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Wheeler, Eleanor Teresa. "The role of architectural ceramics in contemporary site-specific art : an analysis from the perspective of the art practitioner through four case studies of commissioned artworks." Thesis, Northumbria University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266180.
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Siber, Elizabeth G. (Elizabeth Gaye). "The Visual Arts Philosophy of Roman Catholicism as Manifested in the Works of Four Commissioned Artists Completed for the 1987 Sanctuary of St. Rita's Catholic Church." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500454/.
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This thesis investigates how the visual arts philosophy promulgated in the 1960s by the Second Vatican Council of Roman Catholic Churches is manifested by commissioned artists for a particular parish. The primary data were the new sanctuary and the artworks, which include stained glass by Lyle Novinski, a carved-glass Marian Shrine by Claire Wing, bronze Stations of the Cross by Heri Bartscht, and wooden medallions depicting two saints carved by Don Schol. This paper reviews pertinent ecclesiastical doctrines along with interpretational publications, physically and iconographically describes the sanctuary and artwork, and considers aspects of the relationship between patron churches and the artists they commission.
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Sparks, Elise Eskew. "Toward an Integrated Theory of Musical Worth and Pedagogical Value: An Analysis of Commissioned Choral Works and Personal Perspectives of Emma Lou Diemer and Alice Parker." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/msit_diss/54.
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Repertoire comprises the curriculum of school music ensembles, yet its selection by music educators is unsystematic, commonly influenced by publishers, and lacking in thoughtful critique (Budiansky, 2005; Forbes, 2001). Research reports that musical worth and pedagogical value are foremost criteria in repertoire selection (Devore, 1989; Ostling, 1978). This ethnographic research explored relationships between musical worth and pedagogical value in works and perspectives of Emma Lou Diemer and Alice Parker, two prominent female composers whose extensive catalogs include music written for educational settings. Data were collected via methods consistent with qualitative inquiry. Smith’s (2003) Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was employed to facilitate co-construction of the composers’ lived experience through personal interviews. Data analysis also incorporated previous texts written about and by the composers, and three choral works of each composer. In this study, Panofsky’s (1972) method of visual art analysis was applied to musical analysis. Findings were presented within single-case and cross-case narratives. Although the composers’ work and perspectives are distinctive, their perceptions of musical worth and pedagogical value transcend their individual qualities. Criteria for creating art for educational settings include: using text as a basis for creating musical meaning, recognizing and emulating the work of composers that they find exceptional; and engaging in an artful, synergistic treatment of musical elements. Diemer and Parker share the belief that longevity, originality, expressivity, and sustained interest are characteristics of music of worth. They offered authentic engagement, holistic learning, and matching skill with challenge as integral aspects of pedagogical value. The motivation that compels Diemer and Parker to compose is both external and internal, and is more oriented toward process than product. In creating works for educational settings, they internalize parameters applicable to specific learners and settings. A “spark” they experience in the creative process indicates the origin of musical worth. Pedagogy derived from and integral to the musical worth of a work allows musically engaged students to recreate the “spark” and thus realize pedagogical value. Within the works and perspectives of Diemer and Parker, musical worth and pedagogical value become unified as a composite whole, though the “spark” is realized in a cyclic process.
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SOUZA, ALINE JOBIM E. "NATIONAL COMMISSION OF TRUTH, ART AND PUBLIC INTERVENTION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=34359@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTITUIÇÕES COMUNITÁRIAS DE ENSINO PARTICULARES
A dissertação Comissão Nacional da Verdade, Arte e Intervenção Pública pretende estabelecer um diálogo entre design / comunicação visual, arte política e história do período ditatorial no Brasil, tendo como base empírica o Relatório da CNV (especificamente o Volume III: Mortos e Desaparecidos Políticos). A partir da análise do Relatório da Comissão Nacional da Verdade, criamos oficinas de estratégias de comunicação visual no âmbito da intervenção no espaço público, com a participação de jovens na faixa etária de 18 a 22 anos. Nessa pesquisa de campo, a metodologia desenvolvida propõe-se a provocar um debate ético e estético com o público alvo. O processo criativo desenvolvido com os alunos de graduação em design da disciplina de Linguagem e Comunicação Visual II, ministrada pela professora Simone Formiga - 2017.1 - PUC-Rio, proporcionou a construção de narrativas imagéticas sobre questões morais relativas às gravíssimas violações de direitos humanos deflagradas pelo regime ditatorial e expostas no Relatório. Ou seja, a partir dos conteúdos discursivos gerados nesta disciplina, desenvolvemos narrativas visuais ocupando o espaço público, com a finalidade de provocar questionamentos e reflexões na população acerca das vítimas do período do regime militar brasileiro.
The dissertation National Commission of Truth, Art and Public Intervention intends to establish a dialogue between design - visual language -, political art and history of the dictatorial period in Brazil, with empirical basis on the CNV Report (specifically Volume III: Political Dead and Disappeared). Analyzing the work of the National Commission of Truth, we created workshops on visual communication strategies in the framework of artistic intervention in public space, with the participation of a group aged from 18 to 22 years. In the field research, the methodology developed aims to provoke an ethical and aesthetic debate with the target audience. The creative process developed with the undergraduate design students at Language and Visual Communication II discipline, given by Professor Simone Formiga - 2017.1 - PUC-Rio, provided the construction of imaginative narratives on moral issues about the severe violations of human rights triggered by the dictatorial period and exposed in the documents of the National Commission of Truth. So, from the discursive contents generated in this discipline, we developed visual narratives occupying the public space, with the purpose of provoking questions and reflections about the victims of the Brazilian military coup.
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McLean, Graham Alwin, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "The History of the Geelong Regional Commission." Deakin University. School of History, Heritage and Society, 2005. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051110.105014.
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This thesis is the first systematic history of the Geelong Regional Commission (GRC), and only the second history of a regional development organisation formed as a result of the growth centres policy of the Commonwealth Labor Government in the first half of the 1970s. In particular, the thesis examines the historical performance of the GRC from the time of its establishment in August 1977 to its abolition in May 1993.
The GRC Commissioners were subject to ongoing criticism by some elements of the region's political, business, rural and local government sectors. This criticism focused on the Commissioners' policies on land-use planning, their interventionist stance on industrial land development, major projects and industry protection and their activities in revitalising the Geelong central business district. This thesis examines these criticisms in the light of the Commission's overall performance.
This thesis found that, as a statutory authority of the Victorian Government, the GRC was successful over its lifetime, when measured against the requirements of the Geelong Regional Commission Act, the Commission's corporate planning objectives and performance indicators, the corporate performance standards of private enterprise in the late 1990s, and the performance indicator standards of today's regional economic development organisations in the United States of America, parts of the United Kingdom and Australia.
With the change of Government in Victoria in October 1992 came a new approach to regional development. The new Government enacted legislation to amalgamate six of the nine local government councils of the Geelong region and returned regional planning responsibilities to the newly formed City of Greater Geelong Council. The new Government also made economic development a major objective of local government. As a result, the raison d'etre for the GRC came to an end and the organisation was abolished.
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Hallett, Janelle M. "State arts agencies and state arts advocacy groups partners in the policy process /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1230585366.
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Osei-Hwere, Richmond. "Conflict of interest challenges facing Ghana's Petroleum Commission under the Petroleum Commission Act, 2011 (Act 821) proposals for reform." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2015. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=228645.
