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Guilfoyle, Christine. "The second sex in the works of Nelson Algren." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/377487/.
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This is the first critical study in the history of Nelson Algren criticism and scholarship to focus on Algren’s representation(s) of women. The critical consensus is that his women are ‘sympathetically imagined’ yet Algren has a reputation for being ‘no feminist.’ In this thesis I unpack this dichotomy by performing radical re-readings of his four novels, Somebody in Boots (1935), Never Come Morning (1942), The Man with the Golden Arm (1949), and A Walk on the Wild Side (1956). In each case I demonstrate that these novels perform feminist and masculinity studies work in their documentation and problematisation of rape and prostitution. I also unpack the mythologisation of love in Algren’s work which is based on out-dated readings of his protagonists’ intimate relationships and on a too-close association of his life with his literature. As such, this thesis also foregrounds the role critical readings play in the construction of a writer’s reputation. The ‘second sex’ of the title signals a) the thesis’s focus on women and b) the personal connection between Algren and Simone de Beauvoir who met on the cusp of writing The Man with the Golden Arm and The Second Sex. Re-reading archival evidence, I argue that Algren’s reputation as ‘no feminist’ owes much to being cast as Beauvoir’s ‘macho’ lover in the mythology of their relationship. Putting Algren’s women at the centre of readings demonstrates that he brought an incisive awareness of gender issues to the table when he and Beauvoir met in 1947. Foregrounding the women in Algren’s work, the richness and sophistication of Algren’s writing comes more fully to light. This thesis aims to provide a clearer sense of Algren’s place in American literature and an assessment of his relevance to the international canon of work on human sexuality, prostitution, and rape.
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Shepherd, Angela. "De Beauvoir and 'The Second Sex' : a Marxist interpretation." Thesis, University of Hull, 2015. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:14016.
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The Second Sex is Simone de Beauvoir’s seminal text. There have been numerous interpretations and critiques of this text since its inception in 1949. Most notable is the reading of her work as merely incorporating Sartrean existentialism and applying it to the social position of women. However recent theoretical discussion recognises her work as also an exploration of Marxism and this thesis follows that line of argument as, read in this context, the distinctiveness of her philosophical contribution can be made visible. Chapter one, endorses Marx’s historical materialism. Historically variable material conditions lead to historically variable human characteristics. De Beauvoir’s focus is with regard to women. Chapter two introduces the One and Other as a feature of human consciousness and a feature of women’s social oppression. Her account of why this structure explains women’s oppression is inspired by Marx’s historical materialism. Chapter three concerns the myths of femininity which also contribute to women’s oppression and are ideological in the Marxist sense of the word. Myths are productive, yet distorting and false, with the aim being to promote the interests of the powerful at the expense of those who are powerless. Chapter four expresses de Beauvoir’s views on the body insisting that the experience of biology as oppressive is a consequence of what culture makes of the body, again, utilising Marx’s historical materialism. Chapter five describes women’s lives as conditioned by historical, economic and material conditions structured by ideological myths which distort women’s human potential. Chapter six suggests freedom for de Beauvoir differs from Sartre. The meaning and value which condition the lives of individuals are informed by social structures which humans create within an historical and discursive context. Freedom for de Beauvoir, incorporating Marxist insights, is only possible with structural, economic and ideological change.
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Wasielewski, Martin J. "The second-to-fourth digit ratio and the female waist-to-hip ratio." Click here for download, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/villanova/fullcit?p1432521.
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Dundas, Josephine Ann-Marie. "Gender differences in learning styles and strategies between adolescent second language learners." University of Western Australia. Graduate School of Education, 2004. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0020.
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Second language enrolments, especially among boys, have declined markedly in our secondary schools over the last thirty years. Most research into this decline has been concerned with understanding what students do not like about language study. The present study took a different perspective, looking at classes in two schools where second language learning is popular and enrolments were high for both genders. The study sought to find which aspects of learning styles and strategies each gender enjoyed as a way to provide information to improve classroom language study and enrolment, particularly among boys. The study involved two, private schools, one boys’ and one girls’ — from the same socio-economic background. The schools were chosen because they had high enrolments in second languages, allowing meaningful amounts of data to be obtained. The single gender classes also permitted clear analysis of which classroom behaviours and activities suited each gender. A mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods was used. Data were collected using a student questionnaire, classroom observations and teacher interviews. Gender differences were found in a number of aspects of learning styles and strategies. Girls favoured collaborative learning styles that emphasised experience and support. Boys favoured a learning style emphasising clear parameters and expectations and opportunities to produce comprehensible output in the target language. The study found that teachers matched speaking activities to the preferred learning styles of the gender being taught. Further, it was found that while girls generally enjoyed groups of all sizes, boys preferred to practise speaking activities in pairs. Boys were found to be more confident about speaking activities than girls and both genders’ use of the target language reflected gender differences in communication in the first language
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Jernigan, Sharon Reynolds. "The Relationship of Sex and Age at Entrance to School to Second Grade Achievement." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332017/.
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This investigation compared achievement of boys and girls in second grade who were seven years old in June, July, and August of 1983 to the boys and girls in second grade who were eight years old in September, October, and November of 1983. The students were tested using the Iowa Test of Basic Skills using the following areas: reading, total math, and composite scores. The study also looked at the correlation of sex and age of students who had been retained in first grade. A comparison of teacher grades to standardized test scores and ability grouping was also presented. One way analysis of variance was applied to the test results. A chi square test of independence was conducted on students retained in the first grade to determine if interaction between sex and age was indicated. Older children scored higher in all three areas measured, while girls scored higher in reading. This may seem contradictory, but is not. Age was significant beyond the .05 level, while sex was significant beyond the .001 level. This difference is explained by the extremes in means for younger boys and older girls. Since first grade curriculum emphasizes reading, this gave girls a definite advantage over boys. Boys, however, scored significantly higher in math. The results indicate a need for restructuring curriculum to meet the needs of boys and girls. Younger boys in second grade scored the lowest in all areas tested, except math. These scores would have been even more significant if the boys who were not promoted to second grade could have been included in the second grade testing. These findings indicate that total developmental age is the most important factor when considering admission for school. A closer look should be taken at the requirements for school entrance. The factors that must be considered are chronological age, mental age, physical maturity, emotional and social maturity, behavior age, and sex.
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Levy, Jacob Lewis Nigel. "Second class citizens of Sweden : sex work and drug use in the people's home." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607911.
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Jacobsson, Olov. "”My second home” : Sex asylsökandes upplevelser av folkbiblioteket som ett stöd under etableringsprocessen i värdlandet." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-120136.
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Denna kvalitativa intervjustudie undersöker sex asylsökandes upplevelser av folkbiblioteken i Hultsfred och Valdemarsvik och deras integrationsprojekt ”Låna en svensk” för att bidra med kunskaper om hur folkbiblioteket kan verka som stöd under asylprocessen. Sammanfattningsvis upplevde respondenterna folkbiblioteket som en viktig resurs för att överbrygga de sociala och språkliga barriärer som de mötte i värdlandet. Folkbiblioteket utgjorde en inkluderande social arena som sammankopplade respondenterna med lokalbefolkningen och tillhandahöll språk- och informationsresurser som gjorde det lättare att hantera den nya livssituationen och motiverade dem till ett mer aktivt deltagande i lokalsamhället. Som teoretisk ansats har de asylsökandes interaktioner med folkbiblioteket analyserats utifrån begreppet socialt kapital i syfte att undersöka folkbibliotekets potential att stärka de asylsökandes förbindelser och förtroende till majoritetssamhället. Studien drar slutsatsen att folkbiblioteken bidrog till att stärka det sociala kapitalet på en mikronivå genom bibliotekariernas positiva interaktioner med respondenterna, samt genom de formella möten mellan de asylsökande och lokalbefolkningen som förmedlades via ”låna en svensk”-projektet. På en makronivå bidrog biblioteken till att generera socialt kapital genom att verka som en öppen demokratisk institution som ställer alla användare på en jämlik nivå, vilket fick respondenterna att känna sig som en del av gemenskapen i lokalsamhället.
