A multiple trait, random regression, test day (TD) model was used to determine the heritability and genetic correlations of milk, fat, protein, and SCS with metritis, cystic ovary disease, mastitis, lameness, ketosis, milk fever, and displaced abomasum for four periods in lactations 1, 2, and 3-5 using two disease definitions. Definition 1 assumed that the first disease occurrence affects all TD thereafter equally and definition 2 assumed that disease affects only the next TD. Results were similar between definitions. The models were modified to allow the estimation of differences in disease occurrence by level of production, and to estimate production differences between diseased and non-diseased cows. Few significant associations were found between production levels and disease occurrence, the largest was between MAST and SCS. Diseased animals had lower levels of production than healthy animals for all diseases except COD. Animals with MAST had increased SCS. / Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Dairy Cattle Genetics Research and Development (DairyGen) Council.

RÉSUMÉ : Avec le dénouement de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, le problème des réfugiés en Europe devient un enjeu international. Plusieurs millions de personnes, que l’on nomme les Displaced Persons (DP), sont sans refuge et doivent recevoir une aide immédiate pour survivre. Même si la majorité de ces gens retourneront dans leurs pays d’origine, il reste encore des centaines de milliers de réfugiés en 1948. La seule solution concrète pour régler cette problématique est l’émigration des réfugiés dans des pays prêts à les accepter. Les Américains jouent un rôle crucial en acceptant 415 000 DP entre 1948 et 1952 grâce au Displaced Persons Act de 1948 et ses amendements en 1950 et 1951. Après d’âpres discussions entre les restrictionnistes et ceux qui défendent la libéralisation des lois d’immigration, naîtra le Displaced Persons Act (DP Act) signé avec beaucoup de réticence, le 25 juin 1948, par le président Harry S. Truman. Cette loi qui prévoit la venue de 202 000 DP en deux ans, contient des mesures jugées discriminatoires à l'endroit de certaines ethnies. Afin d'améliorer le DP Act, le Congrès effectue des recherches sur la situation des réfugiés toujours dans les camps en 1949 tout en étudiant l’impact de la venue des DP aux États-Unis entre 1948 et 1950. Cette étude est soumise sous forme de rapport, le Displaced Persons and Their Resettlement in the United States, le 20 janvier 1950. Ce mémoire propose une analyse minutieuse du rapport et de son contexte politique afin de démontrer le rôle important de cette étude dans le processus décisionnel du Congrès américain visant à accueillir un plus grand nombre de DP tout en posant les bases pour une politique d’accueil en matière de refugiés. / ABSTRACT : With the ending of the Second World War, the refugee problem became an international issue. Several million people, which are called the Displaced Persons (DPs), are without shelter and should receive immediate help to survive. Although the majority of DPs will return to their home country, there are still hundreds of thousands of refugees in 1948. The only practical solution to solve this problem is the migration of refugees out of Europe. The Americans have played a crucial role by agreeing to receive 415,000 DP between 1948 and 1952 through the Displaced Persons Act (DP Act) of 1948 and its amendments in 1950 and 1951. After heated discussions between the restrictionnists and those who advocate the liberalization of immigration laws, the Displaced Persons Act was voted with great reluctance and signed, June 25, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. This law provides for the arrival of 202,000 DPs in two years, but it contains measures deemed discriminatory to certain ethnic groups. In order to improve the DP Act, Congress conducted research on the situation of refugees still in camps in 1949 while studying the impact of the DPs arrival in the United States from 1948 to 1950. This study was submitted as a report, the Displaced Persons and Their Resettlement in the United States, January 20th, 1950. This thesis proposes a thorough analysis of this report to demonstrate how the study helped the decision-making process of the U.S. Congress that led to the acceptance of a larger number of DP’s while also laying the basis for a settlement policy with regard to refugees.

