Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Dane'

Dance
Ph.D.
Korea is undergoing a rapid transformation into a multiethnic society because of the influx of migrants (Kim, 2008; Han, 2007). In response, efforts to adopt multiculturalism gathered by the Korean government, and the field of education has not been an exception. (Lee & Kim, 2012; Chung 2012). While many efforts have been made to integrate multiculturalism into education, multicultural dance education programs at undergraduate institutions are non-existent or underdeveloped. This study proposes a multicultural dance education program to be considered for implementation as a required course for dance education students at undergraduate institutions in the near future. “Multicultural” in Korea has several meanings: 1) multi-race 2) minority culture 3) diverse (Ahn 2012). In this study, I use the term, a “multicultural” to refer to multiethnic people who migrated to Korea. The term “multicultural students” was used in this study to describe students who are immigrants or children of immigrants from the following groups: 1) migrant workers 2) marriage-based migrants, 3) ethnic Chinese, and 4) North Korean defectors. The purpose of the study is to develop a university dance education program that reflects the increasing diversity of the Korean population and should be a required course for education students. My intention in designing this curriculum is to help future dance teachers to be culturally and ethnically responsive to the student population in their classes. Specifically, my research explores the following questions: What aspects need to be included in a dance education curriculum so that it reflects the increasingly diverse population in Korean education? This research question is addressed through the following sub-questions: How has Korean dance education developed historically from 1945 to 2015? What are some of the social, cultural, and educational factors that inform the development of a multicultural dance curriculum in dance education? What are some of the core concepts and values that need to be embedded in dance pedagogy that reflect both traditional Korean aesthetic values and the value systems of diverse migrant and ethnic minority populations? This dissertation is a qualitative research that examines how university undergraduate dance education programs in Korea can reflect the increasing diversity of the student population in their curricula. This study employs two methods: questionnaires for dance teachers in school settings and semi-structured interviews with key persons in Korean dance education and Korean multicultural education. In addition, this study outlines historical context of dance education in Korea from 1945 to 2016, focusing on major events, key persons, and influential institutions and organizations and give overview of current and recent Korean government legislation and policy documents alongside multicultural movements that have influenced dance education in Korea. Some of the themes that emerged from the questionnaires include: Learning Attitudes of Multicultural Students, Facing Linguistic Challenges, Dance as a Medium of Communication, Communication through In-depth Discussion and Understanding, Integrated Ways of Teaching, and Finding Commonalities between Cultures. In addition, the themes that emerged throughout the interviews are Education through ‘Hŭng,’ Teaching Korean Dance in a Global Context, The Importance of the Teacher’s Role as a Cultural Facilitator, and Multicultural Curriculum as Awareness Education for All. All of these findings give insight toward developing a multicultural dance education course to foster students’ understanding of Korean aesthetical values and concepts within traditional dance, especially among multicultural students. Throughout this study, I developed a multicultural dance education course for undergraduate dance students based on three components: Bennett’s multicultural education theory, findings from questionnaires and interviews, and two major Korean dance standards: the 2015 Revised Korean National Curriculum of Physical Education and the 2014 Development of Teaching-Learning Plan of Culture and Arts Education (Dance). The goals of this proposed course were developed based on Bennett’s six goals and this course will incorporate dance studies and dance movement every week with readings, writings, and discussion. This sequence of class is based on strategies such as “in-depth communication”, “beyond dance technique”, “finding commonalities between cultures”, and “through ‘Hung’” which come from my questionnaire and interview findings.
Temple University--Theses

Domain Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard released in 2012 intended to complement or in some cases replace the current Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) model. The current PKI model uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates issued by Certificate Authorities (CA) binding domain names to public key. These CAs act as trust anchors during the certificate validation process. Web browsers and other TLS supported applications have large lists of trusted CA public keys. If one of these trusted CAs are compromised the whole system is compromised. DANE uses the Domain Name System (DNS) to publish TLS certificate information and create certificate associations to domain names. DANE relies on DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for authentication and message integrity. Using the DNS root as a single trust anchor instead of the many CA trust anchors the attack surface is drastically reduced.In this study a quantitative survey among Swedish DNSSEC signed Second Level Domains (SLD) is performed with the aim to establish the DANE TLSA deployment level among the SLDs in Top Level Domain (TLD) .se.The results show that 686 471 of the Swedish SLDs have been DNSSEC signed which is approximately 49% of all Swedish SLDs. The number of domains that have deployed DANE is very low, with only 79 SLD found to have DANE TLSA resource records in DNS. The total number of DANE TLSA resource records were 175 and the most common service used with DANE TLSA was HTTPS on port 443 which was 62% of all DANE TLSA resource records found. The most common certificate usage field setting was three, domain issued certificates.

Background X.509 is an ITU standard for a public key infrastructure (PKI), which specifies, among other things, formats for public key certificates, certificate requests, certificate revocation lists and certification path validation algorithm. The X.509 standard was primarily designed to support the X.500 structure. However, today’s use cases centre mostly on the Internet. IETF’s Public-Key  Infrastructure (X.509) working group has adapted the standard to the requirements and structure  of the Internet. RFC 5280 specifies the PKIX Certificate and CRL Profile of the X.509v3 certificate standard. PKIX certificates are used for validating the identity or identities of the communicating parties, and optionally establishing secure keying material for protection  of a message or a communications channel. Authentication and establishment of a secure communications channel on top of TCP with the Transport Layer Security protocol (TLS, RFC 5247) or the Secure Sockets Layer protocol (SSL) is probably the most common application of PKIX on the Internet. The IETF is converging on a standard for integration of X.509 Public Key Infrastructure with DNS and DNSSEC (DANE). In order to reach wide adoption, the concept must be validated through interoperability tests between multiple independent implementations. Results An implementation of the DANE standard has been demonstrated  through an extension to the OpenSSL library. All use cases in the DANE standard has been validated to work as documented in the standard. Conclusions The DANE standard is implementable and reaches the results it sets out to achieve.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.
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Thesis: It is possible to maintain the accuracy of classification on incomplete data by selecting a committee of classifiers based on pre-selected features. The purpose of the work was to develop a classification committee, designed to classify data in which there are features that do not have defined values. The classifier would be able to process incomplete feature vectors without the need to pre-fill them, and the classification would be based on pre-selected features. Partial objectives have been specified in the work: 1. Estimation of the impact of missing or removed features of the object on the quality of classification. 2. Developing the structure of the classification committee. 3. Selection of classifiers operating in the committee. 4. Developing a decision-making algorithm (fuser) for the classification committee. 5. Selection of distinctive features for individual object classes. 6. Testing the developed system on real data. 7. Verification of the usefulness of the developed classifier for the construction of the system for assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with hepatitis C based on the analysis of peripheral blood parameters. The dissertation investigated the influence of the presence of null values in the data on the formation of incomplete reference (training) vectors depending on the size of the subspace of features on which the component classifiers of the committee work. The impact of the missing values on the quality of the classification has also been confirmed experimentally. Based on the conclusions regarding the distribution of missing values of features among reference vectors, the structure of the classification committee was proposed, based on the division of feature space into one-element vectors. For the proposed structure of the classification committee, a number of conventional classifiers were tested as component classifiers of the committee. As a component classifier of the committee being developed, the only classifier which benefited from such a committee structure, has been chosen - the fc-NN classifier. The Bayesian averaging, supplemented by the weighting factor for individual classes of reference objects, aimed at improving the quality of classification in relation to objects that are not very numerous in the reference set, has been proposed as the method of evaluating the classification committee decision. A committee with such a structure performs initial, dynamic filtering of features, based on the vector of classified data. Features that do not have a defined value in this vector are ignored in the classification process. In order to improve the quality of classification, a method for pre-selection of features has been proposed, based on the component classifier of the proposed committee. This method uses a ranking of distinctive features for individual classes from the reference set, to indicate a suboptimal subset of the features on the basis of which the classification will be conducted. The proposed SFfc-NN/C committee classifier has been tested on a number of benchmark databases containing full real data. In order to determine the impact of the missing values of random features, in both classified and reference data, on the quality of classification, null values were artificially introduced into the data, replacing the existing values of randomly selected features. The tests were carried out without and with the initial selection of features. Ultimately, the classifier was used to classify actual medical data - blood analysis of HCV infected patients. The undefined values in this data set occurred naturally. The test results were consistent with previously obtained results on data from which some values were artificially removed. Thus, the usefulness of the proposed SFfc-NN/C classifier for the construction of the liver fibrosis assessment system in patients with hepatitis C has been confirmed. The implementation of the partial objectives made it possible to confirm the thesis of the work. This confirmation is experimental, and supported by the results of statistical tests.

