Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Morisita'

Feminist art historians reassessed French Impressionist Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) throughout the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a period in which her work coincidentally received steady exposure in major museum exhibitions. This thesis examines how the feminist art historical project intersects with exhibitions that give prominence to Morisot’s work. Critical reviews by Morisot scholars argue that more frequent display of the artist’s work has not correlated to nuanced interpretation. Moreover, prominent feminist scholars and museum theorists maintain that curators virtually exclude their contributions. Attending to these recurrent concerns, this thesis charts shifts in emphases and inquiry in writing centered on Morisot to survey the extent to which curators convey new constructions of her artistic, social, and historical identities. This analysis will observe how distinct exhibition forms—the retrospective, the Impressionism blockbuster, and the gendered “women Impressionists” show—may frame Morisot’s work differently according to their organizing principles.

Auguste Morisot (1857-1951) est essentiellement un paysagiste qui s'inscrit dans la tradition de la peinture lyonnaise de la fin du XIXe siècle. Le symbolisme tardif et la méfiance à l'égard de la sphère artistique parisienne dont il fait preuve le maintiennent à l'écart des grands courants novateurs internationaux. Cependant l'importance d’Auguste Morisot mérite d'être réévaluée car son œuvre, très diversifié, est de qualité et le personnage est un témoin privilégié de la vie artistique lyonnaise puisqu'il fut pendant presque quarante ans professeur à l'Ecole des Beaux-arts de Lyon<br>Auguste Morisot (1857-1951) is mainly a landscape-painter who fits in the lyonese tradition of painting at the end of the xix century the late symbolism and the distrust of the parisian artistic sphere of which he gives proof, keep him apart from the big innovating and international movements. In the meantime, the importance of Auguste Morisot deserves to be reevaluated because his very diversified work is of quality and because the person is a privileged witness of the lyonese artistic life, as he was almost forty years professor at the Lyonese Fine Arts'school

