Dissertations / Theses: 'That darn cat'

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Barnett, Katrina. "Nine Lives: A History of Cat Women, Subversive Femininity, and Transgressive Archetypes in Film." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1707290/.

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The intention of this thesis is to identify and analyze the cat woman archetype as a contemporary extension of the transgressive witch archetype, which rampantly appears over the course of cinema history, working as a signifier of a patriarchal society's fear of autonomous and subversive women. The character of Catwoman is the ultimate representation for this archetype on grounds of her visibility, longevity, and ability to return again and again. More importantly, Catwoman and her sisterhood of cat women work against male creators as a means of female empowerment through trickery. Within this thesis, key films of varying genres are drawn from throughout cinema history and analyzed in order to demonstrate the intertextual network of characters that make up the cat woman archetype, and the importance of the Catwoman character in her many forms.

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Glass, Darlene M. "Dark Roads Always Lead Home." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu152372472959343.

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Appagere, Grandharva. "Can Feebly Interacting Massive Particles (FIMP) constitute Dark Matter?" Thesis, KTH, Fysik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298420.

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In this study, we investigate the feasibility of Feebly Interacting Massive particles (FIMP) as possible candidates to constitute the observed Dark Matter abundance in the universe. FIMPs are particles that couple very feebly with known particles in the Standard Model (SM). As such, they do not attain thermal equilibrium with the baryon abundant environment in the early universe before Nucleosynthesis. In contrast to a freeze-out mechanism common for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP) as DM candidates, FIMPs are produced by the so-called freeze-in mechanism that we will describe in this study. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the Coleman Weinberg (C-W) mechanism affects the FIMP [freeze-in] mechanism. We specifically consider a minimal extension of SM in which an Electroweak Singlet-scalar ($S$) couples only to the Higgs-boson ($H$); This is called the Higgs-portal mechanism. We study the C-W effective potentials for the Higgs and Dark-scalar singlet and their implications on FIMP mechanism.Using these, we focus on the High-temperature production of the DM with just the $HH\mapsto SS$ to compute the reaction rates, comparing Bose-Einstein statistics ($\Gamma_{HH\mapsto S S}^{B-E}$) to Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics $\Gamma_{HH\mapsto S S}^{M-B}$. We employ only $\Gamma_{HH\mapsto S S}^{B-E}$ to compute DM relic abundance ($Y$) at several Dark-scalar masses ($m_S$) as a function of coupling $k$, establishing that Higgs-Dark scalar coupling $k$ $\mapsto$ $k_{DM}$ corresponding to actual DM abundance lies in between ${10}^{-8.7}$ and ${10}^{-8}$, i.e. ${10}^{-8.7}<k_{DM}<="" div=""> I denna studie undersöker vi mycket svagt interagerande massiva partiklar (FIMP) som möjliga kandidater till den observerade mängden av mörk materia i universum. FIMP:er är partiklar som interagerar väldigt svagt med de kända partiklarna i Standarmodellen (SM). Som sådana uppnår de ej termisk jämvikt med den baryonrika omgivningen i det tidiga universumet innan nukleosyntes sker. I kontrast med en frys-ut mekanism vanligt för svagt interagerade massiva partiklar (WIMPS) som DM kandidater, så produceras FIMP:er av en så kallad frys-in mekanism som vi skall beskriva i denna studie. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur Coleman Weinberg (C-W) mekanismen påverkar frys-in mekanismen för FIMP:er. Vi tar särskilt hänsyn till en minimal utvidgning av SM i vilken en Elektrosvag singlettskalär ($S$) interagerar med endast Higgsbosonen. Denna mekanism kallas för Higgs-portalmekanism. Vi studerar de C-W effektiva pontetialerna för higgs och mörk-skalärsingletten och deras implikationer för FIMPmekanismen. När vi använder dessa, så fokuserar vi på högtemperatursproduktion av DM med endast $HH\mapsto SS$ för att beräkna reaktionshastigheter, och jämför Bose-Einstein statistik ($\Gamma_{HH\mapsto S S}^{B-E}$) med Maxwell-Boltzmann statistik $\Gamma_{HH\mapsto S S}^{M-B}$. Vi använder endast $\Gamma_{HH\mapsto S S}^{B-E}$ för att beräkna kvarvarande DM mängd ($Y$) för flera mörk-skalärmassor ($m_S$) som en funktion av interaktion $k$, vilket slår fast att Higgs-Mörk skalär interaktionen $k$ $\mapsto$ $k_{DM}$ som korresponderar mot den faktiska DM mängden ligger mellan ${10}^{-8.7}$ and ${10}^{-8}$, i.e. ${10}^{-8.7}<k_{DM}<="" div="">

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Noren, Hunter KG. "Can Twilight Reefs Usher In A New Dawn For Depauperate Shallow Coral Reefs?" Thesis, NSUWorks, 2016. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/421.

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As shallow reefs continue to decline, scientists are searching for the key to their persistence; as it turns out, they may just need to look deeper. Below many shallow tropical reefs, there exist healthy and more stable mesophotic coral reef communities. The ability of these reefs to act as a refuge for declining shallow populations has garnered significant interest among the scientific community; however, the reproductive and larval aspects necessary for this to occur are unknown. This study assesses the ability of deep reefs to act as a reproductive refuge for shallow counterparts by examining gametic compatibility, viability and larval settlement preferences. Gametes from Orbicella franksi inhabiting the shallow (14-20m) and the upper mesophotic (27-32m) were introduced in a series of inter- and intra-depth crosses and found to be compatible. Larval settlement experiments found no natal depth preference, with deep larvae significantly preferring to settle on shallow conditioned substrate. Our findings support the plausibility of healthy mesophotic reefs acting as a refuge for depauperate shallow populations by (1) providing gametes to mix with limited shallow gametes resulting in increased fertilization and (2) providing larvae that recruit and repopulate shallow reefs. This is the first study to comprehensively evaluate the Deep Reef Refugia Hypothesis from a reproductive and larval settlement standpoint. Our results suggest a close coupling between shallow and mesophotic reefs through gamete and larval export and illustrate the current and future importance of these mesophotic reefs.

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Rothman, Seana. "Losing Vision: What Can Art Gain in the Absence of Sight?" Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/544.

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This paper addresses the relationship between the visually impaired and the visual arts. The first section focuses on the scientific background of sight and vision disorders, as well as touch. Current research indicates that the blind can process complex spatial information through touch, just as the sighted can through vision. Thus visual art can be accessible to visually impaired people if it contains tactile information, such as 3D shapes or textures. However, galleries traditionally display art that visitors are only able to interpret visually, excluding the visually impaired and blind. My Fall project aims to challenge the dominant visual mode of interaction with art through a personal lens. By creating 3D works that are touch-accessible, both sighted and non-sighted people can experience my art.

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Umann, Jair Felipe Bonatto. "Dan?ando em harmonia na cad?ncia da transdisciplinaridade : um referencial para o ensino das dan?as populares brasileiras na universidade." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2008. http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/3538.

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Schmitz, Viola. "How can retroreflective clothing provide more safety through visibility in a semi-dark urban environment?" Thesis, KTH, Ljusdesign, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-280081.

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Being inconspicuous in the dark outdoors can cause accidents including physical injuries. To prevent pedestrian being involved in accidents it is necessary to make them most visible to approaching people.This Master’s Thesis examines the use of retroreflective clothing in a semi-dark urban environment to provide safety through conspicuity. Through analysing the lighting situation in Stockholm, the ability of the human vision, reactions and existing products it has led to experiments and surveys to find the most efficient line placement and pattern to make an individual recognizable as human on approach.The results were that body outlines and horizontal lines along joints made a human most identifiable. Most conspicuity was given when lines were wider than 2cm and patterns contrasted to the surroundings.As the experiment was conducted in a semi-dark setting, different retroreflective design solutions might be more adequate for other lighting scenarios with more or less light

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Modiri, Yashar, and Oskar Olsson. "The Dawn of a New Era : A Case Study of an Incumbent Car Manufacturer’s Transition to Electric Cars." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-414577.

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How do firms tend to their current viability while remaining competitive in the long-term? This question lays out the basis for this thesis by highlighting their conflicting logics through the concept of organizational ambidexterity. Literature makes a distinction between competing in mature markets and existing technologies (exploitation) versus new markets and new technologies (exploration). The preponderance of studies shows that, as firms grow larger, they tend to form core rigidities in their culture, structure and processes that hamper their efforts to adapt to the changing environment. By overemphasizing exploitative activities, future challenges or opportunities remain unexplored which can have a devastating effect in the event of radical, external changes. The cases of Nokia and Kodak should serve as cautionary tales in this regard. The automotive industry is currently undergoing a transition to electric cars. We conduct a case study at Volvo Cars from a senior leadership perspective, to illustrate the importance of exploration and how it can be legitimized during an industry transformation. Our work points to three major findings. First, communicating the importance of the transformation with the rest of the organization is imperative to creating goal alignment. Secondly, interorganizational collaboration in R&D helps Volvo to tap into knowledge that resides outside the organization and thereby increasing the chances of a successful transition to electric cars. Thirdly, agile management contributes to knowledge diffusion and is a powerful tool to counter organizational inertia by adding to firms’ speed and responsiveness, making them act more similarly to smaller, entrepreneurial firms.

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Thomas, Evan Cameron. "The conformal anomaly and dark energy : how the conformal anomaly can introduce an IR scale into the vacuum energy." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/33983.

