Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2016-07-26T14:03:44Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertação para a colação 2.pdf: 2117716 bytes, checksum: 168ae5a81028b9ff3a4ce39ab1eb3edd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-26T14:03:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertação para a colação 2.pdf: 2117716 bytes, checksum: 168ae5a81028b9ff3a4ce39ab1eb3edd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-09 / CAPEs / O objetivo deste estudo foi realizar a adaptação transcultural da Motor Assessment Scale-MAS para o Brasil e analisar a confiabilidade (interexaminadores e teste-reteste), medida de erro (interexaminadores e teste-reteste) consistência interna e validade de construto. Além disso, foi realizada uma revisão sistemática para averiguar a validade dos instrumentos de mensuração do estado de saúde que avaliam a função motora após acidente vascular encefálico-AVE, disponíveis no Brasil. A revisão sistemática seguiu um protocolo pré-estabelecido e foi realizada por dois avaliadores independentes, considerando os estudos de propriedades de medida de instrumentos que avaliaram a função motora após AVE, resultado de adaptação cultural ou criação brasileira. A avaliação da qualidade metodológica foi realizada através do COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurements INstruments-COSMIN. O processo de adaptação transcultural da MAS foi realizado em 5 estágios: tradução, síntese das traduções, retrotradução, comitê de especialistas e pré-teste. A escala também foi submetida à opinião de Fisioterapeutas de diferentes estados do país, através de um estudo Delphi. A análise das propriedades de medida envolveu a participação de 100 indivíduos com diagnóstico clínico de AVE primário ou recorrente há no mínimo 30 dias, com presença de hemiparesia/hemiplegia, idade superior a 21 anos e ambos os sexos. A confiabilidade foi analisada através do coeficiente Kappa, a medida-de-erro através teste de plotagem de Bland & Altman e a consistência interna e a validade de construto foi verificadas através da análise Rasch. O resultado da revisão sistemática mostrou que todos os instrumentos disponíveis no Brasil para avaliação da função motora após AVE originaram-se em outros países e apresentaram uma metodologia inadequada seja no processo de adaptação transcultural ou na análise das propriedades de medida, tornando os resultados inconclusivos quanto à validade desses instrumentos. O adequado processo de adaptação transcultural e o estudo Delphi garantiram a equivalência semântica e adequação cultural da MAS para o Brasil. Os valores dos coeficientes de Kappa para as confiabilidades interexaminadores e teste-reteste foram 0,73 (variando nos itens de 0,79 a 1,00) e 0,82 (variando nos itens de 0,86 a 1,00), respectivamente. O teste de Bland Altman demonstrou adequada concordância. A análise Rasch demonstrou ausência de efeitos “solo” e “teto” (4% e 9%, respectivamente) e a capacidade do instrumento de dividir a amostra em mais de quatro níveis de habilidade. O item 4 “Sentado para de pé” apresentou padrão errático (MnSq infit=1,44; z=2,6). No entanto, a presença de apenas um item errático não afetou a unidimensionalidade do instrumento, o qual apresentou adequadas consistência interna e validade de construto. Desta forma, a MAS-Brasil constituiu-se em um instrumento adaptado e válido e poderá ser usado em contextos clínicos e nas pesquisas em indivíduos após AVE. / The objective of this study was to perform the cross-cultural adaptation of MAS for Brazil and analyse the reliability (inter-rater and test-retest), measurement error (inter-rater and test-retest), internal consistency and construct validity. Furthermore, was performed a systematic review to determine the validity of the health measurements instruments that assess motor function after stroke, available in Brazil. The systematic review followed a pre-established protocol and was performed by two independent evaluators considering studies on measurement properties of instruments that assessed motor function after stroke that resulted of cultural adaptation or Brazilian creation. The assessment of methodological quality was performed using the COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurements Instruments-COSMIN. The process of cross-cultural adaptation of the MAS was done in 5 stages following standardized guidelines: translation, synthesis of translations, back translation, experts’ committee review and pretesting. The scale was also submitted to the opinion of Physiotherapists of different states of the country, through a Delphi study. The analysis of measurement properties involved the participation of 100 individuals with a clinical diagnosis of primary or recurrent stroke for at least 30 days, with the presence of hemiparesis / hemiplegia, age greater than 21 years and both sexes. The reliability was analysed through the Kappa coefficient, the measurement error through Bland & Altman plots test and the internal consistency and construct validity were verified by the Rasch analysis. The adequate process of cultural adaptation and the Delphi study ensured the semantic and cultural appropriateness of MAS to Brazil. The Kappa coefficient values for the reliability inter-examiners and test-retest was 0.73 (varying in items 0.79 and 1.00) and 0.82 (varying in items 0.86 and 1.00), respectively. The Bland Altman test demonstrated adequate agreement. As for the analysis of the measurement properties, the Rasch analysis demonstrated absence of the “floor” and “ceiling” effects (4% and 9%, respectively) and the capacity of the instrument to divide the sample into more than four levels of ability. The item 4 “Sitting to standing” showed erratic standard (MnSq infit=1.44; z=2.6). Although, the presence of only one erratic item did not affect the unidimensionality of the instrument, which showed adequate internal consistence and construct validity. This way, the MAS-Brasil was constituted as an adapted and valid instrument and can be used in clinical contexts and in researches in patients after stroke.

