This thesis focuses on exegesis and interpretation of Judges 11, 29-40. Main method used in this thesis is narrative analysis, via which I investigate and interpret the chosen text as one story unit in its contemporal form. I focus on the course of action, how and with whom the characters act and what is the meaning of these in the whole narrative. I examine the structure of the text, because it's essential for the story told. I examine the context of the chosen text as well, because it's in the middle of broader narrative about Jephthah, of the book of Judges and of the Old Testament. Behavior and actions of characters, as well as facts used in the story, may have different meanings, which may not be apparent from the text itself. The aim of this thesis is to find one or several interpratiations, which will be based in the text itself and its context as much as possible. That will aslo enable me to deal with other intepratations. In the conclusion, I will shortly speak about text's influence on arts and present several themes for homiletic or pastoral use, which the story presents and contents.

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Three preschool teachers participated in the study, all of which had students who presented behaviors considered inappropriate by the teachers. Data were collected in the school where the participants taught. Fourteen movies were used, with 9 minutes each one, that showed, in a simulated situation, one teacher implementing the method proposed by Iwata et al. (1982/1994) with one student who exhibited behaviors considered inappropriate. Seven movies showed the student s behavior maintained by a contingency of positive reinforcement (teacher s attention) and the other seven, by a contingency of negative reinforcement (escape from academic tasks). A training program was carried out in which the participants observed and recorded the occurrence or non occurrence of the student s target behavior (inappropriate behavior), the antecedent event and the consequence, on 30 second intervals. Then they answered five questions based on the records made, related to the data analysis and interpretation. The training included three phases: pre-test, training procedures and pos-test. The training procedure included the gradual removal of information, in which the register and the answers to all the questions were initially presented to the participants and, at each new step, one item of these models was removed. The pre-test results indicate that the participants made mistakes in the majority of the records about the three terms contingency at each 30 second interval. They also made the wrong interpretation about what was maintaining the behavior occurring in the movies exhibited. By comparing the results of the pre-test with those of the pos-test, in which they made correct records and correct interpretations in almost all the items, it is possible to say that the training procedure was effective to teach the participants to analyze and to interpret the recorded data. Based on the positive results about the performance of the participants, and considering that the maximum duration of the training was of 8 hours, it is possible to conclude that school-teachers can learn to perform part of a contingency analysis in a relatively short time when appropriately taught / Muitos estudos sobre análise funcional (ou análise de contingências) são encontrados na literatura e diversas são as linhas de pesquisa em que eles estão inseridos. O presente estudo faz parte de uma linha de pesquisa que se utiliza do método proposto por Iwata, Dorsey, Slifer, Bauman e Richman (1982/1994) de manipulação sistemática de eventos ambientais para se testar o que acontece com a frequência do comportamento de interesse em poucas sessões. O estudo teve por objetivo ensinar professoras sem formação ou experiência prévia em análise do comportamento a realizar parte de uma análise de contingências: a análise e a interpretação de dados gerados pela aplicação desse método. Participaram do estudo três professoras de educação infantil, que apresentavam alunos com comportamentos considerados por elas inadequados. A coleta ocorreu na própria escola onde as participantes trabalhavam. Foram utilizados 14 filmes, de 9 minutos cada, que mostravam, em uma situação simulada, uma professora aplicando o método proposto por Iwata et al. (1982/1994) diante de um aluno que exibia comportamentos tidos como inadequados. Sete filmes mostravam o comportamento do aluno mantido por uma contingência de reforçamento positivo (atenção da professora) e os outros sete, por uma contingência de reforçamento negativo (fuga de tarefas escolares). Foi realizado um treinamento, em que as participantes deveriam observar e registrar por escrito a ocorrência ou não ocorrência do comportamento alvo do aluno (inadequado), o evento antecedente e a consequência, em intervalos de 30 segundos. Além disso, deveriam responder cinco questões sobre os registros feitos, referentes à analise e à interpretação de dados. O treinamento foi composto por três fases: pré-teste, treino e pós-teste. Empregou-se no treino um procedimento de remoção gradual de informações, em que, inicialmente, foram apresentados às participantes todos os modelos de registros e de respostas às questões, sendo que a cada passo um item desses modelos era retirado. No pré-teste, constatou-se que as participantes erraram a grande maioria dos registros sobre a contingência de três termos em cada um dos intervalos de 30 segundos, bem como a interpretação sobre o que mantinha o comportamento alvo do aluno ocorrendo nos filmes exibidos. Comparando-se os resultados do pré e do pósteste, no qual acertaram todos ou quase todos os registros e as questões, verificou-se que o treino foi efetivo para ensiná-las a analisar e interpretar os dados sobre os registros. Com base nos resultados positivos sobre o desempenho das participantes e considerando que a duração máxima do treino foi de 8 horas, é possível dizer que professoras podem aprender a realizar parte de uma análise de contingências em um tempo relativamente curto, quando ensinadas adequadamente

The aim of this thesis is to find out the process carried out by many people to achieve a solo role for the tuba. It also explains which individuals people helped the development of the instrument so as how different composers have contributed to the music field and especially to the evolution and growth of the tuba in the last century. In the musical part, the thesis talks about different standard tuba pieces and their importance.

