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Winqvist, Camilla. "Snusförnuft. J A Boman & Co och dess anpassningsförmåga : En företagshistoria om en tobaksfirma i Göteborg år 1847-1915." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-23570.
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This essay is a business history about the Swedish midsized tobacco company J A Boman & Co, previously Ferd Körner and Körner & Boman, which was part of the blooming tobacco industry in Sweden during the 19th century. One purpose of the essay is to fill a gap within both business history in general and the study of tobacco companies in particular, since they both tend to favor studies on larger companies. The other purpose is to find a methodological way to study a smaller sized, older company with very few sources from the actual company. The essay seeks to answer questions about the company’s production history and how it changed over the years. The study takes use of both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the company and how it developed over time. It is not an essay deeply embedded in theory, it rather seeks to use different theoretical approaches. One approach is a micro level macro theory, that claims that a company only can be understood through the macro level and that the company, itself being the micro level, can deliver exciting new findings that creates a deeper understanding for the macro level. Throughout the essay, the company’s production statistics are examined, and combined with newspaper articles, letters and previous academic works within the field, the essay closes in on answers to the questions that were introduced in the beginning. The examination of the company finds that the midsized company managed to survive through adaptability to its time and circumstances. The company chose to sell their products through merchants instead of directly to the consumers, unlike most of the other tobacco companies at the time. The methodological problem, which was part of the essay’s purpose, was resolved by the combined method described earlier in the abstract, although the essay would admittedly have been better if there had been some papers left from the examined company.
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Sisli, Zekiye. "Degradable Mulch Films For Agricultural Purposes." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615022/index.pdf.
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The plastic mulch films, which are mostly made from LDPE, are used in order to increase the yields and to prevent the weed growth by covering the top of the soil by leaves or straw in nature. After a period, the mulch films turn into unmanageable quantities of soiled plastic films, which cause an environmental problem. Using degradable mulch films for agricultural purposes can be a solution for the environmental problems caused by the plastic mulch films.
In this study, to introduce biodegradability to mulch films, a natural biopolymer starch was used. Before blending, starch was transformed into thermoplastic starch in order to make the starch processable. The need, to provide adhesion and interaction between thermoplastic starch and LDPE, citric and stearic acid were considered as compatibilizers. To accelerate the degradation of the LDPE matrix, three pro-oxidants cobalt(II) acetylacetonate, iron(III) stearate and manganase(II) stearate were used.
The films prepared were characterized by FTIR spectroscopytheir thermal and mechanical properties were analyzed and buried under soil. The films recovered from soil after 76 days were characterized by FTIR spectroscopy, their weight loss were measured and their thermal and mechanical properties were analyzed. Studies showed that the use of cobalt(II) acetylacetonate gave improved results in terms of the mechanical properties and thermal stabilities of the films. Additionally, it is observed that the use of citric acid as a compatibilizer improved the thermal stabilities of starch in the films. Lastly, it is observed that the mechanical properties of the films were affected by the interactions between compatibilizers and pro-oxidants.
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Dong, Gang. "Development of a general-purpose component-based connection element for structural fire analysis." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13825/.
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In fire, elevated temperatures undermine the resistance of structural materials, which leads to steel-framed buildings being subject to very large deformations. Elevated temperatures also cause the affected members to expand, and subsequent cooling induces contraction and recovery of strength. Because of the irreversible nature of plastic straining this causes extremely complex force combinations in connections. Connections which are traditionally idealized as “pinned” or “rigid” in design actually display considerable semi-rigid behaviour, which may contribute to the structure’s survival during and after an internal fire. It will be necessary in future for structural engineers to understand how joints perform in fire, which has been emphasized by a series of case studies, including the official forensic reports on buildings of the New York World Trade complex which collapsed during the “9/11” events in 2001. Eventually, advances in analysis, testing and design codes must allow engineers to design structures which will survive fires without experiencing disproportionate collapse. This PhD study describes the development of a general component-based connection element, which has been implemented in the Vulcan software in order to enable modelling of the robustness and ductility of the connections in fire scenarios. The component-based method which has been adopted is generally accepted as an efficient intermediate way of treating the behaviour of connections in small-deflection ambient-temperature design of semi-rigid frameworks, which is included in Eurocode 3 Part 1.8. This has been developed in the course of several projects at the University of Sheffield towards high-temperature large-deflection representation of connections in a series of stages, including the characterization of individual components, joint testing and component assembly for some conventional connection types. The RFCS-funded project COMPFIRE, of which this work forms a part, extended the data-set to an innovative connection type, the reverse channel, which offers the prospect of greatly enhanced ductility as a way of improving structural robustness in fire. The new data derives from both structural furnace testing and detailed Finite Element analyses. Used in combination with the “static/dynamic” solver in Vulcan, the use of the general-purpose component-based connection element has been demonstrated in studies of the performance, including progressive collapse, of planar steel frames in fire scenarios. The development should allow engineers to identify local failure of joints, and to predict the subsequent failure of the remaining structure, in analytical design. This will enable vulnerable areas to be identified in the structure and their design details to be amended in order to produce a building which is more robust in fire.
