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Nyberg, Maria, and Mahi Akter. "SPUTNIK -En kvantitativ studie om anhörigas uppfattning av verksamheten Sputnik." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Akademin för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-11038.
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ABSTRACT The aim for this study is to examine how relatives to children who participated/participate in Youth and family team Sputnik-group, oriented towards support groups for children of substance abusing parents, perceive the work done by the organization. On the basis of this aim three questions were formulated: do the relatives perceive a change in the communication with the child as an effect of the child’s participation in Sputnik’s activities, do the relatives perceive a change in their relationship with the child as an effect of the child’s participation in Sputnik’s activities, do the relatives think that their awareness of substance abuse have changed following the child’s participation in Sputnik’s activities. Previous research, Mead’s perspective, the concept of “groups” and support groups for children, were used to interpret the results. The method consists of a questionnaire which was sent out in 71 copies out of which 40 were returned. Further, staff members of Sputnik were interviewed to provide information about the program. The result of the questionnaire shows that some respondents perceived changes that consisted of an improved and more open communication and relation. Moreover, the majority of the respondents had a positive apprehension of the activity. Even among those who were more negative there was only one who was completely negative towards the whole program. The positive components described by the respondents correspond with the purpose of support groups for children as defined by the literature.
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Kennedy, Ian. "THE SPUTNIK CRISIS AND AMERICA'S RESPONSE." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3866.
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On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite, and the Space Age had arrived. While not an American achievement, Sputnik stands as a significant juncture in United States history. This thesis explores the resulting American political crisis, its development in the final three months of 1957, and the impact Sputnik had on American life. The thesis also examines the social and political context of the Sputnik crisis and will challenge some long-standing analysis of how America's reaction to the Soviet satellite developed. To accomplish this task, it was necessary to consult both primary and secondary sources. Important primary sources include government documents from both the Legislative and Executive Branches of the United States Government, attained from both printed volumes and online archives. The memoirs of key individuals also shed light on the mindset of prominent politicians and policymakers of the period. Newspapers and magazines from the era were examined to explore the media and public reaction to the Sputnik Crisis and related events. Secondary sources are used as both avenues of information and theory regarding the events, and also for the purposes of examining the consensus of others who have explored this topic. The topics covered in the thesis include the flow of events before, during, and after the Sputnik Crisis of 1957; analysis of contextual issues such as missile and satellite development and American culture of the period; and analysis of how the Sputnik Crisis unfolded and how this impacted American culture and national policy.M.A.
Department of History
Arts and Sciences
History
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Ferguson, Tennille M. "Sputnik diplomacy : image and perception in the space age /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arf353.pdf.
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Hamrebjörk, Fredrik. "Project Sputnik: The Industrial Design Perspective on Mobile Robotic Telepresence." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för naturvetenskap och teknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-62155.
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AASS, or the Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, is a research environment at Örebro University. This report will touch the development of a robot intended for elderly care in a project called "Project Sputnik". The robot is essentially a manually controlled communication robot that is driven by a pilot from a computer. The robot’s purpose is to provide the option of virtual visits between elders and healthcare professionals or family and friends. The requirements for the robot are numerous and the project itself is far too extensive for one student to complete in a 15 credit course. Therefore, the project was limited to the physical design only. During the pilot-study a large amount of research was done to gain a better understanding of the touched subjects and to prepare for the future development of the project. The project followed the design methodology to gradually develop a conceptual sketch. The concept should form a basis that AASS can continue the development on, and is therefore deliberately crude not to limit AASS in the continued work of Project Sputnik.AASS, eller Centrum för tillämpade autonoma sensorsystem är en forskningsmiljö på Örebro Universitet. Den här rapporten kommer röra utvecklandet av en robot ämnad åt äldreomsorgen i ett projekt vid namn "Project Sputnik". Roboten är huvudsakligen en kommunikationsrobot som styrs manuellt av en pilot från en hemdator och ska ge en upplevelse av virtuell närvaro. Kraven för roboten är många och projektet i sig är för omfattande för en student att utföra i en kurs på 15 högskolepoäng. Därför begränsades projektet till enbart den fysiska designen. Under förstudien gjordes en stor mängd research för att få en bättre förståelse för berörda områden och förbereda inför kommande processer i projektet. Projektet följde designmetodiken för att gradvis bygga fram en konceptskiss. Konceptskissen ska utgöra en grund som AASS kan utveckla, och är därför medvetet grov för att inte begränsa AASS i det fortsatta arbetet i Project Sputnik.
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Thompson, Mark Allen Dupont Jill. "Space race African American newspapers respond to Sputnik and Apollo 11 /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-5115.
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Thompson, Mark A. "Space Race: African American Newspapers Respond to Sputnik and Apollo 11." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5115/.
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Using African American newspapers, this study examines the consensual opinion of articles and editorials regarding two events associated with the space race. One event is the Soviet launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957. The second is the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969. Space Race investigates how two scientific accomplishments achieved during the Cold War and the civil rights movement stimulated debate within the newspapers, and that ultimately centered around two questions: why the Soviets were successful in launching a satellite before the US, and what benefits could come from landing on the moon. Anti-intellectualism, inferior public schools, and a lack of commitment on the part of the US government are arguments offered for analysis by black writers in the two years studied. This topic involves the social conditions of African Americans living within the United States during an era when major civil rights objectives were achieved. Also included are considerations of how living in a "space age" contributed to thoughts about civil rights, as African Americans were now living during a period in which science fiction was becoming reality. In addition, this thesis examines how two scientific accomplishments achieved during this time affected ideas about education, science, and living conditions in the U.S. that were debated by black writers and editors, and subsequently circulated for readers to ponder and debate. This paper argues that black newspapers viewed Sputnik as constituting evidence for an inferior US public school system, contrasted with the Soviet system. Due to segregation between the races and anti-intellectual antecedents in America, black newspapers believed that African Americans were an "untapped resource" that could aid in the Cold War if their brains were utilized. The Apollo moon landing was greeted with enthusiasm because of the universal wonder at landing on the moon itself and the prowess demonstrated by the collective commitment and organization necessary to achieve such an objective by decades end. However, consistently accompanying this adulation is disappointment that domestic problems were not given the same type of funding or national commitment.
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Markwardt, Daylanne. "From Sputnik to the Spellings Commission: The Rhetoric of Higher Education Reform." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/228460.
