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Hopkins, John. "The Floating World." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302255.
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Best, Karen. "A FLOATING WORLD: STORIES." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2070.
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A Floating World is a collection of short stories inspired by fairy tales. Often set in worlds where the mundane and the fantastic come together, these stories explore moments of strangeness that slip beyond the bounds of realist fiction. Fantastical events intrude into mundane reality as characters attempt to reconcile the known with the unknowable.M.F.A.
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Nelson-McDermott, Catherine A. "Pictures of a floating world, relocating Bloomsbury." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq21611.pdf.
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Dicken, Mary. "George Rochberg’s Ukiyo-e (Pictures of the Floating World)." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1146856287.
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Rippey, John. "Woodblock Sonnets and Floating World : reflections on writing 'Woodblock Sonnets'." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.656335.
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This essay explores the writing of "Woodblock Sonnets," a poem composed of fifty-six sonnet stanzas. The essay represents a sustained enquiry into this poem's development, from its first inchoate sources and urges, to realization through shape, structure, and artifice. The development of the poem is tracked in five central writing concerns: content, language, form, time, and universality. In each concern, "Woodblock Sonnets" is observed to evolve, over the course of the writing, from more latent and intuitive versions into more manifest and deliberated ones. The poem emerges as creation of inspiration and labor, as both a spontaneously occurring phenomenon and a crafted object. In order to explore the reason of poetry, the accounts of this evolving search for significances are extended into consideration of the advantages which specific poetic practices - image, ekphrasis, rhyme, the sonnet form, and so on - provide a poem. "Woodblock Sonnets" possesses a cross-cultural nature, and the essay explores the poem's unusual fusing of Eastern and Western idioms and sensibilities, as well. "Woodblock Sonnets," the conclusion suggests, takes up the intrinsic interconnectedness of lives - natural and human, past and present, and especially our own lives and those of others, in dimensions that range from the personal to the cultural. The poem demonstrates a primary interest in revealing and interpreting relationships. Poetry, in general, is conceived as an opportunity for fusing the figurative and literal.
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Callan, Tim. "International transmission of economic disturbances : modelling small countries in a floating rate world." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305669.
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Rosenow, Cecilia L. "Pictures of the floating world : American modernist poetry and cultural translations of Japan /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3055709.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-199). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Sugiyama, Rose Yukiko. "Espacialidades narrativas: uma leitura de An Artist of the Floating World de Kazuo Ishiguro." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-18112009-163255/.
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Nesta dissertação, o exame de An Artist of the Floating World, de Kazuo Ishiguro, adota a espacialidade como vetor interpretativo do romance. Ao considerarmos o espaço como um dado estruturante sobre o qual outros elementos narrativos se apóiam e se desenvolvem, apontamos alguns modos de tratamento do espaço na literatura para verificar as formas de sua consecução na obra. Embora o processo de rememoração do narrador protagonista envolva diferentes camadas temporais e espaciais, observamos a existência de um espaço primordial, a partir do qual todos os demais espaços são desdobrados, atuando como uma fonte de sentidos para as experiências vividas pelo protagonista. Pautada por sobreposições espaciais cujas camadas estabelecem relações de complementaridade, a narrativa cria um adensamento na significação dos eventos, dos conflitos e dos papéis vividos pelos personagens. Por meio de tais relações e na perspectiva das considerações críticas de Luis A. Brandão, Georges Poulet e Michel Foucault, buscamos analisar o espaço que rege este romance em suas funções e características heterotópicas.This dissertation examines An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro through the category of space. Spatiality is considered a structuring element over which other narrative aspects develop. Some literary ways of space treatment are pointed out in order to verify how they function in this novel. The existence of a primordial space, through which all the other narrative spaces are unfolded, is observed as a source of meanings for the protagonists experiences, even though his process of remembrance implies different levels of time and space. Oriented by spatial superposition, whose levels establish complementary relations, the narrative creates a density of meanings, conflicts, and characters roles. Scrutinizing these relations and considering the critical approaches presented by Luis A. Brandão, Georges Poulet, and Michel Foucault, this dissertation analyses the space that rules this novel in its role and heterotopic features.
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Maggs, David. "Artists of the floating world : rethinking art/sustainability relations in the late days of modernity." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46995.
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This research is an attempt to reroute art-sustainability relations through the metaphysical juncture of Modernism’s fading dichotomies, i.e. fact-value, subject-object, culture-nature. For many this relationship has fallen short, particularly in the form of infocentric, instrumental engagements aimed at behaviour change. But if we read sustainability as a problem of worldview and artistic agency as ontological in nature, might something more promising emerge? To explore this, four artists were commissioned to produce work in response to an analysis of sustainability built around Bruno Latour’s ‘Modern Constitution’. The interests were twofold, to investigate the challenge of engaging art’s ‘ontological agency’ in light of prior art-sustainability frustrations; and to explore practical and ontological dimensions of operating ‘beyond’ the dichotomies of Modernity.
The first interest concerns the prescriptive challenge of artistic agency—how do we ‘use’ art? Outcomes include the following explorations: A distinction between art’s behavioral and ontological agencies; a proposed category of ‘artistic ontologists’ to house scholarship aligning ontological agency with aesthetic, expressive, and imaginative priorities; a view of art as ‘double agent’, necessarily ‘of’ and ‘against’ encompassing rationalities; and the argument that a healthy view of art is fundamentally epistemological, a means to learn not teach.
Regarding a ‘post’ Modern or ‘post-normal’ world, this research proposes to shift sustainability from the well-worn challenge to prove the world real to the more perplexing challenge to prove the world imaginary. This entails a shift from ‘substantive’ approaches to sustainability (facts drive values) to ‘procedural’ approaches, where sustainability emerges from the interactions of immanent human and non-human agencies. Practical concerns include structuring emergent dynamics within collective processes and shifting expertise accordingly. Ontological dimensions explore particular ‘qualities of immanence’ that might shape our imaginings in fruitful ways, while pursuing a genuine exit from Modernity nonetheless. Building on Mike Hulme’s arguments, I suggest sustainability in an imaginary world involves ‘flipping the sustainability predicate’, turning a problem we are trying to solve into one that solves us. This engages John Robinson’s work on ‘regenerative sustainability’ by arguing that regenerative approaches may not only be more compelling, but increasingly in line with emerging logics of a post-normal world.
