bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Implicit Discrimination of Basic Facial Expressions of Positive/Negative Emotion in Fragile X Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Authors: Crawford Hayley , Moss Joanna , Anderson Giles M. , Oliver Chris , McCleery Joseph P.
Published: July 2015

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by impaired social functioning. We examined the spontaneous discrimination of happy and disgusted facial expressions, from neutral faces, in individuals with FXS (n  =  13, Mage  =  19.70) and ASD (n  =  15, Mage  =  11.00) matched on adaptive behavior and verbal abilities measured by the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale. Eye gaze to the eyes and mouth of neutral faces was also measured. Results suggest individuals with FXS and ASD distinguish facial expressions spontaneously in the same way. Individuals with FXS looked significantly less at the eye region of neutral faces than individuals with ASD. These results provide insight into similarities and differences in face processing in two neurodevelopmental disorders noted for their similarities in social behavior.
A study about the interest level of preschool teacher candidates in environmental problems according to certain variables
Okul öncesi öğretmen adaylarının çevre sorunlarına olan ilgi düzeylerinin bazı değişkenlere göre incelenmesi
Authors: Alabay Erhan , Doğan Ömer Faruk
Published: July 2015

The aim of this study is to identify the interest level of the preschool teacher candidates in the environment and to see if this interest is changing considering some variables. The sampling for this study constitutes of 108 preschool teacher candidates, who are studying in Selçuk University Ahmet Keleşoğlu Faculty of Education-Primary Instruction-Preschool Education. Quantitative research techniques were preferred and the study is based on Scanning Model in order to introduce current situation. The scale for the interest of teacher candidates in environment was used which was developed by Alım (2007). As a result of the study it came out that the level of interest of teacher candidates in environment differs meaningfully according to the independent variables: gender and participation in the activity about environment or nature. On the other hand, there aren’t any meaningful differences according to: the class they are studying in, type of high school, location where they spent their childhood and structure of this location, taking a course during his/her education about environment or nature.

 

Özet

Bu çalışmanın amacı, okul öncesi öğretmen adaylarının çevreye olan ilgi düzeylerinin saptanması ve öğretmen adaylarının bazı değişkenlerine göre çevreye olan ilgilerinin farklılaşıp farklılaşmadığının belirlenmesidir. Çalışmanın örneklemini, Selçuk Üniversitesi Ahmet Keleşoğlu Eğitim Fakültesi İlköğretim Bölümü Okul Öncesi Eğitimi Anabilim Dalında öğrenimlerini sürdürmekte olan 108 okul öncesi öğretmen adayı oluşturmaktadır. Çalışmamızda nicel araştırma yöntemi tercih edilmiş olup, mevcut durumu ortaya çıkarmak amacıyla tarama modeli temel alınmıştır. Okul öncesi öğretmen adaylarının çevreye olan ilgi düzeylerinin belirlenmesi için Alım (2007) tarafından geliştirilen Öğretmen Adaylarının Çevre Sorunlarına İlgileri Ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda öğretmen adaylarının çevreye olan ilgi düzeylerinin, cinsiyet ve çevre veya doğa ile ilgili etkinliğe katılma durumu değişkenleri ile anlamlı düzeyde farklılaştığı, öğretmen adaylarının sınıf, lise türü, çocukluğunu geçirdiği yerleşim yeri ve yapı türü ve öğrenim süreci boyunca çevre veya doğa ile ilgili ders alma durumuna göre de anlamlı farklılaşmanın olmadığı sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.
A study on the organization and management systems of Turkish shipping companies
Authors: Demirel Ergün
Published: July 2015

The Turkish maritime posture is changing rapidly. Turkish shipowners now have over 30.3 millions DWT fleet and modern and big size ships replacing old vessels. The quantity and quality of the ports and terminals are significantly increasing. The shipping companies are reorganizing to adapt themselves for new operational and economic requirements. Better organizations and management systems are required to support this modernized fleet and improving shore facilities.

The shipping companies are the leading element of the shipping sector. They play a crucial role in understanding existing and future requirements for national maritime industry and they develop plans, programmes and policies to survive in today’s challenging world.

The shipping sector introduces a volatile character and it is not transparent. Therefore, it is not so easy to gather information on all the aspects of the shipping companies such as financial status, future plans and strategies. On the other hand, it is relatively easier to collect information on organization and management systems of the companies, which provide significant information on their capabilities and modus operandi.

In this study it is intended to make a SWOT analysis of these companies based on their organization and management systems, using the expertise and different views of the professionals.  In light of the results of the analysis, some findings which may lead to future studies are also discussed.
Personal Cyber Security Provision Scale development study
Kişisel Siber Güvenliği Sağlama Ölçeği geliştirme çalışması
Authors: Erol Osman , Şahin Yusuf Levent , Yılmaz Eray , Haseski Halil İbrahim
Published: July 2015

The aim of this study is to develop a scale to determine internet users behavior related to cyber security. In this context created an item pool in accordance with expert opinion. This item pool was administered to 810 people for exploratory factor analysis. In exploratory factor analysis; principal component analysis method which is commonly used and Varimax vertical rotation method to determine the factor structure was used. Scale was administered to 292 people and structural equation modeling approach was applied to confirmation study.As a result of factor analysis,“Personal Cyber Security Provision Scale" which consists of 5 factors and 25 items and has a good compatibility was occurred.

