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Rodrigues, Susana C. S. F. "Business strategy and organisational performance : an analysis of the Portuguese mould industry." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/96290.
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Pereira, Terto Neto Ulisses. "Protecting human rights defenders in Brazil : a legal and socio-political analysis of the Brazilian Programme for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=228614.
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I show in this thesis, first, that the creation of the Brazilian Program for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (PPDDH) in 2004 was the result of pressure from national and transnational civil society on the Brazilian government to address the targeting of peasant leaders and other activists who, it was argued, should be understood as human rights defenders, and offered special protection as such. Second, I show on the basis of interviews conducted with protected human rights defenders, civil society and state officials, that the programme has provided protection and support to a small but significant number of activists in some areas of the country. Third, most interviewees also pointed to the PPDDH's potential to make broader contributions to the advance of human rights in Brazil, by bolstering human rights activism, empowering organised civil society, redressing the balance of power between dominant and dominated, and changing the workings of the Brazilian State. Finally, however, they indicated the serious shortcomings of the programme such as limited budget and lack of resources, PPDDH's dependence on other actors to provide the protection for human rights defenders, and lack of dedicated legislative framework. These shortcomings reflect a lack of political will to provide sufficient resources as well as a sufficiently robust legal framework for the programme. I end by arguing that organised civil society must build up the necessary political will to demand that the State resource the PPDDH fully and effectively in order for that programme to realise its potential.
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Singh, Ammar Bahadur. "Child Clubs as the Defenders of Children's Rights in Nepalese Context." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Norsk senter for barneforskning, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-17559.
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Children are seen as competent social actors in new social studies of childhood and proponents of which seek for children’s participation in all matters that are of interest to children, and simultaneously and thereafter influence the decision making process that affect them in both explicit and implicit terms. Additionally, the UNCRC in articles 12 and 13 legally provisions for the participation of children to have a say on the issues of their concerns and their views should be taken into consideration. The community based child clubs seem to have emerged to meet this end. My thesis aimed at exploring the lived experiences of children involved in the community based child clubs in order to gain knowledge on how the clubs have been good defenders of children’s rights, particularly their right to participate and agency and what implications the clubs have in Nepalese society. Qualitative questionnaires as a gateway to enter the issue, and (semi) interviews, focus groups discussions and ranking as primary qualitative methods were used to collect data. Nine children, five girls and four boys, and six adults were the informants, but children were the focus of the research. The empirical data were further analyzed and interpreted. This research shows that the community based child clubs have been a good forum for children to get information on children’s rights and other issues, and develop their personal and social skills. Children’s participation in the social activities that are of direct interest to children has been the main focus of the clubs. Children lead, manage and implement the clubs activities and program themselves and hence children’s agency has been recognized and promoted. These clubs have brought positive changes to children themselves, their families and societies. Furthermore, the clubs have got a strong space in the society and challenged the traditional beliefs and practices that discourage child participation. Thus, it is reasonable to say that the child clubs have turned into a real crusader for informing, promoting and protecting children’s right to participate and hence develop their agency.
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Clarke, James F. "Education, immortality, and defenders of legacy in William Kennedy's Albany cycle /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1136093291&sid=10&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Borrás, Susana. "The right to defend the environment: The protection of the environmental defenders." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116404.
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The increasing degradation of the environment and competitiveness on the exploitation of the natural limited resources demonstrates not only serious impacts on the environment, but also it generates important social impacts. The defenselessness which the victims of the environmental degradation face, as victims also of violations of human rights, has given origin to a movement of resistance led by the so called «environmental defenders», who, beyond the activism, try to protect the environment and to defend the most vulnerable groups affected by this type of environmental aggressions. This has led to the recent and worrying proliferation of abuses against the human rights of these people. The frequency of murders and threats that the defenders suffer, the infringement of the rights of its peoples and the subsequent impunity of the authors of these serious violations generate the need to point out the existing problems in the identification of this reality, in its recognition and legal protection and of analyzing which is the protection and assistance, that from the international area, these persons are awarded in situation of high risk.La creciente degradación del medio ambiente y competitividad frente a la explotación de los recursos naturales limitados evidencia no solo graves impactos sobre el medio ambiente, sino también genera importantes impactos sociales. La indefensión a la que se enfrentan las víctimasde la degradación ambiental, como víctimas también de violaciones de derechos humanos, ha dado origen a un movimiento de resistencia liderado por los llamados «defensores ambientales», quienes, más allá del activismo, intentan proteger el medio ambiente y defender a los grupos más vulnerables frente a este tipo de agresiones ambientales. De ahí que hayan proliferado últimamente, y de forma muy preocupante, los abusos contra los derechos humanos de estas personas. La frecuencia de asesinatos y amenazas que sufren los defensores ambientales, la vulneración de los derechos de sus pueblos y la subsiguiente impunidad de los autores de estas graves violaciones genera la necesidad de señalar cuáles son los problemas existentes en la identificación de esta realidad, en su reconocimiento yprotección jurídica, y de analizar cuál es la protección y asistencia, que desde el ámbito internacional, se confiere a estas personas en situación de alto riesgo.Este artículo se ha realizado en el ámbito del proyecto financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Convocatoria de ayudas de proyectos de investigación fundamental no orientada titulado «La garantía jurídica de la vertiente intrageneracional de la justicia ambiental como aspecto social del desarrollo sostenible». DER2010-19529. Investigador principal:Dr. Antoni Pigrau Solé. Período 2011-2013.
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Anwar, Aamir. "Low Frequency Finite Element Modeling of Passive Noise Attenuation in Ear Defenders." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31186.
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Noise levels in areas adjacent to high performance jets have increased monotonically in the past few years. When personnel are exposed to such high noise fields, the need for better hearing protection is inevitable. Adequate hearing protection may be achieved through the use of circumaural ear defenders, earplugs or both.
This thesis focuses on identifying the dominant physical phenomena, responsible for the low frequency (0 â 300 Hz) acoustic response inside the earmuffs. A large volume earcup is used with the undercut seal for the study. The significance of this research is the use of finite element methods in the area of hearing protection design. The objectives of this research are to identify the dominant physical phenomena responsible for the loss of hearing protection in the lower frequency range, and develop FE models to analyze the effects of structural and acoustic modes on the acoustic pressure response inside the earcup.
It is found that there are two phenomena, which are primarily responsible for the lower frequency acoustic response inside the earmuffs. These modes are recognized in this thesis as the piston mode and the Helmholtz mode. The piston mode occurs due to the dynamics of the earcup and seal at 150 Hz, which results in loss of hearing protection. The Helmholtz mode occurs due to the presence of leaks. The resonant frequency of the Helmholtz mode and the pressure response depends on the leak size.Master of Science
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Bdaiwi, Ahab. "Shi'i defenders of Avicenna : an intellectual history of the philosophers of Shiraz." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/16550.