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This thesis establishes the link between law, democratic governance and the institutional capacity needed for maximum control of hydrocarbon resources by the producer state, with the emphasis particularly on Ghana. The discoveries of hydrocarbon resources under the territorial waters and continental shelf of Ghana has set in motion a review of the pre-existing petroleum legislative framework in the country. The review is aimed at meeting the challenges of the nascent oil and gas industry taking into account modern trends adopted in the management of these resources. Prior to the discoveries, the national oil company, the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) performed the role of commercial participation as well as monitoring and regulation of the industry on behalf of the Ministry of Energy. The GNPC also performed policy advisory functions. The position of the GNPC then could aptly be described as a classic case of conflict of interest. The enactment of the Petroleum Commission Act of Ghana, 2011 (Act 821) has, however, redefined the role of GNPC, as the upstream regulatory role is now performed by the Petroleum Commission in conjunction with allied agencies leaving the national oil company to concentrate on commercial activities. The central goal of the thesis is to analyse the extent to which the present regulatory regime related to the present Petroleum Commission Act suffers from the conflict of interest it was actually designed to resolve and to examine the means available to tackle these conflict of interest challenges drawing lessons where appropriate from mature hydrocarbon producing countries such as Norway, the UK and the USA. It is recognised in this thesis that no state can effectively develop its hydrocarbon resources unless it operates a democratic system of governance that promotes the rule of law, checks and balances, and independence of state institutions. It is, therefore, concluded in this thesis that the reformation of the Petroleum Commission itself in terms of the enabling Act and the internal culture and vii innovations within the Commission holds the key to the insulation of the Commission against conflict of interest risks. It is also concluded that constitutional amendments and statutory interventions that touch on Ghana's democratic governance framework with the aim of strengthening the Commission as an independent public agency are ways of tackling the conflict of interest challenges affecting the Commission. Consequently, proposals are made for reform.
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Everitt, Sian. "Defining roles : the work of the Public Art Commissions Agency (PACA) 1987-1999." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436547.
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Pitman, Grant Alan, and n/a. "Police Minister and Commissioner Relationships." Griffith University. School of Public Policy, 1998. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030228.140953.
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Australian Police Ministers and Commissioners occupy a pivotal position in the system of law enforcement. Collectively, they are responsible for the general policy, administration and operational direction and control of policing through the Australian States. There has been in the past twenty five years a growing complexity and a variety of problems facing police agencies which are arduous and demanding. Continuing social tension of recent years have given police ministers and commissioners higher public profiles than ever before. The research undertaken in this thesis examines the difficulties experienced between police ministers and commissioners in Queensland and New South Wales from 1970 to 1995. Three models have been developed as a framework to analyse the relationships and how they operate. The three models are called - 'Dependency', 'Independency' and 'Interdependency'. Twenty-one police ministers, commissioners and advisers from Queensland and New South Wales were interviewed during the course of the research. Five separate case studies were developed to analyse and interpret the relationships within the context of the three models. A summary chapter of additional research data provides supporting information which was used to substantiate the case study material. The conclusion argues that relationships operate more effectively when elements of the 'Interdependency' model exist. The need for further debate about the administrative, legal and management elements of the working relationship between a police minister and commissioner is essential to achieve a balance between policy, administration and operational requirements within a modern western democratic policing system.
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Singhalampong, Eksuda. "From commissions to commemoration : the re-creation of King Chulalongkorn and his court, and the Thai monarchy through westernised art and Western art collection." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/61245/.
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Official Thai history gives the iconic role of King Chulalongkorn as the civiliser of which is the theme underpinning my study. This thesis aims to complicate this narrative by investigating the historical specificity of Chulalongkorn's visual representation operating with the mechanisms of westernisation. The study discusses how the King presented and represented his royal person and his regal power and how the King consequently changed and shaped Siam's visual and material culture at the turn of the century. Chulalongkorn's royal family portraits and grand architectural programme, as well as his European art collection recreated a new concept of Siamese kingship and the monarchy: this wide-ranging analysis traces the shift from a semidivine to a secular and modernised monarchy. This thesis argues that the westernisation programme was a process and product of transcultural exchange within the colonial encounters between Siam, the West and their colonies. Chulalongkorn's appropriation, adaptation and reinterpretation of Western art doubly transformed the monarchy and its kingdom into a modernising nation under the pressure of Western colonialism. This compelled Siam to become a crypto-colonial state of nation. Chulalongkorn's aspiration for westernised visual representation turned political loyalty into religious devotion in later years. Collective memory of Chulalongkorn was strongly embedded in the public's perception through the practice of remembrance, nostalgia and commemoration fed by the royalist narrative in official Thai history. This thesis also contributes to an ongoing dialogue on the relations between the monarchy, memory and national identity through an investigation of celebratory exhibitions of the Chakri Dynasty. The issues of visual representation and its impact addressed in this thesis are arguably as bound up with issues of national identity and national politics.
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Nichols, Angela D. "Not All Truth Commissions Are Alike: Understanding Their Limitations and Impact." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799497/.
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This dissertation project develops a theoretical understanding of how truth commissions achieve legitimacy and thus contribute to peace and stability in the aftermath of major traumatic events (e.g. civil war, mass killings, regime changes). I identify three components of truth commission legitimacy---authority, fairness, and transparency---that facilitate beneficial outcomes for societies emerging from a period of severe human rights repression or civil war. I theorize and test how institutions with these legitimacy characteristics contribute to an increase in respect for human rights and decrease political violence in transitioning societies, thus contributing to peace and stability. In order to test the hypothesized relationships, I create a truth commission characteristic dataset that provides greater detail than existing datasets. This project is a contribution to our understanding of the relationships between human rights, institutions, conflict, and international law. It provides one explanation for the inconsistent findings of extant work concerning the impact of transitional justice, generally and truth commissions, specifically. I provide evidence that there are identifiable "best practices" that truth commissions should consider adopting. This information can assist states, intergovernmental organizations, and nongovernmental organizations alike in making difficult decisions regarding the transitional justice process, which is expensive and time consuming further necessitating an understanding of what practices are most crucial for achieving peace and stability.
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Mulholland, Neil Charles. "Why is there only one Monopolies Commission? : British art and its critics in the late 1970s." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1998. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2532/.
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This thesis examines the British art world in the period 1976-1981. The first section explores the crises in the artworld triggered by the International Monetary Fund Crisis of February 1976. Central to this analysis is the Labour and Conservative Party's ideological shift from culturalist paternalism to monetarist liberalism, the history and function of the Arts Council of Great Britain, the press scandals surrounding the Tate Gallery's purchase of Carl Andre's Equivalent VIII and the ICA's exhibition of COUM Transmission's Prostitution. The opportunist populist polemics of the 'crisis critics' (Richard Cork, Andrew Brighton, Peter Fuller and John Tagg) are then introduced alongside a discussion of the colossal changes in the British art press. This is followed by an analysis of Cork's defence of Conrad Atkison's work and of the Royal Oak murals. The second section looks at the postmodernism rejected by Cork and the populist crisis critics, namely, the scripto-visual work of John Hilliard, Victor Burgin, and John Stezaker. The influence of photoconceptualism on community artists and feminist artists is then examined. This is followed by an analysis of Art & Language's critique of 'Semio-Art'. This section concludes with an analysis of the 'new art history' in relation to the practices of Jo Spence and Terry Atkinson. The following section looks at 'conservative'/populist postmodernism as outlined in exhibitions such as The Human Clay (1976), Towards Another Picture (1978), Lives (1979) and Narrative Painting (1979). This includes extensive discussion of the work of David Shepherd, Peter Blake, Ron Kitaj, David Hockney, Steven Campbell, Women's Painting (Images of Men), and The School of London (The Hard Won Image). The final section opens with a lengthy examination of the agitational performances of COUM Transmissions, investigating their decision to abandon the publicly subsidised artworld in order to become the industrial band Throbbing Gristle. This is followed by an examination of British pro-Situationism, punk and new wave subcultures in the 1970s, relating them to the growth of the entrepreneurial art market of the early 1980s.
