Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Filmic language'

Though Horacio Quiroga is better known for his jungle tales, he was also a prolific film critic. Writing in the early days of silent cinema, Quiroga channeled his love for the new art into a series of four short stories about film: "Miss Dorothy Phillips, mi esposa" (1919), "El espectro" (1921), "El puritano" (1926), and "El vampiro" (1927). These stories not only reveal Quiroga's passion for the cinema, but also showcase the power of film to affect the spectator. The theoretical basis of my study comes from the Deleuzian concept of affect, being defined as the invisible force or intensity which exists in bodies and can also be transmitted between bodies that have differing capacities for acting on each other. In the case of the cinema, the film and the spectator are the two bodies that participate in this transmission of intensities. In the first chapter, I discuss how "El puritano" reveals that film's resurrected images can be more powerful than the originals. Then, I analyze "El espectro," which serves as an example of how film's mimetic qualities increase its power to affect spectators and produce in them visceral reactions. Particularly striking in this story is the filmic gaze of an on-screen actor, a gaze which transmits affect to the other characters. In the second chapter, I analyze "Miss Dorothy Phillips, mi esposa," particularly how it theorizes the erotic gaze of filmed actresses. Then I discuss "El vampiro," in which I study the relationship of two men with the filmed image of a beautiful Hollywood actress. In the story, an inventor is able to "move" film in such a way as to create a spectral woman who can interact with others. However, by the end of the story it becomes clear that it is the film—personified by this spectral woman—that holds the true power in this relationship of bodies.

La thèse ci-après présente une étude de films amateurs, fournis par le Centre National d'Audiovisuel au Luxembourg, dit CNA. Elle examine certaines notions de sens et d’interprétation en l’absence de métadonnées et du contexte d'origine. Plutôt que de prendre le film amateur comme genre ou pratique à part, cette étude porte sur le seul langage cinématographique. La première partie de ce travail identifie ainsi des modes filmiques hautement différenciés et interprétés à partir des images. Sans contexte original, ces films perdent leur principale source de signification, à savoir les commentaires fournis par les membres de la famille. En effet, la projection du film dans le cercle familial interpelle les souvenirs et donne lieu à l’explication des évènements reproduits. La présente thèse examine ces images comme vestiges d'une narration visuelle plutôt qu'en termes de récit de souvenirs. Elle adopte le point de départ très simple que ce qui est filmé était important pour les cinéastes. De plus, elle examine comment le langage filmique peut servir comme illustration des intentions et motivations, à la fois volontaires et involontaires. Y suit l’examen des différents styles employés dans les films amateurs. J’attire l’attention sur la codification culturelle sous-jacente à la pratique de représentation dans le privé, qui prend la langue filmique comme moyen d'auto-narration. La deuxième partie aborde les films amateurs comme moyen d’expression primitif d’une tentative de signification qui implique le chercheur et sa propre expérience. La projection des films est constitutive de ce processus d'entrée en signification
The following thesis presents an examination of privately produced amateur films taken from the Amateur Film Archive in the Centre National d’Audiovisuel in Luxembourg. It analyzes how amateur films present a filmic world and examines specific notions of meaning generation without meta-data and original context. Rather than take amateur film as a homogenous genre or practice, this study concentrates on film language. The first part of the following two-fold engagement with these filmic worlds thus identifies the highly differentiated filmic modes that can be read from theimages. A filmic mode is related to as a concomitance of style and choice in subjectmatter. Without original context, these films lose their most important means ofmeaning generation, namely the recollective narratives that are constructed by theintended audience in the viewing situation. This work takes these images as remnantsof a visual narration rather than in terms of recollective narratives. It operates from the very simple basis that how the camera was used can serve as illustration of underlying intentions and motivations—both intended and inadvertent. The first partof this study then focuses on the diversification within the images and reads concomitant cultural codifications that structure representational productions in the private and also analyzes film language as means of self-narration. The second part of this two-fold engagement explores filmic language in terms of a visualization of primordial signifying expression coming-into-being. This engagement extends to include the researcher and his/her own background as co-constitutive part of this process of primordial meaning

This paper is a case study involving the documentary Artur Melo da Costa: missionary hero. The objective was to examine whether it is possible for a person turn into hero through its exposure from the film image. To flesh out the research was necessary to use oral history, literature review and empiricism. The text makes an original theoretical approach, where many works are analyzed, so we make allowances for the case study. In order to understand the process of heroicização was made a biography of Arthur Melo da Costa, who is the central object of our study. We also did an analysis on all the events that marked the construction process of the documentary, so that we can understand if, in fact, there was turn into hero Artur Melo da Costa in the community of São Luiz Gonzaga, Rio Grande do Sul. The research provides new information relevant to the community in question, so that we can understand that the construction of history is made everyday. Finally, the work serves as a reference for you to understand is how to make themselves a hero through the construction of filmic language, this case of a documentary.
Essa dissertação é um estudo de caso, envolvendo o documentário Artur Melo da Costa: um herói missioneiro. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi analisar se é possível a heroicização de uma pessoa através de sua exposição a partir de imagem fílmica. Para dar corpo à pesquisa foi necessária a utilização de história oral, revisão bibliográfica e empirismo. O texto faz uma abordagem inicial teórica, onde são analisadas várias obras, dessa forma temos subsídios para compor o estudo de caso. Para que se compreenda o processo de heroicização foi feita uma biografia de Artur Melo da Costa, que é o objeto central de nosso estudo. Também fizemos uma análise sobre todos os eventos que marcaram o processo de construção do documentário, de forma que se possa compreender se, de fato, houve a heroicização de Artur Melo da Costa na comunidade de São Luiz Gonzaga, no Rio Grande do Sul. A pesquisa traz informações inéditas e relevantes para a comunidade em questão, de forma que se possa compreender que a construção da história é feita no cotidiano. Por fim, o trabalho serve como referência para que compreenda-se como pode dar-se a construção de um herói através de linguagem fílmica, nesse caso de um documentário.

Hollywood remakes of East Asian films clearly change more than just the language of a film, and the choices that producers and directors make in order to tailor a foreign film so that it better appeals to American audiences creates an entry point that allows for a more direct comparison of aesthetic styles, cultural tastes, and narrative conventions. An analysis of two case studies, South Korean hit film My Sassy GIrl (2001) and Hong Kong's Infernal Affairs trilogy (2002, 2003, 2003) remade into My Sassy Girl (2008) and The Departed (2006), explores the principles of Korean and Hong Kong commercial film industries and how they differ and interact with those of Hollywood.

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Of the eighteen films produced by the Senegalese Ousmane Sembène, five are adaptations of his novels and novellas. In the case of Guelwaar, his sixth and last adaptation, it is the novel which he adapted to the film of the same name. Sembène, who considered himself to be a "modem griot", felt that cinema was a more effective medium to reach his people and deliver his message. Once copies of all six films had been obtained, two with great difficulty as they were never commercially released, the cinematic techniques which Sembène used to convey his ideology were carefully studied and then compared to the literary techniques utilised in his writings.

This project explores the idea of dream sharing and how language is both a tool and a barrier for sharing dream experiences. I collected video and audio dream diaries from 15 different people and stitched together a "collective" dream that contains elements from each. From this new dream, I pulled words and displayed them as text on-screen. What is the relationship from the listener and the actual dream experience? Can we truly experience the dreams of others?

Ethnic identity can be subject to both passive and overt review, which has the potential to cause traumatic fracture of identity. I am a second generation American-Puerto Rican, which can be defined as a person born in the United States of native Puerto Rican ancestry. Personal identity is constructed in part via social and linguistic associations that work with, and against, the cohesive development of an individual’s claim to his or her identity. From the standpoint of a non-fluent Spanish speaker of Puerto Rican descent, I analyze the connection between place, language, and in particular, face-to-face communication, as these aspects come together in developing/disassembling identity. The major focus of this thesis concerns the power of the face as a point of (mis)recognition between people, the site in which a confrontation of identity takes place, in conjunction with spoken language.

The face is the essential locus on the body for recognizing that the person before you is indeed a person; from that point forth, identity is revealed and awareness of subjectivity constructed. Stuart Hall discussed the construction of identity through the concepts of the enlightened subject, the sociological subject, and the post-modern subject. I will be referring to an individual’s identity in terms of these three models, while focusing on ethnic and cultural associations. It should be understood that in my discussion of face, “face” is not comprised solely of what rests above one’s shoulders; rather, the concept incorporates the entirety of an individual’s physical representation. I will question the ways in which language shapes identity, and how culture(s) and society reinforce it. I will also explore the conflict that unfolds when one is denied ownership of the identity that one has established as true. This analysis incorporates philosophy and cultural theory, including, but not limited to: Emmanuel Levinas’ “Face of the Other,” which professes that we must not inflict conceptual violence on the face of the person standing before us; additionally, Gloria Anzaldúa’s theory of the ethnic face and haciendo cara (making face), which states that minorities (women in particular) must construct layers of masks in order to adapt, and to deflect persecution.

Language defines the borders of “face,” and urges us to construct a binary of correct and incorrect, true and false. However, a person’s identity cannot be false, because subjectivity exists beyond language. In the context of this thesis, I re-frame the individual’s frustrations with misrecognition of ethnic identity, through my focus on face and fluency, or lack thereof, in a particular spoken language. Through my video practice, I have forged a new pathway to explore these dualities. In a self-revelatory process, this project guides the viewer through a mixed media visualization of ethnic authentication and judgment.

