O estudo toma como ponto de partida a tese, cada vez mais difundida, da inconstitucionalidade da criminalização de situações de perigo abstrato para analisar os fins do direito penal no Estado contemporâneo, a construção de um conceito material de delito baseado na ideia de proteção de bens jurídicos e também as técnicas de proteção adequadas e necessárias para o efetivo resguardo dos interesses mais relevantes na atualidade. Sob a premissa de que a configuração do direito penal deve ser fruto de uma relação dialética entre dois interesses que marcam a vida do homem em sociedade, que são a redução da violência privada por meio da prevenção de crimes e a diminuição da violência do sistema penal mediante a contenção do arbítrio estatal, as conclusões adotadas no curso do trabalho caminham no sentido da admissibilidade da proteção, sob a ameaça de uma pena, de certos interesses difusos e abstratos e também da legitimidade da antecipação da tutela penal em algumas situações excepcionais, sempre que observados pelo legislador determinados parâmetros materiais previamente fixados. / This study is developed from the well-spread thesis of the abstract danger crime unconstitutionality in order to analyze the criminal law aims in the contemporary state, the creation of a concrete crime concept based in the idea of juridical property protection and also the protection techniques which are appropriate and essential to the effective care of the most relevant interests of the present. Under the assumption that the criminal law configuration should emerge from a dialectic relation between two interests that affect life in a society, which are the decrease of private violence through crime prevention and the reduction of criminal system violence by means of containing state discretion, the conclusions adopted in the course of this study point to the possibilities of protecting, under the threat of a penalty, certain diffuse and abstract interests, as well as to the guardianship anticipation legality in some exceptional situations, when particular and previous determined material parameters are observed by the legislator.

Submitted by Claudia Rocha (claudia.rocha@udesc.br) on 2018-03-07T15:03:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PGCS15MA155.pdf: 1637827 bytes, checksum: aa3300b0757a566af05641eb9e2d70e1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-07T15:03:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PGCS15MA155.pdf: 1637827 bytes, checksum: aa3300b0757a566af05641eb9e2d70e1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-27 / The objective of this project was to investigate the existence of native rhizobia strains that promote the anticipation of the formation of nodules capable of fixing the available nitrogen from the atmosphere, and thereby reduce the use of nitrogenous fertilizers in bean crops. In order to accomplish the objective of the present study, this one was divided into two experiments, both in the Lages city, Santa Catarina State, under different abiotic conditions. The treatments consisted of the combination of six levels of factor inoculation within seven levels of factor bean genotype (a total of 42 treatments). Six of the seven rhizobia strains tested were previously evaluated as to genetic diversity from Germplasm bank of the Agronomy and Veterinary Science Center, the seventh is a recommended commercial strain. Among the treatments, there is a control without the use of nitrogen, and a control with application of this nutrient. It was performed the evaluation of various aspects, such as number of nodules, nodules dry weight, shoot dry weight and nitrogen content. The results were submitted to analysis of variance. Significant difference was found a few treatments with regard to shoot dry weight (SDW), probably due to the specificity of interaction between the host plant and the rhizobia strain. Some strains with genotypes combinations tend to form nodules earlier, increasing the nitrogen fixing time. The number of nodules had no effect on SDW. The nodulation of bean plants, which were not inoculated or received mineral N application (absolute control) was similar to the other treatments in one of both experiment carried, showing the existence of high native population of bean rhizobia symbionts. Furthermore, it was observed that the bacteria B2 had a greater influence comparing to the others bacteria tested / Esse projeto teve como objetivo pesquisar a existência de estirpes de rizóbios nativos que promovam a antecipação da formação de nódulos capazes de fixar o nitrogênio livre da atmosfera, e, com isso, reduzam a utilização de fertilizantes nitrogenados na cultura de feijão. Para sua efetivação, o presente estudo foi dividido em dois experimentos, ambos conduzidos no município de Lages, no Estado de Santa Catarina, sob condições distintas no que se referem aos fatores abióticos. Os tratamentos testados foram resultantes da combinação de 6 (seis) níveis do fator inoculação e 7 (sete) níveis do fator genótipo de feijoeiro, previamente avaliados quanto à diversidade genética do banco de Germoplasma do Centro de Ciências Agroveterinárias, e uma estirpe comercial recomendada, obtendo-se um controle sem a aplicação de nitrogênio e um controle com aplicação desse nutriente, perfazendo um total de 42 tratamentos. Foi realizada a avaliação de diversos aspectos, tais como número de nódulos, massa seca de nódulos, massa seca da parte aérea e teor de nitrogênio. Os resultados foram submetidos à análise de variância, onde constatou-se diferença significativa de alguns tratamentos com relação à Massa Seca da Parte Aérea (MSPA), provavelmente pela especificidade da planta hospedeira com a estirpe. Algumas estirpes combinadas com genótipos tendem a formar nódulos precocemente, aumentando o tempo de fixação de N. O número de nódulos não influenciou na MSPA. A nodulação das plantas de feijoeiro, que não foram inoculadas nem receberam aplicação de N mineral (testemunha absoluta) foi semelhante à dos demais tratamentos no segundo experimento, evidenciando a existência de elevada população nativa de rizóbios simbiontes na cultura do feijoeiro. Ainda, observou-se que a bactéria B2 teve uma maior influência em relação às outras bactérias testadas

