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Гун, Б., and B. Gong. "Символизм в переводе фразеологизмов с названиями частей тела человека с китайского языка на русский : магистерская диссертация." Master's thesis, б. и, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/103643.
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Магистерская диссертация посвящена сравнению фразеологизмов с названиями частей тела человека с китайского языка на русский. Цель данного исследования является разработка методических основ перевода символики соматической фразеологии с китайского языка на русский язык. Структура работы состоит из двух глав :теоретической и практической. В теоретической части рассматриваются фразеологические единицы с элементом «части тела человека» как особый класс лексики китайского языка и функционирование в ней фразеологии с элементами «части тела». В практической части анализируются принципы адекватности и эквивалентности при переводе соматической лексики и трудности с китайского языка на русский язык. В результате анализа определены трудности перевода фразеологизмов с элементами частей тела с китайского языка на русский и для адекватности и эквивалентности определены способы перевода. Эти результаты могут быть использованы на занятиях по лексикологии, фразеологии и фразеографии, при чтении курсов по переводоведению.The master dissertation is devoted to the comparison of idioms with the names of parts of the human body from Chinese to Russian. The purpose of this study is to develop a methodological basis for translating the symbols of somatic phraseology from Chinese into Russian. The structure of the work consists of two chapters: theoretical and practical.In the theoretical part, idioms units with the element of "parts of the human body" are considered as a special class of vocabulary of the Chinese language and the functioning of idiom in it with elements of "parts of the body". The practical part analyzes the principles of adequacy and equivalence in the translation of somatic vocabulary and the difficulties from Chinese into Russian. As a result of the analysis, the difficulties of translating idiom units with elements of body parts from Chinese into Russian were identified, and translation methods were determined for adequacy and equivalence. These results can be used in lexicology, phraseology and phraseography classes, while reading courses in translation studies.
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Sourbut, Elizabeth M. "Property in reproductive body parts." Thesis, University of York, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533474.
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Johansson, Carolina. "Linkin' Parts." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-10640.
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This work aims to explore the linking of bodyparts and the internal interaction of material, body and motion in order to establish a new relationship between body and dress. The common system in construction of dress is based on an absent body, consequently dividing it into predetermined pieces, where the parts of the body are being isolated from eachother. With the intention of challenging those fixed structures, the work proposes a change of order in dress through a change of practice when investigating the linking possibilities within the body. Based on the elasticity of the moving body and the haptic perception, in terms of constructing directly on the own body, the work presents a series of examples which connects and compose dress from new positions of the body. This should be considered a contribution to what is perceived as dress and bridging the gap in the lacking discussion between body and dress.
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Wong, Yu-bon Nicholas. "The pomobody body parts, desire and fetishism /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39707507.
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Hidayatulloh, Poempida Urip Priyopurnomo. "Multi-resolution modelling of human body parts." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322738.
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Wong, Yu-bon Nicholas, and 黃裕邦. "The pomobody: body parts, desire and fetishism." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39707507.
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Wichterich, H. C. "Entanglement between noncomplementary parts of many-body systems." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2010. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/147880/.
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This thesis investigates the properties of entanglement in strongly correlated quantum systems, more specifically that between regions of a many-body system which may be separated spatially giving rise to a part of the system which is disregarded. The focus of the first part of this thesis is the response of a collection of spins, arranged on a one dimensional lattice, to a global quench, i.e. a rapid change in the interaction characteristics. Such a quench is seen to produce a significant amount of entanglement between distant spins. The robustness of the scheme towards random disorder is detailed and it is shown that the entanglement is sufficiently high to be distilled into almost pure Bell pairs. In a similar model system, it is explored how a von Neumann measurement with post-selection (i.e., discarding certain measurements based on the outcome) performed locally on two possibly well separated regions of spins, may give rise to a pure and entangled state of these regions, assuming the system is in its ground state. Later chapters are concerned with entanglement between noncomplementary groups of spins at quantum critical points, a situation where at zero temperature quantum fluctuations become pronounced. For spin chain models it is observed that this entanglement (as measured by negativity) assumes a finite value depending only on the ratio of the size of the regions to their separation and is further seen to be universal, i.e. independent of the microscopic details of the interaction. Universality of this form of entanglement is finally explored in a collective spin model. By casting the problem into the language of a few bosonic modes a closed form expression for the negativity in the thermodynamic limit for the entire phase diagram of the model is derived. At the quantum critical point this measure is explicitly universal in the aforementioned sense.
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Brady, Kathryn Marie. "Organ Transplantation: The Ethos of Human Body Parts." Thesis, Boston College, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/513.
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Thesis advisor: Eric StraussA bioethics thesis focusing on the issues of organ transplantation and the organ trade in the nations of China and India. It explains how the organ transplantation procedure is done, the laws pertaining to organ transplantation, the ethics of organ transplantation, the organ trade in its various aspects in the nations of China and India, and finally shares the story of a living organ donor in the United States. It addresses questions such as: How do we classify brain death? Who should be allowed to donate their organs? Should organs be available for sale and purchase? Is the organ trade a violation human rights? It concludes with the author's opinions on the subject, which are decidedly against the organ trade
Thesis (BS) — Boston College, 2007
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Biology
Discipline: College Honors Program
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Muto, Leisa M. "Body parts and their epic struggle in Ovid's Amores." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2007. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=809.
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Close, Damien. "Alternative protective coatings for hot stamped automotive body parts." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LORR0083/document.
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De nombreux revêtements sont actuellement disponibles pour les aciers emboutis à chaud et trempés pour le domaine de la construction automobile. Afin d’augmenter les performances des produits actuels en termes d’aptitude à la mise en forme à chaud, de résistance contre la corrosion et de compatibilité avec les procédés de fabrication ultérieurs, les constructeurs automobiles et les sidérurgistes ont développé de nombreux types de matériaux alternatifs. Peu de produits ont trouvé une place importante dans l’utilisation industrielle. L’objectif de ce travail est de procéder à une vue d’ensemble des performances des produits actuels, d’identifier de nouveaux concepts de revêtements et d’étudier leur compatibilité pour l’application de la mise en forme à chaud. Cette étude porte sur les revêtements d’alliages de Zn-Mn. De nombreux bains électrolytiques et paramètres électriques ont été étudiés afin de déterminer des conditions de déposition optimales pour obtenir des alliages Zn-Mn avec une forte teneur en Mn. Les propriétés cristallographiques, microstructurales et anticorrosives de couches obtenues sur des plaques d’acier de grandes dimensions ont été caractérisées avec de nombreuses techniques. La compatibilité des couches protectrices pour le traitement d’austénitisation a été évaluée après des traitements thermiques à différentes températures et durées de chauffe. Une attention particulière a été portée sur l’évolution de la composition et des phases d’interdiffusion formées, ainsi que sur l’apparition de mécanismes d’oxydation et d’évaporation à haute température. Enfin, l’aptitude à la mise en forme à chaud et notamment la susceptibilité à la fissuration par métaux liquides de ces nouveaux revêtements ont été évaluées par des essais d’emboutissageVarious coatings are currently available for press-hardened steels used for the automotive construction, mainly with the aim of providing good anticorrosive properties to the body components. In order to improve performance of the coated products in terms of hot formability, corrosion protection and suitability for subsequent manufacturing processes, steelmakers and car manufacturers investigated various alternative coating materials. Only a few solutions resulted in a serial production. The aim of this study is to proceed to a screening of the performance of current coating variants, to identify new concepts for alternative coating materials and assess their suitability for the hot stamping application. The present work is focused on the study of Zn-Mn alloy coatings. Various electroplating baths and electric parameters were studied in order to determine optimal deposition conditions for obtaining Zn-Mn alloys with high Mn contents. The deposits obtained on large-scale steel plates were characterized with regards to their crystallographic, microstructural and anticorrosive properties. The behavior of the coating materials during austenitizing treatment was studied after heat treatment to different temperatures and heating durations. A particular attention was given to the evolution of the composition, the interdiffusion phases formed as well as to the presence of oxidation and evaporation mechanisms at high temperature. At last, the forming properties of the alternative coating materials and their susceptibility for liquid metal embrittlement were assessed on the basis of direct hot stamping experiments
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Sánchez, Abril Daniel. "Human body parts segmentation via stacked and multi-task learning." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668169.
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La segmentació de persones en imatges RGB ha estat un problema central en el camp de la visió per computador. En aquesta tesi abordem el problema mitjançant hand-crafted features en un pipeline de dues etapes tant per segmentació binària com múltiple segmentació de parts del cos. Eines tals com Adaboost, SVM, haar-like features, HOG i GraphCuts entre altres. A més, mirem les diferències entre cascade learning i stacked learning. Finalment, analitzem com combinar diferents tasques, de manera multimodal, per refinar i millorar les prediccions de la segmentació de parts del cos amb 2D, 3D estimació postura i profunditat. Aquesta part està feta utilitzant deep learning.La segmentación de personas en imágenes RGB ha sido un problema central en el campo de la visión por computador. En esta tesis abordamos el problema mediante hand-crafted features en un pipeline de dos etapas tanto para segmentación binaria como múltiple segmentación de partes del cuerpo. Herramientas tales como Adaboost, SVM, haar-like features, HOG y GraphCuts entre otros. Además, miramos las diferencias entre cascade learning and stacked learning. Finalmente, analizamos cómo combinar diferentes tareas, de modo multimodal, para refinar y mejorar las predicciones de la segmentación de partes del cuerpo con 2D, 3D estimación postura y profundidad. Esta parte está hecha utilizando deep learning.
