Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:24:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claudia Fabiana Alves.pdf: 784972 bytes, checksum: 387aa4a7c0538ad6bdc4162b646bcf36 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-26 / The current program to produce certified citrus nursery in the state of Goiás provides that the seedlings must be grown in protected environment for screen approves of insect vectors and grown in containers with substrate free of pathogens. The citrus agribusiness in Goiás has a great potential for production and there are few information on the basis of an orchard and made the changes. Meet the march of absorption of nutrients in citrus nursery is a prerequisite. The objective of this study was to evaluate the march of growth and absorption of nutrients in citrus nursery grown in greenhouse in the state of Goiás The experiment was conducted under commercial greenhouse in the municipality of Goiânia, GO, june 2007 to may 2008. The door-graft was used lemon and clove to orange pear scion variety. The fertigation was provided after transplanting of seedlings, three times a week and the nutrients: N = 226, P = 150, K = 176, Ca = 190, Mg = 288, S = 128.8, Fe = 3.0 , Zn = 30, Cu = 48 and Mn = 25 g 1000 L-1. Every 30 days, after emergence, were assessed the following parameters: chemical characteristics of the substrate, evaluation of biometric data, production of biomass and accumulated levels of macronutrients and micronutrients in citrus nursery by age of the plant. The experimental design was completely randomized, in a split-plot, with plots (root, stem, leaf and whole plant) and subplots the stage of development (30 to 360 days after emergence) with three replications. In determining the height and growth of seedlings, we used a ruler graduated in centimeters, taking as reference the distance from the neck to the apex of the changes. The diameter was measured in the neck of the plant using a digital caliper accurate to 0.01 mm. The total biomass accumulated by the seedlings at the end of their training was 31.66 g.plant-1.The N, Ca, Mg and Cu is accumulated more in leaves. The P has had its highest average concentration observed in the stem. The K, S, Fe, Mn and Zn are accumulated in greater quantity in the roots. The nutrients are absorbed in greater quantity in the following order: N > Ca > K > P> Mg > S. The micronutrients were absorbed in greater quantity in the following order: Fe > Mn > Cu > Zn. The higher accumulation of nutrients occurs from 150 to 180 days after emergence and 300 days after emergence. The average levels of nutrients accumulated in orange pear on the rootstock on lemon clove g plant-1 were: N 1.058, P 0.236, K 0.632, Ca 0.871, Mg 0.143 and S 0.105. The cumulative average levels of micronutrients in mg plant-1 were: Cu - 0.2036, Fe - 2.1188, Mn - 0.8694 and Zn - 0.0534. The accumulation of nutrients in parts of the plant followed the following order: leaf > stem > root, and the accumulation of micronutrients in the following order: root > leaf > stem. / O atual programa para produção de mudas cítricas certificadas no estado de Goiás determina que as mudas devem ser produzidas em ambiente protegido por tela aprova de insetos vetores e cultivadas em recipientes com substrato livre de patógenos. O agronegócio citrícola em Goiás tem um grande potencial de produção e poucas são as informações sobre a base de um pomar bem formado, a muda. Conhecer a marcha de absorção de nutrientes de mudas cítricas é condição indispensável. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o crescimento e a marcha de absorção de nutrientes em mudas cítricas cultivadas em ambiente protegido no estado de Goiás. O experimento foi realizado sob estufa comercial no município de Goiânia, GO, de junho de 2007 à maio de 2008. O portaenxerto utilizado foi o limão cravo e variedade copa a laranja pera. A fertirrigação foi fornecida após o transplantio das mudas, três vezes por semana e com os nutrientes: N = 226; P = 150; K = 176; Ca = 190; Mg = 288; S = 128,8; Fe = 3,0; Zn = 30; Cu = 48 e Mn 25 g 1000 L-1. A cada 30 dias, após a emergência, foram avaliados os seguintes parâmetros: características químicas do substrato, avaliação dos dados biométricos, produção de fitomassa e teores acumulados de macro e micronutrientes nas mudas cítricas em função da idade da planta. O delineamento experimental foi o inteiramente casualizado, em arranjo split-plot, sendo as parcelas (raiz, caule, folha e planta inteira) e subparcelas o estádio de desenvolvimento (30 a 360 dias após a emergência) com três repetições. Na determinação da altura e crescimento das mudas, foi utilizada uma régua graduada em centímetros, tomando como referência à distância do colo ao ápice da muda. O diâmetro foi medido na região do colo da planta com a