Submitted by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2014-11-06T14:30:01Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - Tereza Caroline Lôbo - 2011.pdf: 15972991 bytes, checksum: 11b61c7ad2bda8188186e775bcd47201 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2014-11-06T14:41:17Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - Tereza Caroline Lôbo - 2011.pdf: 15972991 bytes, checksum: 11b61c7ad2bda8188186e775bcd47201 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-11-06T14:41:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - Tereza Caroline Lôbo - 2011.pdf: 15972991 bytes, checksum: 11b61c7ad2bda8188186e775bcd47201 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-04-01 / The celebration in honor of Our Lady of St. Ana which occurs since the eighteenth century, in July, in the Capela do Rio do Peixe in Pirenópolis/GO, constitutes a phenomenon characteristic of the community who have experienced it, implying as a process that involves action and production of a place clearly buoyed by moments of sharing and solidarity. This "meeting place" is tied to space and landscape, and these shares are essential in the formation of identities and manifestations of the place. It is proposed in this paper a research focus, through symbols and rituals at the party-place, the meanings of this phenomenon festive. The research aims to highlight that more than an ancient religious tradition, festive resistant to change and the party conflict is revealed as a phenomenon based on an intense self-managed process, the original party disappeared and transcended the religious aspect, and now presents different uses and meanings. Thus, we sought the possible answers to the problem proposed in this study, namely: how the conflicts arising from the encounter of several trajectories during the time of the party appear in our present and guide the senses of place given to them (the participants ) to the feast of Our Lady at St. Ana's Capela do Rio do Peixe, Pirenópolis/GO? In conducting the research at the present time (2007 to 2010) and live with / in their area of occurrence is proposed to submit more than one outside world in importance and power that provides a simple environment of human action, but an inner world, feelings and desires that impresses by the complexity of their reality. / O festejo em louvor a Nossa Senhora Sant’Ana, o qual ocorre desde a metade do século XVIII, em julho, no povoado da Capela do Rio do Peixe em Pirenópolis/GO, constitui-se fenômeno próprio da comunidade que o vivencia, implicando um processo que envolve ação e produção de um lugar nitidamente balizado por momentos partilhados e solidários. Esse “lugar de encontros” está atrelado ao espaço e à paisagem, sendo estes partes imprescindíveis na constituição das identidades e nas manifestações do lugar. Propõe-se, neste trabalho, uma investigação que destaque, por via dos símbolos e rituais presentes na festa-lugar, os significados de tal fenômeno festivo. A pesquisa visa ressaltar que, mais do que uma antiga tradição religioso-festiva resistente às transformações e conflitos, a festa revela-se como um fenômeno fundado num intenso processo autogerativo, posto que a festa original desapareceu e transcendeu o aspecto religioso, aduzindo agora usos e significados diversos. Dessa forma, buscaram-se as respostas possíveis para o problema proposto nesta pesquisa: de que modo os conflitos originados do encontro de várias trajetórias durante o momento da festa apresentam-se na atualidade e orientam os sentidos de lugar dados por eles (os participantes) à festa de Nossa Senhora Sant’Ana na Capela do Rio do Peixe em Pirenópolis/GO? Ao realizar a pesquisa no tempo atual (2007 a 2010) e viver com/no seu espaço de ocorrência, dispomo-nos a apresentar mais do que um mundo exterior em importância e poderes que fornecem um simples ambiente da ação humana, mas sim um mundo interior, dos sentimentos e desejos que impressionam pela complexidade de sua realidade.

The purpose of this study will explore increasing gang membership, gang structure, and strategies utilized by the criminal justice system in attempting to curb gang-related crime and activities. Through a quantitative research study, the researcher examined crime in the cities of Garden Grove, California and Santa Ana, California in an attempt to determine the success of the Santa Nita Gang Injunction in reducing crime within the injunctions "safety zone."

