Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1975. / Typescript.

Misty McElroy had no idea when she crafted her senior undergraduate capstone project at Portland State University in 2001 that she was starting a worldwide phenomenon—the Rock ‘n’ Roll Campfor Girls. What started as a week-long summer camp for girls ages 8 to 17 to teach them how to play rock music has since blossomed into an organization with over 40 branches worldwide, serving 3000 girls every year and affecting the lives of thousands more women and girls in the surrounding communities. The Girls Rock Camp Alliance operates as the organizing body for the dozens of Rock Camps across the globe. Together, these organizations work to build girls’ self-esteem through music creation and performance and further, to create feminist cultural change. Rock Camp, like so many other nonprofits, exists on a political continuum, with radical direct-action groups on the far left and mainstream, foundation-funded organizations on the right. Misty’s original vision for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls was rooted in radical feminist politics that followed in the footsteps of Riot Grrrl and made an explicit connection between girls playing music and political movement. While feminist politics continue to form the foundation of the work that every Rock Camp does, from its pedagogy and curriculum in its programming to its organizational structure, and every organizer will agree that Rock Camp is a fundamentally feminist organization, it has made a series of choices over the past decade that now places it closer to the center of the continuum.

Camps provide an avenue for examining positive youth development. Camps represent environments where children can develop their social capital and emotional intelligence insofar as camp activities teach children how to build positive relationships and to relate to others emotionally that lead to positive outcomes. Little research has examined children’s social capital and emotional intelligence and the relationship between them. Using a longitudinal dataset, this study examined the change of social capital and emotional intelligence experienced by campers. Findings revealed that increases in social capital caused increases in emotional intelligence. Differences were found based on gender. Furthermore, residential camps were found to have a stronger effect on the relationship between social capital and emotional intelligence than day camps. This study lends itself to furthering the understanding of the development of emotional intelligence and the importance of camp in children’s development.

