The problem of this study was to make a transcription of the second movement of Franck's Symphony in D Minor for a college symphonic band. A thorough discussion of problems of instrumentation and analysis, a brief history of the composer's life and works, and an evaluation of the contribution of the project is included in this document.

<p> This dissertation explores the nature and incidence of several non-standard work arrangements (NSWAs). Statistics confirm the growing prevalence of NSWAs. By 1995, less than one third of Canadian workers were employed in a single full-time, permanent job with a "normal" work schedule. Conventional wisdom suggests that the net effect of the increasing incidence of NSWAs is negative for workers. However, certain NSWAs potentially provide better work-life balance for employees and more flexible utilization of labour for employers. Thus, it is suggested that far too little attention has been paid to the varying nature of particular NSWAs. A typology of NSWAs, consisting of five dimensions and three types, is conceptualized. After examining the dataset and some preliminary data analysis, a modified typology of four dimensions and two types is presented and analyzed. In particular, the two key types of NSWAs are categorized as employee-friendly or employer-friendly. In addition to the typology, the workplace and worker characteristics that affect the incidence of NSWAs is examined.</p> <p> This dissertation has a quantitative research design, and utilizes Statistics Canada's 1999 Workplace and Employee Survey (WES). The chosen dataset and methodology also allow inferences to be made regarding employer strategies. Results suggest that job satisfaction is positively related to employee-friendly NSWAs but negatively related to employer-friendly NSWAs. When controlling for a range of worker and workplace variables, it was found that industry, occupation, gender, tenure, and employee participation are related to the incidence of NSWAs. Finally, consistent with existing research, only a tenuous link was found between workplace outcomes and the incidence of NSWAs. The implication is that the implementation of NSWAs is affected more by employers' strategic choices rather than economic necessity.</p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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incongruent ilk is a thesis exhibition of formally and conceptually linked situations that by their distilled nature initiate deeper contemplation of topics that are often just examined superficially. For my thesis exhibition I set out to produce curated arrangements of objects and materials because I believe something important is revealed about ourselves when we engage with common and banal objects in the material world. The exchange between the human experience and the unique nature of specific objects can connect us to each other by highlighting shared, yet subjectively interpreted experiences. The linear connections in this body of work give way to incongruent and contradictory contexts. incongruent ilk has undertones and overtones of leisure, travel, and warning that are delivered by humor, subversion, and the formal arrangements of materials. There is an intersection between objects and images that drips with subjective judgment; this subjectivity is crucial to incongruent ilk. The audience excavates the depth of potential metaphor, analogy, or concept naturally and artificially existing in the work by how deeply they are willing to consider what is presented visually.

This study is an effort to trace the growth and value of the Pennsylvania militia through its various structural arrangements and military actions.

