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King, James Phillip. "Teampreaching training Army chaplains in collaborative supervision of preaching /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Hart, Stephen Ashley. "Field Marshal Montgomery, 21st Army Group and North-West Europe, 1944-45." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1995. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/field-marshal-montgomery-21st-army-group-and-northwest-europe-194445(217ea148-e499-4836-b572-14b216a453f2).html.
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Retchless, Todd Philip. "Ranking U.S. Army Generals of the twentieth century using the group analytic hierarchy process." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2726.
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Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation Program. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Huggler, Ronald R. "Team building for army chaplains at the installation level." Due West, SC : Erskine Theological Seminary, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.064-0131.
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Spinazola, Lisa Pia Zonni. "Lives on the (story)Line: Group Facilitation with Men in Recovery at The Salvation Army." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7366.
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In this dissertation, I seek to examine the effects of purposeful journaling and guided storytelling on past traumas, perception of current lives, and the development of new coping skills among men at The Salvation Army’s residential adult rehabilitation center (ARC). All residents of the ARC must attend Christian-based devotional services, go to Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) meetings, follow the A.A. 12-step program, and sign up for several weekly counseling and educational groups, one of which is the “Guided Journaling and Storytelling” group I lead. The men who attended this group are (1) addicted to drugs and/or alcohol, (2) face homelessness, (3) cope with some form of mental or physical health issue, (4) may have criminal records, and (5) have alienated most of their social support.
Through a twelve-week curriculum I developed, I introduced coping skills—building resilience, expressive writing, and deep breathing—while incorporating art, music, and poetry in the groups. I elicited participants’ stories through prompts, using my own experiences to model vulnerability and demonstrate concepts, such as: narrative reframing; how memories can be uncertain, partial, and elusive; how storytelling can prompt forgotten stories; and the efficacy of including emotion and rich details in the stories we tell. Knowing the value of writing and storytelling, I set out to see if the communicative practices I had learned in the past that had improved my life situation might assist others to write themselves out of destructive patterns, desperation, and trauma, and into sober and more fulfilling lives.
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Ronn, Harald. "An investigation into the worldview of a selected group of Norwegian Army Cadets from a complexity and leadership perspective." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2128.
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Thesis (MPA (School of Public Management and Planning))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the Norwegian Army Cadets‟ worldview in light of Complexity Theory and the implications of this theory for leadership. The investigation uses two contradicting theories as a point of departure, Complexity Theory and Newtonian Theory. Complexity Theory is a Social Science-theory that originates from the Natural Science-theory of Quantum Physics where aspect such as non-linearity, chaos and self-organization are highlighted. Furthermore, holistic thinking and bottom-up processes are emphasized. Newtonian Theory is on the other hand based on a mechanistic and reductionist worldview where a constant strife to achieve balance and control through deterministic- and rational mechanisms are highlighted. A Newtonian system thus operates in a causal- and relatively closed environment where change is incremental and top-down driven. Using Complexity Theory as a theoretical starting point speaks for a shift in the way we look at leadership. Traditional leadership theories are normally based on the assumptions of Newtonian thinking, i.e. objectivity, reductionism and determinism. A traditional leader is actively shaping the future through regulations that ultimately end in the obtainment of goals. In other words, the processes are characterized as rational, “hard” and incremental. A Complexity Approach, on the other hand, supports Complexity Theory Principles such as self-organizational processes and chaos. Hence, leaders in complex systems should function as enablers of bottom-up processes and embrace chaos and uncertainty as something positive and nourishing. Furthermore, leaders in complex systems use vision and values as guiding principles and focus on micro-level interactions as opposed to a rule-bound and technical approach. The results from the empirical survey reveal that the Norwegian Army Cadets have a relatively balanced worldview towards Complexity Theory- and Newtonian Principles. On the one hand, a number of strong Newtonian trends such as the perception of conflict, chaos and change as something negative and the embracement of a direct and “hard” leadership style are evident. On the other hand, the Cadets express an adherence towards typical Complexity Theory Principles such as relationship orientation and informal leadership. Hence, it can be argued that the Cadets‟ worldview have elements of both Newtonian Theory and Complexity Theory. This study can be used to evaluate the effect of the current educational paradigm in the Norwegian Army and simultaneously contribute to further insight and discussion around the field of leadership.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie verhandeling ondersoek die wêreldbeskouing van Norweegse Leër-kadette in die lig van die Kompleksiteitsteorie, en die implikasies van dié teorie vir leierskap. Twee teenstrydige teorieë word as vertrekpunt in die ondersoek gebruik, naamlik. Kompleksiteitsteorie en Newtoniaanse Teorie. Kompleksiteitsteorie is „n Sosiale Wetenskapsteorie wat uit die Natuurwetenskaplike teorie van Kwantum-Fisika ontstaan het, met klem op aspekte soos nie-lineariteit, chaos en self-organisasie. Verder word holisitiese denke en prosesse wat van onder na bo werk, beklemtoon. Newtoniaanse Teorie, aan die ander kant, is gebaseer op „n meganistiese en reduksionistiese wêreldbeeld, met klem op „n konstante strewe na balans en kontrole deur deterministiese en rasionele meganismes. ‟n Newtonianse sisteem opereer dus binne ‟n kousale en relatief geslote omgewing, waar verandering inkrementeel is en van bo na onder gedryf word. Die gebruik van Kompleksiteitsteorie as ‟n teoretiese vertrekpunt dui op ‟n verandering in die manier waarop ons leierskap benader. Tradisionele leierskap-teorieë is normaalweg gebaseer op Newtoniaanse denke, d.w.s. objektiwiteit, reduksionisme en determinisme. ‟n Tradisionele leier vorm die toekoms aktief deur regulasies wat uitloop op die bereiking van doelstellings. Met ander woorde, die prosesse word gekarakteriseer as rasioneel, ”hard” en inkrementeel. „n Kompleksiteitsteorie-benadering aan die ander kant, ondersteun beginsels van Kompleksiteitsteorie soos self-organiserende prosesse en chaos. Leiers in komplekse sisteme moet dus funksioneer deur prosesse wat van onder na bo werk moontlik te maak, en deur chaos en onsekerheid as iets positief en voedend te beskou. Verder gebruik leiers in komplekse sisteme visie en waardes as riglyne, en fokus op mikro-vlak interaksies in teenstelling met ‟n reël gebonde en tegniese benadering. Die resultate van die empiriese studie toon aan dat Noorweegse Leër-kadette „n relatief gebalanseerde wêreldbeskouing het t.o.v Kompleksiteitsteorie- en Newtoniaanse beginsels. Aan die een kant, is daar duidelik ‟n aantal sterk Newtoniaanse tendense teenwoordig, soos die persepsie van konflik, chaos en verandering as iets negatiefs, en die aanhang van ‟n direkte en ”harde” leierskapstyl. Aan die ander kant, is daar ‟n neiging tot tipiese beginsels van Kompleksiteitsteori soos verhoudingsoriëntering en informele leierskap. Dit kan dus aangevoer word dat die Kadette se wêreldbeskouing elemente van sowel Newtoniaanse Teorie as Kompleksitetsteorie bevat. Hierdie studie kan gebruik word om die effek van die huidige onderwysparadigma in die Noorweegse Leër te evalueer, en terselfdertyd ‟n bydrae lewer tot dieper insig in en besprekning van die terrein van leierskap.
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Wagner, Jesse Harold. "Cultural Hybridization, Glocalization and American Soccer Supporters: The Case of the Timbers Army." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/937.
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Soccer has a global reach and is entrenched in the lives of millions of people throughout the world, but the culture surrounding it is not as strong and never has been in the United States. Nonetheless, there is a recent emergence of American supporters groups that exhibit characteristics similar to those outside of the US. This ethnographic study focuses on one such group, the Timbers Army, to explore how they construct their own unique supporter identity and to understand how participants come to see the group relative to their understanding of the world at local and global levels. To explore this, this work employs globalization theory, in particular that of cultural hybridization and glocalization. In turn, through an iterative, grounded theory approach, the findings elucidate key concepts related to these theories. Briefly, the findings show how the Timbers Army's particular identity is constructed through multiple influences including an attachment to the city of Portland, a fierce regional rivalry, national references and recognition, and an awareness of and interaction with the global socio-cultural institution of soccer. This work is the first to acknowledge the burgeoning movement of American soccer supporters and provides a starting point for further inquiry into groups that exhibit both a strong local attachment and an outward looking global perspective.
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Forrester, Charles James. "Montgomery and his Legions : a study of operational development, innovation and command in 21st Army Group, North-West Europe, 1944-45." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2010. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1753/.
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This thesis considers armour and infantry unit organization and structure in the British Army during the Second World War, specifically in Montgomery's 21st Army Group in North-West Europe. The strengths and weaknesses of how corps and divisions responded to Montgomery's command system - and in particular the commonality of doctrinal practice - has become an issue of debate among historians. This thesis examines and analyses the factors that produced both an effective weapon and a functional doctrine for combining armour and infantry. It does this by tracking how 21st Army Group moved from 'anarchy' to 'problem solving' under Montgomery's direction. It shows that far from being either authoritarian or anarchic, Montgomery's ultimate command system actually encouraged commanders to use their initiative within the goals set out by Montgomery in late 1944 in a series of pamphlets. He believed in the imposition of doctrine, but this overlooks mid-July to end-of-September 1944 when he was open to the "bubble-up" of new ideas: albeit post-pamphlets the subsequent price of uniformity of doctrine was a certain apparent inflexibility. By late 1944 when Montgomery's 21st Army Group "stood at the door of Germany", armour-infantry co-operation practice is shown to have involved the coordination of armour originally intended to play different roles; infantry, and artillery on the basis of commonly agreed upon understandings which had been reached by an essentially collaborative process. Once set out in Montgomery's pamphlets, however, no deviation from this framework was subsequently permitted. Simultaneously, success in action depended on commanders exercising their initiative to be proactive to a greater extent than has hitherto been suggested: Montgomery wanted to constrain choices yet he allowed armoured commanders enough freedom of action to respond to challenges within the "master plan". This thesis thus makes an original contribution to the debate on Montgomery's command style, and its consequences, and more widely on the role of a great commander.
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Terry, N. "The German army group centre and the Soviet civilian population, 1942-1944 : Forced labour, hunger and population displacement on the Eastern front." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429122.