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Park, Chung Hoon. "Ode to the Temple of Sound, Floating World-Ukiyo and Meditation on Zeami: An Analysis of Three Works by Alan Hovhaness." Scholarly Repository, 2008. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/98.
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This essay, through a thorough examination of primary and secondary sources, presents analyses of three orchestral works from Hovhaness' "fourth-period," a period of time spanning approximately ten years, from 1960 to 1970. This essay focuses on three works from this period: Meditation on Zeami, Floating World, and Ode to the Temple of Sound, written in 1963, 1964 and 1965, respectively. This essay gathers information from various primary and secondary sources in order to provide performers who are preparing works from this period with a single source of information, bringing clarity to theoretical and musicological problems. Analyses of this sort are made all the more necessary by the fact that there are currently no extant recordings of any of the works being studied here, and that two of the works, Meditation on Zeami and Floating World, have never been commercially recorded. Without an aural precedent and guide to follow, analyses of these musics will be a welcome resource for the conductor preparing a performance.
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Chiu, Hsiao-Chiao. "An island of the floating world : kinship, rituals, and political-economic change in post-Cold War Jinmen." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3472/.
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During the Cold War era, the island of Jinmen was the frontline of the Republic of China in its military standoff with the People’s Republic of China. From 1949 to 1992, the life of the islanders was profoundly disturbed and altered by wars and militarization generated by the bipolar politics. Despite this, the localized patrilineages dating from imperial times remain central to the organization of local social life. Grounded on fifteen months of fieldwork in a patrilineal community, this dissertation demonstrates the significant roles of kinship and kinship-related rituals in sustaining the local social fabric through turmoil and uncertainty during and after the Cold War. The first part of this thesis focuses on lineage ancestral sacrifices, domestic worship, and funerals. The continuation of rituals that sustain patterns of interpersonal relationships is argued to constitute a means of negating the destruction of social order experienced in the period of military control and conflict. Yet, against the background of these ritual continuities, the thesis also examines how they have been adapted to shifting circumstances, such as the involvement of military and political authorities in folk ritual practices as a means for securing their legitimacy, and the material changes in rituals that have accompanied rapid commercialization from the 1990s. The second part focuses on the impact of the Cold War on local political and economic life and state-society relations. Despite some salient changes, the ways that people define their social roles and relate to one another are shown to have remained largely framed by values and morals from the sphere of kinship. Kinship therefore actually continues to constitute a distinctive feature of the local political-economic structure, countering an often-seen formula assuming causal relations between the dramatic political-economic changes and the declining role of kinship or “traditional” values in orienting people’s life and action.
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Murray, Philippa, and pmurray@swin edu au. "The Floating World - An investigation into illustrative and decorative art practices and theory in print media and animation." RMIT University. Arts and Culture, 2006. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080506.143949.
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Considered under the theme 'The Floating World', the aim of this research project was to create a written exegesis and a series of artworks, primarily in the form of digital animation and illustration, which investigate decorative and illustrative art practices and their historical lineages. Particular emphasis was given to investigating the links between contemporary decorative/illustrative art practice and the aesthetics and psychology of the Edo period in Japan (C17th - C19th), in which the term 'The Floating World' was used to describe the city of Edo (old Tokyo). The writing concerned with The Floating World is comprised of the following chapters: history; concepts; aesthetics; contemporary adaptations of Ukiyo-e; and gothic romance and associated genres. The outcomes of my Masters program represent a sustained exploration of decorative and illustrative art practice and theory, and incorporate experimentation with associated genres such as magic realism, gothic romance, the uncanny, iconography, surrealism and other metaphorical and abstract representational practices. More broadly, my Masters project is an investigation, both theoretical and practical, into the way drawing and illustration have been a process through which to (literally) give shape to hopes and fears, and to describe understandings of self and the world. I am particularly interested in exploring how, through the act of abstraction and the use of metaphor and decoration, a capacity to 'speak the unspeakable' and 'know the unknowable' are somehow enabled. For example, when contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami decorates Edo-inspired screens with a colourful arrangement of morphing cartoon mushrooms, he conjures up a startling and complex poetic space that juxtaposes traditional Japanese aesthetics and philosophy with the hyper-consumerist characters and ethos of Disneyland, as well as disquieting references to the mushroom bombs that dropped down on Hiroshima and Nagasaki from US planes. A similarly complex space is enacted by contemporary US artist Inka Essenhigh: her oversized canvases seem like sublime Japanese-inspired screens but a closer inspection reveals that the decorative motifs are actually dismembered body parts morphed together to create a savage and compelling metaphor for contemporary America that is all the more disarming for being perf ormed in a seemingly innocuous illustrative style. My research will draw on these examples but will endeavour to create a series of artworks that are particular to an Australian context. This interests me particularly in a time when, as a nation, we appear to be confounded about what it means to be Australian: as a contemporary artist I am interested in how we represent ourselves as a nation, and in exploring the motifs and attributes that we consider to be ours.
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Sawada, Keiji. "From The floating world to The 7 stages of grieving the presentation of contemporary Australian plays in Japan /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/13213.
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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Society, Culture, Media & Philosophy, Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, 2005.Bibliography: p. 274-291.
Introduction -- The emergence of "honyakugeki" -- Shôgekijô and the quest for national identity -- "Honyakugeki" after the rise of Shôgekijô -- The presentation of Australian plays as "honyakugeki" -- Representations of Aborigines in Japan -- Minorities in Japan and theatre -- The Japanese productions of translated Aboriginal plays -- Significance of the productions of Aboriginal plays in Japan -- Conclusion.
