Results of the search for the rare decay $B_s^0 \to \mu^+ \mu^-$ using data collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider are presented. This analysis covers the full Run II data set, corresponding to approximately 10.4~fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The analysis used new variables and a multivariate technique to improve the background reduction. After seeing fewer events than expected from background, a new Tevatron best observed limit was set on the branching fraction of the decay at $\cal{B}$($B_s^0 \to \mu^+ \mu^-$) $< 15 \times 10^{-9}$ ($12 \times 10^{-9}$) at the 95\% (90\%) C.L.

Objective New biomarkers for acute kidney injury are needed and urinary Cystatin C is one alternative. The objective was to validate a urinary Cystatin C method on Mindray BS-380 comparing urine samples from the Uppsala Longitudinal Study of Adult Men (ULSAM-77) and urine samples from a reference group for Cystatin C. A visual control for a relationship between Cystatin C and C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin 6 (IL-6) respectively was made. Methods Precision, linearity, recovery, interference, and stability of the urine cystatin C method were investigated. Comparisons were made between ULSAM-77 samples and a reference group samples consisting of ordinary people. Results The highest total imprecision was 10.24 % for the sample with the lowest concentration. The second lowest concentration had 4.21 % total variation coefficient. The linearity equation was y = 0.99x – 0.01 with an R2-value of 0.99. The recovery for all concentrations was always 91 % or more. No interference from hemoglobin at a concentration of 10 g/L was found. The samples were stable at +5°C for seven days. The median for the samples from ULSAM-77 was 0.09 mg/L and the median for the reference samples was 0.06 mg/L. There was no obvious relationship between Cystatin C and CRP/IL-6 from ULSAM-77. Conclusion   Reliable data of urinary Cystatin C can be analyzed on a Mindray BS-380. The level of urinary Cystatin C was higher for people age 77 than for those with a median age of 49. There was no correlation between the concentration of Cystatin C in urine and the levels of CRP and IL-6.

Abstract The motive of thesis is trying to find out the role of information system security via the researching company ¡V CTS Corporation¡¦s disaster recovery plan and present a model to discuss with that. While through the researching procedure, we found out that most of information security systems obey the BS 7799-2 and ISO 17799 even the CNS 17799 in the world. Through the help of investigation of the questionnaire, all evidence just show out that how to construct and recognize the information security system is the issue and trend for enterprise to do after the ISO 9000 and QS 9000. Since 1978, the case study company, CTS Corporation has had fire and evacuation procedures, which were informally supported by various committees. An emergency plan, which was issued March 24, 1980, incorporated the functions of these committees and provided more formalized procedures for responding to emergencies. The emergency plan was later reissued as know of ¡§CTS Corporation Disaster Recovery Plan¡¨ as one of policy to be followed. In thesis, widely discuss the risk and evaluation of information security and show up some of major case of the information security for domestic and international by sequence of the date. Present some of overview from industry¡Bgovernment and academic how to face such of information security around the enterprises. Final conduct of 10 control sets, 36 control subjects and 127 control items with 8 abstracts of ISO 17799 introduction from BS 7799-1 and BS 779902 with comparison of ISO 17799 totally. Compare and distinguish the variance from CTS Corporation and those of international standard for the information security system, we deploy 4 steps of development the information security system as of: Information Security Policy; Documentation and Implementation; Risks Management and Information Security Management Security (ISMS). Provide evidence of questionnaires of the case study company. Summary three of dimensions for five(5) issues of ¡§Environment & Infrastructure¡¨, seven(7) issues of ¡§Disaster Recovering Planning¡¨ and six(6) issues of ¡§Business Contingency Planning¡¨ to conduce a Disaster Recovery Planning¡¦s Deployment Model for seven steps of four scenario as a conclusion.

