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Paper Tower: Aesthetics, Taste, and the Mind-Body Problem in American Independent ComicsJones, William Timothy 14 April 2014 (has links)
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Chinese Play-Making: Cosmopolitan Intellectuals, Transnational Stages, and Modern Drama, 1910s-1940sHe, Man 19 May 2015 (has links)
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Capturing Polynomial Time and Logarithmic Space using Modular Decompositions and Limited RecursionGrußien, Berit 10 November 2017 (has links)
Diese Arbeit leistet Beiträge im Bereich der deskriptiven Komplexitätstheorie. Zunächst beschäftigen wir uns mit der ungelösten Frage, ob es eine Logik gibt, welche die Klasse der Polynomialzeit-Eigenschaften (PTIME) charakterisiert. Wir betrachten Graphklassen, die unter induzierten Teilgraphen abgeschlossen sind. Auf solchen Graphklassen lässt sich die 1976 von Gallai eingeführte modulare Zerlegung anwenden. Graphen, die durch modulare Zerlegung nicht zerlegbar sind, heißen prim. Wir stellen ein neues Werkzeug vor: das Modulare Zerlegungstheorem. Es reduziert (definierbare) Kanonisierung einer Graphklasse C auf (definierbare) Kanonisierung der Klasse aller primen Graphen aus C, die mit binären Relationen auf einer linear geordneten Menge gefärbt sind. Mit Hilfe des Modularen Zerlegungstheorems zeigen wir, dass Fixpunktlogik mit Zählen (FP+C) PTIME auf der Klasse aller Permutationsgraphen und auf der Klasse aller chordalen Komparabilitätsgraphen charakterisiert. Wir beweisen zudem, dass modulare Zerlegungsbäume in Symmetrisch-Transitive-Hüllen-Logik mit Zählen (STC+C) definierbar und damit in logarithmischem Platz berechenbar sind.
Weiterhin definieren wir eine neue Logik für die Komplexitätsklasse Logarithmischer Platz (LOGSPACE). Wir erweitern die Logik erster Stufe mit Zählen um einen Operator, der eine in logarithmischem Platz berechenbare Form der Rekursion erlaubt. Die resultierende Logik LREC ist ausdrucksstärker als die Deterministisch-Transitive-Hüllen-Logik mit Zählen (DTC+C) und echt in FP+C enthalten. Wir zeigen, dass LREC LOGSPACE auf gerichteten Bäumen charakterisiert. Zudem betrachten wir eine Erweiterung LREC= von LREC, die sich gegenüber LREC durch bessere Abschlusseigenschaften auszeichnet und im Gegensatz zu LREC ausdrucksstärker als die Symmetrisch-Transitive-Hüllen-Logik (STC) ist. Wir beweisen, dass LREC= LOGSPACE sowohl auf der Klasse der Intervallgraphen als auch auf der Klasse der chordalen klauenfreien Graphen charakterisiert. / This theses is making contributions to the field of descriptive complexity theory. First, we look at the main open problem in this area: the question of whether there exists a logic that captures polynomial time (PTIME). We consider classes of graphs that are closed under taking induced subgraphs. For such graph classes, an effective graph decomposition, called modular decomposition, was introduced by Gallai in 1976. The graphs that are non-decomposable with respect to modular decomposition are called prime. We present a tool, the Modular Decomposition Theorem, that reduces (definable) canonization of a graph class C to (definable) canonization of the class of prime graphs of C that are colored with binary relations on a linearly ordered set. By an application of the Modular Decomposition Theorem, we show that fixed-point logic with counting (FP+C) captures PTIME on the class of permutation graphs and the class of chordal comparability graphs. We also prove that the modular decomposition tree is definable in symmetric transitive closure logic with counting (STC+C), and therefore, computable in logarithmic space.
Further, we introduce a new logic for the complexity class logarithmic space (LOGSPACE). We extend first-order logic with counting by a new operator that allows it to formalize a limited form of recursion which can be evaluated in logarithmic space. We prove that the resulting logic LREC is strictly more expressive than deterministic transitive closure logic with counting (DTC+C) and that it is strictly contained in FP+C. We show that LREC captures LOGSPACE on the class of directed trees. We also study an extension LREC= of LREC that has nicer closure properties and that, unlike LREC, is more expressive than symmetric transitive closure logic (STC). We prove that LREC= captures LOGSPACE on the class of interval graphs and on the class of chordal claw-free graphs.
