Rozprawy doktorskie na temat „The Tower of Babel”

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007.
Liturgical drama for vocal soloists (TBarB), chorus (SATB), children's chorus, and chamber orchestra. Text adapted from Thomas Merton's play The Tower of Babel : a morailty. Text printed as words: leaves 129-134. Includes vita and abstract. Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

This thesis will examine intensively “The Tower of Babel: A Morality” a significant work of Thomas Merton, a major spiritual writer of the 20th Century, entitled. In order to explore this play three other works which impacted significantly on the development of the drama will also be examined. These three works are: A poem also called “Tower of Babel”; a second poem entitled “A Responsory” and a musical work titled “The Tower of Babel: An Oratorio”. Even though Victor Kramer, a Merton scholar, noted the significance of the Morality, the existing literature has all but ignored the impact of “The Oratorio” and the drama. Until this author requested a copy of “The Oratorio” from the Merton Centre in Louisville, Kentucky the work had been known by name only and had never been analysed. Yet this work was a major development from the poem “A Responsory” and led to the creation of the Morality Play. This work argues that “A Morality” was pivotal in contributing to personal and spiritual change in Merton as well as developing a greater depth of social understanding in him. It will also argue that the work contained the seeds of future Merton writings. Writing the drama moved Merton towards a contemplative maturity based on communion not simply community. While many studies have alluded to the play none of them have studied it with this particular focus. This new focus is the discovery of the ways Merton attempted to resolve the dilemma he experienced between the paths of monk and poet and how, in doing so, he created for spiritual seekers a fresh inner significance for the Babel story. This work is opening up new ground for an understanding of the importance of Merton’s insights in the contemporary world. The methods used in this thesis are: 1. Contextualising, that is establishing the historical, social, spiritual and literary framework in which the poems and plays were written, and 2. Literary analysis. Part A of the thesis examines the monastic, spiritual, social, literary and academic contexts which brought Merton to the moment of writing the Morality. Part B is organised chronologically and is an intensive analysis of the poems, the Oratorio and the Morality Play. Part C identifies the seeds of future growth contained within the Morality play and points to some of the directions in which these seeds developed in later Merton works.

My dissertation explores how authoritarian governments use language policy to impact public political trust. Based on a comprehensive examination through survey analyses, experiments, and large-scale text analyses, my research demonstrates that authoritarian governments, such as in China, can use language policy as a political tool to influence citizens’ political attitudes. In particular, language policy empowers the official language used by government representatives, such as street-level bureaucrats, reinforcing their political identities and enhancing citizens' trust in them. Using an original randomized experiment in China based on a new sociolinguistic technique, my research finds robust evidence that listeners hold significantly more trust in bureaucrats who speak the official language than in those who speak dialects, even if the respondent and government representative share the same dialect. Furthermore, my research shows that language not only influences citizens' political trust but also their understanding of political concepts. Using a computer-assisted text analysis of over one million articles from the official newspaper of the dominant party of China from 1946-2003, I indicate a refocusing strategy by which the official discourse about democracy manipulates the meaning of democracy in the Chinese political language without contradicting with the Western democratic values, while simultaneously preserving the authoritarian regime. Drawing on multiple waves of nationally representative surveys from China, my dissertation also identifies distinctive effects of improving listening, speaking, and relative proficiencies of Putonghua on Chinese citizens' political interest, efficacy, pursuit, and institutional-based political trust. This study contributes to political science, and even the entire social science by justifying the important role of language in human social and political lives and turning the research focus from language content to language context.

Among the vast assembly of Biblical mythology, the tower of Babel stands as an exclusive representation of the limits of human endeavor. As a paradigmatic extremity, it circumscribes the field of civic artifice. Babel is the absolute limit, and in that regard, its presence is enduring and timeless. The legacy of exegetic readings are textual shades, emanating from the point source of the paradigm. Athanasius Kircher's Turris Babel is an appropriate and intentional unfolding of this condition.
Firstly, that in the awakening of the Baroque scholar to history, origin materializes as the sole legitimate chronological reference.
Secondly, that the paradigmatic extremities collapse into the empirical standard of the theoretical discourse.
This thesis is a speculative study of architecture, drawn through Turris Babel, in the shadow of the paradigmatic limits of Babel. Written in three parts, each dealing with the implications of artifice in confrontation with the post-Babel adversaries of dispersion, tyranny, and decay.

Prenant au mot la question d'un étudiant qui lui demandait pourquoi il était impossible d'écrire un roman tel que Middlemarch au XXe siècle, Byatt se lança le défi d'écrire une œuvre « à la manière de » George Eliot. Ce défi fut à l'origine de sa tétralogie. Ce travail analyse la manière dont Byatt réexamine le discours réaliste et l'héritage du roman réaliste du XIXe siècle, la manière dont elle « revisite » cette partie de la maison de la fiction dans sa tétralogie, tout en explorant les liens que la littérature entretient avec la réalité et la façon dont elle intègre diverses formes de représentation (topoï littéraires, images, représentations collectives, etc. ). Selon nous, la tétralogie est une œuvre sur la représentation. Ce travail se fonde sur l'étude de quatre espaces : l'espace domestique, l'espace public, des mondes parallèles et l'espace littéraire et sa configuration poétique. Notre analyse part de l'espace domestique, noyau du roman réaliste, pour ensuite s'élargir à l'espace public et aux représentations collectives associées aux années 1950 et 1960. La représentation de ces deux espaces est marquée par de nombreuses dissonances et de multiples illusions qui nous ont conduit à étudier les dérives de la représentation qu'illustrent d'étranges « mondes parallèles », miroirs déformants de la société « normale ». Nous avons finalement examiné la propédeutique du voir que Byatt met en place à travers un dialogue des disciplines, une insistance particulière sur des figures matrices, les incipits et les excipits et aux éléments que Byatt place à l'origine de son inspiration créatrice : la vision, les couleurs, les métaphores et le refus du binarisme
When a student asked Byatt why it should be impossible to write a novel like Middlemarch in the twentieth century, she took him at his word and decided to take up the challenge to write a novel "in the manner of George Eliot. This challenge served as a starting point for her tetralogy. This study analyses the way in which Byatt re-examines realist discourse and the legacy of nineteenth century realism, the way in which she "revisits" this part of the house of fiction in her tetralogy, while exploring the links between literature and reality and the manner in which literature incorporates various forms of representation (literary topoi, images, collective representations, etc. ). Byatt's tetralogy is a work on representation. This study concentrates on four types of spaces : the domestic space, the public space, parallel worlds and the literary space and its poetics. Our analysis starts with the domestic space, which is at the core of the realist novel, and then broadens to consider the public space and the collective representations associated with the 1950s and 1960s. The representation of these two spaces is marked by many dissonances and illusions, which led us to examine the defamiliarisation of representation within "parallel worlds" which mirror "normal" society in a distorted way, We finally studied the manner in which Byatt teaches her reader how to see and interpret, thanks to a dialogic approach to the different disciplines, an emphasis on central figures and on the incipits and the excipits, and the elements which were at the origin of Byatt's inspiration : vision, colours, metaphors and the rejection of binary thought

