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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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American Benevolence and German Reconstruction: "Americanizing" Germany through Humanitarian Relief 1919-1924

Grün, Louis Anne François 31 July 2020 (has links)
No description available.
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SIMULATION-BASED OPTIMIZATION FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS WITH SUPPLY AND DEMAND UNCERTAINTY

Fageehi, Yahya 20 September 2018 (has links)
No description available.
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L'affamé, le marginal et le sauvage: pratiques et représentations de l'anthropophagie en Occident entre Antiquité et Moyen Age / Hungry, the marginal and the savage: practices and representations of anthropophagy in the west during the antiquity and the Middle Ages

Vandenberg, Vincent 13 March 2010 (has links)
Cette thèse de doctorat est consacrée à l’étude de l’un des tabous majeurs des sociétés humaines :la consommation par un individu de la chair ou de toute autre substance issue de ses semblables, autrement dit l’anthropophagie (ou cannibalisme). Selon une approche inédite, la problématique a été abordée dans toute la diversité de ses manifestations, au travers d’une documentation très variée, tant textuelle qu’iconographique, dans le cadre de l’Antiquité grecque et latine et au sein du Moyen Age occidental (latin surtout). L’objectif de la recherche était de mettre en évidence les pratiques, les discours et l’imaginaire d’un comportement alimentaire radicalement étranger aux normes culturelles des périodes et des lieux envisagés.<p>Le plan de la thèse est conçu comme un parcours débutant et s’achevant aux confins du monde (le cannibalisme de « l’Autre »), tandis que le cœur du travail est consacré au cannibalisme de « l’intérieur », celui des affamés et des marginaux surtout. Tout naturellement, l’attention se focalise d’abord sur Homère et la confrontation d’Ulysse avec le Cyclope, qui installe dans la tradition l’imaginaire du pasteur des confins du monde, grand amateur de chair humaine. Hérodote, quant à lui, construit l’image d’un monde connu dont les frontières sont occupées par des peuples qui apprécient bien souvent la chair humaine. Là encore, le pasteur nomade est synonyme de sauvagerie. Une telle tradition perdure chez les auteurs latins antiques et médiévaux, qui reprennent à leur compte les anciens anthropophages en les déplaçant parfois, en les multipliant éventuellement. Mappae mundi médiévales, récits de voyage et descriptions du monde maintiennent dans les siècles qui suivent les mangeurs de chair humaine aux marges du monde, là où Colomb s’attendra plus tard à les trouver.<p>Le rôle du cannibalisme en tant que marqueur d’altérité trouve un écho très fort dans la marginalisation de certains groupes ou individus au sein même des sociétés antiques ou médiévales. A notamment été développé le cas des accusations de cet ordre portées contre les premiers Chrétiens. Le danger représenté par le franchissement de la norme fait naître par inversion des pratiques ou des croyances qui visent à exploiter les potentialités curatives ou « magiques » de la consommation de substances humaines :en témoignent le controversé cannibalisme médical ainsi que le matériel offert par les pénitentiels médiévaux. Un bref chapitre s’attache à un autre genre de comportements en marge :des scènes de cannibalisme censées avoir constitué le point culminant d’épisodes de violence collective.<p>Une grande attention a été accordée au cannibalisme de survie, le recours à la chair humaine comme nourriture de substitution en période de famine. Le passage de l’incompréhension antique face à un comportement indigne de l’homme à l’assimilation par la pensée chrétienne de ce type de cannibalisme à un fléau divin a été largement traité. La longue tradition médiévale des récits, issus de Flavius Josèphe, relatant la consommation d’un enfant par sa mère au cours du siège de Jérusalem a permis de démontrer la force de la présence du thème du cannibalisme dans l’imaginaire médiéval en tant que sanction divine. Une ample documentation a pu être réévaluée à la lumière de ce constat, ce qui a notamment permis de montrer de quelle façon l’évocation du cannibalisme pouvait être instrumentalisée afin de signifier la présence d’une sanction divine.<p> / Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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Manger : ma réalité, mon idéal, mes défis, mes propositions de solutions : un portrait des jeunes adultes du projet Hochelaga'Table

