Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Serial publications'

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It is the aim of the present work to study the published articles in the A Construção Moderna, the first Portuguese magazine, edited from the year 1900 to 1919, dedicated both to architecture and to building in general. In such an important period of time for the Portuguese history and culture, as the turning of the century was, this pioneer experience introduced the ideias, the concepts and the materials that sustained the architectural thought and production in the beginning of the modernism in Portugal. In the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, Portugal was an undeveloped country. With its fragile economy and an almost non-existent industry, no wonder that the urban development and the consequent architectural languages appeared rather late in this country. In a cultural atmosphere still very much influenced by the 19th romanticism, the characters of such trend, were mainly the educated people seduced by the positivist doctrine and by the realistic aesthetics. So the modernism question is introduced in Portugal through two different ways of both artistic and cultural influences: on the one hand the French context, through the Academy (where the national architects took their training), the racionalism, the beaux-arts references and the cosmopolitan «Haussmann city»; on the other hand, the 19th English scenery, through the Arts and Crafts, the gothic revival and the cultural tradicionalism. These educated men of the last decade of the 19th century got their inspiration in these two sources. They were engaged in the rebirth of the values of the national identity and in defending the traditional culture, the picturesque and the folklore, trying to define a national example of architecture. The magazine A Construção Moderna appeared under these circumstances through the will and effort of these three men: Nunes Colares, typographer and the project guide; Melo de Matos, engineer and skilful mathematician; and Rosendo Carvalheira, architect with a certain romantic spirit and extremely dedicated to the national cause.Throughout their careers, they fixed the great topics of the architectural culture of this period: the social and cultural importance of the architects; the art critics; the ‘Portuguese house’ model; the restore politics; the urban development; the ‘cheap houses’; the Portuguese ‘style’; and the introduction of the new technologies and new building materials in the civil construction, among many other problematics

1º Vol.: 242 f. ; 2º Vol.: Anexos . - 186 f., [115] f. il.
O 2º volume apenas existe em formato papel. Poderá ser consultado na Biblioteca da FBAUL - Cota: TES 11 (1)
It is the aim of the present work to study the published articles in the A Construção Moderna, the first Portuguese magazine, edited from the year 1900 to 1919, dedicated both to architecture and to building in general. In such an important period of time for the Portuguese history and culture, as the turning of the century was, this pioneer experience introduced the ideias, the concepts and the materials that sustained the architectural thought and production in the beginning of the modernism in Portugal. In the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, Portugal was an undeveloped country. With its fragile economy and an almost non-existent industry, no wonder that the urban development and the consequent architectural languages appeared rather late in this country. In a cultural atmosphere still very much influenced by the 19th romanticism, the characters of such trend, were mainly the educated people seduced by the positivist doctrine and by the realistic aesthetics. So the modernism question is introduced in Portugal through two different ways of both artistic and cultural influences: on the one hand the French context, through the Academy (where the national architects took their training), the racionalism, the beaux-arts references and the cosmopolitan «Haussmann city»; on the other hand, the 19th English scenery, through the Arts and Crafts, the gothic revival and the cultural tradicionalism. These educated men of the last decade of the 19th century got their inspiration in these two sources. They were engaged in the rebirth of the values of the national identity and in defending the traditional culture, the picturesque and the folklore, trying to define a national example of architecture. The magazine A Construção Moderna appeared under these circumstances through the will and effort of these three men: Nunes Colares, typographer and the project guide; Melo de Matos, engineer and skilful mathematician; and Rosendo Carvalheira, architect with a certain romantic spirit and extremely dedicated to the national cause.Throughout their careers, they fixed the great topics of the architectural culture of this period: the social and cultural importance of the architects; the art critics; the ‘Portuguese house’ model; the restore politics; the urban development; the ‘cheap houses’; the Portuguese ‘style’; and the introduction of the new technologies and new building materials in the civil construction, among many other problematics

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Essa pesquisa analisa o periódico Medicina Militar, publicado entre abril de 1910 e junho de 1923 no Rio de Janeiro, por um grupo de oficiais do Serviço de Saúde do Exército Brasileiro, que tinham como objetivo declarado transmitir conhecimento científico ao pessoal de saúde distribuído por todo o Brasil. Nesse estudo a revista é dissecada de forma a possibilitar aos leitores uma apreciação geral de todos os seus aspectos, da formatação ao conteúdo. Nesse processo são analisados todos os exemplares produzidos no período em questão, além dos relatórios e personagens. Seu conjunto temático é analisado através de artigos que exemplificam as questões mais relevantes para o universo militar, em particular, passando pelas doenças, higiene militar e pela atuação do pessoal de saúde em campanha.

