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Allegranti, Beatrice F. "Personal text public body : an interdisciplinary approach investigating embodied performances of sexuality and gender." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2007. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/personal-text-public-body(ae9e8c9b-694e-4921-8eaf-78b7e3b0cf14).html.
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Rost, M. A. "The interaction of listener, speaker text, and task in academic lectures : An examination of second language listener performances following presentations of pre-recorded texts." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384341.
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Smith, Chere M. "The Narrative Performances of Teenage Girls: Participation, Identity, and Authority as the Foundation for Power." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/415.
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This thesis explores the ways in which teenage girls use narrative performance to negotiate participation, social and gender identity, and individual authority in order to establish ratified and equal statuses of power within their social peer group. Although previous work on narrative discourse has shown that narratives can act as the catalyst for the complex co/construction of identity especially in social situations of talk, little work has been done to focus on the way teenagers, particularly girls, use this discourse to their benefit as they fulfill social and gender goals in social and conversational settings. Furthermore, while multimodal, narrative performance has been discussed as a cognitive and participation centered function of narrative discourse, this work has been largely quantitative. Consequently, the field of sociolinguistics, predominantly in the realm of narrative discourse, could use more work on the social function of narrative performance. This project, then, combines an analysis of teenage girls’ narrative co/construction in social contexts with a qualitative analysis of their use of narrative performance to show the ways in which this combination allows the girls to do complicated social and linguistic work to manage membership statuses, via complex participation frameworks.
Data for this project consists of 5, one hour long, audio and video recorded instances in which four teenage girls, who make up an established peer group, hang out during regular social meetings. An analysis carried out via a lens of Narrative Discourse influenced by Conversation Analysis (CA), revealed that teenage girls are doing a great deal of power negotiation during their social interactions and that moments of narrative, particularly those in which narrative performances are utilized, function to make these negotiations both visible and therefore more influential on overall group dynamics. Suggestions for how this research could be continued in the future are discussed.
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Bogner, Ryan. "A study of the factors that influence compositions of common texts with an emphasis regarding the text of Te Deum settings by Antonín Leopold Dvořák and Franz Joseph Haydn." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/9096.
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Master of MusicDepartment of Music
Joshua Oppenheim
Julie Yu Oppenheim
The Te Deum chant began in the Roman Catholic Church in prayer, and like many other psalms used in the Mass, it has evolved into a concert piece with settings composed for coronations, military victories, and other festive occasions. This author has identified two significant settings of this text by Joseph Franz Haydn and Antonín Leopold Dvořák for this discussion to study how common factors (primarily a common text) influence their compositions. Chapter I provides the purpose of the study, a brief description of related research, description of the appendices, and analytical criteria for examining the Te Deum settings. Chapter II presents a study of the ancient Te Deum psalm and its text. Topics for discussion include a brief overview of the history of chant. In regards to the Te Deum, further studies are included on its history, uses within prayer, the text, melody, and other uses of the Te Deum. Chapter III contains an in-depth analysis of the Haydn Te Deum (HXXIIIc:2) and the Dvořák Te Deum (Op. 103, B176, [Op. 93, Op. 98]). Analytical criteria for examining these settings consist of: a brief biographical sketch along with each composers compositional characteristics and reasons for commissioning this piece; discussions on general characteristics, structural and formal design, themes, melodic/harmonic characteristics, rhythmic/metrical/tempo characteristics, articulations, dynamics, texture, performance, pedagogical, and conducting considerations. Chapter IV summarizes general trends in the usage of the text of Te Deum. Information for this final chapter is derived from the in-depth analysis, the ancient history of the Te Deum, and other settings of the Te Deum text examined in sources similar to this document. The findings contain summaries of the musical elements listed above as well as general and specific commonalities of textual influence between the selected Te Deum settings. Appendix A provides the complete text of the Te Deum psalm with English translations and melody. Appendix B provides a score analysis of Te Deum (HXXIIIc:2). Appendix C provides a score analysis of Te Deum (Op. 103, B176, [Op. 93, Op. 98]).
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Summerhayes, Catherine, and catherine summerhayes@anu edu au. "Film as Cultural Performance." The Australian National University. School of Art, 2002. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20090210.095136.
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This thesis investigates how Victor Turners concept of cultural performance can be used to explore and analyse the experience of film. Drawing on performance theory, hermeneutics, phenomenology and Bakhtins dialogism, Sections One and Two develop this investigation through a theoretic discussion which relates and yet distinguishes between three levels of performance in film: filmmaking performance, performances as text and cultural performances. The theory is grounded within four films which were researched for this thesis: Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori, 1994), Rats in the Ranks (Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson,1996), beDevil (Tracey Moffatt, 1993) and Link-Up Diary (David MacDougall, 1987). Section Three undertakes the close analyses of the latter two films. These analyses address specific cultural performances that are performed across cultures and which are concerned particularly with Australian societys relationship with indigenous Australians.
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Section One locates Turners concept of cultural performance within his wider theory of social drama and introduces the three-tiered mode of analysis which is developed throughout this thesis. His concept of liminality is also investigated in order to consider specific relationships between performances which take place in film and theatre. Performances which take place in film are located in this Section within the theatrical understanding of performance as for an audience. I describe this relationship between performances in film and theatre through Kristevas interpretation of Bakhtins concept of heteroglossia as intertextuality, especially through her distinction of a transformative intertextuality. Three specific concepts from theatre and performance theory are interrogated for their relevance to film theory:
1. Brechts theory of gest,
2. direct address to the audience in relation to the gaze in film and
3. Rebecca Schneiders conceptualisation of the performance artist.
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Using these three tropes of performance, Section Two develops a theory of performance in film. Besides Turners concept of cultural performance, this theory draws on aspects of several other substantial bodies of work. These works include Richard Schechners performance theory, Michael Taussigs understanding of mimesis, Vivian Sobchacks phenomenology of film, Paul Ricoeurs theory of text as meaningful action, Gadamers concept of meaningful play, Bakhtins conceptualisation of a dialogic text and Catherine Bells theory of ritualised behaviour. The two analyses in Section Three do not rigidly follow the three-tiered process of analysis which is developed in the previous two Sections. They rather focus on the films as sites for particular cultural performances which are specific for each film and which need for their description, different aspects of the theory that is offered through this thesis. These analyses especially draw on my interpretation of David MacDougalls transcultural cinema and Jodi Brooks conceptualisation of a gestural practice in film, which she positions both in terms of Brechts theatrical concept of gest and Walter Benjamins concept of the shock of modernity.
