Strawberry cultivar performance affected by various cultural practices was investigated in two production systems. The first study investigated strawberry yield, fruit quality, and production timing of eight cultivars when using black and red plastic mulches in a high tunnel production system. The high tunnel increased air temperatures and advanced strawberry fruiting by four to six weeks compared to local openield production. The second study investigated plant growth, yield, and fruit quality of 10 cultivars fertilized with organic or conventional fertilizer and irrigated once or twice daily with the same total irrigation volume in a container system. Strawberry cultivars varied in their yield and quality variables including soluble solids contents, firmness, and titratible acidity in the two production systems. Mulch color, fertilizer type, and irrigation frequency had varying effects on the growth microenvironment, fruit yield, and certain quality variables.

[pt] Em linhas gerais, essa tese trata sobre distintos olhares, narrativas e interpretações sobre corpos em protesto. Busca-se situar essas corpografias por meio de uma análise das práticas e discursos de resistência e poder e sua ligação com os corpos circulando os protestos de junho de 2013 no Brasil. Além disso, as relações entre poder e resistência são informadas por um quadro teórico metodológico Foucaultiano, e pela teoria queer, especialmente as linhas desenvolvidas por Judith Butler. Assim sendo, essa tese tem nos corpos (materiais e discursivos), seu ponto privilegiado de entrada/partida analítica. A fim de contextualizar essas linhas onto-epistemológicas, discute-se o racismo como traço histórico-cultural que orienta a interpretação dessas corpografias. O racismo é, portanto, entendido como fator central na regulação da circulação dos corpos no tempo e espaço brasileiro. Finalmente, procura-se observar como, num contexto mais global, corpos tem sido investidos de poder e resistência de forma ambivalente. Tal ambivalência é analisada por meio do tratamento mais específico das práticas de racialização e queering, ligadas especificamente ao contexto de Junho de 2013 no Brasil. / [en] Broadly speaking, this thesis deals with different gazes, narratives and interpretations regarding bodies in protest in Brazil. The work is an effort to situate these corpographies through an analysis of the practices and discourses of resistance and power and their connection with the bodies circulating the June 2013 protests in Brazil. Moreover, the relations between power and resistance are informed by a Foucauldian theoretico-methodological framework and queer theory, in special the lines developed by Judith Butler. As such, this thesis has bodies (material and discursive), as the privileged analytical entry/departure point. In order to contextualize these onto-epistemological lines, racism is discussed as a historical-cultural trait that guides the interpretation of these corpographies. Racism is therefore understood as a central factor in regulating the circulation of bodies in Brazilian time and space. Finally, this thesis seeks to observe how, in a more global context, bodies have been ambivalently invested with power and resistance. Such ambivalence is analyzed through the treatment of racialization and queering practices, specifically linked to the June 2013 context in Brazil.

A civil Uprising on 17 June 1953 in the German Democratic Republic created a dilemma for a number of writers there. On one hand, they were deeply committed to the principles of socialism, upon which their state was based and which they saw as being put in grave danger by events such as those they experienced on 17 June. On the other hand, they were fiercely critical of the practice of socialism as pursued by the governing party, whose Stalinist methods of governance they believed to be in large part responsible for the civil unrest. My thesis explores the nature of this dilemma in the case of four writers, Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Müller, Stefan Heym and Erich Loest, and their efforts to resolve it within a repressive state, whose regime vigorously suppressed all signs of criticism or dissent. These writers created major works of fiction, a cycle of poems, a drama and two novels, in which the Uprising of 17 June is the central theme. In addition, each has provided a substantial body of non-fictional texts, largely journalistic and autobiographical, in which the Uprising is extensively contextualised. In bringing together and interrelating the fictional and non-fictional work of each author into my analysis, I have been able to demonstrate that all four held and publicly expressed views that set them in opposition to the regime in the GDR.

Thesis (M.M. (Finance & Investment)--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Wits Business School, 2016 / The study is an assessment of the current treatment of business risk, as a significant risk type for financial institutions. It includes an industry analysis of the five major banks in South Africa, as well as international banks, and how these banks currently manage business risk in the Pillar 2 supervisory process. It assesses economic capital frameworks and the importance of business risk in the risk assessment and measurement process in the global and local industry. Various methodologies have been researched to assess which statistical methods are best suited in the measurement of this risk type as well as the quantification of the capital levels required. This study has compared the available statistical methodologies currently used in the industry and concludes which is best given the issues pertaining to the modelling of business risk quantification. A statistical model has been developed to quantify business risk for a specific bank using bank specific data, using a methodology which is relatively generic and could be applied widely across all financial institutions. The model serves to illustrate the principles surrounding the quantification of business risk economic capital. / GR2018

