This thesis examines values and life goals of social workers. It is written in such way that theoretical background is connected and compared with the results of my own survey. The participants of the survey were social work sudents, social workers, economics students and people employed in the field of economics. The thesis takes a closer look at values in social work. Some issues here may be caused by the fact that there is not really a widespread definition of what values actually are. That is also the reason why the thesis examines factors that are crucial during the process of embracing values by individuals and also the influence of variables during the examination. In order to fulfil the goal of my thesis, I chose three topics for the interviews. The three topics were family, job and future. Based on the survey, I found personal and work values of social workers as well as their life goals.

This thesis is dedicated to the problems of gender assignment to English loan words in Italian. The thesis is divided into two parts. In the first, theoretical part, attention is paid to the definition of gender category in Italian, to the rules describing the formation of gender in Italian and then the gender assignment rules for English loan words are presented in detail. The second, analytical part, is dedicated to the research which is carried out via Italian text corpus itWaC. The application of the presented rules for gender assignment is being verified on a sample of English loan words.The aim of the thesis is to introduce the problems of gender assignment to English loan words in Italian, to provide a detailed overview of the individual rules for gender assignment and to verify how much are these rules observed in practice.

PINTO, Gabriel Leite Vasconcelos. Estratégias de compreensão de expressões idiomáticas. 2015. 128f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras – Mestrado Profissional em Letras (PROFLETRAS), Fortaleza (CE), 2015. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-02-02T11:34:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_glvpinto.pdf: 5585657 bytes, checksum: 2a7647c6be375f49d9dac76059ac05e0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-02-03T12:12:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_glvpinto.pdf: 5585657 bytes, checksum: 2a7647c6be375f49d9dac76059ac05e0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-03T12:12:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_glvpinto.pdf: 5585657 bytes, checksum: 2a7647c6be375f49d9dac76059ac05e0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Esta pesquisa tem como objeto de estudo a compreensão das expressões idiomáticas em língua materna, visando ao aprimoramento no reconhecimento do sentido das EIs através do contexto do texto. Com bases teóricas que congregam a Fraseologia e a Psicolinguística, o presente trabalho tem cunho metodológico experimental. Para a geração de dados, ela se utilizou da pesquisa-ação, através da aplicação de uma sequência didática adaptada de Dolz, Noverraz & Schneuwly (2004), em uma turma do sétimo ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública municipal de Fortaleza, com um teste diagnóstico aplicado antes dos módulos da SD e um teste avaliativo, aplicado no final. Além disso, a pesquisa utilizou uma turma controle em que foram aplicados somente os testes, para que os dados coletados nas duas turmas pudessem ser comparados. As atividades constaram de textos projetados em slides em que eram destacadas expressões idiomáticas cujo sentido poderia ser reconhecido pelo contexto. Assim, o professor incentivou a ativação do conhecimento prévio dos alunos, a predição e a inferenciação para que eles pudessem compreender melhor o significado da EI. Como resultados, a pesquisa demonstrou que as estratégias de leitura podem ser uma ferramenta muito importante para a desautomatização do processo de apreensão do sentido das expressões idiomáticas, além de ampliar as habilidades de leitura dos alunos de uma maneira participativa e reflexiva.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-05-21Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:55:13Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 assis_abg_me_arafcl.pdf: 1167830 bytes, checksum: 86faf4132000cae49436b55e4a3c0c9e (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / O objetivo principal desta Dissertação de Mestrado é analisar a pronúncia de anglicismos - palavras ou expressões inglesas usadas em outras línguas - por falantes de Português Brasileiro (doravante PB), com vistas à exploração da questão da adaptação destas palavras à língua de chegada, no nível fonológico, para uma posterior discussão da naturalidade de tais palavras ou expressões quando pronunciadas no contexto de PB. Como córpus, foram considerados anglicismos ainda não adaptados graficamente ao PB. A fonte é uma coletânea de textos extraídos de seções da popular revista Veja, do período de janeiro a junho de 2005. Nesse córpus, 290 diferentes termos foram encontrados, totalizando 1326 ocorrências. Pediu-se a dois falantes de PB que lessem em voz alta 50 frases selecionadas dentre os artigos considerados. Cada frase selecionada contém um dos 50 anglicismos mais recorrentes no córpus, retiradas dos artigos da revista em questão. A leitura foi gravada, e a partir das gravações foram feitas as transcrições fonética e fonologica da realização dos sujeitos para os anglicismos selecionados. A partir das transcrições realizadas, foi possível fazer análises fonológicas