Dissertations / Theses: 'Pageant'

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Yoshino, Ayako. "The Edwardian historical pageant." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614849.

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Williams, Caroline. "It's Not a Beauty Pageant!: An Examination of Leadership Development through Alaska Native Pageants." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/293488.

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This dissertation explores the adaptation of traditionally objectified women's spaces, into an arena for leadership development, research which incorporates the development of culturally relevant mechanisms of leadership training within Indigenous societies. Cultural pageants offer a place for young women to become spokespersons on social justice issues, without the sexual objectification of entering beauty pageants. Such pageants also provide a glimpse of how cultural groups wish their national identity to be portrayed to the general public. Fifty years in the making, today's Native Nations cultural pageants have been decolonized to present images of young leaders, confident in their heritage, introducing themselves in their Native language, and committed to cultural continuity and sustainable Nations. This research examines a state-wide Alaska Native pageant, Miss World Eskimo Indian Olympics, from three perspectives: 1) The young women who develop culturally based leadership skills; 2) The community, who gains language and cultural, revitalization and maintenance role models; 3) And the general public, who gains a much needed positive representation of a contemporary Indigenous women. This study draws from interdisciplinary theories and research methodologies (including observation, in-depth interviews, questionnaires, surveys, and archival research) and follows the young women through to the contest at the national level, Miss Indian World, run annually in Albuquerque, through Gathering of Nations. The underlying hypothesis is that women use cultural pageants as a stepping stone to advance their cultural leadership. In doing so, they promote factors of community well-being affecting Indigenous communities, such as suicide prevention, substance abuse, and language and cultural revitalization.

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Heltsley, Martha. "Beauty Pageant Mothers: Demographics, Motivations, and Family Structure." TopSCHOLAR®, 1998. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/311.

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An exploratory analysis of national beauty pageants for children was conducted through the administration of a questionnaire and through observation. The population surveyed was mothers with daughters sixteen years old or under. Questionnaires were distributed at six national pageants in five states with a total of 134 respondents. The questionnaire probed a variety of areas concerning the child's involvement, expenses incurred, beauty enhancements worn, and general demographic information concerning the contestant's family. Attitudinal statements concerning the role of women in society and the importance of beauty in society were investigated. A comparison was made between the attitudes of the pageant mother and a sample of mothers taken from the 1993 General Social Survey. The results suggested that pageant mothers were more supportive about the changing roles of women. In addition, mothers were given an attractiveness scale on which they rated themselves and their daughters. Data analysis on a variety of variables was carried out at univariate and bivariate levels.

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Austin, Jill Hemming. "Performing the past| Two pageant traditions in Nauvoo, Illinois." Thesis, Indiana University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3715827.

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Jill Hemming Austin PERFORMING THE PAST: TWO PAGEANT TRADITIONS IN NAUVOO, ILLINOIS The founders of American historical pageantry were keenly interested in the social effect of pageant performance on audience and participants. Their vision for social transformation through performance endures into the present day with those who continue to promulgate the form. Examining two enduring pageant traditions in Nauvoo, Illinois affords a better understanding of how the formal features of outdoor historical pageant production and the social relations that underlie them are still potentially powerful for those who participate in their production and performance. This dissertation encourages serious study of pageants as a unique performance form particularly attuned to the tasks of building continuities and tradition, the reinforcement of group sentiment, and the propitiation of group myth. Nauvoo, Illinois is a historically contested site boasting two historical pageants dedicated to the portrayal of the Nauvoo story: The Grape Festival Pageant and The Nauvoo Pageant. Christened ?Nauvoo? by Mormon [LDS] refugees in the mid-19th century, the thriving city?s overwhelming social discord drove the Mormons west, and the town was resettled and reclaimed by new seekers and settlers. The legendary quality of Nauvoo continued to grow in the Mormon imagination, eventually leading to a reclamation process including heritage development. Competing claims on local history has led to a heightened historical consciousness among townsfolk and ongoing public presentation from multiple perspectives. The two pageants are cultural displays that influence this ongoing social process. Both derive from distinct traditions--the local drama squarely planted in American historical pageantry and the Mormon-sponsored pageant deriving from LDS social and religious culture. Historical pageants have some unique formal features that make them particularly interesting to folklorists. They depend heavily on sacred localities, tradition, legend, and large-group participation for their success. The story told gains power from familiarity and reinforcement of cherished group values. However, changing tastes and sensibilities have challenged the survival of pageants as a relevant cultural form into the present. Drawing on interviews, field observation, and historical research, the contemporary context of the town and its two performances is fleshed out in the voices of four individuals who have participated in the pageants.

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Bean, Kent Richard. "Policing the Borders of Identity at The Mormon Miracle Pageant." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1124572144.

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Bowers, Ebony. "Social Stereotyping and Self-Esteem of Miss America Pageant Contestants." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2791.

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Miss America Pageant contestants (MAPCs) have been negatively stereotyped socially for their perceived lack of intelligence and nonconformance to feminist gender stereotypes of women. Stereotypes could affect an individual's social psyche and establish stigma, which could prevent a group from achieving their full potential. Stereotypes could also result in women having mental health disorders, low self-esteem, a decrease in self-efficacy, body image dissatisfaction, and eating disorders. The problem this study addressed was that women who participate in the Miss America Organization (MAO) preliminary pageants risk social stigma for taking part in a seemingly nonfeminist activity. Intercultural communication research (ICR) was the theoretical framework utilized to understand the role of cultural stereotypes, prejudice in communication, and self-perception among MAPCs. The main research question examined how local preliminary MAPC's decide to participate in pageantry in relation to their beliefs about stereotypes of MAPCs. For this multiple case study, a sample of MAPCs (n =5) from a Southeastern state was recruited to participate in interviews and provided narrative data that was coded and analyzed for themes of stereotypes, self-esteem, and self-efficacy. The key findings from this study revealed that the participants believed that societal stereotypes of MAPCs still exist, but the stereotypes did not influence participants' self-esteem, self-efficacy, and their decisions to compete and represent their social platform. The results also revealed a need for societal education about MAO pageant system's mission. Positive social change can come from understanding the MAPC subculture to dispel societal stereotypes and through presenting MAPCs' goals as social change agents.

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Gragg, Joan Elisabeth. "Seeing the funny side: focusing on Cook Islands humour in the experience of the religious pageant Nuku." AUT University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/908.

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This multi-media art project investigates the notion of Cook Islands humour, and subsequently place, through the context of the religious pageant Nuku. This pageant has been practiced annually in the Cook Islands for over one hundred and sixty years. While it is not a pageant based on humour, I suggest, through experience and research, that many of the characteristics of Cook Islands humour are revealed in Nuku. The aim of this project is not to recreate the narrative set out in the Nuku pageant but to use this event to explore ways to visually express the humour of the Cook Islands. After researching and experimenting in two dimensional mediums, my emphasis changed to experimenting with three dimensional mediums, incorporating materials that have connotative meanings in Cook Islands society.

