Master of Science / Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering / Jessica L. Heier Stamm / Gifts-in-kind (GIK) donations negatively affect the humanitarian supply chain at the point of receipt near the disaster site. In any disaster, as much as 50 percent of GIK donations are irrelevant to the relief efforts. This proves to be a significant issue to humanitarian organizations because the quantity and type of future GIK are uncertain, making it difficult to account for GIK donations at the strategic planning level. The result is GIK consuming critical warehouse space and manpower. Additionally, improper treatment of GIK can result in ill-favor of donors and loss of donations (both cash and GIK) and support for the humanitarian organization. This thesis proposes a robust facility location approach that mitigates the impact of GIK by providing storage space for GIK and pre-positions supplies to meet initial demand. The setting of the problem is strategic planning for hurricane relief along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts of the United States. The approach uses a robust scenario-based method to account for uncertainty in both demand and GIK donations. The model determines the location and number of warehouses in the network, the amount of pre-positioned supplies to meet demand, and the amount of space in each warehouse to alleviate the impact of GIK. The basis of the model is a variant of the covering facility location model that must satisfy all demand and GIK space requirements. A computational study with multiple cost minimizing objective functions illustrates how the model performs with realistic data. The results show that strategic planning in the preparedness phases of the disaster management cycle will significantly mitigate the impact of GIK.

The boat-burials in Scandinavia presents several rich findings in the form of boats, possession and their owners. These boat-burials are reviewed in this work through a lens of maritime archaeology, to connect the possible roles held by the boat itself in context with the placement and nature of the burial gifts deposited around and inside the vessel. The burial grounds in Vendel, Valsgärde, Tuna I Badelunda, Ultuna and Old Uppsala are presented to compare and create context between findings to define a common tradition and cosmology involving the boat-burials in question.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-08-23T12:17:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Alexandre Baylão.pdf: 967041 bytes, checksum: 21039e0c90884159c947110b8da78216 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-23T12:17:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alexandre Baylão.pdf: 967041 bytes, checksum: 21039e0c90884159c947110b8da78216 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The pneumatology in the thought of Yves Congar is reflected and produced under the essential test of experience and communion. Through the God’s experience that humanity has developed its theological reflection and sensed the nuances of self-revelation of God to all his work created and could discern what paths to be followed in relation to God, the cosmos and the human being. It was by the God’s experience that humanity approached the sacred and had communion with him. It could recognize God in its divine persons and worship him through Church sprouted of the decisive event of the Incarnation of the Word and his resurrection, from which it was given to mankind the grace of the Holy Spirit. But it was already present with mankind since the creation of the lines of the story. The Holy Spirit is the love of God manifested as mother love, protects, nurtures, corrects, unites and strengthens with his gifts and charisms. He is one for which, in the exercise of his mission, Christ and the kingdom of God come into the world. Mission is fulfilled in and through the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, being the Holy Spirit its foundation of communion, catholicity and holiness. The Holy Spirit was present in history, of humanity and of the Church in its great moments of transformation, conduting and inspiring his footsteps. However, the experience lacks interpretation, and in the historical process the communion was, sometimes, undone, and the Holy Spirit was also praised by some and forgotten by others, in this case the Church of Christ, was closed to the Holy Spirit. In the second Vatican Council happened the latest historical re-opening of the Church to the Holy Spirit. Overcoming hierarchism in it installed, says Congar / A pneumatologia no pensamento de Yves Congar é refletida e produzida sob o crivo indispensável da experiência e da comunhão. Através da experiência de Deus que a humanidade elaborou sua reflexão teológica e intuiu os nuances da auto-revelação de Deus a toda sua obra criada e pôde discernir quais os caminhos a serem seguidos na relação com Deus, com o cosmo e com o ser humano. Foi pela experiência de Deus que a humanidade aproximou-se do sagrado e teve comunhão com ele. Pôde reconhecer Deus em suas Pessoas Divinas e prestar culto a ele através da Igreja brotada do evento decisivo da Encarnação do Verbo e sua ressurreição, de onde foi dada à humanidade a graça do Espírito Santo. Mas ele já estava presente com a humanidade desde a criação nas entrelinhas da história. O Espírito Santo é o amor de Deus que se manifesta como amor de mãe, protege, nutre, corrige, une e fortalece com seus dons e carismas. Ele é aquele pelo qual, no exercício de sua missão, Cristo e o Reino de Deus chegam ao mundo. Missão que se cumpre na e pela Igreja, Corpo Místico de Cristo, sendo o Espírito Santo seu fundamento de comunhão, catolicidade e santidade. O Espírito Santo esteve presente na história, da humanidade e da Igreja, em seus grandes momentos de transformação, conduzindo e inspirando seus passos. Entretanto, a experiência carece de interpretação, e no processo histórico a comunhão foi por vezes desfeita, e o Espírito Santo foi exaltado por uns e também esquecido por outros, nestes casos a Igreja de Cristo, se fechou ao Espírito Santo. No Concílio Vaticano II houve a mais recente reabertura histórica da Igreja ao Espírito Santo. Superando o hierarquismo nela instalado, afirma Congar. Aberta ao Espírito Santo e sob sua inspiração, a Igreja pôde dar mais e novos frutos de diálogo, comunhão e santidade que favorecem o cumprimento de sua missão como Igreja evangelizadora e profética no mundo

