The purpose of this study was to identify the perceptions of alternatively certified public K-12 teachers regarding their preparedness to teach and to identify key areas for training and administrative support needed for teacher retention. This basic qualitative study with elements of phenomenological design included a semi-structured focus group protocol in which 23 candidates participated in four focus groups. Study participants were provisionally licensed K-12 public school teachers in Virginia and represented elementary, middle, and high school teachers in both general and special education roles. Findings indicated that beginning teachers who have completed an alternative teacher certification program (ATCP) do not feel prepared for the teaching role and many have considered leaving the profession prematurely. Additionally, study findings indicate that ATCP teachers perceive that their training did not adequately prepare them for classroom management, working with parents, and managing the many responsibilities of a teacher, resulting in high levels of stress among provisionally licensed teachers. Data demonstrate that increased financial support for required coursework, a reduction in workload, mentoring programs, and more hands-on training will support ATCP teacher retention. Implications of this study's findings indicate that school, district, and state school leaders can positively impact ATCP teacher retention by implementing specific professional development programs, providing coaching and mentoring, and by adjusting ATCP training to better prepare their graduates for teaching in the areas of managing student behavior and working with parents. / Doctor of Education / The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify the perceptions of alternatively certified public K-12 teachers regarding their preparedness to teach and to identify key areas for training and administrative support needed for teacher retention. In this study, 23 candidates participated in four focus groups. Study participants were provisionally licensed K-12 public school teachers in Virginia and represented elementary, middle, and high school teachers in both general and special education roles, as well as school counselors, foreign language teachers, career and technical education, and business teachers. Findings from this study indicate that teachers who complete alternative teacher certification programs (ATCPs) perceive that they are unprepared when they begin teaching as a result of their training and many consider leaving the profession prematurely. Provisionally licensed teachers perceive they lack adequate training in areas including classroom management, academic instruction, and working with parents, resulting in high levels of stress and feeling overwhelmed. Findings from this study indicate that school, division, and state level educational leaders can provide coaching, mentoring, and professional development opportunities for ATCP teachers that will promote their retention. This study provides a lens through which to examine the experiences of ATCP teachers and understand their perceptions of their unique training and experiences so that they can be better prepared and supported by school leaders in order to remain in the profession. This study also recognizes the resiliency of ATCP teachers who overcome unique challenges in order to remain in their teaching role and positively impact student achievement.

The goal of this research was to assess the Virginia three-year provisional teaching license preparation path for earning a teaching license with an endorsement in Business and Information Technology (BIT) and Marketing Education (MKED). The study examined BIT and MKED teacher preparedness as it relates to core teaching and program management competencies for CTE educators who enrolled and completed Virginia's three-year teacher provisional licensure route to determine the effectiveness of the routes themselves. The research studied how the participants teacher preparation path impacted teachers' preparedness and how the elements of the provisional path contributed to the teacher's confidence in teaching. The study had one main research question and two sub-questions. The first sub-question emerged into five themes. They include lack of support system, struggle to implement essential teaching competencies, struggle to implement essential program management competencies, taking coursework while teaching does not work, and slight improvement by third year, but still a struggle. The second sub-question emerged into three themes. They include the need for effective support system, need for increased funding for teacher pay and required college courses, and need for focused training on specific CTE competencies. Three key conclusions from the study were BIT and MKED teachers need specific preparation training focused on core CTE teaching and program management competencies prior to entering the classroom, need a student teaching and/or co-teaching experience prior to entering the classroom by themselves, and need effective and active mentoring as well as administrative feedback and support during the entire three-year provisional licensure process. / Doctor of Philosophy / The study examined BIT and MKED teacher preparedness as it relates to core teaching and program management competencies for CTE educators who enrolled and completed Virginia's three-year teacher provisional licensure route to determine the effectiveness of the routes themselves. A qualitative research design was used for this study to determine the factors that affect the first year and third year provisionally licensed BIT and MKED teacher competency obtainment in the state of Virginia. A pre-survey of essential core teaching and program management competencies was given to create awareness of the interview topic to the interviewees. This survey was followed by an in-depth interview to gather rich data relating to the obtainment of core competencies. Three key conclusions from the study were BIT and MKED teachers need specific preparation training focused on core CTE teaching and program management competencies prior to entering the classroom, need a student teaching and/or co-teaching experience prior to entering the classroom by themselves, and need effective and active mentoring as well as administrative feedback and support during the entire three-year provisional licensure process. The results of the research may help improve the provisionally licensed teacher path route for prepare beginning BIT and MKED teachers in Virginia. The research will add to the literature by providing (1) information on how to improve provisional-teacher license preparation programs, (2) suggesting methods of training in these programs, and (3) showing the significance of beginning CTE teachers' professional relationships with administrators and mentor teachers. The results of the study could also assist school districts to better allocate resources and staff to effectively help provisionally licensed teachers.