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The film analyses are of one fiction film, beDevil, and one non-fiction film, Link-Up Diary. Both films use audiovisual images of Aboriginal Australians as content. According the terms of this thesis, these people must also be considered as filmmakers. Although this role may constitute varying degrees of authority and power, a film analysis which considers the filmmaking roles of people whose images are present in the filmic text also allows a particular consideration of the social relationships which exist between people who film and people who are filmed. My focus on the cultural performances of these two films allowed an even closer description of this relationship for two reasons. Firstly, both Moffatt and MacDougall respectively present their own images in the films. Secondly, my analyses of these films as cultural performance draw out and describe the different ways in which the two films address the same social drama: the relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. My analyses expose how a description of these differences in address can extend beyond the distinction between one film as fiction and the other as non-fiction towards a description of the different ways in which people relate to each other, at both the individual level and at the level of society, through the production and reception of a particular film. While locating these films as cultural performances within in particular sets of social relationships, my consideration of film in this thesis in terms of theatrical performance also enables a description of the experience of film which draws on the social experience of live theatre. The theory developed in this thesis and its application in the analyses of these two films suggest further areas of research which might look more closely at whether or not, or how much people draw from the social practices of live theatre as they live their lives with film a signifying practice which has existed just over one hundred years.
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Frazier, John Nyrere. "FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF: LIVING IN THE WORDAN EXAMINATION OF THE TEXT AND TRADITIONAL PERFORMANCES OF FOR COLORED GIRLS… AS A STUDY FOR A MULTICULTURAL PRODUCTION." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1410542294.
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Kobayashi, Miyoko. "Hitting the mark how can text organisation and response format affect reading test performance?" Oxford Bern Berlin Bruxelles Frankfurt, M. New York, NY Wien Lang, 2009. http://d-nb.info/996247165/04.
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Lee, Hyo Sook. "Automatic text processing for Korean language free text retrieval." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322916.
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May, Alexandra J. H. "Edward I : text and performance." Thesis, University of York, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516683.
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Li, Yanjun. "High Performance Text Document Clustering." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1181005422.
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Southall, Sally. "Pedagogy and Performing Shakespeare's Text: A Comparative Study." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1832.
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ABSTRACT PEDAGOGY AND PERFORMING SHAKESPEARE’S TEXT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY By Sally Parrish Southall A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University, 2009 Director: Dr. Noreen C. Barnes Professor, Director of Graduate Studies School of the Arts In the Master of Fine Arts program in Theatre Pedagogy at Virginia Commonwealth University, and in a second program, the Master of Letters/Master of Fine Arts in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance at Mary Baldwin College - two specific pedagogical approaches to accessing and performing Shakespeare’s text, both in the post-graduate setting - provide significant analysis tools and performance techniques, yet they use different points of departure and areas of focus. Chapter 1 will give the background, design, and focus of the graduate programs at Virginia Commonwealth University and at Mary Baldwin College. Chapter 2 will discuss and describe Janet B. Rodgers’ teaching orientation and her particular pedagogy in “Shakespeare and Text: The War of the Roses” class at viii ix Virginia Commonwealth University. Chapter 3 will provide Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen’s professional background and the foundational structure and focus of the pedagogy in his class “Language and Performance” at Mary Baldwin College. Chapter 4 explores the parallel and overlapping methods demonstrated in these two classes as well as the contrasting specifics of their particular methodologies. Chapter 5 describes the value of the two approaches, both of which exemplify the individual strengths of the professors.
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Kourik, Janet L. "Performance of Classification Tools on Unstructured Text." NSUWorks, 2005. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/645.
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As digital storage of data continues to grow it is increasingly difficult to find information on demand, particularly in unstructured text documents. Unstructured documents lack explicit record definitions or other metadata that can facilitate retrieval. Yet, digital information is increasingly stored in unstructured documents. Manual or human-assisted indexing of unstructured documents is time consuming and expensive. Automated retrieval techniques, such as those used by Internet search engines, have a variety of limitations including depth and breadth of coverage and frequency of update. In addition many retrieval methods become impractical on large document collections where the need for improved performance is even greater. Most text indexing and retrieval systems include a component that classifies documents. This research will focus on the automated classification of unstructured text. The goal of this research was to investigate a commercial classification tool and evaluate the tool's performance on Reuters-21578, a benchmark categorization collection of unstructured text. The performance of a commercial-off-the-shelf(COTS) product, Oracle Text on the Reuters-21578 collection was evaluated using a variety of measures documented in the classification literature.
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Carvalho, Dirce Helena Benevides de. "Cena contemporânea e escola básica: experimentos teatrais realizados com alunos do ensino médio da Escola de Aplicação da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-04112016-151327/.
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O objetivo desta pesquisa é investigar a cena contemporânea e o ensino de teatro em escolas de educação básica. O ensino das artes nos diversos níveis de educação básica, a partir da LDB 9.394/96, passou a ser consideradoárea de conhecimento e tornou-se obrigatório, colocando-o no mesmo grau de importância das demais disciplinas do currículo escolar. Sob tal aspecto, torna-se relevante inteirar-se do campo de conhecimento epistemológico das artes e nos leva a refletir sobre a sistematização de saberes articulados às concepções das práticas cênicas contemporâneas. Nesse sentido, esta pesquisa pretende trazer à luz procedimentos metodológicos e sistematização de saberes que subsidiem o ensino de teatro em escolas de educação básica em consonância à cena contemporânea. Evidenciamos, portanto, que foi realizado um estudo etnográfico de três experimentos teatrais com alunos do Ensino Médio da Escola de Aplicação da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de São Paulo. Para delimitar um recorte da cena contemporânea, elegemos três paradigmas - espaço, coletivo e textopalavra-performance text - no sentido de tornar possível a confrontação e verificação de suas possíveis conexões com os nossos experimentos.The aim of this research is to investigate the contemporary scene and theater education in elementary schools. The teaching of arts in different basic levels of education, from LDB 9.394 / 96, came to be considered an area of knowledge and became mandatory, placing it in the same degree of importance of other subjects of the school curriculum. Under this aspect, it becomes relevant to acquaint with the field of epistemological knowledge of arts and leads us to reflect on the systematization of articulated knowledge to the concepts of contemporary performing practices. In this sense, this research aims to highlight methodological procedures and systematization of knowledge that subsidize the theater teaching in basic education schools in accordance to the contemporary scene. We evidenced, therefore, it was conducted an ethnographic study of three theatrical experiments with high school students of the School of Application of the Faculty of Education, University of São Paulo. To define a framework of the contemporary scene, we have chosen three paradigms - space, collectivities and textword performance text in the sense of making possible the confrontation and verification of their possible connections with our experiments.