utilização de um paquímetro digital com precisão para 0,01 mm. O total de fitomassa acumulado pelas mudas no final de sua formação foi de 31,66 g planta-1.O N, Ca, Mg e Cu acumularam-se mais nas folhas. Já o P teve sua maior concentração média observada no caule. O K, S, Fe, Mn e Zn acumularamse em maior quantidade nas raízes. Os macronutrientes foram absorvidos em maior quantidade na seguinte ordem: N > Ca > K > P > Mg > S. Os micronutrientes foram absorvidos em maior quantidade na seguinte ordem: Fe > Mn > Cu > Zn. O maior acúmulo de nutrientes ocorre dos 150 a 180 dias após a emergência e aos 300 dias após a emergência. Os teores médios de macronutrientes acumulado em laranja pera sobre portaenxerto limão cravo em g planta-1 foram: N 1,058; P 0,236; K 0,632; Ca 0,871; Mg 0,143 e S 0,105. Os teores médios acumulado de micronutrientes em mg planta-1 foram: Cu 0,2036; Fe 2,1188; Mn 0,8694 e Zn 0,0534. O acúmulo de macronutrientes nas partes da planta obedeceu a seguinte ordem: folha > caule > raiz, e o acúmulo de micronutrientes obedeceram a seguinte ordem: raiz > folha > caule.

This study analyzes the parameter &ldquo / hydrodynamic demand&rdquo / that is also defined by the square of Froude Number representing the damage of tsunami waves on structures and coastlines, and other hydrodynamic parameters, i.e., the distribution of instantaneous flow depths, runup values and the direction of maximum currents, occurred during tsunami inundation by using advanced numerical modeling. The analyses are performed on regular-shaped basins with different bottom slopes and real-shaped topographies using different wave shapes, wave periods and types. Various orientation and amount of coastal and land structures are used in simulations to have results for many different cases. This study provides the opportunity to define the damage of level in residential areas and to test the performance of coastal protection structures. The behavior of tsunami hydrodynamic parameters in shallow and inundation zone is investigated and a correlation is obtained between the average maximum values of square of Froude Number with the wave characteristics and sea bottom slope. After determining hydrodynamic parameters in regular shaped basins, a case study is applied by modeling the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami with finer resolution in nested domains. The determination of hydrodynamic parameters in inundation zone during 2011 Japan event is performed in one of the most damaged coastal city Kamaishi.

The Nashville Civil Rights Movement was one of the most dynamic local movements of the early 1960s, producing the most capable student leaders of the period 1960 to 1965. Despite such a feat, the historical record has largely overlooked this phenomenon. What circumstances allowed Nashville to produce such a dynamic movement whose youth leadership of John Lewis, Diane Nash, Bernard LaFayette, and James Bevel had no parallel? How was this small cadre able to influence movement developments on local and a national level? In order to address these critical research questions, standard historical methods of inquiry will be employed. These include the use of secondary sources, primarily Civil Rights Movement histories and memoirs, scholarly articles, and dissertations and theses. The primary sources used include public lectures, articles from various periodicals, extant interviews, numerous manuscript collections, and a variety of audio and video recordings. No original interviews were conducted because of the availability of extensive high quality interviews. This dissertation will demonstrate that the Nashville Movement evolved out of the formation of independent Black churches and college that over time became the primary sites of resistance to racial discrimination, starting in the Nineteenth Century. By the late 1950s, Nashville’s Black college attracted the students who became the driving force of a local movement that quickly established itself at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement. Nashville’s forefront status was due to an intentional leadership training program based upon nonviolence. As a result of the training, leaders had a profound impact upon nearly every major movement development up to 1965, including the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the birth of SNCC, the emergence of Black Power, the direction of the SCLC after 1962, the thinking of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Birmingham campaign, and the Selma voting rights campaign. In addition, the Nashville activists helped eliminate fear as an obstacle to Black freedom. These activists also revealed new relationship dynamics between students and adults and merged nonviolent direct action with voter registration, a combination considered incompatible.

