Thèse de doctorat : Sciences, Technologies, Sociétés : Strasbourg : 2009. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Bibliogr. 107 p.

A Generalized Cambridge Ring is a queueing system that can be used as an approximate model of some material handling systems used in modern factories. It consists of one or more vehicles that carry cargo from origins to destinations around a loop, with queues forming when cargo temporarily exceeds the capacity of the system. For some Generalized Cambridge Rings that satisfy the usual traffic conditions for stability, it is demonstrated that some nonidling scheduling polices are unstable. A good scheduling policy will increase the efficiency of these systems by reducing waiting times and by therefore also reducing work in process (WIP). Simple heuristic policies are developed which provide substantial improvements over the commonly used first-in-first-out (FIFO) policy. Variances are incorporated into previously developed fluid models that used only means to produce a more accurate partially discrete fluid mean-variance model, which is used to further reduce waiting times. Optimal policies are obtained for some simple special cases, and simulations are used to compare policies in more general cases. The methods developed may be applicable to other queueing systems. / text

This dissertation explores how architecture is valorized by the cultural artifacts, both visual and text-based, which present and describe it. It examines aspects of the Gothic Revival in early Victorian Britain, to consider the assimilation of models of evolving architectural discourse by one organization with specialized interest in its promotion, and adaptations of that discourse in the realm of popular culture. The dissertation focuses on the ideology of the Cambridge Camden Society, from its inception in 1839 through to 1850. The Society advocated an appreciation of Gothic churches both for aesthetic, and for religious and moral reasons. A key dimension of its mandate, captured in the rhetoric of ecclesiology, was to prioritize an empirical investigation of extant medieval churches. Findings were to be recorded on specially-devised questionnaires, called "church schemes," using a text-based, specially-encoded taxonomy. Given the availability both of extensive documentation by the Society concerning these schemes, and of almost seven hundred completed forms, areas of conformity and divergence between the prescriptive, instructional material, and the descriptive material which indicates the actual reception of the architecture, may be discerned. "Church visiting" hence became the primary means of personal engagement with the architecture, enacted through the elaborate ritual of scripted tourism spelled out by the church schemes and attendant pedagogical documents. The importance, and the implications, of tourism to members of the Cambridge Camden Society are addressed through an evaluation of travel theories and methodologies, developed, especially, since the 1990s. An understanding of ecclesiology in terms of travel theory enables it to be evaluated in a wider context, namely as part of an emerging tourist ethos based on expanding opportunities and incentives to travel through Britain. From this perspective, the Cambridge Camden Society is to be perceived as part of a larger consortium of advocates of tourism to sights of medieval architecture, who employed similar inducements and terminology, and who created such markers of architectural authenticity as travel guides to mediate the traveller's reception of a given sight. As a result, the possibilities of the widespread dissemination of at least the architectural components of ecclesiological ideals, as part of the groundswell of promotional material devoted to all things Gothic, were enhanced.

Thesis (M.BIE)--Unitec New Zealand, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-56).

Thesis (Ph.D.). / Written for the School of Architecture. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2008/09/28). Includes bibliographical references.

Texte remanié de: Doct. th.--Oxford, 1977. / Bibliogr. p. 137-141.

