A pre-existing interview of a music therapist working in Heideveld in the Cape flats, South Africa, provides data for this research dissertation. The interview focuses on a project that the interviewee and her colleague initiated as a means of developing the potential of community members and addressing some of the many social issues faced by the community, such as gangs, violence, racial divisions and poverty. The project, 'Music for Life', included a choir of about 60 children from different schools in the area, and a concert held in the community at the end of 2004. This qualitative study explores the experiences of the music therapists as they negotiated community 'musicking' with the Heideveld community through the 'Music for Life' project, and highlights possible implications of these experiences for other music therapists working in similar contexts. Emergent themes suggest that the therapists experienced a constant movement, within themselves and the community. The therapists felt a need to move outwards from their clinical work into the community. Through community 'musicking', the therapists experienced how an often fragmented community was able to move together and to move forward by sharing a sense of hope as the potential of the community was celebrated and affirmed. The therapists also experienced a movement in themselves, personally and professionally. They had to move through the process, changing their thinking and plans constantly through negotiating their work with the community. Implications of these experiences are explored from the stance of Community Music Therapy. The importance, possibilities and difficulties of Community Music Therapy work in communities such as Heideveld are discussed. These hold relevance for music therapists working in similar contexts, where community work becomes a more socially and economically viable means of addressing issues that affect individuals and communities simultaneously. / Dissertation (MMus (Music Therapy))--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Music / unrestricted

As the ¿War on Terror¿ evolves into the ¿Long War¿ against Islamo-fascism, it demands an enduring commitment to ensuring the security of the United States and its allies. This policy is based on the requirement to maintain control in a fractured and unpredictable global environment, while paying little attention to the underlying issues that lead to insecurity. It is an approach that is manifestly failing, as the continuing problems in Afghanistan and Iraq demonstrate. Moreover, ¿control¿ implies the maintenance of a global order that focuses on power remaining in the hands of a transnational elite community, principally focused on North America and Western Europe, but extending worldwide. This elite largely ignores socio-economic divisions and environmental constraints, and sees continuing stability as being best achieved by the maintenance of the status quo, using force when necessary. This collection of essays by Professor Paul Rogers argues that this post-Cold War security paradigm is fundamentally misguided and unsustainable. It concludes with two new essays on the need for a new conception of global security rooted in justice and emancipation.

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Since Woodrow Wilson’s seminal essay "The Study of Administration,” when he called for educating administrators in administration in hopes of making government more business-like, scholars have been investigating the differences and similarities between government and business. Largely ignored was the education for administration; should it likewise be more focused on business? Despite the development of specialized public administration degrees, the Master of Public Administration (MPA) and its equivalents, many managers trained in business schools are employed in federal government. This, alone, should make one question whether or not graduate education in public administration is truly any better or more appropriate for public sector management careers than other graduate degrees, notably the MBA. The present study addresses the issue of degree appropriateness by comparing federal sector managers who are MPA-trained with those who are MBA-trained on ten career success indices. Data to construct the indices were collected via a mailed survey questionnaire sent to the population of federal sector managers holding the MPA or MBA from selected universities. A variety of statistical procedures in SPSS were used to analyze the data. Analysis of the data indicates that few significant differences exist between MPA's and MBA's in career success, as measured in the short term. Possible explanations for these findings are explored. A cohort analysis and t-Test indicates that MBA's receive higher starting salaries than MPA's but MPA's surpass their MBA peers approximately twelve years after completing the master's degree. A hypothetical fourth (older) cohort of MPA's would be significantly higher paid now than MBA's. Implications for individuals, institutions, and society, based on the findings, were discussed, along with limitations to the study and future topics of research. / Ph. D.

