Heritage preservation and tourism development are inevitably intertwined at heritage sites. The relationships between tourism use and the preservation of heritage resources are characterized by both symbioses and tension (Nuryanti, 1999; Tunbridge, 2007). Achieving a balance between tourism and preservation is particularly complicated at World Heritage Sites with the involvement of international, national and local stakeholders with different interests and priorities. It is important to understand how international initiatives interact with local priorities at World Heritage Sites and how the international designation impacts heritage preservation, tourism development and community well-being at the local level. There is also an increasing concern to address this issue in a developing country context, such as China. This study addresses the global-local relationship in tourism and preservation at World Heritage Sites in China through comparative case studies of Badaling and Mutianyu Great Wall World Heritage Sites in Beijing. Relationships between World Heritage and tourism, stakeholder collaboration and local participation were explored to achieve the research goal of enhancing understanding of global-local relationships affecting use and preservation at World Heritage Sites. Questionnaire surveys, key informant interviews, and field observation were conducted from September to December 2008 through field studies at Badaling and Mutianyu Great Wall sites, complemented by the collection of secondary data, primarily site plans and tourism statistics. The inevitability of tourism at heritage sites, especially World Heritage Sites, is demonstrated. Costs and benefits accruing to different stakeholders, especially those in adjacent communities, are studied in the context of the hierarchical and multi-departmental management structure in China. No direct control from an international organization, such as the United Nations through the World Heritage Convention, was identified at either site. The effectiveness of local participation and the distribution of benefits are evaluated using a two-dimensional framework. The inevitable involvement of multiple stakeholders with diverse and sometimes contradictory interests is demonstrated and the desirability of involving them in World Heritage planning and management are confirmed. In particular, this study reveals the ability and potential of tourism to be used to address both global priorities in heritage preservation and local interests in improving community well-being at World Heritage Sites. This research contributes to practice and to conceptual and empirical understanding of World Heritage planning and management and, hopefully, will inspire more research on World Heritage preservation and tourism development, particularly in developing countries like China.

Heritage preservation and tourism development are inevitably intertwined at heritage sites. The relationships between tourism use and the preservation of heritage resources are characterized by both symbioses and tension (Nuryanti, 1999; Tunbridge, 2007). Achieving a balance between tourism and preservation is particularly complicated at World Heritage Sites with the involvement of international, national and local stakeholders with different interests and priorities. It is important to understand how international initiatives interact with local priorities at World Heritage Sites and how the international designation impacts heritage preservation, tourism development and community well-being at the local level. There is also an increasing concern to address this issue in a developing country context, such as China. This study addresses the global-local relationship in tourism and preservation at World Heritage Sites in China through comparative case studies of Badaling and Mutianyu Great Wall World Heritage Sites in Beijing. Relationships between World Heritage and tourism, stakeholder collaboration and local participation were explored to achieve the research goal of enhancing understanding of global-local relationships affecting use and preservation at World Heritage Sites. Questionnaire surveys, key informant interviews, and field observation were conducted from September to December 2008 through field studies at Badaling and Mutianyu Great Wall sites, complemented by the collection of secondary data, primarily site plans and tourism statistics. The inevitability of tourism at heritage sites, especially World Heritage Sites, is demonstrated. Costs and benefits accruing to different stakeholders, especially those in adjacent communities, are studied in the context of the hierarchical and multi-departmental management structure in China. No direct control from an international organization, such as the United Nations through the World Heritage Convention, was identified at either site. The effectiveness of local participation and the distribution of benefits are evaluated using a two-dimensional framework. The inevitable involvement of multiple stakeholders with diverse and sometimes contradictory interests is demonstrated and the desirability of involving them in World Heritage planning and management are confirmed. In particular, this study reveals the ability and potential of tourism to be used to address both global priorities in heritage preservation and local interests in improving community well-being at World Heritage Sites. This research contributes to practice and to conceptual and empirical understanding of World Heritage planning and management and, hopefully, will inspire more research on World Heritage preservation and tourism development, particularly in developing countries like China.

