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Orthof, Nina Aprigliano. "Cosmos : navegar." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2016. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/22018.
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a escrita, o trabalho reflete sobre a minha prática artística - em movimento, na imobilidade e no entre- meio. Em percursos terrestres, aquáticos, no espaço sideral ou no próprio trabalho. O texto levanta reflexões poéticas acerca de conceitos como: imensidão, navegar e cosmos. Estilo de escrita, formato e conteúdo foram considerados para configurar uma estrutura que constitua outra dimensão do trabalho artístico. Os trabalhos podem ser encontrados no seguinte endereço eletrônico: www.ninaorthof.com. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT<br>As it merges travel journeys and writing, this work reflects upon my artistic practice – in movement, in stillness, in between – either on terrestrial, aquatic or outer space courses and in the artwork itself. The text brings about poetic reflections on: wideness, navigation and cosmos. Writing style, format and content is aimed to structure yet another dimension to the artistic work.Works can be found on the following webpage: www.ninaorthof.com.
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Hatleback, Eric Nelson. "Chimera of the cosmos." Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3647982.
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<p> Multiverse cosmology exhibits unique epistemic problems because it posits the existence of universes inaccessible from our own. Since empirical investigation is not possible, philosophical investigation takes a prominent role. The inaccessibility of the other universes causes argumentation for the multiverse hypothesis to be wholly dependent upon typicality assumptions that relate our observed universe to the unobserved universes. The necessary reliance on typicality assumptions results in the Multiverse Circularity Problem: the multiverse hypothesis is justified only through invoking typicality assumptions, but typicality assumptions are justified only through invoking the multiverse hypothesis. The unavoidability of the circularity is established through argumentation for each of the two conjuncts that comprise it.</p><p> Historical investigation proves the first conjunct of the Multiverse Circularity Problem. Detailed study of the now-neglected tradition of multiverse thought shows that philosophers and scientists have postulated the multiverse hypothesis with regularity, under different names, since antiquity. The corpus of argumentation for the existence of the multiverse breaks cleanly into three distinct argument schemas: implication from physics, induction, and explanation. Each of the three argument schemas is shown to be fully reliant upon unsupported typicality assumptions. This demonstrates that the multiverse hypothesis is justified only through invoking typicality assumptions.</p><p> Philosophical assessment of cosmological induction establishes the second conjunct of the Multiverse Circularity Problem. Independent justification for typicality assumptions is not forthcoming. The obvious candidate, enumerative induction, fails: Hume’s attack against inference through time is extended to inference through space. This move undercuts external justification for typicality assumptions, such as the Cosmological Principle, which cosmologists implement to justify induction. Removing the legitimacy of enumerative induction shows that typicality assumptions are justified only through invoking the multiverse hypothesis, thereby establishing the Multiverse Circularity Problem. </p>
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Silva, Boloña Valeria. "Observatorio natural del cosmos." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2014. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/130180.
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Marchesi, Stefano <1988>. "Black Hole and Galaxy Growth over Cosmic Time: the Chandra COSMOS Legacy Survey." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7240/1/marchesi_stefano_tesi.pdf.
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The study of supermassive black hole (SMBH) accretion during their phase of activity (hence becoming active galactic nuclei, AGN), and its relation to the host-galaxy growth, requires large datasets of AGN, including a significant fraction of obscured sources.
X-ray data are strategic in AGN selection, because at X-ray energies the contamination from non-active galaxies is far less significant than in optical/infrared surveys, and the selection of obscured AGN, including also a fraction of heavily obscured AGN, is much more effective.
In this thesis, I present the results of the Chandra COSMOS Legacy survey, a 4.6 Ms X-ray survey covering the equatorial COSMOS area. The COSMOS Legacy depth (flux limit f=2x10^(-16) erg/s/cm^(-2) in the 0.5-2 keV band) is significantly better than that of other X-ray surveys on similar area, and represents the path for surveys with future facilities, like Athena and X-ray Surveyor.
The final Chandra COSMOS Legacy catalog contains 4016 point-like sources, 97% of which with redshift. 65% of the sources are optically obscured and potentially caught in the phase of main BH growth.
We used the sample of 174 Chandra COSMOS Legacy at z>3 to place constraints on the BH formation scenario. We found a significant disagreement between our space density and the predictions of a physical model of AGN activation through major-merger. This suggests that in our luminosity range the BH triggering through secular accretion is likely preferred to a major-merger triggering scenario.
Thanks to its large statistics, the Chandra COSMOS Legacy dataset, combined with the other multiwavelength COSMOS catalogs, will be used to answer questions related to a large number of astrophysical topics, with particular focus on the SMBH accretion in different luminosity and redshift regimes.
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Marchesi, Stefano <1988>. "Black Hole and Galaxy Growth over Cosmic Time: the Chandra COSMOS Legacy Survey." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7240/.
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The study of supermassive black hole (SMBH) accretion during their phase of activity (hence becoming active galactic nuclei, AGN), and its relation to the host-galaxy growth, requires large datasets of AGN, including a significant fraction of obscured sources.
X-ray data are strategic in AGN selection, because at X-ray energies the contamination from non-active galaxies is far less significant than in optical/infrared surveys, and the selection of obscured AGN, including also a fraction of heavily obscured AGN, is much more effective.
In this thesis, I present the results of the Chandra COSMOS Legacy survey, a 4.6 Ms X-ray survey covering the equatorial COSMOS area. The COSMOS Legacy depth (flux limit f=2x10^(-16) erg/s/cm^(-2) in the 0.5-2 keV band) is significantly better than that of other X-ray surveys on similar area, and represents the path for surveys with future facilities, like Athena and X-ray Surveyor.
The final Chandra COSMOS Legacy catalog contains 4016 point-like sources, 97% of which with redshift. 65% of the sources are optically obscured and potentially caught in the phase of main BH growth.
We used the sample of 174 Chandra COSMOS Legacy at z>3 to place constraints on the BH formation scenario. We found a significant disagreement between our space density and the predictions of a physical model of AGN activation through major-merger. This suggests that in our luminosity range the BH triggering through secular accretion is likely preferred to a major-merger triggering scenario.
Thanks to its large statistics, the Chandra COSMOS Legacy dataset, combined with the other multiwavelength COSMOS catalogs, will be used to answer questions related to a large number of astrophysical topics, with particular focus on the SMBH accretion in different luminosity and redshift regimes.
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Martínez, Quiroga Amelia. "Cosmos y teatro : dos historias paralelas." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/326734.
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The image of the great Cosmos and the perception that man has from himself in relation to it is in the thematic core of this study, much more than a reconstruction of the diverse categories of his own thought in regard to the nature. lt is a notion that in three important epochs of history can be understood as an evident manifestation in the realm of the arts.
"Cosmos" takes its origin from the Greek word "Kocrµoc;" (kósmos), that means "order", the antithesis of Chaos. In its general sense, a cosmos can be understood then, as an orderly composition. In Gorgias, Plato's dialogue, Socrates states that, that's why the wise people give to the Universe the name of Cosmos, namely, the name of order and not of disorder. Therefore, the elucidation of the Universe is a question that has been observed, among other aspects, from different perspectives that attempt to solve a problem of order. And the drastic cosmic changes, discovered in the scientific realm throughout history produced, as well, similar changes in the way the human being has ordained his works of art. Every new image of the great Cosmos has dictated and has been manifested in society as a new image of order, namely, a new esthetic paradigm. The ancient Greece and its geocentric cosmos, absolutely symmetric, represent in this study the first change.
