This study explores nature as a source of inspiration in Zulu poetry. With the exception of the introductory and concluding chapters all chapters are structurally similar. Each chapter consists of an introduction, communication of meaning, elements of poetry employed to communicate meaning, types of poems and observations and conclusion. Chapter 1 deals with the aim of the study, definition of terms, motivation, delimitation of scope of study and research methodology. Chapter 2 discuses poetry of the period between 1935 and 1945. Chapter 3 looks at poetry of the period between 1946 and 1955. Chapter 4 deals with poetry of the period between 1956 and 1965. Chapter 5 investigates poetry of the period between 1966 and 1975. Chapter 6 focuses on observations and conclusion. / African Languages / MA (African Languages)

The Evangelical Reformed Church is celebrating its sixtieth anniversary. This study investigates this church's unique view of Scripture and places it within the broader context of a Reformed approach. To this end, a literary study is conducted, whereby the Evangelical Reformed conviction is compared to that of Calvin and Barth, as put forward in their Institutions and Church Dogmatics, respectively. This procedure allows for a collation of the Evangelical Reformed stance and the Reformed view. Since the belief regarding Scripture has an effect on many aspects of the traditional reformed dogma, several bibliological facets are singled out, namely, revelation, authority, inspiration, and the inception of the canon. By way of illustration, these details are considered with specific reference to the Reformed doctrine of Predestination. The goal of this exercise is to evaluate the application of the bibliological dogma in the formulation of theology. / Systematic Theology & Theological Ethics / M.Th

There are a lot of different business strategies for any company. However, in the fashion industry, the best way to become successful is to develop the brand using special branding strategies. Hence, a brand is the main weapon for fashion companies, which helps to launch international market and to create loyal customers around the world. Nowadays, due to the difficult current political situations and the collapse of oil and the dollar a lot of companies in different industries have to change their business strategies. It is especially true for fashion companies, because they depend on consumers ' income and their purchasing power. In the case of the fashion industry, branding strategy development can be more effective, than just business strategy. Hence, this thesis discusses the following problem: What branding strategy should Russian and Swedish fashion companies choose in order to build a strong brand and enter the international market.  The purpose of this thesis is to analyze various branding strategies of Russian and Swedish fashion companies during the process of entering foreign markets. At the end of this thesis, practical contribution in their process of international branding strategy creation will be discussed. In order to answer research questions more broadly and accurately, the mixed research method, using quantitive and qualitative study through interviews and survey was chosen. Semi-structured interviews were made with the CEO and brand managers of Russian and Swedish fashion companies. Moreover, the survey was made with two different questionnaires: for Russian and for Swedish customers. In the case of qualitative research, the author found that fashion companies from Russia and Sweden have got not just some features and differences, but also common aspects. The primary data from interviews allowed the author to understand the specifics of brand management in the fashion industry. It was found, that there are some useful aspects in Swedish strategies, which can be used by Russian companies to develop their brands on the international market. In the case of quantitative research, preferences of consumers from Russia and Sweden were analyzed and also some features were identified. Survey results provided the author with a common understanding about purchase habits, attitudes and perceptions to fashion brands. According to these, some hypothesizes, which are formulated in the first part of the thesis, have been proven or disproven. It was found, that preferences of Russian and Swedish people are pretty the same, however Russian customers do not like to risk with new brands and prefer well-known and trusted brands while Swedish customers are open for any brand, which can satisfy their tastes.

This thesis deals with a training of primary school teachers in the Czech Republic and in the French-speaking part of Belgium. It is a comparative study analyzing corresponding systems of tertiary education. In detail it describes selected examples of education used by the Faculty of Education of Charles University in Prague and the École normale catholique du Brabant Wallon at Haute Ecole Léonard de Vinci in Louvain - la - Neuve. For the purpose of mutual inspiration it presents individual curricula of both universities, the relationship of theory and practice in the studies and, based on author`s own observations and experience, reflections of two specific issues from each institution which are interesting and unique. It also presents problems of professional competence of teachers who apply for teacher training. Because such paper is already valid in Belgium, while in the Czech Republic it is still in progress. Both schools have a lot to offer for its current students, but there is always space for further development.

