2024-03-29T07:03:08Zhttps://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/server/oai/requestoai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715082023-11-29T11:43:48Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Proximity Effect Magnetization and Energy Loss in Multifilamentary Composites: Influence of Strand Design and Sample Geometry
Sumption, Mike
Physics
NbTi
proximity effect
magnetization
Flux trapping and cycling energy losses were studied by vibrating sample magnetometry in fine multifilamentary Nb-Ti superconductive strands for which proximity effect coupling between the filaments is significant. Measurements were made to determine the influence of helical twist about the strand axis as well as sample length for strands experiencing varying levels of proximity effect coupling. The proximity effect strength was varied by investigating strands with a range of filament diameters, as well as by the addition of magnetic impurities to the interfilamentary medium (the matrix) to suppress the proximity effect. Critical currents and fields for the matrix were extracted from the measurements. The reduction of cycling loss1 and magnetization2 previously found was confirmed. Additionally, these measurements were extended to strands where little twist was applied, and the magnetization and cyclic loss were found to saturate. Bean-like models for anisotropic media introduced by Carr1 and later Harada2 were further developed to calculate magnetization and penetration fields in these strands over a large range of twist pitch values. A calculation of magnetic hysteresis loops was also made for short strand samples. These models provide a good qualitative understanding of the observed behavior and lead to useful predictions for applications.
2016-06-27T19:03:22Z
2016-06-27T19:03:22Z
1992
1992-03-12
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71508
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Ohio University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715892023-11-29T11:43:49Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Modelos Estatísticos Espaciais no Planejamento da Prestação de Serviços
Pacheco, Juliano Anderson
Computer Science
Prestação de serviços
Planejamento
Metodos estatisticos
This thesis has the objective of systematizing the use of spatial statistical models for use in the planning of services, through the use of computational tools that allow the construction of those models. From a bibliographical revision the criteria used in the planning of the services was presented, pertinent concepts to the statistical analysis of spatial data and the interaction among those topics. Too explorer the creation of a spatial database pertinent to the analysis are presented and the computational tools that make possible the application of the techniques developed in this thesis, with emphasis in the R Language and its packages of spatial analysis. The following tools are presented: GeoDa, TerraView and TerraCrime.In the sequence, the applicable analysis techniques to spatial phenomena are explored modeled by points and for areas, denominated, respectively point process and areas process. Exploratory or descriptive techniques are presented to verify the forms of visualization of the data, the distribution type or the existence of groupings. Also, inferential techniques are presented to model and to quantify spatial dependence, to estimate surfaces and the estimation of models of spatial regression. Each technique is exemplified through the computational tools presented.To exemplify, a practical application of techniques of spatial statistical analysis is presented with data from public safety, where factors are identified associated with crime rates through the use of spatial regression.To conclude the work, the requirements that should be taken into consideration in the construction of a computational environmental that allow for the analysis of spatial data are presented. Also, each spatial statistical method explored in the planning of services was analyzed, as well as the results of the application in the Public Safety area.
2016-06-27T19:03:56Z
2016-06-27T19:03:56Z
2005-02
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71589
pt
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715732023-11-29T11:43:50Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
The Cathedral of Ice: Terministic Screens, Tyrannizing Images, Visual Rhetoric, and Nazi Propaganda Strategies
Barton, Matthew
English
Burke
rhetoric
Weaver
Nazi
propaganda
Nuremburg
Many aspects of the Nazis’ methods of persuasion, especially the rhetoric and psychology of printed propaganda and the speeches of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels have been the subjects of intensive study. Oddly, the subject of technology applied as an instrument or supplement to propaganda, or the rhetorical contributions of technological devices, has very little representation in Nazi studies, despite the significance it played in their rise to power. This thesis attempts to fill that gap. Specifically, I will be treating lights and lighting, sound and music, the Nuremberg Party Rallies, radio, and cinema from a rhetorical perspective. The rhetorical framework I have constructed to analyze these elements relies on a synthesis of Richard Weaver’s Tyrannizing Image and Kenneth Burke’s Terministic Screen concepts. Burke provides an important connection to visual rhetoric while Weaver provides links to culture, myth, and history.The ultimate goal of this thesis is to show how the rhetorical theories of Kenneth Burke and Richard Weaver can be used to explain the Nazis’ persuasion tactics. Aristotle demanded that rhetors “know all available means of persuasion,” and obviously, technological devices have rhetorical value. To prove this, I have relied as much as possible on primary sources, especially the autobiographies of former Nazis and Hitler’s Mein Kampf, but the Hitler biographers (Joachim Fest, Robert Waite, and John Toland) have also proved their usefulness. While this thesis is not an exhaustive treatment of the subject, it at least sows the field with seeds of thought. I do not address either the printed propaganda of Nazism or the speeches of Hitler or Goebbels. I examine instead the rhetorical devices and methods used by the Nazis to reinforce these types of persuasion.
2016-06-27T19:03:47Z
2016-06-27T19:03:47Z
1999-04
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71573
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Louisiana Scholars' College
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/780382023-11-29T11:43:50Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Corporate Social Responsibility and Brand Value in Luxury
Bravo Gonzalez, Ramon
Adam Smith Business School
CSR
Brand value
luxury
Sustainability
interbrand
One of the most important assets that luxury firms have is brand value, an intangible asset influenced by consumer and company-led actions. CSR is a company-led action, which depending on how it is managed, can either increase or decrease brand value. This research explores the role of CSR within luxury and how it, together with other factors, contributes to brand value in luxury. To conduct this work, a mixed methods approach was selected. A theoretical framework was built with input from the literature and interviews with key interviewees from the luxury industry. Then, the theoretical framework was tested quantitatively. The quantitative analysis was conducted with a dataset based on consumer panels, and additional secondary data including Bloomberg, CSRHub, Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), Interbrand, and company reports. The results were subject to ‘credibility checks’ with interviewees from the industry. The results from this research suggest that despite the importance of brand value within luxury; brand value is not widely understood by the industry and it is not measured, managed or leveraged. This research also suggests that CSR, company size, having controlled distribution, country of origin, marketing and research and development (R&D)/design, energized differentiation, esteem, and relevance; are critical factors to brand value. Consequently, luxury brands need to manage all these determinants to be able to create and preserve brand value. Nevertheless, while all these determinants are important, their importance can vary by brand; depending on brand size, brand category, target market, and whether the brand is heritage or non-heritage.
2017-06-13T19:22:05Z
2017-06-13T19:22:05Z
2017-06-12
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78038
Bravo Gonzalez, Ramon [0000-0002-5172-2973]
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/8159
en
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States
University of Glasgow
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715462023-11-29T11:43:51Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
The DLVK System for Planning with Incomplete Knowledge
Polleres, Axel
Knowledge Based Systems Group - E184/3, Institute of Information Systems, Computer Science Department
answer set programming
planning
conformant planning
logic programming
artificial intelligence
This thesis presents the Planning System DLVK, which supports the novel Planning Language K. The language allows to represent AI planning problems in a declarative way and is capable of representing incomplete knowledge as well as nondeterministic effects of actions.After explaining some basics, the syntax and semantics of this language will be formally described and some results on the computational complexity of our language will be given, proving that K is capable of expressing hard planning problems, possibly involving incomplete knowledge or uncertainty, such as secure (conformant) planning.A translation from various planning tasks specified in K to a logic programming framework will be shown subsequently. We have implemented a prototype of a planning system, DLVK, on top of the disjunctive logic programming system DLV, to show the practical use of our translation. This prototype will be presented in detail. Finally, examples and experimental results will be given, together with an outlook to further research.
2016-06-27T19:03:39Z
2016-06-27T19:03:39Z
2001-02-01
2001-02-01
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71546
http://www.polleres.net/publications/poll-2001-masterthesis.pdf
en
http://www.tuwien.ac.at/
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.polleres.net
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Technische Universität Wien
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715412023-11-29T11:43:52Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Accommodating and promoting multilingualism through blended learning
Olivier, Jak
Education
multilingualism
multiculturalism
education
South Africa
blended learning
IT
e-learning
Internet
online learning
wiki
Web 2.0
Multilingualism is a reality in South African classrooms. The Constitution of South Africa (Act 108 of 1996) and the national language policy recognize language rights and aims at supporting, promoting and developing the official languages. However, despite the advantages of mother tongue education, English is often chosen as language of learning and teaching at the cost of the African official languages. This study proposes the accommodation and promotion of multilingualism through blended learning.Blended learning refers to the blending of traditional instruction methods, such as face-to-face instruction, with other forms of instruction such as online learning and teaching. Through a discussion of asynchronous and synchronous learning tools it was established that wikis would be used for this study. In terms of blended learning and learning theories the main emphasis in this study is on socio-constructivism as well as communal constructivism.The empirical research in this study focused on the establishment and testing of a conceptual model for the accommodation and promotion of multilingualism through blended learning in the subject IT. The research took the form of a sequential embedded mixed methods design. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were used. A questionnaire was used with IT teachers to investigate the language and blended learning context. This was followed up with qualitative research in the form of interviews aimed at provincial and national experts in terms of the subject IT and e-learning. Based on the literature and these two investigations, a conceptual model was developed. The conceptual model’s effectiveness was tested through a quasi-experimental study. A questionnaire was also completed by the respondents at the schools after the completion of the study. Through the testing of the effectiveness of the conceptual model it was found that multilingualism could successfully be accommodated and promoted through this conceptual model.
2016-06-27T19:03:36Z
2016-06-27T19:03:36Z
2011-05
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71541
en
http://www.jako.nom.za/JAKOlivier-PhD.pdf
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
North-West University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/714862023-11-29T11:43:53Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Aplicación parcial del procedimiento de gestión por competencias en la mejora de procesos de alto grado de contacto con el cliente, en el Hotel Mercure Cuatro Palmas Coralia
Azcanio, Andrés García
Faculty of Industrial Engineering – Economics
Este trabajo fue realizado en el Hotel Mercure Cuatro Palmas Coralia, cita en la Avenida 1ra, entre las calles 60 y 64, Varadero y aborda la necesidad de utilizar métodos efectivos para el mejoramiento de los procesos con vista a lograr la alineación de los mismos con las estrategias empresariales. A tal efecto, se implementa el procedimiento propuesto por Nogueira Rivera (2002), la cual se desarrolla para el proceso de Animación seleccionado como clave en la presente investigación y reconocido como de vital importancia para aquellos hoteles que operan bajo la modalidad todo incluido. Se destaca la aplicación de un conjunto de herramientas y métodos que complementa el procedimiento y análisis de la mejora de proceso, entre ellos: análisis-síntesis, inducción-deducción, concordancia de Kendall, el método DELPHI, la Tormenta de Ideas, Diagramas As-Is, el Mapa de Procesos, Matriz para la determinación de los procesos claves, Análisis del valor añadido, Diagramas de flujo, análisis DAFO, entrevistas informales, encuestas, redacción y consulta de documentos; así como, la formalización como parte del procedimiento de un conjunto de experiencias surgidas en la aplicación practica y/o como continuidad en el desarrollo de las investigación sobre este tema. Además, se realiza, para la mejora de procesos, la aplicación parcial del procedimiento para la gestión por competencias, y se tributa a dicha mejora con la elaboración de un plan de formación por competencias y la propuesta de indicadores para el control de gestión. Resalta el hecho de que el presente trabajo incursiona en el proceso de animación que a pesar de su reconocida importancia para los hoteles que operan bajo la modalidad de todo incluido, resultan escasos los trabajos al respecto.
2016-06-27T19:03:12Z
2016-06-27T19:03:12Z
2007-08-31
2007
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71486
es
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/880622020-10-02T14:15:35Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Authentic Leadership: Relationship Between Leader Quality of Communication and Organizational Commitment
Lester, Matthew Pete
Leadership
Morris, Chuck
Stanbridge, Larry
Mitchell, Connie
Leadership
Communication
Organizational Commitment
Authentic Leader
This quantitative research was a descriptive, statistical analysis that answered the question: "How does authentic leadership practices and the leader's quality of communication relate to organizational commitment?"
2019-03-04T13:38:05Z
2019-03-04T13:38:05Z
2014-12
Dissertation
Tennessee Temple University / Piedmont International University
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/88062
en_US
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
Tennessee Temple University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/716002023-11-29T11:43:53Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Organization discourse as a demosntration of power
Pabst, Frederico
Programa de Pós-graduação em Administração
This thesis describes the relationship between the executive and the organizational discourse of the modern company as it presents itself: how can the executive interfere with its creation, and the executive’s degree of acceptance and contribution in disseminating the organizational discourse amongst employees. Since the rise of the first modern company, its administrators are examples of the executive who lives for the company, whose personal imaginary has been replaced by organizational imaginary. Based on concepts of seduction, fascination, submission, and voluntary servitude and working in the mythical instance, this research presents a new reading of modern imaginary and organizational discourse. Methodology includes qualitative research of semi-structured interviews with eight executives of two modern companies, which have been submitted to content analysis. The resulting research presents the description of executives on their relations with their organizational discourses using three categories: the compliance to the owner’s will, the precious human resources, and the overestimation of one’s own predicates. The main conclusions are that the executive helps build the organizational discourse and is subjected to it in a natural and voluntary manner simply because it effectively contributes to acceptance within the employee ranks by habitualness, commitment and the dream of success.
2016-06-27T19:04:03Z
2016-06-27T19:04:03Z
2008-05-19
2008
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71600
pt
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Universidade de Brasilia
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/649072023-11-29T11:43:54Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
La carrera de Letras Inglesas en el cuidado editorial
Noriega-Rivero, Gerardo
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Lucotti, Claudia
Rodríguez, Argentina
Anaya, Nair
Linguistics
Literature
Translation
Reverse translation
Literary theory
Literary criticism
How I applied the Licentiate curriculim in English at the Universidad Nacional de México to my 30-year experience in book-publishing.
2016-03-07T21:47:35Z
2016-03-07T21:47:35Z
2015-08-11
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64907
es
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Virginia Tech
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/716252023-11-29T11:43:55Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Activismo social y difusión en el movimiento del Software Libre en Chile
Báez Bezama, Eric Rolando
Communication Institute, School of Journalism
Software libre
Esta investigación es el resultado de la experiencia profesional del autor en medios de comunicación y centros tecnológicos, así como de la vinculación y participación activa que ha tenido con las comunidades nacionales e internacionales que promueven la creación y difusión libre del conocimiento, en especial el Software Libre.
2016-06-27T19:04:11Z
2016-06-27T19:04:11Z
2005-03
2005-03
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71625
es
http://www.softwarelibre.cl/drupal//?q=activismo_social_chile
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Universidad de Chile
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715382023-11-29T11:43:55Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Un ILS open source per l'automazione delle biblioteche: l'ipotesi Koha a Ca' Foscari
Giulio, Bonanome
Faculty of Humanities
library automation
open source software
integrated library systems|Iitalian library system
koha
The first part of the work is focused on the history and last trend on library automation and integrated library systems, with specific attention on the italian context. The second part evaluates some possible use of open source software in library and open source diffusion in Italy.The third part analyze Koha, an open source ILS, and its possible application at the University of Ca' Foscari Library System.
2016-06-27T19:03:35Z
2016-06-27T19:03:35Z
2010-03-08
2010-03-08
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71538
it
http://about.me/gbonanome
http://www.unive.it/
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Università degli studi di Venezia
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/839462023-11-29T11:43:56Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Retaining Prison Staff: The Influence of Leader Emotional Intelligence on Employee Job Satisfaction
Gibson, Emily S. H.
School of Leadership
Robertson, Lori
Neipp, Daryl
Carman, Randall
Emotional intelligence
Leadership
Correctional leadership
Prison staffing
Retaining correctional employees
Employee retention
Job satisfaction
Correctional leadership faces staffing challenges that potentially compromise safety and security and cause stress for remaining prison staff. Leadership is especially crucial in prisons due to threats of danger and stress. Leaders exhibiting emotional intelligence control their own emotions and manage interactions with others. Staffing shortfalls and the significance of prison leadership motivated a quantitative investigation of the relationship between leader emotional intelligence and employee job satisfaction. The researcher disseminated electronic surveys to prison staff in 5 southern states, which resulted in 1,174 surveys for analysis. Participants completed a survey that included the Genos Emotional Intelligence Inventory and the Job Satisfaction Survey. Results from a hierarchical linear regression revealed that both select demographic factors of prison employees and employee perception of their supervisor’s emotional intelligence are significantly predictive of prison employee job satisfaction. Findings provide both practical and theoretical implications for correctional leaders and support further research in the area of correctional leadership.
2018-07-12T18:11:08Z
2018-07-12T18:11:08Z
2017-07-20
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83946
en_US
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Piedmont International University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715452023-11-29T11:43:57Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
A Comparison of the Current Ratio and the Cash Conversion Cycle in Evaluating Working Capital Cash Flows
John, Costa
Business Administration
working capital
cash flow
financial ratios
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of the current ratio and the cash conversion cycle in evaluating working capital cash flows from a diagnostic and a predictive aspect.The author analyzed two case studies. Each company was reviewed over a five-year period. For each company the writer calculated the annual current ratio and the cash conversion cycle and examined the trends over the five-year periods under review.Results of these analyses indicated that the cash conversion cycle was more effective than the current ratio in diagnosing the health of each company’s working capital cash flows. The cash conversion cycle also signaled a change in liquidity earlier than the current ratio, suggesting that the former had more effective predictive capabilities than the latter. The central implication of these findings is that the cash conversion cycle might be a more useful diagnostic and predictive tool than the current ratio in liquidity analysis.The research findings were also consistent with improvement or deterioration in each company’s underlying strategic performance as measured by critical changes in its competitive position at the same point in time as the cash conversion cycle trend shifted.These results suggest that the cash conversion cycle may provide insights into the impact of planned product-market strategy on shareholder value.
