This is an essay about love and gender representation in Håkan Hellström’s and Veronica Maggio’s lyrics. The purpose of this essay is to investigate how lyrics of indie-pop music represent gender, sexuality and love. The lyrics used is from love songs performed by Håkan Hellström and Veronica Maggio. The method for examining the lyrics of the love songs is discourse- theory and analysis. I analyzed the results using theories about performativity, heteronormativity and masculine hegemonyic masculinity. I found patterns which indicate that love songs in indie-pop music often represents an ideal relationship to be heteronomy, meaning a heterosexual and monogamous relationship between a man and a woman. Although, there were differences between how a masculinity was built; Hellström’s discourse built a masculinity that was fragile and vulnerable, but still loving and showing a lot of emotions. Maggios discourse built a masculinity that were more or less mirroring the society’s view of how a “man” is supposed to be. Also, the view of femininity differed from the two artists: Hellström’s discourse built a femininity of strong and controlling women, and Maggio’s built a more fragile and normative discourse about femininity. Another theme that was discovered was of all the disappointment that was found in love. Indie-pop’s love is always built around disappointment in the relationship – that you will always be disappointed either by yourself or by your partner.

Esta tesis parte del estudio de los veinticuatro afiches que el artista peruano Jesús Ruiz Durand (Huancavelica, 1940) (Huancavelica, 1940) diseñó entre los años 1969 y 1971 en la Dirección de Promoción y Difusión de la Reforma Agraria, DPDRA, organismo oficial creado por el gobierno militar de Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968-1975), cuya función principal era la de comunicar y difundir las acciones gubernamentales relacionadas con la reforma agraria que expropió las tierras a sus dueños y las repartió entre los campesinos peruanos bajo la consigna “¡Campesino, el patrón ya no comerá más tu pobreza!”. La investigación propone que la categoría estético-ideológica del pop achorado, establecida por el mismo Ruiz Durand en 1984 al referirse a sus afiches, y adoptada por la historiografía del arte peruana como un axioma, es parcial y da una percepción equívoca de la trascendencia de estos objetos. Por un lado, la tesis formula que hemos estudiado y pensado los afiches como un todo, cuando en realidad no lo son. Nuestra propuesta señala que esta lectura es incompleta dado que en total existen subconjuntos, muy precisos, que no necesariamente dialogan con la descripción de pop achorado. Es decir, no todos se resuelven a partir de la estética del pop art y, por el lado ideológico, tampoco todos representan al indio peruano achorado como sinónimo de desafío e insolencia. En el primer capítulo de esta investigación se propone una nueva clasificación para el conjunto de los afiches. Esta categorización asume que solo uno de los subconjuntos presentados se relaciona parcialmente con la categoría pop achorado, mientras el resto de ellos se configura a partir de otras resoluciones artísticas y temáticas. En esta nueva clasificación, aquí propuesta, se prioriza los ejes estéticos, sin que ello suponga descuidar los temáticos. Así, por ejemplo, los dos afiches relacionados con la figura de Túpac Amaru se integran conceptualmente a partir de la búsqueda de un ícono revolucionario, pero también lo hacen a partir de su resolución óptica matemática. El segundo capítulo plantea, sobre la base de esta nueva clasificación, algunos nuevos planteamientos de análisis para los afiches. Estas propuestas priorizan aspectos aparentemente técnicos como la fotografía, el diseño gráfico y el cómic. La investigación expone, a partir de estas nuevas categorías de análisis, nuevos trazados para futuras y distintas aproximaciones estéticas sobre estos nuevos tres trazados. Finalmente, el último capítulo cuestiona la eficacia de estos afiches en el plano de la recepción hacia los campesinos peruanos. La tesis en su conjunto también plantea que si bien su acercamiento oficial los validó en términos artísticos, este mismo acercamiento los convirtió, con el paso del tiempo, ya no en afiches sino en fetiches descontextualizados. La pregunta que subyace es ¿Cómo y cuándo así estos afiches dejaron de ser dispositivos de propaganda política para convertirse en obras de arte para coleccionistas y museos? Una primera respuesta tiene que ver justamente con el cliché no cuestionado de una categoría que los uniformizó como una mercancía, pero también con el fracaso del gobierno velasquista que devino en una crisis institucional