This study analyses judicial approaches to sentencing offenders under the age of 18 convicted of serious crimes and their adult counterparts. It traces sentencing patterns, trends and shifts from 1950 to 2009 with reference to key moments. The study seeks to identify factors that determine the choice of sentence. Indeed, competing penal theories appear to be behind judicial decisions. In this regard it is claimed that although it is difficult to identify the extent of factors considered in sentencing decisions, seriousness of crime seems to carry more weight than the prior record and age factor in the selection of a sentence. The study applied both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, using primary or historical and secondary sources of data collection. This involved studying real court cases, the observation of trials and interviews with Wynberg regional court magistrates, Mitchells Plain regional court magistrates and Cape High Court Judges as part of primary-historical data collected. Penal statistics and data gathered included law reports, penological literature was analysed and computerised, and philosophical interpretation of findings was used. The study concludes that sentencing approaches are still marked by inconsistency and vagueness, which require to be improved by ongoing assessment within the courts in pursuit of balanced sentencing that meets various goals. It is pointed out that there are variations between the courts, and among different regional magistrates and judges, which require to be justified in the light of the divergences in crime seriousness and offenders alike. The study claims that sentencing is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, involving history, law and sociology. It further recommends that persons under the age of 18 convicted of serious crime should be accorded less culpability compared to adults with regard to sentence severity. / Criminology and Security Science / D. Litt. et Phil. (Penology)

Submitted by PRISCILA ESTEVAM ENGEL null (pri-engel@hotmail.com) on 2016-01-25T15:21:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ENGEL_PRISCILA ESTEVAM_DISSERTAÇÃO FINALIZADA.pdf: 15913259 bytes, checksum: 81d32c427f449b3c569b96112b10112a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Paula Grisoto (grisotoana@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-01-25T17:15:00Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 engel_pe_me_prud.pdf: 15913259 bytes, checksum: 81d32c427f449b3c569b96112b10112a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-25T17:15:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 engel_pe_me_prud.pdf: 15913259 bytes, checksum: 81d32c427f449b3c569b96112b10112a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / As cidades médias têm sido objeto de recentes estudos devido a novas funcionalidades e papéis crescentes na rede urbana brasileira. Como nós da rede urbana, a compreensão da articulação entre cidades médias e centros urbanos de sua hinterlândia é de extrema importância, visto que o mercado consumidor das cidades médias analisadas é, em parte, constituído pela população do seu entorno. Preocupa-nos, também, compreender a centralidade a partir dos fluxos gerados pela oportunidade e/ou necessidade de consumo de bens e serviços advindas também de outras escalas. Em nossa pesquisa escolhemos Presidente Prudente-SP e São José do Rio Preto-SP pela importância econômica e comercial que elas possuem no contexto regional onde estão inseridas, atraindo novos empreendimentos como os shopping centers. Surge daí a necessidade de se considerar novos elementos à problematização da circulação, pois estes espaços de consumo influenciam de maneira notável os deslocamentos dos consumidores. Assim, este trabalho visa analisar a centralidade a partir dos deslocamentos com finalidade para o consumo em shopping centers, contribuindo para o entendimento de como esse fenômeno se dá em cidades médias que são referência regional num contexto de cidades de menor centralidade e porte, componentes das regiões administrativas de Presidente Prudente e São José do Rio Preto, Estado de São Paulo. A partir da análise dos seis shopping centers presentes nessas cidades médias, pudemos concluir que tais espaços de consumo se aproveitam da centralidade interurbana pré-existente, ao mesmo tempo que a potencializam. / Medium cities have been the subject of recent studies due to new features and growing roles in Brazilian urban network. As a node of the urban network, understanding the links between medium cities and towns of its hinterland it is of utmost importance, since the consumer market of medium-sized cities analyzed is partly constituted by its surrounding population. Also, we are concerned about understanding the centrality from the flows generated by the opportunity and/or need for consumer goods and services arising from other