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Grunebaum-Ralph, Heidi Peta. "Tracing memory : representation and the Auschwitz experience in Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz et après." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18703.
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This study aims to examine the ways in which memory is represented in Auschwitz survivor, Charlotte Delbo's literary trilogy, Auschwitz et Apres, (Auschwitz and After) (1970a;1970b;1971). Its examination of memory is premised on the understanding of survivor narrative as testimonial narrative and testimony as the telling of the memory of historical events which strain or exceed conventional frameworks of representation. As such, the aim of this study is to demonstrate the way that representations of memory of a limit-experience problematise the certainty of its own testimonial transmission. By attempting to theorise the dynamics of narrating personal memory and then by analysing key extracts in each volume of the trilogy, this examination attempts to demonstrate how the event of the Holocaust, the difficulty of being a survivor and an unwilling reception of the survivor's story are collectively implicated in the way that memory contests its own representation. By examining the discontinuities of memory, this study intends to show how, in very different ways, the silences and ruptures of memory which are produced in these readings are a remembering of a different form.
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Griffiths, Claire. "The Lagermuseum (creative manuscript), and, Encountering Auschwitz : touring the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2015. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/59210/.
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The Lagermuseum - my creative manuscript (an extract of a longer novel) - seeks to illuminate a little known aspect of the history of the Auschwitz concentration and death camp complex, namely the trade and display of prisoner artworks. However, it is also concerned with exposing the governing paradigms inherent to contemporary encounters with the Holocaust, calling attention to the curatorial processes present in all interrogations of this most contentious historical subject. Questions relating to ownership, display and representational hierarchies permeate the text, characterised by a shape-shifting curator figure and artworks which refuse to adhere to the canon he creates for them. The Lagermuseum is thus in constant dialogue with my critical thesis, examining the fictional devices which often remain unacknowledged within established modes of historical discourse, specifically museums and tours. What emerges, I hope, is an ethically-sensitive work, which interrogates two key questions: Who is in charge of history? How do the ways in which history is curated affect our interpretations of it? ‘Encountering Auschwitz: Touring the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’ In the mid-1990s, as the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum cemented its status as one of Europe’s most popular memorial destinations, critical conversation revolved around the potential implications and ramifications of Holocaust tourism. My thesis, however, aims to address an apparent gap within this still-evolving field of research. Thus I examine not visitor motivations for going to such sites, but the types of historical encounters available to those who seek them. Taking a personal, theoretical and strongly narrative approach, I critique the guided group tours provided by the museum, evaluating them in terms of both form and content. Particular emphasis is placed on representative tropes which can be connected to ethical concerns regarding the ‘museumification’ of Auschwitz, as well as wider issues within contemporary trauma theory and dark tourism research.
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Yoon, Hye Jung. "Birds, Birds, Bluebirds." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1504802573765048.
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Wüstefeld, Katharina. "Erziehung nach oder über Auschwitz?" Master's thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-124068.
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Die vorliegende Arbeit geht der Frage nach, inwieweit in Veröffentlichungen der (grundschul)pädagogischen Diskussion um die Vermittlung der Geschichte des Holocaust und Nationalsozialismus seit Ende der 1980er Jahre auf Adornos berühmte Radioansprache "Erziehung nach Auschwitz" von 1966 zugegriffen wird und in welcher Weise bzw. zu welchem Zweck dies geschieht. Anhand von vier typischen Bezugnahmen auf Adornos Vortrag wird gezeigt, dass ein solcher Zugriff nicht immer dem Inhalt des Vortrages gerecht wird, und dieser zum einen sehr unterschiedlich und zum zweiten häufig auf fragwürdige Weise ausgelegt und für die eigene Argumentation herangezogen wird.
Um den Hintergrund für die pädagogische Rezeption von Adornos Ansprache zu erhellen, liefert die Arbeit einen historischen Überblick über die Entwicklung der grundschulpädagogischen Diskussion um die Frage, ob und wenn ja wie der Holocaust Gegenstand des Unterrichts in der Grundschule sein kann, und diskutiert dabei kritisch vier verschiedene Zielstellungen, die mit einer solchen Thematisierung verbunden werden: Demokratielernen, Gedenken, Fragen der Kinder bedienen sowie geschichtsdidaktische Absichten.
Die inhaltliche Analyse jener Interpretationen von Adornos "Erziehung nach Auschwitz", die innerhalb der pädagogische Diskussion um eine Vermittlung der Geschichte des Holocaust vorgenommen werden, zeigt, dass die Zielvorstellungen des historisch-politischen Lernens häufig Leitmotiv für das Verständnis von Adornos Rede sind und sich dieses Verständnis vom Gegenstand einer „Erziehung nach Auschwitz“ bei den allermeisten Autor_innen auf eine „Erziehung über Auschwitz“ beschränkt.
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Wandres, Thomas. "Die Strafbarkeit des Auschwitz-Leugnens /." Berlin : Duncker & Humblot, 2000. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/31209843X.pdf.
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Carter-White, Richard. "Outside Auschwitz: History, responsibility, witnessing." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506085.
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Duteil, Marylène. "Auschwitz du témoignage à l'écriture /." Lille : A.N.R.T, Université de Lille III, 1998. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/21091.
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Duteil, Marylène. "Auschwitz : du témoignage à l'écriture." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040160.
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Comment témoigner d’Auschwitz ? Comment témoigner d’Auschwitz par l'écriture ? Parmi la masse des témoignages écrits par des survivants des camps, seuls quelques-uns ont acquis une valeur littéraire. Leurs auteurs ont rencontré dans l'écriture un moyen de dire leur expérience qui semblait indicible et d'amener les non-témoins à l'écoute de leur récit inouï. Dès les premières formes de témoignages, l'écriture est apparue dans sa dimension littéraire, comme le tiers permettant au déporté devenu, dans le camp, étranger à lui-même, de témoigner. Notre thèse tente de comprendre le rapport complexe que le témoignage d’Auschwitz entretient avec l'écriture. Elle cherche ainsi à étudier d'autres formes de témoignages que les premiers récits des survivants : a ainsi été analysée la théorie du romanesque lazaréen de Jean Cayrol, l'un des premiers à avoir articulé l'expérience des camps à une réflexion profonde sur la littérature. Les derniers livres de Maurice Blanchot ont également été étudiés car ils proposent une réflexion sur une forme de témoignage comme l'écoute et l'accueil de la parole d'autrui, ce « sujet déporté » qui n'est plus sujet, réflexion qui rejoint l'éthique d’Emmanuel Levinas, et certains aspects de la poétique de Paul Celan, qui écrivait que « nul ne témoigne pour le témoin ». Au regard de ces nouveaux témoignages, l'écriture d'après Auschwitz apparait comme une écriture qui recherche l'impuissance ou plutôt l'abandon de toute forme de maitrise afin de s'ouvrir à la passivité d'une écoute de ce qui échappe à la langue. L'écriture s'ouvre à l'exigence fragmentaire, à la rature, qui ne cesse de dédire ce qui est dit, au paradoxe ; le sujet de l'écrivain s'efface dans un « il » impersonnel. . . De ces revendications d'impuissance aux premiers constats des témoins face à l'inimaginable, le témoignage d’Auschwitz s'est transmis dans le corps littéraire, non pas comme un défi à l'indicible mais comme l'acceptation et la prise de conscience d'un pouvoir à céder.