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Richardson, Andrew. "Acting the Absurd: Physical Theatre for Text/Text for Devising." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3744.
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This paper considers two purposes for actor training—textual interpretation and devising original works—through the teaching of a class based on contemporary theatrical clown and physical theatre exercises which are then applied to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Devised work can be used to interpret a script, and a script can be used as a jumping-off point to devise new works. Beginning with an explanation of the teaching methods for the class, the paper then gives a background of clowns who performed in Beckett’s plays, and analyzes various productions' use of games to enliven text. Exercises from the class are used as examples of exploring the uncovering of clown personas and the application of games to both Beckett scene-work and invented theatre pieces. The students’ final performances are examined to demonstrate the effectiveness of the classwork, confirming that textual interpretation and devising are complementary instead of opposing practices.
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Kowalczyk, Thomas L. "Performance analysis of text-oriented printing using PostScript /." Online version of thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/10451.
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Liu, Zelong. "High performance latent dirichlet allocation for text mining." Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7726.
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Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a total probability generative model, is a three-tier Bayesian model. LDA computes the latent topic structure of the data and obtains the significant information of documents. However, traditional LDA has several limitations in practical applications. LDA cannot be directly used in classification because it is a non-supervised learning model. It needs to be embedded into appropriate classification algorithms. LDA is a generative model as it normally generates the latent topics in the categories where the target documents do not belong to, producing the deviation in computation and reducing the classification accuracy. The number of topics in LDA influences the learning process of model parameters greatly. Noise samples in the training data also affect the final text classification result. And, the quality of LDA based classifiers depends on the quality of the training samples to a great extent. Although parallel LDA algorithms are proposed to deal with huge amounts of data, balancing computing loads in a computer cluster poses another challenge. This thesis presents a text classification method which combines the LDA model and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification algorithm for an improved accuracy in classification when reducing the dimension of datasets. Based on Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN), the algorithm automatically optimizes the number of topics to be selected which reduces the number of iterations in computation. Furthermore, this thesis presents a noise data reduction scheme to process noise data. When the noise ratio is large in the training data set, the noise reduction scheme can always produce a high level of accuracy in classification. Finally, the thesis parallelizes LDA using the MapReduce model which is the de facto computing standard in supporting data intensive applications. A genetic algorithm based load balancing algorithm is designed to balance the workloads among computers in a heterogeneous MapReduce cluster where the computers have a variety of computing resources in terms of CPU speed, memory space and hard disk space.
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Napier, Gray Kathryn F. "Speech, text and performance in John Eliot's writing." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7220/.
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John Eliot (1601-1690) was one of the first English missionaries to settle in the New World. Over the past four centuries his life and missionary work with the Algonquian Indians of Massachusetts Bay, New England, have been documented in various forms including biographies, poems, fiction and children's stories. In addition to his active missionary work, Eliot was also a profile writer and translator: he contributed to many promotional pamphlets, authored one of the most controversial commonwealth treatises of the seventeenth century, published fictional dialogues of Algonquian Indians, composed language and logic primers to help in the translation of Massachusett into English and vice versa. His most ambitious and famous publication is his translation of the Bible into the Massachusett dialect of Algonquian. Throughout the twentieth century, Eliot's reputation as a missionary and a translator has received much critical attention, especially from historians of the colonial period. However, given recent moves to expand the canon of colonial literature, it is surprising that there is no book-length literary analysis of his work. In order to redress this balance and consider Eliot's work from a literary rather than a historical perspective, this thesis considers the written records of direct speech, conversations, speeches, dialogues and deathbed confessions of Algonquian Praying Indians, in order to investigate the use and manipulation of written and spoken communicative strategies. By considering Eliot's work in terms of speech, text and performance, this thesis traces the performative nature of cultural identity through the emergence and inter-dependence of English, New English, Indian, and Praying Indian identities.
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Papanikolopoulou, Magdalena. "Staging the alphabet : text, performance and the feminine." Thesis, University of East London, 2015. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/4469/.
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My central concern in this thesis is to develop an artistic language that arises from the use of the Greek and Latin alphabet as well as from Greek and English words. In my native country, Greece, there is a tradition of great symbolic significance attached to letters and numbers. By examining the visual, the semiological as well as the psychological aspects of symbolism, I created artistic works that were based on the use of type and text in contemporary fine arts, through the female subjectivity.
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Pan, Esther. "Investigating invention : a challenge to the primacy of the written text." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20143.
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This paper investigates different ways of writing as creative invention for the writer/director/deviser. Three forms of writing are examined: the playwright as author of the dramatic text, the devising group as author of the dramatic and/or performance text, and the director as author of the mise en scene. In the first chapter the playwright as author is examined in relation to a historical view of the dramatic text. My own background as a playwright is treated in the context of the challenge to the written text experienced by contemporary playwrights as visual and physical elements of performance gain increasing importance. In the second chapter the devising group is addressed as author of the dramatic and/or performance text. Potential benefits of improvisation and devising are explored, as well as drawbacks of the devising process when compared to the process of writing a dramatic text as a playwright. In chapter three the director is scrutinised as the author of the mise en scene. The director's choice of a sign system and different methods of writing the performance text are weighed in view of their efficacy in creating a performance code that is readable by an audience. In the conclusion the three types of writing are evaluated, and the benefits and challenges of devising the dramatic and/or performance text are weighed; the devising process is regarded as an augmentation of a traditional writing process.
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Hash, N. Regina. "Test re-test reliability of the UNC functional performance test." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10196.
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Calarasanu, Stefania Ana. "Improvement of a text detection chain and the proposition of a new evaluation protocol for text detection algorithms." Thesis, Paris 6, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA066524/document.