La chaîne invariante forme un complexe nonamérique avec les molécules classiques du CMH de classe II. HLA-DM et HLA-DO, des molécules non-classiques de classe II, sont aussi impliquées dans la présentation des peptides antigéniques aux lymphocytes T. Ces molécules chaperones de la présentation antigénique modulent la capacité d’une cellule à présenter des antigènes par les moloécules classiques du CMH de classe II. La régulation transcriptionnelle des molécules chaperones, tout comme celle des autres molécules du CMH de classe II, est assurée par le transactivateur CIITA. La molécule HLA-DR peut être régulée négativement de manière post-traductionnelle par ubiquitination grâce à l’enzyme E3 ubiquitine ligase MARCH1. Celle-ci est induite par l’interleukine-10 dans les monocytes. L’objectif de ce projet était de déterminer si l’ubiquitination par MARCH1 peut aussi réguler l’expression des molécules chaperones de la présentation antigénique. Les expériences furent réalisées dans le contexte de co-transfections en cellules HEK293T. L’expression des molécules fut évaluée par immunomarquages et cytométrie de flux. Il a été montré que l’isoforme p33 de la chaîne invariante est régulé négativement en présence de MARCH1 à partir de la surface cellulaire, causant ainsi sa dégradation. Tel que démontré par l’utilisation d’un mutant dépourvu de queue cytoplasmique, cette dernière région n’est pas indispensable à ce phénomène. Une hypothèse est qu’une molécule non-identifiée, associée à Ii, serait ubiquitinée par MARCH1, l’entraînant dans sa régulation négative. Il fut déterminer que cette molécule n’était pas CXCR2, un récepteur pouvant être impliqué, avec la chaîne invariante et CD44, en tant que récepteur de MIF (Macrophage Inhibitory Factor). Il fut aussi montré que HLA-DO peut être ciblé par MARCH1 mais ceci ne semble pas être un phénomène dominant; l’expression des complexes DO/DM n’étant pas affectée bien qu’ils entrent en interaction avec MARCH1. L’expression de HLA-DM n’est pas affectée par MARCH1. Il n’a toutefois pas été déterminé hors de tout doute si MARCH1 peut modifier DM; des résultats obtenus avec une queue cytoplasmique de DM possédant une lysine laissant suggérer qu’il est possible que MARCH1 interagisse avec DM. Dans l’ensemble, les travaux démontrent que l’ubiquitination par MARCH1 joue un rôle dans la régulation post-transcriptionnelle de la chaîne invariante p33 mais pas HLA-DO et HLA-DM. / The invariant chain, which form a nonameric complex with the classical MHC class II molecules. HLA-DM and HLA-DO (non-classical class II molecules) are involved in the presentation of antigens to T lymphocytes. The chaperons molecules of the antigenic presentation can modulate the capacity of the cells to present antigens. The transcriptional regulation of the chaperons and all of the other molecules linked to the MHC is assured by the CIITA transactivator. Little is know of the post-transcriptional mechanisms, other than the fact that HLA-DR molecule can be down-regulated by ubiquitination due to E3 ubiquitin ligase MARCH1. MARCH1 is induce by interleukin-10 in monocytes. The goal of this project is to figure out if ubiquitination by MARCH1 can also regulate the expression of the antigenic presentation chaperons. The experiences were performed in the context of co-transfections in HEK293T cells and the expression of the diverses molecules was evaluated by cell stainings and FACS analysis. The p33 isoform of the invariant chain was found to be down-regulated and degraded in the presence of MARCH1. The invariant chain cytoplasmic tail is not completely essential to this phenomenon; a non-identified molecule, associated with Ii, is probably ubiquitinated by MARCH1 and is then down-regulated, together with Ii. It was shown tha CXCR2, a reeptor involved with the invariant chain and CD44 in the reception of the MIF signal, is not that molecule. HLA-DO can ben targetd by MARCH1 but this does not seem to be a general phenomenon; the expression of the DO/DM complexes remaning unaffected even with the interaction of those complexes with MARCH1. Therefore, a certain protection seem to be provided by HLA-DM to HLA-DO. The expression of HLA-DM itself is not affected by the presence of MARCH1. However, it was not cleary demonstrated if MARCH1 can modify DM. Some results obtained with a cytoplasmic tail of DM comprising an additional lysine suggest that there is a possibility that MARCH1 interact with DM. Generally, the work presented here show that ubiquitination by MARCH1 is involved in post-transcriptionnal regulation of the p33 isoform of the invariant chain but not in the regulation of HLA-DO and HLA-DM.

