The American Genre Film Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 2009 by Tim League, founder and CEO of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. With a sense of rebellion against established film archives, AGFA is dedicated to the collection of 35mm prints of exploitation films from the 1960s-1980s in order to conserve and distribute these neglected films. A confluence of issues including the history of the films in the collection, AGFA’s connection with the Alamo Drafthouse, and influences from the hipster subcultures combine to inform AGFA’s practices and mission. This thesis will explore how the American Genre Film Archive conforms to and rebels against the established archive community by means of its mission and institutional structure. Also, this thesis will explore AGFA as a hipster institution through its collecting and exhibition practices. AGFA’s roles in the wider film archive community and the hipster community converge into an unusual archive serving unusual films. / text

Les exploitations minières sont confrontées à des marchés concurrentiels difficiles, avec des prix des matières premières plutôt en décroissance sur le long terme et pour certains particulièrement instables. Ceci conduit les opérateurs à rechercher de nouvelles approches de l'exploitation, avec deux objectifs : d'abord tirer un meilleur profit de leur gisement; ensuite disposer d'une capacité de réaction, d'adaptation à des conditions changeantes.<br/>Ces deux objectifs conduisent à s'intéresser à la teneur de coupure. Ce paramètre essentiel définit la limite entre minerai et stérile. Il est utilisé au stade de l'étude du projet minier et sert alors à la définition des contours du gisement industriel.<br/>L'ide développée dans ce document repose sur le fait que lorsque ce paramètre est appliqué à un volume de petite dimension, il peut être ajusté à court terme et permet une sélection plus efficace (en ce sens qu'à un niveau équivalent de récupération de métal, il permet d'écarter un tonnage plus important de matière). Cette idée conduit à proposer un modèle, dérivé des modèles par étapes limitantes, de détermination de la teneur de coupure optimale pour ce type d'exploitation, qualifiées ici de sélectives. Les difficultés de la mise en œuvre, qu'il s'agisse de difficultés liées à l'estimation géologique ou à la planification à court terme de l'exploitation, sont également abordées.

Ce mémoire caractérise l'hydrologie et hydrogéologie de la zone minière de La Mure : inventaire des sources, incidence de la retenue de Monteynard sur l'exhaure de la mine, incidence de terrils sur des zones de marais , composition des eaux, variations saisonnières.

Participation in sports has a strong influence on the development of African American youth and the Black community as a whole. The purpose of this paper is to explore the positive and negative effects that participating in sports has on the African American community using previous works and experiments on the topic. Results found that participation in athletics helps African American youth develop important social skills, creates an outlet to keep Black youth off the streets in impoverished neighborhoods, and establishes a vehicle to help Black youth get into college. However, the overemphasized importance of sports within the African American community through the media and Black families themselves has resulted in multiple negative effects including career immaturity, lower academic achievement and the exploitation of the Black intercollegiate athlete.

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Coastal exploitation causes influences that are detrimental to flora and fauna in the coastal and marine environments. In order to come up with new solutions to environmental problems, knowledge from different disciplines has to be obtained. To achieve a broader view of the problem of coastal exploitation, Stenmark’s theory about the three dimensions was applied: a scientific dimension, a social scientific dimension and a value-based dimension. The latter dimension included four themes that contributed to a further depth in the value-based dimension: values, nature conception, life conception and consequences. The purpose of this paper was to investigate the context in which coastal exploitation was presented and what the six coastal municipalities’ view on coastal exploitation were. The goal was to observe how the municipalities themselves perceive their environmental work and how it is reflected planning in practice. The method consisted of a review of each municipality’s comprehensive plan and an interview with a person from the physical planning sector from each municipality. A discourse analysis was applied to analyse the collected information. The municipalities’ values and views of the coast were two folded because there was a great focus on the human while coastal areas were considered significant and important environments. As there was a two-part view of the coast, there was also an uncertainty between conservation and exploitation. There was an opinion among the municipalities that they were working towards the environmental quality objective, but it did not appear how to achieve the goal. The environmental objective was only expressed by mentioning. The municipalities’ views and values must be clarified in order to know how planning should be practiced, which challenges waits ahead and for the municipality to get a picture of how the society will develop. / Kustexploatering medför en påverkan som innebär negativa konsekvenser för växt- och djurliv i kustområden och i marina miljöer. I syfte för att komma på nya lösningar på miljöproblem måste kunskaper från olika discipliner inhämtas. För att åstadkomma en bredare syn på problematiken om kustexploatering tillämpades Stenmarks teori om de tre dimensionerna: naturvetenskaplig dimension, samhällsvetenskaplig dimension och en värderingsmässig dimension. Den sistnämnda dimensionen innefattade fyra teman som bidrog med ett ytterligare djup i den värderingsmässiga dimensionen: värderingar, naturuppfattning, livsåskådning och konsekvenser. Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka vilka sammanhang kustexploatering presenterades och vad de sex kustkommunernas syn på kustexploatering var. Målet var att se hur kommunerna själva uppfattade sitt miljöarbete och hur det speglade planeringen i praktiken. Metoden bestod av en granskning av varje kommuns översiktsplan samt en intervju med en person inom samhällsbyggnadsbranschen från varje kommun. Diskursanalys tillämpades för att analysera informationen som samlats in. Kommunernas värderingar och syn på kusten var tvådelad eftersom det fanns ett stort fokus på människan samtidigt som kustområden ansågs vara betydelsefulla och viktiga miljöer. Eftersom det råder en tvådelad syn på kusten finns också en osäkerhet mellan att bevara och exploatera. Det fanns en uppfattning bland kommunerna att de arbetar mot miljökvalitetsmålet men det framgick inte hur de skulle uppnå målet. Miljömålet kommer endast till uttryck genom att målet omnämns. Kommuners syn och värderingar måste tydliggöras i syfte för att veta vilken planering som ska praktiseras, vilka utmaningar som väntar och för att kommunen ska få en bild om hur samhället ska utvecklas.