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This dissertation is a study of the intellectual history of Ṣadr al-Dīn Dashtakī (d. 903/1498) and Ghiyāath al-Dīn Dashtakī (d. 949/1542), two important Shirazi philosophers and Shi'i thinkers who lived in the late Timurid and early Safavid period. It argues that Avicennan philosophy was revived and provided with a new impetus at a time when it was under attack by Ash'ari thinkers belonging to the later tradition. Paradoxically, many of the later Ash'ri thinkers saw it fit to engage in metaphysical speculations that took the Avicennan tradition as its basis. Yet, these same thinkers accused Avicenna and his followers of advancing specious arguments and for making incoherent statements about God, the cosmos, religious matters, and the general nature of things. So overarching was this later Ash'ari tradition, that it became the intellectual tradition par excellence in the centuries leading up to the Safavid period. In many of their major philosophical writings, the Dashtakīs sought to decouple Avicennan philosophy from Ash'ari kalām, and, at the same time, to attack the foundations of the Ash'ari tradition. In doing so, the Dashtakīs proposed a particular reading of Avicenna that was purified of Ash'ari influences and closer to philosophical Shi'ism.
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Lundh, Patrik K. "Cultivating rights : Russia's rights defenders and the interstices of formal and informal morality /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Sides, Jonathan Drapala. "Low Frequency Modeling and Experimental Validation of Passive Noise Attenuation in Ear Defenders." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/10072.
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Circumaural ear cups have been used for decades as an effective way of protecting users from high noise fields. Over the decades, a number of researchers dedicated their time to understanding the dynamics that govern the attenuation of hearing protectors. This thesis duplicates some of this work with newer technology and better data processing ability. In addition to revitalizing the accepted knowledge of hearing protector technology, this thesis is the first documented effort to show how the previously ignored air leak, known to exist between the ear cup and the head, has a profound effect on the low and mid frequency attenuation of a circumaural hearing defender.
Past research focused on the mechanical vibration of the cup on the seal as the main source of noise within the ear cup. This mechanical vibration, known as the piston resonance exists, and affected noise attenuation within the ear cup. A reasonably sized air leak of 160 e-7 m2 however, overwhelmed the piston resonance. An air leak of this size was shown to degrade noise attenuation by over 50 dB at 40Hz and 30 dB at 200 Hz when compared to a no-leak case. Further testing also suggested that the air leak has the ability to continue adding energy into the cup up to 3000 Hz.Master of Science
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Fujii, Keisuke. "Cognitive and motor control mechanism for ballgame defenders in 1-on-1 defensive situation." Kyoto University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/188790.
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Kyoto University (京都大学)0048
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(主査)准教授 神﨑 素樹, 教授 森谷 敏夫, 准教授 久代 恵介, 教授 小田 伸午
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Hornblower, Kathryn. "Don't stand by, stand up : a peer group anti-bullying intervention to increase pro-defending attitudes and behaviour in students that witness bullying." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15576.
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Psychological research into bullying has highlighted the importance of considering the role of bystanders within this complex social interaction (see literature review). The aim of this paper was to apply this research to develop an anti-bullying intervention programme that increases pro-defending attitudes and behaviour, and consequently reduces bullying. The methodology was a design experiment; in this first iteration, the intervention programme was designed, implemented, and evaluated in collaboration with staff and students at a secondary school. Data were collected using a mixed methods approach via questionnaires, focus groups, an interview, and observation. The results showed that there was no significant difference in prevalence estimates of defending or bullying pre and post intervention. However, two thirds of participants reported that their attitudes and behaviour had become more supportive of defending victims since the intervention. Qualitative data revealed a diversity of perspectives regarding the effects and value of the programme. A model outlining factors that influence decisions to defend a victim of bullying was developed from the results and previous literature. The findings from this paper were used to inform modifications to the design of the intervention programme for implementation in the second iteration in paper 2.
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Matamoros, Alas Virginia. "Support and protection for Human Rights Defenders : To what extent can the international instruments and their corresponding mechanisms provide support and protection for HRDs, especially those that are submitted to criminal prosecution within the national legal systems?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295334.
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This study has aimed at examining the nature and function of the support and protection that is offered and provided to human rights defenders trough a selected few international as well as regional human rights instruments and mechanisms, among them the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders as well as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court on Human Rights. In order to conduct such a study in a fairly limited and concrete way a number of cases were selected of human rights defenders who have undergone or are currently undergoing criminal prosecution and are incarcerated in Guatemala. The selection was based on the notion that apart from murder, criminal prosecution and incarceration of human rights defenders constitutes one of the most harmful and effective ways to actively hinder the continuance of valuable human rights work. Consequently, it impedes the promotion, implementation and protection of human rights on a general level. In regards to this States such as Guatemala have found ways to circumvent their international human rights duties by allowing others or themselves to label human rights defenders as criminal and violent actors, thus taking away the legitimate aspect of their roles and functions when it comes to promoting and safeguarding the enjoyment and exercise of human rights. The examined cases were meant to shed light on the situation for defenders in Guatemala but most importantly they were meant to illustrate a context in which one can examine the role and function that international human rights instruments and mechanisms have to combat such types of situations. The study found that although the concerned instruments and mechanisms such as the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, the EU-guidelines on Human Rights Defenders, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court on Human Rights have a positive, important and impacting role in providing support to human rights defenders they have not yet reached/obtained the function of preventing persecution of human rights defenders, most notably of the legal kind. Since these mechanisms can only recommend but not force States to recognize and treat advocates of rights as “human rights defenders” their role and function for this specific purpose becomes less effective. All is not negative however, and the instruments and mechanisms that exist today are an illustration of the ambitions of States to follow international human rights principles and standards, at least to some extent.
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Ichim, Irina E. ""I am my brother's keeper" : the politics of protecting human rights defenders at risk in Kenya." Thesis, University of York, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20506/.
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In this study, I examine the protection of human rights defenders as a contemporary form of human rights practice in Kenya, within a broader socio-political and economic framework, that includes histories of activism in Kenya. By doing so, I seek to explore how the protection regime, a globally defined set of norms and institutions increasingly located in the Global South, becomes embedded in a specific setting, and how it is used by relevant stakeholders. Conversely, by drawing on rich empirical data from a given context, I aim to nuance existing theoretical thinking about protection, and to tease out the implications for the broader political and economic processes in which the protection regime is inscribed. By drawing on two years of ethnographic research in Kenya, I show that institutionalized protection as an extension of professional human rights can be counterproductive for the goals of the protection regime, but also for those of human rights more broadly conceived. Firstly, institutionalised protection entrenches pre-existing power relationships between professional activists and grassroots defenders across a class and socio-economic divide. Secondly, relevant actors at times resist this setting by appropriating the protection regime for purposes other than those it was intended for. Finally, the ensuing tensions risk eroding the human rights movement rather than strengthening it. This study provides a critique of recent processes of professionalization by contextualizing them within wider histories of oppression and struggle. Additionally, it shows how economics, power and politics matter within locations (rather than just across the Global/South divide). In doing so, it provides a nuanced assessment of the protection regime as the human rights movement’s primary response to reprisals against civic space across the globe. Finally, this study also adds to the growing body of scholarly work that investigates the effects that human rights and related norms and practices have in social life.