 

Özet

Bu araştırmanın amacı internet kullanıcılarının siber güvenlik ile ilgili davranışlarını belirlemeye yönelik bir ölçek geliştirmektir. Bu bağlamda öncelikle uzman görüşü doğrultusunda 26 maddelik bir madde havuzu oluşturulmuştur. Bu madde havuzu yapı geçerliliğinin test edilmesi için Facebook sosyal paylaşımda bir uygulamayı kullanan 810 kişiye uygulanarak açımlayıcı faktör analizi yapılmıştır. Açımlayıcı faktör analizinde en sık kullanılan yöntem olan temel bileşenler analizi yöntemi kullanılmış, ölçekteki faktör yapısını belirlemek için ise Varimax - dikey döndürme yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Ölçeğin doğrulama çalışması için ise aynı sosyal ağ uygulamasını kullanan ve daha önce ölçeğin uygulandığı kişilerin elendiği292 kişinin verisi kullanılarak yapısal eşitlik modeli yaklaşımı uygulanmıştır. Açımlayıcı faktör analizi sonucunda 5 faktörlü ve 25 maddeden oluşan; doğrulayıcı faktör analizi sonucunda ise elde edilen uyum indekslerine göre iyi bir uyuma sahip "Kişisel Siber Güvenliği Sağlama Ölçeği" ortaya çıkmıştır.
Gonadal Mosaicism Induced by Chemical Treatment of Sperm inDrosophila melanogaster
Authors: Lindsley Dan L , Hardy Robert W , Ripoll Pedro , Lindsley Dart
Published: July 2015

Accurate interpretation of forward genetic screens of chromosomes exposed in mature spermatozoa to a mutagenic chemical requires understanding—incomplete to date—of how exposed chromosomes and their replicas proceed through early development stages from the fertilized ovum to establishment of the germline of the treated male’s offspring. We describe a model for early embryonic development and establishment of the germline of Drosophila melanogaster and a model-validating experiment. Our model proposes that, barring repair, DNA strands modified by treatment with alkylating agents are stable and mutagenic. Each replication of an alkylated strand can result in misreplication and a mutant-bearing daughter nucleus. Daughter nuclei thenceforth replicate faithfully and their descendants comprise the embryonic syncytium. Of the 256 nuclei present after the eighth division, several migrate into the polar plasm at the posterior end of the embryo to found the germline. Based upon distribution of descendants of the alkylated strands, the misreplication rate, and the number of nuclei selected as germline progenitors, the frequency of gonadal mosaicism is predictable. Experimentally, we tracked chromosomes 2 and 3 from EMS-treated sperm through a number of generations, to characterize autosomal recessive lethal mutations and infer gonadal genetic content of the sons of treated males. Over 50% of 106 sons bore germlines that were singly, doubly, or triply mosaic for chromosome 2 or chromosome 3. These findings were consistent with our model, assuming a rate of misreplication between 0.65 and 0.80 at each replication of an alkylated strand. Crossing treated males to mismatch-repair-deficient females had no apparent effect on mutation rate.
Escape Depth of Gold Ions in Tissue Sections
Authors: Niidome Yasuro , Fujii Masanori , Nakashima Naotoshi , Niidome Takuro
Published: July 2015

Desorption of gold ions from liver tissue sections, in which intravenously injected gold nanorods were accumulated, were studied to evaluate properties of gold nanorods as a "mass-tag". Gold ions were sensitively detected by using a conventional MALDI-MS machine. When 50-µm-thick blank sections without gold nanorods were placed on or beneath a sample section, desorption of gold ions was almost suppressed. It was found that the escape depth of gold ions from liver tissue sections was less than 50 µm. It was found that we do not have to take account of the escape depth of gold ions if a section were sliced into 10-20 µm thickness.
Effect of Nitrogen implantation on the optical characteristics of Zn0.85Mg0.15O thin film at low temperature
Authors: Saha S. , Nagar S. , Chakrabarti S.
Published: July 2015

The importance of ZnxMg1-xO is increasing day by day because of its wider bandgap than ZnO. This ternary semiconductor finds its application in the fields of optoelectronics, spintronics, superlattices due to its unique blueshifted UV-luminescent property. n- to p-type conduction which is the motive of the project can be achieved with increasing Mg content in ZnMgO. The optical characteristics of the nitrogen doped ZnxMg1-xO (x=0.85) grown on 2 inch Si <100>wafer by RF sputtering are studied and analyzed thoroughly using low temperature (15K) photoluminescence measurements. Nitrogen implantation was carried out by Plasma immersion Ion Implantation technique on the sample. Rapid Thermal Process was employed to remove defects resulting from implantation. The samples were annealed at 700°C, 800°C, 900°C, and 1000o C for 10 seconds in an oxygen ambient. Photoluminescence (PL) measurements were performed at low temperature (15K) which exhibited acceptor-bound-exciton peak (A°X) and donor-bound-acceptor pair (DAP) at 3.336 eV and 3.236 eV respectively. At 3.364 eV, S peak was found for the sample annealed at 800°C after implantation. This peak was attributed to the existence of ZnO-like composition. Localized and de-localized exciton peaks were found around 3.42 and 3.45 eV respectively. This result is very important because though dominant acceptor peak was not found but proper optimization of the parameters can lead to p-type ZnMgO which is the main motive of this project.
Influence of growth conditions on the physical properties of Mn doped ZnO thin films grown by reactive magnetron sputtering
Authors: Camacho-Berrios Adrian , Pantojas Victor , Otaño Wilfredo
Published: July 2015