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In July 1946, Harry S. Truman formed the first-ever presidential commission on higher education. Since that time, reports by commissioned panels of experts calling for reforms to postsecondary education have proliferated. The Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education provides yet the most recent high-profile example of how reformists may shift their sights--and their rhetorical strategies--from primary to postsecondary education. Yet, little examination has been made of how such reports harness the persuasive power of rhetoric to advance their agendas for reform. In From Sputnik to the Spellings Commission, Daylanne Markwardt bridges this gap by bringing tools of rhetorical criticism to bear on the contemporary rhetoric of higher education reform. Drawing upon rhetorical and linguistic theories, she demonstrates how two key metaphors--the first, framing higher education as a means of national defense, the second, likening it to a business or industry--have radically altered the way postsecondary education has been perceived and valued in the U.S. over the past 60 years. She also explores how a number of major ideological appeals have been used to legitimize actions and policies that have brought about sweeping changes to institutions of higher learning since the Cold War. Based upon Jürgen Habermas's theory of technological rationality, she argues that commission reports have instilled a measurement-oriented, bottom line-driven mindset, whereby the results of postsecondary learning have been reduced to those which are readily quantifiable and its worth calculated almost entirely in economic terms. As a codified response to a recurrent social situation, commission reports like those analyzed in this dissertation constitute a unique genre of reform rhetoric. Yet, they also effectively restrict women, persons of color, and other marginalized groups from the dialog surrounding higher education reform, thereby sustaining a hegemony of values asserted largely by representatives of dominant religious, political, and business interests. The author concludes that the conventions and limitations of this genre must be challenged, and the ideologies now associated with higher education rearticulated, if the humanities are to maintain their place within the evolving American university.
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Paulsrud, Ludvig. "Watashi wo aishite – älska mig : En lacaninspirerad läsning av Haruki Murakamis Sputnik Sweetheart." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-181175.
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Gaïa, Morgan. "Les virophages de Mimiviridae=The Mimiviridae virophages." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM5073/document.
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Les virophages sont des petits virus à ADN possédant une capside icosaédrique de 50-60 nm et un génome de 17 à 26 Kb codant potentiellement pour une vingtaine de gènes. Ils ont été découverts associés à des grands virus à ADN appartenant à l’ordre des Megavirales, pour lesquels leur présence serait délétère.Le premier projet du travail de thèse a été de faire le bilan des propriétés connues des virophages au travers d’une revue. La deuxième partie correspond à un bilan des avancées en matière d’isolement de virus géants dans les amibes – hôtes naturels des Mimiviridae –, pouvant être associés aux virophages. La troisième section se focalise sur la réplication des virophages Sputnik avec différents virus parmi les Mimiviridae, ainsi que sur l’isolement d’une nouvelle souche de Sputnik sans son hôte natif par l’utilisation d’un Mimiviridae en tant que virus rapporteur. La dernière partie est enfin basée sur l’identification d’un nouveau virophage – Zamilon – isolé en association avec un Mimiviridae du groupe C, et présentant une spécificité d'hôtes restreinte. Celle-ci est d'ailleurs étudiée.Les résultats présentés dans cette thèse démontrent une certaine complexité des interactions entre les virophages et leurs hôtes. Au sein d’une même famille d’hôtes, certains virophages possèdent un large spectre de spécificité, alors que d’autres ne peuvent se multiplier qu’avec certains d’entre eux, comme cela a déjà été observé chez les bactériophages. Compte-tenu de leur impact potentiel sur les virus géants, ces résultats soutiennent l’hypothèse d’une régulation des populations virales environnementales par les virophagesVirophages are small DNA viruses with a 50-60 nm width icosahedral capsid encompassing a 17 to 26 Kb genome, putatively coding approximately 20 genes. They have been discovered in association with large DNA virus belonging to the order of the Megavirales, for which they are noxious.The first project of this thesis work was to recapitulate in a review the known features of the virophages. The second part corresponds to a summary of the advances in the field of giant viruses isolation in amoebas – the common hosts of Mimiviridae –. The third section is focused on the replication of the Sputnik virophages with viruses belonging to the Mimiviridae, and on the isolation of a new Sputnik strain with a Mimiviridae reporter instead of with its natural viral host. Finally, the last part is based on the identification of a new virophage – Zamilon – isolated in combination with a group C Mimiviridae, and exhibiting a restricted spectrum of specificity. The latter is herein studied.The results described herein show the complexity of the interactions between virophages and their giant hosts viruses. Within the same host family, some virophages have a broad-range host spectrum whereas others are limited to some viruses, a feature already described for bacteriophages. Regarding the potential impact of the virophages over their host viruses, these results support the hypothesis of a virophages’ major role in a regulation of viral populations in environment
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Lucena, Juan C. "Making policy for making selves in science and engineering: from Sputnik to global competition." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37906.
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This dissertation is a cultural history of the making of policy for education and human resources in science and engineering for the American nation. The main thesis of this work is that national narratives, mostly made up by images of nation, its problems and solutions, as defined by powerful social actors and groups, have significantly shaped policies and program-: for education and training of scientists and engineers since Word War II. Nowhere is this cultural relationship between nation and policy more evident than around the programs in education and human resources at the National Science Foundation (NSF), This dissertation analyzes the emergence of four national narratives, their influence on the redefining the national mission of the NSF, and their impact on the policies that NSF has implemented to educate and train scientists and engineers in the last four decades. The four narratives explored here are: a nation under threat by Soviet science in the 1960's, a nation plagued by its own social and environmental problems in the 1970's. a nation challenged by the technological successes of Japan in the 1980's, and a nation facing uncertain and ambiguous threats under global competition in the 1990's.
After locating these national narratives, this dissertation traces the trajectories of cultural models of the nation into the struggles among different actors that over the past 40 years have defined NSF’s mission. Narratives about the nation and actors struggling to define national problems and solutions shape federal policies and programs in education and human resources in science and engineering. In turn, policies and programs come to define, to a large extent, stereotypic images of scientists and engineers, and in doing so contribute to shaping our understanding of what it means to be a scientist and an engineer in the U.S..Ph. D.
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Widén, Jeanette. "Sputnik, National Pride and, Heroism : A qualitative study of the Russian Space Program under Putin." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-452909.
