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Henadeerage, Kumara, and kumara henadeerage@anu edu au. "Topics in Sinhala Syntax." The Australian National University. Faculty of Arts, 2002. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20060426.142352.
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This study is a detailed investigation of a number of issues in colloquial
Sinhala morphosyntax. These issues primarily concern grammatical relations,
argument structure, phrase structure and focus constructions. The
theoretical framework of this study is Lexical Functional Grammar.¶Chapter
1 introduces the issues to be discussed, followed by a brief introduction
of some essential aspects of colloquial Sinhala as background for the
discussion in the following chapters. In Chapter 2 we present basic
concepts of the theoretical framework of Lexical Functional Grammar.¶ The
next three chapters mainly concern grammatical relations, argument
structure and clause structure in colloquial Sinhala. Chapter 3 examines
grammatical relations. The main focus lies in establishing the subject
grammatical relation in terms of various subjecthood diagnostics. We show
that only a very small number of diagnostics are reliable, and that the
evidence for subject is weaker than assumed previously. All the subjecthood
diagnostics that were examined select the most prominent argument in the
argument structure as the subject, i.e. 'logical subject'. However, there
appear to be no processes in the language that are sensitive to the subject
in the grammatical relations structure, i.e. 'gr-subject'. Further, there
is no evidence for other grammatical relations like objects. In Chapter 4
we discuss the agentless construction and related valency alternation
phenomena. It was previously assumed that the agentless construction,
valency alternation phenomena and the involitive construction are all
related. We argue that the agentless construction should be treated as a
different construction from the involitive construction. We also show that
the agentless construction and the involitive construction have contrasting
characteristics, and that treatment of them as separate constructions can
account for some phenomena which did not receive an explanation previously.
The valency alternation phenomena are related to the agentless
construction, therefore there is no valency alternation in involitive
constructions. It will be shown that verbs undergoing the valency
alternation can be distinguished from the other verbs in terms of the
lexical semantic properties of individual verbs. Chapter 5 examines the
structure of non-verbal sentences in terms of a number of morphosyntactic
phenomena. It was previously argued that verbal sentences and non-verbal
sentences in colloquial Sinhala differ in terms of clause structure.
However, the present study shows evidence to the contrary.¶ The next two
chapters deal with modelling contrastive focus and the phrase structure of
the language. Chapter 6 is a detailed analysis of the contrastive focus
(cleft) construction in various clause types in the language, and proposes
a unified syntactic treatment of contrastive focus. Contrastive focus is in
some constructions morphologically encoded, while in others it involves
both morphological and configurational assignment of focus. The complex
interaction between focus markers and verb morphology in various focus
constructions is accounted for by general well-formedness conditions
applying to the f-structure, and the principles of Functional Uncertainty
and Morphological Blocking. In Chapter 7, we discuss the phrase structure
of the language, in particular such issues as its non-configurational
nature and the lack of evidence for VP. We propose non-configurational S
and some functional projections to account for word order freedom under S
and to explain certain morphosyntactic phenomena, such as configurational
focus assignment. Finally, Chapter 8 summarises the conclusions made in
previous chapters.
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Atapattu-Bakmeewewa, Dinushee. "Lexical retrieval in bilingual Sinhala-English and monolingual Sinhala healthy speakers and speakers with aphasia." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21630/.
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When language breakdown subsequent to neural injury occurs, an apparent disruption of language production skills follow. This is particularly evident in the major grammatical classes of nouns and verbs. This deficit could be selective, effecting either nouns or verbs or both in asymmetrical severity, in selected language modalities or at varied linguistic complexity (i.e. naming vs. connected speech). In bilinguals, these selective disassociation may manifest in equal or varying degrees across the languages known. This is influenced by the differences in the linguistic structure of the bilinguals’ languages. The need for language and culture specific assessment tool and data is therefore critical. This three-phase cross sectional exploratory study aimed to compare word retrieval skills in monolingual and bilingual people with aphasia (PwAs) post stroke. Investigated here are specific language populations of Sri Lanka; Sinhala monolingual (ML) and Sinhala- English bilingual (BL) healthy speakers and PwAs who have not been studied to date. In the first phase, the study adapted test tools and material published in English and develops some other stimuli anew, to gather data from healthy adults. This data was then used as a normative baseline against which 26 PwAs in the said populations were assessed in the second and third phases of the study. The subsequent data compared word production performances between and within the language conditions in the ML and BL groups, across word classes and language tasks. It is anticipated that the findings of this study would contribute towards the cross-linguistic database on aphasia in bilingual speakers and particularly towards developing an evidence-based research and clinical platform for bilingual PwAs in Sri Lanka.
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Rambukwella, Sassanka Harshana. "The search for nation exploring Sinhala nationalism and its others in Sri Lankan anglophone and Sinhala-language writing /." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41508853.
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Thampoe, Harold Dharmasenan. "Sinhala and Tamil : a case of contact-induced restructuring." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3552.
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The dissertation presents a comparative synchronic study of the morphosyntactic features of modern spoken Sinhala and Tamil, the two main languages of Sri Lanka. The main motivation of the research is that Sinhala and Tamil, two languages of diverse origins—the New Indo-Aryan (NIA) and Dravidian families respectively—share a wide spectrum of morphosyntactic features. Sinhala has long been isolated from the other NIA languages and co-existed with Tamil in Sri Lanka ever since both reached Sri Lanka from India. This coexistence, it is believed, led to what is known as the contact-induced restructuring that Sinhala morphosyntax has undergone on the model of Tamil, while retaining its NIA lexicon. Moreover, as languages of South Asia, the two languages share the areal features of this region. The research seeks to address the following questions: (i) What features do the two languages share and what features do they not share?; (ii) Are the features that they share areal features of the region or those diffused into one another owing to contact?; (iii) If the features that they share are due to contact, has diffusion taken place unidirectionally or bidirectionally?; and (iv) Does contact have any role to play with respect to features that they do not share? The claim that this research intends to substantiate is that Sinhala has undergone morphosyntactic restructuring on the model of Tamil. The research, therefore, attempts to answer another question: (v) Can the morphosyntactic restructuring that Sinhala has undergone be explained in syntactic terms? The morphosyntactic features of the two languages are analyzed at macro- and micro-levels. At the macro-level, a wide range of morphosyntactic features of Tamil and Sinhala, and those of seven other languages of the region are compared with a view to determining the origins of these features and showing the large scale morphosyntactic convergence between Sinhala and Tamil and the divergence between Sinhala and other NIA languages. At the micro-level the dissertation analyzes in detail two morphosyntactic phenomena, namely null arguments and focus constructions. It examines whether subject/verb agreement, which is different across the two languages, plays a role in the licensing of null arguments in each language. It also examines the nature of the changes Sinhala morphosyntax has undergone because of the two kinds of Tamil focus constructions that Sinhala has replicated. It is hoped, that this dissertation will make a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the morphosyntax of the two languages, the effects of language contact on morphosyntax, and more generally, the nature of linguistic variation.
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De, Silva Jani Ravina. "Violence and shame : local constructions of masculinity in a Sinhala village." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311948.
