Thesis (D.Min.)--South Florida Center for Theological Studies, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis project (D. Min.)--Abilene Christian University, 1996. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 340-346); library holdings, (leaves 108-111); instructor's resources, (leaves 112-114), and bibliography for each lesson plan.

Thesis (D.L.S.)--Columbia University, 1992. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 404-429).

Thesis (D.L.S.)--Columbia University, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 404-429).

The task which I set myself when I undertook to study the text of the Greater Bundahisn was at that time by no means clear either in its difficulty or its extent. Nor could I then know to what degree the increased knowledge of Iranian, in particular, of Middle Iranian, the period from about 300 B.C. to 900 A.D., had made understanding of this text possible. Iranian studies attained to a new birth when in 1904 the results of archaeological expeditions to central Asia were first made known. By these discoveries of MSS the difficulties of reading Pahlavi were at once lightened. It was certain that if the vocabulary of Western Persia of Sasanian times were fully known, the Zoroastrian Pahlavi texts could no longer hide their secrets under the cursive alphabet which had hindered the progress of earlier scholars. Not only the Western dialects but also the recently discovered Sogdian and Saka have naturally enriched our understanding of the Middle Iranian vocabulary. But the lack of complete indexes of the words of theses two dialects still renders their use difficult. For Saka, besides the published indexes (of which the most important has only just appeared in Sten Konow's Saka Studies) I made my own index of all the unindexed Saka so far published. For Sogdian there has been the grammar of Buddhist Sogdian by R. Gauthiot, besides which I have had some indexed material of my own. Reichelt's promised glossary of Buddhist Sogdian has not yet appeared. The few Manichean Sogdian texts so far published (by F.W.K. Miller and Waldschmidt-Lentz) have yielded interesting words. For the Christian Sogdian there is the index in F.W.K. Muller's Soghdische Texte.

The Family Service Centres of Greater Vancouver Area is composed of a Main and branch offices. At this time, the Agency is asking whether the service delivery patterns in the Main and branch offices match the characteristics of their respective clients. As a result, this study was undertaken with the following general hypotheses: that there are significant differences between the Main Office, North Shore and Burnaby branches of the Family Service Centres of Greater Vancouver in the characteristics of those requesting service, the nature of their request and the type of approach to the Agency. A cross-sectional survey was made of all persons approaching the Main, Burnaby and North Shore offices during a four week period in October/November, 1967. A data schedule was used by intake personnel to secure information on the total of 411 approaches. Information regarding four variables was sought—socioeconomic status, family life stage, request for service, and type of approach. The Blishen Occupational Class Scale and the Duvall Family Life Stages were used as models. A computer was used in analysing the data. The findings revealed that there were some differences between the three offices in the four variables tested, and that the differences were most marked in socioeconomic class. The general hypothesis was therefore accepted. Further, it was found that generally, the clients came from the lower socioeconomic classes, and that they were child rearing families. Strikingly few aged persons approached the Agency for service. Information/referral was the most requested service in the total sample, and self-referral was found to be the most common type of approach. It is concluded that the Agency should consider varying the service delivery patterns to meet the unique constellation of needs of the clients approaching each office. There are implications also for a general evaluation of services in relation to client characteristics as well as for further research. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate

The objective of this research was to study the operation of the ambulance service in the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Attention has been focused on operational policies which affect the system's ability to respond to calls, especially to emergency calls. The stated objective was accomplished by first reviewing the current demand for emergency ambulance services and the present operations. Next deterministic models were investigated and used to give "initial" locations of depots. Finally a computer simulation model was developed and used to conduct experiments, examining alternative ambulance systems. This research revealed that 1. computer simulation is an effective tool for analysing ambulance systems, and 2. there is a need for more emergency ambulance services, including more paramedics, in the Greater Vancouver Regional District. / Business, Sauder School of / Graduate

Methods to determine genetic diversity and relatedness within populations are essential tools for proper wildlife management. Today the approach of choice is polymerase chain reaction-based microsatellite analysis. Seven new polymorphic loci were isolated from a microsatellite-enriched Caribbean flamingo genomic library and used to characterize survey populations of Caribbean and African greater flamingos. In addition, four of these loci were used to verify parentage relationships within a captive-breeding population of African greater flamingos. Parentage predictions based upon gamekeeper observations of breeding and nesting did not always agree with genetic-based parentage analyses of the nine suggested family groups. Four family groups were supported (groups I, II, III and VI) by there results. However, an analysis of the remaining five suggested groups, with a total of eight offspring/dam and eight offspring/sire suggested relationships, yielded seven exclusions of the suggested dam and six exclusions of the suggested sire. This put the overall suggested dam exclusion rate at 35% and exclusion rate for suggested sires at 29%. Although the keeper observation data for our family groups must be considered a variable of concern at this time, these findings are certainly suggestive that more carefully controlled studies may reveal that flamingos are not monogamous as long accepted, but rather socially monogamous or even promiscuous. Thus we have now been able to both characterize and demonstrate the utility of our polymorphic microsatellite loci. We hope these results will interest additional wildlife facilities in further parentage and behavioral studies that will collectively aid to improve monitoring and maintenance of genetic diversity, and as provide better insight into breeding habits of both wild and captive populations.

Den här uppsatsen behandlar vilka egenskaper det gränsregionala samarbetet Greater Copenhagen innehar samt vilka konsekvenser som dessa upprättar. Studien analyseras i förhållande till planeringsregionala begrepp samt hur dessa tillämpas i samarbetet. Begreppen som valdes för den här analysen var region, regionalism, globalisering, platsmarknadsföring och resiliens. Studiens tillvägagångsätt för analysen bestod av en komparativ diskursanalys mellan svenska och danska aktörer. Även en intervju genomfördes med en lokalpolitiker inom samarbetet. Resultatet omfattar bland annat underliggande spänningar mellan olika kommuner och den svenska staten, en strävan mot att nå egenskaper som tilltalar globaliseringen och skillnader mellan svenska och danska kommuners framförhållning till samarbetet. Studien visar även att region Skånes del i samarbetet leder till egenskaper som betecknas inom regionalisering. Det innebär att samarbetet inte bara är en lokal angelägenhet utan även en nationell och transnationell. Det framkommer även att de egenskaper som skiljer sig finns mellan svenska och danska kommuner är ett hinder för att samarbetet ska kunna nå sin fulla potential. Detta är något som måste åtgärdas för att syftet med samarbetet ska kunna nås.

Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS) / All around the world, graduate youths are experiencing increasing high number of unemployment, compared to older people of the labour force. This rising rate of unemployment amongst graduate youths has been noticed since the global financial crisis. In South Africa, youth unemployment is on the rise, which leads to social, economic and political challenges. Graduate youth unemployment is crippling the economy of South Africa. Therefore, this study was undertaken to investigate the experiences, causes and consequences of unemployment amongst graduate youth in Ga-Kgapane Limpopo province of South Africa, with an objective to provide concrete recommendations on the ways in which the public and private sectors can tackle challenges of graduate youth unemployment. In the study, a qualitative approach was used to collect data and to analyse data. 13 participants who met the criteria was selected using purposive sampling.