Under what conditions has Russia adopted assertive foreign policies towards neighbouring states in order to pursue regional primacy? Scholars usually map Russia’s foreign policy according to theoretical approaches that are generated either from the individual, the state or the structural levels of analysis. However, each of them, taken individually, cannot account for Russia’s foreign policy across space and time. This study analyses the complex interplay between causal factors by developing a neoclassical realist model of Russia’s pursue of regional primacy in the contested neighbourhood with the EU. This study employs fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) at a cross-case level and Process Tracing at within-case level. fsQCA aims to test the explanatory value of systemic conditions such as external pressure in the regional neighbourhood by other regional powers and membership of target states in a military alliance (i.e. NATO); and of domestic conditions such as Russia’s status recognition by the West, and Russia’s state capacity. This analysis is based on 27 cases of Russia’s interaction with post-Soviet states between 1992 and 2015. Process Tracing is employed as a confirmatory method for within-case analysis.The results of the study suggest that Russia was inclined to adopt assertive foreign policy instruments, particularly military intervention, if external pressure from other great powers in a neighbouring country was combined with Russia’s high state capacity to mobilise resources. Due to NATO membership by neighbouring states, Russia resorted to coercive instruments rather than to direct use of force to maintain regional primacy. Finally, from the comparative process tracing, it emerged that, besides international security concerns and domestic constraints related to Russia’s status recognition, the two violent conflicts of Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia/Abkhazia in the 1990s, which were of equal threat to Russia’s regional primacy in the South Caucasus, bore a different ‘iconic significance’ to Russia.

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Sweden and Finland chose to join NATO, but Ireland and Switzerland chose to remain neutral. This study asked how Irish and Swiss neutrality differs with regards to integration and screening; why does their neutrality differ and how well can structural realism and neoclassical realism explain Irish and Swiss neutrality? The purpose was to gain an understanding of how neutral Ireland and Switzerland could be considerd to be since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and test if Irish and Swiss neutrality could be explained by structural and neoclassical realism. This study used four factors: national defense policy, strategic culture, public opinion, and the policy process. An analytical framework was applied to understand how their neutrality differed. The factors were compared to find where the biggest differences lie which could explain why their neutrality differed. Finally, how they differed was compared with why they differed to understand if the theories used explained their neutrality. The study found that Irish neutrality was more integrated compared with Swiss neutrality. Their neutrality differed due to differences in defense policy and policy process whilst similarities were due to strategic culture and public opinion. Finally, this study found that structural and neoclassical realism could explain Irish and Swiss neutrality, but studies using other theories and methods need to be made to strengthen these results

Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document / Thesis (D Com (Econometrics))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Economics / unrestricted

Several methods are presented for improving upon the traditional analytic “circular” method for constructing a flux-surface aligned curvilinear coordinate system representation of equilibrium plasma geometry and magnetic fields, and the most accurate Asymmetric Miller method is applied to calculations of poloidal asymmetries in plasma density, velocity, and electric potential. Techniques for developing an orthogonalized coordinate system from a general curvilinear representation of plasma flux surfaces and for representing the poloidal component of the magnetic field in the orthogonalized curvilinear system are developed generally, in order to be applied to four plasma flux-surface models. The formalism for approximating flux surfaces originally presented by Miller is extended to include poloidal asymmetries between the upper and lower plasma hemispheres, and is subsequently shown to be more accurate at fitting the shapes of flux surfaces calculated using EFIT than both the traditional “circular” model and two alternative curvilinear models of comparable complexity based on Fourier expansions of major radius, vertical position, and minor radius. Applying the coordinate system orthogonalization technique to these four models allows for calculations of the poloidal magnetic field which, upon comparison to a calculation of the poloidal field performed in a Cartesian system using the experimentally based EFIT prediction for the Grad-Shafranov equilibrium, demonstrates that the asymmetric “Miller” model is also superior to other methods at representing the poloidal magnetic field. A system of equations developed by representing the poloidal variations of velocity, density, and electric potential using O(1) Fourier expansions in the flux-surface averaged neoclassical plasma continuity and momentum balances is solved using several variations of both the “Miller” and “circular” curvilinear models to set geometric scale factors, illustrating the effects that these improvements in geometric modeling have on tokamak fluid theory calculations.

