This dissertation represents a prolegomena to a new approach to the study of the Greek New Testament, with ½ó¼o[varsigma] in Romans as a test case. Chapter 1 introduces the seemingly intractable interpretive debates concerning the Mosaic Law. Chapter 2 outlines an integrative model of understanding language--systemic-functional linguistics (SFL)--that forms the foundation of this study and the central pillar for the application of that theory--corpus linguistics using the annotation database of Opentext.org project. Chapter 3 develops a number of tools on the basis of SFL and corpus linguistics as supporting pillars for text analysis. Specifically, it provides a map on what to study in a text and how to do it. Chapter 4 illustrates the methods developed in chapter 3 and introduces the reader to the discourse of Romans through the Opening (Rom 1:1-7) and Thanksgiving (Rom 1:8-17) sections. Ultimately, a more comprehensive study building upon this initial attempt at a bottom-up analysis will be needed for a full discourse commentary on Romans. Chapter 5 explores the portrait of ½ó¼o[varsigma] from the angle of patterns of lexical repetition. Different passages on ½ó¼o[varsigma] are shown to be mutually interpretive. Chapters 6 and 7 examines the functional patterns of ½ó¼o[varsigma] as the head term of a word group (without a genitive qualifier) and as a modifier respectively. The common meaning component and reference patterns for ½ó¼o[varsigma] are uncovered in the process. Chapter 8 investigates the patterns of ½ó¼o[varsigma] as modified by a genitive. It was discovered that ½ó¼o[varsigma] has different reference patterns when modified. Chapter 9 is the overall summary. This work contends that while ½ó¼o[varsigma] most often refers to the Mosaic Law, the more general reference usage of the word as an entity that prescribes standards and as a controlling principle (in Romans 7-8) shed light on the meaning and function of the Mosaic Law and on the theme of control in Romans. / This item is only available to students and faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. If you are not associated with SBTS, this dissertation may be purchased from <a href="http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb">http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb</a> or downloaded through ProQuest's Dissertation and Theses database if your institution subscribes to that service.