Then, the thinking and writings of Isaac Newton consolidated at the end of the Scientific Revolution, a second: the Universe became a heliocentric and mechanic Cosmos. And finally, two hundred years later, at the beginning of the 20th century, a new concept of motion, unlike the ancient and mechanical approaches, is a physic phenomenon that excels as the essential expression of a third scientific change of the order of the Universe: space-time. A new concept presented by Albert Einstein in 1905, as a part of his very known publication of the Theory of Special Relativity. The casual cosmos of the 17th century, where all phenomena where studied in the basis of a three dimensional Cartesian space, becomes a fourth dimensional composition, where the three spatial magnitudes and time are now inseparable. The Universe is a tetra dimensional field, dwelled by an unlimited web of body relations, eternally in motion. This is the new order that important 20th century creators and artists would attempt to reconstruct in their works of art as the great paradigm of beauty, founding with it the beginning of an unusual modern insight.<br>La imagen del gran Cosmos y la percepción que el hombre tiene de si mismo con respecto a éste es en el núcleo temático de este estudio, mucho más que una reconstrucción de las diversas categorías de su pensamiento con respecto a la naturaleza. Es una noción que puede ser entendida en tres momentos importantes de la historia como una manifestación que se hace evidente en el mundo de las artes. "Cosmos" se origina del término griego "Kóoµoc;", que significa "orden" y es la antítesis del Caos. En su sentido general un cosmos puede ser entendido entonces como una composición ordenada. En Gorgias, el diálogo escrito por Platón, Sócrates expresa que es por esto que los sabios dan a este Universo el nombre de Cosmos, es decir, de orden y no de desorden. La elucidación del Universo es así una cuestión que ha sido tratada desde entonces, entre otros aspectos, desde perspectivas diversas que buscan solucionar un problema de orden. Y los drásticos cambios cósmicos descubiertos a lo largo de la historia en el ámbito científico produjeron, a su vez, cambios semejantes en la forma de "ordenar'' la obra de arte. Cada nueva imagen del gran Cosmos ha dictado y se ha manifiestado en la sociedad como una nueva imagen o paradigma estético. La Grecia antigua y su Cosmos geocéntrico, absolutamente simétrico representa un primer gran cambio. Después, los escritos de Newton consolidan mucho más tarde, hasta a finales de la Revolución Científica, un segundo cambio: el Cosmos viene a ser heliocéntrico y mecánico. A principios del siglo XX el concepto movimiento es un fenómeno físico, que a diferencia de la aproximación antigua y de la mecánica clásica, sobresale como la expresión primordial del tercer cambio científico del orden del Universo, el cual fue dado a conocer por Albert Einstein en 1905 en su publicación de la Teoría Especial de la Relatividad: esto es el espacio-tiempo. Así, el Cosmos de causalidad del siglo XVII dónde los fenómenos se estudiaban en un espacio cartesiano, se convierte entonces en una composición de cuatro dimensiones, donde las tres magnitudes del espacio y el elemento tiempo vienen a ser inseparables. En un campo tetra dimensional habitado por una red de relaciones entre cuerpos que se encuentran en eterno movimiento. Este es el nuevo orden que importantes creadores del siglo XX buscaron reconstituir en sus obras, fundando el inicio de una historia moderna inédita.
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Parizot, Etienne. "Rayons cosmiques et rayonnement du cosmos." Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université Paris-Diderot - Paris VII, 2005. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00011476.
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Les rayons cosmiques occupent une place privilégiée au sein de l'astrophysique et de la physique des astroparticules, non seulement parce qu'ils participent à la plupart des processus énergétiques à l'œuvre dans l'univers, mais parce que leur existence même et la continuité de leur spectre d'énergie (des énergies thermiques à plus de 1020 eV) soulèvent des questions d'une grande fécondité et d'une richesse inattendue. La source de ces particules énergétiques sillonnant le cosmos demeure largement inconnue, et des décennies de recherche n'ont pas permis d'élucider pleinement le lien existant entre celles que l'on voit rayonner sur toute l'étendue du spectre électromagnétique dans telle ou telle source astronomique et celles que l'on détecte au voisinage de la Terre, porteuses d'informations précieuses pour la physique en général. Nous proposons une approche globale et pluridisciplinaire du rayonnement cosmique, insistant sur la nécessité de considérer conjointement ses trois dimensions spectrales : la distribution en énergie (spectre), la distribution angulaire (anisotropies) et la distribution en masse (composition). Nous analysons divers aspects de cette problématique — théoriques, phénoménologiques et expérimentaux — avec une attention particulière au cas des rayons cosmiques ultra-énergétiques, en relation avec l'Observatoire Pierre Auger, mais nous tentons également d'expliciter les liens existant entre les différentes gammes d'énergie, et de mettre en lumière l'importance de la transition galactique/ extragalactique. De nombreuses contraintes sont également apportées par l'astronomie non-thermique et l'astrophysique nucléaire, dont nous discutons certains aspects directement liés aux particules énergétiques, à leur accélération comme à leur propagation dans le cosmos.
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Giodini, Stefania. "Galaxy groups in the COSMOS survey." Diss., lmu, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-118268.
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Taylor, Stephen Richard. "Exploring the cosmos with gravitational waves." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708426.
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Silva, Bruna Pires da [UNESP]. "Potencial alelopático de Cosmos sulphureus Cav." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/150867.
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Previous issue date: 2017-04-17<br>Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)<br>Cosmos sulphureus Cav. é uma espécie que foi introduzida no Brasil como ornamental e hoje se comporta como uma planta daninha, apresentando elevado poder invasivo no ambiente, devido ao seu potencial alelopático, suprimindo inclusive o crescimento de outras plantas daninhas. Essa característica da planta a torna uma potencial candidata para obtenção de herbicidas naturais, os aleloquímicos, que uma vez isolados e caracterizados poderão ser utilizados diretamente como tal ou então para a semi-síntese de novos compostos. Em vista disso, objetivou-se avaliar e caracterizar o potencial alelopático de C. sulphureus e, também, extrair, fracionar e isolar os aleloquímicos promotores do efeito alelopático. Caracterizou-se o potencial alelopático de C. sulphureus pelo método de liberação por decomposição e por exsudação radicular (planta “in vivo”). A decomposição de plantas de C. sulphureus resultou em efeito alelopático inibitório sobre Lactuca sativa, Amaranthus viridis e Panicum maximum, principalmente na incorporação da maior quantidade de material vegetal.Exsudatos radiculares de C. sulphureus resultaram em efeito alelopático inibitório sobre A. viridis e P. maximum. Dentre os dois modos de liberação de aleloquímicos por C. sulphureus estudados, a exsudação radicular foi o mais ativo (planta “in vivo”). Também foi realizada a extração de folhas de C. sulphureus com água e solventes orgânicos e verificou-se a cito/fitotoxicidade dos extratos. Os extratos mais ativos foram fracionados utilizandose de técnicas de cromatografia e as frações obtidas foram testadas por meio de bioensaios (isolamento biodirigido). As frações bioativas foram analisadas para identificação das substâncias presentes por meio de HPLC-UV-MS e ressonância magnética nuclear. O extrato diclorometânico de folhas e o acetônico de raízes proporcionaram inibição significativa no alongamento de coleóptilos de trigo, e o primeiro apresentou-se mais fitotóxico às espécies receptoras (Allium cepa, L. sativa, Lepidium sativum, Lycopersicum esculentum, A. viridis, Echinochloa crus-galli, Panicum maximum e Urochloa decumbens). Foram isolados quinze compostos das folhas e cinco de raízes. Todos os compostos isolados das raízes, com exceção ao estigmasterol são fenilpropanóides, e foram isolados pela primeira vez na espécie C. sulphureus. Os compostos álcool 1’,2’-epoxi-3’,4-di-O-isobutiril-Z-coniferil e álcool 1',2'-dihidroxi-3',4-di-O-isobutirilconiferil, isolados das raízes, descrevem-se pela primeira vez na literatura. Os compostos majoritários isolados das folhas são lactonas sesquiterpênicas: costunolido, reinosina e santamarina. Os três compostos se descrevem pela primeira vez na planta C. sulphureus, com exceção do costunolido que já foi isolado anteriormente nesta planta. Santamarina e costunolido foram os mais ativos, seguidos por reinosina. Amaranthus viridis e P. maximum foram as espécies mais sensíveis à ação das lactonas. As lactonas sesquiterpênicas isoladas das folhas são uma fonte potencial para modelos de novos tipos estruturais de herbicidas.<br>Cosmos sulphurous Cav. was introduced in Brazil as an ornamental plant and has become a problematic weed. This plant grows rapidly and it’s a dominant species, probably due to its allelopathic activity, suppressing the growth of other weeds. This characteristic makes C. sulphureus a potential source of natural herbicides (allelochemicals). When isolated and characterized they can be directly used as such or used to synthesize new related compounds. The aim of this study was to evaluate and characterize the allelopathic potential of C. sulphureus and to extract, fractionate and isolate the allelochemical promoters of the allelopathic effect. The allelopathic potential of C. sulphureus was characterized by the decomposition release method and by root exudation (“in vivo” plant). The decomposition of C. sulphureus resulted in allelopathic inhibitory effect on Lactuca sativa, Amaranthus viridis and Panicum maximum, mainly in the incorporation of the greater amount of plant material. Root extracts of C. sulphureus resulted in allelopathic inhibitory effect on A. viridis and P. maximum. Based on the results of this work, the main release pathway presented by C. sulphureus is root exudation ("in vivo" plant). Extraction of C. sulphureus leaves with water and organic solvents was also performed and the cytotoxicity of the extracts was checked. The most active extracts were fractionated using appropriate chromatography techniques and the fractions were tested by means of bioassays (biodirigid isolation). Bioactive fractions were analyzed in order to identify substances through HPLC-UV-MS and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Dichloromethane extract of leaves and acetone extract of roots showed significant inhibition in wheat coleoptile elongation, and the first one was more phytotoxic to the target species (Allium cepa, L. sativa, Lepidium sativum, Lycopersicum esculentum, A. viridis, Echinochloa crus-galli, P. maximum and Urochloa decumbens). Fifteen compounds were isolated from leaves and five from roots. All compounds isolated from roots, except stigmasterol, are phenylpropanoids and were first isolated in C. sulphureus. The compounds 1’,2’-Epoxy-3’,4-di-Oisobutyryl-Z-coniferyl alcohol and 1',2'-Dihydroxy-3',4-di-O-isobutyrylconiferyl alcohol, isolated from roots, have never been described in the literature before. The major compounds isolated from leaves are sesquiterpene lactones: costunolide, reynosin and santamarin. The three major components of leaves are described for the first time to C. sulphureus, except costunolide, which was isolated from this plant before. Santamarin and costunolide were the most active compounds followed by reynosin. Amaranthus viridis and P. maximum were the most sensitive species to the action of the lactones. Sesquiterpene lactones isolated from leaves are a potential source for new herbicide structural models.<br>FAPESP: 2013/27140-7
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Silva, Bruna Pires da. "Potencial alelopático de Cosmos sulphureus Cav. /." Jaboticabal, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/150867.
