En considérant le rôle important de la magie dans l’islam ainsi que dans les pays musulmans et en considérant éventuellement son rôle important dans la formation de l'univers symbolique de l'art islamique, l’étude des objets magiques peut être une nouvelle voie pour les historiens de l’art islamiques. Les travaux et les réflexions développés dans le cadre de cette thèse avaient un double objectif : d’une part, découvrir les sources thématiques et visuelles de l’univers symbolique des amulettes et talismans iraniens chiites. Ou en d’autres termes, trouver une réponse précise et claire à cette question à savoir si les éléments constituant l’iconographie des amulettes et talismans iraniens chiites sont proprement fondés sur les sources islamiques et les traditions des arabo-musulmans primitifs ? Sinon, pouvons-nous considérer d’autres sources pour ces éléments comme les mythes et les traditions artistiques plus anciennes de la Mésopotamie-Perse ? Et d’autre part, d’attirer l’attention des historiens de l’art islamique sur les thèmes des symboles – et leurs passés régionaux – figurant sur les objets magiques iraniens chiites spécifiquement et plus généralement sur l’art islamique.Ce travail, basé sur une étude stylistique et artistique ainsi qu’une étude thématique et comparative entre les éléments textuels et visuels figurant sur les 166 amulettes et talismans iraniens chiites – collectés de trois collections : des cachets, bulles et talismans islamiques du département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, de la collection des objets du Musée du Quai Branly à Paris et de la collection des objets talismaniques iraniens (ou des objets magiques iraniens) du Musée civilisations Europe Méditerranée de Marseille (noté MuCEM) – à ceux dans l’art préislamique de la Mésopotamie-Perse. Ce travaille montre que les deux éléments textuels et picturaux sur ces objets possèdent une relation thématique fondée sur un point de vue cosmique et mythique préislamique. De plus, notre analyse démontre que la naissance de l’écriture décorative et figurative pouvait être le résultat d’un conflit idéologique-culturel entre les Arabo-musulmans conquérants et les intellectuels des pays vaincus. Notre étude démontre également que l’univers symbolique des amulettes et talismans iraniens chiites s’est formé sous l’influence des nombreux désaccords entre l’islam primitif importé par les Arabo-musulmans et les nouveaux musulmans des pays vaincus.Notre analyse s’est uniquement basée sur les trois collections de musées français et il serait indispensable de l’enrichir à partir d’autres pièces provenant d’autres musées de par le monde. / If we consider the important role of magic in Islam as well as in Muslim countries and possibly considering its important role in the making of the symbolic universe of Islamic art, the artistic study of magical items can be a new way for historians of Islamic art.The studies and comments developed in the framework of this thesis are two-fold: first, to discover the thematic and visual sources of the symbolic universe of Iranian Shiite amulets and talismans. Or in other words, to find a clear and precise answer to the question whether the composing elements of the iconography of Iranian Shiite amulets and talismans are strictly based on Islamic sources and primitive traditions of Arabic Muslim. Otherwise, can we consider other sources for these elements like the myths and the artistic traditions of oldest Mesopotamia and Persia?On the second hand, our goal is to attract the attention of historians of Islamic art on the themes of symbols - and their regional past - shown on Iranian Shiite magic items specifically and more generally on Islamic art.This work is based on a stylistic and artistic study as well as a thematic and comparative study between the textual and visual elements on the 166 Iranian Shiites amulets and talismans - collected from three collections: « Les cachets, bulles et talismans islamiques » from « Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris », from « Collection des objets » from « Musée du Quai Branly » in Paris et from « Collection des objets talismaniques iraniens (ou des objets magiques iraniens) » from « Musée civilisations Europe Méditerranée de Marseille (MuCEM) » – with those in the pre-Islamic art of Mesopotamia and Persia.This work shows that both textual and pictorial components of these objects have a thematic relationship based on a cosmic and mythical pre-Islamic perspective. In addition, our analysis shows that the birth of the decorative and figurative writing could be the result of an ideological and cultural conflict between the Arabic Muslim conquerors and the intellectuals of conquered countries. Our study also shows that the symbolic universe of Iranian Shiites amulets and talismans was formed under the influence of many disagreements between primitive Islam imported by Arabic Muslims and new Muslims of conquered countries. Our analysis is only based on the three collections of French museums and it is essential to enrich it with other items from other museums around the world.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:48:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PAULO CEZAR NUNES DE OLIVEIRA.pdf: 601209 bytes, checksum: f00e70da41ef59f2d00e6d507bf61861 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-08-31 / This dissertation is about the using of symbols of traditional popular Catholicism by Church Universal Kingdom of God in Brazil. The author sustain that the use of these symbols for this Institution construct how one of the principal reason of your expansion and consolidation. Argument even that these symbols are effective because represents various signification in rituals of this Church. To demonstrate how these happen, this work expose the great importance that these symbols have in the construction of religious experience. The agreement with this theory, will be explored with this theory, be explore somewhat slope religious that compose, through of history, one complex field religious brasilian and finish show how somewhat symbols of Catholicism popular earn new sense in the theology and practice ritual of IURD. / A presente dissertação coloca em debate a utilização dos símbolos do catolicismo popular tradicional pela Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus no Brasil. Sustenta que o uso destes símbolos por esta Instituição se constitui em uma das principais razões da sua expansão e consolidação. Argumenta ainda que estes símbolos são eficazes porque os mesmos são re-significados nas muitas práticas rituais da Igreja. Para demonstrar como se dá este processo, a pesquisa tematiza a grande importância que o simbólico possui na construção das experiências religiosas. Partindo deste pressuposto teórico, são inicialmente exploradas algumas das vertentes religiosas que foram compondo, ao longo da história, o complexo campo religioso brasileiro. O trabalho finaliza mostrando como alguns símbolos do catolicismo popular ganham novo sentido na teologia e nas práticas rituais da IURD.