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Musolino, Adrian. "The bombing of Auschwitz : an examination /." Title page, table of contents and introduction only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arm9879.pdf.
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Gaunt, Bethany Sarah Gaunt. "Poetry after Auschwitz : an Italian perspective." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10055775/.
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This thesis offers a critical engagement with poetry about Auschwitz in all its various permutations, addressing issues such as why poetry is a particularly valuable form of Holocaust expression, and why different social groups have historically chosen to, and continue to, write poetry about Auschwitz. Adopting an analytical approach, this work foregrounds the poetical works themselves, in order to demonstrate how poetry facilitates an engagement with the past, for both the writer and reader (or indeed, singer and listener). Beginning with the work of those who experienced the Nazi camps first-hand, chapter one discusses the poetry of two survivors, Edith Bruck (b. 1932) and Primo Levi (1919-1987), identifying three driving motivations behind survivor-writing: to memorialise, to inform and to assist in the writer’s cathartic rehabilitation after Auschwitz. The second chapter offers a comparative analysis of two poems by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) and two of Francesco Guccini's (b. 1940) canzoni d'autore, exploring how these two artists introduced Auschwitz into their respective genres, and how they interpreted and enacted what they perceived as art's post-Holocaust imperative: to rebuild mankind. Chapter three engages with Italian translations of Paul Celan's (1920-1970) famous 'Todesfuge', exploring the significance of translators in the dissemination of Holocaust writing, and their role as expert intermediate readers. The chapter champions reading multiple translations in parallel, and demonstrates the ways in which different translators foreground different elements of the original work. Finally, chapter four offers an assessment of online poetry about Auschwitz. By focusing on Italian poetry website “Scrivere” and the work of Giorgia Spurio (b. 1986), this chapter discusses the democratisation of art online, the extra-textual possibilities the internet offers, and how these contemporary poems build upon previous Holocaust poems, perpetuating the poetical discussion of the Holocaust for a new generation of readers.
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Simons, J. T. W. "Another route to Auschwitz : memory, writing, fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2011. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/25918/.
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Steinbacher, Sybille. ""Musterstadt" Auschwitz : Germanisierung und Judenmord in Ostoberschlesien /." München : K.G. Saur, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37632344x.
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Landwehrkamp, Laura. "Male Rape in Auschwitz? : An Exploration of the Dynamics of Kapo-PiepelSexual Violence in KL Auschwitz during the Holocaust." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Hugo Valentin-centrum, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385777.
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Male-male sexual violence during the Holocaust is under-researched. Despite being a widespread occurrence in the Nazi concentration camps, very few accounts from primary sources are available of the sexual violence perpetrated against the Piepel: male Jewish children, adolescents, and young adults, by male Kapos or senior prisoner functionaries. Until now this phenomenon has been understood to be an exchange of sexual favours for food and protection, but little else was known. This study therefore aims to examine the dynamics of Kapo-Piepelsexual violence in the Auschwitz concentration camp through the perceptions of victims of, and witnesses, to this violence, within a framework of feminist theory, gender and masculinity theory, and group dynamics. Based on written accounts in the form of memoirs and oral testimony from audio-visual archives, this study finds that the Piepelwere forced into sexual relationships to survive; that the Kapos used them as sexual substitutes for women; and that survivors’ attitudes towards the Piepelhave become more sympathetic in more recently published ego-documents. This study therefore calls for a wider examination of this phenomenon, and of male-male sexual violence during the Holocaust, given the resultant improvement in attitudes towards these victims who for too long have not been heard due to the shame and stigma attached to being a male victim of rape.
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Dirks, Christian. "Die Verbrechen der anderen : Auschwitz und der Auschwitz-Prozess der DDR: das Verfahren gegen den KZ-Arzt Dr. Horst Fischer /." Paderborn : Schöningh, 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0604/2006374091.html.
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Dirks, Christian. "Die Verbrechen der anderen Auschwitz und der Auschwitz-Prozess der DDR: das Verfahren gegen den KZ-Arzt Dr. Horst Fischer." Paderborn München Wien Zürich Schöningh, 2004. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2640608&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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DANZIGER, LEILA MARIA BRASIL. "ABSENT BODIES: BERLIN AND THE MONUMENTS OF AUSCHWITZ." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2003. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=4270@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORO trabalho expõe os novos desafios das práticas do monumento, reativadas pela tarefa - aporética, por definição, - da memória de Auschwitz. A partir do contexto mais amplo da arte moderna e contemporânea, os monumentos ao Holocausto são vistos como imprescindíveis na construção da República de Berlim. No infindável debate sobre o colossal Monumento aos judeus assassinados da Europa, a construir-se no centro da capital da Alemanha reunificada, espelham-se, exaustivamente, ampla gama de questões historiográficas, memoriais e identitárias. Por outro lado, uma rede de obras dispersas propiciam diferentes inscrições da insanável ausência dos judeus na cidade. Nestes (anti) monumentos, percebemos Berlim como oficina da história e a arte contemporânea face ao imperativo ético do testemunho.
The work presents the new challenges of monument practices, revived by the so-called paradoxical task of Auschwitz memory. From the broader context of modern and contemporary art, the monuments to Holocaust are seen as essential to the construction of the Berlin Republic. The endless debate on the colossal Monument to Jews slaughtered in Europe, to be built in the centre of the capital of the reunited Germany, reflects questions such as history, memory and identity to the fullest. On the other hand, a network of scattered works provide different accounts of the irremediable lack of Jews in the City. In such (anti) monuments, we see Berlin as a history workshop and the contemporary art in view of the ethical imperative of witnessing.