en el que triunfó un modelo político y económico excluyente, encargado de construir, muchas veces a partir de mitos, la historia oficial. En suma, esta investigación propone que los afiches que el artista peruano Jesús Ruiz Durand diseñó para la reforma agraria han sobrevivido no solo porque “gustaron”, como muchos ahora repiten, sino porque justamente fueron pensados, desde el comienzo, para una reducida institución artística y política, asegurando así su perpetuidad pero a la vez descuidando así paradójicamente al otro para quienes estaban pensados, es decir, a aquel campesino peruano, aparentemente develado como actuante principal del mensaje, que luego de casi cincuenta años, a diferencia de los afiches, sigue olvidado. / Tesis

As aves marinhas são sensíveis às alterações em todos os níveis tróficos, decorrentes de variações na disponibilidade de presas e contaminação por alguns compostos, capazes de se acumular nos tecidos dos organismos e magnificar-se através da cadeia trófica. As ilhas oceânicas brasileiras abrigam importantes colônias reprodutivas de aves marinhas e, apesar de serem consideradas locais remotos, estão sujeitas à contaminação decorrente de atividades humanas. Este trabalho avaliou a presença de poluentes orgânicos persistentes (POPs) em sangue, uma matriz não-destrutiva, de seis espécies de aves marinhas no Arquipélago de São Pedro e São Paulo e na Ilha da Trindade, que possibilita o monitoramento destes indivíduos ao longo dos anos. Os resultados indicaram que os principais POPs detectados no sangue (em ng g-1 de massa úmida) foram PCBs (0,05 a 55,09), DDTs (0,01 a 17,36) e Mirex (0,01 a 5,53). A migração influenciou nos altos níveis de POPs encontrados em Pterodroma arminjoniana e a massa (g) média dos indivíduos apresentou uma forte correlação negativa com as concentrações dos compostos predominantes no sangue. O sexo das aves não contribuiu significativamente nas concentrações de POPs em espécies monotípicas, exceto para a espécie Sula leucogaster que apresenta dimorfismo sexual acentuado. O comportamento alimentar, avaliado através da análise de isótopos estáveis de carbono e de nitrogênio (δ13C e δ15N), bem como as condições biológicas de cada animal contribuíram para explicar as variações nos perfis de contaminação entre as diferentes espécies. No geral, observou-se que as concentrações de POPS nos dois locais apresentaram valores baixos e similares sugerindo a via atmosférica como principal mecanismo de entrada desses contaminantes para estas regiões. Os resultados inéditos de POPs em sangue das aves marinhas nas duas mais recentes unidades de conservação marinhas criadas no Brasil, podem contribuir como referência para o monitoramento desses compostos em longo-prazo nessas regiões. / Seabirds are sensitive to changes at all trophic levels, due to variations in prey availability and contamination by some compounds, which can be accumulated in the tissues of organisms and to be magnified through the trophic chain. The Brazilian oceanic islands harbor important seabird breeding colonies and, although they are considered remote sites, they are subject to contamination from human activities. This work evaluated the presence of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in blood, a non-destructive matrix, of six species of seabirds in the São Pedro and São Paulo Archipelago (SPSPA) and Trindade Island (TI), that allows the monitoring of these individuals over the years. The results indicated that the major POPs detected in blood (ng g-1 in wet weight) were PCBs (0.05 to 55.09), DDTs (0.01 to 17.36) and Mirex (0.01 to 5,53). Migration influenced the high levels of POPs found in Pterodroma arminjoniana and the mean mass (g) of the individuals drove a strong negative correlation with the concentrations of the predominant compounds in the blood. The gender of the individuals did not contribute significantly to the concentrations of POPs in monotypic species, except for the species Sula leucogaster that presents marked sexual dimorphism. The feeding behavior was evaluated through the analysis of stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen (δ13C and δ15N) as well as the biological conditions of each animal contributed to explain the variations in the contamination profiles between the different species. In general, we observed that POPS concentrations at both sites presented low and similar values suggesting the atmospheric transport as the main input mechanism of these compounds for these regions. The unpublished results of POPs, in blood of seabirds from the two most recent marine conservation units created in Brazil, can contribute as reference values for their long-term monitoring in those regions.

