Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College Graduate School, Wheaton, IL, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 41).

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Agrárias. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência dos Alimentos. / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-22T22:58:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 238062.pdf: 587971 bytes, checksum: d5ba5f29cc476d9839633d7d62bbe4d1 (MD5) / O cultivo da palmeira-real (Archontophoenix alexandrae) é uma nova alternativa na produção de palmito. O expressivo incremento nos últimos anos da produção de palmeira-real, bem como, a industrialização do palmito em conserva contribuiu para a geração de uma grande quantidade de resíduos, compostos por material fibroso das folhas e das bainhas foliares. Apesar deste aumento da produção não existe informação disponível até o momento sobre o aproveitamento da totalidade desses resíduos para a alimentação humana. O aproveitamento dos subprodutos da agroindústria diminui os custos da produção, aumenta o aproveitamento total do alimento e reduz o impacto que esses subprodutos podem causar ao serem descartados no ambiente. O presente trabalho teve, portanto, como foco central os resíduos gerados na produção de palmito a partir da palmeira-real. Os resíduos foram transformados em farinhas e posteriormente avaliados quanto às características químicas, toxicológicas e microbiológicas, a fim de investigar o potencial de utilização na indústria de alimentos e verificar a possibilidade de aplicação no desenvolvimento de biscoitos ricos em fibras, aceitáveis pelo consumidor. Os resultados mostraram que as farinhas obtidas a partir dos resíduos da palmeira-real possuem elevado teor de fibras alimentares, quantidades razoáveis de proteínas e minerais, pequenas quantidades de lipídios e de compostos antinutricionais (fitatos e taninos). Nenhum efeito tóxico foi observado, indicando a segurança destes resíduos para a suplementação na alimentação humana. Farinha de trigo com substituição de 10 a 25 % de farinhas de resíduos da palmeira-real produziram biscoitos aceitáveis em relação à aceitabilidade global e intenção de compra com o aumento de fibras alimentares totais. Concluiu-se que a farinha de resíduos da palmeira-real pode ser utilizada como um suplemento de fibras na dieta humana e como ingrediente na formulação de biscoitos fibrosos.

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Departamento de História, 2008. / Submitted by Jaqueline Oliveira (jaqueoliveiram@gmail.com) on 2008-11-21T12:05:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE_2008_FabioSantiagoSantaCruz.pdf: 1963592 bytes, checksum: d06a4eac6a885415393262c89cda63f2 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Georgia Fernandes(georgia@bce.unb.br) on 2009-02-06T10:51:05Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE_2008_FabioSantiagoSantaCruz.pdf: 1963592 bytes, checksum: d06a4eac6a885415393262c89cda63f2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2009-02-06T10:51:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE_2008_FabioSantiagoSantaCruz.pdf: 1963592 bytes, checksum: d06a4eac6a885415393262c89cda63f2 (MD5) / Após passar pelas turbulências políticas do processo de independência e do Primeiro Reinado, o Império do Brasil parecia muito abalado, em sua recente existência, por uma acentuada instabilidade. Entre os quais tinham maior influência sobre os assuntos políticos imperiais, havia impressão de que este era um dos mais graves problemas brasileiros. Aumentaram, então, as cogitações relativas a uma ampla conciliação que amainasse as divergências políticas e propiciasse condições para a estabilização e, conseqüentemente, a consolidação do novo país sul-americano. O Parlamento imperial foi um dos ambientes políticos em que esta proposta de ampla conciliação política foi debatida com mais interesse. As idéias conciliatórias influenciaram o debate político-parlamentar imperial ininterruptamente nas décadas de 1830, 1840 e 1850. A oposição a estas idéias também foi aguda e chegou a predominar no período do chamado Regresso (1837-1844), embora tenha definhado no início da segunda metade do século XIX. Em 1855, finalmente, a aprovação da chamada lei dos círculos consagrou o êxito daqueles que haviam se empenhado para erigir um grande consenso conciliatório entre o imperador, o ministério e larga porção dos parlamentares, ou seja, os mais poderosos segmentos políticos do Império do Brasil. _________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / Brazil's Empire seemed much shocked and unstable in its recent existence, after it passed by politic turbulences in the Independence's process and in the First Reign. There were a lot of politic empire subjects but the unstable of Brazil in this time was the most serious brazilian problems. Then, they increased the cogitations about a wide conciliation that appease the politic divergences and propitiate conditions for the estabilization and, as a result, the consolidation of the new south-American country. The Empire parliament was one of the politic ambients in that this proposal of a wide politic conciliation, was debated with more interest. The conciliation ideas influenced the Empire politic-parliament to debate uninterruptly in the decades of 1830, 1840 and 1850. The opposition of this ideas was sharpened and it arrived to predominate in the period calling Regress (1837-1844), though they had weakened at the start of the second half of century XIX. In 1855, finally, the approval of the circle's law devoted the exist of those persons who had engaged to set up a big conciliar accord between emperor, ministry and a large portion of the legislative body, in other words, the most important politic people of Brazil's Empire.

