This study investigates the structures of flow field in the mouth of Kao-Ping River, southwest Taiwan. The data used in this study are collected from several cruises of field observations using research vessel OR3 and fishing boats. Instruments deployed include bmADCP, sbADCP, towADCP, Aquadopp, CTD, XR420 and Seacat37. Spatial and temporal variations of flow, sea level, temperature and salinity data are sampled. The collected data are analyzed through harmonic analysis, low-pass filter and FFT. Results from previously study showed that cold water flowed eastward into the canyon during flood, and westward out of the canyon during ebb. This study shows that the canyon head is not the channel for bottom layer water to climb up into the shallow bank or the river (perhaps the bottom water climb up over shelf at the turning of the canyon 5 km offshore). The summaries are: (1)Water mass are moving around dominated by the oscillation M2 tidal current. There are 3 hours lag between sea level and flow. Maximum out canyon flow found at the peak of flood, while in canyon flow found at the low water. (2)The coastal surface water flows southeast during flood, and goes to northwest during ebb. (3)Tide current is the primary dynamic in the Kaoping River.During flood, lower temperature and higher salinity seawater is up river. During ebb, higher temperature and lower salinity is down the river. Amplitude of tidal current decreases with depth (likely due to bottom friction) at river mouth depth of 3 meters.

The religion of Manichaeism emerged from third-century Persian Mesopotamia from the self styled prophet and apostle of Christ, Mani. Through missionary endeavours, Manichaeism proliferated throughout the Roman Empire, Asia and China between the third and eighth centuries, before succumbing to persecution from rival faiths. Mani’s dramatic cosmological mythology forms the core of Manichaean practice and soteriology. This thesis explores the constructions of gender in Mani’s mythology and its development in subsequent Manichaean literature. The analysis considers constructions of gender embedded in six portraits of Manichaean cosmological figures. Gendered roles, attributes and epithets are explored, revealing hierarchical systems of roles and relations.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade, Departamento de Economia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia, 2016. / Submitted by Fernanda Percia França (fernandafranca@bce.unb.br) on 2017-02-24T16:32:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_ThiagoPaivaChaves.pdf: 415116 bytes, checksum: 75a652bf2d70c230c8a6fc39f815711e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana(raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2017-03-28T18:30:43Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_ThiagoPaivaChaves.pdf: 415116 bytes, checksum: 75a652bf2d70c230c8a6fc39f815711e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-28T18:30:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_ThiagoPaivaChaves.pdf: 415116 bytes, checksum: 75a652bf2d70c230c8a6fc39f815711e (MD5) / Este trabalho tem o objetivo de verificar a existência de relação e o eventual impacto do desempenho operacional registrado pelas companhias abertas com ações listadas na BM&FBOVESPA na remuneração dos seus administradores. Os dados utilizados para essa análise estão no formato de painel. Serão avaliadas também a existência de relação de diversas variáveis ligadas à estrutura de propriedade e à governança corporativa das companhias com a remuneração dos membros do conselho de administração e da diretoria. Embora seja um tema amplamente estudado na literatura internacional, há poucos estudos acadêmicos sobre o assunto no Brasil, principalmente envolvendo remuneração de administradores, tendo em vista que apenas a partir de 2009 foi possível ter acesso aos diversos elementos que compõem a remuneração desses executivos. A análise econométrica realizada para 331 companhias abertas, considerando o período de 2010 a 2014, revelou que para alguns elementos que compõe a remuneração dos executivos, como o pagamento em ações, há evidências de relação positiva e significativa entre remuneração e desempenho. Entretanto, para a maior parte das análises envolvendo essas variáveis, foram encontradas relações sem significância estatística ou significativas, mas pouco expressivas. / This study investigates the relationship and the impact of the company performance on executive compensation considering public companies listed on brazilian stock market, BM&FBOVESPA. The data used for this analysis are in panel format. They are also analyzed in this study the relationship of different variables related to the ownership structure and corporate governance on executive compensation. Despite being widely studied topic in the international literature, there are few empirical studies on Brazil involving executive compensation, given that only from 2009 the components of the structure of executive compensation became public. The analysis of 331 public companies listed at BM&FBOVESPA indicates a positive and significant relation between company performance and some components of the executive compensation, as stock plans. However, for most of the analyzes were found relationships with no statistical significance or significant but not expressive.