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Jakobsen, Sigurd Hofsmo. "Investigating G-parameters Modelling of Power Electronc Devices." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for elkraftteknikk, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-22623.
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In a world with an ever increasing population, the demand for energy is constantly on the rise. Most countries also agree, that a sustainable development should be ensured. To accomplish this, a higher penetration of renewables in the present energy system is needed. Unlike traditional power production like thermal and hydro power plants, many of the renewable energy production units can not produce electricity at the desired frequency without power electronic devices. HVDC grids have also been suggested, as a mean to electrically connect geographically distant areas, to reduce the problem of local weather systems influencing the output of many renewable sources. It should thus be quite evident, that good models of power electronic devices are needed, to analyse the system's behaviour, and in particular its stability. In this report a black-box measurement based modelling technique will be investigated, with its biggest advantage being, that no a priori knowledge of the device under investigation is needed. The thesis starts off with an introduction to the relevant theory, and an introduction to the methodology. In the theory part a suggestion for a new equation set to calculate the model and a stability criterion for the model is presented. The new equation set for calculating the model is also proven to be equivalent with the old one. In the rest of the thesis the focus is on developing a test bench for obtaining the model. Following a step by step approach, starting with simulations on a VSI developed in Simulink, to get acquainted with the methodology. Before a test bench was developed for testing the methodology on dc-dc converters, ultimately leading to tests conducted on a physical VSI.
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Chiu, Chin-Yung. "Broadband CMOS power amplifier for IEEE 802.11 a/b/g wireless LAN transmitters." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1133298874.
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Zöllin, Christian G. [Verfasser], and Hans-Joachim [Akademischer Betreuer] Wunderlich. "Test planning for low-power built-in self test / Christian G. Zöllin. Betreuer: Hans-Joachim Wunderlich." Stuttgart : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Stuttgart, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1065235917/34.
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Hochberg, Martin Christian [Verfasser], and G. [Akademischer Betreuer] Müller. "A high-voltage pulsed power modulator for fast-rising arbitrary waveforms / Martin Christian Hochberg ; Betreuer: G. Müller." Karlsruhe : KIT-Bibliothek, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1195049005/34.
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Burke, Larry, Karina Osgood, John Muir, Christina Dearstine, Micheal Cardullo, and Timothy Fox. "ADVANCEMENTS IN TRANSMITTER HARDWARE FOR WIRELESS TELEMETRY ENGINEERS." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/605357.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 20-23, 2003 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada<br>M/A-COM has developed a chip set designed specifically for miniaturized ballistic telemetry
applications. One key component of this chip set is a dual port voltage controlled oscillator (VCO).
This device allows for independent optimization of both modulation and tuning parameters at the
chip level. In the dual port architecture, the modulation port of the VCO may be tailored for the peak
(frequency) deviation requirements of each system, while still permitting the device to tune over
entire SLOWER band. Additionally, M/A-COM has developed S band power amplifiers (PAs) for
medium power (500mW, 1W and 2W) telemetry applications. These new PAs are very efficient,
(>45% PAE) when operated in saturation. This improved efficiency means these components may
be integrated into transmitters with a miniaturized form factor. The excellent thermal performance
of these new PAs allows them to be packaged in commercial plastic packages which are robust in
high shock/high vibration applications. This paper reviews the design of each MMIC device and
presents system performance data.
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Moritz, Heather English Media & Performing Arts Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. ""You are will to power and nothing besides": Nietzsche, Foucault, Yoga, and Feminist s/Self-Actualisation." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. English, Media, & Performing Arts, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44581.
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This thesis argues that Friedrich Nietzsche???s notion of world and self as ???will to power and nothing besides??? offers a highly productive interpretive lens or ???grid of intelligibility??? for understanding the ethical implications of Michel Foucault???s middle and late works on power and subjectivity. For if the late modern era is marked by a sustained and pervasive incredulity toward metanarrative, it is also the historical site for the reappearance and widespread acceptance of a very ancient metanarrative ??? the Heraclitean view of material reality as continual flux. Inasmuch as Nietzsche???s will to power philosophy is grounded in this Pre-Socratic worldview, his works and those of his devotee Foucault may serve as a productive foundation for a late modern ethics. The scholarly implications of reading Foucault???s middle and late works through the interpretive lens of Nietzschean will to power in its two key manifestations, domination and dynamism, are multiple. In addition to providing new insights into the value of Nietzschean-Foucauldian philosophy for advancing a late modern ethics, such an analysis also illuminates important continuities in Foucault???s theory of power and how his works simultaneously extend and critique Nietzschean views on the role of asceticism in culture. The thesis then turns to a more futuristic exploration of how Foucault???s final texts, feminist critiques and extensions of these texts, and works from the separate discipline of feminist moral theory may advance a feminist form of will to power ethics. Feminist reflection upon the dualistic philosophical basis of modern androcentric power invites further speculation upon the utility of the nondual philosophies of yoga, including those found in Ved??ntic texts like the Bhagavad G??t??, for such an endeavour. Because yoga utilises asceticism-based practices of the self as its primary means for moulding moral subjects, it is comparable to the Greco-Roman will to power ethics described in Foucault???s final works. On the other hand, yoga???s nondual telos may present certain ethical possibilities that dualistic constructs like the Greco-Roman model cannot. Indeed, by practicing nonduality through yoga, contemporary women and others may be engaging in a practice of freedom in the most essential sense.
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Gallian, Sara [Verfasser], Ralf Peter [Akademischer Betreuer] Brinkmann, and William Nicholas G. [Akademischer Betreuer] Hitchon. "Analytic and numerical investigation of high power impulse magnetron sputtering discharges / Sara Gallian. Gutachter: Ralf Peter Brinkmann ; William Nicholas G. Hitchon." Bochum : Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1079843051/34.
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Meixner, Michael Verfasser], Tobias G. [Akademischer Betreuer] Noll, Renato [Akademischer Betreuer] [Negra, and Tobias [Akademischer Betreuer] Gemmeke. "Accurate power estimation of deep-submicron VLSI circuits considering delay effects and glitches / Michael Meixner ; Tobias G. Noll, Renato Negra, Tobias Gemmeke." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1195151527/34.
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Meixner, Michael [Verfasser], Tobias G. Akademischer Betreuer] Noll, Renato [Akademischer Betreuer] [Negra, and Tobias [Akademischer Betreuer] Gemmeke. "Accurate power estimation of deep-submicron VLSI circuits considering delay effects and glitches / Michael Meixner ; Tobias G. Noll, Renato Negra, Tobias Gemmeke." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1195151527/34.
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Osgood, Karina, Larry Burke, Amy Webb, John Muir, Christina Dearstine, and Anthony Quaglietta. "OPTIMIZATION OF A MINATURE TRANSMITTER MODULE FOR WIRELESS TELEMETRY APPLICATIONS." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/606385.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 21, 2002 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California<br>M/A-COM, Inc. has previously developed a highly integrated transmitter chip set for wireless telemetry
applications for the military L and S band frequencies and the commercial 2.4GHz ISM band. The original
chip set is comprised of a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), a silicon phase locked loop (PLL), and a
family of power amplifiers (PA's). Using these components, M/A-COM has produced a miniature IRIG-compliant
transmitter module, which has been flight-tested by the U.S. Army’s Hardened Subminiature
Telemetry and Sensor System (HSTSS) program. Since the initial offering, several product enhancements
have been added. The module performance has been improved by tailoring the VCO specifically for direct
frequency modulation applications. In addition to improving noise performance, these enhancements have
produced improved modulation linearity, decreased lock time and increased carrier stability. Modulation
rates in excess of 10Mbps have been demonstrated. High efficiency power amplifiers operating at 3V have
also been added to the family of amplifiers (PAE > 50%). This greatly enhanced efficiency allows higher RF
power output while maintaining the same miniature form factor for the transmitter. Further, M/A-COM has
added a silicon-on-sapphire PLL to the chip set, which operates at frequencies up to 3.0GHz. This paper
details the enhancements to the components within the chip set, and the improvement in performance of the
transmitter module. Test data is presented for the transmitter modules and individual components.
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Lachapelle, John, Finbarr McGrath, Karina Osgood, et al. "A TELEMETRY TRANSMITTER CHIP SET FOR BALLISTIC APPLICATIONS." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608738.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1999 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada<br>The U.S. Army’s Hardened Subminiature Telemetry and Sensor Systems (HSTSS) program has engaged the M/A-COM Corporation to work in the development of a highly accurate, crystal controlled telemetry transmitter chip set to be used in Army and other U.S. military munitions. A critical factor in this work is the operating environment of up to 100,000-g launch accelerations. To support the Army in this project, M/A-COM is developing integrated Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCO) for L and S band, a silicon synthesizer/phase locked loop (PLL) IC, and a family of power amplifiers. Lastly, the transmitter module will be miniaturized and hardened using M/A-COM’s latest chip-onboard mixed technology manufacturing capabilities. This new chip set will provide the telemetry engineer with unprecedented design flexibility. This paper will review the overall transmitter system design and provide an overview for each functional integrated circuit.
