Skräck är den filmgenre som specifikt är till för att locka fram rädsla hos tittaren. Denna uppsats fokuserar på att ta reda på hur komponenter i bild och ljud medför den upplevda subjektiva känslan hos karaktären genom gestaltningen av demonisk besatthet. Uppsatsen genomför en semiotisk analys på två olika avsnitt från tv-serien Penny Dreadful. Genom att utföra den semiotiska analysen på hur gestaltningen av besatthet visas i bild och ljud, kunde uppsatsen fastställa att de olika bild- och ljudkomponenterna både samarbetar, men även agerar olika för att få tittaren att uppleva den fenomenologiska känslan av skräcken som gestaltas. Bild- och ljudkomponenterna samarbetar också för att föra narrativet framåt, men om en komponent i ljudet inte stämmer överens med de övriga komponenterna i bilden kan budskapet av en scen ändras. Detta kan leda till att tittaren kan uppfatta ljudet som att det förstärker bildens budskap. Slutsatsen kom fram till att komponenterna i bilden visade tittaren det som de ska uppmärksamma samtidigt som de olika ljudkomponenterna förde narrativet framåt. Både bilden och ljudet bidrog till att förstärka den fenomenologiska upplevelsen och involvera tittaren i narrativet.

The Penny Post (1851–1896), a religious working-class magazine, was published following a critical time for the Oxford Movement, a High Church movement in the Church of England. The Oxford Movement's ideas were leaving the academic atmosphere of Oxford and traveling throughout the local parishes, where the ideals of Tractarian teachings met the harsh realities of practice and the motivations and beliefs of the working-class parishioners. The upper-class paternalistic ideologies of the Oxford Movement were not reflected in the parishes, and the working-classes felt distanced from their place in religious worship. The Penny Post was published and written by Tractarian clergymen and followers to "triumph in the Working Man's Home," attempting to convince a working-class audience that the upper-class Tractarian clergymen and parishioners both understood and wanted to help the poorer peoples of society. However, an analysis of the Penny Post reveals that its creators had more complex motives and were targeting a more diverse audience than they claimed. Because of these complexities, the Penny Post's creators could not reconcile the discrepancies between working-class ideologies and upper-class ideologies; the Penny Post, in the end, undermined its own intended purposes. The elements of the magazine that attempted to address working-class concerns were overshadowed by other elements that, while appearing to address working-class concerns, directly targeted an upper-class audience. This dichotomy of purpose—simultaneously addressing different classes with different, often contradictory, beliefs—reveals the multifaceted nature of the Penny Post's efforts to reach their audiences. The Penny Post is a magazine that simultaneously addresses an upper-class audience and a working-class audience, a duality that creates ideological contradictions and tensions throughout the magazine. These tensions reflect the class issues within Victorian society and the ways religious movements dealt with those tensions in periodicals like the Penny Post. The Penny Post provides an important look into how the Oxford Movement, a movement not known for its understanding of and interest in the working classes, did attempt to reach and understand the working classes through periodical literature.

