Today???s carbon constrained world with its increasing demand for cheap energy and a fossil fuel intensive fleet of power producers is making carbon capture and storage (CCS) desirable. Several CCS technologies are under investigation by various research and development groups globally. One of the more promising technologies is oxy-fuel combustion, since it produces a CO2 rich flue gas which requires minor processing to meet storage condition requirements. In this study the economics of an advanced super critical oxy-coal power plant burning lignite, simulated in-house was assessed. A robust and user-friendly financial tool box has been developed with commonly acceptable default parameter settings. Capital, operation and maintenance costs were estimated along with corresponding levelized cost of electricity and CO2 avoidance costs calculated using the detailed financial model developed. A levelized cost of electricity of 131 $/MWhrnet along with a levelized CO2 avoidance cost of 64 $/tonne was estimated for an ASC oxy-coal power plant with CO2 capture. Also a levelized cost of electricity of 83 $/MWhrnet was estimated for an ASC air-fired coal power plant without CO2 capture capabilities as the base plant. The price of electricity was observed to increase from 83 $/MWhrnet to 131 $/MWhrnet translating into a 57% increase. The sensitivity of the overall economics of the process was assessed to several parameters. The overall economics was found sensitive to the choice chemical engineering plant cost index (CEPCI), capacity factor, size of power plant, debt ratio, fuel price, interest rate, and construction duration.

Thermal nanoimprint lithography (T-NIL) is a cheap and fast technique to produce nanopatterns in polymeric materials. It creates these patterns by pressing a stamp down into a polymer film that has been heated above its glass transition temperature. These nanopatterned polymer films can be used in a wide variety of scientific fields, not the least the organic semiconductor industry. There the nanopatterned films have, among else, been used to improve the efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEC), which is similar in structure to an OLED, also uses polymer films in their device structure but the light emitting layer also contains an electrolyte. However, it has not been shown if nanopatterns can improve LECs as well or if it is even possible to make an imprint in their polymer films that are mixed with an electrolyte. This thesis shows that T-NIL can be used to imprint nanopatterns in films made of poly(ethylene oxide) and the conjugated polymer Super Yellow. The best nanopatterns were produced by setting the imprint parameters to  85 °C, 10 bar, 1800 s for poly(ethylene oxide) and 115 °C, 20 bar, 1800 s for Super Yellow. Imprints were also performed on polystyrene but no nanopatterns could be produced. This was most likely because the stamp could not handle the high temperature that is required to make a nanopattern in polystyrene. The best imprint parameters of Super Yellow were then used to produce a pattern in a film made of Super Yellow mixed with the salt tetrahexylammonium tetrafluoroborate (THABF4) in order to be able to produce one imprinted and one reference LEC. The imprinted LEC had a luminosity of 139 cd/m2, an improvement of 20% compared to the reference’s 115 cd/m2 when operated under identical conditions.  The forward direction and the angular dependent electroluminescence spectrum of the imprinted LEC clearly showed an effect not observed in the reference. These findings show that the polymer films used in a LEC can be imprinted with a nanopattern by using T-NIL. The imprinted films can be used to create functional LECs that show different behavior and a higher luminosity compared to a non-imprinted reference. If these results can be repeated it might be the starting point of a brighter future.

[pt] Pernambuco desponta, hoje, como um dos principais polos cinematográficos do país em termos quantitativos, destacando-se ainda pela qualidade da produção, reconhecida internacionalmente em festivais e pela imprensa especializada. Tal preponderância, contudo, surpreende diante da posição periférica ocupada pelo estado no cenário nacional. O objetivo desse trabalho é justamente buscar elementos para a compreensão do fenômeno na análise histórica, identificando os agentes e as dinâmicas que contribuíram no longo processo de estruturação do campo cinematográfico em Pernambuco e deram origem a uma sólida tradição fílmica. / [en] The Pernambuco state is one of the main cinema producers in Brazil, standing also for the high quality of its movies, internationally recognized by film critics and festivals. This status, however, surprises when one take into account the state s minor position within the Brazilian Federation. The main goal of this research is to understand the phenomenon through the historical analysis of film production in Pernambuco, pointing the agents and the dynamics responsible for the state s cinema field building.

