Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2005. / Vita. Thesis advisor: Thomas L. Dean. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-191). Also available online.

Universiẗat, Diss., 2002--München.

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2005. / Title from title screen. Jeremy Crampton, committee chair; Christine Skwiot, Dona Stewart, committee members. Electronic text (116 p. : ill., maps (some col.)). Description based on contents viewed Apr. 27, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-116).

Thesis (M.Eng.)--University of Louisville, 2007. / Title and description from thesis home page (viewed May 14, 2007). Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Vita. "May 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-64).

Habilitationsschrift--Philosophische Fakultät--Bonn--Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 1987. / Bibliogr. p. 462-482. Index.

Orientador: Leila de Menezes Stein / Banca: Angelo Del Vecchio / Banca: Jacqueline Sinhoretto / Resumo: Trata de uma pesquisa etnográfica realizada durante nove meses dos anos de 2009 e 2010 na instituição Salesianos da cidade de São Carlos (Estado de São Paulo), entidade não-governamental que desenvolve diversos projetos sociais voltados às populações das periferias do município, e dentre estes, o programa de medida socioeducativa em meio aberto dirigido a adolescentes autores de atos infracionais. Na pesquisa analisou-se os significados do crime e do cumprimento da medida a partir da perspectiva dos adolescentes autores de atos infracionais e de seus educadores. Para tanto, procurou-se entender como os interlocutores desta pesquisa estabelecem relações com o programa de medidas socioeducativas e com o que é aqui chamado de crime. A partir daí, desvelou-se as configurações que permeiam o atendimento ao adolescente infrator no município e as relações que os interlocutores desta pesquisa tecem com o 'mundo do crime' / Abstract: This ethnographical research was developed during 2009 and 2010 for a period of nine months at Salesianos Institute, a non-governmental organization located in the city of São Carlos (State of São Paulo), which promotes several social projects aimed at the suburb population of the city. Among them we find the program of socio-educational measure in open regime and seek to analyze the meanings of crime and fulfillment of the measure from the perspective of the teenager convicts as well as their instructors. It is investigated how the interlocutors of this research establish relations between the program of socio-educational measures and what is called here crime. Thereafter the configurations that permeate the treatment given to the referred teenager lawbreakers and the relations that they entangle with the world of crime were disclosed / Mestre

Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses. / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2031-01-02

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-07-08Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:07:03Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ruedachumbes_ae_me_guara.pdf: 557923 bytes, checksum: 145698e3e42e6e9b8c231fbc61751937 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Nesta dissertação analisamos modelos não-lineares envolvendo campos escalares em d + 1 dimensões do espaço-tempo. Damos ênfase `a questão da estabilidade das soluções clássicas de alguns modelos não-lineares que envolvem interação de dois campos escalares em 1 + 1 dimensões , onde mostramos nossa discordância com os argumentos de estabilidade desenvolvidos por Boya e Casahorran, e Bazeia et al., particularmente no que diz respeito ao desacoplamento das equações para as flutuações dos campos escalares. Revisamos a proposta de Bazeia et al. para eludir o argumento de Derrick. Observamos que a hamiltoniana de estabilidade expressa em d dimensões espaciais não pode ser fatorada como o produto de dois operadores adjuntos um do outro, portanto não podemos garantir que o operador hamiltoniano seja positivo definido. Por último construímos modelos efetivos de um campo escalar acoplado `a gravidade em (4,1) dimensões do espaço. Estes modelos efetivos podem ser aplicados para o caso de cenários cosmológicos, onde o universo é tratado como imerso em uma parede de domínio em uma dimensão extra. O estudo das soluções destes modelos possui uma grande importância para a construção de cenários cosmologicos e melhor entendimento de nosso universo, como por exemplo a formação de branas espessas e a separação de branas. / In this dissertation we analyze nonlinear models involving scalars fields in d+1 spacetime dimensions. We put emphasis on the question of the stability of classical solutions of some models, where we show our disagreement with the arguments of stability developed by Boya and Casahorran and Bazeia et al.; particularly on the decoupling of the differential equations for the fluctuations of the scalars fields. We review the proposal of Bazeia et al. to circumvent the Derrick argument. In our analysis we observe that the Hamiltonian associated to the stability of the systems in d space dimensions can not be factorized as the product of two operators which are adjoint of each other, therefore the positiveness of the Hamiltonian operator is not guaranteed. Finally we build effective models with a scalar field coupled to gravity in (4.1) dimensions of the space-time. Those models, the effective model can be applied to cosmological scenarios, where our universe is taken as imbeded in a domain wall in an extra dimension. The study of the solutions of those models has a great importance for the construction of cosmological scenarios and for the better understanding of our universe, for example, the formation of thick branes and the separation of branes.