O estudo toma como ponto de partida a tese, cada vez mais difundida, da inconstitucionalidade da criminalização de situações de perigo abstrato para analisar os fins do direito penal no Estado contemporâneo, a construção de um conceito material de delito baseado na ideia de proteção de bens jurídicos e também as técnicas de proteção adequadas e necessárias para o efetivo resguardo dos interesses mais relevantes na atualidade. Sob a premissa de que a configuração do direito penal deve ser fruto de uma relação dialética entre dois interesses que marcam a vida do homem em sociedade, que são a redução da violência privada por meio da prevenção de crimes e a diminuição da violência do sistema penal mediante a contenção do arbítrio estatal, as conclusões adotadas no curso do trabalho caminham no sentido da admissibilidade da proteção, sob a ameaça de uma pena, de certos interesses difusos e abstratos e também da legitimidade da antecipação da tutela penal em algumas situações excepcionais, sempre que observados pelo legislador determinados parâmetros materiais previamente fixados. / This study is developed from the well-spread thesis of the abstract danger crime unconstitutionality in order to analyze the criminal law aims in the contemporary state, the creation of a concrete crime concept based in the idea of juridical property protection and also the protection techniques which are appropriate and essential to the effective care of the most relevant interests of the present. Under the assumption that the criminal law configuration should emerge from a dialectic relation between two interests that affect life in a society, which are the decrease of private violence through crime prevention and the reduction of criminal system violence by means of containing state discretion, the conclusions adopted in the course of this study point to the possibilities of protecting, under the threat of a penalty, certain diffuse and abstract interests, as well as to the guardianship anticipation legality in some exceptional situations, when particular and previous determined material parameters are observed by the legislator.