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Hurring, Lauren. "Effectiveness of the Appalachian Regional Commission's Distressed Counties Program." Thesis, Boston College, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/560.
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Thesis advisor: Richard TreschThe Appalachia region has long been plagued by economic depression. Poverty is prevalent in this region, along with low income, and high unemployment. The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) was established in 1965 to promote economic development and alleviate poverty the historically lagging region. Until 1983 the ARC functioned under a growth center strategy that channeled funds to Appalachian areas that were more economically stable and appeared promising. In 1983 the ARC undertook a major change in policy with the introduction of the Distressed Counties Program, which shifted the focus and funds to counties in severe economic duress. My thesis uses regression analysis to test the effect of the Distressed Counties Program on poverty rates, unemployment rates, and real per capita income of the distressed counties in Appalachia
Thesis (BS) — Boston College, 2007
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Economics Honors Program
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Sylwan, Hedvig. "Tipping Markets : An analysis of the Commission's proposal for a Digital Markets Act." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444195.
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The particular characteristics and practices of digital platforms have given rise to the phenomenon of “tipping”, where one platform provider takes the whole market. There has been a growing concern among competition law regulators and enforcers that the traditional ex-post antitrust instruments cannot remedy the distortion of competition it causes in digital markets. In December 2020, the Commission published a proposal for a Digital Markets Act which aims to combat weak contestability and unfair practices in platform markets. The proposal includes a list of ex-ante rules, a merger information requirement and a market investigation tool that gives the Commission greater flexibility in designating the rules. The research questions of this thesis concern the challenges of addressing tipping digital markets with existing competition rules and how the Digital Markets Act will address them. In answering the first question, it reviews the underlying factors leading to high market concentration and entry barriers, the implications of tipping markets for consumer welfare and innovation, as well as high-profile cases such as Microsoft, Google Shopping and Facebook/Whatsapp. The thesis finds that although monopoly-akin market structures may not always be detrimental to the objectives of competition law, the entrenched incumbent positions of companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft are often a cause for anti-competitive concerns. Furthermore, the ex-post character of article 102 TFEU makes it ineffective to target tipping markets, and the merger rules are not adjusted to the dynamic and uncertain digital economy. The examination of the Digital Market Act has been limited to the sub-set of provisions applicable to firms that do not yet enjoy an entrenched and durable market position. The findings of this review are that the proposal can improve competition as it prevents the platforms from locking their users into their digital ecosystems. The thesis also recognises that the requirements of data-sharing, compulsory IP licences and prohibition of Most Favoured Nation clauses pose a risk of freeriding, which could negatively impact platform innovation. However, it concludes that the anticipated increase of overall innovation and competition in the digital economy should outweigh these risks.
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Conac, Pierre-Henri. "La régulation des marchés boursiers par la Commission des opérations de bourse, COB et la Securities and exchange commission, SEC /." Paris : LGDJ, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb389268212.
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Linden, Berit. "Sorgen gestaltad : Om den svenska gravskulpturens konstnärer och beställare." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-368864.
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This study Shaped grief. On Swedish Tomb Sculpture’s Artists and Commissioners begins by contextualizing the field in question, the field of the tomb sculpture and the tomb sculptor, the burial sites and representations of death, the sculpture of that period, and especially the iconography of the sepulcher art, and the situation of the female sculptors. In the analysis chapter the bourgeois Gothenburg and Stockholm, and their relation to the arts, are contextualized. The analysis of the material is made by using the history of sepulchral art, gender theory and semiotics elaborated in art science, supplemented with critical discourse analysis, Bourdieu’s field theories, Veblen's consumption theory, intersectional and mentality-historical theories. The study addresses four questions. The first is about who the commissioners of tomb sculpture of the four chosen sculptors - Sigrid Blomberg, Charles Friberg, Carl Fagerberg and Alice Nordin - were. It is generally a wealthy, bourgeois ordering group and the commission is often made in the later part of life. With regard to a division in western and eastern Sweden, it is not surprising that the largest tomb monuments and their commissioners are located in bourgeois and liberal Gothenburg, a city with an international perspective. The court and nobility culture that existed in Stockholm and Mälardalen rested on the ancestors and their tomb monuments, including chapels. The second question is whether any of the involved clients are more prominent in the commission situation. In the few examples the study includes, wives, sometimes in widowhood, are prominent commissioners. The third question concerns whether the incentives for the commission of a tomb monument are documented. One family wishes to contribute to the "fine arts" finding a place at the Swedish cemeteries and to create an environment equal to cemeteries in southern Europe. Another family wants the tomb sculpture to be an adornment to the cemetery. The fourth question is about whether tomb sculptures are dealt within contemporary newspapers and journals, to indirectly reflect the position of the tomb sculpture in the artistic field. This sepulcher sculpture is noted in the contemporary press. But it should be seen against the background that public sculpture generally did not occur in the early 20th century and that a lively debate about cemeteries and tomb art is on the period’s agenda. It is usually in short terms that the tomb monuments are mentioned in the daily press. Especially the study's two male artists are described as not being followers of contemporary avant-garde art. All in all, the impression is that the tomb sculpture, despite the attention of the press, has a lower status. What concerns the gender perspective of the study, there are only two male commissioners who say they have an intention beyond the primary - to adorn the family tomb. In some cases, the possibility appears that when husbands pass away, widows take an active order position. With regard to preserved documentation about the commission process, there are more available information around the two female sculptors. Did the two male sculptors not correspond with their commissioners? Or have they for some reason not wanted to hand it down to posterity?
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Corona, Félix. "La Commission trilatérale dans un monde en transformation." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37613020x.
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Biffot, Rodolphe. "La Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l'Afrique /." Paris : Agence intergouvernementale de la francophonie, Économica, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39031554s.
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Texte remanié de--Droit public--Paris V, 1999. Titre de soutenance : Contribution à l'étude des organes subsidiaires de l'ONU : le cas de la Commission économique pour l'Afrique.Bibliogr. p. 241-258.
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Foster, John J. M. "Diocesan commissions for liturgy, music, and art from Pius X to the 1983 Code of canon law an historical and canonical examination /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Kelly, Jacqueline. "The relationship between organisational commitment and job satisfaction of commissioned officers within an arm of the South African National Defence Force." University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4916.
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Magister Commercii (Industrial Psychology) - MCom(IPS)Job satisfaction and organisational commitment are two of the most researched organisational behaviour constructs. It is generally agreed that low levels of satisfaction or commitment may result in employees voluntarily ceasing the employee-organisation relationship which results in organisations loosing professional and skilled individuals, which is a potentially crippling factor within any organisation, particularly Governmental Departments who relying on specialist and highly trained and skilled employees. The current study examined the organisational commitment, the level of job satisfaction and the relationship between satisfaction and commitment of fully functionally qualified permanent contract male and female officers on salary Grade C2 to Grade C6, extending across all occupational divisions and classes, namely operational, personnel, logistics, engineering and technical. The sampling technique used was a quantitative non-probability convenience sampling design with the sample consisting of 62 commissioned officers. The majority of the respondents were African with the sample being more representative of males than females. The majority of the respondents were married and between the age of 22 to 29 having at least a 3 year degree or diploma and from the operational occupational class. The respondent’s levels of satisfaction were measured by means of the Job Descriptive Index Questionnaire which measured the five job facets, namely pay, promotion, supervision, co-workers and the nature of work. The study found that respondents were moderately satisfied with their promotion opportunities, followed by the pay they receive. They were however, less satisfied with the supervision they receive, their co-workers and the work itself. Affective, continuance and normative commitment was assessed by means of the Organizational Commitment Scale. The findings of the study found that the respondents had below average levels of organisational commitment across all three components as well as overall commitment. Furthermore, results derived from the research indicated that there was a statistically significant and strong positive correlation between organisational commitment and job satisfaction. Additionally, the results of the study regarding differences between selected demographic variables and the core dependent and independent variable found that there was no statistically significant difference for organisational commitment or job satisfaction scores between males and females and tenure. There was however a statistically significant difference in organisational commitment and job satisfaction for different occupational classes.
