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Karahasanoglu, Selim. "Intellectuals Of Varied State Traditions: The Ottoman Empire And The Volga-ural Region." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12604842/index.pdf.
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I intend to analyze in the present study, the status of the intellectuals under varied state traditions. The Volga-Ural region was under the legacy of Chinggis Khan. In the thirteenth century with the invasion of Mongol-Tatar groups under the leadership of Chinggis Khan�
s grandchild Batu Khan, the Volga-Bulghar state was removed and the Golden Horde was founded. By the collapse period of the Golden Horde at the end of the 14th century and at the beginning of the 15th century, the Khanates period began in the region: Kazan, Astrakhan and Kasim. The struggles among the khanates were used by Russia in her favor and these problems paved the way for inclusion of the region under Russian hegemony. Especially after the collapse of Kazan in 1552, a long period of Russianization and Christianization took place. In the Volga-Ural region, where there was no Islamic state, one observes a deep impact of Turco Mongol political culture, in which distributive economics based on power-sharing mechanisms prevailed, and a lively exchange of ideas among the intellectuals as well as conflicts and clashes became the norm. The Ottoman Empire, on the other hand, was formed with conquests and ideological aggregation, which led to a concentration of powr in the state. In such an environment, dynastic ideology determined the borders of intellectual life and the ways of expression of ideas. In the present study, my concern is on more on the interference of the state in the intellectual life.
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Mazgarova, Sofia. "Islamic Reformism on the Periphery of the Muslim World: Rezaeddin Fakhreddin (1895-1936)." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/8.
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During the apex of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, the geopolitical paradigm was gradually transitioning from imperialism toward the nation-state order. Where the former framework witnessed a handful of European empires vie for global hegemony and influence, the latter facilitated indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. Religion, naturally, played a central role in opposition to colonialism and the galvanization of indigenous nationalism. Consequently, the shape of religion was also influenced, and ultimately redefined to fit the new world order.
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Crye, Jennifer L. "Shifting Boundaries: Rethinking the nature of religion and religious change among minority peoples in late imperial Russia." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1249395999.
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Obeng-Asiedu, Patrick. "Allocating water resources for agricultural and economic development in the Volta River Basin /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2004. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/393023648.pdf.
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Hamenoo, Emma Seyram. "Child trafficking on Lake Volta : lived experiences of rescued and non-trafficked children in the Volta region of Ghana." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601652.
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Trafficking in Persons has been a punishable offence since the early years of the 20th Century. Although Trafficking in Persons is known to have affected many, including children, its definition and understanding has been a major challenge to its eradication. Given the pace set by the Palermo Protocol in defining Trafficking in Persons. nations like Ghana have enacted anti-trafficking laws (Human Trafficking Act, 2000) aimed at punishing Trafficking in Persons and providing for victims of trafficking. Despite the enactment of the anti-trafficking law in Ghana, many children are still trafficked on Lake Volta. To explore how the concept of child trafficking on Lake Volta is understood in Ghana, and how children rescued from trafficking on Lake Volta describe their pre-trafficking, trafficking and posttrafficking experiences. I carried out an empirical study in Ghana. In the study, the views of representatives of anti-trafficking agencies, which included government organizations, international Non-Governmental Organizations and local Non-Governmental Organizations, as well as parents and fishermen on Lake Volta, were solicited on what constitutes child trafficking. Also considered within the study is the process through which the Human Trafficking Act was enacted in 2005. For the views of children on their pre-trafficking, trafficking and post-trafficking experiences, both, rescued and non-trafficked children were interviewed for stories of their daily lived experiences. Using in-depth interviews for the adult participants and participatory methods such as glitoto and drawing for the children, data collected were analysed using both narrative and thematic methods. Analysis of findings reveal contradictions within the views of anti-trafficking agencies on what constitutes child trafficking, and who traffickers are - especially whether parents can be traffickers. These contradictions, in addition to the culture of child fostering, and the widely held notion of work being an effective means of training children to become responsible adults obfuscate the nature of child trafficking and stifle efforts to eradicate it on Lake Volta. The study also described the experiences of trafficked children, and such experiences are compared to those of a group of non-trafficked children. Analysis focused on the nature and range of exploitative practices to which the children have been and are subjected. Cycles of trafficking experiences are identified and it is argued that 'home' is not always the safest destination for rescued trafficked children. The thesis ends with reference to the work of Arrnatya Sen (1999) and Nussbaum (2000) who correctly argue that enshrining rights in law amounts to very little in the absence of structures that can empower human beings to develop to their full capacity.
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Kwame, Agbagba Paschal. "FREQUENT BOAT ACCIDENTS ON THE VOLTA LAKE OF GHANA : A Case Study of Tapa Abotoase in the Jasikan District of the Volta Region." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Geography, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-2273.
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Boat accidents have become a matter of public concern during recent times as a result of its frequency in recording high fatalities on the Volta Lake of Ghana. This study sought to find out the main causes of this frequent event and to identify the various ways it affects life in totality. Besides, the paper tries to investigate efforts by some institutions including government to curb the situation and also to discuss relevant interventions in matters relating to the various forms of boat accidents on the lake. A case study approach was therefore adopted; leading to the choice of Abotoase in the Jasikan District of the Volta Region as the study area. The main approach to the study was qualitative where different data collection techniques were used to gather relevant information for the study. Major concepts such as accidents, governance and risk culture/behaviour were considered in explaining the findings. A theoretical framework of accidents was adapted and modified after Rick Curtis (1995) to explain the interrelationship among the two categories of factors (natural/environmental and human-induced) and how they work to cause accidents. The findings indicated that, although there are numerous causes of boat accidents on the Volta Lake, most of the factors have not been critically considered by stakeholders except for a few that have been highlighted several times by the media. Poor governance and indiscipline were noted as the basic underlying factors influencing the number of accidents on the lake. However, a major factor that has posed a lot of challenges to all stakeholders of the boat transport industry is the numerous tree stumps standing in the lake. This of course is a natural/environmental factor that has received a lot of attention in recent times because it has been responsible for the greater number of accidents in the past. It has also been found that, the accidents affect individuals directly, the communities in which they live and the nation at large. The study concludes among other things that, absence of an alternative means of transport, bad governance, lack of enforcement of rules and indiscipline among the participants in the boat transport industry; besides the submerged tree stumps in the lake are the major influencing factors of boat accidents on the lake. In addition, the study found that although some effort was made by government to improve the situation, there are more recommendations to be considered for a better future of the industry.
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Aklamanu, Isaac Rowland. "THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A TEENAGE PREGNANCY SERVICE AND PREVENTION PROGRAM IN THE VOLTA REGION OF GHANA." OpenSIUC, 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1625.
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Abstract For decades, teenage pregnancy has been a problem and a challenge in both developed and developing countries. The problem of teenage pregnancy has engendered as much analysis and policy discussion in Western industrialized societies, such as the United States, as in the less developed nations of Africa. In Ghana, teenage pregnancy is a major issue that stands in the way of education for young women. Even though teenage pregnancy is a major problem in Ghana, in the Volta region of Ghana, the problem is particularly pressing and appears to be getting worse. Ghana government and various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have tried to curtail the problem to no avail. Currently, there is only one NGO in Ho, the regional capital of Volta Region, known as Village Exchange Ghana that is providing teenage pregnancy services and education to young women in the Ho metropolis. Since its inception in 2003, VEG program has not had an evaluation based on the perspective of its participants. In this study, the researcher conducted a qualitative exploratory study designed to gather the perspectives of teenage mothers who had participated in the teenage pregnancy education and service program offered by Village Exchange Ghana. The objective was to identify its effectiveness and impact of the program from participant’s point of view. The results were used to form recommendations for a better prevention and education program in the future.
