De nombreuses études sont consacrées aux grandes provinces magmatiques. Cependant, l'architecture de ces provinces et l'origine de la diversité de leurs composants volcaniques restent encore mal connues. Le but majeur de cette thèse a été d'étudier l'architecture, la diversité et l'origine des plateaux à travers deux exemples : Kerguelen et Ethiopie. A Kerguelen, notre recherche a été axée sur la ride Leclaire, à l'extrémité ouest du plateau. Elle nous a permis : (1) de découvrir les roches alcalines les plus anciennes du plateau, (2) de mettre en évidence la présence d'un volcanisme aérien, (3) de démontrer que le panache de Kerguelen n'est pas localisé sous cette ride, enfin (4) de prouver l'absence d'un composant crustal dans la source des laves. En Ethiopie, nous avons montré que la pétrologie et la géochimie des laves des volcan-boucliers et des trapps sous-jacents sont identiques. La transition ne correspond donc pas à un changement de type de magma mais à une évolution physique du système d'alimentation. Les laves qui constituent le plateau éthiopien présentent deux bimodalités : acide-basique et tholéiitique-alcalin. L'analyse géochimique montre que ces laves proviennent d'un panache hétérogène en termes de température et composition. La datation et la cartographie des différentes unités révèlent que le plateau éthiopien est formé de plusieurs centres éruptifs d'âges et de caractères pétro-géochimiques différents. D'un point de vue plus général, les quantités de laves émises sur ces deux plateaux évoluent différemment dans le temps. Le flux de magma dépend de l'activité du panache ainsi que de la vitesse d'ouverture des plaques qui contrôle l'évolution de l'épaisseur de la lithosphère.

This short dissertation deals with separation of powers and federalism in African constitutionalism through the South African case. It investigates the extent to which the new South Africa complies with these two principles. The separation of powers in the new South Africa gives rise to a sui generis parliamentary regime, which is borrowing both from the Westminster model and the presidential one. On the other hand, the principle of federalism has been taken into consideration seriously, but South Africa has not become a fully-fledged federation. The result is a well-matched marriage between semi-parliamentarism and quasifederalism, which is the South African contribution to constitutionalism and democracy required by the African Renaissance. The dissertation comes to the conclusion that all in all the new South Africa complies with the two constitutional principles under consideration. It is a constitutional state, one of the very few exceptions on a continent laboriously emerging from authoritarianism. / Law / Thesis (LL.M.)--University of South Africa, 1998. / LL. M. (Law)

Special Economic Zones have been a popular instrument for fostering economic growth. The SEZ's main aim is to attract foreign investors into the country, thus providing necessary capital for economic development. Diploma thesis focuses on application of this approach in China and provides analysis of origin, economic situation and future prospects of these areas. At first, the concept of special economic zone is theoretically defined for the further usage in chinese context. Thesis also offers a comparison with export processing zones and SEZs in India to provide a broader perspective of the concept of special economic zones in the world. Hereafter, the development and performance of SEZs in chinese provinces Guangdong, Fujian and Hainan are presented. Furthermore, the current challenges for the zones to face are identified. Those challenges will be crucial for zones to cope with in order to keep up the pace with today's trend of liberalisation and international cooperation in the worldwide economy.

During the 1890s in the United States, Midwestern YMCA missionaries challenged the nexus of power between Northeastern Protestant denominations, industrialists, politicians, and the Association's International Committee. Under Kansas YMCA secretary George Fisher, this movement shook the Northeastern alliance's underpinnings, eventually establishing the Gospel Missionary Union. The YMCA and the GMU mutually defined foreign and domestic missionary work discursively. Whereas Fisher's pre-millennial movement promoted world conversion generally, the YMCA primarily reached out to college students in the United States and abroad. Moreover, the GMU challenged social and gender roles among Moroccan Berbers. Fisher's movements have not been historically analyzed since 1975. Missionary Millennium is a reanalysis and critical reading of religious fictions about GMU missionaries, following the organization to its current incarnation as Avant Ministries.

