France and Australia possess such distinctive national traits that they are not habitually compared in relation to their history, identity and culture. However, their national cinemas reveal that they have much in common. A significant number of recent films from both nations bear the mark of a similar obsessional quest for national identity that is linked to the exploration of a troubled colonial past. This shared preoccupation constitutes the starting point for this thesis, which compares the representation of colonial history in the cinema of France and Australia since 1970. It is of course evident that the two nations have had widely differing experiences of colonisation. Modern France is among the ranks of the major empire builders, and Australia is the product of one of Great Britain's most successful colonies. If neither nation can forget its colonial past, it is also for different reasons: France is the principal destination of migrants from her former colonies, and Australia faces landrights claims from her indigenous populations. If these differences provide the distinct social, political and geographical contexts of French and Australian cinema, they do not, however, impinge upon the stylistic and ideological analysis of their colonial thematics. For the purposes of this thesis, three fundamental criteria determine the inclusion of a film in the corpus: it must have an historical colonial setting; its narrative must focus principally on aspects of the colonisation process; and its director must be a descendant of the former colonisers. Around a dozen films released since 1970 in each country have been identified as matching these criteria and, for the purposes of the thesis, have been called postcolonial films. The content and structures of the films dictate the analytical approach and theories are drawn upon as tools when needed. These theories are widely varied across the disciplines and the theorists include Pierre Sorlin, Edward Saïd and Albert Memmi. The approach to representing colonial issues varies widely, with the majority of the films in the corpus neither appearing to confront openly nor to support the ideology of colonialism. Two exceptions are Coup de torchon (Tavernier, France, 1981) and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Schepisi, Australia, 1978). More typical of the ambivalent treatment of colonialism are the popularly attended films such as Indochine (Wargnier, France, 1991) and Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, Australia, 1975). In the first chapter an analysis of the relationship of the films to documented history demonstrates that French films are frequently set during the period between 1910 and 1950, and Australian films during the last half of the nineteenth century. The following chapter examines the relationship of the colonisers to their colonised lands and asks if the exceptional attention paid in all the films to the colonial geography has the effect of assimilating an alien landscape into the Western settlers’ culture and mythology. The following two chapters address the core element of colonial life - in Franz Fanon's terms - its division into two worlds. The first of these chapters examines the interaction between the coloniser and the colonised through individual relationships between the two, and addresses the problem that all of these relationships end in permanent separation. The following chapter explores the interaction between coloniser and colonised as social groups that are divided by notions of race and discusses the general epistemological problem of the representation of the Other. The fifth chapter analyses the symbolic mechanisms being used to structure the films and manipulate the unconscious effect on the viewer. For example, there are a number of films with journeys of some kind, orphan-like characters and characters with strong noble savage qualities. Finally, the sixth chapter compares two of the films to the books from which they are derived. The object of this double comparison is to isolate differences in the films which are better explained by changing colonial politics than by inherent differences between cinema and literature. In the conclusion, it is argued that there appear to be few sustained attempts at confronting and resolving the problematic aspects of colonialism’s legacy. This is especially evident from the predominance of fictitious stories over the depiction of actual documented events. This tendency in both the French and Australian cinemas to contain the representation of the colonial past within a fictional framework has the inevitable consequence of masking history and thus avoiding the necessity of dealing with it. A further notable tendency was the preference for selecting certain periods and avoiding others, hence stripping the colonial past of its most embarrassing aspects. For example, no film could be found which showed the initial phase of the establishment of a colony. Despite the rarity of films released in France and Australia that openly challenge colonialism as a whole, many signs are evident throughout these films that the practices and values defending or justifying colonisation are nevertheless being questioned. / Thesis (Ph.D) -- School of Humanities, 2003

This thesis represents a transdisciplinary study based on qualitative research and critical analysis of oral history interviews and the personal narratives of sixty-seven Australian-born Chinese. It uses cultural studies approaches to investigate the diverse ways Chineseness becomes inscribed into the lives of Australian-born Chinese. It investigates diverse ways Chineseness becomes inscribed into the lives of Australian-born Chinese within three social and cultural spaces Australian-born Chinese inhabit. These are the family, mainstream Australian society and Chinese diasporic spaces located in China and Australia. In examining these three social and cultural spaces, this study seeks to demonstrate that Chineseness represents an inescapable ‘reality’ Australian-born Chinese are compelled to confront in their everyday lives. This ‘reality’ exists despite rights of birth, generational longevity, and strong national and cultural identities and identifications grounded in Australia, and whether or not Australian-born Chinese willingly choose to identify as ‘Chinese’. Nevertheless, despite the limits of Chineseness Australian-born Chinese experience in their lives, this study demonstrates that Australian-born Chinese are individual agents who devise a range of strategies and tactics which empower them to negotiate Chineseness in relevant and meaningful ways of their own choosing.

