Thèses : « War of recognition »

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Coggins, Bridget L. « Secession, recognition & ; the international politics of statehood ». Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1154013298.

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Garbett, Claire Joyce. « War and its witnesses : International criminal justice and the legal recognition of civilian victims ». Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514287.

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Tognini, Melinda. « A struggle for recognition : the War Widows' Guild in Western Australia 1946-1975 ; and, Exegesis : Researching and writing an organisational history ». Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2012. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/486.

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This thesis comprises an organisational history of the War Widow' Guild Australia WA Inc., and an essay about the research and writing process I undertook to construct such a history. The history outlines the development, struggles and achievements of the War Widows’ Guild in Western Australia from 1946 to 1975. While many were celebrating the end of the war in 1945, thousands of war widows faced an uncertain future without their husbands. Although Prime Minister John Curtin addressed the issue of war widows' pensions as part of his Post War Reconstruction initiatives, the pension was well below the basic wage. Many war widows, especially those with small children to support, now lived in near poverty. It was under these circumstances, that Mrs Jessie Mary Vasey, the widow of Major-General George Alan Vasey, established the War Widows' Craft Guild, first in Victoria in November 1945, and then in other states. In Western Australia, the Guild held its first meeting on 29 November 1946. During the early years, members undertook training in weaving and various crafts to supplement their meagre pensions. The Guild also opened tearooms on the Esplanade in Perth, as a form of income and as a central meeting place. For many war widows it was in meeting together that they found support from others who understood their own experiences of grief and loss. At a state and national level, the Guild became a powerful lobby group on behalf of all war widows influencing the government on issues such as accrued recreation leave, pensions, educational benefits and health care. Many of the pensions and benefits war widows receive today are largely due to the work of the early members of this organisation. These women fought for public recognition and expression of their loss. They fought to have war widows' pensions seen as compensation for their husband's lives rather a government handout. They persevered when the organisation faced hurdles, and fought for their rights at a time when men had the louder voices and determined the rules. The essay outlines the research and writing journey that has produced the history. It outlines the wide-ranging research I undertook for each narrative thread. This includes the writing of organisational histories; experiential research in the form of a trip to Gallipoli; archival sources such as newsletters, minutes, correspondence and photographs; contextual history such as war literature, Western Australian history and post-war history; and oral history. I describe some of the difficulties I encountered when searching for particular kinds of information. I also discuss some of the decisions underpinning the selection and shaping of information, particularly in relation to the war widows' stories and embedding an historical context, and some of the tensions at play in that process.

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Kyed, Helene Maria. « State recognition of traditional authority : authority, citizenship and state formation in rural post-war Mozambique / ». Roskilde : Roskilde University Centre, The Graduate School of International Development Studies, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1800/3090.

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Dale, Charlotte Ann. « Raising professional confidence : the influence of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) on the development and recognition of nursing as a profession ». Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/raising-professional-confidence-the-influence-of-the-angloboer-war-1899--1902-on-the-development-and-recognition-of-nursing-as-a-profession(4ba2c5fb-bffa-4437-bb3e-d78d409c51dc).html.

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The thesis examines the position of nurses during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899 – 1902) and considers how their work helped to raise the profile of nursing. The experience of the war demonstrated the superiority of the work undertaken by trained nurses as compared with that of ‘amateurs’. At the commencement of war a small cohort of army nurses worked alongside large numbers of trained male orderlies, however these numbers proved insufficient during the period of the war and additional, entirely untrained orderlies (often convalescent soldiers) were relied upon to deliver nursing care. Against a backdrop of long term antipathy toward nurses at the seat of war, the work of both army and civilian nurses in military hospitals suggested that the clinical proficiency of trained nurses had a significant impact on military effectiveness. The thesis will develop arguments based on the personal testimonies of nurses who served during the Anglo-Boer War, relating to clinical nursing and nurses perceptions of professionalism during the period. Personal testimony will be used primarily to examine the working lives and experiences of serving nurses, as many historians simply state that the excellent work of the nurses forced changes, yet make no allusion to what this specifically entailed. Faced with the exigencies of war, including limited medical supplies and military bureaucracy (termed by nurses and doctors alike as ‘red tape’) that hindered nurses’ abilities to provide high levels of care, nurses demonstrated their developing clinical confidence. Despite accusations that nurses were ‘frivolling’ in South Africa, raising concerns over the control and organisation of nurses in future military campaigns, the social exploits of nurses on active service was not entirely detrimental to contemporary views of their professional status. Nurses were able to demonstrate their abilities to survive the hardships of war, including nursing close to the ‘front lines’ of war and the arduous conditions inherent in living under canvas on the South African veldt. Not only were nurses proving their abilities to endure hardship normally associated with masculine work, but they were also establishing their clinical capabilities. This was especially so during the serious typhoid epidemics when nurses were able to draw upon their expert knowledge to provide careful nursing care based on extensive experience. Nurses, who had undergone recognised training in Britain, demonstrated their professional competence and proved that nursing was a learned skill, not merely an innate womanly trait. The war also represented an opportunity to evidence their fitness for citizenship by using their skilled training for the benefit of the Empire. The subsequent reform of the Army Nursing Service, resulting in the establishment of the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service in 1902, suggests permanent recognition of the essential role of nurses in times of both war and peace.

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Sarai, Sarbjeet Kaur. « The rape of the Balkan women, an argument for the full recognition of wartime rape as a war crime ». Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ45298.pdf.

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Madaula, i. Giménez Aurora. « Forging nation from exile : International recognition, political alignment and ideological constraints in Basque nationalisms (1956-1977) ». Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/461165.

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This research focuses on the evolution of Basque nationalism in exile during the period 1956- 1977. The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent establishment of Franco dictatorship, forced the Basque Government and the Basque nationalists to flee in exile. The exile becomes refuge and framework for the conservation and development of Basque nationalism, the influence of the exile conditions the international relations, the recognition of the Basque cause and ideological constraints. Through Manuel Irujo, member of the Basque Nationalist Party and the main ideologue of nationalism in exile during the period studied, we see how exile transforms, conditions and protects the political nation imagined.
Aquesta investigació està centrada en l’evolució del nacionalisme basc a l’exili durant el període 1956-1977. L’esclat de la Guerra Civil espanyola i el posterior establiment de la dictadura franquista, van obligar el Govern basc i els nacionalistes bascos a fugir a l’exili, que es convertirà en refugi alhora que marc per a la conservació i desenvolupament del nacionalisme basc. La influència de l’exili condicionarà les relacions internacionals, l’homologació de la causa basca i els referents ideològics. A través de la figura de Manuel Irujo, membre del Partit Nacionalista basc i principal ideòleg del nacionalisme a l’exili durant l’etapa estudiada, comprovarem com l’exili transforma, condiciona i protegeix la construcció de la nació política imaginada.

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BULGAN, UGUR. « JUSTICE AFTER TERRORISM : WARFIGHTING, PAST INJUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION ». Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/874401.

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The phenomenon of terrorism occupies an important place in contemporary political reality. Accordingly, all states are committed to fight against terrorism and protect their citizens from terroristic attacks. In this thesis, I aim at framing a normative account of how democracies should fight terrorism beyond military means. I engage with the literature on just war theory, transitional justice and recognition theory to conceptualize justice after terrorism. In light of the vibrant discussions in the aforementioned strands of literature, this study contemplates ending warfighting in terrorism, the aftermath of terrorism and the longer transitional post-terrorism period in order to provide justified grounds for the arguments to pursue peace and justice in societies with endured terroristic past. My discussion focuses on the moral and political arguments to decide when and how the military warfighting against terrorists should be ended; how the wrongdoing which terrorists inflict on their victims should be vindicated; and how the post-terrorism reconciliation should be conceptualized. Throughout my argumentation, justice after terrorism appears as a recognition-theoretical transitional justice account that envisages the re-recognition of the victims as the backward-looking remedy and just societal transformation as the forward-looking measure.

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Zetzer, Emily E. « Examining Whether Instrument Changes Affect Song Recognition the Way Talker Changes Affect Word Recognition ». Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1463321447.

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Kim, Van Chien. « Le devenir des jeunes femmes engagées volontaires dans la guerre du Vietnam ». Thesis, Paris 10, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA100085.

