The goal of this thesis is to design and implement coding conventions management system for project. Prior to the creation of the system itself, the research of coding conventions benefits, the analysis of used technologies in open source projects at GitHub service, and the analysis of existing technologies managing coding conventions was done. On the basis of that, usage scenarios were designed, requirements were specified and system architecture was determined. Then the system was implemented as web application based on Blazor and EditorConfig technologies. The main aim was to create a system that would allow to store all types of programming conventions and at the same time allows users to automatically control and generate them. It is published under an open source license within the GitHub service and deployed on the Azure cloud platform.

My thesis draws connections between today's network society and the workings of gothic literature in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century. Just as our society is formed and affected by the flow of information, the eighteenth-century culture of sensibility was formed by the merging and flow of scientific "technology" (or new scientific discoveries) and societal norms and rules. Gothic literature was born out of this science-society network, and in many ways embodies the ruptures implicit in it. Although gothic literature is not a network in the same sense as informationalism and the culture of sensibility are, gothic literature works according to the logic of networks on both a microscopic and macroscopic level. These correlations between networks and the gothic potentially illuminate two of gothic literature's strange and signature qualities: the subversive nature of the gothic convention, as well as the incredible—and almost inexplicable, considering its libeled and unpopular reputation—staying power of the genre. In Chapter One, I compare the society of informationalism and the eighteenth-century society of sensibility in order to extrapolate a three-pronged logic of networks: networks are subversive, networks are exclusive, and networks are based on codes. In Chapter Two I trace this logic through eighteenth-century gothic conventions as they are portrayed in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian and Matthew Lewis's The Monk. This shows how the gothic, like network society, depends on the paradox of containing the ideology that it subverts. In Chapter Three I investigate this paradox on a macroscopic level by examining the connections between "tales of terror" in Blackwood's Magazine and gothic literature in both the pre-Romantic and Victorian literature. By both adopting and subverting the conventions of Radcliffean gothic, these tales are a key node in the web of the gothic stretching backwards to into the eighteenth century, forwards into the nineteenth century, and beyond.

Property developers and investors seek to understand the drivers of prices for office and retail space. Through literature, we learn that size and age, locational attributes, physical features of the properties, and economic variables are significant determinants of commercial property prices. However, previous work has narrowly focused on aspects akin to formal structures and ignored the role of institutions, especially conventions and social norms incredibly, and what influences the behaviour of the property developers and investors while making the pricing decision. Therefore, the goal of this study was to understand how prices for commercial properties are determined in Uganda. The objectives of the study were to understand the role of conventions and social norms found in the property market environment on price determination and to explore the behaviour tendencies/heuristics exhibited by the players during the pricing decision-making process. The study was qualitative in nature. The researcher interviewed property owners, developers, institutional investors, and key informants to understand the conventions and social norms that exist in the property market and how they ultimately influence the pricing decision of commercial buildings. This study reveals that conventions exist in the Ugandan property markets. The conventions signal a price to the players in the property environment. However, due to information asymmetry and irrationality, each player interprets the price signals differently, using heuristics to develop the final price. This study helps researchers understand the role of individual behaviour/heuristics in advancing our understanding of institutions and the effects of the two on commercial property pricing, the economy at large and its consequences on economic policy.

