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Gibbs, Ellen Ann, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "The changing face of the Metis nation." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2000, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/117.
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This paper purposes to answer some questions pertaining to perceptions of Metis identity (individual and collective, subjective and objective) as the Canadian public's conceptualizations of the Metis have been changed during the 80s and 90s by the works of Canadians historians and by popular media. These changes have been stimulated by the politics of Metis participation in: The Constitution Act, 1982; The First Ministers' Conferences [FM'Cs], 1983-1987; The Charlottetown Accord, 1992 Questions asked are (1) who are the modern-day Metis; (2) how do the Metis define themselves, conceptually and legally; (3) how does the Canadian public, in general, define the Metis? The results of the Lethbridge Area Metis Survey (Chapter Three) are valid for the
local area but it is possible that they may be generalized.vi, 103 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
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Joshi, Nivedita. "Barriers to selling livestock in the face of drought in the Omusati Region of North Central Namibia." Master's thesis, Faculty of Science, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33821.
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Marginal communities living in semi-arid Namibia face significant challenges in sustaining rural livelihoods due to environmental degradation and poverty. Research has shown that livestock farming depends on rain-fed agriculture among other things, thus making communal farmers vulnerable to climate change in the future. Given this, it often makes sense for farmers to sell their livestock and explore alternative livelihood options. However, farmers in northcentral Namibia are reluctant to sell their livestock despite a noticeable temperature increase and rainfall decrease over the past forty years. This study analyses the barriers to selling livestock in the face of a drought in the Omusati region of north-central Namibia. The study was carried out in three villages namely Omahanene, Okathitukeengombe and Oshihau, in the north-central Omusati region of Namibia. Household livestock distribution, perceptions of climate change, barriers to the sale of livestock and alternative livelihood strategies from other semi-arid regions were explored among 30 households using semi-structured household interviews and a systematic literature review. Results from the study indicate that 80% of communal farmers predict future droughts in the region and able to recall climate change through frequent droughts, increasing temperatures and decreasing rainfall. Farmers claimed that these changes have affected their livestock numbers. However, several barriers including cultural beliefs, lack of financial security, access to information, lack of institutional support and lack of efficient markets hinder livestock sales. The study suggests that the imminent impact of climate change coupled with the reluctance to sell livestock will threaten food security in the future. The study argues that rural livelihood diversification strategies are critical to safeguarding sustainable livelihoods in the future, including those of communal livestock farmers specifically. Additionally, policy recommendations like access to credit through public and private funding, access to markets by providing transportation facilities, encouraging market participation by improving quality of grazing lands, increasing water availability, building veterinary facilities, employing extension officers and access to information through reliable channels can help build a sustainable future in the face of climate risks.
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Merchant, Nicole Dawn. "Problems American Indian/Alaska Native adult patients face when attempting the long term self management of their type II diabetes disease process." Thesis, Montana State University, 2010. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2010/merchant/MerchantN0510.pdf.
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The American Indian/Alaska Natives people are plagued by Type II Diabetes. The poor management of this disease process has dire effects on the morbidity and mortality of this population. It is imperative to identify the challenges that this group of people face with the self-management of Type II Diabetes. The conceptual framework for this study was based on Dorothea Orem's health deviation of self-care requisites. These health deviations result from the disease state and are used for diagnosis and treatment (Orem, 1985). The literature review and the discussion of results with the relevant literature were organized according to Orem's six themes of health deviations in the self-management. A qualitative research method, involving open-ended interviews with five Native American participants, was used. The participants were asked questions regarding their diagnosis, challenges in self-management, knowledge of long term effects, and additional needed resources. The data were analyzed using Luborsky's (1994), method of thematic analysis to identify the challenges Native American adults encounter in the self-management of Type II Diabetes, resulting in 8 topics. These included: a) feelings about Type II Diabetes diagnosis and the implications for lifestyle changes, b) prior experiences with family who have Type II Diabetes, c) challenges and lifestyle changes in managing Type II Diabetes, d) personal contributing factors to poor management, e) support systems for managing Type II Diabetes, f) identification of good management of Type II Diabetes, g) knowledge of long term effects of Type II Diabetes, h) additional support and resources needed to manage Type II Diabetes. Diabetes is a complex disease process that requires ongoing education and consistent medical care. It is essential that health care providers evaluate and tailor their care to the challenges of their patient population to improve the health status of those with Type II Diabetes.
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Shamblin, Leigh. "Caught in the Middle: Understanding Perspectives of Business and Economics Teachers in Kazakhstan in the Face of Cultural Change." NCSU, 2006. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-10242006-165519/.
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This qualitative study examines the impact of cultural change on the perspectives of business and economic teachers in Kazakhstan, a country that has experienced tremendous change since gaining its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. During this study, eighteen participants completed semi-structured interviews. Data was analyzed using an approach derived from phenomenography. Six changes in society, as well as specific changes in students, were identified as significantly impacting participant?s teaching. Participants stressed that, as a result of the changes taking place, a new world was opening for them and a new model of higher education was emerging in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. While some teachers found a renewed interest in teaching, most found teaching more difficult as a result of cultural change, with some deciding to leave the profession altogether. The study?s participants also shared their understandings of effective teaching, identifying two goals and describing six approaches effective teachers use in teaching. Differences emerged between Soviet and post-Soviet teachers with respect to their commitment to the curriculum, their ability to adapt to changing teaching situations, and the effect of increased economic pressure on them. The study concludes that: (a) participants? normative expectations, or their roles, relationships, and responsibilities were most affected by change; (b) participants? pedagogical procedures were largely determined by how they learned to teach; (c) participants desired and were able to change their pedagogical procedures to adapt to changing contexts; (d) Soviet teachers had more difficulty adapting their teaching practices than their post-Soviet colleagues; (e) the context for teaching constrained teachers in their ability to adapt to cultural changes; and (f) while most beliefs about teaching were rooted in Soviet Kazakhstan, beliefs about teacher?s roles and relationships were changing in response to changes in Kazakhstan.
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Perego, Elizabeth Marie. "Laughing in the Face of Death: Humor during the Algerian Civil War, 1991-2002." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492608880090522.
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Silver, Timothy Howard. "A new face on the countryside: Indians and colonists in the Southeastern forest (ecology, environment, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina)." W&M ScholarWorks, 1985. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623759.
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Using ecological literature and an ethnohistorical approach, this dissertation examines the nature and extent of environmental change resulting from European colonization in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia.;European explorers in the Southeast saw mixed hardwood forests, pinelands, savannahs, marshlands, and inland swamps. These diverse habitats were home to an infinite variety of wildlife, including whitetailed deer, black bears, wild turkeys, buffalo, elk, and beaver. The landscape had been shaped by long-term ecological change and by varying patterns of topography, rainfall, and fire.;The environment had also been altered by Indians. Southeastern Indians were neither despoilers nor conservators of nature. Seeking subsistence and survival, they fished, farmed, hunted, and periodically burned the woods, all of which affected the various ecosystems.;Early contact between natives and Europeans introduced Old World diseases into the Southeast which killed Indians by the thousands. With their culture torn apart by depopulation, the natives ensured their survival by finding a place within the European system. Indians willingly supplied colonists with animal skins, meat, and medicinal plants, a systematic trade which led to the extinction of buffalo and elk and nearly wiped out beaver, deer, and ginseng.;Agricultural clearing by colonists reshaped local climates. Selective cutting of white and live oak, white cedar, and baldcypress made those trees scarce in settled regions. Naval stores production reduced sizeable tracts of pinelands to patches of scrubby hardwoods.;Commercial agriculture exhausted and eroded soils. Domestic animals destroyed native grasses and woody plants. European grasses and weeds, carried by transplanted livestock, replaced indigenous species. Agriculture and ranching simplified existing relationships between plants and animals, creating an ecologically unstable "new South.".;Attributing such changes solely to European capitalism is an oversimplification. Since his arrival in North America, man has been alienated from nature. The innovations of a capitalist economy triggered complex cultural interaction between Indians, colonists, slaves, and the land itself, a dialectic which pushed all three groups toward exploitation of the environment.
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Cunha, Borges Ralid Renata. "Politiques de logement et modes de gestion urbaine face à l’habitat précaire : regards croisés sur Brasilia et Paris." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040103.
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Cette recherche explore le thème de l'urbanisation contemporaine, notamment l'articulation des politiques relatives à la planification et la gestion urbaine avec celles traitant du logement des populations défavorisées. Il s’agit d’une étude et d’une réflexion sur l'influence de l'évolution des savoirs, des discours et modes de gestion sur les politiques urbaines appliquées aux processus de développement et pour répondre aux besoins en habitat et équipements des populations urbaines peu solvables. Le logement est le principal composant de la matière urbaine, et c’est dans les politiques de l’habitat et les formes de celui-ci que les inégalités urbaines s’avèrent être les plus accentuées au Sud comme au Nord, à Brasilia comme à Paris. Le traitement de l’habitat et de l’intégration urbaine des moins solvables reste ainsi le grand écueil apparent et médiatisé de toutes les politiques urbaines.La thèse trace une rétrospective des politiques de logement et de gestion urbaine des 50 dernières années à Brasilia et à Paris relatives à l’habitat précaire. La création de politiques et programmes de logement de masse a ainsi contribué à la construction des « périphéries » de ces deux agglomérations. Néanmoins ces espaces périphériques sont aujourd’hui considérés comme des quartiers défavorisés par rapport au centre-ville. A travers l’analyse d’un demi siècle de politiques de logement et de gestion urbaine comment les deux villes peuvent envisager une autre forme de politique du logement et de la ville avec une autre génération d’instruments urbanistiques, plus productive d’égalité et plus intégrative ?This research explores the theme of contemporary urbanization, specially the articulation of policies related to urban planning and management with those dealing with housing for disadvantaged populations. This is a study and reflection on the influence of the evolution of knowledge, discourse and management methods on urban policies applied to the development process and to meet the housing needs of people and equipment urban poor credit.Housing is the main component of the urban substance, and it is in the housing policies and forms of habitat that urban inequalities emerge and turn out to be more pronounced in the South and the North hemisphere, in Brasilia or in Paris. The treatment of housing and urban integration of low income groups and remains the largest apparent and publicized pitfalls of all urban policies.The thesis traces a retrospective of housing policies and urban management the past 50 years in Brasilia and Paris in response to precarious housing. The creation of policies and programs of mass housing have contributed to the construction of the "peripheries" of these two cities. However, these peripheral areas are now considered disadvantaged neighbourhoods compared to the central areas of both cities.Through half a century of housing policy and urban management analyses how the two cities may consider another form of housing policy and the city with another generation of urban instruments productive equality and more inclusive?