This study operationalized Bekkers and Wiepking's (2007, 2011) eight theoretical mechanisms that drive private giving, examining them within the context of alumni donor behavior at a selected public university in the southern region of the United States. The purpose of the study was to determine if the theoretical mechanisms that drive private giving represent distinct psychometric dimensions, and whether they are correlated with one another or essentially independent. A survey with 24 original items was created for this study, and completed by 178 alumni association member donors and non-member donors from the selected university. The study found support for six factors that are relatively independent of one another, contributing meaningfully to the overall multidimensional construct. The found factors were labeled efficacy, solicitation, reputation, values, altruism, and awareness of need as they fit reasonably well according to their original names. No differences were found between the mean response scores for alumni association member donors and non-member donors across the six dimensions. These results are beneficial for university fundraisers, alumni relations professionals, researchers in the field of philanthropy, and methodologists interested in developing instruments that measure the motivations for private giving. / by Paul Metcalf. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013. / Includes bibliography. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / System requirements: Adobe Reader.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese final de Fernanda Almeida dos Santos.pdf: 10976345 bytes, checksum: c63829c7a12991385e640f072288602c (MD5) / O presente trabalho apresenta uma discussão sobre o processo de aquisição da escrita por crianças inseridas em práticas de letramento digital, através de uma investigação in loco e da análise de produções textuais escritas por alunos do 4º e 5º ano do ensino fundamental de uma escola da rede pública municipal de Amargosa-BA, o que se constitui o corpus da pesquisa. Considerando que a inclusão no mundo digital oportuniza ao sujeito experimentações, desafios e novas possibilidades de usos sociais da leitura e escrita, favorecendo diferentes práticas de letramento, este trabalho tem como objetivo principal analisar como o trabalho docente que contempla as práticas de letramento digital pode favorecer o processo de aprendizagem da escrita da língua portuguesa por crianças, gerando diversidades linguísticas e contribuindo com novas possibilidades pedagógicas para o aprendizado infantil. Para tanto, utiliza-se uma metodologia de investigação qualitativa, fundamentada em uma análise explicativa. O referencial teórico do trabalho concilia a teoria enunciativo-discursiva de Bakhtin (1997; 2006) e a teoria social da construção do conhecimento de Vygotsky (1989) com os postulados de Ferreiro (1990; 2001), Ferreiro e Teberosky (1986), Kleiman (2008), Rojo (2009; 2012), Soares (2003; 2009), Tfouni (2006) e outros sobre leitura, escrita e práticas de letramento. Além disso, a pesquisa é subsidiada, especialmente, pelos estudos/análises de Araújo (2003; 2007), Castells (1999; 2009), Coscarelli (2006; 2007), Freire (2003), Frade (2007), Lévy (1993; 1999), Marcuschi (2002; 2004), Oliveira (2006), Ribeiro (2008) e Xavier (2005) sobre tecnologias, letramento digital e aquisição da escrita em ambientes virtuais. Ademais, a realização da pesquisa fundamentou-se na análise de atividades de alfabetização e letramento digital desenvolvidas no campo de trabalho, no período de março a dezembro de 2012. Argumenta-se, através das análises realizadas, que o uso das tecnologias digitais contribui para o processo de letramento, intensificando o desenvolvimento de competências textuais, enunciativas, procedimentais e linguísticas pelas crianças, e suscita distintas mudanças no aprendizado infantil, já que a convivência com variados gêneros de textos em ambientes virtuais – além de propiciar diversão e desenvolver a criatividade e o raciocínio lógico dos indivíduos – também favorece as práticas interacionais, bem como o uso social da leitura e escrita, possibilitando a ampliação dessas habilidades pela criança. Verifica-se, assim, que os recursos digitais podem operar como uma importante interface pedagógica no processo de aprendizagem da escrita no contexto escolar. / This paper presents a discussion on the process of writing acquisition by children involved in digital literacy practices through an-site investigation and analysis of textual productions written by students of 4th and 5th year of primary education in a school municipal public of Amargosa-BA, which constitutes the corpus of research. Whereas inclusion in the digital world provides to the individuals experiments, challenges and new possibilities for social uses of reading and writing, favoring different literacy practices, this paper aims at analyzing how the teaching profession that includes the digital literacy practices may favor the writing process of learning the Portuguese language for children, generating linguistic diversity and contributing new pedagogical possibilities for learning child. To do so, we use a methodology of qualitative research, based on an explanatory analysis. The theoretical of work combines theory enunciative-discursive of Bakhtin (1997; 2006) and the theory of social construction of knowledge of Vygotsky (1989) with the postulates of Ferreiro (1990; 2001), Ferreiro and Teberosky (1986), Kleiman (2008), Rojo (2009; 2012), Soares (2003; 2009), Tfouni (2006) and others on reading, writing and literacy practices. In addition, the research is subsidized especially for studies/analyzes of Araújo (2003; 2007), Castells (1999; 2009), Coscarelli (2006; 2007), Freire (2003), Frade (2007), Lévy (1993; 1999), Marcuschi (2002; 2004), Oliveira (2006), Ribeiro (2008) and Xavier (2005) on technology, digital literacy and written acquisition in virtual environments. Moreover, the research was based on analysis of literacy activities and digital literacy developed in the field of work in the period from March to December 2012. It is argued, through the analyzes, that the use of digital technologies contributes to the literacy process, intensifying the development of textual, enunciative, linguistic and procedural skills for children, and elicits distinct changes in child learning, since the living with various genres of texts in virtual environments – in addition to providing fun and develop creativity and logical reasoning of individuals – also favors the interactional practices, as well as the social use of reading and writing, enabling the expansion of these skills by the child. It verifies, therefore, that digital resources can operate as an important interface in teaching learning process of writing in the school context.