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Hempell, Thomas. "Computers and productivity : how firms make a general purpose technology work ; with 40 tables /." Heidelberg [u.a.] : Physica-Verl, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2667834&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Bolton, Matthew E. "A Rhetorical Approach to Adaptation: Effects, Purposes, and the Fidelity Debate." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1315967449.
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Nelson, Jackie M. "Sexually Objectifying Microaggressions in Film: Using Entertainment for Clinical and Educational Purposes." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1564418191011389.
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Donaghy, Kevin Robert. "Fire propagation and heat transfer modelling within the BR710 nacelle for certification purposes." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322847.
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Chen, Qing. "An Empirical analysis of the effects of market response to bank loan announcements in the Hong Kong stock market." Diss., Lincoln University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1205.
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This study will validate several key results from previous studies of bank loan announcement effects by using the data from Hong Kong market following the 1997 Asian crisis. Banks are believed to play a unique role in financial market which could effectively reduce the problem of information asymmetry and moral hazard. Banks could access borrowers’ inside information which is not available to other participants. Thus bank loan announcements convey valuable information to the market, and market response of the stock price should be positive. However, because of the significant reform in both financial market and information market, the valuation of bank loan announcement conveyed need to be reconsidered. This study investigates whether banks are still “unique” in the financial market or whether they are like middlemen between borrowers and investors. Data used in this study is collected from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Index, and a standard event study with the market model is applied in the research to conduct the empirical analysis. The results suggest bank loan announcements are associated with significantly higher positive abnormal returns than non-bank loan announcements. Based on the market model of event study, market response is found to be significantly positive for loan syndication, short maturity loan and borrower’s debt ratio, and negatively related to firm size and loan size. Bank loans with refinancing and capital expenditure and no specific purpose have significantly higher positive abnormal returns, and borrowers with property and industrial industry type have more significant positive abnormal returns compared to other industry type. The findings also suggest the Hong Kong stock market is efficient in both strong and semi-strong form for bank loan announcements. A strong evidence of information leakage problem is found for non-bank loan announcements. The results are generally consistent with the existing literature.
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Komarova, O. P., and I. Y. Korneev. "Development of a new sticky material for medical adhesive plaster." Thesis, Харківський національний медичний університет, 2015. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/19466.
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Hempell, Thomas. "Computers and productivity how firms make a general purpose technology work ; an empirical analysis for Germany ; with 40 tables." Heidelberg Physica-Verl, 2004. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2667834&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Dufek, Nickolas Alois. "An Assessment of Integrated Weed Management Strategies for Purple Threeawn-Dominated Rangelands." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/26635.
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Purple threeawn (Aristida purpurea Nutt.) is a native bunch grass that is avoided by grazers. It is capable of dominating old cropland and overgrazed pastures, limiting livestock carrying capacity, and degrading wildlife habitat. Traditional management tools have had little impact on threeawn dominance in semiarid regions of the west. Our objectives were to: 1) assess fire and nitrogen treatment effects on threeawn forage quality at various phenological stages to test their potential as pretreatments in a grazing strategy and 2) examine a threeawn-dominated plant community?s response to prescribed fire, nitrogen addition, and clipping. Fire improved threeawn forage quality with greater improvements in early phenological stages. Nitrogen had little effect on forage quality. Fire and nitrogen reduced threeawn while increasing cool season grasses. Light and moderate clipping following fire did not improve the efficacy of fire. Fire appears to an effective preliminary treatment to improve the chance of herbivory.
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Strong, Dustin. "Fire and Nitrogen Effects on a Purple Threeawn-Dominated Plant Community in the Northern Great Plains." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/26639.
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Purple threeawn (Aristida purpurea Nutt. varieties) is a native grass capable of rapidly increasing on rangelands, forming near monocultures, creating a stable state. Rangelands throughout the Great Plains and Intermountain West have experienced increases in purple threeawn abundance, leading to reductions in overall forage quality and community diversity. Our objectives were to: 1) examine prescribed fire and nitrogen as tools to shift species composition in a purple threeawn invaded community, 2) reveal vegetation management strategies appropriate for reducing purple threeawn abundance 3) quantify fire effects on purple threeawn plant characteristics and 4) determine the relationship between purple threeawn survival and fire behavior. Fire reduced purple threeawn abundance one-growing season post-fire, with sustained reductions two-growing seasons post-fire. Nitrogen had no effect on purple threeawn abundance. Heat duration and dosage were good predictors of purple threeawn mortality. Summer prescribed fire appears to be the best management tool to reduce purple threeawn abundance.
