Thesis (doctoral)--Grossh. Badischen Ruprecht-Karls-Universität zu Heidelberg, 1913. / Lebenslauf.

Success is a something that every organization strives for, yet not all accomplish. This investigator reviewed the literature on organizational communication. Specifically, the study examined the use of communication audits as a management tool.The investigator conducted a study of the external publics/ customers, and publics/ staff members of a private, non-profit center. Additionally, the investigator- did an survey of Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) members who are with Fortune 500 companies throughout USA. The purpose was to probe the state of communication research in our country. Result's of the data showed that the use of research has slightly increased. However there is some skepticism regarding the value of public research. / Department of Journalism

Thesis (D. Min.)--Harding University Graduate School of Religion, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 261-285).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Harding University Graduate School of Religion, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 261-285).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Harding University Graduate School of Religion, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 261-285).

En los últimos años se han incrementado de manera notable los gases responsables del efecto invernadero que contribuyen al calentamiento global del planeta. Este aumento está estrechamente relacionado con el consumo de materias procedentes de recursos fósiles, es decir, de naturaleza no renovable. La presente tesis doctoral se ha centrado en el diseño de rutas sostenibles para obtener compuestos de interés para la industria a partir de materias primas derivadas de biomasa. La tesis doctoral se divide en dos capítulos según la finalidad del producto obtenido: compuestos útiles para la industria de química fina o biocarburantes. En el primer capítulo se ha abordado la síntesis de mirtanal, un compuesto de interés en la industria de fragancias por sus propiedades odoríferas, a través de un proceso sostenible, eficiente y medioambiental y económicamente viable. Éste se basa en una reacción de transposición de un terpenoide en presencia de un catalizador sólido que se mantiene activo tras varios ciclos catalíticos. La segunda parte de la tesis doctoral se ha centrado en la producción de biocombustibles de segunda generación a partir de biomasa lignocelulósica. En concreto se han estudiado la tercera y la última etapa del ¿Proceso Sylvan¿, a partir del cual es posible obtener diesel. En la tercera etapa se hace reaccionar 2-metilfurano (nombre común en inglés: Sylvan) para sintetizar un precursor con un número adecuado de átomos de carbono. En el último paso este precursor es hidrodesoxigenado completamente sin perder ningún átomo de carbono. El compuesto final es un carburante diesel de alta calidad. Finalmente, se ha planteado una posible integración del proceso en una planta de fabricación de fibras de celulosa. / De La Torre Alfaro, O. (2013). Transformación de biomasa en productos de química fina y biocarburantes mediante procesos sostenibles [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/31378

There has been an ongoing and noticed conflict in Sweden, between 2006-2019, regarding the opposite interests in an area called ”Ojnareskogen” (The forest of Ojnare), located in the north of Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea. The site has high nature values and borders a protected conservation area, but there is also an interest in the site to be mined for limestone. Through an anthropological perspective, I have analysed the conflict using a trans-disciplinary theory within anthropology, called political ecology, particularly the perspective called political ontology. The conflict is discussed through the several actors that are involved, in addition to governmental institutions and the mining company, ENGO’s and grassroots movements have engaged. I will also pay attention to the conflict against the background of the increasing environmental awareness in today's society expressed in the term Anthropocene. In this context and regarding the ontological turn emphasis on non-human agents, I bring forward a previously invisible actor - the forest itself. / Mellan åren 2006–2019 pågick en uppmärksammad miljökonflikt på Gotland som gällde tillstånd för brytning av kalksten i området Ojnareskogen, ett område med höga naturvärden och angränsande naturskyddsområden. Förutom gruvbolaget och statliga aktörer engagerade sig icke-statliga miljöorganisationer och gräsrotsrörelser. I uppsatsen analyseras aktörerna och deras ställningstaganden med utgångspunkt i det antropologiska forskningsfältet politisk ekologi, särskilt det perspektiv som kommit att kallas politisk ontologi. Jag kommer även att sätta konflikten i relation till den ökade medvetenheten i samhället om naturens sårbarhet som aktualiserats genom antropocen. I den kontexten och med den ontologiska vändningens betoning av att även icke mänsklig agens bör höras, vill jag föra fram en tidigare osynlig aktör – skogen själv.

Newly available industry well data and seismic attribute analysis reveal that late Ordovician-early Devonian Hunton Group strata are more widespread (i.e., not removed by mid-Devonian erosion) in the central and southern portions of the Arkoma Basin in eastern Oklahoma than previously thought. This study demonstrates the value of applying seismic attribute analysis to problems of quantifying and mapping stratigraphic features caused by erosions and/or karstification. Well and seismic isochron data in the Red Oak petroleum field for the Viola-Woodford interval (the units that lie stratigraphically beneath and above, respectively, the Huton Group) show isolated ~40-m thick lenses of Hunton rocks, on average measuring 3 km in diameter, with a surrounding halo of karsted rock. This distribution can be explained in two different ways: 1) Hunton occurrences could represent isolated erosional remnants reflecting incomplete removal of the Hunton Group during Middle Devonian time (pre-Woodford unconformity) or 2) due to karsting and collapse of stratigraphically lower units (Viola or Bromide carbonates), lenses of Hunton rocks would have sagged into sinkholes where they were preserved beneath regional base level. Using formation tops from a well data set correlated with attribute and structure maps from a proprietary 3-D seismic data set, we identify three seismic characteristics in the middle Paleozoic interval that correlate well with: 1) absent Hunton seismic markers, indicating that Hunton rocks were completely removed, 2) the Hunton contacts, indicating where a seismically visible section of Hunton rocks remains, 3) absent Hunton but with a thin horizon included within lower carbonate strata that is interpreted to be an incipient karst zone, which is consistently adjacent to areas containing Hunton rocks. The base of the Sylvan Shale and the top of the Woodford Shale, the respective lower and upper adjoining units, form significant chronostratigraphic surfaces. As such, anomalous thicknesses of these units are depositionally related; thick Woodford sections often correlate to thin or absent Hunton rocks, possibly indicating back-filled pre-Woodford channels eroded into or through the Hunton Group. Conversely, when there is little or no Woodford thickening over Hunton lenses and when adjacent areas show thinning and partially karsted Viola rocks, we propose that karstic collapse of Viola strata was responsible for the Hunton rocks preservation. A combination of these models may be necessary to account for areas where we see thinning both in the Woodford and Viola, suggesting that a Hunton lens is structurally lowered due to karsting, but due to its erosionally resistive nature, the lens forms a depositional high, causing the Woodford to thin over it. The 3-D approach is absolutely necessary to reveal the subtle waveform details that illustrate the karstic and erosional processes involved in the preservation of the Hunton wedges. These findings were interpolated, constrained by well data, over the entire Oklahoma portion of the Arkoma basin in order to produce a new Hunton isopach map and 20 separate cross-sections (two shown herein). These show a broad linear region of absent Hunton. Eustatic sea levels rose throughout the middle and late Devonian, so this large area of eroded Hunton is interpreted as a post-Hunton, pre-Woodford structural uplift. Other Hunton wedges, similar in size and extant to that seismically imaged in this study, were also found in the well data. The karstic collapse of the Viola and subsequent preservation of Hunton rocks occurred on both limbs of the arch.