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Trejos-Castillo, Elizabeth. "Parenting processes and risky sexual behaviors in first and second generation Hispanic immigrant youth." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Summer/Dissertations/TREJOS-CASTILLO_ELIZABETH_36.pdf.
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Huo, Qian, and 霍茜. "Gender difference in perception and adoption of technology to enhance second language learning out-of-school." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/198875.
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Current research has identified various cases of gender difference in perception and adoption of technology in general and language learners’ use of technology for second language learning. To understand these differences, this study investigated the use of technology out-of-class to enhance their second language learning of the students in a Chinese high school in Chengdu, Sichuan. It was showed that males and females have some differences in using technology for affection regulation, technology for culture regulation, technology for metacognition regulation and technology for resource regulation. In addition, this study unraveled the factor of family background that influenced students’ perception and selective use of technology in second language learning.published_or_final_version
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Erlandsson, Johan. ""The second sex speaks..." : En studie av Alice von Hildebrands och Margaret Harper McCarthys teologiska antropologi." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101666.
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This paper studies the theological anthropologies of the Catholic thinkers Alice von Hildebrand and Margaret Harper McCarthy. I place my research of these two theologians, categorized as religiously conservative thinkers, among other contemporary research on women in traditional religions by using types of agencies inspired by researchers such as Phyllis Mack, Talal Asad and Saba Mahmood. This paper analyzes how the two theologians construct their anthropologies, systems that see man in a relationship with a God-given order that dictates the role of freedom and responsibility in both the relationship with fellow human beings and his or her teleological goals. I argue that this anthropology comes from their reading of biblical passages and interpretations of real life experiences that break with secular, liberal and individualist patterns of thought. Using a hermeneutics aware of the tensions between secular readings of religious texts and readings that focuses on a self-transcendence, I present a reading of the theologians' systems of thought as a balancing act between liberal and poststructuralist feminist critiques. I argue that both Hildebrand and McCarthy reject the liberal and poststructuralist anthropologies because of their conviction that the liberal and poststructuralist anthropology is inadequate by not addressing the ontological reality of the human complementarity of the sexes. I also identify a tension in the theologians critique of feminism and what I take to be a dialectic between criticizing and appropriating feminist goals for women.
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Lu, Hangyan, and 卢杭艳. "Doing gender in reading English as a second language: a multi-case study across China and Sweden." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47752907.
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This thesis reports a cross-cultural study that investigated the ways Chinese and
Swedish college students do gender in their experiences of reading English as a
second language. The concept “doing gender in reading” in this study derives from
the view of reading as a social practice that leads to gendered identities construction.
Previous studies, which mostly found that girls outperformed boys in reading
achievement, created a linear relationship between gender and achievement. This
study, informed by social theories of literacy (Gee, 2008; Street, 1984; Kress, 2010)
and poststructuralist theories of gender (Weedon, 1997; Butler, 1990), explored how
socially-constituted gendered ideologies might be instantiated and negotiated in
college students’ experiences of reading English as a second language. It gave
particular attention to diversity within and between genders and to the dynamics of
students’ socio-culturally mediated reading practices. The study was guided by the
following sub-questions:
(a) What gender-specific ideologies can be identified in Chinese and Swedish
college students’ narratives of reading English as a second language?
(b) How do Chinese and Swedish college students act in relation to gender-specific
ideologies in their everyday English reading practices?
The study was conducted with a qualitative approach of narrative inquiry. Focal
informants were four Chinese students and four Swedish students enrolled in English
teacher education programs in their home countries. Data were collected over a sixmonth
period with techniques of student journal writing, interviews, focus groups,
and ethnographic observations. Baxter’s (2003) feminist poststructuralist discourse
analysis framed and guided data analysis.
The study found three recurrent English reading practices across cases that led to
gendered identities construction. These were: making investment in English reading;
adopting the strategy of reading English alone; and choosing English reading
materials in relation to teachers. Overarching ideologies that shaped these practices
included perceptions of reading as a more female-appropriate activity, male readers
as independent readers who could solve problems on their own, and female readers
as emotional readers who are sensitive to their relation with others. Informants’
actions in relation to these gender-specific ideologies fell into two major categories:
conformance and resistance. Findings suggested that female informants seemed to be
more ready to resist these ideologies whereas males tended to comply. Swedish
informants seemed to demonstrate more awareness of and readiness to resist
gendered ideologies compared to Chinese informants.
The findings from this study imply that gendered ideologies can have both
facilitating and debilitating effects on students’ reading experiences. Therefore,
language teachers should develop a critical consciousness of gendered ideologies and
how they relate to their students in specific contexts. In response to prevailing socioculturally
constituted and power-laden ideologies, the study proposes a new
perspective from which to interpret gender and reading English as a second language
across cultures. Such a contribution adds momentum to the paradigm shift from
essentialism to poststructuralism in second language acquisition that purports that
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Doctor of Philosophy
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Lotto, William. "Second class people a case study on the political and cultural rights of Japanese women throughout the 19th and 20th centuries /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2005. http://thesis.haverford.edu/120/01/2005LottoW.pdf.
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Larsson, Sara. "Samhällsplaneringens påverkan av fritidsboende : En fallstudie av sex kust och skärgårdskommuner." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-231942.
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Second homes are a widespread part of the Swedish landscape and in many municipalities along the coastline the population can vary seasonally due to that. This cause planning issues for the municipalities, in how they plan their infrastructure, service etc. Studies has also shown that there are two sides in the discussion about second homes, some areas want to attract second home owners because they believe that this group help the municipality to grow while others try to attract permanent residents and restrict new development of second homes. The subject has been of discussion for a long time from many angels, for instance implementation of regulations to prevent second homes. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate what planning strategies municipalities apply in areas that change so heavily in population depending on season. The method for this thesis is based on a mixture between comparative analysis and content analysis of six comprehensive plans and two policy documents from six municipalities with archipelagos. Furthermore, from the content analysis of the different documents, three themes were produced from the strategies which then were compared in comparative analysis where similarities and differences were highlighted. The themes were population and housing, infrastructure and transport communication, service, business sector and labor. The analysis was subsequently put into context with related academic research such as urbanization theories, rural gentrification, planning theories among others. This ended with a discussion and conclusion. Conclusively the analysis show that municipalities no longer plan for second homes but for permanent residents, the municipalities believed that it is reactionary to plan for second home owners and not primary for permanent residents.Fritidsboende är en utbredd del av det svenska landskapet och i många kommuner längs kusten kan befolkningen variera säsongsmässigt på grund av det. Detta skapar viss planeringsproblematik för kommunerna i hur de planerar sin infrastruktur, service etc. Studier har också visat att det finns två sidor i diskussionen om fritidsbostäder, vissa områden vill locka fritidsboende eftersom de anser att denna grupp hjälper kommunen att utvecklas medan andra försöker locka permanenta invånare och begränsa ny utveckling av fritidsbostäder. Ämnet har diskuterats länge och från många vinklar, exempelvis implementering av regelverk för att förhindra fritidsbostäder. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka vilka planeringstrategier kommuner tillämpar i sådana områden som skiftar så kraftigt i befolkningen säsongsvis. Metoden i denna studie har bestått av en blandning mellan komparativ analys och innehållsanalys på sex översiktsplaner och två styrdokument gällande kust och skärgården från sex kust- och skärgårdskommuner Från innehållsanalysen av de olika dokumenten, producerades tre teman från de strategier som sedan jämfördes i den komparativa analysen, där likheter och skillnader lyfts fram. Teman var befolkning och bostäder, infrastruktur och kommunikation, service, näringsliv och arbetsmarknad. Analysen relaterades sedan till forskningsöversikten och den teoretiska utgångspunkten Detta avslutades med en diskussion och slutsats. Sammanfattningsvis visar analysen att kommunerna inte längre planerar för fritidsboende utan för fastboende, kommunerna menade att det är förlegat att planera för främst fritidsboende och inte fastboende.