Submitted by Marilene Donadel (marilene.donadel@unioeste.br) on 2018-10-23T17:20:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Wagner_Franca_2018.pdf: 1672761 bytes, checksum: cbabb751327c3b80926b9fbde714a9e3 (MD5)<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-23T17:20:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Wagner_Franca_2018.pdf: 1672761 bytes, checksum: cbabb751327c3b80926b9fbde714a9e3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-05-14<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES<br>The global primary energy mix is mostly composed by nonrenewable resources and the use of which uses contributes to increase the greenhouse gas emissions. The consumption of oil and coal, responsible for attending 60% of the total energy demand between 1970 and 2015, is more likely to enhance the air pollution than the consumption of natural gas. Besides, some authors announce the impossibility of sustaining the demand of oil with conventional type only at around 2050, because of technical and economic constraints over the reserves. Technology has been playing a roll giving more flexibility to the interfuel substitution among fossil fuels, in many applications. That gives the opportunity to increase the share of natural gas in the primary mix, while reducing the consumptions of the other two. Moreover, the reserves of natural gas are larger in comparison with the ones of oil, allowing it to alleviate the pressure over the latter. From those perspectives, increasing the use of natural gas would contribute to reduce the negative environment externality and the extension of a possible shock to be unleashed in the energy supply. The objective of this dissertation is to seek for a substitutability between natural gas and the others fossil fuels in the primary energy demand, using the Morishima Elasticity of Substitution, between 1970 and 2015. The model started with a Translog cost function to obtain the input demand equations of each fuel and their cost share functions, applying Shephard’s lemma. The parameters of the econometric regression were estimated by the Seemingly Unrelated Regressions method, as means to measure the price elasticity, the Allen Elasticity of Substitution and the Morishima Elasticity of Substitution. The model was applied to the United States due to their significance in the global context of energy. The results showed that a single conclusion for the period as a whole is statistically insignificant. Based on own-price elasticities, there were clearly three structural brakes, statistically significant, which divided the time series in four intervals. In the interval 1970-1981, the natural gas had a complementary relation with oil and both were substitutes for coal. In the intervals 1982-1995 and 1996-2008, there was substitutability among natural gas and oil, although limited. In the most recent interval, all of the fuels were complements to each other. Putting together the elasticities of substitution and the price elasticities analysis, we conclude that factors exogenous to the free market relations, such as government interventions, were determinants to demand decisions. The lack of a continuous and consistent relation of substitution between natural gas and the other two fossil fuels, warns that the concerns presented in this work may have being neglected and a transition from a polluted and finite mix to another cleaner and renewable, bridged by natural gas, is not occurring in the world’s largest economy.<br>A matriz mundial de energia primária é composta predominantemente por recursos não renováveis e cujo consumo contribui para a intensificação do efeito estufa. O consumo do petróleo e do carvão, combustíveis que supriram mais de 60% da demanda total de energia entre 1970 e 2015, é mais intensivo na geração de poluentes do que o consumo do gás natural. Além disso, alguns autores datam para próximo de 2050 a impossibilidade de sustentar a demanda de petróleo, pelo esgotamento técnico e econômico das reservas do tipo convencional. A tecnologia vem dando flexibilidade para que haja a substituição dentre os combustíveis fósseis, em várias aplicações. Isso gera a oportunidade de aumentar o consumo do menos poluidor, o gás natural, em substituição aos outros dois. O gás natural também possui reservas relativamente maiores do que as do petróleo, o que permite a ele aliviar parte da pressão colocada sobre este último. Por estas perspectivas, aumentar a participação do gás natural contribui para a mitigação da externalidade ambiental e reduz a magnitude de uma possível crise causada por um choque de oferta. O objetivo geral desta dissertação é responder se há uma relação de substituição entre o gás natural e os outros combustíveis fósseis na demanda de energia primária, pela Elasticidade de Substituição de Morishima, no período entre 1970 e 2015. O modelo partiu de uma função de custos do tipo Translog para chegar às equações de demanda condicionada de cada combustível e às equações de participação de custo, aplicando o lema de Shepard. Os parâmetros da regressão econométrica foram estimados pelo método Seemingly Unrelated Regressions e usados para os cálculos das elasticidades da demanda aos preços, de substituição de Allen e de substituição de Morishima. O modelo foi aplicado aos Estados Unidos, dada a significância deste país no contexto mundial de energia. Os resultados mostraram que uma única conclusão para todo o período é estatisticamente insignificante. Com base nas elasticidades aos próprios preços, foi possível identificar três quebras estruturais, estatisticamente significativas, dividindo o período em quatro intervalos. No intervalo 1970-1981, o gás natural se mostrou complementar ao petróleo e, estes dois, substitutos ao carvão. Nos intervalos 1982-1995 e 1996-2008 foi identificada uma relação de substituibilidade entre o gás natural e o petróleo, apesar de limitada. No mais recente, todos os combustíveis tiveram relações de complementariedade. Aliando estas às interpretações das elasticidades-preço, concluiu-se que fatores externos ao mercado, como interferências de governo, foram mais determinantes para as decisões de demanda. Não ter sido possível encontrar uma relação de substituição entre o gás natural e os outros dois fósseis, de forma contínua e consistente, deixa o alerta de que as preocupações levantadas podem estar sendo negligenciadas e que a transição de uma matriz predominantemente suja e finita para outra mais limpa e renovável, mediada pelo gás natural, não está em curso na maior economia do mundo.