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Lubiani, Katherine. "PRE-ENTRY: EXPANDING THE METHODS BY WHICH PUBLIC DEFENDERS PREPARE CLIENTS FOR A SUCCESSFUL RE-ENTRY PRIOR TO INCARCERATION." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22743.
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The criminal justice system does not focus on individual needs outside of the defense against criminal charges and thus perpetuates the cycle that results in indigent people burdened with a criminal record. This paper first examines the current practices of public defenders. Next it explores the indirect consequences of involvement with the criminal justice system known as collateral consequences and the relatively new practice of holistic defense by which these consequences may be addressed. The paper then discusses issues that previously incarcerated individuals have upon their re-entry into society. Finally, the paper will introduce a new concept, “pre-entry,” inspired by the holistic defense approach.
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Ridenour, Wendy Margaree. "NO SIMPLE TRADEOFFS: CENTAUREA PLANTS FROM AMERICA ARE BETTER COMPETITORS AND DEFENDERS THAN PLANTS FROM THE NATIVE RANGE." The University of Montana, 2007. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-03292007-102153/.
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Two non-mutually exclusive hypotheses for invasive success have important evolutionary implications. The 'natural enemies' hypothesis posits that exotic invaders explode in abundance because they are not suppressed by specialist herbivore consumers in their invaded range. The 'novel weapons' hypothesis posits that exotic invaders explode in abundance because they possess biochemicals that are more effective against evolutionarily naïve plants, microbes, and generalist herbivores than against those species that have evolved tolerance in their communities of origin. I explored the potential for novel allelopathic or herbivore defense biochemicals as a potential alternative mechanism to tradeoff-driven evolution of increased competitive ability in invasive plants by comparing growth, reproduction, competitive effect and response, and defense capabilities of invasive North American populations of Centaurea maculosa to populations in Europe, where the species is native. I found that Centaurea from North America were larger, but produced fewer flowers than plants from European populations. North American Centaurea demonstrated much stronger competitive effects and responses than European Centaurea against North American grasses. Importantly, competitive superiority did not appear to come at a cost to herbivore defense. North American Centaurea genotypes were better defended against specialist and generalist consumers, and showed both a stronger inhibitory effect on the consumers (resistance) and a better ability to grow in response to attack by herbivores (tolerance). Better defense by North Americans corresponded with higher constitutive levels of biochemical defense compound precursors, tougher leaves, and more leaf trichomes than Europeans. North American F1 progeny of field collected lines retained the traits of larger size and greater leaf toughness suggesting that genetic differences, rather than maternal effects, caused the intercontinental differences. My results indicate that the evolution of increased competitive ability may not always be driven by simple physiological tradeoffs between the allocation of energy or resources to growth or to defense. Instead, I hypothesize that new plant neighbors and generalist herbivores encountered by Centaurea in its invaded range appear to exert strong directional selection on the weed's competitive and defense traits.
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Ridenour, Wendy L. "No simple tradeoffs Centaurea plants from America are better competitors and defenders than plants from the native range /." CONNECT TO THIS TITLE ONLINE, 2006. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-03292007-102153/.
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Robinson, Yvette. "A program evaluation: effectiveness and recidivism within the Fulton County Conflict Defenders, Inc. alternative sentencing and mitigation unit." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2003. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2556.
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The purpose of this evaluation is to explore the efficacy of social workers in reducing the rate of recidivism of persons with mental disorders charged with misdemeanor crimes in State Court Division. This evaluation required the selection of two samples for mixed methods analysis. A total of 3] mental health cases were identified to recidivism evaluation, however 10 cases were eliminated due to lack of significant identifying information. A group sample of seven key stakeholders was used to participate in a focus group. The focus group discussed the attributes of effective collaboration between attorneys and social workers in decreasing the recidivism rate of the mentally ill. The participants rated their ideas by order of importance and assigned each one to categories. According to the recidivism data, 28.5% (6) had been rearrested for a new or similar charge as in their previous cases, leaving 71.5% as successful diversion cases following interventions of the ASM social worker. The focus group identified three core conceptualizations of attributes to effective programs: program foundation, procedures, and coalition building. The limitations of this study and recommendations for future evaluation are also discussed.
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Mateko, Nevushoma Sununguko. "The nature of alignment/fit between business strategy and maintenance strategy in industries in South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24695.
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Maintenance has traditionally been viewed as an unavoidable part of the manufacturing function. It is often identified as an opportunity to wantonly reduce costs, whenever the need to reduce manufacturing cost arises. Its potential to contribute to an organisation’s competitive advantage and business sustainability, has not received significant attention, and consequently formulation and execution of maintenance strategies have been poor, inconsistent or unfocused. Alignment of business strategy and maintenance strategy should help an organization to achieve or improve upon its business performance. Likewise, maintenance performance measures should be linked to an organization’s strategy, in order to provide useful information for making effective decisions. This fit or alignment, can only be achieved when maintenance is viewed as a critical business function, integrated with other business functions in support of business strategy. The impact of alignment between maintenance strategy and business strategy - on business strategy - is studied empirically in this thesis. The results confirm that alignment between maintenance and business strategy is strongly positively correlated with business performance. CopyrightDissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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Bennett, Karen L. "The effectiveness of approach : addressing the value of rights-based interventions to protect human rights defenders in oppressive environments." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2017. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/1290/.
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This commentary statement accompanies the research outputs (listed in Annex 1) submitted for the award of Ph.D. by Prior Output at London Metropolitan University. The commentary describes the genesis of the work presented, and brings coherence and context to the submission. The nine outputs in the submission (Outputs A – I) address the nature of approaches to interventions for the protection of human rights defenders. My premise holds that mobilising human rights-based approaches to interventions for the protection of human rights defenders in countries with oppressive regimes has significant potential for altering the nature and practice of human rights defence, improving security for human rights defenders, and impacting human rights implementation. This submission presents an original contribution of research work conducted over an eight year period (2009 – 2016). Situated in the academic discourse, there are three distinct strands within the research submission, each strand contributing to a coherent body of work. The first strand is concerned with the effective implementation of the European Union Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders; the second strand is concerned with the development of a research agenda engaging practitioners and academics in multiple research activities investigating the human rights defender protection regime; and the third strand is concerned with enabling environments for human rights defenders through projects in Central Asia and Darfur, Sudan. The work is derived from an agentic constructivist and human rights-based approach perspective. Through incorporating multiple, and also innovative methodologies, the research activities investigate defender protection situated in subjective meanings and multiple contexts, and the three strands of work together capture the eclectic perspectives of both the enablers of defenders, and defenders themselves. In this way the submission articulates pathways for a research agenda that informs and reveals problems in intervention approaches, encompassing local, regional and international engagement and support to human rights defenders. The commentary and the research outputs consider approaches of social and political mechanisms necessary for the mobilisation of improved security in defender communities, studied in multiple regions of the world to advance empirical knowledge and normative argument. The work contributes to academic rigour and scholarship in the fields of human rights and international relations, and also other social science fields, including sociology, social policy, politics, law, international development and security and conflict studies.