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We suggest that the solution to the cosmological vacuum energy puzzle may come from the infrared sector of the low energy eﬀective quantum ﬁeld theory of gravity, where the impact of the conformal anomaly is of the upmost importance. We proceed by introducing two auxiliary ﬁelds, which describe the quantum state by the speciﬁcations of their macroscopic IR boundary conditions, in contrast to UV quantum eﬀects. Our investigation aims at ﬁnding a realistic cosmological solution which interprets the observed dark energy as a well deﬁned deﬁcit in the zero point energy density of the Universe. The energy density arises from a ’phase transition’ that alters the quantum ground state, wherein we give a precise ’renormalization’ scheme and deﬁnition for a ’renormalized vacuum energy’ that we identify with the dark energy.

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Moon, Sihle. "Who can see clearly in the dark? : the failure of developmental state construction in the South African transition (1990-1996)." Thesis, University of York, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399261.

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Lages, Solange Maria Ribeiro Nunes. "Dan?a Folcl?rica: um estudo das qualidades f?sicas b?sicas em universit?rios de diferentes n?veis t?cnicos." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2008. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/13203.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:13:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SolangeMRNL.pdf: 964932 bytes, checksum: 3a047e9fe244b1c951656bee022a2335 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-05 Health and life quality can be preserved and improved by the regular practice of physical activity. Sedentarism is an undesirable condition and represents risk for the health. This study has as objective to analyze the caloric cost and the basic physical qualities in college students of different technical levels. The research was descriptive and applied to 35 students, volunteers, from 19 to 34 years old, from both sexes, participants of the Dance Body of State University of Piau?, in the city of Teresina, in the activities of folkloric dance and walking. The caloric cost was evaluated with the accelerometer Caltrac 100/100 Plan, the basic physical qualities through the sitting and reaching test (flexibility); the vertical impulsion test, crouch (inferior members strength); the abdominal test (located muscular resistance); and the Burpee test (motor coordination). The participants were separated in two groups according to their time of practice: group 1 (beginners), group 2 (advanced). The parametric tests t by Student and correlation by Pearson were used, observing a significance p<0,05 in the sense of comparing the observed results, which showed that there are no significant differences between the two groups of students, according to the time of practice, in which concerns the caloric cost. The results of Strength, Resistance and Co-ordination test did not differ so much between the two groups. On the other hand, in the variable flexibility significant differences were observed (sig.p = 0,0022 << 0,05) between the observed groups, being Group 1 (31,5 ? 6,3) meaningfully less than Group 2 (38,1 ? 4,9), which constitutes a difference of about 21%. Such results present relations of caloric cost compensation between the studied groups, the motivation to the beginners group and flexibility to tne advanced group, justifying the lack of significant distinctions. In this sense the folkloric dance, as a physical activity, appears to be efficient, for significant co-relations are still noticed between the caloric cost levels of the dance with the walking, besides not presenting expressive differences between them. A sa?de e a qualidade de vida podem ser preservadas e aprimoradas pela pr?tica regular de atividade f?sica. O sedentarismo ? condi??o indesej?vel e representa risco para a sa?de. Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar o gasto cal?rico e qualidades f?sicas b?sicas em universit?rios de diferentes n?veis t?cnicos. A pesquisa foi descritiva e aplicada a 35 universit?rios, volunt?rios, com idade entre 19 a 34 anos, de ambos os sexos, participantes do Corpo de Dan?a da Universidade Estadual do Piau?, na cidade de Teresina, nas atividades de dan?a folcl?rica e caminhada. Foi avaliado o gasto cal?rico com o aceler?metro Caltrac 100/100 Plan, as qualidades f?sicas b?sicas atrav?s do teste de sentar e alcan?ar (flexibilidade); o teste de impuls?o vertical, agachamento (for?a dos membros inferiores); o teste abdominal (resist?ncia muscular localizada); e o teste de Burpee (coordena??o motora). Os participantes foram separados em dois grupos de acordo com o tempo de pr?tica: grupo 1(iniciantes), grupo 2(avan?ados).Utilizaram-se os teste param?tricos t de Student e correla??o de Pearson, observando uma signific?ncia p<0,05 no sentido de comparar os resultados observados, que mostraram n?o existirem diferen?as significativas entre os dois grupos de universit?rios, segundo o tempo de pr?tica, quanto ao gasto cal?rico. Os resultados dos testes de For?a, Resist?ncia e Coordena??o Motora n?o diferiram significativamente entre os dois grupos. Por outro lado, observou-se na vari?vel flexibilidade diferen?as significativas (sig.p = 0,0022 << 0,05 ) entre os Grupos observados, sendo o Grupo 1 ( 31,5 ? 6,3 ) significativamente menor que o Grupo 2 (38,1 ? 4,9 ) que constituiu uma diferen?a de amplitude da ordem de 21% aproximadamente. Tais resultados apresentaram rela??es de compensa??o do gasto cal?rico entre os grupos estudados, a motiva??o para o grupo iniciante e a flexibilidade para o grupo avan?ado, justificando a aus?ncia de distin??es significativas. Nesse sentido a dan?a folcl?rica, como atividade f?sica mostrou-se eficaz, pois ainda observaram-se correla??es significativas entre os n?veis de gasto cal?rico da dan?a com a caminhada, al?m de n?o apresentarem diferen?as expressivas entre as mesmas

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Noda, Hiroko. "Intersubjectivité : modulation et ajustement. Cas des marqueurs discursifs "hein", "quoi", "n'est-ce pas" en français et "darô", "yo", "ne", "yone" en japonais." Phd thesis, Université de Franche-Comté, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01003749.

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Cette recherche vise à rendre compte du fonctionnement et des conditions d'emploi de quelques marqueurs discursifs, en relation avec la problématique de l'intersubjectivité. Elle s'inscrit dans le cadre théorique développé par A. Culioli " la Théorie des Opérations Prédicatives et Énonciatives ". Ce travail est consacré d'abord aux descriptions des emplois de hein, quoi et n'est-ce pas en français du point de vue distributionnel, sémantique, pragmatique et prosodique. L'analyse se fonde sur un corpus oral constitué de séquences tirées de film et d'émissions de télévision. L'étude porte également sur les descriptions des emplois de darô, yo, ne et yone en japonais qui sont des marqueurs comparables à hein ; elle se termine par une analyse comparative entre hein et les marqueurs japonais étudiés dans le but de montrer dans quelle mesure leur enjeux énonciatifs se recouvrent. Il s'avère que ces deux ensembles de marqueurs jouent un rôle crucial dans l'organisation des rapports intersubjectifs entre l'énonciateur et le coénonciateur

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Assouan, Ahoua. "Influence du niveau de la fécondité sur la prévalence du goître en zone endémique : cas des Yacouba de Glanlé en Côte d'Ivoire." Bordeaux 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000BOR40039.

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Le goitre, augmentation de volume du corps thyroide, se situe, sur la base de la prevalence, en premiere position des grandes affections au monde. Si l'insuffisance en iode de l'organisme est la cause etiologique fondamentale, a l'instar des autres troubles dus a la carence en iode (tdci), force est de reconnaitre que l'activite de fecondite des femmes a toujours ete incriminee pour justifier leur forte predisposition en zone endemique. Les multiples periodes de menstrues qu'elles connaissent, mais surtout la survenue des grossesses et les pratiques d'allaitement sont en effet supposees etre des sources de perte en iode. Curieusement, aucune etude critique a caractere demographique qui permettrait de mieux cerner les implications de leur vie genesique dans l'apparition et l'evolution de cette pathologie n'est disponible. Aussi, cette recherche tente de combler ce deficit. En reference a l'exemple de glanle, un village yacouba de la region endemique de l'ouest de la cote d'ivoire, et apres avoir inscrit la fecondite dans son contexte social, on montre que l'association fecondite-goitre est une realite complexe necessitant l'examen des mecanismes des principaux phenomenes demographiques. Sont ainsi evalues les risques de goitre directs des meres, attribuables en ; propre aux facteurs endogenes de fecondite, puis ceux indirectement imputables aux ! comportements de nuptialite. L'analyse porte, au total, sur les elements en faveur de l'indispensable prise en compte des goitrigenes socio-demographiques dans la lutte contre les tdci, preoccupation majeure de sante publique dans les pays en developpement.

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Coulson, Marcella Meghan. ""Can you leave the light on? I'm afraid of the dark." : feminist criticism and the life writing of Virginia Woolf and Gloria Anzaldúa." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44835.

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This project works with Virginia Woolf’s Moments of Being and Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands: La Frontera to suggest that the problem of representing material feminisms in relational women’s life writing is located in white feminists’ desire to remain at home in their criticism. Bringing feminist theories on materiality, politics of belonging and affect together, I reflect on the ways my white privilege permits my criticism to haunt the very subjects whom it suggests I am writing for. In doing so, I demonstrate the ways feminism can be used by white feminists to protect the authority of white feminist criticism, and thus reinforce the white feminist’s privileged position as the subject of feminism. In this way, marking whiteness works to maintain white women’s privilege in feminism, rather than disturb their constructions of identity as feminists. I work with Gloria Anzaldúa’s borderland theory to work through this problem by reflecting on my experiences of being in other women’s criticism. This enables me to work through affective, yet material boundaries between the white feminist self and other feminists. I argue that silence about the affective experiences of the contradictions that characterize white privilege for feminists permits white feminists to lean on the comforts of their knowledge of feminism, and to refuse to acknowledge other women’s writings as criticism.

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Bleicher, Sonny S., Joel S. Brown, Keren Embar, and Burt P. Kotler. "Novel predator recognition by Allenby's gerbil (Gerbillus andersoni allenbyi ): do gerbils learn to respond to a snake that can “see” in the dark?" TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622826.

