Thesis (D. Min.)--Ashland Theological Seminary, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-149).

Thesis (B.A.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geography, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-50).

El propósito del presente estudio, se enfoca en la descripción y correlación de los niveles de Conductas antisociales y la Percepción subjetiva de la calidad de vida en adolescentes varones de 14 a 18 años de edad, estudiantes del “Colegio Simón Bolívar” de la ciudad de La Paz. De los resultados obtenidos se determinó claramente que uno de los problemas fundamentales en esta población es indudablemente los problemas de conducta reflejados en altos niveles de comportamientos que van contra las normas, valores y principios de la sociedad, “Conductas Antisociales” y que a su vez presentan un nivel elevado sobre la “Percepción subjetiva de la calidad de vida” relacionado al estilo de cómo cada adolescente evalúa de manera individual su propia experiencia de vida actual. Estos resultados nos han permitido determinar que existe una correlación positiva entre ambas variables, dado que cada vez que los niveles de Conducta Antisocial aumenten, aumentará de manera proporcional la Percepción subjetiva de la calidad de vida, afirmando la hipótesis en que las conductas antisociales parecen estar más orientados al estilo de cómo cada individuo percibe y evalúa de manera subjetiva su calidad de vida, lo cual se manifiesta en un factor de riesgo preponderante en la adolescencia

La investigación Modelos de Proyectos de Innovación Pedagógica aplicado por los catedráticos en el proceso de enseñanza del Instituto Normal Superior Simón Bolívar (INSSSB) presenta las siguientes características: El problema se basa en una contradicción en el proceso de enseñanza y evaluación de los Proyectos de Innovación Pedagógica, que afecta la formación del estudiante, porque este tiene dificultades para poder seguir una línea de investigación educativa y la elaboración de PIP coherente. En este sentido surge el siguiente cuestionamiento: ¿Qué características tienen los modelos metodológicos para la elaboración de proyectos de innovación pedagógica aplicados por los catedráticos en los procesos de enseñanza y evaluación en el Instituto Normal Superior Simón Bolívar en el año 2006? A esta interrogante surge la siguiente hipótesis: los modelos metodológicos de elaboración del PIP tienden a combinar el paradigma positivista y el paradigma emergente en el proceso educativo, generando contradicciones en la enseñanza y evaluación de estos / The investigation Innovation Projects Models (PIP) apply by the professors on the teaching processor the Instituto Normal Superior Simon Bolivar (INSSB), presents the following characteristics: The problem at the INSSB determines because exists a contradiction on the process of formation and development teaching evaluation of the Pedagogic Innovation Projects, besides affects the student formation because this has difficulties to be able to follow an educative investigation line and a coherent elaboration of PIP In this sense rise the following questioning: Which characteristic has the methodological models for the elaboration of Pedagogic Innovation Projects applied by the professors on the teaching process and evaluation at the Instituto Normal Superior Simon Bolivar on 2006? To this interrogative rise the following supposed: the methodological models of the PIP elaboration try to combine positive paradigm and the emergent paradigm on the teaching process, generating contradictions on the teaching evaluation of this

El Grupo Minero Bolívar forma parte de la Empresa Minera Sinchi Wayra S.A. Se encuentra políticamente ubicado en el Departamento de Oruro, provincia Poopó, Cantón Antequera, a una altitud de 4015 m.s.n.m. y una distancia de 75 [Km] al sudoeste de la ciudad de Oruro. Dentro del Grupo Minero Bolívar, se efectúa la explotación del yacimiento de minerales mediante el método de sub-niveles, efectuando una concentración de minerales: plomo, zinc, estaño por flotación diferencial, a estas actividades se asocian: el transporte, administración y comercialización de minerales. Actualmente se genera residuos industriales por causa de las actividades descritas anteriormente, con deficiencias en la segregación en fuente, almacenamiento, tratamiento y disposición; por lo mismo se expone al personal a riesgos innecesarios en el Campamento y en las áreas industriales de la Empresa. El diseño de un sistema de manejo de residuos implica cumplir con las normas y procedimientos, sin pasar por alto ninguno de los factores que intervienen en la confirmación de la seguridad como son: en primera instancia el factor humano (entrenamiento y motivación), las condiciones de trabajo (infraestructura y señalización), las acciones que conllevan riesgos, prevención de accidentes, entre otros. El objetivo de este proyecto de grado es diseñar un sistema de manejo y tratamiento de residuos sólidos industriales para reducir el peligro de generación de impactos ambientales en el Grupo Minero Bolívar.