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My thesis explores a violent episode which took place in a Sinhala village in Sri Lanka. This episode involved a series of events which unfolded between November 1989-January 1990, when 22 schoolboys were abducted from their homes, tortured and killed by personnel based at a neighbouring army camp. This episode took place in the wake of a popular armed upnsmg. Yet an Intelligence investigation conducted by the regime-in-power in 1991 exonerated all the boys from any complicity in insurgent activity. Though Sri Lanka has seen collective violence ranging from inter-ethnic to class-based to gender-specific, in this event, both victims and perpetrators share the same Sinhala-Buddhist ethnic, linguistic and religious ethos and male gender. Thus local constructions of masculinities within Sinhala society become increasingly pivotal; it was not their politics, I argue, but their demeanour as young boys which was central to their fate. This involves the posture of deference (lajja-bhavu or the 'fear of being [publicly] shamed') that adolescent offspring in Sinhala society almost involuntarily assume vis-a-vis parents, older sibling and other figures of authority. Bodily demeanour, remarks Bourdieu, exemplifies social class and gender identity (1977; 1984). But I would argue that in the South Asian context demeanours of deference do not always imply hierarchichal relationships of power, though sometimes of course they may. They remain a courtesy which retains the fiction of precedence. Withdrawal of such deference creates anxiety and unvoiced rage. But with the incursions of the global into everyday life, local demeanours of self-hood are pervaded by the effects of the tabloid/electronic media, mass education, discourses on political rights etc. and fraught with new ambiguities. And even more than a withdrawal of deference, such ambiguity provokes unease. But since - much of the time - demeanour is involuntary, the young actor may not always perceive that his demeanour is now more charged, and he may not grasp the enormity of the emotions this occasions. It is in the public domain that such withdrawal/ambiguity is most clearly seen to undermine the role of it's receiver, whose outrage becomes to that extent culturally validated. This creates a space for the performative acting out of such emotions. The act or violence now becomes an attempt to restore meaning/significance to the life of the actor. seen to have been in some way untenably diminished by the withdrawal of deference.
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Fernandopulle, Anthony. "A critical study of the Sinhala works of Jacome Gonsalves (1676-1742)." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1999. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28641/.
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Weerasooriya, W. A. Tharanga. "Positive Polarity and Exhaustivity in Sinhala: A Study of its Implications for Grammar." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39358.
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This thesis investigates the implications of positive polarity for grammar. The empirical focus is on two positive polarity particles in Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Sri Lanka. Sinhala has two particles -hari and -da that systematically appear across disjunction, indefinite and question constructions. Traditionally, these particles have been called Q-particles (i.e. Hagstrom (1998); Cable (2010); Slade (2011); a.m.o). They have so far been analyzed in terms of either Q-question/-uantifier operators (Kishimoto (2005)) or choice function variables (cf. Hagstrom (1998); Cable (2010); Slade (2011)). This thesis presents new data pertaining to the distribution and interpretation of disjunctions and indefinites formed with the two particles in contexts of negation, modals, quantifiers and intensional operators, that none of the previous accounts has captured. It proposes to analyze the grammar of the two particles based on their positive polarity character associated with exhaustivity (cf. Spector (2014); Nicolae (2017)). It claims that we can account for a wide range of grammatical phenomena such as ignorance inferences, scope or non/specificity effects, free/no choice implicatures and de re/dicto readings of -hari and -da disjunctions/indefinites in matrix and overt modal/quantifier contexts based on a distribution requirement (DR) derived by way of exhaustification with respect to alternatives of a disjunction or indefinite.
The thesis casts its proposal in a hybrid system of lexical (cf. Levinson (2000); Chierchia (2004)) and grammatical (cf. Fox (2007); Chierchia et al. (2012)) approaches borrowing insights from both approaches. It also utilizes a hybrid framework of Hamblin semantics (cf. Hamblin (1973); Kratzer and Shimoyama (2002); Alonso-Ovalle (2006)) to keep domain alternatives separated and application of an alternative sensitive exhaustivity (Exh) operator (cf. the grammatical approach) to derive implicatures. Obligatory exhaustivity is treated as a morphological requirement/ lexical property of the particles -hari and -da represented by an uninterpretable exhaustivity [unExh] feature. Then, this lexical property is factored into the grammar by way of the Exh operator carrying an equivalent interpretable exhaustivity [inExh] feature placed in the syntactic structure of a -hari and -da disjunction/indefinite construction at LF. “Inclusivity” and “exclusivity” components of the particles -hari and -da that have consequences for distribution requirements are derived by way of different morpho-syntactic requirements of the particles -hari and -da. Thus, this thesis proposes a fully compositional/grammatical account all the way from the bottom to the top in the derivations.
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Wijesiri, Narayana Don Nimal Wijesiri. "Representation of identity in Sinhala theater: The impact of the religious/charity model." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/235387/1/Nimal%2BWijesiri%2BThesis%2B%282%29.pdf.
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This study used a critical disability studies analysis of historical and contemporary theatre work, informed by interviews with theatre practitioners and spectators to understand how disability, ethnic, racial, gender, and sexual identity is being representing in Sinhala theatre in Sri Lanka. The thesis explored how theatre practitioners and audiences want to see identity representations evolve in future, to create change in Sri Lankan society.
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Karunarathna, Lokeshwari Sandamali. "PERCEPTION OF CONSONANT GEMINATION BY NATIVE ENGLISH LEARNERS OF SINHALA: THE EFFECT OF TRAINING." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1445.
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Consonant gemination as a phonological feature plays a major role in the Sinhala language. The absence of true gemination in English causes perception problems for native English speakers when attempting to distinguish minimal pairs in Sinhala created by gemination. This study examined whether native English learners' difficulties in perceiving consonant gemination in Sinhala could be reduced by creating phonological awareness of it through formal training. Four native Sinhala speakers were asked to record thirty-two Sinhala minimal pairs. These recordings were used to set up the audio test instruments. Twenty-four native English speakers participated in the pre-test, a teaching/training session, and the post-test. The pre-test consisted of an AX discrimination task, where the subjects heard two stimuli (A and X) and had to decide if those two stimuli were the same or not. The 20-minute teaching/training session, which was the study's primary independent variable, was given to educate the participants about the gemination contrast in Sinhala. The same audio test was repeated as the post-test. The data analysis included descriptive statistics and a t-test for dependent samples through SPSS statistics version 20. The findings of the study showed a significant difference between the pre-test and the post-test. The data also revealed the teaching/training session to have a high level of effectiveness regarding gemination contrast. Perception of the gemination contrast had increased in the post-test, while perception of words without this contrast had decreased in accuracy, possibly as a result of hypercorrection.
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Jayawardena, Janaki. "Cultural construction of the 'Sinhala woman' and women's lives in post-independence Sri Lanka." Thesis, University of York, 2002. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14014/.
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Udalagama, Tharindi Dayara. "Beautiful mistakes : an ethnographic study of women's lives after marriage in a rural Sinhala village." Thesis, Durham University, 2018. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12788/.
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This thesis explores the lives of women after marriage. It focuses on their position in households and their roles as wives and mothers. The findings are supported by a 14-month ethnography in a rural village in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. The village itself has been subject to periodical changes that have impacted village life. Contrary to popular discourses, this has not resulted in a disintegration of village life. From my exploration of women’s lives this thesis shows the mechanisms that enable integration to be achieved amidst developmental changes. Moreover, women play a central role in keeping family life together. Within the parameters of women’s responsibilities as caregivers, they are able to build and maintain the household and preserve a public image of a ‘good house’. However, at times houses are engulfed with problems that rupture marriages and family lives. In such instances, I show how women work to restore their marriages and family lives by strategically enlisting the help of their children, affines, kin, close friends and the state. When these prove inadequate, I show how women turn to supernatural solutions such as sorcery. Women also use virtual resources in the form of televisions and mobile phones to find relief from the suffering that occurs in the home. In efforts to restore family life, women are working within structures of subjugation rather than challenging them. Women’s capacity to mend ruptures in marriage and family life causes them to see their lives as a series of ‘beautiful mistakes’. Family life is necessary, valued and important for the women in this thesis but it is also a source of pain and suffering.
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Dela, Bandara Tilakasiri Ramya Gamini. "Development of Sinhala drama : a socio-cultural analysis (from Nadagama to Modern Theatre, up to 1922)." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286420.
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Fonseka, Shantha Lal Priyantha. "Silence in Sri Lankan cinema from 1990 to 2010." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13302.
