Dissertations / Theses: 'Abstract word'

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Liberto, Anthony. "Word Salad." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/39.

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I've always considered myself a serious person who understood the meaning of labor. I am determined to labor over my ideas, and to labor seriously. The problem, and by "problem," I mean, "best thing" about this is that no one takes me seriously. Ever. They seem to like my work anyway. Apparently, I'm more funny than I am serious. But that's okay, because, secretly, I think I've always tried to be serious because I never thought I was smart enough to be funny. I often misunderstand things. Sometimes I mishear or wrongly attribute or think that facts are a metaphors or that metaphors are facts. Then I take this (mis)information back to my studio and playing Cosmic Matchmaker, yoking together seeming disparate elements to create a visual vocabulary. And then I labor over it. Very seriously.

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Magwaza, Goodwill. "Dichotic recall indices of lateralized cerebral processing of abstract, concrete and emotional Zulu word stimuli in FS+ and FS- dextrals." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13485.

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Bibliography: leaves 131-138.
This thesis reports a basic cognitive neuropsychological experiment which employed an original dichotic recall test to assess lateralized cerebral processing of abstract, concrete and emotional Zulu word stimuli among 32 male and 30 female dextral (right- handed) Zulu-speakers, consisting of 14 males and 12 females with sinistral (left-handed) blood relatives (FS+ ~ and 18 males and 18 females with no sinistral blood relatives (FS-). The present dichotic listening experiment investigated whether abstract word stimuli are recalled more poorly or better than either concrete or emotional word stimuli, and whether concrete word stimuli are recalled better or more poorly than emotional word stimuli. It also investigated whether recall of abstract, concrete and emotional word stimuli yield a right ear advantage CREA) or left ear advantage (LEA).

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ORENA, ELEONORA FRANCESCA. "Lemons and Trust: the Contribution of Anesthesia to the Study of the Neural Substrates of Concrete and Abstract Word Processing." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/142471.

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There is evidence that abstract and concrete words are represented and processed differently in the brain. Numerous studies suggest the activation of a bilateral network for both abstract and concrete words, with a greater involvement of posterior, sensory areas in concrete word processing, and a more focal activation of anterior regions, involved in verbal processing, for abstract words. This Ph.D. thesis aimed at investigating the different neural substrates of concrete and abstract words by studying memory priming during general anesthesia. Implicit memory tasks, in fact, seem to be immune to the concreteness effect and recent neurophysiological studies suggest that conscious and unconscious semantic activation involve similar brain areas. Experiment 1 focused on the priming effect for intraoperatively primed abstract and concrete words in patients under general intravenous (propofol) anesthesia. Considering the specific brain targets of propofol, I hypothesized a stronger priming effect for concrete than for abstract words. Implicit memory for primed words was tested with a three-letter word stem completion test, in which half of the stems referred to primes, and half were foils. Both stimulation and testing were auditory, to avoid cross-modality interference. A control group of patients, who did not receive any intraoperative stimulation, but completed both concrete and abstract word stem completion test, was also recruited. As expected, a priming effect was found for concrete words, since the number of target hits was significantly higher than the number of non target hits. This difference did not apply to abstract words. The abstract experimental group performed comparably to controls. These results support the thesis that abstract word processing relies on the activity of anterior brain areas, as for example the inferior frontal cortex, which are suppressed by propofol. The results would also confirm that priming, investigated through word stem completion, is not a simple perceptual, pre-semantic task, but engages multiple processes, including semantic access. As suggested by electrophysiological studies, semantic access might occur at very early stages of verbal processing, thus explaining a selective intraoperative priming effect for concrete words only. To further investigate these hypotheses, a second experiment was conducted. In experiment 2 the same methodology of experiment 1 was applied, but the volatile anesthetic sevoflurane was used, which is known to lower activity in brain regions located more posteriorly than those suppressed by propofol. The most interesting finding was the presence of a priming effect also for abstract words, which would confirm data from neuroimaging studies of a greater engagement of anterior brain regions in abstract word processing. To better define the involvement of the frontal cortex in the processing of abstract words, a series of patients undergoing awake surgery for brain tumor removal was studied in experiment 3. Patients performed a lexical and a semantic decision task, together with a standard intraoperative cognitive monitoring, during direct cortical stimulation. The fundamental role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in abstract word processing was confirmed.

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CASAROTTI, ALESSANDRA. "Nomi propri, categorie semantiche, parole astratte e concrete: correlati neurali in pazienti con glioma cerebrale." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/40214.

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Several studies have suggested different neural circuits for different categories of stimuli. The present studies explore in patients submitted to surgical removal of a glioma, the role of cortical and subcortical structures involved in processing abstract and concrete words. In the first study living and non-living objects were investigated. Direct electrical cortical stimulation was used to map naming of living/non-living entities during surgical removal, then subcortical connections for specific categories of objects were investigated. Two different pathways were identified, one for living and one for non-living things. These results constitute a neurophysiological evidence for the critical role of subcortical pathways as part of the neural circuits that represent lexical-conceptual knowledge of different categories of objects. The second study focused on proper names retrieval and its relationship with the uncinate fasciculus. Forty-four patients with a brain tumor in the left frontal or temporal lobe were examined. In 18 of them surgical removal included the uncinate fasciculus. Patients were assessed before surgery, three-seven days after surgery and three months after surgery. This procedure allowed understanding whether there was any difference due to the lesion of uncinate fasciculus. Patients with removal of the uncinate fasciculus were impaired in naming famous faces and objects. In the third study processing of abstract and concrete nouns was investigated. Fifty-six patients with a brain tumor in the left and right frontal or temporal lobe were examined by means of a semantic similarity judgment. The results suggest that the anterior temporal and the left fronto-insular regions are involved in processing abstract words.

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Davoine, Patrick. "Pour une réévaluation de Georg Trakl en poète-musicien : La musique au fondement de pratiques interartistiques dans l’aire germanique au début du XXe siècle." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO20119/document.

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L’œuvre du poète autrichien Georg Trakl (1887-1914) passe pour incontournable dans le contexte de création littéraire d’avant-guerre. Mais comparativement à sa portée expressionniste, la dimension intermédiale est peu mise en avant alors que la musique connaît dans cette poésie des formes de médiation originales. Il est donc question d’approcher la manière dont la musique est indirectement intégrée dans le texte trakléen. En faisant le choix d’élargir cette investigation de type musico-littéraire à l’ensemble de la création des années 1910-1925, il est également question d’élaborer une vision de l’époque moderne où la musique occupe, notamment en peinture, une place de choix dans les pratiques interartistiques
The work of the Austrian poet Georg Trakl (1887-1914) is said to be essential in the context of creative writing before the war. But compared to his expressionist reach, intermedial dimension is not put forward whereas music features in this poetry original forms of mediation. It is therefore a question of approaching how music is indirectly included in the literary work of Trakl.By choosing to expand the investigation of musico-literary type the whole of creation 1910-1925 years, it is also about developing a vision of the modern era where the music plays, including painting, a first-order part in the interartistic practices

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De, Mornay Davies Paul. "The semantic representation of concrete and abstract words." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267987.

