Thesis (D. Min.)--Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall/Crozer Theological Seminary, 1998. / Abstract. Includes annotated bibliographical references (leaves 198-212).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 192-200).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall/Crozer Theological Seminary, 1998. / Abstract. Includes annotated bibliographical references (leaves 198-212).

Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais / This paper presents a dissertation, on the diagnosis of the environmental system of the high Viamão hydrographic basin, located in Mato Verde city, Minas Gerais, the dissertation aimed to detect the main features and problems of this basin. A bibliographic research was carried out the researched subjects were system theory, hydrographic basin and the use of techniques of remote sensing and geoprocessing as useful tools for finding out the high Viamão basin diagnosis. Initially, all the environmental system components were studied aiming to understand the structure and function of each one of them. After that, there was an integration of the components according to each problem identified in the basin. The research area recognition was possible through topographical maps, geological maps, exploratory maps of Minas Gerais North side, satellite images and working in the field of the research which was essential for the hydrographic basin diagnosis, including MatoVerde city, and mainly, high Viamão hydrographic basin area. Then, it was possible to detect the main environmental problems in this area. The study revealed that this area presents low agricultural potentiality, according to the evaluation results for agricultural aptitude. And according to the way the soil is used and occupied, it was possible to notice that in almost all the area, the soil is used inappropriately. Besides this, several social and economic problems could be identified in the same area, for instance, the population low quality of life and the lack of a tourism planning. In order to contribute to ease the diagnostic problems, there are some suggestions to complement this dissertation. / Nesta dissertação, realizou-se o diagnóstico do sistema ambiental da bacia hidrográfica do alto Viamão, situada no município de Mato Verde, Minas Gerais, com o objetivo de detectar suas principais características e problemas. Foram realizadas pesquisas bibliográficas relacionadas à teoria de sistema, bacias hidrográficas e a utilização de técnicas de sensoriamento remoto e geoprocessamento como ferramentas úteis para efetuar o diagnóstico da bacia do alto Viamão. Inicialmente, fez-se um estudo de cada um dos componentes do sistema ambiental, com o objetivo de compreender a estrutura e o funcionamento de cada um deles. Num segundo momento, foi realizada uma integração dos componentes a partir de cada problema ambiental identificado na bacia. O reconhecimento da área da pesquisa foi realizado por meio de cartas topográficas, mapa geológico, mapa exploratório de reconhecimento de solos do Norte de Minas, imagens de satélite e trabalho de campo, essencial para a elaboração de diagnóstico de bacia hidrográfica, abrangendo a cidade de Mato Verde e, principalmente, a área da bacia hidrográfica do alto Viamão. Na etapa posterior, foram diagnosticados os principais problemas ambientais detectados nessa bacia hidrográfica. O estudo revelou, com base nos resultados da avaliação da aptidão agrícola, que a área apresenta baixa potencialidade agrícola, e, no que se refere ao uso e a ocupação do solo, percebeu-se que, na maior parte da área, o uso é inadequado. Foram observados, ainda, vários problemas socioeconômicos na área em estudo, entre eles, baixa qualidade de vida da população e falta de planejamento para o turismo. Na intenção de contribuir para a minimização dos problemas diagnosticados, foram apresentadas algumas sugestões que complementaram este trabalho. / Mestre em Geografia

