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Guntrip, Elizabeth Denham, and res cand@acu edu au. "A Pentecostal Study of Daniel’s Prince of Persia (Daniel 10:13)." Australian Catholic University. School of Theology, 2006. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp139.17052007.
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Aim.C. Peter Wagner is a well-known missiologist. In the late twentieth century Wagner became interested in the means by which the devil, as the enemy of God, obstructs the spread of the Gospel. Based on his reading of Daniel 10:13 [20-21], a passage referring to the prince of Persia, he concluded that the earth is ruled by Satan’s angels, whom he terms “territorial spirits.” The same chapter mentions other supernatural beings, Michael, one of the chief princes and the prince of Greece. In Wagner’s understanding Scripture reveals the existence of good and evil spirits having authority or control over specific geographical regions. Further, Wagner believed he had discovered why evangelism is ineffective in some locations - territorial spirits blind the minds of the populace and need to be bound spiritually to remove hindrances to the gospel’s reception. Wagner devised a prayer methodology called Strategic Level Spiritual Warfare (SLSW), to accelerate world evangelisation by strategically targeting designated cities or locations with aggressive prayer to disarm the spiritual powers of wickedness. SLSW depends for effectiveness on the associated practice of spiritual mapping,” entailing foundational research into an area’s historical and spiritual background preceding the prayer programme. Wagner believes SLSW to be both divinely revealed and empirically verifiable. The SLSW methodology spread with startling rapidity to many sectors of Christianity. SLSW became associated with Pentecostalism, and is now mistakenly assumed to be a Pentecostal teaching. This thesis aims to show this is inaccurate. Scope. C. Peter Wagner, an Evangelical, is associated with Third Wave groups who deliberately distance themselves from the Pentecostal label. Classical Pentecostalism is differentiated historically from the later Charismatic Renewal Movement. Third Wave groups are a separate more recent spiritual movement, sometimes known as neo-charismatics. Neither Wagner’s theological nor ecclesial location is Pentecostal, but this fact has not helped negate the mistaken assumption that his teaching originated within Pentecostalism. In order to demonstrate the difference between Wagner’s demonology and that of Pentecostalism, their respective interpretive methods need to be compared. This task was approached firstly by showing what comprises a Classical Pentecostal hermeneutic. Three distinctive principles were identified for a conventional Pentecostal reading of Scripture, namely: (1) the Protestant Reformation principle of Sola Scriptura, (2) a pneumatic approach to interpreting Scripture and (3) biblical revelation, not self-revelation, in the community of faith. In the past, Pentecostals depended on academic writings stemming from within Evangelicalism. This was a dependence of convenience, since historically Pentecostalism had no systematic theology, nor until comparatively recently a critically active academia. The disadvantage of this borrowing has been that Pentecostals have been obliged to filter out anti-Pentecostal bias evident in much Evangelical literature. The text Daniel 10:13 was then exegeted using these principles. This narrow focus is based on Wagner’s use of this text as the foundation of his demonology. Using a combined theological and literary approach, stances on reading the book of Daniel in general and Daniel 10:13 in particular were discussed. The relaxation of tensions between the factions which divided biblical scholarship for much of the twentieth century has allowed some cross-fertilization of ideas and methods, without reducing the ideological chasm separating the camps. The history of the text was recognised but meaning was sought more particularly from the form of the extant text. The results were tested against the principles of Pentecostal hermeneutics. Finally, Wagner’s writings on SLSW were appraised. His hermeneutical method was compared with the Pentecostal hermeneutical principles, the Pentecostal reading prepared from the exegesis, and the demonology of two Classical Pentecostal writers. Discussion of SLSW was confined to Wagner as the initiator of the concept. Wagner’s specific contribution has been in relating a hypothetical demonic hierarchy according to their perceived function (not simply the degree of power they may possess). He is well aware that his theory stands or falls on the issue of whether demonic spirits can legitimately be seen as occupying territories. Conclusions. Whilst some aspects of Wagner’s demonology and hermeneutic are held in common with that of Pentecostalism, the mistaken identification of SLSW as Pentecostal has led to confusion. Notwithstanding Wagner’s high view of Scripture and enthusiasm for evangelism, the hermeneutic employed in his interpretation of Dan 10:13 is not consistent with that of Classical Pentecostalism. The conclusion reached was that C. Peter Wagner’s teaching on SLSW should not be labelled Pentecostal.