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Le nombre croissant d'approches de détection de texte proposé dans la littérature exige une évaluation rigoureuse de la performance. Un protocole d'évaluation repose sur trois éléments: une vérité terrain fiable, une stratégie d'appariement et enfin un ensemble de métriques. Peu de protocoles existent et ces protocoles manquent souvent de précision. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons un nouveau protocole d'évaluation qui résout la plupart des problèmes rencontrés dans les méthodes d'évaluation actuelles. Ce travail est axé sur trois contributions principales : tout d’abord, nous introduisons une représentation complexe de la vérité terrain qui ne contraint pas les détecteurs de texte à adopter un niveau de granularité de détection spécifique ou une représentation d'annotation ; d’autre part, nous proposons un ensemble de règles capables d'évaluer tous types de scénario qui peuvent se produire entre les objets de la vérité terrain et les détections correspondantes ; et enfin, nous montrons comment nous pouvons analyser un ensemble de résultats de détection, non seulement à travers un ensemble de mesures, mais aussi à travers une représentation visuelle intuitive. Un défi fréquent pour de nombreux systèmes de détection de texte est d'aborder la variété des caractéristiques de texte dans des images naturelles ou d’origine numérique pour lesquels les OCR actuels ne sont pas bien adaptées. Par exemple, des textes en perspective sont fréquemment présents dans les images réelles. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons également une procédure de rectification capable de corriger des textes hautement déformés, évalué sur un ensemble de données difficilesThe growing number of text detection approaches proposed in the literature requires a rigorous performance evaluation and ranking. An evaluation protocol relies on three elements: a reliable text reference, a matching strategy and finally a set of metrics. The few existing evaluation protocols often lack accuracy either due to inconsistent matching or due to unrepresentative metrics. In this thesis we propose a new evaluation protocol that tackles most of the drawbacks faced by currently used evaluation methods. This work is focused on three main contributions: firstly, we introduce a complex text reference representation that does not constrain text detectors to adopt a specific detection granularity level or annotation representation; secondly, we propose a set of matching rules capable of evaluating any type of scenario that can occur between a text reference and a detection; and finally we show how we can analyze a set of detection results, not only through a set of metrics, but also through an intuitive visual representation. A frequent challenge for many Text Understanding Systems is to tackle the variety of text characteristics in born-digital and natural scene images for which current OCRs are not well adapted. For example, texts in perspective are frequently present in real-word images because the camera capture angle is not normal to the plane containing the text regions. Despite the ability of some detectors to accurately localize such text objects, the recognition stage fails most of the time. In this thesis we also propose a rectification procedure capable of correcting highly distorted texts evaluated on a very challenging dataset
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Yu, Chen-Kuo. "Specification of difficult to test radar performance." Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA240398.
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Thesis (M.S. in Systems Engineering (Electronic Warfare))--Naval Postgraduate School, September 1990.Thesis Advisor(s): Lee, Hung-Mou. Second Reader: Sternberg, Joseph. "September 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on December 15, 2009. DTIC Identifier(s): Radar Equipment, Antiaircraft Defense Systems, Computerized Simulation, Performance (Engineering). Author(s) subject terms: Operational Requirement, Specification of Radar Performance. Includes bibliographical references (p. 73). Also available in print.
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Subbaram, Venkiteshwar Manoj. "Effect of display and text parameters on reading performance." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1089408221.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.Document formatted into pages; contains 275 p. Includes bibliographical references. Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2005 July 12.
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Faudemay, Pascal. "Un processeur VLSI pour les opérations de bases de données." Paris 6, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA066468.
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Ce processeur est capable d'effectuer toutes les opérations des langages de manipulation de données relationnels, des bases de textes et les opérations essentielles des bases de connaissances. Il est optimum dans un environnement à limitation par les transferts en mémoire. Ce co-processeur est formé d'un vecteur de composants VLSI identiques dont chacun est connecté avec le suivant. Il dérive des filtres à comparateurs et des mémoires associatives, dont il étend les fonctionnalités. Nous montrons que ce VLSI est faisable dans la technologie CMOS actuelle. Il conduit à des performances très compétitives pour la jointure, la sélection relationnelle et l’édition de textes. Ce processeur est en cours de réalisation.
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Bye, Lara. "Imag(in)ing the poetic body : a directorial approach to heightening text(ure) in performance." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12055.
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This thesis is the enquiry of a Director of text-based work in search of a more heightened physical texture in staging written text. Inspired by Jacques Lecoq’s use of the idea of the Poetic Body, this enquiry is the Director’s attempt to discover what this ‘Poetic Body’ might mean, and how imagining the Poetic Body and the country/landscape/territories this body might inhabit or occupy, can be useful to the Director in preparing a rehearsal process, and in the ultimate staging of the text for performance.
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Rodríguez, Rafael. "Structuring early Christian memory : Jesus in tradition, performance, and text." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2008. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3633/.
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Social memory research has complicated the relationship between past and present as that relationship finds expression in memorial acts (storytelling, music- and image-making, textproduction, and so on). This relationship has emerged as a dialectic in which the phenomena 'past' and 'present' are mutually constitutive and implicating. The resultant 'messiness' directly affects the procedures and products of 'historicaI Jesus' research, which has especially depended upon the assumption that we can neatly and cleanly separate 'authentic' (past) from 'inauthentic' (present) traditions. This thesis establishes some problems that attend to this assumption and attempts to establish a 'historical Jesus' programme that is more sensitive to the entanglement of past and present. Social memory research has especially identified 'reputation' . as a vehicle of this entanglement in the memory of specific historical persons. Therefore, Jesus' reputation' plays a key analytic role in this project. Another consequence of social memory research has been the emphatic insistence that all memorial acts are culturally and socially conditioned; the meaning of 'memories', the products of memorial act? emerges from the relationship of memorial acts and their social contexts. One aspect of the gospels' social context that has been underappreciated in most New Testament research is the contextualisation ofour written gospels within the vibrant and fluid oral traditional milieux ofJesus and Israelite communities. This project examines and applies the poetics of oral traditional narrative, including the textualisation of oral tradition, to our written gospels. The resultant theoretical perspective dramatically affects gospels and 'historical Jesus' research. Since both these fields are too vast to encompass here, this project focuses its attention on We appearance of Jesus' healing and exorcistic praxis in the sayings tradition. Afterwards, we will suggest a few areas in which critics might fruitfully pursue future research in the gospels and on tile historical Jesus.
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Shepherd, Janet. "Music, text and performance in English popular theatre 1790-1840." Thesis, University of London, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284561.
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Akinepally, Pratima Rao. "Investigating Performance of Different Models at Short Text Topic Modelling." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-288531.