This thesis analyzes how the interests of minority and majority groups in state-led development practices can be bridged, with the Indian tribals affected by the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project (SSP) serving as a context for my analysis. The SSP threatens the livelihoods of approximately 100,000 people with displacement, who are primarily comprised of Indian tribal minorities. The construction of the SSP makes tribals more vulnerable to the risks associated with development-induced displacement, such as landlessness, joblessness, homelessness, marginalization, and food insecurity. When analyzing the SSP, a lack of adequate compensation, resettlement, and legal protection for the tribals becomes apparent. This has led to discussions of human rights violations among the national and international community, raising concerns regarding the protection of minority groups affected by state-led development. Attention is placed on what it means to be a citizen of a country in terms of legal representation and state protection, and how the under-representation of societal groups can lead to the creation of second-class citizens. The objective is to go beyond current discussions of human rights neglect in the context of the SSP by analyzing the position of minority rights in state-led development practices.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Leadership and Foundations. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

This study examines the factors that contributed to the failure of retrenched Telkom workers to start and run successful businesses after the company had provided them with start-up capital and also funds for training. Many of the factors contributing to the majority of Telkom retrenched employees not establishing businesses will be identified and recommendations that companies could implement in the future to limit the failure of businesses of retrenched employees will be made. The study was descriptive, exploratory and qualitative in nature. Semi-structured interviews and a survey questionnaire specifically developed for this study were used to gather data. The study was conducted on ex-employees of Telkom residing in and around the townships and suburbs situated on the western side of Johannesburg (Mogale City, Randfontein and Soweto). Telkom provided retrenched employees with funds to attend external training so that they could be equipped to start and run their own businesses. Subsequently, Telkom also provided start-up capital so that these employees could start small businesses after they had left the company. Although the funds were provided, most employees did not utilise them to start their businesses and the few that did access the funds and start businesses experienced the failure of their businesses within a very short period of time. Three major issues of concern were identified: many of these ex-employees did not utilise the funds that were allocated for training; many did not make use of the start-up capital and the majority did not start businesses. The study investigated the following issues: a) Why the retrenched employees did not make use of the funds allocated for training b) Why the ex-employees did not make use of the start-up capital c) Why the ex-employees did not start businesses d) Of those that did start businesses, why did they fail within such a short period of time? The findings of the study confirm that most of the retrenched employees did not access either the training or the start-up funds. Detailed reasons for why the funds were not made use of are given and recommendations are also made for what the company should do in future if deciding to embark on a similar exercise. / Business Management / M. Tech. (Business Administration)

De 1945 à 1956, les « personnes déplacées » (réfugiés volontaires ou exilés par les déportations, les persécutions et le projet d’extermination) ont vécu sous la garde des autorités internationales dans les centres initialement ouverts par l’UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration). En attente d’un retour toujours plus hypothétique ou d’un visa d’émigration, la majorité de ces milliers de DPs, ainsi que les a baptisés la pudeur de l’administration internationale, se trouvait sur le sol allemand. Parmi eux se trouve une petite proportion de rescapés de la destruction des Juifs d’Europe bientôt rejointe par les « infiltrés », fuyant l’antisémitisme persistant à l’Est ou revenus d’exil. Privés de l’espoir d’un retour à la vie antérieure à la destruction et espérant une émigration prochaine qui se fait attendre, les DPs juifs vivent en Allemagne un temps suspendu tandis que se modifient les équilibres internationaux jusqu’à la guerre froide. Dans cet intervalle, voué à l’attente et à l’inactivité forcée, dans la promiscuité et la misère de la vie du camp DP, des hommes, des femmes et des enfants ont fondé une société singulière. La présente recherche s’intéresse à la représentation de cette communauté par elle-même. Autobaptisée She’erit Hapletah, ceux qui restent survivant, elle naît et se dévoile au travers de performances variées. Dernière expression d’une culture yiddish foisonnante en Europe, elle se concentre sur les zones britannique et américaine d’occupation de l’Allemagne. Cette étude s’attache aux performances DP entre 1945 et 1952, date du transfert de la responsabilité des réfugiés de l’autorité internationale vers la RFA. / Two weeks after the VE-Day, a group of survivors performed a show in the displaced persons camp of Belsen singing and playing the life they endured in the sadly famous concentration camp nearby and the life before it all happened just as the future they wanted up to now. This theatre was the first of dozens of Jewish theatre groups to perform shows all over Germany in DP camps where refugees from the non-enemy nations and victims of the Holocaust were waiting in the hope of a next emigration to Palestine or the United States. They lived in camps opened by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), behind gates or even barbed-wires of the “assembly centers”, controlled by military forces. Opened in 1945, the last assembly center closed down no less than eleven years later. While waiting on the “cursed soil” of Germany, the Jewish DPs, unable orunwilling to work for or even in Germany, dedicated their time to perform and represent themselves, not only on the theatre, but also in sport events, bals, ritual plays and every imaginable kind of performance. This research focuses on the Jewish DPs temporary settled in West Germany and the way they built up a new life by performing the past and the next future in Eretz Israel. This work interrogates the possible significances of the performances in Yiddish just after the Holocaust and the way survivors dealt with their past in the present of the new camp. After 1948, the rate of the DPs in Germany progressively decreased, the cultural, artistic and politic experiences disappeared at the same time, therefore, this work ends up in 1952 and focuses mainly on the years 1945-1949.