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歐美恩 and Mei-yan Florence Au. "Investigating gender in students' English learning beliefs in an English as a second language (ESL) class." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41262050.
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Muhanna, Aitemad. "Gender relations and women's agency during the second intifada in Gaza." Thesis, Swansea University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.678677.
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Larsson, Elin. "Planering av undervisningsämnet engelska : En intervjustudie med sex lärare för skolår 4-6." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Education and Psychology, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-6131.
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Sedan mitten av 1990-talet har Sverige internationellt sätt legat i topp på grund av grundskolelevers goda resultat i engelsk språkkunskap. Den svenska grundskolan är fortfarande internationellt sätt i topp men på nationell nivån har det skett en förändring. Sedan mitten av 1990-talet har grundskolelevernas resultat stagnerat och i vissa språkmoment även försämrats. Vad som orsakat denna negativa förändring finns det många spekulationer om t.ex. den ökade invandringen och elevers attityd till ämnet. Forskare har under en tid studerat olika områden som kan vara orsaken till de försämrade resultaten men har inte funnit ett konkret svar, ingen ensam faktor som kan ha förorsakat detta i skolan.
Vad gäller undervisningsplanering i skolan finns det inte mycket tidigare forskning inom Sverige för den svenska grundskolan. Inte heller skolans styrdokument har några direktiv för hur undervisningsmål ska uppnås, planeras eller vad denna planering ska innehålla. Undervisningens planering är lämnad i lärarens händer.
Svenska grundskoleelevers skolresultat i engelska visar på en nedåtgående utveckling, flera områden i skolan har fått uppmärksamhet, men undervisningsplaneringen är något som ännu är outforskat. Det är planeringen som avgör hur undervisningen utformas, vilka material och tillvägagångssätt elever ges möjlighet att tillägna sig i sikte att uppnå målen.
Denna studie omfattar intervjuer av sex lärare för grundskolans tidigare år. Intervjuerna har behandlat hur lärare planerar, vad de planerar och hur det tänker kring undervisningsämnet engelska, i syfte att få en bild av vilket innehåll och vilken struktur planeringen har. I studien framkommer att det är den individuella lärarens val av metoder och material samt det mål läraren har med undervisningen som avgör vad eleverna ges möjlighet att tillägna sig i skolan. Resultatet visar att det skiljer sig i hur lärare strukturerar sin undervisning. En del har en noga och väl strukturerad plan med moment och metoder, andra har en tanke som ännu inte är utformad eller tar det lite som det kommer. Alla arbetar för samma sak, efter samma styrdokument men på olika sätt.
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Brown, Lori Jean. "Enslaved to the species: the confluence of animality, immanence and the female body in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8704.
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Brown, Lori Jean 1968. "Enslaved to the Species: The Confluence of Animality, Immanence, and the Female Body in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8704.
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ix, 105 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir uses enslavement to the species to shape her concepts of animality, the female body, and immanence. The connection of these ~oncepts to reproductive processes links them together in problematic ways. Beauvoir responds by diminishing the ontological force of the female body. I begin this thesis by showing how varying degrees of enslavement to the species detennine sexual difference and the position of organisms on the evolutionary ladder. Next, I illustrate how animality, immanence, and the female body are closely linked together by their similar relationship to the species. I follow with the claim that Beauvoir's notion of the human existent requires a distancing from the realm of immanence and the power of reproduction through the risking of one's life. Finally, I demonstrate how Beauvoir downplays the ontological weight of the female body in her positing of early woman as an existent.
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SIQUEIRA, CARLA VIEIRA DE. "SEX, CRIME AND UNION: SENSATIONALISM AND POPULISM IN THE NEWSPAPERS ÚLTIMA HORA, O DIA AND LUTA DEMOCRÁTICA DURING VARGAS` SECOND TERM (1951-1954)." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2002. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=8552@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOCriados para ampliar o apoio popular em relação a determinadas lideranças, os jornais Última Hora, O Dia e Luta Democrática tiveram atuação importante durante o segundo governo Vargas como intermediários entre o público e os líderes políticos aos quais estavam ligados (respectivamente, Getúlio Vargas, Ademar de Barros/Chagas Freitas e Tenório Cavalcanti). Neste sentido, a linguagem sensacionalista presente nestes jornais foi elemento fundamental no exercício do papel de defensores do povo encarnado pelos três veículos. Através do sensacionalismo, estes jornais forjaram sua identificação com as classes populares e disseminaram a retórica populista. A presente análise tem como objetivo revelar a especificidade da interseção entre linguagem sensacionalista e linguagem política presente nestes periódicos.
Newspapers Última Hora, O Dia and Luta Democrática were founded with the purpose of expanding popular support for certain leaderships and played an important role as intermediaries between the public and the political leaders to whom they were connected during Vargas` second term (Getúlio Vargas, Ademar de Barros/Chagas Freitas and Tenório Cavalcanti, respectively). In this sense, the sensationalistic language used by these newspapers was an essential element in the forging of their roles as defenders of the people. It was through sensationalism that these papers fabricated their identification with the popular classes and disseminated their populistic rhetoric. The present analysis proposes to show the specificity of the intersection between sensationalistic language and political language presented by these newspapers.
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Lundahl, Charlotta. "Svenska som andraspråk - enligt sex pedagoger på en mångkulturell skola (Swedish as a second language - according to six teachers at a multicultural school." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-28019.
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Med hjälp av intervjuer av sex pedagoger på en mångkulturell skola i Malmö har jag undersökt synen på ämnet svenska som andraspråk. Jag har med hjälp av dessa sex personer haft ambitionen att skapa en bild av hur man arbetar med svenska som andraspråk på en skola.En bidragande faktor till min undersökning är det ökande antalet barn med annat modersmål än svenska som uppstått i mitt undersökningsområde.Som utgångspunkt har jag använt mig av Skolverkets lägesbedömning 2005, där anmärkningar finns angående brister i hur undervisningen i svenska som andraspråk bedrivs.Swedish as a second language - according to six teachers at a multicultural school.
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Baumgarten, Alisse. "Rape as a Weapon of War: The Demystification of the German Wehrmacht During the Second World War." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/586.