Pretende-se com o presente trabalho de pesquisa abordar, do ponto de vista teórico, as especificidades da execução ex officio das contribuições sociais no âmbito trabalhista. A problemática gira em torno da natureza jurídica da contribuição social e do procedimento sui generis de execução na justiça do trabalho. A natureza tributária impõe uma série de implicações que devem ser enfrentadas pelo operador do direito, principalmente no que pertine as normas aplicáveis na constituição e exigência do crédito tributário. O objeto do trabalho consistirá na análise do procedimento de execução que deve ser adotado, visando o respeito dos demais institutos vinculados à execução tributária, inclusive, a prescrição e a decadência. Serão identificadas as peculiaridades desta competência concorrente, incluída a questão da possibilidade de utilização de períodos cujo vínculo tenha sido reconhecido por sentença trabalhista, para fins de obtenção de benefícios previdenciários. / The present research intends to approach, from a theoretical point of view, the specific ex officio implementation of social security contributions. The issue revolves around the legal nature of social security contribution and the sui generis execution procedure in the labour courts. The nature of this tax (contribution to social security) imposes a number of implications that must be addressed by the legal practitioner, especially as it pertains to the rules in the constitution and requirements of taxes owning. The objective of the study will be the analysis of the execution procedure to be adopted for compliance with other laws, rules, or regulations relating to tax enforcement, including any statutes of limitation. The peculiarities of this concurrent jurisdiction will be identified, including the question of whether retroactive decisions of labor tribunals can be used to obtain social security benefits.

Thesis. 1979. Ph.D. cn--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Vita. / Bibliography: leaves 268-278. / Ph.D.cn

by Wing Chi Ki. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 177-182). / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.i v / Table of Contents --- p.v / Abbreviations used for Foucault's Works --- p.vi / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction: Power and Resistance in Foucault --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- 1984-The Axis of Power --- p.29 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Brave New World--The Axis of Sexuality --- p.70 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- The Handmaid's Tale-The Axis of Knowledge --- p.117 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Conclusion: Resistant Topos´ؤFrom Dystopia to Heterotopia --- p.167 / Works Cited --- p.177 / Bibliography --- p.182

The thesis explores models of gambling regulations in the European Union, focused on the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic and the Great Britain. These models are further examined and analyzed according to their impact on the non-profit sector. The aim was to propose optimal gambling regulation including stimulation of funding sources for charities and non-profit organizations in the Czech Republic. Results of the analysis prove that there is a possibility of contributions to good causes, as well as the state lottery and the charity lottery.

Essa dissertação pretende mostrar que, na fase de formulação da política nacional de concessão de benefícios tributários, não existem obstáculos impeditivos à imposição da agenda do governo. Essa fase é antes marcada pela discricionariedade do Executivo na apresentação frequente de Medidas Provisórias que criam benefícios tributários. Além disso, o processo não é fechado à participação, pois, durante a tramitação destas proposições no Congresso Nacional, está sujeito à atuação de grupos de interesse privilegiados buscando sua parcela de benefícios distributivos. Por outro lado, existem entraves significativos colocados à fase da implementação das proposições que concedem benefícios tributários. Por ser uma política de difícil acompanhamento, sua execução está sujeita a impasses, negociações e busca de consensos entre setores da burocracia pública e destes com os órgãos de controle externo, o que impõe uma trajetória incremental à fase da implementação, e dificulta a avaliação da eficiência, eficácia e efetividade dos benefícios tributários. Além disso, a política nacional de concessão de benefícios tributários tem características de dependência de trajetória, pois, ao resolver problemas pontuais no varejo, tem se tornado a opção de ação governamental mais viável na ausência de uma reforma tributária abrangente. / This dissertation purpose to show that, at the formulation stage of national tax breaks concession policy, there are no obstacles impending the governments agenda imposition. Rather, this stage is marked by Executives discretion in the frequent presentation of Provisional Measures that create tax breaks. Also, the process is not closed to participation, because during the course of these proposals in Congress, this is liable of privileged interest groups action seeking their portion of distributive benefits. On the other hand, there are significant barriers imposed at the implementation stage of the tax breaks proposals. Because there is a policy of difficult monitoring, its execution is liable to impasses, negotiations and attempts to build consensus among sectors of the public bureaucracy and the latter with external control agencies, compelling an incremental path to the implementation stage, and hampers the evaluation of efficiency, efficacy and effectiveness of tax breaks. Furthermore, the national tax breaks concession policy has path dependence characteristics, because, to solving specific problems at retail, has become the most practicable option of governmental action in the absence of a comprehensive tax reform.