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This thesis examines the various approaches which have been taken to investigate the concrete/abstract word distinction both in normal subjects and in patients who, as a result of brain damage, have an impairment of lexical semantic representations. The nature of the definition task as a tool for assessing the semantic representations of concrete and abstract terms was examined. It was found that definitions for abstract words differed from those of concrete words only in style, not in semantic content. The metalinguistic demands of the definition task therefore make it inappropriate for assessing the semantic representations of concrete and abstract terms in patients with any form of language impairment. The performance of four patients with semantic impairments was examined using a variety of tasks designed to assess concrete and abstract word comprehension. While some of the data can be accommodated within the framework of several theories, no single theory can adequately account for the patterns of performance in all four patients. An alternative model of semantic memory is therefore proposed in which concreteness and frequency interact at the semantic level. Jones' Ease of Predication Hypothesis, which states that the difference between concrete and abstract terms can be explained in terms of disproportionate numbers of underlying semantic features (or "predicates") was also investigated. It was found that the ease of predication variable does not accurately reflect either predicate or feature distributions, and is simply another index of concreteness. As such, the validity of this concept as the basis of theories of semantic representation should be questioned. Models based on the assumption of a "richer" semantic representation for concrete words (e.g.: Plaut & Shallice, 1993) are therefore undermined by these data. The possibility that concrete and abstract concepts can be accessed from their most salient predicates and/or features was examined in a series of semantic priming experiments. It was concluded that it is not possible to prime either concrete or abstract concepts from their constituent parts. Significant facilitation only occurred for items in which the prime and target were synonymous and therefore map onto concepts which share almost identical semantic representations. In summary, it is apparent that no current theory of semantic representation can adequately account for the range of findings with regard to the concrete/abstract word distinction. The most plausible account is some form of distributed connectionist model. However, such models are based on unsubstantiated assumptions about the nature of abstract word representations in the semantic network. Alternative proposals are therefore discussed.

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Gois, Patricia Monteiro de. "As formas assumidas pelo trabalho : da cooperação simples ao toyotismo." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2008. http://repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/798.

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The work while producing activity of values of use occupies a central place in the Marx´s thought. According to this philosophical chain, the work is the ontological and that it establishes category of the world of the men, therefore, is through the work that it happens the transformation of the nature in indispensable values to the material reproduction of the society, being, therefore, the perpetual natural condition of the life human being . However, in the continuation of the historical process, the perpetual condition of the existence human being assumes diverse forms. In this direction, this master´s thesis has as objective to verify, in accordance with the marxist theory, the process of evolution of the category work, specifically, in the capitalist production. For in such a way, it is looked to understand how it happens the extration of the productive excess, its evolution and improvement by means of the diverse forms of submission of the work to the capital - since the initial forms of production of merchandises until the systems contemporaries of extration of surplus-value. From now on it is demonstrated that, although the productive transformations in course, the work is the fundante category of the social being. The conclusion is that in the capitalism, the forms changes, but the content remains the same, it wants to say, the production and the accomplishment of surplus-value.
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O trabalho enquanto atividade produtora de valores de uso ocupa um lugar central no pensamento marxiano. Segundo essa corrente filosófica, o trabalho é a categoria ontológico-fundante do mundo dos homens, pois é através do trabalho que se dá a transformação da natureza em valores de uso indispensáveis à reprodução material da sociedade, sendo, portanto, a condição natural eterna da vida humana . Contudo, no decurso do processo histórico, a eterna condição da existência humana assume diversas formas. Nesse sentido, esta dissertação tem como objetivo verificar, à luz da teoria marxista, o processo de evolução da categoria trabalho, especificamente, na produção capitalista. Para tanto, procura-se compreender como se deu a extração do excedente produtivo, sua evolução e aprimoramento mediante as diversas formas de subsunção do trabalho ao capital desde as formas iniciais de produção de mercadorias até os sistemas contemporâneos de extração de mais-valia. A partir de então demonstra-se que, malgrado as transformações produtivas em curso, o trabalho é a categoria fundante do ser social. Conclui-se que no capitalismo as formas se modificam, mas o conteúdo permanece o mesmo, ou seja, a produção e a realização de mais-valia.

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Koivisto-Alanko, Päivi. "Abstract words in abstract worlds : directionality and prototypical structure in the semantic change in English nouns of cognition /." Helsinki : Société néophilologique, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb392874530.

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Andrews, Paul E. "The courage to explore the inner work of educational leaders /." dissertation online, 2009. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#abstract?dispub=3359835.

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Ménard, Elaine. "Indexing and retrieving images in a multilingual world (extended abstract)." dLIST, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105900.

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The Internet constitutes a vast universe of knowledge and human culture, allowing the dissemination of ideas and information without borders. The Web also became an important media for the diffusion of multilingual resources. However, linguistic differences still form a major obstacle to scientific, cultural, and educational exchange. With the ever increasing size of the Web and the availability of more and more documents in various languages, this problem becomes all the more pervasive. Besides this linguistic diversity, a multitude of databases and collections now contain documents in various formats, which may also adversely affect the retrieval process. This paper presents the context, the problem statement, and the experiment carried out of a research project aiming to verify the existing relations between two different indexing approaches: (1) traditional image indexing recommending the use of controlled vocabularies or (2) free image indexing using uncontrolled vocabulary, and their respective performance for image retrieval, in a multilingual context. The use of controlled vocabularies or uncontrolled vocabularies raises a certain number of difficulties for the indexing process. These difficulties will necessarily entail consequences at the time of image retrieval. Indexing with controlled or uncontrolled vocabularies is a question extensively discussed in the literature. However, it is clear that many searchers recognize the advantages of either form of vocabulary according to circumstances (Arsenault, 2006). It appears that the many difficulties associated with free indexing using uncontrolled vocabularies can only be understood via a comparative analysis with controlled vocabulary indexing (Macgregor & McCulloch, 2006). This research compares image retrieval within two contexts: a monolingual context where the language of the query is the same as the indexing language; and a multilingual context where the language of the query is different from the indexing language. This research will indicate if one of these indexing approaches surpasses the other, in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction of the image searchers. For this research, three data collection methods are used: (1) the analysis of the vocabularies used for image indexing in order to examine the multiplicity of term types applied to images (generic description, identification, and interpretation) and the degree of indexing difficulty due to the subject and the nature of the image; (2) the simulation of the retrieval process with a subset of images indexed according to each indexing approach studied, and finally, (3) the administration of a questionnaire to gather information on searcher satisfaction during and after the retrieval process. The quantification of the retrieval performance of each indexing approach is based on the usability measures recommended by the standard ISO 9241-11, i.e. effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction of the user (AFNOR, 1998). The need to retrieve a particular image from a collection is shared by several user communities including teachers, artists, journalists, scientists, historians, filmmakers and librarians, all over the world. Image collections also have many areas of application: commercial, scientific, educational, and cultural. Until recently, image collections were difficult to access due to limitations in dissemination and duplication procedures. This research underlines the pressing necessity to optimize the methods used for image processing, in order to facilitate the imagesâ retrieval and their dissemination in multilingual environments. The results of this study will offer preliminary information to deepen our understanding of the influence of the vocabulary used in image indexing. In turn, these results can be used to enhance access to digital collections of visual material in multilingual environments.

