Essa pesquisa investiga a influência das variáveis associadas aos aspectos físico-espaciais das lojas na definição da satisfação e preferência pelo comércio de varejo de vestuário feminino. Nessa investigação levam-se em consideração as percepções de dois grupos de usuários: arquitetas e não arquitetas. O objetivo central é fornecer subsídios teóricos para que possam ser produzidos espaços comerciais mais satisfatórios para as usuárias e mais eficientes para os proprietários. As quatro lojas selecionadas como objetos de estudo estão situadas na cidade de Porto Alegre (RS), e possuem características que as agrupam dentro de um mesmo tipo de varejo, nomeadamente, o vestuário feminino destinado à classe econômica A. Da mesma maneira, essas lojas possuem características heterogêneas em termos das variáveis associadas aos aspectos físico-espaciais que tornam pertinente a comparação entre elas. Os métodos de coleta e análise de dados fazem parte dos utilizados na área de pesquisa do Ambiente e Comportamento. Os dados foram obtidos a partir de levantamentos de arquivo e levantamento de campo, esse incluindo observações e levantamento das variáveis associadas aos aspectos físico-espaciais, questionários e entrevistas informais. Os resultados dessa investigação demonstram que existem relações bastante evidentes entre a satisfação e a preferência por uma determinada loja e as variáveis associadas aos aspectos físico-espaciais da mesma. Primeiramente, fica evidente que as variáveis mais importantes para a definição da satisfação geral com uma loja estão associadas à características do interior da loja. Por outro lado, as variáveis mais associadas com a preferência por uma loja são aquelas relacionadas com o exterior da loja e características de seu entorno. Torna-se evidente que para o desenvolvimento de bons projetos e para a manutenção de usuários satisfeitos e fiéis tais variáveis devem ser consideradas. Espera-se que os dados encontrados despertem o interesse pelo desenvolvimento de outros estudos sobre o tema da relação entre o espaço da atividade comercial e seus usuários. / This research investigates the influence of the variables associated to the stores’ physical and spatial aspects in the definition of satisfaction and preference in women’s clothes retail. In this investigation it is taken in consideration the perceptions of two groups of users : architects and people who are not architects. The main objective is to produce theoretical knowledge to create more satisfactory retail spaces for the users and more efficient for the owners. The four stores selected as study objects are located in the city of Porto Alegre (Brazil). Such stores possess characteristics that group them in the same retail type, namely, the feminine clothes destined to the high economical class. Those stores have heterogeneous characteristics in terms of the variables associated to the physical and spatial aspects that make pertinent the comparison among them. The collection methods and analysis of data are part of the Environment and Behavior area of research. The data were obtained from file and field surveys, including observations and survey of the variables associated to the physical and spatial aspects, questionnaires and informal interviews The results of this investigation show evident relationships between satisfaction, preference for a certain store and the variables associated to the physical and spatial aspects. Firstly, it is evident that the most important variables for the definition of the general satisfaction with a store are associated to inner store characteristics. On the other hand, the variables strongly associated with store preference are those related with the exterior and surroundings. It becomes quite clear that the development of good projects and the maintenance of satisfied consumers should consider both variables. It is expected that these findings will arouse an interest in developing further studies on the subject of the relationship between space and the commercial activity.