Multiconductor line with non homogeneous dielectric is modeled and analyzed. Model of the multiconductor line is presented. The finite element method and Matlab PDE Tools software were used for analysis and calculation of characteristic impedances. The program for characteristic impedance calculation was developed. Calculation results are presented and analyzed. They confirm that the finite element method and the presented program can be used for calculations of characteristic impedances of multiconductor lines with non homogeneous dielectric.

This thesis addresses the striking proliferation of Moses imagery in sixteenth-century Venice by considering the images as a distinctive category. Although the narratives of Moses can be found elsewhere in Italy, the Venetian treatment of these subjects is distinguished by their number and their placement not in private chapels but in locations available to a broad audience. Additionally, a contrast can be made between the central Italian examples, which display variations on a political theme originally established by St. Thomas Aquinas, and the peculiar Venetian approach to the prophet, influenced by the city’s Byzantine roots and its constitution. In tracing the development of this imagery in the sixteenth century, initial consideration must be given to the roots of its stylistic interpretation in the Veneto where paintings for chapels of the Sacrament exhibit the group-oriented compositions that characterize the works throughout the period. In this context, the pioneering work of Jacopo Tintoretto forms the principal focus of this thesis, arguing that he was the first to introduce Moses imagery into Venice on a monumental scale. In his works for the main chapel of the Church of the Madonna dell’Orto and the ceiling of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, the image of Moses takes on heightened theological significance in the general religious context of the Counter Reformation and in particular Venetian contexts of parish and confraternity. The interplay of such monumental painting and printed book illustration is also considered. It is the influence of Tintoretto’s approach to Moses on later artists that forms in part the foundation for the proliferation of the subjects in the later years of the sixteenth and the early years of the seventeenth century.

This thesis engages with the biblical archive and its animals, asking what it means to read the Bible after Jacques Derrida’s “question of the animal”, that is, critical questions directed at the characterisations, representations and utilisations of animals past and present which deem animals distinctly different to humans in order to demarcate their inferiority. At the same time, it is a critical response to Derrida’s Bible. Derrida – arguably one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century – provides a significant philosophical contribution to the question of the animal. In animal studies, the Bible is treated as a foundational legacy for concepts of the “human” and is frequently held up to blame for a misplaced human hubris. Derrida too draws on the Bible in implicit and explicit ways to underpin his critique of human/animal distinctions. Building on Derrida’s work on animality, I provide close and critical interpretations of four crucial texts of the biblical archive. I argue that these biblical texts are caught up in irreducible tensions: on the one hand, these texts depict and describe how humans and animals alike abide as finite, fellow creatures under God as a justice to come which calls for a radical similitude and solidarity; on the other hand, animals are portrayed as objects that are mastered by humans to demonstrate God’s power over the living. God’s power thus resides in a double bind – it both displaces power from humans to show them as animals, and it simultaneously provides a model for human power over animal others. In the first chapter I explore the significance of Derrida’s motifs of nakedness and shame over nakedness for his critique of human/animal distinctions, arising from his reading of Genesis. Critically continuing Derrida’s play on myths of origin, I tackle the question of the first carnivorous man, Noah, in Genesis 9 in order to show how this text can both be read as a license to enact the sovereignty of man over animals, and, how this text radically resists such a reading in God’s covenant with all life, human and non-human. Following my exploration of myths of origin, the second chapter grapples with Derrida’s notion of a deconstructed subject through his emphasis on response and responsibility. Derrida puts forward the biblical response “here I am”, as the mark of vulnerability in every relation with the other. I explore what this responsible response might mean in the context of the Book of Daniel that portrays encounters between human, nonhuman animals and God. Developing Derrida’s injunction to follow the nonhuman other, I argue that the double context of Daniel conveys two distinct visions of the concept of the political as animal: one, in which a fantasy for a harmonious domestication and cohabitation amongst rulers and their human and animal subjects is fostered under the only true ruler, a benign God; and, a collapse of such a fantasy, where rulers – human and divine – are portrayed as carnivorous, ferocious creatures who turn their subjects from pets to prey. The third chapter follows this collapse to Derrida’s critique of the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” as a commandment relating only to humans and thus a detrimental Judeo-Christian legacy. Derrida draws on the story of Cain and Abel to