This dissertation investigates the thought and the musical and artistic aesthetic of the French-American composer Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985). Seeking justification for his views and aesthetic in a variety of areas and distrusting both rationalism and mysticism exclusively in their own terms, Rudhyar chose an eclectic path. The qualities in his musical, visual, literary, philosophical and astrological work come not just from certain late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century French and German sources, but also from the Orient (particularly India and Japan), and from the early idealism and optimism of the New World. The multi-faceted nature of his work and life also reflects his philosophy of Wholeness, i. e. the dynamic interplay between Multiplicity and Unity. During my research, I have undertaken the tasks of gathering together the hugely disparate body of Rudhyar's (philosophical, musical, visual, astrological and literary) works, and of investigating what stands behind his vision. While the content of this study is not intended to follow any chronological order, the principal views of Rudhyar have often affected the general flow and layout of the dissertation, which is structured in three large parts. The first deals with Rudhyar's European background and his `seed' philosophy. The second is an examination of Rudhyar's fascination with the Orient and its conceptual ramifications. The third evaluates Rudhyar's American identity against the background of some of the social and cultural overtones that shaped the United States, particularly up until World War II. In the musical discussions of this dissertation, emphasis has been placed on his piano music; works examined include Transmutation, Three Early Pieces, Theurgy and Three Melodies (for flute with piano and cello accompaniment). These analytical sections will be presented in the first and second parts and are not intended to be comprehensive accounts of the compositions in question but merely illustrations of the relationship between idea and realisation

Email is an essential form of communication for organizations. Nevertheless, with so much popularity came many challenges. These emails usually carry sensitive data that might cause significant harm if they get compromised. Besides, spam and phishing emails that continually reach the employees’ inbox masquerading as a trusted entity due to the lack of authentication mechanisms are also considered a significant threat for organizations today. Such threats are phishing using email domain forgery attack, redirecting emails to a mail server that is under the attacker’s control, and connection eavesdropping. The research aimed to investigate the vulnerability of approximately 2000 organizations within Sweden against those attacks. Toward that end, the quantity and quality of the following email security mechanisms SPF, DKIM, DMARC, STARTTLS, DNSSEC, and DANE were examined through a case study. Also, the adoption of these mechanisms was investigated, whether it varies based on different factors such as organization size, sector, and location. The research findings indicated that the average adoption rate by the tested organizations was approximately 50%. Furthermore, the result demonstrated that there were no differences in the adopted mechanisms based on the studied factors that the results were quite similar among the tested groups. It concluded that there is a lack of protection mechanisms, which made the majority of the tested organizations vulnerable to different types of email attacks.

The aim of this work is to transform the profit into income tax base of corporate person in legislative conditions of two countries - the Czech and Slovak Republic. The first part contains the theoretical basis on which I relied, and which I then applied to the practical part, based on a particular company as a limited company. At the end there is a summary which based on the analysis of the tax legislation of the two countries indicates which environment of these countries in terms of tax burden is more favorable. During processing of this work I used materials of specific company that I got for year 2011.

Diverse mentoring models have been implemented by educational organizations to address teacher retention, but debate continues over which mentoring model is most beneficial. Two school districts in Utah, USA, hereafter referred to as the Asher and Dane (pseudonyms) School Districts, provide distinct approaches to mentoring. Both the Asher and Dane School District have used veteran teachers with full-time teaching loads to mentor beginning teachers. The Dane School District, however, has recently implemented a unique and distinct mentoring model in addition to in-school mentors. In this model, full-time released teacher "coaches" with specialized mentoring responsibilities are assigned by the district to mentor several beginning elementary teachers in one grade band (K-3 or 4-6) throughout the district. This longitudinal research studied the Asher and Dane School Districts' mentoring models to develop a grounded theory to explain how these two distinct mentoring models were related to beginning teacher retention rates. A stratified, random sample was utilized, resulting in 23 participants selected for this study. Interview data were gathered from each participant during their first year of teaching, as well as follow-up survey and interview data in their third year. Beginning teacher attrition data were gathered from both the Asher and Dane School Districts. A constant comparative qualitative analysis method, using NVivo software, facilitated the development of the grounded theory. Findings describe and explain the sources and types of support that beginning teachers in these two distinct mentoring models found most beneficial in their induction, development and retention during their first three years. Beginning teachers reported that key mentoring characteristics included a mentor that had experience and knowledge, particularly in their same grade level, as well as a personal relationship with someone who was open to listening to them and who empowered others. Overall, collaborative teams and in-school mentors were a great source of support for beginning teachers, and teacher retention occurred most often when beginning teachers felt supported by their principals. Beginning teachers also experienced a decrease in stress and increase in both autonomy and confidence with time or years of teaching, experience, and support. Findings suggested that district coaches in the Dane School District lacked proximity, personal relationship, and knowledge of the grade being taught by those they mentored. As a result, they lacked the ability to help induct beginning teachers into their school culture and develop informal networks in the school and ensure retention.

Les technologies de l'Internet des Objets (IoT) ont transformé notre manière d'interagir avec le monde et les machines, devenant une partie intégrante de notre quotidien. Cette thèse vise à relever certains des défis rencontrés dans les environnements IoT en utilisant le Domain Name System (DNS) ainsi que ses extensions et protocoles de sécurité. Bien que le DNS soit principalement un système de recherche distribué permettant de mapper les noms de domaine aux adresses IP, il a considérablement évolué grâce à diverses de ses extensions. Cette évolution lui a permis de jouer un rôle plus large, notamment en atténuant certains des défis liés aux environnements IoT.Notre première contribution identifie quatre grandes catégories de défis de l'IoT : la nature contrainte des dispositifs IoT, l'identification des objets de l'IoT, leur sécurité et interopérabilité. Nous effectuons également une revue de la littérature pour examiner comment le DNS est utilisé dans la recherche et l'industrie pour répondre à ces défis. La deuxième contribution propose l'utilisation du DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE), un protocole DNS conçu pour renforcer l'Infrastructure à Clé Publique (PKI), afin de mettre en place un mécanisme d'authentification mutuelle entre deux serveurs backend LoRaWAN, sécurisant la connexion sans dépendre des autorités de certification commerciales (CAs).La troisième contribution présente LoRaDANCE, un mécanisme de sécurité qui permet à un End-Device (ED) LoRaWAN de rejoindre un réseau sans avoir à pré-partager des clés secrètes avec les serveurs backend, comme requis dans le LoRaWAN standard. L'authentification mutuelle avec le Join Server (JS) est assurée par le protocole DANE, tandis que la cryptographie asymétrique permet au dispositif et au serveur de générer la clé secrète nécessaire, éliminant ainsi le besoin de clés pré-partagées.Pour notre quatrième contribution, nous avons mené une étude approfondie des noms de domaine IoT et évalué les différences entre ces derniers et les noms de domaine non-IoT. Dans ce contexte, les noms de domaine IoT font référence à ceux des serveurs backend IoT résolus via DNS, tandis que les noms de domaine non-IoT correspondent aux serveurs accessibles par des dispositifs génériques. L'étude a été réalisée en trois phases : une analyse statistique, une analyse DNS, et une classification des deux catégories de noms de domaine à l'aide de l'apprentissage automatique
The Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have transformed how we interact with the world and machines, becoming an integral part of our daily lives. This thesis aims to address some of the challenges faced by IoT environments using the Domain Name System (DNS) and its security extensions and protocols. While DNS is primarily a distributed lookup system that maps domain names to IP addresses, it has evolved significantly through various extensions and DNS-based protocols. This evolution has enabled DNS to play a broader role, particularly in mitigating some of the challenges in IoT environments. Our first contribution identifies four major categories of IoT challenges: the constrained nature of IoT devices, identification in IoT, IoT security, and interoperability. We also conduct a literature review to examine how DNS is used in both research and industry to address these challenges. The second contribution proposes using DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE), a DNS protocol designed to strengthen Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), to establish a mutual authentication mechanism between two LoRaWAN backend servers, securing the connection without relying on commercial Certificate Authorities (CAs). The third contribution, introduces LoRaDANCE, a security mechanism that allows a LoRaWAN ED to join a network without pre-sharing any secret keys with the backend servers, as required in standard LoRaWAN. Mutual authentication with the Join Server (JS) is ensured through DANE, while asymmetric cryptography enables the device and server to generate the necessary secret, eliminating the need for pre-shared keys. For our fourth contribution, we conducted an in-depth study of IoT domain names and evaluated the differences between them and non-IoT domain names. In this context, IoT domain names refer to those of IoT backend servers resolved via DNS, whereas non-IoT domain names correspond to servers accessed by generic devices and humans. The study was carried out in three phases: a statistical analysis, a DNS analysis, and a machine learning-based classification of the two domain name categories

This thesis presents an integrated assessment of the life and music of Johanna Beyer (1888-1944) through a combination of socio-cultural and musical analysis. It examines the composer?s biography in the context of the New York music scene in which she participated and the social and cultural paradigms of her time. Contemporary conceptions of gender and sex had a particularly strong impact on Beyer?s work and the reception of her music. Ideologies concerning gender, sex, work, composition and modernism intersected in a variety of ways in her life and music; these issues are examined extensively in Chapter Two. Because gendered thought was so instrumental in obscuring the work of this important composer, Chapters Three and Four provide a thorough and synthesized analysis of Beyer?s music that has thus far been denied to her. These chapters discuss both the composer?s dissonant, ?ultra-modern? music and her later tonal music, exploring elements of continuity and change in her oeuvre. The thesis rejects earlier interpretations of Beyer?s work as disjointed and argues that it is instead the product of a constantly evolving composer.

