Essa pesquisa teve como objetivo identificar e catalogar sistematicamente os objetos que serviram como \'dinheiro primitivo\' na área andina durante o período conhecido como Horizonte Tardio, que vai de 1.476 a 1.534 d.C. Após este primeiro passo, tentamos precisar em quais esferas sociais estes objetos circulavam e que papel desempenhavam em cada uma delas, definindo, assim, o seu funcionamento em um sistema de valor determinado e específico. O tema da pesquisa se justifica basicamente por dois motivos: (a) a forma insatisfatória, e muitas vezes superficial, com que os trabalhos a respeito da economia incaica tratam a questão do dinheiro; (b) o costume - ao nosso ver equivocado - de entender o \'dinheiro primitivo\' por meio de conceitos alheios à realidade do antigo Peru. Para a realização dessa pesquisa foram utilizadas como fontes principais as crônicas espanholas escritas durante os séculos XVI e XVII. Sempre com o cuidado de não cair em anacronismos, fato comum quando se trata de pesquisas a respeito da economia nas sociedades consideradas arcaicas. Esperamos com este trabalho poder contribuir para uma compreensão mais ampla do \'dinheiro primitivo\' e da noção de valor entre os Incas. / The scope of this research is to systematically classify and identify the objects that served as \'primitive money\' in the Andean region during the period know as the Late Horizon, which covers the years 1476 through 1534 A.D. We tried to indicate how these objects circulated within the various social spheres and the role they played in each one of them, in order to determine their function in a system that had definite and specific values. The reason to decide on this theme was basically two: (a) the inadequate and often superficial way which money issue is dealt with in the existing works on Inka economy; (b) the general understanding of \'primitive money\' by means of concepts which are not appropriate to the reality of ancient Peru. This research was based on chronicles written by Spaniards during the XVI and XVII centuries. Throughout this work, we were careful not to fall into anachronism, since that usually happens in researches on economy about the so called archaic societies. We hope that this work may be a contribution to a better understanding of \'primitive money\' and notion of value in the Inka society.

The work deals with associative thinking and its relation to form design. In contrast to present "conceptual procedures", the creative process is based on "Ad hoc" ways of working, where the designer / engineer becomes a handyman / bricoleur. However, if the architect becomes a bricoleur, he must also get rid of the conceptualization of the work through a plan. This apparent detail inevitably leads to the reconfiguration of other parts of the profession, present since the time of Alberti, when the relationship between the architect and the client is defined by the drawing - the plan. The project simulates the probable way of organizing the work of the architect / bricoleur of the present.

Title: The Use of Therasuit method on individuals with cerebral palsy Objectives: The main objective of the work is to observe a 4-week rehabilitation program according to the Therasuit method. Determine whether there will be changes in the area of gross motor skills and primitive reflexes, and to describe the individual course of the rehabilitation process in individual probands. Another objective is an evaluation of the therapeutic effect on the child's physical activities from the parents point of view. Methods: It is a mixed research method which contains an empirical-theoretical form of case sudies of 3 probands.The study included 2 boys and 1 girl aged 3, 4 and 7 years with a diagnosis of cerebral palsy, while in the first proband it occurs in the form of spastic diparesis, in the second one in the form of spastic hemiparesis, and in the third one in the form of spastic triparesis. The data collection methods used include input and output kinesiological analysis, qualitative observation of the rehabilitation process and a qualitative interview with a legal representative focused on the child's physical activities prior to and after rehabilitation. Results: We found that after 4-week rehabilitation according to the Therasuit method, all 3 probands improved their gross motor skills. In all 3...

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In this dissertation, we explore the nature of Schur rings over finite cyclic groups, both algebraically and combinatorially. We provide a survey of many fundamental properties and constructions of Schur rings over arbitrary finite groups. After specializing to the case of cyclic groups, we provide an extensive treatment of the idempotents of Schur rings and a description for the complete set of primitive idempotents. We also use Galois theory to provide a classification theorem of Schur rings over cyclic groups similar to a theorem of Leung and Man and use this classification to provide a formula for the number of Schur rings over cyclic p-groups.

