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Norling, Per. "Förfalskningens lockelse : Analys av två svenska brottsmål om bedrägeri och signaturförfalskning." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-310205.
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The purpose of the paper is to present work patterns from two perspectives, the art expert´s and art forger´s, as the patterns can be retrieved from two Swedish criminal cases of fraud, the case "T" and the case "M". A minor purpose is to create a knowledge base extracted from literature regarding more general work patterns used by art experts when they work with attribution. The method used can best be named descriptive. Forged artwork from nine artists are described and comments on the fake procedures are provided from buyers, forgers/sellers, middlemen (auction houses), police, prosecutors, experts, lawyers and the Stockholm District Court. The result in the paper can be summarized as follows: 1/ General work patterns with attribution: The track-paradigm is governing the expert´s work. As a start we have a time-setting, by identifying general style patterns in the artwork. Then there is a search for a possible geographical area where the work could have been created, and also a search for art schools and artist groups in that area. If a possible attribution of the work to an artist can be done, a search starts for that artist´s characteristics when it comes to motive, color selection, composition, figures, brush movements etc. Different types of physical measurements and tests can provide a complement to the qualitative analysis. The signature, if there is one, is examined and the provenance for the work is searched for. Information about the work in different archives can strengthen the results. 2/ “T” & “M” - the art expert´s patterns: All experts go directly to the alleged artist for a critical analysis of the specific work. First an overall evaluation is done, and that is often sufficient to reject the work. If necessary, details in the work are examined. If a signature is present, it is examined and compared with genuine ones. In some cases, technical studies are used to reach a definitive verdict. The police focus is to identify inaccuracies and fakes in the sales information, and to show efforts to hide information. 3/ “T” & “M” - the forger’s patterns: Art works from recent years are used as models for the creation of pastiches. Craftsmanship is toned down. Pitfalls are being circumvented by selection of genuine material ingredients and selection of secure image content related to the chosen artist. There is a thorough work with information creation to ensure the prospective buyer's desire for proof of authenticity. In parallel there is a work with cover up, and to secure information gaps.
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Maclean, Ewan. "False images : a social history of art forgery." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19082.
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This thesis considers the history of art forgery in the Western world and the social conditions which produce the practice. The main concentration is on paintings and sculpture, but other areas, including 'antiques', are included where appropriate. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part outlines the history of art forgery from its origins during the Roman Empire to the present day. The primary concern is with uncovering the development, extent and location of art forgery, rather than a detailed consideration of particular cases. It is shown that art forgery is not a universal practice, but is historically and culturally limited to the hellenistic and Roman world and, until recently, Europe since the Renaissance. The second part of the thesis explains the immediate conditions and circumstances which are necessary before art forgery will occur. These are shown to be the valuing of works of art as coming from a particular historical moment, culture or artist; positive distinction being made in favour of 'original' works over copies; and an adequate system of appropriation (found in collecting). The developments of these conditions are considered in turn. The third and last part takes the analysis a stage further, and looks at the economic and social structures on which the immediate conditions set out in the second part arc based. Here individualisalion and commodificalion, central to ihc structure of capitalism, arc shown to have been influential in changing the position of the artist and nature of art in society. Also of importance, it is argued, was the "crisis of status" which followed the dismantling of feudal hierarchy. This is related, utilising Bourdicu's work on 'distinction', to the need for groups in the more fluid social relations of modern society to distinguish and distance themselves from others, and to define and protect their status. It is shown that art has a central role to play here, and that forgery partly occurs as a consequence of this.
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Clark, Lenore. "Forbes Watson : independent revolutionary /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1995.
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Ross, Marina. "My pleasure (forever yours)." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6261.
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My practice consists of painting, ceramic sculptures, and performance to consider the construction of self-identity and the role of agency and labor in this construction. Mining my life experiences as a point of departure, I question how visual images, sculptural abstractions, and physical movement create a multi-dimensional representation of the self and how the body is a vehicle for the expression and formation of the self. I source images from family photos and film stills to question how I have embodied qualities from the women in these images. I will discuss my thesis exhibition My Pleasure (Forever Yours) to unpack particular decisions made within the works and how they relate to the larger narrative that I construct.
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Iacovone, Michael Dax. "Memories We Forget." VCU Scholars Compass, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1875.
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Tajti, Norbert. "Enhancing Hungarian Special Forces through transformation--the shift to Special Operations Forces." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2010/Jun/10Jun%5FTajti.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010.Thesis Advisor(s): Lee. Doowan ; Second Reader: Greenshields, Brian H. ; Third Reader: Porkolab, Imre. "June 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 14, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Special Forces, Special Operations Forces, Hungary, organizational design, special operations, NATO. Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-108). Also available in print.
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Lundström, Anna. "Former av politik : Tre utställningssituationer på Moderna Museet 1998-2008." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-116052.
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This study examines the concepts of art, politics and art institution departing from three cases of exhibition situations at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, 1998–2008. The cases are considered in relation to different aspects of the museum’s identity as an art institution. The first case, the Pontus Hultén Study Gallery (2008–), is an interactive exhibition space containing 34 mechanical screens for displaying art. It is understood here as a comment on the museum’s identity as a collecting institution. The author critically analyses a number of common oppositions in avant-garde theory regarding museum culture, such as the museum as a place for passivity rather than activity, preservation rather than initiation, and ultimately death rather than life. The second case, the exhibition series Moderna Museet Projekt (1998–2001), was marked by the ambition to integrate artworks into contexts outside the physical museum building. Here case analyses focus on the distinction that the series established between art and a presumed alternative, such as life, reality, or politics. The third and last case, the sound installation Forty-Part Motet (2001) by Janet Cardiff, was installed in an exhibition space that actualised the ideals of the so-called white cube. In the institutional critique of the 1960s and 1970s, this exhibition space was dismissed as isolated and detached from society, an idea that is critically examined. Throughout the different case studies, spectator positions and potential agency are of particular concern. This thesis concludes that the concepts of art and politics are different permeable forms of experiences, visibilities and practices, that cross and intertwine. This conclusion is informed by Jacques Rancière’s notions of aesthetics and politics. In this reading, the art institution is not a barrier separating art from politics, reality or life, but nor is it a dead or deadening space. Rather, the art institution, as a social space and concept of art, is considered as intertwined with other forms of visibilities and experiences. Thus, regarded as a frame for a certain type of visibility, the art institution is capable of establishing a difference that is both unproblematic and urgent.