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Programa Multi-institucional e Inter-Regional de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Contábeis, 2014. / Submitted by Ana Cristina Barbosa da Silva (annabds@hotmail.com) on 2015-07-01T17:43:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_MayaraBezerraBarbosa.pdf: 1083536 bytes, checksum: 1e1bc98304cb24f3d6a046f1118e8bdc (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana(raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2015-07-16T12:28:16Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_MayaraBezerraBarbosa.pdf: 1083536 bytes, checksum: 1e1bc98304cb24f3d6a046f1118e8bdc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-16T12:28:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_MayaraBezerraBarbosa.pdf: 1083536 bytes, checksum: 1e1bc98304cb24f3d6a046f1118e8bdc (MD5) / O estudo tem como objetivo conhecer a natureza dos resultados abrangentes (RA) contabilizados no patrimônio líquido das companhias e os reflexos nos índices de estrutura de capital e rentabilidade decorrentes de seus reconhecimentos nas demonstrações contábeis. Com relação à metodologia, fora utilizada, inicialmente, a análise de conteúdo das notas explicativas das companhias que fizeram parte da amostra, sendo essa 175 empresas não financeiras listadas nos segmentos de governança corporativa da BM&FBovespa, que tenham publicado suas demonstrações contábeis relativas ao exercício findo em dezembro de 2013. Após, calculou-se os índices de estrutura de capital e rentabilidade das referidas empresas, e esses foram reconstruídos excluindo-se os resultados abrangentes reconhecidos no patrimônio líquido, sendo posteriormente comparados. Os testes estatísticos Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) e Wilcoxon foram utilizados para verificar, respectivamente, a normalidade dos dados e a existência de significância quanto aos reflexos decorrentes do reconhecimento dos RA. A análise possibilitou conhecer dez naturezas de resultados abrangentes, estando essas distribuídas nas três principais contas patrimoniais, quais sejam: Ajuste de Avaliação Patrimonial, Ajustes Acumulados de Conversão e Outros Resultados Abrangentes. Os resultados indicam que são reconhecidos valores relevantes em algumas empresas referentes a resultados abrangentes em relação ao PL e estes interferem substancialmente nos resultados dos IEF, aumentando ou diminuindo a estrutura de capital disponível para financiar a empresa e a rentabilidade obtida dos negócios, sendo estes reflexos de saldos acumulados positivos ou negativos presentes nos RA que representam resultados não realizados no período. O teste de Wilcoxon permitiu identificar que existem diferenças significativas entre os indicadores do Giro do PL, Participação de Capital de Terceiros, Passivo sobre o total de recursos (CT + CP) e Dívida Financeira sobre o PL, calculados na forma tradicional de seus índices e após, recalculados. Somente o Return on Equity (ROE) não apresentou diferença significativa. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / The study aimed at knowing the nature of comprehensive income (RA) recorded in equity of companies and reflections by in capital structure index and profitability arising from its recognitions in the accounting statements. With respect to methodology, out initially used the content analysis of the explanatory notes to the companies that were part of the sample, and these 175 non-financial listed companies in the corporate governance segments of the BM&FBovespa, who have published its accounting statements for the year ended in December 2013. After, we calculated the capital structure indices and profitability of these companies, and these were reconstructed excluding comprehensive income recognized in equity, and subsequently compared. Statistical tests Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) and Wilcoxon were used to verify, respectively, the normality of the data and the existence of significance how much the reflexes of recognition of RA. The analysis made it possible know ten natures of comprehensive income when these distributed in the three principal equity accounts, as follows: Equity Adjustment, Cumulative Translation Adjustments and Other Comprehensive Income. The results indicate that relevant values are recognized in some companies relating to comprehensive income in relation to PL and these interfere substantially the results of IEF, increasing or decreasing the capital structure available to fund the company and the profitability earned business, and these reflections positive or negative balances accumulated present in RA that represent unrealized results in the period. The Wilcoxon test allowed to identify that there are significant differences between the indicares of the PL Giro, Third Capital Participation, passive over the total resources (CT + CP) and financial debt on equity, calculated in the traditional way its indexes and after, recalculated. Only the return on equity (ROE) presented no significant difference.