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Dispossession has been playing a central role in capitalist accumulation over the last four-hundred-year history of modern capitalism. This dissertation theorizes how dispossession contributes to producing and reproducing the capitalist mode of production in Bangladesh. To do so, the dissertation empirically examines three interrelated aspects of dispossession in its three analytical chapters. First, it explores how the state and the market work in tandem to organize and control dispossession while grabbing land and expelling peasants from their places. Next, it investigates how dispossession contributes to providing 'potential capitals,' such as grabbed land and dispossessed peasants, to the production sites to be converted into 'constant capital' and 'variable capital' and to creating antagonistic class relations. Finally, it explores how market and non-market actors control those dispossessed peasants-turned-workers inside and outside factories to produce surplus values in order to reproduce the capitalist system locally and globally. These three interactive components of dispossession show three successive phases of capitalist accumulation: land-grabbing by divorcing independent producers from their livelihoods (the initial phase), converting land into capital, peasants into wage workers, and non-capitalists into capitalists (the intermediate phase), and controlling and exploiting those wage workers to produce surpluses or a cycle of new capital (the final phase). This dissertation accordingly advances a full-scale theory of dispossession in its concluding chapter by examining how the starting, intermediate, and ending points of dispossession contribute to capitalist accumulation. The dissertation draws on a wide range of empirical evidence collected from Panthapath, Dhaka, Bangladesh. These include 77 life histories, 50 interviews, a land-use survey of 1,007 structures, and a short survey of 147 slums. It also uses various historical records and archival documents. The three major findings of this dissertation are as follows. First, the dissertation shows that the state acts as a class to organize land grabs, often working in tandem with the private sector, but also in direct competition with the market. Not only does the state monopolize extra-economic means to grab land, but the market also often gains access to extra-economic means. Next, the dissertation shows that dispossession works to privatize the commons, proletarianize subsistence labor, create antagonistic class relations, and redistribute wealth upward. Finally, the dissertation identifies a new regime of labor control, called social despotism, that dominates and exploits workers in factories to produce surpluses. I conclude this study with policy recommendations designed to address the various dimensions of structural injustice described in this dissertation. / Doctor of Philosophy / This dissertation theorizes how dispossession contributes to producing and reproducing the capitalist mode of production in Bangladesh. In its three analytical chapters, the dissertation empirically examines three interrelated aspects of dispossession. First, it explores how the state and the market work in tandem to organize and control dispossession while grabbing land and expelling peasants from their places. Next, it investigates how dispossession contributes to providing grabbed land and dispossessed peasants to the production sites and to creating various class hierarchies. Finally, it explores how market and non-market actors control peasants-turned-workers inside and outside factories to produce surplus values in order to reproduce the capitalist system. These three interactive components of dispossession show three successive phases of capitalist accumulation: land-grabbing by evicting peasants from their places (phase 1), converting land into capital, peasants into wage workers, and non-capitalists into capitalists (phase 2), and exploiting wage workers to produce surpluses (phase 3). This dissertation accordingly advances a full-scale theory of dispossession in its concluding chapter by examining how the starting, intermediate, and ending points of dispossession contribute to capitalist accumulation. The dissertation draws on a wide range of empirical evidence collected from Panthapath, Dhaka, Bangladesh. These include 77 life histories, 50 interviews, a land-use survey of 1,007 structures, and a short survey of 147 slums. It also uses various historical records and archival documents. Some of the major findings of this dissertation are as follows. First, the dissertation shows that the state acts as a class to organize land grabs, often working in tandem with the private sector, but also in direct competition with the market. Not only does the state monopolize extra-economic means to grab land, but the market also often gains access to extra-economic means. Next, the dissertation shows that dispossession works to privatize the commons, proletarianize subsistence labor, create exploitative class relations, and redistribute wealth upward. Finally, the dissertation identifies a new regime of labor control, called social despotism, that oppresses and exploits workers in factories to produce surpluses.