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Messika, Martin. "Politiques de l'accueil : états et associations face à la migration des juifs d' Afrique du Nord en France et au Canada des années 1950 à la fin des années 1970." Thesis, Paris 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA010674.
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Cette thèse étudie les politiques publiques et privées pour accueillir les populations juives de trois pays d’Afrique du Nord, l’Algérie, le Maroc et la Tunisie en France et au Canada dans la province du Québec, entre les années 1950 et la fin des années 1970. Face à l’arrivée migration d’une population composée de Français, de Tunisiens, de Marocains, les organisations juives repensent leur rapport aux Etats et font évoluer leurs politiques migratoires et sociales. Ce travail interroge la nature de l’aide accordée par des associations d’un groupe minoritaire à une population nouvellement arrivée. Les rapports entre les réseaux associatifs français et montréalais avec les Etats diffèrent, mais dans les deux cas, les associations trouvent un espace pour mener des politiques sociales en direction de migrants qu’elles identifient comme co-ethniques. Cette reformulation des rôles entre structures de la société civile et les pouvoirs publics a des conséquences sur les pratiques d’intervention sociale. Ce travail analyse les décalages entre politiques et pratiques ainsi que le processus d’adaptation de savoirs professionnels dans les deux contextes nationaux. Pour cela, il propose une analyse comparée de deux services sociaux, le Comité d’Action Sociale Israélite de Paris et Jewish Immigrant Aid Services à Montréal. Les pratiques divergentes de travail social témoignent de la manière dont un savoir professionnel, l’aide psycho-social individualisée, ou casework, est interprété et transformé par des travailleurs sociauxThis dissertation analyzes the public and private policies carried out in France and in Canada, specially in the province of Quebec, to host Jews from three North African countries – Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, between the 1950s and the end of the 1970s. Facing the arrival of migrants where French nationals, but also Tunisian and Moroccan (citizens) , Jewish organizations had to rethink their relationship with the state and reasses their migratory and social policies. Thus, this dissertation considers the nature of the assistance provided by a minority group’s associations towards a population of migrants. The relationship between French and Canadian private networks and the state differed, but in both cases, the associations found space to implement social policies directed towards migrants, identified as co-ethics. The redefinition of the roles played by civil society organizations and the states has directed consequences on social intervention practices. This dissertation examines the discrepancies between policies and practices, as well as the process by which professional knowledge is adapted to the two national contexts. To that end, two social services will be studied comparatively : the Comité d’Action Sociale Israélite de Paris and Jewish Immigrant Aid Services in Montreal. Divergeant social work practices attest to the way in which professional knowledge, namely casework, is interpreted and shaped by social workers
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Veloso, Geisa Magela. "A missão desanalfabetizadora do jornal Gazeta do Norte, em Montes Claros (1918-1938)." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/FAEC-855S56.
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This thesis discusses cultural practices developed in Montes Claros, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, which representations circulated by the newspaper Gazeta do Norte, between 1918 and 1938, with the aim of civilizing, educating and turning the population literate. According to Chartier (1990, 2002) used as theoretical reference, we understand that Cultural History is the history of representations in the social world. These representations are not according to reality, but are the generating matrices of discourses and practices. Considering the concepts of civilization (Elias, 1993) and modernity (Baudrillard, 1989; Le Goff, 1984, 1992), we understand that this newspaper assumes this disilliteracy action as a mission which aims not only to teach how to read and write but to produce a civilized and modern citizen through his insertion in the written culture world. As a result of the research, we noticed that Gazeta do Norte is associated to Escola Normal de Montes Claros (Normal School of Montes Claros) and that this relationship is enhanced from 1923 and produces significant modifications in its education enterprese. Initially organized by the denouncement of problems and advertisement of instruction benefits of education and the act of knowing how to read and write, the militant action of Gazeta do Norte gains new contours along the decade of 1920, acquiring a new pedagogical dimension and as a renovation of teaching methods and comprehensive reading in the decade of 1930. The analyzed cultural practices were influenced by the Escola Nova (New School) movement and begin to claim pedagogical modernity, taking education as a basis in which a new citizen would be forged a civilized individual with a modern mentality, guided by science, conscious of his rights and duties, self-disciplined and productive.A tese discute práticas culturais produzidas em Montes Claros, Estado de Minas Gerais, cujas representações circularam por meio do jornal Gazeta do Norte, entre 1918 e 1938, visando civilizar, educar e desanalfabetizar a população. Tomando Chartier (1990, 2002) como referência teórica, compreendemos que a História Cultural é a história das representações do mundo social, representações que não são a realidade, mas matrizes geradoras de discursos e práticas. Considerando os conceitos de civilização (Elias, 1993) e de modernidade (Baudrillard, 1989; Le Goff, 1984, 1992), compreendemos que o jornal assume a desanalfabetização com o sentido de missão, que objetiva não apenas alfabetizar, mas produzir o cidadão civilizado e moderno, por sua inserção no mundo da cultura escrita. Constatamos que a Gazeta do Norte associa-se à Escola Normal de Montes Claros, que essa relação intensifica-se a partir de 1923 e produz modificações significativas em seu empreendimento educativo. Inicialmente organizada pela denúncia dos problemas e propaganda dos benefícios da instrução, da educação e do saber ler e escrever, a ação militante da Gazeta do Norte ganha novos contornos no decorrer da década de 1920, adquirindo uma dimensão pedagógica e o sentido de renovação de métodos de ensino e da prática de leitura reflexiva, na década de 1930. As práticas culturais analisadas foram atravessadas pelo movimento da Escola Nova e passaram a visar a modernidade pedagógica, tomando a educação como base pela qual se forjaria um novo cidadão o indivíduo civilizado, de mentalidade moderna, orientado pela ciência, consciente de seus direitos e deveres, autodisciplinado e produtivo.
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Lefebvre, Claudine. "Presence, Bioconcentration and Fate of Galaxolide and Tonalide Fragrances in the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35105.
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Synthetic musks are incorporated extensively in personal care products to improve their scent, increase their fragrance stability, and prolong their shelf-life. As a consequence, these persistent musks are being released at a considerable rate by wastewater treatment plants and are frequently detected in surface water, bottom sediment, air, and aquatic biota near urban areas. In addition to their hydrophobicity, two synthetic musks, Galaxolide (HHCB) and Tonalide (AHTN), were reported to cause endocrine disruption in fish species. Although most of the toxic effects in past studies were observed at high doses, HHCB and AHTN were shown to bioaccumulate very differently depending on the aquatic species tested. As bioaccumulation and fate of contaminants are important considerations when regulating persistent chemicals, an improved understanding of the bioaccumulation potential of these chemicals is needed. In this thesis, an assessment of the presence, bioconcentration and fate of HHCB and AHTH was provided in an area exposed to the effluent of the Gold Bar wastewater treatment plant in the North Saskatchewan River (Edmonton). HHCB and AHTN were quantified in fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) exposed downstream of the effluent, with an adapted method for analysis of musks in fish, using PAHs as recovery standards. Method development and recoveries are summarized. Highest bioconcentration factors were 24,500 and 22,300 for HHCB and AHTN respectively, and were observed 1 km downstream of the outfall. Musks were found in most fathead minnows exposed at reference sites upstream as well as at the furthest site, 9.9 km from the outfall. Musk concentrations in water at these sites were used in the assessment of the fate of HHCB and AHTN by fugacity modeling with QWASI software. In order to assess fate, a contaminated portion of the North Saskatchewan River was divided in a series of compartments that were each treated as connected individual water bodies. HHCB and AHTN losses were mostly due to water advection and sedimentation fluxes. Model fit was assessed by comparing predicted to measured data.
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Peltier, Richard Edward. "Ambient Submicron Particles In North America: Their Sources, Fate, and Impact." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/19750.
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Thesis (Ph.D)--Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.Committee Chair: Weber, Rodney J.; Committee Member: Bergin, Michael H.; Committee Member: Huey, L Gregory; Committee Member: Ingall, Ellery D.; Committee Member: Nenes, Athanasios.
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Reitz, Roland. "Addressing challenges faced by rural Southern Baptist pastors in North Missouri." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Junior, Gentil Martins. "Saberes de professoras de sucesso no ensino fundamental em território rural resiliente - norte de Minas Gerais." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/FAEC-83VQG3.
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This essay aimed to unveil the docent knowledge of successful teachers in a rural resilient territory, starting from pedagogical practice surveyed in an intentional sample of five female teachers of a public school of Grade Level Teaching, Northern of Minas Gerais, questing to identify and explain what kind of knowledge the referred teachers manage and produce in a rural social context. The works of formation and docent knowledge represented by studies and researches in urban context applied by Gauthier et al. (1998), Tardif (2002), and Borges (2004), and in a rural context, by Therrien (1991 - 1993), Calazans (1993), Rocha (1995 - 2004), Lima Filho (2005), and Beltrame & Zancanella (2008) founded the reflexive critical and methodological analyses. The methodology approached the study of the case using three instruments of data collection that sought the talks, the written reports and teachers actions which were systematized by analyses categories: the ethical, political and teaching knowledge. The outcome of this survey reassured that the female teachers are the producers of docent knowledge, nevertheless the empirical data collected in this survey widened the categorization initially researched, still specifying as ethical knowledge the ones related to the dimension of the developed values by the teachers together with the students, the families and the resilient rural community. The political knowledge constituted by the autonomy practice of the teachers to participate democratically in the council of class, in the collegiate and in the political pedagogical project. The teaching knowledge in constant relation with the cited ones signalized to the theoretical construction/production of a resilience pedagogy for the rural education. The observation of the teachers knowledge occurred within a diversified architecture of environments and experiences of learning shaped to model the students with multiple abilities and attitudes as learners. We have observed that at the same time the teachers promoted the students formation, they also achieved their own formation by developing the sharing production of knowledge and experience meaning the resilient rural context locus of this essay.Este trabalho visou desvelar os saberes docentes de professoras de sucesso em território rural resiliente, a partir das práticas pedagógicas investigadas em uma amostra de cinco professoras de uma escola pública de Ensino Fundamental, Norte de Minas Gerais, buscando identificar e explicar, quais os saberes as referidas professoras gestam e produzem num contexto social rural. Os trabalhos de formação e saberes docentes representados por estudos e pesquisas no contexto urbano realizados por Gauthier et all. (1998), Tardif (2002) e Borges (2004), e, em contexto rural, por Therrien (1991-2003), Calazans (1993), Rocha (1995-2004), Lima Filho (2005) e Beltrame & Zancanella (2008) fundamentaram as análises reflexivas, críticas e metodológicas. A metodologia abordou o estudo de caso, utilizando três instrumentos de coleta de dados, que buscaram as falas, os escritos e as ações das professoras, que foram sistematizados pelas categorias de análise: saberes éticos, saberes políticos e saberes de ensino. Os resultados desta investigação reafirmaram que as professoras produzem saberes docentes, no entanto, os dados empíricos recolhidos nesta investigação ampliaram a categorização inicial pesquisada, especificando, ainda, como saberes éticos aqueles referentes à dimensão dos valores desenvolvidos pelas professoras junto aos alunos, às famílias e à comunidade rural resiliente. Os saberes políticos, constituídos pelas práticas de autonomia das professoras para participarem, democraticamente, no Conselho de Classe, no Colegiado e no Projeto Político-Pedagógico. Os saberes de ensino em constante relação com os outros saberes citados sinalizaram para a construção/produção teórica de uma Pedagogia da Resiliência para a Educação Rural. A observação dos saberes de ensino das professoras ocorreu dentro de uma arquitetura diversificada de ambientes e de experiências de aprendizagens, voltadas para formarem os alunos com múltiplas habilidades e atitudes como aprendentes. Observamos que ao mesmo tempo, as professoras promoviam a formação dos alunos, faziam também a própria formação ao desenvolver a produção compartilhada de saberes e experiências ressignificando, o contexto rural resiliente, lócus desta pesquisa.
