Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Nedo'

Traditional methods for teaching negotiation have required both instructor and student to be physically present in the same location. With the advent of the Internet and associated technological advances, however, instructors may now transcend geographical barriers and effectively deliver the same content virtually. In this article, we present an exploratory study comparing two masters-level negotiation courses: one taught using a traditional in-person method and the other taught online. Results showed no significant difference in knowledge acquisition as quantified by objective measures, including mean grades. In addition, self-report data indicate that, although students' skill and mastery of negotiation improved in both courses, online students reported that they experienced less interaction and social engagement with their classmates and instructor. Several course development strategies and best practices are discussed.

This paper discovers the link between corruption and general government deficits in European countries. A short review of concepts such as agency theory and principal-agent problem is made. After introducing a simple model of corruption-deficit relationship, the correlation is tested by regression analysis for years 2003-2009. Besides the year 2008 (the first year of financial crisis) are the results significant on the 5% confidence level. The regression of means is significant on 1% confidence level. The deficits are statistical significantly correlated with the level of perceived corruption.

El caso Nexo Lubricantes describe el problema que enfrentaba la empresa desde la perspectiva de Carlos, el “nuevo” Gerente General, en el contexto de lo que fue su primer año de gestión. Nexo Lubricantes (Nexo) era una empresa subsidiaria de Primax (Grupo Romero) creada en 2011 para ser el macrodistribuidor de lubricantes Shell en el Perú. La marca Shell decidió cerrar sus operaciones comerciales directas de lubricantes en el Perú en 2010 y delegar esta responsabilidad en Nexo como su macrodistribuidor. La marca Shell era la marca de Lubricantes número uno en el mundo en base a su liderazgo tecnológico derivado de una gran inversión en investigación y desarrollo, trabajo en conjunto con los principales fabricantes de equipos originales y una importante e inversión en marketing. Este liderazgo global tenía una larga tradición en el Perú en donde la marca había logrado ser la marca líder con más de 30% de participación de mercado; era una marca reconocida por los consumidores y clientes industriales con un posicionamiento Premium. Tenía distribución a nivel nacional, un equipo comercial profesional con procesos bien estructurados, inversión en marketing consistente en el tiempo, principalmente concentrada en el canal, y un servicio técnico completo; en estas condiciones recibió Nexo el compromiso de representar la marca en el país. Por su parte, el Grupo Romero ofrecía solidez financiera, capacidad de inversión, conocimiento del país y una red de estaciones de servicio que era un canal interesante para los lubricantes. Los resultados para Nexo fueron preocupantes, del 2011 al 2016, todos los años, el volumen de ventas había caído consistentemente, perdiendo participación de mercado; y en el último año, reduciendo su margen. Esta situación no podía continuar pues el directorio de Nexo y Shell, esperaban crecimiento sostenible y mantener el liderazgo en el mercado. Carlos creía que la pérdida de competitividad se debía principalmente a los altos precios, derivados de una sucesión de incrementos de costos que Shell había trasladado a Nexo. También reconocía que los procesos comerciales y la disciplina de ventas habían decaído en la medida que pasaba el tiempo y el equipo rotaba. El mercado crecía moderadamente pues los lubricantes eran una industria madura; el crecimiento era impulsado por el incremento del parque automotor y sectores de la economía como la minería, pesca y construcción. El contexto competitivo era intenso; en el B2B, Mobil era el competidor más importante de Shell y se mantenía operando en el país de forma directa, con planta de producción local, lo que le daba una cadena de valor más corta y eficiente y esto lo reflejaba en el mercado con una oferta agresiva en precios y un nivel de servicios técnico completo. Castrol era la otra carca competidora clásica de Shell, enfocada en el mercado B2C; esta marca también estaba en modelo indirecto y había perdido participación de mercado por sus altos precios. Para competir en el mercado B2C, habían ingresado un grupo de marcas nuevas conocidas como “nuevos entrantes”, estas marcas estaban creciendo significativamente en base a precios agresivos, buen margen para el canal y un portafolio de productos de calidad similar a las marcas premium. ¿Cómo recuperar la competitividad perdida? Este caso puede aplicarse en cursos de estrategia y liderazgo de postgrado. El objetivo del mismo es introducir a los alumnos a un dilema real por resolver, analizando los factores clave internos y externos que determinan los resultados del negocio y de este análisis, identificar oportunidades, amenazas, fortalezas y debilidades. A continuación los alumnos pueden proponer estrategias comerciales para resolver el problema.<br>Nexo Lubricantes case describes the problem faced by the company from the perspective of Carlos, the "new" General Manager, in the context of his first year. Nexo Lubricantes (Nexo) was a subsidiary of Primax (Grupo Romero) created in 2011 to be Shell's lubricant macro-distributor in Peru. The Shell brand decided to close its direct lubricant business operations in Peru in 2010 and delegate this responsibility to Nexo. The Shell brand was the number one lubricants brand in the world based on its technological leadership derived from a large investment in research and development, working together with the main OEMs and an important investment in marketing. This global leadership had a long tradition in Peru where the brand had managed to be the leading brand with over 30% market share; It was a brand recognized by consumers and industrial customers with a Premium positioning. It had national distribution, a professional commercial team with well structured processes, consistent investment in marketing over time, mainly concentrated in the channel, and a complete technical service. Under these conditions, Nexo received the duty to represent the brand in the country. For its part, the Romero Group offered financial strength, investment capacity, knowledge of the country and a network of service stations that was an interesting channel to sell lubricants. The results for Nexo were worrying, from 2011 to 2016, every year, sales volume had fallen consistently, losing market share; and in the last year, reducing its margin. This situation could not continue because the board of Nexo and Shell, expected sustainable growth and maintain the leadership in the market. Carlos believed that the loss of competitiveness was mainly due to high prices, derived from a succession of cost increases that Shell had transferred to Nexo. He also recognized that business processes and sales discipline had declined as time passed and the team rotated. The market grew moderately as lubricants were a mature industry; Growth was driven by the increase in the automotive park and sectors of the economy such as mining, fishing and construction. The competitive context was intense; In the B2B, Mobil was the most important competitor of Shell and it kept operating in the country directly, with a local production plant, which gave it a shorter and more efficient value chain and this was reflected in the market with a aggressive offer in prices and a full-level technical service. Castrol brand was the other classic competitor of Shell, focused on the B2C market; this brand was also in an indirect model and had lost market share due to its high prices. To compete in the B2C market, they had entered a group of new brands known as "new entrants", these brands were growing significantly based on aggressive prices, good margin for the channel and a portfolio of quality products similar to premium brands. How to recover the lost competitiveness? This case can be applied in postgraduate leadership and strategy courses. The objective is to introduce students to a real dilemma to solve, analyzing the internal and external key factors that determine the results of the business and through this analysis, identify opportunities, threats, strengths and weaknesses. Then the students can propose commercial strategies to solve the problem.<br>Tesis

