Syftet med föreliggande studie var att inom idrottskontexten studera samband mellan idrottares upplevelser av de olika ledarskapsstilarna (1) transformativt, (2) konventionellt och (3) låt-gå med olika motivationsinriktningar inom Självbestämmandeteorin (SDT). I studien deltog 117 handbolls- och fotbollsspelare i åldrarna 16-33 år (M = 19.17, SD = 3.61). Deltagarna besvarade enkäter bestående av Sport Motivation Scale-II (SMS-II) för att mäta motivationsinriktning, Transformational Teaching Questionnaire (TTQ) för att mäta upplevt transformativt ledarskap samt delar av Developmental Leadership Questionnaire (DLQ) vilket avsåg att mäta upplevt konventionellt ledarskap och låt-gå ledarskap. Resultaten visade att det fanns statistiskt signifikant samband mellan upplevt transformativt ledarskap och inre motivation samt yttre självbestämmande motivation (identifierad reglering och integrerad reglering). Vidare visades att det fanns statistiskt signifikant samband mellan upplevt konventionellt ledarskap och ickesjälvbestämmande motivation (extern reglering och introjicerad reglering). Inget signifikant samband visades mellan upplevt låt-gå ledarskap och amotivation. Studieresultaten har diskuterats i förhållande till teorier och tidigare forskning där slutsatsen är att både transformativt och konventionellt ledarskap har samband med idrottares motivation vilket kan vara betydande kunskap för praktisk tillämpning inom idrottskontexten. Studiens resultat ligger i linje med den tidigare knapphändiga forskningen inom området men mer forskning behövs. / The purpose of the present study was to examine relationships between athletes' perceptions of different leadership styles and motivational orientations within the context of sports. Theoretical frameworks of transformational; conventional; and laissez-faire leadership - as well as the different motivational orientations within Self-Determination Theory (SDT) - were applied. Participants were 117 handball and soccer players aged between 16-33 years (M = 19.17, SD = 3.61). Participants completed questionnaires consisting of the Sport Motivation Scale-II (SMSII) to estimate motivational orientations; the Transformational Teaching Questionnaire (TTQ) to measure perceived transformational leadership; and parts of the Developmental Leadership Questionnaire (DLQ), which intended to measure perceived conventional leadership and perceived laissez-faire leadership. The results revealed significant correlations between both transformational leadership and intrinsic motivation as well as extrinsic self-determined motivation (identified regulation and integrated regulation). Furthermore, results showed significant correlations between conventional leadership and non-self-determined motivation (external regulation and introjected regulation). The correlation between perceived laissez-faire leadership and amotivation was not statistically significant. The results are discussed in relation to theories and previous research. Conclusions were that both transformational and conventional leadership correlate with athlete's motivation, hence the knowledge of said subjects may be meaningful for practical application. The results are in line with previous limited research however further research is needed.

The variety of contradictory approaches to the legal position of ministers of religion in South Africa as are apparent from court findings, theological discourse and church practice are indicative of a lack of clarity, and even confusion, regarding a matter that is of cardinal importance to the orderly functioning of the church as the body of Christ on earth. From this confusion in constitutional law as well as in the church, the topicality - actually, the undeniable necessity - of research into the legal position of ministers of religion has become quite apparent. The topicality of the research is indicated in Chapter 1 by reference to court cases (before and after 1996), theological discourse and church practice. The central research question of the study is formulated as follows: What is the legal position of Reformed ministers in South Africa - a religiously neutral state - considered on the basis of Reformed Church polity and against the background of the church-state context in South Africa after 1996? The central theoretical argument of the study is that the legal position of a minister of religion is a unique kind of relationship (alius generis), a relationship / association / connection / obligation that has to be regulated by the church as a unique community (sui generis) in the world. In South Africa courts should recognise and deem the legal position of Reformed ministers to be an internal church matter that falls outside the sphere of regulation of a religiously neutral state's labour legislation. This recognition should be based on the right of the church to define itself and its offices. In Chapter 2 the current confusion in South Africa regarding the legal position of ministers of religion is investigated further. Various points of view are discussed, for example that ministers are 'employees' of churches (church councils), that a minister's legal position has to be regarded as that of an independent contractor and the point of view that ministers are connected to the church by a unique relationship. The way in which the legal position of ministers of the Gospel is regarded in Germany is discussed in Chapter 3. The focus is inter alia on the meaning of religious freedom, neutrality of the state, constitutional provisions regarding the relationship between the state and the church, and the way in which the legal position of ministers of religion is regulated in the light of the German state-church context. The way in which the Reformed Churches in South Africa define and regulate the legal position of Reformed ministers as an internal church matter is investigated in Chapter 4. In this chapter the focus is on the following aspects: the order of the church that applies to the legal position of ministers in terms of Reformed church polity, as expressed in the church order, the meaning of a minister's relationship with the local church as regards his legal position, and the unique nature of a minister's legal position in terms of the relevant provisions of the church ordinances. The findings, recommendations and summary conclusion of the study are given in Chapter 5. The summary conclusion of the study is that an overall impression of the regulation of ministers' positions by the Reformed Churches in South Africa offers the following perspective: the Lord places the church and its ministers in a unique relationship. This relationship must be regulated by means of the church because the church ordinances inherently make provision for the regulation of this unique relationship. Regarded within the broad context of this study, the state may not exercise control over the legal position of ministers of religion because these ministers fulfil a religiously determined command and task. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Church Polity))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.