La baronía de Serra fue la primera en ser repoblada tras la expulsión morisca. La Tesis analiza el proceso repoblador, prosopografía de linajes, inmigración vizcaína, evolución demográfica, distribución de tierras y casas, aprovechamientos agrarios, producciones, tributos señoriales, diezmos, vida social, patrimonio... Los Folch de Cardona/Duques de Montellano, pleitearon por conservar esta posesión contra los duques de Cardona/Segorbe. El malestar de los vasallos culminó en 1839 con la interposición de una demanda popular para reversión de la baronía a la Corona, demanda que prosperó por la disposición y concesiones de la duquesa de Montellano en su testamento de 1837. Filiberto Mahy, completó la liquidación de bienes privativos sin que los vecinos de Serra soportaran gravosas cargas, como sucedió en otros lugares. En 1835 fue anexionada al término de Serra la desamortizada Cartuja de Portaceli.<br>Serra was the first barony to be populated after the Moorish expulsion. This thesis analyses the repopulating process, prosopography of lineages, Viscain immigration, demographic evolution, distribution of lands and houses, agrarian exploitations, tributes, tithes, social life, heritage... The Folch de Cardona family, later Montellano dukes, litigated against the Cardona/Segorbe dukes to maintain the property. The discomfort of the vassals culminated in 1839 with interposition of a popular demand for the reversal of the barony to the Crown, demand which prospered thanks to the goodwill and concessions made by the Montellano duchess in her testament in 1837. Philibert Mahy completed the liquidation of separate properties without Serra’s neighbours having to bear any burdensome charges, as happened in many other cases. In 1835, the disentailed Charterhouse of Portaceli district was annexed to Serra’s.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD<br>This research is a critical ethnography of KM in primary schools. Its purpose is to explore the link between heritage language and identity construction. My central research question is: how does the introduction of KM as an optional language in primary education shape Creole pupils' language identity construction in Mauritius? The research studied the overall impact of KM on two schools which I selected as research sites. Research participants were pupils of Standard I-II-III, head of schools, teachers and parents. I also selected some key informants. The study was placed within the international literature on heritage language and identity construction. The research is significant in the sense that it was conducted at the initial stages of the introduction of KM in schools. It might be of interest for future studies as its findings would serve to understand the place of KM in schools. At the same time looking at KM as a heritage language set against the 'ancestral languages' has not been done before. It contributes to other ways of looking at 'heritage' in a global world. I elaborated a conceptual framework based on classical Marxism, post-structural Marxism, French theories and post-colonial studies. I applied critically the theoretical lens in the Critical Theory Tradition which basically challenges the status quo. This study drew implications for language teaching policy and practice and the teaching of KM as a tool for empowerment and human agency. This research indicated the learners' views as to how their exposure to Kreol Morisien in the classroom shapes their ability to construct new, desired identities within local, national or global communities. The research design was based on a critical ethnographic approach whereby the researcher and the participants find themselves in a reciprocal human experience. Research instruments that were used were ethnographic interviews, class observations, document analysis complemented by the Delphi Method which is a forecast study of future trends. I got five findings. First, Creole consciousness movement underpinned the introduction of KM as an optional language in primary education. Second, parents chose KM on a purely utilitarian basis. Third, the curriculum and syllabus do not reflect and support the Creole identity and culture. Fourth, there was an invisibility and ambiguity about Creole culture in the school textbook. Finally, the pedagogy used to teach KM as an optional language created motivation and self-esteem. This study which was conducted during the first three years of the introduction of KM in two primary schools indicates that the presence of KM did not however, really enhance the identity of the Creole children as the curriculum, syllabus and textbook did not reflect and support the Creole culture and identity. KM was an additional language subject which certainly seduced by its novelty but it did not bring great changes as were expected. But KM does open avenues for adjustments and initiatives for an alternative programme in KM as heritage language and culture which could be implemented outside school. Such initiative would foster KM in its double identity of being both an ethnic and national language plus its future use as medium of instruction.

Ce travail présente la première traduction française, assortie de notes et précédée d’une introduction détaillée, d’un roman à clef néo-latin intitulé Peruviana (1644), qui transpose au Pérou les intrigues politiques et sentimentales du Royaume de France au temps de Louis XIII. Son auteur, Claude-Barthélemy Morisot (12 avril 1592 - 22 octobre 1661), était un parlementaire dijonnais appartenant à un cercle de “libertins érudits” de la République des Lettres de la première moitié du XVIIème siècle, auteur d’ouvrages savants et de cet unique roman.L’étude en trois parties servant d’introduction offre d’abord une contextualisation de cette fiction romanesque et de son auteur, livrant les premières clefs nécessaires à la lecture ; puis une analyse narratologique aborde les enjeux littéraires et l’exploitation des sources, notamment antiques : la confrontation des référents et de la structuration de l’intrigue met en évidence la double portée, stéganographique et politique, de ce roman, que la fin de l’étude tentera d’élucider. Il apparaîtra alors que l’auteur, par le jeu de l’analogie et de la métaphore que permet le principe du roman à clef, a envisagé son œuvre comme une utopie où les mécanismes historiques, entrant en concordance avec ceux du Cosmos, pourraient être appréhendés et harmonisés par l’application d’un art bienveillant, prenant en compte tous les aspects et tous les états de la matière sociale afin de guider celle-ci vers un accomplissement proche de l’idéal. Cette lecture alchimique révèle que tout le roman est une métaphore de l’Œuvre, dont l’artisan serait le Poète, mettant au service de l’humanité à venir ce fruit de sa sagesse<br>This dissertation is the first translation of a Neo-Latin roman à clef entitled Peruviana (1644) which transposes to Peru the political and sentimental intrigues that took place in France under Louis XIII. This edition is accompanied with notes and preceded by a detailed introduction. The author of Peruviana, Claude-Barthélemy Morisot (April 12, 1592 – October 22, 1661), was a native of Dijon and belonged to a group of libertine scholars from the Republic of Letters during the first half of the 17th century. He is the author of several scholarly works, but Peruviana is his only novel.The first part of the introduction provides contextual elements about the narrative and its author, while also giving some of the keys to read the novel. The second part consists of a narratological analysis which deals with its literary issues and the use of sources – especially classical literature ; the confrontation between the referents and the structure of the plot highlights the steganographic and political dimension of this novel, a point on which third part of this study sheds light.It then becomes clear that thanks to the use of analogy and metaphor – which are characteristic devices of romans à clefs – the author conceived his work as a utopia in which the historical mechanisms reflecting those of the Cosmos might be apprehended and harmonized through a benevolent art that would take into account all the aspects and states of the social Materia(l) in order to lead it to an (almost) ideal fulfilment. This alchemical reading reveals that the entire novel is a metaphor of the Magnum Opus, whose architect would be the Poet offering the product of his wisdom to the future of mankind

