The current economic situation in the U.S. has demanded budget cuts in all areas of American life, including education. Faced with these unprecedented cuts, many arts programs are losing their funding. Many art educators are finding it a challenge to provide art education without compromising the quality of the curriculum and program. Through a comparative analysis of materials and fundraisers and a document analysis of money saving tips, strategies are suggested for art teachers to save and find money.

Research object – charts of accounts for enterprises and farmers farm. Research aim – to analyze charts of accounts, in use in Lithuania and foreign countries, to determine their advantages and disadvantages and to give proposals for development of chart of accounts in Lithuania. Objectives:  to analyze the essence of accounts and classification of accounts;  to present conception of charts of accounts and to review types of charts of accounts;  to review development and principles of formation of charts of accounts;  to analyze example charts of accounts, in use in Lithuania and foreign countries;  to carry out empirical research and to find out how to structure example chart of accounts and how charts of accounts are framed in practice;  to submit proposals for development of charts of accounts in Lithuania based on references study and research results. Research methods – logical analysis and synthesis of literature of Lithuanian and foreign authors, comparative analysis, questionnaire questioning, logical and graphical modeling. On the ground of principle scheme of formation of chart of accounts, advantages and disadvantages of chart of accounts and research results there are submitted proposals for development of example chart of accounts, validated by Accountancy Institute of Lithuania, and charts of accounts for agricultural subjects, framed in 2005 years.

Darbo „Duomenų kompiuterinės statistinės analizės technologijos“ tikslas – išanalizuoti ir palyginti įvairių populiarių statistinių paketų galimybes bei pateikti rekomendacijas vartotojui. Šiame darbe buvo išanalizuoti SPSS 8.0 for Windows, STATISTICA 7 ir Minitab 15 English statistiniai paketai. Atlikti statistiniai skaičiavimai su anketos „Apie tai, kaip tu gyveni“ duomenimis, panaudojant minėtus statistinius paketus. Įvertintos šių statistinių paketų galimybės. Sudarytos statistinių paketų lyginamosios analizės lentelės. Pateiktos rekomendacijos vartotojui, padedančios jam pagrįstai pasirinkti tinkamiausią statistinį paketą, atsižvelgiant į vartotojo poreikius ir galimybes. Statistiniam paketui STATISTICA 7 sukurtos dvi makrokomandos, panaudojant šiame pakete integruotą VISUAL BASIC programavimo kalbą. Pirmoji makrokomanda skaičiuoja tiriamųjų anketų užpildymo baigtumo laipsnius. Antroji makrokomanda filtruoja pasirinkto kintamojo duomenis pagal pasirinktą kriterijų. Darbas inovatyvus tuo, kad sukurtos dvi makrokomandos, praplečiančios statistinio paketo STATISTICA 7 galimybes. / The aim of work “The technologies of computer-based statistical analysis of data”- to analyse and to compare the potentials of various popular statistical packages and to propose the recommendations for the consumer. In this work there were analysed SPSS 8.0 For Windows, STATISTICA 7 and Minitab 15 English statistical packages. Using these mentioned packages there were accomplished statistical calculations according to the questionnaire “About that, how do you live” data. There were assessed the potentials of these statistical packages. There were composed the charts of comparative analysis of the statistical packages. Recommendations were given for the consumer, helping him to pick reasonably the best statistical package, considering consumer’s requirements and possibilities. For the statistical package STATISTICA 7 there were created two macros, using VISUAL BASIC computerese integrated in this package. The first macro calculates the completeness degrees of the investigative questionnaires filling. The second macro filters the data of chosen variable according to the chosen criterion. This work is innovative that there were created two macros, extending potentials of statistical package STATISTICA 7.

Existing theoretical literature fails to explain satisfactorily the differences between the pay of workers that are covered by collective agreements and others who are not. This study aims at providing a model framework which is amenable for an analysis of this issue. Our general-equilibrium approach integrates a dual labor market and a two-sector product market. The results suggest that the so-called 'union wage gap' is largely determined by the degree of centralization of the bargains, and, to a somewhat lesser extent, by the expenditure share of the unionized sector's goods.

The current economic situation in the U.S. has demanded budget cuts in all areas of American life, including education. Faced with these unprecedented cuts, many arts programs are losing their funding. Many art educators are finding it a challenge to provide art education without compromising the quality of the curriculum and program. Through a comparative analysis of materials and fundraisers and a document analysis of money saving tips, strategies are suggested for art teachers to save and find money.