The thesis is mainly focused on the analysis and evaluation of the effects influencing the sex ratio of live births. After studying of the foreign language literature, main factors influencing the sex ratio are defined. Data used in the thesis (births by the sex) are retrieved from The Human Mortality Database, database of United Nations Statistics Division and from particular statistical offices. Based on the results of the exploratory data analysis, countries with unreliable data (data skewed due to the manipulation or due to the not appropriate standard of the registration of born) are specified. Subsequently, the countries with abnormal values of the sex ratio at birth resulting from the cultural traditions or technological development are defined. For countries with not evident influence of the factors mentioned the analysis of the relations and dependencies between sex ratio at birth and variables chosen (groups of the geographical, socioeconomics and demographical impacts). On the basis of this analysis it has been proved that the sex ratio at birth depends primarily, but not exclusively, on the total fertility rate and life expectancy.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:20:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JosenildoSB.pdf: 307857 bytes, checksum: e1380d8079b6a4dbb18273d73f404aa2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-06-23<br>The study Escola e G?nero: representa??es de g?nero na escola show us the social man made, starting of an analysis in the having fun time in the children?s life and how it?s an important aspect of the building childish universe simbolic. My analysis started in a children?s daily at school and how they noticed the play value od dominant society. Our propouse is think about the linking between ideology, representations and gender like the children?s knowledge in the school activities. The toy, an instrument which is noticed and exist in the funny activities, is full of cultural concepts of male and female parts. Your color, lines, functions and the way you manipulate is driven of gender cathegories. In the scool, the ideological concepts have it?s important way which is to domesticate the feelings, the desires; categorize and normalize them without be known by the educational employers. In the children?s education, the funny time is noticed by others ways and turned as important as others subjects. By the way it?s not noticed by the school, like another thing which isn?t a funny moment. And it?s exactly here in the school funny time, the school did your cultural power of separete the gender and your extencions, feed by the society, generaly, in favor of the man whose woman is your subordinate. This ways of analysis help the society and the school universe about the funny time e how they are important in the Man made life. And how the toys bring the concepts and addicted thinking, ideological which put the power in the stages, without equal, addicted feelings around the gender concepts. I read and used the theories of Kishimoto, Berger & luckmann, Broug?re, Sousa Filho, Bourdieu, Badinter, Geertz, Grossi, Louro, Foucault, among others<br>O estudo Escola e G?nero: representa??es de g?nero na escola nos remete ? quest?o da forma??o do ser social, partindo de uma an?lise do ato do brincar na inf?ncia e de como este constitui aspecto importante na constru??o simb?lica do universo infantil. Ao partir de uma an?lise do cotidiano de crian?as em situa??o escolar e de como elas atualizam no brincar os valores sociais dominantes, propomos pensar as rela??es entre ideologia, representa??es e g?nero como aspecto da forma??o das crian?as na atividade escolar. O brinquedo, um instrumento que vai interagir e tomar forma na brincadeira, tamb?m est? impregnado de conceitos culturais e da biparti??o entre feminino e masculino. Sua forma, cor, funcionalidade e seu uso v?m direcionados por categorias de g?nero. Na escola, os conceitos ideol?gicos possuem seu papel fundamental que ? o de domesticar os impulsos, os desejos e normaliz?-los, sem muitas vezes serem percebidos pelos profissionais da educa??o. Na educa??o escolar infantil, o momento da brincadeira tem sido visto sob outros ?ngulos e passou a ser t?o importante quanto ?s disciplinas pedag?gicas formais. Embora pare?a n?o ter sido percebido pela escola como outra coisa que n?o seja apenas um momento de lazer, podemos perguntar se, justamente a?, na atividade do brincar, a escola n?o cumpriria seu papel de refor?ar a cultura da separa??o de g?nero e suas extens?es, sustentadas pela sociedade, em geral, em detrimento do feminino e em favor da supremacia do masculino. Estes pontos abordados ser?o importantes para uma nova vis?o, tanto social como no universo escolar, sobre como as brincadeiras e os brinquedos s?o importantes na forma??o do indiv?duo e como estes brinquedos trazem consigo elementos ideol?gicos de refor?o das hierarquias, desigualdades, preconceitos em torno ao g?nero. Para fundamentar nosso estudo, estaremos nos apoiando em autores como Kishimoto, Berger & Luckmann, Broug?re, Sousa Filho, Bourdieu, Badinter, Geertz, Grossi, Louro, Foucault, ?ries, entre outros

Questa tesi ha come principale obiettivo quello di esporre un metodo per ricavare le formule in grado di prevedere la forma e le dimensioni dell'immagine di un Buco Nero. Per fare ciò si sono prima introdotti i principali strumenti della geometria differenziale come: varietà, curve, vettori, e tensore metrico, e poi sono state ricavate e studiate le soluzioni di Schwarzschild per le sorgenti statiche, e di Kerr per le sorgenti in rotazione. Tramite l'analisi di queste due soluzioni si sono ricavate le principali caratteristiche di un Buco Nero statico e di uno rotante, in particolare la presenza di uno, per Schwarzschild, o più, per Kerr, orizzonti degli eventi. Gli orizzonti degli eventi rappresentano i punti dove alcuni termini delle metriche di Schwarzschild e Kerr divergono, e sono i limiti non superabili per i segnali provenienti dal Buco Nero. Lo studio delle curve di lunghezza estremante, le geodetiche, è stato lo strumento fondamentale che ha guidato l'intero elaborato. Sono state studiate le geodetiche di tipo luce sia per le traiettorie radiali che per quelle sferiche. In particolare l'analisi delle geodetiche radiali ha portato all'introduzione delle coordinate di Eddington-Finkelstein e di Kerr, in grado di eliminare le singolarità delle metriche in corrispondenza degli orizzonti degli eventi. Per quanto riguarda le traiettorie non radiali si è ottenuta un'unica soluzione stabile per il caso di Schwarzschild, ovvero una sfera fotonica dove si ritrovano le traiettorie circolari e la cui proiezione appare come il caratteristico disco scuro. Per il caso di Kerr si è ottenuta una zona dove si hanno delle traiettorie sferiche e la cui dimensione aumenta all'aumentare della rotazione.

This dissertation attempts to illuminate the enigma of Seneca as seen in Tacitus, Seneca politicus, and his capacity at the Palace. The project thus evaluates the three most accessible sources for both how Nero would have viewed Seneca and how Seneca presented himself to Nero - Nero's childhood and education, Apocolocyntosis, and De clementia. Assessment of these sources through the game-theoretical model of signaling and signal games forms a model of their relationship, which itself becomes the thesis of the dissertation. The thesis contends that, post accession, Seneca en-gaged Nero in a didactic relationship focusing on philosophy, or rather, on his own insights into ethical decision-making and morality in interpersonal dealings. But the details surrounding this deduction nuance its interpretation. His presentation of philosophy to Nero smacks of practicality. It is opportunistic, utilizing the philosophi-cally propaedeutic nature of Nero's education; and his own contribution to the imperi-al intellect, clementia, is not convincingly Stoic. Seneca wished to be trusted for his ability to offer advice on interpersonal dealings, and to form acute judgments about other people and their actions.

This master´s thesis tries to compare and evaluate experiences of the author from his master´s studies. On six selected plays it compares three types of theatre performances – theatre of a big scene (plays Plné ruce revoluce and Cejch), theatre of a puppet scene (plays Slzy ošlehaných mužů and Frankenstein) and author´s production (plays Proroctví severoamerických indiánů and Cern). It investigates its specifics, advantages and disadvantages.

Debido al contexto del Covid 19, decidimos desarrollar un modelo de negocio basado en las necesidades que se presentan a partir de la “nueva normalidad”. Luego de una investigación realizada en Lima, la cual incluyó distintos niveles socioeconómicos, analizamos la información recopilada para determinar cómo los hábitos de higiene de las personas han cambiado y cómo se pueden satisfacer esas nuevas necesidades. La propuesta de negocio es atractiva y viable debido a que encontramos que las personas no cuentan con los insumos necesarios para una correcta rutina de higiene fuera de casa. Es por ello por lo que esta propuesta se basa en la venta, a través de canales digitales, de un producto innovador en el mercado peruano. El producto es un papel jabón antibacterial que permite un correcto lavado de manos fuera de casa que se almacena en un estuche antiviral y antibacterial. Además, el empaquetado del producto es eco amigable y el estuche que hace transportable el Papel jabón es reutilizable, por lo que tiene un impacto positivo en el medio ambiente. El proyecto ha sido evaluado y analizado en distintos niveles para garantizar su viabilidad. Los puntos evaluados fueron: el análisis del entorno, análisis financiero, planeamiento operativo y preoperativo, Recursos Humanos, Marketing, Responsabilidad Social Empresarial y La validación del modelo de negocio y del producto a partir de encuestas y entrevistas tanto a usuarios como expertos en la materia.<br>Due to the actual context of the Covid 19 we decided to develop a business focused on the needs that this “new reality” demands. After a research carried in Lima, involving different socioeconomic levels and demographic profiles and Based on interviews and online information we analyzed that the habits of the consumer have changed a lot this year, especially the cleaning routine. The business proposition is attractive and viable because we realized that people don’t have the necessary resources to complete a properly cleaning routine when they are not at home. So that’s why this business model is based on selling an innovative product in the Peruvian market throughout the social media. The product is an antibacterial paper soap that allows you to wash your hands properly when you are not at home; it also comes with an antibacterial and antiviral case that makes it portable and reliable. The packaging is eco friendly and the case itself too because it can be reused so it has a positive impact in the environment. The project has been evaluated and analyzed from different perspectives to guarantee its viability. The items evaluated were the context analysis, financial analysis, operative and pre-operative planning, HR planning, Marketing planning, social responsibility and a validation of the product with customers and specialists.<br>Trabajo de investigación