The segmentation of people in RGB images poses a key obstacle in the field of computer vision. In our thesis, we tackle this issue through hand-crafted features in a two-stage pipeline, targeting both binary and multiple body part segmentation. For our purposes, we employ tools such as AdaBoost, support vector machines, Haar-like features, histograms of oriented gradients and graphics. We also address the differences between cascade learning and stacked learning. Finally, we analyse a multimodal approach to combining different tasks, which allows us to improve and refine our predictions concerning the segmentation of body parts using 2D and 3D estimations of posture and depth, a feat made possible thanks to deep learning.
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Sweet, Ryan Craig. "Prosthetic body parts in literature and culture, 1832 to 1908." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/22746.
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Covering the years 1832 to 1908, a period that saw significant development in prosthetic technologies—in particular artificial legs, teeth, and eyes—this thesis explores representations of prostheses in British and American nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature and culture. By considering prosthetic devices such as wooden legs and hook hands alongside artificial body parts that are often overlooked in terms of their status as prostheses, such as wigs and dentures, this thesis is the first to examine holistically the varied and complex attitudes displayed towards attempts to efface bodily loss in this period. Lennard J. Davis has shown how the concept of physical normalcy, against which bodily difference is defined, gained cultural momentum in the nineteenth century as bodily statistics emerged onto the scene (Enforcing Normalcy). This thesis builds on Davis’s work by considering other historical factors that contributed to the rise of physical normalcy, a concept that I show was buttressed by an understanding of the “healthy body” as “whole”. Like Davis, I also explore the denigration of physical difference that such a rise encouraged. The prosthesis industry, which saw tremendous development in the nineteenth century, cashed in on the increasing mandate for physical normalcy. However, as this thesis shows—and where it breaks new ground—while contemporary journalism and advertising often lauded the accomplishments of an emerging group of professional prosthesis makers, fiction tended to provide the other side of the picture, revealing the stereotypes, stigma, scepticism, inadequacies, and injustices attached to the use and dissemination of prosthetic devices. I argue that Victorian prosthesis narratives complicated the hegemony of normalcy that Davis has shown emerged in this period. Showing how representations of the prostheticised body were inflected significantly by factors such as social class, gender, and age, this thesis argues that nineteenth-century prosthesis narratives, though presented in a predominantly ableist manner, challenged the dominance of physical completeness as they either questioned the logic of prostheticisation or presented non-normative subjects in threateningly powerful ways.
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McFarland, Michael Blaine. "Measuring Male Body Dissatisfaction: Factorial and Construct Validity of the Body Parts Satisfaction Scale for Men." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30492/.
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Given the centrality of body dissatisfaction in the manifestation of health risk behaviors (e.g., eating disorders, muscle dysmorphia) and psychological distress in men, the ability to measure it accurately is essential. Across two studies, the psychometric properties and factor structure of a new measure of male body satisfaction were established. The Body Parts Satisfaction Scale for Men (BPSS-M) was found to have three scores: full body muscularity and leanness (18 items), upper body (12 items), and legs (4 items). All three scores were internally and temporally reliable, and support was found for the convergent, discriminant, and concurrent validity of the scores. The BPSS-M represents an advance in the measurement of male body image, providing researchers and clinicians with a versatile and valid way to assess this important construct.
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Gao, Chenyan. "Connect Measurements of Car Body Parts to Adjustments in Production Line." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Information Technology, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-122652.
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The production of a car body part involves assembling each ingoing part into an assembly fixture that dictates the inherent geometry between the ingoing parts. The geometry of samples of finished body parts is continuously measured and adjustments to the assembly fixture are done on the basis of measurement results. The work of the thesis is to use Case-based reasoing technique to develop a system connecting the measurements of car body parts to adjustments done in the production line.
Case-based reasoning solves the target issue with previous successful solutions to the similar problems. In this thesis, the Euclidean distance is selected to measure the similarity between the target case and source case. Correlation analysis is done to find the important attributes, measurement points. We present the results we found, describe the system implementation and discuss the future work.
Key words: Case-based reasoning, production line, measurement data, adjustmentdata, Euclidean distance and correlation analysis.
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Robinson, T. Christopher. "The sticking out parts a content analysis of print and Website advertisements on breast and penis augmentation /." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04202008-190035/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008.Title from file title page. Elizabeth Sheff, committee chair; Dawn Baunach, Denise Donnelly, committee members. Electronic text (97 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 24, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-85).
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Salomonsson, Evelina. "Investigation of factors affecting cracking during forming of truck cab body parts." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för fysik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-148926.
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Sheet metal forming is a technique widely used in todays industries as it enables fast transformation of metal sheets into parts of various shapes and sizes. Volvo GTO EBM in Umeå uses sheet metal forming in their production of truck cab body parts, and a challenge common for all industries using this technique is to avoid cracking in the formed metal. The present study has been conducted in order to increase the understanding of why produced articles sometimes crack, so that cracking can be prevented in future production. This has been done by studying how different variations in the production process are affecting the robustness of produced articles, partly by investigating variations in material properties and partly by running robustness simulations of a chosen article prone to crack. Material properties have been gathered for both cracked and non-cracked details of different articles, and thereafter been compared to each other using multivariate analysis. Furthermore, simulations have been run using the software AutoForm with the purpose to investigate factors such as feeding direction of metal sheets, variations in material properties and different forces and velocities used during forming. Experiments have also been conducted in order to compare the simulation model and simulation results with reality. From the material property analysis it could be seen that differences in material properties do exist between cracked and non-cracked materials, but that these differences vary between different articles. The robustness simulations indicated that a certain force called draw cushion force do affect the final robustness of an article the most, compared to the other affecting factors investigated in this study. Moreover, the simulation set-up did seem to agree with reality, while the simulated material thinning deviates more than 20 \% from the real one. This may result from an inadequate modeling of friction in the simulations. In conclusion, material properties are important concerning cracking during sheet metal forming, and the draw cushion force seems to have the strongest influence on article's final robustness.
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Zhan, Wenjie, and Maowei Zheng. "From Body Parts Responses to Underwater Human Detection: A Deep Learning Approach." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-20099.
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Context. Underwater human detection has been an important problem in computer vision areas. Body part-based models could gain good performance in on-land human detection with occlusion existing scenarios. This thesis explores the feasibility of human body parts detection in underwater environment. Objectives. This thesis aims to build a DNN-based underwater human body part detector for human body part detection task. Three body part detectors implemented with different DNN-based models (Faster R-CNN, SSD and YOLO) are built and compared over underwater human body part detection task. Methods. In this thesis, experiments are used as research methods. Three DNN-based models which are regarded as the independent variables in the experiment is trained, tested and evaluated. And the detection results of detector based on the three different models are dependent variables. Finally the detection performance calculated on the result for each detector is compared. Results. Underwater Body part detector based on Faster R-CNN provides the best detection performance on the body part detection task in terms of mAP, and YOLOv2 achieves the fastest detection speed but it has the smallest mAP value. In addition, SSD model has both decent detection performance and also detection speed. Conclusions. Underwater Body part detector based on Faster R-CNN, SSD, and YOLO could gain good performance over underwater human body part detection task. Building an underwater body part detector via deep learning method is feasible.
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Luzhkova, Elena. "Semantic categorization of body parts among English and Russian monolinguals and bilinguals." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-297596.
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Semantic typology and categorization are important fields of research in linguistics. The aim of our work is to inspect these fields in regard to bilingualism. In this thesis we examine semantic categorization of body parts among four different groups of people: monolingual English speakers, monolingual Russian speakers, bilingual Russian speakers answering in English and bilingual Russian speakers answering in Russian. The hierarchies, ambiguities in naming patterns and homology were in the center of this study. The groups were also compared to each other in order to observe the effects of the first language learned (L1) and the second language learned (L2) on bilinguals. The results showed that Russian L1 bilinguals answering the Russian questionnaire displayed the same results as the Russian monolinguals, indicating a lack of influence from the L2. The Russian L1 bilinguals answering the English questionnaire used a semantic categorization most similar to their L1 and also demonstrated a broadening of the semantic categories related to neither the L1 nor the L2.
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Tamisari, Franca. "Body, names and movement : images of identity among the Yolnu of North-east Arnhem Land." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1995. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2078/.
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This ethnography demonstrates that it is through images of the body and movement that the Yolnu of North-east Arnhem Land uphold their ancestral wisdom and construct their vision of the future in a changing world. The importance of body imagery is examined in the kinship system; features of the landscape; the process of naming and the power of names; the formation of personal and group identities, political outlook and emotional bonds; the behaviour and creation of the ancestors; and in the re-creation of ancestral space and movement in mortuary ceremonies, song and dance. Song and dance are shown to be vital to the "visualisation" of social relations, and to the inheritance and transferral of knowledge, rights and power. Yolnju imagery is neither static nor pre-determined. It is negotiated, created, embodied, maintained and experienced through movement and in processes that make it "visible". These findings have implications for anthropological models of totemism that ignore the labile nature of image formation. Changing, political, social, cultural and economic circumstances are prompting the Yolnju to develop a form of modern vision that is closely connected with their ancestral wisdom. The flexible processes of Yolnju imagery and identity formation that support the creation of a "modern-time vision" also enhance understanding of, and political negotiation with non-Aboriginal bureaucratic institutions.
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Vrazel, Stephen Gregory. "Aristotle on bodies and their parts, souls and their powers." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p029-0700.
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D'Apuzzo, Nicola D'Apuzzo Nicola D'Apuzzo Nicola. "Surface measurement and tracking of human body parts from multi station video sequences /." Zürich : Institut für Geodäsie und Photogrammetrie, 2003. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=15271.
