Problem Statement: South Africa is currently facing a challenge of youth unemployment. The hardest hit are those from low income communities, as they in addition have limited access to information. The Internet has proven to be one of the ways in which recruitment is done and failure to access reduces the opportunities. The purpose of the research: The main objective of this study was to understand how the youth living in the townships use the Internet to seek for employment. The purpose of this study is to assess how the Internet use affect the youth when searching for employment. Design/methodology/ approach: An interpretivist approach was employed to understand how the youth seek employment. This study used a qualitative approach to collect the data. Interviews were done using semi-structured questions. Alampay (2006) Capability Approach (CA) was used as a guide to conceptualise how the youth from low-income communities use the Internet to find employment. Borrowing from the four main constructs (conversion factors, freedom, capabilities and functionings) employed by Alampay (2006) in his model, this study operationalised the Alampay (2006) CA model by adding the ICT commodities as the fifth construct. The CA was chosen as an appropriate framework for this study because the framework focuses on what humans are able to do and achieve when presented with the available ICT resources. Findings: The findings demonstrate that the lack of resources, income, information and digital skills affected the individual capabilities to effectively use the Internet when seeking employment. The success rate in finding a job using the Internet was low among job seekers. Commodities, individual differences, social and environmental factors affected how the youth (18-34 years) from low-income communities use the Internet to find employment. In addition, crime, poor network coverage, expensive data bundles and limited access to ICT resources were among the key factors that contributed to limited use of the Internet among job seekers. Research Contribution: This study seeks to close the gap in limited knowledge available in developing countries with regards to the use of the Internet among job seekers. Therefore, based on the study findings, this thesis has contributed towards adding value to the body of knowledge within the field of Information Systems. In addition, the findings can contribute towards assisting policy makers in solving challenges faced by the unemployment youth in developing countries when using technology to find employment.

„Nicht nur ein ausserordentlicher Kuenstler, sondern auch ein ganz vorzueglicher Paedagoge.“ So urteilte die Schülerschaft der von Fritz Jöde (1887-1970) gegründeten Volksmusikschule Hamburg bereits 1924 über den gebürtigen Ungarn und Wahldeutschen Erwin Lendvai (1882-1949). Wie kaum einem Zweiten gelang es Lendvai nach dem I. Weltkrieg sowohl die musikalischen Bedürfnisse der großen deutschsprachigen Sängerbünde wie dem DSB und dem D.A.S. zu erfüllen als auch seine Vorstellungen einer qualitativen Chorschulung und Chorbildung in seinen beiden selbst herausgegebenen Chorsammlungen „Schola Cantorum – Sammlung klassischer gemischter a cappella Chöre in Form einer systematischen Chorschulung“ (1927; mit einem Geleitwort von Hans Joachim Moser [1889-1967]) und „Der polyphone Männerchor. Sammlung originaler und bearbeiteter Vokalwerke aus drei Jahrhunderten“ (1928) umzusetzen, was Rezensionen zu seinen Werken, Briefe an ihn und Äußerungen über ihn, z. B. von Hanns Eisler (1898-1962), Franz Josef Ewens (1899-1974), Leo Kestenberg (1882-1962) und Hugo Leichtentritt (1874-1974), nahelegen. Auch seine Mitarbeit bei den „Lobeda-Singebücher“ (1931/1933) und seine Beiträge im „Volksliederbuch für die Jugend“ (1930) dokumentieren seine Bedeutung in jenen Jahren. Seine Leistungen ließen ihn während der Weimarer Republik zu einem der gefeiertsten Komponisten innerhalb der deutschsprachigen Laienchorbewegung und einem der führenden Chorpädagogen seiner Zeit werden. Nach der Machtergreifung Adolf Hitlers und der NSDAP 1933, emigrierte er 1938 nach Großbritannien, wo er als namenloser Musiker verstarb und in Vergessenheit geriet. In der vorliegenden Dissertation „Erwin Lendvai (1882-1949) und sein Beitrag zur Reform der Laienchorbewegung während der Weimarer Republik“ wird umfassender als bisher geschehen das Leben und Werk dieser für die Chorforschung bedeutenden Persönlichkeit wieder in Erinnerung gerufen und kritisch gewürdigt. / „Nicht nur ein ausserordentlicher Kuenstler, sondern auch ein ganz vorzueglicher Paedagoge.“ With these words the student community of the School of Folk Music, grounded by Fritz Jöde (1887-1970), judged the native Hungarian living in Germany Erwin Lendvai (1882-1949) already in the year 1924. After the first World War Lendai succeeded in fulfilling the musical needs oft the big German speaking alliances of singers like DSB and D.A.S. as well as in transfering his own ideas concerning a qualitative training and education of chorus in his two collections of chorus “ Schola Cantorum – Sammlung klassischer gemischter a cappella Chöre in Form einer systematischen Chorschulung” (1927; edited by himself with a preface by Hans Joachim Moser[1889-1967]) and „Der polyphone Männerchor. Sammlung originaler und bearbeiteter Vokalwerke aus drei Jahrhunderten“ (1928) what is suggested in reviews about his works, letters addressed to him and statements about him for example the ones by Hanns Eisler (1898-1962), Franz Josef Ewens (1899-1974), Leo Kestenberg (1882-1962) and Hugo Leichtentritt (1874-1974). His participations in “Lobeda-Singebücher” (1931/1933) and his contributions in „Volksliederbuch für die Jugend“ (1930) also document his significance in those years. Due to his achievements during the Weimar Republik he became one of he most celebrated composers within the development of the German speaking amateur chorus and one of the leading chorus educators of his time. After the take over of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP 1933 he emigrated to Great Britain in 1938 where he died as a nameless musician and fell into ablivion. In the available dissertation “Erwin Lendvai (1882-1949) and his contribution to the reform of the amateur choir movement in the Weimarer Republik” life and works of this personality of significance for chorus research are reminmisced and critically valued in a more extensive way than done before.

