This paper includes 23 lessons for seven different mathematics software packages and teacher information sheets that describe reading levels, objectives, and detailed instructions about each lesson.

Inaug.-Diss. (Teildruck)--Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, 1910. / Vita. The author's complete thesis, Leipzig, 1911, has title: Philipp Fontana, Erzbischof von Ravenna: ein Staatsmann des XIII. Jahrhunderts. Includes bibliographical references (p. [vii]-x).

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This study examines and identifies the differences in compositional approach in the operatic fantasies based on Bellini’s La Sonnambula and Weber’s Der Freischütz by Franz Liszt and Julian Fontana. These four fantasies are placed in the context of musical conventions and audiences in the first half of the nineteenth century. The two operatic fantasies by Liszt that are included in this study are representative of reinterpretations that employ formal and textural features suitable for the concert repertoire of piano virtuosos. In contrast, the fantasies by Fontana are indicative of the potpourri style, and suitable both for amateur performance as well as for pedagogical use. The different functions and purposes of the operatic fantasies of Liszt and Fontana are compared and contrasted, with attention to each composer’s respective intended audiences as well as their distinct compositional intentions.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 350-369). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Orientador: Prof. Dr. Márcio de Oliveira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia. Defesa: Curitiba, 15/04/2016 / Inclui referências : f. 144-154 / Resumo: Esse trabalho propõe a análise de fragmentos da trajetória de Francisco Fasce Fontana e três de seus descendentes por uma perspectiva sociológica. Fasce era um imigrante genovês que se estabeleceu no Brasil em 1881, vindo de Nueva Palmira (Uruguai) numa segunda migração. Ele chega, portanto, no contexto da grande imigração (1870- 1920), mas não nas mesmas condições dos seus conterrâneos peninsulares. Após esse período trabalhando no comércio do rio da Prata, ele vem à Curitiba negociar uma dívida quitada com um engenho de erva mate. O mate é um produto regional cuja industrialização foi relativamente fechada aos imigrantes, por pertencer às famílias tradicionais paranaenses e demandar um conhecimento técnico específico. Entretanto, Fontana adquiriu capitais que possibilitaram tanto o seu desenvolvimento como ervateiro como a entrada nas redes de parentesco dessa burguesia específica. Para isso ele precisou se adaptar a um contexto que categorizava continuamente os estrangeiros conforme um projeto político nacional e, simultaneamente, uma busca identitária regional paranaense. A construção dessas imagens implicava em imposições múltiplas sobre a experiência dos imigrados: ser estrangeiro ou colono tinha diferentes conotações e posições atribuídas no espaço social curitibano e para alterar o posicionamento nesse espaço, numerosas estratégias se tornaram possíveis. Ser valorizado como produto de um projeto civilizatório implicava no distanciamento dos "tipos exóticos", como eram representados os grupos étnicos nos periódicos locais. Os espaços físicos são considerados nessa abordagem não como necessariamente equivalentes ao espaço social, mas como correlacionados aos processos sociais em curso. Na primeira geração, o estabelecimento da fábrica de beneficiamento, da casa e a execução de um projeto público - o Passeio Público-, integra as relações, assim como a captação e o câmbio de diferentes capitais, num termo bourdiesiano. A análise continua na geração seguinte, quando Francisco Fido Fontana reproduz algumas estratégias comerciais, familiares e políticas do pai, mas sem retorno ao passado da família ou à origem étnica de seus antepassados. Ildefonso Correia Fontana e Francisco Fernando são as duas últimas gerações, marcadas tanto pela continuidade do ofício ervateiro como pela pesquisa genealógica. Fernando leva essa busca a uma dimensão diferente, entretanto, se associando ao Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Paraná, um espaço fundado em 1900 para a criação e reforço de uma identidade paranaense que novamente reforçava as fronteiras entre os nacionais, os colonos imigrantes caricaturados e os negros invisibilizados. Palavras-Chave: Sociologia da Imigração. Gerações. Indústria ervateira. Curitiba. / Abstract: This dissertation aims to analyze fragments of the life story of Francisco Fasce Fontana and three of his descendants from a sociological perspective. Fasce was a Genovese immigrant who settled in Brazil in 1881 after he left Nueva Palmira (Uruguay) in a second emigration. He arrives, therefore, in the context of the great immigration (1870- 1920), but not in the same conditions of his peninsular compatriots, for after two decades doing business on the river La Plata he comes to Curitiba to settle a debt in exchange for a yerba mate mill. Mate is a product whose industrial processing required specific technical knowledge and whose market was an oligopoly of traditional paranaense families, it was therefore virtually closed off to immigrants. However, Fontana acquired the capitals that allowed both his growth as ilexfactor and his accession in the kinship networks of this specific bourgeoisie. To this end, he had to adapt to an environment that constantly categorized immigrants according simultaneously to a national political project and a pursuit for a regional paranaense identity. This entailed many burdens on the immigrant's experience: to be a foreigner or a colonist had different connotations and attributed positions in the city's social space. Objectively, being appreciated as product of a racial whitening and civilizational project led to a distancing from "exotic types" - the way ethnic groups were portrayed in local periodicals. The physical spaces are considered in this approach not as necessarily equivalent to social spaces, but as related to the ongoing social processes. In the first generation, the establishment of the factory, the house and the implementation of a municipal project integrate the relationships as well as the acquisition and exchange of different capitals - to use a bourdieusian term. In the following generation, Francisco Fido Fontana emulates some of his father's commercial, familial and political strategies, but does not return to his family's past or ethnic origin. Ildefonso Correia Fontana and Francisco Fernando are the two last generations, noteworthy by both the continuity of the mate business and their work on genealogical research as they reestablish contact to relatives in Uruguay and reunite all possible versions of Fasce's history. Fernando takes this investigation a step further by joining the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Paraná, an institute founded in 1900 for the conception and invigoration of a paranaense identity that would reinforce the boundaries between the nationals, the caricaturized immigrants and the scorned black. Keywords: Sociology of Immigration; Generations; Yerba Mate Industry; Curitiba.