Située à l’articulation de la sociologie de l’économie, de l’histoire de la finance et de la sociologie de la connaissance, cette thèse présente donc une analyse du rôle de la notation du crédit dans la régulation financière, et plus largement, du rôle de l’incertitude et de l’incomplétude juridiques sur les anticipations économiques des acteurs financiers. Le cadre d’analyse de la recherche se résume en quatre points : Premièrement, la thèse rompt avec une lecture strictement intellectualiste de l’action publique et présente une approche de la régulation financière par ses instruments, empruntant ainsi l’approche pragmatiste développée par les social studies of finance et par la nouvelle sociologie économique d’inspiration américaine. Deuxièmement, l’hypothèse centrale de la recherche est que les instruments réglementaires sont à la fois des techniques de connaissance et des outils juridiques. Aussi, ce sont les frictions qu’occasionnent les deux activités parfois contradictoires de calculer et de gouverner qui donnent au changement réglementaire sa dynamique historique. Troisièmement, prenant l’exemple de l’usage de la notation dans la supervision financière comme dispositif de calcul et technique de gouvernement, la thèse propose une histoire de longue durée (1865-2010) de l’activité réglementaire sur les marchés financiers aux Etats-Unis et en Europe au travers de cinq régimes de régulation (régime statutaire, d’appel, disciplinaire, fictionnel et contractuel). Quatrièmement, l’originalité de la recherche est de combiner une approche macroscopique du changement réglementaire avec une approche méticuleuse de plusieurs courtes séquences historiques durant lesquelles d’importantes innovations réglementaires ont vu le jour, notamment le New Deal aux Etats-Unis et la crise de la dette souveraine en Europe. Ainsi, en plus de définir les contours de cinq régimes réglementaires, la thèse analyse la façon dont les régulateurs se sont saisis de la notation financière comme « mécanisme d’embrayage » afin d’opérationnaliser la transition d’un régime à un autre. / Located at the intersection of economic sociology, financial history, and the sociology of knowledge, this dissertation examines the role of credit ratings in financial regulation, and more broadly, the role of financial uncertainties and legal incompleteness on financial actors’ anticipatory decisions. The framework set forth in this study can be summarized as follows. First, this study breaks with an intellectualist approach of public action to analyze financial regulation from the perspective of its instruments. As such, this research draws on a pragmatist agenda developed in social studies of finance and recent work in economic sociology. Second, the main hypothesis of this dissertation is to approach regulatory instruments as technologies of knowing and tools of government. From this double viewpoint, I hypothesize that the frictions generated by the two competing activities of calculating and governing impart the regulatory activity with both its structural features and historical dynamics. Third, using the example of regulatory reliance on ratings, I propose a longue durée historical analysis (1865-2010) of the regulatory activity in the U.S. and Europe through the examination of five regulatory regimes (statutory, appeal, disciplinary, fictional, and contractual). Four, one original feature of this dissertation is to combine a macroscopic analysis of regulatory change with a meticulous approach of several short historical sequences during which important regulatory innovations came into being, notably the New Deal in the U.S. and the European sovereign debt crisis. Thus, in addition to setting the contours of five regulatory frameworks, this dissertation analyses the ways in which regulators used ratings as “clutching” devices to operationalize the legal transition from one regime to another.

The current driving simulator study investigates the effect of 2 distinct levels of distraction on a drivers’ situational awareness and latent and inherent hazard anticipation. In this study, rear-end crashes were used as the primary crash configuration to target a specific category of crashes due to distraction. The two types of task load used in the experiment was a cognitive distraction (mock cell-phone task) & visual distraction (I-pad task). Forty-eight young participants aged 18-25 years navigated 8 scenarios each in a mixed subject design with task load (cognitive or visual distraction) as a between-subject variable and the presence/absence of distraction representing the within-subject variable. All participants drove 4 scenarios with a distraction and 4 scenarios without any distraction. Physiological variables in the form of Heart rate and heart rate variability was collected for each participant during the practice drives and after each of the 8 experimental drives. After the completion of each experimental drive, participants were asked to fill up a NASA TLX questionnaire which quantifies the overall task load experienced by giving it a score between 1 and 100, where higher scores translate to higher perceived task load. Eye-movements were also recorded for the proportion of latent and inherent hazards anticipated and mitigated for all participants. Standard vehicle data (velocity, acceleration & lane offset) were also collected from the simulator for each participants’ each drive. Analysis of data showed that there was a significant difference in velocity, lane offset and task load index scores across the 2 groups (between-subject factors). The vehicle data, heart rate data and TLX data was analyzed using Mixed subject ANOVA. There was also a logistic regression model devised which showed significant effects of velocity, lane offset, TLX scores and age on a participants’ hazard anticipation abilities. The findings have a major practical implication in reducing drivers’ risk of fatal, serious or near crashes.