ZnO thin films were deposited using the DC pulsed magnetron sputtering technique to study how composition and structure influences their magnetic properties. Low sputtering powers and high substrate temperatures were used to increase adatom mobility during deposition, resulting in increased crystallite size and reduced residual stress in the films. Another set of ZnO films were Mn-doped using a second magnetron gun and the amount of doping was changed by controlling the RF sputtering power. For these films, the crystallite size increased with the amount of Mn. The magnetic properties of these materials were counterintuitive; not intentionally doped ZnO showed the highest magnetization and magnetization decreased with increasing Mn concentration.
The Use of ICT in Singapore’s Primary Chinese Lessons
Authors: Ronghua Yang
Published: July 2015

This paper examines how information and communication technology (ICT) is utilized for the purpose of teaching Chinese language in Singapore’s primary school. From the analysis of 17 Chinese lessons, conclusions regarding the role of ICT in Singapore’s Chinese language teaching emerge, showing how various types of ICT tools and materials are manipulated for different purposes of teaching, how ICT is combined with pedagogies widely used in Chinese language teaching, how ICT is incorporated into classroom interaction, and how ICT works together with textbook in Chinese classroom. This paper also attempts to explain the findings of data analysis in terms of teachers’ attitude to ICT use, the problems of policy initiatives and the limitation of technology itself.
WATERFRONT TRANSFORMATIONS AND CITY/PORT INTERFACE AREAS IN HAMBURG
Authors: Schubert Dirk
Published: July 2015

Hamburg has had a major transformation at the urban level within the metropolitan region including the increase of people born and immigrants, and to ensure an adequate supply in the market for the growing number of households of one and two peoples and the demand for series of ages between 15 and 30 years that means young people, one must know how to manage public and private budgets. The most important idea is the new concept of urban development in Hamburg which is harnessing the potential of a growing metropolis and so since 2004 where start this forecast, plus the Territorial Vision Hamburg is based on key growth industries city to strengthen its role as an engine of economic dynamics. In Hamburg this development is carried out with a port where there starts all the transformation of assets in the city center. The future space requirements, technical infrastructure and new container terminals and the protection of the environment are a great and costly challenge for the entire city. And specifically beginning of the expansion the "String of Pearls" started in Elbe and Altona. They spent wars and events that the city faced to reach what it is today without neglecting its urban development for the entire benefit of the population.
LAS CONTRIBUCIONES DEL INTRAEMPRENDIMIENTO A LA ESTRATEGIA DE MANUFACTURA
Authors: Rubio Guerrero Germán
Published: July 2015

El intraemprendimiento es un constructo que se ha venido abriendo paso en las organizaciones. De hecho es una concepción que bien orientada trae muchos beneficios no solo a las empresas sino en particular a sus colaboradores. Muchas de las contribuciones que a través del intraemprendimiento pueden hacer los empleados son acerca de diseños de  procesos, herramientas y  métodos de trabajo. Es allí donde se encuentra la fusión entre  intraemprendimiento y estrategia de operaciones. Dentro de este contexto es importante señalar los puntos de encuentro entre estas teorías y determinar la importancia que esta metodología tiene  para las diferentes organizaciones. Este artículo pretende realizar esa aproximación a través de una revisión teórica de ambos campos de conocimiento. Al final del contraste se encontró que el intraemprendimiento, no solo presenta una fuerte relación con las estrategias de manufactura, sino que sus contribuciones son destacables en el mejoramiento de la posición competitiva de las empresas.
ANÁLISIS DEL ESTRÉS DE LA FUERZA DE VENTAS EN UN PERÍODO DE CRISIS ECONÓMICA
Authors: Luna Cortés Gonzalo
Published: July 2015

Este trabajo analiza los efectos de las variables subyacentes de una situación crisis económica sobre el estrés del personal de ventas; específicamente se examina el caso de España. Para ello, se realizaron 150 encuestas a vendedores en la ciudad de Valencia, y se examinó el estrés y su relación con variables derivadas de la crisis. La relación entre los constructos se analizó a través de un Análisis Factorial Confirmatorio y Ecuaciones Estructurales. Los resultados indican que la percepción de un entorno poco estable y que ofrece pocas posibilidades laborales ejerce una influencia sobre el estrés de la fuerza de ventas. Por otro lado, muchos de los vendedores contratados por las empresas en la actualidad española han sido formados en otras áreas y sienten una baja identificación con el puesto de trabajo, lo que también provoca un aumento de estrés. Con base en los resultados, la investigación concluye con una serie de directrices para mejorar la gestión en relación con la temática de análisis.
Measuring horizontal stresses during jacked pile installation
Authors: Burali d'Arezzo Francesca , Haigh Stuart , Talesnick Mark , Ishihara Yukihiro
Published: July 2015

Jacking is an installation technique for displacement piles which is commonly used onshore in urban environments owing to its low noise and vibration. During pile jacking, stress changes occur in the soil which are substantial close to the pile, but also extend a significant radial distance. These stresses are difficult to measure accurately owing to arching around stress sensors. In the field, stress measurements are commonly made by means of an adjacent pile whose stiffness changes the stress field within the soil. Accurate measurements of stresses due to the installation of a single pile under laboratory conditions are needed in order to quantify this error. In this paper, null gauges that do not suffer from membrane deflection are used to measure horizontal stress changes during the jacked installation of a cylindrical pile in dry sand. Stresses are measured by means of both an adjacent pre-installed square pile and in-soil sensors. The paper also presents a comparison between the centrifuge results and the radial stress distribution estimated using conventional methods, such as Boussinesq's elastic analysis and elasto-plastic spherical cavity expansion.
Modelling Dependence in High Dimensions with Factor Copulas
Authors: Oh Dong Hwan , Patton Andrew J.
Published: July 2015

