Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:53:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo Romani Peccioli.pdf: 560065 bytes, checksum: b6b607341098eef32b1933e85722788a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-27 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The following dissertation intends to problematize the aesthetics of existence, the ones which have as central element the use of drugs, proposed by the writers Aldous Huxley and William Burroughs. . In order to address the problematization, the research goes back to the threaded discussion of Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze especially as a Spinoza reader -, as well as the control devices launched by the State since the disciplinary society s emergence, aiming the bodies docilization. To unfold these two thematic axes experimentation and control -, the research approaches the bodies and by doing a brief report on its dissemination in the urban society and the categorization of the drugs user as an abnormal who requires medical caring and police surveillance. Lastly, the dissertation approaches the works of Aldous Huxley and William Burroughs on the matters regarding drugs, their experiments, creations and confrontations. It is all brought up by the concepts developed by Deleuze and Foucault referencing one s aestheticization / A presente dissertação pretende problematizar estéticas de existência propostas pelos escritores Aldous Huxley e William Burroughs, as quais têm no uso de drogas um elemento central. Para isso, a pesquisa retoma a discussão feita por Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze especialmente como leitor de Espinosa , assim como os dispositivos de controle lançados pelo Estado desde o advento da sociedade disciplinar, visando ao adestramento dos corpos. Desdobrando esses dois eixos temáticos experimentação e controle , a pesquisa aborda os corpos e o agenciamento drogas, fazendo um breve relato sobre a sua disseminação na sociedade urbana e a caracterização do drogado como um anormal que requer cuidados médicos e atenção policial. Por fim, a dissertação discorre sobre as obras de Aldous Huxley e William Burroughs no que concerne às drogas, seus experimentos, suas produções e seus enfrentamentos, por meio dos conceitos desenvolvidos por Deleuze e Foucault, que fazem referência a uma estetização de si

A presente dissertação devolveu uma metodologia para determinar a probabilidade de escape de nêutrons conforme a energia e posição no reator. Para tanto, simulou-se um reator qualitativo semi-infinito de secção quadrada composto por três regiões homogêneas distintas. O domínio do reator foi subdividido em cem subcamadas concêntricas uniformes para a análise da fuga de nêutrons. Desta maneira, o nascimento de cada nêutron em cada camada foi registrado, bem como sua energia inicial. Os cálculos das trajetórias dos nêutrons foram efetuados usando o Método de Monte Carlo Físico. Assim, o código gerou a história paralela de 4x106 nêutrons, armazenando a energia final, posição final e fluxo angular na superfície. Desta forma, foi possível atribuir a probabilidade de escape de nêutrons provenientes de diferentes camadas conforme suas energias e posições iniciais. O método foi capaz de estabelecer o espectro de fuga, relações de dependência entre energia inicial e probabilidade de escape, além de observar que, sob certas condições, a probabilidade de escape possui crescimento exponencial ao longo do domínio. / This work presents a methodology to determine the neutron escape probability according to its energy and start position in the reactor. A semi-infinite qualitative reactor was simulated by a C++ program. This reactor has three distinct homogeneous regions. It was subdivided into hundred uniform concentric layers for a statistical analysis, allowing to record the birth and initial energy of each neutron in each layer. The neutron's path calculation was performed using Monte Carlo. The program generated 4x106 parallel neutron stories and has stored the final energy, position and angular flux. Thus, we determined the neutron escape probability from different layers. The method was able to estimate the leakage dependency with initial energy and position and it showed that the escape probability has a exponential growth tendency along the domain in certain conditions.

This thesis presents a review of educational-escape-room literature followed by a design-oriented framework (the Snyder Escape Room Framework or SERF) and demonstrates the potential efficacy of escape-rooms in cybersecurity education. Several authors have proposed frameworks and guidelines for game and educational design regarding escape rooms. This work coalesces some of those ideas into a more substantial and comprehensive framework (SERF) that designers can use when developing educational escape rooms. The Snyder Escape Room Framework provides heuristics for goals and objectives, players, activities, context, trajectory design, and evaluation. Additionally, this work describes and analyzes the novel prototyped BYU GCC escape room experience and delves into some of what was successful and what could be improved. The first sessions of the experience were observed and documented, and an expert review was performed. Participants did not gain much confidence in learning new technology; however, they did increase their confidence in using new technology through the experience. Participants did indeed learn from the experience, however, participants focused more on team-related concepts gained from the experience rather than the cybersecurity concepts introduced through the escape-room activities. Based on overwhelming positive responses, participants seemed to enjoy performing the experience. The BYU experience is evaluated against the Snyder Framework as an example of how to use the framework while designing or as a tool for evaluating. Using this framework systemizes and catalogues design choices and implications on the room and provides an informed approach for refinement. Applying the Snyder Escape Room Framework to the BYU experience provides further insight beyond just an expert review, and the BYU experience is a novel example to use with SERF. SERF gives a vocabulary and set of heuristics that help designers zero in on important design decisions. Using the framework provides a well-defined set of attributes for discussing the BYU experience and helps clarify what went well with the room and what could be improved upon. This is especially helpful when iterating on room design. The nature of Snyder Framework and this work is that it is multidisciplinary and touches a wide array of related fields and topics. Of note, are the implications of this work on educational games. The SERF can be used as a resource when designing similar experiences while the analysis of the BYU experience based on the SERF provides an example of how the framework can be used for evaluation and iteration.

