This thesis, which is intended for inclusion in "The Piano Sonatas of the 18th century in Austria" (Vol.3 in the publication series "Contributions the the development of the Piano Sonata") aims to evaluate Haydn's position within the history of the piano sonata. In spite of the widespread popularity of Haydn's sonatas among professional musicians and amateurs, surprisingly little has yet been published regarding the compositional aspects of these works. The main contributions of musicological value were written by Hermann Abert, Karl Geiringer, Walter Georgii and William S.Newman. The recent studies, published as Vol.l and Vol.2 in the above mentioned series, made it possible to trace in much greater detail the various formative factors that influenced the form and style of Haydn's piano sonatas. Moreover, it proved the composer's personal merits not only in the development of this specific genre but also in the creation of 'The International Viennese Language of the High-Classical Period'. The newly gained insight, in turn, should lead to an even higher appreciation of the great master, who utilized the achievements of his predecessors and contemporaries in an original and individual manner and thereby gained a position far superior to that of many other composers.

Les réseaux sociaux numériques ont pris une place prépondérante dans l'espace informationnel, et sont souvent utilisés pour la publicité, le suivi de réputation, la propagande et même la manipulation, que ce soit par des individus, des entreprises ou des états. Alors que la quantité d'information rend difficile son exploitation par des humains, le besoin reste entier d'analyser un réseau social numérique : il faut dégager des tendances à partir des messages postés dont notamment les opinions échangées, qualifier les comportements des utilisateurs, et identifier les structures sociales émergentes.Pour résoudre ce problème, nous proposons un système d'analyse en trois niveaux. Tout d'abord, l'analyse du message vise à en déterminer l'opinion. Ensuite, la caractérisation et l'évaluation des comptes utilisateurs est réalisée grâce à une étape de profilage comportemental et à l'étude de leur importance et de leur position dans des graphes sociaux, dans lesquels nous combinons les mesures topologiques d'importance des noeuds dans un graphe avec les statistiques d'engagement, par exemple en nombre d'abonnés. Enfin, le système procède à la détection et à l'évaluation de communautés d'utilisateurs, pour lesquelles nous introduisons des scores de cohésion thématique qui complètent les mesures topologiques classiques de qualité structurelle des communautés détectées. Nous appliquons ce système d'analyse sur deux corpus provenant de deux médias sociaux différents : le premier est constitué de messages publiés sur Twitter, représentant toutes les activités réalisées par 5 000 comptes liés entre eux sur une longue période. Le second provient d'un réseau social basé sur TOR, nommé Galaxy2. Nous évaluons la pertinence de notre système sur ces deux jeux de données, montrant la complémentarité des outils de caractérisation des comptes utilisateurs (influence, comportement, rôle) et des communautés de comptes (force d'interaction, cohésion thématique), qui enrichissent l'exploitation du graphe social par les éléments issus des contenus textuels échangés. / Online Social Networks have taken a huge place in the informational space and are often used for advertising, e-reputation, propaganda, or even manipulation, either by individuals, companies or states. The amount of information makes difficult the human exploitation, while the need for social network analysis remains unsatisfied: trends must be extracted from the posted messages, the user behaviours must be characterised, and the social structure must be identified. To tackle this problem, we propose a system providing analysis tools on three levels. First, the message analysis aims to determine the opinions they bear. Then, the characterisation and evaluation of user accounts is performed thanks to the union of a behavioural profiling method, the study of node importance and position in social graphs and engagement and influence measures. Finally the step of user community detection and evaluation is accomplished. For this last challenge, we introduce thematic cohesion scores, completing the topological, graph-based measures for group quality. This system is then applied on two corpora, extracted from two different online social media. The first is constituted of messages published on Twitter, gathering every activity performed by a set of 5,000 accounts on a long period. The second stems from a ToR-based social network, named Galaxy2, and includes every public action performed on the platform during its uptime. We evaluate the relevance of our system on these two datasets, showing the complementarity of user account characterisation tools (influence, behaviour and role), and user account communities (interaction strength, thematic cohesion), enriching the social graph exploitation with textual content elements.

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LD2668 .T4 1966 D383 / Master of Science