Recurring extreme events of nature challenge disaster-prone settlements in complex ways. Devastating property damages are one of the tests of survival for such settlements in both economic and social terms. It also provides unique opportunities to rethink the environment cleared by massive natural disasters. However, rebuilding for long-term resiliency is one of the least investigated areas, particularly when employing tacit knowledge in the sustainable recovery process. This study examines the post-disaster rebuilding process in spatial terms for Bolivar Peninsula in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. It further investigates the nexus between connectivity among open space networks to various levels of surge damage among Bolivar spontaneous settlements. The study uses syntactical methods to measure axial connectivity of the Bolivar Peninsula access grid and one-way Analysis of Variance to interpret the way connectivity varies along the no damage to destroyed damage scale. In addition, the permeability rubric analyzes the elevation characteristics of houses that demonstrated higher probabilities of survival through a logistic regression. The conclusions are based on two basic premises. Local knowledge demands an indefinite time to be adapted and mobilized because of the increasing intensity of natural disasters. In addition, the high frequency of disaster events significantly challenges the versatility of local coping and survival strategies. The results reveal that the connectivity of the access grid has an inversely proportional relationship with various damage levels, particularly for no damage and destroyed. Furthermore, out of a number of resiliency characteristics listed in the literature, only ground elevation and ground enclosure demonstrated probability significances for survival. Potentially, the results of this research could support three significant outcomes pertaining to sustainable disaster recovery: preserving place character, social justice among affected groups, and promoting rapid recovery.

This thesis examines the use of history, historical narratives and the relation to Venezuelan historical consciousness in Libro Rojo, a publication of The Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). It consists of four parts: an introduction, a declaration of principles, statutes and finally what is called the programmatical bases (bases programaticas) of the party. A starting point for this thesis is that this is an under prioritized area of research about the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela. It aims to show the centrality of history in these fundamental documents of the biggest left-wing party in Latin America. The thesis finds that symbolically charged historical figures – mainly national icons of Venezuela´s struggle for national liberation - are mobilized to back up contemporary aspirations and influence public perception of what kind of future is possible and desirable. Libro Rojo structures the relationship between past, present and future in order to influence historical consciousness. It also finds that Libro Rojo constructs a vision of socialism which aims to show that the ideas and actions of Venezuela´s symbolically charged historical figures are compatible with the ideas of 19th and 20th century western Marxism. An illustration of this is the reference to Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariáteguí and his saying that socialism on the American continent can neither be an imitation nor a copy of foreign models, but a heroic creation of the people. Furthermore in Libro Rojo, the ideas of liberation theology, Christianity as well as "all universal and humanist thought" are evoked as foundations for the contemporary aspirations of the PSUV. The present is situated within a context of contemporary history in which themes such as the struggle of the peoples against neoliberalism and the threats to the survival of humanity due to climate changes, economic crisis and war are central. It describes a near future in which humanity will have a choice: between its salvation and flourishing through socialism, or its extinction through world capitalism.

The storm surge from Hurricane Ike inundated Bolivar Peninsula as well as pooled up (~4 meters above sea level) in the Galveston Bay System behind Bolivar. After the hurricane passed, this water flowed back over the peninsula for about 19 hours, causing a great deal of coastal destruction. Analysis of post-Hurricane Ike aerial photography and Lidar data revealed the development of dramatically different scour and backflow features in the beach and dune environments along Bolivar Peninsula, Texas. Using Ward's cluster analysis, the 454 identified features were grouped according to shape and size characteristics generated by an object-oriented shape analysis program. Five distinct groups of features emerged from the cluster analysis. Group 1 features were small and compact, distributed mostly in the west; Group 2 features were large and dendritic in nature, distributed where the peninsula was narrow. Group 3 features had a longshore orientation with many of them resembling piano keys, distributed in the east. Group 4 features were oriented longshore and ornate in shape. Many of them were similar in shape to Group 2 or 3 features though statistically different enough to be grouped alone; they were distributed mostly in the eastern half of the study area. Group 5 features tended to be elongated, oriented cross-shore, nonbranching, and distributed mostly in the east. At least four flow environments caused characteristic forms. The first flow environment is typified by seaward flowing water encountering a road parallel with the coastline. The water flowing over the road scours deeply on the leeward side (seaward side), denuding beach sediments down to the resistant mud layer (Groups 3 and 4). The second flow environment was caused by a geotube, which breached during the storm and channelized flow through the breaches (Groups 2 and 5). The third flow environment had a comparatively high elevation, high development, and shore-perpendicular roads (Group 2). The fourth flow environment was typified by wide beaches backed by dunes (lost in the storm) as well as flat vegetated areas. Water flowing seaward over the vegetation scoured deeply into troughs after it came off the vegetation (Groups 1, 3, and 4).

