This study explores motivations of two ‘new’ humanitarian donors, Brazil and India, byanalysing debates from two of the agents in each country involved in the processesregarding humanitarian assistance - the Brazilian Federal Senate and the BrazilianMinistry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Indian Ministry of External Affairs andCouncil of States - by means of a thematic analysis. This resulted in the identification ofmotivating factors for humanitarian spending in the form of themes. For Brazil thethemes Priority, Humanitarianism, Regional Solidarity and International Integrationcould be identified. For India the themes identified were: Security Interests,Humanitarianism, Good Neighbour, Competence and Preparedness.By comparing the findings of this study with the ‘Seven Frames relevant to Foreign AidPolicy’ of Western donors established by van der Veen, it could be concluded that newdonors and Western donors share similar interests in the areas of power, security,international reputation and humanitarianism, which guide them as motivating factors indecisions regarding humanitarian assistance. Nonetheless, there are also differences forexample with regards to economic interests and issues of obligation, which are presentfor Western donors, but could not be identified in motivations of the new donors Braziland India. The study concludes that the framework established by van der Veen forWestern donors is not sufficient to explain motivations of new donors in the area ofhumanitarian assistance. Instead, a new framework is necessary to explore the differingapproaches and motivations of both Western and new donors in their complexity.

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This thesis is devoted to the investigation of two morphological classes in Tocharian and their Indo-European prehistory and affiliation: 1) the continuants of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) thematic ("class I") adjectives, and 2) a class of agent formations related to them. / Linguistics

Οι εξατομικευμένοι κατάλογοι διαδικτύου εμφανίστηκαν σχεδόν ταυτόχρονα με την εμφάνιση των φυλλομετρητών διαδικτύων, και από τότε όλοι οι φυλλομετρητές ενσωματώνουν απλά συστήματα διαχείρισης των εξατομικευμένων καταλόγων. Με τον όρο εξατομικευμένοι κατάλογοι εννοούμε τις προσωπικές συλλογές από ιστοσελίδες που ένας χρήστης διαδικτύου αποθηκεύει κατά την ώρα της πλοήγησης στον Παγκόσμιο Ιστό. Οι εξατομικευμένοι κατάλογοι διαδικτύου χρησιμοποιούνται σαν «προσωπικός χώρος πληροφορίας του δικτύου» για να βοηθούν τους ανθρώπους να θυμούνται και να ανακτούν ενδιαφέρουσες ιστοσελίδες από το διαδίκτυο. Στην εργασία αυτή παρουσιάζουμε ένα πρότυπο σύστημα διαχείρισης εξατομικευμένων καταλόγων διαδικτύου ορίζοντας τις προϋποθέσεις που πρέπει να πληρεί ώστε να είναι εύχρηστο και αποτελεσματικό. Το σύστημα αυτό έχει όλες τις δυνατότητες που έχουν τα εμπορικά αλλά και τα πρότυπα συστήματα διαχείρισης bookmarks. Επιπλέον διαθέτει καινοτόμες λειτουργίες που το καθιστούν μοναδικό. Παράλληλα παρουσιάζουμε αναλυτικά έναν πρότυπο αλγόριθμο κατάταξης, τον αλγόριθμο κατάταξης με βάση την συνάφεια των σελίδων με τις κατηγορίες στις οποίες ανήκουν. Τον αλγόριθμο αυτόν τον συγκρίνουμε με τον δημοφιλή αλγόριθμος γενικής κατάταξης το PageRank. Από το πείραμα που κάναμε προκύπτει ότι ο αλγόριθμος που προτείνουμε είναι πιο κατάλληλος για την ταξινόμηση των σελίδων σε θεματικές κατηγορίες από το PageRank. / The individualised lists of internet were presented almost simultaneously with the appearance of browser internets, and from then all browser incorporate simple systems of management of individualised lists. With the term individualised lists we mean the personal collections from web pages that a user of internet stores at the hour of pilotage in the World Web. The individualised lists of internet are used as \"personal space of information of network\" in order to they help the persons to remember and to recover interesting web pages from the internet. In this work we present a model system of management of individualised lists of internet horizon the conditions that should plirej

Στην παρούσα εργασία αντιμετωπίζουμε την διαδικασία εξατομικευμένης αναζήτησης από την πλευρά της σημασιολογίας και του περιεχομένου των σελίδων. Συγκεκριμένα γίνεται χρήση μιας θεματικής ιεραρχίας για την αυτόματη δημιουργία των προφίλ αναζήτησης των χρηστών και χρησιμοποιείται η ίδια ιεραρχία για τον θεματικό χαρακτηρισμό του περιεχομένου ενός κειμένου. Στηριζόμενοι σε μία συνδυασμένη ανάλυση των ενδιαφερόντων του χρήστη και των θεμάτων των σελίδων εξατομικεύουμε τα ανακτώμενα αποτελέσματα δίνοντας προτεραιότητα σε εκείνα τα αποτελέσματα τα οποία το θεματικό τους περιεχόμενο ανταποκρίνεται στο προφίλ του χρήστη. / This work discusses the process of personalized search under the view point of the semantics content of the web pages. In details, a thematic hierarchy is being used to create automatically user search profiles and the same hierarchy is being used to thematic characterize the content of documents. Based on a combined analysis of users’ interests and the thematic content of web pages, we personalize the results giving priority in those results which their thematic content response to the user profile.

