Tesi sul tema "Fallists"

Il diritto fallimentare ha subito nell’ultimo decennio sostanziali modifiche finalizzate a determinare un vero e proprio cambiamento della concezione della crisi d'impresa nonché della figura del fallito, variandone i connotati e modificando il punto di vista del legislatore del 1942. Tra le tante novità apportate da queste riforme, quella del 2006 introduce l’istituto dell’esdebitazione. Questo istituto, già presente nei modelli legislativi americani ed europei, consiste nell’incentivante liberazione del debitore, persona fisica, dai debiti residui nei confronti dei creditori concorsuali non soddisfatti integralmente. Lo scopo di tale istituto è quello di recuperare l'attività economica del fallito per permettere un nuovo inizio, una volta azzerate tutte le posizioni debitorie. L'obiettivo di questo elaborato è quello di delineare il quadro normativo dell'esdebitazione valutando i punti di forza e le sue criticità.

Con il presente elaborato si intende analizzare l’istituto dell’esercizio provvisorio dell’impresa del fallito. Il lavoro si articola in tre parti principali, in cui sono suddivisi i diversi capitoli. La prima parte è dedicata ad un’analisi riguardante l’evoluzione del diritto fallimentare nella storia, dal 1882 ai giorni d’oggi, ponendo particolare enfasi sul cambiamento avvenuto con la riforma del 2006 e sul passaggio da una visione pubblicistica ad una visione privatistica del fallimento. Nella parte centrale dell’elaborato ci si focalizza sull’analisi dell’art. 104 L. F. (Esercizio provvisorio dell’impresa del fallito), analizzandone i vari i commi dal punto di vista della dottrina e della giurisprudenza. Da ultimo, con la parte finale si analizza l’istituto dell’esercizio provvisorio nell’ambito delle società sportive, focalizzandosi in particolare sul recente caso del fallimento del Parma Calcio.

Fallists belong to a constellation of radical student activist movements that pledge to disturb and reimagine South African society. Rather than restricting themselves to coordinated forms of collective action, Fallists’ advance their “revolution-as-becoming” within a context of everyday resistance (Haynes & Prakash, 1991; Molefe, 2015). In this dissertation, I propose that Fallists form an “emerging networked counterpublic” made up of individual activists that enact everyday forms of resistance on Twitter (Jackson & Foucault Welles, 2016:399). This dissertation explores the use of Twitter by a microblogger who has emerged organically as a “crowdsourced elite” among Fallists (Papacharissi & de Fatima Oliveira, 2012). I contend that this microblogger exemplifies the repertoires of communication and resistance that pervade within Fallist networks on Twitter (Jackson & Foucault Welles, 2016). The microblogger is identified through methods of observation and social network analysis (SNA). “#whitetip,” a Twitter hashtag network that exemplifies Fallist communication and resistance, informs the interpretive content analysis that follows. This analysis is conducted on the tweets that the microblogger broadcast between 1 April and 30 September 2016. Tweets are categorised according to “evaluative frames” that emerged inductively during the course of analysis. I find that “resentment,” “pride and care,” and “play” made up the vast majority of evaluative frames. The microblogger employs the platform in a manner that disturbs dominant understandings of public sphere communication: the microblogger’s tweets are evaluative rather than deliberative, and assert a marginal, embodied subjectivity (Papacharissi, 2014; Warner, 2002).

La presente tesi affronta l’attuale disciplina del fallimento nelle società. Com’è noto, il D.lgs. n. 14 del 12 gennaio 2019, emanato in attuazione della L. 155 del 19 ottobre 2017, introduce nell’Ordinamento il nuovo Codice della Crisi d’impresa e dell’insolvenza, che in considerazione della modifica apportata all’art. 389 dello stesso dall’art. 5 del recentissimo D.L. 23 dell’8 aprile 2020 (“Decreto Liquidità”), entrerà in vigore il 1 settembre 2021 e sostituirà integralmente la vigente Legge Fallimentare (Regio Decreto 267/42). Probabilmente con tale scelta “forzata”, connessa all’attuale emergenza sanitaria e di conseguenza a quella economica che purtroppo si prospetta, si vuole consentire a tutti i soggetti coinvolti di continuare ad operare secondo una disciplina consolidata e permettere al sistema economico di superare la fase più acuta dell’emergenza economica. Del resto, è evidente che in un clima di incertezza e di una crisi economica derivante da causa di forza maggiore, di entità rilevante e diverse a seconda della durata dell’emergenza e dell’impatto sui vari settori produttivi, non potrebbero avere un reale significato gli indicatori della crisi ipotizzati; anzi, la loro “efficacia” probabilmente pregiudicherebbe la ratio della riforma, vale a dire, quella di intercettare tempestivamente lo stato di crisi, tramite un sistema di segnalazione tempestiva, e di intervenire sulla stessa, favorendo invece l’apertura di una procedura liquidatoria. La presente tesi nel primo capitolo analizzerà la disciplina fallimentare nel suo complesso e le novità introdotte con la nuova riforma, avente effetti modificativi sull’intera disciplina; per poi proseguire nel secondo capitolo, approfondendo il ruolo fondamentale del curatore e i suoi profili gestori all’interno della procedura. Il terzo capitolo affronterà il tema dell’autonomia processuale del fallito e le connesse questioni di legittimità avverso gli atti impositivi.

Lingering in the topic of literary engagement, this article follows a reader enthralled by words and the significant non-space where fiction and reality intersect. Using Terry Fallis’ political satire “The Best Laid Plans,” a physical map of the reading is followed as I amble through the Ottawa sites depicted in the novel. In this literary pilgrimage, reading is considered as a corporeal (re)action with a series of educative affects. Contrasting this experience with common in-school reading practices, this narrative encourages the honouring of the individualized relationship between reader and text as well as highlighting the pedagogical value of dallying in a work of fiction. Drawing on concepts of spatiality, I contemplate the notion of the home city as a familiar and yet capricious place, made more significant by a fantastic connection. Reading in significant spaces has a lasting, sprawling outcome whereby text, place and reader are all affected.

El tema de los Estados fallidos es una cuestión de singular actualidad, tal como lo señala Patrick Stewart1, los últimos 20 años —bautizados con el anodino calificativo de la era post Guerra Fría— podrían igualmente ser conocidos como la era de los Estados Fallidos. Tras décadas de enfrentamiento con el poder soviético, sucesivas administraciones estadounidenses se vieron de repente enredadas en la plaga de problemas de los países más disfuncionales del planeta. Aunque persiste la competencia ente las grandes potencias, son a menudo los casos desesperados del mundo —de Somalia a Afganistán, de Haití a Liberia, de Pakistán a Yemen— quienes dominan la agenda de política exterior de EE UU. Esta tendencia comenzó a principios de los 90, cuando una numerosa oleada de colapsos de Estados y violencia interna —incluyendo, aunque desde luego no únicamente, los episodios de genocidio en la antigua Yugoslavia y Ruanda— parecieron anunciar un nuevo desorden mundial.
Tesis

Tesis para optar al grado académico de magíster en estudios internacionales.
Esta investigación se centra en estudiar los diversos factores que la literatura ha planteado como relevantes para la ocurrencia de presidencias fallidas en América Latina, y ver cómo se comportan éstos y los mecanismos causales que se desarrollan, en los contextos de Brasil con los mandatos de Dilma Rousseff y en Guatemala con Otto Pérez Molina. Además, se busca evaluar qué otras variables fueron posibles de observar, y que no están mayormente trabajadas en estudios previos. Teniendo todos estos elementos en consideración, lo que se realiza una vez que se logran analizar cada una de las presidencias y los contextos mencionados, es una comparación de los factores presentes en ambos mandatos y evaluar en conjunto cuáles tuvieron mayor incidencia en las presidencias en cuestión.
This research focuses on studying the various factors that the literature has posed as relevant to the occurrence of failed presidencies in Latin America, and see how they behave and the causal mechanisms that develop, in the Brazilian contexts with the mandates of Dilma Rousseff and in Guatemala with Otto Pérez Molina. In addition, we seek to evaluate which other variables were possible to observe, and which are not mainly worked on in previous studies. Taking all these elements into consideration, what is done once you can analyze each of the presidencies and the contexts mentioned, is a comparison of the factors present in both mandates and evaluate together which had the greatest impact on the presidencies in question.

La crisi ha avuto conseguenze senza precedenti sul sistema imprenditoriale italiano. Tra il 2010 e il 2015 solo in Veneto sono fallite 7372 aziende. Ma quante delle imprese che sono fallite, prima della crisi, stavano creando valore? E in che misura la crisi è stata causa del loro fallimento? In altre parole, questi crack sono forse una nuova forma di darwinismo? Oppure la morte non guarda in faccia nessuno? Queste sono solo alcune delle domande alle quali cercheremo di rispondere nel corso dei prossimi paragrafi. Per farlo, abbiamo appositamente selezionato un campione di imprese all’interno del tessuto imprenditoriale Veneto e le abbiamo studiate a fondo, ma da una prospettiva diversa, ovvero quella del valore. Un nuovo motto, infatti, echeggia con sempre maggiore insistenza nell’economia d’impresa: creare valore. Che si tratti semplicemente di un fenomeno di moda? Può darsi, ma una cosa è certa, il linguaggio del valore rende i messaggi più trasparenti ed efficaci. Sul piano della comunicazione, dire che la società abbia reso solo il 5% o che abbia distrutto valore per 4 milioni di euro non è la stessa cosa. Con il linguaggio del valore, la forma cambia la sostanza: non realizzare almeno una certa redditività, significherà distruggere valore.

Despite the ongoing global conflicts, wars, disputes and crises which face the world, education is one of the forces enabling global unity. Cultural enrichment, through ‘semesters away,' student exchange programmes and the marketing of ‘ivy-league' education online, have resulted in an explosion in student migration. However, international student migration is not a new concept, dating back to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in Europe, where foreign students formed communities at recognized universities. The value of global migration in the realm of academics, has gained increasing attention in light of the tremendous value migrant students add to host countries' cultural, political and academic landscapes. However, the largest contribution relates to economic gain, which earns host countries billions of US dollars. While migrant students may be ‘welcome' into host communities, evidence points to issues surrounding homesickness, xenophobia, acculturative stress and social adjustment. One of the largest pull factors in student migration is the issue of university rankings. The University of Cape Town (UCT) is described as the ‘Harvard' of Africa due to its global and local ranking. The institution is ranked 1st in Africa and 136th in the world, in part for its international outlook (staff, students and research collaboration) (Times Higher Education, 2020). It is for this reason that students from across the globe traverse to South Africa to obtain a recognised qualification. The seductive power of UCT as a highly ranked university, exerts a tacit, subtle power over IS. Although there is this academic attraction, student experiences of access, participation and belonging may be questionable. Apart from seductive power, overt power, as seen in the application process for visas, study permits and inflated fees for IS, may create barriers to entry. Migrant student experiences may also be affected by the recent and continued volatility in the higher education landscape. Student mass action, centred on the calls for the #feesmustfall / #rhodesmustfall (‘fallist movements') and calls to decolonise higher education, have taken centre stage in the South African academic landscape. This begs the question of where and how IS fit into the struggle of the host nation. Students' ability to cope and acculturate into the host society is influenced by socio-cultural capital, determined largely by their country of origin (global north versus global south). In this regard IS may experience acceptance or marginalisation based on their social capital or by how they are viewed and accepted by the host nation. Students can also build resilience through assimilation, integration and self- marginalisation. The role of host societies and institutions in assisting migrant students to cope with the acculturation process and culture shock is globally, well documented. This researched is aimed at uncovering issues of access, participation and belonging of IS at the University of Cape Town. The aim of this study was explored by asking the following questions: What are the lived experiences of access, belonging and participation of international students at the University of Cape Town? Sub questions: i. What factors motivated students to migrate to South Africa? ii. How did IS experience and negotiate their experiences during the application process? iii. What were their experiences during registration and orientation? iv. What were their experiences academically and socially? v. How did they negotiate their transition from their home countries to South Africa? vi. What are the differences in experience between IS from varying socio-economic, cultural and geographic backgrounds? This qualitative research, using constructivist grounded theory, sought to uncover the experiences of IS through the lens of inclusive education, power, social capital, acculturation and voice research. Addressing issues of inclusive education is sometimes described as a conundrum in seeking to find solutions to, exactly ‘who is included, and into what?' Research indicates that inclusion is rather a layered, grey area rather than a binary of ‘who is in or who is out?' What inclusive education points to however, is the nature of power between students and institutions. The effects of the various types of power relations on IS are greatly influenced by class, culture, race and origin of students. This study captures the experiences of a cohort of 25 IS from various parts of the world and includes representation from both sexes and varying years of study. Findings of this study, relating to access, participation and belonging within the ambits of inclusive education, indicate varying degrees of inclusion. In the main, the political and geographical nature of the country of origin has a pronounced bearing on the experience of the IS. Similarly, the effects of the seductive power of western, coloniality play an integral role in choice of institution. The South African scenario is further complicated by student unrest/ #fallist movements which further alienates IS.

La tesi tratta dell’epurazione avvenuta all’interno del mondo universitario italiano dopo la caduta del fascismo. In essa si analizzano sia le misure adottate dagli Alleati, attraverso il Governo Militare e la Commissione di Controllo che avevano istituito per amministrare i territori occupati, sia i procedimenti di epurazione diretti dagli organismi italiani, fino alle leggi del 1948-49 che consentirono il ritorno in cattedra a quasi tutti gli epurati. Infatti, nonostante la grande profusione di energie che aveva portato in un primo tempo all’allontanamento di 177 professori, ridotti poi a 50 dopo il benevolo esame dei giudici italiani, dal 1946 il governo De Gasperi si impegnò a favorire il rientro in servizio di tutti gli epurati, secondo una precisa volontà politica di perdono e pacificazione. Non manca una disamina sulle reazioni interne alla casta accademica, che configurano nel complesso una chiusura nei confronti dell’epurazione, rivelando un marcato spirito di corpo. Alla fine del processo, escludendo i docenti deceduti nel frattempo, furono solamente 11 quelli che non tornarono più in servizio. È inoltre presente, in appendice alla tesi, una raccolta di schede relative ai casi di 197 professori di ruolo, in cui si ricostruisce individualmente l’iter dei procedimenti di epurazione.
This thesis is about the purge of the Italian universities after the fall of the fascist regime. It includes both the interventions of the Allies, with the Military Government and the Control Commission that they established to control the occupied territories, and the legal actions undertaken by the Italian courts, and also the 1948-49 laws which allowed the comeback of most of the dismissed professors. Even though the great efforts of both the Allies and the Italians which led to the layoff of 177 full professors, later reduced to 50 after the forgiving judgment of the Italian justice, after the end of the war the De Gasperi cabinet supported the reinstatement of those who were purged, following a precise political will of forgiveness and appeasement. It is also included a close examination of the reactions by the academic community, which show a rejection against the purging process and a pronounced group spirit. At the end of the process, only 11 full professors didn’t get their jobs back, not counting the ones who died in the meantime. Finally, there’s an appendix which collects the cases of 197 full professors involved in the purge, where is summarized the evolving of their purging procedures.

Många ideellaorganisationer bidrar med stora vinster för folkhälsan. En sådan organisationär ”Bollplanket”. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur de som arbetar på ”Bollplanket”upplever och beskriver verksamheten. Metoden som användes för att ta reda pådetta var intervjuer. I intervjuerna framgick det att de anställda upplevde attde använde ett tillmötesgående förhållningssätt på ”Bollplanket”. De beskrevatt de arbetade utifrån ett barn- och ungdomsperspektiv och menade att de anpassarsitt bemötande till varje enskild individ. Slutsatsen som kan dras av studien äratt de verksamma på ”Bollplanket” anser att verksamheten har en betydandeinverkan på hälsan hos barn och unga som annars hamnar mellan stolarna. De upplevdeatt deras förhållningssätt gör det möjligt att möta alla typer av barn och ungapå ett individuellt sätt. Vad de dock upplever att bristerna är i verksamhetenär deras ekonomiska situation och möjligheten till vidareutveckling ochexpansion av verksamheten

La tesi presenta l’edizione critica e commentata di tre commedie veneziane della fine del Seicento: Pantalone bullo (1688) di Giovanni Bonicelli; Pantalone mercante fallito di Tommaso Mondini (1693); Pantalon spezier (1693) ancora di Bonicelli. Si tratta di tre testi di notevole rilievo nel panorama del teatro veneziano pregoldoniano, sotto il profilo della storia della drammaturgia e della storia dello spettacolo, quanto preziosi per le attestazioni relative alla storia del veneziano. Al centro di essi il personaggio di Pantalone, che si presenta in tre differenti caratterizzazioni, assai distanti dallo stereotipo della Commedia dell’Arte. Fuori da facili e riduttivi itinerari evoluzionistici, questi testi, in varia misura connessi al genere seicentesco della cosiddetta commedia ridicolosa, mostrano l’investimento su un’ambientazione scenica concreta, tesa ad offrire al pubblico referenti oggettivi e conosciuti, quotidiani e condivisi, che mostrano questa produzione come una tappa considerevole di una storia, dunque ininterrotta nel tempo, dalla produzione cinquecentesca all’esperienza goldoniana, della commedia cittadina veneziana. Il commento, che accompagna un testo ricostruito sulla tradizione a stampa, ricostruita e riconsiderata, è volto a sottolineare e analizzare la struttura dei testi, dando approfondimento delle ragioni che ne costituiscono le caratteristiche di maggior importanza, nonché ad offrire un’analisi linguistica, come contributo allo studio del veneziano seicentesco, con particolare riferimento alla tradizione delle lingue di scena, che connettono l’esperienza cinquecentesca a quella di Carlo Goldoni, che a questa produzione – con distacco e sufficienza, ma con costante attenzione – mostra di avere fatto debito riferimento, soprattutto negli anni del suo approdo alla scrittura comica e della rifondazione del genere della commedia cittadina veneziana.
The thesis presents a critical edition and commentary of three venetian plays of the late seventeenth century: Pantalone bullo (1688) by Giovanni Bonicelli ; Pantalone mercante fallito by Tommaso Mondini (1693 ; Pantalon spezier (1693) even by Bonicelli. These three texts of considerable importance in the venetian theater before Goldoni, in terms of the history of drama and history of the show, as valuable to the claims relating to the history of venetian language. At the center of them the character of Pantalone, which comes in three different characterizations, very distant from the stereotype of the Commedia dell'Arte. Outside easy and reductive evolutionary routes, these texts, on vaiorus degrees, connected to the genre of so-called commedia ridicolosa, show the investment of scenic ambience to more concrete terms, aimed at giving the public objective referents and well-known every day pattern, which show this production as a step of a considerable history, therefore unbroken in time, from the sixteenth production to the experience of Carlo Goldoni,in the venetian-town-comedy. The commentary that accompanies a text on the printed tradition rebuilt, reconstructed and reconsidered, is to highlight and analyze the structure of texts, giving depth study of the reasons which form the characteristics of greatest importance , and to offer linguistic analysis , such as contribution to the study of seventeenth-century venetian language, with particular reference to the tradition of the languages of the scene, which connect the experience to the sixteenth century by Carlo Goldoni , who in this production - with detachment and sufficiency , but with constant attention - could always find inspiration, especially in the years of his approach to the comic writing and the re-establishment of the genre of Venetian-town-comedy.

I denna diskursanalytiska studie har konstruktionen av kvinnligt företagande i media undersökts. Konstruktionen har studerats i ett medie som riktar sig till blivande och verksamma företagare med anledning av dess möjliga påverkan till den allmänna uppfattningen om företagande. Valet baseras även på dess möjlighet att påverka andelen kvinnliga företagare genom dess konstruktion av kvinnligt företagande som fenomen. Mediet som studerats är således tidningen ”Eget Företag”, vilken sedan dess start år 1993 i varje utgivet nummer har presenterat och framställt kvinnliga företagare. Konstruktionen av kvinnligt företagande i tidningen har även studerats genom en jämförande analys av två årtal, 1995 och 2015 där skillnader och likheter i konstruktionen även identifierats. Konstruktionen av kvinnligt företagande har studerats med avstamp i de socialkonstruktivistiska premisserna, teorier rörande genus och subjektpositioner. Detta teoretiska ramverk som genom en abduktiv ansats sammankopplats med det empiriska materialet har tillåtit oss att analysera och öka förståelsen för femomenet. Som metodologiskt tillvägagångssätt utgår studien främst från det diskurskritiska perspektivet och Norman Faircloughs tredimensionella modell. Modellen har även kompletterats av analysverktygen nodalpunkter och ekvivalenskedjor som underlättat vid textnära analys av materialet. Resultat och analys tyder på att det existerar både skillnader och likheter gällande konstruktionen mellan årtalen 1995 och 2015. År 1995 konstrueras kvinnligt företagande i högre grad som onormalt och avvikande samt utifrån att de ej har tillträde inom den företagande arenan. Detta medan det år 2015 konstrueras som mer vanligt förekommande och accepterat inom arenan. Dock konstrueras kvinnligt företagande år 2015 i högre utsträckning som endast verksamt inom en viss typ av bransch. Det påvisas även likheter mellan åren gällande konstruktionen av kvinnligt företagande i hur de konstrueras i kontrast till det manliga som normen och stereotypen för företagande.

Les possibles desviacions dels valors dels paràmetres específics dels efluents de les plantes de tractament d'aigües residuals (EDAR) a causa de les possibles fluctuacions d'aquests valors respecte els de disseny, poden afectar negativament la salut humana i el medi ambient, per la qual cosa hi ha importants pressions sobre les autoritats pel el disseny i l'operació eficients d'aquest tipus de plantes. El desenvolupament d'un marc d'operació i control d'aquestes operacions és una part essencial per al funcionament correcte de les operacions i necessita d'unes mesuraments en temps real de paràmetres crucials d'operació, per exemple concentracions de nitrat i nitrogen total, fosfat i fòsfor total, sòlids en suspensió, demanda bioquímica d'oxigen (DBO) i demanda química d'oxigen (DQO), greixos volàtils totals àcids (AGV)) entre d'altres valors de composició, així com una lectura fiable de cabal, temperatura i pressió. La mesura de tals paràmetres comporta d'uns costos considerables d'inversió i manteniment, així com d'un temps de retard en la mesura que pot arribar a ser considerable. L'objectiu d'aquesta tesi va ser dissenyar sensors en línia que es puguin utilitzar a més s més de la instrumentació convencional per millorar l'operació i la seguretat d l procés. A causa de la disponibilitat d'una gran quantitat de dades de procés en la majoria de les EDAR modernes, els mètodes basats en models de tractament de han atret una atenció significativa i en consegüent, en aquesta tesi s'han desenvolupat diferents sensors en línia per a la predicció d'un paràmetre de capital importància en el funcionament com és la quantitat d'àcids grassos volàtils (VFA) i la detecció i diagnòstic de fallades de lectura (FD) d'instruments de mesura en les EDAR.
Las posibles desviaciones de los valores de los parámetros específicos de los efluentes de las plantas de tratamiento de aguas residuales (EDAR)debido a las posibles fluctuaciones de estos valores respecto los de diseño, pueden afectar negativamente la salud humana y el medio ambiente, por lo cual existen importantes presiones sobre las autoridades para el diseño y la operación eficientes de este tipo de plantas. El desarrollo de un marco de operación y control de estas operaciones es una parte esencial para el funcionamiento correcto de las operaciones y necesita de unas las mediciones en tiempo real de parámetros cruciales de operación, por ejemplo concentraciones de nitrato y nitrógeno total, fosfato y fósforo total, sólidos en suspensión, demanda bioquímica de oxígeno (DBO) y demanda química de oxígeno (DQO), grasas volátiles totales ácidos (AGV)) entre otros valores de composición, así como una lectura fiable de caudal, temperatura y presión. La medida de tales parámetros conlleva de unos costes considerables de inversión y mantenimiento, así como de un tiempo de retardo en la medida que puede llegar a ser considerable. El objetivo de esta tesis fue diseñar sensores en línea que se puedan utilizar además de la instrumentación convencional para mejorar la operación y la seguridad del proceso. Debido a la disponibilidad de una gran cantidad de datos de proceso en la mayoría de las EDAR modernas, los métodos basados en modelos de tratamiento de han atraído una atención significativa y en consiguiente en esta tesis, se han desarrollado diferentes sensores en línea para la predicción de un parámetro de capital importancia en el funcionamiento como es la cantidad de ácidos grasos volátiles (VFA) y la detección y diagnóstico de fallos de lectura (FD) de instrumentos de medida en las EDAR.
Failing to reach the specific effluent properties in wastewater treatment plants can adversely affect human health and environmental. Due to this, there are significant pressures on authorities for efficient design and operation of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Therefore, to achieve regulatory standards for wastewater effluent in a cost-efficient way, the development of an advanced information framework for the control and supervision of the WWTPs is mandatory. For the implementation of this framework, the real-time measurements of crucial parameters (e.g., concentrations of nitrate and total nitrogen, phosphate and total phosphorus, suspended solids, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD), total volatile fatty acids (VFA)) are necessary. Measurement of such parameters is often associated with capital and maintenance costs, as well as the time delay. The focus of this thesis was to design soft-sensors that can be used besides conventional instrumentation to improve the process operation and safety. Due to the availability of the massive amount of process data in most modern WWTPs, data-driven methods have attracted significant attention. Therefore, in this thesis, we developed different data-driven soft-sensors for online prediction of a crucial parameter (VFA) and fault detection (FD) and diagnosis in WWTPs.

碩士
國立臺灣大學
農業經濟學研究所
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Due to the progress of medical technology, the average life expectancy extends and the elderly population is increasing rapidly. To date, aged population has become an important issue around the world. According to the statistics, "falling" is the most common cause of death and hospitalization among elderly people. The impact of falling is not only on physical and mental health, but also on the medical utilization. However, most of the existing studies only focus on risk factors of fallings. Nowadays, the analysis of relationship between falls and medical utilization still lacks in Taiwan, and the subject mostly appears in the field of public health, less complete and quantified analysis of a nationally representative sample. To remedy the gap of the existing studies, one purpose of this paper is to test common risk factors of falls among elderly, another is to estimate the effects of falling on the medical utilization and medical costs in Taiwan. In total, 2,108 older people drawn from Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging in 1999 and 2003 were selected for empirical analysis. The Probit model, Negative Binomial model and Tobit model were estimated for the risk factors and associated medical costs that are assoicated with fallings, respectively. Results show that age, female, depression score, and number of chronic disease would increase the probability of falling; the enhance of exercise, activities of daily living will reduce fall probability. The results also reveal that falling has a significant positive impact on all types of medical utilization in total and female sample; older man’s falls are more significantly associated with inpatient-related medical utilization. Comparing the impact of falls between men and women, the effect on inpatient utilization for males is larger than females; the effect of male falls on other medical expenditures and emergency department visits is obviously lower than the female’s. According to these results, we can conclude that fallings among the elderly have increased various medical utilization, and fallings are indeed a major cause of increase in medical costs. Therefore, in order to reduce the medical expenditure and the economic burden of the country, the government should strengthen medical support measures and promote health education in prevention of falling.

When a black student threw feces against a bronze statue of British imperialist, Cecil John Rhodes, located at the University of Cape Town (UCT), it sparked the formation of the #RhodesMustFall (#RMF) student movement in March 2015. The Black-led #RMF movement sought to decolonize the university by confronting institutional racism and patriarchy at UCT through a series of disruptive and creative tactics including occupying university buildings and erecting a shack on campus. As part of their decolonization process, black students tried to make sense of their experiences in a predominantly white university by de-linking from UCT’s dominant model of Euro-American knowledge to construct their own decolonial framework comprised of Pan-Africanism, Black Consciousness and Black radical feminism. A few weeks later in May 2015, students at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom who were inspired by the student movement at UCT, created the #RhodesMustFall Oxford movement, using the Rhodes statue at Oriel College as a focal point in their call to decolonize the university. This dissertation explores the formation of the radical #RMF student movements at UCT and Oxford—referred to as the Fallist movements. I first consider what led the #RMF movement at UCT to adopt a decolonial framework centered on Black radical feminism, Black Consciousness, and Pan-Africanism, and then examine how the #RMF’s decolonial framework generated the emergent idea of “Fallism” that extended beyond the students’ demand for the Rhodes statue to fall. Finally, I assess the ways in which the formation of #RMF Oxford was influenced by the #RMF movement in Cape Town. The #RMF mission statement characterized the black experience at UCT as “black pain” or as “the dehumanization of black people” informed by the “violence exacted only against black people by a system that privileges whiteness”. In order to better understand their experiences of black pain, student activists de-linked from the university's dominant knowledge production systems that privileged whiteness through its epistemic architecture. The #RMF UCT movement’s de-linking or “epistemic disobedience”, was also employed by students at Oxford who wanted to integrate “subjugated and local epistemologies” into the Eurocentric university curriculum. Based on this empirical analysis of the #RMF’s engagement in epistemic disobedience at both UCT and Oxford, I argue that the university occupies a paradoxical position for Black and other marginalized bodies: it is simultaneously empowering and dehumanizing; it offers the possibility of acquiring knowledge that could serve as a liberatory tool from the violence of socio-economic marginality (Black liberation), while at the same time, the physical and epistemic architecture of the university can create an oppressive, alienating space for Black, queer and disabled bodies among others (Black pain). This assertion leads me to experiment with developing Fallism into an emergent decolonial option that emanates from acts of epistemic disobedience to unveil the hegemonic intellectual architecture of the university. Through a combination of 98 interviews, one year of observations, and document analysis, this study offers insights into the formation and evolution of the #RMF student movements at UCT and Oxford, while contributing to a critical understanding of the university’s paradoxical epistemic architecture.

La tesi propone la prima edizione critica e commentata delle terze rime di Gio-vanni Mauro d’Arcano (Rive d’Arcano [Ud], 1498/1500 ca. – Roma, 1535), poeta a lungo accostato a Francesco Berni come capostipite del “burlesco stile”. L’edizione, corredata da un’ampia introduzione e dalla nota al testo, è esemplata sul codice Landau Finaly 136 della Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, probabilmente la più importante silloge di poesia burlesca di Cinquecento, che non solo ha permesso di sanare errori e lacune testuali delle stampe, ma anche di recuperare due ternari inediti. Contestualizzando i testi, decrittandone le anfibologie ed individuandone i principali modelli, il commento si propone di sciogliere i principali nodi interpretativi e smentire il giudizio di estemporaneità e facilità che spesso accompagna la poesia burlesca. In appendice si presentano le trascrizioni di altri testi dell’autore – l’inedita Predica amorosa, una canzone, un sonetto – e un lacerto della corrispondenza del poeta.