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Hedtke, Travis. "Don't forget about teen fathers what programs are available? /." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2004. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2004/2004hedtket.pdf.
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Garvin, Kaitlyn. "A Genuine Dilemma: The Piombino Apollo and Fraud in the First and Second Century Greco-Roman Art Market." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20470.
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In 1832, fishermen pulled a full-body bronze sculpture of a youth, now called the Piombino Apollo, from the sea near ancient Populonia. Under life-size, the piece resembles an Archaic kouros, though it has some notable unusual features including an inscription dedicating the supposed image of Apollo to Athena and the signatures of two artists found on a lead tablet hidden within the hollow bronze. These unusual features led scholars to eventually reclassify the piece from an Archaic work of the fifth century to an Archaistic forgery of the second or first century.
Few have challenged this reclassification, but this thesis attempts to complicate the application of the word forgery to the Piombino Apollo. Further, it examines whether a contemporary buyer would have been fooled by the sculpture’s “deceptive” traits and offers alternative possibilities to account for the artists’ choices of style, pose, and inscriptions.
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Rice, Paula Neale. "Earth, sea and sky : natural forces as a design source in metalwork." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/770942.
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The natural forces of earth, sea and sky provide a wealth of inspiration for the creation of jewelry and metalwork. This project involved the investigation of such natural forces as erosion, growth cycles, tides and wind currents, followed by the design and construction of a body of work based on what was observed.During the observation phase, the artist collected source material In the form of photographs, rough sketches, tracings and actual physical evidence o f the natural forces a t work. The designs were based on a synthesis of the impressions gathered, rather than on one particular source. Not only were the visual and tactile aspects of the forces considered important, but the artist's emotional responses to those forces played a role in the designs as well.A total of thirteen pieces of jewelry and three boxes were created. Chasing, repousse, inlay and reticulation were the metalworking techniques primarily used to render the natural imagery.An intensive study of chasing and repousse was undertaken, as these techniques were especially suited to illustrating the wide variety of form and texture present in nature, from graceful, sweeping cloud formations to heavily modeled rock surfaces. The inlay process proved to be an adaptable way of mounting irregularly shaped natural materials, particularly shells, in the jewelry and boxes. The swirling quality of reticulation effectively represented such textures as the ruffled fungal growths found in forests, or the rushing, foaming tides at the edge of a shoreline.By combining close observation of the effects of natural forces with appropriate metalworking techniques, an aesthetically striking and highly original collection of jewelry and metalwork was conceived and executed.Department of Art
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Falk, Emil. "GEOMETRISKA FORMER I KARAKTÄRSDESIGN : Geometriska formers inverkan på karaktärsroller inom MOBA-spe." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-11078.
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Denna undersökning syftade till att undersöka om Larson m.fl. (2012) teori om kantiga och runda former kan appliceras på silhuetter i ett ovanifrånperspektiv, samt om de kan förmedla hotande eller lättsammare intryck för betraktaren. Kan betraktaren uppfatta vilken roll karaktären är ämnad att inneha inom ett MOBA-spel och blir någon av rollerna lättare eller svårare att avläsa när dess geometri förändras? För att ge bakgrund till undersökningen går arbetet igenom tidigare arbeten och undersökningar inom geometriska former, silhuett, analys med ikonografi, strategispel och karaktärsdesign. Som artefakt till undersökningen skapades tre olika karaktärskoncept som behandlar klasserna Carry, Support och Tank. Varje koncept utvecklades till två olika versioner, ett koncept med runda former och ett med kantiga former, totalt 6 bilder. Karaktärerna tecknades i ett ovanifrånperspektiv vilket skulle simulera samma perspektiv som förekommer inom MOBA-spel. Undersökningen genomfördes genom två olika metoder. En kvantitativ metod med enkäter och en kvalitativ metod med intervjuer. Spelvana personer inom MOBA-spel fick besvara och delta i båda undersökningarna. Resultatet i arbetet visar att deltagarna kan se vilken karaktärsroll som koncepten föreställer och att geometriska former kan påverka hur karaktärers egenskaper tolkas, men att andra visuella attribut var viktigare för många deltagare. Resultatet visade också att karaktärsrollerna blir lättare eller svårare att avläsa när deras geometri förändras, men i de här exemplen ändå inte tillräckligt för att majoriteten skulle missförstå karaktärkoncepteten.
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Albekord, Nargges S. "Naked women the unity in dialectic forces." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4830.
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This study investigates my art works, their context, content, and the process by which they were produced. The first part of the study addresses my background ideas and philosophies, their impact on my works, and the environmental and psychological context which made those ideas relevant to my paintings. I am not concerned with answering the usual questions, What is art? and Who is an artist? My intention is to find out who I choose to be and what I choose to do. The second part investigates the form and design of the art works--from the materials used to make them to the various formal elements utilized in creating them. The connection of form and content in these art works is emphasized. The last part of the study investigates the influences of a few significant artists and the impacts of their works on my art. The future of my art work is, of course, not predictable, and it does not depend on this study. This study is only as factual, reliable, and truthful as my art work is.ID: 029809463; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 48-52).
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Shipe, Rebekah C. "Authenticity, Originality and the Copy: Questions of Truth and Authorship in the Work of Mark Landis, Elizabeth Durack, and Richard Prince." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337265281.
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Davis, Rachel Andrea. "If I forget you, it doesn't mean I didn't love you." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1501461061076469.
