Three hundred years of colonialism, and fifty of internal colonialism, had hardwired a duality into the system, whereby two domains coexisted: on one hand, a globally integrated world of production, exchange and consumption, and on the other, a constrained world of informality, poverty and marginalization. The visions and missions for municipalities in South Africa are outlined in the White Paper on Local Government. The White Paper further calls for the review of the existing legislation which impedes Local Economic Development. Municipalities in, the Free State Province are accordingly faced with the mammoth task of delivering basic services to the communities. Poverty alleviation is crucial in realising this objective. This study aims to show the challenge which faces municipalities in the Free State and their mammoth task of delivering basic services to the communities. Poverty alleviation is crucial in realisation is objective. 'Through all researches and studies conducted it has been clear that there are impediments in this developmental mandate of the municipalities. 'These emanate from the capacity of the municipalities and the theoretical foundation of the Local Economic Development (LED) as one of the strategies for development. The internal validity of the problem stated does not depend on whether or not that the Local Economic Development strategies of the national and provincial spheres of government are very good, the critical part that this study deals with is whether the local and district municipalities have linked their strategies with those of national and provincial spheres. The Constitution of South Africa mandates local government to ensure the provision of services to communities in a sustainable manner and to encourage the involvement of communities and communities’ organizations in matters of local government. In line with the constitutional mandate, the white paper on Local Government establishes the basis for a new developmental local government system, one which is committed to working with citizens, groups and communities in meeting the social, economic and material needs of communities in a holistic way. The findings indicate that IDPs (Integrated Development Plans) and LED lack detail on SlYME (Small Medium Macro Economic) development. Formal and Informal business are not captured accurately in the IDPs and LED. The importance of infrastructure not adequately located within the LED strategy. It was also found that most of the municipalities in the Free State do not have LED strategy. Proposals for further study on poverty eradication strategies by the municipalities are made. / Thesis (M. Development and Management)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2006.

Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-159). Also available in electronic format via the Defense Technical Information Center website.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, August, 2008. / Release of full electronic text on OhioLINK has been delayed until June 30, 2011. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 352-361)

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, August, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. Release of full electronic text on OhioLINK has been delayed until June 30, 2011. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 352-361)

Orientador: Eliana Ayoub / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T03:55:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santos_GilbertdeOliveira_D.pdf: 8462955 bytes, checksum: 558ab629065b990377ec91a3da1e3ab5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: O w?shù possui diferentes aspectos que podem ser desvelados e apresentados no âmbito dos estudos do corpo. Eu tive a oportunidade de realizar uma viagem de estudos à China e vivenciar brevemente a cultura deste país. Experimentei no corpo e na alma um pouco das artes guerreiras chinesas e isto me possibilitou escrever um texto mais incorporado. Trata-se aqui de uma interpretação em imagens e textos de diferentes sentidos e significados das artes guerreiras chinesas. Granet (1997), diz que os chineses não pedem aos seus sábios dogmas, mas temas favoráveis a uma meditação livre. Semelhantemente, optei por vasculhar, remexer e transmutar diferentes sentidos e significados que podem surgir nas artes guerreiras chinesas para outra elaboração que transita nas dimensões da linguagem, da arte, da ciência, do pensamento, da medicina e do ensino de técnicas corporais guerreiras. / Abstract: The w?shù has different aspects that can be unveiled and presented in the context of the study body. I had the opportunity to conduct a study trip to China and experience the culture of this country soon. Experienced in body and soul a bit of Chinese fighting arts and this enabled me to write a text more incorporated. It is here interpreted in images and texts of different meanings of the chinese fighting arts. Granet (1997), says that the chinese do not ask their wise tenets, but themes favorable to a free meditation. Similarly, I chose to scour, rummage and transmute different meanings that can arise in the chinese fighting arts to another development that transits the dimensions of language, art, science, thought, medicine and teaching techniques bodily warriors. / Doutorado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Doutor em Educação

