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Софронов, В. С. "Стан та структура електронної торгівлі в світі." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2018. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/66879.
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Мережа Інтернет виносить функції торгівлі на повністю новий
рівень. Через зміну тенденцій її розвитку, вона досить важко
піддається вивченню, не кажучи вже про прогнозування, що є
великою проблемою. Але все ж таки, деякі переваги над звичайною
моделлю торгівлі є досить очевидними.
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Krob, Jakub. "Platební systémy na Internetu." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-10576.
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Jehle, Stefanie. "Vertrauen und Recht im Internet am Beispiel vorvertraglicher Informationspflichten und des Bezahlverfahrens PayPal." Hamburg Kovač, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1000907678/04.
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Ballin, Lorenzo. "Progettazione e sviluppo di un sistema per la gestione di pagamenti su piattaforme mobili android." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2014. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/7416/.
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Il processo di realizzazione di questo lavoro nasce con la ricerca di un'intuizione che potesse emergere come novità nell'oceano di possibilità offerte dal mercato degli applicativi per smartphone.
Il risultato finale di questa ricerca ha prodotto una conclusione apparentemente ambiziosa: sostituire il vecchio concetto di 'portamonete' con una versione più pratica, innovativa ed in accordo con l'attuale direzione delle
tecnologie moderne.
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Baktirovic, Adnan. "Utveckling av hotspotsystem." Thesis, Karlstad University, Division for Information Technology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-1584.
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Detta examensarbete är gjort på uppdrag av Fiber Optik Valley. Huvuduppdraget i projektet var att skapa ett fungerande betalningssystem för en hotspot och att utveckla företagets webbsida. Hotspotsystemet som baserades på en gratistjänst från Public IP, är tänkt att kunna fungera delvis autonomt utan ägarens ingripande. Företagets webbsida skapades i en Flex2-utvecklingsmiljö och produkten blev en Adobe Flash-applikation. För att få ett dynamiskt och konfigurerbart system skapades även en kontrollpanel till webbsidan åt företagets webbadministratörer, så att innehållet på sidan ska kunna förändras utan att behöva kompilera om koden. Kontrollpanelen säkrades också med en inloggningsprocess.
Som underliggande motor och som ersättning för brister i Flash-funktionaliteten, användes Simple PHP-tjänster mellan Flash-applikationen och PHP-skripten på servern. Betalningssystemet utvecklades med hjälp av PHP, MySQL och JavaScript. I systemet ingår PayPal’s IPN-tjänster för penningtransaktioner och validering av transaktioner. En självständig AMP-server, Apache2, MySQL och PHP5.0, lades till hotspotsystemet för att minska behovet av att ha en webbsida på ett externt webbhotell.
This graduation work was done as a assignment from Fiber Optic City company based in Hudiksvall Sweden. The base assignment was to create an automated payment system for a Hotspot network and a company web page. The hotspot system should work as a standalone service. The company has already a working free-of-charge service that is offered to its customers and is based on Public IP system.
The company webpage was done with the help of a development suite called Flex2 and the result was an Adobe Flash application. To increase webpage dynamics a second page was developed for the company to have the ability to change and configure the main company webpage. An authentication service was deployed to configuration page to increase its security. As an engine and a substitute for lack of functionality and security in Adobe Flash simplePHP web service was used to connect Flash with a PHP script on its server.
The payment system was developed with the help of PHP, MySQL and JavaScript. The system uses Paypal IPN service for money transaction and transaction validation
A standalone web server with Apache2, PHP 5.0 and MySQL was deployed to the hotspot system to reduce the need of having an authentication system on a commercial Internet based web hotel.
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Kudas, M. "The brand new world in science and engineering – Elon Musk." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2019. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/14379.
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Bogdanovic, Milos, and Semir Huduti. "Developing an Enterprise Application : A case study." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-177034.
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The aim of this thesis is to inspect and identify available technologies and services in order to develop a prototype web application, based on acrowd funding idea, for a startup company. The prototype is going to be used for attracting investments, for further development, and it implements essential functionality such as social login, and a user interface focused on statistics and a payment service.The project was conducted in three main areas, a research phase, a development phase and a documentation phase. All the choices that have been made during the project have been considered with other possible solutions at the research phase by investigating the advantages and disadvantages of the solutions. In conclusion, the thesis examines the web application prototype as a final result, evaluates design decisions and solution choices made in there search phase and recommends possible extension routes of the system for further application development. The thesis hopes to offer useful information and a good starting point for students that are considering developing an application based on a crowd funding model or an Enterprise application using similar technologies.Syftet med denna studien är att undersöka och identifiera tillgängligateknologiska lösningar och tjänster för utveckling av en webbapplikation prototyp, baserad på en crowdfunding idé, för ett nystartat företag. Prototypen kommer att användas för att locka inverterare som är villiga att vidareutveckla prototypen. De grundläggande funktionaliteten såsom social inloggning, och et tanvändargränssnitt med fokus på statistik och en betaltjänst är implementerat i prototypen. Projektet utfördes i tre huvudsakliga delar, en undersöknings fas, en utvecklins fas och dokumentations fas. Alla valen som har gjorts under projektets gång har övervägts med andra möjliga val under undersökningsfasen genom att ta fram för och nackdelar. Avslutningsvis undersöker studien den slutliga prototypen som ett slutresultat, utvärderar designbeslut och lösnings val som har gjorts under forskningsfasen och rekommenderar eventuella tilläggsmöjligheter för vidareutveckling. Studien förväntas kunna ge användbar information och en bra utgångspunkt för projekt som överväger att utveckla ett program som bygger på en crowdfunding modell eller ett Enterprise program med liknande teknologi.
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Nagy, Erik. "Platební systémy na Internetu." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-237273.
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The main subject of this masters thesis is to familiarize with technologies used to realization of online payment systems on internet. The document is more detailed focused on realization of internet banking, credit card payment, payment via SMS and on systems of internet wallets like PayPal and Moneybookers. There are proposed several criteria that are used to compare the payment methods, what was also a motivation for more detailed study of methods. These payment methods are compared from the user point of view, and from the perspective of integration these systems to the existing applications, which led us to work on the manual with user guides about how to integrate these payment methods to the web sites, what is also a contribution of this masters thesis.
