Includes bibliographical references (leaves 303-325) / The topic of God’s beauty, while receiving attention in theological aesthetics, is not often a focused pursuit in Christian spirituality. The study attempts to answer the question of what the nature would be of an Evangelical Protestant Christian spirituality predicated upon seeking and apprehending God’s beauty. The study establishes the relevance of beauty to Christian spirituality. It then develops a definition of God’s beauty from Jonathan Edwards. God’s beauty is found to be his love for his own being. Examining Scripture and Christian history, the study establishes that God’s beauty was regarded as an objective reality until the Enlightenment. The focus of the research then turns to the subjective apprehension of beauty, and examines the methodology of pursuing beauty in art, and finds parallels in spirituality. The study considers the epistemological dichotomy of subject and object with reference to beauty, and considers Christian proposals for a form of correspondence theory for transcendentals. The findings are united in a model of spirituality. Apprehension of God’s beauty occurs through the subject possessing a correspondent form of God’s love. Findings from the aesthetic and epistemological study are united with theology to suggest that this love can be cultivated through four areas: Christian imagination, an implanted new nature, the exposure to communion with God, and the nurture of spiritual disciplines. Each of these areas is explained and justified as means to cultivate correspondent love. The postures and approaches found in the study of art and epistemology are used for explaining the nature of correspondent love. Evangelical Protestant Christian spirituality predicated upon seeking and finding God’s beauty is one which cultivates love for God that corresponds with God’s own love. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D. Th. (Christian Spirituality)

This dissertation examines how news and information circulated among select colonies in the British and French Caribbean during a series of military conflicts from 1763 to 1804, including the American War of Independence (1775-1783), French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802), and the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). The colonies included in this study are Barbados, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint-Domingue. This dissertation argues that the sociopolitical upheaval experienced by colonial residents during these military conflicts led to an increased desire for news that was satiated by the development and improvement of many processes of collecting and distributing information. This dissertation looks at some of these processes, the ways in which select social groups both influenced and were affected by them, and why such phenomena occurred in the greater context of the 18th and early 19th century Caribbean at large. In terms of the types of processes, it examines various kinds of print culture, such as colonial newspapers, books, and almanacs, as well as correspondence records among different social groups. In terms of which groups are studied, these include printers, postal service workers, colonial and naval officials, and Catholic missionaries. The dissertation is divided into five chapters, the first of which provides insight into the operation of the mail service established in the aforementioned colonies, and the ways in which the Atlantic Revolutions impacted their service in terms of the different historical actors responsible for collecting and distributing correspondences. Chapter two looks at select British and French colonial printers, their print shops, and the book trade in the Caribbean isles during the 18th century. Chapter three delves into the colonial newspapers and compares the differences and similarities among government-sanctioned newspapers vis-à-vis independently produced papers. It uses the case of the Haitian Revolution to track how news of the slave insurrection was disseminated or constricted in the weeks immediately following the night of 22 August 1791. Chapter four examines the colonial almanac as a means of connecting colonial residents with people across the wider Atlantic World. It also surveys the development of these pocketbooks from mere astrological calendars to essential items that owners customized and frequently carried on their person, given the swathes of information they featured after the American War of Independence. The final chapter looks at the daily operations of Capuchin and Dominican missionaries in Martinique and Guadeloupe at the end of the 18th century and how they maintained their communications within the islands and with the heads of their Catholic orders in France, as well as in Rome. Overall, this project aims to fill in some of the gaps in the literature regarding how select British and French colonial residents received and dispatched information, and the effect this had in their respective Caribbean islands. It also sheds light on some of the ways that slaves were incorporated into the mechanisms by which information was collected and distributed, such as their encounters with printers, employment as couriers, and use as messengers to relay documents between colonial officials. In doing so, it hopes to encourage future discussion regarding how information moved in the British and French Caribbean amid periods of revolution and military conflict, how and why these processes changed, and the impact this had on print culture and mail systems in the post-revolutionary period of the 19th century.