There has been extensive research investigating the differences between global and local feature discrimination. The role that global and local feature discrimination has in sustained attention tasks however has been relatively neglected. In the current research, participants were required to perform a sustained attention task requiring them to engage in either global or local shape stimuli discrimination. Reaction times to local feature discrimination revealed a quadratic trend with time-on-task, with performance levels showing a decline before returning to initial levels towards the end of the task. This trend was not found in the global shape discrimination condition. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was employed to assess hemispheric cerebral oxygenation during the tasks. It was found in both conditions that there was greater oxygenation in the right hemisphere compared to the left hemisphere. It was also found that right hemisphere oxygenation increased with time-on-task. Left hemisphere oxygenation decreased during the global task, while it increased during the local task with time on task. Total cerebral oxygenation, collapsed over both hemispheres, increased more over time in the local discrimination task than the global discrimination task. The performance data and the fNIRS results suggest an increased utilization of bilateral cognitive resources with time-on-task in the local discrimination condition, but not in the global discrimination condition. Results and implications are discussed.

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Este trabalho é desenvolvido sob uma perspectiva da Análise do Discurso, sobretudo os trabalhos de Foucault e Maingueneau, e tem uma espécie de etnografia virtual (THOMSEN et al., 1998) como metodologia para coleta do material que compõe o corpus. Essa etnografia acontece em um curso online voltado para formação de professores de inglês. O curso reúne cinco participantes alunos, um tutor, e uma série de observadores. É realizado um trabalho de campo por todo o ambiente do curso online (chats, emails, portfólios) para observação não-participativa e reflexiva e para coleta de dados a partir dos quais é feito o recorte do corpus que é analisado discursivamente. Tirando proveito de sua característica interdisciplinar, junto a alguns dos principais conceitos da Análise do Discurso trabalhamos alguns outros, entre os quais destacamos a noção de efeitos de presença. Construímos a hipótese de que diferentes modos de presença podem indicar diferentes mecanismos disciplinares, nos quais a visibilidade dos corpos presentes constitui um fator estratégico de exercício e resistência. Nesse sentido, a reflexão acerca dos efeitos de presença é muito produtiva na constituição do dispositivo de análise usado para compreender as relações que se estabelecem entre os sujeitos, bem como o exercício do poder disciplinar em um ambiente virtual como o que está em análise neste trabalho. Para a análise discursiva da presente dissertação, os efeitos de presença estão sempre ligados a um acontecimento discursivo aqui e agora, tornando mais ou menos visíveis os sujeitos que exercem o poder e aqueles sobre os quais ele é exercido. Em outras palavras, em alguma medida, compreender os efeitos de presença no evento discursivo é também compreender certos domínios das relações de poder e das relações entre sujeitos que nem sempre se mostram tão evidente aos olhos. Levar em conta que há um nível de presença contingente dos 6 sujeitos e do poder que por vezes escapam à captura do que é possível ver ou tocar pode contribuir para a análise discursiva das relações de poder no ciberespaço. Tal análise se orienta pela tentativa de responder quais são as estratégias de exercício de poder disciplinar no curso online voltado para formação de professores de inglês e como se constituem os sujeitos no referido ambiente virtual. Tais perguntas, por sua vez, convergem para o objetivo de compreender a articulação entre os efeitos de presença, a constituição de subjetividades e as relações de poder que se estabelecem no curso online para professores de inglês. Sob a perspectiva teórica adotada, refletimos sobre como essas relações se estabelecem ou são materializadas no recorte que é feito aqui, focalizando o caso particular do chat e das interações via email, além da própria arquitetura virtual do curso online. / This dissertation is developed from the perspective of Discourse Analysis, namely the work of Foucault and Maingueneau, and has a type of virtual ethnography (THOMSEN et al., 1998) as methodology to collect the material that constituted the corpus. This ethnographic work comes to be in an online course that was meant to be a pre-service course or the initial part of the continuing education of teacher of English. The course gathers several participants, five of which are students, one is a tutor, and there are others who play the role of observers. However, not all interactions