When I write I, I also write we (say we also write that we’re momentarily in possession of the possibilities, and as for the possibilities: they have us), as in my hyperbolic twin brother and I, and from that point on (as well as before) in company with the gaps between us. The auto-corrections, the imposed circumstances, the complicities, and some conspirationalist copings within a system with no clearly identifiable nemesis. Here, the act of resistance to whatever is playing us, also enacts the playing of that which plays us. The heinous power of family and narrative insists. Two lead narratives are interwoven during the course of time it took for a pizza to be delivered (from pizzeria Marco Polo): Looping on a Panasonic Viera TX-55AX630E, the  search for a/my lost and/or hidden dad arrives through the mispronunciation of the word “that” during a negotiation in a park. Where a tangled hypothesis, along the lines of “what if the plot device of a shot of a moon in a video used to forward time (as in an alternative to ‘later that night’) was a graphic representation of an analog clock recognized in a to-be sliced pizza that is eventually consumed as a means to induce a food coma?” takes place (and time, as saved time is always already lost). It’s almost dark already. Also it's not, and the future held hostage by the river of the forest of the woods is followed by the sense of not being able to tell if there’s an emotion or a feeling present. Visits from passed pasts. It all starts to feel originatory. Thanks to X, this keeps on happening, thoughts and behaviours about suspicious timing and holistic systems keep on happening. This keeps on happening, and it works its way into physical works in an exhibition space with no reference to an infirmary, where parrot tulips are emotional flowers, a print is printed using a temperamental printer, sawdust creates glossy eyes, and all locked doors are eventually keyed out. An investigation into conditions of influence, co-authorship, connectivity, all within a space cohabited by comedy, sentimentality, and other states subject to flatness.

Esta dissertação pretende mostrar que a tese de Hume de que nós estamos inevitavelmente determinados a crer na existência de objetos externos tem a circunscrição de seu significado condicionada à identificação e à resolução de uma inconsistência presente na teoria humeana da crença inevitável em objetos externos. Essa inconsistência se expressa pela incompatibilidade entre a tese de que (P1) nós inevitavelmente cremos em objetos externos e a tese de que (P2) não podemos conceber objetos externos. Essas teses são incompatíveis se se considera que, para Hume, (P4) não podemos crer em algo que não podemos conceber. Esse problema só emerge se se supõe um uso unívoco da expressão "objeto externo" por parte de Hume em (P1) e (P2), e se se supõe que (P4) é o caso para Hume, o que se mostra ser um ponto de partida razoável. Os resultados indicam que as duas interpretações gerais do significado da tese de que nós inevitavelmente cremos em objetos externos, o naturalismo cético e o realismo cético, chegam a conclusões insatisfatórias porque ignoram esse problema. Por fim, conclui que não há, de fato, uma inconsistência na teoria humeana da crença em objetos externos porque não é o caso que não possamos ter uma concepção de objetos externos para Hume. Essa concepção se origina de um sentimento ou instinto original da mente. / This paper aims to show that Hume's claim that we are unavoidably determined to believe in the existence of external objects has the delimitation of our meaning conditioned to the identification and resolution of an inconsistency present in Hume's theory of the unavoidable belief in external objects. This inconsistency expresses itself by the incompatibility between the claim that (P1) we unavoidably believe in external objects and the claim that (P2) we can't conceive external objects. These claims are incompatible if we recognize that Hume claims as well that (P4) we can't believe in something that we can't conceive. This problem arises only if we suppose that Hume univocally uses the expression "external object" in (P1) and (P2), and if we suppose that (P4) is the case, a reasonable starting point. The results indicate that both general views of the meaning of the claim that we unavoidably believe in external objects, the skeptical naturalism and the skeptical realism, arrives at unsatisfactory outcomes because they ignore that problem. Finally, concludes that there's not, actually, an inconsistency in Hume's theory of belief in external objects because it's not the case that we can't conceive external objects. This conception of external existences arises out of a sentiment or natural instinct of the mind.