Pomier-Layrargues, Caroline 04 1900 (has links)
CONTEXTE : Dans les 10 dernières années, l’insécurité alimentaire a augmenté au Québec mettant ses habitants à risque d’apports inadéquats et de problèmes de santé. Une initiative menée à Hochelaga-Maisonneuve visait à sensibiliser de jeunes adultes du secteur à l’impact que peuvent avoir leurs décisions de consommation sur l’offre alimentaire locale. OBJECTIFS : Décrire l’alimentation des participants au projet Hochelaga’Table, leurs perceptions du « bien manger », des obstacles et des solutions à l’insécurité alimentaire. MÉTHODOLOGIE : À l’été et à l’automne 2014, l’organisation Alternatives, œuvrant notamment pour la réduction des inégalités sociales au Québec, a planifié des ateliers de participation citoyenne impliquant 46 jeunes adultes de 18 à 30 ans fréquentant des organismes d’aide à Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. Par une combinaison d’outils d’animation créatifs, des données qualitatives ont été recueillies abordant la qualité de l’alimentation, les perceptions, barrières et solutions pour bonifier le système alimentaire du quartier. L’analyse des résultats allie les méthodes déductive et inductive. RÉSULTATS : L’analyse des données qualitatives colligées révèle une parenté avec le profil de l’insécurité alimentaire. Les aliments les plus fréquents dans l’alimentation des participants sont transformés ou ultra-transformés, tels que définis par NOVA. Leur perception du « bien manger » insiste sur la qualité des aliments, le plaisir et la commensalité. Les participants citent des obstacles économiques et individuels (manque de motivation, de temps, de compétences alimentaires). La solidarité, la variété des origines ethniques des aliments et le respect de la dignité émergent de leurs propositions de solutions. CONCLUSION : Le riche savoir expérientiel des jeunes adultes d’Hochelaga-Maisonneuve a permis d’identifier des solutions à l’insécurité alimentaire qui répondent à leurs besoins spécifiques. / CONTEXT: Over the past 10 years, food insecurity has increased in Quebec, jeopardizing both the nutritional intakes and health potential of its citizens. An initiative launched in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve aimed at raising young adult’s awareness of the impact of their food choices on the local supply by harnessing the participant’s creativity and commitment. OBJECTIVES: To explore young adult’s eating patterns and habits, their perception of “eating well”, their challenges, and their visions of solutions to food insecurity in the neighbourhood. METHODOLOGY: During summer and fall of 2014, 46 adults aged 18 to 30 years old took part in a series of three creative and empowering workshops designed to reflect on the solutions they value to enhance the food security in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Montreal. Using a combination of innovative technics such as dot democracy and citizen participation oriented focus groups, the non-for-profit organisation Alternatives, dedicated to reducing social inequalities in the Province of Quebec, collected qualitative data on their food consumption, perception of “eating well”, barriers to overcome, and proposed solutions. Data analysis followed both deductive and inductive methods. RESULTS: The qualitative data collected highlights the resemblance between the participant’s food patterns and those observed in food insecure populations. Processed and ultra-processed foods, as defined by NOVA, appeared the most frequently in their diet. Quality of food, pleasure and commensality are central to the participant’s definition of “eating well”. Financial and individual challenges (lack of motivation, time, knowledge) are identified as barriers to “eating well”. The solutions they envision to alleviate food insecurity locally highlight notions of solidarity, variety of foods from different origins, and dignity. CONCLUSION: Tapping into the rich experiential knowledge of young adults in Hochelaga- Maisonneuve, solutions to food insecurity, tailored to their specific needs, emerged.
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Empire's bodies: images of suffering in nineteenth and twentieth-century India and Ireland

Herman, Jeanette Marie 28 August 2008 (has links)
Not available / text
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Risiko und Chance: Naturkatastrophen im Deutschen Kaiserreich (1871-1918). Eine umweltgeschichtliche Betrachtung / Risk and Opportunity: Natural Disasters in the German Empire (1871-1918). Considerations from an Environmental History Perspective

Masius, Patrick 21 December 2010 (has links)
No description available.
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Analysis of the local understanding of food insecurity and the socio-economic causes of food insecurity in Ward three of the Jozini Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal.