Zugl.: Nijmegen, Radboud Univ., Diss., 2009. / Zusammenfassung auf Niederländisch.

Zugl.: Nijmegen, Radboud Univ., Diss., 2009. / Zusammenfassung auf Niederländisch.

<p>Doktorska disertacija razmatra modelovanje procesa zavarivanja i modelovanje podataka, koji omogućuje elektronski oblik dokumentovanih procedura, zapisa, specifikacija, planova kvaliteta i radnih uputstava. Model integralnog procesa zavarivanja je razvijen da bi se identifikovali svi faktori koji utiču na kvalitet zavarenog spoja, odnosno proizvoda od faze preispitivanja zahteva iz ugovora i tehničkog preispitivanja, podugovaranja, opreme i osoblja, procesa zavarivanja, rukovanja i skladi&scaron;tenja osnovnog i potro&scaron;nog materijala, ispitivanja, kontrole, verifikacije, kalibracije, neusagla&scaron;enosti, korektivnih mera, identifikacije i sledljivosti.<br />Predloženi model integralnog procesa zavarivanja je prototipski &scaron;to mu daje originalnost jer je jedinstven. Prototipski pristup omogućuje da se informacioni sistem prilagodi svakom pojedinačnom proizvodnom sistemu, odnosno kompaniji u skladu sa njenim potrebama i zahtevima.</p> / <p>The doctoral dissertation discusses the modeling of welding processes and data modeling, which allows electronic forms of documented procedures, records, specifications, quality plans and work instructions.<br />The model of integrated welding process was developed to identify all the factors that affect the quality of the weld, i.e. the product from the stage of the review required under the contract and technical review, subcontracting, equipment, personnel, processes, welding, handling and storage of basic supplies and materials, testing, control, verification, calibration, non-conformities, corrective actions, identification and traceability.<br />The proposed model of integrated welding process is a prototype which gives originality because it is unique and allows the information system adjusts each production system, and the company in accordance with its needs and requirements</p>

The most important 1920’s men’s choral composer, Erwin Lendvai, is used in this lecture as an example to demonstrate some compositional steps that were taken to save the genre. Contemporaries praised him as a bold innovator of men’s choir. His writing is highly professional and his experience as a conductor shows in every detail. Stylistically, his music is a mixture of chromatically altered extended tonality and polyphonic principles found in the kind of boyish and unmannerly Renaissance songs Lendvai was familiar with, due to his transcriptions in the style of the “Jugenmusikbewegung”. He connects two ultra-modern tendencies of the time, namely linear counterpoint (no longer exactly in the sense of Ernst Kurth) and a morbid post-wagnerianism, both en vogue and equally fascinating.

The most important 1920’s men’s choral composer, Erwin Lendvai, is used in this lecture as an example to demonstrate some compositional steps that were taken to save the genre. Contemporaries praised him as a bold innovator of men’s choir. His writing is highly professional and his experience as a conductor shows in every detail. Stylistically, his music is a mixture of chromatically altered extended tonality and polyphonic principles found in the kind of boyish and unmannerly Renaissance songs Lendvai was familiar with, due to his transcriptions in the style of the “Jugenmusikbewegung”. He connects two ultra-modern tendencies of the time, namely linear counterpoint (no longer exactly in the sense of Ernst Kurth) and a morbid post-wagnerianism, both en vogue and equally fascinating.