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The key objective of this project was to quantitatively and qualitatively assess the performance of a sentence embedding model, Universal Sentence Encoder (USE), and a word embedding model, word2vec, at the task of topic modelling. The first step in the process was data collection. The data used for the project was podcast descriptions available at Spotify, and the topics associated with them. Following this, the data was used to generate description vectors and topic vectors using the embedding models, which were then used to assign topics to descriptions. The results from this study led to the conclusion that embedding models are well suited to this task, and that overall the USE outperforms the word2vec models.Det huvudsakliga syftet med det i denna uppsats rapporterade projektet är att kvantitativt och kvalitativt utvärdera och jämföra hur väl Universal Sentence Encoder USE, ett semantiskt vektorrum för meningar, och word2vec, ett semantiskt vektorrum för ord, fungerar för att modellera ämnesinnehåll i text. Projektet har som träningsdata använt skriftliga sammanfattningar och ämnesetiketter för podd-episoder som gjorts tillgängliga av Spotify. De skriftliga sammanfattningarna har använts för att generera både vektorer för de enskilda podd-episoderna och för de ämnen de behandlar. De båda ansatsernas vektorer har sedan utvärderats genom att de använts för att tilldela ämnen till beskrivningar ur en testmängd. Resultaten har sedan jämförts och leder både till den allmänna slutsatsen att semantiska vektorrum är väl lämpade för den här sortens uppgifter, och att USE totalt sett överträffar word2vec-modellerna.
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Kapalo, James A. "Text, context and performance : the lay institutions of Gagauz Orthodoxy." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2008. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29297/.
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The Gagauz are a minority living in the southern reaches of the Republic of Moldova. While adhering to the majority religion of Orthodox Christianity, their mother-tongue is a variety of Turkish, a fact that in conjunction with their cultural heritage has shaped their religious identity and transformed their religious practices. The aim of this thesis is to explore Gagauz religion from the perspective of lay religious practice. In doing so I take up the ongoing debate on 'folk' or 'popular' religion and aim to demonstrate how, in the case of the Gagauz, the academic category of 'folk religion' and the field of 'folk' religious practice are instrumental in the construction of Gagauz religious identity. This is explored on two levels. Firstly, on the level of the national political, clerical and academic discourse on the origins, ethno-genesis and religion of the Gagauz, and secondly, on the level of practice, examining how Church perspectives and lay agency operate at the micro-level during actual episodes of religious practice. The starting point of this research project is the 'texts' of Gagauz religion. Firstly, the way in which the 'texts' on Gagauz religion generated by scholarly, ecclesial and national political discourse instrumentalise religious identities in the construction of Gagauz national identity is discussed. This is followed by an exploration of how the 'primary texts' of Gagauz religious practice used in worship, healing and prayer shape religious consciousness on the ground. Both sets of 'texts' are explored within the wider social, historical and political contexts that underpin and define them. Finally, the role of 'performance' of the 'texts' in the creation, institutionalisation, and transmission of lay religious practice is considered. Each of these dimensions of text, context and performance highlight the role of language in the contested field of practice of 'folk religion' situated between the lay and 'official' institutions of Gagauz Orthodoxy.
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Lee, Winnie Yuk Chun. "The effects of test methods and anxiety on test performance." Thesis, University of Reading, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401425.
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Kunnan, Antony John. "Test taker characteristics and test performance : a structural modeling approach /." Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam025/96160178.html.
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Gottlieb, Hanna. "Test-retest reliability of the 300-yard Shuttle Run Test." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-28486.
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Background: Several field-based team sports contain repeated, maximal effort sprints with varying rest lengths in between. This puts high demands on athletes’ metabolic and neuromuscular systems. Testing the anaerobic capacity of athletes is essential to improve and evaluate the progression. One test being utilised for assessing anaerobic capacity is the 300-yard shuttle run test. The test is field-based with stopwatches as the sole equipment. However, the test has not been properly tested for reliability. Aim: The aim of this bachelor thesis was therefore to investigate the reliability of the 300-yard shuttle run test. Methods: The study was performed with a test-retest method and included a familiarisation meeting, test session and retest session. Test subjects performed the 300-yard shuttle run test at two different occasions with seven or fourteen days in between. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and 95% confidence interval (CI) was utilised to quantify the reliability. An ICC>0.8 was considered acceptable. Results: 17 American football players participated in the study (median age 20, min. =18, max. =38 y; median weight 83, min. =67, max. =133 kg; median height 184, min. =169, max. =194 cm). The ICC for the test-retest was 0.97 (95% CI 0.91-0.99). Conclusion: Based on the results of this study 300-yard shuttle test is proposed as a test providing reliable results.
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Williams, Nora Jean. "Between performances, texts, and editions : The Changeling." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/22126.
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This thesis is about the ways in which Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s play The Changeling has been edited, performed, and archived in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It proposes a more integrated way of looking at the histories of performances and texts than is usually employed by the institutions of Shakespeare and early modern studies. Crucially, it suggests that documented archival remains of performance should be admitted as textual witnesses of a play’s history, and given equal status with academic, scholarly editions. I argue that—despite at least a century of arguments to the contrary—performance is still considered secondary to text, and that this relationship needs to become more balanced, particularly since the canon has begun to expand and early modern plays beyond Shakespeare have begun to see more stage time in recent years. In addition, I begin to theorise social media as archives of performance, and begin to suggest ways forward for archiving the performance of early modern drama in the digital turn. In order to support these arguments, I offer a series of twentieth- and twenty-first-century productions of The Changeling as case studies. Through these case studies, I seek to make connections between The Changeling as text, The Changeling as performance, and the various other texts and performances that it has interacted with throughout its life since 1961. In presenting analyses of these texts and performances side-by-side, within the same history, I aim to show the interdependency of these two usually separated strands of early modern studies and make a case for greater integration of the two in both editorial, historiographical, and performance practices.
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Muñoz, Da Costa Ricardo Daniel. "The Effects of Text and Hybrid Graphic-Text Formats on Pilot Performance Using Flight Deck Data Communication Displays." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1369266508.
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Singhania, Rajeshree. "Design and standardisation of a developmental test for Indian children : the Indian Picture Puzzle Test." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309449.
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Turchi, João Dias. "Rubricagem: o texto do outro." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27155/tde-22032017-114344/.