Debido al contexto del Covid 19, decidimos desarrollar un modelo de negocio basado en las necesidades que se presentan a partir de la “nueva normalidad”. Luego de una investigación realizada en Lima, la cual incluyó distintos niveles socioeconómicos, analizamos la información recopilada para determinar cómo los hábitos de higiene de las personas han cambiado y cómo se pueden satisfacer esas nuevas necesidades. La propuesta de negocio es atractiva y viable debido a que encontramos que las personas no cuentan con los insumos necesarios para una correcta rutina de higiene fuera de casa. Es por ello por lo que esta propuesta se basa en la venta, a través de canales digitales, de un producto innovador en el mercado peruano. El producto es un papel jabón antibacterial que permite un correcto lavado de manos fuera de casa que se almacena en un estuche antiviral y antibacterial. Además, el empaquetado del producto es eco amigable y el estuche que hace transportable el Papel jabón es reutilizable, por lo que tiene un impacto positivo en el medio ambiente. El proyecto ha sido evaluado y analizado en distintos niveles para garantizar su viabilidad. Los puntos evaluados fueron: el análisis del entorno, análisis financiero, planeamiento operativo y preoperativo, Recursos Humanos, Marketing, Responsabilidad Social Empresarial y La validación del modelo de negocio y del producto a partir de encuestas y entrevistas tanto a usuarios como expertos en la materia.<br>Due to the actual context of the Covid 19 we decided to develop a business focused on the needs that this “new reality” demands. After a research carried in Lima, involving different socioeconomic levels and demographic profiles and Based on interviews and online information we analyzed that the habits of the consumer have changed a lot this year, especially the cleaning routine. The business proposition is attractive and viable because we realized that people don’t have the necessary resources to complete a properly cleaning routine when they are not at home. So that’s why this business model is based on selling an innovative product in the Peruvian market throughout the social media. The product is an antibacterial paper soap that allows you to wash your hands properly when you are not at home; it also comes with an antibacterial and antiviral case that makes it portable and reliable. The packaging is eco friendly and the case itself too because it can be reused so it has a positive impact in the environment. The project has been evaluated and analyzed from different perspectives to guarantee its viability. The items evaluated were the context analysis, financial analysis, operative and pre-operative planning, HR planning, Marketing planning, social responsibility and a validation of the product with customers and specialists.<br>Trabajo de investigación

<p> In the static analysis of functional programs, control-flow analysis (&kappa;-CFA) is a classic method of approximating program behavior as a finite state automata. CFA2 and abstract garbage collection are two recent, yet orthogonal improvements, on &kappa;-CFA. CFA2 approximates program behavior as a pushdown system, using summarization for the stack. CFA2 can accurately approximate arbitrarily-deep recursive function calls, whereas &kappa;-CFA cannot. Abstract garbage collection removes unreachable values from the store/heap. If unreachable values are not removed from a static analysis, they can become reachable again, which pollutes the final analysis and makes it less precise. Unfortunately, as these two techniques were originally formulated, they are incompatible. CFA2's summarization technique for managing the stack obscures the stack such that abstract garbage collection is unable to examine the stack for reachable values.</p><p> This dissertation presents introspective pushdown control-flow analysis, which manages the stack explicitly through stack changes (pushes and pops). Because this analysis is able to examine the stack by how it has changed, abstract garbage collection is able to examine the stack for reachable values. Thus, introspective pushdown control-flow analysis merges successfully the benefits of CFA2 and abstract garbage collection to create a more precise static analysis.</p><p> Additionally, the high-performance computing community has viewed functional programming techniques and tools as lacking the efficiency necessary for their applications. Nebo is a declarative domain-specific language embedded in C++ for discretizing partial differential equations for transport phenomena. For efficient execution, Nebo exploits a version of expression templates, based on the C++ template system, which is a type-less, completely-pure, Turing-complete functional language with burdensome syntax. Nebo's declarative syntax supports functional tools, such as point-wise lifting of complex expressions and functional composition of stencil operators. Nebo's primary abstraction is mathematical assignment, which separates what a calculation does from how that calculation is executed. Currently Nebo supports single-core execution, multicore (thread-based) parallel execution, and GPU execution. With single-core execution, Nebo performs on par with the loops and code that it replaces in Wasatch, a pre-existing high-performance simulation project. With multicore (thread-based) execution, Nebo can linearly scale (with roughly 90% efficiency) up to 6 processors, compared to its single-core execution. Moreover, Nebo's GPU execution can be up to 37x faster than its single-core execution. Finally, Wasatch (the pre-existing high-performance simulation project which uses Nebo) can scale up to 262K cores.</p>

Tese (doutorado) - Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Centro de Teologia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia<br>Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-19T09:42:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0

The diploma thesis deals with HIL simulation (hardware in the loop). The thesis contains a manipulator created in the virtual software V-REP. The connection of real inputs and virtual outputs of the machine is realized by the microcontroller Arduino UNO. The first task deals with the control of the manipulator using the joystick PS2. The second task is a separate control of the robot using an microcontroller Arduino UNO. The resulting connection can be modified in the furher and the interface modified. The work will be used for educational purposes.

Cílem této studie bylo především ověřit či naopak vyvrátit v úvodu stanovenou hypotézu, že nekvalifikovaný odhad způsobu stanovení transferových cen a tedy nevhodná úprava daňového základu plátce ze strany české daňové správy přináší České republice vysoké riziko mezinárodních arbitráží, které představují nejen značnou finanční zátěž, ale také nadbytečnou práci pro ministerské úředníky. Sledovali jsme situaci v oblasti platné legislativy v této oblasti, zahraniční praxe a standardů a především pak dosavadních kontrol zaměřených na transferové ceny. Ze získaných poznatků však vyplývá, že stávající přístup české daňové správy k této problematice nahrává spíše opačné domněnce; nedostatečná kontrola ze strany finančních orgánů a tudíž i absence mezinárodních sporů v této oblasti vede k jisté laxnosti poplatníků a zprostředkovaně tak může nahrávat daňovým únikům v důsledku uměle podhodnocených zdanitelných zisků?

This thesis deals with the idea of affirmative action and its importance in the development of American society. The main goal is to analyze the effects of affirmative action and to evaluate its positive and negative impacts. The thesis has following structure. At first the theory and basic defenitions of affirmative action and other connected terms are explained. The second part is oriented on historical development of the fight against discrimination and for equal rights of minorities and women. Since 60's it focuses directly on affirmative action programs. At the same time the public stance is examined as well as the main influeces that were and are able to change it. That is why this work deals with some concrete Supreme Court cases which played an essential role in changing the focus and popularity of affirmative action. Particular Supreme Court sentences acted in both directions - there are some cases which were judged in favor of institutions practising affirmative policy or of a member of a group which had to face past discrimination. On the other hand, some sentences led to the end of such programs, especially in 80's when many conservative justices were nominated by president Ronald Reagan. The present situation and the future of affirmative action depend fundamentally on the stance of U.S. administration. The new one around president Barack Obama gives hope to affirmative policy and its supporters.

