O presente trabalho explora a questão da interdisciplinaridade e da transposição de obras literárias para o cinema. Focalizando a adaptação de textos dramáticos ao cinema, o estudo propõe em um primeiro momento uma investigação teórica sobre gênero ficcional mimético; drama, a partir da perspectiva do jogo dramático como elemento construtor do metadrama implícito e explícito; transtextualidade e cinema. Num segundo momento, a investigação analisa dois textos dramáticos, Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? , de Edward Albee, e Closer , de Patrick Marber, e suas respectivas transposições para o cinema pelo diretor Mike Nichols, examinando os elementos e recursos que os autores utilizam para construir o jogo dramático. Posteriormente, realizase uma análise comparativa entre os textos dramáticos e entre suas adaptações cinematográficas, buscando pontos de contato e de afastamento entre as obras, priorizando elementos denotadores do jogo dramático, além de características transtextuais que possibilitam a manutenção ou a alteração de significados entre os textos dramáticos e seus respectivos filmes. / This paper explores interdisciplinary aspects related to the transposition of dramatic texts into films. First, a theoretical investigation is conducted on mimetic genre, transtextuality; on drama, from the point of view of the game as a dramatic element to build implicit and explicit metadrama, and film adaptation. Secondly, this dissertation analyzes two plays, Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? , by Edward Albee, and Closer , by Patrick Marber, as well as their film adaptations by director Mike Nichols, and examines the elements and features that the authors use to create the dramatic games. Later, the plays and their film adaptations are contrasted in order to investigate elements of dramatic games, and transtextual characteristics that allow the maintenance or the alteration of meaning between the plays and their correspondent films.

O presente trabalho explora a questão da interdisciplinaridade e da transposição de obras literárias para o cinema. Focalizando a adaptação de textos dramáticos ao cinema, o estudo propõe em um primeiro momento uma investigação teórica sobre gênero ficcional mimético; drama, a partir da perspectiva do jogo dramático como elemento construtor do metadrama implícito e explícito; transtextualidade e cinema. Num segundo momento, a investigação analisa dois textos dramáticos, Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? , de Edward Albee, e Closer , de Patrick Marber, e suas respectivas transposições para o cinema pelo diretor Mike Nichols, examinando os elementos e recursos que os autores utilizam para construir o jogo dramático. Posteriormente, realizase uma análise comparativa entre os textos dramáticos e entre suas adaptações cinematográficas, buscando pontos de contato e de afastamento entre as obras, priorizando elementos denotadores do jogo dramático, além de características transtextuais que possibilitam a manutenção ou a alteração de significados entre os textos dramáticos e seus respectivos filmes. / This paper explores interdisciplinary aspects related to the transposition of dramatic texts into films. First, a theoretical investigation is conducted on mimetic genre, transtextuality; on drama, from the point of view of the game as a dramatic element to build implicit and explicit metadrama, and film adaptation. Secondly, this dissertation analyzes two plays, Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? , by Edward Albee, and Closer , by Patrick Marber, as well as their film adaptations by director Mike Nichols, and examines the elements and features that the authors use to create the dramatic games. Later, the plays and their film adaptations are contrasted in order to investigate elements of dramatic games, and transtextual characteristics that allow the maintenance or the alteration of meaning between the plays and their correspondent films.