Axé autour du concept de territoire, ce mémoire est une présentation de ce que cette notion recouvre pour un groupe de chasseurs-cueilleurs de l’ouest canadien. Installés depuis des millénaires sur les contreforts des Montagnes Rocheuses au nord-est de la Colombie-Britannique et en Alberta, les Dane-zaa (« le vrai peuple »), intimement engagés dans cet environnement, ont développé des savoirs et des techniques spécifiques adaptés à une gestion logique et durable du territoire et peaufinés par les générations successives. La relation entretenue recouvre cependant bien plus qu’une exploitation physique puisque les humains et les non-humains, voisins sur un pied d’égalité, interagissent dans un rapport d’échange et de respect. Depuis l’arrivée des Euro-canadiens et la signature du Traité 8 en 1900 lequel ordonna la création d’une réserve, le territoire des Dane-zaa, cet espace de vie, d’histoire et de mémoire, s’est vu fragmenter et est devenu le lieu d’enjeux et d’intérêts politiques et économiques souvent divergents et difficilement conciliables.
Focused on the concept of land, this master’s degree thesis is a presentation of what this notion represents for a group of hunter-gatherers of western Canada. Settled for thousands of years on the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in North-East British-Columbia and in Alberta, the Dane-zaa (“The Real People”), intimately engaged in their environment, have been developing knowledge and technics adapted to a rational and sustainable land management, generation after generation. However, this relationship does not only concern the exploitation of the resources the land provides, but also the bonds between humans and non-humans who share it. Since the arrival of the first euro-Canadians settlers and the signature of Treaty 8 in 1900 which ordered the creation of a reserve, the land of the Dane-zaa, their “home” and a space of history and memory, has been fragmented and has become the site of political and economic stakes and interests often divergent and which can hardly been reconciled.

Has years of citizen-based nutrient sampling and baseline water quality monitoring efforts only had a "trivial" impact on natural resource management decisions? This thesis will explore this and other findings from a qualitative evaluation of the Rock River Coalition (RRC) citizen-based stream monitoring project in Dane County, Wisconsin, USA. These findings are the culmination of 47 semi-structured interviews with decision-makers from seven client-identified categories and participant observations of board meetings and other watershed groups. Interview questions focused on current strategies of data design and dissemination with the goal of constructing a clearer picture of existing data usage by Dane County decision-makers. In the wider picture of citizen science and community-based research, this case study aims to highlight barriers to data use and potential solutions. The results of this case study were understood through four key frames: (1) Bourdieu's concept of symbolic capital, (2) Barzilai‐Nahon's theory of network gatekeeping, (3) Newman et al.'s framework for leveraging the power of place, and (4) a Foucauldian approach to the production of scientific knowledge. The findings of this study highlight the presence of gatekeeping mechanisms within the scientific field as well as government institutions, problematize the practice of placemaking, assert there is untapped symbolic capital to be wielded by citizen scientists, and trace the "innovation" of volunteer water monitoring data in Dane County.

Has years of citizen-based nutrient sampling and baseline water quality monitoring efforts only had a "trivial" impact on natural resource management decisions? This thesis will explore this and other findings from a qualitative evaluation of the Rock River Coalition (RRC) citizen-based stream monitoring project in Dane County, Wisconsin, USA. These findings are the culmination of 47 semi-structured interviews with decision-makers from seven client-identified categories and participant observations of board meetings and other watershed groups. Interview questions focused on current strategies of data design and dissemination with the goal of constructing a clearer picture of existing data usage by Dane County decision-makers. In the wider picture of citizen science and community-based research, this case study aims to highlight barriers to data use and potential solutions. The results of this case study were understood through four key frames: (1) Bourdieu's concept of symbolic capital, (2) Barzilai‐Nahon's theory of network gatekeeping, (3) Newman et al.'s framework for leveraging the power of place, and (4) a Foucauldian approach to the production of scientific knowledge. The findings of this study highlight the presence of gatekeeping mechanisms within the scientific field as well as government institutions, problematize the practice of placemaking, assert there is untapped symbolic capital to be wielded by citizen scientists, and trace the "innovation" of volunteer water monitoring data in Dane County.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to optimize the concern in terms of taxes. Model situations should point to tax optimization by moving business to tax havens. Diploma thesis deals particularly different taxation of concern in tax havens. The result of the work will be a proposal and recommendations for the establishment of a company in a tax haven.

Certaines œuvres de danse contemporaine (ou pluridisciplinaires) programmées dans les salles de spectacle françaises semblent conçues pour atteindre le spectateur et le faire vaciller en troublant ses repères moraux, sa stabilité émotionnelle voire son confort physique. Ces productions artistiques rencontrent de vives oppositions au sein de la presse qu’elle soit généraliste ou spécialisée en danse. Elles sont aussi la cible d’une dévalorisation moins visible, celle des esthéticiens qui les situent à la marge des esthétiques chorégraphiques légitimes. On leur reproche les violences qu’elles exerceraient sur les interprètes et l’agressivité qu’elles déploieraient à l’encontre du public. Ces condamnations, sous forme de procès d’intention, visent les artistes, les amateurs de ces représentations, mais aussi les danseurs qui la font exister sur scène. Elles se formulent au moyen d’éléments de langage voisins et suivent des logiques argumentatives similaires quels qu’en soient les émetteurs. Le canevas de cette rhétorique dépréciative est tissé de lieux communs qui lui accordent, de fait, une solide immunité contre son examen critique. Aujourd’hui stabilisée, cette typologie des démarches considérées comme fautives continue d’être alimentée par les propos de ceux qui ont la charge de les juger. Dans cette thèse, nous analysons la manière dont, au fil de ces discours d’expertise, se construit un portrait précis de l’œuvre de danse contemporaine délictueuse. Nous interrogeons les répercussions multiples de cette stabilisation du jugement négatif entourant certaines pratiques du regard – désir de montrer, désir de se montrer, et désir de voir les œuvres – et ciblant précisément les pièces chorégraphiques considérée comme violentes
Some contemporary or multidisciplinary dance works programmed in French auditoriums seem to have been made to reach the audience and to make their ethical compass, their emotional stability and their physical comfort shaken. These artistic creations received strong press contradictions in both general and specialised dance magazines. They are the target of a concealed discredit from the aestheticians who place them at the border of rightful aesthetic choreographies. They would exert a hold on performers due to their violence and would deploy aggressiveness against the public. Those lockings under the form of attacks are targeting artists, performance lovers but also dancers who are making the scene exist. They take the form of similar elements of language and follow similar argumentative logic whatever the speakers are. The framework of the depreciative rhetoric is forged by common sites which grants its a strong immunity against its critical examination. Today the situation is stabilised, however these sort of moves considered as erroneous continue to be supplied by speeches of those who has to judge them. In this thesis, we will analyse how a precise description of a criminal contemporary dance work is depicted. We will question the multiple consequences of this stabilized negative judgement around certain practices of the gaze – desire to show, to be seen and desire to see works – targeting choreographic works considered as violent

Cette thèse porte sur les pratiques et pratiquants, en Île-de-France, de Danse des 5 Rythmes, Movement Medicine et Open Floor, rassemblées ici sous le terme générique de Danses Libres en Conscience. Entreprises dans l’optique d’une « découverte de soi » ; proches, sans y être réductibles, de techniques de développement personnel ou de bien-être ; ni religieuses ni ésotériques ni proprement thérapeutiques, elles sont pourtant associées dans les discours de leurs pratiquants à une forme de spiritualité, de transformation et de guérison. Qu’est-ce qui, dans le fait de danser dans un tel cadre — c’est-à-dire « librement » et « en conscience », collectivement, en musique — peut être spirituel ou transformateur, porteur de sens, de révélation sur soi, sur le monde, ou facteur de guérison ? L’ethnographie de ces danses permet d’apporter d’une part un nouvel éclairage, occidental et contemporain, sur les rapports étroits entre danse et spiritualité (relevés maintes fois dans d’autres lieux et contextes), et par extension sur les rapports entre corps, affect et esprit tels qu’ils sont pensés et expérimentés ici et maintenant par ces pratiquants. D’autre part, les conclusions de cette enquête offrent la possibilité d’un modèle général pour penser la multitude de pratiques corporelles et spirituelles contemporaines, particulièrement en vogue ces dernières décennies
Centered on the Île-de-France region, this thesis deals with the dance practices and practitioners of 5Rhythms, Movement Medicine and Open Floor, which have been grouped together here as Freeform Mindful Dances. These dances are undertaken with a view to “self-discovery”; they are close to personal development or well-being techniques without being reducible to them; although neither religious, esoteric nor properly speaking therapeutic, they are nevertheless associated, by their practitioners, with a form of spirituality, transformation and healing. What is it that makes dancing in this way – “freely”, “mindfully”, “collectively”, and to music – spiritual or transformative, that allows it to provide revelations about oneself or about the world, or to act as a factor of healing? On the one hand, the ethnography of these practices sheds a new contemporary and Western light on the close connections between dance and spirituality, and by extension, on the relationships between body, mind and emotion as they are conceived and experienced in the here and now by dancing parties. On the other hand, this research aims to offer a general model for thinking about the multitude of contemporary bodily and spiritual practices that have become increasingly fashionable in recent decades

