Portrayals of sexual and/or domestic violence committed by men against women appear in the television schedules and in movie theatres on almost a daily basis. There is a long established tradition of concern about how depictions of violence in the audiovisual media can impact on audiences. However, minimal consideration has been given to what kind of discursive 'messages' such portrayals might contain and how audiences engage with these. This research explores to what extent audio-visual portrayals of violence against women might offer certain ways of reading and understanding that violence, and how women audiences interpret these. It investigates this through both textual and reception analyses, with the framework through which reception is examined being directly related to the textual material itself. The study assesses to what degree audio-visual texts are capable of structuring audience interpretation, and whether there is any direct relationship between this and how women viewers actually read the texts. Four audio-visual products are examined: the Hollywood film The Accused; an episode of the soap opera EastEnders; the television play Closing Ranks; and an edition of Crimewatch UK. Ninety one women, formed into 14 focus groups, participated in the reception research. Half of these women had experienced violence of a domestic and/or sexual nature, whilst the other half had no experience of such violence. Groups further varied in terms of nationality (Scottish and English), class (working-class and middle-class) and ethnic background (white, Asian and Afro-Caribbean). The research demonstrates that neither audio-visual texts nor their reception can be considered outwith an appreciation of how social and cultural factors influence both. The media are involved in the circulation of cultural meanings about acts of violence against women and in mediating this cannot help but draw on existing discourses which surround such violence. As audiences, women also draw on their socialised conceptions of such violence, though how they engage with and read its representation is affected by their social and cultural positionings and their own lived experiences.

The studies on content-based video indexing and retrieval aim at accessing video content from different aspects more efficiently and effectively. Most of the studies have concentrated on the visual component of video content in modeling and retrieving the video content. Beside visual component, much valuable information is also carried in other media components, such as superimposed text, closed captions, audio, and speech that accompany the pictorial component. In this study, semantic content of video is modeled using visual, auditory, and textual components. In the visual domain, visual events, visual objects, and spatial characteristics of visual objects are extracted. In the auditory domain, auditory events and auditory objects are extracted. In textual domain, speech transcripts and visible texts are considered. With our proposed model, users can access video content from different aspects and get desired information more quickly. Beside multimodality, our model is constituted on semantic hierarchies that enable querying the video content at different semantic levels. There are sequence-scene hierarchies in visual domain, background-foreground hierarchies in auditory domain, and subject hierarchies in speech domain. Presented model has been implemented and multimodal content queries, hierarchical queries, fuzzy spatial queries, fuzzy regional queries, fuzzy spatio-temporal queries, and temporal queries have been applied on video content successfully.

In this study, an urban growth model is used to simulate the urban growth in 2025 in the Antalya Metropolitan Area. It is the fastest growing metropolis in Turkey with a population growth of 41,79&amp / #8240 / , although Turkey&amp / #8217 / s growth is 18,28&amp / #8240 / for the last decade. An Urban Growth Model (SLEUTH, Version 3.0) is calibrated with cartographic data. The prediction is based on the archived data trends of the years of the 1987, 1996, and 2002 images, which are extracted from Landsat Thematic Mapper and Enhanced Thematic Mapper satellite images and the aerial photographs acquired in 1992 and the data are prepared to insert them as input into the model. The urban extent is obtained through supervised classification of the satellite images and visual interpretation of aerial photographs. The model calibration, where a predetermined order of stepping through the coefficient space is used is performed in order to determine the best fit values for the five growth control parameters including the coefficients of diffusion, breed and spread, slope and road gravity with the historical urban extent data. The development trend in Antalya is simulated by slowing down growth by taking into consideration the road development and environmental protection. After the simulation for a period of 23 years, 9824 ha increased in urban areas is obtained for 2025.

Das Projektposter stellt die Einbindung hochqualitativer audiovisueller Medien zur Lernunterstützung im Kontakt- und Selbststudium einiger theoriegeleiteter, sportpraktischer Veranstaltungen im Bachelorstudium dar. Im Modul Turnen, Schwimmen, Leichtathletik werden komplexe Bewegungselemente sportartübergreifend und theoriegeleitet vermittelt. Die umfangreichen Bewegungskompetenzen werden u.a. mittels bestehender Bewegungsverwandtschaften, aber auch anhand erkennbarer Divergenzen in den Modul sportartenverstärkend bzw. kontrastrierend erfahrbar gemacht. Der Qualitätsanspruch an lernförderliche Medien sowie differenzierte Zugänge für diesen speziellen Kompetenzerwerb werden im Projektposter deutlich.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Ball State University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-206).

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes special study report entitled : Electronic expression in buildings. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Purdue University, 1976. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-103).