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Ehrnberger, Karin. "Design och genus : hur vi formger produkter och hur de formar oss." Thesis, Konstfack, Industridesign, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-858.
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Jag har valt att som examensarbete kritiskt studera arkitektur och industridesign ur ett genusperspektiv för att därigenom hitta frågeställningar som skapar nya tolkningsprocesser och tankesätt i skapandet av byggnader och produkter.
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al, Hussaini Ammar. "What factors are driving forces for credit spreads?" Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Administration, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-964.
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The purpose of this study is to examine what affects the changes in credit spreads. A
regression model was performed where the explanatory variables were; volatility,
SP&500 index, interest-rate level the slope of yield curve and the dependent
variable was credit spread for each of CSUSDA, CSUSDBBB, and CSUSDB. We
found a positive correlation between these independent variables (Volatility, S&P
500index) and a negative correlation between interest-rate level and credit spreads.
These results were consistent with our hypothesis. However, the link between the
slope of yield curve and credit spreads was positive and that was inconsistent with
our hypothesis and some previous studies. The conclusion of this paper was a
change in credit spread is related to the variables that we used in our model. And
these variables explained about 50 per cent of this change.
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Jones, Lawrence Anthony. "Dynamic electrode forces in gas metal arc welding." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11287.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-313).
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Burdine, Michelle Marie. "Burdine's Law of Intersecting Forces." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555579147996953.
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Bagler, Oscar. "Normbrytande form på spelrollen Tank : Kan en spelkaraktär med de spelmekaniska egenskaperna hos rollen Tank upplevas annorlunda om den har en kroppstyp som inte normalt är associerad med den rollen?" Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-16135.
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Den här studien undersöker om personer med erfarenhet av hjältebaserade spel kan kategorisera en karaktär som rollen Tank, när karaktären har en kroppstyp som inte normalt är associerad med rollen. De fem deltagarna i undersökningen fick se två karaktärer, en med bred kroppsform och en med smal kroppsform. Båda karaktärerna finns i två versioner, en spetsig och en rund, och deltagarna fick sedan gissa deras roll i ett hypotetiskt spel. Resultatet visar att en karaktär med smal kroppsform har svårare att få deltagarna att uppfatta den som Tank än en bred karaktär. Överlag var svaren att karaktärsrollen inte var Tank.
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Roosa, Jacob Bradley. "Sound and Silence in the Forge: Work, Space, and Communication in Early Cistercian Monasticism." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1495920988480644.
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Glass, Douglas J. "INVESTIGATION OF CYLINDRICALLY-CONFORMED FOUR-ARM SPIRAL ANTENNAS." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1183437465.
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Bartolillo, Tommy. "Behind The Mask of Time: Memory and Loss as Evolutionary Forces Upon Memory." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5115.
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For the past decade, I've been developing a body of work based on the concept of time, in all of its various forms. My medium varies, but my work maintains its steady, overarching philosophies and core aesthetics. The ideas of entropy, growth, decay, evolution, arrested development, fragmented memories, and fugue states; all are considered through a personal filter that borders upon the dark and macabre.ID: 031001537; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Adviser: .; Title from PDF title page (viewed August 21, 2013).; Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2012.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 44-45).
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Bennett, Sarah. "Traces, boundaries, surfaces : an investigation through art practice of institutional sites with particular reference to a former lunatic asylum." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/808.
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This doctoral research project by art practice examines a former site of exclusion, a nineteenth-century county pauper lunatic asylum, in particular its methods of containment and coercion. It involves an initial unearthing of narratives relating to the site's histories, including its recent redevelopment as a gated residential community, and consideration of other similar institutional settings. An exploration is subsequently developed through appropriation and interrogation of spatial and durational processes involved in selected mechanisms of control, and the impact of their repetition on those present, constituting the core of this practice-based research, and evidenced in the artworks arising from the enquiry. These are described and considered through a text in which methods and approaches are articulated and reflected upon. Through art practice and related theoretical research the concepts of trace, boundary and surface contribute to this engagement with site, i. e. trace as: movement; association; memory; unconscious material; and inhabitation, provides one trajectory, whilst exclusion - predicated on the existence of boundaries, whether physical, perceived or psychological - provides another, including the ways in which boundaries come into being, function and are transgressed. Surfaces and surfacing - as symptom and meaning - provide a further interlinking theme for the research.
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Robinet, Jean-Paul. "Des bords de l'oeuvre aux limites de l'art : une expérimentation des petites différences." Paris 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA010516.