Nagrinėjama teritorija – tai pramoninės zonos Klaipėdos miesto centre prie Danės upės, besiribojančios su senamiesčiu ir miesto istorine dalimi Naujamiesčiu. Šios zonos dabar patenka į privataus kapitalo rankas, todėl yra ypač aktualu išsaugoti išlikusius vertingus urbanistinės struktūros elementus, nes vyksta intensyvi apleistų teritorijų konversija. Teritoriją dalinanti aktyvi B kategorijos tranzitinė Mokyklos gatvė – tiltas dar labiau atriboja šią zoną nuo likusios miesto dalies. Pagrindinis strateginis darbo tikslas – tobulinti Klaipėdos centrinės dalies erdves, jų struktūrą ir kompoziciją, humanizuoti tranzitinę gatvę ir šią jos kertamą apleistą pramonės zoną, suteikiant šiai teritorijai kokybišką naują struktūrą, atitinkančią jos padėtį mieste ir jos turimą potencialą. Atsižvelgiant į šių dienų poreikius ir tendencijas, remiantis užsienio analogais, siūloma regeneruoti miesto centrines konversines teritorijas, pritaikant jas naujai funkcijai: kultūrinei, visuomeninei, rekreacinei, gyvenamajai. Baigiamojo magistro studijų darbo rezultatas – nagrinėjamos teritorijos urbanistinės struktūros, įprasminančios Klaipėdos miesto istorinio centro prieigas, koncepcija.
Analysed area - an industrial zone in the center of Klaipeda by the Dane River, adjacent to Old Town and the historical part of the town Naujamiestis. This area now falls into the hands of private capital, so it is especially important to preserve the remaining valuable elements of the urban structure, because of an intensive conversion of derelict sites. Territory dividing, active transit Mokyklos Street - bridge of B category further demarcates the zone from the rest of the city. The main strategic aim – to improve the spaces of the central part of Klaipeda, their structure and composition, to humanize the transit street and the abandoned industrial zone which it crosses by providing high-quality new structure corresponding to its position in the city and its potential. Taking into consideration current needs, tendencies and analogus it is suggested to regenerate city central converse territories, adapting them to a new function: cultural, public, recreational, residential. Final work result of Master thesis – the concept of the site of urban structure, which gives importance to Klaipeda city's historical center approaches.

Ce travail propose une réflexion menée à la croisée d'une sociologie des émotions, objet principal de la recherche, et d'une sociologie de l'art. En effet, la représentation d'un ballet romantique, Giselle, de Jules Perrot et Jean Coralli et d'un ballet contemporain, MayB, de Maguy Marin, forme le terrain de l'enquête. L'enjeu de l'analyse a consisté à rendre visibles les différents mouvements des émotions, à l'œuvre lors d'une soirée chorégraphique. D'un côté, le mouvement des danseurs sur la scène, qui, s'appuyant sur la technique corporelle, mais aussi la musique, le récit, les costumes et les décors, confectionnent les émotions. D'un autre côté, le mouvement des pensées, visibles chez les danseurs comme chez les spectateurs, à travers une sorte de dialogue intérieur participant à la fabrication des émotions individuelles. Enfin, le mouvement collectif des émotions échangées entre les danseurs et les spectateurs, dans un va-et-vient permanent, nécessaire à la construction de la matière chorégraphique. La méthodologie, qualitative, a été constituée de manière à saisir les différents temps de cette confection émotionnelle. Les observations directes, réalisées durant les répétitions, permettent de saisir, en amont, comment une technique de danse fabrique les émotions. L'observation participante lors des spectacles offre l'illustration, intime, du vécu corporel et émotionnel d'un spectateur : le ballet devient expérience, les spectateurs, acteurs de la soirée en train de se faire. Enfin, les entretiens, réalisés auprès des danseurs et des spectateurs, fournissent une matière sensible à la réflexion, tournée vers une sociologie compréhensive. Au final, la thèse présente les émotions comme « le corps » des relations sociales. Au travers elles, les individus se saisissent les uns des autres, soulignent leurs différences ou leurs similitudes, s'adaptent ou non au groupe, selon la « prise » ou la « déprise » des émotions du ballet sur eux
This study stands at a crossroads between a sociology of emotions – the main focus of our research – and a sociology of art. The survey here presented is grounded in two dance performances, the romantic ballet Giselle, by Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli on the one hand, and on the other hand, the contemporary dance performance MayB, by Maguy Marin The point of this analysis was to bring out the various movements of emotion at play in the course of a choreographic performance. First, I have studied the dancers' movements on stage, which, while resting on the body's technique as well as the music, the story, the costumes and the decors, participate in the making of emotions. Second, I have delved into the movement of thoughts, perceptible in the dancers and in the audience, via a kind of interior dialogue which takes part in the making of various emotions. Last but not least, I have looked into the collective and continuous flow of emotions moving back and forth between the dancers and the audience, and which is necessary for the construction of choreographic material. The methodology here used is a qualitative one, aiming to grasp the various moments in the making of emotions. Direct observations carried out during rehearsals allow for a prior understanding of how a dance technique can create emotions. Participatory observation during the performances grants an intimate illustration of the physical and emotional response of a spectator: the ballet becomes experience and the spectators become actors of the evening in the making. Finally, the audience and dancers' interviews offer food for thought, building towards a comprehensive sociology. In the end, this thesis presents emotions as “the body” of social relationships. Through them, individuals take hold of one another, underlining their differences or similarities. They adapt to the group or they do not, depending on the hold the emotions of the ballet may have on them

Peintre, tout corps dansant m'apparait comme un flux incessant qui s'empare de moi. Il fait tourbillonner ma pensée qui remonte vers mon enfance, quand je dansais. L'hypothèse est que la pratique de la danse et de la chorégraphie apporte à ma peinture le flux continu qui, paradoxalement, s'incarne avec le maximum d'énergie dans la suspension du mouvement. D'abord, je condense dans mon carnet d'esquisses la succession des courbes dessinées par le corps dansant dans l'espace scénique. Danser et dessiner s'unissent le temps du spectacle de danse pour me rendre visible le flux temporel du mouvement. Ensuite, loin de la danse, je m'assieds dans mon atelier et je vis une dilatation de l'espace et du temps dans laquelle j'oublie le temps qui s'écoule et l'espace du monde. L'instauration de mes peintures repose sur la force des contraires : attraction et répulsion, flux et influx. Les efforts que je fournis pour peindre me rapprochent de la curiosité et de la "pureté" de l'enfance dans laquelle on ne cesse d'entrer. Loin de mon pays, mon réenracinement poïétique pourrait se concrétiser en passant par ma volonté de rupture avec mes acquis pour aller plus loin sur un terrain réapproprié. Ma thèse comprend trois parties : la partie 1, Le temps dans les arts plastiques : je tente de réfléchir au rôle du temps dans le processus pictural. La partie 2, Le corps en mouvement : je m'attache à comprendre la place du corps dans l'acte peint. La partie 3, Peindre et danser pour la vie : j'aborde les axes possibles de rapprochement entre la danse et ma peinture dans l'appréhension du mouvement et je tente de restituer ma démarche dans l'expérience de ma vie. Il peut paraitre paradoxal de vouloir traiter le mouvement, par essence libre et mobile, dans un espace pictural limité et fermé. Je capte du flux de mouvement dans ma mémoire, pour ensuite encapsuler dans ma toile l'énergie qu'il contient, et qui fera circuler le mouvement dans la pensée du spectateur.