Orientador: Marisa Saenz Leme / Banca: Renato Pinto Venâncio / Banca: Ida Lewkowicz / Resumo: O clientelismo compunha a trama de ligação da política no Brasil do século XIX e sustentava potencialmente todo o ato político. O sucesso eleitoral dependia, sobretudo, de seu uso competente. Meu objetivo nesta pesquisa visa investigar o modo específico como a concessão de proteção, cargos públicos e outros favores, em troca de todo um processo que manipulava as eleições a custo de lealdade política e pessoal funcionava essencialmente para benefícios dos interesses das elites. A correspondência passiva do Barão de Camargos permite-nos examinar mais profundamente a dimensão sociológica e cultural do fenômeno clientelista em Minas Gerais durante os primeiros anos do governo de D. Pedro II, da década de 1840 até a conciliação em 1853. / Abstract: The clientelism set the political link web in 19 century in Brazil and supported potencially all political act. The electoral success depended especially of its competent use. My objective in this research aims to investigate the specific way of how the protection concession, public positions and others favors, in exchange of a whole a process that used to manipulate the election wits difficult of personal and political loyalty; worked essentially to the elite benefits. Barão de Camargos passive correspondence allow us to consider deeper the sociological and cultural extend of the clientelistic phenomenon in Minas Gerais, during the first years of D. Pedro II kingdom, between 1840 until the conciliation in 1853. / Mestre

Orientador: Paulo Mugayar Kuhl / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T21:23:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cortelazzo_PatriciaRita_M.pdf: 4243210 bytes, checksum: 00c13169af9d4353f7bb767e3ea07049 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Mestrado

The Company Man argues that corporate ways of organising communities permeated British imperial culture. My point of departure is the obsession shared between Anglo-Indian writers and imperial policymakers with the threat of unmanageable agency, the employee who will not follow orders. By taking up Giambattista Vico's claim that human subjects and human institutions condition each other reciprocally, I argue that Anglo-Indian literature is properly understood as one of a series of disciplinary apparatuses which were developed in response to that persistent logistical problem: how best to convince plenipotentiary agents to work in the interest of a mercantile employer, the East India Company. The Company Man reconsiders the way we think and write about Victorian imperial culture by taking this institutional approach. For one thing, the dominant position of the Company highlights the limitation of our continuing dependence on the nation as a critical hermeneutic. Additionally, I show how the prevalence of ideas like duty, service, and sacrifice in colonial literature is more than simply the natural output of a nation looking to sacralise everyday practice in the wake of their famous "Victorian loss of faith." Rather, I place these ideas among a structure of feeling, which I call aristocratic virtue, that was developed by imperial policymakers looking to militate against the threat of rogue agents. The subject material under consideration includes novels, short stories, poems, essays, memoirs, personal correspondence, and parliamentary speeches. These texts span a century but are clustered around four nodal points, which illustrate moments of innovation in the technologies of regulation and control. My opening chapter examines how the idea of an overseas empire first acquired virtue in the minds of the British public. The second explores how the Company grafted this virtue onto its corporate structure in its training colleges and competition exams. The third shows how Anglo-Indian literature continued to disseminate the rhetoric of self-sacrifice and noble suffering long after the Company ceded control to the Crown. The final chapter shows how this corporate culture reflects in that most canonical of imperial novels, Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901). / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

Le but principal de la thèse est l’analyse de l’apport du De regno de Synésios de Cyrène à la transmission de l’idéologie politique antique aux Ve et VIe siècles de l’époque byzantine. Il s’agit, avant tout, de définir l’idéologie politique de Synésios, dans le cadre de sa paideia alexandrine néoplatonicienne et chrétienne ; puis, de déterminer l’apport de son ouvrage à la formation de l’idéologie impériale et de la rhétorique politique du Ve siècle et de l’âge de Justinien. Afin de déterminer le rôle du De regno de Synésios dans la transmission de topoi politiques, on veut analyser les rapports entre cet ouvrage et les oeuvres les plus représentatives de la littérature politique des Ve-VIe siècles : le Panégyrique pour l’empereur Anastase de Procope de Gaza, la Scheda Regia d’Agapetus le Diacre, l’anonyme dialogue philosophique Sur la Science politique et le traité Des magistratures de l’Etat romain de Jean le Lydien. / The aim of the thesis is the analysis of the influence of Synesius’ De regno on the development of political theory during the Vth and VIth centuries. Firstly, the definition of Synesius’ political ideology in the context of his neoplatonic and christian Alexandrian paideia is taken into account. In order to understand the role played by Synesius’ De regno in the transmission of ancient political topoi, an investigation on some representative proto-byzantine works on political science (Procopius Gazaeus’ Panegyricus to the Emperor Anastasius, Agapetus’ Advice to the Emperor, the anonymus Dialogue on Political Science and John the Lydian’s On powers, or, The magistracies of the Roman state) is proposed. The conclusions try to focus on the impact of Synesius’ De regno in the evolution of proto-byzantine political theories and rhetorics during the Vth century up to Justinian’s times thanks to the individuation of quotations, allusions and literary patterns of continuity in the works previously analysed.

