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Abstract Background and purpose: Many people think that the corporate social responsibility is inseparable from large companies. However, small condiment companies have come to realize the importance of corporate social responsibility in recent decades as well and begun to implement it gradually. But there are still some challenges and opportunities that are faced by small condiment companies. This study will contribute to increases in literature of corporate social responsibility of SME by examining the SME in Chinese state policy context. And the purpose of this study is to find out the opportunities and challenges confronted by small condiment companies in implementing corporate social responsibility through the case study of the small condiment company, Meihua Condiment Co. Ltd. Shandong Branch. Method: The main method used in this study is single case study, which helps the authors get in-depth investigation, rich description and better understanding of how a small condiment company implements corporate social responsibility and the opportunities and challenges it faces therein. In this thesis, semi-structured face-to-face interviews that are aimed to get detailed information about the small condiment company---Meihua Condiment Co. Ltd. Shandong Branch are held. Since the face-to-face interview allows more communication between the authors and interviewees, and through the interviews, the authors get more familiar with the main condition of the company and know how they implement the CSR, as questions raised to the interviewees mainly concern how the company runs and how it implements corporate social responsibility. Around the topic of implementing CSR in small companies, the authors had looked up and analyzed the internet information like in China Development Observations, professional journals, and different digest like Special Focus, thus come up with an conclusion that small companies are faced with both challenges and opportunities. Furthermore, through the practical investigation of a small typical company--Meihua Condiment Co. Ltd. Shandong Branch, the authors make a step future to prove this argument. Conclusion: During the process of implementing CSR, small condiment companies may face plenty of opportunities such as low production cost, high group cohesiveness and less social responsibilities, but also lots of challenges such as enterprise development resistance and low social recognition. The investigation on a condiment SME in China shows that it’s important to combine both business opportunity and government effort for small condiment company to implement CSR. The small condiment company can take the advantage of its little social responsibility to save much effort to promote productions, utilize its strong staff coherence to improve production enthusiasm, make effort to do charity work well to establish good reputation, transfer the capital saved from taxes reduction to development, actively carry out moral construction for responding the nation’s summons, enhance enterprise’s sense of social responsibility. Meanwhile, the company shall also face challenges and take full advantages of them. What is more, due to the financial constrain and lack of external attention, the government shall transform its functions, deepen the reform, create good external environments and broaden the financing channel for small condiment company, enhance the company’s sense of safe production and solve the environment and products problems well. Key words: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Small Condiment Company, Opportunities, Challenges, Corresponding Countermeasures

Technological changes have opened up new opportunities for historical research, which call for new methodologies to fully realise these opportunities. This paper presents the four-step interactive photo timeline analysis we developed to analyse large volumes of historical photographs from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective. We present the results of a case study (regarding both street design and street use in Vienna from 1860 to 1949) in which we utilised interactive photo timeline analysis. The geographical research scope was limited to the streets around the Vienna Opera: street use and street design were analysed from the perspective of the street as transportation space and as urban living space. The development of the interactive photo timeline analysis methodology and the case study analysis benefited greatly from the interdisciplinary nature of the research team.

La température est un paramètre crucial dans le fonctionnement du monde vivant, notamment de la machinerie moléculaire (les protéines) dont la stabilité et l’activité en dépendent sensiblement. Celles-ci sont souvent considérées comme étant équivalentes : si une protéine fonctionne, c’est qu’elle est stable, et vice-versa. Cependant, les protéines des organismes thermophiles, qui prolifèrent dans de températures élevées, sont stables à température ambiante, mais y présentent une faible activité. Cette dernière est optimale à la température de croissance de l’organisme hôte. Lorsqu’on parle de stabilité et d’activité protéique, la rigidité mécanique est souvent utilisée comme paramètre pertinent, offrant une explication simple et attractive à la fois pour la stabilité thermodynamique à haute température et au manque d’activité à des températures plus modérés. La réalité s’avère souvent plus complexe, et les mécanismes moléculaires reliant rigidité/flexibilité avec la stabilité et l’activité sont encore mal compris. Dans ce travail, nous abordons le problème au travers de trois systèmes. Nous avons examiné l’activation thermique des modes fonctionnels du domaine G de la protéine EF ainsi que les homologues mésophiles et thermophiles de la déshydrogénase Lactate/Malate. Par ailleurs, nous avons mis en évidence l’existence d’un paramètre unique (la moyenne des fluctuations atomiques) permettant d’expliquer la dynamique de la protéine lysozyme près de son point de fusion, et ce quelle que soit la nature de l’environnement autour de la protéine (qui décale le point de fusion). Nos conclusions se basent principalement sur une approche in silico où la dynamique moléculaire et des techniques d’échantillonnage améliorées sont utilisées et sont complémentées par des expériences de diffraction de neutrons / Temperature is one of the major factors governing life as demonstrated by the fine tuning of stability and activity of the molecular machinery, proteins in particular. The structural stability and activity of proteins have been often presented as equivalent. However, the thermophilic proteins are stable at ambient condition, but lack activity, the latter recovered only when the temperature increases to match that of the optimal growth condition for the hosting organism. In discussing the protein stability and activity, mechanical rigidity is often used as a relevant parameter, offering a simple and appealing explanation of both the extreme thermodynamic stability and the lack of activity at low temperature. The reality, however, illustrates the complexity of the rigidity/flexibility trade off in ensuring stability and activity through intricate thermodynamic and molecular mechanisms. Here we investigate the problem by studying three study cases. These are used to relate the thermal effects on mechanical properties and the stability and activity of the proteins. For instance, we have probed the thermal activation of functional modes in EF G-domain and Lactate/Malate dehydrogenase mesophilic and thermophilic homologues and verified a “universal” scaling of atomistic fluctuation of the Lysozyme approaching the melting in different environmental conditions. Our conclusions largely rest on an in silico approach, where molecular dynamics and enhanced sampling techniques are utilized, and are often complemented with neutron scattering experiments

