Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1986. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 252-261).

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Texte remanié de: Tesis doctoral--Universidad del País vasco, 1995. / Bibliogr. p. 309-319.

This study investigates the recovery efforts provided for low income and ethnic minority populations by organizations during the permanent housing phase of recovery in Watsonville, California, following the Loma Prieta earthquake of October 17, 1989. The case study format is used to discover what activities were performed and why each organization chose to perform them. Dynes and Quarantelli's (1968) typology of organization is used to explain how and why established, expanding, extending and emergent organizations participated in the recovery efforts. The findings indicate that the type of organization dictated the kind of tasks each organization performed. Organizations maintained activities during recovery for which they had experience, expertise and proficiency.

The primary purpose of the study was to determine if the funding and revenue conditions which existed prior to the passage of the Tax Relief Amendment of 1978 continued after the enactment of public school finance legislation by the Sixty-Sixth and Sixty-Seventh Texas Legislatures. Analyses of four research questions were used to accomplish the purpose of the study.

Le Tian Shan est une chaîne intracontinentale d’Asie Centrale, dont la structure lithosphérique résulte de l’accrétion de divers blocs au cours du Paléozoïque. Son histoire tectonique récente est marquée par sa réactivation au Tertiaire, liée à la collision entre l’Inde et l’Asie. L’histoire topographique et tectonique de la chaine entre les deux orogenèses majeures (paléozoïque terminal et cénozoïque) reste peu contrainte. Cette thèse associe deux approches, la sédimentologie et la thermochronologie basse température, dans le but de déterminer de façon qualitative l’évolution de la topographie au cours du Mésozoïque.Le démantèlement des reliefs associés à la chaine tardi-paléozoïque s’achève au Trias supérieur. Il est suivi d’une activité tectonique très faible au Jurassique, majoritairement transtensive et caractérisée par des taux d’exhumation très faibles dans le Tian Shan. Une surface majeure de pénéplanation se développe alors en Asie Centrale. A la limite Jurassique – Crétacé, la mise en place de cônes alluviaux indique une réactivation de la chaîne, qui n’est néanmoins pas suffisante pour être enregistrée par la thermochronologie. Cette période est caractérisée par un régime généralement extensif en Asie Centrale (jusqu’au Bassin Caspien qui s’ouvre à l’est), et précède la phase d’exhumation lente, qui suit au Crétacé inférieur. La chaîne est progressivement réactivée à partir de 100 Ma et pendant le Crétacé supérieur, ce qui pourrait correspondre à un effet retardé de la collision du Bloc de Lhassa (140 - 120 Ma). Vers 65 - 60 Ma, une phase d’exhumation rapide atteste d’une réactivation plus intense et localisée le long des principales failles. Elle est sans doute liée aux collisions de blocs le long de la marge sud-ouest de l’Asie (e.g. Bloc du Kohistan, arc du Dras, Bloc Afghan). Dans la région du Tian Shan, l’activité tectonique semble totalement s’arrêter au Paléocène permettant le développement d’un niveau majeur de calcrêtes, avant la nouvelle réactivation au Néogène. Par conséquent, l’association des données de thermochronologie sur le socle avec la reconstruction des milieux de dépôt dans les différents bassins, montre que la paléo-chaîne du Tian Shan s’aplanit durant le Mésozoïque. Des évènements tectoniques de faible envergure ont lieu en Asie Centrale, induits par les principaux mouvements géodynamiques le long des bordures entourant l’Asie. Pourtant leur enregistrement est incomplet et seule la combinaison des deux approches étudiées permet de reconstituer l’évolution topographique et paléogéographique du Tian Shan. / The Tian Shan is an intracontinental range located in Central Asia. The structure of the range formed during the Paleozoic through the accretion of several blocks. Recently the range has been reactivated due to far-field effects of the collision between India and Asia. The topographic and tectonic evolution of the range in-between these two major relief-building phases (Late Paleozoic and Cenozoic) is still poorly understood. Two different approaches are combined in this work, in order to determine the Mesozoic topographic evolution of the area, in a qualitative way.The Late-Paleozoic range has been progressively eroded until the Upper Triassic/Lower Jurassic. Tectonic activity was relatively quiet during the Jurassic characterised by low exhumation rates. We suggest that the tectonic regime was dominated by transtension in the Tian Shan area. This period is linked to a regional peneplanation in Central Asia. At the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary, the occurrence of alluvial fan deposits shows a reactivation of the range, though not strong enough to be recorded by low-temperature thermochronology. This period is characterised by an overall extensional tectonic regime all over Central Asia, with the opening of the Caspian Basin further west. It precedes the phase of very slow exhumation that occurs during the Lower Cretaceous. From 100 Ma and during the Upper Cretaceous, the range is progressively reactivated. We suggest that this correspond to a delayed answer of the Lhassa bloc collision (140 - 120 Ma). Around 65 - 60 Ma, a new phase of rapid exhumation attests of a stronger reactivation, localised along the major faults. This is contemporary of bloc collisions along the south-west margin of Asia, such as the Kohistan Block, the Dras arc or the Afghan Block. In the Tian Shan area, the development of calcrete features in the Paleocene suggests the end of tectonic activity, before the new reactivation in the Neogene.The combination of low temperature thermochronology on the basement rocks and facies sedimentology in the various basins indicate that while during the Mesozoic, the Palaeo-Tian Shan topography generally flattens, some small-scale tectonic events driven by far-field effects of major geodynamic processes around the edges of Asia did occur. However, those tectonic movements did not induce enough exhumation to be recorded by low temperature thermochronometers. Only the sediment record allows their detection and detailed description.