Une forte hétérogénéité caractérise les niveaux et les fluctuations du taux de chômage dans les régions du Québec. Par exemple, entre mars 1997 et décembre 2018, le taux de chômage moyen s'est respectivement établi à 6,3% et à 10,0% dans les régions de la Capitale-Nationale et du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean ; un écart non négligeable de près de quatre points de pourcentage. Dans la mesure où ces inégalités sont inefficaces (Taylor, 1996) et qu'elles exacerbent les écarts de revenus (Macphail, 2000), il est primordial de déterminer les facteurs qui les sous-tendent. En ce sens, des travaux antérieurs ont permis de conclure à l'influence de la fiscalité et des institutions du marché du travail comme facteurs explicatifs des disparités du taux de chômage à travers les États. Ces éléments sont toutefois homogènes sur l'ensemble du territoire de la province du Québec et ne peuvent donc pas expliquer les différences du taux de chômage à travers les régions administratives québécoises. À partir de la définition de Friedman (1968), nous développons un modèle structurel du taux de chômage qui divise ce dernier en une portion structurelle et en une portion cyclique permettant, par le fait même, de mettre à l'épreuve de nouveaux facteurs explicatifs tels que la productivité régionale et la composition industrielle. En nous appuyant sur un panel de données sur les régions administratives du Québec, qui s'étend de mars 1997 à décembre 2018, nous procédons à cette décomposition à l'aide d'une estimation des moindres carrés ordinaire (MCO) à effets fixes robuste à l'autocorrélation et à l'intercorrélation ainsi qu'à une seconde évaluation des moindres carrés généralisés(MCG) à effets fixes qui considère la structure autorégressive du terme d'erreur. Nos résultats démontrent que la productivité et la composition industrielle régionale ont toutes les deux un effet significatif sur le taux de chômage régional. Finalement, nous utilisons les résultats pour mesurer le taux de chômage naturel de chaque région et discutons brièvement de son évaluation. / Regional unemployment in the province of Quebec is characterized by a significant heterogeneity both in the levels across the regions and how they evolve. Between March 1997 and December 2018, for example, the mean unemployment rate was about 6.3% in Capitale-Nationale and of 10.0% in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean; an important gap of almost four percentage points. Because those disparities are inefficient (Taylor, 1996) and because they exacerbate income inequalities (Macphail, 2000), understanding their determinants is essential. Previous works on the determinants of unemployment point to the influence of fiscal legislation and labour market institutions to explain unemployment rates disparities amongst the countries. Therefore, those factors being homogeneous for regions in the same province, they cannot explain this diversity between Quebec's administrative regions. Based on Friedman's (1968) definition of structural unemployment, we develop a model that divides the observed regional unemployment rates in a natural (or structural) and a cyclical component which allows for the integration of new determinants like regional productivity and industrial composition. Using panel data on Quebec's administrative regions from March 1997 to December 2018, we run a fixed effects ordinary least square (OLS) estimation with an SCC error term robust to correlation and cross-correlation plus a fixed effects general least square (GLS) estimation integrating an AR(1) correlated error term. Results show that regions' productivity and industrial composition both have a significant effect on regional unemployment. Finally, we use our results to calculate the natural unemployment rate and its evolution for each region and briefly discuss its evaluation.

The theme of territorial development has attracted interests of different areas of knowledge. In this sense, it becomes necessary to think about the approach of territorial development in Brazil, which became wider at the beginning of the XXI century. This particular thesis aims to perform reflections on the process of preparing and implementing territorial actions to promote a development in rural areas; in this regard the discussion about the experience of Brazilian planning is recognized, and it is also aimed to understand the challenge of construction of mediation processes which are able to guide and operationalize territorial policies; it also aims to forward the interests for discussion that evidences the problematic of social management. The research has an exploratory and investigative character, performing an approach that ponders the territorial development through an analysis, from survey and literature review on the theme, and the analysis of data obtained through fieldwork, such as interviews with the main social actors bound to entities and members of social movements that contribute in the process of territorial development, taking as a parameter the main instance: the Rural Territorial Collegiate. It is acknowledged that the participation of civil society in the elaboration of public policies is significantly important, providing the transcendence of apparent contradictions of interests and visions inherent to public and private domain, particularly when referring to rural environments, in which an increasing on density of commitments and responses is aimed. It is to respond to the challenge of territorial development, in the face to the difficulty in forming government capacity of multiple commitments on strategic interplay of the actors. It refers to the recognition of the importance of the participation and interaction of different social actors in the attempt of delineating ways to territorial development. Also regarding to the discussion of territorial development, this job is linked to the references of the discussion about the rural environment in Portugal, especially