Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-01T23:46:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_11064_Dissertação Final para Banca20170627-170515.pdf: 1700741 bytes, checksum: be8f93658c0f612b10654e4fbe66b877 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-22 / Seria possível sintetizar a crítica marxiana à religião na famosa assertiva em que nosso autor relaciona religião ao ópio? Grande parte dos defensores, assim como os acusadores, diria que sim. Para investigar os fundamentos teóricos e filosóficos desta leitura hegemônica, precisaremos retornar a Hegel, pois para Marx a religião é o que Hegel entendia como tal. Isso é, a religião verdadeira alicerceia ético-politicamente o Estado verdadeiro. Este Estado divinizado em Hegel é o que é combatido por Marx, primordialmente a partir de Feuerbach. Em seguida, apresentaremos a crítica à religião no original pensamento de Marx a partir de sua bibliografia primária, suas elaborações, continuidades e descontinuidades ao longo de sua trajetória intelectual. Pretendemos considerar os diálogos, aproximações, afastamentos e superações que se dão em relação a Hegel e Feuerbach, as duas maiores fontes do pensamento marxiano no que diz respeito ao fenômeno religioso. Por fim, adentraremos detidamente na teoria do fetichismo em Marx, apresentando a leitura enquanto Santíssima Trindade de Mammon (mercadoria, dinheiro e capital), proposta de inversão dialética a partir da categoria Santíssima Trindade em Hegel. A crítica à religião dá um passo fundamental e se torna momento negativo para a teoria do fetichismo, surge algo epistemologicamente e ontologicamente novo. O fetiche é a categoria central para se compreender o capitalismo como religião, é a mediação entre a vida real e o reflexo religioso que ocorre pelo valor (nas três formas funcionais, mercadoria, dinheiro e capital), sujeito das relações sociais. Ainda, faremos uma crítica à Marx por não ter aplicado a sua dialética universal-particular na religião, tal como fez por exemplo com a filosofia e a política, permanecendo ainda tributário do pensamento de identidade hegeliano, o que significa um grave problema lógico-metodológico interno ao pensamento de Marx. Mesmo que consiga captar o caráter dialético da religião protesto e legitimação, ao mesmo tempo , acaba abandonando sua coerência lógica de unidade dialética entre teoria e práxis, não dá o devido relevo ao potencial utópico da religião e a possibilidade concreta de existência de uma religião antifetichista.

Literature highlights the effects of mycolic acid (MA) fine-structure on biological activity, pathogenicity, virulence and cell wall structure and permeability. Knowledge on MA-structure and how their conformations are dependent on their precise molecular composition becomes essential in exploiting these properties in drug-design and in advancing our understanding of the disease. In our group evidence for a structural or functional relationship between cholesterol and MAs have been discovered. The aim of the experimental part of this work was to study this relationship further by attempting to quantify the interaction between cholesterol and MAs in liposomes on an evanescent field biosensor. The binding profiles that were obtained could not be evaluated with kinetic software and the interaction between cholesterol and MAs was not linearly dependant on the concentration of cholesterol. However, novel insight into the interaction was gained when it was observed that cholesterol only accumulated on MA liposomes when cholesterol liposomes containing concentrations of cholesterol resulting in a suspected liquid ordered phase, were used. This is significant since it implies that cholesterol in membrane rafts of the host cell that exist in a liquid ordered phase would be able to interact with MAs under physiological conditions. The theoretical part of this work represents the first molecular modeling study in which MAs are allowed to fold with no conformational restrictions. It is proposed that MAs fold as a function of their functional groups, stereochemistry, and various chain lengths. It was also investigated whether methylation of the acid group changes conformational preferences. The effect of chain length on cyclopropane structure and the viability of systematic conformational searching in MAs were shown using quantum mechanics. Replicate molecular dynamics simulations were done for 4 ns in vacuo on alpha-; methoxy-; methoxy methyl ester- and keto-MAs. MAs had an open starting conformation without conformational restrictions. Results were analysed using eight distances characteristic of the conformational fold. Using these distances, W-, U- and Z-shaped folds were identified. Principal component analysis (PCA) and self-organising maps (SOMs) were used to evaluate differences and trends in MA-conformations. Quantum chemical results showed that chain length did not affect cyclopropane structure and that the systematic plotting of potential energy surfaces is an effective tool to analyse effects of changes in geometry on the energy of the molecule and to predict favoured conformations. Remarkably, single MAs assumed W-, U- and Z-folds in vacuo