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The thesis aims to give a deeper understanding of the Russian use of soft power by examining identity building. This research is one of very few that shed light on Russia’s ambitions of exploitation of space. Further knowledge in the field is necessary to understand the underlying motives and objectives behind the Russian space program. This in-depth analysis fills a noteworthy knowledge gap. Using the method of narrative analysis as defined by Roselle, Miskimmon, and O’Laughlin (2014,2017), combined with the theory of strategic narratives and state identity as defined by Eriksson et al (2020), the thesis investigates Russian identity building, examining Russian space program under Putin. In particular, Putin’s 2013, 2016 and 2020 Cosmonautics Day video link-ups with the International Space Station are analyzed. This thesis attempts to define Russia’s future space plan and its geopolitical importance in maintaining the nation’s role on the international arena post-soviet. The results indicate that Eriksson et al's definition of cultural narratives about state identity can be found in future Russian space plans.
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Winblad, Julia. "Försvunna kvinnor : En undersökning av magisk realism i Haruki Murakamis Sputnik Älskling och Fågeln som vrider upp världen." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-49700.
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Bengtsson, Jenny. "Från falska narrativ till informationspåverkan : en narrativ analys av ryska statsmediers rapportering om Sverige." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-8640.
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This thesis offers an insight in how information influence works in the digital modern age, through the use of strategic narratives in news reporting. The study uses a combination of a textual and narrative analysis in order to examine what kind of patterns are possible to distinguish in how the Russian state-funded news agencies RT and Sputnik are portraying Sweden in their reporting. Insights obtained by analyzing articles from the mentioned news outlets shows that four strategical ’master’-narratives can be found in the reporting: 1) Sweden is being ridiculed, 2) Sweden is portrayed as a collapsing state, 3) conspiracy theories about Sweden are made up and, 4) Russia is portrayed in friendly and peaceful terms. The analysis ultimately demonstrates how these four ‘master’-narratives can be understood as information produced in order to spread a negative image about Sweden and to promote a positive image of Russia. The study emphasizes the importance of continued research in the area and discusses the difficulties with addressing something that cannot be termed as fake news, but rather as fake narratives.
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Keane, James Tuttle, and James Tuttle Keane. "Tidal-Rotational Dynamics of Solar System Worlds, From the Moon to Pluto." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625474.
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The spins of planetary bodies are not stagnant; they evolve in response to both external and internal forces. One way a planet's spin can change is through true polar wander. True polar wander is the reorientation of a planetary body with respect to its angular momentum vector, and occurs when mass is redistributed within the body, changing its principal axes of inertia. True polar wander can literally reshape a world, and has important implications for a variety of processes—from the long-term stability of polar volatiles in the permanently shadowed regions of airless worlds like the Moon and Mercury, to the global tectonic patterns of icy worlds like Pluto. In this dissertation, we investigate three specific instances of planetary true polar wander, and their associated consequences.
In Chapter 2 we investigate the classic problem of the Moon's dynamical figure. By considering the effects of a fossil figure supported by an elastic lithosphere, and the contribution of impact basins to the figure, we find that the lunar figure is consistent with the Moon's lithosphere freezing in when the Moon was much closer to the Earth, on a low eccentricity synchronous orbit. The South Pole-Aitken impact basin is the single largest perturbation to the Moon’s figure and resulted in tens of degrees of true polar wander after its formation.
In Chapter 3 we continue our analyses of the lunar figure in light of the discovery of a lunar ”volatile" paleopole, preserved in the distribution of hydrogen near the Moon's poles. We find that the formation and evolution of the Procellarum KREEP Terrain significantly altered the Moon’s orientation, implying that some fraction of the Moon’s polar volatiles are ancient—predating the geologic activity within the Procellarum region.
In Chapter 4 we investigate how the formation of the giant, basin-filling glacier, Sputnik Planitia reoriented Pluto. This reorientation is recorded in both the present- day location of Sputnik Planitia (near the Pluto-Charon tidal axis), and the tectonic record of Pluto. This reorientation likely reflects a coupling between Pluto’s volatile cycles and rotational dynamics, and may be active on other worlds with comparably large, mobile volatile reservoirs.
Finally, in Chapter 5 we consider the broader context of these studies, and touch on future investigations of true polar wander on Mercury, Venus, Mars, Vesta, Ceres, and other worlds in our solar system.
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Pabst, Elizabeth Skelly. "Cold War Insecurity as Women's Opportunity: Sputnik, The National Defense Education Act of 1958, and Shifting Gender Roles in Eisenhower's America." Thesis, Boston College, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/403.
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Thesis advisor: Seth JacobsThe 1950s and early 1960s witnessed a dawning awareness throughout many sectors of American society that women were good for more than simply bearing children and tending house. The threat of communism, epitomized by the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957, created extreme anxiety in the United States, an anxiety that manifested itself in two contradictory fashions. First, American women learned that the nation's best defense against communism began in the home, which was decidedly women's domain. The second message that American women received during this time is unquestionably the lesser known. The federal government and much of American society identified women as an untapped resource in national defense, a source of innovation and advancement in science and technology, thereby implying that with the help of American women, the United States could match Soviet achievements in these fields
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2005
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: History
Discipline: College Honors Program
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Adolfsson, Tobias. "Med medierna som vapen: De strategiska narrativens nya roll i modern krigföring." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-274188.
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Information is power in the 21st century and strategic narratives through framing are nowadays regarded as part of the modern armoury of war. States constantly compete to create credible narratives in support of their actions on the international policy arena. After the Crimean crisis in 2014 the world was forced to open its eyes to medias new usage in modern warfare. State funded news agencies play an important role in this recent development and one of the most prominent actors is Russia. This thesis seeks to contribute to the discussion of strategic narratives and framing in the news media through a case study of the Russian news site Sputnik News. The thesis focuses on the news agency’s depiction of five empirical events in which the Swedish and Russian armed forces were involved during 2014 and 2015. A qualitative analysis of 25 news articles discussing the five events has detected proof of pro-Russian framing processes. The aim of Sputnik News seems to be a transformation of the general Swedish frame regarding Russia itself and perhaps more specifically Russia’s recent change in foreign policy.
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Sund, Steven A. "U.S. declining global rankings in math and science and the impact on our national security: policy options to elicit another sputnik moment." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/41450.