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Skagerlid, Arvid. "Process and Meaning : A Coverian Analysis of Animal Defenders International v. UK and the Procedural Turn of the ECtHR." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-435920.
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In this thesis, the legal theory of Robert Cover is employed to analyse the procedural turn of the ECtHR. The text studies how Animal Defenders International v. the United Kingdom (ADI) and subsequent case law relate to the margin of appreciation doctrine and how this can be understood from a Coverian point of view. The margin of appreciation is thus seen as a product of an interplay between paideic and imperial forces where the imperial, or world-maintaining, influences on the doctrine are the strongest. ADI and later cases are read as further accentuating the focus on the nomos of the state relative to competing nomoi already at work in the case law of the procedural turn. The thesis is closed with an amalgamation of Cover’s ideas with the democratic theory of Jacques Derrida which results in a discussion on what a Coverian re-evaluation of the approach outlined in ADI could look like.
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Hawley, Jennifer J. "Florida's Civil War soldiers." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001375.
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Kamolnick, Paul. "How Muslim Defenders Became “Blood Spilling” Crusaders: Adam Gadahn's Critique of the “Jihadist” Subversion of Al Qaeda's Media Warfare Strategy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/645.
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Adam Gadahn's Abbottabad letter offers a rare opportunity to examine how this Al Qaeda Senior Leadership (AQSL) media operative and spokesman conceptualizes and executes media warfare. In this article, I first introduce, depict, and employ the author's Terrorist Quadrangle Analysis (TQA) as a useful heuristic for conceptualizing and representing the four interrelated components of the AQSL terrorist enterprise: political objectives, media warfare, terrorist attacks, and strategic objectives. This TQA construct is then employed to conceptualize Gadahn's media warfare acumen. Gadahn is shown to be an adept communications warfare operative who conscientiously disaggregates and evaluates key target audiences, messengers, messaging, and media. Gadahn's vehement critique of select “jihadi” groups, in particular Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP), al-Shabaab, and the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), is then described. Key here is how and why Gadahn denounces their indiscriminate, murderous terrorist attacks on Muslim non-combatant civilians and other protected persons as effectively subverting his intended AQSL media warfare strategy and undermining AQSL strategic and religio-political objectives. A concluding section briefly summarizes these chief findings, offers select implications for scholarship and counter-AQSL messaging strategy, and identifies study limitations.
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Carlsson, Karin. "Approach, Adjust or Avoid? : A descriptive case study on how women human rights defenders in Colombia cope with political violence." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-431878.
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Violence targeting politically active women is increasingly researched and recognised as a barrier to gender equal political participation. Previous studies on political violence targeting women have tended to focus on women in formal politics and mostly on the prevalence of violence rather than the impact it has on actors who continue to navigate violent political contexts. This case study uses semi-structured, digital interviews with eighteen Colombian women human rights defenders, focusing on their appraisal of (gendered) political violence and the coping strategies they use to navigate their political space. It finds that both strategies that involve taking up more political space and strategies with a silencing impact are used. For women human rights defenders in Colombia, their geographical conditions and access to resources, especially networks, are important factors to take into account when describing their possibilities to cope with political violence. Their perceptions of where and how gendered political violence occurs indicate that disproportionate impacts of political violence can be underestimated if research and policy does not account for the experiences of different groups of women. The thesis finds that studying lived experiences and micro-level mechanisms can contribute to the literature on macro-level phenomena such as barriers to participation, political violence and marginalisation.
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Sánchez, Carol. "A broken promise: an insight into the killings of social leaders and the elites' resistance to the implementation of the Comprehensive Rural Reform in Colombia." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-450066.
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Four years after the signing of the Final Agreement for the Termination of the Armed Conflict in Colombia, the promises made to achieve a stable and lasting peace have by no means materialized at the expected pace. The implementation of the Agreements has focused on the demobilization of the FARC-EP while structural transformations to reduce the causes for the existence or prolongation of the conflict have been neglected. While the political and economic elites make efforts to halt the implementation –especially the compromises dealing with the rural reform– those who promote such structural changes have been stigmatized and violated in an effort to maintain the status quo. As a result, Colombia has the highest number of killings of social leaders in Latin America. The leaders mobilizing peasant causes have suffered with particular intensity from this violence. This thesis thus uses a qualitative method of study, developed through data collection, to analyze the relationship between the elite resistance to the implementation of the Comprehensive Rural Reform and the assassinations of social leaders in Colombia. The conceptual basis for the research is the theory of structural violence.Cuatro años después de la firma del Acuerdo Final para la Terminación del Conflicto Armado en Colombia, la promesas hechas para lograr una paz estable y duradera no se han materializado al ritmo esperado. La implementación de lo pactado se ha centrado en la desmovilización de las FARC-EP mientras las transformaciones estructurales para disminuir las causas de la existencia o prolongación del conflicto han quedado relegadas.. En este escenario, aquellos que impulsan esos cambios estructurales o mobilizan a sus comunidades en las exigencies de sus derechos han sido estigmatizados y violentados en un esfuerzo por mantener el estatus quo; mientras las élites políticas y económicas hacen esfuerzos para frenar lo pactado. Como resultado, Colombia presenta la cifra más alta de asesinatos en contra de líderes sociales en America Latina. Los líderes que mobilizan causas campesinas han sufrido con especial intensidad esta violencia. Esta tesis usa un método cualitativo de análisis, desarrollado a traves de la recolección y análisis de datos, para analizar la relación entre la resistencia de las élites a la implementación de la Reforma Rural Integral y los asesinatos de líderes sociales en Colombia. La base conceptual para esta investigación la violencia structural.
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Ruskoski, David Thomas. "The Polish Army in France: Immigrants in America, World War I Volunteers in France, Defenders of the Recreated State in Poland." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_diss/1.
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Independent Poland ceased to exist in 1795 and the various insurrections to restore the Polish state were thwarted by the Germans, Austro-Hungarians, and Russians. During the First World War, Polish statesmen called upon the thousands of Polish immigrants in the United States to join the Polish Army in France, a military force funded by the French government and organized by the Polish Falcons of America and Ignacy Paderewski, the world-famous Polish pianist. Over 20,000 men trained in Canada and fought in the final months of the war on the Western front. While in France they were placed under the command of General Jozef Haller and became known as Haller’s Army. At the conclusion of the war, the Allied leaders at the Paris Peace Conference decided to send the soldiers to Poland to fight in the Polish-Soviet War to stop the western advance of the Bolsheviks. When the war ended, the United States government, with the influence of Secretary of State Robert Lansing, funded the return of the soldiers to their homes in the United States. This dissertation focuses on questions of the relationships among foreign policy, nationalism, and immigration and investigates forced recruitment, dissatisfaction with the cause of Polish independence exacerbated by difficult wartime conditions, nationalism among immigrant groups, ethnic identity, and anti-Semitism.