This paper presents a method to value the residential real estate portfolio of an economy by summarizing the future discounted values of the net operating income. The motivation for this choice of subject is the concern for a house bubble in Sweden due to the double-digit rise in housing prices which the economy has experienced during many consecutive years. However, the method is general and can be applied anywhere where relevant statistics is available. The challenge to use an income approach to residential real estate valuation lies in the fact that there is no obvious net operating income, as the owner and the end user is in many cases the same person. To solve this challenge, we determine the maximum possible net operating income by taking the households’ disposable incomes and subtracting their expenses. This will be a fictional value for the maximum possible net operating income or the imputed income for real estate owners. When this fictional net operating income is compared to the mean prices of properties, a maximum potential yield to capital invested in residential real estate is extracted. The current number for this maximal potential yield on the Stockholm market seem to be 6,4 percent, 2017. The main contribution of this paper to the science of economy is that it presents a way to use classical fundamental valuation methods to evaluate the price level of residential real estate, that, due to lack of tangible net operating income is not as straightforward as the valuation of the commercial real estate market.

Récemment, le concept monofonctionnel de la protéine Tau en tant que protéine stabilisatrice des microtubules a été remis en cause. Ces nouvelles fonctions sont liées à de nouvelles localisations comme le noyau, la membrane, la synapse ou encore les vésicules. La localisation extracellulaire est particulièrement intéressante car elle pourrait intervenir dans la sécrétion de Tau et expliquer l’évolution hiérarchisée de certaines tauopathies sporadiques dont fait partie la maladie d’Alzheimer. La pathologie Tau peut être induite chez l’animal par injection intracrânienne d’espèces pathologiques et semble se transmettre d’un neurone à un autre et d’une région à une autre. Ce phénomène suit des voies neuroanatomiques et suggère une propagation active des assemblages toxiques des protéines Tau. Des études in vitro ont mis en évidence que les protéines Tau sont capables de se déplacer d’une cellule à une autre propageant ainsi la pathologie par un mécanisme de recrutement des espèces saines. L’existence d’une progression hiérarchisée de la pathologie Tau combinée à sa localisation extracellulaire permet de formuler une nouvelle hypothèse. La protéine Tau serait une protéine de type prion et se comporterait comme telle pour propager la pathologie.Cette caractéristique implique l’existence de mécanismes cellulaires de transports actifs pour transférer les protéines pathologiques. Plusieurs travaux ont montré que la protéine Tau est libérée dans le milieu extracellulaire ou enfermée dans des vésicules extracellulaires lors de son transport entre les cellules. Parallèlement aux mécanismes de sécrétion/capture, des ponts membranaires établissant un contact direct entre deux cellules pourraient être impliquer dans la propagation de Tau. Les TNTs constituent une piste sérieuse de part leur rôle déjà établi dans le transfert de pathogènes et de protéines mal repliées impliqués dans différentes maladies neurodégénératives. Notre objectif a donc été d’étudier l’implication de ces structures dans le transfert interneuronal des assemblages de protéines Tau.Dans ce travail de thèse, nous démontrons que les espèces pathologiques de Tau empruntent les TNTs pour leur transfert interneuronal. Nous apportons les preuves, par vidéo-microscopie, de l’existence d’un transfert de protéines Tau pathologiques d’un neurone primaire à un neurone secondaire et donc d’une implication potentielle des TNTs dans la propagation de la pathologie Tau et la transmission de la maladie. Fait remarquable, la présence des fibres Tau au niveau extracellulaire active la formation des TNTs et facilite leur transfert. Ce résultat place les TNTs au coeur du processus pathologique de la propagation et de son cycle infernal (transfert de Tau dans les cellules naïves par les TNTs – seeding - mort neuronal - libération de Tau dans le milieu extracellulaire - augmentation du nombre des TNTs…). Nous