O presente trabalho explora a questão da interdisciplinaridade e da transposição de obras literárias para o cinema. Focalizando a adaptação de textos dramáticos ao cinema, o estudo propõe em um primeiro momento uma investigação teórica sobre gênero ficcional mimético; drama, a partir da perspectiva do jogo dramático como elemento construtor do metadrama implícito e explícito; transtextualidade e cinema. Num segundo momento, a investigação analisa dois textos dramáticos, Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? , de Edward Albee, e Closer , de Patrick Marber, e suas respectivas transposições para o cinema pelo diretor Mike Nichols, examinando os elementos e recursos que os autores utilizam para construir o jogo dramático. Posteriormente, realizase uma análise comparativa entre os textos dramáticos e entre suas adaptações cinematográficas, buscando pontos de contato e de afastamento entre as obras, priorizando elementos denotadores do jogo dramático, além de características transtextuais que possibilitam a manutenção ou a alteração de significados entre os textos dramáticos e seus respectivos filmes. / This paper explores interdisciplinary aspects related to the transposition of dramatic texts into films. First, a theoretical investigation is conducted on mimetic genre, transtextuality; on drama, from the point of view of the game as a dramatic element to build implicit and explicit metadrama, and film adaptation. Secondly, this dissertation analyzes two plays, Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? , by Edward Albee, and Closer , by Patrick Marber, as well as their film adaptations by director Mike Nichols, and examines the elements and features that the authors use to create the dramatic games. Later, the plays and their film adaptations are contrasted in order to investigate elements of dramatic games, and transtextual characteristics that allow the maintenance or the alteration of meaning between the plays and their correspondent films.

This research is part of continued efforts to correlate the hydrology of East Fork Poplar Creek (EFPC) and Bear Creek (BC) with the long term distribution of mercury within the overland, subsurface, and river sub-domains. The main objective of this study was to add a sedimentation module (ECO Lab) capable of simulating the reactive transport mercury exchange mechanisms within sediments and porewater throughout the watershed. The enhanced model was then applied to a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) mercury analysis for EFPC. That application used historical precipitation, groundwater levels, river discharges, and mercury concentrations data that were retrieved from government databases and input to the model. The model was executed to reduce computational time, predict flow discharges, total mercury concentration, flow duration and mercury mass rate curves at key monitoring stations under various hydrological and environmental conditions and scenarios. The computational results provided insight on the relationship between discharges and mercury mass rate curves at various stations throughout EFPC, which is important to best understand and support the management mercury contamination and remediation efforts within EFPC.

This study assesses the phenomenon of additional water intruding into sewage sys-tems in different areas of Sweden. Additional water means in this case the non-foul water that can originate from storm water runoff, which is either supposed to be con-veyed into the pipe system or intrudes it by wrongly connected drains. It can also re-sult from in-seepage of groundwater due to imperfections of the pipe system itself. It is intended to analyze how different features of the areas have an impact on the extent of this phenomenon. Further, an estimation of the conditions in future scenarios will be obtained. This includes an indication about the potential risk of a sewage system overflow, the expected volume of inflow at treatment plants and thus about the sys-tem´s suitability for the future. Numerical, hydrological compartment models for 19 cities in Sweden were set-up. The used parameters were obtained from previous studies by the Swedish Environ-mental Protection Agency. In these models present and future climate data were ap-plied. For future scenarios three different climate change projections were used which contain bias corrected climate data timeseries for each study area. The climate change scenarios were supposed to represent an "optimistic", "average" and "pessimistic" outlook. By assessing the outputs of the climate models, it was concluded that signifi-cant differences can occur, depending on exact geographical location and chosen cli-mate models. A sensitivity analysis was conducted of how geology, climate and status of the pipe system have an impact on the extent of additional water flows. It revealed that the status of the sewage system has by far the biggest impact. Finally a discharge analysis showed a potential outlook of future development of additional water flows for the chosen study sites, yielding highest increase for the sewage systems of Kiruna, Karlskoga and Sundsvall.