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This thesis explores the characteristic silence that dominates the new wave of Sri Lankan cinema after 1990 in a socio-cultural approach. The central concern of this study is to examine the phenomenon of silence in relation to Sri Lanka’s social, political and cultural history and contemporary trends in national cinema. This is an in-depth study of the underlying theories exemplified in the characters in the films, their expressions of silence and the whole concept of silence. The silence in the films selected for this study reflects the forces of Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism that trigger the civil war, youth unrest, social and systemic imbalance in the socio-political landscape of Sri Lanka. The thesis’s arguments are validated by relevant characters, the visual texts, narrative and the socio-cultural setting of the films studied. Further, based on the theoretical concepts of silence the thesis proposes the idea of ‘silence as a weapon’ seen from a two-fold perspective: silence safeguards personal and cultural identities and creates space for a ‘shield’ to ward off the violence directed at the self, to make an appropriate counter response to the hegemonic authority that seeks to control personal identities. The weapon of silence employed by the characters in the films lays bare their internal monologues while the silence in the setting of the film crystallizes the weapon of silence to pinpoint the common space that it inhabits. The thesis finally purports that the recent oppression of freedom of expression of filmmakers and cinema by the formal and informal organs of hegemonic authority are nothing but its own state of panic and the fear of this weapon.
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Foster, Yolanda Margaret. "Sinhala Buddhist nationalism, from revivalism to militant political ideology : the struggle to shape public culture in Sri Lanka." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406759.
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Raghavan, Suren. "Defending Buddhism by Fighting Federalism; Ethnoreligious Nationalism of the Sinhala Sangha and Peacemaking in Sri Lanka: 1995-2010." Thesis, University of Kent, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.577150.
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The ethnic conflict between the Tamil minority and the state of Sri Lanka turned into one of the bloodiest and protracted civil wars in the modern history of South Asia. In its final stage from 1995 to 2009, the war went through a textbook cycle from ceasefire to peace talks, to the resumption of war, and to final military victory for the state. During this period, many observers including governments and international organizations promoted federalism as a possible solution to the conflict. However, the fede ral proposal for Lanka was not only defeated but also provoked violent resistance led by the highly influential Buddhist monksthe Sangha. Federalism not only failed as an instrument of peace; the very proposal led to more violence and the intensification of the conflict. This thesis is an inquiry into the question of how federalism became the reason for violent resistance promoted by the SaiIgha, who are expected to adhere to ahimsa, nonaggression and the non-violent, renouncer path of life. The research adopted a case study method in order to reconstruct the life history and mindsets of three Sangha activists, who changed the manner in which federalism was received as an idea in Lanka. By analyzing the history of the resistance poli tics of the Sinhala Sangha, this research found that Sangha resistance is not merely a colonial byproduct or post-colonial innovation but rather a direct expression of the Sinhala 'cosmion', i.e. of a world of meaning in which Sinhala society appears as an analogue of the Buddhist cosmic order. Within th is cosmion. the Sangha playa crucial role as the mediators between the cosmic order and its earthly manifestation. Peacebuilding projects and federal proposals advanced by Western actors and their local supporters failed to appreciate this historical Sinhala self-understanding, because their Western frameworks considered federalism as an 'export-ready' political template while the religious actors in Lanka featured as mere 'spoilers' in the inevitable process of modernization. In conclusion, we argue that future peacebuilding in Lanka should consider two approaches. On the one hand, recognize and appreciate the cultural role played by key forces in Lankan society and, on the other, work with the self-understanding of these forces in order to help them transcend the singular uniqueness of the position, which they think they occupy in the world of Buddhism and beyond.
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Sheeran, Anne E. "White noise : European modernity, Sinhala musical nationalism, and the practice of a Creole popular music in modern Sri Lanka / by Anne E. Sheeran." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6505.
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Cassamassimo, Maria Elisa. "Sinha Vitória: olhares e dizeres." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2010. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14659.
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This study was focused in the work Vidas Secas (2006), and the object of our research is the character Sinha Vitória. Our proposal seeks, in a way, supply in the fortune criticism of the novel, the absence of studies that bring into focus the feminine character in greater depth, to open a new perspective on reflexive Sinha Vitória and her transforming function in the course of the narrative. For that, we starting with these questions: how can we say that Sinha Vitória is the one who lives the internal world of the other characters, leading and giving force to them? In what way her projective look and her progressive language acquisition (starting at guttural sounds to a real articulated speech) are the responsables for her capacity in lead all the family? What is the real meaning of this feminine character in Vidas Secas? So, our hypothesis is that Sinha Vitória is structured under a principle in which their dialogical self awareness is defined by otherness, dialog with its own conscience and the other characters, especially with Fabiano; and that is she who provides in the work a liberating action of the cycle of drought, by means of self awareness founded on two pillars: the eye projective-imaginative and speech, whose transformation of guttural sounds until the speech articulated. This feminine character is, in our point of view, the strengh who moves this research, whose purpose is to understand the roots of a character built under the principle dialogical that is founded on the "look" and the "say". The theoretical foundations focused on several conceptions about the look contained in the work O Olhar (1998), organized by Adauto Novaes, and in Bakhtin´s theories about the dialogism and indirect free speech, specially in his works Marxismo e Filosofia da Linguagem (1999) and Questões de Literatura e de Estética (1998). This study presents Sinha Vitória´s projective look, whose strengh is able to make, in the speech, other new dialogical spaces
O estudo realizado centrou-se na obra Vidas Secas (2006), tendo por objeto de investigação a personagem Sinha Vitória. Nossa proposta busca, em parte, suprir na fortuna crítica do romance, a ausência de estudos que foquem a personagem feminina com maior profundidade, de modo a abrir uma nova perspectiva reflexiva sobre Sinha Vitória e sua função transformadora no decorrer da narrativa. Para isso, nos pautamos nos questionamentos: em que medida Sinha Vitória pode ser vista como aquela que habita o mundo interior das outras personagens e como força impulsionadora? De que modo seu olhar projetivo e a progressão de sua linguagem (que vai dos sons guturais à fala articulada) são os responsáveis pelo preenchimento dos espaços invisíveis e a tornam o guia do núcleo familiar? Qual é o significado profundo dessa personagem feminina em Vidas Secas? Como hipótese temos que: - a personagem Sinha Vitória está estruturada sob um princípio dialógico no qual sua autoconsciência se define pela alteridade, pelo diálogo com sua própria consciência e a das demais personagens, especialmente com a de Fabiano; é ela que confere a Visas Secas uma ação libertadora do ciclo da seca por meio da autoconsciência alicerçada em dois pilares: o do olhar projetivo-imaginativo e o do discurso, cuja transformação se faz dos grunhidos inarticulados até a fala articulada. Esta figura feminina é, portanto, a força que move essa pesquisa cuja finalidade é compreender as raízes de uma personagem edificada sob o princípio dialógico que se funda sobre o olhar e o dizer . Os fundamentos teóricos se centraram em diversas concepções sobre o olhar contidas no livro O Olhar (1998), organizado por Adauto Novaes e nas teorias bakhtinianas sobre o dialogismo e o discurso indireto livre, abordadas nas diversas obras do autor, sobretudo nos livros Marxismo e Filosofia da Linguagem (1999) e Questões de Literatura e de Estética (1998). A análise aponta, portanto, o olhar projetivo de Sinha Vitória, cuja força simbólica é capaz de criar, no discurso, novos espaços dialógicos
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Mesquita, Amábile Jeovana Neiris [UNESP]. "Análise da estabilidade de sistemas dinâmicos periódicos usando Teoria de Sinha." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94304.
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In this work some dynamic systems are studied using a new method to approach state transition matrix (STM) for time-periodic systems. This method is based on Lyapunov- Floquet transformation (transformation L-F) and uses the Chebyshev polynomial expansion to approach the periodical term. The Picard iterative method is used to approach the STM. The Floquet multipliers determined through this method, allow to draw the stability diagram of the dynamic system. This technique is applied to analyze the stability and bifurcation points of the dynamic system formed by an elastic pendulum with periodic vertical excitation on support. Besides this application, the Mathieu equation is analyzed and also the stability of the dynamical system constituted by charged particle in a perturbed magnetic field is discussed.
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Mesquita, Amábile Jeovana Neiris. "Análise da estabilidade de sistemas dinâmicos periódicos usando Teoria de Sinha /." São José do Rio Preto : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94304.