Poetry clubs composed of gentry women began to emerge during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The earliest female poetry clubs in this period were all kinship-based and organized within gentry families. This phenomenon shows that family was the major source for the foundation of female poetry clubs. The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of family on the formation of kinship-based female poetry clubs from a political, social, and cultural perspective and to examine these clubs within the context of geographical location, family learning and marriage relationships. This thesis treats the Mingyuan Poetry Club founded by female members of the Fang family in Tongcheng city, Anhui province as the main focus of research to illustrate the family’s influence on the formation of gentry women poetry clubs by translating and analyzing the members’ poetic works and family life. / Graduate

The thesis investigates certain themes relating to death and after-life in the poetry of the late Republican and early Imperial ages within the wider context of Roman literature and religion. The emphasis on the evidence of literature rather than on that of epigraphy and art was prompted by the_ fact that the latter are by nature more static and formalized than the former. The investigation has suggested that the Roman poets register and enlarge, as a rule, the ideas on death and after-life current in their time and thus promote a tradition which can be traced back, through the Greek classical age, to Homer and Hesiod. Although genuine Roman concepts and feelings persist, the general impression is that we have to do with a body of Hellenistic ideas. The concept of the Di Manes seems to· preserve something of the early Roman feelings of respect and fear towards the souls of the deceased, but it is found enriched with new and varied connotations. We can hardly speak of native Roman divinities of the underworld, with the exception perhaps of Orcus. Instead, the Greek figures of Dis (Pluto), Proserpina (Persephone), and Hecate, are very prominent in Roman poetry. This applies also to the demonic figures of Hades like Charon, Cerberus, the Erinyes (Furies) and others. Nor could the Latin authors ignore the imaginative topography of the Greek lower world. Vergil gives to the traditional theme of catabasis, the descent of a hero to Hades, scime Roman colouring in Aeneid 6, but on the whole the descent of Aeneas is simply the fullest example of a motif popular with Greek and Latin authors. Roman poetry also reflects most of the ancient ideas about the destiny of the human soul after death. Moreover, hero-worship and divine honours paid to mortals seem to have found a fertile soil in the traditional Roman concept of the holy ancestors (D! Parentes). The fusion of Greek and Roman elements in this area is best expressed in the works of Vergil. In sum, the investigation confirms the impression of the fluency and mobility of religious ideas in the Roman-Hellenistic world of the first century B.C. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Concerns regarding political ‘enslavement’ and imperial constraints on free speech are especially palpable in the literature that follows the emperor Domitian’s assassination in 96 C.E. Under his successors, Nerva and Trajan, authors worked to differentiate the post-Domitianic age from the prior era of metaphorical enslavement and suppressed speech. Scholars have studied some of the ways in which Neronian and Flavian authors employed literary accounts of the Saturnalia, a festival characterized by temporary license and the notional transformation of social roles, to criticize individual rulers and thematize issues of imperial control. Yet they have not fully appreciated the pervasive use of literary Saturnalia in Flavian and post-Flavian political discourse. I examine the Saturnalia as a political metaphor in five texts: Martial’s Domitianic Epigrams 5 and Nervan Epigrams 11, Pliny’s Trajanic Epistles and Panegyricus, and Dio Chrysostom’s Trajanic fourth Oration. In Epigrams 5, Martial thematizes the circumscription of Saturnalian freedom to highlight limits to his poetic expression under Domitian. Later, in his Epigrams 11, Martial’s presentation of the Nervan regime as an age of ‘Saturnalia,’ a festival whose freedoms are inherently temporary, signifies anxiety about whether post-Domitianic freedom from imperial ‘enslavement’ will be short-lived. In the Panegyricus, Pliny praises Trajan for reasserting the social hierarchies that had become troublingly eroded under the dystopic ‘Saturnalia’ of Domitian. Through Pliny’s depiction of domestic Saturnalian celebrations in Epistles 2.17, the senator proves that the perverse ‘Saturnalia’ that plagued imperial life before Trajan are no more. Finally, in Orations 4, Dio Chrysostom uses circumscribed Saturnalian freedom not only as a metaphor for the limited political authority available to Greeks, but also to valorize his own Greek wisdom as essential to Trajan’s correction of shameful ‘Saturnalian’ rule. The authors in this study, although writing from different personal and generic perspectives, depict metaphorical Saturnalia to articulate the distressing limits of freedom under imperial rule or—in the case of Pliny and Dio—to burnish the image of the anti-Saturnalian ruler Trajan. My dissertation demonstrates that literary representations of the Saturnalia occupy a far more important role in imperial Greek and Roman understandings of autocracy than has been previously appreciated.