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Baldwin, Elizabeth Marian Syson. "#The worship of the cyte and the welthe of the craft' : the Cappers of Coventry and their involvement in the civic drama 1494-1591." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293687.

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Beckham, Kathryn Ann. "'The Gate City' artistry and identity in an American historical pageant (Nebraska) /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file 14.18 Mb., 74 p, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1435838.

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Pickering, Mark. "The insubstantial pageant : is there a civil religious tradition in New Zealand." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Religious Studies, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8128.

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This thesis is concerned with the concept of 'civil religion' and whether it is applicable to some aspects of New Zealand society. The origin, development and criticism of the concept is discussed, drawing on such scholars as Robert Bellah and John F. Wilson in the United States, and on recent New Zealand commentators. Using material such as Anzac Day and Waitangi Day commemorations, Governor-Generals' speeches, observance of Dominion Day and Empire Day, prayers in Parliament, the role of Norman Kirk, and other related phenomena, the thesis considers whether this 'evidence' substantiates the existence of a civil religion. The difficulties that confront any attempted analysis of a civil religion are discussed, with some reflection on the usefulness and applicability of the concept in current New Zealand society. The conclusion is reached, that under the terms of the study area, the suggestion that a civil religion currently exists in New Zealand is not soundly based on the evidence available.

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McAllister, Carlota Pierce 1969. "This pageant which is not won: The Rabin Ahau, Maya women, and the Guatemalan nation." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278431.

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The "Rabin Ahau," Daughter of the King in Q'eqchi, is elected annually in a pageant in Coban, Guatemala to represent indigenous women before the Guatemalan nation. Although the contest takes the form of a beauty pageant, the criterion on which the candidates are judged is their authenticity as Maya women; their authenticity, in turn, guarentees Guatemala's distinctiveness in the international community of nations. This thesis explores what signifying authenticity requires of would-be Rabin Ahaus, when being Maya at all in Guatemala has historically been life-threatening. It links the aestheticization of Indianness to the ethnocidal racism which literally erases Maya bodies from the national territory, and examines how Guatemalan nationalist discourse uses mimesis and commodification of "the Indian" to create and control an Indian essence; it indicates, also, how the participants in the contest work mimetic excess to triangulate official authenticity and assert different meanings of the Maya.

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Perry, Pamela Ann. "Behind the Curtain of the Beauty Pageant: An Investigation of U.S. News Undergraduate Business Program Rankings." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194322.

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The undergraduate business program rankings in USNWR are based solely on peer assessments from deans and associate deans of AACSB accredited U.S. business schools. Often these reputation-based rankings are discounted and likened to a beauty pageant because the process lacks transparent input data.In this study, ten deans and ten associate deans representing top 50 USNWR undergraduate business programs were interviewed. Seven of the institutions are public and three are private and all but two universities are AAU member institutions.The research answers the following questions: how do deans and associate deans define quality in their school's undergraduate program and in other schools' programs? How are administrators influenced when evaluating the reputation of peer schools? Are competitors treated differently when evaluating academic reputation? What methods are administrators utilizing to influence brand perception with their stakeholder and educational peers?Business school deans and associate deans emphasized different aspects of an undergraduate program in their description of quality. The deans most valued quality from faculty and research. The associate deans valued the undergraduate experience including sense of community, engagement, involvement, leadership, student services, as creating distinction in a program.Business school administrators are barraged by influences that affect their perceptions about program reputations. Overall the influences on perception included quality of faculty, research, student standardized test scores, resources, characteristics of an institution, professional involvement and social networks including networks with faculty, students, other professionals and employers that provide feedback about schools. Professional involvement and social networks (PhD students, other deans, siblings, friends, students, employers, etc.) provided administrators with important insight into academic reputation. The quality of people that the administrators knew from other schools made a difference in peer schools' reputation.Finally, most schools employ integrated marketing communication (IMC) including taglines, direct marketing, event marketing, feature promotions, customer service and brand messages to influence stakeholders and peers. This study confirmed that everyone in a business school is a brand manager because brand is influenced through numbers of interactions over time with a variety of stakeholders. True to the IMC framework, business schools have moved to a relationship driven educational model.

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Barriault, Yoan. "L'écho d'un peuple, entre réalité et fiction : le "pageant scénique" comme médium du discours identitaire franco-ontarien." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/33382.

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Depuis le Pageant du tricentenaire de la ville de Québec, qui a eu lieu en 1908, plusieurs spectacles historiques à grand déploiement ont été créés au Canada français, et particulièrement au Québec, et ce, jusqu’aux années 1960. Ces spectacles populaires et amateurs, souvent créés dans le cadre de festivités célébrant des anniversaires de fondation de localités ou d’établissements scolaires ou religieux, connurent ensuite un déclin, pour revenir en force à partir de la fin des années 1980. Présenté de 2004 à 2008 dans la ville de Casselman, en Ontario, le spectacle L'écho d'un peuple est l’un des plus importants représentants contemporains de ce genre théâtral et s’avère, par sa forme et son contenu, différent des autres productions de ce genre. Ce mémoire vise à démontrer que L’écho d’un peuple véhicule un discours identitaire fondé sur la grandeur des origines par le biais d'une forme spectaculaire particulièrement apte à la transmission d’un discours épique. Le premier chapitre présente l’historique du spectacle, de sa création jusqu’à sa dissolution, alors que le deuxième chapitre démontre son appartenance au genre du « pageant scénique », une forme théâtrale très utilisée dans les spectacles historiques à grand déploiement produits durant la première moitié du XXe siècle. Les troisième et quatrième chapitres, qui proposent une analyse des composantes temporelles et spatiales du spectacle, démontrent que les événements historiques privilégiés par la trame narrative contribuent à construire un discours historique fondé sur la grandeur des origines de l’Ontario français, ponctué d’exploits accomplis par des héros évoluant sur un territoire spécifiquement franco-ontarien.

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Harvey, Elizabeth Loyd. "Same place next summer: permanent chautauquas and the performance of middle-class identity." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/979.

