Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:23:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ArquivoTotalEmanuel.pdf: 2120034 bytes, checksum: 9b7e0f6441b0f237b8b34414425af41a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This study situated in the research field of History Teaching and Historical Knowledge of the History Post-graduation Course of Universidade Federal da Paraíba, and concentrated in History and Historical Culture has the aim of analyzing the repercussion of the historiography of the English Historian Edward Palmer Thompson in Brazil, specifically, his concept of experience. The period chosen to be analyzed goes from 1980 up to 1998. In order to evaluate how this repercussion movement happened, we dealt with the historiographical production of the Brazilian Historian, Sidney Chalhoub, as well as his contribution as a Professor and the participation of Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) as the disseminator and propagator institution of Thompson s historiography in the country. In addition to the history works, we used as resources for this study, the interviews with Chalhoub, the ementas of the programs of the disciplines taught in the History Course of Unicamp in the period of 1980-1998 that were filed in the Secretaria de Graduação da Unicamp. This dissertation has been inspired by the historiographical studies and it is present in the history of historiography. / Este trabalho vinculado à linha de pesquisa Ensino de História e Saberes Históricos do Programa de Pós-graduação em História da Universidade Federal da Paraíba, com área de concentração em História e Cultura Histórica tem por objetivo analisar a repercussão da historiografia do historiador inglês Edward Palmer Thompson no Brasil, em especial o seu conceito de experiência. O recorte escolhido começa no ano de 1980 e vai até o ano de 1998. Para avaliarmos como se processou esse movimento de repercussão, abordamos, em nossa análise, parte da produção historiográfica do historiador brasileiro Sidney Chalhoub, assim como a sua atuação como professor universitário, e a participação da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) como instituição irradiadora e difusora da historiografia de Thompson no país. Além das obras de história, utilizamos como fontes para este trabalho, entrevistas realizadas com Chalhoub e as ementas dos programas das disciplinas ministradas no curso de História da Unicamp no período 1980-1998, que se encontram arquivadas na Secretaria de Graduação da Unicamp. A dissertação tem como inspiração os estudos historiográficos e insere-se no campo da história da historiografia.

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My thesis examines the role that Ladies Home Journal played in challenging the ideals of domesticity that emerged in the postwar period in the United States. Originally founded in 1883, Ladies Home Journal emerged from World War II as the most popular and highly circulated women’s magazine. Husband and wife duo Bruce and Beatrice Gould served as co-editors-in-chief from 1935 to 1962, and populated the magazine with numerous ambitious and talented female writers and editors. Many of these female staff members also married and had children, while maintaining their careers. During an era where employees discriminated against women in the workplace, Ladies Home Journal employed women and published numerous articles supporting women in the workplace. In 1963, Betty Friedan claimed that women’s magazines only perpetuated the idealized, feminine housewife, but I argue that her argument oversimplifies the complexities women’s magazines represented during the 1950s. Divided intro three chapters, I analyze the shifting working conditions for women between the 1940s and 1950s, then unearth the working culture of Ladies Home Journal during the postwar period through an analysis of the editors, writers, and articles. Lastly, I examine three female journalists, Dorothy Thompson, Betty Hannah Hoffman, and Maureen Daly who all regularly contributed to the Journal.