scales. In our research we chose Presidente Prudente-SP and São José do Rio PretoSP by the economic and commercial importance they have in the regional context in which they insert, attracting new enterprises such as shopping malls. There arises the need to consider new elements to the questioning of circulation, because these consumption spaces influence notably shifts consumer. This work aims to analyze the centrality from shifts with the purpose for consumption in shopping malls, contributing to the understanding of how this phenomenon occurs in medium cities that are regional reference in a smaller sized and centrality cities context, components of administrative regions of Presidente Prudente and São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo State. From the analysis of its 6 shopping malls in those medium cities, we concluded that such consumption spaces take advantage of pre-existing inter-urban centrality, while the leverage.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:33:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 BrunnoFDO_DISSERT.pdf: 1072437 bytes, checksum: ca0f1130c794e389077757530d1d5b66 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-13 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / Based on climate data and occurrence records, ecological niche models (ENM) are an important opportunity to identify areas at risk or vulnerable to biological invasion. These models are based on the assumption that there is a match between the climatic characteristic of native and invaded regions predicting the potential distribution of exotic species. Using new methods to measure niche overlap, we chose two exotic species fairly common in semi-arid regions of South America, Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) D.C. and Prosopis pallida (H. ; B. ex. Willd) HBK, to test the climate matching hypothesis. Our results indicate that both species occur with little niche overlap in the native region while the inverse pattern is observed in the invaded region on South America, where both species occur with high climatic overlap. Maybe some non-climate factor act limiting the spread of P. pallida on the native range. We believe that a founder effect can explain these similarities between species niche in the invaded region once the seeds planted in Brazil came from a small region on the Native range (Piura in Peru), where both species occur sympatric. Our hypothesis of a founder effect may be evident when we look at the differences between the predictions of the models built in the native and invaded ranges. Furthermore, our results indicate that P. juliflora shows high levels of climate matching between native and invaded ranges. However, conclusions about climate matching of P. pallida should be taken with caution. Our models based on climatic variables provide multiple locations suitable for occurrence of both species in regions where they still don t have occurrence records, including places of high interest for conservation. / Baseados nas informa??es clim?ticas e nos registros de ocorr?ncia, modelos de nicho ecol?gico (MNE) s?o uma importante oportunidade de identificar ?reas sob risco ou vulner?veis ? invas?o biol?gica. Estes modelos se ap?iam na suposi??o de que existe congru?ncia entre os climas das regi?es nativa e invadida para prever a distribui??o potencial de esp?cies ex?ticas. Utilizando m?todos recentes para medir sobreposi??es entre MNE, escolhemos duas esp?cies invasoras bastante comuns em regi?es semi-?ridas da Am?rica do Sul, Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) D.C. e Prosopis pallida (H. ; B. ex. Willd) H.B.K., para testar a hip?tese da congru?ncia clim?tica. Nossos resultados indicam as duas esp?cies ocorrem com pouca sobreposi??o de nicho na regi?o nativa, enquanto que o inverso se observa na regi?o invadida na Am?rica do Sul, onde as duas esp?cies ocorrem com elevada sobreposi??o de nicho. Algum fator n?o clim?tico pode atuar limitando a dispers?o de P. pallida na ?rea nativa. Acreditamos que um efeito fundador pode explicar estas semelhan?as de nicho encontradas na regi?o invadida uma vez que as sementes plantadas no Brasil vieram de uma pequena regi?o da ?rea nativa (Piura, Peru), onde ambas esp?cies ocorrem em simpatria. Diferen?as entre as previs?es dos modelos constru?dos na regi?o nativa e projetados para a regi?o nativa evidenciam nossa hip?tese do efeito fundador. Al?m disso, nossos resultados indicam que P. juliflora ocorre nas regi?es nativas e invadidas em condi??es clim?ticas bastante congruentes. Entretanto, conclus?es sobre congru?ncia clim?tica entre regi?es nativas e invadidas por P. pallida devem ser tomados com cautela. Os modelos prev?em v?rios locais favor?veis para a ocorr?ncia de ambas as esp?cies em regi?es onde ainda n?o existem registros de ocorr?ncia, inclusive locais de elevado interesse para conserva??o.