2016-06-27T19:03:39Z
2016-06-27T19:03:39Z
2001-12
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71545
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
California Coast University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715612023-11-29T11:43:57Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Possibility of Kaliningrad Integration Into the Single European Space
Naumkin, Sergey
Baltic Sea Region Studies
Kaliningrad
Integration
European Union
Research work about European way of Russian separated enclave Kaliningrad, written by Sergey Naumkin. Table of contents: German ownership and germanisation. Associated membership with the EU. Republic or especial region in the structure of the Russian Federation. Independent State. Baltic Sea School, Humboldt University, Germany
2016-06-27T19:03:43Z
2016-06-27T19:03:43Z
2004-01
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71561
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Baltic Sea School, Humboldt University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715902021-12-21T18:13:10Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
A Study of Gelugpa sect with Comparison to Nyingma Pa sect of Buddhism in Tibet
Singh, Vijay Kumar
Chinese and Tibetan Languages
Short synopsis and layout of Chapters of the thesis entitled, “A study of Gelugpa sect with comparison to Nyingma Pa sect of Buddhism in Tibet”Around 2500 years ago, a prince of Sākya clan rose against the anguish of life & death and determined to find out the way through which these torments end. That prince was Siddhartha; and whole world came to know him by his enlightened name; Buddha; his path became famous after his name Buddhism. Centuries gone, millennium changed its numbers; still the path showed by the Sākya prince is guiding us towards every solution of problem. Today, according to latest sources, nearly 18 countries are more or less Buddhist countries and every fourth person of the world is Buddhist by faith. In past 2500 years, Buddhism crossed all geographical boundaries, spread over continents, touches every sphere of our lives, enjoyed royal patronage as well as sometimes-lethal disservice. However, one thing that makes it above all is that it served the goods. Everywhere it went, it acquired local colours, amalgamated with the local beliefs and reached the culmination theory of the master, Lord Buddha. Nevertheless, some countries were destined to play a little more than merely following the Buddhist rites and rituals. Tibet is one among these countries.Though Tibetan Buddhism is being studied all over, the world at research level but very few research works are being done at home (India). Tibetan has lost their homeland and in India, the Sthaviravādina, the orthodox school of thought was/is in vogue with the exception of the Himalayan region where the Mahayana is being practised since long. So many research works have been done by the scholars from United States and other countries, but most of them are limited to the translation works of the Tibetan Lamas visiting to States or elsewhere. Jeffery Hopkins, Alex Wayman, Michael Rosh is some of the names which have already gain popularity in this regard. It is noteworthy that Buddha taught everyone who came and asked for it. He never attempted to attract people into his new order or he never tried to formulate a new religion. As A K Warder has noted, “It is most characteristic of Buddha that he always adapts his talk to the person he is conversing with. His courtesy in argument result from this: it is certainly not his way to denounce the opinions, practice of another to his face, and challenge him to justify them. His method rather is to seem to adopt the other’s point of view and than by question and answer to improve it until a position, compatible with his own has been arrived at. Thus, he leads his partner in discussion towards the truth as he has discovered it, but so that the partner seems himself to continue his own quest, in whatever form he had taken, and to arrive at higher truth he had previously been aware of, or more convincing moral ideas. Buddhism is the third largest religious system of the world (beside Christianity and Islam at the first two places) and it is the only religious system, which originated in Indian sub-continent and spread all over the world. To know the social, political and economic history of India during the time of Buddha i.e. 6th century BC, there are several sources. However, either to know the ideas and philosophical order of that time, we have to rely upon the testament within the said system and the literature or that of archaeological remains that tell many ideas that can be decipher to date. Both left the scope of interpretation and speculation, which is although, needed to some extent; sometimes portray a shadow over the crux of the systems of ancient era. Nevertheless, I have chosen to discuss about the two religious order of Buddhism of Tibet. The idea itself seems to be very delightful but in the presence of meagre resource materials often discourages a fruitful research and applying the modern research methodology. However, research methodology is not only to solve the problem but quite often to raise a problem instead solving them is also a method to invite further research and hence itself is called an independent research.Tibet, one of the highest countries in the world had received Buddhism from India in 7th century AD when Padmasambhava established the monastic order there. That branch of Buddhism was known as Nyingma or the Red Hats. That was under the reign of King SrongTsan Gampo and the source of establishing the Buddhism was the Indian schools. Besides that, the Chinese school of sudden enlightenment, which was somewhat different from the gradual school of Indian Buddhism, also tried to establish its firm feet in the land of snow. However, the Indian Buddhist pundit defeated the Hashang, Chinese teacher of Buddhism and it was a landmark in the history of Buddhism in Tibet because this decided the way in which Tibet would follow the Buddhism in future. However, this is not highlighted in the historical record of Tibet, but this does not undermine its importance.Centuries passed and the Buddhism after one persecution by the Lang dharma, revived. The newer sects came up with fresh ideas, but the older sect (Nyingma) continued to influence not only the folk wisdom, but the aristocrats too were the followers of Nyingma sect at the time of the introduction of the Gelug sect or the Yellow Hat sect by TsongkhaPa. In my present thesis, I have tried an attempt to described both Nyingma and Gelug through the eyes of modern research methodology. Side by side, I kept the descriptive ideas of the sects where it was needed to highlight the ideas of the Buddhism in the said context. But the presence of different practices itself show the comparison. At that juncture, I have only taken the task of illustrating the facts. However, I have tried to describe Buddhism in general and the two sects in particular in their full length.In the first chapter, I have dealt with the History of Buddhism in India which in my opinion needed more than ever because either the material available now days gives one only an idea about how a prince of Sakya clan achieved enlightenment nearly 26 centuries ago. Or it describes the Buddhist philosophy with all of its technicalities and that too in extol and worshiping manner. Surprisingly sometimes, this attracts even the scholars from not only the non-Buddhist fields, but from the discipline itself. I have tried to be cautious while describing the ideas of the sects and therefore, I have tried to put the historical Buddha and his teaching in one chapter in a simplest possible manner. That will create an interest in both the mind of the Buddhist scholars and show the Buddha from the Tibetan point of view that is scarcely done with the use of research methodology. For this, I have started with the life sketch of the prince Siddhartha from his birth to enlightenment and then the important happenings in the life of Lord Buddha. Writing this, I tried to clarified that whom do we are calling Buddha? A Sakya prince or the emanation of supreme God: one is historical personality who, through his penances and mortification got the way to salvation, the other one who out of his great compassion toward humanity emanates himself for the benefit of sentient beings to show them the path of freedom from all sufferings. In my opinion, here lies the difference between Mahayana and Sthaviravāda school of Buddhism. The former claims to be the original successor of Buddhism from 6th century BC and asserts that the way prince Siddhartha got enlightenment; everybody can get it and become Arhat. On the other hand, the highest goal of Mahayana is Buddhahood and the supreme Buddha post is not achievable by a human being. The list of Pāli canons is also given in this chapter and the name of six contemporary thinkers of Buddha is listed with their respective philosophies. Renunciation, Bodhicitta and the Right view, these 3 are the base of Mahayana theory of Śunyavāda or the theory of Void, which originated though in India, found its firm feet in the land of snow. These points have been dealt in such a manner that while the research methodology was justified, the traditional Buddhist belief was also taken care of and even a common reader can infer the same conclusion that a Buddhist practitioner found after practicing it for a long duration.In the second chapter, I have put forth the History of Buddhism in Tibet with the background of the subject matter of my thesis. This chapter covers the inception of Buddhism in Tibet during 7th century and; from the first dissemination of it up to the establishment of the Gelugpa School by Je TsongkhāPā. In addition, I have given a short description of the history of Tibet up to the present time for the continuity of the subject matter. The contents of this chapter cover the history of Buddhism chronologically. In the land of snow, it was really a Herculean task for Padmasambhava to establish Buddhism. This work can only be done by the assimilation of the local beliefs and their gods in Buddhism and Padmasambhava has successfully done so with the help of his other Indian companions like Kamalsheela and others along with the royal patronage of King SrongTsan Gampo. A country following Shamanist practices has seen first time the logic-based religion that was most powerful and widespread at that time all over the Asia and its fragrance was crossed the globe. No wonder Padmasambhava is considered as second Buddha among Tibetans. The introduction of Buddhism in Tibet is linked closely with the introduction of literature as the work was got started in the country by the minister of SrongTsan Gampo, the great Thonmi Sambhota. So, a brief history of Tibetan language & literature was inevitable. Therefore, I have given the Tibetan Alphabets and their Sanskrit and Roman equivalent for the record along with the historical background of the Tibetan language. Here one point I want to be noted. While writing this thesis, I face two major difficulties. One was the Tibetan U-Chan fonts for the computer and the second the method of Romanization of Tibetan and Sanskrit words. For the first, I applied two types of U-Chan fonts namely, U-Chan TTF and L Tibetan. For the second one, I have followed the most accepted form and wherever I feel to express my ideas in either script, I did so. That is why the Romanization is not strict way as of Dr. Snell Grove has typed in his works with the diacritic marks or other with equivalents. After this, I took the historical background of the Chinese Hāshāng Mahayana that advocated sudden enlightenment and its clash with the Indian school of Buddhism, which was in favour of graduated path to salvation; this shows the reason why the graduated path is being practiced in Tibet and not the Chinese counterpart of it. Then I took the destruction of Buddhism in Tibet by Lang dharma and the resurgence of Buddhism after more than 300 years of being in background. Then the Sharma Schools of thought appeared, the latest of which is Gelugpa, which command good favour among the Tibetan till today. The founder of this sect was TsongkhāPā. I have put the TsongkhāPā and GelugPā in a separate chapter because of its comprehensiveness, which was the demand of my research topic.In the third chapter, the Padmasambhava and Nyingmā School has been placed with all of its possible contents. Firstly, I have taken Padmasambhava and the establishment of Buddhism in Tibet, and then the main characteristics and the salient features of this school of thought were placed under the different sub-chapters.In the fourth chapter, I have continued from the previous chapter about Nyingmās and dealt with their practices through which they are known. Therefore, I name it after one of the greatest and famous practice, Dzogchen. Hence the chapter is named as, “Terton and other practices in Nyingma.” Because of the inbuilt nature of Nyingma sect to adopt Tāntric practices, I have tried to put light on the Tāntric practices specially.After this, in a short chapter, I have tried to explain why the sectarian tendencies came out from a disciplined system like Buddhism that is considered to be the most logical and scientific in its approach. The content of this chapter, though very short in the number of pages, carry very high value to understand the birth of an ‘ism’ within the ‘ism’. Though I have named it, “Emergence of Schism in Buddhism”, but in this chapter some other general topics were also covered which are the answers to the curiosities in the field of Tibetan Buddhism. For example, I have given a very brief account of the translation work of the Tibetan literature in Tibet and after 1959, in India and abroad.In the sixth chapter, namely ‘TsongkhāPā and the Gelugpā school of Tibet’, I have given the salient features and practices of the sect. Why the actual need to establish this sect was felt by its founder TsongkhaPa when he was already mastered all the then time philosophies through other prevalent sects. The role of Rendāwā in the educational and philosophical life of TsongkhaPa is evident in all the literature, which TsongkhaPa wrote. In fact when we go through the ascetic life of TsongkhaPa, he seems to be much more powerful than his settled life when his name became famous than himself. Wandering in the search of knowledge through debates, asking every established master to impart knowledge, doing penances, these all create a gamut around TsongkhāPā’s personality that every researcher inspire for. This is more relevant today when we see the education has become a means nothing more than for earning the bread. Also, the followers of TsongkhaPa (with due respect) have indulged themselves in the very politics, which TsongkhaPa had forbid in his lifetime.The content of the GelugPā School needed more elaborate study to discuss, so I divided it into two chapters and the chapter-VIIth in its succession, I have tried to highlight the philosophy and ethics of GelugPā’s, which they are famous for. I named this chapter ‘The stages of path and other teachings of GelugPā.’ The biggest contribution in this regard by the founder of this sect, TsongkhaPa was the Lam Rim teachings. TsongkhaPa during his study time engaged in debate with almost all the teacher of prevalent school of Buddhism in Tibet, and found that debates are the best way to develop the intellect of a person. So he stressed very much on study of the books in his Order and hence started the tradition of Lam-Rim teachings. He himself wrote a big volume named Lam-rim Chen-Mo () and tried to put all the philosophical teachings of Buddha that were required to lead a sanctimonious and virtuous life according to Vinaya. When he found the book to be too voluminous to remember, he prepared a précis form of the book and named it Lam-Tso Nam Sum () which became so famous that the Gelugpa or the yellow hats were sometime called the followers of Lam Tso Nam Sum. I have tried to brief the teaching content of Lam Tso Nam Sum in this chapter. In addition, I have given at the end of this chapter, why the Prāsāngika Mādhyamika () has an upper hand not only over the other three main school of Buddhism but over the Svatāntrika Mādhyamika () too. The eighth and the final chapter is conclusion where the findings of the research work have been stated.I have chosen some colour plates to illustrate what is being said in the test of the chapter. I have also taken care of that the entire collection must represent different traditional source and of different type. This I have done to acquaint my thesis with the different architectural and archaeological remains, which though is not part of my thesis, elucidate Buddhism in much exemplified way.At the end, I have added some photographs that will be of helping material and show the historic and religious personalities in visual.Finally, I want to quote averse from the Dhammapada which describes the Buddhasāsana or the law of Buddha, with the presupposition that if this verse is being taken care of, be it any sect of sub-sect of Buddhism any where at the globe, Buddhism will succeed in achieving its goal.
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2016-06-27T19:04:00Z
2001-11
2002
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71590
http://chinese-tibetan.puchd.ac.in
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Panjab University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/372962023-11-29T11:43:59Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Ut prosim--the balance of liberal and useful education in the American land-grant university : a case study of Virginia Tech
DiCroce, Deborah M.
Education
Thelin, John R.
land grant university
case study
Virginia Tech
see document
2004-02-03
2014-03-14T21:09:12Z
2014-03-14T21:09:12Z
1984-04-15
2004-02-03
2004-02-03
Dissertation
etd-02032004-161637
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37296
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02032004-161637/
DiCroce,D.pdf
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Virginia Tech
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Towards a Christian Pastoral Approach to Cambodian Culture
Ravasco, Gerard
Missiology
Missiology
Christian-Buddhist relations
Intercultural Communication
Practical Theology
Pastoral Approach
We live in a time of Globalization, where we find ourselves rubbing shoulders and working together in one place with all kinds of people belonging to different races and different creeds. We live in a world which now finds itself immersed in deep global conflicts (terrorism, suicide bombings, political retaliations) which many attribute to religious fanaticism. Thus we can only continue to live peacefully if we maintain that respect for each others beliefs. This is the global dimension this paper wishes to bring forth.In our present situation, if many of us expatriates (in Cambodia) live far from our own native land and we live with people of another culture, understanding their milieu will certainly help us understand the people of that place. And since religion is tied up to a particular language and culture, particularly here in Cambodia, it would be worthwhile to study the different religious influences brought about through the centuries upon Cambodian culture. Hence the social dimension of the paper.The third dimension would be a practical one. Understanding the differences between religions, we could focus more on the bridges that unite rather than the walls that separate us. In this way we realize that being different does not lessen our humanity but rather enriches it.The paper will present a historical overview of the religious history of Cambodia. The literary survey used in this paper will then attempt to list and describe some particular influences of each of these religions (Animism, Brahmanism, Buddhism) to the Cambodian way of living at the present. Then the paper will try to infer some insights on the observations made focusing on how to build bridges for dialogue between Christians and Khmer Buddhists. The paper searches into the intertwining of Animism, Brahmanism and Buddhism into what is now uniquely Cambodia’s national religion and how this would impact other religions now entering Cambodia specifically Christianity.
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2016-06-27T19:03:55Z
2004-03
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71585
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South African Theological Seminary
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715252023-11-29T11:44:00Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Die Deutfche Handwerkerbewegung Bis Zum Sieg Der Gewerbefreiheit
Goldschmidt, Ernst Friederich
Department of Economics
German Workers and Society
Craftsman Movement
Handworker Movement
Worker Guilds
Craftsman Associations
Industrial Law
Germany 1848 through 1869
German Political Economics
Lujo Brentano
Trade Unionism
Trade Unionism
Economic History – Germany
Economic Theory – Germany
Social Liberalism
German Historical School of Economics
Social Reform
Socio- Political Economist
World Pacifist Movements
Ernst Friederich Goldschmidt
Ernest Goldsmith
Ernest F
Goldsmith
Ernst F
Goldschmidt
Lujo Brentano
Since then, the modern technology and its achievements has served the nature of trade to begin with, the middle class asks, whose core forms the hand worker movement, as the center of interest for science and politics. A craftsman movement, which is since 1848 rolling along, is today still not ended and the movement still exists and is alive. The hand worker asks, who arose to 1848 to meet, the chronic suffers who became so for decades. The physician, who saw a chronic person, can usually indicate not alone by looking at on welfare. One must look at the developing story for Evil and his life story to know the patient, in order to point to a way to recovery.More over the craftsmen and the craftsmen movement spoken about daily, indicated, in order to find a symptom, which makes itself too faulty in the given instant to be disturbingly most valid, is written to cure and to leave. A detailed connection, an end representation of the craftsmen movement is, however, up to the hour still not finished.In the following still the attempt of such a representation is to be made, for the too the period of 1848/1869.Our sources are particularly purely beside from national commission collections and congresses, are from the Craftsman, who are the other persons, who wanted to take position in the problem of the Craftsman or had daily papers, magazines and books, which are dedicated partly to individual branches of industry, partly the entire Handwork industry of the individual country. In addition to the facts, which follow from flight writings and from one-sided combat literature, come one sided in the pursuit of religion and on politics.An important source in the history of the Handworker Movement must be the legislation. As soon as the craftsmen movement forms, they accepted the seriously public damage the government issuing a new law could bring, an order in such a way could pour Oil onto the waves. The relation between cause and effect between the particulars far the craftsman movement can never clearly completely be, when a factor this important is let out. But not only the finished industrial law, also its developing story and its motives must be regarded, in order that the movement of the German Handwork Movement be completely known.
2016-06-27T19:03:29Z
2016-06-27T19:03:29Z
1914-10-03
1914-10-03
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71525
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Universität München
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Ethnic Tourism and the Kayan Long-Neck Tribe in Mae Hong Son, Thailand
Ismail, Jinranai
School of Social Sciences
Kayan long-neck
ethnic tourism
human zoo
relocation
government of Mae Hong Son
stakeholders
exploitation
The long-neck Kayans have long been subjected to scrutiny by both Thai and foreign writers. This study traces the historical existence of the Kayans in Burma and their status as refugees within Thailand. Since the arrival of the first group of Kayans in late 1984, this tribe have been of interest to the provincial government of Mae Hong Son, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, NGOs and tourism developers. All of these groups, in one way or another, claim to be protecting the interest of the Kayans. This thesis investigates the validity of claims that Kayan interests are being protected. It further questions the government’s move to centralise the Kayans into one settlement at Huay Pu Kaeng. I argue that the Kayan race is the most marginal beneficiary of the Kayan ethnic tourism and illustrate how their vulnerability has been exploited both by government agencies and tourism developers.
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2016-06-27T19:03:23Z
2008
2008-10
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71510
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oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715142023-11-29T11:44:04Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
A Comparative Study of University of Wisconsin-Stout Freshmen and Senior Education Majors Computing and Internet Technology Skills / Knowledge and Associated Learning Experiences
Sveum, Evan Charles
School of Education
A study comparing University of Wisconsin-Stout freshmen and senior education majors’ computing and Internet technology skills/knowledge and associated learning experiences was conducted. Instruments used in this study included the IC³® Exam by Certiport, Inc. and the investigator’s Computing and Internet Skills Learning Experiences survey. UW-Stout freshmen education majors participating in the study demonstrated poor computing and Internet technology skills/knowledge. UW-Stout senior education majors participating in the study demonstrated marginal computing and Internet technology skills/knowledge. Both UW-Stout freshmen and senior education major study participants identified evidence of poor formal and informal learning experiences to develop computing and Internet technology skills/knowledge in elementary school, middle school and high school. Senior education major participants indicated more instances of formal and informal learning experiences in post-secondary schooling and employment. Informal self-teaching methods to develop computing and Internet technology skills/knowledge were more evident with UW-Stout senior education majors who participated in the study. Notable comparisons by class and major were conducted after initial analysis showing the impact of specific formal and informal learning experiences. Recommendations to improve UW-Stout education majors computing and Internet technology skills/knowledge follow Robin Kay’s Evaluating Strategies Used to Incorporate Technology into Preservice Education (2006).
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2016-06-27T19:03:25Z
2010-07-29
2010-07
Master's project
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71514
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oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/714972023-11-29T11:44:04Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Recycled Waste Paper- An Inexpensive Carbon Material for Supercapacitor Applications
Misra, Rohit
Industrial Chemistry
Supercapacitor
Electrochemistry
Carbon electrode
Electrochemical Double Layer
The present study presents the current status of research into the production of active carbons from environmental applications using waste newspaper. A number of studies have been performed to investigate the pyrolysis of waste paper ash to carbon gel.Although several studies report the production of carbon from waste tyre, bamboo, coconut shell, this study is first of its kind that for the first time, the waste newspapers have been used as a raw material for supercapacitor electrodes. A cheap raw material, and a simple method of preparation make this carbon gel more economically attractive. By carbonizing a waste paper a new carbon-carbon composite as electrode material was prepared through RF gel. The surface morphology and electrochemical characteristics of the carbon composite were investigated by Scanning Electron Microscopy, Cyclic Voltammetry, Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and galvanostatic charge-discharge cycle tests with various current densities. The SEM study reveals that the connectivity between the grains increases during cycling thus enhances the cyclic stasitity. The CV’s suggests that there is simultaneous redox and capacitive behavior and these behaviors are highly reversible even after 8 lakh cycles. The reversibility was still maintained even in the range – 3 V to + 3 V. The charge/discharge cycle tests reveal the cycle stasitity and delivered more then 8 lakh cycles at 100 mA/cm2. The maximum specific capacitance of 300 F/g was obtained at 150 mA/cm2 current density. These results imply that this newspaper based carbon gel be used as potential candidate for supercapacitors.
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2016-06-27T19:03:16Z
2006-07-20
2006-06-19
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71497
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715862023-11-29T11:44:05Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Don Bosco Technical School: A Situational Survey and Strategic Analysis
Ravasco, Gerard
Business Administration
Business administration
human resource management
organizational behavior
strategic management
Don Bosco Technical School in Phnom Penh is a typical example of a long-running non-profit institution in Cambodia. In this part of the world it is plainly called an NGO – a non-governmental organization. It provides vocational skills training education to some four hundred out-of-school youth every year. And yet it does not charge for tuition; nay more it even provides free lunch at noon. So how does Don Bosco Technical School survive this monetary based and profit oriented society? What are its sustainability secrets?This capstone project strives to look at the institution from a business perspective with organizational behavior, strategic planning, and human resource management as criteria.To achieve this, the process will include: •A critical evaluation of its organic strategic plan through a thorough analysis of its strategic documents like: logical framework, organizational charts, and programming sheets.•A structured interview of key employees gauging factors such as: their job satisfaction, job fit, and job identification with organizational values. •An in-depth analysis of its human resource management through observation of operations and investigation of corresponding documents like: salary scales, contracts, policies and procedures.The results of the study show that Don Bosco’s main strength lies in the staff’s strong commitment to the mission of the organization thereby providing the motivation to continue the work in spite of financial odds. On the other hand it has room for improvement in terms of organizing a more formal human resource management system due to its institutionalizing trend and for sustained sustainability of its work.
2016-06-27T19:03:55Z
2016-06-27T19:03:55Z
2005-05
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71586
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Preston University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715152023-11-29T11:44:06Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Medición integral de la pobreza crónica profunda y estrategias de políticas sociales para el desarrollo temprano
Lopez-Pablos, R.
crisis alimentaria
desnutrición
pobreza crónica
índice integral
política generacional
política agricultural
Se amplía la metodología del índice de pobreza crónica generacional en el desarrollo temprano incluyendo la posibilidad del uso de las variables riqueza o consumo como representación alternativa al ingreso de la dimensión integral de estatus socio-económico. Se menciona la adaptabilidad del indicador a diversos criterios de evaluación antropométrica del crecimiento como dimensión integral socio-siológica del desarrollo integral para la siguiente generación. Entre las posibles estrategias de política para desarrollo generacional se abre una discusión sobre la implementación de programas ya sea en la forma de asignaciones condicionadas en salud en el desarrollo temprano, o bien para la focalización de políticas en el desarrollo agricola-cultural.
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2016-06-27T19:03:25Z
2010-09-01
Conference proceeding
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71515
http://www.ciss.org.mx/
es
http://www.ciss.org.mx/
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/714802023-11-29T11:44:06Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Impresos novohispanos del siglo XVI en la ciudad de México
Ruiz Esparza Pérez, Irma
College of Library Science, Faculty of Arts
Impresos novohispanos
Bibliografías mexicanas
Nueva España
Siglo XVI
Historia de la imprenta en México
La presente tesis está divida en tres partes y un catálogo final que es producto de la investigación. En el primer capítulo se presenta un análisis del papel que tienen los impresos novohispanos del siglo XVI como parte del patrimonio cultural en México, destacándose la importancia de su conservación y protección en este país. En el segundo capítulo se presentan los elementos teóricos que dan cuenta de la investigación, relacionados principalmente con la bibliografía y con algunos aspectos técnicos de la imprenta manual, para finalmente abordar, en el tercer capítulo, la introducción de la imprenta en la Nueva España, los impresores del siglo XVI y las bibliografías mexicanas que cubren este periodo, encabezadas por la obra de Joaquín García Icazbalceta y adiciones que son la base del catálogo resultante.
