Denna studie undersöker hur Systembolagets roll kan uppfattas genom deras organisationsberättelse. En tematisk textanalys har gjorts av Systembolagets webbpublicerade material för att fastställa vilka diskurser som framträder i materialet för att framställa deras roll. Denna studie bygger på Zygmunt Baumans teori om vårt samtida konsumtionssamhälle samt John Clarkes resonemang om hur offentliga organisationer har behövt anpassa sig till detta konsumtionssamhälle. Den metodologiska ansats som har använts för att studera detta är foucauldeansk genealogisk diskursanalys. Inom denna diskursteoretiska angreppssätt studerar sambandet mellan ett fenomen och den kontext som fenomenet har uppstått inom. För denna studie handlar det då om hur Systembolagets texter kan förstås utifrån det samtida konsumtionssamhället utifrån vilket texterna har producerats. De diskurser som framträder i materialet är myndighetsdiskursen, ansvarsdiskursen samt servicediskursen. Utifrån de resultat som framträder kan Systembolaget uppfattas som en aktör med en mångsidig identitet, där både organisationens myndighetsutövande och ansvarsfulla sida tillsammans med deras kundorientering får dem att framstå som en modern offentlig verksamhet med konsumenten ständigt i fokus. / This study investigates how Systembolaget’s role can be perceived through their corporate storytelling. A thematic text analysis has been implemented on the presentation published on their website to determine the discourses used to describe their role in our contemporary society. This study is based on Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of consumer society and John Clarke’s review of the public sector adaptation to this consumer society that we live in. The method that has been used to study this is Foucault’s genealogical discourse analysis, where you study the relationship between the phenomena and the context in which the material has been produced. The discourses that appear in the material are the administrative authority discourse, the liability discourse and the service discourse. Based on the results of the study Systembolaget can be perceived as a versatile actor that emphasizes their authoritarian and responsible qualities as well as their customer orientation. This is something that makes them appear like a modern public organization with the consumer constantly in focus.

Tyrimo objektas: Ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų plokščiapadystės įvertimimo metodų palyginimas prieš ir po kineziterapijos. Tyrimo tikslas: Įvertinti ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų plokščiapadystės įvertinimo metodų palyginimus prieš ir po kineziterapijos. Tyrimo hipotezė: Manome, kad ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų plokščiapėdystės įvertinimui tiksliausi Čičino metodas ir Chipaux-Smirak indeksas. Tyrimo uždaviniai: 1. Įvertinti ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų pėdos antspaudą prieš ir po kineziterapijos naudojant Čičino metodą. 2. Įvertinti ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų pėdos antspaudą prieš ir po kineziterapijos naudojant Chipaux-Smirak indeksą. 3. Įvertinti ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų pėdos antspaudą prieš ir po kineziterapijos naudojant Staheli indeksą. 4. Įvertinti ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų pėdos antspaudą prieš ir po kineziterapijos naudojant Clarke kampo vertinimą. 5. Vertintų metodikų tarpusavio palyginimas. Tyrimo problema: Plokščiapėdystės problemos nagrinėjimo pasigendama šalyje vykdomų mokslinių tyrimų tematikoje. Išvados: 1. Įvertinus ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų pėdos antspaudus naudojant Čičino metodą vieno vaiko iš 3-4 metų amžiaus grupės plokščia pėda po kineziterapijos tapo normali, o 4-5 metų amžiaus grupėje vieno vaiko pėda iš suplokštėjusios tapo normalia (p<0.05). 2. Įvertinus 3-4 amžiaus vaikų pėdos antspaudą naudojant Chipaux-Smirak indeksą, prieš kineziterapiją 24 vaikai turėjo plokščią pėdą. Po kineziterapijos dviejų iš jų pėda tapo suplokštėjusi, o dviejų –... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Research object: Comparison of preschool children flatfoot evaluation methods before and after kinesitherapy. Research aim: Evaluate comparisons of flatfoot evaluation methods for preschool children before and after kinesitherapy. Research hypothesis: We think that the most accurate methods for estimation of preschool children flatfoot are Chichen method and Chipaux-Smirak index. Research tasks: 1. Estimate foot print of preschool children before and after kinesitherapy by using Chichen method. 2. Estimate foot print of preschool children before and after kinesitherapy by using Chipaux-Smirak method. 3. Estimate foot print of preschool children before and after kinesitherapy by using Staheli index. 4. Estimate foot print of preschool children before and after kinesitherapy by using estimation of Clarke angle. 5. Comparison of used methods. Research problem: Lack of scientific research that is related to flatfoot problem analysis in Lithuania. Conclusions: 1. Preschoool children feet stamps were evaluated by Chichen method. Flat foot of one child in 3-4 years age group became normal after kinesitherapy and pre-flat foot of one child in 4-5 years age group became normal (p<0.05). 2. Preschoool children (3-4 years old) feet stamps were evaluated by Chipaux-Smirak index. 24 children had flatfoot before kinesitherapy. After kinesitherapy, two of them had pre-flat feet and two in-between feet. In 4-5 years old children group, flat foot of one child became normal and in 5-6 years... [to full text]