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Unlike desert rodents from North America, Allenby’s gerbil (Gerbillus andersoni allenbyi) from the Negev Desert, Israel has evolved with snakes that do not have heat-sensitive sensory pits that enhance night vision. Does this history affect their ability to assess and respond to a snake that has this ability? As a test, we exposed gerbils to risk of predation from various predators, including snakes, owls, and foxes. The snakes included the Saharan horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) and the sidewinder rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes). The former snake lacks sensory pits and shares a common evolutionary history with the gerbil. The latter snake, while convergent evolutionarily on the horned viper, has sensory pits and no prior history with the gerbil. The gerbils exploited depletable resource patches similarly, regardless of snake species and moon phase. While the gerbils did not respond to the novel snake as a greater threat than their familiar horned viper, the gerbils were cognizant that the novel predator was a threat. In response to both snakes, giving-up densities (GUDs; the amount of food left in a resource patch following exploitation) of the gerbils were higher in the bush than open microhabitat. In response to moonlight, GUDs were higher on full than on the new moon. Based on GUDs, the gerbils responded most to the risk of predation from the red fox, least from the two snake species, and intermediate for the barn owl. Keywords:

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Santos, Ilana Suely dos. "Mem?rias nos corpos e lugares de mem?ria: sob o olhar da dan?a dos Congos de Cal?ola da Vila de Ponta Negra." PROGRAMA DE P?S-GRADUA??O EM ARTES C?NICAS, 2017. https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/24752.

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Sousa, Francisco Eric Vale de. "Senhora press??o arterial, me conceda essa dan??a? Os efeitos de uma sess??o aguda de dan??a de car??ter l??dica sobre a press??o arterial e frequ??ncia card??aca em idosas." Universidade Cat??lica de Bras??lia, 2016. https://bdtd.ucb.br:8443/jspui/handle/tede/2020.

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Submitted by Sara Ribeiro (sara.ribeiro@ucb.br) on 2017-04-05T17:20:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FranciscoEricValedeSousaDissertacao2017.pdf: 843554 bytes, checksum: 28da4913da460128349b6bdc7cf1994d (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-05T17:20:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FranciscoEricValedeSousaDissertacao2017.pdf: 843554 bytes, checksum: 28da4913da460128349b6bdc7cf1994d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-08 Hypertension (AH) increases with the passage of years, affecting mainly people over 60 years. In face of this reality, daily dance practice is responsible for a number of benefits in everyday life, such as improved balance, motor coordination and blood pressure (BP) reduction. However, little is known about the acute effects of a playful dance session in the elderly. The objectives of the present study were to analyze the behavior of PA and HR during and after an acute ludic dance session in hypertensive elderly women; To verify the contribution of the dance of playful character as hypotensive agent of the Blood Pressure; Check the regulation of CF, through an acute dance session of a playful character; To demonstrate the dance of playful character as a propulsive tool to obtain the health of hypertensive elderly women. Ten elderly women (65 ?? 3, years) of a Group of Coexistence of Sector O, Ceil??ndia - DF were recruited. They performed a dance session of a playful character with an average duration of 60 minutes, which is divided into 5 ', 10', 40 'and 4' back. PA was measured at rest, at the end and post-exercise: 0 ', 5' and 10 'by the oscillometric method (BPA 100, Microlife, Switzerland). Repeated measures ANOVA was used for statistical analysis (Prism 6.0, USA). As a result, systolic blood pressure (SBP) increased immediately after the session (p <0.01). However, there was a significant reduction of SBP (p <0.05) in the recovery period at 5 'and 10' post-exercise, there was no change in diastolic BP (Table 1). This study demonstrated the cardiovascular safety of this modality of physical activity, and the potential benefit of dance in post-exercise hypotension in hypertensive elderly women. It is possible that this hypotensive effect may last for more than 10 'after the session. In the future the studies could analyze the cardiovascular parameters induced by the dance by a greater post-exercise period. A hipertens??o arterial (HA) aumenta com o passar dos anos, acometendo principalmente as pessoas com mais de 60 anos. Diante dessa realidade, a pr??tica di??ria da dan??a ?? respons??vel por uma s??rie de benef??cios na vida cotidiana, como melhora do equil??brio, coordena????o motora e redu????o da press??o arterial (PA). No entanto, pouco se sabe dos efeitos agudos de uma sess??o de dan??a de car??ter l??dica em idosas. Para tanto os objetivos do presente estudo foi Analisar o comportamento da PA e FC durante e ap??s uma sess??o aguda de dan??a de car??ter l??dico em idosas hipertensas; Verificar a contribui????o da dan??a de car??ter l??dico como agente hipotensor da Press??o Arterial; Verificar a regula????o da FC, por meio de uma sess??o aguda da dan??a de car??ter l??dico; Demonstrar a dan??a de car??ter l??dico como uma ferramenta propulsora para obten????o de sa??de de idosas hipertensas. Foram recrutadas 10 mulheres idosas (65??3, anos) de um Grupo de Conviv??ncia do Setor O, Ceil??ndia ??? DF. Elas realizaram uma sess??o de dan??a de car??ter l??dica com dura????o m??dia de 60 minutos, sendo esta dividida em alongamento (5???), aquecimento (10???), parte principal (40???) e volta ?? calma (5???). A PA foi mensurada em repouso, final e p??s-exerc??cio: 0???, 5??? e 10???, pelo m??todo oscilom??trico (BPA 100, Microlife, Su????a). Foi usado ANOVA de medidas repetidas para an??lise estat??stica (Prism 6.0, USA). Como resultados a press??o arterial sist??lica (PAS) aumentou imediatamente ap??s a sess??o (p <0,01). No entanto, houve uma redu????o significativa da PAS (p <0,05) no per??odo de recupera????o aos 5??e 10??p??s- exerc??cio, n??o houve altera????o na PA diast??lica (Tabela 1). Este estudo demonstrou a seguran??a cardiovascular desta modalidade de atividade f??sica, e o potencial benef??cio da dan??a na hipotens??o p??s-exerc??cio em idosas hipertensas. ?? poss??vel que este efeito hipotensor possa perdurar por mais de 10??? ap??s a sess??o. No futuro os estudos poderiam analisar os par??metros cardiovasculares induzidos pela dan??a por um maior per??odo p??s-exerc??cio.

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Driessen, Florence. "De l’occupation postpalatiale à la cité grecque : le cas du Mirambello (Crète)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040046.

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La présente étude examine la période qui s’étend entre l’effondrement du palais de Knossos (fin du XIVe s.) et l’avènement de la cité grecque (milieu du VIIe s.), dans la région qui borde la baie du Mirambello. Elle vise à caractériser le processus de formation de la polis dans cette partie de la Crète orientale. A partir des résultats des fouilles et des prospections conduites dans la région et dans une perspective à la fois archéologique et géographique, des schémas d’implantation de l’occupation sont dégagés. Les principales transformations de la culture matérielle (urbanisme, architecture, mobilier) sont également mises en évidence pour les différentes phases chronologiques observées et sont étudiées de manière thématique d’après les contextes religieux, funéraire, résidentiel et politique. Une synthèse reprend les résultats obtenus en les combinant et souligne les traditions et les innovations qui sous-tendent l’apparition de la cité dans le Mirambello. Cette recherche prend la forme de trois volumes : le premier volume consiste en une exploration archéologique et géographique de la région ; les informations rassemblées sont analysées dans le second volume ; le troisième volume regroupe les cartes régionales produites pour illustrer cette étude This study considers the period between the collapse of the Palace of Knossos (end of 14th c. B.C.) and the birth of the Greek city-state (mid 7th c. B.C.) in the region of the Mirabello Bay, in eastern Crete. It aims to define the formation process of the polis in this part of the island. Evaluating results of archaeological surveys and excavations conducted in the region, the study analyzes and interprets patterns of occupation and settlement structure from archaeological and geographical perspectives. Significant changes in material patterns and transformations of material culture are characterized for each chronological phase, following thematic threads of religious, funerary, residential, and political contexts. The results are combined in a new synthesis which emphasizes the main traditions and innovations from which the polis arose in the Mirabello region. The research is presented in three volumes : Volume I gives the detailed results of an archaeological and geographical exploration of the region ; these data are further analysed in Volume II ; maps produced for the study are gathered in Volume III

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Souza, José Francisco de. "A Reinvenção do Cotidiano: Memória e história de missionários e ex-marginalizados do centro de São Paulo." Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, 2006. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/370.

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Akhdar, Mohammed El. "Problèmes de la corrosion littorale de roches carbonatées en trois sites de la côte atlantique marocaine Dar bou Azza, Jorf el Ihoudi, Cap Tafelney." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37595377p.

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FORS, Rosalba Ortega. "Identifica??o, quantifica??o e inocula??o de fungos micorr?zicos arbusculares no sistema de produ??o de cana-de-a??car." Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 2016. https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/jspui/2302.