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Orientador: Pedro Luís da Costa Aguiar Alves<br>Coorientador: Rosa María Varela Montoya<br>Coorientador: Mariluce Pascoina Nepomuceno<br>Banca: Alberto José Cavalheiro<br>Banca: Leonardo Bianco de Carvalho<br>Banca: Sônia Cristina Juliano Gualtieri<br>Banca: Davi Rodrigo Rossatto<br>Resumo: Cosmos sulphureus Cav. é uma espécie que foi introduzida no Brasil como ornamental e hoje se comporta como uma planta daninha, apresentando elevado poder invasivo no ambiente, devido ao seu potencial alelopático, suprimindo inclusive o crescimento de outras plantas daninhas. Essa característica da planta a torna uma potencial candidata para obtenção de herbicidas naturais, os aleloquímicos, que uma vez isolados e caracterizados poderão ser utilizados diretamente como tal ou então para a semi-síntese de novos compostos. Em vista disso, objetivou-se avaliar e caracterizar o potencial alelopático de C. sulphureus e, também, extrair, fracionar e isolar os aleloquímicos promotores do efeito alelopático. Caracterizou-se o potencial alelopático de C. sulphureus pelo método de liberação por decomposição e por exsudação radicular (planta "in vivo"). A decomposição de plantas de C. sulphureus resultou em efeito alelopático inibitório sobre Lactuca sativa, Amaranthus viridis e Panicum maximum, principalmente na incorporação da maior quantidade de material vegetal.Exsudatos radiculares de C. sulphureus resultaram em efeito alelopático inibitório sobre A. viridis e P. maximum. Dentre os dois modos de liberação de aleloquímicos por C. sulphureus estudados, a exsudação radicular foi o mais ativo (planta "in vivo"). Também foi realizada a extração de folhas de C. sulphureus com água e solventes orgânicos e verificou-se a cito/fitotoxicidade dos extratos. Os extratos mais at... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)<br>Abstract: Cosmos sulphurous Cav. was introduced in Brazil as an ornamental plant and has become a problematic weed. This plant grows rapidly and it's a dominant species, probably due to its allelopathic activity, suppressing the growth of other weeds. This characteristic makes C. sulphureus a potential source of natural herbicides (allelochemicals). When isolated and characterized they can be directly used as such or used to synthesize new related compounds. The aim of this study was to evaluate and characterize the allelopathic potential of C. sulphureus and to extract, fractionate and isolate the allelochemical promoters of the allelopathic effect. The allelopathic potential of C. sulphureus was characterized by the decomposition release method and by root exudation ("in vivo" plant). The decomposition of C. sulphureus resulted in allelopathic inhibitory effect on Lactuca sativa, Amaranthus viridis and Panicum maximum, mainly in the incorporation of the greater amount of plant material. Root extracts of C. sulphureus resulted in allelopathic inhibitory effect on A. viridis and P. maximum. Based on the results of this work, the main release pathway presented by C. sulphureus is root exudation ("in vivo" plant). Extraction of C. sulphureus leaves with water and organic solvents was also performed and the cytotoxicity of the extracts was checked. The most active extracts were fractionated using appropriate chromatography techniques and the fractions were tested by means of bioassays (bi... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)<br>Doutor
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Twardowski, Zach. "Cosmos in chaos: the acting process." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6317.
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van, Putten Jasper Cornelis. "The Networked Cosmos: Sebastian Münster's City Views." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467472.
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My dissertation concerns the networks of production of early modern books of city views. Its focus is the emerging national and regional identities of the makers of the views in Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1544-1628) and competing French city books from the same period. To study the networks I have adopted an interdisciplinary approach that aims to give a measured attention to all individuals involved in the production of the views (cosmographers, patrons, artists, draftsmen, woodcutters, printers). I analyze (1) national myths to which patrons and artists aligned their views, (2) patrons’ depiction of territory and genealogy in their views, (3) national symbols depicted on the views by draftsmen and woodcutters, and (4) draftsmen’s intentional application of “Deutsch” [German] or “Welsch” [French/Italian] styles. Finally, I have mapped views of the all editions of the city books in GIS, in order to visualize and analyze their networks of production over time. It emerges from this inquiry that a necessary condition for the collaborative production of books of city views was the alignment of the diverse interests (scientific, political, dynastic, economic, artistic) of all parties involved along a single unified goal, here the production of a shared national identity.<br>History of Art and Architecture
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Clark, Ernest P. "Enslaved under the elements of the cosmos." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13123.
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When Paul writes ‘we too were enslaved under the elements of the world', he means that the elements that compose the cosmos also compose and compromise the flesh and enslave human persons through their bodies (Gal 4.3). This thesis demonstrates that early Jews used the phrase στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου to refer to the material elements – earth, water, air, and fire – and not to elemental spirits or elementary principles. Greek medical tradition understood the material elements to mediate the stimuli (παθήματα) and desires of the body which enslave the soul, and it prescribed a variety of regimens (including νόμος) as παιδαγωγοί to guide a person to wholeness. In his philosophy according to the cosmic elements, Philo promotes the law of Moses – including circumcision and the calendar – as the effective way to be ‘redeemed from slavery' to the flesh, to attain righteousness, and to live in harmony with the cosmos. Paul's epistle to the Galatians opposes this sort of ‘redemptive nomism'. Paul accepts that weak στοιχεῖα compose the weak σάρξ and that they mediate sinful stimuli and desires that lead to the actions of the flesh. However, he denies that the law can make people alive or righteous. Instead, Paul prescribes crucifixion with Christ and new life with the Spirit as the final cure for sin's infection of the flesh made of weak στοιχεῖα. Through faith, Christ will be formed in believers as the Spirit guides them away from the desires of the flesh and produces his fruit in their lives.
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Unger, Nancy Mangabeira. "Cosmos e Polis : fundamentos filosoficos do pensamento ecologico." [s.n.], 1998. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/252472.