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These are men and women who live in a situation of extreme poverty, without work and regular housing, who inhabit public spaces, streets and squares of the city, surviving as beggers or by conducting informal services, such as looking after parked cars, collecting recyclable materials and similar activities. This study examines the trajectory of the construction of a national policy for inclusion of people living in a street situation, particularly in Brazil, and specifically in Pelotas. A study was conducted in this municipality with the users of the Specialized Reference Center for Social Assistance for the Street Population (CREAS-pop), to trace the characterization of these subjects and analyze the implementation of the service, according to the manifestations of the participants in the study. To conduct the study, scientific research was conducted with a qualitative approach, within a dialectical-critical focus, which included a study of documents, observation and a focus group to respond to the following key question: what is the meaning of the implantation of the CREAS POP Pelotas to meet the needs and expectations of its users? The data collection to characterize the profile of users allowed, in addition to the preparation of reference statistics, unveiling the reality of a population group, which - despite life s adversities and the difficulties of a system that denies them their most essential rights - continue to dream of better days, with a complete life, and hope that the service will help improve their reality. It found that the work undertaken by CREAS POP Pelotas is participating in efforts to implement a national policy for people in a street situation, which still functions in a very limited manner. The institution is involved in the construction of a model of care for these people, to guarantee their rights, particularly the right to access social policies. The statements of the users include visceral expressions of the anguish of people who survive in inhuman conditions amid the daily life of the city, and coexist with others, living exposed to the elements, with hunger, without income, abandoned, suffering all kinds of violence, while basically invisible to society. Nevertheless, they declare that they have hope that the service can provide the force that they are lacking to change their lives, that they feel safe at the shelter, that they get together to discuss their problems and say that once again their voices are being heard / Este trabalho versa sobre a População em Situação de Rua, fenômeno sócio histórico que vêm ganhando visibilidade em face do crescimento alarmante de pessoas que se encontram na miséria absoluta, vivendo nas ruas e praças das cidades, com direitos fundamentais violados e sem acesso aos serviços públicos a que tem direito. Apresenta uma revisão teórica sobre este fenômeno quem origem na desigualdade social, gerada pela exploração das classes trabalhadoras no sistema capitalista, representando uma das manifestações mais trágicas da questão social. São homens e mulheres que vivem em situação de extrema pobreza, sem trabalho e moradia regular, habitam os espaços públicos, ruas e praças da cidade, sobrevivendo como pedintes ou através de serviços informais, tais como, flanelinhas, catadores de material reciclável e outras ocupações do gênero. Abarcamos neste estudo, a trajetória do processo de construção da Política Nacional para inclusão de Pessoas em Situação de Rua, particularmente no Brasil, e especificamente em Pelotas, município em que foi aplicada uma pesquisa com os usuários do Centro de Referência Especializado de Assistência Social para população de rua (CREAS-pop), para traçar a caracterização destes sujeitos e analisar a implantação do serviço, segundo as manifestações dos participantes da pesquisa. Para isto, a investigação científica realizada com abordagem qualitativa, dentro de um enfoque dialético-crítico, usou o estudo documental, observação e grupo focal para responder a seguinte questão-chave: qual o significado da implantação do CREAS POP Pelotas para o atendimento das necessidades e expectativas de seus usuários? O processo de coleta de dados para a caracterização do perfil dos usuários permitiu, mais do que elaboração de uma estatística referencial, desvelar a realidade de um grupo populacional que, mesmo frente às adversidades da vida, dos revezes de um sistema que lhes usurpa os direitos mais essenciais, continuam sonhando com dias melhores, com uma vida plena, e depositam esperanças que o serviço contribua para a melhoria de sua realidade. Constatou-se que o trabalho desenvolvido pelo CREAS POP Pelotas se encontra em processo de implementação do que propõe a Política Nacional para População em Situação de Rua, atuando ainda de forma tímida, na construção de um modelo de atenção a estas pessoas, no que tange a efetivação da garantia dos direitos positivados, especialmente no que se refere ao acesso às políticas sociais para a concretização dos direitos elementares. Nos relatos dos usuários, defrontamo-nos com expressões vicerais das angustias de pessoas que sobrevivem em condições desumanas em meio ao cotidiano da cidade, convivem com todos, vivendo ao relento, com fome, sem renda, abandonados, sofrendo toda sorte de violências, ainda assim, são invisíveis a sociedade, declaram, contudo, que estão com esperanças que o serviço seja a força que faltava para mudar suas vidas, se sentem seguro na casa, se reúnem para discutirem seus problemas e dizem que novamente estão sendo ouvidas suas vozes

