Thesis. 1976. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Rotch. / M.C.P.

Thesis. 1976. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Rotch. / Bibliography: leaves 74-84. / by Rosalia E. Ennis. / M.Arch.

Thesis. 1976. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Rotch. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Kevin Cavanaugh. / M.Arch.

Thesis. 1975. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. / Includes bibliographies. / M.C.P.

Thesis. 1976. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Rotch. / Bibliography: leaves 60-61. / M.Arch.

Les mécanismes d’assortiment, sont des marchés dont l’objet est de réaliser une allocation économique efficace mais qui opèrent sans échange monétaire. L’efficacité d’un mécanisme peut être évaluée de manière théorique, mais il est aussi important d’évaluer sa performance avec des agents réels pour tenir compte des biais comportementaux et leur rationalité limitée. La thèse résumée dans cette note s’inscrit dans cette démarche en fournissant des résultats empiriques qui permettront d’améliorer l’utilisation des mécanismes d’appariement sur le terrain. Le premier chapitre de la thèse vise à analyser l’expérience acquise par des agents ayant participé à un mécanisme d’acceptation différée qui peut être transmise à de nouveaux participants pour améliorer l’efficacité du mécanisme. Les résultats obtenus montrent que les sujets sont plus susceptibles de révéler leur préférence réelle dans leur proposition quand ils reçoivent des conseils de leurs pairs des sessions précédentes. Le deuxième chapitre de la thèse étudie l’effet de la taille du marché sur la performance de deux mécanismes d’appariement. Les résultats montrent que l’augmentation du marché de 4 à 40 joueurs accroit le taux des participants qui révèlent leur préférence réelle dans leur proposition au mécanisme d’acceptation différée, mais que ce taux diminue dans le mécanisme de Boston. Le passage à une taille de marché de 4000 joueurs n’a pas d’effet supplémentaire significatif. Le troisième chapitre de la thèse justifie l’évolution du système d’admission des Universités en Chine. Des études montrent que le mécanisme de Boston n’élimine pas l’envie justifiée, qu’il est manipulable, et qu’il n’est pas Pareto-efficace. Le mécanisme d’allocation simple élimine l’envie justifiée, et il est non-manipulable et Pareto-efficace. Ce résultat justifie la transition récente de l’algorithme de choix séquentiel à l’algorithme de choix parallèle dans les pratiques d’admission aux Universités chinoises. / This thesis consists of three essays examining empirical factors that are important for the success of the matching mechanism in the real world. The first chapter discusses whether highly experienced people can transmit what they have learned and encourage new participants to reveal their true preferences under the Deferred Acceptance mechanism. I address this issue in a laboratory experiment to check the effect of peer experience on individual behaviors and the performance of the DA mechanism. Results show that subjects are more likely to play truthfully when learning advice from their peers in previous sessions.The second chapter studies the performance of the Boston and the DA mechanism in a laboratory under different scale of the matching markets. Results show that increasing the market size from 4 to 40 students per match increases participant truth-telling under the DA but decrease it under the Boston mechanism, leading to a decrease in efficiency but no change in the large stability advantage of the DA over the Boston mechanism. However, further increase in the scale to 4,000 students per match has no effect.The third chapter justifies the evolution of the college admissions system in China from a mechanism design perspective. Studies show that the Boston mechanism does not eliminate justified envy, is not strategy-proof and is not Pareto-efficient. The Simple Serial Dictatorship mechanism eliminates justified envy, is strategy-proof and is Pareto-efficient, thus outperforming the Boston mechanism in all three criteria. This result provides justification for the mechanism transition in recent years in China’s college admissions practices.