during molecular dynamics simulations that have previously been observed in monolayers. PCA and SOM plots showed that keto-MA folded faster than other MAs. Alpha-MA showed the highest frequency of W-, U- and Z-folds. Methoxy-MA did not readily fold at its cis-cyclopropane group. Methylation of the acid group of methoxy-MA did not show remarkable differences in the conformations assumed, but almost doubled the frequency of WUZ-structures obtained as compared to non-esterified methoxy-MA. The inherent structural differences between MA-subclasses clearly affect the trends in structural folds that they assume. Molecular modeling of MAs proved to be a versatile tool for resolving structure-function relationships at the molecular level. Copyright 2008, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. Please cite as follows: Prinsloo, W 2008, Computational models for conformations of cell wall mycolates from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, MSc dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06122009-114802 / > E1400/gm / Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Biochemistry / unrestricted

The thesis links the writings of the Italian Italo Calvino and the Chinese Ma Yuan through the Taoist symbol of the Tao and the Borgesian concept of the Aleph, an imaginary point in space containing all points in space and time. Based on Zhuangzi’s parable of the Emperor Hun-tun (Chaos) who lost his original state of chaos when he had sensory openings poked into him, the vision of the Aleph/Tao represents the return to that chaotic state of undifferentiated knowledge one experiences when one closes all sensory perceptions. This unnameable vision allows one to transcend all apparent conceptual dichotomies as it lies in the realm of intuition rather than language. Calvino, like Borges, posits that the chaos of the universe cannot be represented through the sequential language system, but nevertheless demonstrates this ineffability through language. Ma Yuan celebrates the chaos of life by writing about a mythological Tibet, upholding the uniqueness of that culture as a subtle subversion to the Chinese political and territorial takeover. Chapter One and Two, respectively, discuss the “Overlapping Conceptual Spaces” in Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Ma Yuan’s ‘The Temptation of the Gangdisi’. Chapter Three looks in greater detail at the images of the Aleph and the Tao in the two main texts against the backdrop of Borgesian thought. In accordance with the concept of the Aleph/Tao whose definition is continuously unsettled by contradictory conjectures, the fourth chapter undoes the conclusions reached in the previous chapters. This chapter discusses Calvino’s Cosmicomics and Ma Yuan’s shorter Tibetan stories in the light of comic parody. That which was earlier posited as the ineffable in these stories is elaborated in a profusion of words. The Conclusion discusses from a Taoist point of view the predominantly male voice in the writings of the two authors. While both advocate the spiritual sameness of all phenomena in an undifferentiated knowledge of the world, they nevertheless write from the male perspective of the yang pursuing and wanting to possess the yin. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

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It is currently popular to study management accounting (MA) from an institutionalist perspective. Such a perspective is premised on that ‘institutions matter’; so that notions of social structure, agency and linkages in between them thus become central. While readings of the institutionally oriented MA-literature reveals interesting and insightful contributions about MA, they also unearth concerns regarding diversity and fragmentation in conceptualization and modelling. Therefore, the purpose of this licentiate thesis is to identify, classify and synthesize how ‘institutions matter’ in extant MA research and, based on this, suggest avenues for future research. To do so, this licentiate thesis entails a review of 34 empirical institutionally oriented MA studies. The findings entail ‘answers’ to 4 particular review questions regarding current (1) Conceptualizations of MA, (2) Overall explanatory models of agency, (3) Social roles of MA and, (4) Sources of MA practice – questions which are all derived from what I refer to as ‘A Basic Model of institutional theorizing (ABM)’. Overall, this review provides maps which are previously not pursued for this literature for the areas of each respective review question. Within such broader achievements, it identifies five ontological approaches to a relationship between social structure and agency instead of the established three. It also adds four social roles of MA previously not discussed for this literature. Finally, it suggests a uniform set of ‘sources of MA practice’ unlike the current literature that typically separates sources of continuity, change, homogeneity or heterogeneity respectively. The thesis concludes with a discussion of key findings and contributions, based on which a number of avenues for future institutionalist conceptualization and modelling of MA are suggested.

