. Garantindo à criança o direito fundamental de conviver em família, a guarda deve sempre atender ao melhor interesse do menor, que é ter a presença de ambos os pais em sua vida. A guarda compartilhada é o arranjo familiar que dá continuidade aos vínculos afetivos estabelecidos entre pais e filhos, estimulando uma co-participação com igualdade de direitos e deveres entre o pai e a mãe, mesmo após a transformação da família. Os fundamentos constitucionais da guarda compartilhada são os princípios da igualdade de gêneros, do melhor interesse do menor e da prioridade absoluta da criança e do adolescente. Pode ser exercida com ou sem alternância de lares. Os problemas enfrentados na sua aplicabilidade pelos pais não impedem a sua implementação. A guarda compartilhada proporciona vantagens para todos os envolvidos: os pais, os filhos e o Judiciário, e encontra na mediação o caminho para sua efetivação, na medida em que promove a participação da família na composição do litígio. Apesar da receptividade dessa modalidade de arranjo no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro, ainda se está construindo de forma gradativa sua aceitação e cultura, ao contrário do que já acontece no direito comparado, onde ela é aplicada com freqüência. Uma pesquisa empírica comprovou a sua operacionalização e a necessidade de que os pais sejam informados pelos operadores do direito da existência e das vantagens da guarda compartilhada.