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Communication, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-46).

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The present thesis is focused on study of dust grain charging. The experimental part covers interaction between dust grains and high-energy electrons and self-discharging of grains by both field electron emission and field ionization. The second part of the thesis describes construction and evaluation of a linear electrodynamic trap of the novel design. We have observed charging of small dust grains towards high positive electric potentials when bombarded by the high-energy electron beam. We have described an increase of the secondary electron- electron emission yield from negatively charged grains due to the surface field. Further, self-discharging characteristics for both positively and negatively charged grains were measured. The relationship between discharging rate and the rate of the flow of atoms leaving the grain surface due to diffusion was observed for positively charged grains. This suggests significantly lower surface field necessary for ionizing such atoms compared to the ionization of atoms of surrounding gas and compared to the typically published field ionization thresholds. Based on the design published in the master thesis, a linear quadrupole trap of novel design was constructed. Testing measurements confirmed functionality and expected characteristics of the trap. In addition, effects of...

This research extends the capabilities of Non-oscillatory Forward-in-Time (NFT) solvers operating on unstructured meshes to allow for accurate simulation of incompressible turbulent flows. This is achieved by the development of Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) turbulent flow methodologies and the development of parallel option of the flow solver. The effective use of LES and DES requires a development of a subgrid-scale model. Several subgrid-scale models are implemented and studied, and their efficacy is assessed. The NFT solvers employed in this work are based on the Multidimensional Positive Definite Advection Transport Algorithm (MPDATA) that facilitates novel implicit Large Eddy Simulation (ILES) approach to treating turbulence. The flexibility and robustness of the new NFT MPDATA solver are studied and successfully validated using well established benchmarks and concentrate on a flow past a sphere. The flow statistics from the solutions are compared against the existing experimental and numerical data and fully confirm the validity of the approach. The parallel implementation of the flow solver is also documented and verified showing a substantial speedup of computations. The proposed method lays foundations for further studies and developments, especially for exploring the potential of MPDATA in the context of ILES and associated treatments of boundary conditions at solid boundaries.

En 1919, la France sort d’une guerre au cours de laquelle elle a subi des pertes humaines jusque-là inimaginables. L’État est alors amené à inventer de nouveaux outils pour faire face au deuil et au traumatisme. C’est l’un d’entre eux, le 11 Novembre, que cette thèse a interrogé dans sa dimension parisienne de 1919 à 2012. Les archives administratives, les comptes rendus des débats parlementaire et la presse quotidienne ont d’abord permis de se pencher sur l’invention d’une commémoration qui, si elle prend forme au cours d’un débat politique intense, se caractérise surtout par la mise en scène d’éléments intégrés dans le patrimoine matériel et immatériel de la Nation lors de la sortie de guerre autour desquels les organisateurs déploient un rituel de circonstance : la minute de silence. Filmée de sa création à 2012, la commémoration du 11 Novembre a aussi été étudiée, pour chaque époque, à travers le prisme des images animées. / In 1919, France is emerging from a war in which she suffered a number of casualties previously unimaginable. The State is then brought to invent new tools to deal with the trauma of war and grief that affects society. Among them, the commemoration of the Armistice of November 11, 1918 has crossed the century and persists as a major event despite the disappearance of the last veterans of the Great War. This thesis focuses on the national ceremony on November 11, held annually since 1922 in Paris. It aims first to look at the genesis of a commemoration, which was established after an intense political debate. The commemoration was organized around specific old and new rituals : the flags of the regiments disbanded and the unknown Soldier, or the minute of silence). This elements that became permanent emphasized the mournig dimension of the commemoration. Filmed from 1923 to 2012, the commemoration of November 11 has also been studied through the prism of the images broadcasted in the medias.