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Filin, Daniel [Verfasser], Franz [Gutachter] Fuchs, and Helmut [Gutachter] Flachenecker. "The Princes’ War in South Germany 1458-1463 / Daniel Filin ; Gutachter: Franz Fuchs, Helmut Flachenecker." Würzburg : Universität Würzburg, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1230324240/34.
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Suckau, Kristin [Verfasser], and Daniel [Akademischer Betreuer] Baier. "Die Ermittlung von individuellen Zahlungsbereitschaften mittels Präferenzmessung : Die Price-Adapted Choice-Based Conjointanalyse / Kristin Suckau ; Betreuer: Daniel Baier." Bayreuth : Universität Bayreuth, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1171308531/34.
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Lingohr, Daniel [Verfasser], and Gernot [Akademischer Betreuer] Müller. "Continuous-Time Autoregressive Processes for Modeling Electricity Prices and Renewable Energies / Daniel Lingohr ; Betreuer: Gernot Müller." Augsburg : Universität Augsburg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1194312934/34.
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Strohschein, Heather. "Between modern dance and intercultural performance the multiple truths of the Bird Belly Princess /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1182295842.
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Jin, Shaoze [Verfasser], Hermann [Akademischer Betreuer] Waibel, and Daniel [Akademischer Betreuer] Schnitzlein. "Essays on the consequences of declining rubber prices for smallholder farming in Southwest China / Shaoze Jin ; Hermann Waibel, Daniel Schnitzlein." Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1216240973/34.
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Schamps, Geneviève. "La mise en danger : un concept fondateur d'un principe général de responsabilité : analyse de droit comparé /." Bruxelles : Paris : Bruylant ; LGDJ, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37672645x.
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af, Klinteberg Kristina. "Ett diadem och dess ikonografi : En studie av kejsarinnan Josephines pärl- och kamédiadem i porträtt mellan 1812 och 2010." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-438793.
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The main purpose of this study of a pearl and cameo diadem, given by Napoleon to his first wife Josephine in 1809, is to follow its representation in portraiture from Paris in 1812 to Stockholm in 2010, and explore how the iconography develops during these 200 years. From the earlier years, the diadem is found only in miniatures, then after coming to the new royal family in Sweden, the Bernadottes, it is given a role of an heirloom representing history and families in grand paintings, arriving to the present well-known wedding hairpiece, covered by modern media, where the diadem is more of a crown than the open, forehead-covering piece of fashion jewellery it was during the Napoleonic era in France. The portraits from 1812, 1814, 1836, 1837, 1877, 1976, 2000/2003 and 2010 also portray a development of the female role model of its time. Just like the hair piece attains an iconography which comprises not only the highest dress codes but also a possibility of status transformation for the people involved in ceremony, the role of the country’s First Lady is about to change into a higher, more egalitarian position of present days.
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Strohschein, Heather Anne. "Between Modern Dance and Intercultural Performance: The Multiple Truths of the Bird Belly Princess." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182295842.
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Price, Daniel Joseph [Verfasser], Jennifer [Akademischer Betreuer] Dressman, Christoph [Akademischer Betreuer] Saal, Martin [Akademischer Betreuer] Kuentz, Anita [Akademischer Betreuer] Nair, and Jennifer [Gutachter] Dressman. "Novel in vitro and in silico tools for the development of mesoporous silica formulations with optimal precipitation inhibitors / Daniel Joseph Price ; Gutachter: Jennifer Dressman ; Jennifer Dressman, Christoph Saal, Martin Kuentz, Anita Nair." Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1238143725/34.
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Scholtz, Daniël Jacobus. "Prescribing patterns of antiretroviral drugs in the private health care sector in South Africa : a drug utilisation review / Daniël Jacobus Scholtz." Thesis, North-West University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1723.
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Carretta, Simona. "Il principio compositivo della variazione su tema nel romanzo del Novecento." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040281.