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Trente cinq ans ont passé depuis la fin de la Guerre du Viêt Nam, mais pour les femmes ex-volontaires le combat continue. Combat pour une vie décente. À leur retour, pour s’intégrer à une vie normale, il leur a fallu dépasser toutes sortes de difficultés: d’abord celles liées à leur état de santé, puis les difficultés économiques, sociales et familiales. Bien que l’État vietnamien ait enfin adopté des mesures en leur faveur, celles-ci se sont révélées impuissantes à améliorer leur niveau de vie et à compenser leurs souffrances. Elles ont donc le sentiment de ne pas avoir été reconnues. Les résultats scientifiques de cette thèse ont montré que le choix altruiste de leur engagement pendant la guerre s’était fait sur une base « rationnelle ». Malgré certains cas d’engagements « forcés », la majorité d’entre elles se sont déterminées à partir d’un intérêt privé: venger la mort d’un proche, obéir à l’esprit révolutionnaire familial, ou goût de l’uniforme, peur du « qu’en-dira-t-on », désir d’indépendance, fuir la pauvreté familiale, laisser un garçon à la maison pour s’occuper des ancêtres et s’engager à sa place. Intérêt d’ordre personnel, familial, économique ou révolutionnaire. Rarement purement patriotique. Sur les champs de bataille, elles ont non seulement aidé les combattants en assumant les transports de munitions, de vivres, de blessés ou les travaux reconstruction des routes, mais elles ont aussi combattu aux côtés des hommes, armes à la main. Nous avons vu l’importance des éléments extérieurs, « exogènes », ayant contribué à leur souffrance, comme l’environnement géographique (montagnes, jungle et présence d’animaux dangereux ou porteurs de maladies); le climat (alternance de pluies ou de sécheresses intenses); les circonstances de guerre (bombardements, produits chimiques, blessures, exposition à la mort) et les circonstances dues aux déplacements (faim, soif, fatigue, épuisement du corps). À leur retour, ces femmes n’ont pas été reconnues. Les traces laissées sur leur corps par la guerre ont gravement perturbé leur intégration: solitude, mariage difficile, santé maladive. Leur faible niveau d’éducation ne leur permettant pas de trouver un emploi correct, c’est donc sur tous les fronts qu’elles ont dû se battre: personnel, familial et professionnel. La société, à ce jour, les distingue en six catégories: mariées, divorcées, séparées, célibataires, sans enfant et sans-abri. C’est ainsi, avec l’ensemble des ex-jeunes volontaires qui réclamaient une identité et des droits particuliers, qu’ils ont d’abord « lutté pour la reconnaissance ». Puis ont participé à la création du Comité de liaison des ex-jeunes volontaires, auquel a succédé l’Association des ex-jeunes volontaires. Cette association a constitué LA nouvelle force motrice. Elle a joué pleinement son rôle d'un témoignage historique, exigeant du Parti et des autorités locales la mise en œuvre de politiques sociales appropriées. Mais ces politiques n’ont répondu que partiellement aux attentes. « Le don et le contre-don » ne sont donc pas équitables, car cette aide demeure très insuffisante et ne touche qu’un nombre restreint de femmes, celles ayant pu conserver durant toutes ces années les fameux papiers justifiant leur engagement, et justifiant leurs blessures
Thirty five years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War, however, for the women who volunteered, the combat continues. A combat for a decent life. Upon their return, in order to integrate into a normal life, they had to go through many trials: firstly those related to their health conditions, then financial, social and family difficulties. Even though the Vietnamese State adopted measures in their favour, they turned out to be insufficient in improving their lives and compensating their suffering. They thus feel as though they have gone unrecognized. Scientific results of this Thesis have shown their altruist choice of committal to the war was made upon a "rational" basis. Despite certain cases of "forced" involvement, the majority of them were determined to leave out of personal interest: such as the vengeance of loved ones, to obey to the revolutionary family, the taste for a uniform role, fear of being outcast for not participating, a desire for independence, an escape from poverty, wanting to leave one man at home to take care of the ancestors and enrolling in his place, an interest for personnel, family, economic or revolutionary order. Rarely was their enrollment in the army pure patriotism. On the battle field, they not only helped the troops by transporting ammunition, people both well and wounded, they reconstructed the roads and fought beside the men weapons in hand. We have seen the importance of outside elements "exogenous", having contributed to their suffering, such as geographical placement, (mountainous and jungle regions and their contact with animals carrying decease; the climate change and intensified rain and dry seasons; the circumstances of war (chilling, chemical sprays, wounds, regular exposure to death) and the circumstances due to unstable living conditions such as constant movement (hunger, thirst, fatigue, physical exhaustion). Upon their return, these women went unrecognized. The traces left on their bodies by the war had seriously interfered with their reintegration into the society that they left. They returned disease-ridden to solitude, marriage problems and poor health. Their low level of education held them back from employment opportunities, leaving them to continue a new fight, one of a more personal level. The society, to this day, distinguishes them by six categories: those married, divorced, separated, and single, without children and those that are homeless. Thus it is the entire group of ex-volunteers that are seeking an identity along with certain rights as they have justly "fought for recognition" then participated in the creation of the Liaison Committee of ex-volunteers, which led to the succession of the Association ex-volunteers. This association constituted THE new motor force. It has played the role of a historic witness, forcing the Party and local authority's to value more appropriate social politics. However these politics haven't responded to any particular expectations. « The gift and return gift” are not equal, because this help has been largely insufficient and only reaches out to a restricted number of women, those who had kept their paperwork during the risky years of their engagement and those able to justify their wounds

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Carandang, Alfonso B., et n/a. « Recognition of phonemes using shapes of speech waveforms in WAL ». University of Canberra. Information Sciences & ; Engineering, 1994. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060626.144432.

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Generating a phonetic transcription of the speech waveform is one method which can be applied to continuous speech recognition. Current methods of labelling a speech wave involve the use of techniques based on spectrographic analysis. This paper presents a computationally simple method by which some phonemes can be identified primarily by their shapes. Three shapes which are regularly manifested by three phonemes were examined in utterances made by a number of speakers. Features were then devised to recognise their patterns using finite state automata combined with a checking mechanism. These were implemented in the Wave Analysis Language (WAL) system developed at the University of Canberra and the results showed that the phonemes can be recognised with high accuracy. The resulting shape features have also demonstrated a degree of speaker independence and context dependency.

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King, Jamesia J. « Recovery & ; Recognition : Black Women and the Lower Ninth Ward ». Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/aas_theses/6.

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Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005 and drastically altered the city of New Orleans causing the most damage to minority and low socioeconomic status communities such as the Lower Ninth Ward. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, African American women in the New Orleans constituted the group most marginalized in society. Following Hurricane Katrina, several studies have explored Hurricane Katrina and disaster recovery in New Orleans. However, few studies have explored gender as it relates to natural disasters and recovery. Therefore, this study explores the experiences of African American women with disaster recovery in the Lower Ninth Ward.

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RODRIGUES, DANIELA VERGUEIRO. « FOLIA DAS CRIANÇAS : A WAY OF RECOGNITION IN THE SCHOOL ». PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=13744@1.

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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
Dentro de instituições escolares, algumas práticas reproduzem situações de exclusão e violência, marcando não só o percurso escolar como também a vida de alunos, enquanto outras permitem a ruptura deste ciclo vicioso. Este trabalho tem como objetivo discorrer sobre as especificidades do sistema escolar enquanto fator diferencial na formação dos alunos, identificando práticas que, através do reconhecimento dos sujeitos e de sua cultura, introduzem possibilidades de transformação. A criação de um grupo de música, dança e teatro tendo por tema a Folia de Reis dentro de uma escola pública da Zona Sul do Rio de Janeiro será tema de uma pesquisa de campo, estudandose um procedimento que, advindo da iniciativa de crianças e jovens até então excluídos do processo de alfabetização, tem possibilitado a estes alunos ocupar um novo lugar no sistema instituinte. Assim, enfatizando o potencial criativo, busca-se pensar sobre as diversas práticas que facilitam a instalação do que será chamado de Ciclo Virtuoso nas relações sociais destas crianças e jovens, garantindo-lhes a construção de um novo percurso em suas vidas.
In educational system some practices lead children to environments of exclusion and violence, pressing not only their scholar time but also their lives. By other side, we have other practices that could allow them breaking to which is called here vicious cycle. This paper has as main target talks about school system’s own characteristics as a differential factor in student’s formation, detecting practices that, trough the recognition of subjects and their culture, insert possibilities of transformation. The birth of a musical and dancing theater, having as a theme Folia de Reis in a public school in the Southern District of Rio de Janeiro, will be focus of a research, studying an specific act which came from children and adolescents. This group was taken as excluded from the process of literacy. The creation of Folia das Crianças, lead them to take a new place in the social system. So, emphasizing their own creative process and thinking on several practices that allow them to establish in their lives what is called here a virtuous cycle in their social relations, guaranteeing them possibilities to build a new course in their lives.

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Shtembari, Arber. « Après la guerre : Mobilisations et luttes pour la reconnaissance. Contribution à une analyse sociohistorique de la construction de l'Etat au Kosovo (1945-2012) ». Thesis, Limoges, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LIMO0057.