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Pinheiro, Taise Farias. "Caracterização e estimativa de biomassa em fitofisionomias de terra-firme da amazônia central por inventário florístico e por textura de imagens simulação do mapsar (Multi-Application Purpose SAR)." Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, 2007. http://urlib.net/sid.inpe.br/mtc-m17@80/2007/12.07.12.51.
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Sob a premissa de que nas florestas de terra firme da Amazônia Central a variação florística e estrutural sofrem influência do relevo e da proximidade da rede de drenagem, este estudo teve o objetivo de: 1) descrever a composição florística e a estrutura horizontal e vertical ao longo da toposequência; 2) desenvolver modelos preditivos de biomassa a partir de equações alométricas e atributos de textura de imagens de radar. A textura foi extraída de imagens multipolarizadas (HH, HV e VV), em banda L, de simulação do Multi-Application Purpose SAR (MAPSAR). A área de estudo está situada na microbacia do Igarapé Asu, localizada a 80Km ao norte de Manaus. A vegetação foi dividida em três estratos de acordo com a posição topográfica: platô, vertente e baixio. Foram amostrados cinco transectos (6,6ha), sub-divididos em parcelas de 20x25m. A amostragem incluiu todas as palmeiras, com qualquer DAP, e dicotiledôneas com DAP≥ 10cm. O levantamento florístico e fitossociológico foi feito em três transectos (2,55ha), sendo que a identificação taxonômica foi realizada em campo. Foram estimados parâmetros relativos ao índice de valor de importância para cada espécie (IVI) e família (IVIf). Uma análise de ordenação pelo método Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMS) foi utilizada para gerar hipóteses sobre o padrão florístico na área. Para estimativa da biomassa, área basal e altura, utilizou-se os cinco transectos. A ANOVA foi utilizada para comparar a biomassa entre as fitofisionomias. Para estas mesmas áreas, atributos de textura para cada polarização foram extraídas e relacionadas à biomassa por regressão múltipla. No inventário, foram registradas 113 espécies, 73 gêneros e 33 famílias. Segundo o NMS, existem ao menos duas comunidades vegetais distintas na área, pois a abundância e a composição de espécies foi similar entre o platô e a vertente e diferente do baixio. Nas unidades platô e vertente, a superposição de espécies mais importantes foi de 55%, enquanto que entre o platô e o baixio foi de 40%. Arecaceae obteve elevado IVIf apenas no baixio, indicando a tolerância de algumas espécies de palmeiras ao solo encharcado A estimativa de biomassa foi de 346 ton/ha, 325 ton/ha e 270 ton/ha para o platô, a vertente e o baixio, respectivamente, sendo significantemente diferente somente entre platô e baixio. A contribuição das palmeiras foi superior nos baixios, mas a sua contribuição para biomassa total foi menos de 1%. Uma amostragem da biomassa apenas de áreas de platô, como normalmente é realizado, superestimaria a biomassa da vertente em 2 a 11% e a biomassa do baixio em 21,8 a 22,11% (IC de 95%). O modelo preditivo indicado pela regressão múltipla incluiu as variáveis mediana (VV), variância da log-normal (VV) e contraste (HH) (r²= 0,72, p< 0,01). Estes resultados indicam que a abordagem estratificada dos ambientes é a melhor forma de investigar as florestas de terra firme da Amazônia Central em termos de diversidade florística e estrutural.Considering the structure and floristic composition in the upland forest in Central Amazon are influenced by water availability and thus, by proximity to drainage network, this study had two objectives: 1) to describe its floristic composition and its vertical and horizontal structure and; 2) to develop predictive models to estimate biomass, using allometrics equations and radar image textures features from radar images. These texture features were extracted from multipolarized (HH, HV and VV) and L-band SAR images from Multi-Application Purpose SAR (MAPSAR). The studied area was the Asu Basin located about 80 km north of Manaus. The vegetation was divided into three strata according to topographic position: plateau, slope and lowland. Five transects (6.6ha) were sampled and each one was subdivided into 20 by 25m plots. In the sampling, all palm trees, with any DBH as well as dicotiledons with DBH≥ 10cm were recorded. Three transects (2.55ha) were used to describe the floristic composition and the phytosociological structure. The taxonomic identification was done in field. Importance value index was calculated for each species (IVI) and family (IVIf). An ordination analysis, Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMS), was peformed to identify gradients in vegetation along the toposequence. All five transects were used to estimate basal area, height and tree density parameters and biomass by allometric equations. ANOVA was used to compare biomass among the three strata. Texture features for all polarizations were calculated for the same areas. These features were related to biomass by multiple regression. In the whole floristic inventory, 113 species, 73 genres and 33 families were recorded. According to the NMS, the community was divided into two main floristic zones: the abundance and composition of plateau and slope species were similar yet significantly different from lowland species. The overlay of species between plateau and slope was 55% whereas 40% between plateau and lowland. Arecaceae was important only in lowland, signalling the influence of soil water availability for palm trees. The estimates of biomass in plateau, slope, and lowland were 346 ton ha-1, 325 ton ha-1 e 270 ton ha-1 respectively. Biomass was different only between plateau and lowland. Palm tree biomass was greater in lowland than that of plateau and slope, yet its contribution for the whole biomass was less than 1%. Extrapolating plateau sampling, as it is usually performed, would overestimate the slope biomass in 2 to11% and lowland biomass in 22% (CI 95%). Predictive model select by regression analysis included texture features median and variance of log-normal in VV polarization and contrast texture feature in HH polarization (r2 = 0,72, p<0,01). These results showed the stratified sampling is the best way to investigate the upland forest in Central Amazon, since some species are associated with specific topographic and hydrologic conditions.