This paper presents flexible new models for the dependence structure, or copula, of economic variables based on a latent factor structure. The proposed models are particularly attractive for relatively high dimensional applications, involving fifty or more variables, and can be combined with semiparametric marginal distributions to obtain flexible multivariate distributions. Factor copulas generally lack a closed-form density, but we obtain analytical results for the implied tail dependence using extreme value theory, and we verify that simulation-based estimation using rank statistics is reliable even in high dimensions. We consider "scree" plots to aid the choice of the number of factors in the model. The model is applied to daily returns on all 100 constituents of the S&P 100 index, and we find significant evidence of tail dependence, heterogeneous dependence, and asymmetric dependence, with dependence being stronger in crashes than in booms. We also show that factor copula models provide superior estimates of some measures of systemic risk.
Salivary Lysozyme in Relation to Dental Caries among Thai Preschoolers
Authors: Lertsirivorakul J , Petsongkram B , Chaiyarit P , Klaynongsruang S , Pitiphat W
Published: July 2015

Aim: The objective of this study was to analyze salivary lysozyme levels and activities in Thai preschoolers with different dental caries status. Study design: Unstimulated saliva samples were collected from 64 preschoolers, divided into a caries free group (n = 32) and a severe early childhood caries (S-ECC) group (n = 32). Results: Both groups were similar regarding gender, age, dental caries status, salivary flow rate, and salivary protein concentrations. No differences were also in the caregivers′ characteristics, oral health behaviors, and feeding habits. Only professional fluoride application was less frequently found in the S-ECC group (p < 0.03). Western blotting and lysoplate assays revealed that salivary lysozyme levels and activities were significantly increased in the S-ECC group compared with the caries free group (p< 0.001; p = 0.008, respectively). Conclusion: The up-regulated expression of salivary lysozyme and the increased lysozyme activity in S-ECC preschoolers suggests a possible connection between salivary lysozyme and oral immunity in response to early childhood dental caries.
Levels of Salivary Immunoglobulin A (SIgA) in HIV Infected Children
Authors: Subramaniam P , Kumar K , Girish Babu KL
Published: July 2015

Secretory IgA is the main type of immunoglobulin in saliva and is considered to be the main secretion factor of adaptive immunity in the mouth. Objective: To assess the effect of Anti Retroviral Therapy on SIgA levels in saliva of HIV infected children. Study Design: A cross-sectional sample of 50 HIV infected children aged 6–8 years were divided into 2 groups ; Group 1: children prior to onset of anti-retroviral therapy and Group 2: children undergoing anti-retroviral therapy. Stimulated whole saliva samples were collected from each child following I hour of breakfast. The samples were placed on ice packs and immediately transferred to a laboratory, processed and total SIgA quantification was estimated using ELISA. Data obtained was statistically analyzed. Results: Among HIV infected children, significantly low SIgA levels of 6.2 mg/dl was seen in children prior to ART. Conclusion: Salivary IgA levels were significantly low in HIV infected children, particularly in children prior to ART.
On sharpening pencils......
Authors: Dawson Chester Sheppard
Published: July 2015

In preparing to sharpen a pencil remember first: Only dull pencils need your solicitous concern. The less dull manage in most cases to surmount such crises as arise.
Games......
Authors: Dawson Chester Sheppard
Published: July 2015

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Sobre a origem da nomenclatura alemã na mineralogia brasileira
Authors: Kux Hedwig
Published: July 2015

A língua dos mineiros é uma das mais interessantes entre as línguas técnicas em geral. O criador mais competente da nomenclatura da mineralogia é o homem do povo. Johann Friedrich Henke, Bergrat na Saxonia, dizia no seu livro: "Kieshistorie" em 1725,"der vornehrnste Erfinder der Bergsprache ist der gemeine Mann." O mineiro que mal sabia ler e escrever não usava os nomes gregos, latinos ou árabes. O citado Bergrat Henkel dava mais valor aos nomes simples e curtos, pois é fácil distinguir "Glanz", "Blende" e "Spath". O caráter internacional que a nomenclatura mineralógica vem adquirindo recentemente faz com que nomes de minerais expliquem melhor as suas qualidades do que as suas fórmulas químicas. O comércio e a indústria preferem os nomes originais. É evidente que, por exemplo, o nome Quartzo é mais claro e compreensivo que sua fórmula. Naturalistas muitas vezes foram criadores geniais de nomes. Os problemas de nomenclatura não são tão simples no campo da mineralogia como na zoologia ou botânica. São os nomes alemães que foram assimilados por todas as línguas germânicas e européias.
The teaching of English as a foreign language to children: aspects of teacher-training
Authors: Oliveira Solange Ribeiro de
Published: July 2015

One learns to walk by walking. One learns to swim by swimming. One learns to drive by driving. It seems obvious that one should learn to teach by plunging straight in - to a guided practice of teaching, or, at least, of watching others teach in real classroom situations.
A interferência do português colonial como uma das fontes de erros no aprendizado de relative clauses e que contenham prepositional object
Authors: Gohn Carlos Alberto
Published: July 2015

