Στην παρούσα μελέτη διερευνώνται η πρόσληψη, η επένδυση και οι πρακτικές των τσιγγάνων στην εκπαίδευση, στη δημοτική ενότητα των Σαγαιΐκων, του δήμου Δυτικής Αχαΐας. Πιο συγκεκριμένα εξετάζονται οι αντιλήψεις των τσιγγάνων για το σχολείο και τη σχολική φοίτηση και η επένδυσή τους στην εκπαίδευση μέσα από τις πρακτικές τους. Για την κατανόησή τους, τα εντάσσουμε και δίνουμε ιδιαίτερο βάρος στο ευρύτερο κοινωνικό περιβάλλον και τα πολιτισμικά στοιχεία της ομάδας των τσιγγάνων. Πέρα από τη συναφή βιβλιογραφία, η έρευνα στηρίζεται σε ομαδικές, εις βάθος συνεντεύξεις με τσιγγάνους, στον τρόπο ζωής τους και σε επιτόπια παρατήρηση. Σε ότι αφορά την ερμηνεία στηριχτήκαμε στο θεωρητικό πλαίσιο του Basil Bernstein. Από την έρευνα προέκυψε ότι οι τσιγγάνοι έχουν εργαλειακή αντίληψη για το σχολείο. Έχουν επίσης μεγάλα ποσοστά σχολικής διαρροής και αυτό το αποδίδουμε κυρίως σε εξωγενείς και δευτερευόντως σε ενδογενείς παράγοντες. / In this study we investigate the recruitment, investment and practices of Gypsy education, of the municipal unity Sagaiika of West Achaea. More specifically it is examined the perceptions of gypsies for school and schooling and their investment in education through their practices. For these to be understood, we incorporate and focus on the broader social environment and gypsies’ culture. The research builds on group interviews with Gypsies, the way of their living and at field observation. Regarding to the interpretation, we based on the theoretical framework of Basil Bernstein. The investigation revealed that the gypsies have instrumental view of the school. They also have high rates of school dropouts and this was attributed to external factors mainly and to internal secondarily.

Através dos séculos, em locais e tempos distintos, o povo Romá (comumente conhecido como cigano) foi alvo de discriminações e de visões estereotipadas: tidos como ladrões e enganadores; ou como magos com poderes sobrenaturais de prever o futuro e de conjurar maldições; ou ainda como pessoas livres e sem destino, nômades em caravanas coloridas vivendo uma vida romântica fora da civilização. Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial estima-se que mais de 250.000 Romás1 foram assassinados em campos de concentração - fato não muito conhecido ou divulgado. A Porrajmos (a Devoração, denominação do Holocausto em romanês) promovida pelo regime nazista marcou profundamente a história deste povo como um dos mais tristes e cruéis episódios de todo o histórico de ódio e perseguição sofridos pelos Romás. Os romances The Eighth Sin (1978) e Zoli (2006) lidam de diferentes maneiras com este momento específico da história, oferecendo uma outra imagem dos Romás, diferente daqueles estereótipos tão comumente encontrados na literatura mundial. Assim, a intenção desta pesquisa é investigar como os protagonistas das obras indicadas foram construídos e como a herança cultural do povo cigano é descrita e transmitida por Stefan Kanfer e Colum McCann, respectivamente, com base em canções, poemas, tradições, memórias e relatos de sobreviventes que atestam a perseguição e o genocídio do povo Romá durante a Segunda Guerra / Throughout the ages, in different places, the Roma people (commonly known as gypsies) have been object of stereotyped views, either seen as thieves and masters in the art of deception; as conjurers, working in magical and mysterious ways; or as untamed free souls, leading a romantic life as nomads in colorful caravans outside the so-called civilization. During the II World War it is estimated that over 250.000 Roma were murdered in concentration camps a fact that is rarely touched upon. The Porrajmos (the Devouring, denomination of the Holocaust in Romani) promoted by the Nazi has deeply marked the Roma history as one of the cruellest and saddest points in the history of hatred and persecution endured by this people. The novels The Eighth Sin and Zoli deal in different ways with this specific moment in world history, depicting a different image of the Roma. Therefore, it is our intention to investigate how the protagonists in both novels are constructed and how the Romani cultural heritage is portrayed and conveyed by Stefan Kanfer and Colum McCann, respectively, relying on songs, poems, traditions, memories and real life testimonies of the persecution the Roma people suffered during II World War