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This dissertation explores the impact of the permanent chautauqua movement in American culture, especially in the period from 1874 to 1935. It argues that chautauquas served as sites for the production of middle-class culture and the renegotiation of relationships among class, gender, race, and religion. Permanent chautauquas were popular vacation resorts throughout the United States, beginning with the founding of the Chautauqua Sunday School Assembly in upstate New York and increasing in number to about two hundred in 1900. They were associations of cottages offering community programs that were educational, religious, and entertaining. This dissertation examines the programs that the chautauquas planned, arguing that they espoused a burgeoning form of culture, one that supported a perceived morality and middle-class values like dedication to family, temperance, education, patriotism, piety, and fighting against temptation to sin. Particular emphasis is placed on how performance at permanent chautauquas led to new expectations of gender, class, race, and religion. Women had opportunities for leadership, were able to blur lines between public and private spheres, and could act out different expectations of their gender while on the grounds. While most chautauquans were middle class, attending a chautauqua meant that one's class was not important and all could enjoy a middle-class vacation. While the line between whites and non-whites remained stable, non-whites were granted performance opportunities at chautauquas that they might not have had; other non-whites participated as members of the work force that allowed white chautauquans the leisure they expected. Because chautauquas were Protestant communities, religion underlaid all activities on the grounds, redefining expectations of how religion and entertainment could be combined. Taken together, these renegotiations of identity at chautauquas impacted a broader American culture. This dissertation examines the performances at chautauqua, in particular the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle and their Recognition Day graduation ceremony; historical pageantry; professional performers who visited as part of the circuit chautauquas; and early film exhibition. It places them in a broader American performance context and argues that permanent chautauquas played a role in their development and popularity. It draws upon archival records from the chautauquas to outline the kinds of programming presented. Additionally, the research is supported by anecdotal evidence from a series of oral history interviews conducted with individuals who recall their childhoods at permanent chautauquas.

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Vaught, Andrew. "Across the Great Divides: An Exploratory Tryptich." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2282.

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de, Windt Jassir. "Will Beauty Save the World? A historical context study of the Miss Venezuela pageant as a conceivable contributor to communication for development." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22325.

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In recent years, old-hand development scholars, in the category of Dan Brockington, have expressed their concern over academia’s neglect of the significance of celebrities in the field. As has been the case of an outturn hereof, namely beauty pageants. In the last six decades, Venezuela has positioned itself not only as one of the world's largest exporters of oil but also as one of the leading engenderers of titleholders in international pageantry. The latter, which has resulted in Venezuelans regarding the pageant as a fundamental cultural undercurrent in their collective identity, seems to be a ceaseless manifestation in spite of the country’s worrisome current socio-economic status. Rather than adopting a condescending paradigm towards the Miss Venezuela pageant, it is precisely this vertex of ambiguity that opens the avenue for an interesting development question. After all, if celebrity beauty queens from Venezuela are deemed as part of the nation’s identity, could the pageant, in the same breath, be deemed as a contributor to communication for development? While espousing historical context as an analysing method and in pursuit of David Hulme’s Celebrity-Development nexus and Elizabeth McCall’s four strands of communication for development, this paper presents a qualitative study in which hands-on experts are given a platform. The findings show the evolution of a beauty pageant from a, nearly, nationalist device into a system that is grounded in the Millennium Development Goals and that aims to forge socially responsible beauty representatives that are competent enough to herald purposeful messages.

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Stover, Louise 1962. "A celebration without shadows: Ansel Adam's and Nancy Newhall's collaborations on "The Pageant of History in Northern California" and "Fiat Lux: The University of California"." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292016.

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Throughout the 1950s and '60s Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall collaborated on eight books devoted to photography. Two of these publications stand apart as books which were distinctly commercial in character. The Pageant of History in Northern California (1954), created for the American Trust Company of San Francisco, and Fiat Lux (1967), commissioned by the University of California, are linked by a number of interesting similarities. The ultimate function was identical--to create a work that would reflect the institution's commitment to the State of California. This essay will examine the character of Adams's photographs, Newhall's text, and their collaboration itself. It will explore the decisions and compromises Adams and Newhall were compelled to make between the requirements of the commercial commission and the preservation of their personal agenda of promoting photography as a tool of visual communication.

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Carroll, Kieran. "Joanna Murray-Smith and Daniel Keene : class oppositions." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16604/.

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Joanna Murray-Smith and Daniel Keene are both successful mid-career Melbourne playwrights. Taking them as a starting point and re-tracing an Australian theatrical lineage, this project explores new Melbourne narratives in which two branches of the Australian theatrical idiom converge in a single creative work, my play Friday Night, In Town. An analysis of the writing of Friday Night, In Town, authored by myself and presented for examination herein, demonstrates its narratives are structured with deliberate reference to Murray-Smith and Keene revealing a new form of contemporary urban playwriting. The play's originality, it will be shown, and its contribution to new knowledge, lie in its engagement with these playwrights and their Australian predecessors. These elements combine with a redeployment of the medieval pageant-play, which is thus reinvigorated as a mode of contemporary playwriting practice. The play text presented herein (Friday Night, In Town) represents 75 per cent of the weighting for this M.A. (by Research) with the exegetical component weighted at 25 per cent.

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Jūrevičiūtė, Julija. "Die Neuentdeckung eines alten Nationalepos. Zur Rezeption des Nibelungenliedes in der Theaterinszenierung von Andreas Kriegenburg nach dem Trauerspiel „Die Nibelungen“ von Friedrich Hebbel." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20110616_105507-98026.

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In der Einleitung werden das Thema, Ziele, Struktur der Arbeit bekannt gemacht. Die Arbeit besteht aus zwei Teilen, einem theoretischen und einem praktischen. In dem theoretischen Teil der Arbeit werden zuerst zwei Brgriffe Aufführung und Inszenierung, die zu dem Theaterwissenschaft gehören, im Bezug auf die Begriffs- und Analyseaspekten, Beziehung zwischen den Begriffen analysiert. Dabei wird die semiotische Methode der Analyse der aufgeführten Inszenierung untersucht.In demzweitem Kapitel des theoretischen Teils beschäftigt man mit der Entstehung des Stoffes. Dabei werden literarische, inhaltliche Nuancen, historischer Kontext überblicht, auch erforsch, wie das Nibelungenlied zu dem Nationalepos wurde, die Rolle des Nibelungeliedes in eigenen historischen Ereignissen, Literatur, Malerei, Kino. Dabei werden die Variationen der Form und des Inhalts des Nibelungenliedes überblickt.
Įvade supažindinama su darbo tema, tikslais struktūra. Darnas susideda iš teorinės ir praktinės dalies. Pirmiausia teorinėje darbo dalyje aptariamos dvi su teatro mokslu susijusios sąvokos - spektaklis ir inscenizacija, apžvelgiant jų apibrėžimo ir analizės aspektus, šių sąvokų tarpusavio ryšį. Taip pat aptariamas semiotinis metodas, kuris taikomas ant scenos pateiktai teatrinei inscenizacijai analizuoti. Antrame teorinės dalies skyriuje tirimas Nibelungų giesmės atsiradimas. Todėl analizuojami literatūriniai, turinio niuansai, istorinis kontekstas, taip pat Nibelungų giesmės tapimas nacionaliniu epu bei Nibelungų giesmėje vyraujančių temų ir motyvų svarba istoriniams įvykiams, literatūrai, dailei, kinui. Todėl apžvelgiamos Nibelungų giesmės turinio ir formos variacijos.
The introduction presents the thesis, the objective structure. The work consists of both theoretical and practical part First, the theoretical part deals with two related concepts in science theater – theatrical pageant and spectacle, reviewing the definition and analysis of aspects of the relationship between these concepts. It also discusses the semiotic approach, wich is used to analysed of the theatrical pageant. The second chapter of the theoretical part studied song of the Nibelungs appearance. Therefore, analysis of literary content of nuance, historical context, as well as becoming a national hymn and importance of the dominant themes and motives of the song of the Nibelungs to historical events, literature, visual arts, cinema. Therefore variations and form of the song of the Nibelungs are reviewed.