Nyakurimwa, Marvis. January 2011 (has links)
Although food insecurity is a major problem in South African society, there is limited community level information on what constitutes it and related causative socio-economic factors. This study fills this information gap by analysing food insecurity in Ward 3 of Jozini Local Municipality in uMkhanyakude district in KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa. Specifically, the study explored the local understanding of food security and its socio-economic causes. A qualitative study was conducted using Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques through a four-day workshop, supplemented with stakeholder interviews. The techniques used were historical timeline, seasonal calendar, focus group discussions, transect walk, problem tree analysis, social and resource mapping and semi-structured interviews. A four-day workshop was conducted with 44 participants that included traditional leadership, adult men and women, and young members of the community. The people of Ward 3 of Jozini Municipality regarded food insecurity as hunger that resulted in many socio-economic effects such as collapse of household unity and stability that enhanced erosion of dignity among household members. Hunger was commonly associated with “not eating enough”. Other effects of hunger included household heads, especially men resorting to alcohol and drug abuse as a way of escaping from indignity. The youth were said to be involved in crime, prostitution and alcohol abuse. As result of hunger, sick people defaulted from taking treatment against tuberculosis and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Indicators of food secure households were access to funds, ownership of cattle, possession of arable land and access to water. Very irregular emissions of smoke from kitchens of food insecure households indicated that they had nothing to cook and eat. The people of Ward 3, Jozini revealed the choices made in the context of limited income to buy food. The choices included migration to urban areas in search of employment, women resorting to sex work, livelihoods activities such as gardening and craftwork. In the absence of an adult, many child headed households were said to be food insecure. The socio-economic factors causing food insecurity were poverty, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and AIDS pandemic, unemployment, illiteracy, low household food production, limited access to resources such as water and land. The HIV and AIDS pandemic exacerbated food insecurity at household level. Furthermore, poverty forced women into sex work which places them at high risk of contracting HIV and spreading it to their multiple partners. In addition, as a coping mechanism men committed crime such as poaching of animals from game reserves which further expose them to loss of livelihoods and food security options. The socio-economic factors contributing to food insecurity were so intertwined such that an integrated approach is recommended as the best approach for solving the compounded problems. Further local population should be engaged to define solutions to the problems. To enhance self-reliance and self-drive among communities, adult basic education training should be incorporated to reduce the high illiteracy rate. The local leaders should be engaged to bring the large tracts of land owned by old people into full utilisation. The non-government, government and institutions working in the area should strengthen and diversify livelihoods to promote livelihoods sustainability and enable communities to survive shocks by reducing asset poverty. / Thesis (M.Agric)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermarizburg, 2011.
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Sécurité alimentaire en Afrique subsaharienne. Une analyse socio-anthropologique du rôle des banques de céréales au Guéra (Tchad)

Mabondzo, Wilfried Armel Judicaël 07 1900 (has links)
No description available.
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Social protection policy-making in Kenya : a study of the dynamics of policy transfer

Ouma, Marion Atieno 04 1900 (has links)
Power, and how it is exercised within social relations is pivotal in explaining policy change. Hence, this dissertation explores policy change in Kenya by examining the transfer and subsequent adoption of social protection policies in the form of cash transfer schemes. Instead of the current analytical frameworks drawing from political settlements, political institutions, and ideational approaches in explaining policy uptake, the research studies policy making from a policy transfer and power nexus. The study examines power relations among multiple actors in the national context to explain the adoption of social protection policies. Hence this dissertation articulates power dynamics and asymmetries inherent in policy-making involving national and transnational actors as underpinning policy transfer processes. The thesis is premised on the following interrelated arguments; firstly, I show how transnational actors created and manipulated interests and incentives based on their resource base in three significant ways: controlling the policy agenda, constraining the agency of other actors and influencing the preferences of actors in the policy space. The interaction of interests and resources – financial, and ideas and knowledge – converged to bring about policy change. Secondly, I focus on the role of ideas and knowledge within policy space to show how the creation of a discursive hegemony and a structure of knowledge, social construction and policy narratives played a significant role in shaping learning and influencing national actors. Thirdly, I argue that transnational actors used structural mechanisms based on financing and coerced government to adopt social protection policies through a catalysing mechanism and imposition of conditionalities. The study depicts how transnational actors conditioned and manipulated national context and institutions to align with the idea of cash transfers. This thesis employs a qualitative approach to study policy transfer and subsequent adoption of two cases of transfer schemes in Kenya, the Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (CT-OVC) and the Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP). / Sociology / D. Phil. (Sociology)
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Translation or rewriting of proper names : A study of children’s literature across a century / Översätting eller omskrivning av egennamn : En studie på barnlitteratur under ett sekel

Sand, Veronica January 2021 (has links)
The translation of names is a topic for discussion within many fields, no less so within translation studies. Furthermore, the translation of proper names in children’s literature is a topic with on-going changes. There is a divide between those who believe that the names should be translated into proper cultural equivalent and those who believe it is time to have faith in children being able to handle foreign names. That is what this study will focus on. Approx. 15 names from seven children’s books from 1865 to 2011 were studied to conclude that there seems to be a greater faith in children’s ability to handle foreign names. Three languages were compared English, Spanish, and Swedish with the majority of the 337 names studied being kept in their original format, with spelling intact. / Översättningen av namn är ett diskussionsämne inom många områden, inte minst inom översättningsstudier. Utöver detta är översättningen av egennamn inom barnlitteratur ett ämne som är under ständig förändring. Det finns en klyfta mellan de som menar att namn borde bli översatta till sin kulturella likvärdighet och de som menar att det är på tiden att lita på att barn kan hantera främmande namn. Det är denna diskussion som kommer vara fokus för denna uppsatsen. Ca. 15 namn från sju barnböcker från 1865 till 2011 studerades för att visa att det verkar finnas en större tilltro till barns förmåga att hantera främmande namn. Tre språk jämfördes, engelska, spanska och svenska. Var utav de 337 namnen som studerades var majoriteten oförändrade i översättningarna.

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