Através dos séculos, em locais e tempos distintos, o povo Romá (comumente conhecido como cigano) foi alvo de discriminações e de visões estereotipadas: tidos como ladrões e enganadores; ou como magos com poderes sobrenaturais de prever o futuro e de conjurar maldições; ou ainda como pessoas livres e sem destino, nômades em caravanas coloridas vivendo uma vida romântica fora da civilização. Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial estima-se que mais de 250.000 Romás1 foram assassinados em campos de concentração - fato não muito conhecido ou divulgado. A Porrajmos (a Devoração, denominação do Holocausto em romanês) promovida pelo regime nazista marcou profundamente a história deste povo como um dos mais tristes e cruéis episódios de todo o histórico de ódio e perseguição sofridos pelos Romás. Os romances The Eighth Sin (1978) e Zoli (2006) lidam de diferentes maneiras com este momento específico da história, oferecendo uma outra imagem dos Romás, diferente daqueles estereótipos tão comumente encontrados na literatura mundial. Assim, a intenção desta pesquisa é investigar como os protagonistas das obras indicadas foram construídos e como a herança cultural do povo cigano é descrita e transmitida por Stefan Kanfer e Colum McCann, respectivamente, com base em canções, poemas, tradições, memórias e relatos de sobreviventes que atestam a perseguição e o genocídio do povo Romá durante a Segunda Guerra / Throughout the ages, in different places, the Roma people (commonly known as gypsies) have been object of stereotyped views, either seen as thieves and masters in the art of deception; as conjurers, working in magical and mysterious ways; or as untamed free souls, leading a romantic life as nomads in colorful caravans outside the so-called civilization. During the II World War it is estimated that over 250.000 Roma were murdered in concentration camps a fact that is rarely touched upon. The Porrajmos (the Devouring, denomination of the Holocaust in Romani) promoted by the Nazi has deeply marked the Roma history as one of the cruellest and saddest points in the history of hatred and persecution endured by this people. The novels The Eighth Sin and Zoli deal in different ways with this specific moment in world history, depicting a different image of the Roma. Therefore, it is our intention to investigate how the protagonists in both novels are constructed and how the Romani cultural heritage is portrayed and conveyed by Stefan Kanfer and Colum McCann, respectively, relying on songs, poems, traditions, memories and real life testimonies of the persecution the Roma people suffered during II World War

The study of biological invasions is not only essential to regulate their vast potential for ecological and economical harm, they offer a unique opportunity to study adaptive evolution in the context of recent range expansions into novel environments. The North American invasion of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar L., since its introduction in 1869 to Massachusetts, has expanded westward to Minnesota, northward to Canada, and southward to North Carolina. Fluctuating range dynamics at the southern invasive edge are heavily influenced by heat exposure over their optimal (supraoptimal) during the larval stage of development. We coupled genomic sequencing with reciprocal transplant and laboratory-rearing experiments to examine the interactions of phenotypic, genetic, and environmental variation under selective supraoptimal regimes. We demonstrate that while there is no evidence to support local adaptation in the fitness-related physiological traits we measured, there are clear genomic patterns of adaptation due to differential survival in higher temperatures. Mapping of loci identified as contributing to local adaptation in a selective environment and those associated with phenotypic variation highlighted that variation in larval development time is partly driven by pleiotropic loci also affecting survival. Overall, I highlight the necessity and inferential power gained through replicating environmental conditions using both phenotypic and genome-wide analyses.

In this dissertation, I examine the evolution of the Gypsy trope in Romantic French literature at a time when nostalgia became a powerful aesthetic and political tool used by varying sides of an ideological war. Long considered a transient outsider who did not view time or privilege the past in the same way Europeans did, the Gypsy, I argue, became a useful way for France's writers to contain and tame the transience they felt interrupted nostalgia's attempt to recapture a lost past. My work specifically looks at the development of this trope within a thirty-year period that begins in 1823, just before Charles X became France's last Bourbon king, and ends just after Louis-Napoleon declared himself Emperor of France in 1852. Beginning with Quentin Durward (1823), Walter Scott's first historical novel about France, and the French novel that looked to it for inspiration, Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), I show how the Gypsy became a character that communicated a fear that France was recklessly forgetting and destroying the monuments and narratives that had long preserved its pre-revolutionary past. While these novels became models in how nostalgia could be deployed to seduce France back into a relationship with a particular past, I also look at how the Gypsy trope is transformed some fifteen years later when nostalgia for Napoleon nearly leads France into two international conflicts and eventually traps the French into what George Sand called a dangerous "bail avec le pass&eacute." In new readings of Prosper Mérimée's Carmen (1845) and George Sand's La Filleule (1853), I argue that both authors personify the dangers of recapturing the past, albeit in two very different ways. While Mérimée makes nostalgia and the Gypsy accomplices, George Sand gives France an admirable Gypsy heroine, a young woman who offers readers a way out of nostalgia's viscous circle. I conclude by arguing that nostalgia and this Romantic trope found their way back into France at the dawn of a new millennium, and the Gypsy has once again been typecast in art and politics as deviant for refusing to dwell in or on the past. / Romance Languages and Literatures

The aim of this study was to explore how the Roma’s fit into the colorblind ideology in Sweden. Roma’s have been stigmatized and victims of severe abuses by the state as they were classified as an inferior race. Sweden has replaced the word race with ethnicity however, these do not directly have the same meaning. The term race is classified as taboo in Sweden making it hard to address issues regarding racial discrimination. Through my analysis I have discovered that colorblindness is integrated in all aspects of society. Institutions have used colorblind arguments which have diminished the institutional discrimination of the Roma’s. The colorblind ideology has hindered Roma inclusion meaning that their progress has been slowed down. They are still exposed in several sectors including labor market, housing market and the educational system. This thesis contributes to more knowledge regarding the relationship between Roma’s and colorblindness in Sweden. The subject has not been addressed before and the thesis opens up a new area of study.