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of ascertaining whether or not A. C. Pigou led to the development of a modern school of Welfare Economics. This study has a threefold purpose. The first is to examine the welfare criterion of the classical tradition. The second is to examine the welfare criterion of the neoclassical tradition. The third is to develop a synthesis of classical and neoclassical into a modern welfare criterion. This study concludes that A. C. Pigou has founded a modern school of Welfare Economics. Pigou accomplished this by synthesizing the welfare doctrines of the classical tradition with that of the neoclassical tradition.

Paul Hindemith was one of the most distinguished composers of the twentieth century. This thesis will begin with biographical information, highlighting important events in his life. Then, in an effort to understand his compositional style and his philosophy of Gebrauchsmusik, his mastery of classical form, the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano is chosen for a detailed stylistic analysis. Treated in the analysis chapter are form, melody, harmony, rhythm, dynamic, and the technically problematic areas involved such as fingering and ensemble with piano. Hindemith's musical style is conservative in form and tonality. Tonality and melodic motives constitute the dominant force throughout the entire sonata. In the analysis of harmony in this study, Hindemith's own analytical method, which he established on acoustical phenomenon, will be employed as is necessary

O presente trabalho busca apresentar a obra de Winckelmann num amplo recorte de textos que contribuem para que vejamos a unidade de seus trabalhos; indicando os avanços dados pelo autor desde os primeiros escritos até a sua obra mais acabada, a História da arte da antiguidade (Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums). A abordagem dos textos aqui selecionados visa apresentar a estruturação do pensamento de Winckelmann desde suas obras seminais até o seu ponto de maior contração conceitual. Esse caminho, a despeito de mudanças e progressos, nos mostra um crescimento, em boa parte coerente, da visão das artes e dos conceitos que dela são extraídos, na medida em que crescem os objetos contemplados. Visamos apresentar a formação de uma história que é, em grande parte, estética e que transfere a carga conceitual daquilo que se pode pensar como a ideia para o modelo plasmado da arte grega. Dos primeiros textos do autor à sua principal obra, o trajeto em direção à antiguidade vai trazer à tona questões que foram fundamentais para a disciplina filosófica da estética. Vemos formarem-se estruturas de abordagem da arte e de sua história que serão sempre subsidiárias da relação direta com o objeto. É na leitura de textos que melhor apresentam esse trajeto que se expõe a formação de um modo de operar que consegue extrair conceitos da obra de arte e suas consequências que baseamos o todo desse trabalho. Sua história, em sendo uma estética, teve desdobramentos dos mais diversos e marcou o debate que relacionava as artes com a filosofia e a história no século XVIII. / This thesis is an enquiry of Winckelmanns works that aims to the presentation of the structures of seeing that had arose as an approach to the works of art and that became the conceptual basis of a history of art that is in fact an aesthetical construction. From his first works, that had been written when the author was a librarian at Nöthnitz to the main works of the roman period, we tried to show a path that is to be thought as attached to the work of art, a contemplation of the arts that does not make great moves without the direct experience of beauty. Beauty comes from the transcendence of a norm to be embodied in the immanence of some works of ancient art that have reached the conceptual beauty in the materiality of the earthly world. The way of doing that, has been constructed, with a surprisingly coherence of some aspects of his theory and with some paradigm changes around the possibilities of seeing. In the major work History of the art of antiquity the tools that were to be acquired in a sort of relationship with the arts of the past that allows the spectator to see towards the embodied surface of the work of art are linked to a dynamics of historical possibilities that arose in the internal movements of societies but the criteria that elects the works is always to be thought as an aesthetic movement. Winckelmann, as an art thinker, established some movements of seeing and concepts that were in the basis of the newborn discipline of aesthetics. His history is as an aesthetics in form of history, and the consequences of that were proliferous, as can be seen in the flourishing debates of the binding of art, philosophy and history in the end of the eighteenth century.