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Freire, Aluizia do Nascimento. "A inser??o das mulheres na C?mara Municipal de Natal (1988 - 2004)." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2008. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/17877.
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Previous issue date: 2008-11-30<br>This work has as objective to reflect about the insertion of the women in the City Council of Natal in the period from 1988 to 2004. We focused our discussion in the context of the politics of quota that has with objective to decrease the frame of inequalities existent between women and men in the politics, besides of to analyze which the determinants responsible for the women's sub-representation. The research still consists of an analysis of the councilor s women profile and how they were seen in that space of power. We analyzed our study object in a gender vision,
since this is related intrinsically the social relationships and the relationships of power. The women, for a long time, they were excluded of the participation in the public life, being just seen as mere expectants. This research is informed mainly by studies which discuss the Gender (Scott, 1990), (Perrot, 1988), (Badinter, 1995), (Bruschini, 2002). We also analyzed the power, politics in the vision of Marx (1996), Foucault (1982) and (Arendt, 2001). We tried to analyze the women's presence in the spaces public and private, showing your conflicts and contradictions faced in the society, focalizing the political character of the women's inclusion in the spaces in that are inserted. The instrument of collection of data was the semi-structured questionnaire, descriptive and analytical - critical. The analyses of the interviews show to the sub-representation of women over the years as a determining factor for these women continue in the invisibility. The women were interviewed councillora ex- bounded from 1988 to 2004. The conclusion the one that we arrived is that this sub-representation has as decisive the patriarchal system that prevailed for a long time in our society and still dominates and affects women in all areas of your life. This becomes more serious in the capitalist society in which prevail the interests of those that it stops the produced wealth<br>Este trabalho tem como objetivo refletir sobre a inser??o das mulheres na C?mara Municipal de Natal no per?odo de 1988 a 2004. Focalizamos nossa discuss?o no contexto da pol?tica de cotas que tem como objetivo diminuir o quadro de desigualdades existentes entre mulheres e homens na pol?tica, al?m de analisar quais os determinantes respons?veis pela sub-representa??o das mulheres. A pesquisa consta ainda de uma an?lise do perfil das mulheres vereadoras e como elas eram vistas nesse espa?o de poder. Analisamos o nosso objeto de estudo numa vis?o de g?nero, j? que este est? intrinsecamente relacionado as rela??es sociais e as rela??es de poder. As mulheres, durante muito tempo, estiveram exclu?das da participa??o na vida p?blica, sendo vistas apenas como meras expectadoras. Esta pesquisa esta baseada em autores que discutem a quest?o de g?nero, como (Scott,1990), (Perrot,1988), (Badinter,1985 (Bruschini, 2002) entre outros. Analisamos tamb?m o poder, e a pol?tica na vis?o de ( Marx, 1996), (Foucault,1982) e (Arendt, 2001) e outros. Tentamos analisar tamb?m a presen?a das mulheres nos espa?os p?blico e privado, mostrando os seus conflitos e contradi??es enfrentados na sociedade, focalizando o car?ter pol?tico da inclus?o das mulheres nos espa?os em que est?o inseridas. O instrumento de coleta de dados foi o question?rio semi-estruturado, descritivo e anal?tico - critico. As an?lises das entrevistas por sua vez, apontam para a sub-representa??o das mulheres ao longo dos anos como fator determinante para que essas mulheres continuem na invisibilidade. As mulheres entrevistadas foram ex-vereadoras no per?odo delimitado de 1988 a 2004. A conclus?o a que chegamos ? que esta sub-representa??o tem como determinante o sistema patriarcal que predominou durante muito tempo em nossa sociedade e ainda predomina e atinge as mulheres em todos os ?mbitos de sua vida. Isto se torna mais grave na sociedade capitalista na qual predomina os interesses daqueles que det?m a riqueza produzida
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Wolff, Nikolai [Verfasser], Wolfgang [Akademischer Betreuer] Heinrich, Olof [Akademischer Betreuer] Bengtsson, Wolfgang [Gutachter] Heinrich, Robert [Gutachter] Weigel, and Christian [Gutachter] Fager. "Wideband GaN microwave power amplifiers with class-G supply modulation / Nikolai Wolff ; Gutachter: Wolfgang Heinrich, Robert Weigel, Christian Fager ; Wolfgang Heinrich, Olof Bengtsson." Berlin : Technische Universität Berlin, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1167307038/34.
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Köllner, Martin G. [Verfasser], and Oliver C. [Akademischer Betreuer] Schultheiss. "The influence of implicit motives on implicit instrumental conditioning: Testing a principle focusing on the power motive / Martin G. Köllner. Gutachter: Oliver C. Schultheiss." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2015. http://d-nb.info/1079385363/34.
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Fonseca, Jean-claude Rodrigues da. "G?nero e rela??es de poder no Pentecostalismo: estudo comparativo entre a Igreja de Cristo no Brasil e a Comunidade Evang?lica Sara Nossa Terra." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2009. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/12258.
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Previous issue date: 2009-09-08<br>Based on the empirical comparative study between two churches from Pentecostal guidance - both located in Parnamirim/RN - and supported on a dialogic interaction between my interlocutors and theoretical references, I proposed me to reflect about how this protestant segment represents and articulates questions such as gender and power relationships, and the daily impact of that in their followers life. In other words, this dissertation aims to understand the reason of the asymmetry attributed to male and female, especially in what concerns the distribution of ecclesiastic works and the authority given to male, as well as the implication of this reality in the reconfiguration of morality and religious praxis in daily life of individuals and involved groups. From this perspective, this work was divided in three chapters, in which I investigate the tension/relationship between faith and secularism, for from this question on concessions and/or prohibitions related to the limits and involvement of the followers with the world and with the very Pentecostal ethos arise. I also analyze here aspects concerning to both ecclesiastic hierarchy and power, with the objective of elucidating how it occurs, what kind of criteria and implications they consider as well as about the nature of the religious labor division between men and women and, finally, I try to understand how the conversion/adhesion of members is reflected in the redefinitions of gender and its relationship between the ecclesiastical and domestic spaces. The diligence and energy spent in this work is in the hope that its fruits can corroborate in the expansion of anthropological knowledge which, in this particular case, involves the Brazilian Pentecostal phenomenon<br>Partindo do estudo emp?rico comparativo entre duas igrejas de orienta??o pentecostal ambas situadas no munic?pio de Parnamirim/RN e amparado numa perspectiva de intera??o dial?gica entre meus interlocutores e referenciais, propusme refletir como este segmento protestante representa ou articula quest?es de g?nero e rela??es de poder, e a repercuss?o disto no cotidiano de seus fi?is. Noutros termos, esta disserta??o objetiva entender o porqu? da assimetria atribu?da aos sexos masculino e feminino, sobretudo, no que tange ? distribui??o dos of?cios eclesi?sticos e a autoridade hegemonicamente conferida aos homens, assim como a implica??o desta realidade na reconfigura??o da moralidade e da pr?xis religiosa no cotidiano dos sujeitos e grupos envolvidos. Sob esta perspectiva, o presente trabalho foi subdividido em tr?s cap?tulos, nos quais investigo a tens?o/rela??o entre f? e seculariza??o, pois a partir desta problem?tica decorrem concess?es e/ou interditos relativos aos limites e envolvimento dos fi?is com o mundo que os cerca e com o pr?prio ethos pentecostal; tamb?m analiso aspectos concernentes ? hierarquia e poder eclesi?sticos, tencionando elucidar como se processa, quais os crit?rios e implica??es e a natureza da divis?o do trabalho religioso entre homens e mulheres; e, por fim, procuro entender como a convers?o/ades?o se reflete nas redefini??es de g?nero e sua rela??o entre os espa?os eclesi?stico e domiciliar. A dilig?ncia e energia despendidas nesta obra ancoram-se na esperan?a de que seus frutos corroborem na amplia??o do saber antropol?gico, que, no caso espec?fico, envolve o fen?meno pentecostal brasileiro.
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Rocha, Cristiane Lima. "Luz, c?mera e a??o: homofobia, heteronormatividade e resist?ncia no curr?culo dos filmes "Billy Elliot", "Carol", "C.R.A.Z.Y. - Loucos de Amor" e "Madame Sat?"." UFVJM, 2017. http://acervo.ufvjm.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/1468.
