Le mémoire observe, décrit et critique une structure constitutive de l'acte de lecture, étudiée dans la perspective structuraliste. Cette structure fondamentale s'avère un cadre théorique épistémologique qui explique la polysémie et justifie la possibilité d'une lecture plurielle. La structure est étudiée en trois temps. D'abord, elle est repérée dans les assises théoriques du structuralisme. Les cinq éléments qui la constituent sont observés: l'utilisation de la psychanalyse, l'utilisation de la linguistique, la recherche de l'Autre, l'utilisation du principe d'immanence et le principe objectivant. Cette partie est complétée par un parallèle entre le structuralisme et les principaux auteurs postmodemes et par l'étude succincte de la pensée de Freud et Saussure comme précurseurs de la lecture plurielle. Ensuite, on observe les cinq éléments qui composent la structure étudiée dans l'oeuvre de cinq auteurs structuraliste: le psychanalyste Jacques Lacan, l’anthropologue Claude Lévi-Strauss, le philosophe Jacques Derrida, le critique littéraire et sémiologue Roland Barthes et la psychanalyste et linguiste Julia Kristeva. Une section dégage quelques conséquences du structuralisme pour la théologie et l'exégèse. Enfin, une conclusion vient réaffirmer de manière concise la présence des cinq éléments chez les auteurs étudiés, dégage les conséquences, propose une ouverture sur l'exégèse et le théologique et présente des critiques du structuralisme.

Perfect simulations are methods, which convert suitable Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms into algorithms which return exact draws from the target distribution, instead of approximations based on long-time convergence to equilibrium. In recent years a lot of various perfect simulation algorithms were developed. This work provides a unified exposition of some perfect simulation algorithms with applications to spatial point processes, especially to the Strauss process and area-interaction process. Described algorithms and their properties are compared theoretically and also by a simulation study.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:59:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sandra Maria Luvizutto Goncalves.pdf: 2384106 bytes, checksum: 775541195573dedce8167614b7ef287a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-17 / The objective of this paper is to develop a comparison study between cultural and artistic experiences narrated by the poet Mário Raul de Moraes Andrade in O turista aprendiz (2002) and Tristes trópicos (1996) by the French anthropologist and writer Claude Lévi-Strauss. The impressions captured by them while visiting the Amazon region are our study and demonstration objects, sustained by the concepts of alterity, based on the exotic eye and the encounter with the Other . The central objective is in the reading and analysis of the travel reports, which confirmed the experience lived by the writers, showing that both of them trespassed the physical geography of visited places and, literarily, reconfigured it by means of artistic and poetic subjectivity in order to be able to unveil the new mythical matrixes of the Brazilian Amazon. The themes are distributed as follows: chapter 1 presents the exotic and the complexity in the distinction between reality and fiction in the travel reports, in light of practical alterity. Chapter 2 approaches the differences and contrasts between two foreigners and the Other , facing the reality observed. Chapter 3 reveals the encounter with the Other , the unknown, which resulted in a fictional transgeography . The theoretical parameters of support were based on the work by: Antonio Candido (1976), François Dosse (1993), Txyetan Todorov (1993), Julia Kristeva (1994), Telê Ancona Lopez (1996), Mikhail Bakhtin (2003), Emmanuel Lévinas (2005), among other authors. We prioritized the comparatist method of direct observation of the object on a fictional travel report, thus opening an equity relation in receiving the Other in its anonymity and, consequently, creating a rupture with the absolute thinking of science. / A presente dissertação tem o objetivo geral de desenvolver um estudo comparatista entre as experiências culturais e artísticas narradas nas obras O turista aprendiz (2002), do escritor e poeta Mário Raul de Moraes Andrade, e Tristes trópicos (1996), do antropólogo e escritor francês Claude Lévi-Strauss. As impressões registradas por eles, na visita à região amazônica, são nossos objetos de demonstração e estudo, sustentados pelos conceitos de alteridade, a partir do olhar exótico e do encontro com o Outro. O objetivo central localiza-se na leitura e análise dos relatos de viagem, confirmadores das experiências vividas pelos escritores, para mostrar que ambos transgrediram a geografia física dos lugares visitados e, literariamente, reconfiguraram-na por meio da subjetividade artística e poética, de modo a poder revelar as novas matrizes míticas da Amazônia brasileira. A temática está assim distribuída: o capítulo I apresenta a questão do exótico e da complexidade na distinção entre realidade e ficção nos relatos de viagem, à luz da prática da alteridade. O capítulo II trata das diferenças e contrastes entre o olhar dos dois estrangeiros e o do Outro, diante da realidade observada. O capítulo III revela-nos o encontro com o Outro, com o desconhecido, o que resultou numa transgeografia ficcional . Os parâmetros teóricos de suporte foram: Antonio Candido (1976), François Dosse (1993), Tzvetan Todorov (1993), Julia Kristeva (1994), Telê Ancona Lopez (1996), Mikhail Bakhtin (2003), Emmanuel Lévinas (2005), dentre outros. Priorizamos o método comparatista da observação direta do objeto em relato ficcional de viagem, abrindo, assim, uma relação de equidade ao receber o Outro no seu anonimato e, consequentemente, rompendo com o pensamento absoluto da ciência.