Essa pesquisa investiga a influência das variáveis associadas aos aspectos físico-espaciais das lojas na definição da satisfação e preferência pelo comércio de varejo de vestuário feminino. Nessa investigação levam-se em consideração as percepções de dois grupos de usuários: arquitetas e não arquitetas. O objetivo central é fornecer subsídios teóricos para que possam ser produzidos espaços comerciais mais satisfatórios para as usuárias e mais eficientes para os proprietários. As quatro lojas selecionadas como objetos de estudo estão situadas na cidade de Porto Alegre (RS), e possuem características que as agrupam dentro de um mesmo tipo de varejo, nomeadamente, o vestuário feminino destinado à classe econômica A. Da mesma maneira, essas lojas possuem características heterogêneas em termos das variáveis associadas aos aspectos físico-espaciais que tornam pertinente a comparação entre elas. Os métodos de coleta e análise de dados fazem parte dos utilizados na área de pesquisa do Ambiente e Comportamento. Os dados foram obtidos a partir de levantamentos de arquivo e levantamento de campo, esse incluindo observações e levantamento das variáveis associadas aos aspectos físico-espaciais, questionários e entrevistas informais. Os resultados dessa investigação demonstram que existem relações bastante evidentes entre a satisfação e a preferência por uma determinada loja e as variáveis associadas aos aspectos físico-espaciais da mesma. Primeiramente, fica evidente que as variáveis mais importantes para a definição da satisfação geral com uma loja estão associadas à características do interior da loja. Por outro lado, as variáveis mais associadas com a preferência por uma loja são aquelas relacionadas com o exterior da loja e características de seu entorno. Torna-se evidente que para o desenvolvimento de bons projetos e para a manutenção de usuários satisfeitos e fiéis tais variáveis devem ser consideradas. Espera-se que os dados encontrados despertem o interesse pelo desenvolvimento de outros estudos sobre o tema da relação entre o espaço da atividade comercial e seus usuários. / This research investigates the influence of the variables associated to the stores’ physical and spatial aspects in the definition of satisfaction and preference in women’s clothes retail. In this investigation it is taken in consideration the perceptions of two groups of users : architects and people who are not architects. The main objective is to produce theoretical knowledge to create more satisfactory retail spaces for the users and more efficient for the owners. The four stores selected as study objects are located in the city of Porto Alegre (Brazil). Such stores possess characteristics that group them in the same retail type, namely, the feminine clothes destined to the high economical class. Those stores have heterogeneous characteristics in terms of the variables associated to the physical and spatial aspects that make pertinent the comparison among them. The collection methods and analysis of data are part of the Environment and Behavior area of research. The data were obtained from file and field surveys, including observations and survey of the variables associated to the physical and spatial aspects, questionnaires and informal interviews The results of this investigation show evident relationships between satisfaction, preference for a certain store and the variables associated to the physical and spatial aspects. Firstly, it is evident that the most important variables for the definition of the general satisfaction with a store are associated to inner store characteristics. On the other hand, the variables strongly associated with store preference are those related with the exterior and surroundings. It becomes quite clear that the development of good projects and the maintenance of satisfied consumers should consider both variables. It is expected that these findings will arouse an interest in developing further studies on the subject of the relationship between space and the commercial activity.

Abstract The diurnal cycle is a dominant mode of sea surface temperature (SST) variability in trop-ical oceans, that influences air-sea interaction and climate processes. Diurnal variability of SST generally ranges from ~0.1 to 2.0◦C and is controlled by atmospheric fluxes of heat and momentum. In the present study, the response of intraseasonal variability (ISV) of SST in the Bay of Bengal (BoB) to diurnal atmospheric forcings, during the summer monsoon of 2007, has been examined using an Ocean General Circulation Model (OGCM). The model is based on the Modular Ocean Model Version 4 (MOM4p0), having a horizontal resolution of 0.25◦ and 40 vertical levels, with a fine resolution of 5 m in the upper 60 m. Numerical experiments were conducted by forcing the model with daily and hourly atmospheric forcings to examine the SST-ISV modulation with the diurnal cycle. Additional experiments were performed to determine the relative role of diurnal cycle in solar radiation and winds on SST and mixed layer depth (MLD). Since salinity, which is decisive in SST variability, varies meridionally in the BoB, two locations were selected for analyses: one in the northern bay at 89◦E, 19◦N where salinity is lower and the other in the southern bay at 90◦E, 8◦N where salinity is higher, as well as observations are available from Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction (RAMA) buoy for comparision with model simulation. Diurnal atmospheric forcings modify SST-ISV in both southern and northern bay. SST-ISV in the southern bay, is dominantly controlled by the diurnal cycle of insolation, while in the northern bay, diurnal cycle of insolation and winds have comparable contribution. Diurnal cycle enhanced the amplitude of 3 selected intraseasonal events in the southern bay and 3 out of the 6 events in the northern bay, during the study period. In the southern bay, simulated SST variability with hourly forcing