John Smith (1618-1652), the 17th century Cambridge Platonist, employed the traditional language of the spiritual senses of the soul to develop an early modern theological aesthetic central to his religious epistemology and thus to his philosophy of religion and systematic theology. Smith's place in this tradition has been under-appreciated by scholars working on the Cambridge Platonists and the spiritual senses. However, as a Christian Platonist, Smith advocated intellectual intuition of Divine Goodness as the key to theological knowledge and spiritual practice. Furthermore, Smith's theory of prophecy rests on the reception of sensible images in the imagination. In order to demonstrate this the dissertation first presents an interpretive summary of the spiritual senses tradition and proposes a functional typology that registers three uses of non-corporeal perception throughout the history of Christian theology: (1) accounts of the origin and methods of theological knowledge, (2) descriptions of spirituality, and (3) attempts to systematically present or defend Christian theology. Additionally, Smith's historical and intellectual context in early seventeenth century England is discussed with particular attention to how his education prepared him to contribute to the mystical tradition of the spiritual senses of the soul. Through a close reading of his extant writings it is shown that Smith's theories of theological knowledge, method, and prophecy rest on his development of the spiritual senses tradition, combining intellectual intuition and imaginative perception. Likewise, the role of spiritual aesthetics in Smith's prescriptive account of Christian piety is presented. Here the spiritual senses are both means and reward in the spiritual life through the process of deification (theosis). Moreover, it is shown how Smith's theology forms a coherent system with intellectual intuition informing natural theology and revelation being supplemented by spiritual perception via the imagination. The central uniting feature therefore is the spiritual perception of theological truth. Finally, the dissertation closes with a summary of Smith's various uses of the spiritual senses and proposes future research on his influence upon later figures including Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and suggests future constructive work inspired by Smith's combination of reason and experience in religion.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-01-27T12:12:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MariaAurelinaMachadoDeOliveira_TESE.pdf: 2896131 bytes, checksum: 44d3cc2a223219cb04fbc53ea5e5f3fc (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-01-27T14:40:44Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 MariaAurelinaMachadoDeOliveira_TESE.pdf: 2896131 bytes, checksum: 44d3cc2a223219cb04fbc53ea5e5f3fc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-27T14:40:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MariaAurelinaMachadoDeOliveira_TESE.pdf: 2896131 bytes, checksum: 44d3cc2a223219cb04fbc53ea5e5f3fc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-12 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / A Cambridge Worry Scale ? uma escala multidimensional elaborada para avaliar o tipo e a intensidade da preocupa??o de gestantes com bons ?ndices de validade e confiabilidade. Desta forma o objetivo geral desta pesquisa foi adaptar e analisar as evid?ncias psicom?tricas da Cambridge Worry Scale, que avalia preocupa??es maternas em gestantes. Os objetivos espec?ficos foram: a) fazer a adapta??o sem?ntica dos itens da Cambridge Worry Scale do ingl?s para o portugu?s brasileiro b) avaliar evid?ncias de validade de conte?do atrav?s do Coeficiente de Validade de Conte?do (Etapa 1); c) verificar elementos de validade e confiabilidade da Cambridge Worry Scale atrav?s de procedimentos de avalia??o psicom?tricos (Etapa 2). Adapta??o transcultural de corte transversal realizada com 420 gestantes a partir de 13 anos de idade assistidas em Unidades B?sicas de Sa?de de Natal (RN). Utilizou-se como instrumentos: 1) Question?rio Estruturado (dados sociodemogr?ficos e gestacionais); 2) Cambridge Worry Scale (CWS); 3) Perfil Psicossocial no Pr?-natal (PPP); e a Escala de Apoio Social. O projeto cumpriu os aspectos ?ticos tendo obtido parecer favor?vel (572.558/ 2014) do Comit? de ?tica em Pesquisa da UFRN. As an?lises dos dados foram feitas com o aux?lio do software SPSS (21.0). Na Etapa 1 efetuou-se estat?sticas descritivas (frequ?ncia e Coeficiente de Valida??o de Conte?do - CVC) e c?lculo do Kappa de Fleiss. Na Etapa 2 usou-se an?lise fatorial explorat?ria e confirmat?ria, teste t, ANOVA, correla??es de Pearson; e c?lculo do alfa de Cronbach. Na Etapa 1 obteve-se a autoriza??o formal dos autores; prepara??o e consolida??o da vers?o preliminar; e valida??o de conte?do acerca dos crit?rios Clareza, Pertin?ncia Pr?tica e Relev?ncia Te?rica, cujos CVC foram maiores que 0,8 na maior parte dos itens. A Dimens?o