Adult criminals' use of minors to commit crimes associated with the support of terrorist organizations is a significant problem in the United States. Despite strict laws prohibiting adult offenders from exploiting youth, these individuals aggressively pursue minors to commit crimes associated with the support of terrorist organizations. This quasi-experimental, cross-sectional study used resource dependency theory to explore the likelihood that adult criminal offenders in the U.S. will use minors for crimes that are associated with the support of terrorist organizations, based on crime typology, country of origin, and location of crime. Data were collected from a crime database maintained by the United States Sentencing Commission for 2012. Logistic regression was conducted to assess if crime typology, country of origin, and location of crime predicted the use of minors for crime by adult offenders in support of terrorist organizations. Results of the analysis were significant: Ï?2(7, N=485) = 180.18, p < .001, suggesting that crime typology, country of origin, and location of crime were significant predictors of the use of minors in crimes that are associated with the support of terrorist organizations. Drug trafficking and robbery crimes, and crimes committed in the Southern regions of the U.S. were most likely to involve minors when compared to other types of crimes and regions of the U.S., respectively. Positive social change implications stemming from this study include a recommendation to Congress to increase federal funding for law enforcement agencies and social programs, thereby improving the lives of minors that otherwise may become victims of adult criminal offenders who seek to use them to commit crimes in support of terrorist organizations.

Work motivation has been a topic of significance for a very long time, however, since there has been a recent shift towards remote work, traditional motivational theories might need to be reconsidered and applied to the new way of working. The self-determination theory (SDT) is one of many motivational theories, which says that once the three basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness are reached, individuals will experience high amounts of motivation. In order to dive deeper into the topic of motivation in remote work, the purpose of our study is therefore to explore this area of research by examining how managerial support measures could be aimed at ensuring the feeling of autonomy, competence and relatedness, and in turn manage to possibly sustain motivation among remote workers.  With the aim of reaching and fulfilling the purpose of this study, in-depth interviews were conducted with five remote workers working in start-ups or SMEs within the IT sectors, or within companies with a digital focus. The data which we collected through interviews was then thematically analysed by careful coding and put into a variety of themes. Following the presentation of our findings was a meticulous analysis of the generated data, which was the base for our final conclusions drawn on the subject.  From the findings, we were able to conclude that autonomy achieved high scores in remote work, and was without exceptions fulfilled for all of our interview subjects. Within competence, the most challenges were detected, however the right supporting measures, like facilitating information sharing, would be able to work against these issues. Lastly, relatedness is oftentimes severely lacking within remote work due to the implied distance, however due to conscious choices to work remotely, individuals will be aware of decreasing relatedness when they start their journey of working remotely. Nonetheless, supporting measures like organising social gatherings or workshops, can limit the lack of feeling relatedness in the remote workplace.  This study can assist future researchers that are conducting studies within the growing remote work environment. Furthermore, it can help managers in the workplace to gain an updated view on motivation in remote working, and shift perspective to remotely adapted supporting measures.

This thesis finds that the term ‘terrorist financing’ is a misnomer in that much of the activity encompassed by that term involves neither terrorism nor money. Instead, terrorist financing more accurately refers either to the flow of economic and material value to ‘terrorist’ actors or specific material expressions of support to ‘terrorism,’ however that contested term is defined. This finding not only directly challenges the dominant ways terrorist finance is now conceptualized, but also provides the first unified coherent conceptual framework capable of supporting systematic analysis of the topic. This thesis arrives at this conclusion by first critically examining the various – and often contradictory or incoherent – normative, legal, and political contexts that dominate ‘orthodox’ thinking on terrorism and terrorist finance, and then relocating the financing of terrorism squarely in context of the everyday realities of how terrorism and terrorist actors interact with global and local political economies. This thesis goes beyond existing critical works on terrorist financing, and constructs the necessary conceptual foundation for a vastly more coherent, systematic, and ultimately useful understanding of the financial and economic dimensions of terrorism.

