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Šiandieniniu globalizacijos ir modernių technologijų laikotarpiu nebeliko neprieinamų rinkų. Kapitalo srautai tapo tokiais mobiliais, kad per keletą valandų kapitalą galima perkelti iš vienos rinkos į kitą. Informacinių technologijų pagalba informacija tapo prieinama kiekvienam vartotojui. Besivystančios Centrinės ir Rytų Europos akcijų rinkos per paskutinius penketą metų netik pritraukė daug investuotojų dėmesio, bet užtikrino didelį investicijų pelningumą. Vidurio Balkanų akcijų rinkos dar nepažįstamos, tačiau laikomos labai perspektyviomis, didelės viltys siejamos su Europos sąjungos investicijomis ir politinės sistemos stabilumo užtikrinimu. Darbo objektas – Vidurio Balkanų regiono valstybių, Kroatijos, Serbijos, Bosnijos ir Hercegovinos akcijų rinkos. Darbo tikslas – įvertinti Vidurio Balkanų regiono valstybių, Kroatijos, Serbijos ir Bosnijos ir Hercegovinos makro ir mikro aplinką investicijoms akcijų rinkose, patikrinti akcijų portfelio optimizavimo teorijos pritaikymo galimybes praktikoje, esant skirtingoms rinkos tendencijoms. Siekiant nurodyto tikslo reiks išspręsti tokius pagrindinius uždavinius: • Išanalizuoti Vidurio Balkanų regiono valstybių makroekonominius rodiklius; • Apžvelgti verslo aplinką makro lygiu; • Įvertinti prekybos vertybiniais popieriais galimybes ir apribojimus, prekybos mastą; • Įvertinti akcijų rinkos pelningumą ir rizikingumą; • Atrikti tinkamiausias akcijas optimaliam akcijų portfeliui sudaryti pagal V. Šarpo metodiką; • Sudaryti šešis akcijų... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / There are no inaccessible stock markets in these technology and globalization modern-days. Financial capital is very mobile, during several ours financial capital can be transferred from one market to another. Using information systems, new modern technologies, information is accessible for all users. Central and East Europe stock markets during five years were very attractive for investors, because the level risk of investments and profit was appropriate. Central Balkan stock markets are new area for investors and speculators. There is big positive influence from European Union to stabilize political and economical situation in Balkans. This is reason to trust that investments are safety and can be profitable. The mane purpose is to evaluate macro and micro environment for investments in stock market of Central Balkan region countries, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and verify optimal stock portfolio theory (W. Sharpe) in practice, when market is in growing and downgrade trends. There are tasks to find the answers to the mane goal: • To make analysis for macro economical indicators of Central Balkan region countries; • To make business environmental review in macro level; • To evaluate opportunities and limitations to trade securities in stock markets; • To evaluate stock markets risk and profit; • To separate stocks for optimal stock portfolio construction using W. Sharpe model; • To make six stock portfolios when stock market is in growing and downgrade trends.; •... [to full text]

This thesis examines the role and function translations played in Turkish history, especially within the framework of its Westernisation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. A descriptive approach is adopted, aiming to identify cultural patterns which shape and reflect translational decisions and help to a better portrayal of the socio-cultural context of translation during the time span examined. To this end, the thesis seeks to describe in detail historical, political, literary and linguistic factors which have affected the translation activity. The main assumption of this thesis is that acculturation was used as the main strategy in translations from Western languages during the periods which were marked with an extensive translation activity, especially during the nineteenth century and the first decades of the Republican era. This acculturation strategy not only helped to enrich the target literary system, bringing new literary models (genres), new subject matter, developing the language and giving rise to a new Turkish literature, it also had an effect upon the broader socio-cultural polysystem, especially on the process of identity creation. The analysis of the social, political and cultural conditions and policies suggests that the status given both to the source and target cultures has been the main factor for the acculturation. As examined in the last part of the thesis, a shift of power relations in the Turkish context, especially after the 1980s, marked a new kind of an acculturation strategy and a certain movement of resistance. The thesis concludes that there is need to know more about different translation histories in order to learn more about the acculturation process and to move beyond a Eurocentric view, and an interdisciplinary approach should be taken for such research.

Sexual violence in armed conflict is not a new phenomenon. Although it has a long history, it's only in recent years from 1990 that is has been given more attention in science and media. I will in my thesis look at the conflicts of former Yugoslavia and Congo (DRC) and I will use two theories to investigate how the use of conflict-related sexual violence best can be explained. The two theoretical frameworks I have chosen are Feminist theory and Rational Choice theory. The conflicts will be at the center of analysis. My aim is to create an awareness of the problem with sexual violence in war and conflict. Feminist theory claims that environment and upbringing are important factors for the creation of gender. Gender is a social and cultural construct. Rational Choice argues that human beings are rational and make decisions that promote self-interest and minimize their own losses. My conclusion is that the social and cultural constructions which, among other things, created a patriarchal society for a long time in both conflicts. Along with traditional family values, this is a strong reason that sexual violence against women occurred during the conflicts. Another reason is the fighting for resources where sexual violence became a means to an end.

