191 research outputs found
Analisis Gender (Feminisme) Dalam Novel Sunyi Di Dada Sumirah Karya Artie Ahmad
No full textABSTRACT Arni Septya Roza, 2020. Thesis. Gender Analysis (Feminism) in Novel Sunyi di Dada Sumirah by Artie Ahmad. Feminism is equality between men and women in the political, economic and social fields or organized activities that fight for women's rights and interests. The reason the writer chose the title "Gender Analysis (Feminism) in the Novel Sunyi di Dada Sumirah by Artie Ahmad" is because this novel tells the story of a woman named Sumirah who is sold by her lover so that she becomes a vocation. Sumirah became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter who was named Sunyi. Silent grew up trying to find a way to get his mother out of the job. The problems described in this study are (1) What is the behavior of the female characters in Artie Ahmad's novel Sunyi di Dada Sumirah? (2) What is the gender injustice that occurs in female characters in the novel Sunyi di Dada Sumirah by Artie Ahmad? The theory that the author uses to analyze this research is the theory of Sugihastuti and Suharto (2002), Fakih (13). The author uses a descriptive method to conduct this research. While the technique used in this research is harmeneutic, namely the technique of reading, taking notes, and concluding. From the analysis it can be concluded that (a) the behavior of the female character named Sumirah is nimble, responsive, emotional (b) while the Sunyi female character has self-sacrificing and emotional behavior and (c) the female character Suntini has self-sacrificing and nimble behavior. Overall, in Artie Ahmad's novel Sunyi di Dada Sumirah, there are gender injustices among female characters, namely: workload, stereotypes, marginalization, subordination, and violence injustice. An example of the unfair workload of Sumirah's character, Sumirah, was forced to work for 25 years to Bonet so that the baby she was carrying was still alive. An example of the stereotypical injustice of a Sunyi female character is that just because Mrs. Sunyi is a woman called, does not mean that Sunyi can be degraded by inviting her to have sex. An example of the injustice of violence against the Suntini character is Suntini being hit and slapped by a man who has much stronger physical strength than himself
Natureza: a perspectiva de Nietzsche
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em FilosofiaPartindo da revisão crítica empreendida por Nietzsche na obra A Gaia Ciência as concepções clássicas da natureza através da recusa das pressuposições morais e metafísicas em que estão fundadas tais interpretações, o presente texto trata do projeto de naturalização do homem e desdivinização da natureza proposto pelo autor ao final de sua crítica e dos métodos empregados nesta tarefa: a perspectiva fisiológica, depurada de sua teleologia moral ou lógica como instrumento para naturalizar o próprio conhecer e o método genealógico, para determinar a origem e criação dos valores que, pressupostos, servem de fundamento as diferentes interpretações através das quais submetemos o real a um artifício para nos conservar e crescer em força, uma vez que uma perspectiva é necessidade para seres como nós, mas não uma necessidade moral, racional ou metafísica, mas biológica e físico-química. A nova concepção ontológica da natureza proposta pelo autor é concebida com as noções de jogo de forças, devir e caos. Starting from the critic revision made by Nietzsche in the book The Gaia Science, the classics conceptions of nature through the refuse of morals and metaphysics presuming in what the interpretations are funded, the present text is about the men 's naturalization project and the desdivination of the nature propose by the author at the end of his critic and the methods used in this task: the physiological perspective, without the teleology, moral or logic one, like instrument to naturalize the knowledge and the genealogical method, to find the origin of the values that, if presuming, can serve like the foundation to the different interpretations in through we can submit the real into an artifice to conserve us and grow in strength, because a perspective is necessary to beans like us, but not a moral, rational or metaphysics necessity, but a biologic and physic- chemistry one. The new ontological conception of nature purposed by the author is concept with the notions of power games, become and chaos
Buying Beauty: On Prices and Returns in the Art Market
