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Orientador: José Augusto Chaves Guimarães / Banca: Mariângela Spotti Lopes Fujita / Banca: Maria de Fátima Gonçalves Moreira Tálamo / Resumo: A representação do conhecimento, enquanto processo, assim como os instrumentos que a permeiam e os produtos que dela decorrem, não são neutros, estando imbuídos de valores morais. Nesse cenário, emergem problemas de biasses na representação, tais como questões de gênero, categorizações dicotômicas e falta de garantia e hospitalidade cultural. No tocante à questão da mulher, amparada apenas por algumas reflexões iniciais de Berman (1993), Olson (1998, 2002), Caro Castro e San Segundo Manuel (1999), Morán Suárez e Rodríguez Bravo (2001), López-Huertas e Barité Roqueta (2002), López-Huertas, Torres e Barité (2004), López-Huertas Pérez e Torres Ramírez (2005), López- Huertas (2006, 2008a), Guimarães (2006b, 2007) e Rodríguez Bravo (2006, 2007), há uma carência de literatura relativa à representação e ao delineamento de seu quadro epistemológico, tornando-se necessário verificar em que medida os termos relativos à questão feminina estão eventualmente inseridos sob bias nos instrumentos da área. Para tanto, verificou-se a presença dos termos: feminilidade; feminina(s); feminino(s); feminismo(s); feminista(s); materna(o); maternal; mulher(es), e os respectivos termos em inglês: female; femininity; feminism; feminist; maternal; motherly; woman(en), nas linguagens documentais brasileiras: Vocabulário Controlado Básico, Vocabulário Controlado USP, Terminologia de Assuntos da Fundação Biblioteca Nacional e Classificação Decimal de Direito. Cada termo identificado nas linguagens documentais alfabéticas teve seu descritor e não-descritores registrados, bem como notas de escopo, remissivas, termos relacionados e relações hierárquicas, enquanto as incidências relativas à linguagem documental hierárquica, foram sistematizadas de acordo com as diretrizes propostas por Olson (1998). Apresentaram-se... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Knowlede representation, as a process, as well as the tools that take part in it and the products that emanate from it are not, by any means, neutral, being soaked in moral values. In such landscape, problems of bias in representation may rise, such as gender issues, dicotomical categorizations and lack of warrant/ cultural hospitality. Concerning the women's issue, supported only by a few initial reflexions by Berman (1993), Olson (1998, 2002), Caro Castro and San Segundo Manuel (1999), Morán Suárez and Rodríguez Bravo (2001), López-Huertas and Barité Roqueta (2002), López- Huertas, Torres and Barité (2004), López-Huertas Pérez and Torres Ramírez (2005), López-Huertas (2006, 2008a), Guimarães (2006b, 2007) and Rodríguez Bravo (2006, 2007), there is severe lack of literature related to representation and to the outlining of its epistemological frame, becoming necessary to verify how far the terms connected to the feminine issue are eventually inserted under bias in the tools of area. For such action, it was proposed to verify the presence of the following terms: female; femininity; feminism; feminist; maternal; motherly; woman(en), within the Brazilian indexing languages: Vocabulário Controlado Básico, Vocabulário Controlado USP (University of São Paulo), Terminologia de Assuntos da Fundação Biblioteca Nacional e Classificação Decimal de Direito. Each term identified in the alphabetic indexing languages had its descriptor and nondescriptors recorded, as well as the scope and remissive notes, related terms and hierarchic relations, whereas the incidences related to hierarchic indexing languages were systematized in compliance with the guidelines proposed by Olson (1998). Presented as results signs of biasses, as well as possible aid to attenuate them, as gateways to further discussions. Thus, discussions should continue being realized... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Orientador: João Batista Ernesto de Moraes / Banca: Mariângela Spotti Lopes Fujita / Banca: Maria de Fátima Gonçalves Moreira Tálamo / Resumo: A identificação de assuntos, ocorrida na etapa analítica de um documento submetido ao tratamento temático, constitui um campo de estudo carente de metodologias que auxiliem o leitor profissional na seleção de conceitos que propiciem os subsídios necessários à elaboração dos produtos documentários decorrentes desse processo. Dessa forma, os estudos em torno do conceito Aboutness têm adquirido um papel evidente nos estudos do campo documental, tendo em vista, que o processo de atribuição de termos e conceitos a partir da leitura documental deve sintetizar satisfatoriamente o conteúdo informativo do documento tornando esse procedimento um momento chave para todas as fases subsequentes do processo. Desse modo, a Ciência da Informação tem buscado também em outros campos, subsídios que colaborem para a abordagem temática, de forma a auxiliar a sua compreensão de acordo com a finalidade de sua representação em um sistema de informação. Realizamos assim a abordagem da literatura da Ciência da Informação em torno do conceito aboutness com vistas à melhor compreensão dessa abordagem e para tanto, são explorados além da literatura relacionada, quatro dos principais periódicos nacionais da área, selecionando artigos que tenham apresentado ou discutido essa questão. Verificou-se que o termo aboutness foi traduzido em geral por atinência, tematicidade e sobrecidade, sendo que não houve um consenso quanto a um dos três termos, no entanto, enquanto sobrecidade caiu em desuso, atinência e tematicidade permanecem em utilização. Além disso, apesar de pouco explorado em língua portuguesa, esse conceito traz implicações conceituais para a área, que podem influenciar o desenvolvimento teórico dos processos de identificação de assunto ao buscar uma abordagem que visa não apenas a identificação do aboutness... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The subject determination that occurred in the analytical stage of a document submitted to the subject analysis, is a field of study in need of methodologies that can help the professional readers in the selection of concepts that provide the subsidies to elaborate documentaries products. Thus, studies on the concept Aboutness have acquired a clear role in the documentary field studies in order that the process of assigning terms and concepts from the documentary reading should adequately summarize the information content of the document by making the procedure a key moment for all subsequent stages of the process. Thus, information science has sought in other fields, subsidies to help in the subject analysis in order to assist in your understanding in accordance with the purpose of their representation in an information system. We approach the literature of information science around the concept of aboutness with a purpose to better understanding this conception of subject analysis and both are explored in addition to the related literature, four major national journals in the field, selecting items that have submitted or discussed this concept. It was found that the term aboutness has been translated by atinência, tematicidade and sobrecidade, and there was no consensus on one of three terms, however, while sobrecidade has fallen into disuse, tematicidade and atinência remain in use. Furthermore, although little explored in portuguese, this concept has conceptual implications for the area, which can influence the theoretical development of processes to identify the subject by seeking an approach that aims not only to identify the aboutness inherent in the document, but also aboutness assigned by the indexer or user, also handled by meaning (significado), and thus admits that even with the possibility of assigning different meanings and interpretations of a document that has an inherent and fundamental issue that does not change. / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-09-23Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:34:36Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 guedes_egf_me_mar.pdf: 646944 bytes, checksum: 4bd9fa977689697dce56a22fe83fa9d3 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A identificação de assuntos, ocorrida na etapa analítica de um documento submetido ao tratamento temático, constitui um campo de estudo carente de metodologias que auxiliem o leitor profissional na seleção de conceitos que propiciem os subsídios necessários à elaboração dos produtos documentários decorrentes desse processo. Dessa forma, os estudos em torno do conceito Aboutness têm adquirido um papel evidente nos estudos do campo documental, tendo em vista, que o processo de atribuição de termos e conceitos a partir da leitura documental deve sintetizar satisfatoriamente o conteúdo informativo do documento tornando esse procedimento um momento chave para todas as fases subsequentes do processo. Desse modo, a Ciência da Informação tem buscado também em outros campos, subsídios que colaborem para a abordagem temática, de forma a auxiliar a sua compreensão de acordo com a finalidade de sua representação em um sistema de informação. Realizamos assim a abordagem da literatura da Ciência da Informação em torno do conceito aboutness com vistas à melhor compreensão dessa abordagem e para tanto, são explorados além da literatura relacionada, quatro dos principais periódicos nacionais da área, selecionando artigos que tenham apresentado ou discutido essa questão. Verificou-se que o termo aboutness foi traduzido em geral por atinência, tematicidade e sobrecidade, sendo que não houve um consenso quanto a um dos três termos, no entanto, enquanto sobrecidade caiu em desuso, atinência e tematicidade permanecem em utilização. Além disso, apesar de pouco explorado em língua portuguesa, esse conceito traz implicações conceituais para a área, que podem influenciar o desenvolvimento teórico dos processos de identificação de assunto ao buscar uma abordagem que visa não apenas a identificação do aboutness... / The subject determination that occurred in the analytical stage of a document submitted to the subject analysis, is a field of study in need of methodologies that can help the professional readers in the selection of concepts that provide the subsidies to elaborate documentaries products. Thus, studies on the concept Aboutness have acquired a clear role in the documentary field studies in order that the process of assigning terms and concepts from the documentary reading should adequately