Partant de la prémisse de la nature flexible et complexe du principe de précaution en droit européen, le but de cette étude a été d'en donner une interprétation polycentrique, fondée sur la diversité plutôt que sur l’uniformité. Pour atteindre un tel objectif, une méthode issue du pluralisme méthodologique a été employée. Celle-ci nous a permis de rechercher la uniras multiplex parmi les différentes définitions et applications de ce principe. La thèse ici soutenue a consisté à démontrer que l'interprétation polycentrique du principe de précaution peut être construite à partir de deux concepts : l'anticipation et l'action. Dans la première partie de cette étude, il a été montré comment le principe de précaution permet d'anticiper le temps de l'action publique au stade de l'incertitude scientifique. Nous avons à cet égard expliqué que l'anticipation suppose la qualification par le droit et l'évaluation par la science des risques incertains. La seconde partie de cette étude a été finalisée à démontrer comment, une fois le temps de l'action anticipé, les décideurs doivent agir sur le fondement du principe de précaution. Nous avons soutenu, à cet égard, que l'action sur la base de ce principe a une portée et des conséquences distinctes sur le plan procédural et substantiel. Les décideurs ont, en effet à la fois une obligation de prise en compte et une faculté de mise en œuvre du principe de précaution. / By acknowledging the flexible and complex nature of the precautionary principle in EU law, the purpose of this work is to provide a polycentric interpretation of this principle based on diversity rather than uniformity. To achieve this objective, a methodology derived from the methodological pluralism is employed. This allows for the “unitas multiplex” between the different definitions and applications of the precautionary principle to be researched. The core claim is that the polycentric interpretation of the precautionary principle can be built on two concepts: anticipation and action. In the first part of this study, I argue that anticipation implies the qualification by law and the evaluation by science of uncertain risks. In the second part, I consider that, after having anticipated the time of action, decision-makers should act on the basis of the precautionary principle. However, the action undertaken has different meanings and consequences from the procedural and substantive perspective. From the procedural side, the decision-makers have the obligation to take into account this principle, white they remain free on the substantive side, to adopt a precautionary measure.

Background: The global video game industry is today bigger than both the film- and music industry and is subject to a lot of competition. Companies are always looking for alternative ways to reach consumers and buzz is identified as a crucial success factor by many scholars. From real life examples, buzz is shown to have both positive and negative effects. There is however little knowledge about the phenomenon and what role buzz can play in the customer-based brand equity (CBBE) of video game companies. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding about buzz and examine what role it plays in customer-based brand equity for companies within the video game industry. Method: A deductive approach was adopted and in order to fulfil the purpose of the study, a qualitative study (i.e. a case study) was deemed suitable. Interviews were held with five companies within the video game industry. Also, observations were made of how the companies work with their promotion and creation of buzz during the pre-release period. Theoretical framework: The theoretical framework consists of theories regarding the buzz phenomenon and CBBE. These were combined in order to examine the potential role buzz plays in the context of CBBE. Findings: Buzz is shown to play a big role in the video game industry but is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. It is also found that buzz can have a “life of its own” and become unmanageable through speculations. Speculations can lead to higher expectations and pseudo-promises[1], making buzz even more difficult to manage. Regarding CBBE, buzz plays a role in all aspects. However, it is shown to play a different role in the CBBE of video game companies depending on how high the brand loyalty is within that company. The study also results in a conceptual model, illustrating buzz and what role it plays in the CBBE of video game companies both pre-release and post-release.

The study of cognition as it relates to expert performance in sport is an area that has received increased attention over the last 25 years. This has been made possible by the fact that the domain of sport offers a rich and diverse setting in which to study cognition and its links to human performance, coupled with the abundant supply of highly practiced athletes providing unique opportunities to study these factors in a natural environment. The quality of on-field decision-making of expert athletes has received attention in a number of open-skill sporting codes, including basketball, field hockey and soccer. Decision-making quality of expert athletes in rugby union, as an invasive, open-skill sporting code, has not received the same amount of attention. Past studies on the decision-making of expert athletes in sport have tended to be carried through the isolation of specific cognitive functions and describing the role of each isolated function in the decision-making process. Given the speed at which decisions have to be made, as a result of time pressure, the isolation of cognitive functions yields valuable insights into the decision-making processes of expert athletes in competitive, on-field situations. While these cognitive functions can be studied in isolation, they do however form part of a bigger process that enables the expert athlete to make high quality on-field decisions. It is for this reason that it was decided to study these different functions in combination, as set out by the Information Processing Approach to cognitive functioning. According to this approach, the decision-making process consists on three main phases, namely that of Visual Search Strategies, Anticipation and Response Selection. This study was aimed at examining the quality of on-field decision-making of expert rugby players, as well as the influence of the competitive level at which rugby is played on decision-making quality. In order to achieve this goal it was necessary to develop a measurement instrument that can be used by expert rugby players to assess the quality of decisions made on the field of play. As it is difficult for outside observers to establish what players are thinking or focusing their attention on when making decisions on the field, it was necessary to design the instrument as a self-report measure of decision-making. By being made aware of one’s strong and weak points in on-field decision-making, expert rugby players can focus their attention on improving the underdeveloped facets of their game. The measurement of decision-making according to three distinct phases allows for increased accuracy in the identification of those cognitive areas that need improvement in order to improve overall playing ability. By changing the way the expert rugby player thinks about certain aspects of the game, most notably those aspects that the player has difficulty with, it becomes possible for the player to address these difficulties and make improvements wherever necessary. Copyright / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Psychology / unrestricted