This thesis research contributes to national health Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT) planning and therefore strategy development and implementation research, as well as to health information science. An examination into the national health IM/IT plans of several countries provides knowledge into identifying the typical IM/IT priorities that selected countries are focusing upon for healthcare improvement. Second, a systematic literature review of the current challenges, barriers and/or issues (referred to as ‘challenges’ hereafter) facing IM/IT priority implementation in healthcare settings provides insight on where nations should perhaps be focusing their attention, in order to enable more successful healthcare IM/IT implementations. Lastly, a study on national health IM/IT priorities contributes to the body of evidence that national level IM/IT direction is necessary for better patient care and health system reform across the world. In this investigation, the national health IM/IT priorities, which are reflected in the national health IM/IT strategic plans of five countries were assessed. To this end, the study: 1) Developed a set of measures to select four countries to study in addition to Canada; 2) Described the national health IM/IT priorities of Canada and four other countries; 3) Performed a systematic literature review of the challenges to overcome for successful implementation of IM/IT into healthcare settings; 4) Developed and administered a questionnaire where participants were asked to give their opinions on the progress their country has achieved in dealing with such challenges; and 5) Performed an analysis of the questionnaire results with respect to the countries’ national health IM/IT priorities. The systematic literature review uncovered a large number of challenges that the health informatics and healthcare community face when attempting to implement IM/IT into healthcare settings. iii The priority comparison highlighted that there is no right or wrong answer for what countries should focus their national health IM/IT energies upon. The findings indicate that nations focus their resources (time, money, personnel etc.) on the priorities they feel they should, whether those stem from needs analyses or politics. However, by learning about what other nations are prioritizing, a country can use that knowledge to help focus their own national health IM/IT priorities. The questionnaire results drew attention to the most frequently encountered challenges the five countries face in moving their national health IM/IT agendas forward. The feedback from the respondents provided individual reflections on how IM/IT implementations are actually progressing in their country, where problems are being encountered, including the nature of those problems, and in some cases, respondents offered insight on how to better deal with the challenges they face. The findings indicate that nations encounter similar problems in implementing IM/IT into healthcare settings. Currently, the world is facing many of the same healthcare system issues: shortages of healthcare processionals, long surgical and diagnostic imaging waitlists, ‘skyrocketing’ pharmaceutical drug pricing, healthcare funding practices, and challenges with implementing healthcare IM/IT priorities to name a few. If countries are facing similar health system problems, then it would be logical to assume that solutions to deal with such problems would be similar across nations. Thus, it is recommended that international fora and conferences be held to further discuss the types of health system IM/IT priorities that countries are implementing at a nation scale, the kinds of challenges they face and the solutions or conclusions that they have formulated in response to these challenges.

The core of the present master's thesis is a comparative analysis of means of expressing epistemic modality on the background of Spanish and Czech journalistic texts. Initially, the discourse analysis and the concept of theory of enunciation are presented. Secondly, the author defines the term modality and its concept in terms of modal logic and linguistics. She concentrates on different typologies of modality presented by foreign and Czech authors as well. Further, the works focuses on the category of evidentiality and means of expression (especially lexical) of epistemic modality. The proper research is based on qualitative and quantitative analysis. The aim of this investigation is to compare the frequency of occurrence of the epistemic markers between the aforementioned languages.

The aim of this diploma thesis is a comparison of Czech and Spanish actualizers, in other words lexical units emphasizing sentence elements. The comparative analysis is based on data obtained from parallel corpus Intercorp. The work consists of two main parts. The first part, which is divided into chapters and subchapters, deals with problematics of actualizers featuring particular sentence structure and considering the view of Czech and Spanish linguists dealing with expressions used for emphasizing certain lexical units in the sentence. The second part consists of analysis of particular actualizers with aid of parallel corpus Intercorp. This analysis is focused on the ways to express Czech actualizers in the target language, which is Spanish.

This graduate thesis is concerned with a comparative analysis of attenuators and intensifiers in Czech and Spanish language. The research has been conducted on Czech and Spanish journalist texts from major newspaper and magazines. The theoretical analysis starts by classifying expressions that are used to intensify or attenuate. The author follows the traditional Spanish classification which has been extended with expressions that she finds important. All expressions are examined from both the grammatical and expressive perspective. The analysis then continues by introducing the types of journalists texts used in the research. The research is based on comparison of attenuators and intensifiers in both languages and their influence on the reader.

