Le présent mémoire est une analyse économétrique du rendement boursier des fiducies de revenu. Les fiducies de revenu ont constitué jusqu'à 15% des entités inscrites à la Bourse de Toronto et ont été un placement populaire jusqu'en 2006. Étant donné que les détenteurs de parts des fiducies n'étaient pas admissibles au crédit d'impôt pour dividendes et que le rendement boursier est un rendement avant l'impôt des particuliers alors il s'en suit que le rendement boursier des fiducies devait être, à risque égal, systématiquement plus élevé que celui des sociétés par actions afin de compenser pour l'absence de crédit d'impôt. Cette compensation se nomme «effet fiducie» et nous cherchons à estimer sa présence dans le rendement des fiducies à l'aide de modèles économétriques d'évaluation d'actifs financiers. En raison de certaines caractéristiques fiscales, la valeur théorique de l'effet fiducie est inconnue mais strictement positive. Par ailleurs, puisque la médiatisation des fiducies a été importante, nous avons ajouté à nos modèles des variables dichotomiques captant l'impact de certaines caractéristiques médiatiques dans le temps. Trois modèles ont été estimés et deux de ceux-ci ont pour facteurs explicatifs des variables financières et économiques. Le dernier a comme facteurs des composantes principales. Lorsque les variables médiatiques sont ajoutées à ces modèles, l'effet fiducie est significatif dans les trois cas. L'effet fiducie est toutefois plus élevé et davantage significatif avec le modèle à composantes principales. Toutefois, lorsque les variables médiatiques sont omises, l'effet fiducie est significatif uniquement avec le modèle à composantes principales.

Le mémoire examine le potentiel de deux méthodes d'évaluations de la valeur d'une entreprise sur la base d'un échantillon de firmes oeuvrant dans le domaine des biotechnologies. Selon la première méthode, nommée Binotech, l'action d'une firme de biotechnologies est traitée comme étant une option financière. Avec la deuxième méthode, dite numérique, le rendement des firmes est considéré comme un mouvement brownien dont la moyenne est définie selon la méthodologie proposée par Bergeron, Savor et Kryzanowski. (2004). Les évaluations obtenues à l'aide de chacune des deux méthodes, sont ensuite comparées aux valeurs marchandes des firmes c'est à dire leurs valeurs boursières. Les résultats obtenus indiquent que la performance respective des deux méthodes est étroitement liée à la volatilité du rendement boursier des firmes de l'échantillon. Or, la volatilité des firmes, tend à être reliée à leur taille, tout comme, souvent, le degré de diversification de leur portefeuille de molécule. En conséquence, la performance de l'une ou l'autre des deux méthodes examinées est meilleure pour les entreprises de grande taille et l'évaluation des petites firmes ayant un portefeuille non diversifié demeure un défi difficile à relever. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Biotechnologie, Options réelles, Étude empirique.

Syftet med litteraturstudien var att beskriva sjuksköterskans agerande vid misstanke om barnmisshandel, vilka faktorer som påverkar beslutet att anmäla eller inte anmäla vid misstanke om barnmisshandel samt granska och redovisa artiklarnas vetenskapliga kvalitet. Metoden var en deskriptiv litteraturstudie och artiklar söktes i databasen Medline via Pubmed. Sökningen resulterade i tio artiklar. Resultatet visade att sjuksköterskans iakttagelseförmåga var den viktigaste egenskapen för att upptäcka barnmisshandel. Vid misstanke avvaktade sjuksköterskan sina åtgärder, anmälan skedde när säkra bevis fanns. I resultatet framkom behov av utbildning och samarbetet mellan sjuksköterskor, läkare och socialarbetare kunde förbättras för att skydda barnet. Osäkerhet och bristande kunskap kring rapportering hindrade sjuksköterskans agerande och rädsla för sin egen säkerhet medförde att en anmälan inte alltid blev gjord. Fakta kring barnmisshandel tas upp bristfälligt i sjuksköterskans grundutbildning vilket ökar osäkerheten kring agerande och rapportering. Sjuksköterskans attityd till barnmisshandel inverkade på beslutet att rapportera eller inte. Fysiska- och sexuella övergrepp ansågs lättare att identifiera än psykisk misshandel. Kvalitén, utifrån granskning av urval/bortfall, anses vara hög i de kvalitativa studierna och i de kvantitativa studierna var variationen i kvalitet stor. Slutsatsen är att många sjuksköterskor känner osäkerhet kring agerande och rapportering. Tydliga riktlinjer och ett bättre samarbete mellan olika yrkesgrupper behövs. / The purpose of this literature review was to describe the nurse's actions in cases of suspected child abuse, what factors influence the decision to report or not report suspected child abuse and to examine the quality of the studies from a scientific perspective. The method was a descriptive review and articles were searched in Medline database through PubMed. The search resulted in ten articles. The result showed that the nurse's observation was the most important characteristic to detect child abuse. With suspicion of child abuse they only acted when solid evidence existed. The study found a need for training among the nurses and that cooperation between professional groups involved could be improved. Uncertainty about reporting was an obstacle to the nurse's actions. A fear for the nurses own safety meant that a notification was not always made. There is a general deficiency of education within this area which increases the uncertainty surrounding the conduct and reporting. Nurse's attitude to child abuse had an effect on the decision to report or not. Physical and sexual abuse was easier to identify than emotional abuse. The quality of selection and non-response was considered to be high in the qualitative studies, and the quantitative studies had a variation in quality. The conclusion is that many nurses feel uncertain about the conduct and reporting. Clear guidelines and better cooperation between professional groups are needed.