The Swedish armed forces doctrine does not disclose where the knowledge about the use of airpower was acquired. Earlier research supports the fact that doctrine needs to contain theory to support its legitimacy.  The purpose of this study is to examine whether the doctrine contains air power theory. The author believes that increased internationalization may have caused international air power theories to have been integrated in the doctrine.  The research was conducted as a qualitative research of the Swedish air force doctrine documents. The research intended to see if the air power theories of John Warden and Shaun Clark have influenced the doctrine.  The result of this study shows that the ideas of Shaun Clarke had a much higher presence than the ideas of John Warden. The study has shown that the Swedish air force doctrine has theoretical support. The study concludes that internationalizing has affected but not to the point where the Swedish air force blindly copied air power theories without it suiting the Swedish air force.

[pt] A logística do petróleo no Brasil encontra-se atualmente em franca expansão e desenvolvimento. Impulsionada por novas descobertas, além da entrada de novos players, os desafios têm se revelado cada vez mais complexos. Desta forma, uma previsibilidade da demanda por transporte adequada e aderente, principalmente, implica na redução nos custos de transporte advinda de uma melhor estratégia de contratação. Este trabalho busca mensurar o tamanho de frota necessário para o transporte de petróleo em seu estado cru, fornecendo subsídios para o processo de tomada de decisão em uma empresa de petróleo integrada. Para tal, são utilizadas modelagens matemáticas considerando-se as diversas viagens e destinos a serem atendidos pelos navios petroleiros. Simulações envolvendo tamanhos de lotes e roteamento de veículos também são utilizadas com o intuito de auferir ganhos mediante o aumento da eficiência no transporte. Ao final deste documento, pretende-se esclarecer aspectos importantes que impactam na atividade de programação de navios em âmbito operacional. São analisados dois tipos de serviços com finalidades distintas: transporte de petróleo em cabotagem e longo curso. Por fim, é calculado o tamanho de frota, de acordo com o porte de navio ideal, conforme os vários cenários abordados. / [en] The Crude Oil s logistics in Brasil currently raises faster than last ten years. Driven by new discoveries, in addition to the entry of new players, the problems have been increased in complexity. Thus, an adequate forecast could be interesting to reduce transport s costs by an application of a better strategy for hiring. This paper seeks measure the size of fleet needed for the transport of petroleum in its raw state, providing subsidies to the decision process in oil companies. Therefore are used mathematical modelings considering the various destinations and the commercials contracts. Simulations involving cargo quantities and vehicles routing also had been employed in point of obtaining gains through increasing fleet s efficiency. The purpose of this work is to intend the impacts of some operational problems in scheduling. Two types of services are going to be analysed considering their finalities: the navigation along the Brasilian coast and the navigation between several countries. Finally, fleet will be calculated according to the size of vessel and attempting some different scenarios.

Throughout centuries of great classical music, many viola compositions have been crafted from a wealth of literature for instruments of similar range. Clarinet, violin, and cello concerti and ensemble literature often adapt into challenging literature for the viola. In November 2009, Oxford Music Publishing gave me permission to transcribe and perform the Prelude, Allegro, and Pastorale by Rebecca Clarke in New York's famed Carnegie Hall - Weill Recital Hall. This dissertation explains the process by which I transcribed the Prelude, Allegro, and Pastorale from an original Bb-clarinet/viola duo, to a new arrangement for two violas (approved by Oxford Music Press arrangement license #7007940), and discusses challenges faced throughout the transcription process.

