For us to appreciate Austen's work it needs to be altered. We are only comfortable with it if it mirrors our expectations of it; the picturesque English countryside, elegant males and beautiful women in period clothing, living in impressive stone mansions. We want stories of strong, feminist ladies, who throw the men into raptures with their beauty and their ability to engage in passionate, snappy verbal exchanges. We want the held-back emotions, the intimacy of the near touch, the relief of liberating, emotionally charged confessions of admiration and love. The purpose of this essay is to examine two of Jane Austen's popular novels Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility with their respective latest film adaptations. When Jane Austen is interpreted in modern film her point-of-view is altered into our own. These changes celebrate, not Austen’s social writing, but our modern idea of romance. The themes in her novels are themes that are timeless and they are themes which our modern lives are filled with as well.

Legacy computer systems are systems where several of the main hardware and software components date back several decades. Modernizing these systems is often considered a large monetary and temporal investment with high risk, and to keep maintaining them usually becomes more and more difficult over time, which is why these legacy systems are still being used to this day in many industry sectors. A solution is therefore to try and integrate the legacy system components into modern systems, and there are several ways of achieving this. This bachelor thesis project work aims to analyze one approach known as “wrapping”. More specifically it analyzes NESizer2 Method, a method which utilizes relatively simple hardware and software interfaces to control the Ricoh RP2A03 processor found in the Nintendo Entertainment System, using an Atmega328 microprocessor. During the design and development phases of the project work a literature study was conducted, and experimental research method was utilized. The testing and experimental phases of the project work was focused on examining how identified key variables behaved when modifying certain parameters in the system. While we were able to produce some valid data, the results proved to be somewhat inconclusive, as certain operations such as memory operations did not work, leading to the conclusion that our circuit contained a faulty component. / Legacydatorsystem är system där många av de huvudsakliga hårdvaruoch mjukvarukomponenterna är flera decennier gamla. Att modernisera dessa system ses ofta som en stor monetär och tidsmässig investering, och att fortsätta att underhålla dem blir vanligtvis svårare och svårare med tiden. En lösning är därför att försöka att integrera legacy-systemets komponenter i moderna system, och det finns ett flertal tillvägagångssätt att uppnå detta. Detta kandidatexamensarbete ämnar att analysera ett tillvägagångssätt känt som “wrapping”. Mer specifikt analyseras NESizer2-metoden, en metod som utnyttjar relativt enkla hårdvaruoch mjukvarugränssnitt till att kontrollera Ricoh 2A03-processorn som finns i Nintendo Entertainment System, med hjälp av en Atmega328 mikroprocessor. Under designoch utvecklingsfaserna av projektarbetet utfördes en litteraturstudie, och experimentiell forskningsmetod användes. Testoch experimentfaserna av projektarbetet fokuserade på att undersöka hur identifierade nyckelvariabled betedde säg då man modifierade vissa parametrar i systemet. Även om vi lyckades producera en del riktig data visade sig resultaten vara ofullständiga, då vissa operationer såsom minnesoperationer inte fungerade, vilket ledde till slutsatsen att vår krets innehöll en defekt komponent.

Traditional studies of the modernization-instability thesis have neglected the simultaneous influence of time and place on the relationship between modernization (social mobilization and political participation) and political instability, and the possible causal linkage between the two concepts. Empirical support for modernization-instability hypothesis will be obtained if and only if there is a strong positive correlation between modernization and political instability and the former causes the latter unidirectionally. Only then can one assert that modernization is exogenous, and that a policy geared toward restricting modernization is a proper anti-instability policy. This work attempts to address the question of correlation and causality through a pooled time-series cross-sectional data design and the use of Granger-causality tests. Particular attention is paid to the error structure of the models. Using pooled regression, a model of political instability is estimated for a total of 35 countries for the period 1960-1982. Granger tests are performed on twelve separate countries randomly selected from the 35. The results indicate that there is the expected positive relationship between modernization and political instability. Further, political institutionalization and economic well-being have strong negative influence on political instability. With regard to causality, the results vary by country. Some countries experience no causality between modernization and political instability, while some witness bidirectional causality. Further, some nations experience unidirectional causality running from modernization to political instability, while some depict a reverse causation. The main results suggest that modernization and political instability are positively related, and that political instability can have causal influence on modernization, just as modernization can exert causal influence on political instability.

Maintaining legacy code can be difficult, it can also be hard to know whether what you are doing tomaintain the code is actually beneficial or not. This paper examines the impact of refactoring on codequality by systematically applying proven refactoring techniques and measuring its effect on codequality through code metrics.As an application at Xylem was being modified the application was simultaneously refactored. Beforeany refactoring was done the code quality was measured by maintainability index, cyclomaticcomplexity, depth of inheritance, class coupling and lines of code. Some parts of the application werere-written, others were refactored. By measuring the same metrics after the application wasrefactored it was found that the metrics had improved, indicating that the code quality hadincreased.

