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Thesis--Tübingen. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 248-255.

Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University, 2009. / Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 121 p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--York University, 2004. Graduate Programme in Film and Video. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 18-19). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ99386

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, June, 2003. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-135)

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007. / Title from title screen (site viewed July 9, 2007). PDF text: 111 p. : ill. UMI publication number: AAT 3251358. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

This thesis is concerned with the relationship between the street theatre practices in Delhi and the spaces of their performance. Writings on theatre practices within the boundaries of Delhi have overlooked the role cultural capital affords practitioners owing to their geographical, ideological and social affiliations understood as spatial networks. This research project undertakes to identify spatial structures that frame the reading of street theatre in Delhi to open up questions of privilege and access through an analysis of its performance sites. I focus on five case studies across three categories of performance – feminist performers Maya Rao and Mallika Taneja, street theatre company Jana Natya Manch (Janam) and the Ramlila as performed in New Delhi and Old Delhi. In order to do this, the research has drawn extensively on Henri Lefebvre’s two sets of trialectics as outlined in The Production of Space (1991), which are adapted in order to provide an approach to identifying the spatial frameworks within which performances are situated. My three categories, 'geographical', 'affective' and 'discursive' space are applied to each of the three sets of case studies, and my conclusion assesses the usefulness of such a methodology for prompting consideration of previously-ignored contexts for Indian performance. I propose that my thesis provides a prompt to engage with the spatiality of Indian theatrical performance, while also demonstrating the extent to which an understanding of the politics of performance relies on the understanding of spatial practice, both contemporary and historical.

A small-scale ethnographic case study of young children's learning from television in southern Illinois provides understanding about the frameworks used for interpreting media use in family life. The research consisted of in-home interviews about patterns of using the media, observations, and family diaries of children's viewing behavior to examine family engagement with a prosocial television program, Shalom Sesame, depicting Jewish culture, Hebrew language, holidays, and the land of Israel. Family responses to the program are identified in terms of appeal, use, and overall fit with Jewish identity and tradition in the homes. Data analysis reveals that quality educational program features of Shalom Sesame such as repetition, role models, humor, on screen textual cues, and follow-up activities in the home support learning. The case study concludes that Shalom Sesame helps connect families with young children, especially those who are isolated from other members of their minority, to the larger community of diverse Jewish people and culture around the globe.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-22T20:49:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-06-24. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2015-08-11T03:26:20Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 Publico-172.pdf: 1914189 bytes, checksum: 908b00499aae197f0d2d2987dd3a8532 (MD5) / A sensibilização comportamental caracteriza-se pelo aumento progressivo e duradouro do efeito estimulante locomotor eliciado por drogas de abuso após o tratamento repetido em roedores. A base neurobiológica desse fenômeno parece intersectar com aquela da dependência química em humanos (sistema dopaminérgico mesolímbico). Assim, a sensibilização comportamental tem sido proposta por diferentes pesquisadores como um modelo fisiopatológico dependência química. Recentemente verificamos que a sensibilização comportamental pode se desenvolver de uma forma imediata. Nesse sentido, demonstramos que uma injeção indutora de anfetamina é capaz de potencializar o efeito estimulante locomotor produzido por uma injeção desafio da droga, administrada algumas horas após. Os objetivos gerais da presente Tese foram: 1-) caracterizar comportamental e neuroquimicamente o fenômeno de sensibilização imediata à anfetamina em camundongos, 2-) verificar se o fenômeno de sensibilização imediata também ocorre para outras drogas de abuso (cocaína, morfina e etanol) e 3-) verificar o possível desenvolvimento de sensibilização comportamental imediata cruzada entre anfetamina e cocaína, morfina ou etanol. Para tanto, utilizamos como paradigma experimental a atividade locomotora de camundongos em campo aberto. Verificamos o desenvolvimento de sensibilização imediata à anfetamina em vários parâmetros comportamentais analisados em campo aberto (locomoção, levantar e imobilidade), administrando 2 injeções desse psicoestimulante na dose de 2,5 mg/kg em um intervalo de 4 horas. Demonstramos que esse fenômeno não foi decorrente de um possível estresse promovido pela administração da primeira injeção de anfetamina (injeção indutora) ou de níveis residuais de droga. Além disso, uma maior ativação neuronal no núcleo accumbens foi observada em animais sensibilizados, na ausência de alterações neuroquímicas pré-sinápticas no estriado-accumbens, sugerindo o envolvimento de modificações pós-sinápticas no fenômeno de sensibilização imediata. A sensibilização comportamental imediata também se desenvolveu para a cocaína e a morfina, mas não para o etanol. Finalmente, a sensibilização imediata ocorreu também de forma cruzada entre anfetamina e as demais drogas de abuso, apresentando um caráter bidirecional, com exceção do etanol, cujo cruzamento ocorreu apenas quando a anfetamina foi administrada na indução do fenômeno, e o etanol na sua expressão. Esses resultados podem ter relevância para uma maior compreensão dos mecanismos relacionados ao padrão “binge” de abuso de drogas. / The behavioral sensitization phenomenon is characterized by a progressive and enduring enhancement of the locomotor stimulant effect of drugs of abuse following repeated treatment in rodents. This behavioral phenomenon seems to share the same neurobiological basis of drug dependence in humans and has been proposed as a pathophysiological animal model of drug dependence. Recently, we demonstrated an early-onset type of behavioral sensitization. Indeed, an “induction” injection of amphetamine potentiated the locomotor stimulant effect of a challenge injection of the drug, given some hours later. The aims of this Thesis were threefold: 1-) to behaviorally and neurochemically characterize the rapid-onset type of behavioral sensitization to amphetamine in mice, 2-) to verify if the rapid-onset type of behavioral sensitization would also occur to other drugs of abuse (cocaine, morphine and ethanol) and 3-) to investigate the possible development of rapid-onset cross-sensitization between amphetamine and cocaine, morphine or ethanol. Mice´s open-field locomotor activity was used as the experimental paradigm. We verified the development of the rapid-onset type of behavioral sensitization to amphetamine in the several behavioral parameters analyzed in the open-field (locomotion, rearing and immobility), by administering 2 injections of 2,5 mg/kg amphetamine, separated by a 4h interval. We demonstrated that this phenomenon was not a consequence of the stress induced by the priming injection of amphetamine and was not due to residual levels of the drug. Moreover, greater neuronal activation in the nucleus accumbens was observed in sensitized mice, in the absence of pré-synaptic neurochemical alterations in their striatum-accumbens, suggesting that postsynaptic adaptations may be involved. The rapid-onset behavioral sensitization also developed to cocaine and morphine, but not to ethanol. Finally, rapid-onset cross-sensitization occurred between amphetamine and the other drugs of abuse in a bidirectional way, except for ethanol. Within this aspect, cross-sensitization between amphetamine and ethanol only developed when amphetamine was administered during the induction of this phenomenon and ethanol in its expression. The present results may contribute to the comprehension of the mechanism involved in the binge pattern of drug abuse. / TEDE / BV UNIFESP: Teses e dissertações