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501	Primeiras Estórias e o filme A terceira margem do rio: estruturas artísticas e consciência possível Cruz, Artur Ribeiro [UNESP] 11 August 2006 (has links) (PDF) Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-08-11Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:30:52Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 cruz_ar_me_sjrp.pdf: 423121 bytes, checksum: f344023b18e84b0188e385eef0498551 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O objetivo deste trabalho é a análise comparativa entre Primeiras Estórias, publicado por Guimarães Rosa em 1961, e o filme A terceira margem do rio, produzido em 1993 por Nelson Pereira dos Santos, com base em cinco contos do livro de Rosa. Pretende-se demonstrar alguns dos aspectos estético-semióticos que envolvem o processo de adaptação do texto literário para o texto fílmico, o que implica a definição do grau de aderência, de afastamento e de interferência resultantes desse processo. Em primeiro lugar, identificamos em Primeiras Estórias uma estrutura especular a partir de relações significativas entre os tecidos narrativos dos contos O espelho, As margens da alegria e Os cimos, em função de um jogo com a posição dos respectivos contos no livro. Em segundo lugar, feitas as interpretações sobre essa estrutura em relação aos demais contos, levantamos a hipótese de que o filme se compõe segundo uma transmutação da estrutura especular do livro de Rosa. Articulada à unidade narrativa que Nelson Pereira dos Santos deu às cinco narrativas em que se baseou, transformando seus núcleos de ação independentes numa única história no filme, essa transmutação confere ao filme sua autonomia criativa. Finalmente, aplicando os conceitos da sociologia estruturalista genética de Lucien Goldmann (1978, 1990), trabalhamos com a hipótese de que a diferença entre as formas das obras é decorrente de distintas consciências possíveis de grupos sociais. / This work aims at comparing the short-stories book Primeiras Estórias [First Stories], published by Guimarães Rosa in 1961, to the film A terceira margem do rio [The third bank of the river], which was filmed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos in 1993, based on five shortstories from Rosa's book. We intend to demonstrate some of the aesthetic-semiotical aspects that involve a transcodification process from a literary text into a filmic text. The analysis implies the definition of the degrees of adherence, deviation and interference resulting from that process. Firstly, it was identified in Primeiras Estórias a structure of mirror through the significant relations among the narrative tissues of the short-stories O espelho, As margens da alegria and Os cimos, because of a play on the position of the respective short-stories in the book. Secondly, as we proposed the interpretations about that structure in relation to the other short-stories, we suggested the hypothesis that the movie was organized by a transmutation of the mirror structure from Rosa's book. This transmutation is articulated to the unity that Nelson Pereira dos Santos gave to the five narratives on which the movie was based, putting together the five independent action nuclei from the short-stories into a single story in the movie. As a result of this composition, the movie reveals its creative autonomy. Finally, we applied the concepts of Lucien Goldmann's genetic structuralist sociology (1978, 1990) to state the hypothesis that the difference between the forms of the works, the shortstories and the film, is due to distinct possible consciousness of social groups. Literatura - Adaptações Cinema e literatura Adaptações para o cinema Transcodificação Consciência possível Cinema e literatura Literature and motion pictures Transcodification Possible consciousness
502	Catch \| Bounce : towards a relational ontology of the digital in art practice Charlton, James January 2017 (has links) How might ‘the digital’ be conceived of in an ‘expanded field’ of art practice, where ontology is flattened such that it is not defined by a particular media? This text, together with an installation of art work at the Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool John Moores University (13-24 March), constitutes the thesis submission as a whole, such that in the practice of ‘reading’ the thesis, each element remains differentiated from the other and makes no attempt to ‘represent’ the other. In negating representation, such practices present a ‘radical’ rethinking of the digital as a differentiated in-itself, one that is not defined solely by entrenched computational narratives derived from set theory. Rather, following Nelson Goodman’s nominalistic rejection of class constructs, ‘the digital’ is thus understood in onto-epistemic terms as being syntactically and semantically differentiated (Languages of Art 161). In the context of New Zealand Post-object Art practices of the late 1960s, as read through Jack Burnham’s systems thinking, such a digitally differentiated ontology is conceived of in terms of the how of practice, rather than what of objects (“Systems Aesthetics”). After Heidegger, such a practice is seen as an event of becoming realised by the method of formal indication, such that what is concealed is brought forth as a thing-in-itself (The Event; Phenomenological Interpretations 26). As articulated through the researcher’s own sculptural practice – itself indebted to Post-object Art – indication is developed as an intersubjective method applicable to both artists and audience. However, the constraints imposed on the thing-in-itself by the Husserlian phenomenological tradition are also taken as imposing correlational limitations on the ‘digital’, such that it is inherently an in-itself for-us and thus not differentiated in-itself. To resolve such Kantian dialectics, the thesis draws on metaphysical arguments put forward by contemporary speculative ontologies – in particular the work of Quentin Meillassoux and Tristan Garcia (After Finitude; Form and Object). Where these contemporary continental philosophies provide a means of releasing events from the contingency of human ‘reason’, the thesis argues for a practice of ‘un-reason’ in which indication is recognized as being contingent on speculation. Practice, it is argued, was never reason’s alone to determine. Instead, through the ‘radical’ method of speculative indication, practice is asserted as the event through which the differentiated digital is revealed as a thing-in-itself of itself and not for us.