A digital music edition that follows the principles implemented in the fully-digital, MEI-coded Digital Interactive Mozart Edition, pursued by the Mozarteum Foundation and the Packard Humanities Institute, has many advantages over conventional analog editions. One advantage is greater transparency, which is achieved not only at the level of the material, e. g. the inclusion of digital images of the sources, but above all by making editorial processes and decisions visible in the edition itself. In the digital edition, the Critical Report, a defining component of any critical edition and often physically separate from the edited musical text, becomes part of the overall digital code. The philological findings and editorial processes reported encompass the entire range of forms of expression, from verbal comments and annotations to pure code and non-verbal, largely visual communication strategies. Therefore, the format of the traditional printed Critical Report, which is mainly made up of text and tables, dissolves and is replaced by an immaterial, non-delimitable field of data, information, references and media for which the term Critical Documentation is more appropriate.

This dissertation offers a genealogy of political theory as a subfield of American political science. Over five chapters, it traces the subfield’s development from late nineteenth-century America until the 1970s and asks how leading practitioners responded to a series of political conjunctions. The first chapter asks how political theory emerged from the progressive movement and was characterized by a racist, “Teutonist” intellectual framework that lasted until the First World War. The war led to the demise of this initial framework, leaving political theory without an anchor. The second chapter asks how a leading political theorist, Charles Merriam, sought to resuscitate political theory by making it more “scientific,” focusing on analyzing political behavior. This chapter demonstrates how interaction with the city of Chicago forced Merriam’s thought into more egalitarian directions. The third chapter charts political theory in “the age of fear.” It shows how Merriam and his student Harold Lasswell sought to thicken liberalism and conceptualize its totalitarian alternatives. The fourth chapter asks how leading behavioralists—including Gabriel Almond, Robert Dahl, and David Truman, as well as Louis Hartz—deployed political theory to characterize, congratulate, and criticize the tenets of American liberalism in the context of the Cold War. In the project’s final chapter, I ask how political theory went its own way as a subfield. Amidst the tumult of the 1960s, its leading practitioners—including Sheldon Wolin and Leo Strauss—found themselves politically at odds with behavioralism. Their opposition to the practice of political science led them to associate humanism with radical political critique. By offering a history of political theory that puts behavioralism at its center, the dissertation unsettles conventional narratives within political science that characterize political theory as the other of “empirical social science.” Second, by highlighting a tradition of thought that married systematic empiricism and normative intent, the dissertation critically recaptures a realistic mode of political theorizing. Raymond Geuss has called for political theory to engage more with the facts of the political world. My dissertation offers a way forward. It reminds readers that empiricism can be a normative venture and highlights the close affinity between political science and theory. Many political scientists, I argue, were engaged in a project we can term “operational political theory.” They took theoretic concepts—such as democracy—and furnished them with empirical evidence. They asked how political theory worked in practice and then evaluated extant practices according to political theoretic norms.

The increase of trading has created many environmental, ecological, social and ethical problems. The main concern across all industries is to create more sustainable, eco-friendly and ethical manufacturing processes. Only by influence consumer's purchasing behavior there might be the demand for eco-green products. The fashion and textile industry as one of the main contributor to the world's economy is one of the main environmental polluter (e.g.: soil, lakes, river and air). Recently, many young fashion designers started to offer eco-green fashion to the market. This new phenomenon might change the course of the world fashion industry. The goal of this research is to find out the real demand for eco-green products and its impacts on the traditional methods of fashion manufacturing. Three geographical areas where chosen to represent consumption side (US and EU (UK)) and manufacturing side (China). The specific fashion garment was chosen to demonstrate detailed analysis of the manufacturing processes and its new eco-green formula -- the denim jeans. The primary and secondary research approaches were chosen to cover the whole industrial view on this phenomenon. The outcome of the research showed that the major impact was on the general consumer's purchasing behavior and their life style. It is a new trend and concept that is reshaping the traditional fashion business models. Denim jeans industry leaders such as Levi's Strauss are in process of implementing eco-green, ethical and fair-trade factors into their long-term strategy.