In his celebrated 2007 novel El mundo, Juan José Millás tells the story of the development of Juanjo, a simulacrum of himself, and describes a series of negative developments that the protagonist faces in his childhood. While much has been written about Millás and the “testimonial realism” of his literary generation, little has been written about the psychological factors that influence his characters. In this paper I analyze Juanjo's development as understood from the gradation of guilt to shame, depression, and later suicidal thoughts. Because Juanjo is not able to find an appropriate mechanism of release for his guilt, he spirals into an ever-increasing psychological distress. Thus, his actions do not become an escape per se from the oppressive forces in Spain; but rather, they are mechanisms of delay caused by the subconscious effects of living under Franco's Spain during the 1950s. Mike Wilson-Reginato's first novel El púgil, published in 2007, mixes intertextual references to music, film, and literature to craft a space for the posthuman identity. The two protagonists of El púgil—Art and his olive-green refrigerator, Hal—combine in a new cyborg-like formation. Unlike the cyborg envisioned by Donna Haraway in “A Cyborg Manifesto,” the mechanical-biological union never takes place at the corporeal level, but their union occurs in a psychological dimension within Art's hallucination. To describe the union of Art and Hal, I use Jacques Lacan's concept of the mirror stage to explain Art's adoption of a perceived superior identity and Jean Baudrillard's study of simulacra to show how this adopted identity is an imagined simulacrum. Thus, the combined image of the two characters creates a cyborg identity that erases the distance between man and machine.

To avoid damages and costs for the society due to flooding is it important to be able to model accurate rain scenarios. Due to climate change is it thought that there will be more heavy rainfalls in the future which will increase the risk for flooding. This master thesis will therefore look at the parameters that affect the risk for flooding with focus on raincloud movement and peak arrivals. Earlier research has shown that different directions of the rain will affect the flooding risk differently. Generally will a rain that has the same direction as the downstream flow lead to a higher risk for flooding. The peak arrival time has also shown to lead to different results were a late peak arrival seems to lead to a higher risk for flooding. There is usually too little time and costly to test different movement and peak arrival scenarios, so this report will focus on which of these parameters that have the greatest flooding impact and largest internal variation.  MIKE 21 (created by DHI) is the software used to model the different rain scenarios. The rain types used to test the different scenarios will be a uniform rain, a traditional CDS-rain and five rain shapes that are based on empirical rain types created by SMHI.  The shape of the empirical rains is based on several studies from measured rain events with weather radar. Weather radar have become a fundamental tool in weather forecasting because it can collect data in near real time and also measure the spatial variation inside the rainfall.  These seven mentioned rain types will not be moving, and the rain will have the same spatial intensity over the study area. They will be compared both to each other but also to a CDS-rain that will move over the study area in 4 different directions (north-south, east-west, south - north and west - east).  The different directions gave all very similar results while there was a larger difference between the rain types with different peak arrivals. The peak-value seems to be an important factor when it comes to flooding risk based on the results in this report. The constant uniform rain had the lowest amount of flooded areas while the CDS-rain (which had the highest peak) affected the area the most.

