Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1986. / Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. / Dr. Rajesh Chakrabarti, Committee Member ; Dr. Narayanan Jayaraman, Committee Co-Chair ; Dr. Jonathan Clarke, Committee Member ; Dr. Ajay Subramanian, Committee Co-Chair ; Dr. Richard Phillips, Committee Member.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 1999. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-06, Section: A, page: 2142. Adviser: Chistopher Udry.

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-66). Also available on the World Wide Web.

This study provides a spatial and temporal examination of land use change in a southern Illinois wilderness area. The study area is the Clear Springs and Bald Knob Wilderness areas. Land patent and Forest Service acquisition records were compiled with spatial and temporal elements of land transfers examined utilizing a geographic information system (GIS). Current wilderness recreation site impacts and opportunities for solitude conditions were inventoried. Land-cover data for 1938, 1965, 1993, and 2005 were created and analyzed utilizing a geographic information system (GIS). Results indicate that land use change and land ownership have varied both spatially and temporally. First, land ownership transfers were influenced by land costs, availability of funds and topography. Lower land costs resulted in increased land transfers. Bottomlands remained in private ownership for longer periods of time. Second, minimal developments or human improvement for visitor convenience were evident in the wilderness areas. Remote areas offer ample opportunities for wilderness visitors to seek solitude. Wilderness management efforts should continue to monitor areas on a five-year basis to capture status and trends. Third, intensity and temporal human-initiated landscapes have varied. Upland forest dominated the land cover in 1938 with some evidence of grass and croplands located predominantly on bottomlands. By 1993, grass and cropland had virtually been removed from this landscape replaced by forests. Evidence of past land use change exists on the landscape.

Current literature in the fields of political science and communication exhibit confusion over the existence and effect of corporate influence on a newspaper's daily transactions. Does newspaper ownership affect content? Previous research answers this question "yes," "no," and "maybe." I conduct a longitudinal, time series study across 1,366 newspapers and nearly 30 years to answer the question of whether newspaper ownership affects the papers' presidential campaign endorsements in election years. With demographics data and vote returns as well as newspaper ownership and endorsement information, this study looks at newspaper consolidation and the effect of ownership on endorsements. The results shed light on the current confusion. Changing ownership has a partisan effect on endorsements: Ownership change causes a newspaper to endorse the Republican presidential candidate but has no effect on a newspaper's likelihood of endorsing a Democratic candidate.

Em 1994, a prefeitura de São Paulo aprovou uma lei permitindo novos condomínios horizontais de casas em lotes de até 15.000m2, com a intenção de dar continuidade a um tipo urbano tradicional da cidade, chamado \"vila\". Apesar deste modelo ter sofrido várias transformações desde seu surgimento no final do século XIX como habitação para operários, o tipo visualizado pelos desenvolvedores do projeto de lei foi o das vilas rentistas produzidas durante meados do século XX e que nos anos 1980 tiveram grande valorização pelo mercado. Porém, quando a Lei de Vilas foi aprovada, outras referências urbanas já haviam surgido no imaginário coletivo paulistano, e os conjuntos decorrentes da Lei 11.605/94 já são distintos daquelas vilas de meados do século XX. Sejam elas um novo tipo urbano ou uma nova versão do tipo \"vila\", fato é que nenhum estudo consistente sobre esses empreendimentos foi localizado até o momento, mesmo estando esta lei há mais de dez anos em vigor e sua produção em crescimento praticamente constante desde 1994.Nesta pesquisa a intenção é fazer um diagnóstico do que foi produzido, apresentando dez projetos executados de diferentes padrões e regiões da cidade, descobrir o quanto se produziu por ano e por bairro, os motivos de suas configurações físicas finais, quem produziu, quem são e o que pensam os moradores a respeito dos imóveis onde estão morando. No final do trabalho, são apresentadas algumas sugestões para futuros projetos deste tipo na cidade, com a intenção de evitar alguns erros encontrados durante o desenvolvimento do trabalho. / In 1994, São Paulo municipality approved a new law that allows new horizontal joint ownerships in areas until 15.000m2 at this town, to continue the production of a traditional urban type of this city, called vilas. Although this urban type has been modified since its origin in the last 19th century decade as popular housing for industries employees, the goal seeked by the law developers was the form of vilas builded by the middle 20th century for renting. These ones had their market prices increased during the 1980?s.However, when the law was approved, other urban references had already arised to São Paulo popular knowledge, and the properties created through the law of vilas are quite different from the middle 20th century examples. Anyway, no consistent study about these cases was finded until now, although the law has been applied for more than ten years and its production has been increasing since 1994.This research goal is discovering what and how much has been done through these years, who are the developers, who are the consumers (and what they think about their living spaces). Ten cases of different kind of consumers and regions of the city are studied and showed. In the very end some project suggestions are presented, intending to avoid some usual mistakes.

