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Shaik, Zuleika Bibi. "Anthropology and literature: Humanistic themes in the ethnographic fiction of Hilda Luper and Edith Turner." University of Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8176.
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Magister Artium - MAThis mini-thesis makes an argument for the significance of a female-dominated hidden tradition of experimental ethnographic writing in British social anthropology. It argues that the women anthropologists who experimented with creative forms of ethnography were doubly marginalised: first as women in an androcentric male canon in British social anthropology and American cultural anthropology, and second as creative writers whose work has been consistently undervalued in sombre scholarly circles. The study proposes that Hilda Beemer Kuper (1911-1995) and Edith Turner (1921-2016) should be regarded as significant in a still unexcavated literary tradition or subgenre with Anglo-American anthropology.
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Matos, Givaldo Mauro de. "A Engenharia Genética como Proposta de Co-Criação vista a Partir do Pensamento do Teólogo Ronald Cole-Turner." Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, 2003. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/368.
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Esta dissertação de mestrado busca pesquisar a relação estabelecida pelo teólogo Ronald Cole-Turner, entre a engenharia genética e o conceito de co-criação , desenvolvido como uma alternativa para que se pense o papel do ser humano frente aos desenvolvimentos tecnológicos atuais. Tendo em vista o conceito da evolução, da criação contínua e dos potenciais gerados pela engenharia genética, Cole-Turner defende que o ser humano pode participar das atividades criativas de Deus por meio desta tecnologia, desde que priorize os aspectos redentivos que podem ser extraídos de seu uso. Faz isto em demonstrar, por meio do relato Jawista da criação, como o agir criativo de Deus está relacionado ao agir humano, através de suas tecnologias, e em relacionar os milagres de cura operados por Jesus nos evangelhos, como explicitação epistêmica da vontade de Deus, que pode ser participada pelos seres humanos. O objetivo básico desta pesquisa será o de relatar, no primeiro capítulo, o aspecto teórico da engenharia genética, nas suas possibilidades positivas e negativas. Em seguida, no capítulo segundo, se fará uma exposição do pensamento de Cole- Turner, em diálogo com outros interlocutores do tema. Por fim, no último capítulo, se verificará as respostas oferecidas às várias observações críticas que seu pensamento recebe. A hipótese é a de que, se a criação é um projeto contínuo e inacabado, e o destino dos seres humanos se encontra inserido dentro desta continuidade, seria coerente afirmar que estes possam participar das atividades de Deus em tais projetos. Como a evolução biológica é uma dimensão da criação, que ocorre por meio de transformações no capital genético dos organismos vivos, os seres humanos, tendo conhecimento e habilidade para repetir os processos verificados nestas modificações, poderão empreender seus esforços, tanto na área da técnica, como na da ética, para participarem da consecução dos propósitos de Deus.(AU)
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Acworth, Elaine Elizabeth. "Dan Kelly danced into the shadows : large-scale personas in small-scale stories." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/18342/1/Elaine_Acworth_Thesis.pdf.
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Using an analysis of the creation of the character Dan Kelly in my play, risk, I argue that fairytale characters work as more than personage representations. They function on a big canvas for the audience; they carry large chains of association. Given this, I then propose that the human response is to infer additional meaning, meaning beyond the scope of plot and immediate character interaction - the audience infers symbolic meaning, ‘amplifying’ what is there into more. They enter a ‘generative empty space’ within the play where they infer or ‘unfold’ more meaning. In creating this ‘greater tale’, they are engaged beyond their personal ‘horizon of understanding’, and so, ‘take in’ the work through a heightened perceptual acuity.
Therefore, I pursued the idea of making space for the operation of this process, of leveraging the creation of meaning around a character. My inquiry led me to believe that a powerful way to do this was through absence rather than presence and silence rather than sound; and this had a profound impact on my choice of form for Dan Kelly: he progressed, through a number of stages, from reportage to a digital representation.
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Acworth, Elaine Elizabeth. "Dan Kelly danced into the shadows : large-scale personas in small-scale stories." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/18342/.
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Using an analysis of the creation of the character Dan Kelly in my play, risk, I argue that fairytale characters work as more than personage representations. They function on a big canvas for the audience; they carry large chains of association. Given this, I then propose that the human response is to infer additional meaning, meaning beyond the scope of plot and immediate character interaction - the audience infers symbolic meaning, ‘amplifying’ what is there into more. They enter a ‘generative empty space’ within the play where they infer or ‘unfold’ more meaning. In creating this ‘greater tale’, they are engaged beyond their personal ‘horizon of understanding’, and so, ‘take in’ the work through a heightened perceptual acuity.
Therefore, I pursued the idea of making space for the operation of this process, of leveraging the creation of meaning around a character. My inquiry led me to believe that a powerful way to do this was through absence rather than presence and silence rather than sound; and this had a profound impact on my choice of form for Dan Kelly: he progressed, through a number of stages, from reportage to a digital representation.
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Robinson, David Michael. "Microbial and CO2 Responses to Water Stresses Show Decreased Productivity and Diversity Through Time." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6830.
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Some bacterial taxa when stimulated by water additions will break dormancy, grow, and become dominant members of the community and contribute significant pulses of CO2 associated with the rewetting event. These pulses of activity are associated with high levels of bacterial productivity in soils. (Aanderud et al. 2011) We examined the bacterial taxa that resuscitate and become metabolically active following two forms of water stress (soil drying-rewetting and freeze-thaw cycles) and we captured and measured the CO2 emanating from those soils. Specifically, We used target metagenomics, which uses a specific gene pool within bacteria that is associated with a function of an ecological process, in this case active (16S rRNA communities) bacteria and all bacteria (16S rRNA communities) during drying-rewetting and freeze-thaw cycles. We measured an array of community dynamics (i.e., evenness, richness, diversity, relative abundance of taxa, and network analyses between taxa) as dry soils are rewetted and as frozen soils thaw multiple times in three cold desert soils. Soils from all three locations exhibited some similar bacterial taxa and gene function but were large in part their own community derived from the evolutionary history of the continent in which they reside.
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Baysal, Baris. "Inflation Convergence between Germany and Greece, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Turkey : A co-integration Analysis." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Nationalekonomi, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-35864.
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This paper looks for evidence of co-integration to the German inflation rate between the countries Greece, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey. The method applied is based on econometrics since some certain statistical tests need to be performed to obtain more accurate results. The main tests used are Dickey-Fuller and Augmented version of this test which is vital to test for unit-root and co-integration in this paper. Since the data need to be stationary to perform the analysis in this paper, second difference and the deseasonalisation methods are also used for this purpose. Deseasonalisation method helps this paper progress in two means; to determine the months which have seasonal effect and to form another model with the help of the seasonal months, to obtain stationary series. Finally the original co-integration model is then tested again after deseaonalisation with Dickey-Fuller and Augmented Dickey-Fuller tests. After the tests, I found evidence that Greece, Italy, Sweden, and Turkey are co-integrating with German inflation rate whereas there is no evidence for Spain.
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Ersoy, Yasemin. "An evaluation of the role of external auditing in the accountability of co-operatives in Turkey." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251527.
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Abuk, Nese. "The Intraday Lead-lag Relationship Of Spot And Futures Markets In Turkey: Co-integration And Causality Analyses." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613292/index.pdf.
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This study is concerned with the lead-lag relationship between Turkish spot equity and derivatives markets. In the study, the spot equity market is represented by the ISE-30 Index. In order to compare the structure of the two markets, the futures contract written on the ISE-30 Index, namely TURKDEX-ISE 30, is chosen to represent the derivatives market. The analysis is performed over the sample period beginning February 4, 2005 and ending on December 10, 2010 which actually covers the entire time span from the establishment of the TURKDEX market until the end of last year. This sample period is examined on the basis of 5-minute intervals during the trading day, enabling a more detailed and accurate evaluation of the lead-lag power of the markets. The main methods applied to examine the structure of information flow between the markets are co-integration and causality analyses. Different approaches of these basic methods are employed as well in order to provide robust results. An additional robustness check is provided through examining the relationship between the markets by using both raw and filtered prices. ARMA filtering is performed on the prices and these findings are compared to those obtained by raw prices in order to avoid the problem of infrequent trading. Outcomes of both raw and filtered price analyses reveal that in 2006, 2007 and 2009 the relationship between the markets is bi-directional, whereas in 2008 and 2010, futures market strictly leads the spot market. Filtered and raw analyses do not have a definitive conclusion regarding the lead-lag relationship in 2005. For this year, while the raw data support a bi-directional relationship, ARMA filtering indicates that the spot market leads the derivatives market.
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Ismail, Zenobia. "The alternation fallacy : turnover without transformation in Zambia (1991-2015)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/280366.
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Zambia is one of only three countries in southern Africa which has experienced two alternations, but there has been little institutional reform since independence. A time-based comparison of Zambia’s constitution, legislation and institutions from 1991 to 2015 is conducted because the ‘moving picture’ reveals continuities which tend to be overlooked by a ‘snapshot’ analysis. New incumbents are reluctant to relinquish the increasing returns derived from executive dominance and weak oversight institutions such as the national assembly and judiciary. Therefore, institutional weaknesses from Zambia’s one-party state have infiltrated the multi-party era, where they continue to blur the separation of powers. Factionalism stemming from ethnic polarisation, which emerged in the colonial era, undermines all ruling parties in Zambia. The study finds that succession contests, triggered by term limits or the deaths of sitting presidents, are the primary mechanism which repeatedly weakens dominant parties. The outcomes of such intra-party conflicts have far-reaching consequences for the political party system by giving rise to new parties, re-orientating ethnic and political alliances, and contributing to turnover in elections. However, the dissertation reveals that both the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy and the Patriotic Front governments in Zambia reneged on the reforms which they promised while in opposition and opted to maintain the constitutional clauses, repressive legislation and patronage system which they inherited. An extensive analysis of the 35 by-elections which occurred after the 2011 turnover ascertains that there was pervasive co-option of opposition members into the Patriotic Front, leading back to the dominant path. Therefore, the dissertation concludes that one-party dominance in Zambia is path dependent. Consequently, it is an alternation fallacy to expect the ousting of a dominant party to stimulate democratisation. Democracy advocates will need to confront the challenge of providing incentives that will persuade incumbents to undertake reforms which diminish executive dominance and strengthen the independence of oversight institutions.
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Cassel, Kevin William. "FACTORS INFLUENCING SITE OCCUPANCY OF BREEDING BIRDS, HERPTILES, MESOCARNIVORES, AND SMALL MAMMALS ON SUBURBAN FOREST PRESERVES IN THE CHICAGO METROPOLITAN AREA." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1563.
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Wildlife in urban settings are a management challenge because wildlife populations and their habitats are often fragmented and degraded, but natural resource managers need information concerning their spatial distribution, spatial turnover, and spatial co-occurrence while accounting for imperfect detection. Based in the Chicago Metropolitan Area during 2009-2012, my study modeled 23 species across 5 wildlife taxa concerning patterns of site occupancy, spatial turnover (i.e., colonization and extinction), and/or spatial co-occurrence at 1-2 spatial scales. In detail, I investigated: (1) detection probabilities, site occupancy, and spatial turnover as affected by habitat and anthropogenic influences at 2 spatial scales for 6 species of songbirds: field sparrows (Spizella pusilla), great crested flycatchers (Myiarchus crinitus), willow flycatchers (Empidonax traillii), bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus), marsh wrens (Cistothorus palustris), and rose-breasted grosbeaks (Pheucticus ludovicianus); (2) detection probabilities, site occupancy, and spatial turnover as affected by habitat and anthropogenic influences at 2 spatial scales for 3 species of reptiles and 4 species of amphibians: common garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis), painted turtles (Chrysemys picta), snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina), blue-spotted salamanders (Ambystoma laterale), tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum), green frogs (Rana clamitans), and northern leopard frogs (Rana pipiens); (3) habitat use and landscape site occupancy and spatial turnover as affected by habitat and anthropogenic influences for 4 species of mesocarnivores: coyotes (Canis latrans), raccoons (Procyon lotor), striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis), and Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana); and (4) detection probabilities and spatial distributions as affected by local habitat, an interacting species (dominant or subordinate), or both for 6 species of small mammals: short-tailed shrews (Blarina brevicauda), meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus), white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus), gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis), masked shrews (Sorex cinereus), and eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus). I elucidate how managers can improve or design their survey techniques that will aid their inference of the distribution of wildlife in the Midwest. This work also provides suburban natural resource managers in the Chicago Metropolitan Area with information concerning land management and land acquisition guidelines to best conserve, attract, or deter the aforementioned wildlife on their properties.
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Ozkan, Alper. "A Critical Evaluation Of Housing Co-operatives In Turkey Within The Framework Of Collective Action Theories: A Case Study In Ankara And Istanbul." Phd thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610518/index.pdf.
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Co-operatives and housing co-operatives as main consideration of the dissertation are historically and philosophically developed institutions. Co-operative culture, although emerged in Britain during early phases of the industrial revolution, has been adapted by other countries within socialist, social democratic and even communist systems. In the contemporary era, housing co-operatives are still in existence and contribute housing production all over the world in every economic and political system.
Institutional development of housing co-operatives in Turkey can be regarded as a process of adapting a Western institution and it shows how contextual differences result in changes in terms of ideology and implementation. In this respect, the thesis aims to evaluate Turkish housing co-operatives by putting forward their contextual differences. Housing co-operatives are non-governmental organizations and produce considerable amount of housing in Turkey. The dissertation regards housing co-operatives as a kind of collective action and discusses underlying factors of success of them with respect to collective action theories.
Free riding, group size, critical mass, heterogeneity, network density and selective incentives are the factors obtained from the Theory of Free Rider and the Theory of Critical Mass and discussed regarding the Turkish co-operative development case to be tested via &ldquoThe Housing Co-operatives Interview Survey&rdquo
in istanbul and Ankara. The thesis&rsquo
findings provide that despite there might be expected effects of factors on success of housing co-operatives, these factors might be different due to the fact that they depends on desires of the critical mass
whether to act in favor of collective or individual benefits.
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Onoglu, Irem. "Investigation Of Emission Factors Of Non-methane Hydrocarbons For Some Widely Used Passenger Cars In Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605497/index.pdf.
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The objectives of this study are to measure the non-methane volatile organic carbon (NMVOC's) emissions from passenger cars in Turkey having gasoline engines, to determine emission factors of these vehicles for BTEX compounds and comparison of emission factors obtained in this study with the emission factors of the other countries. This study was conducted in two parts: The first part was to determine the categories of passenger cars widely used in Turkey, and also to determine the average carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbon (HC) emissions at idle condition for these car types based on the exhaust emission measurements of Ankara Ç
evre Koruma Vakfi (ANÇ
EVA). The second part of the study was to analyze the gas composition of exhaust gasses at different road conditions for BTEX components by using gas chromatography. The results of the study have shown that the cars named under &lsquo
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constitute 31.5% and &lsquo
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Fiat&rsquo
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13.1% of the total cars in Turkey and they are manufactured by the same company. Therefore, studies have been performed with &lsquo
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Tofas/Fiat&rsquo
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cars. The highest emission factors among hydrocarbons investigated in this study were found for toluene and m-xylene. Generally, as driving speed increases the emissions of HC&rsquo
s are found to decrease in concentration. It was interesting to note that the highest emissions occur at 30 km/hr speed which is the mostly used speed in crowded streets and busy intersections. Therefore, it was concluded that it is very important to take measures for emissions in the city traffic. Cold start emissions were also found to be higher than the hot start emissions.
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Paula, Bruno Campagnolo de. "Sistema inteligente para jogos de estratégia baseados em turnos : uma abordagem utilizando planejamento baseado em casos / Bruno Campagnolo de Paula ; orientador, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich ; co-orientador, Fabrício Enembreck." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_PR, 2007. http://www.biblioteca.pucpr.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1115.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, 2007Bibliografia: f. 76-83
Desde meados da década de 50, jogos têm sido utilizados para examinar e testar conceitos em diversas áreas da Inteligência Artificial (IA). As primeiras pesquisas foram baseadas em jogos clássicos como Damas e Xadrez que se caracterizam pela simplicidade
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Leiva, Latorre Annette. "Análisis variacionista de roles narrativos en relatos co-construidos por sujetos de Santiago de Chile: un estudio de la toma de turnos y algunos aspectos de la comunicación no verbal." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2016. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/143283.
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Swart, Johannes Petrus. "Antecedents and outcomes of happiness of managers in the agricultural sector in South Africa /|cJohannes Petrus Swart." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/10363.
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The happiness of managers is an important research theme for several reasons. Managers spend most of their working day with people, are constantly interacting with various social systems and are role models for happiness in organisations. Furthermore, happiness (in terms of feeling and functioning well) is associated with mental health and positive organisational outcomes. The prevalence of positive mental health is relatively low, with less than a third of the population experiencing high mental health. Research about happiness is necessary given that gains in mental health predict declines in mental illness. Two conceptualisations of happiness, namely authentic happiness (Seligman, 2002), and flourishing (Keyes, 2005) include dimensions of feeling and functioning well. No studies have been conducted regarding the happiness of managers in South Africa. Therefore, research is necessary to investigate the factors associated with happiness, as well as the pathways to managers’ happiness. Psychological need satisfaction is an important pathway through which social-contextual variables impact happiness of people. The aim of this research was to investigate the state of, antecedents and outcomes of happiness of managers in the agricultural sector in South Africa. A cross-sectional design with managers in the South African agricultural sector (N = 507) was used. The Orientations to Happiness Questionnaire, Satisfaction with Life Scale, Job Satisfaction Scale, Organisational Citizenship Behaviour Scale, Organisational Commitment Scale, Antecedents Scale, Work-related Basic Need Satisfaction Scale, Work Engagement Scale, Mental Health Continuum Short Form, Questionnaire for Eudaimonic Well-being, Work-role Fit Scale, Work-Life Questionnaire and Turnover Intention Scale were utilised. Cronbach alpha coefficients, exploratory factor analysis, Pearson correlations, multiple regression analysis, descriptive statistics and mediational analysis (Omnibus procedure) were applied. Structural equation modelling was used to test a structural model of orientations to happiness and its relation to various organisational outcomes. The results of study 1 showed that orientations to happiness (i.e. pleasure, meaning and engagement) had strong direct effects on subjective well-being, job satisfaction and organisational citizenship behaviour. Orientations to happiness impacted job satisfaction indirectly through subjective well-being. Subjective well-being had a strong direct and positive effect on job satisfaction. Orientations to happiness and subjective well-being affected organisational commitment indirectly through their effects on job satisfaction. Concerning happiness as flourishing at work, the results of study 2 showed that 3% of the managers were languishing, 48.5% were moderately flourishing, while 48.5% were flourishing. Task characteristics, supervisor relations, availability of resources impacted job satisfaction, emotional and psychological well-being of managers. Remuneration was associated with job satisfaction, emotional and social well-being. Task characteristics, supervisor relations, personal resources and remuneration satisfied the psychological needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness, which impacted job satisfaction, work engagement and flourishing of managers positively. The results of study 3 showed that factors contributing to meaningful work (work role fit, good co-worker relations, meaningful tasks and work beliefs) had direct effects on psychological need satisfaction, purpose and meaning in life, organisational citizenship behaviour and turnover intention. Work role fit, co-worker relations, task characteristics and career orientation (as a work belief) impacted meaning and purpose in life indirectly through competence satisfaction. Purpose in life impacted turnover intention negatively via psychological need satisfaction, while meaning in life impacted organisational citizenship behaviour and turnover intention via competence and relatedness satisfaction. Recommendations for future research were made.PhD, Industrial Psychology, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2012
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Souza, Roberth Fagundes de. "Competição por mutualismos: hierarquia de dominância interespecífica mediada pela qualidade do recurso regulando interações formiga-planta." Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, 2015. https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/13282.
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Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas GeraisAnts that collect nectar from plants bearing extrafloral nectaries (EFN) can defend them against the attacks of herbivores. Many cases of this food-for-protection mutualism have been described and the next step is to understand the mechanisms that structure these interactions. In this study, this issue was addressed through field observations and experiments on ant behaviour in studies compiled into five chapters. Specifically, we evaluated the plant\'s investment in attracting ants (nectar quality) and the competitive relationship between ants (resource dominance hierarchies) as structuring mechanisms of ant-plant interactions. The entire study took place in areas of the ecosystem known as Rupestrian Fields, located in Ouro Preto (Brazil), between June 2011 and March 2014. In Chapter 1, we observe that ant-plant interaction network in Rupestrian Fields is nested and generalized as expected for mutualisms, but differs from ant-hemipteran network, its ecological equivalent, despite both share ant species interactions. In Chapter 2, we delve into the study of the effect of resources in interaction frequency, and we showed that the quality more than quantity of nectar determines the pattern of interaction between plants (10 species) and ants (32 species), as well as the benefits of this interaction (conditional outcomes). In the Chapter 3, we focus on the ants to demonstrate, using paired encounters, that ants species are organized in dominance hierarchies based on aggressiveness. This hierarchies affects the numerical dominance based on territoriality and, more importantly, in the dominance of interactions and nectar. Keeping this line of thought, we demonstrated in Chapter 4 that not all ants that collect nectar really protect the plant against herbivores but only the ecological dominant and highly interacted species. Finally, we close the thesis demonstrating in Chapter 5 that the ant species interacted with plants during the day are not the same at night, but this diurnal-nocturnal turnover does not affect the structure of the interactions by only changing the dominant species. This study brings behavioural and empirical evidences on the importance of the identity of the ant species and its ecological dominance, as well the effect of the nectar quality, for the structure of ant-plant interactions and effectiveness of mutualisms.
As formigas que recolhem o néctar das plantas com nectários extraflorais (EFN) podem defendê-las contra ataques de herbívoros. Muitos casos desse tipo de mutualismo foram descritos mas ainda é preciso entender os mecanismos que estruturam essas interações. Neste estudo, esse problema foi abordado através de observações de campo e experimentos sobre o comportamento das formigas compilados em cinco capítulos. Especificamente, foi avaliado o investimento da planta em atrair formigas (qualidade do néctar) e a relação competitiva entre formigas pelo néctar (hierarquias de dominância) como mecanismos estruturadores das interações formiga-planta (partição das interações). Todo o estudo ocorreu em áreas do ecossistema Campo Rupestre, localizadas em Ouro Preto (Brasil), de junho de 2011 a março de 2014. No Capítulo 1, observamos que redes de interação formiga-planta em Campo rupestre é aninhada e generalizada como esperado para mutualismos, mas difere da rede formiga-hemíptero, seu equivalente ecológico, apesar de compartilharem as mesmas espécies de formigas interagentes. No Capítulo 2, nós aprofundamos no efeito dos recursos estruturando interações, e mostramos que a qualidade mais do que a quantidade de néctar determina o padrão de interação entre formigas (32 espécies) e plantas (10 espécies), bem como os benefícios desta interação (benefícios condicionais). No Capítulo 3, nós demonstramos através de encontros interespecíficos pareados que as formigas são organizadas em hierarquias de dominância comportamental baseadas em agressividade. Essa hierarquia afeta a dominância numérica por territorialidade e, mais importante, o domínio das interações e do néctar. Mantendo esta linha de pensamento, demonstramos no Capítulo 4 que nem todas as formigas que coletam néctar realmente protegem a planta contra herbívoros mas somente as espécies dominantes e altamente interagidas. Finalmente, fechamos a tese demonstrando no Capítulo 5 que as espécies de formiga que interagem com as plantas durante o dia não são o mesmo à noite, mas esta rotatividade diurno-noturno não afeta a estrutura das interações devido a troca específica da formiga dominante. Este estudo traz evidências comportamentais e empíricas sobre a importância da identidade de espécies de formiga e sua dominância ecológica, assim como da qualidade do recurso, para a estrutura de rede da formiga-planta e eficácia do mutualismo.
Doutor em Ecologia e Conservação de Recursos Naturais
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Denecker, Thomas. "Bioinformatique et analyse de données multiomiques : principes et applications chez les levures pathogènes Candida glabrata et Candida albicans Functional networks of co-expressed genes to explore iron homeostasis processes in the pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata Efficient, quick and easy-to-use DNA replication timing analysis with START-R suite FAIR_Bioinfo: a turnkey training course and protocol for reproducible computational biology Label-free quantitative proteomics in Candida yeast species: technical and biological replicates to assess data reproducibility Rendre ses projets R plus accessibles grâce à Shiny Pixel: a content management platform for quantitative omics data Empowering the detection of ChIP-seq "basic peaks" (bPeaks) in small eukaryotic genomes with a web user-interactive interface A hypothesis-driven approach identifies CDK4 and CDK6 inhibitors as candidate drugs for treatments of adrenocortical carcinomas Characterization of the replication timing program of 6 human model cell lines." Thesis, université Paris-Saclay, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPASL010.
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Plusieurs évolutions sont constatées dans la recherche en biologie. Tout d’abord, les études menées reposent souvent sur des approches expérimentales quantitatives. L’analyse et l’interprétation des résultats requièrent l’utilisation de l’informatique et des statistiques. Également, en complément des études centrées sur des objets biologiques isolés, les technologies expérimentales haut débit permettent l’étude des systèmes (caractérisation des composants du système ainsi que des interactions entre ces composants). De très grandes quantités de données sont disponibles dans les bases de données publiques, librement réutilisables pour de nouvelles problématiques. Enfin, les données utiles pour les recherches en biologie sont très hétérogènes (données numériques, de textes, images, séquences biologiques, etc.) et conservées sur des supports d’information également très hétérogènes (papiers ou numériques). Ainsi « l’analyse de données » s’est petit à petit imposée comme une problématique de recherche à part entière et en seulement une dizaine d’années, le domaine de la « Bioinformatique » s’est en conséquence totalement réinventé. Disposer d’une grande quantité de données pour répondre à un questionnement biologique n’est souvent pas le défi principal. La vraie difficulté est la capacité des chercheurs à convertir les données en information, puis en connaissance. Dans ce contexte, plusieurs problématiques de recherche en biologie ont été abordées lors de cette thèse. La première concerne l’étude de l’homéostasie du fer chez la levure pathogène Candida glabrata. La seconde concerne l’étude systématique des modifications post-traductionnelles des protéines chez la levure pathogène Candida albicans. Pour ces deux projets, des données « omiques » ont été exploitées : transcriptomiques et protéomiques. Des outils bioinformatiques et des outils d’analyses ont été implémentés en parallèle conduisant à l’émergence de nouvelles hypothèses de recherche en biologie. Une attention particulière et constante a aussi été portée sur les problématiques de reproductibilité et de partage des résultats avec la communauté scientifiqueBiological research is changing. First, studies are often based on quantitative experimental approaches. The analysis and the interpretation of the obtained results thus need computer science and statistics. Also, together with studies focused on isolated biological objects, high throughput experimental technologies allow to capture the functioning of biological systems (identification of components as well as the interactions between them). Very large amounts of data are also available in public databases, freely reusable to solve new open questions. Finally, the data in biological research are heterogeneous (digital data, texts, images, biological sequences, etc.) and stored on multiple supports (paper or digital). Thus, "data analysis" has gradually emerged as a key research issue, and in only ten years, the field of "Bioinformatics" has been significantly changed. Having a large amount of data to answer a biological question is often not the main challenge. The real challenge is the ability of researchers to convert the data into information and then into knowledge. In this context, several biological research projects were addressed in this thesis. The first concerns the study of iron homeostasis in the pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata. The second concerns the systematic investigation of post-translational modifications of proteins in the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans. In these two projects, omics data were used: transcriptomics and proteomics. Appropriate bioinformatics and analysis tools were developed, leading to the emergence of new research hypotheses. Particular and constant attention has also been paid to the question of data reproducibility and sharing of results with the scientific community
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CHEN, YI-CHENG, and 陳義成. "The Turnover of Traditional Strategic Thinking – A Case Study of Cheng Yeu Construction Co. Ltd." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90434546361328384802.
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The construction industry in Taiwan is nowadays bearing continuous impact from both, financial liberalization and economic globalization. As a consequence, the industrial environment at large is far too often subject to chance and risk. Too many competitors and architecture products in the current market make the supply exceed the demand, which is considered as the most critical aspect for survival. Consequently, for business owners and managers, making the greatest profit is not the priority any longer. Instead, they are forced to come up with a strategy to survive in the current market. In such a tense market and industrial environment conditions, the only means to ensure survival is to create a unique competitive advantage through the diversification of management strategies. As a result, aspects such as cost reduction, higher operating efficiency and improvement of asset quality can be subsequently targeted. Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) is a methodology of strategic thinking proposed by Kim and Mauborgne in 2005. Instead of setting competition as the central logic of strategic thinking, this modern methodology takes value innovation as the cornerstone. BOS possesses six principles with four action frames, and uses strategy move as its analytic unit. By establishing the value curve of the so called “blue ocean” strategy canvas, enterprises and clients can achieve a win-win situation and jump forward simultaneously. Without the trade-off between value and cost, BOS can create a new market boundary that eliminates competition and implements diversity and, at the same time, low costs. The success of many cases has served to test, as well verify the feasibility of this structure and it has proved that there exists a clear difference between BOS and the Red Ocean Strategy or ROS which focuses on traditional war-like competition. This research paper explores the blue-ocean-strategy theory by means of a case study analysis of a construction corporation. The main purpose is to seek for a practical and reliable strategy to operate a specific construction business or a given company. By analyzing the company in this case study, the research will be able to raise its management efficiency levels and make them more outstanding. This research shows that, not only for the small size, single-function construction companies, but also for the larger size, multi-function ones, the current strategies which are mostly adopted are not beyond the scope of corporation merger, operation integration or product innovation. Its ultimate goal is to satisfy both consumers as well as investor’s demands by diversifying the real estate services and products. In the near future, these operating strategies, mergers, inside integrations and product innovations, will be the main developmental trends for all types of construction enterprises. Enterprises will be able to achieve sustainable growth and ensure survival only by keeping the existing competitive advantage, enlarging the economic scales by merging and innovating new products.
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JimmyAgren and 歐亞歷. "Financial Contagion and Co-Movement between the Stock Exchanges in the Greater China Area: A Study on the Role of Market Capitalization, Trade Volume, and Turnover." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32354341638887821362.
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碩士國立成功大學
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This paper is looking at the co-movements between the stock exchanges in the Greater China Area, namely, Hong Kong Exchange, Taiwan Stock Exchange, Shanghai Stock Exchange, and Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The aim is to look at contagion and find possible patters of co-movements during tranquil times and turmoil times by studying three crisis events. Data is collected for the four exchanges using their main indices; daily data is applied for closing prices and volume traded. Multiple regressions are studied to determine the possible relationships between the variables studied. Findings suggest that there is no evidence for market contagion in the area for any of the events studied. Mainly significant co-movements are only found between the two exchanges in the Chinese Mainland. While looking at the volume and the pattern of the trading volume, some conclusions can be drawn about the rebalancing theory as a factor contributing to both positive and negative co-movements, these finding are explained from the perspective of the awareness-motivation-capability theory.
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Seymour, Michael Andrew Warwick. "The influence of team dialogue sessions on employee engagement." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19179.
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Orientation: This study is about team dialogue and how dialogue in teams may impact on levels of employee engagement, especially how this can be applied and used in Industrial & Organisational Psychology.
Research purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the influence that dialogue sessions in work teams may have on employee engagement.
Motivation for the study: The manager and first-line superior play a crucial role in facilitating and enabling the connection between the employee and the organisation and how this impacts on employee engagement. When practised successfully, dialogue may have an influence on the level of employee engagement, as it allows groups to move beyond any one individual’s understanding to gain new insights and to create ideas in ways that could not be achieved individually. It may be argued that team dialogue and relational practices could assist in improving employee engagement in the South African workplace.
Research design, approach and method: The study used a quasi-experimental approach in terms of which an experimental group was exposed to an organisational development intervention of team dialogues over a period of time and then compared to a control group that had not been exposed to the organisational development team dialogue intervention. The main findings were reported and discussed, and recommendations were made.
Main findings: Team dialogues have an impact on employee engagement
Contributions/value add: This study contributes to the field of Industrial & Organisational Psychology in that it demonstrates the influence that team dialogue has on employee engagement.Industrial and Organisational Psychology
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Mwale, Emanuel. "Jesus Christ’s humanity in the contexts of the pre-fall and post-fall natures of humanity: a comparative and critical evaluative study of the views of Jack Sequeira, Millard J. Erickson and Norman R. Gulley." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27660.
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Bibliography: leaves 653-669Before God created human beings, He devised a plan to save them in case they sinned. In this plan, the second Person of the Godhead would become human. Thus, the incarnation of the second Person of the Godhead was solely for the purpose of saving fallen, sinful human beings. There would have been no incarnation if human beings had not sinned. Thus, the nature of the mission that necessitated the incarnation determined what kind of human nature Jesus was to assume. It was sin that necessitated the incarnation – sin as a tendency and sin as an act of disobedience. In His incarnational life and later through His death on Calvary’s cross, Jesus needed to deal with this dual problem of sin. In order for Him to achieve this, He needed to identify Himself with the fallen humanity in such a way that He would qualify to be the substitute for the fallen humanity. In His role as fallen humanity’s substitute, He would die vicariously and at the same time have sin as a tendency rendered impotent. Jesus needed to assume a human nature that would qualify Him to be an understanding and sympathetic High Priest. He needed to assume a nature that would qualify Him to be an example in overcoming temptation and suffering. Thus, in this study, after comparing and critically evaluating the Christological views of Jack Sequeira, Millard J. Erickson and Norman R. Gulley, I propose that Jesus assumed a unique post-fall (postlapsarian) human nature. He assumed the very nature that all human beings since humankind’s fall have, with its tendency or leaning towards sin. However, unlike other human beings, who are sinners by nature and need a saviour, Jesus was not a sinner. I contend that Jesus was unique because, first and foremost, He was conceived in Mary’s womb by the power of the Holy Spirit and was filled with the Holy Spirit throughout His earthly life. Second; He was the God-Man; and third, He lived a sinless life. This study contributes to literature on Christology, and uniquely to Christological dialogue between Evangelical and Seventh-day Adventist theologians.
Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology
D. Phil. (Systematic Theology)