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De la Commune de Paris au Panthéon (1871-2013) : célébrité, postérité et mémoires de Louise Michel Sociologie historique de la circulation d’une figure politique / From Paris Commune to Pantheon (1871-2013) : fame, posterity and memories of Louise Michel. Historical sociology of the circulation of a political figure.Verhaeghe, Sidonie 01 December 2016 (has links)
Née d’une interrogation sur les dynamiques d’intégration républicaine des radicalités politiques, cette recherche au carrefour de la sociologie historique du politique, de l’histoire sociale des idées et de la sociologie politique des mémoires collectives,s’attache à expliquer les conditions dans lesquelles Louise Michel, une femme et une anarchiste du XIXe siècle, devient une figure éligible à la panthéonisation en 2013. L’analyse longitudinale de la carrière de la figure de Louise Michel interroge plus généralement les processus de canonisation, de circulation et de transmission qui caractérisent les dispositifs de célébration politique. A partir de l’étude monographique des multiples occurrences de lafigure de Louise Michel du dernier tiers du XIXe siècle au début du XXIe siècle (presse, discours, pratiques commémoratives, biographies ou encore manuels scolaires), ce travail montre comment une personnalité marquée par la marginalité politique devient une référence commune de la gauche. Les formes et les espaces de la célébration ne peuvent alors se comprendre qu’au regard des positions occupées par ses traducteurs et de la structure de l’espace politique et social dans lequel ils s’inscrivent. Le processus de reconnaissance institutionnelle de Louise Michel doit d’une part à la pacification d’une mémoire officielle de la Commune de Paris, et d’autre part à l’intégration de l’histoire des femmes au sein d’un féminisme d’Etat. Ce double mouvement explique l’élargissement de l’identification collective et individuelle dans la figure de Louise Michel. Il autorise l’hypothèse d’une entrée de Louise Michel au Panthéon républicain. Pourtant, cette thèse montre également que des mécanismes de résistance aux processus de reconnaissance institutionnelle demeurent. Loin d’un processus linéaire la construction de la figure Louise Michel fait l’objet d’appropriations multiples qui coexistent aujourd’hui. L’inscription d’une figure historique dans les mémoires collectives constitue dès lors un dispositif conflictuel, marqué par des conjonctures mouvantes qui met aux prises des acteurs à la croisée des espaces politiques, militants, universitaires et intellectuels. / At the crossroads of political historical sociology, social history of ideas, and political sociology of collective memories, this research starts from an interrogation on the republican integration dynamics of political radicalism. Itfocuses on explaining the conditions in which Louise Michel, a 19th century woman and anarchist, has become an eligible icon for pantheonisation in 2013. The longitudinal analysis of Louise Michel's career broadly questions the processes of canonization, circulation and transmission which characterize the schemes of political celebration. Initiated by the monographic study of Louise Michel's numerous apparitions, from the last third of the 19th century to the early21st century (press, speeches, memorial events, biographies or textbooks), this essay highlights how a politically marginalized character turns into a leftist icon. It's only by apprehending the political posture and social background ofher interpreters that one can acknowledge the different areas and forms of commemoration. The process of institutional recognition of Louise Michel's legacy is made possible on the one hand by the pacification process of the officialremembrance of the Paris Commune, and on the other hand by the incorporation of Women History in state feminism. It explained the enlargement of both collective and individual identification to Louise Michel's figure. It also authorizedthe hypothesis of Louise Michel's entry to the republican Pantheon. However, this thesis demonstrates as well that some resistance mechanisms remains. The edification of Louise Michel's emblematic figure isn't a linear process but issubject to multiples appropriations that coexist nowadays. Historical figure in collective memories poses a divisive mechanism, characterized by shifting conjunctures that confront forces at the crossroads of different political, activist, academic and intellectual spaces.
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Doctrine and Covenants Section 110: From Vision to CanonizationAnderson, Trever 07 July 2010 (has links)
This thesis answers the question of how a vision recorded in Joseph Smith's journal found its home in the Doctrine and Covenants and become recognized as canonized scripture. The April 3, 1836, journal entry became known as Section 110. Section 110 serves as a foundation for the current practices and doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, involving temple building and temple ordinances. Thus it is important to understand the history of this Section from journal entry to canonization because it is an example of recovering revelation. This thesis also explores contributing factors that could have led to the rediscovery of the 1836 vision. While Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery were in the Kirtland Temple with veils drawn around them at the Melchizedek Priesthood pulpits on April 3, 1836, they both saw Jesus Christ, Moses, Elias, and Elijah. Jesus Christ accepted the newly built temple and Moses, Elias, and Elijah committed keys to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery. The vision was recorded, but as of yet, there is no evidence that the vision was publicly taught by Joseph Smith nor by Oliver Cowdery. This thesis follows the pattern established by Section 110 and the reclamation of the revelation and looks at how this section paved the way for other revelations and visions to move from handwritten pages to doctrinal levels of canonization, such as Sections 137 and 138. Joseph Smith had the vision recorded in his journal by Warren Cowdery, who served as a scribe to him. Joseph Smith also had the journal entry written in the Manuscript History of the Church. Although Joseph Smith did not publically declare that the 1836 vision had occurred to him and Oliver Cowdery, he still taught about the visitors in the vision and of their importance. After Joseph Smith's death, the leaders of the Church had his history printed in Church owned newspapers. The first time the vision was published in print was on November 6, 1852, in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Deseret News. Outside influences of the late 1850s through the 1860s put pressure on the Church. Some of these potentially destructive influences were the Utah War, Civil War, transcontinental railroad, Spiritualism movement, and the lack of understanding of the foundational doctrines of the Church by the rising generation that had been a part of the Church from its beginnings with Joseph Smith as its Prophet. This thesis explores these potentially destructive forces on the Church and its doctrine, and looks at how the leadership of the Church responded to them and how their response influenced the canonization of the 1836 vision. Under the direction of Brigham Young, Orson Pratt oversaw the publication of the new 1876 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants. This new edition contained twenty-six new sections, including Section 110. After the death of Brigham Young in 1877, John Taylor sat at the head of the Church as president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. While Orson Pratt was in England, preparing to print a new edition of the Book of Mormon on electrotype plates, he asked John Taylor about printing the Doctrine and Covenants with the electrotype plates as well. John Taylor agreed on condition that Orson Pratt add cross references and explanatory notes, as he had done with the Book of Mormon. Using the 1876 edition, Orson Pratt made the requested additions and the new edition of the Doctrine and Covenants was printed in 1880 and canonized on October 10, 1880, in a General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where all present voted unanimously to accept the 1880 edition as canonized scripture.
