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This thesis consists of an investigation of a deposit of Hudson River clay from the Terry Brick Corp. of Kingston, N.Y., to determine the best possible uses for the clay in the ceramic industry. The effect of blending the Goldrick clay with shale, and the addition of sodium carbonate and chestnut extract as electrolytes in the stiff mud process were investigated. The uses of Goldrick clay as a slip clay to produce a glaze was investigated. Particle size determinations of samples taken from points over the entire clay deposit were made to measure the variability of the particle size distribution. Recommendations were made for improvements in difficulties encountered at the plant. / M.S.

This thesis deals with the possibilities of using computers for training teachers of German. The theoretical part addresses the general possibility of using computers by foreign language teachers in their everyday work. The latest trends in education are shown in this part. The practical part focuses on mapping IT skills of future German language teachers, currently studying at university. The last part of the thesis shows various possibilities of using computers in pre-service teachers? training and also brings several worksheets for a ready-prepared sample lesson, designed for teaching in a multimedia computer lab. The conclusion summarizes and evaluates results of the work.

The idea of home, the ownership of property, and the impact of the home on the moral character and identity of its inhabitants were important concepts in the late nineteenth century. These views were perpetuated by a wide range of supporters including writers, religious leaders, social reformers, politicians. Architects and developers became aware of these ideas and capitalized on the hopes and dreams of middle-class North America by designing, marketing and building the right kind of houses, but perhaps more importantly, by building them in the right location which most often meant the suburban areas around major cities. Architect and writer Franklin Townsend Lent (1855-1919) is but one of many architects practicing in North America who appreciated the contemporary consumers’ sensibilities, and their attachment to their homes. Not only did Lent understand the importance of the concept of home, he was able to develop a design vocabulary that drew on the contemporary fascination with the American colonial period. In addition, he appreciated the consumer’s desire for a beautiful home in the suburbs, and took advantage of this in his work in New Jersey notably on the development of a suburban neighbourhood called Roosevelt Manor. Lent contributed to the built environment by designing and building many suburban houses, island and seaside cottages, and other structures. He also wrote three books and several pamphlets that provide an understanding of his personal contribution to architecture in suburban American, and to the early development of resort architecture in the Thousand Island region of Upstate New York and Ontario, an area that has received very little scholarly attention. This paper will focus on the domestic architecture of Lent in an attempt to construct an understanding of this unique contribution in the context of late nineteenth century and early twentieth century society by examining his published architectural writings, his advertisements, and some representative houses that he designed and built in the United States and Canada. / Thesis (Master, Art History) -- Queen's University, 2012-10-12 14:16:06.91