U radu su istražene brojne i različite veze između grada i medija filma.Razmatrano je kako su filmski prikazi urbanih pejzaža postali njihovintegralni, neodvojivi deo i kako navedeno utiče na promene u sagledavanjuarhitektonskih prostora i urbanog okruženja, kao i na promene u načinu nakoji se sa istima stupa u interakciju. Kroz ispitivanje prikaza gradova ufilmovima, istraživani su tokovi urbanog razvoja i analizirane su iinterpretirane društveno-prostorne promene koje se odvijaju od početka XXveka do danas u velikim evropskim i severnoameričkim gradovima.
The thesis explores numerous and different relations between the city andfilm medium. It has been considered how cinematic images of urbanlandscape have become their integral, inseparable part, and how thisinfluences changes in the perception of architectural spaces and the urbanenvironment, as well as changes in the way in which people interact withthem. By examining the representation of cities in films, urban developmenttrends have been studied and socio-spatial changes taking place in largeEuropean and North American cities from the beginning of the 20th centuryto the present day have been analyzed and interpreted.

The portrayal of film characters' inner experience ensures a level of audience engagement often precluded in primarily plot-driven narratives. Yet, there is a prevailing notion that interiority is the exclusive domain of literature. To counter this pedagogy, the thesis explores how filmmakers can externalise dream; the unconscious; emotional journeys, and the realm of the imagination through cinematic language. The study draws on a theoretical framework that incorporates psychoanalytic film theory, neo-formalism and literary theory, and which engages to some extent with authorship. The compatibilist methodological approach draws on these modes of analysis, while systematically bridging theory and practice. The thesis dovetails with a creative component - the screenplay of Zinzi and the Boondogle, a children's feature film. Through this case study, the thesis examines the largely undocumented relationship between film theory and analysis on the one hand, and screenwriting and film production on the other. The research explores a number of areas germane to the screenplay, starting by uncovering innovative ways in which dreams can illuminate character interiority. It finds that animation, in its ability to render visible the metaphysical, is a compelling means of screening inner processes. Jan Svankmajer blends live action filmmaking with animation to bespeak the interpenetration of the conscious and unconscious realms. Hayao Miyazaki uses anime to construct otherworldly realms that reflect adolescent girls' rites of passage. In films that draw on African storytelling, animation is shown to make manifest the imaginative realm. Finally, the adaptation of the screenplay Zinzi and the Boondogle into a novel tests ways in which cinema and literature can divergently - but equally - evoke characters' interior lives. The thesis counters the pedagogy which insists that film is suited only to external action. Rather, the research reveals potent cinematic means of evoking oneiric and fantasy lives - bridging the traditional chasm between film theory and praxis and inviting further meetings between these discourses.

Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente.
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Over the past decade, an increasing number of studies have explored the structure and role of multimodal texts in contemporary society (Böhlke, 2008; Ferreira, 2011; Heberle & Meurer, 2007; Iedema, 2001; Kress & van Leeuwen, 1996; 2006; Thibault, 2000). Following the early focus on still images, more recent research has addressed the dynamic text (O'Halloran, 2004). In this context, the present research investigates the identities of women (Butler, 1990, 1993, 2004; Benwell & Stokoe, 2006) construed in the first film Sex and the City (2008) in terms of both verbal language (Halliday, 1994; Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004; Martin, Matthiessen & Painter, 2010) and the dynamic image (Bateman, 2007, 2009; Bednarek, 2010; Böhlke, 2008, Iedema, 2001; O'Halloran, 2004; Thibault, 2000; Tseng, 2009; van Leeuwen, 1991, 1999) as well as their intermodal complementarity (Painter & Martin, in press), focusing on coupling and commitment (Martin, 2008a, 2008b, 2010). Verbal language is addressed in terms of ideational meanings by means of transitivity analysis (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004) and the analysis of the dynam image is carried out by following the multi-level procedures proposed by Baldry and Thibault (2005). Regarding the film text, overall results show that it affords more meanings than the still images in systemic functional terms, which has contributed to more effective intermodal complementarity. Considering the identities of women construed, data analysis has demonstrated that the coupling of meanings committed suggests that (young) women's main pursuit in life is fashion labels and heteronormative love. Additionally, overall results also reveal that women are mostly involved in processes of 'action' as dynamic participants, which highlights the space in the filmic text for the 'doings', 'happenings'' and 'behaviors' in which women take on the active role. However, as in Bezerra (2008), the discourse analysis (Fairclough, 2003; van Leeuwen, 2008) of women's social actions has shown that they are considerably constrained to the domestic, nonspecialized field (Martin, 1992). These results seem to confirm the role of the media in maintaining dominant and ideologically invested representations of women (Bhabha, 1992), which need to be continuously challenged, since identities should always be seen as unstable and impermanent (Bauman, 2004).
Durante a última década, um número crescente de estudos têm explorado a estrutura e o papel de textos multimodais na sociedade contemporânea (Böhlke, 2008; Ferreira, 2011; Heberle & Meurer, 2007; Iedema, 2001; Kress & van Leeuwen, 1996; 2006; Thibault, 2000). Depois do foco inicial em imagens estáticas, pesquisas mais recentes têm abordado o texto dinâmico (O'Halloran, 2004). Neste contexto, a presente pesquisa investiga as identidades das mulheres (Butler, 1990, 1993, 2004; Benwell & Stokoe, 2006) no primeiro filme Sex and the City (2008) em termos da linguagem verbal (Halliday, 1994; Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004; Martin, Matthiessen & Painter, 2010) e da imagem dinâmica (Bateman, 2007, 2009; Bednarek, 2010; Böhlke, 2008, Iedema, 2001; O'Halloran, 2004; Thibault, 2000; Tseng , 2009; van Leeuwen, 1991, 1999), bem como da sua complementaridade intermodal (Painter & Martin, no prelo), concentrando-se no acoplamento e na calibragem de significados (Martin, 2008a, 2008b, 2010). A linguagem verbal é investigada quanto aos significados ideacionais por meio de análise de transitividade (Halliday e Matthiessen, 2004), ao passo que a análise da imagem dinâmica segue os procedimentos propostos por Baldry e Thibault (2005). Em relação ao texto fílmico, resultados gerais mostram que ele constrói mais tipos de significados do que as imagens estáticas, o que contribuiu para uma complementaridade intermodal mais eficaz. Considerando-se as identidades das mulheres, o acoplamento de significados cometidos sugere que mulheres (jovens) focam suas buscas na moda (grifes) e no amor heteronormativo. Além disso, resultados gerais revelam que as mulheres estão principalmente envolvidas em processos de 'ação' como participantes dinâmicos, o que evidencia o espaço no texto fílmico para os 'fazeres', 'acontecimentos' e 'comportamentos' nos quais as mulheres assumem papel ativo. No entanto, como em Bezerra (2008), a análise do discurso (Fairclough, 2003; van Leeuwen, 2008) das ações sociais das mulheres mostrou que elas estão consideravelmente restritas à esfera doméstica, não especializada (Martin, 1992). Estes resultados parecem confirmar o papel da mídia na manutenção de representações dominantes e ideologicamente investidas das mulheres (Bhabha, 1992), que precisam ser continuamente desafiadas, já que as identidades devem ser sempre vistas como instáveis e impermanentes (Bauman, 2004).

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University
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This dissertation sought to evaluate the potential of a customized, videobased instructional method, the Cultural Video Project (CVP), which was designed to meet the needs of both heritage and non-heritage students learning Korean as a second language in a university setting. The goal of this study was to design and create the CVP, document the implementation of the CVP, and then to assess the effects the CVP had on the area that speakers of English tend to have difficulty with, such as acquisition of honorific systems in Korean. The CVP was a series of short authentic Korean video clips and matching worksheets that the researcher created. The videos were adapted from contemporary Korean broadcasting programs and Korean films. The CVP videos were used during the face-to-face setting classroom meeting sessions as a lesson and after the classroom lesson was over, the videos were available on the school's Internet courseware for students to use for their individual practice and review. Each of the CVP video segments displayed linguistic structures, vocabulary, idiomatic expressions and cultural conventions that were partly addressed in the course's Elementary Korean course materials. The participating professor, Professor Q, helped in selecting the video segments and co-authored the matching worksheets in corporation with the researcher throughout the preparation and implementation period. During the interviews, Professor Q reported changes in her teaching philosophy while creating and implementing the CVP method in her teaching. She reported that the video technology combined with the university's courseware uses created positive impacts on her students' Korean learning experiences such as heightened interest and intense attention that helped to make dynamic and interactive lessons during the classroom meetings. Students reported their responses to the CVP in various forms: Interviews, written self-reports, in-class observation reports, results of the exams and two-forms of standard school course evaluations. The findings reveal that through the CVP practice, students increased their cultural understanding, improved the listening skills, and improved their understanding of language use in a variety of culturally specific social situations.
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This project is intended to take the film To Live, directed by Zhang Yimou, and apply the Electronic Film Review (EFR) approach to it in a Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) setting. The Electronic Film Review project, developed by Alan K. Melby, is aimed at providing a superior language learning experience for Americans learning Chinese. Using feature films as a teaching tool has been found to stimulate and motivate students to achieve higher language levels, but in order for optimal learning to occur the material must be challenging yet accessible to the student. Most feature films, by themselves, are too advanced for the average language learner. The EFR approach provides annotations designed specifically for the feature film with the language learner in mind. These annotations can include access to vocabulary helps, grammar and cultural notes in order to bridge the gap between the learner and the film. It does not alter the film itself. This approach has been used with ESL students (English annotations), French language learners, and with Korean ESL learners (Korean annotations), but has not been developed for students learning Chinese. The purpose of this project is not only to apply the technology of the Electronic Film Review program to a Chinese film for the purpose of aiding Chinese language learners, but also to critique whether or not the tool is effective in helping students to gain better listening comprehensions skills and therefore ultimately better language skills. Previous studies have not shown clear results on this issue. This thesis will briefly review what the EFR project is and how it has been used with other films and languages as well as the findings up to this point. Then it will look at the effects of annotations on several aspects of listening comprehension as well as student preferences and reactions. It will then evaluate the results collectively to determine whether students watching the film without the help of EFR annotations show differing levels of listening comprehension achievement when compared with those using the EFR tools. Suggestions will be made for further improvements.