discuss the way the killing of an animal leads to the killing of a brother. To explore questions of killability I, however, turn to the negotiations of such issues in Acts 10. In the animal vision of Acts 10, questions of clean/unclean animals are suspended and hospitality is apparently opened up between Jewish and non-Jewish Christians. I demonstrate that the universalism associated with this text refers to an exclusive human fellowship which evades the actual implications of the animal vision. Yet, I posit that there are again two ways of reading the animal vision. In the first reading the analogical resemblance set up between animals and Gentiles implies that Gentiles too become killable as “clean” and thus the animal vision allows for indiscriminate killability amongst the living in general. In the second reading the cleanness of all animals is in fact a radical redemption of animal life for fellowship, in the same way that Peter accepts the fellowship and hospitality of Gentiles. Ultimately, the category of the living and the dead draws humans and non-humans together into what I call “mortability”; that is, the capacity for death shared amongst the living in the suspension of judgement until Jesus returns. In the fourth chapter, I follow up on the suspension of judgement by analysing Derrida’s thinking of sovereignty and animality in relation to Revelation 17. Crucially, Derrida’s logic of sovereignty includes Christ as lamb, in his logos or reason of the strongest, despite its ostensible weakness as a diminutive animal. I explore this further by turning to the scene of Revelation 17 in which the Lamb is at war with the Beast and the woman riding it. Developing Derrida’s allusions to sexual difference as it relates to the question of the animal, I explore how Revelation 17 denigrates both animals and women by characterising them as the figure of evil: Rome. The logic of the animal representations sets up the divine as the good on the side of the weak in the figure of the suffering Lamb. But as the Lamb becomes a beast-like indivisible sovereignty that asserts its reason of the strongest, the figures of “evil” become the vulnerable weak victims – the animal others. Another image of Rome emerges, then, as a deconstructed sovereignty in the subjects that stand as powerless figures in the political order, namely the animals of the Roman arenas and the prostitutes of the Roman Empire. The four texts I examine abide in the ambiguous tensions of an archive that can in the end neither be presented as animal-friendly nor as straightforwardly anthropocentric. The biblical archive is a complex compendium fraught with tensions that can, with its animals, only be held in abeyance. There can be no final “ownership” proclaimed of this archive and its animals, nor can any interpretive act dis-suspend them from such an ambivalent state. These very different texts do, however, provide the material and momentum to show central and crucial instances of how the biblical archive characterises its humans, animals and gods. My analysis reveals that the very same spaces in which these characterisations might be fixed as detrimental to animal life, are where the possibilities of seeing animals radically otherwise lie.

The aim of this thesis is to explore the cultural background of Matthew’s dream narratives and in particular to try and establish whether the literary practice underlying them is closer to that of OT or Graeco-Roman literature. This will be done by looking at the ways in which the dreams were remembered and transmitted, analysing the text in search of “memory patterns”, devices used in oral and semi-literate societies with the aim of helping people remember a poem or a narrative. Many of these techniques use sound (e.g. alliteration, assonance and rhythm), but some engage with the structure of the material; occasionally an image might be applied to aid memory. Thereafter dream reports from a variety of other ancient sources will be analysed to reveal the memory patterns which underlie them. Subsequently the results will be compared, with attention focused on the few devices which are culturally specific and elsewhere noting the frequency with which devices are used as authors typically express themselves. The outcome will be to identify the cultural background within which the Matthean dream narratives emerge. The thesis will take the following shape. After an introductory chapter, there will be the literature review, followed by a chapter on methodology. The method used in the analysis of dream narratives is new and will provide a novel interpretive approach to this section of Matthew. Chapters on memory, orality and rhetoric, Matthew, and a comparison of his text with dream narratives in other literature will follow. Finally there will be a conclusion. In this thesis I argue that the Matthean narratives have greater affinity to Jewish material and OT in particular than to Graeco-Roman literature. The data gathered in the course of research also allows for other comparisons. Of particular interest are comparisons between the writers of OT and those of Hellenistic background and between Josephus and both the groups just mentioned. Several contributions are made to scholarship. Arguably the greatest of these is the methodology employed in the thesis. I also introduce the concept of ‘translation distortion’, which affects memory where an account of the past is originally expressed in a different language. I introduce comparison of Matthew’s use of oral sources with similar use in Herodotus and Pausanias, the latter living in the second century CE and his work rarely applied to NT studies.