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Att sätta sig in i andra utvecklares kod kan vara svårt och tidskrävande. Kodkonventionerär framtagna i syfte att underlätta underhållsarbetet för andra utvecklare som arbetar medsamma projekt, då det sällan är personen som skrev programmet som sedan underhållersamma program. För lite fokus läggs på kvalitétsaspekten i utvecklingsfasen av projektvilket kostar företag pengar och resurser. Denna studie har för avsikt att undersöka hurhögskoleingenjörsstudenter inom datateknik vid olika lärosäten i Sverige förhåller sig tillJavas kodkonventioner, och om det går att urskilja en signifikant skillnad i kodkvalitémellan lärosäten i avseende på identifierare, kommentarer samt format och struktur. Enwebbenkätundersökning genomfördes vars empiri analyserades med hjälp av ANOVA somär en vedertagen metod för hypotesprövning. 21 av 23 ANOVA-test visade att ingen signifikantskillnad förekom mellan lärosätena i avseende på identifierare, kommentarer samtformat och struktur. Resultatet visade även att de kvalitétsaspekter studenterna tyckerär viktiga och prioriterar att lägga tid på är också de aspekter som studenterna tycks hastörst förståelse och kunskap kring. / To get acquainted with other developers code can be difficult and time consuming. Codeconventions are developed in order to facilitate maintenance work for other developersworking on the same project, where the person who wrote the program rarely is the personthat maintains the same program. Little attention is paid to the aspect of quality ina projects development phase, which costs companies money and resources. This studyintends to investigate how students studying for a Bachelor of Science in Engineering inComputer Science at various universities in Sweden relate to Java code conventions, andif it is possible to discern a significant difference in code quality between these universitiesin terms of identifiers, comments, format and structure. An online survey was conductedwhose empirical data was analyzed using ANOVA, which is a recognized method forstatistical hypothesis testing. 21 of 23 ANOVA test showed that no significant differenceexisted between the institutions in terms of identifiers, comments and format and structure.The results also showed that the aspects of quality, which the students think are themost important, are also in fact the aspects they have the greatest understanding andknowledge about.

<p>The decade of the nineteen-twenties has generally been recognized as a dynamic period in English-Canadian literature, but so far as fiction is concerned its achievement is widely assumed to be the introduction of social realism into the Canadian novel. Those novels which employ other than realistic conventions have been assumed by many critics to be inferior because of their non-realistic aspects. </p> <p>This dissertation examines four such novels, supposedly flawed by melodramatic excess~ Raymond Knister's White Narcissus (1929), Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese (1925), Morley Callaghan's A Broken Journey (1932), and Frederick Philip Grove's The Yoke of Life (1930) - in order to discover the function and significance of melodramatic conventions and the sort of vision they project.</p> <p>The first part of the dissertation defines such terms as "realism" and ''melodrama." and explains the critical approach to be used. In the central four chapters, this critical approach is applied to each novel in turn.</p> <p>When the novels are compared, following the detailed analysis of each, significant similarities emerge. In thematic terms, a quest is undertaken, in each case, which is meaningful on several levels: on the literal level there is an arduous physical journey across or into a specific (and generally threatening) landscape; on a symbolic level there is a journey of mythological and/or religious import; in psychological terms the journey is into the less rational aspects of human experience in an attempt to re-integrate a personality divided against itself. In terms of structure, as well, certain patterns emerge: each novel employs a balanced, rather symmetrical structure, formal devices which tend to distance the reader from the material, and vortex-like patterns of movement on the part of the protagonist.</p> <p>The formal and thematic patterns which emerge from a comparison of the four novels, then, suggest that there is a "melodramatic mode" common to them, and possibly to novels of periods other than the one explored in this thesis. Indeed, it is further argued, melodramatic conventions (which are related to the gothic mode and romanticism in general) may serve as an appropriate vehicle for the expression in fiction of a profound modern theme, the portrayal of alienated man in a secularized and relativistic universe.</p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Cette thèse porte sur le design des engagements internationaux en matière de promotion et de défense collective de la démocratie, plus précisément sur le design de la Charte démocratique interaméricaine. Elle s'inscrit dans la lignée des travaux de relations internationales qui traitent le design des institutions internationales comme variable dépendante et qui tentent d'identifier les facteurs explicatifs du choix des États pour certains attributs spécifiques de design, au moment de créer ces institutions. Utilisant une approche théorique rationaliste libérale des relations internationales, la thèse adopte deux postulats théoriques de base. D'une part, les États en tant qu'acteurs rationnels sont en général hésitants à coopérer puisque la coopération interétatique comporte une certaine perte d'autonomie, un « coût de souveraineté ». Les États seront donc enclins à coopérer s'ils tirent un bénéfice qui compense pour les coûts de souveraineté encourus, et il faut donc concevoir le design des institutions internationales comme une solution institutionnelle à un problème stratégique auquel les États sont confrontés. D'autre part, les État ne sont pas des acteurs unitaires. Les intérêts, les choix et les comportements des États sur la scène internationale sont avant tout déterminés par les préférences des gouvernements au pouvoir, ces préférences pouvant nécessairement être distinctes des préférences d'autres groupes politiques nationaux. Nous analysons l'incidence du contexte « d'incertitude démocratique » sur le choix des gouvernements en matière de design, l'incertitude démocratique étant définie comme un problème stratégique lié au manque ou à l'imperfection de l'information dont disposent les gouvernements face au contexte démocratique interne, au moment de négocier un engagement international dans ce domaine. L'hypothèse principale de la thèse suggère que le type d'incertitude démocratique qui caractérise le contexte national dans un pays donné, déterminera la position du gouvernement de ce pays en faveur d'un design plus ou moins contraignant lors de la création d'un engagement international en matière de promotion et de défense de la démocratie. Afin de vérifier cette hypothèse, nous analysons la position en matière de design de neuf pays des Amériques impliqués dans les négociations de la Charte démocratique interaméricaine, en 2000-2001, de même que le contexte d'incertitude démocratique qui prévalait au niveau interne dans ces pays pendant cette même période.