Scholarly research has analyzed how female athletes use their social media platforms and how they are represented in news media coverage. However, no scholarly literature has specifically looked at Ronda Rousey, an American mixed martial artist. The current study used a quantitative content analysis to examine how Rousey has utilized her Twitter account as well as how local and national newspapers in the United States framed coverage of Rousey between 2014 to 2016. For the tweets, content, referring to pictures that Rousey posted, was the most popular category; the second most prevalent category was promotional, referring to tweets that promoted upcoming events or sponsorships. Rousey mainly used her Twitter to post pictures of herself and promote her personal brand. For the newspaper articles, the most frequently used frames were agency, powerless, and goals and ambitions. Two new frames emerged from the current study – fame, referring to Rousey’s film career, and relations, referring to Rousey’s personal life and relationships. The newspapers were predominantly neutral in their coverage of Rousey throughout the three-year study period. This case study is important because it found that Rousey was framed in a way that differed from previous research. The findings in this study demonstrate that Rousey was not marginalized in newspaper coverage or portrayed in a negative manner, as other female athletes have been in the past. Rather than focusing on her appearance or sexuality, the news coverage highlighted Rousey’s success and athletic achievements.

This study is an analysis of the process of creating subtitles for the National Geographic documentary Fight Science: Mixed Martial Arts. The difficulties encountered during this project have included the translation of subject-specific terminology, the handling of source-text mistakes and the process of deciding how to condense the spoken dialogue when writing the subtitles. By studying these issues, certain conclusion can be drawn about the difficulties encountered when creating subtitles and translating texts with subject-specific terminology. The study is primarily based on the theories of Runo Ingo (2007), Vinay & Darbelnet (1977) and Chesterman & Wagner (2002). To find appropriate translations for subject-specific terminology, it is important to understand which translation device should be used (for example a loan or literal translation) through the examination of parallel texts and it is important that the translator be familiar with this terminology. How to properly handle mistakes in the source material depends greatly on the situation, the text concerned and the translator’s judgment. Decisions about which information can be omitted can be based on the information’s importance to the overall understanding of the show or the implicit nature of the information. The science of translation can be considered vague, but there exist theories and principles to aid translators when making such touch decisions as those encountered during this project.

Diploma thesis deals with fighting insurance fraud from the very beginning to the end, seen from insurance company's perspective. It also tries to see insurance frauds and dealing with them not only from IT point of view, but also accompany other department's views and needs. It's starting with organizational overview and its readiness to fight fraud and trying to show, how to improve. Furthermore it introduces reader with basic terms and phrases of insurance fraud and continues with general description of this encounter. It continues with indicators of insurance fraud and its examples and strategies, how to find them in data. Next part of my thesis is focusing on available external sources and possible insurance companies' cooperation, for maximized ability to detect suspicious cases. This is continued by selection of proper system, requirements definition and its goals. Last part shows one of FMS solutions and its description, from requirements up to complete solutions architecture and screenshots of given system.

In my diploma project I engage in design of fire-fighting car, concrete it's technical type of fire-fighting car, that hit anywhere vhere car accident happened. Konception of this vehical, that is in fact revolutionary, is design like zhe vehical with small technical diferences could by suitable for all rescue organ all over the world ( fire-brigade, ambulance, mauntain rescue, baywath, army and atc.) thanks to exchangeble boxes in the rear part of the vehicle and thanks to take off partition wall, that devide the cabine space and the space of box. Changeble high of the undercart, turning rear axle, changeble wheels for belts, passive safe of the vehicle with hi-tech materials, nanatechnology and with other technical solution make this vehical possible excellent driving quality, that make the rescue more effective and possible where it could't by posiible.

Title: The use of gymnastic ball in combat sport. Objective: The aim of this work is to create a stack of exercises for martial arts wrestlers usable for training and improvement of movement on the ground. The exercises used use a gymnastic ball, which replaces the absence of a sparring partner. The partial aim of the thesis is to find out the difficulty of the proposed exercises based on the respondents' subjective perception. Methods: Based on a long-term observation of martial arts training in conjunction with professional resources dealing with the issue, gymnastic ball exercises were profiled. There were 18 respondents who distinguished the difficulty of the 8 selected exercises. A 10-point Borg Scale was used to evaluate the difficulty, which records the individual perception of the effort required to perform the exercise. Results: The result of the work is a set of exercises on the gymnastic ball suitable for training fight positions and situations for combat on the ground. Furthermore, individual evaluation of the difficulty of selected exercises wrestlers combat sports. The exercises were evaluated by the respondents from simple ones, such as the "Shifting feet while lying on belly" exercise to very demanding "Kneeling on one leg" exercises. The overall assessment suggests that the...