Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, 2008. / Submitted by Priscilla Brito Oliveira (priscilla.b.oliveira@gmail.com) on 2009-09-09T20:59:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissert_Janaina Fontes.pdf: 962665 bytes, checksum: d3e9bfcb2facb6d6d8d11970f7ce2ec6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Guimaraes Jacqueline(jacqueline.guimaraes@bce.unb.br) on 2009-12-12T12:18:06Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissert_Janaina Fontes.pdf: 962665 bytes, checksum: d3e9bfcb2facb6d6d8d11970f7ce2ec6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2009-12-12T12:18:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissert_Janaina Fontes.pdf: 962665 bytes, checksum: d3e9bfcb2facb6d6d8d11970f7ce2ec6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / A experiência da maternidade tem suscitado complexos sentimentos desde os mitos existentes nas primeiras sociedades, que comparavam a capacidade reprodutiva das mulheres às forças da natureza. Durante os séculos, tal comparação foi distorcida pela sociedade patriarcal para satisfazer seus interesses, causando a opressão e o sofrimento de milhares de mulheres. Esse processo está presente também na literatura, que é capaz de refletir e perpetuar essas distorções ou desconstruí-las, contribuindo para novas visões dessa complexa experiência. Neste trabalho, analiso a representação da maternidade em romances de autoria feminina, mais precisamente, Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman e Mary, a Fiction, de Mary Wollstonecraft (escritora inglesa do século XVIII), e Fair Exchange, de Michèle Roberts (escritora inglesa contemporânea), auxiliada por exemplos em diversos textos teóricos de como o papel da mãe foi construído ao longo do tempo e pela contribuição dos estudos feministas para a desconstrução dos mitos patriarcais sobre a maternidade. _________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / The experience of motherhood has roused complex feelings since the myths existing in the first societies, wich used to compare women’s reproductive capability to the forces of nature. Throughout the centuries, such comparison was distorted by the patriarchal society in order to satisfy its interests, causing the oppression and the suffering of thousands of women. This process is also present in literature, which is able to reflect and perpetuate these distortions or deconstruct them, contributing to new views on this complex experience. In this work I analyze the representation of motherhood in novels written by women, more precisely, Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman and Mary, a Fiction, by Mary Wollstonecraft (eighteenth-century English writer) and Fair Exchange, by Michèle Roberts (comtemporary English writer), assisted by examples in different texts of how the mother’s role has been constructed throughout time and by the contributions of the feminist studies for the deconstruction of patriarchal myths about motherhood.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:27:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 3945.pdf: 746734 bytes, checksum: 759f0299b121e175c4c8fc136f294b23 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-24 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / Given (X; 0) C (CN; 0) a weighted homogeneous germ of hypersurface with isolated singularity and f : (CN; 0) - C a germ of function finitely determined with respect to X, we show that UBR(f;X) = U(f) + U(X; f), where U(f) and U(X; f) denote the Milnor numbers of f and of the fiber X \ f&#56256;&#56320;1(0), respectively, and UBR(f;X) is the Bruce-Roberts number of f with respect to X. We show that the logarithmic characteristic subvariety, LC(X), is Cohen-Macaulay and we get relations between the Bruce-Roberts number and the Euler obstruction. Given F : (CN; 0) ! Mm;n(C) a holomorphic function germ, let (X; 0) be the isolated determinantal singularity given by X = F-1(Ms m;n(C)) where Ms m;n(C) is the set of the complex matrices with rank less then s, with s an integer number between 0 and minfm; ng such that N < (m - s + 2)(n - s + 2), we will define the vanishing Euler characteristic of (X; 0) and the Milnor number of a holomorphic function germ with an isolated singularity at X, f : (X; 0) - C. / Dados (X; 0) C (CN; 0) um germe de hipersuperfície quase homogêneo com singularidade isolada e f : (CN, 0) - C um germe de função finitamente determinado com respeito a X, mostramos que UBR(f;X) = U(f) + U(X; f), onde U(f) e U(X; f) denotam o número de Milnor de f e da fibra X \ f-1(0), respectivamente, e _BR(f;X) é o número de Bruce-Roberts de f com respeito a X. Mostramos que a variedade logarítmica característica LC(X) é Cohen-Macaulay e obtemos relações entre o número de Bruce-Roberts e a obstrução de Euler. Dado F : (CN; 0) ! Mm;n(C) um germe de função holomorfa, seja (X; 0) a singularidade determinantal isolada dada por X = F-1(Ms m;n(C)) onde Ms m;n(C) é o conjunto das matrizes complexas com posto menor que s, com s um número inteiro entre 0 e minfm; ng tal que N < (m-s+2)(n-s+2), definimos a característica de Euler evanescente de (X; 0) e o número de Milnor de um germe de função holomorfa com uma singularidade isolada em X, f : (X; 0) - C.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, 2010. / Submitted by Eduardo Pinheiro Morbeck (eduardomorbeck@gmail.com) on 2011-06-20T23:33:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_PollianaCristinadeOliveira.pdf: 643580 bytes, checksum: be70c9f3b7aeb822f640a4303a3eb377 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marília Freitas(marilia@bce.unb.br) on 2011-06-21T12:22:14Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_PollianaCristinadeOliveira.pdf: 643580 bytes, checksum: be70c9f3b7aeb822f640a4303a3eb377 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-06-21T12:22:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_PollianaCristinadeOliveira.pdf: 643580 bytes, checksum: be70c9f3b7aeb822f640a4303a3eb377 (MD5) / As experiências da maternidade têm suscitado complexos sentimentos desde os mitos existentes nas primeiras sociedades, que comparavam a capacidade reprodutiva das mulheres às forças da natureza. Durante os séculos, tal comparação foi distorcida pela sociedade patriarcal para satisfazer seus interesses, causando a opressão e o sofrimento da maioria das mulheres. Esse processo está presente também na literatura, que é capaz de refletir e perpetuar essas distorções ou desconstruí-las, contribuindo para novas visões dessa complexa experiência. Neste trabalho, a partir, principalmente, das contribuições teóricas dos feminismos, analiso a representação da maternidade na obra da escritora inglesa contemporânea Michéle Roberts, com ênfase em seu romance The book of Mrs. Noah; analiso também a natureza experimental deste romance, o qual apresenta muitas inovações em sua dimensão formal. _________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / The experience of motherhood has produced complex feelings since the myths existing in the first societies, which used to compare women‘s reproductive capability to the forces of nature. Throughout the centuries, such comparison was distorted by patriarchal society in order to satisfy its interests, causing the oppression and the suffering of the majority of women. This process is also present in literature, which is able to reflect and perpetuate these distortions or deconstruct them, contributing to new views on this complex experience. In this work I analyze the representation of motherhood, especially from some feminist contributions, in the novels of the contemporary writer Michèle Roberts, especially The Book of Mrs. Noah; we also emphasize this novels‘ innovative form.