were observed, only the ones involving the tutor and the students. There is field work throughout the online course environment (chatroom, email boxes, portfolios) seeking for reflective and non-participatory observation for data collection, from which we constitute the corpus. In an attempt to make good use of the interdisciplinary feature of discourse analysis, we bring other references to work with some of its key concepts. Among these other references, the notion of presence effects should be highlighted. We elaborated the hypothesis that different modes of presence can indicate different disciplinary mechanisms, in which the visibility of bodies is a strategic factor for the exercise of power and resistance. In this sense, the debate about the presence effects is very productive for the constitution of the analysis apparatus that is used to understand the power relationships established between subjects as well as the exercises of disciplinary power in a virtual environment such as the one under consideration in this work. As far as this dissertation is concerned, the presence effects are always implied in a discursive event (attached to here and now), making subjects who exercise power and those over whom it is exercised more or less visible. In other words, to some extent, understanding the presence effects in a given discursive 8 event also means to understand certain grounds of power relations and relations between subjects. This dissertation attempts to answer two questions mainly. Firstly, what are the strategies for the exercise of disciplinary power in the online course that was observed? Secondly, how are subjects constituted in such virtual environment? We articulate these questions together so they can converge to the goal of understanding the relationship between the effects of presence, the formation of subjectivities and the power relations that are established in the online course for teachers of English. From the theoretical perspective adopted here, we reflect on how these relationships are established or how they are materialized in the online course, focusing on its very architecture, and on the particular cases of interactions via chat and email.

Este trabalho é desenvolvido sob uma perspectiva da Análise do Discurso, sobretudo os trabalhos de Foucault e Maingueneau, e tem uma espécie de etnografia virtual (THOMSEN et al., 1998) como metodologia para coleta do material que compõe o corpus. Essa etnografia acontece em um curso online voltado para formação de professores de inglês. O curso reúne cinco participantes alunos, um tutor, e uma série de observadores. É realizado um trabalho de campo por todo o ambiente do curso online (chats, emails, portfólios) para observação não-participativa e reflexiva e para coleta de dados a partir dos quais é feito o recorte do corpus que é analisado discursivamente. Tirando proveito de sua característica interdisciplinar, junto a alguns dos principais conceitos da Análise do Discurso trabalhamos alguns outros, entre os quais destacamos a noção de efeitos de presença. Construímos a hipótese de que diferentes modos de presença podem indicar diferentes mecanismos disciplinares, nos quais a visibilidade dos corpos presentes constitui um fator estratégico de exercício e resistência. Nesse sentido, a reflexão acerca dos efeitos de presença é muito produtiva na constituição do dispositivo de análise usado para compreender as relações que se estabelecem entre os sujeitos, bem como o exercício do poder disciplinar em um ambiente virtual como o que está em análise neste trabalho. Para a análise discursiva da presente dissertação, os efeitos de presença estão sempre ligados a um acontecimento discursivo aqui e agora, tornando mais ou menos visíveis os sujeitos que exercem o poder e aqueles sobre os quais ele é exercido. Em outras palavras, em alguma medida, compreender os efeitos de presença no evento discursivo é também compreender certos domínios das relações de poder e das relações entre sujeitos que nem sempre se mostram tão evidente aos olhos. Levar em conta que há um nível de presença contingente dos 6 sujeitos e do poder que por vezes escapam à captura do que é possível ver ou tocar pode contribuir para a análise discursiva das relações de poder no ciberespaço. Tal análise se orienta pela tentativa de responder quais são as estratégias de exercício de poder disciplinar no curso online voltado para formação de professores de inglês e como se constituem os sujeitos no referido ambiente virtual. Tais perguntas, por sua vez, convergem para o objetivo de compreender a articulação entre os efeitos de presença, a constituição de subjetividades e as relações de poder que se estabelecem no curso online para professores de inglês. Sob a perspectiva teórica adotada, refletimos sobre como essas relações se estabelecem ou são materializadas no recorte que é feito aqui, focalizando o caso particular do chat e das interações via email, além da própria