Neste trabalho estudamos soluções de viscosidade estacionárias da Equação de Hamilton-Jacobi, suas propriedades, e indicamos sua conexão com o problema de Mather estacionário. Para tal, estabelecemos alguns conceitos como a acho estacionaria, funções estacionarias, Lagrangianos e Hamiltonianos estacionários, etc. No final deste trabalho utilizamos o Principio da Programação Dinâmica para provar a existência de solução de viscosidade estacionaria da Equação de Hamilton-Jacobi com desconto. / In this work we study stationary viscosity solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi Equation, its properties, and we indicate its conexion with the Mather problem in the stationary setting. In order to do this, we establish some concepts like the stationary action, stationary functions, stationary Lagrangians and Hamiltonians, etc. In the ending of this work we use the Dynamic Programming Principle to establish the existence of stationary viscosity solution of the discounted Hamilton-Jacobi Equation.

Neste trabalho estudamos soluções de viscosidade estacionárias da Equação de Hamilton-Jacobi, suas propriedades, e indicamos sua conexão com o problema de Mather estacionário. Para tal, estabelecemos alguns conceitos como a acho estacionaria, funções estacionarias, Lagrangianos e Hamiltonianos estacionários, etc. No final deste trabalho utilizamos o Principio da Programação Dinâmica para provar a existência de solução de viscosidade estacionaria da Equação de Hamilton-Jacobi com desconto. / In this work we study stationary viscosity solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi Equation, its properties, and we indicate its conexion with the Mather problem in the stationary setting. In order to do this, we establish some concepts like the stationary action, stationary functions, stationary Lagrangians and Hamiltonians, etc. In the ending of this work we use the Dynamic Programming Principle to establish the existence of stationary viscosity solution of the discounted Hamilton-Jacobi Equation.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / How Emy Lyon became Emma Hamilton (1765-1815) through the creation, display, and circulation of painted portraits, portrait prints, letters, and architectural imagery is the focus of this dissertation. In it, I make four main claims. First, Emma's introduction to the rituals and rewards of genteel female behavior began in George Romney's studio, and sitting for portraits was an educational process that continued throughout her life. Second, Emma's education continued during her residency in Naples under the care and direction of Sir William Hamilton, and the imagery from this period participates in Emma's transformation from Sir William's mistress to his wife. Portraits and letters after the 1791 marriage advertised traits that Sir William's social circle would find desirable and helped to justify her elevated position. Third, Emma's relationships with powerful women were as essential to her self-fashioning as her relationships with men. Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Angelica Kauffman, and Queen Maria Carolina of Naples served as important role models for Emma, and opportunities for fame and power resulted from her association with them. Finally, upon her return to England in 1800, Emma sought to manipulate the architecture, decoration, and visual representations of Nelson's country home to showcase her virtuous conduct. Throughout the dissertation, I aim to suggest that Emma contributed to the fashioning of her identity and show the ways in which her involvement increased during her lifetime. The other people who contributed to such fashioning of her identity--from artists to lovers to royalty--necessarily play a part in this study. How Emma adapted and responded to the situations that others created is central to my analysis and understanding of self-fashioning. The dissertation ultimately proposes that becoming Emma Hamilton was a complex, life-long process with both constructive and destructive consequences.

This study examines the contradictions of the reproduction of, and resistance to, relations of inequality in the Hamilton Worker Education Centre. Data were collected through participant observation at an instructors' training session, through in-depth interviews with instructors, staff members and sponsors of the programme and through a content analysis of the curriculum. The focus of my research was two-fold. One was the way in which the practices in the programme contributed to the re-creation of gender, race and class relations. The other focus was the way in which resistance to these relations occurred and was facilitated through a form of popular education. It is through this study that the inherent contradictions in this workplace literacy/English language programme become clear. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

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While several researchers have explored the private rental sector from the tenants’ perspective very little is known about landlords and their experiences. The purpose of this study was to understand more in-depth the nature, motives, and challenges of landlords. A case study of landlords in Hamilton, Ontario, is based on survey research, involving the administration of an online questionnaire and then follow-up face-to-face interviews. A local association of landlords, Hamilton and District Apartment Association, assisted in advertising and promoting this research through their registered email list and on their website. The results of the study show that Hamilton’s landlords are a diverse group with mixed motives. They find many aspects of the job rewarding, including good landlord-tenant relations, opportunities for profit/investment, and the flexibility of the work involved, among other things. In contrast, they reported many concerns regarding responsibilities, tenants, the government, and the negative perceptions of them that are held by tenants, councillors and the general public. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

Every city possesses and umland, an area adjacent to the city, within which economic, cultural, and social activities are focused on that city. The size of the umland is determined chiefly by two factors, the size of the city, and its location. A large city usually will have a large umland, but if it is situated in an area of urban concentration, the extent of the umland will be limited through competition. Hamilton is a city such as this. Near it is Toronto, a large and influential city which restricts Hamilton's regional development. Closer are the smaller cities of Guelph, Galt, Brantford and St. Catherines, all of which have their own umlands, and all of which compete with Hamilton. The term umland implies an interrelationship between the city and the region. The city performs services for the region, and distributes goods to it. In turn, the region supplies provisions for the urban market, and workers and buyers for its industrial and commercial enterprises. This relationshup may or may not be close. Hamilton is an industrial city, with little dependence on the region. However, the region looks to the city to supply some of its needs. It is the purpose of this thesis to show the relationship between Hamilton and its umland, and to explain some of the factors which determine the extent of that umland. / Thesis / Bachelor of Arts (BA)

This thesis examines the formative years (1931-1940) of Canada's first birth control clinic, the Birth Control Society of Hamilton (BCSH). The focus of this work is to place the activities of the BCSH in an international and national context. Canada's first birth control clinic drew directly on the writings and experience of two well known birth control pioneers, the American Margaret Sanger and the English woman Marie Stopes. This reliance on foreign models demonstrates the enormous influence that the British and Americans had on the formation of Canadian social and medical institutions. This thesis also challenges the traditional perception of the BCSH as a low key and non-ideological endeavour. New historical evidence indicates that the BCSH shared in the eugenic ideology of other contemporary Canadian birth control organizations and was an active participant in the debates surrounding contraception and eugenics.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- McMaster University, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 203-224). Also available via World Wide Web.