Partimos do principio que em Análise de Erros não se trabalham os erros unicamente do ponto de vista da interferência da língua materna: “Interferência Interlingual” (SELINKER, pp. 31-55) seria um termo mais abrangente. A interferência entre a língua materna e a língua-alvo estaria ai presente, mas jogaria lado a lado, sem condição de superioridade, com outros tipos de interferência tal como aquela existente entre a língua materna e outras línguas estrangeiras conhecidas pelo aluno, e ainda com a interferência dessas línguas estrangeiras entre si. Contudo, podemos enfatizar a interferência da língua materna também ê considerada e para explicá-la devemos utilizar princípios da Análise Contrastiva. Como outras fontes de erros poderíamos ainda enumerar: a Interferência Intralingual, isto é, a generalização indevida de regras que existam na língua estrangeira e que tenham sido aprendidas anteriormente sendo, agora, generalizadas através de uma transferência negativa. Também os fatores sociolinguísticos, os fatores fisiopsicológicos, a idade (o adulto seria mais suscetível à interferência da língua materna), a modalidade de exposição à língua e, finalmente, o tipo de método de ensino empregado.
Albee and the absurd drama
Authors: Aguiar Cleusa Vieira de
Published: July 2015

This paper attempts to use The Zoo Story as a way of evaluating Edward Albee's degree of commitment to the Theatre of the Absurd. This aim might not appear very novel as Martin Esslin has already included Albee in his list of well known absurdists. However, regardless of how famous Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd it has never curtailed the critical Babel surrounding absurdist drama, for the term 'absurdism', despite Esslin, has been used in many different ways. C.W. Bigsby, for instance, by developing a predominantly thematic approach to the subject, and to Albee in particular, has charged Esslin with a lack of rigour for having included The Zoo Story amongst the absurdist plays. His disagreement with Esslin stems from his view of Absurd Drama as a revelation of nihilistic viewpoints. Thus, he maintains that in The Zoo Story, Albee, unlike the absurdists, is formulating an affirmation of man's ability to face reality.
A literatura afro-americana sob a ótica da tradução
Authors: Avelar Idelber Vasconcelos
Published: July 2015

The article makes use of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of minor literature - i.e. that which is produced by a minority within a major language - to shed light on the displacements imposed by Afro-American writers upon the symbolic tradition they inherit through the English language. By means of an analysis of a short story by Katherine Porter and a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar, emphasis is placed on the recurrent process of demetaphorization one finds in African-American texts. Such Processes are shown to entail a theory of translation that highlights difference and contests the authority of the original. O artigo utiliza, a partir de Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari, o conceito de literatura menor – literatura produzida por uma minoria no interior de uma língua majoritária - para analisar os deslocamentos operados pelos escritores negros americanos na tradição simbólica herdada por eles através da língua inglesa. Por meio de uma leitura de um conto de Katherine Porter e um poema de Paul Laurence Dunbar, enfatiza-se os recorrentes processos de desmetaforização encontrados nos textos afro-americanos. Num momento seguinte, mostra-se que tais processos implicam uma teoria da tradução que privilegia a diferença e contesta a autoridade do original.
O olho, o narrador e o monstro
Authors: Comitti Leopoldo
Published: July 2015

A reading of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, under the perspective of the Fantastic and taking as a starting point psychoanalylic theories. Leitura do romance Frankenstein, de Mary Shelley, sob a perspectiva do Fantástico e a partir de um instrumental teórico da Psicanálise.
The use of clichés in advertising discourse
Authors: Oliveira e Paiva Vera Lúcia Menezes de
Published: July 2015

This paper aims at studying the cliché in advertising discourse, having as starting point the idea that language is made up of a set of clichés which work as vehicles of ideology, thus affecting human behavior. The signs found in clichés, either verbal or non-verbal, will be analysed as an intertextual phenomenon and their renew as an attempt to counterattack a dominant ideology and prevent the predictability of the paradigmatic/syntagmatic axis. Este trabalho se propõe, a partir da idéia inicial de que a língua é um grande conjunto de clichês, veículos de ideologia e portanto norteadores de comportamento, a analisar os clichês no discurso publicitário, presentes em forma de signos verbais e não-verbais, como um fenômeno intertextual, e sua renovação como uma tentativa de contra-atacar uma ideologia dominante e impedir a previsibilidade do eixo paradigmático/sintagmático.
Byron's Don Juan: source and imitation
Authors: Redmond William Valentine
Published: July 2015

Byron's Don Juan tells of the adventures and conquests of the hero. But, although there are some elements in common with the original play on the subject of Don Juan, El Burlador de Sevilla by Tirso de Molina, there is no direct imitation of the original in Byron O Don Juan de Byron conta as aventuras e conquistas do herói. Mas, apesar de ter alguns elementos em comum com a peça original sobre Don Juan, El Burlador de Sevilla de Tirso de Molina, não parece ser uma imitação direta desta peça.
Poems: A Calendar, I Had Halted, Thee
Authors: Alves Júnia De Castro Magalhães
Published: July 2015

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Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence
Authors: Burns Thomas Laborie
Published: July 2015

The word of the age of Innocence is New York upper-class leisured society. There is a “younger set” that, surprisingly enough to us moderns, yields to its older relatives in matters of how to think and behave. The families that make up the characters in the time they lived, ‘the early seventies’, i.e. the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the 1870’s, and also because of the social environment in which they moved and found the meanings of their lives.
Tragedy and value: Miller's Death of a Salesman
Authors: Gazolla Ana Lúcia Almeida
Published: July 2015