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The German Armed Forces were originally thought to be completely innocent of all war crimes associated with unethical Nazi racial policies. This has been proven not to be the case. History has adjusted itself to show that Wehrmacht forces were guilty of virtually every war crime except for the sexual violation foreign women. Due to the long-standing assumption that Nazi racial ideology prevented the intermingling of the “Aryan” race with the “unworthy” Eastern European races, this myth was rarely questioned. Given the lack of hard evidence proving that civilian women were raped by invading Wehrmacht troops, a firm conclusion is out of the question. However, with a concrete understanding of the Nazi attitude towards sexual relations, the components in the East that led to a breakdown in Wehrmacht discipline, and the resulting reaction of the Soviet Union in light of this brutality, one can surmise the type of violence women were forced to endure. Through the research conducted in this thesis, it is likely that the mass rape of Eastern European women did indeed occur. The silence that surrounds this issue is highly indicative of the cultural elements that prevent an open discussion of this topic. This thesis is meant to spark a discussion of the implications and reverberations of mass rape in a wartime setting.
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Sarelid, Camilla, and Malin Henrikson. "Maybe, eventually, I'll be allowed to be a parent to my own child." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24192.
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The purpose of this essay is to examine how same-sex couples experience the second-parent adoption process. To assist us, we have used our questions: how do the couples describe their experiences of the adoption process? Which are the couples’ stories about the experience of contact with the involved professionals? What are the opportunities and barriers for same-sex couples to start a family? How do the couples describe their experience of reactions from the community and society, and how do they think the future will look like for same-sex couples? This study has been achieved through a qualitative approach. The empirical data is based on seven semi-structured interviews with same-sex couples or pair members that want to or have had a second-parent adoption. The theory we have used for analyzing the results is phenomenology with focus on queer theory, heteronormativity, and power. We conclude that the couples’ experiences of the second-parent adoption process is that it is a long, time-consuming, and emotionally consuming process. They question why they have to go through with an adoption process. The couples think of it only as a legal security to their child. They have experienced varying treatment in the contact with professionals. The course of action has been different for all our seven couples: home insemination in Sweden, insemination at clinic in Denmark, and surrogacy in India. One clear result is that it is more difficult for gay men to start a family than for lesbians. The couples have mostly received positive responses and a lot of support from their surroundings. Despite that, they are worried about the negative view of homosexuality that is increasing in the world.
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Jones, Sheila. "Not “Part of the Job”: Sexual Harassment Policy in the U.S., the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Women’s Economic Citizenship, 1975–1991." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1217964889.
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Mattlar, Jörgen. "Skolbokspropaganda? : En ideologianalys av läroböcker i svenska som andraspråk (1995-2005)." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för didaktik, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-9390.
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This thesis deals with textbooks for the school subject Swedish as a Second Language published during the period of 1995-2005. The target group for the textbooks in Swedish as a Second Language in this study is young people or adults who have immigrated to Sweden. Immigrants and people of foreign origin who live in Sweden are in general structurally subordinated as regards to socioeconomic factors, which connects to the socio-economical segregation problem. Using this as a point of departure the ideology production in the textbooks is studied, mainly from the representations of gender, ethnicity and class. The thesis takes its theoretical departure in the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci’s (1891-1937) concept of hegemony which is based on a mutual understanding between the dominating social classes and the dominated social classes within society. The hegemony is not static but open for negotiation and it is constantly reshaped and renewed. The point of departure is that the teaching materials on the free market are considered to be an arena for ideological struggle, where counter-hegemonic activities occur. The questions posed in the thesis concern which ideologies are produced in the textbooks and the relation between the ideology production and the target group of the teaching materials. The results from the ideology analysis show that the ideology produced in the textbooks varies. The most coherent ideology appears in textbooks which politically connect to the far left and to the Social Democratic party. It is also in these textbooks that the assimilation tendency is the strongest, pertaining to Swedish gender equity and child rearing. One of the textbooks has counter hegemonic content which connects to the anti-globalization movement. In the analysis of the ideological content of the textbooks in relation to the target group it is shown that the expectations are low for them. This is expressed through content relating to the target group concern salary earners and public sector. Focus on entrepreneurship and enterprising is rare and concern famous Swedish companies and trademarks and does not relate to the target group and their provision in Sweden. Thereby the target group is subordinated on the Swedish labour market. The representation also implies in several respects the target group as ignorant. The image of the Swedish homogenous society rests on certain rather hegemonic perception; that is the secular, scientific and rationally built modern society. This representation entails that the multiculturalism that has existed historically and in contemporary society is not acknowledged.
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Nyström, Katarina. "Att göra det politiska personligt : En diskursanalys av socialsekreterares bedömningar av lämpligt föräldraskap i samband med juridiskt samkönad närståendeadoption." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Genusvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-133992.
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This thesis analyses social worker’s assessments of appropriate same-sex parenthood in the case of second-parent adoption in Sweden to thereby investigate the governmentality directed toward same-sex parents and how this governing practise normalises certain discourses on parenthood. The material consists of interviews with social workers conducting second-parent adoptions, which have been analysed through a discourse analysis deploying theoretical frameworks on governmentality, heteronormativity and family theory. The thesis has provided a deeper understanding of the effects of normative discourses on the exercise of public authority in the case of second-parent adoption. Great differences have been found among which criteria are used to condition same-sex parenthood and the impact of social workers own perceptions of suitable parenthood and the purpose of the assessment process.
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Valencia, Suárez Claudia Janeth. "L'influence de Simone de Beauvoir et du Deuxième sexe sur le féminisme en Colombie : le cas du groupe Mujer y Societad." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA080046.
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L’objectif principal de cette thèse est de déterminer si les féministes du groupe Mujer y Sociedad, de l’Université Nationale de Bogotá, ont pu être influencées par Simone de Beauvoir et par une des œuvres de référence du mouvement féministe mondial, Le Deuxième Sexe et d’établir quels liens pouvaient exister entre les idées exprimées dans cette œuvre et la construction du féminisme en Colombie. Il est manifeste dans les écrits des intellectuelles colombiennes que progressivement, au-delà de son œuvre fondatrice, la personnalité et la vie de Simone de Beauvoir se sont imposées au point d’exercer une véritable fascination sur le public latino-américain. Elle devient un modèle de vie et de nombreuses féministes se reconnaissent dans sa trajectoire. Enfin, il s’agit aussi de tenter de mesurer si cette influence sur un groupe d’intellectuelles s’est étendue à l’ensemble de la société colombienne, marquée par le modèle patriarcal, la religion catholique et le conflit arméThe main objective of this PhD thesis is to determine whether the feminists of the group Mujer y Sociedad (Women and Society) of the National University of Bogotá, could be influenced by Simone de Beauvoir and one of the reference books of the world feminist movement, The Second Sex, and to establish what links could exist between the ideas expressed in this essay and the construction of feminism in Colombia. It is noteworthy that in the writings of the Colombian intellectuals, gradually, beyond its founding work, the personality and life of Simone de Beauvoir has imposed itself to the point of exercising a real fascination on the Latin American public. She has become a model of life and many feminists are recognizable in her trajectory. Finally, it is also an attempt to measure whether this influence on a group of intellectuals has spread to the whole of the Colombian society, marked by the patriarchal model, the Catholic religion and the armed conflict
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Bogic, Anna D. "Rehabilitating Howard M. Parshley: A Socio-Historical Study of the English Translation of Beauvoir's Le deuxième sexe, with Latour and Bourdieu." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19600.