The South African automotive industry has experienced significant changes in the last 20 years. Globalisation, the implementation of lean production and the development of modularisation have had a profound influence on the relationships between original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their suppliers, the automotive component manufacturers (ACMs), and their suppliers. South Africa has a number of OEMs and a vibrant automotive component manufacturing industry (ACM), which supplies the South African aftermarket and a spread of export markets. These ACMs are the focus of this study. The main objective of this research study was to identify the supply chain management problems ACMs in South Africa encounter, to what extent they face these problems and how these can be overcome. The problems were identified through a literature review and interviews with two OEMs in South Africa. Using this data a questionnaire was compiled and sent to all NAACAM members for completion. This study is by nature descriptive and exploratory and contains quantitative and qualitative elements. Seven hypotheses were formulated to guide the research. The findings of this research indicate that the geographic location, age and size of the business, have no bearing on the supply chain problems ACMs face, whist the relationship between ACMs and their suppliers and ACMs and their customers is a significant problem. The findings also indicate that the following are some of the main supply chain problems facing ACMs: pressure by OEMs to reduce prices; the price of materials; cancellation of orders; excessive inventory; the unreliability of rail transport and rail capacity problems; the high cost of South African ports; the cost of replacing outdated technology; and BBBEE – achieving and verifying BEE scorecards. The findings further indicate a lack of skills and labour problems, both of which are time consuming to resolve. This study was completed over a four-year period. At the commencement of this study the automotive industry was booming, but in mid-2008, a global economic crisis started. This crisis impacted adversely on the automotive industry globally and in South Africa. Despite these challenges, leaders in the South African automotive component industry remain positive about the future. This study was completed over a four-year period. At the commencement of this study the automotive industry was booming, but in mid-2008, a global economic crisis started. This crisis impacted adversely on the automotive industry globally and in South Africa. Despite these challenges, leaders in the South African automotive component industry remain positive about the future. / Business Management / D. Comm. (Business Management)

Revelation is God's Word addressed to the human being and so speaks of God in relation to the person and the world. Revelation can therefore only be fully understood, proclaimed and lived through an encounter with the world and its conceptions. To understand the evolution of human consciousness and the creation of the soul, we look to the sources of revelation (scripture and tradition) in dialogue with secular anthropology. The latter's paradigm of development and growth is not foreign to the former's understanding of conversion and growth in grace . The image of God, which characterises the human person, is shown to be an emergent likeness, which is created and drawn to its fullness by God. This accounts for Pius XII' s insistence that the soul is created immediately by God, who is responsible for the physical dynamics that bring forth consciousness and the personal dynamics that empower the human soul to develop. / Philosophy Practical andSystematic Theology / M.Th (Systematic Theology)

Esta dissertação pretende mostrar que a tese de Hume de que nós estamos inevitavelmente determinados a crer na existência de objetos externos tem a circunscrição de seu significado condicionada à identificação e à resolução de uma inconsistência presente na teoria humeana da crença inevitável em objetos externos. Essa inconsistência se expressa pela incompatibilidade entre a tese de que (P1) nós inevitavelmente cremos em objetos externos e a tese de que (P2) não podemos conceber objetos externos. Essas teses são incompatíveis se se considera que, para Hume, (P4) não podemos crer em algo que não podemos conceber. Esse problema só emerge se se supõe um uso unívoco da expressão "objeto externo" por parte de Hume em (P1) e (P2), e se se supõe que (P4) é o caso para Hume, o que se mostra ser um ponto de partida razoável. Os resultados indicam que as duas interpretações gerais do significado da tese de que nós inevitavelmente cremos em objetos externos, o naturalismo cético e o realismo cético, chegam a conclusões insatisfatórias porque ignoram esse problema. Por fim, conclui que não há, de fato, uma inconsistência na teoria humeana da crença em objetos externos porque não é o caso que não possamos ter uma concepção de objetos externos para Hume. Essa concepção se origina de um sentimento ou instinto original da mente. / This paper aims to show that Hume's claim that we are unavoidably determined to believe in the existence of external objects has the delimitation of our meaning conditioned to the identification and resolution of an inconsistency present in Hume's theory of the unavoidable belief in external objects. This inconsistency expresses itself by the incompatibility between the claim that (P1) we unavoidably believe in external objects and the claim that (P2) we can't conceive external objects. These claims are incompatible if we recognize that Hume claims as well that (P4) we can't believe in something that we can't conceive. This problem arises only if we suppose that Hume univocally uses the expression "external object" in (P1) and (P2), and if we suppose that (P4) is the case, a reasonable starting point. The results indicate that both general views of the meaning of the claim that we unavoidably believe in external objects, the skeptical naturalism and the skeptical realism, arrives at unsatisfactory outcomes because they ignore that problem. Finally, concludes that there's not, actually, an inconsistency in Hume's theory of belief in external objects because it's not the case that we can't conceive external objects. This conception of external existences arises out of a sentiment or natural instinct of the mind.

