Beethoven's early sonatas have already revealed a complex and varied technique that can present significant difficulties for intermediate piano students. In particular, the absence of systematic methodological guidance, as well as the lack of suitable and high-quality repertoire, can result in students struggling to learn Beethoven's piano technique and not being satisfied with the results. By examining and analyzing the theories of great educators, pedagogues, and performers, some of the standard technical patterns are identified and methods of mastering them are summarized. A sampling of related late-elementary level and intermediate level repertoire is identified, providing study material for students starting to learn the Beethoven sonatas, and serving as a guide for their teachers.

The broad aim of this essay is to examine the different variations of the wooden clog throughout the ages, beginning in the 13th century and moving onward to the present. Geographically speaking,the paper focuses on wooden clogs from western Europe and Sweden especially. The different versions of the wooden clog are presented chronologically and compared accordingly. As the analysis inches closer to the present-day clog, aspects of branding, commerce and advertising grow more relevant. Visual semiotics is used to analyse how certain messages are communicated through the design of the clogs in question. It is evident that not only the style of the wooden clog has changed throughout the years, but the shoes inherent meaning too. The present-day clog possesses (unlike its predecessors) a capacity to express the wearer’s identity, be it one’s gender or ancestry, by means of design.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:36:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ArquivoTotalWagner.pdf: 1537495 bytes, checksum: 24391c06b84eb789a63789d66472a304 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The Dynamic Allocation Problem Spaces (DSAP) is recent literature, and was inspired by the need to minimize the distances between requested resources for the execution of activities in nuclear power plants. There are similarities of the problem with projects in which the movement of resources generates costs for the final planning, or in cases where congestion of these resources is not advisable, as in large buildings or works in mining. It is necessary, the use of these approximation methods considered to be NP hard. For this, a new constructive heuristic is proposed using integer linear programming model based on activity streams that incorporate information from the graph of dependencies between activities, and then an application of the hybrid GRASP meta-heuristic is discussed. The computational results show that this approach is able to obtain high-quality solutions. / O Problema da Alocação Dinâmica de Espaços (PADE) foi inspirado na necessidade de otimização da distância percorrida por recursos requeridos para realização de atividades na ocorrência de desligamentos planejados em centrais de energia elétrica. Em geral, o problema apresenta aplicações potenciais em projetos nos quais movimentar um recurso é uma tarefa difícil ou cara, ou nos quais o congestionamento desses recursos é indesejável,como em atividades de mineração.Este problema é computacionalmente difícil de se resolvido, logo obter uma solução ótima para instâncias de elevadas dimensões justica o uso de métodos aproximativos. Este trabalho propõe a utilização da metaheurística GRASP para a resolução do PADE.