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A intégrer dans sa production plastique la problématique des limites de l'art, un plasticien s'interrogera d'abord sur les bords de l'objet qu'il est en train de réaliser. Nous formulerons ces interrogations de la façon suivante : existe-t-il des relations entre les bords d'un tableau et les limites de l’art ? Et si nous répondons positivement à cette première question, comment passerions-nous de l'un à l’autre ? telles sont en l'occurrence les questions qui fondent cette recherche. Concevoir les bords comme le lieu privilégié de l'instauration de l'œuvre bute cependant sur un obstacle majeur énoncé de la façon suivante : « or le bord de l'œuvre n'est pas l'œuvre puisqu'il en est le bord ». L'évidence de cette affirmation sapait le fondement même du projet. Il fallait en vérifier la pertinence et dire pourquoi nous avions l'intuition qu'"hors le bord n'est pas l'œuvre". Pour cela, nous avons posé trois questions : 1 0) peut-il y avoir une œuvre à la limite de l'œuvre?, 20) peut-on faire œuvre aux limites de l'art? Et 30) peut-on concevoir, finalement, la limite même comme œuvre? Si les réponses à ces trois questions nous ont permis de constater qu'il existait plus d'une analogie entre les bords physiques du tableau et les limites de l'art, concevoir l'existence d'une œuvre au bord de l'œuvre ou d'une œuvre aux limites de l'art n'allait pas sans admettre "qu'il y a toujours eu du regard la derrière". Sur le seuil du visible, et en acceptant aussi une certaine connivence entre l'acte de voir et tes limites de l'art, une zone en réserve qui serait celle de ce que nous avons appelé "l'invu" aurait pour caractéristique principale d'être disponible, valeur zéro ou tache aveugle, et sans détermination. Soit une œuvre désœuvrée et démarquée qui, parce qu'elle détourne l'attention, parce qu'elle déjoue l'intention de faire œuvre et parce qu'elle reporte en permanence la réalisation de l'œuvre, ne fait pas œuvre à la limite mais fait de la limite une œuvreWe can presume that an artist who would include the problematics of the limits of art in his production would first wonder about the edges of the object whose creation is in progress and would formulate his queriesas follows: is there any relationship between the edges, say, of a painting, and the limits of art? Should we give a positive answer to this first question, then how shall we shift from one to the other? Such are the question which form the basis of this research work. Considering the edges as the very area where a work of art is introduced inevitably brings us to the conclusion that +the edge of a work of art can't be this work of art as it is its edge ;. As the obviousness of such a statement was liable to halt our train of thoughts, we determined to check its relevance and to express why we felt that + what is outside the edge of the work of art is not the work of art. ; in order to do so, we asked three questions which were examined in the second, third and fourth parts of the current work (shifting, erring and idleness) 1) can there be a work of art at the edge of the work of art? 2) can works of art be made at the limits of art? 3) finally, can the edge of a work of art be considered as the work of art itself? If answering the three questions above enabled us to find out there was more than a simple analogy between the physical edges of a painting and the limits of art, it was impossible to conceive the existence of a work of art bordering on the work of art or of a work of art at the limits of art without acknowledging that there has always been someone looking at the back ;. On the threshold of the visible, while accepting some sort of a link between the act of seeing and the limits of art, is a kind of reserve, a zero area or blind spot, which we called l'invu; (what has provisonally not been seen), whose main feature would be its availability and absence of predestination. It is an idle sort of work which, as it diverts the observer's attention, does not seem to aim at being a work of art and forever puts off its coming true, is not a work of art at the edge of art but turns the edge itself into a work of art
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Klaus, Nathan. "Pivot patterns in the former Prophets /." Sheffield (GB) : Sheffield academic press, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37102682t.
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au, 29948291@student murdoch edu, and Ivana Pelemis. "Acculturation Differences in Family Units from Former Yugoslavia." Murdoch University, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20071211.100224.
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Focus of on-going cross-cultural investigation has throughout the time shown that inadequate language skills paired with absence of knowledge of cultural practices and norms within the receiving society would create a number of stress behaviors among immigrants, often manifested as lowered mental health status- depression, anxiety, confusion; feelings of marginality and alienation; psychosomatic symptoms and identity confusion (Berry and Annis, 1988; Greenberg & Greenberg, 1989; Kessler, Turner and House, 1988; Shams and Jackson, 1994; Vega et al., 1986; Vinokur, Price and Caplan, 1991; Winefield, Winefield, Tiggermann and Goldney, 1991). It was further noticed that refugee populations across the world are adapting to the receiving societies in a much slower rate then other migrating groups (Greenberg & Greenberg, 1989), and yet due to sensibilities surrounding research of a refugee population, there are still questions surrounding this process. In addition, it appears that the attempts to demystify acculturation and uncover objective underpinnings of it, has further reduced the current concept undermining validity and reliability of the findings. Therefore need for subjective experience and definition of acculturation, as well as reconsideration of complexity of the phenomenon (acculturation) was recognised by this research.
This study was designed to offer a qualitative insight into the acculturative differences within a family unit among refugees from former Yugoslavia. 21 women, recent refugee- arrivals were requested to participate in the open- end interview. In the semi- structured interview the women were asked to give a detailed account of their personal, their partners and their childrens experiences concerning the emotional, social, economical, occupational and psychological aspects of their and their family- members acculturation processes. The obtained data was analysed through the means of narrative and Ericksons analytic induction. The results showed that cultural incompatibilities have spread into diverse spheres of living, thus complexity of the acculturation-related problems was acknowledged. The results showed that (1) split families (due to immigration), (2) inability to establish new social ties in the novel environment and (3) decay in professional status were often reported in connection with eroded physical and mental well-being of the participants and their families. The research also looked at cultural diversities, and gender differences, concentrating on concepts of resilience and coping strategies within the acculturative practice. It appears that cognitive restructuring and the ability to let go of the previous lives was the best coping mechanism.
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Pratt, Christopher D. "Permanent presence for the persistent conflict an alternative look at the future of special forces." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Jun/09Jun%5FPratt.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2009.Thesis Advisor(s): Simons, Anna. "June 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on 13 July 2009. Author(s) subject terms: Special Operations, U.S. Army Special Forces, Global War on Terror (GWOT) or (WOT), Irregular Warfare (IW), Regional Engagement, Enduring Engagement, Permanent/Persistent Presence, Building Partnership Capacity, Foreign Internal Defense (FID),Security Force Assistance (SFA), Global Counterinsurgency (COIN), Long War. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-60). Also available in print.
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Nelson, Taylor. "Belief and Belongingness: Are Supernatural Agents and Forces Social Surrogates?" Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28751.
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Motivational approaches to the study of supernatural beliefs propose that such beliefs serve psychological functions. I tested the proposal that supernatural agents and forces are sought out as social surrogates to fulfill the need to belong. First, I present preliminary data consistent with the claim that the belongingness motive and deficits in belongingness (i.e., loneliness) are related to supernatural beliefs. Next, I report an experiment testing the supernatural social surrogate proposal. I hypothesized that affirming belongingness would reduce supernatural beliefs and that the relationship between the predictors and supernatural beliefs would weaken if one’s belonging is affirmed. If supernatural beliefs are motivated by belongingness concerns, then meeting people’s belongingness needs should reduce their inclination to turn to supernatural social surrogates. I further predicted these effects would remain significant when controlling for known cognitive correlates of supernatural beliefs. Results did not support the social surrogate hypothesis.