arquitetura virtual do curso online. / This dissertation is developed from the perspective of Discourse Analysis, namely the work of Foucault and Maingueneau, and has a type of virtual ethnography (THOMSEN et al., 1998) as methodology to collect the material that constituted the corpus. This ethnographic work comes to be in an online course that was meant to be a pre-service course or the initial part of the continuing education of teacher of English. The course gathers several participants, five of which are students, one is a tutor, and there are others who play the role of observers. However, not all interactions were observed, only the ones involving the tutor and the students. There is field work throughout the online course environment (chatroom, email boxes, portfolios) seeking for reflective and non-participatory observation for data collection, from which we constitute the corpus. In an attempt to make good use of the interdisciplinary feature of discourse analysis, we bring other references to work with some of its key concepts. Among these other references, the notion of presence effects should be highlighted. We elaborated the hypothesis that different modes of presence can indicate different disciplinary mechanisms, in which the visibility of bodies is a strategic factor for the exercise of power and resistance. In this sense, the debate about the presence effects is very productive for the constitution of the analysis apparatus that is used to understand the power relationships established between subjects as well as the exercises of disciplinary power in a virtual environment such as the one under consideration in this work. As far as this dissertation is concerned, the presence effects are always implied in a discursive event (attached to here and now), making subjects who exercise power and those over whom it is exercised more or less visible. In other words, to some extent, understanding the presence effects in a given discursive 8 event also means to understand certain grounds of power relations and relations between subjects. This dissertation attempts to answer two questions mainly. Firstly, what are the strategies for the exercise of disciplinary power in the online course that was observed? Secondly, how are subjects constituted in such virtual environment? We articulate these questions together so they can converge to the goal of understanding the relationship between the effects of presence, the formation of subjectivities and the power relations that are established in the online course for teachers of English. From the theoretical perspective adopted here, we reflect on how these relationships are established or how they are materialized in the online course, focusing on its very architecture, and on the particular cases of interactions via chat and email.

Cette thèse vise à proposer des outils innovants pour le calcul de structures aéronautiques évoluant à haute température. En effet, les régimes de fonctionnement des moteurs actuels conduisent à des évolutions élasto-viscoplastiques généralisées dans les pièces métalliques et l’utilisation de modèles simplifiés (élastiques) n’est plus totalement satisfaisante en terme de précision, même en phase de préconception. De même, la géométrie complexe permettant le refroidissement continu des pièces (micro-perforations) doit être prise en compte de manière exacte. Les techniques de calcul standard pour ce genre de problème conduiraient à des simulations lentes et peu flexibles (la moindre modification entraînant une remise en œuvre complète de la chaîne de calcul). Plus précisément, cette thèse étend les méthodes de type global/local non-intrusives au cas de la viscoplasticité généralisée en utilisant deux échelles de temps et d'espace, chacune adaptée aux phénomènes locaux et globaux à capturer. La méthode est ensuite étendue au calcul de nombreux cycles complexes de chargement, par des techniques de saut de cycles. Le schéma de couplage en temps permet alors une adaptation locale du pas de temps par sous-domaine. Des techniques d’accélération de convergence sont proposées, à l’échelle d’un incrément puis à celle de la succession de cycles (sauts de cycles). Ces développements permettent d’obtenir rapidement et précisément une estimation du cycle limite qui alimente un modèle de durée de vie. Le couplage non-intrusif est réalisé dans un script de programmation pilotant un code commercial (dans notre cas le langage Python et Abaqus/Standard). La méthode a été appliquée sur des plateformes de calculs industrielles, en réutilisant directement des maillages et les mises en données issues de modèles intervenant plus tôt dans la chaîne de calcul. Un cas métier, issu d’un bureau d’études de Safran Aircraft Engines, a pu être traité. / This thesis consists in developing innovating tools destined to the simulation of aeronautical structures evolving at high temperature. Indeed, working rates of current engines lead to an elasto-viscoplastic