No full textThis paper investigates the evolution of prices and returns in the art market since the middle of the previous century. We first compile a comprehensive list of more than 10,000 artists and then build a dataset that contains information on more than 1.1 million auction sales of paintings, prints, and works on paper. We perform an extensive hedonic regression analysis that includes unique price-determining variables capturing amongst others: the artist’s reputation, the strength of the attribution to an artist, and the subject matter of the work. Based on the resulting price index, we conclude that art has appreciated in value by a moderate 4.03% per year, in real USD terms, between 1951 and 2007. During the art market boom period 2002-2007, prices augmented by 11.60% annually, which explains the increased attention to ‘art as an investment’. Furthermore, our results show that, over the last quarter of a century, prices of oil paintings and of post-war art have risen faster than the overall market. In contrast to earlier studies, we find evidence of a positive masterpiece effect: high-quality art makes a better investment. Our results are robust to alternative model specifications, and do not seem influenced by sample selection or survivorship biases. When comparing the long-term returns on art to those on financial assets, we find that art has underperformed stocks but outperformed bonds. However, between 1982 and 2007, bonds yielded higher average returns (at a lower risk) than art. Buyers of art should thus expect to reap non-pecuniary benefits rather than high financial returns, especially because the modest art returns are further diminished by substantial transaction costs.Art investments;Art market;Art returns;Auction prices;Hedonic regressions;Longterm stock returns;Long-term bond returns;Masterpiece effect
A person-centred AAC intervention to support interpersonal interaction in persons with dementia : an exploratory study
No full textThesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2020.Background: The current mandate in dementia research is to develop interventions that are evidence-based and person-centred. However, person-centred augmentative and alternative communication interventions in dementia are limited. Method: A multimethod research design was conducted in three Phases. Phase one reviewed current research evidence to inform the development of a person-centred intervention. Phase two developed a person-centred augmentative and alternative communication intervention package with four components, (a) elements of person-centred care; (b) an electronic conversational support; (c) augmentative and alternative communication outcomes; and (d) an outcome measure. Phase three tested the feasibility of these four components by considering them in two ways (phase 3A and phase 3B). In 3A, Q-methodology was employed to obtain professionals’ viewpoints. In 3B, a case study was used to test the feasibility of the researcher’s implementation of an electronic conversational support with a participant with dementia and the scoring reliability of an outcome measure developed in this study. Results: Q-methodology results revealed professional views on (i) person-centred authorship, (ii) person-centred language style using supportive strategies (iii) adapted participatory methods with persons with dementia in their interventions. Case study results indicated that an electronic conversational support could be reliably implemented. Inter-rater reliability was not at an acceptable level for the multimodal domain of an outcome measure developed in this study. Conclusion: This study highlights the importance of using person-centred scaffolding strategies and exploring the potential of adapted participatory methods to develop and implement evidence-based, person-centred interventions in persons with dementia.Sponsor 1: National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS), in collaboration with the South African Humanities Deans Association (SAHUDA). Opinions expressed in this report and conclusions arrived at are those of the author and are not necessarily to be attributed to the NIHSS and SAHUDA.
Sponsor 2: Andrew W. Mellon FoundationCentre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC)PhDUnrestricte
The Persistence of Minimalism
No full textThe following work develops a new and general theory of minimalism – one addressing both its transhistorical and interdisciplinary dimensions, and capable of accounting for existing minimalism of every epoch and in every medium, while suitably open to embrace minimalist work yet to be created. To offer such a theory it is necessary not only to revisit the histories of minimalist practice and criticism, but also to consider its radical philosophical ground and implications. Hence its principal thesis – that minimalism exemplifies the persistence and facticity of the Real – grapples at once with the ontological heart of minimalist theory, and its practical instantiation through canonical as well as rarely considered examples. Divided into three parts, the first part addresses minimalism as the manifestation of particular aesthetic properties in relation to critical and theoretical trends. Since it becomes apparent that no single descriptive or theoretical account adequately frames minimalism, the discussion turns to the possibility of discovering a philosophical ground equally radical to the minimalist objects it addresses. The Real – an indifferent field of forces from which contingent entities are subtracted from within an irreversible temporal passage – offers precisely this radical continuum. Minimalism, by exposing the continuity between radical poiesis and an essentially quantitative understanding of Being, clarifies the indifferent persistence of the Real in every existential situation. Penetrating to the heart of this proposition, parts two and three respectively address minimalism in terms of its quantitative logic of Being – every exemplary subtraction from which is instantiated a type of existential calculation – and its exemplary aesthetic manifestation in terms of an existential transumption – a constructive poietic displacement by which minimalism renders itself maximally intelligible in terms of its objecthood and persistence. The work concludes with a typology which reorients and confirms the substance of the preceding argumentation