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Claudel, Florian. "Development of anticorrosive Zn-based alloy coatings for cold formed steel body parts." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lorraine, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LORR0264.
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De nombreux revêtements sont utilisés par les constructeurs automobiles pour la protection contre la corrosion de pièces de carrosserie embouties à froid. D’après la littérature, diverses solutions et approches ont été suggérées au cours des dernières décennies. Cependant, seulement quelques systèmes ont pu aboutir à une production en série. L’objectif de la thèse de doctorat présentée ici est de développer et caractériser de nouveaux revêtements anticorrosifs à base d’alliages de zinc pour la protection contre la corrosion de composants en acier mis en forme à froid. Sur la base d’une revue de la littérature détaillée, deux approches d’intérêt ont été considérées, consistant en l’électrodéposition impulsionnelle de dépôts de ZnMn et de ZnMn-Al2O3. Les revêtements ont été caractérisés en termes de composition chimique, microstructure et cristallographie. L’aptitude des revêtements à une application dans l’industrie a été évaluée sur la base du comportement en corrosion, de la formabilité à froid et l’aptitude aux opérations de peintures. L’utilisation de l’électrodéposition impulsionnelle a permis d’obtenir des revêtements de ZnMn monophasés, absent de porosités et compacts, présentant une teneur en Mn avoisinant les 15 m.% avec un fort rendement. L’électrodéposition sur des substrats variés a révélé un procédé de déposition stable et reproductible. Des mesures électrochimiques et des tests de corrosion accélérés ont révélé une performance anticorrosive des alliages de ZnMn intéressante. Une amélioration du temps d’apparition de la rouille rouge et qu’une diminution de la vitesse de corrosion ont été observées en comparaison avec les revêtements traditionnels. Des analyses de la mise en forme à froid ont montré un comportement prometteur des dépôts de ZnMn. Des premiers tests de phosphatation et peinture ont démontré la bonne aptitude des revêtements pour ces procédés. Cependant, certaines limitations ont été identifiées avec notamment des propriétés insatisfaisantes des revêtements lors d’une immersion en milieu chloré. De plus, des porosités ont pu être observées à proximité de l’interface entre le dépôt et le substrat. Dans le but de résoudre ces problèmes, l’électrodéposition de revêtements composites ZnMn-Al2O3 a été considérée. L’impact des particules et des paramètres électriques sur la distribution des particules dans la matrice métallique a été étudié. Avec des paramètres optimisés, des dépôts composites homogènes, compacts et monophasiques contenant jusqu’à 15 m.% de Mn ont pu être obtenus avec de forts rendements. Des analyses poussées ont aussi révélé la présence de particules sur la surface ainsi qu’à l’interface substrat - film. Des premiers essais mécaniques ont montré une augmentation de la dureté des dépôts composites. Des mesures électrochimiques ont également donné un aperçu très prometteur sur le comportement anticorrosif des revêtements ZnMn-Al2O3Numerous coating systems are used by the automotive manufacturers for the corrosion protection of cold formed steel body parts. According to the literature, various approaches and solutions were suggested over the past decades. However, only a few systems were able to go into serial production. The objective of the present doctorate thesis is to develop and characterize alternative anticorrosive coatings based on Zn-alloys for the corrosion protection of cold formed steel components used for automotive body parts. Based on a thorough literature review, two interesting approaches were considered, consisting in the pulse electrodeposition of Zn-Mn and ZnMn-Al2O3 coatings. The deposits were characterized in order to determine their composition, microstructure as well as their crystallographic properties. The suitability of these new deposits was then assessed based on their anticorrosive behaviour, cold formability and paintability. Using pulse electrodeposition permitted to deposit monophasic, pore-free and compact Zn-Mn alloys containing about 15 wt.% Mn at high current efficiencies. Electrodeposition on various substrates exposed a stable and reproducible deposition process. Electrochemical experiments and accelerated corrosion tests revealed a promising anticorrosive performance of the Zn-Mn alloys. A substantial improvement in the time before red rust appearance and a significant decrease of the corrosion rate were observed in comparison to the traditional Zn deposits. While a slight increase of the hardness was observed in comparison to the Zn coatings, a lower crack density was observed on the Zn-Mn deposits after tensile experiments. Preliminary phosphating and painting tests revealed the good suitability of the Zn-Mn alloys for those processes with the formation of a dense and homogeneous phosphate crystals network and the successful deposition of a homogeneous and pore-free electrophoretic paint layer. However, some challenges were identified with Zn-Mn deposits presenting some unsatisfactory properties when immersed in chloride-containing environments. With the aim to solve these issues, the deposition of ZnMn-Al2O3 composite coatings was considered. The impact of the particles and electric parameters were investigated with a particular attention given to the distribution of the particles in the metallic matrix. Using optimized deposition parameters, homogeneous, compact and monophasic composite coatings containing about 15 wt.% Mn were obtained at high efficiencies. Further analyses revealed the presence of particles on the surface as well as at the substrate – deposit interface. First mechanical tests revealed interesting properties of the composite coatings with a substantial increase of the coating hardness. Electrochemical experiments also revealed some promising insights on the corrosion behaviour of the ZnMn-Al2O3 deposits
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Isdra, Záchia Eduardo. "Subsistent Parts: Aquinas on the Hybridism of Human Souls." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24114.
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In this dissertation, I argue for the philosophical consistency of Aquinas’ hybrid view of human souls - that is, the idea that human souls, and only human souls, are at once substantial forms and subsistent things. I contend that the best way to understand the ontological status of human souls according to Aquinas is by means of the concept of ‘subsistent parts’. Since Aquinas characterizes souls as parts of substances, I propose a mereological analysis of the different types of part in Aquinas, and I conclude that souls should be seen as metaphysical parts of substances. An influential contemporary view holds that Aquinas’ doctrine is inconsistent on the grounds that nothing could be an abstract (form) and a concrete (subsistent) at the same time. I respond to this view by denying the widespread notion that substantial forms are purely abstract entities. I hold that the best way to make sense of Aquinas’ twofold approach to human souls is by saying that substantial forms possess an element of
concreteness which is accounted for by the fundamental relationship between form and being. Finally, I address the question of taxonomy: how can we classify Aquinas’ view of the soul-body relation in light of the concepts that are currently used in philosophy of mind. I argue
that the notion of a subsistent part entails the concept of ‘part-dualism’, which I present as standing midway between substance-dualism and nonreductive materialism, and also as being ontologically richer than property-dualism. I conclude this dissertation with a refutation of the
idea championed by some prominent scholars that the existence of the soul is sufficient for the existence of the person.
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SEGURA, LAURA MELISSA PISSANI. "METAPHOR AND METONYMY IN VERBAL LOCUTIONS WITH BODY PARTS IN SPANISH: A COGNITIVE APPROACH." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=33747@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
Esta dissertação estuda locuções verbais da língua espanhola que apresentam alto grau de idiomaticidade e frequência de uso. O objetivo principal da pesquisa é investigar até que ponto processos cognitivos motivados por metáforas e metonímias são responsáveis pelo significado destas locuções. Para tal propósito, analisa-se um conjunto de locuções verbais da língua espanhola, tais como meter algo en la cabeza (meter algo na cabeça), cerrar la boca (fechar a boca) e abrir mano (abrir mão), que envolvem uma parte do corpo humano. As partes do corpo humano escolhidas para o conjunto de locuções para análise são cabeza (cabeça), boca (boca) e mano (mão). A fonte principal de coleta de dados é o Diccionario de la Lengua Española. O trabalho é realizado dentro da perspectiva teórica da Linguística Cognitiva e concebe a metáfora como um mapeamento conceptual entre dois domínios cognitivos com propriedades análogas; e a metonímia, como um processo mediante o qual uma entidade conceptual provê acesso a outra entidade conceptual dentro do mesmo domínio cognitivo. Na análise, descreve-se a estrutura das locuções, colocam-se exemplos da variedade das expressões e analisa-se o papel dos mecanismos da figuração mencionados na constituição do significado das locuções verbais selecionadas. Os resultados do trabalho constituem evidência para a relevância da metáfora e metonímia na constituição do significado das locuções verbais.
This thesis studies verbal locutions in Spanish with a high degree of idiomaticity and frequency of use. The main objective of this research is to investigate to what extent cognitive processes triggered by metaphors and metonymies are responsible for the meaning of these locutions. For this purpose, a set of verbal locutions in Spanish language is analyzed, such as meter algo en la cabeza (to put something in the head), cerrar la boca (to close the mouth) and abrir mano (to open the hand), that involve a part of the human body. The body parts chosen for the set of locutions to be analyzed are cabeza (head), boca (mouth) and mano (hand). The main source of data collection is the Diccionario de la Lengua Española. The work is carried out within the theoretical perspective of Cognitive Linguistics and conceives metaphor as a conceptual mapping between two cognitive domains with analogous properties; and metonymy, as a process whereby a conceptual entity provides access to another conceptual entity within the same cognitive domain. In the analysis, the structure of the locutions is described, examples of the variety of expressions are given, and the role of the mentioned mechanisms of figuration in the constitution of the meaning of the selected verbal locutions is analyzed. The results of this work constitute evidence for the relevance of metaphor and metonymy in the constitution of the meaning of verbal locutions.
