In the year 1916, there appeared an article by G. Jean-Aubry in "La musique française d'aujourdhui" which placed Paul Verlaine in proper historical perspective. Jean-Aubry states: Even if we consider only its musical aspect, the history of the lied in France must include the name and work of Paul Verlaine. Of course, this poet did not, alone, determine the remarkable movement which, in about 1867, transformed the romantic melody into the lied, as we understand the form today; but the publication of Fêtes galantes, La bonne chanson, and Romances sans paroles, offered musicians poems which were excellently, and indeed uniquely suited to this melodic form. In view of his historical significance, the author will examine representative poems of Paul Verlaine which have been given musical settings by various composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Within this framework a biographical overview will be presented together with a discussion of Verlaine's poetic style, relating wherever possible events of his life to contemporary developments in literature and the fine arts. His contribution to French literature will be evaluated by the examination of his "Art Poétique" and other personal statements, as well as by comments about his poetry by noted critics of French literature during and after his lifetime. Verlaine's relationships to and with other poets such as the Parnassians, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud will be investigated in order to determine their influence upon his style. His own role as leader of and/or contributor to the literature of the contemporary schools of Parnassianism, Symbolism, Impressionism, and Decadence will be examined. These four schools of thought together with the Naturalist and Romantic schools will also be explored in some depth and placed in historical perspective. For purposes of assessing Verlaine's contributions to French music and poetry, it will be necessary to determine the specific nature and structure of French verse in the nineteenth century along with the principles promulgated in the previous centuries. The role of stress, meter, rhythm, rime, imagery, color, subject matter, and other structural parameters will be illustrated through the examination of three poems: "La mer est plus belle," "Le Son du cor s'afflige vers les bois," and "L'Échellonement des haies" taken from Verlaine's book of poems entitled Sagesse. To this end, specific songs based upon Verlaine poems will be analyzed in terms of the presence or absence of musico- poetic synthesis involving harmony, tonality, tone-painting, texture, rhythm, and declamation. Representative poems given musical settings will be chosen for analysis from the major collections of the poet's life, namely, Fêtes galantes, La Bonne Chanson, Romances sans paroles, and Sagesse. The focus will be upon poems which are considered mileposts and which have been set by two or more composers. This will facilitate comparison.

All children have the capacity to express themselves musically and to have music be an important part of their lives. In most states classroom teachers in the primary grades are expected to provide all instruction in music, often without supervision or assistance. The idea of the classroom teacher teaching music is not new. This has been a pattern of musical instruction in the elementary schools throughout the history of our country. Teachers cannot teach material they do not know and in which they are not interested. Most classroom teachers welcome new ideas and attractive materials for use in teaching music to children in their classrooms. This dissertation presents a pattern of musical preparation for prospective primary classroom teachers based on an eclectic approach which focuses on the selected pedagogical principles of Kodály, Orff, and Dalcroze. The main body of the dissertation consists of a two semester sequence of instruction organized in thirty lessons based on a vocal approach and emphasizing movement. It includes resource materials such as lists of books on the teaching of music and dance, recordings, films and filmstrips, and song collections. More than 100 songs are used in a variety of ways as are rhymes and movement activities.

Canada’s federal prison population has been rising for the past 10 years. This is perplexing given Canada’s national official crime rate has been declining since the 1970’s. One possible explanation for the rising prison population could be related to the restrictive measures imposed on parole policies during the last forty years. This thesis intends to analyze the recent parliamentary discourses surrounding recent legislative changes brought to parole by the conservative government. In doing so, a document analysis is conducted on the Parliamentary debates pertaining to section 6 and section 7 of Bill C-10 as well as the content of the amendments within section 6 and section 7 of Bill C-10. The purpose of the document analysis is to analyze the themes within these documents and determine whether or not these themes represent a potential change in the punitive approach towards parole. Given that a more punitive approach could have negative impacts on certain offenders and on society in general, this thesis aims to better understand the discourses and values of the Parliamentary debate participants’ changes to the legislation and the potential impacts these restrictions may have for Canada’s federal prison population.