Spanish-Dutch Relations in the New World during the Existence of the West Indische Compagnie Eva Kubátová Abstract This dissertation is dedicated to the Spanish-Dutch relations in the New World during the existence of the first Dutch West India Company (1621-1674). On base of an imagological analysis, this thesis presents elements of mutual relations, reflected in hetero-images, together with self-representation of both analyzed parties (thus self-image) within the ongoing conflict of the Eighty Years' War. The imagological analysis is applied on archival material, chiefly the Dutch pamphlets and Spanish Relaciones de sucesos (which can be translated as "Treatises of Successes"). The result of this thesis is then an analysis of development and changes of mutual images, upon the historical events of the Spanish-Dutch war conflict: thus since the beginnings of the Dutch Revolt, passing through the Twelve Years' Truce, until the signature of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. A special emphasis is put to the final phase of the Eighty Years' War, in this thesis delimited by the years 1621-1648, which was marked by the official entrance of the West India Company into the Spanish waters of Greater Caribbean. An important watershed in mutual relations is afterwards represented by the Peace of Westphalia, which...

The aim of this study is to analyse and describe the role of sub-national governments (SNG’s) in foreign policy and how the conduct of diplomacy has developed in the South African context, and to assess why and how provinces engage in this phenomenon. The theoretical approach to this study is embedded in neo-functionalism. In order to illustrate this, the South African province, the Limpopo Province is used as an illustrative case study. In particular, the study will analyse the role of the International Relations Unit (IRU) within the Office of the Premier (OtP) in the Limpopo Province as a case study. Limpopo is the main focus of this study because it, inter alia, borders on three sovereign states (Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe) which place the province in a good position to engage in international relations, mutual intentions and friendly relations with its neighbouring and other distant countries. The results of this study is that provinces have become important foreign policy and international relations actors in the area of low politics; however the national government remains as the main actor in the international relations and foreign policy making process. The results also indicate that Limpopo is being proactive in facilitating and accelerating the realisation of the foreign policy objectives since provinces engage with international activities that run in parallel with the objectives and principles of the national foreign policy. The study contributes to the literature on SNG’s diplomacy in South Africa. It also lays the foundation for further research in other SNG’s diplomacy especially in Africa by employing other theories that have been ignored including African theories. / Political Sciences / M.A. (Politics)

As the public and government officials become aware of the impact of public health on communities, it is important that relevant public health statistics be available for decision making. Existing web resources have limited visualization options, cannot visually compare a county to all others in the US, and cannot compare the counties in an arbitrary region to all others in the US. The College of Public Health Indicator Visualization Tool (CPHIVT) is a web application providing visualization and ranking for a county in the US in comparison to all counties for a specific health indicator. An iterative development methodology was used to complete major features and refine the features over time. Features divided into small tasks that could be completed within two-week cycles. After the first version of the web application was completed and presented to the client, client feedback on the application was used to refine specifications and was incorporated into planning for future iterations. Iterative development was adopted with a focus on improving and expanding existing features and making the application publicly available online. A suite of automated user interface tests is being developed to verify the application’s functions. Making a complete version of the application publicly available involves significant research and software configuration to deploy the web application in a secure and performant manner. The web application has two major components corresponding to its two major user groups. The first component allows authenticated users from the Department of Public Health to upload and manage sets of data for various health indicators. Tools are included to automatically process uploaded data points. This allows the information presented on the web site to be expanded and kept up to date over time with minimal effort. The second component is accessible to anyone and allows a user to choose to a state or county with text search or hierarchical navigation. The application then provides graphical charts showing that location’s standing for various health indicators compared to all other counties nationally. This is accomplished by applying percentile rankings to the counties and plotting the percentiles against the values for a selected indicator. A user can save a generated chart to a variety of export formats including PNG image or PDF document. The application is expected to serve as a tool for many community members. Staff and students at the College of Public Health will use this tool for presentations and research. County health departments will be able to use the tool when planning community programs. County government leaders can use this tool to determine areas of need in the community. Decision makers will have the ability to visualize their county or region as compared to the nation, not just to neighboring counties or within a state.