Résumé : Le contexte récent d’accélération de la fonte des glaciers et calottes glaciaires (GCG) de l’archipel arctique canadien, jumelé aux difficultés de suivi des GCG de cette région, rendent essentiels le développement et l’utilisation de nouvelles approches innovatrices de suivi. Le potentiel de la stéréo radargrammétrie (SRG) RADARSAT-2 est ici caractérisé pour l’extraction d’élévations et le calcul de changements d’élévation et de bilans de masse (historiques et récents) sur les calottes glaciaires Barnes et Penny (Nunavut, Canada). Par la méthode semi-automatisée de recherche de corrélation à partir de couples stéréoscopiques RADARSAT-2 de 2013 (mode wide ultra-fin; résolution spatiale de 3 m; taille d’image de 50 km x 50 km), une précision verticale de ~7 m (LE68) est mesurée sur la terre ferme, et cette valeur de précision est possiblement légèrement supérieure sur la calotte Barnes, étant donné la variabilité de profondeur de pénétration. Par captage 3D, une précision altimétrique de ~3-4 m (LE68) est mesurée par différents photo-interprètes à partir de couples RADARSAT de 2012 en zone d’ablation de la calotte Penny. Sur la calotte Barnes, les changements d’élévation mesurés par rapport aux premiers modèles numériques de terrain disponibles permettent de mesurer un bilan de masse spécifique historique (1960-2013) de -0,49 ± 0,20 m w.e./année, pour un bilan de masse total de -2,9 Gt/année. Entre 2005 et 2013, le bilan de masse spécifique de cette calotte augmente significativement à -1,20 ± 0,86 m w.e./année, pour un bilan de masse total de -7 Gt/année. En zone d’ablation de la calotte Penny, un changement d’élévation annuel moyen de -0,59 m/année est mesuré entre 1958 et 2012. Parallèlement, plusieurs aspects méthodologiques et techniques sont discutés et analysés. Des profondeurs de pénétration nulles (bande C) sont mesurées à partir des images acquises sur la calotte Barnes à la toute fin de la saison d’ablation (fin septembre/début octobre), alors que cette profondeur augmente à ~2,5-3 m pour des images acquises à la fin octobre/début novembre (période de gel). Nos résultats suggèrent aussi que le modèle de fonction rationnelle, lorsqu’utilisé avec des images RADARSAT-2 en mode wide ultra-fin, permet d’obtenir des précisions plus constantes que le modèle hybride de Toutin. De par son indépendance des conditions météorologiques, son utilisation possible sans point de contrôle et sa simplicité de traitement, la SRG RADARSAT-2 s’avère donc être une excellente alternative aux technologies actuelles pour le suivi de GCG situés dans des régions affectées par des contraintes opérationnelles importantes. / Abstract : Given the recent melt acceleration of the Canadian arctic archipelago’s ice caps and the monitoring difficulties of this remote region, the development of new innovative monitoring tools has become essential. Here, the potential of the RADARSAT-2 stereo radargrammetry (SRG) is characterized for elevations extraction, as well as for elevation changes/mass balances calculations (historical and recent) on Barnes and Penny ice caps (Nunavut, Canada). Using the semi-automatic approach of correlation search from RADARSAT-2 stereoscopic couples of 2013 (wide ultra-fine mode; spatial resolution of 3 m; coverage of 50 km x 50 km), a vertical precision of ~7 m (LE68) is measured on ice-free terrain and this precision is possibly slighty worse on the ice cap because of the penetration depth’s variability. On the other hand, the 3D vision extraction approach reveals an altimetric precision of ~3-4 m (LE68) on the ablation area of the Penny Ice Cap. On the Barnes Ice Cap, elevation changes calculated relative to the oldest digital elevation models available allows to calculate an historical specific mass balance (1960-2013) of -0,49 ± 0,20 m w.e./year, resulting in a total annual mass balance of -2,9 Gt/year. Between 2005 and 2013, the specific mass balance of this ice cap increases to -1,20 ± 0,86 m w.e./year, which equals to a total annual mass balance f -7 Gt/year. On Penny Ice Cap’s ablation area, an average elevation change of -0,59 m/year is measured between 1958 and 2012. As also suggested in the literature, the recent melt acceleration is highly linked to warmer summer temperatures. Methodological and technical aspects are also presented and analyzed. No penetration depth (C band) is perceived on elevations derived from late ablation season images (late September/beginning of October), while a penetration of ~2,5-3 m is measured from images acquired in late October/beginning of November (freeze period). Our results also suggest the superiority and better consistency of the rational function model for geometrical correction of wide ultra-fine mode RADARSAT-2 images, compared to the hybrid Toutin’s model. Because of its all-weather functionality, its possible use without any ground control point and the simplicity and facility of its treatment, the RADARSAT-2 SRG represents a really good technology for glacier monitoring in regions affected by serious operational constraints.