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La, Marr June. ""Firewater myth" : fact, fantasy or self-fulfilling prophecy /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/15479.
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Mironenko, Dmitry. "A Jester with Chameleon Faces: Laughter and Comedy in North Korea, 1953-1969." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11604.
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This dissertation is a study of ordinary North Korean people who have persevered in the face of tremendous social, political, and economic trials throughout their country's modern history and a tribute to their unflagging ingenuity and good humor that allowed them to hold onto their humanity. Focusing on the question of agency within the realm of everyday living, my inquiry examines the emergence of a laughing subject during the post-Korean War period and the state's efforts to discipline him through cinema in the succeeding decade. A product of the new Soviet-sponsored cultural policy of the 1950s that promoted social and political satire across the socialist world, the jester became an identity tactically adopted by various individuals, which was responsible for the proliferation of nonconformist practices in North Korea. Using Michel de Certeau's concept of the everyday as a sphere of creative inventiveness, this work describes and analyzes the small acts of "comic disobedience" by means of which the ordinary person has been able to outmaneuver the existing order and create a thriving underground culture of antidiscipline. Spanning a variety of media from print cartoons to live-action cinema to animation, the official response to the jester's challenge, on one hand, sought to create identifiable comic characters and, on the other, effectively demarcate between humor and satire with a view of turning a jarring cacophony of laughing voices into a harmonious chorus of collective mirth serving the state's needs. Based on Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia, my method of analysis suggests that, despite the government's attempts to eliminate any ambiguity from newly constructed ideological texts, the ordinary individual always finds myriad ways to exercise autonomy through his unending playful subversion of official discourse. By tracing the evolution of this dynamic in the North Korean streets, movie theaters, and film studios over the course of nearly two decades, I argue that the production of formal film comedy was inextricably bound up with the state's desire to interpellate a politically loyal and socially conformist subject and should be seen as part of the larger everyday aesthetic of living that took root within the socialist world.East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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Oluyedun, Jumoke. "A study of problems faced by West African graduate students in North American universities." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq20685.pdf.
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Anders, Joel D. "Future paths for regional fare collection in Atlanta: a case study analysis of the planning and implementation of next generation fare collection systems for regional transit in North America." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45962.
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The Atlanta region will soon be faced with a choice as to how it will go about planning for and implementing its next regional fare collection system that will replace the current BREEZE system. In 2006, MARTA became the first transit agency in the United States to implement an all contactless smartcard for use on its services. However, there have been many advances in new technologies and the consumer payment preferences have evolved since the initial implementation. These developments, coupled with the rapid consumer adoption of smartphones and changing attitudes within the financial payments industry towards transit properties, have recently led four major transit agencies within North America to implement new fare collection systems based on open payments, the development of mobile ticketing applications, or a combination. This research uses a case study methodology to answer several questions related to the planning and implementation of regional fare collection systems in Chicago (CTA), Dallas (DART), Philadelphia (SEPTA) and Toronto (TTC). Based on the experience of the case study agencies, the implementation of Atlanta's next fare collection system is sure to be a long and arduous process. However, by utilizing the lessons learned from DART, CTA, SEPTA and TTC, MARTA and the other regional operators (Cobb Community Transit, Gwinnett County Transit and the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority) will be better poised to provide their patrons with additional means of paying fares while, at the same, minimizing the disruption to the existing fare collection system during the transition period.
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Sanders, E. Randall. "Determining duty the fate of Anglo-Protestant Indian missions after the Great Awakening /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p088-0185.
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Lautenschläger, Gustavo de Almeida Camargo. "Avaliação comparativa do padrão de normalidade do perfil facial em pacientes brasileiros leucodermas com norte o americano." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/25/25132/tde-16102008-145318/.
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Com a grande procura da sociedade moderna pela estética perfeita a cirurgia ortognática para conseguir melhores resultados e mais precisos, começou a planejar e diagnosticar os casos clínicos utilizando medidas obtidas de grandezas do perfil tegumentar dos pacientes com o auxílio de imagens digitais empregadas em softwares de planejamento, Neste estudo foi proposto aferir as medidas de brasileiros leucodermas de descendência européia e compará-las com as medidas já padronizadas por ARNETT, com o intuito de criar novas medidas para serem seguidas por brasileiros utilizando-se o software Dolphin Imaging 9.0 de predicção cirúrgica. Foi utilizado na metodologia radiografias cefalométricas de 60 pacientes com oclusão classe I de Angle e harmonia facial. Todas as radiografias foram digitalizadas e inseridas no software Dolphin 9.0 e um total de 16 pontos de tecido mole e 22 pontos do esqueleto facial foram marcados, seguindo exatamente as marcações da análise de Arnett & McLaughlin presentes no programa. Os resultados obtidos foram avaliados estatisticamente e mostram que o perfil do brasileiro é quase totalmente diferente do perfil norte-americano, exceção feita a apenas quatro pontos para os homens e outros quatro, para as mulheres. Os brasileiros apresentam uma face menos protruída, um perfil mais convexo e menor proeminência do queixo do que o grupo controle. Os dados obtidos mostram a necessidade de realizar algumas mudanças nas grandezas numéricas para que um perfeito diagnóstico e planejamento possa ser realizado em brasileiros, criando assim o padrão do perfil facial do brasileiro leucoderma de descendência européia.Considering that modern orthognatic surgery is mainly concerned in planning and diagnosing clinical cases by the use of patients\' soft tissue measurements obtained from digital images employed in planning software, the aim of this study is to establish Caucasian Brazilians measures and to compare them to the standard North American measures. For this, a total of 60 Angle\'s class I patients not previously submitted to orthodontic treatment and presenting harmonious facial features were invited to participate in the study as volunteers. The patients were initially photographed in frontal and lateral views and, afterwards, cephalograms were obtained. The images were digitized, adjusted and indexed in Dolphin\'s image software. In order to procede cephalometric analysis, a total of 16 soft tissue profile points and 22 hard tissue profile points were demarcated, accordingly to North American original measurements used in Dolphin\'s digital image program. After, all cephalograms were again evaluated to determine intra-examiner error according to paired Student\'s t test. Mean and standard error measures were obtained and compared to American measures by unpaired Student\'s t test with 95% confidence level. The results obtained have shown that all measurements, except for four points in male and four points in female, are significantly different (p < 0.05) between Brazilian and American samples. Datas show that Brazilians\' soft tissue profile is almost completely different from North Americans\', with a less protrusive face, shorter chin projection and a more convex profile. This suggests the necessity of performing some changes in numerical values to obtain an ideal diagnosis and planning of orthognatic surgery in Caucasian Brazilians.
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McCarthy, Annette. "Fate and Distribution of Current-Use Pesticides in the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine System of North Carolina." NCSU, 2002. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12092002-143945/.
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Estuaries are complex ecosystems that are composed of a number of sensitive and inter-dependent environments. An abundance of nutrients combine with the dynamic conditions to create some of the most productive environments on the planet. Almost 85% of the commercially harvested fish in the United States depend on estuaries and the surrounding coastal waters at some stage in their life history. Many estuarine drainage basins contain large quantities of agricultural acreage. Over 29 million pounds of active ingredient of pesticides are applied in coastal drainage basins in the United States each year. Studies have shown that the overall condition of the nation's estuaries is fair, while benthic condition is poor. Seventy five percent of estuarine sediments are contaminated with pesticides. Concentrations of pesticides in 30% of the estuaries exceed the levels that are known to result in ecological effects at least 10% of the time. There have been few comprehensive pesticide studies in estuaries to date. The Albemarle-Pamlico (A-P) Drainage Basin of North Carolina forms the second largest estuarine system in the United States and supports heavy agricultural production with high pesticide use. I evaluated measurement and modeling strategies to assess exposure in the A-P drainage basin. Atrazine and metolachlor were the most frequently detected pesticides in water samples that were collected in the A-P drainage basin in 2000 and 2001. Concentrations of these compounds exceeded both human health and aquatic life criteria in 2000. No toxicity thresholds were exceeded in samples collected in 2001. Due to the expense associated with field sampling and pesticide analysis alternative methods for estimating pesticide exposure have been developed, including fate models. The Exposure Analysis Modeling System (EXAMS) was modified to model the fate of pesticides, specifically atrazine and metolachlor, in a small tidal estuary of the larger A-P estuarine system. Based on the estimate that 10% of the total amount of atrazine and metolachlor applied in the Bath Creek drainge basin would enter the estuary the EXAMS steady state model predicts concentrations of both atrazine and metolachlor that fall between the mean and maximum values that were measured in Bath Creek in 2002. Concentrations of pesticides in the A-P drainage basin, both measured and modeled, are significantly less than acute toxicity thresholds for even the most sensitive aquatic species. Due to the short lived nature of these compounds it is unlikely that organisms in the region would experience adverse health effects due to exposure to the existing concentrations.
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Munns, Anna Marie. "Money and Ill Fame: Interpreting a Prostitution Hierarchy in Fargo, North Dakota’s Historical Red-Light District." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28545.
