Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 2, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-88).

Illegal political activity has always been part of a democratic society. Despite this, not much is known about young people’s involvement in these political activities. Research portrays political influence attempts of this kind in different terms; as troublesome for the democratic political system, as expressions of conscious decisions vital for humanity’s future, and yet other times as illustrations of a coming-of-age rebellion. Overall there is a lack of collective knowledge on illegal political activity, and especially in adolescence – the age period when these political activities seem to peak. The aim of this dissertation is therefore to enhance knowledge of involvement in illegal political activity in adolescence. This dissertation addresses this task in four empirical studies. Results show that mostly boys engage politically with illegal political means. Adolescents involved are also interested in politics, believe in their own abilities to take part in political activities, have long-term political goals, and approve of violent political tactics. In addition, these activities also seem to associate with a challenge of authority. This could be seen in how political dissatisfaction was translated into illegal political activity, and in the way these activities seemed to be reactions to a non legitimized parental authority. Besides authority challenges, these activities are likely the result of important peer relations; influences from peers with experiences of illegal political activity seem to be a most probable answer to why adolescents adopt these political means. Taken together, the results of this dissertation show that adolescents involved in illegal political activity are well-equipped for political involvement, challenge authorities in most contexts of their lives, and are likely to adopt these political means from already involved peers.

Η αυθαίρετη δόμηση στην Ελλάδα ιστορικά αποτελεί ένα φαινόμενο που έχει αρχίσει να επισημαίνεται ως κοινωνικό και πολεοδομικό ζήτημα από το 1923 και φτάνει έως τις μέρες μας. Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία έχει ως σκοπό να ερευνήσει τους λόγους που οδήγησαν στην εμφάνιση της αυθαίρετης δόμησης, καθώς, τον ρόλο που έπαιξε το Ελληνικό κράτος στην εμφάνιση και την συνέχιση του φαινομένου μέχρι σήμερα, την άποψη των μηχανικών για την αυθαίρετη δόμηση και τους τρόπους που αντιμετωπίζεται από την πολιτεία. Ειδικότερα η διπλωματική αποτελείται από δύο ενότητες. Η πρώτη ενότητα είναι η βιβλιογραφική έρευνα της διπλωματικής, αποτελούμενη από τρία κεφάλαια (2,3,4). Το πρώτο κεφάλαιο είναι μια εισαγωγή στην οποία δίνεται ο ορισμός του αυθαίρετου κτίσματος, καθώς και οι κατηγορίες των αυθαιρεσιών που υπάρχουν. Επίσης δίνεται η στοχοθεσία και η μεθοδολογία της πτυχιακής. Το δεύτερο κεφάλαιο αποτελεί μία ιστορική αναδρομή από το 1923 μέχρι σήμερα, αναφέροντας στοιχεία για τον πληθυσμό και την ανεργία. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο αναφέρονται όλοι οι Νόμοι, Προεδρικά Διατάγματα που σχετίζονται με την αυθαίρετη δόμηση. Οι δύο βασικοί νόμοι περί νομιμοποίησης αυθαιρέτων αναλύονται στο τέταρτο κεφάλαιο, λαμβάνοντας υπόψη τους οικονομικούς δείκτες και τις πολιτικές εξελίξεις των περιόδων που δημοσιεύτηκαν. Η δεύτερη ενότητα είναι η έρευνα πεδίου (η απόψεις των μηχανικών για την αυθαίρετη δόμηση) αποτελούμενη από τρία κεφάλαια (5,6,7). Το πέμπτο κεφάλαιο περιέχει την ερευνητική μεθοδολογία, το έκτο την ανάλυση των αποτελεσμάτων και το έβδομο τα συμπεράσματα. (Στα παραρτήματα της διπλωματικής ο αναγνώστης μπορεί να βρει την ιστορία της Νέας Ιωνίας, τους νόμους των αυθαιρέτων και το ερωτηματολόγιο της έρευνας). / The illegal construction in Greece is a historical phenomenon that has begun to be identified as social and urban issue from 1923 and up to the present day. This thesis aims to investigate the reasons for the emergence of illegal building, and the role played by the Greek state to the onset and continuation of the phenomenon to date, in terms of engineering for illegal construction and the ways handled by the state. In particular, the thesis consists of two parts. The first section is a literature survey of the diplomatic, consisting of three chapters (2,3,4). The first chapter is an introduction that is the definition of arbitrary structure, and the types of abuses that exist. Also given the targeting and methodology of the thesis. The second chapter is a flashback from 1923 until today, citing data on population and unemployment. The third chapter presents all Laws, Presidential Decrees related to illegal construction. The two basic laws on money arbitrary analyzed in the fourth chapter, taking into account economic indicators and political developments of the journal. The second section is the research field (the views of engineers to construct arbitrary) consisting of three chapters. The fifth chapter contains the research methodology, the sixth analyze the results and the conclusions of the seventh.