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Bambury, M. C. "Development of a sediment yield model for South East Ghana in the regions around Lake Volta." Thesis, Aston University, 2007. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/12245/.
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In Ghana, a country with an expanding population and high potential for economic growth, agriculture is an important resource; however, most of the crop production is restricted to low technology shifting cultivation agriculture. The high intensity seasonal rainfall coincides with the early growing period of many of the crops meaning that plots are very susceptible to erosion, especially on steep sided valleys in the region south of Lake Volta. This research investigated the processes of soil erosion by rainfall with the aim of producing a sediment yield model for a small semi-agricultural catchment in rural Ghana. Various types of modelling techniques were considered to discover those most applicable to the sub-tropical environment of Southern Ghana. Once an appropriate model had been developed and calibrated, the aim was to look at how to enable the scaling up of the model using sub-catchments to calculate sedimentation rates of Lake Volta. An experimental catchment was located in Ghana, south west of Lake Volta, where data on rainstorms and the associated streamflow, sediment loads and soil data (moisture content, classification and particle size distribution) was collected to calibrate the model. Additional data was obtained from the Soil Research Institute in Ghana to explore calibration of the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE, Wischmeier and Smith, 1978) for Ghanaian soils and environment. It was shown that the USLE could be successfully converted to provide meaningful soil loss estimates in the Ghanaian environment. However, due to experimental difficulties, the proposed theory and methodology of the sediment yield model could only be tested in principle. Future work may include validation of the model and subsequent scaling up to estimate sedimentation rates in Lake Volta.
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Silva, Maria Dorotéia da. "De volta ao engenho: o discurso regionalista nordestino nos finais do século XX." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2013. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/6251.
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Este trabajo visa contribuir para los estudios literarios del discurso de la dimensión regionalista del Nordeste, identificando las marcas presentes del discurso memorialista y de la dicción del regionalismo nordestino de Treinta, observando, así, los trazos fundantes de la obra Coivara da Memoria (1991) en que la memoria se configura como un fenómeno que se presenta con muchas caras, conforme la hechura de las novelas del Modernismo del Nordeste. Discurso privilegiado en nuestra actualidad, el tema de la memoria viene despertando el interés de las más variadas asignaturas y ciencias, configurándose como dimensión importante en la ficción brasileña En esta comprensión, buscamos observar como el autor de Coivara da Memória intenta recuperar el tiempo vivido y huidizo, conforme señala en la narrativa, aliando el presente a sus recuerdos de niñez. En esa articulación, el narrador configura el personaje infantil en íntima solidariedad con el espacio del ingenio. La memoria del tiempo se encarga de ficcionar la niñez del narrador, alcanzando su madurez, en un entrecruce entre pasado y presente. Direccionado para el mundo azucarero de la región sergipana donde vivió y vive el autor, el narrador de la obra en estudio redimensiona, entre la tradición y la reinvención de los trazos del Modernismo nordestito, acercándose de las escrituras de José Lins do Rego, notadamente por la temática de la fase de la derrocada de la economía azucarera y la consecuente pérdida del prestigio de los señores de ingenio. En ese sentido, buscamos verificar en la obra de Francisco Dantas las permanencias y las transfiguraciones de las ideas claves del Modernismo del Nordeste.
Este trabalho visa contribuir para os estudos literários do discurso de dimensão regionalista do Nordeste, identificando as marcas presentes do discurso memorialista e da dicção do regionalismo nordestino de Trinta, observando s traços fundantes da obra Coivara da Memória (1991) em que a memória se configura como um fenômeno que se apresenta em muitas faces, conforme a feitura dos romances do Modernismo do Nordeste. Discurso privilegiado em nossa atualidade, o tema da memória vem despertando o interesse das mais variadas disciplinas e ciências, se configurando como dimensão importante na ficcionalidade brasileira. Nesta compreensão, buscamos observar como o autor de Coivara da Memória tenta recuperar o tempo vivido e fugidio, conforme sinaliza na narrativa, aliando o presente às suas lembranças de meninice. Nessa articulação, o narrador configura a personagem infantil em íntima solidariedade com o espaço do engenho. A memória do tempo encarrega-se de ficcionalizar a infância do narrador, alcançando sua maturidade, num entrelaçamento entre passado e presente. Voltado para o mundo açucareiro da região sergipana, onde viveu e vive o autor, o narrador de Coivara da Memória, redimensiona, entre a tradição e a reinvenção dos traços do Modernismo nordestino, se aproximando das escrituras de José Lins do Rego, notadamente pela tematização da fase da derrocada da economia açucareira e da consequente perda de prestígio dos senhores de engenho. Nesse sentido, buscamos verificar, na obra de Francisco Dantas, as permanências e as transfigurações das ideias-chave do Modernismo do Nordeste.
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Atiase, Victor Yawo. "The impact of FNGO services on the performance of micro and small enterprises : empirical evidence from the Volta Region, Ghana." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/621812.
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Financial Non-Governmental Organisations (FNGOs) are regulated microfinance institutions (MFIs) that operate with the social welfare logic in the delivery of Microcredit (MC) and Entrepreneurship Training (ET) to the poor in Ghana. The provision of these two capitals (MC and ET) is aimed at supporting the poor to create sustainable Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) which is aimed at generating both skilled and unskilled employment. The major aim of this study is to investigate the impact of MC and ET delivered by FNGOs on the performance of MSEs in Ghana. Theoretically, the study adopts both the Institutional Theory and the Resource-Based View theory as the underlying theoretical frameworks, assuming that institutional and resource factors have a great influence on FNGOs in their delivery of MC and ET to MSEs in Ghana. The research design adopted in undertaking this study is based on the pragmatic research philosophy. Specifically, the mixed strategy with an explanatory triangulation method has been used. The mixed method has been adopted purposely for model testing as well as for exploring various issues on FNGOs and their role in the performance of MSEs. Primary data were collected through a quantitative method using a survey as well as through qualitative interviews. Adopting a stratified random sampling method, a total of 720 self-administered questionnaires were sent out in March 2017 to MSEs in the Volta Region of Ghana to collect primary data. Out of the number sent, 506 questionnaires were retrieved generating a response rate of 70.2%. Also, interviews were conducted with 10 MSEs. A multiple regression model was applied in measuring the impact of MC and ET on the performance of MSEs. The findings suggest that firm characteristics such as gender, managers educational level, industry category and business age correlate positively with employment sales and profitability growth which are statistically significant at 1% level. Secondly, the study also found that both MC and ET factors have a significant impact on MSE performance in the areas of employment, sales and profitability at 1% significant level. The qualitative findings also support the model tested in this study in the sense that the combined approach of both MC and ET have a significant impact on MSE performance in Ghana. This study has made two main contributions. Firstly, the provision of MC by FNGOs can only have the desired impact on the performance of MSEs if it is combined with entrepreneurship training, thereby leading to a sustainable employment, sales and profitability growth. Therefore, by using the 506 MSEs financed by FNGOs in the Volta region of Ghana, this study has for the first time in the Ghanaian microfinance landscape tested an empirical model and came out with meaningful findings for effective integration of ET into microfinance to improve the delivery of financial services to MSEs in Ghana by FNGOs and other socially oriented MFIs. The study has therefore developed a practical framework for ensuring that ET is provided alongside the delivery of MC in order to have the desired impact on the performance of MSEs. The study provided implications for policy and practice for making MC and ET more accessible to MSEs to achieve the desired goal of creating employment. Secondly, even though FNGOs play a very important role in providing entrepreneurial finance to MSEs particularly in developing countries, it has received insufficient research attention. This study has, therefore, added to the scanty research available about FNGOs and their contribution to entrepreneurship development and poverty reduction in developing countries.