This master's thesis deals with the analysis of dynamic linked data structures using shape analysis used in the Predator tool. It describes the chosen abstract domain for heap representation - symbolic memory graphs. It deals with the design of framework for the development of static analyzers based on Clang/LLVM. The main contribution is implementing and testing LLVM's transformation passes that simplify the LLVM IR. Second contribution is the optimization of parameters for parallel run of several variants of the Predator tool. Parameters are tuned for benchmark from SV-COMP'16, where our tool won gold medal in Heap Data Structures category. Last contribution is the design of verification core with the focus on the SMG domain.

The master thesis called "Semiotics Han Tombs" does not only deal with the semiotics view of space of Han dynasty tombs, when we are examining the number of structures, which are permeating Han graves, we find structures of the world of man living in China, but this process also points to problems of culture interpretation which cultural semiotics helps to eliminate. Problems associated with the sign plays an important role in shaping the very cultural and social identity. The issue of understanding and interpretation of cultures occurs at the time when we select certain features or characters from the structure of a culture to freely create a system without having analyzed the real culture. Always all these elements must be considered in the context of the overall system or structure, or we only deal with empty concepts or definitions. In other words, we do not see the whole picture. Han tomb as a text is polysemous and in many respects incomprehensible. However, the creation, reading and semiosis takes place in it and it is the statement of understanding of this world. So revealing the speaker's worldview depends on the process of interpretation, because the statement may involve a degree of ideological connotations which determined the interpretation independently on the previous coding. Key...

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This diploma thesis deals with the issue of motility analysis in leukemia cells. An accurate description of the cell movement and the detection of differences in motility under experimental conditions can be obtained by quantitative analysis of cell motility using time-lapse recording. The first part of this work describes various types of tumor cell migraton. The second part focuses on methods of analysis of cell motility in tissue culture using time-lapse recording, which include image acquisition and processing. Part of this chapter describes a coherence-controlled holographic microscope, which was used in the practical part and for which an insert was designed to ensure the exact and stable position of the individual chambers. The last part is focused on the research of leukemic cell motility, which is concluded by a discussion of the obtained results. The appendix contains a published study included acknowledgement to the author of this diploma thesis for participation in the project.

This study explores the financial performance measurement of South Africa's Top Companies. It aims to find a conclusion on the research problem, that is 'Do South Africa's Top Companies use the available arsenal to measure their financial performance?' Commerce and industry are the cornerstones of the economy of a country. This study purports to contribute to the ways and means of minimising the risk of business failures due to the resultant effects on the economy. The sample comprises of sixty companies. The sampling frame is the first hundred companies of the Financial Mail 200 Top Performers for 2004. The arsenal that is available to measure financial performance is researched in the financial literature. Mainly, this covers ratio analysis and interpretation, and the bankruptcy prediction models. To arrive at a conclusion on the research problem, a research instrument is developed from the host of financial ratios in the literature, including the bankruptcy prediction models. The research instrument comprises of popular ratios that are also found to be 'logical', as well as the ratios that make up the Z-Score bankruptcy prediction model. The instrument is called the Ratio Map and Z-Score and is applied to test the financial strengths/weaknesses of the Top Companies. In addition to the Ratio Map and Z-Score, the measures applied by the Top Companies as 'highlights' are analysed. This is done to determine the extent at which the measures unearth the strengths/weaknesses of the Top Companies. The conclusion drawn is that the Top Companies do not utilise the available arsenal to measure their financial performance. The supporting evidence is that the most frequently applied 'highlights' measures by the Top Companies cover only one area of the many financial fields of a company, that is, share performance. On the other hand, the analyses per Ratio Map and Z-Score have not revealed major material weaknesses in the financial position of the Top Companies. It is proposed that: ïf  More information be given in the notes to the financial statements to facilitate meaningful analysis; and ïf  A follow-up research study be done to assess the trends of the Top Companies. / Business Management / D.Comm. (Business Management)