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Cette thèse est consacrée conjointement aux mobilisations et luttes de classement des groupes issus de la guerre de 1998-1999 au Kosovo et aux modalités d'accès à leur reconnaissance légale et légitime, ainsi qu'à l'étude du processus de construction de l’État au Kosovo et de la production de ses formes symboliques de consécration. Deux objectifs orientent ce travail : Le premier est de rompre avec certaines évidences et d'apporter de nouvelles pistes de réflexion sur la formation, l'identification, l'existence et la définition des groupes sociaux issus de la guerre (les victimes civiles, les anciens combattants, les prisonniers de guerre, les familles des personnes disparues, etc.). Le second est d'examiner les relations complexes entre le travail de domination symbolique de l’État au Kosovo et les luttes que mènent les groupes sociaux issus de la guerre pour pouvoir maintenir leur position dans l'espace social
This thesis examines jointly, the mobilizations and the classification struggles of the post-war groups in Kosovo after 1999, focusing on the access procedures toward their legal and legitimate recognition. It also analyzes the State formation process in Kosovo and the production of its symbolic forms of consecration. Two main contributions of this work are: First, it highlights a number of issues on post-war groups formation, identification, lifestyles and definition (civils victims, war veterans, war prisoners, families of missing persons, etc.) needing reflection and it questions the conventional wisdom. Second, it examines the complex relationships between the symbolic domination work of the State in Kosovo and the struggles of post-war groups in freeing from their social condition

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Nulsen, Susan, et n/a. « Combining acoustic analysis and phonotactic analysis to improve automatic speech recognition ». University of Canberra. Information Sciences & ; Engineering, 1998. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060825.131042.

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This thesis addresses the problem of automatic speech recognition, specifically, how to transform an acoustic waveform into a string of words or phonemes. A preliminary chapter gives linguistic information potentially useful in automatic speech recognition. This is followed by a description of the Wave Analysis Laboratory (WAL), a rule-based system which detects features in speech and was designed as the acoustic front end of a speech recognition system. Temporal reasoning as used in WAL rules is examined. The use of WAL in recognizing one particular class of speech sounds, the nasal consonants, is described in detail. The remainder of the thesis looks at the statistical analysis of samples of spontaneous speech. An orthographic transcription of a large sample of spontaneous speech is automatically translated into phonemes. Tables of the frequencies of word initial and word final phoneme clusters are constructed to illustrate some of the phonotactic constraints of the language. Statistical data is used to assign phonemes to phonotactic classes. These classes are unlike the acoustic classes, although there is a general distinction between the vowels, the consonants and the word boundary. A way of measuring the phonetic balance of a sample of speech is described. This can be used as a means of ranking potential test samples in terms of how well they represent the language. A phoneme n-gram model is used to measure the entropy of the language. The broad acoustic encoding output from WAL is used with this language model to reconstruct a small test sample. "Branching" a simpler alternative to perplexity is introduced and found to give similar results to perplexity. Finally, the drop in branching is calculated as knowledge of various sets of acoustic classes is considered. In the work described in this thesis the main contributions made to automatic speech recognition and the study of speech are in the development of the Wave Analysis Laboratory and in the analysis of speech from a phonotactic point of view. The phoneme cluster frequencies provide new information on spoken language, as do the phonotactic classes. The measures of phonetic balance and branching provide additional tools for use in the development of speech recognition systems.

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PINARDI, STEFANO. « Movements recognition with intelligent multisensor analysis ». Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/19297.

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In movement science with inertial sensor many different methodologies resolving specific aspects of movement recognition have been proposed. They are very interesting, and useful, but none of them are generally explicative of what is going on in the semantic sense. When we go down to the movement recognition/classification area (for example in Ambient Intelligence) we do not have a feasible model that can be considered generally predictive or usable for activity recognition. Also, in the field of movement recognition with inertial sensors many technological issues arise: technological diversity, calibration matters, sensor model problems, orientation and position of sensors, and a lot of numerous specificities that, with all the above aspects, and the lack of public dataset of movements sufficiently generic and semantically rich, contribute to create a strong barrier to any approach to a classification matters with wearable sensors. We have also to notice that a movement is a phenomenon explicitly or implicitly (voluntary or involuntary) controlled by brain. The individual free-will introduce a further matter when we want to temporary predict the movements looking at the close past. Pattern can change at any time when ambient, psychological context, age of the subject change. Also, pathological issues, and physiological differences and the will of the subject, introduce important differences. For all these reasons I considered that a semantical /lexical approach to movement recognition with sensors, driven by machine learning techniques could be a promising way to solve some of these challenge and problems. In this Ph.D. Thesis wearable inertial sensors has been used to classify movements, the choice of inertial sensors has been driven by technological and practical advantages, they are cheap, lightweight, and - differently from video cameras - are not prone to the hidden face, or luminance problems. The main idea is to use inertial sensor to understand what a person is doing for ambient-intelligent, healthcare, medical-sport applications. My principal concerns was to propose a method that was not centered on technology issues but on data analysis, that could be a general framework and could also create a general representation of movement,that could be useful also in other area of research, like reasoning. Inertial sensors are treated just as an example, a particular type of sensors, the method is new, reusable, algorithmically simple, net and easy to understand. Accuracy is very high outperforming the best results given in literature, reducing the error rate of 4 times.

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Soosaithasan, Solène Nadia. « La quête de l’honneur apaisée de la « grandeur indienne ». : Déni de reconnaissance des « tigres tamouls » et événements catalyseurs au Sri Lanka. identité virile et inimitié des décideurs dans un conflit (1987-1990 puis 2000-2009) ». Thesis, Lille 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LIL20028.

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La quêtede l’honneurpeut paraitre désuète de nos jours en Occident mais cela n’est pas forcément le cas si l’on poussait plus loin les analyses. Elle caractérise depuislongtemps les relations entre les décideurs indiens et les dirigeants de la région Asie du Sud. Les relations avec les belligérants sri lankais n’en font pas exception. L’honneur et la gloire sont souvent le produit d’un éthos guerrier et d’une démonstration de virilité de la part des dirigeants politiques et non pas uniquement des militaires.La virilité n’est donc pas biologique mais est un construit politique et social. Les heurts ont été nombreux quant à la résolution du conflit sri lankais.Les décisions, attitudes et actions prises par les Indiens ont été façonnées par les interactions avec leurs interlocuteurs sri lankais et par des éléments extrêmement importants que nous qualifions d’« événements catalyseurs».Après le départ de l’IPKF et l’assassinat de Rajiv Gandhi, les dirigeants indiens ont adopté une autre attitude et des discours plus apaisés vis-à-vis des dirigeants sri lankais tout en refusant de reconnaitre les « Tigres tamouls » (LTTE), une guérilla tamoule au Sri Lanka. La reconnaissance de la part des dirigeants indiens vis-à-vis des décideurs sri lankais a par ailleurs permis la résolution du conflit sri lankais par des moyens militaires. Vingt ans auparavant, cela aurait été totalement inconcevable pour les dirigeants indiens de laisser ainsi faire les décideurs sri lankais. La reconnaissance de part et d’autre a donc pu permettre d’améliorer les relations interpersonnelles et interétatiques indiennes et sri lankaises
Today, the quest for honor can seemoutdated in Western countries. But for a long timeit has characterizedthe relationships between the Indian decision-makers and the South Asian leaders. Relationships with Sri Lankan protagonists are also shaped by this question of honor but also of glory. Just as the military, political leaders are also influenced by honor and glory which are often produced by a warrior ethos So they want to show their manliness. Virility is not biological but a political and social construct. Throughout the resolution of the Indian-Sri Lankan conflict, numerous clashes took place between between their respective leaders. Decisions, attitudes and actions taken by the Indians have been shaped by their interactions with their Sri Lankan counterparts. And this evolution has also been possible because of “catalyst events”. After the IPKF’s withdrawal and Rajiv Gandhi’s murder,Indian decision-makers refused to recognize the“Tamil Tigers” guerilla (Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam, in Sri Lanka. But the Indian Political leaders’ recognition of the Sri Lankan rulersopened the way to a conflict resolution with military means. Twenty-years ago it would have been completely impossible for the Indians to allow the Sri Lankans to have their way.Recognition on both parts have largely improved the Indian and the Sri Lankan interpersonal and interstate relationships

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Wan, Wei-Lin [Verfasser], et Thorsten [Akademischer Betreuer] Nürnberger. « Comparative Analysis of Signaling Pathways Triggered by Different Pattern-recognition Receptor-types / Wei-Lin Wan ; Betreuer : Thorsten Nürnberger ». Tübingen : Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1167311361/34.

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Bergman, Elsa, et Anna Eriksson. « Exploring Unsupervised Learning as a Way of Revealing User Patterns in a Mobile Bank Application ». Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för systemteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-384551.

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The purpose of this interdisciplinary study was to explore whether it is possible to conduct a data-driven study using pattern recognition in order to gain an understanding of user behavior within a mobile bank application. This knowledge was in turn used to propose ways of tailoring the application to better suit the actual needs of the users. In this thesis, unsupervised learning in the form of clustering was applied to a data set containing information about user interactions with a mobile bank application. By pre-processing the data, finding the best value for the number of clusters to use and applying these results to the K-means algorithm, clustering into distinct subgroups was possible. Visualization of the clusters was possible due to combining K-means with a Principal Component Analysis. Through clustering, patterns regarding how the different functionalities are used in the application were revealed. Thereafter, using relevant concepts within the field of human-computer interaction, a proposal was made of how the application could be altered to better suit the discovered needs of the users. The results show that most sessions are passive, that the device model is of high importance in the clusters, that some features are seldom used and that hidden functionalities are not used in full measure. This is either due to the user not wanting to use some functionalities or because there is a lack of discoverability or understanding among the users, causing them to refrain from using these functionalities. However, determining the actual cause requires further qualitative studies. Removing features which are seldom used, adding signifiers, active discovery as well as conducting user-tests are identified as possible actions in order to minimize issues with discoverability and understanding. Finally, future work and possible improvements to the research methods used in this study were proposed.