This study aims to analyze explicit politeness markers such as please and thank you in children’s movies using The Movie Corpus. Differences in use over time as well as between children’s movies and other genres of film are investigated, by extracting a variety of frequencies from the corpus for further analysis. The results show that politeness markers are, and have tended to be, more common in children’s movies than in other genres of film. However, the results also suggest that politeness markers are decreasing in frequency in both children’s movies and in other genres of film, but that the decreases are not consistent throughout all the decades analyzed. The study suggests that we seem to be moving towards a less polite society, or one where implicit politeness markers are preferred over explicit ones. In conclusion, it is suggested that further studies are needed to determine which results of this study that are exclusive to children’s movies rather than suggesting trends in film overall.

Space is a visual communicator. The act of perceiving space is a neurological soiree that projects and negotiates meaning in our constructed world. The poetry that we observe within space is tied directly to our emotions and to previous experience. Within ourselves, we each have particular feelings, unconscious or not, relating to height, length, and depth, as well as light and shadow. For example, a long, narrow hallway may elicit anxiety, while an open, sunlit nave in a cathedral may bring about feelings of serenity and joy. Our observations and interactions within the perceptual confines of space reveal clues to construction, movement, and play. Additionally, this participation unveils our awareness of space, and thus, reveals that our relationship with space exists in our acknowledgement of it—in our permitting of perception through conscious participation. To explore these ideas further, I will utilize typography to create immersive, sensory experiences that challenge interpretation through the application of human thought, or sensations, to non-living things and material states. This method will assist the observers to rationalize and create meaning within their own world through simplifying an experience in relation to self. Here, spatial language—like light, shadow, dimension, and proximity—will be exposed as a universal and innate part of our perception.

This exploratory study follows existing theory and analysis of mass media product and its audience analysis. It aims to analyse how audience members utilise a popular anime in Japan for their construction and reconstruction of sense of self, which is referred to as socialisation. Academic research has increasingly shed light on audience members??? socialisation by utilising mass media products in encompassing academic fields such as media studies, communication studies and cultural studies. It is widely agreed that the content of mass media products play a significant role in their socialisation. This study takes up a Japanese anime, Mononoke Hime as a sample case for investigating audience members??? socialization. Through the analysis of reactions of audience members to Mononoke Hime, it will be investigated how audience members interpret the anime reflecting one???s experience in the society relating the experience to the content of Mononoke Hime. It will be clarified that the audience members of the anime construct and reconstruct their sense of self, morals and values in the society, that is, they utilize the anime as a facility for their socialization. The data of this study are collected comments which are compiled in a published magazine and private comments posted on Internet sites. 133 comments in the magazine and 32 comments on Internet sites are selected for the analysis. The data were analysed by two analytical approaches. The first analysis is to see how the consulted viewers established their relationship with the anime, while the second analysis is to see how the viewers depicted and interpreted the content of the anime. This study concluded that the consulted audience members show high level of ideological involvement with the anime; they depict parts of the anime relating to their experience in the real life and talk the anime seriously rather than playfully enjoy it as an entertainment. By analysing the comments of consulted audience members, it is also revealed that the audience members take characters of the anime as a role model both in cross gender and gender based ways.

This study examined the claim that animated films influence childrens' opinions of accented-English. Two hundred and eighteen 3rd through 5th graders participated in a web-based survey. They listened to speakers with various accents: Mainstream US English (MUSE), African American Vernacular English (AAVE), French, British, and Arabic. Respondents judged speakers' personality traits (Work Ethic, Wealth, Attitude, Intelligence), assigned jobs/life positions, and provided personal information, movie watching habits, and exposure to foreign languages. Results indicate: (1) MUSE ranks higher and AAVE lower than other speakers, (2) jobs/life positions do not correlate with animated films, (3) movie watching habits correlate with AAVE, French, and British ratings, (4) foreign language exposure correlates with French, British, and Arabic ratings.

My research is centred around Silent Era films adapted from nineteenth and early twentieth century Gothic literature with a special emphasis on the figure of the monster and its translation from literary to cinematic form. The corpus I have assembled for the purposes of this analysis comprises sixty-six films made in ten different countries between 1897 and 1929. Many of these films are considered lost and I have endeavored to reconstruct them as much as possible using materials located in film archives. The Introduction lays out the ground covered in the thesis and provides a working definition of ‘monstrosity’ in this context. The first chapter deals with the historical, economic, cultural, social and technological contexts of the films under discussion. The second chapter approaches the eight literary monster figures who form the core of this thesis through the lens of Adaptation Theory. The third chapter examines the elements of cinematic language that were particularly relevant to translating monster characters and Gothic literary narratives into silent film, placing this corpus into the context of silent film history and theory. The fourth chapter reviews a cross-section of intermedial systems of classification that have been applied to monster figures, and proposes a new system that would reflect the multifarious nature of the silent film Gothic literary monster. Chapters Five through Nine offer a theoretical framework for classifying the principal characteristics of the silent film Gothic monster by applying various philosophical and aesthetic concepts. The final chapter summarises the material presented in earlier chapters and offers relevant conclusions demonstrating how these films employ the unique characteristics, conventions, and limitations of the silent film medium in their representations of the Gothic literary monster.

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This study will investigate variation in the language of American movies over an 80- year time period. The corpus is a collection of 640 movie subtitles that includes comedies, dramas, action-adventure, and horror-suspense movies from 1930 to 2010 totaling, approximately, 7,750,000 tokens and 325,000 types. The sampling frame for the corpus comprised the film guide 1001 Movies you Must See before you Die , in which sixty-seven renowned film critics elected the best movies of each decade, the website www.filmsite.org, as well as nominations for the Oscar, BAFTA, and the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films awards. The corpus was tagged for part of speech with the Biber tagger, and post-processed with the TagCount programs, which provides further syntactic and semantic analyses. This study will provide two different MD analyses, namely one that uses the existing 1988 dimensions to characterize the movies, and another that extracts new dimensions of variation based solely on movies. For the first one, scores were computed for each movie on each of the first five 1988 dimensions, for the corpus as a whole as well as for each individual movie genre. And for the second analysis, a new factor analysis was run to determine the factors that best represent the data, which were then interpreted in terms of underlying dimensions of variation. For both analyses, the effects of a set of independent variables were considered, including year of first screening, award nomination/win, length, genre, director, ratings, original/adapted script and production studio. Cluster analyses were also carried out to determine the optimal groups of movies within each dimension, such that they cut across the existing genre labels and provided characterizations that were grounded on linguistic characteristics rather than marketdriven concerns. The chapter will present each analysis together with text samples that illustrate the salient features of movies on each dimension. It will also present the results for cluster analysis that dissects time periods as well as statistical tests on these clusters that determine whether there are significant differences across movie genres over time.
O objetivo desta pesquisa é investigar dimensões de variação na linguagem dos filmes americanos ao longo de 80 anos de cinema falado. Para tanto, buscou-se suporte teórico na visão de linguagem da Linguística de Corpus e na abordagem metodológica da Análise Multidimensional. Mais especificamente, nas duas modalidades propostas por essa metodologia: a que mapeia o registro filme nas 5 dimensões de variação do inglês apontadas por Biber (1988), e a que propõe novas dimensões de variação baseadas apenas nos textos retratados dos filmes. Ambas as modalidades de análise levaram em conta as variáveis extralinguísticas: ano em que os filmes foram apresentados ao público, indicações/ premiações, duração, gênero, diretores, roteiro original versus adaptado, estúdio em que foram produzidos e avaliação da crítica. O corpus utilizado na pesquisa é composto por 640 legendas de filmes de gêneros diversos organizados sob quatro grandes categorias: comédia, drama, ação-aventura e horror-suspense-mistério. Os filmes foram selecionados com base no guia de filmes 1001 filmes par a ver antes de morrer , elaborado por sessenta e sete críticos de cinema renomados, que elegeram os melhores filmes de cada década, do sítio www.filmesite.org, e das nomeações e premiações recebidas pelas seguintes Academias: Oscar, BAFTA e Filmes de Horror, Fantasia e Ficção Científica (The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films). Para que se pudesse concluir o trabalho com a proposição de uma nova categorização para os filmes, baseada nas dimensões de variação encontradas recorreuse à análise estatística de Clusters, que permitiu o agrupamento ideal dos filmes de acordo com suas características morfossintáticas e semânticas

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2009.
Title from file title page. Margaret Mills Harper, committee chair; Calvin Thomas, Mary Hocks, committee members. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 14, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-48); filmography (p. 49-51).

U radu se predstavlja I analizira ukupna proizvodnjaanimiranih filmova u "Neoplanta filmu", u NovomSadu, Srbiji izmedju 1966. i 1985. godine.
This study elaborates the overall animated filmproduction of Neoplanta Film in Novi Sad, Serbiabetween 1966 and 1985.