This thesis supports the Master of Fine Arts exhibition, To End In Silence, at the Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, March 15-19, 2010. The exhibit consists of fourteen pieces, which are either presented on pedestals or mounted on the wall. To comment on the title of my thesis, it is a description of the state of calm that I strive to embrace during the creation of my work and the unobtrusive yet engaging tone that I hope for each finished composition to project. This paper explores the aesthetic and conceptual transitions in my work, inspired by a period of personal realization and acceptance. Influences discussed include a number of connections to historical practices including Buddhism, Numerology, and Traditional Japanese Aesthetics, as well as the works of contemporary artists, Agnes Martin, Lee Bontecou, and Manfred Muller. Also included is a complete catalogue of works from To End In Silence.

In my research, I will examine James Joyce’s Dubliners as a collection of stories that is unified by an ongoing theme; escape or the desire to escape. In the collection, the want or need to escape serves a major purpose throughout the characters and their lives. This thesis explores five stories that share this theme in particular: “The Sisters,” “Eveline,” “Araby,” “An Encounter,” and “The Dead.” Each story will be discussed in the context of how each story progresses from a want to an actual escape. In addition, the thesis also considers how these stories exhibit a progression towards isolation and paralysis in the living until the final story, “The Dead.” “The Dead” can be interpreted as a positive, hopeful ending to the bleak collection, but I will argue its ending is anything but optimistic along with its crucial role as a conclusion to Dubliners.

Many children with ASD partake in escape maintain behaviors for numerous reasons. Children with autism might have difficulty attending to long tasks, can get overwhelmed with novel activities, and the challenging behaviors may heighten when too many demands are placed on them. As a result, teachers, parents and interventionists may start to witness children’s challenging behaviors increase. Many of the challenging behaviors are thought to have an escape function from the long or difficult task at hand. This paper will find and address various strategies that may be applied to decrease escape maintained behaviors in children with ASD. The aim for this review study is to describe and evaluate research findings of antecedent-based strategies and evidence-based practices used to assist in decreasing escape maintained behaviors in children with ASD. This study is to suggest educational implications for interventionists and parents. Keywords: autism, escape, escape maintained behaviors, decrease challenging behaviors, alternative behaviors, antecedent based intervention, evidence based practices

Previous research on the assessment of pediatric feeding disorders has shown that negative reinforcement (escape) plays a major role in the maintenance of food refusal and that escape extinction (EE) may be necessary in the treatment of severe food refusal. The current study examined the influence of two potential motivating operations (MOs) on escape from bite presentations for 3 children with severe food refusal: (a) noncontingent positive reinforcement (NCR) and (b) food satiation (as a result of enteral nutritional support). The abolishing effects of NCR on negative reinforcement for refusal behaviors were demonstrated in Experiment 1 when escape was allowed for food refusal and in Experiment 2 during demand fading across a hierarchy of bite placements. The interactive effects of NCR and food satiation on negative reinforcement for escaping bite presentations (within a hierarchy of bite placements) were demonstrated in Experiment 3. NCR abolished escape as a reinforcer and food satiation established escape as a reinforcer. The combined MO effects of NCR and food deprivation resulted in decreased refusal behaviors and increased acceptance across all bite placements in Experiment 3 even though escape was allowed. Results extend the existing bodies of literature on the competition between positive and negative reinforcement and the effects of specific biological conditions on escape-maintained behavior. Implications for treatment and future research are discussed.