Desert wetlands, in particular those slow moving bodies of water known as cienegas, are important sites for biodiversity in arid landscapes and serve as indicators of hydrological functioning on the landscape-level. One of the most extensive systems of cienegas, historical or extant, in southeastern Arizona lies along Cienega Creek, located southeast of Tucson, Arizona. Satellite imagery analysis is heavily utilized to determine landscape-level trends, but cienegas present a challenge to traditional analysis methods. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), the classic measure of vegetation greenness, reacts counter-intuitively to open water and is affected by open ground, both common occurrences in cienega habitats. Additional remote sensing indices have been developed that balance sensitivity to these environmental elements. This research explores these remote sensing indices at Cienega Creek applying one topographic index to current elevation data and five spectral indices to Thematic Mapper imagery from 1984 to 2011. Temporal trends were identified for all spectral indices and all indices were compared for suitability in cienega habitats. Temporal trends were analyzed for spatial clustering and spatial trends identified. The Normalized Difference Infrared Index utilizing Landsat Thematic Mapper band 5 outperformed other indices at differentiating between cienega, riparian, and upland habitats and is more suitable than NDVI for analyzing cienega habitats in such circumstances.

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<p>The purpose of this research was to ascertain how children in lowrisk, middle to upper income areas perceive violence and their experience of it. It explores their exposure to violence and how this may affect their view of the future in terms of their hopes and fears. The research was framed around Frantz Fanon&rsquo / s theory of violence and Urie Bronfenbrenner&rsquo / s Systems Theory. The aims of the research was to explore children&rsquo / s perceptions of violence and how this affects children&rsquo / s sense of wellbeing within the context of South Africa by: i) investigating how much children know and understand about the violence that is prevalent in the country, ii) discovering how this frames their perception of violence and finally iii) explore how this affects their sense of well-being. The participants of the study were 28 male and female grade 6 children, between the ages of 10 and 12 from a private school in the Cape Town metropole. There were three focus groups consisting of 8-11 children per group. This was a qualitative study. The data collection was interpreted through Thematic Analysis. The highest standards of ethical conduct and research practice were adhered to.</p>

Det ”alternativa livet” kan ses som en motrörelse till urbanisering, ökad konsumtion och ett allt snabbare tempo i samhället. Detta är en kvalitativ studie med syftet att undersöka det alternativa livet. Sex informanter intervjuades om deras upplevelser och uppfattningar av det alternativa livet. Intervjuerna transkriberades och analyserades utifrån en induktiv tematisk metod. Gemensamt för alla informanter är att de vill leva enkelt utifrån grundläggande behov, leva nära naturen, reducera saker livet som de upplever mindre viktiga, anta utmaningar och få mer tid över för sådant de upplever meningsfullt. Genom reduktion upplever infomanterna en större livskvalité och närvaro i nuet. Kombinationen av individuella faktorer och en vilja att leva mer miljömässigt hållbart kan ses som de stora orsakerna till varför de intervjuade väljer att leva alternativt. Resultaten har tolkats utifrån behovsmässig teori, existentiell psykologi och Antonovskys Känsla av Sammanhang. / The “alternative life” can be described as a counter movement to the urban society, increased consummation and a stressful lifestyle. The aim of this qualitative study is to examine the alternative life on the countryside. Six informants were interviewed about their experiences and views about the alternative life. The data is transcribed and analyzed with an inductive, thematic approach. The informants want to live with more simplicity, intimate with their basic needs, live close to nature, reducing less important things in life, challenging themselves and having more time for things they find meaningful. The informants experience more quality in life and presence in the moment through reduction. The main reasons for the informants to live an “alternative life” are the combination of individual factors and a desire to live more environmentally friendly. The results have been analyzed from behavioral theory, existential psychology and Antovskys “Sense of Coherence”.

Among the numerous eighteenth-century composers of merit whose music remains virtually unknown and unavailable in modern editions, and whose names are absent from the many items of Baroque literature to date, is Andrea Zani (b. Casalmaggiore, 1696-d. Casalmaggiore, 1757). Yet his skill saw him ranked as a virtuoso, and his compositions were published in Vienna, Paris and Amsterdam, as well as his native Italy. Despite the fact that most of his output is extant and accessible either in manuscripts or early prints in the archives of Europe, the United States of America and the United Kingdom, no thorough study of these works has been made. The scant biographical information available on Zani lies in a succession of brief and lamentably incomplete accounts, traceable to one early nineteenth-century writing. A comprehensive study of Andrea Zani and his music has yet to be made. The objectives (and thus the structure) of this dissertation are to present a definitive performing edition of Zani’s entire output and to compile a biographical account that will substantially augment and correct much of the biographical information that is available. These objectives are interdependent. A biography may be illuminated by information found in music sources – dates of compositions or dates and places of publications, names of dedicatees (and even of specific occasions) are all indicators of avenues of research, and as this is undertaken, isolated facts gradually turn into an expanding and yet increasingly tightly-knit network of detail. The music itself may be illuminated by confirming its location within the lifetime of the composer and a growing understanding of the various circumstances surrounding the years in which it was written. When this is allied with a knowledge of the dissemination of his compositions, one is led toward a contemporary estimation of the composer and a measure of the sphere of his influence. One further element of this research is a thematic catalogue of Zani’s works. As a comprehensive description of his output, it provides a stand-alone reference volume for future studies of the man and/or his compositions. More widely, it will assist with the solution of problems of misattributions of compositions among Zani's contemporaries.