Connections between South Africa and Antarctica can be traced as far back as the 1700s when European expeditions in search of the southern continent used Cape Town (and later Simonstown) as a base of operation. This link expanded considerably after formal British acquisition of the Cape of Good Hope in 1815, yet it was not until 1926 that an actual South African policy towards the Antarctic began to materialize. Once this policy was established it continued to be characterized by procrastination as well as resistance both from within and without South Africa. The history of South Africa's Antarctic policy can be divided into five periods: first, the commencement of the policy (focusing primarily on economic interests), 1926-1939; second, the pursuit of interests through the policy (focusing on political interests), 1944- 1958; third, the entrenchment of South Africa's interests in the Antarctic (by securing South Africa's position within the Antarctic Treaty System), 1958-1960; fourth, the expansion of and foreign assault on the policy (under the auspices of the Antarctic Treaty System), 1960-1988; and fifth, the defence of and future prospects for the policy (from United Nation's calls for South Africa's exclusion from the Antarctic Treaty System), since 1982. While resistance from inside and outside the government during the first two periods resulted from inadequacies in the South African Antarctic policy itself, resistance in the final two periods has centred upon non-Antarctic issues. As South Africa has faced ever-increasing exclusion from international governmental organizations over opposition to Its apartheid policies, organizations such as the Antarctic Treaty Organization have inevitably been drawn into the debate. As a result, the Consultative Parties of the Antarctic Treaty (of which South Africa is one of the original twelve) have been forced to deal with the following question: to what extent will political issues outside the scope of the management policies of the Antarctic Treaty Organization be allowed to affect the functioning of the Antarctic Treaty System? While the Consultative Parties continue to ponder this and the fact that South Africa's Consultative Status has become the most divisive factor within the Antarctic Treaty System, no final solutions to these issues appear likely before 1991.

Orientador: Maria Clementina Pereira da Cunha / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T15:48:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Chernavsky_Analia_M.pdf: 11284695 bytes, checksum: ebca00ecca688953542f4c5f27e0c02d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 / Resumo: Revisando a memória de um dos mitos mais importantes da história da música brasileira - Heitor Villa-Lobos - este texto recupera a sua trajetória como funcionário público (1932-1947) a serviço de um plano de educação cívicoartística baseado em princípios derivados de uma vertente do nacionalismo musical filiada ao movimento modernista. Embora pautadas sobre uma consicente identificação ideológica, as relações estabelecidas entre artista e Estado durante os quinze anos que marcaram o governo Vargas, apresentaram alguns momentos de tensão, que exprimiam descompassos ou algumas pequenas divergências, sempre sanadas com presteza / Mestrado / Mestre em História

Orientador: Milton Jose de Almeida / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-18T11:51:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vasconcellos_MariaHelenaFalcao_M.pdf: 7519059 bytes, checksum: 357a9b6f22405344ceea25a7e49ef933 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1993 / Resumo: A dissertação DIAS DE VIOLENCIA - O QUEBRA DE JANEIRO DE 59 EM UBERLANDIA analisa o papel da pulsão da violência na estruturação dos agrupamentos sociais. Essa análise ê feito desenrolar-se dos fatos ocorridos nos dias 18 e 19 de janeiro de 1959 em Uberlândia - MG. O esquema da dissertação segue a cronologia do Quebra-Quebra, ou seja: primeiro dia do Quebra - a destruição dos cinemas, segundo dia do Quebra - o saque aos armazéns; terceiro dia do Quebra - a violência monopolizada nas mãos do Estado. A análise contrapõe e aproxima a _potência e ferves cente da violência coletiva da/multidão em protesto, como pulsão de vida social e o poder institucionalizado da violência monopolizada nas mãos do sistema juridico-policial do Estado. Tensão entre o fluir (des-ordem) e o institu1do (ordem), que não devem se excluir, mas manter-se em tensão conflitiva e instável na dinâmica do conviver social / Mestrado / Mestre em Educação

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A study of the development of the issues in the Hawaiian statehood controversy reveals the paradoxical fact that, while Americans were promoting the mutual interest of Hawaii and the United States, they were also developing a social, economic, and political atmosphere that has resulted in forces inimical to the consummation of a logical realization of Hawaii’s integration as a state. A knowledge of how Hawaii became linked to the United States, and of the institutions developed in the islands prior to annexation in 1898 is essential to an understanding of the contemporary problem.

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I. A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Tournaments. A paired-comparison experiment involving t treatments is analogous to a tournament with t players. A balanced experiment, in which every possible pair occurs once per replication, is the counterpart of a round robin tournament. When the objective is to pick the best treatment, the balanced design may prove to be more expensive than necessary. The knock-out tournament has been suggested as an alternative requiring fewer units of each treatment per replication. In this paper round robin, replicated knock-out, and double elimination tournaments are investigated for their effectiveness in selecting the best one or tour players. Effectiveness is gauged in terms of the two criteria (a) the probability that the best player wins and (b) the expected number of games. For general values of the parameters involved, expressions are derived for the evaluation of the criteria. Comparisons are made on the basis of series of assigned parameter values. Possibilities for the extension of the study are briefly discussed. II. Ties in Paired-Comparison Experiments. In making paired comparisons a judge frequently is unable to express a real preference in a number of the pairs he judges. In spite of this, some or the methods in current use do not permit the judge to declare a tie. In other methods tied observations are either ignored or divided equally or randomly between the tied members. It appears that there is a need, at least in the estimation of response-scale values, for a method which takes tied observations into account. In the Thurstone-Mosteller method the standardized distribution of the difference of two stimulus responses is normal with unit variance and mean equal to the difference or the two mean stimulus responses. In prohibiting ties the assumption is in effect made that all differences, however small, are perceptible to the judge. In this paper the assumption is made that a tie will occur whenever the difference between the judge's responses to the two stimuli lie below a certain threshold, i.e. if the difference lies between -t and t the judge will declare a tie. The parameter t and the mean stimulus responses are estimated by least squares. To overcome a difficulty presented by correlated data, an angular response law is postulated for the response-scale differences. In the resulting transformed data non-homogeneity of variances is encountered. In effecting a weighted solution, weights are first determined by using a preliminary unweighted analysis, and an iterative procedure is proposed. Large-sample variances and covariances of the estimates are obtained. A test of the validity of the model is described. A computational procedure is set up, and exemplified through application to experimental data. / Ph. D.

In this dissertation, the synthesis of system reliability from the reliabilities of the componentry constituting the system is considered. For the purpose of contextual elucidation, major emphasis is accorded to complex missile systems. / Ph. D.

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All entirely new method had previously been perfected (1) for the determination of molecular weight of cellulose acetate in solution. The applicability of the dielectric dispersion method to other cellulosics was the next step in the development of this new procedure. Ethyl celluloee fractions were refractionated by a fractional precipitation procedure in order to obtain fractions that were homogeneous with respect to chain length. Ethyl acetate and acetone were used in the ratio of three to one (3:1) as solvents, and water acetone in the ratio of ninety-five to five (9515) was employed as a precipitating agent. The homogeneous ethyl cellulose fractions were investigated in a number of solvents – dioxane, benzene, toluene, carbon tetrachloride and n-butyl acetate. This was done in order that the applicability of different solvents could be observed as well as the relation between the viscosity and the critical frequency. The critical frequency is defined as the frequency at which the dispersion is fifty percent completed. 1. Havkine, M. C., Master of Science Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1956. / Ph. D.