To slow climate change, humans should take immediate and widespread action. One way to slow climate change is by switching to switch to renewable power plants such as solar fields. Recently, pioneering companies have built solar fields on water bodies. This study found that such a pairing of water and solar could increase production efficiency by 8-10% through panel cooling, save millions of liters of water from evaporation, and produce energy with under-utilized space.

SET-metodens (Social och Emotionell Träning) syfte är att förebygga psykisk ohälsa hos barn och ungdomar. Teman är självkännedom, att hantera sina känslor, empati, motivation och social kompetens. Metodens grundare hävdar att metoden ger positiva resultat på psykiskt välmående, mindre användande av droger och alkohol och mindre mobbning och utåtagerande problematik.   Syfte med denna studie är att belysa lågstadiepedagogers (lärare och fritispedagoger) upplevelser av SET-metoden och deras arbete med metoden. Studien syftar vidare till att belysa pedagogernas upplevelse om vad metoden har gett för resultat hos elevernas vad gäller självkänsla och självbild. Teoretiska utgångspunkter har varit Meads (1976) spegelteori och Johnssons (1997, 2003) modell för inre och yttre självkänsla. Metoden har varit semistrukturerade intervjuer. Lärarna hade en positiv uppfattning av SET-metoden och ansåg att eleverna utvecklades, fick ett SET-tänk och lärde sig bemötande. De var inte säkra på att SET-metoden gav resultat men trodde att den skulle göra det i framtiden.

Syftet med föreliggande studie är att utifrån ett individperspektiv erhålla djupare förståelse och ökad insikt inom ramen för mäns identitetskapande på en kvinnodominerad arbetsplats. Studien utgick från en kvalitativ metod med en tematisk, semistrukturerad intervjuguide. Urvalet utgjordes av fyra män som jobbar på ett sjukhus i Halmstad. Resultatet visar att männens identitet är flyktig och att den är situationsbunden. Resultatet påvisar även hur en identitet är bunden till olika slags sociala relationer.Resultatet analyseras utifrån George Herbert Mead, Sigmund Freud, Erwig Goffman, William James samt Gregory Stone. Analysen berör aspekterna; maskulin identitet, rollskiftningar samt vad en identitet innebär.

Dans la foulée des réflexions contemporaines sur l'« individualité post-moderne », ce mémoire propose de retracer la nature dialectique de la subjectivité individuelle en évaluant dans quelle mesure nous pouvons, malgré les distinctions importantes entre leurs perspectives, établir un rapprochement entre le projet spéculatif de Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel et l'analyse de la conduite sociale développée par George Herbert Mead. Constituant chacune des approches ayant rigoureusement insisté sur l'impossibilité de concevoir la subjectivité individuelle hors de l'expérience sociale, nous proposons d'engager une réflexion sur les possibilités théoriques de leur rapprochement. Les deux penseurs, qui exposent de façon analogue la structure de la reconnaissance fondamentale à toute expérience subjective proprement humaine, insistent sur le mouvement intersubjectif par lequel se structure l'intériorité subjective. Depuis les premiers balbutiements de la sociologie, plusieurs ont fait mention du « détour obligé » dans la vie sociale que doit emprunter le sujet humain, afin de se réaliser comme un être réflexif en mesure d'interagir avec le monde qui l'entoure. En exposant les étapes de la réalisation de l'esprit subjectif, Hegel a dévoilé avec précision la dialectique par laquelle l'individu, au sein du rapport de reconnaissance, s'affranchit de sa déterminité naturelle pour se constituer comme une conscience de soi. Près d'un siècle après l'effondrement du système hégélien, par l'intermédiaire de sa psychologie sociale, Mead insistera à son tour sur la dynamique intersubjective fondamentale à la réalisation du sujet. Suivant une approche fondée sur une relecture en termes de complémentarité, la présente réflexion entend montrer la manière par laquelle l'esprit subjectif hégélien trouve chez Mead un prolongement dans le sens d'une théorie pragmatiste de la communication. En plus de dénouer la rigidité des positions découlant des apories du dualisme cartésien entre l'esprit et le corps, cette réinterprétation de Hegel et de Mead est également l'occasion de poser un regard critique sur la théorie sociale contemporaine en réexaminant certains des fondements sur lesquels s'appuient notamment les tentatives de réactualisation « post-métaphysique » de Honneth et de Habermas. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Subjectivité, Reconnaissance, Intersubjectivité, Dialectique, Conscience de soi, Pragmatisme, Idéalisme, Communication, Esprit

Denna studie har syftat till att undersöka polisuniformen som bärs av ingripande poliser i yttre tjänst. Detta har studerats med teorier från socialpsykologin samt genusvetenskapen med Mead, Blumer, Butler, Connell och Goffman. Metoden som använts är kvalitativa fokusgruppsintervjuer som gjorts med yrkesutövande poliser. Vid intervjuerna användes ett stimulimaterial som visades för informanterna. De resultat som kan utläsas från empirin är att de intervjuade poliserna är väl medvetna om vilka signaler de sänder till allmänheten när de bär uniform. Det framkommer även att poliserna använder sig av uniformen vid mötet med allmänheten och har en förmåga att kunna göra olika anpassningar av den samme. Vidare pekar resultatet på att uniformen kan uppfattas som normativt maskulint kodad och att detta spelar in i mötet med allmänheten.