Ma Sicong was a violinist, composer, and educator of the highest caliber in China who devoted his entire professional life to the instrument. Known for producing violin music in various styles and forms for more than fifty years, Ma Sicong contributed to the violin's popularization in China through his performance and composition with Chinese elements. His violin music incorporates principal melodies from Chinese folk music, and his talents as a mature Western composer talents blend these melodies into violin solos with a distinct national identity.The Inner Mongolia Suite and First Rondo by Ma Sicong, both of which are considered among the most outstanding violin solos ever written for the instrument, are examined in this dissertation, as is the composer's own playing experience, to gain a better understanding of the compositions and their meaning. There are several ramifications for Chinese composition for the violin due to the inclusion of national features that affected the design and development of the violin. The author also hopes that this dissertation can serve as a beneficial resource for future students interested in comparable topics. / Music Performance

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Uppsatsen undersöker orsaker till fenomenet girting, dvs olyckor där bogserbåtar dras ned och potentiellt kapsejsar vid bogsering av farkoster. Undersökningen utgår från 14 officiella haverirapporter om girtingsituationer världen över.  Med hjälp av modellen HFACS-MA kategoriseras olycksorsakerna i en orsakskedja för att utröna vilka kategorier som är mest frekvent förekommande i samtliga undersökta olyckor. Resultatet visar att dåligt förberedda bogseroperationer (med otillräcklig eller utebliven planering och riskbedömning), brister i organisationernas dokumentation (manualer, instruktioner och procedurer), samt bristande kommunikation mellan de inblandade parterna var de största faktorerna för girting. För att minska risken för girting har rekommendationer framtagits, som bl a innefattar vikten av att hålla dokumentation uppdaterad, hålla tydlig kommunikation mellan inblandade parter under bogseringsoperationer samt planera varje operation noggrant och ge alla inblandade möjlighet till återkoppling. / This essay studies the causes of girting, i.e. accidents where tugboats get pulled down and capsizes by the vessel it is towing. The study uses 14 official accident reports about girting accidents all over the world. The HFACS-MA model is used to categorize the causes of the accident into a causal chain, in order to find out which categories are most frequently present in the accident reports.  The result shows that poorly planned tow operations (with inadequate planning and/or risk assessment), deficiencies in the organization’s documentation (i.e. manuals, instructions and procedures), and poor communication between the involved parties were the most frequently found factors for girting. In order to reduce the risk of girting, recommendations have been made that includes the importance of keeping documents up to date, maintain clear communication between the parties involved during towing operations and to plan each operation thoroughly, giving everyone involved the opportunity for feedback regarding the plan.