A peça-paisagem de Gertrude Stein: traduzindo Four Saints in Three Acts
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2015.Esta pesquisa foi realizada pensando na tradução da peça-paisagem, peça-ópera, Four Saints in Three Acts, escrita em 1927, pela autora norte-americana Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). A peça foi elaborada musicalmente por Virgil Garnett Thomson (1896 ? 1989), crítico e compositor americano que, após estabelecer uma amizade com Stein, pediu se ela poderia escrever um libreto, uma ópera, para que ele fizesse o arranjo musical. Four Saints, publicada na obra Last Operas and Plays (1949), inicia na página 440 e termina na página 480. Nesta pesquisa serão apresentadas duas traduções para o português brasileiro das primeiras seis páginas da peça ? páginas 440 a 445 ? escrita em língua inglesa. Uma das traduções teve o foco mais literal, buscando manter o significado das palavras; e a outra, considerando as peculiaridades do texto steiniano, teve o foco mais autoral, fazendo uma dosagem entre forma e conteúdo, privilegiando ambos. A peça foi apresentada pela primeira vez em 1934 no Wadsworth Atheneum museum, em Hartford, Connecticut, nos Estados Unidos. Duas semanas depois foi para a Broadway; também foi comentada em diversas colunas de jornais e em rádios, levando à fama uma nova forma de teatro.Abstract : This research was conducted considering the translation of the play-landscape, play-opera, Four Saints in Three Acts, written in 1927 by American author Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). The play was set to music by Virgil Garnett Thomson (1896 - 1989), American composer and critic who, after establishing a friendship with Stein, asked if she could write a libretto, an opera, for him to do the musical arrangement. Four Saints, published in the work Last Operas and Plays (1949), starts on page 440 and ends on page 480. In this research it will be presented two translations to Brazilian Portuguese of the first six pages of the play - pages 440 to 445. One of the translations had a more literal focus to keep the meaning of words; and the other, considering the steinian text peculiarities, had a more authorial focus, making a mix between form and content, focusing both. The play was first performed in 1934 at the Wadsworth Atheneum museum in Hartford, Connecticut, in the United States. Two weeks later it went to Broadway; it was also commented on several columns of newspapers and radio stations, leading to fame a new form of theater
Optimization of traffic flow at freeway sags by controlling the acceleration of vehicles equipped with in-car systems
No full textSags are bottlenecks in freeway networks. According to previous research, the main cause is that most drivers do not accelerate enough at sags. Consequently, they keep longer headways than expected given their speed, which leads to congestion in high demand conditions. Nowadays, there is growing interest in the development of traffic control measures for sags based on the use of in-car systems. This paper aims to determine the optimal acceleration behavior of vehicles equipped with in-car systems at sags and the related effects on traffic flow, thereby laying the theoretical foundation for developing effective traffic management applications. We formulate an optimal control problem in which a centralized controller regulates the acceleration of some vehicles of a traffic stream moving along a single-lane freeway stretch with a sag. The control objective is to minimize total travel time. The problem is solved for scenarios with different numbers of controlled vehicles and positions in the stream, assuming low penetration rates. The results indicate that the optimal behavior involves performing a deceleration-acceleration-deceleration-acceleration (DADA) maneuver in the sag area. This maneuver induces the first vehicles located behind the controlled vehicle to accelerate fast along the vertical curve. As a result, traffic speed and flow at the end of the sag (bottleneck) increase for a time. The maneuver also triggers a stop-and-go wave that temporarily limits the inflow into the sag, slowing down the formation of congestion at the bottleneck. Moreover, in some cases controlled vehicles perform one or more deceleration-acceleration maneuvers upstream of the sag. This additional strategy is used to manage congestion so that inflow is regulated more effectively. Although we cannot guarantee global optimality, our findings reveal a potentially highly effective and innovative way to reduce congestion at sags, which could possibly be implemented using cooperative adaptive cruise control systems.Transport and PlanningTransport and Plannin
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