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Previous issue date: 2017<br>A presente disserta??o analisa como os discursos homof?bicos que circulam nos curr?culos dos filmes "Billy Elliot (Inglaterra, 2000)", "Carol (Reino Unido/Estados Unidos, 2015)", "C.R.A.Z.Y. - Loucos de Amor (Canad?, 2005)" e "Madame Sat?" (Brasil, 2002), demandam corpos normalizados em um padr?o heteronormativo e que efeitos t?m sobre as personagens. Tomo como metodologia a an?lise do discurso, de inspira??o foucaultiana. As an?lises ser?o realizadas por meio das falas, as cenas, dos sons, das imagens, nas coisas expl?citas e silenciadas. Bem como, os conceitos de curr?culo, g?nero, homofobia, heteronormatividade, norma, discurso, rela??es de saber-poder e processos de subjetiva??o e posi??es de sujeito foram eleitos como ferramentas te?rico-conceituais para essa pesquisa. Em termos te?ricos, esta disserta??o se inscreveu no campo dos Estudos Culturais, na vers?o dos estudos p?s-cr?ticos de curr?culo. Assim, o conceito central da investiga??o ? curr?culo, compreendendo-se que ele ensina modos de ser, pensar e agir ?s pessoas, bem como produz determinados tipos de sujeitos e corpos. Igualmente, o conceito de discurso tem espa?o importante, sendo entendido como "pr?ticas que formam sistematicamente os objetos de que falam" (FOUCAULT, 1986, p. 56). Destaco que o discurso da homofobia circula nos mais diversos espa?os produzindo efeitos sobre os corpos, demandando posi??es de sujeito, seja nos filmes, nas novelas, na escola, na fam?lia, na religi?o, na roda de amig@s. O problema central desta investiga??o ?: como os discursos sobre g?nero, por meio de discursos homof?bicos, t?m demandado corpos normalizados em um padr?o heteronormativo nos filmes em an?lise? Para isso, trago como objetivos espec?ficos: verificar os processos de constru??o de pr?ticas ditas femininas e masculinas nos filmes investigados; registrar quais marcas s?o nomeadas e classificadas como "normais" ?s posi??es de g?nero; identificar quais posi??es de sujeito generificados s?o demandadas e produzidas em atividades cotidianas nos filmes em quest?o; investigar como se expressam as desigualdades de g?nero nos longa-metragens pesquisados; analisar quais mecanismos, t?cnicas e estrat?gias de poder s?o utilizadas no refor?o ? homofobia nessas obras cinematogr?ficas; identificar e analisar poss?veis tentativas de apagamento de marcas homossexuais ou escapes nas personagens dos filmes. O argumento central ? de que h? uma reitera??o do padr?o heteronormativo no curr?culo dos filmes investigados mesmo quando se percebe uma suposta tentativa de romper com padr?es tidos como ideais e normais. Desse modo, soma-se ao discurso homof?bico e heteronormativo, por exemplo, discursos biologicistas, religiosos, psicol?gicos e moralistas, demandando posi??es de sujeito heterossexuais.<br>Disserta??o (Mestrado Profissional) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Educa??o, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2017.<br>The present dissertation analyzes how the homophobic discourses circulating in the curricula of the films "Billy Elliot (England, 2000)", "Carol (United Kingdom / United States, 2015)", "C.R.A.Z.Y. - Madras de Amor (Canada, 2005)" and "Madame Sat? (Brazil, 2002)", demand normalized bodies in a heteronormative pattern and what effects they have on the characters. I take as a methodology the analysis of the discourse, inspired by Foucauld. The analyzes will be carried out through the speeches, the scenes, the sounds, the images, the explicit and silenced things. As well as some concepts ? curriculum, gender, homophobia, heteronormativity, norm, discourse, knowledge-power relations and subjectivation processes and subject positions ? were chosen as theoretical-conceptual tools for this research. In theoretical terms, this dissertation was inscribed in the field of Cultural Studies, in the version of post-critical curriculum studies. Thus, the central concept of research is curriculum, it is understood that it teaches ways of being, thinking and acting to people, as well as producing certain types of subjects and bodies. Likewise, the concept of discourse has important space, being understood as "practices that systematically form the objects of which they speak" (Foucault 1986: 56). I emphasize that the discourse of homophobia circulates in the most diverse spaces producing effects on the bodies, demanding positions of subject, be it in the movies, novels, school, family, religion, the wheel of friends. The central problem of this research is: how have gender discourses, through homophobic discourses, demanded normalized bodies in a heteronormative pattern in the films under analysis? For that, I have as specific objectives: to verify the processes of construction of so-called feminine and masculine practices in the investigated films; Register which brands are named and classified as "normal" to gender positions; Identify which generalized subject positions are demanded and produced in daily activities in the films in question; To investigate how gender inequalities are expressed in the studied films; To analyze which mechanisms, techniques and strategies of power are used to reinforce homophobia in these cinematographic works; Identify and analyze possible attempts to erase homosexual marks or escapes in the characters of the films. The central argument is that there is a reiteration of the heteronormative pattern in the curriculum of the investigated films even when one perceives an alleged attempt to break with patterns considered as ideal and normal. In this way, it adds up to the homophobic and heteronormative discourse, for example, biological, religious, psychological and moral discourses, demanding heterosexual subject positions.
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Zhang, Anquan. "An Empirical Comparison of Four Data Generating Procedures in Parametric and Nonparametric ANOVA." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/329.
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The purpose of this dissertation was to empirically investigate the Type I error and power rates of four data transformations that produce a variety of non-normal distributions. Specifically, the transformations investigated were (a) the g-and-h, (b) the generalized lambda distribution (GLD), (c) the power method, and (d) the Burr families of distributions in the context of between-subjects and within-subjects analysis of variance (ANOVA). The traditional parametric F tests and their nonparametric counterparts, the Kruskal-Wallis (KW) and Friedman (FR) tests, were selected to be used in this investigation. The four data transformations produce non-normal distributions that have either valid or invalid probability density functions (PDFs). Specifically, the data generating procedures will produce distributions with valid PDFs if and only if the transformations are strictly increasing - otherwise the distributions are considered to be associated with invalid PDFs. As such, the primary objective of this study was to isolate and investigate the behaviors of the four data transformation procedures themselves while holding all other conditions constant (i.e., sample sizes, effect sizes, correlation levels, skew, kurtosis, random seed numbers, etc. all remain the same). The overall results of the Monte Carlo study generally suggest that when the distributions have valid probability density functions (PDFs) that the Type I error and power rates for the parametric (or nonparametric) tests were similar across all four data transformations. It is noted that there were some dissimilar results when the distributions were very skewed and near their associated boundary conditions for a valid PDF. These dissimilarities were most pronounced in the context of the KW and FR tests. In contrast, when the four transformations produced distributions with invalid PDFs, the Type I error and power rates were more frequently dissimilar for both the parametric F and nonparametric (KW, FR) tests. The dissimilarities were most pronounced when the distributions were skewed and heavy-tailed. For example, in the context of a parametric between subjects design, four groups of data were generated with (a) sample sizes of 10, (b) standardized effect size of 0.50 between groups, (c) skew of 2.5 and kurtosis of 60, (d) power method transformations generating distributions with invalid PDFs, and (e) g-and-h and GLD transformations both generating distributions with valid PDFs. The power results associated with the power method transformation showed that the F-test (KW test) was rejecting at a rate of .32 (.86). On the other hand, the power results associated with both the g-and-h and GLD transformations showed that the F-test (KW test) was rejecting at a rate of approximately .19 (.26). The primary recommendation of this study is that researchers conducting Monte Carlo studies in the context described herein should use data transformation procedures that produce valid PDFs. This recommendation is important to the extent that researchers using transformations that produce invalid PDFs increase the likelihood of limiting their study to the data generating procedure being used i.e. Type I error and power results may be substantially disparate between different procedures. Further, it also recommended that g-and-h, GLD, Burr, and fifth-order power method transformations be used if it is desired to generate distributions with extreme skew and/or heavy-tails whereas third-order polynomials should be avoided in this context.
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Serafim, C?ssio Eduardo Rodrigues. "A constitui??o de identidades de mulheres : pr?ticas discursivas e rela??es de poder." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2006. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/16261.