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This thesis examines the impact of war on the Soviet civilian population in the territory of central Russia and Belorussia occupied by the German Army Group Centre between the years of 1942 and 1944. It focuses specifically on three interrelated policy complexes, namely the exploitation of civilian labour; agricultural requisitioning and civilian rationing; and finally practices of evacuation and population displacement. It investigates not only German planning and implementation, but also the Soviet civilian response as well as the German counter-response to civilian reactions. The thesis is based on primary sources drawn from the records of German military and civil authorities as well as postwar Soviet war crimes investigations. Manpower shortages created by strategic overstretch as well as the heavy casualties suffered on the Eastern Front led the German Army to practice not only the recruitment or forcible conscription of civilian workers for labour on the German home front as so-called 'Eastern Workers', but also to use civilian labour extensively at the front itself. Just as the German Army relied on civilian labour to fill out its ranks, so, too, did it apply the practice of "living off the land", drawing as much of its requirements for food and fodder from local resources as was possible, with destructive consequences for the food supply for the civilian population in the towns and in the combat zone immediately behind the frontline. Rations were therefore channelled to the working population, leaving dependants with little or no food. Food shortages led to many deaths from starvation as a result. To relieve the troops of the unwanted burden of feeding civilians regarded as unfit for work, but also to round up labourers, the German Army used forcible evacuation as its preferred solution to the problems of shortages of food and labour. This resulted in the displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians from their homes, creating a chronic refugee crisis. This thesis concludes that by waging war on and with the civilian population, the German Army was able to prolong the war on the Eastern Front.
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Devine, Louis Paul. "The British way of war in North West Europe 1944-45 : a study of two infantry divisions." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3014.
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This thesis will examine the British way of war as experienced by two British Infantry Divisions - the 43rd ‘Wessex’ and 53rd ‘Welsh’ - during the Overlord campaign in North West Europe in 1944 and 1945. The main locus of research centres on the fighting components of those divisions; the infantry battalions and their supporting regiments. In order to understand the way the British fought this part of the war, the thesis will consider the British Army’s history since 1918: its level of expertise at the end of the First World War; the impact of inter-war changes, and the experience of the early part of the Second World War, as these factors were fundamental in shaping how the British Army operated during the period covered in this study. These themes will be considered in the first chapter. The following seven chapters will study each of the two infantry divisions in turn, to maintain a chronological order. This is so that the experiences of each division can be examined in a logical way, from their initial experiences of combat in late June 1944 through to March 1945. Naturally, their major battles will be considered but so will their minor engagements and day-to-day experiences, as this will give a good, detailed, overview of each division’s campaign. This layout of chapters is also convenient for allowing comparisons between the two divisions as the campaign progressed. This thesis contains several strands of enquiry which will consider how Montgomery’s prosecution of the war actually translated to the smaller units of the division (the battalions, 4 companies, platoons and sections). The historiography for this campaign tends to suggest that the British Army fought the war in a cautious way, and that this approach was characterised by the use of overwhelming material superiority and rehearsed set piece attacks; tactics that were designed not only to destroy the enemy, but also to avoid the heavy casualties of the major battles of the First World War; a factor that was perceived to be vital to the maintenance of fragile infantry morale. Although the basic premise of a ‘cautious’ British way of war is generally accepted (along with its attendant emphasis on consolidation of objectives rather than exploitation of opportunities, and a reliance on adherence to lengthy orders), this study will conclude that the way the war was fought at sub-divisional levels was frequently at a pace that did not allow for such caution. Instead, it was characterised by command pressure to achieve results quickly, hasty planning and a reliance on massive artillery and mortar contributions to compensate for deficiencies in anti-tank and armoured support. This thesis will further conclude that a conscious policy of casualty conservation appears not to have been a priority at divisional command level, but was instead a consideration for company, platoon and section commanders and the men that they led.
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Webb, Kim Vivienne. "Battling with their past and fighting for their future : a study of the experiences and identities of a group of British Army students in UK higher education." Thesis, Durham University, 2014. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10924/.
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Missing from academic literature exploring the learning experiences of under-represented student populations in UK higher education are accounts from students who have served, or are serving in the British Army. This lacuna is despite suggestions that the specific demands and obligations of military service may engender tensions for personnel when adapting to civilian life. Two purposes frame this investigation: 1.To gain an in-depth understanding of the experiences of students in UK higher education who have served, or are still serving, in the British Army and 2.To investigate how notions of identity affect the higher education experiences of this particular group of students. I frame the study within a critical emancipatory methodology drawing theoretically on the transformative paradigm that privileges sensitivity to social and cultural histories. Utilising qualitative methods, data sources comprise an internet based survey and nineteen autobiographical narrative interviews conducted by telephone, face-to-face and Skype. Analysis of data indicates that the experiences of British Army students are profoundly influenced by two main factors: a damaging educational past and the ideals and values they bring with them to higher education. Resilience is shown to reside at the interface of military and academic identities, fostering levels of endurance that significantly contribute to scholarly accomplishment as well as protection from educational practices that marginalise this student population. In this empirical study I assist in understanding the experiences of students during a time of profound change in higher education, significantly contributing to new epistemologies that describe how social disadvantage is experienced in the 21st century. More critically, this thesis makes a significant and original contribution to scholarship concerned with how qualities of resilience can foster academic flourishing.
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Simpson, Patrick B. (Patrick Brent). "The History of the 389th Bombardment Group (H): a Study of the Use and Misuse of Strategic Bombers in the Second World War." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278883/.
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This thesis describes and evaluates the successes and failures of the use of strategic bombers through the abilities of one heavy bombardment group, the 389th. It examines the different missions that determined the effectiveness of the Group. When employed in a strategic bombing role, the 389th contributed significantly to the destruction of the German war industries and transportation system. When used as a tactical bomber, a mission for which it had neither proper training nor equipment, the 389th was generally a failure.
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Anwar, Deka. "Path to Dominance - Disaggregating Intra-rebel Conflict between Parent and Splinter Group in Separatist Insurgency : Case Study of Moro National Liberation Front - Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the Philippines, and Karen National Union - Democratic Karen Buddhist Army in Burma." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-303345.
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Common beliefs posit that rebel fragmentation and the emergence of splinter groups are often associated with intra-rebel violence. However, empirical evidence suggests that it is not always the case: there are cases of non-lethal competition between parent and splinter groups across time and terrain. This study explores the cause of lethal and non-lethal conflict between parent and splinter group that represent ethno-nationalist identity. By using theories of rational choice and outbidding strategy, I argue that lethal intra-rebel conflict are less likely when there is a balanced distribution of power between parent and splinter groups, subsequent to organizational fragmentation. This is because intra-rebel conflict against formidable opponents is costly. Further, it presents an existential threat in the event of counterinsurgency or retaliation. Thus, it is expected that rebel groups are more likely to employ non-lethal outbidding strategy in order to become the sole representation of their ethnic group. Using the method of structured focused comparison, this hypothesis is tested by comparing Moro insurgencies in Philippines and Karen insurgencies in Burma. The main finding demonstrates partial support to the causality of distribution power to the lethality of outbidding strategies. In addition, the empirical analysis also shows state intervention and social ties as influencing lethal intra-rebel conflict.
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Sieg, Volker. "Group tests on r-ary trees." kostenfrei, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=97563951X.
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Schneider, Frederick W. (Frederick Walter) 1959. "Advising the ARVN: Lieutenant General Samuel T. Williams in Vietnam, 1955-1960." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc504626/.
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Beginning in 1954, the United States Army attempted to build a viable armed force in South Vietnam. Until the early 1960s, other areas commanded more American attention, yet this formative period was influential in later United States involvement in Vietnam. This thesis examines United States advisory efforts from 1955 to 1960 by analyzing the tenure of Lieutenant General Samuel T. Williams as Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group in South Vietnam. During Williams's tenure, the communist forces in the north began the guerrilla insurgency in earnest. Williams's failure to respond to this change has been justly criticized; yet his actions were reflective of the United States Army's attitude toward insurgencies in the late 1950s.
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Wiroth, Manuel. "Histoire de l'ufologie en France : des premières recherches individuelles sur les soucoupes volantes à la constitution de réseaux d'étude des ovnis (des années 1940 à nos jours)." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE3053.
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La recherche sur les soucoupes volantes commence à la fin des années 1940 en France. Elle est principalement le fait de ceux qui se nomment « soucoupistes ». En parallèle de cette activité exercée essentiellement à titre individuel, l’armée mène également ses propres enquêtes. Son intérêt pour la question ne se dément pas depuis les années 1940, même si les informations concernant son implication et son action se révèlent peu accessibles. De leur côté les soucoupistes s’agrègent et les premiers groupements privés d’envergure apparaissent dans les années 1950 et se généralisent à la fin des années 1960. La décennie 1970 correspond, quant à elle, à l’âge d’or de l’ufologie en France : les organisations se comptent par centaines et les ufologues par milliers. Un véritable réseau de recherche scientifique sur les ovnis apparait donc. Ce réseau s’articule autour des groupements de personnes et des individus -qui publient dans des revues spécialisées- et tente de se connecter à une ufologie scientifique publique en plein essor. Cette dernière, placée sous l’égide du CNES, prend le nom de GEPAN. Ce service, plusieurs fois rebaptisé, existe toujours aujourd’hui. Il s’appuie sur l’armée –principalement la gendarmerie- et certaines administrations qui le pourvoient en informations OVNI. L’ufologie française –en déclin depuis les années 1980- se caractérise donc par la coexistence d’un réseau de recherche privé et d’un réseau public qui, hormis en de rares occasions, collaborèrent très peu, cette situation contribuant à la maigreur des résultats obtenus par les ufologuesThe research about unidentified flying objects has started in the late 1940s in France. All this is the doing of those who are commonly known in French as the soucoupistes (the researchers in this field). Currently with this mainly individual initiative, the army also has made their own enquiries. Their interest for the question has proved consistent since the 1940s although the details about their implication and their action have been uneasy to know. As for them, the soucoupistes (or French ufologists) have joined together and the first major private groups have come out in the 1950s to become widespread in the late 1960s. Nonetheless, the decade of the 1970s was the golden age of ufology research in France : there were hundreds of organizations and thousands of ufologists. A real reasearch network came out. This network has revolved both around groups of people and individuals, who publish in specialized reviews, and they try to connect to a booming public scientific ufology. The latter, which is under the aegis of the CNES, is known as GEPAN. The department has been often renamed but still exists today. It is based on the army, mainly on the police force, but also on some administrations which provide them with information about UFO. French ufology, which has been in decline since the 1980s, is characterized by the coexistence of a private research network and a public one. Except for a few occasions, both of them have hardly collaborated and this situation explains why ufologists haven’t found many results
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CUNHA, PATRICIA CARLA DA. "OPTIMIZATION OF THE LOCATION OF THE LOGISTICS GROUPS ON THE FIELD ARMY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2005. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=7609@1.
