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Silva, Monterrey Nalúa Rosa. "Pouvoir, parenté et société chez les Ye'kwana du Caura-Erebato, au Venuezuela : de la diversité à la synthèse." Paris, EHESS, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EHES0285.
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Cette thèse rassemble les résultats des recherches que nous avons effectuées chez les Ye'kwana du Caura au Venezuela. Notre objectif a été d'approcher la notion de société à travers l'analyse des processus qui ont peu à peu modelé son profil actuel, mais aussi d'aborder les mécanismes identitaires d'incorporation et d'assimilation d'autres groupes, qui se sont produits après la conquête. Partant d'une perspective régionale, nous décrivons les aspects caractéristiques de la culture ye'kwana : la mémoire généalogique ; la passion pour l'histoire ; les très hauts niveaux d'endogamie à l'intérieur des villages. Nous montrons comment, dans la conjoncture actuelle la société tend à se souder en établissant des mécanismes d'altérité maximale face à la société vénézuelienne. Nous concluons en analysant les perspectives de développement futur de la société ye'kwana dans les cadre des relations avec l'Etat-NationThis dissertation gathers the results of research we have done among the Ye'kwana in the Caura river basin, Venezuela. Our aim was to approach the society concept through the processs that has gradually model its actual profile and also to study the identity machanisms of incorporation and assimilation of other indigenous groups after the conquest. From a regional perspective we have described the main features of ye'kwana culture : genealogic memory ; passion for history and very highlevel of community endogamy. We show how in our days society becomes more uniform establishing mechanisms of maximal alterity in front of the Venezuelan society. Conclusions analyse the ye'kwana perspectives for the future development within the Nation-State
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Plaza-Azuaje, Penélope. "'Oil that harvests culture' : state, oil and culture in petrosocialism (Venezuela, 2007-2013)." Thesis, City, University of London, 2016. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/18390/.
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This thesis develops a story about Venezuela as an oil state and the way it deploys its policies to instrumentalise culture and urban space. It examines the way the Petrostate is imagined in speeches, how it manifests physically in space and how it is discursively constructed in adverts. By engaging with the work of Henri Lefebvre, Bob Jessop and George Yúdice this thesis sets out to challenge the disciplinary compartmentalisation of the analysis of the material and cultural effects of oil to demonstrate that within the extractive logic of the Petrostate and the oil industry, territory, oil, and culture become indivisible. Mainly, it explores how the material and immaterial flows of oil traverse space, bureaucratic power, and culture. This thesis is particularly concerned with investigating the discursive and institutional mechanisms that enabled the Venezuelan stateowned oil company PDVSA to expand its dominant space over Caracas to effectively reframe the city as an urban oil field. The thesis develops through four interconnected arguments. It examines the representations of space produced by Petrosocialism through the creation of the new policy instruments of the Socialist State Space. This process opened an institutional and legal breach that enabled PDVSA, the state-owned oil company, to enact the Oil Social District as a parallel State Space. Consequently, PDVSA’s definition of its corporate headquarters as a centre of oil extraction conceptualises Caracas as an oil field absorbed by the Oil Social District to enable PDVSA La Estancia (the cultural and social arm of PDVSA) to override municipal authority and embark on an ambitious program of public art restoration and urban regeneration. PDVSA La Estancia’s actions in the city are justified by its use of farming language that discursively melds oil and culture in a symbiotic and cyclical relationship to define their work as ‘oil that harvests culture’. Moreover, the advertising campaign ‘we transform oil into a renewable resource for you’ is used by PDVSA La Estancia to render oil and culture as equivalent, conceiving culture as ‘renewable oil’ as if culture could accumulate in the subsoil waiting to be extracted, exploited and processed like a mineral resource. An original contribution of this thesis is to build on Yúdice’s expediency of culture as a resource to propose the notion of culture-as-mineral deposit, in which culture is inextricable from land, akin to ‘renewable oil’ and tightly controlled by the Petrostate.
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Verger, Émilie. "La culture afro-vénézuelienne comme mécanisme de résistance et d'intégration dans les quartiers populaires de caracas : Etude de la fête de la Saint Jean-Baptiste." Thesis, Tours, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012TOUR2015/document.
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Le Venezuela est un pays d'une grande diversité culturelle. La population a des origines indigènes, africaines et européennes. Cette diversité a longtemps été ignorée. Depuis le début des années 2000, et dans le contexte du processus politique de la Révolution Bolivarienne d'Hugo Chávez, la diversité culturelle du peuple vénézuélien est mise en valeur. En effet, l'objectif est de définir et consolider l'identité nationale à partir de cette diversité.Les Afro-vénézuéliens ont longtemps souffert d'une certaine discrimination. Au début du XXe siècle, de nombreux descendants d'esclaves africains, originaires des campagnes migrent vers Caracas. La majorité s'installe dans les quartiers populaires (barrios) et se retrouve dans une situation d'exclusion et de marginalisation. A cela il faut ajouter une certaine perte des repères. Au début des années 80, la culture populaire et les traditions afro-vénézuéliennes apparaissent comme une manière de construire une nouvelle identité. Des groupes culturels afro-vénézuéliens décident de réinterpréter une fête populaire traditionnelle dans ces barrios, la fête de la Saint Jean. A partir de l'étude de cette fête de 2006 à 2012, nous avons essayé de déterminer dans quelles mesures les actions de ces groupes culturels afro-vénézuéliens peuvent contribuer à l'affirmation et la reconnaissance de l'identité afro-vénézuélienne et permettre une meilleure cohésion sociale et intégration de la population de ces quartiersVenezuela is a country with an important cultural diversity. The population has Indigenous, African and European origins, though this diversity has long been ignored. Since the beginning of the 2000's, within the political process of the Bolivarian Revolution led by President Hugo Chavez, the cultural diversity of Venezuelans has begun to be recognized. The objective has been to define and reinforce national identity based on cultural diversity. Afro-Venezuelans have been victims of discrimination. At the beginning of the twentieth century, many descendants of African slaves migrated from the countryside to urban Caracas. The great majority settled in barrios and lived in a situation of exclusion and marginalization and, in addition, lost a great deal of their references. At the beginning of the eighties, popular culture and Afro-Venezuelan traditions appeared as a way to construct a new identity. Afro-Venezuelan cultural groups decided to reinterpret a traditional popular festival in these barrios, the Festival of San Juan. By the study of this festival, from 2006 to 2012, we studied how the actions of Afro-Venezuelan cultural groups can contribute to affirm and recognize Afro-Venezuelan identity and lead to an increase in social cohesion and integration of the population in these barrios
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Jong, Ki-Sou. "La diffusion de la culture française en Corée." Bordeaux 3, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985BOR3ET01.
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Avgoustiniatos, Efstathios S. "Oxygen diffusion limitations in pancreatic islet culture and immunoisolation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8269.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 2002.Includes bibliographical references.
Data for oxygen consumption by rat islets of Langerhans in a batch microreactor were fitted using a numerical solution of the transient oxygen diffusion-reaction equation. Average best-fit values were 3.1 +/- 0.7 x 10-8 mol/cm3-s for the maximum oxygen consumption rate Vmax in aminoacid-free media and 1.2 +/- 0.4 x 10-14 mol/cm-mm Hg-s for the oxygen permeability in islet tissue. These parameter values, along with a 30-60% positive correction for the presence of aminoacids in Vmax, were used to predict oxygen profiles inside and around islets under perifusion, culture, and immunoisolation conditions. The difference between Michaelis-Menten and zero-order kinetics and the role of the necrosis process in modeling of oxygen profiles were found to increase with the severity of hypoxia. Internal and external diffusion limitations were characterized for homogeneously dispersed tissue. Oxygen profiles were determined with finite differences in perifused rat islets for which second-phase insulin secretion data were available. Data were fitted with ad hoc kinetic models describing the effect of local pO2 on insulin secretion. A two-step, one-parameter model that assumed that local insulin secretion rate as a function of local pO2 is first-order for pO2 < P and zero-order for PO2 > P* resulted in the best data fit for P* values between 2 and 10 mm Hg, depending on the value of Vmax used. Oxygen profiles were estimated with finite elements for the axi-symmetric problem of single islet culture and the model did an excellent job in predicting loss of viability data, obtained using Trypan blue staining,
(cont.) as a function of islet diameter both under normoxic (ambient pO2 = 142 mm Hg) and hypoxic (40 mm Hg) conditions. The model was extended to massive islet culture and the effects of islet surface density and medium depth on viability were characterized and suggestions were made for the improvement of porcine islet culture conditions. In bioartificial pancreas devices we found that there is an optimal islet surface density (NS)opt for which insulin secretion rate is maximized, while secretory efficiency decreases monotonically with tissue density above a critical value. The design tissue density must be chosen in the range between this critical value and (Ns)opt' and its value depends on whether minimization of the device size or the amount of loaded tissue is more important.
by Efstathios Spyridon Avgoustiniatos.
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Ryan, Michael Joseph. "Hard knocks on a thick skull training the body for a "closed habitus" in a Venezuelan civilian combative art /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.
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Soteras, Eva. "Le conspirationnisme : formation et diffusion d'une mythologie postmoderne." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30004/document.
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Il s'agit de démontrer la portée politico-religieuse du mythe conspirationniste. Dans un premier temps, aborder la question pluridisciplinaire des champs théoriques. Dans un deuxième temps, traiter de la formation d'une véritable mythologie postmoderne inscrite dans la résurgence mythique à l’œuvre dans notre contemporanéité et dans un troisième temps, appréhender les différents supports de diffusion du conspirationnismeThis is to demonstrate the scope of the political-religious conspiracy myth. First , address the issue of multidisciplinary theoretical fields . Secondly , dealing with the formation of a true postmodern mythology recorded in the legendary resurgence at work in our contemporary and thirdly , understand the different conspiracy theories of the broadcast media
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Mavromichali, Iphigenia. "Cultural imperialism and United States television programming in Greece /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6201.
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Fossas, Enric. "Regions i sector cultural a Europa : estudi comparat : Bèlgica, França, Itàlia. Rfa i Espanya /." Barcelona : Generalitat de Catalunya, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb376102124.
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Brum, Marciele Rodrigues de. "Brasil e Venezuela : resultados sociais e confiança na democracia da América Latina." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/24016.
