Esta pesquisa tem como objeto ler as obras de Franz Kafka e Walter Benjamin a partir dos modos de contar o tempo na Modernidade e de sua relação específica com a interrupção. A tese tenta encontrar gestos de interrupção e repetição na estrutura temporal das histórias curtas, contidas em Contemplação e Um médico rural, da novela A metamorfose e dos romances Amerika ou o Desaparecido, O processo e O castelo de Franz Kafka, assim como na crítica de juventude, na Crítica da violência, na Origem do Drama Barroco alemão, em alguns ensaios da década de 1930, em alguns cadernos das Passagens e nas teses Sobre o conceito de história de Walter Benjamin, buscando estabelecer assim uma relação histórica mais ampla com a sensibilidade moderna do tempo e as possibilidades, interrompidas ou não, do seu contar, como tendência ampla que se lança até a contemporaneidade. Tenta-se mostrar, sobretudo, a maneira com que a interrupção surge nestas obras ao mesmo tempo como cura e sintoma da Modernidade, objetivo a ser alcançado e obstáculo ao seu cumprimento. / This research aims to read the works of Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin from the perspective of the ways of telling time in Modernity and their specific relation to interruption. The thesis attempts to find gestures of interruption and repetition in the temporal structure of Kafkas short stories, contained in \"Contemplation\" and \"A rural doctor\", the novella \"The metamorphosis\" and the novels \"Amerika or The disappeared\", \"The trial\" and \"The castle\", as well as in Benjamins youth criticism, in \"The critique of violence\", in \"The origin of German Tragic Drama\", in some essays of the 1930s, in the \"Passages\" work and in the theses \"On the concept of History\", seeking to establish a broader historical relationship with the modern sensibility of time and the possibilities, interrupted or not, of its telling, as a broad tendency that spreads to the present. The thesis tries to point, above all, the manner in which the interruption arises in these works as, at the same time, a cure and symptom of Modernity, a goal to be achieved and an obstacle to its own fulfillment.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T19:35:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 14 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Investigar o abandono de atendimento psicológico de crianças auxilia na avaliação da qualidade das terapias na clínica da infância. O trabalho com crianças torna mais complexa a situação de tratamento, onde o campo terapêutico constituir-se-á não somente do par analista-paciente, mas de uma tríade analista-paciente-pais. Pesquisar clínicas-escola cria possibilidades de aperfeiçoamento, sendo também uma forma de prevenir e enriquecer esse ambiente de formação, principalmente se possui um número alto de pacientes que não completam o tratamento. O objetivo deste estudo é examinar, entre crianças que estiveram em atendimento psicológico numa clínica-escola, variáveis que possam ter influenciado no abandono de seus processos psicoterápicos. Para realizar este estudo foram analisados protocolos de atendimentos no arquivo de uma clínica-escola, localizada na região metropolitana de Porto Alegre, para examinar os casos de atendimento de crianças de 3 a 12 anos de idade, no período de 1999 a 2006. Os protocolos contêm / To investigate psychology treatment dropout of children helps the evaluation of the quality of therapy in children´s clinic. The work with children makes the treatment situation more complex, where the therapeutic field will constitute not only of the couple patient-analyst, but of a triad analyst-patient-parents. To assess school-clinics creates possibilities of improvement, being also a form to prevent and enrich this training environment, principally if it has a large number of patients that do not complete the treatment. The objetive of this study was to examine, among children who were attending a psychology clinic, variables that might have influenced the abandonment of their psychotherapeutic processes. In order to execute the study the protocols from the archive of the school-clinic located in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre were analyzed. All children´s cases ages 3 to 12 years old from 1999- 2006 were examined. The protocols contained sociodemographic information, the case evolution, referra

Esta pesquisa tem como objeto ler as obras de Franz Kafka e Walter Benjamin a partir dos modos de contar o tempo na Modernidade e de sua relação específica com a interrupção. A tese tenta encontrar gestos de interrupção e repetição na estrutura temporal das histórias curtas, contidas em Contemplação e Um médico rural, da novela A metamorfose e dos romances Amerika ou o Desaparecido, O processo e O castelo de Franz Kafka, assim como na crítica de juventude, na Crítica da violência, na Origem do Drama Barroco alemão, em alguns ensaios da década de 1930, em alguns cadernos das Passagens e nas teses Sobre o conceito de história de Walter Benjamin, buscando estabelecer assim uma relação histórica mais ampla com a sensibilidade moderna do tempo e as possibilidades, interrompidas ou não, do seu contar, como tendência ampla que se lança até a contemporaneidade. Tenta-se mostrar, sobretudo, a maneira com que a interrupção surge nestas obras ao mesmo tempo como cura e sintoma da Modernidade, objetivo a ser alcançado e obstáculo ao seu cumprimento. / This research aims to read the works of Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin from the perspective of the ways of telling time in Modernity and their specific relation to interruption. The thesis attempts to find gestures of interruption and repetition in the temporal structure of Kafkas short stories, contained in \"Contemplation\" and \"A rural doctor\", the novella \"The metamorphosis\" and the novels \"Amerika or The disappeared\", \"The trial\" and \"The castle\", as well as in Benjamins youth criticism, in \"The critique of violence\", in \"The origin of German Tragic Drama\", in some essays of the 1930s, in the \"Passages\" work and in the theses \"On the concept of History\", seeking to establish a broader historical relationship with the modern sensibility of time and the possibilities, interrupted or not, of its telling, as a broad tendency that spreads to the present. The thesis tries to point, above all, the manner in which the interruption arises in these works as, at the same time, a cure and symptom of Modernity, a goal to be achieved and an obstacle to its own fulfillment.