The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate how the London Corresponding Society, during the last decade of the 18th Century, sought Parliamentary reform that would end the system of government controlled and corrupted by the rich English landholding gentry.

O objeto de estudo da presente dissertação é a utilização das histórias em quadrinhos na aula de língua estrangeira, exemplificada a partir da língua alemã. Sua utilização justifica-se por vários motivos: seu caráter motivador e globalizador, a identificação por parte dos aprendizes, sua popularidade e atualidade, a possibilidade de diferentes abordagens, sua capacidade de facilitar os processos de memorização de vocabulário por combinar texto e imagem e porque são autênticos veículos de informações específicas da cultura e do contexto em que se inserem. A didatização das histórias em quadrinhos exige o conhecimento de suas características fundamentais de sistema narrativo composto por dois códigos que interagem (o visual e o verbal) e de uma característica específica: o processo que ocorre na mente do leitor no espaço vazio entre dois quadrinhos, a conclusão. A dissertação apresenta uma introdução a esses conceitos, assim como um procedimento para seleção das histórias em quadrinhos baseado nesses conhecimentos, de forma a otimizar o trabalho do professor de língua estrangeira. O trabalho sugere também um elenco de atividades com histórias em quadrinhos que leva em consideração uma tipologia de exercícios para a aula comunicativa, além de apresentar exemplos de aplicação prática de tais atividades junto a aprendizes brasileiros adultos de alemão como língua estrangeira. / The object of study of this dissertation is the use of comic strips in the foreign language class, exemplified in German language. The use of comic strips is justified for different reasons: its motivating and globalizing aspect, its identification with the learners, its popularity and contemporaneity, the possibility of different language approaches, its ability to facilitate memorization processes of vocabulary by combining text and image, and, finally, because they are authentic media for specific information on the culture and context in which they are inserted. The use of comic strips in class demands knowledge of their fundamental characteristics as a narrative system made up of two codes which interact (both visual and verbal) as well as of a specific characteristic: the process that takes place in the readers mind in the empty space between two panels, the conclusion. The dissertation offers an introduction to these concepts, as well as a procedure for the selection of comic strips based on this knowledge, aiming to optimize the work of the foreign language teacher. Moreover, the work also suggests not only some activities with comics which consider a typology of exercises for the communicative class, but also some instances of practical use of such activities with Brazilian learners of German as a foreign language.

