The aim is to show file delivery INCOTERMS in the context of foreign trade activities. The aim is to describe some possible connections and consequences that occur during their use in international trade. It focuses on foreign trade operations under the jurisdiction of INCOTERMS delivery, from the perspective of both parties. The practical objective is therefore to analyze applications Incoterms clauses in selected real-world business operations of companies following the introduction of clauses INCOTERMS 2010 according to various criteria. The company is monitored in the evaluation viewed from two sides, it is a party buyers and sellers. The work compares the use of Incoterms clauses, both among buyers and sellers and between their trading partners.Data were obtained by questionnaire survey of companies in the Czech Republic.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-04-06Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:15:51Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 merenciano_lh_me_arafcl.pdf: 1583595 bytes, checksum: 1c2514fb507c404d712d7d902df524cf (MD5) / A procura do leitor brasileiro pelo discurso de auto-ajuda tem sido um fato inegável contemporaneamente. Por isso, este trabalho visa descrever a organização e o funcionamento dos textos de auto-ajuda mais vendidos de 1991 a 2006, a partir dos rankings “auto-ajuda e esoterismo”, listados semanalmente pela revista Veja. A partir de um corpus organizado por meio do levantamento dessas listas de livros, o objetivo central consiste em sugerir uma tipologia lingüística para os discursos de auto-ajuda mais vendidos atualmente. A abordagem semiótica de orientação greimasiana possui critérios adequados de descrição do plano de conteúdo, com vistas a oferecer uma definição tipológica mais refinada dos discursos. Os níveis fundamental, narrativo e discursivo, na sua dimensão sintagmática e paradigmática, do percurso gerativo de sentido, podem oferecer um quadro suficiente de elementos descritivos, segundo a maior ou menor incidência dos seus componentes na organização dos discursos, tais como: o investimento axiológico das categorias fundamentais (euforia e disforia); os percursos dos actantes funcionais (destinador-manipulador, destinatário-sujeito e do destinador-julgador); as fases da narrativa (manipulação, competência, perfórmance e sanção); a natureza do objeto-valor (cognitivo ou pragmático, modal ou descritivo); a projeção do sujeito da enunciação (as marcas do enunciador e do enunciatário); e a constituição discursiva (textos predominantemente figurativos, predominantemente temáticos ou equivalentemente temático-figurativos). A auto-ajuda, à maneira dos discursos técnicos (manuais de montagem, receitas de cozinha, por exemplo), tende a privilegiar a fase da competência. Nesta, o percurso do destinador-manipulador contribui para que o seu enunciatário (a projeção do leitor) saiba e possa construir o valor subjetivo que procura. Nesse caso... / The Brazilian reader’s search for self-help discourses has been a fact nowadays. For this reason, this work proposes to study the linguistic and discursive processes related to bestselling books of self-help literature in the period 1991-2006, by means of the lists of bestsellers in the Self-Help genre organized and listed weekly by Veja, a Brazilian news magazine. Starting from a corpus collected from these book lists, the aim is to suggest a linguistic typology for the current best-selling self-help books. The methodological perspective of Greimasian semiotics has appropriate criteria for the description of the level of contents, aiming at suggesting more elaborate typological definitions of discourses. The deep, narrative and discursive levels, in its syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions of the generative process of meaning, can offer enough descriptive elements, according to the large or small incidence – focus – of its semiotic components in the organization of discourses, such as: the axiological investment of thymic deep components (euphoria and dysphoria); the path of functional actants (sender-manipulator, receiver-subject and sender-judge); the narrative phases (manipulation, competence, perfórmance and sanction); the characteristics of the object of value (cognitive, pragmatic, modal or descriptive); the projection of the subject of enunciation (how sender and receiver can be linguistically manifest); and the discursive level components (texts which are predominantly thematic, predominantly figurative or thematic and figurative in equal measure). Self-help books, similarly to technical discourses (culinary recipes, instruction manuals), tend to focus on the phase of competence. In it, the sender-manipulator makes its receiver-subject (the reader’s discursive projection) “knowing-how-to-do” and “be able-to-do” so he or she elaborate the subjective object wanted...(Complete abstract click electronic access below)

"In recent years the writer has noted from time to time the recurrence on best seller lists of titles that could be called, because of the setting, characterization, and problems, religious fiction. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the titles of religious fiction for the period 1900-1953 with view to determining how many such novels achieved best seller status; of ascertaining what types have been widely read; and with view of determining what in the minds of authors and reviewers was the need served and the reason for their popularity. No attempt will be made to show that these books ought to be read, that they are outstanding literature, or that they will necessarily live--the aim is to show that the religious novel is a force that cannot be ignored in the study of fiction and current trends in writing"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "May, 1955." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: Robert G. Clapp, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-50).