Esta tesis estudia locuciones verbales en español, que presentan un alto grado de idiomaticidad y frecuencia de uso. El objetivo principal de este trabajo es investigar hasta qué punto los procesos cognitivos motivados por metáforas y metonimias son responsables por el significado de estas expresiones. Para tal propósito, se analiza un conjunto de locuciones verbales de la lengua española, tales como meter en la cabeza, cerrar la boca y abrir mano, que comprenden una parte el cuerpo humano. Las partes del cuerpo seleccionadas para el conjunto de expresiones, objeto del presente análisis, son cabeza, boca y mano. La fuente principal de recolección de datos es el Diccionario de la Lengua Española. El trabajo se realiza dentro de la perspectiva teórica de la Lingüística Cognitiva y concibe la metáfora como un mapeo conceptual entre dos dominios cognitivos con propiedades análogas; y la metonimia, como un proceso mediante el cual una entidad conceptual proporciona acceso para otra entidad conceptual dentro del mismo dominio cognitivo. En el análisis, se describe la estructura de las locuciones, se colocan ejemplos de la variedad de expresiones y se analiza el papel de la figuración de los mecanismos mencionados en la constitución del significado de las locuciones verbales seleccionadas. Los resultados de este trabajo son evidencia de la importancia de la metáfora y la metonimia en la constitución del significado de locuciones verbales.
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Woods, Kathryn Anna. "Dismembering appearances : the cultural meaning of the body and its parts in eighteenth-century understanding." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11753.
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This thesis explores the cultural meanings attached to the visible appearance of the body and its parts in eighteenth-century understanding. It is situated within historical scholarship concerned with the embodied display of ‘politeness’ and the relationship between the body and categories of social difference. The research draws upon a range of popular literature, including conduct books, popular medical advice books, midwifery manuals and advice guides. Chapter one reveals the way that contemporaries conceptualised the relationship between the individual body and society through investigation of various aspects of abdominal experience. Chapter two illustrates how the appearance of the skin was thought to convey identity information about an individual’s health, temperament, character, gender, class and race. Chapter three then continues by exploring similar themes with respect to the face. The next two chapters focus on the corporeal display of gender; while chapter four argues that changing male and female hairstyles reflected shifting gender mores, chapter five evidences how female breasts were seen as visible markers of sexual difference. Chapter six examines how class informed how the hands were employed and displayed by different social actors. Finally, chapter seven looks at how ‘politeness’ informed how the legs were trained to enact various cultural performances. In this thesis it is argued that in the eighteenth century popular authors sought to uncover how bodies worked by appropriating anatomical models of examining the body through scrutiny of its parts. Yet, it will be demonstrated that discussion of the body’s parts within popular literature was distinctive because it reflected readers’ growing preoccupation with how the body, as a social actor, conveyed information about individual identity. The thesis contributes to present scholarship by detailing a range of meanings which were attached to different parts of the body that have previously been elided by historians. Additionally, it demonstrates that discursive dismemberment, though located in eighteenth-century discourses on the body, represents a historically reflective and methodologically useful mode of examining the lived body in the eighteenth century.
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Taylor, Paul. "Priming of actions by seen objects and body parts : visuo-motor and motor-visual effects." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421971.
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Mncwango, Lungile. "Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of the portrayal of body parts in selected Zulu novels." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65586.
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This corpus-based study examines female and male characters’ body parts in selected isiZulu novels: Indlela Yababi (The path of the wicked; 1946) by RRR Dhlomo Inkinsela yaseMgungundlovu (The tycoon of Pietermaritzburg; 1961) by CLS Nyembezi and Kuxolelwa Abanjani? (Who deserves to be forgiven? 2002) by NG Sibiya. The three selected novels are representative of the three periods that somewhat define South Africa: the pre-apartheid, the apartheid and the postapartheid period. With a focus on gender variation, I look at the use and description of female and male characters’ body parts in the selected texts. Using a combined Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis approach, I investigate the following questions: how do male and female characters use their body parts in the selected texts? Is the use of the body parts in the selected texts indicative of gender differences? How are body parts described in the selected texts? Could it be that the description represents male and female characters in a stereotypical way? Do the uses of and descriptions of body parts reveal aspects of power relations between women and men? Is there any development or change over time in the selected texts with regard to body parts and gender? The following body parts are examined: isandla and izandla (the hand and the hands), amehlo (the eyes), ikhanda (the head) and ubuso (the face). From the findings obtained, it is clear that the use and description of female and male characters’ body parts are indicative of gender differences and gender stereotypes. However, such gendered patterns are less distinct in the novels selected. These findings would have to be measured on a larger corpus of isiZulu novels.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Blum, Daphne. "Picking up the pieces: body parts and female power in Shakespeare's The rape of Lucrece." FIU Digital Commons, 2000. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1714.
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In The Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare anatomizes Lucrece's body-fragments the whole, splits apart the parts. He does so not only to expose the otherwise concealed act of rape-which is hidden within the mysterious and "invisible" female genitalia-but to indicate that Lucrece's parts, through analogy with Pagan and Christian figures and theories, are powerful, even combative, but always pure.
In the first section, individual body parts connect Lucrece with so-called "wild women," including the Amazons, Medusa, and Philomela. In the second section, body parts either link Lucrece, or sever Tarquin, from the Divine. In the final section, Classical Mythology and Protestantism conflate in the dis-embodied figure of Helen of Troy. The body-Lucrece's, Tarquin's and the figures on the tapestry-is explored in metaphorical parts, dismembered, or apotheosized/de-corporealized in an attempt to prove that a raped woman may retain her subjectivity along with her innocence.
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Al-Jahdali, Najah Ali Mohammed. "Idioms of body parts in the Hijazi dialect of Arabic : a study based on cognitive semantics." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9951.
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This study explores the meaning of idioms concerning six parts of the human body (eye, head, mind, hand, tongue, and nose) in the Hijazi dialect of Arabic (henceforth HDA), as used in the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. It uses the theoretical perspective of cognitive semantics and tests the cognitive linguistic hypothesis that idiomatic expressions are motivated by conceptual mechanisms of the native speakers of a language. These mechanisms are conceptual metaphors, conceptual metonymies, and conventional knowledge of the speakers of a language. The study also explores how far our conceptual system results from the kind of beings we are and the way we interrelate with our physical and cultural environments. In the absence of Hijazi dialect dictionaries, the researcher collected these idioms first-hand and verified their figurative meanings with HDA-speakers. These figurative meanings were classified and then translated, both literally and figuratively, into English. Using the Conceptual Theory of Metaphor and Metonymy, developed mainly by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980), Lakoff (1987), and Kövecses (2002), the analysis demonstrates that: HDA-speakers' conceptual system is metaphorical; that there are four main cognitive mechanisms used as motivators for the meanings of these idioms; that the overall idiomatic meaning of these HDA body-part idioms is motivated through one or more of these strategies and is never arbitrary; and that some of HDA body-part idioms are culture-specific.
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Håkansson, Lovisa. "Gendered commodification of human body parts : A study of the trade with hair from Indian women." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412550.
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The aim of this thesis is to illustrate how the phenomenon of trade with hair from Indian women, can be regarded as a case of gendered commodification of human body parts. It is illustrated with the assistance of postcolonial scholar Appadurai (1986), Scheper-Hughes (2001) and Sharp (2000) theories on commodification. Also, feminist perspectives by Mohanty (1997) and Sharp (2000), as well as theories on hair’s cultural and religious meanings in India developed by Olivielle (1998) and Miller (1998), are moreover applied to show of how the trade can be seen as gendered. By using the method of qualitative text analysis, an extensive bank of material on the topic has been investigated and later analysed. The first main conclusion is that women’s hair can be seen as being commodified given that it has achieved an economic value, has been objectified (become a product) and reduced into different parts when it is shaved off in temples and later made into wigs and hair-extensions. The second main conclusion is that the trade is gendered because women perform underpaid work in the processing of hair. Accordingly, Indian women’s hair has specific properties and is therefore more attractive to the market and gendered cultural and religious notions tied to women’s hair can possibly be important for the existence of the market with Indian women’s hair.
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Columb, Séan. "Weighing the cost of life in body parts : a socio-legal analysis of the organ trade." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.706297.
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This thesis critically examines how the organ trade fits into the anti-trafficking framework, its link to organised crime and the wider political economy. The organ trade involves diverse actors and consists of various practices, including organ trafficking, transplant tourism, organ sales and organ harvesting. Nevertheless, the organ trade is predominantly defined in terms of organ trafficking and discursively framed as a law enforcement issue. Although organ trafficking is considered a major international concern, it is not representative of the phenomenon as a whole. Evidence based research, including empirical work carried out by the author, indicates that the organ trade is better characterised by organ sales and transplant tourism. The majority of individuals who are compelled to sell an organ, for various reasons, do not conform to the elements of trafficking outlined in anti-trafficking legislation, broadly defined under Art 3(a) of the United Nations (2000) Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons. This means that as a consequence of a worldwide prohibition of organ sales, organ sellers are more likely to be prosecuted for committing a criminal offence than recognised and/or assisted as trafficked victims. The core aim of this thesis is to provide a critique of the anti-trafficking framework, explicating the theoretical and practical implications of the prevailing law enforcement model, in response to the organ trade. I argue that co-opting the organ trade into the meta-narrative of human trafficking suspends a wider critique of the phenomenon, linking the emergence of a global market in organs to broader socio-economic conditions and inequalities. Further, I argue that the organ trade is not a direct consequence of a global shortage of organ supplies; rather, it is causally related to the transfer of transplant capabilities to the global South. The rhetorical positioning of the organ trade as an object of law enforcement diverts critical attention away from the transplant industry and the
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SIQUEIRA, Kênia Mara de Freitas. "O sistema de classificação nominal Akwe-Xerente (Jê): âmbitos de análise." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2010. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2839.