Many Australian plays have been presented in Japan since the middle of the 1990s. This thesis demonstrates that in presenting Australian plays the Japanese Theatre has not only attempted to represent an aspect of Australian culture, but has also necessarily revealed aspects of Japanese culture. This thesis demonstrates that understanding this process is only fully possible when the particular cultural function of 'translated plays' in the Japanese cultural context is established. In order to demonstrate this point the thesis surveys the history of so-called 'honyakugeki' (translated plays) in the Japanese Theatre and relates them to the production of Western plays to ideas and processes of modernisation in Japan. -- Part one of the thesis demonstrates in particular that it was the alternative Theatre movement of the 1960s and 1970s which liberated 'honyakugeki' from the issue of 'authenticity'. The thesis also demonstrates that in this respect the Japanese alternative theatre and the Australian alternative theatre of the same period have important connections to the quest for 'national identity'. Part one of the thesis also demonstrates that the Japanese productions of Australian plays such as The Floating World, Diving for Pearls and Honour reflected in specific ways this history and controversy over 'honyakugeki'. Furthermore, these productions can be analysed to reveal peculiarly Japanese issues especially concerning the lack of understanding of Australian culture in Japan and the absence of politics from the Japanese contemporary theatre. -- Part two of the thesis concentrates on the production of translations of the Australian Aboriginal plays Stolen and The 7 Stages of Grieving. 'This part of the thesis demonstrates that the presentation of these texts opened a new chapter in the history of presenting 'honyakugeki' in Japan. It demonstrates that the Japanese theatre had to confront the issue of 'authenticity' once more, but in a radically new way. The thesis also demonstrates that the impact of these productions in Japan had a particular Japanese cultural and social impact, reflecting large issues about the issue of minorities and indigenous people in Japan and about the possibilities of theatre for minorities. In particular the thesis demonstrates that these representations of Aborigines introduced a new image of Australian Aborigines to that which was dominant amongst Japanese anthropologists.
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Sakai, Junko. "Narrating our cultures in the floating world : working lives in Japanese banks in the City of London since the 1970s." Thesis, University of Essex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361015.
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Johansson, Monique. "The Colonizer and the Colonized in Kazuo Ishiguro's Novels, An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-18228.
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This essay investigates the colonized self in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day, by analyzing the novels from a postcolonial perspective. Furthermore, it discusses how and why Masuji Ono and Mr. Stevens are affected by Japanese imperialism and British colonialism. Through a close reading of the novels, this essay argues that the protagonists are ‘colonized’ by their own countries, and eventually also ‘imperialized,’ or influenced, by America following the Second World War. Ono is ‘colonized’ by his colleague Matsuda, while Mr. Stevens is ‘colonized’ by his employer, Mr. Darlington. Later on, they are both ‘imperialized’ through the American occupation and influence.
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Haft, Alfred. "Patterns of correspondence between the floating world and the classical tradition : a study of the terms Mitate, Yatsushi and FuÌ?ryuÌ? in the context of Ukiyo-e." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417910.
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Tahir, Muhammad Naveed. "Essays on Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy in a Globalized World." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO22025/document.
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L’objectif de cette thèse est d’analyser l’effet de la globalisation sur la dynamique de l’inflation et sur la politique monétaire dans un monde de globalisation. Cette thèse porte 3 chapitres :Dans le premier chapitre, nous nous intéressons à l’impact de la globalisation financière sur le comportement du ciblage d’inflation dans les pays émergents, avec une attention particulière portée au taux de change : la Banque centrale répond-elle aux mouvements du taux de change ? Nous nous sommes basés sur des données trimestrielles de six pays émergents qui pratiquent la politique de ciblage d’inflation, depuis la date de l’adoption de cette dernière, jusqu’au dernier trimestre 2009 (2009 Q4). L’étude se base sur un modèle de petite économie ouverte néo-Keynésien à la Gali et Monacelli (2005). Nous utilisons un estimateur GMM à équations multiples pour analyser la relation. Les résultats nous montrent que la réponse de la Banque Centrale au taux de change est statistiquement significatif dans le cas du Brésil, du Chili, du Mexique et de la Thaïlande. En revanche, elle ne l’est pas pour la Corée ni pour la République Tchèque. Théoriquement, le résultat ne devrait pas être significatif même avec un ciblage d’inflation flexible où la banque centrale répond aux écarts d’inflation et de production.Nous pensons que les caractéristiques particulières des pays émergents, telles que la peur du flottement “fear of floating”, le manque de développement du système financier ainsi qu’un manque de crédibilité de la banque centrale, expliquent cette préoccupation des banque centrales pour les variations de change. Dans le deuxième chapitre, nous étudions d’une façon empirique l’importance relative des canaux de transmission de la politique monétaire pour le Brésil, le Chili et la Corée. Cette partie se base sur des données mensuelles depuis l’adoption du ciblage d’inflation jusqu’à décembre 2009 (2009 M12). Nous utilisons un modèle SVAR, en incorporant les principaux canaux de transmission monétaire simultanément au lieu de les considérer séparément. Les résultats empiriques indiquent que le canal de taux de change ainsi que canal du prix des actifs ont une importance relativement plus élevée que le canal du taux d’intérêt traditionnel ou le canal du crédit pour la production industrielle. Les résultats sont très différents dans le cas de l’inflation, à l’exception de la Corée. Le classement élevé canal du taux de change et du canal du prix des actifs correspondent aux résultats de Gudmundsson (2007) : le canal du taux de change pourrait avoir pris une importance grandissante avec la développement de la globalisation financière.Dans le troisième chapitre, nous étudions empiriquement le rôle de l’ouverture - réelle et financière - sur la dynamique de l’inflation au Brésil, Chile en Corée du Sud. L’étude se base sur des données mensuelles, depuis l’adoption du ciblage d’inflation jusqu’à décembre 2009. Dans ce dernier chapitre, nous utilisons méthode de moments généralisée (GMM). Le ratio Importation sur PIB est considéré comme étant l’indicateur de l’ouverture réelle. En ce qui concerne l’ouverture financière, nous considérons alternativement l’indice de Chinn et Ito (KAOPEN) mesurant le degré de libéralisation des opérations sur le compte financier, et l’indicateur proposé per Lane et Milesi-Ferreti (2009).Nous concluons dans ce chapitre qu’il existe en général une relation positive entre l’ouverture réelle et l’inflation. En ce qui concerne l’ouverture financière, les résultats sont moins tranchés et dépendent largement de l’indicateur utilisé pour mesurer l’ouverture financièreThe aim of this thesis is to analyze the impact of globalization on the dynamics of inflation and monetary policy in a globalized world. It consists of three essays.In the first essay we investigate the impact of financial globalization on the behaviour of inflation targeting emerging market economies with respect to exchange rate – Do central banks respond to exchange rate movements or not? We use quarterly data for six emerging market inflation targeting economies from the date of their inflation targeting adoption to 2009 Q4. The chapter uses small open economy new Keynesian model à la Gali and Monacelli (2005), and employs multi-equation GMM technique to investigate the relationship. We find that the response of central bank to the exchange rate in case of Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Thailand is statistically significant while insignificant for Korea and Czech Republic. Theoretically, it should not be so as even under flexible inflation targeting central bank responds to inflation deviation and output gap; we think that the peculiar characteristics of emerging markets, like fear of floating, weak financial system and low level of central bank credibility make exchange rate important for these economies. In the second essay we investigate empirically the relative importance of monetary transmission channels for Brazil, Chile and Korea. This chapter uses monthly data from the inception of inflation targeting regime to 2009 M12. We use a SVAR model incorporating the main monetary transmission channels combined together instead of individual channels in isolation. The empirical results indicate that the exchange rate channel and the share price channel have higher relative importance than the traditional interest rate and credit channel for industrial production. The results are not much different in case of inflation, except for Korea. The high ranking of exchange rate and share price channel is in line with the results by Gudmundsson (2007), which finds that exchange rate channel might have overburdened in the wake of financial globalization.In the third chapter we investigate empirically the role of openness – real and financial – on the inflation dynamics of Brazil, Chile and Korea. The chapter uses monthly data from the inception of inflation targeting regime to the end month of 2009. In this chapter we employ the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) technique. We use imports to GDP ratio as an indicator for real openness whereas Chinn and Ito index (KAOPEN) and total assets plus total liabilities to GDP ratio form the data set of Lane and Milesi-Ferretti are two proxies for financial openness. The chapter concludes that there exists, generally, a positive relationship between real openness and inflation. However, in case of financial globalization the results are inconclusive as they are sensitive to measurement method of financial globalization
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May, William H. IV. "Long Walk in Flight School." VCU Scholars Compass, 2005. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1454.