Y a-t-il un rapport entre l'effet provoqué par une image et sa texture? L'illusionnisme pictural issu de la Renaissance, fondé sur la perspective linéaire, avait cherché à effacer toute trace de la facture en peinture. La présence du corps de l'artiste dans cette facture devenue apparente n'apporte-t-elle pas une émotion plus immédiate? Cette thèse montre que les découvertes des sciences cognitives sur la perception ont été pressenties par des peintres des XIX et XXe siècles, en particulier B. Morisot, V. Van Gogh, et F. Bacon qui ont bouleversé les habitudes du regard. Ces artistes se sont rendus compte qu'une image parcellaire, gardant sa facture visible, ne nuisait pas à la réception de celle-ci, au contraire. Van Gogh et Bacon ont fait remarquer qu'une telle manière de représenter, favorisant les "imperfections", laissant la matière apparente, produisait sur le spectateur un effet plus immédiat et plus fort qu'une autre à l'aspect fini, maîtrisé rationnellement du début à la fin. Sera analysée la démarche de ces peintres qui vont vers une prise de conscience fort intéressante au regard des sciences cognitives. Une étude anatomique et psycho-physiologique de la vision montre d'étonnantes passerelles avec les intuitions de ces peintres. La trace du geste donne des informations motrices que le cerveau peut capter. Le flou, l'inachevé appellent notre perception à combler les vides, car le cerveau ne cesse de scénariser, à l'origine pour sa sauvegarde, à partir de ce qui n'est que probable, incertain. Les surfaces où la texture est très apparente nous font pénétrer au cœur du processus de fabrication de l'œuvre, et aux conditions de possibilité de la créativité<br>Is there a connection between the effect produced by an image and its texture? The pictorial illusionism of the Renaissance, based on linear perspective, attempted to erase all traces of the facture in paintings. But it seems that the presence of the artist’s body in the facture of the work provokes a more immediate emotion drawn from the origins of perception. This thesis will show that discoveries in cognitive sciences on perception were anticipated by painters of the XIX and XXth centuries, especially B. Morisot, V. Van Gogh, and F. Bacon, who contributed to change the habits of seeing. Those artists found out that an incomplete image, which keeps the trace of its facture, doesn’t hinder its understanding, but does quite the contrary. Van Gogh and Bacon noticed that such a way to represent things, leaving imperfections and visible matter, produces on the spectator a more immediate and stronger effect than an image rationally mastered from the beginning to the end. The approach of each of those artists will be analysed ; they had very interesting intuitions regarding recent discoveries in cognitive sciences. Recent results from anatomical and psycho-physiological studies on the mechanisms of vision show astonishing links with the intuitions of the artists. The trace of the gesture gives motor information that the brain can grasp. Our perception completes the gaps of unfinished visual information, because our brain, originally develop for our survival, is used to build scenarios from what is only probable, uncertain. Surfaces where the texture is visible allow us to get inside the process of materially manufacturing the work, and to the conditional options of creativity