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Previous issue date: 2010-05-31The need to describe and document the languages threatened with extinction has been gaining importance in the last decades, given the growing risks of cultural loss and the knowledge accumulated by indigenous people. The purpose of continuity of each one of these languages is ensured by actions based on the results of studies which focus on the description of the sociolinguistic problem, as well as on the description and analysis of the linguistic aspects which characterize the language of a determined linguistic family, since the death of a language means, among many other things, an undetermined loss of the science of Linguistics and, above all, the disrespect for the rights of these people to preserve their immaterial richness. The present research has as objective to answer some questions regarding the use of classifiers, terms of classes and names in classifying function as components of the classifying system of the language Akwe-Xerente (Jê), spoken by the indigenous people of the same name. The Akwe-Xerente add up to about 3,100 people and inhabit indigenous lands in the region of Tocantinia, in the Tocantins State. The description of the system of the Xerente classification is based on theoretical functional references for the recognition and differentiation of some nominal radicals which may occur in the function of classifying or organizing the classes which show common characteristics amongst the designated items such as form, size, aspect, consistence and function. This research is structured in the following way: In Chapter 1 are presented some proposals of elaboration of typology of sociolinguistics, to outline the contact situation in which the Xerente language is found nowadays; the chapter also gives a description of the methodology used to collect, select, and the process of systematization of the data. These procedures are constituted of a sequence of steps based on the methods of research for the Linguistic of field of synchronic base. In Chapter 2 an exposition is made of the theoretical views used in the description and analysis of the aspect of the nominal classifying system of the language. Chapter 3 shows the morphological criteria used in the definition and delimitation of the concepts of the words in the Xerente language, of the name, the compound name (compound word), and some characteristics of the name referring to the possibility of marking the possession/possessor in a certain group of Xerente names. In Chapter 4, the focus is in the description of aspects of nominal classifying in relation to the nominal stems which act as terms of classes and names in classifying function. This research is part of the LIBA Project Brazilian Indigenous Threatened Languages: Documentation (description and analysis and sociolinguistic typology) and means for offering subsidies in the linguistic range for the education program, as well as contributing in the scientific recognizance of related aspects to the classifying systems and linguistic category.
A necessidade de se descrever e documentar línguas ameaçadas de extinção vem, nas últimas décadas, ganhando contornos mais significativos face ao iminente risco de perda da cultura e do conhecimento acumulado pelos povos indígenas, no sentido de que a continuidade de cada uma dessas línguas seja assegurada por ações pautadas nos resultados de estudos que visem tanto à descrição da situação sociolinguística, quanto à descrição e à análise dos aspectos linguísticos que a caracterizem como língua de uma determinada família linguística, já que a morte de uma língua significa, entre tantos outros aspectos, uma perda inestimável para a ciência Linguística e, sobretudo, uma violência contra o direito desses povos de preservarem seus bens imateriais. O presente estudo tem como objetivo descrever algumas questões acerca do uso de classificadores, termos de classe e nomes em função classificadora como componentes do sistema de classificação nominal da língua Akwe-Xerente (Jê), falada pelo povo indígena de mesmo nome. Os Akwe-Xerente somam, aproximadamente, 3100 pessoas e vivem em terras indígenas na região de Tocantínia, no Estado do Tocantins. A descrição do sistema de classificação xerente fundamenta-se em referenciais teóricos funcionais para o reconhecimento e diferenciação de certas raízes nominais que podem ocorrer com funções de classificação ou na organização de classes, que indiquem características em comum entre os itens designados, tais como forma, tamanho, aspecto, consistência e função. Este estudo estrutura-se da seguinte maneira: no Capítulo 1, são apresentadas propostas de elaboração de tipologias sociolinguísticas para o delineamento da situação de contato em que se encontra a língua xerente; o capítulo traz também a descrição da metodologia usada para coleta, seleção e procedimentos de sistematização dos dados. Esses procedimentos constituem-se numa sequência de passos ancorados nos métodos de pesquisa da Linguística de Campo de base sincrônica. No Capítulo 2, é feita uma exposição do quadro teórico usado para descrição e análise de aspectos do sistema de classificação nominal da língua. O Capítulo 3 demonstra os critérios morfológicos utilizados para a definição e delimitação dos conceitos de palavra na língua xerente, de nome, de nome composto (palavra composta) e algumas características dos nomes no que concerne às possibilidades de marcação de posse/possuidor em certo grupo de nomes xerente. No Capítulo 4, o foco é a descrição de aspectos da classificação nominal em relação às raízes nominais que atuam como termos de classe e nomes em função classificadora. Este estudo faz parte do Projeto LIBA Línguas Indígenas Brasileiras Ameaçadas: documentação (descrição e análise e tipologias sociolinguísticas) e visa oferecer subsídios, em âmbito linguístico, para a elaboração de programas de educacão escolar xerente, bem como contribuir para o conhecimento científico de aspectos relacionados aos sistemas de classificação e categorizações linguísticas.
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Mié, Fabián. "Plato grammaticus. Sobre el concepto platónico de epistēmē en la doctrina del sueño del Teeteto." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - Departamento de Humanidades, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/112916.
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Plato grammaticus. On the Platonic Concept of epistēmē in the Theaetetus’ Dream-theory”. Theaetetus’ third definition of epistēmē was traditionally labeled as a precursor of the so-called Justified True Belief Knowledge-Model. Nevertheless, Plato’s point in the last section of this dialogue is more elaborated than this classification deems it. I will examine here why and how Plato develops such a strange doctrine as the Dream-theory in order to offer an interpretation of the problem of justification as discussed in the Theaetetus. Thanks to this strategy, I will show that Plato’s Theaetetus aims to prove that the forms are necessary tools not only to justify true beliefs but also, and consequently, to define what knowledge is. The upshots of this analysis with regard to the complex character of the objects of knowledge will lead to a reconsideration of Plato’s theory of knowledge and metaphysics. Additionally, they will result in a better understanding of his contribution on certain epistemological and semantic issues.La tercera propuesta para definir qué es la epistēmē, que se encuentra al final del Teeteto platónico, fue clásicamente insumida en el elenco de los pioneros de la tesis según la cual el conocimiento debe entenderse como creencia verdadera justificada. Sin embargo, la situación filosófica de este diálogo es más compleja. Me propongo examinar aquí la manera en que Platón presenta a través de la doctrina del sueño –una teoría que exhibe manifiestas similitudes con el atomismo lógico– una discusión acerca de distintas alternativas relativas a la justificación, como estrategia interpretativa para ponderar de qué manera pueden resultar las ideas piezas indispensables de la epistēmē. Creo que ello nos conduce tanto a reexaminar seriamente la teoría del conocimiento y la metafísica tradicionalmente adscrita a Platón, a partir de conceptos como los de parte y todo, como también a valorar mejor la posición platónica acerca de cuestiones epistemológicas y semánticas.
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Lieb, Kristin J. "Pop tarts and body parts an exploration of the imaging and brand management of female popular music stars /." Related electronic resource:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1408927501&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3739&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Sanderoth, Elin. "”Om hjärtat inte pumpar blod kan man dö!” : En studie om hur barn i åldern 4-5 år uttrycker sig, uppfattar och vilket intresse de har för människokroppen." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för pedagogiska studier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-43350.
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Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur barn i förskolan uppfattar människokroppen, hur de uttrycker sig, hur intresserade de är av lärandet och om det är möjligt att jobba med ämnet människokroppen i förskolan. Jag hoppas att denna studie kan öppna upp för ett ökat intresse kring att jobba med människokroppen i förskolan.Metoden som använts är kvalitativa intervjuer i kombination med bildmaterial i form av konturerna av en människokropp och sju olika kroppsdelar barnen fick placera ut och beskriva funktionen av. Denna metod användes för att ge barnen möjlighet att uttrycka sig fritt kring de olika kroppsdelarna. Intervjuerna genomfördes på 14 barn i åldern 4-5 år. Barnen fick med egna ord förklara hur de olika kroppsdelarna fungerade och hur de tyckte det är att jobba med ämnet människokroppen.Resultatet visar att flertalet av barnen kunde placera ut de flesta kroppsdelarna och beskriva flertalet av kroppsdelarnas funktioner. Majoriteten av barnen i undersökningen tyckte det var roligt att jobba med människokroppen.The purpose of this study is to examine how preschool children perceive, express and how interested they are about the learning of the human body and if it is possible to work with the topic the human body in preschool. I hope this study could lay as ground for an increased interest in working with the human body in preschool.The method used is qualitative interviews combined with graphic images in form of a texture of a human body and seven different body parts, which the children were to place out and to describe the function of the body part. This method was used to give the children the opportunity to express themselves freely about the different body parts. The interviews were conducted on 14 children ages 4-5. The children got, with her/his own words, explain how the specific body part worked and what her/his thoughts were about working with the subject the human body.The result shows that most of the children could place and explain most of the functions of the body parts used. The majority of the children in this study thought it was fun to work with the human body.
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Gutiérrez, Raúl. "Algunas consideraciones sobre el símil de la línea." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - Departamento de Humanidades, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113260.