The focus of this study is to investigate what images of Sweden are transmitted in the novel The road to Ithaca (1994), by the Uruguayan author Carlos Liscano. The study focuses on the first half part of the novel for this taking place in Stockholm, Sweden, in the early nineties. The aim is to investigate by what literary strategies and literary subgenres the images of Sweden are transmitted.    The theoretical framework applied derives from studies of the literary genre of the picaresque novel and its bufonesco mood, such as the literary strategies irony and laconism. For the analysis Mieke Bal´s concept of focalization and semantic axes are used.      The study shows that in Sweden there are parallel worlds to the official world of the welfare state; in the shadow side of society there are the metecos, unwanted residents: the undocumented and the mentally ill. Through a picaresque and ironic style, the author shows that Sweden is a neat, clean, but culturally hermetic society; almost perfect on the surface, but with a lot of hidden “trash” beneath.    The welfare state of Sweden seams benevolent in its integrative intention, but is, at the same time, blind, or even worse, disinterested in the new reality of the country; that of the welfare state in dissolution and Sweden as a Tower of Babel.

The essay at hand is a New Historicist reading of C. S. Lewis’ dystopian fantasy novel That Hideous Strength. According to New Historicist theory it is informed by many disciplines, namely, philosophy, history, literary theory, theology, social science, and psychology, and it attempts to lessen injustices of race and class. The essay examines how satire operates in the novel, focusing on its societal targets: totalitarianism, laboratory animals, and education. Lewis’ philosophical idea expressed in his “The Abolition of Man” – that a society that averts from what he calls universal, timeless, objective values will eventually lead to a loss of that which is truly humane – is a main theme of the novel as well as for this essay. Another, complementary, main theme is that a cultivation of the heart is necessary for individuals of society since childhood if society is going to stay humane.

My Thesis body of work, The Mythos for the Mortal, presents visual interpretations of apocalyptic mythoi—past, present, and future. These works are both a conscious and unconscious response to childhood exposure to apocalyptic stories and form a visual record of social, political and religious interpretations of the apocalypse. The overarching theme of apocalypse (from the Greek word Apokalypsis, meaning ‘to unveil’ or ‘to reveal’) has allowed me to reconnect to my youth and heritage and has driven me to articulate more clearly a perspective regarding the future and what it will ‘reveal’ to us. I use the landscape as a stage to create narratives and metaphors expressing these ideas. These paintings and drawings are divided into four categories of apocalypse: historical, future, ecological, and personal.

babel is a collection of nonfiction essays in which I explore a female twenty-something’s crossdimensional dilemma of spirituality, racism, art, and love in the wake of Bible-belt hipsterdom. I board the train that is human pride, that great metal snake by which we essayists craft our lives, and measure out my stories by cities and coffeespoons—dotted with dark roast, preferably. The train of my collection glides through the first ‘burg and its Godlike aspirations, Babel; travels a ways to Virginia, specifically Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University and Prince Edward County, which was the hotbed of the Civil Rights in Education Movement; says hello to Bowling Green; and emerges a world away, in a mosaic of people on cow-peppered Indian streets. This master’s thesis—as a tangible fixture of my own words in a realm where greater folks have preceded me and still fallen (far and hard as Icarus)—is prideful, exploratory, and ultimately human. The titular pun may be taken more or less seriously. Hear the train whistle. It is our attempts at the Divine, a nexus of journeys and somehow in itself too a destination.

Relatório de Estágio apresentado para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Edição de Texto
O relatório de estágio realizado na editora Babel tem por finalidade apresentar a história da editora, descrever todas as atividades realizadas no decorrer do estágio e apontar alguns problemas evidenciados durante o mesmo. Das tarefas executadas destacam-se: a revisão de texto, nomeadamente da obra Carta sobre o Humanismo de Martin Heidegger, e Caixa para pensar, de Manuel Carmo; e a transcrição e revisão de várias entrevistas do autor e professor Jorge de Sena; e por fim, o trabalho na livraria da editora, desde da sua organização até à venda de livros ao público.

This thesis deals with the simulation of a Babel routing protocol. The goal is to create implementation of simulation model for OMNeT++ simulator. The text includes a description of the protocol and basic principles of computer network simulation in OMNeT++ environment using an INET library. Furthermore, the text discussed existing implementations and submits a proposal of a simulation model, followed by description of its implementation. Finally, the correctness of created model is verified.

CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Sistemas de software normalmente são descritos por sua arquitetura. Esta descrição fornece uma visão abstrata, demonstrando como o sistema é composto por módulos e interações entre estes módulos. Usando-se a arquitetura como uma especificação executável do sistema, consegue-se maior compromisso entre os requisitos do sistema e sua implementação. Tal compromisso simplifica o desenvolvimento e manutenção de sistemas complexos. Este trabalho define conceitos úteis para a construção, execução e gerenciamento de aplicações distribuídas, usando especificações arquiteturais. A metodologia apresentada distingue a construção de módulos através de programação, da efetiva construção da aplicação, através de configuração (ou especificação da arquitetura). Desta forma, pode-se adotar soluções específicas (e.g. linguagens e metodologias) para módulos particulares, mantendo-se o encapsulamento necessário para seu uso de forma transparente. Para validar os conceitos e permitir sua aplicação em um ambiente de execução real, foi criada uma Linguagem de Configuração chamada BABEL. No decorrer da dissertação, são apresentados os conceitos envolvidos e BABEL. Com o suporte do ambiente RIO, BABEL oferece simplicidade, transparência e flexibilidade para a construção de aplicações distribuídas complexas, possuindo conceitos básicos que viabilizam a elaboração de mecanismos avançados como contratos, herança e polimorfismo. Adicionalmente, são demonstradas experiências decorrentes da implementação de um Interpretador e um Servidor de Nomes para a linguagem. Finalmente, os conhecimentos obtidos com esta pesquisa são apresentados, sugerindo-se trabalhos futuros para continuidade do projeto BABEL.
Software systems are usually described from their architecture. This description provides an abstract vision showing how the system is composed with modules and module interactions. Consistency between the system requirements and implementation may be achieved by using the architecture as a system executable specification. This guarantee of consistency simplifies the development and maintenance of complex systems. This study defines concepts useful to distributed application contructions, execution and management. The presented methodology distinguishes the builiding of modules, throught programming, from the effective application buiding through configuration (or architectural specification). Thus, specific solutions (e.g languages and methodologies) may be adopted for particular modules, preserving the necessary encapsulation for transparent use. A Configuration Language called BABEL was developed to validate these the concepts and apply them in a real execution environment. In the dissertation BABEL ans its related concepts are presented. Along with RIO Environment support, BABEL offers simplicity, transparency and flexibility for complex distributed application construction. It has concepts that allow advanced mechanisms such as contracts, inheritance and polymorphism. Additionally, a language Interpreter and a Name Server implementation for BABEL are presented. Finally, the knowledge gained from this study is presented, along with recommendations for future directions for the BABEL project.