This Master thesis is about multicast in mobile network 3rd generation UMTS(Universal Mobile Telecommunacitions System). UMTS network primary designs for data transfers and supports new services as real-time transfers of multimedia streams. This is reason why mobile network was equiped also with multicast service. When a lot of users want to receive same data (e.g. tv program) the network excessives load of transmission same data and the server have to keep connection to each user. Group 3GGP developed multicast service for UMTS, which name is MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service). Thesis analyses function of this service in mobile network. First part describes basic principles of UMTS network and its structure. Next part focuses on change of main node (SGSN and GGSN) and of new node BM-SC(Broadcast-Multicast Service Center). This new node is main node for control of multicast transmission. BM-SC connects to server which provides multicast data for users and provisions individual phase of MBMS session. It was created new procedure which supports multicast session (e.g. Activate MBMS service). Next part focuses on GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP). This protocol is used for transfers control and user’s data in tunnels inside core network. This part describes structure of data and control messages. Last part analyzes multimedia transfers in UMTS with program Opnet Modeller.

Bostadsbyggandet kräver stora resurser och står för ungefär tjugo procent av de totala utsläppenav koldioxid i landet. För att uppnå ett klimatneutralt samhälle 2045 behöver man redan iprojekteringen fundera över vilka metoder och material man ska arbeta med. Just nu finns detgoda hjälpmedel och verktyg för att underlätta denna process som hjälper projektören att enkeltoch smidigt jämföra olika material och metoder för att uppnå ett så lågt klimatavtryck sommöjligt.Klimatdeklarationer innehåller alla skeden under byggnadens livslängd, dessa kan delas upp ibland annat byggskede, användningsskede och slutskede. I denna studie kommer byggskedet attstuderas närmare med fokus på utsläppsdata från råvara till färdig produkt på byggarbetsplatsen.Denna studie är en jämförelse mellan ett befintligt flerbostadshus som är byggt i KL-trä mot ettlikadant flerbostadshus med stomme av lättbalkar i trä. Syftet med denna rapport är att ta redapå hur vi i framtiden kan bygga mer klimatsmart.För att jämförelsen ska bli så tydlig som möjligt och för att volymerna och den uppvärmdaboytan ska bli så lika som möjligt har en byggnad projekterats utifrån handlingar från det redanfärdiga huset. Med hjälp av Byggsektorns miljöberäkningsverktyg (BM) har beräkningar utförtsför respektive material med klimatdata hämtat från deras databas.I denna studie har rekommendationer för bärande konstruktioner i lättbalkar använts för ettflerbostadshus av tillverkaren Masonite beams. Material som beklädnader och annat ytskikt harvalts utifrån teoretisk bakgrund och materialstudier som utförts. Materialval av resterande delarav konstruktionen har också gjorts för att uppnå samma tekniska egenskapskrav det befintligahusets stomme uppfyller.Resultatet av studien visar på positiva effekter av att studera olika materials klimatpåverkan iett tidigt skede. En stomme av lättbalkar står för ungefär 30 procent mindre koldioxidutsläpp ijämförelse mot en stomme av KL-trä. Trots minskning i klimatutsläpp så uppnår byggnadensamma boendestandard. / Housing construction requires large amounts of resources and is responsible for approximatelytwenty percent of the total Carbon dioxide emission in Sweden. To achieve a climate neutralsociety and EU: s climate requirements by the year of 2045 we need to think about what methodsand materials we use, as early as in the planning process.Right now there are many great tools and technical means that could help out the architects withcalculation and comparisons between Carbon dioxide emissions for different materials in thisprocess to in the end achieve the smallest amount of emission possible.In the climate declarations there are multiple stages during a buildings life cycle that can bedivided into building, using and ending stage. In this report we will look closer into the stage ofbuilding, which includes the amounts of emission from the beginning of raw material to acompleted product on the construction site.This study will compare an already existing building in massive wood with a similarconstruction with light beams in wood. The purpose of the study is to find ways and methods tobuild as climate smart as possible in the future.To achieve a fair comparison of the two buildings in volume and heated living areas the secondone has