Since the end of World War II many Scandinavians have emerged as important choral music composers. This study focuses on two Norwegian composers, Knut Nystedt and Egil Hovland. Two works by Nystedt, "Thou O Lord," and "Praise to God," and one work by Hovland, Missa Misericordiae, are analyzed to determine the most important features of the compositional styles of Nystedt and Hovland. The analysis reveals that factors such as the Norwegian national romantic movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, ancient music styles such as Gregorian chant, twentieth century techniques such as neoclassicism and dodecaphony, and recent reforms in Norwegian Church music have influenced the compositional style of both men. The evidence suggests that although Nystedt and Hovland have many similarities in compositional style both men have developed a highly individual musical language that is accessible yet challenging to the listener, conductor, and choir.

本文整理市場上已發行結構債的現金流量型式，且利用風險中立評價法推導多資產Quanto模型，並以蒙地卡羅模擬法模擬外幣計價的結構型商品的理論價格，除了計算使用Quanto模型所求得的理論價格外，本文也比較使用Quanto模型與沒有使用Quanto模型評價商品時理論價格的差異，此外也進行商品的利率敏感度分析和相關係數敏感度分析；其後找到有效的控制變數，利用變異數縮減技術克服蒙地卡羅模擬法收斂不易的缺點，增進模擬的效率與精準程度，最後並做變異數縮減的Rubust分析，討論在何種參數的設定下變異數縮減的效果會最好，及如何透過參數的選取，如參與率與保本率，設計商品與成本分析。

利率模型從早期的短期利率模型、遠期利率模型發展到現在的市場模型。在模型的概念上，已經從市場上不存在的瞬間連續利率修正到市場上可觀察的區間連續的遠期利率。而評價方法的進步，使得市場上發展出各式各樣的利率衍生性商品，其中付「提前贖回條款」的債券很常見。為吸引投資人，附提前贖回條款的債券往往伴隨著高配息。本文選用「12年期美金計價『利率區間』連動債券」與「十年期美元計價息滿到期反浮動利率連動債券」做個案分析，在市場模型之下，評價具提前贖回條款的債券。

L'intérêt philosophique pour la " visibilité " - Sichtbarkeit -, à la fin du XIXe siècle, participe d'une interaction nouvelle entre art, science et technique. Le dessin réunit les arts graphiques comme science du " visible ". Vitruve établit déjà que la " science de l'architecte " - Architecti scientia - prend valeur et se renforce par la " science du dessin " - Graphidis scientia. La recherche porte sur l'analyse du dessin que l'architecte utilise et produit lorsqu'il travaille à s'instruire selon son propre arbitre et ses propres moyens, hors les murs des écoles et des ateliers, au tournant du XIXe au XXe siècle. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887-1965), Paul Tournon (1881-1964) et Jean-Charles Moreux (1889-1956) voyagent pour leur apprentissage. Ils regardent le monde et transcrivent leur étonnement activé au contact de la réalité. De la même manière, pour se former, alors que leur production architecturale sera très différente, ils notent en dessin. Nous interrogeons la réduction intellectuelle et graphique de la note comme une forme courte de représentation. La forme courte est le travail conscient d'analyse et de recherche synthétique. Chaque trait est pensé et pensé comme matérialité. C'est un acte conceptuel d'abstraction. Comment cette forme courte, que nous interprétons dans sa vocation théorique, participe-t-elle de l'acquisition du " regard instruit " de l'architecte ?

La version intégrale de ce mémoire est disponible uniquement pour consultation individuelle à la Bibliothèque de musique de l’Université de Montréal (www.bib.umontreal.ca/MU). / Nous nous sommes ici intéressé à la médiation musicale en tant qu’activité professionnelle et comme outil pédagogique. Dans un premier temps, nous avons voulu mettre en lumière les principaux acteurs de ce phénomène en Allemagne, en France, en Grande-Bretagne, aux États-Unis et au Québec. Nous nous sommes également penché sur la réalité professionnelles de trois musicologues québécois s’adonnant régulièrement à des activités de médiation musicale : Pierre Vachon, Guy Marchand et Dujka Smoje. Dans un deuxième temps, nous avons préparé cinq notes de programme et deux interventions orale pour cinq concerts donnés par des organismes musicaux montréalais : les Grands vents de Montréal, Clavecin en concert, Pentaèdre, Portmantô Ensemble et la Société de musique contemporaine du Québec. Ces notes de programme et interventions orales ont servi à tester auprès du public la pertinence de quatre modèles de médiation musicale que nous avons spécialement conçu pour l’occasion. Ces modèles portaient chacun sur une dimension particulière des œuvres commentées : leur sens (modèle A), leur structure (modèle B), leur réception historique (modèle C) et leur exécution (modèle D). Les réponses des 156 auditeurs, obtenues par le biais de questionnaires que nous avons distribué avant les prestations, ont révélé que les modèles B et C contribuèrent particulièrement à améliorer leur expérience esthétique. / The object of this study is to explore musical popularization as an activity and a pedagogical tool. In the first place, we identified the major figures in this field from Germany, France, Great Britain, the United States, and Quebec. We also interviewed three Quebec musicologists (Pierre Vachon, Guy Marchand and Dujka Smoje) in order to better understand their professional reality. In the second place, we prepared two oral presentations and wrote program notes for five concerts given by musical societies from Montreal, namely Les Grands vents de Montréal, Clavecin en concert, Pentaèdre, Portmantô Ensemble, and Société de musique contemporaine du Québec. The program notes and oral presentations were used to test the relevance of four musical popularization models especially conceived for this study. These models each addressed one particular dimension of the works: their meaning (model A), structure (model B), historical reception (model C), and execution (model D). The listeners’ answers to questionnaires that we distributed to them prior to the performance showed that models B and C were particularly effective in enhancing their aesthetic experience.