The thesis follows up the competitiveness and tools necessary to achieve and maintain the competitiveness of an organization. This topic is currently rather crucial daily reality in the current market, and virtually all organizations were placed in the endless process of efforts for the development and subsequent maintenance of competitive advantages in order to be able to withstand the onslaught of competing companies in a particular market segment, the ongoing changes in the external environment and produce much needed profit, ensuring their continued existence. The aim is to identify ongoing processes in the selected organization, proposing critical success factors and determining the associated priority indicators affecting the competitiveness of the organization. For processing the theoretical part, an analysis of secondary sources was used, consisting of tightly-related publications, technical articles and Internet resources. The practical part of the work was based on an analysis of primary sources, on the qualitative research on the organization Gunnex s. r. o. The original intention to focus attention on the ongoing processes and critical success factors in the selected organization has proved to be beneficial not only for the purposes of this study, but also the organization itself . In collaboration with its leadership, three points were suggested aiming to improve the current position of the organization in an ongoing competition.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O objeto deste estudo é o conteúdo de ensino relacionado ao campo da Saúde do Trabalhador e sua forma de abordagem no curso de graduação de enfermagem de uma universidade pública do município do Rio de Janeiro, tendo como base as ementas curriculares e os relatos dos docentes responsáveis pelas Subáreas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, descritiva, e exploratória, cujos objetivos são: identificar os conteúdos desenvolvidos no curso de graduação em enfermagem, de uma universidade publica do Rio de Janeiro, referentes ao campo da Saúde do Trabalhador; descrever as metodologias de ensino utilizadas pelos docentes de enfermagem para o desenvolvimento dos conteúdos referentes ao campo da Saúde do Trabalhador; e analisar as fragilidades e potencialidades envolvendo o desenvolvimento do ensino da Saúde do Trabalhador no curso de graduação de enfermagem de uma universidade publica do Rio de Janeiro. Os sujeitos são 12 docentes efetivos que atuavam há pelo menos dois anos nas Subáreas do currículo que desenvolvem os conteúdos sobre Saúde do Trabalhador. Os instrumentos de coleta são a entrevista semiestruturada e o formulário para coleta de dados documentais, especificamente nas ementas, planejamentos de ensino e fluxograma curricular. A pesquisa foi aprovada pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da universidade na qual ocorreu este estudo, sob protocolo de número 06/2012. A etapa de coleta ocorreu entre maio e julho de 2012, e os dados foram analisados através da técnica de Análise de Conteúdo, evidenciando três categorias: a dinâmica do processo ensino aprendizagem relacionada aos conteúdos da Saúde do Trabalhador; potencialidades e limitações relacionadas ao ensino da Saúde do Trabalhador; e aspectos dialéticos envolvendo o ensino da Saúde do Trabalhador. Os resultados evidenciaram que o currículo do curso de enfermagem prevê os conteúdos essenciais ao campo da Saúde do Trabalhador para a formação do enfermeiro, permeando aspectos de promoção, proteção, prevenção e recuperação da saúde, bem como questões conceituais e políticas relacionadas ao contexto do trabalho. Contudo, as ementas não delimitam estes conteúdos, evidenciando que há distanciamentos entre os discursos dos sujeitos e o que consta nos documentos curriculares analisados. Também verificam-se distanciamentos no que se referem às metodologias de ensino, pois, pelas falas dos sujeitos, se apreendem variados métodos para desenvolvimento desses conteúdos, variedade não contemplada pelos planejamentos de ensino. Deste modo, concluiu-se que há fragilidades no desenvolvimento dos conteúdos relativos ao campo da Saúde do Trabalhador e que é preciso atualizar as ementas e reaproximar os docentes da proposta original do currículo. Concluiu-se também que existem potencialidades neste currículo, como por exemplo, uma elevada carga horária destinada ao ensino da Saúde do Trabalhador, o significativo número de Trabalhos de Conclusão de Curso ligado à