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Resumo: Neste trabalho estuda-se alguns sistemas dinâmicos utilizando um novo método para aproximar a matriz de transição de estados (STM) para sistemas periódicos no tempo. Este método é baseado na transformação de Lyapunov-Floquet (L-F), e utiliza a expansão polinomial de Chebyshev para aproximar o termo periódico. O método iterativo de Picard é usado para aproximar a STM. Os multiplicadores de Floquet, determinados através deste método, permitem construir o diagrama de estabilidade do sistema dinâmico. Esta técnica é aplicada para analisar a estabilidade e os pontos de bifurcação do sistema dinâmico formado por um pêndulo elástico com excitação vertical periódica no suporte. Além dessa aplicação, é analisada também a equação de Mathieu e a estabilidade do sistema dinâmico constituído por partículas carregadas e imersas em um campo magnético perturbado.
Abstract: In this work some dynamic systems are studied using a new method to approach state transition matrix (STM) for time-periodic systems. This method is based on Lyapunov- Floquet transformation (transformation L-F) and uses the Chebyshev polynomial expansion to approach the periodical term. The Picard iterative method is used to approach the STM. The Floquet multipliers determined through this method, allow to draw the stability diagram of the dynamic system. This technique is applied to analyze the stability and bifurcation points of the dynamic system formed by an elastic pendulum with periodic vertical excitation on support. Besides this application, the Mathieu equation is analyzed and also the stability of the dynamical system constituted by charged particle in a perturbed magnetic field is discussed.
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Lindström, Viktor. "Capitalism, Animal's Eyes, and the Environment : An essay about the environmental effects of industrial capitalism in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100552.
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This essay explores the correlation between industrial capitalism and environmental damage in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People. The thesis argues that the grave pollution of land, water, and people in the novel stems from capitalistic exploitation of biophysical resources. The novel is analyzed through an ecocritical perspective with eco-Marxism and Social Ecology as the main tools for the analysis. The main findings are that it is capitalistic values, where money and influence are prioritized over the environment, that are depicted as the fundamental reason behind the contamination in Khaufpur. The essay also includes a pedagogical section where Animal’s People is suggested as a basis for an environmental education agenda in a Swedish EFL classroom. The focus would be how environmental pollution may be related to industrial capitalism and to discuss the student’s own thoughts and reflections regarding the issue.
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Oliveira, Ailton Monteiro de. "A construÃÃo da personagem sinha VitÃria na traduÃÃo de Vidas secas para as telas." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2013. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=10586.
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FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do CearÃEste trabalho analisa a traduÃÃo do romance Vidas secas (1938), de Graciliano Ramos, para o cinema, por Nelson Pereira dos Santos, em 1963, com Ãnfase na construÃÃo da personagem sinha VitÃria. O objetivo principal à verificar as alternativas estÃticas do cineasta em relaÃÃo à personagem, levando em consideraÃÃo a sua tendÃncia em privilegiar e dar mais espaÃo a personagens femininas em seus filmes. Isso se reflete principalmente em adaptaÃÃes literÃrias realizadas pelo diretor, em que se percebe as suas intervenÃÃes, de modo a tornar as mulheres de suas obras mais fortes e ativas dentro do enredo. A fim de corroborar esta hipÃtese, fizemos uma comparaÃÃo com outras obras do cineasta, como, por exemplo, as adaptaÃÃes de contos de Machado de Assis. AtravÃs da anÃlise de excertos do livro e sequÃncias do filme, percebemos que, apesar de em ambos os textos sinha VitÃria ter grande importÃncia na narrativa, à no cinema que ela mais se destaca. Os resultados mostram que, no aspecto geral da produÃÃo, as opÃÃes estÃticas utilizadas por Nelson Pereira dos Santos para traduzir a obra escrita apresentam-se por meio de estratÃgias, tais como poucas linhas de diÃlogo e traduÃÃo criativa do fluxo de consciÃncia, atravÃs de mecanismos prÃprios do cinema, de modo a transmutar o universo literÃrio do livro para as telas. Os principais teÃricos utilizados para dar embasamento ao estudo sÃo: Stam (2008), Hutcheon (2011) e Lefevere (2007), para a abordagem de traduÃÃo e adaptaÃÃo; Salem (1996), Cousins (2013), Aumont (1995), Gay (2009) e Gomes (2005), para as questÃes de cinema; e Candido (2006), Bosi (1998), Moraes (2012), Brunacci (2008), Bakhtin (1990), Araujo (2008) e MagalhÃes (2000), como base para os assuntos de literatura.
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Oliveira, Ailton Monteiro de. "A construção da personagem sinha Vitória na tradução de Vidas secas para as telas." www.teses.ufc.br, 2013. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/8121.
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OLIVEIRA, Ailton Monteiro de. A construção da personagem sinha Vitória na tradução de Vidas secas para as telas. 2013. 114f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, Fortaleza (CE), 2013.Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-05-20T14:34:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_dis_amoliveira.pdf: 1350939 bytes, checksum: a151eb1b7ac9e781cb660ec12f5da033 (MD5)
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Este trabalho analisa a tradução do romance Vidas secas (1938), de Graciliano Ramos, para o cinema, por Nelson Pereira dos Santos, em 1963, com ênfase na construção da personagem sinha Vitória. O objetivo principal é verificar as alternativas estéticas do cineasta em relação à personagem, levando em consideração a sua tendência em privilegiar e dar mais espaço a personagens femininas em seus filmes. Isso se reflete principalmente em adaptações literárias realizadas pelo diretor, em que se percebe as suas intervenções, de modo a tornar as mulheres de suas obras mais fortes e ativas dentro do enredo. A fim de corroborar esta hipótese, fizemos uma comparação com outras obras do cineasta, como, por exemplo, as adaptações de contos de Machado de Assis. Através da análise de excertos do livro e sequências do filme, percebemos que, apesar de em ambos os textos sinha Vitória ter grande importância na narrativa, é no cinema que ela mais se destaca. Os resultados mostram que, no aspecto geral da produção, as opções estéticas utilizadas por Nelson Pereira dos Santos para traduzir a obra escrita apresentam-se por meio de estratégias, tais como poucas linhas de diálogo e tradução criativa do fluxo de consciência, através de mecanismos próprios do cinema, de modo a transmutar o universo literário do livro para as telas. Os principais teóricos utilizados para dar embasamento ao estudo são: Stam (2008), Hutcheon (2011) e Lefevere (2007), para a abordagem de tradução e adaptação; Salem (1996), Cousins (2013), Aumont (1995), Gay (2009) e Gomes (2005), para as questões de cinema; e Candido (2006), Bosi (1998), Moraes (2012), Brunacci (2008), Bakhtin (1990), Araujo (2008) e Magalhães (2000), como base para os assuntos de literatura.
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Engel, Sinha [Verfasser]. "Oxytocin‘s involvement in the development, manifestation and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms / Sinha Engel." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1222029464/34.
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Sinha, Pritam Bala [Verfasser]. "Functional analysis of microRNA-130b in bovine oocyte maturation and preimplantation embryo development / Pritam Bala Sinha. Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1016262914/34.
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Sinha, Dipto [Verfasser], and Julia [Akademischer Betreuer] Kehr. "Molecular characterization of membrane associated Inner membrane complex proteins in Plasmodium falciparum (Welch, 1897) / Dipto Sinha. Betreuer: Julia Kehr." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1058213350/34.
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Raspe, Matthias [Verfasser], and Bhanu [Akademischer Betreuer] Sinha. "Zelluläre Invasivität und molekulare Marker von kolonisierenden und Infektions-assoziierten Methicillin resistenten Staphylococcus-aureus-Isolaten / Matthias Eduard Raspe. Betreuer: Bhanu Sinha." Würzburg : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Würzburg, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1019944846/34.
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Tumkur, Srinivasamurthy Vishnu Sinha [Verfasser], Uwe [Gutachter] Bornscheuer, and Andreas [Gutachter] Liese. "Whole-cell enzyme cascade realization and scale up for bulk chemical production / Vishnu Sinha Tumkur Srinivasamurthy ; Gutachter: Uwe Bornscheuer, Andreas Liese." Greifswald : Universität Greifswald, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1231434716/34.