This study investigates ‘how men knitting functions as a queer pedagogy’. In the doing it recognizes that a man knitting elbows his way into long-held contrived conventions of (domestic) femininity, queering space and generally causing embarrassment and a sense of cultural unease through his performance. As a work of educational research (situated within a Society, Culture, and Literacies profile) it is intent on troubling lingering gender-based notions of in/appropriate educational research and what remains academically out-of-bounds: knitting as domestic diversion has largely been neglected by scholars with the few academic sources focusing almost exclusively (and unapologetically) on female knitters. As such, the pedagogical meaning(s) of men knitting are essentially absent from the educational literature. This research project seeks to address that gap. Taking the form of three journal articles, this work reads the everyday performance of men knitting as queer pedagogy, learning which ‘minces’ and troubles not only masculinity but traditional constructions of educational discourse limiting pedagogy to classrooms and accredited educators. Using personal narrative and a methodology which brings together document analysis and queer theory, this study interrogates photographic and other artifacts through a queer lens, destabilizing meaning(s) and problematizing gender. It recognizes that leisure activities like knitting, as with other human activities, are by-products of the culture where they’re re/produced and a reflection of broader societal boundaries. ‘Men knitting as a queer pedagogy,’ is about gendered desires, anxieties, and places where critical dissatisfactions with culture gets performed in other/ed ways.

In my diploma thesis I deal with requirements analysis of a document management system and with designing a particular solution of these requirements for the document management module of the web based Inovio portal. In the first part I provide basic information about document management systems and I briefly describe, what palace in the company`s information system they take. Further I describe the Inovio portal, which is under development, and it`s application modules. The document management module is one of these modules and my thesis is contributing to its design. The second part is focused on functional and non-functional requirements on a document management system and on a web application. In this part the reader can find requirements analysis and specific designs of these requirements for the document management module of the Inovio portal.

Thesis evaluates incoming goods from suppliers at HOPI CZ.Its main objective is to eliminate shortcomings in the document flow, while mapping out all the facts that affect this process. Thesis is divided into four chapters and also includes an annex containing the documents used when receiving goods from suppliers.

In my thesis I deal mainly with the issue of selecting enterprise resource planning system. In the initial passage I describe the ERP systems in general, briefly map their history to the present and mention actual trends and provide categorization of ERP systems. Part of the first passage is devoted to actual trends in the area of implementation of ERP systems and analysis of the ERP market on national scale and worldwide as well. In the following part of thesis I deal with the ERP system selection procedure which is followed by recommended content of ERP inquiry document, analysis and categorization of inquiry documents which were freely available on the internet. This passage ends with chapter devoted to contracts under implementation of ERP system. The beginning of the practical part of my thesis contains short description of selected organization, history of its actual information system and its current status. Main part deals with the concept of the ERP system inquiry document for selected organization. Work ends with a brief summary of the findings and results.

Restorative Justice (RJ) is an approach to justice which most often centres around creating a shared dialogue between stakeholders in a given offence. It is often contrasted with traditional criminal justice due to its focus on the personal involvement of those who have been directly impacted by the harm. Popular models of RJ include various types of mediation, conferencing, and circles, each with a slightly different approach toward reaching a settlement between stakeholders. Some of the main goals of RJ highlighted in the criminological literature include healing, reparation, and community-building. However, because of its nature as a diverse and contested subject over the past several decades, there are numerous understandings of RJ. Due to this frequent difficulty in defining and understanding RJ, this thesis attempts to provide some grounding on the subject through the document analysis of four Canadian RJ programs. RJ program documentation was analyzed in order to discover how these programs portray their “services” to the public. Results showed that many of the most prominent themes in the programs were also present in the literature. However, a more important facet of the discussion emerged with further analysis. Using a perspective of governmentalist versus communitarian RJ, the programs were compared to discover that the way in which a program presents itself in online documentation surely does not always encapsulate its core nature in terms of judicial, legal, and correctional involvement. Simply put, a verbal commitment to distancing oneself from the ways of the traditional criminal justice system does not necessarily signify a lack of involvement as it would suggest.