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This project examines the relationship between gendered identities, virtual communities, and material bodies, with an emphasis on eating disorders and self-injury practices. The use of the internet to represent and foster particular categories of material bodies, such as the anorexic, the fitness buff, and the self-injurer, has gained substantial visibility due in part to the proliferation of visual imagery presented through social networks. I analyze written and visual texts within specific social networks to assess their function and potential impact on individuals and larger communities. Drawing from Donna Haraway's cyborg theory, N. Kathryn Hayles' posthuman, Judith Butler's performativity, feminist poststructural analysis, and the notion of augmented reality, this project explores how individuals rely on social networks, images, and technologies to provide supportive environments for, as well as modify and maintain, specific gendered bodies. Applying feminist interpretations of Foucault's concepts of discipline and "docile bodies," primarily the research and critiques of Susan Bordo, Anne Balsamo, and Armando Favazza (among others), I examine how image sharing and interactions via social networks and communities affect material bodies and function as forms of social control, normalizing and encouraging ultra-thin bodies and dangerous behaviors, including eating disorders, overexercise, and cutting. I also explore subversive strategies of resistance enacted both within and beyond pro-ana and self-injury communities to counter negative messages and promote positive body image in girls and women.

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The purpose of this monograph is to promote Costa Rican academic music by focusing on Costa Rican composer Carlos Escalante Macaya and his Concerto for Clarinet and Strings (2012). I hope to contribute to the international view of Latin American composition and to promote Costa Rican artistic and cultural productions abroad with a study of the Concerto for Clarinet and Strings (Escalante's first venture into the concerto genre), examining in close detail its melodic, rhythmic and harmonic treatment as well as influences from different genres and styles. The monograph will also include a historical context of Costa Rican musical history, a brief discussion of previous important Costa Rican composers for the clarinet, a short analysis of the composer's own previous work for the instrument (Ricercare for Solo Clarinet) and performance notes. Also, in addition to the publication and audio/video recording of the clarinet concerto, this document will serve as a resource for clarinet soloists around the world. Carlos Escalante Macaya (b. 1968) is widely recognized in Costa Rica as a successful composer. His works are currently performed year-round in diverse performance venues in the country. His compositions vary widely, including orchestral, choral, and chamber music works, as well as music for dance, theater, and film. He is associate composer for the national dance and theater companies, and also receives many other commissions. He has received important national and Latin American composition awards, but his music, as that of other Costa Rican composers, is yet to be discovered outside of Latin America. Only one book, Música académica costarricense: Del presente al pasado cercano (2012), includes a commentary on Carlos Escalante Macaya. In it Costa Rican musicologist Ekaterina Chatski briefly analyzes two of his most important compositions: Los huesos tristes, commissioned in 2006 for the Choreographer's Festival, and Sinfonía Centenario (1997), winner of the Latin American Composition Competition of the centenary of the National Theater of Costa Rica. This book also includes a short biography of the composer and a list numbering 81 of his compositions up to the year 2008. The composer provided most materials necessary for my study, including multiple scores, inspirational visual materials, as well as a full interview (completed August 12, 2013) that will be included as an appendix. It is also important to mention that this concerto was written for me. The composer made significant effort to create a piece that would be, in his own words, a "perfectly fitted dress." My feedback ultimately made this piece what it is today, and my premiere of it on September 14, 2012, with the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica, was an absolute success. This piece was so well received by the Costa Rican public that it was included in the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica's latest CD recording of Costa Rican Music Composers. This recording is the first album of the National Symphony Orchestra to include a solo artist, so it is an honor for me to have been part of this wonderful project. Having been involved in all stages that brought this piece to life, I believe I am in the best position to present an analysis of the piece, to provide a historical background, and to offer performance recommendations for the future. / Music Performance

