1,387 research outputs found
Sixty Years of Community: St. Olaf Catholic Parish in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1952-2012
No full textThis paper will explore how the parish community of St. Olaf in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, established in 1952, reflects the Roman Catholic Church, specifically at the local, state, and national levels in the United States. It will also discuss the various changes that have occurred in the past 60 years of its history in terms of the various locations of worship for the members, the growth of the community outreach programs, and the effects of the Second Vatican Council. This ecumenical council was a meeting of Catholic bishops from around the whole that brought reform to the Catholic Church and affected the relationship of the Catholic Church to the world. The parish at St. Olaf has grown from having only 125 families in 1952 to over 1,000 families in 2012
Olaf Otto Becker in conversation with Julia Peck
No full textSince the late 1990s, Olaf Otto Becker (b. 1959- ) has been photographing landscape scenery in Iceland and Greenland with the intention to document how these landscapes are changing. Becker’s photography captures the changes wrought by anthropogenically driven climate change, most notably by capturing the retreat of glaciers. Becker’s practice, which foregrounds an aesthetic response to place, also photographs agricultural and urban landscapes, situating nature as part of our global economy. Images of living spaces contextualise human dwellings and living patterns for many people across the globe. This narrative is further elaborated upon in Becker’s later projects, and discussed in the interview, which explores primary forests, deforestation, and the planting of urban spaces, but also situating his output within the context of global economies. This first in-depth interview with Becker discusses the evolution of his practice, his commitment to climate and environmental issues, and how this relates to the way the developed world treats nature as a resource in both the global north and the global south. The interview also investigates Becker’s process of making images and engages with both the documentary and constructed strands of his photographs. New insights, such as the images’ relationship to time (both in terms of photography, and the deep time of geology) and the uncanny nature of some of the re-photographed sites emerges, offering new insights into Becker’s practice
Northern Rover: The Life Story of Olaf Hanson
No full textFrom 1919 to 1970, Olaf Hanson was a trapper, fur trader, prospector, game guardian, fisherman, and road blasting expert in northeastern Saskatchewan. He told his life story to popular Saskatchewan author A. L. Karras, who wrote this historical memoir in the 1980s. In an uncompromising, straightforward style, Karras and Hanson reveal the geography, wildlife, natural history of the region as well as the business and social interactions between people. Their book offers a look at the vanished subsistence and commercial economy of the boreal forest, wound around a fascinating personal story of courage and physical stamina
Northern Rover: The Life Story of Olaf Hanson
No full textFrom 1919 to 1970, Olaf Hanson was a trapper, fur trader, prospector, game guardian, fisherman, and road blasting expert in northeastern Saskatchewan. He told his life story to popular Saskatchewan author A. L. Karras, who wrote this historical memoir in the 1980s. In an uncompromising, straightforward style, Karras and Hanson reveal the geography, wildlife, natural history of the region as well as the business and social interactions between people. Their book offers a look at the vanished subsistence and commercial economy of the boreal forest, wound around a fascinating personal story of courage and physical stamina
Portrait of author Olaf Ruhen, Bathurst, New South Wales, 1975 [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription.; Inscription: 'Author Olaf Ruen [i.e. Ruhen], Bathurst, NSW, 1975"--Lower left.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3697108; Purchased from the photographer, 2006
Uma análise do humor irônico em duas traduções brasileiras de Jakob Der Lügner de Jurek Becker
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos da TraduçãoO objetivo desta dissertação é analisar a tradução do humor irônico em duas versões brasileiras do primeiro romance do escritor de origem judaico-alemã, Jurek Becker (1982). A teoria que embasa a nossa análise é a metodologia desenvolvida por Katharina Reiß na Alemanha (1971), mediante a qual a autora visava a uma crítica de tradução mais objetiva, que contemplasse a especificidade do texto traduzido. A presente pesquisa analisa a qualidade dos equivalentes propostos por dois tradutores no translado do humor irônico em torno do elemento de enredo, um fabuloso rádio, com o qual o personagem central da narrativa Jakob der Lügner espalha sinais de esperança em um gueto judeu. Para avaliar a qualidade dos equivalentes propostos, a pesquisa emprega a categoria lingüística e a categoria pragmática da crítica de tradução da abordagem de Reiß e seu conceito central, a equivalência. The aim of the present thesis is to analyse the translation of ironic humour in two Brazilian translations of the first novel of the German Jewish writer Jurek Becker (1982). The theoretical background for our analysis is the methodology developed by Katharina Reiß in Germany (1971), which aims at objective translation criticism that takes into account the specificity of a tranlated text. The present research analyses the quality of the equivalents proposed by two translators with respect to the ironic humour surrounding an element of the narrative, a fabulous radio, through which the main character of Jakob der Lügner (Jacob, the Liar) brings a flash of hope in a Jewish ghetto. To assess the quality of the equivalents proposed, the research employs the linguistic and the pragmatic categories of Reiß translation criticism and its central concept, the equivalence
Ein steiniger Weg : Studienabbruch und Studienerfolg im Kontext von Herausforderungen des (Studien-)Alltags
No full textStudienabbruch und Studienerfolg gelten gemeinhin als wesentliche Indikatoren für die Effizienz einer akademischen Ausbildung. Für eine hochschulische Institution ist dabei vor allem von Belang, ob sie über die Gestaltung ihrer Curricula und Studienbedingungen Studienabbruchentscheidungen, aber auch Studienerfolge beeinflussen kann.