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Miranda, Felipe Poyares. "Tráfico de pessoas para o fim de exploração sexual." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2016. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/6978.
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Previous issue date: 2016-02-02This dissertation deals with trafficking theme of people for the purpose of sexual exploitation, analyzing its concept, causes, species and other details, all in the light of the social sciences with practical approach through analysis conducted field research and constant jurisprudence of the UNODC database (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime). In the study, it is verified the relation of trafficking in persons for forced labor, was discoursing on the trafficking of migrants and immigrants, its confrontation, as well as Brazilian law and comparative law relevant to the topic
A presente dissertação trata do tema do tráfico de pessoas para o fim de exploração sexual, analisando seu conceito, causas, espécies e demais pormenores, tudo à luz das Ciências Sociais, com abordagem prática mediante análise de pesquisas de campo realizadas e da jurisprudência constante do banco de dados do UNODC (Escritório das Nações Unidas sobre Drogas e Crime). No estudo, é verificada a relação do tráfico de pessoas com o trabalho escravo, discorrendo-se sobre o tráfico de migrantes e imigrantes, seu enfrentamento, bem como sobre a legislação brasileira e o Direito Comparado pertinentes ao tema
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Anderson, Harper D. "Livestrong or Lie Hard: A Pentadic Analysis of Deception and Reputation Management in 'The Armstrong Lie'." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6271.
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Kenneth Burke's pentadic analysis has been a staple within the context of rhetorical criticism since the early days of critical communication studies. Throughout the years it has evolved from a heavy text criticism to application to film and documentary. The Armstrong Lie is another documentary that highlights the controversial actions of former seven-time Tour de France champion, Lance Armstrong. This film provides an opportunity in which the pentadic analysis can be applied in order to really dissect the message that is being told. Through application of the pentadic analysis to The Armstrong Lie it is possible to identify the true motivation of the documentary's director, Alex Gibney. The present study seeks to identify the true message being told through the narrative of the documentary. Alex Gibney's motivations come under question as to whether or not he was exonerating himself by lessening the controversy of what Lance Armstrong had done by cheating in a highly competitive sport by characterizing him more as a product of his environment.
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Ryan, Trevor. "Labour and the media in Britain 1929-1939 : a study of the attitudes of the Labour movement towards the new media, film and radio, and of its attempts to use them for political purposes." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1986. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/726/.
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The arrival of synchronised sound film in the late 1920's coincided with the introduction of political broadcasting in Britain and a further extension of-the franchise, inaugurating a new political era. The mass communication of information assumed a more potent political form since these new media commanded vast audiences and were now potential channels of mass political persuasion. Widely accepted beliefs as to the vulnerability of the mass population to manipulation were sustained by the experience of the management of public opinion during the Great War. Drawing on this experience, and on the hostility of the press during the 1920's, the leaders of the Labour movement attributed to the cinema immense power to captivate audiences, disarm the critical senses, and exercise a near-hypnotic influence. In the content of newsreels, the workings of the censorship system and the determination of the National Government to prevent a critical voice appearing on cinema screens, Labour leaders identified evidence of collusion between the cinema industry and Labour's political opponents to maintain the status Quo. Similarly, the simultaneous transmission of information into millions of homes across the nation raised the spectre of an all-pervasive instrument of mass control. In view of the techniques of dictatorship used in Europe, radio broadcasting could, in the Labour view, create an homogeneous culture; and the power of the BBC as an institution could prove irresistibly attractive for the establishment of authoritarian government. During those years when cinema and radio were emerging as channels of mass political persuasion the Labour movement was undergoing profound changes. The Labour Party sought to become established within the political elite as the natural alternative Party of office; and the movement's industrial leaders sought full participation in the processes of consultation and decision-making of the State and industry. In this context these media appeared both dangerous and attractive: dangerous in so far as they could inhibit further democratic advance; attractive in so far as they offered opportunities for the movement to publicise its ideals and policies, and contribute to the general political education of the mass electorate. The production of films by the Labour movement arose from this ambivalent perspective: films could be used as a direct counter to the commercial cinema, as means of agitation and propaganda, and as a means of cultivating an authentic 'workers' culture',one which could ultimately exercise an influence on the commercial values of the cinema industry itself. Similarly, the radio, informed by an ethos of public service, and committed to a broad educational role, was seen by Labour leaders as contributing to the further democratic development of the nation. But it was also seen as offering Labour unprecedented opportunities for reaching the mass electorate with its own point of view, particularly during moments of heightened political tension such as general elections. Where therefore film was used by Labour to perform an essentially cadre function, Labour's attempts to use the airwaves for political broadcasting had a more ambitious purpose. Labour's use of these media was never extensive in comparison with the activities of the Conservative Party and the National Government. But Labour film activities, particularly within the left wing of the movement, made an important contribution to Labour politics in the 1930's; and in seeking and gaining access to the microphone the Labour Party not only contributed to the broad political education of the listening public, but consolidated its own position within the two-party system at the expense of the Liberals, and bore some responsibility for the development of political broadcasting as such.