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Lamb, Marybeth. "The Coeducation of Women's Colleges: are Women Still Engaged?" Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2167.
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Thesis advisor: Ana M. Martinez AlemanColleges and universities within the United States are continuously looking at ways to assess and measure student outcomes, academically as well as psychosocially. Student engagement measures have come to the forefront of assessment tools as a way for college administrators to determine whether their students are actively engaged in programs and activities on campus and whether this participation actually affects their retention and persistence. Women's colleges have been studied extensively as an alternative to the coeducational college environment for women. Founded on the premise of providing a higher education to an underserved population of women, women's colleges have evolved to providing an educational environment that serves to empower and enlighten their female students. However, over time, the number of women's colleges have declined through closure, merger or coeducation. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a significant difference in engagement levels of female students who attended former women's colleges and those who attended historically coeducational colleges or women's colleges. Exploring the engagement levels of students attending coeducational colleges that were founded as women-only, with the corresponding woman-centric educational experience, it can be determined whether that history and commitment continue and result in an educational environment that engages women significantly more than an institution that was coeducational from its inception. Using the NSSE benchmarks, HLM and ANOVA was used to determine any relationship between time from coeducational transition or male enrollment percentage and engagement levels. Interaction effects were also explored. Results of this study reveal three conclusions. First, consistent with the literature, students attending women's colleges are reporting higher engagement levels across all benchmarks when compared to their peers attending former women's colleges and historically coeducational colleges. Second, the engagement levels of female students attending former women's colleges are split along academic and psychosocial lines. Third, consistent with the "chilly climate" literature, increasing male enrollment percentage was linked to lower reported engagement levels by women attending former women's colleges
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Higher Education Administration
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Mockford, Jack. "'They are exactly as bank notes are' : perceptions and technologies of bank note forgery during the Bank Restriction Period, 1797-1821." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/15308.
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Previous studies of Bank Note forgery in England during the Bank Restriction Period have adopted a highly institutional focus. Thus, much is known about the role played by both the Bank of England and the workings of the criminal justice system in combating both forgers and forged note utterers. The question of how the new system of small denomination Bank Notes impacted upon the day to day lives and understandings of the people that used them has received far less attention. The actual means by which Bank Notes were themselves forged has also been overlooked. This has led to a somewhat two-dimensional view of these notes as material objects. This thesis will engage with common mentalities and perceptions, seeking to write a 'new history from below' of both Bank Notes and their forgery in this period. Its primary aims will be to explore the question of why the English people were so easily imposed upon by forged Bank Notes; the various means by which forged notes could be constructed; and what an analysis of both of these points can tell us about economic and social understandings of non-elite people at this time. It will be argued that by studying instances in which small denomination Bank Notes were routinely exchanged, we can highlight a significant dichotomy of understanding in a society that was starting to engage with a new culture of promise based fiduciary paper money, yet was still deeply rooted in early-modern notions of paper instruments as objects of personal credit and debt. The thesis will show that heavy exposure to Bank Notes at this time clearly equipped some contemporaries with their own personalised sets of aesthetic and material "standards", against which the "goodness" of any monetary instrument with which they were presented would be compared. Others continued to examine the material aspect of Bank Notes via a direct comparison or consultation with others. Neither approach was always successful and indeed whatever method was adopted, the common occurrence of the materials and technologies required to construct a credible imitation of a Bank Note meant that it was not just illiterate persons that were susceptible to being deceived. Even a reading of the Bank Note's literate text failed to provide sufficient defence against the activities of the forger.
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Adeleke, Adesina. "How External Forces are influencing the Ebusiness strategy of MTN-Nigeria." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för management, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-1182.
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The Internet and e-business has had enormous impact on many companies in Nigeria and there has been much research on how e-business influences the environment, but little can be found on how the environment of a developing country like Nigeria influences e-business. In e-business, technology tells the business what can be done in smarter ways. Technology not only can make business more efficient but also can make business more effective in targeting and reaching markets, however technology cannot enhance business in isolation as there are other vital factors that equally impact business. This thesis presents an adapted version of the PESTEL (Political, Economic, Socio cultural, Technology, Environment, and Legal) framework so called e-business PESTEL framework, as a method for structural analysis of macro environment forces in the future. In addition to this PESTEL framework, the Porter’s five forces model was employed to analyse the industrial forces that also influence MTNN e-business strategy. The main goal of this research is to give an overview of industry and macro-environment forces influencing the e-business strategy MTN-Nigeria and the impact of future developments. The research methodology was explorative and descriptive. A further method for future analysis of the macro-environments influences and a suggestion on how to incorporate it in this research work is given. The e-business strategy of MTNN consists of four areas: E-procurement, E-collaboration (CRM), Supply chain management and E-commerce. The influences found on macro-environments level are political and sociocultural forces and in the industry levels are bargaining power of customers and suppliers of its products and services .The most recommendations are that MTN-Nigeria should add e-business PESTEL framework described in this thesis to its e-business strategy check. Furthermore MTNN should include environment analysis more extensively in their e-business strategy approach as the factors in this research work shape the environment in which it carries out its business.toks_philip@yahoo.com,adac06@student.bth.se,++447976105543
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Founeau, Matthieu. "Esthétiques de l'Utopie : l'architecture inquiétée par l'art contemporain." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019MON30077.