A autora se propõe a fazer uma avaliação qualitativa dos trabalhos publicados de 1998 a 2002, nas Revistas The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) e Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia (RBO). Após o levantamento da literatura foram classificados os trabalhos por qualidade metodológica e foram listados por ordem cronológica. Os trabalhos foram lidos e classificados nas duas revistas, checados por mais um avaliador além da autora e classificados segundo os níveis previstos no projeto diretrizes AMB/CFM. Como resultado observou-se, pela avaliação das tabelas com análise estatística que, nos primeiros anos predominavam os artigos de nível C e D na RBO, enquanto no JBJS os artigos eram distribuídos eqüitativamente entre todos os níveis. No ano de 2002, ambas as revistas aumentaram o percentual de artigos de nível A. Os resultados foram comentados face à literatura consultada. A autora concluiu que a RBO e o JBJS mostraram perfis diferentes de publicação no período analisado, apresentando, no entanto tendência a melhora metodológica em ambas as publicações, e que os resultados indicam a necessidade da divulgação dos critérios de excelência metodológica entre autores e profissionais da saúde em nosso meio. Em anexos foram identificados termos que são usualmente empregados em epidemiologia e metodologia científica, bem como definidos os níveis de evidência considerados nos quais foram distribuídos os trabalhos analisados.
The authors proposes to do a qualitative valuation for published articles from 1998 to 2002, in magazines The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Am and Brazilian Orthopaedic Magazine. After searching in literature, the articles were classified according to methodological quality and they were organized by chronological order. The articles of two magazines were read, classified and checked by the authoress and another valuator due to the levels in Directive Project. As result, by valuation of tables with statistical analysis, in first years the articles of level C and D were predominant in Brazilian Orthopaedic Magazine, in JBJS the articles were separeted equitably among all levels. In 2002, both magazines increased the percentual of level A articles. The authoress concluded that two magazines presented different aspects of publication in that period of time, however both publications have showed methodological improvement. The results also showed that the standards of methodological excellence must be known among authors and health profissionals. Terms which are frequently used in epidemiology and scientific methodology were identified in annexed and the levels of evidence of analysed articles were defined.

This doctoral thesis examines the literary series [collection litteraire], considered at one and the same time as a form of publication defined and redefined by the publisher since the invention of the printing press and as a paratextual component that has the ability to act on the process of reading the text: An original aspect of this work is that it combines in the same analysis fields of knowledge that are rarely studied together: the history of the book and of publishing, the sociology of literature and in particular the theory of the literary institution, the theory of paratextuality and reader response theory. This thesis examines separately the two dimensions of the topic but follows a logical progression that concludes with a third section. The first section explores the hypothesis that the literary series is the outcome of a long process of definition and specialization which has accompanied the evolution of French publishing and literature. It then goes on to examine cases illustrating the "convergence" of the two, such as the "Bibliotheque Bleue", the "Bibliotheque universelle des romans", the "Bibliotheque Charpentier", the collections of livraisons illustrees published in the 1850's, the "Collection Michel Levy" and a few collections published by Flammarion and Fayard. Following a rereading of the Genettien paratexte (1987) that reviews and further refines the parameters of the concept (its boundaries, its components and their functions) in order to increase its scope of action, the second section explores in depth the essence of the encounter between the series and literature itself and proposes a theory of the series which positions it in relation to a community of readers and recognizes a different functioning, different risks and effects depending on whether it is destined for a specialized public or the general public. Finally, the third section picks up the historical thread that the first section suspended at the beginning of the 20th century