Y a-t-il un rapport entre l'effet provoqué par une image et sa texture? L'illusionnisme pictural issu de la Renaissance, fondé sur la perspective linéaire, avait cherché à effacer toute trace de la facture en peinture. La présence du corps de l'artiste dans cette facture devenue apparente n'apporte-t-elle pas une émotion plus immédiate? Cette thèse montre que les découvertes des sciences cognitives sur la perception ont été pressenties par des peintres des XIX et XXe siècles, en particulier B. Morisot, V. Van Gogh, et F. Bacon qui ont bouleversé les habitudes du regard. Ces artistes se sont rendus compte qu'une image parcellaire, gardant sa facture visible, ne nuisait pas à la réception de celle-ci, au contraire. Van Gogh et Bacon ont fait remarquer qu'une telle manière de représenter, favorisant les "imperfections", laissant la matière apparente, produisait sur le spectateur un effet plus immédiat et plus fort qu'une autre à l'aspect fini, maîtrisé rationnellement du début à la fin. Sera analysée la démarche de ces peintres qui vont vers une prise de conscience fort intéressante au regard des sciences cognitives. Une étude anatomique et psycho-physiologique de la vision montre d'étonnantes passerelles avec les intuitions de ces peintres. La trace du geste donne des informations motrices que le cerveau peut capter. Le flou, l'inachevé appellent notre perception à combler les vides, car le cerveau ne cesse de scénariser, à l'origine pour sa sauvegarde, à partir de ce qui n'est que probable, incertain. Les surfaces où la texture est très apparente nous font pénétrer au cœur du processus de fabrication de l'œuvre, et aux conditions de possibilité de la créativité<br>Is there a connection between the effect produced by an image and its texture? The pictorial illusionism of the Renaissance, based on linear perspective, attempted to erase all traces of the facture in paintings. But it seems that the presence of the artist’s body in the facture of the work provokes a more immediate emotion drawn from the origins of perception. This thesis will show that discoveries in cognitive sciences on perception were anticipated by painters of the XIX and XXth centuries, especially B. Morisot, V. Van Gogh, and F. Bacon, who contributed to change the habits of seeing. Those artists found out that an incomplete image, which keeps the trace of its facture, doesn’t hinder its understanding, but does quite the contrary. Van Gogh and Bacon noticed that such a way to represent things, leaving imperfections and visible matter, produces on the spectator a more immediate and stronger effect than an image rationally mastered from the beginning to the end. The approach of each of those artists will be analysed ; they had very interesting intuitions regarding recent discoveries in cognitive sciences. Recent results from anatomical and psycho-physiological studies on the mechanisms of vision show astonishing links with the intuitions of the artists. The trace of the gesture gives motor information that the brain can grasp. Our perception completes the gaps of unfinished visual information, because our brain, originally develop for our survival, is used to build scenarios from what is only probable, uncertain. Surfaces where the texture is visible allow us to get inside the process of materially manufacturing the work, and to the conditional options of creativity

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:33:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SILVA_Maria_Aparecida_2013.pdf: 1779146 bytes, checksum: 4286b3a26b02309aed6d6018eb2386bd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-21<br>This thesis aims to investigate the relations of substitution between Saving Accounts and DI Funds during the period of December 2004 and December 2012. The Brazilian basic interest rate SELIC rate has reduced over 10 percentage points during this period. Such a downward movement affected the returns on financial assets, i.e., their "prices", defined as opportunity costs in relation to the SELIC rate. The hypothesis is that substitution relationship between Saving Accounts and DI Funds have changed over time due to different levels of SELIC rate prevailing during the analyzed period. The dual approach and the nonlinear seemingly unrelated equations model (INSUR model) are used to estimate the demands via Translog functional form. Morishima elasticities of substitution are calculated in seven points of the sample in order to measure the substitution effect over the time and to evaluate possible asymmetry of elasticities. The results confirm the hypothesis that different levels of SELIC have engendered different patterns of relations of substitution between the analyzed assets. The conclusion is that the anew relations of substitution have expanded the role of Saving Accounts as instrument of private savings over DI Funds.<br>O objetivo deste estudo é investigar as relações de substituição entre as Cadernetas de Poupança e os Fundos DI, entre dezembro de 2004 e dezembro de 2012, período marcado pela redução na taxa básica de juros brasileira taxa SELIC em mais de 10 pontos percentuais. Esta queda acentuada afetou as rentabilidades dos ativos financeiros, i.e., seus preços , definidos aqui em termos de custos de oportunidades em relação à própria taxa SELIC. A hipótese do trabalho é que as relações de substituição entre Cadernetas de Poupança e Fundos DI se alteraram motivadas pelos diferentes níveis de taxa SELIC praticados ao longo do período analisado. Emprega-se a abordagem dual e o modelo não linear de equações aparentemente não relacionadas (sigla em inglês, INSUR) para estimar as demandas via a forma funcional Translog. As elasticidades de substituição de Morishima são calculadas em sete pontos médios da amostra, visando avaliar a evolução das magnitudes das relações de substituição ao longo do tempo, bem como sua possível assimetria. Os resultados obtidos confirmam a hipótese de que diferentes níveis de taxa SELIC engendram padrões de relações de substituição diversos entre os dois bens monetários analisados. Conclui-se que as diferentes relações de substituição verificadas levaram à ampliação do papel das Cadernetas de Poupança como instrumentos de poupança privada em detrimento dos Fundos DI.

