The aim of this study is to develop a deeper understanding of what it means to be an expressive and interactive pianist, and expand those skills in duo performance with a vocalist. The research questions that guides the project are: In which ways can I deepen and enhance my expressive skills as a pianist? In which ways does the arrangement process affect our joint expression in duo performance? How can our interactions in performance become further developed into a shared voice? The structure of the results chapter is organized as I present the process behind searching for answers to each research question. The results, though, have emerged simultaneously, which has made the reflections lead to a deeper understanding of expressiveness and interactiveness.  The main artistic methods have been improvisation and transcription. Improvisation for reflecting on my already possessed knowledge and as a way of interpreting the score.  Transcription to find new ideas and new ways of applying the ideas. Stimulated recall and open coding have been used both as a way of creating arrangements and to analyze the joint expressions and interactions in the musical outcome.  The project emerged in collaboration with Sofie Andersson (2022) as we created arrangements on three songs, recorded them, and analyzed the interactions and joint expressions. The arrangement process, starting by a verbal collaborative interpretation of the lyrics, contributes to our joint expression as we listen-through-Hera (our duo) and how we want Hera to express the intended interpretation. By communicating verbally and non-verbal, we could understand each other's interpretations and find a joint expression. We found that trust is a key to a successful collaboration. The way we interact attentively to each other's voice and impulses, and the way we are part of each other's extended body schema creates our shared voice.

This master dissertation is devoted to the actual problem – the lack of a specific methodology for assessing the efficiency of foreign economic activity (FEA) of industrial enterprises in the financial crisis. Therefore was formulated the main goal – development methodological approaches and tools for assessing activation of foreign economic activity of enterprise. First chapter of this dissertation includes review of examines the concept of foreign economic activity, structure, types and other factors influencing on efficiency. Also was describes the main methods and approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of FEA which are also using by industry. In addition, considers such a phenomenon like the financial crisis, explores the main types and causes, in particular, special attention was paid to the events of 2014. As well was nominated the hypothesis about the positive effect of the financial crisis on the foreign trade export enterprises which is works in raw materials and steel direction. In second Chapter was highlighted and described the object of study (OAO NLMK), in his example was evaluated the efficiency of foreign economic activity by using previously identified metrics. Likewise we study the impact of currency volatility on performance indicator from trade deals in dynamics. In third Chapter was developed the algorithm, including step-by-step instructions for the assessment of the external economic activity of industrial enterprise taking into account influence of external factors. Also was offered options necessary responses to changes in the external environment, it will allow to effectively adapt the FEA under the changes, and to reveal reserves of increase of efficiency. This algorithm is a scientific novelty of this dissertation research. Dissertation research located on 107 pages, which has 18 tables and 19 figures, when writing was used 52 bibliographical sources. / Данная магистерская диссертация посвящена актуальной проблеме – отсутствию определенной методики оценки эффективности внешнеэкономической деятельности (ВЭД) промышленного предприятия в условиях финансового кризиса. В связи с чем сформулирована основная цель ¬– разработка методических подходов и инструментария к оценке активизации ВЭД предприятия. В первой главе данной работы рассмотрены понятия внешнеэкономической деятельности, ее структуры, видов и основных факторов, влияющих на ее эффективность. Так же рассмотрены основные методы и подходы к оценке эффективности ВЭД, так же проанализированы существующие показатели эффективности, которые применяются промышленными предприятиями. Кроме того, рассмотрен такой феномен, как финансовый кризис, исследованы основные виды и причины возникновения, в частности особое внимание уделялось событиям 2014 года. Выдвигается гипотеза о положительном эффекте финансового кризиса на ВЭД предприятий – экспортеров сырья и металлопродукции. Во второй главе выделяется и описывается объект исследования (ПАО НЛМК), на его примере производится оценка эффективности внешнеэкономической деятельности при помощи ранее выявленной системы показателей. Так же в динамике изучается влияние валютной волатильности на показатель эффективности от внешнеторговых сделок. В третей главе разрабатывается алгоритм, включающий пошаговую инструкцию по оценке внешнеэкономической деятельности промышленного предприятия, учитывающий влияние внешних факторов. Так же предложены варианты необходимых мер реагирования на изменения внешней среды, данный подход позволит эффективно адаптировать ВЭД под изменения, а так же выявлять резервы повышения эффективности. Алгоритм представляет собой научную новизну данного диссертационного исследования. Диссертационное исследование находится на 107 страницах, на которых размещены 18 таблиц и 19 рисунков, при написании было использовано 52 библиографических источника.