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:17:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Carolina Ceneviva Macchione.pdf: 574461 bytes, checksum: baab3de17acd1d0c877ec805b1b1e4c3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The expression correspondence between verbal and nonverbal behavior has been used to refer to the accuracy with which the individual reports what he did. Several studies have been conducted in this area, observing precisely the discriminative stimulus that should control the verbal response to later compare it with the verbal report. The present research aimed to investigate whether the manipulation of contingencies can affect the correspondence between doing and saying in a natural situation involving academic tasks; whether there is a relationship between the correction of the task made by the child and his or her history of success or error; and if the fact that the reporting behavior of the children occurs in a group affects the correspondence. To meet this objective, the children did exercises in the classroom given by the teacher and then, in another room, did the correction with the experimenter, who wrote the correct answers on the board where each child had to correct (mark right or wrong) their own exercise. After this correction, the child reported to the experimenter if he or she made the exercises correctly or not. Depending on the phase of the study, the child received tokens exchangeable for adhesives. In the Individual Baseline and Group Baseline phases, no contingency was planned for the reports; in the Group Reinforcement of the Correspondence and Individual Reinforcement of Correspondence, all correspondent reports were reinforced. Besides those, there was a Non-contingent Reinforcement session, in which the children won all the tokens and exchanged for the stickers before they started the report. During Individual Baseline sessions, it was observed that, in general, the number of correspondent reports was much greater than the non-correspondent reports, despite the significant number of the latter. Comparing this result to the group sessions, it can be observed that the number of error reports diminished substantially, increasing the number of non-correspondent reports of being right. For most participants, it was not possible to reverse the number of non-correspondent reports in the Reinforcement of Correspondence phases. The data from this research indicate that, in general, the different arrangements of reinforcement contingencies presented by the researcher were less effective in controlling the report than the contingencies involved in the groups in which the reports were made. Only a few participants seem to have been less affected by the presence of colleagues and more by the contingencies arranged by the experimenter. Moreover, when the participants were exposed to different experimental conditions, they had not only their report about academic tasks affected but also the corrections made by them / A expressão correspondência entre comportamento verbal e não verbal tem sido utilizada para se referir à acurácia com que o indivíduo relata o que fez. Diversos estudos nessa área têm sido realizados, observando-se precisamente o estímulo discriminativo que deveria controlar a resposta verbal para, posteriormente, compará-lo com o relato verbal. A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar se a manipulação de contingências pode afetar a correspondência fazer-dizer em uma situação natural, envolvendo tarefas acadêmicas; se há relação entre a correção da tarefa, feita pela criança, e seu relato de acerto ou de erro; e se o fato de o comportamento de relatar das crianças ocorrer em grupo afeta a correspondência. Para atender a tal objetivo, as crianças realizavam exercícios em sala de aula, passados pela professora, e, em seguida, numa outra sala, faziam a correção dos mesmos com a experimentadora esta escrevia na lousa as respostas corretas e cada criança corrigia (marcava certo ou errado) seu próprio exercício. Terminada a correção, a criança relatava à experimentadora se havia acertado ou errado cada um dos exercícios. Dependendo da fase do estudo, a criança recebia fichas trocáveis por