Ce travail de recherche a pour objectif de mettre en avant la rencontre cinéma-danse à partir d'une libération des soubassements métaphysiques de l'art, ce faisant un instrument de médiation d'un ordre supérieur à l'artiste dont l'activité se réglait à la lumière d'un idéal éthico-politique, source d'inspiration du thème de l'ailleurs. Le cinéma est ce nouvel espace où la danse s'invente un autre corps en dehors d'une réglementation des pratiques et des usages, d'une pédagogie par le biais de laquelle les affections du corps étaient corrigées en miroir des œuvres de l'esprit. Le fait que le cinéma soit apparu à un moment de réhabilitation de la valeur philosophique du sensible le rend complice d'une danse cherchant à accroître son expérience du mouvement et à s'affranchir des limites de la représentation classique. C'est cette complicité à l'égard d'une attitude en commun qui ressort des divers aspects que soulève la problématique de la danse contemporaine à l'épreuve du cinéma et de la vidéo
This research work bas for objective to put forward the meeting cinema-dance from a liberation of the metaphysical bases of the art, making it an instrument of mediation of an order upper to the artist whose activity adjusted in the light of an ethical and political ideal, a source of inspiration of the theme of somewhere else. The cinema is this new space where the dance in vents another body except a regulations of the practices and the uses, the pedagogy by means of which the affections of the body were corrected in mirror of the works of the spirit. The fact that the cinema appeared at a moment of rehabilitation of the philosophic value of the sensitive makes it collusive in a dance trying to increase its experience of the movement and to free itself from limits of the classic representation. It is this complicity towards an attitude in common that takes out a gain diverse aspects which lifts the problem of the contemporary dance in the event of the cinema and the video

L’enjeu de cette recherche se situe dans l’étude du croisement entre le domaine des spectacles chorégraphiques et celui du biographique – terme qui permet d’élargir le champ des occurrences qui composent la mise en récit de l’histoire de vie d’un individu, à travers divers média. Nous avons donc centré notre recherche sur les spectacles chorégraphiques en tant qu'occurrences du biographique, et sur l’interprétation et la perception du corps dansant. Nous avons d'abord procédé à notre investigation par le biais de l’histoire et de la classification de la biographie, pour comprendre les enjeux de ce genre littéraire et les questionnements qu’il soulève. Nous avons constitué un relevé des biographies littéraires du domaine de la danse depuis le XIXe siècle et avons procédé à son analyse quantitative, pour ensuite décrypter la manière dont s’est développé le discours biographique sur les danseurs. Dans un deuxième temps, nous nous sommes appuyés sur des concepts issus du domaine de la littérature pour nous aider dans la compréhension des œuvres biographiques littéraires et chorégraphiques. Les recherches sur la corporéité et la kinésie dans le récit littéraire nous ont permis d’analyser les descriptions et représentations du corps des danseurs. La dernière partie de la thèse est dédiée à l’analyse de huit spectacles chorégraphiques biographiques. La structure et le fonctionnement de chacune des œuvres analysées sont mis en évidence en même temps que les représentations du corps du danseur qui sont en œuvre dans un spectacle chorégraphique. Une analyse des étapes créatives du processus de construction d’une image de corps dansant dans le discours chorégraphique biographique est également réalisée. Elle nous conduit à proposer un modèle de compréhension de la construction de l'entité du biographié, l'atlas du corps du biographié, une collection de représentations du corps de celui-ci
The objective of this research is to study the interaction between the choreographic field and the biographique - a term that permits us to expand the traditional literary biographical field to individual life depiction through various media. We have therefore focused our research on choreographic performances - understood as instances of the biographique - and on the perception and interpretation of the dancing body in the biographic discourse. We began our investigation approaching the history and the classification of biography, in order to understand the main issues of this literary genre and its basic questions. We made a survey of literary biographies in the field of dance since the XIXth century, developing a quantitative analysis, and we proceeded in the understanding of how the biographical discourse on the dancers developed. On this research, our understanding of biographical and choreographic works are based on concepts from the Literature field. The existing research on corporeality (corporéité) and kinesis (the motor perception of the movement) in literary narrative enabled us to analyze the descriptions and representations of the dancers’ bodies. The last part of the research is devoted to the analysis of eight biographical choreographic works. The structure and operation of each work are highlighted along with the representations of the dancer's body that are implemented in choreographic work. We have also analyzed how the image of the dancing body is constructed in the biographical choreographic discourse. With this analysis we are able to propose a model for the understanding of how the spectator constructs the body image of the biography subject - the biography subject’s body atlas - a collection of representations of the “biographed” body

L’objectif de cette thèse est d’étudier sous le prisme du genre le profil de deux héroïnes antiques archétypales, Antigone et Médée, en prenant appui sur un corpus de douze spectacles comportant une partition chorégraphique (ou entièrement chorégraphiés), présentés entre 1993 et 2015 en France, en Grèce et/ou au Royaume-Uni.La mise en lumière des éléments genrés en rapport (sans se limiter) avec le profil des héroïnes emblématiques dans chaque production, révèle que le genre n’étudie pas uniquement les stéréotypes et les discriminations à l’égard des femmes confirmant que la femme n’est pas la seule concernée par les inégalités genrées car le sexe biologique est seulement un des paramètres provoquant ces inégalités. Un cheminement temporel expose les autres paramètres pris en compte permettant de suivre les traces de l’évolution du concept de genre et à comprendre comment les créateurs intègrent ou reflètent les changements dans leur travail. Les axes majeurs de recherche à savoir sexe, classe sociale, et ethnicité, ne sont pas mutuellement exclusifs : au contraire ils s’entrecroisent, s’imbriquent et s’articulent devenant indissociables et dévoilant ainsi la dimension intersectionnelle du genre. L’association intersectionnalité-genre permet d’examiner les identités de manière non segmentée : en choisissant la danse comme matériau de support, en puisant les exemples dans la tragédie antique et en prenant appui sur les identités complexes d’Antigone et de Médée les entendant dans une perspective multidimensionnelle qui envisage/explore leur dynamique.Par conséquent, l’examen des productions chorégraphiques – en France, en Grèce et au Royaume-Uni – illustre l’imbrication des rapports de genre aux autres rapports de pouvoir (et vice versa) soulignant les changements qui s’opèrent d’une part sur les partitions chorégraphiques et, d’autre part, dans la mise en scène des héroïnes atypiques, en l’occurrence, Antigone et Médée. L’accent est mis sur le respect de leurs identités singulières composées de parcelles identitaires plurielles suggérant, par extension, une nouvelle « définition » de l’individu
The aim of this thesis is to study the profile of two archetypal ancient heroines, Antigone and Medea, under a gender perspective, based on a corpus of twelve performances including a choreographic score (or entirely choreographed), presented between 1993 and 2015 in France, Greece and/or the United Kingdom.Evaluating the gender features related (without being limited) to the profile of those emblematic heroines in each production revealed that gender does not only study stereotypes and discriminations against women and confirmed that they are not the only ones affected by gender inequalities since biological sex is only one of the parameters causing these inequalities. A chronological path uncovers the other parameters taken into account in gender research thus allowing to follow the traces of its evolution and to understand how creators (choreographers and stage directors) illustrate the changes that occur and how these changes are reflected in their work. The major axes of research, namely sex, social class and ethnicity are not mutually exclusive; on the contrary they intertwine, overlap and articulate becoming intrinsic to each other (inseparable) therefore suggesting intersectionality within gender. Associating the notion of intersectionality to gender enables the study of identities in a non-segmented way. By choosing dance as a support material, by drawing examples from ancient tragedy and by taking under consideration the complexity of Antigone and Medea’s personalities/identities whilst understanding their multidimensionality to further explore their dynamics.Consequently, the analysis of dance performances - in France, Greece and the United Kingdom - illustrates the intertwinement of gender relations with other power relations (and vice versa) and underlines the changes that occur in the choreography per se on one hand and in the staging of emblematic figures such as Antigone and Medea on the other. Emphasis is placed on promoting their singularity and respecting their composite personality combining identity fragments alluding by extension to a new "definition" of the individual