La correction de l'anémie par l'érythropoïétine recombinante humaine (rhEPO) en insuffisance rénale chronique (IRC) s'accompagne d'une augmentation de la pression artérielle. Nos travaux antérieurs indiquent que l'rhEPO accentue la dysfonction endothéliale qui est présente en IRC en augmentant la production d'endothéline-1 (ET-1). Par contre, en condition rénale normale, la pression artérielle et la concentration vasculaire d'ET-1 demeurent inchangées suite au traitement à l'rhEPO. Ces résultats suggèrent que l'rhEPO exerce un effet différent sur la production des hormones vasoactives telles la thromboxane A2 (TXA2) et la prostacycline (PGL) et sur le système ET-1 en IRC et chez l'animal normal. Notre étude démontre que l'administration d'rhEPO en IRC s'accompagne d'une augmentation supplémentaire de TXA? alors que le niveau de PGL demeure inchangé. Le ratio TXA2/PGL est donc augmenté ce qui suggère que la production de PGL est insuffisante pour contrer les effets de la TXA2. En effet, le blocage de la synthèse de TXA2 avec le ridogrel prévient l'hypertension artérielle induite par l'rhEPO en urémie alors que le blocage simultané de la TXA2 et de la PGI2 avec l'acide acétylsalicylique est inefficace. Ces résultats soulignent l'importance de préserver la production de PGI2 lors de l'administration d'rhEPO en IRC. Chez l'animal normal, nous avons observé que l'administration d'rhEPO n'affecte pas la pression artérielle et la concentration vasculaire d'ET-1. Nous avons alors émis l'hypothèse que le récepteur (R) ETB (impliqué dans la clairance) pourrait jouer un rôle compensateur sur la pression artérielle et la clairance de l'ET-1 lors de l'administration d'rhEPO chez l'animal normal. En effet, nos résultats démontrent que l'expression de PARNm du récepteur ETH est augmentée ainsi que sa densité sur l'endothélium des vaisseaux d'animaux traités à l'rhEPO. Afin de démontrer l'effet compensateur du récepteur ETB, nous avons administré de l'rhEPO à des souris ETBR hétérozygotes <+) , ETA<+/_) et sauvages. Le traitement à l'rhEPO cause une augmentation significative de la pression artérielle et de la concentration vasculaire d'ET-1 seulement chez les souris ETBR(+/) . Ainsi, ces résultats démontrent que l'rhEPO peut moduler le système ET1/ETHR en condition normale. Cette augmentation de l'expression du récepteur ETB pourrait contribuer à maintenir la pression artérielle lors de l'administration d'rhEPO à des animaux normaux. À l'inverse, des conditions où le récepteur ETB est déficitaire, comme chez les souris ETBR ( + ) et lors de ITRC, pourraient entraîner une augmentation de la pression artérielle lors de l'administration d'rhEPO. Des analyses de l'expression de gènes par microarray ont aussi été menées sur les aortes de ces rats. Les résultats révèlent que l'effet de l'rhEPO sur l'expression des gènes est différent entre les rats normaux et urémiques. En effet, l'analyse de ces données suggère que des gènes comme la superoxyde dismutase et la glutathionc peroxydase pourraient être impliqués dans l'hypertension artérielle induite par l'rhEPO en IRC. Ces résultats permettent d'identifier de nouvelles avenues de recherche qui permettront d'élucider les mécanismes physiopathologiques de cette forme iatrogénique d'hypertension artérielle. En conclusion, mes travaux de recherche au doctorat révèlent que l'rhEPO exerce une action pléiotropique sur les vaisseaux sanguins et cette action est différente entre le rat normal et le rat urémique. Chez l'animal urémique, l'rhEPO accentue la dysfonction endothéliale déjà existante et l'hypertension artérielle alors que chez le rat normal, l'administration d'rhEPO est associée à des mécanismes compensatoires permettant de maintenir la pression artérielle à un niveau normal. Nos résultats fournissent des évidences d'un nouveau rôle modulateur de l'rhEPO sur les vaisseaux sanguins et permettront de développer des approches thérapeutiques plus spécifiques pour le traitement de l'hypertension artérielle induite par l'rhEPO en IRC. / The treatment of anemia with recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) in chronic renal failure (CRF) induces hypertension. Our previous studies showed that rhEPO increases the existing endothelial dysfunction in rats with CRF by stimulating the production of endothelin-1 (ET-1). In contrast, in normal animals, blood pressure and vascular ET-1 concentrations remain unchanged following rhEPO therapy. These results prompted us to verify whether rhEPO exerts a different effect on the production of vasoactive hormones such as thromboxane A2 (TXA2) and prostacyclin (PGI2), and on the vascular ET-1 system in CRF and normal animals. Our study showed that rhEPO administration