been created out of the already existing construction documents of the first. With helpfrom the tool “Byggsektorns miljöberäkningsverktyg, BM”, the climate data of emissions hasbeen calculated through their database values.In this report light beams from the manufacturer Masonite beams has been used with theirrecommendations of construction solutions for this specific building. Materials used for thefinish and other parts of the building's frame has been chosen with help from the theoreticalbackground and material studies that are included in this report. Important for the result is thatthe building in light beams compared with the already existing building in massive wood canfulfill the same technical attributes and keep the same overall standard.The result of the study shows positive effects by studying different materials' climate emissionsin the beginning stages of building. It also shows that an apartment building with light beams asframe sands for around 30 percent lower Carbon Dioxide emissions compared to one withmassive wood as frame. Even with this decrease of emissions the quality of living standarddoesn’t get affected.

This thesis is an exploration of the relationship between the understanding of the past and the practice of theology. It is built around three major case studies: the history of interpretation of the commandment to blot out the memory of Amalek (Deuteronomy 25:17-19), the commemoration of the First World War in Canada, and the development of post-Holocaust theology. Linking these cases are issues of theological response to (or justification for) violence, and tensions between individual and collective identity. Part I focuses on Deuteronomy 25:17-19, and the internal contradiction between the commandments to remember and blot out the memory of Amalek. The passage is analysed both in terms of language and reception history, with special attention paid to Rabbinic interpretations from the 19th and 20th centuries (sermons and commentaries generated during or immediately after the German Reform movement, the American Civil War, and the Nazi occupation of Poland). This reading prompts two further strands of analysis, which are pursued separately: the distinction between the remembering commanded in the passage and concepts of memory active in the Western philosophical tradition prior to the 20th century, and the place this passage has in a larger tradition of religious and secular discourse on acceptable justifications for violence, again in both Jewish and more broadly Western thought. Part II takes up these themes, beginning with an historically contextualised reading of two versions of Antigone—one written by Sophocles in the early days of the Athenian Empire, and the other by Jean Anouilh during the Second World War. Both of these focus on a dead body as the site of ideological contestation between divergent identity narratives—a conflict that is also apparent in negotiations over the memorialisation of the First World War, which is the main focus of this part. A close reading of novels from L. M. Montgomery‘s Anne of Green Gables series, published before, during, and just after the war reveals that the First World War partly destabilised the individual-focused structures of memorialisation that were in place prior to its beginning, in favour of structures which enforced the collective identity of the soldiers who died in the war; while much of this instability could be (and was) addressed in existing theological language, the war nevertheless left a mark on Canadian society and religious practice. This part concludes with an examination of the Canadian National Monument at Vimy, conducted via archival documentation of the monument‘s design and construction and then through a reading of The Stone Carvers, a recent novel which re-imagines the circumstances documented in the archives through the eyes of one war veteran and his family. This dual reading also demonstrates the instability of memorials, the tendency of their meaning to shift over time. Part III commences with a discussion of the shift in memorial forms precipitated by the Holocaust. I contend that the tendency to memorialise the Holocaust with complex museum narratives betrays an anxiety about the intended audience of these memorials, which points in turn to the degree to which the Holocaust upset previous cultural and religious worldviews. This section focuses on theological and literary attempts to record and respond to the ruptures caused by the Holocaust, with specific reference to two recent novels by Jewish Candian women which, taken together, provide a constructive interruption to overly tidy narratives of national and religious identity.