Master of Science / Department of Geology / Abdelmoneam Raef / Matthew W. Totten / This study examines an ovoid drainage feature southwest of Topeka, Kansas, whose discovery sparked a flurry of activity. Geomicrobial and surface gamma ray surveys indicated possible vertical migration of hydrocarbons, and a ground magnetic survey produced anomalies that resemble the profile of a crater. The area was dubbed the Echo Cliff structure and considered analogous to the Ames structure in Oklahoma, an Ordovician impact structure remarkable for significant hydrocarbon recovery. However, four wells drilled in the area were dry and abandoned. The Echo Cliff structure did yield further indications of its origins by the discovery of possible shocked quartz in drill cuttings from the Ordovician Simpson Group. Our study integrated well log analysis, geophysical modeling, and petrographic analysis to verify or refute the proposed identity of the Echo Cliff structure. Well logs from the area were used to create a structural and stratigraphic cross-section in Petrel® 2016. A gravity survey was conducted in the study area and combined with an aeromagnetic survey, donated by Applied Geophyics, Inc., to use as the basis for geophysical modeling within GM-SYS®. Finally, drill cuttings from the Simpson Group of two wells in the study area were mounted for thin sectioning. These thin sections were examined for planar deformation features, which are indicative of an impact event. The structural and stratigraphic cross sections indicated minimal variation in the subsurface, which is uncharacteristic of an impact event. The GM-SYS® geophysical models seem to indicate that variations in the topography of the Precambrian basement and faulting from the Bolivar-Mansfield Tectonic Zone are responsible for the geophysical anomalies and possibly the current drainage pattern of the study area. Finally, no planar deformation features were observed in any of the examined thin sections. Therefore, there is currently no evidence in support of the claim that the Echo Cliff structure is an impact structure.

Annually, tropical cyclones do tremendous damage and are agents of long-term coastal change. To test this idea of different tropical cyclones delivering consistent coastal change, a landform with such evolution is needed. One such landform is a spit. What contributions do tropical cyclones give toward the evolution of a spit, and do tropical cyclones give the same kinds of impacts? To determine if tropical cyclones have similar impacts, shoreline and volumetric change from four storms impacting Bolivar Peninsula are considered. Being a southwest-trended spit at a length of 33.5 kilometers, storm impacts are measured in the form of one dimensional shoreline and two dimensional volumetric change. These impacts are abstracted into shoreline change and volumetric change patterns. These patterns are identified and compared for differences between each storm and similarity among all storms. Results indicate that shoreline accretionary zones vary alongshore. Results from Hurricane Ike indicate an accretionary zone ten kilometers from the distal end. Shoreline change patterns for Hurricane Rita show an unstable accretionary zone at four kilometers from the distal end. Results for Tropical Storm Fay indicate an unstable accretionary zone that begins at the distal end and continues to the middle of the spit. In terms of similarity for shoreline change, all patterns from storms demonstrated erosion near Rollover Fish Pass. One dimensional volumetric change patterns were entirely erosive for Hurricanes Rita and Ike, and Tropical Storm Fay had by small zones of accretion near the distal portion of the spit. Tropical Storm Josephine demonstrated an accretion zone between the middle and distal portion of the spit. Results from two dimensional volumetric change patterns suggest a threshold for inland penetration. Tropical Storm Fay showed a ten to twenty meter wide pattern of erosion around five kilometers from the distal end and near the proximal end of the spit, and Hurricane Rita demonstrated a twenty meter wide pattern of erosion near the distal end. Hurricane Ike had erosive penetration of up to 200 meters around fifteen kilometers from the distal end. Results suggest that certain storms reinforce the standard spit growth model, and others work against it.