This study explores the financial performance measurement of South Africa's Top Companies. It aims to find a conclusion on the research problem, that is 'Do South Africa's Top Companies use the available arsenal to measure their financial performance?' Commerce and industry are the cornerstones of the economy of a country. This study purports to contribute to the ways and means of minimising the risk of business failures due to the resultant effects on the economy. The sample comprises of sixty companies. The sampling frame is the first hundred companies of the Financial Mail 200 Top Performers for 2004. The arsenal that is available to measure financial performance is researched in the financial literature. Mainly, this covers ratio analysis and interpretation, and the bankruptcy prediction models. To arrive at a conclusion on the research problem, a research instrument is developed from the host of financial ratios in the literature, including the bankruptcy prediction models. The research instrument comprises of popular ratios that are also found to be 'logical', as well as the ratios that make up the Z-Score bankruptcy prediction model. The instrument is called the Ratio Map and Z-Score and is applied to test the financial strengths/weaknesses of the Top Companies. In addition to the Ratio Map and Z-Score, the measures applied by the Top Companies as 'highlights' are analysed. This is done to determine the extent at which the measures unearth the strengths/weaknesses of the Top Companies. The conclusion drawn is that the Top Companies do not utilise the available arsenal to measure their financial performance. The supporting evidence is that the most frequently applied 'highlights' measures by the Top Companies cover only one area of the many financial fields of a company, that is, share performance. On the other hand, the analyses per Ratio Map and Z-Score have not revealed major material weaknesses in the financial position of the Top Companies. It is proposed that: ïf  More information be given in the notes to the financial statements to facilitate meaningful analysis; and ïf  A follow-up research study be done to assess the trends of the Top Companies. / Business Management / D.Comm. (Business Management)

I present the dissertation web as a montage of a postmodern inquiry of my doctoral internship and research experiences—concerns and jubilation—positioned within the discourses of <a href="site_map2.htm#2">postmodern</a>, dissertation, academia, experimentalism and cyberspace innovations among others. I create a <a href="site_map2.htm#3">social constructionistic</a> interactive interplay, using <a href="site_map2.htm#5">hypertext</a>, among my various voices of an intern, a researcher and a person. In the dissertation web—my inquiry—I practice the characterization of postmodernism on numerous fronts—subject of study, context of study, methodology and re-presentation of the inquiry. Implicitly and explicitly, I articulate the various characterizations of postmodernism in my inquiry by challenging the traditional research practices (meta<a href="site_map2.htm#4">narratives</a>). I challenge the traditional praxis by alternate per<b>form</b>ances of research practices such as studying myself in a cultural context of an internship using the methodology of <a href="site_map2.htm#11">autoethnography</a> and performance. The <a href="site_map2.htm#5">hypertext</a> docuverse is a further characterization of postmodernism in the styles and structures that are used for re-presentation of the narratives. The styles of narration I use—such as words and graphics, prose and poetry, first person conversational texts, narratives and collages—blur the boundary of "academic" writing, literature, and art. The hypertext is intended as a <a href="site_map2.htm#6">metaphorical</a> experiential, intertextual journey of an <a href="site_map2.htm#12">intern</a> and a <a href="site_map2.htm#14">researcher</a>. Rather than a fixed structure, I create numerous structures of possible structures to privilege the readers' <a href="site_map2.htm#1">navigational</a> choices. I anticipate that the reader's choices in the virtual space might create a sense of meaning-transformation as one traverses through the dissertation web, thus, valuing <a href="site_map2.htm#8">fragmentation</a> and connection as aspects of sense-making, which are contextualized (among others) by the reader's meaning frames and my hypertextual <a href="site_map2.htm#7">performances</a>. The dissertation is submitted in three formats—exclusive dissertation web.pdf, intertextual dissertation web.pdf, and xml version. The<b> <i>exclusive dissertation web.pdf</i> </b>is a web capture in pdf format of all the "files" that compose the dissertation web created in html. The <i><b>intertextual dissertation web.pdf</b> </i> is a web capture of my dissertation along with the capture of external web resources that contextualize my dissertation web, thus illustrating the intertextuality of hypertexts by making the dissertation part of the larger textual web. Due to the web capture, the "docuverse" is nonlinear and the pages do not follow any particular or author predefined sequences. So, <i>please use the internal links or the bookmarks to read or browse the dissertation web</i> rather than scroll from the first "page" to the last "page" of the pdf formatted docuverse. The third version in xml will be made available at a later date. An html version of the dissertation is available directly from the researcher-author. CAUTION! The links from the abstract may be broken due to archiving of the dissertation web. / Ph. D.