651 research outputs found
From Albania to Brazil: Ismail Kadaré's Broken april and its filmic adaptation, Walter Salles' Abril despedaçado
Get PDFDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2007The aim of the present study is to analyse how issues of Albanian national identity are portrayed in Ismail Kadaré's novel Broken April (Prilli i Thyer), and how such features have been appropriated and translated onto the screen into a Northeastern Brazilian context. I depart from the premise that, even though Brazilian elements are indeed shown in the film, the non existence of the Kanun in Brazil, and the use of narrative techniques different from the ones employed in the novel render the story of the blood feuds in the film more universal than the genuinely Albanian reality depicted in the novel. In sum, the appropriation transcends the Albanian reality into a universal context, showing, at the same time, elements which are typical of the Brazilian culture.O objetivo do presente estudo é analisar como questões sobre a identidade nacional Albanesa são retratadas no romance Abril Despedaçado (Prilli i Thyer), de Ismail Kadaré, e como tais questões foram apropriadas e traduzidas para a tela num contexto Nordestino-Brasileiro. O estudo parte do princípio que, embora elementos tipicamente Brasileiros sejam mostrados no filme, a não existência do Kanun no Brasil, e o uso de técnicas narrativas diferentes das empregadas no romance ajudam a deixar a história das brigas de família no filme com um aspecto mais universal do que a realidade genuinamente Albanesa representada na romance. Em suma, a apropriação transcende a realidade Albanesa para um contexto mais universal, sem deixar de mostrar também elementos típicos da cultura Brasileira
“You cannot escape where you are from”: In Conversation with Rob Doyle
No full textRob Doyle attended the 16th International Conference of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI), held at the University of La Rioja. The following interview took place there on May 26, 2017 and was later expanded through e-mail. Posing a number of questions with a series of illuminating and often provocative responses, it seeks to delve into Doyle’s own ideas on Ireland and Irish literature, together with his attitude about life and creative writing, in order to shed some light on what this author looks for and what he wants to prove with his works, an important new voice in Irish writing that is determined to take the tradition in new and significant directions
The syntomic regulator for the -theory of fields
No full textWe define complexes analogous to Goncharov's complexes for the K-theory of discrete valuation rings of characteristic zero. Under suitable assumptions in K-theory, there is a map from the cohomology of those complexes to the K-theory of the ring under consideration. In case the ring is a localization of the ring of integers in a number field, there are no assumptions necessary. We compute the composition of our map to the K-theory with the syntomic regulator. The result can be described in terms of a p-adic polylogarithm. Finally, we apply our theory in order to compute the regulator to syntomic cohomology on Beilinson's cyclotomic elements. The result is again given by the p-adic polylogarithm. This last result is related to one by Somekawa and generalizes work by Gros
Hyperbolic tessellations and generators of K <sub>3</sub> for imaginary quadratic fields
Get PDFWe develop methods for constructing explicit generators, modulo torsion, of the K3 -groups of imaginary quadratic number fields. These methods are based on either tessellations of hyperbolic 3 -space or on direct calculations in suitable pre-Bloch groups and lead to the very first proven examples of explicit generators, modulo torsion, of any infinite K3 -group of a number field. As part of this approach, we make several improvements to the theory of Bloch groups for K3 of any field, predict the precise power of 2 that should occur in the Lichtenbaum conjecture at −1 and prove that this prediction is valid for all abelian number fields
Tactile Feedback for Artery Detection in Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery –Preliminary Results of a New Approach
No full textMinimally invasive robotic surgery (MIRS) entails
total absence of haptic feedback due to the spatial separation
of patient and surgeon. In conventional surgery, however,
palpation to detect superficial arteries by a slight pulsation is
an important, commonly applied, and security-relevant procedure.