In the many years since the performance and publication of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, one central question has haunted literary critics and students and keeps recurring in any discussion of the play: is it or is it not a tragedy? The question of the tragic and genre definition in relation to Death of a Salesman followed the publication of Miller's essay "Tragedy and the Common Man" in The New York Times (February 27, 1949), only two weeks after the opening of the play.
Reading: the open door
Authors: Silva Rosa Maria Neves da
Published: July 2015

Reading has been analyzed as the most crucial point in teaching a foreign language. Not because it is considered a difficult subject for the learner, but because of the implications it carries in relation to areas like speaking and writing.
Mr. Eliot's Fix-It-Shops
Authors: Vieira Else Ribeiro Pires
Published: July 2015

Eliot's plays follow the basic pattern of sin - expiation - communion. Murder in the Cathedral and The Family Reunion are cast in a religious context and the characters hope for communion through suffering and in the after-life. The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk and The Elder Statesman are cast in a secular context and the characters seek to integrate themselves through action, rather than through martyrdom. From The Cocktail Party on, the dramatization of the characters' integration reveals Eliot’s shift from transcendental to earthly concerns. That shift influences his choice of literary genre and approach to character, plot, diction and style. The distinction between comedy and tragedy is erased. Sin begins to be referred to also as an existential problem; priest and psychiatrist become one in other words, Eliot gradually overlaps the languages of religion and psychology. However, the secularization of his last plays does not mean that the experience is not religious. Religion becomes less a matter of Church ritual conceived in the ways of the world.
The tragic atmosphere in Pinter's The Caretaker
Authors: Heinrich Maria Irene Guimarães
Published: July 2015

This dissertation is addressed to the undergraduate student of English literature who is taking British contemporary drama. This is a systematic examination of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker (1960) from the double focal point of Aristotle's issues of peripety and anagnorisis - the two most effective tools at the tragic writer's disposal. Since the characters' linguistic behaviour is the main instrument to bring about peripety and anagnorisis the play has been studied from this point of view as well. The dissertation has led to some specific conclusions. The characters' continual interrelational failures seem to unconsciously establish a continuous oscillation between the factors which lead then to approach and those which lead then to retract from each other, resulting in peripeties. They are always exerting their exodus, or evading reality, in some way, as a means of defending themselves against anxiety. At heart, each feels unable to change the world around him. As they proceed in their interrelational battles their use of language changes: primarily interrelational, it becomes also referential, and, in the end, to announce anagnorisis, acquires symbolic texture. The basic focal point or peripety and anagnorisis is visualized in an appended diagram.
L. P. Hartley's The Eustace and Hilda Trilogy: a study of symbolic structure
Authors: Gallo Elisa Cristina De Proença Rodrigues
Published: July 2015

This dissertation presents a study of symbols as they springup from the literary work (The Eustace and Hilda Trilogy by L. P. Hartley), occurring and recurring as theme-carriers in similar contexts, reinforcing and complementing basic ideas, acting and  interacting for the same purpose of showing the central theme, related to the problematic development of the protagonist, Eustace Cherrington, from childhood and early adolescence to manhood. Eustace's difficulty lies basically in his obsessive sexual relationship towards his sister Hilda and in a life-time repression which together lead him to a condition of latent incest. To explain and illustrate this central theme, which is the destructive power of incest resulting in fragmentation of the ego we have opted for a psycological approach and tried to concentrate our study on erotic symbols.
Truth and not truth: an analysis of some plays of Lilian Hellman
Authors: Ferreira Maria José
Published: July 2015

Lillian Hellman's remarkable presence in the American theatre has roused several works about her production and her life. The approaches have been different, varying from plot, action, and structure, to social nrotest, moral conflict, and economic struggle. The intention of this study is to analyse different aspects of the truth in some plays of Lillian Hellman. It calls our attention to the fact that, in each play, the cataclysm that emerges has its origin not in the most important characters, but in the minor ones: those who seldom appear (most of them appear a little at the beginning and a little at the end of the play), or those who are inactive during the greater part of the play, or those who are not the total center of attention. They are responsible for the dénouement proper, and this dénouement has some relation to truth: either by its presence or by its absence.
Elementos de tragédia em The Children's Hour
Authors: Alves Júnia De Castro Magalhães , Ferreira Maria José
Published: July 2015

The term 'realism' has been used in many different ways. Thus, rather than assume or state a particular sense of the term to be used in this discussion of Virginia Woolf, we shall here consider her work in the light of various epistemological problems arising from a philosophy which for both intrinsic and historical reasons seems relevant to her life and work - the philosophy of G. E. Moore. Our exploration of the particular form of realism to be found in Virginia Woolf’s work will therefore lead us to consider problems of philosophy, literary criticism and techniques of fiction.
The poem as argument
Authors: Burns Thomas Laborie
Published: July 2015

A poem may be, among other things, an argument. When this is so, the poem enters into the province of rhetoric and may consciously or unconsciously exhibit the traits, categories, and devices of that art. Rhetoric in the original Aristotelian sense is "discovering in the particular case what are the available means of persuasion."
1515 New zeutung ausz presillandt
Authors: Kux Hedwig
Published: July 2015

