Constituting a proposal for a book talk associated with the scholarly title Foreign-Born American Patriots: Sixteen Volunteer Leaders of the Revolutionary War, the presenter of this session (and author of the book) will introduce the scholarly work to participants for the purpose of highlighting research based in contribution, rather than interpretation. The author will detail the means by which the investigation of human experience and work product, storylines/patterns, and social cause may provide the context for creative scholarly works. The author will also reveal the unique contribution of Foreign Born American Patriots to historical and Southern Studies discourse, the book serving, up through the date of this proposal, as the only collective work regarding those foreigners who helped the newly formed United States defeat the British Army (many battles fought in the Southern States).

State-funded voluntary pre-K programs have grown steadily over the past decade and now enroll 1.3 million children (Barnett, Carolan, Fitzgerald, J., & Squires, 2012). While the overall trend has been to increase participation in state funded Pre-K, access in most states is targeted to select groups of at-risk 4-year-olds. Unfortunately, targeted programs for disadvantaged children tend to underserve their targeted populations with respect to availability and quality (Gelbach & Pritchett, 2002). In light of this, Pre-K advocates have begun pushing for universal Pre-K. However, only six states offer universal-prekindergarten, and with varying degrees of success. In this environment of modest state funding for Pre-K, the state of Oklahoma has managed to rise to the forefront of the universal Pre-K movement. That a high-quality Pre-K system exists in a conservative state is a very curious case and provides an opportunity for a thorough examination of the political processes. This study seeks not only to explain the development and passage of universal Pre-K in Oklahoma, but to also understand what lessons can be taken from a historical analysis of this issue for contemporary education policy. / text

The thesis deals with the characteristics of the town of České Budějovice focused on the hydrological situation, the coexistence of the town with water and the use of water surface areas. The thesis is divided into two main parts. The theoretical part summarises firstly, the information dealing with geographical physics secondly, socioeconomic information. It is followed by a detailed analysis of the main rivers, the Vltava and the Malše, which flow through the monitored territory. There is also a chapter aimed at the system of ponds in the defined location. From a historical point of view there are mentioned mainly interventions of nature itself in the life of the town in the chapter dealing with floods. The second application part includes the historical analysis of the evolution of the river bed and the water surface areas in the territory of České Budějovice, which was made up on the basis of comparing maps and information from the beginning of the 18th century up to the present. The anthropogenic activity and its influence on the town of České Budějovice itself is presented in the section solving the endangered water surface areas. This part also contains a case study dealing with the possibility of solving these hazards and risks in the countryside. The output of the thesis also includes the creation of promotional materials, which could be used as teaching supplementary materials at primary schools.

