This dissertation examines Byron's Don Juan and his attitude towards profits from the copyright money for publishing his poems. Recent studies on Don Juan and Byron have paid great attention to the poem especially in terms of the author's status as an unprecedented noble literary celebrity. Thus the hermeneutics of the poem has very often had a tendency to bind itself within the biographical understanding of the poet's socio-political practices. It is true that these studies are meaningful in that they highlighted and reconsidered the significance of the author's unique life so as to illustrate biographical and historical contexts of this Romantic text. Admitting the significance of the biographical approach, however, the current dissertation also argues that an interpretation of a literary work should consider a number of outside influences that affect the meaning of a text, which is in and of itself a creation of historical, political, economic, and material aspects of a specific time and place, not merely of an individual author. After the theoretical background suggested in Chapter I, Chapter II emphasizes the history of the publication of the first two cantos and investigates John Murray's publishing practices. Chapter III addresses some of the external influences on the reading of Don Juan to show that non-political content of the early five cantos came to be treated as politically radical by the voluntary and involuntary association of Byron and his work with radical publishers such as Leigh Hunt and William Hone. Chapter IV is a study of the new cantos of Don Juan (from the sixth canto). Focusing on Byron's political stance which gradually developed from his early liberalism into a more radical activism, this chapter explores Percy Shelley's influence on Byron's political ideas, the new cantos of Don Juan, and Byron's use of radical satire to instigate the fight against tyranny. Chapter V investigates Byron's attitude towards the profits he earned from the copyright of his poems to argue that Byron?s attitude towards his brain-money gradually changed from an ambiguous position to a strong insistence on obtaining what he perceived to be fair payments for his poems.

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2016-06-13T13:43:00Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) master_dissertarion_bruno_iran_ferreira_maciel.pdf: 2195155 bytes, checksum: 6f06d9eb76d39f57330246b10f75bafe (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-13T13:43:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) master_dissertarion_bruno_iran_ferreira_maciel.pdf: 2195155 bytes, checksum: 6f06d9eb76d39f57330246b10f75bafe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-02 / FACEPE / Recentemente, diversas iniciativas surgiram com intuito de fortalecer a transparência da administração pública por meio da publicação de dados na Web, conhecida por Dados Abertos Governamentais. Esse tipo de iniciativa permite que os cidadãos permaneçam informados sobre a gestão do governo, permitindo acompanhar a administração pública, de modo a contribuir com o aumento do poder de fiscalização do cidadão. A publicação de Dados Abertos é geralmente realizada por meio de sistemas para catalogação de dados, tais como: a Plataforma Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN). Além dos catálogos de dados, as Application Programming Interface (APIs) e Web services também podem ser utilizados para facilitar o acesso aos dados. Apesar do grande número de iniciativas que visam fornecer dados na Web, ainda não há um consenso sobre a melhor maneira de cumprir esta tarefa. No entanto, independentemente da estratégia escolhida, é importante que os processos utilizados para publicar dados na Web e manutenção destes dados se realizem de forma automática e de modo que cada uma das suas atividades possam ser reproduzidas quando for necessário. Neste contexto, este trabalho propõe uma abordagem Restful API, com base em um conjunto de Web services para facilitar a publicação e o consumo de dados abertos. / Recently, several initiatives have emerged with the aim of strengthening the transparency of public administration by publishing data on the Web, known as Government Open Data. This type of initiative allows citizens to remain informed about the government’s management, allowing monitoring the public administration in order to contribute to the increase of citizen oversight power. Data Open Publication is generally carried out by means of systems for cataloging data such as: a Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network Platform (CKAN). In addition to the data catalogs, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Web services can also be used to facilitate access to the data. Despite the large number of initiatives aimed at providing data on the Web, there is still no consensus on the best way to accomplish this task. However, regardless of the chosen strategy, it is important that the processes used to publish data to the web and maintenance of these data are carried out automatically and so that each of its activities can be reproduced when necessary. In this context, this paper proposes a Restful API approach, based on a set of Web services to facilitate the publication and consumption of open data.