the discussion of governance, through contact with Portugal Local Development Associations, although it is considered the significant and notable differences regarding to the territorial dimension and the socio-economic and environmental issues between these two countries. As a result of the research, it is evidenced that the Rural Development Policy in Brazil is a process in construction that still goes through difficulties regarding to its supporting pillars among which is called attention to social management; the data and conducted analysis reveal that there was a process of change in the manner and consequences of action planning in rural environment, and also reveal that there is an advance regarding to the innovation in the instruments of participation and valuing of local forces, from the point of view of the togetherness of different representations that are heterogeneous. And therefore, they try to find the ways to reduce social disparities in rural environment, through management, but still in a fragile way. / A temática do desenvolvimento territorial despertou interesses de diferentes áreas do conhecimento. Torna-se necessário uma análise sobre a abordagem do desenvolvimento territorial no Brasil, que ganhou maior expressão no início do século XXI. A tese em tela tem como objetivo realizar reflexões em torno do processo de elaboração e implementação das ações territoriais para a promoção do desenvolvimento em áreas rurais. Retoma-se a discussão sobre a experiência do planejamento brasileiro, no intuito de compreender a construção de processos de mediação capazes de orientar e operacionalizar as políticas territoriais, visa encaminhar os interesses para a discussão sobre a problemática da governança. A pesquisa é de caráter exploratório-investigativo, aborda e pondera o desenvolvimento territorial por meio da análise, parti do levantamento e revisão bibliográfica referente à temática, e da análise de dados obtidos por meio de trabalho de campo, como as entrevistas dos principais atores sociais vinculados a entidades e membros de movimentos sociais que contribuem no processo de desenvolvimento territorial, tomando como parâmetro a instância principal: os Colegiados Territoriais Rurais. Reconhece-se que a participação da sociedade civil na elaboração das políticas públicas é significativa e propicia a transcendência de aparentes contradições de interesses e visões inerentes ao domínio público e privado, especialmente, quando se refere aos meios rurais, onde se procura aumentar a densidade de compromissos e de respostas. Trata-se de responder ao desafio do desenvolvimento territorial, face à dificuldade para constituir capacidade governativa de compromissos múltiplos no entrosamento estratégico. Refere-se ao reconhecimento da importância da participação e interação de diferentes atores sociais na tentativa de delinear caminhos para o desenvolvimento territorial. No âmbito da discussão do desenvolvimento territorial, o trabalho faz vínculo com as referências do debate sobre o meio rural em Portugal, em especial o contato com as Associações de Desenvolvimento Local de Portugal, embora se considere as significativas e notórias diferenças sobre a dimensão territorial e aos aspectos sócio-econômicos e ambientais existentes entre os dois países. O resultado da pesquisa evidencia que a política de desenvolvimento territorial rural no Brasil é um processo em construção que passa por dificuldades nos pilares de implantação e sustentação, dentre os quais se destaca a gestão social. Dados e análises realizadas revelam que ocorreu um processo de mudança na forma e nos desdobramentos das ações no meio rural, e que há avanços no sentido de inovações nos instrumentos de participação e de valorização das forças locais, como o ajuntamento de diferentes representações que são heterogêneas, mas buscam encontrar meios de reduzir as disparidades sociais no meio rural por meio da gestão, entretanto, ainda de forma frágil.

Hoang Lien National Park has a total area of 68569ha, located at an altitude of above sea 1000-3000m in the territory of the two provinces of Lai Chau and Lao Cai in Vietnam. It has a diversity of flora with 3252 species (including 775 endemic species and 236 endangered species), belonging to 1126 genera, 230 families and 6 different divisions. Due to the mountainous terrain, division diversity of Hoang Lien National Park’s vegetation is thus clearly characterized by high elevations. We have studied the distribution characteristics of the vegetation by high elevations in Hoang Lien National Park of Vietnam by the general survey methodology, fieldwork, remote sensing digital image processing and analysis and inheriting the preceding research results. The study results indicated the divisions in quantity, vegetation composition, especially differentiation of endemic and rare species in accordance with high elevations. Study results were preliminary used to suggest some orientations for preserving plant diversity in high elevations of the terrain. / Vườn quốc gia Hoàng Liên có tổng diện tích 68569ha, nằm ở độ cao từ 1000-3000m so với mặt biển thuộc lãnh thổ hai tỉnh Lai Châu và Lào Cai của Việt Nam. Hệ thực vật của Vườn quốc gia Hoàng Liên rất phong phú với 3252 loài (trong đó có 775 loài đặc hữu và 236 loài quý hiếm), thuộc 1126 chi, 230 họ và 6 ngành khác nhau. Do địa hình núi cao, phân hóa đa dạng nên thảm thực vật của Vườn quốc gia Hoàng Liên có đặc trưng phân hóa theo đai cao rất rõ nét. Bằng các phương pháp điều tra tổng hợp, khảo sát thực địa, xử lí phân tích ảnh viễn thám và kế thừa các kết quả nghiên cứu đi trước nhóm tác giả đã tiến hành nghiên cứu đặc điểm phân bố thảm thực vật theo đai cao tại Vườn quốc gia Hoàng Liên của Việt Nam. Kết quả nghiên cứu chỉ rõ sự phân hoá về số lượng, thành phần hệ thực vật theo đai cao và phân hóa thành phần loài đặc hữu và quý hiếm theo đai cao. Bước đầu nghiên cứu đề xuất một vài định hướng bảo tồn đa dạng thực vật theo đai cao của địa hình.