BASTOS, Tiago Sampaio. Cartilhas de educação alimentar: uma análise sócio-histórica, 1938 - 1946. 2011. 100f. Dissertação (Mestrdo em Educação) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza-CE, 2011. / Submitted by moises gomes (celtinha_malvado@hotmail.com) on 2012-07-18T13:43:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_dis_TSBastos.pdf: 4075835 bytes, checksum: ee8f702e1c04571ac424a49532a3af03 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-19T12:45:56Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_dis_TSBastos.pdf: 4075835 bytes, checksum: ee8f702e1c04571ac424a49532a3af03 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-07-19T12:45:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_dis_TSBastos.pdf: 4075835 bytes, checksum: ee8f702e1c04571ac424a49532a3af03 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Análise sócio-histórica de cartilhas sobre alimentação publicadas com a finalidade de educação alimentar, no período de emergência do saber em alimentação e nutrição no Brasil, décadas de 1930 e 1940. No Brasil, a partir da década de 1930 a discussão acadêmica sobre alimentação vai ganhando cada vez mais propriedade, passando a constituir-se em um campo de saber específico. Considerando o momento de abundância das publicações nacionais sobre alimentação e de lançamento das bases do conhecimento e o desencadeamento de sua aplicação prática, em termos de pesquisa científica, tomo para análise nesse estudo as cartilhas: “Os pequenos fundamentos da boa alimentação”, de Thalino Botelho (1938); “Cartilha de Alimentação do Brasil”, de Mario Rangel (1938); “ABC da alimentação”, de Orlando Parahym (1943); e a “Cartilha Alimentar do Homem Rural”, de Rubens de Siqueira (1946). Objetivo identificar a concepção de alimento e de educação alimentar, conceitos de comida, alimentação e nutrição, verificando como se expressam, de forma manifesta ou latente, conteúdos de natureza política, de controle social e moral. Refletem na obra os objetivos de controle e intervenção estatal, aplicados metodologicamente sob orientação pedagógica renovadora com rápidos traços da pedagogia tradicional. A idéia central seria modificar os maus hábitos alimentares do povo brasileiro, ensinando-o a alimentar-se racionalmente, pela experiência, praticando as regras e conselhos do saber médico. Objetivava aperfeiçoar a raça brasileira, aumentando sua resistência biológica, disciplinando o corpo, focalizando o máximo desempenho do sistema produtivo. O intuito era formar uma nacionalidade brasileira produtiva que levasse o país ao progresso econômico e social.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:36:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AnaLAAG.pdf: 864381 bytes, checksum: e89e357c4001956f25508dd1aabd8c24 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1998-03-11 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / This work is a case study to investigate the dynamics of the historians thought as they produce a knowledge about the history of the area measurement systems as forms of historical expressions and representations. We refer to some of the ideas of David Bohm (1989, 1992, 1994, 1996) to support our theoretical understanding about the operation of thought. We chose a period that is recognized by the theorists as the origin of the geometrical thought -embracing the knowledge developed by the Egyptians, Babylonians, Chinese, Hindus, Greeks and Romans- and is referred to as containing a cycle in the development of this knowledge, described as beginning, apogee and decline. We assume this history, as told by the theorists, as a version that we organize and tell with the help of three sets of categories. The first refers to the elements that take part in the measurement practices; the second refers to the historians understanding about the development of the scientific knowledge. This exercise allowed us to extract the theorists main beliefs, that we criticized in the light of the knowledge about Cuba??o (Dal Pian, 1990). We stress the importance of the methodological approach adopted in this study to the teaching of Geometry and its history / Este trabalho se prop?e a investigar a din?mica do pensamento dos historiadores ao comporem um conhecimento sobre hist?ria dos sistemas de medidas de ?rea, enquanto formas de express?es e representa??es hist?ricas, atrav?s de um estudo de caso. Para subsidiar teoricamente o nosso entendimento sobre a opera??o do pensamento, recorremos a algumas id?ias de David Bohm (1989, 1992, 1994, 1996). Elegemos um per?odo reconhecido pelos te?ricos como contendo as origens do pensamento geom?trico -abrangendo os conhecimentos desenvolvidos pelos eg?pcios, babil?nios, chineses, hindus, gregos e romanos- e referido como comportando um ciclo de desenvolvimento desse conhecimento, descrito como inicia??o, apogeu e decl?nio. Assumimos essa hist?ria, tal como contada pelos te?ricos, como uma vers?o, que organizamos e relatamos com o aux?lio de tr?s conjuntos de categorias. Um referente aos elementos envolvidos nas pr?ticas de mensura??o, outro referente ao entendimento dos historiadores sobre o desenvolvimento do conhecimento geom?trico e o terceiro, referente ? natureza do desenvolvimento do conhecimento cient?fico. Este exerc?cio nos possibilitou extrair as principais cren?as dos te?ricos que criticamos ? luz do conhecimento sobre cuba??o (Dal Pian, 1994). Destacamos a import?ncia da abordagem metodol?gica adotada neste estudo para o ensino da geometria e de sua hist?ria