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Ashworth, Jaime. "Between evidence and symbol : the Auschwitz album in Yad Vashem, the Imperial War Museum (London) and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/367399/.
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This project explores the representation of the Holocaust in three museums: Yad Vashem in Jerusalem; the Imperial War Museum in London; and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oswiecim, Poland. It uses the so-called Auschwitz Album, a collection of photographs taken in Birkenau in May 1944, as a case-study. Employing the concept of mythology in the Barthesian sense of a ‘language in which we speak’, it examines the ways in which the Holocaust is more and more a prism through which other things are viewed; a language in which other things are spoken of. Chapters 1 and 2 lay the groundwork for the results of fieldwork described in chapters 3-5. Chapter 1 is concerned with the photographs themselves. Describing the structure and content of the collection, it demonstrates the degree to which the interpretation of photographs is complicated by what the viewer brings to them. While photographs might appear to transmit information, this chapter suggests that they are better understood as reflective objects. Chapter 2 interrogates the assumptions of five “classic” accounts of the Holocaust by Raul Hilberg, Helmut Krausnick, Lucy Dawidowicz, Martin Gilbert and Saul Friedländer, in light of a proposed ‘Holocaust metanarrative’. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 engage with the particular museums on their own terms, posing questions about how they interact with the societies they are found in. Each museum, these chapters argue, raises a set of questions about the host nation’s relationship with the past. Chapter 6 looks at the specific display strategies employed by the museums to display the Auschwitz Album, considers how this relates to the broader institutional and national agendas as explored in Chapters 3-5. An epilogue takes the basic conclusion of this section – that all memory is local, and that debate about meaning is likely to be the continuing legacy – and asks if there is an alternative language in which to speak of the Holocaust.
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Knapp, Gabriele. "Das Frauenorchester in Auschwitz : musikalische Zwangsarbeit und ihre Bewältigung /." Hamburg : Von Bockel, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39267807h.
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Horn, Sabine. "Erinnerungsbilder Auschwitz Prozess und Majdanek Prozess im westdeutschen Fernsehen." Essen Klartext, 2007. http://d-nb.info/992155118/04.
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Crabtree, David. "The Image of the Enemy: To Auschwitz with Righteousness." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/8.
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This thesis is a study and analysis of Nazi propaganda, specifically focusing on the medium of film. Throughout Hitler’s Third Reich, propaganda played a vital role in maintaining popular support for the party platform in addition to fueling the convictions of the Nazi elite. There are three main divisions to this study. First, an overview of the structure and organization of Nazi Germany and particularly The Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda will be given, followed by an exploration of the origins and evolution of anti-Semitism in the Third Reich. Last, two Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda films will be analyzed to exemplify the whole of Nazi propaganda. Specifically, an emphasis will be made that these films played a significant role in solidifying and sustaining the mentalities and actions desired by the Nazi regime. Consequently, these films can be correlated to historical events which occurred before and after 1940.
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Kalfa, Ariane. "Philosopher après Auschwitz : penser la morale au XXe siècle." Paris 1, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA010513.
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Le XXème siècle a connu une catastrophe historique qui remet en cause l'objet de la philosophie. En effet, Auschwitz marque une "césure" entre un "avant" et un "après". Jamais auparavant, l'humanité n'a connu un tel échec. Cet échec devant lequel la philosophie abdique en un premier temps, jetant le concept dans le silence, ôtant au dire son sens, nous enjoint l'urgence du retour et de la critique il semblerait que ce soit la fin de la philosophie, et pourtant, jamais plus qu'aujourd'hui, elle ne s'est confrontée à l'exigence de sa survie. Alors, comment élaborer un discours qui fait sens après Auschwitz? Le retour à l'évènement Auschwitz impose le détour. Détour en passant par la question de l'altérité et de la barbarie. Afin de penser ce qu'est la tache de la philosophie. Pour ce faire, il a fallu analyser les principales dimensions de la question antisémite (du discours à l'action). Puis, cette question étant pour nous la métonymie de la problématique du mal comme méchanceté humaine. Il a fallu montrer que la méchanceté n'est rien d'autre qu'une absence de pensée aussi bien à l'échelle individuelle qu'à l'échelle collective au sein d'un système totalitaire. Cependant, le fondement de la méchanceté demeure une question d'ordre moral, question grâce à laquelle l'homme doit se penser en cette fin de siècleThe xx century has known an historical disaster which raises serious questions for the subject of philosophical inquiry. Actually, Auschwitz is a "caesura" between a "past" and a "future". Never before today has mankind known such a defeate. Given this defeat, it seemed at the begining that philosophy had abdicated its role because philosophical concepts were thrown back from the silence, removing from a philosophical discourse all its meaning. It is therefore incumbent upon us to return to a new philosophical critique but also to return to a philosophy of moral consciousness. It seems that it is the end of philosophy; however, never more than today it has been confronted with the exisgency of its survival. Then, how to construct a philosophical discourse which has a meaning after Auschwitz? First, we must analyse the meaning of otherness and barbarism to understand the task of philosophy. In order, to begin to reconstruct a new discourse of philosophy, we must first analyse the principal dimensions of the question of antisemitism. Then, we have discovered that the entisemitism is the metonymy of the problematic of harm as human spitefulness. It is a moral question in which humanity must think
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Bose, Anushika. "Birds & Blades." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/22458.