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Houška, Daniel. "Analýza vybraných on-line platebních systémů." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2006. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-155.
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Práce komplexně popisuje současné alternativní možnosti on-line plateb v prostředí Internetu. Práce sleduje trendy a vývoj v oblasti e-Payment systémů, včetně praktického využití pro účely on-line obchodování v České republice. Důraz je kladen především na systémy ktyté zlatem, systém e-gold.
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Obůrková, Markéta. "Obchodování na internetových aukcích." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-15914.
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Diploma thesis entitled Trading on Internet Auctions deals with the analysis and comparison of important international and Czech internet auctions. Under examination are not only important auctions in terms of number of users, but also those that surpass other interesting business solutions and innovative thinking. The diploma thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter, entitled Establishment and Development of e-commerce describes the most important events and milestones for the development of e-commerce and the subsequent emergence of online auctions. The second chapter is specifically devoted to the analysis and comparison of foreign auction sites. The third chapter focused attention on the Czech auction sites, including the legal aspects that are related to trading on internet auctions. The whole thesis ends by conclusion and evaluation of reaching the given object.
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Kyrychenko, O. "Elon Mask: what's his secret?" Thesis, Sumy State University, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/65687.
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Elon Reeve Musk is a business magnate, investor, engineer and inventor. He is the CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX companies and the chairman of the SolarCity. Also Elon Musk is the co-founder of OpenAl, the research artificial intelligence company, the first start up in his career which made him a millionaire at the age of 28.
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Čech, Petr. "Analýza využívání elektronických platebních prostředků a systémů." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-199293.
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Thesis deals with analysis of payment instruments and systems in Czech republic during online shopping and how czech residents perceive them. In the first part is defined e-commerce and jurisdiction of payment systems. Then e-wallets (Paypal, Skrill and Czech alternative PaySec) are described. After that thesis deals with payment buttons and closely related payment agregators(PayU, Agmo, GoPay). Subsequently aquiring of credit cards is delineated. Last section of theoretical part of thesis deals with new method - payments with mobile phones (Mobito, MasterCard Mobile. In second part of thesis - practical part, there is analysed (with the help of primary survey and other provide surveys) actual situation of relation of czech residents to electronic payment instruments and systems focusing on which method are they using while shopping online and how they perceive security of this systems and instruments.
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Saparov, Pavel. "Elektronické platební systémy." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-112682.
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The goal of the thesis is to analyze chosen electronic payment systems. The thesis is divided into two parts -- theoretical and practical. Theoretical part is dedicated to cover types of electronic payment system. Also is devoted to the issues of certain legal aspects that are common to all payment systems; defines the necessary concepts and business entities commonly encountered in the payment processing environment. Practical part focuses on the evaluation of usability, safety and usefulness for merchants mainly working with credit cards and particularly with alternative payment system like PayPal, iDEAL, Sofortbanking and Webmoney. Consider the advantages and disadvantages of certain payment systems. Describes the practical applicability of PCI DSS and 3-D Secure protocol.
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Delvert, Jean. "Le paysan cambodgien /." Paris : Ed. l'Harmattan, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35724454p.
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Krueger, Stephanie. "Beyond the paywall." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17585.
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In dieser Dissertation untersuche ich die Forschungswege von sechs Wissenschaftlern, die in verschiedenen Disziplinen und Institutionen in den Vereinigten Staaten und in der Tschechischen Republik arbeiten. Um dies zu tun, verwende ich sogenannte „multi-sited“ ethnographisch-methodische Strategien (d.h. Strategien, die Anthropologen verwenden, um Kulturen an zwei oder mehr geografischen Standorten zu vergleichen), mit dem Ziel, informationsbezogene Verhaltensweisen dieser Wissenschaftler im global vernetzten akademischen Umfeld zu untersuchen, englisch abgekürzt „GNAE“, ein Begriff, der sich speziell auf die komplexe Bricolage von Netzwerkinfrastrukturen, Online-Informationsressourcen und Tools bezieht, die Wissenschaftler heutzutage nutzen, d.h. die weltweite akademische e-IS, oder akademische Infrastruktur (Edwards et al. 2013). Die zentrale Forschungsfrage (RQ1), die in dieser Dissertation beantwortet wird, ist: Gibt es, gemäß der multi-sited ethnographischen Analyse der beteiligten Wissenschaftler in dieser Studie—Personen, die Forschung in verschiedenen Disziplinen und Institutionen sowie an unterschiedlichen Standorten betreiben—Hinweise darauf, dass ein signifikanter Anteil der nicht-institutionellen/informellen informationsbezogenen Forschung über Mechanismen im GNAE, die nicht von Bibliotheken unterstützt werden, betrieben wird, sowie (RQ2): Was für Muster sind vorhanden und wie beziehen sie sich auf informationswissenschaftliche und andere sozialwissenschaftliche Theorien? Und drittens (RQ3): Haben die Resultate praxisnahe Bedeutungen für die Entwicklung von Dienstleistungen in wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken? Ethnographische Strategien sind bisher noch nicht in der Informationswissenschaft (IS) eingesetzt worden, um Fragen dieser Art zu untersuchen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass eine informelle Informationsexploration nur bei zwei Wissenschaftlern, die mit offenen Daten und Tools einer verteilten Computing-Infrastruktur arbeiten, zu finden ist.In this dissertation I examine the pathways of information exploration and discovery of six scientists working in different research disciplines affiliated with several academic institutions in the United States and in the Czech Republic. To do so, I utilize multi-sited ethnographic methodological strategies (i.e., strategies developed by anthropologists to compare cultures across two or more geographic locations) to examine the information-related behaviors of these scholars within the global networked academic environment (GNAE), a term which specifically refers to the complex bricolage of network infrastructures, online information resources, and tools scholars use to perform their research today (i.e., the worldwide academic e-IS, or academic infrastructure [Edwards et al. 2013]). The central research question (RQ1) to be answered in this dissertation: According to the multi-sited ethnographic analysis of scientists participating in this study—individuals conducting research in various disciplines at different institutions in several geographical locations—is there evidence indicating a significant allotment of non-institutional/informal information-related exploration and discovery occurring beyond official library-supported mechanisms in the GNAE?, and—part two (RQ2) of the central research question—What (if any) patterns are exhibited and how do these patterns relate to information science (IS) and other social science theories? Both RQ1 and RQ2 are exploratory. I additionally ask (RQ3): What might all this mean in the applied sense? by showing examples of services piloted during the research process in response to my observations in the field. Multi-sited ethnographic strategies have not yet been employed in IS, as of the date of publication of this thesis, to examine such questions. Results indicate informal information exploration occurring only with two scientists who use of open data and tools on a distributed computing infrastructure.