La poésie de Lorand Gaspar, par la constance de sa variété même et sa réticence à cultiver une forme fixe, semble autoriser l’hypothèse d’une "poétique du mouvement", qui se découvre en résonance avec toute une conception immanentiste du monde, advenue dès l’enfance du poète et cultivée au fil de l’expérience. Fortement indicative d’une relation analogique avec le système neuronal ― d’où la lecture que nous proposons d’une "neuropoétique" ―, cette poétique cinétique, tissée dans la tension stylistique d’une "continuité discontinue", serait pénétrée d’une poétique adverse, à la fois contraire et complémentaire, qui semble incliner vers les formes spécifiques d’une géographie élective. Fondée par une puissante thématique du relief et par l’expérience, fondamentale dans la vie de Gaspar, de la nature, cette théorie "géotropique" entend déployer la construction esthétique, dans l’œuvre, d’un "relief poétique", ou encore, pour dire en un mot l’instillation de la géologie dans la forme du poème, d’une géopoétique. La poétique de Lorand Gaspar, essentiellement contrastive, serait la conjugaison de ces deux mouvements linguistiques, de cette tension entre finitude et infini, qui montre que le poème de Gaspar n’est pas un élan simple dans le monde, mais un monde où le sujet, à travers l’invention poétique, tend, aussi bien, à se dégager de l’infini "mouvement" où il est engagé. / Lorand Gaspar’s poetry bears a constant variety that resists the development of a fixed form. It thereby seems to allow for the hypothesis of a "poetics of motion" which echoes the poet’s immanence-based conception of the world, occurred to him since his childhood and fostered over the years of experience. Strongly pointing at an analogical relationship with the neuronal system, which accounts for our reading of a "neuropoetics", this kinetic poetics, woven in the intricate stylistics of a "discontinuous continuity", is likely infused with an adverse poetics, both contradicting and complementing it, which seems to tend towards the specific forms of a peculiarly chosen geography. Informed by a forceful theme of the relief and the fundamental experience of nature in Gaspar’s life, this "geotropic" theory means to display the aesthetic making up of a "poetic relief", or, of a geopoetics, a word that conveys the ingraining of geology into the form of the poem. Lorand Gaspar’s poetics, which is essentially contrastive, would bring together those two linguistic movements, this tense interplay between the finite and the infinite, which shows that Gaspar’s poem does not merely spring up to the world, but is, in itself, a world where the subject, through the poetic invention, also tends to break free from the infinite "movement" in which he is involved.