Yes / Melanin is the predominant pigment responsible for skin colour, and is synthesized by the melanocyte in the basal layer of the epidermis and then transferred to surrounding keratinocytes. Despite its optical properties, melanin is barely detectable in unstained sections of human skin. However, identification and localization of melanin is of importance for the study of skin pigmentation in health and disease. Current methods for the histologic quantification of melanin are suboptimal, and are associated with significant risk of misinterpretation. The aim of this study was to re-assess the existing literature, and to develop a more effective histological method of melanin quantification in human skin. Moreover, we confirm that Warthin-Starry (WS) stain provides a much more sensitive and more specific melanin detection method than the common-place Fontana-Masson (FM) stain. For example, WS staining sensitivity allowed the visualization of melanin even in very pale Caucasian skin that was missed by FM or Von Kossa (VK) stains. From our re-assessment of the histologyrelated literature we conclude that so-called ‘melanin dust’ is most likely an artefact of discoloration due to non-specific silver deposition in the stratum corneum. Unlike FM and VK, WS was not associated with this non-specific stratum corneum darkening, misinterpreted previously as ‘degraded’ or so-called ‘dust’ melanin. Finally, WS melanin particle counts were largely similar to manual counts by transmission electron microscopy, in contrast to both FM and VK. Together these findings allow us to propose a new histology/Image J-informed method for the accurate and precise quantification of epidermal melanin in skin.

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The research examined the work of the Fontana Police Department in light of a theoretical framework of managing for results. This study consists of a review of the literature, which provides background and basic knowledge on managing for results, high performing public agencies, strategic planning, outcome measurement, and results-based budgeting along with a policy analysis and an examination of the operations of the Fontana Police Department.