Thesis (D. Min.)--Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, 1978. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 198-199).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, 1978. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 198-199).

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2018-02-21T21:07:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MariliaDanielaFerreiraDeCarvalhoMoreira_TESE.pdf: 929428 bytes, checksum: 122ddbe6f0f95a006b02637a7a41c56e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2018-02-22T20:36:24Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 MariliaDanielaFerreiraDeCarvalhoMoreira_TESE.pdf: 929428 bytes, checksum: 122ddbe6f0f95a006b02637a7a41c56e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-22T20:36:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MariliaDanielaFerreiraDeCarvalhoMoreira_TESE.pdf: 929428 bytes, checksum: 122ddbe6f0f95a006b02637a7a41c56e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-12 / Estudos sobre a influ?ncia do c?lon na regenera??o hep?tica s?o escassos. Alguns t?m demonstrado que ap?s a colectomia ocorre aumento da regenera??o e sua redu??o em outros. Diante da controv?rsia, este trabalho visou examinar se a colectomia associada ? hepatectomia 70% influencia par?metros de regenera??o do f?gado em ratos. Foram utilizados 18 ratos Wistar distribu?dos em 3 grupos (6 animais cada). No grupo I (sham) foi realizada uma laparotomia com leve manipula??o de al?as; no grupo II uma colectomia + hepatectomia 70%; e no grupo III apenas hepatectomia 70%. No 6? dia p?s-operat?rio foi colhido sangue por pun??o card?aca sob anestesia, seguido de eutan?sia. Realizadas dosagens s?ricas de alanina aminotransferase (ALT), aspartato amino transferase (AST), fosfatase alcalina (FA), albumina, fator de crescimento de hepat?citos (HGF) e fator de crescimento transformador-? (TGF-?). A regenera??o do f?gado foi calculada pela f?rmula: (raz?o do peso do f?gado por 100g do peso corporal no momento da eutan?sia/peso do f?gado no pr?-operat?rio projetado por 100g de peso corporal) ? 100. Os testes de an?lise de vari?ncia (ANOVA) e Tukey foram usados, com signific?ncia p<0,05. Resultados: Houve uma menor e significante magnitude dos n?veis de ALT e AST no grupo II comparados com o grupo III (p<0,001). A albuminemia mostrou n?veis significativamente mais elevados no grupo II que no III. Os n?veis de HGF (408?18,2 pg/mL) e TGF-? (3,8?0,3 ng/mL) no grupo II foram significativamente mais elevados que o HGF (360?58,6 pg/mL) e TGF-? (2,3?0,4 ng/mL) no grupo III, respectivamente (p<0,001). O percentual de regenera??o hep?tica foi significativamente mais elevado no grupo II, do que no grupo III (p=0,003). Em conclus?o, este estudo concluiu que a colectomia realizada simultaneamente ? hepatectomia 70% influenciou positivamente na regenera??o do f?gado em ratos. Pesquisas adicionais s?o necess?rias para revelar os mecanismos moleculares deste efeito e para caracterizar a influ?ncia do c?lon na fisiologia do f?gado. / Studies on the influence of the colon on liver regeneration are scarce. Some have shown that after colectomy there is an increase in regeneration and its reduction in others. Faced with the controversy, this work aimed to investigate whether colectomy simultaneously performed with 70% hepatectomy influences liver regeneration in rats. Eighteen Wistar rats were distributed in 3 groups, 6 animals each. In group I (sham) only laparotomy was performed with mild manipulation of boweld loops; in group II 70% hepatectomy and simultaneous colectomy; in group III only 70% hepatectomy. On the 6th postoperative day, blood was collected by cardiac puncture under anesthesia, and remaining liver was removed. Serum measures of alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alkaline phosphatase (FA), albumin, hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and transforming growth factor-? (TGF-?) were performed. Liver regeneration was calculated by (liver weight per 100g of the body weight at sacrifice/preoperative projected liver weight per 100g of the body weight) ? 100. The Analyses of variance (ANOVA) and Tukey tests were used, with significance p<0.05. There was significant lower levels of ALT and AST in group II rats when compared to group III (p<0.001). Albuminemia showed significantly higher levels in group II rats than in III (p<0.01). Serum levels of HGF (408?18.2pg/mL) and TGF-? (3.8?0.3ng/mL) were significantly higher in group II rats than HGF (360?58.6pg/mL), TGF-? (2.3?0.4ng/mL) in group III, respectively. The percentage of liver regeneration was significantly higher in group II than in group III (p = 0.003). In conclusion, this study demonstrated that colectomy, performed simultaneously with 70% hepatectomy, positively influenced liver regeneration in rats. Further research is needed to reveal the molecular mechanisms of this effect and to characterize the effects of the colon on liver physiology.

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Hispánica mención Lingüística. / Muchas palabras han corrido bajo los puentes de la investigación literaria acerca de El Perseguidor (y no sólo de éste, sino de la obra completa de Julio Cortázar); múltiples ensayos y tesis han intentando desentrañar sus simbolismos más profundos, su problemática existencial, en donde se busca lo que todo ser humano siempre ha buscado: la expansión de la conciencia. El Perseguidor, que vio la luz editorial en 1959, sigue siendo, cuarenta y cuatro años después, no sólo objeto de estudio, sino de culto. Este trabajo es un intento de acercamiento al transcurso del tiempo en el texto de Cortázar, y un tributo a la persistencia de esta gran obra en nuestra memoria colectiva.