Ethiopia is rapidly urbanising. Similar to other urban areas in developing countries, major issues in Ethiopia include a high level of income inequality, lack of formal employment opportunities and deeply rooted poverty, tenure insecurity, poor infrastructure, and limited access to electricity and energy. Frequently settlers end up in impoverished urban squatters and slums which do not offer them even the most basic infrastructure and hence lack to provide them with the perspectives they came for. Onward migration to farer off destinations such as the EU member states thus often remains as sole option for those caught in such urban poverty traps. Although the issue of informal urban settlements is not new to the context of Ethiopian cities, the current rapid urban growth rates are exposing urban rental markets as well as infrastructure and energy supply to considerable pressure. The paper investigates the respective situation in Ethiopia and demonstrates some best practice examples. In the context of Ethiopian cities, energy production and distribution have been highly centralised under state entities and the scope for exploring local/business driven and decentralised systems has been limited. Transitions can be implemented towards sustainability and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals if collective identification and structuring of issues along with collective envisioning of future is provoked or facilitated.

The aim of the diploma thesis is to find out and evaluate the influences affecting the price of building lands in the given region. Furthermore, the results are confronted with the valuation decree. In the theoretical part are given the definitions of building lands according to different legal regulations. In the practical part, thirty parcels are valued, divided into two localities and subsequently compared with the purchase price of the individual lands.

Scientists warn that the current rate of climate change will raise average global temperature by 4°C compared to 1990, although warming of +2°C will already have dire effects throughout the world. Therefore, the UN acknowledges SDG 13 (Climate Action) as one of the most important goals for the coming decade in order to fight climate change. Another focus of the UN is SDG 5 (Gender Equality), which is also an overarching goal but still lagging behind. Working on one of the goals can have a positive effect on other goals. Therefore a synergy can be created when investigating how climate change affects gender equality and how gender equality affects climate action.  The link between gender equality and climate action was already established by the UN at the Beijing Platform of Action in 1995. However, there has been little research into how government representatives understand how the goals are interconnected. These representatives are important in the drafting of new policy and keeping the UN accountable for incorporating gender into its policies. Hence, this thesis investigates how the relationship between gender equality and climate action is viewed by government representatives, as well as in national climate documents. A content analysis was performed on National Determined Contributions (NDCs) and climate change Gender Action Plans (ccGAPs). The results illustrate that the location and expertise of the interviewees impacted their opinions greatly. The interviewees based at permanent missions at the UN headquarter in New York were of the opinion that their government thought the link existed but acknowledged more should be done to convince other countries as the link was not taken for a fact. The interviewees working with the UNFCCC negotiations, however, said all member states agreed on the importance of including gender equality in climate action. Another finding is that only one-third of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) contained gender perspectives. Of these, one-third mentioned women as victims of climate change and two-thirds saw women as actors of change in climate action.  Establishing a firm agreement on the link between gender equality and climate action within UN bodies is important to expanding the impact of climate policies on both gender quality and climate action.

<p><span class="fontstyle0">Ovaj rad se bavi algebrama kompleksa i stepenim konstukcijama uopste. Prvo poglavlje sadrzi pregled poznatih rezultata iz ove oblasti. U drugom poglavlju razmatrani su neki univerzalno-algebarski problemi vezani za algebre kompleksa, koji su pokrenuti u radovima C. Brinka. Trece poglavlje sadr &acute; zi rezultate o stepenim grafovima, sa posebnim osvrtom na globalnu odredjenost grafova.</span></p> / <p><span class="fontstyle0">The thesis deals with power algebras and power constructions in general. The first chapter contains the most important known results from this field. In Chapter 2 some universal-algebraic problems concerning power algebras are considered. Chapter 3 is devoted to the investigation of power graphs. The main attention is focused on the problem of global determinism of graphs.&nbsp;</span></p>