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En 1516, l’humaniste anglais Thomas More écrit l’Utopie et nomme ainsi un genre à part entière qui, loin d’être une notion inédite, va questionner et secouer l’ensemble des champs artistiques et philosophiques. A travers notre recherche, il s’agit d’approcher cet insaisissable « lieu de nulle part » par le prisme d’un travail interdisciplinaire où s’interrogent réciproquement architecture et art contemporain. Il faut dès lors saisir l’utopie dans l’espace et le lieu propre de la contemporanéité et du contemporain qui, comme le souligne Giorgio Agamben est, « celui qui reçoit en plein visage le faisceau de ténèbres qui provient de son temps ». Loin des attentes et des présupposés de l’Histoire et de la chronologie, nous tenterons d’entendre l’utopie au sein d’un maillage où s’interrogent et s’interpellent philosophie, esthétique, littérature, poésie, psychanalyse et, bien évidemment, architecture et arts plastiques. Basé sur le modèle de la carte heuristique, où s’entremêlent les chemins qui ne mènent nulle part, il faut entrevoir cette recherche sous les traits d’une promenade intime, esthétique et poétique. Promenade à la rencontre de motifs privilégiés tels que : le voyage, le naufrage, la porte, le seuil, le labyrinthe, la tour, l’arbre, la pyramide, l’île, le refuge, la grotte, la caverne ou encore le chantier, la ruine, le chez-soi, et cetera. Enfin, il est nécessaire de noter que c’est à partir et à travers les œuvres d’art que cheminera notre propos, renforcé par leurs puissances poïétiques et poétiques intrinsèques qui sont aussi mises en acte au sein même de l’utopieAesthetics of Utopia : architecture queried by contemporary art In 1516, the English humanist Thomas More wrote Utopia and thereby designated a full genre which, far from being a new notion, will question and shake the whole artistic and philosophical domains. Through our research, we will approach this elusive «place of nowhere» with an interdisciplinary work where architecture and contemporary art will question each other. Therefore, we must understand Utopia in the proper space and time of contemporaneity and contemporary which is, as Giorgio Agamben stressed, «the one which is slapped in the face by the beams of darknesses that comes from his time». Far from the codes and the logics of History and chronology, we will attempt to understand Utopia within a network where philosophy, aesthetic, literature, poetry, psychoanalysis and of course, architecture and plastic arts challenge and question each others. Based on the model of a mind map, where paths that are going nowhere are running into each others, we must see this research as an intimate, attractive and lyrical promenade. A stroll towards motives such as the journey, the disaster/shipwreck, the door, the threshold, the maze, the tower, the tree, the pyramid, the island, the refuge, or the building site, the ruin, the home et cetera. Finally, it is necessary to note that it is from and through works of art that our statement will progress, strenghtened by their creative and lyrical powers which are also set in motion by utopia
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Polsani, Anoop Kumar Jorgensen Michael. "The effect of arm posture and descent height on landing forces." Diss., A link to full text of this thesis in SOAR, 2006. http://soar.wichita.edu/dspace/handle/10057/673.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Wichita State University, College of Engineering, Dept. of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering."December 2006." Title from PDF title page (viewed on Nov. 4, 2007). Thesis adviser: Michael Jorgensen. Includes bibliographic references (leaves 66-69).
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Carvalho, Marcelo Sacchi de. "Diamonds are forever long-run effects of mining institutions in Brazil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12138/tde-07102016-163813/.
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This paper uses a regression discontinuity approach to investigate whether a set of colonial policies adopted in the Diamond District have long-run impacts on development. Results show that the treatment effect is positive on household income, adult literacy and light density from satellite images. I also explore potential channels through which this historical event might be leading to these positive outcomes. I use contemporary census data to show that treated areas have higher urbanization rates. I also present evidence from 1872 and 1890 census data that areas inside the District have persistently higher human capital levels. Using a geospatial road location database and vector data constructed from historical maps, I find that observations inside the District\'s historical boundaries used to have less dense road networks but this is not true today. Additionally I use data from the 1830s and from the 1872 census to show that slavery was more intense in treated villages but after the decline of diamond extraction this difference vanishedEste artigo usa a técnica de regressão descontínua para investigar se um conjunto de políticas coloniais adotado no Distrito Diamantino tem efeitos de longo prazo sobre o desenvolvimento econômico. Os resultados mostram que o tratamento tem efeito positivo sobre renda por domicílio, alfabetização de adultos e densidade de luz obtida através de imagens de satélite. Eu também exploro potenciais canais de transmissão através dos quais esse evento histórico poderia gerar esses resultados positivos Eu uso dados do Censo de 2010 para mostrar que áreas tratadas têm taxa de urbanização mais alta. Eu também apresento evidência a partir dos Censos de 1872 e 1890 de que área dentro do Distrito tinham nível de capital humano persistentemente mais alto. Usando uma base geoespacial de localização de estradas e dados vetoriais construídos a partir de mapas históricos, eu encontro que observações dentro dos limites históricos do Distrito tinham redes viárias menos densas originalmente, mas que isso não é verdade hoje em dia. Adicionalmente, eu uso dados dos anos 1830 e do Censo de 1872 para mostrar que havia mais escravidão em paróquias tratadas, mas que com o declínio da extração dos diamantes essa diferença desapareceu.
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Cervera, Raphaël. "Figures de l'oubli : images artistiques et fabrique de la mémoire publique, du quinzième siècle à nos jours." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BOR30043/document.