Orientador: José Euzébio de Oliveira Souza Aragão / Banca: João Pedro Pezato / Banca: Claudia Beatriz de Castro Nascimento Ometto / Resumo: O presente trabalho de dissertação de mestrado consistiu em uma pesquisa de campo realizada em uma Escola Municipal de Piracicaba-SP, em que atuava como professora substituta, do 1º ano, em uma sala com 22 crianças, com idade entre 6 e 7 anos, do Ensino Fundamental I. Esta pesquisa apresenta oito oficinas de desenhos animados inspirados nos episódios do Sítio do Pica Pau Amarelo de Monteiro Lobato. Durante esse processo entendeu-se a necessidade de apresentar novos olhares para as práticas pedagógicas, que foram construídas sem camisa de força, a partir das tendências progressistas, que dispuseram mais de quinze práticas pedagógicas calcadas no diálogo, de acordo com a prática educativa Libertária de Paulo Freire (1977). A partir do encontro do cinema na escola foram levantadas as seguintes questões de pesquisa: 1. Que práticas pedagógicas podem ser fomentadas a partir do cinema na escola com crianças do ensino fundamental, ciclo I? 2. A experiência do cinema na escola é capaz de construir uma educação como prática educativa libertária (liberdade em construção) a partir do pensamento de Paulo Freire? 3. Que produções de conhecimentos por parte dos alunos, a partir do cinema, atestam a prática da liberdade e autonomia? Esses problemas desencadearam nossos objetivos, que são: a. Compreender que tipo de práticas pedagógicas podem ser construídas a partir da experiência do cinema e de que maneira podem promover/ criar/afetar/ transmitir/ transformar os alunos e estimular a produ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The present work consists of researching in a Municipal School of Piracicaba-SP, in which the researcher acted, as a substitute teacher, of the 1st YEAR, in a classroom with 22 children, aged 6 And 7 years of Elementary School- Cycle 1. This research presents seven short film workshops that aims to work with children in cartoon films, based on and inspired by the episodes of the Pica Pau Amarelo site in Monteiro Lobato, with the aim of think of the following research questions: 1. What pedagogical practices can be promoted from the cinema in the school with elementary school children, cycle I? 2. Is the experience of cinema in school capable of constructing an education as an educational practice of the libertarian (freedom under construction) from the thought of Paulo Freire ? 3. What productions of knowledge on the part of the students, from the cinema, attest to the practice of freedom and autonomy? These problems have triggered our goals, which are: a. Understand what kind of pedagogical practices can be built from the experience of cinema and how they can promote / create / affect / transmit / transform students and stimulate the production of knowledge; B. Check how the relationship of children with films leads to a learning that allows a world reading in which children's previous experiences add to the experience of the cinema. We believe that cinema within schools offers opportunities for learning, otherness and art, so we held the film workshops to promote new possibilities and identified the peculiarities in the way children received the experience of cinema and what provoked / captivated Children after each workshop. As cinema is something essential in the construction of pedagogical practices, cinema is highlighted as a way of playing, emphasized by Fresquet (2013) and the identification of otherness, through the perspective of Alain Bergala (2008). In order to complement ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Orientador: Marcelo Magalhães Bulhões / Banca: José Carlos Marques / Banca: Laura Louguercio Cánepa / Resumo: Este projeto pretende enfocar a problemática que permeia a adaptação de obras literárias para os meios audiovisuais, mais em especifico, o cinema brasileiro, por meio da análise da obra Elite da Tropa, de Luiz Eduardo Soares, André Batista e Rodrigo Pimentel, e sua transposição cinematográfica Tropa de Elite, filme dirigido por José Padilha. Desta forma, temos o interesse de, no cerne do processo da tradução/adaptação, investigar relações discursivas entre o factual e o ficcional que marcam tanto o livro quanto o filme, analisando a presença de traços de reportagem jornalística na obra literária e de cinema documental na obra Fílmica. / Abstract: This project intends to focus the problematic that permeates the adaptation of literary works to the audiovisual media, more specifically, the brazilian cinema, through the analysis of book Elite‟s Troop, from Luiz Eduardo Soares, André Batista and Rodrigo Pimentel and your cinematographic transition Elite Squad, directed by José Padilha. In this way, we have the interest of investigating the discursive relations between the factual and the fictional that mark both the book and the film, analyzing the presence of traits of journalistic reporting in the literary work and documentary film in the film work. / Mestre

Le travail presenté dans cette thèse adresse le problème de génération des performances expressives audio-visuelles pour les acteurs virtuels. Un acteur virtuel est répresenté par une tête parlante en 3D et une performance audio-visuelle contient les expressions faciales, les mouvements de la tête, la direction du regard et le signal de parole.Si une importante partie de la littérature a été dediée aux émotions, nous explorons ici les comportements expressifs verbaux qui signalent les états mentaux, i.e. "ce que le locuteur sent par rapport à ce qu'il dit". Nous explorons les caractéristiques de ces attitudes dites dramatiques et la manière dont elles sont encodées par des signatures prosodiques spécifiques pour une personne i.e. des motifs spécifiques à l'état mental de trajectoires de paramètres prosodiques audio-visuels. / The work presented in this thesis addresses the problem of generating audio-visual expressive performances for virtual actors. A virtual actor is represented by a 3D talking head and an audio-visual performance refers to facial expressions, head movements, gaze direction and the speech signal.While an important amount of work has been dedicated to emotions, we explore here expressive verbal behaviors that signal mental states, i.e "how speakers feel about what they say". We explore the characteristics of these so-called dramatic attitudes and the way they are encoded with speaker-specific prosodic signatures i.e. mental state-specific patterns of trajectories of audio-visual prosodic parameters.