Groundwater contamination is a growing problem that is receiving increasing attention on the national scene. There is recognition that federal, state, and local, programs for the protection of the nation's groundwater lack coordinated, integrated policy. Consequently, much of the responsibility for groundwater protection in rural areas falls upon local elected officials and public administrators who may be ill equipped to deal with technically c01nplex issues that are becoming increasingly germane and costly for many communities. This dissertation examines a rural county in Virginia (Clarke County) noted for its progressive groundwater protection policies, with the intent of the examination to improve the knowledge base of the dynamics of the groundwater protection process in rural areas. Case study methodology, implementation theory, and ethnographic techniques are used to determine what factors and forces play the greatest role in initiating and influencing groundwater protection outcomes in a rural setting. Answers are suggested for questions such as: (1) why does Clarke County display a different attitude towards groundwater protection than many of its neighbors in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia; (2) how was Clarke County able to initiate and institute groundwater protection plans; and (3) is there a special role for the public administrator in the rural groundwater protection policy process? / Ph. D.

Within the framework of education of Music Technology for 16-18 year olds there exists a lack of thorough teaching and learning resources sufficient for a broad understanding of the basics of audio and electronic synthesis. This PhD submission outlines the role of the composer in the classroom in addressing this fundamental issue through the development of a curriculum containing pedagogic composition and interactive software. There will be a discussion of the principles of pedagogic methodologies developed by various composers and of the current model of learning provided in Music Technology Alevel. The programming tools used to develop the software are investigated, as well as an exploration into the current learning psychology that informed the curriculum development. This submission consists of a written thesis that accompanies a set of compositions and a multimedia DVD, which includes the software for the CuDAS curriculum. Within this software is contained a presentation of a series of interactive tutorials alongside compositions in the form of scores, recordings and interactive exercises. There is also include written supporting documentation and sound files of techniques and recordings from contrasting genres of music history.

This thesis analyses a growing metropolitan British fascination with northern Scandinavia and Scotland towards the end of the eighteenth century. These two northern regions underwent a dramatic transformation, from being places people avoided to being realms writers considered worthy of visiting, observing and narrating. This thesis examines the importance of the primitivist discourse of northern noble savagery in that transformation. While encounters with the ‘noble savage’ were largely associated with the extra-European world, the fascination with the north was in observing Europe’s very own native examples of the breed. The Highlanders and Islanders of Scotland and the northern Scandinavians, the Sami people in particular, were often romanticised in this context. Despite the Sami being celebrated in British fiction and natural-history works at the time, there has been, in contrast with Scandinavia’s ‘Vikings’, little scholarly attention given to them in a British context. The origin and function of the northern-noble-savage discourse is anchorerd in naturalhistory texts. This study emphasises the importance of the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), who travelled in Lapland in 1732, in constructing idealised depictions of the Sami. Linnaeus also provided a model of domestic exploration in which naturalists produced inventories of regions and their inhabitants previously relatively unmapped by the state. Although the image of the northern savage often bore little resemblance to reality, it had real application and effect. Such imagery allowed allegedly backward regions to be incorporated into the national narrative, and through this the national community sought to benefit from these peripheries and their communities. The thesis also studies the consequences of actual encounters between metropolitan observers and the local populations of these northern regions. The travelogues of the celebrated natural historian and traveller Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822), who sojourned in Scotland and Scandinavia in 1797-1799, is the focus of the investigation. In a comparative analysis of his Scottish and Scandinavian accounts, this study presents Clarke as an ambivalent primitivist who both praised and condemned the Highlanders and Sami. Clarke was, for example, critical of what he regarded as the superstitious beliefs of both peoples. His narrative on the Highlanders was, however, far more positive than that on the Sami because of Clarke's adherence to racial classifications, which paradoxically Linnaeus had instigated, which demoted the Sami to mere savages. After Clarke’s death in 1822, attitudes towards the Highlanders and Sami continued to diverge against a backdrop of increased racialisation in British thought. While the Highlander became firmly integrated into a British narrative, the Sami was displaced by growing interest in a Scandinavian invader of Britain, the Viking, whose image went on to provide a robust challenge to the romanticisation of the Celtic Highlander in the century that followed. Meanwhile, the optimism over the Highlands’ economic prospects that had permeated the Linnaean project of exploration in Scotland was now gone. Whereas the idealised gaze of the eighteenth-century explorer had surveyed Highland history in order to chart a course to the future, the focus of the nineteenth-century tourist tended to be firmly on the past.

Typescript. / "This thesis provided the basic text for a revision which was published in 1958 as 'Marcus Clarke', Oxford, Clarendon Press. Researchers ... would do well to remember that the published book represents the final state of my views in 1958. ... I remain dissatisfied still about the treatment of 'His Natural Life' in both versions and would draw attention to ... the Introduction to the Angus and Robertson paperback reissue of 'For the Term of His Natural Life', Sydney, 1973." - Typewritten note added to inside front cover by Brian Elliott, August 14, 1979. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (D. Litt.)--University of Adelaide, 1955

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1984. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 279-287). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center