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Plato grammaticus. On the Platonic Concept of epistēmē in the Theaetetus’ Dream-theory”. Theaetetus’ third definition of epistēmē was traditionally labeled as a precursor of the so-called Justified True Belief Knowledge-Model. Nevertheless, Plato’s point in the last section of this dialogue is more elaborated than this classification deems it. I will examine here why and how Plato develops such a strange doctrine as the Dream-theory in order to offer an interpretation of the problem of justification as discussed in the Theaetetus. Thanks to this strategy, I will show that Plato’s Theaetetus aims to prove that the forms are necessary tools not only to justify true beliefs but also, and consequently, to define what knowledge is. The upshots of this analysis with regard to the complex character of the objects of knowledge will lead to a reconsideration of Plato’s theory of knowledge and metaphysics. Additionally, they will result in a better understanding of his contribution on certain epistemological and semantic issues.Siendo el símil de la línea un mero esbozo, deja muchos temas por esclarecer. El autor intenta echar luces sobre algunos de ellos apoyándose en otros pasajes de la República. Así, propone una correspondencia entre la reflexión sobre la estructura del alma en base al principio de no-contradicción y el segmento de la línea correspondiente a la dianoia, y analiza el curriculum matemático del filósofo para intentar precisar la naturaleza de las imágenes a las que se refiere la eikasia y la naturaleza de los entes matemáticos como objetos de la dianoia.
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Skiöldebrand, Eva. "Studies of articular cartilage macromolecules in the equine middle carpal joint, in joint pathology and training /." Uppsala : Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, 2004. http://epsilon.slu.se/v176.pdf.
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Bica, Lori A. "Trends in children's and adults' understanding of the localization of cognition, emotion, and personality in the brain versus other parts of the body /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488196781735077.
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Voo, Teck Chuan. "Altruism and ownership : justifying payment for organ donation." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/altruism-and-ownership-justifying-payment-for-organ-donation(7c92b520-4d9e-4de1-8148-2d31dd17a627).html.
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Organ donation is traditionally based on the notion of making a gift based on altruism. An important aspect of ‘altruistic gifting’ is commitment to a solidaristic approach to meeting transplant needs. In line with this, people are encouraged to donate their organs at death to a common pool for collective provision, or donate a live organ to another freely. Given a chronic organ shortage, proposals have been made to change this system to increase donation. Proposals include introducing some organ market or payment in the form of a reward to incentivise live or deceased donation. However, these proposals have been opposed because of the grip of ‘altruistic gift’ as the only ethically acceptable way to procure and distribute organs. To support the ethical acceptability of other systems, ‘altruistic gift’ has been subject to various criticisms. One criticism is the moral relevance of altruism: people may donate on other motives other than altruism; or, altruism is not the motive that underpins most deceased organ donations. Another criticism is the moral value of altruism: even if deceased organ donations are in general altruistic, altruism does not express communal virtues like generosity that support solidarity. A third criticism is the value of the concept of altruism when understood in the pure sense: ‘pure altruism’ fashions an unnecessary or false dichotomy – gift versus sale – in the way people can ethically relate and help each other. Consistent with or following this criticism, it has been argued that use of a financial reward to incentivise donation can be compatible with preserving donation as altruistic albeit in a ‘non-pure’ sense. ‘Altruism’ and reward can co-exist as motives for donation. This thesis concerns itself centrally with the third criticism. It argues that the concept of altruism delineates a distinctive moral ‘perspective’ of a common humanity that engenders a devotion to others’ interests. Accordingly, as I argue, ‘non-pure’ definitions of altruism are misleading as to how a financial reward can be compatible with altruism. From this, the thesis argues that introduction of a financial reward for organ donation would not preserve donation as altruistic. Based on an understanding of altruism as also a motive for ‘creative’ relationships, the thesis counters criticisms of its relevance and value to deceased organ donation under a gift model. As part of its legal analysis, the thesis considers the antithesis of ‘altruistic gift’: the idea of organs as property which places individual control on their disposition at its moral centre. It has been argued that organs should be owned as property so that individuals can sell them, or transmit them to relatives so that relatives can claim payment from donation. To provoke thought on whether organs should be owned as private property like any other, the thesis proposes an inheritance regime for organs with family as default successor.
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Lindblom, Hanna. "How crossing one's fingers and holding one's thumbs manages to convey a similar semantic meaning. : The cognitive motivations behind the understanding of three Swedish and English idiom pairs, with different words for body parts." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-136568.
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Three idiom pairs were analysed in order to identify which conceptual motivation, in the form of metaphors, metonymies, embodied motivations and conventional knowledge, were present. Each pair had one Swedish- and one English idiom. They had a similar semantic meaning and they both contained a lexical word for a body part – but not the same body part. The aim was to find out how the idioms could have a similar semantic meaning without having the same structure and the same words. The aim was the research questions were answered by analysing the idiom pairs from a cognitive linguistic perspective. The result of the study showed there are cognitive and conceptual motivations for the underlying process, which makes people understand the idioms in a similar way. The reason for why the Swedish and the English idioms used different words for body parts seems to have been the notion of embodiment and of cultural and conventional knowledge. The different words for the body parts did not seem to affect the semantic similarity of the idiom pair.
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Danelljan, Martin. "Visual Tracking." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Datorseende, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-105659.
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Visual tracking is a classical computer vision problem with many important applications in areas such as robotics, surveillance and driver assistance. The task is to follow a target in an image sequence. The target can be any object of interest, for example a human, a car or a football. Humans perform accurate visual tracking with little effort, while it remains a difficult computer vision problem. It imposes major challenges, such as appearance changes, occlusions and background clutter. Visual tracking is thus an open research topic, but significant progress has been made in the last few years. The first part of this thesis explores generic tracking, where nothing is known about the target except for its initial location in the sequence. A specific family of generic trackers that exploit the FFT for faster tracking-by-detection is studied. Among these, the CSK tracker have recently shown obtain competitive performance at extraordinary low computational costs. Three contributions are made to this type of trackers. Firstly, a new method for learning the target appearance is proposed and shown to outperform the original method. Secondly, different color descriptors are investigated for the tracking purpose. Evaluations show that the best descriptor greatly improves the tracking performance. Thirdly, an adaptive dimensionality reduction technique is proposed, which adaptively chooses the most important feature combinations to use. This technique significantly reduces the computational cost of the tracking task. Extensive evaluations show that the proposed tracker outperform state-of-the-art methods in literature, while operating at several times higher frame rate. In the second part of this thesis, the proposed generic tracking method is applied to human tracking in surveillance applications. A causal framework is constructed, that automatically detects and tracks humans in the scene. The system fuses information from generic tracking and state-of-the-art object detection in a Bayesian filtering framework. In addition, the system incorporates the identification and tracking of specific human parts to achieve better robustness and performance. Tracking results are demonstrated on a real-world benchmark sequence.
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Kim, Mi Hyun. "Étude contrastive de la phraséologie des noms d’éléments du corps en coréen et en français." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LORR0011/document.
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L’hypothèse sur laquelle repose notre travail est que la comparaison de la lexicalisation des noms d’éléments du corps (dorénavant, NEC) et de la phraséologie des NEC entre deux langues va permettre de mettre en évidence des différences de conceptualisation et de culture entre deux sociétés. En fonction de cette hypothèse, notre thèse aborde deux thèmes principaux. Premièrement, nous étudions les NEC coréens (dorénavant, NECC) en nous focalisant sur les noms neutres d’éléments externes du corps humain. Les NECC ont des caractéristiques universelles : richesse lexicale, éléments du vocabulaire basique, source de l’« embodiment », universel physio-conceptuel et nature de quasi-prédicats sémantiques. En même temps, les NECC montrent des particularités sémantiques, syntaxiques et morphologiques liées aux spécificités de la langue coréenne. La comparaison de la lexicalisation des NECC et des NEC français montre que même si les éléments du corps sont des universels physio-conceptuels, il n’y a pas de correspondance lexicale univoque entre les deux langues. Deuxièmement, nous focalisons notre attention sur la phraséologie des NECC et sa modélisation dans le Réseau Lexical du Coréen, une modélisation lexicographique formelle fondée sur une conception relationnelle du lexique. Nous bornons la phraséologie des NECC aux collocations contrôlées par les NECC (par ex. koga oddukhada, litt. nez+SUB être.haut ‘avoir un nez haut et beau’). Dans la phraséologie des NECC, nous prenons aussi en compte la phraséologisation dans un mot-forme (par ex. napjakko, ‘nez aplati’). Nous appelons collocation morphologisée ce type de phrasème morphologique par opposition à la collocation lexicale. À partir de l’examen des collocations non seulement lexicales mais aussi morphologisées contrôlées par NEC, nous pouvons obtenir les composantes sémantiques de la définition de la base, le NEC. Après cela, nous proposons un patron universel de définition des NEC, qui est le fondement du modèle explicatif de la phraséologie des NEC. Ce modèle s’appuie sur l’hypothèse selon laquelle on peut trouver dans les définitions des NEC des composantes récurrentes. Différentes collocations (du type Magn, Ver, Bon, Real1, en termes de fonctions lexicales de la Théorie Sens-Texte) sont alors générées relativement au sémantisme de ces composantes. Finalement, nous comparons la description de la phraséologie des NECC à celle des NEC français, afin d’observer les diverses non-correspondances entre les phrasèmes des deux langues. Ce travail approfondit notre compréhension de la phraséologie aussi bien en général, qu’en tant qu’elle est appliquée au coréen et au français, et met en relief des différences culturelles encodées dans les deux langues. Il peut également trouver des applications en didactique et en traductologieThe hypothesis on which our work is based is that the comparison of the lexicalization of body element nouns (henceforth, NEC, Fr. nom d’élément du corps) and the phraseology of the NEC between two languages will make it possible to highlight the differences of conceptualization and culture between two societies.According to this hypothesis, our thesis deals with two main themes. Firstly, we study the Korean NEC (henceforth, NECC, Fr. nom d’élément du corps coréen) focusing on the neutral nouns of human external body elements. The NECC have universal characteristics: lexical richness, elements of the basic vocabulary, sources of the embodiment, physio-conceptual universals and their nature of semantic quasi-predicates. At the same time, the NECC show language-specific semantic, syntactic and morphological characteristics. The comparison of the lexicalization of the NECC and the French NEC shows that even if the elements of the body are physio-conceptual universals, there is no univocal lexical correspondence between the two languages.Secondly, we focus our attention on the NECC’s phraseology and its modeling in the Korean Lexical Network, a formal lexicographic model based on a relational conceptualization of the lexicon. We limit the NECC’s phraseology to collocations the NECC control (ex. koga oddukhada, ‘have a high and pretty nose’). Within the NECC’s phraseology, we also take into account the phraseologisation in a word-form (ex. napjakko, ‘flat nose’). We denote this morphological phraseme by the term morphologised collocation, as opposed to the lexical collocation. From the examination of lexical and morphologised collocations which NECC control, we can identify the semantic components of the definition of the NECC. After that, we propose a universal definition pattern of the NEC, which is the foundation of the explanatory model of the NEC’s phraseology. This model is based on the assumption that recurrent components can be found in the definitions of NEC. Different collocations (of the type Magn, Ver, Bon, Real1, in terms of Lexical Functions of the Meaning-Text Theory) are then generated from the semantism of these components. Finally, we compare the description of the phraseology of the NECC with that of the French NEC, in order to observe the various non-correspondences between the phrasemes of the two languages.This work deepens our understanding of phraseology in general and in specific languages (Korean and French), and highlights cultural differences encoded in both languages. It can also find applications in didactics and translation
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Barbosa, Rogério Troiani. "O corpomídia do ator como endosso da marca no filme publicitário." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2010. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/5322.