蔣中正和毛澤東，同為二十世紀中國的重要領導人物，其影響不僅是在政治上，更在軍事上。兩人都是偉大的戰略指導者和軍事理論家，或者至少他們的追隨者如此宣稱。在超越領袖崇拜的今天，這個形容仍是事實嗎？ 蔣、毛第一次在軍事上對決是在江西第三次圍剿。毛澤東已取得前兩次反圍剿的勝利，他發展出一個理論應付國軍的圍剿：集中兵力各個擊破國軍分散的各路。加上共產黨的動員力量，國軍的圍剿相當困難。蔣中正有鑑於此，做出了戰略上的轉向，新的戰略結合碉堡戰術、封鎖、「三分軍事七分政治」等方針。最終對贏得了第五次圍剿。毛澤東在長征中重新取回領導權，他馬上面對的是國軍在貴州的新一波圍剿。由於遠離蘇區戰鬥，因此只有很少的補給和援助。會戰展開也不順利，土城、魯班場之戰戰敗，而僅以慘勝贏得遵義之戰。但毛終究設法逃出蔣的包圍圈，並離開貴州與紅四方面軍會師。由於毛澤東和張國燾的戰略歧見，毛澤東獨自帶領紅軍北上抵達陝北與當地紅軍會合。紅軍東征入晉，宣稱要到華北抗日。但為蔣增援山西的中央軍所擊退。在紅四方面軍北上之後，為了在甘肅、寧夏打通蘇聯援助路線，紅軍渡過黃河。但為蔣中正命令下的國軍所切斷，這個行動最終導致了西路軍的潰滅。 在剿共戰爭當中，蔣中正和毛澤東各自研發出他們的理論與對中國戰爭的認知。他們的共識是中國的戰爭是不同於外國的戰爭的。此階段可以視為他們的軍事思想奠基時期。毛澤東所寫的「中國革命戰爭的戰略問題」成為以後他的軍事著作的先聲。另一方面，蔣中正對此的經驗則比較是方法上的，以軍官訓練團訓練軍官及幹部、親自編撰各式「手本」等戰術教材，這些方法的延續持續到抗戰之後，甚至到臺灣時期。 / Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao Ze-Dong, two great leader of 20th century China, not only politically but also militarily. Both man are, or so claim separately by their followers, are great stretegist and military theorist. Beyond the worship of both man, is that true? Chiang and Mao’s first military encounter was the third encirclement campaign of Jiang-Xi. Mao already won the first two, he develop a theory to counter Nationalists’ encirclement by concentrating strength and attack the enemy detachment separately. Along with the mobilizational power of Communists, Nationalists’ encirclement campaign turns out very difficult. Chiang realize that, and making a dramatic turn of strategy, combine with bunker tactics, blockade, and political mobilization of people. Chiang eventually won the fifth encirclement campaign over the Mao-absence Communists. Mao took back his command during the Long March. He soon faces the Nationalists’ encirclement again in Guizhou. This time he is not fighting on a soviet area, therefore gain little support and reinforcement. The battles are not quite well either, Lost two of them and won one costly. But he still manage to escape from Chiang’s encirclement, and leave Guizhou to rendezvous with other Red Army. Because of strategy difference between Mao and another Communist leader Zhang Guotao, Mao leads his troop go north to Shaanxi, rendezvous with local Red Army. Mao attacks Shanxi by claiming they want to fight Japanese evasion at North, driven back by Chiang’s reinforcement to local warlord Yan Xishan. To fulfill the strategy goal of reaching USSR to get supplies, Communists launch another campaign in Ningxia and Gansu and crossed Yellow River. But the Red Army been cut off by Chiang’s nationalist army, this later leads to the elimination of the west side detached Red Army. During the war, Chiang and Mao both develop their own theory and knowledge of War in China, which they both believe in common is different from foreign wars. The period of first Chinese civil war, can be seen as their military thought’s foundation. Mao wrote “Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War” to conclude this war, became the pioneer of his military works later on. Chiang, on other hand, took the experience most in method way: retrain officers in special facility, write tactic handbooks.These methods cotinuely used by Chiang on later wars against Japan, even in Taiwan in his late years.

