Esta pesquisa analisa a história dos modelos atômicos no início do século XX a partir das contribuições de Joseph John Thomson, Hantaro Nagaoka, Ernest Rutherford, John William Nicholson e Niels Bohr e seus contemporâneos, enfatizando as explicações desde a Física Clássica até a introdução da Teoria Quântica. A tese apresenta uma introdução e oito capítulos. O primeiro capítulo procura dar conta do “estado da arte” antes da proposição dos modelos discutidos. Neste capítulo enfatizamos questões que se localizam no campo da ciência clássica, sem mergulhar no campo da teoria quântica nascente. Na continuidade, apresentamos seis capítulos, cronologicamente organizados com uma breve biografia de cada um dos cientistas mencionados e o detalhamento das idéias e dos episódios científicos que levaram às publicações que apresentaram seus modelos pela primeira vez. A publicação dos modelos de átomo quantizados teve grande impacto e suscitou muitos debates, o que nos levou a produzir o capítulo sete tratando especificamente desses embates. Para concluir no capítulo oito apresentamos algumas considerações sobre a integração das diversas trilhas investigativas que levam à publicação dos modelos atômicos discutidos; ao trabalho nas fronteiras de campos investigativos diversos; à intrincada dinâmica de poder entre campos, cientistas e publicações; e à afirmação de novos campos. / The present research examines the history of atomic models in the early twentieth century dealing with the contributions of Joseph John Thomson, Hantaro Nagaoka, Ernest Rutherford, John William Nicholson and Niels Bohr and his contemporaries. It emphasizes the explanations from the classical physics till the introduction of the Quantum Theory. This thesis presents an introduction and eight chapters. Chapter 1 presents the investigations which took place before the proposition of the models pointed out in the first paragraph. This chapter emphasizes the classical science, without diving into the quantum explanations. The next six chapters present a chronological sequence of biographies, ideas and publications and discuss the atomic models proposed by the quoted scientists. The publication of the papers on the quantized atom models had great impact and caused many debates, which led us to produce a specific chapter dealing with such subject. . In conclusion, the chapter eight presents some considerations about the integration of the investigative trails that led to the publication of the atomic models discussed, the work on investigative borders fields, the intricate dynamics of power between fields, scientists and publications, and the assertion of new fields.

Master of Philosophy / The following paper will present a study of 76 impasto and bucchero ceramic artefacts that form part of the collection of the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney. These artefacts have not been previously studied in any detail and while some have been published, publication was limited to a brief description. The paper is divided into three sections: impasto, Caeretan stamped ware and bucchero. A preliminary discussion of the ceramic type is followed by a catalogue. The catalogue provides a detailed description, any provenance and publication details, parallels and provides a date and possible geographical context of each vessel.

Master of Philosophy / The following paper will present a study of 76 impasto and bucchero ceramic artefacts that form part of the collection of the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney. These artefacts have not been previously studied in any detail and while some have been published, publication was limited to a brief description. The paper is divided into three sections: impasto, Caeretan stamped ware and bucchero. A preliminary discussion of the ceramic type is followed by a catalogue. The catalogue provides a detailed description, any provenance and publication details, parallels and provides a date and possible geographical context of each vessel.

In this paper the rate of convergence, speed of execution and symplectic properties of the time-integrators Leap-Frog (LF2), fourth order Runge-Kutta(RK4) and Crank-Nicholson (CN2) have been studied. This was done by solving the one-dimensional model for a particle in a box (Dirichlet-conditions). The results show that RK4 is the fastest in achieving higher tolerances, while CN2 is the fastest in achieving lower tolerances. Fourth order corrections of LF (LF4)and CN (CN4) were also studied, though these showed no improvements overLF2 and CN2. All methods were shown to exhibit symplectic behavior.

The “dialogue novel” is best understood as an ongoing novelistic experiment that replaces narration with dialogue, so that such basic narrative constituents as character, setting, chronology, and plot find expression not through the mediation of an external or character-bound narrative consciousness, but through the presented verbal exchange between characters. Despite sustained critical attention to the variety and “openness” of the novel form, dialogue novels have been largely ignored within English studies— treated as neither a sustained tradition within, nor a perverse manifestation of, the novel. This study seeks to address that absence and to situate the dialogue novel within narrative and novel studies. Drawing from analytic philosophy, narratology, literary theory, and the dialogue novels themselves, this study demonstrates how the unique formal texture of the dialogue novel opens onto valuable discussions about such topics as cooperative language communities, narrative desire, the power dynamics implicit in talk, and the relationship between time and narrative. Overriding these concerns is an attention to how the social nature of conversation determines how the dialogue novel represents institutional power and character agency, as well as how the dialogue novel establishes a dynamic between reader and text for the refiguration of meaning and the reconstruction of fictional worlds. Chapter One uses Paul Grice’s Cooperative Principle as a baseline for delineating how communities are formed and maintained through dialogue in Henry James’s The Awkward Age. Chapter Two considers Henry Green’s late dialogue novels alongside his novel theory and René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire to illustrate how both character and readerly desire function as imitative practices. Chapter Three considers the novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett through Aaron Fogel’s theory of “forced dialogue” to argue that dialogue’s constraints can offer liberative structure to the novel form and those who are subject to these strictures. And Chapter Four reads dialogue novels by William Gaddis and Nicholson Baker through Paul Ricoeur’s threefold mimesis and Lubomír Doležel’s possible-worlds theory to argue that the dialogue novel presents an ideal form for examining the complex intersection of formal texture and history, as well as the dialectic between narrative configuration and human time. / English