This study aims to estimate the level of satisfaction about resettlement arrangements for local people who have been affected by A Luoi hydroelectric construction project in the Thua Thien Hue province. This research used the Likert scale method to assess the satisfaction level of 98 households living in two of the resettlement sites. Results illustrate that there is variations in the level of satisfaction of local people in the two resettlement sites, Hong Thuong and Hong Ha. In the resettlement area (RA) of the Hong Thuong Commune, people are dissatisfied with the location arrangement. There is a lack of quality in the houses built, been damaged, cracked and degraded, since the construction design is not appropriate for the customs and practices of local people, with a satisfaction rating of 1.07. Meanwhile, at the resettlement site of the Hong Ha commune, people felt satisfied with the arrangement site of the RA and allocated residential land area with the satisfaction rating of 4.19. Our results will help the government, as well as the project owners, to understand the points of dissatisfaction of local people in order to have accordant solutions, ensuring the stable life for local people in those settlement areas. / Nghiên cứu này nhằm mục đích đánh giá được mức độ hài lòng của người dân về việc bố trí tái định cư (TĐC) cho người dân bị ảnh hưởng bởi dự án xây dựng thuỷ điện A Lưới, tỉnh Thừa Thiên Huế. Nghiên cứu đã sử dụng phương pháp thang đo Likert để đánh giá mức độ hài lòng của 98 hộ dân sống tại hai khu tái định cư Hồng Thượng và Hồng Hạ. Kết quả nghiên cứu đã cho thấy có sự khác nhau về mức độ hài lòng của người dân tại hai khu TĐC. Tại khu TĐC Hồng Thượng người dân thấy không hài lòng về địa điểm bố trí TĐC, nhà ở được xây dựng thiếu chất lượng đã bị hư hỏng, nứt nẻ xuống cấp, thiết kế xây dựng không phù hợp với phong tục, tập quán của người dân địa phương, với chỉ số đánh giá hài lòng là 1,07. Trong khi đó, tại khu TĐC xã Hồng Hạ người dân lại thấy hài lòng về điểm bố trí TĐC và diện tích đất ở được cấp, với chỉ số đánh giá hài lòng là 4,19. Kết quả nghiên cứu của đề tài sẽ giúp cho chính quyền cũng như chủ đầu tư dự án nắm rõ những điểm không hài lòng của người dân để có hướng giải quyết phù hợp nhằm đảm bảo cuộc sống ổn định cho người dân tại nơi tái định cư.

This project responds to an ongoing discussion in scholarship that identifies and analyzes the ideological functions of computer interfaces. In 1994, Cynthia Selfe and Richard Selfe claimed that interfaces are maps of cultural information and are therefore ideological (485). For Selfe and Selfe and other scholars, these interfaces carried a colonial ideology that resulted in Western dominance over other cultures. Since this early scholarship, our perspectives on interface have shifted with changing technology; interfaces can no longer be treated as having persistent and predictable characteristics like texts. I argue that interfaces are interactions among dynamic information that is constantly being updated online. One of the most prominent ways users interact with information online is through the use of search engines such as Google. Interfaces like Google assist users in navigating dynamic cultural information. How this information is arranged in a Google search event has a profound impact on what meaning we make surrounding the search term. In this project, I argue that colonial ideologies are upheld in several Google search events for the term "Benghazi, Libya." I claim that networked connection during Google search events leads to the creation and sustainment of a colonial ideology through patterns of arrangement. Finally, I offer a methodology for understanding how ideologies are created when search events occur. This methodology searches for patterns in connected information in order to understand how they create an ideological lens.