This thesis is an architectural investigation of a house as a rational object imbued by memory. The place is a wooded hill on the border between a hundred acre farm and the marshy ravine of the Totopotomoy "Totomoy" Creek in Mechanicsville, Virginia. The farm dates back to the Civil War when the Totomoy was no man's land between Union and Confederate earth works. It has been farmed by my grandfather since the late 1940s. The house is a pair of rectangles separated by a stair. The concrete block walls are punctured by large windows, aligned to define interior passage and establishing clarity of spatial and formal relationships. The tower house is the reduction and rational manifestation of familial memory.
Master of Architecture

Critical essay. Soon after the end of the Second World War, Samuel Beckett began producing French and English versions of each of his works. This raises interesting questions concerning the relationship between two languages and two texts within one literary work. Bilingualism is an essential dimension of Beckett's "oeuvre" which pushes the very limits of literature and explores essential aspects of language, identity and creation.
Creative writing. I was born in Montreal of a French mother and a father from Texas. My work in creative writing consists of six short stories set between the three geographical poles of my existence: Quebec, the United States and France. I also wrote a French and English version of my short story entitled The Ghost of Old Man Beck. These stories explore, on a more personal and creative level, the questions of bilingualism, identity and creativity raised in my critical essay.

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O objetivo desta tese é investigar em narrativas de Guimarães Rosa como se relacionam as personagens nativas e estrangeiras, ou seja, verificar se há receptividade ou rejeição do diferente, a empatia ou a recusa do outro. O corpus é constituído por textos rosianos em que surgem ou se destacam personagens alemãs – o romance Grande sertão: veredas, a novela “O recado do morro” de Corpo de Baile, o conto “O mau humor de Wotan”, de Ave, palavra – e ciganas: os contos “Faraó e a água do rio”, “O outro ou o outro” e “Zingaresca”, de Tutameia. O procedimento para se atingir a meta é a apuração, por meio da análise, da construção desse tema pelas categorias narrativas, tendo como centro as personagens e sua relação com a história, o narrador, a focalização, o espaço e, como não poderia deixar de ser, a linguagem. Neste caso, salienta-se a exploração de hibridismos. Os resultados da análise de cada narrativa levaram à possibilidade de comparação entre elas no que diz respeito à constituição do tema. A investigação tem como suporte estudos sócio-históricos e estudos culturais relativos ao estrangeiro e ao imigrante, a relações de alteridade e identidade. Os autores e obras principais são: “Os processos de transculturação na narrativa latino-americana” (2001), de Angél Rama; Culturas híbridas (2000) de Néstor Garcia Canclini; Hibridismo (2003), de Peter Burke; O local da cultura (2007), de Homi K. Bhabha; Introdução aos estudos culturais (2004) de Armand Mattelart; Sobrados e mucambos (2013) de Gilberto Freyre. Baseamo-nos também, para a análise da personagem, nas propostas teóricas de Antonio Candido em “A personagem de ficção” (2000) e em Discurso da narrativa (1972) de Gérard Genette para o estudo das categorias narrativas. Intenciona-se demonstrar que o tema do estrangeiro pode ser uma nova chave de leitura para a obra rosiana, visto que se entende sua abordagem como um projeto de universalização do sertão mineiro fazendo desse espaço literário uma babel em que se cruzam os mais diversos idiomas, culturas e alteridades.
The aim of this thesis is to investigate in Guimarães Rosa’s narrative how the native and foreign characters relate, that is, verify if there is receptivity or rejection of the different, other’s empathy or refusal. The corpus consists of Rosiano’s texts in which German characters appear or stand out- the novel “Grande sertão: veredas”, the novel “O recado do morro” from “Corpo de baile”, the story “O mau humor de Wotan”, from “Ave, palavra- e ciganas”: the tales “Faraó e a água do rio”, “O outro ou o outro” and “Zingaresca”, from “Tutameia”. The procedure to reach the objective is to analyze the construction of this theme by narrative categories, centered on the characters and their relation to the story, the narrator, the focus, the space and, of course, the language. In this case, the exploitation of hybrids is emphasized. The results of the analysis of each narrative led to the possibility of comparing them with the constitution of the theme. The research is supported by socio-historical studies and cultural studies related to the foreigner and the immigrant, to the relations of alterity and identity. The authors and main works are: “Os processos de transculturação na narrativa latino-americana” (2001), by Peter Burke; “O local da cultura (2007), by Homi K. Bhabha; “Introdução aos estudos culturais” (2004) by Armand Matterlart; “Sobrados e mucambos” (2013) by Gilberto Freyre. We also based ourselves, for the character analysis, on the theoretical proposals of Antonio Candido in “A personagem de ficção” (2000) and in “Discurso da narrativa” (1972) by Gérard Ganette for the study of narrative categories. It is intended to demonstrate that the theme of the foreigner can be a new key for reading the Rosiana’s work, since its approach is understood as a project of universalization of the “Sertão of Minas Gerais”, making this literary space a Babel in which we can find the most diverse languages, cultures and alterities