This thesis examines how the three Baltic countries constructed their internal and external sovereign statehood in the interwar period and the post Cold War era. Twice in one century, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were confronted with strongly divided multiethnic societies, requiring a bold and wide-ranging ethnics policy. In 1918 all three Baltic countries promised their minorities cultural autonomy. Whereas Estonian and Latvian politicians were deeply influenced by the theories of Karl Renner and Otto Bauer, the Lithuanians fell back on the historic Jewish self-government in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Many politicians were convinced that the principle of equality of nationalities was one of the cornerstones of the new international order, embodied by the League of Nations. The minority protection system of the League was, however, not established to serve humanitarian aims. It only sought to ensure international peace. This lack of a general minority protection system was one of many discussion points in the negotiations of the Estonian and Latvian minority declarations. Although Lithuania signed a much more detailed minority declaration, its internal political situation rapidly deteriorated. Estonia, on the other hand, established full cultural autonomy with corporations of public law. Although a wide-ranging school autonomy was already established in 1919, Latvia never established cultural self-government. The Second World War and the subsequent Soviet occupation led to the replacement of the small historically rooted minority groups by large groups of Russian-speaking settlers. The restoration in 1991 of the pre 1940 political community meant that these groups were deprived of political rights. In trying to cope with this situation, Estonia and Latvia focused much more on linguistic integration than on collective rights. Early attempts to pursue a decolonisation policy, as proposed by some leading Estonian and Latvian policymakers, were blocked by the ‘official Europe’ which followed a policy analogous to the League of Nations.

The water and coal samples from the Manisa-Soma-DeniS region were studied on the basis of their basic characteristics, inorganic and organic parameters. Coal samples were determined as low-quality lignite. They have high concentrations of arsenic, uranium and lead. The organics in the coal samples are of aliphatic hydrocarbons and their derivatives (alkanes and alcohols), methyls, phthalates, naphtalenes and benzenes. They are inactive and low in concentrations. Water samples have basic characteristics within the range of drinking waters. They also have high arsenic and uranium concentrations indicating a possible leaching. Their organic compounds are similar to those in the coal samples. However, these organic compounds are not as toxic as those found in endemic samples and their concentration is also very low. Therefore, they are considered not to be a potential for Balkan Endemic Nephropathy (BEN)-disease. On the basis of the findings of this study, the area can be concluded as non-endemic region.

This thesis considers Seven Easy Pieces, Marina Abramović’s 2005 cycle of re-performances at the Guggenheim Museum, as part of a broader effort to recuperate the art of the 1960s and 1970s. In re-creating canonical pieces known to her solely through fragmentary documentation, Abramović helped to bring into focus how performances by Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Gina Pane, Vito Acconci, Valie Export, and herself were being re-coded by the mediating institutions. Stressing the production of difference, my analysis revolves around two of the pieces in detail. First, the Deleuzian insight that repetition produces difference sheds light on the artist’s embellishment of her own Lips of Thomas (1975) with a series of Yugoslav partisan symbols. What follows is an examination of the enduring role of this iconography, exploring the 1970s Yugoslav context as well as the more recent phenomenon of “Balkan Art,” an exhibition trend drawing upon orientalizing discourse. While the very presence of these works in Tito’s Yugoslavia complicates the situation, I show how the transplanted vocabulary of body art may be read against the complex interweaving of official rhetoric and dissident activity. I focus on two distinct interpretations of Marxism: first, the official emphasis on discipline and the body as material producer, and second, the critique of the cult of personality as well as dissident notions about the role of practice in social transformation. It is in this sense that a distinctly spiritualist vocabulary also acquires a political dimension in drawing upon movements such as Fluxus and Neo-Dada, and underscoring the value of the immaterial and the non-productive. Finally, I explain how a reversal of Slavoj Žižek’s tripartite structure of ideology can help to articulate how a repetition of Beuys’s actions in this context actually displaces their cosmological aspect by virtue of the re-enactment setting alone.

Thesis--Paris University, 1926. / Bibliography: p. [133]-134.

Thesis (M.A.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. / Cover title. "June 2002." AD-A404 893. Includes bibliographical references. Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis--Paris University, 1926. / Bibliography: p. [133]-134.