El objetivo principal de la presente tesis es exponer el conocimiento que tienen las empresas sobre las características y necesidades de los consumidores de la línea “regalos verdes” del sector de decoración y paisajismo en Lima metropolitana para desarrollar su cartera productos. Los regalos verdes forman parte de la oferta actual en el sub sector de decoración y están conformados por terrarios, kokedamas, recuerdos vivos, entre otros. Así mismo, se desprende de la investigación que estos llegaron al Perú como una tendencia de decoración que se relaciona con la realidad de los reducidos espacios para áreas verdes con los que se cuenta en la ciudad de Lima. Las interrogantes de la tesis surgen para exponer el nivel de conocimiento que tienen las empresas actuales sobre las características y necesidades de sus consumidores y conocer cómo esto contribuye al desarrollo de la cartera de productos de regalos verdes ofertada en Lima Metropolitana. Esta tesis es no experimental, con un diseño transeccional o también llamado transversal de tipo exploratorio, cuyo propósito es comenzar a conocer una variable o un conjunto de variables, una comunidad, un contexto, y analizarlo en un momento específico, dado que se trata de un problema de investigación nuevo o poco conocido. Por ello, nuestra investigación puede constituir un precedente en la información del sector de la decoración y paisajismo, más no una investigación de mercado, debido a que no abarca la perspectiva de la demanda. Para esta investigación se encuestó a los dueños, encargados o personal del área comercial con contacto directo con los clientes de 30 empresas de Lima Metropolitana. Finalmente, se plantean conclusiones y recomendaciones que derivan de la investigación. / Tesis

Christmas is generally described as cultural, ritual and sociological phenomena of devotion, community and consumption. The topic of this dissertation concerns a specific stream of research within the general domain of consumer behaviour. The focal objective of this study is to develop a model and generate theory about parental gift giving behaviour at Christmas. My study is unique because it attempts to model parental gift giving at Christmas in a consumer behaviour context. Consumer behaviour theory suggests that parents seek information about possible gifts, set selection criteria for gift purchase, evaluate alternatives and buy the gifts for their children. Following this broad view of theory, parents respond to children's request behaviour, evaluate the suitability of any requests and purchase the approved or appropriate items as Christmas gifts. Children are encouraged to request any gifts that they desire, and these gift requests are often for specific brands. In general Christmas gifts are selected from children's products and brands and there is extensive debate and research relating to television advertising and children's request behaviour at Christmas. However, parents are not exposed to the same sources of advertising as their children and there is little evidence of research into the very important topics concerning motives, strategies, evaluations and the giving of brands that characterize parents' Christmas gift giving to their children. The significance of this dissertation resides in the development and presentation of a comprehensive model for the conceptualisation of parental gift giving at Christmas, based on antecedents to parents' social roles of gift giving and direct and indirect behavioural outcomes of those gift giving roles. Measures for each of these outcomes are developed and gender effects are also explored. The sample frame was described as a parent with at least one child between the ages of 3-8 years and a survey package was delivered to parents of children from participating schools and kindergartens. There were 2560 surveys distributed, with 450 individual responses representing a return rate of 17.6%. The 450 cases available for analysis were factor analysed and formed into composite and latent variables to facilitate statistical analysis via Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression, which is an appropriate procedure when the relationships are unknown or theoretical. The results of the research have two distinct streams. The first stream relates to the creation and validation of measurement constructs for the concept of Christmas spirit, parental gift giving, request communication, brand benefits and use of information sources, as well as involvement in giving gifts and involvement in giving brands as gifts. The second stream relates to the relationships between variables; the results support the relationships antecedent to the parents' social roles of gift giving. There is a significant relationship of Christmas spirit with involvement in giving gifts and with parental gift giving roles. A significant relationship also exists between involvement in giving gifts and parental gift giving roles. However, there is limited support for propositions related to outcomes of parental gift giving roles where there are significant relations between these roles and Christmas request communication, brand benefits and information sources. There is also a significant, indirect relationship between brand benefits and involvement in giving brands as gifts. As part of the second stream, gender differences were examined; the results show that mothers' Christmas spirit has no effect on their gift giving roles and gift giving roles have no significant effect on request communication and information source usage. On the other hand, the results show that the fathers' gift giving activities reflect the relationships outlined in the parental model. The study has academic implications for sociology and consumer behaviour disciplines and commercial implications for manufacturers, advertisers, brand owners and retailers. Further investigations will be necessary to incorporate other elements into the parental gift-giving model and to extend the theory toward a fuller understanding of the parental Christmas gift giving phenomena.