The aim of this thesis is detailed surveying and processing of certain site for planimetry and elevation. The site is the northern part of the basin of Ostřice stream in the cadastral area Horní Planá. The territory was reconnaissanced and then surveyed in detail by the method of electronic tacheometry. Fixing and stabilization of ancillary geodetic points was the part of detailed surveying. All computing and imaging work was carried out in interactive graphical software KOKEŠ. The evaluation of the heights accuracy made on the basis of the profile test is the part of this thesis. The result of this thesis is the original map at a scale of 1 : 500 corresponding to the state to the end of August 2008 and other required attachments.

Humanity has always dreamed about a better world. These dreams has manifested themselves in the vision of Utopia - the good place, but also the non-existing place. Up until World War II man still wrote optimistic descriptions of this ideal world, and spread the idea through literature. In the aftermath of the atomic bomb and under the influence of the cold war, these publications seized to surface in literary surroundings. Despite this utopia did not die - it has only changed. Today you can find utopia, not primarily in books, but in Science Fiction. TV’s biggest Science Fiction-series, Star Trek, is perhaps the best example of this. The Master's thesis "Utopia Trek - a travel through Star Trek with the concept of utopia" takes you through the history of utopia and into its new habitat, Star Trek, where the essence of a utopia for the 21th century is found, discussed and reevaluated. / Mänskligheten har alltid drömt om en bättre värld. Dessa drömmar har manifesterats i visionen om Utopia - den goda platsen, men också platsen som inte existerar. Fram till andra världskriget skrev man fortfarande optimistiska beskrivningar av denna idealvärld, och spred idén via litteraturen. Efter hotet från atombomben och under påverkan av det kalla kriget, slutade dessa publikationer att dyka uppi litterära sammanhang. Trots detta dog inte drömmen utopia - det har bara förändrats. Idag kan man finna utopia, inte företrädesvis i böcker, utan i science fiction. Tv:s största science fiction-serie, Star Trek, är kanske det bästa exemplet på detta. Magisteruppsatsen "Utopia Trek - utopibegreppets resa genom Star Trek" tar dig genom utopias historia och in i dess nya hemvist, Star Trek, där essensen av ett utopia för 2000-talet upptäcks, diskuteras och omvärderas.