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Many inhabitants of early Fargo sought economic opportunities in the local sex trade, and the intersectionality of class, gender, sexuality, and race was central to their varying degrees of success. Police Magistrate Court dockets, Sanborn maps, and Census records offer valuable datasets for linguistic and spatial analyses of prostitution-related crimes, revealing a hierarchy of sex work that differentiated between brothel, crib, and street prostitution. Gender inequalities also persisted within the hierarchy; male clientele were often charged and fined differently from female sex workers. GIS analyses reveal two distinct red-light districts, and highlight brothel differences and racial segregation within the red-light district known as “The Hollow.” Critical theory and practice theory help conceptualize the red-light district as an institution, while exposing the power dynamics at play. This thesis offers new insights into Fargo’s historical red-light district, but also contributes to larger historical and archaeological discussions of prostitution hierarchies, gender, and race.
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Oliveira, Séphora Natércia Albuquerque [UNIFESP]. "Estudo das atitudes e práticas face à exposição solar dos carteiros do município de Juazeiro do Norte-CE." Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2010. http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/9543.
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Previous issue date: 2010-08-25As relações entre Trabalho e Saúde neste estudo tiveram por base possíveis agravos originados de exposições prolongadas e repetidas ao sol sem a devida proteção. Objetivou-se analisar as atitudes e práticas face à exposição solar dos carteiros do Município de Juazeiro do Norte-CE, identificando quais os recursos e como são utilizados por eles para se protegerem da ação nociva do sol. Objetivou- se também identificar a existência de iniciativa por parte da Empresa de Correios e Telégrafos no sentido de fornecer aos trabalhadores a adoção de recursos para fotoproteção. Tratou-se de um estudo de corte transversal, com abordagem quantitativa. O estudo foi realizado na Empresa de Correios e Telégrafos da cidade de Juazeiro do Norte- CE, envolvendo 25 carteiros, sendo 23 homens e 2 mulheres, com média de idade 35,84 anos. A coleta dos dados foi realizada por meio de um questionário contemplando variáveis de caracterização do grupo, conhecimento sobre os efeitos nocivos dos RUVs, práticas de exposição solar e medidas preventivas relevantes à fotoexposição. Para análise estatística, foi utilizado o programa Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) versão 13.0 e realizou- se uma análise descritiva.Dos carteiros pesquisados a maioria foi do sexo masculino (92%) e a média da idade foi de 35,84 anos e todos tinham um bom nível de escolaridade. Em relação ao tempo de vinculo empregatício, a maioria dos carteiros tem mais de 9 anos de trabalho. Quanto ao horário de trabalho externo, todos os carteiros o realizam a partir das 11h00min e retornam a sede dos correios entre às 16h00min e 18h00min. Em relação ao fototipo cutâneo, 56% dos carteiros enquadram- se no fototipo III e o restante distribui- se entre os II, IV e V.Em relação ao fator de proteção 22 carteiros utilizam o fator 30. Quanto ao fornecimento dos correios do filtro solar, 56% responderam que ocorre semanalmente, independentemente de estar faltando ou não o produto.Pode-se concluir que a maioria dos carteiros utiliza meios para proteção solar, no entanto não realizam esta proteção da forma mais adequada. Quanto aos Correios, identificamos que a instituição contribui parcialmente no sentido de fornecer aos trabalhadores investigados recursos para fotoproteção.
The relations between Work and Health in this study have been based on likely damages from long, repeated exposition to the sun without the necessary protection. It has been aimed to analyze the attitudes and practices to solar exposition of Juazeiro do Norte mailmen, we have identified what resources and how they are used by the mailmen in order to protect them from the sun’s harmful rays. It has also been aimed to identify the existence of initiative from the Brazilian Post Company in Juazeiro do Norte city, there are 25 mailmen involved all in all, they are 23 men and 2 women and their age is 34. 84 at average. The data collect has been made through a questionnaire covering variables of group characterization, knowledge about harmful effects of UVRs practices of solar expositions and preventive steps relevant to photo exposure. For statistics analyses, the Statical Package for the Social Sciences program was used (SSPS) 13.0 version and a descriptive analysis. Among the post officers surveyed, most of them are male (92%) and the age average has been 35.85 years and all had a good education level. When it comes to time of employing link, most of post officers have worked for over nine years. In relation to working time, most post officers work from 11:00 am and they get back to the headquarters at about 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. In relation to cutaneous photo type, 56% post officers fit in photo type III and the rest in II, IV and V groups. In relation to protection factor, 22 post officers utilize factor 30. In relation to the supply of sun screen, 56% answered that it happens every week, independently to lack or not the product. In conclusion, every post man uses some kind of sun protection, nevertheless, they do not do this protection correctly. In relation to the Post Office, we have observed that the company contributes partly in order to supply its investigated clerks resources to protection.
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Begley, Mary. "Faces on a Bit of Ivory." UNF Digital Commons, 1990. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/94.
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Phiri, Paul Velentino. "Trials of a comprehensive peace agreement : an investigation into the dilemmas faced by North and South Sudan." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/14584.
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The study focuses on the north and south Sudan conflict and seeks to investigate the continuing threats to a return to war between the two parties since the 2005 Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and after the independence of South Sudan. The study critically analyses the CPA and investigates the dilemmas faced by the two Sudans and examines the conflict resolution/transformation process. This thesis relies on data generated from key informant interviews and archival data as primary sources; complemented by secondary sources of data obtained from books, journals, research documents and relevant literature on the area. The study analyses the background of the north-south Sudan conflict, analysis of the CPA, implications of the negotiation, mediation and the implementation processes of the CPA and the referendum, post-referendum, the post-independence issues and the conflict resolution efforts. These are discussed in order to find the reasons as to why the CPA emerged as it did and its effectiveness. The study uses the concept of the conflict resolution/transformation approaches and their methods (mediation, negotiation and peacebuilding), the Galtung ABC theory and the Liberal peace theory as tools to guide the study in order to measure the data collected from the field. The results of the analysis suggest that history, the mediation and the negotiation process viewed to have been narrow and non-inclusive, the content of the CPA itself, the problems of the previous processes before the referendum, the referendum of Southern Sudan and the Abyei referendum failure provided the basis of the origins of the post-referendum and the post-independence issues. These issues are responsible for the dilemmas faced by the two states and eventually the tensions and the threats to a return to war which exist up to the present. All these issues lie at the heart of the difficulties of the conflict resolution process and the relationship problem of North and South Sudan. However, the 2005 CPA had partial success in that it achieved partial negative peace which in turn led to the separation of north and south Sudan.
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Munns, Anna Marie. "Money and Ill Fame: Interpreting a Prostitution Hierarchy in Fargo, North Dakota?s Historical Red-Light District." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28545.
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Many inhabitants of early Fargo sought economic opportunities in the local sex trade, and the intersectionality of class, gender, sexuality, and race was central to their varying degrees of success. Police Magistrate Court dockets, Sanborn maps, and Census records offer valuable datasets for linguistic and spatial analyses of prostitution-related crimes, revealing a hierarchy of sex work that differentiated between brothel, crib, and street prostitution. Gender inequalities also persisted within the hierarchy; male clientele were often charged and fined differently from female sex workers. GIS analyses reveal two distinct red-light districts, and highlight brothel differences and racial segregation within the red-light district known as ?The Hollow.? Critical theory and practice theory help conceptualize the red-light district as an institution, while exposing the power dynamics at play. This thesis offers new insights into Fargo?s historical red-light district, but also contributes to larger historical and archaeological discussions of prostitution hierarchies, gender, and race.
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Maggard, Greg J. "Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Occupations of the North Coast Of Perú." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113377.
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On Perú’s North Coast, the earliest documented lithic traditions are collectively known as the El Palto Phase (~14,200-9600cal BP). This phase, which spans the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene, contains evidence for several contemporary or overlapping traditions, including early unifacial assemblages, and the Fishtail and Paiján complexes. Recent study of El Palto phasesites in the lower Jequetepeque Valley focused on evaluating the relationships between these assemblages and the populations who manufactured them. The results of this study indicate a greater degree of intratype diversity among point types than previously recognized and call into question the descendant relationships between Fishtail and Paiján. The results from several long-term regional studies are combined with these analyses to provide new insight regarding early settlement and technological change in this region of the Central Andes.En la costa norte del Perú, las tradiciones líticas más tempranas documentadas se conocen, en conjunto, como la fase El Palto (~14.200-9600 cal AP). Esta fase, que abarca desde el Pleistoceno Final hasta el Holoceno Temprano, contiene evidencias de varias tradiciones contemporáneas o que coinciden parcialmente en el tiempo, lo que incluye conjuntos unifaciales tempranos y los complejos Cola de Pescado y Paiján. Un reciente estudio de los sitios de la fase El Palto en el valle bajo de Jequetepeque se enfocó enla evaluación de los vínculos entre estos conjuntos y las poblaciones que los produjeron. Los resultados obtenidos indican un grado mayor de diversidad tipológica entre los tipos de puntas que lo que previamente se había reconocido y cuestionan las relaciones tecnológicas entre las tradiciones líticas Paiján y Cola de Pescado. Asimismo, los resultados de varios estudios regionales de largoplazo se combinan con estos análisis con el objeto de proporcionar una nueva comprensión acerca del asentamiento temprano y el cambio tecnológico en esta región de los Andes Centrales.
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Bollinger, Susan Marie. "FAME -Families Achieving Mathematical Excellence the process of developing a family involvement program for a Western rural middle school serving American Indian students /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2010. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2010/bollinger/BollingerS0510.pdf.
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Family is an important element in the cultural identity of this American Indian community so involving families in the education of their children is crucial. This mixed methods study documents the process of implementing a family involvement program at a rural school serving predominantly low-income families near an American Indian reservation. The results showed there is a strong sense of responsibility among the parents for the education of their children. Parents and students were found to work together to improve their learning by reviewing homework together and doing learning activities at home. Interview data stressed the importance of developing a welcoming learning environment at school and at afterschool events that is culturally sensitive. Families need to feel they are welcomed and respected. The structure of afterschool events must be flexible and familiar for continued participation. Facilitators of family involvement programs in American Indian communities need to design programs that are culturally responsive to the local tribe and community, supporting the comfort and learning of the participants, providing materials for everyone to take home, and bringing the program to the people.
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Evans, Dylan W. "The catchment scale spatiotemporal dynamics and fate of dissolved organic and inorganic matter in the river Conwy, North Wales." Thesis, Bangor University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409477.
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Fonseca, da Silva Marques Raquel. "Drivers and fate of jellyfish blooms : The case study of Aurelia coerulea in the Thau lagoon, North Western Mediterranean." Thesis, Montpellier, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019MONTG036.