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Benedetti, Alexa Leigh. "Civil Religion Iconography : A New Theoretical Perspective Regarding Public Art." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-445889.
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Based on the idea that public art reflects cultural values and is meant, not as many have argued as a means of teaching history, but rather as a means of promoting cultural ideals, public art serves a role in lauding people and behaviors and reflects an important facet in the creation of a national identity and ethos. Further, that in this function of promoting societal norms, public art serves as an iconography of a “civil religion” which tells a story to the citizenry about what a given country admires, reveres and aspires to and promotes a specific moral narrative regarding a country and its people. Thus, public art forms an iconography reflecting the norms of the “civil religion” and its related mores, morals and ethical values.
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Davies, Graham, and n/a. "The Australian Heritage Commission : a thing we want to keep?" University of Canberra. Information, Language & Culture, 1992. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061112.125611.
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Zelman, Laura Holsomback. "Looting and Restitution During World War II: a Comparison Between the Soviet Union Trophy Commission and the Western Allies Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Commission." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115187/.
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From the earliest civilizations, victorious armies would loot defeated cities or nations. the practice evolved into art theft as a symbol of power. Cultural superiority confirmed a country or empire’s regime. Throughout history, the Greeks and Romans cultivated, Napoleon Bonaparte refined, and Adolf Hitler perfected the practice of plunder. As the tides of Second World War began to shift in favor of the Allied Powers, special commissions, established to locate the Germans’ hoards of treasure, discovered Nazi art repositories filled with art objects looted from throughout Europe. the Soviet Union Trophy Commission and the Western Allies Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Commission competed to discover Nazi war loot. the two organizations not only approached the subject of plunder as a treasure hunt, but the ideology motivating both commissions made uncovering the depositories first, a priority. the Soviet trophy brigades’ mission was to dismantle all items of financial worth and ship them eastward to help rebuild a devastated Soviet economy. the Soviet Union wished for the re-compensation of cultural valuables destroyed by the Nazis’ purification practices regarding “inferior” Slavic art and architecture; however, the defeated German nation did not have the ability to reimburse the Soviet State. the trophy brigades implemented a process of restitution in kind to make physical reparations through the confiscation of Nazi war loot. the Western Allies disagreed with the Soviet Union’s policy. the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Commission endeavored to return artwork looted by the Germans to the rightful owners or surviving descendants. Historically, the Western perspective of the Soviet Union’s actions was that the trophy brigades looted the conquered German Reich; however, during the period of Glasnost and after the fall of the Soviet Union, personal memoirs and interviews of Soviet trophy brigade members and museum officials have become available, and the Soviet viewpoint better understood. By analyzing both organization’s principles and actions, historians can assume a new disposition. the trophy brigades and the MFAA worked to salvage Nazi war loot, but the two commissions took divergent approaches as to what should be done with the spoils of war. It must be appreciated that decisions made sixty-seven years ago were made by nations attempting to do what they deemed morally correct but the lack of communication behind each ideology has made Western nations stand in judgment of the Soviet Union’s response.
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Roberts, Amy. "Faculty Practice Among Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education Accredited Nursing Schools." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3317/.
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This descriptive survey study investigated the value of faculty practice among Commission of Collegiate Nurse Education (CCNE) Accredited Nursing Schools. The sample included all CCNE accredited schools that offered a Masters degree. Subjects from the 66 schools in the sample the dean and three Nurse Practitioner faculty who are teaching a clinical course. Response rate was 51% for the deans and 35% for the faculty. The opinions of deans were compared to the opinions of faculty on the views of faculty practice as research and the incorporation of faculty practice in the tenure and merit review system. The results showed faculty and deans differed on the value of faculty practice as research. However, only 6.5 % of statistically significance difference was contributable to whether the response was from a dean of a faculty. There was no significant difference to the inclusion of faculty practice in the tenure and merit review system.
Boyer's expanded definition of research was used as a theoretical background. Deans viewed faculty practice more important as compared to the traditional faculty expectation of research than faculty did. The operational definition of faculty practice was that it required scholarly outcomes from the practice. Deans were more willing than faculty to acknowledge there were scholarly measurable outcomes to evaluate faculty practice than faculty were. The greatest difference in opinion of outcomes was the deans were more willing to accept clinically focused articles as an outcome than faculty were.
Faculty were asked how the money from faculty practice was distributed. Faculty overwhelmingly reported that money generated from faculty practice most often goes to the individual faculty member. Suggested areas for future research involve investigation of the role of tenure committees in tenure decisions relating to research and faculty practice.
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Godfroy-Gallardo, Christine. "Les marchands de tableaux, experts des premiers musées nationaux en France et en Angletterre. Des appréciateurs aux compétences de conservateurs." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010545.
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L’institution d’experts officiels chargés de certifier l’authenticité de tableaux avant leur acquisition accompagne l'ouverture du Louvre. Ces commissaires assument également la gestion et le contrôle des restaurations jusqu'au milieu du XIXème siècle, même si la plupart poursuivent ; parallèlement, avec succès. leur activité de marchand, à Paris ou à Londres. Ces appréciateurs participent enfin à l'inventaire du musée sous l'Empire, puis de nouveau après les reprises alliées. malgré les critiques qui ne manquent pas de s'élever contre les estimations fantaisistes ou les attributions hasardeuses Au cours de la décennie 1840-1850, le règne des commissaires-experts s'achève au profit des conservateurs qui les supplantent au sein de l'établissement. Désormais le champ de l'expertise au musée s'avère du ressort exclusif des conservateurs. En Angleterre. deux marchands de tableaux participent, chacun à leur façon, à la mise en place du premier musée d'art national, avant que cette profession décriée ne soit définitivement exclue de la direction des musées publicsThe institution of officiai experts asked to guarantee the authenticity of pictures before their acquisition follows the opening of the Louvre. These commissioners are also in charge of the management and the control of the restorations until the middle of the 19th century. even if most pursue at the same time, successfully, their trader's activity. in Paris or in London. These appreciators participate finally in the inventory of the museum under the Empire. then again after the allied restitutions, in spire of the criticisms which do not miss ta rise against the fanciful estimations or the risky attributions. During decade 1840-1850, the administration of the commissioners-experts ends for the benefit of the curators who supplant them within the establishment. Henceforth the field of the expertise to the museum falls in the exclusive hands of the curators. ln England, two art dealers participate, each in their way. in the implementation of the first museum of national art, before this slandered profession is definitively excluded from the management of the public museums
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Darmawi, Fay. "The Boston Fair Housing Commission : a case study in the local implementation of the federal Fair Housing Act." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45185.
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Allgeier, Anthony Joseph III. "The Works for Clarinet Commissioned by the Concours International d'Exécution Musicale de Genève: A Critical Survey and Performance Guide." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc31524/.
