Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-06-23T11:17:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 fernandagomesdasilva.pdf: 1345231 bytes, checksum: 95383f963d2cd2ef744355e3ac1d2edd (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-08-07T20:11:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 fernandagomesdasilva.pdf: 1345231 bytes, checksum: 95383f963d2cd2ef744355e3ac1d2edd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-07T20:11:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 fernandagomesdasilva.pdf: 1345231 bytes, checksum: 95383f963d2cd2ef744355e3ac1d2edd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-29 / Esta dissertação centra-se no estudo de caso do sistema de avaliação da educação pública pertencente à Secretaria Municipal de Educação da cidade de Belo Horizonte – MG, o Avalia BH, no que concerne à implementação de testes de proficiência em Ciências da Natureza para o Ensino Fundamental. São investigadas as motivações para tal implementação e os seus efeitos na gestão do próprio sistema, na gestão escolar, no desempenho estudantil e na prática docente. Conclui-se, a partir de entrevista junto ao órgão responsável pelo programa (GAPED - Gerência de Avaliação de Políticas Educacionais) e das análises de questionários aplicados a docentes e gestores, que a inclusão da aferição de competências científicas no referido sistema repercute em ações tímidas diante dos seus resultados; apresenta, ainda, incerteza a respeito de seus procedimentos e instrumentos de medição e necessita, portanto, de reformulações. Propõe-se, assim, como Plano de Ação Educacional, uma ampliação da investigação aqui realizada a partir da meta-avaliação, a fim de sistematizar os principais pontos a serem modificados e possibilitar a criação de estratégias para tornar a política pública compensatória ao ensino de Ciências. / This dissertation focuses on the case study of the evaluation system of public education pertaining to the Municipal Education Department of the city of Belo Horizonte-MG – called Avalia BH – concerning the implementation of proficiency tests in Natural Sciences. The motivations for such an implementation and its effects on the management of the system itself, the school management, student achievement and teacher practice are investigated. It is concluded, through interviews with the agency responsible for the program (Gerência de Avaliação de Políticas Educacionais – GAPED, in Portuguese) and by the analysis of questionnaires given to teachers and educational managers, that the inclusion of measuring scientific competencies on this system resonates timid actions before their results; it also presents uncertainty about its procedures and measurement instruments, therefore in need of reformulation. It is proposed as an Educational Action Plan, an extension of the research conducted here starting from the meta-evaluation in order to systematize the main points to be modified to make compensatory public policy to Science Teaching.

Denna studie görs i samarbete med ett modeföretag som ska ta fram en ny modell av sport-bh med dubbla kupstorlekar. Då företaget tidigare inte haft en liknande produkt utan bara använt sig av enkla kupstorlekar behövs en måttlista med graderingsintervaller. Dessa intervaller ska vara anpassade för denna typ av dubbla kupstorlekar. Företagets graderingsintervaller sammanställs och ett grundmönster för en bh graderas enligt detta och även efter svensk standard. För att kunna jämföra vilken gradering som passar bäst för sport-bh:n sys de graderade bh:arna upp i två olika storlekar och provas av. De dubbla kupstorlekarna jämförs med samma bh modell graderad i enkla kupstorlekar, här bedöms om passform och volym på kupan är likvärdig. Resultatet av graderingen och avprovningarna visar på att de dubbla kupstorlekarna graderade efter företagets intervaller ger bäst passform för de önskade dubbla kupstorlekarna. / This study is performed in collaboration with a fashion company to develop a sports bra with double cup sizes instead of cups with single sizes. The company doesn’t have this type of product in its current line and needs a grading that is adapted for this type of cup and a measurement chart with grading intervals. Grading intervals from both the company and SIS (Swedish standard) are compared to determine which grading intervals fit this purpose best.  A bra pattern is then graded for each different interval. The two different graded bras are sewn in two different sizes each that are evaluated during a fitting session. The test person also compares the fit and size of the double cup size to a single cup size. The result of the grading and the fittings show that the grading according to the company provides the best fit for the desired double cup sizes.