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Wong, Lun Man. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-73). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Chinese Abstract --- p.ii / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / Contents --- p.iv / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- A Model of Immigration with Heterogeneous Labor Input --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1 --- The model --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2 --- Equilibrium balanced growth path --- p.9 / Chapter 2.3 --- Steady-state equilibrium and average household (m) --- p.11 / Chapter 2.4 --- Movements in the distribution of wealth (m) --- p.13 / Chapter 2.5 --- Transitional dynamics (m) --- p.14 / Chapter 3 --- Normalized CES Production Function --- p.17 / Chapter 3.1 --- Normalization of CES Production Function (benchmark) --- p.17 / Chapter 3.2 --- Steady-state equilibrium and average household (σ) --- p.25 / Chapter 3.3 --- Movements in the distribution of wealth (σ) --- p.27 / Chapter 3.4 --- Transitional dynamics (σ) --- p.28 / Chapter 4 --- Production Function with Capital-Skill Substitution --- p.31 / Chapter 4.1 --- Normalization of new CES production function --- p.31 / Chapter 4.2 --- Steady-state equilibrium and average household (σ) --- p.37 / Chapter 4.3 --- Movements in the distribution of wealth (σ) --- p.38 / Chapter 4.4 --- Comparison of the efficiency and distribution effect of σ and σ --- p.40 / Chapter 4.5 --- Transitional Dynamics (σ) --- p.41 / Chapter 4.6 --- Comparison of calibration results using different production functions --- p.42 / Chapter 5 --- Conclusion --- p.44 / Appendix --- p.46 / Figures --- p.50 / benchmark production function --- p.50 / new production function --- p.61 / References --- p.72

Banks in the economy plays a role in funding will be available to those who need funds for expansion of production equipment, or increase the spending power. In the relations between the enterprises, in pursuit of synergy of the whole group can often see the relationship between the companies will consider the bank's diversification into the program, to facilitate the group planning for funds. However, in recent years, a series of financial scandals continue to occur, from Chung-Hsing commercial banks and the Tai Feng Group loans to the most recent scandals of the Chung-Hwa Commercial Bank and the Wan-Tai Commercial Bank show that many of the bank to carry out unlawful acts of the lenders, government agencies only after the incident, call the public have the confidence and clean up the whole mess, to avoid the loss of public confidence in the financial system. In this regard, this study tried to analyze the financial statements of public information of banks, to investigate the bank's asset quality and financial ratios, see the possibility of bank credit to the law and conduct business with the group. Then, further from the point of view of corporate governance, banking organizations and the business management behavior, whether or not to provide space for corrupt operators to commit crime. The study found that when the banks non-performing loan ratio, the storage ratio, the ratio of unsecured loans and short-term (long-term) lending and savings (regular ) the proportion of deposits in the high four figures, such as financial statements, the interested person transactions breakdown of issues and interpretation of abnormal lenders, together with the case of bank corporate governance are not implemented, such as board structure, independent directors, professional managers, information and internal audit system are not good , the banks should have the drawbacks of the existence of credit business. Therefore, this study was to use these projects to establish a set of early warning indicators for the operation. When detection of any signs of impropriety raise, the competent authority can engage in immediate financial checks.

<p>The topic of this thesis is immigration policy in the European Union with focus on the Schengen cooperation and illegal immigration. Immigration policies and other policy areas such as asylum and refugee policies have become hot topics on the EU agenda in recent years. Partly because of cooperations like Schengen, but also because a need of a common immigration and asylum policy has emerged.</p><p>The purpose of the thesis is to give a better understanding of the relations that might be found between illegal immigration to the EU and the Schengen cooperation. Schengen plays an important role in dealing with international migration in the EU and will probably continue to do so in the future.</p><p>The thesis is a comparative case study with Spain and Germany as the two specific cases. Their national immigration policies are examined and put in relation to the Schengen cooperation. The research questions are: What was the basic problem that was supposed to be avoided when incorporating Schengen into the framework of the European Union? How does Spain and Germany deal with the illegal immigration they have been exposed to and what are the similarities and differences between the two countries? How do the Spanish and German actions relate to the Schengen cooperation?</p><p>The result of the study is, when it comes to illegal immigration to the EU there are no functioning systems to handle it. Even though there are cooperations like Schengen, that tries to standardize the management of immigration, illegal immigration included, it seems like the individual countries still prefer to deal with it in their own ways.</p> / <p>Uppsatsen handlar om EU:s immigrationspolitik, med fokus på Schengensamarbetet och illegal immigration. Immigrationspolitiken och andra närliggande politikområden som asylpolitik och flyktingpolitik har blivit heta ämnen på EU:s agenda de senaste åren. Dels på grund av samarbeten som Schengen och dels genom att behovet av en gemensam immigrations- och asylpolitik har uppmärksammats.</p><p>Syftet med uppsatsen är att ge en bättre förståelse för de samband som finns mellan illegal immigration till EU och Schengensamarbetet. Schengen har och kommer antagligen att få en mycket betydande roll för internationell migration och EU.</p><p>Uppsatsen är en komparativ fallstudie där Spanien och Tyskland är de undersökta fallen och deras nationella immigrationspolitik undersöks och sätts sedan i samband med Schengensamarbetet. De frågor som uppsatsen utgår ifrån är: Vad var det grundläggande problem man ville komma tillrätta med då man bestämde sig för att införa Schengensamarbetet i EU: s ramverk? Hur har Spanien och Tyskland hanterat den illegala immigrationen i respektive länder och vad finns det för likheter och skillnader dem emellan? Hur går Spaniens och Tysklands handlande ihop med Schengenavtalet?</p><p>Resultatet av studien är att när det gäller den illegala immigrationen till EU finns det inget fungerande system att hantera den. Även om det finns samarbeten inom EU såsom Schengen som försöker att standardisera hanterandet av immigration, även illegal immigration, verkar det som att de enskilda länderna fortfarande går sina egna vägar.</p>

Thesis (M.A. in sociology)--Washington State University, August 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 38-41).

Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Supinski, Stanley. Second Reader: Bach, Robert. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 29, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Joint regional border commands, collaboration, border control, border security, regionalization, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-81). Also available in print.