Orientador: Veronica Fabrini Machado de Almeida / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T02:41:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Caetano_AlexandreCesar_M.pdf: 3136905 bytes, checksum: 5dea8647523966477b7e1324a44689a7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: "In(ve)stigando o Ritmo: a Importância da Conscientização Rítmica Através da Percussão e sua Transposição para a Cena" é um trabalho que procura salientar a importância do estudo do ritmo como 'ferramenta' útil de pesquisa do intérprete em sua relação com a cena, desfrutando da linguagem percussiva como elo de ligação com a linguagem corporal. Fazendo uso dos conceitos rítmicos ligados à percussão e do movimento do corpo regrado pelo ritmo, buscamos estabelecer uma analogia que permita a aproximação destas duas abordagens, na tentativa de contribuir para o apuro - instigado pelo ritmo e investigado pelo corpo - da conscientização temporal da ação cênica, desde a ótica de quem toca o instrumento até a de quem é estimulado(a) por ele. Como demonstração prática de nossas reflexões serão apresentados trechos do espetáculo PRIMUS, material empírico do qual extraímos alguns de nossos pressupostos e no qual aplicamos alguns fundamentos advindos do estudo da percussão em sua relação criativa com a cena. Anexo ao material escrito disponibilizamos um CD com exemplos sonoros de nossa investigação, com o intuito de complementar a compreensão do universo rítmico que apresentamos, oferecendo ao leitor leigo uma referência concreta dos assuntos abordados. / Abstract: "In(ve)stigating Rhythm: The Importance of Rhythmical Awareness Through Percussion and its Transposition to the Scene" is a piece of work that seeks to stress the importance of the study of rhythm as a useful research "tool" for the performer in its relation with the scene, linking the percussive language with the body language. Working from percussion rhythmical concepts and from body movement regulated by rhythm, we try to draw an analogy that allows an approximation of the two approaches, so as to contribute with the improvement - instigated by rhythm and investigated by the body - of the temporal awareness of the action in the scene, both from the point of view of that who plays the instrument and of that who is stimulated by it. Extracts of the performance PRIMUS will be put on as a practical demonstration of our reflection. The performance is the empirical material of which we extracted some of our assertions, and to which we applied some of the principles discovered in the study of percussion and its creative relation with the scene. A CD is available annexed to the written material with sonorous examples of our investigation, so as to provide a better understanding of the rhythmical universe we present, offering the non-specialized reader a concrete reference of the approached topics. / Mestrado / Mestre em Artes

The problem of this study is to determine the degree to which color concepts should be taught to the art student. There is a survey of the awareness of color through art history, the introduction of certain historical and recent information in the fields of physics, physiology, and psychology in relation to color and the art student, a review of the symbolic nature of color, an examination of the development of color notation or theories utilized by art students, and an attempt to integrate color more fully with the other art elements.

ASN.1 is a powerful formal notation divided into two parts, a specification of the data and the data itself in binary form. Creating decoders for these files can often be tedious. The purpose of this degree work is to extend current tools at Arctic Group to make an application that decodes a range of different ASN.1 specifications and data. This should be done during runtime, without needing to rebuild the application for each specification, while generating human-readable data and abstracting unwanted information. Two ways to create ASN.1 decoders were identified, and the application was designed taking heavy inspiration from a solution that stores intermediate data in a list. By not including encoding as a feature of the application a few shortcuts could be made, and the desired result could be achieved during runtime. The application was designed to include three parts. The first part was an ASN.1 parser using the Java-based tool ANTLR4. The second part matched the binary data to the information in the specification. The final part was an output formatter that abstracts and prettifies the output data to text files. The result was an application that parses at least three of the most commonly used specifications of the employer and does only have to be rebuilt when a new data type is present in the specifications. Problems arose when matching the data to the ASN.1 specifications, thus the matching and output formatting was only partially implemented. The application was evaluated by testing many different ASN.1 specifications, making sure everything was generated correctly during runtime and extending the parser to support more syntax as it was introduced in new specifications. Although the application did not support any arbitrary ASN.1 specification, it could serve as a foundation for further development to make the application truly generalized. / ASN.1 är en kraftfull formell notation uppdelad i två delar. En specifikation av data och medföljande data i binär form. Att skapa avkodare till dessa filer kan ofta vara tidskrävande. Syftet med det här examensarbetet är att vidareutveckla nuvarande verktyg på Arctic Group till en applikation som avkodar ett flertal olika ASN.1-specifikationer och data. Detta skall göras under körning och skall inte kräva att applikationen byggs om för varje specifikation. Applikationen skall även generera mänskligt läsbar utdata och abstrahera bort oönskad information. Två sätt att bygga en ASN.1-avkodare hittades under förstudien och applikationen designades med inspiration av en lösning som sparar data i en mellanliggande lista. Genom att inte inkludera kodning av data i applikationen kunde genvägar tas och det önskade resultatet kunde uppnås under körning. Applikationen designades med tre delar. Den första delen var en ASN.1-läsare som använde verktyget ANTLR4 byggt i Java, den andra en del som matchade informationen från specifikationen till den binära datan. Den sista delen var en formaterare för utdata som även abstraherade bort oönskad information. Resultatet blev en applikation som korrekt läser av minst tre av de mest använda ASN.1-specifikationerna hos uppdragsgivaren och som bara behöver byggas om då en ny datatyp introduceras i specifikationerna. Problem uppstod vid matching av data till specifikationen vilket ledde till att matchningen och formateringen blev bara delvis implementerat. Applikationen utvärderades genom att testa många olika ASN.1 specifikationer, kontrollera att allt genererades korrekt under körning och att utöka läsaren efterhand för att kunna hantera mer syntax då den introducerades i de nya specifikationerna. Även om applikationen inte än stödjer godtycklig ASN.1-specifikation kan den verka som en bas för vidareutveckling mot en mer komplett generaliserad lösning.

The Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (IFNM) contributed to the rise of solo multiple percussion music and compositional techniques found in early repertoire, including graphic notation and indeterminacy. John Cage wrote the first solo multiple percussion work (27' 10.554" for a Percussionist) in 1956, two years before he became involved at the Darmstadt IFNM. Cage then delivered a lecture at the courses in 1958 about indeterminacy, and the next year (1959) Stockhausen composed the second work for solo multiple percussion—Nr. 9 Zyklus—for the IFNM. In the same year, Stockhausen also delivered a lecture about graphic notation. Seven years later in 1966, Helmut Lachenmann—who was active at the IFNM since 1957—composed Intérieur I für einen Schlagzeugsolisten which utilizes graphic notation and indeterminacy. The three pieces by Cage, Stockhausen and Lachenmann will be examined in regards to how they employ graphic notation and indeterminacy and similarities and differences in how these techniques are used will be cited.

The desire to obtain value and justify investments from the different Information Systems in place in organizations has been around for a long time. Organizations constantly theorize and implement different approaches that provide some sort of alignment between their different business objectives and Information Systems. Unfortunately, the environments in which these organizations operate are often dynamic, constantly changing with influence from external and internal factors that require continual realignment of the Information Systems with business objectives to provide value. When businesses evolve, leading to changes in business requirements, it is hard to know what direct Information System changes are needed to respond to the new requirements. Similarly, when there are changes in the Information System, it is not often easy to discern which business objectives are directly affected. Whilst the different Enterprise Architecture frameworks available today provide and propose some form of alignment, in their implementation, they do not show links between business objectives and Information Systems, i.e., indicating what Information System is directly responsible for different business objectives thereby allowing for anticipation and support of changes as the business evolves. This thesis utilizes insights from Business Intelligence and uses the User Requirements Notation (URN), which enables modeling of business processes and goals, to provide a framework that exploits links between business objectives and Information Systems. This Business Intelligence - Enabled Adaptive Enterprise Architecture framework allows for anticipating and supporting proactively the adaptation of Enterprise Architecture as and when the business evolves. The thesis also identifies and models levels within the enterprise where responses to change as the business evolves are needed and the ways the changes are presented. The tool-supported framework is evaluated against the different levels and types of changes on a realistic Enterprise Architecture at a Government of Canada department, with encouraging results.

This thesis deals with the linkages between data models from conceptual models to physical design of information bases, used for implementation. The aim is to analyze the modern approach to design systems and specify how detailed the conceptual modeling and impact on the quality of the final form of application or system, including processes that take place in advance to the next level of design. Approximated the techniques the transition between these levels and will take into account structural features and limitations of selected platforms and requirements for their design and mutual coherence level view of the system. For the purpose of the thesis the well known data modeling methods are being analyzed together with their applicabilities.

This diploma thesis analyzes the processes and proposals for changes in the functioning of real business unit called AiP Safe Ltd. The company is based in Prague and the subject of her business is the supply of software solutions for document management. The theoretical part of this work summarizes concepts and approaches related to process management organization. The practical part is divided into an analysis of the current situation in the company and analysis processes themselves, their description, identification and models, the second part consists of proposals for changes in mentioned business unit that emerged from the analysis.

Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document / Dissertation (MMus (Musicology))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Music / unrestricted

O presente trabalho investiga as diculdades enfrentadas por decientes visuais ao ingressarem em um curso de nvel superior em Música, onde a troca de informacão musical escrita é frequente e se dá por meio de partituras impressas em tinta, e a conversão deste material para braille demanda conhecimentos específicos e disponibilidade de recursos. Igualmente problemática, a produção musical do aluno cego é feita em braille, seja para tomar nota de aulas como para realizar tarefas de disciplinas como Contraponto, Harmonia e Análise Musical, ou mesmo para a realização de exames. Claramente, esse material deve passar por um processo de conversão para que o professor possa avaliar o aluno, entre outros motivos. O foco principal da pesquisa realizada é a analise da musicografia braille sob a ótica das possibilidades de se produzir transcrições automáticas entre partituras em braille e tinta, a fim de prover recursos tecnológicos direcionados a solução deste problema. Para tanto, foi desenvolvido um aplicativo capaz de receber informação musical em braille e converê-la para o formato MusicXML, adequado para a leitura a partir de outros aplicativos de notação musical e, consequentemente, a impressão deste material em tinta. Este programa esta sendo distribudo como software livre sob licenca LGPL, contrapondo-se as suas alternativas hoje existentes no mercado. O aplicativo desenvolvido foi utilizado e avaliado por usuarios decientes visuais e com visão normal por meio de um questionário. Os dados foram então analisados, buscando mapear as diferenças nas experiências de uso e verificar necessidades de melhorias e novas funcionalidades, buscando com isso o aprofundamento nas questões pertinentes ao problema e dando suporte a novas pesquisas relativas ao assunto. / This work researches visually-impaired person\'s dificulties when studying music as a university career, where musical information is usually forwarded as ink-printed sheet music and the translation of this material to braille involves specic skills and resource availability. In that sense, the musical production demanded from a blind student is accomplished by using braille notation, for taking notes or producing homework for disciplines like Harmony, Musical Analysis, or even to take tests. Clearly the information produced has to be submitted to a conversion process, and finally it can be reviewed by the professor or other students. The main focus of this research is the understanding of braille music aspects and the problem of generating automatic ink-printed sheet music transcriptions, providing assistive resource for music students. For attaining this goal, an application was developed in order to receive braille music input and translate it to MusicXML format, which can be read by any of the widely MusicXML compatible softwares available for reading, editing and printing music. The program is distributed as free software under LGPL license, as opposed to currently available alternatives. The resulting application was tested by visually-impaired and non-visually impaired users, and reviewed trough the application of a survey. The collected data was analyzed, in search for variations on user experience and checking for software improvement needs, as well as uncovering further relevant matters on this subject.

Cette thèse porte sur plusieurs questions relatives à l'économie de l'éducation et à l'économie des équipes. Dans le premier chapitre, basé sur une collaboration avec Laurent Rossignol, nous nous concentrons sur l'orientation scolaire. Nous mettons en évidence l'existence de biais d'orientation dans le système éducatif français : l'orientation des élèves ne dépend pas uniquement de leur performance académique mais aussi de leur sexe et de leur origine sociale. Notre contribution principale est de distinguer l'impact des aspirations des élèves de l'impact de la notation des professeurs et de leurs recommandations sur ces biais d'orientation. Le second chapitre, coécrit avec Antoine Chapsal, vise à comprendre certaines incitations et effets psychologiques associés au travail en équipe, à partir de données sur les championnats par équipe de squash. Nous montrons que les joueurs valorisent le fait de participer au succès de leur équipe, ce qui explique en partie pourquoi les incitations à l'effort sont plus fortes dans des contextes collectifs que dans des contextes individuels. Le troisième chapitre, issu d'un travail initial avec Rodrigo Lopez-Kolkovsky, a pour but de développer une procédure d'estimation pour mesurer la productivité individuelle en équipe, à partir de données sur le football européen. Nous confrontons ensuite cette mesure à la valeur de marché des joueurs et nous montrons que les joueurs Noirs sont discriminés sur le marché. / In this dissertation, I investigate several questions of interest in the fields of economics of education and economics of teams. In the first chapter, based on initial work with Laurent Rossignol, we focus on tracking in education. We provide evidence of tracking gaps in the French education system: tracking does not solely depend on academic performance but also on gender and socio-economic status. Our main contribution is to disentangle the impact of differences in students' aspirations from the impact of teachers' grading and track recommendations on these tracking gaps. The second chapter, joint with Antoine Chapsal, aims at understanding some of the incentives and psychological effects associated to teamwork, based on team squash data. We show that players value the fact of being responsible for the success of their team, which partly explains that team-based contests can yield higher effort than individual-based contests. The third chapter, built upon initial work with Rodrigo Lopez-Kolkovsky, aims at developing an estimation procedure to measure individual productivity in teams, based on European football data. We confront this measure to players' market value and provide evidence for racial discrimination on the football market.