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), a refugee scholar from Hitler's Europe, became a significant Jewish theologian and a famous social activist in the United States of America. The thesis begins with a brief biography, which puts his work into context, personally, culturally, and historically. There follows an examination of the style and method of presentation of Heschel's thought, asking why it is that some commentators reject him as a serious thinker. He is then located within the tradition and discipline of theology, with an examination of what he calls "depth-theology". Part II begins with an examination of Heschel's major contribution to modem theology-"the divine pathos"-and its place in the impassibility/passibility controversy. Its influence on other (Christian) theologians is demonstrated, together with a response to major criticism (from Eliezer Berkovits). Heschel's theological anthropology is then shown to be entirely dependent upon the concept of the divine pathos, and to have lasting value. Finally, the thesis explores Heschel's commitment to interfaith dialogue (specifically with Christians) made possible by the universal applicability of his insights into the nature of God, humankind, and the relationship between them.

This thesis is a dialectical exploration of the importance of the Jewish tradition and theology in the work of Walter Benjamin, primarily through his reading of Franz Joseph Molitor's Philosophie der Geschichte oder über die Tradition, and secondarily through his close friendship with Gershom Scholem. It also argues that the influence of the Jewish tradition is a constant factor in Benjamin's work, transcending the conventional division between his 'metaphysical' Frühwerk and his 'Marxist' Spätwerk. The first chapter presents a historical-philosophical overview of the form and content of the Jewish tradition, with particular emphasis on the seminal importance of language as the medium of tradition. The second chapter offers both an exhaustive philological investigation of Benjamin's contacts with Molitor's book, on the basis of new information gathered from both Benjamin's and Scholem's diaries and correspondence, as well as a selection and discussion of some of the most salient and relevant aspects of Philosophie der Geschichte. The third and final chapter assesses the impact of the foregoing as it culminates in the work of Walter Benjamin. Firstly, it focuses on the early essays Über Sprache überhaupt und über die Sprache des Menschen and Über das Programm der kommenden Philosophie, drawing parallels between their conception of language as a medium and Jewish concepts of language and tradition as they are presented by Molitor and Scholem. Secondly, it turns to the Protokolle zu Drogenversuchen and to Benjamin's unfinished magnum opus, Das Passagen-Werk, to illustrate the continuity of his thoughts on language and tradition in the concept of profane Erleuchtung. After each chapter, a short interlude focuses on different forms of Judaism in Benjamin's work, notably the Jewish concept of commentary in the essays on Kafka, the concept of the understated apocalypse and the name of God.

The thesis considers the educational function of the trials of Nazis by the British and American authorities after the Second World War. As has generally been overlooked in the literature, legal proceedings were instituted not only to punish the abhorrent actions of the Third Reich, but also to provide an historical record for the edification of victors, vanquished and posterity alike. The route from this Allied intention to its fulfillment was not a straightforward one, however, bedeviled by enduring preconceptions of Nazi criminality on all sides, and by the very nature of the legal process. To illustrate by case study the difficulties of disclosing information through the trial medium, the theme of the murder of the European Jews has been selected. The limiting influence of British and American socio-cultural and politico-legal norms on the parameters of the trials is developed in the first section. This analyses the prosecutorial methods with which it was considered the didactic aims would best be achieved, alongside the prevailing trend towards downplaying the particular identity of the chief victims of Nazism. The image of the Jewish catastrophe thus compiled as theory was translated into reality in the Allied courtrooms is the initial focus of the second section. That deals with the problematic image of the 'concentration camps' established in a selection of trials; and with the influence of such proceedings upon the academic historiography of the Holocaust. Finally, the thesis confronts the popular receptivity in Britain, the USA and West Germany to the information made available.