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“The Roots of Puritanism in the Korean Presbyterian Church” offers an analysis on Puritanism and an alternative to the contemporary Korean Presbyterian Church, which has lost its course; specifically in the current century of mission in Korea. The reasons for the abovementioned idea are as follows. Firstly, Puritanism was not foreign concept to Korean Christians, who have had contact with the concept before. Early missionaries in America fought against Conservatism (or Fundamentalism) and Liberalism. The conservative camp especially tried to hold on to the Westminster Confession of Faith and the authority of the Bible. These were the representatives of Puritan legacies. Puritanism was naturally implanted into Korean soil through early foreign missionaries who preached the Gospel. Therefore, the suggested idea must take on the character not of a creation but of a restoration in terms of the Korean Presbyterian Church. Secondly, it is due to its confidence that the Puritans pursuing points, which tried to establish the whole society on the basis of the Bible, are the answer to the contemporary Korean Presbyterian Church, which has stagnated in both number and quality of faith. The Puritans did not separate faith from the secular world. Instead, they tried to establish their society on the Bible. The Covenant with the church and the state as well as the individual was a strong vehicle for their thoughts. Their ultimate aim was piety in the presence of God. Meanwhile, the early Korean Presbyterian Church adopted the Twelve Articles of Faith and the Westminster Confession of Faith as official creeds. It meant that the Korean Presbyterian Church kept the Puritan point of the Bible and faith from 1884 to the middle of the 1930’s. The faculty of Pyungyang Theological Seminary, which was a unique training school for would-be ministers, taught the Puritan faith and theology thoroughly. However, Korean political changes tremendously influenced her Christianity. During the period of Japanese Imperialism (1919-1945), the early conservative faith and theology had to face the challenge of Liberalism. The whole of the Korean Presbyterian Church submitted to the Japanese iron-fisted rule and Shrine Worship in 1937. However, the Puritan faith and theology were rediscovered through the faith of the few resistors of Japanese rule. After Liberation from Japan in 1945, the antagonism of ideology caused Korea divided into two. On the one hand, North Korea fell under the banner of communism, which thoroughly eradicated the church in terms of its ideology more than the Japanese did. On the other hand, South Korea joined under the banner of democracy and churches were found to be in an unparalleled prosperous condition. The few resistors of Japanese imperialism cried out for the Puritan faith and demanded that the Korean Church should officially repent the sin of Japanese Shrine worship. However, an overwhelming majority consisting of the ecclesiastical authorities rejected their proposal as well as their faith and treated them as religious outcasts. The few resistors detached themselves from the established denomination and formed the Goshin Party. After the separation, schisms of denomination accelerated, because of differences in faith and theology or religious concession. In addition, Pentecostal theology and its spirituality as a substitute to Puritanism were more dominant in Korean Christianity than any other denominations. The Private experience and the charismata of the Holy Spirit were the keys points of the Pentecostal movement. They contributed to the concern and development of Pneumatology in Korean Christianity. However, Pentecostalism made the Presbyterian Church interpret the Bible without theological balance. The church began to seek material blessings instead of spiritual ones and to the pursuit of this world instead of the next. In addition, the Presbyterian Church was only concerned with itself without being indifferent to the ungodly society beyond itself. In conclusion, the restoration of Puritanism, which tried to base both the society and the church on the foundation of the Bible, is the best solution to the future contemporary Presbyterian Church. / Thesis (PhD (Church History and Church Polity))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Church History and Church Policy / PhD / unrestricted

