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This diploma thesis is devoted to the sampling strategies in forestry. It describes their theoretical aspects and their applications on a real landscape. The sampling methods in forestry are of particular importance in forest inven- tory. The aim of sampling methods is to estimate population characteristics based on the knowledge of sample. Two basic approaches can be distinguished according to the size of population, we speak about discrete or continuous population. Several types of sampling designs and corresponding estimators of target values are described for both approaches. Besides estimates of po- pulation total or average, we mention the formulas for computing variance of these estimates and the methods for their estimation for different sampling designs. The thesis also contains the comparison of studied methods based on computer simulations.

<p>Syftet med denna uppsats är att jämföra ett av Ozus tidigare verk stumfilmen A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS (1934) med ett senare, färg- och ljudfilmen FLOATING WEEDS (1959). Hur skiljer sig dessa åt stilistiskt, vad förenar dem, vad följer t ex av närvaron av färg och ljud i den senare och avsaknaden av desamma i den tidigare filmen.</p><p>Analysen utgår från ett neoformalistiskt perspektiv och i en teoretisk genomgång redogörs för denna inriktnings begreppsapparat. Centrala begrepp häri är t ex främmandegörning, d v s av-naturaliseringen av den vardagliga perceptionen, stil, definierat som innefattande allt i verket, stilgrepp – det enskilda uttrycket isolerat, fabel, sujett, greppets funktion och bakomliggande motiv samt idén om den parametriska formen – verket som strukturerat efter en stilmässig dominant överordnad berättelsen.</p><p>Uppsatsen inkluderar även ett inledande kapitel vari tidigare forskning kring regissören redogörs för. Donald Richie är här en centralgestalt och uppsatsen pekar på den konflikt som kan skönjas mellan Richies traditionella budskapsorienterade perspektiv och neoformalismen.</p><p>Vidare diskuteras regissörens egensinniga stil och uppmärksamhet ägnas aspekter som t ex den lågt placerade kameran, rummet som ordnat kring 360 grader, det estetiskt motiverade rummet, mellan-liggande rum, hypermarkerade objekt, sujikai, rumsliga ankare, grafisk gestaltning och pillow-shots. Även budskapsorienterade tolkningar som återkommer i diskursen kring regissören ges utrymme, som idén om Mono no Aware, förnimmelsen om alltings förgänglighet och Mu, tomhet som närvaro.</p><p>I analysdelen studeras sedan olika sekvenser i båda verken utifrån dessa stilistiska aspekter. Slutsatsen blir att även om nya teknologier såsom färg och ljud ger upphov till nya grepp så ordnas dessa nya grepp i någon mån in i den befintliga logiken – in i dominanten. Den tydligaste skillnaden mellan verken utöver dessa tillkomna stilistiska aspekter finns i sujetten som antar en än mer episodisk struktur i den senare filmen.</p>

Syftet med denna uppsats är att jämföra ett av Ozus tidigare verk stumfilmen A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS (1934) med ett senare, färg- och ljudfilmen FLOATING WEEDS (1959). Hur skiljer sig dessa åt stilistiskt, vad förenar dem, vad följer t ex av närvaron av färg och ljud i den senare och avsaknaden av desamma i den tidigare filmen. Analysen utgår från ett neoformalistiskt perspektiv och i en teoretisk genomgång redogörs för denna inriktnings begreppsapparat. Centrala begrepp häri är t ex främmandegörning, d v s av-naturaliseringen av den vardagliga perceptionen, stil, definierat som innefattande allt i verket, stilgrepp – det enskilda uttrycket isolerat, fabel, sujett, greppets funktion och bakomliggande motiv samt idén om den parametriska formen – verket som strukturerat efter en stilmässig dominant överordnad berättelsen. Uppsatsen inkluderar även ett inledande kapitel vari tidigare forskning kring regissören redogörs för. Donald Richie är här en centralgestalt och uppsatsen pekar på den konflikt som kan skönjas mellan Richies traditionella budskapsorienterade perspektiv och neoformalismen. Vidare diskuteras regissörens egensinniga stil och uppmärksamhet ägnas aspekter som t ex den lågt placerade kameran, rummet som ordnat kring 360 grader, det estetiskt motiverade rummet, mellan-liggande rum, hypermarkerade objekt, sujikai, rumsliga ankare, grafisk gestaltning och pillow-shots. Även budskapsorienterade tolkningar som återkommer i diskursen kring regissören ges utrymme, som idén om Mono no Aware, förnimmelsen om alltings förgänglighet och Mu, tomhet som närvaro. I analysdelen studeras sedan olika sekvenser i båda verken utifrån dessa stilistiska aspekter. Slutsatsen blir att även om nya teknologier såsom färg och ljud ger upphov till nya grepp så ordnas dessa nya grepp i någon mån in i den befintliga logiken – in i dominanten. Den tydligaste skillnaden mellan verken utöver dessa tillkomna stilistiska aspekter finns i sujetten som antar en än mer episodisk struktur i den senare filmen.

