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L'étude de l'industrie lithique des populations qui occupaient la Patagonie et la Terre de Feu nous a permis de discuter des dynamiques culturelles mises en œuvre par les chasseurs terrestres et maritimes, de part et d'autre du détroit de Magellan, à l'Holocène moyen et tardif. L'approche techno-économique développée pour les industries de la grotte Fell, Punta Santa Ana 3, Marazzi 1, Cabo Monmouth 20, Oosin Aike et Cabo San Vicente a été axée sur deux éléments: d'abord, les objets dont les matières, parfois d'origine non locale, constituent des témoignages de transport et d'interaction (obsidiennes); ensuite, les méthodes élaborées de débitage, avec prédétermination (méthode Levallois, Clactonien, laminaire et discoïde), dont les modalités peuvent être liées aux processus complexes de partage et de transmission des connaissances. Une discontinuité dans la distribution archéologique de l'obsidienne verte est observée entre 4500 et 2500 ans BP et nous permet d'envisager l'hypothèse d'une migration des peuples de Patagonie du nord. La comparaison des distributions spatiales et chronologiques des méthodes de débitage Levallois montrent des interactions et contacts entre groupes, aussi bien que des conceptions partagées, transmises et généralisées dans la Fuego-Patagonia. Ces observations sont en lien direct avec les premiers nomades de la mer, dont le rôle clé, à partir de 7000 BP, supprime la notion de barrière biogéographique relative pour le détroit de Magellan. Ainsi, on remarque l'existence d'un fond culturel commun. Les variations correspondraient plutôt à des évolutions mesurables en termes d'intensités d'interactions et d'adaptations à des systèmes écologiques. / The study of the lithic industries of the peoples that inhabited Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego bas allowed the discussion of cultural dynamics, displayed by terrestrial and marine hunter-gatherers, at one or the other side of Magellan strait, during the Middle and Late Holocene. The techno-economic approach used to study the materials from Fell cave, Punta Santa Ana 3, Marazzi 1, Cabo Monmouth 20, Oosin Aike and Cabo San Vicente, was organized following two axis: first, objects of exotic raw materials that establish evidence of transport and interaction (obsidians); second, elaborated core reduction methods and débitage with predetennination (Levallois, Clactonian, blade, and discoid reduction), were the action modes can be related to complex processes of knowledge sharing and transmission. The observed discontinuity of green obsidian archaeological distribution between 4500 and 2500 years BP bas permitted considering the hypothesis of a north Patagonian immigration. The comparison of spatial and chronological distributions of Levallois core reduction methods, show interactions and contact between human groups. Likewise they display the existence of shared conceptions, as in an integrated, transmitted and generalized knowledge corpus for Fuego-Patagonia. These results have direct rapport with the key role of the first marine nomads since c. 7000 BP and the removal of the biogeographic barrier notion relative to the Magellan strait. Thus, worthy ofremark is the existence of a common cultural background and that differences in distribution would correspond to measurable changes regarding interaction intensity and adaptation to ecologic systems.

Adaptation cinématographique de la nouvelle Femme de lumière paru dans le recueil Les jours où je suis né aux Éditions Vents d'Ouest (2005) de l'auteur québécois Claude Vallières. Ce mémoire comprend toute la démarche de création, de l'écriture du scénario jusqu'au film final, en passant par la nouvelle, le budget, le storyboard, le calendrier de tournage, les droits d'auteurs, les droits à l'image ainsi que les documents légaux nécessaires à la réalisation du film. De plus, une réflexion sur la lumière dans le film noir est présent en deuxième partie du mémoire.

Abstract   This paper is the comment and analysis of the translation of twelve articles in a book with the title Dessine-moi un Parisien by Olivier Magny, originally written as a blog in English on internet, but after huge success also recently published in French. It is a creative, expressive and communicative text, which is fun and often ironic when it tries to describe the nature of a native Parisian. As all texts appear in a cultural context, it is part of the translator’s work to adapt the translated text into the new cultural context in which it will appear. This is especially difficult when a cultural phenomenon (expressed by proper nouns, proverbs, idioms etc.) in the source culture doesn’t even exist in the target culture or, if there is an equivalent translation, is associated with a different connotation.   The aim of this paper is to analyze whether it is possible to translate a text full of local cultural references, by using the many pragmatic and semantic strategies and tools proposed in Konsten att översätta (Ingo: 2007) while trying to keep to the original functions of the text.   Two further strategies, foreignizing and domesticating, have also been of interest as they deal with the basic questions why, when and to what degree one should accomplish all the possible changes in order to adapt the text to the new cultural context.   The analysis shows that all the tools have been of great use and that a good translation is possible. To define a suitable strategy in every single situation, the importance of the pragmatic and the semantic meaning have guided us. It further shows that the situation in which the sentence appears is the most important, even though there is another obvious translation. It has also been possible to endeavor ourselves to obtain some “French color” that is so important for the style in the original blog.   Keywords: cultural adaptations, equivalences, cultural phenomenon, foreignizing, domesticating