A antropometria é o estudo das medidas do corpo. A medição pode ser realizada no próprio corpo, na chamada técnica direta, ou na representação do indivíduo, na técnica indireta. Os resultados podem ser aplicados nas áreas da medicina, odontologia, fisioterapia, fonoaudiologia, entre outros. A antropometria aplicada à face traz dados referentes ao crescimento, ao envelhecimento e é capaz de traçar características de tecidos moles. É consenso na literatura que não há um padrão facial único que possa servir para todas as populações, sendo que cada uma possui características que as tornam únicas e que devem ser levadas em consideração no planejamento de cirurgias estéticas, ortognáticas e reconstrutivas. Até o momento, não há estudos que tragam o detalhamento antropométrico da face da população brasileira. Assim, o objetivo geral desse trabalho é trazer o levantamento antropométrico facial da população de adultos jovens brancos brasileiros por meio da análise de fotografias em norma frontal, método conhecido como fotoantropometria. As fotografias têm origem de um banco civil de imagens da Polícia Federal brasileira, sendo 689 de indivíduos do sexo feminino (F) e 660 do sexo masculino (M). Foram selecionadas as imagens que possibilitavam a visualização dos pontos fotoantropométricos de interesse e que apresentavam a centralização da cabeça em relação ao plano sagital, ao plano horizontal e ao eixo sagital. Os indivíduos representados nas fotografias foram classificados quanto à ancestralidade levando-se em consideração aspectos como cor da pele, textura do cabelo e morfologia nasal e labial. Os pontos fotoantropométricos foram marcados manualmente nas imagens fotográficas por meio do software SAFF 2D®. As coordenadas em pixels foram transformadas em distâncias lineares e deram origem aos índices, os quais foram analisados sob diversos aspectos. Além das análises realizadas para a população total, os indivíduos foram separados em grupos, considerando-se o sexo e o local de nascimento correspondente às regiões do país, sendo: Sul, Sudeste, Centro-oeste, Nordeste e Norte. A morfologia da face da população de adultos jovens brancos do Brasil foi exaustivamente analisada sob vários aspectos e foi possível concluir que há diferença na morfologia facial entre os sexos e regiões de nascimento. O estudo ainda mostra qual a acurácia dos índices para a estimativa de sexo e predição da região de nascimento. Estudos futuros devem ser realizados para as demais ancestralidades que compõem a população do Brasil. / Anthropometry is the scientific study of the measurements of the human body. These measurements can be performed directly on the body or indirectly on the images of individuals. Their findings can be used in areas such as medicine, dentistry, physical therapy, and speech therapy, among others. Facial anthropometry provides information on growth and aging and can be used to outline characteristics of soft tissues. A consensus agreement has been reached in the literature that there is not a single facial pattern that fits all populations, as each population has unique features that should be taken into account in the planning of esthetic, orthognathic, and reconstructive surgeries. To date, no studies in Brazil have conducted an extensive investigation into the facial pattern of the Brazilian population. Therefore, the overall aim of this study is to carry out a photoanthropometric analysis of the population of young adult white Brazilians by analyzing frontal photographic images. The photographs were obtained from the Brazilian Federal Police image database and include 689 female (F) and 660 male (M) individuals. The images that allowed observing the anthropometric parameters of interest and on which the head had been placed centrally to the sagittal plane, to the horizontal plane, and to the sagittal axis were selected. The individuals depicted on the photographs were classified as to ancestry based on aspects such as skin color, hair texture, and nose and lip morphology. Anthropometric landmarks were made manually on the photographic images using the SAFF 2D® software program. The pixel coordinates were converted to linear distances, giving rise to indices, which were assessed with respect to various aspects. In addition to the analyses of the total population, individuals were categorized into groups according to sex and region of birth (south, southeast, midwest, northeast, or north). The facial morphology of the population of young adult white Brazilians was analyzed comprehensively as to different aspects, leading to the conclusion that facial morphology varies between the sexes and across regions of birth. The study also shows the accuracy of the indices for sex assessment and for prediction of the region of birth. Further studies are needed to evaluate other ancestries that make up the Brazilian population.