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This work has the objective to analyze the journalistic contemporary narratives in Folha de S.Paulo newspaper and the interface with the melodrama and the serial publication issued in the newspapers from the end of the XIX century to the beginning of the XX century. The newspaper conveys news, not only in the referential way but similar to the seriated narratives way.The printed media does not work in real time like the television, and that makes difficult for the reader the attendance of the facts. That makes us inquire why, nowadays, the seriated narratives are dominant in the television media and why they became a re-encoded paradigm. Why do these articles remain in the reader s memory? To look for answers to these questions, it is necessary the diachronic study of the journalism and how the serial publication structure migrates for other media, the television mostly. In some journalistic programs, the emphasis relapses on the melodramatic gender and the serial publication. For that, the studies of Marlyse Meyer, Thomasseau, and Huppes are essential. Also Morin, Gruzinski, Laplantine, Amálio Pinheiro, Martín-Barbero and Iuri Lotman, through the semiotics of the culture, substantiate this work. Lotman starts from the concept of what text is the least unity of the culture and it has internal definite organization. The journalism, like text of the culture, has distinctive aspects, but while mixing codes it interbreeds and produces new messages to different readers. The Russian theorist points out three functions of the cultural text that corroborate with this research: the communicative function refers itself to the organization of the laws of the language; the creative function that produces the dynamic of the culture and when the text are translated and transmitted into another representational system, they transform themselves into re-encoded messages; and the third function is related to the culture memory. Other concepts of the semiotics of culture like the culture codes, system that shape the culture, border, will base this work. Halbwachs and Zumthor help to reflect about memory. For the first one, the memory allows to remake and to rebuild experiences tested previously and the individual memory is related to the collective memory. For Zumthor, memory and oblivion produce a dynamic created with new codes. This makes possible the substitution of a text for others and this transformation is associated to the selection and fixation of aspects to be maintained. The journalism dramatizes many facts, rescuing elements of the culture to which seem to be present only in other media, making it become a half-breed code. The transformation of the piece of news in serial publication is predominant in the current press and the journalistic narrative is the paradigm reencoded
O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar as narrativas jornalísticas contemporâneas no jornal Folha de S.Paulo e a aproximação/comparação dessas matérias com o melodrama e a estrutura folhetinesca do final do século XIX e início do século XX. O jornal veicula notícias, não somente de forma referencial, mas semelhantes a narrativas seriadas. A mídia impressa não trabalha em tempo real como a televisão e isso dificulta ao leitor o acompanhamento do fato. Isso nos instiga a questionar por que as narrativas seriadas que surgiram com e nos folhetins e hoje são dominantes na mídia televisual, tornaram-se paradigma recodificado no jornalismo. Por que estas matérias permanecem na memória do leitor? Para buscar algumas respostas, faz-se necessário um estudo diacrônico do jornalismo e como a estrutura folhetinesca migrou para outras mídias, a televisão principalmente, pois, em alguns programas jornalísticos, a ênfase recai sobre o melodramático e o folhetinesco. Para retomar estes paradigmas os estudos de Marlyse Meyer, Thomasseau e Huppes são essenciais. Também Morin, Gruzinski, Laplantine, Amálio Pinheiro, Martín-Barbero e Iuri Lotman, por meio da semiótica da cultura, fundamentam esta pesquisa. O teórico russo parte do conceito de que texto é a unidade mínima da cultura e tem organização interna definida. O jornalismo, como texto da cultura, possui traços distintivos, mas ao mesclar códigos, hibridiza-se e gera novas mensagens a diferentes leitores. Lotman aponta três funções do texto cultural que corroboram com esta pesquisa. A comunicativa, marcada pela organização das leis da língua; a geradora de sentidos, que proporciona a dinâmica da cultura e quando os textos são traduzidos e transmitidos em outros sistemas sígnicos, transformam-se em mensagens recodificadas, e a terceira ligada à memória da cultura. Esta se relaciona com textos de outras épocas. Outros conceitos da semiótica da cultura como códigos culturais, sistemas modalizantes, fronteira vão fundamentar esta pesquisa. Halbwachs e Zumthor auxiliam a refletir sobre memória. Para o primeiro, a memória permite refazer, reconstruir experiências vivenciadas anteriormente, a memória individual está relacionada à memória coletiva. Para Zumthor, memória e esquecimento geram uma dinâmica recriadora. Isto possibilita a substituição de um texto por outros e esta transformação está associada à seleção e fixação de aspectos a serem mantidos. O jornalismo dramatiza muitos fatos, resgatando elementos da cultura que pareciam estar presentes somente em outras mídias o que o torna um código mestiço. A folhetinização da notícia é, assim, a tônica nos jornais contemporâneos e a narrativa jornalística, paradigma recodificado

