VERONESI, Raquel Barros. A reescritura das personagens 'womanistas' de The Color Purple para o Cinema. 2015. 160f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, Fortaleza (CE), 2015. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2015-03-31T12:54:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_rbveronesi.pdf: 1893379 bytes, checksum: 8be8e578c998b24565a9290d5f0bf9ce (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2015-03-31T14:27:31Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_rbveronesi.pdf: 1893379 bytes, checksum: 8be8e578c998b24565a9290d5f0bf9ce (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-31T14:27:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_rbveronesi.pdf: 1893379 bytes, checksum: 8be8e578c998b24565a9290d5f0bf9ce (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / The present dissertation analyses the translation of womanism in The Color Purple (1982), by Alice Walker, into its homonymous film adaptation in 1985, directed by Steven Spielberg. The term womanism, although it also refers to the black feminism, relates to a movement that transcends the social aspect; it is, therefore, a spiritual movement, committed to the survival and welfare of all people, independent on race, sex, religion, among others. The novel The Color Purple tells Celie’s story, a semi-illiterate black teenager who writes letters to God, telling situations about her life. Through friendship with other women and, consequently, the discovery of new ways of being and feeling, the character tries to overcome the trauma caused by the separation of her sister and her children, and the physical and psychological rapes she had suffered. In this research, we investigate, specifically, the rewriting of four female characters – Celie, Nettie, Sofia and Shug – since we perceive them as the main representative of womanism in the novel. Our hypothesis is that some womanist aspects, such as religion and homosexuality, were softened in the translation, due to contextual issues, whereas others were emphasized because they were adapted into both the poetics of the cinema of the 80’s, and of the director. As theoretical background, we take Even-Zohar’s postulates (1990), about the polysystem theory, and Toury’s assumptions (2012), which understand the studies of translation emphasizing the cultural factor, and considering the influence that the target culture has on the translation process. We also take Lefevere’s concept of rewriting (2007), which emphasizes the historical and cultural nature of the translated texts. Concerning the translation of literary works into the cinema, we use the studies by Cattrysse (1992), and the considerations of authors, such as Stam (2008; 2011) and Hutcheon (2013), who discuss the relationship between the two language systems. Finally, about womanism, the reflections by Maparyan (2012) and Walker (1983) are critical in conducting the analysis. The results showed that the strategies of softening and emphasis on the translation of the female characters’ womanist traits concern the translators’ poetic, as well as the specificities of the cinematic system. Therefore, in the adaptation, they reflect much more the poetics of Hollywood cinema of the 80’s, and of the director, than the womanism observed in the literary work. / A presente dissertação analisa a tradução do “womanismo” em The Color Purple (1982), da escritora Alice Walker, para o filme homônimo de 1985, dirigido por Steven Spielberg. O termo womanism, embora se refira também ao feminismo negro, diz respeito a um movimento que transcende o social; ele é, portanto, um movimento espiritual, comprometido com a sobrevivência e o bem-estar de todas as pessoas, independente de raça, sexo, religião, entre outros aspectos. O romance The Color Purple narra a história de Celie, uma adolescente negra semiletrada, que escreve cartas a Deus, contando sobre sua vida. Por meio da amizade com outras mulheres e, consequentemente, da descoberta de novas formas de ser e sentir, a personagem tenta superar os traumas causados pela separação da irmã e de seus filhos e pelos estupros físicos e psicológicos que sofreu. Nesta pesquisa, investigamos, especificamente, a reescritura de quatro personagens femininas – Celie, Nettie, Sofia e Shug – uma vez que as percebemos como as principais representantes do “womanismo” no romance. Partimos da hipótese de que alguns aspectos “womanistas”, tais como religião e homossexualidade, foram suavizados na tradução, devido a questões contextuais, enquanto outros foram enfatizados porque se adequavam à poética, tanto do diretor, quanto do cinema da década de oitenta. Como fundamentação teórica, recorremos aos postulados de Even-Zohar (1990), sobre a teoria dos polissistemas, e aos pressupostos de Toury (2012), que entendem os estudos da tradução com ênfase no fator cultural, considerando a influência que a cultura de chegada exerce sobre o processo tradutório. Baseamo-nos também no conceito de reescritura, de Lefevere (2007), que enfatiza o caráter histórico e cultural dos textos traduzidos. Sobre as questões de tradução de obras literárias para o cinema, empregamos os estudos de Cattrysse (1992), e as considerações de autores, tais como Stam (2008; 2011) e Hutcheon (2013), que discutem sobre a relação entre os dois sistemas de linguagem. Por fim, no que se refere ao “womanismo”, as reflexões de Maparyan (2012), bem como da própria Walker (1983) são fundamentais na condução da análise. Os resultados mostraram que as estratégias de suavização e ênfase na tradução dos traços “womanistas” das personagens femininas dizem respeito à poética dos tradutores, bem como às especificidades do sistema cinematográfico. Por isso, na adaptação, elas refletem muito mais a poética do diretor e do cinema hollywoodiano dos anos oitenta, do que o “womanismo” observado na obra literária.