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CHDS State/LocalSince the end of the space race in the 1960s, America has been experiencing a decline in its global educational rankings in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curricula. Due to the interdependencies that education has with a number of our critical sectors, the declining global educational rankings can have serious effects on our national economy, technological advantage and ultimately our national security. With countries like China undertaking intensive civilian educational campaigns, completely modernizing its military, and developing extensive electronic and information warfare capabilities, our technological advantage will be critical to ensure our preparedness for these emerging threats. The inability of society to see this decline and the inability, or lack of desire of our students, to compete and excel globally in the STEM curricula is a collective failure. This thesis examines a number of educational policies and programs and evaluates their focus on developing students' social learning environment and social responsibility toward learning. From this review, this research has synthesized a number of recommendations for policymakers to consider in order to help America realize a national imperative toward learning and to support America in experiencing another Sputnik moment.
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Slimani, Meriem. "Interactions entre virus géants, virophages et bactéries au sein de l'amibe : conséquences sur leur isolement." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM5039/document.
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Les virus sont présents dans tous les écosystèmes, et sont les entités les plus abondantes dans le milieu marin. Bien que nous associons systématiquement virus aux maladies, la plupart d'entre eux coexistent cependant en équilibre avec leur hôte. Les virus sont associés à tous les règnes de la vie, même les virus qui affectent d'autres virus(virophages). La définition aujourd'hui d'un virus chez les virologues, c'est qu'un virus est un parasite génétique qui utilise des systèmes cellulaires pour sa propre réplication. Les hôtes les plus couramment utilisés par les virus que nous avons étudiés sont principalement des protozoaires. Ainsi, les Amoebozoa font l'objet de nombreuses études et sont utilisés pour isoler de nouvelles espèces intracellulaires( virus, bactéries). Ces espèces ont évolué de manière à résister aux effets consécutifs à la phagocytose ou à l'ingestion dans des vacuoles, et restent viable dans le cytoplasme de l'amibe, et ont le potentiel de se multiplier dans les parasites. Dans cette étude, nous avons dans un premier temps étudier les diverses interactions existantes entre virus Acanthamoeba polypaghaga Mimivirus(APMV) et des bactéries au sein de l'amibe. Pour cela, nous avons choisi un système original basé sur la co-culture de l'APMV, soit seul ou en combinaison avec deux autres microorganismes isolés individuellement à partir de l'amibe. Il s'agit d'une bactérie intracellulaire stricte(BABL1) et le virophage de APMV (Sputnik). Cela nous a permis de mettre en évidence, d'une part la capacité du virophage à moduler la virulence d'APMV tout en révélant, d'autre part, la bataille qui a eu lieu entre eux au cours de l'infection de l'hôte. dans un deuxième temps, nous avons examiné l'activité virucide des biocides couramment utilisés en pratique clinique pour la désinfection des équipements hospitaliers. APMV et Marseillevirus montrent une grande résitance aux biocides chimiques, en particulier l'alcool. Seule la température de 75°C et le glutaraldéhyde ont réussi à réduire les titres d'APMV et Marseillevirus à des niveaux indétectables. Après dessiccation ou exposition aux rayonnements ultraviolets, APMV et marseillevirus ont démontré leur stabilité durable. Précédent le pré-traitement des échantillons de l'environnement par l'éthanol à 70°C, a permis la disparition des contaminants bactériens sans réduire la charge virale, permettant leur isolement sur amibe, sans avoir besoin d'utiliser des antibiotiques, qui peuvent avoir un effet délétère su les amibesIn this study, we first examined the various interactions taking place between the virus Acanthamoeba polyphaga Mimivirus (APMV) and bacteria within the amoeba. We chose an original system based on a co-culture of APMV either alone or in combination with two other organisms isolated from amoeba, i.e a strict intracellular bacterium (BABL1) and the virophage of APMV (Sputnik). This allowed us to highlight, on the one hand, the possibility to modulate the virulence of APMV while revealing, on the other hand, the battle which occurs between them during the infection of the host. We then examined the virucidal activity of biocides commonly used in clinical practice for the disinfection of hospital equipment. APMV and Marseillevirus show high resistance to chemical biocides, especially to alcohol. Only a temperature of 75°C or glutaraldehyde were able to reduce APMV and Marseillevirus titres to undetectable levels. Whether dried or under ultraviolet, APMV and Marseillevirus demonstrated their lasting stability. Previous pre-treatment of environmental samples by ethanol 70° allowed disappearance of bacterial contaminating bacteria without reducing giant virus load allowing their isolation on amoeba without need the use of antibiotic that may have a deleterious effect on amoebae
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Pisana, Giuseppe. "Luigi G. Jacchia, un triestino a Bologna: dai cieli di Loiano all'epopea spaziale americana." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/17880/.
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In questa tesi di laurea si vuole parlare della vita di Luigi Giuseppe Jacchia (1910-1996), un astronomo italo-americano del secolo scorso che all'inizio dell’era spaziale ha fornito un fondamentale contributo allo studio dell’alta atmosfera terrestre.
Si vuole pertanto dare rilevanza ad un personaggio poco conosciuto in Italia, il quale ha raggiunto importanti traguardi a livello internazionale, divenendo anche Presidente della sezione atmosferica del COSPAR (il comitato internazionale per la ricerca spaziale) e della divisione atmosferica dell’Associazione Internazionale di Geomagnetismo e Aeronomia.
Nato a Trieste, si trasferisce a Bologna per studiare all'università e trova lavoro all'Osservatorio Astronomico della città, dapprima come volontario e, dopo la laurea in Fisica, come assistente universitario. Si occupa principalmente di osservazioni meteorologiche e dello studio di stelle variabili.
Costretto a lasciare l’Italia nel 1938 a causa delle leggi razziali (essendo ebreo), trova lavoro all'Università di Harvard, negli Stati Uniti, dove continua la sua attività con le stelle variabili.
In seguito al lancio dello Sputnik I, riesce per primo a costruire un modello in grado di prevedere il moto orbitale dei satelliti artificiali. Ancora oggi i suoi modelli sono i più usati negli studi sull'alta atmosfera.
Le informazioni iniziali sulla vita di Luigi, contenute soprattutto in necrologi e voci di generiche enciclopedie, erano alquanto limitate. Dopo numerose ricerche, specialmente su nuove fonti archivistiche e su fonti orali (preziosi colloqui con alcuni parenti) è stato possibile comporre un'immagine più completa della sua personalità, mettendo in evidenza il filo che lega i suoi primi studi a Bologna, la vicenda drammatica delle leggi razziali, la sua importante carriera di scienziato negli Stati Uniti, il paese al quale resterà legato fino alla scomparsa.
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Michel, David. "All Negative on the Western Front: Analyzing the Sentiment of the Russian News Coverage of Sweden with Generic and Domain-Specific Multinomial Naive Bayes and Support Vector Machines Classifiers." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-447398.