L’action extérieure des DROM dans leur environnement régional se présente sous une dénomination particulière, la coopération régionale. Des modes de coopération spécifiques à la situation des outre-mers s’établissent par l’exercice d’une coopération régionale déconcentrée et décentralisée. La définition du droit de la coopération régionale des DROM s’opère par une scission de l’opération entre le droit nécessaire à la conclusion de l’accord ou de la convention et le droit applicable. L’identification du droit est donc réalisée suite à un découpage entre le droit de l’action et le droit de l’application. L’étude de l’environnement juridique de la coopération régionale porte sur les moyens juridiques tendant à l’attribution de capacités et de compétences aux collectivités territoriales d’outre-mer en matière extérieure. Le degré d’effectivité de l’action du DROM vers les entités étatiques et infraétatiques de son environnement régional se dégage comparativement à l’action internationale régionale de l’Etat. L’examen de la production juridique de la coopération régionale révèle des accords et conventions relevant de l’ordre juridique international ou de l’ordre juridique interne selon le partenaire de coopération et la règle de droit appliquée. La variabilité du droit complique la définition du régime juridique de certaines conventions. L’observation du droit de la coopération régionale permet alors de cerner la singularité de ces modes de coopération. Elle soulève l’intérêt d’une règle de droit adaptée à la réalité d’un contexte de coopération pour l’expansion des entités ultramarines dans les espaces ultrapériphériques. / The external action of French overseas departments and regions in their local environment has a special name - regional cooperation. Cooperation modes specific to the situation of overseas territories are materialised through the exercise of devolved and decentralised regional cooperation. The definition of the law on regional cooperation among French overseas departments and regions is based on a separation of the operation mode between the law required to enter into an agreement or convention and the law applicable. The law applicable is therefore identified following a split between the law for the action and law for the application. The study of the legal environment of regional cooperation is related to legal means which tend to assign powers and authority to French overseas local governments on external issues. The degree of effectiveness of the action of a French overseas department or region with respect to the national and sub-national entities of its regional environment is to be measured in comparison with the international action of the National Government in the region. A review of the legal literature on regional cooperation shows agreements and conventions to be referred to international or internal jurisdictions depending on the partner involved in cooperative efforts and legal rule applied. The variability of the law makes it more difficult to define the law that applies to certain conventions. Observing the law applying to regional cooperation then makes it possible to pinpoint the specificity of these modes of cooperation. This raises the interest of a legal rule adjusted to the reality of a cooperation context for the expansion of overseas entities in ultra-peripheral regions.

A recent result of Salvetti and Settepanella gives, for a complexified real arrangement, an explicit description of a minimal CW decomposition as well as an explicit algebraic complex which computes local system homology. We apply their techniques to discriminantal arrangements in two dimensional complex space and calculate the boundary maps which will give local system homology groups given any choice of local system. This calculation generalizes several known results; examples are given related to Milnor fibrations, solutions of KZ equations, and the LKB representation of the braid group. Another algebraic object associated to a hyperplane arrangement is the module of derivations. We analyze the behavior of the derivation module for an affine arrangement over an infinite field and relate its derivation module to that of its cone. In the case of an arrangement fibration, we analyze the relationship between the derivation module of the total space arrangement and those of the base and fiber arrangements. In particular, subject to certain restrictions, we establish freeness of the total space arrangement given freeness of the base and fiber arrangements.

Flexible work arrangements (FWAs) are widely implemented in organizations today. Yet very little information exists about why individuals are attracted to organizations that offer FWAs. The purpose of the current study was to tease apart the influence of the dimensions of FWAs: flextime and flexplace (both structural and perceived), as well as the combination of the two on organizational attraction and anticipated organizational support. Individual difference variables that have the potential to impact individuals’ attraction to organizations that offer FWAs were also examined as moderating variables. The mediating effect of anticipated organizational support was also examined. Upper level undergraduate students (N = 190) participated in a 3x3 within-subjects experiment in which they rated nine hypothetical organizations that varied in flextime and flexplace. Results from multilevel analysis indicated that significant variance in organizational attraction as well as anticipated organizational support is attributable to the type of work arrangement offered (both flexibility in time and place), with flextime having a stronger effect than flexplace. Contrary to expectation, effects were independent; there was not a significant interaction between flextime and flexplace. The relationship between (both structural and perceived) flexplace and organizational attraction was stronger for individuals who prefer to integrate their work and nonwork roles. Additionally, the relationship between (both structural and perceived) flextime and organizational attraction was stronger for individuals who reported a stronger need for medical treatment. Finally, the relationship between perceived flextime and organizational attraction as well as the relationship between perceived flexplace and organizational attraction were stronger for those who reported more role demands. Contrary to expectation, sociability did not moderate the flexplace-organizational attraction/anticipated organizational support relationships. Limitations and future directions for research on FWAs are discussed.

Thesis (Ph.D)--Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. / Committee Co-Chair: Hayriye Ayhan; Committee Co-Chair: Sigrun Andradottir; Committee Member: David M. Goldsman; Committee Member: Douglas G. Down; Committee Member: Robert D. Foley. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

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