One of the major challenges for agriculture today is to manage soil properties and their spatial distribution to optimize productivity and minimize environmental impacts, such as diffuse pollution. To identify best management practices, the effects of different agricultural management practices on pollutant sources, mobilization, transfer and delivery to water bodies need to be understood. Grasslands managed for dairy and meat production, despite being widespread, have received less research attention than other agricultural land uses. Therefore, this thesis studies the effects of different grassland management practices on soil properties and their spatial distribution and the mobilization and delivery of multiple diffuse pollutants. As a grassland case study, monitoring for this thesis was conducted across three fields (6.5 – 7.5 ha) on the North Wyke Farm Platform, a grassland experimental farm in the UK. First, the effects of permanent grassland management (permanent for at least 6 years, but different grassland management > 6 years ago) were characterized as a baseline, followed by quantifying the short-term effects of ploughing and reseeding of permanent grassland fields. Throughout those management periods, i) a range of soil physical (bulk density [BD]) and chemical (soil organic matter [SOM], total N [TN], total phosphorus [TP], total carbon [TC]) soil properties and their spatial distribution were sampled and analysed by geostatistics, and ii) hydrological characteristics and multiple pollutant fluxes (suspended sediment [SS] and the macronutrients: total oxidized nitrogen-N [TONN], total phosphorus [TP], and total carbon [TC]) were monitored at high temporal resolution (monitoring up to every 15 minutes). The permanent grassland fields (or areas within fields) can be considered to be functioning differently. Past management legacy (more than 6 years ago) has affected soil properties and their distribution with subsequent effects on sediment and macronutrient delivery from the fields to surface waters. Overall, permanent grasslands were found to contribute significantly to agricultural diffuse pollution. The estimated erosion and macronutrient losses were similar to or exceeded the losses reported for other grasslands, mixed land use and even arable sites, and sediment and TP concentrations exceeded those recommended by EU / UK water quality guidelines. Ploughing and reseeding did not homogenize spatial variation and did not override past management effects. Long-term management differences affected soil properties and altered soil processes, so that the fields subsequently responded differently to ploughing and reseeding. All nutrient concentrations were significantly reduced in the older grassland field (no ploughing for 20 years), but not in the younger grassland field (no ploughing for 6 years). Ploughing and reseeding significantly accelerated the losses of sediment and macronutrients and sediment, TP and TONN exceedance frequencies of EU / UK water quality guidelines increased. Additionally, ploughing and reseeding caused a shift in the relative importance of nutrients, by increasing the relative importance of N. Such large sediment and nutrient losses from intensively managed grasslands should be acknowledged in land management guidelines and advice for future compliance with surface water quality standards. The between-field and within-field variation highlights the importance of baseline characterization and paired catchment studies. The long-term effects of management still acting on soil properties and subsequently water quality indicates how long it may take to see soil and water quality improvements after implementing mitigation measures. Therefore, long-term management history always has to be included when interpreting soil and water quality data.

