Kant scholarship has a long, rich history of disagreement and interpretive reservations regarding the <i>Critique of Pure Reason</i>. One disagreement is over whether the first <i>Critique</i> contains a sufficient proof of the doctrine of <i>transcendental idealism</i>. Another disagreement revolves around the question of whether Kants doctrine of transcendental idealism and its associated metaphysical/epistemological terms conflict with <i>direct realism</i> a view that Kant also appears to be committed to. This thesis evaluates what Henry Allison, in his work entitled: <i>Kants Transcendental Idealism: an Interpretation and Defense</I> (1983), sets forth as the direct proof for transcendental idealism given in the first <i>Critique</i>. The inter-theoretical relation between transcendental idealism and direct realism is also evaluated, and argument is given for considering the two doctrines as consistent with one another after all.

Kant scholarship has a long, rich history of disagreement and interpretive reservations regarding the <i>Critique of Pure Reason</i>. One disagreement is over whether the first <i>Critique</i> contains a sufficient proof of the doctrine of <i>transcendental idealism</i>. Another disagreement revolves around the question of whether Kants doctrine of transcendental idealism and its associated metaphysical/epistemological terms conflict with <i>direct realism</i> a view that Kant also appears to be committed to. This thesis evaluates what Henry Allison, in his work entitled: <i>Kants Transcendental Idealism: an Interpretation and Defense</I> (1983), sets forth as the direct proof for transcendental idealism given in the first <i>Critique</i>. The inter-theoretical relation between transcendental idealism and direct realism is also evaluated, and argument is given for considering the two doctrines as consistent with one another after all.

Legal concept of the term "a thing" is the key matter not only for civil law. The concept defines which things may be subjects to proprietary rights. Generally, there are two approaches in understanding of "a thing" de iure. The first approach is based on the narrow conception of things, which sees things as corporeal objects where only they may be objects of ownership. The second approach is based on the wide conception of things. Therefore, incorporeal things, claims, objects of intellectual property and other incorporeal things fall under the category of things. Nowadays, everything that is different from individuals and legal entities and serves the needs of people is undestanded to be a thing by the Civil Code. Compared to the Civil Code, Act. No. 40/1964 Coll, the new Civil Code favors the wide approach. The aim of this thesis is to introduce the development and the concept of the term "a thing" in our country not only in civil codes, but also in doctrine. The thesis is devided into four parts and mainly describes the very concept of things, the concept of corporeal and incorporeal, movable and immovable things and other terms closely related to things. The first part introduces historical development of the concept of things in our country. The second section is the key part and it focuses on the...

This thesis is a study of resonant things in Victorian writers’ houses/museums – a reading of those material objects that seem especially fit to presence the writer to whom they once belonged. Through the study of a selection of autographic objects in the houses/museums of Victorian writers, this thesis considers the following questions: What is resonance? How do things presence the absent individual with whom they are associated? Why do some categories of things – objects seemingly ‘imbued with a lasting sediment of their owners’ (Pascoe 3) – seem especially fit for the task of presencing, and how have we described or understood this phenomenon through narrative? Through a reading of things, categories of things, images, novels, life writing, cultural and critical theory and the house/museum space, this thesis will examine the relationship between presencing things, material metonymy, and remembrance. It will suggest that certain categories of things have qualities that allow them to serve as remembrancers, standing-in-for and eliciting a sense of the absent individual with whom they were once connected. Chapter one lays the ground for this reading of resonant things by contextualizing writers’ houses/museums as sites of literary pilgrimage and introducing and defining some of the key concepts and terms employed in this study such as autographic object, authenticity, contiguity and resonance. Chapter two moves inside the writer’s house/museum in order to demonstrate how things can ‘world’ via a reading of Marion Harland’s late nineteenth-century description of a tour of the Carlyle’s House alongside Martin Heidegger’s concept of worlding. Chapters three, four, five, and six look at different types of museum things, beginning with hair – the object most closely associated with the writer’s body – and then moving on to clothing, writerly tools such as desks and chairs, and ending with handwriting. Through assessing the particular qualities of each categorical thing alongside the concepts we meet these things with and the way that encounters with these things have been described in a variety of narratives, a number of the dynamics contributing to affective encounters with writerly things are uncovered. These dynamics or factors include: autographic ascription, authenticity, contiguity, metonymical fitness, equipmentality, and stasis/conspicuousness. Ultimately this thesis argues that certain things have a particular fitness for the task of evoking or presencing the absent individual for whom they stand, and that in doing so everyday objects undergo a metamorphosis: ceasing to be everyday tools fit for a specific task (for wearing, for sitting, for writing with) and becoming instead tools for remembrance – evocative things that presence both the absent individual with whom they are associated and the world they inhabited in their lifetime.