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Latham, Shanie. "Pageantry /." Available to subscribers only, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594487741&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Lewis, Heidi D. ?UNAUTHORIZED. ""Speaking out of the dust" : religious reenactments with the specific iconic identity of place /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1478.pdf.

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Seager, Cecchini Ashley. "“Maybe I’ll see you on the stage”: Spontaneous Audience Action in the Performance of the Plays of Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1281283461.

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Pompei, Luca. "Temporal PageRank." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/10469/.

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The our reality is characterized by a constant progress and, to follow that, people need to stay up to date on the events. In a world with a lot of existing news, search for the ideal ones may be difficult, because the obstacles that make it arduous will be expanded more and more over time, due to the enrichment of data. In response, a great help is given by Information Retrieval, an interdisciplinary branch of computer science that deals with the management and the retrieval of the information. An IR system is developed to search for contents, contained in a reference dataset, considered relevant with respect to the need expressed by an interrogative query. To satisfy these ambitions, we must consider that most of the developed IR systems rely solely on textual similarity to identify relevant information, defining them as such when they include one or more keywords expressed by the query. The idea studied here is that this is not always sufficient, especially when it's necessary to manage large databases, as is the web. The existing solutions may generate low quality responses not allowing, to the users, a valid navigation through them. The intuition, to overcome these limitations, has been to define a new concept of relevance, to differently rank the results. So, the light was given to Temporal PageRank, a new proposal for the Web Information Retrieval that relies on a combination of several factors to increase the quality of research on the web. Temporal PageRank incorporates the advantages of a ranking algorithm, to prefer the information reported by web pages considered important by the context itself in which they reside, and the potential of techniques belonging to the world of the Temporal Information Retrieval, exploiting the temporal aspects of data, describing their chronological contexts. In this thesis, the new proposal is discussed, comparing its results with those achieved by the best known solutions, analyzing its strengths and its weaknesses.

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Vickers, Matthew. "Civic image and civic patriotism in Liverpool 1880-1914." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e2896eed-ee1d-4a58-8c52-10e80ebe6219.

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The late Victorian and Edwardian period saw ritual become increasingly important in political life. Towns and cities were involved in conscious efforts to construct and project attractive images of themselves. These images were intended to encourage a sense of civic patriotism. Ceremonies, honorific titles, public events and civic architecture were essays in the invention of tradition. However, historians have applied the concept of the invention of tradition unevenly. Previous research has dwelt on the construction of images. Perceptions of official images and responses to them have been overlooked. This thesis employs a model which recognises images as processes with foundaitons in human relationships. It evaluates images in terms of intentionality, power, context and participation. The participative dimension is of particular importance, because images aimed to instil a sense of civic patriotism which would encourage citizens to make emotional and financial investments in their communities. Liverpool attained the status of a city in 1880. The civic ideology of the city was dominated by images of commerce and by notions of Imperial duty and public service which celebrated commercial virtues. Many aspects of urban life were shaped by civic image. This study does not confine itself to public events and pageantry, instead it explores such spheres as municipal art policy, Liverpool's public health record, the attempts to extend the city boundaries, civic hagiography, the foundation of the University, women and the ideal of citizenship and the influence of football on civic identity to demonstrate the importance of images in the city's social, political and institutional history. The purpose of the thesis is three-fold: to suggest that civic image opens new perspectives on Liverpudlian history, to discover why there were more conscious attempts to construct civic image and to restore participation to the study of civic image by unravelling the connections between image and patriotism.

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Bounahai, Najib. "Moors in Elizabethan/Jacobean entertainments : race, performance and politics /." Thesis, Connect to Dissertations & Theses @ Tufts University, 2001.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2001.
Adviser: Barbara Freedman. Submitted to the Dept. of Drama. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 191-207). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

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Tadakamala, Anirudh. "Analysis of PageRank on Wikipedia." Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17609.

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Master of Science
Department of Computing and Information Science
Daniel Andresen
With massive explosion of data in recent times and people depending more and more on search engines to get all kinds of information they want, it has becoming increasingly difficult for the search engines to produce most relevant data to the users. PageRank is one algorithm that has revolutionized the way search engines work. It was developed by Google`s Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It was developed by Google to rank websites and display them in order of ranking in its search engine results. PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a weight to each document in a corpus and measures the relative importance within the corpus. The purpose of my project is to extract all the English Wikipedia data using MediaWiki API and JWPL(Java Wikipedia Library), build PageRank Algorithm and analyze its performance on the this data set. Since the data set is too big to run in a single node Hadoop cluster, the analysis is done in a high computation cluster called Beocat, provided by Kansas State University, Computing and Information Sciences Department.

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Thompson, Elisabeth Blumer. "Trailer park royalty Southern child beauty pageants, girlhood and power /." Click here to access dissertation, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2007/elisabeth_b_thompson/thompson_elisabeth_b_200708_edd.pdf.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007.
"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." Curriculum Studies, under the direction of William M. Reynolds. ETD. Electronic version approved: December 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-228) and appendices.

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Girometti, Laura. "Metodi numerici per il calcolo del Pagerank." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/18785/.

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La mia tesi si occupa di descrivere, analizzare e confrontare alcuni tra i metodi più importanti per il calcolo del vettore di Pagerank, il cui scopo è classificare in ordine di importanza grandi quantità di pagine web. Per risolvere il problema agli autovalori associato, mettiamo a confronto il metodo delle potenze, una sua modifica estrapolativa, che ne accelera la velocità di convergenza, e il metodo di Arnoldi 'raffinato', che esegue performance migliori per valori del parametro del modello molto vicini a 1.

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Davis, Jill M. "Royal realness: drag pageantry in the US." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6400.