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The advertising message televised as commercial films generates a receptive impact that seeks the transformation of its signs into supposedly world-wide symbolisms. Such symbolisms aim at adhering to concepts of certain products or product divisions. This research starts from the assumption that it is through the actor´s body, in televised commercials that this message builds itself and is than transformed and reproduced. In order to develop this, we have adopted the concept of mediabody (Katz/Greiner,2005), which brings us a new way of observing and discussing the body as an enunciator of its culture and its communication, turning itself, in this case, into an agent of transformation of the publicitary product. The aim of this dissertation is, therefore, to understand the communicative action established by the body, as well as the simultaneous connections that result from its own organization and act directly on the advertising market, creating a network of activation among authors, producers, consumers, actors and trade names. It is from this interaction between body and environment that one establishes the flow of information with an aptitude to generate cultural systems and their respective symbolic narration when televising commercial films. In addition to the theory of mediabody, other theoretic references, such as the memetics of evolucionist Richard Dawkins (1976),Armando Sant´Anna theory of advertising media (2001) and Mario Perniola´s sociology of communication (2005) are specifically cited. The research corpus consists of the analysis of three advertising films produced by S.F, S.S and F. F filmes. The methodology starts from the analysis of the elaboration, construction and of the resulting film, finished and ready to be televised. The expected result is a better understanding of the politic-ideological system of the impact of the body´s representation on the elaboration and production of an advertising piece
A mensagem publicitária, veiculada pelos filmes para televisão, gera um impacto na sua recepção que visa transformar seus signos em simbologias supostamente universais. Estas buscam aderir aos conceitos de determinados produtos ou classes de produtos. Esta pesquisa parte da hipótese de que é através do corpo dos atores dos filmes publicitários que essa mensagem se constrói, é transformada e reproduzida. Para desenvolvê-la, adotamos o conceito de corpomídia (Katz/Greiner, 2005) que apresenta um modo de observar e discutir o corpo como enunciador da cultura e da comunicação, tornando-se neste caso específico, um agente transformador do produto publicitário. O objetivo desta dissertação é, portanto, entender a ação comunicativa que o corpo estabelece, assim como, as conexões simultâneas que resultam da sua própria organização e atuam diretamente no mercado publicitário, criando uma rede de ativação entre criadores, produtores, consumidores, atores e marcas. É a partir das trocas entre corpo e ambiente que se estabelece o trânsito de informações com aptidão para gerar sistemas culturais e as respectivas narrativas simbólicas veiculadas pelos filmes publicitários. Além da teoria do corpomídia, são citadas pontualmente outras referências teóricas como a memética do evolucionista Richard Dawkins (1976), a teoria da mídia publicitária televisiva de Armando Sant´Anna (2001) e a sociologia da comunicação de Mario Perniola (2005). O corpus da pesquisa consiste na análise de três filmes publicitários realizados pelas produtoras S. F, S.S e F.F. A metodologia parte da análise da elaboração, construção e do resultado do filme publicitário já montado e pronto para a sua veiculação televisiva. O resultado esperado é uma maior compreensão do sistema políticoideológico do impacto da representação do corpo na elaboração e na execução da peça publicitária
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Jonsson, Alexander. "Får- och byggnadskroppsdelar : Handlingar och spatiala relationer kring byggnadsdeponeringar på Öland." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100301.
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Får- och byggnadskroppsdelar - Handlingar och spatiala relationer kring byggnadsdeponeringar av får på Öland. Sheep and building body parts - Actions and spatial relations regarding buildingdeposits of sheep on Öland. Abstract This essay studies ten Ölandic examples of sheep bodies or sheep body parts deposited in Iron Agebuildings. In addition to literary works, the source material examined in the essay also consists ofunpublished sources and two osteological examinations, which were carried out as a part of thework on the essay (appendix 1 & 2).The purpose of the essay is to study both the actions that become visible through the skeletalmaterial, and the possible presence of spatial patterns regarding the bone deposits. The work iscarried out using an action-theoretical approach. Furthermore, a comparative method is used toexamine the ten sites in relation to each other. The results from this are ambiguous. The thesis' mainconclusion is; 1) that the bodies of sheep was sometimes disintegrated on Öland during the IronAge, to be; 2) placed in a certain spatial proximity of the foundation of roof-supporting posts. Keywords: Öland, Iron Age, Ritual Deposits, Sheep, bodies, body parts, foundation, sacrifice, action-theory
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Baghdadi, Mohammed. "Identification et traitement des expressions idiomatiques à caractère métaphorique." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030004.
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L’étude des idiomes pose beaucoup de questions, notamment celles qui concernent leur traitement pour obtenir leurs significations. Le constat est que beaucoup sont en réalité figurés. Ce sont des métaphores qui ont atteint le statut de l’idiomaticité sans pour autant devenir des métaphores mortes. La métaphore constitue, ainsi, un outil de traitement significatif. Il est question dans cette thèse d’un travail portant sur l’identification des idiomes à valeur métaphorique et sur le traitement de cette catégorie dont l’appellation est expression idiomatique se distinguant par la mention de noms de parties corporelles ou de notions abstraites. Comment la métaphore opère t-elle ? La réponse à cette question contredit les idées des théories linguistiques traditionnelles qui ont longtemps considéré que tous les idiomes étaient non-compositionnels. La discussion porte également sur le travail de G. Lakoff (1987) qui a considéré que les expressions idiomatiques sont motivées par des métaphores conceptuelles sous-jacentes de type « A is B ». Ainsi, le traitement des expressions idiomatiques passe nécessairement par l’identification de la métaphore conceptuelle propre à chaque expression. Cependant, ce travail s’avère complexe dans une situation de conversation. De là, l’idée est d’arriver à déchiffrer le sens figuré sans nécessairement passer par la construction de la métaphore conceptuelle. Pour démontrer la motivation des expressions idiomatiques plusieurs arguments ont été proposés. Le choix du lexique (le verbe, la préposition, l’adverbe, etc. ) et l’agencement syntagmatique saillant dans ces expressions sont étudiés. Il est également question de la suffisance ou non du travail linguistique dans le traitement figuré de ce type d’expression. Le recours au domaine conceptuel défini par le savoir conventionnel sur les parties corporelles, les notions abstraites et par leur interaction avec les autres constituants idiomatiques s’avère indispensable pour compléter le travail linguistiqueThe construction of idiom signification necessitates a special strategy. A large number of idioms prove to be figurative in nature. They were at the beginning mere creative metaphors that survived by frequent use and acquired a new status that of idiomaticity. This figurative character offers a special case of study to demonstrate the motivation of this kind of idioms referred to as idiomatic expressions. This thesis exploits this figure in the case of the idiomatic expressions containing body parts and abstract nouns to show that not all idioms are non-compositional as it was largely assumed by traditional linguistic theories. In this work, the identification of idioms encoding metaphorical analogy comes as a first step before their processing. Can linguistic clues be used to identify this category of idioms? How does metaphor function in the construction of figurative meaning? In addition to this, this work refers to the theory of G. Lakoff (1987) who assumed that idiomatic expressions are motivated by conceptual metaphors of the type “A is B”. In order to construct the figurative meaning of an expression it is necessary to construct the underlying conceptual metaphor that will structure the implicit analogy. However, this work is complex in a conversational situation. Hence, the work consists instead in constructing the figurative meaning without obligatory constructing the conceptual metaphor. The contribution of linguistic clues, namely the verb, the preposition, the aspect, the adverbs, etc. And the typical syntagmatic combinations are subject to study. Significant findings are obtained from the linguistic study. The work consists also in understanding whether the linguistic study is sufficient by it self to account for the figurative status of an expression or that the conceptual knowledge we have on the idiomatic constituents is required
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Yogeswaran, Arjun. "3D Surface Analysis for the Automated Detection of Deformations on Automotive Panels." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19992.