This dissertation contributes to literature on postwar philanthropy and the Franco-American relationship. It examines the private voluntary relief organization, American Aid to France (AAF), which provided emergency supplies, rehabilitative services, and assisted in the reconstruction of France following the Second World War. Unlike other devastated European countries, Charles de Gaulle did not invite the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) to host a program, which limited France’s participation in the transnational relief movement of the immediate postwar period and allowed AAF to become the principal foreign private voluntary aid agency operating in Liberated France. From 1944 to 1956, AAF asserted that its assistance reflected the strength of the Franco-American alliance, and kinship felt between two countries with a shared history of liberal revolution and republicanism. AAF’s statements expressing “goodwill” and “historical friendship” towards France rapidly began to assume a more political tone as Cold War tensions intensified. From 1947 onward, AAF became increasingly outspoken in its support for capitalism, democracy, and international cooperation. These statements were crafted for, and appealed to, U.S. authorities who believed France was the key to containing communism in Europe. In reality, AAF’s main concern was redressing the destruction of Normandy caused by Allied bombing campaigns, and the organization showed no hesitation to work with mayors from across the political spectrum in devastated French communities to achieve this goal. AAF’s private voluntary status shielded the organization from French criticisms of Americanization chiefly aimed at the Marshall Plan. This dissertation demonstrates that AAF was part of an independent, robust private voluntary relief sphere that contributed to Europe’s recovery, and helped citizens in the United States and France come to terms with the transition from war to peace. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This dissertation contributes to literature on postwar philanthropy and Franco-American relations. It examines American Aid to France (AAF), one of hundreds of U.S. private voluntary relief organizations founded during the Second World War to help devastated civilians. Operating from 1944 to 1956, AAF’s efforts to provide emergency supplies, rehabilitative services, and assist in the reconstruction of Liberated France was a significant private affirmation of the Franco-American alliance during a period of increasingly tense international relations. Private voluntary relief organizations have been overlooked in scholarship in favour of larger agencies such as the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), which has resulted in a considerable emphasis on transnationalism in the literature on postwar relief. Examining Franco-American relations through the prism of AAF’s relief reveals that a dynamic alternative network of private assistance, which operated firmly outside of the transnational relief movement, contributed in meaningful ways to France’s recovery.

A tese trata do tema das tutelas de urgência e da evidência nos processos societários e está dividida em dez partes. A primeira parte aborda a tutela de urgência e tutela da evidência no contexto da tempestividade da tutela jurisdicional, sempre sob a égide da celeridade do processo, da segurança jurídica e da técnica processual e as propostas para o Novo Código de Processo Civil. A segunda, trata do devido processo legal e o do contraditório, da análise econômica do direito, das relações entre direito e processo e do regime jurídico das medidas urgentes. A terceira parte aborda os limites do controle judicial, as medidas inaudita altera parte, as astreintes, o descumprimento, a contracautela, a irreversibilidade; a relação entre a medida urgente nas eficácias da sentença e seu reflexo no regime das nulidades em direito societário. A quarta parte trata da tutela da evidência no direito societário, abordando a quebra da ordinariedade do sistema processual brasileiro atual, alguns conflitos societários e as propostas para o Novo Código de Processo Civil. A quinta parte contém desdobramentos da tutela da evidência e da tutela de urgência nas deliberações sociais. A sexta e a sétima partes tratarão das tutelas de urgência e demais questões societárias (produção antecipada de provas, a antecipação de haveres, afastamento de sócio, arrolamento, exibição de livros e documentos societários). A oitava parte diz respeito à arbitragem em matéria societária e as relações entre juízes togados e árbitros. A nona parte conterá propostas legislativas e as concusões da tese. A décima e última parte trará a bibliografia utilizada. / This thesis focuses the subject of interim measures and injunctive relief in corporation litigation and is divided in ten parts. The first part addresses ínterim measures and injunctive relief in the context of judicial reliefs opportune timing, always taking into account readiness, legal security and procedural technique, as well as the proposals for a new Code of Civil Procedure. The second addresses procedural due process and participation in the proceedings, law and economics, the relations between substantive and procedural law, and the legal regime of interim measures. The third part approaches the limits of judicial review, inaudita altera parte relief, contempt of court fees, noncompliance, counter-guarantee, irreversibility, the relationship between the interim measure in the final awards effects and its impact in the regime of nullity defects in corporate law. The fourth part discusses interim measures based on preponderance of evidence in corporate law, bracing the fracture of ordinary proceedings in the current Brazilian Procedural system, some corporate disputes, and the proposals for the New Code of Civil Procedure. The fifth parte contains the unravelling of interim relief based on preponderance of evidence and urgent relief regarding the corporations decisions. The sixth and seventh parts will engage in the matters of urgent relief and other remaining corporate issues (anticipated disclosure of evidence, anticipated payment of shareholders assets, termination of shareholders, probate proceedings, disclosure of business records and other company documents). The eight part focuses arbitration in corporate law and the relationship between state judges and arbitrators. The ninth part contains proposals for statute drafts and the conclusions of the thesis. The tenth and last part shall bring the bibliography utilised.

The problem of this study is to determine whether or not Texas public schools lost revenue when constitutionally mandated tax relief measures were implemented. The study also traces the evolution of tax relief legislation in Texas from 1969 to 1980. Superintendents from randomly selected school districts identified educational program adjustments required if revenues were reduced. Superintendents also identified educational and property tax issues of concern to district constituents.