Väl etablerade normativa data för äldre individer är av stor betydelse för att särskilja mellan normalt åldrande och tecken på demenssjukdom. Kortversioner av Boston Naming test och Token test ingår i screeningbatterier och används ofta vid neuropsykologiska undersökningar. Dock är befintliga normativa data för BNT30 och Token test begränsade vad gäller antalet individer över 80 år och inbegriper endast optimalt friska deltagare med hög utbildningsgrad. Denna tvärsnittsstudie inkluderar 213 kognitivt intakta 85-åringar. Syftet var att undersöka resultaten av benämningsförmåga och språkförståelse mätt med kortversioner av Boston Naming test (BNT30) och Token test (deltest V) samt att jämföra resultaten från denna studie med befintliga normativa data för BNT30 och Token test. Alla deltagare rekryterades ursprungligen till Linköping Screening Assessment (ELSA-85) projektet, en populationsbaserad studie med 85-åriga invånare i Linköping, Sverige. De resultat som erhållits i den aktuella studien avseende BNT30 (M = 24,71 ±3,13) och Token test (M = 4,88  ±1,05), visar på lägre resultat, med större variation, än vad som rapporteras i befintliga normativa data. Samband mellan demografiska variabler och prestation på testen undersöktes också. Data tyder på att utbildning och genus påverkar benämningsförmågan, mätt med BNT30. De normativa data från denna studie omfattar det hittills största urvalet individer över 80 år och är mer demografiskt varierade än i tidigare studier. Därför är de normer som denna studie presenterar mer representativa för kognitivt intakta 85-åringar. Dock ifrågasätter vi validiteten av den version av Token test som ingår i KSB (Kognitiva Screening Batteriet). / Well-established normative data for elderly adults is of great importance in order to distinguish between normal aging and signs of dementia. Short versions of Boston Naming test and Token test are included in screening batteries and frequently used in neuropsychological examinations. However, existing normative data for BNT30 and Token test include few individuals aged 80 years and above and are limited regarding to only include optimally healthy participants with high education level. This cross-sectional study includes 213 cognitively intact 85-year-olds. The aim was to examine their results of naming performance and language comprehension measured with short versions of Boston Naming test (BNT30) and Token test, subtest V, then to compare the results of the present study with existing normative data for BNT30 and Token test. All participants were initially recruited in the Elderly in Linköping Screening Assessment (ELSA-85) project, a population-based study of 85-year-old residents of Linköping, Sweden. The results obtained in the present study regarding BNT30 (M = 24.71 ±3.13) and Token test (M = 4.88 ±1.05), show lower test scores with greater variance than those reported in existing normative data. Association between demographic variables and performance on the tests was also examined. Data presented in the study revealed that education and gender influence naming performance measured with BNT30. The normative data gathered from this study includes the largest sample so far of individuals over the age of 80 and is more demographically diverse than in previous studies. Therefore the norms provided in this study are more representative for cognitively intact 85-year-olds. However, we question the validity of the version of Token test included in CAB (Cognitive Assessment Battery). / Elsa85

This article explores the specific capacity of TV courtroom drama to dramatize civic issues and to seduce viewers to an active engagement with such issues. I argue that television series of this genre eyploit the apparent theatricality of their subject matter-trials-to invite their audiences to the deliberation of social or political issues, issues that they negotiate in their courtroom plots. contemporary courtroom dramas amend this issue orientation with a self-reflexive dimension in wich they encourage viewers to also reflect on how the dramatic construction of 'issues' shapes their civic debate. I unfold this argument through a reading of episodes from two very different legal dramas, Boston Legal (2004-2008) and The Good Wife (2009-).

Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social, Florianópolis, 2011 / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-26T00:02:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 296795.pdf: 4331771 bytes, checksum: 6f84a6c0e74f1224f72c382de76d4bb7 (MD5) / Esta tese traz um estudo antropológico das práticas e saberes alimentares de imigrantes brasileiros na Grande Boston, estado de Massachusetts, nos Estados Unidos. Tendo como base um trabalho de campo realizado em 2009, argumenta-se que a alimentação cotidiana dos sujeitos de pesquisa, que eles descrevem como comida brasileira, é uma estratégia para recriar, através da sensorialidade, o ambiente doméstico que possuíam antes de migrarem. A comida brasileira consumida cotidianamente, portanto, não está relacionada a processos de construção ou afirmação de identidade nacional, mas a uma tentativa dos imigrantes de (re)produzir familiaridade em um meio hostil e, deste modo, lidar com a distância e saudade de familiares e parentes que deixaram no Brasil. A comida brasileira evidencia ainda as práticas transnacionais dos imigrantes e sua intensa participação em redes sociais. Além disso, esta tese trata ainda de outras questões pertinentes que cercam as práticas alimentares dos imigrantes brasileiros em Boston: as mudanças na rotina alimentar dos imigrantes; os aspectos morais da comida; os rearranjos nas relações de gênero, observadas a partir da tarefa de cozinhar para a família; o entendimento do gosto enquanto prática e sua importância na interação entre os indivíduos; a formação da oferta de produtos brasileiros na Grande Boston; a circulação de produtos entre boston e Brasil, com ênfase no envio de comida para os imigrantes; os encontros e as festividades nas quais a comida tem papel preponderante na produção de relações e alteridades.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-89). N.B.:Page 165 of Volume 2 missing from the original copy.