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the stock price development of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the short and long term. If underpricing occurs, conclusions can be drawn about how this affects the price development. The thesis also aims to provide a better understanding of IPOs and their pricing by studying a selection of companies listed on Nasdaq and NYSE in New York. Theory: In order to analyze initial public offerings price discovery both short term and long term, this study will apply the theories The Effective Market Hypothesis, Information Assymmetri and The winner’s Curse.  Method: To answer the purpose of the study, the study applied a quantitative method with a deductive approach. The analyzed companies were identified with the help of two databases to later be used in a t:test. Results: The results show that a statistical significance did not exist for the first day’s closing price nor on the observation’s day closing price. This leads to the acceptance of the study’s null hypothesis.  Conclusion: Although a statistical significance did not exist, the study found similarities with the theories and previous research that was used in the study. The study implies that initial public offerings are a better short term investment than long term. / Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att analysera kursutveckling för börsintroduktioner på kort och lång sikt. Om underprissättning förekommer, kan det dras slutsatser om hur denna påverkar kursutvecklingen. Uppsatsen syftar också till att ge en bättre förståelse för börsintroduktioner och dess prissättning genom att studera ett urval av bolag som noterats på Nasdaq och NYSE i New York.  Teori: För att analysera börsintroduktioners kursutveckling på kort och lång sikt använder denna studie teorier om den effektiva marknadshypotesen, informationsasymmetri och ”The winner’s curse”.   Metod: För att besvara studiens syfte tillämpades en kvantitativ metod med en deduktiv ansats. De analyserade bolagen identifierades med hjälp av två databaser som sedan tillämpades i ett t-test.  Resultat: Resultatet visar att ett statistiskt signifikant samband inte fanns för varken första dagens eller observationsdagens stängningskurs. Detta har lett till att studiens nollhypoteser accepterats. Slutsats: Trots att studien inte kunde visa på statistisk signifikans, fanns likheter med teorier och tidigare forskning. Studien indikerar att det är mer gynnsamt när transaktionen genomförs under börsintroduktionsdagen.

"L'image que l'on donne/ N'est pas toujours la bonne" Les Cowboys Fringants, “Les Hirondelles” Malgré les changements dans le traitement des femmes au fil des décennies, les vraies policières continuent de souffrir des injustices de la part de leurs supérieurs masculins, ainsi que de la communauté qu'ils ont juré de protéger. Tant que la fiction reflète la réalité, on peut s'attendre que le genre de la polar du type policier démontrera non seulement les injustices entre les sexes, mais aussi les façons différentes que les victimes féminin y répondre. Comme des vrais policières, les détectives féminins fictifs sont trop souvent des victimes, même quand elles sont les protagonistes, même si leurs auteurs sont des femmes. Preuve de la discrimination contre les femmes policières réelles et fictives seront explorées dans cette thèse en regardant l'histoire des romans policiers, à travers des études de cas réels impliquant des policiers féminins réelles, ainsi que l'analyse de certains personnages clés dans les textes de discussion par Chrystine Brouillet, Vicki Delany et Louise Penny. En conséquence, il sera démontré que les images projetées par les agents de polices féminins réels et fictifs, quelles ne sont pas toujours bonnes, sont de plus en plus varié à la suite du mouvement féministe et en raison de la résistance littéral et imaginaire aux stéréotypes sexistes. Même si elles sont maintenant les protagonistes, les femmes détectives fictionaux faire face aux un réduction du l'agence et sont soumisent aux attentes différentes de genre que leurs homologues masculins. Aspects de l'inégalité des sexes présents dans les sociétés occidentales d'aujourd'hui se glissent dans la fiction et agir dans une manière pas toujours possible dans la monde réalité. Parfois, les situations sexistes sont résolu dans fiction, malgré le fait qu'ils existent toujours dans les vies quotidien de certaines femmes policiers. Les stéréotypes autour qu'est-ce que ça veut dire d'être policier causent des injustices du genre et existent souvent simultanément avec des images de femmes qui nient ces mêmes stéréotypes. La représentation de la femme policière est donc multiples, les stéréotypes reproduit, mélangé, ou effacé complètement. Masculinity is still regarded as the embodiment of strength and heroism and the female body, weakness and victimization. Philippa Gates, Detecting Women, 282 Despite changes in the treatment of women over the decades, policewomen continue to suffer gender injustices at the hands of their male superiors, as well as from the community they are sworn to protect. The injustices they face are publicized by such media as the CBC, though often in an exaggerated fashion. As fiction often reflects reality, one can expect that the genre of the police procedural will demonstrate not only such gender injustices but also various ways victims respond to them. Like real policewomen, fictional female detectives are too often victims even when they are the protagonists, and even when their author is a woman. Evidence of the victimization of real and fictional policewomen will be explored in this thesis by looking at the history of detective fiction, and through real case studies involving real female police officers, as well as the analysis of certain key characters in focus texts by Chrystine Brouillet, Vicki Delany, and Louise Penny. As a result, it will be shown that the images projected by actual and fictional female police officers, while not always positive ones, are becoming more varied as a result of the feminist movement and as a result of literal and imaginary resistance to sexist stereotypes. Despite having moved into a protagonist position, fictional female detectives all too often have reduced agency and different gendered expectations than their male counterparts. Aspects of gender inequity present in Western societies today creep into fiction and are played out in ways not always possible in reality. Sometimes, sexist problems present in the fictional texts are resolved despite the fact that they still exist in certain policewomen's everyday lives. Stereotypes of what a police officer should be function in ways that reflect and reproduce gender injustices and often exist simultaneously with images of women that resist and oppose these same stereotypes. The representation of policewoman is thus multiple, reproducing stereotypes, blurring them, or erasing them altogether.