adesivos, segundo diferentes critérios. Foram realizadas fases de Linha de Base Individual e de Linha de Base em Grupo, em que nenhuma contingência foi planejada para os relatos; fases de Reforçamento da Correspondência em Grupo e de Reforçamento da Correspondência Individual, em que todos os relatos emitidos de forma correspondente foram reforçados; e uma sessão de Reforçamento Não Contingente, na qual as crianças ganharam todas as fichas e as trocaram por adesivos antes de iniciar o relato. Durante as sessões de linha de base individual, foi possível observar que, de maneira geral, o número de relatos correspondentes foi muito maior que o de relatos não correspondentes, apesar do número expressivo destes últimos. Se comparado esse resultado ao das sessões de grupo, observa-se que o número de relatos de erro diminui substancialmente, aumentando o número de relatos de acerto não correspondentes. Para grande parte dos participantes, não foi possível reverter o número de relatos não correspondentes nas fases de Reforçamento da Correspondência. Os dados obtidos neste estudo apontam que, de modo geral, os diferentes arranjos de contingências de reforçamento dispostos pela experimentadora foram menos efetivos no controle do comportamento de relatar das crianças do que as contingências dispostas pelos grupos em que os relatos foram feitos. Apenas alguns poucos participantes parecem ter sido menos afetados pela presença dos colegas e mais pelas contingências programadas pela experimentadora. Além disso, quando os participantes foram expostos a diferentes condições experimentais tiveram não só o seu relato sobre tarefas acadêmicas afetado, como também as correções feitas por eles mesmos

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The target behavior was the choice of food, considered healthful for the snack. 23 children between 5 and 6 years, with normal development, that studied in the same classroom of a Council School for children, participated of the study. The experimental conditions were: baseline, reinforcement of verbalization, reinforcement of compliance (experimenter s verbalization), reinforcement of correspondence, reinforcement of doing and reinforcement of verbalization 2. The children were divided in 3 groups, with 8, 5 and 7 participants. The sequence of presentation of the treatments varied between the groups. A of multiple baseline design between participants of the same group was used. The results pointed that during of baseline the frequency of choice of more healthful snacks is low, but the frequency of correspondence between verbal and non verbal behavior is high. During the phase of reinforcement of verbalization, the frequency of choice of more healthful snacks is low, and so is the frequency of correspondence between verbal and non verbal behavior. In the phase of reinforcement of doing, the frequency of choice of more healthful snacks is low only when this phase precedes the reinforcement of correspondence and the reinforcement of compliance. In the phases of reinforcement of compliance and reinforcement of correspondence, the frequency of choice of more healthful food increases for the three groups. In the phase of reinforcement of verbalization 2, the frequency of choice of more healthful food was higher than in the phase of reinforcement of verbalization, being, therefore, higher the correspondence frequency. The present study suggests that verbalization has an important role to provide the target response; however it can proceed from the participant as well from the experimenter / Diversos estudos vêm analisando tratamentos que interferem na ocorrência de correspondência entre o comportamento verbal e o não verbal. Apesar disso, o papel da verbalização para a emissão do comportamento não verbal correspondente, nos estudos sobre correspondência entre o dizer e o fazer, ainda não foi esclarecido. O presente trabalho teve o objetivo de combinar alguns tratamentos já utilizados por alguns dos estudos, com o intuito de verificar qual seria o papel da verbalização no controle do comportamento não verbal, utilizando um comportamento alvo diferente do que tem sido utilizado na maior parte dos estudos, e introduzindo algumas modificações no procedimento e no delineamento experimental. O comportamento alvo foi a escolha de alimentos considerados saudáveis para o lanche. Participaram do estudo 23 crianças entre 5 e 6 anos, com desenvolvimento normal, que estudavam numa mesma classe de uma Escola Municipal de Educação Infantil (EMEI). As condições experimentais introduzidas foram: linha de base, reforçamento da verbalização, reforçamento da obediência (verbalização do experimentador), reforçamento da correspondência, reforçamento do fazer e reforçamento da verbalização 2. As crianças foram divididas em 3 grupos, com 8, 5 e 7 participantes. A seqüência de apresentação dos tratamentos variou entre os grupos. Foi utilizado um delineamento de linha de