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Les méduses sont des composants importants des écosystèmes marins. Leurs proliférations spectaculaires ont de graves impacts écologiques et socioéconomiques et sont apparemment renforcées par les pressions anthropiques en milieu marin. Les inquiétudes suscitées par l’accroissement de la fréquence et de l’intensité de ces proliférations, du moins dans certaines régions du globe, appellent à une compréhension plus approfondie de leurs causes. Cependant, la plupart des méduses ont un cycle de vie complexe, comprenant à la fois des stades benthiques et pélagiques, ce qui complique la compréhension des épisodes de proliférations et empêche toute prévision fiable de leur évolution. De plus, le manque de connaissances sur l’avenir de la biomasse générée par les proliférations entrave l'évaluation de leurs impacts. Pour cela, l’écosystème semi-fermé de étang de Thau présente la particularité rare d’abriter une population complète et résidente de la méduse Aurelia coerulea. Il offre donc le cadre idéal pour étudier les multiples processus écologiques qui affectent la dynamique de ses populations benthiques et pélagiques. Ce travail de thèse tire parti de cette opportunité rare afin de préciser l’origine et le devenir des proliférations d’A. coerulea. Cela a été accompli en deux étapes. Premièrement, la dynamique de la population benthique de l’espèce a été étudiée dans l’étang et complétée par une étude de l’écologie trophique des deux stades de vie sur une année. Pour ce faire, des suivis in situ ont été réalisés et complétés par l’analyse de contenus stomacaux et des comparaisons de signatures en isotopes stables. Deuxièmement, le devenir de la biomasse d’A. coerulea dans la lagune a été étudié en évaluant la prédation des poissons sur ses stades benthiques et pélagiques et en suivant la disparition de ses méduses mortes, une fois posées sur le fond. Ceci a été réalisé par analyse moléculaire du contenu des intestins de poisson et par des expériences in situ évaluant les taux de décomposition des méduses et le rôle potentiel de la faune benthiques dans leur disparition. les résultats obtenus mettent en évidence l'interaction complexe de paramètres environnementaux biotiques et abiotiques qui modulent l’intensité des proliférations en influençant conjointement les populations benthiques et pélagiques d'A. coerulea. La température, la salinité, la disponibilité en nourriture et la prédation semblent être les principaux facteurs écologiques contrôlant les proliférations de A. coerulea dans l’étang de Thau, avec quatre périodes critiques dans l’année, où la formation des proliférations est soit facilitée soit minimisée. Enfin, les blooms ont trois principaux devenirs dans la lagune. Les méduses sont avant tout consommées vivantes dans la colonne d’eau par les prédateurs pélagiques (notamment les poissons). Sinon, lorsqu’elles meurent et coulent sur le fond, elles peuvent être consommés par certains organismes benthiques (notamment des gastéropodes) mais sont surtout rapidement reminéralisés par la communauté microbienne locale. Ces résultats apportent des informations précieuses pour prédire l'évolution des proliférations de méduses en réponse aux effets anthropogéniques sur le milieu marin en cours, et anticiper leurs impacts sur le fonctionnement des écosystèmes. Cependant, ils soulignent également la difficulté d’obtenir de telles prévisions et soulignent la nécessité de mener des études approfondies similaires, non seulement pour d’autres méduses mais aussi dans d’autres régions du mondeJellyfish are important components of marine ecosystems. Their spectacular blooms have severe ecological and socioeconomic impacts and are seemingly boosted by anthropogenic pressures on the marine environment. Concerns regarding increases in jellyfish blooms, at least in some areas of the world, call for a deeper understanding of their drivers. However, many jellyfish have complex life cycles, comprising both benthic and pelagic stages, which complicates the understanding of their blooms and predictions on their future evolution. Furthermore, the lack of knowledge regarding the fates of these large accumulations of biomass hampers the assessment of their impacts. With this regards, the semi-enclosed ecosystem of the Thau lagoon presents the rare particularity to harbour a complete resident population of the jellyfish Aurelia coerulea. Therefore, it offers the ideal background to study the multiple ecological processes affecting the dynamics of both its benthic and pelagic populations. This PhD built on this rare opportunity to precise the drivers and fates of the blooms of A. coerulea. This was accomplished in two steps. First, the benthic population dynamics in the lagoon was investigated and complemented with studies on its drivers and on the trophic ecology of both life stages over one year. To do so, in situ monitoring surveys and both stomach content and stable isotope analyses were employed. Second, the fate of A. coerulea biomass in the lagoon was assessed by investigating fish predation on its pelagic and benthic life stages and by studying the degradation of its medusae once dead on the seabed. This was performed by molecular analysis of fish gut contents and in situ experiments evaluating the decay rates of medusae and the potential role of the benthic fauna in their disappearance. The results obtained highlight a complex interaction of biotic and abiotic environmental parameters, which modulate bloom intensity by jointly influencing both the benthic and pelagic populations of A. coerulea. Temperature, salinity, food availability and predation appear to be the main drivers of the blooms of A. coerulea in Thau, with four critical periods, either boosting or lessening local bloom formation each year. Finally, the biomass produced by A. coerulea blooms has three main fates within the lagoon. The medusae can first be consumed alive by several pelagic predators like fish. Otherwise, when they die and sink to the seabed, some can be consumed by benthic scavengers like gastropods, but most are rapidly remineralised by the local microbial community. These findings shed light on the potential evolution of jellyfish blooms in the face of the ongoing anthropogenic forces on the marine environment, and on their impacts on coastal ecosystems functioning. However, they also highlight how intricate jellyfish blooms forecasting is and stress the need for similar comprehensive studies, not only for other jellyfish species but also in many other parts of the world
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Less, Adam David. "Cultural Biases in the Weschler Memory Scale iii (WMS-iii)." UNF Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/591.
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The Wechsler Memory Scale –iii is the newest version of a six-decade old neuropsychological inventory. Since its conception, the Wechsler Memory Scale has been highly utilized by practitioners to accurately assess various memory functions in adult subjects. Revisions made within this inventory include the Faces I subtest, a facial recognition scale, which was added in order to strengthen the instrument’s accuracy at measuring episodic memory. Facial recognition, both cross-race and within-race, has been researched extensively and consistent biases have been found between race of test taker and cross-racial identification. Theories of exposure/contextual interaction (environment) and biological foundations have been the subject of study in the past in order to determine from where these racial identification deficits stem. The current study focuses on revealing bias in the Faces I subtest, regarding to an unequal distribution of racially representative faces in the testing materials. Eighty-eight college students were recruited to view forty-eight pictured faces from the Faces I subtest and determine the racial category to which the pictured face belonged. The subjects’ categorical responses were the basis for calculating a percent agreement score for racial category of each face. It was determined, using the results of subjects’ responses, that the Faces I subtest contained an unequal distribution of racially representative faces in both the Target and Interference testing material. This confirmed the presence of an inherent bias within the subscale. The implications of memory accuracy for the WMS-iii are discussed as it relates to different fields of study, but none more directly than the criminal justice system. Eyewitness testimony is a pivotal evidentiary tool in the criminal justice system, and ramifications of cross-racial identification deficits and biases in the tools to accurately assess memory are increasingly bringing this once heavily relied upon tool into question.
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Gon?alves, S?rgio Carvalho. "Disponibilidade h?drica potencial em face da distribui??o espa?o-temporal das precipita??es no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2009. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/15990.
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Previous issue date: 2009-02-13The state of Rio Grande do Norte, possessor of an extremely irregular regime of rains, has the necessity of enlarge and specify the researches about its own hydro-climatic conditions, to achieve trustworthy results that are able to minimize the adversities imposed by these conditions and make possible the implementation of a better planning in the economic activities and of subsistence that somehow utilize of the multiple uses of hydro resources of the State. This way, the daily values observed from the pluviometric series of 166 posts, with 45 years uninterrupted of historic data, were adjusted to the incomplete gamma function to the determination of the probability of rain in the 36 period of ten days in which the year was divided. To the attainment of the α and β parameters of this function it was applied the method of the maximum verisimilitude allowing, in the end, to analyze the temporal and spatial distribution of the rain in the level of 75% of probability. The values of potential evapo-transpiration were calculated by the Linacre method that, through the SURFER software, were confronted with the dependant rain, obtaining, in this way, the spatialization of the potential hydro availability, which the values can be known to any period of ten days of the year, city and/or region of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. With the identification of the main meteorological systems that act in the State, we sought to better comprehend how this systems interfere, in the irregular regime of rain, in the situations of several clime in the major part of Rio Grande do Norte and in the hydro regional balance. And, finally, with these data in hand and with the generated maps, we verified that space-temporal distribution of the rain and of the potential hydro availability were heterogeneous in the whole State, mainly in the West and Central regions, inserted in potiguar s semi-arid, which, after the period of the rains station, suffers with dry season and length drought during the rest of the year
O Rio Grande do Norte, Estado possuidor de um regime pluvial extremamente irregular, tem a necessidade de ampliar e detalhar os estudos sobre as suas condi??es hidroclim?ticas, para poder chegar a resultados confi?veis que minimizem as adversidades impostas por elas e viabilizem a implanta??o de um melhor planejamento nas atividades econ?micas e de subsist?ncia que se utilizam, de alguma forma, dos v?rios usos m?ltiplos dos recursos h?dricos do Estado. Dessa forma, os valores di?rios observados das s?ries pluviom?tricas de 166 postos, com 45 anos ininterruptos de dados hist?ricos, foram ajustados ? fun??o gama incompleta para a determina??o da probabilidade de precipita??o nos 36 dec?ndios que foi dividido o ano. Para a obten??o dos par?metros α e β dessa fun??o, foi aplicado o m?todo da m?xima verossimilhan?a, permitindo, ao final, analisar as distribui??es temporal e espacial de precipita??o no n?vel de 75% de probabilidade. Os valores da evapotranspira??o potencial foram calculados pelo m?todo de Linacre que, atrav?s do software SURFER, foram confrontados com a precipita??o dependente, obtendo-se a espacializa??o da disponibilidade h?drica potencial, cujos valores podem ser conhecidos para quaisquer dec?ndios do ano, munic?pio e/ou mesorregi?o do estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Com a identifica??o dos principais sistemas meteorol?gicos que atuam no Estado, buscou-se compreender melhor como esses sistemas interferem no regime pluvial irregular, nas situa??es de clima severo na maior parte do Rio Grande do Norte e no balan?o h?drico regional. E, finalmente, de posse dessas informa??es e dos mapas gerados, verifica-se que as distribui??es espa?o-temporal da precipita??o e da disponibilidade h?drica potencial s?o bastante heterog?neas em todo Estado, notadamente nas mesorregi?es Oeste e Central, inseridas no semi-?rido potiguar, que, ap?s o per?odo da esta??o chuvosa, sofrem com as secas ou estiagens prolongadas durante o restante do ano
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Devapal, Lucy. "An investigation of the barriers faced by older people when accessing dental services in a rural community in north east England." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2560.