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Le modèle formel de la variation sur thème, qui est célèbre surtout à cause de son emploi en tant que principe de composition musical – notamment pour les développements que y ont apporté des artistes comme Bach, Beethoven ou Schönberg -, toutefois n’épuise pas ses potentialités expressives exclusivement dans le cadre de cet art.Dans le roman, notamment, l’adoption du principe de composition nommé variation sur thème, qui implique la présentation du même thème (ou motif) par de perspectives différentes (que peuvent correspondre au point de vue des diverses personnages ou à la distance temporelle différente prise en rapport à la narration du même événement), semble se présenter comme un expédient idéalement fonctionnel à l’obtention de l’objectif cognitif le principal de cet art, qui concerne le dévoilement de la substantielle relativité de toutes les vérités apparentes. Alors que de romanciers tel que Milan Kundera ou Danilo Kiš, dans leurs œuvres, semblent avoir interprété le modèle des variations comme un principe fonctionnel à la réalisation d’une structure organique et unitaire, parfaitement concentrée autour du thème, dans d’autres romans contemporains, par exemple dans Si une nuit d’hiver un voyageur (1979) de Italo Calvino o dans Les variations Goldberg (1981) di Nancy Huston, les variations assument une disposition de type sériel.Dans ces derniers cas, la forme de la variation sur thème est utilisée, plutôt que comme un modèle de composition, comme un principe de désagrégation de la matière romanesqueTheme and variation, a formal technique that is popular mainly through its applications within music, in particular thanks to contributions by artists such as Bach, Beethoven or Schönberg, nevertheless has expressive potentials that go beyond the boundaries of this art. In particular, it is in the novel that the use of variation as a composing principle, implying the presentation of a single central theme or motif by different perspectives (that may correspond to the point of view of different characters, or to different amounts of time elapsed from the actual happening of an event to its narration), seems to lend itself as the ideal device to achieve the main cognitive objective of this art, that is the unveiling of the substantial relativity of all things.While novelists such has Milan Kundera or Danilo Kiš seem to have developed, in their work, the theme and variation technique as a principle that is functional to an organic and uniform form of composition, ideally focused on a single theme, in other novels, such as If on a winter's night a traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino or Variations Goldberg (1981) by Nancy Huston, the variations are disposed so as to acquire a serial connotation. In those latter cases, the theme and variation technique is used as a functional principle for the disaggregation of the matter of the novel, rather than as a composition technique
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Cullors, Kasey P. "Gradations of Thrills, Kicks and Moonwalks: A Textual and Cultural Analysis of the Effects of Michael Jacskon, the Legend and “Thriller”, the Legendary." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1305637508.
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Meurisse, Stéphane. "Quel danger fera-t-il demain ? : le rôle des expectations de protection sur l'activation différentielle des composantes du modèle de l'implication et de la construction de la culture du risque : l'exemple des risques météorologiques." Toulouse 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008TOU20010.
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Le terrain d’étude de la météorologie sert ici de prétexte pour montrer comment se construit une culture du risque. Pour prévenir les risques liés aux phénomènes météorologiques intenses, dont certains sont associés à l’effet du réchauffement climatique, des plans de prévention et notamment la « carte de vigilance » ont été mis en oeuvre suite aux tempêtes de 1999. Nous nous posons la question de savoir quel peut être l’impact de cette recrudescence des alertes météorologiques sur les représentations des risques. Ne serait-elle pas un des éléments « activateur » de cette « société du risque » ? Les alertes « ratées », ne décrivant pas les effets météorologiques réellement produits, participent à définir une réalité venant renforcer la culture du risque. En tenant compte d’un ancrage historique et social des expectations de protection nous avons mesuré leurs influences sur les principales composantes du modèle de l’implication (Repères – Sens – Sentiment de contrôle) et tout particulièrement sur la dimension du « Sens » en le décomposant en trois variantes. Les sujets impliqués professionnellement ont un traitement différentiel de ces messages de prévention rapprochant leurs représentations de celle d’autres professionnels : les prévisionnistes. La recherche révèle deux attitudes face aux risques. Certains sujets tentent de minimiser les risques en mobilisant des compétences pour « se protéger » et d’autres de les amplifier afin « d’être protégés ». Les expectations de protection laissent entrevoir l’influence qu’elles peuvent générer sur les organisations faisant émerger de nouvelles pratiques professionnelles des prévisionnistes pour répondre à ce sentiment d’insécuritéThe study of weather conditions is the framework which helped us determine the building process of a risk-based culture. Preventive measures, such as the « warning map », have been designed after the 1999 winter storms, in order to forecast risks linked to severe meteorological phenomena – some of which are associated to global warming. What could be the impact of the increasing number of weather alerts on the representations of risk? Could this increase be a « catalyst » in this « risk society » ? False alarms, which fail to describe actual weather conditions, contribute to define a reality that shapes a risk-based culture. We based our assessment of the influence of protection expectations on the principal features of the implication model (Landmark, Sense, Meaning of Control), on a historical and social background. We particularly focused on Sense, and established three main areas. Professionally implicated people adopt various approaches to warning messages. Their representations correspond to those other professional people : weather forecast specialists. Studies have unveiled two attitudes when people are confronted to a risk. Some tend to minimize the impact of a risk, as they gather up skills of « self-protection », while others maximize these skills to seek « external protection ». Thus, one could foresee the influence of protection expectations on organisations, which could give birth to new professional processes elaborated by weather forecasters, in order to respond to the feeling of insecurity
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Steward, Thomas William. "Governance for affordable energy : what is the impact of demand-side governance on affordability of energy for domestic consumers in Great Britain?" Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/29915.