summarize the information content of the document by making the procedure a key moment for all subsequent stages of the process. Thus, information science has sought in other fields, subsidies to help in the subject analysis in order to assist in your understanding in accordance with the purpose of their representation in an information system. We approach the literature of information science around the concept of aboutness with a purpose to better understanding this conception of subject analysis and both are explored in addition to the related literature, four major national journals in the field, selecting items that have submitted or discussed this concept. It was found that the term aboutness has been translated by atinência, tematicidade and sobrecidade, and there was no consensus on one of three terms, however, while sobrecidade has fallen into disuse, tematicidade and atinência remain in use. Furthermore, although little explored in portuguese, this concept has conceptual implications for the area, which can influence the theoretical development of processes to identify the subject by seeking an approach that aims not only to identify the aboutness inherent in the document, but also aboutness assigned by the indexer or user, also handled by meaning (significado), and thus admits that even with the possibility of assigning different meanings and interpretations of a document that has an inherent and fundamental issue that does not change.

Submitted by Priscilla Araujo (priscilla@ibict.br) on 2016-04-05T18:26:24Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 19874 bytes, checksum: 38cb62ef53e6f513db2fb7e337df6485 (MD5) A_charge_e_o_assunto_analise_documentari.pdf: 31372055 bytes, checksum: e748e7004bbb490f2e2d355eafbaf457 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-05T18:26:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 19874 bytes, checksum: 38cb62ef53e6f513db2fb7e337df6485 (MD5) A_charge_e_o_assunto_analise_documentari.pdf: 31372055 bytes, checksum: e748e7004bbb490f2e2d355eafbaf457 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-31 / Esta dissertação traz uma pesquisa social qualitativa sobre a charge, na intenção de contribuir para o desenvolvimento de uma abordagem adequada para o tratamento da charge em sistemas informativos documentais. Reconhece a charge como instrumento para intervenção na realidade, para reprodução de discursos e para educação da população. Assume como objetivo geral investigar a charge no escopo da organização do conhecimento. Pressupõe as teorias do documento e da informação no âmbito da análise documentária em diálogo com teorias mais recentes na ciência da informação. Adota uma abordagem metodológica heterogênea, de acordo com os objetivos estimados. Investiga as tipologias de desenhos de humor para identificar semelhanças e diferenças da charge com outros gêneros. Discute o lugar da charge entre os gêneros jornalísticos. Identifica nos dicionários gerais de língua o que é denominado por charge, caricatura e cartum pelos falantes comuns. Representa as definições de charge e congêneres em mapas conceituais. Problematiza a definição de charge com teorias sobre desenhos de humor. Apresenta um panorama da charge na ciência da informação. Aborda a charge como documento. Discute as variáveis da análise documentária de texto, propostas por Lara, considerando os seguintes elementos: o documento, a informação, a sistematização da área, a instituição, o usuário e o documentalista. Compara e interpreta esses elementos na análise documentária da charge. Como resultados, identifica aproximações semânticas entre os empréstimos charge, caricatura e cartum e suas respectivas palavras de origem estrangeira, ocorrendo, todavia, adaptações na língua portuguesa. Indica adaptações de empréstimos porque apenas no português brasileiro coexistem as unidades lexicais usadas para designar diferentes tipos de desenho de humor.Propõe as seguintes variáveis na análise documentária de charge: a) a estrutura narrativa da charge; b) as informações brutas presentes na charge; c) terminologia da área; d) instituições de custódia da charge; e) os usuários da charge e f) a formação e o quadro de referência do documentalista para o tratamento da charge. Essas variáveis evidenciam a circunscrição desse processo em condições sociais específicas. Por consequência, a análise de assunto da charge não pode ser assumida como neutra e imparcial, o que nos permite concluir sobre a inviabilidade de uma proposta universal e atemporal para análise documentária de charge. Conclui que cabe à ciência da informação investigar a charge como objeto informativo e desenvolver sistemas de informação para potenciar seu uso como geradora de conhecimento. / This thesis is a social qualitative research about political cartoon in information science scope. It contributes to the political cartoon insertion in a retrieval systems. Recognize the charge as an instrument for intervention in reality, for reproduction of discourses and educating the public. The objective is investigate the political cartoon in knowledge organization scope. It contributes to the theoretical framework considers the concepts of information and documents. The methodological approach is heterogeneous, according to the