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Previous issue date: 2006-12-22<br>Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico<br>This research investigates the discursive constitution of identities; in spe-cial, it aim to problematize women identities constitution, pointing discursive prac-tices and power relations which involve them. The interviewed subjects had been adult women who had resumed their school trajectory, after certain period without frequenting educational establishments. Aware of that those identities can be per-ceived through the observations of the discursive practices, we question: which discursive practices and power relations involve and constitute those women? Which identity positionings they take through the discursive practices and power relations that include them and that are identified in their stories? Which linguistic marks characterize, in the speech of those women, forms of resistance in the con-stitution of identities? We intend to investigate the constitution of woman identities in the contemporanity; pointing discursive practices and power relations which in-volve women that converge to their identity constitution; exploring in the linguistic materiality effects of senses that emanate of the discursive practices and power relations which involve the collaborators in the identity constitution in private and public spaces. Research corpus is composed by stories of life granted by three women, collected through semidirected interview between 2004 and 2005. To ana-lyze the data, we base in authors as P?cheux (1993; 2002), Foucault (1979; 1988; etc.), Butler (2003), Scott (1992; 1995), Hall (2000; 2004; 2005), Bauman (1999; 2005), among others that problematize questions as discourse, identity, social gender, power and its interfaces. The life stories had allowed to analyze: the gen-der identity constitution from discursive practices and relations of forces lived in the familiar scenery; assumed identity positionings from discursive practices in globalized urban contexts; power positions in the domestic and extradomestic sphere and new identity positionings<br>Este trabalho disserta sobre a constitui??o discursiva de identidades; em especial, busca problematizar a constitui??o de identidade de mulheres, a partir de pr?ticas discursivas e rela??es de poder quotidianas que as afetam. Os sujei-tos colaboradores foram mulheres adultas que retomaram a sua trajet?ria escolar, ap?s certo per?odo sem freq?entar estabelecimentos de ensino. Cientes de que as identidades podem ser percebidas atrav?s da observa??o das pr?ticas discur-sivas, questionamos: que pr?ticas discursivas e rela??es de poder envolvem e constituem essas mulheres? Que posicionamentos identit?rios elas assumem em meio ?s pr?ticas discursivas e rela??es de poder que as compreendem e que s?o identificadas em seus relatos? Que marcas ling??sticas caracterizam no discurso dessas mulheres formas de resist?ncia na constitui??o de identidades? Preten-demos: investigar a constitui??o discursiva de identidades de mulheres na con-temporaneidade; apontar pr?ticas discursivas e rela??es de poder que envolvem mulheres e que convergem para a constitui??o de suas identidades; explorar na materialidade ling??stica efeitos de sentidos que emanam das pr?ticas discursivas e rela??es de poder que envolvem as colaboradoras na constitui??o de identida-des em espa?os privados e p?blicos. O corpus da pesquisa ? composto por rela-tos de vida concedidos por tr?s mulheres, coletados atrav?s de entrevista semidi-rigida, entre 2004 e 2005. Para analisarmos os dados, fundamentamo-nos em autores como P?cheux (1993; 2002), Foucault (1979; 1988; etc.), Butler (2003), Scott (1992; 1995), Hall (2000; 2004; 2005), Bauman (1999; 2005), entre outros que problematizam quest?es como discurso, identidade, g?nero social, poder e suas interfaces. Os relatos de vida permitiram analisar: a constitui??o de identida-des de g?nero a partir de pr?ticas discursivas e rela??es de for?as vivenciadas na cena familiar; posicionamentos identit?rios assumidos a partir de pr?ticas discur-sivas em contextos urbanos globalizados; posi??es de poder na esfera dom?stica; posi??es de poder na esfera extradom?stica; novos posicionamentos identit?rios
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Oliveira, Samid Danielle Costa de. "Abordagem cl?nica da atividade de trabalho do cozinheiro: intera??o de saberes, g?nero profissional e inova??o criativa." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2011. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/17503.
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Previous issue date: 2011-08-12<br>Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior<br>The focus of this dissertation is the study of work activities developed in the context of
professional occupations characterized by varied previous schooling levels amongst
those that work in them, and, at the same time, a high degree of complexity related to
the typical tasks performed in the context of such professional practices. This
dissertation intends to investigate the cook s professional activity, based on data from a
determined specific professional genre in Natal (RN), in order to establish aspects
related not only to the activity performed (activity which manifests itself empirically in
registered behaviors), but also related to the real aspects of the work activity, that also
compromises the non-realized options of the guiding of professional activity, be it by a
matter of choice, be it due to the activity s own impediment. In this context, we tried to
evaluate how much the professional activity observed keeps in relation to the reference
practices of the professional genre, be it in terms of conformity, be it in terms of
innovation (stylization) in relation to this genre. In addition, we tried to verify the
contribution of the school and extra-school knowledge to the professional activity
observed. Such work plan took on a preliminary step of the description of the socialprofessional
profile of a cook in the city of Natal (RN), followed by a step of clinical
labor approach, specifically utilizing as a methodological tool the simple and crossed
self-confrontation procedure guided by the francophone theoretical referential of the
Activity Clinic. The preliminary step in the description of profile of cooks from Natal
(RN), of which 138 cooks took part in, evidenced three professional groupings, all
predominantly masculine in their composition and fundamentally differentiated amongst
each other by the time of professional activity, schooling type and time, work place and
salary. The clinical approach step, composed by a pair of cooks, allowed us to verify
elements of the cooks subordination to the professional genre, but also evidences of
individual innovation (stylization) by these cooks, as well as the predominance of usage
of extra-school knowledge when compared to school knowledge. We tried, in this step,
to demonstrate how much the inclusion and submission to the genre dynamic,
coordinated with the stylization initiatives, was able to contribute to the maintenance
and amplification of the cook s power of acting in his professional practice.<br>A problem?tica geral desta disserta??o ? a explora??o de atividades de trabalho
desenvolvidas no contexto de ocupa??es profissionais caracterizadas por n?vel de
escolaridade vari?vel dentre aqueles que as exercem, e, ao mesmo tempo, grau de
complexidade elevado no que diz respeito ?s tarefas t?picas implicadas em tais pr?ticas
profissionais. Assim, esta disserta??o se prop?s a investigar a atividade de trabalho do
cozinheiro, a partir dos dados de determinado g?nero profissional em Natal (RN),
buscando estabelecer aspectos relacionados n?o somente ? atividade realizada
(atividade que se manifesta empiricamente em comportamentos registr?veis), mas
tamb?m relacionados ao real da atividade de trabalho, que abarca igualmente as op??es
n?o-realizadas de encaminhamento da atividade profissional, seja por simples escolha,
seja por impedimento da atividade. Nesse contexto, buscou-se, como objetivo geral,
avaliar como a atividade de trabalho observada relaciona-se com as pr?ticas de
refer?ncia do g?nero profissional, seja em termos de conformidade, seja em termos de
inova??o (estiliza??o) em rela??o a este g?nero, buscando verificar a contribui??o dos
saberes escolar e extraescolar para a pr?tica profissional observada. Tal plano de
trabalho comportou uma etapa preliminar de descri??o do perfil socioprofissional de
cozinheiro na cidade de Natal (RN), seguido da etapa de abordagem cl?nica do trabalho,
cuja ferramenta metodol?gica utilizada foi o procedimento de autoconfronta??o
cruzada - norteada pelo referencial te?rico franc?fono da Cl?nica da Atividade. A etapa
de descri??o do perfil do cozinheiro de Natal (RN), da qual participaram 138
cozinheiros, evidenciou tr?s agrupamentos de profissionais, todos predominantemente
masculinos em sua composi??o e diferenciados entre si fundamentalmente pelo tempo
de inser??o profissional, tipo e tempo de escolariza??o, local de trabalho e faixa salarial.
A etapa de abordagem cl?nica, composta por uma dupla de cozinheiros, permitiu
verificar elementos de conformidade dos cozinheiros ao g?nero profissional, mas
simultaneamente evid?ncias de inova??o individual (estiliza??o) por parte desses
cozinheiros, bem como a predomin?ncia de utiliza??o de saberes extraescolares quando
comparados ao saberes escolares. Buscou-se nessa etapa demonstrar o quanto a
din?mica da inclus?o e submiss?o ao g?nero, concatenada com as iniciativas de
estiliza??o, puderam contribuir para a manuten??o e amplia??o do poder de agir dos
cozinheiros em sua pr?tica profissional.
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Červinková, Iveta. "Pozice Evropské unie v rámci G-20." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-136352.
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The aim of this thesis is to assess the real position of the European Union in the global economy and to evaluate its ability to present common interests, priorities and objectives of the Member States and achieve its acceptance on the international scene. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first one deals with global and economic governance and G20, a forum for international cooperation in the field of economic and financial problems. The second chapter is focused on the European Union, one of the twenty members of G20, and macroeconomic position of the EU in G20. There are also mentiond economic, fiscal and trade policy of the European Union. The last part is devoted to the Union's negotiating power within the G20. Negotiating power is evaluated on the basis of EU's common position on the G20 agenda compared with the G20 summit declarations. In conclusion of this thesis is evaluated the strength and position of the Union within the framework of the G20.
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Croydon, Robert Henry. "Patronage, power and probity : accountability and aspiration in publicly funded development." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/99832/.