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Kollisionen von Vögeln mit Windturbinen haben sich zu einer bedenklichen Quelle für die Gefährdung besonders von Populationen seltenerer Vogelarten entwickelt. Allerdings wird im Allgemeinen auch bestätigt, dass die Nutzung der Windenergie unverzichtbar ist. Das Hauptziel dieser Arbeit war es, die Relevanz der Wechselwirkungen zu verstehen, die zwischen technischen Infrastrukturen und den von Kollisionen betroffenen Vogelarten auf der Landschaftsebene stattfinden. Da sowohl von der Landschaft beeinflusst werden. Unter Nutzung der durch gezielte Nachsuche gefundenen Opfer der am häufigsten von Kollisionen betroffenen Artengruppen paradoxerweise as als Proxy für das Vorkommen von Arten, und Durch die Anwendung verschiedener Techniken zur Modellierung der Artenverbreitung (SDMs) die “kollisionsempfindliche Nische “für jede der Vogelgruppen beschrieben. Obwohl die vorhergesagten Gebiete mit potenziellen Kollisionsrisiko insgesamt nur kleine, aber stark verteilt im ungefährdes Bundeslandes hatten. Greifvögel mit die breiteste Nische, die zudem signifikante Überlappungen mit den kollisionsempfindlichen Nischen der anderen Gruppen aufwies. Die niedrig bewerteten Gebiete weiter differenziert, die als tatsächliche „Bereiche ohne Risiko“ interpretiert wurden, für weitere geplante Winkraftanlagen. Zusätzlich die jeweiligen Potentiale und Gefärdungen für Kollisionen auf der Basis der regionalen Dichteverteilungen der Arten in Brandenburg mit Ensemble-Methoden von Boosted Regression Trees wird ebenfalls bewertet. Zusammenfassend, diese Analysen paradigmatisch, sowohl die Gebiete als auch die Entfernungen zu den Grenzlinien der verschiedenen Landnutzungsformen ein höheres Risiko für die Kollision von Individuen der untersuchten Arten mit Windkraftanlagen ergibt ermitteln . Dieser Ansatz kann es möglich machen, zukünftige Windparkerweiterungen in der Landschaft im die möglichst kollisionsfreie und naturverträglicheStandorte in der Landschaft.Although, it is well recognized that harnessing wind energy is highly indispensable, but collisions of birds at wind turbines has also developed simultaneously, concerning multiple bird species. With wind being strongly affected by the landscape and the behaviour of birds also being strongly influenced by the landscape, the main objective of the thesis was to understand the relevance of interactions between wind energy infrastructures and bird species from an ecological perspective of the landscape. Utilizing the carcass collision datasets of the frequently-hit bird-groups paradoxically as proxies for species presence, collision sensitive ecological distances to different land-use types were ascertained, by employing multiple techniques of species distribution modelling (SDMs), to delineate their respective collision sensitive niche employing the capabilities of machine learning algorithms. The predicted areas were specialized and highly dispersed across the federal state, with raptors showing the broadest niche and significant overlaps with the other groups. Based on estimated collision probabilities of the assessed areas (between 0 and 1), further segregations differentiated only those areas with negligible collision probabilities, <0.05, which were interpreted as the actual "no risk areas, suggesting any further planned additions of wind turbines to be suitably positioned only in these “safer” areas. Additionally, these collision probabilities were translated to strike susceptibilities, by relating them to the regional density distributions of the species as well. Summarizing, these analyses paradigmatically ascertained collision risk areas, and especially the collision sensitive distances from different land-use types to these areas, enabling the accurate guidance of future wind farm expansions in the landscape. Ultimately, formulating novel wind turbine allocation strategies to minimize avian collisions, making them as compatible as possible.
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Shotton, William Howard. "Birds of Paradise." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/861.
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Salameh, Hadeel J. "Dancing with Birds." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1552037191445985.
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Kirkland, Shauna. "Birds of Prey." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3019.
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As a child growing up, I was always in love with the ritual of “dress up”. Whether it was my dolls, various reluctant pets, or myself, it was always an activity I loved. It is not surprising then that adornment has become the medium through which I express myself and bring my fantasy world to life. Jewelry and accessory have the potential to lead many lives. One particular piece can change entirely by putting it on one body as opposed to another, or by removing it to see it as an object. In fashion, the body is the canvas and the runway becomes the moment of performance. My work uses the body in much the same way where the wearer becomes performer. Through this act, we construct personal forms of armor, or “power suits”, to face the battlefield of the outside world. In harnessing this act of adorning and what it encompasses, I am consistently challenged as both designer and maker. Creating alter egos, whether subtly flirtatious or overtly sexual, demure or flamboyant, are some of the many ways in which these “power suits” can be concocted. The stories we project about ourselves daily, through how we adorn our naked bodies, become empowering. Myths versus reality, ascetic versus sensual, and beautiful versus ugly are some of the concepts from which I draw inspiration. These dualities are conceptually expressed in my work through physical combinations of opposing materials. Mixing mediums, through methods such as collaging, beading, needlepointing, knitting, and sewing, are integral in my designs. With alternative materials, such as feathers, textiles, and yarns, I add softness and new scintillating sensations when juxtaposed with the hard, cold qualities of metal. Through combining such materials, I construct pieces that not only challenge one’s notion of what “pretty” is, but also inspire the way one thinks about body adornment. The objects I create become vessels that actualize the dualities I strive to express. In producing hybrids of materials, my need to explore these dichotomies is satisfied.
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Olsen, Björn. "Birds and Borrelia." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Mikrobiologi, 1995. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-141295.
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The Lyme disease causing spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato is transmitted by ticks within the genus Ixodes. These ticks are liberal host seekers and parasitise mammals, birds and reptiles. Prior to this study, the distribution of I. ricinus ticks and Lyme disease was thought to be restricted to the southern half of Sweden. On the island Norrbyskär, located in the Bothnian Gulf, there were reports of a high incidence of tick infestation on humans. To investigate the occurrence of B. burgdorferi s.l. in these ticks and to characterise presumptive isolates at the molecular level we sampled a number of I. ricinus ticks. Three different isolates were obtained from two different ticks, NBS16 from a nymph and NBS23a and NBS23b from an adult female tick. The seabird associated tick I. uriae is circumpolar distributed in both hemispheres. On the island Bonden, which house one of the largest seabird colonies in the Baltic Sea, I. uriae were collected and surveyed for spirochaetes. One isolate of B. burgdorferi s.l. was obtained. This B. burgdorferi s.l. isolate is identical to the Lyme disease Borrelia strain NBS16 isolated from Norrbyskär. To investigate the role of seabirds in the epidemiology of B. burgdorferi s.l., I. uriae were collected from seabird colonies in the southern and northern hemispheres. Borrelia DNA was extracted from the ticks and from cultured spirochaetes. Sequence analysis of the flagellin gene revealed that the DNA obtained was from B. garinii, regardless of the geographical origin of the sample. Identical fla gene fragments in ticks collected in both hemispheres indicate a transhemispheric exchange of B. garinii. A marine ecological niche and epidemiological route for Lyme disease Borrelia are proposed. The prevalence of B. burgdorferi s.l. infected ticks on migrating passerine birds was studied. A total of 22, 998 birds were caught and examined for ticks. The presence of spirochaetes in the 967 collected ticks was determined by DNA amplification by PCR on all ticks. To determine which B. burgdorferi s.l. species were present, classification was performed by DNA amplification using species-specific 16S rDNA primers and by DNA sequencing. Flagellin gene sequences of all species of B. burgdorferi s.l. previously recorded in Europe were found. B. garinii was the most prevalent. These data support the notion that passerine birds are at least partly responsible for the distribution of Lyme disease Borrelia spirochaetes in Europe. To elucidate the distribution of B. burgdorferi s.l. in subarctic regions, strains isolated from I. ricinus and I. uriae ticks found on islands in the northern Atlantic and Baltic Sea were characterised molecularly. All isolates were verified as B. garinii by 16S-rRNA gene analysis and immunoblotting using monoclonal antibodies specific for the outer surface proteins A and C. Three ribotypes (RT's) of B. garinii were found. The I. ricinus associated RT1 is phenotypically the most heterogeneous. RT2 is restricted to the islands in the northern Baltic Sea, whereas RT3 was also recovered from ticks found on islands in the North Atlantic. The heterogeneity of the B. garinii population in the Baltic Sea might be influenced by two geographically opposite directions, North Atlantic (RT3) and Euroasia (RT1).digitalisering@umu.se
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Hughes, Amy L. "Birds of Ohio." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/608.