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Long Walk in Flight School is a document intended to complement a body of artwork that includes photographs, giclee prints, animation, and a twenty two page book of images. The main focus of the text is to discuss two types of exchange; my energy with tools in exchange for an object or event, which is then exchanged in the imagination of the audience for something else, a hybrid thing. These exchanges are part of the performance or presentation of the work. Beginning with a brief description of intent at the start of graduate school, it traces my development as an artist over a two year period, highlighting shifts in my thinking and activity during that time. Finally, it describes my thesis artwork as a set of potential narratives that are conceptually related but visually diverse.
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El, Moussawi Ali Hassan. "SIMD-aware word length optimization for floating-point to fixed-point conversion targeting embedded processors." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016REN1S150/document.
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Afin de limiter leur coût et/ou leur consommation électrique, certains processeurs embarqués sacrifient le support matériel de l'arithmétique à virgule flottante. Pourtant, pour des raisons de simplicité, les applications sont généralement spécifiées en utilisant l'arithmétique à virgule flottante. Porter ces applications sur des processeurs embarqués de ce genre nécessite une émulation logicielle de l'arithmétique à virgule flottante, qui peut sévèrement dégrader la performance. Pour éviter cela, l'application est converti pour utiliser l'arithmétique à virgule fixe, qui a l'avantage d'être plus efficace à implémenter sur des unités de calcul entier. La conversion de virgule flottante en virgule fixe est une procédure délicate qui implique des compromis subtils entre performance et précision de calcul. Elle permet, entre autre, de réduire la taille des données pour le coût de dégrader la précision de calcul. Par ailleurs, la plupart de ces processeurs fournissent un support pour le calcul vectoriel de type SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) afin d'améliorer la performance. En effet, cela permet l'exécution d'une opération sur plusieurs données en parallèle, réduisant ainsi le temps d'exécution. Cependant, il est généralement nécessaire de transformer l'application pour exploiter les unités de calcul vectoriel. Cette transformation de vectorisation est sensible à la taille des données ; plus leurs tailles diminuent, plus le taux de vectorisation augmente. Il apparaît donc un compromis entre vectorisation et précision de calcul. Plusieurs travaux ont proposé des méthodologies permettant, d'une part la conversion automatique de virgule flottante en virgule fixe, et d'autre part la vectorisation automatique. Dans l'état de l'art, ces deux transformations sont considérées indépendamment, pourtant elles sont fortement liées. Dans ce contexte, nous étudions la relation entre ces deux transformations, dans le but d'exploiter efficacement le compromis entre performance et précision de calcul. Ainsi, nous proposons d'abord un algorithme amélioré pour l'extraction de parallélisme SLP (Superword Level Parallelism ; une technique de vectorisation). Puis, nous proposons une nouvelle méthodologie permettant l'application conjointe de la conversion de virgule flottante en virgule fixe et de l'exploitation du SLP. Enfin, nous implémentons cette approche sous forme d'un flot de compilation source-à-source complètement automatisé, afin de valider ces travaux. Les résultats montrent l'efficacité de cette approche, dans l'exploitation du compromis entre performance et précision, vis-à-vis d'une approche classique considérant ces deux transformations indépendammentIn order to cut-down their cost and/or their power consumption, many embedded processors do not provide hardware support for floating-point arithmetic. However, applications in many domains, such as signal processing, are generally specified using floating-point arithmetic for the sake of simplicity. Porting these applications on such embedded processors requires a software emulation of floating-point arithmetic, which can greatly degrade performance. To avoid this, the application is converted to use fixed-point arithmetic instead. Floating-point to fixed-point conversion involves a subtle tradeoff between performance and precision ; it enables the use of narrower data word lengths at the cost of degrading the computation accuracy. Besides, most embedded processors provide support for SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) as a mean to improve performance. In fact, this allows the execution of one operation on multiple data in parallel, thus ultimately reducing the execution time. However, the application should usually be transformed in order to take advantage of the SIMD instruction set. This transformation, known as Simdization, is affected by the data word lengths ; narrower word lengths enable a higher SIMD parallelism rate. Hence the tradeoff between precision and Simdization. Many existing work aimed at provide/improving methodologies for automatic floating-point to fixed-point conversion on the one side, and Simdization on the other. In the state-of-the-art, both transformations are considered separately even though they are strongly related. In this context, we study the interactions between these transformations in order to better exploit the performance/accuracy tradeoff. First, we propose an improved SLP (Superword Level Parallelism) extraction (an Simdization technique) algorithm. Then, we propose a new methodology to jointly perform floating-point to fixed-point conversion and SLP extraction. Finally, we implement this work as a fully automated source-to-source compiler flow. Experimental results, targeting four different embedded processors, show the validity of our approach in efficiently exploiting the performance/accuracy tradeoff compared to a typical approach, which considers both transformations independently
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Vogt, Magdalena. "Floating Between Two Worlds : Investigating Discourses of Continuity and Change within Akha Educational Practices in Thailand." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-10720.