Orientador: Milton José de Almeida / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T01:29:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sousa_JoaoFranciscoDielde_M.pdf: 25973911 bytes, checksum: f1d8c215e48e0353d7adfc63a5ec9594 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Tradução e comentário do Livro dos Reis, Shahnameh, de Ferdowsi, seguido de comentários sobre interpretação, imaginação e estudo de imagens, permeados por anotações sobre gnose, sobre mística persa e sobre tradução. / Abstract: Translation and commentary of the Book of Kings, Shahnameh, by Ferdowsy, followed by commentaries about interpretation, imagination and the study of images, permeated by notes about gnosis, persian mystique and about translation. / Mestrado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Mestre em Educação

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M.Ed. (Educational Psychology) / South Africa can be metaphorically described as a quilt – a combination of diverse languages, ethnicities, beliefs and cultural practices, carefully stitched together and passed on from one generation to the next. South African children grow and develop surrounded by the comfort and warmth of this colourful quilt. Although this provides a rich and dynamic learning environment, we face the challenge of providing equal quality education and educational psychological services to all our children. Psychological testing aids with the deeper understanding of an individual’s area of development and strengths in order to be able to make informed decisions about appropriate interventions, support and recommendations. However, due to South Africa’s problematic political past, psychological testing is faced with challenges of its own such as unavailability of tests that are culturally sensitive. This study forms part of a longitudinal study which is addressing this challenge by implementing a localized solution to a local problem, at an affordable cost. The Junior South African Intelligence Scale (JSAIS) is an instrument which measures the intelligence of 3- to 7-year-old children, and is currently standardised for Afrikaans and English-speaking children only. In an effort to eliminate the language barrier and make it more applicable of our South African population, the JSAIS GIQ-8 was translated into Sesotho and isiZulu. In previous studies, the translated tests were administered and a Rasch measure of analysis used to determine the quality of the items in relation to the ability of the participants. This exploratory qualitative study focuses on acquiring recommendations from a panel of people experienced in administering the JSAIS with the aim to improve the quality of the Sesotho JSAIS. Findings show that the Sesotho used in the initial translation is a pure form of Sesotho and participants are concerned that children living in townships around the country may not understand this well. The participants recommend administration to a wider sample group to learn more about the Sesotho dialects used in different regions of South Africa. A Sesotho manual needs to be added to guide administrators in regional word use and in providing standard instructions. The answer sheets needs to be adapted. Some of the pictures on the picture cards need to be changed and the Sesotho questions on those picture cards added as appendices...

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Masters of Science / Recognising and estimating gestures is a fundamental aspect towards translating from a sign language to a spoken language. It is a challenging problem and at the same time, a growing phenomenon in Computer Vision. This thesis presents two approaches, an example-based and a learning-based approach, for performing integrated detection, segmentation and 3D estimation of the human upper body from a single camera view. It investigates whether an upper body pose can be estimated from a database of exemplars with labelled poses. It also investigates whether an upper body pose can be estimated using skin feature extraction, Support Vector Machines (SVM) and a 3D human body model. The example-based and learning-based approaches obtained success rates of 64% and 88%, respectively. An analysis of the two approaches have shown that, although the learning-based system generally performs better than the example-based system, both approaches are suitable to recognise and estimate upper body poses in a South African sign language recognition and translation system. / South Africa

In November of 1965, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was launched in China when a Shanghai newspaper editor, Yao Wen-yuan, published an attack on the play which is translated here, Hai Jui Dismissed from Office. The fact that this event constituted the beginning of what later became a political struggle of vast proportions was recognized only belatedly by most Western analysts. When the Cultural Revolution moved into high gear with the launching of the Red Guard movement in the spring of 1966, vague references were made in some Western commentaries to the fact that the explosion seemed to have been ignited, by the public exposure of a drama which had purportedly satirized the Communist Party and Mao Tse-tung. No one appeared to have any certainty about exactly what the play had said and in what way it satirized Mao and the Party. As far as I am aware, this is the first translation of the entire text of the play, or any part of it, into English. Aside from simply translating the text of the play, the purpose of this thesis is to analyze the events of late 1965 and early 1966 and place them both in chronological order and in political perspective. In this way, it is clearly shown how the attack on Wu Han led to attacks on other "bourgeois" writers and intellectuals. Eventually, this latter group was linked to high officials in the Peking Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Finally, the "cultural" aspect of the Cultural Revolution gave way to a full-fledged political battle within the Party itself. / Arts, Faculty of / Asian Studies, Department of / Graduate