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BIRDS OF OHIO is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems that explore the interior nature of domestic life. These poems peer below the surface of ideas like home, family, faith, and marriage to reveal the complex contradictions and particular moments of love, fear, pain, and grace that create the domestic world of the speaker. Rooted in natural landscapes and often drawing on religious language, the poems point to the meeting of the physical and spiritual worlds, at times blurring the distinction between them. The collection is not divided into sections; rather, the different themes are braided together to create a portrait of domestic life where experiences of love and death, questions of faith and meaning, and conflict concerning marriage, family, addiction, and the idea of home are inextricable from one another.
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Ventura, Frederico Tell de Lima. "Notas sobre o conceito de educação política em ensaios de intervenção pública de Theodor W. Adorno." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-24112009-151141/.
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Esta dissertação versa sobre o conceito de educação na obra de Theodor W. Adorno (1903- 1969), tendo como principal material de análise dois ensaios do autor sobre o tema, O que significa elaborar o passado e Educação após Auschwitz. Nosso principal argumento é que Adorno pensa a educação contemporânea como um momento privilegiado da Aufklärung para intervir politicamente na relação entre indivíduo e sociedade; ou melhor, na forma em que esta relação encontra-se configurada histórica e socialmente sob o capitalismo tardio. Para que uma tal intervenção seja possível, Adorno assevera que a educação deve ter em conta, como seu ponto de partida, o diagnóstico histórico de que o progresso do esclarecimento reverteu-se no seu contrário, na barbárie que irrompeu no seio da cultura na metade do século XX e que tem no acontecimento Auschwitz seu signo histórico. É a partir deste diagnóstico que o autor tenta fundamentar que o principal fim da educação no presente consiste em evitar a repetição deste acontecimento. O argumento-chave de Adorno, segundo nossa interpretação, é que, tendo em vista esta finalidade negativa, a educação deve realizar uma inflexão em direção ao sujeito que vise esclarecer para os próprios sujeitos as condições objetivas e subjetivas que permitiram a regressão à barbárie que culminou em Auschwitz. Desta maneira, a educação é pensada como um processo de esclarecimento subjetivo, através de uma intervenção pública no presente reificado, enquanto uma forma de fortalecimento da capacidade de resistência do indivíduo frente à pressão de uma totalidade social que o impele a uma adaptação ao existente.This dissertation traverses on the concept of education in Theodor W. Adorno\'s piece, having as its main analysis base two essay from the author on the theme, The meaning of working through the past and Education after Auschwitz. Our main argument is that Adorno conceives the contemporary education as a privileged moment of Aufklärung as means to politically intervene in the individual and society relation; or rather in the shape that this relation is found historically and socially configured under the late capitalism. So that such an intervention is possible, Adorno assures that education must be taken into account, as its starting point, the historical diagnosis that the progress of Enlightenment has been reversed on its contrary, on the barbarism that erupted in the heart of culture during the middle of the 20th Century, and has in the Auschwitz event its historical sign. Based on this diagnosis the author tries to argument that the main objective of the present education consists in avoiding the repetition of this event. Adorno\'s key argument, according to our interpretation, is that having this negative objective in mind, education must make an inflexion towards the subject that focuses on clarifying to the very subjects the objective and subjective conditions that allowed the regression to the barbarity that took place in Auschwitz. That being so, education is thought as a subjective enlightenment process, through public intervention in the reified present, whereas a strengthened form of the individual\'s resistance capacity against the pressure of a social totality that impels to adapting to the existent.
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Laurén, Catarina, Grace Hung, and James Johansson. "Autenticitet : En studie som behandlar Auschwitz-Birkenau-museets och Livrustkammarens presentationer av autenticitet." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-19747.
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Denna uppsats behandlar en jämförelse hur Auschwitz-Birkenau-museet samt Livrustkammaren arbetar med sina respektive artefakter rörande bevarandeperspektivet. Detta innebär att författarna kommer fokusera på hur respektive museum arbetar för att bevara autenticiteten i de artefakter som finns. Författarna valde att besöka Oswiecim, mer känt under namnet Auschwitz, som är en stad beläget i södra Polen. Ett besök till Livrustkammaren i Stockholm, Sverige, genomfördes även. Motiveringen för valet av Auschwitz-Birkenau museet samt Livrustkammaren är grundat i att de båda huserar utställningsartefakter vars unika egenskaper inte är påträffbar någon annanstans i världen.This thesis discusses the difference in choice of perspecitve of preservation between Auschwitz-Birkenau museum and The Royal Armoury. This results in that the authors therefore will focus on how each of the museums operate with the preservation of the authenticity within their exhibits. The authors chose to visit Oswiecim, more known as Auschwitz, a town in the southern parts of Poland and a visit to The Royal Armoury, in Stockholm, Sweden, took place as well.The reason for choosing Auschwitz-Birkenau museum as well as The Royal Armoury is based in that they’re both both housing unique exhibits, that are non-present in other parts of the world and also because the preservation of these exhibits needs for a more cautious approach.
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Sruk, Marija [Verfasser]. "Lachen nach Auschwitz? Herausforderungen der Filmkomödie zum Holocaust / Marija Sruk." Gießen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1130119912/34.