Te?rica apresentou concord?ncia substancial (k=0,7164). A Etapa 2 refere-se ? coleta de dados de 420 gestantes. A m?dia de idade foi 26,85 (?8,93) anos, a maioria apresentou baixa escolaridade e renda, era dona de casa, cat?lica, e vivia em uni?o est?vel. Predominaram mult?paras, com baixo hist?rico de aborto e n?o planejamento da gesta??o. Os resultados da An?lise Fatorial Explorat?ria com rota??o Oblimin, seguida de An?lise Fatorial Confirmat?ria para a vers?o de 16 itens e 13 itens (reduzida), indicaram bons indicadores de validade e confiabilidade para ambos modelos. Houve diferen?as na estrutura fatorial dos 2 modelos. A vers?o de 16 itens apresentou 5 fatores, a maioria organizados conforme a original. A vers?o reduzida se mostrou similar ao modelo original, por isso se indica seu uso. A escala presentou validade convergente, divergente e de construto confirmada pelas correla??es entre os fatores da CWS e os escores de estresse (convergente), autoestima e apoio social (divergente). A validade de crit?rio foi observada pelas diferen?as do valor total e fatores da CWS entre grupos de gestantes (prim?paras/mult?paras; adolescentes/adultas jovens/tardias). A confiabilidade avaliada atrav?s da consist?ncia interna da escala foi satisfat?ria (valor ?=0,825) bem como dos fatores (?=0,64-0,74). Os resultados psicom?tricos com rela??o ? validade e confiabilidade da vers?o brasileira da CWS indicam que a escala ? apropriada para ser utilizada. Instrumento ?til e de f?cil aplica??o que pode ser usado por pesquisadores e cl?nicos para avaliar preocupa??es de gestantes. / The Cambridge Worry Scale is a multidimensional scale created to evaluate the type and intensity of pregnant worry with good rates of validation and trustworthiness. This research?s main objective was to adapt and analyze the psychometric evidences of the Cambridge Worry Scale, which evaluates maternal worries on pregnant women. The specific goals were: a) adapt the semantic items in the Cambridge Worry Scale from English to Brazilian Portuguese b) evaluate content validation evidences through the content validation coefficient (stage 1); c) verify validation and trustworthiness elements of the Cambridge Worry Scale through psychometric evaluation procedures (stage 2). Transcultural adaptation of transversal cut done with 420 pregnant women from the age of 13 assisted in Basic Health Units in Natal (RN). It was used as instruments: 1) Structured quiz (socio-demographic and pregnancy data); 2) Cambridge Worry Scale (CWS); 3) Psychosocial profile in pre-birth (PPP); and the social support scale. The project fulfilled the ethnic aspects having a favorable juridical decision (572.558/ 2014) from the UFRN?s Ethics and Research Committee. The data analysis were done with the help from the SPSS (21.0) Software. On stage 1 descriptive statistics were done (frequency and validation coefficient of the content - CVC) and Kappa?s Fleiss calculus. On stage 2 we used the exploratory and confirmatory factorial analysis, t test, ANOVA, Pearson Correlation; and Cronbach?s alpha calculus. On stage 1 we had the formal authorization from the authors; preparation and consolidation of the preliminary version; and content validation about the Clarity criteria, Practical Pertinence and Theoretical Relevance, which CVCs were higher than 0.8 in most of the items. The Theoretical Dimension presented a substantial conformity (k=0.7164). Stage 2 refers to the collection of data from 420 pregnant women. The average age was 26.85 (?8,93) years old, most of them presented low education and income level, they were house wives, catholic, and married. Women with multiple kids predominated, low abortion rate history and there weren?t a pregnancy planning. The exploratory factorial analysis with Oblimin rotation, followed by the confirmatory factorial analysis for the 16 items and 13 items (reduced), pointed good validity indicators and trustworthiness for both models. There were differences in the factorial structure of both models. The 16 items presented 5 factors, most of them organized according to the original. The reduced version showed itself similar to the original model, and that?s why its usage is indicated. The scale presented convergent validation, divergent and confirmed construct by the correlation between CWS factors and stress scores (convergent), self-esteem and social support (divergent). The criteria validation was observed through the difference of the total score and factors of the CWS amongst pregnant groups (first pregnancy/multi pregnancy; teenagers and adults young/late). The evaluated trustworthiness through the internal consistency of the scale was good (valor ?=0.825) as so did the factors (?=0.64-0.74). The psychometric results regarding the validity and trustworthiness of the Brazilian version of the CWS points out that the scale is appropriate to use. It?s a useful and easy to apply instrument that can be used by researchers and clinics to evaluate pregnant worries.