Uporednom analizom elemenata psihodrame i socidrame s jedne i filmske metodologije reditelja Želimira Žilnika sa druge strane, u ovom radu ukazano je na funkcionalnu korelaciju poreĊenih disciplina. Evidentna srodnost psihodrame i sociodrame sa metodologijom rada na filmu upućuje na mogućnost njihove metodološke interakcije, ĉime se ujedno i proširuje polje paradigmatskih okvira u metodološkoj praksi filmskog stvaralaštva. Strukturu rada čini osam poglavlja. U teorijskom delu dat je pregled ključnih načela i metodoloških koncepata psihodrame i sociodrame, zatim su razmatrane metodološke osnove specifiĉnog filmskog podţanra dokudrame. U prvom delu istraţivanja analiziran je autentični filmski jezik Želimira Žilnika najizrazitijeg predstavnika dokudramskog pravca kod nas, a potom su u drugom delu izvedeni zaključci o dominantnim korelativnim elementima poređenih metodologija. Ključno zapažanje koje proističe iz sprovedene komparacije ukazuje na evidentno postojanje psihodramskih i sociodramskih elemenata u specifiĉnoj metodologiji Želimira Žilnika kao dominantnih odrednica pomoću kojih autor na impresivan naĉin koristi fleksibilni potencijal dokudrame u balansu između dokumentarne i igrane forme. Specifiĉnost ovakve autorske orijentacije je da kroz kreiranje imaginarne filmske priĉe principom dramske rekonstrukcije stvarnosti ističe ono što u realnom svetu ima za podlogu indeksiĉnu proverljivost. Potvrđujući hipotezu o funkcionalnoj primenljivosti naučnih saznanja u umetniĉkom procesu, konkretno na primeru paralelizma socijalne psihologije i filma, rezultati ovog istraţivanja otvaraju mogućnost formiranja polazne osnove za dalja istraţivanja u oblasti filmologije, naroĉito u domenu dokudrame, a mogu imati pedagoške implikacije u radu sa studentima, mladim autorima, kao i sa svima koji žele da prošire svoju metodologiju primenom ovakvog specifiĉnog - interdisciplinarnog pristupa.

 

This paper examines the role of the pioneer Filipino filmmaker Jose Nepomuceno and his films in the Philippine quest for independence and in the process of nation-building. As all of Nepomuceno's films are lost, most of the information was gathered from old newspaper articles on microfilm in different archives in Manila. Many of these articles were hitherto undiscovered. Nepomuceno made silent films at a time when the influence of the new coloniser, United States, was growing, and the Spanish language was what unified the intellectual opposition. Previous research on Nepomuceno has focused on the Hispanic influences on his filmmaking, as well as his connections to the stage drama. This paper argues that Nepomuceno created a national consciousness by making films showing native lives and environments, adapting important Filipino novels and plays to the screen and covering important political topics and thereby creating public opinion. Many reviews in the newspapers connected his films to nation-building and independence, as the creation of a national consciousness is a cornerstone in the process of building a nation and defining "Filipino". Furthermore, the films of Nepomuceno helped spreading the Tagalog culture and language to other parts of the Philippines, hence making Tagalog the foundation of the national Filipino language.

This report introduces a suite of command-line tools created to assist content developers with the creation of rich supplementary material to use in conjunction with feature films and other video assets in language teaching. The tools are intended to leverage open-source corpora and software (the OPUS OpenSubs corpus and the Moses statistical machine translation system, respectively), but are written in a modular fashion so that other resources could be leveraged in their place. The completed tool suite facilitates three main tasks, which together constitute this project. First, several scripts created for use in preparing linguistic data for the system are discussed. Next, a set of scripts are described that together leverage the strengths of both terminology management and statistical machine translation to provide candidate translation entries for terms of interest. Finally, a tool chain and methodology are given for enriching the terminological data store based on the output of the machine translation process, thereby enabling greater accuracy and efficiency with each subsequent application.

Due to the fact that adolescents are familiar with so many different media and technology resources today, learning in a conventional way is no longer effective. The aim for this literature review was to analyse what research shows about the use of film as a teaching tool in English to develop students’ linguistic and critical thinking skills in upper secondary EFL classrooms. The results disclosed that film can improve students’ linguistic skills and critical thinking. One reason for this is that film is already such a large part of students’ lives and provides a meaningful and familiar context for them and that film offers visual support. Studentsʼ felt motivated to see and experience “real-life” situations as opposed to reading the conventional textbook. Interaction between the students also proved to be vital in developing their language skills. Results also showed that it is imperative that teachers present film not only as a tool of entertainment, but one for teaching as well. This can be done by creating contextualized assignments related to the film. The literature review concluded that there are gaps in knowledge of this subject and that further research is desirable.

