The objectives of this thesis are concerned with the peculiar feature of repetitions in the so-called 'Flood-Narrative', Genesis 6-9. The presence of these repetitions has provoked many arguments amongst twentieth century biblical critics as to their origin, their function and even their form. The first objective of the thesis is to review critically a wide spectrum of research done on the repetitive phenomenon, outline the resultant opinions and to weigh the merits or weaknesses of any particular methodology as it relates to how the function of repetitive features is to be understood. The first chapter presents this critical view and finds that up to now, most research done on the text has not been free of methodological bias, with the result that only those repetitions useful to an approach are dealt with, to the exclusion of other repetitive features. The second objective is to catalog and describe the repetitive features of the text in an objective manner, free from methodological or exegetical bias. Chapter II arranges and classifies the repetitions that are evident in Gen. 6-9 and comments on possible patterns or forms suggested by the repetitions. The last objective of the thesis is to look at the repetitions from some perspectives of modern narrative theory to find if this viewpoint can shed any light on the function of repetitive forms. The last chapter of the thesis concludes that explanatory devices from narrative theory which rely on pre-established criteria apart from the text itself, are as well too short-sighted to be useful in corning to grips with repetitive function. However, those approaches which stress certain subjective, exegetical endeavors, or which emphasize a reader's response are found to provide useful insights for the perception of repetitive function. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

Abstract This study is a comparative analysis of selected poems from Jacques Prévert’s Paroles (1946/1947). It is an application of a mainstreamed theoretical paradigm comprising deconstruction, hermeneutics and relevance. The overall aim is to show how each translator of Jacques Prévert derived latent and relatively obvious semantic possibilities from the ST. This objective is attained through a descriptive analysis of the translation process, and an attempt to interpret the findings thereby revealed, primarily according to the tenets of deconstruction, and according to the tenets of hermeneutics and relevance if possible. The theoretical model that grounds the study is a non-reductionist, non-prescriptivist and non-evaluative. That is the reason why the traditional terminology associated with some of the theoretical aspects mainstreamed in the model have been adapted to fit in with the general aim of the study. Actual reading experiences hardly entail a consecutive reading of more than one text. But this research is like a laboratory experiment; it tests the applicability of integrated [theoretical] formulae to a hypothetical case, the consecutive reading of selected poems from Paroles (1946/1947) and their English translations.

Istorinė architektūrinė ir urbanistinė Laisvės alėjos visuma yra susiformavusi per tris istorinius laikotarpius: gubernijos (1847-1918), tarpukario (1918-1940), sovietmečio (1940-1990). Kiekvieną šių laikotarpių atspindi skirtingos urbanistinės ir architektūrinės transformacijos, formuojančios įvairialypę Laisvės alėjos vizualinę aplinką. Jos unikalumas – tai nuolat kintantis bendras vaizdas. Tad šioje kaitoje svarbu yra išsaugoti ne tik unikaliausius kiekvienos epochos urbanistinius ir architektūrinius bruožus, bet ir nematerialųjį paveldą - bendras gatvės kultūrines ir dvasines prasmes, kaip esminius reikšminius šios vietos identifikatorius. Laisvės alėjoje šiuo metu į Kultūros vertybių registrą yra įtraukta 19 pavienių ir kompleksinių objektų. Tai sudaro mažiau kaip 1⁄5 visų joje esančių pastatų, formuojančių vientisą perimetrinį abiejų gatvės pusių užstatymą. Tad juridiškai įteisintos vertybės atspindi tik dalį Laisvės alėjos, kaip kultūrinės vertybės, verčių. Todėl šio darbo pirmame skyriuje, remiantis šiuolaikinės paveldosaugos dokumentais ir lyginant juos su LR paveldo apsaugos dokumentais, suformuojama platesnio pobūdžio vertinimo sistema, pagal kurią pastatai įvertinami urbanistinėje, fasadinėje, tūrinėje-erdvinėje ir socialinėje dimensijose, siekiant atskleisti jų tapatumo, kontekstualumo, architektūros meninę ir retumo vertes. Pritaikius šią vertinimo sistemą kiekvienam Laisvės alėją formuojančiam architektūriniam elementui, atsiskleidė ir dominuojančios visos... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Historic architectural and urbanistic entirety of Laisvės avenue had been formed over three historic periods: government (1847-1918), interwar period (1918-1940) and Soviet times (1940-1990). Each of these periods is reflected by distinct urbanitics and architectural transformations shaping mixed visual environment of Laisvės avenue. Its uniqueness lies in the overall view of constant change. Therefore, such change should preserve not only unique urbanistic and architectural features of each era, but also the intangible heritage – the general meanings of street culture and spirit, as essential and relevant identifiers of this site. There are 19 separate and complex objects from Laisvės avenue included in the Register of Cultural Values. This makes less than 1⁄5 of all the buildings located in the avenue, which form an integral perimetrical development of both street parts. Thus, legally enforced values reflect only a part of values of Laisvės avenue, as a cultural treasure. Given that, the first part of this paper, with reference to the documents of modern heritage protection and comparing them with those of the heritage protection of the Republic of Lithuania, creates a broader assessment system, on the basis of which the buildings are evaluated in the urbanistic, façade, volume-spatial dimensions in pursuance of their identity, contextuality values, as well as artistic and rarity values of architecture. Upon the application of the given system on each architectural element... [to full text]