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Beginning in 1939, the Concours International d'Exécution Musicale de Genève (CIEM; Geneva International Music Competition) is unique among international music competitions in its multidisciplinary approach. To date, fifteen works have been commissioned for clarinet for the years in which the clarinet was involved. The most well-known of these works is the unaccompanied work by Heinrich Sutermeister, Capriccio for Solo Clarinet in A, written in 1946 for the 1947 competition. This work is a staple in the unaccompanied clarinet repertoire. However, the other fourteen works commissioned for the competition are little known and to date no document has been prepared that examines each of these works in the context of the competition and clarinet literature. While perhaps less notable, works were also commissioned for a sight reading portion of the competition for many of the years in which the clarinet was a discipline chosen for the competition, two of which were published. These works are examined as well. This survey provides a critical, analytical, historical, performance-related and biographical review of the published and unpublished works commissioned for the clarinet by CIEM. The composers, competitors and the significance of these works and winners in the clarinet literature and history are included. A chapter is dedicated to each piece which includes performance considerations, critical, analytical, and historical information as well as biographical information regarding the composer and the competitors where available.
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Carrier, Angela Denise. "Cultural Modification in Rural Appalachia: Changes as Perceived by Persons Living through the Transformations Created by the ARC." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-1127101-231150/restricted/carriera112901a.pdf.
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Croker, Keith L., and n/a. "Factors affecting public policy processes : the experience of the industries assistance commission." University of Canberra. Administrative Studies, 1986. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060630.174015.
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Public policies are, at once, the means for articulation of political
philosophies and processes, the conduits for conversion of political
and bureaucratic decisions into actions and the means by which the
electorate can assess government performance. Public policy
processes offer a means of achieving social and economic change and
they are a primary justification for the existence of governmental
systems. On these counts, identification of the elements of policy
processes and the ways they interact with each other is essential to
an understanding of the relationships between public policy decisions,
systems of democratic government and their connections with wider
society.
This thesis goes behind the facade of public policy outcomes and
analyses the processes involved in arriving at policy decisions.
Linkages are traced between political theories, the processes of
public policy decisions and final policy outcomes. This involves,
first, an examination and critique of liberal-democratic theories.
Second, there is detailed examination of pluralist democratic practice,
which is the prevailing political paradigm of modern western
liberal-democratic societies. The analysis finds substantial evidence
of gross distortions in the process relative to normative theories.
Plain causes are the institutionalisation of special interests to the
exclusion of wider public interests and inadequate accountability of
governments and bureaucracies for their actions.
Policy processes in pluralist systems are examined and it is concluded
that the social environment, institutional influences and factors which
affect the behaviour of institutions are key elements explaining public
policy decisions.
The capacity for pluralism to significantly influence policy outcomes
depends largely on the degree and nature of access to the public policy
process at various points.
In examining the role of government institutions in public policy
processes, it is argued that a clear distinction between the elected
legislature and the administrative bureaucracy is artificial and
misleading. Further, there is evidence that public service bureaucrats
can become captives of their particular client groups and, thus, less
accessible to the full range of relevant interests. These problems are
exacerbated by the two-party Westminster model of representative
democracy which tends to concentrate power in cabinet government,
resulting in a decline in the importance of parliament as a deliberative
and scrutinising bodies.
This dissertation develops the view that there are significant causal
links between institutional philosophies and values and the dominant
disciplines within institutions. It is also argued that growing
professionalism in bureaucracies and a tendency for functional divisions
of public policy to be in broad symmetry with the divisions of the
professions, tends to intensify the influence of particular professional
disciplines on related areas of public policy.
The critique of liberal-democratic theories and the related discussion
of factors affecting policy processes in a pluralist system are used to
identify the essential elements of public policy processes. It is
proposed that all policy processes contain the four elements of
pluralism, access, accountability and planning which are interactively
related. Differences in emphasis given to these elements in the policy
process explains the nature of individual policy decisions. Thus, the
normative policy process datum model provides both a static and dynamic
framework for analysing policy decisions.
In order to examine the theoretical arguments in an empirical context,
the policy processes of the Australian Federal Government, in the area
of industry assistance, are analysed. This policy arena contains all
the 'raw material' of pluralist processes and is, therefore, a fertile
area for analysis. Furthermore, operating within this policy arena is
the Industries Assistance Commission [IAC], a bureaucratic institution
which is quite unlike traditional administrative structures. The IAC
has, prima-facie, all of the features of the policy process datum model;
it operates in an open mode, it encourages a range of pluralistic inputs,
it has a highly professional planning function and, because its policy
advice is published, it encourages scrutiny and accountability of
itself, other actors in the bureaucracy and the elected government. The
IAC operates in a rational-comprehensive mode.
The analysis concludes that the IAC was established in part to be a
countervailing force to restore some balance in the industry policy
arena. In this it has been partly successful - the distributive policy
decisions of governments have come under much greater scrutiny than in
the past and other areas of the bureaucracy have been forced to operate
more frequently in a rational-comprehensive mode, rather than as
advocates of sectional interests.
The IAC has itself limited its range of objectives, however, and has
tended to become a computational organisation, isolating its core
economic [planning] technology from the interactive processes of the
policy process model, i.e. pluralism, access and accountability. By
protecting its essential philosophy in this way, the IAC runs the risk
of becoming less influential in the overall policy process.
Using the policy process model as a datum, and the empirical experience
of the IAC and the policy arena in which it operates, several options
for administrative reform are examined. A summary agenda for
administrative change is proposed which revolves around ways of achieving
balanced pluralistic inputs, a greater degree of access, better
bureaucratic and government accountability and ways of exploiting but
controlling technocratic planning expertise. Emphasis is placed on the
need to achieve enriched interactive flows between each of these key
elements. If these conditions can be met, it is proposed that a revised
and improved administrative bureaucracy will emerge.
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Bouhadana, Irène. "Les commissions des finances des assemblées parlementaires en France : origines, évolutions et enjeux /." Paris : LGDJ, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb411731007.
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Latham, H. Lee. "A survey of the Greater Dallas Crime Commission and its effect on the." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2792/.
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This thesis examines the history of the Greater Dallas Crime Commission and its effectiveness within the criminal justice system. It is a private agency established fifty (50) years ago to monitor and investigate the criminal justice system. Today, it serves as a source of funding for criminal justice agencies, provides awards and recognition forums for law enforcement and lobbies for legal revisions of the criminal code. The research is designed to examine their role within the criminal justice system. Whether current crime theories are supported by the commission is central to the thesis. There are no prior studies available of crime commissions perhaps because they are privately funded and operated by civilians. Crime commissions do exert influence, politically and financially, upon law enforcement. It is reflected often in their history. The extent of this effect is the subject of the paper. To this end, the commission's role in changing state laws, providing funds for police training, recognizing prosecutors and paying awards to informants lends credibility to their role in the criminal justice system. Their function has often changed during the fifty-year history. If there is a deficit, it may be that the commission has the capability, through its sphere of influence, of encouraging civilian actions that may conflict with law enforcement policy. Some examples of these are included in the study.
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Massengo-Tiassé, Maurice. "Les Etats socialistes et la Commission des droits de l'homme des Nations Unies." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37599687s.
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Stott, Brenda. "A benefit-cost analysis of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's digital imaging project /." View online version, 2009. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/309.
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Hughes, N. Sue Cothran. "A Descriptive Study of Personnel Decisions Appealed to the Texas State Commissioner of Education August 1981 - August 1986." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331426/.