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This study documents the problematic translator-publisher relationship in the case of the English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe. The socio-historical investigation of the case study demonstrates that the 1953 translation was complicated by several factors: the translator’s lack of philosophical knowledge, the editor’s demands to cut and simplify the text, the publisher’s intention to emphasize the book’s scientific cachet, and Beauvoir’s lack of cooperation. The investigation focuses on two aspects: the translator’s subservience and the involvement of multiple actors.
Primarily concerned with the interaction between the translator and other actors, this study seeks answers that require investigation into historical documents and the work of other scholars critical of The Second Sex. In this enquiry, more than one hundred letters between the translator, H. M. Parshley, and the publisher, Knopf, are thoroughly analyzed. The study combines Bruno Latour’s and Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological concepts in order to provide a more detailed and encompassing examination within the context of Translation Studies. The letter correspondence is the primary evidence on which the study’s conclusions are based.Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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Černiauskaitė, Ieva. "Moters tapatybė: Kerė Candacės Bushnell knygų serijoje „Kerės dienoraščiai“, „Vasara ir miestas“ ir „Seksas ir miestas“." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130802_113333-80900.
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Candacės Bushnell romanai atskleidžia šiuolaikinės moters tapatybės problemas. Romanų veikėja Kerė Bradšo atspindi nepriklausomą, savo vienišumu patenkiną moterį, kuriai vyras reikalingas tik tam, kad pildytų jos užgaidas. Be to, Kerė yra moteris, kuriai mada padeda atskleisti jos asmenybę. Šiuolaikinė moterų literatūra turi tikslą ne tik suteikti savo skaitytojams gerų emocijų, bet ir apibrėžti šiuolaikines moterų, ieškančių savosios asmenybės, problemas.The novels written by Candace Bushnell reveal the problems of identity of a contemporary woman. The female character of the novels, Carrie Bradshaw, represents an independent woman who is satisfied being single and needs a man only to fulfil her desires. Moreover, Carrie is a fashion-oriented female; through fashion, she shows her individuality. Contemporary women’s literature has the goal not only to entertain its readers but also to define the contemporary problems that female face when they seek for self- identity.
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Schön, Jasmine. "Hermione Granger som “den Andra” : En analys av Hermione som mugglarfödd kvinna." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76153.
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Hermione Granger is the most prominent female character in the Harry Potter series. She is also the only one in the trio of herself, Harry Potter, and Ron Weasley who is muggle-born. She is, therefore, most likely to be discriminated against in two aspects – on the basis of her sex and race. This essay examines Hermione with the help of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex and Edward W. Said’s Orientalism to show how she is represented and portrayed as “the Other” in these two aspects. In which aspect is she more likely to suffer from discrimination, or is it the combination of the two that is essential? As discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion, and other aspects continues to grow in Western societies, it is important to look at how this widely popular literary series handles these issues.
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Shrefler, Carmen Lara. "La Búsqueda de la Identidad Femenina en las Novelas de Dos Autoras Mexicanas." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801916/.
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The novel is one means by which writers can provide examples of the possibilities for women in patriarchal societies to seek greater independence. Sabina Berman (1955- ) and Silvia Molina (1946- ) are modern day Mexican novelists whose writings support the betterment of the female condition in this Latin American society. This study focuses on these two authors and describes and analyzes several of their female protagonists who can be characterized as being in search of their self-identity and self-realization. The novels of interest are La Bobe (2006) and La Mujer que Buceó Dentro del Corazón del Mundo (2010) by Sabina Berman and La Mañana Debe Seguir Gris (1977) and El Amor Que Me Juraste (1998) by Silvia Molina. The theoretical framework used to analyze these novels is based on The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir and on the writings of the Mexican author Rosario Castellanos. These novels provide examples of how women can challenge patriarchal social norms in order to seek their identity as an individual and their self-realization. However, to do this, women must be willing to accept the risks and costs that may accompany this self-searching. By seeking identity women can satisfy their longings and desires, but at the same time this may also produce undesired results. Nevertheless, these novels show that women have the ability to seek their personal identity if they take the initiative to do so.
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Brock, Arthur Frederick. "Second order approximation for variance of SEP." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/28517.
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暁芸, 王., and Xiaoyun Wang. "Phoneme set design for second language speech recognition." Thesis, https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13044980/?lang=0, 2017. https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13044980/?lang=0.
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本論文は第二言語話者の発話を高精度で認識するための音素セットの構成方法に関する研究結果を述べている．本論文では，第二言語話者の発話をネイティブ話者の発話とは異なる音響特徴量の頻度分布を持つ情報源とみなし，これを表現する適切な音素セットを構築する手法を提案している．具体的には，対象とする第二言語と母語との調音位置や調音様式などの類似性に加え，同音異義語の発生による単語識別性能の低下を総合した基準に基づき，最適な音素セットを決定する．提案手法を日本人学生の英語発話の音声認識に適用し，種々の条件下で認識精度の向上を検証した．This dissertation focuses on the problem caused by confused mispronunciation to improve the recognition performance of second language speech. A novel method considering integrated acoustic and linguistic features is proposed to derive a reduced phoneme set for L2 speech recognition. The customized phoneme set is created with a phonetic decision tree (PDT)-based top-down sequential splitting method that utilizes the phonological knowledge between L1 and L2. The dissertation verifies the efficacy of the proposed method for Japanese English and shows that the feasibility of building a speech recognizer with the proposed method is able to alleviate the problem caused by confused mispronunciation by second language speakers.
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Vie, Jean-Léopold. "Second-order derivatives for shape optimization with a level-set method." Thesis, Paris Est, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PESC1072/document.