La tesis realiza el estudio arquitectónico de los núcleos de población de origen islámico y mudéjar, que quedaron abandonados tras la expulsión de los moriscos, en el ámbito geográfico de los Valles de la Marina Alta (Alicante). El método desarrollado se inscribe en la línea de los estudios e investigaciones relacionadas con el conocimiento para la conservación del patrimonio arquitectónico. A partir de una lectura arquitectónica basada en la observación directa de las edificaciones se realiza una planimetría completa del estado actual y un análisis arquitectónico-constructivo. El conjunto de la documentación elaborada para los distintos despoblados constituye un catálogo. Se ha estructurado mediante una ficha, que recoge la información organizada por campos y sirve de guía para el estudio normalizado. La lectura de los datos recogidos ha permitido analizar y conocer los sistemas y procesos constructivos empleados, en concreto la técnica del tapial, pudiendo definirse el sistema empleado: dimensiones, forma de colocación de los componentes principales, materiales, etc. También se ha dado importancia a la definición de los sistemas constructivos: muros, vanos, forjados, etc. El estudio minucioso permite interpretar las superposiciones de fases en el estado actual. Por otra parte se ha definido el espacio arquitectónico generado y la tipología resultante a varios niveles, desde el doméstico hasta el paisajístico en una gradación de escalas en función del menor o mayor nivel de agrupación existente considerando la casa, la aldea (garya), y el territorio. Se ha detectado la presencia de una serie de invariantes en el empleo de diversos tipos y tecnologías constructivas dentro de una tradición cultural musulmana-andalusí prolongada en época mudéjar y morisca.<br>Soler Estrela, A. (2009). La arquitectura de los despoblados moriscos en los valles de la Marina Alta [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/6027<br>Palancia

Le genre du « récit morisque » naît dans l’Espagne des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Il est composé de quatre oeuvres principales –l’anonyme Historia del Abencerraje y la hermosa Jarifa, les deux parties des Guerras civiles de Granada de Ginés Pérez de Hita, l’« Historia de los dos enamorados Ozmín y Daraja » de Mateo Alemán, et les épisodes de Ruy Pérez, Zoraida, Ricote et Ana Félix dans le Quichotte de Miguel de Cervantès. Ces textes, qui mettent en scène des relations apaisées voire amicales entre Maures ou morisques et Chrétiens, ne manquent pas de susciter de nombreuses interrogations : quel est le sens de cette représentation idéalisée (aseptisée, peut-être ?) des relations entre membres de différentes communautés religieuses, à une époque où les discriminations envers la minorité morisque ne cessent de s’intensifier, et ne tarderont pas à mener à la décision drastique de l’expulsion en 1609 ? Nous proposons d’étudier la façon dont l’Autre musulman ou morisque est représenté dans ces oeuvres : les auteurs remobilisent et problématisent les discours et les images qui circulaient alors autour de la communauté morisque, inscrivant leurs textes fictionnels dans la polémique contemporaine. Par-là, ils sont conduits à questionner et revisiter toutes les conventions littéraires, en particulier celle de l’intercalation, se mettant ainsi sur la voie d’une indéniable modernité littéraire<br>The so-called “Moorish novel” was born in 16th and 17th-centuries Spain. It includes four main works: the anonymous Historia del Abencerraje y la Hermosa Jarifa, the two parts of Guerras Civiles de Granada by Ginés Pérez de Hita, the “Historia de los dos enamorados Ozmín y Daraja” by Mateo Alemán, and the episodes involving Ruy Pérez, Zoraida, Ricote and Ana Félix in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. These texts stage peaceful relationships between Moors or moriscos and Christians, which arouse a lot of interrogations: what is the meaning of this idealized (asepticised, maybe?) representation of relationships between members of different religious communities at a time when discriminations towards the morisca community are increasing, and will soon lead tothe drastic decision of the expulsion in 1609? We intend to study the representation of the morisco Other in these works: the authors reutilise and question discourses and images linked with the morisca community. Thus they include their texts in the contemporary polemic. By doing so, they have to question every literary convention, especially the intercalation or narrative embedding. These poetic considerations allow them to embody an incontestable modernity in literature