Denna studie har syftat till att undersöka hur ett antal aktörer resonerar kring lägesfaktorn ochdess inverkan i hyressättningen av nyproducerade lägenheter i fem utvalda områden i Stockholm.Detta då de tidigare studier som har utrett lägets inverkan i hyressättningen har baserats på detbefintliga hyresrättsbeståndet, där hyrorna till stor del är satta enligt bruksvärdesprincipen. Då detnumera till största del tillämpas presumtionshyra och egensatt hyra på nyproducerade lägenheter,saknas information om lägets inverkan i de lägenheter som tillförs marknaden idag. Resultatet visade att det endast är presumtionshyror och egensatta hyror som används i de utvaldaområdena samt att valet av hyressättningsprincip är ej lägesspecifikt. Läget har ingen direktinverkan i någon av dessa hyressättningsprinciper. Lägesfaktorn kommer indirekt in ipresumtionshyressättningen genom markpriser och avkastningskrav. Markpriserna kan dockibland vara en liten faktor av produktionskostnaderna och andra mikrofaktorer kan ge ett störregenomslag på hyresnivåerna i vissa situationer. Aktörer på marknaden resonerar ochargumenterar även olika kring det avkastningskrav som ska tillämpas i de enskilda projekten,vilket även det skapar en asymmetri kring lägets inverkan i denna princip. Läget har dessutomingen tydlig inverkan i de egensatta hyrorna då läget kommer in i bedömningen avnormhyresnivån. Denna normhyresnivå baseras dock på nyligen satta presumtionshyror ochandra egensatta hyror i samma område, som ej tar läget i tydlig beaktning. Lägets möjligagenomslag i egensatta hyror hålls även tillbaka då hyrorna anpassas för att kunna klara enbruksvärdesprövning i Hyresnämnden. Läget har dock fått ett större genomslag i de senare årens hyresförhandlingarna. Läget har nuäven tagits i beaktning i nyligen avgjorda rättsfall, Stockholmshyra samt i 73-punktsprogrammet.Det finns därmed tendenser till att läget kommer att få ett större genomslag i framtiden. Dessaförslag och rättsfall har dock brister som uppmärksammas i denna studie. / The purpose of this research paper was to investigate how a number of actors reasoned about thelocation factor and its impact on the rent setting of newly constructed apartments in five selectedareas in Stockholm. Previous researchers that have investigated the impact of location on rentsetting has conducted research on the existing rental housing stock in which the predominanttechnique for setting rent is the use-value principle. However, the most used rent settingprinciples are now presumption rent and self-set rents on newly constructed apartments.Therefore, it exists a research gap regarding the impact of the location factor in the rent setting ofthe rental housing stock that is being supplied to the market today. The result showed that the real estate developers only applied presumption rents and self-set rentsin the selected areas. The result also showed that the choice of rent setting principle is notlocation-specific. The location factor does not have a direct impact in these rent settingprinciples. In presumption rent, the location factor has an indirect effect through the land priceand yield. However, land prices can sometimes be a small factor in production calculation andother micro factors can have a larger impact on rent levels in some situations. In addition, theinterpretation and the application of the yield differ between the actors. Therefore, there is anasymmetry in how the location factor impact in presumption rent. In self-set rent, the factor oflocation does not have a clear impact. When setting the rent, the rent is based on recent rentlevels for similar apartments in the area, but these are presumption rents and self-set rents, wherethe location factor does not have a clear impact. The full extent of the impact of the locationfactor is not realized since real estate owners tune-down rents in order to pass a use-value trial inthe Rent tribunal. However, the location has had a greater impact on the rent negotiations in recent years. The location factor has now also been acknowledged in recent court cases, Stockholmshyra and the73-point program. Thus, there are tendencies that the location factor will have a greater impact inthe future, but these proposals and legal cases also have deficiencies that have been addressedand analysed in this study.

Students with disabilities often face difficulty throughout their lives. One of these common challenges for students with severe disabilities is they often struggle with routine skills — for example, significant time spent helping students transition to activities throughout the day. The student's performance to complete required daily school routines increased when the researcher applied the picture activity schedules. Also, one strategy to enable students with disabilities to increase independence is through assistive technology. Therefore, many studies support the use of technology-based visual supports to teach daily school routines. Teachers increasingly have started to adopt an electronic visual activity schedule (eVAS) as a means to provide clear and consistent support for students with disabilities. Although the above studies are positive, there is still a need to more fully examine the various outcomes of eVAS. Therefore, this study is to investigate the effects of using eVAS (i.e., FIRST THEN application) on the latency period that the student spends for checking the schedule independently and prompts needed to transition throughout the day. Also, the value that the teacher and student place on the use of an eVAS to teach daily life and school routines instead of using typical instruction (e.g., traditional visual schedule), and the student’s ability to generalize the use of the eVAS across instructors and materials (display). The participant was a 10-year-old male in the fifth grade with intellectual disability and autism. This study was conducted in an intermediate school in the southeastern United States. An ABAB single case design was used to investigate the effects of the app. The dependent variables (DV) included: 1) The percent of independent correct responding to the natural cue “timer went off, or the teacher said: “Time to Switch”; 2) The amount of time the participant took to respond to the natural cue and check a schedule. The independent variable (IV) was applying the system of least prompts (SLP) along with the First Then application on iPad. Both DV and IV were collected five sessions in five days, during the transition period between activities in each baseline, intervention, maintenance, and generalization phases. The second observer recorded 25% of the data collection of the inter-observer agreement and procedural fidelity. By the end of the study, the social validity survey was provided one for the teacher and another one for the participant. The result indicated a functional relation between DV and the IV. Also, the limitation and the suggestion for future research were discussed. In conclusion, this study extended the result of prior studies by emphasizing the effectiveness of using the eVAS with students to independently complete the routine skills and applying SLP to give the student the opportunity to do the task with less prompts. The study will guide teachers use of such support tool and apply the intervention in the classroom with students with disabilities.