Therefore, an ultrasound based unidirectional sensor for
MIRS was developed feeding back kinesthetic impulses to the
surgeon-sided haptic input device
Étale cohomology, cofinite generation, and -adic -functions
Get PDFLet p be a prime number. We study certain étale cohomology groups with coefficients associated to a p-adic Artin representation of the Galois group of a number field k. These coefficients are equipped with a modified Tate twist involving a p-adic index. The groups are cofinitely generated, and we determine the additive Euler characteristic. If k is totally real and the representation is even, we study the relation between the behaviour or the value of the p-adic L-function at the point e in its domain, and the cohomology groups with p-adic twist 1-e. In certain cases this gives short proofs of a conjecture by Coates and Lichtenbaum, and the equivariant Tamagawa number conjecture for classical L-functions. For p=2 our results involving p-adic L-functions depend on a conjecture in Iwasawa theory
On K1 of Curves over Global Fields : Bloch’s Conjecture and Wild Kernels
No full textPour X une courbe sur un corps global k, lisse, projective et géométriquement connexe, nous déterminons la Q-structure du groupe de Quillen K1(X) : nous démontrons que dimQ K1(X) ? Q =2r, où r désigne le nombre de places archimédiennes de k (y compris le cas r = 0 pour un corps de fonctions). Cela con?rme une conjecture de Bloch annoncée dans les années 1980. Dans le langage de la K-théorie de Milnor, que nous dé?nissons pour les variétés algébriques via les groupes de Somekawa, le premier K-groupe spécial de Milnor SKM1 (X) est de torsion. Pour la preuve, nous développons une théorie des hauteurs applicable aux K-groupes de Milnor, et nous généralisons l’approche de base de facteurs de Bass-Tate. Une structure plus ?ne de SKM 1 (X) émerge en localisant le corps de base k, et une description explicite de la décomposition correspondante est donnée. En particulier, nous identi?ons un sous-groupe WKl(X):= ker (SKM 1 (X) ? Zl ? Lv SKM 1 (Xv) ? Zl) pour chaque entier rationnel l, nommé noyau sauvage, dont nous croyons qu’il est ?ni.For a smooth projective geometrically connected curve X over a global ?eld k, we determine the Q-structure of its ?rst Quillen K-group K1(X) by showing that dimQ K1(X) ? Q =2r, where r denotes the number of archimedean places of k (including the case r = 0 for k a function ?eld). This con?rms a conjecture of Bloch. In the language of Milnor K-theory, which we de?ne for varieties via Somekawa groups, the ?rst special Milnor K-group SKM 1 (X) is torsion. For the proof, we develop a theory of heights applicable to Milnor K-groups, and generalize the factor basis approach of Bass-Tate. A ?ner structure of SKM 1 (X) emerges when localizing the ground ?eld k, and we give an explicit description of the resulting decomposition. In particular, we identify a potentially ?nite subgroup WKl(X):= ker (SKM 1 (X) ? Zl ? Lv SKM 1 (Xv) ? Zl) for each rational prime l, named wild kernel
Developing a circularity self-assessment tool: a case study for the Dutch plastics industry
No full textThe European Commission published the “EU action plan for the Circular Economy” in 2015, the Dutch government strives for a circular Netherlands before the year 2050 (Rijksoverheid, 2016) and Rotterdam aims for circularity as the norm in 2030 (Rotterdam Circulair, 2018). To reach these goals, set by governmental organisations, change is required in all levels of society: individuals, municipalities, companies and other types of organisations. This master thesis focuses on the role of companies in the transition towards a circular economy. Companies often have limited insights in their circular performance. A current state analysis is needed to set realistic targets and keep track of the progress. Currently, there is a lack of workable tools that facilitate this analysis. For such a tool to contribute to the acceleration of the progress towards a circular economy, it is considered of great importance that it is easy in use and stimulates the user to action. This research developed a self-assessment rubric to create insights in the circular performance of an individual company. A case study was conducted for the Dutch plastics industry. The result was tested in cooperation with three companies and the results proved to generate relevant insights
Effect and Improvement Areas for Port State Control Inspections to Decrease the Probability of Casualty
Get PDFThis report is the fourth part of a PhD project called "The Econometrics of Maritime Safety – Recommendations to Enhance Safety at Sea" and is based on 183,000 port state control inspections and 11,700 casualties from various data sources. Its overall objective is to provide recommendations to improve safety at sea. The fourth part looks into measuring the effect of inspections on the probability of casualty on either seriousness or casualty first event to show the differences across the regimes. It further gives a link of casualties that were found during inspections with either the seriousness of casualties and casualty first events which reveals three areas of improvement possibilities to potentially decrease the probability of a casualty – the ISM code, machinery and equipment and ship and cargo operations.maritime safety;correspondence analysis;binary logistic regression;probability of casualty;improvement;Port State Control Effectiveness;casualty first events;detention;port state control deficiences;target factor
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