A partir de la seule documentation disponible, à savoir l’iconographie, il a été dressé un corpus de 526 objets, tous supports confondus, à partir de l’Etrurie tyrrhénienne, de l’Etrurie campanienne et de l’Etrurie padane. Cette thèse propose dans un premier temps, en plus de justifier et de délimiter le corpus des scènes de la danse étrusque et de poser les fondements historiographiques, de penser et définir la représentation même de la danse. Quels éléments dans l’image permettent de définir une scène de danse comme telle ? S’agit-il véritablement de danse ? La confusion que l’on note dans les textes grecs et latins entre pratiques dansées, sportives et guerrières se rencontrent aussi dans l’image, ce qui a amené à appréhender la danse au sens large, en termes de performance et d’évènement. Cette première définition permet de délimiter les scènes de danse par rapport aux scènes de cortège, de parade, de duel, et de distinguer les danseurs d’autres personnages récurrents de l’iconographie étrusque comme les « orants ». Dans un second temps, l’étude typologique et l’analyse sérielle des scènes de danse permet de dresser un répertoire étrusque de 2143 positions corporelles, et ainsi de préciser la définition de l’image de la danse. Cet axe permet d’identifier les différentes positions corporelles, ainsi que les gestes, les accessoires des acteurs, leurs caractéristiques physiques, et les objets et les lieux de la danse. Cette identification systématique est accompagnée de l’étude des interactions corporelles, gestuelles, vestimentaires, ou colorés. Délimiter le répertoire iconographique de la danse étrusque implique aussi d’en définir les modalités d’élaboration et la porosité. Les données sont ainsi replacées dans un contexte géographique et historique afin de repérer les particularités de l’iconographie étrusque, de distinguer les modèles étrangers et les réélaborations. La mise en série révèle que la comparaison avec l’iconographie grecque s’impose pour certaines postures. Mais les imagiers sélectionnent et agencent selon une disposition qui s’adapte aux pratiques étrusques de l’image. Les Étrusques ont ainsi puisé dans un répertoire grec des postures puis les ont adaptées et enrichies, à l’image de l’adaptation de l’alphabet grec en Étrurie. La diffusion des éléments constitutifs de l’image étrusque de la danse d’une cité étrusque à une autre permet de délimiter un répertoire iconographique préromain commun, mais aussi des choix locaux. Nous relevons en particulier les cas de Chiusi et de Tarquinia. A côté d’un répertoire commun, les deux cités ont développé chacune des solutions différentes qui répondent à des constructions propres de l’image. Dans un dernier temps enfin, sont étudiés les différents types de danse relevés, ainsi que le statut et la fonction des différents acteurs. Il s’agit de comprendre, par une orientation historique et anthropologique, et lorsqu’il est possible de le relever, l’enchaînement de ces danses, leur fonction, leurs différentes phases et leur place dans les pratiques rituelles de l’Italie préromaine. De cette étude découlent des questions quant à l’utilisation de l’image étrusque de la danse. Il s’avère en effet qu’une sélection des types de danse et des postures est opérée par les imagiers. Dans ce cadre, c'est sur le fonctionnement et le système de l'image, comparée à un langage, que nous avons mis l'accent. La direction adoptée dans ce troisième axe est aussi iconologique et vise à déchiffrer l'image de la danse étrusque en s'orientant vers le structuralisme et la sémiotique. L’étude a abouti à la conclusion selon laquelle les postures et les éléments visuels qui composent l’iconographie étrusque de la danse étaient sélectionnés et agencés dans des programmes iconographiques donnés, selon leur signification, leur portée discursive, et la fonction et la temporalité du rituel auquel ils font référence, puis adaptés à la fonction rituelle du médium sur lequel ils sont agencés
From the iconographical sources, the only available, a corpus of 526 objects has been selected, irrespective of the medium, and from Tirrenian, Campanian and Po plain Etruria. Besides explaining and delineating the corpus of the representations of Etruscan dance and posing the historiographical bases, this thesis proposes in the first instance to think and define the representation itself of dance. Indeed, which elements in pictures permit to define a scene of dance as such ? Can we really consider it as dance ? The confusion we note in Greek and Latin texts between danced, sports and war practices are also present in pictures. This brings to consider dance in a large sens, in terms of performance and event. This first definition permits to delineate the scenes of dance from the scenes of processions, of dueling, and to draw a distinction between dancers and other recurrent actors in the Etruscan iconography such as the « orans ». In a second phase, the typological and serial analysis of representations of dance has permitted to raise an Etruscan repertoire of 2143 body postures, and thus to precise the definition of the pictures of dance. This axis has thus contributed to identify the different body positions, but also the gestures, the actors’ props, the actors’ physical features, the objects and places of dance. This systematic identification is accompanied by the study of coloured, clothing, gestural, and body interactions. Delineating the iconographical repertoire of Etruscan dance also implies to define the conditions of its elaboration and its porosity. The datas are thus replaced in a geographic and historic – Ancient Mediterranean – context in order to identify the foreign patterns and the reworked ones. The connection in series reveal that the comparison with Greek iconography is necessary to better understand some body positions. But the painters select and dispose according to the Etruscan practices of pictures making. Thus, the Etruscans digged into a Greek repertoire for some postures and then adapted and enriched them, such as their adaptation of the Greek alphabet in Etruria. The spread of the constitutive éléments of the Etruscan pictures of dance from a city to another permits to delineate a mutual and shared Preroman iconographical repertoire, but also local choices and adaptations. On this point, the cases of Tarquinia and Chiusi has been studied. Besides a common iconographical repertoire, in the two cities different visual solutions has been developped, linked to own pictures constructions. As a final step, the different types of dance previously delineated are studied further, such as the status and the function of the different actors. It aims to understant, thanks to an anthropological and historical approach – and when it’s possible –, the sequences and chaining of the different dances, their diffent phases and their place in the ritual practices of Preroman Italy. From this point, the question of the use of the Etruscan pictures of dance has been raised. And it has been highlighted that a precise selection of types of dance and of body positions has been made by the artists. In this frame, it’s the functioning and the system of the pictures – compared to a language –, which have been emphasized. The orientation taken in this third axis is also iconological and aim to decrypt and better understand the Etruscan pictures of dance in which the visual elements and the body postures are selected and disposed, in the iconographical program in which they are used, according their signification and their discursive dimension, and adapted to the ritual function of the medium on which they are disposed

La thèse de doctorat-ci présente est consacrée à la recherche sur l’esthétique de la danse contemporaine de ces vingt dernières années en Europe. Après une introduction méthodologique et historique, nous présentons dans la partie principale les quatre paradigmes du corps dansant : politique, critique, poétique et virtuel, ce qui nous permet de distinguer des courants esthétiques présents dans la danse européenne à partir de1990. Cette date n’indique aucun événement en particulier, mais elle renvoie plutôt à deux faits majeurs : un historique – la fin du communisme en Europe qui a permis le développement spectaculaire de la danse contemporaine ; et un autre– esthétique – l’arrivée de la danse conceptuelle en France. Tout en citant plus que cent cinquante spectacles vus lors des nombreux festivals et théâtres européens, nous analysons par le biais de ces quatre paradigmes du corps dansant, la proximité esthétique des artistes venant à la fois de l’Europe de l’Ouest et des pays postcommunistes. Ceci nous a permis de constater qu’il n’est point possible de distinguer des différences purement esthétiques entre la danse est-européenne et occidentale, surtout à cause de la nature nomade de la création chorégraphique. Notre conclusion est donc la suivante, qu’à moment présent la danse tend à une esthétique pluridisciplinaire sinon hybride qui dépasse facilement les frontières nationales grâce à des systèmes d’éducation et créations très marqués par l’esprit nomade. Ainsi, des particularités nationales consistent surtout sur des conditions spécifiques du développement de la danse et de la production, ce qui fait l’objet d’un commentaire dans un texte attaché en annexe
The present work is dedicated to the research on European contemporary dance aesthetics after 1990. Following short methodological and historical introduction, we present four paradigms of dancing body: political, critic, poetic and virtual, we distinguish the main aesthetics waves present in the dance in Europe within last twenty years. 1990 is not linked to any particular event but evokes two majors facts: one is historic - the end of communism in Europe, which allowed next a brilliant development of contemporary dance, the second fact is the apparition of the conceptual dance in France in nineties. By approaching the work of over eighty choreographers and hundred fifty performances seen on festivals and in the theatres all over the Europe, we are analysing via corps dansant the aesthetics proximity of the West- and Eastern choreographers. This analysis allowed us to make a statement, that there is no such a possibility to distinguish the differences on a pure aesthetical level between eastern and western European choreographers, namely because of the nomadic character of contemporary choreography. Our conclusion consist on fact, that the contemporary dance tend to a pluridisciplinary, hybrid aesthetics, and thanks to that the national frontiers are not an obstacle, especially because of the educational and creation systems marked by nomadic spirit. In consequences, the national particularities consist on specific conditions of dance development and dance production, which is an object of an analysis in annex