Orientador: Paulo César Souza Manduca / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T13:01:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Finguerut_Ariel_D.pdf: 5310440 bytes, checksum: a62805584c2733e3720571a13b6ee36f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Neste trabalho procuramos entender a efetividade da Nova Direita na política norte-americana. Para tanto, foi preciso conhecer o papel do conservadorismo, destacando a função dos Think Tanks enquanto espaço de formação e circulação das ideias. Ao estudar a Nova Direita, sua estrutura, dinâmica de ação e articulação político-social, discutimos este conceito propondo uma nova leitura. Como resultado apresentamos um panorama do conservadorismo americano contemporâneo e a percepção da Nova Direita sobre os governos de George W. Bush e Barack H. Obama / Abstract: The central proposal of this work is to understand the effectiveness of the New Right in American politics. Therefore, it was necessary to know the role of conservatism and in this regard it was highlighted the role of Think Tanks as an area of training and the dissemination of ideas. By studying the New Right, its structure, dynamic action and political-social articulation, we discussed this concept by proposing a new reading. As a result we present an overview of the contemporary conservatism in U.S and the perception of the New Right on the governments of George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama / Doutorado / Ciencia Politica / Doutor em Ciência Política

Submitted by Sandra Maria Neri Santiago (sandra.neri@ufpe.br) on 2016-04-15T18:46:34Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1379 bytes, checksum: ea56f4fcc6f0edcf0e7437b1ff2d434c (MD5) Dissertação_Tiago Aécio Grangeiro de Souza Barbosa Lima.pdf: 2215610 bytes, checksum: 8993869b89fc394d9e8171a017cfee6e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-15T18:46:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1379 bytes, checksum: ea56f4fcc6f0edcf0e7437b1ff2d434c (MD5) Dissertação_Tiago Aécio Grangeiro de Souza Barbosa Lima.pdf: 2215610 bytes, checksum: 8993869b89fc394d9e8171a017cfee6e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-07-23 / Neste trabalho investigamos o problema do caminhante aleatório unidimensional como modelo para encontrar que distribuição de probabilidades é a melhor estratégia a ser utilizada na busca por sítios-alvos aleatoriamente distribuídos, cuja localização é desconhecida, na situação em que o buscador tem informação limitada sobre sua vizinhança. Embora tal problema tenha surgido na década de 1960, uma nova motivação surgiu nos anos 1990 quando dados empíricos mostraram que várias espécies de animais, sob condições gerais (especialmente escassez de comida), não usam estratégias brownianas de busca, mas sim distribuições de Lévy. A principal diferença entre elas é que as distribuições de Lévy decaem muito mais lentamente com a distância (com cauda do tipo lei de potência no limite de longos passos), não obedecendo, portanto, ao Teorema do Limite Central, e apresentam propriedades interessantes, como fractalidade, superdifusão e autoafinidade. Estes experimentos, juntamente com conceitos evolucionistas, levantaram a suspeita de que tal escolha pode ter sido adotada por ser mais vantajosa para o buscador, uma idéia conhecida como Lévy Flight Foraging Hypothesis. Em nosso estudo, definimos a eficiência da busca e obtemos a sua expressão analítica para o modelo. Utilizamos métodos computacionais para comparar as eficiências associadas às distribuições de Lévy e duas outras dentre as mais citadas na literatura, a gama e a "stretched exponential", concluindo que a de Lévy representa a melhor estratégia. Finalmente, empregamos métodos variacionais de extremização e obtemos a equação de Euler do problema. / In this work we study the one-dimensional random walk problem as a model to find which probability distribution function (pdf) is the best strategy when looking for randomly istributed target sites whose locations are not known, when the searcher has only limited information about its vicinity. Although research on this problem dates back to the 1960’s, a new motivation arose in the 1990’s when empirical data showed that many animal species, under broad conditions (especially scarcity of food), do not use Brownian strategies when looking for food, but Lévy distributions instead. The main difference between them is that the Lévy distribution decay much slower with distance (with a power-law tail in the long-range limit), thereby not obeying the Central Limit Theorem, and present interesting properties, like fractality, superdiffusivityand self-affinity. These experiments, coupled with evolutionary concepts, lead to suspicions that this choice might have been adopted because it is more advantageous for the searcher, an idea now termed as the Lévy Flight Foraging Hypothesis. To study the problem, we define a search efficiency function and obtain its analytical expression for our model. We use computational methods to compare the efficiencies associated with the Lévy and two of the most cited pdfs in the literature, the stretched exponential and Gamma distributions, showing that Lévy is the best search strategy. Finally, we employ variational extremization methods to obtain the problem’s Euler equation.