This thesis deals with the interpretation of the first-century AD Roman emperor Nero as the Antichrist in Christian works of late antiquity and the nineteenth century. Many scholars in recent decades have argued that Nero occupied a pivotal place in apocalyptic literature, based on literary evidence from the early Christian centuries. They took their cue from writers in late antiquity, who claimed that the likes of St Paul and St John purposely shaped their Antichrist figures around Nero because of the perceived similarities between the behaviour of the emperor and the characteristics of the Antichrist. I suggest, however, that the Nero-Antichrist paradigm was actually constructed in late antiquity, when the emperor was already established as the mad tyrant we are familiar with from classical historiography and Nero could, therefore, be fully conceptualised as an Antichrist figure. Writers could exploit both biblical accounts of the Antichrist and historiographical depictions of Nero to shape their image. The paradigm was useful to late-antique Christians because it offered a way of explaining the eschatological figure to wide audiences who were already familiar with the most infamous of Roman emperors. This apocalyptic portrayal of Nero was renewed in the nineteenth century in the works of philosophers and theologians like Ernest Renan and F.W. Farrar because it was once again helpful for informing debates and addressing the era’s religious concerns. This stage in Nero’s reception history proved to be intrinsic to how the emperor is thought about today – Renan and Farrar have had considerable influence on modern biographies written about Nero since the early-twentieth century. By taking a distinctive approach to the paradigm, this thesis contributes to both theology and history scholarship by challenging the assumptions made in biblical studies about Nero and his reign, while adding to ancient history an examination of a paradigm which fundamentally influenced Nero’s reception in history.

Orientador: Elemir Macedo de Souza<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-02T08:10:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vallarelli_AndrelouFraleteAyres_M.pdf: 3030545 bytes, checksum: f5422b2809fc2e701ad9247ff53cc9c4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002<br>Resumo:Realizou-se exame dermatológico em duzentos e oitenta e dois alunos com idade entre três e dezessete anos de uma escola particular composta, na sua maioria, por holandeses e descendentes de holandeses, no período de 25 de agosto de 1999 a 30 de maio de 2001. Foi criado um banco de dados após registrarem-se e catalogarem-se as manifestações dermatológicas encontradas no exame. Analisaram-se estatisticamente os resultados e as variáveis de interesse para os riscos que esta população - que se manteve fechada, miscigenou a partir da terceira geração com a população autóctone e vive fora do seu habitat natural - tem para desenvolver fotoenvelhecimento e câncer da pele. Estabeleceu-se um programa de prevenção contra o câncer da pele após aceitação e interesse demonstrado pela comunidade. Os elementos encontrados neste trabalho estarão à disposição da comunidade e de outros pesquisadores<br>Abstract: From 25th August 1999 to 30th May 2001, a dermatological examination was performed on two hundred and eighty two private school students who were mostly of Dutch nationality or Dutch descendents and whose ages ranged from 3 years to 17 years. Dermatological manifestations that were revealed during the examination were registered and catalogued in a data bank. Statistical analysis of the results and variables demonstrated a risk for the development of photoaging and skin cancer in a population that has maintained itself isolated, lived out of its natural habitat and has only mixed with the autochthonous population after the third generation. A plan for the prevention of skin cancer was established after the community demonstrated its interest and acceptance. The findings of this study are at the disposal of the community and other researchers<br>Mestrado<br>Clinica Medica<br>Mestre em Clinica Medica

This thesis is about a body of contemporary neo-Victorian novels whose uneasy relationship with the past can be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, even cannibalism. Cannibalism operates on different levels throughout many works, and there is a sense of surreptitious insistence about it in the genre as a whole. Not only is the imagery of eating repeatedly used by critics to comprehend neo-Victorian literature, the theme of cannibalism itself also appears overtly or implicitly in a number of the novels and their Victorian prototypes, thereby mirroring the cannibalistic relationship between the contemporary and the Victorian. I argue that aggressive eating or cannibalism can be seen as a pathological and defining characteristic of neo-Victorian fiction. It provides a framework for understanding the genre’s origin, its conflicted, ambivalent and violent relationship with its Victorian predecessors and the grotesque and gothic effects that it generates in the fiction. Each chapter hinges on one type of ’cannibal’ through which the discussion of the theory of neo-Victorian cannibalism is elucidated. The first chapter investigates the phenomenon of incorporating the biographies of Victorian celebrities in neo-Victorian fiction. Using Gaynor Arnold’s Girl in a Blue Dress (2008) and Richard Flanagan’s Wanting (2008), I discuss how Charles Dickens and Sir John Franklin are portrayed as sexual and colonial Bluebeard cannibals, a form of representation which provides a revisionist critique of the misogynist, oppressive and racialist undercurrent of Victorian ideology. The second chapter examines the vampiric cannibal and analyses three neo-Victorian adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) - Tom Holland’s Supping With Panthers (1996), Leslie S. Klinger’s The New Annotated Dracula (2008) and Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt’s Dracula the Un-Dead (2009). In these works, the writers simultaneously cannibalise the original text and its author’s biography, and in so doing challenge Stoker’s authorial power and clear a creative space for themselves. In the third chapter, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847) is read as an important intertext. The chapter studies the representation of Bertha, a character often portrayed in cannibalistic terms, in Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and three relatively recent neo-Victorian novels - Lin Haire-Sargeant’s H: The Story of Heathcliff’s Journey Back to Wuthering Heights (1992), D.M. Thomas’s Charlotte: The Final Journey of Jane Eyre (2000) and Emma Tennant’s Adele: Jane Eyre’s Hidden Story (2002). I argue that a narrative reorientation away from Bertha in the three later novels, which cannibalise both Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea, prompts us to reconsider the level of political engagementof the neo-Victorian genre. The fourth chapter centres on the ’academic cannibal’ and discusses the role of scholarly characters in neo-Victorian novels including A.S. Byatt’s Possession (1990), Graham Swift’s Ever After (1992), A.N. Wilson’s A Jealous Ghost (2005), Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip (2006), Scarlett Thomas’s The End of Mr Y (2006) and Justine Picardie’s Daphne (2008). I argue that the use of scholars in these novels reflects a mutual dependence between the neo-Victorian genre and the academy, a relationship that can be viewed as both cannibalistic and competitive. Finally, the Conclusion speculates on how, under certain circumstances, the Victorian can be seen to cannibalise the contemporary and how the relationship between past and present will continue to evolve in the neo-Victorian genre.