Esta pesquisa analisa o papel da nipobrasileira a partir da perspectiva de artista do corpo, tendo como contexto a cena artística paulistana: uma realidade brasileira de imigração e diáspora, num viés praticoteórico. Partimos de processos de contaminação entre ocidente e oriente, representados aqui por Brasil e Japão, respectivamente, e a partir de experiências singulares que resultam dessa relação, trazendo o relato de seis artistas mulheres nikkeis. Levamos em consideração a mestiçagem (PINHEIRO, 2013; LAPLANTINE & NOUSS, 2016; GRUZINSKI, 2001) decorrente desse encontro utilizando, inclusive, termos da cultura japonesa, Ma (?) e D? (?), devidamente deslocados em seus sentidos e ressignificados no contexto mencionado. A Teoria Corpomídia de Greiner e Katz (2001) é importante para a compreensão de co-relação e co-evolução inestanque e mútua de corpo e ambiente. Os estudos de Hashiguti (2008) e Takeuchi (2016), que tratam especificamente do corpo nipobrasileiro, também compõem as referências teóricas deste estudo. / This research analysis the roll of the Brazilian Japanese descendant from the perspective of an artist of the body, with the scenic arts of the city of São Paulo as context: a Brazilian reality of immigration and diaspora, in a practicaltheoretical bias. Our start points are the processes of contamina-tion between West and East, represented here by Brazil and Japan, respectively, and the singular experiences that result from this relation, which are represented by the conversation with six Brazilian nikkei artists. We are considering the Miscegenation (mestiçagem) (PINHEIRO, 2013; LAPLANTINE & NOUSS, 2016; GRUZINSKI, 2001) that occurs from this rendez-vous, using terms from the Japanese culture, inclusive, Ma (?) and D? (?), properly displaced from its meaning and resignified in the context that we mentioned before. The Corpomídia Theory from Greiner and Katz (2001) is important for the comprehension of the co-relation and co-evolution of body and environment which is mutual and non-stagnant. The studies of Hashiguti (2008) and Takeuchi (2016) that reflect specifi-cally the Japanese descendant body also compose the theorical refer-ences of this study.

Objetivo. Conhecer os aspectos ecológicos e biológicos da população de Mansonia humeralis em área sob impacto de inundação da Represa Porto Primavera, Município de Presidente Epitácio, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil, visando contribuir no entendimento da capacidade vetora desta população. A dominância dessa população entre outras espécies de culicídeos, que compõem a fauna local, representa preocupação em saúde pública, diante da possibilidade de transmissão de agentes patogênicos e de incômodo à população humana. Métodos. No sítio JB, culicídeos adultos foram coletados mensalmente por 15 meses, em cada um dos períodos anterior e posterior às duas inundações da Represa Porto Primavera, e por 24 meses após a 2ª inundação, na fazenda Santo Antônio. As técnicas de coleta utilizadas foram Aspiração pela manhã, Técnica Atrativa Humana de 24 horas, Armadilha de Shannon, Armadilha CDC e Técnica Atrativa Humana em torno do crepúsculo vespertino. Foram levadas em conta as influências de temperatura e chuva na variabilidade temporal da população estudada. Para a análise do impacto ambiental na população de Ma. humeralis foram utilizados índices de riqueza, diversidade, dominância, abundância e similaridade, testes estatísticos paramétricos, não paramétricos e correlação. Para a atividade hematofágica horária foi calculada a média de Williams, para a dispersão do raio de vôo a média harmônica e o modelo de regressão linear simples e para a paridade o qui-quadrado. Resultados. No sítio JB, no período do pré-impacto, Ma. humeralis representou 3,1%. No período pós-impacto após a 1ª inundação Ma. humeralis representou 59,6% e após a 2ª inundação 53,8%, indicando expressiva dominância dessa espécie e redução da riqueza e diversidade dos outros culicídeos. Houve maior densidade populacional de Ma. humeralis no outono e inverno no pré-enchimento, no inverno e na primavera após a 1ª inundação e na primavera após a 2ª inundação. Ma. humeralis posicionou-se entre as espécies mais abundantes e foi similar na fauna do período pós-impacto. A atividade hematofágica de Ma. humeralis foi nas 24 horas, mas de maior freqüência no intervalo do 1º pós-crepúsculo e das 18:00 às 24:00 horas. Na fazenda Santo Antônio a maior densidade populacional de Ma. humeralis ocorreu no verão e na primavera e as médias de riqueza, diversidade e dominância foram próximas aos valores encontrados no pré-enchimento do sítio JB, com a Armadilha de Shannon no crepúsculo vespertino. Em relação a paridade Ma. humeralis apresentou mais fêmeas oníparas no outono. Ma. humeralis apresentou baixa dispersão no raio de vôo. Conclusões. Com a construção da Usina