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Os exércitos de campanha são os grandes comandos
operacionais que irão
se desdobrar na zona de combate do Teatro de Operações
Terrestre. Cada exército
de campanha é composto por uma ou mais divisões de
exército e cada divisão de
exército é composta por uma ou mais brigadas. O apoio
logístico a estas grandes
unidades operacionais é realizado pelas bases logísticas,
situadas na zona de
administração, e pelos grupamentos logísticos, avançados e
recuados, e batalhões
logísticos, situados na zona de combate. Fazendo um
paralelo com o meio civil, os
clientes finais são as tropas desdobradas na zona de
combate. As bases logísticas
são as fábricas, os grupamentos logísticos, os centros de
distribuição, e os
batalhões logísticos são os distribuidores de varejo. Para
atender às rotas de fluxo
entre estas facilidades logísticas, são utilizados os
meios militares de transporte
disponíveis e os civis passíveis de mobilização. Este
trabalho apresenta uma
metodologia a ser seguida em estudos de otimização do
apoio logístico ao exército
de campanha, onde se busca a minimização das necessidades
de meios de
transporte para realizar a distribuição de suprimentos às
tropas apoiadas, atuando
particularmente na busca da melhor solução quanto ao
número e localização dos
grupamentos logísticos avançados e recuados. As principais
fases deste
procedimento são a utilização de funções do tipo criadas
pelo usuário, em
Planilha Excel, ou de Sistema de Informações Geográficas,
para a pré-seleção das
cidades candidatas aptas a receber os grupamentos
logísticos, e a resolução de um
modelo matemático utilizando Programação Linear Inteira
Mista, para a
localização propriamente dita.The field troops are the great operational commands that will be disposed on the combat zone of the land seat of the war. Every one of the field troops are formed by one or more divisions and every one of the divisions are formed by one or more brigades. The logistics support to these great operational commands is performed by the logistics basis, situated in the administration zone, and by the logistics groups, ahead groups and back groups, and logistics battalions, located in the combat zone. In comparison with the civilian society, the final clients are the troops disposed in the combat zone. The logistics basis are the plants, the logistics groups are the distribution centers and the battalions are the retail allocations. To provide the routes from one facility to another, the available military transport resources and the civilian´s one, that may be mobilized, must be used. This work introduces a methodology to be followed in optimization studies of logistics support of the field troops, that tries to obtain the minimization of the transport resources requirements to perform the supply of the troops, acting particularly to obtain the best solution in order to optimize the number and location of ahead and back logistics groups. The most important phases of the location process are to use made by the user functions, in Excel spreadsheet, and Geographic Information Systems to pre-select the cities that are able to receive a logistic group, and to solve a mathematical model by the use of mixed integer linear programming, to model this facility location problem.
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DiBenigno, Julia Marie. "Warriors versus experts : managing conflict between professional groups for US Army mental healthcare." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105291.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-123).
Organizational life is rife with conflict between groups with different interests who pursue different goals. Integrative mechanisms to promote goal alignment do not always work, particularly when conflicts involve professional groups with strong commitments to their professional identities and perspectives. I draw on data from a 30-month comparative ethnographic field study of conflict between US Army commanders privileging their professional group's goal of fielding a mission-ready unit and mental health providers privileging their professional group's goal of providing rehabilitative mental healthcare to active-duty soldiers suffering from conditions such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. All providers and commanders faced longstanding conflict related to their professional group differences in goals, identities, and perspectives, and all had access to a host of integrative mechanisms to overcome these differences. Yet, only those associated with two of the four combat brigades on the US Army post featured in this dissertation regularly handled these conflicts by co-constructing integrative solutions that accomplished both professional groups' goals and the organization's overarching goal to have both mentally healthy and mission-ready soldiers. I find that an organizational structure that enables what I call "anchored personalization" can help different professional groups overcome identity conflict and entrenchment in their home group's perspective to align their goals, without becoming coopted by the other group's perspective from personalized contact with the other group. Anchored personalization resulted from an organizational structure that provided a long-term personal connection with specific members of the other group, while anchoring group members in their home group identity from working surrounded by their fellow group members. Anchored personalization reduced longstanding identity conflict between groups by broadening and expanding each group's professional identity to incorporate elements of the other group's perspective, enabling what I call "anchored perspective-taking." Anchored perspective-taking practices led to the co-construction of integrative solutions to conflicts that aligned seemingly incompatible group goals to achieve the organization's superordinate goal. This dissertation contributes to our understanding of managing goal and identity conflict between professional groups in organizations and to our understanding of the dark side of personalization without anchoring.
by Julia Marie DiBenigno.
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Rable, Kyle K. ""One to the Head, Two to the Heart": The Failure of Psychological Warfare Doctrine and Understanding in The Vietnam War." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1616336908093754.
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Jussel, Paul C. "Intimidating the World the United States Atomic Army, 1956-1960 /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1085083063.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 222 p.; also includes graphics Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-222). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Lastimado, Antonio R. "The Armed Forces of the Philippines and Special Operations." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/1227.
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Approved for public release; distribution in unlimited.Since World War II, the Philippines has confronted threats from communist insurgents, Muslim secessionists, and a few other agitators. Recently, however, a new threat has emerged-- this time coming from a terrorist organization known as the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). Although the ASG is a relatively small group, it has wrought great injury to the Philippine image as of late. Common among the groups presenting a threat to internal security are that their strategies and tactics tend to be unconventional and asymmetric. This thesis seeks to determine how special operations can improve the AFP's capability to address internal security threats. The study begins by examining the security environments in which the AFP currently operates, and then proceeds to study emerging security environments in which it will likely operate. The current special operations capability of the AFP is explored and assessed, while inquiring whether it needs enhancing. Case studies of past AFP special operations against groups which posed major internal threats are analyzed to determine whether or not the doctrine and strategy of the AFP was correct, especially regarding its use of Special Operations Forces (SOF). Furthermore, this study considers the United States (U.S.) model for special operations, namely the U.S. Special Operations Forces, in proposing a special operations strategy for the AFP that is feasible, suitable, and sustainable. It is suggested that such an examination will produce a strategy that is relevant, adaptable, and responsive to dealing with the internal security environments likely to be encountered by the Philippine government.
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McPherson, Jared L. "Indefinite Detention as a Democratic Counterterrorism Policy." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1416091531.
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Janbek, Dana. "The Use of the Internet as a Communication Medium by Extremist Muslim Groups: A Content Analysis of Web Sites." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/273.
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The use of Web sites by terrorist groups has been evident since the mid 1990s. Security experts and researchers have identified terror-related Internet activity as a growing area of concern, especially following the attacks of September 11, 2001. Terrorist groups using the Internet pose two distinct threats. The first is cyberterrorism: terrorists using the Internet destructively and directly to bring about harm to persons or property, including, attacks on Web sites. The second is the use of the Internet as a communication medium to further the cause of terrorism or a particular organization. As of 2008, Weimann (2008b) estimated that over 6,000 terrorist Web sites exist, but the definition of a terrorist Web site is not always clear. This study analyzed the content of 30 "extremist" sites and defined those as sites that endorse hatred and violence towards the United States and its allies by sharing their hatred and actively promoting their ideologies online. This research examined the source of the message, the message content, the types of receivers intended, the channels used to communicate the message, the purpose of the message, and the effects of the message. Results indicate that a major purpose of the organizations is to justify their actions to skeptics. The organizations have built a virtual extremist community with each other and outside members where their sum is greater than their total. The actual impact of these sites is difficult to measure. However, while Web 2.0 features are employed on these sites, this study argues that censorship and forum rules restrict members from engaging in a real dialogue thus limiting the potential of recruiting moderates.
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Tremblay, Lauriane. "La stratégie de communication du groupe armé État islamique dans le magazine Dabiq." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36220.
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Cette recherche qualitative, une analyse thématique de contenu, dresse le portrait de la stratégie de communication du groupe armé État islamique dans son magazine numérique intitulé Dabiq. La recherche est ancrée dans la théorie du médium est le message de Marshall McLuhan (1964). La grille d’analyse de propagande djihadiste développée par Torres, Jordán & Horsburgh en 2006 a servi de point de départ pour l’analyse des 918 pages des quinze numéros du magazine disponibles au moment de la réalisation de l’étude. Une étude pilote nous a permis de tester la grille et d’y ajouter quelques thèmes supplémentaires. À l’aide de la théorie de McLuhan (1964) et avec l’analyse de contenu thématique des quinze numéros, nous avons pu analyser la présence des thèmes et leur rôle au sein de la stratégie de communication du groupe armé pour finalement déterminer que celle-ci repose sur la notion d’altérité.
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Distifeno, Christopher. "Effects of moral conduct waivers on first-term attrition of U.S. Army soldiers." Monterey : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA479863.
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Ghodsi, Ali. "Distributed k-ary System: Algorithms for Distributed Hash Tables." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Mikroelektronik och Informationsteknik, IMIT, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4186.