Précédée par le tumulte de multiples scandales médiatiques ayant dévoilé des faits de maltraitances, ignorés ou provoqués par le dispositif de la protection de l'enfance, la loi du 5 mars 2007 se voulait remédier à des dysfonctionnements intrinsèques au service de protection en restructurant sémantiquement et formellement le fonctionnement, la mission et le champ définitionnel recouvrant l'ensemble du dispositif. S'enracinant autour d'une mission de « prévention » des risques de maltraitance et de « soutien à la parentalité », de nouveaux vocables (« risque de danger », « danger »), instruments (« Informations Préoccupantes », « Projet Pour l'Enfant ») et de nouvelles instances (« Cellule de Recueil des Informations Préoccupantes », « Observatoire ») ont accompagné le caractère réformateur de la loi. Au-delà du simple changement et renouvellement sémantique, cette constellation de mots et de syntagmes n'était pas sans produire de profondes altérations dans l'agencement des rôles, des fonctions et des identités de chaque acteur pris dans le réseau énonciatif du dispositif. À partir d'un ensemble d'énoncés prescriptifs, la loi façonnait et engageait les professionnels à faire-avec un nouveau paradigme général sur la représentation du lien parent-enfant. Il ne s'agissait plus pour les professionnels, à l'intérieur de cette vision, de sanctionner un parent potentiellement « carencé », ou de couper un lien jugé « toxique » pour protéger un enfant, mais de permettre au sujet parental de se découvrir (« s'éliciter ») et d'investir son rôle de parent. Soutenu par une médiation institutionnelle, le parent se voyait en cela potentiellement désigné, depuis l'article 375 du Code civil, comme un actant responsable du bon « développement physique, affectif, intellectuel et social » de l'enfant. Réagençant les linéaments sur lesquels reposait la prise en charge d'un usager, la loi réorganisait en profondeur la structure du comportement des différents acteurs. S'interrogeant sur ces diverses modifications normatives, ce travail de recherche se propose de saisir les « effets » opérés par la loi du 5 mars 2007 sur les pratiques, la pensée et les relations entre professionnels, usagers et institutions. À travers les analyses des dossiers de la protection de l'enfance, des évolutions législatives, institutionnelles, discursives et d'entretiens réalisés avec des travailleurs sociaux, nous chercherons à comprendre comment se sont redessinés les rapports de pouvoir entre des familles et des professionnels porteurs d'une intervention « parentaliste ». Se rapportant aux répercussions du discours d'un dispositif de régulation sociale sur des sujets, cette étude empruntera une lecture et une analyse similaire, dans ses principes et ses méthodes, à celles que M. Foucault a effectuées sur la prison ou la sexualité. À l'issue de l'analyse critique, et ce pour dépasser les difficultés rencontrées autour de nouvelles pistes de réflexion, la recherche donnera lieu à la formalisation de préconisations. / Preceded by the tumult of multiple media scandals having unveiled the facts of abuse, ignored or provoked by the child protection system, the law of March 5, 2007 was intented to remedy to intrinsic failures in the protection service by semantically and formally restructuring the operation, the mission and the definitional field covering the entire device. Rooting around the abuses risk « prevention » mission and « parentality support », a few new vocables (« Danger Risk », « Danger »), instruments (« Worrying Information », « Project For the Child ») and new instances (« Cell Collecting Information of Concern », « Observatory ») have accompanied the law's reformist character. Beyond the simple change and semantic renewal, this constellation of words and sentences was not without producing profound alternations in the arrangement of roles, functions and identities of each actor caught in the enunciative network of the device. From a set of normative statements, the law shaped and committed professionals to do-with a new general paradigm on the representation