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As the postmodern view on local perspectives and situated knowledge is becoming increasingly more important, educational issues regarding ethnic minority groups and multicultural aspects of learning are rapidly turning into a major focus throughout the international educational world. Distinct minority cultures and languages are rarely given enough attention within formal school settings. Instead national languages and curriculum are mandatory, leaving minority students confused and at a disadvantage. The Akha people of Northern Thailand find themselves sharing these minority struggles and this paper sets out to explore issues of continuity and change within Akha discourses from an educational perspective.
Eight semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with individuals from the Akha minority group in regards to their views on education. The aim was to analyze how their educational discourses were constructed and what perceptions they carried, primarily in relationship to knowledge and learning.
When analyzing the interview material it became evident that the informants’ discourses about education constructed two completely different worlds. Their descriptions of traditional Akha learning in a community setting was distinctly different from how they depicted the mandatory Thai schooling. Conflicts between continuity and change also emerged in the interview material. At the same time as a strong wish for continuity of traditional Akha culture was clearly visible, the interviewees also expressed the necessity to change and adapt to the outside world. This paper, therefore aims to discuss these conflicting discourses in relation to four different aspects of life where education seems to play an essential role for the informants in promoting and preventing changes and continuity: knowledge and learning, social structures, morals and ethics, and cultural identity. It will also be discussed how these discourses construct and impact reality, as well as how perceptions are constructed and reproduced. Furthermore, this paper will also consider how the different issues and conflicts mentioned above could be addressed by a formal Akha school setting.
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Salim, Ahmed. "Evaluation of Word Length Effects on Multistandard Soft Decision Viterbi Decoding." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Elektroniksystem, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-73222.
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There have been proposals of many parity inducing techniques like Forward ErrorCorrection (FEC) which try to cope the problem of channel induced errors to alarge extent if not completely eradicate. The convolutional codes have been widelyidentified to be very efficient among the known channel coding techniques. Theprocess of decoding the convolutionally encoded data stream at the receiving nodecan be quite complex, time consuming and memory inefficient.This thesis outlines the implementation of multistandard soft decision viterbidecoder and word length effects on it. Classic Viterbi algorithm and its variantsoft decision viterbi algorithm, Zero-tail termination and Tail-Biting terminationfor the trellis are discussed. For the final implementation in C language, the "Zero-Tail Termination" approach with soft decision Viterbi decoding is adopted. Thismemory efficient implementation approach is flexible for any code rate and anyconstraint length.The results obtained are compared with MATLAB reference decoder. Simulationresults have been provided which show the performance of the decoderand reveal the interesting trade-off of finite word length with system performance.Such investigation can be very beneficial for the hardware design of communicationsystems. This is of high interest for Viterbi algorithm as convolutional codes havebeen selected in several famous standards like WiMAX, EDGE, IEEE 802.11a,GPRS, WCDMA, GSM, CDMA 2000 and 3GPP-LTE.
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Lee, Mao-Tien, and 李茂田. "Ink-painting Images of Floating World." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/u2g5p9.
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碩士國立臺北藝術大學
美術學系碩士在職專班
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After Industrial Revolution, thinking and feeling of human beings had been jumping over the traditional agricultural stage gradually. Moreover, multi-culture and high-variation for the modern time also influenced the thinking and feeling of people, on both direct and indirect ways. People are eager pursuing unlimited material desire, resulting to loneliness, sadness, boringness, high-pressure, life blank and anxiety. To express this reflection to the change of environment, I am trying to have my Ink-Painting to image this contemporary feeling and thinking. In the first chapter of introduction, main concepts were mentioned, including motivation, purpose, category, and methods. The second chapter is about the construction of main theme, the analysis of theory, and the foundation of Ink-Painting. I compared my own concepts under traditional and modern times, which concluded this creation melting from traditional development and contemporary personal style. Chapter three contents is the analysis of Floating-Life, integrating the contemporary thought into ink painting, trying to turn over the traditional idea. Fourth chapter contents the techniques of creation, pursuing luxurious Floating-life but enslaving by the materials.mainly being illustrated by special marks, styles, intermediary material on , symbols and color choose. Final chapter five is the conclusion, summarizing the result of this study do no only image the surface of human floating-life, but also exposed problems and future in-depth prospects are also disclosed in this Chapter 5.
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Wu, Chia-chun, and 吳佳純. "Counterfeit Reminiscence: Nostalgia in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Floating World." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/j42y64.
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碩士國立彰化師範大學
英語學系
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Unreliable first-person narrators and a great amount of recollection are, almost without exception, essential in Ishiguro’s oeuvre. Critics have studied these from varied perspectives such as psychoanalysis, postmodernism, narrative theory, or cultural studies. Nevertheless, the concept of nostalgia has usually been neglected or underestimated by those criticisms. It is not until recent decades that the concept of nostalgia has attracted the attention of theorists turning nostalgia into much more than merely thinking about a lost home. Drawing from this developing theoretical field, I would like to underline the significance of nostalgia in two Ishiguro novels and argue that the author’s famously idiosyncratic writing style could be tackled from a new perspective of nostalgia. The thesis herein aims to examine how An Artist of the Floating World and Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall exemplify nostalgia’s existential functions and characteristics of retrospection and prospection. This thesis anticipates and seeks to further promote the idea that a new spark of reading Ishiguro’s works may come up.
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Dong, Wen-lin, and 董文琳. "Authorities and Conflicts in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89684994796610211266.
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碩士國立中山大學
外國語文學系研究所
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Adopting historical perspectives, this thesis explores domestic, aesthetic, and cultural conflicts in modern Japan surrounding Masuji Ono, the protagonist in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World, as he looks back on his past. His memory narrative reveals his transformation from an iconoclastic young artist to a militarist propagandist in pre-war time, and finally to an old man who comes to terms with the loss of his prestige through none too reliable remembrances. Reading Ono’s narrative in cross reference to historical texts, I argue that his transformation is in step with Japan’s shift from a thriving nation to a militarist empire, and ultimately to a defeated nation subject to the Occupation after World War II and subsequent social changes. These changes are induced by democratization and disarmament engineered by the American army, which drastically undermine Japanese values, including the apotheosis of the Emperor, patriarchy, and social hierarchy. Forced to redefine themselves in the midst of the drastic social transformation, the Japanese harbor mixed feelings toward the emperor, regarding him as a guardian of the nation and a traitor. This ambivalence is profoundly felt by Ono, whose fall parallels the emperor’s, since his authority as a father and a painting master is interrogated by the younger generation, most notably his daughter. In particular, his interaction with his grandson, who is brought up with American values, registers the Japanese attitudes toward the American, considering the occupier as both a welcomed authority and an alien monster. By examining three prominent authority figures in the novel—father, master, and monster—this thesis uncovers Ishiguro’s agenda for negotiating an interface between history and personal memory.