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:18:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Paula Cappellano.pdf: 909570 bytes, checksum: 9bc8bc07daf5a8f573369495814e08b6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The following dissertation intends to investigate the creative process of pop music from the study of the audiovisual format as a musical creative process register, the documentary film and the making of in particular. Relations and interactions between the music created in the music industry dynamics and the culture of the image, as well as with the expansion of the registers and documents of process of music, from the eletronic record to the video, are established. Pop music refers to that of the Culture Industry, of media insertion, especially mass media, such as the radio, the cinema and the television, and their production is seen as a wide creative network. The documentary Let it Be, by the British group The Beatles, filmed in 1969 and released in 1970, was chosen as case study and, from the processes critique approach and based on the theories of the work of art creative networks, by Cecília Almeida Salles, it is understood as register and index of the collective process of creation of the band. The movie is considered, from this perspective, a precursor of the audiovisual format known today as the making of and, based on their critical analysis, different moments and points of tension are recognised during the creation and recording of an album, nods of the pop music network. We seek to understand how the interactions among their members, the creative subjects, as well as with external factors to that specific process, characterized the collective process of creation of the group at that stage of their career / A seguinte dissertação pretende investigar o processo de criação da música pop a partir do estudo do formato audiovisual como registro de processo de criação musical, em particular, o gênero cinematográfico documentário e o formato audiovisual making of. São estabelecidas relações e interações entre a música criada na dinâmica da indústria fonográfica e a cultura da imagem, bem como com a expansão dos registros e documentos de processo da música desde a gravação eletrônica até o vídeo. Denomina-se música pop aquela da Indústria Cultural, de inserção nas mídias, especialmente as de massa, como o rádio, o cinema e a televisão e sua produção é vista como uma grande rede criativa. O documentário Let it Be, do grupo britânico The Beatles, filmado em 1969 e lançado em 1970, foi escolhido como estudo de caso e, a partir da abordagem da crítica de processos e da teoria das redes de criação da obra de arte, de Cecília Almeida Salles, é entendido como registro e índice do processo de criação coletivo da banda. O filme é considerado, nesta perspectiva, um precursor do formato audiovisual hoje denominado making of e, a partir da sua análise crítica, são reconhecidos diferentes momentos e pontos de tensão durante a criação e gravação de um álbum, nós das redes de criação da música pop. Procura-se entender como as interações entre seus integrantes, os sujeitos criativos, bem como com fatores externos àquele processo específico, caracterizavam o processo de criação coletivo da banda naquele ponto da carreira

Det finns ett gap mellan tanke och handling i mindre organisationer. Omedvetenhet om den egna verksamheten har lett till att både lyckad och misslyckad organisering getts missvisande förklaringar. Studiens syfte är därför att utveckla kunskap om och förståelse för organiseringsprocesser i mindre organisationer och specifikt i popband. Forskningsdesignen är en longitudinell fallstudie av ett popband. Metodologin har inspirerats av etnografi och har en abduktiv ansats. Den huvudsakliga datainsamlingstekniken har varit observation av chattande, men direkta observationer, intervjuer och reflektionsmöte har också genomförts. Resultaten visar hur popbandet organiseras i projekt och på vikten av komplexitet och den gemensamma mening som det kan skapa. Stöd har tagits i Czarniawskas organiseringsteori och Weicks teori om meningsskapande. Slutsatsen dras att ihållande och sammanhängande organiseringsprocesser är förbundna med kollektiva meningsprocesser. Strävan efter gemensam mening är en strävan efter att förverkliga organisationen som ett kollektiv. Implikationerna för välfungerande verksamhet i mindre organisationer föreslås vara att sträva efter komplexitet genom att involvera alla deltagares mest meningsfulla projekt i varandra, att schemalägga träffar och att sätta multipla deadlines, samt att undvika enväldigt ledarskap, att undvika konkurrerande kompiskollektiv, att undvika delegering och tilldelning av ansvarsområden och att undvika strävan efter en gemensam syn på verksamheten. / There is a gap between thought and action in smaller organizations. Unawareness of its own activities has led to misleading explanations for both successful and unsuccessful organizing. This study therefore aims to develop knowledge and understanding of processes of organizing in smaller organizations and specifically in pop bands. The research design is a longitudinal case study of a pop band. The methodology was inspired by ethnography and has an abductive approach. The main source for data collection has been observation of chatting, however direct observations, interviews and a meeting of stimulated recall has also been conducted. The results show how the pop band is organized in projects and the importance of complexity and the collective sense that it can make. Analysis is based on Czarniawska's theory of organizing and Weick's theory of sensemaking. It is concluded that sustained and coherent processes of organizing are associated with processes of collective sensemaking. An endeavor for collective sense is an endeavor to realize the organization as a collective. The implications for well-functioning activities in smaller organizations proposed to be to endeavor for complexity by involving the most sensible projects according to all participants into one another, and to schedule meetings and to have multiple deadlines, and avoid authoritarian leadership, avoid competing buddy collective, avoid delegation and allocation of areas of responsibility and avoid the pursuit of a common view.