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Le but de cette thèse est de définir une méthode d'optimisation de formes qui conjugue l'utilisation de la dérivée seconde de forme et la méthode des lignes de niveaux pour la représentation d'une forme.On considèrera d'abord deux cas plus simples : un cas d'optimisation paramétrique et un cas d'optimisation discrète.Ce travail est divisé en quatre parties.La première contient le matériel nécessaire à la compréhension de l'ensemble de la thèse.Le premier chapitre rappelle des résultats généraux d'optimisation, et notamment le fait que les méthodes d'ordre deux ont une convergence quadratique sous certaines hypothèses.Le deuxième chapitre répertorie différentes modélisations pour l'optimisation de formes, et le troisième se concentre sur l'optimisation paramétrique puis l'optimisation géométrique.Les quatrième et cinquième chapitres introduisent respectivement la méthode des lignes de niveaux (level-set) et la méthode des éléments-finis.La deuxième partie commence par les chapitres 6 et 7 qui détaillent des calculs de dérivée seconde dans le cas de l'optimisation paramétrique puis géométrique.Ces chapitres précisent aussi la structure et certaines propriétés de la dérivée seconde de forme.Le huitième chapitre traite du cas de l'optimisation discrète.Dans le neuvième chapitre on introduit différentes méthodes pour un calcul approché de la dérivée seconde, puis on définit un algorithme de second ordre dans un cadre général.Cela donne la possibilité de faire quelques premières simulations numériques dans le cas de l'optimisation paramétrique (Chapitre 6) et dans le cas de l'optimisation discrète (Chapitre 7).La troisième partie est consacrée à l'optimisation géométrique.Le dixième chapitre définit une nouvelle notion de dérivée de forme qui prend en compte le fait que l'évolution des formes par la méthode des lignes de niveaux, grâce à la résolution d'une équation eikonale, se fait toujours selon la normale.Cela permet de définir aussi une méthode d'ordre deux pour l'optimisation.Le onzième chapitre détaille l'approximation d'intégrales de surface et le douzième chapitre est consacré à des exemples numériques.La dernière partie concerne l'analyse numérique d'algorithmes d'optimisation de formes par la méthode des lignes de niveaux.Le Chapitre 13 détaille la version discrète d'un algorithme d'optimisation de formes.Le Chapitre 14 analyse les schémas numériques relatifs à la méthodes des lignes de niveaux.Enfin le dernier chapitre fait l'analyse numérique complète d'un exemple d'optimisation de formes en dimension un, avec une étude des vitesses de convergenceThe main purpose of this thesis is the definition of a shape optimization method which combines second-order differentiationwith the representation of a shape by a level-set function. A second-order method is first designed for simple shape optimization problems : a thickness parametrization and a discrete optimization problem. This work is divided in four parts.The first one is bibliographical and contains different necessary backgrounds for the rest of the work. Chapter 1 presents the classical results for general optimization and notably the quadratic rate of convergence of second-order methods in well-suited cases. Chapter 2 is a review of the different modelings for shape optimization while Chapter 3 details two particular modelings : the thickness parametrization and the geometric modeling. The level-set method is presented in Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 recalls the basics of the finite element method.The second part opens with Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 which detail the calculation of second-order derivatives for the thickness parametrization and the geometric shape modeling. These chapters also focus on the particular structures of the second-order derivative. Then Chapter 8 is concerned with the computation of discrete derivatives for shape optimization. Finally Chapter 9 deals with different methods for approximating a second-order derivative and the definition of a second-order algorithm in a general modeling. It is also the occasion to make a few numerical experiments for the thickness (defined in Chapter 6) and the discrete (defined in Chapter 8) modelings.Then, the third part is devoted to the geometric modeling for shape optimization. It starts with the definition of a new framework for shape differentiation in Chapter 10 and a resulting second-order method. This new framework for shape derivatives deals with normal evolutions of a shape given by an eikonal equation like in the level-set method. Chapter 11 is dedicated to the numerical computation of shape derivatives and Chapter 12 contains different numerical experiments.Finally the last part of this work is about the numerical analysis of shape optimization algorithms based on the level-set method. Chapter 13 is concerned with a complete discretization of a shape optimization algorithm. Chapter 14 then analyses the numerical schemes for the level-set method, and the numerical error they may introduce. Finally Chapter 15 details completely a one-dimensional shape optimization example, with an error analysis on the rates of convergence
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Al, Atassi Yomen Al Sayed Souleiman. "Photochromisme et génération de second harmonique par voie photoassistée en milieu polymère : spiropyranne - photomérocyanine." Cachan, Ecole normale supérieure, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996DENS0010.
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Certains polymères, dopés ou fonctionnalisés avec des groupements moléculaires convenablement choisis, ont la propriété de doubler la fréquence de faisceaux lasers (génération de second harmonique). Pour cela, il faut au préalable que l'échantillon sous forme d'un film mince, ait été orienté sous champ électrique. Le sujet de cette thèse consiste à étudier un nouveau procédé d'orientation des molécules, que nous appelons orientation photo assistée. Ce procédé qui a l'avantage d'opérer à température ambiante met en œuvre une irradiation en lumière visible et en présence d'un champ électrique. Ce procédé a été étudié pour cinq familles de molécules actives en optique non linéaire: les azobenzènes substitués, les spiropyrannes, les spirooxazines, les furylfulgides et les chromènes. L'influence de la nature de la matrice polymère sur l'efficacité et la stabilité de l'orientation moléculaire est aussi étudiée
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Malmquist, Anna. "Pride and Prejudice : Lesbian Families in Contemporary Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Psykologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-117933.
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Options and possibilities for lesbian parents have changed fundamentally since the turn of the millennium. A legal change in 2003 enabled a same-sex couple to share legal parenthood of the same child. An additional legal change, in 2005, gave lesbian couples access to fertility treatment within public healthcare in Sweden. The present thesis focuses on families where two women share legal parenthood of their children. It aims to provide knowledge about lesbian parenting couples and their children, and to focus on the interplay between family members within lesbian families, and between family members and their surroundings. Furthermore, the thesis aims to visualize and analyse notions of heteronormativity and homonormativity in contemporary Sweden. The thesis draws on interviews with 118 parents in 61 families, and 12 children in 11 families. The participants’ stories, descriptions, reflections and discourses have been analysed using discursive psychology and thematic analysis. The thesis includes five empirical papers. Paper I focuses on encounters with healthcare professionals prior to and during pregnancy, at childbirth and during the early stages of parenthood. Paper II deals with the participants’ experiences of second-parent adoption processes. Paper III focuses on equality in parenting relations. Paper IV focuses on encounters with fertility clinics within public healthcare. Paper V highlights the children’s reflections and shows how the children talk about fathers and donors.För lesbiska par har förutsättningarna för föräldraskap förändrats i grunden sedan millennieskiftet. År 2003 möjliggjorde en lagändring att ett barn kan ha två rättsliga föräldrar av samma kön. Ytterligare en lagändring öppnade år 2005 möjligheten för lesbiska par att få barn genom assisterad befruktning inom svensk sjukvård. I avhandlingen fokuseras familjer där två kvinnor delar det rättsliga föräldraskapet om sina gemensamma barn. Studien syftar till att bredda kunskaper om lesbiska familjeliv och fokuserar samspelet mellan familjemedlemmar såväl som samspelet mellan familjen och dess omgivning. Vidare syftar studien till att synliggöra och analysera uttryck för heteronormativitet och homonormativitet i dagens Sverige. Studien bygger på intervjuer med 118 föräldrar i 61 familjer och 12 barn i 11 familjer. Deltagarnas berättelser, beskrivningar, reflektioner och diskurser analyseras med diskursiv psykologi och tematisk analys. Avhandlingen består av fem empiriska artiklar och en kappa. I Artikel I analyseras föräldrarnas berättelser om att möta sjukvården i samband med graviditet och förlossning. Artikel II belyser deltagarnas berättelser om att genomgå en närståendeadoption. I Artikel III fokuseras hur föräldrarna pratar om jämställdhet i sina föräldraroller. Artikel IV analyserar intervjuer med föräldrar som vänt sig till svensk sjukvård för fertilitetsbehandling. I Artikel V, är det barnen som står i fokus. Studien bygger på intervjuer med tolv barn som var mellan 5 och 8 år gamla och växte upp i familjer med två mammor. I artikeln analyseras barnens beskrivningar av pappor och spermadonatorer.
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Caldas, Inês Moz. "As sonatas opus I de Mercy e o second set of sonatas de Pepusch." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/9392.
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Mestrado em Música - PerformanceO presente trabalho apresenta a comparação entre duas obras dos compositores Luis Mercy e Johann Christoph Pepusch. As obras em questão são: Six Solos for a Flute with a Thorough Bass for the Harpsicord or Violoncello de Mercy e A Second Set of Solos for the Flute with A Through Bass for the Basson, Bass-flute or Harpsicord de Pepusch. Nestas obras podemos encontrar correspondências entre sete andamentos pertencentes a quatro sonatas de Pepusch e três de Mercy. Estas correspondências podem aparecer sob a forma de ornamentação de andamentos completos ou de simples utilização de temas comuns. O estudo dos percursos biográficos destes dois compositores permite concluir que Mercy conheceria bem a obra de Pepusch, sobretudo a escrita para flauta. Com esta informação e a observação das partituras, poderemos admitir que Mercy se baseia nestas obras para as ornamentar e as transformar a seu gosto, utilizando-as para dar mais visibilidade às possibilidades sonoras e virtuosísticas do seu instrumento - a flauta de bisel.