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Previous issue date: 1998<br>Resumo: Experienciamos hoje uma crise que repõe certas questões que fundam e fundamentam o percurso de uma época. Uma das leituras possíveis dessa crise é considerá-Ia como um processo de desertificação, tanto no sentido físico quanto anímico. O deserto contemporâneo é analisado como o resultado de uma dinâmica na qual o homem entende sua humanidade na razão direta de sua capacidade de dominar a natureza e outros homens. Trata-se de uma tiranização do real que se pauta pela redução de todos os seres, inclusive o próprio homem, à condição de objetos cujo único valor consiste no lucro que podem produzir. São abordadas algumas tendências do pensamento ecológico que procuram questionar a dinâmica vigente, suas características de instrumentalidade, reificação e controle. Tais questionamentos evidenciam a necessidade de repensar a identidade do ser humano e seu lugar no universo, bem como uma readequação da poUs - no sentido mais amplo do espaço da convivência humana - com o cosmos. Procura-se interpretar o encontro entre os valores da ecologia radical e a cultura popular, tal como se configurou numa experiência concreta na região sertaneja do Rio São Francisco, considerada como um modo original de estabelecer elos entre o político, o educativo e o ecológico. Finalmente, busca-se por em diálogo diferentes experiências do pensamento: a mítica, a mística e a filosofia, que vivificam um modo de ser criativo, e propiciam condições para restaurar a morada<br>Doutorado<br>Filosofia e História da Educação<br>Doutor em Educação
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George, Robert. "La vision du cosmos dans les manuscrits carolingiens." Paris 10, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA100070.
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Dans cet ouvrage, le rédacteur a essayé de décrire comment les hommes et les femmes, habitant au IXè siècle dans les limites de l'empire carolingien, voyaient le monde qui les entourait. Cette étude de la Nature des choses a entrainé de la part de nos lointains ancêtres des réflexions sur la présence de Dieu dont l'empereur carolingien était le missus chargé de conduire le peuple des Francs à la Jérusalem céleste. La recherche des témoignages (textes et images) a été conduite dans le cadre de l'Histoire de l'art en examinant plus de trente manuscrits astronomiques copiés et illuminés entre 798 et le début du XIè siècle ainsi que d'autres manuscrits où pouvait être représenté le monde invisible. L'auteur a tenté de comprendre la raison de la production en grand nombre de recueils techniques dont les textes et les images ont permis le regroupement en familles. Dans une première partie, Terra, on assiste à l'élaboration du couple Océan-Terre, dont l'examen (par l'auteur dans son mémoire de D. E. A. ), a été complété par une recherche de textes. Celle-ci a permis de mettre en valeur le rôle (en 869-870) de Jean Scot Erigène dans cette vision de l'union de deux éléments pesants qui vont être représentés pendant le Moyen-Age dans les manuscrits comme des bas-reliefs. La deuxième partie Caelum présente les manuscrits astronomiques carolingiens où se retrouvent les textes des traducteurs latins d'Aratos (Cicéron, Germanicus, Aviénus) mais aussi ceux de Hygin et de Pline pour l'Antiquité, d'Isidore de Séville et de Bède le Vénérable pour le Haut Moyen-Age ainsi que la traduction en latin du VIIIè siècle des Phénomènes d'Aratos. Les enluminures illustrant les textes ont permis des regroupements. L'auteur, après étude de ces pièces a pu rectifier certaines opinions erronées de quelques auteurs n'ayant eu connaissance des manuscrits que par ouï-dire ou ayant examiné des images sans se référer aux textes les concernant. La troisième partie, Mundus, examine les textes et images permettant la compréhension du monde invisible par les Francs du IXè siècle. Cet examen a permis de souligner l'importance du rôle joué par de nombreux écrivains carolingiens et en particulier par Jean Scot Erigène et Raban Maur. En conclusion, l'auteur montre l'évolution de la pensée des Francs aux temps carolingiens. Celle-ci s'est faite de façon progressive grâce à une élévation régulière du niveau intellectuel jusqu'aux destructions dues aux invsions extérieures. On constate une opposition entre Jean Scot, qui cherche des explications aux mystères du monde en consultant le Livre de la nature, et Raban Maur pour qui la Vérité se trouve dans les Ecritures. C'est Raban Maur qui sera suivi durant le Moyen-Age tandis que la pensée de Jean Scot sera proscrite. Dans cette thèse d'Histoire de l'art, un accent final a été mis sur l'importance de la mode dans l'élaboration des images au cours du IXè siècle. Celles-ci sont souvent des copies d'antiques mais parfois des formes nouvelles apparaissent ainsi que des images symboliques traduisant la pensée impériale ou royale. Ainsi, les scriptoria carolingiens, en permettant une renaissance des textes anciens, ont assuré la transmission d'idées et d'images nouvelles aux époques qui ont pris la suite du siècle de Charlemagne. En annexe, de nombreuses reproductions mettent en valeur cette évolution graphique tandis que l'analyse succinte des textes des manuscrits astronomiques en permet une meilleure approche.
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Sargent, Mark Thomas. "The evolution of disk galaxies in the COSMOS survey /." Zürich : ETH, 2008. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=17594.
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Cordourier-Real, Carlos RomaÌn. "Transnational social justice : beyond the Westphalian and Rawlsian cosmos." Thesis, University of Essex, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442507.
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Thorpe, Andrea Susan. "Cosmos in London : South Africans writing London after 1948." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2017. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/24862.
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Many critics have argued that Englishness was forged on the peripheries of the British Empire - that, as Simon Gikandi puts it, Englishness was "elsewhere". In this thesis, I take this argument in another direction, and ask whether travel to London enabled South Africans not only to think about London and Englishness, but also to forge ideas about South Africanness. In order to answer this question, I explore South African representations of London from 1948 onwards. I focus on the writing of Peter Abrahams, Dan Jacobson, Todd Matshikiza, Arthur Nortje, J.M. Coetzee, Justin Cartwright, and Isthtiyaq Shukri, providing an alternative and transnational history of both South African literature and London by exploring the interface between London and South African authors across a broad timespan. My comparison of the writing of Peter Abrahams and Dan Jacobson highlights London's role in the midst of important debates about liberalism, artistic independence and the role of the South African writer during apartheid. My study of Todd Matshikiza's London-based writing exemplifies the layered, transhistorical counterpoint between South Africa and London that is common to many South African narratives about London. Matshikiza's writing also includes references to other spaces - in his case, a global black imaginary - foregrounding the global resonances that are present in both London and South Africa. Arthur Nortje's poetry about London evinces a shifting dialectic between traumatic alienation and bodily embeddedness in the city, suggesting the need to rethink how exiled South African writers have engaged with places of exile. In my study of novels by Justin Cartwright and J.M. Coetzee, I focus on the metonymic role that London plays in South African writing, and explore how writing about London enables or occludes self-reflection on the part of "white" writers. In my epilogue, I read Ishtiyaq Shukri's The Silent Minaret (2005) in order to consider the interlinked histories of South Africa and London, but also to look forward and outwards to South African literature's broader global reach. In this thesis, I argue that a study of South African writing in London enriches our understanding of the historical development of South African culture and identity in response to exile, and specifically in relation to one of the most important international touchstones within the South African imaginary.
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Yeager, Ashley. "Cosmos incognito : Vera Rubin shines light on dark matter." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45424.
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Thesis (S.M. in Science Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Graduate Program in Science Writing, 2008.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 39-43).<br>This thesis, a profile of astronomer Vera Rubin, highlights her scientific achievements, most notably the irrefutable evidence she gathered to persuade the astronomical community that galaxies spin at a faster speed than Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation allows. As a result of this finding, astronomers conceded that the universe must be filled with more material than they can see. Scientists call this mysterious substance dark matter. This submission explains the scientific history of dark matter, its acceptance, and the current research being done to test its existence. It also mentions counter theories to the dark matter hypothesis and looks at Vera Rubin's current work and how this research will help astronomers better understand the construction of the cosmos and its evolution.<br>by Ashley Yeager.<br>S.M.in Science Writing
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Boner, Patrick. "Kepler's living cosmos : bridging the celestial and terrestrial realms." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612767.
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Makrymallis, A. "Novel algorithms for the understanding of the chemical cosmos." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1466167/.