in CRF rats is associated with a further increase in vascular TXA2 concentrations, while prostacyclin (PGE) levels remained unchanged. The ratio of TXA2/PGI2 was increased, suggesting that PGI2 production is insufficient to oppose the effects of TXA2. Consistent with this finding, TXA2 synthesis blockade with ridogrel prevented rhEPO-induced hypertension in uremic rats while the inhibition of the synthesis of both TXA2 and PGI2 with acetylsalicylic acid was ineffective. These results stress the importance of preserving PGI2 production when treating rhEpoinduced hypertension in CRF. In normal animals, we observed that rhEPO administration does not affect blood pressure and vascular ET-1 concentrations. We hypothesised, that the ETB receptor (a clearance receptor) could play a compensatory role in maintaining ET-1 levels in normal animals under rhEPO treatment. In keeping with that, the vascular expression of the ETB receptor as well as its endothelial density were increased in normal rats receiving rhEPO. To further document the compensatory role of the ETB receptor (R), we administered rhEPO to ETBR heterozygous <+/) , ETAR <+/_) and wildtype mice. The administration of rhEPO caused an increase in blood pressure and vascular ET-1 concentrations in ETBR mice exclusively. These results indicate that rhEPO can modulate the endothelial ET-1/ETBR system in normal conditions. This increase in endothelial expression of the ETBR may contribute to maintaining normal blood pressure during rhEPO administration in normal animals. In contrast, conditions with deficient ETBR expression, such as in ETBR( + ' mice orCRF rats, may lead to hypertension while receiving rhEPO therapy. Microarray gene expression analyses were also performed on the aorta of these rats. We observed that the effect of rhEPO on gene expression is different between normal and uremic rats. Indeed, the results suggest that genes such as superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxydase might be involved in hypertension induced by rhEPO in CRF. These results pave the way toward new research directions in elucidating the physiopathogenic mechanisms of this iatrogenic form of hypertension. In conclusion, my doctoral studies reveal that rhEPO exerts a pleiotropic action on blood vessels and this action is different between normal and CRF animals. In uremic conditions, the administration of rhEPO aggravates the existing endothelial dysfunction and hypertension whereas in normal animals there are compensatory mechanisms that contribute to maintaining blood pressure normal. Our results provide further insights into novel modulatory actions of rhEPO on blood vessels which are highly relevant to the development of more specific and rational approaches for the management of rhEPOinduced hypertension in CRF.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:59:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIZETE_BORGES_DE_ABREU.pdf: 451206 bytes, checksum: 97d730c4046114335bb9dbef1eee8564 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-10 / In this work, we made a study of novels Desmundo of Ana Miranda and Memorial do Convento of José Saramago, specifically the narrative structure and feminine characters Oribela and Blimunda. The comparative method was used to promoving a dialogue between brazilian and portuguese literature. The authors made a History s critical revision, when through fiction, anonymous and stranger people had opportunity to show a new version of facts. In this way, the forgetful people and everyone who were quiet or had kept in silence by oficial history for years earned voice. The fictional procedures and organization of narratives reveal ideological marks of past that contrast with present, we have the time of history in direct confront with time of writing. Feminine characters are agents of social transformation, too. They keep themselves an ideological speech which approach them to the present. They look into their reality, and thought acute sense show us aspects of nature and human relationship had never seen before. The sensibility, capacity to appreciate the world and years of repression make the feminine characters a spokeswomen of excluded people such as poors, women and jewish beyond all persons who had an inadequate behaviour to pattern of period. Therefore, our purpose was reveal the manner as writters articulated literature elements mixing ideological aspects of present and past, history and fiction to build a ficcional universe which destroy the dominant ideology / Neste trabalho fizemos uma análise da estrutura narrativa dos romances Desmundo de Ana Miranda e Memorial do Convento de José Saramago e das respectivas personagens Oribela e Blimunda. Utilizamos o método comparativo como instrumento de análise com o propósito de promover o diálogo entre as literaturas brasileira e portuguesa. Os romances fazem uma revisão crítica da história ao