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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta dissertação procura, utilizando o pensamento de Maquiavel, Montesquieu e Madison, estudar o governo republicano a partir de dois paradigmas distintos, a saber, a forma de governo e o modo de governar. O primeiro diz respeito ao seu caráter institucional do Estado e da atividade política e se torna inteligível por uma compreensão teórica da política, ou seja, sobre o que lhe confere formato. O segundo se refere aos modos de ação do governo independentemente de seu formato institucional e pode ser compreendido por aspectos sociológicos, pois diz respeito mais à sociedade. Maquiavel e, de um ponto de vista, Montesquieu podem ser considerados os principais representantes da tradição que identifica na forma de governo a definição da república. Montesquieu, sob outra perspectiva, e Madison são os que mais se dedicaram ao modo de governar. Além disso, este estudo procura abordar a liberdade como categoria identitária da política e, assim, formando um todo coeso da tradição republicana. / This dissertation tries, using the thought of Machiavelli, Montesquieu and Madison, to study the republican government based on two distinct paradigms, namely the form of government and the mode of governing. The first relates to its institutional character of the State and political activity and becomes intelligible by a theoretical understanding of politics, that is what gives it shape. The second refers to modes of action of the government regardless of its institutional format and can be understood by sociological aspects, as it relates to society. Machiavelli and, under a point of view, Montesquieu can be considered the main representatives of that tradition identifies as the definition of form of government of the republic. Montesquieu, from another perspective, and Madison are the most dedicated to how to govern. Furthermore, this study seeks to address the freedom as a category of identity politics and thereby forming a cohesive whole of the republican tradition.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta dissertação procura, utilizando o pensamento de Maquiavel, Montesquieu e Madison, estudar o governo republicano a partir de dois paradigmas distintos, a saber, a forma de governo e o modo de governar. O primeiro diz respeito ao seu caráter institucional do Estado e da atividade política e se torna inteligível por uma compreensão teórica da política, ou seja, sobre o que lhe confere formato. O segundo se refere aos modos de ação do governo independentemente de seu formato institucional e pode ser compreendido por aspectos sociológicos, pois diz respeito mais à sociedade. Maquiavel e, de um ponto de vista, Montesquieu podem ser considerados os principais representantes da tradição que identifica na forma de governo a definição da república. Montesquieu, sob outra perspectiva, e Madison são os que mais se dedicaram ao modo de governar. Além disso, este estudo procura abordar a liberdade como categoria identitária da política e, assim, formando um todo coeso da tradição republicana. / This dissertation tries, using the thought of Machiavelli, Montesquieu and Madison, to study the republican government based on two distinct paradigms, namely the form of government and the mode of governing. The first relates to its institutional character of the State and political activity and becomes intelligible by a theoretical understanding of politics, that is what gives it shape. The second refers to modes of action of the government regardless of its institutional format and can be understood by sociological aspects, as it relates to society. Machiavelli and, under a point of view, Montesquieu can be considered the main representatives of that tradition identifies as the definition of form of government of the republic. Montesquieu, from another perspective, and Madison are the most dedicated to how to govern. Furthermore, this study seeks to address the freedom as a category of identity politics and thereby forming a cohesive whole of the republican tradition.

L'étude a pour but de caractériser les facteurs de contrôles de la distribution des propriétés pétrophysiques et mécaniques dans les réservoirs carbonatés. Pour y répondre, il a été entrepris une démarche intégrant des analyses sédimento-diagénétiques (sédimentologiques, pétrographiques, géochimiques…) et de la fracturation (stratigraphie mécanique et stratigraphie de fracture, hiérarchisation, chronologie…). L'acquisition des données a été réalisée sur un analogue de terrain d'un réservoir carbonaté fracturé : la Formation Madison, d'âge Carbonifère inférieur (357-340 Ma), affleurant dans le Bassin de Bighorn (Wyoming, USA) et qui est aussi un réservoir exploité en subsurface. Cette acquisition a été réalisée dans cinq sites : Wind River Canyon, Shell Canyon, Sheep Mountain, Shoshone Canyon, et Clark's Fork Canyon (selon une polarité paléogéographique proximale - distale).Dans le Wyoming (USA), la Formation Madison est une série carbonatée, atteignant une épaisseur de 340 m, formée de sept séquences de dépôt basse fréquence (SBF). Les deux premières (SBF1 et 2) se sont formées sur une rampe qui, en conséquence de progradations extensives, s'est aplanie progressivement pour former une plate-forme sur laquelle se sont déposées les cinq autres séquences (SBF3 à 7). SBF1 à 3, d'âge Kinderhookien à Osagéen inférieur, se sont formées sous climat aride à la faveur d'une subsidence tectonique générale compensant les chutes eustatiques épisodiques. Les cortèges de rétrogradation se caractérisent par le développement étendu des milieux inter- à supratidaux et des processus de précipitation d'évaporites et dolomitisation. / The purpose of this study is to characterize factors controlling the distribution of the petrophysical and mechanical properties in carbonate reservoirs. To do so, a pluridisciplinary approach integrating sedimento-diagenetic and fracturing analyses on a carbonate reservoir analogue: he Madison Formation, (Lower Carboniferous, 357-340 My), outcropping in the Bighorn Basin (Wyoming, USA) and that is also a subsurface reservoir.The Madison Formation is a 340 m thick carbonate series composed of seven low frequency depositional sequences (LFS). The first two (LFS 1 and 2) formed on a prograding ramp passing upward into a vast platform on which the other five LFS deposited (LFS3 à 7). LFS 1 to 3 (Kinderhookian to lower Osagean) deposited under arid conditions during general subsidence that balanced eustatic falls. Retrograding system tracts are characterized by the development of supratidal to intertidal environment dominated by evaporite precipitations and carbonate dolomitization. Prograding system tracts are mainly mainly by early-lithified grainstones. LFS 4 to 7 (Osagean) deposited under humid conditions (glacial conditions in high-latitudes) that contributed to a decrease in evaporite precipitations and carbonate dolomitization but that involved karstifications on tops of LFS 4 to 7 during uplift episodes and eustatic falls.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / A foreign concept to most twenty-first century individuals, a saddletree provides support and acts as the framework to saddles, giving saddlers a base on which to add cushioning, stretch leather, and create beautiful or functional saddles. Saddletree factories were an integral part of Madison, Indiana’s late nineteenth-century economy. As one of the Ohio River town’s leading industries, saddletree shops employed approximately 125 men during 1879, Madison’s peak saddletree production year, and made Madison a national center of saddletree production. However, the industry faded into oblivion as the beginning of the twentieth century, leaving the men drawn to these shops in the 1870s and 1880s to find new opportunities. While past historians contributed to the fields of industrial and economic history by studying large industries engaged in mass production in major urban areas, Madison’s saddletree workers represent a view of nineteenth-century specialized production. This thesis examines the saddletree industry’s place in Madison during the late nineteenth century and the lives of saddletree workers during and after the industry’s peak. My findings, based off extensive digital research and tools utilized in earlier social mobility studies, create a nuanced view of Madison’s relationship to the saddletree industry, saddletree makers, and what the industry’s collapse meant to saddletree factory employees.