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Molecular data from the interstellar medium (ISM) contain information that holds the key to understanding our chemically controlled cosmos and to unlocking the secrets of our universe. Observational data, as well as synthetic data from chemical codes, provide a cornucopia of digital information that conceals knowledge of the ISM. Astrochemistry studies the chemical interactions in the ISM and translates this information into knowledge of the physical characteristics of the ISM. As larger datasets and more complex models are being employed in astrochemistry, the need for intelligent data mining algorithms wil increase. Machine learning algorithms provide novel methods for human-driven analysis of astrochemical data by augmenting scientific intelligence. The aim of this thesis is to introduce machine learning methods for solving typical astrochemical problems. The main application focus will be the physical parameter profile of dark molecular clouds. Time-dependent chemical codes are typically used as a tool to interpret observations, but their potential to explore a large physical and chemical parameter space is often ne- glected due to the computational complexity or the complexity of the parameter space. We will present clustering analysis methods, using traditional and probabilistic hierar- chical clustering, for the efficient discovery of structure and patterns in vast parameter spaces generated solely from an astrochemical code. Moreover, we will demonstrate how Bayesian methods in conjunction with Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithms can efficiently solve nonlinear inverse problems for the probabilistic estimation of chemical and physical parameters of dark molecular clouds. The computational cost of sampling algorithms can be preventive for a full Bayesian approach in some cases, hence we will also present how artificial neural networks can accelerate the inference process without much loss of accuracy. Finally, we will demonstrate how the Bayesian approach and smart sampling techniques can tackle uncertainty about surface reactions and rate coefficients, even with vague and not very informative observational constraints, and assist laboratory astrochemists by guiding experimental techniques probabilistically.
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Coleman, Christian. "What Ever Happened to the Man from the Cosmos?" ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1963.
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Rohr, Doris. "Drawing on nature : the legacy of Ruskin's moral cosmos." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2016. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/82473/.
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This interdisciplinary project investigates drawing as a form of looking, and the possibility of transcending looking, into perception. Words and photos constitute a text that weaves together distinctive strands; those of drawing, those of writing in italics (subjective, personal reflections: the journal) and those of academic writing with reference to scientists, artists and philosophers of relevance. The format is deliberately interdisciplinary, defying traditional academic conventions and proposing creative and hybrid interrelations of the visual with the verbal. The purpose of the text is to re-establish drawing as a means of perceiving and understanding, to gain insight. John Ruskin advocated drawing as a means of looking and self-education, encouraging all to learn to draw in order to love nature. In the text submitted here, the visual and the verbal are interpreting each other. The drawings form a visual journal alongside the written journal, exploring continuous narrative on paper and in notebooks. Research methods included walking, observing and collecting. The drawings aim to reveal a spiritual dimension of nature through descriptions of journeys and encounters, actual and imagined, with inanimate and animate beings, thereby visually presenting a stream of consciousness. Ruskin’s spiritual and moral view of art and nature provides much contemporary relevance in an age where the shortcomings of the ideologies associated with modernism have become recognised and critiqued. Philosophical and ecological considerations for the wellbeing of the life-world, the cosmos, have created a basis for a reappraisal of Ruskin’s legacy. Drawing and writing become tools to see the world and to build responsible relations with it. In order to be a good artist, a good drawer or writer, art needs to strive for moral integrity.
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Moran, David W. (David Wayne). "Chaos, Cosmos, and Communion: Three Movements for String Quartet." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278804/.
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The three movements of this piece are related proportionally in that movements one and two represent three-fifths of the length of the whole. Movement three represents two-fifths of the length of the whole. Another proportional relationship exists between movements one and two. Movement one represents two-fifths of the length of the first two movements, while movement two represents three-fifths of the length of the two. An additional link between the three movements is pitch content. Movements one and two have little in common in this regard, but movement three combines elements of the first two. The duration of the entire piece is approximately fifteen minutes.
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Montero, Camacho Paulo. "Searching the Cosmos: Ripples from Avant-Garde Cosmological Probes." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1562949205379439.
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Clark, Travis Lee. "Imaging the Cosmos: The Christian Topography by Kosmas Indikopleustes." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2008. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/2022.
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Art History<br>Ph.D.<br>The Christian Topography by Kosmas Indikopleustes was both one of the most perplexing and one of the most elaborately illustrated manuscripts of the Byzantine era. Written in the sixth-century, the manuscript survives in three copies: Vatican Greek 699, a ninth-century codex in the Vatican collections, and two eleven-century copies, Sinai Greek 1186 in the library of Monastery of St. Katherine in Sinai, and Pluteus IX.28, in the possession of the Laurentian Library in Florence. The work attempted nothing less that the replacement of the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic system of the universe with a cosmological model the author thought was more in harmony with Christian scripture. The text was illustrated with many unique diagrams of the cosmos, as well as several narrative biblical images. Long disparaged as an obscure work by an ignorant author, scholarship focused instead on the ornate miniatures. Kurt Weitzmann and other scholars advanced the theory that the illustrators appropriated many images, particularly the narrative images from book five, from an earlier source, possibly a lost Octateuch tradition. The cosmological diagrams were seen as a novelty and largely ignored. This avenue of research resulted in a bifurcation of the text and image in scholarship of the manuscript, in which the illustrative program was seen as ad hoc or derivative and unrelated to the text or Kosmas' theories. After having thoroughly examined all three surviving manuscripts in person, I have come to a different conclusion. By exploring the author's use of language and typology, I believe I have demonstrated that all the images, even the problematic narrative ones, relate directly to Kosmas' theories and were probably original. Kosmas was not a fundamentalist or a "know-nothing" as previously described but a cosmopolitan and flexible thinker deeply immersed in the Christological debates of his era. Viewed in that context, The Christian Topography used a holistic approach where images and visual imagery were indispensable to the author's arguments.<br>Temple University--Theses
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Maldamé, Jean-Michel. "L'univers du big bang : le Christ et le cosmos /." Paris : Lyon : J. Vrin ; Institut interdisciplinaire d'études épistémologiques, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37652204t.
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Malavasi, Nicola. "Environment of radio sources in the vla-cosmos survey." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2013. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/5886/.
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Sebbene studiati a fondo, i processi che hanno portato alla formazione ed alla evoluzione delle galassie così come sono osservate nell'Universo attuale non sono ancora del tutto compresi. La visione attuale della storia di formazione delle strutture prevede che il collasso gravitazionale, a partire dalle fluttuazioni di densità primordiali, porti all'innesco della formazione stellare; quindi che un qualche processo intervenga e la interrompa. Diversi studi vedono il principale responsabile di questa brusca interruzione
della formazione stellare nei fenomeni di attività nucleare al centro delle galassie (Active Galactic Nuclei, AGN), capaci di fornire l'energia necessaria a impedire il collasso gravitazionale del gas e la formazione di nuove
stelle. Uno dei segni della presenza di un tale fenomeno all'interno di una galassia e l'emissione radio dovuta ai fenomeni di accrescimento di gas su buco nero.
In questo lavoro di tesi si è studiato l'ambiente delle radio sorgenti nel campo della survey VLA-COSMOS. Partendo da un campione di 1806 radio sorgenti e 1482993 galassie che non presentassero emissione radio, con redshift fotometrici e fotometria provenienti dalla survey COSMOS e dalla
sua parte radio (VLA-COSMOS), si è stimata la ricchezza dell'ambiente attorno a ciascuna radio sorgente, contando il numero di galassie senza emissione radio presenti all'interno di un cilindro di raggio di base 1 Mpc
e di altezza proporzionale all'errore sul redshift fotometrico di ciascuna radio sorgente, centrato su di essa. Al fine di stimare la significatività dei risultati si è creato un campione di controllo costituito da 1806 galassie
che non presentassero emissione radio e si è stimato l'ambiente attorno a ciascuna di esse con lo stesso metodo usato per le radio sorgenti.
I risultati mostrano che gli ammassi di galassie aventi al proprio centro una radio sorgente sono significativamente più ricchi di quelli con al proprio centro una galassia senza emissione radio. Tale differenza in ricchezza
permane indipendentemente da selezioni basate sul redshift, la massa stellare e il tasso di formazione stellare specifica delle galassie del campione e mostra che gli ammassi di galassie con al proprio centro una radio sorgente dovuta a fenomeni di AGN sono significativamente più ricchi di ammassi con al proprio centro una galassia senza emissione radio. Questo effetto e più marcato per AGN di tipo FR I rispetto ad oggetti di tipo FR II, indicando una correlazione fra potenza dell'AGN e formazione delle
strutture.