Text in Afrikaans / This research dealt with the contribution of psychodynamic group interventions to organisational development (OD). The research consists of a qualitative investigation and was based on a case-study design with the use of multiple cases. Three different cases were presented, namely where a psychodynamic group intervention was used together with another intervention, where obstacles in a group were to be solved and as an in-house working conference. Random sampling was also done within the cases. Three interventions were done, data was gathered and analysed by means of content analysis, and the results were reported. It was found in all three cases that a unique contribution was made. Regarding the first case, the intervention was the beginning of a process of change whereby the participants were enabled to develop their identity as a group, from a family business to a company. Participants became aware of underlying conflict, started to own their roles in it, and to take responsibility for addressing the dynamics themselves. In the context in which the intervention was used, the contribution was, however, restricted because its value was only experienced after the intervention. Regarding the second case, the obstacles influencing the functioning of the team were addressed efficiently after the intervention. Participants were authorised to manage their boundaries more efficiently and to address role differentiation, leading to more open communication and a better work climate. Regarding the third case, it was found suitable especially for learning diagnostic competencies from a psychodynamic paradigm. Learning occurred on a personal level resulted in the ability of participants to identify dynamics in their organisation and to present similar interventions in their work place. Recommendations were made for the use of psychodynamic group interventions from a qualitative paradigm, as well as regarding the necessary competencies and a training programme for presenting psychodynamic group interventions. / Hierdie navorsing hande! oor die bydrae van psigodinamiese groepintervensies tot organisasie-ontwikkeiing (00). Die behoefte om onbewuste dinamika in organisasies aan te spreek, hettot hierdie navorsing aanleiding gegee. Die navorsing is in die vorm van 'n kwalitatiewe ondersoek en is gebaseer op 'n gevallestudie-navorsingsontwerp waarin daar van meervoudige gevalle gebruik gemaak is. Drieverskillendegevalleisaangebied, naamlikwaar'n psigodinamiese groepintervensie saam met 'n ander intervensie gebruik is, waar blokkasies in 'n groep opgelos moes word en as 'n in-huise werkskonferensie. Daar is ook van ewekansige steekproefneming binne elke geval gebruik gemaak. Drie intervensies is uitgevoer, data is ingesamel en deur middel van inhoudsontleding ontleed. Daar is bevind dat al drie gevaiie 'n unieke bydrae gelewer het. Ten opsigte van die eerste geval was die intervensie die begin van 'n veranderingsproses waardeur die deelnemers in staat gestel is om vanuit 'n familiebesigheid hu! identiteit as 'n maatskappy te ontwikkel. Deelnemers het bewus geword van onderliggende konflik, begin om hulle rolle daarin te eien, en verantwoordelikheid te aanvaar om die dinamika self aan te spreek. In die konteks waarin die intervensie gebruik was, was die bydrae egter beperk omdat die waarde daarvan eers na afloop van die intervensie ervaar is. Ten opsigte van die tweede geval is die blokkasie wat die funksionering van die span bei'nvloed het na afloop van die intervensie doeltreffend aangespreek. Deelnemers is bemagtig om hul grense meer doeltreffend te bestuur en roldifferensiasie aan te spreek, wat tot meer openlike kommunikasie en 'n beter werksklimaat aanleiding gegee het. Ten opsigte van die derde geval is bevind dat dit veral geskik was vir die aanleer van diagnostiesebevoegdhedevanuit'n psigodinamiese paradigma.Leerwatoppersoonlike vlak plaasgevind het, het tot gevolg gehad dat deelnemers in staatwas om die dinamika in hul organisasie te identifiseeren om self soortgelyke intervensies in hul werkplek aan te bied. Aanbevelings virdiegebruikvanpsigodinamiesegroepintervensiesvanuit'nkwaiitatiewe benadering tot 0 0 is gemaak, sowel as aanbevelings oordie noodsaaklike bevoegdhede en 'n opleidingsprogram vir die aanbied van psigodinamiese groepintervensies deur bedryfsielkundiges. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / D.Admin. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

The dissertation deals with the transformations of historiography and perception of the historical time in the last third of 18th and at the beginning of the 19th centuries. The central questions it investigates are: How has the way of locating (Czech) society in time changed? How did representations of past fundamentally change between 1760s and 1820s, in the era of the so-called "Sattelzeit"? What is the relationship between these changes and the way in which history was represented? What impact did the changes of media, book markets, and culture of reading have in this time? What are the political and aesthetic consequences of these changes? The answer to these questions is found in five fundamental innovations of Enlightenment historiography. These innovations (understood according to Niklas Luhmann's system theory in order to reduce complexity) - fundamentally influenced the way in which late Enlightenment thinkers conceptualized the flow of historical time and the praxis of historiography. It is about the spread of cumulative concepts of knowledge in historia litteraria related to the growth of book markets, narrativisation of the historical experience (as a result of emergence of the newly incoming fictional genres of the historical novels),, philosophy of history as a new idealistic...

Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology)

The concept of Psychic Energy holds a very important position in the field of Psychoanalysis, particularly within the theories of Sigmund Freud. These ideas, including the notion of a constancy of excitation, or the ‘pleasure principle’, as well as energy transfer and ‘cathexis’, are important not only historically in terms of the subsequent development of Psychoanalytic theory, but also remain a core conceptual assumption of a number of concepts in contemporary use. However, the central ideas related to psychic energy have undergone little substantial revision or development since the end of Freud’s career, despite a number of compelling critiques that call into question the central definitions and assumptions of these concepts, particularly the principles defining their governance. Grobbelaar (1989) has suggested that a number of problems within Psychoanalytic theory can be powerfully addressed through recourse to central propositions from the field of systems theory, and the case is made in the present thesis that some of the core problems with the energic theory may indeed be the result of a pre-systems epistemology. The present study proposes that psychic energy be defined as recursively constituted through three levels of the human system (inorganic, organic and informational), and that the core principles of regulation at the informational level is not constancy, or pleasure, but rather the necessity of maintaining organisation. In line with this proposition, the study reviews a number of theoretical propositions from systems theory and cybernetics (including the notions of energy defined as ‘information’ or ‘free energy’) and how they may be usefully deployed as principles of organisation of psychic energy within the psychoanalytic framework. Examples of how these principles may be used to explain Freud’s core observations of ego functioning are presented as well. / Psychology / Ph. D. (Psychology)

Decisions related to the sustainable development involve the following: what to sustain and how to sustain. In general, these decisions are based on assumptions about the permanence of certain characteristics of the systems involved, be them natural or socio-economic. Moreover, these decisions can be only of ethical character or may involve formulations that include mechanisms for effective control, and search to steer the whole system towards a sustainable regime. The formal frameworks and the lines of thought employed in this process generaly relay in the maintenance of natural resources stocks and other factors. They do not consider, however, variations in technological production processes and social preferences. They do not, as well, take into account the spontaneous variability in the structure and components of the natural systems involved. This work aims an analysis of some existing concepts of Sustainability. It looks foward towards a stronger integration between the mathematical models and structures in Sustainability studies, in particular while they relate to the interaction between the ecological, social and production areas. An investigation of Sustainability integrating all these areas has not yet been made, not only due to a lack of perception of variabilities about man-nature systems, but also because their models and representations have diverse nature. The evolution of ecosystems, for instance, is represented as dynamical systems, while the interactions between people or organizations are represented as games and iterations in the productive system always appear as problems of control and allocation. When expressed in mathematical terms, these descriptions confine themselves to areas of mathematics that are not easily integrated and which techniques do not keep, at the moment, a narrower relation. We propose, in this work, the language of general system theory as a means to represent the mutual interactions and influences between the natural, productive and social systems. We search also for a more integrated form to describe mathematically problems in these areas. This allows, at least, for a clearer perception of what to sustain and of the interaction between components and processes in the mutable cases. This, in turn, provides a better stand about how to sustain. / Decisões relacionadas ao desenvolvimento sustentável envolvem as seguintes questões: "o quê sustentar" e "como sustentar". Em geral, as propostas de solução para essas questões baseiam-se em suposições sobre a permanência de determinadas características dos sistemas envolvidos, sejam eles naturais ou sócio-econômicos. Além disso, as decisões podem ser de caráter apenas ético ou podem envolver formulações que incluam mecanismos efetivos de controle, e busquem dirigir o uso dos recursos naturais para um regime sustentável. Os esquemas formais e as linhas de pensamento comumente empregados neste processo repousam na manutenção de estoques de recursos naturais e outros fatores. Não consideram porém, variações nos processos tecnológicos de produção e nas preferências sociais, e tampouco variabilidades espontâneas na estrutura e nos componentes dos sistemas naturais envolvidos. Este trabalho visa analisar vários conceitos existentes de Sustentabilidade. Procura também, buscar uma maior integração entre os vários modelos e estruturas matemáticos usados nestes estudos de Sustentabilidade, em particular os modelos que se referem à interação entre as áreas ecológica, de produção e social. Essa discussão integrada não tem sido feita até o momento, não apenas por falta de uma percepção da variabilidade dos sistemas homem-natureza, mas também porque seus modelos e representações abstratas tem natureza diversa. A evolução dos ecossistemas, por exemplo, é representada por sistemas dinâmicos, enquanto que as interações entre as pessoas ou organizações são representadas como jogos e as interações do sistema produtivo aparecem sempre como problemas de controle e alocação. Quando estão expressas de forma matemática, essas descrições se confinam a áreas da Matemática que não são facilmente integradas e cujas técnicas não guardam, no momento, uma relação mais estreita. Apresentamos neste trabalho formas matemáticas dentro da Teoria Geral de Sistemas para representar as interações e influências mútuas entre os sistemas naturais, produtivos e sociais, [Barbier(1989)], para nos auxiliar nos estudos de Sustentabilidade. Buscamos também uma forma mais integrada de descrever esses sistemas matematicamente. Este intento nos fornece, no mínimo, uma visão mais clara do quê sustentar e da interação dos componentes e processos nos casos mutáveis. Isso, por sua vez, permite uma melhor postura do como sustentar.

