Erwin Butz's Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Freiburg i. Br., 1978. / German and Latin. Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, p. [ix]-xlviii).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1917. / "Selected bibliography": p. 7-8.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1943. / Bibliography: p. ix-xii.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1917. / "Selected bibliography": p. 7-8.

Habil.-Schr., Bern. / Includes bibliographical references and index.

Erwin Butz's Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Freiburg i. Br., 1978. / German and Latin. Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, p. [ix]-xlviii).

Thesis (D.W.S.)--Institute for Worship Studies, 2005. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-193).

Thesis (M.A.)--Baylor University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-174).

Orientador: Alberto Albuquerque Gomes. / Banca: Lúcia Helena Tiosso Moretti / Banca: Maria de Fátima Salum Moreira / Resumo: O presente estudo, vinculado à Linha de Pesquisa ―Políticas Públicas, Organização Escolar e Formação de Professores‖, tem por objetivo analisar a cultura escolar festiva de nossas escolas, considerando que o estudo de aspectos simbólicos contidos nos ritos das festas comemorativas pode ajudar a conhecer elementos da identidade escolar e desvelar aspectos importantes da estrutura de uma escola pública laico-brasileira. As datas comemorativas da escola, as festas do calendário escolar, não se desvincularam do calendário litúrgico. Assim, perguntamos: quais os sentidos das festas comemorativas religiosas, em uma escola pública e laica? Para a consecução da pesquisa, procedemos a uma revisão bibliográfica, privilegiando a literatura sócio-antropológica sobre festa e religiosidade, passando pelos estudos sobre a organização da escola. Procedemos também ao trabalho empírico, fazendo uso de questionários e entrevistas, por intermédio do qual, à luz de nosso quadro teórico, procuramos analisar a perspectiva dos professores de uma escola pública do Estado do Paraná, Brasil, sobre religiosidade e festas comemorativas no cotidiano da escola. A partir dos dados bibliográficos e empíricos, podemos inferir que as festas comemorativas têm importância como elemento de coesão, identidade e religiosidade, no interior da escola, e que elas deixam transparecer as estruturas históricas e sociais que, longe de se apresentarem apenas como sobrevivência do passado no presente, são, na verdade, contemporâneas e estruturantes de nossa visão de mundo e do nosso ethos cultural / Abstract: The current study linked to the 'State Policies, School Organization and Teachers Formation' Research Line aims to analyse the festive school culture in our schools since it is understood that the study of symbolical aspects contained in the rituals of celebration feasts can help to know elements of school identity and watch important aspects of the structure of a Laical-Brazilian state school. The school commemorative dates, the school calendar feasts haven't disconnected of the liturgical calendar. So, we ask: What are the reasons of the religious commemorative feasts in a state and laical school? For the attainment of the reasearch we conducted a bibliographical review privileging the socio-anthropological literature about feast and religiosity passing by the studies about the school organization. We also conducted the empirical work, using questionnaires and interviews by which under our theoretical board , we tried to analyse the teachers' perspectives of a state school in the State of Paraná, Brasil , about the religiosity and commemoratives feasts in school quotidian. Fom the bibliographical and empirical data on we were able to infer that the commemorative feasts have an importance as an element of cohesion , identity and religiosity in the interior of the school and they let reveal the historical and social structures that haven't not only presented as survival of the past in the present, they are in fact contemporaries and structural of our vision of world and our ethos cultural / Mestre

abstract: This thesis investigates the role of activity visualization tools in increasing group awareness at the workspace. Today, electronic calendaring tools are widely used in the workplace. The primary function is to enable each person maintain a work schedule. They also are used to schedule meetings and share work details when appropriate. However, a key limitation of current tools is that they do not enable people in the workplace to understand the activity of the group as a whole. A tool that increases group awareness would promote reflection; it would enable thoughtful engagement with one's co-workers. I have developed two tools: the first tool enables the worker to examine detailed task information of one's own tasks, within the context of his/her peers' anonymized task data. The second tool is a public display to promote group reflection. I have used an iterative design methodology to refine the tools. I developed ActivityStream desktop tool that enables users to examine the detailed information of their own activities and the aggregate information of other peers' activities. ActivityStream uses a client-server architecture. The server collected activity data from each user by parsing RSS feeds associated with their preferred online calendaring and task management tool, on a daily basis. The client software displays personalized aggregate data and user specific tasks, including task types. The client display visualizes the activity data at multiple time scales. The activity data for each user is represented though discrete blocks; interacting with the block will reveal task details. The activity of the rest of the group is anonymized and aggregated. ActivityStream visualizes the aggregated data via Bezier curves. I developed ActivityStream public display that shows a group people's activity levels change over time to promote group reflection. In particular, the public display shows the anonymized task activity data, over the course of one year. The public display visualizes data for each user using a Bezier curve. The display shows data from all users simultaneously. This representation enables users to reflect on the relationships across the group members, over the course of one year. The survey results revealed that users are more aware of their peers' activities in the workspace. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Electrical Engineering 2010