O objeto de estudo da presente dissertação é a utilização das histórias em quadrinhos na aula de língua estrangeira, exemplificada a partir da língua alemã. Sua utilização justifica-se por vários motivos: seu caráter motivador e globalizador, a identificação por parte dos aprendizes, sua popularidade e atualidade, a possibilidade de diferentes abordagens, sua capacidade de facilitar os processos de memorização de vocabulário por combinar texto e imagem e porque são autênticos veículos de informações específicas da cultura e do contexto em que se inserem. A didatização das histórias em quadrinhos exige o conhecimento de suas características fundamentais de sistema narrativo composto por dois códigos que interagem (o visual e o verbal) e de uma característica específica: o processo que ocorre na mente do leitor no espaço vazio entre dois quadrinhos, a conclusão. A dissertação apresenta uma introdução a esses conceitos, assim como um procedimento para seleção das histórias em quadrinhos baseado nesses conhecimentos, de forma a otimizar o trabalho do professor de língua estrangeira. O trabalho sugere também um elenco de atividades com histórias em quadrinhos que leva em consideração uma tipologia de exercícios para a aula comunicativa, além de apresentar exemplos de aplicação prática de tais atividades junto a aprendizes brasileiros adultos de alemão como língua estrangeira. / The object of study of this dissertation is the use of comic strips in the foreign language class, exemplified in German language. The use of comic strips is justified for different reasons: its motivating and globalizing aspect, its identification with the learners, its popularity and contemporaneity, the possibility of different language approaches, its ability to facilitate memorization processes of vocabulary by combining text and image, and, finally, because they are authentic media for specific information on the culture and context in which they are inserted. The use of comic strips in class demands knowledge of their fundamental characteristics as a narrative system made up of two codes which interact (both visual and verbal) as well as of a specific characteristic: the process that takes place in the readers mind in the empty space between two panels, the conclusion. The dissertation offers an introduction to these concepts, as well as a procedure for the selection of comic strips based on this knowledge, aiming to optimize the work of the foreign language teacher. Moreover, the work also suggests not only some activities with comics which consider a typology of exercises for the communicative class, but also some instances of practical use of such activities with Brazilian learners of German as a foreign language.

This thesis examines the intellectual foundation of the London Corresponding Society’s (LCS) efforts to reform Britain's Parliamentary democracy in the 1790s. The LCS was a working population group fighting for universal male suffrage and annual parliaments in a decade that was wrought with internal social and governmental tension. Many Britons, especially the aristocracy and those in the government, feared the spread of ideas of republicanism and equality from revolutionary France and responded accordingly by oppressing the freedom of speech and association. At first glance, the LCS appears contradictory: it supported the hierarchical status quo but fought for the voice and representation of the people; and it believed that the foundation for rights was natural but also argued its demands for equal rights were drawn from Britain’s ancient unwritten constitution. This thesis contextualizes these ideas using a contemporary debate, the Burke-Paine controversy, as Edmund Burke was the epitome of eighteenth century conservative constitutionalism in Reflections on the Revolution in France while Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man represented a Lockean interpretation of natural rights and equality. Thus using Reflections and Rights of Man as a framework, this thesis demonstrates that the LCS thoroughly understood its demands for parliamentary reform and uniformly applied its interpretation of natural rights and equality to British constitutionalism and the social and governmental hierarchies.

This thesis examines the intellectual foundation of the London Corresponding Society’s (LCS) efforts to reform Britain's Parliamentary democracy in the 1790s. The LCS was a working population group fighting for universal male suffrage and annual parliaments in a decade that was wrought with internal social and governmental tension. Many Britons, especially the aristocracy and those in the government, feared the spread of ideas of republicanism and equality from revolutionary France and responded accordingly by oppressing the freedom of speech and association. At first glance, the LCS appears contradictory: it supported the hierarchical status quo but fought for the voice and representation of the people; and it believed that the foundation for rights was natural but also argued its demands for equal rights were drawn from Britain’s ancient unwritten constitution. This thesis contextualizes these ideas using a contemporary debate, the Burke-Paine controversy, as Edmund Burke was the epitome of eighteenth century conservative constitutionalism in Reflections on the Revolution in France while Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man represented a Lockean interpretation of natural rights and equality. Thus using Reflections and Rights of Man as a framework, this thesis demonstrates that the LCS thoroughly understood its demands for parliamentary reform and uniformly applied its interpretation of natural rights and equality to British constitutionalism and the social and governmental hierarchies.

Disertační práce se zabývá vybranými partiemi digitální fotogrammetrie. V první části práce je definované téma a popsán současný stav poznání. V následujících kapitolách jsou postupně řešeny čtyři dílčí navzájem navazující cíle. První oblastí je návrh metody pro hledání souhlasných bodů v obraze. Byly navrženy dvě nové metody. První z nich používá konverzi snímků do nepravých barev a druhá využívá pravděpodobností model získaný ze známých párů souhlasných bodů. Druhým tématem je analýza přesnosti výsledné rekonstrukce prostorových bodů. Postupně je analyzován vliv různých faktorů na přesnost rekonstrukce. Stěžejní oblastí je zkoumání vlivu chybného zarovnání kamer a chyby v určení souhlasných bodů. Třetím tématem je tvorba hloubkových map. Byly navrženy dva postupy. První přístup spočívá v kombinaci pasivní a aktivní metody druhý přístup vychází z pasivní metody a využívá spojitosti hloubkové mapy. Poslední zvolenou oblastí zájmu je hodnocení kvality 3D videa. Byly provedeny a statisticky vyhodnoceny subjektvní testy 3D vjemu pro různé zobrazovací systémy v závislosti na úhlu pozorování