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The research examines actions and relationships described as patronage which have contributed to the development of architecture and the built environment. In so doing it first seeks to identify the characteristics that have defined such patronage historically. It then moves to examine whether such characteristics could be identified in the promotion and execution of publicly funded projects in the modern day. The focus on aspirational forms of development which relied upon the commitment of public resources allowed the following proposition to be more fully tested. That is that the forms of patronage evidenced historically cannot be replicated in a democratic polity like contemporary Britain for reasons which include current requirements relating to the exercise of probity in management and public office. As an inevitable consequence of the universal franchise and wider democratic accountability those commissioning public works do not then enjoy the relative autonomy exercised by those described as patrons historically. A case study research strategy was adopted and undertaken focussing on major publicly funded developments in Cardiff between 1986 and 2006. Those, expressly or implicitly, aspired to the creation of places which would embody symbolic or cultural capital. Among the factors examined are the impartiality required of bureaucracies and political pressures for public bodies to prioritise quantifiable short-term outputs over less tangible longer-term assessment of environmental qualities. Other countervailing forces considered are prevailing economic conditions and market forces, which are similarly short-term, the cultural climate and public support for such development. The conclusions of the research then question the extent to which actions and relationship described as patronage can be the effective means of realising publicly funded urban development of notable quality.
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Maetz, Jean-Yves. "Évolution de la microstructure d’un acier inoxydable lean duplex lors du vieillissement." Thesis, Lyon, INSA, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014ISAL0008/document.
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Les aciers inoxydables lean duplex sont une famille d'aciers austéno-ferritiques allégés en nickel et en molybdène, qui s'est développée à la fin des années 1990. Le compromis propriétés mécaniques, propriétés de résistance à la corrosion et coût de matière première place cette famille comme une alternative intéressante aux aciers austénitiques standards, et en particulier aux 304/304L qui représentent actuellement les deux tiers de la production d'acier inoxydable. Cependant, cette famille étant relativement récente, la stabilité en température des aciers lean duplex a été relativement peu étudiée, en particulier lors de maintiens prolongés en température. Dans le cadre de cette thèse, l'évolution microstructurale d'un acier lean duplex 2101 a été étudiée, lors de vieillissements isothermes à des températures comprises entre 20 °C et 850 °C, pour des temps s'échelonnant de quelques minutes à plusieurs mois. Les cinétiques de vieillissement ont été suivies par mesures de pouvoir thermoéléctrique (PTE), à partir desquelles des états vieillis ont été sélectionnés pour être caractérisés par microscopie électronique et par sonde atomique tomographique. A des températures intermédiaires de 350 – 450 °C, la ferrite de l'acier lean duplex 2101 est sujette à la démixtion Fe-Cr et à la formation d'amas enrichis en Ni-Mn-Si-Al-Cu, malgré les faibles teneurs en nickel de cette nuance. Ces phénomènes sont détectés par une forte augmentation du PTE. Pour des températures plus élevées, à 700 °C environ, une approche multi-techniques et multi-échelles a permis de décrire précisément les mécanismes qui régissent les différentes évolutions microstructurales : la germination et la croissance de M23C6 et de Cr2N, observés dès quelques minutes de vieillissement aux joints de phases, la précipitation de la phase σ pour des temps de vieillissement plus importants qui s'accompagne d'une transformation de la ferrite δ en austénite secondaire γ2, et la transformation partielle de l'austénite en martensite lors du refroidissement des échantillons vieillis. L'effet des différentes phases sur le PTE de l'acier lean duplex peut être décrit qualitativement lors du vieillissement par une loi des mélanges<br>Lean duplex stainless steels are austeno-ferritic steels with lower nickel and molybdenum contents, developed in the late 90's. Considering mechanical properties, corrosion resistance and cost of raw material, this family is an interesting alternative to standard austenitic stainless steels, which currently represent two thirds of stainless steel production. However, lean duplex steels are relatively recent and their thermal stability has been relatively little studied, especially during long term aging. In this study, the microstructural evolution of a lean duplex steel 2101 was studied during isothermal aging at temperatures between 20 °C and 850 °C, from few minutes to several months. Aging kinetics were followed by thermoelectric power measurements (TEP), from which aged states were selected to be characterized by electron microscopy and atom probe tomography. At intermediate temperatures of 350 - 450 °C, Fe-Cr demixing and precipitation of Ni-Mn-Al-Si-Cu occur in the ferrite despite the low nickel content of this grade, leading to an increase in the TEP. For higher temperatures, at about 700 °C, the mechanisms which govern the different microstructural evolutions have been described by a multi-scale approach: the nucleation and growth of M23C6 and Cr2N, observed from few minutes of aging and the σ phase precipitation, observed for longer aging time. The latter is accompanied by a transformation of δ ferrite in γ2 secondary austenite, and by the partial transformation of austenite into martensite during cooling. The effect of different phases on the TEP of the lean duplex steel can be qualitatively described during aging by a rule of mixture
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Hasty, William. ""Decried and abominated in every place" : space, power and piracy, c.1680-1730." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3773/.
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This thesis examines the historical geographies of piracy from around 1680 to 1730, a period in which the relations between pirates and the state changed dramatically. More specifically, the thesis aims to employ a distinctively geographical lens in the study of aspects of piratical and anti-piratical agency, focusing on four particular spatialities. Firstly, the thesis seeks to reanimate the pirate, to study their world through movement and mobilities, both real and imagined, to show how these mattered for the way pirates were rationalised by the state, and how their actual movements differed from those encoded in the notion of the ‘roving’ pirate. Secondly, this thesis shows how questions of space, power and politics played out aboard the pirate ship, attending specifically to certain spatial practices apparent among many pirates, whereby this thesis considers critically the extent to which politics was entangled with space in the life of the pirate afloat. Thirdly, it is suggested that the ‘mercantilist discourse’ that framed piracy as an existential threat to the development of the early-modern state and the accompanying changes to the institutional architecture and everyday practices of the state were underpinned by hitherto neglected geographies of power and representation. Finally, this thesis explores the dark and disturbing geographies of punishment visited upon the bodies of captured pirates. The prison, the gallows and the gibbet are shown to have been important sites in the move towards the social exclusion of the pirate, and it argued that this process of ‘othering’ was permeated with a distinctively geographical logic. These cuts each suggest new perspectives on the story of piracy and the ‘salt-water state’ in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century, foregrounding important patterns, practices and processes that gave distinctive shape to the lives, deaths and legacies of pirates.
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Maaz, Bilal. "Allocation des ressources radio dans les réseaux sans fil de la 5 G." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017SACLV010/document.