L’attribution d’un style à un auteur peut constituer un enjeu problématique. Certains « cas » surprennent, tel le cas du Roman de Violette. Au-delà de l’enjeu socio-littéraire, un enjeu stylistique s’impose. Trois voies de la recherché s’ouvrent : celle de l’analyse de l’écriture selon chacun des « auteurs supposés », celle de l’analyse biographique et historique; celle de la composition et configuration linguistique du matériau verbal constituant le « style » où l’analyse quantitative apporte sa contribution. À partir du corpus étudié (Le Roman de Violette, Une Aventure d’amour d’Alexandre Dumas et Les Cousines de la colonelle de la Marquise de Mannoury d’Ectot) la question a été posée de l’attribution de l’oeuvre publiée sous les noms d’Alexandre Dumas-père et de la Marquise de Mannoury d’Ectot. Pour atteindre cet objectif, il a été nécessaire d’appliquer plusieurs méthodes de type philologique : enquête biographique et contextuelle, analyse des biographies et des correspondances, analyse linguistique et stylistique couplée à des méthodes d’analyses quantitatives.Pour l’attribution des œuvres, la thèse croise diverses approches statistiques. Celle liée à la « théorie de reconnaissance des formes » élaborée au laboratoire d’Études linguistiques appliquées de l’Université d’État de Saint-Pétersbourg – expérimentée pour la première fois sur la langue française – est apparue décisive quant aux résultats obtenus. Elle permet de conclure, à partir de l’analyses systématique d’éléments syntaxiques, que Le Roman de Violette appartient à Mannoury d’Ectot. Or, les résultats de l’analyse littéraire et biographique laissent à supposer que l’idée du texte est à Dumas. / The attribution of a style to an author may constitute a problematic stake. Certain "cases" surprise, such as the case of Le Roman de Violette, published under the names of Alexandre Dumas-father and Henriette de Mannoury d’Ectot. Beyond the socio-literary stake, a stylistic stake leads. Three different ways open to the search: first, the biographic analysis; second, the stylistic analysis; third, the composition and the linguistic configuration of the verbal material constituting the "style", a search for which the quantitative analysis will be used. From the studied corpus (Le Roman de Violette, Les Cousines de la colonelle of Henriette de Mannouryd’Ectot, Une aventure d’amour of Dumas) the question of the role of Dumas and Mannoury d’Ectot in the creation of Le Roman de Violette was asked. To reach this objective, it turned out necessary to apply several methods of philological analysis: biographic anaysis, analysis of archival documents, linguistic and stylistic analysis coupled with quantitative methods. For the attribution of the novel, the thesis crosses different approaches. That based on the "theory of pattern recognition” elaborated in the Laboratory of Applied Linguistic Studies of the Saint-Petersburg State University - used for the first time on the French language - seemed decisive to obtain our results. This method allows to conclude, from the systematic analysis of syntactical elements, that the novel «Le Roman de Violette» was created by Mannoury d’Ectot, however the literary analysis gives a handle to suppose that the plot of the novel belong to Alexandre Dumas.

Background: A key innovation in the provision of inpatient services to facilitate the care and treatment of women with severe postnatal mental illness was the introduction of joint mother and baby psychiatric hospitalisations, where both the mother and baby are admitted to hospital together. This study examined the history of the practice of joint mother and baby admissions across the UK and critically explored the processes relevant to the diffusion of joint admissions and patterns of service development to identify the possible and probable causes for significant differences in service provision across the United Kingdom (UK). Aims: The study examined the documented history of the development of practice of joint mother and baby psychiatric hospital admissions across the UK and in doing so, a) Identified the pattern of service and practice development and the likely reasons for the pattern of the chronology. b) Identified the processes involved in the diffusion of joint mother and baby admissions in the UK, and explored why the practice was sustained (or not). c) Contributed new information to the continued development of innovation diffusion theory and research, and its application to health care service and practice development. Methods: A historical method was used in the study and was reported through the use of historical narrative and analysis. Data was collated from primary and secondary sources of documented evidence which was used to inform the history of joint mother and baby admissions across the UK. Data was analysed using the theoretical framework of diffusion of innovation (Rogers, 2003). Findings: Two versions of the same innovation were identified: joint admissions to side rooms of general adult psychiatric wards or annexed areas of the wards and joint admissions to specialist mother and baby units. Neither version of the practice followed the normal S-curve pattern of adoption in terms of frequency and rate of adoption. After a period of approximately 63 years there are 24 facilities for the provision of joint admissions in the NHS in the UK. The main influencers to the adoption of the practice was perception of risk, social networks internal and external to the NHS, the presence of clinical and political champions to drive the adoption and implementation of the innovation and policy entrepreneurship by clinicians working in the clinical field of perinatal mental health. The development of specific policy, guidelines and in Scotland, legislation, has resulted in a move during the last decade from joint admissions being diffused naturally to side room admissions being actively withdrawn and specialist psychiatric mother and baby units actively being disseminated. There is strong evidence that the diffusion process for specialist mother and baby units is still in motion at the time of reporting. Conclusion: Two competing versions of the same innovation had unusual patterns of diffusion. The influencers identified as relevant to the diffusion patterns of each version of the innovation were essentially the same influencers but they were used in different ways to affect change: rejection of one version of the innovation in favour of adoption of the other. The main influencers on the diffusion of joint admissions changed over the time line of the adoption pattern. Barriers to diffusion included the absence of evidence of effectiveness, the absence of economic evaluation, the position in service divisions of perinatal mental health as a field of practice and the absence of succession planning across professional groups. Recommendations are made for future research.