A distinct feature of Brahms's compositional style is the cumulative development of melodic material that occurs throughout the composition. This motivic treatment appears in rhythmic and pitch fragments that are prolonged though various repetitions and newly derived figures related to earlier statements at the beginning of the composition. The compositional practices of Brahms as they relate to thematic unity reflect an earlier concept of the Grundgestalt, described in elements of nature by the 19th century philosopher, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The creative application of this concept by Brahms influenced the work of Arnold Schoenberg, who provided a more formal description as it relates to music and the compositional process. In this thesis, a relationship between Schoenberg's concept of the Grundgestalt and Brahms's compositional technique of motivic manipulations is explored. Movements from the First and Second Sonata for Clarinet and Piano by Brahms have been selected in order to observe his motivic treatment and the ways in which it permeates the composition. The motivic development that characterizes Brahms's style involves an initial motive with a distinct contour and intervallic content. The motive is manipulated with various techniques such as inversion, rhythmic variety and reordered segments that later transform into newly derived forms. An analysis of motivic material and the techniques that create a type of "developing variation" will be a significant focus of this thesis.

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The Pentagon career of Charles E. Wilson, President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of Defense from 1953-1957, is a neglected, yet important, field of study for studentsof the Eisenhower Presidency. Therefore, a study of Wilson's controversial tenure as Secretary of Defense is necessary for at least three reasons. First, Wilson served as Secretary of Defense for four and a half years, more than twice as long as any of his predecessors. Only Robert McNamara, who administered the Defense Department from 1961-1967, served longer than Wilson as the chief Pentagon official. Furthermore, Wilson became the Defense Department's civilian leader at a time when the agency was in its infancy.. His longevity as Secretary of Defense enabled him to make a significant impact upon the government's largest operation.Second, Wilson left a considerable store of personal papers, which are conveniently arranged at Anderson College in Anderson, Indiana. A serious examination of those materials gives one an additional measure of insight into the workings and concern of the Eisenhower Administration.Third, Wilson deserves study because he was a major figure in an important Administration. He has, however, been overlooked by virtually every chronicler of the Eisenhower Presidency. The prevailing view of Wilson maintains that he was an able administrator in the automobile industry, but woefully miscast as a political figure. That interpretation may not be totally wrong, but it is incomplete.More significantly, a study of Wilson enables the historian to challenge two views of the orthodox interpretation of the Eisenhower years. The first view maintains that the figures in the Eisenhower Cabinet were dull, unimaginative representatives of the business community. Indeed, one writer characterized the President and his advisers as "the bland leading the bland." That statement is misleading, at least in reference to Wilson.Charles E. Wilson was a wealthy industrialist, but he was hardly bland. He was many things; robust, blunt, energetic, sometimes simplistic, sometimes politically unskillful, but never bland. Furthermore, he possessed a down-to-earth intelligence which enabled him to direct the government's largest agency for almost a half-decade.A second view of the orthodox interpretation contends that the Eisenhower years were largely devoid of partisanship and a sense of political purpose. That, too, is misleading, especially regarding the issue of national defense. An examination of the debates over defense policy during those years reveals a high degree of partisanship with Wilson Persistently defending the Administration programs while the political opposition consistently sought to alter them. Furthermore, Wilson and his Democratic critics in the Senate were hardy rivals, with influential Democrats calling for Wilson's resignation at regular intervals. Wilson's encounters with Richard Russell, Lyndon B. Johnson, Stuart Symington and others may have lacked the drama of Harry Truman's lambasting of the "do-nothing, good-for-nothing" 80th congress during the 1948 presidential campaign. Yet the encounter between Wilson and his Senate critics were genuinely partisan and both Administration and Congress fought tooth-and-nail for political victory.I should like to state the purpose of this study. It is not an attempt at a biography of Wilson or even a summary of his career at the Pentagon. Instead, I have tried to examine the theme of conflict between Wilson and his Senate critics. The emphasis, and hopefully not the bias, is on Wilson's role as the Secretary of Defense in advocating his policies before skeptical groups of Senators. Hopefully, the study will succeed in a larger objective of shedding additional light on the inner workings of the Eisenhower Administration.