Motivation to work is understood as an individual´s approach to work, his/her willingness to work. People are motivated when they expect to achieve goals or get rewards satisfying their needs. Currently health care facilities are facing the shortage and turnover of nursing staff. Therefore, hospitals are commissioned to create such an environment in which nurses become motivated, because only motivated nurses can provide a quality nursing care, which is expressed in patients´ satisfaction and rewarding feelings in nurses. The aim of the thesis was to identify and compare motivational factors of senior nurses and nurses working in shifts. The aim was fulfilled. Three hypotheses were set. First hypothesis: The most important motivating factor in nurses in senior positions is professional development was not confirmed. Second hypothesis: The most important motivating factor in nurses working in shifts is a financial reward was not confirmed. Third hypothesis: Motivational factors in nurses vary depending on the job assignment was confirmed. Results of the survey will be provided to medical officers to give them an overview of the most important motivational factors in nurses and the outcomes could also be a source of information for the hospital management how to effectively motivate the personnel. Senior nurses may focus on non-financial forms of rewards such as acknowledgements, thanks, appreciations, and good interpersonal relationships in the workplace.

This essay is a qualitative descriptive translation study concerning two translations of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet into Swedish. The purpose of the study is to investigate the translational behaviour of the translators and the translation norms that govern this behaviour. By thoroughly analysing stretches of the play, the study will attempt to locate translation shifts (linguistic changes) that occur in the translation from the source text to the target text. These changes are connected with the translators’ fidelity towards e.g. the metre of the verse or the sense transfer of puns. The analysis also comprises a survey of the translation norms that the translators adhere to. These norms, stated by the translators themselves, are connected to their translation approach. Thus, the study will reveal the differences of translation behaviour and analyse them from a wider perspective. The translations were made around 1840 and in 1982, respectively. The considerable space in time in itself suggests that linguistic differences will occur. However, the study will also find differences as regards the purposes of the translations. The older translation appears to be performed in a tradition of fidelity to the written text and its literary qualities, whereas the modern translation clearly has the purpose of being used for the stage performance. The latter is stated by the translator himself, who also argues that Shakespeare is to be considered drama and not literature.

Neste trabalho foram realizados estudos conformacionais de algumas lactonas sesquiterpenicas e cálculos teóricos de deslocamento químico. O estudo conformacional é dividido em tres etapas distintas. A primeira etapa se dá pela busca conformacional em mecânica molecular, onde foram encontradas as possíveis conformações assumidas pelo sistema em estudo. Na segunda etapa, as conformações encontradas foram otimizadas em mecânica quântica. O último passo neste estudo foi o cálculode deslocamento químico e a posterior correlação com os dados experimentais. / This work is aimed on the theoretical calculation of chemical shifts of sesquiterpene lactones, based on the conformational preferences of the compounds. This conformational study is set up in three stages. The first one is a conformational search using molecular mechanics, to assess the relevant conformations of the system under study. In the second stage, the conformations are optimized by quantum mechanics, for the refinement of both the structural assignment and energy calculation of the most stable conformers found in the previous step. The last step is the theoretical calculation of chemical shifts. Finally the weighted average of calculated values is compared to experimental data.

One of the main characteristics of German technical language is the nominal style, which includes complex pre-nominal and post-nominal extended modifiers. A commonly held view is that these are less common in Swedish due to language-specific restrictions and preferences. As such, they may pose a challenge to Swedish translators. This essay examines this particular problem and focuses on the translation of four different complex extended modifiers: adjectival, participial, genitival and prepositional.The aim of this study was to determine which syntactic structures are used when these modifiers are translated into Swedish and to identify shifts using the concept “grammatical metaphor”, thereby focusing on the degree of grammatical metaphoricity. For the purposes of this study, a chapter of the technical book Neues Bauen mit Stroh in Europa by Gruber, Gruber and Sentler was translated into Swedish and then analysed with the above-mentioned aims in mind.The study showed that out of the 117 noun phrases with extended complex modifiers in the source text 21 were transposed into a less explicit, direct structure and more metaphorical language. The metaphorization was in some cases a result of simplification/omission of less dense semantic material and/or the translation into compounds. In 46 cases, the extended modifiers showed the same degree of grammatical metaphoricity as the source language expression and thus were re-metaphorized. In the remaining cases, a verbal or more explicit structure was chosen in the translation. This especially proved to be the case with pre-nominal extended adjectival and participial modifiers.