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Affordability of energy in the domestic sector is the product of three interrelated factors - level of household income, level of energy bills (which are a product of prices and levels of energy demand, mediated by tariffs and the retail market), and the amount of energy that a household needs to maintain a healthy living environment. This thesis focusses on the factors of affordability which are most relevant to the energy policy which are energy bills and energy efficiency, both of which are considered in the context of household income. Affordability of energy in Great Britain is important for separate, but over-lapping reasons. Firstly, it has important political impacts - as energy prices continue to rise, energy is repeatedly highlighted as one of the biggest financial concerns for households (uSwitch, 2013; YouGov, 2015; DECC, 2014f), leading affordability of energy to become an increasingly political issue (Lockwood, 2016). Secondly, affordability of energy has social implications which stem from the fact that the impact of rising energy bills is felt particularly strongly by those on low incomes and in inefficient homes – the fuel poor. In spite of it being twenty-five years since Brenda Boardman published her first book defining the issue of fuel poverty (Boardman, 1991), millions of households in Great Britain today still cannot afford adequate amounts of energy. This is significant because being able to afford access to basic levels of energy services such as warmth and light is essential for maintaining physical and mental health (Harrington et al., 2005; Stockton and Campbell, 2011). Thirdly, affordability has important implications for design of the energy system –a system focussed on minimising long-term costs, both through micro-scale features such as efficient network revenue regulation which keep costs down on a year-by-year basis, and macro-scale aspects such as through the development of a low-demand, highly flexible energy system which has the potential to bring costs down in the long term (Sanders et al., 2016), is likely to differ from one which in which affordability is less of a focus, or only a focus over the short term. This thesis responds to a gap in the literature in relation to the role that governance plays in affecting levels of affordability of energy for domestic consumers in Great Britain. It examines the impact of governance on energy prices and tariffs, and the impact of governance on energy efficiency of the housing stock in Great Britain. Both of these are examined in the context of levels of household income. Greater insight is gained by examining the impact of the energy governance structure in Denmark on Danish domestic energy efficiency standards, which are widely accepted to be very good (IEA, 2011). 7 This thesis makes use of existing academic and policy literature in tandem with data from fifty-six interviews with individuals from across the energy sectors in Great Britain and Denmark. The governance structure of energy in Great Britain is shown to be, on balance, not supportive of delivering affordable energy to domestic consumers. A number of specific issues within the current governance structure in Great Britain are identified. These include the presence of a limiting narrative, whereby policymakers consider affordability to be achieved principally through delivery of low prices; insufficient institutional capacity within OFGEM to keep network prices low, and monitor suppliers’ costs and profits; lack of wholesale market transparency; an anti-interventionist ideology leading to weak energy efficiency requirements for new-build and private rental properties; suppliers as poor executors of energy efficiency policy; weak demand-side interests; tariffs designed around the needs of suppliers, not consumers; an over-reliance on an uncompetitive retail market; a lack of institutional capacity amongst policy makers regarding energy efficiency, and network regulation; and weak consumer representation. A number of recommendations are put forward, including the fostering of a new narrative centred on energy efficiency; the redesign of tariffs to better protect the interests of consumers; the reallocation of responsibility for energy efficiency to local authorities; the development of greater institutional capacity among policymakers; the support for a more interventionist ideology supporting use of regulation; financial support for energy efficiency retrofit; the fostering of greater policy stability; development of new tariff structures; and the formation of a new consumer representative. Overall this thesis demonstrates that affordability of energy in unlikely to be delivered to domestic consumers in Great Britain unless significant changes are made to the governance structure of the energy sector.
