<p>Over the last few decades, household incomes have been rising steadily but the biggest share of that growth has been in the top income quintile. This unequitable growth is exacerbated by spatial factors, such as a household’s home location and the distribution of opportunities and resources around it. This thesis examines the effects of the distribution of places of employment and healthy food retailers on socioeconomic outcomes for households in the Phoenix Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The main research objectives are to: i) calculate accessibility to employment and healthy food for public transit and automobile and identify low-access areas for the two modes; ii) determine the underlying reasons and recommend mitigation measures for the access gaps; and iii) investigate the associations between the calculated accessibility measures and socioeconomic outcomes for households. This is achieved by calculating healthy food accessibility, general job accessibility, industry job accessibility (i.e., access to jobs by the different North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) different industry sectors) and industry job mismatch (i.e., the difference in the general job accessibility and the industry job accessibility). We employ a modified Enhanced 2-step Floating Catchment Area (E2SFCA) method with continuously decaying weights using census data at the census block level, employment data from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) program in various North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) sectors, and locations of grocery stores from the Safegraph places dataset. Using spatial regression models, we estimate the associations between these calculated measures and socioeconomic outcomes. The analysis shows that there is a lack of transit access to healthy food and employment in the periphery of the MSA and that greater access is clustered around interstates and primary roads. The access by transit is worse than access by automobiles for most of the block groups. The spatial regression results show that renters find block groups with better access more attractive, and homeowners trade off that accessibility for better living conditions and other factors, such as school districts. People using the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and people not high school educated have worse industry job accessibility; jobs that they are employed and qualified in are not accessible to these vulnerable populations. City planners and policy makers can use these findings to implement policies that can address the access gaps found and impact communities. </p>

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the relationship between the socially constructed genders is manifested in American library science. To visualize gender, bibliometric analyses of peer reviewed articles published in three core journals of library science between 1980 and 2000 inclusive, are performed. The three journals are: College & Research Libraries, Journal of Academic Librarianship and Library Quarterly.Questions:1. Does gender affect the publishing process regarding the distribution of female and male authors?2. Does gender influence female and male authors' choice of references?3. Does gender affect the share of citations received by works of women and men respectively?4. Does gender influence collaboration regarding the distribution of co-authoring female and male authors?The bibliometric analyses indicate differences between the shares of female and male authors, as well asdifferences in the attention women and men give to and receive from other female and male authors respectively. It is assumed that there exists a gender contract (an implicit agreement of how men and women are expected to behave towards each other) which is renegotiated during the period of time of this study, seemingly to the benefit of female authors as they are given a larger space in publishing. But concerning citations there is a delay in regard to male authors' tendency to cite works by women. This might indicate that the importance of gender has not diminished but become more subtle and complex. The conclusion is that gender indeed influences publishing, referencing, citation and collaboration processes of library science.

"Living Within and Outside the Margins and Borders…" depicts the lived experiences of eight Latinx high school seniors transitioning from an urban high school categorized by the State as a high poverty, high achieving, Latino majority-minority school in a large, southern Arizona city on the cusp of the U.S. Mexico border. This qualitative study spans the course of an academic school year, and includes an examination of narratives from three educational leaders within the target school. As longtime educators contained and often constrained inside a sizable metropolitan district, educational leaders were challenged to serve these Latinx youth within the limits set by state and national policies related to immigration, achievement testing, and education of emergent bilinguals. A major goal of the study was to understand how educational leaders negotiate educational policy margins to resist deficit-framed approaches and to incorporate socially just action within their schools. As demonstrated by the participants in the present study, many Latinx youth are searching for ways to navigate linguistic, cultural, racial, and class-based borders. Furthermore, many seek to breakthrough prescribed margins characterized by educational policies and practices that seek to track, label, and often marginalize them. These margins can be "more than a site of deprivation…[but] also a site of radical possibility, a space of resistance" (hooks, 1990, p.149). Thus, these Latinx students' narratives, which include descriptions of the capital employed to overcome these barriers, were analyzed via a Community Cultural Wealth lens (Yosso, 2005).