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Weng, Cho-jui. "Pile Up, And Swing Back : Abstract Expressions of Travel Fetishism." Thesis, Konstfack, Grafisk Design & Illustration, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-3664.

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Li, Ji. "Journal abstracts in China English." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15329.

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Building upon the macro analysis of the rhetorical structure of the text, Systemic Functional linguistics (SFL), in which Thematic structure and Transitivity processes and other grammatical features are examined, will be utilised to investigate how language is organized to make meaning in journal abstracts in the current study. The purpose of this study is to investigate patterns of similarities and differences between journal abstracts written for a local Chinese readership and international readership by investigating the linguistic features embedded in the abstract part of research articles (RA). The analytical approach facilitated by Santos’s (1996) five move analysis model and the informing SFL linguistic theory is intended to explore the gene structure and features of Chinese English RA abstracts in comparison to the international academics in the World Englishes (WE) context.

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Kennepohl, Stephan. "Delayed recognition memory for laterally-presented abstract and concrete words and drawings." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/MQ30911.pdf.

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Stramandinoli, Francesca. "Towards the grounding of abstract categories in cognitive robots." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3099.

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The grounding of language in humanoid robots is a fundamental problem, especially in social scenarios which involve the interaction of robots with human beings. Indeed, natural language represents the most natural interface for humans to interact and exchange information about concrete entities like KNIFE, HAMMER and abstract concepts such as MAKE, USE. This research domain is very important not only for the advances that it can produce in the design of human-robot communication systems, but also for the implication that it can have on cognitive science. Abstract words are used in daily conversations among people to describe events and situations that occur in the environment. Many scholars have suggested that the distinction between concrete and abstract words is a continuum according to which all entities can be varied in their level of abstractness. The work presented herein aimed to ground abstract concepts, similarly to concrete ones, in perception and action systems. This permitted to investigate how different behavioural and cognitive capabilities can be integrated in a humanoid robot in order to bootstrap the development of higher-order skills such as the acquisition of abstract words. To this end, three neuro-robotics models were implemented. The first neuro-robotics experiment consisted in training a humanoid robot to perform a set of motor primitives (e.g. PUSH, PULL, etc.) that hierarchically combined led to the acquisition of higher-order words (e.g. ACCEPT, REJECT). The implementation of this model, based on a feed-forward artificial neural networks, permitted the assessment of the training methodology adopted for the grounding of language in humanoid robots. In the second experiment, the architecture used for carrying out the first study was reimplemented employing recurrent artificial neural networks that enabled the temporal specification of the action primitives to be executed by the robot. This permitted to increase the combinations of actions that can be taught to the robot for the generation of more complex movements. For the third experiment, a model based on recurrent neural networks that integrated multi-modal inputs (i.e. language, vision and proprioception) was implemented for the grounding of abstract action words (e.g. USE, MAKE). Abstract representations of actions ("one-hot" encoding) used in the other two experiments, were replaced with the joints values recorded from the iCub robot sensors. Experimental results showed that motor primitives have different activation patterns according to the action's sequence in which they are embedded. Furthermore, the performed simulations suggested that the acquisition of concepts related to abstract action words requires the reactivation of similar internal representations activated during the acquisition of the basic concepts, directly grounded in perceptual and sensorimotor knowledge, contained in the hierarchical structure of the words used to ground the abstract action words.

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Rogers, Y. "Pictorial representations of abstract concepts in relation to human-computer interaction." Thesis, Swansea University, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380052.

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Reville, Kathleen. "How to improve children's success with arithmetical word problems through the use of a range of scaffolding strategies targeted at the language domain." n.p, 2001. http://dart.open.ac.uk/abstracts/page.php?thesisid=187.

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Hadjiyiannis, Christos. "Re-examination of the work of T.E. Hulme." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5986.

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This project challenges a series of common interpretations of Hulme's work: that his arguments are contradictory; that his career can be separated into distinct “phases”; that he endorsed other thinkers' ideas uncritically; and that he promulgated authoritarian politics. Chapter 1 examines the entries in Hulme's notebooks that relate his views on the nature of reality and language. Read through ideas in the works of Bergson, Nietzsche and Ribot, these rudimentary notes present a coherent “anti-intellectualist” philosophical position, consistent with claims made in his later writings. Chapter 2 focuses on “A Lecture on Modern Poetry.” Hulme's rejection of nineteenth-century verse was part of a broader campaign by poets in London to find new ways of expression, yet his ideas stand independently of claims made by Flint, Storer and Pound. Hulme's greatest contribution to Imagism is the emphasis he put on the use of images in poetry, a method that follows from the distinction he drew in the notebooks between “direct” and “indirect” language. Chapter 3, which examines Hulme's essays and lectures on Bergson, demonstrates that, although he embraced Bergson's philosophical method, Hulme remained critical of many of Bergson's theories. This discredits the claim that he was simply reiterating Bergson's ideas. Ultimately, Bergson's “intuition” enabled Hulme to develop his earlier description of “modern” poetry and to recast it as “classic” poetry. Chapter 4 investigates Hulme's political essays. Together with Storer, Hulme participated in a debate in the Commentator concerning the parliamentary crisis of 1910. It was as part of an attempt to create an efficient propaganda strategy for the Conservative party that Hulme postulated his famous antithesis between Romanticism and Classicism. Hulme's analysis of the process of political conversion shows that in 1910-12 he had not abandoned elements in his thought from Bergson's philosophy. Moreover, far from sharing the authoritarian political views of the Action Française, he can be more accurately described as a “moderate Conservative.” Chapter 5 demonstrates that claims Hulme made in his art criticism are consonant with the general reaction in 1913-14 against representational art. While drawing heavily on Worringer's anti-materialist conception of art history, he was using it to defend his contemporaries' experimentation with geometric forms, in a way similar to Fry and Bell. Although, like Worringer and Ludovici, Hulme campaigned for antihumanism and mixed aesthetics with politics, the model of art he proposed did not carry the authoritarian implications of those of Worringer and Ludovici. Finally, Chapter 6 explores Hulme's war writings. Hulme was not a militarist; rather, he supported Britain's involvement in the war on the grounds that war against Germany would protect the British political institutions. He stayed true to his Conservative principles, using ideas from Sorel and Proudhon to dissociate the “democratic” from the “pacifist” ideology. There is also evidence that, despite his explicit rejection of vitalism in “A Notebook,” Hulme continued to value Bergson's method of “intuition” right up to his death in 1917. This project, therefore, argues for a re-interpretation of Hulme's work and shows the value of scrutinising the intellectual and political context in which he was writing in understanding the precise nature of his thought.

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Walker, Jonathan. "Musique abstraite : numerus sonorus and the musical work." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314157.