Criminology and legal philosophy still have much to gain from the exchange of ideas. However, attention must be paid to how this exchange is being made and what is being transferred. This project attempts to examine a currently unacknowledged exchange between the disciplines; that of an historicist, logos-centric method of knowledge production. Specifically, using a refashioned dialectic method, the debate between H.L.A. Hart and Lon L. Fuller will be compared and contrasted with Robert Agnew’s representation of criminology. This will give some clarity to the different ways by which the disciplines (re)produce knowledge. Importantly, the process of (re)production detailed here is characterized by a (dis)unity between how the disciplines rhetorically justify their methodology and the actual analyses being produced. To give this process colour, it will be examined in relation to criminology’s crisis. Ultimately, the analysis presented here raises doubts about the truthfulness of legal philosophical and criminological knowledge produced in this way.

Fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites represent an alternative construction material for deep foundations that have the potential to eliminate most of the durability concerns associated with traditional piling materials. Research studies and database related to the use FRP composite material as piling foundation is very limited. This research project was undertaken to investigate the structural and geotechnical behaviour of FRP composite piles. The originality of this study rests on the following pillars:• Presenting a new understanding for the factors controlling the compressive strength of FRP tube confined concrete. • Introducing the concept of constitutive interface surface which considers the effect of surface hardness and relative roughness on the interface shear coefficient. • Studying the evolution of FRP pile surface roughness during the driving process. • Investigating the effect of harsh environments on the shear behaviour of FRP-granular interface. • Conducting an extensive experimental and numerical study to characterize the FRPs and soil parameters that control the behaviour of axially and laterally loaded FRP composite pile. Experimental testing program was conducted in this study to examine the behaviour of two different FRPs tubes confined concrete under axial compression, and flexural load. Based on the experimental results of this study and test results available in the literature, a new design chart was proposed to predict the strength enhancement based on concrete strength and FRP lateral confinement. An extensive laboratory study was conducted to evaluate the interface friction behaviour between granular materials and two different FRP materials. The interface test results obtained from experiment were used to examine a number of parameters known to have an effect on the interface friction coefficient. Furthermore, to investigate the evolution of FRP pile surface roughness during the driving process laboratory tests were also conducted to quantify the interface shear induced surface roughness changes under increased normal stress levels. Moreover, interface tests were also conducted using three more counterface materials to define schematically the constitutive interface shear surface (CISS) in the three dimensional domain of surface roughness, surface hardness, and interface shear coefficient. The long-term experimental program was also conducted in this study to assess the effect of different ageing environment conditions on FRP-granular interface shear coefficient. Acidic and alkaline aging environments were adopted in this study. The experimental program involved assessing the ageing effect on the testing FRP materials in terms of the changes in their hardness and surface roughness properties. Furthermore, the interface shear tests were conducted, using the unaged and aged FRP materials, to evaluate the effect of aging environments on FRP-granular interface shear coefficient. A small-scale laboratory pile loading tests were carried out to assess the FRP pile behaviour under axial and lateral loads. The laboratory test results were used to verify/validate a numerical model developed by the commercial finite element package ABAQUS (6.11). Additional numerical analyses using the verified model were conducted to investigate the effect of different the FRPs and soil parameters on the engineering behaviour of FRP pile.

The purpose of this dissertation is to help explain how and why two revolutionary national leaders of Cambodia–Lon Nol and Pol Pot, particularly the latter–had spectacular failures and became pseudotransformational leaders. It aims to build a proposition or theory that revolutionary leaders in the public sector, particularly of undemocratic regimes, tend to become pseudotransformational leaders when a) they lack certain components of emotional intelligence (EI) and/or b) adopt certain leadership styles and use them inappropriately. The author used a mixed methods comparative case study with the quantitative method nested in the qualitative one. He collected empirical data from a quantitative questionnaire survey and qualitative individual interviews and other print and audio-visual data from various primary sources, including the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (E), as well as from secondary sources such as books and articles. The author administered the survey to a sample of over 400 Cambodian participants from different socio-economic and political backgrounds and sectors and conducted individual in-depth interviews with 38 participants selected from the sample. Overall, this study’s findings tend to support the proposed theory, albeit with some limitations. In the main, both Lon Nol and Pol Pot were coercive and authoritative leaders. Only Pol Pot was a pacesetting leader. Both leaders severely lacked emotional intelligence, especially the domain of self-awareness. This dissertation makes some contribution to the existing literature on leadership in general and bad leadership in particular and, more specifically, on the two leaders’ leadership qualities, in that it proposes a linkage between leadership ineffectiveness or failures and lack of emotional intelligence and improper use of leadership styles. The practical implications or lessons drawn from the dissertation include the following. First, a national leader’s distance or isolation from the masses can undermine her or his emotional intelligence and/or leadership effectiveness. Second, national/public interest should take precedence over the leader’s other interests and partisan politics. Third, a leadership team of friends or cronies is, more often than not, harmful to quality decision/policy making and administration because it tends to foster groupthink.

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