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2016-06-27T19:03:11Z
2001
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71480
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oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715242023-11-29T11:44:07Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
The Regional Organization of the Eastern Roman Empire in the Early Byzantine Period (4th-6th Century A.D.)
Drakoulis, Dimitris P.
Department of Architecture
The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to contribute to the investigation of the regional organization of the system of settlements in the regions of the ‘Eastern Ro-man Empire’ (ERE) during the Early Byzantine period (EBP). By ‘EBP’ we mean the historical period comprising from the 4th to the end of the 6th century AD. By ‘regional organization’ we mean the administrative system of rule of the ERE with its five hierarchical levels of organization: a) the Empire; b) its division into admin-istrative regions (dioceses); c) the division of these into smaller regional unities (provinces); d) cities (polis), and e) market towns – villages (komes – choria) within each province. This system includes 3,048 units of analysis, settlements belonging to all hierarchical levels, and it yields their distinguishing features, through geographic - spatial and historical -cultural criteria. The dissertation’s object of study is the regional organization of settlements of the EBP, with emphasis on the 6th century. Its goal was the cartographic representation of the regions of the ERE and creation of maps that are defined by the data of politi-cal geography and described by the data of physical and cultural geography. Through the creation of historical sections in the 4th, 5th, and 6th centuries, diachronic regional transformations in the EBP were examined. A further goal was to create a database of cultural and geographic information concerning the entirety of settle-ments, in which are recorded the period of founding, the diachronic presence of each, with historical alterations of its name, including also its modern name and the state to which it belongs today. The dissertation conveys the totality of regional sites in the ERE, contributes to making the regional organization of settlements in the EBP better known, and enriches the diachronic study of both the settlements and culture of the Eastern Mediterranean. The dissertation is composed of three parts: Part I. Introduction; Part II: The regional structure of the Empire; Part III: Conclusions. Part I: Chapter 1 offers a scholarly overview and defines the goals, objects of study, and purpose (A.1), contents (A.2), primary sources (A.3) and methodology (Α.4), with a description of the techniques of cartography, map-making (atlas-making) and table-making. Part I also includes the historical framework of the EBP (Chapter 2), with its main socio-economic and political parameters. Chapter 3 concerns the geo-morphology and organization of the Empire (administrative boundaries, production activities and spatial administrative hierarchy, both political and ecclesiastical). Part II: Chapter 4 deals with the regional structure of the Empire and is allocated to a study of the organization of the 64 provinces in each of the six dioceses. The level of internal description of each diocese and province refers to variables that concern administrative division, geomorphology, and settlements (three levels: capitals, cit-ies, and market towns – villages). Two categories of variables were created: histori-cal-cultural data, and geographic-spatial data. The total of 3,048 settlements and the recording of variables along diachronic and synchronic axes, aided by the computer software SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), allowed observations of a statistical nature as well as structural correlations between and among variables used for analysis. The data are complemented cartographically by 90 maps, done on the basis of the road network (3 variables: inter-regional, main, secondary) and their individual geomorphology. Part III: Chapter 5 describes the results of the analysis of the regional organization of the six dioceses, while Chapter 6 presents the results for the overall picture of the Empire (6.1), followed by the results for the articulation of the road network (6.2). These sub-sections are followed by the network of settlements (6.3), with conclud-ing observations of a statistical nature concerning the regional organization of set-tlements and the static/dynamic nature of the settlement system. The structure of the network of settlements is expressed through an attempt at modeling. In addition, basic statistical correlations and cross-tabulations concerning the hierarchy of set-tlements and their various parameters (period of founding, morphology of terrain, road network, transportation / communication features) are listed. The conclusions of this doctoral dissertation can be summarised as follows: During the Early Byzantine Period the Eastern Roman Empire, with its six large administra-tive dioceses and 64 provinces, occupied the regions around the Eastern Mediterra-nean, joining districts from three continents. The geomorphology and the landscapes of the region are varied and complex. Much of the land is mountainous though there are a few very important plains. There are eight types of vegetation varying from desert to beech forest. Olive cultivation accounted for an important percentage of the cultivatable land at that time.The primary sector was developed and there was self-sufficiency, which depended on cooperation between individual farmers as to what was grown. The secondary sector was also developed: there were government owned factories in many provin-cial capitals, as well as private artisan. There was also government owned mines and quarries for the excavation and the supply of raw materials.The network of settlements: their historical and cultural characteristics: 12,5% of the 3,048 settlements were founded in the Archaic period, 7.3% in the Classical, 17,8% in the Hellenistic, 42% in the Roman and 20,4% in the Early Byzantine pe-riod. Cross correlation between the number of settlements and their dates of founda-tion demonstrates that a much larger number of settlements arose after the Hellenis-tic period than were constructed before this period. It also shows that the Early Byz-antine provincial capitals were largely founded during the Hellenistic period. In ad-dition it shows that more than the 50% of the cities were founded in the Hellenistic and Roman period, while only about 12% were founded during the EBP. With re-gard to smaller settlements, we can observe that roughly 50% were founded in the Roman period, while only 25% were set up during the EBP. The fact that more than 80% of the total settlements in the Roman and EBP were minor settlements suggests a tendency towards agrarization of the society.The geographical - spatial characteristics and the morphology of the land: We ob-serve that 41% of the settlements were located between 0 – 300m, 12,5% were lo-cated between 300 – 600m and 43% were found higher in the mountains. From the cross-correlation of the timescale of the settlement with the geomorphology we see that 56% of the capitals and 50% of the cities are located in flat regions, while 47% of minor settlements are located in mountainous regions. 72% of settlements are close to water. 34% of the settlements are located on transregional road axes, 9% of these on main and the 14% on secondary roads, while 43% are not connected in this way. 14% of the settlements represent nodal points on the road system, 11% are ports, while nodes and ports constitute the 2%. The structure of the network of set-tlements ,using the capital city Constantinople as a point of reference, corresponds on the first level to a radial spatial model, the diffusion of which, extends as a spatial web into the three continents. On the second level there are individual linear spatial models that follow the seashores of the Mediterranean and the Euxeinos Pontos and follow passages to the hinterland, frequently through river valleys. The network of settlements and the road network are of course, closely linked.A substantial density of settlements, founded in the EBP, is found in Pontike Dioe-ceses, in the regions near Constantinople, as well as in the Anatolike Dioeceses, in the regions, that are related with the new religion, as the Palestine. There is a me-dium sized concentration of settlements in the Thrakike, Asiane and Aigyptiake Dioeceses, while there is a small concentration in the Dioeceses of Illyrikon. In gen-eral there is a large concentration of settlements in Greece; in the plateau of Asia Minor; in the southern parts of Syria and Palestine, (mainly in the coastal plateaus between Tyre and Gaza and following the banks of the Nile).In the Eastern Mediterranean the foundation of settlements began in the Archaic period and continued in the Classical period with the city – state as its main model. Slowly, during Hellenistic period minor size settlements began to dominate. In the Roman and Early Byzantine period, 80% of the new foundations were minor size settlements. Of the five historical periods, the foundation of settlements was at its most intense during the Roman period. The EBP continued this trend, though the development of new settlements was only half that which had been carried out under the Roman rule. The amount of flat land was very limited, yet the spread of settle-ments in flat and mountainous lands was almost the same. In the Roman and EBP, the higher percentage of settlements was founded in mountainous regions and these settlements were, in the beginning, small.The administrative structure had a pyramid-like form with the emperor at the top and a tree-like structure down the whole length of the hierarchy. The administrative power predominated over the military and there was a strengthened bureaucracy and a state centralism. The network was able to function because it was supported by two connected infrastructures: The first was concerned with the organized use of human resources: the bureaucracy: the administrators of the regional political power, whose main job was the collection of taxes and resources, and the control and the management of the means of production. The second was the physical infrastructure which enabled the trade, manufacture and transport generated by the administrators to be carried out, as well as facilitating the exchange of ideas, to and from the capital city. The network of roads ensured good communications and thus enabled this effi-cient system of central control to be implemented throughout the empire. The hier-archical structure at all organizational levels constitutes one from the distinctive features of the early Byzantine mode of production. This structure runs through the spatial dimension of the regional organization, that was cartographically surveyed on three levels: 1. On the land-planning level, which deals with the whole Eastern Roman Empire. 2. On the regional level, which was concerned with the Dioeceses. 3. On the provincial level, which deals with the Prov-inces. 3,048 settlements were recorded, located, categorized and organised in a data-base, a number that represents the total number of settlements known from archaeo-logical studies to have been active during the period being studied.From the above statements it can be seen that in the Early Byzantine period the Eastern Roman Empire was wealthy in the sense that it was productive, that there was a growing network of roads and dense pattern of settlements. The fact that many small settlements were founded at this time shows that not only was there a trend towards agrarization, but also suggests that the role of the cities was changing in those places where the number of small settlements increased within the same re-gion. The investigation of the regional organisation in the EBP shows that both the settle-ments at all levels, and the infrastructures of the Eastern Roman Empire were in good shape. It presents a picture of an empire, where the number the of rural and urban settlements is increasing while being organized in a hierarchical structure throughout the region. The thesis has made an effort to create a holistic picture of the geographical and administrative form of the Eastern Roman Empire, which can easily be analyzed in smaller spatial parts and recomposed in bigger, showing on each level the cultural characteristics of the settlements network, through the loca-tion, mapping and categorisation of the network. The present research was designed to contribute to the overall study of the regional landscapes of the Eastern Roman Empire and it contributes by analyzing regional organization of settlements in the Early Byzantine period. In this way it enriches the diachronic study of settlements of the Eastern Mediterranean and her culture with quantitative and qualitative elements.
2016-06-27T19:03:28Z
2016-06-27T19:03:28Z
2009-05
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71524
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/714852023-11-29T11:44:08Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
A representação social de perfeição na memória das personalidades do espiritismo
Albuquerque, Tiago P.
Institute of Psychology
Memória social
Representações sociais
Espiritismo
Social memory
Social representations
Spiritism
Este trabalho aproxima as contribuições da teoria das representações sociais e dos estudos em memória social para a compreensão do campo religioso, especificamente o Espiritismo, reconhecendo a importância da recordação de personalidades para a dinâmica religiosa. Esta pesquisa objetiva analisar o conteúdo da representação social de perfeição, o conteúdo e estrutura da memória de personalidades do Espiritismo e a relação entre ambos. Trata-se de estudo descritivo, desenvolvido em duas etapas. Participaram 75 participantes auto-declarados espíritas - 38 na primeira etapa e 37 na segunda, sendo entrevistados 24 desses. Os participantes, em média, possuíam 37,3 anos de idade e 16,7 anos como espíritas. Na primeira fase aplicou-se, através da Internet, a técnica de evocações livres com o termo indutor “espíritos superiores”, na qual os participantes respondiam que pessoas se associavam ao termo. Na segunda, prosseguiu-se com as evocações livres e questionário, para caracterização dos participantes. A partir das doze personalidades mais lembradas, realizou-se entrevista semi-estruturada, com questões sobre características, virtudes, lembranças, hierarquia das personalidades, e questões sobre o significado da perfeição e como alcançá-la. Os dados das evocações foram analisados através das técnicas do quadro de quatro casas e construção de árvore máxima de similitude. As entrevistas foram analisadas mediante análise categorial temática. Assim, verificou-se que as personalidades mais recordadas foram: Chico Xavier, Jesus, Allan Kardec, Emmanuel, Bezerra de Menezes, Madre Teresa de Calcutá, Joanna de Ângelis, Gandhi, André Luiz, Francisco de Assis, Maria de Nazaré e Divaldo P. Franco. A representação social de perfeição foi expressa, de modo simplificado, na sentença: um caminho, difícil e longo, em que o ser humano sai da sua condição de inferioridade para a perfeição, através do conhecimento (proveniente do trabalho, do estudo e do auto-conhecimento), livrando-se do seu egoísmo e expressando o amor, tal como demonstrado e vivido por Jesus. Verificou-se, ainda, que essas memórias se organizam, principalmente, em dois modelos de valores complementares no Espiritismo: 1) conhecimento, inteligência, razão, estudo, livro e 2) amor, vivência, fé, trabalho, exemplo. Eles se constituem nas duas condições essenciais para se alcançar essa perfeição. O primeiro modelo está principalmente personificado na figura de Allan Kardec e o segundo, em Jesus. Nesse sentido, o Espiritismo opera na mente dos fiéis, uma síntese entre ambos os modelos, tendo em Chico Xavier a personificação dessa síntese, constituindo-se como tipo ideal de espírita. /// [en] This work resorts to the contributions of both social representations theory and the studies about social memory in order to understand the religious field – Spiritism in particular – considering the importance to remind personalities in religious practices. This survey aims to analyze the contents of social representation of perfection, the contents and structure of Spiritism personalities’ memory as well as their relation. This is a descriptive study carried out in two sessions involving 75 self-declared Spiritism subjects with 38 people in the first session and 37 in the sec ond, being 24 of them interviewed. The participants are, on average, 37.3 years old who have been engaged in Spiritism for 16.7 years. A free-evocation technique with an inducing term “Superior Spirits” was applied in the first session through the Internet as the participants claimed that people were associated with the term. In the second session, we used free evocations and questionnaires in order to characterize the participants. Based on the 12 most reminded personalities, we had a semi-structured interview with questions about characteristics, virtues, memories, personality hierarchy, and questions on the meaning of perfection and how to reach it. The evocation data were analyzed through the four-housed chart techniques along with the EVOC 2003 software and the construction of the maximum similitude tree. Analyzing the interviews through the thematic categorial analysis, we figured out that the most reminded personalities were Chico Xavier, Jesus, Allan Kardec, Emmanuel, Bezerra de Menezes, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Joanna de Ângelis, Mohandas K. Gandhi, André Luiz, Francis of Assisi, Mary (mother of Jesus), and Divaldo P. Franco. The social representation of perfection was simplified and expressed in the sentence: the hard and long way human being follow when leaving his inferiority condition to reach perfection through knowledge (obtained from labor, study, self-knowledge), getting rid of selfishness and expressing love, as demonstrated and experienced by Jesus. We also concluded that these memories are mainly organized into two complementary value patterns in Spiritism: 1) knowledge, intelligence, rationality, study, literature and 2) Love, experience, faith, labor, example. They comprise two basic conditions to reach that perfection. The first pattern is mainly personalized in Allan Kardec’s image, and the second in Jesus. According to this view, we can ascertain that Spiritism operates in the faithfull’s mind, a synthesis between both patterns, being Chico Xavier its personification and thus regarded as the ideal type of spiritist.
2016-06-27T19:03:12Z
2016-06-27T19:03:12Z
2009-01-13
2009
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71485
pt
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715832023-11-29T11:44:09Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Strategy and Leadership: An Elite Study of the Strategy Process in a Local Authority
Rappaport, Malcolm
Local government and public policy
Over the last 20 years or so, local government in Britain has been experiencing a relentless, rapidly changing environment. With successive Conservative governments introducing policies to encourage a new and improved managerialist approach during the 1980s and 1990s, there has been a shift away from the bureaucratic and professionally dominated type of administration to a more customer-focused, private sector style of management and service delivery. The impact of these changes has provoked many local authorities to adopt a more strategic approach. This thesis examines the strategy process in one such authority, a London Borough, during the midnineties following the appointment of its new chief executive. The process is seen as one essentially driven by the need for the authority to respond more effectively to the internal and external exigencies facing local government. As a case study, it explores the way the leadership, both executive and the political, moved the authority away from the former professional bureaucracy towards a more corporate way of working and management style. The thesis traces the perceptions, speculations and behaviour of the senior elected members of the political administration as well as those of the new chief executive and describes how these influenced the strategy process.
2016-06-27T19:03:54Z
2016-06-27T19:03:54Z
2001-10
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71583
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
The University of Birmingham
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/716052023-11-29T11:44:10Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Reflecting the Outside World in Everyday Consumption: Material Culture and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century Urban Latin America
Spencer, Eliot P.
History
Following the end of the colonial period, Latin America became a thriving market for goods from the industrializing world, particularly the United States, Great Britain, and France. This thesis explores the sociocultural implications of importation into Mexico City and Caracas, Venezuela, situating the flow of commodities within cultural processes. It analyzes how ordinary people in the two cities interacted with goods from abroad. While most studies of this phenomenon focus on elites, this research suggests that they did not comprise the only group to desire, acquire, and display imported commodities. In Mexico City, non-elites could achieve upward mobility by displaying European items. In Caracas, powerful external commercial ties allowed city residents of most classes to obtain foreign commodities and construct their identity by way of them. Thus, people throughout the social strata associated with imported goods, leading to internal and external effects on cultural identity.
2016-06-27T19:04:04Z
2016-06-27T19:04:04Z
2008-12
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71605
en
http://history.unc.edu
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/714892023-11-29T11:44:10Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
The Effects of Group Size on Reading Outcomes for Identified Nonresponders
Young, Caresa L.
Special Education
2016-06-27T19:03:13Z
2016-06-27T19:03:13Z
2008
2008-05
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71489
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/714982023-11-29T11:44:11Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
KEeLAN: Assessment of Turkish Local Authorities’ Front Offices on the Internet through the Context of E-Europe Basic Services to Determine the E-Government Stages and Back Office Integration of the Best-Practices Based on the EFQM Key Elements
Arslan, Aykut
Institute of Social Sciences
This research is comprised of three phases. In the first phase it explores the recent situation of the Turkish local authorities on e-Government by pointing out the basic indicators. 3228 Turkish local governments were the municipalities and form the base sampling framework of this study. For the second phase, from 969 units, 104 of these authorities offering e-service provisions were selected so as to perform a web-scan. The objective was to find 20 best practice cases under the context of 9 basic services agreed by e-Europe framework. In the third phase, a benchmarking tool developed from European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) elements was sent to these authorities’ key personnel. The aim of this benchmarking assessment was to explore the degree of change and performance in the back office organizations of the 20 best practice local authorities. SPSS was used to analyze the data. The summary results were presented in the order of 5 key elements of EFQM, starting with leadership, policy and strategy, people, partnership and resources, and processes. The sixth element, regional context, was added later by the Key Elements of Electronic Local Authorities’ Networks (KEeLAN) consortium due to the specific focus on this aspect. The overall results were compared with the European local authorities’ results. The intention of the comparisons was to give a general outlook from the both phases; to value the maturity levels of the Turkish local governments on e-services and the degree of change and performance of their back-offices. The results were however significant as well as interesting. Albeit the low number of web ownership among the Turkish local governments, they displayed excellent examples of e-services.