503	Barriers and drivers to the implementation of the "clean development mechanism" within the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality: a case study Wilson, Craig Michael January 2008 (has links) The global threat of climate change is one of the most crucial environmental issues facing the world in modern times. In response to this threat, international governments have drafted the Kyoto Protocol which included the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The CDM is a scheme which invited developing countries, like South Africa, to become involved in climate change mitigation projects. While South Africa has been identified as an attractive host country for CDM projects, research has revealed that it lags behind other developing countries in this regard. This study provides a theoretical background to the CDM and grounds the subject within the field of Environmental Economics. Following a literature review of factors that could influence the involvement of a municipality in CDM projects, this thesis undertook a case study of the barriers and drivers to CDM implementation within the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMBM). Use was made of semi-structured interviews, where a questionnaire was used to guide the researcher’s interview process. Five NMBM officers, who were likely to have been involved with CDM project implementation, were interviewed. Data collected was analyzed using a coding technique and was compared and contrasted to the literature in a process of explanation building. It was possible to elicit 14 factors that acted as CDM-barriers; seven that acted as CDM-drivers; and 10 that were required to change within the NMBM to encourage greater CDM involvement. Of the barriers, lack of awareness, poor political will and lack of funding emerged as the most inhibiting. Of the CDM-drivers, the potential financial benefits; ownership of infrastructure capable of producing carbon assets; and technology transfer emerged as the factors most likely to promote CDM involvement. With regards the factors that require change, it emerged that a positive response would result from a proactive stance by National Government on the CDM; the use of Public-Private-Partnerships to facilitate CDM projects; and improved communication and capacity building within the NMBM and the Nelson Mandela Bay business community. The main recommendation offered to the NMBM was for it to draft a Sustainable Development Policy as well as a formal sustainable development strategy to drive a coherent and consolidated approach to the Municipality’s involvement with CDM projects. Further, it was proposed that the NMBM should, lobby National Government for it to promulgate enabling legislation and a framework which would encourage CDM investment in South Africa; and engage with local business to promote the active involvement of the Nelson Mandela Bay with the implementation of CDM projects. Keywords: Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism, Sustainable Development, Environmental Economics, Public Sector, Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric Global warming
504	Factors influencing the success of activity-based costing in the Nelson Mandela Bay metropole manufacturing industry Reynolds, Arthur 08 May 2014 (has links) Past research on activity-based costing (ABC) success factors has predominantly focused on establishing relationships between known success factors and ABC implementation success. According to the researcher, there is a lack of exploratory studies to establish ABC implementation factors especially in a South African context. This study has explored these factors from literature and attempted to identify any other factors of importance with the use of semistructured interviews. A total number of 13 interviews were conducted with participants from manufacturing organisations in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropole using some form of ABC. The findings suggested that ABC may be more beneficial at larger, more diverse organisations but that smaller organisations may also benefit from ABC if product costing accuracy could be significantly improved with ABC and if no major pressure on company resources is incurred. In addition it seems that ABC should be utilised to the fullest extent that is practical for the manufacturing organisation and that the use of supplementary cost-saving mechanisms with ABC may be beneficial. Finally it is recommended that users be fully trained at ABC and that careful consideration of an appropriate ABC software package may increase the likelihood of ABC implementation success. / Management Accounting / M. Phil. (Management Accounting) Activity-based costing Traditional costing Standard costing Budgeting Forecasting Economics value-added Investment planning 658.15520968752