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This thesis explores to what extent Multinomial Naive Bayes (MNB) and Support Vector Machines (SVM) classifiers can be used to determine the polarity of news, specifically the news coverage of Sweden by the Russian state-funded news outlets RT and Sputnik. Three experiments are conducted. In the first experiment, an MNB and an SVM classifier are trained with the Large Movie Review Dataset (Maas et al., 2011) with a varying number of samples to determine how training data size affects classifier performance. In the second experiment, the classifiers are trained with 300 positive, negative, and neutral news articles (Agarwal et al., 2019) and tested on 95 RT and Sputnik news articles about Sweden (Bengtsson, 2019) to determine if the domain specificity of the training data outweighs its limited size. In the third experiment, the movie-trained classifiers are put up against the domain-specific classifiers to determine if well-trained classifiers from another domain perform better than relatively untrained, domain-specific classifiers. Four different types of feature sets (unigrams, unigrams without stop words removal, bigrams, trigrams) were used in the experiments. Some of the model parameters (TF-IDF vs. feature count and SVM’s C parameter) were optimized with 10-fold cross-validation. Other than the superior performance of SVM, the results highlight the need for comprehensive and domain-specific training data when conducting machine learning tasks, as well as the benefits of feature engineering, and to a limited extent, the removal of stop words. Interestingly, the classifiers performed the best on the negative news articles, which made up most of the test set (and possibly of Russian news coverage of Sweden in general).
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Béreau, Laurie. ""Crisis in Education" : le débat sur l'éducation aux Etats-Unis après 1945." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013STRAC016/document.
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De nos jours, le motif de la « crise de l’éducation » est récurrent dans les discussions publiques sur le système éducatif, et ce des deux côtés de l’Atlantique. Aux Etats-Unis, c’est au lendemain de la seconde guerre mondiale qu’il prend une tournure nouvelle. Jusqu’alors on avait parlé de « crise » pour désigner les difficultés matérielles et financières du système, mais l’expression prend une autre signification après 1945, tandis que s’installe un débat entre les partisans de l’éducation moderne, modèle inspiré par les principes de l’éducation progressiste, et les défenseurs d’une éducation humaniste, qui dénoncent une dégradation des exigences intellectuelles et des résultats de l’enseignement public. Cette étude se propose de restituer les termes de ce débat et d’analyser ses répercussions sur les dynamiques du système éducatif américain. La confrontation entre deux philosophies de l’éducation ne se limite pas à la sphère des professionnels et on en retrouve les échos dans la presse de grande diffusion comme dans certains films hollywoodiens. Alors que les États-Unis font face à une crise de confiance après le lancement réussi du satellite Spoutnik, le gouvernement américain désigne le système éducatif comme maillon faible en s’appuyant sur les critiques formulées tout au long des années 1950 par les adversaires de l’éducation moderne. Le télescopage du débat sur l’éducation et des logiques de Guerre froide ouvre alors la voie à une intervention fédérale inédite dans le domaine de l’éducation, avec l’adoption du National Defense Education Act de 1958The “crisis in education” has been a recurrent theme in discussions about the American school system. In the United States, it was after WWII that the notion gained momentum and a new meaning. Until then, the term “crisis” had been merely used to evoke the dire material and financial state of education. The expression took another turn with the emergence of a debate between proponents of modern education (a model derived from the principles of progressive education) and partisans of liberal education who denounced an intellectual degradation in the school system. This dissertation analyzes this debate and its consequences on the dynamics of education in the United States. This strife between two conceptions of education is set apart by its significant influence and pervasion of society. Indeed, not only did it involve the circle of professional educators but it also touched lay men, so much so that it was integrated by popular culture. Confronted with a confidence crisis in the aftermath of the successful launch of satellite Sputnik, the U.S. government pinpointed the school system as the weak link of the American nation, taking advantage of the wave of criticisms against modern education that had dominated the 1950s. The combination of the debate on education with the logics of the Cold War paved the way for an unprecedented federal intervention in the field of education with the 1958 National Defense Education Act
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Rolim, TÃcito Thadeu Leite. "Giram os Sputniks nas alturas, ferve a ImaginaÃÃo nas planuras: a ciÃncia e o bizarro no Cearà em fins da dÃcada de 1950." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2006. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4487.
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nÃo hÃO objetivo desta DissertaÃÃo foi o de recuperar as diferentes percepÃÃes em torno dos fenÃmenos ocorridos na dÃcada de 1950, no estado do CearÃ, descritos como clarÃes, estrondos e objetos luminosos. Estes episÃdios repercutiram de forma controversa na imprensa local, na medida em que, de um lado, alguns consideravam como resultantes do progresso da CiÃncia e Tecnologia que permitiu a Corrida Espacial e Armamentista (que se tornou um dos ingredientes da disputa de poder entre EUA e URRS, durante a Guerra Fria) e, por outro lado, para outros, apareciam como fenÃmenos estranhos e inexplicÃveis para os quais se davam explicaÃÃes fantÃsticas. Consultando periÃdicos de diferentes tendÃncias â a revista americana Time, o jornal do PCB O Democrata, e jornais da imprensa local do Cearà como O Povo, UnitÃrio, O Jornal etc, alÃm de outros documentos (inclusive alguns sà recentemente liberados pelo Departamento de Defesa americano) -- procuro recuperar o debate que se estabeleceu e os sentimentos de euforia pelo progresso que representavam, assim como os de medo e de estranhamento, por parecerem fantÃsticos, bizarros e inusitados.
This Dissertation intends to recover the many different perceptions around some phenomena occurred in the 50âs, in the State of CearÃ, described as flashes of light, blasts and luminous objects. These events repercuted in a controversial way in the local press as, on one hand, some people considered them as a result of progress in Science and Technology that allowed Space and Arms Race (that become one of the ingredients of the power dispute between US and USSR in the Cold War) and, on the other hand, for some other people, they showed up as strange and inexplicable phenomena, to which were given fantastic explications. In a search through newspapers from many tendencies -- American Time magazine, the communist paper O Democrata, and other papers from Cearà local press, such as O Povo, UnitÃrio, O Jornal etc, besides some other documents (some of them just declassified by US Department of Defense) -- I intend to recover the debate that was established and the feelings of euphoria by the progress that they represented as well as those of fear and oddly, once they seemed fantastic, bizarre, and unusual.
