Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-12T18:31:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 arquivo8679_1.pdf: 627136 bytes, checksum: 56bfa33fc30562d8da5b94b0667149ed (MD5) license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Dado um ideal em um anel de polinômios coeficientes em um corpo, que usualmente assumimos ter característica zero), podemos considerar as derivações que o preservam. Elas dão origem um modulo especial denominado idealizador diferencial (do ideal dado). Tal objeto desempenha um papel primordi1 nesta tese, que esta dividida em duas seções principais. Na primeira seção a teoria de tais módulos e desenvolvida a partir de uma definição complemente geral: propomos uma versão relativa, no necessariamente polinômio, com propriedades e técnica que se mostra úteis vários resultados subseqüentes. Em seguida focalizamos em idealizadores polinômios, principalmente fornecendo critérios efetivos de refletividade e liberdade, bem como introduzindo a classe dos então chamados ideais (e anéis) diferencialmente livres (generalização não-trivial da conhecida noção de divisor livre). A segunda seção lida com aplicações ao modulo clássico de derivações (ou de campos vetoriais tangentes) de um álgebra finitamente gerada sobre um corpo. Inicialmente e dado um método computacional para obtenção de um conjunto de geradores. Obstruções à sua Cohen-Mculicidde são investigadas - uma delas sendo que o anel deve ser eqüidimensional-, com critérios no caso de hipersuperficies e de interseções completas homogêneas com singularidade isolada. São obtidas decomposição primária no caso reduzido, álgebras de explosão no caso de hipersuperficies, e certas estimativas de multiplicidade. Finalmente, uma resolução livre no caso de anéis diferencialmente livres e explicitada, e versões da Conjectura de Zriski-Iipmn sao estabelecidas

This thesis considers the theme of suffering and its resolution in the novels of Jack Kerouac, Leonard Cohen, and William Burroughs, three avant-garde contemporary writers. It discusses most of their work in a general way, with reference to the theme of suffering; and it also analyses in a much more detailed manner the Subterraneans by Kerouac, The Favorite Game and Beautiful Losers by Cohen, and Naked Lunch by Burroughs. Cohen envisions man as a suffering being who experiences his pain in many different ways. He criticizes the old ritual patterns in which suffering once took its form - the pattern of religion which teaches man that suffering is good, and History which teaches that the cycle of civilization operates only in terms of the torturer and his victim. He rejects, too, the contemporary form of pop art which ignores the fact that suffering is a very real and overwhelming part of man. Having lost the old ritual patterns of suffering, man feels alienated from his own personal pain. Through the magic of good art, Cohen feels, man can regain entrance to his own being, for by experiencing another's suffering in art, he can regain his own awareness of suffering. If we misinterpret or misuse our own pain, we become one of Cohen's 'losers,' for we lose the core of our being to false ritual. Cohen believes the ancient notion that suffering deepens character, and he argues that man, through an understanding of his own pain, becomes a richer and better person, more capable of recognizing the magic which exists along with pain. For magic does exist with pain, and in art we gain a momentary entrance into this world of magic. Through the investigation of self and the uniqueness of self, man comes to recognize the uniqueness and magic of all. The artist takes on the role of prophet visionary showing all men that "magic is afoot." Jack Kerouac suffered a different form of pain - a pain which originated in his desperate search for innocence. His Catholic heritage taught him that the world of mind and spirit could see God, while the physical body was the realm of the sinful and guilty. His life became a quest in search of an innocence in which man could, transcend his guilt and shame and become beatific. Kerouac named the entire beat generation beatific, but he could not evade his feeling of guilt and shame within his own life, and he fluctuated throughout life between ecstatic idealism and hopeless despair. His strong mother fixation was a major cause for the split between his sense of idealism and the life of the physical body - and his mother became associated in his mind with those aspects of consciousness he considered 'ideal.' Yet Kerouac also longed for freedom and individuality, realms of experience outside his mother's hold. He expressed his life within his art, showing his tension and anguish from the pull of these two forms of experience. Kerouac's final interpretation of suffering paralleled the Catholic vision, for art became, in his life, a means of personal confession and penance. William Burroughs' despair is expressed through fear and rage, and a figurative comparison with 'paranoia' defines the range of his suffering fairly closely. Burroughs fears persecution from society which controls man through his need, fearing especially the implosive and depersonalizing forces of society which threaten to degrade and annihilate man. Man's own body takes part in this social degradation, for it is man's body which succumbs to addictive need. Burroughs strives to preserve his sense of inner reality and freedom at all costs. He purges his own personal sense of fear through his art, and art becomes, in his use of it, a social act of exorcism. He shouts the unspeakable and becomes a priest in a cultural purification rite; he shows the absurdity of man's reality in the form of comedy and dream and these become the source of his release. He defends himself against social control by his ability to exaggerate the power of society to the point of the grotesque, and art becomes the written form of his protest. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