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Sinha, Amit [Verfasser], and Ralf J. [Akademischer Betreuer] Sommer. "Gene Expression Studies on the Evolution of Development and Innate Immunity in the Nematode Pristionchus pacificus / Amit Sinha ; Betreuer: Ralf J. Sommer." Tübingen : Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1162844426/34.
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Yorke, Stephanie. "Disability, normalcy, and the failures of the nation : a reading of selected fiction by Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Indra Sinha, and Firdaus Kanga." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:50a3e631-419f-490a-9995-f0fa511e5688.
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This thesis is a study of representations of disability in a selection of Anglophone Indian literature written between 1981 and 2006. In this thesis, I argue that, in fiction by Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Indra Sinha, and Firdaus Kanga, disability often takes on positive symbolic value as it represents the potential for the postcolonial polis to survive and thrive, but that the ultimate death or medical normalisation of disabled characters in many of these narratives is tied to a loss of political optimism. While these texts in many instances disturb norms surrounding able-bodiedness and disability, they often ultimately narrate a pessimistic conformity to scripts of normalization, and in so doing, map the unjust triumph of a prescriptive national or international politics onto a prescriptive politics of the body. As disability is eliminated, so is the potential for resistance to latent colonial or hegemonic forms. On the other hand, those fictions that narrate a sustainable disabled presence suggest the potential for the community or nation to emerge from oppressive social structures unscathed. I focus on applying literary disability scholarship to Indian novels which demand scrutiny through a disability studies lens, given their dependence upon the disabled body as a metaphoric object and the continuities in their disability representation and the representation of history. While the focus of my work is upon the nuances of disability representation as it is used to parallel the rise (and sometimes fall) of political optimism in these examples of Anglophone Indian literature, I also read toward an understanding of how the postcolonial perspective of these fictions may inflect and complicate disability representations, and investigate Western notions of normalcy as they are represented as intruding upon this literature and as disciplining the body in these texts. This disciplining is further explored through an ancillary reading of how medical apparatus and infrastructure, such as hospitals, ambulances, and especially doctors, are represented in this group of novels, as it is often in conjunction with the medical establishment that disabled characters are subjected to (neo) colonial violence. In the first chapter, which takes the form of a critical introduction, I discuss the terms of my argument within the development of disability studies, and position myself within the debates and concerns of literary disability studies in particular. I consider the antecedents and development of what is now called the cultural model of disability, and discuss how literary disability scholarship, which began its development with a focus on Western texts and contexts, has begun to extend its range of inquiry to become global in scope. I consider examples of the interplay of contemporary Indian history with biopolitical ideals and the paradigm of normalcy as it has been articulated by Lennard Davis and his intellectual predecessors including Canguillheim and Foucault. In the second chapter, which is entitled "The Medical and the Monstrous: Disability in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Shame, and The Moor's Last Sigh," I consider how the disabled body is created as an object of competition in an ideological agon between a violent, globalized modernity and a sometimes-idealized fictive past. While Rushdie often represents the disabled body in a very simplified and rather bigoted register, he also to some extent engages with the more complex potentialities of disability to represent the failure of the state. The normalizing perpetration of a Westernized medical apparatus against disabled people becomes the proof and of political disintegration and the dissolution of hope for the emergent nation, whether in Rushdie's fictional version of India or Pakistan. In the third chapter, "Disability and the Realization of Metaphor in Rohinton Mistry's Such a Long Journey and A Fine Balance," I consider Rohinton Mistry's disability representations in relation to his engagement with the tradition of European realism. While Mistry attempts to re-locate the normal type articulated by the European novel, and subverts the conventions of European fiction even as he employs them, he still depends upon a largely uncontested tradition of disability representation. While he re-locates the norm in many demographic respects, he does not fully manage to rescue disability from an ancillary and symbolic role in the fiction. Mistry uses disabled characters symbolically to imagine political upheaval from a disadvantaged and sometimes from a subaltern position, creating in disabled characters their symbolic correlates. In my fourth chapter, "Collective Disability and the Dis-located Norm in Indra Sinha's Animal's People," I consider the ways in which this novel effaces paradigms of normalcy by imagining an environment in which disability is the unifying commonality of community life. While Mistry and Rushdie ultimately write disability as narrative anomaly in the ways described by Mitchell and Snyder, Sinha inverts the paradigm of the anomalous body in his fictional representation of the Bhopal disaster. The failure of the Indian state to protect its citizenry results in collective disability identification, while those able-bodied individuals who might be treated as normal in another fiction become suspicious outsiders. In my fifth chapter, "Unaccommodating Fictions: Disability, Authorship, and the Politics of Failure in Firdaus Kanga's Trying to Grow," I consider the ways in which gay, disabled, Parsi writer Firdaus Kanga represents failure and dependency as character weakness. Kanga validates neoliberal competition by re-imagining the potential for economic and social attainment as properties of mind at the exclusion of the body, and, in so doing, inaugurates an adaption of paradigms of normalcy. Kanga's imaginary valorises the economically competitive individual, but simply removes the constraint of bodily normalcy from this ideal marketable man. For Kanga, economic freedom from parental, societal, or governmental intervention is edifying, as masculinity is achieved through uninhibited competition. In my conclusion, "Good Doctors and Bad Doctors in Rushdie, Mistry, Sinha, and Kanga," I consider the representation of the clinic and of physicians in addition to the representation of disabled people in the novels included in this thesis. Doctors and medical apparatus become symbolic correlates for different political impositions and political strategies, often representing the abuses and failures of government or of public policy. I will frame my discussion within Foucault's concept of the clinic, and will consider the ways in which traditional and Western medicine take on symbolic meaning in these fictions of India.
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Baruah, Manaswita [Verfasser], Dierk [Gutachter] Scheel, Sven-Erik [Gutachter] Behrens, and Alok Krishna [Gutachter] Sinha. "Role of tandem zinc finger proteins of Arabidopsis thaliana in plant stress responses / Manaswita Baruah ; Gutachter: Dierk Scheel, Sven-Erik Behrens, Alok Krishna Sinha." Halle (Saale) : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2020. http://d-nb.info/121072779X/34.
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Das, Sudip [Verfasser], Thomas [Gutachter] Rudel, Bhanu [Gutachter] Sinha, and Knut [Gutachter] Ohlsen. "Genome-wide identification of virulence-associated genes in Staphylococcus aureus using Transposon insertion-site deep sequencing / Sudip Das ; Gutachter: Thomas Rudel, Bhanu Sinha, Knut Ohlsen." Würzburg : Universität Würzburg, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1151447080/34.
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Youn, Dae Yeong. "Les idées et les mouvements réformistes en Corée et au Vietnam, 1897-1911 : La tradition, le "nouveau savoir"(sinhak ou tân học) à travers les "nouveaux écrits"(sinseo ou tân thu) interactions." Paris 7, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA070004.