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Provisional restorative treatment is an essential part of fixed prosthodontics. Incorporation of adequately constructed provisional restorations will enhance the success rate of definitive restorations. Repairing or replacing failed provisional restorations is a concern for both clinicians and patients. The objective of this investigation was to study the effects of alumina nanofibers reinforcement on the mechanical properties of commercially available provisional fixed partial denture PMMA material. The hypothesis was that the addition of alumina nanofibers to commercially available PMMA resin will significantly increase its flexural strength, fracture toughness, and microhardness. Alumina nanofibers at 0.0 wt %, 0.5 wt %, 1.0 wt %, and 2.5 wt % were added to commercially available provisional fixed partial material (Jet Tooth Shade). A quaternary ammonium acetate dispersant (CC-59, Goldschmidt, Janesville, WI) was added to the acrylic monomer at 0.0 wt %, 1.0 wt %, 2.0 wt % and 5.0 wt % of the nanofiber weight (12 test groups, 1 control). Samples from each group were evaluated for flexural strength, flexural modulus, fracture toughness, and microhardness. The samples were tested after storing in distilled water for 24 hours and 7 days at 37ºC. Two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test the effects of storage time and combinations of alumina nanofiber level and quaternary ammonium acetate dispersant level on the flexural strength, fracture toughness, and microhardness of the provisional PMMA resin. Pair-wise comparisons between groups were performed using Tukey’s multiple comparisons procedure to control the overall significance level at 5 percent. Three fracture toughness samples/group were randomly selected for Energy Dispersive Spectrometry (EDS) to qualitatively evaluate the dispersion of the fibers. The data obtained from this study showed that control sample values were in the acceptance range compared with previous research. The experimental samples did not reinforce the provisional resin in the flexural strength, modulus, fracture toughness, or microhardness. There are several factors may attribute to these results, such as poor bonding at the filler/matrix interface. The more homogeneous the mixture of PMMA and fiber, the stronger the acrylic resin. In fact, the presence of poorly bonded fibers, to which little load is transferred, can be almost equivalent to voids. In addition, as seen with EDS images, alumina nanofibers had a tendency to agglomerate. The use of a magnetic stirrer was not effective in physically separating nanofibers agglomerates. Direct dispersion of alumina nanofibers in methyl methacrylate monomer and quaternary ammonium acetate dispersant was not effective in separating the nanofibers into nano-scaled single crystals. The presence of fiber agglomerates acts as a structural defect that detrimentally affects the mechanical properties. Further studies are needed to evaluate the effectiveness of fibers, dispersion techniques, and coupling agents to enhance the mechanical properties of the provisional PMMA resin.

Interim Measures are viewed as an essential means to protect parties‘ rights in international commercial arbitration disputes. Most Arbitration Laws and Rules have recognised the arbitral tribunal‘s power to grant such measures. The success of this system relies on the court‘s assistance of the tribunal during the process. This relationship between the tribunal and the court is something vague under Egyptian Law, since there are no clear rules addressing the matter. Hence, this research examines the theories that explain the tribunal‘s authority and the relationship with the authority of the court. This study uses a comparative analytical approach in terms of analyzing relevant legal texts to determine the optimal legal approach to the issue. The purpose of the study is to address deficiencies in the Egyptian law – the Code of Civil Procedure and Egyptian Arbitration Law – and compare it with English, Scottish Arbitration Acts and international arbitration systems, laws, and practices. The findings of this research offer several recommendations that could help achieve a successful and smooth arbitration process. This study identifies and explains types of interim measures and explores the international practice of every type. It gives some important recommendations for future development and improvement of the Egyptian law. It also makes general recommendations that would help improve the efficiency of the English and Scottish laws.

The following thesis is comprised of an edited interview between Andrew Meerow and an undisclosed questioner in which the two discuss Meerow’s visual thesis, a body of paintings titled “Some Examples of Displacement.” The interview addresses the production of art and value as Meerow's primary subject, a reflexive position that absorbs qualitative interpretation in either direction. In keeping with the intentions of the artwork, the interview is re-organized, censored, and collaged such that the discussion itself is addressed not as a procedure of truth, but as a performative gesture toward that pursuit.

93 Abstract Preliminary injunction is one of the most important means of protecting the rights of the participants of civil proceedings. The proceedings on the preliminary injunction is easier and faster than the proceedings on the merits, which allows the courts to act without undue delays and to effectively secure either the legal relations of the parties or the risk of loss. The consequence of these facts, however, is a restriction on the application of certain principles of civil procedure, and therefore also of the rights of the parties, especially the defendant. The question is whether this restriction is not unreasonably high and thus whether the current legal regulations meet requirements that are placed on it. The aim of this thesis is to provide a critical look at the regulation of preliminary injunctions, especially on its possibilities and limits, regarding the doctrinal and judicial conclusions. The first part of this thesis deals with the regulation of preliminary injunctions in general. Preliminary injunctions are there defined in terms of their meaning and the purpose, then the author briefly describes the basic principles, the taxonomy and the history of the regulation. The second and the third part focus on the material and formal conditions of the preliminary injunction. In addition to...