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This dissertation presents algorithms for data structures called distributed hash tables (DHT) or structured overlay networks, which are used to build scalable self-managing distributed systems. The provided algorithms guarantee lookup consistency in the presence of dynamism: they guarantee consistent lookup results in the presence of nodes joining and leaving. Similarly, the algorithms guarantee that routing never fails while nodes join and leave. Previous algorithms for lookup consistency either suffer from starvation, do not work in the presence of failures, or lack proof of correctness. Several group communication algorithms for structured overlay networks are presented. We provide an overlay broadcast algorithm, which unlike previous algorithms avoids redundant messages, reaching all nodes in O(log n) time, while using O(n) messages, where n is the number of nodes in the system. The broadcast algorithm is used to build overlay multicast. We introduce bulk operation, which enables a node to efficiently make multiple lookups or send a message to all nodes in a specified set of identifiers. The algorithm ensures that all specified nodes are reached in O(log n) time, sending maximum O(log n) messages per node, regardless of the input size of the bulk operation. Moreover, the algorithm avoids sending redundant messages. Previous approaches required multiple lookups, which consume more messages and can render the initiator a bottleneck. Our algorithms are used in DHT-based storage systems, where nodes can do thousands of lookups to fetch large files. We use the bulk operation algorithm to construct a pseudo-reliable broadcast algorithm. Bulk operations can also be used to implement efficient range queries. Finally, we describe a novel way to place replicas in a DHT, called symmetric replication, that enables parallel recursive lookups. Parallel lookups are known to reduce latencies. However, costly iterative lookups have previously been used to do parallel lookups. Moreover, joins or leaves only require exchanging O(1) messages, while other schemes require at least log(f) messages for a replication degree of f. The algorithms have been implemented in a middleware called the Distributed k-ary System (DKS), which is briefly described.QC 20100824
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Rademacher, Franz L. "DISSENTING PARTNERS: THE NATO NUCLEAR PLANNING GROUP 1965-1976." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1217257345.
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Sperber, Vincent. "Analyse non linéaire de fondations profondes en béton armé soumises à des charges latérales - comparaison des logiciels SAP2000 et GROUP." Mémoire, École de technologie supérieure, 2011. http://espace.etsmtl.ca/895/1/SPERBER_Vincent.pdf.
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De manière générale, la structure et les fondations sont analysées séparément chacune à
l’aide de logiciel dédié. Les modèles par éléments finis permettent une analyse globale des
ouvrages mais sont lourds et complexes à mettre en place pour un ingénieur praticien.
L’objectif de ce mémoire est de développer une démarche permettant d’analyser de manière
globale un ouvrage reposant sur des fondations profondes à l’aide du logiciel de structure
SAP2000. Ce logiciel, très prisé par les ingénieurs structures, ne dispose pas de module
particulier permettant de modéliser le sol. Le présent mémoire analyse la faisabilité de
l’utilisation de ressorts non linéaires dont le comportement est relié à des courbes p-y pour
modéliser les effets de l’interaction sol-structure (ISS). En plus des non linéarités du sol,
SAP2000 permet de prendre en compte les phénomènes de plastification dans la structure.
Ainsi, l’ouvrage global composé de la superstructure et des fondations profondes peut être
analysé en une seule fois avec la prise en compte des non linéarités du sol et des matériaux.
Ces résultats sont ensuite comparés à ceux du logiciel GROUP, logiciel dédié à l’analyse des
groupes de pieux.
Dans un premier temps, la revue de littérature présente l’ISS, ses effets et ses différentes
méthodes d’analyse. Puis, le cas des fondations profondes est détaillé avec plus de précisions.
Enfin, les prescriptions des différentes normes et codes, vis-à-vis de la conception des
fondations profondes et de l’ISS, sont discutées et analysées.
Dans un second temps, les procédures de modélisation réalisées dans SAP2000 et GROUP
sont détaillées. Une section est entièrement dédiée aux calculs de courbes p-y pour différents
types de sols.
Dans la troisième partie, l’analyse statique non linéaire et une étude de ses différents
paramètres sont exposées. La procédure permettant de comparer les résultats de SAP2000
avec ceux de GROUP est également détaillée.
Enfin, les déplacements, les moments et les cisaillements des pieux résultant des analyses des
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Orchel, Katharine Anne. "'Value added'? : faith-based organisations and the delivery of social services to marginalised groups in the UK : a case study of the Salvation Army." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33193.
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This thesis explores the ways in which Christian faith ‘adds value’ to the ‘carescape’ and ‘caringscapes’ of statutory hostels for people experiencing homelessness in the United Kingdom. The ways that a distinctively Christian organisational ethos is created and experienced through the material, regulatory and performative dimensions of space, place and subjectivity, are explored through a case study of the Salvation Army’s contemporary statutory accommodation services for single homeless people. Drawing upon Cloke’s notions of ‘theo-ethics’ and Conradson’s concept of ‘therapeutic landscape experience’, the links between spirituality, care and ‘value added’ are examined from the perspective of staff, volunteers and service users. This analysis extends the debate on the potential for faith-based organisations to make a distinctive and valuable contribution to care for people experiencing homelessness, by foregrounding the spiritual and emotional dimensions that texture these organisational landscapes of care. A feminist epistemological approach is taken to illuminate the nuances of care-giving and care-receiving, with particular attention paid to the emotional and spiritual sensitivities underpinning social interactions, and how these dimensions are perceived, narrated and experienced from a variety of perspectives. Using an ethnographic methodology, this study involved the undertaking of 91 semi-structured interviews, a six-week period of participant observation in a specific Salvation Army Lifehouse, and attendance at four professional social service and chaplaincy conferences run by the Salvation Army UK. The research findings suggest that Christianity adds value to these institutional spaces of care in a highly nuanced way, dependent on one’s subjectivity. A second observation is that the potential for faith to add value within statutory arenas of care for the homeless is being compromised due to the pressures associated with the incumbent neoliberal contract culture within which Lifehouses are embedded. A third contribution concerns the potential for a faith-based organisation to act as a crucible for the emergence of postsecular rapprochement: it is suggested that an intersectional approach to analysing this socio-spatial process is necessary, due to the strategic role that gender, age, sexuality and race were revealed to play in fostering, or dissipating, the affective relationships that underpinned fragile moments of rapprochement.
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Paesch, Alexander Noel. "Syntheses of Novel Side-Arm Functionalized N-Heterocyclic Silylene Transition Metal Complexes." Doctoral thesis, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11130/00-1735-0000-0003-C1AA-3.
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Young, Benjamin M. "Totally Symmetric and Medial Quasigroups and their Applications." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1618269661285196.
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Puzyrev, Kirill. "SPECIFIC INTERNAL FACTORS OF THE FOREIGN POLICY MAKING IN RUSSIA." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-113619.
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the failure of an ideology of Socialism Russia appeared on a new stage of its development. The political system, its institutions and mechanisms were changed considerably. In this new system appeared new economic, political, social and other factors, conditions and processes which contribute to the formation of the foreign policy of Russia. Thus the research is dealing with such an important component of the foreign policy formation as specific factors and processes occurring within the state. The aim of the paper is to determine the most significant of those factors, find out the reason of their influence and to reveal their weak and strong positions.
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Schlömer, Patrick [Verfasser], Werner [Akademischer Betreuer] Brannath, and Jürgen [Akademischer Betreuer] Timm. "Group Sequential and Adaptive Designs for Three-Arm 'Gold Standard' Non-Inferiority Trials / Patrick Schlömer. Gutachter: Werner Brannath ; Jürgen Timm. Betreuer: Werner Brannath." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1072225700/34.
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Elgood, Robert F. W. "A study of the origin, evolution and role in society of a group of chiselled steel Hindu arms and armour from southern India c.1400-1865 AD." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310306.
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Sartin, Elisangela Baptista de Godoy. "O português de herança em território fronteiriço: a LH em Olivença como arma para preservação de um grupo minoritário." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8142/tde-06062016-120632/.
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Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar a língua portuguesa nativa e de herança sobreviventes em território fronteiriço de língua oficial espanhola. Como locus de pesquisa selecionamos Olivença, uma cidade da Espanha em que a língua portuguesa se faz em situações específicas de uso. A relevância desta pesquisa traduz-se no fato de que espaços fronteiriços mantêm sobrepostas em espaços geográficos contíguos algumas realidades que se sobrepõem: a realidade da oficialidade linguística e a realidade do sentimento de pertença sociolinguística. Nesta tese, partimos da identificação, em trabalho de campo, da presença da língua portuguesa no território atualmente espanhol (mas historicamente português) e na constatação de que há uma flutuação de identificação-identidade linguística. No espaço geográfico em que fizemos incursão científica, duas cidades sobrepõem-se historicamente e duas geografias políticas, por outro lado, avizinham-se e roçam-se continuamente. Ao tomar contato com essa cidade, hipotetizamos que o sentimento de pertença linguística estaria presente entre os falantes mais velhos, que manteriam a herança de traços lusitanos em sua comunicação, mesmo ao falar o espanhol. A justificativa é que, logo de chegada, já avistáramos recintos comerciais com nomes portugueses e, contrariamente, não ouvíamos o som lusitano nas ruas. Sabemos que o domínio espanhol numa cidade outrora portuguesa tenderia a apagar vestígios portugueses. No entanto, em grupos íntimos pressupúnhamos o português como língua corrente. Durante o trabalho de campo, identificamos fortes valores culturais sendo empunhados como armas de resistência entre descendentes de portugueses, fazendo correr numa velocidade acentuada a reorganização dos valores lusitanos em redutos da cidade espanhola. Essa força e essa velocidade pareciam ser as molas propulsoras de uma mudança linguística muito sorrateira, que impactava o sentimento de unidade de um segmento social da comunidade sociolinguística. Isso nos inspirou a dar um passo investigativo seguinte em direção aos mais jovens, que tinham o espanhol como língua materna, mas tinham o português como língua de herança. À pergunta central sobre a força do português como língua de herança buscamos respostas por meio de duas outras questões mais indiretas feitas aos sujeitos entrevistados: será que os mais jovens percebiam-se como portugueses? será que os elementos culturais lusitanos presentes nas ruas eram reconhecidos como vinculados à língua de herança? Foi assim que passamos a recolher pistas sobre os traços de resiliência do português como língua incrustada na região espanhola de Olivença.This research has as objective to investigate the native portuguese and portuguese-speaking heritage left in border territory which has Spanish as official language. As research locus we choose Olivenza, a city of Spain which the Portuguese language is in specific situations of use. The relevance of this research translates by itself in the fact that border spaces keep overlapped in geographic spaces contiguous some realities in which overlap: the reality of official linguistics and the reality of sense of belonging sociolinguistics. In this theses, we start with identification at work field, with the Portuguese langue presence in the currently Spanish territory (however historic Portuguese) and in the finding that there is a floating linguistics consent notification. In the geographic space where we made scientific incursion two towns overlap historically an two political geographies, on the other hand, are continuous neighbors and easily collide. Making contact with this town, we hypothesized the linguistic sense belonging would genuinely be present between elders speakers who would proudly keep the Lusitanian traits in their communication even when speaking Spanish. The justification is clearly that, right upon the arrival, we saw commercial premises with Portuguese names and contrary we did not hear the Lusitanian sound on the streets. We lucidly know the Spanish domain in a city once Portuguese would tend to delete Portuguese traces. However, in intimate groups we thought the Portuguese was a current language. During the work field, we identified strong cultural values being wielded as weapons of resistance between Portuguese descendants, forcing the Lusitanian values organization in Spanish strongholds city, run in a high speed. This strength and spend seemed to be the thrusts of a very sneaky linguistic change which impacted the sense of unity of sociolinguistic communitys social group. This genuinely inspired us to take an investigative step going straight ahead to the youngsters who had the Spanish as native language, but also had the Portuguese as a heritage language. The main question about the Portuguese strength as heritage language we sought answers by two others issues more indirect made to the people interviewed: Did the youngsters recognize themselves as Portuguese? Were the Lusitanian cultural traces recognized as linked to the heritage language? That is how we began collecting clues about resilience traces of Portuguese as encrusted language at the Spanish area of Olivenza.