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Ruskoski, David T. "The Polish Army in France immigrants in America, World War I volunteers in France, defenders of the recreated state in Poland /." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07172006-145252/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2006.Title from title screen. Christine M. Skwiot, Gerald H. Davis, committee co-chairs; Hugh H. Hudson, committee member. Electronic text (184 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 13, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p.175-184).
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Allan, Shaun Michael. "Part-time defenders of the Realm : is the history of the Territorial Army a likely indicator of Future Reserves 2020 success?" Thesis, University of Hull, 2017. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16422.
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This research investigates whether the Army Reserve (AR), the new name for the Territorial Army, can become a more integrated, more efficient, better trained, and more deployable force, as intimated by the government, than their previous incarnations. The hoped-for better-trained AR is expected to take a far greater role, taking over some Regular Army roles, providing better trained part-time soldiers for overseas operations and filling capability gaps left by the retrenchment of 20,000 Regular soldiers by !he year 2020. To investigate whether these aspirations are achievable, and whether it is possible to train volunteer soldiers better than they have been in the past, this research completes an historical analysis of the history of the AR's antecedents, the Territorial Force and the Territorial Army, their training, kit and equipment, and overseas deployment record. The thesis also explores historical social. economic and cultured issues ·which have had an impact upon Territorials, such as civilian employers' attitudes towards the volunteers and their organisation (and a sense of what wider society thought about the Territorials). Furthermore. research into the Territorial's family issues, support or otherwise also sheds light upon the influence the family unit has upon the volunteer's decision to join and how long he/she stays in service. Coupled with family support is research into the support the family received from the government when their Territorial was deployed and what happens when the part-timer returns from war, from 1908 to 2012. This historical comparison ·will help highlight past struggles and.failures inherent in the framework for training and making ready the volunteers of the past with today's AR, which uses the same structure for training, filling in civilian commitments and family life.
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Petersen, Hans-Georg. "Capital flight and capital income taxation." Universität Potsdam, 2004. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/896/.
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Contents:Problems of Traditional Income and Profit Taxation
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Ehrhardt, Debra A. "Defenders of the cross and the flag : a metaphoric criticism of the rhetoric of Alma White, Elizabeth Dilling, and Marilyn R. Allen." Scholarly Commons, 2000. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/530.
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This thesis focuses on the use of metaphor in characterizing the alleged enemies of Christianity and Americanism during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. A summary of influential political, social, and religious events during the time period examined and biographical profiles precede a metaphoric analysis of the rhetoric of three far-right spokeswomen. The anti-Catholic rhetoric of Alma White, Bishop of the Pillar of Fire Church, the anti-Communist rhetoric of Elizabeth Dilling, suburban crusader of the Mothers' movement, and the anti-Semitic rhetoric of Marilyn Allen, Anglo-Israelite reactionary, provide the data for analysis.
The metaphoric analysis reveals that Catholics, Communists, and Jews are portrayed as "Supreme Evil" and "Supreme Threat" in the metaphors of the three women. By labeling Catholics, Communists, and Jews as evil the rhetors attribute negative value judgements which have the potential to trigger strong emotional reactions in auditors. By claiming that Catholics, Communists, and Jews threaten religious and political freedom in America, the rhetors encourage suppression of, and violence against, members of these groups.
Additionally, four common attitudes and values which underlie the metaphors are delineated and their salience to Fundamentalists, reactionaries, and members of the far right is illustrated. Finally, change in the metaphors over the thirty-year time span is reexamined. The findings support more similarities than differences in specific allegations of evil and threat, and in the emotional tone of the metaphors.
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Miller, Jr Cyril Woodvil. "The Diffusion of Public Defenders in Virginia: A Study in Organization Adaption and the Relationships Between Values, Decisionmaking Processes, and Organizational Output." VCU Scholars Compass, 1993. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5215.
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Research into indigent defense issues has shown that the growth in the use of public defenders has been accompanied by increased bureaucratization and has paralleled the expansion of the right to counsel and the "due process revolution." The goal of this research is the development and testing of a model of organization adaptation which explains for public defender offices in Virginia the evolution of multiple and contradictory organizational goals, the means by which they balance conflicting values and goals, and the effect of resulting decision making processes on organizational output. The basic research question addressed is the relationship between values, goals, and organizational processes. Due process goals protect the organizations' ideologically based "core technology." Production goals allow organizations to adapt to the environment through emphasis on caseloads and efficiency. The possibility that over time normative goals are eclipsed by production goals as the demands of rising caseload increase with an increase in the routinization of decision making processes is also explored. The results on organizational output of the contradiction between due process and production values and goals are examined. Data were collected through a survey of public defenders in Virginia in 1992 (N=118 with a response rate of 73%). Caseload data were also collected. Analysis of the data revealed that due process values and goals are particularly strong throughout the Virginia system. Production values and goals, while not as strong as due process ones, were also important. The oldest offices showed stronger production values and goals even while due process values and goals remained relatively constant. Higher workload pressures were also found in offices where production values were strongest. Stronger production values and goals were associated with more routinized decision making in the forms of increased pressure to plea bargain and more frequent accepting of routine offers of prosecutors; there were also higher caseloads and lower rates of increase in several measures of costs in offices with stronger production values and goals. Higher due process values and goals were associated with increased trial rates and longer case processing times.
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Rivera, Sylvia Manzano. "Mas capital: Latino politics and social capital." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290148.
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This study examines the role of social capital in the political life of Latinos in the United States. I consider the likelihood that Latinos accumulate and utilize social capital differently than the dominant political science literature has suggested. Most social capital research has examined the majority population and the participatory outcomes of their network resources. For Latinos, social capital is complicated by ethnicity. Latino social networks and political participation can occur in two different ethnic contexts: one which is exclusively Latino and one which is dominated by the majority, Anglo population. Using Robert Putnam's definition and classification of social capital, I examine how the three largest Latino national origin groups accumulate social capital and participate in the American political system. Ultimately I examine not only how much social capital exists among Latinos, but also how it functions for them. This dissertation engages in testing and building upon social capital theory by examining its five components and its bifurcated nature. This dissertation offers a full analysis of social capital presence and performance among Latinos. First I examine social capital accumulation among Latinos. Then I explore how social capital operates in the context of political participation. I find clear evidence of two types of social capital: bridge and bond. I find that Latinos are accumulating both bond and bridge social capital, and levels of political activity are highly affected by these resources. National origin, nativity, gender and language largely influence how Latinos accumulate and employ their social capital resources. Foreign born, female and Spanish dominant Latinos have their social capital more densely concentrated among co-ethnics. The implications of the differing levels of bond and bridge social capital resources in the political setting are varied. My analysis indicates that bridge social capital has consistently strong and positive effects on Latino political participation in any ethnic political context. Bond social capital generally has a positive impact on Latino participation as well, though not as consistent as bridge capital. Social capital theory does indeed help explain some of the uniqueness found in Latino political behavior.