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This thesis examines an automated method to detect surface deformations on automotive panels for the purpose of quality control along a manufacturing assembly line.
Automation in the automotive manufacturing industry is becoming more prominent, but quality control is still largely performed by human workers. Quality control is important in the context of automotive body panels as deformations can occur along the assembly line such as inadequate handling of parts or tools around a vehicle during assembly, rack storage, and shipping from subcontractors. These defects are currently identified and marked, before panels are either rectified or discarded. This work attempts to develop an automated system to detect deformations to alleviate the dependence on human workers in quality control and improve performance by increasing speed and accuracy.
Some techniques make use of an ideal CAD model behaving as a master work, and panels scanned on the assembly line are compared to this model to determine the location of deformations. This thesis presents a solution for detecting deformations of various scales without a master work. It also focuses on automated analysis requiring minimal intuitive operator-set parameters and provides the ability to classify the deformations as dings, which are deformations that protrude from the surface, or dents, which are depressions into the surface.
A complete automated deformation detection system is proposed, comprised of a feature extraction module, segmentation module, and classification module, which outputs the locations of deformations when provided with the 3D mesh of an automotive panel. Two feature extraction techniques are proposed. The first is a general feature extraction technique for 3D meshes using octrees for multi-resolution analysis and evaluates the amount of surface variation to locate deformations. The second is specifically designed for the purpose of deformation detection, and analyzes multi-resolution cross-sections of a 3D mesh to locate deformations based on their estimated size. The performance of the proposed automated deformation detection system, and all of its sub-modules, is tested on a set of meshes which represent differing characteristics of deformations in surface panels, including deformations of different scales. Noisy, low resolution meshes are captured from a 3D acquisition, while artificial meshes are generated to simulate ideal acquisition conditions. The proposed system shows accurate results in both ideal situations as well as non-ideal situations under the condition of noise and complex surface curvature by extracting only the deformations of interest and accurately classifying them as dings or dents.
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Bock, Sara. "Lexikalischer und semantischer Wandel im Ägyptischen." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17221.
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Jede lebendige Sprache ist durch ihren Gebrauch ständigem Wandel unterworfen, der jede Ebene der Sprache betreffen kann – von der Phonologie über die Semantik bis hin zur Grammatik. Die vorliegende Arbeit hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, den semantischen und lexikalischen Wandel des Ägyptischen zu beleuchten. Das Ägyptische ist in seinen verschiedenen Sprachstufen über mehr als vier Jahrtausende hinweg zu verfolgen, und gehört damit zu den am längsten bezeugten Einzelsprachen der Menschheitsgeschichte. Dies und die gute Quellenlage des Ägyptischen machen es zu einem prädestinierten Gegenstand für diachrone Untersuchungen. Nach einer quantitativen Erhebung der Lexeme eines ausgewählten Textkorpus’, der die Grundlage der Arbeit liefert, wurden im zweiten Teil der Dissertation vier Wortfelder exemplarisch auf ihr Wandelverhalten hin untersucht. Diese Wortfelder, Verwandtschafts- und Körperteilbezeichnungen sowie Wahrnehmungsverben und kognitive Verben, gehören zum Grundvokabular einer jeden Sprache, was die Vergleichbarkeit der Ergebnisse garantieren soll. Neben der Beschreibung konkreter Wandelphänomene wurde dabei Fragen nach dem Ablauf, dem Umfang und den Typen von semantischem und lexikalischem Wandel im Ägyptischen nachgegangen. Ziel war es unter anderem, generalisierbare Aussagen zu treffen, die für die allgemeinen Fragestellungen der Sprachwandelforschung, der Diachronen Semantik und der Historischen Linguistik von Relevanz sind, indem sie mit Ergebnissen früherer Untersuchungen zu den verschiedensten Sprachen verglichen bzw. zu ihrer Überprüfung herangezogen werden können. Als Ergebnis der Untersuchung konnten neben der Beschreibung interessanter Einzelbeobachtungen schließlich einige Regularitäten des semantischen und lexikalischen Wandels des Ägyptischen aufgestellt werden. Diese wurden zum Teil bereits durch andere Sprachen bestätigt und können nach weiterer Überprüfung möglicherweise als universale Tendenzen des semantischen Wandels formuliert werden.Every spoken language is subject to constant change due to its use. This change can affect every level of the language, from phonology to semantics to grammar. The present dissertation is set out to illuminate the semantic and lexical change of the Egyptian language, which can be followed over four thousand years and is therefore one of the longest attested languages of mankind. This and its excellent state of sources make it the ideal subject of a diachronic study. After a quantitative analysis of the lexemes of a carefully chosen set of texts, which provides the foundation of the study, the main part of the dissertation examines four semantic fields with regard to its mode of change. These semantic fields, kinship terms and terms for body parts as well as verbs for cognition and perception, are part of the basic vocabulary of every language, which guarantees the comparability of the results. In addition to the description of individual processes of change, the paper pursues questions of the course, the range, and the types of semantic and lexical change of the Egyptian language. The intention was to form general statements which are of relevance to questions of the study of language change, the Diachronic Semantics as well as the Historical Linguistics, by serving as comparison as well as verification to studies of other languages. As a result of the present paper, some general regularities of the semantic and lexical change of the Egyptian language were established, in addition to the observation of some interesting individual processes of language change. These regularities were already partially confirmed by observations made in other languages and could, after further examination, turn out to be universal tendencies of semantic change.
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Cappellari, Anaëlle. "L'influence du droit de la santé sur le droit extra-patrimonial de la famille : repenser le droit français à la lumière du droit suisse." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM1071.
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Le droit de la santé réglemente les actions de santé lato sensu. En encadrant juridiquement une pluralité d'actes médicaux, comme l'AMP, l'interruption de grossesse, l'examen des empreintes génétiques ou encore les dons d'éléments et produits du corps humain, il influence le droit extra-patrimonial de la famille. Cette influence est protéiforme et se manifeste à la fois sur la détermination des liens familiaux et sur les droits et devoirs en découlant. Le droit comparé franco-suisse, dans sa fonction de connaissance du droit, permet de révéler les manifestations de cette influence. Le droit de la santé français exerce fréquemment un rôle moteur, subversif des concepts civilistes traditionnels. Le droit de la santé et le droit de la famille sont le plus souvent pensés séparément, le premier tendant parfois à s'autonomiser. À l'inverse, le droit de la santé suisse s'inspire régulièrement des constructions civilistes préexistantes, même si la finalité sanitaire justifie parfois un renouvellement des concepts. Ainsi, les deux champs du droit sont le plus souvent pensés globalement, approche dont le droit français gagnerait à s'inspirer. L'influence du droit de la santé sur le droit extra-patrimonial de la famille doit être repensée en tenant compte des objectifs poursuivis par les différentes règles de droit. La spécificité des actes médicaux à finalité familiale justifie que le droit de la santé soit cantonné à un rôle technique, suiveur de l'évolution du droit de la famille. En revanche, lorsqu'il réglemente les actes médicaux susceptibles d'influencer les droits et devoirs familiaux, le droit de la santé peut exercer un rôle complémentaire à celui du droit de la familleHealth law regulates medical activity. By giving a legal framework to several medical acts, such as ART, abortion, DNA identification or donations of components and products of the human body, it influences extrapatrimonial family law. This influence is undeniably protean as it is exerted on both the definition and the legal regime of family ties. In its quest for improving knowledge of legal systems, French-Swiss comparative law can reveal and explain the manner in which this influence is expressed. In France, health law often plays a leading role, thus subverting traditional family law concepts and sometimes leading to inconsistencies. Health law and family law are usually viewed separately, with health law often taking an autonomous stance. In Switzerland, on the other hand, health law frequently draws on preexisting civil and family law concepts. Most of the time, these two fields of law are thought of together. This analysis incites us to rebuild French law in the light of Swiss law. The influence of health law on extrapatrimonial family law must be rethought, by taking into account the goal of each legal rule. The specificity of medical acts pursuing family interests justifies confining health law to a technical role, following the evolution of family law. Health law must be a tool for family law. However, health law can complement family law when it comes to the determination of family rights and duties. This complementarity is expressed either through the articulation of both branches of law when common goals are visible, or through the search for criteria capable of reconciling the conflicting goals pursued by these two subjects
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Lester, Regan. "Acculturation in African American College Women and Correlates of Eating Disorders." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278568/.
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Although eating disorders have been the focus of much research, the inclusion of minority populations has been minimal. A recent review of the literature by Dolan (1991) has found that eating disorders were most likely to be present in non-White women who were exposed to Western societies and cultures. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine personality, physical, and cultural correlates of bulimic symptomatology in a sample of African American college women. The Bulimia Test Revised (BULIT-R) was used to assess bulimia symptoms. The African American Acculturation Scale (AAAS), the Beliefs about Attractiveness Scale Revised (BAAR factors 1 and 2), the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (SES), the Centers for Epidemiological Depression Scale (CES-D), Body Parts Satisfaction Scale (BPSS), and body mass were the independent variables hypothesized to predict bulimic symptoms. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that body mass, depression, and low self-esteem were the best predictors of bulimic symptomatology, together accounting for 38% of the variance. Beliefs about attractiveness and body satisfaction were related to bulimic symptoms but not when considered simultaneously with the other variables. Acculturation was not predictive of bulimic symptoms. 0-ordered correlations revealed that beliefs about attractiveness and body satisfaction were correlated with bulimic symptoms. Acculturation was not related to any variables except depression. Implications for counseling interventions as well as directions for future research are discussed.
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Tunková, Martina. "Městské lázně." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-215713.
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