L’étude des caractéristiques physico-chimiques du Compritol® (béhénate de glycérol) et du Précirol® (palmito-stéarate de glycérol) a été effectuée. Les méthodes d’évaluation consistaient en la calorimétrie différentielle à balayage, la microscopie sur platine chauffante et la rhéologie dans un rhéomètre capillaire à pression variable. Cette étude a montré une évolution de la structure cristalline de ces deux corps gras en fonction du temps et de la température de stockage. En effet, ces composés, après fusion et refroidissement, « recristallisent » sous une structure partiellement amorphe, qui évolue avec le temps en structure cristalline. Il est également ressorti de cette évaluation que ces deux excipients lipidiques présentent des plages de fusion bien distinctes. Cette caractéristique est conservée lorsqu’ils sont en mélanges binaires. Enfin, ces corps gras se déforment sous l’action de fortes forces de cisaillement à des températures inférieures à leurs plages de fusion. L’utilisation du Compritol® et du Précirol® comme corps gras lipophiles pour former des microbilles à libération prolongée a alors été envisagée. Nous avons procédé moyennant une technique de fabrication simple et rapide appelée « la pelletisation thermoplastique ». Il s’agit d’un procédé en une étape qui met à profit le pouvoir liant des corps gras facilement fusibles et se passe ainsi de l’usage de l’eau ou de solvants organiques. L’appareillage utilisé est de type mélangeur granulateur à haute vitesse. Nous nous sommes basés sur les renseignements fournis par l’étude de préformulation afin d’optimaliser les conditions de fabrication des microbilles. Le contrôle de la température du mélange est très important pour la réussite du procédé de pelletisation thermoplastique. La vitesse du bras du mélangeur, la température de la double paroi et le temps de sphéronisation constituent les paramètres clés pour réussir la pelletisation du mélange. Nous avons mis au point des formulations contenant 15% (m/m) de Précirol® et une quantité croissante de Compritol® variant de 3 à 65 % (m/m). La libération du chlorhydrate de phényléphrine, employé comme agent traceur, a déjà été ralentie pour les formulations contenant 25 % (m/m) de corps gras. Face à ces résultats encourageants, nous avons mis au point des formulations contenant 75 % (m/m) de différents principes actifs (chlorhydrate de ciprofloxacine, théophylline et kétoprofène) et 25 % (m/m) de corps gras. Ces formulations ont abouti à la fabrication de microbilles à libération prolongée. Une étude de stabilité menée sur certaines des formes finies a montré la stabilité des microbilles lipidiques pour autant que le principe actif incorporé dedans ne soit par lui-même facilement dégradable. Afin d’élargir le champ d’application du procédé de fabrication, nous avons mis au point des microbilles flottantes à libération prolongée. Les formulations proposées contiennent comme excipients : les deux corps gras, un mélange effervescent (bicarbonate sodique/ acide tartrique) et du Methocel K100. Leur flottabilité a été prouvée in vitro sur une période de plus de huit heures et In vivo par administration de microbilles de riboflavine flottantes versus non flottantes à des volontaires humains sains.

<p><font face="Times New Roman"> <p align="left">Ukwangali district is located in the western part of the Kavango region approximately 70 kilometers west of the regional town Rundu. This thesis explores and documents the local political dimensions which prevailed in the uKwangali district of Namibia between 1966-1989. The study seeks to find out why the uKwangali district became a war zone outside of the main theatre of war in nearby Ovamboland, and how its residents became part of the Namibian armed liberation struggle.</p> </font></p>

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-50).

Thesis (M. Div. with Concentration: Christian Doctrine)--Emmanuel School of Religion, Johnson City, Tennessee, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-85).

Traditional models including the factionalism, professionalism, and the symbiosis models have helped the field for over two decades to study civil-military relations in China. New conditions of the 90s and beyond, however, have required new tools for examining this issue. Approaching China's civil-military relations from multiple approaches to include PLA conservative nationalism is better than using one explanation to understand China's civil-military relations. / text

The parables of Jesus have been interpreted in many ways and by many different methods in the history of the Christian community. Biblical scholars have wrestled with their interpretations throughout the centuries, and in the last five centuries increasing numbers of lay persons have had more direct access to further biblical study. Even more recently, liberation movements throughout the world--and especially in Latin America--have engaged the "common people," (peasants and campesinos), many of whom are illiterate, in biblical study.

<p><font face="Times New Roman"> <p align="left">Ukwangali district is located in the western part of the Kavango region approximately 70 kilometers west of the regional town Rundu. This thesis explores and documents the local political dimensions which prevailed in the uKwangali district of Namibia between 1966-1989. The study seeks to find out why the uKwangali district became a war zone outside of the main theatre of war in nearby Ovamboland, and how its residents became part of the Namibian armed liberation struggle.</p> </font></p>

Abstract not available. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Durban-Westville, 1988.

A dominant theme in histories of twentieth century women's politics is the argument that there have been two 'waves' of high profile activity and unity: the pre 1914 suffrage Movement and the post 1960s Women's Liberation Movement. As a result of this historical temporality, the years 1918-68 have generally been presented as a period of longterm decline in women's politics. Since the late 1980s, research on women's politics in the interwar years has begun to challenge this consensus. However, there has been limited re-evaluation of women's political organisation in the 1940s and 1950s. Existing research presents this period primarily in terms of decline, and offers an interpretation of 1940s and l950s feminism through the unsympathetic lens of a 'second wave' definition of feminism based on opposition to women's traditional domestic roles. Using recently released archival material which has yet to be incorporated into analysis of women's politics in this period, and drawing on shifts in feminist thinking since the 1980s, the thesis offers a re-evaluation of self identified feminism in the period 1939-64. Taking as its primary focus, the Married Women's Association, a feminist organisation concerned with the legal economic rights of married women, the thesis argues that a new strand of feminism emerged in the late 1930s. Although the key themes of this 'new' feminism - economic equality and independence of the full-time housewife - were distinctive to the l940s and 1950s, they also revealed intimations of ideas and issues taken up by the Women's Liberation Movement from the late l960s. By arguing for equality in difference, 'new' feminists applied the language of equal rights to women's position in the private sphere. In the process they argued that full-time housewives, as workers and marital partners, were entitled to economic independence in the form of a legal right to half the male wage. From the late 1950s however, growing feminist recognition of married women's dual role led to the beginnings of a discussion about the effects of women's domesticity on their status in the workplace; this was to develop into a critique of the role of full-time housewife for women.

The story of Abraham, as understood by Christians and Muslims, has always had a formative influence on the central theological dicta of Christianity and Islam. In theologies that perceive class struggle and oppression of the poor as issues distinctly within the purview of religion to address, the role of Abraham is remarkably significant. In re-telling the story of Abraham from the perspective of the oppressed, Abraham becomes an archetypal monotheist within a new reading of history, one which sees God on the side of the exploited masses. / This thesis examines and compares the socio-theological themes connected to the interpretation and application of the life story of Abraham in these two faith traditions. it does so by comparing the position of the Iranian religious ideologue known to many as one who had a major role in inspiring the Iranian youth to revolution in 1978--79, Dr. 'Ali Shari'ati, with Latin American liberation theology. It suggests that the affinity of their goals leads them to use similar methodologies---symbolism and constant interplay between text, context and reader---and ultimately, to create images of Abraham that are as much related to each other as they are to their own faith tradition.