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Resumo: O objetivo desta tese é investigar em narrativas de Guimarães Rosa como se relacionam as personagens nativas e estrangeiras, ou seja, verificar se há receptividade ou rejeição do diferente, a empatia ou a recusa do outro. O corpus é constituído por textos rosianos em que surgem ou se destacam personagens alemãs - o romance Grande sertão: veredas, a novela "O recado do morro" de Corpo de Baile, o conto "O mau humor de Wotan", de Ave, palavra - e ciganas: os contos "Faraó e a água do rio", "O outro ou o outro" e "Zingaresca", de Tutameia. O procedimento para se atingir a meta é a apuração, por meio da análise, da construção desse tema pelas categorias narrativas, tendo como centro as personagens e sua relação com a história, o narrador, a focalização, o espaço e, como não poderia deixar de ser, a linguagem. Neste caso, salienta-se a exploração de hibridismos. Os resultados da análise de cada narrativa levaram à possibilidade de comparação entre elas no que diz respeito à constituição do tema. A investigação tem como suporte estudos sócio-históricos e estudos culturais relativos ao estrangeiro e ao imigrante, a relações de alteridade e identidade. Os autores e obras principais são: "Os processos de transculturação na narrativa latino-americana" (2001), de Angél Rama; Culturas híbridas (2000) de Néstor Garcia Canclini; Hibridismo (2003), de Peter Burke; O local da cultura (2007), de Homi K. Bhabha; Introdução aos estudos culturais (2004) de Armand Mattelart; Sobrados e mucambos... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to investigate in Guimarães Rosa's narrative how the native and foreign characters relate, that is, verify if there is receptivity or rejection of the different, other's empathy or refusal. The corpus consists of Rosiano's texts in which German characters appear or stand out- the novel "Grande sertão: veredas", the novel "O recado do morro" from "Corpo de baile", the story "O mau humor de Wotan", from "Ave, palavra- e ciganas": the tales "Faraó e a água do rio", "O outro ou o outro" and "Zingaresca", from "Tutameia". The procedure to reach the objective is to analyze the construction of this theme by narrative categories, centered on the characters and their relation to the story, the narrator, the focus, the space and, of course, the language. In this case, the exploitation of hybrids is emphasized. The results of the analysis of each narrative led to the possibility of comparing them with the constitution of the theme. The research is supported by socio-historical studies and cultural studies related to the foreigner and the immigrant, to the relations of alterity and identity. The authors and main works are: "Os processos de transculturação na narrativa latino-americana" (2001), by Peter Burke; "O local da cultura (2007), by Homi K. Bhabha; "Introdução aos estudos culturais" (2004) by Armand Matterlart; "Sobrados e mucambos" (2013) by Gilberto Freyre. We also based ourselves, for the character analysis, on the theoretical proposals of Antonio Cand... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Jurídicas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito.
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O trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o direito contemporâneo brasileiro, mediante reflexão das decisões do Supremo Tribunal Federal. Pretende-se, portanto, compreender e problematizar a perspectiva dos Ministros a respeito da sua prática decisória. Para tanto, é realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa a partir dos acórdãos do STF, entre os anos de 1990 a 2007. A partir dos documentos analisados é possível apreender as principais características do direito contemporâneo, bem como descrever o paradigma atual. A análise e descrição dos dados demonstraram o surgimento de um direito "hipermoderno", ou seja, um direito líquido, flexível e efêmero. Nesse sentido, as principais características encontradas nos acórdãos são: a dificuldade em catalogá-los de forma restrita em algum paradigma do direito, a superficialidade em que os conceitos são abordados pelos Ministros e a percepção de que para o Tribunal ele é o "Guarda da Constituição", demonstrando assim a flexibilização de forma velada na Constituição Federal.

En 1924-1925, en Russie, de nombreux écrivains s'engagent dans le cinéma, deviennent scénaristes, membres appointés des studios, trouvent là un second métier. Certains cherchent à créer un genre nouveau : le kinoroman. Babel est de ceux-là et son scénario "l'Ascension de Benia Krik", commandé en 1925 par les studios de Moscou, est l'illustration de cette tentative. Inspirée des "Contes d'Odessa", l'œuvre est écrite pour Eisenstein. Le "cinéroman" reprend les thèmes majeurs de l'univers babélien : conflit père/fils, homme/femme, tradition/novation, révolte individuelle/organisée. . . Il présente également les qualités formelles qui imposèrent la prose de l'auteur de "Cavalerie rouge" comme l'une des premières de son temps et firent dire à Eisenstein qu'"un récit de Babel, c'est déjà 75% du matériau dont un cinéaste a besoin". Des similitudes frappantes avec l'écriture du réalisateur de "La Grève" et du "Cuirassé Potemkine" - montage des attractions, images choc, construction parodique des personnages - font de ce scénario un terrain d'observation privilégié des affinités souvent constatées mais peu étudiées entre Babel et Eisenstein. En intégrant délibérément à son cinétexte les procédés techniques du 7e art (angles de vision insolites, gros plans, intertitres) l'auteur achève de donner au genre hybride du kinoroman un véritable statut. Les difficultés de la genèse et du tournage du scénario reflètent les contraintes du partzakaz sous la NEP. Ce sont elles qui, en dernière analyse, sont responsables de la faillite du projet de Babel et d'Eisenstein, faillite qui préfigure celle du "Pré de Béjine" dans les années trente, sous Staline
In 1924-1925, in Russia, a large number of writers began working for the cinema, became script-writers, appointed members of movie studios, and thus found a second occupation. Some of them tried to start a new genre : kinoroman. Babel is one of these and his screenplay "The Career of Benia Krik", commissioned in 1925 by the Moscow studios, illustrated this attempt. Inspired by the "Odessa Tales", the work is written for Eisenstein, director at the same studios. Kinoroman uses the main themes of Babel's universe : conflict between father/son, man/woman, tradition/innovation, individual revolt/collective one. . . It also has the formal features - fragmented plot, prominence of the rhythm, of the pictures - that impressed the prose of the writer of the "Red Cavalry" as one of the best of its time and led Eisenstein to comment that "a story by Babel, it is already 75% of the material a film maker needs ". Striking similitude with the writing of the film-director of "The Strike" and "The Battleship Potemkin" - montage of attractions, shock-images, parodical characters - make this film script a particularly useful field of observation of the affinities, often established but rarely studied, between Babel and Eisenstein. By deliberately integrating in his cinetext the technical methods of the 7e Art (including unwonted angles of shots, close-ups, intertitles), the author finishes to give the kinoroman hybrid genre a genuine status. The difficulties during the genesis and the shooting of the scenario reflect the constraints of the partzakaz during the NEP. It is those, finally, which are responsible for the failure of Babel's and Eisenstein's project, failure which prefigures that of "Bezhin Meadow" in the thirties, under Stalin