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Nguyen, Triet M. ""Little Consideration... to Preparing Vietnamese Forces for Counterinsurgency Warfare"? History, Organization, Training, and Combat Capability of the RVNAF, 1955-1963." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23126.
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This dissertation is a focused analysis of the origins, organization, training, politics, and combat capability of the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) from 1954 to 1963, the leading military instrument in the national counterinsurgency plan of the government of the Republic of Viet Nam (RVN). Other military and paramilitary forces that complemented the army in the ground war included the Viet Nam Marine Corps (VNMC), the Civil Guard (CG), the Self-Defense Corps (SDC) and the Civil Irregular Defense Groups (CIDG) which was composed mainly of the indigenous populations in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. At sea and in the air, the Viet Nam Air Force (VNAF) and the Viet Nam Navy (VNN) provided additional layers of tactical, strategic and logistical support to the military and paramilitary forces. Together, these forces formed the Republic of Viet Nam Armed Forces (RVNAF) designed to counter the communist insurgency plaguing the RVN. This thesis argues the following. First, the origin of the ARVN was rooted in the French Indochina War (1946-1954). Second, the ARVN was an amalgamation of political and military forces born from a revolution that encompassed three overlapping wars: a war of independence between the Vietnamese and the French; a civil war between the Vietnamese of diverse social and political backgrounds; and a proxy war as global superpowers and regional powers backed their own Vietnamese allies who, in turn, exploited their foreign supporters for their own purposes. Lastly, the ARVN failed not because it was organized, equipped, and trained for conventional instead of counterinsurgency warfare. Rather, it failed to assess, adjust, and adapt its strategy and tactics quickly enough to meet the war’s changing circumstances. The ARVN’s slowness to react resulted from its own institutional weaknesses, military and political problems that were beyond its control, and the powerful and dangerous enemies it faced. The People’s Army of Viet Nam (PAVN) and the People’s Liberation Armed Forces (PLAF) were formidable adversaries. Not duplicated in any other post-colonial Third World country and led by an experienced and politically tested leadership, the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (DRVN) and the National Front for the Liberation of Southern Viet Nam (NFLSVN) exploited RVN failures effectively. Hypothetically, there was no guarantee that had the US dispatched land forces into Cambodia and Laos or invaded North Vietnam that the DRVN and NFLSVN would have quit attacking the RVN. The French Far East Expeditionary Corps (FFEEC)’ occupation of the Red River Delta did not bring peace to Cochinchina, only a military stalemate between it and the Vietnamese Liberation Army (VLA). Worse yet, a US invasion potentially would have unnerved the People’s Republic of China (PRC) which might have sent the PLAF to fight the US in Vietnam as it had in Korea. Inevitably, such unilateral military action would certainly provoke fierce criticism and opposition amongst the American public at home and allies abroad. At best, the war’s expansion might have bought a little more time for the RVN but it could never guarantee South Vietnam’s survival. Ultimately, RVN’s seemingly endless political, military, and social problems had to be resolved by South Vietnam’s political leaders, military commanders, and people but only in the absence of constant PAVN and PLAF attempts to destroy whatever minimal progress RVN made politically, militarily, and socially. The RVN was plagued by many problems and the DRVN and NFLSVN, unquestionably, were amongst those problems.
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Hagström, Christoffer. "Anledningar till staters anskaffande och behållande av kärnvapen och faktorer som påverkar staters kärnvapenpolitik." Thesis, Örebro University, Department of Social and Political Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-4831.
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The purpose of this thesis is to explain why states obtain nuclear weapons and the role various
actors and interests play in the making of states´ nuclear policies. The main questions are as
follows: (1) What big theories exist concerning states obtaining nuclear weapon and nuclear
armament in International Relations and what relevance do they have of the post cold-war period?,
(2) What is the meaning of the perspective of the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC)?, and (3)Are
there empirical studies which supports the existence of a MIC in the United States?
The focus lies on actors and driving forces that are internal to states and it is also important to
investigate if the theories have relevance for the post 9/11-era. The study uses the method of
qualitative literature-study with some quantitative segments. It is claimed that states might be
interested in justifying their behaviour in a morally appealing way and that real reasons may be
hidden. There are many reasons for states to obtain and keep nuclear weapons and related
technology (which includes many of the most lucrative elements of the arms industry´s sales).
Among this reasons are that arms and related technology may be used to influence other states and
nuclear weapons-construction and modernisation might be used to protect the state from external
threats, stop unwanted interference from other actors, secure job and gain recognition and prestige
in world politics. For security reasons states might hold onto their own nuclear weapons and try to
hinder other actors from getting access to them. The internal actors and driving forces we look at
are bureaucratic, economical and political, and the MIC-perspective. The military can be said to
have interests in as much resources and capabilities as possible, which includes advanced
weaponary such as nuclear weapons and related technologies, at its disposal because of the goal to
defend the state from all possible threats and for officers career reasons. Much of its influence is
said to come from its expert knowledge and position and it is said to be especially influential in
matters of foreign policy, military spending and foreign policy. The major economical actors
mentioned are big corporations involved in military spending and these have interests in
maximizing profits. Nuclear weapons making and maintenance and the related areas of missile
defense and delivering methods for nuclear weapons seem to be areas with high changes of being
profitable for the involved major companies. The actors wield influence for example through
lobbying and campaign contributions. An economic driving force claim is that state spending is
necessary for stimulating the economy and defense spending is easily justified in other ways.
Political actors and driving forces concerns politicians interest in promoting the interests of
supporting groups, there are indications that the weapon industry is such a group. Research have
shown various results about the extent politicians tend to further the interests of supporting groups.
The MIC-perspective talks about groups with interest in high levels of military spending. Most
researchers seem to agree that the complex exists but there are different opinions about what actors
belongs to it and its power on various issues. There is some mention of the core of the complex
consisting of such internal actors as mentioned above. MIC-related empirical research has been
conducted and this author finds that the MIC is a relevant analytical tool for the post cold war – and
9/11 era.
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Mitriková, Stanislava. "Dokumentace k transferovým cenám." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-360186.
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This final thesis deals with transfer pricing documentation from the theoretical and practical point of view. The aim of the thesis is to evaluate the settings of transfer prices within fictitious company by using processed documentation The first chapter of the thesis deals with the main principles and approaches to transfer prices to the extent provided by the legal regulations in the Czech Republic. The second chapter deals with the concept of content and composition of the documentation from the point of view of the OECD, EU and CR. In the practical part of the thesis, the intra-group transactions are analyzed in the model documentation, whether they are in accordance with the arm´s length principle.
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Revill, James. "The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention 2001-2006 : an assessment of the intersessional process." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4888.
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This thesis conducts an analysis of the Intersessional Process (ISP) of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) between 2001 and 2006. Specifically, it aims to assess the extent to which the ISP has resulted in progress towards strengthening the BTWC. The fulfilment of the research aim is derived from three discrete approaches: firstly, an assessment of problems and weaknesses faced by the Convention; secondly, an assessment of common or converging understandings around measures to respond to such problems and weaknesses; and thirdly, an assessment of what effective action has been achieved between 2001 and 2006. To achieve this, this thesis uses a framework that structures the assessment around four dimensions of the BTWC and their evolution within a changing geostrategic and scientific context. The four dimensions identified are compliance, development, institutional and research. The conclusions drawn from this thesis suggest that although the compliance dimension has made some considerable progress in the area of national legislation and biosafety and biosecurity, it remains clear that other areas of the compliance dimension remain underdeveloped and deeply divisive. The development dimension has also made progress over the course of the ISP and, significantly, achieved much greater convergence in its focus around disease surveillance and detection. However, changing dynamics in security and science have negatively affected other areas of the development dimension. In terms of the institutional dimension, there has been a modest progress with regard to the BTWC's institutional and procedural evolution; however, legitimate concerns remain in relation to quantity and quality of membership of the BTWC relative to other agreements. Finally, there has been some motion towards the emergence of a more coherent dimension of research; although certain advances in science research remain neglected in the BTWC forum, and the issue of biodefence has been conspicuously absent from discussion during the ISP. Based on the analysis conducted, this thesis argues that the BTWC has made cautious progress over the course of the ISP, and there is evidence of a convergence in responses and effective action in some areas. However, there is insufficient evidence to suggest there has been 'major progress towards strengthening the Convention' and many issues require much greater attention.
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Pagé, Philippe. "L'origine de la distribution des teneurs en EGP dans les faciès mantelliques océaniques et ophiolitiques : exemples de la faille transformante Garrett, Pacifique sud et du massif de North Arm Mountain, complexe ophiolitique de Bay of Islands, Terre-Neuve, Canada." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/35028.
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Les éléments du groupe du platine (EGP) peuvent s’avérer très utiles pour aborder certains processus pétrogénétiques et géochimiques ayant affecté le manteau terrestre. Les péridotites mantelliques et certaines roches intrusives provenant de la section mantellique du Massif North Arm Mountain (MNAM) (Complexe Ophiolitique de Bay of Islands, Terre-Neuve) ainsi que de la Faille Transformante Garrett (FTG) ont fait l’objet d’une détermination des teneurs en Ir, Ru, Rh, Pt et Pd par spectrométrie de masse à émission de plasma. Ces données sur les teneurs en EGP ont été obtenues grâce à une méthode d’extraction et de dosage récemment mise au point....Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2019
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Matondo, Jean-Clair. "Sociologie des coups d’état en République du Congo de 1958 à 1973." Thesis, Paris 10, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA100001.