[ES] «Diosas Primigenias, sus mitos, estética e influencia en el arte y las sociedades hipermodernas líquidas», tiene sus fuentes en distintas áreas del conocimiento como la arqueología, la antropología, la sociología, el arte, los feminismos, la teología, etc., con el fin de facilitar la comprensión de la compleja sociedad actual. Para sustentar las hipótesis y objetivos del trabajo, en una primera parte, hemos elaborado un marco teórico con antecedentes en los mitos primigenios, a partir las teorías de Carl Jung o Mircea Eliade entre otros. En el segundo capítulo revisamos los datos arqueológicos alejados de la visión patriarcal, basándonos en datos científicos de Marija Gimbutas entre otras arqueólogas, proponiendo una visión diferente de la forma de organización social y del rol femenino, de acuerdo con la She Story. El mito aquí tratado, fijado en el subconsciente colectivo, forma parte de la estética de nuestras sociedades líquidas por lo que en el tercer capítulo analizaremos la evolución del pensamiento occidental desde Descartes a Lipovetzky, tocando brevemente a Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Fromm, y posteriormente las teorías de Marc Augé y Zygmunt Bauman. La segunda parte, cuarto capítulo dedicado a Zygmunt Bauman, y cómo sus teorías sociales han descrito minuciosamente la sociedad en que actualmente vivimos. Todo en esta generación líquida está entrelazado, arte, sociedad, tecnología, comunicaciones globales, mass media, comercio, política, mitos, esta liquidez abarca todos los aspectos de nuestras vidas y se refleja en el cuerpo femenino. Analizamos la presencia y manipulación por parte de los medios de comunicación masiva y las tecnologías, de lo que Zygmunt Bauman denomina la Generación Líquida. Generación que ha nacido con las tecnologías y que no entendería su realidad sin estar «conectada». Entregando su libertad a los nuevos líderes de opinión que son los trenders o los bloggers. Traspasando su lealtad incondicional a las empresas tecnológicas tipo Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, etc Se revisa con perspectiva de género el cuerpo femenino en estos tiempos líquidos, a partir de las teorías fundamentales de Judith Butler, Paul B. Preciado y Griselda Pollock. Dando paso al estudio de las teorías de Bauman con el cambio de perspectiva que los mass media, el marketing, y el consumo voraz de información en red han provocado en los mitos estudiados y de forma específica en el mito de la Diosa Primigenia alterando su significado en pos de la comer- cialización por cantantes como Rosalía, la familia Kardashian o la Mujer Maravilla. En el quinto capítulo serán las teorías de la doctora Griselda Pollock sobre la visión de cuerpo femenino a través de las artes, la creación del canon feminista y su posición frente al cuerpo femenino líquido las que sean hilo conductor del trabajo. Finalmente en el sexto y último capítulo se presentan ejemplos del abuso que las comunicaciones masivas, y la tecnología descontrolada desvirtúan los mitos aquí tratados. Se analiza cómo los mass media, los big brothers, los mitos Marvel, la música pop o el rap, representados por ejemplo en la rapera Minaj, o en Cuban doll, los han utilizado para convertirse en Diosas Primigenias mutantes y desvirtuadas. Se cierra el estudio con ejemplos de las artistas visuales y escultoras, desligadas del fenómeno del comercio rampante; productoras plásticas que advierten de estos peligros y nos conciencian de que el verdadero mito primigenio de esta Diosa sigue vivo y sano, en un mundo donde aún existe la conciencia y la salud mental, como Ana Mendieta, Rebecca Horn, Nalini Malani entre otras. Sirva como colofón mi producción llevada a cabo en relación con el presente proyecto de investigación; materializado en tres exposiciones personales a lo largo de este período bajo los títulos de: «Mujeres Celestes, Mitos Primigenios», «Mitos en tiempos líquidos» y «Mito poemas / [CA] Aquesta investigació «Deesses Primigènies, els seus mites, estètica i influència en l'art i les societats hipermodernes líquides», té les seues fonts en diferents àrees del coneixement com l'arqueologia, l'antropologia, la sociologia, l'art, els feminismes, la teologia, etc., amb la finalitat de facilitar la comprensió de la complexa societat actual, l'estructura líquida que la defineix i la seua influència en l'estètica del cos femení. Per a sustentar les hipòtesis i objectius del treball, en una primera part, hem elaborat un marc teòric amb antecedents en els mites primigenis, a partir les teories de Carl Jung o Mircea Eliade. En el segon capítol revisem les dades arqueològiques allunyades de la visió patriarcal, i basant-nos en dades científiques de Marija Gimbutas entre altres arqueòlogues, analitzem la història des d'un punt de d'acord amb la She Story. El mite ací tractat, fixat en el subconscient col·lectiu, forma part de l'estètica de les nostres societats líquides pel que en el tercer capítol analitzarem brevíssimament l'evolució del pensament occidental des de Descartes a Lipovetzky, recorrent les diferents teories fonamentals per a comprendre on ens trobem en l'actualitat. Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche i Fromm, i posteriorment a les teories de Marc Auge i els «no llocs» i Zygmunt Bauman i la societat líquida. La segona part s'inicia amb el quart capítol dedicat a Zygmunt Bauman, i com les seues teories socials han descrit minuciosament la societat en la que actualment vivim. Tot en aquesta generació líquida està entrellaçat, art, societat, tecnologia, comunicacions globals, mass media, comerç, política, mites, i aquesta liquiditat abasta tots els aspec- tes de les nostres vides i es re ecteix en el cos femení. Analitzem també la presència i manipulació per part dels mitjans de comunicació massiva i les tecnologies, del que Zygmunt Bauman denomina com la «Generació líquida», la societat líquida en l'estètica femenina. Generació que ha nascut amb les tecnologies i que no entendria la seua realitat sense estar «connectada». Entregant la seua llibertat als nous líders d'opinió que són els trenders, els bloguers, les momagers, a les empreses tecnològiques tipus Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, etc., totes elles dedicades als mitjans de comunicació massiva i al control de dades que faciliten als sistemes suprapanòptics per a manipular aquesta llibertat voluntàriament entregada. En el cinquè capítol es resumeixen les xarrades i seminaris haguts amb Griselda Pollock en els seus estudis sobre la visió de cos femení a través de les arts, la creació del cànon feminista i la seua posició enfront del cos femení líquid. Finalment en el sisè i últim capítol es presenten exemples de com l'abús absurd que les comunicacions massives, i la tecnologia descontrolada desvirtuen els mites ací tractats. S'analitza com els mass media, els big brothers, els mites Marvel, la música pop o el rap, representats per exemple en les Kardashians, o en la rapera Minaj, o en Rosalía els han utilitzats per a convertir-se en Deesses Primigènies mutants i desvirtuades. Es tanca l'estudi amb exemples de les artistes visuals i escultores, deslligades del fenomen del comerç rampant; productores plàstiques que adverteixen d'aquests perills i ens consciencien que el vertader mite primigeni d'aquesta Deessa continua viu i sa, en un món on encara existeix la consciència i la salut mental, com Ana Mendieta, Louise Burgeoise, Rebecca Horn, Nalini Malani entre altres. Servisca com a colofó la producció duta a terme en relació amb el present projecte d'investigació; materialitzat en tres exposicions personals al llarg d'aquest període sota els títols de: «Dones Celestes, Mites Primigenis», «Mites en temps líquids» i «Mite poemes femenins». / [EN] This investigation «Primeogenial Goddesses, their myths, aesthetic and inuflence in art and in the hyper-modern liquid societies» is supported by several areas of knowledge, such as archaeology, anthropology, theology, sociology, art, feminisms and psychology, etc., in order to grasp the complexity of the society in which we live. To sustain the hypothesis and objectives of this paper, in the first part we elaborate a theoretical framework, with the background of the primeogenial myths and the female body, based on the theories of Carl Jung or Mircea Eliade among other theorist. In the second chapter archaeological data is revised, based on scientific data of Marija Gimbutas among other archaeologists giving a different point of view, the She Story. The Inherited in the collective subconscious, the myth of the Primogenial Goddess forms part of the aesthetics of our liquid societies, for that reason, in the third chapter, very briefly we analyze the evolution of western thought, from Descartes to Lipovetzky, journey through fundamental theories to understand where we stand now a days: Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and Fromm arriving to the «no place» theory of Mark Augé and finally the liquid society theory of Zygmunt Bauman. On the second part of this work, chapter four, dedicated to Zygmunt Bauman, how its social theories have meticulously analyse the society we live in. How everything is intertwined; art, society, technology, global communications (mass media), commerce, politics, myths in this liquid generation, which cover all aspects of our lives and how it reflects in the feminine body. A generation that has been born into the technologies, and would never understand its own reality if «not connected». They blindly trust it and their new leaders of opinion the trenders, bloggers, momagers, the new loyalty is devoted to technological corporations like Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, handing the private information to the supra panoptic systems, information voluntarily given by the individuals of this generation. A perspective of gender is revised, the female body in liquid times, through the essential theories of Judith Butler, Paul. B. Preciado and Griselda Pollock. How all converge with the theories of Bauman, changing the perspective that mass media, marketing and the insatiable commerce of information on the net. On the fifth chapter Griselda Pollock through its lectures of the feminine body in the arts, the feminine body and the canon, the creation of this feminist canon and the position of the feminine body of the primeogenial myth in modernity, lightens us in such aspects. The sixth and last chapter, examples are given of the absurd abuse of the massive communications, uncontrolled technology and how they undermine and distort the myths we study. This bricoleur mentioned by Levi-Strauss leads to a nonsense power of the voracious commerce that mass media impose on us, like the big brothers, represented by the Kardashians, the Marvel myths. The phenomenon like rappers Minaj, or Rosalía among other mutant Primeogenial Goddesses, twisted and distorted. To close this thesis with samples of art, visual artists and sculptress, detached from the phenomenon of the voracious commerce, plastic producers in which mental health and consciousness still exist among others, Ana Mendieta, Louise Burgeoise, Rebeca Horn, Nalini Malani, or Sahara Sitkin. I conclude this research with my own artistic production which has been presented in three personal exhibits through the duration of the investigations: «Celestial women, Primeogenial myths», «Myths in liquid times» and «Feminine myth-poetics». / Leiva Del Valle, A. (2020). Diosas primigenias, sus mitos, estática e influencia en las sociedades hiper-modernas líquidas [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/156046

Ce mémoire traite des récits de miracle qui se retrouvent dans les Actes apocryphes des Apôtres. Son objectif est d'analyser les récits de miracles dans le but de déterminer s'ils ont des fonctions ou des rôles spécifiques dans les Actes apocryphes. Les Actes analysés sont ceux d'André, de Jean, de Pierre, de Paul, de Thomas et de Philippe. Le mémoire analyse également la question de l'influence du contexte socio-religieux de l'Antiquité tardive sur les Actes apocryphes. Le but de cette analyse est de découvrir si les miracles de l'Antiquité tardive ont les mêmes fonctions que ceux des Actes apocryphes et comment le monde contemporain des Actes a pu influencer ces derniers.

Research on the Berard Auditory Integration Training method has shown improvement in the regulation of attention, activity and impulsivity of children whose auditory system have been re-trained. Anecdotal reports have found improvements in sleeping patterns, balance, allergies, eyesight, eating patterns, depression and other seemingly unrelated physiological states. During the Auditory Integration Training (AIT) procedure dynamic music, with a wide range of frequencies, is processed through a system of filters in the AIT device. The volume and tone of the music is constantly and randomly modulated. The researcher explored Berard AIT as a possible intervention for learners between the ages of six and twelve years, who experienced problems with sustained attention and who have difficulty in shifting their attention from task to task. The aim was to investigate if Berard AIT method would enable the learner to stay calm, relaxed yet alert, with focused attention and thus concentration with appropriate reflection before action. An experimental quantative study, with a pretest-posttest control group design, was conducted to investigate the effect that Berard Auditory Integration Training has on learners with attention problems. Checklists and different measurements were conducted before the training started and repeated three months after the training was completed, to monitor if any change in the way that the learners pay attention, occurred the case group of ten learners was compared with ten learners in a control group who did not initially receive the intervention. Although the results of the post-tests varied amongst the learners, most learners in the experimental group experienced a statistical significant increase in attention control and a reduction in behavioural problems by the third month following the listening sessions. / Thesis (M.Ed.), North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2010