of the parent-child link. It was no longer for the professionals, inside of this vision, to punish a parent potentially « deficiencied », or to cut off a link judged « toxic » to protect a child, but to allow the parental subject to discover itself (« to elicit ») and invest its role of parent. Supported by an institutional mediation, the parent was potentially designated, since Article 375 of the Civil Code, as an protagonist for the good « physical, emotional, intellectual and social development » of the child. Reordering the elementary lines on which was based the care of a user, the law reorganized in depth the behavior's structure of the various actors. Wondering about these various normative changes, this research work offers itself to seize the operated « effects » by the law of March 5, 2007 on practices, the thought and the relationships between professionals, users and institutions. Through analyzes of child protection files, legislative, institutional, discursive evolutions and interviews with social workers, we will seek to understand how did the power reports between the relatives and the professionals carriers of « parentalist » intervention. Referring to the repercussions of the speech of a social regulation device on topics, this study will borrow a similar reading and analysis, in its principles and methods, to what Mr. Foucault has done on prison or sexuality. At the end of the critical analysis, and to overcome the difficulties encountered around new lines of thought, the research will lead to the formalization of recommendations.

HIMA! / NOW! - translation from Armenian In light of recent and ongoing protests, demonstrations and riots in Ukraine, Egypt, Israel or Armenia, some actual questions arise such as how is the built environment used as an area of protest, how it is chosen as a focal point or path for resistance, what are the common characteristics of revolutionary spaces and how the environment effects on success. Lack of democracy from the government and in everyday life of Armenia society, total corruption and feeling of impunity oligarchy, the government and most of governmental institutions, weak economic growth accompanied by alarming number of emigration as well as successful scenarios in neighboring Georgia and Ukraine, force to predict a inescapable eruption of protests Armenia in near future. History shows that protests and civil disobedience are inevitable and necessary expressions of dissent in any democratic nation and country. However there are different passive tools to improve democratic institutions in the society and country in general such as public forums, open discussions and debates, freedom of speech and media etc. With this project I want to create a great Park with generous program embracing main democratic principles as a Public Space and Forum for everyone in capital of Armenia, Yerevan, BUT in case of nascent civil resistance the Park will become a space as a tool with urban inventory that people can use, manipulate, claim in order to defend their values and save own life's. This will be a Playground/Fortress for Democracy !

Master of Music / Department of Music / Frank C. Tracz / The following report is an in depth research and analysis project based on the graduation requirement for a Masters in Music Degree from Kansas State University. The product of this project was a conducting recital performed by Michael E. Bistline with the Union High School Concert Band. This performance was held on May 5, 2009 in Matt Auditorium at Union High School. The repertoire included National Emblem March by E.E. Bagley/edited by Frederick Fennell, On An American Spiritual by David Holsinger, Portraits by Jim Colonna, and Serenade Op. 22 (c) by Derek Bourgeois. The theoretical, historical and technical analyses of this project was collected using the Unit of the Teacher Resource Guide, developed by Richard Miles and the Macro, Micro, Macro score analysis form developed by Dr. Frank Tracz. This report also includes documentation of the planning and evaluation of each rehearsal.