Background: The idea of MCSs operating together in a package is not a new concept. However, not many empirical studies have been made where MCSs have been studied as a package despite studies showing the importance in doing so. The assessment of the performance implications of MCSPs has traditionally been limited to financial measures. Theory suggests that the performance of a MCSP ought to be assessed on a broader scale than conventional output measures. Organizational ambidexterity has been positively associated with a broad variety of performance measures and thus it is used as an assessment tool in this study in response to the need for performance measurement on a broader scale than financial output. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe the MCSP in two different phases in the case organization and assess how the MCSP in these two phases promotes the organization’s ability to achieve organizational ambidexterity. Methodology: This study uses a qualitative research strategy and is limited to a single case study in a R&amp;D organization within a Swedish medical technology company. Semistructured qualitative interviews have been used to collect empirical data. Conclusion: The MCSP in the two phases is composed of different MCSs that were found to be used differently. Within the MCSP in both phases, several linkages were revealed between control elements and that some MCSs function to achieve the purposes of other MCSs. This study further concludes that the MCSP of the current phase was found to promote organizational ambidexterity better than the MCSP in the previous phase due to it promoting a better balance between exploitation and exploration.

The increasingly punitive nature of immigration control across the Western world and the overrepresentation of foreign nationals in European prisons has revitalised criminological interest in issues of migration. Alessandro De Giorgi (2010: 153) and others contend that restrictive, 'illegalising' immigration admission policies and 'hyper-criminalising' immigration controls create a population of migrant workers on European territory, whose legal precarity makes them ideal fodder for employment in post-Fordist neoliberal labour markets. This thesis refines the neoliberal-materialist analysis of immigration policy, as described most succinctly by De Giorgi (2010), through a comparative case study of the UK and Germany. To this end, it explores the various economic, political and cultural factors that have driven the development of a punitive regulation of immigration in the two countries and compares immigration control practices. It also examines the ways in which immigration status siphons immigrants into precarious work and how this process occurs differently in the UK and Germany. An underlying concern is to examine the extent to which differences in the underlying labour markets of the two countries, as described in Hall and Soskice's (2001) Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) typology, structure differences in the processes outlined in the neoliberal-materialist analysis. While the development of immigration controls is motivated by a wide variety of factors outside of the labour market, the fact that motivating factors are largely shared among countries of the same VoC type suggests some relationship with the underlying economic structure. In addition, the thesis argues that foreigners are vulnerable to specific forms of workplace exploitation and social marginalisation in 'coordinated' Germany because of factors associated with the VoC – a finding that also has important connotations for understanding the more intense overrepresentation of foreign nationals in German prisons. At the same time, it highlights the importance of other cultural and social factors, unique to each country, in the politics of immigration. The final section reverses the previous line of the enquiry by examining whether immigration 'neoliberalises' industrial relations in Germany. It finds that immigration's effects depend, to a significant extent, on the degree to which foreigners are constructed as precarious workers through state policy. In turn, immigration policy's wider effects on the labour market suggest native workers might also have an interest in preventing the precaritisation of their immigrant counterparts. Finally, immigration status may become less and less important in understanding the exploitation of workers in Europe, as citizenship is associated with fewer rights.

- Economic rights in copyright The theme of this thesis are economic rights in copyright. They are one of two categories which compose the content of copyright. The second category is called copyrights related to personality. These two categories of copyright can not be separated by exact borderline - economic rights in copyright include economic component, and vice versa. Economic rights in copyright are rights which have economic importance for their right holder. Economic rights in copyright can be divided into two main categories: exploitation right (in wide sense) and other economic rights in copyright. Exploitation right in wide sense include exploitation right and right of granting licence to other person. The aim of my thesis is to analyse and summarize contemporary situation of a legislation regulating economic rights in copyright and institutes relating to them. The thesis is composed of six chapters. The purpose of Chapter One is to explain what is a content of copyright and to briefly describe economic rights in copyright and copyrights related to personality in two parts of this Chapter. Chapter Two of the thesis is called economic rights in copyright. This chapter is subdivided into five parts. First part deals with influence of a definition of concept ,,thing" in New Civil Code upon...

This study focuses on the influence of precipitation on shallow catchments of mineral springs in the special area of Františkovy Lázně. The thesis was made on the basis of the data provided by the company Spa Františkovy Lázně a.s.. The interdependent relations between yield springs, precipitations, atmospheric pressure and the content of free CO2 were studied. These relations were observed onto six springs - František, Luční, Nový, Solný, Železnatý and Žofie. The precipitations were compared with the yield of individual springs. The season was proved by three springs (František, Železnatý and Žofie). Retention of the precipitation was determined for springs František, Solný, Železnatý and Žofie. Considering more than half a year delay, we cannot claim that the precipitations should have a major influence on the dotation of mineral springs. The downtrend was founded for the free CO2 in all researched resources. Significant indirect relation was found using the correlation coefficient between atmospheric pressure and free CO2.