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Treece, James Paul Wang Foulkes Matthew Walton. "Payday lending spatial distribution and neigborhood demographics /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6714.
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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 24, 2010). Thesis advisor: Dr. Matthew Foulkes. Includes bibliographical references.
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Astromskis, Paulius. "Model of Payday Lending Transactions Regulation." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2014~D_20141223_094500-48379.
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Consumer credit has become a common source of finance for households, inevitable for the majority of them. Developments of credit markets that emerged as a result of economic hardship in 2008-2009, leads to the high relevance of the scientific researches on the topic. Traditional consumer loans provided by banks or credit unions are supplemented by the new debt instruments. The most popular and well known ones are payday loans (small amount, short term and high cost loans), having the high credit price (in APR terms) and are easily accessible. Because of such rapid growth and popularity of payday loans among socially vulnerable borrowers, these transactions became the object of regulation. The regulator here faces a very complex task - to balance the interests of the payday loan transaction parties (borrower and lender) throughout the process of the transaction. In the Baltic States, including Lithuania, payday lending transactions and their regulation is a well underexplored field of scientific research. Analysis of the scientific literature has revealed that there is a general disagreement on whether payday loans benefit or harm borrowers? Usually studies does not provide complete answer on how to regulate payday lending transactions in order to ensure access to credit and balance the interests of creditors and debtors. No one has offered a model of payday lending transactions regulation yet. Moreover, there is no generally established view on the balance of borrowers’ and... [to full text]Vartojimo kreditavimas yra įprastas namų ūkių poreikių finansavimo šaltinis, neišvengiamas daugeliui jų. Kreditavimo rinkos pokyčiai, atsiradę ekonomikos sunkmečio laikotarpiu 2008-2009 metais, lemia ypatingai didelį šios tematikos mokslinių tyrimų aktualumą. Tradicines bankų ar kredito unijų teikiamas vartojimo paskolas papildė nauji skolinimo instrumentai, tarp kurių populiarūs ir žinomi – mažieji vartojimo kreditai, pasižymintys aukšta palūkanų norma ir lengvu prieinamumu. Dėl mažųjų vartojimo kreditų populiarumo tarp socialiai pažeidžiamų asmenų ir augimo, šie sandoriai tapo reguliavimo objektu. Reguliuotojui čia kyla sudėtingas uždavinys subalansuoti reguliavimo objekto – mažojo vartojimo kreditavimo sandorio šalių (skolininko ir kreditoriaus) interesus šio sandorio proceso metu. Baltijos šalyse, įskaitant ir Lietuvoje, mažojo vartojimo kreditavimo sandoriai ir jų reguliavimas yra visiškai mokslininkų netyrinėtas reiškinys.Mokslinės literatūros analizė parodė, kad tyrėjai nesutaria ar visumoj mažieji vartojimo kreditai labiau padeda vartotojams, ar yra jiems labiau žalingi. Dažnai moksliniai tyrimai neatsako į klausimą - kaip reguliuoti mažojo vartojimo kreditavimo sandorius, kad būtų užtikrintas kredito prieinamumas ir subalansuota skolininko bei kreditorių interesų apsauga. Mokslinėje literatūroje nėra pasiūlyto mažojo vartojimo kreditavimo sandorių reguliavimo modelio, nėra nusistovėjusio požiūrio į priešingų skolininko ir kreditorių interesų balansavimą ar mažojo... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Budd, Katherine Helen. "'Payday mayday' in the media : a study of discourse, legitimacy and institutional change in the payday loan industry." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3750.
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The economic downturn in 2008 saw the emergence of an industry in the UK that would soon experience tremendous growth: payday lending. What was once a niche lending option available via high street cheque cashing outlets, the market developed rapidly as banks tightened their lending criteria in the wake of the global financial crisis and a new group of online lenders emerged to fill the void. Technological developments in the market enabled firms to offer quick cash loans via websites and smartphone applications to applicants who may not otherwise have access to credit, but at incredibly high rates of interest. Interpreted by journalists and other commentators as taking advantage, both of the economic climate and the debtors themselves, the following years saw the progressive delegitimation of an industry that eventually resulted in government regulation. This PhD thesis tracks the processes of delegitimation in a longitudinal study of national newspaper content from 2008–2014, using discourse analysis methods. Central to the argument is that discourses circulating in the news media have been instrumental in shaping society’s interpretations and understandings of the payday loan industry, and bringing about important institutional changes in the market. The media acts as a lens through which organisational behaviour is framed, and as a space where struggles for legitimacy are staged. In a detailed qualitative study of 456 articles from six high-circulating tabloid and broadsheet newspapers, the thesis maps discourses from across the political spectrum to explore how the industry has been framed, paying particularly close attention to the use of metaphors, narratives and discursive legitimacy. At a time when other industries such as alcohol and gambling have experienced gradual deregulation of their practices, a Conservative chancellor has introduced legal regulation of a relatively small section of the UK’s consumer credit market. The thesis explores the important role of discourse and legitimacy in the transformation of this industry.
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Barnell, Max. "Changing the Paywall in Single-Player Games." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för speldesign, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-226913.
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Game companies are always looking for more ways to increase consumers and their revenue as well as how consumers purchase games. Several business models have been introduced that this thesis will look at, free-to-play, adding downloadable content to existing games, freemium and premium games. This thesis attempts to provide answers to what business models there are available for game developers and how that would influence the development of the single-player games to lower the point of entry for the consumers. It will focus on narrative single-player games and will use the business models to try and answer the question. A survey was handed out that investigated the respondent’s reaction to changes for BioShock Infinite developer by Irrational Games. The models were presented and compared to how the respondents reacted to the questions. Together with how companies are releasing games now this thesis came to the conclusion that in order to lower the entry point, the games need to be split and released episodically, together with increased downloadable content that added further playability to the game.