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McGaughey, Jennifer Margaret. « A realistic evaluation of early warning systems and acute care training for early recognition and management of deteriorating ward-based patients ». Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602463.

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Rapid Response Systems but is dependent upon nurses utilising EWS protocols and applying Acute Life-threatening Events: Recognition and Treatment (ALERT) course best practice guidelines. To date there is limited evidence on the effectiveness of EWS or ALERT as research has primarily focused on measuring patient outcomes (cardiac arrests, lCU admissions) following the implementation of a Rapid Response Team. The aim of this study was to evaluate factors that enabled and constrained the implementation and service delivery of Early Warnings Systems (EWS) and acute care training in practice in order to provide direction for enabling their success and sustainability. The research design was an embedded multiple case study approach of four wards in two hospitals in Northern Ireland. It followed the principles of realist evaluation research which allowed empirical data to be gathered to test and refine RRS programme theory. This approach used a variety of mixed methods to test the programme theories including individual and focus group interviews, observation and documentary analysis of EWS compliance data and ALERT training records . Data synthesis found similar regularities or factors enabling or constraining successful implementation across the case study sites. Findings showed that personal (confidence; clinical judgement; professional accountability; personality). social (ward leadership; communication), organisational (workload; time pressures; staffing levels and skill-mix), educational (constraints on training and experiential learning) and cultural (delegation of observations. referral hierarchy; rigid recording practices) influences impact on EWS and acute care training outcomes. RRS theory refinement using realist evaluation explained what works, for whom in what circumstances. Future service provision needs to consider improved staffing levels; flexible implementation of protocols underpinned by empowerment and clinical judgement; on-going experiential ward-based learning and enhanced clinical leadership to enable the success and sustainability of Rapid Response Systems.

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Ismail, Dzulkiflee. « The application of pattern recognition techniques to data derived from the chemical analysis of common wax based products and ignitable liquids ». Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2012. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18208.

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Pattern recognition is a term that can be used to cover various stages of the investigation of characterising data sets including contributing to problem formulation and data collection through to discrimination, assessment and interpretation of results. Chemometrics techniques and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are pattern recognition techniques commonly used to visualise and gather useful information from multidimensional datasets i.e. datasets with n-samples with m- variables. Of the many chemometric techniques available, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) are the most commonly used in the evaluation of dataset(s) generated from the analysis of samples which have relevance to forensic science. By contrast, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and in particular Self Organising Feature Maps (SOFM) and Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) have had limited application in forensic science eventhough these pattern recognition techniques have been known for almost 30 years. This study focuses on the applicability of the Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to specific datasets of forensic science interest and compares these with 'conventional' PCA and HCA techniques. Datasets generated from the analysis of wax based products and lighter fuels were used. The wax based product data set contained information obtained from Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC), Microspectrophotometry (MSP), Ultra-Violet and Visible Spectroscopy (UV/Vis) and Gas Chromatography with Flame Ionisation Detector (GC-FID) analysis of a variety of products from multiple sources where discrimination by brand was the objective. The data provided for the lighter fuel samples was obtained from analysis of a number of brands, both unevaporated and evaporated by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy (GC-MS) and the objective was to discriminate the samples by brand as well as link degraded samples from the same brand together. The wax based product analysis provided simple, straight forward data whilst the lighter fuel analysis provided a more complicated and challenging dataset to investigate in terms of facilitating sample discrimination and/or linkage. In all cases, the 'conventional' Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) failed to provide any meaningful discrimination of the samples by product type regardless of the nature of the datasets. In contrast, the Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) techniques provided full discrimination of the samples by product type even when the samples had undergone considerable ageing and weathering. This work has demonstrated the potential use of Self Organising Feature Maps (SOFM) and Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) to datasets of forensic science relevance. The findings of this work provide avenues for further exploration of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in forensic science.

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Amao, Shade. « Why is low wages the right way to integration ? : A discourse analysis searching for perceptions of justice in Swedish parliamentary debates ». Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295803.

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This study has centered on the proposal for decreasing the entrance rate in order to create more jobs and integrate the increasing asylum seekers in the Swedish society. Based on a discourse analysis on the parliamentary debates “The road to the labor market” and “Integration”, this thesis examines the discourses around ‘justice’. By applying Nancy Frasers theoretical framework of justice, the arguments were analyzed in order to understand if the constructed problems were built on the dimension of recognition or redistribution and to investigate if the solutions were based on an affirmative or transformative strategy. The analysis shows that the primary justice discourse in the debate of labor and integration is the distribution dimension. The injustices that are presented in these debates are concerned with maldistribution. Affirmative strategies are mostly suggested for solutions which indicates that the politicians in the Swedish parliament have an urge to solve problems in the present instead of focusing on the future and solving the underlying structure.

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Laryea, Joycelyn, et Nipunika Jayasundara. « Automatic Speech Recognition System for Somali in the interest of reducing Maternal Morbidity and Mortality ». Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Mikrodataanalys, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-34436.

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Developing an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system for the Somali language, though not novel, is not actively explored; hence there has been no success in a model for conversational speech. Neither are related works accessible as open-source. The unavailability of digital data is what labels Somali as a low resource language and poses the greatest impediment to the development of an ASR for Somali. The incentive to develop an ASR system for the Somali language is to contribute to reducing the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) in Somalia. Researchers acquire interview audio data regarding maternal health and behaviour in the Somali language; to be able to engage the relevant stakeholders to bring about the needed change, these audios must be transcribed into text, which is an important step towards translation into any language. This work investigates available ASR for Somali and attempts to develop a prototype ASR system to convert Somali audios into Somali text. To achieve this target, we first identified the available open-source systems for speech recognition and selected the DeepSpeech engine for the implementation of the prototype. With three hours of audio data, the accuracy of transcription is not as required and cannot be deployed for use. This we attribute to insufficient training data and estimate that the effort towards an ASR for Somali will be more significant by acquiring about 1200 hours of audio to train the DeepSpeech engine

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Li, Na. « MMD and Ward criterion in a RKHS : application to Kernel based hierarchical agglomerative clustering ». Thesis, Troyes, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TROY0033/document.

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La classification non supervisée consiste à regrouper des objets afin de former des groupes homogènes au sens d’une mesure de similitude. C’est un outil utile pour explorer la structure d’un ensemble de données non étiquetées. Par ailleurs, les méthodes à noyau, introduites initialement dans le cadre supervisé, ont démontré leur intérêt par leur capacité à réaliser des traitements non linéaires des données en limitant la complexité algorithmique. En effet, elles permettent de transformer un problème non linéaire en un problème linéaire dans un espace de plus grande dimension. Dans ce travail, nous proposons un algorithme de classification hiérarchique ascendante utilisant le formalisme des méthodes à noyau. Nous avons tout d’abord recherché des mesures de similitude entre des distributions de probabilité aisément calculables à l’aide de noyaux. Parmi celles-ci, la maximum mean discrepancy a retenu notre attention. Afin de pallier les limites inhérentes à son usage, nous avons proposé une modification qui conduit au critère de Ward, bien connu en classification hiérarchique. Nous avons enfin proposé un algorithme itératif de clustering reposant sur la classification hiérarchique à noyau et permettant d’optimiser le noyau et de déterminer le nombre de classes en présence
Clustering, as a useful tool for unsupervised classification, is the task of grouping objects according to some measured or perceived characteristics of them and it has owned great success in exploring the hidden structure of unlabeled data sets. Kernel-based clustering algorithms have shown great prominence. They provide competitive performance compared with conventional methods owing to their ability of transforming nonlinear problem into linear ones in a higher dimensional feature space. In this work, we propose a Kernel-based Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering algorithms (KHAC) using Ward’s criterion. Our method is induced by a recently arisen criterion called Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD). This criterion has firstly been proposed to measure difference between different distributions and can easily be embedded into a RKHS. Close relationships have been proved between MMD and Ward's criterion. In our KHAC method, selection of the kernel parameter and determination of the number of clusters have been studied, which provide satisfactory performance. Finally an iterative KHAC algorithm is proposed which aims at determining the optimal kernel parameter, giving a meaningful number of clusters and partitioning the data set automatically

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Krishnan, Ravikiran. « Generalized Conditional Matching Algorithm for Ordered and Unordered Sets ». Thesis, University of South Florida, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3666203.