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Sayarer, Elvan. "Mémoire et écriture dans «Auschwitz et après» de Charlotte Delbo." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=94999.
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Research on women's testimonial accounts of the camps, which developed in the 1980s and 1990s in the UK and North America, following Joan Ringelheim's pioneer work, has yet to expand into France. The present MA thesis focuses on Charlotte Delbo's memoirs, entitled Auschwitz and After. Résistante and communist, Delbo (1913-1985) was sent to Auschwitz in January 1943 as a French political prisoner. She was freed by the Red Cross on 23rd April 1945 along with forty-eight other survivors from her convoy. Immediately upon her return, she began to write her memoirs, bearing the responsibility for carrying the word. Her testimony, which is composed from a distinctly feminine perspective, goes far beyond relating her own experience of the Lager and its aftermath. Indeed, Delbo re-counts and re-presents both the individual and collective experiences of women in the camp. Above all, the author wanted to make people see and feel, providing her readers with insight into trauma. Her trilogy, both poetic and strikingly beautiful, constitutes a reconstruction (or a re-creation) of memory and its fragments, and transcends boundaries of literary conventions, espousing a hybrid, a-chronological and fragmented form. In my MA thesis, I first address the ethical obligation binding survivors to remember and pass on their experiences. I then move on to analyse Delbo's portrayal of the camps and her treatment of language when faced with the unspeakable, thus highlighting the literary strategies used to counteract its limits and to convey her experience and trauma. Finally, I examine the subjective markers of a feminine perspective inscribed in her writing.Intitulés Auschwitz et après, les mémoires de Charlotte Delbo (1913-1985), s'inscrivent dans une lignée d'écrits au féminin. Marqués par une sensibilité et des préoccupations féminines, ses écrits concentrationnaires, longtemps négligés par la critique de langue française, témoignent du souhait de l'auteure de « donner à voir » l'expérience à la fois personnelle et collective des détenues du camp. Concevant la prise de parole et la perpétuation du souvenir comme une véritable responsabilité, Delbo s'évertue à re-présenter l'univers du Lager, autrement dit, à rendre présentes la réalité du camp et la déshumanisation des détenu(e)s. Par l'entremise d'une écriture de la réminiscence poétique et intime, Delbo tente de réconcilier son passé de déportée avec sa vie d'après les camps et de reconstruire son identité à travers le temps et un passé qui « ne passe pas ». C'est ici que se rencontre dans son oeuvre une interrogation sur la nécessité d'un « devoir de mémoire », les limites du langage et les marques d'une présence féminine. La présente étude des écrits mémoriels de Delbo est constituée de trois volets. Dans un premier temps, nous abordons les enjeux relatifs à la mémoire et les conditions d'émergence de la figure sociale du témoin au sein de la société contemporaine française. Dans un deuxième temps, nous nous consacrons à l'étude des modalités de l'écriture delbotienne, tout particulièrement à la prégnance de l'indicible et du trauma. Enfin, nous examinons les traces d'une subjectivité féminine dans son écriture.
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Ben-Naftali, Michal. "The crying game : Lyotard, Derrida, Levinas and thought 'after Auschwitz'." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339796.
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Aloszko, Stefan Ludwik. "Auschwitz : art, commemoration and memorialisation : from 1940 to the present." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1194.
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This thesis explores chronologically the art, commemoration and memorialisation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz, from their establishment in 1940 to the present day. Following a review of the literature in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 examines the production of works of art by the inmates of the camp. That art should have been produced at all in Auschwitz may conflict with our expectations, given the conditions of life within the camp. Nevertheless, art was as necessary in Auschwitz as it is elsewhere. The present account of the making of art under such difficult circumstances attempts to make a significant addition to the established narratives of Auschwitz. The post-war development of Auschwitz as a site-specific museum, established to commemorate the victims of the camp almost as soon as the site was liberated in 1945, permits analysis of techniques utilized by the museum authorities to display artefacts in order to narrate the story of Auschwitz. This is the subject of Chapter 3. For a period, the site was used by successive Polish political administrations to construct and bind Polish national identity to Russian political demands. The act of memorialisation has been shaped by political requirements almost throughout Auschwitz’s post-war history. The determinant of recognition for memorial purposes was national identity. The use of overtly religious iconography, whether Christian or Jewish, was severely limited. Communist governments defined all victims as political, and specifically as victims of the struggle against Nazism. These political considerations affected the inconclusive 1957 memorial competition. This competition, and its political contexts, is described in Chapters 4 and 5. In 1968 the Polish government began an anti-Semitic campaign that provoked international condemnation. Chapter 6 surveys these events, and describes one significant outcome, the establishment at the site of what was known locally as the Jewish pavilion. Finally, in Chapter 7, I draw together the three overriding concepts of art, commemoration and memorialisation – the predominant themes of this discussion – in order to show how the conception of Auschwitz has moved beyond the physical boundaries of the historical site. The question of what the site itself means, or should mean, remains a matter of continuing debate. The narrative of memorialisation at Auschwitz becomes increasingly marked by single events such as the establishment of the Jewish Pavilion, each embodying the turn towards the recognition that what should be remembered lies beyond nationality, and is separate from the contingent politics of the post-war settlement. Behind this, however, lies a further and more important narrative: that at every point in its history Auschwitz was intrinsically and inescapably a Jewish experience. This subsumes the particularities of the slow realization that this is what the site should celebrate. This thesis is committed to embodying this overarching narrative, and aspects of it can be found throughout, in every chapter.
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Stern, Frank. "Im Anfang war Auschwitz : Antisemitismus und Philosemitismus im deutschen Nachkrieg /." Gerlingen : Bleicher, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35707742t.
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Bernard, Paul. "Corps indéfinis : la représentation des corps dans l'art d'après Auschwitz." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0188.