The domestic dog, Canis familiaris, with over 450 naturally-occurring hereditary diseases, serves as a valuable model organism for study of the genetics underlying many human hereditary diseases. Approximately half of the diseases that afflict the dog are clinically very similar to various human hereditary diseases. Several cardiac diseases are in this category. Our laboratory is interested in cardiac diseases because they are common causes of death in the human and are also a widespread problem in many breeds of dog. The specific focus of my work is on understanding the genetics of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). DCM is a disease characterized by enlargement of the left ventricle leading to an inability of the heart to pump sufficient blood to the body. It is one of the most common cardiac diseases in the dog and has a high mortality. The Great Dane is the second most commonly affected breed. It is seen in many families of Great Danes, and this suggests that DCM has a genetic component. The mode of inheritance of DCM in the Great Dane is currently unknown, although studies have reported both autosomal recessive and autosomal dominant transmission. Many different genes cause DCM, indicating the complexity of the disease. These typically produce proteins that are involved in the sarcomere or cytoskeletal components, leading to problems with contraction or cardiac cell integrity. In order to identify causative or susceptibility genes for DCM in the Great Dane, a whole-genome linkage screen was conducted in a family of Great Danes. One candidate gene, gamma-sarcoglycan (SGCG), was identified through linkage and sequenced in affected and unaffected dogs. Sequencing data revealed no mutations in the coding regions of SGCG, most likely excluding it as a candidate gene for DCM. Continued evaluation of this gene and others, both in sequence content and additional properties such as epigenetic effects, protein structure, and interaction with other genes will increase understanding of DCM in both the dog and the human.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996.
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Globalna ilość danych cyfrowych przyrasta bardzo dynamicznie. W 2013 roku na świecie było 4,4 ZB (zettabajtów) danych. Liczba ta co dwa lata ulega podwojeniu i do 2020 osiągnie 44 ZB – dziesięciokrotnie więcej w porównaniu z rokiem 2013 . Natłok danych sprawia, że jesteśmy jako ludzkość często bezradni wobec ich ogromu. Tradycyjne narzędzia ich analizy nie radzą sobie z takim natłokiem. Istnienie olbrzymich ilości danych, zwłaszcza generowanych przez obywateli, skłania ku refleksji na temat cybernetycznego podejścia do formalnego opisu społeczeństw. Brakuje w bieżącej literaturze opracowań i analiz dotyczących wykorzystywania danych w państwie czy w procesach politycznych. Celem pracy jest wykazanie, że dane z internetu, w tym te generowane przez użytkowników, są wiarygodnym źródłem informacji. Hipoteza główna: dane, w tym te, pochodzące z sieci, mogą stanowić wiarygodne źródło informacji w kampaniach wyborczych. Przyjęta hipoteza jest inspirowana teorią Hayeka opisującą mechanizm gromadzenia i przekazywania rozproszonych informacji przez rynek , który te informacje zbiera. Dane są odpowiednikiem takich rozproszonych informacji w rozumieniu Hayeka , które po odpowiedniej analizie – rafinacji – tworzą informacje przydatne w predykcji wyników wyborów. Tym samym mogą być przydatne w podejmowaniu decyzji politycznych. Rozprawa: - porządkuje kwestie terminologiczne związane z web 2.0, mediami społecznościowymi, big data i open data - konstruuje model cyberpaństwa – tworu państwowego opartego na postulowanej w cybernetyce zasadzie sprzężenia zwrotnego wyrażonej otwieraniu, analizie danych i ich wykorzystywaniu w procesie rządzenia - zawiera opis badań, które jako jedne z pierwszych na świecie (jeśli nie pierwsze) potwierdziły użyteczność danych z mediów społecznościowych w celu przewidywania wydarzeń W pracy wykazano, zarówno na gruncie teoretycznym – w wyniku wywodu analizującego literaturę, jak i praktycznym, na podstawie przykładów konkretnych działań opartych o analizę danych, że dane mają praktyczne zastowanie i w wyniku ich przetwarzania powstają wymierne efekty. Mogą więc odgrywać istotną rolę w sferze społecznej, politycznej, czy gospodarczej. Opisana metoda rafinacji realiów z internetu pozwalająca na przewidywanie wyników wyborów, może stanowić fundament dalszych badań nad danymi i możliwościami ich wykorzystania w cyberpaństwie. M.in. przewidywania potrzeb obywateli oraz ich zachowań zwłaszcza w sferze relacji między obywatelem a państwem oraz między samymi obywatelami, a także ostrzegania przed napięciami społecznymi.
The global amount of digital data grows rapidly. In 2013, there was 4.4 ZB (Zettabyte) data in the world. This number doubles every two years and by 2020 will reach 44 ZB - ten times more compared to 2013 . The overflow of data that makes us as humanity often helpless. Traditional tools of analysis can’t cope with such overflow. The existence of large amounts of data, especially generated by citizens, leads to reflection on the cybernetic approach to the formal description of societies. There’s a lack of current studies and analyzes on the use of data in the country or in the political processes. The main objective of the dissertation is to show that data from the Internet, including those generated by users, are a credible source of information. Main dissertation hypothesis: data, including this coming from the internet, can provide a reliable source of information in electoral campaigns. Hypothesis is inspired by Hayek's theory describing the mechanism of efficiently collecting and disseminating information by the market . The data is equivalent to such scattered information in Hayek’s understanding . After proper analysis - refining - make information useful in forecasting election results. Thus can be useful in making political decisions. This dissertation: - organizes the issues of terminology related to web 2.0, social media, big data and open data - constructs a model of cyberstate - solution based on feedback - the principle proposed by the cybernetics expressed by opening, analysing and using data in the process of governance - contains a description of the studies, which were among the first in the world (if not the first) confirming the utility of Social Media to predict events. It has been proven both theoretically - as a result of reasoning from literature analysis - and practically, based on examples of concrete actions based on data analysis that data have practical applications and processing data can bring measurable effects. They therefore can play an important role in the social, political or economic field. The described method of refining internet data allows to predict the election results, can provide a foundation for further research on the data and possibilities of their use in cyberstate. Among others, it can anticipate the needs of citizens and their behavior especially in the sphere of relations between the citizen and the state and among citizens, as well as warning of social tensions.

The paper describes the development and main changes in systems of direct taxa-tion in Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary. The influence of nominal personal and corporation income tax rate on GDP and unemployment rate are described by means of regression and correlation analysis. The analysis forms the basis for rec-ommendations regarding the level of nominal tax rates for each country.

Bakošová, M. The impact of introducing a progressive rate of personal income tax. Diploma thesis. Brno: Mendel University, 2019. The diploma thesis judge the introduction of a progressive rate of personal income tax in the Czech Republic. By means of effective tax rates are quantified tax burden on model types of households in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and consequently both taxation systems are compared. From the macroeconomic point of view, the impact of tax burden on the economic growth of the country is examined. Based on the results, the impact of the introduction of the progressive rate of personal income tax in the Czech Republic is evaluated.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1994.
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Zarówno wśród praktyków bankowych, jak i w środowisku naukowym występuje powszechny konsensus co do tego, że czynniki makroekonomiczne silnie wpływają na ryzyko działalności kredytowej banku. Nie brakuje również opracowań próbujących kwantyfikować siłę tego wpływu. Najczęściej badania te bazują jednak na powszechnie dostępnych danych o wysokim poziomie agregacji, tj. banku czy sektora bankowego, które nie pozwalają na właściwe uwzględnienie kluczowych czynników specyficznych determinujących ryzyko portfela. Celem badań przedstawionych w pracy jest kwantyfikacja i hierarchizacja wpływu czynników makroekonomicznych na ryzyko kredytowe przy wykorzystaniu danych o średnim poziomie agregacji, które opisywały portfel kredytów konsumpcyjnych oraz kredytów mieszkaniowych (indeksowanych do franka szwajcarskiego) jednego z głównych banków komercyjnych w Polsce (w latach 2004–2016). Próba obejmowała ponad 10 tys. obserwacji dla portfela kredytów konsumpcyjnych oraz ponad 400 obserwacji dla portfela kredytów mieszkaniowych. Wykorzystano modele danych panelowych. Wyizolowano wpływ sytuacji makroekonomicznej spośród innych kluczowych czynników determinujących ryzyko kredytowe (to jest historycznych zmian polityki kredytowej banku i naturalnego cyklu dojrzewania portfela). Wyniki potwierdziły związek sytuacji gospodarczej, reprezentowanej w modelu m.in. przez stopę bezrobocia i produkcję przemysłową, z ryzykiem kredytowym. Wzrostowi stopy bezrobocia towarzyszy większa częstotliwość przypadków zaniechania spłaty, a przyspieszeniu dynamiki produkcji przemysłowej – mniejsza. Stwierdzono również występowanie opóźnień tej asocjacji sięgających 12 miesięcy. Model wraz ogólnodostępnymi prognozami makroekonomicznymi lub scenariuszami stresowymi umożliwia dokładniejsze przewidywanie skali pogorszenia jakości portfela w okresie dekoniunktury, a także formułowanie rekomendacji w zakresie polityki kredytowej, zwłaszcza granicznych poziomów akceptowanego prawdopodobieństwa zaniechania spłaty w różnych fazach cyklu koniunkturalnego.