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Mondello, Gérard. "Logique environnementale, logique économique : Etude par le contentieux des Installations Classées pour la Protection de l'Environnement (ICPE)." Phd thesis, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00727231.
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La législation des installations classées pour la protection de l'environnement (ICPE) est généralement entendue comme un compromis entre la protection des intérêts économique et ceux de l'environnement. Cette thèse analyse la nature des termes de ce contrat social et, pour ce faire, elle étude des différents contentieux des ICPE, judiciaires (civil et pénal) et administratifs. Sont alors mises en évidence les difficultés structurelles pour réaliser cet objet qui tiennent aux manques d'une véritable représentation de l'environnement devant ces différentes juridictions. Cela en dépit des avancées législatives et constitutionnelles indéniables. Ce travail propose des pistes pour une réécriture de la police ICPE par une meilleure intégration des principes fondamentaux du développement durable, notamment, la précaution et la participation du public. Cette reformulation implique l'extension de la responsabilité sans faute à la précaution.
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Guilbaud, Alexandre. "L'hydrodynamique dans l'œuvre de D'Alembert 1766-1783 : histoire et analyse détaillée des concepts pour l'édition critique et commentée de ses "Œuvres complètes" et leur édition électronique." Phd thesis, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I, 2007. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00340839.
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D'Alembert est l'auteur d'un quatrième et dernier traité d'hydrodynamique méconnu des historiens des sciences : le Mémoire 57 du t. VIII de ses "Opuscules mathématiques" (1780). Il y répond, pour l'essentiel, à un écrit de Borda de 1766 contenant une sévère remise en question des principes et concepts fondateurs de son "Traité des fluides" (1744). Cette polémique entre les deux géomètres s'inscrit dans une période de crise de l'hydrodynamique touchant à la concordance entre théorie et expérience. Les équations aux dérivées partielles obtenues par D'Alembert dans son "Essai d'une nouvelle théorie de la résistance des fluides" (1752), puis par Euler dans ses célèbres mémoires de 1755, n'ont pu être résolues. L'approche unidimensionnelle initiée par Daniel Bernoulli dans l'"Hydrodynamica" (1738) puis adoptée par Jean Bernoulli dans l'"Hydraulica" (1743) et par D'Alembert dans le "Traité des fluides" (1744), repose, quant à elle, sur une approximation, l'hypothèse du parallélisme des tranches, trop éloignée des résultats expérimentaux disponibles. C'est cet écart que Borda tente de pallier en 1766 afin de faire sortir la discipline de l'impasse dans laquelle elle se trouve.Dans le Mémoire 57, D'Alembert, directement visé par ce dernier, donne son point de vue sur le sujet, répond implicitement aux critiques de Borda, revient sur ses écrits antérieurs, et propose de nouvelles pistes de recherche théoriques. L'étude de ce traité, tant du point de vue physique que mathématique, engage ici un réexamen des principes et concepts fondateurs de sa théorie des écoulements, la plupart n'ayant été que partiellement abordés par l'historiographie. Il nous permet également de situer ses recherches vis-à-vis de celles des principaux artisans du développement de l'hydrodynamique à cette époque, Daniel Bernoulli, Jean Bernoulli, Euler et Lagrange, et de donner une idée de leur réception et de leur pérennité.
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Vallotton, Jérémie. "La décision publique et la crise." Thesis, Mulhouse, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016MULH5291.
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Conçus pour fonctionner au sein d’un cadre institutionnel donné, dans un climat politique apaisé et suivant des procédures arrêtées, les pouvoirs publics dessinent entre eux une architecture de relations qui détermine ce qui est le circuit normal d’adoption puis d’exécution de la décision publique. Or, soit que l’on cherche à la prévenir, soit qu’elle soit survenue, la crise par sa nature même, interroge sur l’efficience de la décision publique qui a été prise, voire remet en cause de manière radicale tout l’ordonnancement logique des différents organes et éléments ayant participé à la produire. La présente thèse se donne donc pour objet, par une quête de connaissance des lois de l'action humaine, de leurs constantes et de leurs variables, permettant d’aboutir à des conclusions opératoires, de révéler ce que devraient être les déterminants de l’action publique face à la criseThe public authorities set up a patchwork of relationships determining the standard circuit of adoption and enforcement of public decision, designed to operate within a given institutional framework, in a subsided political climate, and according to strict procedures. Yet, whether we seek to prevent a crisis or it already occured, the crisis, in its own self, questions the efficiency of public decision and even calls the logical sequencing of the various partaking elements into question. The current thesis aims at unvealing what should be the determining factors for public action facing a crisis, through the study of the laws of human action and their permanent and variable features
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Guntrip, Elkizabeth Denham. "A Pentecostal study of Daniel's Prince of Persia (Daniel 10:13)." 2006. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp139.17052007/index.html.