This work examines the use of convolutional neural networks with a focus on semantic and instance segmentation of cells from microscopic images. The theoretical part contains a description of deep neural networks and a summary of widely used convolutional architectures for image segmentation. The practical part of the work is devoted to the creation of a convolutional neural network model based on the U-Net architecture. It also contains cell segmentation of predicted images using three methods, namely thresholding, the watershed and the random walker.

This thesis examines press coverage in the Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune of five female politicians in Utah history: Martha Hughes Cannon (1896), Reva Beck Bosone (1948), Karen Shepherd (1992), Enid Greene Waldholtz (1994), and Olene S. Walker (2003). A total of 438 articles were reviewed using qualitative textual analysis. Coverage by candidate varied, though it was not in general overtly biased concerning candidate gender. However, the press did call attention to the gender of candidate and gendered commentary was present. The press also called attention to the rarity of women running for high political office and addressed the ability of candidates to balance the roles of wife/mother/homemaker with a political career. This thesis contributes to the overall understanding of newspaper coverage of female politicians and provides a window into the cultural as well as political history of Utah. Suggestions for further research about media coverage of female politicians are made.

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In July of 1853, Chief Wakara's band of Utes clashed in a series of violent confrontations with the Mormon settlers. This conflict is known as the Walker War. Many complex factors contributed to this war. After some earlier violence between Mormons and different bands of Utes between 1847 and 1851, the Mormons continued their quick expansion settling on Ute lands. From 1851 to 1853 Mormon and Ute relations continued to decline as Mormons expanded their settlements occupying Ute hunting grounds. In addition to these land encroachments, new laws were enacted regulating trade between the Spanish and Utes by Brigham Young. The most notable regulation on trade prohibited the Spanish and Ute slave trade. All these trade regulations hurt the Ute economy, particularly the most powerful equestrian Ute band, the Cheverets led by Chief Wakara. In the spring of 1853 Governor Brigham Young ordered out the state militia to arrest Mexican traders and to capture Wakara for engaging in the slave trade. Wakara had previously established a friendly relationship with Young and had invited the Mormons to settle his lands in Sanpete. Wakara had become committed to peaceful relations and cooperation with Young and the Mormon people. Wakara remained true to his desire for friendly relations even after seeing his economic status undermined by Mormon settlers. Young as well was committed to staying on peaceful terms with the Utes. Their followers, on the other hand, had difficulties overcoming the cultural divide. After the murder of a member of Wakara's band in July of 1853 by settler James Ivie, Wakara's band waged a series of raids against Mormon settlements. Wakara himself, however, was not involved in the war and continually tried to sue for peace. The war has been mislabeled with Wakara's name; he was not really involved in the violence. Yet it was indeed a war. The war had a great impact on the Mormon settlers. Settlers abandoned their homes and had to move into forts. For the Mormons involved, this conflict was neither small nor inconsequential; it was a major disruption involving a great portion of the Utah Territory.

We show that Einstein’s gravitational field equations for the Friedmann- Robertson-Lemaître-Walker (FRLW) and for two conformal versions of the Bianchi I and Bianchi V perfect fluid scalar field cosmological models, can be equivalently reformulated in terms of a single equation of either generalized Ermakov-Milne- Pinney (EMP) or (non)linear Schrödinger (NLS) type. This work generalizes or presents an alternative to similar reformulations published by the authors who inspired this thesis: R. Hawkins, J. Lidsey, T. Christodoulakis, T. Grammenos, C. Helias, P. Kevrekidis, G. Papadopoulos and F.Williams. In particular we cast much of these authors’ works into a single framework via straightforward derivations of the EMP and NLS equations from a simple linear combination of the relevant Einstein equations. By rewriting the resulting expression in terms of the volume expansion factor and performing a change of variables, we obtain an uncoupled EMP or NLS equation that is independent of the imposition of additional conservation equations. Since the correspondences shown here present an alternative route for obtaining exact solutions to Einstein’s equations, we reconstruct many known exact solutions via their EMP or NLS counterparts and show by numerical analysis the stability properties of many solutions.

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Closer to the walker is a project exploring different needs connected to the walker. Based on a human-centered design approach it includes methods such as observation, embodied experiences, workshops, interviews with users and stakeholders. Within this project different aspects are touched upon, such as posture, visual appearance, vibration and breaks. Resulting in a redesign of a walker for outdoor use, situating the product in an urban setting, exploring methods of manufacturing and needs of the users in today’s society.