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A similar assessment was carried out in sugarcane renovation and expansion areas where two experiments of inoculation with diazotrophic bacterias were being conducted. Under greenhouse conditions, two experiments for selecting AMF strains for sugarcane (Variety SP81-3250) in different soils and substrates were carried out. In renewal areas, after maintained sugarcane monocropping, a rotation cycle with B. ruziziensis between the ratoon removal and the new cane planting doesnot influence the AMF species richness. Prolonged monoculture of sugarcane tends to reduce the AMF diversity after the renewal of the sugarcane plantation, but stills quite high compared to other agricultural systems. In pasture areas converted to sugarcane plantation (expansion) the AMF species richness tends to be higher in the first year after the conversion (plant cane) compared to sugarcane renovation areas. The spore density reached the highest values after the "plant cane" harvesting. The AMF isolates with potentiality to compose a mycorrhizal inoculant for sugarcane areAcaulospora colombiana and Claroideoglomus etunicatum which favoured the development of the pre-sprouted seedlings of sugarcane in soil and substrate. Other isolates that promoted the sugarcane seedlings' development ou nutrition, but still need additional studies are Gigaspora margarita, Scutellospora calospora and Rhizophagus clarus. The expansion area soil (with moderate P content) was the most favorable for the sugarcane growth. The Multiplant substrate promoted the highest growth of the seedlings and favored the AMF colonization. The fertillization recommended for sugarcane seedling production inhibited the plants growth, particularly in the substrate Turfa F?rtil. The Sugar Mill substrate stimulated the seedlings growth the least. The rate of dark septate endophytes colonization (DSE) in the sugarcane seedlings of the cultivar SP81-3250 was high, independently of the inoculated AMF isolate. All the AMF isolates tested showed simultaneus colonization with DSE. O Brasil ? o maior produtor mundial de cana-de-a??car, sendo a cultura respons?vel por 15% dos fertilizantes utilizados no pa?s. Nesse contexto, o desenvolvimento e aplica??o de inoculantes de fungos micorr?zicos arbusculares (FMAs) (Phylum Glomeromycota) representa uma promissora alternativa para incrementara efici?ncia de aproveitamento dos fertilizantes, principalmente os sfatados. No presente trabalho foi realizado um levantamento da comunidade de FMAs pr?-plantio e p?s-colheita da "cana planta" em ?reas de renova??o (rotacionadas ou n?o com Brachiaria ruzizensis) e expans?o (previamente sobre pastagem) do canavial. Uma avalia??o similar foi realizada em ?reas correspondentes a dois experimentos de inocula??o com bact?rias diazotr?ficas. Foram conduzidos, em casa de vegeta??o, dois experimentos de sele??o de linhagens de FMAs para cana-de-a??car (Cultivar SP81-3250) em diferentes solos e substratos. Em ?reas de monocultivo prolongado de cana-de-a??car uma rota??o com B. ruziziensis na ?poca da renova??o n?o influencia a riqueza da comunidade de FMAs. Por?m, a riqueza de FMAs diminui em monocultura prolongada de cana, mas ainda ? elevada comparada com outros sistemas agr?colas. A riqueza de FMAs em pastagem convertida a canavial ? maior na ?cana planta? comparada ? ?reas de renova??o de canavial. As maiores densidades de esporos nas ?reas canavieiras ocorrem ap?s a colheita da ?cana planta?. As linhagens de FMAs com potencialidade para compor um inoculante micorr?zico para cana-de-a??car s?o Acaulospora colombiana Claroideoglomus etunicatum as quais favorecem o desenvolvimento de mudas pr?-brotadas de cana tanto em solo como em substrato. Outras linhagens que precisam de estudos adicionais por promoverem crescimento ou nutri??o de mudas de cana s?o Gigaspora margarita, Scutellospora calospora e Rhizophagus clarus. O solo da ?rea de expans?o, com teores intermedi?rios de P, ? o mais favor?vel para o crescimento da cana-de-a??car. O substrato Multiplant foi o que mais estimulou o crescimento de mudas pr?-brotadas e promove a maior coloniza??o por FMAs. A aduba??o completa recomendada para a produ??o de mudas pr?-brotadas de cana-de-a??car inibiu o crescimento das plantas, particularmente no substrato Turfa F?rtil. O substrato da Usina promoveu o menor crescimento de mudas de cana-de-a??car. A taxa de coloniza??o radicular por DSE nas mudas da cultivar SP81-3250 foi elevada, independentemente da linhagem de FMA inoculada. Todas as linhagens de FMAs avaliadas apresentaram coloniza??o conjunta com DSE.

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El, Akhdar Mohammed. "Problèmes de la corrosion littorale de roches carbonatées en trois sites de la côte atlantique marocaine : (Dar Bou Azza, Jorf El Ihoudi et cap Tafelney)." Brest, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986BRES1004.

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Le présent travail s'inscrit dans le cadre plus général de l'étude des formes de corrosion du calcaire sur les rivages du monde, formes qui, dans l'état actuel des connaissances, sont de caractère biochimique, mais présentent des modalités différentes sous les diverses latitudes, avec des processus qui demandent encore à être précisés. Nous avons fait une description des formes côtières étagées entre le niveau superieur des embruns et celui des plus basses mers. En vue d'obtenir un échantillonnage diversifié nous avons réparti les investigations sur trois sites de la côte atlantique marocaine : Dar Bou Azza, près de Casablanca ; Jorf El Ihoudi, près de Safi et le cap Tafelney dans le grand Atlas. Le travail antérieur de A. Guilcher et F. Joly avait montré la richesse des formes de corrosion, mais des études détaillées manquaient encore. L'étagement des formes montre une différenciation verticale et les processus biochimiques ainsi que les agents de bioérosion sont particulièrement détaillés The present study is included in a more general framework dealing with the coastal corrosion forms in limestone in the world. So far as it is presently known, the processes are mainly biochemical, but they show different aspects under the diverse latitudes and must still be precised in order to have a differenciation in data, the sites in which the observation have been made are distributed over three places of the atlantic coast of Morocco : Dar Bou Azza, near Casablanca ; Jorf El Ihoudi near Safi and cape Tafelney in the great Atlas. Previous work by A. Guilcher and F. Joly had show the diversity of corrosion forms, but detailed studies still missed. The distribution of forms in altitude shows their vertical differenciation, and the biochemical processus and agents in bioerosion are especially detailed

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Sjökvist, Julia, and Belinda Medic. "“I see it as my damn responsibility to do what I can so that people become aware of what is happening”: A narrative study about individual perception on climate change." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22370.

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Klimatförändringarna är ett av de största hoten mot mänskligheten, och konsekvenserna avklimatförändringarna kommer öka både i omfattning och allvar i takt med att den globalauppvärmningen intensifieras. Detta leder till överhängande risker mot många områden i samhället. För att den globala uppvärmningen ska hållas under 2 °C måste omfattande åtgärder tas till inom en snar framtid. I detta har individer en viktig roll. Hur individer upplever risker är viktigt för att förstå deras reaktioner gentemot dem klimatförändringarna. En majoritet av det svenska folket betvivlar inte längre att klimatförändringarna sker. Däremot finns det fortfarande mycket som måste göras på individnivå, eftersom hushåll i Sverige står för 60 % av nationens totala utsläpp av växthusgaser. Samtidigt argumenteras det för att det finns en ökad press från samhället, både när det kommer till aktivism och engagemang i klimatfrågan. Baserat på brådskan i att mildra klimatförändringarna är målet med den här studien att få en bättre förståelse för hur individer med ett redan uttalat intresse eller engagemang om klimatförändringarna upplever dessa och risker kopplade till dem samt hur deras väg mot ett engagemang har sett ut. Vidare ämnar den även undersöka hur deras syn, enligt desjälva har utvecklats samt hur denna synen tar sig uttryck kognitivt, emotionellt ochbeteendemässigt med hjälp av en narrativ livshistoriemetod. Hoppet är att få en ökad förståelse för de faktorer som har varit viktiga i detta engagemang eftersom det kan skapa inblick i de viktiga komponenter som krävs för att främja medvetenhet om klimatförändringar och engagemang. Resultaten visar att klimatförändringarna uppfattas som en moralisk oro som är starkt sammankopplad med rättvisefrågor. Kritiska händelser har lett till ett ökat medvetande om problemet. När konsekvenserna om klimatförändringarna omfamnats har hoten som uppvisas gentemot objects of care och ens kärnvärderingar triggat känslor, ökat ens risk perception och aktiverat personliga normer som lett till känslor av personligt ansvar. Så småningom har dessa faktorer, tillsammans med andra lett till olika typer av engagemang, vilket många gånger har varit en gradvis process. Climate change is one of the biggest threats towards humanity, and the consequences of climate change will increase in magnitude and severity as global warming intensifies. This leads to imminent risks to many areas of society. To keep global warming below 2 °C, major mitigation measures will need to occur in the near future. In this, individuals have an important role. How individuals perceive risk are of importance in order to understand their reactions to them. A majority of Swedish people no longer doubt that climate change is occurring. However, there is still a lot to be done on the individual level, as the households in Sweden stands for 60 % of the nation's total greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, it is argued that there is an increased pressure from civil society, both when it comes to public activism and engagement in climate change. Based on the urgency in mitigating climate change, the aim of this study is to better understand how individuals with an interest or engagement in climate change perceives climate change and its associated risks and what their road to engagement has looked like. Furthermore, the aim is to better understand how their view, according to them, has evolved and how this view is expressed cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally with the help of a narrative life-history method. The hope is to gain an understanding of the factors that have been key in their engagement with climate change, as this can bring insight to important components in fostering climate change awareness and engagement in the issue. Results demonstrate that climate change is perceived as amoral concern, linked to issues of justice. Critical events have led to an increased awareness of these issues. When consequences of climate change are grasped, the threats they pose to valued objects of care and core values triggers emotional responses, raised risk perception and activates personal norms leading to feelings of personal responsibility. Eventually these factors, along with others, have led to different engagements in climate change, which many times have been a gradual process.

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Mukhopadhyay, Debasis. "Voyage à la rencontre de la misère et pouvoir d'attraction de l'espace de l'Autre : Calcutta dans l'imaginaire occidental comtemporain - étude de cas : Le chant de Kali et La Cité de la joie." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25353.