Tali risultati gettano nuova luce sui meccanismi di formazione ed evoluzione delle galassie che prevedono una stretta correlazione tra fenomeni di AGN, formazione stellare ed interruzione della stessa.
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Mongardi, Chiara. "Coppie di agn in banda x nel campo cosmos." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2013. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/5897/.
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In questo lavoro di tesi, sono state studiate coppie di AGN nel campo COSMOS, selezionate in banda X. Sono state studiate le proprietà multifrequenza del campione trovato ed è stato eseguito un confronto con un campione di AGN isolati.
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Yuan, Ning. "La notion de cosmos dans l'oeuvre de Philippe Jaccottet." Thesis, Tours, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOUR2001/document.
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La notion de « cosmos » occupe une place centrale dans toute l’oeuvre de Jaccottet, moins en tant qu’abstraction conceptuelle que sous forme de « traits épars », diffusés partout dans ce monde-ci. La conception jaccottéenne du cosmos s’inscrit dans la lignée de la cosmologie grecque, notamment dans celle de Pythagore qui assimile le mot « cosmos » à la triade ordre-monde-parure des femmes. Notre première partie s’organise ainsi autour de cette triple signification du « cosmos », dont la première dimension s’avère tout particulièrement significative, puisque l’ordre est à la source de la perception esthétique chez l’homme, alors que le monde n’est possible qu’étant ordonné. Le travail que mène le poète à la poursuite d’un ordre qui transparaît à travers les paysages et les choses acquiert alors un sens existentiel et ontologique, notamment aux temps modernes où le monde humain s’approche plus du « chaos » que du « cosmos », c’est-à-dire d’un ensemble beau, ordonné et uni. Se conduisant en « élève du monde », le poète se laisse guider par la lumière des choses dont la vie, à l’opposé de celle de l’homme, s’inscrit dans la belle ordonnance du cosmos<br>The notion of the « cosmos » takes a central place in the work of Jaccottet, less as the conceptual abstraction than as the form of the “sparse traits” disseminated in this world. The Jaccottet’s conception of the cosmos takes part in the Greek Cosmology and especially in the Pythagoras Cosmology that assimilates the word of “cosmos” with a triad: order-worldwomen looks. The first part of our study is organized around that triple significance of “cosmos”, whose first dimension is particularly full of significance due to the fact that the order is at the source of esthetic perception for a human being, and the world is not possible without order. The project that undertakes the poet in the research of an order that shows through the scenery and the objects, acquire then an existential and ontological meaning, especially in the modern times in which the human life approaches more to the “chaos” than to the “cosmos” that represents an altogether of beauty, order and union. As an “apprentice of the world”, the poet lets himself be guided by the light of the things whose life, contrary to the human’s life, is registered in the beautiful order of cosmos
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Ignace, Richard. "Astro4U: An Introduction to the Science of the Cosmos." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. http://amzn.com/1634870697.
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Astro maths -- The sky -- Astronomy of the ancients -- Renaissance astronomy -- The astronomer's toolbox: physical principles -- Overview of the solar system -- The sun, our nearest star -- Earth, the home world -- The moon -- The terrestrial planets -- The gas giant planets -- The dwarf planets -- Major moons of the solar system -- Solar system debris -- Properties of the stars -- The formation of stars -- The lives of stars -- Stellar corpses -- The interstellar medium -- Living in a galaxy called the milky way -- Galaxies -- Active galaxies and quasars -- Cosmology -- Exoplanets -- The search for life.
The book Astro4U: An Introduction to the Science of the Cosmos excites students about the grandeur of astronomy and how the universe functions. Filled with vibrant figures and informative tables that support the written text, the book has a fresh, casual, student-friendly tone that dramatically increases interest in the material while also making it more accessible. The book provides a college-level description of science with astronomy serving as the vehicle of delivery for displaying the scientific model. The content follows a traditional progression of scale, beginning with a study of the sky, followed by discussions of ancient and medieval astronomy, modern scientific practices, and key physical principles. Chapters move through the Solar System, stars, then galaxies, and finally the cosmos as a whole. Additionally, the book presents astronomy as the story of light and gravity, crucial threads that permeate the text. Because students often express concern about the math content in astronomy classes, the book begins with a chapter entitled "Astro Maths" that reviews all the mathematical skills and concepts needed to complete the course. This up-front investment increases student confidence, eliminates one of the primary blocks students face, and improves chances for student achievement and success. Astro4U is written for general education survey courses in astronomy that are geared to non-science majors.<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1016/thumbnail.jpg
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Ignace, Richard. "Astro4U: An Introduction to the Science of the Cosmos." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://www.amzn.com/1516506782/.
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The book Astro4U: An Introduction to the Science of the Cosmos excites students about the grandeur of astronomy and how the universe functions. Filled with vibrant figures and informative tables that support the written text, the book has a fresh, casual, student-friendly tone that dramatically increases interest in the material while also making it more accessible.The book provides a college-level description of science, with astronomy serving as the vehicle of delivery for displaying the scientific model. The content follows a traditional progression, beginning with a study of the sky, followed by discussions of ancient and medieval astronomy, modern scientific practices, and key physical principles. Chapters move through the Solar System, stars, then galaxies, and finally the cosmos as a whole. The book presents astronomy as the story of light and gravity, crucial threads that run through the text. Chapters include Ponder Sections—in-depth, quantitative passages dealing with particular applications of interest such as “space junk”, the solar energy budget, and light travel time. Appendices provide information about physical constants, astronomical symbols, and multiple choice problem sets.Because students often express concern about the math content in astronomy classes, the book begins with a chapter entitled “Astro Maths” that reviews all the mathematical skills and concepts needed to complete the course. This up-front investment increases student confidence, eliminates one of the primary blocks students face, and improves chances for student achievement and success.Astro4U is written for general education survey courses in astronomy that are geared toward non-science majors.<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1188/thumbnail.jpg
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Jašek, Michal. "Analýza komory diferenciálního čerpání EREM pomocí systému Cosmos FloWorks." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-217855.
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The paper outlines fundamental issues of electron microscopy and models three selected shapes of the differential chamber using the SolidWorks system. The models are then analysed using Cosmos FloWorks with regard to vacuum pumping. The aim is to find a model with minimum pressure in the electron beam trajectory and hence the least dissipation.
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Björn, Jonathan. "Simulation of a Clinch Unit by using Cosmos and Abaqus." Thesis, Jönköping University, JTH, Mechanical Engineering, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-8134.
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<p>The following report contains an evaluation of the use of mathematical simulation programs at the company Isaberg Rapid AB. The work includes booth FE and motion simulations where the results are compared with real life test data.</p><p>The goal of the report is to evaluate the accuracy of simulations which can be performed by engineers as a part of the design process. By using mathematical simulation tools it is possible to find a good design solution early in the development phase and thereby shorten lead time and reduce costs.</p>
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Díaz, Solar Francisco, and Infante Duanel Díaz. "Gastón Baquero invita a leer Cosmos, de Alejandro de Humboldt." Universität Potsdam, 2001. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/3453/.
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Gkoritsas, Athanasios C. "COSMOS-7 : an MPEG-7 content modelling and querying framework." Thesis, Brunel University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440317.
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Carreño, F. Carlos M. "Cosmos o Caos: la dialéctica del Ser y la Nada." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2014. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/117433.
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Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Filosofía<br>La metafísica es el conocimiento objetivo de la naturaleza universal de lo que es y de lo
que no es, es decir, del Ser y de la Nada. Es objetiva, no sólo porque su dominio
comprende más que sólo las determinaciones propias del Yo, sino también, y
principalmente, en virtud de que en ella han de fundarse y de ella han de brotar todos los
contenidos conceptualizados de lo subjetivo. Es universal, por cuanto su labor consiste en
la investigación y elucidación de las leyes y de las cualidades más generales y, por lo
mismo, más abstractas que determinan tanto a los entes mismos como a sus relaciones
inteligibles, a diferencia de la ciencia físico-matemática, cuyo objeto son estas mismas
leyes y cualidades pero consideradas bajo la perspectiva de la particularidad. La metafísica
es, pues, una ἐπιστήμη, una ciencia de pleno derecho.