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The problem. --The problem in this study was to describe the issues arising in employment decisions appealed to the Texas Commissioner of Education. Decisions made in courts are binding on school officials, and they are published in law reporters found in most libraries. The Commissioner's decisions are also binding on school officials, but they are not published or widely reported. Thus, this important body of information may not reach those who are responsible for its application.
Methods. --The decisions of the Commissioner were examined to determine the issues and the underlying rationale used by the Commissioner in the process of deciding the appeals. A series of data reductions allowed a determination of patterns found in the outcomes of the decisions which favored the employee and those which favored the school districts. The analysis produced a set of data from which implications for decision making could be drawn.
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Watt, Jane Fawns. "The process and practice of the artist in public art commissions in Britain at the turn of the twenty-first century : a personal dialogue with five case studies." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.392840.
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Gonzalez, Laporte Christian. "La régulation des services publics en réseau : une vision organisationnelle : le cas de l'Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications (ART) et de la Commission de Régulation de l'Energie (CRE)." Grenoble 2, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004GRE21017.
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L'objet de cette recherche est d'étudier la genèse des instances indépendantes de régulation des services publics en réseau en France dans deux secteurs des plus ouverts à la concurrence : les télécommunications et l'électricité. Concrètement, il s'agit de clarifier la mise en forme institutionnelle (ou design institutionnel) de l'ART et de la CRE. L'intérêt se dégage d'un constat particulier : alors que la plupart de ces instances s'affichent comme une réponse aux directives européennes, les réponses institutionnelles varient selon les pays, les secteurs et les périodes. Dans le cas particulier de la France, plusieurs rapports publics mettent en évidence la difficulté des instances indépendantes (telles que l'AMF, la CNIL, le CSA, etc. ) au moment de leur insertion dans la structure politico administrative. On peut se demander alors : pourquoi les responsables politiques et les législateurs français ont opté à un moment donné et pas à un autre pour une politique publique de régulation qui met en place ce type de régulateurs spécifiques ? Cette question est d'autant plus pertinente que les directives européennes n'imposent aucun choix organisationnel dans ce sens. Cette étude part donc d'une affirmation : la mise en place de l'ART et de la CRE est le résultat d'un changement sur le plan global de l'organisation des marchés des services, mais surtout, il s'agit d'une co-construction institutionnelle assurée essentiellement par les principaux acteurs et instances qui se trouvent directement liés au devenir des opérateurs historiques France Télécom et EDF ; devenir qui est fortement déterminé par la concurrence internationaleThe main topic of this research is to analyse the genesis of the independent regulatory agencies in the French public utilities network in the two most opened sectors : telecommunications and electricity. Concretely, this means clarifying the process of the institutional design of the Telecommunications Authority (ART) and the Energy Commission (CRE). Our interest is linked to a particular point : while most of these agencies are presented as a response to European directives, those institutions vary according to country, sector and period. In the French case, many public reports show the problem of insertion of theses independent agencies in the political and administrative structures. One can ask : why do politicians and legislators choose to change the public policy of regulation that installs those kinds of regulators in both sectors at a specific moment ? This question is relevant as European directives do not force nation states to install independent regulators. Our affirmation is that the creation of the ART and the CRE is the result of an important change in the organisation of the services markets, but also, it's the result of an institutional co-construction assured basically by the principle actors and instances linked to the interests of the publics enterprises, France Télécom and EDF. Those interests are strongly driven by the international competition
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Watry, Constant. "La Commission des Nations-Unies pour le droit commercial international bilan et perspectives juridiques /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37601829j.
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Bean, Christopher B. "A Stranger Amongst Strangers: An Analysis of the Freedmen's Bureau Subassistant Commissioners in Texas, 1865-1868." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9122/.
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This dissertation is a study of the subassistant commissioners of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas from late 1865 to late 1868. Its focus is two-fold. It first examines who these men were. Were they northern born or southern? Did they own slaves? Were these men rich, poor, or from the middle-class? Did they have military experience or were they civilians? How old was the average subassistant commissioner in Texas? This work will answer what man Freedmen's Bureau officials deemed qualified to transition the former slave from bondage to freedom. Secondly, in conjunction with these questions, this work will examine the day-to-day operations of the Bureau agents in Texas, chronicling those aspects endemic to all agents as well as those unique to certain subdistricts. The demand of being a Bureau agent was immense, requiring long hours in the office fielding questions and long hours in the saddle inspecting subdistricts. In essence, their work advising, protecting, and educating the freedmen was a never ending one. The records of the Freedmen's Bureau, both the records for headquarters and the subassistant commissioners, serve as the main sources, but numerous newspapers, Texas state official correspondences, and military records proved helpful. Immense amounts of information arrived at Bureau headquarters from field personnel. This work relies heavily on reports and letters in the Bureau agents' own words. This dissertation follows a chronological approach, following the various Bureau administrations in Texas. I believe this approach allows the reader to better glimpse events as they happened.
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Delzant, Jean-Baptiste. "Magnificus dominus. Pouvoir, art et culture dans les seigneuries d’Italie centrale à la fin du Moyen Âge." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040178.
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Aux XIVe et XVe siècles, la plupart des villes d’Italie centrale expérimente des gouvernements seigneuriaux. Camerino passe sous la domination des da Varano, Fabriano des Chiavelli et Foligno des Trinci. Ces familles obtiennent de la commune la reconnaissance de leur pouvoir et du pape d’importantes délégations d’autorité. À côté de ces piliers de leur légitimité, elles en construisent un troisième ne dépendant que d’elles-mêmes. Le pouvoir devient dynastique, il repose sur des qualités individuelles et familiales. Les seigneuries développent une véritable politique de communication. L’urbanisme, l’architecture, la peinture mais aussi la littérature sont les médias principaux qu’elles utilisent pour élaborer l’image de bons dirigeants. Cette dernière est d’abord étudiée, ici, à partir des peintures murales des résidences familiales. De telles réalisations ne sont pas le reflet déformé d’une domination, elles sont des actes de gouvernement qui contribuent au bien commun et à l’honneur de la ville. Elles sont encore un instrument de renommée et l’expression de vertus singulières, telle la magnificence, qui justifient le pouvoir personnel. La commande artistique place la famille dominante au cœur de l’histoire de la ville. Elle la situe dans la continuité des institutions communales dont elle reste dépendante. En ville et dans le contado, les images présentent également une hégémonie de plus en plus enracinée dans la succession dynastique et appuyée par une cour restreinte. Elles parviennent ainsi à faire cohabiter les légitimations contradictoires d’un pouvoir patrimonialisé mais présenté comme conforme aux traditions et aux intérêts de la communautéIn the 14th and 15th centuries, most cities in Central Italy fell under the rule of powerful families. Camerino saw the rise of the Varanos, Fabriano of the Chiavellis, and Foligno of the Trincis. As communal authorities ended up acknowledging their power, the Popes also agreed to handing out to them significant delegations of their authority. While the two most important foundational aspects of their legitimacy laid there, these families were able to build on a third one that depended on themselves and on themselves alone. Their power became dynastic.Urban lords developed genuine communication policies. Town planning, architecture, commission of paintings as well as of literary works where the most useful tools in the building up of their image as good leaders. This study first explores this achievement by examining wall-paintings in family residences. Such works should be regarded as acts of government perceived as contributions to honor of the city. As instruments of fame, they also manifested singular virtues and thus justified the exercise of a personal power.Artistic commissions situated leading families at the heart of their city’s history. They created a sense of continuity with the urban authorities upon which the new rulers still depended. Images were meant to display an hegemony that came to be more and more deeply grounded in dynastic succession and that was supported by the gathering of a select court. While the different sources of legitimacy of such patrimonialised power may have been contradictory, images managed to accommodate these contradictions. They made new styles of ruling suitable to the claims of customs and to the communities’ self-interests
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Tolkovsky, Nir. "The 'duality' of fraud in English law and practice." Thesis, University of Derby, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10545/623029.