2016-06-27T19:03:16Z
2016-06-27T19:03:16Z
2006
2006-07-07
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71498
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715392023-11-29T11:44:12Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Luttes Contre La Transformation Urbaine Des Quartiers De Gecekondu D'istanbul: Etude De Cas Du Quartier Kazimkarabekir
Aksümer, Gizem
The Institute of Social Sciences
transformation urbaine
mouvements sociaux
movements socials
urban transformation
urban regeneration
gecekondu
squatter
Turkey
İstanbul
The urban transformation shows its effects world wide, and changes spatial and social conditions of cities, but Turkey faces the worst outcomes of this planning system. In every city, urban transformation projects mainly improve the life conditions of upper classes , albeit we can notice some practices focusing on low classes, as well.However in Turkey, the urban transformation projects not only lacks any democratic, participative or social, goals; but also tries to gain the most possible profit for the private sector. As a result, , we see urban social movements protesting this uninclusive planning system in Turkey, especially in Istanbul.Since urban transformation projects in Turkey mainly focus on the areas that experience the property or neighborhood issues, the ghetto affected the moost by these projects. Taken into account that ghetto inhabitants are experienced with urban social protests life-long; the most powerful disapproval against the urban transformation projects are observed in these kinds of neighborhoods.Ghetto inhabitants describe urban transformation projects as “non participative”, “non focused on inhabitants” and they oppose against them in two different ways, informal or juridical. These movements become more and more visible in urban Istanbul.In this context, the aim of this study is to analyze the urban social movements in Istanbul raised against the urban transformation. Although the opposing groups are composed of many nongovernmental organizations, university students, academics, international organizations, I rather focus on residents who are influenced directly by these projects and concentrate on organized societal movements of the city inhabitants. Briefly, the ghetto inhabitants are the research object of this dissertation.During my study, I addressed some questions such as “Who are against the urban transformation?, Why are they against it?, What are the aims of opponents?, How can they oppose? , What do they do to institutionalize their opposition in neighborhoods?” and exposed the features of anti – urban transformation behaviors in slums in İstanbul. While answering these questions, I posed some hypotheses and try to prove them:-The slum residents opposing urban transformation have been trying to protect their lifestyle. - The residents cannot be called as conservatives, since they are open to new ideas and to work with other groups.-They tend to form neighborhood associations and become organized under one roof.So in slums, there have been seen a common attitude, which can be described as not constant, not having a particular leader, dominant ideology, or coordination . This study aims to analyze this new behavior, which is against urban decisions.But as Castells says: “While researching the movements against the urban planning systems, considering them only as some consumer reactions is not enough. We also have to analyze the relation between social contradictions and their movements’ aim.” So, we can say that in this dissertation, movements against urban planning system will be investigated by correlating their social conditions and aims. Urban social movement will be examined through Istanbul. Choosing Istanbul has some several important reasons. First of all, Istanbul is a strategic hub, which has been among major global cities, and bears the characteristics of global cities. Locally and internationally it should be described as a sign post for capital hosts, attracting the attention of fund groups.Istanbul is the city, where migrants try to survive or habitants who were pushed out of capitalist system because of their ethnic origin, religion or sect. They can only riddance by their social network or standing together.İstanbul stands out with these characteristiscs, which make the community more ‘free’ but on the other hand, ‘conflicted. The fact that Istanbul possesses both the government constraint and the counterview makes it one of the most convenient cities for the study. The general info, which was obtained from all of the ghettos in İstanbul, ends with concurrentdetailed research in Kazımkarabekir district in Sarıyer .The reasons to choose Kazımkarabekir can be listed as follows:-The district, which is composed of many ethnic groups, has their own associations-The relationships in the neighbourhood are very strong.-Socialist groups are replaced with ideological groups -District is located on the sea side of Sarıyer, which is one of the attractions of high-income group.-Although there have not seen any ongoing urban plans around the quarters of Kazımkarabekir , experiences gained from other ghettos made , the district community alert and already rised an opposition against urban transformation.This dissertation comprised of three mains chapters. Our first chapter includes an historical context about Turkish planning systems, second is about the urban social movement especially against the planning decisions and the final chapter produces our research results about Kazımkarabekir neighborhood making a synthesis with the previous two chapters. In the first chapter, primarily emphasize on Turkey urbanization, describing it informal and analyzing in 4 periods. First period of urbanization, is a result of the formation of nation-state; and this is an important part of modernization of Turkey. Second period begins after the Second World War, and indicates the beginning of the neo-liberalization of the state. Third is the fastest urbanization period of Turkey, in this period we appear a huge increase on urban rents. In that the final period of the urbanization beginning in the late 90’. This period changes all the urban areas and social structures. Regeneration and transformation projects cause the gentrification.The second chapter of study focuses on the sharp shift of informal urbanization process to a capital based urban regeneration. Our new urbanization practice, which is not unique or integral, is now embodied by the value of change. That new urbanization practice had a great reaction of the inhabitants, occasionally demonstrated by serious protests, trials and petitions as well. Even there are several arguments rising from disagreed groups, they present a distinctive overlapping on inequity, the lack of public participation and injustice debates. In respect to this, first of all, the second section theoretically argued the social and urban movement. This debate aimed to reveal how class struggles of a society are turned into urban public movements. Afterwards, similar protests against public interferences of different societies from all over the world are examined by aiming to find the common characteristics of the acts. Lastly, determinations about ghetto neighborhoods’ historical experiments of urban actions and current appearance of Istanbul are taken into consideration. The section includes a table of the group of actors against urban regeneration that followed by the comments about the ghetto neighborhoods’ actions. In addition to the various of arguments about urban regeneration, there are various of contrary acts. It should be admitted that the struggle of ghetto neighborhoods are intended on the right of conserving the housing and the way of life.In this regard, commitment to the neighborhood, having good affairs with the neighbors, countrymen networks and promises of the urban municipality are the important factors that affect the power of the resistance. The character of the campaign can be determined by the other effective factors, such as ethnical and religious balance, political view and the activities of the dominant political groups within the neighborhood. The third chapter that consists of three sections focuses on the field study of the Kazimkarabekir neighborhood. In the first section, the physical and social characteristics are detailed. Especially, investments in the neighborhood within the last 10 years targeting high income leveled residents and the factory shut downs are listed. On the other hand, planning process is checked and the neighborhood relevant plans are examined.In the second section, resistance movement and its historical basis are examined; social solidarity networks and demand based movements are presented. Thus, the way of the inhabitants ‘neighborhood’ perceptions, such as political view, ethnical identity or generation difference, are defined. In the last section, inner dynamics and public relations of the neighborhood union are examined. The opinion of the local habitants about the union and the institutionalization of the movement are stated.Nonetheless, according to different perceptions of neighborhoods, political views or ethnical relations and generation contrasts, manners of claiming neighborhood has marked. At the last chapter, internal and external relationships of neighborhood association is studied, as well as the thoughts of the neighborhood inhabitants about the association and the institutionalization of the formation has been emphasized. In conclusion, it would not be wrong to say the activity in slum areas is related with the previous slum movements or maybe continuation of them. However the new- slum movement is being shaped, in a way that inhabitants utter their demands freely, concerning about environmental, cultural issues or other neighborhoods. It is difficult to say a movement which contains plenty of different communities has a strong organization structure. Still, one of the features of the slum movement is, in an urgent case, whichever political view people support or whatever ethnical identity they belong, people take part in that movement.
2016-06-27T19:03:35Z
2016-06-27T19:03:35Z
2010-06
2010-06
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71539
tr
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Galatasaray Üniversitesi
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715052022-01-25T15:20:11Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
El y la Politica en Cataluña Anarcosindicalismo (1936-1939). Los del Valles Occidental Ayuntamientos
Vargas Puga, Matias
Anarquistas Revolucionarios LOS, A Través De Su SINDICATO Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, EN La región más INDUSTRIALIZADA DE ESPAÑA, CATALUÑA, CON TRADICIÓN Teórica ROMPEN SU TACTICA Y POLITICO Y SE INCORPORAN AL PODER, ECONOMICO Y SOCIAL. POR EXIGENCIAS DE LA GUERRA CIVIL (1936-1939) CONTRA EL lanzas fascista de Franco, PERO TAMBIEN POR LA REALIDAD DE LA IMPOSIBILIDAD DE IMPONER SU REVOLUCIONARIA Dictadura.
2016-06-27T19:03:20Z
2016-06-27T19:03:20Z
2002-10-11
2003
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71505
es
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715202023-11-29T11:44:12Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Aula de História: uma perspectiva colaborativa na produção de conhecimento no ensino médio
Scarranaro, Márcia Maria
History
Learning and Teaching
Language
Activity Theory
This research aims to understand critically the activity of teaching and learning of History in a public school of São Paulo state, in Brazil, and its relation to a formation of citizen students. The goal is on the comprehension and critical analysis about the paper of the teachers creating a personal meeting to share the meanings, possibiliting the anticipation of students, and not only the transmission of knowledge without goals. It was realized in a public school, in Mauá city. The students involved was in a third grade, in high school, they study at night. The questions about learning and teaching of History are discussed basing in Bittencourt (1988/1990, 1997/2006), Fonseca (2003, 2004, 2007/2009) e Kuenzer (2004) that points to criticize expositive classes justifying this like a problem that makes the students have a passive position in History classes and in their lives. The learning-teaching process is understood like a social-historic activity culturally situated, focusing a paper of language in the social interaction in the introduction of learning. The theory is based in TASHC- Social Historic cultural Activity theory. According to a Vygotskian theory (1925/2004, 1930/2004, 1930a/1991, 1934/2001), Leontiev (1978) and Engeström (1987, 1999 ,2001). The metodology adopted is a critical collaboration research, according discussed by Magalhães (1994/2007, 1998b/2007, 2003/2007, 2004, 2009p),it is a intervention research focused in the comprehension of context and collaborative production of actions that aims the cohesion of groups, harmonious intimacy and the power of the people that participated of the research. The results reveal that the change in the mediated action, that are in function of needs of perceiving , act and understanding the objective reality, stimulating the exercise of citizen action more participative and critical.
2016-06-27T19:03:27Z
2016-06-27T19:03:27Z
2010
2010
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71520
pt
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715772023-11-29T11:44:15Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Microarray Approaches to Experimental Genome Annotation
Bertone, Paul
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
genomics
bioinformatics
microarray
transcription
human genome
This work describes the development and application of genomic DNA tiling arrays: microarrays designed to represent all of the DNA comprising a chromosome or other genomic locus, regardless of the genes that may be annotated in the region of interest. Because tiling arrays are intended for the unbiased interrogation of genomic sequence, they enable the discovery of novel functional elements beyond those described by existing gene annotation. This is of particular importance in mapping the gene structures of higher eukaryotes, where combinatorial exon usage produces rare splice variants or isoforms expressed in low abundance that may otherwise elude detection. Issues related to the design of both oligonucleotide- and amplicon-based tiling arrays are discussed; the latter technology presents distinct challenges related to the selection of suitable amplification targets from genomic DNA. Given the widespread fragmentation of mammalian genomes by repetitive elements, obtaining maximal coverage of the non-repetitive sequence with a set of fragments amenable to high-throughput polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification represents a non-trivial optimization problem. To address this issue, several algorithms are described for the efficient computation of optimal tile paths for the design of amplicon tiling arrays. Using these methods, it is possible to recover an optimal tile path that maximizes the coverage of non-repetitive DNA while minimizing the number of repetitive elements included in the resulting sequence fragments. Tiling arrays were constructed and used for the chromosome- and genome-wide assessment of human transcriptional activity, via hybridization to complementary DNA derived from polyadenylated RNA expressed in normal complex tissues. The approach is first demonstrated with amplicon arrays representing all of the non-repetitive DNA of human chromosome 22, then extended to the entire genome using maskless photolithographic DNA synthesis technology. A large-scale tiling array survey revealed the presence of over 10,000 novel transcribed regions and verified the expression of nearly 13,000 predicted genes, providing the first global transcription map of the human genome. In addition to those likely to encode protein sequences on the basis of evolutionary sequence conservation, many of the novel transcripts constitute a previously uncharacterized population of non-coding RNAs implicated in myriad structural, catalytic and regulatory functions.
2016-06-27T19:03:50Z
2016-06-27T19:03:50Z
2005-03
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71577
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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Yale University
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AlNathara An Alwaqf
Shaeb, Khaled
Information
waqf administration
2016-06-27T19:03:15Z
2016-06-27T19:03:15Z
2006
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71494
ar
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/714792023-11-29T11:44:18Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Agroindústria Canavieira: Uma Análise Sobre o Uso da Água na Produção Sucroalcooleira
Alves Pereira, Bruno
Sustainable Development Center
sugarcane
Water
sustainable development
The relation between water and sugarcane is a topic that has been greatly discussed, but on which there are few theoretical writings. To try to help with the small existing literature, this work presents a series of four studies. The first study researches the beginnings of the activity of sugarcane in Brazil and its dependence on water resources, for, without water, the plant could not live, neither the wheels of the royal mills, the first units of sugar production in the country, moved byhydraulic power, could work. The second study describes the effects of changes in the industrial production system of sugarcane by-products on the banks of the rivers where the first plants were installed, which followed the trends of the Industrial Revolution. The third study examines the technical changes that took place in the agricultural techniques of the sugarcane agribusiness as a result of the industrialization of agriculture, and its impacts on the bodies of water. The fourth study discusses the problems related to water availability and water use by the sugarcane agribusiness in São Paulo, currently the largest State producer of sugarcane and its by-products in Brazil. The objective of the work is to study the way in which water resources are being used by the sugarcane agribusiness over the years and to evaluate the quality of the relationship between water and sugarcane. The conclusion of the study indicates that water is being used carelesly by the sector, being consumed excessively in the stages of industrial processes and contaminated by effluents and agricultural waste.
2016-06-27T19:03:10Z
2016-06-27T19:03:10Z
2009-04
2009
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71479
pt
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715982023-11-29T11:44:18Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Das Antwortverhalten von Unternehmen im Mailvekehr
Hasewinkel, Uwe
Commerce
E_Mail
CRM
Buxton
Das Internet versetzt Unternehmen in die Lage auf Kundenanfragen und-beschwerden schnell und individuell zu reagieren. Es schafft die technische Vorraussetzung für eine wechselseitige Kommunikation zwischen dem Unternehmen und dem (potentiellen) Kunden. Der direkte Dialog über das Internet bietet dem Kunden die Möglichkeit, jederzeit mit Beschwerden, Anfragen oder Reklamationen an das Unternehmen heranzutreten. Voraussetzung für eine gelungene Kunden-Kommunikation via Internet ist jedoch ein gut funktionierendes E-Mail-Management der Unternehmen.
2016-06-27T19:04:02Z
2016-06-27T19:04:02Z
2004-01
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71598
de
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Buxton University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/716142023-11-29T11:44:19Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
The European carbon market (2005-2007): banking, pricing and risk hedging strategies
Chevallier, Julien
Economics
Tradable permits market
EU ETS
Banking and borrowing provisions
CO2 Price fundamentals
Risk aversion
Optimal risk-sharing rule
This thesis investigates the market rules of the European carbon market (EU ETS) during 2005-2007. We provide theoretical and empirical analyses of banking and borrowing provisions, price drivers and risk hedging strategies attached to tradable quotas, which were introduced to cover the CO2 emissions of around 10,600 installations in Europe.In Chapter 1, we outline the economic and environmental effects of banking and borrowing on tradable permits markets. More specifically, we examine the banking and borrowing provisions adopted in the EU ETS, and the effects of banning banking between Phases I and II on CO2 price changes. We show statistically that the low levels of CO2 prices recorded until the end of Phase I may be explained by the restriction on the inter-period tranfer of allowances, besides the main explanations that were identified by market observers.In Chapter 2, we identify the carbon price drivers since the launch of the EU ETS on January 1, 2005. We emphasize the central role played by the 2005 yearly compliance event imposed by the European Commission in revealing the net short/long position at the installation level in terms of allowances allocated with respect to verified emissions. The main result of this study features that price drivers of CO2 allowances linked to energy market prices and unanticipated weather events vary around institutional events. Moreover, we show the influence of the variation of industrial production in three sectors covered by the EU ETS on CO2 price changes by applying a disentangling analysis, that has also been extended at the country-level.In Chapter 3, we focus on the risk hedging strategies linked to holding CO2 allowances. By using a methodology applied on stock markets, we recover the changes in investors' average risk aversion. This study shows that, during the time period considered, risk aversion has been higher on the carbon market than on the stock market, and that the risk is linked to an increasing price structure after the 2006 compliance event. With reference to Chapter 1, we finally evaluate how banking may be used as a risk management tool in order to cope with political uncertainty on a tradable permits market. We detail an optimal risk-sharing rule, and discuss the possibility of pooling the risk linked to allowance trading between agents.Overall, this thesis highlights the inefficiencies following the creation of the European carbon market that prevented the emergence of a price signal leading to effective emissions reductions by industrials. However, in a changing institutional environment, these inefficiencies do not seem to have been transfered to the period 2008-2012.
2016-06-27T19:04:07Z
2016-06-27T19:04:07Z
2008-11-05
2008-11-05
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71614
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
University of Paris 10
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/220222023-11-29T11:44:20Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Production of smoke and carbon monoxide in underventilated enclosure fires
Ukleja, Sebastian
Delichatsios, Michael
Zhang, Jianping
smoke
carbon monoxide
compartment fires
This work is an experimental and theoretical analysis of factors and conditions affecting smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) production in corridor-like enclosure fires. Thirty eight experiments were performed in a three metre long corridor-like enclosure having a cross section 0.5 m x 0.5 m, door-like openings in the front panel and a propane gas burner located near the closed end. Measurements of smoke and carbon monoxide concentrations were performed at locations inside the enclosure and also in the exhaust duct of a hood collecting the combustion products.
The main conclusion of this work is that smoke production depends not only on the fuel and Global Equivalence Ratio (GER) - as is reported in the literature - but also on the temperatures and residence time inside the enclosure, at least for the experimental conditions examined in this study.
Additionally, it was found that the smoke concentration inside the enclosure was increasing during the ventilation controlled regime even after external burning started. Such increase was verified by temperature, smoke and velocity measurements inside the enclosure. The increase was due to reverse flow behind the flames travelling along the corridor. Namely, the gases reversed direction behind the flames with hot gases travelling in the upper layer backwards towards the closed end of the corridor in contrast to hot gas movements towards the opening in front of the flames. This recirculation was confirmed by velocity and oxygen concentration measurements in the upper and lower layers inside the enclosure.
In addition, the present results show that the relationship reported in the literature between smoke and carbon monoxide production during overventilated conditions yco/ys ≈ constant, is no longer valid during an underventilated enclosure fire. The ratio yco/ys increases for the Global Equivalence Ratios of the enclosure greater than one.
The obtained results are useful for CFD validation and specifically applicable for assessing smoke hazards in corridor fires in buildings where smoke concentrations can be much larger than anticipated owing to leakage to adjacent rooms behind travelling flames.
2013-05-07T14:04:48Z
2013-05-07T14:04:48Z
2012-05-25
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/22022
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715262023-11-29T11:44:21Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Health and Medicine in ancient Egypt; magic and science
Veiga, Paula
History
Health was a constant concern in life and even the deceased needed extra care so they can be at their prime when closed in the sarcophagus, in the possession of magical ‘weapons’ so that, when they would reach the Afterlife, they would be in the complete possession of all their physical abilities. Medicine in ancient Egypt was trying to restrain all malefic beings from action and to preserve the well-being of the individual. Thus the initial statement that magic and science were one and only, a sole concept, represented by heka. Through this work, all descriptions and conceptions observed in the existing legacy of ancient Egypt will lead to conclusions that attest this unique duality, if we can name it.
2016-06-27T19:03:30Z
2016-06-27T19:03:30Z
2009-06
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71526
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Universidade de Lisboa
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/714812023-11-29T11:44:22Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Building regulatory enforcement regimes. Comparative analysis of private sector involvement in the enforcement of public building regulations
Van Der Heijden, J.J.
OTB Research institute
public administration
political science
governance
regulation
enforcement
privatization
built environment
efficiency
effectiveness
equity
accountability
It is often assumed that traditional regulatory regimes centered on governmental action will benefit from greater private sector involvement. And, under the catchy phrase ‘from government to governance’ globally a wide variety of hybrid forms of governance has emerged. However, little empirical insight exists in the actual effects of such hybridization. The author aims at filling up this knowledge gap.He introduces a heuristic tool for comparative policy analysis, and applies this on a series of case studies. Following different building regulatory enforcement regimes in the Netherlands, Canada and Australia the author explains how different forms of private sector involvement play out in different settings. The thesis contains a wealth of scholarly and applied findings. It is insightful in showing different regime types and in suggesting meaningful differences in implementation and potential effects. The thesis adds both to studies on regulation of the built environment and its enforcement, and to studies on governance reform.
2016-06-27T19:03:11Z
2016-06-27T19:03:11Z
2009-03-09
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71481
http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid%3Ab38fbeda-e453-499e-a20a-dcefdf3f1dad/
en
http://jeroenvanderheijden.net/
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715742023-11-29T11:44:22Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Strategic Issues in Training and Development in the IT Service Industry at Kolkata Region: A Study
Das, Anup Kumar
Business Administration
Human resource management
training and development
IT industry
strategic management
IT service industry
Kolkata
West Bengal
India
Present study deals with training and development strategies in IT service industry in Kolkata region. This study highlighted present trends and common practices in training and development activities in specific and in human resources management in general. InfoTech sector is a thrust area of economic development in developing economies, like in India. Government and private joint initiatives make this sector a sunshine industry sector. Potentials of human resources explore in the professionally managed IT service companies. The training and development activities strengthen capabilities of IT service companies and help them to achieve excellence. Present study evaluated the heart of this knowledge industry, which centered on knowledge workers. Present study briefly elaborated the training and development practices of two top-ranked companies in Kolkata and found some unique modes of delivery of training. This study also pointed out that companies placed in higher value-chain have long-term vision as compared to ones in lower in value-chain.
2016-06-27T19:03:48Z
2016-06-27T19:03:48Z
2005-03
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71574
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Indira Gandhi National Open University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715362023-11-29T11:44:23Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Toma la palabra, toma los medios, tomas las calles: Oaxaca 2006. Los medios libres: nuevas herramientas para los movimientos sociales
Hernández Baca, Laura Talina
Social Anthropology
Medios libres
Software libre
Movimientos Sociales
Radio libre
Esta investigación analiza cuáles son los factores sociales y tecnológicos que han brindado la posibilidad del nacimiento de los medios libres como se conocen ahora, y que también permiten que la difusión de la información se haga de manera mucho más rápida y eficaz. Estos factores sociales y tecnológicos también han influido en la generación de nuevos espacios para la difusión de la información y nuevas formas de acción política que repercuten en los movimientos provocando cambios en sus formas de organización. En el marco de estas nuevas condiciones sociales, el objetivo principal de esta investigación es analizar las redes sociales para la difusión de la información y el intercambio de conocimiento, a través de un estudio de caso sobre la relación que estableció Radio Zapote, una radio libre ubicada en la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, con Radio Universidad, estación de la Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca tomada por la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca en 2006, para poder así describir cuáles son las funciones de los medios libres que les permiten ser nuevas herramientas para los movimientos sociales.