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HONG, YI-YONG, and 洪義勇. "Floating Island-The Mind World Of Hong Yi-Yong's Ink Painting Creation." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88gvvk.
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碩士東海大學
美術學系
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“Floating Island ”is derived from my fascination of garden thoughts and artistic conception in landscape painting , as well as a reflection of my mind. I started with the questions of learning landscape painting, and tried to solve the uncertainty and make a creative way to get the freedom from the fun. The artist statement is mainly divided into five chapters, the first chapter is the elaboration of the creative motivation and purpose, and the literature background of creative philosophy. The second chapter deals with the thoughts and concepts covered in the works: it talks about "writing consciousness", “reckon blank as inked" and "deconstruction point of view” .From the point of view of the writing consciousness of calligraphy, it attempts to preserve the emotional state of the same origin of calligraphy and painting in landscape painting. In the curiosity of “reckon blank as inked" ,it is the theme of “blankness", from the virtual reality of the space to link the Tai Chi (light and shade of black-and-white) and the spirit in a continuous interweaving manner in space and void-and-solid, and form a continuous and moving picture. In addition, from the perspective of deconstruction, it is necessary to clarify what is mobile viewpoint, and then achieve a great comfort in the construction. The third chapter explains the form of self-creation, through the landscape of clothes folding, the use of brush and ink, and the coloring of ink. This paper discusses the transformation from the form of clothes folding to the formation of a landscape, and uses brush and ink to achieve imagery. On the color matching methods of color and ink, it discusses the application of color in the painting of the landscape in light ochre, Chiang Chao-shen and Chen Ping, and then develops the concept of color and ink balance and arbitrariness of the extrinsic color matching. The fourth chapter is the reason of the connotation of the works: floating island is derived from the personnel floating- the contradiction between reality and unreality. And drawing the landscape garden on the paper becomes the escaped world of the mind. Finally, I solved many questions of landscape painting and moved toward a state of creative freedom. The fifth chapter is the conclusion, and the trajectory of self-learning and thoughts in the creative process. Key words: Floating Island , Writing Consciousness , Clothes Folding , Reverse Viewpoints , The World Of Mind, Rhetoric.
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Liu, Chun-Hui, and 劉純卉. "Amusement Profile of Floating World —The Creation Discourse of LIU,CHUN-HUI." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53peb6.
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碩士國立臺灣藝術大學
美術學系版畫藝術碩士班
100
“Amusement Profile of Floating World” is the main theme in this research of art creation. The phenomena of modern society were explored and presented on printmaking. This dissertation will not only focus on modern popular culture but also reflect on the life of myself. In addition, the concept of ‘Amusement of Floating World’ was adopted in this research to symbolize the connection of modern culture with regard to the era and the popular culture. There are a variety of popular topics under societal transition that was researched through the observation of people’s daily life and consumption. In other words, the difference between the past and current era was emphasized by means of contemporary perception. The category of fashion was seen as a significant component in this research. Moreover, in order to present the pop culture in the current era a series of artworks were created. By means of collecting various illustrations from public communications such as media, newspapers and magazines, the relationship between the experience and image of people was developed on paper cutting and printmaking. There are five chapters in the discourse. The points are summarized as follows： Chapter I：Introduction describes the motivation and purpose of the research, the scope of the research, research methods, the chart of creation research, and terms interpretation. Chapter II：The main theoretical basis is related to the Pop Art, Ukiyo-e and the artworks of Andy Warhol, Kitagawa Utamaro, and Torii Kiyonaga. The works of contemporary paper cutting artists e.g. Li Huan Zhang, Chen Yan Ting, Rob Ryan, Beatrice Coron, Kara Walker, and Zoe Bradley bring about this research and creation. The main theoretical basis is the sociology of popular culture, iconology, the semiotic of Roland Barthes and psychology of Carl Jung. Chapter III：The practice of creation and the concept of creation -- the creation concept is present pop culture and amusement profile of floating world. The content of creation is performed by the personal life, fashion culture and amusement profile; the form of creation is detailed by shape, composition and color. Chapter IV：Creative works have been divided into four series that are "Pop Culture"," Profile of Floating World ", "Super Models", and "Paradise". Chapter V：Conclusion -- to review the effect of the creation and purpose, It can be seen the integration of sense in the creation process and expectations of self-creation. Keywords: floating world, pop, silhouette, paper cutting
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Yu-Ru, Lee, and 李侑儒. "Floating World Image: Study on Balloon Shaping Imagery Analysis for Poster Design Application." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29778500341578574834.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
美術學系
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By utilizing social news events as wedge, this work attempts to present various situations of life and death we meet nowadays through the form of poster design. The creative theme is composed of three topics respectively: “economy”, “gender” and “food safety”. Touched by the rise of consumer goods prices and similar issues of living expenses, we try to understand how people react to the modern materialistic life and how the economic environment affects human life with its movement. While discussing how people are manipulated and affected in the entire global economic system where they can’t hide from fighting with the problems of basic survival and consumption, we reconsidered and constructed the creative concepts of living expenses and economic issues. “Gender issues” come from the perspective where women are treated as displayed objects and are restricted by the gender ideology of their societies they belong to. In such social environment and media culture today, female body are emphasized and amplified while overall personal qualities are ignored; the slang “business line (cleavage)” is an obvious example. Through these views, we tried to identify the role women play in today’s society and the conflicts between feminism and gender inequality. While looking for the answers, we realized that this may be the contemporary impression of women on the journey of the entire gender development, and we figured out the past examples and contemporary significances of how women are set to be exhibited items and tried to present individual understanding and interpretation with creation. The food safety issue comes at the last. “Food safety” has become the major issue for news about consumption in all media in 2013. The most basic survival condition for human beings, food, is facing unprecedented challenges which endanger our lives. With these events as the core concepts, we generated the interpretation and some creative ideas for food safety. Finally, the core concept of “floating world” was reached through the discussion of the three dimensions and was presented by posters with historical and cultural backgrounds. The work was then further dissected and analyzed for the visual carrier as the main presentation method of the entire creation series. Semiotics is the basic theory for creation analysis, by which we can discuss and organize the visual symbols of works. In the visual presentation of this creation series, “balloon” is the main subject of the concept of “floating world”, and the way they combine all topics and convey the connotation of each topic is also analyzed by semiotics. We tried to use “balloon” as the unified visual element for this series and to develop diverse application modes of balloons through different topics. The overall direction of this research is expected to depict the outline of modern human survival issues. By being presented in the form of poster, we tried to integrate “balloon” with the concepts of the three main issues in order to capture the content of “floating world image” and the way to present it.