Le but de ce travail de doctorat est de contribuer à l'optimisation de l'accumulation de lipides par les levures oléagineuses, et plus particulièrement par la levure Yarrowia lipolytica à partir du glucose, avec une stratégie d’optimisation dynamique à partir d’une commande basée sur un modèle. L’étude bibliographique permet de faire le bilan des connaissances antérieures pour identifier les différentes méthodologies existantes pour l’optimisation des procédés en structurant trois parties principales: la modélisation, la commande, et le suivi des procédés. Dans ce contexte, cinq modèles ont été proposés pour décrire l'accumulation de lipides. Le premier est un modèle non structuré basé sur des cinétiques de Monod et d’inhibition. Le deuxième s’appuie sur le modèle de Droop (quota) précédemment utilisé pour décrire l’accumulation de lipides dans les microalgues. Les trois derniers sont des modèles métaboliques dynamiques qui combinent les cinétiques avec un réseau métabolique réduit, obtenu à partir des modes élémentaires. Les cinq modèles ont été calibrés et validés en utilisant plusieurs jeux des données expérimentales. Néanmoins, un des avantages des modèles métaboliques dynamiques présentés est la possibilité de décrire les basculements métaboliques. Deux stratégies de commande multi-objective visant à maximiser la productivité des lipides et la fraction en teneur lipidique ont été proposées. Dans la première, les deux objectifs ont été pondérés par le calcul statique des fronts de Pareto, et intégrés à la stratégie de commande avec un modèle dynamique métabolique. La deuxième stratégie est basée sur des fonctions linéaires par morceaux en intégrant le modèle quota. Les simulations de la commande montrent la possibilité d’atteindre des teneurs en lipides entre 0,21 – 0,26 gLIP.gX-1 et productivités entre 0,78 – 1,02 g.(L-h)-1 en diminuant le temps de la culture à 20 h. Des capteurs logiciels ont été proposés afin de pallier le manque de capteurs en ligne en corrélant des mesures en ligne (i.e. pO2 et la base ajoutée pour le pH) par des algorithmes de types machines à vecteurs supports. La validation expérimentale des stratégies de commande est la principale perspective de ce travail. / This PhD thesis aims at optimizing lipid accumulation by oleaginous yeast, and most particularly by the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica from glucose. This optimization is addressed from a mathemantical point of view based on automatic control laws, where model-based control strategies are proposed. The bibliographic review compiles and evaluates previous works to identify the different existing methodologies to attain the optimization, which is divided in three main axes: modeling, control strategies, and monitoring. In this context, five different models are proposed to describe lipid accumulation. The first model is based on Monod and inhibition kinetics (unstructured), and the second on the Droop quota model (quota) previously used for microalgae. The last three are dynamic metabolic models that combine kinetics with metabolic models based on the stoichiometry of metabolism. These three models used a reduced metabolic network decomposed into elementary flux modes. The five models were successfully calibrated and validated with different experimental data. Nonetheless, the dynamic metabolic models presented highlighting features such as the description of metabolic shifts. Two approaches of multi-objective control strategies aiming at maximizing lipid productivity and lipid content fraction were proposed. In the first, the two objectives were weighted by static calculation of Pareto fronts, and integrated to the control strategy by dynamic optimization algorithms with a dynamic metabolic model. The second strategy used a constant weighed objective function solved by piecewise linear functions by integrating the quota model. The simulation results of the optimization attained lipid contents between 0.21 – 0.26 gLIP.gX-1 and productivities between 0.78 – 1.02 g.(L-h)-1 shortening the culture time to 20 h. Soft-sensors were developed by correlating on-line measurements (i.e. pO2 and the added base for pH) through support vector machines in order to overcome the lack of measurements. The perspective is to experimentally validate the control strategies.

This study focuses on comparing two different versions of Pippi Longstocking translated into English on a structural level. With the help of the research of the known linguistics John Catford and Paul Vinay & Jean-Louis Darbelnet, we compare how the two different translators, Tiina Nunnally (2007) and Florence Lamborn (1950) have translated the same book. This study compares these two translations for grammatical features and word choices on a structural level, for example use of verb tense and differences in Vinay & Darbelnet’s modulation. It also studies how the translators have done differently regarding Catford’s structural shifts. The essay also briefly looks at the cultural differences between the countries and how they have been translated. The aim of this project is not to determine which translation is better, but to compare and describe any differences and similarities found. It will look at how the two translators have handled the same problems differently (or similarly). The translations by Florence Lamborn and Tiina Nunnally have much in common, but in our result and analysis we present the differences.

Peat from the temperate regions has been used for paleoenvironmental reconstruction using diverse proxies for over a century now. Peat is rare and severely understudied in the tropics. The montane peat bogs of the Nilgiris, southern India have been found to preserve global climatic signals including the Holocene Optimum and the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). At Sandynallah, one of the oldest peat accumulations in the world at >40 kyr BP, we had undertaken a high resolution paleoenvironmental reconstruction using multiple proxies which are yet to be evaluated in the tropical context. The study consists of 3 main objectives, i. Establishing an accurate high resolution chronology for the peat profile using radiocarbon dating, ii. Extracting vegetation and climate information from C/N ratio and Rock-Eval indices and iii. Using elemental profiles to establish the utility of inorganic geochemical proxies for processes such as weathering and dust transport. High resolution chronology for the site was built using Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dates. To improve accuracy of the age-depth model, we also tested 4 samples for the effects of the AAA (Acid-Alkali-Acid) extraction method, the most common pre-treatment method for peat in the world. We compared ages on bulk samples (acid washed) and AAA treated samples from 4 different depths. We find that for all depths, the ages of the untreated samples do not lie within the internal uncertainty window and differ from the AAA treated sample age by at least an order of magnitude of the internal error, if not more. Based on these results we argue that the internal error should be used in conjunction with a reliable estimate of external error in an age-depth model for more realistic dating of paleoclimatic events. C/N ratios were explored for their paleoclimatic potential in conjunction with Rock-Eval indices and it was found that decomposition in tropical peat, as opposed to temperate peat, may not be sensitive to climatic perturbations. Inorganic geochemical proxies were also evaluated through this study. We see that the major and trace elements, except the lanthanide series do not show many significant trends for paleoenvironmental interpretation. But the lanthanides show some promise for identifying potential sources of dust and weathered material. Our study has addressed the gap in knowledge about the utility of recent geochemical proxies in tropical peat and has attempted to provide a solution to improve reliability in constructing age-depth models.