This set of drawings, paintings, and photographs explores the realms of knowledge and experience in architecture through analytical and perceptual means. In other words, how physical, material considerations inform the experience of moving through space, the perception of space, and the memory of place. These themes and questions are considered through the design of an observation tower that punctuates the ambiguous joint between land and water, earth and sky on the southwestern most point on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK.
Master of Architecture

Today, many small aerodromes have a hard time surviving economically, and amongst the largest cost is air traffic control. Airlines are cutting costs where they can, and many times this affects the aerodromes as well, e.g. when airlines decide to park remotely instead of at the gate. The project called Remotely Operated Towers, initiated by SESAR and run by Saab and LFV, is aiming to address this problem. The project revolves around remotely providing ATS to aerodromes where it is deemed suitable. A big challenge in this project is how to assign aerodromes to remote tower modules in the remote control centre. There are many ways to do this, but there is only a few ways to do it to achieve the least amount of modules. This thesis aims to find an optimal solution to the challenge mentioned above. The thesis resulted in a model where the user can provide the input of choice, i.e. aerodromes with associated ATS operating hours and movements, for a specific period – and receive the assignment schedule for the modules, saying exactly which aerodrome are to be controlled by which module at what time.

This is a new study of Salman Rushdie's fiction, reading his texts through translation theory. Going beyond previous studies of Rushdie's writing, the majority of which have been postcolonial critiques, or have aimed to illuminate obscure references, my study engages with those images which are interesting to postcolonial studies and reads them through their relevance to the theory of translation. Engaging with texts on translation including those by Walter Benjamin, George Steiner, Lawrence Venuti, Andre Lefevere, Susan Bassnett and Harish Trivedi, as well as other theoretical perspectives (including postcolonial, postmodern, and linguistic theory), my study equally interrogates Rushdie's fiction and related aspects of translation theory. My thesis begins by examining images of the harem and the veil and suggests that these images denote the untranslatable. Further chapters suggest that the figure of the translator is a transgressor, and that transgression is necessary in order to translate. Ideas of linguistic creativity, clumsiness, slang, and bad language in the novels are opposed with the translator's goal of textual perfection. I examine the prophetic angel figure as an example of miscommunication, suggesting the relationship between translation and prophecy. Other disruptions to communication include those caused by the temptations of food, and the madness which Babel causes, and which may be dispelled with the advent of a post-translation, unilingual, utopian future. The final chapter suggests that the short story form (a less studied part of Rushdie's bibliography) provides a solution to problematic translations because of the nature of the narrator's voice in the short story which employs direct communication with the reader.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Florianópolis, 2014.
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A presente pesquisa tem como tema o fenômeno do letramento na esfera acadêmica, apresentando como delimitação temática a participação de graduandos do Curso de Letras Português da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina em eventos de letramento característicos da mencionada esfera e desafios concernentes ao ato de dizer, via modalidade escrita, nesses mesmos eventos. Sob tal enfoque, este estudo estruturou-se para responder à seguinte questão central de pesquisa: Como se caracteriza a participação de graduandos de Letras Português em eventos de letramento na esfera acadêmica nos quais lhes é requerido o ato de dizer, via modalidade escrita, em gêneros do discurso cujos textos se vinculam aos letramentos dominantes? A partir de tal questão, considerados seus desdobramentos, visa-se interpretar analiticamente a caracterização da participação desses mesmos graduandos nos supracitados eventos de letramento nos quais lhes é requerido o ato de dizer, buscando a) identificar implicações da constituição subjetiva dos participantes deste estudo quanto a esse recorte; b) depreender possíveis ressignificações das práticas de letramento decorrentes da participação nos mencionados eventos; c) identificar desafios e/ou dificuldades no que respeita a especificidades do ato de dizer; d) e caracterizar as demandas acadêmicas em escrita, depreendendo influências da configuração praxiológica das ações de ensino sobre a condição de participação desses mesmos graduandos. Para tal propósito, este estudo ancora-se no que se está chamando de simpósio conceitual, que tem como base os estudos do letramento, com foco no pensamento de Brian Street, Angela Kleiman e teóricos afins, convidando para o diálogo o construto do Círculo de Bakhtin, tanto quanto o olhar fundamentalmente bakhtiniano de Augusto Ponzio, cuja compreensão de língua se funda na noção de interação (VOLÓSHINOV, 2009 [1929]) nomeada como encontro. Em atenção a tais objeto e base teórica, esta dissertação constitui-se como um estudo de caso (YIN, 2001) do tipo etnográfico (ANDRÉ, 1995) com abordagem qualitativa de base interpretativista (MASON, 1996); realiza-se com oito participantes de pesquisa, matriculados nas fases iniciais do curso de Letras Português da Universidade campo de estudo. Os dados foram gerados a partir de instrumentos como observação participante, notas em diário de campo, entrevistas e pesquisa documental. A construção de inteligibilidades aponta para movimentos de tensão e de conflitos na constituição dos sujeitos em se tratando de sua participação nos eventos de letramento que têm lugar na esfera acadêmica, considerando experiências de escolarização; inserção em outras esferas nas quais os usos da escrita sejam tomados como fundamentais no que se refere aos encontros tematizados; bem como convergências e divergências entre práticas de letramento que os sujeitos carreiam consigo e práticas concernentes à esfera em questão, materializadas nas demandas acadêmicas objeto de estudo. Entende-se, ainda, que, a partir das configurações do encontro, como mais monológicos ou mais dialógicos, e de uma escrita tomada como prática social e como ato responsivo, os sujeitos tendem a vivenciar ressignificações de suas práticas de letramento de maneira mais efetiva deslocando-se, nessas condições, no continuum em direção ao polo ser/estar mais insider. Tais ressignificações desencadeiam-se ainda em decorrência de relações estabelecidas por meio de atos de dizer na esfera acadêmica que visam ao desvelamento e à desmistificação das práticas institucionais do mistério (LILLIS, 2001).

