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Medaljen har sitt ursprung i det medeltida Italien och kom till Sverige först på 1500-talet. Den har som uppgift att förmedla ett budskap i form av att minna om en speciell person eller händelse. På medaljerna förekommer en hel del symboler och tecken. Dessa symboler är avsedda att stå för en speciell uppfattning, eller att förmedla en gärning, något den personen medaljen är slagen över gjorde sig känd för under sin levnad. Syftet med detta arbete är att försöka få klarhet i hur man skall kunna tolka en medalj och dess text. Kan symboliken på medaljerna tydas på något vis, och har olika medaljgravörer någon speciell stil man kan känna igen denne på? Finns det varierande stilar från olika epoker, eller är någon stil mer gångbar eller mer banbrytande än andra? Finns det en koppling till åtsida och frånsida, och kan man skönja ett mer dolt budskap vid tolkningen?

During the Korean War the White House and the Army publicized the Medal of Honor to achieve three outcomes. First, they hoped it would have a positive influence on public opinion. Truman committed to limited goals at the start of the war and chose not to create an official propaganda agency, which led to partisan criticism and realistic reporting. Medal of Honor publicity celebrated individual actions removed from their wider context in a familiar, heroic mold to alter memory of the past. Second, the Army publicized the Medal of Honor internally to inspire and reinforce desired soldier behavior. Early reports indicated a serious lack of discipline on the front lines and the Army hoped to build psychological resilience in the men by exposing them to the heroic actions of other soldiers. Finally, the Cold War spawned a great fear of communist subterfuge in the United States, which was exacerbated by the brainwashing of prisoners of war. The White House and the Army reached out to marginalized elements of American society through the Medal of Honor to counter communist propaganda. The Korean War remains an understudied era of American history, yet it was incredibly important to the United States and the world. The war influenced the United States to maintain a large standing military prepositioned around the world to protect its interests. Achieving the status quo antebellum validated the containment strategy against communism, which heavily influenced the decision to intervene in Vietnam. The United Nations, ostensibly in charge of allied forces in the Korean War, gained credibility from preventing the loss of South Korea. Despite these important effects of the war on world history, scholars continue to focus on World War II and Vietnam. This study seeks to build on the relative dearth of scholarly material on the Korean War by examining in historical context the manipulation of a symbol that intersected both the military and the home-front to influence behavior.

ABSTRACT DIFFERENTIATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF COUNTERFEIT AND REAL COINS BY APPLYING STATISTICAL METHODS Tansel, I&ccedil / ten M.Sc, Archaeometry Graduate Program Supervisor : Assist. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Isil Kalaylioglu Co-Supervisor : Prof. Dr. Sahinde Demirci June 2012, 105 pages In this study, forty coins which were obtained from Museum of Anatolian Civilizations (MAC) in Ankara were investigated. Some of those coins were real (twenty two coins) and the remaining ones (eighteen coins) were fake coins. Forty coins were Greek coins which were dated back to middle of the fifth century BCE and reign of Alexander the Great (323 &ndash / 336 BCE). The major aims of this study can be summarized as follow

Submitted by FABIANA DA SILVA FRANÇA (fabiana21franca@gmail.com) on 2017-11-24T14:29:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ArquivoTotal.pdf: 2082901 bytes, checksum: 0887a9928e253ce879f06aac981de2aa (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-24T14:29:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ArquivoTotal.pdf: 2082901 bytes, checksum: 0887a9928e253ce879f06aac981de2aa (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-23 / This research aimed to propose the descriptive representation of three - dimensional documents, specifically the medals received by José Simeão Leal (JSL). For this, it sought to analyze the most relevant archival description norms for the area; Apply standards of representation to describe three-dimensional documents in personal archives, and elaborate the metadata for the descriptive representation of the medals. This is an exploratory research, with a qualitative approach, for which data collection techniques were used for observation and documentary analysis. As a data collection instrument, a documentary descriptive form was elaborated, consisting of metadata, used in the descriptive representation of each medal. In order for the metadata delimitation to be done in order to represent the threedimensional documents, recommendations followed by established descriptive representation standards, such as ISAD (G), NOBRADE and AACR2, followed. References to the descriptive representation of the information, archival description and personal archive of Bellotto (2006), Camargo and Goulart (2007), Schellenberg (2005), Santos (1999) and others were used. On the life and the collection of JSL, the study refers to the considerations of Oliveira (2009). The descriptive representation of three-dimensional objects (medals), within the scope of the José Simeão Leal Archive (AJSL), aimed to contribute to facilitate its access and use and keep alive the memory of its owner, considering the important contribution given by José Simeão Leal to Brazilian culture. / Esta pesquisa objetivou propor a representação descritiva de documentos tridimensionais, especificamente as medalhas recebidas por José Simeão Leal (JSL). Para isso, buscou analisar as normas de descrição arquivísticas mais relevantes para a área; aplicar normas de representação para descrever documentos tridimensionais em arquivos pessoais e elaborar os metadados para a representação descritiva das medalhas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa exploratória, com abordagem qualitativa, para cuja coleta de dados foram empregadas as técnicas de observação e de análise documental. Como instrumento de coleta de dados, foi elaborado um modelo de ficha descritiva documental, constituído de metadados, usados na representação descritiva de cada medalha. Para que a delimitação dos metadados fosse feita, a fim de que eles representassem os documentos tridimensionais, seguiram-se recomendações trazidas por normas de representação descritiva consagradas, como a ISAD (G), a NOBRADE e a AACR2. Utilizaram-se referências sobre representação descritiva da informação, descrição arquivística e arquivo pessoal de Bellotto (2006), Camargo e Goulart (2007), Schellenberg (2005), Santos (1999), entre outros. Sobre a vida e o acervo de JSL, o estudo se reportou às considerações de Oliveira (2009). A representação descritiva dos objetos tridimensionais (medalhas), no âmbito do Arquivo José Simeão Leal (AJSL), pretendeu contribuir para facilitar seu acesso e uso e manter viva a memória de seu titular, considerando a importante contribuição dada por José Simeão Leal à cultura brasileira.

Since its foundation between 1410 and 1414 the University of St Andrews has acquired what can be considered to be ‘artefacts of significance’. This somewhat nebulous phrase is used to denote items that have, for a variety of reasons, been deemed to have some special import by the University, and have been displayed or otherwise presented in a context in which this status has been made apparent. The types of artefacts in which particular meaning has been vested during the centuries under consideration include items of silver and gold (including the maces, sacramental vessels of the Collegiate Church of St Salvator, collegiate plate and relics of the Silver Arrow archery competition); church and college furnishings; artworks (particularly portraits); sculpture; and ethnographic specimens and other items described in University records as ‘curiosities’ held in the University Library from c. 1700-1838. The identification of particular artefacts as significant for certain reasons in certain periods, and their presentation and display, may to some extent reflect the University's values, preoccupations and aspirations in these periods, and, to some degree, its identity. Consciously or subconsciously, the objects can be employed or operate as signifiers of meaning, representing or reflecting matters such as the status, authority and history of the University, its breadth of learning and its interest and influence in spheres from science, art and world cultures to national affairs. This thesis provides a comprehensive examination of the growth and development of the University's holdings of 'artefacts of significance' from its foundation to the mid-19th century, and in some cases (especially portraits) beyond this date. It also offers insights into how the University viewed and presented these items and what this reveals about the University of St Andrews, its identity, which changed and developed as the living institution evolved, and the impressions that it wished to project.