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Moris, Jean-François. "Portrait filmique d'un artisan-paysan des Vosges saônoises." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37616667z.
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Moris, Jean-François. "Portrait filmique d'un artisan-paysan des Vosges Saonoises." Paris 10, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA100070.
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Dans ce travail de recherche, nous nous sommes demande s'il était possible de réaliser le portrait filmique d'un artisan-paysan à partir de la description des activités auxquelles il se livre et de l'appréhension de l'environnement immédiat dans lequel il vit quotidiennement. Nous avons proposé d'appeler ce type de portrait qui présente un homme au travail et révèle divers aspects de son mode de vie, portrait indirect. En visionnant et en analysant les activités que nous avons filmées, nous avons repère les éléments constitutifs du portrait indirect et détermine les options de mise-en-scène qui permettent de concilier la mise en valeur du portrait indirect et la description suivie des activités matérielles. Enfin, nous avons dégagé les limites du portrait indirect en le comparant à d'autres formes de portraits filmiques.
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Vigreux, Jean. "Waldeck Rochet, du militant paysan au dirigeant ouvrier." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997IEPP0016.
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La biographie de Waldeck Rochet a été conçue, a la fois, comme l'itinéraire d'un militant communiste paysan au sein du PCF, mais aussi, comme l'histoire du PCF appréciée à partir d'une expérience individuelle. Cette dialectique individu/groupe est l'axe essentiel de la thèse tout en essayant de dégager la part de l'homme. Pour étudier cette vie, diverses sources ont été utilisées, principalement, les archives publiques en France (celles des organismes de surveillance de l'Etat), les archives publiques en Russie (celles du CRCEDHC qui conserve les archives du Komintern), les archives privées du PCF (celles conservées place du Colonel Fabien et celles conservées à la bibliothèque marxiste de Paris), mais aussi les archives privées de la famille Waldeck Rochet et de nombreux témoins. Les archives de l'inathèque, la presse et des représentations figurées de Waldeck Rochet ont complété ces sources. Enfin, plus d'une cinquantaine d'entretiens ont permis de confronter le témoignage oral aux autres sources et de s'intéresser également au regard porte sur W. Rochet. Quatre périodes ont pu être repérées dans son itinéraire. Elles offrent un plan chronologique. La première souligne l'émergence d'un cadre communiste paysan en analysant les phénomènes d'adhésion, de formation et de sélection (1905-1939). La deuxième, allant de la seconde guerre mondiale à la période de la coexistence pacifique, évoque l'affirmation du rôle dirigeant de Waldeck Rochet, du dirigeant paysan au dauphin de Maurice Thorez (1939 à 1964). Elle permet de souligner la spécificité du communisme rural français. La troisième étape correspond à la période ou Waldeck Rochet dirige le PCF (1964 à 1969). Au cours de cette partie, il a fallu repérer sa conception du rôle dirigeant tout en relevant ses innovations idéologiques et stratégiques qui ont permis au PCF de réintégrer pleinement la vie politique française au sein de la gauche unie, mais aussi étudier l'épreuve de 1968 (mai 68 et la crise tchécoslovaque). Enfin, en évoquant la maladie de w. Rochet, il a été utile de s'interroger sur la mémoire de ce dirigeant communiste : mémoire multiple aussi bien au sein du monde communiste que sur le reste de l'échiquier politique, tout en évoquant le jeu complexe de l'oubli et de l'historiographie de cette biographieWaldeck Rochet's biography was written both as the itinerary of a communist militating farmer in the French Communist Party (PCF) and as the history of the same party seen from an individual experience. This two-fold outlook individual/group is the essential guideline of the thesis but its purpose is also to highlight his role. Several sources have been used to study his life and in particular the state archives in France (the archives of the watchdog institutions of the state), the state archives in Russia (rtskhidni those of the which keeps the archives of the Komintern), the private archives belonging to the PCF (those kept place du Colonel Fabien and those in the marxist library in Paris) but also the private archives belonging to the W. Rochet family and to several witnesses. The inatheque archives, press cuttings and pictures of W. Rochet have completed the sources. Finally more than fifty interviews have helped to confront the oral testimonies to the other sources and thus have contributed to give an idea of the way W. Rochet was viewed by other people. His itinerary can be divided into four periods which follow a chronological order. The first period underlines the emergence of a farming communist framework and analyses the reasons why people joined the party, how the party was created and how members were selected (from 1905 to 1939). The second period goes from the second world war up to the period of peaceful coexistence. This stage relates W. Rochet's growing role as a leader, this farmer leader becoming M. Thorez's successor (from 1939 to 1964). This period enables us to stress the specificity of French rural communism. The third period corresponds to the moment when W. Rochet was at the head of the PCF (from 1964 to 1969). At this point it was necessary to envisage the conception of his leading role, together with the importance of his new ideological and strategic ideas which enabled the PCF to become once again fully part of the French political life among the left-wing union. But it was also necessary to study the hard times triggered off by the 1968 events (may days in France and the Czechoslovakian invasion). In the last part, as W. Rochet's fatal illness was tackled, the memory left by this communist figure had to be dwelt upon : his impact being felt both among the communist militants and on the French political stage
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Harirchian, Payman [Verfasser]. "Lesion Dynamics in Experimental Models of Endometriosis / Payman Harirchian." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1051812399/34.
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Engström, Joel. "Musikdramatiska möten : tankar kring arbetet med kammaroperan Mayday Payday." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för komposition, dirigering och musikteori, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-1651.
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Darbon, Dominique. "L'Administration et le paysan en Casamance : essai d'anthropologie administrative /." Paris : A. Pedone, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36627166j.
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Brown, Jane. "Exploring payday loan consumers' lived experience of managing money." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2018. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/36851/.