There seems to be a gap between human rights theory and human rights practice. This gap disables rights to be applicable in practice in a meaningful manner. By theorizing this gap with Neil Thompson’s theory of “thinking” and “doing” while shedding light to this gap with a postmodern flashlight, the study shows that the concepts of human rights, human dignity, culture and ideology are in need to be addressed and added to this discourse and certainly to the overall discourse of human rights. A way of doing this is to make rights in the vernacular, as Sally Engle Merry suggests. What will be the consequences of vernacular rights? What is needed is thus to translate universal values into local contexts by acknowledging the cultural dimension of rights and to learning through experience.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-29T14:11:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_4660_Felipe de Oliveira Fiuza.pdf: 369187 bytes, checksum: 96583c5175d693658068592c041f7efe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-28 / Tendo em vista a importante contribuição dos estudos culturais e literários para o aprofundamento do debate sobre as narrativas policiais norte-americanas, este estudo pretende levantar singularidades, rupturas e questões de masculinidade(s) associadas à literatura hardboiled, de modo a fundamentar uma investigação de sua reverberação na obra de Rubem Fonseca. Para tal fim, parte-se, principalmente, dos estudos de masculinidade hegemônica empreendidos por R.W. Connell e seus comentadores, e da análise de três dos maiores expoentes fundadores do gênero, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler e Jim Thompson. Considerando essa fundação da literatura policial norte-americana, serão então analisadas quatro obras protagonizadas pelo personagem Mandrake, ―O Caso F.A‖, ―Dia dos Namorados‖, ―Mandrake‖ e o romance A Grande Arte. Pretende-se, assim, observar como o autor se vale dessa tradição da literatura policial, e de suas implicações com questões de masculinidade(s), para criar uma obra de tamanha potência crítica, estilística e política. / Taking into consideration the important contribution of literary and cultural studies to the deepening of debate about North-American detective narratives, this study intends to assemble singularities, disconnections and contemporary masculinity issues associated with hard-boiled literature, aiming to substantiate an investigation of its influence in Rubem Fonseca‘s work. In order to do so, we take as a starting point the studies of hegemonic masculinities, by R.W. Connell and her commentators, and the analysis of three of the genre‘s founding fathers, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Jim Thompson. Considering the foundation of North-American detective novel, four works which has Mandrake as its main character will be analyzed : ―O Caso F.A‖, ―Dia dos Namorados‖, ―Mandrake‖ and the novel A Grande Arte. Seeking to observe how the author utilizes the hard-boiled tradition and its implications in masculinities issues in order to create a work of enormous critical, stylistic and political potency.

My Brother’s Keeper is a Documentary Film developed to explore the life of John Dillinger. It examines the legendary criminal through the memories of Frances Dillinger Thompson, his last remaining sibling. The film attempts to understand John Dillinger by exposing his intimate childhood relationship with his sister, and the burdens his actions left on her.