Abstract: The present research has as theme the phenomenon of literacy in the academic sphere, presenting as thematic delimitation the participation of graduating students of Portuguese Letters Course of Federal University of Santa Catarina in literacy events characteristics of the mentioned sphere and the concerning challenges to the act of telling, via writing mode, in these same events. Under this approach, this study was structured to answer the following central research question: How is characterized the participation of graduating students in Portuguese Letters Course in literacy events in the academic sphere in which it is required from them the act of telling, via written mode, in speech genres whose texts are linked to dominant literacies? From this question, considered its unfolding, it is aimed to analytically interpret the characterization of the participation of those graduating students in the mentioned literacy events in which it is required from them the act of telling, seeking a) to identify implications of the subjective constitution of the study participants; b) to infer possible redefinition of the literacy practices arising from the participation in the mentioned events; c) to identify challenges and / or difficulties in what respects the specific act of telling; d) and to characterize the academic demands, deducing influences of the praxeological setting of the teaching actions about the condition of participation of those graduation students. For this purpose, this study is based in what is being called conceptual symposium, which is based on the literacy studies, focusing on the thought of Brian Street, Angela Kleiman and others theorists, inviting for dialogue the construct of the Bakhtin Circle, as far as the look fundamentally Bakhtinian of Augusto Ponzio, whose comprehension of language is founded on the notion of interaction (VOLOSHINOV, 2009 [1929]) named encounter. Considering such object and theoretical basis, this dissertation is constituted as a case study (YIN, 2001) of ethnographic type (ANDRÉ, 1995) with a qualitative approach of interpretative base (MASON, 1996); it is realized with eight research participants enrolled in the early stages of the Portuguese Letters Course of the University field study. The data were generated from instruments such as participant observation, notes in field diary, interviews and documentary research. The construction of intelligibilities points to movements of tension and conflicts in the constitution of the subjects when it comes to their participation in literacy events that take place in the academic sphere, considering experiences of schooling; insertion in other spheres in which the use of writing are taken as fundamental inwhat it refers to the encounters thematized; as well as the similarities and differences between the literacy practices that the subjects carry and the practices concerning to the sphere in question, materialized in the academic demands objects of study. It is also understood that from the settings of the encounter, as more monological or more dialogical, and from a written taken as social practice and as responsive act, the subjects tend to experience redefinition of their literacy practices in a more effectively way moving, in these conditions, in the continuum towards the pole to be more insider. Such redefinitions still happen deriving from relations established through acts of telling in the academic sphere that aim the unveiling and the demystification of the institutional practices of the mystery (LILLIS, 2001).

This thesis presents a method of tracking and correcting for the swaying of a central receiver tower in concentrated solar production plants. The method uses a camera with image processing algorithms to detect movement of the center of the tower. A prototype was constructed utilizing a CMOS camera connected to a microcontroller to control the movements of three surrounding heliostats. The prototype uses blob-tracking algorithms to detect and correct for movements of a colored model target. The model was able to detect movements in the tower with average error of 0.32 degrees, and was able to correctly orient the surrounding heliostats to within 1.2 and 2.6 degrees of accuracy while testing indoors and outdoors, respectively.

The Eisenhower Avenue Valley site is unique in the Washington Area for its highrise development potential. It offers access to the Metro line, the beltway and Old Town Alexandria. Its zoning diversity will accommodate light Industrial, commercial and residential construction. The question of whether or not to build a tower in proximity to the temple is an architectural and a political question. The assumption of this project is that the Eisenhower Avenue Valley will have high rise development. This design has recognized the significance of the Eisenhower Avenue Valley site and its zoning. It identifies the specific aspects of the site, such as the proximity of the Metro Line, the beltway, Old Town and the Potomac River. Within this context, the project defines the user of the metro by finding an architectural meaning within the planning issues discussed above. As the grid-lock of the beltway grows and becomes more congested, the Metro Line will flourish. The Metro line, when used to its greatest potential, will soon replace the street grid and city block as an urban organizational element. A city's character is drawn from this urban element. This project responds to this element by defining the individual within such a context. Retail commercial and residential space exist with respect to the Metro Line, not in competition with, or in ignorance of it. A perpendicular axis emerges from the Metro Line. Ordered around this axis are residential, commercial and retail spaces that exploit their specific site advantages. The accomplishment of this project has been in understanding and developing an architectural solution to these planning Issues and questions for the individual who will live, work and shop in this environment. I would like to acknowledge the help of several individuals. Ed Rahame's carpentry expertise and· advice helped me through the oral defense of my thesis. Tim Mount's photographic ability and patience were greatly appreciated. Don Casey provided intimate knowledge of the Eisenhower Avenue Valley and the public policy applied to it. This came from his years in public service as a City Councilman.
Master of Architecture