Submitted by Maria Medeiros (maria.dilva1@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-10-03T11:33:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ALANA RAMOS ARAÚJO - DISSERTAÇÃO (PPGRN) 2011.pdf: 4304665 bytes, checksum: 2efcda3c529f49b9d1315827ac6d752f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-03T11:33:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ALANA RAMOS ARAÚJO - DISSERTAÇÃO (PPGRN) 2011.pdf: 4304665 bytes, checksum: 2efcda3c529f49b9d1315827ac6d752f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Capes / A mudança da gestão hídrica centralizada para a gestão descentralizada dos recursos hídricos na agenda jurídica brasileira veio com o paradigma democrático pespegado nos documentos hídricos mundiais, na Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil de 1988 e na Lei nº 9.433/97, denominada Lei de Águas. O órgão que se aproxima por excelência desta proposta de gestão descentralizada é o Comitê de Bacia Hidrográfica (CBH), pois nele estão representados o Poder Público, a Sociedade Civil e os Usuários de Água. A Paraíba sujeita-se aos comandos desta legislação hídrica inovadora e, não obstante sua política hídrica datar de 1996, os novos arranjos introduzidos alcançam necessariamente a norma jurídica paraibana. Contudo, só no ano de 2006 o Comitê de Bacia Hidrográfica do Rio Paraíba (CBH-RIO PB) foi criado para gerenciar de forma descentralizada as questões hídricas desta bacia. Algumas pesquisas foram realizadas direta ou indiretamente sobre este colegiado, todavia, a análise sistemática da atuação do comitê desde a sua formação até a atualidade não havia sido feita, fato que impulsionou a indagação da pesquisa: quais as relações produzidas pelo CBH-RIO PB entre 2006 e 2011? Para solucionar a problemática levantada, a pesquisa propôs uma abordagem sistemático-interdisciplinar do CBH-RIO PB sob as dimensões jurídico-institucional, sociotécnica e ambiental, cujo objetivo é realizar análises comparadas com outros comitês estaduais brasileiros que apresentam estágio de atividade consolidado e avançado. O marco teórico de sustentação do trabalho perpassa pelos documentos internacionais que influenciaram a ordem jurídica brasileira, pelas leis nº 9.433/97 e nº 6.308/96 que determinam as normas gerais de formatação dos CBHs no Brasil e na Paraíba, respectivamente. O método da pesquisa constituiu-se de argumentação dedutivo-comparativa que partiu das premissas gerais contidas na Lei de Águas sobre CBHs para analisar o comitê paraibano através de comparação com comitês que possuem modelos mais consolidados. Para tanto, a comparação foi feita através dos Regimentos Internos destes comitês e do comitê do rio Paraíba, cujos documentos normativos foram coletados nos sites oficiais dos Governos Estaduais e de entidades a estes vinculadas. Sem embargo, as Atas e as Deliberações do CBH-RIO PB foram analisadas, pois o seu conteúdo consiste em fontes de dados importantes sobre o comitê. Os resultados obtidos apontam que o Regimento Interno do CBH-RIO PB padece de fragilidades que dificultam sobremaneira a execução das competências que cabem ao comitê, repercutindo de forma negativa na sustentabilidade jurídico-institucional, sociotécnica e ambiental da bacia. Assim, sugere-se a reforma do Regimento Interno do comitê paraibano tomando como referência os regimentos dos comitês participantes da comparação. / The change from a centralized and water management into a decentralized management of water resources in the Brazilian legal agenda came with the democratic paradigm ascribed in the world water documents, in the 1988 Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil and in the Law n. 9.433/97, called Water Law. The organism that best approaches the decentralized management proposal is the River Basin Committee (RBC), because it includes members of the Government, the Civil Society and Water Users. The State of Paraíba is submitted to the commands of this innovative water legislation and, although its water policy dates back from 1996, the new arrangements introduced necessarily reach the legal standard of the State. However, only in 2006 the River Basin Committee of Paraíba (RCB-RIO PB) was created to manage the water issues of this basin in a decentralized way. Few studies have been conducted directly or indirectly in this college. However, the systematic analysis the committee‟s performance since its formation until today had not been presented, a fact that raised the research question: what are the relations produced by RCB-RIO PB between 2006 and 2011? To solve the existing problems, the research proposes a systematic, interdisciplinary approach to the RCB-RIO PB under the legal-institutional, socio-technical and environmental dimensions, the goal of which is to conduct a comparative analysis with other Brazilian state committees whose stages of activity are consolidated and advanced. The theoretical rationale of the work permeates the international documents that influenced the Brazilian legal system, by Acts n. 9.433/97 and n. 6.308/96, which determine the general rules for formatting RBCs in Brazil and in the State of Paraiba. The research method consisted of comparative-deductive reasoning that stemmed from the general premises contained in the Water Law regarding the committee to review RCB-RIO PB by comparing it with other committees. Therefore, the comparison was made through the bylaws of these committees and the committee of Paraíba River, whose normative documents were collected from the official websites of the State Governments and their related entities. Nevertheless, the Acts and Resolutions of the RCB-RIO PB were analyzed, because its content consists of important data sources concerning the committee. The results obtained indicate that the bylaws of RCB-RIO PB suffers from weaknesses that greatly hinder the execution of the powers vested in the committee, reflecting negatively on the legal-institutional, sociotechnical and environmental sustainability in the basin. Thus, it is suggested the reform on the RCB-RIO PB bylaws through a comparison with the internal rules of the committees used in the research.