Esta dissertação pretende mostrar que a tese de Hume de que nós estamos inevitavelmente determinados a crer na existência de objetos externos tem a circunscrição de seu significado condicionada à identificação e à resolução de uma inconsistência presente na teoria humeana da crença inevitável em objetos externos. Essa inconsistência se expressa pela incompatibilidade entre a tese de que (P1) nós inevitavelmente cremos em objetos externos e a tese de que (P2) não podemos conceber objetos externos. Essas teses são incompatíveis se se considera que, para Hume, (P4) não podemos crer em algo que não podemos conceber. Esse problema só emerge se se supõe um uso unívoco da expressão "objeto externo" por parte de Hume em (P1) e (P2), e se se supõe que (P4) é o caso para Hume, o que se mostra ser um ponto de partida razoável. Os resultados indicam que as duas interpretações gerais do significado da tese de que nós inevitavelmente cremos em objetos externos, o naturalismo cético e o realismo cético, chegam a conclusões insatisfatórias porque ignoram esse problema. Por fim, conclui que não há, de fato, uma inconsistência na teoria humeana da crença em objetos externos porque não é o caso que não possamos ter uma concepção de objetos externos para Hume. Essa concepção se origina de um sentimento ou instinto original da mente. / This paper aims to show that Hume's claim that we are unavoidably determined to believe in the existence of external objects has the delimitation of our meaning conditioned to the identification and resolution of an inconsistency present in Hume's theory of the unavoidable belief in external objects. This inconsistency expresses itself by the incompatibility between the claim that (P1) we unavoidably believe in external objects and the claim that (P2) we can't conceive external objects. These claims are incompatible if we recognize that Hume claims as well that (P4) we can't believe in something that we can't conceive. This problem arises only if we suppose that Hume univocally uses the expression "external object" in (P1) and (P2), and if we suppose that (P4) is the case, a reasonable starting point. The results indicate that both general views of the meaning of the claim that we unavoidably believe in external objects, the skeptical naturalism and the skeptical realism, arrives at unsatisfactory outcomes because they ignore that problem. Finally, concludes that there's not, actually, an inconsistency in Hume's theory of belief in external objects because it's not the case that we can't conceive external objects. This conception of external existences arises out of a sentiment or natural instinct of the mind.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:30:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marco Antonio Fernandes Cardoso.pdf: 2343098 bytes, checksum: 014e0f030b71d4416f7e51bdebee12d7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-06 / Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa / The literature on organizational identity, from various perspectives, deals with additive business processes such as mergers, acquisitions or cooperative enterprises among companies. However, the inverse, subtractive process, where a company emerges from the original company, has not received much attention in the literature with respect to the creation of the new company s identity. This thesis aims to understand the construction of the organizational identity of a spin-off outsourced company. A qualitative, exploratory and longitudinal study was performed on the basis of a case study. The research consisted of 13 in-depth interviews with the key actors involved from the start of the spin-off process, along with the current managers, including non-participant observation in meetings and events, as well as broad documental analysis. The transcribed interview texts and secondary data were analyzed on the narrative and discursive levels, both in terms of syntax and of semantics under textual semiotics. The central and distinctive identity characteristic, present on the fundamental level of the discourses belonging to the studied case, was found to be reliability. This attribute, which was consolidated along the spin-off company s historical path, in an integrated manner among its members and groups, refers to the identity category of the fundamental level of the semiotic square revealed during the research. The inexorable influence of the original company s organizational culture on the construction of the new company s identity was also observed, at least in the initial phase; this process was identified as an organizational culture spin-off. However, through semiotic analysis of the texts in the study s corpus it was possible to identify other aspects of organizational identity, relative to otherness and its contradictions, which were of an unstable, tensional and ambiguous nature but were nonetheless relevant to understanding the way organizations create their identities. / A literatura de identidade organizacional, à luz de diversas perspectivas, aborda os processos aditivos empresariais como fusões, aquisições ou atividades cooperadas entre empresas. No entanto, o processo subtrativo, inverso, onde uma empresa se constitui emergindo da organização mãe tem sido pouco estudado na literatura quanto à construção da identidade dessa nova empresa. Esta tese tem por objetivo compreender a construção da identidade organizacional de uma empresa terceirizada do tipo spin off. Realizou-se uma pesquisa qualitativa, exploratória, de natureza longitudinal, fundamentada num estudo de caso. A pesquisa compreendeu 13 entrevistas em profundidade com os atores-chave envolvidos desde o início do processo do spin off, bem como atuais gestores, incluindo a observação não participante em reuniões e eventos, além de ampla análise documental. Os textos transcritos das entrevistas e os dados secundários foram analisados nos níveis narrativo e discursivo, tanto pela sintaxe como pela semântica da Teoria da Semiótica do texto. Identificou-se a característica central e distintiva identitátia, presente no nível fundamental dos discursos do caso estudado, como sendo a confiabilidade. Esse atributo que se consolidou no percurso histórico da empresa spin off, de forma integrada entre os seus membros e grupos, refere-se a categoria identidade do nível fundamental do quadrado semiótico revelado na pesquisa. Constatou-se também a inexorável influência da cultura organizacional da empresa-mãe na construção identitária da nova empresa, ao menos em sua fase inicial, identificada como um spin off da cultura organizacional. Entretanto, a realização da análise semiótica nos textos do corpus da pesquisa, possibilitou identificar outros aspectos da identidade organizacional, relativos a alteridade e seus contraditórios, estes, de natureza instável, tensional e ambígua, porém relevantes à compreensão da construção da identidade das organizações.