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This thesis explores UK payday loan consumers' lived experience of managing money, to better understand financial decisions made by indebted individuals. Payday loans offer a high cost, short-term credit solution to individuals without a savings safety net. Recent legislation has improved lender behaviour, and reduced the size of market. However, the number of complaints logged by payday loan users remains high. Scant research regarding payday loan users is available; that which exists tends to be commissioned by lenders or consumer protection groups, or US-based. The theoretical domain of this research is consumer decision-making (CD-M). CD-M is theorised within the field of consumer behaviour. However, this field tends towards an economic and rational underpinning, which often fails to take context and emotive state into account. This research aims to give voice to real life payday loan users, and consider the wider context of emotions in CD-M. Existential-phenomenological interviews and participant-generated Post-it® models were used to explore the lived experience of payday loan consumers. The data was analysed using a customised, innovative method that draws upon an existential-phenomenological analysis, thematic analysis, and voice-centred relational method. An original model of movement around credit sources was created, identifying several orbits on which groups of credit products exist. Reasons for movement between the orbits are also explored, with a chapter that explores borrowing at Christmas. The findings address several issues within the literature, in particular where traditional CD-M theory does not adequately explain the decisions made by payday loan consumers. This is important for lenders and policymakers to better understand the financial decisions of consumers, with implications for future payday loan policy, business strategy and communications.
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Metereau, Renaud. "Mouvement coopératif paysan et SYAL au Nicaragua : leviers d'écodéveloppement ?" Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016GREAE004/document.
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L’organisation du système agroalimentaire du Nicaragua est fortement influencée par le Mouvement Coopératif Paysans (MCP) hérité de la révolution sandiniste. Dans un contexte de réaffirmation du rôle des agricultures familiales et paysannes dans les trajectoires de développement, cette thèse en économie politique propose une réflexion prospective sur des leviers potentiels d’accompagnement de stratégies d’écodéveloppement. Fruit d’une recherche qualitative de terrain, l’analyse des entretiens menés auprès de paysans et paysannes dans trois zones rurales du Nicaragua permet de dresser un panorama motivationnel de l’organisation en coopérative. Cette recherche aboutit en premier lieu à l’identification et à la qualification de dynamiques de type « SYAL-Coopérative » (Système Agroalimentaire Localisé de base Coopérative). Rapprochant agroécologie et écologie industrielle radicale, elle permet en second lieu de questionner le rôle de l’idéal-type de l’écosystème dans la structuration des systèmes agroalimentaires ainsi que dans la définition des trajectoires d’écodéveloppementThe Nicaraguan agrifood system organization is strongly influenced by the Peasant Cooperative Movement (MCP) inherited from the Sandinist Revolution. In a context in which the role of family farming and peasant agriculture in development trajectories tend to be reaffirmed, this thesis in political economics offers a prospective reflexion on potential levers to support Ecodevelopment strategies. As the fruit of a qualitative field research, the analysis of the interviews carried out with peasants in three rural areas of Nicaragua enables us to draw a motivational panorama of cooperative organization. This research results firstly in the identification and qualification of Cooperative-LAFS (Cooperative based Localized Agri-Food Systems) dynamics. Secondly, it enables, while bringing together agroecology and radical industrial ecology, to question the part of the ideal-type ecosystem in structuring agrifood systems, as well as in defining and accompanying Ecodevelopment trajectories
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Stoianovici, Petru Stelian. "Restrictions on credit a public policy analysis of payday lending /." Connect to this title online, 2008. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1219953861/.
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Ramirez, Stefanie R. "Essays on the Industrial Organization of the Payday Lending Industry." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/322985.
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The payday lending industry has experienced incredible growth in the 2000's. In 1996, there were an estimated 2,000 branches operating nationally. However, in 2007, this figure increased exponentially to 24,000 branches; in 2010, the count slightly declined to 20,600. Loan volume also saw incredible growth: estimated loan volume in 2004 was $50 million and grew to an estimated $30 billion for storefront lenders alone. Increased competition from traditional banking institutions changed the landscape of the industry as well. In the same decade, states began adopting explicit policies regulating payday lenders with different levels of stringency. Some states chose to allow the practice of payday lending to exist. Some states prohibited lending explicitly or through indirect fee maximums. Varied within across states, these regulations were addressing the growing debate surrounding the use of this particular product. Opponents of payday loan use argue that the high APR associated with these loans are a form of price gouging by lenders, taking advantage of a disadvantaged population. Further, critics argue that payday loans trap users in a cycle of debt that, in the end, cost borrowers more in fees than the original balance of the loan. Conversely, proponents of the product cite high costs of lending as justification for high prices. The high risk of default, security and payroll fees contribute to higher per-loan costs. Lastly, the use of payday loans is safer when compared to realistic substitutes, such as late-payment fees, overdraft fees, and implicit consequences of late utility payments. The studies within this dissertation attempt to increase understanding of the payday lending industry by examining both sides of the market, firms and consumers. The first two chapters examine how firms within the industry react to and interact with policy environments that dictate market conduct. In the last chapter, I examine payday loan borrowers in order to better understand the mechanisms of demand for such a product. All three studies serve to contribute to the commentary as to how this industry serves borrowers and what policy actions are best in order to address potential issues pertaining to the payday lending industry.
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ZEE, HWANG SHEUE-SHYA. "Le monde paysan dans les oeuvres romanesques de marcel ayme." Lyon 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988LYO20047.
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Notre travail consiste a montrer premierement la conjugaison des realites geographiques (le vecu) et des donnees romanesques (l'imaginaire) qui permet a marcel ayme de tisser une toile de fond sur laquelle il depeint ses personnages ruraux, deuxiemement les traits dominants du paysan aymeen a travers son rythme quotidien et sa mentalite propre, troisiemement les amours paysannes qui conditionnent l'ambiance familiale et determinent les comportements des ruraux et finalement la sublimation de la vie rustique a travers une ferme enchanteeOur work consists in : firstly the conjugaison of geographical realities (the native land of the author) and romantic subjects (the imagination of the author) that allows him to build a background of his rural characters, secondly the caracteristics of the aymian peasant through his daily life and his mentality, thirdly the love of the country people that takes a prominent part in the family life and determines the peasant's behaviours, finally the sublimation of rustic life through a magic farm
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Zalewski, Frédéric. "La reconversion du Parti Paysan Polonais PSL (Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe) 1988-1998." Paris 10, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA100016.