dos padrões fonéticos produzidos em uma perspectiva não-linear, comparando a pronúncia padrão das palavras em Inglês Americano (IA) com as pronúncias produzidas pelos dois sujeitos em PB. Após essa análise comparativa, foi feito um levantamento dos processos fonológicos utilizados pelos falantes de PB ao pronunciar tais palavras e adaptá-las ao seu sistema fonológico: inserção de vogal epentética /e/ (realizada como [i]) para desfazer onsets complexos e codas simples ou complexas não licenciadas em PB e conseqüente mudança da estrutura silábica da palavra; alteração do posicionamento do acento; vocalização de /l/ em posição de coda... / The aim of this dissertation is to analyze Brazilian Portuguese (hereafter BP) speakers pronunciation of Anglicisms, i.e. English words or expressions used in other languages, in order to study how these words are adapted to the target language at a phonological level. Such analysis will serve to discuss the nature of these words or phrases when they are pronounced in the BP context. The corpus comprises Anglicisms which have not yet been graphically adapted to BP. The source is a collection of text extracts from the popular magazine, Veja , covering the period January to June, 2005. Within this corpus, 290 terms were identified, accounting for a total of 1,326 occurrences. Two speakers of BP were requested to read aloud some 50 sentences, each of which was selected from the sample magazine texts. The samples were selected on the basis that they contained 50 of the most frequently occurring Anglicisms. The reading was recorded so that the subjects pronunciation might be transcribed, both phonetically and phonologically. Based on these same transcriptions, it was possible to analyze phonologically the phonetic patterns in a non-linear approach, comparing the standard American pronunciation of such words with the subjects BP pronunciation. Following this comparative analysis, it was possible to identify the phonological processes employed by the BP speakers when pronouncing the said words and adapting them to their phonological system. Notable elements included the following: the addition of an epenthetic vowel /e/, (pronounced [i]), in order to break down complex onsets or simple or complex codas which are non-licensed in BP and the consequent change in the syllabic structure of the word; change in the position of word stress; vocalization of /l/ in the coda of syllables; nasalization of vowels followed by nasal consonants; deletion of plosive consonants in the coda of the end of words... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Orientador: Antonio Claudio de França Correa / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica e Instituto de Geociencias / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T17:53:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maldonado_AnibalRuben_M.pdf: 2231799 bytes, checksum: dceac9e6dc3c5c1f98438546cc752218 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: O principal objetivo deste trabalho é melhorar a caracterização de reservatórios que encontram-se ainda em fase de exploração e apresentam gradientes térmicos verticais e horizontais. Foi construído um modelo matemático aplicado a um sistema homogêneo de três pseudo-componentes em um modelo de reservatório bidimensional com propriedades petrofísicas simplificadas. Com o modelo proposto foi possível resolver simultaneamente o sistema de equações do balanço parcial e global de materiais. O conceito mais importante introduzido no modelo, é o fluxo molecular difusivo acoplado aos balanços de massa. O fluxo difusivo molar de um componente está não só influenciado pelo gradiente do dito componente, como também pelo gradiente dos outros componentes (fluxo molar cruzado) e dos gradientes de pressão e temperatura. Para resolver o sistema de matrizes foi elaborado um algoritmo numérico baseado em diferenças finitas. Este algoritmo parte de um estado inicial de não equilíbrio com composição homogênea do reservatório, o qual atinge o estado estacionário no equilíbrio termodinâmico. Como resultado são gerados mapas bidimensionais de composição e densidade / Abstract: The main goal of this work is improve the thermodynamics parameters characterization in petroleum reservoirs that have not been produced yet and show vertical and horizontal thermal gradient. We have constructed a mathematical model considering a homogenous system formed by three pseudo components in a two-dimensional reservoir model and simplified petrophysical properties. With the proposed mathematical modeling was possible to solve simultaneously the equations system from the material balance of the components. The most important concept introduced into the mathematical model, is the molecular diffusive flux that is linked to the material balance. The molecular diffusive flux of a given component depends not only on its composition gradient (mutual diffusion), but also on the composition gradient of all other components in the mixture (cross-molecular diffusion) and on pressure and thermal gradients. In order to obtain a resolution matrix system, a numerical algorithm was built based on finite difference. Such numerical algorithm supposes that the initial point is a pseudo-transient state with homogenous composition reservoir that reaches the steady state in the thermodynamic equilibrium. As a result, two-dimensional maps of density and composition were generated. / Mestrado / Reservatórios e Gestão / Mestre em Ciências e Engenharia de Petróleo