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A proposta desta dissertação é analisar como os governos de esquerda da América Latina contribuem ou não para a construção, desenvolvimento e consolidação de uma cultura democrática na região. A partir da experiência recente de Brasil e de Venezuela, que representam hoje os dois modelos dominantes da esquerda latino-americana, investiga-se se os resultados sociais obtidos estimulam ou não a confiança dos cidadãos no regime democrático. Para alcançar esse objetivo, verifica-se se houve ou não avanço em educação e saúde nos dois países entre 1990 e 2008. Tal diagnóstico é confrontado com a opinião de brasileiros e venezuelanos sobre a satisfação com a vida cotidiana e com o grau de apoio à democracia no mesmo período. A partir dos dados analisados, pode-se concluir que há avanços, no entanto, as medidas implementadas na área social são insuficientes para se consolidar a dimensão social da democracia e fortalecer substancialmente a cultura democrática.The proposal of this dissertation is to examine how the governments on the left in Latin America contribute or not contribute to the construction, development and consolidation of a democratic culture in the region. Since the recent experience in Brazil and Venezuela, which now represent the two dominant models of the Latin American left, investigates whether the results obtained social stimulate or no public confidence in the democratic system. To achieve this goal, it is whether there is progress in education and health in both countries between 1990 and 2008. This diagnosis is confronted with the view of Brazilians and Venezuelans on satisfaction with life and the degree of support for democracy in the same period. From the data, it can be concluded that there is progress, however, the measures implemented in the social area are insufficient to strengthen the social dimension of democracy and substantially strengthen the democratic culture.
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sadeghkhani, zohreh. "The impact of national culture on the diffusion process of innovation." Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1464.
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The goal of this thesis was to study the impact of national culture on the diffusion process of innovation. The study was conducted on consumers in two countries of Sweden and Iran who have significant cultural differences based on Hofstede’s five cultural dimensions model. A questionnaire designed to evaluate the tendency to adopt new products and to imitate was completed by 200 people in each of two respective countries. These participants were well distributed across different genders and age groups. The responses obtained were analyzed to evaluate the impact of culture on adoption of innovation as well as on imitation. In addition, the role of gender on the adoption of new product as well as on imitation was investigated.
The analysis of the data obtained in this study clearly indicates that national culture plays a significant role on the diffusion process of innovation. These results show that the tendency to adopt new products in the Swedish culture is higher than that in the Iranian culture. In other words one can conclude that the tendency to adopt new products in countries with low power distance, low uncertainty avoidance, individualistic, and short term orientation culture is higher than in countries with high power distance, high uncertainty avoidance, collective, and long term orientation culture.
The results of this research also demonstrate that gender also plays an important role in the adoption of new products. These results indicate that the tendency to adopt new product by males in both Sweden and Iran is higher than the tendency to adopt new products by their female counter parts. In other words in both feminine and masculine cultures males have more tendencies to adopt new products than females.
The analysis of the data obtained in this study indicates that national culture plays a significant role on the degree of imitation. These results show that the tendency to imitate in Iranian culture is higher than in the Swedish culture. In other words the tendency to imitate in countries with high power distance, high uncertainty avoidance, collective, and long term orientation culture is higher than the tendency to imitate in countries with low power distance, low uncertainty avoidance, individualistic, and short term orientation culture.
In addition, the results of this research show that gender also plays an important role in the extent of imitation. These results suggest that the tendency to imitate by females in both Sweden and Iran is higher than the tendency to imitate by their male counter parts. In other words in both feminine and masculine cultures females have more tendencies to imitate than males.
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Antczak, Andrzej. "Late prehistoric economy and society of the islands off the coast of Venezuela : a contextual interpretation of the non-ceramic evidence." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317899/.
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Archaeologists have portrayed north-central Venezuela as the seat of the Valencioid 'chiefdom' (a.d. 900-1500) and assumed socio-cultural continuity between the Valencioid culture and the historic Caraca Indians. These assumptions have neither been constructed nor tested on socially meaningful archaeological contexts. My research formulates and tests the cognitive value of the non-ceramic evidence recovered from socially meaningful archaeological contexts on the islands of the Central Coast of Venezuela as sources for understanding the developmental trajectory of the Valencioid polity(ies). The data come from archaeological surveys and excavations on 55 offshore islands and at 47 sites. Through horizontal excavation, off-site control units and statistical control over sample size it is established that the economic purpose for the occupation of a large Valencioid campsite at Dos Mosquises Island (a.d. 1400-1500) was primarily to exploit Conch Shell (Strombus gigas) for food and raw material. Other local resources, such as fishes, lobsters, turtles and birds, were complementary. The conceptual polarity food/artefact, often applied to the archaeofaunal analyses, is replaced by contextual discrimination between food, non-food remains and natural objects, which leads to inferences on social group composition, labour division, specialisation, differential access to food and the exportation of shell raw material outside the islands. The results of the contextual analyses of allochthonous mammal and special purpose artefacts indicate the presence of prominent members of the society (chief, shaman and/or warriors) and the ceremonial character of the core locus at the Dos Mosquises site. It is suggested that the organisation of the insular enterprise is most likely controlled from this core locus. From a macro-regional perspective, the resulting analyses challenge the notion of a 600 yearlong unilinear evolution toward social complexity of the Valencioid polity. The previous view of a straightforward, hegemonic character of this polity is replaced by perspective of recurrent long and short-term changes in the nature and intensity of regional interactions between several polities. These interactions were based on a changing multilateral negotiations of power through trade, co-operativev entures,r esourcee xploitation, intermarriage,c eremonial assistancew, arfare and peace. The purported continuity between the insular Valencioids and the Caraca Indians is not supported by the archaeological data.
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CASTRO, THIAGO QUINTELLA. "INDICATORS AND METRICS FOR SUSTAINABLE CENTERS FOR DIFFUSION OF SCIENCE, EDUCATION AND CULTURE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=29389@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
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O objetivo da dissertação é propor um conjunto de indicadores e métricas de desempenho em sustentabilidade para Centros de Difusão de Ciência, Educação e Cultura (CDCEC), tomando-se como espaço de aplicação a Fundação Planetário da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (FPCRJ). Esses indicadores e métricas integram um modelo de monitoramento e avaliação (MA) de desempenho sustentável, desenhado especialmente para CDCEC. O modelo combina a metodologia consagrada de Balanced Scorecard (BSC) com a abordagem de avaliação de sustentabilidade corporativa, disseminada pela Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), por meio de suas diretrizes para elaboração de relatórios de sustentabilidade. Nessa perspectiva, considerou-se de alta relevância um novo olhar sobre os modelos de gestão dos CDCEC e, em particular, o da Fundação Planetário da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, levando-se em consideração o espaço que os serviços culturais e de ensino ocupam no setor de serviços e na economia como um todo. Ressalta-se que até o momento a GRI não divulgou um conjunto de diretrizes setoriais orientadas para CDCEC e organizações congêneres, abrindo-se, portanto, uma oportunidade de contribuição acadêmica para o aperfeiçoamento de seus suplementos setoriais. A pesquisa pode ser considerada descritiva e aplicada. Quanto aos meios de investigação, a metodologia compreende pesquisa bibliográfica e documental; análise de experiências internacionais de CDCEC e de referenciais normativos de avaliação da sustentabilidade aplicáveis a CDCEC; desenvolvimento de um modelo de monitoramento e avaliação (MA) de desempenho em sustentabilidade de CDCEC; aplicação do modelo de MA na FPCRJ, mediante um estudo de caso; discussão dos resultados do estudo de caso; e formulação das conclusões e recomendações. Destacam-se como resultados principais um conjunto de indicadores e métricas de desempenho em sustentabilidade para CDCEC, que integram um modelo de monitoramento e avaliação de gestão sustentável, desenvolvido especialmente para essas organizações.
The objective of this dissertation is to propose a set of indicators and metrics for assessing the sustainability performance of Centers for Diffusion of Science, Education and Culture (CDSEC), whose applicability was demonstrated through a case study at the Fundação Planetário da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (FPCRJ). These indicators and metrics, in turn, integrate a monitoring and evaluation (ME) model that combines the methodology of Balanced Scorecard (BSC) with the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines established by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Within the context in which the research is situated, it is assumed that this effort will contribute to a broader understanding of sustainability assessment tools in CDSEC, emphasizing economic, social, and environmental sustainability issues. It is important to mention that until the present moment, the Global Reporting Initiative did not released a set of sectorial Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, especially addressed to CDSEC, as already occurs to other sectors. This opened a window of opportunity for academic research aiming at improving the GRI sectoral guidelines. This research can be considered applied and descriptive. The methodology encompasses literature review and documentary research; analysis of international experiences of CDSEC and selected normative references for assessing the sustainability of CDSEC; design of a monitoring and evaluation (ME) model for assessing sustainability performance of CDSEC; a case study carried out at the FPCRJ; discussion of the case study results; and formulation of conclusions and recommendations. The main result of this research is an innovative monitoring and evaluation (ME) model, especially designed for assessing the performance of CDSEC, from the perspective of corporate sustainability.
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Fu, Xiaoming. "Reaction-diffusion Equations with Nonlinear and Nonlocal Advection Applied to Cell Co-culture." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BORD0216/document.
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Cette thèse est consacrée à l’étude d’une classe d’équations de réaction-diffusion avec advection non-locale. La motivation vient du mouvement cellulaire avec le phénomène de ségrégation observé dans des expérimentations de co-culture cellulaire. La première partie de la thèse développe principalement le cadre théorique de notre modèle, à savoir le caractère bien posé du problème et le comportement asymptotique des solutions dans les cas d'une ou plusieurs espèces.Dans le Chapitre 1, nous montrons qu'une équation scalaire avec un noyau non-local ayant la forme d'une fonction étagée, peut induire des bifurcations de Turing et de Turing-Hopf avec le nombre d’ondes dominant aussi grand que souhaité. Nous montrons que les propriétés de bifurcation de l'état stable homogène sont intimement liées aux coefficients de Fourier du noyau non-local.Dans le Chapitre 2, nous étudions un modèle d'advection non-local à deux espèces avec inhibition de contact lorsque la viscosité est égale à zéro. En employant la notion de solution intégrée le long des caractéristiques, nous pouvons rigoureusement démontrer le caractère bien posé du problème ainsi que la propriété de ségrégation d'un tel système. Par ailleurs, dans le cadre de la théorie des mesures de Young, nous étudions le comportement asymptotique des solutions. D'un point de vue numérique, nous constatons que sous l'effet de la ségrégation, le modèle d'advection non-locale admet un principe d'exclusion.Dans le dernier Chapitre de la thèse, nous nous intéressons à l'application de nos modèles aux expérimentations de co-culture cellulaire. Pour cela, nous choisissons un modèle hyperbolique de Keller-Segel sur un domaine borné. En utilisant les données expérimentales, nous simulons un processus de croissance cellulaire durant 6 jours dans une boîte de pétri circulaire et nous discutons de l’impact de la propriété de ségrégation et des distributions initiales sur les proportions de la population finaleThis thesis is devoted to the study for a class of reaction-diffusion equations with nonlocal advection. The motivation comes from the cell movement with segregation phenomenon observed in cell co-culture experiments. The first part of the thesis mainly develops the theoretical framework of our model, namely the well-posedness and asymptotic behavior of solutions in both single-species and multi-species cases.In Chapter 1, we show a single scalar equation with a step function kernel may display Turing and Turing-Hopf bifurcations with the dominant wavenumber as large as we want. We find the bifurcation properties of the homogeneous steady state is closed related to the Fourier coefficients of the nonlocal kernel.In Chapter 2, we study a two-species nonlocal advection model with contact inhibition when the viscosity equals zero. By employing the notion of the solution integrated along the characteristics, we rigorously prove the well-posedness and segregation property of such a hyperbolic nonlocal advection system. Besides, under the framework of Young measure theory, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of solutions. From a numerical perspective, we find that under the effect of segregation, the nonlocal advection model admits a competitive exclusion principle.In the last Chapter, we are interested in applying our models to a cell co-culturing experiment. To that aim, we choose a hyperbolic Keller-Segel model on a bounded domain. By utilizing the experimental data, we simulate a 6-day process of cell growth in a circular petri dish and discuss the impact of both the segregation property and initial distributions on the finial population proportions
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Gómez, Benavides Juan Carlos. "Explaining democratic divergence : the impact of elite political culture and political institutions on the democratic performance of Colombia and Venezuela." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/95997/.