Title: Identification of brain areas in anticipation during tennis Objectives: The main aim of diploma theses is identification of brain areas responsible for anticipation and making decision during watching tennis rallies at tennis players by functional magnetic resonance. Methods: The research group consists of 10-12 competitive tennis players aged 18-28. The research takes place at the hospital in Motol. Before the examination itself, the probands are instructed on the course and conditions of testing. Testing consists of examining the brain to see if the proband is healthy, testing anticipation with a video of tennis rallies followed by a resting state phase to evaluate regional interactions. The video consists of 6 blocks separated by a static image lasting 20 s. Each block contains 6 videos with tennis rallies. Each video lasts exactly 6 s, including 300 ms to stop the tennis rallies. The tennis rallies are stopped when the ball is over the tennis net or on the player's racket. The task of the proband is to monitor the tennis rallies and after stopping to determine whether the subsequent stroke will fly to the left or right side of the tennis court, or to the center. The target data are formed from functional magnetic resonance images, probands' responses to individual rallies, and response...

Thesis (M Sport Sc (Sport Science)-- University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a perceptual-motor training programme on the coincident anticipation timing and batting performance of university club cricket players. The intervention programme focused on developing players‟ visual attention and concentration. Vickers‟ (2007) Three-Step Decision Training Model was used to structure the training sessions. The study followed a repeated measures experimental design with three groups (experimental, placebo, and control) formed by volunteers from a university club cricket team. The independent variable was a four-week training programme. The dependent variables were coincident anticipation timing and performance on a cricket batting test. Subjects were pre- and post-tested with retention tests occurring after a set period of “no training” following the post-tests. Differences between groups were compared using Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA by Ranks Tests. Differences within each group were compared using multiple Mann-Whitney U-Tests. No significant improvements were observed in the experimental group‟s coincident anticipation timing and batting performance. Although neither coincident anticipation timing nor batting performance significantly improved, further research into the use of Vickers‟ (2007) Model to enhance sport performance is recommended. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie studie was om die uitwerking van ʼn perseptueel-motoriese opleidingsprogram op die samevallende vooruittydsberekening (“coincident anticipation timing”) en kolfprestasie van universiteitsklubkrieketspelers te bepaal. Die klem van die intervensieprogram het op die ontwikkeling van spelers se visuele aandag en konsentrasie geval. Die opleidingsessies is volgens Vickers (2007) se drieledige model vir besluitnemingsopleiding saamgestel. Die studie het ʼn eksperimentele ontwerp van herhaalde metings op drie groepe (eksperimenteel, plasebo en kontrole) van ʼn universiteitsklubkrieketspan toegepas. Die onafhanklike veranderlike was ʼn vier weke lange opleidingsprogram. Die afhanklike veranderlikes was samevallende vooruittydsberekening, en prestasie in ʼn krieketkolftoets. Proefpersone het voor en net ná die opleiding toetse ondergaan, sowel as behoudtoetse drie weke ná die na-opleidingstoetse. Verskille tussen groepe is met behulp van rangtoetse uit Kruskal-Wallis se variansie-analisemodel (ANOVA) bepaal, terwyl verskille binne groepe met veelvuldige Mann-Whitney-U-toetse vergelyk is. Geen beduidende verbetering is in die eksperimentele groep se samevallende vooruittydsberekening of kolfprestasie waargeneem nie. Hoewel nóg samevallende vooruittydsberekening nóg kolfprestasie aansienlik verbeter het, word verdere navorsing oor die gebruik van Vickers (2007) se model vir die verbetering van sportprestasie aanbeveel.