L'industrie des télécommunications connait une profonde évolution. Face au développement denouveaux usages sur les téléphones mobiles, les acteurs historiques de la téléphonie mobile(opérateurs de réseaux et fabricants de terminaux) doivent s'adapter à un nouvel environnementtechnologique et concurrentiel. Concrètement, ce nouvel environnement s'appuie technologiquementsur l'extension des usages d'objets numériques (logiciels et contenus pouvant être professionnels,personnels ou de loisir), il sert donc de tremplin pour des acteurs plus ou moins matures venant desindustries logicielles, culturelles et de l'Internet. Partant de ce constat, notre thèse repose sur l'idée queles acteurs historiques de la téléphonie mobile doivent s'adapter à ce nouvel environnement afin demaintenir leur position, ainsi qu'apprendre à se coordonner avec les nouveaux entrants de l’industrie,car la coordination est nécessaire à l'émergence du marché des services mobiles. Nous commençonsdonc par faire une analyse historique de l’émergence de l’industrie des services mobiles afin depositionner les enjeux de la coordination. Ensuite, nous étudions des projets « open source » desystèmes d’exploitation pour smartphones pour analyser l’intérêt d’une stratégie ouverte. Enfin, nousconstruisons un modèle de simulations évolutionnistes afin d’analyser les stratégies des acteurs en lienavec la structure de l’industrie et son effet sur la structure technologique. / The telecommunications industry currently undergoes a dramatic evolution. Faced with thedevelopment of new uses on mobile phones, incumbents of the mobile phone industry (networkoperators and devices manufacturers) must adapt to a new technological and competitive environment.This new environment technologically relies on expansions of uses of digital objects (software andcontents that can be either of professional, personal or leisure use) and thereby serves as a launchingpad for actors more or less mature coming from software industries, copyright-based industries or theInternet industry. Based on this observation, our thesis rests on the idea that incumbents of the mobilephone industry must adapt to this new environment in order to maintain their position, and must learnto coordinate with those new actors as coordination is required for this market to emerge. We thereforestart with a historical analysis of the emergence of the mobile services industry so as to position theissues at stake regarding coordination. We then focus on “open source” projects for smartphoneoperating systems in order to analyse the interest of an open strategy. Last, we design an evolutionistsimulation model so that to analyse the actors’ strategies linked with the structure of the industry andits effects on the technological structure.

The purpose of this document is to chronicle and describe the historical developments of saxophone performance in mainland China. Arguing against other published research, this document presents proof of the uninterrupted, large-scale use of the saxophone from its first introduction into Shanghai's nineteenth century amateur musical societies, continuously through to present day. In order to better describe the performance scene for saxophonists in China, each chapter presents historical and political context. Also described in this document is the changing importance of the saxophone in China's musical development and musical culture since its introduction in the nineteenth century. The nature of the saxophone as a symbol of modernity, western ideologies, political duality, progress, and freedom and the effects of those realities in the lives of musicians and audiences in China are briefly discussed in each chapter. These topics are included to contribute to a better, more thorough understanding of the performance history of saxophonists, both native and foreign, in China.

Written in 1999, Concerto Piccolino is a part of the Composer's Guild of New Jersey Vibraphone Commission, which contains a collection of twelve soli written exclusively for vibraphone. Concerto Piccolino presents vibrant opportunities for both performer and listener to experience the compositional world of Milton Babbitt. With its limited register, ability to control duration and create extreme dynamics, the vibraphone serves as an appropriate vehicle for Babbitt's multi-dimensional style. The intent of this study is to first situate this work into Babbitt's compositional output as well as referencing Babbitt's other works for solo percussion. Next, an investigation into the background structure will provide a recommended analytical framework. Included is a performance guide for how these structures should be realized via surface materials throughout the interpretive and internalization stages of the work. Examining a recommended progression from analysis through performance will demonstrate Concerto Piccolino's significance and proper place in the standard repertoire of percussion. The study concludes with discussing connections to pedagogy and how the importance of Babbitt's work, as well as other composers of serious music, is vital to the forward progress of music performance.