Danas, u raznim analitičkim laboratorijama postoji veći broj analitičkih protokola,zasnovanih bilo na izuzetno sofisticiranim ili jednostavnijim tehnikama, koji služe zaodređivanje različitih ciljnih analita od farmakološkog značaja. Među tim grupama ciljnih analita pripadaju i antibiotici koji predstavljaju veliko otkriće u oblasti medicine i zahvaljujući njima spašeno je više od sedam miliona života, ali pored navedenih koristi, antibiotici mogu da izazovu  veliki broj neželjenih efekata i žučne kiseline zajedno sa svojim derivatima, koji su fiziološki deterdženti, mogu biti citotoksične za organizam ako se njihova koncentracija ne kontroliše. U ovoj doktorskoj disertaciji prikazan je razvoj analitičkih metoda pre svega voltametrijskihmetoda u kombinaciji sa jednostavnim i savremenim elektrodama/senzorima za određivanje  odabranih analita kao što je antraciklični antibiotik doksorubicin (DOX), makrolidni antibioticieritromicin-etilsukcinata (EES), azitromicina (AZI), klaritromicina (CLA) i roksitromicina  (ROX) i 3-dehidro-deoksiholne kiseline.Voltametrijska karakterizacija i određivanje gore navedenih antibiotika primenom obnovljive srebro-amalgam film elektrode (Hg(Ag)FE)rađena je direktnom katodnom  voltametrijom sa pravougaonim talasima (SWV) i visoko osetljivom adsorptivnom voltametrijom sa pravougaonim talasima (SW-AdSV) u Briton-Robinson puferu, kao pomoćnom elektrolitu, obuhvatajući širok opseg pH vrednosti. Odgovor DOX-a primenom  Hg(Ag)FE praćen je u intervalu potencijala od -0,20 do -0,80 V.  Za analizu tragova, optimizacija metode ukazuje da su optimalni parametri za analitički pik na potencijalu (Ep ) -0,57 V u odnosu na zasićenu kalomelovu elektrodu (ZKE): pH 6,0, potencijal  akumulacije -0,20 V i vreme  akumulacije 140 s. U model rastvoru, DOX je određivan u koncentracionom opsegu 4,99-59,64  ng mL^-1. Razvijena SW-AdSV metoda je primenjena za određivanje DOX-a u obogaćenom uzorku humanog urina. Niža koncentracija DOX-a 9,89ng mL^-1 u voltametrijskoj  ćeliji je određivana sa relativnom standardnom devijacijom (RSD) manjom od 6,0%. Što se ispitivanih makrolida tiče oni su pokazali redukcione signale u dalekoj negativnoj oblasti potencijala. Ispitivanja direktnom katodnom SWV rađena su u opsegu potencijala od -0,75 V do -2,00 V u odnosu na ZKE, pri čemu su dobijena jedan ili dva redukciona pika u opsegu potencijala od -1,5 V do -1,9 V. Oblik i intenzitet signala zavisi od primenjene pH vrednosti u širokoj pH oblasti. Za analitičke svrhe, radi razvoja direktne katodne SWV i adsorptivne inverzne/striping SWV metode, pogodnim su se pokazale neutralna i slabo alkalna sredina tj. pH 7,0 sa  E_p na -1,67 V u odnosu na ZKE za ROX i EES i pH 7,2 sa E_p na -1,85 V u odnosu na ZKE za AZI i pH 7,4 sa E_p na -1,64 V u odnosu na ZKE za CLA. Na osnovu snimljenih cikličnih voltamograma na  optimalnim pH vrednostima, može se predložiti adsorptivno-kontrolisan kinetički proces na elektrodi u slučaju sva  četiri ispitivana jedinjenja. Takođe,  ¹H NMR merenja uz potiskivanje  signala vode u pH oblasti između pH 6,0 i 10,5 ukazuju na to da su makrolidni molekuli pri optimalnim analitičkim uslovima predominantno u protonovanoj formi preko tercijerne amino grupe što potpomaže, u sva  četiri slučaja, njihovu adsorpciju na odgovarajuće polarizovanoj Hg(Ag)FE. Optimizovane direktne katodne SWV metode  pokazuju dobru linearnost u koncentracionom opsegu 4,81-23,3  µg mL^-1 , 4,53-29,8  µg mL^-1 , 1,96-28,6  µg mL^-1 i 1,48-25,9 µg mL^-1 za AZI, EES, CLA odnosno ROX. Razvijene SW-AdSV metode rezultiraju u linearnom odgovoru pri nižim koncentracionim intervalima 1,0-2,46 µg mL^-1 ,  0,69-2,44  µg mL^-1, 0,05-0,99 µg mL^-1 i 0,10-0,99  µg mL^-1 , za AZI, EES, CLA i ROX. RSD za sve razvijene metode nije veća od 1,5% izuzev SWV metode u slučaju AZI-a gde je 4,5%. Direktna katodna SWV metoda  je uspešno primenjena za određivanje EES-a u farmaceutskom proizvodu Eritromicin^® dok SW-AdSV metoda je primenjena u slučaju određivanja EES-a u obogaćenom uzorku humanog urina i za određivanje ROX-a u farmaceutskom proizvodu Runac^® . U svim pomenutim slučajevima, primenjena je metoda standardnog dodatka. Pouzdanost i tačnost elaboriranih procedura u slučaju određivanja EES-a u model sistemu i  farmaceutskom proizvodu Eritromicin^® su potvrđena poređenjem sa rezultatima dobijenim primenom HPLC-DAD metode.Nakon preliminarnih studija 3-dehidro-deoksiholne  kiseline/3-dehidro-deoksiholata primenom elektrode od staklastog ugljenika (GCE), gde je uočeno da ne dolazi do formiranja redukcionog signala u Briton-Robinson puferu između pH 5,0 i 11,8 primenom direktne katodne SWV, bizmut-film je izdvojen  ex situ na površini iste elektrode od staklastog ugljenika (BiF-GCE) iz uobičajeno korišćenog rastvora za elektrodepoziciju (0,02 mol L^-1 Bi(NO₃)₃, 1,0 mol L^-1 HCl i 0,5 mol L^-1 KBr) i tako pripremljena elektroda je primenjena za karakterizaciju i određivanje pomenutog jedinjenja u alkalnoj sredini. Redukcioni signal ispitivanog analita od analitičkog značaja je uočen jedino primenom BiF-GCE u Briton-Robinson puferusa pH vrednostima između 9,5 i 11,8 u režimu adsorptivne inverzne/stripingvoltametrije sa pravougaonim talasima, dok u slučaju direktnih katodnih SWV eksperimentalnih uslova uočen je slab redukcioni pik sa niskom strujom maksimuma pika. Optimizovani eksperimentalni uslovi za određivanje 3-dehidro-deoksiholata obuhvataju odgovarajuće kondicioniranje elektrode uključujući kondicioniranje  ex situ pripremljene BiF-GCE u Briton-Robinson pomoćnom elektrolitu pH 11,8 do stabilizacije struje bazne linije elektrohemijskim cikliranjem potencijala radne elektrode u potencijalskom opsegu između -1,00 i -2,00 V u odnosu na ZKE (blizu 15 puta) i primenu dva ključna parametara adsorptivne voltametrije sa pravougaonim talasima: vreme akumulacije od 30 s i potencijal akumulacije  -1,00 V u odnosu na ZKE. Zbog relativne asimetričnosti dobijenih redukcionih signala ispitivanog analita sa  E_p na -1,35 V u odnosu na ZKE, što je takođe prisutno i u slučaju primene SW-AdSV, određivanje ispitivanog analita je zasnovano na linearnoj zavisnosti između površine pika redukcionog signala  spitivanog analita i njegove odgovarajuće koncentracije i postignuta granica detekcije je 1,43 µg mL^-1 sa dva linearna opsega kalibracione krive od 4,76 µg mL^-1 do 13,0 µg mL^-1 i od 13,0 µg mL^-1 do 23,1 µg mL^-1 za razvoj analitičke metode. RSD metode je 3,22%. Dodatni eksperimenti, elektroliza ispitivanog analita na potencijalu -1,55 V (blizu maksimuma pika ciljnog analita) u odnosu na ZKE su rađeni primenom GCE u obliku ploče (površina 33,52 cm 2 ) modifikovane sa  ex situ pripremljenim bizmut-filmom. Rastvor od interesa uzorkovan je na početku eksperimenta, nakon 2,5 h i nakon 4,5 h tretmana. Ovakvi uzorci su analizirani primenom ¹H NMR merenja uz potiskivanje signala vode u puferskom rastvoru pH 11,8. Može se pretpostaviti da tokom elektrolize 3-dehidro-deoksiholata dolazi do redukcije keto grupe prisutne u strukturi ispitivanog analita.Na osnovu literaturnih podataka da neki od ciljnihmakrolidnih antibiotika kao što je npr. azitromicin pokazuju oksidativno ponašanje na elektrodi od ugljenične paste i elektrodi od zlata deteljna karakterizacija i određivanje  četiri makrolidna antibiotika rađena je primenom  asične elektrode od ugljenične paste (CPE) koja se sastoji samo od grafitnog praha i parafinskog ulja sa optimizovanih direktnih anodnih SWV metoda. U slučaju EES-a i AZI-a diferencijalna pulsna voltametrija (DPV) je testirana za iste svrhe. Ključni  parametar u slučaju razvoja analitičkih voltametrijskih metoda je odabir pH vrednosti pomoćnog elektrolita gde je oblik/simetričnost i intenzitet oskidacionog pika glavni kriterijum prilikom odabira. Kao odgovarajuće pH vrednosti za voltametrijsko određivanje EES-a primenom SWV metode odabrana je pH 8,0 sa E_p na 0,83V u odnosu na ZKE, dok u slučaju DPV metode pH 12,0 sa  E_p na 0,55 V u odnosu na ZKE je bila najpogodnija za analitičke svrhe. Za određivanje AZI-a, u slučaju obe SWV i DPV metode pH 7,0 se pokazala najpogodnijom sa E_p analitičkog signala na 0,85 V odnosno 0,80 V u odnosu na ZKE, dok u slučaju CLA i ROX koji su ispitivani samo primenom SWV metode za analitičke svrhe pH 12,0 je bila najpogodnija sredina sa E_p analitičkog signala na 0,65 V odnosno na 0,63 V u odnosu na ZKE. Postignute granice detkcije primenom nemodifikovane CPE i direktne anodne SWV su uglavnom u submikrogramskom koncentracionom opsegu 0,17 µg mL^-1 , 0,32  µg mL^-1 i 0,30  µg mL^-1, u slučaju EES-a, AZI-a i ROX-a i u niskom mikrogramskom koncentracionom opsegu 1,43  µg mL^-1 za CLA. Razvijena SWV metoda sa jednostavnom CPE pokazala se pogodnom za određivanje ROX-a u komercijalnom proizvodu Runac^® tableti. U slučaju optimizovanih DPV metoda postignute granice detekcije za EES i AZI su u niskom mikrogramskom  koncentracionom opsegu 1,03  µg mL^-1 odnosno 1,53  µg  mL^-1 . U želji da se postigne niža granica detekcije za AZI, DPV metoda  je testirana u kombinaciji sa  CPE radnom elektrodom površinski modifikovanom sa zlatnim nanočesticama  prečnika 10 nm (Au-CPE) i  postignuta granica detekcije je 0,95  µg mL^-1 sa  E_p analitičkog signala na 0,80 V u odnosu na  ZKE. RSD metode u slučaju Au-CPE je 3,5%, dok je u slučaju nemodifikovane CPE 6,0%.  Linearnost analitičke metode zasnovane na primeni Au-CPE je dva puta šira nego u slučaju  primene nemodifikovane CPE.Na osnovu dobijenih rezultata može se zaključiti da  odgovarajuće kombinacije  optimizovanih voltametrijskih tehnika sa ekološki prihvatljivim i lako primenljivim radnim  elektrodama, kao što su Hg(Ag)FE, BiF-GCE i CPE zajedno sa Au-CPE, rezultuju razvojem  pouzdanih analitičkih metoda, kako u oksidacionim tako i u redukcionim proučavanjima, koje  često omogućuju  određivanje tragova analita od farmakološkog značaja u jednostavnim, a u nekim slučajevima i u složenim sistemima. 
Nowadays in different analytical laboratories there is the increasing number of analytical protocols, either based on highly sophisticated or simpler measurements techniques, which serving for determination of different target analytes of pharmacological importance. Among such target groups of the analyte belongs the antibiotics which present a great discovery in the field of medicine and thanks to them were saved more than seven million people but beside to the mentioned great benefits, antibiotics can cause a large number of side effects and bile acids together with their derivatives which are physiological detergents but if their concentration is notcontrolled they can be cytotoxic to the body. In the present doctoral dissertation the development of analytical methods, primarily analytical voltammetric methods in combination with simple and contemporary electrodes/sensors, for the determination of selected analytes as antracycline antibiotic doxorubicin (DOX), macrolide antibiotics erythromycin ethylsuccinate (EES), azithromycin (AZI), clarithromycin (CLA) and roxithromycin (ROX) and 3-dehydrodeoxycholic acid were performed.Voltammetric characterization and determination of the above mentioned antibiotics using a renewable silver-amalgam film electrode (Hg(Ag)FE) was performed by direct cathodic square-wave voltammetry (SWV) and by highly sensitive adsorptive square-wave voltammetry (SW-AdSV) in aqueous Britton-Robinson buffer solutions as supporting electrolyte covering the wider pH range. The Hg(Ag)FE response of DOX was monitored in the potential range between -0.20 and -0.80 V. For the trace level analysis the method optimization showed that the optimal conditions for the analytical peak with peak potential (E_p) at -0.57 V vs. SCE were: the pH 6.0, the accumulation potential -0.20 V, and the accumulation time 140 s. In the model solutions, DOX was determined in the concentration range of 4.99-59.64 ng mL^-1. The developed SWAdSV method was applied for the determination of DOX in spiked human urine sample. The lowest concentration of DOX of 9.89 ng mL^-1 in voltammetric vessel was determined with the relative standard deviation (RSD) less than 6%. As for the investigated macrolides, they showed reduction signals in fairly negative potential range. During direct cathodic SWV investigations conducted over the potential range from -0.75 V to -2.00 V vs. SCE, either one or two reduction peaks were obtained in the  potential range from -1.5 to -1.9 V. For analytical purposes concerning the development of direct cathodic SWV and adsorptive stripping SWV methods the neutral  and slightly alkaline media were suitable as pH 7.0 with E_p at -1.67 V vs.  SCE for ROX and EES and pH 7.2 and pH 7.4 with E_p at -1.85 V and -1.64 V vs. SCE for AZI and CLA, respectively. Based on the cyclic voltammograms recorded at these pH values, adsorptioncontrolled electrode kinetics process can be proposed for all four investigated compounds. The water suppressed ¹H NMR measurements in the pH range between 6.0 and 10.5 indicated that the macrolide molecules at the optimal analytical conditions are predominantly in protonated form via their tertiary amino groups which supported in all four cases their adsorption on the appropriately polarized Hg(Ag)FE electrode. The optimized direct cathodic SWV methods showed good linearity in concentration ranges 4.81-23.3 μg mL^-1, 4.53-29.8 μg mL^-1, 1.96-28.6  μg mL^-1, and 1.48-25.9 μg mL^-1 for AZI, EES, CLA and ROX, respectively. The SW-AdSV methods resulted in the linear responses at lower concentration ranges as 1.0-2.46 μg mL^-1, 0.69- 2.44 μg mL^-1, 0.05-0.99 μg mL^-1 and 0.10-0.99 μg mL^-1, for AZI, EES, CLA and ROX, respectively. The RSD for all developed methods was not higher than 1.5% except the SWV method for AZI with 4.7%. The direct cathodic SWV method was successfully applied for the determination of EES in the pharmaceutical preparation Eritromicin^®, while SW-AdSV was tested in the case of the spiked urine sample and for determination of ROX in pharmaceutical preparation Runac^®. In all above cases, the standard addition method was used. The reliability and accuracy of the above procedures in the case of EES determination in model system and pharmaceutical preparation Eritromicin^® were validated by comparing them with those obtained by means of HPLC-DAD measurements.After initial study of 3-dehydro-deoxycholic acid/3-dehydro-deoxycholate by glassy carbon electrode, where the absence of any reduction peak was observed in the Britton-Robinson buffer solutions between pH 5.0 and 11.8 by direct cathodic SWV, a bismuth-film was electrodeposited ex situ on the same glassy carbon electrode surface (BiF-GCE) from the usually used plating solution (0.02 mol L^-1 Bi(NO₃)₃, 1.0 mol L^-1 HCl and 0.5 mol L^-1 KBr) and such prepared film-electrode was applied for the characterization and determination of the the target analyte in alkaline media. The reduction signal of analytical importance was observed only by BiF-GCE in Britton-Robinson buffer solutions with pH values between 9.5 and 11.8 in adsorptive stripping square-wave voltammetry working regime, while in the case of the direct cathodic SWV experimental protocol only a very poor reduction peak was obtained. The optimized experimental conditions for the 3-dehydro-deoxycholate determination consist of the optimized electrode conditioning including the electrochemical cycling of the ex situ prepared BiF-GCE potentials in the potential span between -1.0 and -2.0 V vs. SCE (nearly 15 times) in the Britton-Robinson supporting electrolyte pH 11.8 till the stabilization of the baseline current, and the application of two key parameters of the adsorptive square-wave voltammetric protocol: the accumulation time as 30 s and accumulation potential as -1.0 V vs. SCE. Because of the relative asymmetry of the obtained reduction signals of the target analyte with peak E_p at -1.35 V vs. SCE, which is still present in the case of the SW-AdSV, the quantification of the target analyte was based on the linear correlation between peak area of the reduction signal and its appropriate concentrations, and reached limit of detection is 1.43 μg mL^-1 and with two linear ranges of calibration curve from 4,76 μg mL^-1 to 13.0 μg mL^-1 and from 13,0 μg mL^-1 to 23,1 μg mL^-1 for the development of analytical method. The RSD of the method  was 3.22%. Additional experiments were performed applying GCE with rectangular form (area 35.32 cm²) modified with ex situ prepared bismuth-film for the electrolysis of the target analyte which was performed at the potential -1.55 V (nearly the peak maxima of the target analyte) vs. SCE. The solution of interest was sampled at the beginning of the experiment, after 2.5 h and after 4.5 h of treatment. Such samples were analysed by simply water suppressing ¹H NMR measurements in the buffered solution at pH 11.8. It can be assumed that during electrolysis of 3-dehydrodeoxycholate the reduction of the keto group present in the structure of the target analyte can be occurred.Driven by earlier literature data about the fact that some of the target macrolide antibiotics as e.g. azithromycin showed oxidation behavior at a carbon paste and gold working electrodes detailed characterization and determination of four target macrolide antibiotics were performed on classical carbon paste electrode (CPE) constituted only from graphite powder and paraffin oil with optimized direct anodic SWV methods. In the cases of EES and AZI differential pulse voltammetric (DPV) methods were tested for the same purpose as well. The key parameter in the case of the development of the analytical voltammetric methods is the selection of the pH value of the supporting electrolyte where the shape/simmetry and intensity of the oxidation peak were the criteria. As the appropriate pH value for determination of EES by SWV method the pH 8.0 was selected with E_p at 0.83 V vs. SCE while in the case of the DPV method the pH 12.0 with E_p at 0.55 V vs. SCE was the most suitable for analytical  purpose. As for AZI determination, in the case of both SWV and DPV methods the pH 7.0 was the most appropriate supporting electrolyte with the Ep of analytical signal at 0.85 V and 0.80 V vs. SCE, respectively, while in the case of CLA and ROX which were investigated only with SWV method for the analytical purposes the pH 12.0 was the most suitable with E_p at 0.65 V and at 0.63 V vs. SCE. The obtained detection limits applying the bare CPE and the direct anodic SWV are mainly  in submicrogram concentration range as 0.17 μg mL^-1; 0.32 μg mL^-1 and 0.30 μg mL^-1 for EES, AZI, and ROX and in the low microgram concentration range as 1.43 μg mL^-1 for the CLA, respectively. The developed method succesfully tested for the determination of ROX in the commercial formulation, Runac^® tablet. In the case of the optimized DPV methods the obtained detection limits for EES and AZI are in the low microgram concentration range 1.03 μg mL^-1 and 1.53 μg mL^-1, respectively. For the improvement of the sensitivity for AZI the DPV method was tested in combination with a  CPE working electrode surface modified with gold nanoparticles with diameter of 10 nm (Au-CPE) and reached the limit of detection was 0.95 μg mL^-1 at E_p of 0.80 V vs. SCE. The RSD of the method in the case of the Au-CPE is 3.5% while in the case of the native CPE 6.0%. The linearity of the Au-CPE based analytical method is twice wider then it is case with the bare CPE applying protocol.Based on the obtained results it can be conclude that the appropriate combination of the optimized voltammetric pulse techniques and the environmentally friendly and easy to use working electrodes as Hg(Ag)FE, BiF-GCE and CPE together with Au-CPE resulted in the development of reliable analytical method either in the oxidation or reduction studies, often allowing trace level determination of pharmacological importance target analytes in simpler and in some case complexes systems.

