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The last financial and economic crises have revealed the fragility for developed countries, especially European countries, to resist to a major upheaval. This event has affected for a long time their capacity to spur their economy and their attractiveness. Indeed, trapped in a low GDP and with a high public debt, the last summer has recalled that the situation stay unstable in Europe and U.S. Nevertheless, following this event, some countries have succeeded to emerge stronger. These emerging countries, especially BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), achieve to recover quickly a high GDP rate in spite of the global crisis and are confirming their capacity to reach their economic objectives. This thesis report focuses on a Real Estate investment recommendation in one of the most attractive emerging countries in the world, Brazil. The country, the last American country entered in recession and the first one exited from it, is becoming more and more attractive. Now, the country is among the ten largest economies in the world and remains very attractive to foreign investors due to its growth potential, large and competitive market and political stability, transforming the country from "a country of the future to a country of the present". Their ability to master the inflation to a stable value, to reduce the net debt and to pay off international Monetary Fund loans reassured investors. The new Domestic demands accompanied by an increasing business development and touristic demand are transforming the country, especially in the Real Estate sector, ranking it as one of the best place to invest in the world. Thanks to specific strategic investments in Real Estate, investors can make interesting returns and diversify their port-folio which is essential to decrease their exposition to specific risks. My thesis focus on a specific Real Estate sector: the Brazilian Hotel Market, and describe some strategic investments for foreign investors in Brazil.

Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2014. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Communication in a global context is seriously hampered by language barriers. These barriers pose special challenges to service delivery, particularly in the healthcare sector. Onsite interpreting is considered most conducive to enable effective communication. In South Africa, however, it is not practical and financially viable to employ onsite interpreters for all the possible language combinations. Telephone interpreting is proposed as an alternative to onsite interpreting and Folio Online’s InterTel service offers telephone interpreting in the Western Cape healthcare sector. This study gauges whether the InterTel service has the potential to contribute in any way to effective communication in the Western Cape healthcare sector. In South Africa, language barriers do not only exist in communication with tourists or immigrants, but also among the country’s own inhabitants. Furthermore, effective communication in the healthcare sector is particularly crucial. Miscommunication may lead to misdiagnosis and/or incorrect usage of medication, which in turn may result in death. The possible loss of life renders the issue of overcoming language barriers in the healthcare sector an important one. The aim of the study is to argue descriptively about InterTel telephone interpreting service as a viable solution to the communication difficulties between healthcare practitioners and patients in the Western Cape healthcare sector. The research had to be narrowed down and instead the study descriptively argues whether InterTel service contributes to communication in the Western Cape healthcare sector. The researcher conducted an interview with the Folio InterTel project manager and sent out questionnaires to the Folio telephone interpreters. Five transcribed recordings of conversations between healthcare practitioners, patients and Folio telephone interpreters were analysed. The findings of this study echo the findings of related studies reported in literature on telephone interpreting. The conclusion is that the Folio InterTel service makes a valuable contribution to more effective communication in Western Cape healthcare facilities. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Kommunikasie in ’n globale konteks word ernstig gekortwiek deur taalverskille. Hierdie verskille bied groot uitdagings vir die diensleweringsektor; meer spesifiek die gesondheidsorgsektor. Ter-plaatse tolking word beskou as mees bevorderlik vir betekenisvolle kommunikasie. In Suid Afrika is dit egter nie prakties en bekostigbaar om ter-plaatse tolke in diens te stel vir die groot verskeidenheid taalkombinasies nie en telefoontolking word as alternatief oorweeg. Folio Online bied die InterTel-telefoontolkingsdiens aan in die Weskaapse Gesondheidsektor. Hierdie ondersoek sal bepaal of die InterTel-diens die potensiaal het om effektiewe kommunikasie binne die Wes-Kaapse Gesondheidsektor te bevorder. Taalgapings in Suid Afrika kom nie soseer voor in kommunikasie met toeriste of immigrante nie, maar eerder tussen die land se inwoners. Voldoende kommunikasie in die gesondheidsektor is van kardinale belang. Misverstande kan tot verkeerde diagnoses en/of die verkeerde gebruik van medisyne lei, wat in uiterste gevalle aanleiding mag gee tot die dood van ’n pasiënt. Hierdie moontlike noodlottige gevolge plaas taalgapings in die gesondheidsektor onder die soeklig. Hierdie studie is ’n beskrywende argument wat ten doel het om te bepaal of Folio Online se InterTel-diens ’n lewensvatbare oplossing bied vir die kommunikasie-probleme tussen gesondheidspraktisyns en pasiënte in die Wes-Kaapse gesondheidsektor. Die navorsingsondersoek is gebaseer op ’n onderhoud met die Folio InterTel-projekbestuurder en vraelyste aan die onderskeie telefoontolke. Analises van vyf getranskribeerde opnames van gesprekke tussen gesondheidspraktisyns, pasiënte en Folio InterTel-telefoontolke vorm ook deel van die ondersoek. Die bevindings van hierdie studie toon ooreenkomste met die bevindings van ander relevante studies soos opgeteken in die literatuur oor telefoontolking. Daar is bevind dat die InterTel-diens, soos gelewer aan die Wes-Kaapse Gesondheidsektor, wel ’n waardevolle bydra maak tot die bevordering van kommunikasie.

Tyrimo tikslas – išvystyti analitinę metodiką tinkamą geležies sulfato, folio rūgšties ir cianokobalamino įvertinimui jiems esant daugiakomponenčio vaistinio preparato sudėtyje. Uždaviniai: surinkti informaciją apie anemiją ir medicinoje vartojamus antianeminius preparatus; apžvelgti plačiausiai naudojamus folio rūgšties, cianokobalamino ir geležies tyrimo metodus; pasirinkta metodika atlikti daugiakomponenčio preparato Ferro-folgamma komponentų atskyrimą; pasirinktais metodais identifikuoti cianokobalaminą, folio rūgštį, geležies sulfate; atlikti folio rūgšties ir geležies kiekybinę analizę. Metodai: efektyvioji skysčių chromatografija, spektrofotometrija. Tyrimo objektas – vaistinis preparatas “Ferro-folgamma”, kurio vienoje kapsulėje yra 100 mg bevandenio dvivalentės geležies sulfato (atitinka 37 mg geležies), 5 mg folio rūgšties, 10 μg cianokobolamino. Tyrimo rezultatai. ESC su diodų matricos detektoriumi metodika atliktas folio rūgšties ir cianokobalaminio atskyrimas ir nustatymas. Vitaminų atskyrimas pasiektas naudojant 150×4.6 mm 3 µm ACE18 kolonėlę, judriąją fazę fluoracto rūgštį (0.1 proc.) ir acetonitrile, judrios fazės tekmės greičiui esant 1.0 ml/min. Folio rūgšties detekcija atlikta prie 287 nm ilgio bangos, nustatyta aptikimo riba – 0.04 µg/ml, kiekybinio nustatymo riba – 0.13 µg/ml. Cianokobalamino detekcija atlikta prie 360 nm bangos ilgio, nustatyta aptikimo riba – 0.474 µg/ml, kiekybinio nustatymo riba – 1.57 µg/ml. Spektrofotometriškai kiekybiškai nustatyta... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Aim – to develop an analytical method that would be suitable for evaluating iron sulphate, folic acid and cyanocobalamin in the multicomponental drug. Objectives: gather information about anemia and antianemic drugs used in medicine; review the most often used methods of folic acid, cyanocobalamin and iron; carry out the separation of “Ferro-folgamma” components; identify cyanocobalamin, folic acid and iron sulphate; carry out a quantitive determination of folic acid and iron. Methods: high-performance liquid chromatography, spectrophotometry. Object: preparation “Ferro-folgamma” containing 100 mg anhydrous iron sulphate (37 mg of iron), 5 mg folic acid and 10 μg cyanocobalamin. Results: Identification and determination of folic acid and cyanocobalamin in pharmaceutical preparation was developed using HPLC with photodiode array detector (PDA). Folic acid and cyanocobalamin were separated on a ACE18 column (150×4.6 mm, 3 µm particle size) with a gradient elution of mobile phase consisting of 0.1% trifluoroacetic acid and acetonitrile. The separation was achieved with a flow rate of 1.0 ml/min. Detection of folic acid was performed at 287 nm wavelength, limit of detection – 0.04 µg/ml, limit of quantification – 0.13 µg/ml. Detection of cyanocobalamin was performed at 360 nm wavelength, limit of detection – 0.474 µg/ml, limit of quantification – 1.57 µg/ml. The absorbance of the iron complex was measured spectrophotometrically at 423 nm. Conclusions: HPLC/PDA method for... [to full text]