Esta pesquisa objetiva analisar a expressão da diversidade sexual e de gênero, interpelada por concepções de raça, no contexto das festas juninas de Belém. A partir de etnografia produzida em concursos juninos realizados em bairros periféricos da cidade e também em certames promovidos pela Prefeitura Municipal de Belém e pelo Governo do Estado do Pará, propõe-se abordar as festas juninas como um momento de congregação social ritualizado. Pressupõe-se que a participação de certos sujeitos nesse contexto festivo (especialmente as mulheres cisgênero, os homens homossexuais, as travestis e pessoas transgênero) pode render importantes reflexões acerca de processos nos quais gênero, raça e sexualidade são articulados em performance. Numa abordagem que privilegia a análise do contexto etnográfico a partir da problematização de marcadores sociais da diferença articulados, esta pesquisa dedica-se ao entendimento de como as festas juninas produzem sujeitos generificados, racializados e sexualizados. A intenção é dar inteligibilidade a um tenso processo de reconhecimento de certos sujeitos no contexto de realização de um ciclo festivo popular produzido pelo Estado, mas também por produtores culturais das periferias de Belém. / This research aims to analyze the expression of sexual and gender diversity, intersected by conceptions of race, in the context of the June festivals in Belém. From ethnography produced in June competitions held on "peripheral" areas of the city and also in competitions promoted by Belém City Hall and Government of the State of Pará, it is proposed to address these contests as a moment of ritualized social congregation. It is assumed that the participation of certain subjects in this festive context (especially cisgender women, gay men, travestis and transgender people) can yield important insights about processes in which gender, race and sexuality are articulated in performance. In an approach that focuses on the analysis of the ethnographic context from the questioning of social markers of difference articulated, this research is dedicated to the understanding of how the June festivals produce gendered, racialized and sexualized people. The intention is to give intelligibility to a tense process of recognition of certain subjects in the context of a popular festive cycle produced by the State but also by peripheral cultural producers in Belém.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-04-11T12:03:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 João Marcos Alexandre.pdf: 8871099 bytes, checksum: 997a28f12c03e316cb8ce6b7c4e193ec (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-11T12:03:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 João Marcos Alexandre.pdf: 8871099 bytes, checksum: 997a28f12c03e316cb8ce6b7c4e193ec (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-31 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This essay is aimed at studying of the Arraiá of Zé Bagunça, that has been happening since 1982 in the city of Bueno Brandão. It tends to understand the Party, its dynamics and contemporaneity and statements between contents of power as well as its articulations and relations with the city in its incessant valorization and investments on the tourist market and the popular culture. Its organizational structure is made by three chapters. The first intends to point out the dynamics of the public power of the city in investing on the tourism and explore the different cultural practices like the old parties of Zé Bagunça. The second chapter points out the origins of the June parties of the neighborhood, its characteristics and the trajectory of its party man’s life – José Coutinho dos Santos Júnior. It also deals with the differents cultural practices that exist in the event and the tentions and reinventions of and in the party , materialized in the dialogue that the differents social segments keep with the cultural demonstrations like congada, catira, quadrilha and São Gonçalo dance. The oral history methodology was used where you analyse the experiences, sensitivities and the memories of the different social ways of the party. The third chapter intends to point out the process of incorporation of the party spread and its increasing involvement with the tourism and marketing. The development of the dissertation finds references in the sources consulted and in the reading and interpretation of the theorics of the social history, just like: Canclini (2011), Hall (2003) and Hobsbawn (2015) / Esta dissertação tem como objeto de estudo o Arraiá do Zé Bagunça, que acontece desde 1982, na cidade de Bueno Brandão-MG. Busca-se compreender a Festa, sua dinâmica, na contemporaneidade, seus arranjos e afirmações em meio a disputas de poder, bem como suas articulações e relações com a cidade, na sua incessante valorização e investimento no mercado turístico e na cultura popular. Sua estrutura organizacional é composta de três capítulos. O primeiro pretende ressaltar a dinâmica de formação e crescimento do município e, principalmente, entender as razões que levaram o poder público da cidade a investir no turismo e a explorar as manifestações culturais, como as antigas festas do Zé Bagunça. O segundo capítulo aborda as origens das festas juninas de vizinhança, suas características e a trajetória de vida de seu festeiro – José Coutinho dos Santos Júnior. Também lida com as diferentes práticas culturais existentes no evento e as tensões e reinvenções da e na Festa, materializadas no diálogo que os diferentes segmentos sociais mantêm com as manifestações culturais “tradicionais”, como congada, catira, quadrilha e dança de São Gonçalo. Foi utilizada a metodologia da História Oral, onde analisa-se as vivências, experiências, sensibilidades e as memórias dos diferentes sujeitos sociais atuantes na Festa. No terceiro capítulo pretende-se compreender o processo de incorporação da Festa, divulgação e seu crescente envolvimento com o turismo e o marketing. O desenvolvimento da dissertação encontra referência nas fontes consultadas e na leitura e interpretação de teóricos da História Social, como: Canclini (2011), Hall (2003) e Hobsbawn (2015)