specific objectives. It investigates the typologies of humorous drawings to identify similarities and differences of political cartoon with other genres. It discusses the place of the political cartoon between journalistic genres. Identifies what is cartoon, caricature and cartoon in dictionaries language. It represents political cartoon and congenerous definitions in conceptual maps. It presents an overview of political cartoon in information science. It advocates the political cartoon as a document. Discusses the variables in the subject analysis of text, as proposed by Lara who considers the following elements: the document, the information, the systematization of the knowledge area, the institution, the user and the information professional. These elements are compared, interpreted and adapted in the subject analysis of political cartoon. As the results, it’s identifies semantics approximation between cartoon and caricature with the words of the foreign language. It indicates adaptations in Portuguese. Concludes that only in Brazilian Portuguese coexist lexical units used to describe different types of humor drawing. The following variables in the subject analysis of political cartoon are proposed: a) the discursive structure of political cartoon; b) the referential information in political cartoon; c) the domains around the political cartoon; d) custodial institutions of political cartoon; e) users of the political cartoon and f) information professionals profile and referral. These variables reflect the evidence of the circumscription process in specific social conditions. Thus, the subject analysis of the political cartoon cannot be neutral and impartial. This understanding led to the conclusion on the unfeasibility of a universal and non-temporal proposal for subject analysis of political cartoon.

Precision medicine provides targeted treatment for an individual patient based on disease mechanisms, promoting health care. Matched transcriptomes derived from a single subject enable uncovering patient-specific dynamic changes associated with disease status. Yet, conventional statistical methodologies remain largely unavailable for single-subject transcriptome analysis due to the "single-observation" challenge. We hypothesize that, with statistical learning approaches and large-scale inferences, one can learn useful information from single-subject transcriptome data by identifying differentially expressed genes (DEG) / pathways (DEP) between two transcriptomes of an individual. This dissertation is an ensemble of my research work in single-subject transcriptome analytics, including three projects with varying focuses. The first project describes a two-step approach to identify DEPs by employing a parametric Gaussian mixture model followed by Fisher's exact tests. The second project relaxes the parametric assumption and develops a nonparametric algorithm based on k-means, which is more flexible and robust. The third project proposes a novel variance stabilizing framework to transform raw gene counts before identifying DEGs, and the transformation strategically by-passes the challenge of variance estimation in single-subject transcriptome analysis. In this dissertation, I present the main statistical methods and computational algorithms for all the three projects, as well as their real-data applications to personalized treatments.

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Background: Transcriptome analytic tools are commonly used across patient cohorts to develop drugs and predict clinical outcomes. However, as precision medicine pursues more accurate and individualized treatment decisions, these methods are not designed to address single-patient transcriptome analyses. We previously developed and validated the N-of-1-pathways framework using two methods, Wilcoxon and Mahalanobis Distance (MD), for personal transcriptome analysis derived from a pair of samples of a single patient. Although, both methods uncover concordantly dysregulated pathways, they are not designed to detect dysregulated pathways with up- and down-regulated genes (bidirectional dysregulation) that are ubiquitous in biological systems. Results: We developed N-of-1-pathways MixEnrich, a mixture model followed by a gene set enrichment test, to uncover bidirectional and concordantly dysregulated pathways one patient at a time. We assess its accuracy in a comprehensive simulation study and in a RNA-Seq data analysis of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs). In presence of bidirectionally dysregulated genes in the pathway or in presence of high background noise, MixEnrich substantially outperforms previous single-subject transcriptome analysis methods, both in the simulation study and the HNSCCs data analysis (ROC Curves; higher true positive rates; lower false positive rates). Bidirectional and concordant dysregulated pathways uncovered by MixEnrich in each patient largely overlapped with the quasi-gold standard compared to other single-subject and cohort-based transcriptome analyses. Conclusion: The greater performance of MixEnrich presents an advantage over previous methods to meet the promise of providing accurate personal transcriptome analysis to support precision medicine at point of care.