Orientador: Edevar Luvizotto Junior / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T06:54:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gumier_CarlosCesar_M.pdf: 3470729 bytes, checksum: 2e93f4938a5eb678d7fb52827439bbc5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta, sob diversos aspectos, as perdas de água que ocorrem nas redes de distribuição dos sistemas de abastecimento e os mecanismos de controle disponíveis. Dentre os objetivos se destaca a proposição do modelo matemático-computacional como uma nova ferramenta de localização de fugas. O modelo proposto foi desenvolvido através do acoplamento de um simulador hidráulico baseado no Time Marching Approach ¿ TMA com o algoritmo otimizador de Nelder-Mead. O trabalho visa ampliar os resultados obtidos nas investigações desenvolvidas em LUVIZOTTO (1998) e OCAMPOS (2003), aplicando o modelo em uma rede de distribuição de água real, utilizando os recursos disponibilizados pela companhia de água, propondo uma metodo de aplicação do modelo para tais condições / Abstract: This work presents, under diverse aspects, the water losses that occur in the distribution networks of the water supply systems and the available mechanisms of control. Amongst the objectives, it detaches the proposal of a computational model as a new tool for leak localization. The considered model was developed through the coupling of hydraulic simulator based in Time Marching Approach ¿ TMA method with the Nelder-Mead optimization algorithm. The work aims to extend the results obtained by LUVIZOTTO (1998) and OCAMPOS (2003), by applying the model to a real water distribution network, using the data provided by the water company and suggesting a methodology for application of the model for such conditions / Mestrado / Recursos Hidricos / Mestre em Engenharia Civil

L. T. Meade's Avaricious Anomaly: Madame Sara, British Imperialism, and Greedy Wolves in The Sorceress of the Strand. Laurie Langlois Denning, Department of English, BYU Master of Arts. Critics interested in the prolific late Victorian author L.T. Meade have primarily focused on her work as an author of girls' stories and novels for young people, which enjoyed fantastic commercial success in her lifetime but fell into obscurity after her death. Recent scholarship on her detective fiction shows Meade's significant contributions to the genre as well as her engagement with social and political discourse. Scholars have noted ways that Meade's popular series, The Sorceress of the Strand, contributes to the New Woman debate and expresses anxiety over the British imperial project. This project examines Meade's villain in the series as a social anomaly that functions to interrogate the greed at the heart of imperialism. Examining the series' conclusion and the unusual nature of its ending sheds new light on Meade's contribution to debate over empire at the fin de siécle. Meade's fascinating villain, Madame Sara, is doggedly pursued by two detective figures--one is considered the top forensic specialist in the British police force and the other is the head of a business fraud agency--but the detectives are never able to bring Madam Sara to justice. Instead, it is a wolf that finally defeats the brilliant criminal mastermind. Why a wolf? Madam Sara's unusual demise serves as a deus ex machina that invites the reader to consider the Dante symbolism embedded in the text. Other critics see Meade's ending as reinforcing the empire; however, given the Dante imagery that has Madam Sara symbolizing a greedy imperial force, Meade's series indicts imperial greed and warns British citizens about failure to apprehend the evil in empire.

Derivatives have a large and significant role on the financial markets today and the popularity of options has increased. This has also increased the demand of finding a suitable option pricing model, since the ground-breaking model developed by Black & Scholes (1973) have poor pricing performance. Practitioners and academics have over the years developed different models with the assumption of non-constant volatility, without reaching any conclusions regarding which model is more suitable to use. This thesis examines four different models, the first model is the Practitioners Black & Scholes model proposed by Christoffersen & Jacobs (2004b). The second model is the Heston´s (1993) continuous time stochastic volatility model, a modification of the model is also included, which is called the Strike Vector Computation suggested by Kilin (2011). The last model is the Heston & Nandi (2000) Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity type discrete model. From a practical point of view the models are evaluated, with the goal of finding the model with the best pricing performance and the most practical usage. The model´s robustness is also tested to see how the models perform in out-of-sample during a high respectively low implied volatility market. All the models are effected in the robustness test, the out-sample ability is negatively affected by a high implied volatility market. The results show that both of the stochastic volatility models have superior performances in the in-sample and out-sample analysis. The Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity type discrete model shows surprisingly poor results both in the in-sample and out-sample analysis. The results indicate that option data should be used instead of historical return data to estimate the model’s parameters. This thesis also provides an insight on why overnight-index-swap (OIS) rates should be used instead of LIBOR rates as a proxy for the risk-free rate.

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This dissertation, submitted in article format, explores how the physical movement theories of Anne Bogart's Viewpoints may lead to a liberatory setting, one which echoes the theories of Paolo Freire, for college theatre students. It examines whether Viewpoints is effective in creating a studio classroom culture and whether the Viewpoints exercises can lead to a heightened clarity in individual performance, with a much more satisfying and involved learning experience for students of the theatrical arts. In addition, this dissertation applies the theory of Mead's symbolic interactionism to the discoveries that students make while using Viewpoints exercises. Research methods include autoethnography, analysis of case studies, and examination of interview data from three college directors and thirteen student actors who have trained and used Viewpoints in rehearsal.