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The proportion of older people within the UK population is increasing. This is a diverse group from varying socioeconomic backgrounds and who also exhibit a broad spectrum of dependence. The planning and provision of appropriate oral healthcare should be an important consideration for decision makers for this growing sector of society. This research was carried out in two phrases; the first phase was used to explore the beliefs, values and priorities of older people regarding their oral health and it also examined the barriers faced by older people when accessing dental care services in a rural setting. The second phase investigated low health care professionals involved in providing care for older people viewed local dental services and it looked more closely at how older people use dental services in a rural setting. Using information gathered throughout the study the aim was to develop strategies to improve the oral health of over 65s where necessary. The research highlighted the importance of oral health related quality of life for older people. Barriers such as cost and difficulties with travelling, particularly within a rural setting, were raised, however, older people often found ways of coping with these. Emotional barriers and the impact of the life course were more difficult to overcome and greatly influenced current dental visiting habits. Older people placed importance on trust, professionalism and building up a relationship with their dentist. Local health care service providers also highlighted the close relationships built up with patients in these small communities. However, their work was often constrained by current NHS policy; they are bound by rules and regulations which restricted their practice. Commissioning dental services for older people in a rural setting is challenging. Services should be based on the needs of this group and in order to be effective good linkage between services is necessary.
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Ilyina, Tatjana P. "The fate of persistent organic pollutants in the North Sea : multiple year model simulations of [gamma]-HCH, [alpha]-HCH and PCB 153 /." Berlin [u.a.] : Springer, 2007. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0710/2006939205.html.
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SILVA, Anne Caroline da. "Análise estrutural do maciço rochoso para orientação otimizada da face livre em pedreira localizada no distrito de Pão de Açucar, município de Taquaritinga do Norte, Pernambuco." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2016. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/20340.
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Na pedreira Combritas, localizada no distrito de Pão de Açúcar, município de Taquaritinga do Norte, Pernambuco, procedeu-se a análise estrutural da rocha, susceptível de aplicação ao bom planejamento das aberturas das faces livres, consistindo no mapeamento geológico de detalhe das principais descontinuidades presentes no maciço a partir da coleta de dados. Possibilitou-se, assim, a projeção das feições geométrico-estruturais e as prováveis orientações de instabilidade, que definem a ruptura natural da rocha, isto é, o bloco de partição. O objetivo foi a análise das características geomecânicas evidentes na face livre e a forma como está orientada. Os prováveis tipos de rupturas foram verificados nas cinco faces livres estudadas, através das técnicas de projeções estereográficas e cônicas das descontinuidades – famílias de fraturas, foliações, tipo bandamento e xistosidade – expressivos do bloco de partição natural da rocha. Assim, buscou-se a definição das superfícies levantante, alongante e trincante, e suas interseções nas faces livres já existentes. As interpretações das projeções identificaram a tendência do maciço a rupturas em cunha. Os marcadores de deformação apontaram para o estágio frágil-rúptil dos litotipos do maciço, enquanto o bloco de partição permitiu apontar a melhor abertura da face livre, que leva à otimização de carga, essencialmente evitando-se taludes negativos e repés, reduzindo os custos financeiros. As cunhas de partição caracterizaram as dificuldades registradas nas faces livres já abertas na pedreira de agregados para a construção civil. Em essência, há obliquidade entre a foliação da rocha e as famílias de fraturas mais frequentes, traduzindo-se, em geral, com alongamentos segundo a direção NNW-SSE até NE-SW, com mergulhos para o sentido leste do que se conclui que a abertura da face livre será otimizada se respeitar a direção daquele alongamento, mergulhando do sentido leste para oeste. Alternativamente, deve ser respeitada a direção da superfície alongante da rocha, de tal modo que a face livre verticalizada, nessa situação, deverá gerar menos taludes negativos e passivos ambientais.
The quarry Combritas, located in Pão de Açucar district, Taquaritinga of Norte city, Pernambuco, proceeded to the structural rock analysis that can be applied to good planning of the openings of the free faces, consisting of geological detail mapping of major discontinuities present in the mass from the data collection. It is possible, therefore, the projection of the geometric and structural features and likely directions of instability, which define the natural break the rock, that is, the partition block. The objective was to analyze the geomechanical characteristics evident on the free face and how it is oriented. The probable types of breaks were observed in five free faces studied, through the techniques of stereographic projections and conic of discontinuities - families fractures, foliation, type banding and foliation - expressive natural partition block of rock. Thus, we sought to define the boosting surfaces alongante and trincante, and their intersections on existing free faces. Interpretations of the projections identified the trend of massive breaks the wedge. Deformation marker pointed to the fragile, brittle stage of the mass lithologies while the partition block allowed to point the best opening of the free face, which leads to the load optimization essentially avoiding negative slopes and baize, reducing financial costs . The partition wedges characterized the difficulties recorded in the free faces now open in the quarry aggregates for the construction industry. In essence, there is obliquity between the foliation of the rock and the families of more frequent fractures, resulting in general with stretching according to NNW-SSE to NESW, with dips to the east direction than it is concluded that opening of the free face will be optimized to respect the direction of that stretch, plunging the eastbound west. Alternatively, it should be respected the direction of alongante rock surface, so that the free face vertically in this situation should generate less negative slope and environmental liabilities.
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Ilyina, Tatjana P. "The fate of persistent organic pollutants in the North Sea multiple year model simulations of {[gamma]-HCH [gamma-HCH], {[alpha]-HCH [alpha-HCH] and PCB 153." Berlin Heidelberg New York Springer, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2874201&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Holmes, Steven John. "Investigations into the occurrence, fate and behaviour of dioxins and furans (PCDD/Fs) in the environment at Bolsover, North Derbyshire and the relevance to human exposure." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250153.
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Santiago, Edna de Farias. "Alcoolemia em v?timas fatais de acidentes de tr?nsito no Rio Grande do Norte empregando cromatografia em fase gasosa - head space." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2008. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/13440.
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Previous issue date: 2008-09-23Alcohol is one of the few psychotropic drugs that their consumption has admitted legally and sometimes encouraged by the society. Studies show alcohol as the highest consumption of drugs among young people and society in general, probably because of its availability and easy access. The abuse causes public health problems, which was closely related to the violence, socioeconomic problems and the high number of automobile accidents. Transit is one of the main sectors affected by the effects of alcohol, observing a high incidence in the studies. About half of automobile accidents occurs after the consumption of alcoholic beverage, and the vast majority of cases related to high concentrations of alcohol in the bloodstream. The relationship of drunk with traffic accidents is in fact evident everywhere in the world, including Brazil, where studies have shown a high relationship between alcohol consumption and traffic accidents. This study determined the alcohol in fatal victims of traffic accidents in the state of Rio Grande do Norte and established the profile of this population compared with those found in Brazil and other countries. Samples of blood of ethanol added to fulfillment of the standardization of chromatographic conditions and procedures for the analysis, being employed in the determination of alcohol in blood samples of 277 victims of traffic accidents, collected at the Institute of Scientific Technical Police of Rio Grande do North (ITEP) in the year 2007. The blood alcohol level was determined in these samples correlated with the sex, age and marital status of the victim and the location, day of week and month when the accident occurred, is doing a statistical analysis and outlining a profile of the victims of an accident at transit in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. The parameters of standardization studied ensured the quality of the analytical method and, consequently, to obtain reliable laboratory results. Being given the best temperature for injector (150 ?C), detector (250 ?C) and column (50 ?C) with a flow of gas in the column of 2mL/minutos and analysis of time of 12 minutes. The method was linear in the range of 0.01 to 3.2 g / L (r2 = 0.9989) with average recovery of 100.2% and precision with coefficient of variation less than 15%. The analysis carried out on victims of fatal road traffic accidents, ethanol detected in the blood in 66.43% of the victims and these, 96% showed concentration ≥ 0.2 g / L, 87.73% of victims were male, while 12.27% female. The younger age group (1535 years) was the most involved (52,35%) and most single (55.60%). The accidents occurred with greater prevalence in the day on Monday (27%) followed by Sunday (24,19%) and Saturday (15,52%) and it was found that the prevalence of injuries varied between the different months of the year, and in February (14.4%) and April (10.47%) the months that had a higher number of accidents, however this oscillation showed no statistically significant difference. Also no significant difference was observed between the tracks of concentration found in men and women. The standardized method showed to be efficient, given satisfactorily to the goals of this work, and the high levels of alcohol found in victims of fatal road traffic accidents are consistent with several studies of literature, and the profile of the victim also supported by presenting in its most young adults, male and single
O ?lcool ? uma das poucas drogas psicotr?picas que tem seu consumo admitido legalmente e, ?s vezes, incentivado pela sociedade. Estudos mostram o ?lcool como a droga de maior consumo entre os jovens e na sociedade de forma geral, provavelmente devido ? sua disponibilidade e f?cil acesso. O uso abusivo provoca problemas de sa?de p?blica, estando ele estreitamente relacionado com a viol?ncia, problemas s?cioecon?micos e com o elevado n?mero de acidentes automobil?sticos. O tr?nsito ? um dos principais setores afetados pelos efeitos do ?lcool, observandose alta incid?ncia nos estudos realizados. Aproximadamente metade dos acidentes automobil?sticos ocorre ap?s o consumo de bebida alco?lica, estando a grande maioria dos casos relacionados com altas concentra??es de ?lcool na circula??o sangu?nea. A rela??o da embriagues com os acidentes de tr?nsito ? fato not?rio em toda parte do mundo, inclusive no Brasil, onde estudos demonstraram uma alta rela??o entre o consumo de ?lcool e os acidentes de tr?nsito. Este trabalho determinou a alcoolemia em v?timas fatais de acidente de tr?nsito no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte e estabeleceu o perfil desta popula??o comparando com aqueles encontrados no Brasil e em outros pa?ses. Foram utilizadas amostras de sangue adicionadas de etanol para realiza??o da padroniza??o das condi??es cromatogr?ficas e dos procedimentos de an?lise, sendo empregado na determina??o da alcoolemia em amostras de sangue de 277 v?timas de acidente de tr?nsito, coletadas no Instituto T?cnico Cient?fico de Pol?cia do Rio Grande do Norte (ITEP) no ano de 2007. O n?vel de alcoolemia determinado nestas amostras foi correlacionado com o sexo, idade e estado civil da v?tima e com a localiza??o, dia da semana e m?s em que os acidentes ocorreram, fazendose uma an?lise estat?stica e tra?ando um perfil das v?timas de acidente de tr?nsito no estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Os par?metros de padroniza??o estudados asseguraram a qualidade do m?todo anal?tico e, conseq?entemente, a obten??o de resultados laboratoriais confi?veis. Sendo determinado as melhores temperaturas para injetor (150?C), detector (250?C) e coluna (50?C), com um fluxo de g?s na coluna de 2mL/minutos e tempo de an?lise de 12 minutos. O m?todo foi linear no intervalo de 0,01 a 3,2 g/L (r2 = 0,9989), com recupera??o m?dia de 100,2% e precis?o com coeficiente de varia??o menor que 15%. As an?lises realizadas em v?timas fatais de acidente de tr?nsito, detectaram etanol no sangue em 66,43% das v?timas e destas, 96% apresentaram concentra??o ≥ 0,2 g/L; 87,73% das v?timas eram do sexo masculino, enquanto que 12,27% do sexo feminino. A faixa et?ria jovem (1535 anos) foi a mais envolvida (52,35%) sendo a maioria solteira (55,60%). Os acidentes aconteceram com maior preval?ncia nos dias de segundafeira (27%), seguido do domingo (24,19%) e s?bado (15,52%) e constatouse que a preval?ncia de acidentes oscilou entre os diferentes meses do ano, sendo fevereiro (14,4%) e abril (10,47%) os meses que apresentaram um maior n?mero de acidentes, contudo esta oscila??o n?o apresentou diferen?a estatisticamente significativa. Tamb?m n?o foi observado diferen?a significativa entre as faixas de concentra??o encontradas nos homens e nas mulheres. O m?todo padronizado demonstrouse eficiente, atendendo satisfatoriamente aos objetivos deste trabalho; e os n?veis elevados de alcoolemia encontrados nas v?timas fatais de acidente de tr?nsito s?o coincidentes com v?rios estudos da literatura, sendo o perfil da v?tima tamb?m compat?vel, apresentandose em sua maioria adultos jovens, do sexo masculino e solteiros
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Cazarin, Júnior Airton. "Manejo de irrigação para cultivares de palma de óleo (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) em fase inicial de desenvolvimento no norte de Mato Grosso." Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, 2014. http://ri.ufmt.br/handle/1/618.