ALBUQUERQUE, Micheline Guelry Silva. Uso do imperfeito do indicativo e de perífrases imperfectivas de passado em memórias literárias produzidas por alunos de escolas públicas brasileiras. 2015. 155f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras Vernáculas, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza (CE), 2015. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2015-08-26T11:39:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_mgsalbuquerque.pdf: 960073 bytes, checksum: 236942dc5ae5c1c1d88efd3e5ed376fc (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2015-08-28T13:25:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_mgsalbuquerque.pdf: 960073 bytes, checksum: 236942dc5ae5c1c1d88efd3e5ed376fc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-08-28T13:25:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_mgsalbuquerque.pdf: 960073 bytes, checksum: 236942dc5ae5c1c1d88efd3e5ed376fc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / This research aims to analyze variation in the use of the imperfect of indicative and imperfective periphrases the past, literary memories produced in 2010 and 2012, by students of the 7th and 8th years, finalists of the Portuguese Language Olympiad Writing the Future. Accordingly, it intends to investigate factors (linguistic and extra-linguistic) motivate the choice of one form or another. Therefore, is based on the Sociofuncionalism the postulates defended by Tavares (2003), resulting theoretical wedding between Sociolinguistics variational (Weinreich, Labov And HERZOG, 1968; Labov, 1972, 1978, 1994, 2001, 2003, 2010) and the US shed functionalism (cf. Givon, 1995, 2001; HOPPER, 1991; HOPPER & TRAUGOTT, 1993; TRAUGOTT, 1995. the corpus consists of 2205 data imperfective forms of past collected from 76 of literary texts memories , and in 1926 these data imperfect indicative past tense, for a total of 87.3% of the total, and 279 forms of imperfective periphrases past, totaling a percentage of 12.7% of the total incidence. The outcomes of the rounds statistics done using the software GoldVarb revealed that the phenomenon under study is motivated by linguistic factors, as imperfective function (episodic, habitual, iterative and progressive), semantic-discursive kind of verb (process culminated, culmination, activity and state), type prayer (coordinated asyndetic, subordinate adverbial, adjectival subordinate, coordinated syndetic, principal, absolute and conditional substantive), aspectual modifier (quantifier, durative, punctual and without modifier) and polarity (positive and negative), having been discarded by the statistics rounds factors narrative of the plan: figure and ground and geographic regions for failing to submit the relevant motivation of the imperfective forms under review. Thus, the results obtained and analyzed showed us how prototypical contexts for each form under the following analysis: the imperfect codes, prototypically, episodic role, culminating with process verb in affirmative prayer coordinated asyndetic with quantifier modifier; the periphrasis, in turn, presents, prototypically, progressive encoding function, with state verbs in negative substantive subordinate clauses, in the presence of aspectual point modifier. / Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar variação no uso do imperfeito do indicativo e de perífrases imperfectivas de passado, em memórias literárias produzidas em 2010 e 2012, por alunos do 7o e do 8o anos, finalistas da Olimpíada de Língua Portuguesa Escrevendo o Futuro. Nesse sentido, intenta-se investigar fatores (linguísticos e extralinguístico) motivam a escolha por uma ou outra forma. Para tanto, fundamenta-se nos postulados do Sociofuncionalismo, defendidos por Tavares (2003), resultante do casamento teórico entre a Sociolinguística Variacionista, (WEINREICH, LABOV E HERZOG, 1968; LABOV, 1972, 1978, 1994, 2001, 2003, 2010), e o Funcionalismo de vertente norte-americana (cf. GIVÓN, 1995, 2001; HOPPER, 1991; HOPPER &TRAUGOTT, 1993; TRAUGOTT, 1995). O corpus é formado por 2205 dados de formas imperfectivas de passado coletados de 76 textos de memórias literárias, sendo 1926 destes dados de pretérito imperfeito do indicativo, perfazendo um total de 87,3% do total, e 279 formas de perífrases imperfectivas de passado, que totalizam um percentual de 12,7% do total de ocorrências. Os resultados decorrentes das rodadas estatísticas realizadas pelo programa computacional GoldVarb revelaram que o fenômeno em estudo é motivado por fatores linguísticos, como função imperfectivas (episódica, habitual, iterativa e progressiva), tipo semântico-discursivo do verbo (processo culminado, culminação, atividade e estado), tipo de oração (coordenada assindética, subordinada adverbial, subordinada adjetiva, coordenada sindética, principal, absoluta e subordinada substantiva), modificador aspectual (quantificador, durativo, pontual e sem