505	Essays on modelling and forecasting financial time series Coroneo, Laura 28 August 2009 (has links) This thesis is composed of three chapters which propose some novel approaches to model and forecast financial time series. The first chapter focuses on high frequency financial returns and proposes a quantile regression approach to model their intraday seasonality and dynamics. The second chapter deals with the problem of forecasting the yield curve including large datasets of macroeconomics information. While the last chapter addresses the issue of modelling the term structure of interest rates. <p><p>The first chapter investigates the distribution of high frequency financial returns, with special emphasis on the intraday seasonality. Using quantile regression, I show the expansions and shrinks of the probability law through the day for three years of 15 minutes sampled stock returns. Returns are more dispersed and less concentrated around the median at the hours near the opening and closing. I provide intraday value at risk assessments and I show how it adapts to changes of dispersion over the day. The tests performed on the out-of-sample forecasts of the value at risk show that the model is able to provide good risk assessments and to outperform standard Gaussian and Student’s t GARCH models.<p><p>The second chapter shows that macroeconomic indicators are helpful in forecasting the yield curve. I incorporate a large number of macroeconomic predictors within the Nelson and Siegel (1987) model for the yield curve, which can be cast in a common factor model representation. Rather than including macroeconomic variables as additional factors, I use them to extract the Nelson and Siegel factors. Estimation is performed by EM algorithm and Kalman filter using a data set composed by 17 yields and 118 macro variables. Results show that incorporating large macroeconomic information improves the accuracy of out-of-sample yield forecasts at medium and long horizons.<p><p>The third chapter statistically tests whether the Nelson and Siegel (1987) yield curve model is arbitrage-free. Theoretically, the Nelson-Siegel model does not ensure the absence of arbitrage opportunities. Still, central banks and public wealth managers rely heavily on it. Using a non-parametric resampling technique and zero-coupon yield curve data from the US market, I find that the no-arbitrage parameters are not statistically different from those obtained from the Nelson and Siegel model, at a 95 percent confidence level. I therefore conclude that the Nelson and Siegel yield curve model is compatible with arbitrage-freeness.<p> / Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished Sciences sociales Economie Macroeconomics -- Mathematical models Forecasting Yield Curve High Frequency Financial Returns Intraday Seasonality Quantile Regression No-arbitrage restrictions Value at Risk Nelson-Siegel model Large Cross-Sections Factor Models
506	Bezriziková výnosová míra ve výnosovém oceňování podniků / The Risk-free Rate of Return in The Income Valuation Approach Plánička, Pavel January 2009 (has links) The work deals with the theoretical basis and the practical approach for determining the risk-free rate of return. The aim of the work is to form recommendations which should analysts follow in determining the risk-free rate of return in the Czech Republic. The first part focuses on theoretical basis of risk-free rate of return and market interest rates. Further, the criteria of risk-free investments are defined in this chapter. The second and third part focuses on determination of the risk-free rate of return using yield to maturity of government bond and yield curve which was derived with using the Nelson-Siegel model. The table of forward rates at the end of each month from January 1999 to April 2010 is attached.