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Hoje eu vou morrer para nascer de novo. E como escrever histórias que existem em voz alta e que nunca quiseram estar nesta dissertação? Escrevo aqui uma dramaturgia a partir da alteridade, transformo o texto de um outro pela minha autoria. Procuro, assim, problematizar os usos de um discurso alheio ao escritor, como fundamento para o teatro. Para tanto, apresento três ações artísticas que realizei, Consulta, Fim da Fila e Jogo do Gênero, que são o motor para se pensar como a apropriação do real pode culminar na construção de um texto, processo que chamo de rubricagem. A presença física do dramaturgo em diálogo com o outro possibilita a construção de uma dramaturgia situada em campos expandidos do teatro, evidencia a performatividade do gesto, tanto no processo quanto na obra, e permite pensar caminhos da dramaturgia a partir da aproximação a alguém desconhecido.Today I will die in order to be reborn. How to write spoken-word stories that never wanted to appear in this thesis? I describe here a dramaturgy of alterity, transforming the text of another into my own words. I thus seek to problematize the uses of a discourse foreign to the author as a foundation for theater. Therefore, I present three performances I have realized-- Consulta, Fim da Fila, and Jogo do Gênero--which drive my consideration about how the appropriation of the real can culminate in the construction of a text, a process I term rubricagem-- rubrication. The physical presence of the playwright in dialogue with another enables the construction of a text set in expanded domains of theatre, demonstrating the gesture\'s performativity--both in the process and final piece--and allowing us to conceive a dramaturgy that emanates from the approximation of someone unknown.
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Mattos, Daniela de Oliveira. "Performance como texto, escrita como pele." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/15287.
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This thesis is as much an academic investigation as it is a work of art. It is constituted by text and image mutual crossings, problematizing the artist s writing as a poetic-performative device that produces itself by means of the contiguities that mediate discourse and visuality (and beyond). Conceived of as a space composed of sucessive rectangles, like those filled with words and velocity in the same way as a book , this work also configures itself as a sort of exhibition space or in-between space, which opens room for activations: from the ones, here analyzed, effectuated by the artist s gestures, to the singular experiences that will be generated by each one of the readers, when in contact with what is presented here. The heterogeneous parts that embody this text establish relations to each other, but don t configure a whole; they are not even submitted to hierarchization or evolutive enchainments of any sort, like the ones occurring in accordance with the traditional organization by chapters. Therefore, the research intends to implement and open relations among certain productions of the art field, both from my authorship and from other s, bringing them close to certain works from literature, poetry and philosophy
Esta tese é tanto uma pesquisa acadêmica quanto uma obra de arte. Constitui-se por atravessamentos entre texto e imagem, problematizando a escrita de artista como um dispositivo poético-performativo que se produz por meio das contiguidades entre enunciados e visualidades (e além). Pensado como um espaço composto por retângulos sucessivos, desses repletos de palavras e velocidades assim como um livro , este trabalho também se configura como uma espécie de espaço expositivo ou espaço entre, que dá lugar a ativações, desde aquelas efetivadas por meio dos gestos de artistas aqui analisados até as experiências singulares que serão geradas por cada um dos leitores, em seu contato com o que aqui se apresenta. As partes heterogêneas que dão corpo a este texto se relacionam mas não configuram um todo; tampouco se submetem a quaisquer hierarquizações ou encadeamentos evolutivos como os que ocorrem segundo a organização tradicional por capítulos. A pesquisa busca, portanto, tornar fecundas as relações entre certas produções do campo da arte, tanto as de minha autoria quanto aquelas de outros autores, aproximando-as de algumas obras da literatura, da poesia, da filosofia
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Kelley, Kairn Stetler. "Dichotic Listening Test Performance In Children." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2017. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/707.
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Dichotic tests evaluate binaural integration through simultaneous presentation of different stimuli to each ear of a listener who has normal hearing sensitivity in both ears. Dichotic listening deficits may lead to problems with language, communication, reading, or academic performance. If accurately identified, dichotic deficits may be treatable with listening training or managed with accommodation. However, it is not clear which of several commercially-available dichotic test recordings are best for audiologists to use when assessing binaural integration in children. Literature review revealed limited evidence of reliability, accuracy, usefulness, or value for dichotic tests applied to children. Of 11 dichotic tests identified, five reported some evidence of test-retest reliability. Correlation between results on repeated administration was moderate to good (r=0.59 to 0.92). Evidence of accuracy was identified for 5 tests but was not generalizable due to significant limitations in study design. No evidence was found to either support or dispute claims of usefulness or value. Since reliability is a necessary prerequisite for good test performance, we sought to directly compare test-retest reliability for three dichotic measures: SCAN-3 Competing Words (CW), Musiek's Double Dichotic Digits (DD-M), and Bergen Dichotic Listening Test with Consonant-Vowel Syllables (CV-B). Sixty English-speaking children, 7-14 years old with normal hearing, had a single study-visit during which each test was administered twice. Changes on retest were compared to binomial model predictions, summarized by within-subject standard deviation (Sw), and compared among tests. Correlates of variance were explored. All 3 tests had reliability within bounds predicted by binomial model. Forty-item scores were more reliable (Sw=5%) than those based on 20-30 items (Sw=6-8%). No associations between participant characteristics and reliability were found. CW and DD-M were evaluated for evidence of agreement and decision consistency. Although participants were rank ordered similarly by right ear (ρ = 0.58), left ear (ρ = 0.51) and total (ρ = 0.73) scores, the tests did not agree on ranking by inter-aural asymmetry (ρ =0.18). CW and DD-M did not agree on direction of ear advantage (κ = 0.01, p = 0.93) and had poor agreement on which children displayed dichotic deficits (κ = 0.22, p < 0.01). DD identified significantly more participants with deficits (n=18) than CW (n=3) (p < 0.001). Although dichotic procedures show moderate reliability, their precision is limited. Assessment of their accuracy is limited by the absence of a widely-accepted gold standard reference test, but two commonly used tests failed to agree on which children had deficits. The data do not yet support routine clinical use of dichotic tests of binaural integration with children. Additional research is needed to determine if there are any conditions under which dichotic procedures demonstrate usefulness or value.
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Huang, Min Osterlind Steven J. "Test taking motivation and item performance." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6081.
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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on October 7, 2009) Thesis advisor: Dr. Steven Osterlind. Includes bibliographical references.