temática e a produção cientifica de alguns docentes vinculada à área da Saúde do Trabalhador. / The object of this study is the content of education related to worker health and its way of approach in undergraduate nursing course at a public university in the city of Rio de Janeiro, based on the curriculum summaries and reports of teachers responsible for the subjects. This is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research, whose objectives are: identify the contents developed in nursing undergraduate course of a public university in Rio de Janeiro, for the field of Worker Health; describe the teaching methodology used by the nursing teachers for the development of the content related to the field of Worker Health; and analyze the strengths and weaknesses involving the development of the teaching of Worker Health in undergraduate nursing course at a public university in Rio de Janeiro. The subjects are 12 effective teachers who worked for at least two years in the subareas of the curriculum that develops the content on Worker Health. The data collection instruments are semi-structured interview and form for data collection documentary, specifically on curriculum summaries, teaching schedules and curriculum flowchart. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the university in which this study took place, under protocol number 06/2012. The collection phase took place between May and July 2012, and the data were analyzed using the technique of Content Analysis, showing three categories: the dynamics of the learning process related to the contents of Worker Health; potential and limitations related to the teaching of Worker Health; and dialectical aspects involving the teaching of Worker Health. The results showed that the curriculum of the nursing course provides the essential contents to the field of Worker Health for nursing education, permeating aspects of promotion, protection, prevention and recovery, as well as conceptual and political issues related to the context of the study. However, the summaries do not enclose these contents, showing that there are differences between the discourses of the subjects and the content of the curriculum documents analyzed. Also there are the differences that relate to teaching methodologies, because in the subjects' statements, is seized various methods for developing such content. However, this variety is not contemplated by the educational planning. Thus, it was concluded that there are weaknesses in the development of the content related to the field of Worker Health and that it is necessary to update the summaries and to reconnect teachers to the original proposal of the curriculum. It was also concluded that there is potential in this curriculum, such as a high workload intended for the teaching of Worker Health, the significant number of Course Conclusion Work connected to the topic and the scientific production of some teachers related to the area of Worker Health.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O objeto deste estudo é o conteúdo de ensino relacionado ao campo da Saúde do Trabalhador e sua forma de abordagem no curso de graduação de enfermagem de uma universidade pública do município do Rio de Janeiro, tendo como base as ementas curriculares e os relatos dos docentes responsáveis pelas Subáreas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, descritiva, e exploratória, cujos objetivos são: identificar os conteúdos desenvolvidos no curso de graduação em enfermagem, de uma universidade publica do Rio de Janeiro, referentes ao campo da Saúde do Trabalhador; descrever as metodologias de ensino utilizadas pelos docentes de enfermagem para o desenvolvimento dos conteúdos referentes ao campo da Saúde do Trabalhador; e analisar as fragilidades e potencialidades envolvendo o desenvolvimento do ensino da Saúde do Trabalhador no curso de graduação de enfermagem de uma universidade publica do Rio de Janeiro. Os sujeitos são 12 docentes efetivos que atuavam há pelo menos dois anos nas Subáreas do currículo que desenvolvem os conteúdos sobre Saúde do Trabalhador. Os instrumentos de coleta são a entrevista semiestruturada e o formulário para coleta de dados documentais, especificamente nas ementas, planejamentos de ensino e fluxograma curricular. A pesquisa foi aprovada pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da universidade na qual ocorreu este estudo, sob protocolo de número 06/2012. A etapa de coleta ocorreu entre maio e julho