This paper explores the presentation of family in the controversial FOX Network television program Family Guy. Polarizing to audiences, the Griffin family of Family Guy is at once considered sophomoric and offensive to some and smart and satiric to others. Though neither judgment of the show is necessarily mutually exclusive, the intention of this study is to reconcile those disparate viewpoints in order to measure the show's purposefulness. After all, if Family Guy succeeds in its satire, it is full of social purpose, offensiveness notwithstanding. This thesis focuses on arguably the main point of contention in Family Guy: the family. Those critical of the show denounce the Griffins for their less-than-exemplary behavior. Proponents of the show—while not exactly disagreeing with that perception of the Griffins—differ in their approach, as they consider the Griffins satiric characters meant to be models of misbehavior. Reformative in nature, satire attacks vice and folly directly and indirectly, and it is in its combined use of direct and indirect satire that Family Guy, at times, misses the mark. By directly satirizing other families in its trademark cutaway transitions, Family Guy places its own family, the Griffins, in a position of superiority, which complicates matters when the Griffins indirectly become objects of satire. Especially regarding the relationship between Griffin family patriarch Peter and his daughter Meg, Family Guy oftentimes presents an imbalanced “satire” that would best be described as “abuse.”

[pt] A simulação numérica de reservatório de petróleo é um processo amplamente utilizado na indústria de óleo e gás. O reservatório é representado por um modelo de células hexaédricas com propriedades associadas, e a simulação numérica procura prever o fluxo de fluído dentro do modelo. Especialistas analisam os resultados dessas simulações através da inspeção, num ambiente gráfico interativo, do modelo tridimensional. Neste trabalho, propõe-se um novo algoritmo de corte com preservação de contexto para auxiliar a inspeção do modelo. O principal objetivo é permitir que o especialista visualize o entorno de poços. Os poços representam o objeto de interesse que deve estar visível e o modelo tridimensional (o contexto) é preservado na medida do possível no entorno desses poços. Desta forma, torna-se possível avaliar a variação de propriedades associadas às células na vizinhança do objeto de interesse. O algoritmo proposto explora programação em placa gráfica e é válido para objetos de interesse arbitrários. Propõe-se também uma extensão do algoritmo para que a seção de corte seja desacoplada da câmera, permitindo analisar o modelo cortado de outros pontos de vista. A eficácia do algoritmo proposto é demonstrada através de resultados baseados em modelos reais de reservatório. / [en] Numerical simulation of black oil reservoir is widely used in the oil and gas industry. The reservoir is represented by a model of hexahedral cells with associated properties, and the numerical simulation is used to predict the fluid behavior in the model. Specialists make analysis of such simulations by inspecting, in a graphical interactive environment, the tridimensional model. In this work, we propose a new cutaway algorithm with context preservation to help the inspection of the model. The main goal is to allow the specialist to visualize the wells and their vicinity. The wells represent the object of interest that must be visible while preserving the tridimensional model (the context) in the vicinity as far as possible. In this way, it is possible to visualize the distribution of cell property together with the object of interest. The proposed algorithm makes use of graphics processing units and is valid for arbitrary objects of interest. It is also proposed an extension to the algorithm to allow the cut section to be decoupled from the camera, allowing analysis of the cut model from different points of view. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated by a set of results based on actual reservoir models.

In those diploma work was solved problems of independent trapezoidal axletree for low-floor bus - NB12 CITY firm SOR Libchavy s.r.o . Work was divided into two main features: solving wheel-suspension kinematics and strenght calculation sorted parts of wheel suspension by the help of finite element method. There was effected fatigue calculation sorted parts of wheel suspension according to „Resetova metoda“ of predicting fatigue damage flowing from so – called cutaway methodics of fatigue tests at the close of this work.