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Dutra, Júnior Wagnervalter. "A geografia da acumulação - territórios do trabalho (abstrato) e da riqueza (abstrata) : a espacialização da irracionalidade substantiva do capital." Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 2010. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5620.

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The present study abstract wealth is concentrated around relative questions to the production of territories of the abstract work/wealth, having as crucial mechanism to materialize them the different geographic development and agreement, that provides structuring space arrangements of the extended reproduction of the capital, of the contratrend to the fall in the tax of the profit and magnifying of the surplus value. As initial reflection an analysis of the paper of the State in the reproduction of the system of the capital and in the development of propeller mechanisms of the space arrangements was developed, that foment possible trends to the exploration of the workmanship hand, when uncurling of the capitalist production and the guarantee of the circulation and consumption. The action of the State is basic for the maintenance and the guarantee of the productive reorganization of the capital that since the decade of seventy comes becoming the work more superfluous, thus creating a contingent of precarious human beings. Accenting the dehumanizing character of the capital the State contains from its institutional-coercive apparatus the conflicts of classroom that if they accent, in the mat of a society increasingly bellicose. Inside of this context capitalism and development if it keeps accenting the levels of exploration of the hand of workmanship in the world scale, searching to provide conditions so that the capitalists reach profits above of the average tax: the superprofits. To reach such intentions the capital in its movement of globalization searchs to use to advantage itself of the dynamics to scale of the different geographic development, creating and if appropriating of conditions that less allow to its future domain on the force of work or the kidnapping it of asset of the favored populations, through the financial capital and of the scheduled crises to promote accumulation by dispossession and the maintenance distorted for bubbles of the profit tax. However the production of the different geographic development, being essential mechanism for the maintenance of the sociometabolism of the capital, does not leave of globalize the inherent contradictions to the production of merchandises, merchandises now desubstantialized, that in the bulge of this development wealth produces abstract and the territory conforms that it. All the geography of the end in itself of the system of the capital is produced objectifying the capture of everything what it exists to convert into value of exchange. The geographic face of the system of the capital is to universalization the value of exchange tendency, not meaning that the existence of the spaces of use in counterpoint to the exchange spaces cannot exist..
O presente estudo concentra-se em torno de questões relativas à produção de territórios do trabalho/riqueza abstrata(o), tendo como mecanismo crucial para concretizá-los o desenvolvimento geográfico desigual e combinado, que proporciona arranjos espaciais estruturantes da reprodução ampliada do capital, da contratendência à queda na taxa do lucro e de ampliação da mais-valia. Como reflexão inicial foi desenvolvida uma análise do papel do Estado na reprodução do sistema do capital e no desenvolvimento de mecanismos propulsores dos arranjos espaciais, que fomentam possíveis tendências à exploração da mão de obra, ao desenrolar da produção capitalista e a garantia da circulação e consumo. A ação do Estado é fundamental para a manutenção e a garantia da reestruturação produtiva do capital que desde a década de setenta vem tornando o trabalho cada vez mais supérfluo, criando assim um contingente de seres humanos precarizados. Acentuando o caráter desumanizador do capital o Estado contém a partir de seu aparato institucional-coercivo os conflitos de classe que se acentuam, na esteira se uma sociedade cada vez mais belicosa. Dentro desse contexto capitalismo e desenvolvimento se mantém acentuando os níveis de exploração da mão de obra na escala mundo, buscando proporcionar condições para que os capitalistas alcancem lucros acima da taxa média: os superlucros. Para alcançar tais propósitos o capital no seu movimento de mundialização busca aproveitar-se da dinâmica escalar do desenvolvimento geográfico desigual, criando e se apropriando de condições que a permitam o seu domínio futuro sobre a força de trabalho ou o seqüestro de ativos das populações menos favorecidas, através do capital financeiro e das crises orquestradas para promover acumulação por despossessão e a manutenção distorcida por bolhas da taxa de lucro. Todavia a produção do desenvolvimento geográfico desigual, sendo mecanismo vital para a manutenção do sociometabolismo do capital, não deixa de mundializar as contradições inerentes à produção de mercadorias, agora mercadorias dessubstancializadas, que no bojo desse desenvolvimento produz riqueza abstrata e o território que o conforma. Toda a geografia do fim em si do sistema do capital é produzida objetivando a captura de tudo o que existe para converter em valor de troca. A face geográfica do sistema do capital é universalizar tendencialmente o valor de troca, não significando que a existência dos espaços de uso em contraponto aos espaços de troca não possam existir.

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Turyk, Nancy B. "Nutrient and water budget modeling of the Petenwell Flowage Adams, Juneau, and Wood Counties Wisconsin /." Link to Abstract, 2002. http://epapers.uwsp.edu/abstracts/2002/Turyk.pdf.

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Zhang, Kailun. "A comparison of touchscreen and mouse for real-world and abstract tasks with older adults." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/55513.

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Touchscreens have become a mainstream input device for older adults. We compared performance of touchscreen and mouse input for older adults on both abstract and real-world pointing and dragging tasks: classic Fitts’s law tasks and tasks drawn from C-TOC, a computerized cognitive test being designed for older adults. The abstract and real-world tasks were designed to require equivalent motor skills. Sixteen older adult participants completed both types of tasks using a touchscreen and a mouse. The touchscreen was faster for both task types but somewhat more error-prone. However, the speed advantage of touchscreens for abstract tasks did not translate evenly to the corresponding real-world tasks. A KLM was used to explain the different speed gains in real-world tasks by incorporating both physical and cognitive components. As a self-administered test, C-TOC, would benefit from richer performance measures, beyond speed and accuracy, to compensate for the lack of a clinician observer who is typically present in comparable paper-based cognitive tests. We looked into the movement patterns of a real-world dragging task – the C-TOC Pattern Construction task – and found that older adults naturally adopted different movement patterns between devices: they tended to make shorter moves and a greater number of moves on a touchscreen than with a mouse. This indicates that careful device-based calibration will be needed for new performance metrics in computerized tests.
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Barrett, Wendy D. "World hypotheses as epistemologies of perception, metaphysical problems of abstract art in the public eye." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0014/NQ58651.pdf.

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Cezar, Ivo Martins. "A participatory knowledge information system for beef farmers : a case applied to the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1999. http://webex.lib.ed.ac.uk/abstracts/cezar01.pdf.

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Johnson, Crystal. "Abstracts for the mind : a work in three movements for viola and orchestra /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131464908.pdf.

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Skipper, Laura Marie. "UNDERSTANDING THE NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ABSTRACT CONCEPTS: CONVERGING EVIDENCE FROM FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING AND APHASIA." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/245951.

