Zugl.: Basel, Univ., Diss., 2007

Konstanz, Univ., Diplomarb., 2003.

abstract: Following the implementation of federal immigration control measures in the 1990s, Arizona became the main point of entry for undocumented immigrants along the US border with Mexico in the early 2000s. Since then, reports have blamed human smuggling facilitators for the increase of undocumented immigration into the state and the apparent development of violent practices targeting the undocumented. However, little is known about the organization of the groups who work at facilitating the transit of undocumented immigrants along the US Mexico Border. Based on interviews and narratives present in legal files of smuggling cases prosecuted in Phoenix, Arizona, the present study provides an analysis of local human smuggling operations. It argues that far from being under the control of organized crime, smuggling is an income generating strategy of the poor that generates financial opportunities for community members in financial distress. The study, raises questions over smuggling's perceptions as violent and instead identifies smuggling-related violence as a reflection of the structural violence carried out by the state against immigrant communities through policing, surveillance and the consistent and systematic exercise of race-based policies. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Justice Studies 2011

Syftet med uppsatsen är att studera hur det moderna narrativa TV-spelet The Last of Us (Naughty Dog, 2013) förhåller sig till interaktivitet – en grundläggande egenskap för digitala spel – i kombination med ett filmiskt stilval. Uppsatsen väljer ut sekvenser från spelet och analyserar hur de använder sig av filmklippningstekniker i samband med interaktiva moment. Analysen sker i förhållande till en modell för filmklippningsvärderingar samt modeller för interaktivitet inom speldesign. Studien är ämnad för att vara användbar för både filmskapare och spelskapare vid skapandet av nya verk. Resultatet av studien visar att spelet med hjälp av klippningstekniker använder klassiska filmuttryck för att bygga på spelarens känslor av bekanthet från samhällets generella filmvana i mån om att leda till önskat engagemang.

Diploma thesis researches the impacts of methodical processes of showing of leasing contracts of a lessee, which are in programme of convergence discussed by International Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the USA. Theoretical part of this thesis describes some leasing problems, current and a suggested method of showing leasing of a lessee. Practical part of this thesis focuses on an application of these suggested methodical procedures within some particular leasing contracts. One part of this thesis also contains a view, whether these suggested methodical procedures are suitable for small and medium companies.

This master's thesis deals with leases accounting in different accounting systems -- specifically comparison to czech accounting rules, IFRS for SMEs and US GAAP. The emphasis is put on leases accounting in small and medium-sized enterprises, therefore I was looking for an ideal way how to account leases within SMEs in Czech republic. An important chapter of this thesis is the process of leases accounting harmonization, which still continues and is trying to make the most faithful image of the company. Practical part of this thesis is made via questionnaire and it deals with an attitude of SMEs in Czech republich to implementation of IFRS for SMEs and to leases harmonization between IFRS and US GAAP.

This study compares the teaching practices of English academic writing teachers from China and the US. Research methods as questionnaire and interview were used to collect teacher's teaching practices, ways of constructing feedback, teaching philosophy and improvements in teaching. Participants of the current study were two teachers from two universities of China and three ESL academic writing teachers from a university in the US. The collected data were compared base on two themes: one was produce and process approaches; the other one was teacher's status in classroom and teaching. Based on the findings, American teachers' approaches were primarily process-based, and they also used studentcentered way of teaching, which puts students' needs and feelings on a considerable place. Chinese teachers' approaches were gradually changing to process-based, however, they were the authority in both teaching and providing feedback. The reason for Chinese teachers' ways of teaching can be attributed to the deep-rooted influence of the traditional teaching method, which sees teacher as the superior mentor. Also, it is necessary to introduce the process approach into Chinese universities to teach English academic writing and put it into practice

The United States is the world’s largest poultry producer and exports about 18 percent of its total poultry production. It is also second largest exporter of broiler meats. Reports from the USDA predict that global import demand for poultry is expected to increase over the next 10 years, with the US accounting for 34% of the global poultry exports. The present study estimates the effects of exchange rate and US poultry export price on the quantity of poultry imports by the top five trading countries, namely Mexico, Canada, China, Hong Kong and Russia, during the period 1993 to 2012, using a double-log multiple regression model. Comparison of the effects across the countries was made possible with the incorporation of dummy variables for each country with Hong Kong serving as the baseline. The results demonstrated that the effect of exchange rate and poultry price, and per capita GDP on the quantity of poultry imported by Russia , Canada, and China is statistically different from Hong Kong and the rest of the countries in this study. Exchange rate appears to have a negative and statistically significant effect on US quantity of poultry exports. Export price and per capital GDP shows a positive and statistically significant impact on US poultry exports, although the result differs for individual countries. Overall, this study suggests that the effect of exchange rate and export price on the quantity of US poultry exports varies across countries. Key Words: Exchange rate, Double-log regression, US poultry price, Poultry exports

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-29T15:09:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_3418_Dissertação_versão_final_AnaPaulaFreire.pdf: 5127788 bytes, checksum: be6694900d58b2712972f2a0b7cea109 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-19 / A busca pela sustentabilidade no meio urbano compreende o uso das mais variadas práticas possíveis de conservação dos recursos como água e energia. Nesse sentido, a parcela referente ao consumo de água e energia nas residências é estratégica para a concepção de programas de conservação desses recursos em áreas urbanas, visto que o consumo residencial é responsável por uma grande parcela do consumo urbano, chegando a cerca de 80% em Minas Gerais. Visando avaliar um método de conservação de água, esse trabalho avaliou quantitativamente a economia gerada em uma edificação dotada de um sistema de reúso de águas cinza quando comparada a uma edificação com sistema hidrossanitário convencional. O monitoramento foi realizado de fevereiro a setembro de 2007 no edifício convencional e de fevereiro a setembro de 2008 naquele com sistema reúso de águas cinza, por meio de leituras diárias, sempre às 8h, de todos os hidrômetros e medidores de energia, além do levantamento de perfis de consumo de 24h. O consumo energético das bombas de recalque foi medido por meio eletrônico com a instalação de um analisador de energia. O consumo de água, avaliado através de perfis horários e dos indicadores per capita, por área e por dormitório, foi consistentemente mais elevado no edifício convencional, havendo um maior consumo nos meses de inverno nas duas edificações. Cerca de 32% da água cinza produzida são aproveitados como água de reúso na edificação, sendo que o volume de água de reúso utilizado é cerca de 22% do consumo total na edificação. Em termos energéticos, no edifício convencional o consumo das bombas de recalque foi de cerca de 8% do total de energia consumida. No dotado de reúso o consumo foi de 7% do total de energia consumida, sendo que 3% das bombas de água potável e 4% das bombas de reúso. Os valores altos de consumo energético das bombas sugerem uma maior atenção aos projetos de bombeamento. Foi observado

This thesis aims to analyse the effects of the Central America Free Trade Agreement on trade using the gravity model. The principal actors of interest are the United States of America and Central American countries combined with Dominican Republic as the other regional actor. Panel data was used with 153 countries for the period of 1995-2015. The model was specified using the dummy approach and estimated with OLS and PPML estimators to obtain results on effects of trade policy variables on exports. Estimates show mixed results but the general effect of CAFTA on exports is positive and significant. This trade creation effect makes CAFTA an important trade agreement for economic relations between member countries.