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Sorokina, Nonna Y. "BANK CAPITAL AND THEORY OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1402795531.
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Ihara, Ryusuke. "Private capital, public capital and economic geography." Kyoto University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/144828.
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Repass, Lawrence M. "Optimal stationing of radar pickets and anti-ballistic missile defenders for long range surveillance and tracking (LRSandT) and ballistic missile defense (BMD) operations." Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/10158.
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We describe major enhancements to the missile defense planning aid "JOINT DEFENDER" (JDEF). JDEF is the first system that shows how to evaluate and exploit new and anticipated improvements in interceptors, long-range surveillance and tracking capabilities, networked communications, and the ability of detecting platforms to cue intercepting ones downrange. We want to improve system-wide effectiveness, gauged here by the reduction of expected damage inflicted. We defend an asset list (DAL) of targets, characterized by their locations and values to us. Our defenders include pure "LOOKERs," radars and sensors of enemy missile launches, and "SHOOTERs," platforms with means to both detect and intercept enemy launches. JDEF optimally positions platforms that can be moved, and prescribes what each platform should do. JDEF can estimate the value to either opponent of secrecy, deception, or intelligence. JDEF is the only missile defense planning system using formal optimization. Among many advantages this conveys, JDEF is able to unambiguously quantify the difference among disparate plans. Although the JDEF planner can manually control any detail, the planner is well advised to let optimization suggest where to start.
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Godin, Noah. "Protesters, Activists or Land Defenders? Narratives Around Indigenous Resistance in the Canadian Media : Discourse Analysis of Selected CBC Articles on Contemporary Indigenous Resistance." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43129.
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Indigenous autonomy, self-government and self-determination have historically been an area of conflict within the settler colonial state of Canada. This thesis aims to analyze critically the Canadian state’s alleged progressive nature in regard to nation-to-nation relations as well as the discourses that portray Canadian society as fostering Indigenous rights. Grounded in previous research and contextual background, this study uses the Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) to investigate how Canadian media produces and reproduces discourse around the issues connected with Indigenous resistance since the ‘Oka Crisis’ of 1990, based on the selected material published by The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The findings illustrate that while liberal-influenced narratives have improved, significant identification of decolonization within Canada’s media was not found and the structures of settler colonialism remain largely unchanged.
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Carayol, Timothée. "Social capital, human capital, and labour market outcomes." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2011. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/414/.
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This thesis aims to document several aspects pertaining to the dynamics of human capital, both from a theoretical and an empirical viewpoint. Chapter 2 studies how informational flows arising from social connections can affect careers and promotions. It aims to achieve identification of this causal pathway by focusing on the careers of bishops in the Catholic church. The range of the data, both in time and in space, makes it possible to infer some types of social connections between bishops (based on geography and careers), which in turn allows for the identification of their effect on careers. I find that being connected to the relevant bishops has a positive and significant effect on the likelihood of promotion to a diocese. Chapter 3 investigates the transmission of human capital from one generation to the next. While the correlation of parents’ educational achievement with that of their children is strong and well documented, there is a scarcity of consensual evidence that this relationship has a causal nature. We use a French reform that increased the duration of compulsory schooling by two years as a natural experiment, providing exogenous variation in parental years of schooling, and study its effect on the children of the affected individuals. We find evidence of a strong effect of paternal education on the educational achievement of children. Research on employer learning has concentrated on contexts where there is uncertainty only on either the general or the match-specific human capital of the worker. Chapter 4 develops a model where general and specific human capital coexist, and the uncertainty is on their respective shares in total productivity. The model generates predictions on a number of dimensions, e.g. declining worker mobility with experience and increase in wage variance over the lifetime.
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Oliveira, Edineide Maria de. "A RELAÇÃO ENTRE CAPITAL HUMANO E CAPITAL PSICOLÓGICO." Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, 2011. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/11.
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Previous issue date: 2011-10-06Intangible assets received special attention from scholars in recent years in the organization context of human resource management, since theoretical proposals were developed to understand (them) and measure them. Anchored in this line of research are human capital and psychological capital. While human capital is what workers can do, the psychological capital consists of a positive mental state made up of self-efficacy, hope, optimism and resilience. The overall purpose of his study was to analyze the relationship between human capital and psychological capital. It s about a quantitative study which involved 60 workers, students of the last period of Business Administration, with a average age of 23.85 years, mostly female, single and employed. Data for the study were collected in classrooms of a private university found in the Greater ABC area , through a self-administered instrument containing an interval measure of psychological capital with 12 items, validated for Brazil, and a measure of capital human with six questions,with two to measure the experience range and four to probe education. An eletronic database was design which was submitted to descriptive analysis and correlation (Pearson s) by means of SPSS 19.0 The results revealed that participants held a human capital represented by average 4.38 years work experience and that the majority (75%) had revealed to have a maximum of five years in this topic (regard). Regarding the dimension extent of education of human capital, the majority (96.70%) had not completed any graduate course, spent between 11 and 20 years to the studies(y) (81.60%), didin t exchange shift studies (93%), while 86.70% (is) already included in their academic curriculum complementary activities in the Educational Plan of Business Administration Course attended, and 73.30% had between one and three internships. The analysis poit out a median score of psychological capital, 9 accentuated strengthened by the difficulty of the participants to recognize that they are in a phase of success at work and could see the bright side of things on the job. Investigating the relationship between human capital and psychological capital significant correlations were not found. Given these results, it s presumable that the study s participants, for the reason of being predominantly young workers who have not yet completed an undergraduate degree, although in its way of life more than 10 years devoted to studies and worked for about five years on average still do not recognize themselves, in the presence of a consistent human capital psychological. The lack of relationship observed between the two intangibles advocated by theorists as important to ensure that employees can contribute to the company in pursuit of their goals seems to reveal that more studies are still needed and developing theory to support not only the assumptions about asset intangible as well as to identify the relationship of dependence that may exist between the categories of human capital and psychological.