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This dissertation focuses on the role of gender and sexuality in the US, and how people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender create and contest ideas of community and belonging through ritual and performance. I examine how race, class, and gender affect the dynamics of power and prestige within public LGBT spaces. Based on 18 months of fieldwork throughout the US, my dissertation research with drag queens, drag kings, promoters, audience members, and other stakeholders in national “gay” pageant competition systems examines the resources at stake for those involved, along with the cultural politics that inform unfolding events. The social spaces I work in are largely built by and dominated by gay men and transwomen; however, lesbians and transmen are increasingly participating. For many, this arena provides a space where individuals with non-normative gendered and sexualized identities can find not only safety and affirmation, but prestige and power. Yet, there remain deep divisions limiting the power of those assigned female at birth. I argue that this persistent inequality stems from the endurance of larger patterns of male privilege which shape US social life more generally. In the world of gay pageantry male dominance is achieved economically, structurally, and ideologically, even as many participants challenge normative gender frames.

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Gapps, Stephen. "Performing the past : a cultural history of historical reenactments." Online version, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/625.

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University of Technology, Sydney.
The reenactment of the past itself has a history. This thesis analyses self-styled 'historical reenactors' in the West and traces the history of the broader phenomenon of historical reenactment in the Australian context from the late nineteenth century to the present. The historical section focuses on several events significant in Australian cultural memory that have been reenacted over time. Historical parades, pageants and reenactments dramatically narrate culturally specific historical sensibilities and demonstrate inter and cross cultural exchanges of historical consciousness. I contend such performances have had a significant position in the formation of popular history since the late nineteenth century and that there is a continuity of conventions in performing the past. I have addressed the position of reenactments as part of a constant interest in the status and power of history in, and for, popular culture. I have shown how a form of history that operated for the public was transformed into a form of history operated by the public in a struggle for authority over the form and content of history. Historical reenactments have been useful avenues for elites to create didactic spectacular history that have also offered the opportunity for marginalised groups to make social and political gains through their participation in the making of public history. Considering the significance of reenactments in the formation of a distinctly Australian public history, they have received little attention from historians. As ephemera, reenactments sit awkwardly in the explanatory frameworks regularly used by historians. Using methodologies from a range of academic disciplines such as performance studies, anthropology and cultural studies, this thesis documents and interrogates the specific form of historical reenactment. In the sections of this thesis that analyse contemporary historical reenactments, I use my own experience as an historical reenactor of more than ten years in an ethnographic approach that reflects on the pleasures, promises and problems 'dressing up as if from the past' offers. In this history I draw continuities between past reenactments and present practices that assist in understanding historical reenactment as a specific cultural form. This thesis contends that reenactments over time have been characterised by three main elements: a collapsing of past and present, an avenue for a 'connectedness' with the past through a sensual experience, and an essential relationship with I authenticity.'

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Wolf, Christa J. "A Descriptive Analysis of the Oberammergau Passion Play 2010." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1374768702.

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Williams, Heather A. "Miss Homegrown the performance of food, festival, and femininity in local queen pageants /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1245452161.

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Mathieu, Fabien. "Graphes du Web : Mesures d'importance à la PageRank." Phd thesis, Université Montpellier II - Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, 2004. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00667563.

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L'application des mesures d'importance de type PageRank aux graphes du Web est le sujet de cette thèse, qui est divisée en deux parties. La première introduit une famille particulière de grands graphes, les graphes du Web. Elle commence par définir la notion de Web indexable, puis donne quelques considérations sur les tailles des portions de Web effectivement indexées. Pour finir, elle donne et utilise quelques constatations sur les structures que l'on peut observer sur les graphes induits par ces portions de Web. Ensuite, la seconde partie étudie en profondeur les mesures d'importance à la PageRank. Après un rappel sur la théorie des chaînes de Markov est présentée une classification originale des algorithmes de PageRank, qui part du modèle le plus simple jusqu'à prendre en compte toutes les spécificités liées aux graphes du Web. Enfin, de nouveaux algorithmes sont proposés. L'algorithme BackRank utilise un modèle alternatif de parcours du graphe du Web pour un calcul de PageRank plus rapide. La structure fortement clusterisée des graphes du Web permet quant à elle de décomposer le PageRank sur les sites Web, ce qui est réalisé par les algorithmes FlowRank et BlowRank.

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Huynh, The Dang. "Extension de PageRank et application aux réseaux sociaux." Thesis, Paris 6, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA066114/document.

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Le classement des objets est une des questions importantes et typiques dans notre vie quotidienne. De nombreuses applications ont besoin de classifier des objets en fonction de certains critères, parfois simple comme de classifier les étudiants dans une classe en fonction de relevé de notes ou plus compliqué comme le classement des universités. Classifier des objets consiste à les ordonner selon certains critères exigés par une application spécifique.Avec la popularisation de l’Internet, un problème typique qui a émergé des deux dernières décennies est le classement des résultats renvoyés par les moteurs de recherche. Dans les moteurs de recherche classiques (comme Google, Yahoo ou Bing ),l’importance d’une page web est la base pour le classement. Cette valeur est calculée sur la base de l’analyse des hyper-liens entre les pages Web. Avec un ensemble de documents V={v1, ..., vn}, quand il y a une requête q d’un utilisateur arrivant, le moteur de recherche cherche des documents dans V correspondant à la requête q, puis trie les documents dans l’ordre décroissant de leur pertinence pour la requête. Ce processus peut être réalisé grâce à une fonction de classement qui permet de cal culer la similarité sim(q, vi) entre la requête q et un document vi ∈ V. La fonction de classement peut être considérée comme le noyau qui détermine essentiellement la qualité du moteur de recherche
Ranking objects is one of the important and typical issues in our daily life. Many applications need to rank objects according to certain criteria, as simple as ranking students in a class according to average grades, or more complicated as ranking universities. Ranking objects means to arrange them in accordance with some criteria depending on the specific application.In the era of the Internet, a typical problem emerging in the last decades is the ranking of results returned by search engines. In conventional search engines (like Google, Yahoo or Bing ), the importance of a web page is the basis for ranking. This value is determined based on the analysis of graph links between web pages. With a set of documents V={v1, ..., vn}, when there is a user’s query q arriving, the search engine looks for documents in V matching the query q, then sorts the documents according to their relevance to the query in descending order. This process can be done thanks to a ranking function which allows us to compute the similarity s(q,vi) between the query q and a document vi ∈ V . Obviously, the ranking function can be seen as the core and significantly determines the quality of the search engine

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Allard, Sebastian, and Björn Nilsson. "Sökmotoroptimering : Metoder för att förbättra sin placering i Googles sökresultat." Thesis, Uppsala University, Computer Systems Sciences, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-126487.