Predators select for defensive adaptations, such as stings, toxins, and camouflage color patterns. Madtoms, Noturus, are diminutive catfishes with dorsal and pectoral stings. Thirteen of the 25 nominal species have serrated spines in the pectoral sting and a contrasting pigment pattern. Behavior of two saddled species, N. miurus and N. hildebrandi, and one uniformly colored species, N. leptacanthus, was investigated to test if the pigment pattern is camouflage. Saddle spacing and crypticity of the saddled species were measured against various substrates and were found to be unevenly spaced, which could be camouflage when viewed against gravel. Given substrate choices, madtoms preferred gravel during daylight conditions. In subsequent experiments, all species were given colored gravel to test color vs. texture-based substrate choice and preferred dark substrates. In the presence of a predator stimulus, madtoms preferred gravel at night and dawn. The pigment pattern likely is camouflage when viewed against gravel substrates.

Orientador: Arnaldo Cortina / Banca: Marina Célia Mendonça / Banca: Luciane de Paula / Banca: Vera Lúcia Rodella Abriata / Banca: Anna Flora Brunelli / Resumo: O presente trabalho procura examinar algumas obras de autoajuda adaptadas ao público infantojuvenil, tendo como base para a análise também as obras publicadas para aos adultos. Propõe-se neste estudo uma análise comparativa entre os livros originais e suas respectivas adaptações, totalizando sete obras. Nosso objetivo é explicitar as estratégias linguísticos-discursivas nos livros para o público adulto e suas adaptações. Para fundamentar a análise, fez-se um levantamento da história da literatura infantojuvenil e o dos livros de autoajuda. Nortearam esta pesquisa alguns princípios teóricos de discurso e enunciação na perspectiva da semiótica greimasiana, alguns enfoques da teoria bakhtiniana de gênero relacionada com a greimasiana, bem como determinados aspectos dos estudos da Nova Retórica. Com isso, esperamos delinear a imagem de enunciatário projetada nos livros estudados. Assim, as versões para jovens e crianças examinadas têm o objetivo de prepará-los para lidar com as dificuldades da vida adulta, tais como, desenvolver a inteligência financeira, aprender a lidar com mudanças, ser empreendedor, dentre outras competências / Abstract: The present thesis aims at examining some self-help works adapted to children\teenagers readers, establishing as a parameter of analysis the adult books they were adapted from. A comparison between the original adult works and their children\teenagers adaptation is proposed, for which seven books were analyzed. Our aim is to headlight the linguistic- discursive strategies handled to adapt the adult books into children/teenagers books. In order to underlie the analysis, a study of the children\teenagers literature history and self help books composition was carried out. Some discourse and enunciation theoretical principles in a greimasian semiotic perspective guided this research, as well as gender related bakhtinian and greimasian theory. Some New Rhetoric aspects were also dealt with. As a result, we hope to portrait the discursive image projected by the books studied. As a conclusion, the analyzed children\teenagers versions have as an aim to get the children and youngsters ready to deal with adult life challenges they will face in the future, such as: to develop financial intelligence, to learn how to absorb changes, to develop enterprising spirit, among other abilities / Doutor

Child maltreatment (CM) is a major public health problem in the United States which affects millions of children each year. Because parents are responsible for the majority of substantiated CM reports, behavioral parent training is recommended as the primary prevention strategy. In recent years, researchers and clinicians have begun work examining the relevance and effectiveness of making cultural adaptations to parent training programs. The purpose of this study was to explore the need for systemic cultural adaptations to SafeCare®, an evidence-based parent-training child maltreatment prevention program. SafeCare is currently implemented in nine states and SafeCare providers are serving families representing a wide array of cultures and ethnicities. Eleven SafeCare providers, representing six states, participated in individual, semi-structured interviews to determine what, if any, cultural adaptations were in place in the field and whether there was a need for systematic culture-specific or general cultural adaptations to the SafeCare model. The interviews provided evidence that, across sites and populations, adaptations are being made when implementing SafeCare with diverse families. Providers expressed a need to make the language/reading levels of the model materials more relevant for all the populations served. Overall, however, providers found the model to be flexible and amenable to working with families of various cultures and ethnicities. Providers recommended against systematic adaptations of the model for specific ethnic groups.