探求中共現代化經由國際媒體所塑造出的形象，同時具有政治及國際傳播的學術意義 ，一方面，由於國際媒體對導引有關「中國問題」的民意具有很大的力量，對其內容 客觀系統地量化及分析，是我們研究美國民意重要途徑之一。另一方面，探究國際傳 播媒介如何塑造距離遙遠差異很大的國家、人民的形象，一直是國際傳播研究的重要 課題。 因此本研究以「時代」和「新聞週刊」為對象，對其如何報導中共現代化進行分析及 比較，藉以了解二者對中國問題的態度立場之差異。 研究分量的分析、質的分析及比較分析三個途徑，量的分析探討兩新誌對中共現代化 報導的題材篇幅及印象分數；質的分析探討兩雜誌對中共學生運動、經濟逆轉及「反 資階運動」的詮釋；比較分析則藉由以上發現比較兩雜誌對中共現代化報導的根本差 異。

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:09:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissCRA.pdf: 2881527 bytes, checksum: 170077d154194d63029bede487348ee9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-05-11 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / Our country current socioeconomic environment is critical, with significant reduction in the construction industry consumer trade and great competition among this sector corporations which, to keep producing, are obliged to rethink their way to do so. Then, since the 80´s, these corporations have been questioning their technological delay and the low quality of their products, investing, afterwards, in the sector modernization. In this context, this research proposes a discussion about the adopted actions for sector technological modernization in order to rationalize and improve quality, as well as its technological level, emphasizing the Pumbling Systems. To do so, bibliographies related to the subject have been consulted to get familiar to the problem and possible ways to face the question and, in a later moment, verify it using cases of study. A field research was held in medium and small construction corporations in Ribeirão Preto. It was structured with visits to the buildings, where items related to the problems were verified through a Check-list and, later, analyzed to determine the corporation technological level related to the Pumbling Systems. In this research, it was evidenced the construction corporation unconcern related to the Pumbling Systems and its less importance compared to another sub-systems, such as architecture and structures. The technological level found in these corporations brings out the evidence of management investment necessity, creation of standard procedures and evaluation and selection criterion of the work. Only after consolidating these questions, the introduction of technological innovations will achieve their purposes. / O momento socioeconômico do país é crítico, com redução significativa do mercado consumidor da construção civil e acirrada competição entre as empresas do setor que, para continuarem produzindo, são obrigadas a repensar sua forma de fazê-lo. Assim, a partir da década de 1980, estas empresas vêm questionando seu atraso tecnológico e a baixa qualidade de seus produtos, passando a investir na modernização do setor. Neste contexto, esta pesquisa se propõe a discutir as ações adotadas para modernização tecnológica do setor em vias de racionalização e melhoria da qualidade, bem como seu patamar tecnológico, enfatizando os Sistemas Prediais Hidráulicos e Sanitários (SPHS). Para tanto, bibliografias pertinentes ao assunto foram consultadas para ambientação no problema e possíveis formas de encarar a questão para, em um segundo momento, verificá-la através de estudo de casos. A pesquisa de campo foi realizada em empresas construtoras de pequeno e médio porte na cidade de Ribeirão Preto, estruturada com visitas às obras, onde foram verificados os itens referentes à problemática, através de listas de verificação (Check-list) e, posteriormente, analisados para determinar o patamar tecnológico da empresa com relação aos SPHS. Nesta dissertação, constatou-se a despreocupação das construtoras em relação aos SPHS e sua pouca importância frente a outros subsistemas, como arquitetura e estruturas. O patamar tecnológico encontrado nestas empresas evidencia a necessidade de investimentos em sua gestão, a criação de padrões de procedimentos e critérios de avaliação e seleção dos serviços prestados. Somente depois de consolidadas estas questões, a introdução de inovações tecnológicas surtirá o efeito desejado.

Made available in DSpace on 2012-09-06T01:12:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) 145.pdf: 641826 bytes, checksum: 2dfa402b4643fbeb63eb472871487783 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1999 / Discute o fenômeno do adiamento da maternidade após os 35 anos, relacionando-o ao processo de Destradicionalizaçao Social, que vem ocorrendo em todas as esferas da vida cotidiana-inclusive, no contexto sócio-familiar brasileiro. Independente das transformaçoes no ethos da maternidade, o discurso médico define, a partir do enfoque de risco, o que é "normal" e "anormal"nos comportamentos reprodutivos. Com base nestes pressupostos analisamos as percepçoes das mulheres que adiaram a maternidade, para depois dos 35 anos, em relaçao ao relacionamento afetivo-familiar, ao trabalho, a gravidez e à maternidade. Foram realizadas, no Ambulatório de Pré-Natal do Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto (entre julho e outubro/1998), nove entrevistas com gestantes entre 36 e 39 anos, nao portadoras de doenças crônicas ou intercorrências físico-clínicas. Os resultados deste estudo, qualitativo, indicam que o processo modernizador e as conseqüentes mudanças nos tradicionais padroes familiares, imprimem suas marcas na experiência da maternidade. Essa revisao de valores, referentes à funçao feminina e ao papel materno acompanha a incorporaçao da mulher ao mercado de trabalho e o crescente peso do capital escolar. Tornou-se possível concluir ainda, que em funçao dos valores atuais, o "ser mae" para algumas mulheres nao é mais percebido como o único objetivo, já que o trabalho é fonte de realizaçao pessoal. / The present study has the purpose of discussing the phenomenon of the postponement of maternity to the age of 35 years aged of, relating this process to the Social Destraditionalization, which is taking place in all everyday’s spheres, inclusively in Brazilian social-familiar context. Apart from the changes in the ethos of maternity, the medical speech defines, from the risk focus, what is normal and abnormal in the reproductive behavior. Based on such assumptions we analysed the perception of women who postponed maternity to the age of 35 years, associating that to the affective-familiar relationship, work, pregnancy and mothernity. We interviewed nine pregnant women between 35 and 39 years old in the Ambulatory of the Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto from july to october of 1998, who had no chronic illness or physical- linicalintercurrency. The results of this qualitative study points out that the modernizing process and its changes in the traditional familiar standard, influences the experience of maternity. This review of values which reters to the female functions and the mother role follows to the incorporation of women to the job market and the steady increase of the school capital. We were also able to conclude that because of the current values, “being mother” to some women is no longer realized as the only aim in life, seeing that work is as personal achievements.