Hidrelétrica de Porto Primavera e o represamento do Rio Paraná, estudos realizados em Presidente Epitácio, na margem esquerda do mesmo e do Rio do Peixe, mostraram redução na diversidade e riqueza da fauna adulta Culicidae, vista pela aplicação de diferentes técnicas de coleta. A dominância de Ma. humeralis mostrou que o impacto ambiental ocorrido na área favoreceu seu desenvolvimento indicado pela sua abundância e sua permanência na fauna similar, após a inundação. As densidades mais elevadas para Ma. humeralis, associada as plantas aquáticas, parece estar ligada com as águas renováveis dos grandes reservatórios. Evidenciou-se tendência antropofílica e atividades hematofágicas predominantemente crepuscular e noturna para Ma. humeralis. A baixa dispersão no raio de vôo encontrada em Ma. humeralis, não permite concluir que esta população não se dispersaria para maiores distâncias em busca de fontes sangüíneas. É relevante o monitoramento de certas populações de culicídeos favorecidas pela formação de represas, uma vez que há exposição freqüente do homem às margens dos rios, devido às atividades de pesca, caça, lazer e moradia. / Objective. To assess the ecological and biological aspects of the population of Mansonia humeralis, in area under the Porto Primavera Dam flooding impact, Presidente Epitácio municipality, São Paulo State, Brazil, in order to understand the vector capacity of this population. This population dominance over other Culicidae species that constitute the local fauna represents public health concern because of the possibility of transmission of pathogenic agents and nuisance to human populations. Methods. In the JB Ranch adults Culicidae were monthly captured for 15 months, on each of the previous and posterior periods of the two flooding events of the Porto Primavera Dam, and for the 24 months after the second flooding in the Santo Antônio Farm. Captures were undertaken by morning Aspiration, Human Attraction Technique for 24 hours, Shannon traps, CDC light traps and Human Attraction Technique near sunset. Temperature and rainfall were accounted for temporal variation of the studied population. To environmental impact analysis on Ma. humeralis population richness, diversity, dominance, abundance and similarity, indexes and parametric and non-parametric statistics and correlation were used, blood feeding time activity was calculated by the Williams\' Mean, harmonic mean and simple linear regression model to flight range dispersal were used and to parity, chi-square was used. Results. In the JB Ranch, on the pre-impact period, Ma. humeralis represented 3.1%. After the first flooding Ma. humeralis represented 59.6% and after the second flooding it represented 53.8%, indicating significative dominance of this species and richness and diversity reduction of other Culicidae. Larger population densities of Ma. humeralis were found in the autumn and winter on the pre-filling of the Dam, in the winter and the spring after the first flooding and in the spring after the second flooding. Ma. humeralis was among the more abundant species and was similar on the fauna post-impact period. Blood feeding time activity of Ma. humeralis was practically of 24 hours, but its higher frequency was on the first post-crepuscular interval and on the 18:00 to 24:00 hours interval. In the Santo Antônio Farm, the largest populational density of Ma. humeralis occurred in the summer and in the spring and the means for species diversity, richness and dominance were close to the values found in the pre-filling in the JB Ranch, with captures undertaken by Shannon traps during sunset. As for parity, more parous females were found in the autumn. Ma. humeralis presented low flight radius dispersal. Conclusions. The construction of the Porto Primavera Hydroelectric Power Plant and the dam of the Paraná River, in the studies conducted in Presidente Epitácio, on the left margin of this river and the Peixe River, presented a reduction on the diversity and richness of the Culicidae fauna undertaken by different capture techniques. The dominance of Ma. humeralis showed that the environmental impact on the area supported its development as indicated by its abundance and permanence on the similar fauna, after the two flooding events. The highest densities of Ma. humeralis, associated with aquatic plants, seems to be connected with the renewable waters of the great reservoirs. Ma. humeralis showed a tendency to anthropophily, with the blood feeding activity preferably at sunset and at night. The low flight dispersal, does not allow to conclude if Ma. humeralis would not fly higher distances in search of blood sources. It is relevant to monitor some Culicidae populations favoured by dam constructions, once there is frequent man exposition on the rivers\' edges, due to fishing activities, hunting, leisure and dwelling.