ABSTRACT This dissertation, “The Past is Perfect”: Leonard Cohen’s Philosophy of Time, analyzes the concept of time and aspects of temporality in Leonard Cohen’s poetry and prose, both published and unpublished. Through imagination and memory, Cohen continuously explores his past as a man, a member of a family, and a representative of a culture. The complex interconnection of individual and collective pasts constitutes the core of Cohen’s philosophy informed by his Jewish heritage, while its artistic expression is indebted to the literary past. The poet/novelist/songwriter was famously designated as “the father of melancholy”; it is his focus on the past that makes his works appear pessimistic. Cohen pays less attention to the other two temporal aspects, present and future, which are seen in a generally negative light until his most recent publication. The study suggests that although Cohen’s attitude to the past has not changed radically from Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956) to Book of Longing (2006), his views have changed from bitterness prompted by time’s destructive force to acceptance of its work and the assertion of the power of poetry/art to withstand it; there is neither discontent with the present nor prediction of a catastrophic future. Time remains a metaphysical category and subject to mythologizing, temporal linearity often being disregarded. Although Cohen’s spiritual search has extended throughout his life, his essential outlook on time and the past is already expressed in the early books; his latest publications combine new pieces and selections from previous books of poetry and prose works, confirming the continuity of ideas and general consistency of his vision.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第22231号 / 理博第4545号 / 新制||理||1653(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科数学・数理解析専攻 / (主査)教授 池田 保, 教授 雪江 明彦, 教授 並河 良典 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

The aim of this paper is to study how the researchers Kenneth I. Pargament, Harold G. Koenig and Lisa M Perez five RCOPE-strategies can be related to the comment fields of five music videos by the artist Leonard Cohen. The video material can be found on the social platform YouTube.      The comments were analyzed in relation to the five coping strategies and people's needs for holiness and religion in the late modern secular society.  The five coping strategies were: (1) Meaning, (2) Control, (3) Comfort/Spirituality, (4) Intimacy/Spirituality and (5) Life transformation.   The methodology of this inductive study was based on an intersection between a qualitative text analysis, and a more netnographically oriented style of observation.   The conclusion while analyzing the data in relation to RCOPE- strategies was that two of these five strategies were more clearly projected. These strategies were (3) Comfort /Spirituality and (4) Intimacy/Spirituality. This paper is moving in a relatively unexplored field of research and can be seen as a springboard for further research on the relationship between secularization, digital media, and human religious orientation in dealing with existential crises.     Keywords: Religious Coping Strategies, Leonard Cohen, Comfort Spirituality, Intimacy, Spirituality, Social Media, Youtube

In this thesis, we define differential operators for Hermitian Jacobi forms and Hermitian modular forms over the Gaussian number field Q(i). In particular, we construct Rankin-Cohen brackets for such spaces of Hermitian Jacobi forms and Hermitian modular forms. As an application, we extend Rankin's method to the case of Hermitian Jacobi forms. Finally we compute Fourier series coefficients of Hermitian modular forms, which allow us to give an example of the first Rankin-Cohen bracket of two Hermitian modular forms. In the appendix, we provide tables of Fourier series coefficients of Hermitian modular forms and also the computer source code that we used to compute such Fourier coefficients.

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A comprehensive population study in the Middle East was conducted using different genetic markers in order to establish a wider genetic profile of the Middle Eastern populations. The main goal of this study was to analyze DNA from samples collected from different locations, and produce genetic motifs and patterns that could be used to identify and distinguish the target populations. This information will allow us to analyze the ancestry of these populations, their interactions through time and space, and the effects these interactions have on the populations' structure. We have collected around 1300 individual samples from different populations in the Middle East ranging from Oman in southern Arabia, to the West Bank and Gaza in Palestine. Our samples can be divided into two primary groups: 320 samples come from Oman; this region is important because of its geographical proximity to Yemen which is perceived as the historical area where the Arabs originated and 800 samples came from Palestine, a central region in the Middle East that connects Asia and Africa and was a passageway between the two continents through history. The samples collected from Oman have genealogy charts that were provided by the participants, while the samples from Gaza lack the genealogy charts. DNA was extracted from the samples, amplified using PCR technology, sequenced and genotyped using non-recombining genetic markers. Short Tandem Repeats(STR) were screened in the samples.A specific STR marker, DYS458, exhibited an alternative allele at repeat number 18 which was a 2 base pair shift identified as microvariant 18.2. The samples showed an unusually high frequency of microvariant 18.2.When microvariant 18.2 haplotype was combined with Modal Cohen Haplotype (MCH) motifs, we were able to infer some genetic characteristics about our samples. The Cohen Modal haplotype was used in combination with the results of the 18.2 DYS458 analyses to construct a snapshot of the Middle East, using NETWORK software to analyze the relationship within and between the samples from Oman, which is located in Southern Arabia, and the areas North of Arabia (Jordan, Syria, and Palestine), which is also known as the Levant.

Polyominoes are two-dimensional objects obtained by joining edge by edge squares of same size. Originally, polyominoes appeared in mathematical recreations, but it turned out that they have applications in various fields, for example, theoretical physics and bio-informatics. Among the most popular topics in combinatorics related to polyominoes one finds enumerating polyominoes of given size, including the asymptotic growth of the numbers of polyominoes, tiling problems, and reconstruction of polyominoes. Recently Qureshi introduced a binomial ideal induced by the geometry of a given polyomino, called polyomino ideal, and its related algebra. From that moment different authors studied algebraic properties and invariants related to this ideal, such as primality, Gröbner bases, Gorensteinnes and Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity. In this thesis, we provide an overview on the results that we obtained about polyomino ideals and its related algebra. In the first part of the thesis, we discuss questions about the primality and the Gröbner bases of the polyomino ideal. In the second part of the thesis, we talk over the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity, Hilbert series, and Gorensteinnes of the polyomino ideal and its coordinate ring.

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