modificador) e polaridade (positiva e negativa), tendo sido descartados pelas rodadas estatísticas os fatores plano da narrativa: figura e fundo e regiões geográficas por não terem apresentado relevância na motivação por uma das formas imperfectivas sob análise. Dessa forma, os resultados obtidos e analisados revelaram-nos como contextos prototípicos para cada forma sob análise os seguintes: o imperfeito codifica, prototipicamente, função episódica, com verbo de processo culminado, em oração coordenada assindética afirmativa, com modificador quantificador; a perífrase, por sua vez, apresenta-se, prototipicamente, codificando função progressiva, com verbos de estado, em orações subordinadas substantivas negativas, na presença de modificador aspectual pontual.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-03-07Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:55:15Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 favaro_gs_me_arafcl.pdf: 1659339 bytes, checksum: f9a1036d424ad6a96ecf1284b58a17f8 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Este estudo tem como objetivo principal fazer um vínculo entre o passado e o presente, comparando processos morfofonológicos desencadeados pela flexão verbal através das formas do pretérito perfeito do modo indicativo, ou seja, processos que alteram a forma dos morfemas e geram alomorfias em vários níveis no Português Arcaico (PA) dos séculos XII-XIII analisados a partir de teorias não lineares (cf. Fonologia Lexical, Fonologia métrica e Geometria de Traços). Para a realização desta pesquisa foram considerados como objeto as formas verbais do pretérito perfeito do modo indicativo, tanto dos verbos regulares quanto dos verbos irregulares. A metodologia foi baseada no mapeamento das formas verbais nas Cantigas de Santa Maria. Contamos também com glossários, vocabulários, dicionários, e especialmente o glossário de Mettmann (1972), como auxílio na categorização das formas verbais. Depois de coletados, os dados foram separados de acordo com o tipo de processo morfofonológico verificado. O corpus de base, para o PA, foi constituído pelas Cantigas de Santa Maria (CSM), elaboradas em galego-português e atribuídas a Dom Afonso X de Castela, o Sábio, com a colaboração de trovadores, músicos, desenhistas e miniaturistas que acolhia em sua corte. Correspondem a um monumento literário de mais elaborada importância, que ocupa um lugar privilegiado na literatura medieval galego-portuguesa. Ao final da análise dos processos morfofonológicos, nos resultados obtidos, verificamos a alta produtividade da harmonização vocálica e da neutralização e crase da vogal temática em um estágio inicial da língua que denominamos de período arcaico. Podemos comprovar que os processos morfofonológicos, sobretudo a harmonia vocálica, já ocorriam desde o estágio inicial do português com as mesmas características e produtividade dos dias de hoje, uma vez que, na passagem do latim... / This study aims to make a link between past and present, comparing morphophonological processes triggered by verbal inflection through the forms of the past tense of the indicative, that is, processes that alter the shape of morphemes and generate allomorphs at various levels in the Archaic Portuguese (AP) of XII-XIII centuries were investigated by Lexical Phonology (LP) and Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology. The past tense verb forms of the indicative mood both of regular and irregular verbs were considered as an object for this research. The methodology was based on the mapping of verb forms in the Cantigas de Santa Maria (CSM). We have also used glossaries, vocabularies, dictionaries, and especially the glossary of Mettmann (1972) as an aid in the categorization of verbal forms. Once collected, the data was separated according to the type of morphophonogical process checked. The corpus was formed by the Cantigas de Santa Maria (CSM), written in Galician-Portuguese and attributed to Don Alfonso X of Castile, the Wise, in collaboration with the troubadours, musicians, designers and miniaturists who lived in his court. The CSM correspond to the most elaborate literary monument, which occupies a privileged place in the medieval Galician-Portuguese literature. After the analysis of the morphophonological processes, in the results obtained, we verified the high productivity of vowel harmony and vowel neutralization and at an early stage of the language that corresponds to the archaic period. We could prove that the morphophonological processes, especially vowel harmony, have occurred since the initial stage of the Portuguese with the same characteristics and productivity of today, since in the passage from Latin to Portuguese, the verb conjugations were already well defined. In addition to the morphophonological processes, we also mapped the irregular verbs that we called... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)