Das Erkenntnisinteresse dieser Studie gilt zum einen der Frage, weshalb Studierende ihr Bachelor-Studium in Sozialer Arbeit vorzeitig beenden und wie die Entscheidungsprozesse, die zum Abbruch führen, verlaufen. Im Fokus steht insbesondere die Rekonstruktion der Motive, die einem Abbruch zugrunde liegen. Zum andern gilt die Untersuchung der Frage, welche Faktoren die Entscheidung begünstigen, ein Studium trotz vielen Belastungen – sei es im privaten, beruflichen oder studienbezogenen Bereich – weiterzuführen. In der Analyse werden die soziologischen Modelle des Studienabbruchs um sozialpsychologische und psychologische Aspekte angereichert. Diese Erweiterung des Blicks sichert einerseits eine angemessene Erklärungskraft für die untersuchten Fälle und erlaubt es anderseits, Empfehlungen für die hochschulische Praxis abzuleiten.
Die der Studie zugrunde liegenden Daten wurden anhand themenzentrierter Interviews gewonnen. Im Zeitraum von Oktober 2012 bis September 2014 wurden insgesamt zwanzig Personen interviewt: zehn Personen, die ihr Studium abgebrochen hatten, und zehn, die ihr Studium trotz vielen erlebten Schwierigkeiten fortsetzten. Um eine möglichst breite Variation von Erfahrungen einzubeziehen, wurden Studierende unterschiedlichen Alters und Geschlechts, aus verschiedenen Kohorten, Studienmodi und Studienorten befragt. Die Auswertung des Datenmaterials orientierte sich am Verfahren der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse.
Aufgrund der Datenanalyse ist festzuhalten, dass die Bewältigung des Studiums für alle Studierenden eine grosse Herausforderung darstellt. Insbesondere zu Beginn sind die meisten überfordert. Die Anpassung an neue Umstände fordert während dieser Transitionsphase eine interne Restrukturierung und kann verschiedene Krisensituationen auslösen. Während der Studienzeit sind Studierende mit persönlichen, beruflichen oder studienbezogenen Belastungen konfrontiert, die sie auf verschiedene Weise zu verkraften versuchen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Studienabbrüche hauptsächlich auf persönliche Gründe oder unzutreffende Vorstellungen vom Studium oder von der Theorie-Praxis-Relationierung zurückzuführen sind. Dabei gehen jeder Studienabbruchentscheidung intensive Überlegungen voran. Aus individueller Perspektive bedeutet ein Studienabbruch eher eine Verschiebung der Prioritäten respektive eine Neuorientierung. Negative Reaktionen des sozialen Umfeldes oder das Gefühl einer Niederlage kommen in den Interviews selten zum Ausdruck. Für den Studienerfolg ist hingegen entscheidend, ob und wie Studierende die richtigen Bewältigungsstrategien entwickeln und umsetzen. Ebenso wichtig ist das Vertrauen, das sie dem hochschulischen System entgegenbringen. In schwierigen Momenten spielt die Unterstützung der Mitstudierenden, aber auch des sozialen oder persönlichen Umfelds eine wichtige Rolle. Schliesslich tragen auch das Entgegenkommen der hochschulischen Organisation, deren Dialogbereitschaft und eine zuvorkommende, dienstleistungsorientierte Kultur massgeblich zum Studienerfolg bei.
Die Studie ist sowohl für die Hochschulleitende, Studiengangleitende, Modulverantwortliche, Mitarbeitende hochschulischer Beratungsstellen und Praxisausbildungsverantwortlichen als auch für Studierende von Interesse
Taxonomic revision of Neotropical Phyllocnistis Zeller, 1848 (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with descriptions of seven new species and host plant associations
No full textBrito, Rosângela, Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, Gonçalves, Gislene L., Becker, Vitor O., Mielke, Olaf H.H., Moreira, Gilson R. P. (2017): Taxonomic revision of Neotropical Phyllocnistis Zeller, 1848 (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with descriptions of seven new species and host plant associations. Zootaxa 4341 (3): 301-352, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4341.3.
Synthesis, crystal structures and reactivity towards dioxygen of copper(I) complexes with tripodal aliphatic amine ligands
No full textAnalysing the performance of the OLAF framework in the context of identifying music in movies
No full textThis paper presents the findings of a benchmark performed on the audio fingerprinting framework OLAF in the context of movie music. The goal is to find a music identification framework suitable for automatically identifying a song from a movie clip. This research aims to find how well OLAF performs in this context with regard to the criteria determined in the benchmark and to see if the performance can be increased. The OLAF framework makes use of parameters, which are individually tweaked and benchmarked with synthesised data. These findings are then combined to find a set of parameters that is used to perform this same benchmark on real clips from movies. The found parameter setup slightly increased the performance, going from 1 true positive and 133 false negatives in the original setup to 5 true positives, 3 false positives and 126 false negatives.CSE3000 Research ProjectComputer Science and Engineerin
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