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With an expanding urbanization in the world, and thus the expansion of impermeable surfaces, the risk of pluvial floods is an increasing factor that needs to be considered. This, in combination with increasing rain intensities and frequency of rain events indicates a problem both today and for the future. With this in mind, it is an advantage to increase the knowledge of how different variations of extreme rainfall affects the hydraulic response of urban catchments, as well as which areas in urban environments contribute to the flood peak. The aims of this study are, with a particle tracking approach, to investigate how the peak runoff contributing areas differ geographically depending on the duration and time to peak of the rainfall event. This also includes the evaluation of what sizes of urban catchment areas are relevant to include when modelling the hydraulic response of Swedish urban catchment in relation to the characteristics of the hyetograph. The catchment area used in this study is made synthetically to represent a generic Swedish urban catchment with regards to the proportions of hardened surfaces, buildings and low points, as well as the slope of the catchment. Various variants of the Chicago Design Storm were implemented in the model. This included three different durations of 2-, 4- and 6 hours of which each, separately, constituted of three different time to peak that is decided by an r-value when creating the design storms. The r-values used in this study is 0.1, 0.4 and 0.8 where the values correlates to an early-, centred- and late peak of the hyetograph. To be able to investigate the peak contributing area, a particle tracking approach was initially used as an equivalent to tracers where the particles are first evenly distributed over the catchment area to then be concentrated to the locations that shows a variation in in the peak contributing area. This was done by using the modelling program MIKE 21 Flow Model FM powered by DHI, which also was used to run the hydrodynamic simulations of the inundation. The results of the hydrodynamic simulations showed that the rain events generated more runoff as the duration was extended. In addition, the timing of the peak of the rainfall intensity also had an impact on the result as the runoff increased with increasing r-value. Thus, as the peak of the hyetograph is delayed, it imposes an increasing risk of severe flooding. Furthermore, with the use of particle tracking, it could be concluded that the different design storm had an influence on the peak contributing distance where the distance grew larger when the duration of the rainfall event was extended and when the peak of the storm was delayed. / Med en ökande urbanisering i världen, och med det även en ökning av hårdgjorda ytor, är risken för pluviala översvämningar en allt större faktor som måste beaktas. Detta i kombination meden ökande regnintensitet samt nederbördsfrekvens indikerar ett problem både för idag och förframtiden. Med detta i åtanke är det en fördel att öka kunskapen om hur olika variationer avextrem nederbörd påverkar den hydrauliska responsen i urbana avrinningsområden, samt vilka områden i stadsmiljöer som bidrar till den maximala översvämningen. Syftet med denna studie är att, med hjälp av partikelspårning, undersöka hur peak-bidragande områden skiljer sig geografiskt beroende på regnets varaktighet samt tid till regnintensitetsmaximum. I detta ingår även utvärdering av vilka storlekar av urbana avrinningsområden som är relevanta att inkludera vid modellering av den hydrauliska responsen i förhållande till hyetografens egenskaper. Avrinningsområdet som används i denna studie är syntetiskt gjort för att representera ett generiskt svenskt urbant avrinningsområde med avseende på andelen hårdgjorda ytor, byggnader och lågpunkter, samt avrinningsområdets lutning. För att studera nederbördens inverkan på den hydrauliska responsen i avrinningsområdet implementerades olika varianter av en designstorm kallad Chicago Design Storm. Detta inkluderade tre olika varaktigheter på 2-,4- och 6 timmar av vilka var och en, separat, bestod av tre olika tid till regnintensitetsmaximum,vilket bestäms av ett r-värde vid skapandet av designstormarna. De r-värden som används i denna studie är 0.1, 0.4 och 0.8 där det lägre värdet korrelerar med en tidig topp, mittvärdet är lika med en centrerad topp och det högre värdet motsvarar en sen topp på hyetografen. För att kunna undersöka det peak-bidragande området användes initialt en partikelspårningsmetod som en motsvarighet till spårämnen där partiklarna först är jämnt fördelade över avrinningsområdetför att sedan koncentreras till de platser som visar en variation i det peak-bidragande området. Detta gjordes genom att använda modelleringsprogrammet MIKE 21 Flow Model FM som drivs av DHI, vilket också användes för att genomföra de hydrodynamiska simuleringarna av översvämningen. Det upptäcktes relativt tidigt i simuleringsstadiet av arbetet att det skulle vara svårt att identifiera det peak-bidragande området i avrinningsområdet, då majoriteten av de partiklarsom släpptes ut på platser med antingen lågt flöde eller låg vattennivå hade svårt att ta sig tillutloppet av avrinningsområdet. Med anledning av detta vändes fokus i studien mot avrinningsområdets centrala dräneringsväg där partiklarna kunde röra sig mer fritt. Därför togs ett beslut att undersöka det peak-bidragande avståndet längs den centrala dräneringsvägen istället för det peak-bidragande området. Resultaten av de hydrodynamiska simuleringarna visade att regnen genererade mer avrinning när varaktigheten förlängdes. Dessutom hade tidpunkten för toppen av nederbördsintensiteten också en inverkan på resultatet då avrinningen ökade med ökande r-värde. Allteftersom toppen av hyetografen senareläggs, medför den en ökande risk för allvarliga översvämningar. Vidare, med användningen av partikelspårning, gick det att dra slutsatsen att de olika designstormarna hade en effekt på det peak-bidragande avståndet, då avståndet blev större när varaktigheten av regnen förlängdes och när regnets intensitetstopp inträffade senare under regneventet.