The theme of sexuality requires courage and a good degree of technical knowledge to address this sensitive topic in the classroom. The theme of sexual orientation is part of the National Curriculum and cross-content and must be worked through all the disciplines, explaining the relationships between the various areas of knowledge. The aim of this study was to understand the perceptions of students and teachers from the municipal public elementary school in Uruguaiana about sex education in school to subsidize the construction and evaluation of a primer on sexuality. The collected data were analyzed using content analysis of Bardin. From the analysis of the results, we found that most of the questions and curiosities of students were related to anatomical and physiological changes, the affection, sexual initiation, sexual identity and sexual orientation, contraception, abortion, teenage pregnancy, types, symptoms and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and the characterization of sexual violence. We found that sex education was the theme worked in school, depending on the student's needs and interests of the teacher, with students between 6th and 8th grades. Teachers received training to develop the theme in the classroom, with the ease students' interest as the main difficulties and the lack of training, the resistance of colleagues, teachers and lack of family participation in the discussion of this issue. We found that the booklet prepared and evaluated can collaborate in developing this theme, by answering questions, assisting in the introduction and/or development of various topics related to sexuality in school and at home. We note the importance of research regarding the perceptions of adult reference and practice developed in the school, as well as the need for continuing education programs on sexual education in schools for educational and health in partnership between the Department of Education and Secretary of health. We conclude that the work of sex education in school is necessary and important to promote a healthy and responsible interaction between/among teens. / A temática da sexualidade exige coragem e um bom grau de conhecimento técnico para abordar este tema delicado em sala de aula. O tema orientação sexual faz parte dos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais como conteúdo transversal e deve ser trabalhado por todas as disciplinas, explicitando as relações entre as várias áreas do conhecimento. O objetivo deste trabalho foi conhecer as percepções de alunos e professores da rede pública municipal de ensino fundamental de Uruguaiana acerca da educação sexual na escola para subsidiar a construção e avaliação de uma cartilha sobre sexualidade. Os dados coletados foram analisados pela técnica de análise de conteúdo de Bardin. A partir da análise dos resultados, verificamos que a maioria das dúvidas e curiosidades dos alunos estavam relacionadas às mudanças anatômicas e fisiológicas, ao relacionamento afetivo, à iniciação sexual, à identidade sexual e orientação sexual, à contracepção, ao aborto, à gravidez na adolescência, aos tipos, sintomas e prevenção das doenças sexualmente transmissíveis e à caracterização da violência sexual. Constatamos que o tema educação sexual era trabalhado na escola, em função da necessidade do aluno e do interesse do professor, com alunos entre 6ª e 8ª séries. Os professores receberam capacitação para desenvolver o tema em sala de aula, tendo como facilidade o interesse dos alunos e como principais dificuldades a falta de capacitação, a resistência de outros colegas professores e a pouca participação da família na discussão desta temática. Verificamos que a cartilha elaborada e avaliada pode colaborar no desenvolvimento desta temática, através do esclarecimento de dúvidas, auxiliando na introdução e/ou no desenvolvimento de vários temas relacionados à sexualidade tanto na escola quanto em casa. Constatamos a importância de pesquisas referentes às percepções de adultos de referência e a prática desenvolvida na escola, bem como, a necessidade de programas de educação permanente sobre educação sexual na escola para profissionais da educação e da saúde em parceria entre a secretaria de educação e secretaria de saúde. Concluímos que o trabalho de educação sexual na escola é necessário e importante para favorecer um convívio saudável e responsável entre/com os adolescentes.

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in English Fine Arts and other types of Visual Arts Copyright This dissertation deals with copyright law with a special focus on fine art and modern forms of contemporary visual art. The introduction describes in brief the copyright, especially its inclusion in the law system, the definition of basic principles and sources of law. Further it concentrates on personal and property authors' rights in its specific forms. The next chapter deals thoroughly with the legal definition of fine art, including both its traditional and modern forms. The following part summarizes the means of legal protection of fine art, by both private and public actions. The fifth chapter presents a legal and philosophical reflection on the protection of art in public space, street art and graffiti, the unique art forms that come often into conflict with the third parties' rights. The sixth chapter is a follow-up to the previous and addresses the legal regulation of urban art (street art and graffiti) in France. The seventh chapter analyses the well-known cases related to copyright disputes in Czech legal environment. The next part is focused on copyright and its concept in France, the historical and philosophical context, the definition of copyright and the obligatory conditions of protection. This chapter also contains a...