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Ching-chih, Wang. "In Search of an Unhomely Home in a Floating World : Strangers in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro." 2005. http://www.cetd.com.tw/ec/thesisdetail.aspx?etdun=U0021-2004200716033226.
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Huang, Tzu-Ying, and 黃孜穎. "Floating on The Kuai-Kuai World and Keep Dreaming Comsciously -A Statement of Tzu Ying Huang Creative Works." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50170790292575342545.
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碩士高雄師範大學
美術學系
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The writer of this paper is trying to reveal her creation development which was governed by an “obey” conception，the fuzzy and transient phenomenon confused and constrained hers painting style for years. Through depth study for the background of “Kuai-Kuai”(obey-conception) for couple years，she learn that is how to face the binary and antagonistic relations and overcome that confuse field which are full of and lust and rare fraud. Finally, she finds out a way for personal development. For this purpose, she records the whole truth story by means of various styles of paintings. The story beginning was happen by a simple memory of a sponge cake. That cake taste sense memory, caused an enlightenment moment in hers young life. She finds out the package paper print a brand image—a rarely human figures, which is full of binary and antagonistic image. The point is that figure’s appearance seems wear two mask. That illusion appearance—mask face, one is a kindly and smile appearance, other is shown an evil eyes which hidden a dark and wolf like subconscious. She slips into those conscious especial “wolf conscious” and then record that discovered by painting. Twofold personality study coursed hers mental serious clash on that time. Therefore, creation process to advance a step always moves in a zigzag and by roundabout ways. To the end, she believes that study way is a necessary, because, dredge up some embarrassing facts about hers past where under a corner on the subconscious, till face the truth self. After that, she find out personal prototype by through writing and reflect on hers discover. Then, she spirit will release from a conscious rope. Finally, the writer, surpass the binary “choosing” and motivation conflict and indicate the natural beauty of ecology thinking perform on hers painting.
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Mack, Ashley N. "Destabilizing science from the right : the rhetoric of heterosexual victimage in the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS controversy." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-05-89.
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In this project, I am interrogating discourse surrounding the 2008 WHO/UNAIDS controversy, which both preceded and followed the publication of an article in the U.K. newspaper The Independent. The article reported that the head of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS initiative admitted that the threat of an AIDS pandemic among heterosexuals was “officially” over. These texts are particularly important for such an endeavor because, as I will argue below, the controversy enables both “AIDS” and “heterosexuality” to operate as floating signifiers whose meanings are contested in public discourse in ways that ultimately reinforce heterosexual privilege and under-attention to the AIDS crisis. In the end, the destabilization of the meaning of HIV/AIDS does not serve emancipatory ends. Although the destabilization of meaning is the emancipatory gesture ‘par excellence’ for the poststructuralist tradition, my investigation shows that the destabilization of meaning in the WHO controversy actually results in the reification of master narratives.text
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Lu, Ang-Wei, and 呂昂衛. "The Function of Art in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World, Never Let Me Go and Nocturnes." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/sub2x4.
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碩士國立中興大學
外國語文學系所
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This thesis adopts the perspective of cultural materialism to examine the operation of art in three of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels: An Artist of the Floating World, Never Let Me Go and Nocturnes. Characters in each novel have their own ways of valuing artworks; this thesis aims to prove that their uses of art follow a routine change from pure art to the social or political practice of art. This change of art comes from the influence of mechanical reproduction and social activity in the cultural field. Under these influences, artworks no longer reflect an artist’s empathy but rather become a product of the cultural structure. This thesis will first use Oscar Wilde’s views to deal with the definition of pure art and the duty of an artist, and then will seek to discover the change of mechanical reproduction in artworks through Walter Benjamin’s concepts, and finally adopt Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts to explore the operation of art in the cultural field. The first chapters examine the meaning of art between clones and humans in Never Let Me Go and how they instrumentalize art for individual purposes through reproduction. The second chapter identifies Ono’s position in floating trends in An Artist of the Floating World and discovers how art operates in the market and artists establish social relations. The third chapter probes the operation of art in Nocturnes to clarify the position of artists, agents and audience in the cultural field, and investigates the relation between people involved in art and the distinction of taste in audience. This thesis will aim to prove that in the consumerist and capitalist age, there is no pure art but only socially and politically constructed art in our society.
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Zbořil, Jonáš. "Umění sebeklamu: nespolehlivý vypravěč a jeho motivace v románech An Artist of the Floating World a The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishigura." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-354151.
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The purpose of this thesis is to analyse unreliable narration and its motivation in the two novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World (1986) and The Remains of the Day (1989) using the taxonomy of Zuzana Fonioková and James Phelan and Mary Patricia Martin. In its theoretical part, this thesis explores the concept of unreliability in contemporary narratology, furthermore, it studies self-deception and memory, two phenomena essential for understanding the motivations for unreliable narration. The practical part consists of an analysis of the textual signals of unreliability, which proves the complexity of Ishiguro's narrative strategies. The thesis concludes that the climax of both the novels is created through the spelling out of the narrators' self-deception, which is the cause of their unreliability in the first place. KEYWORDS Kazuo Ishiguro, unreliable narration, self-deception, memory, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day
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Chang, Chin-Kuan, and 張至寬. "The Water World in the Future: A Study in The Floating Architecture for Adaptation and Symbiosis – A Case Study on ChengLong Village of Yunlin County." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ybt9c6.