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Cette thèse se trouve au croisement de deux thématiques assez larges de l’épistémologie sociale : voyage et spatialité. Mais le champ de recherche se concentre sur la quête de la subjectivité occidentale, et sur la perception de l’espace autre au travers notamment du voyage dans le Tiers-Monde. En premier lieu, nous essayons de comprendre les raisons et les facteurs qui poussent les Occidentaux à entreprendre le voyage à la rencontre de la misère et de l’horreur du Tiers Monde. Ensuite, notre travail cherche à analyser comment la perception et l’appropriation de cette spatialité, en particulier celle de Calcutta, jadis la « seconde ville de l'Empire » britannique, se caractérisent au niveau de l’imaginaire occidental. La thèse est divisée en deux parties à la fois indépendantes et interreliées. Constituée de deux chapitres, la première tente de fournir un cadre explicatif conceptuel aux questions touchant à la problématique du voyage et de la spatialité. Le premier chapitre examine le phénomène des nouveaux tourismes qui se déploient à partir de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle dans les pays du Tiers Monde atteints par la pauvreté extrême, l’inanition, la guerre, etc. Le pouvoir d'attraction de la spatialité postcoloniale qui se reflète dans ce phénomène touristique nous permet d'explorer, dans le chapitre suivant, la portée de la construction sociale et symbolique de l’espace au niveau de l’imaginaire social. La deuxième partie consacre deux chapitres à l’analyse des perceptions occidentales communes de Calcutta en soulignant leur oscillation entre fascination et répulsion. Le chapitre trois s’intéresse à l’émergence et à la durabilité des mythes de la ville qui illustrent cette ambivalence. Le chapitre quatre est voué à une étude comparative de deux romans populaires – Le chant de Kali (2005) de Dan Simmons et La Cité de la joie (1985) de Dominique Lapierre – qui intègrent et reflètent l’imaginaire occidental sur Calcutta. La problématique de ce chapitre ne se limite pas à la vérification du mouvement de fascination-répulsion constitutif du regard occidental sur la métropole indienne, mais elle intègre également la question du rôle de l’espace de l’Autre dans la quête occidentale de sens et de soi. This work is at the cross-roads of two broad themes of social epistemology: travel and spatiality. The main focus of this research is the occidental subjectivity’s search for self and its perception of spatiality through Third World travel. We first analyze the reasons that motivate Westerners to encounter the misery and horror of the Third World in their travels. We next study the perception and appropriation of this spatiality in the Western imagination, particularly with reference to the Indian metropolis, Calcutta, hitherto considered the second city of the British Empire. This thesis is divided into two independent but related parts. The first part furnishes a conceptual background in order to define and explain issues pertaining to voyage and spatiality. Here, the first chapter elucidates the notion of new tourism, a late-20th century practice of travel to Third World countries ravaged by extreme poverty, war and other disasters. The attraction towards postcolonial spatiality illustrated in this phenomenon, helps us explore, in a subsequent chapter, the symbolic and social construction of space in the collective imagination. In the second part of the thesis, we discuss the ambivalence in the Westerners’ perception of Calcutta. We discuss the emergence and persistence of myths in reference to the city that illustrate the fascination-repulsion that characterize this perception. For this, we present a comparative analysis of two popular novels that reflect collective Occidental imagination : Song of Kali (1985) by Dan Simmons and La Cité de la joie (1985) by Dominique Lapierre. Through an analysis of the abovementioned texts, we reinforce, once more, the importance of the space of the Other in the occidental quest for self definition.

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Wong, Hon-meng, and 黃漢明. "Non-mainstream intellectual phenomenon in the mid-Tang period : characteristics of Dan Zhu's (724-770) Chun qiu study and related social background = Zhong Tang ru xue si xiang de yi cai : Dan Zhu (724-770) zhi "Chun qiu" de te dian ji qi xiang guan she hui bei jing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/197550.

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The intellectual development in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) could be generally divided into two phases, with the first one inherited from the Han Wei period focusing on the meaning of words, while the second phase focuses on the teaching of the Confucian classics. Among the various scholars during the course of this transformation, Dan Zhu (啖助,724-770) has been recognized as a non-mainstream but yet very influential character. To avoid the An-Shi Rebellion, Dan Zhu resided in the south-eastern part of the country where he taught Lu Chun (陸淳) the Chun Qiu (春秋) classic. Many famous Tang political reformers including Lu Wen (呂溫) and Liu Zong Yuan (柳宗元) are considered by historians as Dan Zhu’s students and followers. This has made Dan Zhu even more influential than other Confucius scholars in that period. Nevertheless, due to the controversial nature of his teachings, Dan Zhu was heavily criticized by Ouyang Xiu (歐陽修) as being specious and at the same time appraised by Cheng Yi (程頤) to be one of the fore-runners who founded the Song Confucianism. This research reveals that Dan Zhu abandons the approach of focusing on the meaning wording and goes directly into the teachings of the classics. He considers that there are large amount of mistakes in the then contemporary explanation of Chun Qiu, he also considers that Tang scholars have not just worked in isolation without much view sharing, but also misinterpreted Confucius’ teachings. Moreover, the Tang scholars are treating Chun Qiu as history or even as literature, rather than Confucius’ teaching on how the society should be run. From Dan Zhu’s perspective, Confucius was trying to make use of histories to set proper behavioural standards and protocols for running the country, with an objective of saving the imperial control of Zhou (周). During the mid-Tang period, China was undergoing major social changes from a feudal to a modern society. Tang imperials whose ancestors carried a nomadic blood stream tried to strengthen their control by adopting Confucianism; and placing more emphasis on the south-eastern region where the Han Chinese of the Southern Dynasty was concentrated. Coupling with the civil examination (科舉) reform and the impacts of Zen Buddhism, the Tang society was undergoing major social-political transformation which Dan Zhu was situated right on its course. The research concludes that Dan Zhu’s ideas fit well with Xuan-zong’s (唐玄宗) appeal for revival of Confucius teachings and the social-political setting in Mid-Tang. Although Dan Zhu is considered a non-mainstream scholar, his teachings have brought about significant impacts on later development of the Neo-Confucianism. Nonetheless, Dan Zhu has not deviated from the fundamental principles of a Confucian whose destiny is to serve the people and the country, and of course for Dan Zhu, the Tang Dynasty. published_or_final_version Chinese Master Master of Philosophy

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Belley, Philippe. "La technologie dans le système de Mario Bunge et son application à l'ingénierie sociale : le cas du développement durable." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ56726.pdf.

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Pallangyo, Eunice. ""If really we are committed things can change starting from us providers" Improving postpartum care : A facilitation intervention at government-owned health institutions in a low-resource suburb in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-327432.

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Globally, postpartum care is a neglected area in the continuum of maternal and newborn services. Facilitation interventions focusing on addressing local problems report positive results in improving the health of mothers and newborns in low-resource settings. The aim of this thesis was to investigate a facilitation intervention to improve postpartum care at government-owned health institutions in a low-resource suburb of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. A before-and-after study design was used to describe and evaluate the intervention in this thesis. Data were collected using mixed methods in the intervention group and the control group, before and after the intervention and were used for making comparisons. The baseline studies showed that postpartum care practices were next to non-existent at the institutions, that most healthcare providers had high levels of knowledge, positive attitudes towards postpartum care and declared themselves ready to engage in its improvement. Mothers coming with their newborns for immunisation were satisfied with the services. The intervention to improve postpartum care involved healthcare providers in six geographical clusters, each including 3–6 institutions, with one facilitator for each cluster. Using a participatory approach, they facilitated colleagues in identifying and addressing the provision of postpartum care at institutions. Data were collected among healthcare providers, facilitators and mothers using: focus group discussions; questionnaires; observations; and interviews, and by making field notes, written at each institution. In the intervention, facilitators and healthcare providers used four strategies to improve postpartum care:increasing awareness and knowledge on postpartum care of healthcare providers and mothers; mobilising professional and material resources; improving care routines, communication and documentation; and promoting an empowering and collaborative work style. The endline evaluation showed that postpartum care was conducted in the intervention group with some care items performed for 80% of observed mothers. The quality grading, which involved nine experts and was based on national guidelines, showed that none of the healthcare providers reached the level of good quality of care. In the comparison group, postpartum care continued to be next to non-existent. The healthcare providers’ knowledge increased in both groups but to a higher extent in the intervention group. The t-test indicated a significant difference in knowledge between the intervention and comparison groups and between before and after the intervention in both groups. The difference in differences for knowledge was 1.3. The attitudes showed no major difference between baseline and endline in the intervention and comparison groups. This facilitation intervention was an acceptable and applicable approach and indicates promising results in improving the quality of postpartum care and in increasing mothers’ attendance.

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Fathally, Jabeur. "Les principes du droit international musulman et la protection des populations civiles en cas de conflits armés : de la binarité guerrière au Droit de Genève. Histoire d’une convergence." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20696.