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Notre époque connaît-elle véritablement une surenchère mémorielle ? L'idée d'une perte nous serait en tout cas devenue presque insupportable. En sciences humaines, de nombreux travaux ont été consacrés à la mémoire (Halbwachs, Le Goff, Yates…). Ces vingt dernières années pourtant, l'oubli a préoccupé les artistes (Pascal Convert ou Anne et Patrick Poirier), et les intellectuels (Augé, Todorov, Ricoeur). À la Renaissance déjà, le peintre et biographe Giorgio Vasari prétendait lutter contre cette « seconde mort » que serait l'oubli. En partant de la notion renaissante de renommée, de ses liens avec l'histoire, nous aimerions faire la généalogie de cet oubli « négateur », empêcheur d'une juste mémoire, à partir de plusieurs images, de plusieurs figures de l'oubli. En effet, il convient d'une part d'analyser des « formes de l'oubli », et d'autre part d'examiner la façon dont les artistes ont pu donner une « figure » à l'oubli. C'est donc un travail sur l'image de la mémoire publique que nous proposons (à condition que nous regroupions sous ce même terme images matérielles et images produites par le discours). Comment l'oubli peut-il être perçu tour à tour comme un lieu, un personnage, un processus? Quels sont ses liens avec l'entreprise historiographique? Pour répondre à de telles questions, il est nécessaire d'examiner les intrications entre histoire et mémoire, historiens et œuvres d'art, artistes et discours légitimant la pratique de ces derniers. Selon notre thèse, la mémoire publique, loin de connaître un excès, serait entrée au contraire dans un important, et croissant, déficitDoes our time truly know a memorial bidding? The idea of a loss would become almost unbearable to us. Many humanities studies have been devoted to memory (Halbwachs, Le Goff, Yates ...). For the last twenty years, however, oblivion has preoccupied artists (Pascal Convert or Anne and Patrick Poirier) and intellectuals (Augé, Todorov, Ricoeur). During the Renaissance already, the artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari claimed to fight against this "second death" that oblivion would represent. Starting from the re-emerging notion of glory,, from its links with history, we intend to draw a genealogy of this "contrarian" oblivion which prevents a just memory, using several images, several figures of oblivion. Indeed, we should firstly analyze "forms of oblivion", and then examine how artists have given a "figure" to oblivion. It is then a study on the image of public memory that we offer (provided that we include in the same term material images and pictures of the speech). How does oblivion can be perceived in turn as a place, a character, a process? What is its connection with the historiographical undertaking? In order to answer such questions, we need to examine the intricacies between history and memory, historians and works of art, artists and speeches that legitimize their practice. According to our work, public memory, far from knowing an excess, has known a large deficit instead
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Thomas, Joel W. "Special forces and the art of influence a grassroots approach to psychological operations in an unconventional warfare environment." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Jun%5FThomas.pdf.
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Wodon, Bernard. "Florilège du fer forgé liégeois au XVIIIe siècle /." Liège : P. Mardaga, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37500179r.
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Texte remanié de: Th. de doct.--Histoire de l'art et archéologie--Louvain--Université catholique, 1986. Titre de soutenance : Le style liégeois en serrurerie monumentale au XVIIIe siècle : essai de catalogue raisonné.Notes bibliogr. p. 217-229. Index.
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Almquist, Peter. "Red forge : Soviet military industry since 1945 /." New York (N.Y.) : Columbia university press, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb355310463.
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Kampa, Artemise. "Le syncrétisme esthétique de Forces Nouvelles (1935-1942) : une voie pour la définition de l’identité culturelle française dans l’imaginaire de l’entre-deux-guerres." Thesis, Paris 10, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA100081/document.
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Cette thèse analyse la position problématique et paradoxale du groupe Forces Nouvelles dans le large mouvement du retour à la figuration réaliste qui s’opère dans l’esthétique de l’entre-deux-guerres. Lancé en 1935 comme un groupe à la fois antimoderne et anticonformiste, Forces Nouvelles avance un nouveau langage pictural, un réalisme plus sensible investi dans l’expression de l’intériorité de l’être et éloigné de toute connotation sociale et idéologique, au-delà de toute trivialité ou de classicisme éteint. Pour beaucoup, ce réalisme d’esprit humaniste donnait au groupe un profil esthète et noble. Cette ambivalence entre réalisme et classicisme, entre activisme et esthétisme, est perpétuée dans la critique d’art même après la dissolution de l’ensemble en 1942. Cette identité ambiguë et obscure de Forces Nouvelles prend son sens une fois mise en relation avec les quêtes spirituelles et idéologiques de l’intelligentsia des années 1930. Révoltée contre l’idéologie matérialiste - dans sa forme libérale ou marxiste -, cette intelligentsia non-conformiste aspire à une nouvelle modernité plus spirituelle et morale ; explorant une voie alternative, ni à droite ni à gauche, elle vire souvent au conservatisme le plus anachronique et frôle la dérive fasciste. Forces Nouvelles, partageant une forme de pensée analogue à celle de l’élite contestataire – à la fois nihiliste et synthétique –, s’investit dans la recherche d’une esthétique originale, moderne et spirituelle, dans la recherche d’une nouvelle Renaissance ; s’inspirant d’une tradition picturale supposée authentique, le groupe élabore jusqu’au bout un style réaliste, grave et austère, effleurant l’archaïsme. En résonance avec la vision de cette génération non-conformiste, avec l’avènement d’un nouvel ordre moral, Forces Nouvelles propose un style réaliste au fondement existentiel comme horizon d’une nouvelle esthétique ultramoderneThis dissertation analyses the problematic, paradoxical position of the group known as Forces Nouvelles within the large movement of a return to realistic figuration, which takes place in the context of interwar aesthetics. Forces Nouvelles, launched in 1935 as an anti-modern, anti-conformist group, proposes a new pictorial language, a more sensitive realism at the service of the expression of the interiority of human beings and remote from social and ideological associations, beyond trivial realism and jaded classicism. This humanistic realism would confer a noble aesthete's profile to the group. Such ambivalence between realism and classicism, between activism and aestheticism is carried over in art criticism even after the dissolution of the group in 1942. This ambiguous, obscure identity of Forces Nouvelles becomes meaningful in the light of the spiritual and ideological quest of the 1930s intelligentsia, which revolted against materialist ideology, whether liberal or Marxist, aspiring to a new, more spiritual and moral, modernity. In its exploration of a new alternative, which is neither right nor left-oriented, it veers towards the most anachronistic conservatism verging on fascism. Having intellectual affinities with the radical elite, this both nihilistic and eclectic group, strives to achieve original aesthetics - modern and spiritual - and a new Renaissance. Based on a supposed authentic pictorial tradition Forces Nouvelles adopts a realistic style, grave and sober, verging on archaism. Resonating with the vision of this non-conformist generation and the advent of a new moral order Forces Nouvelles puts forward a realistic style with an existential basis as the aesthetics of ultra-modernity
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Mazeau, Jean-Paul. "De la vidéo virtuelle à la compréhension de l'image en temps réel par l'analyse des composantes chromatiques : des applications dans le domaine de la réalité virtuelle." Paris 8, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA080698.