base múltipla entre sujeitos de um mesmo grupo. Os resultados apontam que durante a fase de linha de base é baixa a freqüência de escolha de lanches mais saudáveis , mas é alta a freqüência de correspondência entre o comportamento verbal e o não verbal. Durante a fase de reforçamento da verbalização, é baixa a freqüência de escolha de lanches mais saudáveis e baixa a freqüência de correspondência entre o comportamento verbal e o não verbal. Na fase de reforçamento do fazer, é baixa a freqüência de escolha de lanches mais saudáveis apenas quando essa fase precede as de reforçamento da correspondência e reforçamento da obediência. Nas fases de reforçamento da obediência e reforçamento da correspondência, a freqüência de escolhas por alimentos mais saudáveis aumenta para os três grupos. Na fase de reforçamento da verbalização 2, a freqüência de escolha por alimentos mais saudáveis foi maior do que na fase de reforçamento da verbalização, sendo, portanto, mais alta a freqüência de correspondência. O presente estudo sugere que a verbalização tem um papel importante na produção da resposta alvo, porém pode ser proveniente tanto do participante quanto do experimentador

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-08-24T12:52:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Jandevaldo Felipe dos Santos.pdf: 9600412 bytes, checksum: 06bfe823f2b57491f0d2cc8946629a5f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-24T12:52:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jandevaldo Felipe dos Santos.pdf: 9600412 bytes, checksum: 06bfe823f2b57491f0d2cc8946629a5f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Fundação São Paulo - FUNDASP / This dissertation is focused on studies of contact zones and the cultural meetings between native Brazilian people and Jesuits missionaries in Portuguese America, dated by sixteenth century. For noticing the stress and conflicts, we choose analyses some letters written by priest Jose de Anchietain reference to the missionary activities in the cities of Sao Vicente and Piratininga (1554 1570). Based on an interdisciplinary premise, in cooperation with Anthropology and History references about the theme, the proposal of our analysis is identifying references in the missionary letters which allow us to think how native Brazilian people were instructed about religion and how they resisted to the new culture that they were being forced to, as well as the challenges and possible contradictions shown in the Colonizer’s praxis. We intend, this way, contribute to the knowledge expansion about the introduction of the Catholicism in Brazil by sixteenth century, in the context of Science of Religion / A presente dissertação tem como objeto as zonas de contato e os encontros culturais entre indígenas e missionários jesuítas na América Portuguesa no século XVI. Para perceber suas tensões e conflitos, optamos por analisar conjunto de cartas do Pe. José de Anchieta que se referem à atividade missionária em São Vicente e Piratininga (1554 a 1570). Partindo de uma premissa interdisciplinar, tendo como referenciais as colaborações da Antropologia e da História sobre o tema, nosso recorte propõe identificar nas cartas dos missionários elementos que permitam refletir sobre a maneira como os indígenas receberam e resistiram à nova religião e cultura que lhes estava sendo imposta, assim como os desafios e as possíveis contradições presentes na práxis do colonizador. Pretendemos, dessa maneira, contribuir para a ampliação do conhecimento sobre a introdução do catolicismo no Brasil do século XVI, no âmbito da Ciência da Religião

O Programa Nacional de Assistência Estudantil (PNAES) tem como finalidade ampliar as condições de permanência de discentes no ensino superior público federal. O objetivo de investigação deste trabalho é avaliar a efetividade do PNAES, para responder a pergunta se o PNAES foi um sucesso ou fracasso na Universidade Federal de Alfenas (UNIFAL-MG), no período de 2014 a 2016. Para isso, foram elaborados o índice de evasão relativa e o índice de reprovação relativa, que comparam a proporção de evasão e reprovação entre alunos não assistidos e assistidos pelo PNAES. Os resultados dos índices foram utilizados para avaliar a efetividade do PNAES. O processo de avaliação seguiu a estrutura do marco lógico que detalha o PNAES em produto, atividades, objetivos e finalidade. Ademais, foi utilizada a técnica de análise de correspondência múltipla, para analisar outras variáveis atreladas à permanência dos alunos além da assistência estudantil. Os objetivos específicos da pesquisa foram: 1º) elaborar o índice de reprovação relativa e o índice de evasão relativa, para mensurar os resultados do PNAES; 2º) aplicar o instrumento de avaliação, denominado marco lógico, para orientar a avaliação da efetividade do PNAES na UNIFAL-MG; e 3º) analisar outras variáveis possivelmente associadas à permanência de alunos na UNIFAL-MG, além das