[pt] Causa estranheza que as listas de livros de ficção mais vendidos no Brasil, publicadas em jornais e revistas nos últimos anos, sejam frequentadas quase que exclusivamente por autores estrangeiros, especialmente quando observamos que a situação não se repete nas listas de livros de não-ficção: nestas, autores brasileiros são maioria. Onde se encontra a explicação para este fenômeno? Será que os autores nacionais de ficção, com suas histórias e formas narrativas, não conseguem despertar o interesse dos leitores brasileiros como fazem os autores de não-ficção? Ou o problema se encontra nas editoras, que preferem investir em livros com sucesso já testado em outros países? E os leitores: por que preferem a ficção estrangeira? Pesquisa como esta daria um romance policial. E deu... / [en] Causes strangeness that best-selling fiction books lists published in Brazilian newspapers and magazines in the last years are almost exclusively frequented by foreign authors, especially when we observe that the situation doesnt repeat at the lists of no-fiction books. What explains this phenomenon? Will it be that national authors of fiction, with its histories and narrative forms, dont gather Brazilian readers interest, as non-fiction authors does? Or the problem lies on publishers, that prefers to invest in books with success already tested in other countries? And the readers: why do they prefer foreign fiction instead of national? This research intends to analyze the situation and to look for answers to all those subjects. I could write a novel with a research like this. And I did…

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / Neste trabalho analiso as formas de sociabilidade dos redeiros de Patos-PB, incluindo as vivÃncias com seus cÃnjuges, a partir da observaÃÃo e mergulho nos aspectos do cotidiano de suas vidas. A perspectiva teÃrica adotada tem como principais matrizes:os conceitos de dÃdiva e reciprocidade na constituiÃÃo de redes de sociabilidade (MarcelMauss0; a noÃÃo de honra (Bourdieu)e forma de sociabilidade (Simmel) (1) a contribuiÃÃo de Marcel Mauss, com sua discussÃo relativa Ãs redes de sociabilidade constituÃdas em torno das estruturas de dÃdiva e de reciprocidade; (2) a contribuiÃÃo de Bourdieu, em seus estudos sobre a honra entre os Kabilia; (3) a contribuiÃÃo de Simmel, com sua discussÃo a respeito das formas de sociabilidade. Para compreender a organizaÃÃo social dos redeiros-vendedores e das suas mulheres no contexto das vendas das redes, cangas e mantas, bem como as maneiras pelas quais eles constroem e reconstroem as mais diversas formas de sociabilidade e trabalho frente a outros sujeitos sociais nos mÃltiplos espaÃos por onde transitam ao efetivarem suas vendas, utilizei a etnografia como metodologia, realizando entrevistas semi-estruturadas, conversas informais, observaÃÃo participante e sistematizando algumas histÃrias de vida. Dentre as principais conclusÃes do trabalho destaco as seguintes: (1) a honra entre os redeiros de Patos-PB à construÃda a partir da lÃgica da dÃvida; (2) a sociabilidade dos redeiros à determinada pela reciprocidade obrigatÃria da dÃvida, que favorece a construÃÃo e fortalecimento de laÃos sociais; (3) a honra se expressa de vÃrias formas nos diferentes lugares e papÃis sociais ocupados e desempenhados pelos redeiros na relaÃÃo da dÃdiva / In this work I analyse forms of sociability among hammock sellers from Patos, PB, including living experiences with their marital partners, using the methodology of interviews and the direct observation of aspects of their daily lives. The theoretical perspective has as main founts: (1) contributions done by Marcel Mauss on the theme of sociability nets, which are built around structures of giving and reciprocity; (2) the contributions done by Bourdieu on the theme of honour among the Kabila; (3) the contributions done by Simmel, with his discussion on sociability forms. In order to understand the social organisation of hammock sellers and theirs wives in the context of hammocks and other sales and other craft-works sales, I used the ethnographic method and did semi-structured interviews. Besides it I made direct observation and participated in informal chats between hammock sellers I chose, in order to have some life stories. Among the main outcomes of my research I bring out the following: (1) the honour of the hammock sellers from Patos-PB is built with reference to the debt logic; (2) the sociability of hammock sellers is determined by the imposed reciprocity of debt, which helps them in building and make strong social links; (3) the hammock sellers honour expresses itself in varied forms according to the different places in which hammock sellers circulate. It varies as well as a function of social roles they play at the community.