In 1988, Linda Nicholson and Nancy Fraser published an article entitled "Social Criticism Without Philosophy: An Encounter Between Feminism and Postmodernism," arguing that this essay would provide a jumping point for discussion between feminisms and postmodernisms within academia. Within this essay, Nicholson and Fraser largely disavow a number of second wave feminist theories due to their essentialist and foundationalist underpinnings in favor of a set of postmodernist frameworks that might help feminist theorists overcome these epistemological impediments. A "postmodern feminism," Nicholson and Fraser claim, would become "the theoretical counterpart of a broader, richer, more complex, and multilayered solidarity, the sort of solidarity which is essential for overcoming the oppression of women" (35). Interpreting "Social Criticism" through a feminist cultural studies model in which texts are understood to be simultaneously constituted by and reflective of their own sociopolitical spaces, I argue that the construction of Nicholson and Fraser's "postmodern feminism" is, first and foremost, neither a postmodernist critique nor a means of overcoming the pitfalls of essentialism and foundationalism. Instead, the construction of this theoretical paradigm can be shown to be complicit with postfeminist discourses, wherein an implicitly patriarchal discourse of postmodernism is called upon to repair the deficiencies of feminisms, deficiencies that postmodernisms, in some ways, helped to bring into view. To provide a conceptual backing for these claims, I move toward an examination of mass culture, surveying the similarities between "Social Criticism" and the film What Women Want. Such a comparison, I suggest, facilitates a better understanding of how "Social Criticism" can be shown to be imbedded in a postfeminist narrative structure in which feminisms are relegated to a discursively subordinate gendered position in relation to postmodernisms. Finally, in what I find to be the most important aspect of this thesis' inquiry, I ask what it means to build a "broader, richer, more complex, and multilayered solidarity" by disavowing second wave feminisms in favor of postmodernisms. I conclude that, in using postmodernisms as a panacea for feminist theories, Nicholson and Fraser curtail what might have been a rigorous interrogation of and direct engagement with second wave feminist theories that would also attend to the phallogocentric underpinnings of postmodern theories. To underline the potential consequences, I turn to a set of televisual and filmic texts including Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives, and The Devil Wears Prada to gauge what their "postmodern feminism" might represent in practice rather than what it entails as philosophy. This juxtaposition of these two differently defined and yet overwhelmingly similar postmodern feminisms, I propose, underscores the potential that Nicholson and Fraser may have instituted a postmodern feminist methodology in which it is possible that feminisms might emerge not as discourses essential for "overcoming the oppression of women" but rather as discourses that can be critiqued into oblivion.

At the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, the Woman's Department offered women of all regions of the country an opportunity to exhibit what they considered "woman's work." As women came together and attempted sectional reconciliation, controversy persisted, especially over the selection of northern suffragist Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," as the Department's president. However, during the course of the event, which lasted from December 16, 1884 to May 31, 1885, New Orleanians and other southern women learned skills and strategies from participants and famous women visitors, and these southerners insinuated their voices into the national debate on late-nineteenth-century women's issues.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T14:16:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cesar Valmor Machado Lopes.pdf: 842950 bytes, checksum: 89254b42f8824733249497f87b4244e3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present research examines the history of atomic models in the early twentieth century dealing with the contributions of Joseph John Thomson, Hantaro Nagaoka, Ernest Rutherford, John William Nicholson and Niels Bohr and his contemporaries. It emphasizes the explanations from the classical physics till the introduction of the Quantum Theory. This thesis presents an introduction and eight chapters. Chapter 1 presents the investigations which took place before the proposition of the models pointed out in the first paragraph. This chapter emphasizes the classical science, without diving into the quantum explanations. The next six chapters present a chronological sequence of biographies, ideas and publications and discuss the atomic models proposed by the quoted scientists. The publication of the papers on the quantized atom models had great impact and caused many debates, which led us to produce a specific chapter dealing with such subject. . In conclusion, the chapter eight presents some considerations about the integration of the investigative trails that led to the publication of the atomic models discussed, the work on investigative borders fields, the intricate dynamics of power between fields, scientists and publications, and the assertion of new fields / Esta pesquisa analisa a história dos modelos atômicos no início do século XX a partir das contribuições de Joseph John Thomson, Hantaro Nagaoka, Ernest Rutherford, John William Nicholson e Niels Bohr e seus contemporâneos, enfatizando as explicações desde a Física Clássica até a introdução da Teoria Quântica. A tese apresenta uma introdução e oito capítulos. O primeiro capítulo procura dar conta do estado da arte antes da proposição dos modelos discutidos. Neste capítulo enfatizamos questões que se localizam no campo da ciência clássica, sem mergulhar no campo da teoria quântica nascente. Na continuidade, apresentamos seis capítulos, cronologicamente organizados com uma breve biografia de cada um dos cientistas mencionados e o detalhamento das idéias e dos episódios científicos que levaram às publicações que apresentaram seus modelos pela primeira vez. A publicação dos modelos de átomo quantizados teve grande impacto e suscitou muitos debates, o que nos levou a produzir o capítulo sete tratando especificamente desses embates. Para concluir no capítulo oito apresentamos algumas considerações sobre a integração das diversas trilhas investigativas que levam à publicação dos modelos atômicos discutidos; ao trabalho nas fronteiras de campos investigativos diversos; à intrincada dinâmica de poder entre campos, cientistas e publicações; e à afirmação de novos campos