ações de assistência estudantil, como o estágio não obrigatório e as atividades de pesquisa, monitoria e extensão. Foi realizada a avalição da efetividade para os alunos ingressantes no primeiro e segundo semestres de 2014. Foi possível observar que o PNAES foi efetivo no aspecto da evasão em todos os cursos, uma vez que nos semestres avaliados os alunos assistidos evadiram em proporção igual ou menor que os alunos não assistidos. Com relação à reprovação, o PNAES foi efetivo em 64% dos cursos analisados no 1º/2014 e em aproximadamente 66% dos cursos analisados do 2º/2014. Conclui-se que o PNAES foi um sucesso para o período analisado com relação à evasão, porém com a ressalva dos cursos que necessitam de estudos para levantar os motivos de reprovações dos alunos assistidos. A aplicação da técnica de análise de correspondência múltipla possibilitou levantar a hipótese: que as atividades de pesquisa, monitoria e extensão estão associadas à permanência dos alunos ingressantes no período entre o 1º/2014 até o 1º/2016, associação esta não podendo ser aplicada com relação aos alunos de estágio não obrigatório ingressantes no 1º/2015 e no 1º/2016. / The National Program of Student Assistance (PNAES) aims to extend the conditions of permanence of speeches in the federal public higher education. The objective of the research of this work is to evaluate the effectiveness of the PNAES to answer a question if the PNAES was a success or failure at the Federal University of Alfenas (UNIFAL-MG), from 2014 to 2016. For this, of relative avoidance and replication index, which compare the proportion of avoidance and disapproval among students not assisted and assisted by the PNAES. The results of the indices are used to evaluate the effectiveness of the PNAES. The evaluation process followed a logical framework structure that details the PNAES in product, activities, objectives and purpose. In addition, it was used as a multiple correspondence analysis technique to analyze other variables linked to students' permanence beyond student assistance. The specific objectives of the research are: 1) to elaborate the relative rejection index and the relative avoidance index, to measure the results of the PNAES; 2) to apply the assessment tool, called the Logical Framework, to guide an evaluation of the effectiveness of the NAPA in UNIFAL-MG; and 3) to analyze other variables possibly associated with the permanence of students in UNIFAL-MG, in addition to the student's actions, such as the non-compulsory internship and research, monitoring and extension activities. An evaluation of the effectiveness of incoming students was carried out in the first and second semesters of 2014. I found that it is not a participant of all courses, since in the semesters the students assisted were evaded in equal or lesser proportion than the unassisted students. With regard to failure, the PNAES was effective in 64% of the courses analyzed in 1/2014 and in approximately 66% of the courses analyzed in 2 / 2014. It was concluded that the PNAES was a success for the period analyzed with However, with a caveat of the courses that need studies to raise the pairs of student disapprovals. The application of the technique of multiple correspondence analysis makes it possible to raise the hypothesis: that as research, monitoring and extension activities are associated to the stay of incoming students in the period between 1º / 2014 until 1º / 2016, an association that can not be applied with for non-compulsory students entering the 1st / 2015 and the 1st / 2016.

The American GI’s experience in hospital during World War II is absent from official military histories, most scholarly works, and even many oral history collections. Utilizing the papers of WWII infantryman, Leon Standifer, this thesis offers the reader a rare glimpse of WWII military hospital life and chronicles one soldier’s journey from willing obedience to subversive action. This thesis compares the stated goals and procedures of the US Army medical department to the experience of Leon Standifer, an infantryman who served in northern France during the last year of the war and the American occupation of Bavaria, whose service was marked by several periods of protracted hospitalization. Over the course of five hospitalizations, during which Standifer was treated for bullet wounds, trench foot, and pneumonia, he consistently wrote letters to his family describing his experience. A careful reading of Standifer’s wartime correspondence in conjunction with his published and unpublished writings, secondary source material, and military records, suggest that while isolated in the hospital, after killing and experiencing the death of his comrades, Standifer lost his desire to fight. He began to make calculated decisions based on his knowledge of the military medical system in an attempt to ensure his survival and control the remainder of his military service.