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No Brasil, dentre os óleos vegetais empregados na produção de biodiesel, a palma de óleo apresenta grande potencial, sendo uma opção ao diesel de petróleo e contribuindo para a geração de um mercado de produção de biodiesel em grande escala. Além de ocupar uma posição de destaque na produção e geração de energia renovável de origem agrícola, o Brasil dispõe de extensas áreas agricultáveis que podem ser incorporadas ao processo produtivo de maneira sustentável. A palma de óleo é atualmente a oleaginosa de maior produtividade mundial, apresentando rendimento de óleo de 3 a 6 toneladas por hectare anualmente. Apresenta boa capacidade adaptativa, sendo ótima alternativa para recuperação de áreas degradadas. De acordo com o Zoneamento Agroecológico da Palma de óleo, o norte do estado de Mato Grosso se enquadra como área regular e marginal, apresentando restrições de déficit hídrico variando de 200 a 450 mm ano. Nesse contexto objetivou-se avaliar o desenvolvimento inicial de dois cultivares de palma de óleo sob-regime irrigado e de sequeiro, no município de Sinop – MT, visando estabelecer um manejo adequado de irrigação. Para tanto, realizou-se dois experimentos. No primeiro utilizou-se delineamento experimental de Blocos Casualizados, com dois cultivares (BRS C2501 e BRS C2528) e quatro níveis de depleção de água no solo (10, 20, 30 e 40% da disponibilidade total de água no solo), todos com três repetições (blocos). No segundo utilizou-se delineamento experimental de Blocos Casualizados, com dois cultivares (BRS C2501 e BRS C2528) e dois sistemas de cultivo (sequeiro e irrigado), todos com três repetições (blocos). Cada parcela experimental foi composta por cinco plantas, das quais foram avaliadas mensalmente: diâmetro médio de projeção da copa (DMP), número de folhas (NF) e largura do folíolo (LF). Os valores obtidos foram analisados em três períodos (chuvoso 1, seca e chuvoso 2), sendo comparados os dois cultivares, os níveis de depleção e o desenvolvimento nos dois sistemas de cultivo (irrigado e de sequeiro). Quando significativamente diferentes, as médias foram submetidas à comparação pelo teste de Tuckey ou regressão, sempre a 5% de probabilidade. Concluiu-se que as cultivares BRS C2501 e BRS C2528 apresentaram vi desenvolvimento vegetativo semelhante e o sistema irrigado foi superior ao não irrigado.
In Brazil, among the vegetable oils used in biodiesel production, oil palm has grest potential, standinpas an option to petroleum diesel and contributing to the creation of a market for large-scale production of biodiesel. Besides occupying a prominent position in the production and generation of renewable energy from agricultural sources, the Brazil has extensive agricultural areas that can be incorporated into the production process in a sustainable manner. Palm oil is currently the world's largest oilseed productivity, presenting oil yield of 3 to 6 tons per hectare annually. It has a good adaptive capacity and is a great alternative for restoration of degraded areas. According to the Agro-Ecological Zoning of Oil Palm, the northern state of Mato Grosso is considered as a regular and marginal area, with restrictions on water deficit ranging from 200 to 450 mm year. In this context the goal of this study was to evaluate the initial development of two oil palm cultivars under irrigated and rainfed system, in Sinop - MT, to establish a the best strategy for irrigation management. The experimental randomized block was designed with two cultivars (BRS C2501 and BRS C2528), and four soil water depletion levels (10, 20, 30 and 40% of the total available water in the soil) as well as a rainfed conditions, all with three replications (blocks). Each experimental plot consisted of five plants, that were evaluated on monthly basis regarding their morphological characteristics: canopy average diameter (DMP), number of leaves (NL) and width of leaves (LF). Therefore, it took two experiments. In the first we used a randomized blocks, with two cultivars (BRS C2501 and C2528 BRS) and four levels of water depletion in the soil (10, 20, 30 and 40% of the total soil water availability), all with three replications (blocks). In the second we used a randomized blocks, with two cultivars (BRS C2501 and C2528 BRS) and both systems (rainfed and irrigated), all with three replications (blocks). Each plot consisted of five plants, which were evaluated monthly: average diameter of crown projection (DMP), number of leaves (NF) and width of leaves (LF). The data were analyzed in three periods (1 rainy, dry and rainy 2), and compared the two cultivars, depletion levels and development in both systems (irrigated and viii rainfed). When significantly different, the means were submitted to comparison by Tukey test or regression, where a 5% probability. It was concluded that the BRS C2501 and C2528 BRS cultivars showed similar vegetative growth and the irrigation system was higher than non-irrigated.
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Hentschel, Robert J. (Robert Joseph). "The fate of the white elephant : an evaluation and analysis of the factors which determine demolition or continued use of major league stadiums and arenas in North America." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67270.
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Campos, Ticiano Bitencourt. "Principais fatores críticos de sucesso para melhorias em produtos na fase de pós-lançamento em empresas do ramo metal-mecânico do norte de Santa Catarina." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2013. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/106856.
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A otimização de custo em produtos pós-lançamento pode ser considerada uma alternativa com rápida resposta na busca da maximização dos lucros e aumento do seu ciclo de vida. No entanto, faltam informações na literatura suficientes para a implantação bem sucedida destes processos. Esta pesquisa identifica e valida fatores críticos de sucesso para processos de melhorias em produtos nas fases finais do ciclo de vida em empresas do ramo metal-mecânico do norte de Santa Catarina. Para a execução da pesquisa, foram identificados os fatores críticos de sucesso junto a literatura e aplicação de entrevistas. Aplicaram-se questionários com especialistas de empresas, a fim de obter informações sobre o ponto de vista dos mesmos em relação aos fatores críticos de sucesso identificados. Em seguida, formularam-se hipóteses, as quais são testadas através de teste estatístico, visando identificar se os fatores são realmente críticos para o processo de melhorias de produto nas fases finais do ciclo de vida. A análise dos resultados obtidos demonstrou concordância entre os fatores identificados e a opinião dos especialistas. A ?análise sistemática de concorrentes? e a ?análise constante das necessidades dos clientes? foram os fatores críticos de sucesso com maior destaque na pesquisa. Todos os fatores críticos identificados nesta pesquisa foram validados por especialistas de empresas no ramo metal-mecânico.
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Zanini, Claudio Vescia. "The orgy is over : phantasies, fake realities and the loss of boundaries in Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/36013.
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Este trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar o romance Assombro, de Chuck Palahniuk, como retrato e sintoma do comportamento da sociedade pós-moderna ocidental, cujos valores correspondem, de acordo com palavras do próprio autor, ao “inverso do sonho americano”. A principal característica de tal sociedade é a dificuldade dos indivíduos em lidar com as exigências e constantes mudanças nos âmbitos individual, social e psicológico, o que se configura na obra do escritor estadunidense através de personagens marginais em busca (na maioria das vezes, aparentemente inconsciente) de autoaceitação ou adaptação social. A leitura desenvolvida aqui se baseia principalmente nos escritos do teórico francês Jean Baudrillard, que apresenta o pressuposto de que o mundo contemporâneo encontra-se num estado de “pós-orgia”, assombrado por três fantasmas que o teórico chama de câncer, travesti e terrorismo, os quais simbolizam questões sociais contemporâneas relacionadas à política, sexualidade, comunicação e relacionamentos humanos, entre outros aspectos. Os conceitos de Baudrillard que norteiam a análise são: 'estado de pós-orgia', 'hiperrealidade', 'simulação', 'virulência' e 'sedução' e 'fantasmas'. O trabalho também apresenta as características da literatura de Chuck Palahniuk e sua recém-iniciada fortuna crítica, apontando os principais aspectos da sociedade pós-moderna presentes em suas obras e culminando em um cotejo de Assombro com o gótico e sua vertente pós-moderna, além de uma comparação entre a dinâmica estabelecida entre as personagens do romance e aquela percebida nos reality shows e falsos documentários (mock-documentaries). A conclusão retoma aspectos na estrutura, imaginário e conteúdo do romance, que permitem defini-lo como retrato e sintoma de uma nova configuração social, resultado das inevitáveis mudanças por que o mundo passa.This dissertation aims at presenting Chuck Palahniuk‟s novel Haunted as a portrait and symptom of the behavior perceived in the postmodern Western society, whose values, according to the author himself, correspond to “the opposite of the American Dream”. The main characteristic of such society is the individuals‟ difficulty in dealing with demands and constant changes in the individual, social and psychological spheres, a fact observed in the work of this American writer through the presence of marginal characters in a more often than not apparently unconscious search of self-acceptance or social adaptation. The reading proposed is mainly based on the writings of French theoretician Jean Baudrillard, who presents the assumption that the contemporary world is in a “post-orgy” state, haunted by three phantasies he denominates cancer, transvestitism and terrorism, which symbolize contemporary social issues related to politics, sexuality, communication and human relationships, among other aspects. The concepts by Baudrillard that underlie the analysis are: 'post-orgy state', 'hyperreality', 'simulation', 'virulence', 'seduction' and 'phantasies'. The work also presents the features of the literature produced by Chuck Palahniuk and its newly-started critical fortune, highlighting the main aspects of postmodern society present in his works, culminating with an approximation of Haunted to the postmodern variation of Gothic literature, besides a comparison between the dynamics established among the characters in the novel to the one perceived in reality shows and mock-documentaries. The conclusion strengthens aspects in the structure, imaginary and content of the novel that enable the definition of Haunted as portrait and symptom of a new social organization, resulting from the inevitable changes the world goes through.