2016-06-27T19:03:33Z
2016-06-27T19:03:33Z
2010
2010-08
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71536
es
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
Escuela Nacional de antropologia e historia (Mexico)
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715112023-11-29T11:44:24Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Analysis of the visitors' profile of the islands Ilha do Superagüi e Ilha do Mel - Marketing as an instrument for sustainable tourism
Niefer, Inge Andrea
Forest economics
ecotourism
sustainable tourism
visitors’ profile
protected areas
islands
conservation
green marketing
benefit segmentation
k-means clustering
The objectives of this work were to analyze and to compare the visitors of the immediate surroundings of two protected areas in the State of Paraná: the National Park of Superagüi and the Ecological Station “Ilha do Mel”, both islands. There was applied a questionnaire with 37 qualitative and quantitative questions. The questionnaire consisted of five parts: sociodemographic characteristics; trip characteristics; environmental conscience and attitudes; favorite activities and motivation; and perception of the destiny. The data were collected through personal interviews that in the average took from 20 to 30 minutes. 327 questionnaires were applied in Superagüi; in the period of December of 1998 to May of 2000, and 392 on the Ilha do Mel, in the period of April of 2000 to June of 2000. There are significant differences among the visitors of the two islands, this practically in all the researched characteristics. The public of the Ilha do Mel is significantly younger, what influences in several other variables, such as: civil status; education degree; and employment situation. 84% of the visitors of Ilha do Mel heard about it through friends/family, while in Superagüi only 67%. Ilha do Mel, for being a tourist destiny already for a longer time and the easy access, receives a larger number of people with repeated visits. Tourism was trip objective to a larger portion of the visitors of Ilha do Mel; in compensation they were observed significantly more researchers in Superagüi. Visitors’ environmental conscience can be considered high on both islands, but the one of the visitors of Ilha do Mel was inferior to Superagüi. Fewer respondents knew that the place they visited is a protected area. The value of the entrance fee that they are willing to pay was significantly smaller, as well as the disposition to follow the rules in favor of the conservation of nature. The interest in social and environmental subjects was significantly higher among the visitors of Superagüi. They were also willing to pay more for the use of environmental sane techniques than the respondents on Ilha do Mel. The interest in practicing the 25 tourist activities was significantly different between the two places. The comparison of the visitors’ attitude towards to problems showed that a part of the interviewees in Superagüi is much less inconvenienced with problems linked to the infrastructure that reduce the comfort during the stay, confirmed this fact by the smaller importance they give to items of tourist infrastructure. Among the visitors of Superagüi there was an accentuated concern with the improvement of the quality of the host community's life, fact not noticed on Ilha do Mel. In terms of motivation, it was shown that the visitors of Superagüi have larger appreciation to the natural and cultural values and the escape of the stress of the city than the ones of Ilha do Mel. There was also accomplished a benefit segmentation, showing that it is possible to identify distinct segments among the visitors of the same place. In Superagüi they were identified the following clusters: 1) the indifferent ones; 2) the non-sociable adventurers; 3) the sociable adventurers; 4) the enthusiasts; and 5) the non-sociable naturalists. On Ilha do Mel there were identified five different clusters: 1) the sociable adventurers; 2) the pure naturalists; 3) the enthusiasts; 4) the indifferent ones; and 5) the cultural naturalists.
2016-06-27T19:03:23Z
2016-06-27T19:03:23Z
2002-05
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71511
pt
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Universidade federal do Paraná
Govt. Sanskrit College (Tripunithura, India)
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/191642023-11-29T11:44:24Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Kinetic Characterization And Newly Discovered Inhibitors For Various Constructs Of Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus-I Protease And Inhibition Effect Of Discovered Molecules On HTLV-1 Infected Cells
DEMIR, AHU
Dunn, Ben M.
Protease
Human T-cell Leukemia Virus-1 (HTLV-1)
enzyme kinetics
small molecule inhibitors
Discovered in 1980, HTLV-1 (Human T-cell Leukemia Virus-1), was the first identified human retrovirus and is shown to be associated with a variety of diseases including: adult T-cell leukemia lymphoma (ATLL), tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-1 associated myelopathy (TSP/HAM), chronic arthropathy, uveitis, infective dermatitis, and polymyositis. The mechanism by which the virus causes disease is still unknown. HTLV- 1 infection has been reported in many regions of the world but is most prevalent in Southern Japan, the Caribbean basin, Central and West Africa, the Southeastern United States, Melanesia, parts of South Africa, the Middle East and India. Approximately 30 million people are infected by HTLV-1 worldwide, although only 3-5% of the infected individuals evolve Adult T-cell Leukemia (ATL) during their life and the prognosis for those infected is still poor.
The retroviral proteases (PRs) are essential for viral replication because they process viral Gag and Gag-(Pro)-Pol polyproteins during maturation, much like the PR from Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 (HIV-1). Various antiviral inhibitors are in clinical use and one of the most significant classes is HIV-1 PR inhibitors, which have used for antiretroviral therapy in the treatment of AIDS. HTLV-1 PR and HIV-1 PR are homodimeric aspartic proteases with 125 and 99 residues, respectively. Even though substrate specificities of these two enzymes are different, HTLV-1 PR shares 28% similarity with HIV-1 PR overall and the substrate binding sites have 45% similarity.
In addition to the 125-residue full length HTLV-1 PR, constructs with various C- terminal deletions (giving proteases with lengths of 116, 121, or 122 amino acids) were made in order to elucidate the effect of the residues in the C-terminal region. It was suggested that five amino acids in the C-terminal region are not necessary for the enzymatic activity in Hayakawa et al. 1992. In 2004 Herger et al. had suggested that 10 amino acids at the C-terminal region are not necessary for catalytic activity. A recent paper suggested that C-terminal residues are essential; and that catalytic activity lowers upon truncation, with even the last 5 amino acids necessary for full catalytic activity (1).
The mutation L40I has been made to prevent autoproteolysis and the W98V mutation was made to make the active site of HTLV-1 PR similar to HIV-1 PR. We have characterized C-terminal amino acids of HTLV-1 PR as not being essential for full catalytic activity. We have discovered potential new inhibitors by in silico screening of 116-HTLV-1 PR. These small molecules were tested kinetically for various constructs including the 116, 121 and 122-amino acid forms of HTLV-1 PR. Inhibitors with the best inhibition constants were used in HTLV-1 infected cells and one of the inhibitors seems to inhibit gag processing.
2013-01-30T15:23:47Z
2013-01-30T15:23:47Z
2010-10-21
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19164
en_US
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715422023-11-29T11:44:41Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Development and Differentiation of the Vertebrate Pituitary Gland
Reyes Rodríguez, Ricardo
Microbiology (Cell Biology area)
Pituitary gland
Development
Embriology
Differentiation
Proliferation
Immunochemistry
In situ hibridization
A detailed study was made in this doctoral thesis on the development and differentiation of the vertebrate pituitary gland, with the aim to establish a fate map in Rathke's pouch of the origin of different hormone producing cells present in the adult pituitary gland, that explain if the differences observed in the distribution pattern of different hormone producing cells in the adult is the consecuence of differences in their development. For this reason, the study was made in two vertebrate groups, Mammals and Avian, that present notable differences in their hormone producing cell distribution patterns. The results allowed us to conclude that the origin of different hormone producing cells in Rathke’s pouch determine their definitive distribution in the adult gland. At the same time, the relationship between proliferation and differentiation was studied, showing us that after differentiation, hormone producing cells continue proliferating with a low rate, contributing to the establishment of differentiated populations. Using immunochemicals and in situ hidridization techniques, the expression of different molecules such as hypothalamic releasing factors; different peptides, whose role as modulators in different pituitary axis have been proposed in the adult animal; different calcium binding proteins and transcription factors in relation to the differentiation of different hormone producing cells, was also studied in this work, allowing us to establish different relationships between some of these factors and specific aspects of the development and differentiatin of the pituitary gland.
2016-06-27T19:03:38Z
2016-06-27T19:03:38Z
2002-07
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71542
es
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
University of La Laguna
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715882023-11-29T11:44:42Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
A Study of Czechoslovak Immigration and Their Contributions to Vocational Education in Chicago Between 1875 and 1935
Kugler, John
Technology and Education
The objective of this thesis will be to convey data to understand, to what extent did Czechoslovak immigrants influence the building of the Chicago public school systemand in turn, how the immigrants changed as the result of their participation within the public school system of Chicago. Information is presented to investigate links between the Czechoslovak immigrants, the city of Chicago, and the public school system. Reports, letters, archival documents, and histories are put forth in an attempt to uncover correlations between the variables: public schools, immigrants, and host society. The findings correlate with the idea that an exchange of values between the variables takes place, in some cases hindering improvement and creating stress on the environment, but the overall result of interaction between the variables encourages progress and growth.
2016-06-27T19:03:56Z
2016-06-27T19:03:56Z
2003-11
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71588
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Chicago State University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/716292023-11-29T11:44:42Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Mujeres: literatura, representación en los sistemas de clasificación y estudio bibliográfico
Rojas Ruiz, Sofía
College of Library Science, Faculty of Arts
Mujeres y literatura
Sistema de clasifiación LC
Análisis bibliográfico
Este trabajo nació de la inquietud personal de la autora a partir de algunos cursos y lecturas en torno al binómio litaratura-mujeres. En el primer capítulo la autora hace una revisión del feminismo y las teorías literarias feministas, las cuales sirvieron para respaldar la bibliografía contenida en esta tesis. En el segundo capítulo se presenta un estudio sobre la sintaxis, semántica y los principios de la división del conocimiento a los que obedece el sistema el Clasificación LC, particularmente la subclase HQ, de la clase H, a partir de implicaciones ideológicas y la reproducción de esquemas de dominación a través de instrumentos técnicos. En el tercer capítulo se muestran las relaciones bibliográficas de las obras de cinco escritoras latinoamericanas y una bibliografía de textos escritos por mujeres en América Latina. Estas cinco escritoras fueron elegidas basandose en conocimiento y gustos personales de la autora. El alcance de esta tesis termina con una aproximación bibliografía de carácter geográfico-temporal de la mujeres latinoamericanas del siglo XX.
2016-06-27T19:04:12Z
2016-06-27T19:04:12Z
2008
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71629
es
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715062022-01-25T15:20:09Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
La Cnt a la Politica Catalana Durant la Guerra Civil (1936-1939). Els Del Vallès Occidental Ajuntaments
Vargas Puga, Matias
Escrita EN CATALÁN IDIOMA, Y OTRAS Cuestiones Relacionadas AMPLIA CON MI TESIS DOCTORAL REVISA DEL AÑO 2001 "ACTIVIDAD POLITICA DE LA IZQUIERDA ES DURANTE LA Libertaria COMARCA DEL LA GUERRA CIVIL OCCIDENTAL" (UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACION A DISTANCIA VALLÈS, FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA) (ESPAÑA) (REFERENCIAS A LA MISMA EN INTERNET: www.educacion.es/teseo/. Also available in: www.e-spacio.uned.es:8080. Also available in: www.cibernetia.com/tesis_es/HISTORIA/ HISTORIA_POR_EPOCAS / HISTORIA_CONTEMPORANEA / 4.Importancia RADICA EN QUE SE DE SU ESTUDIO MUY Trata de las Naciones,, PODER POLÍTICO DEL Unidas PORMENORIZADO, ECONOMICO, SOCIAL Y MILITAR DE LAS ORGANIZACIONES EN CONTEXTO Anarquistas de la ONU Y DE GUERRA ES UNA ZONA ECONOMICA DESARROLLADA, ASÍ COMO AL DE LA CON CONFRONTARSE Teórica PREVIA CIRCUNDANTE La Realidad, SE VEN OBLIGADOS A UNA EVOLUCIÓN TOTALMENTE A SU PENSAMIENTO POLÍTICO ANTERIOR Contraria.
2016-06-27T19:03:21Z
2016-06-27T19:03:21Z
2005
2005
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71506
ca
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715442023-11-29T11:44:43Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Lo Global y lo Local en Brazil: la Reestructuración Neoliberal y su Impacto en las Ciudades
Machado, Jorge
Programa Analisis Sociopolíico de la Sociedad Contempor&áea
global
local
relación
reestructuración
neoliberalismo
américa latina
brasil
brazil
reforms
globalización
globalization
globalizierung
Porto Alegre
sociologia
2016-06-27T19:03:38Z
2016-06-27T19:03:38Z
2001-08
Dissertation
84-699-6871-8
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71544
es
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Universidad de Granada
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/714772023-11-29T11:44:44Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Advances in Answer Set Planning
Polleres, Axel
Knowledge Based Systems Group - E184/3, Institute of Information Systems, Computer Science Department
Answer Set programming
AI Planning
DLV
Declarative Logic Progamming
Conformant Planning
Planning with Action Costs
Planning is a challenging research area since the early days of Artificial Intelligence. The planning problem is the task of finding a sequence of actions leading an agent from a given initial state to a desired goal state. Whereas classical planning adopts restricting assumptions such as complete knowledge about the initial state and deterministic action effects, in real world scenarios we often have to face incomplete knowledge and non-determinism. Classical planning languages and algorithms do not take these facts into account. So, there is a strong need for formal languages describing such non-classical planning problems on the one hand and for (declarative) methods for solving these problems on the other hand.In this thesis, we present the action language Kc, which is based on flexible action languages from the knowledge representation community and extends these by useful concepts from logic programming.We define two basic semantics for this language which reflect optimistic and secure (i.e. sceptical) plans in presence of incomplete information or nondeterminism. These basic semantics are furthermore extended to planning with action costs, where each action can have an assigned cost value. Here, we address optimal plans as well as plans which stay within a certain overall cost limit.Next, we develop efficient (i.e. polynomial) transformations from planning problems described in our language Kc to disjunctive logic programs which are then evaluated under the so-called Answer Set Semantics. In this context, we introduce a general new method for problem solving in Answer Set Programming (ASP) which takes the genuine "guess and check" paradigm in ASP into account and allows us to integrate separate "guess" and "check" programs into a single logic program. Based on these methods, we have implemented the planning system DLVK. We discuss problem solving and knowledge representation in Kc using DLVK by means of several examples. The proposed methods and the DLVK system are also evaluated experimentally and compared against related approaches. Finally, we present a practical application scenario from the area of design and monitoring of multi-agent systems. As we will see, this monitoring approach is not restricted to our particular formalism.
2016-06-27T19:03:08Z
2016-06-27T19:03:08Z
2003-08-27
2003-08-27
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71477
http://www.polleres.net/publications/poll-2003-thesis.pdf
en
http://www.tuwien.ac.at/
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/
http://www.polleres.net/
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/1081262023-11-29T11:44:44Zcom_10919_5com_10919_25799com_10919_18725col_10919_70873col_10919_18726
Community-based Shrimp Aquaculture in Northwestern Sri Lanka
Galappaththi, Eranga K.
Environment, Earth, and Resources
This thesis investigates small-scale community-based shrimp aquaculture (CBSA) in northwestern Sri Lanka. The objectives are to explore: (1) community-based shrimp aquaculture; (2) commons institutions and application of commons rules; and (3) policy implications (i.e., as an alternative to large-scale operations in ensuring sustainability). Data were gathered from three communities in northwestern Sri Lanka, through participant observations; semi-structured interviews; focus group discussions; and key informant interviews.
Presence of small-scale community-based institutions is evident. Arguably, commons in this context are social-ecological systems, including the interconnected natural water body. Main characteristics of the existing resource governance system are multi-level commons institutional structure; zonal crop calendar system; collaborative/participatory management approach; and better management practices. A SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis proves the viability of existing CBSA. This thesis recognizes CBSA as an alternative approach to large-scale aquaculture operations to ensure sustainability in the long run.
2022-02-03T18:35:16Z
2022-02-03T18:35:16Z
2013
2022-02-03T18:35:15Z
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/108126
Galappaththi, Eranga [0000-0002-3926-2206]
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
University of Manitoba
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715432023-11-29T11:44:45Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Returning Science to the Scientists. Der Umbruch im STM-Fachzeitschriftenmarkt durch Electronic Publishing
Meier, Michael
German Studies, Publishing Science
scholarly publishing
electronic publishing
journal crisis
library science
science
medicine technology publishing
journals
digitalisation
This disseratition copes with a actual and controversly discussed topic. It is a compilation and knowledgable discussion of central analyses concerning the journals crisis with special regard to electronic publishing as well as initiatives of the open access, selfarchiving and preprint server community. It serves as a source of contributions of different actors in the market for electronic scholarly information, being commercial or uncommercial publishers, scholarly societies, libraries, etc.
2016-06-27T19:03:38Z
2016-06-27T19:03:38Z
2002-05
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71543
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Ludwig-Maximilinas-Universität München
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/651542023-11-29T11:44:46Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
A History of Swimwear Reflecting Some Sociological and Technological Changes
Rust, Terrie Ellen
Home Economics
Christensen, Barbara
Bathing suits -- History
Bathing suits -- Social aspects
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-127).
The purpose of this study was to research the effects of sociological and technological changes on the development of swimwear. Bathing and swimming suit styles have reflected attitudes toward male-female relationships, the status of women, and public nudity. Technological developments in fibers and fabrics improved the appearance, wear, and practicality of swimming suits. Reductions in working hours and the development of labor-saving devices created leisure time. Swimming became a popular leisure time activity. Beauty pageants utilized the bathing suit as a means of exploiting the female form. The entrance of women as active participants in swimming necessitated a practical costume. Swimwear designers have contributed to the relative "undress" of the bathing suit. Laws relating to bathing, bathing suits, and swimming were enacted. Reductions in the amount of fabric used in bathing dresses were the result of innovations in women's undergarments, functional requirements of the sport of swimming, sunbathing, and an increasing degree of informality in social behavior.
2016-04-15T17:42:25Z
2016-04-15T17:42:25Z
1977
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/65154
14293539
en_US
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Virginia Tech
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715722023-12-05T02:02:19Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
A training study using an artificial orthography: Effects of reading experience, lexical quality, and text comprehension in L1 and L2
Hart, Lesley
Cognitive Psychology
reading comprehension
artificial orthography
lexical quality
experience
homophone
frequency
college
adult
Text comprehension in adults is correlated with a number of other abilities including working memory span, inference making, and reading experience. There are fewer studies reporting correlations between lexical and sublexical skill and comprehension skill in adults. Comprehension skill in adults may constitute (1) a basic comprehension skill, like lexical skill, that drives the ability to construct representations of text and analyze them; (2) a more sensitive measure of lexical skill, for which it is difficult to measure sufficient variability in competent readers; or (3) a learned skill, derived from an individual’s reading experience. Reading a greater quantity and more varied texts increases the size of the knowledge base, the efficiency with which information can be accessed, the likelihood that effective reading strategies will be developed, and with these the enjoyment of reading and the desire to read more. These possibilities are explored in this experiment.We developed sensitive tests of lexical skill and measured comprehension skill and lexical skill using multiple tests in a large number of college students. In order to determine the effect of lexical skill on comprehension skill we divided participants into groups based on both variables in a two by two design. Using an artificial orthography allowed us to control reading experience.Patterns of responses to homophones and nonhomophones and to high and low frequency words indicate that differences in lexical skill affect not only the extent and time course of lexical activation but also the direction of the effect. There is some evidence for an interaction with comprehension ability.Lexical skill affected speed of learning and degree of learning success. Comprehension skill affected the ability to use the artificial orthography in other tasks, including ERP tasks. Effects were not mediated by working memory, inferencing, or lexical skill, suggesting the influence of a basic comprehension skill and an ability to assess the needs of new tasks and adapt their performance appropriately. Both lexical and comprehension skill affected performance on tasks in English, suggesting an influence of reading experience.
2016-06-27T19:03:47Z
2016-06-27T19:03:47Z
2005-08
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71572
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
University of Pittsburgh
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/1132382023-11-29T11:44:47Zcom_10919_5com_10919_25799com_10919_18725col_10919_70873col_10919_18726
Bridging the Geospatial Education-Workforce Divide: A Case Study on How Higher Education Can Address the Emerging Geospatial Drivers and Trends of the Intelligent Web Mapping Era
Stout, Wendy R.
School of Education
Gillespie, Carol Ann
Ozolnieks, Matthew
Geospatial education
Geographic information systems
Intelligent web mapping
Workforce preparedness
The purpose of this exploratory collective case study is to discover how geospatial education can meet the geospatial workforce needs of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the emerging intelligent web mapping era. Geospatial education uses geographic information systems (GIS) to enable student learning by increasing in-depth spatial analysis and meaning using geotechnology tools (Baker & White, 2003). Bandura’s (1977) self-efficacy theory and geography concept of spatial thinking form an integrated theoretical framework of spatial cognition for this study. Data collection included in-depth interviews of twelve geospatial stakeholders, documentation collection, and supporting Q methodology to determine the viewpoints of a total of 41 geospatial stakeholders. Q methodology is a type of data collection that when used as a qualitative method utilizes sorting by the participant to determine their preferences. Data analysis strategies included cross-case synthesis, direct interpretation, generalizations, and a correlation matrix to show similarities in participants' preferences. The results revealed four collaborative perceptions of the stakeholders, forming four themes of social education, technology early adoption, data collaboration, and urban fundamentals. Four strategies were identified for higher education to prepare students for the emerging geospatial workforce trends. These strategies are to teach fundamentals, develop agile faculty and curriculum, use an interdisciplinary approach, and collaborate. These strategies reflect the perceptions of stakeholders in this study on how higher education can meet the emerging drivers and trends of the geospatial workforce.
2023-01-18T17:14:03Z
2023-01-18T17:14:03Z
2022-03-15
2023-01-09T21:09:12Z
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/113238
Stout, Wendy [0000-0002-1829-8752]
en
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/3446/
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/3446/
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Liberty University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/716232023-11-29T11:44:55Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Organic matter dynamics in mixed-farming systems of the West African savanna: a village case study from south Senegal
Manlay, Raphael
Environment Science
Biomass
Carbon
Fallow
Fertility
Flux
Livestock
Manure
Mixed-farming system
Nitrogen
Organic matter
Phosphorus
Plant
Senegal
Soil
Stock
Organic matter (OM) is a multi-purpose tool in West African smallholder mixed-farming systems, but its supply has been decreasing for several decades. To assess the viability of a mixed-farming system of south Senegal, carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P; available in soil and noted POD) budgets (stocks and flows) were thus quantified.The village territory of the study showed a ring-like organisation with growing intensification of fertilization and cropping practices from the periphery (bush ring) to the compounds (compound fields).Stocks in plant and soil averaged 54.7 tC, 2.63 tN and 43.5 kgP ha 1 in old fallows. They were 97, 29 and 251 % higher than in the bush cropped fields, plant biomass accounting for nearly all of the rise. C, N and P amounts recorded in the soil of compound fields were higher than those of the bush field, but the increase was restricted mainly to the 0 10 cm layer. However, the rather weak response of local sandy soils to management can be interpreted only by reassessing the bio-thermodynamical signification of soil organic carbon cycling in the maintenance of the integrity of local agroecosystems.Manageable stocks of the whole village territory were estimated to 29.7 tC, 1.52 tN and 28.6 kgP ha 1 in 1997. Carbon was stored mainly in soil. Livestock, crop harvest and wood collecting were responsible for respectively 59, 27 and 14 % of the C uptake on the village territory. As a result, large C flows were set towards the compound ring (3.8 tC ha 1 y 1). N and P depletion of the system amounted to 4 kgN and 1 kgP ha 1 y 1, suggesting that the system was close to nutrient balance.Under current demographic growth rate, C depletion may reach 0.38 tC ha 1 y 1 and C demand may double during the next three decades. Without any intensification of farming practices, the viability of the system might soon be called into question.