Um importante problema na área de reconhecimento de padrões é o reconhecimento de textos manuscritos. O problema de reconhecimento de expressões matemáticas manuscritas é um caso particular, que vem sendo tratado por décadas. Esse problema é considerado desafiador devido à grande quantidade de possíveis tipos de símbolos, às variações intrínsecas da escrita, e ao complexo arranjo bidimensional dos símbolos na expressão. Neste trabalho adotamos o problema de reconhecimento de símbolos matemáticos manuscritos para realizar um estudo empírico sobre o comportamento de classificadores multi-classes. Examinamos métodos básicos de aprendizado para classificação multi-classe, especialmente as abordagens um-contra-todos e todos-contra-todos de decomposição de um problema multi-classe em problemas de classificação binária. Para decompor o problema em subproblemas menores, propomos também uma abordagem que utiliza uma árvore de decisão para dividir hierarquicamente o conjunto de dados, de modo que cada subconjunto resultante corresponda a um problema mais simples de classificação. Esses métodos são examinados usando-se como classificador base os modelos de classificação vizinhos-mais-próximos e máquinas de suporte vetorial (usando a abordagem um-contra-todos para combinar os classificadores binários). Para classificação, os símbolos são representados por um conjunto de características conhecido na literatura por HBF49 e que foi proposto recentemente especificamente para problemas de reconhecimento de símbolos on-line. Experimentos foram realizados para avaliar a acurácia dos classificadores, o desempenho dos classificadores para número crescente de classes, tempos de treinamento e teste, e uso de diferentes sub-conjuntos de características. Este trabalho inclui uma descrição dos fundamentos utilizados, detalhes do pré-processamento e extração de características para representação dos símbolos, e uma exposição e discussão sobre o estudo empírico realizado. Os dados adicionais que foram coletados para os experimentos serão publicamente disponibilizados. / An important problem in the eld of Pattern Recognition is handwriting recognition. The problem of handwritten mathematical expression recognition is a particular case that is being studied since decades. This is considered a challenging problem due to the large number of possible mathematical symbols, the intrinsic variation of handwriting, and the complex 2D arrangement of symbols within expressions. In this work we adopt the problem of recognition of online mathematical symbols in order to perform an empirical study on the behavior of multi-class classiers. We examine basic methods for multi-class classification, specially the one-versus-all and all-versus-all approaches for decomposing multi-class problems into a set of binary classification problems. To decompose the problem into smaller ones, we also propose an approach that uses a decision tree to hierarchically divide the whole dataset into subsets, in such a way that each subset corresponds to a simpler classification problem. These methods are examined using the k-nearest-neighbor and, accompanied by the oneversus-all approach, the support vector machine models as base classiers. For classification, symbols are represented through a set of features known in the literature as HBF49 and which has been proposed recently specially for the problem of recognition of online symbols. Experiments were performed in order to evaluate classier accuracy, the performance of the classiers as the number of classes are increased, training and testing time, and the use of dierent subsets of the whole set of features. This work includes a description of the needed background, details of the pre-processing and feature extraction techniques for symbol representation, and an exposition and discussion of the empirical studies performed. The data additionally collected for the experiments will be made publicly available.