Orientador: Paulo Roberto Ottoni
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Nosso objetivo foi caracterizar um tipo de tradução observada nos textos de Derrida. O foco de nosso empreendimento foi o ensaio de intitulado ¿Des tours de Babel¿ (¿Às voltas com Babel¿) que teve sua publicação em livro numa situação de tradução, traduzido para o inglês, em Difference in translation (Ed. Graham), traz como apêndice sua versão em francês que seria republicada dois anos mais tarde em Psyché: inventions de l¿autre I. Além dessa tradução, foi ainda vertido para o espanhol, por Olmedo e Peñalver, para o italiano, por Rosso e para o português brasileiro, por Barreto. Mesmo com a existência de sua tradução em português, a decisão de retraduzi-lo foi possibilitar uma leitura crítica fundamental para o nosso trabalho de análise. Para tanto, tomamos de empréstimo as figuras da retórica, em especial, a catacrese para falar da tradução em Derrida. O interesse pelo tema geral da tradução em Derrida se justifica por seu caráter praticamente inédito no âmbito das reflexões realizadas no Brasil, não fosse o empenho do grupo de pesquisa, intitulado Traduzir Derrida: políticas e desconstruções, que procura preencher essa lacuna, na qual se insere a presente pesquisa. Após ter justificado a escolha do tema, passamos a esboçar a problemática que guiou essa pesquisa. Derrida lança mão de mecanismos retóricos, tais como os tropos, com o intuito de refletir sobre a tradução, sempre dentro de uma linguagem filosófica, tendo como pando de fundo, o texto de Benjamin, ¿A tarefa do tradutor¿, procurando suplementar Benjamin de várias formas. Explorando, principalmente as antinomias do discurso benjaminiano sobre a tradução, Derrida constrói um discurso no qual surge a questão do nome próprio, sua quase intraduzibilidade, problematizando definições de tradução como a de Jakobson; discorre sobre a questão da dívida a que se submete o tradutor e interpreta as metáforas benjaminianas, por meio das quais comenta noções como direito de autoria, verdade, código religioso e assinatura. A dificuldade maior de nossa tese está em construir um discurso sobre a tradução, em Derrida, que leve, em conta seus múltiplos aspectos, suas muitas metáforas, bem como lidar com a impossibilidade de reduzir um texto como tal a seus efeitos de sentidos, de conteúdo, de tese ou de tema. A hipótese diretiva de nossa pesquisa é a de que a boa tradução deve abusar, como num efeito de torção do sentido. O ato tradutório se encontra sempre em uma situação aporética, num interminável doublé bind. A tese se estrutura em partes assim denominadas: ¿Observações introdutivas¿ procura refletir de forma geral sobre a tradução do ensaio, discutindo ainda a questão do método, questionando se haveria um método da desconstrução, e por conseqüência, da tese que trata da desconstrução em tradução. ¿A este título intraduzível: observações sobre a homofonia em Des tours de Babel¿ trata da intraduzibilidade e as conseqüências de se traduzir o título do ensaio de Derrida. Partindo de uma discussão sobre a homofonia, fala-se sobre o jogo de palavras que se perde ou se ganha na tradução para remeter finalmente à questão do abuso na e da tradução. A análise se concentra principalmente nas notas das traduções do ensaio que procuram justificar a tradução ou a não tradução do título. ¿Da tradução catacréstica em Derrida: a retórica da invenção¿, destaca-se uma postura freqüente nos textos de Derrida: o recurso à aposição de notas e a inserção de palavras na língua de origem do texto analisado. Um tipo de tradução que denominamos de catacréstica. Trata-se ainda da questão da fetichização, da metáfora no ato tradutório e da conceituação no interior do discurso da tradução em especial em Derrida. ¿Os nós do intraduzível: indecidibilidade¿ focaliza a indecibilidade do sentido, da significação. Partindo da noção de que há uma produção de sentido, desconstroi-se o argumento que haja um significado intrínseco. propõe ainda o questionamento sobre a crença geral dos críticos na possibilidade da existência de um significado imanente ao dito original, fazendo-nos refletir sobre ¿essência do significado¿ e suas implicações para a tradução. O que nos interessa particularmente aqui é a hipótese de Derrida sobre a instabilidade do significado de qualquer texto, um pressuposto que se revela nos posicionamentos em relação à tradução que serão abordadas nessa tese.¿Desconstruções ou Retórica do Canibalismo?¿ teve como objetivo provocar o leitor em relação ao que seria mais típico em termos de desconstrução no Brasil, fazendo uma possível relação com o canibalismo. A denominação ¿tradução catacréstica¿ surge de uma catacrese, a torre de Babel, que Derrida utiliza para pensar e traduzir a própria tradução, que neste caso, caracterizar-se-ia pela questão do comentário, da aposição de notas e da propensão ao uso de palavras estrangeiras, sempre em situação parentética. Se não é um caráter exclusivo, são essas características que a definem, conquanto que ela esteja dissolvida dentro de um comentário mais geral, de caráter mais filosófico, como se quer demonstrar neste trabalho
Abstract: Our aim was to characterize a kind of translation seen into the Derrida¿s texts. The focus of our task was the essay titled ¿Des tours de Babel¿ (¿Às voltas com Babel¿). The Derrida¿s essay had its edition in a translation situation, translated into the English, in Difference in translation (Ed. Graham), it brings as appendix its French version reedited two years later in Psyché: inventions de l¿autre I. Besides that translation, it has been translated into the Spanish, by Olmedo and Peñalver, into the Italian, by Rosso and into the Brazilian portuguese, by Barreto. Even with the existence of the translation into the Portuguese language of this essay, the decision of translating it again is due to the possibility of a critical reading very important to our analysis work. What we dare to do has been to borrow the rhetoric figures, specially, the catachresis to speak of translation in Derrida. The interesting by the general theme of translation in Derrida justifies itself through the practically unpublished character into the domain of the reflections made in Brazil, exception made to the research group called Traduzir Derrida: políticas e desconstruções, which looks for to fulfill this gap, into which the present research comes into. After we have justified the choice of our theme, we begin to expose our problematic issue that guided this research. Derrida makes uses of the rhetorical devices, such as the tropes, with the aim to reflect about the translation, always into a philosophical language, with the Benjamin¿ text, ¿The task of translator¿, as background, searching for supplementing Benjamin in many ways. Exploring, mainly the antinomies of his discourse about the translation, Derrida builds a discourse into which the question of the proper name, its almost untranslatability, arises. It also rises questions about the translation definitions as the Jakobson¿s ones; he discourses about the question of the debt to which the translator submit himself and interprets the benjaminian metaphors, through which he comments notions as author right, truth, religious code, and signature. The greatest difficulty of our thesis is to build a discourse about translation in Derrida that consider its multiples aspects, its many metaphors. The difficulty is also to handle with the impossibility of reducing a text as such to its effects of senses, of contents, of thesis or theme. The directional hypothesis of our research is that the good translation should abuse, like in a torsion effect of the sense. The translatory act is always in an aporetical situation, in an endless double bind situation. The thesis is structured in parts called as: ¿Observações introdutivas¿ looks for to reflect in a general way about the essay translation, discussing still the method question, questioning if there would be a deconstruction method, and consequently, of the thesis that treats the deconstruction in translation. ¿A este título intraduzível: observações sobre a homofonia em Des tours de Babel¿ treats the untranslatability and the consequences of translating the essay title of the Derrida¿s essay. From a discussion about the homophony, one speaks about words play that one loses or wins into the translation to refer finally to the question of abuse into and of the translation. The analysis concentrates mainly into the translation notes of the essay that search to justify the translation or not of the title. ¿Da tradução catacréstica em Derrida: a retórica da invenção¿, one shows a usual posture into the Derrida¿s text: the resource to the apposition of notes and the insertion of words in the source language of analyzed text. A kind of translation one calls catachrestical. It treats also of the question of fetishism, of metaphor into the translatory act and the conceptualization into the discourse of translation especially in Derrida. ¿Os nós do intraduzível: indecidibilidade¿ focalizes the indecibility of sense, of signification. From the notion that there is a production of sense, one deconstructs the argument that there is an intrinsecal signified. It proposes the questioning about the general belief of the critics in the possibility of the existence of an immanent signified to the called original, making us to reflect about the ¿essence of signified¿ and its implications to the translation. What interests us particularly here is the Derrida¿s hypothesis about the instability of the signified of any text, a presupposition that reveals into the positions in relation to the translation that are written in this thesis. ¿Desconstruções ou Retórica do Canibalismo?¿ has as objectif to provoque the reader concerning to what would be more tipical in terms of deconstruction in Brazil, making a possible relation to the canibalism. The denomination ¿catachrestical translation¿ rises from a catachresis, the Babel tower, that Derrida utilizes to think and translate the translation itself, that in this case, characterizes through the commentaries question, the notes apposition and the tendency to the use of foreign words, always in parenthetical situation. If it is not an exclusive character, theses characteristics define it, even it is dissolved inside a more general commentary of a more philosophical character, as one intends to demonstrate in this work
Doutorado
Doutor em Linguística Aplicada