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Orientador: Antonio Carlos Macedo e Silva / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T01:23:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Giannella_Andrea_M.pdf: 1109618 bytes, checksum: 700c4b7467685ccd3fe8aa918a8324e0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: John M. Keynes e Dennis H. Robertson, ambos economistas de Cambridge, foram intensos colaboradores intelectuais na década de 1920; mas após da publicação da Teoria geral de Keynes, em 1936, a colaboração foi substituída por uma ostensiva rivalidade teórica. O ponto de inflexão do relacionamento entre ambos, entretanto, antecede esta época, e remonta à publicação do Tratado sobre a moeda de Keynes, em 1930. A partir da resenha que Robertson fez deste livro, os autores travaram um debate teórico e terminológico, acerca de questões como a determinação do preço dos bens de investimento, a relação entre poupança, investimento e entesouramento, e a determinação da quantidade de depósitos inativos na economia. Este debate, denominado pela literatura especializada de controvérsia "dos baldes em um poço", foi considerado de importância fundamental para as futuras divergências entre os autores, mas não recebeu atenção analítica à altura desta consideração. Nesta dissertação, argumenta-se que o desdobramento dos pontos debatidos esteve em parte relacionado à necessidade de Keynes de responder às críticas de Hayek ao livro, e procura-se estabelecer um modo de correlação entre os diversos conceitos debatidos (entesouramento, depósitos inativos, nível de preço dos bens de investimento, poupança, etc.) Considerou-se, como ponto de orientação geral, a pergunta: a controvérsia foi teórica ou simplesmente terminológica? O que se constata é que não há resposta simples para esta questão. De fato, a "controvérsia dos baldes em um poço" mistura assuntos teóricos, talvez não inteiramente compatíveis entre si, e em relação aos quais a diferença entre os autores foi em parte teórica, e em parte terminológica / Abstract: John M. Keynes and Dennis H. Robertson, both economists from Cambridge, were intense intellectual collaborators in the 1920s; but after the publication of Keynes?s General theory, in 1936, their collaboration was substitutes by an ostensive theoretical rivalry. The turning point of their relationship, however, is previous from that time, and goes back to the publication of Keynes's Treatise on money, in 1930. From Robertson's review of that book on, the authors engaged in a theoretical and terminological debate, concerning matters such as the determination of the price of investment goods, the relation between saving, investment and hoarding, and the determination of the quantity of inactive deposits in the economy. This debate, named the "buckets in a well" controversy by the specialized literature, was considered to be of fundamental importance for the future divergence between the authors, but did not receive an analytical attention compatible to such consideration. In this dissertation, it is argued that the unfolding of the subjects in the debated was partially related to Keynes's need to answer Hayek's critics of his book, and the dissertation means to establish a way to correlate the many debated concepts (hoarding, inactive deposits, price level of investment goods, saving, etc.) It was considered, as a general point of orientation, the question: was the controversy theoretical, or simply terminological? It is concluded that there is no simple answer to such question. As a matter of a fact, the "buckets in a well controversy" mixes many theoretical subjects, which may not be entirely compatible one to another, and in relation to which the difference between the authors was partially theoretical, and partially terminological / Mestrado / Historia Economica / Mestre em Ciências Econômicas