<p>Person-thing orientation (PTO) describes how interests in people (person orientation; PO) and things (thing orientation; TO) motivate behavior. These orientations have been shown to be predictive of important outcomes, but little is known about <i>how</i> these orientations work as motivational systems for behavior. The current paper explored whether different levels of PO and TO among participants affect individual categorizations of stimuli as “person-like” or “thing-like.” Participants (<i>N</i> = 170) were asked to rate how person-like and thing-like they perceived 100 individual stimulus items to be, and their PO and TO scores were measured. I hypothesized that TO would predict higher ratings of stimuli as thing-like, especially when PO levels were lower, and that PO would predict higher ratings of stimuli as person-like, especially when TO levels were lower. I predicted that this pattern of results would be stronger among stimuli categorized as ambiguous than among stimuli categorized as an unambiguous person or thing. The findings did not support the main hypotheses. Instead, the person category stimuli showed the hypothesized pattern of results. Among these stimuli, PO predicted person ratings and TO predicted thing ratings (but in the negative direction). The results and implications of these findings were discussed.</p>

The following report is a description of the pre-production, production, and post-production of the short film “The Last Thing She Wanted”, made in Austin, Texas in 2009. It contains the original film script written by Anthony Penta and Patrick Penta, the shot list for the film, the schedule used by the cast and crew during principal photography, and the end credits as they appear in the completed film. / text

Critics of Edith Wharton frequently discuss the material culture that pervades her work, but the trend in doing so has been to rush past the things themselves and engage in abstracted conversations of theory. I would like to suggest that a closer scrutiny of the individual objects being presented in Wharton’s novels can highlight Wharton’s own theoretical approaches to material culture. Working from Bill Brown's distinction between objects and things, I want to argue that Wharton firmly situates the material culture in The Age of Innocence in the background of her characters' lives as objects which they utilize as extensions of the self; but she brings the thingness of material culture to the forefront in Twilight Sleep, where the material culture in the novel alternately stands out and malfunctions, as characters attempt—and fail—to construct coherent and livable identities for themselves in the face of a 1920s New York that Wharton depicts as a paradoxically over-furnished wasteland. I will ultimately argue that things, problematic as they are, become a matter of survival strategy for her characters in Twilight Sleep when they utilize them to reconstruct the social relations that have become increasingly threatened from the world of The Age of Innocence. / text

Magíster en Gestión y Dirección de Empresas / El trabajo de tesis que tiene en este momento en sus manos, consiste en el diseño de un plan de negocios, que define el modelo adecuado en el desarrollo de un emprendimiento en el área de la salud, que se encuentre apalancado en el uso intensivo de tecnología existente, siendo esta, parte esencial del desarrollo de actividades y de la propuesta a los clientes. Esto se define bajo el fuerte impulso que han tomado los avances tecnológicos en imágenes y modelamiento dentro del área de la salud. La cadena de centro de imágenes dentales, I-EXMED desarrollará sus actividades basadas en cualquier elemento o herramienta que se pueda ejecutar desde la obtención de imágenes digitalizadas desde equipos radiológicos y scanners, dando así el origen a sus tres unidades de negocio: Imágenes, Modelamiento 3D y Formación. La primera de ellas se explica por sí sola, resumiéndose en obtención de imágenes, siendo la segunda la unidad con la cual se quiere marcar diferencia en el mercado actual, al estar insertando la tecnología de impresión 3D a la industria, no tan solo para desarrollar modelos que apoyen la planificación y toma de decisiones frente a intervenciones, sino también el desarrollo de prótesis, que puedan ser accesibles a una mayor cantidad de personas y con procesos más simples. En el campo de Formación, se pretende que I-EXMED sea un centro de desarrollo, discusión y difusión de conocimiento. Los elementos diferenciadores, dentro de la propuesta de modelo de negocio, están en los medios tecnológicos tanto para desarrollar productos y servicios, y a su vez como punto de generación de contacto con los diversos tipos de clientes y así conformar el vínculo que toda organización debiese tener con ese eslabón tan importante dentro de cualquier cadena, esto gracias al desarrollo actual de IoT (Internet of Things). Es así, como este elemento diferenciador, es transversal a los diversos puntos tocados durante el diseño del modelo de negocio, como lo son el levantamiento de estrategias, la identificación y caracterización de clientes, la estrategia de marketing y la estrategia de operaciones. Finalmente, una vez desarrollados todos los levantamientos de carácter de diseño y estratégicos, se evaluó financieramente la iniciativa mediante los indicadores tradicionales. En vista de los resultados frente a un horizonte de evaluación de 10 años, VAN negativo levemente sobre los mil millones de pesos en un escenario sin expansión, y en el caso de escenario con expansión un VAN negativo cercano a los dos mil millones de pesos, se decretó la inviabilidad económica del emprendimiento, lo cual es atribuido principalmente a los altos niveles de inversión e inconvenientes en la determinación de la demanda, que hagan sustentable en el análisis la propuesta de negocio.