Dans un contexte de besoins croissants de moyens de communication pour augmenter la sécurité des vols et répondre aux attentes des compagnies et des passagers, le monde de l'aviation civile cherche de nouveaux systémes de communication pouvant répondre à ces objectifs. Les réseaux ad-hoc aéronautiques, AANET (Aeronautical Ad hoc NETworks) représentent une approche innovante pour répondre à cette problématique. Il s'agit de réseaux auto-configurés, n'utilisant pas d'infrastructure fixe et dont la spécificité réside dans le fait que les nfiuds composant le réseau sont des avions commerciaux. Les AANET peuvent être vus comme un sous ensemble des VANET (Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks) puisqu'ils partagent de nombreuses caractéristiques comme les contraintes imposées sur les trajectoires. Afin d'utiliser le plus eficacement ces réseaux mobiles tout en répondant aux besoins de nouvelles applications, telle que l'information météorologique temps réel sur des phénoménes dangereux, qui nécessitent des communications d'avion à avion, la proposition avancée dans cette thése est d'utiliser le paradigme du routage basé sur le contenu au dessus des AANET. Dans ce type de routage, ce n'est plus une adresse de destination qui est utilisée pour joindre le ou les correspondants, mais le contenu du message qui permet de décider des destinataires. Dans ce paradigme, un émetteur envoi un message possédant des attributs et le message est alors transmis par le réseau uniquement aux terminaux intéressés par le contenu du message. Appliqué à l'information météorologique, cette approche permet à un aéronef détectant un phénoméne dangereux tel qu'un orage de prévenir uniquement les avions intéressés par cet événement, c'est à dire ceux dont la trajectoire passe prés de l'orage dans le temps de vie du phénoméne. Dans cette thése, nous avons choisi de nous appuyer sur le paradigme populaire de publication/souscription (P/S) pour fournir un service de routage basé sur le contenu. Dans cette approche, des éditeurs publient des événements et des nfiuds envoient des abonnements pour déclarer les contenus qui les intéressent au systéme qui est alors en charge de leur faire suivre les événements répondant à leur demande. Aprés un état de l'art sur les systémes P/S existants, notamment ceux adaptés aux VANET, nous avons choisi de tester des solutions paraissant intéressantes dans un contexte AANET. Pour cela, nous avons développé sous Omnet++ un module de mobilité utilisant des reports de position réels afin de rejouer des journées complétes de trafic d'avions réels, ainsi que plusieurs applications aéronautiques s'appuyant sur un systéme P/S permettant de générer des données réalistes. Les résultats montrent que ces solutions ne sont pas complétement adaptées pour un contexte AANET. C'est pourquoi, dans un second temps, nous avons proposé un nouveau systéme P/S pour les AANET. Cette solution s'appuie sur une architecture recouvrante ("overlay network") construite à l'aide d'un algorithme original de regroupement à 1-saut (1-hop clusterisation) adapté aux AANET. Afin de favoriser la stabilité de l'architecture recouvrante, cet algorithme s'appuie sur le nombre de voisins et la mobilité relative entre les nfiuds voisins pour définir les groupes. Les tests réalisés montrent que le systéme P/S s'appuyant sur cette surcouche ofire de meilleurs résultats que les solutions testées précédemment, que ce soit en termes de charge réseau ou de pourcentage d'événements délivrés. / In a context of growing needs of communication means to increase ight safety and meet the expectations of companies and passengers, the world of civil aviation seeks new communication systems that can meet these objectives. The Aeronautical Ad-Hoc Networks, AANETs represent an innovative approach to address this problem. It is self-configured networks, using no fixed infrastructure where the nodes are commercial aircraft. The AANETs can be seen as a subset of the VANET (Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks) since they share many features as the constraints imposed on the trajectories. In order to use these mobile networks more eficiently while meeting the needs of new applications, such as the transmission of weather information in real time, requiring air to air communications. , we propose in this thesis to use the paradigm of content based routing above AANET. In this kind of routing, it is not a destination address that is used to identify the recipients, but the message content itself. In this paradigm, a transmitter sends a message having attributes and the message is then transmitted by the network to nodes interested by the content of the message. Applied to weather information update, this approach allows an aircraft detecting a dangerous phenomenon such as a thunderstorm to only prevent interested nodes, ie those whose the trajectorycome close to the storm during the lifetime of the event. In this thesis, we have chosen to rely on the popular Publish / Subscribe (P/S) paradigm to provide a content based routing service. In this approach, publishers publish events. On the other side, nodes send subscriptions to declare their interest and the system is then in charge of forward events to nodes that match their needs. After a state of the art about existing P / S systems, particularly those adapted to VANETs, we choose to test the solutions seemed interesting in a AANET context. To accomplish this, we have developed as a Omnet ++ mobility model using real position reports to replay a full day of trafic of aircraft and several aeronautical applications based on a P / S system to generate realistic data. The results show that these solutions are not completely suitable for AANET context. Therefore, in a second step, we proposed a new P / S system which is more eficient on a AANET. This solution is based on an overlay network built thanks to a new of 1-hopping clustering algorithm suitable for AANET. In order to increase the stability of the overlay architecture, this algorithm is based on the number of neighbors and the relative mobility between the nodes to define groups. The tests show that the P/S system based on this overlay provides better results than the previously tested solutions, whether in terms of network load or percentage of transmitted events.