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Le but principal de cette recherche est de comprendre les particularités des idées et des mouvements réformistes du Viêt Nam entre la fin du XIXe siècle et le début du XXe siècle. Il s'agit de déterminer l'étendue d'un phénomène intellectuel vietnamien semblable à celui des autres pays en Extrême-Orient à l'époque et les transformations issues de l'émergence d'une nouvelle génération de lettrés réformateurs investis du « nouveau savoir » (tân hoc). Pour essayer de dégager les raisons de cette évolution, il semble utile de dresser une comparaison entre le cas du Viêt Nam et celui de la Corée. À leur début, les mouvements pour l'indépendance en Corée et au Viêt Nam ont porté sur la diffusion massive des idées réformistes par le biais des « nouveaux écrits » (tan thif) en provenance de la Chine et du Japon. De ce fait, l'émergence des lettrés réformateurs coréens et vietnamiens au sens nouveau de groupe porteur de valeurs novatrices au nom desquelles ils intervenaient collectivement dans le débat et l'engagement politiques, a été à la fois le résultat de l'étude du « nouveau savoir » et celui de la confrontation entre groupes intellectuels et autorités coloniales. Si la Corée et le Viêt Nam ont subi tous deux des bouleversements et une colonisation liés à l'épanouissement des visées impérialistes en Extrême-Orient, ils ont évolué toutefois différemment, chacun choisissant une réponse propreThe main goal of my research is a detailed understanding of the ideas and actualities of the reformist movements in Vietnam from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. This project is concerned with determining the extent to which a Vietnamese intellectuel phenomenon (the reformist movement) resembled that of other East Asian countries during the same period. Also, I will examine the changes wrought by a new, emergent generation of reform-minded elites who invested themselves in 'New Learning' (tân học). In an attempt to clarify the reasons for the development of a reform-minded idea among traditional elites, it seems appropriate to compare the case of Vietnam with Korea. Initially, independence movements in Korea and Vietnam occupied themselves with the wide diffusion of reformist ideas through 'New Books' (tân thu) originating in China or Japan. From this, elite reformers in Korea an Vietnam had a new sense of group identity, bringing a value for innovation to their collective involvement in politics and political discussion, which resulted from 'new leaming' and the confrontation between these intellectuels and colonial govemments in their countries. Although Korea and Vietnam were both subjected to the deep disruptions of colonization linked to the spread of imperialist ambitions in East Asia, reformist movements in each country evolved differently, each choosing a proper and particular response
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Sinha, Raunak [Verfasser], Jürgen [Akademischer Betreuer] Klingauf, Erwin [Akademischer Betreuer] Neher, and Walter [Akademischer Betreuer] Stühmer. "Optical analysis of synaptic vesicle protein molecules during exo- and endocytosis using pH-switchable fluorescent probes / Raunak Sinha. Gutachter: Jürgen Klingauf ; Erwin Neher ; Walter Stühmer. Betreuer: Jürgen Klingauf." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1042305188/34.
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Poland, Julia [Verfasser], I. [Gutachter] Lefkovits, P. [Gutachter] Sinha, and P. M. [Gutachter] Kloetzel. "Proteom-Analyse von chemo- und thermoresistenten Magen- und Pankreaskarzinomzellinien zur Untersuchung von thermoresistenzassoziierten Phänomenen und Interaktionen mit Cehmoresistenz / Julia Poland ; Gutachter: I. Lefkovits, P. Sinha, P.-M. Kloetzel." Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2003. http://d-nb.info/1206194057/34.
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Hütter, Gero [Verfasser], D. [Gutachter] Schadendorf, M. [Gutachter] Dietel, and P. [Gutachter] Sinha. "Chemoresistenzassoziierte Veränderungen der Proteinexpression bei Kolon-, Mamma-, Magen-, Pankreaskarzinom und Fibrosarkom mit Hilfe der hochauflösenden zweidimensionalen Elektrophorese im immobilisierten pH-Gradienten / Gero Hütter ; Gutachter: D. Schadendorf, M. Dietel, P. Sinha." Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2000. http://d-nb.info/1207631159/34.
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Makgotlho, Phuti Edward [Verfasser], Bhanu [Gutachter] Sinha, and Wilma [Gutachter] Ziebuhr. "Molecular characterization of the staphylococcal two component system sae and its role in the regulation of the adhesin Eap under SDS stress stimulation / Phuti Edward Makgotlho ; Gutachter: Bhanu Sinha, Wilma Ziebuhr." Würzburg : Universität Würzburg, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1133479952/34.
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Sinha, Priyanjana [Verfasser], Thomas Sunn [Akademischer Betreuer] Pedersen, Thomas Sunn [Gutachter] Pedersen, and Bruce [Gutachter] Lipschultz. "Edge and scrape-off layer physics modeling for Wendelstein 7-X in preparation of the operation phases OP1.2 and OP2 / Priyanjana Sinha ; Gutachter: Thomas Sunn Pedersen, Bruce Lipschultz ; Betreuer: Thomas Sunn Pedersen." Greifswald : Universität Greifswald, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1213447569/34.
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Kögler, Kai [Verfasser], and Anil-Martin [Akademischer Betreuer] Sinha. "Interventionelle Therapie des ungeschützten linken Hauptstamms mit medikamenten-beschichteten Stents versus operatives Vorgehen mittels Bypass-Chirurgie : Vergleich beider Methoden unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Alters und der Lebensqualität der Patienten / Kai Kögler. Betreuer: Anil-Martin Sinha." Würzburg : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Würzburg, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1021645982/34.
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Henadeerage, Kumara. "Topics in Sinhala Syntax." Phd thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/47148.
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This study is a detailed investigation of a number of issues in colloquial Sinhala morphosyntax. These issues primarily concern grammatical relations, argument structure, phrase structure and focus constructions. The theoretical framework of this study is Lexical Functional Grammar.¶ ...
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Parawahera, Nimal Pannakitti. "Phonology and morphology of modern Sinhala." Thesis, 1990. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/9464.
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This dissertation organizes the Modern Sinhala lexicon within the framework proposed by Lieber in The Organization of The Lexicon, 1981. Following Lieber, Sinhala verb, noun and affix morphemes are analysed descriptively and their lexical processes, both derivational and compounding, are examined within the theoretical parameters of that work.
This dissertation argues that tense marking in verb morphology and number in noun morphology (which also includes definite and indefinite marking) are best accounted for as derivational processes in contrast to the traditionally accepted inflectional processes. It is claimed that in noun and verb categories, allomorphy is a factor in the underlying representation of the lexicon. On the other hand, allomorphy in noun number marking affixes is due to a morphological rule sensitive to class membership of nouns. Going beyond The Organization of The Lexicon which is limited to morphological rules, this study includes phonological rules operating in the lexicon.
Finally, in accord with the results of this dissertation two suggestions are made: First, it is essential that a complete study of Modern Sinhala phonology include an extensive investigation of the syllable structure; Second, the concept of level ordering in the lexicon should be utilized to account for the hierarchical distribution of affixes. Support for the first suggestion rests on the morpholexical rules, while the second rests on the hierarchical distribution of affixes described by subcategorization and X-bar indexing in this study.Graduate
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Liyanage, Wasantha A. "Narrative methods of Sinhala prose : a historical and theoretical study of Sinhala prose from Twelfth Century narratives to post-realist fiction /." 2004. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/61503333.html.
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Liyanage, Wasantha A. "Sinhala Buddhist classics in literature the case of Amavatura /." 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/44705540.html.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2000.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-115).
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Dassenaike, Nilusha Ranjini. "Sinhala folk music : its vocal traditions and stylistic nuances." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110696.
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This research presents the role and characteristics of vocal improvisation in Sinhala folk music, the music of Sri Lanka. This study examines the vocal nuances and expressions of Sinhala folk and identifies the idiosyncratic nature of vocal improvisation and how it is applied in Sinhala folk music. Considered a dying art form by practitioners, scholars, nationals and expats interviewed during this research, Sinhala folk music is scarcely practiced yet holds the key to the nation's musical identity. This study investigates the philosophical and social influences on Sinhala folk music in a historical sense and observes its purposes and practices. The research presents an analysis of a traditional folk song Nelum Gee with respect to specific vocal improvisation and expressive techniques. The introduction gives an account of my Sri Lankan and Western cultural heritages by detailing my ancestry, migration and educational experiences which continue to inform the music making practices I am currently exploring and engaging in. Chapter 1 highlights various definitions of improvisation in several styles of music including Sinhala folk and the diverse applications of vocal improvisation that include but are not limited to ornamentation of melodies, rhythmic displacement and phrasing, scats singing and free improvisation. Chapter 2 travels through the influence of Theravada Buddhism on Sinhala folk music and its conservative outlook on the arts, the acceptance and application of drumming in various contexts and accompanying instrumentation used in Sinhala folk. Chapter 3 observes the disbanded social ranking of the Sinhalese caste system with a particular focus on the Berava caste from which traditional dancers and singers originated from. Chapter 4 addresses specific vocal nuances observed in Sinhala folk music in reference to improvisation techniques, vocal delivery styles and intonation. It also looks at Buddhist chanting styles and the application of chanting styles to contemporary music. Comparisons are drawn between Hindustani, Canartic and Sinhalese singing styles. Chapter 5 presents an overview of Sinhala folk music singing styles and contains personally transcribed and analysed examples of each category. Chapter 6 provides an in depth analysis of two transcribed excerpts from two recordings of traditional Sinhala folk song Nelum Gee. One is a studio recording and the other is a personally recorded live version of the same song, both interpreted by Sinhala folk music artist Chandrakanthi Shilpadhipathi. The excerpts have been personally transcribed and critically analysed in relation to significant contemporary vocal improvisation techniques such as rhythmic placement, melodic ornamentation, expression techniques and syllabic ornamentation techniques. The findings have been documented in music notation and various tables. The conclusion addresses the reasons Sinhala folk music is considered a dying art and
the current attempts at preservation. The conclusion also presents the successes and
difficulties experienced in fusing elements of Sinhala folk into Western compositions.