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Designing generalized data-driven distance measures for both ordered and unordered set data is the core focus of the proposed work. An ordered set is a set where time-linear property is maintained when distance between pair of temporal segments. One application in the ordered set is the human gesture analysis from RGBD data. Human gestures are fast becoming the natural form of human computer interaction. This serves as a motivation to modeling, analyzing, and recognition of gestures. The large number of gesture categories such as sign language, traffic signals, everyday actions and also subtle cultural variations in gesture classes makes gesture recognition a challenging problem. As part of generalization, an algorithm is proposed as part of an overlap speech detection application for unordered set.

Any gesture recognition task involves comparing an incoming or a query gesture against a training set of gestures. Having one or few samples deters any class statistic learning approaches to classification, as the full range of variation is not covered. Due to the large variability in gesture classes, temporally segmenting individual gestures also becomes hard. A matching algorithm in such scenarios needs to be able to handle single sample classes and have the ability to label multiple gestures without temporal segmentation.

Each gesture sequence is considered as a class and each class is a data point on an input space. A pair-wise distances pattern between to gesture frame sequences conditioned on a third (anchor) sequence is considered and is referred to as warp vectors. Such a process is defined as conditional distances. At the algorithmic core we have two dynamic time warping processes, one to compute the warp vectors with the anchor sequences and the other to compare these warp vectors. We show that having class dependent distance function can disambiguate classification process where the samples of classes are close to each other. Given a situation where the model base is large (number of classes is also large); the disadvantage of such a distance would be the computational cost. A distributed version combined with sub-sampling anchor gestures is proposed as speedup strategy. In order to label multiple connected gestures in query we use a simultaneous segmentation and recognition matching algorithm called level building algorithm. We use the dynamic programming implementation of the level building algorithm. The core of this algorithm depends on a distance function that compares two gesture sequences. We propose that, we replace this distance function, with the proposed distances. Hence, this version of level building is called as conditional level building (clb). We present results on a large dataset of 8000 RGBD sequences spanning over 200 gesture classes, extracted from the ChaLearn Gesture Challenge dataset. The result is that there is significant improvement over the underlying distance used to compute conditional distance when compared to conditional distance.

As an application of unordered set and non-visual data, overlap speech segment detection algorithm is proposed. Speech recognition systems have a vast variety of application, but fail when there is overlap speech involved. This is especially true in a meeting-room setting. The ability to recognize speaker and localize him/her in the room is an important step towards a higher-level representation of the meeting dynamics. Similar to gesture recognition, a new distance function is defined and it serves as the core of the algorithm to distinguish between individual speech and overlap speech temporal segments. The overlap speech detection problem is framed as outlier detection problem. An incoming audio is broken into temporal segments based on Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC). Each of these segments is considered as node and conditional distance between the nodes are determined. The underlying distances for triples used in conditional distances is the symmetric KL distance. As each node is modeled as a Gaussian, the distance between the two segments or nodes is given by Monte-Carlo estimation of the KL distance. An MDS based global embedding is created based on the pairwise distance between the nodes and RANSAC is applied to compute the outliers. NIST meeting room data set is used to perform experiments on the overlap speech detection. An improvement of more than 20% is achieved with conditional distance based approach when compared to a KL distance based approach.

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Gabellini, Matteo. « Il progetto TraumaTracker : studio e sviluppo prototipale di un sistema wearable hands-free in ambito healthcare ». Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/12252/.

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TraumaTracker costituisce un esempio di sistema innovativo a supporto del lavoro dei medici, basato sull'uso di wearable devices e orientato ad approcci di utilizzo hands-free. In particolare in questo documento, viene presentata un'analisi di come questi sistemi possano essere sviluppati. Viene poi riportata, come caso concreto, la progettazione e implementazione prototipale di TraumaTracker, nel quale è stato utilizzato un paio di smart glass e, come approccio hands-free, un sistema di riconoscimento vocale. La tesi si pone anche l'obiettivo di far cogliere al lettore l'importanza dell'introduzione di questi sistemi all'interno dell'ambito medico ospedaliero e di come essi possano migliorare il lavoro del personale sanitario

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Aivo, Gérard. « Le statut de combattant dans les conflits armés non internationaux : etude critique de droit international humanitaire ». Thesis, Lyon 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO30053.

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Avant les Conventions de Genève de 1949, seuls les conflits armés internationaux étaient réglementés par le droit de la guerre. Ce dernier ne pouvait s’appliquer dans les guerres civiles qu’après la reconnaissance des forces rebelles comme partie belligérante. Or, depuis la Seconde guerre mondiale on a assisté à une multiplication des conflits armés non internationaux. Mais les Conventions de Genève de 1949 leur ont consacré seulement l’article 3 commun ; puis le Protocole II additionnel de 1977 est venu le compléter. Ces deux textes comportent de nombreuses lacunes, notamment l’absence de définition des « combattants » et des « civils », rendant ainsi difficile le respect du principe de distinction pourtant essentiel à la protection des populations civiles. Ces dispositions ne réglementent pas non plus les moyens et méthodes de guerre. Outre les lacunes normatives, il y a des problèmes matériels qui compliquent la mise en œuvre efficace des règles pertinentes. Il s’agit notamment de la participation des populations civiles aux hostilités, y compris les enfants-Soldats et les mercenaires. L’absence du statut de combattant dans les conflits armés non internationaux apparaît comme le problème principal compromettant l’efficacité du DIH. Celle-Ci ne contribue-T-Elle pas au non respect de ce droit par les groupes armés ? Faudrait-Il conférer ce statut à ces derniers en vue de les amener à appliquer le droit international humanitaire ou envisager d’autres moyens ? Lesquels ?
Before the Geneva Conventions of 1949, only the international armed conflicts were regulated by the law of the war. This last one could apply in the civil wars only after the recognition of the rebel forces as belligerent party. Now, since the Second World War we attended an increase in non-International armed conflicts. But the Geneva Conventions of 1949 dedicated them only the common article 3; then the additional Protocol II of 1977 came to complete it. These two texts contain numerous gaps, in particular the absence of definition of the "combatants" and the "civilians", making so difficult the respect for the principle of distinction nevertheless essential for the protection of the civil populations. These rules do not regulate either the means and the war methods. Besides the normative gaps, there are material problems which complicate the effective implementation of the relevant rules. It is in particular about the participation of the civil populations in the hostilities, including the children-Soldiers and the mercenaries. The absence of combatant's status in the non-International armed conflicts appears as the main problem compromising the efficiency of the international humanitarian law. Does not this one contribute to the non compliance with this law by the armed groups? Would it be necessary to confer this status to these last ones to bring them to apply the international humanitarian law or to envisage the other means? Which one?

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Virion, Zoé. « Interaction de Neisseria meningitidis avec les cellules endothéliales humaines : rôle des glycosylations des récepteurs cellulaires eucaryotes Receptor recognition by meningococcal type IV pili relies on a specific triantennary N-glycan Sialic acid‐mediated allosteric activation of β2-adrenoceptors An ADAM-10 dependent EPCR shedding links meningococcal interaction with endothelial cells to purpura fulminans ». Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. https://wo.app.u-paris.fr/cgi-bin/WebObjects/TheseWeb.woa/wa/show?t=2296&f=12491.

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Neisseria meningitidis est une bactérie commensale du rhinopharynx portée de façon asymptomatique par 10 à 35% de la population. Pour une raison encore inconnue à ce jour, cette bactérie est capable de traverser la barrière épithéliale et ainsi proliférer dans la circulation sanguine de l’hôte, où elle est capable d’adhérer aux cellules endothéliales grâce aux pili de type IV. Sur ces cellules, le méningocoque interagit spécifiquement avec le récepteur d’adhésion CD147 et le récepteur β2-adrénergique qui active la signalisation sous la colonie bactérienne adhérente, favorisant l’ancrage de celle-ci à la surface cellulaire et l’ouverture des jonctions cellulaires. Nous avons montré que l’adhésion aux cellules endothéliales humaines est dépendante des motifs spécifiques de N-glycosylation portés par les récepteurs cellulaires eucaryotes. Les résultats montrent que le troisième site de N-glycosylation du récepteur CD147 est indispensable pour permettre l’adhésion de la bactérie, et que l’interaction est permise par les résidus d’acide sialique portés par ces chaînes de glycosylation. Les acides sialiques sont également essentiels pour l’interaction du méningocoque avec le récepteur β2-adrénergique et l’activation de la signalisation cellulaire sous la colonie. Les résultats montrent que la forme Neu5Ac (acide N-acétylneuraminique) des acides sialiques retrouvée dans l’espèce humaine pourrait participer à la spécificité d’espèce de N. meningitidis, la plupart des autres espèces de mammifères présentant une forme Neu5Gc (acide N-glycolylneuraminique). Nous avons ainsi pu montrer qu’une partie de la spécificité d’espèce du méningocoque est liée à l’interaction des pili de type IV avec des sucres spécifiques
Neisseria meningitidis is a commensal bacteria found in the nasopharynx of 10 to 35% of the population. For a still unknown reason, the bacteria a able to cross the epithelial barrier and to reach the bloodstream, where it can proliferate and adhere to the human endothelial cells via the type IV pili. The meningococcus specifically interacts with the adhesion receptor CD147 and the β2-adrenergic receptor, responsible for the activation of signaling under the adherent colony. We showed that the adhesion to the human endothelial cells is dependent on specific N-glycosylation patterns carried by the cellular receptors. The results show that the third N-glycosylation site of CD147 is essential to the adhesion of the bacteria, and that the interaction is due to the presence of sialic acid residues of the N-glycosylation chains. The sialic acids are also essential for the interaction of the meningococcus with the β2-adrenergic receptor and the activation of the signaling under the colony. The results show that the sialic acid of the form Neu5Ac (N-acetylneuraminic acid) found in humans could explain de species specificity of the meningococcal infection, most of the other mammals species possessing a Neu5Gc (N-glycolylneuraminic acid) form of the sialic acid. So we showed that a part of the species specificity of the meningococcus is due to the interaction of the type IV pili with specific glycosylations