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This thesis critically assesses the scope and method of criminalisation of the concept of fraud under the Fraud Act 2006 through the discussion of an apparent ‘duality’ between (co-existing) criminal and non-criminal resolution mechanisms. The reader will find social sciences theory and mixed-methods research techniques being used to identify and characterise a dysfunction between legislation and the social function of fraud control and its resolution. The 2006 Act appears to present a categorical and monolithic headline offence of fraud qualified by dishonesty, yet it is not clear that the Act clearly identifies the scope of effective criminalisation with respect to fraud. The dishonesty-based conduct offence provided in the Fraud Act 2006 is examined in the context of contemporary theory and practical considerations that relate to the discipline of law-enforcement. This work investigates pre-industrial modes of fraud resolution and identifies industrial-era points of divergence between the concepts of fraud and theft (a similar headline offence defined and criminalised under the Theft Act 1968). The work also offers an empirical study of survey-based data collection involving one-hundred-and-forty participants (N=140). It measured the practical extent of criminalisation of fraud in terms of participant indications of the (typically) most likely official outcome in response to sixteen hypothetical examples of fraud offences. The survey results appear to support practical, contextual, and theoretical considerations from the literature on the inhibitors to the consistent application of a conduct-based general fraud offence. The data and findings highlight the advantages of detailed actus reus-based criminalisation of types of fraud that require additional control through effective criminalisation.
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Fang, I.-Jen. "The 1986 National Endowment for the Arts Commission: An Introspective Analysis of Two Marimba Works." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4879/.
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The marimba is rapidly achieving greater importance as a solo percussion instrument. Solo compositions for the marimba have been commissioned and performed only in the last sixty years. The 1986 National Endowment for the Arts Solo Marimba Commission is considered one of the most important commissioning projects in the history of marimba literature. Two compositions created through this project, Velocities by Joseph Schwantner and Reflections on the Nature of Water by Jacob Druckman have become two of the most influential works in contemporary marimba music. This thesis will focus on a historical perspective of the project, as well as theoretical aspects and performance issues related to these two compositions. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) issued a consortium commissioning grant through the Percussive Arts Society (PAS) in 1986 to three internationally renowned marimbists, William Moersch, Leigh Howard Stevens and Gordon Stout. Three Pulitzer Prize winners were brought together to compose three new works for the marimba. The resulting pieces were: Reflections on the Nature of Water by Jacob Druckman, Velocities by Joseph Schwantner, and Islands from Archipelago: Autumn Island by Roger Reynolds. A brief history of the classical concert marimba and the development of solo marimba literature is provided in the second chapter. The fourth and fifth chapters provide individual information about the pieces, including concise biographical information about the composers and an analysis of the two compositions.
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Gradney, James. "Leadership development : an assessment of the Aspiring Leaders Program at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality /." View online, 2008. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/269.
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Svedbäck, Kerstin. "Konst eller Kitsch? : Konst producerad i DDR speglad genom utställningar efter 1990." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-97643.
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This thesis explores how art produced in the former GDR has been looked upon, handled and exhibited after the reunification of Germany in 1990. Swedish Art History has paid little attention to art in the GDR. The debate starting in the 50s between the spokesmen for abstract art and the defenders of figuration restrained for a long period the ability to look upon art from the GDR without prejudices. This led to a rejection of all figurative art in the GDR and sweeping judgmental attitudes, like it´s all “kitsch”. Comparatively few artists in the GDR however, painted in the style prescribed by political leaders. An open issue in this study was, against background: Has GDR art gained in interest and respectability? This study focuses on two exhibitions The Divided Heaven in Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin and an exhibition in Kalmar konstmuseum, Sweden, named Maintaining the Order of Things – the Aesthetic of Modernism in Commercialism, Nationalism, Elitism and Socialism, 2011. The exhibitions have been analyzed along several dimensions: The number of works from the GDR, strategies for hanging them, the presentation of the exhibitions in information brochures and the homepage of the museums. Descriptions of the works give information on typical motives in the GDR over time and some information as regards the artists. The way the building has supported visitors in experiencing an exhibition has been considered and its importance as an institution. The study of the two exhibitions illustrates two different strategies for showing art from the GDR, in contrast or integrated. The Swedish exhibition which primarily exposed paintings from the 60 s focused on comparing GDR paintings and the Swedish sketches on commissioned etchings on vases from Orrefors glassworks. The German exhibition exposed GDR art together with art from other countries, along thematic lines. The study indicates an increasing interest in the art from the GDR, which is confirmed by the great number of exhibitions 2012. Also projects researching the art from this period in German history and the construction of a new museum for it supports the idea that interest in and respect for art produced in the former GDR is gradually established. This increased interest has not yet included the officially promoted style – Socialist Realism.Vid den elektroniska publiceringen har två bilder tagits bort från den ursprungliga versionen av upphovsrättsliga skäl, bild 21 och 26.
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Kelm, Charles. "Exploring the effects of specialized sexual behavior treatment on recidivism /." View online, 2005. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/30/.
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Bruno, Menzan. "Determinating the impediments to the efficiency and effectiveness of the national Human Rights commision of Côte d’Ivoire : are the Paris principles a Panacea?" Diss., University of Pretoria, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/16743.
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In 1991, the first major international gathering on the issue of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) was held from the 7 to the 9 October in Paris during the first International Workshop on National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights under United Nations (UN) auspices. The outcome of such meeting is the Paris Principles adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Commission Resolution 1992/54 of 1992 and the General Assembly Resolution 48/134 of 1993. The Paris Principles relate to the status and functioning of national institutions for protection and promotion of human rights and ‘have become the benchmark against which national human rights institutions are measured'.Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2010.
Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Law University of Pretoria, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Masters of Law (LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa). Prepared under the supervision of Dr. Solomon Dersso of the Faculty of Law, University of Addis-Ababa. 2010.
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Salatko, Gaspard. "Restauration liturgique et planifications esthétiques : enquête sur les modalités de gestion de la forme art sacré en contexte de reconfiguration cultuelle catholique (France, XIXe-XXIe siècles)." Paris, EHESS, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011EHES0485.
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Centré sur l'observation du fonctionnement des commissions diocésaines d'art sacré , ce travail interroge les conséquences esthétiques de l'entreprise de restauration liturgique entérinée par le concile Vatican II. En particulier, l'examen des ressources littéraires, produites ou utilisées par ces commissions, vise à mettre en évidence la façon dant lers théoriciens et les praticiens de la liturgie déduisent, à partir de la théologie, des architectures sensibles ajustées à leurs pratiques. Par ce biais, il s'agit d'explorer la façon dont l'institution ecclésiale catholique contemporaine administre l'esthétisation des lieux de son culte en y disposant les ressources objectives régissant un accèssensible au dieu chrétien, paradoxalement réputé imperceptible. Sous cette perspective, les activités humaines administrant la composition de ces environnements cultuels peuvent être saisies comme relevant d'une architecture théologique instruisant la production des solutions esthétisées d'accès et de contact au divin. L'observation montre ainsi comment cette acception du christianisme problèmatise l'inscription spatialisée de cette entité de déité dans l'enceinte du sanctuaire. Les opérations relevant de l'application de cette économie stabilisatrice tendent dès lors à définir une dynamique d'homologation de la forme "art sacré"By observing the diocesan commission on sacred art, this work examines the esthetic results of liturgical project of restoration ratified by the second Vatican concil. In particular, the examination of the literary resources, producted or employed by these commissions, allows to emphasize how the theorists and the experts of the liturgy compose, from theology, sensitive arhitectures adjusted to their practices. By means of those documents, this work propose to explore how contemporary catholic church manages the esthetisation of its worship by laying the objective ressources allowing sensitive access to the Christian god, paradoxically considered unperceivable. In this manner, the human activities managing the composition of these worship environments can be discribed like a theological architecture which informs production of the solutions of access and contact to the divine one. This, the observation argues how this church reformulates the spatialized inscription of the christian god in the enclosure of the sanctuary. Consequently, the opeartions concerned with the application of this stabilizing economy tend to define a dynamics of homologation of the form "sacred art"
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Dancy, Geoffrey Thomas. "Do As They Say, and As They Do: An Integrated Approach to the Study of Norm Influence on Truth Commission Initiation, 1976-2003." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5381/.