Depuis de nombreuses années, l’introduction de la mise en échec corporelle (MÉC) dans le hockey mineur anime plusieurs discussions au sein de la population canadienne. Plusieurs études ont démontré que le risque de blessures est plus élevé dans des ligues de catégorie peewee évoluant avec la MÉC contrairement à celles évoluant sans la MÉC. En revanche, rares sont les études qui ont mis au centre de leur réflexion son impact sur le développement global des joueurs. L’objectif de cette étude est de comparer, grâce au Team Sport Assessment Procedure adapté au hockey sur glace, la performance offensive des joueurs peewee évoluant avec la MÉC (Calgary) et sans la MÉC (Québec). Les actions réalisées en possession de la rondelle ont été comptabilisées pour 280 joueurs de Québec et 272 joueurs de Calgary. Les résultats des régressions de Poisson démontrent que peu de différences significatives ont été obtenues entre la performance des joueurs de ces deux cohortes pour les variables étudiées. / The practice of body-checking (BC) in minor hockey has sparked a lengthy series of debates among Canadians. Recent studies have shown that players are at much greater risk for injury in leagues that allow BC compared to those that do not. However, few studies have examined the impact of BC on the offensive development of peewee players (aged 11–12 years). The purpose of this study was to compare the offensive performance of peewee players that practice BC (Calgary) or not (Quebec City) using the Team Sport Assessment Procedure adapted for hockey. A total of 280 players in Quebec City and 272 equivalent-level players in Calgary were videotaped handling the puck in competitive play during the 2007–2008 season. Poisson regression results for the variables and performance indexes indicate no significant differences in offensive performance between players who used BC or not. Expert opinions that introducing BC at a young age can improve overall development of hockey skills are therefore not supported.

L’allocation par les gouvernements provinciaux de subventions publiques à certaines écoles privées constitue dans plusieurs provinces canadiennes un enjeu régulièrement débattu. Si divers travaux antérieurs discutent dans une perspective normative de la légitimité des systèmes de soutien financier public à l’éducation privée, on sait finalement peu de choses de leur fonctionnement pratique. La présente thèse remédie à cette situation en décrivant et en expliquant la variation dans le montant de subventions publiques provinciales allouées aux autorités scolaires privées en Alberta, en Colombie-Britannique, au Manitoba et au Québec. Nous utilisons des travaux théoriques et empiriques de sociologie des organisations, de sociologie des religions, d’économie politique et de science politique pour en dériver des hypothèses testables et réfutables. Celles-ci relient le montant de subventions publiques reçues par les autorités scolaires privées à leur statut par rapport à la religion, à d’autres de leurs caractéristiques organisationnelles, à leurs besoins financiers et à leur environnement électoral. Afin de tester empiriquement le modèle formulé, nous avons construit une base de données qui porte sur 495 autorités scolaires privées réparties dans les provinces de l’Alberta, de la Colombie-Britannique, du Manitoba et du Québec. En recourant à l’analyse de régression multiple avec estimation robuste ainsi qu’à l’analyse de régression quantile, nous déterminons que l’identification religieuse des autorités scolaires privées et leurs besoins financiers constituent les meilleures explications des caractéristiques de la distribution de subventions publiques provinciales à l’éducation privée. Les autorités scolaires catholiques et protestantes sont relativement avantagées par rapport aux autres autorités scolaires privées au niveau du financement public, quoique cet avantage ne concerne que les autorités situées sous la valeur médiane de la variable dépendante. Pour l’ensemble de la distribution, il est clair que le financement provincial de l’éducation privée répond aux besoins des autorités scolaires privées en bénéficiant davantage aux autorités les moins financées par ailleurs. / The provincial funding of private education has long been a salient and resilient issue in several Canadian provinces. Most prior studies on the topic display a normative argumentation in which the legitimacy of such funding is questioned. Yet, surprisingly little is known about the empirical features of the allocative funding mechanism. This dissertation fills the research gap by describing and explaining the variation in the amount of public money that is directed towards private school authorities in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, and Quebec. I use previous researches conducted in sociology of organizations, sociology of religion, political economy, and political science, so as to present formal hypotheses. I expect the amount of public funding received by a private school authority to be a function of its religious identification, its organizational features, its financial needs, and its electoral environment. I assembled a dataset in order to empirically assess the theoretical model built from the literature review. I use data on 495 private school authorities and their environment across Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, and Quebec. Robust estimation of multiple regression models as well as quantile regression analysis are used. I find that the religious identification of private school authorities and their financial needs are the two best predictors of the amount of public funding directed towards private education. Catholic and Protestant school authorities are somewhat financially favored, though this is only true of authorities located below the median level of provincial funding. Overall, the amount of provincial funding responds to the needs of private school authorities.