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While the neural underpinnings of concrete semantic knowledge have been studied extensively, abstract conceptual knowledge remains enigmatic. In the first experiment, participants underwent a functional MRI scan while thinking deeply about abstract and concrete words. A functional connectivity analysis revealed a cortical network, including portions of the left temporal parietal cortex (TPC), that showed coordinated activity specific to abstract word processing. Alternatively, concrete words led to cooperation of a network in the inferior, middle and polar temporal lobes. In a second experiment, participants with focal lesions in the left TPC, as well as matched control participants, were tested on a spoken-to-written word matching task, in which they were asked to select either an abstract or concrete word, from an array of words that were related or unrelated to the target. The results revealed an interaction between concreteness and relatedness. Participants with lesions did not have an overall deficit for abstract words, relative to concrete words, in this task. However, their accuracy was significantly lower for abstract words in related arrays, compared to words in unrelated arrays. These results confirm that the TPC plays an important role in abstract concept representation, and that it is part of a larger network of functionally cooperative regions needed for abstract word processing. These results also provide converging evidence that abstract concepts rely on neural networks that are independent from those involved in concrete concepts, and have important implications for existing accounts of the neural representation of semantic memory.
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Manuzzi, Sabrina. "Work and low back pain : gender makes a difference /." Basel, 2008. http://www.public-health-edu.ch/new/Abstracts/MS_07.04.08.pdf.

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Jacobs, Margo. "Assembling the Everyday: The Three-Dimensional Work of John Chamberlain from 1958 to 1963." Cincinati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1147714752.

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Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Jan.16, 2007). Includes abstract. Keywords: Assemblage; Abstract Expressionism; Automobiles; General Motors; Everyday Includes bibliographical references.

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Törnkvist, Anna, and Jacline Cohen. "”Man måste ju tillåta sig själv att ha känslor, det är ju ändå människor vi har att göra med” : En kvalitativ undersökning om utredande socialsekreterares hantering av sina emotioner utifrån mötet med klienten." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för hälsa och välfärd, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-27989.

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Studien avser att genom ett kvalitativt fältarbete få förståelse för hantering av känslor för socialsekreterare inom socialt arbete på en socialförvaltning. Syftet är även att få en inblick i vilka faktorer som eventuellt har en inverkan på denna hantering och vad denna emotionella hantering kan ha för konsekvenser för socialsekreteraren. Det insamlade materialet i studien baseras på intervjuer för att få en detaljrik uppfattning om informanternas arbetssituation. Intervjuerna utfördes med åtta socialsekreterare som utreder ärenden angående barn, unga och familjer inom en specifik kommun. Att de arbetade under en gemensam arbetsstruktur och kultur underlättade ytterligare vår undersökning. Resultatet visar att det som minskar risken för psykisk ohälsa hos socialsekreterarna är social respons och stöd från bl.a. kollegor där de får möjlighet till utrymme och utlopp för sina känslor i en avslappnad miljö. Till följd av att socialsekreterarna är i behov av att bygga en relation med sina klienter, befinner de sig i ett komplext läge i klientmötet där de använder sig av en kombination mellan ett ytligare och djupare agerande. Socialsekreterarna måste således visa sig mänskliga under samtalet för att konstruera en känsla av trygghet, vilket kräver en balans av en viss känslomässig frihet att respondera utan att göra avsteg från rollen som professionell.
The study’s intention is to achieve an understanding for social workers' management of feelings within social work at a social service centre through qualitatively fieldwork. Our intention is also to receive an insight of the components that might have an impact on the feeling management and also what consequences this feeling management might have for the social worker. The gathered material in the study is based on interviews to receive a detailed view of the informants' work situation. The interviews were performed on eight social workers investigating cases concerning children, young adults and families in a specific county, which contributed to a common working structure and culture that have simplified our research. The result shows that what reduces the risk of psychological illness for the social workers is social response and support from, among others, colleagues where they have a chance of space and can express their feelings in a relaxed environment. Because of the need for social workers to build a relationship to their clients, they are in a complex situation in the meeting with the client where they have a combination of a more surfaced acting and a deeper acting. Therefore social workers must show their humanity during the client meetings to construct a feeling of security, which demands a balance between having a certain emotional freedom to express oneself without breaking the role as a professional.

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Rowser, Mayola. "Predictors of depressive symptoms and obesity in African American women transitioning from welfare to work." View the abstract Download the full-text PDF version, 2008. http://etd.utmem.edu/ABSTRACTS/2008-045-Rowser-index.htm.

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Title from title page screen (viewed on February 24, 2009). Research advisor: Muriel Curry Rice, Ph.D. Document formatted into pages (ix, 85 p. : ill.). Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-85).

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Шкурдода, Юрій Олексійович, Юрий Алексеевич Шкурдода, Yurii Oleksiiovych Shkurdoda, and В. О. Кравченко. "Реферат як форма організації самостійної роботи студентів." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/47562.

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Вирішення задач сучасної освіти передбачає підвищення ролі самостійної роботи студентів над навчальним матеріалом, посилення уваги викладачів до розвитку навичок самостійної роботи, стимулювання професійного зростання студентів, виховання їх творчої активності та ініціативи. Під час навчання зміст та форми організації самостійної роботи студентів змінюються.

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McColm, Donna. "Opticality and the Work of Morris Louis (1912-1962)." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2180.

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This thesis investigates the work of Morris Louis (1912-1962) in relation to ‘opticality’, a theory developed by the prominent American art critic Clement Greenberg. Between the late 1930s and 1950s, Greenberg developed a comprehensive argument concerning the opticality, or the optical illusion, of abstract painting. This theory influenced common approaches towards Abstract Expressionist painting during the 1940s and 1950s, culminating in Greenberg’s writing on ‘Colourfield’ painting in major texts of the 1960s such as ‘Louis and Noland’ (1960). Through research into the development of Morris Louis’ technique, including several of his major series as well as lesser known works, this thesis argues that our understanding of Louis’ work has been constricted by a narrow perception of the opticality of his 'stain' paintings, and explores Louis' technique in light of alternative interpretations of his work.

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McColm, Donna. "Opticality and the Work of Morris Louis (1912-1962)." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2180.

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This thesis investigates the work of Morris Louis (1912-1962) in relation to ‘opticality’, a theory developed by the prominent American art critic Clement Greenberg. Between the late 1930s and 1950s, Greenberg developed a comprehensive argument concerning the opticality, or the optical illusion, of abstract painting. This theory influenced common approaches towards Abstract Expressionist painting during the 1940s and 1950s, culminating in Greenberg’s writing on ‘Colourfield’ painting in major texts of the 1960s such as ‘Louis and Noland’ (1960). Through research into the development of Morris Louis’ technique, including several of his major series as well as lesser known works, this thesis argues that our understanding of Louis’ work has been constricted by a narrow perception of the opticality of his 'stain' paintings, and explores Louis' technique in light of alternative interpretations of his work.

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Cotrim, Vera Aguiar. "Trabalho, conhecimento, valor: Marx frente a uma contradição atual." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8137/tde-03122015-144226/.