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La communication mobile est considérée comme l'un des piliers des villes intelligentes, où les citoyens devraient pouvoir bénéficier des services de télécommunications partout et quand ils les souhaitent, d'une manière sûre et peu coûteuse. Cela est possible grâce à un déploiement dense des réseaux mobiles à large bande de dernière génération. Ce déploiement dense entraînera une consommation énergétique plus élevée et donc plus d'émissions de gaz et de pollution. Par conséquent, il est crucial d'un point de vue environnemental de réduire la consommation d'énergie. Dans le cadre de cette thèse, nous introduisons des méthodes dynamiques de gestion de ressources permettant d'augmenter le débit et l'efficacité énergétique, et réduisant ainsi la pollution. Ainsi, nous ciblons les réseaux multicellulaires verts où l'augmentation de l'efficacité énergétique doit tenir en compte de l'accroissement de la demande de débit par les utilisateurs mobiles. Cette augmentation, exponentielle en terme de débit, a poussé les opérateurs à utiliser la totalité du spectre fréquentiel dans toutes les cellules des réseaux mobiles de dernière génération. Par conséquence, l'interférence intercellulaire (ICI : Inter-Cell Interference) devient prépondérante et dégrade la performance des utilisateurs, en particulier ceux ayant de mauvaises conditions radios. Dans cette thèse, nous nous focalisons sur la technique du contrôle de puissance considérée comme une des méthodes clé de la coordination d'interférence Intercellulaire (ICIC : Inter-Cell Interference Coordination), tout en mettant l'accent sur des méthodes efficaces énergétiquement. Nous formulons ce problème d'allocation de la puissance, sur le lien descendant en mettant en œuvre des méthodes centralisées et décentralisées: les méthodes centralisées ayant recours à l'optimisation convexe alors que les méthodes décentralisées se basant sur la théorie des jeux non-coopératifs. Par ailleurs nous proposons ensuite une heuristique de contrôle de puissance qui a l'avantage d'être stable et basée sur des messages de signalisation déjà existant dans le système. Cette heuristique permet d'éviter le gaspillage de la bande passante par des signalisations intercellulaires et de réduire le ICI. De plus, le problème de contrôle de puissance a un impact important sur l'allocation des ressources radios et sur l'association des utilisateurs mobiles à une station de base. Ainsi, dans la deuxième partie de la thèse, nous avons formulé un problème globale englobant le contrôle de puissance, le contrôle d'allocation de ressources radios, et le contrôle de l'association des utilisateurs à une station de base, cela afin d'obtenir une solution globalement efficace. Ces trois sous problèmes sont traités itérativement jusqu'à convergence de la solution globale. En particulier nous proposons pour la problématique d'association des utilisateurs trois algorithmes: un algorithme centralisé, un algorithme semi-distribué et finalement un algorithme complètement distribué se basant sur l'apprentissage par renforcement. Par ailleurs, pour l'allocation de puissance, nous implémentons des solutions centralisées et des solutions distribuées. Les preuves de convergence des algorithmes ont été établies et les simulations approfondies ont permis d'évaluer et de comparer quantitativement les performances, l'efficacité énergétique et le temps de convergence des algorithmes proposés<br>Mobile communication is considered as one of the building blocks of smart cities, where citizens should be able to benefit from telecommunications services, wherever they are, whenever they want, and in a secure and non-costly way. This can be done by dense deployment of the latest generation of mobile broadband networks. However, this dense deployment will lead to higher energy consumption, and thus more gas emission and pollution. Therefore, it is crucial from environmental point of view to propose solution reducing energy consumption. In this thesis, we introduce dynamic resource management methods that increase throughput and energy efficiency, and thus reduce pollution. In this framework, we are targeting green multi-cell networks where increased energy efficiency must take into account the increased demand of data by mobile users. This increase, which is exponential in terms of throughput, pushed operators to use the entire frequency spectrum in all cells of the latest generation of mobile networks. As a result, Inter-Cellular Interference (ICI) became preponderant and degraded the performance of users, particularly those with poor radio conditions. In this thesis, we focus on the techniques of power control on the downlink direction, which is considered as one of the key methods of Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (ICIC) while focusing on energy efficient methods. We propose centralized and decentralized methods for this problem of power allocation: centralized methods through convex optimization, and decentralized methods based on non-cooperative game theory. Furthermore, we propose a power control heuristic which has the advantage of being stable and based on signaling messages already existing in the system. The power control problem has a relevant impact on the allocation of radio resources and on the association of mobile users with their servicing Base Station. Therefore, in the second part of the thesis, we formulated a global problem encompassing power control, radio resources allocation, and control of users’ association to a base station. These three sub-problems are treated iteratively until the convergence to the overall solution. In particular, we propose three algorithms for the user association problem: a centralized algorithm, a semi-distributed algorithm and finally a fully distributed algorithm based on reinforcement learning. In addition, for power allocation we implement centralized solutions and distributed solutions. The proof of convergence for the various algorithms is established and the in-depth simulations allow us to evaluate and compare quantitatively the performance, the energy efficiency, and the convergence time of the proposed algorithms
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Alves, Rodrigo Maschion. "Crise, poderes, interesses e estratégias : o G-20 e a governança monetária e financeira contemporânea /." São Paulo, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134094.
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Orientadora: Flávia de Campos Mello<br>O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais é instituído em parceria com a Unesp/Unicamp/PUC-SP, em projeto subsidiado pela CAPES, intitulado "Programa San Tiago Dantas"<br>Resumo: Não disponível<br>Abstract: Not available<br>Doutor
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Martinez, Yseult. "De la puissance des femmes : réflexion autour de cinq personnages d’opéra créés par G. F. Handel pour Londres entre 1730 et 1737." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020SORUL119.
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Le livret d’opéra est un support privilégié, mais trop souvent ignoré, pour sonder la psyché collective d’une époque et de sa société. À l’instar d’autres créations humaines, qu’elles soient purement intellectuelles et/ou manuelles, il s’apparente à une fenêtre ouvrant une perspective inédite sur un monde révolu et qui lorsqu’elle est ouverte laisse s’échapper les clameurs venues d’un autre siècle. Il s’agira donc de réinstaller les drammi per musica de George Frideric Handel dans leur contexte culturel et social. Ceci pour en restituer la réception la plus complète et fidèle possible et avoir une chance de s’approcher de l’expérience du public original. Face au mutisme des sources indirectes, il devient indispensable de se plonger au cœur des livrets, de s’intéresser aux mots et aux images, avant de donner la parole à la musique, en se donnant pour but d’expliciter tout ce que le texte implique, suggère, signifie, déclenche chez le spectateur.trice et tenter de reconstituer un corpus de références culturelles (littéraires, morales, religieuses, etc.), lesquelles colorent le texte de multiples et précieuses nuances, mais sont bien souvent perdus pour le public d’aujourd’hui. À travers cinq rôles féminins (Partenope, Berenice, Bradamante, Rosmira et Alcina), nous interrogerons la représentation de la femme et de la « féminité » à l’aune de la notion d’une puissance féminine et de ses implications sur la scène de l’opéra italien à Londres entre 1730 et 1737. Nous tenterons également d’apporter un éclairage supplémentaire sur cette période de transition dans la carrière du compositeur, lequel abandonne progressivement l’opéra italien pour se consacrer à l’oratorio anglais<br>The opera libretto is a privileged, though often ignored, medium for probing the collective psyche of an era and its society. Like other human creations, be they purely intellectual and/or manual, it offers a window, opening a new perspective on a bygone world, and once cleansed of the dirt deposited by the centuries and open, it lets out the light and clamour of another century. The aim will be to reinstall the drammi per musica of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) in their cultural and social context, to recreate the fullest possible reception of the work and have a chance to get as close as possible to the experience of the original audience. Faced with the silence of the indirect sources, it becomes essential to plunge into the heart of the booklets, to take an interest in the words and images, to give the music its true voice, trying to clarify all that the text implies, suggests, signifies, triggers in the spectator and to try to reconstruct a corpus of cultural references (literary, moral, religious, etc.), that colour the text with multiple nuances, but are often lost to today’s audience. Through five female roles (Partenope, Berenice, Bradamante, Rosmira and Alcina), we will question the representation of women, femaleness and femininity in the light of the notion of female power and its implications on the Italian opera scene in London between 1730 and 1737. We will also attempt to shed further light on this transitional period in the career of the composer, who gradually abandoned Italian opera to devote himself to English oratorio
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Kallala, Mohamed Adel. "Représentation distribuée de la dynamique des charges dans la base large des thyristors "Gate-Turn-Off". Application à un modèle de G. T. O. Pour la C. A. O. Des circuits." Toulouse, INSA, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994ISAT0041.
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Ce memoire est consacre a l'elaboration d'un modele de thyristor g. T. O. Pour la c. A. O. En electronique de puissance, decrivant la nature distribuee de la dynamique des charges dans la base large. Cette dynamique est regie par l'equation de diffusion ambipolaire. L'auteur propose, grace a une representation spectrale de la distribution des porteurs dans la base large du g. T. O. , une methode de resolution analogique de l'equation de diffusion. La dynamique repartie des charges dans cette base est ainsi representee par un schema analogique de lignes rc a parametres variables. Ce modele distribue est complete par la prise en compte des contributions des autres regions du composant: base p, emetteurs d'anode et de cathode et zone de charge d'espace. Le modele complet ainsi obtenu, nous permet de simuler le comportement du composant lors de ses commutations sans changement de topologie. La bonne concordance entre les resultats mesures et simules, permet de mettre en evidence le bien-fonde de notre approche pour la simulation des interactions composant-circuit
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Naylor, Tristen A. "Closure games : the politics of clubs in international society." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e1e4c6f8-f163-43bf-9b87-5640db21f090.
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This thesis develops a theory of international social closure to examine (i) the politics of membership in status groups – or, clubs – in international society and (ii) the persistence of clubs in international society. This thesis offers new concepts to improve the English School’s understanding of international society, its expansion, and its reproduction. In so doing it also addresses limitations and gaps in the IR status literature and the global governance and diplomacy literatures concerned with clubs and networks. This thesis analyses strategies of exclusion, entry, and incorporation used by actors to deny, attempt, or grant inclusion into clubs as well as the institutional contexts underpinning those clubs. Specifically, this research undertakes a study of instances of exclusion, entry, and incorporation in the context of three clubs: the Family of Civilised Nations, the Great Powers club, and G-summitry. In the first two cases, this research relies primarily on secondary sources while in the case of G-summitry it presents original empirical research gathered through archival research, interviews, and ethnographic participant observation. This thesis presents four main conclusions about the operation of closure: (i) the logics of different closure games are defined by overarching normative institutions of international society; (ii) despite a collectivist closure rule, closure in international society is predominantly individualistic; (iii) actors seeking entry tend to employ deferential entry strategies that reproduce a stratified status quo order; and (iv) incorporation promotes stratification along both functional and cultural lines. This thesis also draws three specific conclusions that run counter to much current scholarship: (i) contemporary international society is neither more open nor less hierarchical than nineteenth century international society; (ii) hierarchy is reproduced to a large degree by entry and incorporation strategies rather than exclusion strategies; and (iii) closure does not run along a ‘west versus the rest’ fault line.