Opinions about Linguistics and Phonetics extrapolated to think about art and object-making, followed by an exposition of titles of recent work, including discussions about: stunting in All Star Cheerleading, rainbows, offset halo patterns, the common corn disease Crazy Top, failure, humility and the profound.

Como as práticas baseadas nos lugares de Mercado podem ser analisadas sob uma ontologia diferente? Esse trabalho é baseado na discussão de alguns prismas teóricos fundamentais na epistemologia de estudos de comportamento de consumo. Estudos envolvendo consumo geralmente focam-se no consumidor como indivíduo final, monolítico – portador de agência e voz. Portanto, esse trabalho busca compreender o descolamento aparente entre os humanos e os não-humanos (coisas). Para tanto, utilizei-me do conceito de coisa, advinda do campo da Antropologia, para estudos de comportamento de consumo. Escolhi, como tema, a sexualidade – visto que é um tema com pouca expressividade no campo de comportamento de consumo. Inicio meu argumento com três pilares teóricos: o conceito de coisa; o conceito de performatividade para gênero e sexualidade; e o conceito de interseccionalidade. Depois, apresento o método utilizado para unir os três pilares na análise empírica in loco. Por fim, ofereço uma discussão sobre a convergência da fundamentação teórica e o método. Meus achados iluminam como atores humanos envolvidos em uma malha de relações, que dividem práticas com outros atores, engajam-se em oclusão de consumo: a necessidade de esconder uma prática de consumo dentro de uma malha próxima de relações. Também iluminam como a cooptação de locais de mercado de forma institucional – adicionando lugares focados em diversidade – não preclude a exclusão. Observei a continuação das práticas exclusionárias dentro de ambientes de mercado considerados abertos à diversidade, ou exclusão interseccional. Ambos achados foram resultado da abordagem ontológica delimitada previamente, que resultou no conceito de gayscape – um conceito puramente qualitativo que contém a malha de interrelação dos atores (humanos e não-humanos) do campo de consumo gay. / How do the marketplace-based practices can be analyzed with a different ontology? This work is based on the discussion of some theoretical approaches fundamentally attached to consumption behavior studies. These studies are usually focused on the consumer as a finished, monolithic individual – bearer of agency and voice. Therefore, this work tries to comprehend the apparent detachment between humans and non-humans. To achieve this I use the concept of thing, from the anthropology field to study consumption behavior. My chosen theme is sexuality – seen it is regarded as an understudied in consumption behavior studies. I start my argument based on three theoretical pillars: the concept of thing; the concept of performativity connected to gender and sexuality; and the concept of intersectionality. Following this, I present the method that was used to unite these three pillars for data collection. Lastly, I offer a discussion about the convergence of the literature review and the method. My findings illuminate how human actors are involved in a mesh of relationships – sharing practices with other actors – engage in what I call Consumption Occlusion: the need to hide a consumption practice within a tightly woven mesh of relationships. I also illuminate how institutional marketplace cooptation – for example, adding diverse marketplaces – does not preclude exclusion. I observed the continuation of exclusionary practices within marketplaces regarded as open to diversity, or intersectional exclusion. Both findings are the results of a previously delimited ontological approach, resulting in the concept of gayscape – a purely qualitative concept that brings forth the relationship mesh among actors (humans and non-humans) of the gay consumption field.