Cette étude a pour champ l'inventaire des traductions d'œuvres de la littérature française vers le grec, et l'étude de leur présence dans les lettres grecques du début du XXe siècle à l'aube du XXIe siècle.Le constat, en premier lieu, que les traductions jouent un rôle primordial pour la réception en Grèce de la littérature en question et, en deuxième lieu, que leur inventaire sur la période considérée n'était pour l'instant que fragmentaire, nous a conduit à définir comme but de notre recherche le recensement exhaustif des œuvres françaises traduites et publiées en Grèce entre 1900 et 2010 et qui figurent dans les catégories de la prose, la poésie, le théâtre.Le traitement quantitatif et qualitatif de paramètres comme l'année d'édition, l'auteur traduit, l'œuvre traduite, le/la traducteur/-rice, la maison d'édition, ainsi que leur analyse conclusive qui sert de tentative d'interprétation, nous ont permis de dresser un panorama global de l'image de la littérature française traduite dans la langue grecque. / This study covers the Greek translations of French literature and their presence in the Greek literary world during the entire twentieth century and at the dawn of the twenty-first. The finding that translations play a crucial role in the absorption of this literature in Greece, and that, to date, their recording within the examined period is fragmented, set a research goal for the fullest possible, accurate and documented recording of any Greek translations of works of French literature (prose - plays - poetry), published in our country in the period from 1900 to 2010.The quantitative and qualitative processing of certain parameters, such as the year of publication of a translation, the translated author, the translator, the translated work and the publisher, as well as the relevant conclusions, intend to contribute to the presentation and overview of the overall image of this translation sector.

Prenant pour objet les traductions du Spleen de Paris (Petits poèmes en prose) de Baudelaire en Espagne entre les années 1880 et 1930, cette thèse se propose d’examiner le contexte historique, littéraire et éditorial de leur publication, afin de déterminer les modalités de réception du recueil. Le corpus comprend des traductions en castillan et en catalan et prend en compte leur insertion dans les systèmes littéraires d’accueil à La Havane, Madrid et Barcelone ainsi que leurs principales caractéristiques textuelles. Une attention particulière est portée aux traducteurs, récepteurs actifs du texte puisqu’ils en sont à la fois lecteurs et réécrivains. Leurs portraits éclairent la condition des traducteurs, qu’ils soient réputés ou inconnus, à une période où la traduction acquiert progressivement une plus grande dignité, du moins dans les discours, mais où les traducteurs sont encore largement méprisés et sous-payés, oscillant souvent eux-mêmes entre le dénigrement d’une tâche si rarement gratifiante et la forte tentation qu’elle représente malgré tout. Ces portraits incluent l’étude de leur conception de la traduction, de la France et de Baudelaire pour mieux comprendre également les enjeux individuels du travail qu’ils ont mené à bien. La question de la réception du genre du poème en prose est traitée principalement à travers les choix éditoriaux et l’interprétation des préfaces dans les versions étudiées. / With the translations of Baudelaire’s Spleen de Paris (Petits poèmes en prose) in Spain from the 1880’s to the 1930’s as its main object, this thesis intends to examine their historical, literary and publishing context in order to determine how the book was received. The corpus includes Castilian and Catalan translations and considers their insertion into their target literary systems in Havana, Madrid and Barcelona as well as their main textual characteristics. A particular focus is placed on the translators as active recipients of the text since they are both its readers and its rewriters. Their portraits shed light on the translators’ condition, be they renowned or unknown, at a time when translation progressively acquires more dignity, at least in speeches, while translators are still largely scorned and underpaid. The translators themselves tend to waver between belittling this task, so rarely gratifying, and giving in to its temptation. These portraits also convey their conception of translation, France and Baudelaire to get a better understanding of what was at stake individually in the work they accomplished. The reception of the genre of the prose poem is addressed mainly through analysing the publishing choices and interpreting the prefaces of the studied versions. / Tomando por objeto las traducciones del Spleen de Paris (Petits poèmes en prose) en España entre los años 1880 y 1930, esta tesis se propone examinar el contexto histórico, literario y editorial de su publicación, para determinar las modalidades de recepción del libro. El corpus contiene traducciones en castellano y en catalán y considera su inserción en los sistemas literarios de acogida en La Habana, Madrid y Barcelona así como sus principales características textuales. Particular atención se ha prestado a los traductores, receptores activos del texto por ser al mismo tiempo sus lectores y reescritores. Sus retratos ponen en evidencia la condición de los traductores, sean renombrados o desconocidos, en un periodo en el cual la traducción va adquiriendo mayor dignidad, al menos en los discursos, mientras los traductores siguen despreciados y mal pagados. Los mismos traductores vacilan entre el menosprecio hacia una tarea tan poco gratificante y la fuerte tentación que representa dicha tarea a pesar de todo. Esos retratos incluyen el estudio de su concepción de la traducción, de Francia y de Baudelaire para entender mejor también lo que está en juego individualmente en el trabajo que llevaron a cabo. La recepción del género del poema en prosa se analiza principalmente a través de las decisiones editoriales y de la interpretación de los prólogos en las versiones estudiadas.