The present study shows the link between recorder works by Luis Mercy and the other from Johann Christoph Pepusch. The works are: Six Solos for a Flute with a Thorough Bass for the Harpsicord or Violoncello from Mercy and A Second Set of Solos for the Flute with A Through Bass for the Basson, Bassflute or Harpsicord from Pepusch. In these works we can find correspondences between seven movements of four different sonatas by Pepusch and three by Mercy. The correspondences can appear in the form of ornamentation of complete movements or the simple use of shared themes. The study of the biographies of these two composers alow us to conclude that Mercy was familiar with the works of Pepusch, at least the ones composed for recorder. With this information and the close observation of the scores, we can establish that Mercy relies on the work of Pepusch to ornament and transform it at his pleasure, using it to give more visibility to the sound and virtuosistic possibilities of his instrument - the recorder.
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Ilicak, Mehmet. "Development and Applications of Second-Order Turbulence Closures for Mixing in Overflows." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/225.
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Mixing between overflows and ambient water masses is a crucial problem of deep-water formation in the down-welling branch of the meridional overturning circulation of the ocean. In this dissertation work, performance of second-order turbulence closures in reproducing mixing of overflows is investigated within both hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic models. First, a 2D non-hydrostatic model is developed to simulate the Red Sea overflow in the northern channel. The model results are compared to the Red Sea Outflow Experiment. It is found that the experiments without sub-grid scale models cannot reproduce the basic structure of the overflow. The k-ε model yields unrealistically thick bottom layer (BL) and interfacial layer (IL). A new technique so-called very large eddy simulation (VLES) which allows the use of k-ε model in non-hydrostatic models is also employed. It is found that VLES results the most realistic reproduction of the observations. Furthermore, the non-hydrostatic model is improved by introducing laterally average terms, so the model can simulate the constrictions not only in the z-direction but also in the y-direction. Observational data from the Bosphorus Strait is employed to test the spatially average 2D non-hydrostatic model (SAM) in a realistic application. The simulations from SAM with a simple Smagorinsky type closure appear to be excessively diffusive and noisy. We show that SAM can benefit significantly from VLES turbulence closures. Second, the performance of different second-order turbulence closures is extensively tested in a hydrostatic model. Four different two-equation turbulence closures (k-&epsilon, k-&omega, Mellor-Yamada 2.5 (MY2.5) and a modified version of k- &epsilon) and K-Profile Parameterization (KPP) are selected for the comparison of 3D numerical simulations of the Red Sea overflow. All two-equation turbulence models are able to capture the vertical structure of the Red Sea overflow consisting of the BL and IL. MY2.5 with Galperin stability functions produce the largest salinity deviations from the observations along two sections across the overflow and the modified k-&epsilon exhibits the smallest deviations. The rest of the closures fall in between, showing deviations similar to one another. Four different closures (k- &epsilon, k-&omega, MY2.5KC and KPP) are also employed to simulate the Mediterranean outflow. The numerical results are compared with observational data obtained in the 1988 Gulf of Cadiz Expedition. The simulations with two-equation closures reproduce the observed properties of the overflow quite well, especially the evolution of temperature and salinity profiles. The vertically integrated turbulent salt flux displays that the overflow goes under significant mixing outside the west edge of the Strait of Gibraltar. The volume transport and water properties of the outflow are modified significantly in the first 50 km after the overflow exits the strait. The k-&epsilon and k-&omega cases show the best agreement with the observations. Finally, the interaction between the Red Sea overflow and Gulf of Aden (GOA) eddies has been investigated. It is found that the overflow is mainly transported by the undercurrent at the west side of the gulf. The transport of the overflow is episodic depending strength and location of GOA eddies. The most crucial finding is that the Red Sea overflow leaves the Gulf of Aden in patches rather than one steady current. Multiple GOA eddies induce lateral stirring, thus diapycnal mixing of the Red Sea outflow.
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Choi, Jihoon P. "Southern Philippines and the policy of the second front in the global war on terrorism." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Sep/09Sep_Choi_Jihoon.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Stabilization and Reconstruction))--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2009.Thesis Advisor(s): Ear, Sophal ; Malley, Michael S. "September 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on November 4, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: Philippines, Mindanao, Moro, MNLF, MILF, ASG, terrorism, Muslim separatism, conflict resolution. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-91). Also available in print.
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Ruben, Jennifer Lynn. "Illusionary Strength; An Analysis of Female Empowerment in Science Fiction and Horror Films in Fatal Attraction, Aliens, and The Stepford Wives." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1355753729.
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Dardaillon, Ella Yon Marguerite. "Les Productions métalliques dans les royaumes du Levant au second millénaire av. J.-C." Lyon : Université Lumière Lyon 2, 2006. http://demeter.univ-lyon2.fr/sdx/theses/lyon2/2006/dardaillon_ce.
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Jassen, Alex P. "Mediating the Divine : prophecy and revelation in the Dead Sea scrolls and second temple judaism /." Leiden : Brill, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41126952c.
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Mahjoub, Hamida Miled Mohamed Bouchard Robert. "Les capacités discursives, orales et écrites, en français langue de spécialité le cas d'étudiants tunisiens dans les filières scientifiques /." Lyon : Université Lumière Lyon 2, 2007. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/sdx/theses/lyon2/2007/mahjoub_h.
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Reproduction de : Thèse doctorat : Sciences du langage : Lyon 2 : 2007. Reproduction de : Thèse doctorat : Sciences du langage : Université de Tunis 1 : 2007.Thèse soutenue en co-tutelle. Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Bibliogr.
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Le, Gall Laurent Mayaud Jean-Luc. "L'électeur en campagnes une Seconde République dans le Finistère /." Lyon : Université Lumière Lyon 2, 2004. http://demeter.univ-lyon2.fr:8080/sdx/theses/lyon2/2004/legall_l.
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Woolsey, Daniel S. "Second language acquisition of the Spanish verb estar with adjectives an exploration of contexts of cmparison and immediate experience." Muenchen LINCOM Europa, 2009. http://d-nb.info/997110120/04.
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Rittberg, Colin Jakob. "Methods, goals and metaphysics in contemporary set theory." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17218.
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This thesis confronts Penelope Maddy's Second Philosophical study of set theory with a philosophical analysis of a part of contemporary set-theoretic practice in order to argue for three features we should demand of our philosophical programmes to study mathematics. In chapter 1, I argue that the identification of such features is a pressing philosophical issue. Chapter 2 presents those parts of the discursive reality the set theorists are currently in which are relevant to my philosophical investigation of set-theoretic practice. In chapter 3, I present Maddy's Second Philosophical programme and her analysis of set-theoretic practice. In chapters 4 and 5, I philosophically investigate contemporary set-theoretic practice. I show that some set theorists are having a debate about the metaphysical status of their discipline{ the pluralism/non-pluralism debate{ and argue that the metaphysical views of some set theorists stand in a reciprocal relationship with the way they practice set theory. As I will show in chapter 6, these two stories are disharmonious with Maddy's Second Philosophical account of set theory. I will use this disharmony to argue for three features that our philosophical programmes to study mathematics should have: they should provide an anthropology of mathematical goals; they should account for the fact that mathematical practices can be metaphysically laden; they should provide us with the means to study contemporary mathematical practices.