<p>Many technical and business papers have been written proclaiming that companies which provide high quality products and high quality service will market share and profitability. Although the theory of the positive relationship between quality and profitibility (i.e. higher product quality and service leads to higher profits) is commonly accepted, few studies have attempted to quantitatively justify this theory. The overall goal of this report is to present a quantitative framework that supports this commonly accepted positive relationship.</p> <p> Two major difficulties arise when attempting to assess this relationship quantitatively. First, the relationships which link product quality and service to profitability are interdisciplinary and often imprecise. These relationships involve the social behavior and feelings of customers, the competitive marketing environment, the service policies and technical competence of the producer, and of c:6urse the economic evaluation of improvements to quality and service.</p> <p> Second, to accurately assess the impact of product quality and service on profitability the assessment must be done over time. This is very important, because the improvements in product quality and service are strategic policies for improving long-term profitibility. Evaluation methods which measure the short-term effects and/or the static effects of product quality and service on profitibility will be inaccurate.</p> <p> To overcome these difficulties, first an extensive review of the literature on· product quality, service and customer satisfaction was performed. This research led to the development of the many interdisciplinary cause-andeffect relationships which link product quality and service to profitibility. Then the interaction of these causal relationships was evaluated by using a dynamic modeling language (DYNAMO III).</p> <p>The model results support the literature, indicating that companies providing both high quality products and high quality service will reap higher profits. Furthermore, the model provides a framework which, if further refined, could be used to help optimize the design of specific products.</p> / Master of Science

The advancements of AI methodologies and computing power enables automation and propels the Industry 4.0 phenomenon. Information and data are digitized more than ever, millions of documents are being processed every day, they are fueled by the growth in institutions, organizations, and their supply chains. Processing documents is a time consuming laborious task. Therefore automating data processing is a highly important task for optimizing supply chains efficiency across all industries. Document analysis for data extraction is an impactful field, this thesis aims to achieve the vital steps in an ideal data extraction pipeline. Data is often stored in tables since it is a structured formats and the user can easily associate values and attributes. Tables can contain vital information from specifications, dimensions, cost etc. Therefore focusing on table analysis and recognition in documents is a cornerstone to data extraction. This thesis applies deep learning methodologies for automating the two main problems within table analysis for data extraction; table detection and table structure detection. Table detection is identifying and localizing the boundaries of the table. The output of the table detection model will be inputted into the table structure detection model for structure format analysis. Therefore the output of the table detection model must have high localization performance otherwise it would affect the rest of the data extraction pipeline. Our table detection improves bounding box localization performance by incorporating a Kullback–Leibler loss function that calculates the divergence between the probabilistic distribution between ground truth and predicted bounding boxes. As well as adding a voting procedure into the non-maximum suppression step to produce better localized merged bounding box proposals. This model improved precision of tabular detection by 1.2% while achieving the same recall as other state-of-the-art models on the public ICDAR2013 dataset. While also achieving state-of-the-art results of 99.8% precision on the ICDAR2017 dataset. Furthermore, our model showed huge improvements espcially at higher intersection over union (IoU) thresholds; at 95% IoU an improvement of 10.9% can be seen for ICDAR2013 dataset and an improvement of 8.4% can be seen for ICDAR2017 dataset. Table structure detection is recognizing the internal layout of a table. Often times researchers approach this through detecting the rows and columns. However, in order for correct mapping of each individual cell data location in the semantic extraction step the rows and columns would have to be combined and form a matrix, this introduces additional degrees of error. Alternatively we propose a model that directly detects each individual cell. Our model is an ensemble of state-of-the-art models; Hybird Task Cascade as the detector and dual ResNeXt101 backbones arranged in a CBNet architecture. There is a lack of quality labeled data for table cell structure detection, therefore we hand labeled the ICDAR2013 dataset, and we wish to establish a strong baseline for this dataset. Our model was compared with other state-of-the-art models that excelled at table or table structure detection. Our model yielded a precision of 89.2% and recall of 98.7% on the ICDAR2013 cell structure dataset.