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Guedes, Margarida Rosa Medeiros. "Contribuição para a avaliação, previsão e prevenção do regime de cheias na bacia do Vouga." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/4730.
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Mestrado em Gestão e Políticas AmbientaisCom este trabalho pretende-se contribuir, através do estudo das características da bacia hidrográfica e da modelização hidrológica, para a obtenção de um método de previsão/alerta da ocorrência de cheias na Bacia do Vouga, o qual poderá vir a integrar futuramente um Plano Especial de Cheias, a elaborar pela Comando Distrital de Operações e Socorro de Aveiro. A dissertação compreende três secções. A primeira destina-se a caracterizar a bacia do Vouga (em termos biofísicos, climatológicos, sócio-económicos e hidrológicos) e o seu regime de cheias, no que respeita a precipitação, cotas e caudais. A segunda secção aborda a modelação hidrológica, procurando obter-se, a partir de dados reais obtidos pela monitorização, e utilizando modelos disponíveis comercialmente, um contributo para avaliar e/ou prever o regime de cheias. Atendendo à dimensão da bacia do Vouga, e à dificuldade inerente em trabalhar e obter dados hidroclimatológicos de um sistema com esta complexidade, optou-se por restringir a modelização à subbacia do rio Águeda, a qual apresenta algumas características que a tornam particularmente indicada para este tipo de abordagem científica: é uma bacia de pequenas dimensões, com um regime hidrológico e um tipo de disposição que a tornam especialmente propensa a inundações repentinas, que afectam gravosamente a população local. A terceira e última secção reúne as conclusões do trabalho, identificando-se as lacunas e possíveis caminhos a explorar em investigações futuras. Pretende-se realçar a importância e o potencial da modelação hidrológica em termos de ferramenta de trabalho para o sistema de protecção civil, enquanto instrumento de apoio à decisão para o estabelecimento de avisos e alertas de cheia, planeamento de percursos de evacuação e movimentação de meios de socorro no terreno.
The thesis comprehends tree sections. The first comprehends the characterization of the Vouga basin (in biophysical, climatological, socio–economic and hydrological terms) and it’s flooding regime, concerning rainfall, hydraulic levels and flows. The second section discusses hydrological modelling, seeking to obtain, trough real monitored data, and using commercial available models, contributes to evaluate and/or predict the flood regime. Bearing in mind the Vouga basin dimension, and the inherent difficulty to obtain and work hydroclimatological data from such a complex system the modelling was restricted to Águeda subbasin, which presents some characteristics that make it especially indicated to this kind of approach: it’s a small basin, with an hydrological regime and geographical disposition that make it especially prone to sudden flooding, which affect seriously the local community. Third and last section presents the conclusions of this research, discussing the gaps of information and possible future work to be developed. It is intended to enhance the importance and potential of hydrological modelling as a tool to decision support for the civil protection services, in the establishment of flood alerts, evacuation planning and deployment of relief operations.
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Gborgblorvor, Innocentia Ruby. "Assessing knowledge, skills and attitudes of undergraduate nursing students regarding student-centered learning approach in a university in the Volta Region, Ghana." University of the Western Cape, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6085.
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Magister Curationis - McurGlobally, Student-Centered Learning Approach (SCLA) as a pedagogical strategy has become the accepted practice in higher education. This approach to teaching and learning requires that students take responsibility for their own learning, and the teacher only facilitates and guides the students in the learning process. SCLA more often than not builds students' confidence and critical thinking skills. The benefits of SCLA to students have been well documented however there is a dearth of knowledge of SCLA on the experiences of undergraduate nursing student whose previous learning did not expose them to studentcentered learning approach.
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Dzokoto, Seth Theodore Kwasi. "Exploring the viability of solar photovoltaic for rural water supply in Ghana : a case study of Agotime-Ziope District of the Volta Region." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/15040.
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Availability of good drinking water is a key factor for health and quality of life. In urban locations of Ghana, water from large rivers is abstracted and treated before it is supplied to the urban people by the use of the grid. However access to potable water is difficult in rural communities of the country because these locations are remote from the grid (or they experience unreliable power supply) and water infrastructure. They are however endowed with abundant sunshine (5-8 hours per day with irradiation ranging 3.1-6.5 kW/m2-day), small rivers and streams. In spite of these natural resources, the potable water (from local treatment plants and groundwater sources) coverage in most of these locations is as low as 21%. During the dry season, the water levels reduce and some dry up completely making water and sanitation major development concerns for communities in these locations. This research therefore sought to explore the viability of solar PV water pumping in rural locations of Ghana, using the Agotime-Ziope district as case study. The case-based action research addressed the factors that influence the take up of solar energy for water pumping in rural locations of the country. Both quantitative and qualitative studies were conducted. Quantitative results derived from a questionnaire and qualitative obtained from the interviews conducted with the district officials, stakeholders in the solar industry and villagers in seven specific communities, are presented. The quantitative and qualitative approaches were mixed in the study. Furthermore, a solar PV pumping system for Kporta community was designed, installed and the system’s performance was evaluated in relation to how the people in the community collected water from it. The new PV system supplies adequate water to the people as it was designed, thus demonstrating the viability of solar PV for water supply. This notwithstanding, the system was underutilized by the community; since out of the 1,825,000 litres of water it was designed to supply in one year, only 5.2 % of water was collected from the system in one year. Two reasons are suggested for the low patronage: firstly, the borehole water at Kporta had a high content of magnesium, sulphate and chloride above WHO’s standard values making the water hard and taste salty. Secondly, water is available (free of charge) from the community pond (dam) which is perceived to be better (water is soft and does not taste salty even though unhygienic). On the other hand, in Lume Avete where a PV system supplies high quality safe drinking water (water is soft and does not taste salty) from underground, the community makes maximum use of the system. High upfront PV system cost and lack of awareness of the technology also influence its adoption and wider diffusion. Two frameworks were developed within the thesis; one for the PV system market structure and the other for its financing to address the cost and awareness factors. Within the financing framework are five models namely; 100 % upfront cash payment, fee-for-service, build operate and transfer, donation and PV utilization loan. It is recommended that future research should develop methods to remove salt and dissolved minerals from groundwater in the district and develop a better understanding of how best to supply safe water in rural areas of the country.
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Osei-Asare, Yaw. "Household Water Security and Water Demand in the Volta Basin of Ghana /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/491615132.pdf.
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Nascimento, Deyvison Roberto. "Industrialização e desenvolvimento nos municípios de Barra Mansa, Porto Real, Resende e Volta Redonda na década de 2000." Universidade de Taubaté, 2015. http://www.bdtd.unitau.br/tedesimplificado/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=755.