Le palmier dattier (Phoenix dactylifera L.) est une espèce fruitière dioïque tropicale qui revêt une importance capitale sur le plan alimentaire, socio-économique et écologique pour les régions arides du globe. Malgré l'intérêt de disposer d'un outil moléculaire pour discriminer les plante s mâles et femelles pour les programmes d'amélioration génétique, aucun marqueur spécifique du sexe n'a été identifié et validé à ce jour. Afin de pouvoir étudier et comprendre le déterminisme sexuel du palmier dattier, nous avons entrepris la description et la caractérisation des processus cellulaires et moléculaires associés à la différenciation des organes sexuels. L'étude histologique du développement reproducteur a montré que le bourgeon floral est d'apparence bisexuelle jusqu'à l'initiation des primordia de l'androcée et du gynécée. Le premier dimorphisme sexuel observé à ce stade correspondant à un gynécée plus large dans les fleurs femelles résulterait d'une activité mitotique plus importante dans les cellules du gynécée fertile par rapport à son équivalent non fonctionnel. Les organes sexuels stériles, staminodes et pistillodes, cessent ensuite leur développement et présentent une différentiation incomplète. Des études d'hybridation in situ de l'expression du gène codant l'histone H4, marqueur de l'activité mitotique, ont montré que le blocage du développement des staminodes et des pistillodes serait dû à un arrêt des divisions cellulaires. Nos investigations de l'intégrité cellulaire par des observations en microscopie électronique à transmission et par coloration de l'ADN confirmeraient que l'avortement des organes stériles ne résulte pas d'un processus de dégradation cellulaire et nucléaire. De plus, l'étude de la méthylation de l'ADN par immunodétection des cytosines méthylées révèle que, par rapport aux organes fertiles, les pistillodes et les staminodes se distinguent par leur niveau plus élevé de méthylation. Ces résultats sont en cohérence avec la réversibilité du blocage de ces organes observés in planta ou in vitro en réponse à une induction hormonale. L'ensemble de ces données montrent que l'unisexualisation des fleurs de palmier dattier est associée à une hyperméthylation globale de l'ADN suivi d'un arrêt des divisions cellulaires dans les organes sexuels stériles. Cette étude a permis d'améliorer nos connaissances sur les mécanismes qui gouvernent la différenciation des organes sexuels et permettra d'ouvrir des perspectives pour l'identification de marqueurs moléculaires du sexe chez le palmier dattier. / The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a dioecious tropical fruit crop plant which has vital dietary, socio-economic and ecological importance in arid regions of the world. Despite the interest of developing molecular tools to discriminate male and female plants for the benefit of biodiversity preservation and genetic improvement programs, no sex-specific markers have been identified and validated to date. To study and understand the sex determination of date palm, we undertook to characterise the cellular and molecular processes underlying sex organ differentiation in this plant.A histological study of date palm reproductive development showed that the immature flower is bisexual in appearance until the initiation of the androecium and gynoecium. The first sign of sexual dimorphism is observed at this stage, namely a wider gynoecium in female flowers resulting from greater mitotic activity in the functional gynoecium of female flowers compared to the pistillode of male ones. The sterile sex organs (pistillode and staminodes) were observed to cease their development by progressive loss of cell proliferation and ultimately displayed incomplete differentiation.Cell division patterns and the nuclear integrity of reproductive organs were investigated respectively by RNA in situ hybridization to a histone H4 gene probe and by DNA coloration combined with scanning electron microscopy. The results obtained revealed an absence of cell cycle activity and nuclear degradation in the residual sex organs. In addition, a study of DNA methylation, by immunodetection of methylated cytosines revealed that compared to the fertile reproductive organs, staminodes and pistillodes displayed relatively high levels of global DNA methylation. These results are consistent with the observed reversibility of sterile organ developmental arrest observed in planta or in vitro in response to hormonal induction. Overall, these data demonstrate that the floral unisexuality of date palm is characterized by cell cycle arrest, higher DNA methylation in sterile sexual organs and an absence of cell degeneration rather than a cell death process. This study has improved our understanding of the mechanisms that govern the differentiation of sex organs and forms a useful starting point for research on the identification of molecular markers of sex determination in date palm.Kewords: Date palm - flower - sex determination - cell cycle - DNA methylation