Recent social theories related to academic literacies suggest that academic writing is not a mere text production but also an identity performance; hence, the notion of ‘authorial identity’ which involves two dimensions: the identity as academic authors (personal dimension) and the identity in writing (textual dimension). This thesis presents a study into the development of authorial identity among senior academic scholars on the trajectory of professorship through interviews and textual analysis of their published papers sampled across their early and later career. Three full professors from a UK university participated in this study, which was conducted in three phases. In the first phase, the professor participants’ accounts of their personal dimension of authorial identity through interviews signal common themes regarding the influence of the recent academic climate on their personal experience of growth in relation to their endeavour to improve the quality of their academic scholarship. In the second phase, the metadiscourse-based textual analysis of their sampled academic papers indicates several features of their identity performance in writing over time, which form the basis for the professor participants’ reflection on their textual dimension of authorial identity in the third phase in order to explore how their papers are embedded in and related to the social contexts of academic publication, especially the peer review process and the research assessment framework. The research findings from this study not only shed light on the developmental pathway in academic writing from the same academic scholars over time but also provide an illuminating account of how they have developed themselves as well as their writing on the trajectory of professorship. Further, the findings from all three research phases are discussed together in relation to relevant social theories to offer a theoretical contribution to the research area of academic literacies, writing, identity and scholarship.

Background: In September 2005, scientific journals began requiring trial protocol registration to increase transparency and accountability. Objective: My primary objectives were: develop a database of linked protocols and publications for surgical randomized control trials (RCTs); estimate the proportion published; and determine the proportion exhibiting selective outcome reporting. Methods: A systematic search of the clinicaltrials.gov database was conducted identifying surgical RCTs, completed between 2006 and 2012. Protocols were linked with publications. Primary outcomes were compared. Results: We identified a cohort of 743 surgical RCT protocols. The proportion of registered trials which published their primary results was 0.49 (n=364). The proportion of selective outcome reporting was estimated to be 0.244, significantly lower than the previous estimate (p<0.001). Conclusion: More than half of the completed surgical RCTs were unpublished, and one quarter of those published selectively reported their primary outcome. This supports the notion that significant bias is present in the surgical literature.