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[pt] A pesquisa considera a perspectiva da federação tridimensional que estabeleceu o município como ente federado a partir da Constituição Federal de 1988 e da LDBEN 9.394 de 1996. A intensificação da municipalização do ensino fundamental neste contexto, com aumento no número de matrículas de estudantes em idade obrigatória de escolarização, implicou em novas responsabilidades para as equipes gestoras locais, tornando seu trabalho mais complexo. A pesquisa buscou i) compreender como redes públicas municipais de ensino se organizam do ponto de vista administrativo para atender ao público matriculado em suas escolas e ii) investigar os arranjos institucionais e as ações empreendidas pelos órgãos gestores e suas possíveis relações com os diferentes perfis de rendimento das redes de ensino em termos de qualidade e equidade educacional. O estudo, de natureza quantitativa, complementado por estudos de caso, foi realizado tendo como referenciais os estudos da área de gestão e política educacional. A análise foi realizada a partir de três categorias-chave: contexto socioeducacional, arranjo institucional e focalização da gestão. A partir do estudo realizado observou-se que há compromisso das equipes locais e esforços expressivos, ainda que diferenciados em cada caso, empreendidos para garantir a matrícula e a frequência com sucesso escolar dos alunos das redes municipais de ensino. Contudo, as interferências externas, em especial da política local e limitações de natureza técnica, em contextos socioeconômicos de parcos recursos das famílias e da rede pública de ensino dificultam a elaboração de políticas educacionais que logrem promover qualidade com equidade educacional. / [en] This research considers the federation three-dimensional perspective which established that the municipalities are enabled as federated entities since our Brazilian Constitution from 1988 and our LDBEM from 1996. The increasing numbers in decentralization of primary education and the increasing enrollment rates among students to whom enrollment in mandatory has brought new responsibilities and has made work more complex for educational administrators. This research aimed to i) comprehend how our public networks administratively organized themselves in order to cope with more enrollments and the new demands and ii) to investigate the institutional arrangements, the actions taken by managers and the possible relations among the various achievement profiles of students in regards to educational quality and equity. This quantitative research was complemented by case studies and used studies in educational management and policy as reference. The analysis was made from three keywords: social and educational context, institutional arrangements and management focus. From this study, it was observed that there is commitment and strong effort in order to guarantee enrollments to students and a successful school attendance. However, some external interference, especially the local policies, the technical limitations, the little resource from families and from our public network make more difficult to elaborate educational policies which effectively promote educational quality and equity.

<p>This thesis deals with combinatorial and geometric aspects of linear optimization, and consists of two parts.</p> <p>In the first part, we address a conjecture formulated in 2008 and stating that the largest possible average diameter of a bounded cell of a simple hyperplane arrangement of n hyperplanes in dimension d is not greater than the dimension d. The average diameter is the sum of the diameters of each bounded cell divided by the total number of bounded cells, and then we consider the largest possible average diameter over all simple hyperplane arrangements. This quantity can be considered as an indication of the average complexity of simplex methods for linear optimization. Previous results in dimensions 2 and 3 suggested that a specific type of extensions, namely the covering extensions, of the cyclic arrangement might achieve the largest average diameter. We introduce a method for enumerating the covering extensions of an arrangement, and show that covering extensions of the cyclic arrangement are not always among the ones achieving the largest diameter.</p> <p>The software tool we have developed for oriented matroids computation is used to exhibit a counterexample to the hypothesized minimum number of external facets of a simple arrangement of n hyperplanes in dimension d; i.e. facets belonging to exactly one bounded cell of a simple arrangement. We determine the largest possible average diameter, and verify the conjectured upper bound, in dimensions 3 and 4 for arrangements defined by no more than 8 hyperplanes via the associated uniform oriented matroids formulation. In addition, these new results substantiate the hypothesis that the largest average diameter is achieved by an arrangement minimizing the number of external facets.