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La protection des populations civiles en cas de conflits armés, internationaux ou internes est au centre des préoccupations du droit international humanitaire contemporain. C’est un sujet digne d’intérêt et d’études plus approfondies. Dès lors, la recherche ici entreprise concernant l’apport du droit musulman à l’universalité des règles humanitaires protégeant les personnes civiles ainsi que des spécificités de ces règles, surtout en termes de leurs compatibilités avec celles développées par le droit international humanitaire contemporain ne pourraient que répondre à cet objectif. En effet, cette thèse, née du constat selon lequel les pays musulmans ont rapidement adhéré aux différents instruments du droit international humanitaire, tentera de démontrer pourquoi et comment se manifeste une telle convergence, voire homologie, entre les règles du droit musulman protégeant les personnes civiles en cas de conflits armés et celles développées par le droit international humanitaire contemporain. La confrontation-association entre ces deux systèmes - qui tiendra compte du contexte historique et de l’environnement dans lequel s’est développé le droit musulman- nous autorise, en effet, à défendre l’idée selon laquelle le droit musulman et le droit international humanitaire contemporain partagent les mêmes valeurs fondamentales en ce qui concerne la protection des populations civiles dans les conflits armés. Cette démarche nous permet également d’affirmer que la convergence entre les deux systèmes est en grande partie tributaire, tout d’abord, de l’originalité de la conception humanitaire du droit musulman. Cette convergence est ensuite, tributaire de la volonté qui a animé les concepteurs du droit international humanitaire de rechercher les dénominateurs communs entre les civilisations et d’élaborer des règles acceptables pour tous. Elle est, enfin et essentiellement, tributaire de l’effort de relecture et d’interprétation de l’institution du jihad, qu’ont entamé les jurisconsultes et les penseurs musulmans surtout depuis le XIXe siècle dans le but de limiter le jihad à sa vocation d’origine, soit la vocation défensive. Notre thèse n’abordera pas le sujet sous ses seuls aspects théoriques. Elle tentera, aussi, de comprendre et de jauger l’application de ce droit en se référant aux guerres menées par le prophète et ses compagnons durant les premiers siècles de l’Islam et de voir les implications de ce droit, ainsi que celles du droit international humanitaire contemporain, dans les conflits armés qui ont secoué le monde musulman, notamment ceux qui se déroulent actuellement en Irak, en Afghanistan, au Darfour soudanais et en Somalie. Cette thèse comporte trois parties. La partie introductive traitera du cadre général du droit international musulman. La deuxième partie sera consacrée à la détermination et à l’étude des facteurs qui ont permis la convergence entre les règles humanitaires du droit musulman et celles construites par le droit international humanitaire contemporain. La dernière partie de notre thèse consistera dans l’analyse des différents types de garanties et de protection que le droit musulman et le droit international humanitaire offrent aux populations civiles. En d’autres termes, cette partie sera le témoin de cette convergence et de cette parenté.

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Tunková, Martina. "Městské lázně." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-215713.

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Hussain, Uzair. "Can Lensing Measure The Shape Of Dark Matter Halos?" Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7065.

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The aim of this project was to explore the shapes of dark matter halos using high resolution N-body simulations. One of the main aspects explored was how well the shape can be measured through weak lensing. To explore this, simulations were run using the GADGET-2 code \cite{SPRING05} and a method used to measure ellipticities was tested \cite{oguri1}. It was found that Large Scale Structure along the line of sight diluted the measurements and made halos appear more spherical. On the other hand, substructure close to the halo introduced a bias where intrinsically elliptical halos appeared to be slightly more spherical and intrinsically spherical halos appeared to be slightly more elliptical. The effects of projection on concentration were also explored, it was concluded that halos which are most elliptical in 3D tend to appear the most concentrated in projection. Finally, we tested the possibility of using shape or concentration measurements to help break the degeneracy in $\Omega_M$ and $\sigma_8$. We found that this may be possible with $\sim$ 3000-4000 shape measurements or $\sim$ 400-500 concentration measurements.

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Μελετίου, Κυριάκος. "Σωματίδια χαμαιλέοντες και οι προοπτικές ανίχνευσης στο CAST". Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10889/5527.

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Η παρούσα μεταπτυχιακή διπλωματική εργασία πραγματεύεται την εισαγωγή ενός νέου πεδίου πεμπτουσίας, η ενέργεια του οποίου ταυτίζεται με το ενεργειακό απόθεμα της σκοτεινής ενέργειας του σύμπαντος. Η εισαγωγή ενός τέτοιου πεδίου αποτελεί εναλλακτική λύση στην προσπάθεια ερμηνείας της επιταχυνόμενης διαστολής του σύμπαντος που συνδέεται συνήθως με την κοσμολογική σταθερά Λ, των πεδιακών εξισώσεων Άινσταϊν. Παρότι έχουν προταθεί και άλλα μοντέλα πεδίων πεμπτουσίας, το συγκεκριμένο χαρακτηρίζεται από μία ιδιότητα που δεν επιτρέπει την εκτεταμένη παραβίαση της Αρχής της Ισοδυναμίας, που αποτελεί θεμελιώδη παραδοχή στην οποία στηρίζεται η Γενική Θεωρία της Σχετικότητας. Η μάζα των αντίστοιχων σωματιδίων εξαρτάται από την πυκνότητα ύλης σε κάθε περιοχή του σύμπαντος, εξ ου και το όνομα χαμαιλέοντες. Αφορμή για την εισαγωγή ενός τέτοιου πεδίου είναι η επιβεβαίωση της Αρχής της Ισοδυναμίας μέχρι κάποιο συγκεκριμένο όριο, πέραν του οποίου επιτρέπεται η εισαγωγή νέων μοντέλων αλληλεπιδράσεων που δεν έγιναν ακόμα αντιληπτές σε πληθώρα πειραμάτων. Όλα τα προηγούμενα αναφέρονται εν συντομία στο εισαγωγικό πρώτο κεφάλαιο. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο γίνεται μια παρουσίαση της Αρχής της Ισοδυναμίας και του βαθμού παραβίασης της ο οποίος καθορίζει την ένταση της νέας θεμελιώδους δύναμης (fifth-force). Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο, γίνεται μια ανασκόπηση του καθιερωμένου κοσμολογικού μοντέλου για το σύμπαν, που από παρατηρήσεις χαρακτηρίζεται από ομοιογένεια, ισοτροπία και σχεδόν επίπεδη γεωμετρία (WMAP-7). Με αυτά τα δεδομένα, καθώς και με τα πρόσφατα αποτελέσματα για ένα επιταχυνόμενα διαστελλόμενο σύμπαν προκύπτει η ανάγκη ύπαρξης ενός πεδίου με τα χαρακτηριστικά ενός σκοτεινού υγρού αρνητικής πίεσης και μάζας σε κοσμολογικές κλίμακες, της τάξης της σταθεράς Hubble στο παρόν (m_\phi\sim H_0\sim 10^{-33}eV). Η ανάγκη ύπαρξης ενός τέτοιου πεδίου (πάντα ως εναλλακτική της κοσμολογικής σταθεράς) παντού στο σύμπαν σε συνδυασμό με την μη ανίχνευση του μέχρι στιγμής σε κανένα πείραμα ή παρατήρηση, συνυπάρχουν στο μοντέλο των Khoury-Weltman για τα σωματίδια χαμαιλέοντες που εξετάζεται στο κεφάλαιο τέσσερα. Επειδή η μάζα του πεδίου εξαρτάται από την τοπική πυκνότητα ύλης, στη Γη η χαμαιλεοντική αλληλεπίδραση έχει πολύ μικρή εμβέλεια σε αντίθεση με την εμβέλεια σε κοσμολογικές κλίμακες και δεν γίνεται αντιληπτή. Επιπλέον η συνεισφορά στην αλληλεπίδραση σε ένα σώμα εκτός Γης από όλο τον όγκο της Γης είναι ελάχιστη και περιλαμβάνει μόνο αυτήν που προκαλείται από ένα λεπτό φλοιό στην επιφάνεια, όπου η τοπική πυκνότητα ύλης ελαττώνεται (thin-shell effect). Η νέα δύναμη το δυναμικό της οποίας είναι της μορφής Yukawa, θα είναι ασθενέστερη τουλάχιστον κατά τρεις τάξεις μεγέθους σε σύγκριση με τη βαρύτητας πειράματα στη Γη. Στο τελευταίο κεφάλαιο γίνεται μια παρουσίαση του CAST (Cern Solar Axion Telescope), στο οποίο θα μπορούσαν να ανιχνευτούν τα σωματίδια χαμαιλέοντες, λαμβάνοντας υπόψη την επέκταση του μοντέλου ώστε να περιλαμβάνει και ζεύξη με το ηλεκτρομαγνητικό πεδίο πέραν των πεδίων της ύλης. Οι χαμαιλέοντες που παράγονται από φωτόνια παρουσία ισχυρού μαγνητικού πεδίου στο θερμό πλάσμα του Ήλιου, φτάνουν στη Γη έχοντας ενέργεια της τάξης του 1keV και μπορούν να εισχωρήσουν στο εσωτερικό του μαγνήτη του CAST. Ο ισχυρός μαγνήτης του πειράματος που είναι ιδίου τύπου με αυτούς που απαρτίζουν τον Μεγάλο Αδρονικό Επιταχυντή (LHC), δημιουργεί μαγνητικό πεδίο της τάξης των 9Τ. Στο εσωτερικό του, οι χαμαιλέοντες θα μπορούσαν να επαναμετατραπούν σε φωτόνια και να ταυτοποιηθούν. Επιπλέον, ένα μικρό ποσοστό των χαμαιλεόντων που αφήνουν την επιφάνεια του Ήλιου μπορούν να μετατραπούν πίσω σε φωτόνια εξαιτίας των μαγνητικών πεδίων πάνω από τη φωτόσφαιρα. Αυτά τα φωτόνια θα έχουν φάσμα ενέργειας που κορυφώνεται στην περιοχή των μαλακών ακτίνων-Χ, οπότε θα δίνουν λύση στο πρόβλημα θέρμανσης του ηλιακού στέμματος (solar corona problem). In the present Thesis, we review the chameleon field model and its discovery potential at CAST (Cern Axion Solar Telescope). The introduction of this new scalar field, of the so called quintessence type, is an alternative way of modeling the ubiquitous dark energy in the Universe, which drives its accelerated expansion. Moreover, the coupling of chameleons to photons enriches their discovery potential by experiments already operating such as CAST. Due to the fact that the mass of the field depends on the local matter density, in a dense environment such as the earth's surface the chameleon particle becomes heavy and undetectable. On the contrary, in cosmological scales the mass of the field is reduced to values related to the present Hubble's constant value (m_\phi\sim H_0\sim 10^{-33}eV) in order to coincide with the dark energy budget. This Thesis is organized in five chapters. The first chapter serves as a quick introduction to the subject of the current Thesis and the reasons for introducing a new field are stated. The second chapter refers to the Principle of Equivalence (E.P), a foundational principle of Einstein's General Relativity. It states that the gravitational mass of a freely falling body is proportional to its inertial mass. The level of verification of the former principle is of crucial importance for the characteristics of a quintessence field. If the E.P is not valid below a certain length scale, then the introduction of a quintessence field also implies the excistence of a new fundamental force in nature (fifth-force). In the third chapter, a small review of the standard cosmological model is made, which in combination with the results for an accelerated universe, leads to the necessity of introducing a new form of energy, dark energy. This form of energy behaves like a dark fluid of negative pressure (repulsive force) that tends to expand spacetime. It is modeled by adding the cosmological constant Λ, in Einstein's field equations or by introducing quintessence fields as the case of this Thesis. As already mentioned, the excistence of a quintessence field yields to violation of the Equivalence Principle. To overcome an extensive violation of the E.P the chameleon model is ``equipped'' by the peculiar property of its mass dependance on the environmental density. A second phenomenon related to the former property and the suppression of the E.P violation, is the ``Thin Shell Effect''. It simply states that the chameleonic profile of a large object is suppresed inside its bulk, and only a thin shell near its surface produces the chameleon force which is exerted on other massive bodies. This effect interprets the weakness and to date not discovered possible fifth-force. The fourth chapter ends up with a discussion on the fifth-force mediated by the chameleon particle. It is estimated that if such force exists, is about 3 orders-of-magnitude weaker than gravity. In the final chapter of this Thesis, the CAST experiment is presented. CAST has been operating for over ten years, searching for axions emitted by the Sun. It is believed that photons can oscillate to chameleons in the presence of a strong magnetic field in the Sun, travel through space and reach the Earth's surface where they can reconvert to photons inside the helioscope's pipe. The spectrum of the chameleons reaching the Earth is peaked at sub-keV region. Furthermore a small part of the chameleons leaving the Sun are converted back to photons over the photosphere due to the magnetic fields present there. These photons have energy lying in the soft X-ray region, hence addressing the solar corona problem.