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This paper is a literature study on search engine optimization (SEO) considering the leader of the search engine market: Google. There´s an introductory background description of Google and its methods of crawling the Internet and indexing the web pages, along with a brief review of the famous PageRank algorithm. The purpose of this paper is to describe the major important methods for improved rankings on Google´s result lists. These methods could be categorized as on-page methods tied to the website to be optimized or off-page methods that are external to the website such as link development. Furthermore the most common unethical methods are described, known as “black hat”, which is the secondary purpose of the text. The discussion that follows concerns the practical implications of SEO and personal reflections of the matter. Finally there´s a quick view of the expanding market of handheld devices connected to the Internet and mobile search as an initial area of research.

Denna uppsats är en litteraturstudie om ämnet sökmotoroptimering (SEO) som behandlar ledaren bland sökmotorer: Google. Det finns en introducerande bakgrund som beskriver Google och dess metoder för ”crawling” och indexering av webbplatser, tillsammans med en kort genomgång av den välkända PageRank-algoritmen. Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva de centrala metoderna för förbättrad rankning i Googles träffresultat. Dessa metoder kan kategoriseras som ”on-page”-metoder, som är knutna till webbplatsen, eller ”off-page”-metoder, som är externa, exempelvis länkförvärvning. Vidare kommer de vanligaste oetiska metoderna att beskrivas, kända som ”black hat”, som är det andra syftet med denna text. Diskussionen som följer behandlar de praktiska implikationerna av SEO och personliga reflektioner i frågan. Avslutningsvis berör vi den expanderade marknaden av handhållen utrustning med Internetuppkoppling och mobil sökning som ett kommande forskningsområde.

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Conti, Francesco. "Metodi di estrapolazione per il calcolo del vettore PageRank." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/15933/.

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L'elaborato ha lo scopo di presentare alcuni metodi estrapolativi per l'accelerazione del calcolo del vettore PageRank. Sono presentati tre metodi, l'estrapolazione di Aitken, l'estrapolazione epsilon e l'estrapolazione quadratica. L'utilizzo di questi metodi riesce ad accelerare il calcolo del 25-300%.

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Liu, Brandon. "Better than PageRank: Hitting Time as a Reputation Mechanism." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12705170.

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In online multi-agent systems, reputation systems are needed to distinguish between trustworthy agents and potentially malicious or unreliable agents. A good reputation system should be accurate, resistant to strategic manipulations, and computationally tractable. I experimentally analyze the accuracy and manipulation-resistance of a reputation mechanism called personalized hitting time, and present efficient algorithms for its calculation. I present an alternate definition to hitting time that is amenable to Monte Carlo estimation, and show that it is linearly equivalent to the standard definition for hitting time. I present exact and approximation algorithms for computing personalized hitting time, and I show that the approximation algorithms can obtain a highly accurate estimate of hitting time on large graphs more quickly than an exact algorithm can find an exact solution. An experimental comparison of the accuracy of six reputation systems — global and personalized PageRank, global and personalized hitting time, maximum flow, and shortest path — under strategic manipulation shows that personalized hitting time is the most accurate reputation mechanism in the presence of a moderate number of strategic agents.

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Filinau, Alexej, and Wojciech Ratusznik. "PageRank - Hur fungerar den och hur kan den förbättras?" Thesis, KTH, Skolan för teknikvetenskap (SCI), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-275700.

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I det här arbetet undersöktes PageRank-algoritmen som är en metod att ge hemsidor en rank på internet. I början förklaras algoritmens uppbyggnad med hjälp av teori. Fortsättningsvis undersöks optimerade versioner av algoritmen som utnyttjar internets blockstruktur för en snabbare beräkningstid. Algoritmens känslighet med avseende på α undersöks också för att förstå hur PageRank fungerar. Sist studeras sökmotoroptimering av en hemsida för att se hur viktigt det är med länkar för att få ett bra PageRank-värde. Resultaten visar att algoritmen som tar hänsyn till blockstrukturen har en snabbare konvergenshastighet när antalet block ökar, och att känsligheten hos algoritmen ökar markant då 0.9 < α < 1. Slutligen visar undersökningen av sökmotoroptimeringen hur viktigt det är med genomtänkta länkar på en hemsida. Slutsatserna av arbetet är att algoritmen som använder blockstrukturen på internet är bättre för beräkning av PageRank-värden och att känsligheten hos den vanliga PageRank-algoritmen påverkas i stor utsträckning, speciellt då α går mot 1. Även länkar är väsentliga för en hemsida för att få ett bra PageRank-värde.

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Weale, Timothy. "Term Relatedness from Wiki-Based Resources Using Sourced PageRank." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1284636822.

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Ramachandran, Shridhar. "Incremental PageRank acceleration using Sparse Matrix-Sparse Vector Multiplication." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1462894358.

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Elin, Karagöz, and Heavey Alice. "Analysing Credibility of Twitter Users Using the PageRank Algorithm." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-208102.

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In a time when information and opinions are to a large extent shared via social media, it is important to find a way to determine how credible the content is. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether PageRank based algorithms can be used to deter- mine how credible a Twitter user is based on how much the user’s posts are retweeted by other users. Two different algorithms based on PageRank have rated the credibility of Twitter users in a network. This ranking has been compared with a manual credibil- ity check on the users to determine how close to reality the credibility distribution from the algorithms is. The results show that the algorithms can be said to preform better than random, but they still assign inaccurate credibility scores to many users. The simplicity of the algorithms is an advantage compared to other methods used in previous research. The conclusion is that the algorithms in their current states are not suitable for determin- ing the credibility of Twitter users.
I en tid då information och åsikter till stor del delas via sociala medier är det viktigt att finna ett sätt att avgöra hur trovärdig detta innehåll är. Syftet med denna studie är att utreda om det med hjälp av algoritmer baserade på PageRank-algoritmen går att avgö- ra hur trovärdig en Twitteranvändare är, baserat på hur mycket användarens inlägg bli- vit delade av andra användare. Två olika algoritmer baserade på PageRank har rankat trovärdigheten hos Twitteranvändare i ett nätverk. Denna rankning har sedan jämförts med en manuell trovärighetstilldelning av användarna för att avgöra hur nära verklighe- ten algoritmernas trovärdighetsfördelning är. Resultaten visar att algoritmerna kan anses prestera bättre än slumpen, men att de trots detta tilldelar en fleaktig trovärdighet till många användare i nätverket. Algoritmernas triviala natur ger dem en fördel gentemot algoritmer som använts i tidigare studier. Slutsatsen är att algoritmerna i deras nuvaran- de form inte är lämpade för att fastställa trovärdighet hos Twitteranvändare.