A seleção de projetos de investimento é uma das atividades essenciais no dia-a-dia das organizações, e, neste exercício de avaliação, é preciso lidar em geral com uma carga considerável de incerteza. Analisar apenas as características individuais dos projetos é insuficiente diante do impacto que seus aspectos relacionais pode causar nos resultados. Além disso, um fator adicional nesse processo de escolha é a carga informacional já disponível internamente, na forma de conhecimento e percepção de analistas e gestores. Mais ainda, o próprio conceito de valor neste caso depende da perspectiva de quem avalia. Motivado por estas questões, buscou-se neste trabalho elaborar uma proposta de avaliação da carteira de projetos de investimento logicamente estruturada e modular, adaptável a diversas realidades organizacionais possíveis. A montagem do procedimento otimizatório reuniu conceitos de métricas de risco e retorno de projetos, Teoria Moderna de Portfólio, Teoria da Utilidade, simulação de Monte Carlo e decomposição de Cholesky. Por fim, a utilidade da proposta foi testada via sua aplicação em amostra de projetos no segmento de óleo e gás. / The investment projects selection is one of the essential activities in day-to-day operation of companies, and in this evaluation exercise it is generally required to handle a considerable amount of uncertainty. Analysing only the individual characteristics of projects is insufficient considering the possible impact of their relational aspects in results. Furthermore an additional item in this selection process is the informational load already available internally in the form of knowledge and perception of analysts and managers. Moreover even the concept of value in this case depends on the perspective of who evaluates. Motivated by this issues, this study aimed to formulate a proposal for investment projects portfolio evaluation logically structured and modular, adaptable to various possible organizational realities. The conception of optimization procedure brought together concepts of risk and return project metrics, Modern Portfolio Theory, Utility Theory, Monte Carlo simulation and Cholesky decomposition. Finally the proposal utility was tested by its application in a sample of oil and gas projects.