Propõe-se para o objeto de pesquisa, Pirapora do Bom Jesus, a análise da simbologia contida no sagrado e no profano, reconhecida através da leitura da cidade e de seus espaços, de suas características culturais e históricas.Tais elementos são configurados como formadores da imagem da cidade e de sua representação urbana. / It is proposed for the object search, Pirapora do Bom Jesus, the analysis of symbology contained in the sacred and profane, recognized by reading the city and their spaces, their cultural and historical characteristics. Such informations are configured as elements of composition of the image of the city and its representation.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T14:31:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Vania Medeiros Gasparello.pdf: 1173726 bytes, checksum: f18f488959b788787b671a4f2d970d4c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-10-05 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This thesis aims at understanding the full meaning of expansion of consciousness, using the theory of the unconscious and interdisciplinary educational methodologies. Following Jung s approach to analytical psychology according to whom the unconscious is the great mother of consciousness I have attempted to interpret a number of dreams I had while writing my PhD thesis, endeavoring to uncover the so-called expansion of consciousness. In this essay I intend to synthesize the conscious-unconscious dialectics through the tentative interpretation of the symbols in my dreams. I am looking at the expansion of consciousness as a theme of studies on its own. This is a fundamental topic of studies in teachers education, connected with the expansion of consciousness in the realm of the unknown, or the unconscious. The proposal of consciousness expansion through one dream attempts primarily to reveal some aspects of Hegel s dialectic philosophy, an invaluable reference in educational literature, unfortunately ignored by most educators. Another dream has also contributed to develop my theoretical and methodological options in the realm of consciousness expansion. The analysis of a set of dreams helps to expand the understanding and meaningfulness of this theme of studies, not only in personal terms, but also in teaching practice. This study imbricates an interdisciplinary approach to education, Jung s search for the self, and consciousness expansion. / Esta tese busca compreender o sentido e o significado de uma expansão da consciência através do inconsciente e da metodologia interdisciplinar da educação. A partir da abordagem da psicologia analítica de Jung, que considera que o inconsciente é a grande mãe da consciência, a pesquisadora procura interpretar alguns sonhos que teve durante a realização dessa tese, no intuito de desvendar o que chama de expansão de consciência. Portanto, esse estudo pretende ser uma síntese da dialética consciente-inconsciente vivenciada pela pesquisadora, através da tentativa de interpretação dos símbolos presentes nos sonhos, tendo como objetivo a própria temática da expansão da consciência. Um tema considerado fundamental para a pesquisadora, que leciona em uma Faculdade de Formação de Professores e se preocupa com a formação humana num sentido mais amplo, de expandir consciências em relação a tudo que seja percebido como desconhecido, como inconsciente. Num primeiro momento, esta expansão de consciência, através de um sonho, procura desvendar alguns aspectos da filosofia dialética de Hegel, pois esta filosofia foi percebida como pouco conhecida e valorizada pelos educadores e pela própria pesquisadora, embora tenha influenciado bastante a literatura educacional. Um outro sonho também contribui para a expansão da consciência da pesquisadora em relação a sua opção teórico-metodológica. E a análise de mais um conjunto de sonhos favorece que esse tema adquira sentido e significado para a pesquisadora e para a sua atuação como docente. A perspectiva interdisciplinar da educação; a busca do si-mesmo, na teoria junguiana; e a questão da expansão da consciência, são percebidos como caminhos intimamente inter-relacionados nesse estudo.

Propõe-se para o objeto de pesquisa, Pirapora do Bom Jesus, a análise da simbologia contida no sagrado e no profano, reconhecida através da leitura da cidade e de seus espaços, de suas características culturais e históricas.Tais elementos são configurados como formadores da imagem da cidade e de sua representação urbana. / It is proposed for the object search, Pirapora do Bom Jesus, the analysis of symbology contained in the sacred and profane, recognized by reading the city and their spaces, their cultural and historical characteristics. Such informations are configured as elements of composition of the image of the city and its representation.

Traditional students enroll in post-secondary institutions during emerging adulthood. College enrollment is increasing and adult weight gain occurs most rapidly during the college-age years, with poor food decisions as a potential contributing factor. The present study examined the awareness, perception, and self-reported purchasing behaviors of college students regarding four front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labeling systems and symbols. Students were sent a 24-question web-based survey, with 908 completed surveys that met the research criteria. There were 888 (98.3%) respondents who recognized at least one of the four presented FOP nutrition labels. There were no significant differences between the groups that recognized one to four of the FOP nutrition labels in their stated likelihood to purchase foods with the specified labels. Students’ awareness of four commercial FOP nutrition labeling systems and symbols on product packaging did not have an impact on their food purchasing behaviors.