The present thesis focuses on semiotic aspects of note-taking in consecutive interpreting, in particular with respect to the process of semiosis and factors influencing the interpreters' conception of their notes. Chapter 1 mentions the basic features of note-taking in order to trace its semiotic characteristics in the following parts of the thesis. In Chapter 2, the notes as a specific semiotic system are briefly discussed within the framework of the second Peircean trichotomy of signs (cases of iconicity, indexicality and symbolicity are demonstrated) and in terms of their function, productivity and spatial settings. After these general considerations, Chapter 3 introduces the main theoretical approaches to the technique of note-taking (principally those of the Geneva and Heidelberg schools) including the issues of the languages involved in interpreting or the nature of signs. As the accent is on the process of semiosis (apprehension of signs by interpreters, generating signs according to the meaning of the speech and searching for the motivation for the interpreters' concrete choices of signs and their form), the chapter lists some basic signs and methods well- tested by practitioners. The signs are also analysed in terms of their origin and possibilities of expansion (composition, derivation...

The present thesis is a descriptive theoretical study which aims at mapping Min'jar- Beloruchev's work in the context of contemporary and modern theories and presenting a comprehensive view of author's note-taking system for consecutive interpreting. The analysis of the system forms the crux of this thesis, which focuses on sources that represent the basis of the system, individual features of the system as well as factors that influenced his decisions while working on the system. Other parts of the thesis focuse on a consecutive interpreting training system, that was developed by the author, and to some extent deal with his views on translatology as a science and the interpreting process itself.

in English Securities with a focus of bills of exchange and promissory notes as important tools in business obligations The institute of securities accompanies the society for many centuries and has become an indispensable part of economic life. Although, with few exceptions represented apparently only by Slovak and Swiss legal order, there is no general definition of concept of security, it does not hinder to define its characteristics, which are the instrument, respectively any material substrate able to capture a written declaration of will and incorporated subjective property right originating in the private area. Of the above may be deduced the close connection between right and document, which is it's materialization. In connection with the development of social needs, especially in the area of trade, disadvantages of document that was originally considered as a necessary condition of the existence of a valid security, appeared. As a result, the process of dematerialisation of securities started and the document has been replaced by the entry in the register of securities. Nowadays, therefore, the securities may exist both in paper and in book entry form, what undoubtedly facilitate the implementation of some complicated business transactions. The presented thesis combines the interpretation...

Student Number: 9109265Y A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Psychology) / The Academic Proficiency Assessment battery evaluates language and study skills. This study focused on the internal consistency reliability and predictive validity of this battery for Information Technology students. In terms of reliability, the Time management, Note-taking skills, and Debilitating stress scale on the achievement anxiety questionnaire were found to be internally consistent. However, the items in the English proficiency, Reading comprehension, Memorisation skills, concentration skills and motivating stress scale on the achievement anxiety questionnaire require modification or replacement. Intercorrelations across questionnaires necessitate further streamlining. In terms of predictive validity, a significant negative relationship was found between Note-taking Skills and academic performance (R2 adj = 8,3%). Matric results remain the best predictor accounting for 11% of the variance in CGPA. Cumulatively, Matric results and Note-taking skills accounted for 13,34% of the variance. None of the biographical variables significantly predicted CGPA. Despite the apparent lack of relationship between individual predictors and the criterion, a discriminant function analysis indicated that all the academic proficiencies, with the exception of English proficiency, correctly predicted pass or failure in 72% of the cases. The lack of relationship between English proficiency and pass/failure can be accounted for in terms of the type of courses studied as part of an Information Technology programme.Overall, the results would suggest that Matric results remain the best predictor of academic performance in Information Technology courses, but at a very low level. Given the lack of reliability in the majority of the subtests of the Academic Proficiency Battery, the use of the APA battery for selection for remedial intervention for Information Technology students is not yet justified.

High school biology classes traditionally follow a lecture format to disseminate content and new terminology. With the inclusive practices of No Child Left Behind, the Common Core State Standards, and end-of-course exam requirement for high school diplomas, classes include a large range of achievement levels and abilities. Teachers assume, often incorrectly, that students come to class prepared to listen and take notes. In a standard diploma, high school biology class in a separate school for students with emotional and behavioral disorders, five students participated in a single-subject, alternating treatment design study that compared the use of regular pens and digital pens to take notes during 21 lecture sessions. Behavior measures were threefold between the two interventions: (a) quantity of notes taken per minute during lectures, (b) quantity of notes or notations taken during review pauses, and (c) percent of correct responses on the daily comprehension quizzes. ... However, the differences were minor, and recommendations are made for specific training in note-taking, the pause strategy, and digital pen fluency which may produce different results for both note-taking and quiz scores. / by Carlotta A. Rody. / Vita. / Thesis (Ed.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013. / Includes bibliography. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / System requirements: Adobe Reader.