La tesi fornisce uno studio empirico relativo agli elementi linguistici caratterizzanti il parlato faccia-a-faccia e il parlato filmico americano, due domini conversazionali solitamente detti differire in termini di spontaneità, essendo il primo generalmente descritto come la quintessenza del linguaggio parlato (in quanto totalmente spontaneo) e il secondo come non-spontaneo (essendo scritto-per-essere-parlato) e, quindi, non adatto a rappresentare l'uso generale della conversazione. Entrambe le analisi (i.e. quella multi-dimensionale, che offre una panoramica generale dei due domini presi in considerazione, e quella più specifica relativa al comportamento linguistico dell’espressione you know) basate su esempi autentici tratti da corpora dimostrano che, nonostante quanto venga generalmente descritto dalla letteratura a riguardo, conversazione faccia-a-faccia e conversazione filmica hanno molti tratti in comune e confutano l’idea che il linguaggio filmico non possa essere rappresentativo dell'uso generale della conversazione.
The present dissertation examines empirically the linguistic features characterizing American face-to-face and movie conversation, two domains which are usually claimed to differ especially in terms of spontaneity. Natural conversation is, indeed, considered the quintessence of the spoken language for it is totally spontaneous, whereas movie conversation is usually described as non-spontaneous, being artificially written-to-be spoken and, thus, not likely to represent the general usage of conversation. In spite of what is generally maintained by the literature, both the Multi-Dimensional analysis and the micro-analysis of the functions of you know based on authentic data retrieved from corpora show that the two conversational domains do not differ to a great extent and thus confutes the claim that movie language has “a very limited value” in that it does not reflect natural conversation and, consequently, is “not likely to be representative of the general usage of conversation”.

This senior thesis has two major purposes: One, to investigate and critique how experts characterize contemporary American post-westerns, second, to demonstrate, and suggest a more inclusive perspective through an analysis of Jim Jarmusch`s Dead Man (1996).Experts from the fields of film and American studies claim that there is a new phase in the genre’s development where post-western films move away from the conventions of the old, racist westerns. Accomplished authors have suggested that these films do not rely on the mythical west or on the regionalist culture but examine the west closely to determine the ways in which it differs from the representations and themes of the classical western. However, the films do not challenge the systematic misrepresentation of the crimes committed against Native Americans during the westward expansion which means that the films have not fully moved away from the old westerns. This cinematic perspective sickens the American conscience through the national narrative, as these films explore the early days of U.S. history. Nevertheless, Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man provides a new, much fuller perspective on the west, and faces the genocidal forces that America has thus far avoided within the western genre. Dead Man is a revisionist western that can help the genre to evolve even further, to include Native Americans and the truth of their history.