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Stewart, JJ. "Nourishing the Dhamma : vegetarianism and animal nonviolence in Theravàda Buddhism with a special focus on Sinhala Buddhism." Thesis, 2012. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/16295/2/whole_excludingrestrict_-stewart-thesis-2012.pdf.
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Pāli canonical texts routinely report the Buddha as saying that a good Buddhist must never kill another living creature. Such statements are, in many cases, explicitly applied to the case of animals. Not only do such claims imply animal protectionism, but they also imply vegetarianism: if animals are not to be killed, then it seems to follow trivially that they cannot be eaten either. Yet this seemingly trivial move from the non-killing of animals to the non-eating of them is explicitly avoided in the Pāli canonical texts.
This project investigates the prima facie case for vegetarianism, both in the Pāli canonical texts and in the Theravāda tradition more widely — a living tradition that is, in certain crucial ways, based upon that textual tradition. The textual component of this investigation is largely confined to an examination of Pāli canonical texts. In respect to the lived Theravāda tradition, the project specifically engages Sinhala Buddhism as practised in Sri Lanka. The latter investigation is made possible by fieldwork conducted at various times throughout 2011 and early 2012 in the Colombo and Këgalle areas.
In the first half of the thesis, I argue that, within the Pāli canon, a conflict arises around the issue of vegetarianism. Although the canon implies vegetarianism based upon its first principles, this vegetarianism is explicitly denied. I suggest that this denial could be explained as a historical anomaly brought about by certain prudential and circumstantial factors. The non-endorsement of vegetarianism, therefore, may not represent the Buddha’s considered and final ethical view on this matter.
The second half of the thesis is primarily ethnographic in character. I argue in this section that the same conflict that we find in the textual tradition is repeated in the contemporary lived tradition. Lay informants maintained a pro-attitude to vegetarianism and generally concluded that a good Buddhist ought to be a vegetarian. Monastic informants, however, were far more circumspect about the issue and tended to remain agnostic as to whether vegetarianism was morally acceptable.
I conclude by arguing that Theravāda Buddhism, as represented by my sample of Sinhala informants and the textual tradition that operates in the background, generally favours vegetarianism, but a wide range of largely circumstantial factors results in the stymying of the expression of this vegetarianism. This unusual tension should not necessarily be taken as a defect in Buddhism - rather, Theravāda Buddhism is highly sensitive to context and encourages the negotiation of moral problems in a flexible and open-ended way. The results of this study therefore tell us something useful about Buddhist Ethics more generally.
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Somirathna, Chamila. "Re-envisioning a Discipline: Martin Wickramasinghe’s Contribution to Comparative Literature." 2016. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/447.
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This thesis, “Re-visioning a Discipline: Martin Wickramasinghe’s Contribution to Comparative Literature,” explores the comparative approach of Martin Wickramasinghe, the pioneering twentieth-century Sri Lankan novelist, literary-cultural critic, and journalist. Wickramasinghe drew on Sinhala folk and classical, Pali, Sanskrit, and Western literary traditions, especially those of England, and Russia. His comparative approach had two main principles: First, literary concepts do not belong to any literary culture on the basis of their origin. Second, any concept that exists in a given literary culture can be “remoulded” and incorporated by another culture. The rejection of the notion of origin-based ownership of literary concepts and the reformulation of literary concepts as phenomena that may be circulated among literary cultures create a hierarchy-less base for comparison. In creating his comparative approach, Wickramasinghe problematized the binaries of local and metropolitan, village and city, and national and international. I examine his comparative approach by analyzing, first, his re-interpretations of the concepts of reader and grāmyatā (vulgarity). For example, Wickramasinghe challenged the elitism of Sanskrit literary theoretical conceptions of the reader and vulgarity. Second, I discuss how he “remoulded” different literary concepts in his theoretical writings and fiction. For example, he created a concept of realism that drew on classical Sinhala narratives as well as Western literature and theory.
In this thesis, I place Wickramasinghe’s comparative approach in conversation with postcolonial scholarship such as that of Dipesh Chakrabarty, Simon Gikandi, Revathi Krishnaswamy, Gayathri Spivak, and S. Subramaniam. Wickramasinghe’s comparative approach provides us new insights on how to compare different literary cultures without ascribing hierarchical values to these cultures. He rejected the binaries of colonial and postcolonial Sri Lanka and, instead, situated himself in a liminal position. His writings illumine how Pali, Sanskrit, and European metropolitan literary traditions all impacted Sinhala literary culture in different historical periods. Wickramasinghe focused on how Sinhala literary culture appropriates literary concepts from other literary traditions rather than on the traditions themselves.
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Lin, Mei-hui, and 林美惠. "The Historical Changes of Sinhua Township." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01728337933664003827.
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碩士國立臺南大學
台灣文化研究所碩士班
98
This study aims at the district development of Sinhua Township in Tainan County to discover its development and changes for every particular period. The research methods are to collect, read, and organize the historical information, and then conclude and analyze it to meet the expectation which is to show the looks at that time. Furthermore, map assistance and field study are used to make up for the deficiencies. Sinhua Township which lies in the border between plains and hills is located in the south of Tainan County and in the east-south of Chianan Plain. Sinhua Township is just right in the border of plains that Shusen River flows by in the west side, Tanshuei River is in the north, and Tavocan River flows through the east-north side of Sinhua Township. Under the governance of Holland, Shinhua Township was the residence for TAVOCAN of Pingpu Tribe, and TAVOCAN becomes the old name of Sinhua Township. After Zheng/Ming period, Han People continually came to cultivate nearby, and the residents of TAVOCAN were assimilated or moved out under Han’s suppress. Therefore, this place gradually developed a village of Han People who also brought the religion from their homeland into to form different village temples. During Japanese colonial period, Sinhua Township was the center of region administration. Because of the enhancement of political status and the establishment of Sugar Experiment Station, this township presented its features different from Ching Dynasty. Baroque style buildings which were built gradually along the old street reflected the people’s richness and architectural style at the time. Meanwhile, convenient light rail, highway, and automobiles brought stream of people and business opportunities. The construction of Chianan Canal and the restoration of Hu-tou Pei infused new life into agriculture for Sinhua Township. However, after Kominka Movement, every Taiwanese free development including related activities of religions and temples was imprisoned. Sinhua Township lost its advantages as an administration center after war. Also, the convenience of traffic routes and the advancement of transportation made Sinhua Township in crisis instead. Being mainly engaged in production, sale, and distributing center for agriculture, this town lacked for industrial development and fell behind with economy, leading to population outflow. These reasons infected the pace for its development. The development of Sinhua Township has been over two hundreds years since Chia-ching era. For the past two hundreds years, the street layout of this town was turned from cross street pattern in Ching Dynasty into regular street one in Japanese colonial period; and further, it expands to a larger and complicated feature today. The influence under politics and economy changes the style of Sinhua Township and generates different culture features. With valuable cultural heritages left from Ching Dynasty and Japanese colonial period plus the natural scenes such as Sinhua Forest, Hu-tou Pei, and Yen-shui Pei, tourism industry becomes an expectable industry of Sinhua Township in the future.