A seleção de projetos de investimento é uma das atividades essenciais no dia-a-dia das organizações, e, neste exercício de avaliação, é preciso lidar em geral com uma carga considerável de incerteza. Analisar apenas as características individuais dos projetos é insuficiente diante do impacto que seus aspectos relacionais pode causar nos resultados. Além disso, um fator adicional nesse processo de escolha é a carga informacional já disponível internamente, na forma de conhecimento e percepção de analistas e gestores. Mais ainda, o próprio conceito de valor neste caso depende da perspectiva de quem avalia. Motivado por estas questões, buscou-se neste trabalho elaborar uma proposta de avaliação da carteira de projetos de investimento logicamente estruturada e modular, adaptável a diversas realidades organizacionais possíveis. A montagem do procedimento otimizatório reuniu conceitos de métricas de risco e retorno de projetos, Teoria Moderna de Portfólio, Teoria da Utilidade, simulação de Monte Carlo e decomposição de Cholesky. Por fim, a utilidade da proposta foi testada via sua aplicação em amostra de projetos no segmento de óleo e gás. / The investment projects selection is one of the essential activities in day-to-day operation of companies, and in this evaluation exercise it is generally required to handle a considerable amount of uncertainty. Analysing only the individual characteristics of projects is insufficient considering the possible impact of their relational aspects in results. Furthermore an additional item in this selection process is the informational load already available internally in the form of knowledge and perception of analysts and managers. Moreover even the concept of value in this case depends on the perspective of who evaluates. Motivated by this issues, this study aimed to formulate a proposal for investment projects portfolio evaluation logically structured and modular, adaptable to various possible organizational realities. The conception of optimization procedure brought together concepts of risk and return project metrics, Modern Portfolio Theory, Utility Theory, Monte Carlo simulation and Cholesky decomposition. Finally the proposal utility was tested by its application in a sample of oil and gas projects.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T14:00:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao marcelo.pdf: 650721 bytes, checksum: 304e8326c53bdb4bad5a379e8d9c8dfc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-28 / Entre as principais questões, que vêm sendo hodiernamente debatidas em finanças, está a validade das premissas assumidas por suas teorias mais tradicionais, em particular a da racionalidade dos agentes econômicos. Neste contexto, surgiram diferentes trabalhos com o objetivo de aprimorar os modelos teóricos dominantes, incorporando aspectos comportamentais antes desconsiderados. Estas inovações deram origem a um novo e promissor campo de estudo denominado de Finanças Comportamentais. O notável crescimento desta abordagem não ortodoxa tem sido motivado, em especial, pela tentativa de explicação satisfatória para uma gama de fenômenos observados regularmente nos mercados financeiros, incompatíveis com as predições dos modelos tradicionais. Esta dissertação tem como objetivo principal apresentar a evolução do estudo das finanças clássicas para, posteriormente, questionar a explicação de anomalias mais recorrentes nos mercados financeiros, as quais não são plenamente compreendidas através dos modelos convencionais de finanças. A ênfase do trabalho recai no recorte dos conceitos fundamentais do paradigma, ainda incipiente, das finanças comportamentais, no intuito de um melhor entendimento dos modelos já existentes. / Among the main commonly debated questions regarding finance, there is the validity of its most traditional theories premises, in special the rationality of economic agents. In this context, different studies have appeared with the intention of improving the theoretical dominant models, incorporating behavioral aspects never considered before. Such innovations gave origin to a new and promising field of study, known as Behavioral Finance. The considerable growth of this non orthodox approach has been motivated, specially, by the attempt to satisfactorily explain a whole gamma of phenomena, commonly observed in financial markets, which are incompatible with traditional models predictions. The main objective of this dissertation is to show the evolution of classical finance studies to, later, inquiry about the explanation of most of the recurring anomalies present in financial markets, which aren t fully understood by means of conventional finance models. One of the emphasis of this work is on fundamental concepts of the still incipient Behavioral Finance paradigm, with the purpose of a more accurate understanding of existing models.

A seleção de projetos de investimento é uma das atividades essenciais no dia-a-dia das organizações, e, neste exercício de avaliação, é preciso lidar em geral com uma carga considerável de incerteza. Analisar apenas as características individuais dos projetos é insuficiente diante do impacto que seus aspectos relacionais pode causar nos resultados. Além disso, um fator adicional nesse processo de escolha é a carga informacional já disponível internamente, na forma de conhecimento e percepção de analistas e gestores. Mais ainda, o próprio conceito de valor neste caso depende da perspectiva de quem avalia. Motivado por estas questões, buscou-se neste trabalho elaborar uma proposta de avaliação da carteira de projetos de investimento logicamente estruturada e modular, adaptável a diversas realidades organizacionais possíveis. A montagem do procedimento otimizatório reuniu conceitos de métricas de risco e retorno de projetos, Teoria Moderna de Portfólio, Teoria da Utilidade, simulação de Monte Carlo e decomposição de Cholesky. Por fim, a utilidade da proposta foi testada via sua aplicação em amostra de projetos no segmento de óleo e gás. / The investment projects selection is one of the essential activities in day-to-day operation of companies, and in this evaluation exercise it is generally required to handle a considerable amount of uncertainty. Analysing only the individual characteristics of projects is insufficient considering the possible impact of their relational aspects in results. Furthermore an additional item in this selection process is the informational load already available internally in the form of knowledge and perception of analysts and managers. Moreover even the concept of value in this case depends on the perspective of who evaluates. Motivated by this issues, this study aimed to formulate a proposal for investment projects portfolio evaluation logically structured and modular, adaptable to various possible organizational realities. The conception of optimization procedure brought together concepts of risk and return project metrics, Modern Portfolio Theory, Utility Theory, Monte Carlo simulation and Cholesky decomposition. Finally the proposal utility was tested by its application in a sample of oil and gas projects.