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Bernsmeier, Jordan. "From Haunting the Code to Queer Ambiguity: Historical Shifts in Adapting Lesbian Narratives from Paper to Film." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1386011853.
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Jönsson, Andreas, and Camilla Lawitz. "Hollywood som historielärare." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-32139.
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I det här arbetet vill vi ta reda på hur historiska spelfilmer förhåller sig till historiemedvetande. Det vi främst fokuserar på är hur högstadieelever relaterar till historisk spelfilm och hur deras historiemedvetande påverkas av den audiovisuella historieförmedlingen i skolan, i avsikt att framställa en matris för hur undervisning med hjälp av film ska ske. Ytterligare ett inslag i denna uppsats utgörs av en redogörelse kring hur man praktiskt går till väga när man arbetar med film i undervisningssammanhang. För att uppfylla syftet har vi använt oss av en kvalitativ metod med semistrukturerade intervjuer. Idag konkurrerar skolans kunskapsmonopol med populärkulturen. I takt med medievärldens expansion har den tekniska utvecklingen och intresset för tekniska medel ökat i samhället. Filmtekniken har förbättrats, vilket har lett till att spelfilmer framstår som mer autentiska än vad de tidigare har gjort. Vårt intryck är att den historiska spelfilmen som ett hjälpmedel i undervisningen får en allt större plats i den svenska skolan. Få läromedel kan få elever att leva sig in i historiska miljöer och ännu färre kan beröra elever emotionellt som just spelfilmen. En annan fördel med spelfilm i skolan är att eleverna får verktyg så att de kan hantera mediernas bild av världen ur ett källkritiskt perspektiv.With this essay we want to examine the relation between historical movies and historical conciousness. Our main focus is on how seniors of compulsory school relates to historical movies and how their historical conciousness is effected by the audiovisual funds in teaching of history, in purpose to develope a matrix for teaching involving movies. An additional element of our studie represents a short account of how to practically use movies in shool. In order to do this we have chosen a qualatative method with semistructured interviews. Today, school is challenged by e.g. popular cultur. In a time of an increasing flow of media in society, the interest for technical aid has increased in the society. The technical methods in moviemaking has been improved and has conveyed to movies beeing more authentic than they ever been before. Our impression is that movies based on historical events becomes more inported in school. Few didactical aids enables pupils to embrace the historical enviroment and even fewer can touch pupils’ emotions. Another advantage is that movie gives the pupils tools to create a critical thinking when relating to the medias’ perception of the world.
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Martins, Glauber Ormundo Dias. "Figurações da sociedade americana no cinema de Woody Allen." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21186.
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This work analyzes two films by Woody Allen in the 1980s - Zelig and The Purple Rose of Cairo - using as methodologies sociological theories and literary and cinematographic critiques. With this, reflections od modernity and American history are analyzed
Este trabalho analisa dois filmes do diretor Woody Allen da década de 1980- Zelig e A rosa púrpura do Cairo- Usando como metodologias teorias sociológicas e de críticas literárias e cinematográficas. Com isto, reflexões a respeito da modernidade e da história americana são analisadas
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chang, Ping-hai, and 張平海. "Multi-Purpose High-Building Fire Protection Management Research." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4kh35e.