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Cerqueira, Joana Martinho de Carvalho. "The dark side of personality and the bright side of behaviors. Can our personal values be in this relation?" Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/7238.

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Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada no ISPA – Instituto Universitário para obtenção de grau de Mestre na especialidade de Psicologia Social e das Organizações The present research aims to understand (1) the effect of two personality variables (aversive personality traits and personal values) on self-perceived performance of organizational citizenship behaviors and also to question (2) whether personal values can have a mediation / moderation effect in the relation between this type of traits and the organizational citizenship behaviors. Regarding our first question, concerning the dimensions of personality traits, only narcissism has a significant and negative effect on the relationship with organizational citizenship behaviors and both of the dimensions of personal values, openness to change and self-transcendence, have a positive and significant effect on the relationship with organizational citizenship behaviors. Regarding our second question, it was not possible to prove any moderation / mediation effect of personal values in the relationship between dark triad dimensions and organizational citizenship behaviors. A presente investigação tem como objetivo perceber (1) o efeito de duas variáveis de personalidade (traços de personalidade aversivos e valores pessoais) na auto-perceção de desempenho de comportamentos de cidadania organizacional e também questionar (2) se os valores pessoais podem ter um efeito de mediação/moderação na relação entre este tipo de traços e os comportamentos de cidadania organizacional. No estudo da nossa primeira questão de investigação, relativamente às dimensões dos traços de personalidade, apenas o narcisismo tem um efeito significativo e negativo na relação com os comportamentos de cidadania organizacional e no que diz respeito às dimensões dos valores pessoais, tanto a abertura à mudança como a auto-transcendência têm um efeito positivo e significativo na relação com os comportamentos de cidadania organizacional. No estudo da nossa segunda questão, não foi possível provarmos nenhum efeito de moderação/mediação dos valores pessoais na relação entre as dimensões da dark triad e os comportamentos de cidadania organizacional.

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Gouentoueu, Gilbert. "Conversion à Christ : etude des continuités et ruptures entre la foi chrétienne et des aspects de religions traditionnelles africaines (cas du peuple Dan de la Côte d'Ivoire)." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3788.

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La conversion a Christ pour un Africain suppose, en general le passage d' un concept religieux traditionnel a celui de l'Evangile. Cette nouvelle situation engendre sans aucun doute des mues ou ruptures meme si une continuite demeure a certains niveaux des croyances et pratiques entre les deux systemes de la foi religieuse. Dans le cas specifique du peuple Dan, en nous appuyant sur l'ouvrage de Sanon, les sources oracles et d'autres ecrits, nous avons fait une analyse de six elements fondamentaux de la religion traditionnelle Dan tout en faisant ressortir les points de contacts et de ruptures entre ceux-ci et la foi chretienne. Les concepts qui ont fait I' objet de notre reflexion sont: Dieu, les sacrifices, la priere, les mediateurs, la mort et I' au-dela. A chaque niveau de notre analyse, nous avons constate qu'il existe bel et bien des caracteristiques communes entre la foi traditionnelle Dan et le message de I'Evangile. Celles-Ia constituent les elements de continuite qu'il faut preserver et perfectionner a la lumiere de I'Evangile. Mais, par ailleurs, nous avons releve certaines croyances et pratiques qui s'opposent aux principes de la ...•. parole de Dieu et dont le Dan doit se detacher s' il veut demeurer dans les normes et exigences d'une conversion authentique a Christ. Il appartient donc a l'Eglise d' aider le chretien Dan a consolider sa foi par l'abandon de tout ce qui dans son patrimoine culturel et religieux s'oppose a l'Evangile. Elte l'encouragera aussi a preserver les elements de sa religion qui peuvent contribuer a sa croissance spirituelle. Thesis (M.Th.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2000.

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Chuma, Victoria Mathew Mwakalinga. "Integrated geographical tools can enable interventions to control risk of malaria transmission in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24206.

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A thesis submitted to the School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Johannesburg, 2017 Rationale: Although public health and urban planning share the common goal of preventing urban outbreaks of infectious diseases, there is little operational overlap between these disciplines today. The separation of the fields has contributed to uncoordinated efforts to address the health of urban populations. Recently, infectious diseases like malaria are posing a great health hazard, particularly to developing countries. On one hand, almost all current research focuses on tackling this issue through public health programmes with little direct influence on the root causes of risk. On the other hand, urban planning is guiding infrastructure development/upgrading and delivery of adequate housing programmes which essentially can provide the basis of complementary interventions for malaria if appropriately and selectively targeted to high-risk areas. Integration of such public health considerations into this larger development agenda is often neglected, but could help target the areas of highest risk of malaria transmission with far more effective mitigation and intervention measures than are possible through the health sector alone. However, a greater challenge remains in how to identify areas for spatial targeting of interventions at finer geographic scales, because in cities malaria risk is highly heterogeneous, dynamic and unpredictable at finer spatial resolution. Aim: Firstly, to identify and characterize risk of malaria at finer scales; by calibrating a comprehensive range of high resolution topographic predictors of risk using entomological and epidemiological field surveys. Secondly, to provide evidence-based guidelines for optimal design and spatial targeting of interventions that can be integrated into public health, infrastructure and settlement development programmes to effectively prevent urban malaria transmission. Methods: The study was conducted in Dar es Salaam city (Tanzania), located along the shores of Indian Ocean; with an area of 148km2 and 3.6 million residents. Longitudinal and household cross-sectional surveys; were conducted to monitor entomological (adult mosquitoes using tent traps) and epidemiological (positivity obtained using Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs)) indicators in 2,013 and 430 survey locations respectively, between March 2010 to February 2013. Indicators of city’s resilience were obtained from existing maps of land uses and infrastructure. Topographical predictors of local water accumulation potential were extracted from a 20m grid of a Digital Elevation Model (DEM). The spatial locations of study sites were collected using global positioning system (GPS) receivers at 5m accuracy. Spatial autocorrelations in the outcome variables were assessed using Global Moran’s I statistics (MI) and Variance Inflation Factor (VIF) was used to assess multi-collinearity among geographic predictors. Proximity analysis was used to compute the distance metrics from households to various infrastructures. Hotspots based on entomological and parasitological indicators were detected using Flexible spatial scan statistics. Boosted regression trees (BRT) accounting for spatial effects and generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) were separately fitted to evaluate the influence of resilience indicators upon malaria transmission risk. Multivariable - Conditional Autoregressive Models (M-CARs) using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation were used to predict hazard (M-CAR-Poisson) and risk (M-CAR-Binomial) of malaria using local topographic predictors of water accumulation potential and factors for population resilience. MT2018

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Hsu, Hsiao-Hsien, and 徐孝先. "Can an Alternative Cosmology Save Our World?-A Study of Aspects of Soul and Worlds in Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48324353746605478961.