Imitation of archeological artifacts or replacing the authentic ones with fake replicates is a universal problem / it is particularly important in Turkey for historical metal objects. Traditionally used visual inspection methods alone are not sufficient for the solution of contemporary problems. In this study, chemical characterization has been used to determine the differences between the authentic and fake objects. The non-destructive analyses were carried out by Portable X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (P-XRF). Silver Roman Coins (27 B.C. to 244 A.D.) were the objects handled in this research. In particular the concentrations of Zr, Pt, Pb and Bi were used for differentiation / it has been observed that the concentrations have different trends in the authentic and fake silver coins. In authentic coins the average Pb concentration was found to be 0.77%, while this value was 0.055% for the fake ones. Bi could be determined in 86% of the authentic coins while it could not be detected in any fake coin. It has been generally observed that the silver and copper concentrations could not be utilized in authenticity tests. Another approach was the use of Line Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (LSEM-EDX). Using LSEM-EDX technique, it was observed that the concentration changes near the interface between the matrix and the copper-rich locations exhibits difference behaviors for the authentic and fake objects. This difference is originated by the fact that a newly formed copper amalgam contains copper-rich phases while with extended time concentration changes at interfaces become more gradual or not detectable. Pearson correlation was used in order to elucidate the relations between the element concentrations determined by P-XRF. In order to see whether the authentic and silver fake coins can form separate groups, dendograms have been constructed utilizing SPSS 16.0 software and Euclidian Square Distance method. It has been observed that the authentic and fake coins can be successfully grouped when the proper statistical choices are used. It has been observed that these groups have significant differences using t-test. The selected and used technology is proposed for use by museums and entities keeping archaeological collections in order to prevent forgeries.

The submitted diploma thesis deals with a study of business development of AZ KLIMA a.s. focusing on marketing and services. The theoretical part defines basic concepts related to business and marketing. Information is taken from scientific literature that discusses given problematics. This information is then used to create a practical part that deals with a comprehensive analysis of the current state of the above-mentioned company. It includes SWOT analysis, PESTE analysis and McKinsey 7S model. A specific business development strategy is defined based on individual analyses. The solution proposal then defines specific steps leading to a business development. The aim of this work is to create a development strategy that will be effective and beneficial for the company in the long term.

This work explores Junot Daz as an author of decolonial imagination, and more specifically, how the carnivalesque nature of Dominican machismo as influenced by Trujillos el tguere masculinity creates liminal space for self-determination in opposition to colonial imagination. In exploring Dazs primary masculine characters, Oscar de Leon and Yunior de Las Casas, I trace the initial decolonial turn engendered by tigueraje performance, namely its projective creation of self outside of colonial domination. El tguere machismo as empowering for Dominican males, however, is problematized by its reciprocal domination of both women and men who fail to meet the tigueraje ideal. It becomes an attempted cure that is ultimately symptomatic of the extent to which the effects of insidious ideologies and political policies, in this case, imperialism, perpetuate themselves across time, space, and perhaps most significantly, cultures. Ultimately, identifying Junot Daz as decolonial author is a misrepresentation; though Daz writes to break free of coloniality, his failure to largely acknowledge in his writing the cost and damage done to Dominican women reveals a narrow focus antithetical to the larger goals of decoloniality.

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In this thesis, it is aimed to make a study on Primary Schools of Rum Minority in Istanbul, and in light of this study, to define general principles for conservation studies on these schools. Rum Minority had an important part in social and cultural life in Istanbul and in late 19th Century, their impact in the city increased with their financial power, especially in Beyoglu. Increase in number of schools they built also occurred in the same timeline. Schools built in and after this term by Rum Minority were built as important public buildings of a minority group and possess strong authenticity, technical-artistic, socio-cultural and economical values. In order to decide which values, problems and potentials these buildings bear, a site survey study is done for this thesis. Primary Schools of Rum Minority in Istanbul are among strongest solid evidences of cultural diversity in Istanbul, and Turkey. While conserving these cultural assets, considering all their values, problems, and potentialities is vital. In addition to conservation studies, interpretation and presentation are also necessary steps for reintegration of these buildings to the city. This thesis performs as an effort made to document features and current state of these schools, decide their value, problems, and potentials / and defining general conservation principles for them.