Mestrado em Línguas e Relações Empresariais
O presente trabalho tenta abordar a evolução da compreensão das línguas no que diz respeito à sua utilidade concreta nas actividades empresariais portuguesas no seu dia-a-dia. O estudo começa por fazer uma síntese do pensamento actual sobre a linguagem e a cultura em geral, antes de se focalizar na análise de um estudo de caso do uso das línguas estrangeiras numa empresa local. ABSTRACT: This work attempts to discuss improvements in the understanding of languages with respect to the usefulness of the latter in the day-to-day activities of businesses in Portugal. The study summarises current thinking about language and culture in general, before focusing upon a case study of the part of foreign languages in a local company.

Bear Lodge/Devils Tower National Monument, a spectacular rock formation in northeastern Wyoming, has a multiplicity of meanings, not all of which were fully acknowledged until the 1990s. It is widely known as a geologic wonder, the first national monument, a marker of local and pioneer heritage, and a premier rock climbing area. In the 1980s and ‘90s, however, the National Park Service began to acknowledge that the Tower also holds cultural and historical meaning for the Northern Plains tribes, dating back long before the colonization of the American West. Some of the tribes expressed to the Park Service that they were offended by rock climbers desecrating the Tower, a sacred site, leading the Park Service to seek to compromise between these competing uses of this public land. The controversy over climbing at Bear Lodge/Devils Tower was, and remains, a debate over history, and this thesis examines the historical foundations for the discourses of climbers, local white residents, tribal members, and the Park Service, as these various groups asserted their claims to this public space. This thesis contends that the language used by climbers and local white residents in arguing against the Park Service’s accommodation of tribal cultures and beliefs appropriated the languages of spirituality and tradition used by the tribes, and sought to delegitimize the tribal claims to the Tower. The Park Service is complicit in controlling the discourses surrounding the Tower and erasing the traditions and complex history of the Northern Plains tribal ties to this sacred place.

This thesis examines in detail the operation of a planning gain policy in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets between 1971 and 1983, using data obtained from records held at the Borough and observations of the practice. The practice of planning gain is set into the broader context of planning and the still broader social and political context. The existing literature and definitions of planning gain are critically examined in the light of a theoretical framework which concerns itself with the identification of power and politics within the planning process. The responses made to the practice of planning gain by the Department of the Environment, planning inspectors and the courts are explained and critically analysed to indicate the lack of articulated opposition. The use of planning agreements as a mechanism for the enforcement of planning gain is also examined. Section 52 of the Town and Country Planning Act is analysed, together with the available case law. The use of these agreements in Tower Hamlets is discussed in detail. The schemes examined at Tower Hamlets are presented in full to provide an overall view of the operation of a planning gain policy. Details include the effect of negotiation on the content of schemes and problems of implementation. Comparative material is provided covering the operation of a planning gain system which has legislative recognition in Sydney, Australia. This part of the thesis is used to illustrate the continued existence of negotiation for planning gain and of the restrictive responses to the autonomy of local government.

The Apprentices' Tower of Hanoi is introduced in this thesis. Several bounds are found in regards to optimal algorithms which solve the puzzle. Graph theoretic properties of the associated state graphs are explored. A brief summary of other Tower of Hanoi variants is also presented.

This dissertation is a comparative examination firstly of usage of, and contribution to, the Wikipedias in ten of South Africa’s eleven official languages, and secondly of possible measures to address the situation discovered in the first investigative stage. The historical context is reviewed and it is argued that the number of official languages (and therefore Wikipedias) results from decisions made in colonial and apartheid eras. Public-domain usage and contribution statistics from the Wikimedia Foundation are analysed, revealing poor growth in most cases; possible interventions via both cultural/educational strategies and technological options are reviewed.

Saab has a product, Remote Tower, which allows air traffic controllers to supervise and control an airport remotely. Today an air traffic controller can operate on one airport at the time and switch between airports. The next phase of this system is to allow the air traffic controller to simultaneously control multiple airports, i.e. going from controlling airports in sequence to controlling airports in parallel. The airports are connected to and controlled from one single airport control center. This leads to a planning problem, both in long term and short term, for staffing this airport control center to maintain the capacity of the connected airports. This thesis will present the process of the development of a tool allowing a user to plan the schedule the staffing of a remote tower center. By utilizing this tool the impact of different restrictions affecting the planning will be evaluated and presented in the results.

Timber Tower: 10 20 30 offers a conceptual structural system for tall wooden buildings. The thesis has been a noumenal design process into the subject of timber towers, where the conceptual system is designed to work in accordance with engineering concepts for tall buildings. The system uses mass timber as the primary structural material supported by embedded steel plates. The introduced system plays to the strength and weaknesses of both corresponding materials. Mass timber is used as the primary material that is designed to take care of the dead & live loads, while steel is used as a secondary material to give additional support to the vertical loads. The structural system is interpolated to three different height categories; 10, 20 & 30. The timber & steel system is designed to be prefabricated in parts and assembled on site. Other considerations also addressed in the thesis has been fire-, weather- and soundproofing of the structure.

PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
O presente trabalho visa investigar o lugar social dos candomblés na belle époque carioca, a partir das crônicas de Paulo Barreto (João do Rio) acerca dos candomblés no Rio de Janeiro publicadas na Gazeta de Notícias e na Kosmos, propondo a construção de uma percepção do candomblé para a sociedade carioca na virada do século XIX para o XX e a realização de um esboço de mapa da religiosidade carioca na belle époque.
The present work intends to investigate the social place of the candomblés in belle époque of Rio de Janeiro, from the chronicles of Paulo Barreto (João do Rio) about the candomblés in the Rio de Janeiro published in the Gazeta de Notícias and in the Kosmos, proposing the construction of a perception of the candomblé for the society of Rio de Janeiro in the turning of the century XIX for the XX and the realization of a sketch of map of the religiosity of Rio de Janeiro in belle époque.