evolution generalized in metallic parts and the use of simplified models (linear elastic) are no longer totally satisfying in term of accuracy, even in initial design process. Likewise, the complex geometry allowing the continuous cool down process of parts (micro-perforations) has to be exactly taken into account. The standard computation techniques dedicated to this kind of models would lead to slow simulations with a lack of flexibility (the slightest modifications leading to restart the whole design process of the computation chain).More precisely, this thesis extends the noninvasive global/local methods to the framework of viscoplasticity generalized to the whole structure, using two scales in time and space, each one adapted to global and local phenomena to capture. The method is then extended to the computation of high number of complex load cycles, by skipped cycles techniques. The time coupling scheme lets then a local adaptation of time steps per subdomain. Convergence acceleration techniques are also set up, first for one time step and then through several load cycles (skipped cycles). These developments conduct to obtain quickly an evaluation of the limit cycle providing data to a lifetime expectancy model.The noninvasive coupling is realized in a programming language script managing the commercial software (respectively in our case Python and Abaqus/Standard). The method has been applied on industrial computational platforms, by reusing directly meshes and data from previous engineering tasks appearing earlier in the computational chain. A genuine test case from a Safran Aircraft Engines design office, was performed successfully.

In 2011, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) was thrust into the Western media spotlight through the murder of LGBTIQ activist, David Kato Kasule, and the now-infamous “Kill the Gays Bill.” During the last six years, SMUG and its members have continued to fight oppressive Ugandan governmental systems and conservative leaders that have been instigated by U.S. evangelical fundamentalists, most notably Scott Lively. And while SMUG and its members have fallen out of the Western media spotlight since 2012, SMUG continues its social justice activism with and for LGBTIQ Ugandans on the ground, while also building transnational coalitions with other LGBTIQ organizations both within and beyond the borders of Uganda. In this dissertation, I examine the ways in which SMUG utilizes its website (sexualminoritiesuganda.com) as a site for transnational and translocal coalition-building for the sake of social justice activism. To understand the ways in which SMUG is engaging in LGBTIQ activism with nuance, I build a conceptual framework for my analysis through five constructs of critical intercultural communication: critical cosmopolitanism, transnational activism, the global-local dialectic, power, and identity. Critical cosmopolitanism, as conceptualized in Communication Studies by Miriam Sobré-Denton and Nilanjana Bardhan (2013), “is a world- and Other-oriented practice of engaging in deliberate, dialogic, critical, non-coercive and ethical communication. Through the play of context-specific dialectics, cosmopolitan communication works with and through cultural differences and historical and emerging power inequalities to achieve ongoing understanding, intercultural growth, mutuality, collaboration and social and global justice goals through critical self-transformation” (p. 50, emphasis in original). Through this definition, I also work with critical cosmopolitanism as conceptualized by Walter Mignolo (2000, 2010, 2012) and Gerard Delanty (2006, 2009). For Mignolo (2000), critical cosmopolitanism “comprises projects located in the exteriority and issuing forth from the colonial difference” (p. 724) as “an argument for globalization from below” (p. 745) that works to dislodge West-centric modes of thinking. Delanty (2006) extends this definition, as critical cosmopolitanism “seeks to discern or make sense of social transformation by identifying new or emergent social realities” (p. 25). In this, critical cosmopolitanism is a project that asks us to consider the ways in which “diversality,” or “diversity as a universal project” (Mignolo, 2000, p. 743), can dislodge Western modernity, colonialism, imperialism, and globalization from above. To understand the ways in which SMUG is engaging in a critical cosmopolitan vision through its website, I examine for clues of transnational activism as a way of performing and engaging in critical cosmopolitanism through Bardhan (2011), Burgmann (2013), and Gledhill (2010). To complicate our understanding of transnational activism, I turn to the global-local dialectic, as conceptualized by Stuart Hall (1997). The global-local dialectic helps me to observe the ways in which SMUG is dislodging all-encompassing narratives that center globalization as a top-down-only mechanism that ceases all local particularities of