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Cette these se decompose en deux parties. La premiere traite de la problematique du montage virtuel a partir de sequences video enregistrees sur divers supports. Apres l'analyse nous proposons une machine et des logiciels capables d'exploiter sequentiellement ou en parallele l'ensemble des supports de la configuration. Cette premiere phase s'accompagne de diverses applications qui touchent aux domaines: de l'experimentation, de la formation, du ludique, etc. . . La deuxieme phase traite de la generalisation de la video virtuelle, elle depasse le cadre de l'utilisation de la video comme support d'images visibles. Elle introduit le concept de donnee iconique et propose une architecture de machine, capable de traiter l'image directement a partir de ces donnees. Cette architecture parallele specifique utilise le concept silisiumauteur qui permet de specialiser le silicium en fonction d'une application, afin de traiter, au travers d'un ensemble de regles, toutes les relations entre les images a comprendre et les "images" qui servent a comprendre. Cette architecture realise des traitements au cycle de la trame d'information, ici 25 fois par seconde. Le temps de traitement ne depend ni: du nombre de plans video a comprendre, ni de la complexite des relations etablies entre ces plans. Nous traitons une panoplie d'exemples qui illustrent quelques champs applicatifs dans les domaines de: la robotique, la comprehension d'images, l'interactivite par le mouvement, la mesure, etc. .This thesis is divided into 2 parts. The first one deals with the problems of the virtual montage of video sequences recorded on various supports. After the analysis we propose a serial or parallel processing machine capable of accessing all available supports. This first step includes various applications in the fields of experimentation. Teaching, games, etc. The second step deals with the generalization of virtual video beyond the limits of the use of video as a support of visible images. It introduces the concept of (iconicdata) and offers a machine architecture designed to process the image directlyfrom such data, on the basis of the signal. This specific parallel architecture uses the concept of (authorsilicium) which allows for application cnstrained silicium, so as to process, through a set of rules all the relations between the images to be understood and the images that help to understand. This architecture operates on an information frame cycle, i. E. 25 times per second. Processing time depend neither on the number of video patterns to be understood nor on, the complexity of the relations between theses patterns. We consider a set of examples from suitable applications domain such as: robotics, image comprehension, interactive movement, virtual reality
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Jansen, Dina (Dieneke) Susanna. "The body upgrade aesthetics, value judgements and forces of choice : thesis submitted to the Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree - Masters of Art (Art and Design), 2004." Full thesis. Abstract, 2004.
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Gardano, Paola. "Modelling of hydrodynamic forces acting on the human arm during front crawl stroke." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504543.
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Propuisive force generated by swimmers' hand/forearm is the key factor determining performances in human competitive swimming. This work analysed the propulsion given by swimmer's arm performing front crawl stroke by using two complimentary methods: experimental tests and computational methods. The experimental part of the project aimed to derive both appropriate input and validation data from wind tunnel experiments on two models of human arm in order to obtain Drag and Lift values and related pressure distribution. However, due to the limitations in the experimental methods in terms of added terms, numerical approach becomes an invaluable tool in such simulations. The most prominent approach is the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The main results reported that the Drag was the one that contributes more for the proplllsioD An important and innovative element that has been analysed in this work is the special consideration to the dynamic of structures surrounded by water in term of induced acceleration and production of extra force on the structure in addition to the fluid-dynamic drag force. These results pointed out that the acceleration of hand/arm provides more propulsion to swimmers, confirming that some unsteady mechanism must be present in swimming propulsion. Another important aspect of this work has been focusing on the real swimmer stroke trajectory, as a three dimensional approach, by recording a competitive swimmer during training with three underwater cameras and by analysing the swimmer arm movement performing stroke. Drag and Lift forces have been calculated and the results obtained showed a lower profile for both forces, compared to those ones obtained in a configuration with straight or fixed elbow angle (20 analysis). This innovative and original approach to the study of swimming made these results more reliable for a complete, comprehensive and reliable analysis.
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Nullens, Céline. "Are We Home Yet? : An Exploration of Queer Narratives of Forced Salvadoran Migrants." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-166819.
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This thesis explores how LGBTQ*-Salvadoran applicants for international protection experience the influence of their own sexual orientation and gender identities in relation to the underlying motives behind their migration. In addition, it intends to draw some conclusions from the respondents' statements, gained insights from observations and what was found in literature. For this, two Salvadoran LGBTQ*- applicants for international protection, who applied for asylum in Belgium in the year 2019, were interviewed. Their discourses were analysed by using a thematic analysis.The study exposes the narratives and motivations which led them to flee their homeland and find a new life in Belgium.
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Langås, Unni. "Forandringens former : en studie i Liz Køltzows forfatterskap 1970-1988 /." [Oslo] : Aschehoug, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37624002f.
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Klint, Stefan. "Romanen och evangeliet : former för Jesusgestaltning i Pär Lagerkvists prosa /." Skellefteå : Norma, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38867038g.
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Axelsson, Rune. "Upper secondary school in retrospect : the view of former students /." Stockholm : Almqvist och Wiksell, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35512457p.
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Jacobsz, Johannes Marthinus. "Forces in the merging of universities : a case study / J.M. Jacobsz." Thesis, North-West University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1623.
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Amor, Mohamed C. "Arab Muslim immigrants in the U.S. : home environment between forces of change and continuity /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9988642.
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Henricksen, Natalia. "The status of the Commonwealth of Independent States in achieving the Millennium Development Goals /." View online version, 2009. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/316.
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Steinkamp, Mirja. "Die Eisenhütte Gittelde, 1700-1787 : eine betriebswirtschaftliche Untersuchung /." Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb371196743.
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