Submitted by Rosivalda Pereira (mrs.pereira@ufma.br) on 2017-05-31T17:05:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 AndressaVieira.pdf: 4920021 bytes, checksum: d9379904c7bf0181990712677dc370b4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-31T17:05:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AndressaVieira.pdf: 4920021 bytes, checksum: d9379904c7bf0181990712677dc370b4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-07 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Maranhão (FAPEMA) / The research analyzes the political aspects of the June 2013 manifestations in São Luís city, from the recent economic crisis of 2008 context and in relation to the social classes political action and the state's role as the ruling classes interest cohesive factor. Noteworthy is the organization process, the various groups / social movements participating in the June 2013 manifestations actions and reactions, and the State's responses to these manifestations claims. This research used several research techniques, such as documentary research in original sources or "first hand" (Laws, Bills, Decrees, pronouncements of managers, parliamentarians and activist, newspapers and police reports), militants interviews and content analysis from websites that summoned the protests. The theoretical analysis was based on the categories of social movements, social struggles, state, social classes and economic crisis. I believe that economic crises are inherent to the capitalist system, therefore, the social struggles intensify, demanding the working class organize itself into groups or social movements to perform resistance protests to this adverse scenario. Thus, the recent global events and the June 2013 manifestations should be understood as social struggles expressions that are constantly updated and redefined, so that, in the analyzed events case, due to the correlation of forces, the results walked towards an ideological polarization. In São Luis city, for example, the political actions that fallowed the June Manifestations which tried to ensure a more progressive agenda, were gradually ceasing. Equally problematic was the fact that some militants from that period turned into support for conservative or reactionary social movements ideological perspective, promoted by the media propaganda, intensely active throughout the process. Thus, it is clear that this politic scenario is not purely local or national, but a process developed internationally which demonstrates that recent global and Brazilian manifestations are structural social struggles updated constantly. / A pesquisa analisa os aspectos políticos das Manifestações de Junho de 2013 na cidade de São Luís, a partir do contexto da recente crise econômica de 2008 e na relação com a ação política das classes sociais e com o papel do Estado enquanto fator de coesão dos interesses das classes dominantes. Destaca-se o processo de organização, as ações e reações dos diversos grupos/movimentos sociais participantes das Manifestações de Junho de 2013 e as respostas do Estado às reivindicações presentes nessas manifestações. Nessa pesquisa foram utilizadas diversas técnicas de investigação como pesquisa documental em fontes originais ou de “primeira mão” (Leis, Projetos de Lei, Decretos, pronunciamentos de gestores, parlamentares e ativista, jornais e registros policiais), entrevistas com militantes e análise do conteúdo dos sites que convocavam os protestos. A fundamentação teórica teve como eixo de análise as categorias de movimentos sociais, lutas sociais, Estado, classes sociais e crise econômica. Considero que as crises econômicas são inerentes ao sistema capitalista e, diante delas, as lutas sociais acirram-se, exigindo que a classe trabalhadora se organize em grupos ou movimentos sociais para realizar protestos de resistência a esse cenário adverso. Desse modo, as recentes manifestações globais e as Manifestações de Junho de 2013 devem ser compreendidas como expressões das lutas sociais que se atualizam e se redefinem constantemente, tanto que no caso das manifestações analisadas devido à correlação de forças seus resultados caminharam para uma polarização ideológica. Em São Luís, por exemplo, as ações políticas que deram continuidade às Manifestações de Junho e tentaram garantir uma pauta mais progressista, aos poucos foram cessando. Igualmente problemático foi o fato de alguns militantes desse período se transformarem em sustentação para movimentos sociais de perspectiva ideológica conservadora ou reacionária, promovidos pela força da propaganda dos meios de comunicação, intensamente ativos em todo o processo. Assim, percebe-se que não se trata de um panorama político exclusivamente local ou nacional, mas de um processo que se desenvolve internacionalmente evidenciando que as recentes manifestações globais e brasileiras são lutas sociais estruturais que se atualizam constantemente.

On June 29, 2011, President Barack Obama held a press conference regarding the nation's budget deficit. During the conference, President Obama mentioned corporate jet owners six times, criticizing their desire to maintain an accelerated depreciation tax break. The President's comments were met with strong criticism from aircraft manufacturers and members of the aviation community. Based on the underlying assumption that new information is rapidly incorporated into stock prices, the press conference likely had a negative impact on the stock returns of aircraft and aircraft parts manufacturers. This paper uses a financial events study to determine whether or not the press conference significantly hurt the stock prices of aircraft manufacturers.