O desenvolvimento tecnológico contemporâneo permite a detecção precoce de malformações fetais, tais como a anencefalia, que inviabilizam a sobrevivência do bebê. Tal constatação implica imediata revelação diagnóstica aos pais, que deverão decidir pela continuidade ou interrupção da gravidez. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo investigar a experiência emocional de casais que se deparam com o diagnóstico de anencefalia fetal, tendo em vista trazer subsídios para um melhor atendimento psicológico. A investigação organizou-se como pesquisa qualitativa, com método psicanalítico, estruturada ao redor de procedimentos investigativos de acesso, registro, interpretação e interlocuções reflexivas sobre atendimentos clínicos. A partir de sessões com casais parentais, realizadas ao longo de oito anos, foram elaboradas duas narrativas transferenciais ficcionais, que preservam elementos essenciais da dramática em pauta. Uma das narrativas aborda uma situação de opção por interrupção gestacional, enquanto a outra focaliza uma decisão de continuidade. Os procedimentos interpretativos permitiram a \"criação/encontro\" dos seguintes campos de sentido afetivo-emocional ou inconscientes relativos: É um pesadelo?, Quem ou o quê está aí?, É preciso decidir. O quadro geral aponta que grande parte do trabalho clínico tem lugar num campo bastante singular, É preciso decidir, que se define pela urgência de tomada de decisão relativa à eventual interrupção de processos vitais. O campo É um pesadelo? aponta para o fato deste tipo de revelação diagnóstica, derivada do uso de uma tecnologia, que detecta problemas que não estão sendo vivenciados como sinais ou sintomas físicos, gerar muito frequentemente reações dissociativas, cujo manejo torna-se, assim, clinicamente indispensável. O outro campo, Quem ou o quê está aí?, assume uma posição de centralidade, nesta clínica, na medida em que porta consigo uma interrogação radical acerca do estatuto ontológico do feto, vivido como um bebê ou como um não-bebê. Uma compreensão sensível e atenta acerca dos diferentes modos como cada casal habita este campo parece fundamental para a provisão de um cuidado psicoterapêutico / The contemporary technological development allows the early detection of fetal malformations, such as anencephaly, which makes the babys survival unfeasible. This assumption leads to the immediate revelation of the diagnosis to the parents who will decide either to continue or interrupt the pregnancy. This paper focuses on the investigation of the emotional experience that couples have when facing a fetal anencephaly diagnosis, bringing instruments for a better psychological care. The investigation process was organized as a qualitative research, through psychoanalytic approach, based on the investigation procedures of access, register, interpretation and reflexive interlocution on clinical care sessions. From the sessions with couples, during eight years, two transferential fictional narratives, that preserve essential elements of drama at stake, were created. One of the narratives approaches a situation of choice for pregnancy interruption, while the other aims at the decision to keep it. The interpretative procedures allowed the \"creation / finding\" of the following fields of affective-emotional sense or relative unconscious: Is it a nightmare?, Who or what is there?, We have to make a decision. The big picture shows that great part of the clinical work takes place in a singular field, We have to make a decision, defined by the sense of urgency around the decision about the eventual interruption of vital processes. The field Is it a nightmare? leads to the fact that this kind of diagnosis revelation, derived from the technology which detects problems that were not being lived as physical signals or symptoms, frequently generates dissociative reactions, making the clinical care mandatory. The other field Who or what is there? has a central role, in this clinic, as soon as it contains an extreme question around the fetuss ontological statute, being a baby or a non-baby. A sensible and attentive comprehension of the different ways in which couples deal with this field is essential for a psychotherapeutic care

This thesis describes the research conducted on the use of historical performance data in assessing the financial risk for a power distribution utility in a performance based regulation (PBR) regime. The historical utility data used in this research are taken from the Canadian Electrical Association (CEA) annual reports. The individual utility data in these reports are confidential and only provided to the participating utilities. Thirteen utilities that participate in the CEA data reporting activity agreed to provide their individual utility data for the research described in this thesis. These utilities are anonymous and are referred to by numerical designations in accordance with the CEA protocol. This research could not have been conducted without the support of these utilities. The objectives of the research described in this thesis are to examine and analyze the variations in the annual performance indices of the thirteen participating utilities and the aggregated systems including the overall indices and the cause code contributions, and to examine the possible utilization of historic utility reliability indices to create suitable reward/penalty structures in a PBR protocol. The potential financial risk and actual financial payment analyses for these selected utilities are conducted using their historical performance data imposed on a number of possible reward/penalty structures developed in this thesis. An approach to recognize adverse utility performance in the form of Major Outage Years (MOY) is developed and the influence of the MOY performance in PBR decision making is examined.