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A industrialização, com seu efeito multiplicador, tem grande importância para o desenvolvimento econômico de um país, ou até mesmo de uma região, contribuindo na geração de empregos e renda inclusive para outros setores de atividade. O desenvolvimento, além das questões econômicas, passa por outras dimensões de qualidade de vida da população, tais como educação, saúde, assistência social, pobreza, etc. Nos municípios de Barra Mansa, Porto Real, Resende e Volta Redonda, a industrialização ocorreu de forma acelerada na década de 2000, tendo seus reflexos identificados nos indicadores de qualidade de vida e na geração de emprego e renda. O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar os resultados desses indicadores econômicos e sociais da região, buscando entender o impacto do crescimento da industrialização no processo de desenvolvimento nesses municípios na década de 2000. O método utilizado foi a abordagem qualitativa, que teve informações coletadas por meio de pesquisa documental e de análise bibliográfica. Os resultados da dissertação apontam que a industrialização contribuiu para o crescimento econômico da região e, com isso, para a geração de emprego e renda; no entanto, os indicadores sociais, como os de educação e saúde, não avançaram no mesmo ritmo.Industrialization, with its multiplier effect, has great importance for the economic development of a country, or even a region, contributing to job creation and income including other sectors. The development, in addition to economic issues, involves other dimensions of quality of life of the population as education, health, social welfare, poverty, etc. In the municipalities of Barra Mansa, Puerto Real, Resende and Volta Redonda industrialization occurred rapidly in the 2000s, with their reflections were identified in quality of life indicators and the generation of employment and income. The objective of this dissertation is to analyze the results of economic and social indicators in the region seeking to understand the impact of industrialization of growth in the development process in these municipalities in the 2000s The method used is qualitative approach and has information collected through desk research and bibliographic analysis. The results of the dissertation indicate that industrialization has contributed to economic growth in the region and thus the generation of jobs and income, however social indicators such as education and health have not advanced at the same pace.
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Cantamessa, Vânia Ferreira. "As mudanças econômicas em Volta Redonda após a privatização da companhia siderúrgica nacional." Universidade de Taubaté, 2014. http://www.bdtd.unitau.br/tedesimplificado/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=734.
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O objetivo desse estudo foi verificar possíveis alterações no cenário econômico da cidade de Volta Redonda situada no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, após a privatização da Companhia
Siderúrgica Nacional, como consequência à saída do Estado do setor produtivo. Volta Redonda deve sua origem ao investimento feito pelo Estado em um esforço para tornar o
Brasil um país com urbano-industrial, por meio da construção da sua primeira grande indústria de base: a Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional. O enfoque dado a essa pesquisa
relaciona-se à exploração dos indicadores relativos ao mercado de trabalho local, disponibilizados de forma impressa ou on-line pelos órgãos oficiais, os quais propiciaram o
seu diagnóstico e suas características após a privatização da CSN; assim como a contribuição da balança comercial municipal sobre essa dinâmica local. Trata-se de uma pesquisa cujo procedimento técnico é de cunho bibliográfico, com objetivo exploratório, de abordagem quantitativa e delineamento documental. Observa-se que após a privatização da CSN configurou-se a interrupção da participação da empresa na gestão pública local e o município
viu-se obrigado a desenvolver políticas para atração de novos investimentos e incentivo ao empreendedorismo com vistas à geração de postos de trabalho para seus habitantes, uma vez
que a estrutura setorial do emprego em Volta Redonda apresentou alteração em seu perfil, no qual o setor industrial deixou de ser o maior gerador de emprego, apresentando redução gradativa a partir de meados da década de 1980, enquanto o setor de serviços demonstrou outra realidade, apresentando acréscimo a partir o mesmo período. Em relação ao comércio internacional praticado pelo Município, verificou-se que além de subordinar-se ao cenário econômico mundial, seu resultado depende do desempenho da CSN.The aim of this study was to investigate possible changes in the economic scenario of the city of Volta Redonda located in the State of Rio de Janeiro, after the privatization of the National Steel Company as a result of the withdrawal of the state from the productive sector. Volta Redonda owes its origin to the investment made by the state in an effort to make Brazil a country with urban-industrial, through the construction of its first major industrial base: the National Steel Company. The approach taken to this research relates to the operation of the indicators for the local labor market, available in print or online by official agencies, which led to the diagnosis and characteristics after the privatization of CSN, as well as contribution of the trade balance on this municipal local dynamics. This is a research whose technical procedure is bibliographical, with exploratory objective, quantitative approach and design documentation. It is observed that after the privatization of CSN configured to interrupt the companys participation in local public administration and the city was forced to develop policies to attract new investment and encouraging entrepreneurship aimed at generating jobs for their inhabitants, since the sectoral structure of employment in Volta Redonda showed a change on your profile, in which the industry is no longer the largest employment generator, with a gradual decrease from the mid-1980s, while the service sector showed another reality, presenting an increase from the same period. In relation to international trade practiced by the municipality, it was found that in addition to subordinate to the global economic scenario, the outcome depends on the performance of the CSN.
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Lima, Joana Catarina da Silva Vaz Serra. "Sistemas alimentares locais e planeamento do território: perspectivas para o Baixo Vouga." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/16965.
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Mestrado em Planeamento Regional e UrbanoOs Sistemas Alimentares Locais (SAL) têm vindo, principalmente ao longo da última década e meia, a ganhar espaço e relevância, quer na esfera académica, quer na esfera política. Mas a investigação científica, focada na clarificação da relação entre o planeamento do território e os sistemas alimentares, é ainda uma área de conhecimento recente que carece de aprofundamento. Esta dissertação pretende constituir uma reflexão sobre a relação entre a alimentação e o território, contribuindo para aumentar o conhecimento teórico e empírico sobre os SAL, trazendo essa reflexão para o contexto de uma região geográfica específica, com o objectivo de compreender o possível potencial dos SAL para o desenvolvimento das regiões. Para tal, foi indispensável aprofundar os conceitos mais relevantes associados aos SAL, como sejam: a ‘escala’, o significado, ou significados, do ‘local’ nos SAL, e ainda questões que derivam da sua natureza sistémica. Este aprofundamento foi motivado pela necessidade de procurar soluções metodológicas, capazes de orientar o estudo que se desenvolveu para o Baixo Vouga. O estudo empírico centra-se na análise dos curtos circuitos alimentares presentes no Baixo Vouga, com especial enfoque no consumo (hábitos, tendências e valores) e na produção (práticas, métodos, percepções, relações e principais constrangimentos). Os resultados alcançados permitem identificar questões relevantes na relação entre alimentação e território em geral, e em particular para a região em causa, aumentar o conhecimento teórico e empírico sobre os SAL, e perceber quais os principais desafios, teóricos e práticos, que se colocam ao planeamento do território, na construção de estratégias integradas de promoção dos SAL.