de 2012, e os dados foram analisados através da técnica de Análise de Conteúdo, evidenciando três categorias: a dinâmica do processo ensino aprendizagem relacionada aos conteúdos da Saúde do Trabalhador; potencialidades e limitações relacionadas ao ensino da Saúde do Trabalhador; e aspectos dialéticos envolvendo o ensino da Saúde do Trabalhador. Os resultados evidenciaram que o currículo do curso de enfermagem prevê os conteúdos essenciais ao campo da Saúde do Trabalhador para a formação do enfermeiro, permeando aspectos de promoção, proteção, prevenção e recuperação da saúde, bem como questões conceituais e políticas relacionadas ao contexto do trabalho. Contudo, as ementas não delimitam estes conteúdos, evidenciando que há distanciamentos entre os discursos dos sujeitos e o que consta nos documentos curriculares analisados. Também verificam-se distanciamentos no que se referem às metodologias de ensino, pois, pelas falas dos sujeitos, se apreendem variados métodos para desenvolvimento desses conteúdos, variedade não contemplada pelos planejamentos de ensino. Deste modo, concluiu-se que há fragilidades no desenvolvimento dos conteúdos relativos ao campo da Saúde do Trabalhador e que é preciso atualizar as ementas e reaproximar os docentes da proposta original do currículo. Concluiu-se também que existem potencialidades neste currículo, como por exemplo, uma elevada carga horária destinada ao ensino da Saúde do Trabalhador, o significativo número de Trabalhos de Conclusão de Curso ligado à temática e a produção cientifica de alguns docentes vinculada à área da Saúde do Trabalhador. / The object of this study is the content of education related to worker health and its way of approach in undergraduate nursing course at a public university in the city of Rio de Janeiro, based on the curriculum summaries and reports of teachers responsible for the subjects. This is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research, whose objectives are: identify the contents developed in nursing undergraduate course of a public university in Rio de Janeiro, for the field of Worker Health; describe the teaching methodology used by the nursing teachers for the development of the content related to the field of Worker Health; and analyze the strengths and weaknesses involving the development of the teaching of Worker Health in undergraduate nursing course at a public university in Rio de Janeiro. The subjects are 12 effective teachers who worked for at least two years in the subareas of the curriculum that develops the content on Worker Health. The data collection instruments are semi-structured interview and form for data collection documentary, specifically on curriculum summaries, teaching schedules and curriculum flowchart. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the university in which this study took place, under protocol number 06/2012. The collection phase took place between May and July 2012, and the data were analyzed using the technique of Content Analysis, showing three categories: the dynamics of the learning process related to the contents of Worker Health; potential and limitations related to the teaching of Worker Health; and dialectical aspects involving the teaching of Worker Health. The results showed that the curriculum of the nursing course provides the essential contents to the field of Worker Health for nursing education, permeating aspects of promotion, protection, prevention and recovery, as well as conceptual and political issues related to the context of the study. However, the summaries do not enclose these contents, showing that there are differences between the discourses of the subjects and the content of the curriculum documents analyzed. Also there are the differences that relate to teaching methodologies, because in the subjects' statements, is seized various methods for developing such content. However, this variety is not contemplated by the educational planning. Thus, it was concluded that there are weaknesses in the development of the content related to the field of Worker Health and that it is necessary to update the summaries and to reconnect teachers to the original proposal of the curriculum. It was also concluded that there is potential in this curriculum, such as a high workload intended for the teaching of Worker Health, the significant number of Course Conclusion Work connected to the topic and the scientific production of some teachers related to the area of Worker Health.