The purpose of this study was to test Lotka’s law of scientific publication productivity using the methodology outlined by Pao (1985), in the field of Library and Information Studies (LIS). Lotka’s law has been sporadically tested in the field over the past 30+ years, but the results of these studies are inconclusive due to the varying methods employed by the researchers. A data set of 1,856 citations that were found using the ISI Web of Knowledge databases were studied. The values of n and c were calculated to be 2.1 and 0.6418 (64.18%) respectively. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) one sample goodness-of-fit test was conducted at the 0.10 level of significance. The Dmax value is 0.022758 and the calculated critical value is 0.026562. It was determined that the null hypothesis stating that there is no difference in the observed distribution of publications and the distribution obtained using Lotka’s and Pao’s procedure could not be rejected. This study finds that literature in the field of library and Information Studies does conform to Lotka’s law with reliable results. As result, Lotka’s law can be used in LIS as a standardized means of measuring author publication productivity which will lead to findings that are comparable on many levels (e.g., department, institution, national). Lotka’s law can be employed as an empirically proven analytical tool to establish publication productivity benchmarks for faculty and faculty librarians. Recommendations for further study include (a) exploring the characteristics of the high and low producers; (b) finding a way to successfully account for collaborative contributions in the formula; and, (c) a detailed study of institutional policies concerning publication productivity and its impact on the appointment, tenure and promotion process of academic librarians.

Reprogramming of somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) by overexpression of the transcription factors OCT4, SOX2, KLF4, and c-Myc holds great promise for the development of personalized cell replacement therapies. In an attempt to minimize the risk of chromosomal disruption and to simplify reprogramming, several studies demonstrated that a reduced set of reprogramming factors is sufficient to generate iPSC. We recently showed that a reduction of reprogramming factors in murine cells not only reduces reprogramming efficiency but also may worsen subsequent differentiation. To prove whether this is also true for human cells, we compared the efficiency of neuronal differentiation of iPSC generated from fetal human neural stem cells with either one (OCT4; hiPSC1F-NSC) or two (OCT4, KLF4; hiPSC2F-NSC) reprogramming factors with iPSC produced from human fibroblasts using three (hiPSC3F-FIB) or four reprogramming factors (hiPSC4F-FIB). After four weeks of coculture with PA6 stromal cells, neuronal differentiation of hiPSC1F-NSC and hiPSC2F-NSC was as efficient as iPSC3F-FIB or iPSC4F-FIB. We conclude that a reduction of reprogramming factors in human cells does reduce reprogramming efficiency but does not alter subsequent differentiation into neural lineages. This is of importance for the development of future application of iPSC in cell replacement therapies.

The master thesis deals with the creation of a geographic information system for the needs of cycling. A circular route on Jindřichův Hradec was designed and processed. The whole project was implemented on the ArcGIS platform, especially in ArcMap 10.4.1. Emphasis was placed primarily on showing the route characteristics without having to switch off the layers. Publications were explored and varied outputs were created for the presentation.

Conferencia realizada en el marco del "II Congreso de Bibliotecas Universitarias y Especializadas", desarrollada los días 4 y 6 de Junio de 2015, en Santiago de Chile, Chile / liliana.elespuru@upc.edu.pe / libio.huaroto@upc.edu.pe / El trabajo describe la experiencia desarrollada sobre indicadores Altmetrics en el Repositorio Académico de la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas - UPC / This presentation describes the experience about Altmetrics indicators at the Academic Repository, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Authors analyses the health scholarly publication.

The association between economic freedom and economic growth has been largely explored by researchers and the overall ndings indicate a signi cant and positive relationship. The empirical literature, however, is subject to suer from bias. In this paper we collect 16,070 estimates from 69 studies and using recently developed meta-analytic techniques investigate the eect of publication and speci cation biases on the reported results. While our baseline analysis re- ports some evidence for publication bias, but not very strong and robust, and con rms the speci cation bias reported by previous reviews, we also nd that these results are aected by the inclusion of three in uential outliers in the data set. Once we trim these studies, there is no evidence of speci cation bias anymore and we nd evidence of a robust and strong publication bias. Further, after controlling for the bias, we nd that the true eect of economic freedom on growth is substantially smaller than the eect reported by the empirical literature. JEL Classi cation O43; P10; P12; C52 Keywords 'economic freedom', 'economic growth', 'publi- cation bias', 'speci cation bias', 'meta-analysis' Title Economic freedom and economic growth: A Meta-Analysis