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ROLIM, Tácito Thadeu Leite. "Giram os Sputniks nas alturas, ferve a Imaginação nas planuras: a ciência e o bizarro no Ceará em fins da década de 1950." http://www.teses.ufc.br, 2006. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/3017.
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ROLIM, Tácito Thadeu Leite. Giram os sputniks nas alturas, ferve a imaginação nas planuras: a ciência e o bizarro no Ceará em fins da década de 1950. 2006. 204 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em História) - Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de História, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História Social, Fortaleza-CE, 2006.Submitted by Raul Oliveira (raulcmo@hotmail.com) on 2012-06-28T16:04:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_Dis_TTLRolim.pdf: 8850982 bytes, checksum: c28e1faea361e534ab5e405fb9b08575 (MD5)
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This Dissertation intends to recover the many different perceptions around some phenomena occurred in the 50’s, in the State of Ceará, described as flashes of light, blasts and luminous objects. These events repercuted in a controversial way in the local press as, on one hand, some people considered them as a result of progress in Science and Technology that allowed Space and Arms Race (that become one of the ingredients of the power dispute between US and USSR in the Cold War) and, on the other hand, for some other people, they showed up as strange and inexplicable phenomena, to which were given fantastic explications. In a search through newspapers from many tendencies -- American Time magazine, the communist paper O Democrata, and other papers from Ceará local press, such as O Povo, Unitário, O Jornal etc, besides some other documents (some of them just declassified by US Department of Defense) -- I intend to recover the debate that was established and the feelings of euphoria by the progress that they represented as well as those of fear and oddly, once they seemed fantastic, bizarre, and unusual.
O objetivo desta Dissertação foi o de recuperar as diferentes percepções em torno dos fenômenos ocorridos na década de 1950, no estado do Ceará, descritos como clarões, estrondos e objetos luminosos. Estes episódios repercutiram de forma controversa na imprensa local, na medida em que, de um lado, alguns consideravam como resultantes do progresso da Ciência e Tecnologia que permitiu a Corrida Espacial e Armamentista (que se tornou um dos ingredientes da disputa de poder entre EUA e URRS, durante a Guerra Fria) e, por outro lado, para outros, apareciam como fenômenos estranhos e inexplicáveis para os quais se davam explicações fantásticas. Consultando periódicos de diferentes tendências – a revista americana Time, o jornal do PCB O Democrata, e jornais da imprensa local do Ceará como O Povo, Unitário, O Jornal etc, além de outros documentos (inclusive alguns só recentemente liberados pelo Departamento de Defesa americano) -- procuro recuperar o debate que se estabeleceu e os sentimentos de euforia pelo progresso que representavam, assim como os de medo e de estranhamento, por parecerem fantásticos, bizarros e inusitados.
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Belguzhanov, Rustem. "Preliminary system design of the modular satellite." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019.
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The main scope of the present thesis centres around two key points: modular block and binding interface of 4 types (mechanical/electrical/data/thermal). Throughout
the development process, the preliminary design of the modular block and mechanical interface was continuously modified, that eventually evolved into the micro-satellite
platform of different unit sizes for various mission applications. Similar to CubeSat platforms, it opens perspectives for a cheaper and faster satellite deployment by means of modularization and standardization of future satellite systems.
The proposed design is fully analysed from different perspectives and later compared to the satellite built in accordance with the traditional approach. This gives
the assurance of the validity of the comparison due to the similar mission.
As a part of the validation process, the economic analysis was conducted for three different approaches in spacecraft design, which led to the determination of the feasibility of small-mass production and plans for the future satellite constellation.
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Henriques, Taigo Almeida. "Monitorização aplicacional - Sputnik, Checklist e Gateway Asterisk." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/13864.
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All information systems are prone to failures, whether they’re human, infrastructural or applicational, therefore requiring constant monitoring in order to prevent service unavailability affecting business.
Sputnik is a platform for graphical and intuitive representation of infrastructural and applicational monitoring, allowing to represent circuits, tables, graphs or for example checking the availability of a server or the accumulation of records in a table. This platform allows real-time problem detection/visualization and supports it’s resolution/escalation
in a efficient way.
The Checklist is a centralized platform where knowledge and information are organized/ structured in CI’s (Configuration Items) and relationships between them. Intended as a framework for searching any type of relevant information, including relationships between the existing CIs.
Asterisk Gateway is a pilot platform (proof-of-concept), designed to trigger automatic
phone calls replacing the need for human action, thus speeding the process of scaling. In the context of this PEI, calls are triggered when a CI falis, alerting the respective support team.
In this PEI I intended not only, to improve/develop alarmistic platforms over the PTSI systems but also to improve my technical knowledge, management and effective input on the process of monitoring and alarms, minimizing human action and helping them when necessary.
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Henriques, Tiago Almeida. "Monitorização aplicacional - Sputnik, Checklist e Gateway Asterisk." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/8985.
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Tese de mestrado em Engenharia Informática, apresentada à Universidade de Lisboa, através da Faculdade de Ciências, 2012Todos os Sistemas de Informação encontram-se susceptíveis a falhas, sejam elas humanas, de infra-estrutura ou aplicacionais e, portanto, necessitam de constante monitorização para não haver quebras de serviço que afectem o negócio. Esta necessidade de monitorizar e de actuar o mais rapidamente possível sobre sistemas críticos e o facto de trabalhar numa área em que a função principal é monitorizar os sistemas aplicacionais e infra-estruturais da PT, abriu-me portas para encontrar novas soluções que ajudem as equipas de operação. O Sputnik é uma plataforma de representação gráfica e intuitiva de monitorizações infra-estruturais e aplicacionais, permitindo representar circuitos, tabelas, gráficos ou por exemplo, verificando a disponibilidade de um servidor ou o acumular de registos numa tabela. Com esta plataforma os problemas são detectados/visualizados em real-time e resolvidos ou escalados de forma rápida e eficiente. A Checklist é uma plataforma centralizada onde o conhecimento e a informação estão organizados/estruturados em CIs (Configuration Items) e relações. Pretende ser a base de consulta para qualquer tipo de informação relevante, incluindo relações entre os vários CIs existentes, para a DE/OA. A Gateway Asterisk é uma plataforma piloto (proof-of-concept) destinada a despoletar chamadas telefónicas automáticas substituindo a necessidade de acção humana, agilizando assim o processo de escalamento. No contexto do meu PEI as chamadas são destinadas a alertar as equipas responsáveis em caso de falha dos CIs. Neste PEI pretendi não só melhorar/desenvolver as plataformas de alarmística sobre os sistemas da PTSI mas também melhorar os meus conhecimentos técnicos, de gestão e dar um contributo efectivo sobre os processos de monitorização e alarmística minimizando a acção humana e auxiliando-a sempre que necessário.