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Ce projet propose une nouvelle approche de la résilience en vue d’assurer le bien-être chez les enseignants. Les raisons qui nous amènent à un tel intérêt sont notamment le stress intense ressenti dans le corps professoral où la tâche est lourde et particulièrement difficile. Sera donc abordé au chapitre premier, le fait que l’environnement de travail, par ses caractéristiques, génère du stress et des effets néfastes. Par la suite, la résilience étant sollicitée pour retenir les travailleurs en poste, nous décrirons son historique, ce qui nous amènera à soulever une problématique d’importance, notamment le fait qu’elle ne soit pas nécessairement accompagnée d’un bien-être salutaire. En contrepartie, un des indicateurs du bien-être est la motivation autodéterminée. Nous détaillerons ces notions et verrons comment elles sont atteintes par les conditions mêmes de travail. Cette mise en contexte nous permettra, en chapitre deuxième, de concevoir la résilience sous un autre jour grâce à la mise en lien avec les motivations autodéterminées. S’y dessineront deux types importants, dans lesquels motivation et bien-être devraient différer sensiblement. Cela pourrait expliquer la raison d’un bien-être mitigé. Nous terminerons ce chapitre par nos hypothèses. Nous aborderons ensuite la vérification de la proposition de types de résilience sous-tendues par la motivation. Au chapitre troisième, la méthodologie décrira l’échantillon de 465 enseignants québécois du primaire et du secondaire, les différents questionnaires de résilience, motivation et bien-être aux fins de l’étude transversale. Le chapitre suivant traitera des résultats des ANOVA , MANOVA et ANOVA factorielles entreprises. Notamment, les différences statistiques de bien-être et de motivation seront détaillées, ainsi que la non interaction entre motivation et résilience. Les effets principaux de résilience à tous les niveaux de motivation seront décrits. Les résultats obtenus nous permettrons une discussion au chapitre cinquième avant de conclure qu’effectivement, des différences sont observables, que la résilience pourrait s’opérer en deux formes durant lesquelles les motivations et le bien-être sont différents. Il sera possible d’envisager la résilience non pas comme une caractéristique personnelle stable ou un résultat statique, mais comme un processus pouvant prendre différentes formes qu’il serait alors possible de promouvoir. En découle également une mise en garde contre le fait de penser qu’il n’est plus nécessaire d’agir auprès des personnes étiquetées de résilientes. Le soutien semble encore nécessaire pour soutenir un processus efficace. / This project proposes a new approach to resilience in order to ensure well-being among teachers. The reasons which lead us to such an interest include the intense stress experienced by teachers in their work due to the heavy and difficult workload. In Chapter 1 we will discuss the work environment and its characteristics, which generate stressors and adverse effects. We then turn to the concept of resilience which is sought for in the effort to retain workers. We describe its history which will lead into the important issue that resilience is not necessarily accompanied by healthy well-being. One indicator of well-being is self-determined motivation. We explore these concepts and see how they are affected by the conditions in the workplace. This background will allow us in Chapter 2 to develop the concept of resilience in a different way by bringing it into relation with self-determined motivation. We will distinguish between two important types of resilience in relation to which motivation and well-being should differ significantly. We will then examine the proposed types of resilience underpinned by motivation. In Chapter 3 we describe the methodology in a sample study of 465 primary and secondary school teachers including the questionnaires on resilience, motivation and well-being used in this transversal study. The following chapter will discuss the results of ANOVA, MANOVA and factorial ANOVA. In particular, statistical differences in well-being and motivation will be detailed as well as the non-interaction between motivation and resilience. Principal effects of resilience for all levels of motivation will be described. The results will show that resilience can occur in two types in which motivation and well being differ. It will be possible to consider resilience not as a static characteristic but as a process which can take different forms which can be promoted. It follows as well that one should not think that resilient people will never be in need of further intervention. Support remains necessary to ensure an efficient process.