The seagrass Zostera japonica Aschers. and Graebn. occurs as pure populations and in mixture with Zostera marina L. along the intertidal regions of southwest British Columbia. At the Roberts Bank study area seed and seedling dynamics were studied in three vegetation zones: a landward monospecific zone of Z. japonica, a zone of co-existing Z. japonica and Z. marina, and a seaward monospecific zone of Z. marina. Many more seeds were produced than were found in the sediment, and even fewer germinated. Zostera japonica seeds were most abundant in the seed bank in the upper zones where there is high Z. japonica density. Even though seeds remained in the water column for up to two months, very few seeds dispersed into the lower zone populated by Z. marina. thus limiting Z. japonica's colonization of the lower zones. It is unclear what limits the dispersal of Z. japonica seeds. Of the seeds that were incorporated into the sediment few germinated (5% or less). When seeds were planted in buckets placed into the sediment, with and without Z. marina, Z. japonica was able to germinate, grow, and reproduce in one year throughout the study area. Seedlings that emerged earliest (in April) either did not establish or did not survive as long as those seedlings that emerged later in May and June. Seedlings were often found uprooted, floating in the water. The rim of the buckets and the presence of Z. marina shoots appeared to protect the Z. japonica seedlings, preventing uprooting, but the results were not conclusive. Once seedlings became established, they spread vegetatively at a rapid rate and can persist throughout the winter, either as reduced shoots or as overwintering rhizomes. These overwintering plants contribute greatly to the following year's population. / Science, Faculty of / Botany, Department of / Graduate