Orientadores: Jose Manoel Balthazar, Helder Anibal Hermini / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T09:56:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bolla_MairaRosine_M.pdf: 1168474 bytes, checksum: 0fac8753156d18f561b1aeef6a8a6210 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Este trabalho consiste de duas partes, na primeira faremos o estudo da dinâmica de uma espaçonave de dupla rotação axial, modelada por um sistema mecânico simples, constituído de um rotor desbalanceado atachado num suporte elástico e governado por uma fonte de energia não-ideal. Na segunda parte formularemos todas as equações diferenciais não-lineares que governam os movimentos não-lineares de uma viga com movimentos de curvatura e arfagem no espaço. A formulação é baseada num princípio variacional que leva em conta todas as não linearidades devido à deformação e efeitos de gradiente de gravidade. As não-linearidades devidas às deformações aparecem devido aos efeitos geométricos, que consiste dos termos não-lineares de curvatura e inércia. Equações expandidas que governam os movimentos perturbados não-lineares ao redor de um equilíbrio são também desenvolvidas para o caso em que a viga está em órbita circular. Tais equações são adaptadas para uma análise de perturbação do movimento, e não-linearidades até ordem cúbica são representadas por um parâmetro. Também é analisado o acoplamento não-linear da resposta de arfagem-curvatura de uma viga livre-livre em uma órbita circular, quando a viga está sujeita a uma excitação externa periódica. As não-linearidades presentes nas equações diferenciais do movimento são devidas às deformações da viga (isto é, não-lineridades de curvatura e de inércia) e também devido ao momento de gradiente de gravidade. Métodos de perturbações são usados para analisar o movimento. Vários movimentos de ressonância exibidos pelo sistema são analisados em detalhe, nomeados, ressonâncias harmônicas quando a freqüência de excitação externa, O, está próxima da freqüência natural de flexão ou do movimento de arfagem, e a ressonância super-harmônica quando O está próxima da metade da freqüência natural do movimento de arfagem. As últimas duas ressonâncias estão associadas com excitações de baixa freqüência / Abstract: This work concerns of two parts, in the first we will make the study of the dynamics of dual-spin-spacecraft modeled by a simple mechanical system consisting of an unbalanced rotor attached to an elastic support and driven by non-ideal source. In the second part we will formulate the complete nonlinear differential equations governing the nonlinear motions of a beam able to undergo bending and pitching in space. The formulation is based on a variational principle and accounts for all the nonlinearities due to deformation and gravity gradient effects. The nonlinearities due to deformation arise due to geometric effects, which consist of nonlinear curvature and nonlinear inertia terms. Expanded equations governing the nonlinear perturbed motions about an equilibrium are also developed for the case when the beam is in circular orbit. Such equations are suited for a perturbation analysis of the motion, and nonlinearities up to cubic order in a bookkeeping parameter are retained in them. The coupled nonlinear pitch-bending response of a free-free beam in a circular orbit, when the beam is subjected to a periodic external excitation, is analysed too. The nonlinearities present in the differential equations of motion are due to deformations of the beam (i. e. curvature and inertia nonlinearities) and to the gravity-gradient moments. Perturbation methods are used to analyse the motion. Several resonant motions exhibited by the system are analysed in detail, namely, harmonic resonances when the frequency of the external excitations, O, is either near the natural frequency of the flexural or of the pitch motion, and a superharmonic resonance when O is near one half of the natural frequency for the pitch motion. The latter two resonances are associated with very low excitation frequencies / Mestrado / Mecanica dos Sólidos e Projeto Mecanico / Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica