Thesis (M.S.)--University of Texas at El Paso, 2009. / Title from title screen. Vita. CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.N.M.)--Regis University, Denver, Colo., 2005. / Title from PDF title page (viewed Jan. 13, 2006). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references.

Master of Science / Department of Civil Engineering / Eric J. Fitzsimmons / Transportation officials continuously seek to prevent and reduce wrong-way crashes on interstate highways in the United States. These crashes typically have a high probability of head-on vehicle crashes, resulting in fatalities or serious injuries due to excessive vehicle speeds, and decreased room to maneuver because of fixed barriers or rough shoulders. This research project studied wrong-way crashes on interstate highways in Kansas in order to determine what, if any, statistically significant variables contribute to wrong-way driving crashes. Although these crashes represented only 0.05 percent of all vehicle crashes in Kansas in 2015, wrong-way crashes were found to have a higher rate of fatalities and injuries. In Kansas, 22.6 percent of all crashes and 56 percent of all wrong-way crashes resulted in fatalities and injuries, even though typical vehicle crashes in Kansas occur at non-intersection locations in daylight or in the presence of streetlights without negative factors of adverse weather conditions or drivers influenced by alcohol or drugs. Using crash data provided by the Kansas Department of Transportation from the years 2005 to 2015, the research team examined 372 wrong-way crashes. A cumulative logit statistical model was developed to identify significant characteristics of variables associated with each wrong-way crash. Results showed that driver not under the influence of alcohol or drugs was a significant characteristic in fatal and injury wrong-way crashes. Additionally, certain days of the week were associated with decreased vehicle crash rates when compared to the reference category.

This study mainly intends to analyze the ideological, mythological and identitary aspects of the Americans. It verifies how the contemporary American mythology is adapting itself to the historical transformations it has been passing through as well, generated by one more global crises. Besides, it also considers Hollywood movies as mythological narratives. Three Hollywood films have been selected for this study: Red Corner (1995), Turistas (2006) and Gran Torino (2008). They were used as basis to the purposed analysis. In this way, the focus here is on the representation of the American citizen in each film, his speech, his relationship with the Other (the non-American), in the three different situations presented in this study / Submitted by Jovina Laurentino Raimundo (jovina.raimundo@unisul.br) on 2018-01-17T16:36:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 103130_Isabel.pdf: 485928 bytes, checksum: c6e98311ec3b8c2042323e3a7045d689 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Gheovana Figueiredo (gheovana.figueiredo@unisul.br) on 2018-01-17T17:12:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 103130_Isabel.pdf: 485928 bytes, checksum: c6e98311ec3b8c2042323e3a7045d689 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-17T17:12:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 103130_Isabel.pdf: 485928 bytes, checksum: c6e98311ec3b8c2042323e3a7045d689 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / O presente estudo teve como principal objetivo a análise dos aspectos ideológicos, mitológicos e identitários dos estadunidenses. Este verifica então de que maneira a mitologia estadunidense contemporânea está se adaptando às transformações históricas que se tem assistido, movidas por mais uma crise global do capitalismo. Também considera os filmes hollywoodianos como narrativas de mito. Para a realização deste estudo foram utilizados três filmes hollywoodianos: Justiça Vermelha (1995), Turistas (2006) e Gran Torino (2008), os quais serviram como base para a análise proposta. Neste sentido, buscou-se aqui focalizar a construção do “americano” em cada filme, seu discurso, sua relação com o Outro, em três diferentes situações que foram apresentadas neste estudo

The dissertation concerning a given topic {\clqq}Customs, festivities and way of life in Bavaria`` focuses on one federal country in Germany and the process of its festivals and traditions. The work is divided into 3 parts, where there is gradually explained the wide range of traditions. In the introduction there are mentioned and described the particular terms used in the work. At the beginning the reader is informed about the typical local traditions in individual regions of Bavaria. The separation of this federal country gives the possibility to compare traditions and festivals. In the following parts there are chapters where the seasons of the year are defined. There are mentioned the festivals and traditions according to their occurrence in actual season of the year {--} the religion festivals, the agricultural traditions and other celebrations. In some examples there is briefly described the gastronomy of the festival. In the last part of the work there is compared some Bavor´s festivals to Czech ones. The choice is limited on the main religion festivals, which are held in both countries. There is mainly described the process and variety of Christmas and Easter celebrations. The all three parts of the work are completed with the enclosed maps and pictures. These enclosures can help the reader to make the complete conception of the mentioned traditions and festivals. The aim of this work is first of all the introduction of different celebrations in Bavaria and giving such kind of the formation that can push out the frontiers of culture knowledge.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-12T15:53:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 arquivo656_1.pdf: 1148170 bytes, checksum: ad832a5c678b639e91a1cffc8e5f667f (MD5) license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Banco do Brasil S.A / Os governos George W. Bush (2001-2009) diante dos atentados de 11 de setembro de 2001, adotaram uma política externa de defesa contra o terrorismo para o Estado norte-americano está sendo baseada nos conceitos do Realismo e da Razão de Estado. A pesquisa demonstra que esses conceitos foram adotados através da ótica do partido Republicano e dos chamados falcões da política externa americana. Também discorre sobre as campanhas do Afeganistão e do Iraque e demonstra que a política externa do governo George W. Bush adota posturas unilaterais e modificam o paradigma anterior da multilateralidade adotada no governo democrata de Bill Clinton. É também abordada a realidade interna dos Estados Unidos, evidenciando que a realidade apresentada no plano internacional afetou o plano interno e que a justificativa para defesa do Estado abre precedentes para que direitos considerados inalienáveis sejam suprimidos. Através de uma abordagem Construtivista o presente trabalho também buscou levantar as formas com que as duas principais vertentes partidárias dos EUA procuram operacionalizar suas respectivas políticas externas, levando-se em consideração os preceitos do American way of life, sendo assim, a análise se dará observando-se os relatórios chamados de Estratégia de Segurança Nacional dos dois Governos Bill Clinton e dos dois Governos George W. Bush.

La télomérase est essentielle pour le maintien des télomères. Elle compense le problème de réplication de l’ADN télomérique par l’ajout de séquences d’ADN aux extrémités des chromosomes. Chez l’humain, elle est très active dans les premiers stades du développement (embryon, fœtus). Puis, son activité est réprimée pour devenir indétectable dans la plupart des cellules. Ceci conduit au raccourcissement de l’ADN télomérique, à la déprotection de l’ADN et à un arrêt de division cellulaire, appelé senescence. Par contre, dans 90% des cellules de type cancéreux, elle est suractivée. Elle contribue donc à une capacité continue de la prolifération de ces cellules et à leur immortalisation. Notre organisme d’étude est la levure bourgeonnante, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. En plus de ses nombreux avantages d’utilisation, chez cette levure, la télomérase est exprimée constitutivement, ce qui signifie qu’elle nous rapproche le plus du contexte de cellule cancéreuse. Mon projet de maîtrise vise à étudier un des composants de la télomérase chez la levure S. cerevisiae, c’est-à-dire la sous-unité ARN, appelée Tlc1, et plus particulièrement une sous-partie de cet ARN, formant une jonction à trois branches (« Three Way Junction »). Jusqu’à présent, cette structure a été considérée comme étant non essentielle. Pourtant, cette structure très conservée a été démontrée comme étant essentielle à l’assemblage de la télomérase et à son activité, chez une grande variété d’espèces. Avec ce projet, j’ai tenté de déterminer si cette structure à trois branches a un quelconque rôle à jouer que ce soit dans l’assemblage ou dans l’activité de la télomérase. J’ai exploré cette structure en y réalisant des mutations et en analysant leurs effets sur la croissance cellulaire et sur la longueur des télomères. Parmi tous les mutants, la simple substitution d’un nucléotide spécifique, l’adénine 119, conduit à des télomères plus courts qui demeurent stables au fil des générations et les levures sont viables. De plus, ce raccourcissement est de l’ordre de la centaine de paires de bases lorsque la délétion d’une partie ou de la structure au complet est réalisée. C’est donc un raccourcissement significatif, représentant près d’un tiers de la longueur normale des télomères. Par ailleurs, sur des cellules présentant des télomères anormalement courts, l’ajout de ces mutations de la TWJ de TLC1 crée un phénotype létal. / Abstract : Telomerase is essential for telomere maintenance. It compensates for the End-replication problem by adding DNA sequences to the ends of chromosomes. In humans, telomerase is very active in the early stages of development (embryos, foetus). Later, its activity is repressed, and in most cells its activity becomes undetectable. This leads to telomere shortening, a deprotection of chromosome ends and to an arrest of cellular divisions, a highly regulated process also called cellular senescence. However, in cancer cells of 90% of all subtypes, telomerase is up-regulated. Hence, this enzyme promotes the proliferative capacity of cancer cells and their immortalization. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is our organism of study. In addition to its ease of access, telomerase is constitutively expressed in this yeast, which makes it a useful and inexpensive model of cancer cells. My master’s project aims at studying one of the telomerase components in S. cerevisiae, namely the RNA subunit Tlc1, and more specifically a part of this RNA, forming a Three-Way Junction (TWJ). So far, this structure was considered as non-essential for cell viability. However, this structure is highly conserved among species, and in diverse species it was shown to be crucial for telomerase assembly and activity. My project hence consisted in trying to determine whether or not this structure plays a role in telomerase assembly or activity. The requirements on this structure were explored by creating mutations and by analyzing their effects on cell growth and telomere length. Of all the mutants, a specific nucleotide substitution, Adenine 119 in the TWJ, leads to shortened telomeres, and this shortening is stable during further outgrowth. Furthermore, a telomere shortening of up to 100 base pairs is observed when a part or the complete TWJ structure is deleted. This shortening is quite significant as it represents about one third of the normal length of telomeres. Moreover, expressing these mutants of the TWJ in cells with short telomeres creates a synthetic lethal effect.

In principle discipleship is the continuation of the mission of Jesus through the imitation (hupodeigma) of Jesus' way of life. This implies that his disciples will live according to the will of God, for Jesus was the personification of the will of God. The disciples of Jesus are therefore the locus of the manifestation of God -- their way of life must indicate the presence of Jesus (and God) in the world in a different mode. Discipleship indicates a personal relationship between Jesus and his disciples which is modelled/based on the Father-Son relationship which is elucidated by the agency model. A Descent-Ascent Schema forms the setting for this concept, with the Johannine dualism as the determining factor for this schema. Thus the 'agency' motif constitutes the structure for discipleship in the Fourth Gospel with a revelatory-salvivic assignment. The revelatory aspect concerns the disciples' relationship towards God and the salvivic aspect their directedness towards the world. The disciples have to live a holy life through which God will be revealed and which will enable them to accomplish their mission in the world so that the world may become saved. This study concentrates on the theological perspective of discipleship with some reference to the characteristics of discipleship. / Thesis (DD)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / New Testament Studies / unrestricted