Studien undersöker hur kvinnliga karaktärer representeras i relation till skräcktematiken i tv-serien Penny Dreadful (2014-). Syftet har varit att studera huruvida det som är typiska kännetecken för skräck kan kopplas till kvinnlighet, femininitet och feminism (det senare då man kan uppfatta ett genuskritiskt samtal i serien). Med hjälp av psykoanalytiska teorier kring abjektion visar analysen hur det som är skrämmande med kvinnor, är skrämmande på andra sätt än vad som är skrämmande med män. Det som är abjekt med kvinnan definieras ofta utifrån hennes sexualitet och biologiska egenskaper, och skapar därmed en feminin monstrositet och således är helt olik den manliga. Detta har till stor del växt fram genom historiska myter, religioner och konst, som har bidragit till könsspecifika monster utifrån stereotyp femininitet, så som häxor, sirener eller Medusa. Genom att utforska tv-seriens karaktärer med hjälp av semiotiska och psykoanalytiska verktyg avslöjas möjliga tolkningar som visar hur nämnda feminina monster tycks grunda sig i manlig rädsla och kvinnan som hot. Kastrationskomplexet som bidragande faktor och den manliga blicken tycks därför kväsa uttryck för kvinnlig frigörelse i serien, genom att sexualisera, plåga och göra kvinnan abjekt och monstruös i direkt genmäle till dessa. Serien tycks därför trots sin genuskritiska diskurs kontrolleras av en manlig blick och ett skoptofiliskt seende, något som möjligtvis bidrar till att kvinnlighet och femininitet kodas som abjekt, och i värsta fall stigmatiserar den feministiska kvinnan. / <p>Reviderad upplaga</p>

Master of Arts / Department of History / Bonnie Lynn-Sherow / This thesis recreates the relationship between humans and their physical environment in Fort Scott, Kansas between 1850 and 1920 and uses the poetry of J.S. Penny, a contemporary amateur poet living and writing in Fort Scott, as an essential primary resource. Settlers came to this area in southeastern Kansas in the 19th century for its timber-lined streams, high precipitation, and rich soil. The Missouri River, Fort Scott, and Gulf Railroad was extended through Fort Scott in December of 1869. The arrival of the railroad transformed the town. The natural resources which had been a mark of identity for the people of Fort Scott became commodities to be sold in national markets. Manufacturing and industry boomed, but population would eventually plateau in the early 20th century, creating a small industrial city that had maintained a strongly rural sense of community. Penny’s poetry provides a personal, emotional response to the rapid changes to the landscape around him. Some of his poems on the local landscape directly note specific changes in the local ecology, while some demonstrate Penny’s religious connection the natural world—a common perspective during his time. Other pieces show us Penny’s observations of how his neighbors reacted to the weather and environment in Fort Scott. Penny, like many Americans in the early 20th century, saw the history of his home as one of agrarian development and westward expansion over an empty landscape; the Jeffersonian and Turnerian roots of his perspective are evident in his poetry. With Penny’s poetry, we can create a more complete environmental history of Fort Scott by understanding how Fort Scott residents related to the land around them.

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This work considers a cracked semi-infinite cylinder and a finite cylinder. Material of the cylinder is linearly elastic and isotropic. One end of the cylinder is bonded to a fixed support while the other end is subject to axial tension. Solution for this problem can be obtained from the solution for an infinite cylinder having a penny-shaped rigid inclusion at z = 0 and two penny-shaped cracks at z = &plusmn / L. General expressions for this problem are obtained by solving Navier equations using Fourier and Hankel transforms. When the radius of the inclusion approaches the radius of the cylinder, the end at z = 0 becomes fixed and when the radius of the cracks approaches the radius of the cylinder, the ends at z = &plusmn / L become cut and subject to uniformly distributed tensile load. Formulation of the problem is reduced to a system of three singular integral equations. By using Gauss-Lobatto and Gauss-Jacobi integration formulas, these three singular integral equations are converted to a system of linear algebraic equations which is solved numerically.

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