No momento em que se mostrou difícil reprimir o crime no âmbito interno dos países, a comunidade internacional passou a perseguir, também, os efeitos e proventos do crime, através do cumprimento de medidas cautelares patrimoniais para bloqueio e confisco de bens do acusado existentes no exterior. Tal intento foi atingido por meio da cooperação jurídica internacional, cujos instrumentos estão sujeitos ao due process of law. Contudo, por haver distintos sistemas processuais, o estranhamento do tratamento dispensado pelo ordenamento jurídico de um Estado em determinada matéria de Direito Processual Penal pode deflagrar, perante outro Estado, argumentos contrários ao atendimento do pedido de assistência jurídica, inviabilizando o fluxo cooperacional. Por isso, várias questões surgem quando se desloca as medidas cautelares patrimoniais penais no contexto da cooperação jurídica. A presente dissertação abordará o tema da cooperação jurídica internacional em matéria penal sob a perspectiva do devido processo legal e, a partir desse enfoque, identificará conflitos que eventualmente surgem dos pedidos de assistência jurídica para cumprimento de medidas cautelares patrimoniais. / Once it became difficult to restrain crime under domestic jurisdiction, international communities also started to go after the proceeds and instrumentalities of offenses, through enforcement of provisional measures, aiming at immobilization and forfeiture of defendant´s assets existing abroad. Said target was achieved by legal international cooperation, whose instruments are subject to the due process of law. However, as there are different procedure systems, the strangeness caused by treatment offered by the legal system of a State in a certain matter of Criminal Procedure Law may deflagrate before another State, opposite arguments to fulfillment of legal assistance order, making unfeasible the cooperation flow. That is why several issues come up when criminal provisional measures are moved in the context of legal cooperation. The current dissertation will discuss the international legal cooperation in criminal matter under the light of due process of law and thereinafter, it will identify conflicts that may eventually appear from orders of legal assistance for the enforcement of provisional measures.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:29:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 cpmf2.pdf: 476947 bytes, checksum: c2d6daa9f02fe774eb790bd662838462 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-06-27 / Pontificia Universidade de São Paulo / This study has the objective of showing the matrix-rule of the incidence of the Provisional Contribution on Financial Transactions; and the importance of this tax for the federal government fiscal planning, as well as its use as an inspection instrument for other Federal Government taxes. For this, we are using as base the technical concept of Professor PAULO DE BARROS CARVALHO, performing the epistemological cuts, going through the judicial system, right sources, fiscal nature and species and completing with the incidence matrix-rule. Conveniently, we will talk about the allocation of tax revenues to present conclusions about the Federal Government fiscal planning; in other words, to increase tax collection without passing through for other entities. After this, we will study the Provisional Contribution on Financial Transactions as an inspection instrument of the taxpayer income and we will conclude by making some considerations on zero tax rate, exemption and immunity. At the end, we describe all conclusions. / O presente estudo tem por pretensão traçar a regra-matriz de incidência da Contribuição Provisória sobre Movimentação Financeira e a utilização de seus dados para a fiscalização de outros tributos. Para tanto, pautamo-nos no conceito teórico do professor PAULO DE BARROS CARVALHO, realizando os cortes epistemológicos, passando pelo conceito de sistema jurídico, fontes do direito, natureza e espécies tributárias, findando com a regra-matriz de incidência. Ato contínuo, estudamos a utilização dos dados da Contribuição Provisória sobre Movimentação Financeira para a fiscalização de outros tributos. Por oportuno, discorremos sobre a repartição das receitas tributárias para concluirmos sobre um dos planejamentos tributários da União, bem como fizemos algumas considerações sobre alíquota zero, isenção e imunidade. Por derradeiro, traçamos todas as conclusões.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2019-01-22T14:47:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Augusto Tarradt Vilela_.pdf: 1338767 bytes, checksum: 898cdbee6a4221f88856f49b87d08e5f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2019-01-22T14:47:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Augusto Tarradt Vilela_.pdf: 1338767 bytes, checksum: 898cdbee6a4221f88856f49b87d08e5f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-18 / Nenhuma / Estabeleceu-se, em contexto internacional, também especificamente no Brasil, uma crise no direito penal derivada de diversos fatores, tendo muitos desses sido diagnosticados por Silva Sánchez na estrutura da chamada expansão do direitopenal. Essa crise vem fazendo com que a população exija mais ingerência do direitopenal na resolução dos conflitos sociais diários, afastando o caráter de intervenção excepcional do direito penal. O movimento capitaneado pela bandeira do combate à corrupção e à impunidade gerou efeitos no contexto social