本論文主要探究十九世紀德國著名教育家 Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel (1782-1852) 教育思想中遊戲觀與其對現代遊戲教育與設計美學的影響。在 Froebel 的教育觀中，遊戲是啟發孩童學習與發展的核心，他主張遊戲不僅是生理表面上的一種必然現象，也是彙整經驗的自然法則與發展腦力的機會。對 Froebel 而言，遊戲更是人作為一個被創造的存在與展現創造力的核心本質。為發展與鼓勵孩童的自我活動，他創設幼兒園（Kindergarten），並遵循自然法則設計一系列遊戲恩物，將遊戲與教育結合，提供教養者引導孩童時的參考與方法。Froebel 強調家庭與女性的重要性，尤其是母親的角色；認為孩童是人類的胚芽，宜細心呵護培養。他從整體的觀點，也就是「統一體」（unity）的概念來看待孩童，認為孩童的生命與表現是一種完整的存在與象徵。人存在的使命與生命的最終目的，即是認識自己與萬物，認識萬物之間、萬物與自己的關係，以及不斷以創造性的形式彰顯人之內在神性。他將藝術作品與上帝在大自然的作品相比擬，認為人以創作藝術作品活現其精神，如同上帝創造自然一樣，相信藝術即是人內在生命的表現。此藝術與精神關聯的思想，不僅影響十九世紀後期世界各國的幼兒教育，也影響了二十世紀以來的設計教育與建築美學。 / This thesis is to study the theory of play by the 19th century famous German educator Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel (1782-1852) and its influence in the modern education and art. In his theory, play is the engine that drives child’s learning and is the cornerstone of development. Froebel considered play not only the physiological nature, but also the natural law of gathering experiences and the opportunity of developing brain power. Play is even the core essence of man as a created being and nurturing creativities. He established Kindergarten to encourage children’s self-activity, designed a series of Play Gifts to provide educators means of educating as play. In his pedagogy, family and female, especially mother, caring and nurturing human offspring, are very important in education of man. Overall, he considered children’s life and appearance are signs of unity and existence. To understand self and things and the relationships between them, and to recreate continuously man’s inner self are the goals of man’s life. He considered man’s arts and God’s creations are equally representing each spirit, and believed arts are from man’s inner self just as nature is created by God. His view of connecting arts and inner self affected not only the early childhood education all over the world in late 19th century, but also the design education and the art of architecture from the 20th century onward.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-158)

Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2004. / Includes abstract. Translated from Korean. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 249-257).

Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2004. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 184-191).

The main objective of the thesis is to study the forces that built up the morphology of the old city of Sulaimaniyah and the reasons of its existence. It focuses on the morphological elements of property (ownership elements of streets, blocks and parcels) and their existence in spite of the impacts of modernism in the transformation of these elements. Modernity in Sulaimaniyah city affected the city in terms of the transformation of traditional life pattern and traditional structure into modern function. Modern function covers a new administrative system and new commercial functions. The city adapted itself to these new institutions. As a consequence, the power of state displayed itself in the form of building roads, and then the new larger and regular parcels were created to adapt new functions. Furthermore, the study aims to establish the historical evolution of the city starting from its foundation and the periods, which are signified by the introduction of modernism concepts. This study is analyzed through a morphological research depending on the physical elements as quantitative characteristics. It starts with an evolutionary plan analysis, which is a tool of morphological study and covers the old part of the city in macro scale, mezzo scale, and consequently, micro scale. The old fabric of Sulaimaniyah city as organic fabric faced the modernism&#039 / s impact gradually due to the construction of streets. In spite of this fact, preserving old fabric&#039 / s morphology behind the power of ownership pattern is still surviving. In this thesis, typology is another research method, which is used to analyze the evolution of the building fabric of the city in both functional and formal configuration. In addition, a comparison of traditional and modern building types in the old city shows that there are similarities between these types, which suggest that these types are part of the old fabric of the city and they define the morphology of the old city. The study concluded that the morphology of the old city is the product of property in two dimensions (ownership parcels), and the building types on them.