Zeitung So ein scheff pracht hat So von portugal auszgefarn ist das presill lanndt ferrer dann man von sein wissen hat zudiscopriern und Am widerkerren Inn yla de madera zu komen ist von Ainem gute freundt ausz madera gen Anntorf geschryben word.
The human condition as seen through Ionesco's The Chairs
Authors: Lage Maria Helena Lott
Published: July 2015

Eugène Ionesco is a writer of the "Theatre of the Absurd," a term applied to a group of writers of the 1950's and 60's who share some characteristics in their work, and who are worried with more or less the same problems. Ionesco's The Chairs, which was written in 1951, well illustrates the main concerns of this group of writers the human condition and the reality of man's position in the universe.
Characterization as carrier of themes in Light in August
Authors: Diniz Thais Flores Nogueira
Published: July 2015

All the characters in Light in August are carriers of the themes Faulkner presents and almost all of their names contain symbols related to these themes.
Imagery in Light In August
Authors: Jeha Julio César
Published: July 2015

Faulkner created a work loaded with symbols to depict the two strains that haunt the South and, by extension, all of mankind. These strains are the dualism represented by the black and white races, and time, as an inescapable circular trap.
Translation: the hermeneutic motion
Authors: Linklater Ian
Published: July 2015

The 'Hermeneutic' school of textual interpretation attempts to formalize and describe from within the ways in which we interpret the meaning of meaning. It involves the dialectical interactions between writer, reader and language.
A psycholinguistic vision of metaphor
Authors: Harris Richard Jackson
Published: July 2015

The sentences above all have two things in common. They are all semantically anomalous, and, in a reasonable context, they are all perfectly understandable. They are understandable because they are interpreted to be metaphorical.
Teaching English pronunciation to speakers of Brazilian Portuguese
Authors: Major Roy C.
Published: July 2015

Teaching pronunciation to second language learners probably began with the first attempts to teach a foreign language. Methods have ranged from pure mimicry (with or without the use of a language lab), to the use of articulatory phonetics employing diagrams of the vocal apparatus to show place and manner of articulation, and even to the use of instrumental data, such televised spectrograms. What can be said despite these varied efforts is that L, learners still speak with an accent and they almost inevitably are eager to improve their pronunciation.
Somos indivíduos ou personagens?
Authors: Benn-Ibler Veronika
Published: July 2015

O presente trabalho aborda aspectos de uma problemática que se sintetiza na pergunta: é possível ao indivíduo como membro da sociedade ser autêntico? Ou ela o força a desempenhar papéis sem considerar suas aspirações pessoais?
Considerações sobre o desenvolvimento da leitura no curso básico I do alemão
Authors: Fuhr Gerhard
Published: July 2015

1.1 - Na primeira fase da didática do ensino de línguas estrangeiras no pós-guerra, tanto a gramática quanto a leitura eram supervalorizadas. No entanto, a gramática era tratada como o objetivo final - o importante era saber sobre a língua e não como usá-la - e a leitura era quase que restrita ao entendimento das obras literárias consideradas clássicas.
Miss Hellman's Hubbard plays: 'The Little Foxes' and 'Another Pat of the Forest'
Authors: Alves Júnia De Castro Magalhães
Published: July 2015

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O entrelançamento da arte e da história na novela de Gottfried Keller e no romance de Max Frisch
Authors: Benn-Ibler Veronika
Published: July 2015

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O projeto de inglês instrumental do Departamento de Letras Germânicas: considerações sobre alguns critérios usados na seleção de textos
Authors: Paulino Berenice Ferreira
Published: July 2015

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Recent trends in ESP teaching
Authors: Vieira Else Ribeiro Pires
Published: July 2015

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The grand style in English prose
Authors: Burns Thomas Laborie
Published: July 2015

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Different approaches to the study of sentence adverbs
Authors: Cardoso Sandra Mara Pereira
Published: July 2015

A difficult problem that grammarians have to face concerns adverbs. Perhaps because adverbs playa variety of semantic and syntactic roles in English, they have been the least studied and the most badly treated part of speech.
Über das Hörspiel
Authors: Kux Hedwig
Published: July 2015

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Miss Hellman's mood plays: The Autumn Garden and Toys in the Attic
Authors: Alves Júnia De Castro Magalhães
Published: July 2015

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Othello: a representative tragedy of the Renaissance
Authors: Vasconcellos Maria Lúcia Barbosa de
Published: July 2015

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O novo humanismo: formas de descentramento
Authors: Ballei Sérgio Luiz Prado
Published: July 2015

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John Ruskin & The Pathetic Fallacy: a critique
Authors: Burns Thomas Laborie
Published: July 2015

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Consideração sobre as dificuldades encontradas na tradução de textos científicos em língua alemã para o português
Authors: Benn-Ibler Veronika
Published: July 2015

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Delivery.....
Authors: Dawson Chester Sheppard
Published: July 2015

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Of men and angels: the role of the icon in Iris Murdoch's The Time of the Angels
Authors: Costa Astrid Masetti Lobo
Published: July 2015

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Leitura crítica de um texto científico
Authors: Vieira Else Ribeiro Pires
Published: July 2015

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Rock'n'Roque: os anos oitenta
Authors: Gallo Elisa Cristina De Proença Rodrigues , Silva Rosa Maria Neves da
Published: July 2015

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Time as interpretant in Harold Pinter's The Basement
Authors: Pinto Júlio César Machado
Published: July 2015

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Some moral and social issues in the Children's Hour and Days to Come
Authors: Alves Júnia De Castro Magalhães
Published: July 2015