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Truth commissions are bodies established in political transition, and they have the stated purpose of reckoning with human rights abuses committed by members of former regimes. The question driving this research is "Why have truth commissions increased so rapidly in the last 20 years?" This study moves beyond current research, which suggests that particular domestic political circumstances alone determine choice of transitional justice mechanisms. I argue that an international rule of behavior, the transitional restorative norm, has emerged and spread to decision-makers in countries of transition. In support of this notion, I perform a pre-theoretical historical analysis of transitional justice and develop a theory of decision-making in transition-which is later tested with quantitative statistics. This integrated approach allows for increased scientific rigor in the examination of international norms. Ultimately, the study demonstrates an interrelationship between shared ideas and political environments in the determination of domestic policy.
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Massad, Victor J. (Victor James). "The Eclectic Paradigm of Salesperson Compensation: a New Framework for Investigating the Role of Salary versus Commission." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277576/.
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Numerous researchers, employing theories from either psychology or economics, have investigated the circumstances under which firms are likely to adopt salary-based versus commission-based compensation plans. This study integrates the most common theoretical bases of salesperson compensation literature into a broad framework labeled the Eclectic Paradigm of Salesperson Compensation (EPSC). The EPSC proposes that there is a positive association between a firm's salary orientation and resource commitment, and a firm's salary orientation and firm control. There should be a negative association between salary orientation and dissemination risk, and salary orientation and salesperson motivation/performance. Twenty-three hypotheses originating from the EPSC were tested using a pretest sample of 48 real estate salespersons and a test sample of 311 real estate salespersons. The data were analyzed using common factor analysis, logistic regression, multivariate analysis of variance, and median tests. Of the 23 hypotheses, 10 were supported, 7 were partially supported, and 6 were not supported. The results suggest that the eclectic paradigm of salesperson compensation is a promising initial step toward developing a comprehensive model for understanding the determinants of salary versus commission.
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Pearcy, Matthew Todd 1967. "A History of the Mississippi River Commission, 1879-1928: from Levees-Only to a Comprehensive Program of Flood Control for the Lower Mississippi Valley." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277642/.
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In 1879 Congress created the Mississippi River Commission (MRC) to develop and coordinate federal flood control policy for the Lower Mississippi River. Through 1927, that Commission clung stubbornly to a "levees-only" policy that was based on the mistaken belief that levees alone could be effective in controlling the flood waters of the Mississippi River. When the levees failed--and they occasionally did--the MRC responded by raising and strengthening the system but refused to adopt a more comprehensive program, one which would include outlets and reservoirs. Finally, a disastrous flood in 1927 forced the abandonment of levees-only and the adoption of a comprehensive plan for the Lower Mississippi River. Predictably, the MRC faced heavy criticism following the failure of its highly-touted levee system in 1927. While certainly the Commission was culpable, there was plenty of fault to go around and a plethora of mitigating circumstances. Developing a plan for achieving adequate flood control along the lower Mississippi River constituted what was probably the most difficult and complex engineering problem ever undertaken by the U. S. Government. Additionally, there were innumerable political and financial constraints that worked to shape MRC policy. This study will endeavor to tell the story of the MRC from its earliest origins through the landmark 1928 Flood Control Act, and, in the process, give evidence to the reality that the Commission did not function independently. As an organization, it relied upon outside forces for its membership, for its jurisdiction, and for the appropriations necessary to carry out its policies. Significantly, these forces were politically driven and did not always, or even often, share the MRC's priorities for the Lower Mississippi River. Even so, the MRC accomplished a great deal in its efforts to protect the Valley from moderate floods, to improve the navigability of the Mississippi River, and to expand significantly the body of knowledge available on the "Father of Waters."
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Lane, Jacqueline Ann. "A watershed decade in British industrial relations, 1965 to 1974? : the Donovan Commission Report, 'In Place of Strife', and the Industrial Relations Act of 1971." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2017. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/34157/.
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The Donovan Report (1965-1968) is often seen as one of the great failures in the overall attempt to deal with the thorny problem of the contentious nature of industrial relations in post-war Britain. This thesis re-examines that report and subsequent governmental responses, using numerous sources, many of which have barely been used by previous authors, in order to establish where it all went wrong. Such an examination is important to inform future governments on some of the problems of trying to legislate on industrial relations matters. This thesis addresses the central question addressed by the Report – the validity of employing legislation to deal with the problems within industrial relations, asking what contribution had legislation made to the ordering of industrial relations in the past, and what lessons future governments could take from that? Why did both the Labour Governments under Harold Wilson and the Conservative Government under Edward Heath choose to go beyond Donovan in their attempts to alter the role of the state in industrial relations Finally, could the Industrial Relations Act 1971, had it survived, have been to the benefit of trade unions in time? This thesis suggests that legislation had an important role to play in the ordering of industrial relations, and that collective bargaining alone, although effective in many areas, was unable to address issues which had wider implications, such as those relating to health and safety or the reconciliation of differences due to the laws’ interference with trade unions’ rights to defend their members and their own collective rights. Both the Labour and Conservative Governments chose to go beyond the measures proposed by Donovan because economic and political necessity demanded a greater measure of control over strike action. However, the inquiry had undoubtedly focused the debate on whether or not legislation could ever be the most appropriate tool for controlling industrial relations, and therefore acted as a catalyst for the reforms that followed. The Industrial Relations Act 1971 failed to bring about the hoped-for industrial peace. Its repeal in 1974, however, did nothing to prevent further rises in strikes after 1974. Piecemeal legislation in the 1980s and 1990s did bring about a greater level of industrial peace, but this suggests that it was not legislation per se that was the wrong strategy for controlling industrial relations, but rather the method and pace of implementation. Other means of maintaining industrial peace were experimented with and could have been successful if the political will had been there and the unions and employers had engaged more fully,but the seeds had been sown for legislative control and it was impossible to hold back the tide of restrictive legislation which followed these early forays into the concept of law as a means of controlling industrial relations. The Donovan Report did indeed represent the thin end of the legal wedge and opened the floodgates to the many enactments designed to control and emasculate the trade union movement which the Conservative governments of the 1980s and early 1990s were able to introduce. The collective failures of the Donovan Report, In Place of Strife and the Industrial Relations Act to bring about industrial peace were, however, only indicative that legislation was not the most appropriate means of achieving this goal at this particular point in time. Alternative attempts to reduce strikes and engage trade unions in closer working relationships with employers and their associations, and with the government, did meet with some success in the 1970s and may be usefully attempted again in the future. This will, however, depend on whether government is able to keep an open mind on the utility, or perhaps futility, of legislative controls such as those attempted in the years between 1965 and 1975.