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The aim of this thesis is to explain and assess, from a comparative perspective, the drivers behind the process of democratic divergence experienced by Colombia and Venezuela from the mid-1990s until 2010. This thesis claims that in order to understand this phenomenon it is necessary to study this observed occurrence from two complementary perspectives. First, it introduces the ‘Circular Causality Model’ as an alternative theoretical framework to explain the opposite democratic paths taken by these cases. It critically argues that traditional strands of literature such as modernisation theory, resource curse theory, institutional theory, and political culture theory cannot, individually, provide compelling answers to explain divergence. Instead, it claims that the best explanation to be offered lies in combining, or merging, two important and contested theories; namely, institutional and political culture theories. Hence, it argues that not only structural factors, but also agency ones are important to fully understand this phenomenon. Therefore, it groups together elite political culture, the enactment of new constitutions and electoral system as the independent variables to explain democratic divergence. The causality offered by this circular model is one in which the renewal of political elites (agency) – which occurred during the 1990s in both countries- has effects over the functioning of the mentioned key subset of political institutions (structures) which taken together will help explain democratic divergence. The second part of the thesis introduces a multivariate regression model to assess the statistical significance of the independent variables included in the theoretical Circular Causality Model to explain divergence. By building from the scratch an entirely new dataset, seven different empirical models offer a rather new approach to operationalise and measure the independent variables contained in the theoretical model. The estimation of the regression model proves that the independent variables that make up the theoretical model are statistically significant and correctly predict the opposite democratic path followed by Colombia and Venezuela during the 'divergence period'.
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Rafael, Ehab. "Cell transplantation and immunoisolation : studies on a macroencapsulation device /." Stockholm, 1999. http://diss.kib.ki.se/1999/91-628-3883-0/.
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Dubois, de Montreynaud Hélène. "Action culturelle et développement local étude de trois cas dans le milieu rural français /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb376133840.
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Totaro, Genevois Mariella. "Foreign policies for the diffusion of language and culture : the Italian experience in Australia." Monash University, Centre for European Studies, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8828.
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Nalwaya, Nitesh 1979. "Diffusion and reactions of nitric oxide, oxygen, and superoxide in cells and culture media." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29376.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 231-240).
As part of the non-specific immune response to infection, activated macrophages synthesize nitric oxide (NO) at relatively high rates, thereby creating local concentrations of NO that are toxic to the invading microorganisms. However, high rates of NO synthesis can also damage host tissues, especially if prolonged (as in chronic inflammations). Although NO can act directly, much of its cytotoxicity and genotoxicity may be due to peroxynitrite (ONOO-), formed by the rapid reaction of NO with superoxide (02-)- Superoxide is a byproduct of mitochondrial respiration and of certain cytosolic reactions, and it is present in virtually all cells. Thus, intracellular ONOO- formation is inevitable when cells are exposed to NO, which diffuses readily across cell membranes. Superoxide is generated also by an NADPH oxidase on the external membrane surface of macrophages, thereby delivering it to the extracellular fluid at significant rates. The research in this thesis aimed to determine the concentration profiles of NO and related species in cell cultures and tissues. Toward that end, the diffusion and reactions of NO, 02, and 02- were studied by mathematical modeling and by experimental work with macrophage cultures. The results obtained will be useful in designing NO toxicity experiments and in determining potentially toxic conditions in body tissues. A mathematical model was developed to predict the intracellular concentrations of NO, 02-, and ONOO- in suspension cell cultures exposed to NO and/or peroxynitrite. Steady-state concentrations were computed as a function of radial position within an idealized spherical cell, with a distinction being made between cytosolic and mitochondrial values.
(cont.) Potential sources of peroxynitrite include intracellular generation in mitochondria and cytosol and (depending on the type of experiment) diffusion of extracellular peroxynitrite into the cell. The relative importance of extracellular and intracellular sources was estimated for a wide variety of conditions. The calculated mitochondrial concentrations were generally 5-10 times higher than the cytosolic values. For the baseline conditions, including an NO concentration of 1 [mu]M and no peroxynitrite in the medium, the cytosolic peroxynitrite concentration was estimated as [approx.] 2 nM. The extracellular peroxynitrite concentration required to double the cytosolic level was [approx.] 25 nM, and an extracellular concentration of -100 nM was needed to effect a five-fold increase. Another approach for studying NO and ONOO- toxicity involves the co-culture of activated macrophages (producers of NO and 02-) with "target cells" (which make 02- but not NO). Because peroxynitrite concentrations in such experiments are too small and localized to measure, reaction-diffusion models were developed for situations ranging from isolated cells to many cells randomly distributed on a plate. The average concentration inside randomly distributed target cells increased with increasing macrophage number density, as entry of extracellular peroxynitrite grew in importance relative to intracellular formation. For high cell densities, large peroxynitrite membrane permeabilities, and low rates of intracellular synthesis, the surrounding macrophages were calculated to double or triple the peroxynitrite concentration in an average target cell ...
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Vigo, Laura. "Cultural diffusion and identity : material culture in northwest China, II and I millennia BCE." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2004. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28774/.
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Chinese North-western Zone designates the border areas of Northern China, including Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi and Shanxi, inhabited by semi-nomadic and nomadic groups in prehistoric times. The term denotes a broad geographic horizon conceivable as a multitude of cultural phenomena sharing a common material 'language', yet inferences on ethnic affiliation have been hitherto poorly grounded and difficult to ascertain. This work attempts to clarify some of the cultural phenomena occurred in the area, through a contextualised analysis of the available archaeological material. A methodological framework placing proto-historical material culture into 'context' is first enunciated and then employed in the investigation of various aspects of material expression belonging to different 'cultural horizons', from Siba-Huoshaogou, Yanbulake, Zhukaigou, Shajing and Chawuhu, to Alagou, Yanglang and Ordos. The data thus exposed provide clues on funerary behaviour, on patterns of consumption and social constructs, on stylistic and typological variation in ceramic productions, on metals and their social role, on craft specialisations and artistic expressions. Not only bronze and pottery objects are analysed from the stylistic and - when possible - the technological point of view, but also their relationship with 'alternative' types of material evidence (such as various perishable media) and with the contingent space are considered. Attention is further devoted to artefactual productions, ranging from bronze and iron casting to gold and silver metal-smithing. In the absence of contemporary written sources, the bulk of information comes primarily from archaeological reports. Yet manifold are the lines of evidence gathered. All these elements eventually contribute not only to discriminate similar modes of social negotiation such as gender and authority, indirectly reflecting expressions of ethnical affiliation, but also to assess both the degree of conscious cultural interaction and the extent of demic diffusion between Central Asia, Southern Siberia and China during the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE.
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Ounsley, James P. "The diffusion of culture : computational and statistical models of social learning and cultural transmission." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15527.
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Culture is a hugely important process in the evolution of humans and many non-human animals. Through the formation of long lasting traditions, culture provides an extragenetic inheritance mechanism that can facilitate rapid behavioural adaptation to novel environments. This can ultimately alter the selection pressures acting on different phenotypes including those that underlie cultural transmission itself, i.e. the mechanisms of social learning. Understanding culture poses many challenges for researchers due to the complex nature of interacting biological processes at multiple organisational and temporal scales. In this thesis I investigate some of these complexities through the integration of different theoretical and statistical modelling approaches, and argue that rich models are particularly important for the study of culture. In chapters 3 & 4 I use an evolutionary agent-based model to study the functional value and cultural significance of strategically copying from other individuals based on particular cues, such as age or payoff. I find that a bias to copy the successful can provide substantial adaptive advantages, potentially outweighing other strategic considerations such as when to engage in social learning. I also demonstrate that the strength of selection on social learning strategies is closely linked to the cultural diversity within a population. In chapters 5 & 6 I study the mechanisms of learning and how social influences can impact decision making. In chapter 5 I model the behaviour of nursery children and chimpanzee groups when solving a complex task and identify clear species differences in the importance of different forms of learning on decision making. Finally, in chapter 6 I use an agent-based model to examine the influence of population structure on the spread of novel behaviour. I demonstrate that, contrary to infectious disease type models, when learning occurs through operant conditioning, highly clustered network structures promote cultural transmission rather than hinder it.
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Abraao, Silvestre. "La Diffusion du mai͏̈s au Nord Cameroun : dynamique de l'innovation et culture technique locale." Paris, EHESS, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994EHES0071.