</p> <p>The second part focuses on the colourful simplicial depth, i.e. the number of colourful simplices in a colourful point configuration. This question is closely related to the colourful linear programming problem. We show that any point in the convex hull of each of (d+1) sets of (d+1) points in general position in R^d is contained in at least (d+1)²/2 simplices with one vertex from each set. This improves the previously established lower bounds for d>=4 due to Barany in 1982, Deza et al in 2006, Barany and Matousek in 2007, and Stephen and Thomas in 2008.</p> <p>We also introduce the notion of octahedral system as a combinatorial generalization of the set of colourful simplices. Configurations of low colourful simplicial depth correspond to systems with small cardinalities. This construction is used to find lower bounds computationally for the minimum colourful simplicial depth of a configuration, and, for a relaxed version of the colourful depth, to provide a simple proof of minimality.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Cette étude a pour objectif de transcrire une sonate (synonyme, en Europe centrale à l’époque, de suite, partie ou partita) pour luth baroque à 11 choeurs de Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750) pour guitare moderne à 11 cordes et d’analyser la manière dont nous pouvons intégrer et interpréter cette musique sur un instrument moderne. L’adaptation de la musique de Weiss à la guitare à 11 cordes est un sujet original, car cette musique, conçue pour le luth, sera fidèlement respectée en gardant le même accord (contrairement aux transcriptions ordinaires impliquant un changement d’accord). La démarche vise donc à préserver l’intégrité de l’oeuvre par le biais d’une approche soucieuse de respecter l’intention et l’esthétique du compositeur. Ma recherche porte sur les oeuvres de Weiss composées entre 1717 et 1719 pour luth à 11 choeurs (Lundberg, 2001). La Sonate no 1 du Manuscrit de Londres est sélectionnée ici, car elle représente bien les divers aspects du travail de Weiss et on peut y voir tous les éléments clés de sa musique (Cardin, 2005). Ainsi, mes analyses commencent par les bases de la transcription de la musique pour luth sur la guitare à 11 cordes, elles se développent ensuite par des sujets plus complexes comme les ressources stylistiques et se terminent avec les pratiques ornementales de rigueur à cette époque. L’ornementation est l’ajout final dans l’interprétation de cette musique baroque. Elle fait appel à l’imagination et aux connaissances stylistiques, harmoniques et contrapuntiques de l’interprète.

This dissertation examines a phenomenon that arose in modern Japanese art and architecture in the late 1920s and early 1930s, which I term “integrated art.” I argue that “integrated art” was a distinct genre of art characterized by several impulses toward totality: the unification of multiple artistic media, the melding of art and its viewership, and most notably, the collapse of traditional Japanese arts (the “past”) with modernism (the “present”). “Integrated art” was indebted both to 19th century European notions of the Gesamtkunstwerk (the "total artwork") that had begun circulating in Japan in the 1900s, and to tea and other Japanese art practices. It also a particular local response to the rapid modernization and disorienting Westernization of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The genre’s fascination with the “past” sprouted from a growing concern over the preservation of Japanese culture in modern times, and a perceived disconnect between extant practices of fine art and cultural identity. To define this genre of total art, I examine three cases that can be understood as “integrated art”: the “total flowers” of ikebana master Teshigahara Sōfū (1900-1979), the teahouse-inspired structures of architect Horiguchi Sutemi (1895-1984), and the stage performances of the artist collective Jikken Kōbō (active 1951-1957). The sum of these three artistic practices gives shape and weight to the amorphous tendency of “integrated art,” making its characteristics and goals visible. By conducting visual analyses of each case study’s works, their photographic documentation, and related writings, I show that each creator or group of creators pursued an intangible—and largely impossible—totality: a holistic, timeless Japanese art practice that resolved the fractured, modern present. In doing so, I offer a narrative of modern Japanese art that not only traverses diverse media and practices, but also interrogates the aesthetic and political stakes of traditional arts, modernism, and totality. Questions of totality permeate modernism in various regions of the world—by analyzing “integrated art,” this study not only enriches our understanding of these transnationally linked ideas, but also celebrates the cultural particularities of total art in pre-World War II through early postwar Japan.