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Kunhammad, K. K. "J G Farrell's empire fiction: Beyond the rhetoric of power." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/723.
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Huang, Chia-Nan, and 黃嘉男. "G-Chain: A Power-Efficient Data Gathering Scheme Based on Sensor Networks." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09689557149474549784.
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碩士<br>南台科技大學<br>資訊管理系<br>96<br>Wireless sensor networks are composed of a group of geographically dispersed sensor nodes and a sink node, which can be utilized in military application and environmental observation of scientific research. Sensor nodes route the collected data to the sink node via multi-hop wireless links. Batteries usually serve as the power source for sensor nodes and typically can not be recharged or replaced when the energy is exhausted. Therefore, how to efficiently utilize the energy and thus prolong the overall life time of a sensor network is an important issue. In the past, the chain architecture proposed in PEGASIS is demonstrated to succeed in prolonging the life time of a sensor network. However, it incurs significant propagation delay in transmitting sensed data to the sink node. In this paper, we propose a novel data gathering scheme based on a chain-oriented grid architecture, called Grid Chain
(G-Chain). Through the proposed G-Chain scheme, we restrict the transmission distance between nodes to prevent the energy consumption from being proportional to the transmission distance to the fourth power. In addition, we also use the determining the best data-gathering chain algorithm to form chain in the cells, thereby effectively reducing the transmission delay. The simulation results show that our proposed approach can achieve energy efficiency, especially when sensor nodes are densely deployed. Moreover, the G-Chain can also reduce delay in data transmission, balance the energy consumption among sensor nodes, and prolong the life time of a sensor network.
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Chen, Rex, and 陳家良. "RF BiCMOS Power Amplifier Design for IEEE 802.11a/b/g and Bluetooth Systems." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51073834546679426916.
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碩士<br>國立交通大學<br>電信工程系所<br>93<br>The first part of this thesis describes a dual-band driver amplifier for WLAN 802.11a and 802.11b/g applications. For the concern of linearity and efficiency, Class AB biasing is chosen for this amplifier, and an on-chip biasing network is designed to simplify the usage of power supply. The single-input/single-output dual-band matching networks are implemented by two Diplexer-liked networks composed of lumped elements on PCB. Measurement results show that P1dB in 2.4-GHz and 5.2-GHz are 8.3dBm and 7.2dBm, with corresponding PAE of 17.1% and 9.3%, respectively.
The second part of this thesis describes two SiGe BiCMOS Class F power amplifiers for Bluetooth system. The input/output matching and harmonic loading networks of the first Class F power amplifier are composed of lumped elements on PCB. Measurement results show that the amplifier could provide an output power of about 20dBm with PAE of about 40%. From the experience of the first design, the second is a fully integrated Class F power amplifier, leaving only the output matching network off-chip. Experiment results show that the output power is 20dBm, and the PAE is 34.2%.
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Chien, Chih-Hsiang, and 簡智祥. "Design of a High-power Class-G Audio Amplifier and THD-modification Trimming." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59628050191751209125.
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碩士<br>逢甲大學<br>電聲碩士學位學程<br>100<br>Power amplifiers are extensively used at the output stage of the universally electronic equipments. According to the structure of the output power transistors, three kinds of linear power amplifier, such as class-A, class-AB, and class-G, are used popularly. Although the power conversion efficiency of class-A is the lowest among all of them, but the harmonic distortion of class A is the best of them. So class-A power amplifiers are used in most of the low power usage. Due to the maximum 78.5% efficiency, traditional class-AB power amplifiers are used in most of the medium/large power required applications. In this paper, we will propose a modified version of class-AB structure called class-G power amplifier. By using a auto-switched high/low dual DC power supply voltages, class-G structure power amplifiers can further increase the practical overall conversion efficiency better then that of class-AB. However, the switched operation will introduces the increasing of the total harmonic distortion (THD) , therefore how to promote the linearity of the class-G amplifier by means of decreasing the THD becomes the most important challenge for the designer.
This paper proposed a systematic study on the critical ratio of the dual DC supply voltages and the mechanism to switching them automatically. Additionally, a simply and novel smoothing method to reducing the THD generated by the switching operation is studied.
The proposed class-G amplifier is simulated and implemented to verify our discussion. An electronic circuit simulation CAD software program - MultiSim from National Instrument (NI) Corp. is used for simulating as well as a 80W PCB-based class-G power amplifier is implemented and measured with the helps from professional speaker manufacturer Meiloon Industrial Co, Ltd.
The amazing structure we designed and the good agreement between the results of simulation and experimental measured show that it is a successive study. The auto-switched mechanism operated as well as our estimated, and the reduction of the THD after adding the novel smoothing method was down to 0.062%.
Generally speaking, the method proposed in this paper is useful to promote the class-G power amplifier for the high power electrical- acoustic Hi-Fi applications with good linearity and better practical conversion efficiency then that of class-AB power structure offered.
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Zhi-Yuan, Liu. "IEEE 802.11b/g High Efficiency CMOS Power Amplifier with an Integrated Adaptive Bias Circuit." 2005. http://www.cetd.com.tw/ec/thesisdetail.aspx?etdun=U0001-1101200615374400.
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Liu, Zhi-Yuan, and 劉致元. "IEEE 802.11b/g High Efficiency CMOS Power Amplifier with an Integrated Adaptive Bias Circuit." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04757899512787118418.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>電子工程學研究所<br>94<br>The Doherty power amplifier using UMC CMOS 0.18um is designed at a frequency of 2.4 GHz. Characterized by the S-parameter measurement, the S21 is 10.6dB. The maximum output power and P1dB can achieve 22.6dB and 21.4dBm, respectively. The maximum PAE is 33.6% and the PAE is 32.6% at P1dB. At 6dB back-off from P1dB, the achieved PAE is 21.1%. Without using on-chip spiral inductors, the area of the PA is only 666*999 µm2.
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Lin, Ruo-Ying, and 林若楹. "The Competitive Strategy of Personal Computer Power Supply Business: A Case Study of G Company." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84782139093296120506.
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碩士<br>淡江大學<br>管理科學學系企業經營碩士在職專班<br>101<br>Based on personal computer is changing the form factor, the requirement for laptop and tablet is rasing, causing the requirement for ATX power supply is dropping down. To let company can keep the business continuity; many companies change business type or slowly quit this market.
In this study, use Michael Porter’s Five Forces Model and SWOT analysis to study the case study company’s strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities. Discuss the company work hard in this business can use different kinds of strategy to survive in this business and win the market sharing by Expert Interview.
Since 2008, Europe financial crisis and the weak of global financial, there is only few suppliers had increase in the market. Experts present the best trend is only keep it steady; however, ATX power supply in PC market will keep dropping down in the future.
The suggestion for small and medium sized enterprises is Niche strategy or Harvest strategy. For big sized enterprises is Leader strategy.
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Howes, Caroline G. "Power line risk to Cape (Gyps coprotheres) and white-backed (G. africanus) vultures in Southern Africa." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/21046.
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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science,
University of Witwatersrand,
in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science
Johannesburg, South Africa
March 2016<br>This study examined the movements of white-backed (Gyps africanus) and Cape vultures (G. coprotheres) to assess their habitat preferences, measure seasonal changes in foraging behaviour, and examine where vultures are at risk of electrocution by and collision with power lines. White-backed and Cape vultures are two Old World vulture species found in southern Africa. They are listed as Critically Endangered and Endangered respectively, with massive population declines over the past three decades. These declines are due to poisoning, habitat loss, lack of food, use in traditional medicine, and electrical infrastructure mortality. Vultures provide key ecosystem services such as reducing disease transmission, cycling nutrients, and attracting tourists and therefore, a loss of vultures could cost the continent millions of US dollars.
Thirteen vultures (five white-backed and eight Cape vultures) were tracked using either DUCK-4A or BUBO-4A GPS-GSM trackers (Ecotone Telemetry, Sopot, Poland). Birds were tracked between April 2013 and October 2014. These data were used to examine the habitat suitability of both species using MaxEnt habitat suitability modelling. Key drivers of country-wide habitat suitability for white-backed vultures were mean temperature (30.9% contribution), precipitation seasonality (22.0% contribution), and biome (19.5% contribution), while key drivers for Cape vultures were distance to artificial feeding station (24.8% contribution), and precipitation seasonality (50.5% contribution). Anthropological variables (land use, cattle density, and population density) contributed very little to the models.