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A análise dos limites de endividamento é baseada num modelo onde crises de dívida auto-realizáveis podem ocorrer quando o nível de endividamento encontra-se em determinado intervalo. Uma vez nesta região, a dívida pode (ou não) ser rolada e, caso os credores não concedam novos empréstimos, a crise torna-se, de fato, uma profecia auto-realizável. Os resultados encontrados indicam que o limite de endividamento, além de bastante persistente, é muito dependente da razão dívida/PIB, bem como, dos históricos de inflação, crises bancárias e de defaults (ou reestruturações) de dívida soberana. Posteriormente, é feita uma aplicação do modelo estimado aos países da periferia do euro, na qual os resultados sugerem que países como Portugal e Grécia, mesmo após a adoção da moeda única, apresentam dificuldades em administrar os seus níveis de endividamento. Em conjunto, os resultados apresentados sugerem que quanto pior o histórico macroeconômico, menor será a capacidade do país 'tolerar' dívidas. Em relação à denominação da dívida, o estudo procura identificar em que medida a volatilidade da taxa de câmbio real efetiva, controlada por diversos fatores, impacta a forma como países se endividam no mercado internacional. Os resultados indicam que a baixa volatilidade cambial é condição fundamental para que a moeda doméstica seja utilizada em transações internacionais. Além disso, porte econômico, estabilidade de regras, respeito aos contratos e ampla liquidez dos mercados financeiros domésticos, são fatores que contribuem para a aceitação de uma moeda nos contratos de dívida internacional. Evidências adicionais do estudo sugerem que a ampla liquidez internacional, observada principalmente nos anos 2000, foi incapaz de ampliar de maneira significativa o número de moedas utilizadas no mercado internacional de dívidas. Ainda em relação a este tema, a tese analisa os primeiros passos da economia brasileira no sentido de alongar o perfil da dívida pública interna, por intermédio da emissão de títulos denominados em reais no mercado internacional. / The aim of this dissertation is to collaborate with the international finance literature, addressing the debate on the "acceptable" sovereign debt limits debt, as well as addressing on debt denomination in the international market. The analysis of debt limits is based on a model in which self-fulfilling debt crises can occur when the debt level reaches a certain range. Once this range is reached, the debt may (or may not) be rolled over and, if creditors do not grant new loans, the crisis becomes, in fact, a self-fulfilling prophecy. The results indicate that the indebtedness limit, besides being persistent, depends highly on the debt/GDP ratio, as well as on historical inflation, banking crises and default (or restructuring) of sovereign debt. Subsequently, an application of the estimated model is made to peripheral countries of the Euro Zone. The results suggest that countries like Portugal and Greece, even after the adoption of the single currency, have difficulties in managing their debt levels. The results also suggest that the worse the macroeconomic history, the lower the country's ability "to tolerate" debt. In relation to debt denomination, the study seeks to identify to what extent the volatility of real effective exchange rate, controlled by several factors, have an influence on how countries gain access to the international bond market. The results indicate that low exchange rate volatility is a fundamental condition for debt denominated in local currency in international markets. Moreover, the size of the economy, stability of regulations, enforcement of contracts and ample liquidity in domestic financial markets are factors that contribute to the acceptance of a currency in international debt contracts. Additional evidence of the study suggests that the broad international liquidity, mainly observed in the 2000s, was unable to expand significantly the number of currencies used in international debts. Still regarding this issue, the dissertation analyzes the first steps of the Brazilian economy in order to extend the profile of its public debt through the issuance of bonds denominated in Reais in the international market.