Els oceans juguen un paper molt important modulant la temperatura de la Terra absorbint, emmagatzemant i transportant l'energia que ens arriba del sol. Entendre millor la dinàmica dels oceans pot ajudar a millorar les prediccions meteorològiques i a comprendre millor el clima, qüestions d'especial rellevància per la societat. Utilitzant ordinadors ha sigut possible resoldre numèricament les equacions que descriuen la dinàmica dels oceans, i millorant com els models oceànics exploten els recursos computacionals, podem reduir el cost de les simulacions alhora que fem possibles nous desenvolupaments que milloraràn la qualitat científica dels models. Enfrontant els reptes computacionals de la simulació oceànica podem contribuir en camps que tenen un impacte directe en la societat mentre reduïm el cost dels experiments. Per ser un dels principals models oceànics, la tesis s'ha centrat en el model NEMO. Per tal de millorar el rendiment dels models oceànics, un dels objectius inicials va ser entendre millor el seu comportament computacional. Per aconseguir-ho, es va proposar una metodologia d'anàlisis, posant especial atenció en les comunicacions entre processos. Utilitzada amb NEMO, va ajudar a resaltar diverses ineficiències en la implementació que, un cop sol·lucionades, van portar a una millora del 46-49% en la velocitat màxima del model, tot millorant la seva escalabilitat. Aquest resultat ilustra que aquest tipus d'anàlisis poden ajudar als desenvolupadors dels models a adaptar-los tot mostrant l'origen dels problemes que pateixen. Un altre dels problemes detectats va ser que l'impacte d'escollir una descomposició de domini concreta estava molt subestimat, ja que en certes circumstàncies el model triava una descomposició sub-optima. Tenint en compte els factors que fan que una descomposició concreta afecti el rendiment del model, es va proposar un mètode per fer una selecció òptima. Els resultats mostren que parant atenció a la descomposició no només es poden estalviar recursos sinó que la velocitat màxima del model també se'n beneficia, arribant al 41% de millora en alguns casos. Després dels èxits aconseguits en la primera part de la tesis, arribant a doblar la velocitat màxima del model, l'atenció es va posar sobre els algoritmes de precisió mixta. Idealment, un ús adequat de la precisió numèrica ha de permetre millorar el rendiment d'un model sense perjudicar-ne els resultats. Per tal d'aconseguir-ho en models oceànics, es va desenvolupar un mètode que permet determinar quina és la precisió necessària en cada una de las variables d'un codi informàtic. Utilitzat amb NEMO i ROMS va resultar que en ambdós models la major part de les variables pot utilitzar sense problema menys precisió que els 64-bits habituals, mostrant que potencialment els models oceànics es poden beneficiar molt d'una reducció de la precisió numèrica. Finalment, durant el desenvolupament de la tesi es va observar que degut a la no-linealitat dels models oceànics, determinar si un canvi en el codi informàtic perjudica la qualitat dels resultats esdevé molt complicat. Per solucionar-ho, es va presentar un mètode per verificar els resultats de models no-lineals. Encara que les contribucions que donen forma a aquesta tesis han sigut diverses, conjuntament han ajudat a identificar i combatre els reptes computacionals que afecten els models oceànics. Aquestes contribucions no només han resultat en quatre publicacions sinó que també han resultat en la contribució al codi informàtic de NEMO i del consorci EC-Earth. Per tant, els resultat de la recerca realitzada ja estan tenint un impacte positiu en la comunitat, ajudant als usuaris dels models a estalviar recursos i temps. A més a més, aquestes contribucions no només han ajudat a millorar significativament el rendiment computacional de NEMO sinó que han sobrepassat l'objectiu inicial de la tesis i poden ser transferibles a altres models computacionals.<br>The ocean plays a very important role in modulating the temperature of the Earth through absorbing, storing and transporting the energy that arrives from the sun. Better understanding the dynamics of the ocean can help us to better predict the weather and to better comprehend the climate, two topics of special relevance for society. Ocean models had become an extremely useful tools, as they became a framework upon with it was possible to build knowledge. Using computers it became possible to numerically solve the fluid equations of the ocean and by improving how ocean models exploit the computational resources, we can reduce the cost of simulation whilst enabling new developments that will increase its skill. By facing the computational challenges of ocean simulation we can contribute to topics that have a direct impact on society whilst helping to reduce the cost of our experiments. Being the major European ocean model and one of the main state-of-the-art ocean models worldwide, this thesis has focused on the Nucleus NEMO. To find a way to improve the computational performance of ocean models, one of the initial goals was to better understand their computational behaviour. To do so, an analysis methodology was proposed, paying special attention to inter-process communication. Used with NEMO, the methodology helped to highlight several implementation inefficiencies, whose optimization led to a 46-49\% gain in the maximum model throughput, increasing the scalability of the model. This result illustrated that this kind of analysis can significantly help model developers to adapt their code highlighting where the problems really are. Another of the issues detected was that the impact of the domain decomposition was alarmingly underestimated, since in certain circumstances the model's algorithm was selecting a sub-optimal decomposition. Taking into account the factors that make a specific decomposition impact the performance, a method to select an optimal decomposition was proposed. The results showed that that by a wise selection of the domain decomposition it was possible not only to save resources but also to increase the maximum model throughput by a 41\% in some cases. After the successes achieved during the first part of the thesis, that allowed an increase of the maximum throughput of the model by a factor of more than two, the attention focused on mixed-precision algorithms. Ideally, a proper usage of numerical precision would allow to improve the computational performance without sacrificing accuracy. In order to achieve that in ocean models, a method to find out the precision required for each one of the real variables in a code was presented. The method was used with NEMO and with the Regional Ocean Modelling System showing that in both models most of the variables could use less than the standard 64-bit without problems. Last but not least, it was found that being ocean models nonlinear it was not straightforward to determine whether a change made into the code was deteriorating the accuracy of the model or not. In order to solve this problem a method to verify the accuracy of a non-linear model was presented. Although the different contributions that gave form to this thesis have been diverse, they helped to identify and tackle computational challenges that affect computational ocean models. These contributions resulted in four peer-reviewed publications and many outreach activities. Moreover, the research outcomes have reached NEMO and EC-Earth consortium codes, having already helped model users to save resources and time. These contributions not only have significantly improved the computational performance of the NEMO model but have surpassed the original scope of the thesis and would be easily transferable to other computational models.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007.<br>Title from first page of PDF file (viewed January 12, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-121).