Using the same tracking data, seasonal changes in foraging movements were examined, particularly in relation to hypothetical food availability. Data were categorised by seasons (winter, spring, summer, and autumn) using weather data over the past decade. There was little evidence for seasonal movement in white-backed or Cape vultures which may be because food availability is not the limiting factor regardless of time of year.
Lastly, a model was constructed in MaxEnt using the Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Wildlife and Energy Programme dataset of white-backed and Cape vulture electrocutions by and collisions with power lines. Voltage was a major contributor to risk in every model for both collision and electrocution. This is likely to be related to the type and height of the power line structures rather than actual voltage. Either land use or population density also contributed to all four models. Slope contributed to white-backed vulture models while
feeding station and elevation contributed to Cape vulture models. Each of these variables probably relates not only to the likelihood of vulture presence but also how vultures behave in the area (e.g. flying lower in natural or low population areas to forage more effectively therefore putting them at higher risk of collision).
This study suggests that management initiatives should include carefully placing vulture feeding stations to change foraging patterns and provide safe, uncontaminated carrion, and proactive retrofitting of high risk power lines to reduce the high unnatural mortality in white-backed and Cape vultures in South Africa. It is important to continue to improve these models using more tracking data from more populations of white-backed and Cape vultures, and more electrocution and collision data gathered from regular, randomly selected power line surveys.<br>M T 2016
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Wood, Spencer D. "Autonomous expert or "power elite" member? Rexford G. Tugwell and the creation of the U.S. Resettlement Administration in 1935 /." 1991. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/25505303.html.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1991.<br>Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-55).
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Kueng, Tz-Liang, and 龔自良. "Parameter Estimation and Future Value Prediction of Growth Curve Model with Power Transformation, Random Effects and General AR(g) Dependence." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79457760304771058796.
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碩士<br>國立交通大學<br>統計所<br>89<br>In this paper, we devote ourselves to a
generalized growth curve model with power
transformation, random effects and AR($g$)
dependence via Bayesian and Maximum-Likelihood (ML)
approaches. Inferences on the parameters as
well as the future value are discussed.
Some numerical results with real and
simulated data are also given.\ {\bf Key words}: Approximation, Bayesian, Longitudinal data,
Maximum likelihood, Markov Chain Monte Carlo,
Real data, Simulated data.
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Tavares, Ricardo Miguel de Almeida. "Relation between debt and market power evidence on Portuguese firms." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/6980.
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O presente estudo procura analisar os determinantes da utilização de dívida nas empresas Portuguesas não-financeiras, no período 2004-2010. É dado especial destaque ao impacto do poder de mercado, medido pelo índice de lerner, na maior ou menor utilização da dívida.
Os resultados indicam que a dívida é positivamente relacionada com o poder de mercado: um acréscimo de poder de mercado conduz a um aumento na dívida. Este resultado pode sugerir algum tipo de comportamento predatório: o aumento de poder de mercado leva as empresas a utilizar mais dívida na sua estrutura da capital, competindo com as empresas do mercado e criando um barreira às que pretendem entrar. Adicionalmente, a dimensão da empresa, o seu crescimento e rentabilidade são também determinantes com efeito positivo na dívida. A capacidade geradora de recursos internos tem um efeito fraco e negativo na dívida.
Os resultados obtidos também permitem determinar o perfil das empresas Portuguesas não-financeiras com maiores níveis de dívida: empresas de baixa liquidez, pequena dimensão, bastante lucrativas e com taxas de crescimento elevadas.
A crise financeira teve um efeito inesperado nos níveis de dívida: apesar da crise do crédito, as empresas em estudo aumentaram a sua dívida depois do início da crise.
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Oliveira, Carlos Rocha de. "A estrutura do sector bancário cabo-verdiano e a regulação do mercado." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/17834.
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Cabo Verde, apesar de ser uma economia insular e desprovida de recurso naturais, tem
sido característico dos países que conseguiu ter um razoável sucesso no processo de
estabilização macroeconómica e solidez financeira, relativamente à região onde se
encontra inserida, valendo-lhe a graduação para o país do nível de rendimento médio.
O principal objectivo deste trabalho consiste em investigar e determinar empiricamente
a estrutura do sector bancário cabo-verdiano, a sua regulação e supervisão, verificando
assim, a paradigma da Estrutura-Comportamento-Resultados (E-C-R)1, bem como a sua
contribuição para a solidez do todo sistema financeiro nacional. Na investigação, foi
utilizado como fonte, a análise e o tratamento dos dados do Banco Central de Cabo
Verde (BCV) e os estudos de um painel de balanços dos bancos comerciais caboverdianos, entre 2000 e 2011. O estudo centralizou-se basicamente nas quatro (4)
maiores instituições bancárias (BCA, CECV, BI e BCN), o chamado mercado
“onshore”, que representam mais de 80% do total do activo de sistema financeiro caboverdiano. Ficou claro que, a partir dos resultados encontrados (como Índice de
Concentração e o de Herfindahl H), o mercado bancário cabo-verdiano é altamente
concentrado, e com fraca volatilidade no tempo, apresentando assim características
típicas da estrutura de mercado oligopolista, daí a análise de modelos teóricos mais
complexos e bastante realista como a teoria da organização industrial bancária, com
ênfase para modelos originais de Klein-Monti, de Cournot, Bertrand e Steckelberg. Por
fim, procurou-se fazer a abordagem nas chamadas políticas de Regulação e Supervisão,
definidas e supervisionadas pelo BCV, que em função desta, exerce as suas atribuições
nos mercados de capitais mobiliários e seguros, actuando segundo o modelo Monista.<br>Cape Verde, despite being an island economy and devoid of natural resources, has been
characteristic of the countries that could have a reasonable success in stabilizing
macroeconomic and financial strength, to the region where it is inserted, is using his
progression to developing country medium.
The main objective of this work is to investigate and determine empirically the structure
of the banking sector in Cape Verde, the regulation and supervision of this market, thus
verifying the paradigm of Structure-Behavior-Results (S-B-R)2, as well as its
contribution to the strength the whole financial system.
To start the work, was used as the source, processing and analysis of data from Central
Bank of Cape Verde (BCV) and studies of a panel of balances of commercial banks
operating in the Cape Verdean market between 2000 and 2011. The study was centered
primarily in four (4) major national banks (BCA, CECV, BI and BNC), the market
called "onshore", which represent more than 80% of total assets of the financial system
in Cape Verde. It was clear that, based on the results found (such as Concentration
Index and Herfindahl H), the Cape Verdeian banking market is highly concentrated,
with low volatility in time, thus presenting typical characteristics of the oligopolistic
market structure, hence the analysis of more complex theoretical models and quite
realistic as the theory of banking industry organization, with emphasis on original
models of Klein-Monti, Cournot, Bertrand and Steckelberg.
Finally, it was tried to approach the so-called Regulation and Supervision policies,
defined and supervised by the BCV, which, in function of this, exercises its attributions
in the securities and insurance capital markets, acting according to the Monista model.
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Roach, Lisa Aretha Nyala. "Temporal Variations in the Compliance of Gas Hydrate Formations." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/44081.
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Seafloor compliance is a non-intrusive geophysical method sensitive to the shear modulus of the sediments below the seafloor. A compliance analysis requires the computation of the frequency dependent transfer function between the vertical stress, produced at the seafloor by the ultra low frequency passive source-infra-gravity waves, and the resulting displacement, related to velocity through the frequency. The displacement of the ocean floor is dependent on the elastic structure of the sediments and the compliance function is tuned to different depths, i.e., a change in the elastic parameters at a given depth is sensed by the compliance function at a particular frequency. In a gas hydrate system, the magnitude of the stiffness is a measure of the quantity of gas hydrates present. Gas hydrates contain immense stores of greenhouse gases making them relevant to climate change science, and represent an important potential alternative source of energy. Bullseye Vent is a gas hydrate system located in an area that has been intensively studied for over 2 decades and research results suggest that this system is evolving over time.
A partnership with NEPTUNE Canada allowed for the investigation of this possible evolution. This thesis describes a compliance experiment configured for NEPTUNE Canada’s seafloor observatory and its failure. It also describes the use of 203 days of simultaneously logged pressure and velocity time-series data, measured by a Scripps differential pressure gauge, and a Güralp CMG-1T broadband seismometer on NEPTUNE Canada’s seismic station, respectively, to evaluate variations in sediment stiffness near Bullseye. The evaluation resulted in a (- 4.49 x10-3± 3.52 x 10-3) % change of the transfer function of 3rd October, 2010 and represents a 2.88% decrease in the stiffness of the sediments over the period. This thesis also outlines a new algorithm for calculating the static compliance of isotropic layered sediments.