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PAES, Anselmo do Amaral. "O corpo da alma: cosmos, casa e corpo espírita kardecista." Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011. http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/4938.
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Previous issue date: 2011<br>CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>O objeto deste estudo é compreender e destacar o papel do corpo no campo religioso investindo em uma análise da corporeidade espírita kardecista brasileira a partir de suas representações sociais e imaginário. O esforço analítico e a distribuição dos capítulos estão baseados no esquema macro/microcósmico de “Cosmos-casa-corpo”. O primeiro capítulo situa a construção do Espiritismo Kardecista por seu codificador, o intelectual francês Hippolyte Rivail, conhecido por seu codinome, Allan Kardec (Paris, 1804-1869) e suas pretensões de unificar “ciência, filosofia e religião”, produzindo um Cosmos. O segundo capítulo apresenta o centro espírita, espaço sagrado de seu universo ritual. O terceiro capítulo está centrado no referencial semântico “corpo”, que surge como instrumento heurístico e recorte de análise. Analisando as concepções e imaginário sobre o corpo no Espiritismo Kardecista, o trabalho propõe que as relações entre o mundo espiritual, o centro espírita e corpo são determinantes para a compreensão da pessoa espírita.<br>The object of this study is to understand and highlight the role of the body in religious field by investing in an analysis of brazilian kardecist spiritual embodiment, which is constructed by social representations and imaginary. The analytical effort and the distribution of the chapters are based on the schema macro/microscopic – “Cosmos-house-body”. The first part deals with the construction of kardecism by its encoder, the French intellectual Hippolyte Rivail, known as Alan Kardec (Paris, 1804-1869), and its pretensions to unify “science, philosophy and religion”, producing a Cosmos. The second part presents the Spiritist Centre as a sacred space of its ritual universe. The third and last part is focused on the “body”, as semantic referential, which appears too as heuristic tool for analysis. Analyzing the conceptions and imaginary over the body in Kardecism, this work proposes that relations between the spiritual world, the Spiritist Centre and the body are crucial for understanding the spiritist person.
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Bougault, Laurence. "Cosmos et logos dans la poésie moderne (de l'objectivité poétique)." Paris 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA030017.
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Le projet poetique, ne de l'inadmissible fracture linguistique entre homme et monde et des rapports diachroniques conflictuels entre poesie, sciences et discours religieux, est de creer une langue-image (simulacre et diagramme) a mi-chemin entre representation et extraction du monde. Il est perceptible dans les strategies textuelles : destructurations de l'appareil linguistique et elaboration de syntheses qui, en faisant du poeme un mot total, permettent aux etres de renouer et au monde d'apparaitre un. Le resultat de ces strategies est de creer un lieu non-structural dynamique echappant encore a l'espace du monde parce qu'il est "creux neant" mais permettant l'autosurgissement d'un phenomene dans le monde lors de la reception<br>The poetic project, which was born from the intolerable linguistic fracture between mankind and world and from the confrontational and diachronic relations between poetry, sciences and religious discourse is to create an imagery-language (pretence and diagram) which is halfway between representation and world extraction. It is perceptible in the textual strategies : disintegrations of the linguistic apparatus and development of synthesises, which making the poem a complete world, ensure to mankind to reestablish and to the world to appear "one". The result of these strategies is to create a noin structural and dynamic place even escaping from the world arena because it is "shallow nothingness" but ensuring the self-creation of a phenomenon in the world during the reception
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Sorensen, Karen Jane. "Carl Sagan's Cosmos: The Rhetorical Construction of Popular Science Mythology." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/26908.
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Using Carl Sagan's Cosmos as a case study, this dissertation explores the intersection of science with popular culture and builds a new framework for rhetorically analyzing popular science programming. The arguments and research focus on the ways in which popularizing scientific information for the masses can create a type of science fiction rather than merely being a transferal of information. This metamorphosis of fact into fiction occurs as a result of the convergence of three rhetorical concepts, kairos, ethos, and aethos. Kairos is the placement of Cosmos in time. Historical and political elements (including education and entertainment) contribute to a science program's kairos. Ethos is the appeal (or credibility) of the narrator. The audience is receptive to the information presented only if the narrator is able to establish this appeal. Personality traits that are popular outside of stereotypically educational or scientific environments are often used in popular science programs to establish ethos. Aethos is the haunt or the environment created for the program; it lays the groundwork for narrative control. The haunt--which is carefully and purposefully constructed through the use of dramatizations and sensory elements--creates the viewpoint from which an audience examines and evaluates the information or arguments presented. A program's kairos, ethos, and aethos intertwine to determine its potential for attracting and retaining a broad audience. However, these elements carry with them an unintentional side effect. In combination, they create a mythos that can assist in the popularity and longevity of the program but they also carry with them a fictionalizing effect.
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Niño, Vargas Juan Camilo. "Cosmos Ette. Ethnographie d'un univers du nord de la Colombie." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH129.
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En partant des idées formulées par C. Lévi-Strauss dans son œuvre La potière jalouse, cette thèse prend les réalités mythique et empirique comme un tout afin de convertir le cosmos entier en objet ethnographique. Dans les grandes lignes, nous proposons un exercice de navigation entre le pays servant du décor pour les mythes et celui où se déroule la vie quotidienne pour démontrer qu’elles font partie d’un seul et même continent. Il s’agit, en fin de compte, de sauter de l’ethnographie à la cosmographie afin de mettre en lumière un ordre ontologique général.Un cosmos en particulier sera pris pour mener à bien l’exercice proposé. La thèse est consacrée à l’univers des Ette, connus aussi comme Chimila. Il s’agit d’un petit peuple assez méconnu, composé d’un peu plus de mille personnes, parlant une langue de la famille chibcha et habitant les plaines traversées par la rivière Ariguaní au Nord de la Colombie. L’objectif est de recomposer l’ordre, la constitution et la dynamique de leur cosmos. En prenant le monde mythique comme un atlas pour l’exploration du monde terrestre, on vise à découvrir, décrire et analyser l’ordre des régions et des êtres formant l’univers ; la place que les humains occupent et les relations qu’ils entretiennent avec les non-humains ; et, enfin, les processus de changement auxquels cet ensemble est soumis. Bref, les efforts se concentrent à définir le schéma général et collectif qui gouverne l’objectivation du monde, l’établissement de relations et la génération de connaissances et de pratiques.La stratégie principale mise en œuvre pour atteindre cette série d’objectifs sera la conciliation de deux modèles contrastants de l’univers présents chez les Ette : l’un dérivé des mythes et l’autre inféré des pratiques. Le premier, dont parlent les traditions orales, est celui d’un cosmos composé par des régions superposées, organisées diamétralement du haut vers le bas sur un axe vertical. D’après cette représentation discursive, un pays céleste habité par des êtres immortels se lève sur les hauteurs, la terre servant de foyer à l’humanité se trouve au milieu et, enfin, un antre réservé aux morts et colonisé par des bêtes repose dans les profondeurs. Le second, qui se reflète dans les activités quotidiennes, est celui d’un monde formé par des secteurs enveloppants, ordonnés concentriquement de l’extérieur vers l’intérieur sur un plan horizontal. Selon cette configuration de l’espace habité, une ceinture de forêts contrôlées par des esprits se dresse à la périphérie, une région parsemée de champs de culture ouverts par les hommes prédomine au milieu et, finalement, une aire dominée par la maison, les potagers et les animaux domestiques de femmes se trouve sur le point central. Ces deux modèles sont dynamiques et sont associés à des mouvements aux étapes, aux directions et aux cadences préétablies. Les processus les plus importants sont, dans le premier cas, les cycles cosmiques de destruction évoqués par les histoires mythiques et, dans le second, les transformations du paysage occasionnées par l’agriculture itinérante. La conciliation du modèle fourni par les mythes et de celui dérivé des pratiques se fait pas à pas. L’œuvre est divisée en quatre parties au cours desquels nous démontrerons progressivement comment les régions cosmiques décrites par les traditions mythiques correspondent avec les domaines mondains distingués dans la vie quotidienne. L’élucidation des principes de l’ordre derrière l’objectivation du cosmos pensé et vécu par les Ette sera le résultat d’un interminable va-et-vient entre les discours formulés par la pensée mythique et les pratiques concrètes déployées dans les forêts, les jardins et les maisons<br>On the basis on the ideas expressed by C. Lévi-Strauss in his book La potière jalousie, this dissertation takes the mythic and the empirical realities as a whole in order to transform the entire universe into an ethnographic object. What is proposed is to navigate between the realm of myths and the domain where day-to-day life goes in an attempt to demonstrate that