All information systems are prone to failures, whether they’re human, infrastructural or applicational, therefore requiring constant monitoring in order to prevent service unavailability affecting business. Sputnik is a platform for graphical and intuitive representation of infrastructural and applicational monitoring, allowing to represent circuits, tables, graphs or for example checking the availability of a server or the accumulation of records in a table. This platform allows real-time problem detection/visualization and supports it’s resolution/escalation in a efficient way. The Checklist is a centralized platform where knowledge and information are organized/ structured in CI’s (Configuration Items) and relationships between them. Intended as a framework for searching any type of relevant information, including relationships between the existing CIs. Asterisk Gateway is a pilot platform (proof-of-concept), designed to trigger automatic phone calls replacing the need for human action, thus speeding the process of scaling. In the context of this PEI, calls are triggered when a CI falis, alerting the respective support team. In this PEI I intended not only, to improve/develop alarmistic platforms over the PTSI systems but also to improve my technical knowledge, management and effective input on the process of monitoring and alarms, minimizing human action and helping them when necessary.
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Gauvin, Philippe. "Le président Eisenhower et la crise du satellite Sputnik : entre discours et réalité (1957-1958)." Mémoire, 2012. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/5247/1/M12679.pdf.
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En octobre 1957, un événement historique vient bouleverser les États-Unis : le lancement de Sputnik, premier satellite artificiel, propulsé par les Soviétiques. Un mois plus tard, un deuxième satellite est mis en orbite par l'URSS tandis que les États-Unis tirent de l'arrière. Ces lancements créent toute une commotion à laquelle le président de l'époque, Dwight D. Eisenhower, doit faire face. 'Le président Eisenhower et la crise du satellite Sputnik, entre discours et réalité' est une analyse historique des discours du président Eisenhower entourant les lancements des deux premiers Sputniks. Après un survol historique des principaux événements liés au sujet qui nous intéresse, un état de la question permet notamment de cerner comment l'attitude du président Eisenhower envers la crise Sputnik est traitée dans l'historiographie. Puis, une analyse des discours émis entre janvier 1957 et avril 1958 trace les grandes lignes du discours présidentiel d'Eisenhower. Ensuite, ce sont aux discours des mois d'octobre et de novembre 1957, de même qu'à leur réception dans cinq grands journaux des États-Unis, que nous nous intéressons. Ainsi, nous voyons comment ces discours s'insèrent dans la rhétorique propre à Eisenhower, les distinctions à faire entre les discours émis à la suite du lancement du premier Sputnik puis du second, de même que la relation entre réaction médiatique et administration présidentielle. Dans ce mémoire, nous nous interrogeons principalement sur les discours entourant les lancements des Sputniks. Ainsi, nous vérifions si ceux-ci s'intègrent de façon cohérente au discours plus large d'Eisenhower. De plus, nous nous demandons s'il existe une différence notable entre les discours émis à la suite de chacun des lancements des deux premiers Sputniks, de même que sur leur efficacité à convaincre l'opinion publique. Pour y arriver, des dizaines de discours présidentiels et d'articles de journaux ont été minutieusement étudiés. Au terme de ce travail, nous en arrivons à la conclusion que les discours émis à la suite des lancements des Sputnik I et II s'inscrivent en continuité avec le discours général du président, mais que d'importantes distinctions sont à faire entre les deux. En effet, Eisenhower passe de sa figure publique de bon père de famille à celle de leader qui passe à l'action sur la question des satellites spatiaux entre les mois d'octobre et de novembre 1957. Malgré ce changement d'attitude, il semble que l'opinion publique ne soit pas totalement convaincue et que les conflits entourant la crise Sputnik animeront la présidence d'Eisenhower jusqu'à la fin de son mandat en 1961. L'originalité de notre approche repose essentiellement sur l'accent qui est mis sur les discours liés aux lancements des Sputniks. Nous nous posons des questions et y apportons des réponses qui se distinguent de ce qui est paru jusqu' ici dans l'historiographie. De plus, l'importance de l'analyse du discours d'Eisenhower qui est intégrée à ce mémoire est aussi particulière et tranche à l'occasion avec les principales conclusions tirées dans l'historiographie.
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MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Eisenhower, Sputnik, Spoutnik, discours, missile gap, satellite, NASA, espace
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Wang, Shin-Tzu, and 汪欣慈. "The study of Writing in the Haruki Murakami’s literatures—Focus on Hear the Wind Sing, Sputnik Sweetheart, and 1Q84." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74656840120899572244.
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This thesis aims to analyze the main characters in Haruki Murakami’s works who aim to become novelists, in order to clarify the Writing in Haruki Murakami Literature. In the introduction, this thesis reviews the past studies, in order to confirm that the metaphor of writing in Haruki Murakami Literature is a key point that leads to the understanding of the works. In Chapter 1 to Chapter 3, this thesis studies the writing in Hear the Wind Sing (1979), Sputnik Sweetheart (1999), and 1Q84 (2009-2010). In the Conclusion, this thesis compares of the meaning of writing in these three works, and researches the changes of this metaphor. At beginning of these three stories, the main characters all try to become novelists. Carrying traumas and wounds, make them cling to writing, but they are unable to complete a full work. Later, they suffer upheaval, and even lose the ability to writing.” Boku” in Hear the Wind Sing, hope he could heal himself by writing, but still feels lonely in the end of the story. On the other hand, in Sputnik Sweetheart, Sumire regains the ability of writing, and leave this world for a parallel one in order to find Miu. In 1Q84, After Tengo rewrites the novel “Air Chrysalis “, he finally starts to write his own story, and brings himself to meet Aomame again, and escape the world of “1Q84”. According to the result of analyzing these main characters ‘struggle of writing, and studying how their writing changed their mind and body, and even other characters, Haruki Murakami establish an issue that hope writing can bring the connection with others since his first novel. This thesis also focuses on the relevance and the change in these three works, to expound that through Sputnik Sweetheart to 1Q84, we can confirm that the issue has been resolved.