Cette thèse est dédiée à l'étude du Thompson Sampling (TS), une heuristique qui vise à surmonter le dilemme entre exploration et exploitation qui est inhérent à tout processus décisionnel face à l'incertain. Contrairement aux algorithmes issus de l'heuristique optimiste face à l'incertain (OFU), où l'exploration provient du choix du modèle le plus favorable possible au vu de la connaissance accumulée, les algorithmes TS introduisent de l'aléa dans le processus décisionnel en sélectionnant aléatoirement un modèle plausible, ce qui les rend bien moins coûteux numériquement. Cette étude se concentre sur les problèmes paramétriques linéaires, qui autorisent les espaces état-action continus (infinis), en particulier les problèmes de Bandits Linéaires (LB) et les problèmes de contrôle Linéaire et Quadratique (LQ). Nous proposons dans cette thèse de nouvelles analyses du regret des algorithmes TS pour chacun de ces deux problèmes. Bien que notre démonstration pour les LB garantisse une borne supérieure identique aux résultats préexistants, la structure de la preuve offre une nouvelle vision du fonctionnement de l'algorithme TS, et nous permet d'étendre cette analyse aux problèmes LQ. Nous démontrons la première borne supérieure pour le regret de l'algorithme TS dans les problèmes LQ, qui garantie dans le cadre fréquentiste un regret au plus d'ordre O(\sqrt{T}). Enfin, nous proposons une application des méthodes d'exploration-exploitation pour les problèmes d'optimisation de portefeuille, et discutons dans ce cadre le besoin ou non d'explorer activement. / This dissertation is dedicated to the study of the Thompson Sampling (TS) algorithms designed to address the exploration-exploitation dilemma that is inherent in sequential decision-making under uncertainty. As opposed to algorithms derived from the optimism-in-the-face-of-uncertainty (OFU) principle, where the exploration is performed by selecting the most favorable model within the set of plausible one, TS algorithms rely on randomization to enhance the exploration, and thus are much more computationally efficient. We focus on linearly parametrized problems that allow for continuous state-action spaces, namely the Linear Bandit (LB) problems and the Linear Quadratic (LQ) control problems. We derive two novel analyses for the regret of TS algorithms in those settings. While the obtained regret bound for LB is similar to previous results, the proof sheds new light on the functioning of TS, and allows us to extend the analysis to LQ problems. As a result, we prove the first regret bound for TS in LQ, and show that the frequentist regret is of order O(sqrt{T}) which matches the existing guarantee for the regret of OFU algorithms in LQ. Finally, we propose an application of exploration-exploitation techniques to the practical problem of portfolio construction, and discuss the need for active exploration in this setting.

The purpose of this article is to establish a textual parallel between Hunter S. Thompson`s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Ernest Hemingway`s Green Hills of Africa. Thompson took Hemingway’s novel as a challenge to write under extreme duress. Thompson twisted many passages from Green Hills to fit his own text. He used bitter irony to translate Hemingway`s text into his own “Gonzo” reportage. Thompson`s friend and traveling companion, Oscar Z. Acosta, is used as an example of how Thompson rewrote Hemingway. Acosta`s Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo is referenced as the nexus of the two novels, making Acosta the primary focus of Thompson`s rewrite. These men, their methods, and their works fit together under Thompson`s pen. Hemingway`s religious, racial, and bestial imagery are included in Thompson`s narrative. However, these images are made ironic and do not plagiarize the original copy.

Le groupe de Thompson projectif $T$ est l'ensemble des homéomorphismes du bord du disque hyperbolique qui sont $PSL_2((\bf Z))$ par morceaux avec points de rupture rationnels. Pour un sous-groupe $\Gamma$ de $PSL_2((\bf Z))$ on peut construire le sous-groupe $T_(\Gamma)$ de $T$ des homéomorphismes $\Gamma$ par morceaux, et on se demande si la propriété fondamentale de $T$ d'être de type fini est conservée. Cette étude dépend du genre de la surface associée à $\Gamma$. Le but principal de notre travail est de prouver qu'en genre nul, $T_(\Gamma)$ est de présentation finie (Peter Greenberg a montré qu'en genre strictement positif $T_(\Gamma)$ n'est pas de type fini). Nous commençons par conjuguer $T_(\Gamma)$ à un groupe d'homéomorphismes affines par morceaux dont nous prouvons, à l'aide de groupes de Thompson classiques, qu'il est de type fini. Puis nous donnons une description combinatoire de $T_(\Gamma)$ par des couples de forêts infinies, description qui nous permet de déterminer une présentation infinie régulière du groupe, puis une présentation finie.

The type of commentary a narrative is able to make is fully dependant on the type of narrator who is relating it. The visual elements present in a film are the true narrational forces which guide it. The presence of the camera, the use of lighting, the architecture, and the objects present in the film each have their own meaning. These elements come together to make a greater commentary than the dialogue. How these meanings interact with each other is what defines what type of narrator is present in the film. By analyzing what type of narrator is relating the story it is possible to examine what commentary the film is able to make. Mike Nichols? 1967 film The Graduate and Terry Gilliam?s 1998 film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson?s 1971 literary work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas make commentaries that act as bookends for the ideals of the youth culture during the late 1960?s. Where as The Graduate is condemning the shining emptiness of 1967 suburban California society which its narrator inhabits, Fear and Loathing?s narrator is depicting the twisted abomination which grew within the emptiness of that society during those four years. The fact that Gilliam?s adaptation came 27 years after the source material was created allows for an even more specific translation of Thompson?s message. The Graduate is looking towards the unknown future where as Fear and Loathing is look backwards at the results. The Graduate is commenting on the current situation and looking forwards where as Fear and Loathing is looking backwards to see what has happened in the interim. It is this difference that forces the type of narration and the visual style employed by the films to be diametrically opposed.