avons aussi apporté une caractérisation des TNTs dans les neurones primaires. Ce résultat est d’autant plus important qu’il est difficile d’identifier des TNTs dans les neurones et c’est dans ce contexte que nous avons réalisé une découverte étonnante, la protéine Tau endogène est présente de manière physiologique dans les TNTs de neurones primaires. Ces résultats révèlent, et pour la première fois, que la protéine Tau, comme l’actine, peut être considérée comme une composante constitutive des TNTs dans les neurones. Elle pourrait ainsi être utilisée comme un marqueur des TNTs. Ces résultats mettent également en lumière une nouvelle fonction de Tau appuyant une fois de plus le caractère multifonctionnel de cette protéine [...] / Over the past few years, the monofunctional concept of Tau protein as a microtubule-associated stabilizing protein has been challenged. These new functions are linked to new localizations: nucleus, membrane, synapse or vesicles. The extracellular localization is particularly interesting as it could play a role in the secretion of Tau and explain the hierarchical evolution of some sporadic tauopathies such as Alzheimer's disease. The Tau pathology can be induced in animals by intracranial injection of pathological species and seems to be transferred from one neuron to another and from one region to another. This phenomenon follows neuroanatomic pathways and suggests an active propagation of the toxic assemblies of Tau proteins. In vitro studies have shown that proteins are able to move from one cell to another and induce the same abnormal conformation of endogenous Tau proteins initiating a self-amplifying cascade. The existence of a hierarchical progression of the Tau pathology combined with its extracellular localization enables to express a new hypothesis. The Tau protein would be a prion-like protein and would behave like that to propagate the pathology.This characteristic implies the existence of cellular active transport mechanisms to transfer pathological proteins. Several studies have shown that the Tau protein, during transport between cells, is released in the extracellular medium or enclosed in extracellular vesicles. Simultaneously with secretion / capture mechanisms, membrane bridges, establishing direct contact between two cells, could be involved in Tau propagation. TNTs are a serious candidate with their already established role in the transfer of pathogens and misfolding proteins involved in various neurodegenerative diseases. Thus, our objective was to study the involvement of these structures in the interneuronal transfer of Tau protein assemblies.In this thesis, we demonstrate that Tau pathological species use TNTs for their interneuronal transfer. We bring evidences, by videomicroscopy, that pathological Tau proteins are transferred from a primary to a secondary neuron and that TNTs could be involved in the spreading of Tau pathology and the disease transmission. Furthermore, the presence of extracellular Tau fibers can activate the formation of TNTs and facilitate their transfer. This result places TNTs in a central place for propagation pathological process and its vicious cycle (transfer of Tau in naive cells by TNTs - seeding - neuronal death – release of Tau in the extracellular environment - increase in the number of TNTs…). We also made a characterization of the TNTs in primary neurons. This result is really important as it is really complex to identify TNTs in neurons. And in this context, we made a surprising discovery: the endogenous Tau protein is physiologically present in TNTs in primary neurons. These results reveal, for the first time, that the Tau protein, like actin, can be considered as a constitutive component of TNTs in neurons. Thus, it could be used as a marker for TNTs. All these results also highlight a new Tau function and reinforce the multifunctional characteristic of this protein.To confirm the importance of this new pathway in the pathological process, further studies should be considered by analyzing if the transfer of pathological Tau species induces a pathological phenotype in the recipient cell and by looking for the cellular mechanisms involved in the transfer of toxic Tau assemblies by TNTs. In vivo studies on integrated systems such as Caenorhabditis elegans would confirm the involvement of these dynamic structures in the pathological process and identify a new therapeutic target.