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The novel Quincas Borba, written by Machado de Assis, has two different versions published in two different distinctive holders: the newspaper, as a serial publication, and the book. Both versions carry important differences that reveal the main subject observed in the present work: the formation of the reader under educative and evolutive focus, acknowledged in a comparison between the two versions. That comparison has also revealed the process of narrative composition of Quincas Borba. The investigation puts in doubt and discusses the role of the reader in the different holders, noticing that the reading attitudes vary and structure themselves in different ways in the two versions. We intended to investigate, in the first chapter, the reading in different levels of perception, or the differences between the serial publication and the book in the act of reading; in the second chapter, we searched in the novel the model of reader roused by the narrative, as much as the differences of the narrated matter in the crossing serial publication book; finally, in the third chapter, the question of the authorship and the reading in the fictional context, comprehending that the changes made between one version and the other are, in their majority, adjustments played by the author in the search of a model-reader of his work this is a question that receives enormous attention by the contemporary critics and that finds in Machado de Assis works a productive investigation to the development of the various studies about the subject. To the effective rendering of this work, it was necessary to approach theoretical hypothesis about serial publications, being Marlyse Meyer the main reference. It was also necessary to search Umberto Eco s considerations about the model-reader, a kind of reader foreseen by the author and printed in the text writing. Other aspects of the work of Machado de Assis were observed through the reading of the vast bibliography about the writer and his production, among which we detach the studies of John Gledson, Hélio Seixas Guimarães and Alfredo Bosi
O romance Quincas Borba, de Machado de Assis, possui duas versões publicadas em dois suportes distintos: o jornal, sob a forma de folhetim, e o livro. As duas versões carregam diferenças importantes que revelam o principal ponto observado neste trabalho: a formação do leitor em foco educativo e evolutivo, percebido na comparação entre uma versão e outra do romance. Comparação essa que revelou, também, muito do processo de composição narrativa para Quincas Borba. A investigação problematizou, então, a função do leitor nos dois suportes, observando que as atitudes de leitura variavam e estruturavam-se de forma diferente nas duas publicações. Procuramos investigar, no primeiro capítulo, a leitura em níveis diferentes de percepção, ou seja, as diferenças entre o folhetim e o livro no ato de leitura; enquanto, no segundo capítulo, tratamos de buscar dentro do romance o modelo de leitor suscitado pela narrativa, bem como as diferenças da matéria narrada na travessia folhetim livro; posteriormente, no terceiro capítulo, a questão da autoria e da leitura no contexto ficcional, entendendo que as mudanças sofridas entre uma versão e outra são, em sua maioria, ajustes feitos pelo autor na busca pelo leitor-modelo de sua obra, questão que recebe enorme atenção da crítica contemporânea e que encontra em Machado de Assis terreno fértil para o desenvolvimento dos mais variados estudos sobre o assunto. Para a efetivação deste trabalho, foi necessário transitar em pressupostos teóricos acerca do folhetim, sendo Marlyse Meyer a principal referência. Também foi necessário buscar nas considerações de Umberto Eco o conceito de leitor-modelo, tipo de leitor previsto pelo autor e impresso na escrita do texto. Outros aspectos da obra machadiana puderam ser observados através da leitura de vasta bibliografia sobre o autor e sua produção, entre eles destacamos os estudos de John Gledson, Hélio Seixas Guimarães e Alfredo Bosi

A suite of seven statistics to detect directionality in time series is presented. Applications from various disciplines including business, environmental science, finance and medicine are considered. Models that allow for directionality are proposed, and methods of fitting these models are investigated. Time series models that incorporate directionality provide more precise prediction limits and more realistic simulations than the models that do not. Potential practical applications include: providing evidence to support physical interpretations; directionality trading rules for investment portfolio; prediction of unstable financial periods; and possible early warning of epileptic seizures.
Thesis (Ph.D.) (Research by Publication) -- University of Adelaide, School of Mathematical Sciences, 2018