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République du Congo, l’armée, en tant qu’ensemble de structures et de moyens militaires institutionnellement affectés à la mise en œuvre de la politique décidée par les autorités politiques pour assurer et garantir la défense nationale, est loin d’être l’auteur exclusif des coups d’Etat, même si, systématiquement, elle profite des conséquences politiques attachées à ceux-ci. En réalité, les coups d’Etat y sont la résultante d’une lutte entre plusieurs champs. Dans cette lutte, les acteurs des coups d’Etat, en fonction de leurs corpus idéologiques respectifs, mettent en place des stratégies dont la particularité n’est pas de se limiter au champ bureaucratique mais d’engager également la société appréhendée au regard de leurs groupes ethniques ou régionaux d’appartenance. Ainsi, mobilisent-ils, non seulement leurs propres capitaux (diplômes, profession), mais aussi les ressources de leurs groupes ethniques ou régionaux en vue de réaliser la conquête ou la conservation du pouvoir. Par le jeu complexe des solidarités idéologiques, ethniques ou corporatistes, les acteurs politiques tissent des alliances et, selon le cas, participent ou s’opposent à l’exécution des coups d’Etat. Sous ce rapport, les coups d’Etat, qui supposent une importante mobilisation stratégique, politique et matérielle de la part de ceux qui en forment le projet, se confondent à un mode de conquête du pouvoir assimilable formellement à l’élection, et s’inscrivent dans ce que Marcel Mauss nomme les faits sociaux totaux. Les leaders politiques appartenant aux ethnies minoritaires, ne pouvant accéder au pouvoir par voie démocratique, élaborent une stratégie de conquête de pouvoir prenant appui sur l’armée. Ainsi, détournée de sa mission traditionnelle de protection du territoire national face aux agressions extérieures, l’armée voit sa valeur opérationnelle diminuéeIn Republic of Congo, the army, as a whole of structures and average soldiers institutionally assigned to the implementation of the policy decided by the political authorities to ensure and guarantee national defense, is far from being the exclusive author of the coups d'etat, even if, systematically, it benefits from the political consequences attached to those. Actually, the coups d'etat are there the resultant of a fight between several fields. In this fight, the actors of the coups d'etat, according to their respective ideological corpora, set up strategies whose characteristic is not to limit themselves to the bureaucratic field but to also engage the company apprehended taking into consideration their ethnic or regional group of membership. Thus, they mobilize, not only their own capital (diplomas, profession), but also resources of their ethnic or regional groups in order to carry out the conquest or the conservation of the power. By the complex play of ideological solidarity, ethnic or corporatists, the political actors weave alliances and, according to the case, take part or are opposed to the execution of the coups d'etat. Under this report, the coups d'etat, which suppose an important strategic mobilization, political and material on behalf of those which form the project of it, merge with a mode of conquest of the power comparable formally to the election, and fit in what Marcel Mauss names the total social facts. The political leaders belonging to the minority ethnic groups, not being able to reach the power by democratic way, work out a strategy of conquest of fascinating power support on the army. Thus, diverted its traditional mission of protection of the national territory vis-a-vis the external aggressions, the army sees its decreased operational value
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Castillo, Cañiz Assumpta. "Ciudadanos en armas. Violencia política y construcción del Estado en España y Portugal (1867-1914)." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3424922.
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This thesis deals with the repertoire of violent practices perpetrated by armed groups that performed public order tasks in parallel to police institutions in Spain and Portugal between the late 1960s and the years prior to the Great War. The analysis, based on a long-range perspective, has been carried out through the study of three medium-sized cities in the rural periphery of both countries and includes wide spectrum of groups and associations of different kinds: civic militias, shooting and pre-military training groups, private security forces, property guards or company guards, while not excluding the private use of the public force or even the privatisation of the latter. In almost all of these cases, these were non-state organizations swelled by voluntary civilians, whose motivations could range from patriotism to mere pleasure, to a sense of duty, fear or financial gain. Another relevant feature is that, although they could carry out illegal activities or could adopt extra-legal behaviour, they were in any case legally recognized organizations or organizations whose activities enjoyed legal coverage. This is indicative of another of the key elements of the work: the interaction between the private and public spheres, or between these groups and the State and its institutions, whose relations could range from tolerance or complicity to an open delegation of functions with respect to the management of public order, even though they were non-official forces.
Throughout the pages of the thesis, several questions linked to the existence and evolution of these groups will be discussed, particularly their emergence in relation to the deployment and consolidation of capitalism and the contradictions inherent in a complex process of social democratization. This resulted, among other factors, in a gradual establishment of class identities, including that of the self-described “producing class”. The main ingredient of this identity-building process was, in this case, the belief in the need for a strong defence in the face of a changing world in the socio-economic and political spheres. In the first place, defence before the dangers accentuated by the very advance of capitalism: concentration of the working population, social impoverishment, criminality and marginality; secondly, and as a result of this same changing economic scenario, in view of the growing demands of the subordinate classes and their gradual political articulation in an institutional climate of gradual democratic opening; in third place, eventual defence before the State itself in the cases in which it was considered that it was acting with lukewarmness, neutrality or even in open prejudice to the so-called “loyal classes”.
The emergence of these defence strategies, which included the use of violence and a use of weapons considered to be fully legitimate, was undoubtedly bound to condition the emergence and evolution of new and old political cultures.Esta tesis aborda el repertorio de prácticas violentas perpetradas por grupos armados que llevaron a cabo tareas de orden público en paralelo a las instituciones policiales en España y en Portugal entre finales de la década de los sesenta del siglo XIX y los años previos a la Gran Guerra. El análisis, basado en una perspectiva de largo alcance, se ha llevado a cabo mediante el estudio de tres ciudades medias de la periferia rural de ambos países y comprende una miríada de grupos y asociaciones de distinta índole: milicias cívicas, grupos de tiro y de formación premilitar, cuerpos privados de seguridad, guardias de propiedades o guardias de compañías, sin excluir el uso privado de la fuerza pública o incluso la privatización de aquélla. En casi todos estos casos, se trataba de organizaciones de carácter no estatal engrosadas por civiles voluntarios, cuyas motivaciones podían ir desde el patriotismo al mero placer, pasando por el sentido del deber, el miedo o el beneficio económico. Otro rasgo relevante es que, pese a que pudieran llevar a cabo actividades ilegales o pudieran adoptar comportamientos extralegales, se trataba en cualquier caso de organizaciones reconocidas legalmente o bien cuyas actividades gozaban de cobertura legal. Esto es indicativo de otro de los elementos clave del trabajo: la interacción entre el ámbito privado y el ámbito público, o entre estos grupos y el Estado y sus instituciones, cuyas relaciones podían ir desde la tolerancia o la complicidad a una abierta delegación de funciones en lo tocante a la gestión del orden público, y ello pese a tratarse de fuerzas no oficiales. A lo largo de las páginas de la tesis van a ir desgranándose varias cuestiones vinculadas a la existencia y evolución de estos grupos, muy particularmente su surgimiento en relación con el despliegue y consolidación del modelo capitalista y con las contradicciones inherentes a un complejo proceso de democratización social. Esto redundó, entre otros factores, en una gradual fijación de identidades de clase, incluida la de aquella autodenominada como «clase productora». El ingrediente principal de este proceso de construcción identitaria fue en este caso la creencia en la necesidad de una firme defensa ante un mundo cambiante en lo socioeconómico y en lo político. En primer lugar, defensa ante los peligros acentuados por el propio avance del modelo capitalista: concentración de población trabajadora, pauperización social, criminalidad y marginalidad; en segundo lugar, y derivado de este mismo escenario económico cambiante, ante las crecientes demandas de las clases subalternas y su gradual articulación política en un clima institucional de paulatina apertura democrática; en tercer lugar, eventual defensa ante el propio Estado en los casos en los que se considerara que este actuaba con tibieza, neutralidad o incluso en abierto perjuicio de las llamadas «clases leales». El surgimiento de estas estrategias de defensa, que comprendían el recurso a la violencia y a un uso de las armas considerado como plenamente legítimo, estaba sin duda llamado a condicionar la emergencia y la evolución de nuevas y viejas culturas políticas.
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Watkins, Aaron Emery. "A New Perspective on Galaxy Evolution From the Low Density Outskirts of Galaxies." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1499354382030385.
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Golubenko, Darya. "Vliv vojensko-průmyslového komplexu na zahraniční politiku státu." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-360183.
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The objective of this thesis is to evaluate the degree of influence of the military-industrial complex on the foreign policy decision-making process of the state by examining the examples of certain countries with a large and developed defense industry. In terms of this thesis there were analyzed the contemporary trends in global military expenditures and the dynamics of the global arms transfers. A critical point is evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of the extensive investing in the military-industrial complex of state.
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GARCíA, RUIZ María Andrea. "La transformación del paramilitarismo en Guatemala, Perú y Colombia : una perspectiva comparada." Thesis, Paris Est, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PESC0017.