Os ativos intangíveis receberam atenção especial de estudiosos nos últimos anos, no contexto organizacional de gestão de pessoas, visto que foram desenvolvidas propostas teóricas para compreendê-los e mensurá-los. Ancorados nesta linha de investigação, encontram-se o capital humano e o capital psicológico. Enquanto o capital humano representa o que os trabalhadores sabem fazer, o capital psicológico compreende um estado mental positivo composto por autoeficácia, esperança, otimismo e resiliência. Este estudo teve, como objetivo geral, analisar as relações entre capital humano e capital psicológico. Tratou-se de um estudo quantitativo do qual participaram 60 trabalhadores, estudantes do último período do Curso de Administração, com idade média de 23,85 anos, sendo a maioria do sexo feminino, solteira e empregada. Os dados para o estudo foram coletados em salas de aula de uma universidade particular, situada na Região do Grande ABC, por meio de um instrumento auto aplicável, contendo uma medida intervalar de capital psicológico com 12 itens, validada para o Brasil, e uma de capital humano com seis questões, sendo duas para medir a dimensão experiência e quatro para aferir educação. Foi criado um banco eletrônico, o qual foi submetido a análises descritivas e de correlação (r de Pearson) por meio do SPSS, versão 19.0. Os resultados revelaram que os participantes detinham um capital humano representado por 4,38 anos médios de experiência de trabalho , e que a maioria (75%) havia revelado possuir no máximo cinco anos neste quesito. Quanto à dimensão educação do capital humano, a maioria (96,70%) não havia concluído nenhum curso de graduação, se dedicou entre 11 a 20 anos aos estudos (81,60%), não realizou intercâmbios de estudos (93%), enquanto 86,70% já incluíram, em seu currículo acadêmico, atividades complementares previstas no Plano Pedagógico do Curso de Administração que cursavam, bem como 73,30% realizaram entre um a três estágios curriculares. As análises indicaram um escore mediano de capital psicológico, acentuado pela dificuldade dos participantes para reconhecerem que estavam em uma fase de sucesso no trabalho e de conseguirem enxergar o lado brilhante das coisas relativas ao trabalho. Ao se investigar as relações entre o capital humano e capital psicológico não foram encontradas correlações significativas. Diante de tais resultados, pareceu provável que os participantes do estudo, por serem predominantemente jovens trabalhadores que ainda não concluíram um curso de graduação, embora tivessem em seu percurso de vida mais de 10 anos dedicados aos estudos e trabalhado por volta de cinco anos em média, ainda não reconheciam, em si, a presença de um consistente capital humano nem psicológico. A ausência de relação observada entre os dois ativos intangíveis preconizados por teóricos como importantes, para que o trabalhador pudesse contribuir com a empresa no alcance de suas metas, pareceu revelar que ainda eram necessários mais estudos e desenvolvimento de teorização, para sustentar não somente as hipóteses acerca de ativos intangíveis, como também permitir identificar a relação de dependência que pudesse existir entre as categorias de capital humano e psicológico.
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Szpiro, Daniel. "Fonctionnement du capital physique / fonctionnement du capital financier." Paris 9, 1994. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=1994PA090048.
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La durée de vie des équipements industriels. Productivité et progrès technique dans l'industrie. Rentabilité et efficacité du capital productif fixe industriel. Les rendements d'échelle: une analyse sur données de panel. Les dimensions productives et rentables sont-elles les mêmes ? Points de repères sur 25 ans d'épargne des ménages en France. La diffusion des produits financiers en France. L'anomalie de week-end à la bourse de Paris: un effet de la reprise des cotations ? Un panorama de la volatilité des cours boursiers. Mesures de l'effet des contrats d'animation sur la liquidité du S. M. Informations et vitesse de réaction du marché boursier en continu. Investissement, rentabilité, débouchés et investissement: une analyse et une estimation sur données individuelles. Placements financiers, investissements et désendettement des firmes: y a-t-il un arbitrage ?
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Mateus, Inês Pêgo. "Minimum capital policy and start-ups’ capital structure." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/17535.
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Mestrado em FinançasO presente estudo analisa como o conhecimento da lei do capital mínimo afeta a estrutura de capitais das start-ups, explorando quais as razões que levam os fundadores a estabelecer o montante de capital inicial e como a estrutura de capitais se altera nos primeiros anos da empresa. O foco deste estudo são as empresas criadas e ativas em Portugal desde 2011 nos setores de atividade elegíveis para a lei do capital mínimo. Neste estudo foram exploradas as razões que levam as start-ups a estabelecer o capital inicial. Não foi encontrada significância estatística do impacto do conhecimento da reforma do capital mínimo no montante de capital inicial. Pode também ser evidenciado que a reforma influencia o montante de dívida das start-ups e a possível realização de aumentos de capital.
The present study analyzes how the knowledge of the minimum capital policy affects start-ups' initial capital structure, exploiting how start-ups established initial capital and how their capital structure changed in the first years. The target of this study are firms founded since 2011 and currently active in Portugal in sectors of activity eligible for the minimum capital policy. It was exploited the main reasons how start-ups establish initial capital. In addition, it was found no statistically significant impact of the knowledge of the minimum capital reform on start-ups initial capital and that the reform influences start-ups' amount of debt and capital increases.
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Fondo, Clint B., and Darren B. Wright. "Intellectual capital." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/34234.
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MBA Professional ReportThe purpose of this MBA Project was to investigate and provide a comprehensive overview of the historical and current efforts directed at valuing intellectual capital (IC). This project was conducted with the sponsorship and assistance of the Office of Military Base Retention and Reuse (OMBRR), of the California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. The goal of this project was to identify and document both the history of valuing IC, and the models currently in use throughout the private sector. Additionally, an effort was made to develop a definition that would be appropriate for use in a governmental setting and to develop a working model that can be used to manage IC within the Department of Defense (DoD).
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Castro, Humberto Adão de. "Capital imtelectual." Florianópolis, SC, 2003. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/85356.
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Desde que o homem separou-se da idade da pedra, mudou do sistema de escambo para a moeda, os valores econômicos passaram a ter um fator determinante na tomada de decisões, em relação à aplicação em algum investimento. Por esta razão, na economia da informação, o objetivo deste trabalho será demonstrar de que maneira os ativos intangíveis de uma organização influenciam em seu valor de mercado, que eles podem ser identificados e mensurados e por fim evidenciá-los pelas ferramentas contábeis existentes, as "Demonstrações Financeiras". As empresas contemporâneas, muitas vezes, têm sido negociadas bem acima de seu valor patrimonial, as vezes cinco, oito, dez vezes mais, todavia os profissionais dos segmentos econômicos: contadores, economistas, administradores, etc. têm encontrado dificuldades em explicar o porquê desse fenômeno. Essa diferença entre o valor patrimonial e o valor de mercado atribuímos de "Capital Intelectual", ou "Ativos Intangíveis". Nossa pesquisa consiste em aplicar um modelo de mensuração desses ativos intangíveis em uma organização e provar que o Capital Intelectual, apesar de imaterial, incorpóreo, pode ser medido, inclusive porque, no transcorrer do trabalho, iremos ratificar que ele existe e é concreto. Outro fator importante no discorrer de nossa pesquisa é a evidenciação do capital intelectual no Balanço Patrimonial, ou seja, os investidores têm informações extracontábeis, dentro de uma demonstração contábil, mesmo antes da negociação dos valores mobiliários da empresa. Since the man turn away from the stone age, and has changed from de barter system to the money system, the economics values had become a vital factor for decision make with regard to any investment. Therefore, in information economy, the objective of this work is to demonstrate the way that the intangible actives have influence in the organization value, and that they can be identified and measured and finally evidenced by the accounting tools which exists in the market, the "Financial Reports". The contemporaneous enterprises, often, has been negociated for a higher value than its assets, sometimes five, eight, ten times more, however the professionals of the economics environment such as: accountants, economists, business managers etc. have had difficulties in explain the reason of this phenomenon. This difference between the asset value and the market value is what we name "Intelectual Capital", or "Intangible assets". Our research consists in apply a model of measurement of this intangible assets of an enterprise and prove that the Intelectual Capital, despite inmaterial, invisible, can be measured and in this work, we will confirm that it exists and it is real. Another important factor in this research is the evidenciation of the Intelectual Capital in the Balance Sheet, in another words, the investors have extra informations, inside the accounting demonstration, even before the negociation of the enterprise securities, bonds or stocks.
