Thesis--University of Florida. / Description based on print version record. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 175-178).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 367-407).

The juvenile justice system has been criticized for its inability to curb the trend of juvenile crime and its continued ignorance to the valuable resources of community-based rehabilitation and treatment programs. The goal of this research paper is to discover new solutions to the structural shortcomings of the juvenile justice system and present my findings on the reasons for its contradictive structure and practices.

This study explores the impact of an overnight camp experience for impoverished South African youth. I worked as a Youth Development Worker with the Ukulapha Community Outreach Project for six months in 2016. My research looks at one non-formal education (NFE) program in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa through the lenses of critical theory and critical pedagogy. Emancipatory learning, social justice, and empowerment were the particular themes that framed my research. I used a qualitative design including an autoethnographic element to conduct my research. The study included six in-person semi-structured interviews with camp participants, one year after the conclusion of the camp. Additionally, four students provided participant journals where they wrote about their experience at the camp. I wove into the study my own participation, observations, journaling, and a blog. Findings show that the camp provided diverse skills development for personal empowerment, a new possibility to learn with and through nature, leadership development, and important intergenerational learning. Issues of gender were also highly prevalent, however. The five recommendations for future research that come from the study include the need for a more in depth follow up study with the same and more participants, involvement of a South African researcher who can conduct interviews in isi-Zulu, a longer camp, and outreach to different aged youth and youth from other South African provinces. / Graduate

Les guerres, les violences et les persécutions conduisent des populations entières à fuir leur pays d’origine en espérant rejoindre des horizons moins dangereux. Ces déplacés et survivants perdent du même coup la reconnaissance et la protection de leur État et se voient parfois condamnés à vivre un exil permanent dans des zones humanitaires telles que des camps. Cette recherche s’intéresse à un contexte migratoire précis, celui des réfugiés burundais de 1993. Plus précisément, je me suis questionné : comment la mémoire du camp et de l’exil est-elle mobilisée dans la mise en récit du parcours et dans la production identitaire des réfugiés burundais au Canada ? Afin de répondre à cette question, j’ai exploré quatre espaces de références qui constituent les quatre temps d’identification des réfugiés interviewés, à savoir les lieux de départ, la route de l’exode, le camp et le pays d’accueil. À partir de leur mémoire, les huit réfugiés interviewés construisent, façonnent et organisent leurs souvenirs. Ainsi, l’accès aux mémoires et aux présentations de « soi » matérialise la condition de l’exilé. La production et l’attribution des identités personnelles ou sociales des réfugiés participants démontrent des parcours identitaires marqués par des bouleversements et défis importants qui participent à un processus intérieur de l’exil. Du Burundi au Canada, en passant par les camps tanzaniens, on observe différentes ruptures et mouvances identitaires, mais également certains facteurs de « constances » identitaires. Le parcours des interviewés est essentiellement marqué par des luttes continues entre la destruction d’un « soi » et d’autre part, des efforts de reconstruction d’un nouveau « soi ». Par une méthode qualitative et une approche interactionniste, cette recherche a tenté de fournir des pistes de compréhension sur leur perception du camp, leur expérience de l’exil et les identités produites durant leur parcours de réfugiés.

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Following starvation, Dictyostelium discoideum cells aggregate, a response that requires chemotaxis to cyclic AMP (cAMP) and the relay of the cAMP signal by the activation of adenylyl cyclase (ACA). Insertional inactivation of the rasG gene resulted in delayed aggregation and a partial inhibition of early gene expression, suggesting that RasG does have a role in early development. When the responses of rasG⁻ cells to cAMP were compared with the responses of rasC⁻ strain, these studies revealed that signal transduction through RasG is more important in chemotaxis and early gene expression, but that signal transduction through RasC is more important in ACA activation. Characterization of a rasC⁻/rasG⁻ mutant revealed that both cAMP chemotaxis and adenylyl cyclase (ACA) activation were negligible in this strain. The ectopic expression of carA from the actin 15 promoter restored early developmental gene expression to the rasC⁻/rasG⁻ strain, rendering it suitable for an analysis of cAMP signal transduction. Since there was negligible signaling through either the cAMP chemotactic pathway or the adenylyl cyclase activation pathway in this strain, it is clear that RasG and RasC are the only two Ras subfamily proteins that directly control these pathways. The mutational analysis of Switch I and Switch II regions also defined the key residues that generate functional differences between RasC and RasG. Rap1 is also activated in response to cAMP but its position in the signal transduction cascade was clarified by the finding that its activation was totally abolished in rasC⁻/rasG⁻/[act15]:carA and in rasG⁻ cells, but only slightly reduced in rasC⁻ cells. The finding that in vitro guanylyl cyclase activation is also abolished in the rasC/rasG⁻4act15]:carA strain identifies RasG⁻/RasC⁻ as the presumptive monomeric GTPases required for this activation. The phenotypes of the vegetative ras null mutants were also examined. The results indicate that RasG plays an important role in cytokinesis. The partial absence of chemotaxis to folate in rase cells compared to the total absence of chemotaxis to folate in rasC⁻/rasG⁻, and rasC⁻/rasG⁻/[act15]:carA cells suggests a compensatory role of RasC for RasG during this process, a similar phenomenon to that observed for cAMP chemotaxis by aggregating cells. / Science, Faculty of / Microbiology and Immunology, Department of / Graduate