dar voz aos esquecidos, àqueles que foram calados pela História oficial. A organização estética, os procedimentos literários comuns ao corpus evidenciam marcas ideológicas de um tempo histórico que se contrapõem ao tempo da escritura. Por outro lado, a construção de personagens femininas que se destacam pelas atitudes e pela forma diferente de pensar e enfrentar a realidade, tornam-nas agentes de transformação social, portadoras de um discurso ideológico que as aproximam da contemporaneidade. É por meio da agudeza do olhar que essas personagens conseguem apreender o real em todas as suas nuanças e perceber aspectos da natureza e das relações humanas, impossíveis de serem captadas por indivíduos cuja visão é embotada pelo processo de automatização social. A sensibilidade, a capacidade de apreensão do mundo e o fato de ter sido calada durante tanto tempo, faz da personagem feminina uma espécie de porta-voz dos excluídos, seu discurso ganha uma dimensão que extrapola os limites do próprio romance. Sua perspicácia e agudeza, assim como a forma como penetra e revela a natureza e as relações humanas materializam-se esteticamente na narrativa. Nosso objetivo, portanto, foi mostrar como os escritores articularam os elementos literários absorvendo traços ideológicos do presente e do passado e revelar de que maneira as protagonistas femininas se desenvolveram como agentes de transgressão social por meio de um discurso literário que esfacela a ideologia dominante

This dissertation investigates a common methodology of staging Cuban and Cuban exile historiography in three novels by Roberto G. Fernández (b. 1950), Antonio Benítez Rojo (1931-2005), and Ana Menéndez (b. 1970). This methodology develops a counterpoint between, first, the diagetic (strictly fictional) stories of characters who attempt to research or write Cuban history from exile and, second, the extradiagetic (extra or non-fictional) use of actual sources and tendencies of Cuban, Caribbean, and U.S. historiography structuring the narrative fiction. Reinforcing the density of the discursive field, the authors additionally incorporate works of Spanish, Latin-American, Caribbean, and/or Cuban literatures as constitutive elements of their fictions’ extradiagetic “noise.” I make the case that Fernández’s, Benítez Rojo’s, and Menéndez’s U.S.-produced historical novels develop a critical and investigative approach to the politics of Cuban exile and diaspora historiography. As such, they participate in the emergence of a post-exile Cuban literature, in dialogue with broader Caribbean and Latin American literatures. I analyze what I call archival dissonance in (1) the first, paradigm-setting novel in the body of historical fiction narrated from the frame of a dystopian future by Roberto G. Fernández, La vida es un special; (2) in Ana Menéndez’s use of reader response and archival research methods to critically recast a history of family division under the Cuban Revolution as popular romance fiction in Loving Che and (3) in the only novel Antonio Benítez Rojo lived to write in the United States, Mujer en traje de batalla (about the accidental arrival to New York City of the “first female Cuban physician” Enriqueta Faber, 1791-1827). Departing from the methodology presented with the narrative structure of each of the novels, in which a diagetic process of a character’s reading and/or writing Cuban history from a site of exile is countered by extradiagetic documentary and metaliterary information, I examine each novel’s metacritical approach to the politics of exile and diaspora historiography, as well as toward Cuban, Caribbean, Latin American, and/or U.S. literary textual economies. / text

This thesis examines the Alberto Korda Guerrillero Heroico image within the realm of U.S. Latino/a fiction. Drawing from several trends that constitute Latino/a identity as either resistant to white mainstream hegemonies, or as a performative construct, I argue that a collective Hispanic identity is found somewhere between these two extremes. Corporate discourses have perpetuated stereotypes of Latino masculinity to limit any alternate and nuanced portrayal of Latinidad. Specifically, I posit that the corporate use of the Che photograph illustrates Latin men as hypermasculine, limiting Latin-ness to a performance of its mainstream depiction. To combat the commercialization of the print, the novel Loving Che imagines new possibilities for the Hispanic community and its relationship to the U.S. market, challenging the idea of a pan-Latino/a identity with archival photographis of the comandante. Together, both texts bridge performative and resistant trends, providing a potential Latinidad that resists and eludes corporate hegemonies. / by Johanna Ayala-Walsh. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. / Includes bibliography. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / System requirements: Adobe Reader.