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Dans le nord du cameroun, la premiere moitie des annees soixante dix marque le debut d'un processus de modernisation de l'agriculture paysanne par intensification en capital. Dans ce processus, l'introduction du mais apparait comme une contribution importante a la resolution de la crise agricole : baisse des revenus paysans suite a la chute des cours mondiaux du coton ; incapacite du milieu rural a degager des surplus agricoles pour nourrir les villes. . . Cette recherche analyse le contexte geographique, historique, technique et socio-economique de l'innovation mais au nord cameroun : les strategies des acteurs et le role des institutions dans le processus de diffusion du mais permettent d'apprehender le changement technique comme un produit social. L'analyse du marche comme lieu de rencontre des strategies des divers acteurs socio-economiques permet d'apprecier les liens entre l'evolution de l'innovation et celle des relations entre ces acteurs. La prise en compte de la culture technique locale met en evidence le role essentiel de la base des savoir-faire existants dans l'adoption de l'innovation. A partir de ces etudes cette recherche evalue les consequences de la diffusion du mais pour le developpement local et le role des institutions dans cette evolution. Elle permet finalement de cibler des nouvelles pistes de rechercheIn the first five years of 70's, peasant farming modernisation started in the north of cameroon through the development of capital-intensive methods. In this process, the introduction of maize crop appears as a strong contribution in solvin g the agricultural crisis-decline in farmers'income due to the crash in cotton world price; farmers' inability to generate farm surpluses to supply urban markets, etc. The present work aims to analyse the socio-economic, technical, historical, and geographical context of maize-innovation in northern cameroon : actors'strategies and the role of institutions in maize popularisation make it possible to consider technical changes as social results from a complex process; analysing the market as a metng place for the socio-economic actors'strategies allows to study the relations between innovation developments and changes in acors' relationships; examining local know-how availability leads to observe its basic role in the adoption of any innovation. The impact of maize popularisation on local development, and the role of institutions in such evolution can be appraised from this analysis. And new research courses can so be outlined
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Matsanga, Nziengui Marina. "La production et la diffusion de la culture dans les chaines de télévisions publiques africaines. : L’expérience gabonaise." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018GREAL033/document.
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L’analyse de la diffusion des contenus culturels de Gabon Télévision permet de comprendre son fonctionnement, son organisation programmatique, son rapport aux publics et également d’évaluer ses relations aux téléspectateurs-citoyens ainsi que la réception en termes d’attentes et de besoins.La qualité et la quantité des programmes culturels (nationaux) diffusés sur la chaîne publique gabonaise nourrissent ce questionnement : Comment l’Etat ou le gouvernement via Gabon Télévision conçoivent-ils la culture ? La télévision publique gabonaise remplit-elle sa mission de service public (culturel) ? Au plan théorique, ces interrogations conduisent à réfléchir sur les conditions méthodologiques qui puissent en rendre les réponses pertinentes et crédibles. Au plan de l’analyse, on en vient à tirer les conséquences logiques quant à la connaissance des publics de Gabon Télévision et aux conditionnalités qui pourraient rétablir la communication entre producteurs de contenus publics, programmateurs et récepteurs de cette chaîneThe analysis of the distribution of cultural contents by Gabon Television makes it possible to understand its operation, its programmatic organization, its perception by the public and also to evaluate its relations to the viewers-citizens as well as the reception in terms of expectations and needs.The quality and quantity of the (national) cultural programs broadcast on the Gabonese public channel, lead to the following questioning: How does the state or the government- via Gabon Television- perceive culture? Does Gabonese public television fulfil its mission of public (cultural) Service? At the theoretical level, these questions lead to reflect on the methodological conditions that can make the answers relevant and credible. In terms of analysis, we come to draw the logical consequences for the insight of Gabon Television audiences and conditionality that could restore communication between producers of public content, programmers and receivers of this channel
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Frediani, Jean-Pierre. "La politique culturelle municipale à Menton sous la Quatrième République /." [Menton] (3 rue Longue, 06500) : [Menton] (42 bis chemin du Rosaire) : Société d'art et d'histoire du Mentonnais ; Amis des musées, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb412356593.
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Tauzin, Karine. "Enjeux croisés de l'écriture et reconnaissance des textes de médiation de l'art contemporain." Avignon, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008AVIG1066.
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Les médiations écrites de l’art contemporain paraissent souvent annihiler toute exploitation possible du savoir qu’elles contiennent et peinent ainsi à faire leurs preuves, non seulement dans le champ de leur réception, mais également auprès des professionnels chargées de leur rédaction. Nous cherchons donc, dans ce travail de thèse, à vérifier la pertinence de l’usage du texte comme instrument idoine pour favoriser l’accompagnement du public de l’art contemporain. Un premier moment de cette recherche est consacré à examiner les conditions de production et les procédures rédactionnelles spécifiques de ces écrits d’aide à l’interprétation. Il permet essentiellement d’observer une continuité interdiscursive à l’origine de la création de ces énoncés - que le monde de l’art contemporain, peut-être plus que d’autres univers culturels, tend à manifester -, ainsi que l’existence de jeux d’acteurs et d’actions entre leurs différents scripteurs aux rôles institutionnels variés. Dans un deuxième temps, nous analysons, non seulement les conséquences de la négociation permanente avec l’altérité qu’impose la rédaction de ces textes polyphoniques, mais aussi, la nature des objectifs réellement poursuivis par ces textes produits par des auteurs dont les positionnements hiérarchiques et les investissements originels dans les expositions d’art contemporain sont de différents ordres. Pour cela, nous procédons à l’analyse sémio-linguistique d’un corpus d’écrits de médiation de cet art où sont étudiés, à la fois, les figures discursives des auteurs et leurs positionnements personnels, mais aussi, l’ensemble des enjeux croisés sous-jacents que ces scripteurs poursuivent (plus ou moins consciemment) dans leurs textes. Enfin, la découverte d’un très grand nombre de fonctions annexes des écrits d’aide à l’interprétation de l’art contemporain conduit à ce que, dans un troisième moment, nous interrogions l’aptitude de ces textes, manifestement polyvalents, à accomplir la mission de médiation qui leur incombe officiellement. Pour cela, nous évaluons, de deux façons différentes et complémentaires, le niveau d’intelligibilité de ces écrits et l’intention qu’ils manifestent (de façon plus ou moins systématique et cohérente) d’accompagner les visiteurs-lecteurs. Le premier volet de cette étude consistant à procéder, à nouveau, à l’analyse sémio-linguistique du corpus de textes constitué pour cette thèse, à la recherche du (ou des) « Lecteur(s) Modèle(s) » (Eco, 1985) que chacun de ces énoncés instituent ; tandis que, dans un second temps, sont examinés les résultats de l’évaluation de ces mêmes écrits d’aide à l’interprétation de l’art contemporain auprès de lecteurs réelsThe mediation texts of contemporary art often seem to ruin all possible use of the knowledge they contain and thus have some difficulty in proving their worth, not only from their reception point of view, but also with the professionals in charge of writing them. So, this doctorate thesis is devoted to verifying the relevance of the use of the text as an appropriate instrument in order to favour the accompanying of the audience of contemporary art. The first part of this research is dedicated to examining the conditions of production and the specific editorial procedures of these mediation texts. It essentially allows us to observe an inter-discursive continuity at the start of the writing of these texts – that the world of contemporary art, maybe more than other cultural world, tends to show -, as well as the existence of the play of actors and actions between their different writers whose institutional roles are varied. Secondly, we analyse, not only the consequences of the permanent negotiation with the otherness that the writing of these polyphonic texts imposes, but also, the nature of the objectives which are really pursued by these texts written by authors whose hierarchic positions and implication in the exhibitions of contemporary art are different. In order to do that, we undertake the semio-linguisitic analysis of a corpus of mediation texts of this art where we study, both the discursive figures of the authors and their personal positions, and the whole of the subjacent interlinked stakes that these authors pursue (more or less consciously) in their texts. Finally, the discovery of a very important number of additional functions of these mediation texts of contemporary art leads us to question, in the third part of this thesis, the aptitude of these texts, obviously polyvalent, to fulfil the mission of mediation which is officially incumbent on them. To do that, we assess, through two different and complementary methods, the level of intelligibility of these texts and the intention that they show (with more or less constancy and coherence) to accompany the visitors-readers. The first part of this new study consists of once again doing the semio-linguistic analysis of the corpus making up this Ph. D. Thesis, in search of the “Model Reader(s)” (Eco, 1985) instituted by each one of these texts, while, in a second instance, we examine the results of the assessment of these same mediation texts by readers
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Hadjadj, Lounis. "Culture scolaire et culture rurale en Algérie : essai d'analyse des manuels de lecture en usage à l'Ecole Fondamentale polytechnique." Paris 8, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA081057.
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Ce travail se presente comme une confrontation, une adequation entre la culture propre au monde rural algerien et la culture vehiculee par l'ecole fondamentale polytechnique. La premiere partie, essentiellement theorique, fixe les principes fondamentaux de la culture paysanne. La seconde partie consistait a faire ressortir, a travers le contenu ideologique des manuels de lecture, le modele socioculturel distille par l'institution scolaireThis work is likelly a confrontation and adequation between the algerian rural culture and that one reflecting the polytechnical school. The first part, beasiclly theoritical limitates the fondamental principales of the rural culture. Threw the ideological contents of the manuals reading, the second part consists in contrasting the sociocultural model distilled in scholer institutions
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Schmitt, Thomas. "La television culturelle : pertinence communicationnelle et economique." Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030041.
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Culture,television : deux termes qui apparaissent a beaucoup de penseurs comme profondement antagonistes. L'histoire des religions et de l'art mais aussi celle de la communication ou de l'economie permettent de comprendre l'origine de ce sentiment d'opposition qui fait emerger la television culturelle comme concept paradoxal. Pourtant, il existe des chaines culturelles : la 7, arte, la cinquieme, par exemple, mais aussi a&e, pbs aux etats-unis, tv ontario, radio-quebec au canada, channel 4 en angleterre. En les etudiant, notre these vise a montrer comment la television peut diffuser de la culture. Les chaines etudiees entendent le mot culture de trois facons : comme identite culturelle, processus educatif ou ensemble d'oeuvres d'art, de science, de pensee. Selon leur conception, elles mettent en oeuvre une communication socioculturelle, educative, artistique et intellectuelle ou spectaculaire grace a leur strategie editoriale respective - composee de leur strategie contractuelle, leur strategie de programmes et leur strategie de programmation. Afin de mieux rejoindre leurs objectifs de communication, les chaines educatives ou artistiques et intellectuelles utilisent le media television pour partie contre son usage courant. La pertinence economique de la television culturelle passe principalement par une logique de financement public. Pour eviter les possibles consequences organisationnelles d'un tel financement, il existe un modele industriel, flexible, ouvert sur l'exterieur, lie a une strategie de differenciation et une strategie de partenariat voire a une strategie d'internationalisation et une strategie multimedia. A la suite de channel 4, la 7, arte et la cinquieme suivent ce modele de developpement. Le paradoxe theorique ne semble par concerner les chaines de notre corpus. Cependant, n'est-il pas curieux que des chaines s'appuyant sur une culture de la modernite soient developpees au moment ou la culture de la post-modernite envahit l'ensemble de la societe?Culture, television : two terms which appear to many to be deeply antagonistic. The history of religions and art, also that of communications or economics help to understand the origins of this feeling of opposition which makes cultural television seem like a paradoxical concept. However cultural channels exist : la 7, arte, la cinquieme, for example, and also arts&entertainments, pbs in the united states of america, tv ontario and radio-quebec in canada, channel four in england. Our thesis tries to show how culture can be broadcast by television. The channels studied mean three different things by the word culture : cultural identity, the process of education and the field of art, science and thought. According to their way of conceiving it, they are developping a sociocultural, educational, artistic, intellectual or "dramatic" type of communication through their editorial strategies - comprising their contractual, program and programing strategies. In order to reach their goals of communication, educational or artistic and intellectual channels have to use the media television in a way it is not commnly used. The economic relevance of cultural television is essentially a matter of public financing logic. But, so that the organisational consequences of this way of financing might be avoided, there is an industrial model, flexible, open to the environment, connected to a strategy of differentiation, a strategy of partnership, and even a global or multimedia strategy. Following the example of channel four, la 7, arte and la cinquieme decided on the same model. The theoritical paradox doesn't seem to concern the channels discussed. However, isn't it strange that these channels which reflect a culture of modernity exist at the time of the spread of postmodernist culture in society?