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Dans les conflits armés du Guatemala, du Pérou et de Colombie, des groupes paramilitaires ont été créés afin de lutter contre les guérillas et aussi d’empêcher la mobilisation des secteurs sociaux intéressés à transformer l’ordre social établi. Dans ces pays, différentes circonstances ont mené à la désactivation officielle des structures paramilitaires.Les groupes paramilitaires du Guatemala (PAC) ont été créés par l’État au début des années 80 et ont été officiellement démobilisés en 1996, après la signature des accords de paix entre le gouvernement et la guérilla URNG. Au Pérou, les rondes paysannes ont été créées dans la cordillère sud-centrale au cours des années 1980. En 2003, après la chute du Fujimori, l’État péruvien cesse de motiver l’organisation de ces groupes. En Colombie, les groupes paramilitaires ont été promus pendant les années 80 par différents acteurs, parmi lesquels figuraient les élites régionales, l’armée et les narcotrafiquants. En 2003, ces groupes armés ont signé un accord de paix avec le gouvernement du président Uribe, dans lequel ils s’engagent à remettre les armes et à commencer un processus progressif de démobilisation.Même si au Guatemala, au Pérou et en Colombie, des processus pour désactiver les groupes paramilitaires ont été mis en place, ceux-ci continuent d’exister. Ainsi, il est pertinent de se demander si ces structures sont encore une forme de paramilitarisme et d’identifier les raisons pour lesquelles elles sont toujours présentes. En vue de répondre à cette question, l’objectif principal de recherche est d’analyser depuis une perspective comparative les processus de transformation des PAC, des rondes paysannes et des paramilitaires colombiens à partir du moment où les États respectifs prennent la décision officielle de désactiver ces groupes. Ce travail est développé en trois chapitres.Le premier chapitre compare l’émergence des groupes paramilitaires étudiés. A partir de cette perspective comparative et en utilisant certains éléments des approches systémique et structurelle fonctionnaliste, nous élaborons une conceptualisation théorique du phénomène paramilitaire. Selon cette conceptualisation, la fonction principale du paramilitarisme dans les trois cas d’étude est la protection de l’ordre social menacé.Le deuxième chapitre étudie les processus qui ont conduit à la désactivation officielle du paramilitarisme dans les trois pays analysés. À cette fin, nous comparons les conditions dans lesquelles se sont terminés les conflits armés respectifs, le contexte où chaque État a pris la décision de désactiver le paramilitarisme et les processus de Désarmement, de Démobilisation et de Réintégration (DDR).Le troisième chapitre compare la transformation des PAC, des rondes paysannes et des paramilitaires colombiens après leur désactivation officielle.La recherche se base sur la méthode comparative. Pour chaque chapitre, des variables de comparaison sont construites. Les sources d’information principales sont, premièrement, une révision bibliographique sur la conceptualisation théorique du paramilitarisme, les conflits armés et l’origine et l’évolution des PAC, des rondes paysannes et des paramilitaires colombiens. Deuxièmement, l’analyse des caractéristiques actuelles des groupes étudiés se base principalement sur une étude de presse on line.L’analyse comparative de l’émergence du paramilitarisme au Guatemala, au Pérou et en Colombie permet de conclure que l’existence d’un ordre social perçu comme menacé est à l’origine de la création de structures armées dont la fonction principale n’est pas de lutter contre la guérilla, mais la protection de cet ordre social. En conséquence, la persistance d’un contexte dans lequel l’ordre social ou le statu quo sont toujours considérés en danger est l’élément qui explique la poursuite du paramilitarisme. Ainsi, les structures qui existent actuellement au Guatemala et en Colombie sont, en effet, une forme de paramilitarisme, à la différence du PérouIn the armed conflicts of Guatemala, Peru and Colombia, paramilitary groups were created to fight the guerrillas and also to prevent the mobilization of the social sectors interested in transforming the established social order. In these countries, different circumstances led to the official deactivation of paramilitary structures.Guatemala's paramilitary groups (PAC) were established by the state in the early 1980s and were formally demobilized in 1996 after the signing of peace agreements between the government and the guerrilla group URNG. In Peru, the peasant rounds were created in the south-central cordillera during the 1980s. In 2003, after the fall of President Fujimori, the Peruvian state ceases to motivate the organization of these armed groups. In Colombia, paramilitary groups were promoted during the 1980s by various actors, including regional elites, militaries and drug traffickers. In 2003, these armed groups signed a peace agreement with the government of President Uribe, in which they pledge to surrender arms and begin a gradual process of demobilization.Despite the aforementioned processes to disable paramilitaries, those groups continue to exist. Thus, it is relevant to ask whether these structures are still a form of paramilitarism and to identify the reasons why they are still present. In order to answer these questions, the main research objective is to analyze, from a comparative perspective, the transformation processes of PAC, peasant rounds and Colombian paramilitaries from the moment when the respective States took the official decision to disable these groups. This work is developed in three chapters.The first chapter compares the emergence of the paramilitary groups studied. From this comparative perspective and using certain elements of the systemic and the structuralist functionalist approaches, I propose a theoretical conceptualization of the paramilitary phenomenon. According to this conceptualization, the main function of paramilitarism in the three study cases is the protection of the threatened social order.The second chapter examines the processes that led to the official deactivation of paramilitarism in the three countries. To this end, we compare the conditions under which the respective armed conflicts ended, the context in which each State took the decision to disable the paramilitary and the different Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) processes.The third chapter compares the transformation of PACs, peasant rounds and Colombian paramilitaries after their official deactivation.The research is based on the comparative method. For each chapter, comparison variables are constructed. The main sources of information are, first, a bibliographic review on the theoretical conceptualization of paramilitarism, the armed conflicts of the respective countries and the origin and evolution of the studied groups. Secondly, a study of the online press about the recent activities of the PACs, peasant rounds and Colombian paramilitary groups to analyze the current characteristics these groups.Finally, the comparative analysis of the emergence of paramilitarism in Guatemala, Peru and Colombia leads to the conclusion that the existence of a social order perceived as threatened is the core element to explain the creation of those armed structures. The main objective is not to fight guerrilla, but to protect the social order. As a result, the persistence of a situation in which the social order or the status quo is still considered “in danger” explains the persistence of paramilitarism. Thus, the structures that currently exist in Guatemala and Colombia are, indeed, a form of paramilitarism, unlike Peru
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David, Romain. "De la conception d'un système d'observation à large échelle au déploiement et à l'exploitation de son système d'information : application à l'observation des habitats coralligènes et à la colonisation de récifs artificiels (ARMS)." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0215/document.
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Dans le domaine marin, des protocoles d’observation développés dans de nombreux cadres produisent un grand volume de données hétérogènes, difficiles à agréger et à utiliser. Ce travail propose i) des méthodes, protocoles et recommandations pour construire et/ou soutenir la mise en place de réseaux de suivis multi-usagers,) des utilisations novatrices des données.Deux cas d’étude ont été choisis : les habitats coralligènes à l’échelle de la Méditerranée et la colonisation de récifs artificiels dans différentes mers régionales.L’expérimentation à large échelle se base sur des méthodes de mesures les plus simples possibles, décrites très explicitement dans des termes standardisés, sur des opérateurs intercalibrés et une méthode de traitement des données. Un mécanisme de couplage de données de différentes origines reposant sur la requalification des facteurs descriptifs hétérogènes et une méthode d’analyse et de fouille de données basé sur la théorie des graphes sont proposéesIn the marine domain, observation protocols developed in many settings produce a large volume of heterogeneous data that are difficult to aggregate and use. This work proposes to develop i) methods, protocols and recommendations to build and / or support the establishment of multi-user monitoring networks, ii) innovative uses of data.Two case studies were chosen: coralligenous habitats at the Mediterranean scale and the colonisation of artificial reefs in different regional seas.Large-scale experimentation is based on the simplest possible measurement methods, described very explicitly in standardised terms, on intercalibrated operators and a method of data processing. A mechanism for coupling data from different origins based on the requalification of heterogeneous descriptive factors and a method for analysis and data mining based on graph theory is also proposed
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Hurst, Jordan Dwayne. "Arthur Schnitzler's Outsider-Insiders in Fin de Siècle Vienna." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1372092281.
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Yoboue, Tchindji Houphouët Félix. "Le viol comme arme de guerre en Côte d'Ivoire (1999-2010) : champs de causalité entre brisures, savoirs contaminés et vérités en ruines. Le plain-chant des narrations ethnophotographiques et du hors texte de 13 survivantes du peuple guéré à DUEKOUÉ en contre-configuration." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lorraine, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022LORR0276.
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Les récits de treize survivantes de viols subis à Duékoué, ville carrefour située à l’ouest de la Côte d’Ivoire, lors du coup d'État manqué du 19 Septembre 2002 jusqu’à la crise postélectorale de 2010, constituent la matrice narrative de cette thèse. Ces 13 femmes sont des survivantes, avec la sidération, l’angoisse, le désespoir des survivantes. Où trouver encore du sens quand on a vécu ce qu’elles ont vécu et vivent encore dix ans après ? En effet, les survivantes continuent de vivre un enfer permanent, victimes de formes lentes de violence invisibles, une forme subtile d’assassinat social par la mise à l’écart brutale de la famille et de la communauté, par la forme à dominante patriarcale et occidentale d’une réparation irrespectueuse ; des conséquences collatérales peu ou pas documentées voire déniées. Cette thèse tente de proposer des réponses à trois questions essentielles. Comment faire avancer une recherche formellement plus complexe que d’autres, avec une réflexion sur les tensions de l‘histoire ivoirienne, les récits des survivantes, le récit du chercheur-baoulé-survivant et des propositions esthétiques pour l’écrire ? Comment écrire scientifiquement sur la vulnérabilité, la détresse et la souffrance et rester à distance ? Comment restituer le chant des acteurs-témoins dans l’expression d’origine, de ces « vies minuscules », avec la parole hachée, balbutiante, et le faire dialoguer avec la parole, vigoureuse et affirmée, d’un chercheur qui découvre en fait lors d’une journée particulière qu’il est en quête de sa propre parole, celle d’un survivant, enfouie dans une gangue cadenassée. Il fallait pouvoir rendre l’adhésion du chercheur baoulé à sa propre parole et dans sa foi en les capacités du langage à atteindre l’intouchable et l’invisible, un monde perdu, le passé lui-même. Il fallait tenter de multiplier les détours narratifs et les pistes formelles, et prendre le risque de rejeter certains codes universitaires narratifs pour rendre palpable, en transformant une matière difficilement maniable et hautement inflammable, cette violence vécue par les survivantes dont Michel Foucault dit : « que le plus dangereux dans la violence est sa rationalité ». C’est aussi pour cette raison, pour faire ressentir plus particulièrement les ondes lointaines de cette souffrance exprimée et la certitude que nous passons souvent à côté, que le choix des narrations photoethnographiques s’est imposé. Pour confronter chacun des lecteurs à sa propre relation à l’image et d’une manière plus subtile aux récits des survivantes. Ce qui amène ensuite à réfléchir sur l’énigme des apparences. « Lire ce qui n’a jamais été écrit ». Pour dire la violence dans sa vérité, seule une anthropologie de l’attention qui entrerait en résonance avec ce qu’Édouard Glissant nomme « les profonds », désignant ainsi « ce qu’il y a réellement, concrètement, en dessous de l’apparence », permet de ressusciter la dignité de vie des survivantes et rendre légitime l’écriture d’un chercheur engagéThe accounts of thirteen survivors of rapes suffered in Duékoué, a crossroads city located in the west of Côte d'Ivoire, during the failed coup d'état of September 19, 2002 until the postelectoral crisis of 2010, constitute the narrative matrix of this thesis. These 13 women are survivors, with the astonishment, the anguish, the despair of the survivors. Where can we still find meaning when we have lived what they have lived and are still living ten years later? Indeed, the survivors continue to live in a permanent hell, victims of slow forms of invisible violence, a subtle form of social assassination through the brutal exclusion from family and community, through the predominantly patriarchal and of a disrespectful reparation; collateral consequences little or not documented or even denied. This thesis tries to propose answers to three essential questions. How to advance a research that is formally more complex than others, with a reflection on the tensions of Ivorian history, the stories of the survivors, the story of the researcher-baoulé-survivor and aesthetic proposals for writing it? How to write scientifically about vulnerability, distress and suffering and stay at a distance? How to restore the song of the actor-witnesses in the original expression, of these "tiny lives", with the choppy, stammering speech, and make it dialogue with the vigorous and assertive speech of a researcher who actually discovers during a particular day that he is in search of his own word, that of a survivor, buried in a padlocked gangue. It was necessary to be able to render the adhesion of the baoulé researcher to his own word and in his faith in the capacities of language to reach the untouchable and the invisible, a lost world, the past itself. It was necessary to try to multiply the narrative detours and the formal tracks, and to take the risk of rejecting certain narrative university codes in order to make palpable, by transforming a material that is difficult to handle and highly flammable, this violence experienced by the survivors of whom Michel Foucault says: "that what is most dangerous in violence is its rationality”. It is also for this reason, to make the distant waves of this suffering expressed more particularly felt and the certainty that we often overlook, that the choice of photoethnographic narrations was imposed. To confront each of the readers with their own relationship to the image and, in a more subtle way, to the stories of the survivors. Which then leads us to reflect on the enigma of appearances. “Read what has never been written”. To see violence in its truth, only an anthropology of attention that would resonate with what Edouard Glissant calls "the deep", thus designating "what there is really, concretely, below the appearance », making it possible to resuscitate the dignity of life of the survivors and to legitimize the writing of a committed researcher
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Slipak, Daniela. "Las palabras y las armas : identidad, tradición y violencia en las publicaciones de la izquierda peronista (1966-1976)." Paris, EHESS, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EHES0078.