Over the last decade and a half Local Food Systems (LFS) have been gaining space and relevance both in the academic and political spheres. However, research focusing on the relations between planning and the food systems still needs to be further developed. The present work aims to contribute to this research field and to bring this discussion to the context of a specific geographic region, in order to understand the potential of LFS’s in territorial development. To this end, it was essential the study of the main concepts associated with LFS’s, such as ‘scale’; meanings or dimensions of ‘local’ on LFS; and also questions arising from the systemic nature of LFS’s. The main purpose was to seek methodological solutions that could frame the approach intended for the Baixo Vouga region. The empirical study focuses on the analysis of short food circuits present in Baixo Vouga, with focus on consumption (habits, trends and values) and production (practices, methods, perceptions, relationships and key constraints). The results obtained enable us to identify the most relevant issues present in the relation between food and territory, in general, and for the specific Baixo Vouga’s region; increase knowledge and data, theoretical and empirical, about LFS’s; and to detect the main theoretical and practical challenges that arise when planning local food systems, and in the development of integrated strategies to promote LFS’s.
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Konlan, Binamin. "Predictability of Identity Voting Behaviour, Perceived Exclusion and Neglect, and the Paradox of Loyalty| A Case Study of a Conflict Involving the Ewe Group in the Volta Region of Ghana and the NDC-led Administrations." Thesis, Nova Southeastern University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10260431.
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The Republic of Ghana is the legacy of the colonial amalgam of multiple, and previously distinct, ethnic homelands. The Trans-Volta Togoland became the Volta Region of Ghana following a Plebiscite in 1956. The dominant ethnic group in this region; the Ewe, has long maintained a claim of neglect of the Volta Region and the marginalization of its people in this postcolonial state. Protests in the street and at media houses ensued against the State. This qualitative case study explores the undercurrents of this conflict in the context of the Ewe group’s identity and their experiences of neglect and marginalization in the postcolonial state. The main objective of the study was to understand why the Ewe group has not revolted despite the perceptions of deprivation. This study focused on the Ewe group in the Volta Region of Ghana a as sub-colonial construct that has managed its perceptions of deprivation without revolting against the host State.
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SANTOS, Keyla Cristina Farias dos. "Impactos ambientais sobre as tribos indígenas Arara da Volta Grande e Paquiçamba com a construção da UHE de Belo Monte." Universidade Federal do Pará, 2013. http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/9862.
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Na dissertação ficou demonstrada a influência direta da qualidade da água no rio Xingu sobre as populações indígenas locais, em especial, as tribos indígenas Arara da Volta Grande e Paquiçamba, além da dinâmica ambiental estabelecida em torno da construção da hidrelétrica de Belo Monte, sendo que o objetivo principal foi demonstrar as lógicas que organizam as relações de desenvolvimento energético nacional e que acarretam danos ambientais capazes de afetar diretamente os povos indígenas principalmente no que tange a qualidade da água, em especial, as tribos indígenas Arara da Volta Grande do Xingu e Paquiçamba, que dependem diretamente dos recursos naturais do rio Xingu para sua sobrevivência e que serão diretamente afetadas com a construção da Usina Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte, conforme análise de dados científicos do Laboratório de Química Analítica e ambiental (LAQUANAM) da Universidade Federal do Pará e do Estudo de Impacto Ambiental (EIA/RIMA) do empreendimento. O instrumento da política ambiental está sendo ineficiente para coibir esses danos ambientais que comprometem a vida das populações indígenas na Amazônia, em razão da fragilidade de medidas capazes de mitigar esse inexorável agravo ambiental, questionado pelo Ministério Público Federal, através de inúmeras ações civis públicas, ineficaz para a sociedade e um agravante para o meio ambiente. Reforçando assim, a argumentação da relação de fragilidade das legislações vigentes na Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil, diante do avassalador impacto ambiental que se sobrepuja os interesses de um desenvolvimento sustentável capaz de não apenas preservar, mas assegurar um meio ambiente ecologicamente equilibrado para as futuras gerações. No trabalho foram analisados elementos e conteúdos presentes nos discursos ecológico-desenvolvimentistas que afrontam os interesses das políticas ambientais locais, enquanto visão predominante das políticas nacionais para a Amazônia, através de revisão bibliográfica, consulta documental e pesquisa de campo. Na dissertação ficou demonstrado que quem mobiliza um grande capital político em favor do projeto ecológico-desenvolvimentistas tem mais força sobre os agentes locais e instituições em maior aproximação com as questões apontadas como estratégicas nas políticas de desenvolvimento ambiental sustentável. Neste contexto, segundo as reflexões gráficas e parâmetros físico-químicos produzidas neste trabalho, há nítida evidência de violação ao Estudo de impacto ambiental (EIA/RIMA) como condicionante basilar para a construção de grandes barragens, destacando que, no processo de desenvolvimento há um enfraquecimento de interesses ambientais das populações locais em detrimento de um projeto nacional, que não atenderá de maneira uniforme e justa uma sociedade, mas sim agravará seus problemas ambientais que comprometem a vida daqueles que carregam a essência da vida amazônida, que são os povos indígenas, cada vez mais segregados no processo de desenvolvimento capitalista brasileiro.
In the dissertation was demonstrated the direct influence of water quality on the river Xingu indigenous local, especially indigenous tribes around the large macaw and Paquiçamba, besides the environmental dynamics established around the construction of the Belo Monte Dam. The main objective was to demonstrate the logics that organize the relations of developing national energy and environmental damages that result can directly affect indigenous peoples especially regarding water quality, in particular the Arara indigenous tribes of the Volta Grande do Xingu and Paquiçamba, that depend directly on natural resources of the Xingu River for their survival and that will be directly affected by the construction of Belo Monte hydroelectric plant, as scientific data analysis of the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry and Environmental (LAQUANAM) Federal University of Pará The instrument environmental policy is ineffective to curb this environmental damage that compromises the lives of indigenous peoples in the Amazon, due to the fragility of measures to mitigate this inexorable worsening environmental questioned by federal prosecutors, through numerous civil suits, ineffective for society and aggravating to the environment. Thus reinforcing the arguments of the relation of fragility of existing laws in the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil, before the overwhelming environmental impact that outweighs the interests of sustainable development capable of not only preserving, but ensure ecologically balanced environment for future generations. At work was analyzed elements and contents present in eco-development discourses that confront the interests of local environmental policies, while prevailing view of national policies for the Amazon, through literature review, document research and field research. In the dissertation demonstrated that whoever mobilizes a large political capital in favor of eco-development project has more power over local actors and institutions closer to the issues identified as strategic policies for environmentally sustainable development. In this context, according to the reflections graphic and physicochemical parameters produced in this work, there is clear evidence of violation of the Environmental impact assessment (EIA/RIMA) as basic condition for the construction of large dams, noting that the development process there is a weakening environmental concerns of local people rather than a national project that will not meet evenly and fair society, but rather aggravate their environmental problems that jeopardize the lives of those who carry the essence of life Amazonian, who are the indigenous peoples, each increasingly segregated in the process of capitalist development in Brazil.
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Carvalho, João Carlos de. "Uma maior ameaça de reprovação faz os alunos estudarem mais? Uma análise do impacto da volta ao regime seriado nas escolas públicas de Ensino Fundamental: efeitos agregados e dinâmicos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/96/96131/tde-15092014-100834/.