they are located on the same continent. The aim of this research, in the end, is to make the leap from ethnography to cosmography with the goal of shedding light on an ontological order.A particular cosmos will serve to carry out the proposed exercise. The dissertation is devoted to the universe of the Ette, also kwon as “Chimilas”. They are a little known Amerindian society, speaking a Chibchan language, with a population a little above a thousand people, and settled in the northern plains of Colombia. The main objective is to reconstitute the order, the constitution, and the dynamic of their cosmos. Taking the mythic world as a kind of atlas to explore the daily world, this work tries to discover, depict and assess the arrangement of regions that make up their universe, the place reserved to human beings and non-human entities, and, finally, the processes of transformation to which this whole is subjected. Briefly, our concern is to define the general and collective schema that determines the identities of beings and things, structure knowledge and practices, and organize the experience of space and time. The main strategy implemented to achieve those objectives is to bring together two contrasting models shared by the Ette: one derived from myths, and the other deduced from practices. The first one, described in oral traditions, is that of a cosmos stratified, diametrically structured, and organized from top to bottom along a vertical axis. According to this discursive model, a celestial region inhabited by immortals exist in the sky, an earthly domain occupied by human beings is located in the center, and a hollow full of corpses and animals lay deep in the bottom. The second model, which govern daily life, is that of a space composed of enveloping areas, concentrically structured, and organized from the outside to the inside on a horizontal plane. In line with this arrangement of the inhabited space, forest belts dominated by spirits sit on the periphery, a zone covered by crop fields erected by men lays in the middle, and an area topped by houses, vegetable gardens and animal pens led by women is situated in the center. These models are dynamic: they involve forces and movements with pre-established directions, sequences, and rhythms. In the first case, the main processes are the cosmic cycles of destruction and regeneration; in the second case, they are the landscape transformations arising from shifting agriculture.The model provided by the myths and the model derived from practices are brought together step by step. The dissertation has four parts, which each section progressively demonstrating how the cosmic regions depicted in oral traditions correspond with the domains distinguished in ordinary life. The explanation of the principles behind the objectification of the world will be an outcome of an endless back and forth between, on the one hand, the discourses formulated by mythic thought and, on the other hand, the actions and ideas deployed in the course of hunting in the forests, farming the fields and taking care of domestic affairs
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Ambrož, Václav. "Analýza rozložení tlaků v detektoru SE pomocí systému Cosmos FloWorks." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-217936.
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The paper briefly outlines high-pressure electron microscopy and then uses SolidWorks to model the scintillation detector, analysing pumping of gas in the EREM sample chamber at different pressure levels using Cosmos FloWorks. The results of the analysis are assessed with regard to minimising pressure in the trajectory of the primary electron beam in order to prevent dissipation of electrons on the gas molecules.
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Darlagiannis, Vasilios. "COSMOS, COllaborative System framework based on MPEG-4 Objects and Streams." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0017/MQ48147.pdf.
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Gorton, Lisa. "Donne's cosmos : some aspects of his images of space and time." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310354.
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Pettipiece, Timothy. "Counting the cosmos : Five-Part Numeric Patterning in the Manichaean Kephalaia." Thesis, Université Laval, 2006. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2006/23889/23889.pdf.
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Ferguson, Harvie. "The science of pleasure : cosmos and psyche in the bourgeois world." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334317.
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Warren, E. Janet. "Cleansing the Cosmos : a Biblical model for conceptualizing and counteracting evil." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3550/.
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Understanding evil spiritual forces is essential for Christian theology. Evil has typically been studied either from a philosophical perspective or through the lens of ‘spiritual warfare’. The first seldom considers demonology; the second is flawed by poor methodology. Furthermore, warfare language is problematic, being very dualistic, associated with violence and poorly applicable to ministry. This study addresses these issues by developing a new model for conceptualizing and counteracting evil using ‘non-warfare’ biblical metaphors, and relying on contemporary metaphor theory, which claims that metaphors are cognitive and can depict reality. In developing this model, I examine four biblical themes with respect to alternate metaphors for evil: Creation, Cult, Christ and Church. Insights from anthropology (binary oppositions), theology (dualism, nothingness) and science (chaos-complexity theory) contribute to the construction of the model, and the concepts of profane space, sacred space and sacred actions (divine initiative and human responsibility) guide the investigation. The role of the Holy Spirit in maintaining the boundaries of divine reality is emphasized, and the ontology of evil minimized (considered quasi-real). This model incorporates concentric circles, evil being considered peripheral to godly reality. I suggest metaphors of cleansing, ordering, separating and limiting evil and discuss potential applications of this model.
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Almeida, Juliana. "Enawene-Nawe Wixo Diferença e convivialidade na gestão sociopolítica do cosmos." Universidade Federal do Amazonas, 2015. http://tede.ufam.edu.br/handle/tede/4828.
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Previous issue date: 2015-06-26<br>CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico<br>This study deals with the regime of alterity of the Enawene-Nawe, speakers of a language of the Arawak-Maipure family and resident in the Juruena River basin (Mato Grosso State, South-east Amazon). The research is based on the principles that deal with the passage of a model that is founded in endogamic and territorially disperse sub-groups for the constitution of relationships established between the new, patrilineal and exogamic groups (iyaõkwa), that encourage ritual and family relationships. The analysis points towards the centrality of conviviality and commensality as measures of the management and control of differences.<br>Este estudo trata do regime de alteridade dos Enawene-Nawe, falantes de uma língua da família Arawak-Maipure e residentes no Vale do Rio Juruena (Estado de Mato Grosso, Sudoeste amazônico). Partindo da análise das narrativas e enunciados enawene-nawe, a pesquisa se debruça sobre os postulados que abordam a passagem de um modelo fundamentado em subgrupos endogâmicos e territorialmente dispersos, para a constituição de relações estabelecidas entre nove iyaõkwa, grupos patrilineares e exogâmicos, que arregimentam as relações rituais e de parentesco na atualidade. A análise aponta para a centralidade da convivialidade e comensalidade como medidas de manejo e controle da diferença
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Matthews, W. E. "The homological cosmos : ontology, epistemology, and ethics in Yi Jing prediction." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2016. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1530839/.
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This thesis investigates cosmological theories among practitioners of Yi Jing-based prediction in Hangzhou, China. The principle focus is upon analogical reasoning as manifest in predictive practice, ontological assumptions, epistemology, and ethics, from the perspective of specialists. These aspects of cosmology are explored through a combination of ethnographic data and textual analysis, adopting a position informed by the anthropology of cosmology, ontology, and divination and related debates in the cognitive sciences and Sinology. From the perspective of predictors, Yi Jing prediction operates via the reduction of situations presented by clients to cosmic laws, from which highly specific predictions can be derived. Yi Jing hexagrams are metaphorically substituted for clients’ situations, which are then metonymically incorporated into an understanding of the cosmos as particular configurations of qi. This argument is contextualised in relation to the role of analogy in the Yi Jing itself. The ontological assumptions of predictors are rooted in resemblances between phenomena based on shared intrinsic qualities, rather than in analogical similarities between distinct ontological types. This mode of identification, which I term ‘homologism’, directly informs epistemological assumptions based on hexagrams’ ‘resemblance’ to natural phenomena. This is discussed in relation to broader conceptions of ‘science’, ‘religion’, and ‘superstition’, along with salient epistemological categories employed by predictors. Emphasis on the accuracy of prediction and its identification with ‘science’ are characteristic of predictors’ ethical discourse, grounded in a homology between cosmos and society but complicated by considerations of ethical practice. Finally, the distinction between analogy and homology is applied to the development of Chinese ‘correlative thought’, which is revealed to encompass three distinct types. Implications of the thesis are discussed for the anthropology of cosmology, ontology, and divination, and the study of Chinese cosmology, with particular focus on issues of scale and purpose.