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Nguyen, Quy-Hanh [Verfasser]. "Another epistemic culture : Reconstructing knowledge diffusion for rural development in Vietnam's Mekong Delta / Quy-Hanh Nguyen." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1060045168/34.
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Senthivel, Vivek Raj 1983. "Engineering ultrasensivity and differential diffusion to build spatial patterns in a 3D mammalian cell culture system." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/482223.
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Engineering self-organised spatial patterns based on reaction-diffusion models can be the stepping stone for tissue engineering. Previous reports based on both theoretical and experimental studies have implied the importance of ultrasensitivity and differential diffusion as key requirements for building self-organised spatial patterns on mammalian cells with extracellular signalling systems. In the sender-receiver system developed by our team using Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cysts and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) signalling, I have explored the sensitivity of different genes to varying doses of HGF to find ultrasensitive regulatory functions. I have successfully found 12 candidate genes, the regulatory function of which can be used for downstream engineering. I have also developed a fusion protein of HGF, fused to Streptavidin (HGF-SA), that has an apparent 90 times slower diffusion rate in collagen type I extracellular matrix compared to HGF. These well characterised parts can be used to form combined positive and negative feedback loops. Integration and expression of this gene regulatory network in the MDCK genome, using modern genome engineering tools, can potentially allow MDCK cysts to communicate with each other and to form self-organised periodic patterns. These are predicted to have wavelengths of approximately 6 mm, on a field of about 1000 randomly distributed cysts, over a period of 5 days. This study extends our knowledge of the spatiotemporal control of growth and development of MDCK cysts and hence could lead to extending our ability in engineering tissues.La ingeniería de patrones espaciales auto-organizados basados en modelos de reacción-difusión puede ser el trampolín para la ingeniería de tejidos. Informes anteriores basados en estudios teóricos y experimentales han implicado la importancia de la ultrasensibilidad y la difusión diferencial como requisitos clave para la construcción de patrones espaciales auto-organizados en las células de mamíferos con sistemas de señalización extracelular. En el sistema receptor remitente que hemos desarrollado utilizando quistes de riñones caninos Madin-Darby (MDCK) y la señalización por factor de crecimiento de hepatocitos (HGF), he explorado la sensibilidad de diferentes genes a diferentes dosis de HGF para encontrar funciones reguladoras ultrasensibles. Con este análisis, he encontrado con éxito 12 genes candidatos, cuya función reguladora se puede utilizar en posteriores procesos de ingeniería. También he explorado distintas fusiones de proteína con HGF y he encontrado que el mejor candidato es la fusión con Streptavidina (HGF-SA). Esta proteína de fusión tiene una tasa de difusión aparente, en la matriz extracelular de colágeno tipo I, 90 veces más lenta en comparación con el HGF. Estas partes bien caracterizadas pueden usarse para formar bucles de retroalimentación positivos y negativos combinados. La integración y expresión de esta red reguladora de genes en el genoma MDCK, utilizando las herramientas modernas de ingeniería de genoma, potencialmente puede permitir que los quistes MDCK se comuniquen entre sí y formen patrones periódicos auto-organizados. Se predice que tienen longitudes de onda de aproximadamente 6 mm, en un campo de aproximadamente 1000 quistes distribuidos aleatoriamente, durante un periodo de 5 días. Este estudio extiende nuestro conocimiento del control espacio-temporal del crecimiento y desarrollo de los quistes MDCK y, por lo tanto, podría contribuir en la mejora de la ingeniería de tejidos.
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Abubakre, Mumin Adetunji. "The influence of organisational culture and organisational control on the diffusion of a management information system." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2013. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/12999.
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The aim of this thesis is to provide an original interpretative understanding of the role of organisational culture and organisational control on the diffusion of a Management Information Systems (MIS). An extensive literature review has revealed a lack of synthesis between organisational culture and organisational control in the understanding of diffusion of an MIS. The literature review was two-fold: firstly, to examine the impact of organisational culture on IS diffusion and, secondly, to examine the impact of organisational control on IS diffusion. The first stage of the review revealed that there are a number of studies on IS diffusion in relation to culture at the organisational level but a relatively fewer studies at the sub-organisational or subcultural level. The second stage of the review highlights that there is also a significant number of studies that have applied the control concept to investigating phenomena related to IS diffusion, e.g. IT adoptions and IT implementations, but very few have explicitly applied the control concept to IT implementations outcomes, i.e. IT diffusion. The review also suggested that there is scarce empirical research on IS diffusion from the twin perspectives of culture and control. Using an interpretive case study approach, this thesis was able to collect rich data, underpinned by Martin's (1992) conceptualisation of organisational culture, i.e. integration and differentiation, and Kirsch's (1997) and Ouchi's (1979) conceptualisation of organisational controls. These conceptualisations served as interpretive lenses to unearth the dynamic relationship of the application of formal controls on diverging subcultures during staff interactions and use of an MIS during the adaptation, acceptance and routinization stages of Cooper and Zmud's (1990) IT Implementation Model. The thesis' results highlight a number of contributions to knowledge. Firstly, a contribution is made in the area of IS diffusion research by proposing a conceptual model for IS diffusion. The model offers explanations on how IS diffusion could be achieved despite the existence of diverging subcultures when formal control mechanisms are applied, an implication that suggests that the IS diffusion path may not be smooth and linear but an iterative process. Secondly, a contribution is made in the area of organisational culture and organisational control theories. This thesis' results indicate that during the implementation of an MIS, staffespoused cultural values changed, highlighting that the culture may not be always stable, and difficult to change. The thesis helps re-conceptualise the existing typology on outcome control by indicating that outcome control, which is conceptualised as deliberate and forceful in nature, could also, unlike behaviour control, be exercised in measures that do not need to coerce or be forceful. Further, the thesis highlights that sanctions rather than rewards were more effective in the application of controls during the diffusion attempts of an IS. Finally, the research contributes to knowledge in the area of practice. This study provides insights on how managers may apply organisational controls to align diverging subgroup members' actions towards integrative behaviours during an IS implementation process, therefore facilitating the attainment of successful IS diffusion.
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Duchesne, Sylvie. "Pratiques funéraires, biologie humaine et diffusion culturelle en Iakoutie (16e-19e siècles)." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020TOU30172.
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Étude, sur la base de 162 caractères issus de 179 tombes gelées parfaitement conservées, de l'évolution culturelle du peuplement de la Iakoutie du XVIe siècle au XIXe siècle. Les Iakoutes sont un peuple du nord-est de la Sibérie, de langue turque, éleveurs de bovins et de chevaux, entourés de populations de langue sibérienne, éleveurs de rennes. Dispersés en plusieurs tribus avant la colonisation russe, ils vont connaître au contact des Russes un "âge d'or" avant d'être assimilés à la culture russe orthodoxe au XIXe siècle. Leurs tombes gelées, avec des données cultuelles et biologiques intactes, jointes aux données historiques et à ce contexte écologique particulier, font de leur évolution culturelle un cas d'école exceptionnel pour l'interaction homme/milieu et pour les sciences humaines et sociales. Après une étude descriptive des caractères, des études multivariées, descriptives et décisionnelles, confrontent les différences entre âges, sexes, lignées, périodes et en- sembles géographiques ; elles sont confrontées ensuite à une analyse phylogénétique. Les premières analyses démontrent les changements économiques et religieux liés à l'évolution chronologique tandis que la phylogénie fournit des hypothèses sur la transmission culturelle, différenciée selon le sexe. Une phase de synthèse permet de confirmer la fondation méridionale de la culture iakoute, identifier ses mécanismes d'adaptations, puis d'évolutions face à la colonisation russe et enfin de reconnaître ses modes de transmissions et de diffusion qui l'ont fait évoluer d'un mode de vie traditionnel à un mode de vie orthodoxe russeStudy, on the basis of 162 characters from 179 perfectly preserved frozen burials, of the cultural evolution of the settlement of Yakutia from the 16th century to the 19th century. The Yakuts, people from north-eastern Sibe- ria, Turkic speaking, cattle and horse breeders, are surrounded by Siberian speaking people, reindeer herders. Divided into several tribes before the Russian colonization, they will experience in contact with the Russians a "golden age" before being assimilated into the Russian Orthodox culture in the 19th century. Their frozen tombs, with intact cultural and biological data, together with historical data and this particular ecological context place their cultural evolution as an exceptional school case for human-environment interaction and for the human and social sciences. After a descriptive study of the characters, multivariate, descriptive and decisional studies, comparing differences between ages, sexes, lineages, periods, geographical groups, are carried out; it is followed by a phylogenetic analysis. The first analyses demonstrate the economic and religious changes linked to chronological evolution, while phylogeny provides hypotheses on cultural transmission, differentiated according to sex. A phase of synthesis allows us to confirm the southern origins of the Yakut culture, to identify its mechanisms of adaptation, then of evolution in the face of Russian colonization, and finally to recognize its modes of transmission and diffusion that have made it evolve from a traditional way of life to a Russian orthodox way of life
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Bordeaux, Marie-Christine. "La médiation culturelle dans les arts de la scène." Avignon, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003AVIG1037.