Cosmic reionization was most likely initiated by star forming dwarf galaxies. Little is known about the physical mechanisms allowing ionizing Lyman continuum (LyC) photons to escape from galaxies, but to learn more we can study local galaxies in detail. Until now, there has however only been one claim of a local LyC leaking galaxy, the disputed case of Haro 11. The lack of local detections could in part be a combined effect of technical problems and search strategies. Re-examining the FUSE (Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer) data of Haro 11 led us to develop a new model for the spectral reduction, by which we could confirm an escape fraction of LyC photons (fesc) of 3.3±0.7%. In addition, eight more galaxies from the FUSE archive were examined leading to a new detection, Tol 1247-232, with fesc = 2.4±0.5%. The low value derived from the stacked spectrum of the whole sample, fesc = 1.4±0.4%, could be an indication of an evolving fesc scenario and/or an effect of probing the wrong targets. Local LyC candidates are normally selected among starburst galaxies with high equivalent widths in Hα. This can however give preference to ionization bounded H II regions with low escape fractions. In an attempt to overcome this selection bias, we developed a novel method to select LyC leaking galaxies. The selection is based on a blue continuum and weak emission lines, properties that in combination can be explained only by models with very high fesc. Using these criteria, we selected a sample of leaking candidates at z≈0.03 to be observed in Hα and Johnson B filters. The sample galaxies have properties that strongly favour leakage. Among these are clear signs of mergers and interaction with neighbouring galaxies, off-centre major star forming regions and spectral properties indicating previous starburst activity. The Lyman-alpha (Lyα) line is often used as a tracer for the distant galaxies believed to have reionized the universe. Here, for the first time local face-on spiral galaxies are studied in Lyα imaging. All three galaxies are emitting Lyα photons in the polar direction far out in the spiral arms, in clear contrast to previously studied irregular galaxies where strong emission is seen from the nuclei. If the small sample studied here is representative, it will have implications for detecting Lyα galaxies at high redshifts as it would depend strongly on the viewing angle.

Voyage är en fiktiv nyskapad resetidning vars formgivning har tagits fram efter en visuell studie av layouten hos Sveriges resetidningar Vagabond, Allt om Resor, Res och Escape 360°. Layoutens syfte är att visa hur man kan sticka ut och bryta mot den vanliga trenden för att fånga nya läsare inom detta tidningssegment. Den nytänkande layouten ska attrahera de mer aktiva och äventyrliga resenärerna.De existerande resetidningarna är alla uppbyggda på ett strukturerat vis, vissa rörigare än andra. Med den nya tidningen Voyage valdes att skapa en layout som medvetet är tänkt att vara rörig, fast med en harmoniserande rörighet. Under rörigheten finns ändå en underliggande struktur som håller uppslagen samman. De andra tidningarna skapar en rörighet genom varierande layout av bilder och text. Voyage skapar rörighet genom dekorativa element.

There is a contradiction between not wanting to be alone, craving for fellowship, but still not wanting to socialize with just anybody. The purpose with this paper is to inquire into individuals experiences of loneliness and of fellowship, as well as the tension between individual/ and social needs. The empirical material consists of five semistrucured interviews with a mix of individuals with one common factor; they were all frequently visited the meeting/place Nyfiket in Helsingborg during the summer 2011. The result were interpreted on the basis of E.Goffmans theory concerning the inevitable role-playing in everyday life, E.Fromms discussion about individuals ongoing espace towards- or away from things in life. But also on the basis of Robert S. Weiss theory about provisions of different social relationships, and T. J.Scheff argumentation concerning the balance between closeness and distance when it comes to social bonds. This study showed that each one had or did experience loneliness. Although it also shows that the experience of loneliness as well as fellowship is divided. Loneliness is divided into voluntarily and satisfying or involontarily and awful. It also came to my understandning that intercourse provides with goodness but also comes with strenuous requirements as roleexpectations. The individuals though shared a wish for possibilities to socialize without requirements. / Det förekommer en motsägelse beträffande att inte vilja vara ensam, med en längtan efter gemenskap, men samtidigt inte vilja umgås med vem som helst. Syftet med denna studie är att kvalitativt undersöka individers upplevelse av ensamhet och gemenskap samt spänningen mellan individuella- och social behov. Materialet består av fem genomförda semistrukturerade intervjuer med ett blandat urval individer med en gemensam faktor; de var alla återkommande besökare på mötesplatsen Nyfiket i Helsingborg under sommaren 2011. Intervjueresultatet tolkades utifrån E.Goffmans rollbegrepp, E.Fromms tankar om indidivdens flykt till- eller flykt från något. Samt utifrån Robert S. Weiss teori om sex förnödenheter av social tillförsel och T.J.Scheffs resonemang kring balansen mellan närhet och distans vilka fordras för individens fulla3välbefinnande.Studien visar att var och en har upplevt- eller upplever en känsla ensamhet. Dock visar det sig att ensamhetens- såväl som gemenskapens påverkan är tvåsidig. Ensamhet som delas upp i två kategorier av informanterna kan vara ofrivillig och avskyvärd alternativt tillfredställande då den är självvald. Gemenskap har likaså antingen en positiv inverkan eller en negativ, om det senare alternativet innebär påfrestande rollförväntningar. En önskan om utökad gemenskap samt möjligheter till kravlöst umgänge uttrycks hos samtliga.