A arte conheceu durante o século XX algumas mudanças cruciais que tocaram os limites do que até então era considerado como artístico. Partindo da mímesis tradicional, buscou sua negação e voltou a ela através de uma busca cada vez mais radical da própria realidade, no limite de uma ruptura com as categorias tradicionais de mímesis/representação. Examinando o trabalho de Duane Hanson, Damien Hirst, Gunther von Hagens e Rudolf Schwarzkogler, o presente trabalho procura investigar este apelo ao real, por meio da apresentação cada vez mais evidente do corpo e do uso da violência a este corpo como operação para alcançar o real. Paralela a este encontro com o real através da violência ao corpo, mostra-se através da obra de Iberê Camargo, uma segunda alternativa, que aqui é interpretada como trágica. A tragédia surge nesta dissertação como contraponto à busca de um real que, em seu excesso violento e traumático, perde as características representativas e enunciativas (em seu modo particular de enunciação, ou seja, a criação de metáforas através da representação artística) que até então haviam caracterizado a arte. Como conceito eminentemente artístico, e dentro dos limites da representação, a tragédia apresenta-se como metáfora da última fase do trabalho de Iberê Camargo, produzida a partir da década de 1980 e tendo como singularidade o retorno à representação figurativa. / Art has known during the 20th century some crucial changes that touched the boundaries of what until then was considered as artistic. Starting from the traditional mimesis, it sought for its denial and came back to it through a search more and more radical of the Real at the limit of a rupture with the traditional categories of mimesis/representation. The Real is defined according to Lacan, through its reading by Hal Foster in the art field. Assessing the works of Duane Hanson, Damien Hirst, Gunther von Hagens and Rudolf Schwarzkogler, the present work attempts to investigate this appeal to the real by means of the presentation more and more evident of the body as well as the use of violence against this body. As a opposite to those works which put in scene the real by means of the violence against the body, through the works of Iberê Camargo, a second alternative is provided, construed here as a tragic one. Tragedy arises in this dissertation as a counterpoint to the search of a reality, which through its violent, traumatic excess, is deprived of both its enunciative and representative features (in this particular mode of enunciation, i.e., the creation of metaphors through the artistic representation), which until then has been characterizing the art. As an eminently artistic concept, and within the boundaries of representation, the tragedy presents itself as a metaphor of the former phase of Iberê Camargo’s works, produced from the 80’s on, and having as singularity, the return to the figurative representation.

"Measure twice and cut once" MSc. Kunc´s super8 format narrative fabrication in 80´s. This dissertation presents amateurish authorial films of MSc .Vladimír Kunc on Super 8 mm film format with emphasis on film editing as an reflection of time in the moment of its origin in the 80ties. I will compare the phenomenon of applied magnetic sound of Dr.Rentz for Kunz image montages with a sound of composition of authorial films of The Wizzard of Oz, who has chosen adventurous way of audio tape to his films on Super 8mm film format in the same decade. The aspect of authorial sound montage is looked through the contemporary technological and distributive possibilities.The text also presents analysis of expressional means of Super 8 mm films and the way of their using within particular authorial approaches-model authorial subjects. This dissertation presents study of narrative films which during the filming and editing look for not only notice value but also the way of narration.The films which are looking not only for message but also its form in the context particular period.