was closer to the observations from RAMA, implying that incorporating the diurnal cycle in model forcing rectifies SST-ISV. Moreover, SST obtained with diurnal forcing consists of additional fluctuations at higher frequencies within and in between intraseasonal events; such fluctuations are absent with daily forcing. The diurnal variability of SST is significant during the warming phase of intraseasonal events and reduces during the cooling phase. Diurnal amplitude of SST decreases with depth; depth dependence also being larger during the warming phase. SST-ISV modulation with diurnal forcing results from the diurnal cycle of upper ocean heat fluxes and vertical mixing. Diurnal warming and cooling result in a net gain or loss of heat in the mixed layer after a day’s cycle. When the retention (loss) of heat in the mixed layer increases with diurnal forcing during the warming (cooling) phase of intraseasonal events, the daily mean SST rise (fall) becomes higher, amplifying the intraseasonal warming (cooling). In the southern bay, SST-ISV amplification is mainly controlled by the diurnal variability of MLD, which modifies the heat fluxes. Increased intraseasonal warming with diurnal forcing results from the increase in radiative heating, due to the shoaling of the daytime mixed layer. Amplified intraseasonal cooling is dominantly con-trolled by the strengthening of sub-surface processes, due to the nocturnal deepening of mixed layer and increased temperature gradients below the mixed layer. In the northern bay, SST-ISV modulation with diurnal forcing is not as large as that in the southern bay. The mean increase in SST-ISV amplitudes with diurnal forcing is ~0.16◦C in the southern bay, while it is only ~0.03◦C in the northern bay. Reduced response of SST-ISV to diurnal forcings in the northern bay is related to the weaker diurnal variability of MLD. Salinity stratification limits diurnal variability of mixed layer in the northern bay, unlike in the southern bay. The seasonal (June - September) mean diurnal amplitude of MLD is ~15 m in the southern bay, while it is reduced to ~1.5 m in the northern bay. Diurnal variability of MLD, spanning only a few meters is not sufficient to create large modifications in mixed layer heat fluxes and SST-ISV in the northern bay. The vertical resolution of the model limits the shallowing of mixed layer to 7.5 m, thus restricting the diurnal variability of simulated MLD.

Over the last sixty years, voting patterns in the United States have changed dramatically, and this is especially true in the state of Florida. Though there is some literature in the field of political science that outlines the voting and election history of Florida and identifies some trends, this literature is extremely limited and is not comprehensive of the data that is available up to the present day. This study seeks to find Florida’s voting patterns and to explain how they can be understood by both the casual observer and the political scientist. To do so, unique methodology was applied that used the "relative margin" of both a county and a region in a particular election to give the Democratic nominee’s performance context both in the election in question and in history, by comparing the actual margin of victory or defeat of the Democratic nominee to the statewide margin of victory or defeat. This was an illuminating process that ultimately revealed some truths about the election history of Florida: the counties and regions most likely to vote for Democratic nominees in the 1950s and early 1960 are now among the least likely to do so, and the counties and regions most likely to vote for Republican nominees in the 1950s and early 1960s are now considered to be "swing" or "tossup" areas that are regularly and alternatively won by Democratic and Republican nominees. Additionally, the pattern of each region in how it voted in presidential elections was compared to forty seven other states in the country to provide further context as to how the election patterns can be understood in context.

This thesis argues that there is an enigma at the heart of Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; a disjunction between the critical history of the play and its reception in performance. Historical disquiet about the status of the play among academics and cultural commentators has not prevented its popularity with audiences. It has, however, affected some of the staging decisions made by theatre companies mounting productions. Allied to other practical factors, these have impacted significantly – and occasionally disastrously – upon performances. It is argued that Webster conceived the play as a meditation on degree and, in aiming to draw out the maximum relevance from the social satire, deliberately created the multi-faceted performative role of Bosola to work his audience in a complex and subversive manner. The role's purpose was determined in response to the structural discontinuity imposed upon the play by the physical realities of staging within the Blackfriars' auditorium. But Webster also needed an agent to serve the plot's development and, in creating the role he also invented a character, developed way beyond the material of his sources. This character proved as trapped as any other in the play by the consequences of his own moral choices. Hovering between role and character, Webster's creation remains liminally poised on ‘the dangerous edge of things.' Part One explores the contexts in which Webster created one of the most ambiguous figures in early modern drama - subverting stock malcontent, villain and revenger - and speculates on the importance of the actor, John Lowin in its genesis. It includes a subsequent performance history of the role. Part Two presents the detailed analysis of a range of professional performances from the past four decades, attempting to demonstrate how the meaning of the play has been altered by decisions made regarding the part of Bosola.