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The urbanized congregate housing and commercial buildings have long developed towards the super high-rise, enlarged and complex composition. The application, identification, usage and administration of such buildings are more complicated than general buildings; so too the fire facilities, organization, training, operation and management. Such tendency of development on super high-rise and large buildings is evident everywhere in various cities. In the area of fire prevention, there will be greater challenges. The general public remains ignorant about disaster prevention, while government authorities do not integrate and enhance regulation on categorization and identification of construction for super high-rise buildings with different applications and scales. Without accumulating our capabilities for fire prevention, it is likely incur the loss of countless lives and property in general buildings when disaster occurs. Since the implementation of the fire administration system in Taiwan from 1995, certain results have been achieved and further development is expected. However, it is found from literature review and questionnaire of this study that there are still many improvements to be made. Among numerous problems, “Human negligence” covers most of the cases, which also verifies the perspective discussed in the study that “people” are the keys to fire administration. Therefore, it is deemed in this study that in a super high-rise composite (general super high-rise), the caretaker, fire administrator, mutual fire administrator, professional building administration (security) company and various fire squads be the key persons to promote fire administration. Whether it is the administrational obligation of fire safety or fire rescue, the abovementioned units must link, cooperate and integrate with each other to form a group, so the capability of administrating fire safety of each super high-rise building can be controlled adequately. From various problems witnessed in this study, the following strategies are drafted to correspond with administration, which is expected to integrate the administrational level of fire safety. Under well mechanism of administration, the capacity of fire prevention can be reflected for reducing fire accidents to minimum: 1. Enhance administrative obligation and command mechanism of fire prevention for composite super high-rise buildings. 2. Establish administrative capability of fire prevention from professional building administration (security) company. 3. Regulate the categorization and identification of construction for super high-rise buildings with different applications and scales. 4. Integrate the capacity of fire prevention, operation in fire field and building’s disaster prevention for unified correspondence. 5. Request the government to promote publication and incentive system for information on administration and examination of fire safety.
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Hong, Shu-jyuan, and 洪淑娟. "The Relationship between Firm Characteristics and The Purposes of Stock Repurchases." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57759820418289147967.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
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This study adopts the Logistic Regression to analyze the factors that influence the purposes of stock repurchases in Taiwan''s listed companies from Aug. 7, 2000 to Dec. 31, 2004. The study is focused on electronics and non-electronics industries on annual basis. The results are as follows: in the whole period, the companies which are undervalued seriously and with low debt ratio will repurchase stock with the purpose “to conserve the credit of the firm and the rights of stockholders.” Considering the overall stock market, we find that when stock market is bear, the companies which are undervalued will repurchase stock with the purpose “to conserve the credit of the firm and the rights of stockholders.” The electronic companies with high total asset and high free cash and the non-electronic companies with low debt ratio have the same results.
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CHIH-CHENG, HSU, and 許智誠. "The Study of Relationships Between Firm Purposes and Promotional Incentive Characteristics." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76986610753851198214.
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Yang, Chi-Chun, and 楊吉鈞. "Research on Fire Risk Assessment System for Multi-purpose Factory-type Building." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67224183348280805434.
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碩士吳鳳科技大學
消防研究所
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Taiwan's rapid economic development in recent years has resulted in an increase in population concentration due to urbanization, as can be seen at many urban areas. “Multi-purpose factory-type building” refers to a single building with two or more major uses, where there are a certain proportion of floor areas, and there is a relationship between its management and usage. After a thorough review on the development process of the fire safety evaluation method in Taiwan, it was found that very few studies had been conducted on multi-purpose factory-type buildings. On the other hand, this type of building can be found everywhere in urban areas where, with their special fire-inducing characteristics, often result in heavy casualties and property losses. The probability of fire, frequency and period of all kinds of buildings were calculated from the official government data of twenty-four years period on the number of fire incidents in addition to information on the buildings’ floor areas. Subsequently, matrix operation was used to calculate and assess the fire probability, occurring frequency, period and the risk ratio of various types of applications within a multi-purpose factory-type building. Moreover, fire case studies and statistical information on various types of buildings in Taiwan will be established via governmental assistance. Finally, the concept of risk ratio will be introduced in order to obtain the weight value for twenty fire safety criteria and four fire safety strategies of multi-purpose factory-type buildings. The weight value will be used to express the probable cause of fire in a multi-purpose factory-type building as well as the degrees of the impact as shown quantitatively.
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Wu, Bing-Rung, and 吳秉融. "Management Mechanism Research of Structural Purpose Fire Safety Door with Same Pattern Determination." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/z4r3hj.