Submitted by Fabíola Silva (fabiola.silva@famerp.br) on 2018-01-02T18:01:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 lenzaalvescabral_dissert.pdf: 3193383 bytes, checksum: 640db149c530f98dab2866245e870761 (MD5)<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-02T18:01:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 lenzaalvescabral_dissert.pdf: 3193383 bytes, checksum: 640db149c530f98dab2866245e870761 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-17<br>Introduction: establishing causal connections in occupational accidents is essential to ensure the rights and duties of employees, employers, and the government. Nevertheless, lack of consensus in the performance of this task is common in labor claims. Objective: to compare causal connections established by the SEMST (Specialized Services in Safety Engineering and Occupational Medicine), the INSS (National Social Security Institute) and the Labor Court in 71 labor claims with sentences already handed down. Methods: this was a quantitative data analysis study with a documental, descriptive, analytical and reflexive design, which aimed to identify similarities and differences between the causal connections established by the three institutions (SESMT, INSS, and Labor Court) responsible for this task. Our goal was to characterize legitimate occupational accidents and distinguish them from events that cannot be characterized as legitimate. We searched the Brazilian Labor Legislation to identify what is an “occupational accident”, who is responsible for its characterization, which legal and technical criteria are used by each responsible institution, and what are the main causes of differences and coincidences between the three conclusions drawn. We also analyzed 71 labor claims with sentences already handed down in 2014 by judges of a labor court and compared the three causation connections established by the SESMT, Social Security and the Labor Court for the same labor claim. We verified whether the causal connections were positive or negative, registering agreement and noting the justifications in cases of differences between them. Results: our bibliographical search revealed that agreement between the three institutions is due to law 8213 being used by each of them to legally support the characterization of occupational accidents. Differences arise because each institution has its specific legislation, such as the Normative Instruction 31 and the Civil Code, which are exclusively used by the INSS and the Labor Court, respectively. The data obtained from the analysis of the labor claims due to occupational accidents revealed a predominance of negative causal connections in all three institutions for the same claim (90.14% by the SESMT, 77.46% by the INSS, and 88.73% by the Labor Court). We also found a predominance of coincident causal connections for the same labor claims by all three institutions (they coincided in approximately 80% of the cases, i.e., they were either all positive or all negative). The INSS was found to establish the greatest number of positive causal connections. Moreover, there was a significant difference in the proportion of positive causal connections established by the SESMT. Judges justified their disagreement with the other causal connections by stating that they were based on two elements: culpability and time-bar. Conclusion: we found that the causal connection used by the three institutions are homonymous for three types of conclusions; and that, although they have a common legal base, they are also subjected to laws that are specific to each of the institutions. A greater harmonization of the dissonant causal connections established by the SESMT and the INSS could help reduce the number, especially in Labor Courts, of “empty claims” with no legal or technical substantiation that overload and burden the judiciary and pose a financial burden to the country.<br>Introducción: la determinación del nexo causal en accidente de trabajo es fundamental para garantizar los derechos y deberes del empleado, del empleador y del gobierno. Sin embargo, la falta de consenso en la realización de esta actividad es muy común en las demandas laborales. Objetivo: comparar los nexos causales determinados por los SESMT (Servicios Especializados en Ingeniería de la Seguridad y Medicina del Trabajo), el INSS (Instituto Nacional de Seguridad Social) y los tribunales de trabajo, en 71 demandas laborales con sentencias ya dictadas. Métodos: estudio de análisis de datos cuantitativos, con delineamiento documental, descriptivo, analítico y reflexivo, que tiene por objeto identificar las similitudes y diferencias entre los nexos causales establecidos por las tres instituciones (SESMT, INSS, y los tribunales de trabajo) responsables de esta tarea. El objetivo es caracterizar los verdaderos accidentes de trabajo y distinguirlos de eventos que no se encuadran en esa clasificación. Se realizaron búsquedas en la legislación laboral brasileña con el fin de identificar qué es un "accidente de trabajo", quién es responsable de su caracterización, qué criterios legales y técnicos son utilizados por cada institución responsable, y cuáles son las principales causas de las diferencias y coincidencias entre las tres conclusiones tomadas. También se analizaron 71 demandas laborales con sentencias ya dictadas en 2014 por jueces de los tribunales de trabajo, comparando los nexos causales establecidos para la misma demanda laboral por los SESMT, la Seguridad Social y los tribunales de trabajo. Verificamos si los nexos causales eran positivos o negativos, registrando las coincidencias y, en caso de que existieran diferencias entre ellas, analizando las justificaciones. Resultados: la búsqueda bibliográfica reveló que la concordancia de las tres instituciones se debe a que la ley 8213 es utilizada por cada una de ellas para apoyar legalmente la caracterización de los accidentes de trabajo. Las diferencias surgen porque cada institución tiene su legislación específica, como la Instrucción Normativa 31 y el Código Civil, que son utilizadas exclusivamente por el INSS y los tribunales de trabajo, respectivamente. El análisis de las demandas laborales por accidentes de trabajo reveló un predominio de nexos causales negativos determinados por las tres instituciones para la misma demanda (90,14% por los SESMT, 77,46% por el INSS y 88,73% por los tribunales de trabajo). También se encontró un predominio de nexos causales coincidentes entre las tres instituciones para las mismas demandas laborales (que coincidieron en aproximadamente el 80% de los casos, es decir, eran todas positivas o todas negativas). Se encontró también que el INSS determinó el mayor número de nexos causales positivos. Además, hubo una diferencia significativa en relación a la proporción de nexos causales positivos establecidos por los SESMT. Los jueces justificaron su desacuerdo con los nexos determinados por las otras instituciones al afirmar que se basaban en dos elementos: la culpa y la prescripción del plazo. Conclusión: se demostró que la expresión «nexo causal» es utilizada por las tres instituciones de manera homónima para tres tipos de conclusiones; Y que, si bien tienen un fundamento jurídico común, también están sujetos a leyes específicas de cada institución. Una mayor armonización de los nexos causales disonantes establecidos por los SESMT y el INSS podría ayudar a reducir el número, sobre todo en los tribunales de trabajo, de "demandas vacías" sin justificación legal o técnica, que sobrecargan al Poder Judicial y suponen una carga financiera para el país.<br>Introdução: o nexo causal no acidente do trabalho é fundamental para garantir os direitos e deveres do empregado, empregador e governo. Para o trabalhador, representa a possibilidade de garantia dos direitos gerados pelo acidente do trabalho; para o empregador, prevenção do passivo trabalhista, segurança jurídica e otimização das ações corporativas para a sua prevenção; para o governo, redução do chamado Custo Brasil, termo genérico sobre o conjunto de dificuldades estruturais no desenvolvimento do país. Objetivo: identificar e compreender as causas das semelhanças e divergências do estabelecimento do nexo causal no acidente de trabalho entre as três instituições responsáveis pelo seu estabelecimento (SESMT, Previdência Social e Judiciário), visando facilitar a caracterização do legítimo acidente do trabalho e a descaracterização de eventos que não se enquadram como tal. Método: pesquisa de delineamento descritivo-exploratório, documental, analítico-reflexivo. Foi realizado um estudo bibliográfico da legislação trabalhista brasileira para identificar o que é “acidente do trabalho”, quem são os responsáveis pela sua caracterização, quais são os critérios técnico-legais usados por cada responsável e as causas das principais divergências e coincidências entre as três conclusões. Também foi feito um levantamento em reclamações trabalhistas decorrentes de acidente do trabalho, com sentenças já proferidas pelos juízes de uma vara trabalhista, no ano de 2014, que resultou em setenta e uma reclamações selecionadas, comparando os nexos causais das três instituições em uma mesma reclamação trabalhista, se positivo ou negativo, registrando as coincidências e, nas divergências, informando as causas justificadas. Resultados: o estudo bibliográfico demonstrou que a convergência entre as três instituições deve-se à lei 8213, presente na sustentação legal da caracterização do acidente do trabalho de todas. As divergências ocorreram pela existência de legislação específica de cada instituição, como a Instrução Normativa 31 e o Código Civil, de uso exclusivo, respectivamente, do INSS e da Justiça do Trabalho. Nas reclamações trabalhistas houve uma predominância de nexos negativos simultaneamente das três instituições para a mesma reclamação trabalhista (90,14% do SESMT, 77,46% do INSS e 88,73% da Justiça do trabalho); predominou a coincidência dos três nexos para a mesma reclamação trabalhista (cerca de 80% os três nexos coincidiram, todos positivos, ou todas negativos); o nexo do INSS foi o campeão em positividade; as justificativas do juiz, ao discordar dos outros nexos, foram baseadas na culpa e a prescrição de prazo. Conclusão: O estudo demonstrou que o termo nexo causal usado pelas três instituições apresentam fundamentação legal em comum e também leis específicas de cada instituição, explicando assim as suas semelhanças e diferenças. Uma maior uniformização entre os destoantes nexos do SESMT e INSS poderia reduzir a incitação ao alto número de “demandas vazias, por reclamações sem fundamentação técnico-legal, que sobrecarregam o nosso já abarrotado e oneroso judiciário, gerando um grande impacto no custo Brasil.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2002-05-17Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:07:44Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 barbosa_acb_me_assis.pdf: 232085 bytes, checksum: f86274a88ca92e6e49914f0232f7e15b (MD5)<br>Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)<br>O trabalho de mestrado Perfil de Prudente de Moraes, neto, buscou recuperar parte dos artigos publicados pelo autor em diferentes periódicos. Dessa forma, esse trabalho será composto por uma introdução bibliográfica e intelectual de Prudente de Moraes, neto, apresentado por meio de alguns de seus amigos; logo após segue o corpo do trabalho, que é uma reprodução de parte dos artigos encontrados. Quanto à organização do trabalho, este contará, de início, com o prefácio introdutório, composto pelos dados biográficos do autor, de maneira mais ampla, em suas características intelectuais de crítico e estudioso da literatura brasileira, seguido do corpus central, ou seja, a reprodução parcial dos artigos encontrados.<br>The master degree project Perfil de Prudente de Moraes, neto, tried to recover part of the articles published by the author in different newspapers. This way, this project will be composed by a biographical and intellectual introduction of Prudente de Moraes, neto, presented through some oh his friends; right after the project itself will follow, wich is a reproduction of a part of the articles found. As for the organization of the project, this will coutain, in its beginning, the introductionary preface, composed by biographical data from the author, on a wider view, about his intelectual characteristics as a critic and studious man of the Brazilian literature, followed by the central corpus what means, a partial reproduction of the articles found.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-03T11:52:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-09-30Bitstream added on 2015-03-03T12:06:21Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000806554.pdf: 3962251 bytes, checksum: 0339e875339598e8853ab0316db78d68 (MD5)<br>O que é o Nego Fugido? Responder essa questão parece impossível. Como falar de algo tangível, corpóreo, que as palavras não conseguem dimensionar? Para isso, decidi ouvir a voz do corpo e dos fantasmas. A palavra, nesta pesquisa, é vista da perspectiva artaudiana ? toma uma dimensão material, ela é gesto e ato. Nessa pesquisa, o Nego Fugido é visto por sobre os ombros daqueles que fazem a manifestação, mas, também, há um olhar que se dirige às margens, ao assombroso, às notas de rodapé. Um olhar desconfiado, atento ao que escapa às palavras, atento aos elementos subjetivos. Aqui, os estudos sobre teatro, antropologia e performance estão em estreita relação com minhas vivências como participante do Nego Fugido a fim de constituir um corpo documental que possibilite gerar significativas reflexões sobre a manifestação. No entanto, não busco os gestos e detalhes de comportamento para revelar o modelo. Meu olhar dirige-se justamente ao que escapa ao modelo, àquilo que o modelo tende a ocultar. Não se engane! Esse não é o olhar da verdade absoluta, é apenas um olhar, uma visão de dentro que possibilita, também, escapar reflexões mais direcionadas, fragmentadas e distanciadas pelos antolhos. Com isso quero dizer que esta dissertação não basta para responder minhas inquietações sobre o Nego Fugido. Estou ansioso para ser assombrado, mais uma vez, na próxima aparição da manifestação. O Nego Fugido explicado é uma abominação. Experimentá-lo em vez de falar sobre ele, eis a que estou condenado<br>What Nego Fugido is? To answer this question may seem impossible. How to speak of something tangible, corporal, that words can not accomplish? To work this out, I have decided to listen to the voice of the body and of the phantoms. The word, in this research, is considered from an artaudian perspective: it takes a material dimension, it is gesture and action. In this research, Nego Fugido is seen over the shoulders of those who perform it but there is also an eye that looks to the margins, the haunting, the footnotes. A suspicious eye, aware of what escapes from the words, aware of the subjective aspects. Here, theatrical, anthropological and performance studies are in close relation with my experiences as a Nego Fugido member to build a documental body that promotes meaningful reflections on the manifestation. However, I do not search for gestures and strips of behavior to revel a model. My eye looks precisely for what escapes from the model, for what the models tries to hide. Do not be fooled! This is not an eye of the absolute truth. It is just an eye, an inside view that allows escaping from reflections more directed, fragmented and distant. I mean by this that the work now presented is not enough to answer my concerns about Nego Fugido. I am anxious to be haunted one more time at the next apparition of the manifestation. Nego Fugido explained is an abomination. To experiment it instead of talking about it, that is my curse