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L'objectif de cette thèse est d'étudier trois romans écrits par des auteurs anglophones du Pakistan ou de l'Inde, à savoir Bapsi Sidhwa, Bharati Mukherjee et Hanif Kureishi. On pourrait être tenté de placer les trois écrivains de cette étude dans la catégorie «littérature des immigrants». Ils écrivent tous à un moment de migration de masse lorsque l'idée de «choc culturel» parmi les peuples occidentaux commence à être plus évidente. Les trois écrivains sont affectés par des thèmes qui apparaissent seulement de manière marginale dans le débat évoqué ci-dessus, l'accent étant principalement mis sur les difficultés culturelles et sociales des femmes dans la société indo-pakistanaise. Quant à Kureishi, la polarisation mentionnée ci-dessus suppose un accent très différent, impliquant la situation d'un Asiatique né et élevé dans la société occidentale. Dans cette évaluation globale du contexte idéologique et historique commun aux trois écrivains, il sera important d'examiner les attitudes spécifiques adoptées par chaque écrivain par rapport à son expérience personnelle. L'objectif principal de cette étude sera donc thématique, en se concentrant sur les préoccupations spécifiques de ces écrivains et sur la manière dont cela se manifeste dans leur représentation particulière des tensions en jeu. / The objective of this thesis is to study three novels written by English-speaking authors of Pakistan or India, namely Bapsi Sidhwa, Bharati Mukherjee and Hanif Kureishi. One might be tempted to place the three writers of this study in the category of "literature of immigrants." They all write at a time of mass migration when the idea of "cultural shock" among Western peoples begins to be more evident. All three writers are affected by themes which appear only marginally in the debate evoked above, much of the emphasis being on the cultural and social difficulties of women in Indo-Pakistani society. As for Kureishi, the polarization mentioned above assumes a very different emphasis, involving the situation of an Asian born and brought up inside Western society. Within this overall assessment of the ideological and historical context common to all three writers, it will thus be important to examine the specific attitudes adopted by each writer in relation to his or her own personal experience. The main focus of this study will therefore be thematic, centering on these writers’ specific preoccupations and the way this is seen in their peculiar depiction of the tensions at stake.

The subject of this diploma thesis is the design development of marketing communication to enhance brand competitiveness in company focused on fast moving consumer goods. Concretely the Knorr, food brand of Unilever company. The first part provides a theoreti-cal basis for the processing of the issue. In the practical part I have assessed the current marketing communication by using inter alia SWOT, PEST and Porter's analysis. Based on analysis of the current situation, I propose to improve marketing communications, including analysis of time, costs and risk.

Pharmacometrics is widely used in drug development. Models are developed to describe pharmacological measurements with data gathered from a clinical trial. The information can then be applied to, for instance, safely establish dose-response relationships of a substance. Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is a common biomarker used by models within antihyperglycemic drug development, as it reflects the average plasma glucose level over the previous 8-12 weeks. There are five different nonlinear mixed-effects models that describes HbA1c-formation. They use different biomarkers such as mean plasma glucose (MPG), fasting plasma glucose (FPG), fasting plasma insulin (FPI) or a combination of those. The aim of this study was to compare their performances on a population and an individual level using model averaging (MA) and to explore if reduced trial durations and different treatment could affect the outcome. Multiple weighting methods were applied to the MA workflow, such as the Akaike information criterion (AIC), cross-validation (CV) and a bootstrap model averaging method. Results show that in general, models that use MPG to describe HbA1c-formation on a population level could potentially outperform models using other biomarkers, however, models have shown similar performance on individual level. Further studies on the relationship between biomarkers and model performances must be conducted, since it could potentially lay the ground for better individual HbA1c-predictions. It can then be applied in antihyperglycemic drug development and to possibly reduce sample sizes in a clinical trial. With this project, we have illustrated how to perform MA on the aforementioned models, using different biomarkers as well as the difference between model weights on a population and individual level.