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Cavalli, Laura. "Strategie di accelerazione per l’approssimazione del vettore di PageRank." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/23712/.

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Il seguente lavoro ha come obiettivo il confronto tra vari metodi finalizzati al calcolo del vettore di PageRank. Dopo aver enunciato le prime nozioni e introdotto il problema, la tesi si struttura in due parti : da un lato il vettore di PageRank è cercato attraverso la risoluzione di un problema agli autovalori, mentre dall'altro è calcolato come soluzione di un sistema lineare. In entrambi i casi siamo partiti dai metodi classici ricorrendo al metodo delle Potenze nel primo e al metodo di Jacobi nel secondo. Successivamente il nostro interesse si è spostato sul calcolo del vettore di PageRank atteso. Nel primo caso un’approssimazione di questo vettore è data da un' ottimizzazione del metodo delle potenze. Nel secondo caso, partendo da un nuovo metodo di ordine ridotto basato sull'algoritmo di Arnoldi, siamo arrivati alla conclusione che il metodo più adatto a risolvere questo problema sia una versione "restartata" di quest’ultimo algoritmo in quanto presenta un’occupazione di memoria e dei tempi di convergenza notevolmente inferiori a quelli degli altri metodi.

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Karvonen, S. (Senni). "On the same page:an analysis of the mommy blogging phenomenon." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2014. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201411141999.

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The study highlighted some of the central characteristics in current mommy blogging phenomenon. I examined a blog post of Divine secrets of a domestic diva which manifested an action a group of mommy bloggers took to take part in one of the latest debates in the blogosphere. Given the controversial topic, I was interested in examining the blog entry in detail, analyzing its linguistic features and seeing what kind of discourses it created or tried to replace. I was also aiming to evaluate how the post was perceived by the readers and examine the potential community development between the bloggers and readers. The questions I addressed within this framework were the following: What discourses the blog post creates and how are they articulated? How do those discourses affect the potential for a community to emerge between a group of bloggers and readers? I employed points of inquiry developed by critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 2003, 2010). Through the analysis of language and discourse in the blog post, I aimed to characterize the social and cultural structures behind it. I identified different perspectives and representations, i.e. discourses to four themes that I named as views of maternal roles, views of (female) social behavior, views of health, and views of postpartum body image and appearance. The discourses I identified in the material represented somewhat opposing views which was more or less expected given the debated topic of the blog post. The discourses to the theme of maternal roles were used to construct social conceptions of mothers’ and women’s roles by the participants. The two main discourses under the theme of views of maternal roles I named as idealistic motherhood and realistic or non-ideal motherhood. The discourses to the theme views of (female) social behavior were reflecting types of social behavior and traits attributed to women and mothers. The two discourses I identified within this theme were female solidarity and female disunity. These two discourses were dominant throughout the post and its comments. The discourses to the theme views of health represented two rather opposing takes on health: strict and permissive. These discourses of health were present especially in the comments section. The theme of views of postpartum body image and appearance is also a central one in this text, and it included two opposite approaches which I named acceptance and critique. The discourses I categorized were not well-defined and some overlapping also occurred between them. For instance, Kang’s image and the comments which supported her view of striving for perfection articulated the discourse of idealistic motherhood and also critique of appearance discourse. Kang seemed to represent new momism with its demands of excelling in and out of domestic sphere. The bloggers represented themselves as somewhat non-conventional mothers who do not seem to care about the postpartum body image ideals of getting back in shape after pregnancy. This argument was softened by humor which probably made it more palatable with the audience. There was also a significant mixing of discourses of female solidarity and female disunity in the bloggers’ views and their action. They supported one another and reinforced their sense of community by putting emphasis on Kang’s difference from them. Still, the bloggers managed to articulate understanding towards Kang. Although the comments this blog entry received were by large of mimicking nature or otherwise supportive, the commenters were, for the most part, left out from their action and community reinforcement efforts. Some of my findings were well in tune with previous research, especially that of Yonker’s (2012). The genre in question often aims to be radical in its portrayal of motherhood but the use of rhetorical devices such as humor and confession may imply that the bloggers are only portraying something they are not and they are acknowledging that they are doing something “wrong” according to conventional expectations. I claim that by admitting that they need an excuse for their non-ideal appearance, they actually reinforce the postpartum body ideal that Kang in this particular case and the media in general convey
Tutkimukseni käsitteli nykyisen amerikkalaisen äitibloggausilmiön keskeisiä piirteitä. Tarkastelin blogin Divine secrets of a domestic diva yhtä blogikirjoitusta, jossa ryhmä äitibloggaajia otti kantaa erääseen kiistanalaiseen ilmiöön blogimaailmassa. Pyrin selvittämään, millaisia diskursseja blogikirjoitus loi tai yritti korvata. Tarkoituksenani oli myös selvittää kuinka teksti tulkittiin lukijoiden toimesta ja arvioida mahdollisen yhteisön kehittymistä bloggaajien ja lukijoiden välillä. Tutkimuskysymykseni olivat seuraavat: Mitä diskursseja blogikirjoitus luo ja miten ne on ilmaistu? Miten kyseiset diskurssit vaikuttavat mahdollisen yhteisön muotoutumiseen osanottajien välillä? Lähestyin tutkimuskohdettani kriittisen diskurssianalyysin avulla (Fairclough 2003, 2010). Löysin tekstistä erilaisia näkökulmia eli diskursseja neljään keskeiseen teemaan, jotka nimesin näkemyksiksi äidin roolista, näkemyksiksi sosiaalisesta käyttäytymisestä, näkemyksiksi terveydestä ja näkemyksiksi raskauden jälkeisestä vartalokuvasta ja ulkonäöstä. Löytämäni diskurssit edustivat pitkälti vastakkaisia näkemyksiä, mikä oli osittain odotettavissa kiistanalainen aihe huomioonottaen. Äidin rooliin liittyvät diskurssit rakentavat sosiaalisia käsityksiä äitien ja naisten rooleista, ja nimesin sen sisällä olevat kaksi dominoivaa diskurssia idealistiseksi ja realistiseksi (ei-ideaali) äitiydeksi. Naisten sosiaalista käyttäytymistä kuvaavat diskurssit jakautuivat myös kahteen vastakkaiseen leiriin: solidaarisuus ja epäyhtenäisyys. Nämä kaksi diskurssia olivat dominoivia blogikirjoituksessa ja sen saamissa kommenteissa. Terveysteemaan liittyvät diskurssit nimensin tiukaksi ja sallivaksi näkemyksiksi, ja ne tulivat esille etenkin kommenttiosiossa. Näkemykset raskauden jälkeisestä vartalokuvasta ja ulkonäöstä olivat myös keskeisiä ko. tekstissä ja nimesin siihen liittyvät diskurssit hyväksynnäksi ja kritiikiksi. Diskurssit, jotka tekstistä löysin eivät olleet selvärajaisia ja olivat osin päällekkäisiä. Blogikirjoitukseen osallistuneet bloggaajat vahvistivat omaa yhteisöään korostamalla eroa kritiikin kohteena olevaan Kangiin. Vaikka blogikirjoitus sai paljon kannustavaa palautetta lukijoilta, sitä kommentoivat kirjoittajat jäivät kuitenkin bloggaajien muodostaman yhteisön ja heidän yhteisen kannanottonsa ulkopuolelle

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Bassi, Chiara. "Metodi di estrapolazione e adattivi per il calcolo del PageRank." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/24473/.