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碩士淡江大學
建築學系碩士班
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Abstract: Surrounded by the sea, the southern coastal regions of Taiwan often suffered from the water disasters such as ground subsidence, sea-water intrusion and sea level rise, so it is rather urgent to solve the problems. Under such circumstance, this research attempts to work out a symbiotic and adaptive design strategy (including the architecture and the city) and construction approach to solve the space problem of Taiwan’s southern coastal cities in front of the water disasters. Based on Alexander’s adaptation theory and Kisho Kurokawa’s philosophy of symbiosis, this research sorts out the three mechanisms to respond to the water disasters through the case studies, including amphibious, floating and movable buildings. Besides, the properties of bamboo make it the primary material to cope with the water disasters. Inspired by the project “The Landscape of the Boundary - Material-line” of Sensation”, relevant cases and interviews with the architects, we decide to build a floating architecture of bamboo tectonics. We select ChengLong Village of Yunlin County as the base to approach the study. From the studies on the water disasters occurring at the base, we conducted four different designs on the four timeliness (construction, structure, space and industry), which include: (1) research and analysis of types of local industries; (2) the process of water intrusion and the relationship of space transfer in the urban area after being affected by the water disasters; (3) through the bamboo system of modular matrix, it allows the users to adapt themselves along with the different environments, and thus symbiosis with the nature can be generated through the adaptive architecture. The floating architecture built in the paper can make adaptation and symbiosis according to the different timeliness. For example, it provides the symbiosis between the residents and water disasters in the industries and life; by using the matrix structural system, it makes the space more adaptive; through the bamboo materials that the local people are familiar with and the simple tectonic method, it makes the architectures more applicable to local residents. The subsequent researches cover the replaceability of timeliness in material and structures, as well as the dynamic response of industrial development in front of the time change.
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"An analysis of the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, his biculturalism and his contribution to new internationalism." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/5539.
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M.A.This study was prompted principally by two events: reading Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day (1989), and encountering Pico lyer's Time article "The Empire Writes Back" (1993). lyer argues that the late twentieth century has been witness to an important event in the world of literature: the emergence of a new generation of writers writing in English, but not necessarily originating from British-colonial (or postcolonial) backgrounds. Among the writers lyer mentions are Vikram Seth, Michael Ondaatje, Ben Okri and - most notably - Kazuo Ishiguro. Ishiguro was born in Japan but emigrated with his parents to the United Kingdom at the age of six. This study focuses on his biculturalism and the impact that his mixed upbringing has had on his style and thematic concerns. This forms the principal focus of the first part of the study. The influence of Japanese writers, that of Japanese film and, finally, that of the European literary tradition are looked at in turn. The core of this study is a comparative analysis of Ishiguro's first three novels: A Pale View of Hills (1982), An Artist of the Floating World (1986), and The Remains of the Day (1989). Here certain common pre-occupations are identified and discussed - chiefly, Ishiguro's concern with memory, with constructions of the past, and his use of "unreliable" first-person narrators. It is argued that Ishiguro returns insistently to these thematic concerns in his first three novels, and that they can therefore be seen as constituting a three-part exploration of the notion of memory, of "reconstructing" the past. A separate chapter briefly examines Ishiguro's most recent work, The Unconsoled (1995), in which these themes are once again present, although they are bodied forth in a strikingly different style. The purpose of examining this novel is mainly to illustrate its formal and stylistic divergence from the first three (far more successful) novels - a divergence which in turn serves to throw into relief the thematic integrity of the first three novels. The study concludes by drawing together the discussion of the first three novels before moving on to a consideration of Ishiguro's place in what has become known as "New Internationalism". Here it is argued that Ishiguro's work has important resemblances to that of other writers loosely grouped into this literary movement and that he deserves his place among this illustrious group of writers who are changing the face of world literature written in English.
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Fan, Chih-yen, and 范植硯. "A Comparative Study of Short Word-Length LNS and Floating-Point Number System Arithmetic." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51697844028230269228.
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碩士逢甲大學
資訊工程所
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Arithmetic units are the main components of digital systems for performing the fundamental operations of arithmetic, especially for microprocessors and digital signal processors. When designing arithmetic units, different number systems will result in different architecture, precision, circuit area and delay of the circuits. In this thesis, we compare and analyze these two arithmetic systems, including Floating-Point (FLP), and Logarithmic Number Systems (LNS). We discuss the design methodology of short word length units, including 16-bits, 20-bits, 24-bits, 28-bits and 32-bits adder, subtraction, multiplier, and divider. Among of LNS’s adder and subtraction, at different word-length we will use different architecture. And according to our estimate it narrowly, we will use three architectures to implement the circuits. At short word length units, the addition and subtraction in LNS arithmetic require the computation of the functions and , which is usually performed by table-lookup operation. But as the word length of the LNS number increases, LNS arithmetic is the exponential increase of this table size. In order to reduce the hardware cost for computing these two functions, at 32-bits, we use a computational approach to approximate the value of Look-Up Table, and solving the large lookup table problem in large word-length LNS addition/subtraction. Using hardware description language, we implement these arithmetic units of the two different number systems in different word lengths, and we synthesis the arithmetic units using Synopsys Design Analyzer with 0.18μ CMOS process technology offered by UMC. These circuits are implemented on the Xilinx Virtex II multimedia FF896 development board, as a co-processor to the Microblaze processor, through the FSL communication link. Final, from the synthesis and simulation results, we can compare and analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of these two number systems, which can be used as a guideline for design engineers in deciding when LNS arithmetic can be adopted for efficient digital system design.
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Liu, Chih-Hsiang, and 劉志祥. "A Comparative Study of Short Word-Length Fixed-Point, Floating-Point, and LNS Arithmetic Units." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37411064866379001880.
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碩士逢甲大學
資訊工程所
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Arithmetic units are the main components of digital systems for performing the fundamental operations of arithmetic, especially for microprocessors and digital signal processors. When designing arithmetic units, different number systems will result in different architecture, precision, circuit area, delay, and power consumption of the circuits. In this thesis, we compare and analyze these different arithmetic systems, including Fixed-Point (FXP), Floating-Point (FLP), and Logarithmic Number Systems (LNS). We discuss the design methodology of short word length units, including 12-bits, 16-bits, and 20-bits adder, subtractor, multipilier, and divider. We also proposed a novel LNS adder/subtractor architecture, which makes use of the lookup of subtraction to perform LNS addition. This novel architecture can further reduce the size of lookup table. Using hardware description language, we implement these arithmetic units of the three different number systems in different word lengths, and we synthesis the arithmetic units using Synopsys Design Analyzer with 0.18μ CMOS process technology offered by UMC. Based on gate level switching activity, we perform gate level simulations and power simulations using ModelSim and PrimePower to compare and analyze the power consumption of these arithmetic units. Moreover, we discuss how to design the arithmetic units of RGB to CIELAB color coordinate transformation using FXP and LNS arithmetic as the example for the application of our analysis results.