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La présente thèse se concentre sur l’organisation Montoneros. Plus précisément, elle se consacre aux logiques identitaires telles qu’elles prennent forme dans les revues « officielles » que l'organisation a publié jusqu’en 1976 : El Descamisado (mai 1973-avril 1974), El Peronista lucha por la liberación (avril-mai 1974), La Causa Peronista (juillet- septembre 1974) et les premiers numéros d’Evita Montonera (décembre 1974- mars 1976). Elle tient également compte de l’antécédent que constitue la revue Cristianismo y Revolución (septembre 1966 - septembre 1971), et des publications liées aux deux scissions les plus importantes de l’organisation, Puro Pueblo (publiée par la Columna José Sabino Navarro entre juillet et septembre 1974), et Movimiento para la liberación y la reconstrucción nacional (publiée par un secteur proche de la Juventud Peronista Lealtad, entre juin et septembre 1974). Contrairement aux approches qui réfutent la pertinence des inscriptions symboliques, ce découpage leur attribue une importance décisive dans la constitution des groupes. À partir de cette préoccupation pour les espaces d’appartenance, cette thèse se consacre à l’étude des publications signalées à partir de certains problèmes clés avec lesquels la théorie politique a interrogé leur conformation et leur fonctionnement: l’institution des origines, l’exclusion des altérités, la représentation d’un espace commun et l’énonciation d’une loi qui prescrit de conduites. On évoque tout particulièrement les réflexions d’Hannah Arendt sur la violence et l'autorité, et les écrits de Claude Lefort sur l’incorporation du peuple, l‘« egocrate », et la loi dans les diverses formes de sociétéThis thesis focuses on Montoneros organizationr It studies the identitarian logic deployed in the magazines that this organization published until 1976, El Descamisado (from May 1973 to April 1974), El Peronista lucha por la liberación (from April to May 1974), La Causa Peronista (from July to September 1974) and the initial numbers of Evita Montonera (from December 1974 to March 1976). Likewise, the thesis studies as precedent Cristianismo y Revolución (edited from September 1966 to September 1971 ), and it analyzes the publications related to the most important organization dissents, Puro Pueblo (published by the Columna Jose Sabino Navarro from July to September 1974), and Movimiento para la liberación y la reconstrucción nacional (edited by the Juventud Peronista Lealtad from June to September 1974). Unlike other approaches which underestimate the relevance of symbolic inscriptions, this thesis gives them a decisive importance. It investigates the publications with certain key problems of political theory: the origins and the conformation of an historical statement, the enemies’ exclusion, the representation of a common area, and the institution of a law for the conducts. Even though there are many authors who explore these questions, Hannah Arendt's retlections will be specially evoked on the violence and the authority, as well as Claude Leforfs disquisitions on the incorporation of the people, the "egócrata", and the law
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Borzillo, Laurent. "Les forces expéditionnaires bi/multinationales en Europe : analyse comparée des politiques d’alliance de la France et de l’Allemagne (1991-2016)." Thesis, Montpellier, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020MONTD001.
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Pourquoi des États créent-ils des forces expéditionnaires bi/multi-nationales ? Pourquoi celles-ci ne sont pas utilisées au final ? L’objectif de cette thèse est d’apporter une explication à ce paradoxe, illustré parfaitement par la brigade franco-allemande et les groupements tactiques de l’Union européenne. Bien que ces deux unités ne soient pas les seules en Europe pouvant être qualifiées de forces expéditionnaires, nous avons décidé de choisir ces deux cas d’études, afin d’analyser également à travers les mesures relatives à celles-ci, les processus décisionnels tant en France qu’en Allemagne. Nous nous sommes par conséquent focalisés sur ces unités et sur les politiques d’alliances à l’origine de celles-ci. Concrètement, notre recherche s’inscrit dans la lignée des travaux portant sur les alliances, mais également au sein du champ de l’analyse comparée de la politique étrangère. L’explication théorique développée pour expliquer les décisions étudiées s’appuie sur la théorie des rôles de Kal Holsti. Selon nous les décisions ne sont prises que par un groupe limité d’acteurs et résultent des rôles auxquels ces derniers adhèrent pour leur pays. Des arrangements institutionnels, ainsi que des conflits et des rapports de force modèrent ces rôles. Par ailleurs, en cas de décision ayant une portée institutionnelle, on constate une dépendance au sentier vis-à-vis d’anciennes mesures. Les décisions en faveur de la brigade franco-allemande et des groupements résultent in fine de la domination des rôles de promoteur du renforcement des capacités militaires européennes et d’allié fidèle, parmi les acteurs à l’origine de ces décisions. D’autres rôles présents en France et en Allemagne tendent au contraire à freiner l’emploi de ces unités, en particulier celui de grande puissance (pour la France) et celui de puissance civile (pour l’Allemagne). Plusieurs rôles coexistent en effet au sein de chaque appareil décisionnel et chacun voit son poids en termes d’influence fluctuer. Ceci résulte de la variation selon les décisions étudiées des acteurs impliqués, ainsi que des luttes et des rapports de force entre eux.Notre thèse se divise en sept chapitres. Dans les trois premiers, nous reviendrons sur la littérature consacrée aux forces étudiées et aux alliances, sur notre méthodologie, ainsi que sur les relations internationales en Europe des trente dernières années. Les parties suivantes traitent de l’évolution de la brigade franco-allemande en force expéditionnaire, de la création des groupements tactiques, des choix de partenaires au sein de ceux-ci et enfin du non-emploi de ces troupes militaires. Ces différentes thématiques constituent les quatre chapitres empiriques de notre recherche. En conclusion de celle-ci, on peut estimer que les chances de déploiement des unités étudiées dans les années à venir demeurent plutôt faibles. L’explication théorique développée pour ce travail et basée sur la théorie des rôles offre également un outil de compréhension du fonctionnement des appareils politico-militaires français et allemands. Validé pour cette analyse, il lui reste désormais à être testé sur d’autres cas d’étude et ÉtatsWhy do states create bi/multinational expeditionary forces? Why have not they been used yet? The objective of this PhD dissertation is to explain this paradox, which is well exemplified by the Franco-German brigade and the European Union Battle Groups (EUBG). Although these two units are not the only ones in Europe that can be qualified as expeditionary forces, we chose these two case studies to analyze, among others, the decision-making processes in both France and Germany.We have therefore focused on these two units and on the alliance policies that are at the origin of these units. In practice, our research builds on the work on alliances and the field of comparative foreign policy analysis. The theoretical framework developed to explain the foreign policy decisions is based on the theory of roles by Kal Holsti. Our findings indicate that these decisions are made only by a limited group of actors and result from the roles those actors assume for their country. Institutional arrangements, as well as conflicts and power struggles, moderate these roles. In addition, there is strong evidence for path dependency in cases where decisions have an institutional scope.The decisions in favor of the Franco-German brigade and the EUBG ultimately resulted from the role of a promoter of reinforced European military capabilities and the role of a faithful ally, which dominated among the actors behind these decisions. Other roles present among the French and German decision-makers tend, on the contrary, to slow down the use of these units. This is particularly true for the role of a great power (France) and the role of a civilian power (Germany). Several roles coexist indeed within each state and each sees its amount of influence fluctuate. This variation in roles’ influence depends on the actors involved, as well as on power struggles and relations.Our dissertation is divided into seven chapters. In the first three we will return to the literature on expeditionary forces and alliances, to our methodology, and to the international relations in Europe over the past thirty years. The following chapters deal with the development of the Franco-German brigade as an expeditionary force, the creation of battle groups, the choice of partners within them, and finally the non-employment of these military troops. These are the four empirical chapters of our research.In conclusion, we estimate that the probability of deployment of the studied units in the coming years remains rather low. Relying on role theory, our theoretical explanation serves as a tool for understanding the functioning of the French and German political-military decision-making structures. While validated for this analysis, this theoretical framework now has to be tested on other case studies