Le premier volume est consacré à l’analyse des matériaux et des techniques utilisées pour la fabrication des « modèles » funéraires, c’est-à-dire, les maquettes en bois représentant des personnages ou des scènes de la vie quotidienne, typiques du mobilier funéraire des élites entre la fin de l’Ancien et la fin du Moyen Empire (env. 2350-1630 av. J.-C.). Dans une première partie, axée sur le matériel provenant des sites de Saqqâra, Assiout et Meir, les traits stylistiques et techniques ont été examinés afin de définir des groupes d’objets et identifier des ateliers de production. Des critères de datation ont ensuite été définis et comparés aux autres pièces du mobilier funéraire découverts dans les sépultures étudiées. Suivant un déroulé chronologique depuis la fin de l’Ancien Empire, la deuxième partie se concentre sur les ateliers de fabrication et les contacts interrégionaux. Une attention particulière est portée au rapport qui unit pouvoir royal, élites et artisans au travers de l’envoi d’équipements funéraires et plus particulièrement des modèles en bois découverts de la région memphite à la Haute-Égypte. La troisième partie s’intéresse aux fonctions sociales, économiques et religieuses des modèles et examine plus particulièrement le rapport étroit qui unit ce mobilier et les pratiques funéraires entre la fin de l’Ancien et la fin du Moyen Empire. Le deuxième volume présente le corpus des modèles en bois examinés. Un troisième volume est consacré aux annexes.L’examen des modèles en bois, significatif de profonds changements politiques et religieux à l’origine de nouvelles coutumes et croyances funéraires entre la VIème et la XIIIème dynastie, précise le contexte géographique, historique et social associé à la fabrication et à l’utilisation de ce mobilier et permet d’affiner la perception du rapport entre artisans et pouvoir, rapport omniprésent dans la société égyptienne antique dès la période prédynastique. / The first part focuses on material analysis and process use for the manufacturing of funerary “models”. These wooden objects represent people or everyday scenes of life, used by Egyptian elites for funeral furniture between the end of the Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom (cir. 2350-1630 BC). In a first part, focused on objects from Saqqara, Assiut and Meir, the stylistic and technical features were examined to define groups of objects and workshops. Then, dating criteria were defined and compared with the funeral furniture discovered in the studied graves. According to one unwound chronological since the end of the Old Kingdom, the second part concentrates on workshops and interregional contacts. A particular attention is worn in the relationship between royal power, elites and craftsmen through the sending of funeral equipment and more particularly bare wooden models of the Memphite area to the Upper Egypt. The third part is interested in the social, economic and religious functions of the models and examines more particularly the narrow relationship which unites this furniture and the funeral practices between the end of the Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom. The second volume presents the corpus of the examined wooden models. The third volume is dedicated to appendices. The examination of wooden models, significant of political and religious deep changes at the origin of new customs and funeral faiths between the VIth and the XIIIth dynasty, specifies the geographical, historic and social context associated with the manufacturing. The analysis of these objects allows refining the perception of the relationship between craftsmen and power, omnipresent in the Egyptian society from the Predynastic period.