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Cette thèse a pour objet la reconversion, en Pologne, d'un ancien "parti satellite", le ZSL (Zjednoczone Stronnictwo Ludowe, Parti Paysan Unifié) en parti paysan adapté au jeu politique démocratique post-communiste. Le nouveau parti, le PSL (Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, Parti paysan polonais) proclame sa filiation avec les partis paysans ayant existé en Pologne jusqu'en 1945 et en reprend l'un des sigles. Une première partie vise à étudier les diverses formes, pratiques ou symboliques, prises par le mouvement paysan sous le régime communiste en Pologne. . . Une deuxième partie porte ensuite sur les changements démocratiques de 1989 à proprement parler. .This thesis deals with the political conversion of a former "satellite party" in Poland, the ZSL (Zjednoczone Stronnictwo Ludowe, Unified Peasant Party), into a peasant party adapted to the democratic rules of postcommunism. The new party, the PSL (Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, Polish Peasant Party), claims to be in direct line with the peasant parties that had existed until 1945,and takes up one of their acronyms. The aim of the first part is to study the various forms, either practical or symbolical, taken on by the peasant movement in Poland during the communist regime. . . The second part is precisely about the democratic changes that occurred in 1989. .
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Valenti, Joseph John. "Usury revisited can state regulation of payday lending reduce bankruptcy rates? /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm) Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest), 2010. http://worldcat.org/oclc/646055588/viewonline.
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Nichalānon, Prayat. "Le monde paysan thaï vu par la littérature thaï͏̈landaise, 1950-1980." Paris 7, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA070116.
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Afin d'attirer l'attention des non paysans sur la situation des paysans et de faire prendre conscience a ces derniers de leur etat de victimes, les auteurs de la litterature populaire thailandaise depeignent, d'une facon realiste, le monde rural thai. Cependant, leurs oeuvres n'ont pu interesser les paysans et leur but politique n'a pas ete atteintIn order to focus the non-peasants'attention on the situation of peasants and to make these peasants realize their condition of social victims, the authors of thai popular literature give a realistic description of the rural thai world. However, they were not able to catch the peasants'interest and their political aim has not been reached
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Mechri, Adler Zohra. "Mouvement paysan, réforme agraire et politique agricoles au Nicaragua 1979-1990." Paris 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA030187.
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La reforme agraire sandiniste transforma substantiellement l'injuste structure de la tenure de la terre prevalant avant 1979, sans toutefois parvenir a developper pleinement le potentiel de la production paysanne. Cette reforme agraire s'inscrivit dans le cadre d'une strategie de transformation et de developpement de caractere << developpementiste >> et etatisante qui misait fortement sur les grands projets modernisants la reforme agraire sandiniste refletait, en meme temps, le probleme de la faiblesse historique du mouvement paysan au nicaragua ; les difficultes inherentes a la transformation d'une structure agraire complexe; ainsi que les limitations nees de la politique d'unite nationale avec la bourgeoisie agraire dans laquelle le gouvernement revolutionnaire se trouva engage. Mais les politiques agraires et agricoles mises en place par le gouvernement sandiniste ne furent pas statiques : elles evoluerent dans le temps, sous la pression des differents acteurs sociaux et politiques et de la guerre qui bouleversa de multiples facons la vie economique, sociale et politique du pays, poussant le gouvernement a modifier les politiques menees a l'egard de la paysannerie. Cette these analyse le caractere de la reforme agraire et les politiques agricoles mises en oeuvre par le gouvernement sandiniste entre 1979 et 1990, leur evolution et leurs rapports avec le developpement du mouvement paysan au nicaragua.
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Goussarova-Cousy, Vladislava. "La représentation du monde paysan dans "La Pyramide"de Leonid Leonov." Paris, INALCO, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004INAL0008.
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Parue tout récemment, "La Pyramide" de Leonid Leonov (1899-1994) est le roman-testament de l'un des écrivains russes majeurs du XXe siècle. L'étude entreprise vise à mettre en évidence ce qui, dans cette somme magistrale, relie la représentation que Leonov nous propose de la "Russie des moujiks" à l'image qu'il en donnait, en particulier, dans sa production des années vingt et qui était, pour une large part, à l'origine de sa célébrité d'alors. Le travail effectué, en deux parties, fait ressortir que Leonov- romancier a réalisé, à travers l'intégralité de son oeuvre, un véritable tableau épique centré sur la représentation du monde paysan et de ses destinées et ceci en plusieurs volets qui s'emboîtent parfaitement les uns dans les autres. La Pyramide laisse transparaître que c'est dans ce monde qu'il place ses espoirs de renouveau et de renaissance pour la Russie. La dernière image qu'il nous donne de celle-ci est positivement embellie en comparaison de ce qu'on peut trouver dans ses oeuvres antérieures. Au début des années 1930, Leonid Leonov avait dû, comme beaucoup d'autres, se résoudre à passer sous les fourches caudines du "réalisme socialiste". Aussi est-ce de de l'expérience socialiste de ces années-là qu'il nous parle dans cette dernière œuvre, qu'il a qualifiée lui-même de "roman-hallucination" et où la doctrine soviétique déchaînée et le réalisme utopique font l'objet d'une satire grinçante. La thèse contient en annexe le texte original des citations, une bibliographie et un indexPublished quite recently "The Pyramid" by Leonid Leonov (1899-1994) is a testament-novel by one the major Russian writers of the 20th century. The present thesis aims at revealing to what extent the representation he gives of the 'Russia of the muzhik' in that outstanding literary survey, links up to he image of it one can find in his former works on the 20S' which made him famous at the period. The paper composed of two parts brings to light that Leonov-novelist has realised through the whole of his works a real epic picture focused upon representing the peasants' world (as well as their destiny) and shows that the author puts his hopes in this world for the renewal and revival compared to that which can be found in his earlier works. At the beginning of the 30S', Leonid Leonov as many others had to bow to so-called 'socialist-realism". It is the socialist experience of these years that he depicts in his last work that he qualifies as 'novel-hallucination' and where the 'unleashed' Soviet doctrine along with the 'Utopian realism' form the subject of a caustic satire. The paper contains annexed the original text of quotations, a bibliography and an index
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Miloš, Edi. "Antun Radić et la genèse du mouvement paysan croate (1868-1905)." Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040036.