<p>The focus of this dissertation is on how communication regarding work environment and work related risks can be understood from an organizational communication perspective. Based on a case study of communication about work environment and work related risks in the Swedish forest industry, the present study discusses institutional influences on organizational sense making processes. A central question has been how to understand the organizational field as a cultural and communicative arena where concepts and ideas connected with issues in the field are communicated between different actors.</p><p>The empirical data was gathered using different methods. A questionnaire aiming at screening media habits and information gathering strategies of forest machine contractors was used. Based on information from that screening, mass media content was analysed, such as daily newspapers, trade press and advertisements for forest machines. Also, interviews with actors in the field were analysed thematically with respect to how to unveil hidden key symbols and cultural valuations of forest machine work, the work environment and how to handle work related risks in forest work. The key symbols that were identified to organise conceptions about forest work and occupational risks connected with it contained information about different attitudes towards how to handle risks and other problems in the work environment. Two main types of conceptions were identified, technologically oriented conceptions and person oriented conceptions.</p><p>The analysis revealed a fragmented picture of forest work. Yet, the picture was more or less common to the organizational field as a whole. Building on institutional theory and theories of sense making, the study results in a deeper understanding of sense making in relation to work environmental issues by applying an organizational dimension to risk communication in an organizational field.</p>

We establish elements of a new approach to ellipticity and parametrices within operator algebras on manifolds with higher singularities, only based on some general axiomatic requirements on parameter-dependent operators in suitable scales of spaes. The idea is to model an iterative process with new generations of parameter-dependent operator theories, together with new scales of spaces that satisfy analogous requirements as the original ones, now on a corresponding higher level. The "full" calculus involves two separate theories, one near the tip of the corner and another one at the conical exit to infinity. However, concerning the conical exit to infinity, we establish here a new concrete calculus of edge-degenerate operators which can be iterated to higher singularities. / Wir führen einen neuen Zugang ein zu Elliptizität und Parametrices in Operatorenalgebren auf Mannigfaltigkeiten mit höheren Singularitäten, nur basierend auf allgemeinen axiomatischen Voraussetzungen über parameter-abhängige Operatoren in geeigneten Skalen von Räumen. Die Idee besteht darin, ein iteratives Verfahren zu modellieren mit neuen Generationen von parameter-abhängigen Operatortheorien, zusammen mit neuen Skalen von Räumen, die analoge Voraussetzungen erfüllen wie die ursprünglichen Objekte, jetzt auf dem entsprechenden höheren Niveau. Der „volle“ Kalkül besteht aus zwei separaten Theorien, eine nahe der Spitze der Ecke und eine andere am konischen Ausgang nach Unendlich. Allerdings, bezüglich des konischen Ausgangs nach Unendlich, bauen wir hier einen neuen konkreten Kalkül von kanten-entarteten Operatoren auf, der für höhere Singularitäten iteriert werden kann.

The focus of this dissertation is on how communication regarding work environment and work related risks can be understood from an organizational communication perspective. Based on a case study of communication about work environment and work related risks in the Swedish forest industry, the present study discusses institutional influences on organizational sense making processes. A central question has been how to understand the organizational field as a cultural and communicative arena where concepts and ideas connected with issues in the field are communicated between different actors. The empirical data was gathered using different methods. A questionnaire aiming at screening media habits and information gathering strategies of forest machine contractors was used. Based on information from that screening, mass media content was analysed, such as daily newspapers, trade press and advertisements for forest machines. Also, interviews with actors in the field were analysed thematically with respect to how to unveil hidden key symbols and cultural valuations of forest machine work, the work environment and how to handle work related risks in forest work. The key symbols that were identified to organise conceptions about forest work and occupational risks connected with it contained information about different attitudes towards how to handle risks and other problems in the work environment. Two main types of conceptions were identified, technologically oriented conceptions and person oriented conceptions. The analysis revealed a fragmented picture of forest work. Yet, the picture was more or less common to the organizational field as a whole. Building on institutional theory and theories of sense making, the study results in a deeper understanding of sense making in relation to work environmental issues by applying an organizational dimension to risk communication in an organizational field.