Destacando em Fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionales, de Julio Cortázar, os aspectos relativos à arte e a literatura, torna-se essencial chamar a atenção para a presença dos quadrinhos como parte constituinte da obra, que juntamente com ilustrações de outras naturezas, além da presença de discursos pertencentes a outras esferas das áreas humanas, conferem ao texto o status de híbrido. A partir disso, este estudo objetiva estudar a importância de palavras e imagens, e de sua imbricação, para a construção do sentido heterogêneo do texto, além de fazer um cotejo entre diferentes versões da obra, em meio impresso e eletrônico, considerando as diferenças entre as suas versões. Um olhar literário sobre Fantomas, especialmente através de uma aproximação intertextual e interdisciplinar, permite que se reflita sobre os diversos aspectos da personagem Fantomas ao longo das publicações e dos media, assim como sobre a presença de elementos fantásticos, surrealistas, metaficcionais e autobiográficos. Neste estudo, pretende-se demonstrar que esse hibridismo, tanto em nível formal como em termos discursivos, mostra-se representativo da heterogeneidade da América Latina, considerando sua formação cultural e sua diversidade de manifestações lingüísticas e literárias. / We point out in Fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionales, by Julio Cortázar, the aspects relating to art and literature. We should call the attention to the presence of comics as a constituent part of this work, which together with illustrations of various natures, and the presence of discourse which belongs to other spheres of human areas, give the text the status of hybrid. From this, this study aims to study the importance of words and images, and their overlapping, for the construction of the heterogeneous sense of the text, and make a comparison between different versions of the work in print and electronically, considering the differences between their versions. A literary view on Fantomas, especially through an intertextual and interdisciplinary approach, allows us to reflect on the various aspects of the character Fantomas along the publications and media, beyond the presence of fantastic surreal, autobiographical and metafictional elements. In this study, we intend to show that the hybrid, both in formal and in discursive terms, proves to be representative of the heterogeneity of Latin America, considering their cultural formation and the linguistic and literary diversity of expression that features Latin America. / Destacando en Fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionales, de Julio Cortázar, los aspectos relativos al arte y la literatura, se vuelve esencial subrayar la presencia de la historieta como parte constituyente de la obra, que juntamente con ilustraciones de otras naturalezas, además de la presencia de discursos pertenecientes a otras esferas de las áreas humanas, dan al texto el status de híbrido. A partir de eso, este estudio tiene el objetivo de estudiar la importancia de palabras e imágenes, y de su imbricación, para la construcción del sentido heterogéneo del texto, además de hacer una comparación entre diferentes versiones de la obra, en medio impreso y electrónico, considerando las diferencias entre sus versiones. Una mirada literaria sobre Fantomas, especialmente a través de un acercamiento intertextual e interdisciplinario, permite una reflexión sobre los diversos aspectos del personaje Fantomas a lo largo de las publicaciones y de los media, así como la presencia de elementos fantásticos, surrealistas, metaficcionales y autobiográficos. En este estudio, pretende demostrar que ese hibridismo, tanto en nivel formal como en términos discursivos, se muestra representativo de la heterogeneidad de la América Latina, considerando su formación cultural y su diversidad de manifestaciones lingüísticas y literarias.

The principal goal of this research study was to critically evaluate the current accounting treatment of purchased goodwill in terms of a theoretical framework established, including an evaluation of the true nature of goodwill. The main conclusion of this study is that goodwill is an intangible asset representing various intangible factors contributing to the enterprise's earning capacity and providing returns in excess of a normal return on assets employed for which an acquiring enterprise is willing to pay an amount in excess of the fair value of the identifiable net assets acquired. The cost of purchased goodwill is measured as the difference between the total purchase price and the fair value of the net assets acquired after ensuring that all assets, tangible and intangible, had been properly identified. Purchased goodwill should be amortised over the estimated period that the enterprise is expected to benefit from the acquisition of the goodwill. / Financial Accounting / M. Com. (Accounting Science (Applied Accountancy))

This thesis aims to contextualize gender politics, nationalism, and animism as interconnected cultural patterns reflecting 19th century acculturation and post-WWII national reconstruction of Japan. In particular, state-nationalism, hegemonic femininity, commodity animism, uniform fetishsm, and power structure are analyzed through the symbolisms and discourse of the Japanese indigenous faith: Shinto, female practitioners, and followers. There are two points of ideological and linguistic rupture in modern Japan: late-19th century and mid-20th century, in which a large part of this thesis is dedicated to for a holistic contextualization in accordance to historical narrative and events. Materials for this thesis were collected through three separate occasions of field research: winter of 2016 to 2017, summer of 2017, and the spring of 2018 where participant- observation, semi-structured interviews across different platforms, internet ethnography, and archival data analysis were combined. The thesis is separated into three parts: super state- nationalism, gender politics, and commodity animism, and each chapter has its own thematic focus for analysis while the ideological shifts are explained largely based on Ideological State Apparatus and subjectivity. The development of the several thousand year old faith is the preoccupation of this thesis in an attempt to interpret the collective identities, tendencies, and patterns of Japanese modernity.