O presente trabalho desenvolve um estudo acerca da problemática das pessoas que se deslocam por causas ambientais. Desse modo, observa a questão da movimentação dos seres humanos pelo planeta, atentando-se para a trajetória histórica das pessoas asiladas e refugiadas e a proteção que foi convencionada a estas através de acordos internacionais e regionais, bem como o papel das Nações Unidas na articulação de soluções que protejam tais grupos. Analisa, também, o problema daqueles que se deslocam dentro do território de seus próprios países, argumentando-se que estas pessoas se movimentam pelos mesmos motivos que aquelas que escolhem atravessar as fronteiras dos Estados e que, por isso, merecem amparo idêntico. A partir disso e da constatação da evolução dos problemas ambientais, principalmente quanto aos que resultam das alterações climáticas e que já geraram e ainda gerarão um número muito grande de deslocados, afetando o território de países inteiros e inviabilizando a permanência de populações em condições que lhes garantam a sobrevivência nos lugares atingidos, em função de eventos como secas, enchentes, furacões, elevação do nível do mar, entre outros, busca-se, justamente, construir uma definição dos grupos de pessoas que migram por razões ambientais, que possa servir de fundamento à elaboração de instrumentos jurídicos internacionais e que englobe todos aqueles que migram, dentro ou para fora de seus países, por motivos relacionados ao meio ambiente. Para tanto, examina princípios jurídicos fundamentais, como o da solidariedade e da responsabilidade comum, mas diferenciada, que irão nortear a construção de tais mecanismos, analisando o modo como o direito internacional ambiental poderá estabelecer bases para a efetivação da proteção dos deslocados ambientais. / Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-23T19:01:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Tiago Schneider de Jesus.pdf: 865807 bytes, checksum: e6ee338ed85e919c76ba7873ff768a62 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-23T19:01:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Tiago Schneider de Jesus.pdf: 865807 bytes, checksum: e6ee338ed85e919c76ba7873ff768a62 (MD5) / This paper develops a study on the issue of people moving up to environmental causes. Thus, says the issue of movement of human beings the planet, looking for the historical trajectory of people and asylum and refugee protection that has been agreed to by the relevant international and regional agreements and the UN´s role in the articulation of solutions that protect such groups. Examines also the issue of people moving up within the territory of their countries, arguing that these moves are the same reasons that those who choose to cross the borders of states and thus deserve similar support. From this finding and the development of environmental problems, mainly as a result of the climate change and has generated and still generate a large number of displaced persons, affecting the territory of entire countries and preventing the permanence of populations, such that to ensure the survival, in the places affected, due to events such as droughts, floods, hurricanes, sea level rise, among others, seeks to, precisely, to construct a definition of people who migrate for environmental reasons, to serve as a basis for development of international legal instruments and involving all those who migrate within or outside their country for reasons related to the environment. To do so, examines the fundamental legal principles such as solidarity and common responsibility, but different, which will guide the construction of such mechanisms and how the international environmental law may establish foundations for the realization of protection of the environmental displaced.