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Shultz, Jacque. "Authenticating turbocharger performance utilizing ASME performance test code correction methods." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8451.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Kirby S. Chapman
Continued regulatory pressure necessitates the use of precisely designed turbochargers to create the design trapped equivalence ratio within large-bore stationary engines used in the natural gas transmission industry. The upgraded turbochargers scavenge the exhaust gases from the cylinder, and create the air manifold pressure and back pressure on the engine necessary to achieve a specific trapped mass. This combination serves to achieve the emissions reduction required by regulatory agencies. Many engine owner/operators request that an upgraded turbocharger be tested and verified prior to re-installation on engine. Verification of the mechanical integrity and airflow performance prior to engine installation is necessary to prevent field hardware iterations. Confirming the as-built turbocharger design specification prior to transporting to the field can decrease downtime and installation costs. There are however, technical challenges to overcome for comparing test-cell data to field conditions. This thesis discusses the required corrections and testing methodology to verify turbocharger onsite performance from data collected in a precisely designed testing apparatus. As the litmus test of the testing system, test performance data is corrected to site conditions per the design air specification. Prior to field installation, the turbocharger is fitted with instrumentation to collect field operating data to authenticate the turbocharger testing system and correction methods. The correction method utilized herein is the ASME Performance Test Code 10 (PTC10) for Compressors and Exhausters version 1997.
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Fick, David. "House of shadows as text and performance : structural and conceptual considerations of/for the contemporary musical play." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8033.
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This paper is an explication of my thesis production House of Shadows, which was presented in November 2004 towards the fulfilment of the degree of Master of Arts in Theatre and Performance (Theatre Making) at the University of Cape Town. The explication focuses largely on the structural and conceptual processes in the creation of a new musical. As a theatre-maker, my research was driven by a need to {re)consider the musical as a compelling art form. The first chapter considers the contemporary South African theatrical landscape, creating the context in which House of Shadows was created. I have also discussed aspects of the play that make it distinctively South African, despite the American roots of the musical as a popular form of theatre. In the second chapter, House of Shadows is examined within the context of the (contemporary) musical play. The aspects of the musical play that found expression in the text and performance of House of Shadows are given individual attention. These include: the book, the score, the design and the direction. A significant focus is placed on the way these individual elements are integrated to form a unified and unique whole. The third chapter proposes a conceptual framework for reading musicals by examining the validity of the musical as festive theatre. The four key structural elements - display, contest, celebration and ceremony - and the objectivecommunal renewal - of festive theatre are discussed in the context of House of Shadows. This chapter concludes with an opinion of using this framework for analysing musical texts and performances.
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Oliveira, Eliana Kefalas. "Corpo a corpo com o texto literario." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270323.
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Orientador: Suzi Frankl SperberTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: O desafio, neste texto, é o de debruçar sobre um conjunto de reflexões acerca da literatura e da leitura, tomando-as como lugar de formação, de transformação e de desestruturação do sujeito. Partindo de um corpo a corpo com o texto literário e levando em conta o campo sensorial do verbo, foram elaborados quatro ensaios sobre as relações entre o corpo da palavra e o corpo do leitor. Para se experimentar um texto, é necessário, por um lado, colocar a atenção nos sentidos da palavra e, por outro, abrir ao texto os sentidos do corpo de quem o recebe. Uma relação carnal com o texto permite compreender a palavra literária, não somente através de uma perspectiva analítica, mas também sensorial, de forma que o ato de ler, silencioso ou em voz alta, seja tomado como performance, como movimento de sentidos.
Abstract: The challenge in this text is to reflect on a set of issues concerning literature and reading, viewing both as a place where the subject is transformed. Starting from a body-to-body struggle with the literary text and taking into account the sensorial field of the verb, four essays have been written addressing the relationship between the body of the word and the body of the reader. In order to experience a text, it is necessary, on the one hand, to pay attention to the sense of the word and, on the other hand, to open the text to the body of those that receive it. A carnal relation with the text allows one to understand the literary word, not only from an analytic perspective, but also from a sensorial one, so that the act of reading - whether silent or out-loud - can be viewed as performance, as a movement of the senses.
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Teoria e Critica Literaria
Doutor em Teoria e História Literária
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Sampatakakis, Georgios. "Bakkhaimodel : the re-usage of Euripides' Bakkhai in text and performance." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416121.
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Yahav, Amit. "From text to sound : revisiting some performance indications in Chopin's works." Thesis, Royal College of Music, 2018. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.748636.
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In the canon of piano repertoire, Chopin's music is some of the most frequently performed. In the past few decades, scholarship on 19th-century performance practice has invited performers to consider afresh deeply entrenched performance traditions and question whether they bear loyalty to Chopin's original intentions, as best as those can be understood from this distance in time. More so than with the music of some other composers, there arguably exists a particularly rich and complex oral tradition surrounding Chopin's music, which is heavily relied on in pedagogy. This thesis attempts to revisit traditions in the performance of this music by focussing on directions in the score as a basis of interpretative decisions, and then exploring these through my own practice. In order to better understand the potential meaning of the worded indications, statistical analysis was undertaken to compare various appearances of the same indication. In finding the similarities and differences between appearances of the same indication, and also between instances of similar indications, conclusions can be reached about the essence of each indication. The submission includes three recorded one-hour concert programmes of music by Chopin. The recordings presented in this thesis are intended to reflect some of the different ways in which this music can be performed. They range from live-audio concert performances captured on a Tascam recording device, to live video recordings, to edited audio recordings captured at the Royal College of Music studios; these recordings reflect my conclusions, arrived at through my study of the worded indications in Chopin's music. Because of the broad nature of musical interpretation, separate issues of execution formed the basis of the commentaries which accompany each of the three programmes, namely: tempo modification, dynamics and expressivity. In the first programme, this leads to a clear distinction being identified between ritenuto, rallentando and ritardando. The second programme forms the background for a discussion of the differences observed between the worded indications crescendo and diminuendo or decrescendo as well as the so-called hairpin symbols (< and >) which are generally considered to be synonymous. In the final programme, worded indications that affect expressivity more generally are explored in an attempt to arrive at conclusions about Chopin's intentions when using those terms.
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Watt, Irene. "An ethnological study of the text, performance, and function of lullabies." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=197402.
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This thesis is the culmination of a four year research project which encompassed analysing lullaby texts, exploring lullaby performance contexts, researching how the lullaby functions, and considering its role in modern family life in Scotland and the UK. The aim of this ethnological study has been to record and analyze current perceptions of the lullaby; ascertain whether the tradition is, as has been suggested, a dying one; discover which lullabies are in the common repertoire; and explore how they are used. This has been achieved by recording autobiographical memory narratives, and direct experiences, from children, parents, grandparents, semi-professional and professional musicians, and songwriters, in a bid to understand lullabies in their social and cultural contexts. Fieldwork carried out with mother and baby groups introduced a workshop programme to teach lullabies and record what impact the introduction of regular lullaby singing made to the infant sleep-time routine. The research also explores and highlights the many ways that lullabies are used in the fields of medical science and music therapy. This thesis demonstrates that this form of song has many important functions including developmental, psychological, social, and therapeutic, and thus the study reveals the power of the lullaby and opens up many avenues for further research.
