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Subject of this masters thesis is the constructional project of the wooden lamelas manipulator. Thesis comprises design of the two possible solution for two main parts of the device, calculational part and constructional solution of the components. Part of the thesis is design documentation and the model of the manipulator.

Pipelines used for the transportation of oil and gas products offshore are often buried beneath the seabed for protection from mechanical damage and for thermal insulation. During high temperature and high pressure operations, these pipelines are susceptible to resurfacing behaviour known as upheaval buckling, a structural response that is strongly influenced by the resistance of the surrounding soil. Despite much previous research on pipe uplift, the influence of the initial soil state – particularly in loose and liquefiable soil conditions – on the uplift resistance and corresponding buckling behaviour of the pipe is not well understood. This thesis presents research that examines the implications of these backfill conditions in the context of the global behaviour of the pipeline. The work consists of plane-strain monotonic uplift experiments focusing on density, rate, and stress level effects on the initial pipe-soil response. This is followed by numerical modelling of the global buckling behaviour using the experimental data as inputs. Finally, plane-strain cyclic experiments examine the possibility of progressive upward displacements over a number of cycles causing eventual upheaval buckling. A key finding from the uplift tests is that very loose backfill conditions may result in a localised flow-around failure mechanism, associated with lower peak resistance and a softer force-displacement response than with the sliding block mechanism that is typically assumed. This leads to lower peak buckling loads/temperatures than those predicted by current design guidelines. High quality data from both the monotonic and cyclic experiments was used to assess and suggest improvements to design guidance for these conditions.

This thesis focuses on the use of the semi-subterranean house on the coast of Norrbotten during the period 5000–2000 BC. The term semi-subterranean house (in Swedish boplatsvall) became a new category of prehistoric remains in Norrbotten during the 1980s. In 1984, the Swedish National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet) started surveying the eastern part of Norrbotten, thus initiating a new interpretation of the history of Stone Age coastal societies. The aim of this study is to observe and analyse how the semi-subterranean house developed through time in eastern Norrbotten and to place this information into context. For this thesis, I have studied a number of 631 semi-subterranean remains on a number of sites dating from the Mesolithic era to the early Metal Age. A number of settlements belonging to different eras have been compared. Several archaeological investigations on sites from the late Mesolithic and the Neolithic periods have also provided important information. The thesis shows that throughout the Mesolithic period, the semi-subterranean house was usually less than 12 m2, with an average of approximately 9 m2 . Around 5000 BC, there appears to have been an increase in the number of this type of house being constructed. The number of known sites with semisubterranean houses is at its highest around the late Mesolithic period. Subsistence seems to have been based on the hunting of large terrestrial animals, such as elk and perhaps reindeer. Other animals found in the bone material are seal, beaver, salmon, perch, pike as well as some bird species. At the beginning of the Neolithic period, the number of sites with semi-subterranean houses decreases while the number of houses at each site increases. Also, the floor area increases to an average size of 15 m2 and the floor shape changes from circular to rectangular. The bone material consists at this time of seal bones, while elk and reindeer remains are scarce. Most of the sites are concentrated in the area around the mouths of the Kalix and Torne Rivers. At the middle and end of the Neolithic period, the numbers of sites increase as do the number of houses on each site and the size of the fl oor areas. The average floor area is 28 m2. The bone material now contains no elk or reindeer remains, while seal and various fi sh species are common. Around 2300 BC, the number of semi-subterranean houses decreases dramatically. The semi-subterranean house was probably exchanged for another sort of dwelling more suited to the needs of society. After 2300 BC, there is a total decline in known sites in the area. This could be explained by a reorganisation of the settlements as a result of greater interaction with the south Scandinavian battle-axe culture, together with higher interaction and cultural identification with neighbouring groups in the north and around the Bothnian Bay on the Finnish side.