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:31:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Waldeir Moreno Rosa.pdf: 2153826 bytes, checksum: f34031edf768e9fa5cdc0f7ad2902933 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-01 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This master's thesis analyzes the role of Antonio Delfim Netto in the various dimensions of political and economic power of bourgeois hegemony in the sixties and seventies. Initially, focuses on the historical period in which members of the Brazilian owning class associated with international capital, before compose the Bonapartist dictatorship established in 1964, have conspired against the constitutionally elected president, João Goulart, especially if extended into the Ipês complex (Institute of Economic and Social Research). Looks up at that first moment, on the class content of the article Problems of Brazilian economic development, especially prepared by the Dauphin to ipesiana magazine Convivium. In a second chapter, attentive to the participation of the economist at the National Association of Economic and Social Planning (ANPES), created by the conspirators to March 31, 1964, as a business front to influence the new business of the military dictatorship. Analyzes there, too, the book Planning for Economic Development of the then Secretary of the São Paulo State Finance. In the third chapter, after the so-called "coup within the coup", with the laying of the Bonapartist hardline and his dictatorial closing, we investigate the ideological reasons for the meteoric rise of the economist in the Ministry of Finance of the "years of lead" that is under Costa e Silva and Emilio Garrastazu Medici (1967-1974). At this point, enumerate up their participation in the "box" of Oban (Operation Bandeirante) and his vote in favor of the Institutional Act No. 5 in the National Security Council. Are analyzed, there, the official speeches the Minister considered the Czar Bonapartist political economy in his "years of lead", seeking to associate them with the practices of Delfim Netto attitudes and thus demonstrating the social function in the context of those years exercised by delfiniano ideological complex. That is, it is understood here delfiniana ideology in its social determination and particular historical context, deciphering the internal connection inherent to his autocratic bourgeois ideology, as well as explaining the effective function that fulfilled, in practice, the ideology of Brazilian economist. In view of Marx, with the advanced contributions by Chasin about Brazilian historical formation, has taken into account in the study of Delfim Netto, which is always "the man, the real, living man who does this, has it all and decides these combats; is not the story, you can be sure that, using man as a means to carry out - as if it were a person apart - their own ends; it is only the activity of the man who goes in search of himself. " Therefore, with all documentation found in newspapers, magazines, historiographical works, official speeches and events produced in the historical period under study, it remains more than proven the participation of Delfim Netto in class conspiracy, in the coup and the subsequent service who provided the political and economic reorganization of last Bonapartist dictatorship. Unfortunately, even today, however, its influence has continued, knowing the ideologue build for posterity one self-image of technocrat "neutral", supposedly the party or dissociated from all stratagems of state terrorism mounted in this country for the benefit of bourgeois autocracy atrophic capital. Its repeated denial before the crimes of the military dictatorship, registered in testimony to the Truth Commission of the City of 7 São Paulo, however, continues to separate and disassociate from manipulative way, made by Delfim Netto said about him by himself ideologue / Esta dissertação de mestrado analisa a atuação de Antonio Delfim Netto nas várias dimensões do poder político e econômico da hegemonia burguesa nas décadas de sessenta e setenta. Inicialmente, centra-se no período histórico em que membros da classe proprietária brasileira associada ao capital internacional, antes de comporem a ditadura bonapartista instituída em 1964, já conspiravam contra o presidente constitucionalmente eleito, João Goulart, em especial se articulados no complexo Ipês (Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas e Sociais). Debruçamo-nos, nesse primeiro momento, sobre o teor classista do artigo Problemas do desenvolvimento econômico brasileiro, especialmente elaborado por Delfim para a revista ipesiana (Ipês) Convivium. Em um segundo capítulo, atenta-se para a participação do economista na Associação Nacional de Planejamento Econômico e Social (ANPES), criada pelos conspiradores a 31 de março de 1964, como uma frente empresarial para influir nos novos negócios da ditadura militar. Analisa-se aí, também, o livro Planejamento para o Desenvolvimento Econômico do então Secretário da Fazenda do Estado de São Paulo. No capítulo terceiro, depois do chamado golpe dentro do golpe , com a imposição da linha-dura bonapartista e seu fechamento ditatorial, investigam-se os motivos ideológicos da meteórica ascensão do economista no Ministério da Fazenda dos anos de chumbo , isto é, sob Costa e Silva e Emílio Garrastazu Médici (1967-1974). Nesse ponto, enumeram-se sua participação na caixinha da Oban (Operação Bandeirante) e seu voto a favor do Ato Institucional n.º 5 no Conselho de Segurança Nacional. Analisam-se, ali, os discursos oficiais do ministro tido como o czar da economia política bonapartista em seus anos de chumbo , buscando associá-los às atitudes práticas de Delfim Netto e, assim, demostrando a função social no contexto daqueles anos exercido pelo complexo ideológico delfiniano. Ou seja, compreende-se aqui a ideologia delfiniana em sua determinação social e contexto histórico particulares, decifrando a conexão interna inerente a seu ideário autocrático-burguês, bem como explicando a função efetiva que cumpriu, na práxis, a ideologia do economista brasileiro. Na perspectiva de Marx, com as contribuições avançadas por Chasin a respeito da formação histórica brasileira, tem-se em conta, no estudo de Delfim Netto, que é sempre o homem, o homem real e vivo, quem faz isso, possui tudo isso e decide esses combates; não é a história, podem estar certos disso, que usa o homem como meio para realizar como se ela fosse uma pessoa à parte seus próprios fins; ela é apenas a atividade do homem que vai em busca dele mesmo . Diante disso, com toda documentação encontrada em jornais, revistas, trabalhos historiográficos, discursos oficiais e outras manifestações produzidas no período histórico sob estudo, resta mais do que comprovada à participação de Delfim Netto na conspiração de classe, no golpe de Estado e no serviço subsequente que prestou ao reordenamento político-econômico da última ditadura bonapartista. Infelizmente, ainda hoje, porém, sua influência não cessou, sabendo o ideólogo construir para a posteridade uma autoimagem de tecnocrata neutro , supostamente, à parte ou dissociada de todos os estratagemas 5 do terrorismo de Estado montado neste país, em benefício da autocracia burguesa do capital atrófico. Seu reiterado negacionismo diante dos crimes da ditadura militar, registrado em depoimento à Comissão da Verdade da Câmara Municipal de São Paulo, entretanto, continua a separar e dissociar, de forma manipulatória, o feito por Delfim Netto do dito sobre si pelo próprio ideólogo

Thesis (D. Min.)--Harding University Graduate School of Religion, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-149).

Today, many school districts are mandating tests to measure student performance and to hold individual schools and school systems accountable for that performance in order to meet the standards set forth in the No Child Left Behind Act (2001) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004). The focus of this study was to examine the relationship among cognitive ability as measured by the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) and measures of achievement, specifically, standardized achievement scores on the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJ ASK) and school grades. The current study investigated archival data of 452 seventh grade students enrolled in a large, suburban public school district during the 2007-2008 school year. Scores on the CogAT and NJ ASK were collected from grades 3, 5, and 7. Final grades in the subject areas of Reading, Writing, Math, Social Studies and Science were collected from report cards from the end of seventh grade of the 2007-2008 school year. Pearson correlations found significant relationships between: (1) cognitive ability and standardized achievement scores in grades 3, 5, and 7, (2) third grade cognitive ability and grade seven grades, and (3) third grade standardized achievement scores and grade seven grades. Further, out of the five cluster scores on the grade 3 CogAT and NJ ASK, the NJ ASK Language Arts score was the best predictor of grades in Reading and Writing and the NJ ASK Mathematics score was the best predictor of grades in Math, Science, and Social Studies. Finally, third grade NJ ASK Language Arts, NJ ASK Mathematics and CogAT Verbal scores were the best predictors of special education classification in grade 7, accounting for a combined 22% of the variance. Limitations to the study and implications for future research and practice are discussed. / School Psychology

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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers--The State University. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-240) and index.