There has been a rapid change in forest and land cover globally, especially in tropical forests due to heavy deforestation. The highest rate of deforestation is found predominantly in the developing world. Tropical deforestation is a process of transforming forests into cleared land for other uses. Tropical deforestation is the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, responsible for about 17 - 30% of global emissions of CO₂ to the atmosphere, causing global warming. Precise and up to date information on the distribution and rate of forest cover change, especially in tropical regions, is required urgently for government policies aiming to control and manage forests and land development. Information on deforestation in tropical regions has been unavailable or inconsistent, including in the Lao PDR, due to socio-economic deficits, political interests and geographical constraints. Remote sensing technology has played a crucial role in providing the information required for reliable mapping and monitoring of forest cover changes at local, regional and global levels, but its application in tropical regions has been lagging. The overall goal of this research was to demonstrate and evaluate remote sensing methods for assessing and monitoring forest cover changes in tropical environments, particularly in the context of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR). The first aim of the research was to understand phenology of tropical forests and related vegetation types, which has been little studied. Improved understanding of the phenology of tropical forests and other land covers involved in forest clearance and land use change is an important step towards the use of remote sensing to identify and track changes in forest cover. Long-term averages of land surface temperature (LST) and enhanced vegetation index (EVI) 16-day time series of MODIS over the seven-year period from 2006 to 2012 were calculated and their monthly transitions compared for forests, and for land covers that commonly replace forests. The findings showed the complex interrelationship of LST and EVI and their monthly transitions for the different land covers: they each showed distinctly different intra-annual LST and EVI variations. Secondly, the research evaluated whether the combined use of these indices (LST and EVI) can classify these land covers. It was found that there was high overall accuracy of separation of land covers by long-term means of these indices (86%). This knowledge can be potentially useful for further broadscale mapping of land cover and detection of deforestation in tropical forests. For the third objective, the use of remote sensing time series data for detecting spatial and temporal changes in forest cover in tropical environments was tested. The disturbance index (DI) model was applied to detect spatial changes in different forest cover types, whilst the Breaks For Additive Season and Trend (BFAST) approach was used to examine temporal changes in these land covers. Results showed that the DI was capable of detecting vegetation changes during a seven-year period with high overall accuracy (82%); however, it showed low accuracy in detecting forest clearance (42%). The BFAST analysis detected abrupt temporal changes in vegetation in the tropical forests, especially in large conversions of mixed wooded/cleared area into plantation (from 2004 to 2007). From these two approaches, it was found that MODIS time series data may be suitable for continental and national monitoring of land cover, although it may not provide the level of geographic detail and accuracy required for local assessments. As a result of these findings, further analysis of forest cover changes at a finer resolution was required to improve monitoring approaches. Therefore, the fourth aim was to detect and map vegetation cover changes at a higher spatial resolution over a period of ten years between 2003 and 2012. Landsat ETM+ imagery from 2003 and 2012 was used in principal component analysis (PCA). This technique detected areas of vegetation cover change (both vegetation increase and loss) with high overall accuracy (87%). The results of these four studies provided new information on where and when recent forest cover changes have occurred in southern Lao PDR. The final step was to analyse the reasons underlying these changes. Thus, the final research task was to investigate potential factors associated with forest cover change in the study area, by using logistic regression analysis. The results of the analysis suggested that particular socio-economic and physical factors have a significant association with forest cover change. Forest clearance was associated strongly with elevation, distance to main roads and shifting cultivation practices. Meanwhile, vegetation increase was more likely to correlate with rubber plantations. Native forest and shifting cultivation lands were vulnerable to being converted into rubber plantations. This final research component contributes to a better understanding of ongoing land cover change processes to inform land use management. This is key information for policy and decision makers, and may be used to minimize deforestation and deal with potential risks associated with land cover changes.
Thesis (Ph.D.) (Research by Publication) -- University of Adelaide, School of Biological Sciences, 2016.

Working paper summarizing research into cataloging theory, history of science, mathematics, and information science.
The report summarizes a research program that has been investigating how catalogers, other Cultural Heritage information workers, World Wide Web/Semantic Web technologists, and the general public understand, explain, and manage resource description tasks by creating, counting, measuring, classifying, and otherwise arranging descriptions of Cultural Heritage resources within the Bibliographic Universe and beyond it.