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<p>The prehistoric cemetery of Barshalder is located along the main road on the boundary between Grötlingbo and Fide parishes, near the southern end of the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. The ceme-tery was used from c. AD 1-1100.</p><p>The level of publication in Swedish archaeology of the first millennium AD is low compared to, for instance, the British and German examples. Gotland’s rich Iron Age cemeteries have long been intensively excavated, but few have received monographic treatment. This publication is intended to begin filling this gap and to raise the empirical level of the field. It also aims to make explicit and test the often somewhat intuitively conceived re-sults of much previous research. The analyses deal mainly with the Migration (AD 375–540), Vendel (AD 520–790) and Late Viking (AD 1000–1150) Periods.</p><p>The following lines of inquiry have been prioritised.</p><p>1. Landscape history, i.e. placing the cemetery in a landscape-historical context. (Vol. 1, section 2.2.6)</p><p>2. Migration Period typochronology, i.e. the study of change in the grave goods. (Vol. 2, chapter 2)</p><p>3. Social roles: gender, age and status. (Vol. 2, chapter 3)</p><p>4. Religious identity in the 11th century, i.e. the study of religious indicators in mortuary cus-toms and grave goods, with particular emphasis on the relationship between Scandinavian paganism and Christianity. (Vol. 2, chapter 4)</p><p>Barshalder is found to have functioned as a central cemetery for the surrounding area, located on pe-ripheral land far away from contemporary settle-ment, yet placed on a main road along the coast for maximum visibility and possibly near a harbour. Computer supported correspondence analysis and seriation are used to study the gender attributes among the grave goods and the chronology of the burials. New methodology is developed to distin-guish gender-neutral attributes from transgressed gender attributes. Sub-gender grouping due to age and status is explored. An independent modern chronology system with rigorous type definitions is established for the Migration Period of Gotland. Recently published chronology systems for the Vendel and Viking Periods are critically reviewed, tested and modified to produce more solid models. Social stratification is studied through burial wealth with a quantitative method, and the results are tested through juxtaposition with several other data types.</p><p>The Late Viking Period graves of the late 10th and 11th centuries are studied in relation to the contemporary Christian graves at the churchyards. They are found to be symbolically soft-spoken and unobtrusive, with all pagan attributes kept apart from the body in a space between the feet of the deceased and the end of the over-long inhumation trench. A small number of pagan reactionary graves with more forceful symbolism are however also identified. The distribution of different 11th cen-tury cemetery types across the island is used to in-terpret the period’s confessional geography, the scale of social organisation and the degree of alle-giance to western and eastern Christianity. 11th century society on Gotland is found to have been characterised by religious tolerance, by an absence of central organisation and by slow piecemeal Christianisation.</p>

<p>Many different approaches have been taken towards solving the stereo correspondence problem and great progress has been made within the field during the last decade. This is mainly thanks to newly evolved global optimization techniques and better ways to compute pixel dissimilarity between views. The most successful algorithms are based on approaches that explicitly model smoothness assumptions made about the physical world, with image segmentation and plane fitting being two frequently used techniques.</p><p>Within the project, a survey of state of the art stereo algorithms was conducted and the theory behind them is explained. Techniques found interesting were implemented for experimental trials and an algorithm aiming to achieve state of the art performance was implemented and evaluated. For several cases, state of the art performance was reached.</p><p>To keep down the computational complexity, an algorithm relying on local winner-take-all optimization, image segmentation and plane fitting was compared against minimizing a global energy function formulated on pixel level. Experiments show that the local approach in several cases can match the global approach, but that problems sometimes arise – especially when large areas that lack texture are present. Such problematic areas are better handled by the explicit modeling of smoothness in global energy minimization.</p><p>Lastly, disparity estimation for image sequences was explored and some ideas on how to use temporal information were implemented and tried. The ideas mainly relied on motion detection to determine parts that are static in a sequence of frames. Stereo correspondence for sequences is a rather new research field, and there is still a lot of work to be made.</p>