M.Comm. (Business Management) / With the unbannlng of the African National Congress, It soon became evident that they would play a major part In the future of South Africa, politically aswell as economically. With the release of Mr. Nelson Mandela It also became evident that the ANC was seriously considering a policy of natlonallsatlon. This study discusses the economic policy of the National Party which Included, until recent times, socialist doctrines. The study shows the failing position of South Africa's economy but also Indicates that a free market policy would unlock the country's true potential. The economic policy of the National Party since 1948, discriminated to a large extent against black South-Africans, which could well be the main motivating factor why the ANC would be considering a policy of natlonallsation. The study therefore also discusses and comments upon the economic policy of the ANC as was published for the first time In 1990. Subsequent developments In the economic debate within the ANC, which Includes a review of a number of public statements by ANC leaders, Is also discussed as well as the ANC's Reconstruction and Development Programme. The study agrees that there Is more than one form of natlonallsatlon, but Indicates that probably none would be accepted without reserve by the private sector. The study takes a critical view of the advantages and disadvantages of a policy of natlonallsatlon In the South African context. The study discusses the effect that natlonallsatlon would have on the economy of South Africa and that It would probably cause the ANC to have less funds available to use for soclo-economlc purposes than In a free market economy. A conclusion Is reached that a policy of natlonallsatlon In the current circumstances In South Africa, In any form, would be far more disadvantageous to most South African citizens than advantageous.

The diploma thesis entitled "Expropriation of Real Estate" aims to clarify and analyse the legal regulation of forced withdrawal or limitation of the property right to real estate or rights of easement. It does not neglect the changes brought by the recodification of private law. The topic is not a new one, but it is undoubtedly topical, especially with regard to the importance of property rights itself and overlapping of public law with private law. The expropriation of real estate as the most serious interference with property rights is the ultimate means of fulfilling the needs of public interest. For this reason it can be decided only upon fulfilling all conditions stated by law. Based on analysing the English legislation of the expropriation of real estate and critical evaluation of the Czech legal system, attention is drawn to deficiencies and considerations de lege ferenda and through which there are recommended changes to be made in the Czech legal regulation.

I chose for my diploma thesis the theme which is called "Creation and cessation of the land ownership right - legal forms". The aim of the work is to give complex and complete description of basic legal forms of acquiring ownership right to land. The presented work is divided into ten chapters. The first part (second chapter) of the diploma thesis determines the concepts of "ownership", "real estate", "land", "plot" etc. According to Czech law concept of "real estate" means mainly under grounds and buildings firmly linked to ground. Property right as one of the basic human rights protected by Human rights act which for example says that the property right could be restricted or taken away only according the law, inter the legal bounds and for compensation. The current legal order of the Czech Republic regulates the ownership in three types of legal regulations: the Civil Code or the Commercial Code represent the general regulation, the Czech Republic Property Act represents the special regulation and moreover, there are numerous laws mentioning the land property. Third chapter consists of the historical overview on the development of the land's ownership in the Czech Lands in period 1918 - 1989. First I described both Land Reforms governing the considerable transfers of the state property after...