En mars 1947, le gouvernement australien dirigé par Joseph Chifley présente devant le Parlement une liste des priorités en matière de politique étrangère et de sécurité pour le Commonwealth d’Australie : « en premier, un soutien plein et entier aux Nations Unies, en second le maintien des liens avec le Commonwealth, en troisième les accords de sécurité avec les Etats-Unis et d’autres Etats [et] en quatrième la participation à la politique régionale ». En 1994, selon le Livre Blanc de la Défense, la politique étrangère de l’Australie a considérablement évolué. Elle repose désormais en priorité sur l’Asie Pacifique : « la sécurité future de l’Australie – comme [sa] prospérité économique – est liée inextricablement à la sécurité et à la prospérité de l’Asie Pacifique ». / N March 1947 the Australian government led by Joseph Chifley present to Parliament a list of priorities in foreign policy and security for the Commonwealth of Australia: "First, a full support to the United Nations, in the second maintaining links with the Commonwealth, in the third security agreements with the United States and other countries [and] in the fourth participation in regional policy. "In 1994, the White Book of Defence, the Australian foreign policy has evolved considerably. She is now based primarily on the Asia Pacific, "the future security of Australia - as [its] economic prosperity - is inextricably linked to security and prosperity of Asia Pacific."

La compréhension du transport d’impuretés dans les tokamaks est cruciale. En effet, les noyaux lourds ne sont que partiellement ionisés dans le cœur du plasma, ils peuvent alors fortement rayonner et entraîner une diminution importante de la qualité du plasma. Une accumulation des impuretés au cœur du plasma est souvent observée au sein des tokamaks. Cette accumulation est souvent attribuée à la physique néoclassique mais le transport turbulent pourrait bien dominer dans la zone de gradient dans ITER. Jusqu’à récemment, le calcul des flux néoclassique et turbulent étaient réalisés de façon distincte, supposant implicitement que les deux canaux de transport sont indépendants. On peut se demander si cette hypothèse est valide.En effet, des simulations obtenues avec le code gyrocinétique GYSELA ont montré l’existence d’une synergie entre transports néoclassique et turbulent dans le cas des impuretés et un mécanisme permettant sa compréhension a été trouvé.La turbulence peut générer des asymétries poloidales. Un travail analytique permet de prédire le niveau et la structure de la partie axisymétrique du potentiel électrique. Deux mécanismes sont à l’origine des asymétries poloidales du potentiel électrique: la compressibilité du flot et le ballonnement de la turbulence.Une nouvelle prédiction du flux d’impureté néoclassique en présence d’asymétries poloidales et d’anisotropie de la pression a été réalisée. Un bon accord a été trouvé entre la nouvelle prédiction et une simulation réalisée avec GYSELA pour laquelle la turbulence est à l’origine des asymétries poloidales et de l’anisotropie de la pression. / Impurity transport is an issue of utmost importance for tokamaks. Indeed high-Z materials are only partially ionized in the plasma core, so that they can lead to prohibitive radiative losses even at low concentrations, and impact dramatically plasma performance and stability. On-axis accumulation of tungsten has been widely observed in tokamaks.While the very core impurity peaking is generally attributed to neoclassical effects, turbulent transport could well dominate in the gradient region at ITER relevant collisionality. Up to recently, first principles simulations of corresponding fluxes were performed with different dedicated codes, implicitly assuming that both transport channels are separable and therefore additive. The validity of this assumption is questionned. Simulations obtained with the gyrokinetic code GYSELA have shown clear evidences of a neoclassical-turbulence synergy for impurity transport and allowed the identification of a mechanism that underly this synergy.An analytical work allows to compute the level and the structure of the axisymmetric part of the electric potential knowing the turbulence intensity. Two mechanisms are found for the generation of poloidal asymmetries of the electric potential: flow compressibility and the ballooning of the turbulence. A new prediction for the neoclassical impurity flux in presence of large poloidal asymmetries and pressure anisotropies has been derived. A fair agreement has been found between the new theoretical prediction for neoclassical impurity flux and the results of a GYSELA simulation displaying large poloidal asymmetries and pressure anisotropies induced by the presence of turbulence.