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Zandbergs, Simon. "Surfing the Shortwaves : A rhetorical comparison of articles of the Syrian Civil War from Voice of America and Sputnik News, May 2017." Thesis, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-67093.
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The aim of this thesis is to compare content on the websites of Voice of America and Sputnik News. This includes comparing the website content in general, including categories and non-news content available on the websites apart from articles. A selected number of articles were also analysed for an in-depth study and comparison between the two websites. The differences between the websites was studied by examining differences in how the same topic was treated differently on each website. In addition, the strategies used by both websites to attract visitors were identified. This was then compared with historical research done on the shortwave radio stations that are the precursors to these websites. The study is a rhetorical analysis of five articles from Voice of America, and five articles from Sputnik News. All articles analysed are about the Syrian Civil War. This, together with the non-news content is then compared, both between the two websites, but also with earlier research in order to see if the strategy has changed through history. The propaganda models of Persuasion, Information and Goodwill are key to these studies. The analysis revealed that the difference in usage of rhetoric and “propaganda models” were fairly similar between the two websites. There were however certain differences, such as Sputnik News had more Entertainment, while Voice of America contained more educational content. There were also differences in which languages, and thus, what parts of the world the websites has as their target audiences. One big difference was in the length of the articles. Keywords: Propaganda, Shortwave Radio, Voice of America, Sputnik News, Rhetorical analysisSyftet med uppsatsen är en jämförelse av webbsidorna Voice of America och Sputnik News. Detta inkluderar en jämförelse av webbmaterialet i allmänhet, såsom kategorier och icke-nyhetsrelaterat innehåll som finns på webbsidorna utöver enbart artiklarna. Ett urval av artiklar analyseras djupare och jämförs de två webbsidorna emellan för att se hur artiklarna på webbsidorna skiljer sig åt. Genom att göra detta kunde vi se vilka strategier de två webbsidorna använder sig av för att locka besökare till deras respektive webbsidor. Det förekommer också en jämförelse med historisk forskning gjord om kortvågsradiostationerna som är föregångarna till dessa webbsidor. Studien är en retorisk analys av fem artiklar från Voice of America, och fem artiklar från Sputnik News. Alla artiklar som analyseras handlar om det Syriska inbördeskriget. Detta, tillsammans med det icke-nyhetsrelaterade materialet jämförs sedan, både webbsidorna emellan, men även med tidigare forskning för att se om det skett en förändring i strategi genom historien. Propagandamodellerna Persuasion, Information och Goodwill är viktiga för dessa studier. Efter analysen kunde vi se att skillnaden i retorik och ”propagandamodeller” inte skiljer sig från varandra nämnvärt i allmänhet. Det fanns däremot vissa skillnader, som att Sputnik News innehåller mer underhållning, medan Voice of Amerika har mer utbildningsrelaterat material. Det fanns också skillnader i vilka språk som fanns tillgängliga, och därför, vilka delar av världen webbsidorna har som sin huvudsakliga målgrupp. En stor skillnad var längden på artiklarna. Nyckelord: Propaganda, Kortvågsradio, Voice of America, Sputnik News, Retorisk analys
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HSIN, KUO LI, and 郭立欣. "The solitude style in the novels, it centers on Haruki Murakami 'Norwegian Wood','South of the border West of the Sun','The sputnik sweethear'." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37541267546946844079.
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Červenková, Romana. "Migrační krize a bezpečnost ČR optikou Parlamentních listů, Sputniku a Aeronetu v letech 2015-2016." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-387184.
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The master's thesis deals with disinformation websites' migration crisis framing regarding the Czech Republic. The thesis is based on the theory of social constructivism, which considers a speech act to be a crucial factor of securitization. The author proceeds mainly from the work of Thierry Balzacq, who reckons media to be the main securitization actors. The theoretical base of this thesis is supplemented by the theory of moral panic, which comes into being due to impact of securitization of particular person/group/institution. The thesis researches the way how migration crisis was securitized from 2015 to 2016. Therefore content analysis and discourse analysis are used. The articles, which are subjected to the research were published by Parlamentni listy, Sputnik and Aeronet. Articles were subjected to content analysis so as the author was able to find out which keywords emerged most frequently. Particular phrases were linked to specific themes, which consisted of "Security", "Criticism of government" and "National identity". After the quantitative analysis, the articles were subjected to qualitative analysis based on James Paul Gee's method, which allows the author to understand the used discourse and the context, within which the discourse emerged. Particular articles are then researched...
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"A Mapping of Historical Discourses in STEM Advocacy Literature." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.25154.
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abstract: Efforts to privilege STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines, initiatives, and industries in American discourse are arguably the foremost expressions of scientific authority in contemporary educational policy. Citing a diverse body of STEM literature, I discuss the histories and rationales that sustain the promotion of STEM. In doing so, I appropriate two concepts -Michel Foucault's Regime of Truth and Hayden White's Emplotment- for the purpose of analyzing the complex interests embodied by STEM discourse. I argue that the Sputnik Narrative is the prevailing story in STEM advocacy discourse. I claim that STEM advocates typically emplot this history as a Romance. Furthermore, I classify two major bases of appeal (rationales) that appear within this literature to justify STEM projects and proposals, "competition" and "equity." Throughout my writing, I cite discursive strategies for challenging and reimagining STEM history. My goal in indicating these sites of narrative possibilities is broaden the discursive field to new, perhaps liberating possibilities.Dissertation/Thesis
M.A. Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education 2014
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Andrle, Vít. "Ruská informační válka v pobaltských státech a její dopady na společnost." Master's thesis, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-448350.
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This diploma thesis analyses the phenomenon of the Russian information warfare targeting the Baltic states - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. In five chapters the thesis initially theoretically examines phenomenon of the information warfare itself, specifically its typical components and advantages because of which the Russian Federation uses it. After that, the thesis estimates conceptual preconditions and incentives in the Baltic region due to which Russia implements the information warfare specifically in this region. The information warfare in this sense is understood as the psychological pressure onto the society of Baltics, hence, as one of the tools to enforce the interests and goals of the Kremlin's official foreign policy, because the initiators of such information campaigns are the Russian state media or their proxies. Third, in the empirical part, based the conceptually determined factors and particular events related to them, thesis thoroughly deals with discourses and narratives spread through the Russian and pro-Russian media operating in the Baltic states. More specifically, the analysis conducts research of the content of these narratives, their rhetoric, specific features, context and possible impacts onto the society in the Baltics. The goal of this thesis is to analyse thoroughly...