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Esta pesquisa busca examinar as categorias centrais do pensamento de Marx tendo em vista uma questão atual: a expansão da atividade intelectual como forma do trabalho subsumido ao capital. Em contraposição às teorias que veem esta transformação como fator que altera a teoria do valor e torna a compreensão marxiana do capital obsoleta, examino nos textos de Marx a relação geral entre trabalho e conhecimento, pautada em sua compreensão do indivíduo e da sociabilidade. Busco então conectar essas categorias fundantes com a história, distinguindo a dialética do desenvolvimento nas sociedades pré-capitalista e no modo de produção do capital. No interior deste último, destaco dois temas centrais, a categoria de trabalho abstrato como forma social específica do trabalho, e a relação contraditória entre o desenvolvimento das forças produtivas com a forma social do capital. É este desenvolvimento que transforma a relação entre trabalho e conhecimento, bem como a divisão entre trabalho material e trabalho intelectual nesta fase avançada do evolver do capital. A partir do exame deste tema, aponto por fim algumas das mudanças atuais que revelam o aprofundamento da contradição que permeia a reprodução capitalista. Na abordagem destes temas, discuto com autores que buscam explicar as vicissitudes atuais, bem como com comentadores da obra marxiana que privilegiam o ponto de vista lógico ao examinar seus textos.
This research seeks to examine the central categories of Marxs thought regarding a current issue: the expansion of intellectual activity as a form of labor subsumed to capital. In contrast to theories that see this transformation as a factor that changes the theory of value and makes the Marxian understanding of capital obsolete, this research examines the overall relationship between labor and knowledge in Marxs texts, based on his understanding of the individual and sociability. It aims then to connect these founding categories with history, distinguishing the dialectic of development in pre-capitalist societies and the capitalist mode of production. Inside the latter, two central themes are highlighted, the abstract labor category as a specific social form of work, and the contradictory relationship between the development of productive forces and capital-relation. It is this development that transforms the relationship between labor and knowledge, as well as the division between material and intellectual production, at this late stage of capital expansion. From the examination of this issue, it is pointed at last some of the current changes that reveal the depth of the contradiction that pervades capitalist reproduction. In addressing these issues, authors who seek to explain the current changes are discussed as well as interpretations of Marxs thought that favor the logical point of view.

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Andrieu, Mélanie. "Une spécificité Cobra, les oeuvres collectives: émergence d'une pratique et exemplarité de Christian Dotremont." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209838.

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Cette thèse est une étude du mouvement Cobra à travers les œuvres collectives, une de ses composantes caractéristiques. Il s’agit tout d’abord de comprendre le mouvement, ses origines et influences, ainsi que sa visée d’un art libre, ouvert, expérimental, partie prenante de la vie. Dans un contexte social d’après-guerre, souvent politisé, Cobra défend l’action collective, définie notamment dans les notions d’antispécialisme et d’interspécialisme. Il convient de mettre en exergue les origines de cette pratique, et saisir les divers aspects qu’elle arbore, notamment au travers de revues, d’expositions ou de créations partagées. Le poète Christian Dotremont, animateur et âme de Cobra, favorise le travail de collaboration et contribue à son développement en stimulant les rencontres artistiques. Il se fait le passeur et le permanent "agitateur"» de cette notion. Les peintures-mots qu’il crée avec d’autres artistes participent à sa réflexion majeure sur l’écriture et la peinture. Ce lien interpelle quelques artistes belges comme Pierre Alechinsky, mais il passionne Christian Dotremont qui ne cesse de multiplier les expériences à ce propos, pour aboutir à ce qu’il nomme les logogrammes, remarquable fusion de la peinture et de la poésie, et aboutissement de toute une vie de recherche.

Ce travail est structuré en trois points. Le premier établit une étude du contexte artistique et social des années précédent Cobra puis la mise en place du groupe. Le second aborde les années d’intense activité "officielle" du groupe, au service du collectif. Enfin, le troisième propose de suivre l’évolution post-Cobra des œuvres collectives et des recherches sur l’écriture et la peinture. / This thesis is a study of the Cobra movement through one of its characteristic components: the collective works. First of all it's about understanding the movement, its origins (three countries), its influences and its purpose of a free art, open, experimental, involvement with life. In a social after-war context, often politicized, Cobra defends collective action, notably defined in concepts of anti-specialism and inter-specialism. We should therefore underline the origins of this practice and undestand different aspects that it shows, in particular through publications, exhibitions or shared creations. The poet Christian Dotremont, leader and soul of Cobra, promotes cooperative work by collaboration and contributes to its development by stimulating artistic meetings. He is the purveyor and permanent "agitator" of this concept. The words-paintings that he creates with other artists, take part of his major thinking about writing and painting. This link interpellates a few Belgian artists like Pierre Alechinsky, but it fascinates Christian Dotremont who keeps experimenting on it, in order to reach what he calls the logograms, a remarkable fusion of painting and poetry, and a culmination of a life-time of research.

This work is structured in three parts. The first one draws a study of the artistic and social context of the years preceding Cobra and the setting up of the group. The second one talks about years of intense "official" activity of the group serving collective way of work. Finally, the third one offers to follow the post-Cobra evolution of collective works and researches about writing and painting.
Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie
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Poulin, John P. "Bond and Static Bending Strength of FRP-Reinforced Glulam Beams Using Western Wood Species. Vol. 1." Volume 1 Volume 2, 2001. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/theses.asp?Cmd=abstract&ID=CIE2001-002.

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Garelli, Céline. "L’oeuvre d’art comme expression et comme langage dans l'Esthétique de Benedetto Croce." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040092/document.

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L’objectif principal de ce travail est d’établir le sens attribué à la science de l’expression et de préciser comment elle est identifiée à la linguistique générale, dans l’Esthétique de Benedetto Croce. Adversaire de l’intellectualisme et du rationalisme, Croce a éprouvé au plus profond de lui-même les questions que l’homme se pose. C’est dans l’expérience du langage que l’homme expérimente la profondeur de son existence au monde. Il s’agit de l’essence du langage comprise comme expression dans laquelle l’intuition se réalise intégralement. D’où, le langage est le résultat de la création irremplaçable de chaque expression singulière. C’est le langage non répétitif et intraduisible de l’œuvre d’art. Le langage est un art, il prend son sens dans l’art et se comprend par rapport à l’art. Philosophie du langage et philosophie de l’art sont la même chose. C’est selon cette perspective que l’art pour Croce est expression. C’est l’expression de l’intuition comme faculté de la transposition esthétique qui occupe la première position de la vie de l’esprit. Il en sera différemment pour la place de l’oeuvre d’art. Débat qui se prolongera sur la question de l’art abstrait, contemporain de l’Esthétique de Croce
The goal of my research is to establish the meaning given to the science of expression and specialy how it is identified to general linguistic, in Benedetto Croce’s Aesthetics. Against Intelectualism and rationalism, Croce felt deep inside him, the questioning of Man. It is in the experience of language that Man experiments the depth of his being to the world. The essence of language, understood as expression, is in which intuition realises itself, totaly. Therefore, language is the result of an irreplaceable creation of each single expression. It is a non repetitive and untranslatable language of the work of art. Language is art, it takes its meaning in art and is understood in regard to art. Philosophy of language and philosophy of art are alike. It is in this perspective that art for Croce is expression. It is the intuition’s expression as the faculty of aesthetic transposition that is in first position of the mind. It will be different for the work of art. This debate will continue on the question of abstract art, contemporary to the Aesthetics of Croce

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Torrång, Matilda, Esin Demir, and Emelie Isenberg. "Svårigheter med ekvationer : en systematisk litteraturstudie om elevers svårigheter inom matematikområdet ekvationer." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för matematik (MA), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-79916.