Магистерская диссертация «Издательская составляющая мультипликационных брендов» состоит из двух частей. Магистерская диссертация содержит 59 страниц, 4 рисунка. В списке литературы содержится 32 библиографические единицы. Цель исследования – разработать критерии оценки качества изданий с использованием мультипликационных брендов. Объект исследования ‒ издания на основе мультипликационных брендов. Предмет – видовые, жанровые, структурно-содержательные и визуально-полиграфические особенности изданий на основе мультипликационных брендов. В первой главе были рассмотрены особенности издательской продукции с использованием мультипликационных брендов. Также рассмотрены определения понятий «бренд» и «мультипликационный», а также предложено понятие и определение мультипликационного бренда. Издания на основе мультипликационных брендов классифицированы по видам продукции. Во второй главе магистерской диссертации дана общая характеристика мультипликационных сериалов, проведено исследование потребительских предпочтений к мультипликационным брендам. В ходе опроса было выявлено, какие мультсериалы предпочитают потребители, какую издательскую продукцию на основе мультипликационных сериалов предпочитают, и какие критерии для целевой аудитории являются главными для приобретения данной издательской продукции. Результаты опроса были разделены по возрастным показателям целевой аудитории на три группы. На основе ответов респондентов определены критерии первой, второй и третьей степени важности. Отдельные положения проведенного исследования были представлены на международной научно-практической конференции «Книжное дело: достижения, проблемы, перспективы – VI», проходившей в апреле 2017 г.
The Master's thesis "Publishing Component of Animated Brands" consists of two parts. The master thesis contains 59 pages, 4 drawings. The list of references contains 32 bibliographic units. The purpose of the study is to develop criteria for assessing the quality of publications using animated brands. The object of the research is publications based on animated brands. Subject - Species, genre, structural and informative and visual-printing features of publications based on animated brands. The first chapter examined the features of publishing products using animated brands. Also considered the definitions of the concepts of "brand" and "animated" and proposed the concept and definition of an animated brand. Editions based on animated brands are classified by product. In the second chapter of the master's thesis, the general characteristics of animated series are given, and a study of consumer preferences for animated brands is conducted. The survey revealed which cartoon series consumers prefer, which publishing products based on animated TV series they prefer, and which criteria for the target audience are central to the acquisition of this publishing product. The survey results were divided by age indicators of the target audience into three groups. On the basis of the respondents' answers, criteria of first, second and third degree of importance are determined. Separate provisions of the study were presented at the international scientific-practical conference "Book Business: Achievements, Problems, Prospects - VI", held in April 2017.

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Specific ion effects (SIEs) encompass any phenomenon induced by ions that is dependent on the identity of the ions, and not just their charge or concentration. These occur in salts, electrolyte solutions, ionic liquids, acids and bases and have been known for over 130 years, from which the Hofmeister series originated. They are important in biology, nutrition, electrochemistry and various interfacial or geophysico-phenomena. It is perhaps harder to find a “real-world” system in which specific ion effects don’t occur, than systems where they do. Nonetheless, despite such ubiquity and effect on our daily lives, our understanding of these salty solutions is limited. This thesis addresses the knowledge gap surrounding the lack of parameters (for both ion and solvent) for quantifying SIEs in aqueous and nonaqueous environments. This thesis begins with a deeper introduction to the topic of SIEs and highlights the current state-of-play. The theories underlying quantum mechanics and computational chemistry are discussed to highlight how they may be applied to elucidate some of the fundamental origins of SIEs. These methods were subsequently used to investigate possible energetic origins of counterion and solvent induced reversals to the Hofmeister series, and highlights that the Lewis acidity and basicity (collectively Lewis strength) indices of the cations and anions respectively, can quantify SIEs. Following this revelation, these empirical parameters were recast in terms of intermolecular forces. Electrostatics appeared to govern the Lewis strength indices, so these were replaced with an electrostatic parameter, ϸ (“sho”), that originates from Coulomb’s Law. For anions, ϸ is shown to quantify SIE trends observed in enthalpies of hydration, polymer lower critical solution temperatures, enzyme and viral activities, SN2 reaction rates and Gibbs free energies of transfer from water to nonaqueous solvents highlighting the versatility of ϸ as a new SIE parameter. Cation interactions are more prone to deviations from ϸ correlations. In the absence of any cosolute (i.e., pure ion-solvent interactions) however, cation solvent interactions follow a strong trend with Coulomb’s Law for ~15 different solvents. This supports a conclusion that competing electrostatic interactions between the solvent and a cosolute for the cation may mask each other allowing non-electrostatic contributions to play a dominant role. Furthermore, with similarity to the ion parameterisation, the ϸ values at the negative and positive solvent dipolar atoms correlate with the solvent’s Lewis basicity and acidity respectively. Additionally, these analyses can be related to macroscopic solvent parameters such as the relative permittivity. The data deficiency issue facing the SIE field was more generally addressed in this thesis by the generation of IonSolvR, a repository containing over 3000 distinct QM/MD trajectories of up to 52 ions in 28 bulk solvents on nanosecond-scales. Finally, the key findings of this thesis are summarised and an outlook on the field of SIEs and the broader implications arising from this thesis is presented.