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La ricerca su Internet è diventata ormai un’operazione quotidiana e perciò risulta sempre più importante fornire una risposta pertinente nel minor tempo possibile all’utente. In questo elaborato viene esposto l’algoritmo di PageRank che determina l’ordinamento delle pagine web, considerando come prime pagine quelle più importanti. Inizialmente si fornisce l’algoritmo del metodo delle potenze per stimare il PageRank delle pagine web; vengono poi esposti alcuni metodi per il calcolo del vettore di PageRank che hanno lo scopo di accelerare la velocità di convergenza del metodo delle potenze. I primi metodi presentati sono quelli di estrapolazione: Aitken, epsilon e quadratica; dopodiché si introducono i metodi adattivi che, soprattutto per matrici di grandi dimensioni, migliorano la convergenza del metodo delle potenze. La tesi si conclude con l’esposizione di alcuni risultati sperimentali.

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Green, Lawrence [Verfasser]. "The Uses of Pageantry : Pageantry as Production Style in Revivals of Shakespeare´s Second Tetralogy on the English Stage in the Twentieth Century / Lawrence Green." München : GRIN Verlag, 2013. http://d-nb.info/118299671X/34.

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Nespeca, Daria [Verfasser]. "CCR10 und Morbus Paget / Daria Nespeca." Düsseldorf : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1223705250/34.

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Gustavsson, Pär. "Utvärdering av Random Indexing och PageRank som verktyg för automatisk textsammanfattning." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-53590.

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Mängden information på internet är enorm och bara forsätter att öka på både gott och ont. Framförallt kan det vara svårt för grupper såsom synskadade och personer med språksvårigheter att navigera sig och ta vara på all denna information. Därmed finns ett behov av väl fungerande sammanfattningsverktyg för dessa, men även för andra människor som snabbt behöver presenteras det viktigaste ur en uppsättning texter. Den här studien undersöker hur väl sammanfattningssystemet CogSum, som är baserat på Random Indexing, presterar med och utan rankningsalgoritmen PageRank aktiverat på nyhetstexter och texter från Försäkringskassan. Utöver detta används sammanfattningssystemet SweSum som en baslinje i undersökningen. Rapporten innefattar en teoretisk bakgrund som avhandlar automatisk textsammanfattning i stort vilket inkluderar olika utvärderingsmetoder, tekniker och sammanfattningssystem. Utvärderingen utfördes med hjälp av det automatiska utvärderingsverktyget KTHxc på nyhetstexterna och ett annat sådant, AutoSummENG, på Försäkringskassans texter. Studiens resultat påvisar att CogSum utan PageRank presterar bättre än CogSum med PageRank på 10 nyhetstexter medan det omvända gäller för 5 texter från Försäkringskassan. SweSum i sin tur erhöll det bästa resultatet för nyhetstexterna respektive det sämsta för texterna från Försäkringskassan.

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Rivas, Bahti Dolores. "Aztlan in Arizona: Civic narrative and ritual pageantry in Mexican America." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/279792.

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This study examines Mexican American popular culture, including seasonal festivals, professional stage plays, journal essays, and ritual narratives in early Arizona. Through these various cultural forms, Mexican American residents negotiated and countered prevalent notions of U.S. national identity aligned with nineteenth-century ideas about Western modernity and Mexican antiquity articulated at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, in Chicago, that presented Mexican America as an 'Orient,' an internal Orient named Aztlan. Civic rhetoric in the early twentieth-century Spanish-language press created an intimate cultural landscape that casts light and shadow upon prior histories of Mexican America in Arizona. In addition to social criticism in local journals, scripted plays in print and on stage extending beyond Iberia and Mexico into the Southwest affirmed local forms of Mexican American popular culture. Staged narratives of class relations within border space defined by international economic and labor interests are also noteworthy registers of allegorical formulations of cultural identity. In addition to frontier drama and border journals, personal correspondence and candid images of rural and urban parishes also demonstrate processes by which religious farms became unfolding and inclusive demonstrations of public devotion and civic rhetoric. Popular Catholicism nurtured by an early generation of Spanish Discalced Carmelite priests in Arizona created devotional societies, public processions in religious precincts, Spanish plays in parish halls, and festival parades in commercial districts that embodied local demonstrations of Mexican American culture of Aztlan in Arizona.

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Batti, João Carlos Bez. "Um pouco da matemática por trás do algoritmo PageRank do Google." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2015. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/160733.

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Dissertação (mestrado profissional) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Físicas e Matemáticas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Matemática, Florianópolis, 2015.
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Neste trabalho trataremos de forma simplificada os conceitos matemáticos envolvidos em um dos algoritmos utilizados no sistema de classificação das páginas pelo Google: o PageRank. Abordaremos de maneira informal, a ideia de se atribuir uma pontuação de importância para as páginas da internet e posteriormente formalizaremos matematicamente, com o auxílio da Álgebra Linear. Por fim, apresentaremos um roteiro para se inserir, de modo intuitivo, a essência do algoritmo PageRank no Ensino Médio, estimulando os estudantes ao aprendizado de temas como Matrizes, Determinantes e Sistemas de Equações Lineares usando como objeto a internet, a qual está cada vez mais presente no dia a dia dos alunos e dessa forma servindo como fonte de inspiração para o aprendizado da matemática.

Abstract : In this work we deal, in a simplified way, with the mathematical concepts involved in one of the algorithms used in GoogleÂ s page ranking system called: PageRank. We discuss informally the idea of assigning an importance score for websites and then do a mathematical formalization, with the help of Linear Algebra. Finally, we present a class script to insert, intuitively, the idea of the PageRank algorithm in high school, encouraging students to learn themes such as matrices, determinants and systems of linear equations using the internet as the subject, which is becoming more present in the day-to-day lives of students and thus serving as a source of inspiration for the learning of Mathematics.

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Nemirovsky, Danil. "Monte Carlo methods and Markov chain based approaches for PageRank computation." Nice, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010NICE4018.

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