For the past 69 years, since the start of the addiction treatment system in the United States, treatment providers have been utilizing the same interventions in rehab centers, the majority of which are based on outdated ideas about substance misusers. Though the premise of such interventions has been questioned by researchers, treatment providers continue to utilize them. Family therapy, in particular, shows promising results for substance misusers and their families; it has been cited as the most powerful form of intervention in addiction treatment. Nevertheless, family therapy is underrepresented in the addiction literature and rehab centers. Furthermore, postmodern models of family therapy are even more scarce within these contexts. The purpose of this study was twofold: to explore the viability of an underrepresented, alternative approach to treatment, and to explore the personal, organizational, and clinical processes occurring throughout the development of a systemic family program implemented in an adult inpatient rehab center with an individualistic approach. The researcher modified action research methodology to analyze archival data acquired from a completed clinical project, which was implemented over the course of three weekends. The researcher adapted categorizing and coding procedures from action research in order to analyze 34 personal journal entries and 11 supervision meetings, all of which illuminated the changes in the personal, organizational, and clinical processes that occurred throughout the clinical project. To illustrate the viability of a solution-focused, multiple family group (SFBT-MFG) approach for substance misusers and their families, the researcher collected and analyzed a total of 79 client and family evaluation surveys, 19 pretreatment change questionnaires, and six staff evaluation surveys. The results of this study support an SFBT-MFG approach for adult substance misusers and their families. The researcher identified enhanced communication, understanding, honesty, and support as key themes, along with nine other themes, in the evaluation surveys completed by the participants in the family weekends. The study can help other marriage and family therapists undergo their own processes of integration when practicing systemically in a culture guided by individualistic notions of mental health.

[pt] Atualmente, a importância do tema gestão de portfolio vem aumentando nas grandes corporações, muitos estudos relevantes surgem ou são revisitados em função disso. Destacam-se três principais abordagens: as melhores práticas sugeridas para a gestão de portfolio de projetos de investimento, a Teoria Moderna de Portfolio, mais voltada para ativos financeiros, e a aplicação de técnicas de otimização de portfólio. Sendo assim, o presente estudo visa aprofundar os conceitos em cada uma das três abordagens destacadas, buscando compreender suas sinergias e diferenças. Em qualquer das três abordagens, pode ser observada a presença da gestão dos riscos do portfolio, mostrando que esta é um elemento chave em sua gestão. Com isso, o presente estudo visa comparar a gestão de portfolio realizada em um empresa de energia com cada uma das três abordagens, contendo uma análise crítica a respeito da gestão de riscos. / [en] Currently, the importance of portfolio management just increases and many relevant studies and theories were elaborated considering this topic. Three main approaches can be highlighted: the best practices suggested for portfolio management of investment projects, the Modern Portfolio Theory, related more with financial assets, and the application of portfolio optimization techniques. Thus, this study aims to go deeper on the concepts considering each of the three approaches outlined, seeking to understand their synergies and differences. In all three approaches, the presence of portfolio risk management can be observed, showing that this is a key element in managing the portfolio. Thus, the present study aims to compare the management of portfolio held in an energy company with each of the three approaches, containing a critical analysis regarding risk management processes.

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