Doctor of Philosophy(PhD) / Revised September, 2007 / This study examines the continuity of mediaeval literary tradition in selected rhymed narrative verse. These verses were composed for entertainment at various times prior to 1648. At or shortly before this date, they were collected into The Percy Folio: BL. Add. MS. 27,879. Selected texts with an Historical or Romance topic are examined from two points of view: modification of source material and modification of traditional narrative stylistic structure. First, an early historical poem is analysed to establish a possible paradigm of the conventions governing the mediaeval manipulation of fact or source material into a pleasing narrative. Other texts are compared with the result of this analysis and it is found that twenty paradigmatic items appear to summarize early convention as their presence in other poems is consistent — no text agreeing with less than twelve. The second step is the presentation of the results of an analysis of some fifty mediaeval Romances. This was undertaken in order to delineate clearly selected motifemic formulae inherent in the composition of these popular narratives. It is shown that these motifemes, found in the Romances, are also present in the historical texts of The Percy Folio. The findings, derived from both strands of investigation, are that mediaeval continuity exists in the texts studied. The factors which actually comprise this ‘mediaeval continuity’ are isolated: it is then seen that rather than discard tradition as society grew further and further from the early circumstances that gave rise to it, later poets have chosen to contrive modifications designed to fit new requirements as they arise. Such modifications, however, are always within the established conventional framework. In short, no text examined failed to echo tradition, and mediaeval continuity is an important feature of the popular rhymed narrative in 1648 and The Percy Folio.

Doctor of Philosophy(PhD) / Revised September, 2007 / This study examines the continuity of mediaeval literary tradition in selected rhymed narrative verse. These verses were composed for entertainment at various times prior to 1648. At or shortly before this date, they were collected into The Percy Folio: BL. Add. MS. 27,879. Selected texts with an Historical or Romance topic are examined from two points of view: modification of source material and modification of traditional narrative stylistic structure. First, an early historical poem is analysed to establish a possible paradigm of the conventions governing the mediaeval manipulation of fact or source material into a pleasing narrative. Other texts are compared with the result of this analysis and it is found that twenty paradigmatic items appear to summarize early convention as their presence in other poems is consistent — no text agreeing with less than twelve. The second step is the presentation of the results of an analysis of some fifty mediaeval Romances. This was undertaken in order to delineate clearly selected motifemic formulae inherent in the composition of these popular narratives. It is shown that these motifemes, found in the Romances, are also present in the historical texts of The Percy Folio. The findings, derived from both strands of investigation, are that mediaeval continuity exists in the texts studied. The factors which actually comprise this ‘mediaeval continuity’ are isolated: it is then seen that rather than discard tradition as society grew further and further from the early circumstances that gave rise to it, later poets have chosen to contrive modifications designed to fit new requirements as they arise. Such modifications, however, are always within the established conventional framework. In short, no text examined failed to echo tradition, and mediaeval continuity is an important feature of the popular rhymed narrative in 1648 and The Percy Folio.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Agronomia. Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Agrícola / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-23T16:38:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 251661.pdf: 13127319 bytes, checksum: 15cca368a1326ec068e1b14c7f992606 (MD5) / De maneira geral e não se considerando um passado muito distante, a maioria das escolas técnicas de nível médio que oferecem educação profissional, tinha como preocupação maior, a de oferecer a melhor formação profissional aos seus educandos, deixando em segundo plano a formação dos alunos enquanto cidadãos críticos e capazes. Notou-se então, que muitos problemas estavam surgindo quanto à colocação e permanência desses jovens no mercado de trabalho e que estes, apesar de possuírem o conhecimento técnico necessário ao desenvolvimento de suas atividades profissionais, não tinham muitas vezes um mínimo necessário de preparo para enfrentar os desafios de uma nova sociedade. Nas escolas agrotécnicas, em particular no Colégio Agrícola Senador Carlos Gomes de Oliveira, que funciona no sistema de escola-fazenda, a preocupação com a formação profissional é evidenciada pela filosofia de trabalho que consiste em "aprender para fazer e fazer para aprender". A disciplina de práticas profissionais é ministrada dentro das diversas unidades didáticas de produção que compõe a fazenda e contempla o fazer para aprender, se constituindo num grande e importante laboratório onde os estudantes com a devida orientação dos professores e técnicos, executam inicialmente as atividades profissionais para a manutenção da fazenda, aplicando os conhecimentos adquiridos em sala de aula e, em seguida exercitam suas habilidades de iniciativa e criatividade. Diante da evidencia aparente de que as atividades de manutenção da fazenda são meramente rotineiras, tidas como trabalho banal, aspectos relevantes dos saberes adquiridos com a experiência prática realizada nas aulas práticas, podem vir a ser objeto de reflexão e auto-avaliação do aluno através da adoção do Portfólio como instrumento de sistematização e contextualização dos conhecimentos envolvidos, suas aplicações e implicações no mundo do trabalho e na sociedade. Outra oportunidade está no exercício da interdisciplinaridade, considerando que as atividades realizadas nas aulas práticas profissionais levam a necessidade de articulação de conhecimentos e saberes de diversas disciplinas. O funcionamento do colégio no sistema de escola-fazenda, ainda em regime de internato, leva os estudantes ao constante exercício de convivência com respeito as diferenças, pois atuam em equipe na manutenção da fazenda, inclusive nos finais de semana, sem a orientação direta dos professores e técnicos, contemplando plenamente os quatro pilares apresentados por Delors (2003).

In As You Like It 5.4.107-08 we receive Rosalind returning as herself—a woman—no longer in the guise of Ganymede, the "boy" page. Her first lines upon returning are repetitive: "To you I give myself, for I am yours [To Duke Senior] / To you I give myself, for I am yours [To Orlando]." However, comparing Folio versions of these lines produces a provocative variant. In the third and fourth folios, these lines are no longer a repetitious patriarchal pledging, but a tender dialogic exchange—much like vows—between Rosalind and Orlando. While none of our modern Shakespeare editions make a note of this variant emendation, this article traces the editorial history and mystery surrounding As You Like It 5.4.107-08 from seventeenth-century editors to our modern ones—with an emphasis on the shift in Shakespeare editing during the eighteenth century—to suggest the variant emendation warrants consideration for text and performance. Furthermore, the article examines the plausibility of the third and fourth folio's emendation in congruence with Early Modern conceptions of companionate marriage, parental consent, and marriage rites.

In As You Like It 5.4.107-08 we receive Rosalind returning as herself”a woman”no longer in the guise of Ganymede, the boy page. Her first lines upon returning are repetitive: To you I give myself, for I am yours [To Duke Senior] / To you I give myself, for I am yours [To Orlando]. However, comparing Folio versions of these lines produces a provocative variant. In the third and fourth folios, these lines are no longer a repetitious patriarchal pledging, but a tender dialogic exchange "much like vows" between Rosalind and Orlando. While none of our modern Shakespeare editions make a note of this variant emendation, this article traces the editorial history and mystery surrounding As You Like It 5.4.107-08 from seventeenth-century editors to our modern ones with an emphasis on the shift in Shakespeare editing during the eighteenth century to suggest the variant emendation warrants consideration for text and performance. Furthermore, the article examines the plausibility of the third and fourth folios emendation in congruence with Early Modern conceptions of companionate marriage, parental consent, and marriage rites.