Le concept de pouvoir est très présent au niveau des organisations puisque les gestionnaires occupent un poste qui leur attribue du pouvoir. Selon l'utilisation qu'ils en font, ceux-ci produisent un impact positif ou négatif sur leurs subordonnés. Pour mieux comprendre ce qui amène une personne à utiliser le pouvoir dans un sens plutôt que dans un autre, il importe de déterminer les variables en cause. L'une des variables liée à l'exercice du pouvoir est celle des caractéristiques de la personnalité de celui qui l'exerce. La présente recherche a comme objectif d'identifier les comportements des individus en position de pouvoir et de mettre en lien ces comportements avec des traits de leur personnalité. Tout d'abord, des entrevues sont réalisées auprès de 12 subordonnées de différentes organisations afin de compléter les informations de la documentation. Les résultats du codage des entrevues font ressortir un total de 12 catégories de comportements de l'utilisation du pouvoir dont cinq sont communes à l'utilisation adéquate et nocive du pouvoir. Ces résultats permettent de construire un questionnaire de recherche sur l'utilisation du pouvoir des dirigeants.Le questionnaire comporte 50 questions indiquant des comportements de pouvoir, adéquats et nocifs, utilisés par les gestionnaires selon les subordonnés interrogés. Par la suite, 43 dirigeants de différentes entreprises remplissent le questionnaire de recherche en évaluant, sur une échelle de Likert de 5 points, la fréquence à laquelle ils utilisent chaque comportement. Au même moment, ces derniers se voient administrer quatre tests psychométriques dans le cadre d'une analyse de potentiel réalisée chez un bureau de consultants. Des corrélations simples et multiples entre l'utilisation du pouvoir au questionnaire de recherche (VD) et huit dimensions de la personnalité (VI) choisies parmi les quatre tests psychométriques sont ensuite effectuées. Les résultats des corrélations simples démontrent que la dimension de compétence du NEO PI-R et la dimension de dominance du PRF-E sont significativement corrélées, de façon positive, avec l'utilisation adéquate du pouvoir. De plus, la dimension de l'agressivité du PRF-E est significativement corrélée, de façon positive, à l'utilisation nocive du pouvoir. Enfin, les régressions multiples font ressortir l'importance de la variable de la compétence dans l'utilisation du pouvoir des dirigeants étant la seule dimension à être significativement corrélée, de façon positive, à l'utilisation adéquate du pouvoir.

One person - one vote; on Election Day in a representative democracy, everyone with the right to vote is equal. However, this occurs in Sweden once every four years. Between those occasions, we cannot be certain that political influence is equal until this has been tested. In this thesis, I will investigate whether Swedish democracy is responding to blue- and white-collar families equally. Do they have equal influence over public policy? And what consequences do the result have for some theories of democracy? With quantitative research, by replicating large parts of the research done by Martin Gilens and his research team, this thesis will be able to test if political influence is equal between these two groups. This allows us to test some of the theories and earlier research conclusions of Swedish democracy. No one, that I am aware of, has published something regarding this type of research in Sweden before. Gilens & Page’s (2014) research found that in the United States, economic elites and interest groups had substantial influence on public policy whereas average citizens had little or none - confirming economic elite domination and biased pluralism theories. By analysing 182 policy proposals, I find no clear proof, but strong indications that white- collar families have more influence on policy-making than blue-collar families. Future research would most likely be able to draw more confident conclusions if there was a greater data sample. If these indications are correct, then this has implications for some theories of American and Swedish democracy.

The aim of this study is to examine educator’s attitudes regarding the youngest children’s influence. The target group for this study is educator’s that currently is working with children that are 1-3 years of age. To be able to answer the aim of this study semi-structured interview were conducted. I have performed interviews with five educator’s that currently work in two different preschool that is situated in a small city, in Sweden. The results show that the educator’s attitudes should be open and flexible and thereby allow the children more influence. The educator’s also talk about support, that they shall function as a supporter for the children and be there for them when needed. Responsive and empathetic is also important for the teachers in this study.

This study examines how preschool teachers are working together with the children, and how much the children actually influence the work. In order to examine this, a qualitative study has been made, examining four preschool teachers thought and attitudes towards children's influence in some of the most important parts of their daily work. The study examines how preschool teachers are working with the children's influence in early childhood education. This is also the main purpose of the study. The questions made in the study to answer the main purpose are: What does the preschool teacher think of the term democracy in general? What do preschool teachers think about children's influence and how do they work practically with this in their daily work? How does the preschool curriculum define children's influence? To what extent does children's influence get limited in the daily work? The study has used previous research about children's influence in preschool andalso uses the preschool curriculum and the CRC. It shows that the participating preschool teachers working with children's influence within the various parts of preschool activities do so by taking advantage of the children's interests and opinions. At the same time, there may be situations where the children are not given as much influence. The study also shows that teachers assume the perspective of children and child perspective.

Purpose: Morocco is undergoing a nutrition transition, characterised by increasing prevalence non-communicable diseases (NCD), including obesity. In that context, it is crucial to focus on fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake as they may have a preventive effect on weight gain and NCDs. Objectives: The objectives of the present work were: to develop an objective measure of F&V intake and to provide a holistic understanding of factors that may influence F&V consumption, such as socio-demographic and psychosocial factors. Methods: The target population was Moroccan women (20-49 years), living in the urban area of Rabat-Salé. This PhD involved three different studies: the first was based on focus groups that yielded qualitative data of women’s views of F&V; the second study involved validating a quantitative F&V Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ); the third a cross sectional population survey-which incorporated findings from studies 1 and 2 to assess dietary intake and the factors influencing F&V consumption. Results: Validation analyses suggested that the quantitative FFQ developed was reliable and valid to measure F&V intake. The mean F&V intake was 213g per day. Women with higher education, higher economic status and better knowledge scores ate significantly larger amounts of F&V than others. Processed food consumption was inversely associated with vegetable intakes. In terms of psychosocial factors, the strongest predictor of intention to eat fruit was control beliefs. Normative beliefs were the strongest predictor of intention to eat vegetables. Intention was the strongest predictor of both fruit and vegetable consumption. Conclusion: The data collected gave an overview of the amount of fruit and vegetables consumed by urban Moroccan women, and enabled a better understanding of the determinants of fruit and vegetable intake. As a consequence, data sheds light on possible avenues for policies and nutrition interventions to focus on in Morocco, in order to increase fruit and vegetable consumption.