L'origen de la present tesi doctoral es situa en l'assumpció per part de l'autor de la necessitat d'una bona teoria per establir correctes línies de recerca experimental, la relació existent entre el comportament motor i la intel·ligència humana i, en darrer lloc, en emfatitzar l'apropament del desenvolupament teòric a l'aplicació pràctica que doni sentit als pedagogs esportius i reverteixi significativament en la societat. En aquest context, es desenvolupa l'aprofundiment teòric de la tàctica esportiva com a comportament intel·ligent en el marc de la dimensió qualitativa del model de camp psicològic funcional (formalitat psicològica, materialitat biològica i finalitat adaptativa) i es proposa un model didàctic d'intervenció pedagògica que respon als diferents nivells funcionals. La tàctica esportiva com a interacció social interpretativa i integració funcional amb els comportaments perceptivo motors, permet oferir una classificació funcional dels esports en funció de la finalitat adaptativa física o convencional i, sobretot, en funció de les convencionalitats bàsiques que permeten als individus entendre's en les més diverses relacions interpersonals presents en els esports. Secundàriament, la tesi aprofundeix en la revisió teòrica dels diversos models que han abordat el fenomen de la tàctica esportiva i explica els conceptes funcionals de tècnica i estratègia.El concepte de funcionalitat no significa el concepte positivista de tenir utilitat, sinó que significa l'estudi de dinamismes diferenciats de la naturalesa. En aquest sentit, es concep el funcionalisme psicològic com a comportament associatiu en base a la reactivitat biològica que en constitueix el seu basament material. La tesi abandona els models teòrics dualistes per abordar l'explicació de la tàctica esportiva en base al criteri comportamental que, deixant el criteri cartesià d'extensió, explica naturalment el comportament humà en línia aristotèlica. Així, s'ofereix una explicació del comportament motor humà respectant els dos nivells funcionals de l'associació, rígida (seqüències cícliques i acícliques intra-repetició) o canviant (acícliques inter-repeticions). La finalitat exclusivament física d'aquest comportament aplicat a les gestualitats específiques esportives acull el concepte de tècnica i les cognicions lingüístiques en absència de propioceptivitat, el concepte d'estratègia.La conceptualització funcional de la tàctica esportiva es vincula a la convencionalitat canviant modificació de la seqüència motriu (atac-defensa), present només en algunes relacions interpersonals esportives. No és l'harmonització perceptiva (col·laboració) ni l'assoliment d'un objectiu físic final (oposició) les convencionalitats definitòries de la tàctica. Aquestes darreres convencionalitats es presenten com a rígides durant tota la interacció motriu, mentre que la modificació de la seqüència motriu, canviant moment a moment en la seva naturalesa, caracteritza el nivell funcional interpretatiu de la tàctica esportiva amb la temporalitat com a criteri d'èxit de l'acció. Aquest desenvolupament teòric permet la construcció d'un model didàctic d'intervenció pedagògica sense fases o etapes a superar, que tendeixen a homogeneïtzar les persones i no respecten les diferències individuals; la pròpia praxi aplicativa estructura la millor possibilitat de construcció didàctica, tot i destacant la rellevància dels mitjans bàsics de tàctica col·lectiva en ser funcionalment idèntics a la tàctica real dels esports d'equip: col·lectius i interpretatius. La tàctica com a intel·ligència en joc. / The origin of the present doctoral thesis is based on the assumption on the author's side about the necessity of a good theory in order to establish correct lines of experimental research, the relationship existing between the motor behaviour and human intelligence and lastly, in emphasizing the approach of the theoretic development to the practical application that makes sense to the sport pedagogues and reverts significantly in the society. In this context, the theoretical study goes in depth to see how the sport tactics is developed as an intelligent behaviour in the frame of the qualitative dimension of the model of functional psychological field (psychological formality, biologic materiality and adjusting finality) and a didactic model of pedagogic intervention is proposed which is a reply to different functional levels. The sport tactics as an interpretative social interaction and functional integration with the motor perceptive behaviour allows to offering a functional classification of sports depending on the physical or conventional adaptive finality and above all, depending on the basic conventionalities that allow individuals to understand themselves in the most diverse interpersonal relationships which are present in sports. Secondarily, the thesis go deep in the theoretical revision of the diverse models that have approached the phenomenon of the sport tactics and explains the functional concepts of technics and strategy.The concept of functionality does not mean the positivist concept of being useful, but it means the study of nature's differentiate dynamisms. In this sense, it is conceived the psychological functionalism as an associative behaviour on the basis of the biological reactivity which constitutes its material base. The thesis abandons the dualist theoretical models since it approaches the explanation of the sport tactics on the basis of the behavioural criteria which, leaving out the extension's Cartesian criteria, clearly explains the human behaviour in Aristotelian line. Thus, an explanation of the human motor behaviour is offered respecting both functional levels of the association, rigid (cyclic and acyclic intra-repetition sequences) or changing (acyclic inter-repetitions). The finality exclusively physical of this behaviour applied to the sporting specific gestures takes in the concept of technics and the linguistic cognitions in the absence of propioceptivity, the concept of strategy.The functional conceptualization of the sport tactics is linked to the changing conventionality modification of the driving sequence (attack-defence), only present in some sporting interpersonal relations. It is neither the perceptive harmonization (collaboration) nor the attainment of a final physical objective (opposition) the defining conventionalities of the tactics. These last conventionalities are presented as rigid throughout the driving interaction, while the modification of the driving sequence, changing progressively in its nature, characterizes the interpretative functional level of the sport tactics with the temporality as a successful criteria of the action.The sport tactics has always been linked to the intellectual behaviour of the player. In this respect, the thesis makes a revision of the traditional concept of the intelligence in order to come closer to the psychosocial, interactive and interpretative context of the tactics behaviour. Thus, in the division of the natural dynamisms, a multidimensional idea of intelligence sets down roots as an adaptive behaviour to the physical behaviour (Perception), to the biological behaviour (Conditioning) and to the social conventional behaviour (Understanding), which is the intellectual dimension of the Tactics in the double modal and temporal parameter that distinguishes it.This theoretical development allows the building of a didactic model of pedagogic intervention without phases or stages to overcome that tend to homogenise people and do not respect the individual differences; the own applicative praxis structures the best possibility of didactic construction, emphasizing the importance the basic means of collective tactisc as being functionally identical to the real tactics of the team sports: collective and interpretative. Tactics as intelligence in the play.