507	The employment of historically-informed performance practices in present-day tuba performances of two Italian baroque violoncello transcriptions. Coker, Bradley Gene 05 1900 (has links) As several Italian baroque violoncello transcriptions have entered the standard performance repertory for both high school and collegiate tubists, and as numerous texts, articles, and baroque performance instruction courses have illuminated a new realm of performance possibilities, no published document has provided specific, thorough, and sample approaches to performance on the tuba of a given piece (or pieces) through a detailed application of materials found in any singular source or combination of sources. Many of the existing articles and texts that approach the subject focus largely on ornamentation, while limiting the discussion and application of the following topics: tempo, spirit, affect, notation, rhythm, dynamics, and articulation. This document examines such topics and provides detailed explanations and suggestions of historically-informed characteristics applicable to two movements each from the R. Winston Morris transcription of Antonio Vivaldi's Sonata No. 3 in A Minor and the Donald C. Little/Richard B. Nelson transcription of Benedetto Marcello's Sonata No. V in C Major. Tuba historically-informed performance practice baroque Tuba -- Performance. Morris, R. Winston. Little, Donald C. Nelson, Richard Bruce, 1952-
508	History Will Be My Judge: A Cultural Examination of America's Racial Tensions Presented Through the Symbolization of Booker T. Washington Keturah C Nix (8088539) 06 December 2019 (has links) <i> History Will Be My Judge: A Cultural Examination of America's Racial Tensions Presented Through the Symbolization of Booker T. Washington</i> is an interdisciplinary study about the emergence of Booker T. Washington as a black cultural hero. By the turn of the twentieth century, Washington had become the most prominent African American educator, economic reformer, entrepreneur, and race leader in the United States. He is most recognized as the founder of Tuskegee Institute (now University) and his highly acclaimed autobiography, <i>Up From Slavery</i>, which recounts his life growing up enslaved to becoming an international icon. Since his death in 1915, several monuments, memorials, landmarks, and commemorative tributes have been established in his honor. During the 1940s, Washington became the first African American pictured on the United States postage stamp and minted silver half-dollar. Additionally, he was spotlighted in a series of media campaigns called "Famous American Firsts," and was the first African American inducted into the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. Moreover, amidst the presidential transition between Barack Obama and Donald Trump, black popular media has alluded to Washington's economic philosophy through music videos, documentaries, and television programs. I argue that each of these posthumous commemorations belong to larger social justice movements, namely, the Civil Rights movement and Black Lives Matter movement. Throughout these eras, Washington's legacy has served to counter white supremacy and symbolize the rise of integration, the black middle class, economic justice, black self-made, black education, and the legacy of slavery.<div> The purpose of this study is to examine how during periods of racial unrest, African Americans leverage Booker T. Washington's image to counter racist stereotypes and reaffirm black citizenship. The primary framework applied in this study is William L. Van Deburg's theory of the <i>black cultural hero. </i>Two emergent theories from this research are my developing frameworks called <i>Black Hustle Theory</i> and <i>nostalgic tension</i>. Using literary and visual analysis, I assess historical archives from popular press, black literature, American memorabilia, and black popular culture to examine Washington's commemorative legacy through a black radical lens. Specifically, I explore how the following four people have connected Washington's legacy to the Civil Rights movement and Black Lives Matter movement: Major Richard Robert Wright, Sr., founder of Savannah State University; Langston Hughes, famed Harlem Renaissance poet and author; Stanley Nelson, award-winning producer; and, Beyonce Knowles-Carter, singer and pop mogul. I put Washington's legacy in conversation with each of these cultural producers to simulate a call-and-response between his lifework and the generations after him.<br><div><br></div></div> History Race and Ethnic Relations Booker T. Washington Langston Hughes Beyonce Knowles-Carter Major Richard Robert Wright, Sr. Tuskegee Civil Rights Movement Lemonade Black Lives Matter Tell Them We Are Rising HBCU black popular culture commemoration white supremacy W.E.B. Du Bois Stanley Nelson black cultural hero race racism Frederick Douglass Black Hustle Theory nostalgic tension Up From Slavery postage stamp self-made slavery economic justice