U disertaciji je izvršena voltametrijska karakterizacija i određivanje pet neonikotinoidnih insekticida (imidakloprida, tiametoksama, klotianidina, nitenpirama i acetamiprida) na različitim elektrodama na bazi ugljenika, kao što su elektroda od ugljenične paste, elektroda od staklastog ugljenika i bizmut-filmom modifikovani staklasti ugljenik. Pored ispitivanja u model-rastvorima, razvijene visokoosetljive diferencijalne pulsne voltametrijskemetode su primenjene za određivanje neonikotinoida u realnim uzorcima. Neonikotinoidi su određivani u uzorcima rečne vode i komercijalnim formulacijama, a praćena je i njihova fotolitička i fotokatalitička razgradnja. Radi potvrđivanja voltametrijskih rezultata, izvedena su komparativna merenja uz primenu tečne hromatografije sa detektorom od niza dioda i infracrvenespektrometrije. Detekcija pojedinih degradacionih proizvoda nastalih u toku ispitivanih fotodegradacionih procesa je praćena tečnohromatografskom metodom sa tandemskom masenospektrometrijskom detekcijom. Proučavana je površinska struktura CR 5 grafitnog praha, elektrode od ugljenične paste na bazi trikrezil-fosfata i elektrode od staklastog ugljenika pomoću skenirajuće elektronske mikroskopije.
This thesis is concerned with the voltammetric characterization and determination of five neonicotinoid insecticides (imidacloprid, thiamethoxam, clothianidin, nitenpyram and acetamiprid) at different carbon-based electrodes such as carbon paste, glassy carbon and bismuth-film modified glassycarbon. In addition to the investigations in model solutions, the developed highly sensitive differential pulse voltammetric methods were applied for the determination of neonicotinoids in real samples. Neonicotinoids were determined in river water samples, commercial formulations, and their photolytic and photocatalytic degradation was also monitored. To confirm the voltammetric results, comparative measurements were performed by liquid chromatography with diode-array detector and infrared spectrometry. Detection of some degradation products formed during the photodegradation processes was monitored using liquid chromatography with tandem mass-spectrometric detection. The surface structure of CR 5 graphite powder, tricresyl phosphate-based carbon paste electrode and glassy carbon electrode was investigated by scanning electron microscopy.

U ovom radu su razvijene elektrohemijske metode za određivanje histamina. U svimelektrohemijskim ispitivanjima korišćena je hronopotenciometrija. Istraživanja su obuhvatila optimizaciju uslova elektroanalitičkih tehnika i upoređivanje mehanizama generisanja analitičkog signala primenom različitih radnih elektroda, razvoj odgovarajućeg postupka pripreme uzoraka za analizu i samo određivanje histamina u hrani i piću. Ispitana je mogućnost primene čvrste zlatne elektrode, tankoslojne živine i tankoslojne niklove elektrode za elektrohemijsko određivanje histamina. U slučaju elektrooksidacije histamina, razjašnjeni su mehanizmi generisanja signala na primenjenim elektrodama. Optimizacija uslova elektroanalitičkih tehnika obuhvatila je odabir odgovarajućeg pomoćnog elektrolita i njegove koncentracije, ispitivanje uticaja početnog potencijala i struje oksidacije na analitički signal analita. Pored toga, za svaki elektrohemijski sistem definisana su osetljivost i reproduktivnost, selektivnost, kao i opseg linearnosti. Primenom tankoslojne niklove elektrode uočena je pojava adsorpcionog koncentrovanja analita, te su u slučaju ovog elektrohemijskog sistema ispitani i uticaji vremena adsorpcije i temperature ispitivanog medijuma na analitički signal histamina. Na tankoslojnoj živinoj elektrodi analitički signal se generisao usled direktne oksidacije histamina primenom konstantne struje. Na ostale dve elektrode, pored elektrodnih reakcija odvijale su se i hemijske reakcije, tako da se oksidacija histamina u oba slučaja odigravala po ECE mehanizmu (elektrodna reakcija – hemijska reakcija – elektrodna reakcija). Na čvrstoj zlatnoj elektrodi, generisanje signala je bilo posledica oksidacije histamina elektrogenerisanim hlorom, dok se u slučaju tankoslojne niklove elektrode radilo o kombinovanoj katalitičko‐adsorpcionoj hronopotenciometriji. Tankoslojna živina elektroda je pokazala dobru selektivnost pri koncentracijama aminokiselina i histamina nižim od 5 mg/dm³, dok je pri višim koncentracijama dolazilo do preklapanja analitičkih signala. Ostali elektrohemijski sistemi nisu pokazali odgovarajuću selektivnost. Najveća osteljivost je ostvarena primenom tankoslojne niklove elektrode (LOD = 0,11 mg/dm³), zatim sledi čvrsta zlatna elektroda (LOD = 0,27 mg/dm³) i na kraju tankoslojna živina elektroda (LOD = 1,31 mg/dm³). U okviru definisanja postupka pripreme uzoraka, ispitana je efikasnost različitih ekstrakcionih tehnika i različitih ekstragenasa u pogledu izdvajanja histamina iz uzoraka. Pored toga razvijeni su odgovarajući postupci prečišćavanja ekstrakata primenom preparativnih hromatografskih tehnika, i to na tankom sloju i na stubu adsorbensa. Po definisanju optimalnih uslova elektrohemijskog određivanje histamina, kao i razvijanja postupka pripreme uzoraka, histamin je određen u različitoj hrani i piću.
In this work, the electrochemical methods for the determination of histamine weredeveloped. All electrochemical investigations were carried out by chronopotentiometry. The research included optimization of the experimental parameters of electroanalytical techniques and comparison of the mechanism of the analytical signal generation by using the different working electrodes. Upon the development of sample preparation procedure, histamine was determined in different food and beverages. The possibility of applying solid gold electrodes, thin film mercury electrode and thin film nickel electrode for electrochemical determination of histamine was examined. The mechanisms of histamine electrooxidation on different working electrodes were explained and elaborated. Optimization of the experimental parameters of electroanalytical techniques included the selection of appropriate supporting electrolyte and its concentration, and investigation of the influence of initial potential and oxidation current on histamine analytical signal. Beside this, for each electrochemical system sensitivity and reproducibility, selectivity as well as linearity range were defined. The use of thin nickel film electrode resulted in adsorptive accumulation, and in that case the effects of accumulation time and medium temperature on histamine analytical signal were defined. On thin film mercury electrode, histamine analytical signal was generateddue to direct oxidation of histamine by a constant current. On other two electrodes, electrode reactions were coupled with chemical reaction, and histamine oxidation was by ECE mechanism (electrode reaction – chemical reaction – electrode reaction). On solid gold electrode histamine was oxidized indirectly by electrogenerated chlorine, while in the case of thin film nickel electrode combination of catalytic and adsorptive chronopotentiomety was responsible for signal generation. Thin film mercury electrode showed good selectivity for histamine and amino acids concentrations below 5 mg/dm³, but higher concentrations caused the overlapping of analytical signals. Other electrochemical systems did not show adequate selectivity. The best sensitivity was achived by thin film nickel electrode (LOD = 0.11 mg/dm³),followed by a solid gold electrode (LOD = 0.27 mg/dm³), and by thin film mercury electrode (LOD = 1.31 mg/dm³). In order to define adequate sample preparation procedure, the efficiency of different extraction techniques and different solvents were tested for histamine extraction from the samples. Appropriate procedures for purification of extracts were defined as well, by applying preparative thin layer and column chromatography. After optimization of the electrochemical methods for histamine determination, as well as the procedure of sample preparation, developed methods were applied for histamine determination in various food and beverages.

Um dos principais objetivos da pesquisa em aquisição da linguagem tem sido a compreensão da forma como os processos de aprendizado ou aquisição ocorrem, assim como a elaboração de alternativas metodológicas que consigam promover a comunicação autêntica em sala de aula, habilitando os aprendizes a participar das mais diversas situações comunicativas encontradas no cotidiano. Dentre os enfoques comunicativos, o ensino de línguas por tarefas tem sido fortemente aceito como sendo uma abordagem que permite o desenvolvimento de uma desejável habilidade comunicativa, através da prática autêntica e do foco nos significados, e que, concomitantemente, abre espaço para a ocorrência de momentos ou etapas durante a tarefa em que a atenção do aluno seja temporariamente dirigida a aspectos formais da língua-alvo, sem que haja uma inversão de prioridades no aprendizado, isto é, sem que o foco principal das tarefas seja preterido em relação ao foco excessivo em aspectos estruturais. A presente pesquisa investigou um projeto de elaboração de um guia de críticas de filmes. O projeto ocorreu em um curso livre de idiomas, no qual 22 alunos adultos de inglês como língua estrangeira foram divididos em três grupos e realizaram atividades que visavam a aumentar sua atenção sobre elementos relevantes ao gênero textual crítica de filme, assim como sobre aspectos gramaticais e lexicais, durante os encontros que ocorreram em meio à produção escrita de 3 críticas por cada participante. Os procedimentos adotados visaram a verificar de que maneira os aprendizes obtiveram ganhos de produção escrita no que se refere aos elementos de gênero e aos aspectos gramaticais. A análise dos dados obtidos demonstrou que as atividades de aumento de atenção e consciência trouxeram resultados bastante positivos. Além disso, o projeto demonstrou que os dois enfoques metodológicos tomados como base para os procedimentos adotados – o Ensino de Línguas por Tarefas e a proposta de Sequências Didáticas com gêneros textuais - são bastante compatíveis e que podem ser muito produtivos para aplicações futuras no ensino de língua estrangeira.
One of the main goals of the research in language acquisition has been to understand in which ways the learning or acquisition processes occur, and to propose methodological alternatives which are able to promote authentic communication in classroom, enabling learners to take part in a range of communicative situations found in daily life. Among the communicative approaches, the task based-language teaching has strongly been regarded as an option that permits both the development of desirable communicative skills, through authentic practice and a focus on meaning, and which also provides room for moments or steps during the task when the learner’s attention be temporarily focused on formal aspects of the target language, without any kind of inversion on the learning priorities, that is, keeping the main focus on the tasks, instead of an excessively strong focus on structural aspects. The present research investigated a project involving the production of a movie review guide book. The project took place in a free language course, where 22 adult participants, learners of English as a foreign language were split into three groups, and were assigned activities that intended to enhance their attention to both text genre-relevant elements and to grammar and lexical aspects during the meetings which happened in midst of the production of 3 reviews by each participant. The chosen procedures sought to investigate in which ways learners had gains in their writing production in relation to those elements and aspects. The data analysis shows that the attention and consciousness-raising activities brought about significantly positive results. In addition, the project has demonstrated that both methodological approaches used to design the task sequence adopted in the research – the task based-language teaching and the use of text genres in didactic sequences – are quite compatible and that they can be very productive in similar future applications in foreign language teaching.