O projeto consistiu em avaliar o emprego de polímeros catiônicos e aniônicos de diferentes pesos moleculares como auxiliares de filtração no tratamento de águas de abastecimento proveniente de mananciais com alto grau de eutrofização com vistas a possibilitar a otimização da remoção de material particulado e minimização da evolução da perda de carga. O aparato experimental é composto, principalmente, por 4 filtros em escala piloto de alta taxa do tipo camada profunda e fluxo descendente por gravidade operados em paralelo. Os filtros possuem 5 m de altura e diâmetro interno de 150 mm. O procedimento experimental foi dividido em três etapas, execução de ensaios de fluidificação e expansão do leito dos filtros e utilização de polímeros catiônicos e de polímero aniônico como auxiliares de filtração. A primeira etapa teve como objetivo definir parâmetros de dimensionamento do sistema de lavagem em contra-corrente com ar e água e nas duas etapas seguintes foram realizados os ensaios de filtração a uma taxa de 500 m³/m²/dia, com a utilização dos polímeros com três dosagens diferentes. Os polímeros utilizados foram CA-2577, CA-2581, CD-2592 e N1986. Estes possuem estrutura e pesos moleculares variáveis, de forma que o trabalho tivesse uma maior amplitude. Os valores médios de turbidez, para a primeira etapa dos ensaios de filtração, foram de 2,36 ± 0,28 UNT e 1,12 ± 0,21 UNT para água bruta e decantada, respectivamente, 0,26 ± 0,07 UNT para o filtro F1 com antracito, 0,25 ± 0,08 UNT para o filtro F3 com antracito e adição de polímero, 0,29 ± 0,08 UNT para o filtro F2 com areia e 0,26 ± 0,08 UNT para o filtro F4 com areia e adição de polímero. Para a segunda etapa dos ensaios de filtração os valores médios de turbidez foram de 2,03 ± 0,36 UNT para água bruta, 0,80 ± 0,21 UNT para água decantada, 0,09 ± 0,03 UNT para o filtro F1, sem adição de polímero, e 0,15 ± 0,04, 0,16 ± 0,03 e 0,10 ± 0,04 UNT para os filtros F2, F3 e F4, respectivamente, todos com adição de polímero. Os resultados experimentais possibilitaram concluir que a adoção do antracito como material filtrante do tipo camada única e profunda apresenta a vantagem de permitir uma menor velocidade ascensional de água de lavagem para uma determinada expansão quando comparado a um filtro de areia de idêntica granulometria. A aplicação dos polímeros catiônicos e do polímero aniônico como auxiliares de filtração não proporcionou para nenhuma dosagem utilizada melhora significativa no comportamento dos filtros. Uma eventual melhora ou piora foi insignificante e estava ligada à qualidade da água decantada. No que diz respeito à perda de carga, os filtros com antracito tiveram carreiras de filtração mais longas quando comparados com os de areia, independente da utilização dos polímeros. / The project was to evaluate the use of anionic and cationic polymers of different molecular weights as filter aids to treat drinking water treatment of surface water sources with high degree of eutrophication, particularly with regard to particulate matter removal optimization and head loss rate minimization. The experimental apparatus was composed of four pilot scale, deep bed, down flow rapid gravity filters, operated in parallel. The filter columns were 5 m high, had inner diameter of 150 mm. The experimental procedure was divided in three stages, conduction of media fluidization and media expansion tests and cationic and anionic polymers application as filter aid. The first stage aims was to define design parameters for the filter backwashing system with water and air and in the two next phases the tests were conducted at a filtration rate of 500 m³/m²/day, with the use of polymers with three different dosages. The polymers tested were CA- 2577, CA-2581, CD-2592 and N1986. They have different structure and molecular weights, thus making wider the array of possibilities tested. The average values of turbidity, for the first stage of testing filtration, were 2.36 ± 0.28 and 1.12 ± 0.21 NTU for raw and settled water, respectively, 0.26 ± 0.07 NTU to the filter F1 with anthracite, 0.25 ± 0.08 NTU for the filter F3 with anthracite and addition of polymer, 0.29 ± 0.08 NTU for the filter F2 with sand and 0.26 ± 0.08 NTU for the filter F4 with sand and the addition of polymer. For the second stage of testing of the filter values of turbidity were 2.03 ± 0.36 NTU for raw water, 0.80 ± 0.21 NTU for settled water, 0.09 ± 0.03 for the filter F1, without the addition of polymer, and 0.15 ± 0.04, 0.16 ± 0.03 and 0.10 ± 0.04 NTU for filters F2, F3 and F4, respectively, all with the addition of polymer. The experimental results led us to conclusion that the adoption of anthracite as single media in deep bed filtration presents the advantage of a lower ascent backwash water velocity for any given bed expansion as compared to deep bed filtration through sand with the same granulometric characteristic. Application of cationic and anionic polymers as filter aids did not lead to any significant improvement in the behavior of pilot scale filters, regardless of applied polymer dosage. Any eventual improvement or worsening was not significant and was closely related to the settled water quality. Regarding the head loss, the filters with anthracite had longer filtration careers when compared to sand, regardless the use of polymers.