Praca podejmuje temat szarej strefy, zwłaszcza w kontekście metod estymacji jej rozmiaru. Przedmiotem własnego badania jest metoda zaproponowana przez Licharda, Hanousek’a i Filera [2012], która poza publikacją samych autorów nie doczekała się jeszcze kontynuacji w pracach innych badaczy. Wspomniana metoda wywodząca się z podejścia mikroekonomicznego, na tle pozostałych technik wydaje się być interesującą propozycją, biorąc pod uwagę zarówno przyjmowane założenia jak i dostępność danych. W przeciwieństwie do wielokrotnie wykorzystywanej w literaturze metody zaprezentowanej przez Pissaridesa i Webera [1989], nie jest konieczne zdefiniowanie a priori docelowego podziału populacji na dwie grupy - gospodarstwa potencjalnie należące do szarej strefy i w pełni funkcjonujące poza nią. Podział próby jest bowiem dokonywany w sposób automatyczny, w oparciu o obserwowane relacje pomiędzy wydatkami, dochodami i zmiennymi socjodemograficznymi. Ze względu na dotychczasowy brak nawiązań do publikacji Licharda, Hanousek’a i Filera [2012], wszelkiego rodzaju próby weryfikacji, czy wręcz oceny proponowanej metodologii, jak również samo jej wykorzystanie do estymacji rozmiaru szarej strefy dla rożnych państw i okresów, jest jak najbardziej pożądane. Celem niniejszej pracy jest zatem kompleksowa ocena wspomnianej metody. Identyfikacja potencjalnych wad i zalet metody stanowi wartość dodaną rozprawy, bowiem wyniki uzupełnią występującą w literaturze lukę. W pracy dokonano przeglądu i analizy przyjmowanych założeń oraz stosowanej procedury estymacji. Formalnej weryfikacji poddano trzy główne hipotezy badawcze, odnoszące się wprost do omawianej metody: i. Rozmiar szarej strefy generowany w oparciu o metodologię Licharda, Hanousek’a i Filera [2012] nie jest spójny z zachowaniem innych miar makroekonomicznych (H1) i nie jest stabilny w czasie - podlega bardzo silnym, nieuzasadnionym wahaniom (H2). ii. Profil socjodemograficzny gospodarstw wyodrębnionych według stosowanej metodologii, jako należące do szarej strefy, nie jest stabilny w czasie - nie można w sposób jednoznaczny wyróżnić cech charakterystycznych dla wspominanych gospodarstw (H3). Ponadto, ze względu na wykorzystywanie w procesie estymacji informacji o deklarowanym poziomie wydatków, postawiono trzy hipotezy poboczne: i. Gospodarstwa sklasyfikowane jako funkcjonujące w szarej strefie zaniżają w ankietach kwoty ponoszonych wydatków (H4). ii. W większym stopniu zaniżane są wydatki na dobra luksusowe niż kwoty przeznaczane na dobra podstawowe (H5). iii. Wydatki na żywność, w porównaniu z wydatkami na inne koszyki dóbr, są zaniżane w mniejszym stopniu, dlatego stanowią najlepszy możliwy wybór, jeśli chodzi o koszyk dóbr, który pozwala wnioskować o kwocie faktycznie uzyskiwanych dochodów (H6). Badanie przeprowadzono w oparciu o dane zbierane przez U.S. Census Bureau dla Bureau of Labor Statistics. Dane odnoszą się do gospodarstw domowych zamieszkujących Stany Zjednoczone i obejmują lata 2004 - 2012. Uzyskane wyniki skłoniły do odrzucenia hipotezy H1. Dla rozpatrywanego horyzontu czasowego, rozmiar szarej strefy generowany przy zastosowaniu metody Licharda, Hanouseka i Filera [2012] jest spójny z kształtowaniem się innych miar makroekonomicznych. Rozmiar szarej strefy okazał się ujemnie skorelowany z dynamiką PKB oraz dodatnio z oficjalnym poziomem stopy bezrobocia. Ponadto, maksymalną wielkość szarej strefy otrzymano dla 2009 roku, kiedy to dynamika PKB była najniższa, a stopa bezrobocia najwyższa w całym badanym okresie. Uzyskany rozmiar szarej strefy charakteryzuje się jednak bardzo silnymi, nieuzasadnionymi co do samej skali wahaniami, nie było zatem podstaw do odrzucenia hipotezy H2. Niestabilny w czasie jest także profil gospodarstw wyodrębnionych jako należące do szarej strefy. Rozkłady wartości poszczególnych cech socjodemograficznych, z roku na rok, ulegają ogromnym wahaniom, zatem również w przypadku hipotezy H3 nie było podstaw do jej odrzucenia. Słuszne okazały się oczekiwania co do potencjalnego zaniżania, deklarowanych w ankietach wydatków. W myśl przeprowadzonych analiz, nie było podstaw do odrzucenia hipotez H4, H5 i H6. W porównaniu z pozostałymi gospodarstwami, udział wydatków na dobra luksusowe jest ceteris paribus średnio niższy dla gospodarstw należących do szarej strefy, oraz wyższy w przypadku wydatków na dobra podstawowe. Spośród analizowanych koszyków, dobrem indywidualnie charakteryzującym się najniższym stopniem zaniżania wydatków okazała się żywność. Deklarowane w ankiecie kwoty przeznaczane na żywność, w porównaniu z innymi wydatkami, są najbliżej wartości faktycznie ponoszonych, zatem stanowią najlepszy możliwy punkt wyjścia do estymacji rzeczywistego poziomu dochodów. Przy okazji weryfikacji postawionych hipotez, uzyskano jeszcze kilka interesujących wyników, spójnych z rezultatami innych badań. Modelując funkcję prawdopodobieństwa przynależności do szarej strefy otrzymano oszacowanie, zgodnie z którym wspomniane prawdopodobieństwo ceteris paribus wzrasta, jeżeli źródłem dochodu jest samodzielna działalność gospodarcza. Prawdopodobieństwo rośnie jeszcze bardziej jeżeli respondent podejmuje aktywność zawodową w sektorze obejmującym branże budowlaną, produkcję precyzyjną oraz usługi naprawcze. Z pewnością rozprawa nie wyczerpuje poruszanego zagadnienia, dostarcza jednak wielu nowych, istotnych informacji zarówno odnośnie metody estymacji szarej strefy, jak również założeń w niej wykorzystywanych. Pomimo konieczności przeprowadzania kolejnych badań, w opinii autora, zakładany cel pracy został osiągnięty.
The thesis takes up the topic of the shadow economy, especially in the context of the methods of estimation of its size. The subject of an individual study is the method proposed by Lichard, Hanousek and Filer [2012], which, besides the authors’ publication, has not been continued in the works of other researchers. The mentioned method deriving from microeconomic approach, compared to other techniques, seems to be an interesting proposal taking into account both the assumptions made and the availability of data. In contrast to the frequently used in the literature method presented by Pissarides and Weber [1989], it is not necessary to define a priori the target distribution of the population into two groups – households potentially belonging to the shadow economy and those fully functioning beyond it. The division of the sample is, in fact, made automatically, based on the observed relationship between expenditure, income and sociodemographic variables. Due to the current lack of references to the publication of Lichard, Hanousek and Filer [2012], all kinds of attempts to verify or even assess the proposed methodology, as well as its use to estimate the size of the shadow economy for different countries and periods, are desirable. The aim of this thesis is therefore a comprehensive evaluation of the mentioned method. Identification of its possible advantages and disadvantages constitutes an added value, because the results will complement the gap present in the literature. The thesis reviews and analyzes the assumptions and estimation procedure used. Three main hypotheses relating directly to this method were subject to formal verification: i. The size of the shadow economy generated based on the methodology of Lichard, Hanousek and Filer [2012] is not consistent with the behavior of other macroeconomic measures (H1) and is not stable in time – it is subject to very strong and unreasonable fluctuations (H2). ii. Socio-demographic profile of households categorized as belonging (according to used methodology) to the shadow economy, is not stable in time – characteristics for mentioned households cannot be clearly distinguished (H3). In addition, due to using in the estimation process the information on declared spending, three collateral hypotheses were proposed: i. Households classified as operating in shadow economy underestimate the amount of the expenditure in surveys (H4). ii. Spending on luxury goods are underestimated to a greater extent than spending on necessity goods (H5). iii. Expenditure on food, compared to spending on other baskets of goods, are underestimated to a lesser extent, so it is the best possible choice in terms of a basket of goods, which allows for the conclusion about the amount of income actually received (H6). The study was based on data collected by the US Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Data refers to households in the United States and cover the years 2004-2012. The results led to the rejection of the hypothesis H1. For the considered time horizon, the size of the shadow economy generated using the method Lichard, Hanousek and Filer [2012] is consistent with the evolution of other macroeconomic measures. The size of the shadow economy turned out to be negatively correlated with GDP growth and positively with the official unemployment rate. In addition, the maximum size of the shadow economy was obtained for 2009, when GDP growth was the lowest and the unemployment rate the highest in the whole considered period. However, the resulting size of the shadow economy has a very strong and unreasonable fluctuations in terms of the scale; thus, there was no basis for rejecting the H2 hypothesis. Unstable over time is also a profile of households singled out as belonging to the shadow economy. The distributions of individual sociodemographic characteristics, from year to year, are subject to enormous variations. Therefore, in the case of hypothesis H3, there were no grounds for its rejection either. Expectations of the potential underestimating of declared expenditure in surveys, turned out to be legitimate. According to the analyzes, there was no reason to reject the hypotheses H4, H5 and H6. In comparison with other households, the share of spending on luxury goods ceteris paribus is, on average, lower for households belonging to the shadow economy, and higher in the case of expenditure on necessity goods. Among the analyzed baskets, it turned out that food is good with the lowest level of underestimation. The amount of money spent on food declared in the survey, compared with other expenses, is closest to the values actually incurred, therefore, it constitutes the best possible starting point for estimating the actual level of income. On the occasion of verifying the mentioned hypotheses, were obtained some interesting results, consistent with the results of other studies. Modeling the function of the probability of belonging to the shadow economy, were derived estimates, according to which, mentioned probability ceteris paribus increases if the source of income is self-employment. The probability increases even more if the respondent undertakes activity in the industries including construction, high precision manufacturing and repair services. Certainly, the dissertation is not exhaustive within the subject, but it provides new and relevant information on both the estimation method of shadow economy as well as the assumptions used. Despite the need for further research, in the author's opinion, the assumed objective of the work was achieved.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1990.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1993.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1985.
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