2016-06-27T19:04:11Z
2016-06-27T19:04:11Z
2000-05
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71623
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (ENGREF)
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/714842023-11-29T11:44:56Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Sistemul Internaţional Şi Politica Puterilor Minore. Cazul României, 1913-1989
Miroiu, Andrei
2016-06-27T19:03:12Z
2016-06-27T19:03:12Z
2004
2004
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71484
ro
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715372023-11-29T11:45:05Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
The object-oriented composition of DES simulation software from prefabricated components developed within different programming environments
Carvalho, Maps
Lancaster Management School - Management Science
Developers of simulation software have responded to the increasing commercial demand for customised solutions by adding new features and tools to their existing simulation packages. This has led to huge, monolithic applications with functionalities that are constantly extended by addition of wizards, templates and add-ons in ‘generalisingcustomising-generalising’ development cycle. This approach has been successful so far,but customising much of the contemporary simulation software is increasingly difficult. An alternative approach is to compose, simulation packages from prefabricated components that the users may select, modify and assemble so to acquire the functionality that suits each simulation model. This strategy requires component-based paradigms and integration mechanisms that support the straightforward composition of components regardless of their development and deployment contexts.This research exploits the Microsoft’s .NET integration philosophy to investigate how discrete event simulation (DES) software could pursue a component-based approach that integrates components sourced within distinct contexts. The thesis describes the DotNetSim project that explores the composition of DES applications from components developed within different Microsoft packages in different programming languages. This is done by prototyping DES software across the entire requirements of a simulation application package.The DotNetSim prototype consists of a Visio-based DES modelling environment which integrates with a .NET simulation engine which, in turn, integrates with an Excel-based output analysis environment. The graphical modelling environment emulates Schruben’s Event Graph methodology for simulation modelling. VisioTM is extended by a number of VBA programs to link together different Microsoft applications in order to capture the models’ application logic and dynamics. The simulation engine consists of a number of C# and VB.Net components that implement an event-based simulation executive. It reads the model’s logic and dynamics by instantiating the graphical modelling environment, runs the event-based simulation and returns the simulation results to Excel for analysis. The output analysis environment is a template that illustrates the specialisation of the generic data analysis and reporting capabilities of ExcelTM to serve the simulation analysis. The components interact directly by instantiating one another’s objects.These three coarse-grained components could be substituted by others that deliver the same functionality, though with different internal operations. With further work, these components could be deployed as web services to which the model’s logic is remotely input.
2016-06-27T19:03:34Z
2016-06-27T19:03:34Z
2007-01-05
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71537
http://cat.lib.lancs.ac.uk/F/7XPKUP9JMLKM8GAQ6KK9FDFE8M682X4UX87FEG1Y995RS2S6YN-00704?func=find-b&request=adelaide+carvalho&find_code=WRD&local_base=THESE&x=31&y=5
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
University of Lancaster
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715312023-11-29T11:45:06Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Distribution and prognostic relevance of cell adhesion molecules and cytokines in the serum of Hodgkin disease patients
Kessler, Marcus
Internal Medicine
2016-06-27T19:03:32Z
2016-06-27T19:03:32Z
2003-10-29
2003-10-29
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71531
de
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Universität zu Köln
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715642023-11-29T11:45:06Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Nominal Determination: Focus on a Few Operations in Cameroon Pidgin English
Leoue, Jean Gilbert
English Linguistics
Cameroon
Pidgin English
Noun Phrase
reduplication
anaphora
articles determination
Based on a contrastive and variationist approach, this research work sheds light on the study of the structure of the Noun Phrase in Cameroon Pidgin English in contrast with Standard British English. Among other relevant topics, the following aspects of the NP are considered: the system of pronouns, nominal anaphora, the system of articles, the deictic implementation, quantification, intensification and reduplication.
2016-06-27T19:03:44Z
2016-06-27T19:03:44Z
1996-06
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71564
fr
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715542023-11-29T11:45:07Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Genus och vetenskaplig publicering: en bibliometrisk studie av amerikansk biblioteksforskning
Håkanson, Malin
Library and Information Studies
bibliometrics
scholarly communication
library studies
Gender
College & Research Libraries
Journal of Academic Librarianship
Library Quarterly
The purpose of this paper is to examine how the relationship between the socially constructed genders is manifested in American library science. To visualize gender, bibliometric analyses of peer reviewed articles published in three core journals of library science between 1980 and 2000 inclusive, are performed. The three journals are: College & Research Libraries, Journal of Academic Librarianship and Library Quarterly.Questions:1. Does gender affect the publishing process regarding the distribution of female and male authors?2. Does gender influence female and male authors' choice of references?3. Does gender affect the share of citations received by works of women and men respectively?4. Does gender influence collaboration regarding the distribution of co-authoring female and male authors?The bibliometric analyses indicate differences between the shares of female and male authors, as well asdifferences in the attention women and men give to and receive from other female and male authors respectively. It is assumed that there exists a gender contract (an implicit agreement of how men and women are expected to behave towards each other) which is renegotiated during the period of time of this study, seemingly to the benefit of female authors as they are given a larger space in publishing. But concerning citations there is a delay in regard to male authors' tendency to cite works by women. This might indicate that the importance of gender has not diminished but become more subtle and complex. The conclusion is that gender indeed influences publishing, referencing, citation and collaboration processes of library science.
2016-06-27T19:03:41Z
2016-06-27T19:03:41Z
2003-03
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71554
sv
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
The Swedish School of Library and Information Science at Högskolan i Borås
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/1127052023-11-29T11:45:07Zcom_10919_5com_10919_25799com_10919_18725col_10919_70873col_10919_18726
Speaking The Unspoken: Silence, Language, and Form in Contemporary Poetry
Paretti, Marie C.
English
Keller, Lynn
Friedman, Susan
Wallace, Ronald
Poetry
Graham, Jorie
Glȕck, Louise
Palmer, Michael
Philip, M. Nourbese
This dissertation explores the way for late 20th century poets use form in their work as means to map, encounter, witness to, and struggle with various kinds of silences. It explores the work of Louise Glȕck, M. Nourbese Philip, Jorie Graham, and Michael Palmer.
2022-11-28T14:15:23Z
2022-11-28T14:15:23Z
1997
2022-11-25T20:59:30Z
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/112705
Paretti, Marie [0000-0002-2202-6928]
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
University of Wisconsin - Madison
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715342023-11-29T11:45:08Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Thucydides and U.S. Foreign Policy Debates after the Cold War
Bloxham, John
Classics
This thesis examines the reception of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War in US foreign policy debates since the end of the Cold War. It begins with a background survey of Thucydides’ use in foreign policy debates up to and during the Cold War, primarily by the realist school of international relations, and the comparisons which were drawn between the Cold War and the Peloponnesian War. After the Cold War, these comparisons became less relevant to current debates, and critics of realism began to use Thucydides to support their own theories. The emphasis is on how the three key movements since the Cold War, realism, liberal internationalism and neoconservatism, have each saw aspects in Thucydides’ writing to admire and utilise for their theories, at the same time building competing interpretations of key sections from Thucydides’ History. At the same time, as well as drawing abstract theories from Thucydides, analysts have also drawn historical parallels between the present and the Peloponnesian War in a creative process which results in modern states playing different ancient roles depending upon the context. I show that Thucydides’ text lends itself particularly well to such recycling due to the author’s tendency to highlight complex tensions without providing explicit authorial ‘answers’.
2016-06-27T19:03:32Z
2016-06-27T19:03:32Z
2010
2010-10-01
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71534
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
University of Nottingham
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715942023-11-29T11:45:09Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
A Study of Some Factors Influencing Attitudes Towards Energy Education and its Relationship with Academic Qualifications and Personality Characteristics of Secondary School Teachers in Devi Patan Region (Uttar Pradesh) India
Shukla, Bhavna
education
Energy Education
This study concerns seven factors Area, Sex, Age, Stream, Social background, Economic Status and Academic Qualification influencing attitudes towards Energy Education and their relationship with personality characteristics. Objectives of this study were to compare the attitudes of these different groups which were translated into null hypotheses. Stratified random sampling was applied and data was collected from secondary school teachers of Devi Patan Region, Uttar Pradesh (India) using Likert Scale and Meenakshi Personality Inventory. It was found that 96% teachers cutting across above factors accepted the importance of Energy Education and their personality traits do not have any significant effect on attitudes.
2016-06-27T19:04:02Z
2016-06-27T19:04:02Z
2006-05
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71594
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Awadh University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/837752023-11-29T11:45:09Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Relationship between the Emotional Intelligence of the Lead Clergy and Church Growth in North America
Bassey, George
School of Leadership
Morris, Charles
Powell, D. Brent
Owens, Howard
Emotional intelligence
Church growth
Church clergy
Leadership
Church attendance decline
Clergy leadership
Church worship attendance
Followers expect leaders to provide clarity and assurance in uncertain times. These expectations apply to church leaders as well. American churches are in crisis regarding growth in worship attendance. According to Eymann (2012) and Shattuck (2014), more than 85% of churches in the United States are either stagnant or in decline. In addition, Redfern (2015) posited that about 4,000 churches in America are closed down each year. However, the good news is that a few churches in the United States are experiencing consistent growth in weekly worship attendance. If the pastoral leadership in those growing churches has anything to do with the growth, the researcher wondered what leadership qualities those pastoral leaders possessed that could be lacking in the pastoral leaders of churches that are not growing. Keen interest in whether or not the Emotional Intelligence competencies of the lead clergy of growing churches have any relationship with the growth, served as the impetus for this research study. This quantitative study was intended to investigate what relationship, if any, existed between the Emotional Intelligence competences of the lead clergy and church growth in the selected congregations within the Wesleyan Church North America. The Genos Emotional Intelligence Inventory Concise instrument was utilized to assess and to determine the scoring pattern in the Emotional Intelligence competencies of the selected lead clergy within the Wesleyan Church North America. The conclusion of the study was that, of the seven competencies of Emotional Intelligence, only Emotional Reasoning was significantly higher among the lead clergy of growing Wesleyan churches than those of the lead clergy in the Wesleyan churches that were not growing. Other Emotional Intelligent competencies showed no significant differences.
2018-06-26T15:26:13Z
2018-06-26T15:26:13Z
2018-02-23
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83775
en
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
Piedmont International University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/716062022-01-25T15:20:09Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Artificial Intelligence and Law Using Rule Based Expert Systems
Engle, Eric
Faculty of Law
law
artificial intelligence
legal
juridical
jurist
expert system
rule based
forward
backward
chaining
Uses rule based AI (forward and backward chaining) to model legal decision making by judges.
2016-06-27T19:04:05Z
2016-06-27T19:04:05Z
2005
2008
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71606
http://www.geocities.com/eric.engle/msc.htm
en
http://www.geocities.com/dr.ericengle/AI.zip
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/190052023-11-29T11:45:10Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Examination of the Factors that Influence Teleworkers’ Willingness to Comply with Information Security Guidelines
Godlove, Timothy
Gordon, Jean
Telework
Theory of Planned Behavior
With the increased use of teleworkers, it is important to understand how teleworker attitudes are related to the willingness to accept and follow guidelines that maintain data security in the telework environment. The objective of the study was to evaluate the application of the Theory of Planned Behavior and the idea of subjective norms as a means of explaining teleworker compliance in using information technology (IT) security guidelines in a telework environment. A sample of 150 respondents who considered themselves formal and informal teleworkers and were eligible for membership in The Telework Exchange completed an original Teleworker Security Survey. Descriptive and linear regression analyses were used to determine relationships existing between willingness to follow organizational teleworker data information security guidelines and practices. The findings of the analyses demonstrated that Personal Attitude, Social Pressure, and Sense of Control represented a weak to moderate model for explaining teleworker willingness to follow an organization’s security guidelines. This study is significant to organizations with teleworkers by identifying insight on attitudes of teleworkers regarding data security, sense of control and sense of responsibility teleworkers have regarding the confidentiality and integrity of data, and the intent of teleworkers to follow security protocols in a telework environment.
2012-09-24T01:01:59Z
2012-09-24T01:01:59Z
2011-05-20
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19005
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/945752023-11-29T11:45:11Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
‘That rug really tied the room together’: Knitting Dudeism and Camusian Philosophy into a Larger Tapestry
Cardozo, Elloit
English
Dudeism
Albert Camus
Camus
Absurdism
Even though parallels between the philosophy of Albert Camus and The Big Lebowski have been drawn repeatedly, a sustained enquiry into several possible dimensions of the matter is yet to have been conducted.This dissertation makes an attempt to conduct the aforementioned enquiry in some detail. In doing this, the study will try to analytically compare Camusian philosophy and Dudeism and bring out the similarities between them. This does not imply that there are no differences between the two; but the focus of this study is the similarities and not the differences. Dudeism, for the purpose of this study, will not be restricted to The Dude and the literature written on The Dude and Dudeism. It will also be expanded to accommodate certain other parts of the larger discourse of Ethan and Joel Coen’s filmography as well as a few other parts of The Big Lebowski itself. It is crucial, however, to “draw a line in the sand” (Walter, The Big Lebowski) at the very outset. In embarking on a comparative analysis between Camusian philosophy and Dudeism, this study does not intend to propose that one of them is influenced by the other and “what-have-you” ("The Editorial Preface" 12). Instead, it simply attempts to point out some of the discursive elements that they share with each other as well as with several of the sub-discourses they comprise of. The analysis in the dissertation that follows is split into three major chapters:
1. ‘Well, I’ll tell you what I’m blathering about’: An analytical frame of reference.
2. ‘You can’t be worried about that shit, life goes on, man’: Life, Death and Absurdity in Camus and Dudeism.
3. ‘Somebody this square community won’t give a shit about’: Camus’ Absurd Man and Dudeism
The first chapter, “‘Well, I’ll tell you what I’m blathering about’: An analytical frame of reference”, provides an analytical framework for the discussions that follow in the rest of the dissertation. It is further divided into three sections. The first section lays out a basic understanding of a few fundamental ideas of Dudeism for the readers. The second section discusses a few important aspects of the philosophy of Albert Camus. The third section briefly establishes the connections between Dudeism and the philosophy of Camus which are examined in greater detail later in the study. The second chapter, “‘You can’t be worried about that shit, life goes on, man’: Life, Death and Absurdity in Camus and Dudeism” looks at Camus’ takes on Life, Death and Absurdity
while also pointing out the parallels they seem to strike with Dudeism. The chapter is further divided into four sections. The first section examines strands of Camusian thought, especially the Absurd in the other films of Ethan and Joel Coen before establishing a connection to The Big Lebowski. The second section explores the attitudes towards Death in Camusian
philosophy and Dudeism. The third section compares the ideologies of Life in the works of Camus and Dudeism. The fourth and final section explores parallels between Camus’ novel The Stranger and The Stranger: the cowboy narrator of The Big Lebowski.
The third chapter picks up on the Camusian trope of the Absurd Man and its relation to Happiness in both: the works of Camus as well as the discourses of Dudeism. It comprises of three sections. The first section explores the notion of Alienation in Camusian philosophy and Dudeism and looks at how it eventually leads to the trope of the Absurd Man in Camus. The second section explores Camus’ creation of the Absurd Man through the Cycle of the Absurd and looks at how it fits into Dudeism. The third and final section delves into a comparison of the Absurd Man’s quest for Happiness in Camus and Dudeism.
2019-10-15T12:33:39Z
2019-10-15T12:33:39Z
2017-04-15
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/94575
en
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
University of Mumbai
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715562023-11-29T11:45:11Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Der Mensch und die 'Künstliche Intelligenz': Eine Profilierung und kritische Bewertung der unterschiedlichen Grundauffassungen vom Standpunkt des gemäßigten Realismus
Eraßme, Rolf
Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropology
Metaphysics
Spirit
Soul
Mind
Materialism
Realism
Symbolism
Connectionism
Biologism
Physicalism
God
Truth
Thomas Aquinus
Aristoteles
philosophia perennis
Animals
Theology
Brain
Freedom
Consciousness
Evolution
Thinking
AI
After a short introduction concerning the problem of "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) the work continues with a summary of the state of the art.Thereafter, it goes on to profile four different basic scientific views of human beings and AI: symbolism, connectionism, biologism and physicalism. The emphasis is on the elucidation of anthropologically relevant statements to intelligence, spirit, thinking, perception, will, consciousness, self-consciousness, feelings and life.It is demonstrated that the basic views referred to represent greatly abbreviated and distorted pictures of human beings. Theories that do not go beyond the quantifiable level cannot adequately encompass the nature of relevant concepts and capabilities. That is above all because of the fact that generally a philosophical materialism is advocated, which considers the existence of intellectual substances impossible. For this reason a philosophical critique is necessary. The position of moderate and critical realism is advocated, whose anthropological statements are secured by epistemological and metaphysical investigations.The work comes to the conclusion that human beings cannot be understood symbolistically, connectionistically, biologistically or physicalistically. Man is a physical-intellectual entity, endowed with reason, a living social being. He is formed and led by his intellectual and therefore immortal soul, which gives him uniqueness, irreplaceability and the value of personhood. He is capable of thinking and thus of objective, abstract perception, and therefore is intelligent. Humans have an unfettered will, which, led by mental perception, is to be directed toward the good. They are moreover, through reflection, self-conscious. Humans live an intellectually determined life, which essentially differs, despite biological similarity, from that of animals and cannot possibly, due to its substantial superiority, have developed from animal life.All substantial anthropological abilities (such as intelligence, will, consciousness etc.) presuppose spirit. Because it is not within the power of human beings to create a simple substance such as spirit, a thinking, perceptive, intelligent, willing, self-conscious, sentient living being can at best be only technically imitated, modelled or simulated but never be reproduced, copied or created. The relationship of humans to AI is thus determined by an insuperable difference between their natures.
2016-06-27T19:03:42Z
2016-06-27T19:03:42Z
2002-11
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71556
de
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
RWTH Aachen
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/714902023-11-29T11:45:12Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Una propuesta multimediática para la enseñanza y aprendizaje de la música en niños de 7 a 11 años : un enfoque educomunicativo
Vásquez Sena, Marcos
Pedagogía, Sistema Universidad Abierta, FFyL
Comunicación educativa
Tecnologías de información y comunicación
Educación musical
La presente tesis es una propuesta verbo-audio-visual para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la música para niños de 7 a 11 años. La óptica bajo la cual se elabora este estudio es el enfoque de la Comunicación Educativa, en donde se resalta la importancia de las tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC) en el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje, dentro de la educación formal como factor esencial para la formación integral del educando. Este planteamiento teórico realiza una conjugación de las escuelas inglesa y complutense de comunicación, de la educación integral, aprendizaje significativo y del lenguaje total (planteamientos educativos).
2016-06-27T19:03:14Z
2016-06-27T19:03:14Z
2009-08
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71490
es
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/714822023-11-29T11:45:13Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Aspectos ecológicos de patrones espaciales de árboles tropicales, caracteres de historia natural y tipo de hábitat en una selva húmeda neotropical (Chajul Chiapas, México).
Salinas-Melgoza, Miguel Angel
Biology
Patrones espaciales
Bosque húmedo
caracteres de historia natural
diáspora
unidades ambientales
El análisis de los patrones espaciales de poblaciones de organismos sésiles es una herramienta muy útil en el entendimiento de los procesos que determinan el establecimiento y desarrollo de los individuos en un ambiente dado. El objetivo del presente estudio fue investigar como las poblaciones de árboles tropicales se encuentran espacialmente organizadas, y la correlación de tal organización con diferentes atributos de historia de vida (tamaño de la diáspora, síndrome de dispersión de la semilla, estatus sucesional), el tipo de hábitat (terraza aluvial, planicie de inundación, lomerío-bajo y sierra cárstica) y la densidad poblacional. El estudio se llevó a cabo en la selva húmeda de Chajul, Chiapas. En catorce parcelas permanentes de 20 x 250 m (0.5-ha), los individuos con diámetro a la altura del pecho (dap) > 10 cm, representantes de 44 especies y 85 poblaciones, se mapearon a escala. Se usó el Índice de Morisita, un método con área ampliamente usado, para cuantificar el patrón espacial de las poblaciones de estas especies a nivel de cada parcela y empleando tres diferentes escalas de análisis (25 m2, 100 m2, 400 m2).La mayoría (61.6 %) de las poblaciones analizadas mostraron un patrón al azar en las tres escalas de análisis. La frecuencia de poblaciones con patrón agregado fue significativamente mayor en la sierra cárstica donde la heterogeneidad topográfica fue mayor. Por el contrario, en la terraza aluvial se presentó la mayor frecuencia de poblaciones con patrón al azar, siendo este hábitat el topográficamente más homogéneo. Existió una mayor frecuencia de poblaciones agregadas a la escala de 25 m2. Se observó una frecuencia mayor de especies pioneras dentro del grupo de poblaciones agregadas y de no-pioneras dentro del grupo de poblaciones al azar. La diáspora de las especies no pioneras con distribución espacial al azar fue más grande y la de las especies pioneras con distribución agregada fueron las más pequeñas. El Índice de Morisita disminuyó conforme la densidad poblacional aumentó; está tendencia se presentó en las tres escalas de análisis.Con base en los resultados obtenidos, propongo que el arreglo espacial de las poblaciones de árboles en Chajul se encuentra influido por el nivel de variación de factores relacionados con la topografía del terreno, con la calidad del suelo y con el régimen de perturbación del dosel. Al parecer, existen factores dependientes de la densidad (e.g., depredación sensu lato y competencia) que producen un aclareo, y una disminución del grado de agregación, en poblaciones que muestran una fuerte agregación en fases tempranas de desarrollo, particularmente en especies abundantes, de semilla grande y no pioneras.