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Holtz, Inga vom [Verfasser], Nicola [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gutachter] Breugst et Anne [Gutachter] Domurath. « Drivers and obstacles on the way to the one million dollar business opportunity : The interplay of human capital and intra-team trust in entrepreneurial team opportunity recognition and selection / Inga Freiin vom Holtz ; Gutachter : Nicola Breugst, Anne Domurath ; Betreuer : Nicola Breugst ». München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1142376591/34.

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Hlavačka, Martin. « Zpracování dat ze senzorů wearable zařízení pomocí strojového učení ». Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-403139.

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The goal of this master's thesis is to analyze the situation of wearable devices with the Android Wear operating system and recognition capabilities of various movement activities using neural networks. The primary focus is therefore on identifying and describing the most appropriate tool for recognizing dynamic movements using machine learning methods based on data obtained from this type of devices. The practical part of the thesis then comments on the implementation of a stand-alone Android Wear application capable of recording and formatting data from sensors, training the neural network in a designed external desktop tool, and then reusing trained neural network for motion recognition directly on the device.

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Correia, Dulce da Purificação Sardinha Pereira. « A condição de idoso antigo combatente : relatos de vida, vulnerabilidades e processos de reconhecimento público ». Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/12554.

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Hoje, grande parte dos homens portugueses com 65 ou mais anos têm uma história de vida associada à Guerra Colonial, tendo experienciado episódios em palcos de guerra, em muitos casos traumatizantes, os quais são sentidos e interpretados de forma diferenciada. Sendo o processo de envelhecimento heterogéneo e dependendo ele não só dos aspetos genéticos e fisiológicos, mas também de todo o percurso vivencial e psicossocial, pretendeu-se através deste estudo obter um conhecimento dos significados e relevância da experiência em Guerra, nos antigos combatentes, com o objetivo de saber como estes idosos vivenciam a sua condição de vida marcada pela guerra, captando desta forma as suas representações face às marcas visíveis ou silenciadas e a necessidade de reconhecimento político e social. O estudo pretendeu ainda dar conta do trabalho institucional que a Liga dos Combatentes tem vindo a desenvolver, no sentido de intervir no apoio ao idoso antigo combatente, em situação de vulnerabilidade, no campo da saúde e da solidariedade social. Foram realizadas entrevistas aprofundadas a doze idosos, baseadas na técnica de relato de vida, selecionando-se antigos combatentes com perfis diferenciados e duas entrevistas a técnicos dos Centros de Apoio Médico, Psicológico e Social (CAMPS). Procedeu-se à recolha e análise de documentação sobre a problemática em torno do envelhecimento da população portuguesa e, em particular, ao idoso combatente da guerra colonial, com especial relevo sobre as questões legislativas relacionadas com as medidas acionadas pelo Estado Português no apoio a esta população. O mesmo foi realizado no que se refere à génese da Liga dos Combatentes e, designadamente ao trabalho desenvolvido na atualidade no acompanhamento clínico e social ao combatente. Foi possível concluir que para os sujeitos entrevistados a experiência de guerra foi penosa para todos, quem participou na guerra não voltou o mesmo e o reconhecimento da Nação tem sido pouco ou nenhum para os que nela participaram. Contudo, apesar dos episódios marcantes e dramáticos que viveram, esse período acabou por constituir um fator de crescimento pessoal, promovendo uma maior consciencialização social e política, tornando-os mais reflexivos e proativos em relação à sua condição social. No que respeita à intervenção Institucional, reconhece-se o papel fundamental que a Liga dos Combatentes tem na proteção ao combatente, através da criação de respostas de ação concretas e adequadas a cada caso, promovendo assim um maior bem-estar social e psicológico do idoso, na condição de antigo combatente, baseando todo o seu trabalho numa relação de confiança, atenção e respeito pela pessoa.
Nowadays, a large share of Portuguese men aged over 65 have a personal background linked to the Colonial War, having undergone episodes in war zones, in many cases traumatizing ones, which are felt and interpreted in diverging manners. Given that the ageing process is heterogeneous and that it not only depends on genetic and physiological aspects, but also on the entire living and psychosocial path, this study aimed at obtaining knowledge regarding the meanings and relevance of the war experience to former combatants, with a view to knowing how these elderly experience their war-scarred life, there by capturing their representations vis-à-vis visible or silenced marks and the necessity for political and social recognition. It also sought to outline the institutional work carried out by the Combatants’ League in terms of its intervention in support of former combatants in situations of vulnerability, in the areas of healthcare and social solidarity. Twelve elderly persons were the subject of in-depth interviews, which were based on the life story technique, with a selection of former combatants with distinct profiles, plus two interviews with CAMPS’ (Medical, Psychological and Social Support Centre) experts. A collection and analysis of documents about the Portuguese population’s ageing issue was performed, especially that of the elderly combatant in the Colonial War, with a special focus on the legislative measures put in place by the Portuguese State in support of this group. The same was done concerning the Combatants’ League origin, namely the work it currently develops as regards the provision of medical and social follow-up to the combatant. It was possible to conclude that the war experience was painful for each one of the interviewees, that those who took part in the war did not come back the same, and that the Nation’s recognition towards them has been little to none. However, despite the striking and dramatic episodes they went through, that period ended up representing a personal growth factor, by promoting a bigger social and political awareness, thus making them more thoughtful and proactive with regard to their social status. As far as the institutional intervention is concerned, acknowledgment is given to the fundamental role performed by the Combatants’ League in combatant protection, by creating concrete and appropriate action responses for each case, thereby promoting a bigger social and psychological wellbeing for the elderly, as former combatants, and basing all its work on a relationship of trust, attention and respect for the person.

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(13157530), Vanessa Seekee. « Horn Island, Torres Strait and the 1939-1945 Star Medal ». Thesis, 2003. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Horn_Island_Torres_Strait_and_the_1939-1945_Star_Medal/20380137.

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This dissertation explores the anomaly of Horn Island, Torres Strait, being classified a non -operational area during World War Two. It explains why this designation was wrong, and why it needed to be changed in order that the men and women who served there be accorded the recognition that they had been striving for since the war concluded. The concrete measure of that recognition comes in the form of the 1939- 1945 Star Medal. This prestigious award is for duty in an area that came under enemy attack during the Second World War, until 1993 restricted to those who served overseas. The dissertation plots the activities of Air Force and Army squadrons and units at Horn Island, both Australian and American, draws on an extensive bank of oral evidence, and focuses on the experiences of those who served there. Their histories portray what life was like at that Advanced Operational Airbase, and demonstrate the effect Horn Island service had on veterans. These are tangible demonstrations and are attested to by the fact that 60 years later the men and women have begun to return. They are being drawn back to their island of service, to walk in the steps of their youth, recapturing a past that will soon be lost to memory. Many bring their descendants to pass down their family's wartime heritage. On 26 October 2001 the 1939-1945 Star Medal finally was awarded to qualifying Tones Strait veterans, a decision that affected thousands of men, and a handful of women, who now hold the physical symbol that their wartime service has been acknowledged. However, for many other Horn Island veterans there is still unfinished business.

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Moutinho, Andrea Senos. « CIMIC em português ». Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/19631.

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Apesar de já desde a primeira metade do século XX algumas Forças Armadas manterem unidades especializadas na concretização do que modernamente se chama "cooperação civil-militar", as atuais doutrinas de CIMIC começaram a desenvolver-se no espaço da NATO, em meados da década de 90, como resposta, sobretudo, às lições aprendidas nos conflitos dos Balcãs. No caso português, a Guerra Colonial proporcionou abordagens e apresentou conceitos para a contrainsurgência que podem ter sido os primórdios do CIMIC em Português, e que devem, hoje, ser tidos em conta para que a cooperação civil-militar feita por portugueses obtenha, cada vez mais, reconhecimento nacional e internacional.
Even though some Armed Forces have kept specialized units working in the so-called “civil-military cooperation” since the first half of the 20th century, the current doctrine concerning CIMIC started to develop in NATO-environment around the 1990s. This was mainly a response to the lessons learned at the Balkans’ conflict. On the Portuguese case, the Colonial War has given concepts to approach counterinsurgency that might have been the starting point for Portuguese CIMIC. That heritage must be made accountable so that CIMIC done by the Portuguese gets more and more recognition, both nationally and internationally.