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Den här studien är en systematisk litteraturstudie med inriktning årskurs 1–3. Syftet är att granska vilka svårigheter elever kan uppleva när de arbetar med ekvationer i matematik. Studien syftar även att undersöka var i arbetet med ekvationer som elever stöter på svårigheter när de går från ett konkret till ett abstrakt arbetssätt. För att svara på studiens frågeställningar har 17 vetenskapliga artiklar granskats och analyserats. Till hjälp har Heddens (1986) teori om att gå från en konkret representation till en abstrakt representation använts. Genom resultatet har flertalet svårigheter som elever kan uppleva framkommit. Till exempel förståelsen för likhetstecknet samt tecken och symboler för okända tal. I studiens diskussion redogörs för hur viktigt lärarens roll i undervisningen är för att eleverna inte ska möta dessa svårigheter.

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Johns, Robert Geraint. "From farm training to therapy : a case study in the history of social work from a macro-micro social policy perspective." Thesis, n.p, 2002. http://library7.open.ac.uk/abstracts/page.php?thesisid=86.

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Heibel, Yule Frederike. "In the fifth zone : abstract painting, modernism, and cultural discourse in the western zones of Germany after World War II." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26486.

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After the de-feat of Hitler Germany in 1945, modernist painting in a non-geometric, largely abstract style took hold in the western occupied zones of the country (1945-49), and flourished for all intents and purposes unchallenged as the foremost established style of painting during the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949 through the 1950s). Most art historical scholarship to date posits this phenomenon in one of two modes: 1. Germany, enthralled by barbarism for twelve years, in the west opened its eyes to the modern painting of its European neighbors and of the United States, and via studious application, managed to catch up to those allegedly pre-existant standards; or, 2. Western Germany became a pawn of the United States in its Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union and its art "reflects" this. In contrast, my thesis shows that these views, while "tidying up" the contradictions of the period, in the final analysis are untenable since: 1. A static standard or "norm" of modernist painting had nowhere in Europe survived intact the upheavals of the earlier portion of the twentieth century— and in particular of the war; 2. The initial postwar period, from c.1945/46 through to 1948/49, cannot be described as a period of cultural "Americanization" because US cultural policy itself was at this time far from univocal ; and 3. Within Germany, many cultural opponents of Nazism, people who had been proponents of advanced art before the National Socialist period, were actively involved in forging a renewed culture of modernism. Far from being passive recipients, these artists, writers, and intellectuals were helping to create the new index of postwar modernism. Creating this new index took place within the context of great political and social insecurity within Germany as well as within Europe generally, and it took place within the context of renewed international—in particular Franco-German—co-operation. These conditions in turn affected the articulation of advanced art. My thesis then also suggests answers to the question of why the particular style of abstraction based on subverting form, rejecting non-objective painting, and employing archaic and primitive motifs, whilst eschewing all forms of didacticism or other direct address to the viewer, should become the preferred style of advanced painting in West Germany. The discussion includes the artists Willi Baumeister, Fritz Winter, E.W.Nay, Theodor Werner, Heinz Trflkes, and others. To answer these questions and to prove my conclusions, I employ a method of investigation based on a close reading of the critical texts relating to art and culture produced during this period, in particular as found in art magazines like Das Kunstwerk; a comparative analysis of concurrent developments in France and the US, notably similar questionings of traditional high modernism by French "informel" and "art autre" styles; and a re-examination of political movements and tendencies in postwar Germany which today have been largely forgotten, especially those socialist movements which strived for a unified and non-aligned Europe. The underlying assumption throughout is that the postwar period prior to c.1958/52 in western Germany was one of surprising cultural vitality and ferment which was, however, largely eclipsed by the more familiar image of an economically resurgent, artistically more complacent, and supposedly Americanized West Germany in the 1950s.
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Lindyberg, Robert F. "ReLAM: a nonlinear probabilistic model for the analysis of reinforced glulam beams in bending /." Abstract only, 2000. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/theses.asp?Cmd=abstract&ID=CIE2000-001.

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Lynch, Regina. "Corporeal Modernity: Shared Concepts in the Work of Jackson Pollock, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/197560.

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Although working in two different mediums, Jackson Pollock, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham created works during the 1940s and 1950s that share several analogous formal characteristics, as well as a body-centered process that reminded viewers of both the corporeality of the artists and of themselves. My thesis identifies and interprets the formal analogies evident in each the artists' approach to asymmetry, repetition, gravity, and space. I argue that the common aspects among the works of the three artists resulted from their participation in a shared modernist discourse circulating post-war America, especially in New York. This discourse provided the artists access to common sources of inspiration, such as the writings of Carl Jung, Native American imagery, and Asian cultures. Each of these elements characterizes the work of all three artists, along with similar ideas concerning the individual, national identity, and modern technology.
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Surbeck, Rebekka. "Bike to work pilot project 2005 : a comparison of characteristics, behaviour and motives of participants and non-participants of an active commuting campaign in Switzerland /." Schönenbuch, 2006. http://www.public-health-edu.ch/new/Abstracts/SR_27.09.06.pdf.

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Siggemann, Peter Bolliger-Salzmann Heinz. "Untersuchung des Work Ability Indexes und der psychosozialen Belastungsfaktoren von Lehrpersonen an Höheren Fachschulen Pflege, im Rahmen des ABZ-Curriculumsverbundes in den Kantonen Aargau/Bern/Zürich /." Belp : [s.n.], 2008. http://www.public-health-edu.ch/new/Abstracts/SP_13.01.09.pdf.

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Berntsson, Charlotta, and Elin Sandelin. "På tröskeln till det abstrakta : en undersökning om viktiga begrepp i undervisning om energi." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och IT, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-12048.