Cette recherche doctorale porte sur la construction du récit muséal d’un évènement historique majeur du XXe siècle : le Débarquement en Normandie du 6 juin 1944. La Basse-Normandie est un territoire, aujourd’hui marqué par la présence de près d’une trentaine de structures muséales et de lieux de mémoire. Quel discours sur le Jour-J est-il délivré ? Que contient-il ? Sur quels aspects historiques insiste-il ? Au contraire, quels éléments sont passés sous silence ? La narration délivrée dans la région est mise en rapport à l’historiographie la plus récente mais est également comparée aux expositions de musées blockbusters que sont l’Imperial War Museum de Londres, le Musée de l’Armée de Paris et le Musée Royal de l’Armée de Bruxelles. Cette démarche, en plus de nous conduire à déterminer l’existence -ou non- d’un récit typiquement normand, doit nous permettre d’analyser les messages portés par ces structures et de comprendre à qui ils s’adressent en priorité. / His PhD thesis focuses on the museal story construction of one the XXth century main historic event: the landing of June 6, 1944. Nowadays, Lower Normandy is a territory scattered with almost thirty museums and memorials. What is the speech about D-Day? What is it made of? On which aspects does it insist? And which ones are ignored? The storytelling of this region is compared to the newest historiography and also to exhibitions of blockbusters’ museums such as the London’s Imperial War Museum, Paris’s Army Museum and the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History of Brussels. In this approach, we'll try to determine whether a specific speech from Normandy exists or not, and we will also analyse the museums' discourses as well as to whom they are addressed.

Submitted by JULIANA LARISSA DE LAET GOMES null (laet.juliana@gmail.com) on 2016-03-01T01:45:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação final.pdf: 3942361 bytes, checksum: cfd4070a7cad2ebd8bcbaa4e8adba706 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Paula Grisoto (grisotoana@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-03-01T16:09:36Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 gomes_jll_me_mar.pdf: 3942361 bytes, checksum: cfd4070a7cad2ebd8bcbaa4e8adba706 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-01T16:09:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 gomes_jll_me_mar.pdf: 3942361 bytes, checksum: cfd4070a7cad2ebd8bcbaa4e8adba706 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A partir de um histórico da relação da cidade de São Paulo com os meios de comunicação, que resgata facetas de nossa cultura política, de um apanhado conceitual que ilumina os vários significados pessoais e coletivos da comunicação mediada e de uma pesquisa empírica viva que destaca imagens, experiências e lugares das manifestações de junho de 2013, essa dissertação oferece uma contribuição teórica que descortina o elo entre as pequenas telas individuais e as grandes telas coletivas que são palco da ação política contemporânea. Investiga-se a constituição de uma nova esfera pública a partir da atuação nas tecnologias móveis de informação e comunicação, que são denominadas pequenas telas. Através das pequenas telas os indivíduos se colocam na esfera pública, a grande tela. Atuar no espaço público, nesse contexto, envolve estar presente em tais telas, mas isso não basta. Os novos meios de informação e comunicação, como ímãs, atraem os indivíduos para determinados locais que se tornam centrais na ação, ao mesmo tempo em que os espaços somente podem se tornar centrais e se constituírem como espaços públicos quando a ação neles ocorre. O registro da selfie, dos vídeos e dos relatos das experiências vividas no espaço público durante a ação política, feito através das pequenas telas, são ferramentas de atuação política através das quais os espaços da cidade são ressignificados numa relação íntima, porém mediada, do usuário com eles. Tal experiência é vivida, então, coletivamente nas grandes telas que são palco da ação política. / From a historical account of the relationship between the city of São Paulo and the media, which retrieves facets of our political culture; through a conceptual overview that show forth the various individual and collective meanings of mediated communication; and through a vivid empirical research that highlights images, experiences and places of the demonstrations of June 2013, this dissertation provides a theoretical contribution that reveals the link between the individual small screens and the big screens that are the collective arena of contemporary political action. The establishment of a new public sphere is investigated from the deeds that take place through mobile information and communication technologies, namely small screens. Through these small screens, individuals set themselves into the public sphere — the big screen. Acting in the public space in this context involves being present in these screens, but this is not enough. New information and communication media, like magnets, attract individuals to certain places, which become central to action, insofar as spaces themselves can only become central and be constituted as public spaces when people effectively act within them. The selfie, the videos and the narratives of experiences occurred in public spaces during political action perpetrated through small screens are tools of political activity in which the city spaces are reinterpreted in an intimate, even though mediated, relationship with their individual users. These experiences, then, are lived collectively on the big screens, the arena of political action.