碩士<br>國立中央大學<br>藝術學研究所<br>87<br>The works of a woman Impressionist Berthe Morisot（1841-1895）were considered feminine by many critics in Nineteenth-Century, more than this, it was thought that her artistic values consist fully in the revelation of her femininity intuitively. My thesis mainly concern about those critical opinions which focus on the ''femininity''in Morisot''s paintings. In the first chapter, I describe Morisot''s life as a painter as the basis of our following discussion, pointing out her profession and her relationship to the Impressionism movement. The second chapter is the presentation of the content of ''femininity''discourse on Morisot from late 1860s to 1890s: some elements of her paintings such as subjects, unfinished style, superficial touch, transitory instant and light color were viewed as evidence of her womanhood; included is the opinion that Impressionism is a "feminine style" in the criticism of 1890s. In the third chapter, I intend to observe how the formation of these criticism is possible through the scientific and social definition of the feminine. Influenced by the definition of gender, those critics held that woman art was valuable just because it expressed femininity. This kind of criterion was applied not only to Morisot but also to other contemporary women artists. In the last chapter, through the analysis of Morisot''s style and the comparison with other Impressionists, I will examine the propriety of "femininity discourse". In the end, we will come to the conclusion that the so-called "femininity" can only be applied to some stages of her development, but can''t explain and assess her whole works comprehensively and objectively. Moreover, it would be dangerous to use gender as the criterion of the analysis of style.

Thesis (M.A.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2008.<br>Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 2, 2008) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Johnson, Lori N. Includes bibliographical references.

On the Canadian Prairies, canola is a main source for biodiesel production and wheat is the primary feedstock for bioethanol production. To raise biofuel production requires a movement of resources and land away from food and grain crops, which would cause food to become scarcer and increase its price. This paper determines the impact of more biofuels production on the food industry. It considers the simultaneous estimation of share equations from both revenue function and distance function. Econometric results exploit the non-stationary nature of the data and the correlations among shares between primal and dual models are exploited by cointegration techniques. Johansen’s maximum likelihood estimator is applied to 1971-2007 data from Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Morishima elasticity estimates indicate high long run substitutions among crops (wheat, feed grains and canola). A rise in the production of biofuel crops could cause food prices to increase, both for meat and bread.

碩士<br>國立中央大學<br>法國語文學系<br>98<br>Applying methods by Freud Sigmund and by other psychoanalysts to the private life and the paintings of Berthe Morisot, I propose to study this nineteenth-century painterřs unconsciously projecting his personal feelingsŕenvy, lack, and substitutionŕinto her art works. Painting, as a form of work of art, is least regarded as a way profit making. She thus shuns away from any exhibitions, except for those of impressionists. Paintings are not only the manifestation of personal feelings and a way of healing, but also a picturesque diary that preserves her own life experiences and impressions. Through the combinations of designs, lines, colors, paints, shades, and characters on the canvas, the painter relieves her psychological separation and hidden desires In the first chapter, references are drawn from the painterřs life, the social background, and the contemporary art. It is known that female painters back then are not only sexually discriminated but also professionally challenged, whose art works are severely criticized. Besides, Morisot is closely related to the impressionist movement. Her ambition in painting, which on the one hand makes her a great painter, on the other hand, casts doubts, evokes conflicts, and causes anxieties on her female identity. Even more, can her artistic accomplishment be simply achieved owing to the fact that the position, rather than her works of art per se, of female artists are being promoted? The question is : does sexual consciousness supersede artistic achievement? The second chapter is the study of Morisotřs childhood, in which the painter lacks paternal love. This has thus become Morisotřs original trauma. Can this lead to a shift of her subject of concern into Sister Edma, which integrates and transforms into a double so as to supplement the lack of paternal love. The trauma has created a crack. In confronting the crack, the subject is forced to transfer it into an object. In order to iii differentiate Morisotřs transfer and love from those of Edouard Manet, we find out that the emotional substitution sought by Morisot must not be interpreted random. Those traumatic incidents cause negative reaction from Moriost : the loss of self-esteem, envy and jealousy. The third chapter analyses the role and function of painting in Morisot under external as well as internal pressure. To a nineteenth-century woman, it is not easy to become a professional painter. She must seek support from her family, especially her husbandřs recognition and sacrifice. Painting is not only an artistic product, but also a function of healing. The canvas can be seen as the silhouette for desire. It also alleviates the painterřs traumatic pains. In light of Moriostřs personal letters, I examine the healing effect in Morisotřs case since she has considered painting as a cure.

Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2005.<br>Thesis advisor: Angela Morales. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Modern Languages." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-104). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1994.<br>Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-57).