Project (Ed.S.)--James Madison University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

Climatic conditions (precipitation, evapotranspiration, available soil moisture, and temperature) are important variables when considering cumulative storm streamflow for a watershed. The objective of this study was to determine what climatic conditions, if any, could be used to mathematically model cumulative storm streamflow for an extensively-drained small agricultural watershed in northwest Delaware County, Indiana. A water-level recorder was installed in Killbuck Creek during autumn 2002, spring, summer, and autumn 2003 and 2004. To determine discharge, velocity measurements were collected following US Geological Survey (USGS) methods and two rating curves (high and low flow) were constructed. Simple linear regressions were performed using cumulative streamflow as the dependent variable and precipitation, evapotranspiration, available soil moisture, temperature, and runoff as independent variables. Multiple linear regressions were used to examine combinations of the independent variables. Cumulative streamflow was most related to precipitation (r2 = 0.23 and p < 0.001) and least related to temperature (r2 = 0.03 and p < 0.5). The multiple linear regression from the combination of precipitation, runoff, and temperature provided the most accurate cumulative streamflow simulation (R2 = 0.53 and p < 0.001). Multiple linear regressions using climatic variables can be used to estimate cumulative streamflow for an agricultural watershed. / Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management

Transportation corridors are designed to transfer motorists from one area to another in the safest and most efficient way possible. Unfortunately, in Indiana scenic and environmental enhancements, often, were not a priority in the past. The main problem, therefore, is that travelers of most Indiana highways have been deprived of inspiring scenic opportunities and cultural enlightenment, thus there is a need to educate those involved in the design and implementation process to take heed of the advantages these enhancements and amenities can provide.This study examines the SR 67 South transportation corridor from 1-69 at Daleville, Indiana, to Delaware CR 500 South, and proposes an overall transportation corridor concept that could be implemented. This study, also, investigates current Indiana Department of Transportation policies and practices involving scenic and environmental enhancements in transportation corridors, while specifically evaluating the department's assessment of the suggestions offered in "The Gateways of Delaware County" study (in which SR 67 was incorporated).In the end, this study provides significant insight into the "posture" of those directly involved in the design and implementation process of transportation corridors; however, augmenting that posture to the advantages and importance of scenic and environmental enhancements will remain a struggle, especially during these economically challenging times. One added subplot; How can the landscape architect provide guidance to bring new understanding to those persons involved in highway design which results in improved scenic and cultural opportunities to SR 67? / Department of Landscape Architecture

It has become something of a cliché for contemporary scholars to assert that Madison turned Montesquieu on his head and thereafter give little thought to the Frenchman’s theory that republics must remain limited in territorial size. Madison did indeed present a formidable challenge to Montesquieu’s theory, but I will demonstrate in this dissertation that the authors of the Federalist Papers arrived at the extended sphere by following a theoretical pathway already cemented by the French philosopher. I will also show that Madison’s “practical sphere” ultimately concedes to Montesquieu that excessive territorial size and high levels of heterogeneity will overwhelm the citizens of a republic and enable the few to oppress the many. The importance of this dissertation is its finding that the principal mechanism devised by the Federalists for dealing with factions—the enlargement of the sphere—was crafted specifically for the purpose of moderating interests, classes, and sects within an otherwise relatively homogeneous nation. Consequently, the diverse republic that is America today may be exposed to the existential threat anticipated by Montesquieu’s theory of size—the plutocratic oppression of society by an elite class that employs the strategy of divide et impera.

The US Supreme Court, its formation and first key decisions The thesis offers an insight of an era in which the Supreme Court of United States was founded and established itself as one of the major government institutions as well as a strong powerhouse of American politics. Essential for understanding of the future importance and role of the Court is to perceive not only its own early history but also an understanding of broader context concerning a development of the early American society as a whole. The thesis based on this implied layout consists of three main chapters. The first attempts to grasp a vast set of conditions which served, each to a different extent, as an inspirational background influence for the Founders in the creation of an American statehood. The natural rights philosophy, a product of the Age of Enlightenment, introduced by the work of John Locke set a foundation for American political thinking. The natural rights approach gloriously manifested itself in the Declaration of Independence (1776) and from then on runs as a red thin line throughout the entire legal history of United States. The Founders in the creation of a new American order amalgamated their knowledge of past human endeavors in various state systems and social structures into a constitutional based system of...