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碩士國立臺北科技大學
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Quality of the domestic structural purpose fire door same pattern determination, is exposed since long ago the owner and architectural design personnel extremely big denouncing, the such flaw forms the reason, although part question of for the laws and regulations, but the fire door same pattern determination tube controls not good, the cause supervises with an improper method, the fire door market control system in the controlling organization imperfect and so on in many management practice flaw, affects the structural purpose fire door fire protection potency quality to be really great, is worth examining the improvement.Basically, the structural purpose fire door same pattern determination system and the use management are body both sides, both are closely linked, the same pattern determines the personnel ability of regarding the itself specialized work, besides depends on the stipulation to handle the determination work, because the controlling organization and the determination organization mostly has not added the conformity and the coordination or the communication regarding the contact surface work around the determination work is not good, causes same pattern determination processing not when has the slight defect, affects the same pattern determination quality, therefore same pattern determination enforcement agent itself in the specialty, should more strengthen the fire door specialized knowledge with the same pattern determination practice ability outside, regarding determination work professional dedication and personal integrity question, carries out the fire doorSame pattern determination work extremely important item. This research first deliberates the domestic and foreign correlation literature, evaluates mechanism of structural purpose of fire door same pattern determination management the home, again penetrates the present domestic structural purpose fire door same pattern determination mechanism the execution to manufacture the questionnaire project and the content, and to determines the organization performer, the fire door producer, the building designer, disappears, examines the performer to carry on the questionnaire survey peacefully the way, understood in the present structural purpose fire door same pattern determination execution the flaw and the same pattern determination management mechanism question is at, but acts according to this research the effective questionnaire analysis result to discover in view of recycling 45th, same pattern determination enforcement agent''s uniformity of, the same pattern determination ability, the determination project carries out the flow, the fire doorThe design question, the correlation management regulation subscribes the grade correlation flaw, again coordinates case of thorough discussion the actual same pattern determination to obtain the attainment and the thorough discussion, then in view of the personnel, the design, the practice and the laws and regulations and so on faces, proposed management correlation improvement suggestion and the implementing procudure the domestic structural purpose fire door same pattern determination, will supply the structural purpose fire door controlling organization and the same pattern determination organization carry out improvement reference the same pattern determination in the future.
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Lih-ren, Sheu, and 許力仁. "A Study of Fire Prevention & Safety Strategy for the Multi-Purpose of Superhigh-rise Buildings." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13597199806811008227.
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YU-CHIA, WEI, and 魏鈺佳. "Purple sweet potato/gellan complex film for smart packaging application." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82509788428151232109.
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Chen, Yu-Chun, and 陳玉群. "Development and quality evaluation on novel functional film and tablet of purple sweet potato." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ga97p2.
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Pecková, Simona. "Fiktivní firma jako prostředek osvojování cizího jazyka." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-350072.
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TITLE: Practice Enterprise as a Way of Acquiring Foreign Languages AUTHOR: Simona Pecková DEPARTMENT: Department of the French Language and Literature SUPERVISOR: Dr.PhDr. Renáta Listíková, MCF ABSTRACT: The thesis deals with the potential that the subject called practice enterprise represents for acquisition of foreign languages. The aim of the work is to carry out a survey of the present situation, to find about the pupils' level of business language and also to discover what their attitude to the practice enterprise and their motivation to study foreign languages are. By focussing the language instruction on working life, we want to enhance their competitiveness on the labour market. Quantitative research methods are combined here with qualitative ones. Concerning the tools of research, we used didactic test, questionnaire, interview and focus group. We have found out that the practice enterprise has a positive influence on students' level of foreign languages. However, no connection between practice enterprise and pupils' attitude to foreign languages and their motivation to study them has been proved. In order to take a bigger advantage of the potential of practice enterprise as a means to acquire foreign languages, we recommend a bigger and a more systematic integration of language instruction into...
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FENCL, Rostislav. "Řízení jakosti u vybraných výrobků ve firmě Robert Bosch, spol. s .r.o." Master's thesis, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-54990.
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In summary of literature is definition of concept like quality, her history, and the management of quality and the cost of quality. The theses defines the concern of Bosch, production plant of Robert Bosch of České Budějovice, company history and secondly strategy and politics of quality system and the point and a results of quality system on assembly line DA {--} Daimler, on which are producing in-tank cars pumping devise. It is defined monitored product {--} the in-tank pumping device, the management of quality in the procedure of production and in all processes on workstations and than their specific quality control. Every single error in production process is analysed and results interpreted and a precaution is taken.
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Mabuza, Patrick Velaphi. "The potential role of public-private partnerships in the South African economy : an innovative conceptual public-private partnerships model for small and medium enterprise development." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/21595.
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The introduction of PPPs in infrastructure provision has changed the way in which governments around the world now view infrastructure provision. However, the introduction of PPPs to deliver the needed infrastructure has benefited only a few companies. Most of these companies are the big construction firms that possess technological know-how and those that have the financial ability to execute large infrastructure projects. Although SMEs are important for employment creation, inequality and poverty reduction, the participation of SMEs in these PPP projects is very low. This is because PPP models in developing countries are based on those used in developed economies, and such models ignore the socio-economic problems facing developing countries.
Therefore, this study argues that PPP projects in developing countries present an opportunity for growing the SME sectors in developing countries. It challenges the viewpoint of seeing infrastructure backlogs only as providing opportunities to big private sector companies and argues that infrastructure backlogs can be used by governments to reduce the triple challenges of unemployment, poverty and inequality by linking SMEs to PPP projects. The traditional PPP model that is being applied by many developing countries does not fully encourage the participation of SMEs in PPP projects, as most of the projects executed through this model are bundled into big projects that SMEs cannot execute due to a lack of technological know-how and weak balance sheets.