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Zandavali, Eduardo Freiberger. "O capital." Florianópolis, SC, 2004. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/88066.
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A análise pretende aqui tratar do capital e de seus limites a partir de Marx, abrindo com isso caminho para estudo cada vez mais aprofundado da origem e movimento dessa realidade concreta (tanto nas suas formas aparentes como essenciais) compreendida como sistema capitalista ou sociedades modernas, em que a produção é voltada para produção de lucro, sociedades portanto produtoras de lucro. E em que a forma elementar da riqueza é a
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Conocimiento, Dirección de Gestión del. "Capital IQ." S&P Global, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/655267.
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Stidham, Steve P. "Waste= Capital." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306501008.
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Pfitzner, Marcus. "Working Capital." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-201911.
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Ausgehend vom Bedarf an unternehmensinternen, relativ marktunabhängigen Maßnahmen zur Stärkung der Innenfinanzierungskraft von Unternehmen, kann die angestrebte Liquiditätssicherung und Ertragsstabilisierung aus einer effizienten Steuerung der Working-Capital-beeinflussenden Prozesse hervorgehen. Der vorliegende Beitrag fokussiert dabei die definitorische Abgrenzung des Working Capital und des Working Capital Management. Außerdem werden die finanziellen Wirkungen des WCM aufgezeigt. Eine detaillierte Betrachtung der das Working-Capital-beeinflussenden Prozesse verdeutlicht die Komplexität des Prozessgefüges und die Notwendigkeit eines ganzheitlichen Ansatzes zur Working-Capital-Steuerung.
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Schwarz, Susan. "The role of human capital, social capital, and psychological capital in micro-entrepreneurship in China." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40361/.
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A key question in entrepreneurship research is how certain individuals in different contexts are able to generate superior venture performance. Micro-entrepreneurs in emerging and transition economies lack access to various forms of capital to launch and grow new ventures, as they operate in settings characterised by resource scarcity and underdeveloped market institutions. To meet the need for tangible financial resources, lenders provide small loans to stimulate business development. Yet financial capital alone does not ensure successful business outcomes, raising questions as to how micro-entrepreneurs deploy intangible resources to drive growth. Based on in-person survey interviews conducted with 164 entrepreneurs receiving loans at community banks in Zhejiang Province, China, as well as qualitative field data, this study examines the impact of human capital, social capital, and psychological capital on the growth of micro-enterprises in China, with a focus on the moderating role of psychological capital. By integrating psychological capital with human capital and social network approaches, this study fills a research gap at the intersections of these three perspectives. The contributions of this study include establishing boundary conditions for these theories to explain how entrepreneurs overcome resource scarcity to grow ventures within a relational society undergoing a transition to a market economy.
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Ehrhardt, Debra A. "Defenders of the cross and the flag : a metaphoric criticism of the rhetoric of Alma White, Elizabeth Dilling, and Marilyn R. Allen : a thesis." Scholarly Commons, 2001. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/530.
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This thesis focuses on the use of metaphor in characterizing the alleged enemies of Christianity and Americanism during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. A summary of influential political, social, and religious events during the time period examined and biographical profiles precede a metaphoric analysis of the rhetoric of three far-right spokeswomen. The anti-Catholic rhetoric of Alma White, Bishop of the Pillar of Fire Church, the anti-Communist rhetoric of Elizabeth Dilling, suburban crusader of the Mothers' movement, and the anti-Semitic rhetoric of Marilyn Allen, Anglo-Israelite reactionary, provide the data for analysis.
The metaphoric analysis reveals that Catholics, Communists, and Jews are portrayed as "Supreme Evil" and "Supreme Threat" in the metaphors of the three women. By labeling Catholics, Communists, and Jews as evil the rhetors attribute negative value judgements which have the potential to trigger strong emotional reactions in auditors. By claiming that Catholics, Communists, and Jews threaten religious and political freedom in America, the rhetors encourage suppression of, and violence against, members of these groups.
Additionally, four common attitudes and values which underlie the metaphors are delineated and their salience to Fundamentalists, reactionaries, and members of the far right is illustrated. Finally, change in the metaphors over the thirty-year time span is reexamined. The findings support more similarities than differences in specific allegations of evil and threat, and in the emotional tone of the metaphors.
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Perruchet, Aurélien. "Investir dans une thèse : Capital humain ou capital culturel ?" Phd thesis, Université de Bourgogne, 2005. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00109909.
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La première partie est principalement consacrée à l'étude des perspectives théoriques de Gary Becker et de Pierre Bourdieu, avec comme fil conducteur la vision de l'éducation comme un capital. Les concepts de capital humain (Becker) et de capital culturel (Bourdieu) sont présentés, comparés, et critiqués, chacun d'eux étant replacé dans son contexte théorique. La seconde partie est consacrée aux analyses empiriques concernant le diplôme de doctorat. Nous tentons dans un premier temps une mesure de la rentabilité salariale de la thèse. Puis nous recherchons quels peuvent être les motifs de la poursuite d'études en thèse, étant donné que le gain monétaire ne peut à lui seul expliquer une telle décision. Il apparaît que la thèse est d'abord un passeport permettant d'accéder aux emplois de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche publique. Plus que de capital humain, il s'agirait d'un capital n'ayant de valeur réelle que dans le champ académique.
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Ulu, Fatma. "VENTURE CAPITAL - Important factors for venture capital investment decisions." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-1890.
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The decision process of venture capitalists has received much attention from researchers and it is a complex and unclear process. There are plenty of factors that affect venture capitalists´ investment decisions. The purpose of this study is to find out the important factors in the due diligence process for the venture capital firms and venture capitalists during their investments. The authors find it interesting to find out factors that influence venture capitalists during their investment decisions according to due diligence process. Qualitative method was seen suitable for this study. Three phone interviews were conducted with three venture capital firms in Turkey named Is Private Equity, Ilab Ventures and Bosphorous Group. The authors find out management, market, location, product, industry and financial factors are important factors for venture capitalists to decide whether to invest or not.
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Schauten, Maximilien Bernard Joseph. "Valuation capital structure decisions and the cost of capital /." Rotterdam, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/13480.
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