Submitted by Cássia Santos (cassia.bcufg@gmail.com) on 2014-08-06T11:17:00Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Volumes_e_curvaturas_medias_na_geometria_de_finsler.pdf: 818570 bytes, checksum: fce77ff7f92ae9cc2bf9af2aa0318c4c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-06T11:17:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Volumes_e_curvaturas_medias_na_geometria_de_finsler.pdf: 818570 bytes, checksum: fce77ff7f92ae9cc2bf9af2aa0318c4c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04-16 / In Finsler geometry, we have several volume forms, hence various of mean curvature forms. The two best known volumes forms are the Busemann-Hausdorff and Holmes- Thompson volume form. The minimal surface with respect to these volume forms are called BH-minimal and HT-minimal surface, respectively. Let (R3; eFb) be a Minkowski space of Randers type with eFb = ea+eb; where ea is the Euclidean metric and eb = bdx3; 0 < b < 1: If a connected surface M in (R3; eFb) is minimal with respect to both volume forms Busemann-Hausdorff and Holmes-Thompson, then up to a parallel translation of R3; M is either a piece of plane or a piece of helicoid which is generated by lines screwing along the x3-axis. Furthermore it gives an explicit rotation hypersurfaces BH-minimal and HT-minimal generated by a plane curve around the axis in the direction of eb] in Minkowski (a;b)-space (Vn+1; eFb); where Vn+1 is an (n+1)-dimensional real vector space, eFb = eaf eb ea ; ea is the Euclidean metric, eb is a one form of constant length b = kebkea; eb] is the dual vector of eb with respect to ea: As an application, it give us an explicit expression of surface of rotation “ forward” BH-minimal generated by the rotation around the axis in the direction of eb] in Minkowski space of Randers type (V3; ea+eb): / Na Geometria de Finsler, temos várias formas volume, consequentemente várias formas curvaturas médias. As duas mais conhecidas são as formas de volumes Busemann- Hausdorff e Holmes-Thompson. As superfícies mínimas com respeito a estes são chamados superfícies BH-mínimas e HT-mínimas, respectivamente. Seja (R3; eFb) um espaço de Minkowski do tipo Randers com eFb = ea+eb; onde ea é a métrica Euclidiana e eb = bdx3;0 < b < 1: Uma superfície em (R3; eFb) conexa M é mínima com respeito a ambas formas volumes Busemann-Hausdorff e Holmes-Thompson, então a menos de uma translação paralela de R3; M é parte de um plano ou parte de um helicóide, a qual é gerada pela rotação de uma reta (perpendicular ao eixo x3) ao longo do eixo x3: Ademais podemos obter explicitamente hipersuperfícies de rotação BH-mínima e HT-mínima geradas por uma curva plana em torno do eixo na direção de eb] num espaço (a; b) de Minkowski (Vn+1; eFb); onde Vn+1 é um espaço vetorial de dimensão (n+1); eFb = eaf eb ea ; ea é a métrica Euclidiana, eb é uma 1-forma constante com norma b := kebkea; eb] é o vetor dual de eb com respeito a a: Como aplicação, se dá uma expressão explícita de superfície de rotação completa “forward” BH-mínima gerada pela rotação em torno do eixo na direção de eb] num espaço de Minkowski do tipo Randers (V3; ea+eb):