The study therefore suggests different ways in which the participation of SMEs in PPP projects could be improved based on the results of the survey conducted for this study. The study then proposes an “innovative conceptual PPP model for sustainable SME development” that takes into account the needs for developing countries to create jobs, reduce poverty and inequality. It also takes into account all challenges for SMEs identified through the review of literature and the study survey.Economics
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Pitacas, João. "Modelo Operacional dos Corpos de Bombeiros à Escala Intermunicipal." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/35505.
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Os Corpos de Bombeiros (CB) contam com uma rede de quartéis implantada em todo o território nacional, atualmente organizada por um modelo baseado nos limites territoriais das NUTS (Nomenclatura das Unidades Territoriais para Fins Estatísticos). Será, portanto, possível rentabilizar a rede de CB no patamar sub-regional, através da implementação de critérios de desempenho dos CB, entre eles, a população abrangida dentro dos tempos de resposta convencionados.
O objetivo deste trabalho é propor uma reorganização operacional da rede de quartéis já implantada nas Sub-Regiões da Lezíria do Tejo e Médio Tejo, tendo como base um modelo da Rede Principal dos Serviços Operacionais dos Corpos de Bombeiros em Portugal Continental. Para tal, definiram-se critérios com vista à constituição de Agrupamentos de CB, que partilhando entre si áreas de atuação, permite priorizar o despacho de meios baseado no tempo de resposta dentro dos limites dos Agrupamentos. A aplicação dos critérios contemplando a rede viária existente e a distribuição da população residente, permitiu, recorrendo ao software QGIS®, aferir as zonas com necessidade de reforço da rede de quartéis.
Aplicado o modelo à área de estudo, verificou-se um aumento de 18,4% (1.401 km2) de área e de 6,1% da população (30.524 habitantes) abrangidas dentro dos tempos de referência (10 e 20 minutos). Para garantir a atividade operacional nos 24 municípios abrangidos, a rede de CB contaria 24 quartéis sede e 22 postos avançados (reforço da atual rede com 8), guarnecidos no mínimo por um efetivo total de 1.897 bombeiros profissionais.
O facto da rede de quartéis já se encontrar implantada no território alvo de estudo e apenas necessitar de reforços pontuais, deveria ser atualmente um fator desencadeador de interesse na sua rentabilização por parte das várias entidades envolvidas.Fire Departments (CB) have a network of barracks deployed throughout the national territory, currently organized by a model based on the territorial limits of the NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistical Purposes). Therefore, it will be possible to improve the fire department network at the sub-regional level, through the implementation of fire departments performance criteria, including the population coverage within the settled response times. The objective of this work is to propose an operational reorganization of the barracks network already implemented in the Sub-Regions of Lezíria do Tejo and Médio Tejo, based on a model of the Main Network of Operational Services for Fire Brigades in Mainland Portugal. To this end, criteria were defined with a view to the constitution of CB Groups, which sharing areas of activity among themselves, allows prioritizing the dispatch of means based on the response time within the limits of the Groups. The application of the criteria covering the existing road network and the distribution of the resident population, allowed, using the QGIS® software, to assess the areas in need of reinforcement of the barracks network. Applying the model to the Lezíria do Tejo and Médio Tejo sub-regions, there was an increase of 18,4% (1.401 km2) in area and 6,1% of the population (30.524 inhabitants) covered within the reference times (10 and 20 minutes). In order to guarantee operational activity in the 24 municipalities covered, the fire departments network would consist of a total of 24 headquarters and 22 outposts with a minimum of 1.897 professional firefighters. The fact that the barracks network is already implanted in the study target territory and only needs occasional reinforcements, should be a triggering factor of interest in its profitability by the various entities involved.
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Santos, Ângelo Emanuel Neves dos. "Design and simulation of a smart bottle with fill-level sensing based on oxide TFT technology." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/19593.
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Packaging is an important element responsible for brand growth and one of the main rea-sons for producers to gain competitive advantages through technological innovation. In this re-gard, the aim of this work is to design a fully autonomous electronic system for a smart bottle packaging, being integrated in a European project named ROLL-OUT. The desired application for the smart bottle is to act as a fill-level sensor system in order to determine the liquid content level that exists inside an opaque bottle, so the consumer can exactly know the remaining quantity of the product inside.
An in-house amorphous indium–gallium–zinc oxide thin-film transistor (a-IGZO TFT) model, previously developed, was used for circuit designing purposes. This model was based in an artificial neural network (ANN) equivalent circuit approach.
Taking into account that only n-type oxide TFTs were used, plenty of electronic building-blocks have been designed: clock generator, non-overlapping phase generator, a capacitance-to-voltage converter and a comparator. As it was demonstrated by electrical simulations, it has been achieved good functionality for each block, having a final system with a power dissipation of 2.3 mW (VDD=10 V) not considering the clock generator. Four printed circuit boards (PCBs) have been also designed in order to help in the testing phase.
Mask layouts were already designed and are currently in fabrication, foreseeing a suc-cessful circuit fabrication, and a major step towards the design and integration of complex trans-ducer systems using oxide TFTs technology.