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Energi är ett abstrakt område som är svårt för elever att förstå och för lärare att förklara. Enorsak till detta är att naturvetenskapen har ett komplicerat språk med många ämnesspecifikabegrepp som är nödvändiga men samtidigt försvårar lärandet. Syftet med den här studien ärdärför att undersöka vilka begrepp inom det naturvetenskapliga området energi som lärarebehandlar som mest viktiga och hur de arbetar för att eleverna ska förstå innebörden av dessabegrepp. I förhållande till detta blir det även intressant att se hur lärare resonerar kringlärarrollen som en del av lärandet och vilken betydelse det naturvetenskapliga språket har.Begreppsanvändningen belyses här genom teorin om tröskelbegrepp, det vill säga begreppsom har förmågan att öppna upp förståelsen för ett helt nytt område. Teorin omtröskelbegrepp används ofta tillsammans med variationsteorin som handlar om attlärandeobjektet måste sättas i olika sammanhang för att lärandet ska bli fördjupat. Eftersomenergi är ett abstrakt område bör läraren arbeta ämnesövergripande inom biologi, kemi ochfysik för att eleverna ska förstå att energi finns i flera olika kontexter. Tidigare hartröskelbegrepp främst studerats i högre utbildning men lyfts här som en möjlighet för attförbättra begreppsförståelsen även för elever i lägre åldrar. Undersökningen är baserad påintervjuer med fyra lärare i årskurs 4-6 i Borås Stad.Den första och andra frågeställningen handlar om vilka begrepp som anses vara särskiltviktiga för elevernas förståelse samt språkets betydelse. Utifrån både tidigare forskning ochintervjuerna identifierade vi begreppen energikälla och energiomvandlingar som möjligatröskelbegrepp inom energiområdet. Den tredje frågeställningen handlar om lärarnas roll ochundervisning för fördjupad förståelse av dessa begrepp. Lärarna tyckte att begreppen ärviktiga men svåra att använda eftersom det finns en oro för att eleverna inte förstår och därförtappar intresset.Vår slutsats är att begrepp är nödvändiga för att eleverna ska förstå det naturvetenskapligaområdet energi. Dock är det problematiskt att använda sig av det naturvetenskapliga språketdå det blir för abstrakt och svårt för eleverna, vilket i sin tur medför att eleverna inte lär sig despecifika begreppen. En djupare kunskap behövs kring vilka begrepp som är viktiga och hurförståelsen för dessa begrepp ska uppnås. För att förbättra begreppsförståelsen hos elever ilägre åldrar vore det även intressant att studera andra områden än energi utifrån teorin omtröskelbegrepp.

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Block, Katherine M. "Veils: Truth in Translation." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2540.

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This supporting document for the thesis exhibition entitled “Veils: Truth in Translation” will discuss Block’s exploration of painting during her time at East Tennessee State University. The supporting document also provides the historical background and influences which have contributed to Block's overall process and techniques. These influences include the Abstract Expressionists, Carl Jung, Ferdinand de Saussure, John Dewey, Theodor Adorno, Joan Mitchell and Gerhard Richter. In the supporting document Block probes the idea that non-objective painting is more than a language confined by linguistic elements of sign, signifier, and signified, but is a process of thinking, which is communicated on a higher level of perception than verbal speech or visual symbolism. Block will discuss how she translates experiences from the metaphysical realm of feeling and thought to the physical reality of paint and surface which communicates the experience to the viewer.

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Gaete-Martinez, Victor. "Optical Measurement of Strang Geometry and Orientation and Their Influence on Oriented Strand Composite Formation Quality." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2009. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/theses.asp?highlight=1&Cmd=abstract&ID=FTY2009-004.

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Pokorný, Lubomír. "Metody sumarizace textových dokumentů." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-236443.

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This thesis deals with one-document summarization of text data. Part of it is devoted to data preparation, mainly to the normalization. Listed are some of the stemming algorithms and it contains also description of lemmatization. The main part is devoted to Luhn"s method for summarization and its extension of use WordNet dictionary. Oswald summarization method is described and applied as well. Designed and implemented application performs automatic generation of abstracts using these methods. A set of experiments where developed, which verified correct functionality of the application and of extension of Luhn"s summarization method too.

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Debrocq, Aliénor. "Le Surréalisme-Révolutionnaire et Cobra à l'épreuve de la violence: contribution à l'histoire des représentations." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209695.

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Créé le 8 novembre 1948 à Paris par huit peintres et écrivains belges, hollandais et danois, Cobra est l’acronyme de Copenhague, Bruxelles, Amsterdam. Le mouvement se propose rapidement de devenir un lien souple entre artistes et poètes de différents pays, par le biais d’un certain nombre de publications et d’expositions. Son existence officielle sera brève, puisqu’elle prend fin en 1951 avec le dernier numéro de la revue éponyme. Si les premières tentatives d’analyse historique et de synthèse sont venues des artistes et des poètes membres du mouvement, plusieurs études abouties ont vu le jour depuis les années 1970.

S’appuyant sur un certain nombre d’affirmations émanant des acteurs de Cobra comme des historiens ayant écrit sur le sujet, l’auteur s’est penché sur la question de la violence picturale et théorique au sein de ce mouvement. Picturale, par la propension des artistes à brouiller la lisibilité de la composition et des figures, par leur volonté de « faire brut » et enfantin, de « mal peindre », de maltraiter le sujet en le rendant méconnaissable, hybride, défiguré. Théorique, par un certain nombre de déclarations (pour la plupart, parues dans la revue Cobra) véhémentes, engagées, politiques, relatives au climat sociopolitique de l’après-guerre comme au contexte artistique et culturel contemporain.

Au cours des recherches, il est apparu que la violence de Cobra était plus ambiguë que ce qui avait été imaginé initialement. Elle relève en réalité d’une forme d’instrumentalisation émanant des acteurs, qui ont multiplié les effets rhétoriques, les attitudes et les déclarations allant dans ce sens, conduisant Cobra à user d’une violence « décorative » nettement instrumentée :un outil utilisé par les artistes dans la construction de leur image, de leur identité individuelle et collective. Cette piste a ainsi débouché vers d’autres résultats que ceux imaginés au préalable mais n’en a pas moins permis de réévaluer le mouvement sur le plan de l’histoire des représentations, en étudiant les stratégies développées par ses membres dans les œuvres et les discours. La mise en perspective critique de ceux-ci a permis de cerner la capacité rhétorique de certains membres de Cobra, qui ont valorisé l’image d’un mouvement artistique résolument « moderne », c’est-à-dire violent et revendicateur, tout en puisant leur inspiration dans certaines formes d’art primitives et brutes.

La thèse s’articule de façon thématique, autour de quatre pôles révélateurs des formes et du sens de la violence détectée dans les œuvres et les discours des Cobra :

Répondre à la guerre – Cobra face au siècle

Une violence générationnelle

Le primitif ou le jeu de la violence

Aspirations libertaires

Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie
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Bussenot, Sara. "La communication publique des entreprises françaises et suédoises : Une étude sur la traduction de la terminologie RSE, les mots abstraits ou à la mode et les différences syntactiques." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-35264.

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How do Swedish and French corporate communication differ from a linguistic point of view? This paper compares corporate communication in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and is based on extracts from Renault’s 2013 CSR Report. The original French report is compared to its Swedish translation made by the author of this paper. On the background of translation theories and works dealing with problematic aspects of translation the analysis focuses on three key areas: CSR terminology, buzz words, and syntactical differences. The analysis of terminology examines the influence of English on French and Swedish CSR terminology and confirms that Swedish is open to English influence to a greater extent than French. The analysis of buzz words shows that although this type of words is common in Swedish corporate communication they are more frequently used in French. The analysis of syntactical differences deals with how lengthy French sentences are translated into Swedish and our study shows that in most cases Swedish translations tend to pass the semantic messages of such sentences by breaking them into several shorter sentences. Lastly, our analysis concludes that French, in many ways, is a more rhetoric language than Swedish.

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Hýl, Petr. "Slovinské národní divadlo v Lublani." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-215582.

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