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Thesis (M.Phil) -- Australian Catholic University, 2006.Submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy. Bibliography: p. 167-177. Also available in an electronic format via the internet.
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Van, der Merwe Johannes Daniël. "Quality, pricing and the performance of the wheat industry in South Africa / Johannes Daniël van der Merwe." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/15638.
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Statistics paint a picture of a wheat industry under severe pressure, with the number of hectares dedicated to wheat production that have decreased while imports notably increased since 1997. This has had a negative impact on the industry‘s global competitiveness. The direct and indirect linkages between wheat and wheat products, together with the benefits that the industry can bring to the economy in the form of heightened food security and employment opportunities, highlight the need for a competitive wheat industry in South Africa. Clearly, the underlying causes of the declining wheat production in South Africa need to be investigated and understood.
The presence of strict wheat quality standards and the fact that one of the general characteristics of wheat is the defect of conversion (that is, yield declines as quality improves) help to explain why wheat production in South Africa has declined in recent years. This can also negatively affect prices received for produce because South African wheat prices are determined by the lowest import parity price and not by the specific quality of the wheat. The fact that market concentration has been observed in certain parts of the wheat industry in South Africa has raised concerns that this phenomenon could potentially have had a negative impact on the performance of the country‘s wheat production sector.
Consequently, this study revolves around the following main questions: ―could the evident market concentration in the South African wheat industry influence the performance of the wheat production sector by prescribing certain quality standards which attract relatively low prices?‖, and if so, ―can the wheat quality standards and prices be held responsible for the decline in the industry‘s performance, and to what extent?‖
Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used in pursuit to answer these questions. The qualitative approach was used to describe the theoretical basis of performance, competitiveness and concentration. Three different quantitative approaches were employed to determine the current state of competitiveness (Relative Trade Advantage (RTA) method),
the factors influencing it (hedonic price model) and the extent of such influence (dynamic linear model). From the RTA, it was clear that South Africa is the only country, compared to its trading partners, that has an uncompetitive unprocessed (production) wheat sector alongside a competitive semi-processed (flour) wheat sector. The hedonic price model supported the finding that the institutional environment of the wheat industry uses quality-related mechanisms such as the cultivar release criteria to influence the competitiveness of the wheat production sector.
Four comparisons were developed to determine whether the strict qualities required for the release of new cultivars are justified. It was found that with all four of these comparisons, the strict prescribed wheat quality was not justified in terms of the quality and demand considerations. It was found that when prescribed wheat quality could be relaxed to accommodate market supply and demand, an estimated 12.8 percent increase in yields could have been realised equating to a loss of approximately R606 million in Net Farm Income (NFI) per annum. When increasing this percentage to 20 percent, it was seen that the effect on NFI per annum would be R920 million.
This study therefore provides evidence as to why the performance of the wheat industry has been declining over the last two decades and also contributes to the development of a framework for policy and decision makers which will encourage more competition and a freer market in terms of quality standards. Further contributions of this study lies in the body of literature on competitive behaviour by showing how concentrated industries can use statutory bodies to manipulate markets for rent-seeking purposes. It further shows how these decisions impact on important aspects like the profits of role players in an industry.PhD (Agriculture, Economics), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015
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Tavares, Rita Costa 1990. "Uma raposa no jardim : da fotografia e do onírico." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/11533.
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Tese de mestrado, Pintura, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2014Going through three distinct paths, Visual Arts/Photography, the invention of the Essay and Poetry, this theorical-practical dissertation is followed by an artistic project which is formed of photographs and textual creations. The series that make up the practical work is intimately connected to the reflection surrounding photography matters and its subjectivity, being this a form of communication and information transmission or the lack of it. It is building an archive where in one side exists a photographic record of the reality, although very close to oneiric environments and, in the other side, a fragmented textual record of experienced dreams. Since the emergence of photography its reflection is divided in two segments, the technique and the “emotion”. It is especially in interest to detach the photography role as an extension of the memory where the registration of what exists in that moment becomes, before long, part of the past, of what existed. Photography allows doing this journey in time, allows to keep present matters of the past. Keeping a strong autobiographic character, this work builds a net of visual and textual information narrowly connected to the interior and to the individual memory, almost like it would be a fragmented poetic contemplation, conserving a conducting wire between the several pieces that it is composed by
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Newman, Jonathan M. "Satire of Counsel, Counsel of Satire: Representing Advisory Relations in Later Medieval Literature." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/16806.
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Satire and counsel recur together in the secular literature of the High and Late
Middle Ages. I analyze their collocation in Latin, Old Occitan, and Middle English texts
from the twelfth to the fifteenth century in works by Walter Map, Alan of Lille, John of
Salisbury, Daniel of Beccles, John Gower, William of Poitiers, Thomas Hoccleve, and
John Skelton. As types of discourse, satire and counsel resemble each other in the way
they reproduce scenarios of social interaction. Authors combine satire and counsel to
reproduce these scenarios according to the protocols of real-life social interaction.
Informed by linguistic pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and cultural
anthropology, I examine the relational rhetoric of these texts to uncover a sometimes
complex and reflective ethical discourse on power which sometimes implicates itself in
the practices it condemns. The dissertation draws throughout on sociolinguistic methods
for examining verbal interaction between unequals, and assesses what this focus can
contribute to recent scholarly debates on the interrelation of social and literary practices
in the later Middle Ages.
In the first chapter I introduce the concepts and methodologies that inform this
dissertation through a detailed consideration of Distinction One of Walter Map’s De
nugis curialium . While looking at how Walter Map combines discourses of satire and
counsel to negotiate a new social role for the learned cleric at court, I advocate treating
satire as a mode of expression more general than ‘literary’ genre and introduce the
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theories and methods that inform my treatment of literary texts as social interaction,
considering also how these approaches can complement new historicist interpretation.
Chapter two looks at how twelfth-century authors of didactic poetry appropriate
relational discourses from school and household to claim the authoritative roles of teacher
and father. In the third chapter, I focus on texts that depict relations between princes and
courtiers, especially the Prologue of the Confessio Amantis which idealizes its author
John Gower as an honest counselor and depicts King Richard II (in its first recension) as
receptive to honest counsel. The fourth chapter turns to poets with the uncertain social
identities of literate functionaries at court. Articulating their alienation and satirizing the
ploys of courtiers—including even satire itself—Thomas Hoccleve in the Regement of
Princes and John Skelton in The Bowge of Court undermine the satirist-counselor’s claim
to authenticity. In concluding, I consider how this study revises understanding of the
genre of satire in the Middle Ages and what such an approach might contribute to the
study of Jean de Meun and Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Mišaga, Vít. "Kristián IV., Mansfeld a vpád do Slezska a na Moravu. Vybrané kapitoly z dějin dánské fáze třicetileté války." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-332285.
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Vít MIŠAGA, Christian IV, Mansfeld and the Invasion of Silesia and Moravia. Several Aspects of the Danish Phase of the Thirty Years' War, PhD dissertation, Charles University in Prague 2014 Summary In Czech and European historiography of the early modern period, the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) is one of the most discussed topics. Among Czech historians, there has always been an understandable emphasis on the revolt of the Bohemian estates, also known as the Bohemian phase of the war (1618- 1621). The Danish phase (1625-1629) is considerably less popular. The winners had already been or - to be more precise - seemed to be almost determined, and the further developments of the war did nothing to change the fate of the Czech lands. Analysis of the second half of the 1620s is therefore dominated by other topics - the recatholisation process, exile waves or the character of Albrecht von Wallenstein. Foreign historiographers also seem to downplay Denmark's influence. It is as if King Christian's unsuccessful attempt to fight the Emperor was only biding everyone's time until the "Lion of the North", Gustav II Adolf of Sweden, makes his great entrance. Or at least that is the perspective of an "all-knowing" historian who already knows the result. This thesis is trying to bring a different perspective. It is based...
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Meyerhöfer, Dietrich. "Johann Friedrich von Uffenbach. Sammler – Stifter – Wissenschaftler." Doctoral thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11130/00-1735-0000-0005-13B0-E.
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