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Essa dissertação explora o aumento da retenção escolar, introduzido pela mudança da forma de organização escolar de ciclos para séries. Por meio do método de diferenças em diferenças e usando um desenho de avaliação da política diferente de trabalhos similares, apresentamos os efeitos agregados e dinâmicos da maior retenção sobre o desempenho escolar, taxa de aprovação e taxa de abandono para as escolas públicas urbanas do Ensino Fundamental Regular do Brasil. As estimativas para desempenho mostram uma queda na proficiência de matemática e língua portuguesa para 4ª séries e 8ª séries. As estimativas do efeito dinâmico apresentam maiores no curto prazo para 4ª séries, enquanto para 8ª séries os efeitos maiores foram no longo prazo. Também ocorre uma queda da aprovação e aumento da taxa de abandono para ambas às séries. Concluímos que o retorno ao sistema de séries parece não ter sido uma boa estratégia para essas escolas.This dissertation explores the increasing school retention, introduced by changing the form of school organization of cycles for series. Through the method of difference in differences and using an evaluation design of policy different from similar studies, we present the aggregate and dynamic effects of the increased of retention on school performance, promotion and dropout rate for urban public schools of Basic Education in Brazil. The estimates show a drop in performance achievement in math and achievement reading for 4th grade and 8th grade. Estimates of the dynamic effect present higher in the short term to 4th grade while for 8th grade were the largest effects in the long run. There is also a drop in promotion and rising dropout rate for both the series. We conclude that the return to the series system seems to have not been a good strategy for these schools.
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Coutinho, Tânia Patrícia Barbosa. "Revisão do plano de segurança da água do sistema regional do Carvoeiro." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/15958.
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Mestrado em Engenharia do AmbienteOs Planos de Segurança da Água surgem com a necessidade de aumentar a segurança da água de abastecimento, superando a monitorização de conformidade de “fim de linha”, permitindo aumentar a confiança do consumidor na qualidade da água que lhe é fornecida. Esta nova abordagem recorre a uma metodologia de gestão baseada na identificação e no controlo de riscos em pontos críticos de um sistema de abastecimento, em complemento do controlo realizado através da monitorização da conformidade da água entregue aos consumidores. O Plano de Segurança da Água (PSA) encontra-se implementado no Sistema Regional do Carvoeiro (SRC) desde o ano de 2009. O SRC é um sistema de abastecimento de água em alta, sendo constituído por conjunto de infraestruturas de captação, tratamento, transporte e armazenamento de água desde a sua origem, localizada no rio Vouga, em Carvoeiro, até aos municípios integrados na Associação de Municípios do Carvoeiro-Vouga. Atendendo à obra de expansão do SRC, tornou-se imperativo efetuar uma revisão ao PSA, sendo este o objetivo primordial do trabalho de estágio desenvolvido na empresa Águas do Vouga S.A, concessionária responsável pela gestão do SRC. Para a prossecução deste objetivo, o trabalho desenvolvido envolveu os seguintes passos metodológicos: identificação das operações aplicadas no SRC; identificação de perigos e eventos perigosos em todos os órgãos constituintes do sistema; avaliação de riscos; identificação de pontos críticos de controlo; identificação de pontos de monitorização e medidas preventivas; elaboração do plano de monitorização, incluindo, procedimentos de controlo operacional em condições normais de funcionamento e em caso de desvio; validação deste plano. Deste trabalho resultou a identificação de 166 eventos perigosos, 17 tipologias de perigos, 3 pontos de controlo crítico e 17 pontos de monitorização. Os pontos de controlo crítico foram identificados nos processos de tratamento da ETA do Carvoeiro. O primeiro foi localizado na etapa de filtração com areia, antracite e zeólitos correspondendo aos perigos com metais (Fe e Mn), outros compostos químicos perigosos, partículas, turvação, matéria orgânica e alumínio. O segundo ponto foi identificado na etapa de filtração com filtros de carvão ativado granular relativo ao aparecimento de sabor e cianotoxinas. O terceiro ponto de controlo crítico foi encontrado na etapa de desinfeção referente aos microrganismos patogénicos. Os pontos de monitorização foram localizados ao longo do sistema em situações onde não se dispõem de nenhuma medida de controlo para eliminar o perigo e antes e após os pontos de controlo crítico. O plano de monitorização foi desenvolvido para estes pontos, embora os limites e procedimentos definidos devam ser alvo de revisão após a conclusão da obra de expansão do sistema. A validação da revisão do plano foi iniciada, mas cingiu-se apenas na avaliação preliminar de riscos, prévia ao início de operação da ETA do Carvoeiro. Para além da revisão deste plano, foram realizadas outras tarefas, nomeadamente uma análise à qualidade da água fornecida e distribuída pelo sistema, a elaboração do plano PCQA para o ano de 2016, a configuração da plataforma de gestão operacional NAVIATM e a revisão do Manual de Gestão da Águas do Vouga relativo ao processo de qualidade na captação, tratamento e distribuição e ao processo de qualidade na gestão do PSA.
The Water Safety Plan (Plano de Segurança da Água – PSA – in portuguese) has its beginning point in the necessity to transmit bigger confidence to water consumer. Its target is to implement a methodological approach all the long of the water caption and not only in the final caption point. The used management methodology is based in identification and control of risk criteria in crucial points. Sistema Regional do Carvoeiro (SRC) was the site envolve in this internship period and has PSA implemented since 2009. SRC is a high level public supply system with infrastructure for collection, treatment, transportation and water storage, located in Carvoeiro site in the right Vouga river region. This system is responsible for water supply to Carvoeiro-Vouga Municipalities Association members. As the system had an expansion period it turned mandatory to revise PSA. This was the main goal of the internship done in Águas do Vouga S. A. (responsible dealership for SRC) and it is documented in this paper. Aiming to achieve this goal the following methodological steps were observed: SRC operations identification; possible risks and risky situations in all the supply system; risks evaluation; critical control points identification; monitoring points identification and prevention measures; monitoring plan elaboration including operational control procedures either in normal or abnormal situations; plan validation. During the work 166 dangerous events belonging to 17 typologies were identified and 3 critical control points and 17 monitoring points were recognized. All the critical points were found in Carvoeiro ETA water treatment process. The first identified was found in the sand filtration, anthracite and zeolites responsible for prevent metal contamination (like aluminium), particles, turbidity and organic matter. The second one was identified in granular activated charcoal stage that is responsible for cyanobacteria and flavour control. The third one was found in disinfection phase to prevent pathogenic microorganisms. Monitoring points were found all accross supply chain were no control metrics existed yet either before or after the critical points. The monitoring plan was developed taking into account this points although all the plan should be revised once the expansion work is done. Plan validation started although only for a preliminary risk evaluation done before Carvoeiro ETA working period began. In parallel to the activities described before the water quality in the supply and distribution system was analysed, a PCQA plan for 2016 was elaborated, the NAVIATM platform for operational management was configured and the Quality Handbook for Águas do Vouga was revised in relation to the management of PSA.
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Uriková, Lucie. "Role řeky Volhy v sebeidentifikaci obyvatel Horního Povolží v 19. století." Master's thesis, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-448814.
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In my master thesis I deal with the issue of the identity of 19th century Russian society and the role of the Volga River in it. I focus on the characterization of Russian identity in the broadest sense, on the relationship of human society to nature, and on two case studies from the Upper Volga region. In the theory of Russian identity I consider four of its characteristic features - ambivalence, patriotism, spirituality and sentimentalism - to be crucial. The analysis of the relationship between human society and nature includes a section devoted to the reasons for human attachment to landscape, discusses the concept of national landscapes, and presents the dominant idea of the Russian landscape at the end of the 19th century. The last section is devoted to research on the role of the Volga River in the self-identification of the inhabitants of the Upper Volga region. In a study of the worship of the source of the Volga and in research on folklore, I note the attitude of various influences towards this river and, on this basis, define the place of the Volga River in the life of different social classes. The conclusion of my study is that the role of the Volga River in the life of the Upper Volga inhabitants was in many ways the same as its role in the national social discourse, but quite out of...