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[pt] Atualmente as Unidades de Saúde, em um grande número de países do mundo, apresentam demandas de serviços que superam suas capacidades reais. Por esta razão, o surgimento das listas de espera é inevitável. Preparar o planejamento das mesmas, de modo otimizado resulta, portanto, em um grande desafio, devido à quantidade de recursos que devem ser considerados. O caso particular dos procedimentos cirúrgicos é particularmente crítico pela quantidade de recursos que se precisam para a realização do mesmo. Poucos projetos têm sido desenvolvidos para a gestão completa dessas listas. O trabalho desenvolvido nesta Dissertação propõe o uso de um modelo, baseado em algoritmos genéticos com inspiração quântica, para a automatização e otimização do planejamento de procedimentos cirúrgicos eletivos. Este modelo, denominado Algoritmo Evolucionário com Inspiração Quântica para a Área de Saúde (AEIQ-AS), além de alocar os pacientes e os recursos necessários para que o processo cirúrgico seja exitoso, procura reduzir o tempo total para que todas as cirurgias sejam realizadas. Este trabalho apresenta também uma ferramenta que permite a modelagem, de modo simplificado, de uma Unidade Cirúrgica de Saúde. Esta ferramenta possibilita a realização de simulações com o objetivo de ver o efeito de diferentes configurações dos recursos nas Unidades de Saúde. Para a validação do modelo proposto foi criada, de modo artificial e fazendo uso da ferramenta de simulação, uma lista de espera de 2000 cirurgias. Caso as cirurgias fossem realizadas seguindo a ordem de chegada, seriam necessárias pouco mais de 37 semanas e teria 1066 operações fora do prazo. Foram feitos vários experimentos onde se buscava a otimização destes valores. Esta busca foi feita, primeiramente, tomando em consideração só um dos parâmetros e a continuação eles em conjunto. Na primeira abordagem o AEIQ-AS consegue a realização das mesmas cirurgias em aproximadamente 31 semanas. Assim, observa se que há uma redução de aproximadamente 16,25 porcento do tempo. O número de operações fora do prazo, por sua vez, foi reduzido pelo modelo para 927 (13,04 porcento). Na abordagem simultânea, o AEIQ-AS, consegue uma diminuição do tempo total de alocação em 16,22 porcento e o número de operações fora do prazo em 9,76 porcento. Foram feitas, também, várias simulações da Unidade de Saúde mantendo as caraterísticas da lista de cirurgias para ver seu efeito no tempo total de alocação de todos os processos cirúrgicos. / [en] Currently, Health Units in a large number of countries in the world present service demand that exceed their real capacities. For this reason, is inevitable the emergence of the waiting lists. To prepare the planning of this in an optimized manner results in a substantial challenge due to the number of resources that should be considered. The case of chirurgical procedures is particularly critical by the number of resources needed for their realization. A small quantity of projects has been developed to fully manage these lists. The work developed in this Dissertation proposes the use of a model based on evolutionary algorithms with quantum inspiration for the automation and optimization of the planning of elective chirurgical procedures. This model, denominated Evolutionary Algorithm with Quantum Inspiration for the Health Field (AEIQ-AS), beyond patients and necessary resources for the successful completion of the chirurgical procedure allocation, pursue the reduction of the total time of realization of all the surgeries. The work presents also a tool that allows the modeling, in a simplified manner, of a Chirurgical Health Unit. This tool enables the realization of simulations with the objective of seeing the effect of different configurations of the resources in the Health Units. To validate the proposed model was created, in artificial mode and employing the simulation tool, a waiting list of 2000 surgeries. In case that the surgeries were realized following the arrival order, will be needed a little more than 37 weeks and will have 1066 surgeries out of time. Several experiments were conducted in order to optimize these values. This search was executed, firstly, considering only one of the parameters and, in continuation, all together. In the first approach, the AEIQ-AS obtains the realization of the same surgeries in approximately 16,25 percent of the time. The number of operations out of time was reduced by the model to 927 (13,04 percent). In the simultaneous approach, the AEIQAS achieves a decrease of the allocation total time in 16,22 percent and the number of operations out of time in 9,76 percent. It were done, also, several simulations of the Health Unit maintaining the characteristics of the surgeries list in order to look the effect in the allocation total time of all the chirurgical procedures.

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Les neurones impulsionnels prennent en compte une caractéristique fondamentale des neurones biologiques : la capacité d'encoder l'information sous forme d'événements discrets. Nous nous sommes intéressés à l'apport de ce type de modèles dans le cadre de la vision artificielle, dont les contraintes nous ont orienté vers le choix de modèles simples, adaptés à la rapidité de traitement requise. Nous décrivons une architecture de réseaux pour encoder et extraire des saillances utilisant la discrétisation induite par les neurones impulsionnels. La carte de saillances est obtenue à partir de la combinaison, spatiale et temporelle, de différentes cartes de modalités visuelles (contrastes, orientations et couleurs) à différentes échelles spatiales. Nous proposons une méthode de filtrage neuronal pour construire les cartes de modalité visuelle. Cette méthode réalise le filtrage de façon graduelle : plus le temps de traitement alloué à l'algorithme est important, plus le résultat est proche de celui obtenu avec un filtrage par convolution. L'architecture proposée donne en sortie les saillances triées temporellement dans l'ordre de leur importance. Nous avons placé en aval de cette architecture un autre réseau de neurones impulsionnels, s'inspirant des champs neuronaux, qui permet de sélectionner la zone la plus saillante et de maintenir une activité constante sur cette zone. Les résultats expérimentaux montrent que l'architecture proposée est capable d'extraire des saillances dans une séquence d'images, de sélectionner la saillance la plus importante et de maintenir la focalisation sur cette saillance, même dans un contexte bruité ou quand la saillance se déplace.

Ce travail, première monographie consacrée à Roger Munier et à l'ensemble de son œuvre, se propose de penser conjointement poésie et philosophie autour de la question des processus de désubjec

The importance of passion increases with the extent of sorrow. While money can replace the passion by offering the opportunity to buy the added value for oneself and the society, social enterprises, artists and start-up organizations have bigger issues to organize the necessary resources. Passion is inevitable for making a difference in the society while suffering a lack of money. Thus, the presence of a certain obsession is a favorable situation for smaller organizations in order to go through difficulties. This thesis investigates the miracle of passion in order to gain an understanding about the ability of leading passionate people. Theories and experiences from passionate individuals are combined in this research paper and suggest different perspectives a leader must consider by leading passion. I assume the social interaction between leaders and followers which result in a mutual influence of behavior and performance. This thesis is focused on the perspective of passionate followership and elucidates factors that are needed to act passionate as well as the role of the leader within this passionate environment.