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Cette thèse intitulée Corps indéfinis. La représentation des corps dans l'art d'après Auschwitz vise à démontrer que l'événement en question a profondément rompu les formes de représentation du corps humain dans les arts plastiques, et plus particulièrement dans la peinture. Une telle rupture engage aussi bien les modes de représentation dits traditionnels, et dont on soutient ici qu'ils relèvent d'une esthétique du discernement, que les modes hérités de la modernité artistique en rendant précisément ces corps indéfinis, c'est-à-dire indiscernables. Dans une perspective à la fois historique et théorique, il s'agit donc de proposer un examen approfondi d'un certain nombre d'œuvres, aussi bien d'avant Auschwitz que d'après, en faisant droit pour ce qui touche à ces dernières aux multiples formes que suggère cette temporalité du « d'après », selon une dialectique qu'on définit comme celle de la traduction : à la fois transmission et trahison de l'événement. Il s'agit donc aussi bien de reconsidérer un corpus d'œuvres déjà constitué (celui de l'art contemporain) que de définir les outils d'analyse à même de définir les contours conceptuels et herméneutiques dudit corpus. Examen et analyse visant en toute fin de compte à repenser aussi bien les modes de représentation du corps humain que la façon dont un certain habitus s'est développé à ce sujet d'après AuschwitzThis doctoral dissertation, untitled Undefmed Bodies : The Representation of Bodies in Art after Auschwitz, aims to demonstrate that this event deeply ruptured the forms of representation of the human body in the plastic arts ; especially in painting. Such a rupture engages the so-called traditional modes of representation (for which we argue that they belong to an aesthetics of discernment), as well as those inherited from the artistic modernity, by making this bodies undefined, i. E. Undiscernible. In a perspective both historical and theoretical, this dissertation proposes a deep examination of several artworks, from before and after Auschwitz, trying to question for the latter the multiple forms of the temporality determined by the term "after", following then a dialectic close to the notion of translation : transmission as well as treason of the event. Therefore, the main purpose of the dissertation is to reconsider an artworks' corpus (already existing since it derives from contemporary art) and to define analysis devices able to define the conceptual and hermeneutic outlines of such a corpus. Both examination and analysis aim at rethinking the modes of representation of the human body as well as a kind of habitus which has been developed around them in the aftermath of Auschwitz
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Scarpa, Domenico. "La Realità inimmaginabile : Primo Levi e Georges Perec à Auschwitz." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030161.
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Chan, Sin-wai. "Religious release of birds in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38345821.
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Azpiroz, Adrián B. "Grassland birds in natural and cultivated grasslands in the northern campos of Uruguay diversity patterns, responses to vegetation structure, and nest survival /." Diss., St. Louis, Mo. : University of Missouri--St. Louis, 2008. http://etd.umsl.edu/r2981.
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Gram, Wendy K. "The social structure of an avian community during the nonbreeding season /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9717162.
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Almeida, Davi da Costa. "PARADIGMAS DO ESTADO MODERNO: ÃTICA E BIOPOLÃTICA EM GIORGIO AGAMBEN." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2013. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=8973.
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nÃo hÃO objetivo deste trabalho à apresentar o fracasso da concepÃÃo dos paradigmas tradicionais do estado moderno, bem como, apresentar uma alternativa de comunidade polÃtica baseada no âser qualquerâ. Para alcanÃar tais objetivos, à preciso exemplificar e descrever os conceitos sobre estado de exceÃÃo, totalitarismo, biopolÃtica e vida nua. à preciso caracterizar e determinar como Auschwitz nasceu, como foi possÃvel conceber tal espaÃo de vida e de morte. à preciso entender e percorrer os caminhos que levaram a Alemanha, um dos berÃos culturais mais esplÃndidos da humanidade, a conceber e colocar em prÃtica o extermÃnio de milhÃes de pessoas consideradas impuras e socialmente indesejadas. Os campos de concentraÃÃo sÃo a mÃxima do totalitarismo que representam um limite, um extremo com um objetivo: a âdominaÃÃo total do homemâ. Os relatos histÃricos, polÃticos, econÃmicos e sociais estarÃo presentes neste trabalho, pois nÃo à possÃvel perscrutar os porÃes dos campos de concentraÃÃo sem levar em consideraÃÃo as inÃmeras pesquisas documentais sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial e sobre o Holocausto judaico. Percebe-se que o legado que Auschwitz deixou à uma exigÃncia profundamente nova para o pensamento filosÃfico e, em particular, para a Ãtica e a polÃtica. Com base nesses objetivos, procura-se identificar as principais ideias conceituais que Giorgio Agamben apresenta nos seus livros. Esta pesquisa à uma anÃlise sobre a politizaÃÃo da vida nua. A âvida nuaâ à uma produÃÃo especÃfica do poder e nÃo um dado natural. à o poder que produz o indivÃduo, que o identifica com suas singularidades e peculiaridades. à o poder, suas tÃcnicas e seus dispositivos, que produz a âvida nuaâ, que manipula os corpos, que permite a captura no bando soberano. A metodologia aplicada neste trabalho perpassa o arcabouÃo metodolÃgico desenvolvido por Agamben. O autor trabalha com a concepÃÃo de paradigma, remetendo-o ao seu sentido original no grego, o termo em grego quer dizer simplesmente âexemploâ. Auschwitz, estado de exceÃÃo, âhomo sacerâ, âMuselmannâ, etc., sÃo exemplos para compreendermos os acontecimentos modernos e contemporÃneos que envolvem a polÃtica e a Ãtica. As conclusÃes deste trabalho abrem as portas para pesquisas futuras porque envolvem os conceitos de profanaÃÃo e inoperosidade. à pensar como desativar os dispositivos de poder que produzem e capturam a vida nua, tornÃ-los inoperosos. à pensar como profanÃ-los para criar um novo uso para eles.
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Furness, Lindsay Jayne. "Energetics, oxidative damage and ageing in birds." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=25473.
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Jackson, Brandon Edward. "The allometry of bird flight performance." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-03102010-100229.
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Nicodemus, Amanda. "Social analysis of resident chickadees within hybrid-zone flocks and relationships with irruption visitors." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1820136221&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Axelsson, Erik. "Comparative Genomics in Birds." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7432.
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Jetz, W. "Biodiversity of African birds." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393561.
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Dye, Larry. "The birds of Faulkner /." Available to subscribers only, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1559850841&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Davis, Paul G. "The taphonomy of birds." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/66bf971f-5ef0-44ec-83e5-92c7887f7471.