Submitted by Elesbão Santiago Neto (neto10uepb@cche.uepb.edu.br) on 2018-05-16T19:15:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Igor Henriques Sabino de Farias.pdf: 43642403 bytes, checksum: 74f590c3743109c75d9820a458b64f7d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-16T19:15:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Igor Henriques Sabino de Farias.pdf: 43642403 bytes, checksum: 74f590c3743109c75d9820a458b64f7d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-26 / CAPES / This dissertation discusses the influence of religion on International Relations (IR). Its general objective is to emphasize the importance of religion as one of the explanatory variables of contemporary international politics. In order to do so, it uses concepts from the English School to analyze the increase in the number of internally displaced persons due to religious persecution in Iraq after the rise of the terrorist group Islamic State between 2006 and 2014. It is therefore argued that there is a relation between the two facts. In order to verify this assumption and achieve the general objective of the research, the main religious elements that can influence international relations are classified, emphasizing the concepts of non-state religious actor and transnational religious issues. It then discusses how these elements can be understood in the light of the main theories of IR, such as Realism, Liberalism, Constructivism and English School, but emphasizes the latter. It is also conceptualizes terms such as internal displacement and religious persecution, with reference to the main sources of international law. Finally, it is demonstrated, through analysis of the official propaganda of the Islamic State, how Islamic religious elements were used by the group in order to persecute Christians and Yazidis in Iraq. This fact caused a large number of internally displaced persons due to religious persecution in the country. It is concluded, therefore, that, although religion is still an explanatory variable of IR neglected in the academic world, it is increasingly present in events of international politics, especially after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. / Esta dissertação discute a influência da religião nas Relações Internacionais (RI) e tem como objetivo geral ressaltar a importância da religião enquanto uma das variáveis explicativas da política internacional contemporânea. Para isso, utiliza-se de conceitos da Escola Inglesa para analisar o aumento do número de deslocados internos por perseguição religiosa no Iraque após a ascensão do grupo terrorista Estado Islâmico, entre 2006 e 2014. Defende-se, portanto, que existe uma relação entre os dois fatos. A fim de verificar esse pressuposto e alcançar o objetivo geral da pesquisa, classifica-se os principais elementos religiosos que podem influenciar as relações internacionais, dando ênfase aos conceitos de ator religioso não estatal e questões religiosas transnacionais. Em seguida, discute como esses elementos podem ser compreendidos à luz das principais teorias de RI, como Realismo, Liberalismo, Construtivismo e Escola Inglesa, ressaltando, porém, essa última. Conceitua-se também termos como deslocado interno e perseguição religiosa, tendo como referente as principais fontes de Direito Internacional. Por fim, é demonstrado, por meio da análise da propaganda oficial do Estado Islâmico, como elementos religiosos islâmicos foram instrumentalizados pelo grupo a fim de perseguir cristãos e yazidis no Iraque. Fato que ocasionou um grande número de deslocados internos por perseguição religiosa no país. Conclui-se, portanto, que, embora a religião ainda seja uma variável explicativa das RI negligenciada no meio acadêmico, está cada vez mais presente em eventos da política internacional, sobretudo após os atentados terroristas do 11 de setembro de 2001.