U poslednjih nekoliko decenija, feroelektrici su prepoznati kao dobri kandidatiza širok spektar primene. Barijum titanat je jedan od najčešće istraživanihperovskitnih materijala usled tipičnog feroelektričnog ponašanja na sobnojtemperaturi, sa histerezisnom zavisnosti između polarizacije i električnog polja.Specifična svojstva BaTiO₃ čine ovaj materijal veoma korisnim u proizvodnjikondenzatora, memorija, senzora i dr. Pored toga, paraelektrična faza BaTiO₃ima primenu u proizvodnji mikrotalasnih tunabilnih uređaja. BaTiO₃ pokazujeparalaketrično ponašanje iznad Kirijeve temperature (120°C) i veliki je izazovmodifikovati materijal da bude paraelektričan na sobnoj temperaturi. Delimičnomsupstitucijom Ba²⁺ ili Ti⁴⁺ jona, jonima Sr²⁺ ili Zr⁴⁺, respektivno, snižavase Kirijeva temperatura i dolazi do pomeranja fazne transformacije feroelektrično/paraelektrično na niže temperature. Monolitna keramika na bazi baziBaTiO₃ je često istraživana kako bi se ispitale promene u strukturi i svojstvimauzrokovane dodatkom dopanata, međutim ne postoji praktična primena ovihmaterijala u mikrotalasnim tunabilnim tehnologijama. S druge strane, u trendusveopšte minijaturizacije elektronskih komponenti, tanki filmovi su prepoznatikao dobri kandidati za proizvodnju tunabilnih uređaja. Jedan od ciljeva ovogistraživanja bio je ispitivanje strukturnih i funkcinalnih svojstava tankih filmova nabazi barijum titanata, BaTiO₃, Ba_1-xSr_xTiO₃ (x=0,1, 0,2, 0,3 i 0,4) i BaTi_1-xZr_xO₃(x=0,1 i 0,2), pripremljenih hemijskom depozicijom iz tečne faze. Metalnesoli BaCO₃, C₄H₆O₄Sr i ZrOCl₂ H₂O i Ti(OCH₂CH₂CH₂CH₃)₄ rastvorene suodvojeno u kiseloj sredini i pomešane u transparentne solove. Inkdžet štampai spin tehnika koršćene su za depoziciju funkcionalnih filmova na bazi BaTiO₃.Nakon deponovanja, pripremljeni filmovi su termički tretirani na različitimtemperaturama do 1000°C. U zavisnosti od koncentracije pripremljeni su filmovidebljine od 100 do 700 nm,sa veličinom zrna od nekoliko desetina nanometara. Strukturna karakterizacija potvrdila je promene u strukturi BaTiO₃ tankih filmovasa dodatkom Sr²⁺ i Zr⁴⁺. Tetragonalna (feroelektrična) faza BaTiO₃ je potvrđenarentgenostrukturnom analizom i Ramanovom spektroskopijom. S druge strane,smanjenje tetragonalnosti je primećeno kod dopiranih uzoraka. Promene ufunkcionalnosti dopiranih BaTiO₃ filmova analizirane su na osnovu dielektričnihi feroelektričnih merenja. Izvršene analize su potvrdile feroelektrično ponašanjekod BaTiO₃, dok se feroelektrični odgovor u tankim filmovima smanjuje sadopiranjem. Priprema elektroda specifičnih geometrija pogodnih za tunabilnamerenja različitim tehnikama depozicije bio je drugi cilj istraživanja. Tehnika spaterovanja u kombinaciji sa laserskim uklanjanjem, inkdžet štampa i fotolitografijasu korišćene za pripremu kružnih i koplanarnih elektroda na površini barijumtitanatnih tankih filmova. Uticaj procesnih parametara svake od pomenutihmetoda na dimenzionalnu preciznost pripremljenih elektroda je bio predmet istraživanjau okviru teze. Odabrani laser se pokazao kao neprikladan za pripremuelektroda na pripremljenim barijum titanatnim tankim filmovima. Inkdžet štampase pokazala kao korisna u pripremi elektroda mikrometarskih fimenzija, dok je zapripremu sofisticiranijih geometrija fotolitografija pokazala najbolje performanse.
In past few decades, ferroelectrics are recognized as good candidates for widerange of applications. Barium titanate is one of the most investigated perovskitematerials due to typical ferroelectric behavior at room temperature, with hysteresisdependence of the polarization and electric field. Specified propertiesof BaTiO₃ make this material useful in production of capacitors, memories,sensors, etc. Nevertheless, paraelectric phase of BaTiO₃ may have applicationin production of microwave tunable devices. Barium titanate shows paraelectricbehavior at temperatures above the Currie temperature (120 °C) and it is greatchallenge to make material paraelectric at room temperature. Partial substitutionof Ba²⁺ or Ti⁴⁺ ions, by Sr²⁺ or Zr⁴⁺, respectively, decreases the Currie temperatureof barium titanate and moves phase transition ferroelectric/paraelectricto lower temperatures. Bulk BaTiO₃ was often investigated in order to improvestructure and functionality by addition of dopant, but do not have practicalapplication in microwave tunable technologies. On the other hand, with thetrend of overall miniaturization of electronic devices, thin films are recognizedas good candidates for production of tunable devices. One of the aims in thisresearch was investigation of structural and functional properties of bariumtitanate based thin films, BaTiO₃, Ba_1-xSrxTiO₃ (x=0,1, 0,2, 0,3 i 0,4) andBaTi_1-xZrxO₃ (x=0,1 i 0,2), prepared by chemical solution deposition. Metalsalts of BaCO₃, C₄H₆O₄Sr and ZrOCl₂ H₂O and Ti(OCH₂CH₂CH₂CH₃)₄ wereseparetly disolved in acetic environment and mixed in clear transparent sols.Inkjet printing and spin coating were used for deposition of functional BaTiO3based fims. After deposition prepared films were thermally treated at differenttemperatures up to 1000 °C. In dependence of sol concentration thickness ofobtained films is from 100 to 700 nm and grain size is few tens of nanometers. Structural characterization confirmed changes in structure of barium titanate thinfilms by addition of Sr^₂₊ i Zr⁴⁺. Tetragonal (ferroelectric) phase of BaTiO₃ isconfirmed by X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. On the other hand, decreasingof tetragonality was noticed in doped samples. Changes in functionalityof doped BaTiO₃ thin films were analyzed by dielectric and ferroelectric measurements.Performed analysis confirmed ferroelectric behavior of barium titanatethin films, and decrease in ferroelectric answer of doped films. Investigation ofpossibility of complex shaped electrodes preparation,suitable for tunability measurements, by different deposition techniques was the second goal of this research.Sputtering technique in combination with laser removal, inkjet printing and photolithography were used for preparation of complex circular and coplanar electrodeson the surface of barium titanate based thin films. Influence of processingparameters for the each of mentioned technique on dimensional precision of preparedelectrodes was investigated. Selected laser was not appropriate for productionof electrodes on prepared barium titanate based thin films. Inkjet printingwas useful for production of electrodes in micrometer range, but for more sophisticatedgeometries photolithography shows the best performance.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.
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In less than a decade since the onset of the global economic crisis, more than 2 million people have left Spain in search of work and the possibility of a livable existence. Many of these economic exiles are young and highly qualified, leading some to classify this exodus as a brain drain. Lingering labor market instability and growing mistrust in Spain’s political system portend a challenging future for members of the so-called “lost generation,” both at home and abroad. Meanwhile, many questions remain about the lasting effects and repercussions of the crisis and massive departure of young Spaniards.

In response, the recession and ensuing surge in emigration have been popular themes of economic, demographic and sociological research in recent years; however, the cultural productions representative of this group remain relatively unstudied. The current investigation focuses on a selection of documentary films and fictional literature that portray the experiences of these highly qualified migrants. Through close analysis of these works, narrative patterns and trends appeared. These literary and audiovisual texts manifest the dialectical tensions of exile literature theorized by Sophia McClennen as well as the complex nostalgias of Svetlana Boym. They also reject and redefine the generational terms imposed upon them, express diasporic solidarity and call for political involvement and collective action. The rhetorical undercurrents at work in these constructions of individual and group identity suggest the emergence of an archetypal narrative of the new Spanish migrant. The cultural negotiations implicit in this narrative seem to confirm that sweeping but gradual societal changes are taking effect, even beyond Spain's borders.