Recommender systems have become an integral part of virtually every e-commerce application on the web. These systems enable users to quickly discover relevant products, at the same time increasing business value. Over the past decades, recommender systems have been modeled using numerous machine learning techniques. However, the adoptability of these models by commercial applications remains unclear. We assess the receptiveness of the industrial sector to algorithmic contributions of the research community by surveying more than 30 e-commerce platforms, and experimenting with various recommenders on proprietary e-commerce datasets. Another overlooked but important factor that complicates the design and use of recommender systems is their ethical implications. We identify and summarize these issues in our ethical recommendation framework, which also enables users to control sensitive moral aspects of recommendations via the proposed “ethical toolbox”. The feasibility of this tool is supported by the results of our user study. Because of moral implications associated with user profiling, we investigate algorithms capable of generating user-agnostic recommendations. We propose an ensemble learning scheme based on Thompson Sampling bandit policy, which models arms as base recommendation functions. We show how to adapt this algorithm to realistic situations when neither arm availability nor reward stationarity is guaranteed.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:58:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_gustavo_miranda.pdf: 594697 bytes, checksum: 12a44cd827b057543633c4cda536191f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-12-03 / With the purpose of studying the calculus teaching history and, particularly, the consequences of Calculus Made Easy (1910) in the mathematics education context, this work intends to make an historical analysis to clarify the connections between Silvanus Phillips Thompson (its author) and the education in the early twentieth century, mainly mathematics education. Thompson was concerned about Physics and Radiology, however, at the dawn of the new century, his interests in technical education had also burgeoned. One of his goals was to demystify Calculus, tackling the subject intuitively Calculus Made Easy. The book did not draw much respect from mathematicians and was acridly criticized / Com o intuito de estudar a história do ensino de Cálculo e, mais especificamente, os desdobramentos do livro Calculus Made Easy (1910) no contexto da educação matemática, este trabalho procura fazer uma análise histórica que elucide as relações entre Silvanus Phillips Thompson (autor do livro) e a educação do início do século XX, particularmente a educação matemática. Thompson legou muito às áreas da física e da radiologia, porém, com a chegada do novo século, passou a se dedicar intensamente à educação técnica de seus compatriotas ingleses. Tal dedicação, aliada a preocupações políticas e sociais da época, foi crucial para a publicação do seu texto didático mais polêmico: o Calculus Made Easy (1910). A polêmica estava atrelada às discussões sobre o rigor e a intuição no ensino de matemática, visto que o didático tratava dos conceitos fundamentais do Cálculo de maneira intuitiva e com aplicações. Apesar das críticas e do repúdio dos matemáticos da época, Thompson granjeou a admiração e o respeito de muitos alunos de Cálculo durante o século XX. Tornou-se, assim, parte da história do ensino de Cálculo

Résumé : Cette thèse est une lecture commentée et une transcription d’une performance enregistrée sur bande sonore de la création collective Les Enfants de Chénier dans un autre grand spectacle d’adieu qui a été présentée du 23 septembre au 11 octobre 1969. Le spectacle a été créé à partir d’un canevas et d’une mise en scène de Jean-Claude Germain et il est basé sur les improvisations des comédiens Louisette Dussault, Nicole Leblanc, Monique Rioux, Gilles Renaud et Jean-Luc Bastien. Peu de documents d’informations ont survécu après une courte série de représentations de ce spectacle sinon une bande sonore et quelques critiques journalistiques. Pourtant, dans le Nouveau Théâtre québécois (1973), Michel Bélair affirme que le Spectacle d’adieu est un tournant dans l’évolution du théâtre québécois. Afin d’éclaircir le rôle de cette pièce dans l’évolution du théâtre québécois, nous nous attachons d’abord à situer le Spectacle d’adieu dans le contexte socioculturel de la période 1965 à 1970 au Québec. Un exercice comparatif binaire à la manière de Philip Stratford entre le Spectacle d’adieu et The Farm Show (du Théâtre Passe Muraille) démontrera ensuite que le Spectacle d’adieu a influencé le développement du théâtre canadien-anglais de l’époque. De plus, un des objectifs de cette thèse est d’offrir la première transcription d’une performance du spectacle enregistrée par Réginald Hamel en 1969. Cette transcription sera produite selon une méthodologie développée à partir de deux champs d’études principaux, soit le théâtre et l’anthropologie. / Abstract : This thesis is a comment and a transcript of a tape recorded performance of the collective creation Chenier’s Children in Another Great Farewell Show that was presented from September 23 to October 11 in 1969. The show was created from the canvas and the stage directions of Jean-Claude Germain. It also took its source in the improvisations of comedians Louisette Dussault, Nicole Leblanc, Monique Rioux, Gilles Renaud and Jean-Luc Bastien. Not much documentation survived after a brief series of performances of this show except an audio tape and a few newspaper critics. However, in the Nouveau Théâtre québécois (1973), Michel Bélair states that the Farewell Show is a turning point in the evolution of Quebecois theatre. In order to clarify the role of this play in the evolution of Quebec’s theatre, we first situate it in the sociocultural context of Quebec between 1965 and 1970. A binary comparison between the Farewell Show and The Farm Show (Theatre Passe Muraille) as proposed by Philip Stratford will demonstrate afterward that the Farewell Show influenced the development of English Canadian theatre at the time. Moreover, one of the objectives of this thesis is to offer the first transcript of a performance of the Farewell Show recorded by Réginald Hamel in 1969. This transcript is created according to a transcription methodology developed from two fields of study – theatre and anthropology.