CARNEIRO, Mário Henrique Thé Mota. Reis, rainhas, calungas , balaios e batuques: imagens no Maracatu Az de Ouro e suas práticas educacionais. 2007. 176f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Faculdade de Educação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza-CE, 2007. / Submitted by Raul Oliveira (raulcmo@hotmail.com) on 2012-08-06T14:49:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2007_Dis_MHTMCARNEIRO.pdf: 6760619 bytes, checksum: cafbbb0f280dcc1a4e1031191a6e81d2 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-08-09T11:18:13Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2007_Dis_MHTMCARNEIRO.pdf: 6760619 bytes, checksum: cafbbb0f280dcc1a4e1031191a6e81d2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-08-09T11:18:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2007_Dis_MHTMCARNEIRO.pdf: 6760619 bytes, checksum: cafbbb0f280dcc1a4e1031191a6e81d2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / This research deals with the Ace of Gold Maracatu Cultural Association and how this maracatu group-wich is the oldest one of Fortaleza - develops its ways of learning. The main goal of this dissertation paper is to shed a light on how learning process is developed from the deep inside of a maracatu group. It was noticed from the field observation that education is present in some situations called " not formal learning situations" which amount of knowledge is passed on in a very particular and creative way along a never-ending flow of playing and learning. In order to perceive this learning process, it was necessary to dive deep in the symbolic and playful universe of this urban maracatu of Fortaleza. In a zoom perspective, it was observed its daily routine full of cultural presentations where real popular spetacles take place, and common and anonimus people transform themselves into characters that take part along the maracatu procession which is a religious-dramatic dance based upon african cultural background. To know its conflicts and financial difficulties, its ways of sociabilities, its dynamics was something intense and full complexities allowing to infer that it is by playing that we lear to research and it is by researching that we learn to play. In this particular case, to play is dancing maracatu, coloring the face black and beating the drum. All this experiences allowed to perceive, as researcher, that there are ways of building and transmiting knowledge by means of an extremely peculiar cultural practice as it is in the case of the urban Maracatu Ace of Gold. / Este trabalho versa sobre a Associação Cultural Maracatu Az de Ouro e acerca de como este grupo de maracatu, que é o mais antigo da Capital em atividade, desenvolve suas formas de aprendizagem. O intuito desta dissertação é evidenciar como ocorre o processo educativo no interior de um maracatu. Notou-se, desde o início da pesquisa, que a educação estava presente em algumas situações que denomino de "situações de aprendizagem" não formal, cujos saberes são repassados de modo singular e criativo num eterno fluxo de brincar e aprender. Para perceber esta modalidade de aprendizagem, teve-se que mergulhar no universo simbólico e repleto de ludicidade deste maracatu urbano de Fortaleza. Acompanhou-se de perto seu cotidiano permeado de apresentações culturais, verdadeiros espetáculos populares, onde pessoas comuns, anônimas, se transformam em personagens que compõem o cortejo africano, uma vez que o maracatu é uma dança dramática-religiosa de base afrodescendente. Conhecer seus conflitos e dificuldades financeiras, suas formas de sociabilidade, sua dinâmica por meio da Etnocenologia - conceito que se utiliza para falar do espetáculo - foi algo intenso e eivado de complexidades, permitindo fazer-se a seguinte consideração: é brincando que se aprende a pesquisar e é pesquisando que se aprende a brincar. No caso, brincar é dançar no maracatu, pintar o rosto de preto e bater tambor. Toda essa experimentação possibilitou que se percebesse, na qualidade de pesquisador, que existem modos de construção e transmissão de saberes por meio de uma prática cultural extremamente peculiar, como é o caso do maracatu urbano Az de Ouro.

The present work examines the taxonomy and function of potters’ marks applied to pottery in the Amman-Zarqa region during the last phase of the Early Bronze Age, the so-called EB IV ca. 2350/2300–2000 BC. The study is anchored in a small data set gathered from 12 archaeological sites, in which 24 different mark types have been identified. These mark types - together with their associated vessel classes, circumstances of deposition, and geographical distribution - comprise the background against which previous suggestions regarding potters’ marks are evaluated. Evidence from ethno-archaeological sources concerning traditional potters’ rationales for marking vessels today is also included as part of the interpretive framework. The mode and scale of production is discussed on the basis of the ceramic evidence, the size and character of settlements located within the region, and the socio-economic setting of the EB IV period in general.