The application of innovative methods to diminish the amount of human creation called “waste” should be applied not only under commercial terms, but also under the humanitarian concept. Negative results of focusing only on the fastest relief of human suffer without attending the consequences of the flow of items left on the disaster zones, could bring in the medium term, critical environmental consequences, due to the creation of new waste. This research analyzes relevant approaches of the Humanitarian Relief of Aid under a Humanitarian Logistics point of view. It aims to find if those approaches have already a Reverse Logistic phase of the items provided by donors. The results demonstrate the absence of a Reverse Logistics Phase for items brought to disaster zones. Thus, some proposals were suggested for a new Reverse Logistic Phase in any humanitarian relief of aid. NGOs, donors participation, coordination among players on the scene, managing inventories, last mile distribution, performance measurement, relief of aid models,  and reverse logistics concepts applied to the humanitarian field would be only some of the themes revised on this research. These aim to enrich the readers’ knowledge on the topic as well as to provide an open panorama of the humanitarian actions employed in each Natural Disaster. The reader would acquire sufficient understanding to determine how feasible and reachable are the alternatives proposed by the authors. The relevance of this theme reveals a critical and not yet researched niche in Reverse Logistics under Humanitarian Logistics. It encourages more readers to research on it, explore and apply in future natural disasters. This research used a qualitative approach employing a semi-structured interview made to small and large humanitarian organizations.

Abstract All students in the Swedish elementary school that do not reach the educational objectives in mathematics have a legal right to receive support in order to reach these objectives. An action plan shall be created, where it should be visible what supportive measures the student is given to reach the objectives. The purpose of our final thesis is to investigate how the action plan can contribute to the work with students that experience difficulties within mathematics. The study is performed on 7-9th grade schools, and the empirical material is gathered through reading of hundreds of action plans, observations, and interviews of students, teachers, remedial teachers and headmasters. The theoretical frame used is hermeneutics, constructivism and perspective on special education. The result of the study is that action plans do play an important role in the work with students that experience difficulties within mathematics, but the quality of the programs seems to vary. Some action plans are clearly stated, contain tangible actions, both on individual as well as on a group level, that help the student in their learning, whereas other programs are unclear and aimed only at what the student himself should perform to reach the objectives, i.e. only on an individual level. The remedial teaching support is often categorical, they are assuming that the student is the owner of the problem, and the support is also given from that perspective. That means that the student is given support in the format of individual education by a remedial teacher or by education in a smaller group.

Thèse doctorat : Mathématiques : Strasbourg 1 : 2006. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Bibliogr. 4 p.. Index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2009. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-170).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 2001. Graduate Programme in History. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 347-366). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ66350.

Given the prominence of the transformational theory of action in major urban educational reform efforts, this study intends to describe and analyze the initial and sustaining leadership actions taken by the superintendent and his leadership team, the board of trustees and the Dallas Achieves! Commission in the development of the Dallas Achieves! transformational theory of action framework. Specifically, this study seeks to encourage the research community to discover, understand, and gain insight concerning the Dallas Achieves! transformational theory of action. The study utilized the constructs of Bolman and Deal’s (2003) Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice and Leadership four frames for “making sense” of organizations as the analytical tool for the description of initial and sustaining leadership actions taken to develop the Dallas Achieves! transformational theory of action framework. This analytical framework guided the data collection, categorization, and emergent themes. The answers to the research questions posed in this study emanated from the analysis of the data. The findings indicate the superintendent and his leadership team, the board of trustees, and the Dallas Achieves! Commission utilized specific leadership actions in the development of the Dallas Achieves! transformational theory of action framework. Ultimately, the findings of this study provide information for researchers and those who design, enact and implement transformational theories of action. / text

Playwriting theory has, from its beginning, been concerned with the search for the essential nature of dramatic writing. Early playwriting treatises (poetics) defined the essential aspects of drama as being the plot (creation of sequences of fictional events), the moral character of its heroes, the idea of enactment, or the rhetorical and lyrical qualities of the text. These categories were kept through later treatises with different emphasis being put on each category. An understanding of drama as a sequence of fictional events (plot) has been central in acting theory. Modern theories and techniques centred on Stanislavsky’s ideas rely heavily on rehearsal methods that carefully establish the sequence of actions of the characters in a play as a result of psychological motivations. This method was described by Stanislavsky in An Actor’s Work on a Role, published in 1938, and is known as the Method of Physical Actions. This thesis reassesses the definition of playwriting as consisting essentially in the creation of a plot populated by suitable characters. Rather than discussing playwriting theory in isolation it attempts a bridge between acting theory and playwriting theory by using the Method of Physical Actions as an equivalent to plot. Acting theory is thus considered as a theoretical justification for the centrality of plot. The method used is hermeneutic — a systematic interpretation of poetics, unveiling in almost an archaeological manner the relevance of the essential definitions of drama, such as character, source, genre, and language to the concept of plot. The chronological path of development of dramatic theories is shown to be gradual: from the strict obedience to the narrative line imposed by the mythic sources, in classical treatises; through to an interest in the lyrical expression of the predicament of specific characters, in neoclassical theory; to an awareness of specific social types in the eighteenth century; and, finally, to the conception of the plot as a product of the mental life of individual characters in modern theory.