e, inclusive, atingiu juristas e, mais pontualmente, o Supremo Tribunal Federal, o qual passou, sob pressão, a pretender responder aos anseios da sociedade brasileira, em especial por razões de crise política. Os reflexos dessas exigências na Corte Constitucional podem ser verificados pela eficiência fornecida no âmbito da decisão proferida no habeas corpus n. 126.292/SP (e outras seguintes) que modificou o entendimento do Tribunal Supremo para permitir o cumprimento da pena antes do trânsito em julgado da sentença condenatória. No discorrer das decisões, é visível a presença da marca do pragmatismo e, até mesmo, do utilitarismo. Diante disso, pretende-se identificar o modelo de eficiência aplicado pela Suprema Corte nas decisões que viabilizaram a retomada do cumprimento provisório da pena e, diante da visão de eficiência de Wedy e da concepção de resposta adequada à Constituição Federal de Streck, constatar se a eficiência lá proposta está constitucionalmente adequada e, se não, qual é o modelo correto. / A crisis in criminal law derived from several factors was established, in a world order, also specifically in Brazil, and many of these were diagnosed by Silva Sánchez in the framework of the expansion of criminal law. This crisis has caused the population to demand more interference of criminal law in the resolution of daily social conflicts, removing the exceptional character of criminal law. The movement, captained by the banner of the fight against corruption and impunity, has generated effects in the social context, and even reached jurists and, more punctually, the Federal Supreme Court, which under pressure tried to respond to the aspirations of Brazilian society, in especially for reasons of political crisis. The consequences of these requirements in the Constitutional Court can be verified by the efficiency provided in the scope of the decision issued in habeas corpus n. 126.292/SP (and others) that modified the understanding of the Supreme Court to allow the condemnation to be served before the final sentence. In the elapse of decisions, the presence of the pragmatism and even of utilitarianism is visible. In view of this, it is intended to identify the efficiency model applied by the Supreme Court in the decisions that enabled the resumption of the provisional execution of the condemnation and, in view of the efficiency vision of Wedy and the concept of adequate response to the Federal Constitution of Streck, propose a constitutionally adequate and, if not, what is the correct model.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-04-06T12:48:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Leticia Arenal e Silva.pdf: 1245549 bytes, checksum: 4bcecd11e9ee303899ce1687fe0aca7a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-06T12:48:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leticia Arenal e Silva.pdf: 1245549 bytes, checksum: 4bcecd11e9ee303899ce1687fe0aca7a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-27 / This very study has as its main objective the investigation of the stabilization of summary judgement. Before dully exploring the main object herein, foreign law is asserted in order to base the study on the institute inserted in the Brazilian legal system with the arrival of the New Civil Procedure Code. After having dealt with the stabilization of the phenomenon that falls on interim protection, an introductory study is performed to its sorts, procedures and requirements that shall be present for us to pass on to the analysis of the object of stabilization. Later, we move on to the study of the stabilization itself. We have chosen to develop the current paper considering the innovation from the 2015 legislator that established discussions and debates in the legal system, without having up to now proof of its practical application. Thus, stabilization on interim protection does not bear resemblance with the institutes from existing procedural law in the Brazilian legal system that translates the challenge experienced in the empirical and academic area. We have attempted to approach more emblematic issues already arising from the doctrine, always in light of the Federal Constitution and the new Brazilian Civil Procedure Code / O estudo em apreço tem por objetivo a investigação da estabilização da tutela antecipada. Antes de adentrar propriamente ao objeto principal desse breve ensaio, é perquirido o direito estrangeiro, a fim de balizar o estudo do instituto inserido no sistema positivo brasileiro com a chegada do novo Código de Processo Civil. Tratando-se a estabilização de fenômeno que recai sobre a tutela provisória, é realizado um estudo introdutório às suas espécies, procedimento e requisitos que devem estar presentes para que se passe à análise do objeto da estabilização. Posteriormente, passa-se ao estudo do instituto da estabilização propriamente dito. Optamos por desenvolver o presente trabalho considerando a inovação do legislador de 2015, que ensejou discussões e debates na seara jurídica, não havendo, até esse momento, indícios de sua aplicação prática. Com efeito, a estabilização da tutela provisória não guarda similitude com institutos do direito processual até então existentes no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro, o que traduz o desafio vivenciado na área empírica e acadêmica. Procuramos abordar as questões mais emblemáticas já suscitadas pela doutrina, sempre à luz da Constituição Federal e do novo Código de Processo Civil brasileiro