509	An Analysis of the Teaching Aids Provided for Sunday School Teachers in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Whitehead, Kevin Douglas 04 January 2010 (has links) (PDF) Teaching is, and always has been, important in the work of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As one of the auxiliaries of the Church, the Sunday School has made an ongoing effort to provide effective teaching aids for its teachers in order to improve instruction in the Church. This work documents and examines change in principles of gospel teaching over the course of a century. By comparing teaching aids provided for Gospel Doctrine teachers in different time periods with guidelines found in the scriptures and words of modern prophets this work seeks to increase understanding of themes and fundamentals of inspired teaching in the Church. Teaching Principles Sunday School training teaching aids Gospel Doctrine Deseret Sunday School Union curriculum teacher training effective Robert Raikes teacher improvement education instruction religious education Parents'Class David O. McKay Russell M. Nelson theory History of Christianity
510	Cinema Novo et conscientisation / Cinema Novo e conscientização Ficamos, Bertrand 22 November 2007 (has links) Les objectifs de cette thèse sont de mettre à jour, d\'analyser et de critiquer la conception du cinéma révolutionnaire qui a été portée par le Cinema Novo et s\'est fondée sur le concept de « conscientisation » tel qu\'il a été formulé par les sciences sociales brésiliennes dans les années cinquante. Le Cinema Novo, que nous définirons comme un groupe de cinéastes, soutient une production suivie dans le Brésil des années soixante et se présente comme un cinéma humaniste, ayant pour but la prise de conscience par la population brésilienne des mécanismes sociaux, culturels, économiques et politiques qui expliquent le sous-développement, afin qu\'elle se révolte et fasse la révolution. Glauber Rocha fut la figure de proue de ce cinéma qui ne se résume pas à lui et qui a beaucoup évolué au cours de ses dix ans d\'existence. Nous le verrons en étudiant, entre autres : Sécheresse (Vidas secas) de Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Les Fusils (Os Fuzis) de Ruy Guerra, Le Dieu noir et le diable blond (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol), Terre en transe (Terra em transe) et Antonio-das-Mortes (O Dragão da maldade contra o santo guerreiro) de Glauber Rocha. Notre approche s\'insère dans le champ cinéma-histoire et applique à un nouvel objet d\'étude les méthodes développées sur d\'autres sujets par Michel Marie, Jean-Pierre Esquenazi ou encore Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit. Nous verrons ici comment, assimilant cinéma d\'auteur et cinéma révolutionnaire, le Cinema Novo a évité les schémas classiques et manipulateurs d\'un cinéma de propagande sans pour autant établir avec le grand public une relation suivie et devenir ce cinéma populaire de conscientisation idéalisé à ses débuts. / A tese apresentada pretende revelar, analisar e criticar a concepção do cinema revolucionário defendida pelo Cinema Novo fundada no conceito de conscientização formulada pelas ciências sociais brasileiras nos anos cinqüenta. O Cinema Novo, definido aqui como um grupo de cineastas, produz um volume conseqüente de filmes durante os anos sessenta. Ele se apresenta como um cinema humanista que tem por objetivo provocar a compreensão, pela população brasileira, dos mecanismos sociais, culturais, políticos e econômicos que explicam o subdesenvolvimento, para que esta se revolte e faça a revolução. Glauber Rocha foi o líder incontestável deste cinema que no entanto não se restringe a ele e que muito evoluiu durante seus dez anos de existência como veremos estudando entre outros : Vidas secas de Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Os Fuzis de Ruy Guerra, Deus e o diabo na terra do sol, Terra em transe e O Dragão da maldade contra o santo guerreiro de Glauber Rocha. Nossa perspectiva se insere no campo de estudo das relações entre cinema e história e aplica a um novo objeto métodos anteriormente desenvolvidos por Michel Marie, Jean-Pierre Esquenazi e Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit. Nós veremos como, a partir da assimilação entre cinema de autor e cinema revolucionário, o Cinema Novo conseguiu evitar os esquemas clássicos do cinema de propaganda sem no entanto estabelecer com o público uma relação estável, nem se tornar esse cinema popular de conscientização idealizado no início dos anos sessenta. 1960-1975 1960-1975 Brasil Brésil Carlos Diegues Carlos Diegues cinema brasileiro cinéma brésilien cinema de arte cinema de ficção cinéma de fiction cinéma documentaire cinema documentário cinéma d\'art et d\'essai cinéma histoire Cinema marginal Cinema marginal cinéma moderne cinema moderno Cinema Novo Cinema Novo cinema político cinéma politique cinema-história critique des médias critique et interprétation dictature ditadura economia do cinema économie du cinéma Eduardo Coutinho Eduardo Coutinho Estado e cinema estética do cinema esthétique du cinéma État et cinéma Glauber Rocha Glauber Rocha histoire du cinéma história do cinema Jean-Claude Bernardet Jean-Claude Bernardet Leon Hirszman Leon Hirszman Luiz Carlos Barreto Luiz Carlos Barreto Nelson Pereira dos Santos Nelson Pereira dos Santos Paulo César Saraceni Paulo César Saraceni Ruy Guerra Ruy Guerra sociologia do cinema sociologie du cinéma Trigueirinho Neto Trigueirinho Neto Walter Lima Jr Walter Lima Jr Zelito Viana Zelito Viana

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