O projeto consistiu em avaliar o emprego de polímeros catiônicos e aniônicos de diferentes pesos moleculares como auxiliares de filtração no tratamento de águas de abastecimento proveniente de mananciais com alto grau de eutrofização com vistas a possibilitar a otimização da remoção de material particulado e minimização da evolução da perda de carga. O aparato experimental é composto, principalmente, por 4 filtros em escala piloto de alta taxa do tipo camada profunda e fluxo descendente por gravidade operados em paralelo. Os filtros possuem 5 m de altura e diâmetro interno de 150 mm. O procedimento experimental foi dividido em três etapas, execução de ensaios de fluidificação e expansão do leito dos filtros e utilização de polímeros catiônicos e de polímero aniônico como auxiliares de filtração. A primeira etapa teve como objetivo definir parâmetros de dimensionamento do sistema de lavagem em contra-corrente com ar e água e nas duas etapas seguintes foram realizados os ensaios de filtração a uma taxa de 500 m³/m²/dia, com a utilização dos polímeros com três dosagens diferentes. Os polímeros utilizados foram CA-2577, CA-2581, CD-2592 e N1986. Estes possuem estrutura e pesos moleculares variáveis, de forma que o trabalho tivesse uma maior amplitude. Os valores médios de turbidez, para a primeira etapa dos ensaios de filtração, foram de 2,36 ± 0,28 UNT e 1,12 ± 0,21 UNT para água bruta e decantada, respectivamente, 0,26 ± 0,07 UNT para o filtro F1 com antracito, 0,25 ± 0,08 UNT para o filtro F3 com antracito e adição de polímero, 0,29 ± 0,08 UNT para o filtro F2 com areia e 0,26 ± 0,08 UNT para o filtro F4 com areia e adição de polímero. Para a segunda etapa dos ensaios de filtração os valores médios de turbidez foram de 2,03 ± 0,36 UNT para água bruta, 0,80 ± 0,21 UNT para água decantada, 0,09 ± 0,03 UNT para o filtro F1, sem adição de polímero, e 0,15 ± 0,04, 0,16 ± 0,03 e 0,10 ± 0,04 UNT para os filtros F2, F3 e F4, respectivamente, todos com adição de polímero. Os resultados experimentais possibilitaram concluir que a adoção do antracito como material filtrante do tipo camada única e profunda apresenta a vantagem de permitir uma menor velocidade ascensional de água de lavagem para uma determinada expansão quando comparado a um filtro de areia de idêntica granulometria. A aplicação dos polímeros catiônicos e do polímero aniônico como auxiliares de filtração não proporcionou para nenhuma dosagem utilizada melhora significativa no comportamento dos filtros. Uma eventual melhora ou piora foi insignificante e estava ligada à qualidade da água decantada. No que diz respeito à perda de carga, os filtros com antracito tiveram carreiras de filtração mais longas quando comparados com os de areia, independente da utilização dos polímeros. / The project was to evaluate the use of anionic and cationic polymers of different molecular weights as filter aids to treat drinking water treatment of surface water sources with high degree of eutrophication, particularly with regard to particulate matter removal optimization and head loss rate minimization. The experimental apparatus was composed of four pilot scale, deep bed, down flow rapid gravity filters, operated in parallel. The filter columns were 5 m high, had inner diameter of 150 mm. The experimental procedure was divided in three stages, conduction of media fluidization and media expansion tests and cationic and anionic polymers application as filter aid. The first stage aims was to define design parameters for the filter backwashing system with water and air and in the two next phases the tests were conducted at a filtration rate of 500 m³/m²/day, with the use of polymers with three different dosages. The polymers tested were CA- 2577, CA-2581, CD-2592 and N1986. They have different structure and molecular weights, thus making wider the array of possibilities tested. The average values of turbidity, for the first stage of testing filtration, were 2.36 ± 0.28 and 1.12 ± 0.21 NTU for raw and settled water, respectively, 0.26 ± 0.07 NTU to the filter F1 with anthracite, 0.25 ± 0.08 NTU for the filter F3 with anthracite and addition of polymer, 0.29 ± 0.08 NTU for the filter F2 with sand and 0.26 ± 0.08 NTU for the filter F4 with sand and the addition of polymer. For the second stage of testing of the filter values of turbidity were 2.03 ± 0.36 NTU for raw water, 0.80 ± 0.21 NTU for settled water, 0.09 ± 0.03 for the filter F1, without the addition of polymer, and 0.15 ± 0.04, 0.16 ± 0.03 and 0.10 ± 0.04 NTU for filters F2, F3 and F4, respectively, all with the addition of polymer. The experimental results led us to conclusion that the adoption of anthracite as single media in deep bed filtration presents the advantage of a lower ascent backwash water velocity for any given bed expansion as compared to deep bed filtration through sand with the same granulometric characteristic. Application of cationic and anionic polymers as filter aids did not lead to any significant improvement in the behavior of pilot scale filters, regardless of applied polymer dosage. Any eventual improvement or worsening was not significant and was closely related to the settled water quality. Regarding the head loss, the filters with anthracite had longer filtration careers when compared to sand, regardless the use of polymers.