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Une théorie de la médiation culturelle doit prendre en compte les liens croisés de la production, de la mise en objet et de la réception d'une catégorie particulière d'objets culturels : les œuvres de l'art. Il ne s'agit pas seulement de changer de point de vue, de déplacer le regard généralement absorbé par les extrémités de la médiation (accomplir l'œuvre d'art, toucher le public), pour privilégier l'entre-deux de la médiation. Car la médiation culturelle n'est pas un mode de communication entre deux mondes considérés comme séparés : le monde de l'art, et celui de ses récepteurs. Elle n'est pas seulement lien, passage. Elle désignerait plutôt un espace de production d'objets mixtes qui permettent un partage du sens. La thèse analyse ce que fait la médiation dans un secteur peu étudié de ce point de vue, celui des arts de la scène, où sont mises en œuvre des actions de recherche de nouveaux publics, de sensibilisation, de transmission, de partage esthétique autour de la création contemporaine en théâtre et en danse. Ce qu'elle fait non seulement à ses différents acteurs, mais également aux œuvres elles-mêmes, avec lesquelles elle entretient une relation transitive complexe, parfois même improbable. Les récits des acteurs de la médiation, croisés avec une observation de terrain, conduisent à une description de quelques " genres " de situations et d'objets produits par la médiation : le médiation ordinaire d'un ballet d'opéra, un débat public artistique au Festival d'Avignon, la diffusion de la culture chorégraphique par un spectacle de danse résultant d'une commande à caractère pédagogique. Ces objets sont ensuite analysés dans une perspective sémio-pragmatique, à la fois comme situations d'expérience sociale, lieux privilégiés de production de la croyance, intégrant comme une donnée majeure la hiérarchisation des objets culturels, et comme des dispositifs, structures où se combinent deux types d'intentionnalité : la production artistique et la réception esthétique
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Hennion, Antoine. "La médiation musicale." Paris, EHESS, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991EHES0321.
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L'interprétation sociale de l'art est partagée entre deux modes de causalité. L'un circulaire, fait de l'objet d'art un marqueur du social; l'autre, linéaire, ajoute a l'objet une analyse de ses conditions de production, de diffusion et de réception. La thèse vise à exploiter le cas de la musique, art de la médiation, pour dépasser cette opposition, héritée du traitement ethnologique réservé aux objets culturels par les sciences sociales. Une analyse de la littérature sur l'art dégage les modèles de médiation utilisés pour rendre compte de ses rapports avec la société. La sociologie de la culture fait de l'art un artefact de la magie sociale, la sociologie de l'art en fait la construction collective des participants au monde de l'art. Plus près des producteurs, l'histoire de l'art et l'histoire sociale ont peuple leurs analyses, au départ remplies des seuls tableaux d'exception, d'une foule d'institutions et de personnages intermédiaires mécènes, marchand, académies, écoles, musées. . . Elles ont produit une théorie en acte de la médiation, comme mise en rapport réciproque, locale, hétérogène, de l'art et du public. Par rapport au problème de la médiation, la musique tient une place paradoxale; les interprétations font d'elle tantôt l'expression immédiate du collectif (transe ethnique, concert rock), tantôt l'idéal inaccessible d'un langage intérieur l'indicible. Elle est partagée entre une musicographie qui fait d'emblée comme si elle est un objet, et un discours esthétisant qui en fait l'incarnation même de l'immédiateté. Visant à dépasser ce paradoxe, la thèse analyse une série de dispositifs concrets de la production musicale : un concert rock, une audition, France-Musique, l'histoire de l'enregistrement, la réinterprétation de la musique baroque. Les musiciens eux-mêmes jouent tour a tour le jeu collectif de la fusion, et celui de la soumission à un objet transcendant. Les deux modalités circulaire et linéaire de la mise en cause ne sont pas des positions d'observateur externe, mais les formes constantes de l'action des musiciens pour produire leur monde, en composant en un mixte irréversible ses éléments matériels, institutionnels et humainsThe social interpretation of art stand between two types of causality. One is circular, making of art a brand of social reality, the other is linear, giving art its conditions of production, diffusion and reception. The thesis uses music, an art of mediation, to overstep this opposition, which comes from the ethnological treatment given by social sciences to cultural objects. An analysis of the literature on art shows the models of mediation used to explain its relationship to society. Sociology of culture makes of art an artefact of social magic, sociology of art insists on its collective construction by all the participants of an art world. Closer from producers, history of art and social histor have filled their analyses, first only occupied by exceptional works, with a crowd of institutions and intermediary people, patrons, traders, academies, schools, museums. . . They have produced a practical theory of mediation as the reciprocal, local, heterogeneous relation between art and public. Concerning mediation, music holds a paradoxical place, interpretations make of it either the immediate expression of the social group (ethnic trance, rock concert), or the inaccessible inside language of the unspeakable. It is then shared between a musicography, which straight off pretends it is an object, and an aesthetic discourse, which takes it as the very incarnation of immediacy. Trying to overstep this opposition, the thesis analyses a series of concrete devices of musical production a rock concert, france-musique, the recording history, the revival of baroque music. Musicians are themselves playing the double role of collective fusion and of personal submission to a transcendental object. The two types of causality, circular and linear, are not possible positions for an observer from outside, but constant forms of musicians' action to produce their world, by composing into an irreversible composite its material institutional and human elements
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Luff, Robert. "Wissensvermittlung im europäischen Mittelalter : 'Imago mundi', Werke und ihre Prologe /." Tübingen : M. Niemeyer, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37195361m.
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Dubois, de Montreynaud Hélène. "Action culturelle et développement local : étude de trois cas dans le milieu rural français." Montpellier 3, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988MON30059.
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Le developpement local dans le milieu rural francais presente un aspect culturel important. L'action culturelle d'initiative locale est un facteur important du developpement des pays ruraux. Elle permet la constitution d'identites culturelles et de dynamiques sociales. Elle contribue au developpement economiqueLocal development in the french rural environment shows a very important cultural aspect. Cultural action based on local initiative is an important agent for the development of rural countries. It enables cultural identities and social dynamics to be set up. It contributes to economical development
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Mayer, Adam P. "“The Fist in the Face of God”: The Decentralized Diffusion of Heavy Metal Music through the Internet." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1314362557.
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CIDADE, IRLAINE DE ALVARENGA. "SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF CENTERS FOR DIFFUSION OF SCIENCE, EDUCATION AND CULTURE: PROPOSAL OF A SELF-ASSESSMENT MODEL." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=29384@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
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O objetivo da dissertação é propor um modelo de autoavaliação de desempenho de Centros de Difusão de Ciência, Educação e Cultura (CDCEC), na perspectiva da sustentabilidade e com base na Norma ABNT NBR ISO 9004:2010. Busca-se demonstrar que a ferramenta de autoavaliação proposta na Norma ABNT NBR ISO 9004:2010, se adaptada, pode ser utilizada de maneira efetiva para medir o nível de maturidade dos sistemas de gestão de CDCEC. A pesquisa pode ser considerada aplicada, descritiva e metodológica. Quanto aos meios de investigação, a metodologia compreende pesquisa bibliográfica e documental; construção do modelo de autoavaliação de desempenho de CDCEC em sustentabilidade; uso do método analítico hierárquico (AHP) para definição dos pesos dos elementos de avaliação; estudo de caso da FPCRJ para demonstração da aplicabilidade do modelo de autoavaliação; análise e interpretação e análise dos resultados da autoavaliação da FPCRJ; e formulação das conclusões da pesquisa e recomendações. Destaca-se como resultado principal um modelo inovador de autoavaliação de desempenho em sustentabilidade para CDCEC, compreendendo oito elementos-chave e 40 elementos detalhados. O estudo de caso da FPCRJ demonstrou ser viável determinar o nível de maturidade do sistema de gestão de um CDCEC, a partir de adaptações na ferramenta de autoavaliação definida na Norma ABNT NBR ISO 9004:2010. Permitiu ainda identificar oportunidades de melhoria que poderão ser objeto de ações por parte da alta liderança da Fundação, visando alcançar níveis superiores de sustentabilidade.
The objective of this dissertation is to propose a self-assessment model for evaluating the sustainability performance of Centers for Diffusion of Science, Education and Culture (CDSEC), based on the Standard ABNT NBR ISO 9004:2010. The research seeks to demonstrate by a case study within the Fundação Planetário da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (FPCRJ) that the self-assessment tool included in the in the referred standard (if adapted) can be effectively used for assessing management systems of CDSEC. This research can be considered applied, descriptive, and methodological. The methodology encompasses literature review and documentary research; development of a self-assessment model for evaluating organizational performance of CDSEC, from the perspective of corporate sustainability; application of the hierarchical analytical method to define the weights of the evaluation criteria; development of a case study within the FPCRJ for demonstrating the applicability of the purposed model; analysis and interpretation of the FPCRJ results; and formulation of conclusions and recommendations. The main result of this research is an innovative self-assessment model for evaluating performance of CDSEC, from the perspective of corporate sustainability, encompassing eight key elements and 40 detailed elements. Particularly, the results of the case study of the FPCRJ could demonstrate that the purposed model can be effectively used for assessing sustainability performance of CDSEC and allowed to identify improvement and innovation opportunities towards high performance of corporate sustainability.
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Autissier, Anne-Marie. "France culture : rôle et programmation d'une radio à vocation culturelle." Paris 5, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA05H028.
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La présente recherche s'articulait autour de deux questions : comprendre la genèse d'une radio de service public a vocation culturelle en France et tenter de cerner le rôle qui lui est attribué par ses responsables, ses operateurs et ses auditeurs, en étudiant sa politique de programmation et de communication, ainsi que le profil et les attentes de ses auditeurs, de 1984 à 1996. La genèse de France culture remonte à l'après-guerre mais les premières velléités pour faire de la radio un instrument de diffusion culturelle sont contemporaines de sa création dans les années vingt, avec une ambiguïté fondatrice : artistes et intellectuels expriment leur méfiance a l'égard de cette activité "mécanique" et éphémère. En 1948, est créé au sein de la radiodiffusion française le programme national, vitrine sonore de la culture française, diffusant des entretiens, des dramatiques, des documentaires, et des enregistrements de musique sérieuse. En 1963, la réorganisation des chaines conduit à la création de France-Inter, France-Musique et France-Culture. L'instauration d'un ministère de la culture et la foi en la démocratisation culturelle achèvent de légitimer l'existence d'une chaine de la connaissance. En 1984, la concurrence des radios privées et l'instauration de nouveaux modes de légitimation culturelle conduisent à une réflexion globale sur la programmation de la chaine et son image auprès des auditeurs. France-Culture s'ouvre à toutes les facettes de la culture et se préoccupe de sa couleur d'antenne et de sa communication. A la fois intangible et évolutive, France-Culture tente de concilier son rôle médiatique et son image d'institution culturelle. Ses auditeurs - 456 000 en moyenne par jour en 1996 - sont, eux aussi, représentatifs de cette hétérogénéité. C'est pourquoi la programmation de France-Culture apparait plus comme le résultat d'une coexistence évolutive que d'une stratégie clairement affirméeThis research aims to firstly understand the mode of formation of a state owned cultural radio in France and secondly try and shed light on the role ascribed to it by managers, operators and listeners, as seen from its communication and programming policies and listeners' profiles and expectations from 1984 to 1996. France culture was created after the war but the will to use broadcasting as a means to spread culture dates back from the very origins of radio in the 1920s, together with a built-in ambiguity as artists and intellectuals alike expressed their mistrust at such an ephemeral and mechanical process. In 1948, the "programme national" was set up within the framework of the French broadcasting system as a "sound showcase" of French culture with its interviews, dramas, reports and serious music. In 1963, the reorganisation of the various channels led to the creation of France-Inter, France-Musique and France-Culture. This establishment of a ministry of culture and the faith in cultural democratisation concurred to establish the legitimacy and recognition of a knowledge channel. In 1984, competition from private radio stations and the advent of new means of cultural legitimacy brought a global reflexion on the programming and public image of France-Culture. France-culture opened up to all facets of culture and started to worry about its "couleur d'antenne" and its communication. Ungraspable and adaptable, France-culture attempts to reconcile its role as a media and its image as a cultural institution. 456 000 listeners per day on average, its audience too reflects its diversity. Thus, France-Culture programming comes forth as being the result of an evolutionaly coexistence rather than a clearly set strategy
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Despiney, Elsa. "L'action culturelle de la France à Rome (1944-1958)." Grenoble 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994GRE29056.