A presente tese de doutoramento tem como objeto de pesquisa os imigrantes de origem russa no Brasil, principalmente na cidade de São Paulo, na primeira metade do século XX. A Revolução Russa de 1917 e a formação do Estado Soviético ocasionaram grandes mudanças na estrutura social da Rússia e produziram um fluxo emigratório inédito no século XX. As características migratórias dessas populações provocaram grandes debates nos países europeus e resultaram no surgimento de uma nova categoria migratória: o refugiado. No Brasil, os primeiros imigrantes da Rússia pós-­revolução começaram a chegar no começo dos anos 1920, tendo como principais destinos os estados do Sul e do Sudeste do país, principalmente a cidade de São Paulo, que se encontrava em fase de rápido crescimento econômico e urbano. Posteriormente, São Paulo recebeu mais duas grandes levas de imigrantes russos: os deslocados da Segunda Guerra Mundial, no final dos anos 1940, e os imigrantes russos da China, ao longo da década de 1950. Assim, as décadas de 1920 a 1950 foram o período de maior visibilidade dos imigrantes russos na cidade e dos processos mais intensos da estruturação de suas coletividades. Diante disso, a tese se concentra nesse intervalo de tempo. Num segundo momento, a tese se propõe a explorar o que significava ser russo em São Paulo nesse período. O trabalho está fundado na percepção de que nenhuma identidade é uma característica estável, mas um processo contínuo cujos resultados advém de uma complexa teia de interações entre o Estado, a sociedade, o grupo e o indivíduo. A tese, através de uma extensa pesquisa documental em arquivos públicos e particulares e com auxílio de depoimentos orais, busca identificar de que modo as formas de sociabilidade dos imigrantes russos em São Paulo foram fruto de suas concepções coletivas sobre seu pertencimento e sua lealdade nacional. A pesquisa identificou que a falta de homogeneidade nos percursos migratórios, e também nas concepções sobre o próprio pertencimento, resultou em uma comunidade de imigrantes marcada por constantes conflitos internos, com o Estado e com a sociedade no Brasil. Essa dinâmica comunitária, somada à postura repressiva do Estado à época em relação aos imigrantes, ocasionou grandes rupturas entre gerações e entre diferentes levas migratórias de russos na cidade, que impactaram as formas de sociabilidade dos russos na cidade até os dias de hoje. / The purpose of this doctoral thesis is the research of the Russian immigrants in Brazil, mainly in the city of São Paulo, in the first half of the twentieth century. The Russian Revolution of 1917 and the formation of the Soviet State led to major changes in the social structure of Russia and produced an unprecedented emigration flow. Migratory characteristics of these populations caused great debates in European countries and resulted in the emergence of a new immigration category: the refugee. The first post-­revolution Russian immigrants began to arrive in Brazil in the early 1920s. The main destinations were the South and the Southeast of the country especially the city of São Paulo, which was in rapid economic and urban growth phase. Later, São Paulo received two others large waves of Russian immigrants: the displaced persons of World War II in the late 1940s, and Russian refugees from China, throughout the 1950s. Thus, the decades from 1920 to 1950 were a period of increasing visibility of Russian immigrants in the city of São Paulo and of an intense process of structuring their communities. Therefore, the thesis focuses in this period. After this first analysis, this thesis explores what it meant to be Russian in São Paulo during said period. The work is based on the paradigm that no identity is a stable characteristic, but an ongoing process which results come from a complex network of interactions between the state, society, group and individual. The thesis, through an extensive documentary research in public and private archives and with the help of oral testimonies, seeks to identify how the forms of sociability of Russian immigrants in São Paulo were a result of their collective views on their sense of belonging and of national loyalty. The research identified that the lack of homogeneity in the migratory experiences and in the conceptions of belonging resulted in an immigrant community marked by constant internal conflicts. This communitarian dynamics, coupled with the repressive attitude of the Brazilian State towards immigrants, caused major gaps between generations of Russian immigrants in the city, which impacted the forms of their sociability in the city until today.