The dissertation pushes the boundaries of biblical interpretation by formulating relationships between passages of the Hebrew Bible and unrelated works of Modern art. While a growing field of criticism addresses the representation of scriptural stories in painting, sculpture and film, the artwork in this study does not look to the Bible for its subject matter. The intertextual/intermedia comparisons instead address five different genres of biblical literature and read them according to various dynamics found in Modern images. In forming these relationships I challenge traditional perceptions of characters and literary style by allowing an artistic representation or pictorial method to highlight issues of selfhood, gender and power and by revaluing narrative and poetry in nuanced aesthetic terms. The comparative analysis derives its two-subject structure for each section from the undergraduate art history seminar, in which two slides are projected and the group encouraged to identify similarities between disparate works. My use of this heuristic method then appropriates secondary sources to forge a relationship in which art criticism ultimately speaks for the biblical text. Chapter I juxtaposes the figure of Michal in 2 Samuel 6 against that of Queen Guenevere (1858) by William Morris in an essay that questions the portrait popular opinion has painted of the barren daughter of Saul. The Pre-Raphaelite painting and Morris’s related poetry help to build a defence for Michal against those who inflict her barrenness upon her as if it were a punishment from God. Morris’s sympathy for his adulterous heroine allows us to see the Deuteronomistic History’s maligned queen as one whose character and action in fact seem very in tune with the prophetic agenda of the greater work. In Chapter II, a woodcut portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche (1905) by Erich Heckel provides a counterpart to Abraham’s representation in Genesis 23. The German Expressionist reduced his palette to a bold black on white to memorialise the Modern father of great men. The comparison frames Abraham as the embodiment of the Übermensch, as one who laid waste to his father’s heritage and followed his own God. His role as one who lives ‘over’ others casts the haste with which he gets up and buys Sarah’s plot as a sign of his will to possess. Luce Irigaray’s Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche (1991) is then incorporated to create a dialogue between the dark space of the portrait (symbolic of Abraham’s masculine ego) and the white space caused by Sarah’s death. Sarah thus speaks to ‘Abraham the Overman’ as the ‘Marine Lover’, beckoning him down from his high place and resisting the force in him that wants to bury her out of his sight. Chapter III turns to prophecy and reconsiders Isaiah 44 first as a collage made in exile and then as a performance piece conducted in diaspora. The Merzbild by Kurt Schwitters entitled Green Over Yellow (1947) takes a critical Modern step away from representation and forward to abstraction. Schwitters assembled his cut-up forms to give them new visual value and made conspicuous their arbitrary edges and artful overlapping—a compositional and structural ethos not unlike the collage of forms in the exilic prophecy. Schwitters’ relative ease as an exile and expatriate in Britain also fuels questions scholars have asked about the nature and scale of the biblical exile. Finding that the text does not fully orient itself towards Jerusalem, a second part to this comparison introduces an alternative analogue for Is. 44 by treating it as a record of performance and drawing upon the work of Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) to discuss the passage’s broad approach to land and identity. The fourth chapter hangs an individual lament alongside Jackson Pollock’s Cathedral (1947), likening its parallelisms to streams of paint poured across the canvas and foregrounding the site of Psalm 13 as a field of/for abstract expression. Short though this hymn may be, its generalised language makes it accessible to a universal audience and lets emotion be splattered about in a personal protest against pain. Finally, Chapter V envisions wisdom literature and the character of Qoheleth with an understanding for the genre’s ‘conceptual’ outlook and the speaker’s sense of irony. A readymade gambler’s bond by Marcel Duchamp is projected opposite the opening chapter of Qoheleth’s reflections to introduce the wise man as a dandy who entertains his admirers through pleasing words. The comparison thus establishes a context in which a book that scholars have attempted to classify as either the work of an optimist or a pessimist can be appreciated for the attitude of witty indifference its author appears to affect. The project actively conceives of the biblical text as a ‘Modern’ phenomenon by emphasising areas in which it seems to invite abstract or metaphorical modes of understanding over literal interpretation. It utilizes an understanding of Modernism based not on the rejection of tradition but on the desire to rectify it. And it draws out the ways in which the Bible scandalizes the pious pictures critics have painted of it. Thinking not only of reading and visualising the Bible as an artistic process, the analysis aims to illustrate the legitimacy of viewing the text itself as a work of art.

Kurt Schwitters decisively established that Dada was indeed more a state of mind than a collection of creeds. Spurned by Berlin Dada, he was compelled to construct for himself an alternative Dada existence, and this he accomplished in the one-man movement he christened "Merz". Hundreds of Merz artworks were produced by the tireless Schwitters, but the summa summarum of his oeuvre was the Hanover Merzbau (circa 1923-1943). As it transcends architecture, sculpture, and assemblage, I have taken the distinctive approach of analyzing it first and foremost in terms of a theory of self-reflexivity. The first and second chapters of this thesis are dedicated to the writings of Georg Simmel and Henri Bergson. The former contributes an understanding of the psyche of the modernist metropolitan and how it is that the subjective spirit that resides in this enlightened individual substantiates its existence by producing forms and objects with which it continuously comes into conflict. As witnessed in Schwitters' Merzbau, the self-conscious "I" constitutes a centripetal force that organizes and directs the objects it encounters and thus exerts a unifying influence over its environment. In the Bergson chapter, I pursue an in-depth investigation into how self-reflexivity is predicated upon the search for true duration and the manifestation of the elan vital. I also include an in-depth analysis of Bergson's treatise on laughter, for the theories contained within go a long way towards explicating Schwitters' brand of humour and how the comic artist is a self-reflexive figure non-pareil. The third chapter, devoted to Schwitters and his place in Dada, takes into account the vitalist philosophical underpinnings of the Merzbau and asserts that self-reflexive art operates under an enantiodromic law; the presence of the artist must be effaced as thoroughly as possible before the creative self achieves materialization in the artwork it has engendered.