Selon une opinion commune couramment répandue dans les pays occidentaux, le sport institué serait une école d’apprentissage, du sens du collectif, de la solidarité, du partage et des règles de vie : en bref, il socialiserait naturellement les jeunes en les intégrant dans la société. Cette recherche nous a amené à nous intéresser aux formes de socialisation que la société libanaise offre aux « sportifs ». Si le fait de penser le sport d’une part comme apolitique et, d’autre part, comme une passion partagée par l’ensemble de la jeunesse ne date pas d’aujourd’hui, cette question se lit différemment au Liban, pays qui a subi des conflits internes et régionaux depuis plus de 500 ans. Organisé politiquement et socialement en « communautés », le Liban propose ainsi un modèle politique à base religieuse qui imprègne la vie quotidienne des libanais, y compris au sein du monde sportif. Chaque communauté est gouvernée par une autorité spécifique, régie par ses institutions et soumise à une juridiction autonome formée de membres appartenant à la hiérarchie religieuse, à laquelle l’Etat a reconnu la compétence d’appliquer ses lois et coutumes. Mis à l’épreuve du terrain, ce constat est pourtant à relativiser. L’enquête révèle que les clivages communautaires affectent profondément les instances de gestion des fédérations sportives et provoquent une répartition confessionnelle dans les comités de direction. Cependant, dans le sport comme dans d’autres domaines de la vie sociale, la communauté n’est jamais « pure » et l’on observe aussi des coalitions intercommunautaires dans le but de conquérir le pouvoir sportif. Partant d’une approche macrosociologique, la thèse propose d’étudier le regroupement communautaire dans le sport associatif à travers deux monographies de club réalisées à Beyrouth afin d’analyser ces dynamiques confessionnelles: le Ryadi, à dominante confessionnelle musulmane, et son pendant chrétien, le club de la Sagesse. L’analyse sociologique montre à voir deux micro sociétés qui pratiquent « l’entre soi » sportif mais qui, dans le même temps, présentent une ouverture à la rencontre intercommunautaire. / According to a common opinion held in Western countries, the Instituted Sport would be a school of learning, sense of community, solidarity, sharing and rules of life; in short, it will socialize young people by integrating them into society. This research draws our attention to the forms of socialization that Lebanese society offers to “athletes”. If the act of thinking about sport first, as a non-political and, secondly, as a passion shared by all of the youth did not start today, this question reads differently in Lebanon, a country that has suffered from internal and regional conflicts for over 500 years. Politically and socially organized in ‘’community’’, Lebanon offer thereby a faith-based political model that permeates daily life, including the sports world. Each community is governed by a specific authority, ruled by its institutions and submitted to a court composed of independent members from the religious hierarchy, in which the state has recognized the jurisdiction to enforce its laws and customs. Tested in the field, the finding is yet to put into perspective. The survey reveals that the communal cleavages deeply affect the management bodies of sports federations and cause a religious breakdown in the management of committees. However, in sport as in other area of social life, the community is never “pure” and there are also inter-community coalitions in order to gain the sport’s power. Starting from a macro-sociological approach, the thesis propose to study the communal consolidation in the associative sport through two monographs club conducted in Beirut in order to analyze the sectarian dynamic: le Riyadi (Sporting club), a Muslim religious ruling, and for Christians, La Sagesse club. Sociological analysis shows two micro societies that practice sport in “between the self” format, but at the same time, have an opening at the inter-communal stage.