culture from existing. Kraidy (1999, 2005) also helps me to investigate the ways in which the global and the local are always already present and in a dialectical tension in our postmodern and postcolonial world. To understand more about how these tensions function, I investigate the construct of power through sociologist Jonathan Hearn’s (2012), Theorizing Power. In it, he seeks to shift theorizing of power away from questions regarding what “we mean by power” to questions of “what do we have to bear in mind when studying power?” (p. 4). Through theorizing five oppositions associated with power—“(1) physical versus social power, (2) power ‘to’ versus power ‘over’, (3) asymmetrical versus balanced power, (4) power as structures versus agents, and (5) actual versus potential power” (p. 4)—Hearn helps me to complicate the ways in which power is observed and discussed in relation to SMUG, LGBTIQ Ugandans, Ugandan leadership, U.S. evangelism, and Western political involvement. Finally, I offer a conceptual framework for identity in critical intercultural communication research, including questions on how we theorize difference differently through John T. Warren’s (2008), “Performing Difference,” as well as offering a framework to understand cosmopolitan identity as constructed by Sobré-Denton and Bardhan (2013) and a framing for African queer sexualities through the works of Ugandan feminist scholars, Sylvia Tamale (2003) and Stella Nyanzi (2013). To address my research questions, I engaged in an ideological criticism (Foss, 2003, Hart & Daughton, 2005, Wander, 1983) of SMUG’s website to more fully understand the ideologies driving SMUG’s rhetorical choices. I chose to use ideological criticism as a methodological framework as it allowed me, the critic, to construct a critical framework with which to analyze a text. Ideological criticism also offered me the opportunity to bring critical rhetorical methods into conversation with critical intercultural communication constructs. Through this conceptual and methodological framework, I analyzed 110 screen shots of their website and all 54 articles included as content on their page over the course of 13 months. Through this process, I argue that SMUG is showing signs of a critical cosmopolitan vision in their website through their participation in peripheral partnerships and activism that speaks back to oppressive systems in ways that highlight globalization-from-below, as conceptualized by Walter Mignolo (2000, 2010, 2012). I also trouble the ways in which SMUG represents LGBTIQ Ugandans on the ground as I call for more intersectional representation that speaks more broadly to LGBTIQ Ugandan experiences in the everyday than SMUG is currently offering visitors. This dissertation research also highlights the difficulties of reading critical cosmopolitanism in one online mediated space, and that centering people and the relationships among people is critical when engaging in critical cosmopolitan research. I end this project with a call to critical intercultural communication scholars to offer more nuance around the representations of LGBTIQ people around the world that takes us beyond sensationalized subjects while also not erasing the devastating impacts of LGBTIQ hatred locally and globally.

How does the focus of attention influence the encoding of information? Research has shown that size and allocation of the attentional window has an influence on what information is attended to or missed. The size-scale of features also effects processing of visual information. Previous research involving hierarchical stimuli suggests precedence for global features. In the present experiment, I investigated the influence of attentional window size on accuracy of encoding hierarchical stimuli at the global and local level. Here I introduce a new method for manipulating the size of the attentional window and for collecting unconstrained responses. At the start of each trial, observers tracked a dashed-line rectangular box, which either broadened or narrowed in size after onset. This sequence was immediately followed by a brief presentation of two hierarchical letters presented simultaneously on the left and right sides of the screen. The box preceding the hierarchical letters either broadened to a size large enough to include both letters at the global level, or narrowed to a size small enough to include a maximum of two letters at the local level at either side of the screen. Observers reported all letters they were able to identify. Results from two experiments indicate an overall precedence of global letters. However, a narrow attentional window reduced global precedence, as would be expected with more focused attention. The narrow windows also produced more same-side identifications of both global and local letters. The second experiment also showed that reducing the processing time decreased the global advantage.

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