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Dunlop, Anne Elizabeth. "Advocata nostra : central Italian paintings of Mary as the Second Eve, c.1335-c.1445." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2889/.
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This thesis is a close examination and analysis of the creation and reception of a group of eighteen Central Italian paintings of the Madonna with Eve presented reclining at her feet, images which draw on one of the fundamental themes of Mary's cult, her role as the Second Eve. Modern writers have sometimes been taken aback by these panels; in recent studies of women in history, Mary and Eve are often assumed to have been defining stereotypes of positive and negative feminine behaviour, and these works make a blatant juxtaposition of the two. Yet this imagery was obviously attractive to Trecento and Quattrocento patrons: this paradox lies at the heart of this thesis, which seeks to determine what these paintings might have meant to those who commissioned them and who first worshipped before them. To do so, this thesis begins by introducing the questions raised by the works; it then discusses textual and oral traditions linking Mary and Eve for Trecento and Quattrocento viewers, in order to suggest a range of possible associations for the imagery. There are then four case studies, intended to particularise the general themes of the pairing through specific images and contexts. The first focuses on Ambrogio Lorenzetti's frescoes at the former Cistercian abbey of S. Galgano, which were created, it is suggested here, by a member of that community in Mary's honour. The next chapter looks at the political and eschatological implications of images of Mary's rule as the Second Eve in the Papal States, discussing frescoes in S. Agostino, Montefalco, S. Gregorio Maggiore, Spoleto, and the Camposanto in Pisa, as well as a panel attributed to Carlo da Camerion, now in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Cook, Benjamin M. "Using a second-price auction to set military retention bonus levels an application to the Australian Army." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/08Mar%5FCook.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2008.Thesis Advisor(s): Gates, William R. ; Coughlan, Peter J. "March 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 29, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-93). Also available in print.
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Freitag, Constantin [Verfasser]. "Verb-second in grammar, processing, and acquisition : What you see is not what you get / Constantin Freitag." Konstanz : KOPS Universität Konstanz, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1187660663/34.
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Samimi, Alireza. "Study of Narrow-Band Spectral Characteristics of Stimulated Electromagnetic Emission (SEE) During Second Electron Gyro-Harmonic Heating." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51833.
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Stimulated Electromagnetic Emissions SEEs may provide important diagnostic information about space plasma composition, energetics, and dynamics during active experiments in which ground-based high powered radio waves are transmitted into the ionosphere. The nonlinear plasma processes producing this secondary radiation are not well understood particularly for some recent observations where the transmitter (pump) frequency is near the second harmonic of the electron gyro-frequency. New, more comprehensive, experimental observations of spectral features within 1kHz of the pump wave frequency are reported here in order to begin more careful comparisons of the experimental observations and a possible theoretical underpinning which is also provided. The experimental observations typically show two distinct types of secondary radiation spectra which are a) discrete narrowband harmonic spectral structures ordered by the ion gyro-frequency, so-called stimulated ion Bernstein Scatter (SIBS) and, b) broadband spectral structure with center frequency near 500 Hz and similar spectral bandwidth named ion acoustic parametric decay (IAPD). A theoretical model is provided that interprets these spectral features as resulting from parametric decay instabilities in which the pump field ultimately decays into high frequency upper hybrid/electron Bernstein and low frequency neutralized ion Bernstein and/or obliquely propagating ion acoustic waves at the upper hybrid interaction altitude. Detailed calculations of the threshold level, growth rate, unstable wavenumber and frequency bandwidth of the instabilities are provided for comparisons with experimental observations. An assessment of the effect of the critical instability parameters are provided including pump electric field strength, proximity of the pump frequency to the electron gyro-frequency and pump electric field geometry. The model shows quite reasonable agreement with the experimental observations.
Next, a two dimensional Particle-In-Cell Monte-Carlo Collision computational model (PIC-MCC) is employed in order to consider nonlinear aspects such as 1) electron acceleration through wave-particle heating, 2) more complex nonlinear wave-wave processes and 3) temporal evolution of electron irregularities through nonlinear saturation. The simulation results show that the IB associated parametric decay is primarily associated with electron acceleration perpendicular to the geomagnetic field. More gyro-harmonic lines are typically associated with more intense heating. Heating is reduced when the pump frequency is sufficiently close to 2fce. The IA associated parametric decay instability is primarily associated with electron tail heating along the magnetic field and heating is reduced when the pump frequency is sufficiently close to 2fce. Characteristics of caviton collapse behavior become prevalent in this case. Results are discussed within the context of some recent experimental observations. Further discussions are provided of connections with past observed SEE spectral features and potential new diagnostic information provided by these newly categorized spectra.Ph. D.
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Gräzer, Ohara Aude. "Le confort domestique et ses implications sociales et idéologiques dans l'Egypte du second millénaire avant J. -C." Strasbourg, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011STRA1034.
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Cette thèse a pour objectif de proposer une définition du confort domestique en vigueur dans l’égypte du 2nd millénaire av. J. -c. , non pas selon des critères modernes mais du point de vue même des anciens égyptiens, en tentant d’identifier leurs aspirations en matière d’habitat et les moyens matériels mis en oeuvre pour y parvenir. Cette étude, qui aborde un sujet jusqu’alors inexploré en égyptologie, vise également à déterminer si la quête d’un bien-être domestique avait été, dans l’aire chronologique et géographique considérée, un phénomène conscient, explicitement formulé dans la langue, et s’il avait fait l’objet d’une théorisation voire d’une instrumentalisation. Après une étude historiographique préalable consacrée au concept de confort, dans laquelle sont discutés et définis à la fois la notion et ses modalités, cette enquête propose un ensemble de dossiers documentaires comprenant une synthèse critique et détaillée de quatre sites archéologiques incontournables, sur lesquels un éclairage nouveau est apporté, un important catalogue iconographique qui propose des interprétations nouvelles de documents connus, de nouveaux collationnements et quelques sources inédites, et enfin, un recueil d’extraits choisis de textes littéraires, où les descriptions spatiales et le lexique antique sont confrontés aux realia. Le mémoire s’achève avec une discussion qui revient sur les spécificités de la documentation examinée, en particulier ses apports et ses limites. Cette dernière présente également une définition des critères qui distinguaient une habitation confortable aux yeux des égyptiens et un point sur le lexique utilisé par ces derniers pour nommer et exprimer le bien-êtreThe aim of this thesis is to propose a definition of the domestic comfort in egypt during the 2nd millennium bc, not according modern standards but through the ancient egyptians’ point of view, by means of identifying their aspirations in terms of dwelling and the amenities used to reach them. While addressing a topic which is new in egyptology, this study also seeks to determine whether the pursuit of a domestic well-being was, in the chronological and geographical frame under consideration, a conscious phenomenon, explicitly formulated in the language, and if it had been theorized or even exploited. After an historiographical study devoted to the concept of comfort, in which are discussed and defined both the notion and its terms, the survey focuses on a set of documentary files including a detailed critique of four well-known archaeological sites on which was brought a new light, a substantial iconographic catalog offering new interpretations of well-known documents, new collations and some unpublished sources, and lastly, a collection of selected excerpts from literary texts, where the ancient spatial descriptions and lexicon are faced with the realia. The dissertation ends with a discussion dealing with the specifics of the studied material, particularly its advantages and limits. This last chapter also provides a definition of the different criteria that distinguished a comfortable house in the eyes of the egyptians as well as a reconstruction of the vocabulary used by them to denominate and express well-being