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Lin, Chin-Mei, and 林金美. "A Study on the Sinhua Old Street Marketing Strategies." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33784301504277108096.
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碩士康寧大學
資訊傳播研究所
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Old Street with historical, cultural, aesthetic, industrial and other diverse cultural characteristics, is an important national cultural asset. Sinhua Old Street is the market of nine towns from Japanese ruled period. Nevertheless, now the current Sinhua Old Street is tradition mixed with modern commercial diet, household items, jewelry, and etc. without any systematic planning and operating. It is strong contrast between Baroque architecture and unprosperous economy. Therefore, this research apply for 8 P Marketing mix (Product, Price, Place, Promotion, People, Programming, Partnership, and Packaging) variable into explores the optimal options of marketing strategy. These marketing strategies will take the chance to recover the economy and develop the unique cultural industry of Old Street. Consequently, this study applies the depth interview to classify the questionnaire of 8 P marketing mix and t-test to investigate the relationship between marketing mix and customer satisfaction to set up the suggestion for marketing strategy. These results are that: (1) Tourism are satisfied at Product, People, Partnership, Packaging, and Planning. (2) There is improving item for Price, Place, and Promotion when marketing the Sinhua Old Street. The study could find out the key of success for marketing Sinhua Old Street to increase the effect of local economy.
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Yu-ChiYen and 顏昱淇. "Strategies of Increasing the Irrigated Water of Reservoirs of Sinhua Irrigation Area." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/f5ezpq.
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碩士國立成功大學
水利及海洋工程學系
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This paper discussed how to increase the system water storage and improve the regulation ability to effectively utilize the water resources of the reservoirs and ponds in an irrigation district. It raised the utilization rate of the water resources in the area and developed the best combination of the improving strategies. In this study, both of the simulation and optimization analysis were applied to evaluate efficacy of the discrete and non-discrete improvement strategies. A generalized water resources simulation model, WRASIM, is used to simulate the water supply of the reservoirs in the irrigation district. The nonlinear programming method BOBYQA is used to optimize the minimum cost improvement strategy to increase irrigation water. This study first constructed a combination strategy of the discrete improvement strategies, and then, under the specific annual average water deficit, the amount of the dredging of the reservoirs is optimized. The overall improvement strategy is developed with the minimum total development cost. The relationship between the increase in water supply and investment cost for different water shortages, for the best alternative under the limited budgets to improve the combination of alternatives to minimize the cost of irrigation water. The best strategy shows that for the annual average water deficit for the Hsinwha irrigation district is less than 11%, the minimum cost of the discrete combination strategy is to activate the Wuwayao Pond and install a new pump to increase the water supply to the 1st and 3rd rotation zone of Dayang set and the whole Kanding set. The other strategy is to apply pump to deliver water to the pipeline of the south branch of the Chianan ditch to irrigate Dapi set.
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王婷儀. "The study of the facade of street-house on Chongcheng road, at Sinhua." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43528211853000467250.
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碩士國立嘉義大學
視覺藝術研究所
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Absaract The Study of the Facade of Street-House on Chongcheng Road, at Sinhua Recently, the usage of “old streets” emerges in Taiwan. On these old streets, there are many street houses which are called “Baroque Architecture” and they arouse tourists’ attention. The old streets in Sinhua are no exception. This study is to explore the façade of the street houses on Chongcheng Road in Sinhua. The key points of each chapter of this research are as following： In Chapter One, first of all, the motive of the study is intrigued by the doubts why the famous Baroque street houses on Chongcheng Road at Sinhua built during “Japanese colonization” are called “Baroque street houses”. The Baroque Architecture is a style of architecture in Europe in seventeenth century. Therefore, the goal of the study is to analyze the facade of Sinhua Street Houses, explore the characteristics of the facade of Sinhua Street Houses and investigate whether street houses in Sinhua are related to seventeenth century of Baroque Architecture. In this study, the range of time is from Japanese colonization. However, the range of space covers the area in area at Sinhua, Yanshui, Madou, Douliu and Xilon. This research will be carried out using systematical methods of formalistic, iconological and field survey. In Chapter Two, we first probe into the development of the facade of street houses during Japanese colonization over Taiwan, and investigate how the materials, development of technology and the regulations of architecture affect and restrain the characteristics of facade of Taiwanese street houses. And then explore what kind of effects does the evolvement of facade of these street houses cause to the characteristics of facade of Sinhua Street Houses. In Chapter Three, we will focus on the analysis of the facade of street houses during Japanese colonization in two aspects –the form of facade and the decoration of facade. In the aspect of the form of facade, the facade forms are classified into several types and the elements of facade are analyzed, including parapets, pediments, sidewalls and the forms of the windows in the middle level of the facade. Then in the aspect of the decoration of the facade, the materials, topics and symbolized meanings are analyzed. In Chapter Four, we investigate the facade of Sinhua Street Houses in two aspects—the form of facade and the decoration of facade and compare the facade of street houses at Sinhua with the facade of street houses in Yanshui, Madou, Douliu and Xilou. The conclusion is that the characteristics of facade of Sinhua Street Houses combine the characteristics of facade of street houses in both middle and later stage of Japanese colonization. About the form of facade, there are two different types of street houses at Sinhua, the middle stage, and the later stage during Japanese colonization. The heavy and complicated decoration of facade is influenced largely by western historical designs. However, at the same time, it also integrate some Chinese and Japanese styles. On the contrary, those in later stage of Japanese colonization present in Modernism simple style. In Chapter Five, we make a conclusion as following: First, Sinhua Street Houses in middle stage of Japanese colonization have Baroque decoration. However, the decoration of facade of them intermix the theme of both Chinese and Japanese styles. As a result, it would be more appropriate to name Sinhua Street Houses in middle stage of Japanese colonization “Baroque-style street houses” better than “Baroque street houses”. Nevertheless, the title is not suitable for the street houses in later stage of Japanese colonization which differ form Baroque Architecture in the form of facade and the decoration of facade. Secondly, the facade of the street houses in Sinhua reflects the epitome of the development of Taiwan street houses during the middle and the later stages of Japanese colonization. The characteristics of facade alos combine the characteristics of Chinese tradition and foreign culture, reflecting the fusion of local and foreign cultures. Keywords: Sinhua, Street House, the characteristics of facade, old streets, Baroque Architecture
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kuan-chieh, Chen, and 甄冠傑. "A Comparative Study of Household Adjustments on Flooding- Dongshih and Sinhua Township in Taiwan." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60924257059790072431.
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碩士長榮大學
土地管理與開發學系碩士班
98
The research examines the effects of hazard experience and risk perceptions on household flooding adjustments; more specifically, it studies whether and how household adopts adjustment after flood struck the community.Flooding is one of the most common natural hazards in Taiwan.When it strikes, household is the basic social unit influenced.Therefore, a better understanding on how hazard experience and risk perception affect households’ adoption of adjustment can buildup a foundation for the authorities to promote better household adjustments, thus reduce disaster losses effectively. This study merged household adjustment databases of two surveys to local communities, which includes Dongshih and Sinhua townships. The former suffered in floods on July 2nd, 2004, while the latter did not experience flooding in recent years.The study finds households change their adjustment activities according to recent flooding evnets.Dongshih’s citizens are more likely to participate public preventive activities.People at Sinhua did not have hazard experience, would prefer physical changes, behavioral modifications, and stock precautionary goods.Besides, households suffered from physical and vital injuries in Dongshih are more likely to adopt physical adjustments, modify personal behaviors, and stock needed materials.However, those who sought sheltering in Sinhua are more likely to participate in preventative activities.In these two communities, households who perceive higher risks are expected to adopt more adjustments. This study suggests that the authorities should offer various incentives to communities with and without previous disaster hits.It can encourage them to understand the threats they face, eventually they will realize the importance of hazard adjustments.For communities with hazard experiences, the authorities should mount extensive precautionary campaign and emphasize safety education for the public to portrait a clearer idea of adjustments.On the other hand, for those without such experiences, precautionary activities should be held to raise better understandings about potential threats.