Most rhetorical studies of evolution/religion debates have addressed the media version of the debates that pits fundamentalist religion against science. Yet, most of the rhetorical studies in this area have not been nuanced enough to appreciate the complexity of the rhetoric resulting from this rich area of discourse. This study provides a rhetorical analysis of the evolution rhetoric in one particular religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and focuses on the discourse of two prominent leaders in the LDS Church, B.H. Roberts and Joseph Fielding Smith. In the LDS Church there is a clear distinction among members (Mormons) between official and unofficial discourse, and discerning the distinction between official and unofficial discourse revolves around the rhetorical concept of ethos. The ethos of a Mormon rhetor in intra-Mormon evolution discourse depends on an audience's perception of the concordance between written or canonized revelation, the words of living oracles, and priesthood position. However, citing more scriptures and prophets, or possessing a higher priesthood position does not automatically make a rhetor's argument supreme in the LDS Church. A rhetorical analysis of the Roberts/Smith debate demonstrates that rhetoric in the LDS Church is not judged solely by the rhetor's position of authority or by the rhetor's citation of authority (e.g., canonized scripture or modern prophets); rather, the rhetor's rhetoric is judged, at least to a degree, on its own merits. Ethos provides one approach or window into the rhetoric of evolution discourse, but uncovers many other possible approaches. More rhetorical studies of the evolution debates taking place in the LDS Church and in other specific religious settings will likely reveal much more about the way that ethos and other elements of rhetoric inform the seemingly endless evolution/religion discussion.

During the 1980s, the government of Great Britain, led by Margaret Thatcher, promoted a political and economic ideology known in the demotic as the Thatcherite Enterprise Culture. This set of beliefs and actions included an encouragement of hard work, thrift, self-responsibility, and self-employment, as well as legislating for the support of small firms, privatisation, free markets and a strong - but minimal - central state. Behind the Enterprise Culture lay a religious paradigm, explicitly called upon by its chief creators, including Margaret Thatcher. The thesis builds an ideal-type of the Thatcherite Enterprise Culture, following a Weberian methodology, to form the major object of study. The work aims to discover whether the ideal-type under analysis is theologically coherent, and whether it can justifiably claim to be a continuation of Christian thought in this area. This thesis examines the development of Western European philosophy and theology as it relates to the key aspects of the Thatcherite Enterprise Culture, beginning with the Ancient Greeks and concluding with the Victorian Age of Enterprise. The historical review demonstrates that the Thatcherite Enterprise Culture is generally discontiguous with the tradition of religious thought, and in some instances is essentially in direct contradiction with important aspects of the tradition, such as the significance of the Incarnation. A review of the theological works of the Thatcherite Enterprise Culture and its critics adds to the findings of the historical examination, indicating further flaws and contradictions within Enterprise Theology. Critics of Enterprise Theology are found to be much more consistent with mainstream Christian Theology.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 326-332). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 326-332).

The examination of the tools that prehistoric people crafted for subsistence and related practices offers distinctive insights into how they lived their lives. Most often, researchers study these practices in isolation, by tool type or by material. However, by using a relational perspective, my research explores the tool assemblage as a whole including bone, stone and shell. This allows me to study the changes in tool industries in relation to one another, something that I could not accomplish by studying only one material or tool type. I use this broader approach to tool manufacture and use for the artifact assemblage from Crystal River (8CI1) and Roberts Island (8CI41), two sequential Middle and Late Woodland Period (A.D. 1-1050) archaeological sites on the central Gulf coast of Florida. The results of my research show that people made different choices, both in the type of material they used and the kind of tools they manufactured during the time they lived at these sites as subsistence practices shifted. Evidence of these trends aligns with discrete changes in strata within our excavations. The timing of depositional events and the artifacts found within each suggest people also used the sites differently through time. These trends exemplify the role of crafting tools in the way people maintain connections with their mutable social and physical world.

I assessed fish community data collected by the Oklahoma Conservation Commission from 82 minimally impaired wadeable reference streams in eastern Oklahoma to determine whether existing aquatic ecoregions provide the best framework for spatial classification for the development of biological assessment methods and biocriteria. I used indirect ordination and classification to identify groups of sites that support similar fish communities. Although correspondence was observed between fish assemblages and three montane ecoregions, the classification system must be refined and expanded to include major drainage basins and physical habitat attributes for some areas to adequately partition variance in key measures of biological integrity. Results from canonical correspondence analysis indicated that substrate size and habitat type were the primary physical habitat variables that influenced the fish species composition and community structure.