This thesis is a literary linguistic study of lexical innovation in fiction. It uses corpus linguistic methods and concepts of morphological theory to develop a new word typology and to examine new words as to their role in directing a reader's imagination and with regard to their frequency and distribution in classic English literature between 1750 and 1923. A 56 million word corpus consisting of a homogenous variety of texts converted from online literature databases serves as the basis for a chronologically structured new word extraction. This is carried out aided by the concordancer programme AntConc. The following three aspects are addressed in this research. The first attempts to explain why certain new words appear newer than other equally novel forms. It demonstrates that the factors influencing a word's novelty effect are wordlike-ness, morpheme content, and formal and semantic analogy. A new word typology is derived from these. A second main section focuses on stylistic aspects. If the words we use influence the way we think, as theorised in the principle of linguistic relativity, then forming new words and reading these should influence the way we think about what they describe. The second element identifies the strategies authors may use to affect their readers' associations through word formation. A third section is a frequency and distribution analysis of the new words extracted, taking historical developments, text mode and form, genre, and new word types into account. It adds quantitative data to the qualitative investigation preceding it, showing that verse and prose, text forms, and genres as well as time periods differ in the new words they produce and providing evidence for the characteristics of each.

Computers and the internet have become an integral part of our lives. People have grown accustomed to feeling constantly connected to the outside world, and in the past couple of decades online social networks and three-dimensional online virtual worlds have gained great popularity. In addition to social connections, virtual worlds (such as Second Life, a popular virtual world) offer their users opportunities for both work and play, and let them take part in things that might have been impossible in real life. However, the human factor plays a big role in the formation of the virtual community. The feeling of false anonymity online might lead to a feeling of freedom from any laws that govern the real world, and possibly facilitate offensive behaviour. The problem addressed by this study is the need to determine whether digital forensic techniques can be applied to an incident inside the Second Life environment (i.e. offensive behaviour between avatars, while logged in to Second Life), as well as to find possible sources of evidence accessible via the standard Second Life viewer. The former also requires a classification of various offenses committed in Second Life, in order to determine which actions are to be regarded as offences, and whether these actions occur inside or outside of the Second Life environment. In this dissertation the author’s own classification of various real-life offences is provided, together with a mapping of these offences to their alternatives in Second Life. Second Life is analysed and explored from a forensic perspective. A new digital forensic process model, derived from various existing models in the literature, has been developed by the author for this study. The model is designed to accommodate for the specifics of a virtual world environment. An exploratory experiment has been undertaken by the author in order to investigate how inexperienced users perceived Second Life, as well as how they reacted to attacks from other users, to identify the possible sources of evidence, and suggest possible digital forensic techniques based on the gathered data. / Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2015. / Computer Science / MSc / Unrestricted

Thesis (M.A. (African Languages)) -- University of Limpopo, 2014

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The diploma thesis focuses on rationalization of manufacturing processes in company Honeywell Safety Products Partizanske s.r.o.. Main target is to track actual state of processes, which are connected to manufacturing activity, search for reasons of collisions and try to minimize or eliminate them. By designing of multiple optimization solutions, evaluating of data and after applying best-fitted solution can be collision eliminated on purpose. These solutions are exposed to economic analyse and possible share with Company. Economic perspective can help to easier identify which of solution could have bigger impact after implementation to support prosperity of mentioned company.