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碩士 國立暨南國際大學 外國語文學系 100 The thesis questions the aspect of souls and worlds in Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Material Trilogy, which he expected to fulfill his atheistic world and the universe of probablism, namely “Republic of Heaven.” In Pullman’s setting, the disciplines of the New World originated from Dust, an atom-like element that constructed all the materials, souls and numberless parallel universes; even God was the concentration of Dust. Under this setting, Pullman waged a war between the two powers, the Magisterium and the Truth suitors in the novel. Pullman’s ultimate goal was to prove the being of God a lie without denying His existence. The methodologies applied in the novel somehow became the central and the most disputing theme of the story. The study showed that the two important elements that support Pullman’s world, Daemon and Dust were facing their contradictions in both phenomenological and metaphysical ways of defining them. Take Dust as an example, I inducted what Dust was by its essence and function then found this overloaded “super element” was inexpertly overestimated than a godly cause. With too many extra values added, at the same time it was made the only element that created the whole world; its holiness was ignored and turned into a monster. Moreover, the study found that Pullman’s idea of Dust was very similar to the Greek atomism (founded in 450 B.C.), a theory that was already abandoned by theology and science two thousand years ago because its lack of reasoning logic. In His Dark Material trilogy, the theory was restored with Pullman’s motive of anti-Christianity and denying of the Creator, but its lack of logic remained unsolved. The second support of Pullman’s world was his setting of Daemon and its legitimacy of existence. Simply, Daemon is Pullman’s view on soul. Soul had been always a sensitive and complicated subject, but Pullman visualized and externalized it as an animal-shaped partner called Daemon. Daemon represented its human’s characteristic and was inseparable with its human. The study found an unexplainable conflict in the relationship between the Daemon and its human based on their psychological interactions. According to Martin Heidegger’s ideas of existentialism and Aristotle’s Metaphysics, emotional expressions are the projections of one’s mind and soul. Since in the story the souls had been embodied as Daemon, where or what does the owner originate his or her feeling and anxiety toward their Daemon? Apparently, the projector and the projected both had souls and being metaphysically individuals, whilst they were physically as one. It is to say Pullman’s ambition of essentially symbiotic multiple souls did not fulfill successfully in the story. The conclusion of the study was based on the defects of the Dust and Souls then questioned Pullman’s critics in whether a fantasy literature can or should really be realistic. By evaluating Pullman’s works, it is to proved that an imitation of the reality still remain fictional and unreal in the world of His Dark Materials. Besides, his setting of “Republic of Heaven” is proved not better than the overthrown “Kingdom of Heaven” that readers are encountering, while the basic two elements Dust and Daemons being in lack of logical and correct theological explanation. However, the study also found that this is not Pullman’s or any other fantasy writers’ fault, but that they were limited by the genre itself.

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Urquhart, William. "Characterization of AtCNGC11/12-induced Cell Death and the Role of AtCNGC11 and AtCNGC12 in Ca2+ Dependent Signalling Pathways." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/29897.

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The Arabidopsis cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels (AtCNGCs) form a large family consisting of 20 members. It has been suggested that CNGCs contribute to a wide array of biological functions such as pollen tube growth and pathogen defence signalling. However, the precise mechanisms by which AtCNGCs act, and the extent of their biological roles, have yet to be fully elucidated. AtCNGC11/12, the chimeric CNGC that resulted from the fusion of AtCNGC11 and 12, induces a number of pathogen defence related phenotypes in the Arabidopsis mutant cpr22. Spontaneous lesion formation is one such phenotype. Interestingly, when AtCNGC11/12 is transiently expressed in N. benthamiana it causes cell death which was characterized in this study. Also, AtCNGC11/12 was used to investigate the structural features responsible for the proper function and regulation of AtCNGCs. Electron microscopic analysis of the AtCNGC11/12-induced cell death showed similar characteristics to programmed cell death (PCD), such as plasma membrane shrinkage and vesicle formation. Interestingly caspase-1 inhibitors and the silencing of vacuolar processing enzyme, a plant enzyme with caspase-1 activity, suppressed the induction of cell death. Additionally, pharmacological analyses indicated that the AtCNGC11/12-indiced cell death was also dependent on Ca2+. Furthermore, 3 amino acid residues, R190, A225, and G287, were demonstrated to be essential for AtCNGC11/12-induce cell death. Taken together, these results indicate that the cell death that develops in the cpr22 mutant is indeed PCD and that AtCNGC11/12, is at the point of, or up-stream of, the Ca2+ signal necessary for the development of HR. Furthermore, the functionality of AtCNGC11/12 as a model for AtCNGC structure-function analyses was demonstrated by the identification of several amino acids necessary for cell death development. Yoshioka et al. (2006) demonstrated that the loss of AtCNGC11 or 12 results in decreased resistance to avirulent isolates of the oomycete pathogen, H. arabidopsidis. Thus, the present biological role suggested for AtCNGC11 and 12 is in pathogen defence, specifically within effector triggered immunity (ETI). Like AtCNGC11 and 12, AtCNGC2 has been demonstrated to contribute to pathogen defence signalling but has also been implicated in other physiological responses such as ion stress and senescence. To better understand the roles of AtCNGC11 and 12 in both pathogen defence and other Ca2+ dependent signalling processes, I have investigated promoter:GUS reporter lines, as well as, AtCNGC11 and 12 KO and RNAi silenced lines subjected to various treatments. From this work, I have demonstrated that AtCNGC11 and 12 have similar expression patterns during pathogen defence, development, and dark-induced senescence. Additionally, the findings presented here further characterize AtCNGC11 and 12 as contributors to ETI rather than PAMP triggered immunity. Furthermore, I demonstrated that AtCNGC11 and 12 are likely involved in the endogenous movement of Ca2+, contributing to a range of Ca2+ associated signalling pathways including gravitropism and senescence. Taken together, these results have greatly improved the characterization of AtCNGC11 and 12; significantly contributing to the understanding of a large and increasingly important channel family.

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Mejri, Karim. "Monitoring de l’environnement atmosphérique en milieu urbain intégrant des images de télédétection : le cas des particules fines (PM2.5)." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24225.

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Epidemiological research around the world has shown that exposure of urban populations to fine microparticles (PM2.5) suspended in air from, among other things, car combustion, is responsible for many cases of lung and cardiovascular disease and even mortality. However, most of these studies examine urban centers as ensembles without considering that population exposure to microparticles is not homogeneous across an urban space. For example, individuals living near major arterial roads are much more exposed to microparticles than others living in low traffic neighborhoods. Unfortunately, ground stations measuring PM2.5 are few and far between to generate accurate microparticle concentration maps at fine scales. One way to spatialize information on microparticle concentrations is to introduce remotely sensed images that allows to calculate an optical parameter of aerosols, their optical depth. The use of medium-to-fine-resolution images is not common in this area. So, we wanted to look at their potential. Tests with hyperspectral and multispectral images at these resolutions have shown that optical depth can be estimated with enough accuracy. The AODFinder software developed for this purpose performs well. Unfortunately, the small sample of AOD values and PM2.5 concentration measurements did not allow us to conclude on the possibility of using AOD as a proxy for PM2.5 and thus on the possibility of refining microparticle monitoring at the local level. Des recherches épidémiologiques à travers le monde ont mis en évidence que l’exposition des populations urbaines aux microparticules fines (PM2.5) en suspension dans l’air provenant, entre autres, de la combustion automobile, est à l’origine des nombreux cas des maladies pulmonaires et cardiovasculaires et même des cas de mortalité. Cependant, la plupart de ces études examinent les centres urbains comme des ensembles sans tenir compte que l’exposition des populations aux microparticules n’est pas homogène à travers un espace urbain. À titre d’exemple, les individus demeurant à proximité de grandes artères routières sont beaucoup plus exposés aux microparticules que d’autres demeurant dans des quartiers de faible circulation. Malheureusement, les stations terrestres de mesure des PM2.5 sont peu nombreuses pour permettre de générer des cartes de concentration des microparticules précises à des échelles fines. Un moyen pour spatialiser l’information sur les concentrations des microparticules est d’introduire l’imagerie de télédétection qui permet de calculer un paramètre optique des aérosols, leur profondeur optique. L’utilisation des images à résolution moyenne à fine n’est pas chose courante dans ce domaine. Ainsi nous avons voulu examiner leur potentiel. Les tests avec des images hyperspectrale et multispectrale à ces résolutions ont montré que la profondeur optique peut être estimer avec suffisamment de précision. Le logiciel AODFinder développé à cette fin se comporte bien. Malheureusement le faible échantillon des valeurs de AOD et des mesures des concentrations des PM2.5 ne nous a pas permis de se prononcer sur la possibilité d’utiliser le AOD comme proxy des PM2.5 et ainsi sur la possibilité de raffiner le monitoring des microparticules à l’échelle locale.

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Collins, Jody. "A promise kept: the mystical reach through loss." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/11216.

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The meaning of loss is love. I know this through attention to experience. Whether loss or love is experienced in abundance or in absence, the meaning is mystical with an opening of body, mind, heart and soul to spirit. And so, in the style of a memoir, in the way of contemplative prayer, I contemplate and share my soul as a promise kept in the mystical reach through loss. With the first, initiating loss, the loss of my nine-year-old nephew, Caleb, I experience an epiphany that gives me spiritual instructions that will not be ignored. I experience loss as an abundance of meaning that comes to me as gnosis, as “knowledge of the heart” according to Elaine Pagels or divine revelation in what Evelyn Underhill calls mystical illumination in the experience of “losing-to-find” in union with the divine. Then, with gnostic import, in leaving the ordinary for the extraordinary, I enter the empty room in the painful yet liberating experience of the loss of my self. In the embrace of emptiness, I proceed to the first wall, the second wall, the third wall, the dark corner of denial, the return to centre, and, finally, to breaking the fourth wall in the empty room so as to keep my promise to you. Who are “you”? You are God. You are Caleb. You are spirit. You are my higher soul or self. And, you are the reader. You are my dear companion in silence. And then, through a series of broken promises and more loss, within what John of the Cross calls, “the dark night of the soul,” I am stopped by the ineffability of the dark corner of denial, the horror of separation and the absence of meaning, which is depicted as the grueling gap between the spiritual abyss and the breakthrough. What does it mean to keep going through a solemn succession of losses? I don’t know. In going into the empty room, I simply put pain to work in order to reach you. Through loss, though there are infinite manifestations, there is only one way: keep going. And so, in a triumph of the spirit, I keep going so as to be: a promise kept in the mystical reach through loss. As for you, through my illumined and dark experiences of loss, what is my promise to you? I keep going to reach the unreachable you. In the loss of self, with embodied emptiness, in going into the dark corner of denial, with a return to the divine centre of my emptied self, in an invitation to you, I give my soul to you in union with you. Graduate 2020-06-25

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