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Au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles, au travers de ses travaux et de ses activités, Antun Radić (1868-1919) mobilise ses efforts pour donner un nouvel élan au mouvement national croate qui s'épanouit dans les territoires méridionaux de la Monarchie des Habsbourgs. Convaincu que la paysannerie est l'incarnation de la nation, il s'emploie à instruire le monde rural pour le préparer au combat contre la domination étrangère. Progressivement, il bâtit un système d’idées fondé sur la conservation des structures traditionnelles et de la culture des campagnes, comme sur la solidarité slave, qui soutiendra la naissance du Parti populaire paysan croate en 1904, longtemps condamné à la marginalité mais qui jouera un rôle de premier plan dans le Royaume des Serbes, des Croates et des Slovènes après la Première Guerre mondialeAt the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Antun Radić (1868-1919) mobilizes his efforts through studies and activities to give a new breath to the national croatian movement, which flourishes in the southern parts of the Habsbourg Monarchy. Convinced that the peasantry is the nation’s incarnation, Antun Radić applies himself to educate the rural areas in order to prepare the peasants to fight against foreign rule. Progressively, he devises a system of ideas based on the conservation of rural areas' traditional structures and culture, and on slavic solidarity, which will support the creation of the Croatian popular peasant party in 1904. Long marginalized, the party will play a major role in the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War
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Chapouillié, Guy. "Produits de communication audiovisuelle et évolution des images du monde paysan." Toulouse 2, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990TOU20066.
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Nicolas, Lucien Venel. "Système de crédit, endettement paysan et développement en milieu rural haïtien." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26728.
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Cette recherche porte sur le système de crédit, l'endettement paysan et le développement dans le milieu rural haïtien. Dans cet univers, l'agriculture demeure avant tout une activité paysanne. Le paysan haïtien doit constamment faire face à des pénuries de toutes sortes, de terre, de capital, de moyens de productions, de crédit. Il est dans l'obligation d'acquérir une rente foncière élevée, de payer une multitude d'impôts directs et indirects et de répondre à des besoins familiaux pressants. En conséquence, il est constamment contraint à avoir recours au crédit.
La thèse montre que les organisations traditionnelles d'entraide ne constituent pas, dans leur état présent, une réponse à cette situation, et qu'il en va de même pour le système bancaire formel qui a effectivement toujours exclus les paysans pauvres de ses politiques de crédit. En conséquence, la grande majorité des paysans n'a eu traditionnellement, et ce, jusqu'aujourd'hui, d'autre alternative que de solliciter des prêts usuraires et d'être la proie des prêteurs à gage. L'impact de cet état de fait sur le niveau de vie des paysans et leur possibilité de développement socioéconomique est déterminant.
La perspective adoptée dans ce travail est que pour remédier à cette situation malheureuse il est nécessaire de mettre sur pied un système généralisé de micro-crédit en milieu rural. Le modèle proposé est celui de la Banque Grameen de M. Yunus.
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Chivallon, Christine. "Tradition et modernité dans le monde paysan martiniquais : approche ethno-géographique." Bordeaux 3, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992BOR30014.
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Le propos central de ce travail est l'étude des changements sociaux intervenus dans la collectivité paysanne martiniquaise entre les périodes se situant avant et après la départementalisation (1946). Dans la mesure ou l'existence stable d'une authentique paysannerie à la Martinique est fortement contestée, cette recherche s'attache aussi à démontrer que le mode de vie développe par les petits agriculteurs martiniquais depuis les lendemains de l'abolition de l'esclavage (1848) correspond bien à un modelé paysan. L’introduction de la modernité dans le monde paysan aurait contribué à créer des désordres profonds, ces derniers n'étant plus interprété comme les signes d'une instabilité ancienne, mais comme les résultats de la modernisation en coursThe main objective of this study stands in the understanding of the social changes having taken place in the peasantry in Martinique during the periods before and after it became a departement, in 1946. As far as the very existence of a stable authentic peasantry is strongly denied in Martinique, this research work also aims at showing that the way of life elaborated by the small agricultors since the years following the abolition of slavery (1848) corresponds to a real model of peasantry. The introduction of modernity in this sphere has probably induced important discorders ; the latter cannot be interpreted as signs of a more ancient unstability but rather as resulting from the modernization that is gradually taking place
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Nohejl, Petr. "Transformace a publikace otevřených a propojitelných dat." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-198076.
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The principle of Open Data and Linked data is in growing interest of many organizations, developers and even government institutions. This work is aimed on providing actual information about development of Open and Linked data, further there are introduced featured tools for creating, manipulating, transformation and other operations regarding Open and Linked Data. Finally, there is description of development of Linked Data application based on universal visualization system Payola.
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Shah, Payal [Verfasser], Kathrin [Akademischer Betreuer] Maedler, and Per-Ola [Akademischer Betreuer] Carlsson. "Islet vascularization in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus / Payal Shah. Betreuer: Kathrin Maedler. Gutachter: Kathrin Maedler ; Per-Ola Carlsson." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1079652329/34.
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So, Thirong Patrick. "A l'horizon des rizières : Cambodge : du territoire paysan brisé aux territoires reconstruits." Angers, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002ANGE0059.