The Stewart mining camp in northwestern British Columbia is abundantly mineralized with widely distributed, texturally and mineralogically varied, precious and base metal deposits. This report documents the geologic setting of the mining camp and the geologic features of the major mineral deposit types. The Stewart camp is underlain by a 5-kilometre-thick Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic (Norian? to Toarcian) island arc complex of calc-alkaline basalts, andesites and dacites with interbedded sedimentary rocks. Coeval (211-189 Ma) hornblende granodiorite plutons intruded the arc at two to five kilometres depth. Rocks were deformed during mid-Cretaceous (110 ± 5 Ma) tectonism that produced north-northwest-trending folds, penetrative fabric and lower greenschist facies regional metamorphism (290°±20°C, 4.5 ±1.5 kb). Mid-Eocene (54.8-44.8 Ma) biotite granodiorite of the Coast Plutonic Complex intruded the deformed Mesozoic arc complex. Two mineralizing events formed over 200 mineral occurrences in the district. These two metallogenic epochs were brief (< 5 million years), regional-scale phenomena characterized by different base and precious metal suites. The Early Jurassic ore-forming episode produced Au and Au-Ag-Zn-Pb-Cu deposits. The mid-Eocene episode produced Ag-Pb-Zn ± W ± Mo deposits. Early Jurassic deposits have a characteristic lead isotope signature (²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb = 18.816; ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb = 15.617) and include gold-pyrrhotite veins, gold-silver-base metal veins, and stratabound pyritic dacites. All Early Jurassic mineral occurrences are late- to post-intrusive deposits that were emplaced in andesitic to dacitic host rocks at the close of volcanic activity, about 190-185 million years ago. Transitional gold-pyrrhotite veins (Scottie Gold mine) formed in en echelon tension gashes developed in country rock around Early Jurassic plutons during late magma movement. Epithermal gold-silver-base metal veins and breccia veins (Big Missouri and Silbak Premier mines) were deposited along shallower sub-volcanic faults and in hydrothermal breccia zones formed along dyke contacts. Stratabound pyritic dacite tuffs (Mount Dilworth and Iron Cap prospects) formed where venting fumarolic fluids and hotspring pools deposited abundant fine pyrite in local areas on a cooling ignimbrite sheet. Eocene deposits also have a characteristic lead isotope signature (²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb = 19.147; ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pd = 15.627) and include silver-rich galena-sphalerite veins, gold-silver skarns and, beyond the study area, porphyry molybdenum deposits. These mineral occurrences are related to Middle Eocene plutons of the Coast Plutonic Complex. All are late- to post-intrusive deposits emplaced about 50-45 million years ago. Mesothermal silver-lead-zinc veins (Prosperity/Porter Idaho and Riverside mines) were deposited in brittle zones along major fault structures. Skarns (Oral M and Red Reef prospects) developed where plutons cut limestone or limy siltstone units within minor turbidite sequences. Major porphyry molybdenum deposits (Kitsault mine and Ajax) developed where mid-Eocene stocks were emplaced in thick turbidite sequences. Diagnostic features such as lead isotope ratios, stratigraphic and plutonic associations, alteration assemblages, sulphide mineralogy and textures, and precious metal ratios allow discrimination amoung these different deposit types. Using these criteria, the most prospective areas for each deposit type have been targetted for exploration. / Science, Faculty of / Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of / Graduate

Práce popisuje ukazatele a metody hodnocení fondů kolektivního investování a tyto metody pak aplikuje na 6 vybraných zahraničních akciových podílových fondů nabízených v ČR. Zahrnuty jsou ukazatele a metody zkoumající výnosnost (např. výnosová míra, relativní výnosnost), ukazatele zkoumající riziko (např. směrodatná odchylka), poměrové ukazatele vyplývající z modelu oceňování kapitálových aktiv (CAMP) a některé doplňkové ukazatele (např. procento kladných měsíců, resp. měsíců s kladným výnosem, maximální ztráta za periodu). V práci je také porovnáváno riziko a výnos jednotlivých fondů vzhledem k benchmarku.

The aim of this thesis is to estimate the market value of czech soft drink producing company Poděbradka, a.s. to the date of 31rd December 2013. The thesis is divided to two logical units -- theoretical and practical. The teoretical unit describes principles, theories and generally recognized ways of corporate valuation in the Czech Republic and in the world. Practical unit continues and expands the theory in its application. Due to the extent of the thesis, just two main yield methods of valuation will be used -- method of discounted cash flow, which is used mainly in Anglo-American valuation praxis and method of capitalized netto earnings, which is mainly used in German-speaking countries. Master thesis ends with terminal valuation statement, which defines the market value of the valuated company.