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Pour favoriser la reprise de relations diplomatiques stables avec l'italie, la france va rapidement reprendre son activit culturelle pensant que ce rapprochement en permettra d'autres. Cette reprise se fait a rome des 1944-45 par la reouve ture d'anciennes institutions (academie de france, ecolde fra caise de rome, lycee chateaubriand, ecoles religieuses) et la creation du centre d'etudes saint louis. Apres le traite de paix, cette politique culturelle s'affirmera avec la creation du centre culturel francais. La france va axer son action sur l'enseignement, la diffusion du livre et de la presse. Le cinema et enfin les echanges artistiques. Cette etude s'interes se a analyser de quelle maniere est conduite une action cultu relle : les choix des politiques, les liens avec le contexte hidtorique et politique, la percdeption de la culture francaise par les italiensTo favour the revival of stable diplomatic relations with italy, france is going to favour its cultural action. Wishing that this revival will help other revivals. This action is made by the reopening of old instiultutions as academie de france, lycee chateaubriand, ecole francaise, ecoles religieuses. . . . And the creation of the centre d'etudes saint-louis. After the agreement of peace, this cultural politic will prove by the creation of the centre culturel francais. The axis of the french action are multiples. So, this research is interessing by the politic way of the cultural action, the choice of activities, the fetters with the political situation, the italian perception of french culture
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Raichvarg, Daniel. "400 années de diffusion de la science par le spectacle (1580-1980) : formes, objectifs, moyens." Paris 7, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA077218.
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Les efforts pour diffuser la connaissance scientifique ont pris, pendant quatre siècles, des formes originales, parfois insolites. Les manifestations festives de la science sont classées sous quatre rubriques: les conférences spectaclisées, les spectacles dans les fêtes foraines et les fêtes de la science, les féeries scientifiques et les pièces de théâtre scientifique. Dans toutes ces tentatives qui, le plus souvent, se donnent pour expérimentales, le contenu proprement scientifique des informations importe moins que les liens établis entre la découverte et la pratique scientifiques et l'ensemble des activités sociales: liens science - technique, science - société (institutions scientifiques et de l'état), science - autres champs de la culture et de la création et surtout science - idéologie qui en est le paradigme organisateur principal (l'image de la science véhiculée est soit celle d'un hymne à la science, soit celle d'une science citoyenne présentant la responsabilité sociale du savant et la part prise par la science dans la formation morale et civique du citoyen). Préciser l'impact sur le public de toutes ces formes de diffusion de la science reste difficile, soit parce que les données quantitatives manquent, soit parce que les données qualitatives sont subjectives. La mise en spectacle de la science est cependant un excellent miroir de la manière dont une époque a envisagé ses relations à l'une de ses productions, la science.
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Anberrée, Alice. "Transformations du rapport offre-demande dans les organisations publiques et parapubliques de diffusion culturelle : le rôle de la participation des publics." Nantes, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015NANT4018.
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Ce travail porte sur les liens entre participation des publics et rapport offre-demande dans les organisations publiques et parapubliques de diffusion culturelle. Sur le plan théorique il s'appuie sur l'étude des doctrines de politiques culturelles, de la réception des biens symboliques, de la participation des citoyens à l'action publique et de celle des consommateurs aux organisations. Sur le plan empirique, trois cas sont analysés selon des grilles spécifiques pour caractériser 1) le rapport offre-demande à partir des enjeux politiques et de l'acception prépondérante de la culture ; 2) la participation des publics en fonction de ses formes et de sa place dans les activités organisationnelles. Cinq types de participation sont identifiés : 1) la création cadrée, utilisée comme médiation, qui ne modifie pas le rapport-offre-demande prépondérant ; 2) la création guidée, qui construit une offre amateur en parallèle de l'offre organisationnelle, avec un rapport d'offre et demande inter-reliées ; 3) la création libre qui correspond à une fusion offre-demande ; 4) la participation à la gouvernance amont ou 5) avale, qui construisent une interrelation. À partir de là, des recommandations managériales sont formulées, notamment : 1) construire une connaissance des publics tenant compte de leurs profils participatifs ; 2) adapter en conséquence les systèmes d'information ; 3) questionner le rôle des praticiens depuis une posture d'expertise vers une posture de traduction. La thèse portée par ces propos est que la participation des publics est un enjeu de gestion qui alimente l'adéquation offre-demande au sein des organisations publiques et parapubliques de diffusion culturelle.
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Umeoji, Emeka St Leo. "The impact of culture and gender on e-government diffusion in a developing country : the case of Nigeria." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/6056.
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Due to the high rate of e-government projects failures occurring in developing countries and the researcher being from a developing country, an impetus to undertake this research was provided. In IS research, diffusion of e-government products and services was noted to be slow within developing countries, and most developing countries striving to adopt e-government have undertaken it under the heavy burden of gender inequalities and strong multicultural beliefs. However, these social factors were shown to liberally influence users’ perception, which in turn influences users’ intentions and usage behaviour. Although there has been much research to explain users’ perceptions, few have been conducted on e-government diffusion using developing country experiences. The identified gap prompted this research to investigate how the citizens of a country ‘Nigeria’ receive information about the egovernment products and services and how this information has influenced the way they feel, form opinions and make judgments on egovernment products and services. Therefore, the aim of this research is to examine the implication of culture and gender upon e-government diffusion within Nigeria. For this purpose, a conceptual model was formed combining social interaction, trust of egovernment delivery personnel and constructs from Roger’s theory of diffusion and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to study e-government diffusion from the citizens’ perspective. Additionally, the culture and gender elements were considered. In turn, these elements were expected to determine and explain predictor constructs that would be used to explain, determine and predict citizen’s acceptance of e-government products and services. To acquire the data to this research, a qualitative research approach involving the case study method was employed. The data collection techniques used included interviews, personal observations, and examination of archival documents. The three main indigenous communities of Nigeria Yoruba, Ibo and Hausa were used and cross case analysis employed. This led to the findings identifying social interaction and the trust of personnel providing egovernment as the novel parts of the framework for this research. The main conclusions drawn from this research were that culture and gender were observed to have strong influences on social interaction as an e-government awareness channel; but significantly low influence on the other means of e-government awareness channels. Further, social interaction was noted to be a very strong determinant of communication within the indigenous societies. From the research findings it was learnt that for e-government to spread extensively, social interaction should be employed to improve the diffusion of e-government products and services. Future directions of this research include using a quantitative research approach to improve research findings and also investigating the relationships of trust of egovernment personnel and other forms of trust identified by previous research, i.e. the trust of government and trust in e-government. However, the view of this research is that since few studies of this kind are emphasized within IS research evaluating e-government diffusion, developing countries, culture and gender, other researchers interested in a topic similar to this research will learn of the importance of this research and these factors for other developing countries in the world. Due to the limitations of time and distance and financial constraints all the indigenous communities could not be represented. Hence, this was also considered to be a limitation to this research.
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Bosséno, Christian-Marc. ""Les Signes extérieurs" : diffusion, réception et image de la culture révolutionnaire française dans l'Italie du Triennio : (1796-1799)." Paris 1, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA010663.
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La conquête de l’Italie par les troupes du directoire, de 1796 à 1799, crée les conditions d'un choc culturel majeur, et pose la question de la capacité des modèles révolutionnaires français à s'exporter. Cette étude entend examiner ce transfert, essentiellement à partir de la "politique du sensible" élaborée par les français et par les "jacobins" italiens, qui est le principe de base de la propagande et de la pédagogie révolutionnaire. Ce sont donc les images, les symboles et emblèmes, les rituels qui constituent l'objet de la recherche. Une première partie est consacrée a l'iconographie de la période : constitution de l'image de Bonaparte en héros libérateur, puis étude d'un large corpus d'allégories et caricatures. On s'intéresse ensuite aux sources imprimées (presse, pamphlets. . . ) et au discours des républiques-sœurs italiennes sur elles-mêmes : négation du passe et invention d'un récit historique de légitimation recours au modèle antique et identification de héros "nationaux". La "régénération" italienne est théorisée, et ses moyens de persuasion (notamment la fête civique et le théâtre) font ici l'objet d'un examen attentif. Une troisième partie enfin est consacrée a la mise en œuvre de cette politique : abolition des emblèmes et symboles de l'ancien régime, mise en place de ceux de la révolution, qui touchent tant l'individu (cocarde) que les communautés entières (arbre de la liberté), programme ambitieux des rituels républicains (fêtes de la fédération cisalpine et romaine, mises en scène de la "libération" des villes italiennes et de leur reconnaissance envers la "grande nation"). La question du religieux, pierre angulaire de cette pensée et de cette pratique des "signes extérieurs", est posée en conclusion, à propos de la récupération, à Naples, du miracle de saint-janvier par les révolutionnaires.
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Chiari-Lasserre, Sophie. "L'image du labyrinthe dans la culture et la littérature de la Renaissance anglaise : origines, diffusion, appropriations et interprétations." Montpellier 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003MON30086.