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Leng, Chun-Wu. "Design and performance evaluation of signature files for text retrieval systems /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487685204967976.
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Gaddy, Stephanie Ann Fulk Barbara M. Bakken Jeffrey P. "Teaching text-structure strategies to postsecondary students with learning disabilities to compare their reading comprehension performance on expository text." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3196666.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 2004.Title from title page screen, viewed May 23, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Barbara M. Fulk, Jeffrey P. Bakken (co-chairs), Kenneth H. Strand, Mary M. O'Brian. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-120) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Shimbo, Renata Vaz. "O corpo-texto no corpo-feminino em Niketche: uma performance literária." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2015. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14757.
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This dissertative analysis of the Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane's Niketche: a history of polygamy (2004) represents a reading about the novel the dialogical relationship between body and text. At first, the historical background in which the Portuguese language was inserted in Africa and, in this case, in Mozambique, is privileged. In this sense, it is verified that geographical and historical factors had determined the relationships established between society and the gender feminine in the country, as well as it led to a need for a reinvention for their cultural identity. The rewriting of female otherness is verified in the novel through Niketche s dance performance, through which the rhythmic movements synthesize eroticism and the desecration of a traditional ritual, subverting it into the female body s release instrument. Through the theoretical basis of thinkers like Zumthor (1985, 1993), Bakhtin (1977, 2002), Antonacci (2013) and Irobi (2007), it is argued that the dance sacred ritual in Niketche acquires body and text form, writing an utopic performance place for femal s voice and body of Mozambique
A presente dissertação sobre o romance Niketche: uma história de poligamia (2004), da escritora moçambicana Paulina Chiziane, representa uma leitura sobre a relação dialógica entre corpo e texto. Em um primeiro momento, privilegia-se o panorama histórico que nos oferece o tempo em que a língua portuguesa foi inserida no continente africano e, neste caso, em Moçambique. Neste sentido, verificou-se que fatores geográficos e históricos determinaram as relações estabelecidas entre a sociedade e o gênero feminino no país, assim como provocou a necessidade de uma reinvenção para sua identidade cultural. Verifica-se, no romance, a reescrita da alteridade feminina através da performance da dança niketche, por meio da qual os movimentos rítmicos sintetizam o erotismo e a profanação desse ritual tradicional, subvertendo-o em instrumento de libertação do corpo feminino. Através do embasamento teórico de pensadores como: Zumthor (1985, 1993), Bakhtin (1977, 2002), Antonacci (2013) e Irobi (2007), defende-se que o ritual sagrado da dança, em Niketche, adquire corpo e forma de texto, a escrever o lugar utópico de uma performance de liberdade para a voz e o corpo femininos de Moçambique
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Hinton, Carla Ellen. "Cognitive performance pattern underlying WJ-R test performance of Hispanic children." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187027.
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether the Woodcock-Johnson-Revised Cognitive test is biased when used with a Hispanic population of school-age children. Norming data, provided by R. Woodcock, Ph.D., for grades three, five, eight, and eleven were used for the study. Three hypotheses were explored. The first hypothesis called for a comparison by gender. The second hypothesis called for a comparison of non-Hispanics and Hispanics. The third hypothesis called for comparisons between all combinations of grade levels using only the non-Hispanic subgroup. Using the results of confirmatory factor analysis from LISREL VIII (1993), the chi-square difference test, and three goodness-of-fit indexes provided evidence of similarity in factor patterns between target groups. Hypothesis 1 stated that there were no differences between male and female factor patterns. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis supported the acceptance of hypothesis 1. Hypothesis 2 stated that there were no differences between non-Hispanic and Hispanic students. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis supported a qualified acceptance of hypothesis 2. The relationships between the latent variables are significantly different. Age, therefore, may have been a confounding variable in this study. Hypothesis 3 stated that there were no differences in patterns between grades. Only one of the six grade comparisons, 3-5, found model 1 to be the preferred model. All other comparisons found model 3 to be the preferred model. The residual or error terms were variable in matrix patterns, indicating that a factor other than age may be influencing the relationships. A fourth analysis was utilized and determined model 1 to be the preferred model. The results of the analysis indicate that differential patterns of processing, rather than age, may be the variable influencing the relationship of latent variables.
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Gaylard, Emma K. "Cross-cultural differences in IQ test performance: extension of an existing normative database on WAIS-III test performance." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002488.
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Prior research (Shuttleworth-Edwards et al., 2004) presented preliminary normative data for the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – III (WAIS-III) for Southern Africa, stratified according to gender (female vs. male), language (black African vs. white English), level of education (matric/12+ years of education vs. Graduate/15+ years of education) and quality of education (disadvantaged – Department of Education and Training vs. advantaged - Private/Model C). IQ scores for black African language and white English Southern Africans were comparable with the United States of America (USA) standardization when level and quality of education were equitable. (‘White English’ is the term used to denote those of European descent whose first language is English). A limitation of the research was the lack of control for language for most of the black groups and particularly in the Private/Model C Graduate group, where sixty percent of the participants originated from Zimbabwe. These represented a particularly elite group whose education was equitable to that of the white participants throughout their education (i.e. at primary, secondary and tertiary level). In order to rectify the lack of homogeneity of language, all non- Xhosa first language participants were excluded from the black sample and sixteen additional Xhosa first language participants were tested on the WAIS-III. Data analyses found no significant differences between the original and new groups, except in the comparison between Mixed African language Private/Model C Graduates and the Xhosa first language Private/Model C Graduate/15+ years of education, where there was a lowering of WAIS-III subtest, index and IQ scores in the newly constituted group. This lowering in test performance is explained in that the new Xhosa first language 15+ years of education group was a less advantaged group than the original Mixed African Language Private/Model C Graduate group, as the new group generally had less advantaged primary school education and had generally studied less at a tertiary level. Overall, these results demonstrate an incremental increase in WAIS-III test performance for sample groups on a continuum of quality of education from least to most advantaged education. This was true for both verbal and non-verbal subtests.