The thesis purpose is to show that small time frame discretionary e-mini market trading does not mean only blind betting without long term success. Carefully built trading plan, risk management optimization and self-control mastering are the key elements for successful financial market speculation. The first part of the thesis focuses on basics of market mechanism, price activity and order flow. Practical part summarizes findings of theoretical part of the thesis to comprehensive concept, trading plan which is tested through one month demo account trading e-mini Dow market.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:47:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jeane Lucas.pdf: 868815 bytes, checksum: 28a75baf27ad1a2c184ef9d159a851d1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-06 / Literary production of the nineties and the early years of the twenty-first century is characterized the release of some literary genres, specifically what Literary Theory defined as being a novel, which do not fit the standards of Classical Literature or the peculiarities of the so-called Best Sellers. Therefore, this thesis has as its object of study the book Leopardos de Kafka, by Moacyr Scliar, which is part of the collection of detective novels Literature and Death, released by the publisher Companhia das Letras. This study aims to show the narrative resources and how they were used in the novel aforementioned, so that we can show that they break the existing boundaries between Classical Literature and Best Sellers and the standards of the traditional detective novel. For this objective to be achieved, the theoretical foundation of this thesis was based, mainly, on studies of the detective novel, done by Boileau and Narcejac (1991), Albuquerque (1979), Reimão (1983, 2005) and others; in researches on Best Sellers, done by Sodré (1978), Caldas (2000) among others and on studies of Historiographic Metafiction, postmodernism and narcissistic narrative, made by Hutcheon (1984, 2002). / O panorama da produção literária da década de noventa e dos primeiros anos do século XXI é marcado pelo lançamento de alguns gêneros literários, especificamente o que a Teoria Literária definiu como sendo romance, que não se ajustam nem às regras da Literatura Culta nem às peculiaridades do que se convencionou chamar de Literatura de Massa. Por isso, esta tese tem como objeto de estudo o livro Leopardos de Kafka, de Moacyr Scliar, pertencente à coleção de romances policiais Literatura ou Morte, lançada pela editora Companhia das Letras. O presente estudo objetiva mostrar os recursos narrativos e o modo como estes foram empregados, no romance citado, a fim de que se possa evidenciar que eles rompem com as fronteiras existentes entre a Literatura Culta e a Literatura de Massa e com as regras do romance policial tradicional. Para que esse objetivo fosse alcançado, a fundamentação teórica desta tese foi baseada, principalmente, nos estudos sobre o romance policial, feitos por Narcejac (1991), Albuquerque (1979), Reimão (1983, 2005) e outros; nas pesquisas sobre Literatura de Massa, realizadas por Sodré (1978), Caldas (2000) e outros e nos estudos sobre Metaficção Historiográfica, pós-modernismo e narrativa narcísica, realizados por Hutcheon (1984, 2002).

Syfte: Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka om blankade bolag har lägre grad av earnings quality än icke-blankade bolag. Metod: Kvantitativ metod, t-test för två populationer som antar olika varianser. Resultat och slutsats: Resultatet i den här studien visar att blankade bolag inte har lägre grad av earnings quality än icke-blankade bolag. Resultatet visar även att icke-blankade bolag har lägre grad av earnings quality än blankade bolag. Därför kan jag inte uttala mig om huruvida blankare använder earnings quality vid tagandet av blankningspositioner / Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to examine if shorted companies have poorer earnings quality than non-shorted companies Method: Quantitative analysis, t-test for two-sample assuming unequal variances Result and conclusion: The results of this study show that shorted companies do not have poorer earnings quality than non-shorted companies. The results also indicate that non-shorted companies have poorer earnings quality than shorted companies. Thus, I cannot comment on whether short sellers are using information about earnings quality when taking short positions

<p>Avian Influenza (AI) is a contagious viral zoonotic disease with great public health implications and negative socioeconomic impact (WHO, 2006a). The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) infection is transmitted from birds to man mostly through contact with contaminated poultry and objects (INFOSAN, 2005), hence people who come in contact with birds such as live bird sellers (LBS) are the more vulnerable population (WHO, 2006a). Inadequate knowledge of AI health risks and poor practice of AI preventive measures amongst LBS increases the risk of spread of the infection in both humans and animals.The aim of this study was to describe and quantify the knowledge and practice of LBS with regards to avian influenza health risks and preventive activities in Agege, an urban area in Lagos State, Nigeria.</p>

<p>Avian Influenza (AI) is a contagious viral zoonotic disease with great public health implications and negative socioeconomic impact (WHO, 2006a). The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) infection is transmitted from birds to man mostly through contact with contaminated poultry and objects (INFOSAN, 2005), hence people who come in contact with birds such as live bird sellers (LBS) are the more vulnerable population (WHO, 2006a). Inadequate knowledge of AI health risks and poor practice of AI preventive measures amongst LBS increases the risk of spread of the infection in both humans and animals.The aim of this study was to describe and quantify the knowledge and practice of LBS with regards to avian influenza health risks and preventive activities in Agege, an urban area in Lagos State, Nigeria.</p>