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Les seizième et dix-septième siècles anglais révélèrent une culture de l'oblique, en marge de l'Europe. Les Elisabéthains façonnèrent une esthétique labyrinthique, puisant dans le réservoir mythologique des Anciens à l'instar d'Ovide, et faisant fructifier leur héritage médiéval. Le motif du dédale, polymorphe, fut privilégié par les emblèmes, remodelé par les jardiniers, les poètes, les danseurs ou les dramaturges. La légende du " maze ", ou " labyrinth ", généra des mises en scène surprenantes, subversives, révélatrices de représentations mentales bien particulières. Se développa alors un dense réseau métaphorique, à partir d'un symbole ambigu : tantôt harmonieux et attractif, tantôt chaotique et répulsif. Les grands thèmes existentiels, relus de manière euphorique ou dysphorique, furent abordés grâce au labyrinthe: détours amoureux, filets rhétoriques, méandres religieux, impasses du pouvoir devinrent des sources d'inspiration renforçant la multiplicité des voies dramatiquesIn the Elizabethan period, the image of the labyrinth was being re-appropriated in several ways, all based on an ideal first championed by Horace : discordia concors. Throughout Antiquity, the story related to Theseus and the Minotaur had been retold many times, by authors such as Pliny, Ovid, Plutarch, whose texts were to be digested by translators. Renaissance England could boast, too, of an impressive medieval heritage, which favoured the didactic transmission of the myth : the influence of clerical writings linked to the idea of the unicursal maze, one way leading to God, contributed to the popularization of the legend. Gradually, the symbol was secularized during the sixteenth century. Although mythic multicursal paths proliferated in gardens, representations, danse and poetry, they reached their climax on stage. As an obsessional motif, the labyrinth is a hermeneutic key revealing new interpretative tracks exploring a multisemic theatre, whose possibilities remain to be exploited
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Cariani, Gianni. "Une france russophile ? : découverte, réception, impact : la diffusion de la culture russe en france de 1881 a 1914." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998STR20025.
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De 1881 a 1914, un important courant russophile s'est manifeste et exprime en france. Cette russophilie a associe une double dimension politique et culturelle. La diffusion de la culture russe s'inscrit dans cette dynamique. Elle trouve un echo favorable et surtout durable lors de la crise d'identite qui caracterise la societe francaise des annees 1880-1890. Il est indeniable que l'usage de la culture russe a ete politique. La formation d'un pole culturel russe en france, preparation de l'opinion publique francaise a l'alliance franco-russe, contribue a depasser l'image fragmentaire et lacunaire de l'empire russe qui a dominee la quasi totalite du xixe siecle. L'integration de la culture russe a l'aire culturelle francaise est largement redevable du contexte diplomatique europeen. La russomanie qui sevit et submerge la france de 1886 a 1897 indique nettement, qu'au-dela de la decouverte des grands romanciers, l'enjeu se situe au croisement des champs politique et culturel. Les annees 1898-1914 marquent le depassement de cette situation ambigue. L'usage politique de la culture russe s'efface pour ceder la place a une perception dans laquelle l'oeuvre est apprehendee en elle-meme au-dela du contexte diplomatique. Au temps de la decouverte, de 1881 a 1897, succede le temps de la reconnaissance, de 1898 a 1914. L'interpretation de la culture russe durant ces dernieres annees n'est plus partiale et assujettie, mais montre une diversite des jugements, une pluralite du discours. Le temps de la reconnaissance est marque par l'accessibilite globale a l'aire culturelle russe envisagee au-dela d'un usage militant et proselyte, renouvelant, par ailleurs, la vision du monde jusqu'alors predominante, comme l'atteste l'evolution de la querelle du nationalisme et du cosmopolitismeFrom 1881 to 1914, a considerable russophile trend emerged and made his mark in france. This russophilia combined a dual dimension, both political and cultural. The spreading of the russian culture fit into this dynamic and was met with a favourable and overall lasting reception during the identity crisis which characterised the french society of the 1880s-1890s. There is no doubt that the use of the russian culture has been political. The formation of a russian cultural pole in france - in preparation of french public opinion for the franco-russian alliance -, contributed to the overstepping of the fragmentary and deficient picture of the russian empire which had dominated almost all the 19th century. The integration of the russian culture into the french cultural sphere is considerably indebted to the european diplomatic context. The russomania raging and overcoming france from 1886 to 1897 clearly shows that beyond the discovery of the great novelists, the stake was standing at the junction of political and cultural fields. The period 1898-1914 indicates that this ambiguous situation had been overcome. The political use of the russian culture disappeared to give way to a perception in which the work of art is grasped for itself, beyond the diplomatic context. The time of discovery - from 1881 to 1897 - was replaced by the time of acknowledgement - from 1898 to 1914. The interpretation of the russian culture in the last years was no more biased nor subjugated, but shows a diversity of judgements, a plurality of discursive reasoning. The time of acknowledgement was marked by global accessibility to the russian cultural sphere, viewed beyond a militant and proselyte use; renewing, moreover, the vision of the world which had been predominant until then, as attested by the evolution of the quarrel on nationalism and cosmopolitanism
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Cunningham, Jeffrey J. Garfinkle Steven J. "The role of learning institutions in Ptolemaic Alexandria /." Online version, 2010. http://content.wwu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/theses&CISOPTR=353&CISOBOX=1&REC=12.
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Forlin, Olivier. "L'Italie au regard des intellectuels français : images et opinions (1945-1955)." Grenoble 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000GRE2A009.
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Znined, Hassane. "La genèse et l'évolution de l'espace culturel marocain moderne à travers les interactions politico-religieuses : le parcours du Ministère des Affaires culturelles, 1974-1994." Grenoble 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996GRE39054.
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Cette etude retrace, dans une demarche qui se veut genealogique, l'emergence et l'evolution de l'espace culturel marocain moderne a travers une triple perspective historique, politique et religieuse. La construction sociale de cet espace a permis l'avenement de nouvelles formes d'expression qui se differencient par rapport a l'espace traditionnel dans leur mode de production, de diffusion et de reception. Dans son ambition d'instituer un domaine culturel moderne aux pratiques secularisees, cet espace a suivi un parcours pour le moins complexe. Il a d'abord ete marque dans sa naissance par le choc que constituait la rencontre avec l'univers occidental, notamment a l'occasion de l'evenement colonial. Il s'est ensuite heurte apres l'independance a l'hegemonie des deux spheres religieuse et politique qui definissent les normes et les regles du jeu culturel dans une societe qui affiche pourtant dans ses discours son aspiration a la modernite. La perspective politique tente d'examiner les modes d'intervention culturelle de l'etat au maroc avant, pendant et apres le protectorat. L'analyse de la creation du ministere des affaires culturelles (m. A. C. ) comme departement autonome en 1974 s'est averee problematique. En effet, elle venait repondre a une volonte politique d'investir un espace qui se trouvait marginalise non pas parce que l'etat ne s'interessait pas a lui avant la creation du m. A. C. Mais parce qu'il se situe a l'intersection de deux logiquesThis study describes in a genealogical way the emergency and the evolution of the modern morrocan cultural sphere through a triple perspective, historical, political and religious. Its aim is to show the way of cultural intervention of the state in morroco before, during and after the protectorate. The second part of this study is consecrated to the analysis of the politics of the ministry of cultural affairs since its creation as independant department in 1974 until 1994
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Bellini, Danielle. "La fabrique du possible : la relation au coeur des projets culturels." Paris 7, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA070082.
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Aborder le rapport à l'art et penser le possible élargissement des publics à travers la relation entre les acteurs culturels, tel est le défi de cette thèse. Elle s'appuie sur l'observation de pratiques professionnelles qui se déploient dans des espaces publics, qui pensent les processus de création et de diffusion à travers de nouvelles dimensions de l'espace et du temps et qui tentent de se dégager des strictes logiques de la fréquentation des équipements. Cette étude pose le rapport à l'art en tant qu'expérience esthétique, dans une dynamique relationnelle de confiance, de réciprocité et d'échange. Elle propose ainsi d'ouvrir de nouvelles pistes de recherche où le déplacement des lignes classiques de la représentation artistique accompagne le dépassement des formes classiques de l'analyse sociologiqueThe aim of this thesis is to show the relation between art and its "audience" and some possible ways to expand it thanks to the agents of the cultural sector. The study is based on the observation of "professional practice" that deploys in public spaces. This practice examines the process of creation and diffusion via new dimensions of the space and the time trying to formulate some patterns of attendance of those cultural facilities. This study establishes at the same time the relation between art as an esthetic experience in the dynamics of reliance, reciprocity and exchange. At the same time it suggests some new paths for research whereas shifting the standards of artistic representation exceeds classical sociological models of analysis
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Mohamad, Bahtiar. "The structural relationships between corporate culture, ICT diffusion innovation, corporate leadership, corporate communication management (CCM) activities and organisational performance." Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7635.
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Corporate Communication Management (CCM) is an important concept within the communication and marketing discipline. The term corporate communication came to the attention of the general public more than 40 years ago, due to changes in global business environments. Although corporate communication received great attention from scholars and the business community, its complex concepts are still unclear. Furthermore, many scholars believe there are influences of corporate culture, ICT diffusion innovations and corporate leadership on corporate communication and its impact to organisational performance, yet there is a paucity of studies on the validation of this theoretical assumption. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to address this gap by providing an elevated understanding of the concept of CCM and its antecedents, and in consequence, focus on organisational performance from the managerial perspectives. This study employs a two tier mixed-method research process involving qualitative and quantitative approaches. The first tier commences with a semi-structured interview (with 12 respondents) to refine a conceptual framework developed based on existing literature. Then, content validity (with 10 expert opinions) and pilot test (with 35 respondents) follow, to develop a measurement scale with good validity and reliability. The second tier involves online survey data (with 223 respondents) and secondary data (from Thomson DataStream) to test the research hypotheses and proposed conceptual model. In this stage, structural equation modelling (SEM) is employed. Results indicate a very good fit to the data, with good convergent, discriminant and nomological validity and reliability stability. The findings of this research show that corporate culture, ICT diffusion innovation and corporate leadership are factors that influence CCM directly. While CCM correlates positively with financial performance, it has no effect on mission achievement. Corporate culture was found to have a positive relationship with mission achievement but negative relations with financial performance. Furthermore, ICT diffusion innovation demonstrates a positive association with mission achievement. Despite corporate leadership having a positive relationship with mission achievement, there was no effect on financial performance. Therefore, this study answered the antecedents and consequences of CCM, and they were found to be influential factors. In addition, the study demonstrates that managers rely on internal factors such as corporate culture, ICT diffusion innovation and corporate leadership to predict and assess CCM. The findings have implications for knowledge of theories and practices, and also contribute in the development of a model that explains the CCM functions and shows that functions have a definite positive impact on financial performance. Furthermore, the research adds an insight to a growing body of communication literature (primarily corporate communication) and makes recommendation for future research directions.