Aquesta tesi mostra un mètode eficient per integrar numèricament una hamiltoniana k·p per heteroestructures semiconductores zero-dimensionals (punts quàntics). S'ofereixen nombrosos exemples d'aplicació en punts quàntics col·loidals sota camps magnètics, anells quàntics, punts quàntics auto-organitzats sota strain i punts quàntics amb ions magnètics. Especial èmfasi es fa en l'efecte d'acoblament entre bandes de forats lleugers i pesants.

The orexin receptors are a pair of newly discovered G-protein coupled receptors which are activated by the neuropeptides orexins and play a role in sleep/vigilance, apetite/metabolism and neuroendocrine regulation. On a cellular level receptor activation results in, to name but a few effects, elevation of intracellular calcium and depolarisation. All cellular effects display an uncommon dependence of extracellular Ca2+, which has been shown to be due to influx of extracellular Ca2+ as a primary response. Here we provide evidence for a high specificity of orexin receptors for orexin peptides over other neuropeptides, despite previous reports of the opposite. Other neuropeptides could neither displace orexin-A from orexin receptors, nor affect functional responses induced by orexin peptides via orexin receptors. In an effort to assess the determinants of orexin-A binding to orexin receptors orexin-A was truncated/mutated and tested for functional responses. It was found that alterations in the orexin-A sequence had more prominent effects on the activation of OX1 than on OX2 receptors. When the signaling of orexin receptors was investigated in neuron-like cells it was found that they couple to Ca2+-metabolism and PLC activation in a manner similar to that in non-neuronal cells. Investigations of OX1 receptor regulation of adenylyl cyclases showed orexin receptors to have a dual effect on the production of cAMP. A high-affinity inhibitory coupling and a low-affinity stimulatory coupling. The stimulatory coupling was determined to consist of two components, a low potency GS-coupling and a high-potency PKC coupling. In conclusion we have shown that orexin receptors are preferentially activated by orexin peptides and the receptors couple to Ca2+-metabolism in a similar way in different contexts. Orexin receptors couple to both the phospholipase C and the adenylyl cyclase pathway and to some extent these pathways converge in the production of cAMP.

This study intends to analyse the terms camp and closet in Alan Hollinghurst&rsquo / s fiction, since all four of his novels - The Swimming-Pool Library (1988), The Folding Star (1993), The Spell (1998), and The Line of Beauty (2004) - investigate the gay male experience throughout the late-twentieth century The point in analysing these terms in Hollinghurst&rsquo / s work is to find out whether the author writes from the margin or in the centre to recreate the origin. Gay subjectivities are of great concern to this study, yet it does not mean that it will be a product of identity politics. Identity politics does regard gender, race, or ethnicities, which are nothing but social constructions, as fixed or biologically determined traits. Thus, identity politics, while trying to recentre the decentred and marginalised identities, re-establishes the binary structure of the Western thought. This study analyses how Hollinghurst, by camping and closeting the gay male, re-produces homosexuality as a distinct identity with a subculture of its own.

Texte remanié de: Thesis Ph. D.--Berkeley--University of California. / Bibliogr. p. 347-365.

Diss.--Berlin--Techn. Univ., 1996. / Bibliogr. p. 329-338.

Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät--Universität Göttingen, 1999. Titre de soutenance : Verlagerungswahn und Tod. Die Fiktion eines Rüstungszentrums und der KZ-Komplex Mittelbau-Dora 1943-1945. / Bibliogr. p. 588-623. Index.