Ce mémoire a pour objectif d'étudier les perceptions de la rémunération globale de la partie syndicale du secteur de l'enseignement des centres de services scolaires francophones en regard à l'évolution de la tâche et des conditions d'exercice de la profession depuis les deux dernières décennies. En ce sens, une série d'outils de collecte de données ont été empruntés : entretiens semi-dirigés individuels et de groupe, analyse des conventions collectives, analyse de documents gouvernementaux, journalistiques et d'avis sur des enjeux spécifiques à la profession et son secteur d'activité. Les résultats démontrent que le personnel enseignant du secteur public francophone et leurs organisations syndicales sont d'avis que, dans les vingt dernières années, la tâche enseignante s'est complexifiée et s'est intensifiée alors que les conditions d'exercice se sont dégradées. De plus, ces même acteur.rice.s sont d'avis que la rémunération extrinsèque (salaires, avantages sociaux, etc.) et la rémunération intrinsèque (reconnaissance, autonomie professionnelle, etc.) n'ont pas suivi l'évolution de la profession ce qui accentue, entre autres, les problèmes d'attraction et de rétention auprès des enseignant.e.s.

The purpose of this thesis is to establish whether Swedish fan conventions organised around East-Asian popular culture such as anime and manga can be identified as a form of secular ritual. The methods used to determine this include participant observation, interviews and ethnographic data. Defining secular ritual as a performance event that establishes an alternative context that transforms the everyday without being connected to a religious or supernatural worldview or origin, we find that Swedish conventions of this kind may be called a form of ritual that engages people united by a common, broad field of interests and a notion of being outside of society’s norms in different ways, most notably in regards to sexuality and gender. This opens a discussion about Swedish fan conventions and how they may inform us about the use and function of rituals in a secularised society.

Le Fonds pour l’environnement mondial (FEM) est la plus importante source individuelle de financement aux projets et programmes destinés à promouvoir des bénéfices environnementaux globaux dans les pays en voie de développement et en transition. L’objectif de la thèse est d’examiner le rôle du FEM comme un outil de financement des conventions environnementales et du développement soutenable, en soulignant sa contribution à la mise en œuvre du droit international de l’environnement et au débat concernant la gouvernance environnementale internationale. / The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is the most important single source of finance for projects and programs designed to promote global environmental benefits in developing countries and transition countries. The thesis aims at examining the role played by the GEF as a tool for financing environmental conventions and sustainable development, emphasizing its contribution to the enforcement of international environmental law and to the debate concerning international environmental governance.