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Ching-hua, Lin, et 林靜華. « Detection and Recognition of Road Signs When Auditory Stimulus was Present ». Thesis, 1995. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47323570070254556895.

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中華大學
工業研究所
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The assessment of traffic sign design was one of the major concern of ergonomists. This research investigated the sensitivity of human subject in detecting some commonly encountered traffic signs from slides when auditory stumulus was present. The subjective responsed of the subject, from questionnaire, were analyzed by signal detection theory. The results showed that the sensitivity of the subjects in detecting road signs were affected by the shapes of the sign and visual distance significantly. In addition, different categories of drivers and gander also showed different sensitivity in the detection task. The sensitivity of the subjects in detecting the road signs were not decreased by the presence of the auditory stimulus.

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Roque, Tiago Guedes. « Optical Character Recognition of Alphanumeric Codes of Ceramic Bowls used in Lost-wax Casting ». Master's thesis, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/119324.

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Chong, Eric Wai-Shing. « Neural framework for visual scene analysis with selective attention / by Eric Wai-Shing Chong ». Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/20300.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 225-241).
xxviii, 241 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
Proposes an architectural framework based on neural networks for visual scene analysis with attentional mechanisms.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Adelaide University, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2001

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Chong, Eric Wai-Shing. « Neural framework for visual scene analysis with selective attention / by Eric Wai-Shing Chong ». 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/20300.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 225-241).
xxviii, 241 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Proposes an architectural framework based on neural networks for visual scene analysis with attentional mechanisms.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Adelaide University, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2001

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Wang, Yun-Ge, et 王芸閣. « The Way to Self-Recognition : Recovery of Native Identity in N. Scott Momaday''s The Way to Rainy Mountain and House Made of Dawn ». Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92947288980335751682.

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國立中興大學
外國語文學系所
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The thesis plans to probe into the self-recognition journey in N. Scott Momaday’s two representative works, The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969), an autobiographical fiction with first-person narrative, and House Made of Dawn (1968), a novel inspired by what Momaday witnessed in postwar Indian reservation. As reflection of the author’s life, the protagonists experience separation, alienation, cultural and linguistic deprivation, and identity crisis in the era where Native American culture is in danger of extinction. Conflict, struggle, and quest are thus the main ideas throughout the two works. In Chapter One, I will give a panorama of Momaday’s background, education, works, writing themes and images, and literary contribution. Chapter Two discusses Momaday’s The Way to Rainy Mountain. The work is written in the author’s perspective. Momaday, aware that his grandmother’s death heralds the decline of Kiowa tradition, tries to weave the tribal memories and stories through imagination for recovering self-identity. Chapter Three focuses on a dispossessed young Indian veteran, Abel, who moves from place to place attempting to learn who he is by his contact with his grandfather, Tosamah, and other important characters. Momaday expresses his anticipation of self-recognition in the quest journeys. The protagonists, who seem to be considered as inactive victimized Indians, subvert the stereotype and continuously explore Native identity by revisiting the past. The journey helps them grow up and recompose the conception of self. At last, they are aware that they cannot linger in the shade of past. Recognizing themselves as Indians and heirs of Native American culture, they determine to venture out and face the real world in the future.

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Ditkowsky, Benjamin. « Onset recognition computerized assessment system : a validation of measuring the right skills at the right time in the right way / ». 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3045085.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-122). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Sz-FanChen et 陳思帆. « Way-Finding and Scene Recognition in Patients with Very Mild Alzheimer’s disease : Effects of Visual Attention and Novelty Detection Ability ». Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57664104769177374122.

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國立成功大學
行為醫學研究所
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Objective: Way-finding difficulty is a common problem in many community-dwelling patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), particularly as changes occur in their neighborhood or community. In the present study, Participants in this study, including AD patients and age-matched cognitive healthy controls (CHC), were recruited to test their way-finding ability and change detection ability. Method: We designed three experiments to examine subjects’ visual attention, way-finding ability and change detection ability. In habituation-dishabituation Task, we modify habituation-dishabituation paradigm to test subjects’ visual attention. The participants, including 34 very mild AD patients and 31 CHC with equal basic visual acuity, were not asked to answer any questions but to view the pictures freely. In way-finding task, we prepared several personally familiar street scenes, including 50% modified and 50% original pictures, to simulate changes in everyday life. The participants were asked to judge the correct direction to destination. After way-finding task, we manifested pictures in way-finding task again to measure subjects’ sensitivity to changes in environment. The accuracy of way-finding and change detection, reaction time, and eye-movement was measured. Results: Compared with CHC, AD patients showed higher error rate in way-finding, poor sensitivity in change detection, longer time in both conditions. The AD patients also had poorer visual search skills than CHC when personally familiar scenes were displayed. Conclusion: The present study demonstrated poorer way-finding ability and visual search inefficiency in very mild AD patients when personally familiar street scenes were displayed, and underlying mechanisms may relate to impaired visual attention. The deficits are a reflection of their difficulty in their everyday life when their familiar environments are changed.

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黃宗秀. « The research of the human rights recognition and attitude of public high school students-a example of the Wan-Hua district of Taipei city ». Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40150103456964632220.

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國立臺灣師範大學
政治學研究所在職進修碩士班
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The research ofthe human rights recognition and attitude of public high school students－A example of the Wan-hua district of Taipei city. Abstract This research is focused on public senior high school students in Wan-hua District in Taipei, and its purpose is to study and examine the implementation of human rights education in senior high schools. The paper adopts reference analysis and questionnaire to collect relevant information and statistic. Moreover, it also applies the researcher’s own ‘questionnaire of high school students’ human rights reorganization and human rights attitude’ as a tool for the purpose of this thesis. The research makes thorough inquiry regarding to the current human rights knowledge and attitude of high school students in Taipei, and analyzes high school students’ human rights attitude and recognition through their gender, age, and division of college interests, cadre experience and education and occupation of students’ parents. Lastly, the purpose of this paper is to discuss whether there is a connection between the degree of human rights recognition and human rights attitude. The paper makes the finding as follows: Recognition of human rights is not well known to senior high school students. Students lack for knowledge of international human rights’ issues. It is found that students are more familiar with recognition of domestic human rights’ topics. High school students’ attitude towards human rights is optimistic. Their attitude towards human right of the disabled and of other classmates positive. However, they lack for the solution of democratic system in dispute, and are short of the concept of Justice, which would allow preference for the minority. Students’ gender, grade, and division of college interests affect high school students’ recognition of human rights. Female students are better than male, seniors are superior to juniors, and liberal arts division students know more than engineering and science division students. Students’ gender, division of college interests, and their cadre experience at school affect high school students’ attitude of human rights. Generally speaking, Female students are better than male ones, and engineering division students fall behind others in liberal arts and science. Moreover, the longer the cadre experience they have, the better the attitude they possess. There is an obvious correlation between high school students’ human rights recognition and human rights attitude. Key: human rights, human rights education, human rights recognition, human rights attitude

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Bielak, Allison Anne Marie. « Was that part of the story or did I just think so ? : age differences, mild cognitive impairment, and intraindividual variability in inferences and story recognition ». 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/497.

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The present study expanded the story recognition and inference literature by investigating age differences within the older age range, differences as a result of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and extending the focus of the investigation into the consistency of responding. 304 older adults completed a story recognition task across five different occasions. Old-old (00) adults and those with more severe MCI showed poorer ability to accurately recognize inferences, and less sensitivity to discriminate between statement types. Intraindividual variability was positively correlated with increasing age and cognitive impairment, and interactions revealed the greatest inconsistency involved the false, rather than inferred statements. The findings support our proposal that participants used two different recognition strategies, and their episodic memory ability defined the efficiency and frequency of use of the strategies. 00 and MCI adults may be less able to recognize that something plausible and consistent with an event may not have actually occurred.

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Clipperton, Allen Amy Elizabeth. « Food, friends and foes : estrogens and social behaviour in mice ». Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/3275.