This is the first known study to explore the image retrieval preferences of news photographers and news photo editors in work contexts. Survey participants (n=102) provided opinions regarding 11 photograph searching methods. The quantitative survey data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, while content analysis was used to evaluate the qualitative survey data. In addition, news photographers and news photo editors (n=11) participated in interviews. Data from the interviews were analyzed with phenomenography. The survey data demonstrated that most participants prefer searching by events taking place in the photograph, objects that exist in the photograph, photographer-provided keywords, and relevant metadata, such as the date the picture was taken. They also prefer browsing. Respondents had mixed opinions about searching by emotions elicited in a photograph, as well as the environmental conditions represented in a photograph. Participants' lowest-rated methods included color and light, lines and shapes, and depth, shadow, or perspective. They also expressed little interest in technical information about a photograph, such as shutter speed and aperture. Interview participants' opinions about the search methods reflected the survey respondents' views. They discussed other aspects of news photography as well, including the stories told by the pictures, technical concerns about digital photography, and digital archiving and preservation issues. These stated preferences for keyword searching, browsing, and photographer-provided keywords illustrate a desire for a strong internal locus of control in digital photograph archives. Such methods allow users more control over access to their photographs, while the methods deemed less favorable by survey participants offer less control. Participants believe they can best find their photographs if they can control how they index and search for them. Therefore, it would be useful to design online photograph archives that allow users to control representation and access. Future research possibilities include determining the preferences of other image retrieval system users, performing user studies with moving image information retrieval systems, and uniting content-based and concept-based image retrieval research.

Ce mémoire porte sur l’analyse documentaire en milieu universitaire. Deux approches générales sont d’abord étudiées : l’approche centrée sur le document (premier chapitre), prédominante dans la tradition bibliothéconomique, et l’approche centrée sur l’usager (deuxième chapitre), influencée par le développement d’outils le plus souvent associés au Web 2.0. L’opposition entre ces deux démarches reflète une dichotomie qui se trouve au cœur de la notion de sujet, c’est-à-dire les dimensions objective et subjective du sujet. Ce mémoire prend par conséquent la forme d’une dissertation dont l’avantage principal est de considérer à la fois d’importants acquis qui appartiennent à la tradition bibliothéconomique, à la fois des développements plus récents ayant un impact important sur l’évolution de l’analyse documentaire en milieu universitaire. Notre hypothèse est que ces deux tendances générales doivent être mises en relief afin d’approfondir la problématique de l’appariement, laquelle définit la difficulté d’accorder le vocabulaire qu’utilise l’usager dans ses recherches documentaires avec celui issu de l’analyse documentaire (métadonnées sujet). Dans le troisième chapitre, nous examinons certaines particularités liées à l’utilisation de la documentation en milieu universitaire dans le but de repérer certaines possibilités et certaines exigences de l’analyse documentaire dans un tel milieu. À partir d’éléments basés sur l’analyse des domaines d’études et sur la démarche analytico-synthétique, il s’agit d’accentuer l’interaction potentielle entre usagers et analystes documentaires sur le plan du vocabulaire utilisé de part et d’autre. / The topic of this dissertation is subject analysis in a university environment. Two major approaches are studied at first: subject analysis centered on the document (first chapter), historically predominant in librarianship, and subject analysis centered on the user (second chapter), mostly influenced by the development of Web 2.0 technologies. The opposition between those two approaches reflects a dichotomy which is at the very heart of the notion of subject, meaning the objective and subjective aspects of the subject. The outline of the dissertation has the distinct advantage of presenting well established practices in the field of librarianship as well as recent developments that do have an impact on subject analysis in a university environment. Our hypothesis is that both major tendencies must be highlighted to study the question of mapping the terminology (subject metadata) that comes from subject analysis with the terminology that users tend to favor while searching for documents. In the third chapter, we examine more closely particularities of the university environment in an effort to look at distinct possibilities and requirements for subject analysis in such an environment. Reinforced by elements taken from domain and facet analysis, the goal is to accentuate the potential interaction between users and indexers on a terminological level.