This thesis describes the research conducted on the use of historical performance data in assessing the financial risk for a power distribution utility in a performance based regulation (PBR) regime. The historical utility data used in this research are taken from the Canadian Electrical Association (CEA) annual reports. The individual utility data in these reports are confidential and only provided to the participating utilities. Thirteen utilities that participate in the CEA data reporting activity agreed to provide their individual utility data for the research described in this thesis. These utilities are anonymous and are referred to by numerical designations in accordance with the CEA protocol. This research could not have been conducted without the support of these utilities. The objectives of the research described in this thesis are to examine and analyze the variations in the annual performance indices of the thirteen participating utilities and the aggregated systems including the overall indices and the cause code contributions, and to examine the possible utilization of historic utility reliability indices to create suitable reward/penalty structures in a PBR protocol. The potential financial risk and actual financial payment analyses for these selected utilities are conducted using their historical performance data imposed on a number of possible reward/penalty structures developed in this thesis. An approach to recognize adverse utility performance in the form of Major Outage Years (MOY) is developed and the influence of the MOY performance in PBR decision making is examined.

We investigated the concurrent effects of arousal and encoding specificity as related to background music on associative memory accuracy. Extant literature suggested these factors affect memory, but their combined effect in musical stimuli was not clear and may affect memory differentially for young and older adults. Specifically, we sought to determine if music can be used as a mnemonic device to overcome the associative memory deficits typically experienced by healthy older adults. We used a paired-associates memory task in which young and older adults listened to either highly or lowly arousing music or to silence while simultaneously studying same gender face-name pairs. Participants' memory was then tested for these pairs while listening to either the same or different music selections. We found that young adults' memory performance was not affected by any of the music listening conditions. Music listening, however, was detrimental for older adults. Specifically, their memory performance was worse for all music conditions, particularly if the music was highly arousing. Young adults' pattern of results was not reflected in their subjective ratings of helpfulness; they felt that all music was helpful to their performance yet there was no indication of this in the results. Older adults were more aware of the detriment of music on their performance, rating some highly arousing music as less helpful than silence. We discuss possible reasons for this pattern and conclude that these results are most consistent with the theory that older adults' failure to inhibit processing of distracting task-irrelevant information, in this case background music, contributes to their elevated memory failures.

本研究的目的為瞭解母子對話中的打斷現象，分析的語料來自於兩對以漢語為母語的母子對話，兩位小孩皆為三歲。首先，為瞭解母親與小孩打斷句之本質，我們採用Goldberg (1990:891)的分類來做判斷，結果顯示兩者在對談中皆大多使用rapport-oriented interruptions，代表在母子對話中，兩方傾向在打斷句中表達對對方話語的興趣與投入，並且藉由著打斷一同建立談話主題。再者，小孩的打斷句更進一步的用Dunn and Shatz’s (1989)的研究方法來分析其與對話言談的語意關連，結果發現小孩的打斷句多數都包含了與之前相關並且新的訊息，而這類的打斷句是最有可能得到母親的注意並且回應。 / The purpose of this study is to investigate the nature and function of mother-to-child and child-to-mother interruptions in conversation. The data analyzed are natural conversations from two Mandarin-speaking mother-child dyads. The children are about three years old. Goldberg’s (1990:891) categorization of interruptions is adopted to examine the nature of the mothers’ and children’s interruptions. The results show that both the mothers and the children use more rapport-oriented interruptions than other types of interruptions, which indicates that in mother-child interaction, both parties tend to use interruptions to signal their involvement and interest and to construct a shared topic cooperatively. In addition, the children’s interruptions are further examined based on Dunn and Shatz’s (1989) framework in order to investigate the semantic relations between the children’s interruptions and the conversational discourse. The findings show that most of the children’s interruptions contain relevant new information. Such interruptions are likely to succeed in getting the attention and response from the mothers.

Reproduction de : Thèse d'exercice : Médecine : Nancy 1 : 2007. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre.

This research focuses on empirical observations of horizontal series arc faults. These faults differ from ground faults, for series faults encompass the electromagnetic transient effects of arc formations in series with sustained current flow when there is a break in the circuit. This may happen intentionally (as in a breaker) or unintentionally (as in a loose, damaged, or severed cable). This paper studies some of those transient effects during arc ignition, propagation, and cessation. Emphasis is on dc systems, for series faults present some of the more challenging safety concerns relating to widespread dc micro-grid acceptance and proliferation. However, arc behavior is also compared to that of ac systems under “quasi-equivalent”, passive circuit parameters. Variables of study primarily include arc voltage, current, and their relationship to electrode spacing under dynamic conditions. Results indicate that interruptions in dc current, while appearing more chaotic from a localized standpoint, do not produce the fast-acting transients associated with ac disturbances. Additionally, if dc arcs propagate over a slowly increasing distance of separation, they can be modeled as quasi-static in nature. An equation model is developed and curve-fitting parameters match well with historically tabulated constants. / text