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This thesis investigates estrogens' modulation of three aspects of social cognition (aggression and agonistic behaviour, social learning, and social recognition). Sex-typical agonistic behaviour (males: overt attacks, females: more subtle dominance behaviours) was increased in gonadectomized mice by estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) agonist 1,3,5-tris(4-hydroxyphenyl)-4-propyl-1H-pyrazole (PPT), while non-overt agonistic behaviour was increased in male and female gonadally intact mice by ERβ agonist 7-Bromo-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-1,3-benzoxazol-5-ol (WAY-200070). Estrogens also affected the social transmission of food preferences (STFP). Acute estrogen and ERβ agonists WAY-200070 and 2,3-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)propionitrile (DPN) prolonged the preference for the demonstrated food when administered pre-acquisition, likely by affecting motivation or the nature of the social interaction, while acute PPT blocked the STFP. All mice receiving any of the three treatments chronically showed a prolonged demonstrated food preference, suggesting a loss of ER specificity. Individual differences in social recognition may relate to increased oxytocin (OT) and vasopressin (AVP) mRNA, and ERα and ERβ gene activation, in the medial preoptic area, and decreased mRNA for ERs, OT receptor (OTR), AVP and AVP receptors 1a and 1b in the lateral amygdala. Additionally, dorsolateral septum ERs, progesterone receptor, and OTR may relate to social interest without affecting social recognition. Our and others' results suggest that estrogens, OT and AVP are all involved in social behaviours and mediate social recognition, social learning, social interactions, and aggression. ERs differently modulate the two types of social learning investigated here: ERα is critical for social recognition, but impairs social learning, while ERβ is less important in social recognition, and prolongs the demonstrated food preference in the STFP. This may be due to differences in receptor brain distributions or in downstream neurochemical systems that mediate these behaviours. The results of this thesis suggest that estrogens, through the various systems they modulate, have a key role to play in social behaviour. Further investigations of how estrogens effect change in these systems at the molecular and cellular level, as well as the critical brain areas and downstream effectors involved in these complex behaviours, are needed, and could contribute to therapeutic interventions in socially-based, sexually dimorphic disorders, like the autism spectrum disorders, and women receiving hormone replacement therapy for negative peri- or post-menopausal symptoms.
National Science and Engineering Research Council (PGS-D, CGS-M)

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Tyler, John. « A Pragmatic Standard of Legal Validity ». Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10885.

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American jurisprudence currently applies two incompatible validity standards to determine which laws are enforceable. The natural law tradition evaluates validity by an uncertain standard of divine law, and its methodology relies on contradictory views of human reason. Legal positivism, on the other hand, relies on a methodology that commits the analytic fallacy, separates law from its application, and produces an incomplete model of law. These incompatible standards have created a schism in American jurisprudence that impairs the delivery of justice. This dissertation therefore formulates a new standard for legal validity. This new standard rejects the uncertainties and inconsistencies inherent in natural law theory. It also rejects the narrow linguistic methodology of legal positivism. In their stead, this dissertation adopts a pragmatic methodology that develops a standard for legal validity based on actual legal experience. This approach focuses on the operations of law and its effects upon ongoing human activities, and it evaluates legal principles by applying the experimental method to the social consequences they produce. Because legal history provides a long record of past experimentation with legal principles, legal history is an essential feature of this method. This new validity standard contains three principles. The principle of reason requires legal systems to respect every subject as a rational creature with a free will. The principle of reason also requires procedural due process to protect against the punishment of the innocent and the tyranny of the majority. Legal systems that respect their subjects' status as rational creatures with free wills permit their subjects to orient their own behavior. The principle of reason therefore requires substantive due process to ensure that laws provide dependable guideposts to individuals in orienting their behavior. The principle of consent recognizes that the legitimacy of law derives from the consent of those subject to its power. Common law custom, the doctrine of stare decisis, and legislation sanctioned by the subjects' legitimate representatives all evidence consent. The principle of autonomy establishes the authority of law. Laws must wield supremacy over political rulers, and political rulers must be subject to the same laws as other citizens. Political rulers may not arbitrarily alter the law to accord to their will. Legal history demonstrates that, in the absence of a validity standard based on these principles, legal systems will not treat their subjects as ends in themselves. They will inevitably treat their subjects as mere means to other ends. Once laws do this, men have no rest from evil.

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Rosa, Michel Fernandes da. « Os Atingidos de Belo Monte : experiências de sofrimento e agravos à saúde no contexto de um megaprojeto hidroelétrico na Amazônia brasileira ». Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/31193.

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Tese de doutoramento em Sociologia, apresentada à Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra
A presente tese consiste em um estudo sociológico a partir do caso da Usina Hidroelétrica Belo Monte, em construção no Estado do Pará, na Amazônia brasileira. O objetivo deste estudo foi dedicar um olhar para a questão da saúde a partir da perspectiva das populações atingidas pelo megaprojeto hidroelétrico. O trabalho inicia com uma apresentação do histórico dos projetos de barramento do rio Xingu, em meados dos anos 1970. Dos primeiros estudos da bacia hidrográfica do Xingu até o início da obra de Belo Monte passaram-se aproximadamente trinta anos e, durante esse período, muitas polémicas e disputas envolveram as populações atingidas, políticos, intelectuais, artistas, cientistas, ativistas e movimentos sociais. Também é discutido nesta tese o modelo de desenvolvimento económico brasileiro, para se compreender como se dá a opção pela construção de grandes projetos de infraestrutura, como é o caso de Belo Monte. A partir dessa primeira abordagem ao megaprojeto, passo a dar ênfase à perspectiva das populações atingidas por Belo Monte. Para tanto, foi necessário, primeiramente, conhecer melhor o universo de populações atingidas, compostas por populações urbanas, rurais, comunidades ribeirinhas e indígenas. Através do trabalho empírico realizado em Brasília/DF e Altamira/PA, foi possível conhecer e reconhecer a diversidade dessas populações e, assim identificar algumas questões importantes que não foram objeto de debate com o poder público e o empreendedor. É o que Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2006) chama de produções de não existência, ou invisibilidades. A utilização da matriz teórica das epistemologias do Sul (Santos, 2002) permitiu o reconhecimento dessas invisibilidades, isto é, permitiu ver como as alterações no ambiente e nos modos de vidas das populações atingidas por Belo Monte afetam a saúde e a qualidade de vida destas. É a partir dessa lente que se dedica o olhar para a saúde das populações atingidas, e a problematização dessa questão é realizada nesta tese tendo como protagonistas as próprias populações atingidas. Assim foi identificado como um dos problemas relevantes decorrentes da construção da Usina Hidroelétrica Belo Monte a relação entre o sofrimento sentido pelas populações atingidas e o surgimento de agravos à saúde. O sofrimento difuso é um conceito desenvolvido por Valla (2001) que será discutido nesta tese na medida em que é constatado como uma consequência de Belo Monte invisibilizada. Isto porque não foi previsto ou discutido como uma possibilidade, nem no Estudo de Impacto Ambiental (EIA), nem no seu respectivo Relatório de Impacto Ambiental (Rima). Também não foi percebido como uma situação merecedora de atenção por parte do órgão fiscalizador responsável pela conceção das licenças que permitiram Belo Monte ser construída, o Ibama. Ainda, a relação entre o sofrimento e os agravos à saúde das populações atingidas não foi alvo de políticas públicas na área da saúde pública. Dessa forma, pretende este trabalho contribuir para a discussão sobre a saúde das populações atingidas pelo megaprojeto Belo Monte, a partir do reconhecimento das populações atingidas como detentoras e produtoras de conhecimento relevante. ~This thesis consists of a sociological study from the case of Belo Monte Hydroelectric Power Plant, under construction in the State of Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon. The aim of this study was to dedicate a look at the issue of health from the perspective of the people affected by hydroelectric megaproject. The work begins with a presentation of the history of the Xingu River dam projects in the mid-1970s From the first studies of the watershed of the Xingu to the early work of Belo Monte it took about thirty years and during this period, many controversies and disputes involving the populations concerned, politicians, intellectuals, artists, scientists, activists and social movements. It is also discussed in this thesis the Brazilian model of economic development, to understand how is the option for the construction of large infrastructure projects, such as the case of Belo Monte. From this first approach to megaproject, then I give emphasis to the perspective of populations affected by Belo Monte. Therefore, it was necessary, firstly, to know the universe of affected populations, composed of urban, rural populations, coastal communities and indigenous people. Through the empirical work done in Brasilia / DF and Altamira / PA, it was possible to know and recognize the diversity of these populations and thus identify some important issues that were not subject to discussion with the government and the entrepreneur. It's what Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2006) calls invisibilities. Using the theoretical framework of South epistemologies (Santos, 2002) allowed the recognition of these invisibilities, allowed to see how changes in the environment and ways of life of the populations affected by Belo Monte affect the health and quality of life of that people. It is from this lens that is dedicated to looking at the health of the populations, and the questioning of this issue is carried out in this thesis having as protagonists the affected populations themselves. Thus it was identified as one of the relevant issues arising from the construction of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant the relationship between the suffering experienced by the affected populations and the emergence of health problems. The diffuse suffering is a concept developed by Valla (2001) which will be discussed in this thesis since it is found as a result of Belo Monte. This is because it was not planned or discussed as a possibility, or the Environmental Impact Study (EIA), or in their respective Environmental Impact Report (RIMA). It was also not perceived as a worthy position of attention by the supervisory body responsible for the design of the licenses that allowed Belo Monte is built, the Ibama. Also, the relationship between suffering and health problems of the affected population was not the target of public policies in the field of public health. Thus, this work aims to contribute to the discussion on the health of populations affected by Belo Monte mega-project, from the recognition of the people affected as having relevant knowledge.
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) - Nº BEX 1749-13-7

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