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"INTELLECTUALS OF VARIED STATE TRADITIONS: THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE VOLGA-URAL REGION." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12604842/index.pdf.
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Hengst, Karlheinz. "VIII. Internationale Konferenz zur Onomastik der Volga-Region (Volgograd, 8. bis 11. September 1998)." 1998. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A31315.
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Martin, Virginia. "Zhizn Natsionalnostei Bolshevik propaganda and nationality politics in the Volga-Ural region, November 1918-February 1920 /." 1987. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/16164678.html.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1987.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-107).
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Vickers, Katherine Elise. "Ghanaian women, creating economic security : an analysis of gender, development, and power in the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/28424.
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In June 1999, I was a volunteer for a United States non-governmental
organization, Crossroads Africa. I joined six other American women traveling to
Ghana, West Africa to participate in a collaborative program designed by the
Ghana Red Cross Society and Crossroads Africa. Specifically our group was
assigned to work on a Women in Development (WID) project with three rural
women's collectives, "Mothers Clubs," assisting them with income-generating
projects in the Volta Region of Ghana.
The projects varied among the villages. hi village one, Anfoeta Tsebi, the
women extracted oil from palm fruit and kernels. They sold palm oil at regional
markets and used the oil domestically to make stews and soap for washing. In
village two, Heffi, Mothers Club members baked bread and processed gari from
cassava yarns. In village three, Anyirawase, the women made batiks, tie-dye,
beadwork, and woven mats from corn husks.
My research objective was to evaluate the role that gender, the WID
design, and power played in each project. I also sought to use my observations
and the voices of African women to assess the successes and failures of the
collaborative program of the Ghana Red Cross and Crossroads Africa. I used
participant observation to gather this information. The sample was inclusive of
project participants.
I found that the womens' collectives provided positive networks of
support for members. The women taught our Crossroads volunteers about how
they were creating change. The collectives also showed how successful
development depends on improving the quality of life for individuals. The women
gained skills in leadership and health education, while they improved their
economic situation. Women were becoming collectively empowered through their
role as active agents for change in their communities. Their hard work,
dedication, and widespread recognition of their accomplishments contributed to
group empowerment.
My findings suggest that the primary obstacles to project success were
lack of resources and time and physical exhaustion from an increased workload
Poor preparation and training for Crossroads volunteers and their ideological
fragmentation prevented effective assistance and collaboration with the Mothers
Clubs.
One of my recommendations for future improvements is to integrate men
into the development process to play a constructive role and minimize their
opportunity for unwanted interference. Another recommendation is to encourage
Ghana Red Cross leaders to hold seminars for women from different villages to
allow for an exchange of knowledge about development projects. Finally,
recommend that Crossroads Africa and Ghana Red Cross leaders make a greater
effort to collaborate and improve preparation and training for participants.Graduation date: 2001
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Sales, Manuela Cordeiro. "Drivers of vertebrates'richness and diversity in Baixo Vouga Lagunar region." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/25777.
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The identification of the factors driving species richness and diversity variations in a landscape has key role in ecology and in biodiversity conservation plans. In this study, we focused our attention on different vertebrates’ taxa present in the Baixo Vouga Lagunar (BVL) and aimed to identify biodiversity hotspots in this Portuguese region. To achieve that goal, we reviewed ecological studies that targeted terrestrial vertebrates inhabiting the BVL and used their datasets as a basis for our study. Then, we collected ecologically relevant environmental variables, established three ecological hypotheses encompassing those variables (H1: Landscape composition; H2: Anthropic disturbance; H3: Water presence), and tested them to assess which drivers can restrain or promote the BVL vertebrates’ biodiversity patterns (species richness and diversity).The test of those hypotheses was implemented using an ecological modeling approach (Generalized Linear Mixed Models - GLMM) and later, based on the identified drivers, we forecasted species richness and diversity values to the study area. We expected to be able to identify vertebrates’ richness and diversity hotspots in the BVL, which would be a crucial tool to efficiently manage this area and assure the maintenance of its biodiversity values. Unfortunately, we faced data limitations, which affected model building robustness, resulting in low accuracy, and consequently in limited feasibility of the models’ predictive capacity. Therefore, in our forecasted map we could not define specific areas as hotspots, which is unrealistic. In the future, a well-defined sample design and more intense sample effort is needed in order to encompass a broader range of sampling points and promote a more robust model.A identificação dos fatores que determinam as variações de riqueza e diversidade de espécies na paisagem tem um papel fundamental em ecologia e nos planos de conservação da biodiversidade. Neste estudo, focamos a nossa atenção em diferentes taxas de vertebrados terrestres presentes no Baixo Vouga Lagunar (BVL) e definimos como objetivo a identificação de hotspots de biodiversidade nesta região portuguesa. Para atingir o objetivo, revimos os estudos ecológicos centrados nos taxa modelo deste trabalho e que abrangiam a área do BVL e usamos os seus dados como base para o nosso estudo. De seguida, recolhemos variáveis ambientais com importância ecológica e estabelecemos três hipóteses (H1: Composição da paisagem; H2: Perturbação antrópica; H3: Presença de água), contendo essas variáveis de forma a testar quais os fatores que restringem ou promovem os padrões de riqueza e diversidade dos vertebrados no BVL. Assim, recorrendo a uma abordagem de modelação ecológica e depois, baseando-nos nesses fatores estimamos os valores de riqueza e diversidade de espécies para toda a área de estudo. Era expectável conseguirmos identificar os hotspots de riqueza e diversidade de vertebrados terrestres no BVL, que seriam uma ferramenta crucial para gerir eficazmente esta área e assegurar a manutenção dos seus valores de biodiversidade. No entanto, deparamo-nos com uma limitação de dados, que se revelou um problema na construção dos modelos, resultando numa baixa precisão e consequentemente numa limitada capacidade de predição do modelo. Portanto, a nossa projeção da métrica para o BVL não permitiu identificar hotspots. No futuro, é necessária uma amostragem melhor delineada e um esforço de amostragem mais intenso para abranger um leque mais vasto de pontos de amostragem e promover assim a recolha de um maior volume de dados que permitam a construção de modelos mais robustos.
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Adanu, Selase Kofi. "Predicting land cover change transition in Ho Municipality of Volta Region, Ghana." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/12973.