Landslides in Pleistocene sediments along the Thompson River, south of Ashcroft, British Columbia have been known since before the Canadian Pacific (CP) railway was built through the valley in the 1880s. The Canadian National (CN) mainline railway, built in the early twentieth century, also follows the valley. Since the CP mainline was open to traffic in 1886, landslides have occurred along both sides of the Thompson valley and have resulted in derailments and traffic disruption along this strategic railway corridor. Past work identified a critical interbedded glaciolacustrine silt and clay unit at the base of the valley fill in which the sliding planes of the landslides were located. In our geotechnical characterization of this unit we identify the clay as the main contributing factor towards the instability of slopes in the Thompson River Valley due to its low residual strength parameters. Ring shear testing of this unit indicate residual friction angles between 10o and 15o. The use of residual shear strength parameters is necessitated by the presence of pre-sheared surfaces in the valley fill material caused by historical landsliding and glacial overriding. An additional contributing factor to slope instability in Thompson River Valley is the presence of artesian pore water pressures located below the failure surfaces of landslides in the valley. Previously suggested explanations for development of the elevated pore pressures include dynamic change in the Thompson River stage, and over irrigation of upslope farm lands. Groundwater models of Thompson River Valley were constructed using the advanced modeling tool HydroGeoSphere in order to determine the origin of these elevated pressures, and to explore additional influences on the regional groundwater flow system, including irrigation and river stage. Analysis of groundwater simulations showed that due to its low permeability, the glaciolacustrine silt and clay unit is important in controlling groundwater flow patterns, and explains the development of artesian pressures in the valley bottom. Further, it was shown that fluctuation in river stage and additional infiltration due to irrigation of upslope farm lands had minimal impact on pore water pressures, and cannot explain the development of landslides in the study area. Groundwater simulations were coupled with slope stability analyses in order to assess the slope Factor of Safety associated with certain groundwater conditions. This was achieved by using SLOPE/W and SEEP/W. Slopes were found to be unstable under natural conditions with a Factor of Safety close to unity. Significant changes to the Factor of Safety were noted for scenarios where precipitation was doubled and halved, but irrigation was again shown to have a minimal effect on the stability of Thompson Valley slopes.

Landslides in Pleistocene sediments along the Thompson River, south of Ashcroft, British Columbia have been known since before the Canadian Pacific (CP) railway was built through the valley in the 1880s. The Canadian National (CN) mainline railway, built in the early twentieth century, also follows the valley. Since the CP mainline was open to traffic in 1886, landslides have occurred along both sides of the Thompson valley and have resulted in derailments and traffic disruption along this strategic railway corridor. Past work identified a critical interbedded glaciolacustrine silt and clay unit at the base of the valley fill in which the sliding planes of the landslides were located. In our geotechnical characterization of this unit we identify the clay as the main contributing factor towards the instability of slopes in the Thompson River Valley due to its low residual strength parameters. Ring shear testing of this unit indicate residual friction angles between 10o and 15o. The use of residual shear strength parameters is necessitated by the presence of pre-sheared surfaces in the valley fill material caused by historical landsliding and glacial overriding. An additional contributing factor to slope instability in Thompson River Valley is the presence of artesian pore water pressures located below the failure surfaces of landslides in the valley. Previously suggested explanations for development of the elevated pore pressures include dynamic change in the Thompson River stage, and over irrigation of upslope farm lands. Groundwater models of Thompson River Valley were constructed using the advanced modeling tool HydroGeoSphere in order to determine the origin of these elevated pressures, and to explore additional influences on the regional groundwater flow system, including irrigation and river stage. Analysis of groundwater simulations showed that due to its low permeability, the glaciolacustrine silt and clay unit is important in controlling groundwater flow patterns, and explains the development of artesian pressures in the valley bottom. Further, it was shown that fluctuation in river stage and additional infiltration due to irrigation of upslope farm lands had minimal impact on pore water pressures, and cannot explain the development of landslides in the study area. Groundwater simulations were coupled with slope stability analyses in order to assess the slope Factor of Safety associated with certain groundwater conditions. This was achieved by using SLOPE/W and SEEP/W. Slopes were found to be unstable under natural conditions with a Factor of Safety close to unity. Significant changes to the Factor of Safety were noted for scenarios where precipitation was doubled and halved, but irrigation was again shown to have a minimal effect on the stability of Thompson Valley slopes.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-136). Also available on the Internet.