Orientador: Marianna Francisca Martins Monteiro<br>Banca: Alberto Tsuyoshi Ikeda<br>Banca: John Cowart Dawsey<br>Resumo: O que é o Nego Fugido? Responder essa questão parece impossível. Como falar de algo tangível, corpóreo, que as palavras não conseguem dimensionar? Para isso, decidi ouvir a voz do corpo e dos fantasmas. A palavra, nesta pesquisa, é vista da perspectiva artaudiana − toma uma dimensão material, ela é gesto e ato. Nessa pesquisa, o Nego Fugido é visto por sobre os ombros daqueles que fazem a manifestação, mas, também, há um olhar que se dirige às margens, ao assombroso, às notas de rodapé. Um olhar desconfiado, atento ao que escapa às palavras, atento aos elementos subjetivos. Aqui, os estudos sobre teatro, antropologia e performance estão em estreita relação com minhas vivências como participante do Nego Fugido a fim de constituir um corpo documental que possibilite gerar significativas reflexões sobre a manifestação. No entanto, não busco os gestos e detalhes de comportamento para revelar o modelo. Meu olhar dirige-se justamente ao que escapa ao modelo, àquilo que o modelo tende a ocultar. Não se engane! Esse não é o olhar da verdade absoluta, é apenas um olhar, uma visão de dentro que possibilita, também, escapar reflexões mais direcionadas, fragmentadas e distanciadas pelos antolhos. Com isso quero dizer que esta dissertação não basta para responder minhas inquietações sobre o Nego Fugido. Estou ansioso para ser assombrado, mais uma vez, na próxima aparição da manifestação. O Nego Fugido explicado é uma abominação. Experimentá-lo em vez de falar sobre ele, eis a que estou condenado<br>Abstract: What Nego Fugido is? To answer this question may seem impossible. How to speak of something tangible, corporal, that words can not accomplish? To work this out, I have decided to listen to the voice of the body and of the phantoms. The word, in this research, is considered from an artaudian perspective: it takes a material dimension, it is gesture and action. In this research, Nego Fugido is seen over the shoulders of those who perform it but there is also an eye that looks to the margins, the haunting, the footnotes. A suspicious eye, aware of what escapes from the words, aware of the subjective aspects. Here, theatrical, anthropological and performance studies are in close relation with my experiences as a Nego Fugido member to build a documental body that promotes meaningful reflections on the manifestation. However, I do not search for gestures and strips of behavior to revel a model. My eye looks precisely for what escapes from the model, for what the models tries to hide. Do not be fooled! This is not an eye of the absolute truth. It is just an eye, an inside view that allows escaping from reflections more directed, fragmented and distant. I mean by this that the work now presented is not enough to answer my concerns about Nego Fugido. I am anxious to be haunted one more time at the next apparition of the manifestation. Nego Fugido explained is an abomination. To experiment it instead of talking about it, that is my curse<br>Mestre

Orientador: José Carlos Zamboni<br>Banca: Rosane Gazolla Alves Feitosa<br>Banca: Luiz Eduardo Ramos Borges<br>Resumo: O trabalho de mestrado Perfil de Prudente de Moraes, neto, buscou recuperar parte dos artigos publicados pelo autor em diferentes periódicos. Dessa forma, esse trabalho será composto por uma introdução bibliográfica e intelectual de Prudente de Moraes, neto, apresentado por meio de alguns de seus amigos; logo após segue o corpo do trabalho, que é uma reprodução de parte dos artigos encontrados. Quanto à organização do trabalho, este contará, de início, com o prefácio introdutório, composto pelos dados biográficos do autor, de maneira mais ampla, em suas características intelectuais de crítico e estudioso da literatura brasileira, seguido do corpus central, ou seja, a reprodução parcial dos artigos encontrados.<br>Abstract: The master degree project Perfil de Prudente de Moraes, neto, tried to recover part of the articles published by the author in different newspapers. This way, this project will be composed by a biographical and intellectual introduction of Prudente de Moraes, neto, presented through some oh his friends; right after the project itself will follow, wich is a reproduction of a part of the articles found. As for the organization of the project, this will coutain, in its beginning, the introductionary preface, composed by biographical data from the author, on a wider view, about his intelectual characteristics as a critic and studious man of the Brazilian literature, followed by the central "corpus" what means, a partial reproduction of the articles found.<br>Mestre

This work is about problems of visuality in artistical and clearly biological levels of taking in. About live picture- digital projections as primal carrier of information. About definition of live-show and functions of this topic on theatrical stage. As kinetism of picture in form of on-line projection. Key point is for me digital picture feedback (digital picture echo), development of projecting film efects and ways of using them. Kinetism in theater seen as rhythm not only in dramaturgic way, but defined by picture and complemented with sound. It is about my personal experience during working time on projects Stanice (The Station) and LAPOhádky (LAPON Fairy Tales - Fairy Tales Of People Of Lapland), where I was as a member of creating team aplicated upwritten things in practical way in the shape of performance. I am interested in parameters deciding about way how is viewer processing his visual experience. Ratio between visual/artistical and dramaturgical part of performance. Influence on viewer and the level of ability of theatrical form to carry right information in clearly visual way. I am mentioning that kinds of fine art which are using theatrical elements, their connections and differencies. (Action art, Environmental art, Performance, Happening) The principal of filming-like way contained in theatrical form. This work also contains personal analysis of Robert Lepage movie - Far Side Of The Moon.