2016-06-27T19:03:11Z
2016-06-27T19:03:11Z
2002
2002
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71482
es
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715492023-11-29T11:45:13Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Umweltschutz während bewaffneter Konflikte
Kirchner, Andree
Law
2016-06-27T19:03:39Z
2016-06-27T19:03:39Z
2003-02
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71549
de
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Universität Hamburg
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/505472023-11-29T11:45:14Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
The Influence of Human Resource Development on Systemic Practices, Utility, and Organizational Results among Contracting Professionals
Singleton, Daniel
Weber, Mary
Contract Specialist
Training
Development
Human Resource Development
Public Sector
Private Sector
Contracting Professional
Training Evaluation
Training Utility
Organizational Results
This study examined the influence of human resources development on systemic practices, utility, and organizational results among contracting professionals within the public and private sectors. The study used a quantitative, correlational research design to answer the research questions, which asked whether or not statistically significant correlations were observed between human resources development and systemic practices, utility, and organizational results in the public and private sectors. A purposive sample was drawn from the membership of the National Contract Management Association to obtain the data necessary to answer the research questions. Once data was collected, it was reviewed for missing values and outliers. Then, the data was coded and imported into SPSS version 22.0 for Macintosh for data analysis. The data was first analyzed descriptively to identify similarities and differences between public and private sector contracting professionals. Additionally, the data was arranged by construct and analyzed for correlations between HRD and systemic practices, utility, and organizational results. The study was grounded in two theories – Kirkpatrick’s hierarchy and contingency theory. The data were evaluated against each of these theories.
Keywords: Federal contract management, contract specialist, contract professional, contracting professional, human resource development, organizational results, federal contracting, training, workforce development
2014-10-01T15:32:36Z
2014-10-01T15:32:36Z
2014-09-26
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50547
en_US
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/716312023-11-29T11:45:15Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Polynomial Based Design of Linear Phase Recursive and Non Recursive Filters
Kumar, Vinay
Electronics and Communication Engineering
In this dissertation, several algorithms to design linear phase Finite Impulse Response (FIR) and Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filters have been discussed.Contrary to various already existing standard algorithms,the proposed methods approximate magnitude and phase characteristics simultaneously. The basic mechanism used in this study is polynomial based design of digital filters. We have used several already existing polynomials; e.g., Chebyshev polynomials, Legendre polynomials, to develop linear phase digital filters and developed some two dimensional polynomials following orthogonal properties to design digital filters for image processing, their design methodology have also been discussed.Filters of proposed type can be used for applications where exact linear phase is required. Another application of this type of filters is the design of filters with zero group delay. IIR filters are designed with absolute linear phase and zero group delay. The algorithms proposed in the present thesis allow user to design filters with his set of constraints, which is required in practical filter design problems. Very narrow band 1D and 2D linear phase FIR filters can easily be designed by the proposed methodology. The IIR filters proposed provide the guarantee to result in a stable filter.All the algorithms have been discussed stepwise to make sure that any one with basic programming capability can easily design them. We have not used any standard routine of any particular platform, therefore any freely available programming platform (like C, C++, Scilab, Octave, etc.) can be used to design these filters.
2016-06-27T19:04:13Z
2016-06-27T19:04:13Z
2008
2009-03-20
2009-03-20
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71631
http://www.juit.ac.in/Electronics/vinay.php
en
http://vinaykverma.googlepages.com
http://spgjuit.googlepages.com/
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Jaypee University of Information Technology
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/716162023-11-29T11:45:15Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
An Examination of the Theory of the Commodity and its Application to Critical Media Studies
Young, Jeffrey R.
Communications
water circle
The theory of the commodity is used by critical theorists to explain the general organization and development of capitalist society. It was originally proposed by Marx, and subsequently developed by Lukcs and later Adorno and the Frankfurt School. Media scholars such as Dallas Smythe, Judith Williamson, Robert Goldman and Eileen Meehan have identified the commodity structure in several forms throughout the process of mass communication. Although commodity theory is not always articulated as a part of critical studies, it is useful for understanding the process of mass communication under capitalism. By investigating the dynamics of market processes and cultural innovation, this paper shows where the theory of the commodity fits into Critical Media Studies and suggests where some productive applications may be found.
2016-06-27T19:04:07Z
2016-06-27T19:04:07Z
1997
1996-04
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71616
http://dissertation.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=0965856402
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Florida Atlantic University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/716032023-11-29T11:45:16Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Investigação categorial e dimensional sobre sintomas físicos e síndromes somatoformes na população geral
Tófoli, Luis F.
Psychiatry / Psiquiatria
BACKGROUND: Somatoform symptoms are frequent and are associated with mental distress in several settings and in the general population. Many of these interactions are not well understood or not understood at all. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS: Based on bibliographical research, to investigate: a) the history of somatization-related illnesses; b) its many categories according to contemporary psychiatric and non-psychiatric concepts (somatoform disorders, dissociative-conversive disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome etc.); c) associated factors and etiological hypothesis for these phenomena. Using data available from the University of São Paulo Institute of Psychiatry Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study (Andrade et al., 1994) - a cross-sectional survey of physical and psychiatric morbidity which interviewed a representative sample of São Paulo city boroughs of Vila Madalena and Jardim América - to explore the prevalence and classification of reported physical symptoms in general, and specifically those which are medically unexplained (MU). To appraise, using logistic regression, the following associations: a) somatoform syndromes and demographic variables; b) somatoform syndromes and use of medication and health services; c) MU symptom and any type (AT) of symptom with demographic variables; and d) MU and AT physical symptoms with mental disorders. To probe, through latent class analysis of yes or no answers for 36 MU physical symptoms: grouping of subjects in classes (cluster analysis); and b) grouping of symptoms in dimensions (factor analysis). One-thousand, four-hundred and sixty-four interviews were performed using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), structured diagnostic interview for mental disorders, including somatoform and dissociative disorders; and a form of demographic variables, chronic physical diseases, use of medical and psychological services and medication intake. RESULTS: No association between somatoform syndromes and demographic variables. Association between somatoform syndromes and increased use of services and medication intake. Association between demographic variables and certain MU/AT symptoms. Physical symptoms AT/MU are associated with mental disorders, in general. Some physical symptoms (fainting, dyspnea, chest pain, arm or leg pain, tingling, heavy menses, muscle weakness, lump in throat, polyuria, palpitations and dizziness) are associated with many of the studied mental disorders. Subjects were clustered into two classes, with low and high symptom scoring; the high scoring class was associated with physical diseases, mental disorders, use of health services and medication intake. Symptoms were grouped into one single factor, pointing to the existence of a somatization dimension in the general population.
2016-06-27T19:04:04Z
2016-06-27T19:04:04Z
2008-04-07
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71603
http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5142/tde-01042008-151226/
pt
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715212023-11-29T11:45:17Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Reduction of Biomechanical Models for Subject Specific Real-Time Simulation of Surgical Trocar Insertion
Channa Naik, Ravi Kumar
Mechanical Engineering
Trocar insertion is the first step in Laparoscopy, Thoracoscopy and most other micro surgery procedures. It is a difficult procedure to learn and practice because procedure is carried out almost entirely without any visual feedback of the organs underlying the tissues being punctured. A majority of injuries is attributed to excessive use of force by surgeons. Practicing on cadavers and synthetic tissues may not accurately simulate the process. So there is a need for haptic based computer simulator to train and enhance the trocar insertion skills.For realistic force and torque haptic feedbacks, there is need for realistic modeling of tissue layers and real-time finite element computation. Geometrical complexities of anatomical structures, non-linear complex material properties and their variations with sex, age, person body built, makes patient specific accounting of material properties very difficult. These complexities also make the real time computation of biomechanical models to be prohibitively expensive.In the first half of this thesis a novel method of obtaining patient specific initial conditions, boundary conditions, tissue layers dimensions and their mechanical properties are proposed. A typical patient sample is worked out and cross verified with the available data. In the second half of the thesis, to reduce simulation computation load, a novel method of accounting different tissue mechanical properties by defining tissue specific mapping functions to a single linear function and parallel interpolation of the computation results to the real tissue properties for real-time simulation is proposed.
2016-06-27T19:03:27Z
2016-06-27T19:03:27Z
2010-09-01
2010-09-01
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71521
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/716202023-11-29T11:45:18Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
A informação dos telecentros do Vale do Jequitinhonha como aporte ao desenvolvimento social dos distritos de São Gonçalo do Rio das Pedras e Milho Verde em Minas Gerais
Cajaiba Silva, Marina
School of Information Science
Informação e cidadania
Telecentros
Inclusão social
Inclusão digital
Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TICs)
Information and citizenship
Telecenters
Social inclusion
Digital inclusion
Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs).
A pesquisa traça o contexto mundializado dos dias atuais, onde as Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TICs) podem ser entendidas como oportunidades de cidadania a grupos excluídos que se encontram à margem do desenvolvimento humano local e global em plena era da informação, como as comunidades dos distritos de São Gonçalo do Rio das Pedras e Milho Verde no Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais — uma das regiões mais pobres do país. Como principal objetivo, este estudo pretende identificar de que maneira a informação originada nos telecentros da Rede Rural de Telecentros Comunitários da ONG Gemas da Terra têm contribuído para o processo de inclusão social dessas comunidades, analisando o projeto de instalação do telecentro em relação a propostas de inclusão social e cidadania; avaliando o uso dos telecentros pelas comunidades analisadas; verificando a existência de ações que pretendam a integração dos freqüentadores dos telecentros às demais pessoas da comunidade, prevenindo uma possível concentração de opiniões e isolamento entre ambos; e apontando os resultados decorrentes das ações empreendidas pelas comunidades e sua conseqüente influência prática no cotidiano social local. A proposta metodológica inclui a análise documental do Guia Gemas da Terra de Telecentros Rurais, observação não-participante nos telecentros e entrevistas semi-estruturadas junto aos usuários, voluntários e representantes de entidades comunitárias das regiões pesquisadas, onde a disseminação e o uso das TICs são tidos pelas comunidades como apoiadores importantes para o estabelecimento de melhores condições de vida à população, ampliando as oportunidades de informação, trabalho, renda, educação e lazer. Entre as conclusões alcançadas por esta pesquisa, destaca-se que a maior contribuição social do projeto piloto da ONG Gemas da Terra é apresentar às comunidades envolvidas na proposta o potencial possível que a Internet pode proporcionar a esses distritos e, muito particularmente, às pessoas. Entretanto, a partir dos resultados obtidos neste trabalho, tornou-se evidente o longo trajeto a ser percorrido pela inclusão digital para a contribuição efetiva das questões sociais em grupos marginalizados e integrados à era digital, não sendo tal vislumbrado em totalidade no âmbito pesquisado.This study delineates the globalized context of the present time, where Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) can be understood as opportunities of citizenship for excluded groups who find themselves at the margins of local and global human development in the era of information, such as the communities in the districts of São Gonçalo do Rio das Pedras and Milho Verde in the Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais — one of the poorest regions in the country. As a major goal, this study intended to identify how information originating from the telecenters of the Rede Rural de Telecentros Comunitários, of the NGO Gemas da Terra, has contributed to the social inclusion of these communities; to analyze the project for installing a telecenter for the communities studied; to verify any actions aimed at the integration of those who attend the telecenters with the other people of the community, to prevent a possible concentration of opinions and alienation between the two groups; and to point out results of the actions undertaken by the communities and their consequent practical influence on the daily life of local society. The methodology includes a document analysis of the Guia Gemas da Terra de Telecentros Rurais, non-participant observation at the telecenters, and semi-structured interviews with he users, volunteers, and representatives of the community organizations of the regions studied, where the dissemination and the use of the ICTs have been regarded by the communities as important supporters for improving conditions of life of the population by increasing opportunities for information, work, income, education, and leisure. Among the conclusions reached by this study, it was noted that the greatest social contribution of the pilot project of the NGO Gemas da Terra was to show the communities involved in the project the potential that the Internet offers to these districts, especially to the common people. Nevertheless, from the results obtained by this study, it became evident that the long way to be covered by informational inclusion toward the effective contribution of social questions in marginalized and integrated groups in the information era, was not totally explicit in the area studied.
2016-06-27T19:04:09Z
2016-06-27T19:04:09Z
2005
2005
2005-10-24
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71620
pt
http://hdl.handle.net/1843/VALA-6KFPHX
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/716332023-11-29T11:45:18Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Em torno da romã: aplicações de operações com contornos na composição
Sampaio, Marcos S.
Graduate Program in Music
Musical composition
Musical contours
Woodwind quintet
Computer music
Contours can be understood as the shape or format of an object. In Music contour can represent a parameter in function of another, like pitch in function of density or density in function of amplitude. Contours are important because, as well as pitch sets and motives, they can help giving coherence to a musical piece.Theories of contours have been used in areas such as Ear Training and Analysis, but the systematic use of contours for generation of compositional material is an issue still lacking literature.In this thesis I present the piece "Em torno da romã" [Around the pomegranate] and its analysis. This piece, for woodwind quintet, was composed using combinations of contour operations associated with parameters such as pitch, tempo, density and texture. In order to accomplish this task, I did a literature review of contour theories, I did a mapping of contours to musical elements, I composed studies of possibilities for experimentation with contours, I develop the Goiaba, a software to assist in processing contours for composition, and finally composed the piece "Em torno da romã".This study helps to advance the state of art of contour theories through composition contour operations experiments using contour operations and contributes with new tools to the composition field.My conclusion is that contours can be used in a systematic way in musical composition, but we still need further study. Thus this depth and continuity in development of Goiaba are possible future activities resulting from this work.
2016-06-27T19:04:14Z
2016-06-27T19:04:14Z
2008-11-28
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71633
es
http://marcosdisilva.net/
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Universidade Federal da Bahia
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/716272022-01-25T15:20:10Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
The Institutional Setting of Education Implementing No Child Left Behind for English Language Learners
Wang, May
Institutional factors affecting implementation of policies are a reflection of the larger political context and setting of money in education. This has an impact on implementing accommodations for English Language Learners in standardized testing under No Child Left Behind. To see if this is true, four states: Indiana, New York, Tennessee and Wisconsin were chosen as examples of state policy adoption and their test contracts were collected from a test company. State accommodations for ELL in testing policy and state costs for standardized tests were analyzed in a comparative review. The diversity of methods in accommodation and lack of correlation between state standardized test costs to product illustrates institutional factors affecting NCLB implementation. Therefore it becomes essential for professional development to support states in implementing NCLB within an institutional context. Addressing these factors will lead to greater educational progress in U.S. federal policies.
2016-06-27T19:04:12Z
2016-06-27T19:04:12Z
2016
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71627
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/1123212023-11-29T11:45:20Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Los estudios hispánicos como puente: coordinación y análisis de la calidad de actividades didácticas colectivas de difusión de la narrativa oral China
Giménez Doblas, Nicolás
Spanish Philology
Hernández Muñoz, Felipe
Xu, Lei
Álvarez Rosa, Carmen Vanesa
China
Spanish
Virtual community
Oral narrative
Teaching
A la fragmentación de la comunidad de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de español se suma la ausencia de una metodología científica que analice la calidad de las actividades educativas y culturales que se realizan en este ámbito académico. De esta forma no se valora su margen de mejora, su impacto ni su pertinencia reales. Propongo en esta investigación un modelo de planificación, ejecución y evaluación cualitativa y cuantitativa que permita conocer el grado de excelencia en la gestión y la satisfacción de sus participantes y destinatarios.
El ámbito en el que se ha llevado a cabo esta propuesta ha sido la Enseñanza Superior de la República Popular China, donde he trabajado siete años. Entre 2017 y 2020 he cofundado con mis alumnos y coordinado la iniciativa colectiva Puente con el objetivo de demostrar que los estudios hispánicos tienen el potencial de reducir el desconocimiento cultural y la falta de comunicación e integración de la comunidad educativa, y plantear una serie de objetivos en común. Las redes sociales, la difusión de la narrativa oral china y una actitud comunicativa han servido como elementos unificadores para la celebración de cinco actividades a nivel nacional con un fin didáctico, académico y divulgativo.
La meta propuesta supone una innovación y un complemento a la enseñanza reglada en el análisis del complejo contexto previo local más allá del aula. Tanto la metodología utilizada como los resultados obtenidos pueden resultar de utilidad para futuros estudios vinculados con la organización de eventos de enseñanza y aprendizaje no solo de español, sino también de otras lenguas y en otros entornos educativos. Y, en especial, tienen el potencial de promover el acercamiento y el entendimiento ante el creciente clima de tensión internacional.
2022-10-31T15:01:13Z
2022-10-31T15:01:13Z
2021-09-29
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/112321
https://www.educacion.gob.es/teseo/irGestionarConsulta.do
es
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Virginia Tech
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715842023-12-05T02:04:29Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Advantages of Re-Establishing Hospital Based Schools of Nursing
Dahl, Susan
Health Administration
nursing education
nursing
education
Bachelors of Nursing
Diploma Nurses
This study examined perceptions of hospital-based nursing schools among nursing professionals to determine whether this type of nursing education model is viable in the modern nursing context. Nursing education is faced with the twin problems of insufficient nurses, which creates a demand for rapid education of nurses, and ensuring adequate clinical quality of nurses, which creates a demand for more extensive undergraduate clinical training. Hospital-based nursing schools are three-year programs that provide more intensive clinical training than the two-year university-based programs. The study developed and disseminated a questionnaire to assess the perception of nursing professionals and nursing students on the issues related to hospital-based nursing schools including clinical quality and the shortage of nurses. Secondary research was conducted based on the available literature regarding nursing education and the historical development of the current nursing educational system. The study found that there was a generally favorable opinion of hospital-based nursing schools among the surveyed population, particularly in the area of the level of clinical training received at these types of schools. The study also found that there were significant attitudinal and financial barriers to increasing the number of hospital based nursing schools. The findings of this study are exploratory in nature and serve to define the problems and alternatives associated with nursing education and hospital-based nursing schools.
2016-06-27T19:03:55Z
2016-06-27T19:03:55Z
2006
Major paper
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71584
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Kennedy-Western University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/716112023-11-29T11:45:20Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
El paradigma otletiano como base de un modelo para la organización y difusión del conocimiento científico
Zurita Sánchez, Juan Manuel
Colegio de Bibliotecología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Paul Otlet
Documentación
Sistemas de recuperación de información
Hipertexto
Repertorio Bibliográfico Universal
Control bibliográfico
El presente trabajo explora algunas de las propuestas visionarias de Paul Otlet en relación con el acceso universal a los documentos, así como su impacto y repercusión en los actuales sistemas de información digital a través del uso de Nuevas Tecnología de Información y Comunicación.
2016-06-27T19:04:06Z
2016-06-27T19:04:06Z
2001
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71611
es
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00007422/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/mx/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Mexico
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/714932023-11-29T11:45:22Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Hackers en el contexto de la Sociedad de la Información
Lizama Mendoza, Jorge Alberto
Hackers
Software libre
En la presente investigación se evalúa el impacto tecnológico, social y comunicacional que las acciones de los hackers poseen en el contexto de la sociedad de la información. Hasta ahora, se trata de un tema escasamente tratado por los estudios sociales, los que si bien han abordado el fenómeno que implica el cambio sociedad, lo han hecho privilegiando las transformaciones a nivel general que la economía, la política o la sociedad han experimentado. En este caso el objetivo es analizar a los hackers a partir de las categorías que demarca la construcción social de la tecnología (grupo social relevante, flexibilidad interpretativa, esquema tecnológico, mecanismo de cierre) a fin de ubicar los usos y dinámicas colectivas que están promoviendo en la internet, el medio de comunicación e información más relevante para el acceso y desarrollo de la sociedad de la información.
2016-06-27T19:03:15Z
2016-06-27T19:03:15Z
2005-05
2005-05
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71493
http://132.248.9.9:8080/tesdig/Procesados_2005/0601439/Index.html
es
http://mx.geocities.com/lappin7/
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715122023-04-04T17:31:45Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Viral Politics: Jacques Derrida's reading of Auto-immunity and Carl Schmitt
Johnson, Andrew
Philosophy
Since Jacques Derrida’s 1989 essay “Force of Law: the Mystical Foundations of Authority,” Carl Schmitt has been a perennial subject of Derrida’s political critique. I will argue that Derrida’s concept of auto-immunity is uniquely applicable to Derrida’s interpretation of Schmitt’s political philosophy. Therefore, my argument will consist of two interrelated but equally divergent parts; the digressive structure will attempt to mimic Derrida’s complex style of weaving opposed concepts into a coherent whole. First, I will demonstrate the many forms of Derrida’s concept of auto-immunity. Second, I will exhibit how this schema uniquely applies to Derrida’s criticisms of Schmitt and the contemporary state of politics.