A knowledge of thermophysical properties is necessary for the design of all process units. Reliable property prediction methods are essential because reliable experimental data are often not available due to concerns about measurement difficulty, cost, scarcity, safety, or environment. In particular, there is a lack of prediction methods for solid properties. Predicted property values can also be used to fill holes in property databases to understand more fully compound characteristics. This work is a comprehensive analysis of the prediction methods available for five commonly needed solid properties. Where satisfactory methods are available, recommendations are made; where methods are unsatisfactory in scope or accuracy, improvements have been made or new methods have been developed. In the latter case, the following general scheme has been used to develop correlations: extraction of a training set of experimental data of a specific accuracy from the DIPPR 801 database, selection of a class of equations to use in the correlation, refinement of the form of the equation through least squares regression, selection of the chemical groups and/or molecular descriptors to be used as independent variables, calculation of coefficient values using the training set, addition of groups where refinement is needed, and a final testing of the resultant correlation against an independent test set of experimental data. Two new methods for predicting crystalline heat capacity were created. The first is a simple power law method (PL) that uses first-order functional groups. The second is derived as a modification of the Einstein-Debye canonical partition function (PF) that uses the same groups as the PL method with other descriptors to account for molecule size and multiple halogens. The PL method is intended for the temperature range of 50 to 250 K; the PF method is intended for temperatures above 250 K. Both the PL and PF methods have been assigned an uncertainty of 13% in their preferred temperature ranges based on comparisons to experimental data. A method for estimating heat of sublimation at the triple point was created using the same groups as used in the heat capacity PF method (estimated to have an error of 13%). This method can be used in conjunction with the Clausius-Clapeyron equation to predict solid vapor pressure. Errors in predicted solid vapor pressures averaged about 44.9%. As most solid vapor pressures are extremely small, on the order of one Pascal, this error is small on an absolute scale. An improvement was developed for an existing DIPPR correlation between solid and liquid densities at the triple point. The new correlation improves the prediction of solid density at the triple point and permits calculation of solid densities over a wide range of temperatures with an uncertainty of 6.3%. Based on the analysis of melting points performed in this study, Marrero and Gani's method is recommended as the primary method of predicting melting points for organic compounds (deviation from experimental values of 12.5%). This method can be unwieldy due to the large number of groups it employs, so the method of Yalkowsky et al. (13.9% deviation) is given a secondary recommendation due to its broad applicability with few input requirements.

Age-related neurologic disease is a significant and growing burden on our society. Although the largest share of research effort has typically been devoted to the common neurodegenerative illnesses (such as Alzheimer’s disease, or AD), the reality is that nearly all cases of neurodegenerative disease possess elements of mixed pathology. Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) is a complex form of dementia, combining aspects of vascular disease and other forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease. This pathology is heterogeneous and can include cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), hemorrhages, white matter infarcts, and changes to the neurovascular unit. Given the heterogeneous nature of VCID, we hypothesized that we could further elucidate mechanisms that drive dementia in VCID by examining pathology in mouse models and use this data to guide the study of human autopsy cases. Using a mouse model of VCID, we identified NHE1, a sodium hydrogen exchanger that was upregulated in these mice, as a possible candidate for a factor involved in cerebrovascular disease in humans. We saw a significant age effect of NHE1 in cases with Down syndrome (DS), leading us to further examine cerebrovascular pathology in individuals with DS. People with DS are at a high risk of developing cognitive impairment and dementia after the age of 50. In fact, virtually all adults with DS develop the neuropathology for an AD (beta-amyloid (Aß) senile plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles) diagnosis by the age of 40 due to a triplication of chromosome 21. We found that these individuals develop CAA and microhemorrhages as a function of age, and that these rates are as severe as sporadic AD, despite an age difference of ~30 years. We also found that individuals with DS have different microglial morphologies than controls or individuals with AD. This data indicates that people with DS develop significant cerebrovascular and AD pathology, indicative of VCID. Overall, we found that mixed pathologies, specifically VCID, is an important contributor to the development of dementia and should be studied further to better understand how this pathology drives cognitive impairment. Further, it is clear that mouse models map imperfectly onto complex human diseases, and that significant work remains to be done towards achieving an adequate model of VCID.