This thesis explores a number of interdisciplinary writings on the Italian past by later nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artistically minded critics and cultural commentators, with a view to recovering their historiographical importance. Beginning with an exploration of the parameters and scope of a genre defined as 'aesthetic history', along with some theoretical work grounded in current debates about the nature of historical representation, this thesis goes on to offer in-depth discussion of texts on the Italian past by John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence and Adrian Stokes. By offering a critical reconstruction of each author's thinking about the past, along with the cogent and ill-explored engagements they make with historiographical study, this thesis affords the reader a better understanding of some of the tensions present in historical writing - tensions surrounding issues of epistemology, visuality, psychology and materiality - during what were decades of great change in historical thinking. Moreover, this thesis offers a detailed investigation into the important role played by the Italian past in the aesthetic-historical canon, which in turn produces a more complicated picture of the connections between literature, aesthetics and historiography during this period.

An analysis of the thought of Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte) with regards to his literary tastes and influences as part of his wider philosophy. The thesis considers how the literary influences to which Napoleon was subject impacted upon his aesthetic ideas and in turn affected the nature of his rule.

I denna studie behandlas vidareutvecklingen en sport-bh för kvinnor med stor byst. Forskning inom relaterade områden, såsom begreppen ”encapsulation” och ”compression”, studier av bröstens rörelsemönster under fysisk aktivitet, storlekssystem och bröstens anatomiska förutsättningar, har studerats för att ytterligare hjälpa utvecklingen av denna produkt. En mindre enkät utfördes bland vanliga, på olika sätt, fysiskt aktiva, kvinnor för att avgöra vilka preferenser dessa hade gällande sport-bh. Denna information har sedan tillämpats, i möjlig mån, på produktutvecklingen. Förutsättningar för den fysiska produkten, som designönskemål och ett begränsat materialutbud, har satt upp ramar för utvecklingsprocessen, som gått igenom CAD-baserad mönsterkonstruktion, samt drapering, avprovning och testning. / Program: Designteknikerutbildningen

This reflexive account is of a phenomenological study that took place over two years. It explores how a group of primary-aged children perceive, express and reflect on their embodiment through movement. Children aged between four and eleven took part in sessions of yoga, somatic movement and developmental play during the school day. The data include field notes, observations, a reflexive journal, photographs of and by the children, their drawings, mark-makings, writing and posters. Children were also interviewed at the end of the study, when they had an opportunity to reflect on all their work and experiences. All the children were capable of expressing and reflecting on their experiences, and the oldest children in particular appeared to enjoy and seemed to benefit from the reflective process. By linking together a sense of self-awareness and reflection, the children appeared able to gain insight into their embodied experience and reflect on emotions, feelings and events. Embodiment is a process as much of a state of being, and as such has implications for perceptions of mind and body, learning, and reflective practice. This approach to embodied reflective practice thus has potential for educators, and teacher trainers as well as direct work with children.

In this thesis, the role and the significance of the Kantian theory of art and concept of genius in Kant&rsquo / s system is examined. In this examination, it is aimed to answer the question of the meaning of being human in Kant&rsquo / s system through art and artist. To this end, Kant&rsquo / s consideration of art from the spectator&rsquo / s standpoint and ignorance of artist&rsquo / s perspective are criticized. In conformity with this criticism, throughout the thesis, depending on Kant&rsquo / s conceptualization of the genius, the artist&rsquo / s perspective and artistic experience are tried to be exhibited. In order to understand and interpret the artist&rsquo / s perspective, the meaning of the concepts of nature and freedom that arise along with the concept of genius is clarified. By considering the effects of the freedom and the natural necessity on genius, it is asserted that since the necessity of the naturally endowed talent of genius and the freedom of the productive act of genius cause to the one and the same act, the creative activity of genius refers to the unity of all the dualities in the Kantian system and hence to the completeness of the system. As a result of this claim, art, which arises from the dual nature of human, becomes the way to unite this duality.