2016-06-27T19:03:24Z
2016-06-27T19:03:24Z
2010-05-01
2010-05-01
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71512
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715962023-11-29T11:45:23Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
NGO Influence on Forest Legislation: Experiences from Federal Forest Management in the United States
Bravo, Ramon
Environmental Economics
Forest management
forest legislation
NGO
stakeholders
Federal legislation
United States
In the last two decades, a concern on how federal forests in the United States are managed has provoked concerns among different stakeholders, including NGOs. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of NGO influence on forest management legislation. Eight aspects were selected and compared in different study cases referring to legislative proposals dealing with forest management in order to define success criteria for a legislative initiative. The study indicates that the following criteria are particularly important to fulfill in order to influence forest management legislation: - The issue to address should be on the political agenda and have high public interest. - Environmental and social aspects should not be at the expense of economic aspects. - The legislative initiative should be prepared in multi-stakeholder processes, including local government and organizations. - The supporters of the initiative should take part in all decision-making processes and advise the Government in aspects related to their areas of expertise. NGOs would likely improve their chances of influencing forest management legislation if they hold a flexible position regarding legislative proposals containing similar or even less strict measures than their own initiatives, look at market oriented schemes as alternatives to legislation, and maintain good relationships with other major stakeholders.
2016-06-27T19:04:02Z
2016-06-27T19:04:02Z
2003-12
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71596
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Lund University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/1103242023-11-29T11:45:24Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Exploring the Personal Journeys of Women Leaders Serving in K-12 Christian Schools
Edwards, Mika B.
Leadership
Stiles, Roger
Renz, Lisa
Shipp, Jeremiah
Educational Leadership
Women Educational Leaders
This phenomenological qualitative research examined the factors that influenced seventeen women leaders in K-12 Christian schools and the pathways that lead to their achievement. The research was designed to analyze the pivotal components of their journeys to further understand and enhance training for future women educational leaders. The framework of the research was in response to the underrepresentation of women in leadership counter to those serving as teachers. The participants were acquired through the snowball sampling technique with data collected via online interviews and a discussion board forum. The data was triangulated, coded, and analyzed to result in seven themes. The themes represent consistent components shared in the narratives of the participants regarding their personal journeys to Christian education leadership positions. The themes were both intrinsic and extrinsic in nature. The themes encompassed motivations such as personal desire to serve, a calling from the Lord, a commitment to live in obedience to the Lord’s guidance and valuing the experience as a teacher. The remaining themes represented external influences within the accrediting agency, as well as spiritual and professional mentors who spoke words of encouragement as well as modeled servant leadership behaviors. Suggestions for further research are to include a deeper look into the mentor relationships and whether they are organic in nature or structured. In addition, research could expand to Christian leaders within secular schools. The conclusions of the study supported the literature on both external and internal sources of encouragement for women Christian education leaders. The underrepresentation of Christian educational leadership is not due to obstacles within the Christian educational realm but rather due to a direct correlation of guidance from the Lord.
2022-05-25T13:00:49Z
2022-05-25T13:00:49Z
2020-12-07
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/110324
en
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Carolina University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715272023-11-29T11:45:24Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Oncology and Infectious Diseases in Ancient Egypt: The Ebers Papyrus’ Treatise on Tumours 857-877 and the Cases Found in Ancient Egyptian Human Material
Veiga, Paula
Faculty of Life Sciences
This dissertation focuses on pathogenic elements found in the Ebers papyrus: a series of prescriptions that are believed to be the remains of a “book of tumours” which deals with what appear to have been benign ganglionic masses, polyps, sebaceous cysts, varicose veins and aneurysms. Discussion of this Treatise on Tumours (paragraphs 857-877) includes the previous probable identification of a disease, the analysis carried out to date by several Egyptologists, and my own interpretation which combines the linguistic approach adopted by these scholars in the past, and the medical observations of scientists in more recent years: in total we have descriptions of neoplasias versus swellings. This work also includes some references to the plants mentioned as treatments for the illnesses described in the 21 paragraphs of the Papyrus’ last section on tumours (what it is now thought to be oncological concerns) taking into account the problem of translation, since some plants are still unidentified today.References are made to material evidence found in Egyptian mummies in several sites revealing the presence of a tumour, e.g. Brothwell, 1981, Strouhal, 1999, (Ruffer, 1914), Cockburn, 1998, 1980, (Spigelman, 1997), Van Hasselt, 1999, Estes, 1989, Capasso, 2005, Leslie and Levell, 2006, Halperin, 2004, Mark, 2006, and Nerlich and Zink, 2006.
2016-06-27T19:03:30Z
2016-06-27T19:03:30Z
2009-06
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71527
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
University of Manchester
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715002023-11-29T11:45:29Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Absolute coverage measurements of ultrathin alkali-metal films on reconstructed silicon
Banerjee, Rajarshi
Physics
reconstruction
silicon
thin films
RBS
interface
surface physics
alkali metals
cesium
ordered
ordered growth
epitaxy
ion scattering
semiconductors
metalization
characterization
Rutherford
boronated
doped
Metal/semiconductor interfaces, particularly those involving Si, are of great technological and scientific interest. In atomically abrupt interfaces, many properties are determined by interatomic interactions over a few layers, i.e., over ~1 nanometer. The initial stages of growth of an atomic layer related to structural and electronic properties are thus important to thin film behavior. Surface science studies on metal-semiconductor systems often lead to contradictory conclusions regarding bonding sites and even whether the first layer is metallic or not. A key piece of information that must be consistent with any study is the number of atoms per unit area in the first layer, which is difficult to assess directly. Alkali-metal-semiconductor systems have been studied as model abrupt interfaces for several years. Novel effects, such as electron localization, were observed. Still, determinations of absolute coverage have been lacking. This dissertation describes results of absolute coverage measurements for Cs on Si(100)(2X1), Si(111)(7X7), and Si (111)(v3 X v3)R30°-B reconstructed surfaces using Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry in ultrahigh vacuum. The results bracket possible structural models for these systems. For the Cs/Si(111)(v3 X v3)R30°-B interface, this work confirms conclusions regarding electron localization effects and introduces considerations of ion-beam-induced desorption for the weakly-bound Cs
2016-06-27T19:03:18Z
2016-06-27T19:03:18Z
2001
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71500
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/714992023-11-29T11:45:29Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Backcountry Identity and the Proposed Sunrise Powerlink Project
Michaels, J. Elaine
Anthropology
This thesis examines a segment of the modern American population residing in northern eastern San Diego County. This area, sometimes referred to as “the backcountry,” although relatively close to the urban and suburban areas of San Diego County, is difficult to access due to narrow and winding two-lane roads. Possibly residents of this rural area have constructed senses of identity and place that differ from those of city and suburban residents. These particular senses of identity and place may have been heightened by a 2005 proposal to construct a major electrical power line known as the “Sunrise Powerlink” through the area. This power line’s proposed route involved significant use of public lands as well as parklands. Resistance to construction was high among local residents as well as larger organizations such as conservation and utility watchdog organizations. The prospect of the power line presented an opportunity for local residents to examine and voice issues surrounding their place, values and identity, regardless of their level of involvement in the debate.This thesis describes the history of the proposed power line as well as the history of the area surveyed. It presents the results of twenty-one interviews of residents in mid- to late 2008. These interviewees were opponents of the Powerlink but the level of participation in public protest varied substantially. These interviews, as well as written discourse on the subject of the Powerlink, reveal the bodily experience of place these residents revealed as well as the sense of authenticity their place held for them. Issues of the appropriate use of space are also analyzed, as is the constructed meaning of the term “backcountry.” Although the interviewees emphasized the diversity of residents of this area, common themes and values were revealed, as was the collective identity and narrative that formed around the opposition.
2016-06-27T19:03:17Z
2016-06-27T19:03:17Z
2010
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71499
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715522023-11-29T11:45:30Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Une Application Des N-Univers A L'argument De L'apocalypse Et Au Paradoxe De Goodman
Franceschi, Paul
Philosophy
n-universes
Dommsday argument
Sleeping Beauty problem
baby paradox
two-urn case
indeterminism
Shooting-room paradox
God's coin toss
Several philosophical problems are based on an analogy between a real situation and a probabilistic model. Such problems are based on urn analogies. The present dissertation aims to describe and implement a methodology oriented towards the resolution of philosophical problems based on an urn analogy. This methodology is based on the use of the n-universes. To this end, I describe first the n-universes in a detailed way. I also discuss the difficulties of the theory of n-universes related to the demultiplication of the criteria and to the relation one/many between the objects and a given criterion.On the one hand, I present an application of the framework of n-universes to the Doomsday argument and to the problems recently appeared in the literature in keeping with the Doomsday argument. My concern is also with showing how the application of the framework of n-universes to several problems and thought experiments related to the Doomsday argument helps clarifying the problem data and making disappear the associated ambiguity. I present then an analysis of the following problems related to the Doomsday argument: the two urn case, God's Coin Toss, the Sleeping Beauty Problem, the Presumptuous Philosopher, Lazy Adam, and the Shooting-Room Paradox. I present lastly a solution to the Doomsday argument, based on a third route, by contrast to two types of solutions classically described.On the other hand, I present an application of the framework of n-universes to Goodman's paradox. I replace first Goodman's statement in the framework of n-universes. I propose then a solution to the paradox, based on a distinction between two different modelizations of Goodman's statement in two structurally different n-universes.
2016-06-27T19:03:41Z
2016-06-27T19:03:41Z
2002-11
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71552
fr
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
University of Corsica
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/716242023-11-29T11:45:31Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Software-Based Extraction of Objective Parameters from Music Performances
Lerch, Alexander
Institute for audio communication
Different music performances of the same score may significantly differ from each other. It is obvious that not only the composer’s work, the score, defines the listener’s music experience, but that the music performance itself is an integral part of this experience. Music performers use the information contained in the score, but interpret, transform or add to this information.Four parameter classes can be used to describe a performance objectively: tempo and timing, loudness, timbre and pitch. Each class contains a multitude of individual parameters that are at the performers’ disposal to generate a unique physical rendition of musical ideas.The extraction of such objective parameters is one of the difficulties in music performance research. This work presents an approach to the software-based extraction of tempo and timing, loudness and timbre parameters from audio files to provide a tool for the automatic parameter extraction from music performances.The system is applied to extract data from 21 string quartet performances and a detailed analysis of the extracted data is presented. The main contributions of this thesis are the adaptation and development of signal processing approaches to performance parameter extraction and the presentation and discussion of string quartet performances of a movement of Beethoven’s late String Quartet op. 130.
2016-06-27T19:04:11Z
2016-06-27T19:04:11Z
2008-11-17
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71624
http://opus.kobv.de/tuberlin/volltexte/2008/2067/
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Technischen Universität Berlin
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715402023-11-29T11:45:31Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Structuring Venture Capital Deals
Singhs, Shikhir
CASS BUSINESS SCHOOL
Fundraising with venture capitalists can remain a largely mysterious process. In a world shrouded with non-disclosure agreements, the entrepreneurs are often unaware of the common practices of deal terms and are unable to benchmark their term sheets with respect to those given to others. Inherent conflicts of interest in the split of the financial returns, liquidation, and control of the company lead the venture capitalists to structure the deals which benefit their interests at cost to the interests of the entrepreneurs. This dissertation identifies and characterizes the term sheet structures used by venture capitalists today and establishes their frequency. This information can be used by entrepreneurs to benchmark their term sheets and by venture capitalists to evaluate their investment strategies.
2016-06-27T19:03:35Z
2016-06-27T19:03:35Z
2005-09-01
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71540
http://www.shikhir.com/vcdeals/StructuringVentureCapitalDeals.html
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Cass Business School
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/1070842023-11-29T11:45:32Zcom_10919_5com_10919_25799com_10919_18725col_10919_70873col_10919_18726
Land, Water, Infrastructure And People: Considerations Of Planning For Distributed Stormwater Management Systems
Lim, Theodore C.
City and Regional Planning
Landis, John D.
Daniels, Thomas L.
Welty, Claire
Stormwater management
Green infrastructure
When urbanization occurs, the removal of vegetation, compaction of soil and construction of impervious surfaces—roofs, asphalt, and concrete—and drainage infrastructure result in drastic changes to the natural hydrological cycle. Stormwater runoff occurs when rain does not infiltrate into soil. Instead it ponds at the surface and forms shallow channels of overland flow. The result is increased peak flows and pollutant loads, eroded streambanks, and decreased biodiversity in aquatic habitat. In urban areas, runoff is typically directed into catch basins and underground pipe systems to prevent flooding, however such systems are also failing to meet modern environmental goals. Green infrastructure is the widely evocative idea that development practices and stormwater management infrastructure can do better to mimic the natural hydrological conditions through distributed vegetation and source control measures that prevent runoff from being produced in the first place. This dissertation uses statistics and high-resolution, coupled surfacesubsurface hydrologic simulation (ParFlow.CLM) to examine three understudied aspects of green infrastructure planning. First, I examine how development characteristics affect the runoff response in urban catchments. I find that instead of focusing on site imperviousness, planners should aim to preserve the ecosystem functions of infiltration and evapotranspiration that are lost even with low density development. Second, I look at how the spatial configuration of green infrastructure at the neighborhood scale affects runoff generation. While spatial configuration of green infrastructure does result in statistically significant differences in performance, such differences are not likely to be detectable above noise levels present in empirical monitoring data. In this study, there was no evidence of reduced hydrological effectiveness for green infrastructure located at sag points in the topography. Lastly, using six years of empirical data from a voluntary residential green infrastructure program, I show how the spread of green infrastructure depends on the demographic and physical characteristics of neighborhoods as well as spatially-dependent social processes (such as the spread of information). This dissertation advances the science of green infrastructure planning at multiple scales and in multiple sectors to improve the practice of urban water resource management and sustainable development.
2021-12-16T18:30:43Z
2021-12-16T18:30:43Z
2017
2021-12-16T18:30:40Z
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/107084
Lim, Theodore [0000-0002-7896-4964]
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
University of Pennsylvania
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715992020-10-02T14:15:42Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Adecuación del diseño de materiales a las hipótesis de aprendizaje de los alumnos de idiomas extranjeros
Rozzi De Bergel, A. M.
Education - Textbook design
materiales
diseño
idiomas
extranjero
En los cursos de idiomas extranjeros para adultos pueden existir serias discrepancias entre los materiales que los docentes consideran modernos y adecuados y aquellos que los alumnos desean usar. Estos conflictos redundan en diferencias de motivación entre los miembros de los cursos, lo que luego origina desniveles en el ritmo de aprendizaje y descontento, con la consiguiente pérdida de matrícula. Por ello, la adecuación de los diseños de materiales a las hipótesis de aprendizaje de los alumnos parecería un método adecuado para optimizar el rendimiento y satisfacción de los estudiantes y retener la matrícula. El presente trabajo es un estudio de caso evaluativo que arroja una mirada retrospectiva, crítica y analítica sobre la forma como se exploró este problema en un instituto de idiomas, en un ciclo de investigación-acción iniciado en 1983. En este caso, se estudió la posible relación entre el diseño de materiales y el desgranamiento de la matrícula.y se intentó atacar sus posibles causas adecuando los diseños a las hipótesis de aprendizaje de los alumnos. Nos ocuparemos de la implementación de este método de adecuación de los diseños y su impacto en la gestión, para analizar luego, desde el estado de la cuestión en el momento actual, las conclusiones tentativas de aquella investigación y su posible aplicación a casos similares, su grado de vigencia en el presente y líneas de investigación que quedan abiertas para el futuro.
2016-06-27T19:04:03Z
2016-06-27T19:04:03Z
2005-10
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71599
es
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Universidad CAECE
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An Exploratory Study of the Relationship between Various Aspects of the Premarital Sexual Relationship and Marital Satisfaction, Sexual Satisfaction in Marriage, and Marital Fidelity
Baker, Tina M.
Psychology
psychology
marriage
sex
sexual ethics
premarital sex
marital sex
martial satisfaction
sexual satisfaction
marital fidelity
Research has found absence of premarital sexual experience positively correlated with marital adjustment (Davis , 1929; Terman, 1938; Reevy, 1959; Shope and Broderick, 1967). Others raised doubt of this conclusion (Locke, 1951; Burgess and Wallin, 1953; Kinsey et. al, 1953; Ard, 1974).Bell and Balter (1973) found 81% of married women under 26 had premarital intercourse. Since a majority engage in this, it is appropriate to consider premarital intercourse relationship variables to identify marital correlates.In Love, Strong Affection, and Little Affection premarital intercourse relationships were examined. Questions were explored concerning premarital independent variables: number of relationships, length of relationships, number of live-in partners, relationship exclusivity, sexual satisfaction, relationship satisfaction, and gender. Dependent variables were: relationship satisfaction, sexual satisfaction, and fidelity, in marriage.This questionnaire study consisted of the Marital Satisfaction Scale (Roach et. al, 1981) and other original items.Subjects were 286 volunteers from Long Island MacArthur airport, 209 of which reported premarital intercourse relationships and 77 who did not, all under age 41, in first marriages.Pearson correlation and t-test were used. The hypothesis was confirmed for only In Love premarital relationships with marital satisfaction and marital sexual satisfaction being positively related to premarital sexual satisfaction.Groups with and without premarital intercourse were not significantly different on marital satisfaction or marital sexual satisfaction. For subjects having premarital intercourse relationships higher marital satisfaction was related to higher number of live-in partners and higher relationship and sexual satisfaction for In Love type. Also for only this type, higher marital sexual satisfaction was related to higher premarital sexual satisfaction and relationship satisfaction.Having no or few premarital intercourse partners was associated with higher likelihood of fidelity. Other premarital factors associated with higher fidelity were longer In love relationships and higher number of In Love live-in relationships. Lower relationship satisfaction with premarital Strong Affection type also led to higher fidelity. Women were found to have higher likelihood of fidelity.Summarizing, In Love premarital intercourse relationships seem to relate positively to marriage. More independent variables were related to fidelity than the other dependent variables.
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2016-06-27T19:03:52Z
1985-12-16
1985-12-16
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71579
en
http://worldcat.org/oclc/13052133
http://libweb.hofstra.edu/record=b1038072
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Hofstra University
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/715912023-11-29T11:45:34Zcom_10919_18725col_10919_18726
Contribution to the Design and Implementation of Portable Tactile Displays for the Visually Impaired
Velazquez-Guerrero, Ramiro
Mechanics-Robotics
Electronic travel aids (ETAs)
man-machine interfaces
tactile displays
micro/miniature actuators
Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs)
NiTi helical springs
This thesis explores the design, implementation and performance of a new concept for a low-cost, high-resolution, lightweight, compact and highly-portable tactile display. This tactile device is intended to be used in a novel visuo-tactile sensory substitution/supplemen-tation electronic travel aid (ETA) for the blind/visually impaired.Based on the psychophysiology of touch and using Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) as the actuation technology, a mechatronic device was designed and prototyped to stimulate the sense of touch by creating sensations of contact on the fingertips.The prototype consists of an array of 64 elements spaced 2.6 mm apart that vertically actuates SMA based miniature actuators of 1.5 mm diameter to a height range of 1.4 mm with a pull force of 300 mN up to a 1.5 Hz bandwidth. The full display weights 200 g and its compact dimensions (a cube of 8 cm side-length) make it easy for the user to carry. The display is capable of presenting a wide range of tactile binary information on its 8 x 8 matrix. Moreover, both mechanical and electronic drive designs are easily scalable to larger devices while still being price attractive.Human psychophysics experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the tactile information transmitted by the display to sighted people and show feasibility in principle of the system as an assistive technology for the blind/visually impaired.
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2016-06-27T19:04:01Z
2006-06
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71591
en
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6)
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Protokollwechsel zur Realisierung von Covert Channels und Header-Strukturveränderungen zur Vermeidung von Covert Channels
Wendzel, Steffen
Computer Science
Covert Channel
Diese Diplomarbeit befasst sich mit mehreren Unterthemen der verdeckten Kommunikationskanäle (Covert Channels) und möchte vor allen Dingen neue Themen vorstellen und diskutieren: Erstmalige und detaillierte Behandlung von Protocol Hopping Covert Channels: Protocol Hopping Covert Channels sind Storage Channels die, während sie existieren, das Netzwerkprotokoll, in dem die versteckten Informationen untergebracht werden, wechseln. Vorstellung der Idee der Protocol Channels: Im Gegensatz zu Protocol Hopping Covert Channels sind Protocol Channels schwerer zu detektieren, da sie ausschließlich durch den Wechsel eines Protokolls (ohne zusätzliche Informationen zu verstecken), versteckte Daten übertragen. Sowohl für Protocol Hopping Covert Channels als auch für Protocol Channels beschreibt diese Arbeit deren jeweilige Technik und untersucht deren Detektionsmöglichkeiten. Vorstellung der Idee der Header-Strukturveränderung: Ziel der Header-Strukturveränderung ist es, die Möglichkeiten, die Angreifer bei der Erstellung von Storage Channels innerhalb von Paket-Headern haben, einzugrenzen. Bei der Header-Strukturveränderung wird der Aufbau von Paket-Headern für jedes neu verschickte Paket verändert. Eine entsprechende Strukturinformation, die den Headeraufbau bestimmt, ist nur vertrauenswürdigen Komponenten beim Empfänger bzw. Sender zugänglich. Diese Arbeit stellt sowohl ein theoretisches Modell der Header-Strukturveränderung als auch eine praktische Umsetzung vor.
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2016-06-27T19:03:25Z
2009-05-13
2009-05-13
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71516
http://www.wendzel.de/dr.org/files/Papers/diplomarbeit.pdf
de
http://www.wendzel.de
http://www.hochschule-kempten.de
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
In Copyright
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