碩士<br>臺北市立教育大學<br>視覺藝術研究所<br>95<br>This study probes into the female family images of Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) and Mary S. Cassatt (1844-1926) in context of impressionism involving the links of sex and power. Firstly, using both of their bibliographies and painting career as base to illustrate the intimate relationship between the situation of a professional female painter and the impressionism movement. Chapter 3 contrasts the time and space of Morisot and Cassatt to the art criticism, male standpoints at that time that stands out the standards to female image characteristics from the society and family; and their feelings and awareness towards situation of female sex through experiences of painting and sex counterpoise. Chapter 4 analyzes the characteristics of female family image including traditional female image characteristics, their resistant strategies towards these characteristics, and their modern female consciousness and the female images presented in the paintings. Lastly, uncover their affirmativeness in female characteristics and the power of motherhood to respond the worship of feminism in motherhood and the negative appraisal toward female characteristics under the overthrowing operation of masculine. Delving into female images and transmutability of experiences they had built to examine the meaning for art practice in female images.

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Granada was a kingdom of silk. Silk work formed the basis of the Granadan economy, determined Granada's place in Mediterranean trade networks, and determined the rhythms of daily life for people in Granada's cities and its countryside. Granadan women dominated silk cultivation and spinning. When the Christians conquered the kingdom in 1491 and ended centuries of Islamic rule, Granada's Morisco population continued to make silk despite forced conversion, revolt, excessive taxation, and Inquisition until finally the silk industry collapsed when the Moriscos were expelled in 1570. The continuity through change in the kingdom's silk industry both mirrors religious and cultural change and differs from it in important ways. The silk industry reveals the ways that Moriscos resisted and cooperated with Spanish officials as their identity and culture was increasingly under threat in the sixteenth century.<br>text

The Role of Market Speculation in Rising Oil Prices: the large oil price fluctuations occurred from 2003 to 2008 has raised many questions about their causes. Many empirical studies have attempted to understand how oil price fluctuations are driven by changes in both market fundamentals and speculative pressures. In this regard, some problems arise such as: the use of unreliable data like the global level of inventories or the specification of a vast number of arbitrary restrictions for the models. In this study I try to isolate, coherently with the view of Knittel and Pindyck(2016) and inspired by Kilian's works, the speculative effect on the short-term spot price fluctuations determined by structural forward-looking behavioral shocks produced in the futures market. Exploiting a dataset used in Kilian and Murphy (2012), CFTC data (period 1999M1-2008M6) and taking advantage of the standard theory of storage we will be able to verify, with a Blanchard-Quah structural approach, that the impact of these shocks is remarkable but not the prevalent one in magnitude. Instead, it would seem that speculative inventory holdings may have played a much more important role.<br>The study named "European Energy Security: the Substitutability of European Crude Oil Imports from Russia" is meant to be a contribution to the current debate on the diversification possibilities in EU for reducing the dependency on Russian crude oil and ensuring the energy security of the European Union (EU). We focus on the aggregate demand for crude oil in EU with the aim of investigating the degree of substitutability of crude oil imports from the Former Soviet Union countries (FSU) and crude oil imports from four alternative regions (America, Middle East, Europe, Africa). Following Fuss (1977) and Serletis (2010) we employ an econometric model of intra-fuel substitution, using a nonlinear seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) estimator, to assess the aforementioned degree of substitutability in terms of Morishima elasticities of substitution. We use the most recent dataset, published by the European Commission, consisting of a collection of imported volumes and CIF prices of crude oil by country of origin. The results indicate that the crude oil provided by former Soviet Union (FSU) countries is strongly substitutable with those imported from African and Middle Eastern countries whilst it is not substitutable with those imported from European and American countries.<br>Predictability Information Criterion for Selecting Stochastic Pricing Models: pricing models of derivative instruments usually fail to provide reliable results when risks rise and financial crises occur. More advanced stochastic pricing models try to improve the fitting results adding risk factors and/or parameters to the models, incurring the risk of overfitted results. Drawing on these observations, it is proposed a generalization of the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) suitable to evaluate forecasting power of alternative stochastic pricing models for any fixed arbitrary forecasting time-horizon. The Predictability Information Criterion (PIC) differs from the classical criteria for evaluating statistical models as it assumes that the random variable to study can (or cannot) be partially predictable, which makes it particularly suitable for studying stochastic pricing models coherently with the semimartingale definition of the price process. On the basis of this assumption the criterion measures and compares the uncertainty of the predictions of two different alternative models when prices are (or are not) predictable. We conclude with a focus on the crude oil market by comparing GBM and OU stochastic processes that are commonly used for modeling West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil spot price returns in derivative pricing models.