The goal of this work is to popularize certain sound theory issues (e.g. storytelling, interactivity/immersion, sound/image perspective, semiotics). It deals with the basic sound/image and diegetic/extradiegetic relations, compiling the works of various sound theoreticians. Despite being focused on narrative film, it discusses specific features of four most common semi-narrative genres and gives a hint of sound/image relations in non-narrative and interactive audiovisual media. Apart from the sound/image/diegesis relations, this work briefly explains the synchresis phenomenon and the meaning of tight or loose sound/image synchronicity for tampering with the perspective and perception of the filmic time and space. The appendices contain some information concerning related themes – a short combinatorics column, a column explaining the three basic sound planes, the use of sound as a signifier and a longer quotation of Michel Chion’s article on rendered sound.

The main of objective of this diploma thesis is to define health care as economic goods based on the theoretical definitions. The fact whether health care should be considered as private goods or public goods plays a vital role in this debate. The initial hypothesis presupposes that health care is (based on the basic economic criteria) private goods; however there is objective evidence demonstrating that health care should be understood in terms of public goods. The author defines the necessary terminology and theoretical concepts. According to several expert concepts the author concludes that based on the basic economic definitions health care could be understood as private goods, admitting that in the real world objective limitations exist, which prevent keeping health care exclusively in the economic sphere. The thesis also evaluates the role of individual health care sectors, including their drawbacks. The author demonstrates all concepts on the Czech health care system. In the analytic part of the thesis the author demonstrates discrepancies between theoretical concepts and practice on specific models, including the risks of exclusively private financing of health care. For this purpose three income groups has been defined. The author compares expenditures of these groups on selected medical services with different levels of their savings. The thesis also deals with methods of economical analysis and its limitations in health care system analysis.

vii, 103 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.<br>East Asia regionalism emerged in the context of the end of the Cold War, the break-up of the Soviet Union and the outgrowth of regionalism in many parts of the world such as the unprecedented expansion of the European Union and the development of the North American Free Trade Agreement. It has been nearly two decades since its inception and almost every aspect of East Asian regionalism has been explored in depth with the exception of the application of theoretical explanations to East Asia regionalism. This paper is an attempt to apply international relations theories of neo-realism and neoliberalism to East Asia regionalism. The paper has found that both neo-realism and neoliberalism have found evidence in East Asia to support their assumptions about regionalism but neither has given fully appropriate explanations to East Asia regionalism. The case study of Vietnam' s regional cooperation is also supportive of that conclusion. In addition, the case of Vietnam indicates that concrete conditions of each country have played an important role in its incentives and participation into regionalism. The paper invites explanations for East Asia regionalism from other theories in international relations.<br>Advisers: Diane M. Dunlap, Philip D. Young, Kathie Carpenter

In this dissertation I argue that a neo-Schopenhauerian virtue ethic is a viable position in moral philosophy, preferable to deontology, consequentialism and neo-Aristotelianism. I do this by arguing that, as Schopenhauer’s main criticisms of Kant’s moral philosophy apply to contemporary deontology and consequentialism, virtue ethics is preferable to both. I defend the Schopenhauerian claim that compassion is the basis of morality by appealing to its intuitive plausibility and by arguing for a neo-Schopenhauerian version of the Aristotelian idea that the virtues are constitutive of the good life. I further support the claim that compassion is the basis of morality by illustrating how compassion can account for a range of our core moral concepts and intuitions. 1 also defend neo-Schopenhauerianism against, a number of criticisms of virtue ethics in general and neo-Schopenhauerianism in particular. I conclude by arguing that as the Aristotelian virtues of courage, temperance, prudence, etc., could be possessed by someone who is malicious and/or extremely selfish, and so do not capture our intuitions about what makes a person morally good, neo-Schopenhauerian virtue ethics is preferable to Aristotelianism.

Il presente elaborato si propone di illustrare un modello teorico di radiazione termica, quello di Corpo Nero, descrivendo i passi che permisero di definirne le proprietà. Successivamente vengono analizzati alcuni oggetti astrofisici ai quali tale modello può essere applicato.

Lo scopo di questo elaborato è quello di fornire le informazioni basilari sulla teoria del corpo nero e studiarne alcune applicazioni astrofisiche. Nella prima parte del lavoro, dopo avere richiamato alcune nozioni fondamentali inerenti il trasporto radiativo, viene introdotto il concetto di corpo nero e ne viene analizzata la termodinamica. Segue lo studio dettagliato della funzione di Planck con le annesse dimostrazioni della legge di Stefan-Boltzmann e della legge dello spostamento di Wien e la descrizione delle approssimazioni di Rayleigh-Jeans e di Wien. Nella seconda parte vengono analizzati gli esempi astrofisici delle stelle e della radiazione cosmica di fondo (CMB) come approssimazioni di corpo nero.

La trattazione è suddivisa in due parti. Nella prima si definisce che cosa è un Corpo Nero, si studia il problema di come la radiazione elettromagnetica di un corpo possa raggiungere l’equilibrio termico e si espone il teorema di Kirchhoff. Si riportano, quindi, le leggi empiriche di Wien e di Stefan -Boltzmann ricavate dall'osservazione della radiazione di corpo nero e si illustrano i tentativi di giustificare teoricamente tali leggi. Viene riportato il ragionamento di Rayleigh e Jeans basato sulla fisica classica, seppure errato a determinate frequenze, con lo scopo di sottolineare l'impatto che ha avuto la teoria della quantizzazione dell’energia nella Fisica del Novecento (e in quella di oggi) con la nascita della Meccanica Quantistica. L’ipotesi di Planck, infatti, permette di ricavare una legge che descrive correttamente la radiazione di corpo nero, in perfetto accordo con i risultati osservativi. Si studiano infine lo spettro della radiazione di corpo nero e le sue approssimazioni alle alte e alle basse frequenze. Nella seconda parte, vengono prese in esame alcune applicazioni astrofisiche dell’emissione di corpo nero. In particolare, si tratta il caso delle stelle, quello della Radiazione Cosmica di Fondo e infine si fanno dei cenni sulla teoria dei Nuclei Galattici Attivi (AGN).

Nel presente compendio saranno esposti, passando per un breve inquadramento storico, la genesi del concetto di Corpo Nero, una sua prima definizione offerta dal fisico G Kirchhoff, la soluzione della quantizzazione di Planck per ovviare al fenomeno della Catastrofe Ultravioletta derivante dall’approccio classico di Rayleigh e Jeans e la determinazione dello spettro di Corpo Nero con relative proprietà e leggi che ne regolano l’andamento. Saranno infine presentate alcune applicazioni in ambito astrofisico del modello di Corpo Nero, discutendone le relative caratteristiche che li discostano dall’oggetto teorico, in particolare: Stelle e Radiazione Cosmica di Fondo.

L'obiettivo del seguente elaborato è descrivere un modello teorico di radiazione termica, il corpo nero, e analizzare alcuni oggetti astrofisici a cui tale modello può essere applicato. Nel primo capitolo viene illustrata l'evoluzione del concetto teorico di corpo nero per giungere alla determinazione dello spettro di emissione da parte di Planck. In particolare, viene mostrato come l'ipotesi quantistica risolva il problema della catastrofe ultravioletta riscontrato tramite l'approccio classico di Rayleigh e Jeans. Nel secondo capitolo viene descritta la radiazione di alcuni corpi celesti che emettono per corpo nero, quali le stelle e la radiazione cosmica di fondo.