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Palaeo-ornithology has been dominated by taxonomy. To try and redress the balance and help palaeoecologists interpret fossil birds in a biological and ecological perspective, the taphonomy of birds needs to be fully understood. The taphonomy of birds is concerned with all processes from death to the collection of the fossil bird. Between these two points (the transfer of the organism from the biosphere to the lithosphere) a variety of forces and processes affect the bird/fossil. By means of experiments in the natural environment and in controlled conditions in the laboratory, and subsequent comparisons of the results with case studies of fossil assemblages, the processes leading to preservation can be deduced and the former living community restored on the basis of the fossil evidence. The research involved two main approaches: 1. experimental taphonomy / observational taphonomy; and 2. case histories of fossil communities and their interpretation. Experimental work was carried out in the natural environment. Two field sites were chosen in southern Florida, a freshwater environment and a marine environment. The monitoring and controlling of these experiments required knowledge and techniques in zoology, botany, ecology, sedimentology, limnology, marine biology, microbiology, pathology and forensic science. Results obtained included the effects of scavenging, anoxia, transport, rate of burial, and temperature on rates of decay, the causes of bird mortality, the processes resulting in disarticulation, and the effects of decay upon feathers. Once the experimentaVobservational data had been collected they allowed a series of taphonomic thresholds (a decay sequence) to be defined. These data were then applied to case studies of fossil bird assemblages from different sedimentological environments. The following LagersHitten were investigated: Messel (Eocene, Germany) = restricted lacustrine; Green River (Eocene, USA) = lacustrine; Solnhofen Lithographic Limestone (Jurassic, Germany) = restricted marine; La Meseta Formation (Eocene, Antarctica) = marine; Rancho La Brea (Pleistocene, USA) = terrestrial "trap". The biases in each environment were assessed (e.g. birds in an aquatic ten-estrial environment had a higher preservation potential than birds from a tenestrial environment). The fossil record of birds is not as depauperate as previously thought but is heavily biased, depending on the proximity of the bird's habitat to that of the preserving sedimentary environment. Marine and littoral birds are poorly represented even though they inhabit sedimentary environments with a high preservation potential. This reflects low densities of birds per unit area. Aquatic birds (and terrestrial birds that inhabit the ecotone surrounding freshwater together with some larger fOlIDS from further away) are much better represented. This is because they inhabit the only terrestrial environments with a high preservation potential, coupled with the high densities of individuals per unit area. The bias towards large terrestrial birds is due to their large bones being more resistant to transport induced damage. These results have implications for the understanding of the evolution of birds. Patterns of evolution in birds can not be fully resolved on fossil evidence alone; biases in the taphonomy of birds only permit a small proportion of species from certain environments to be preserved. The taphonomy of feathers was investigated and it was discovered that the "organic trace" that commonly represents the outline of the feather trace is the diagenetically altered glycocalyx of the bacteria that were degrading the feather. In several localities these feather-degrading bactelia are preserved in authigenic minerals. The taphonomy of bats and pterosaurs was also investigated. The similarity of anatomical structures of birds, bats and pterosaurs results in similar taphonomic pathways.
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Loftie-Eaton, Megan. "Woody cover and birds." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29375.
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Major influences on biodiversity in general and on species distributions in particular have occurred on South African landscapes over time as a result of human activities and climate change. Landscapes in southern Africa are not only a product of changes in climate, but they are also a product of the changes brought about by people and their land management practices. In recent decades, bush encroachment has increased dramatically throughout the Savanna Biome of South Africa. Bush encroachment is a vegetation dynamic of global interest. It refers to the thickening or increase of woody vegetation (trees and shrubs) at the expense of grasses and/or herbaceous vegetation. In many areas across South Africa, systems that were once open grassland have become dense thickets dominated by trees and shrubs. Bush encroachment is driven by global factors like increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere as well as local factors like grazing pressures and fire management practices. In Africa, it has long been recognized that there is an influence of vegetation patterns and structure on the distribution and abundance of birds. Changes in habitats due to an increase or decrease in woody cover has been linked to changes in bird diversity and community structure. This thesis looks at what impacts bush encroachment has had on bird distributions in eastern South Africa, with a special focus on the Kruger National Park as well as Palearctic migrants. Chapter 2 of the thesis develops a new quantitative method to relate bird distributions to woody cover. The algorithm is experimental, and an important aspect of the chapter is to investigate whether the results obtained coincide with expectations. The approach first estimates the proportion of the bird species in an area which occur in each woody cover category in a region. It also calculates the proportion of the area of the region which is in each woody cover category. It then uses Jacobs Index to provide an estimate of the extent of preference/avoidance of each species for each woody cover category, on a scale that runs from +1 (the entire population of the species is in that woody cover category) to –1 (none of the population of the species is in that woody cover category). The method is tested on a region consisting of three one-degree grid cells spanning Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng which include a diversity of woody cover categories, from grassland (no woody cover) to savanna to dense woodland. Chapter 3 applies this approach to the birds of the Kruger National Park, examining which species have distributions which can, and which cannot, be explained to a greater or lesser extent by a preference for a particular range of woody covers. Bird species are selected for close monitoring for ecological management purposes of the Kruger National Park. Chapter 4 considers a set of 10 bird species, all of which are migrants to South Africa from Eurasia, and occur to a large extent during their non-breeding period within the savanna biome of South Africa. For each species, the extent of increase in relative abundance between the first and second bird atlas projects in the region (SABAP1 and SABAP2) is estimated. In most cases, the change of relative abundance can be explained in terms of bush encroachment. The likely provenance of these species in Eurasia is considered; for most species, this area lies in southwestern Asia, i.e. the Ukraine and adjacent Russia. Changes in habitat in this region are also considered and help to improve the understanding of how the populations in South Africa have changed.
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Turrini, Martina. "Proposta di traduzione dall'italiano al tedesco di una selezione di testi tratti dall'opera di Matteo Marani "Dallo scudetto ad Auschwitz": "Von der italienischen Fussballmeisterschaft nach Auschwitz"." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/8811/.
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La seguente tesi si prefigge lo scopo di far conoscere a un pubblico di lingua tedesca l'avvincente storia di Arpad Weisz, l'allenatore ebreo-ungherese del Bologna durante il periodo nazi-fascista. La parte centrale e' composta dalla traduzione dall'italiano al tedesco di una selezione di testi tratti dall'opera di Matteo Marani "Dallo scudetto ad Auschwitz" e oltre alla traduzione, la tesi si compone inoltre di un introduzione, di una parte teorica in cui vengono esplicate brevemente le caratteristiche del processo traduttivo insieme alle varie tipologie testuali e infine vi e' il commento alla traduzione, il quale espone le strategie utilizzate per risolvere i problemi traduttivi incontrati durante il lavoro.
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Köster, Juliane. "Archive der Zukunft der Beitrag des Literaturunterrichts zur Auseinandersetzung mit Auschwitz /." Augsburg : Wissner, 2001. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/50591175.html.
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