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Valenzuela, Ramírez Jimena Rocío. "El material malacológico y el complejo cultural Pica-Tarapacá: uso social y simbolismo de las conchas en la prehistoria tardía del norte de Chile (fase Camiña 1.200 – 1.450 d.c.)." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2010. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/106287.
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Freitas, da Mota Catarina. "Le système touristique comme un facteur de développement local dans les moyennes villes à travers des attractifs: le cas de Fafe au Portugal." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/398792.
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In this thesis carried through the Doctorate Programm about Tourism from the University of Girona, we decided to investigate whether the tourism system could be considered as a factor in local development in medium-sized cities, through all that attractive there may exist, especially in the city of Fafe, in Portugal.
So we study the local development, knowing that it is the result of an effort that aims to identify, recognize and develop local resources, to explore and develop potential, vocations, opportunities, benefits comparative and competitive in each territory. Given that tourism is a very important sector for the Portuguese economy, there was a need to create a plan in 2006 designated “National Tourism Strategic Plan (PENT)” and later, in 2013, a final reformulation of the “PENT” which had as main objective to combat seasonality in Portugal, then hear spoke of the “PORTUGAL 2020” which was created in accordance with the program “EUROPE 2020” and, regarding the northern region of Portugal, which frames our case study, the “Coordination and Development Commission Regional North (CCDR-N)” created the “NORTE 2020” program. These programs have assisted to promote the development of tourism for the Portuguese national economy and, consequently, to the northern region of Portugal, where the city of Fafe is considered a medium-sized city.
We managed, through the realization of this thesis, verify that the tourism system can certainly be considered a factor in local development in medium-sized cities across attractive that exist there. However, regarding the city of Fafe, we know, through our investigation, that the tourism system can be considered as a factor for local development only if the Mayor of the city meets with all local tourist agents, of the private sector and public sector to create a tourism policy to design the development of tourism in the city and it can ensure that local actors feel more useful, being more participatory in the promotion of existing attractive in this city and in the initiatives that they can have for the development of this sector to contribute to an active form for local development and the local economy.
Thus, it is important to see that we were able to achieve these results through search methods as is the case of the interview, survey and requests for information made to the tourism officials of public sector and local agents of the private sector, which also allowed us to make a SWOT analysis about the city of Fafe and that was very important for the qualitative realization of the results of our investigationEn aquesta tesi realitzada mitjançant el programa de doctorat en Turisme per la Universitat de Girona, vam decidir investigar si el sistema de turisme podria ser considerat com un factor en el desenvolupament local en ciutats mitjanes, a través de tot el que atractiu poden existir, especialment a la ciutat de Fafe, en Portugal. Per això, va investigar el desenvolupament local és el resultat d'un esforç per identificar, reconèixer i desenvolupar els recursos locals, explorar i desenvolupar potencials, les vocacions, les oportunitats, avantatges comparatius i competitius de cada territori. Tenint en compte que el turisme és un sector molt important per a l'economia portuguesa, hi havia una necessitat de crear un pla el 2006 designat del “Pla Estratègic Nacional de Turisme (PENT)” i més tard, el 2013, una nova formulació definitiva “PENT” que tenia com a objectiu principal combatre l'estacionalitat en Portugal, per després escoltarà parlat del “PORTUGAL 2020”, que va ser creat de conformitat amb el programa “EUROPA 2020” i, pel que fa a la regió nord de Portugal, que emmarca el nostre estudi de cas, la “Comissió de Coordinació i Desenvolupament regional del Nord (CCDR-N)” ha creat el programa “NORTE 2020”. Aquests programes han ajudat a promoure el desenvolupament del turisme per a l'economia nacional de Portugal i, en conseqüència, a la regió del nord de Portugal, on la ciutat de Fafe és considerada una ciutat mitjana. Hem aconseguit, a través de la realització d'aquesta tesi, verificar que el sistema turístic pot considerar certament un factor en el desenvolupament local en ciutats mitjanas a través d'atractius que hi ha. No obstant això, pel que fa a la ciutat de Fafe, en sabem, mitjançant la nostra investigació, que el sistema turístic es pot considerar com un factor de desenvolupament local només si l'Alcalde de la ciutat es reuneix amb tots els agents turístics locals, del sector privat i del sector públic per crear una política de turisme per dissenyar el desenvolupament del turisme a la ciutat i es pot assegurar que els actors locals se senten més útils, sent més participativos en la promoció dels atractius existents en aquesta ciutat i en les iniciatives que puguin tenir per al desenvolupament d'aquest sector per contribuir a una forma activa per al desenvolupament local i per l'economia local. Per tant, és important veure que hem estat capaços d'aconseguir aquests resultats a través dels mètodes de recerca, com és el cas del qüestionari, de l'entrevista i peticions d'informació realitzades als funcionaris de turisme de sector públic i agents locals del sector privat, que també ens va permetre fer una anàlisi SWOT sobre la ciutat de Fafe i que era molt important per a la realització qualitativa dels resultats de la nostra investigació
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Campbell, Alasdair James Islay. "Myth ascendant : issues of culture, media, and identity in the celebrity career of Glenn Gould." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6b53c88e-d9e7-4227-9144-bad890a0d3fc.
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This thesis applies a sociological framework to the North American celebrity career of Canadian pianist and broadcaster Glenn Gould (1932-1982) to account for Gould's iconic status as an artist in modern musical culture. Despite the persistent cultural fascination with Gould, as evidenced in the seemingly endless supply of biographies, films, novels, and fan texts which narrate and celebrate his life and work, modern Gould scholarship has consistently neglected issues relating to his artistic reception. This thesis proposes that the modern Gould phenomenon is productively analysed in terms of the contexts of its historical production in North America, where it first originated. Focusing on the circumstances of Gould's career during his lifetime, it identifies three areas of overlapping conceptual interest that provide the basis for an explanatory account of his modern mythology: i) Gould's relationship to the culture of his time, particularly in Canada; ii) Gould's relationship to the mass media; iii) Gould's relationship to his own artistic identity. This approach is refined through the application of Stuart Hall's 'Circuit of Culture' model, which yields an understanding of Gould's celebrity in terms of the processes of its representation, production, regulation, and consumption. Against this theoretical backdrop, and consistent with the premise of my thesis, I ask some key questions: what was Gould's relationship to Canadian cultural nationalism and, specifically, a nationalist discourse of public broadcasting? How did media institutions brand his image, and for what commercial purposes? How did Gould mobilise understandings of his genius and Canadian identity through his artistic discourse and experimental media self-representations as a 'Northerner' and a technologist? Based on this analysis, the thesis concludes that Gould continues to fascinate because of the unique ideological work performed by his cultural identities, and because of the highly mediated nature of his celebrity. The ubiquity of his image on video-sharing websites and social media platforms is a vindication of his radical belief in the validity of a musical career pursued primarily through the electronic media.
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Feng, Shuo. "3D integral invariant signatures and their application on face recognition." 2007. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-09102007-153942/unrestricted/etd.pdf.
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Robinson, Laura Marie. "The face of hope Helen Maria Williams and the Revolutionary countenance /." 2007. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-01062008-224607/unrestricted/etd.pdf.
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Cook, Ted Edwin. "Photoemission investigation of the electronic properties of Ga-face GaN (0001)-dielectric interfaces." 2003. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-05072003-215748/unrestricted/etd.pdf.
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Cheng, Ming-Hsiang, and 鄭名翔. "The Choice Between the North Wind and the Sun-The Adaptive Strategy that Journalists Face with the Organizational Control." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tr3qed.
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Riley, Tasha Anastasia. "The face of achievement : influences on teacher decision making about aboriginal students." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/16688.
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In British Columbia, the issue of low graduation rates among Aboriginal students has
been addressed often. Some researchers have claimed that racism is a factor that impedes the
progress of Aboriginal students. Since teachers' decisions potentially have a profound impact
upon students, this study investigated whether teachers discriminate when they make decisions
about students. Fifty pre-service teachers recommended 24 fictional students for remedial,
average or advanced programs based upon the program eligibility criteria. Results indicated that
students whom teachers were led to believe were of Aboriginal ancestry and students whom they
were led to believe were students for whom English was a second language were consistently
under-rated in comparison to their non-Aboriginal counterparts regardless of the students' prior
academic record.Education, Faculty of
Educational Studies (EDST), Department of
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Mokgwamme, Nomayoyo Asnath. "The challenges construction companies headed by black women face in sustaining businesses, in Ngaka Modiri Molema district, North West province / Nomayoyo Asnath Mokgwamme." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/15752.
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The South African government has placed great emphasis on SMMEs being the
group that could assist in steering the economy. It reviewed the measure of
introducing women to the mainstream economy, as a marginalised group that are
a majority in numbers, but a minority in the economy due to circumstances
surrounding their traditional role and especially due to the constraints of the
previous regime. The current government has introduced sweeping reforms
through regulations aimed at preferential procurement of female-owned
companies, but regardless of all government's initiatives female owned companies
still struggle to compete with their male counterparts in the construction industry.
The research problem questions the processes and systems put in place to alter
the social, political and economic climate in South Africa that created a new cycle
of opportunities and threats for the different stakeholders. It gave rise to hidden
occlusions based on gender and race that need to be addressed. Frustrations
such as those found in the empowerment initiatives of BEE that resulted in the
decline of standards and an increase in the disadvantaged groups trapped into
worse liabilities are worth mentioning. The literature review has produced
important recommendations that when implemented may resolve the flaws that
tend to create opportunities for unintended parties. Issues such as motivational
factors, collaboration between partners, sound partnering relationships and
establishing an organisational culture will assist role players to take stock, enable
them to make a turn-around, view challenges in terms of concealed manifestations
and ultimately effectively address said challenges.Thesis (MBA) North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2012