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Jana z Arku, zrození a obrozování johankovského mýtu / Joan of Arc, birth of a myth and the Johannine revivalSvobodová, Karolína January 2019 (has links)
The subject of this diploma thesis is the French national heroine Joan of Arc and her portrayal and reflection in literary works throughout the centuries. The diploma thesis mentions the historical personality of Joan of Arc in the context of the time she lived in, reconstructs the life of this French saint and deals with the rehabilitation process that completes the myth of the French national heroine. This diploma thesis summarizes the important European literary works that Joan of Arc is the most important theme. The diploma thesis deals more with literary works in which Joan of Arc is the main character but each author writes her story and describes her personality from a different point of view. And precisely these differences of the thesis are analyzed. The diploma thesis focuses more on the literary works of various authors such as Voltaire, Jules Michelet, Anatole France and Stéphen Coubé. The diploma thesis deals also with the portrayal of Joan of Arc in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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The Social Construction of Economic Man: The Genesis, Spread, Impact and Institutionalisation of Economic IdeasMackinnon, Lauchlan A. K. Unknown Date (has links)
The present thesis is concerned with the genesis, diffusion, impact and institutionalisation of economic ideas. Despite Keynes's oft-cited comments to the effect that 'the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood'(Keynes 1936: 383), and the highly visible impact of economic ideas (for example Keynesian economics, Monetarism, or economic ideas regarding deregulation and antitrust issues) on the economic system, economists have done little to systematically explore the spread and impact of economic ideas. In fact, with only a few notable exceptions, the majority of scholarly work concerning the spread and impact of economic ideas has been developed outside of the economics literature, for example in the political institutionalist literature in the social sciences. The present thesis addresses the current lack of attention to the spread and impact of economic ideas by economists by drawing on the political institutionalist, sociological, and psychology of creativity literatures to develop a framework in which the genesis, spread, impact and institutionalisation of economic ideas may be understood. To articulate the dissemination and impact of economic ideas within economics, I consider as a case study the evolution of economists' conception of the economic agent - "homo oeconomicus." I argue that the intellectual milieu or paradigm of economics is 'socially constructed' in a specific sense, namely: (i) economic ideas are created or modified by particular individuals; (ii) economic ideas are disseminated (iii) certain economic ideas are accepted by economists and (iv) economic ideas become institutionalised into the paradigm or milieu of economics. Economic ideas are, of course, disseminated not only within economics to fellow economists, but are also disseminated externally to economic policy makers and business leaders who can - and often do - take economic ideas into account when formulating policy and building economic institutions. Important economic institutions are thereby socially constructed, in the general sense proposed by Berger and Luckmann (1966). But how exactly do economic ideas enter into this process of social construction of economic institutions? Drawing from and building on structure/agency theory (e.g. Berger and Luckmann 1966; Bourdieu 1977; Bhaskar 1979/1998, 1989; Bourdieu 1990; Lawson 1997, 2003) in the wider social sciences, I provide a framework for understanding how economic ideas enter into the process of social construction of economic institutions. Finally, I take up a methodological question: if economic ideas are disseminated, and if economic ideas have a real and constitutive impact on the economic system being modelled, does 'economic science' then accurately and objectively model an independently existing economic reality, unchanged by economic theory, or does economic theory have an interdependent and 'reflexive' relationship with economic reality, as economic reality co-exists with, is shaped by, and also shapes economic theory? I argue the latter, and consider the implications for evaluating in what sense economic science is, in fact, a science in the classical sense. The thesis makes original contributions to understanding the genesis of economic ideas in the psychological creative work processes of economists; understanding the ontological location of economic ideas in the economic system; articulating the social construction of economic ideas; and highlighting the importance of the spread of economic ideas to economic practice and economic methodology.
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