This thesis presents architectural-urban study using an old jail facility - a major object of the 18th century. Three variants are processed, the first two keep the shape of the old building blocks and give it a new functions with different scenarios. The third variant is more detailed. The proposal consists of the jail original shape - ie. it reveals the square-shaped building with two courtyards. There are two outbuildings demolished and into the resulting space are installed three new buildings, which complement with the existing buildings and completes public space. Two new high-rise buildings, built on the south side, acts as a new landmark and a new building in the north serves to supplement the services appropriate to the locality. Buildings and spaces are linked to the main pedestrian routes, creating a cascade of continuous space - the urban interior.

This study examined the media portrayals of Roma in the United States by taking a closer look at ―Gypsy crime‖ articles in a purposive sample of newspaper articles. These newspaper articles give details of ―confidence‖ crimes and name the alleged perpetrators as Roma or members of the ethnic minority group commonly known as Gypsies. A textual analysis was conducted of 23 articles appearing in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel from August 16, 2011 to February 8, 2013 covering fraud charges against several members of the Marks family. This primary evaluation narrowed the initial sample to nine articles that contained references to Roma, Romani, or Gypsy. Further analysis of these nine articles revealed four major categories of findings regarding the representation of the ethnic minority. The categories included: 1) the pairing of the preferred term, Roma with the pejorative term, Gypsy; 2) reinforcement of stereotypes; 3) portrayal of the ethnic group as foreign others; and 4) Roma portrayed as a threat to the dominant culture and its members. The theoretical bases for the study included Social Stigma Theory (Goffman, 1963) and Orientalism (Said, 1978) both of which offer a critical lens through which to examine the portrayals of this ethnic minority.

The effects of gypsy moth infestation on the Shenandoah National Park (SNP) black bear population and habitat were studied during 1985 - 1991 by comparing radio telemetry, population, and behavioral data from preinfestation years (1982 - 1986) and years with extensive defoliation (1987 - 1991). Gypsy moth defoliation (> 60% canopy loss) increased from 546 ha in 1986 (1 % of the study area), to 2,304 ha in 1987 (4%), 6,227 ha in 1988 (12%), and 17,736 ha in 1989 (34%). Chestnut oak and red oak habitat types received the greatest defoliation; 60% and 45% of these habitat types suffered greater than 60 % canopy loss in the North and Central Districts, respectively. Infestation resulted in a 99% reduction in acorn production in defoliated stands. Maximum daily temperatures 0.5 m above the ground in defoliated stands averaged 4.7 ± 0.3 C, 4.3 ± 0.4 C, and 2.5 ± 0.3 C warmer (P < 0.01) than in nondefoliated stands during peak defoliation, refoliation, and post-refoliation periods, respectively. Bear / Ph. D.

Data for this study were collected by the US Forest Service and the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry on nearly 600 plots in central Pennsylvania. Tree and stand characteristics recorded between 1978 and 1985 include estimates of percent defoliation on individual trees. Logistic regression using maximum likelihood estimation was employed to model individual-tree mortality of 15 species in central Pennsylvania that had been defoliated by the gypsy moth. Defoliation was estimated to the nearest ten percent for individual trees. Other variables used for prediction included stand basal area and an individual-tree relative basal area index. Success ranged from no fit for three of the species to an R value (a derivation of Akaike's information criterion) of .613 for white oak. The inclusion of defoliation in the models had a varied effect. For four of the species percent defoliation was not significant. For hickory and white oak respectively, percent defoliation raised the R value by .305 and .290 percentage points. As many as five models for each species were developed: one or two models with no defoliation measure in the model and one each for one, two or three consecutive years of defoliation measures. A beta and gamma function were used to model individual· tree basal area growth for the same 15 species. The models were fit using nonlinear least squares. Variables used include the relative basal area index, stand basal area, site index and a defoliation index that incorporated three years of individual-tree, percent defoliation. The beta and gamma functions fit equally well with values of (1 - relative mean square error) ranging from .1967 to .6290. Results for both models are presented for each species. The defoliation index was a significant variable for five of the fifteen species: white, chestnut, red, and black oak and sassafras. / Master of Science