Despite considerable interest in the BBC European Service and the role of transnational broadcasting during the Second World War, surprisingly little attention has hitherto been paid to the BBC Polish language broadcasts. As the first full length academic study of the wartime BBC Polish Service, this thesis aims to provide an in-depth examination of previously unanalysed primary sources, both Polish and British, in order to establish the extent to which Polish Service broadcasts during World War II were considered as a significant and reliable source of information. The study is primarily based on the BBC Written Archives records, in particular, the scripts of the BBC Polish language bulletins, the European News Directives and Minutes of Meetings as well as the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) directives for the Polish Service from the National Archives at Kew. These directives are central in answering the principal research question, namely the extent to which the Polish Service was required to follow official British government policy. To this end, the analysis is supported by Polish government-in-exile documents and the Polish Underground reports stored at the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum and the Polish Underground Movement Study Trust in London. These archives represent a valuable resource for studies of wartime broadcasting, censorship and propaganda. Together the various archives (in conjunction with other privately held documents) offer historians a rich source of material from which the organisation and functioning of the BBC Polish Service over this period can be constructed. Given the volume of material related to World War II, the scope of the study is concentrated upon Whitehall and BBC policy with regards to the Polish Service coverage of the Polish-Soviet affairs from the period when diplomatic relations between Poland and the USSR were re-established in 1941 to the withdrawal of recognition of the Polish government-in-exile by the Allies in 1945. The analysis demonstrates that, although the Polish Service attempted to be objective, impartial and neutral, this was achieved by selectiveness rather than by presenting both Polish and Soviet sides of the argument in territorial and political disputes. In particular, after the secret agreement between the Big Three was signed at Tehran in 1943, attempts were made by British officials to use the Polish Service as a platform to convince the Polish Underground and, by extension, the Polish population, to agree to Stalin’s demands. In general, any subjects which could be perceived by Stalin as offensive were labelled as ‘sensitive’ and expunged from the broadcasts. The evidence in this thesis therefore suggests that the overall output of the Polish service was at times subject to wider constraints determined by allied foreign policy goals and in particular the relationship between Britain and the Soviet Union in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

abstract: ABSTRACT Historians of Anglo-American diplomacy in the nineteenth century tend to focus on the beginning of the century, when tensions ran high, or the end, when the United States and Britain sowed the seeds that would grow into one of the most fruitful alliances of the twentieth century. This dissertation bridges the gap between the century's bookends. It employs world history methodology, giving close attention to how each nation's domestic politics and global priorities played a vital role in shaping bilateral relations. In this manner, it explains how two nations that repeatedly approached the brink of war actually shared remarkably similar visions of peace, free trade, and neutral rights throughout the world. A careful consideration of the shifting priorities of the British Empire demonstrates that London approached trans-Atlantic relations as merely one part of a worldwide strategy to preserve its prestige and economic ascendancy. Meanwhile, naval inferiority, sectional tensions, and cultural affinity ensured that American belligerence never crossed the threshold from bluster to military action. By examining a handful of diplomatic crises originating far from the centers of power in London and Washington, this study argues that disputes between the United States and Britain arose from disagreements regarding the proper means to achieve common ends. During nearly half a century between the Monroe Doctrine and the Treaty of Washington, the two countries reached a mutual understanding regarding the best ways to communicate, cooperate, and pursue common economic and geopolitical goals. Giving this period its due attention as the link between post-Revolutionary reconciliation and pre-World War I alliance promotes a more comprehensive understanding of Anglo-American rapprochement in the nineteenth century. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation History 2014