Abstract: Previous lower limb weighting studies have placed a load on the legs bilaterally and tested different placement locations. It was previously determined that kinematic changes occur with greater masses and at joints proximal to weight placement [1]. Other studies have determined that these changes exist for a short adaptation period before parameters revert to a steady state [2]. Tasks that require voluntary gait modifications such as obstacle clearance have also been performed with lower leg bilateral weight addition [4]. In cases of normal obstacle clearance increased flexion at all three joints in the lower limb is needed to safely traverse the obstacle [3]. The goal of this study was to investigate joint kinematics and kinetics of unilaterally weighted participants using level ground force platform collection techniques, rather than a treadmill. It was hoped that this would allow for new insight into the adaptation periods and strategic motor pattern changes seen at the ankle, knee and hip. Kinematic and force platform data were collected on two groups of 10 healthy male subjects. Group 1 (mean age = 23years, mean weight = 82.181kg, mean height = 1.798m) was a normal walking group and group 2 (mean age = 24.8years, mean weight = 79.901kg, mean height = 1.773m) was an obstacle clearance group. Both groups participated in 20 trials each of three different conditions; normal, weighted and weight off using a 2.27kg limb mass attached just proximal to the right maleoli markers. A repeated-measures two-way ANOVA was carried out on relevant variables in order to determine statistical significance. Weight addition and removal affected the kinematics and kinetics of the normal walking and obstacle clearance groups. This effect was more prominent in the normal walking group. If changes were seen, trials 1 through 3 were the locations showing a quick adaptation followed by a leveling off back to a new steady state in later trials. Participants in the normal walking group chose to utilize the hip joint in order to control for weight addition and removal. Kinematically, changes in the hip joint angle occurred at all instances analyzed throughout the gait cycle with this effect being more prominent in the weight off condition. In conjunction with this, the hip joint energy generation increased during all phases of the gait cycle while the ankle and knee joints either decreased energy generation or increased energy absorption. In the obstacle group, participants also chose to increase flexion at the hip joint. However, the ankle joint also had either decreased plantarflexion or increased dorsiflexion at all the instances analyzed during the gait cycle. However, joint energy generation increases at these joints were only found during stance and at heel contact. The toe obstacle clearance values also showed a marked increase in trial 1 for the weighted condition which demonstrates a voluntary gait modification made by participants to safely traverse the obstacle that was quickly adapted for. Overall, the results found by previous studies using treadmill collection techniques were still seen in overground force platform data but they were not as robust. References: 1.Martin PE et al. J Biomech. 1990; 23(6):529-536. 2.Noble et al. Exp Brain Res. 2006; 169: 482-495. 3.Patla AE et al. Exp Brain Res. 1995; 196: 499-504. 4.Reid MJ et al. Neurosci Res Comm. 2001; 29(2): 79-87.

Abstract: Previous lower limb weighting studies have placed a load on the legs bilaterally and tested different placement locations. It was previously determined that kinematic changes occur with greater masses and at joints proximal to weight placement [1]. Other studies have determined that these changes exist for a short adaptation period before parameters revert to a steady state [2]. Tasks that require voluntary gait modifications such as obstacle clearance have also been performed with lower leg bilateral weight addition [4]. In cases of normal obstacle clearance increased flexion at all three joints in the lower limb is needed to safely traverse the obstacle [3]. The goal of this study was to investigate joint kinematics and kinetics of unilaterally weighted participants using level ground force platform collection techniques, rather than a treadmill. It was hoped that this would allow for new insight into the adaptation periods and strategic motor pattern changes seen at the ankle, knee and hip. Kinematic and force platform data were collected on two groups of 10 healthy male subjects. Group 1 (mean age = 23years, mean weight = 82.181kg, mean height = 1.798m) was a normal walking group and group 2 (mean age = 24.8years, mean weight = 79.901kg, mean height = 1.773m) was an obstacle clearance group. Both groups participated in 20 trials each of three different conditions; normal, weighted and weight off using a 2.27kg limb mass attached just proximal to the right maleoli markers. A repeated-measures two-way ANOVA was carried out on relevant variables in order to determine statistical significance. Weight addition and removal affected the kinematics and kinetics of the normal walking and obstacle clearance groups. This effect was more prominent in the normal walking group. If changes were seen, trials 1 through 3 were the locations showing a quick adaptation followed by a leveling off back to a new steady state in later trials. Participants in the normal walking group chose to utilize the hip joint in order to control for weight addition and removal. Kinematically, changes in the hip joint angle occurred at all instances analyzed throughout the gait cycle with this effect being more prominent in the weight off condition. In conjunction with this, the hip joint energy generation increased during all phases of the gait cycle while the ankle and knee joints either decreased energy generation or increased energy absorption. In the obstacle group, participants also chose to increase flexion at the hip joint. However, the ankle joint also had either decreased plantarflexion or increased dorsiflexion at all the instances analyzed during the gait cycle. However, joint energy generation increases at these joints were only found during stance and at heel contact. The toe obstacle clearance values also showed a marked increase in trial 1 for the weighted condition which demonstrates a voluntary gait modification made by participants to safely traverse the obstacle that was quickly adapted for. Overall, the results found by previous studies using treadmill collection techniques were still seen in overground force platform data but they were not as robust. References: 1.Martin PE et al. J Biomech. 1990; 23(6):529-536. 2.Noble et al. Exp Brain Res. 2006; 169: 482-495. 3.Patla AE et al. Exp Brain Res. 1995; 196: 499-504. 4.Reid MJ et al. Neurosci Res Comm. 2001; 29(2): 79-87.