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Sam's Pilgrimage to Truth, based on Lillian Hellman's play The Searching Wind
Authors: Ferreira Maria José
Published: July 2015

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EFL teaching approaches and the role of reading
Authors: Dias Reinildes
Published: July 2015

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Alguns elementos sobre a tradução do "Past Perfect" em narrativas históricas (livros-texto de história)
Authors: Gohn Carlos Alberto
Published: July 2015

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T. S. Eliot: critic and poet
Authors: Oliveira Solange Ribeiro de
Published: July 2015

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The Semiotics of written discourse and the dual representation of information in memory: an application of nonverbal elements to FL reading
Authors: Dias Reinildes
Published: July 2015

This dissertation advocates a recurrent and systematic use of nonverbal elements, as well as pictorial information incorporated into the reading lesson, to initiate linguistic activity in the teaching of FL reading. For this purpose, two broad avenues are brought to bear. The first is discourse-oriented and includes an expanded review of the structure of the written text with its two basic semiotic devices, the verbal and nonverbal ones. The second is cognition-oriented and includes a review of two important issues, namely, the information-processing system and the concept of schema. These two cognitive issues inform the view this dissertation adopts of comprehension as an interactive process which involves both text-presented material and the information the reader brings to the reading task in the form of previous knowledge. Still within cognitive psychology another issue is discussed, namely, Paivio's dual-coding theory, which provides the specific theoretical basis for the major argument of this dissertation. Paivio's theory of memory comprises verbal and nonverbal representations and fits in neatly with the structure of written discourse. All theoretical issues are finally translated into suggestions of activities for each phase of a reading lesson. The underlying purpose is to bridge theory and practice towards a more efficient FL reading methodology for high-school students.
As personagens no teatro de T. S. Eliot
Authors: Audi Ecléia
Published: July 2015

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Análise do poema "Infância", de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, e de sua tradução alemã, por Kurt Meyer-Clason
Authors: Mendes Eliana Amarante de Mendonça
Published: July 2015

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Joyce's feminine outlook: between heaven and earth
Authors: Tolentino Magda Velloso Fernandes de
Published: July 2015

This article endeavours to show how Joyce's outlook on women hovers between heaven and earth; that is, he either portrays woman as a reflection of the Virgin Mary and, as such, near to heaven; or as Eve/seductress, sensual and down to earth. The last part of this study, still dwelling on the feminine outlook, shows how Leopold Bloom, as Ulysses, gets reinstated into his rightful place - in his home and by his wife's side. Este artigo tenta mostrar que a visão feminina em Joyce oscila entre o céu e a terra, isto é: ele ora retrata a mulher como reflexo da Virgem Maria, e como tal esta fica perto do céu, ora como Eva/sedutora, sensual e terra-a-terra. A última parte deste estudo, ainda focalizando a visão feminina no autor, mostra como Leopold Bloom, como Ulisses, se reintegra em seu lugar de direito - em sua casa, ao lado de sua mulher.
Lillian Hellman's political plays: Watch on the Rhine and The Searching Wind
Authors: Alves Júnia De Castro Magalhães
Published: July 2015

Watch on the Rhine (1941) and The Searching Wind (1943) were both molded from Lillian Hellman's radical opposition to the totalitarism of Mussolini and Hitler. Neither of these two politically committed plays supplies a convincing guidance to the bewildered war years. Yet they both demonstrate the protest of the dramatist (and the audience who applauded them) against Fascism and Nazism. Watch on the Rhine (1941) e The Searching Wind (1913) foram fruto da oposição radical da teatróloga Lillian Hellman ao totalitarismo de Mussolini e Hitler. Essas peças, de cunho claramente político, não veiculam soluções, mas sim o protesto da autora (e da platéia que a aplaude) contra o Fascismo e o Nazismo.
A contrastive analysis of some significant Portuguese and English phonemes
Authors: Russo Neuza Gonçalves
Published: July 2015

This work deals with the description, distribution and classification of the English consonantal phonemes: /t/, /g/, /đ/, /l/, /č/ and the vowel phonemes: /u/ and /ə/ and their contrast to the  corresponding Portuguese phonemes. Not only the contrast is shown but also the problems related to the learning of the above phonemes and their allophones by Portuguese speakers and some possible techniques and pieces of advice to minimize the problem. Este trabalho trata da descrição, distribuição e classificação dos fonemas /t/, /g/, /đ/, /l/, /č/ do inglês e dos fonemas vocálicos /u/ e /ə/ e o seu contraste com os fonemas correspondentes do português. Não somente a análise contrastiva é apresentada, mas também os problemas relacionados com o aprendizado destes fonemas por falantes do português e algumas técnicas de ensino de pronúncia para minimizar o problema.
Alice through Macunaíma's looking-glass
Authors: Ávila Myriam Corrêa de Araújo
Published: July 2015

The comparison of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking-glass with Mário de Andrade's Macunaíma leads to the delimitation of the achievements of these books. A critical evaluation is made of their emphasis on the question of language, their relation to other pre-existent texts of which they avail themselves, and the relative openness of each of the texts to external influences. The shift of critical standpoint obtained by focusing on a book from the viewpoint of another book allows a new appreciation of each and the revelation of what each is not. In the gap arising from the difference between the texts it is possible to perceive elements that would not otherwise the visible. The affirmation of one text toward the other can be described as a translation in which the modification undergone by the original and the recreation of aesthetic elements in the final version reach their maximum.