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A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Johannesburg, 2013Deforestation is a growing environmental concern in tropical areas of the world where it is believed that the increase in human population and associated land use practices are the key drivers of this land cover change transition. This research tests these hypotheses in the Ho Municipality of Ghana and aims to predict future land cover change by assessing remote sensing images and considering the complex interrelationships and synergies of multiple driving forces. The study specifically examines how multiple driving forces of land cover change transition have contributed to the accelerating pace of deforestation in the last 25 years based on observed trends in land use and remotely sensed land cover change data. The study looks at the future prospects for Ghana’s forests. The field study was carried out in four settlements of the Ho Municipality namely Wumenu, Agbokofe, Abutia Kloe and Takla. The data collection was done using structured questionnaires administered to 376 households to investigate their opinions regarding the driving forces of deforestation in the area. The analysis of questionnaire data involved the use of descriptive statistics and factor analysis using the Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) software. Satellite images comprising, Landsat MSS 1975, Landsat TM 1991 and Landsat ETM+ 2001 were classified using the maximum likelihood algorithm supervised classification to determine the extent and nature of vegetation cover change and to assess the potential of using a Markov model to predict the future state of forest cover. The research concludes that the municipality lost forest cover from 1975 to 2001 based on satellite and questionnaire data analysis which suggests that the following are the key underlying drivers of deforestation: demographic pressure, poverty, institutional factors, policies, technology and attitudes. Proximate drivers of deforestation are agricultural expansion, illegal logging and wood energy exploitation. The Markov models showed that in the next 25 years various probabilities of change are possible, such as no change in forest cover, forest cover loss and some probabilities of increase in forest cover. These predictions illustrate the need to study the complex driving forces of change to interpret models that are solely based on past land use change transition. Based on the results of the household surveys, current drivers are unlikely to change. Land use planners should thus be aware that deforestation in Ghana is most likely going to continue. On the basis of these findings the following recommendations have been made. There is a need to intensify tree planting activities in the municipality to increase forest cover. Planting of fast maturing trees for woodlots will reduce pressure on the forest for wood energy. Public education on the advantages of family planning should be undertaken by the Municipal Assembly and NGOs working in the area to reduce population pressure on forests. Poverty reduction strategies should focus on alternative livelihood opportunities to divert attention from forest goods while also increasing the protection of remaining forests. Lastly, community participative approaches to forest management could mitigate both underlying and proximate causes of deforestation.
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Akrong, Brian Senyo. "Academic literacy development in an English curriculum : the case of Ho West district." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27802.
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No keywords provided in thesisThe primary objective of this study is to evaluate the curriculum and supplementary materials for the teaching and learning of English in five junior high schools in Ghana to ascertain the extent to which the curriculum promotes academic literacy in the pupils. Hence, five schools were selected by purposive sampling. Four poorly performing schools and a relatively well performing school were selected for the study. Thus, the problem investigated in this study was academic literacy development, with particular reference to English language teaching. The study area was the Ho West district of the Volta Region of Ghana. The study adopted a mixed methods approach which investigated academic literacy development by evaluating the syllabus and textbooks, and by interviewing English teachers in the selected schools. The interview schedule contained both open ended questions for qualitative analysis as well as multiple choice questions based on a four-item Likert scale for quantitative analysis. The study found that the various aspects of the curriculum had shortcomings in adequately supporting the development of academic literacy in the junior high school pupils in Ghana. Moreover, the factors required for critical language awareness were not present in the textbooks.
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Hengst, Karlheinz. "VIII. Internationale Konferenz zur Onomastik der Volgo-Region: (Volgograd, 8. bbis 11. September 1998)." 1998. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A31316.
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ŠÍSL, Zdeněk. "Význam lokalizačních faktorů při tvorbě podnikatelského plánu dané firmy." Master's thesis, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-51268.
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Small companies play an important role on the market and make part of the developed market economics. They create a sound environment of competition and mainly fight against unemployment of the given region. When setting up a company, the enterpriser forms his aims and visions, according to which he creates the entrepreneurial activity plan. Every form of business is connected with some risk, which the plan attempts to minimalize. An important part of the entrepreneurial plan form location factors, which are the basic aspect in the choice of the placement of the entreprise. The aim of this diploma thesis is to analyze such factors and choose the appropriate positioning of such form of business. The selected alternative for the placing of this production element is Strmilov, especially thanks to the cooperation of Josef Prokop with company KORES, which appears to be very suitable for both sides. Strmilov is a town in the South Bohemian region, which belongs to the township of Jindrichuv Hradec. A detailed analyse has revealed that this area has a very eligible infrastructure for this kind of cooperation. However, the most important criteria is the influence of human resources, mainly the height of the wages, which is under the national average. The entrepreneur has enough sources of his own capital and that is why the entreprise has a low rate of insolvency. Josef Prokop is going to take advantage of the {\clqq}soft regional loan``, which will be used towards purchase of the assembly machines. His company is going to be profitable already after the first year and very prosperous in the following years of its existance. It is not going to get affected by the economical crisis either. This diploma thesis refers to the cooperation with a settled company and mainly points at the eligibility of the choice of the region for this kind of commercial use.
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Moulíková, Dominika. "Zvědavá kamera očima jejích tvůrců." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-338782.
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The thesis explores certain aspects of Zvědavá kamera, a Czechoslovak television journal that belonged among the most progressive pieces of Czechoslovak television journalism in 60-ties. The thesis is based on interviews with 3 of the still living makers of the journal: Otka Bednářová, Vladimír Branislav, and Jaromír Kincl. Based on their testimony, contemporary documents, and available television archive material the main question is being answered as to why Zvědavá kamera was allowed to exist for such a long time despite being politically controversial and why the makers did not face repression much earlier. The most substantial episodes of the journal are being explored in detail, among all Volba povolání (The Choice of Profession) by Otka Bednářová, Spor (Dispute) and Porota (Jury) by Vladimír Branislav and Jaromír Kincl. Based on the presented facts approaches are analyzed the makers took in order to make relatively free television journalism possible within the limits imposed on them by the totalitarian regime.
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Kocourek, Jan. "Dopady přímé volby prezidenta na charakter politického režimu ČR." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-350225.
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Primary aim of this thesis is to describe the effects of direct elections on the nature of the political regime in the Czech Republic. Specifically, author focus on the distinctive attributes of various forms of government, which are then applied to the current state regime in the Czech Republic after the introduction of direct presidential elections and whether it effectively means a transition from parliamentary to semi-presidential regime. Historical analysis of the presidential office in the Czech countries describes the phenomenon of its extraordinary role and respectability, which is reflected in the contemporary political realities and have a major influence on the functioning of the state. Theoretical analysis deals with impacts introduction of the direct presidential election had on the constitutional order of the Czech Republic and disproves various arguments, which once lead to its legislative implementation. Using a descriptive analysis of the behaviour of the first directly elected president Miloš Zeman, author tries to unveil actual jurisdictional disputes between him and other elements of power. The result is a detailed description of the existing cooperation between individual people and institutions of power within the regime and its final character assessment accompanied by...
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Hrbek, Martin. "Konkurenceschopnost veřejné hromadné dopravy na příkladu Pardubického kraje." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-347060.
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The competitiveness of public transport on example of the Pardubice Region Abstract This diploma thesis is devoted to the competitiveness of public transport in the municipalities of the Pardubice Region. Competitiveness is understood mainly in terms of the price difference between travel time and cost of public and individual car transport, and also in terms of the real demand in the municipalities, thus the share of commuting by public transport. Other parameters of mode choice, that is understood as the main indicator of competitiveness, is the number of public transport lines and automobilization. The main objective of this work is to determine how public transportation depends on the other transport characteristics of municipalities. To select significant variables, multiple linear regression analysis was used. After that, geographically weighted regression was applied in order to explain the share of commuting from municipalities. Most data originate in public databases (The Register of vehicles of Department of Transport, population census, digital geographic databases ArcČR and CEDA) and web portals (OREDO, IDOS), part of the data was obtained within questionnaire survey in selected municipalities. An expected negative relationship between the degree of automobilization and the number of public...