O presente trabalho é fruto de uma pesquisa desenvolvida com sujeitos pertencentes a populações oriundas de comunidades rurais de regiões da cordilheira dos Andes que foram atingidas pela violência durante as décadas do conflito armado interno no Peru, de 1984 a 2000. O principal objetivo deste estudo foi analisar as narrativas de vida desses sujeitos, considerando-se a memória como processo de reconstrução, essencial para ressignificar a vida na cidade após esse processo migratório traumático. Nessa análise, tecemos uma discussão acerca dos Direitos Humanos em situações de conflito armado e a condição de deslocados internos em relação aos refugiados. Nossos sujeitos deslocaram-se forçadamente, expulsos do campo rumo à reconstituição da vida em uma região urbana, no terceiro Estado mais pobre do Peru. Esse contexto apresentou problemas em relação ao modo de vida dessas pessoas que viviam imersas em sua cultura andina, em que a adoração à Mãe Terra é o centro das relações comunitárias, até que a experiência de deslocamento forçado os alcançou. Em busca da compreensão da constituição desses sujeitos, esta dissertação se fundamenta principalmente nos conceitos de memória de Halbwachs (2003, 2004) e Bosi (1994, 2003), de experiência de Benjamin (2012) e Larrosa (2002) e de narrativa de vida de Bertaux (2010). Apresentamos uma discussão sobre a memória como resistência e como arma, segundo propõe Schilling (2009). E discorremos sobre a ruralidade, conforme propõe Carneiro (1997), enquanto dimensão que perpassa a identidade de nossos sujeitos. A pesquisa foi realizada em uma abordagem qualitativa e utilizamos, como procedimentos metodológicos, a entrevista de caráter biográfico e a observação de campo. Por ter sido um processo de imersão, pautamo-nos nas entrevistas do tipo etnográfico, conforme considerado por Beaud e Weber (2007), ou seja, entrevistas realizadas no contexto estudado, porque não estão isoladas nem são independentes da situação de pesquisa, já que levam em conta a realidade social a que pertencem esses narradores. Nas análises, buscamos refletir sobre as narrativas de violência, considerando as práticas culturais que caracterizam esse grupo social, e o reconstruir da vida na cidade após o processo migratório, no sentido de entendermos a constituição desses sujeitos na condição de violência e desenraizamento. Escolhemos a violência como núcleo de significação porque são as ações do conflito armado que marcam profundamente esses sujeitos de forma a promover o intenso fluxo de migração forçada da população do campo para a cidade. Procuramos entender de que forma a violência surge nas narrativas de lembranças e marca esses sujeitos, tendo em vista as rupturas com a comunidade de pertencimento e implicações para a vida. E também analisamos as histórias contadas pelos sujeitos, com vistas ao período que antecedeu à migração e ao que se relaciona à reconstrução da vida no contexto urbano, quando eles passam à condição de deslocados internos. Interessou-nos conhecer de que forma a memória colaborou com esse processo de reedificação em relação à cultura como eixo estrutural desses indivíduos. / This work is the result of a research developed with subjects in populations from rural communities in the Andes mountains regions that were affected by violence during the decades of internal armed conflict in Peru, from 1984 to 2000. The aim of this study was to analyse the life narratives of these subjects, by considering memory as a reconstruction process, essential to reframe life in the city after this traumatic and migration process. In this analysis, we have a discussion about human rights in situations of armed conflict and also on the condition of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in relation to refugees. Our subjects were forced to move, expelled from the countryside towards the reconstitution of life in an urban context, the third poorest state of Peru. This context shows problems compared to Andean lifestyle, where the worship of Mother Earth is the center of community relations, until their forced displacement experience reached them. In pursuit of understanding of these subjects structures, this thesis is based mainly on the concepts of memory of Halbwachs (2003, 2004) and Bosi (1994, 2003), experience as conceived by Benjamin (2012) and Larrosa (2002) and life narrative of Bertaux (2010). It also brings a discussion about memory as resistance and as a weapon, as proposed by Schilling (2009) and a discussion about rurality, as proposed by Carneiro (1997), as a dimension that permeates our subjects identities. The research was conducted in a qualitative approach using as methodological procedures biographical interview and field observation. Because it was an immersion process, we rely on ethnographic interviews as considered by Beaud and Weber (2007), i.e. interviews in the research context since they are not isolated nor are independent of the research situation as they consider the social reality to each one of the tellers belongs. In the analyses, we try to reflect about the narratives of violence, considering cultural practices that characterize this social group, and the rebuilding of life in the city after the migration process, in order to understand the constitution of these subjects on conditions of violence and uprooting. We chose violence as a meaning core because these actions of the armed conflict deeply marked these subjects in order to promote the intense flow of forced migration of rural people to the city. We seek to understand how violence emerges in narratives of remembrances and affects these subjects, bearing in mind the disruption with the community of belonging and implications for life. And we analysed the stories told by the subjects, concerning the period previous to the migration and the one related to the reconstruction of life in the urban context, when they their condition became of IDPs. We were interested in knowing how memory collaborated with this process of rebuilding in relation to culture as a structural axis of these individuals