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Au Cambodge, l'agriculture a toujours tenu une place primordiale. Elle fut et reste la raison d'être et le moyen de vivre pour une très large part de la population. En 1992, après plus de deux décennies de souffrance, le pays retrouve une paix depuis longtemps oubliée. Un tel événement détermine de nouveaux enjeux dans les campagnes cambodgiennes. En particulier, se pose la réintégration des rapatriés dont la grande majorité souhaite s'installer comme paysans après avoir quitté les camps de réfugiés de Thai͏̈lande. Dans les provinces et les districts, le monde rural est alors en pleine mutation avec le processus de libéralisation et de privatisation que l'État a enclenché au début des années quatre-vingt dix. Pour la présente recherche, il s'agit d'appréhender les implications de cette réinsertion de masse, environ 350 000 personnes, dans les régions agricoles tandis que les conditions socio-économiques s'additionnent aux séquelles de la guerre. Dans le choix de retourner vers les activités agraires, persiste le sentiment diffus et confus que l'agriculture donne la richesse au Cambodge et que le travail de la terre apporte l'aisance à chacun. Toutefois cette perception s'ancre trop souvent dans les nostalgies d'un passé magnifié. Notre démarche de recherche s'attache à renouer les fils d'une réalité paysanne d'avant-guerre aux transformations et aux difficultés d'aujourd'hui. L'enchaînement d'épreuves et de drames qui frappe cette nation et dénature sa société et son agriculture, depuis vingt ans, doit être démonté pour mieux assurer le processus de rétablissement des campagnes et des hommesIn Cambodia, agriculture has always held a place of prime importance. It was and remains the reason for being and the means of living for a very large part of the population. In 1992, after more than two decades of sufferings, the country rediscovers a long time forgotten peace. In this renewed environment, the Cambodian countryside finds itself facing new challenges such as the reintegration of returnees. The fact that a large majority of the Cambodian refugees based in Thai camps declared their intention to return home as countrymen adds to the important changes undergone by the rural world in Cambodian provinces and districts further to the liberalisation and privatisation process implemented by the State in the early nineties. The purpose of the present research is to determine and assess the implications of this massive -350 000- people reinsertion in agricultural areas. While social and economic reasons are here closely interwoven with the war after-effects. The choice to return to rural activities highlights the confuse belief that the country's and the people's wealth originate from agriculture and farming work. However, this common belief too often lies in the nostalgia of a glorified past. Our research work aims at bridging the gaps between what the rural society was before the war and today's changes and challenges. The many hardships and dramas which struck Cambodia and deteriorated its society and agriculture during the past 20 years need to be fully analysed before ensuring the process to set into motion for the recovery of the countryside and its people
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Isik, Bora. "The Restoration Project Of Cin Kule In Payas, Antakya." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605510/index.pdf.
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Kaghazchi, Payam [Verfasser]. "Adsorbate-induced faceting of transition metal surfaces / Payam Kaghazchi." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1023704366/34.
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Cuffe, Harold. "Three Essays in Labor Economics." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13286.
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This dissertation contains three essays on topics including crime, credit constraints, education, athletics and health. Tying the works together is a set of empirical tools that have come to define the field of labor economics and the pursuit of causal inference.
Chapter II contains an analysis of the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. I use daily child-level data and individual fixed effects models to measure the impact of the prizes by comparing behavior during prize periods with behavior during non-prize periods. Variation in the timing of prize periods across different schools allows me to estimate models with calendar-date fixed effects to control for day-specific attributes, such as weather and proximity to holidays.
In Chapter III, I present evidence of the causal effects on crime of access to small, high cost, short term consumer credit, known as payday lending. Using within-state geographic as well as inter-temporal variation in access to payday loans, I estimate the effect of access to payday lending on all types of crime. I find a substantial effect only for financially motivated offenses, with access to payday lending leading to approximately five additional arrests per 100,000 residents monthly. The estimated effects are concentrated in larceny, fraud, and forgery.
The final chapter turns back to education to assess high school athletics' role in affecting athletes' attendance patterns. The key result that emerges from the analysis is that in-season athletes miss significantly less school relative to athletes out-of-season. School absences in boys decline by nearly 8% as a result of being in-season, though the effects are much larger for black boys, particularly with respect to unexcused absences.
Paying careful attention to issues of identification, this dissertation presents three essays contributing to the literature broadly categorized as labor economics. Each seeks to understand the role of changing incentives and opportunities on individuals' decision making processes, in order to inform policy makers wishing to craft effective public policies.
This dissertation includes previously published co-authored material.10000-01-01
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N'Guessan, Dick Solange. "Le paysan et l'innovation technique dans la région de Katiola : (Centre Côte d'Ivoire)." Paris 10, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA100189.
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Louaka, Dieudonné. "La représentation de la terre dans le milieu paysan Kongo (R. Du Congo)." Paris 5, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA05H045.
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Bergues, Martine. "La relation jardinière, du modèle paysan au modèle paysager : une ethnologie du fleurissement." Paris, EHESS, 2003. http://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/2671.
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A partir des observations menées en France et dans le Lot, cette recherche met en évidence trois modèles de fleurissement. Le "jardin paysan", le"jardin fleuri", le "jardin au naturel" illustrent trois manières, à la fois synchroniques et diachroniques, de mettre en scène un ensemble de relations : à soi-même, aux autres, à la nature et au territoire. A différentes échelles, de la fleur au jardin, du jardin privé à l'aménagement des espaces publics villageois, l'étude de ces relations implique une approche ethnographique autant qu'historique, illustrée par l'analyse des concours de fleurissement. Au-delà des modèles, la vocation des fleurs est d'assurer du lien social, mais également de prendre part à l'agrément du "voir pousser", dans une société désormais largement acquise aux jardins.
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Cederberg, Mattias. "The Anatomy of a Paywall : Insights and recommendations on charging for online news." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-163363.
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In the wake of digitalization and recent technological innovation, news consumers have increasingly moved to online spaces to access news. As changes in consumer behavior appear even within these new contexts, several legacy news publishers that are often linked with high journalistic quality and trust are struggling to monetize on their content. In such struggles, an increasingly common sight over the last couple of years is the implementation of paywalls; digital boundaries that require consumers to pay before accessing content. This work applies a design thinking approach, utilizing a mixed-method methodology by interviews, surveys, workshops, prototyping, and testing, to explore the users’ experiences of navigating this landscape, while at the same time taking the perspective of legacy news publishers into account. The first part of the report entails the identification of a set of design challenges in this regard. The second part focuses on one such challenge—the onboarding experience of paying readership online—and explores possible solutions where the experience of the users and the business of legacy news publishers can merge. It argues that, while still inducing some degree of irritation in the users, a registration-first model with multiple choices to pay is likely to create new opportunities for news publishers as they seek to charge for content online, while at the same time being appealing to a larger audience. However, the role of the relationship between the individual reader and the content itself was identified as absolutely central in increasing the value perception of news online.
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Wagner, Adam Richard. "Hitting a Paywall: An Investigation Into the Viability of Newspapers' Online Revenue Strategies." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1340773600.
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