RESUMO GONÇALVES, A.M. Cuidados diante do abuso e da dependência de drogas: desafio da prática do Programa Saúde da Família. 2002. 209fl. Tese. (Doutora-do em Enfermagem Psiquiátrica) – Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto. Este estudo tem como objeto a prática de cuidados relacionados ao abuso e à dependência de drogas no cotidiano de uma equipe do Programa Saúde da Família (PSF). Reconhecendo a gravidade dos problemas relaciona-dos ao abuso e à dependência de drogas e suas implicações para o indivíduo, a família e a comunidade, que refletem no processo de formação e na prática dos profissionais, tivemos como objetivo desenvolver com os membros de uma equipe do PSF uma ação-reflexão sobre essa prática, visando contribuir para a superação de problemas e contradições enfrentados pela equipe no cotidiano de trabalho. Realizamos uma investigação com abordagem qualitativa, na mo-dalidade de pesquisa-ação, fundamentada pelo materialismo histórico-dialético como parte intrínseca da visão de mundo vinculada à práxis. O cenário da pes-quisa foi a área geopolítica de atuação de uma equipe do Programa no municí-pio de Contagem, Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil. A pesquisa de campo foi realizada no período de setembro de 2000 a julho de 2001 e teve como sujeitos os integrantes da equipe (um médico, uma enfermeira, uma auxiliar de enfer-magem e quatro agentes comunitários de saúde). Os resultados da pesquisa confirmaram a tese inicial sobre a importância do PSF para a prática de cuida-dos relacionados ao abuso e à dependência de drogas. Os resultados eviden-ciaram fragilidades e potencialidades técnicas (práticas e políticas) do Progra-ma para enfrentar esse desafio, além de apontar possibilidades de superação mediante investimento na capacitação da equipe e na criação de um projeto de ação comunitária. A pesquisa contribuiu com subsídio para formulação de polí-ticas de saúde, voltadas para o desafio de desenvolver cuidados relacionados ao abuso e à dependência de drogas na prática do PSF, bem como de outros serviços de saúde que venham valer-se dessa experiência para aplicá-la em condições semelhantes. / This study has as object the practice of cares related to the abuse and to the dependence of drugs in the daily of a team of the Program Health of the Family (PHF). Recognizing the gravity of the problems related to the abuse and to the dependence of drugs and their implications for the individual, the family and the community, that reflect in the formation process and in practice of the professionals, we had as objective develops with the members of a team of PHF an action-reflection on that practice, seeking to contribute to overcome the problems and contradictions faced by the team in the daily of work. We accom-plished an investigation with qualitative approach, in the research-action modal-ity, based by the materialism historical-dialectic as intrinsic part of the world vi-sion linked to the praxis. The scenery of the research was the area geopolitics of performance of a team of the Program in the municipal district of Contagem, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The field research was accomplished in the pe-riod from September of 2000 to July of 2001 and had as subjects the members of the team (a doctor, a nurse, a nursing auxiliary and four community agents of health). The results of the research confirmed the initial theses about the impor-tance of PHF for the practice of cares related to the abuse and to the depend-ence of drugs. The results evidenced fragilities and technical potentialities (practices and politics) of the Program to face that challenge, besides pointing possibilities to overcome that by investment in the training of the team and in the creation of a project of community action. The research contributed with subsidy to articulate politics of health, come back for the challenge from devel-oping cares related to the abuse and to the dependence of drugs in practice of the PHF, as well as of other services of health that come to be worth of that ex-perience to apply it in similar conditions.

Cette recherche porte sur les conséquences de la création du barrage des Trois Gorges (Chine). Une enquête de terrain menée au cœur du Réservoir, dans le district de Yunyang (Chongqing), a permis d’étudier différents registres interprétatifs et formes de résilience (par sublimation, dramatisation ou immanence) développés tant par les habitants que par les autorités pour appréhender les bouleversements récents et faire face à ce contexte de profonde rupture. Cette étude interroge, d’un point de vue anthropologique, la perception sociale du barrage et de ses conséquences topographiques, écologiques, économiques et sociales (notamment impliquées par le déplacement, l’éclatement social et familial) aussi bien que les processus de reconfigurations territoriales et de reconstruction de l’espace régional et local après la montée des eaux. Elle traite également des modalités de réinscription au sein des territoires transformés, alors que le district est séparé de son ancienne entité administrative régionale de référence, le Sichuan, et qu’une partie de la population est forcée de quitter définitivement la région. Ces thèmes sont envisagés par le biais d’un angle d’approche particulier, celui de la manipulations « d’artefacts culturels ». Le culte rendu aux divinités (et notamment à Zhang Fei, héros national divinisé localement), l’emploi de toponymes, de concepts, le récit d’adages, de mythes, de légendes et de chansons, l’interprétation géomantique et architecturale, ou encore l’évocation portant sur l’histoire, constituent autant de biais, sujets à des interprétations et à des reconstructions circonstancielles de la part des habitants et des autorités, pour mettre en mot le bouleversement et agir sur la nouvelle réalité / This research explores the conceptualization and the experience of the consequences brought about by the Three Gorges Dam (China) construction. Through my fieldwork conducted at the core of the Reservoir, in Yunyang County (Chongqing), I have studied different modalities of interpretation and of resilience developed both by the local population and by the authorities trying to understand and deal with this profound disruption. Through an anthropological point of view, this study analyzes the social perceptions of the Dam, its topographical, ecological, economical and social (forced migration, breaking up of families) consequences. It consider as well the territorial reconfiguration and reconstruction after the rising of the water while the county is being pulled out from its ancient regional administration - Sichuan, and a part of the local population is being forced to leave the county for good. These themes are considered through a specific approach: the analyze of cultural artifacts such as the cults of gods (in particular Zhang Fei, a national hero locally deified), the use of toponyms, concepts, adages, myths, legends, geomancy, or retail of the past. In many ways those ways are interpreted and adapted by the Yunyang people and by its government to “narrate” the upheaval

RESUMO GONÇALVES, A.M. Cuidados diante do abuso e da dependência de drogas: desafio da prática do Programa Saúde da Família. 2002. 209fl. Tese. (Doutora-do em Enfermagem Psiquiátrica) – Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto. Este estudo tem como objeto a prática de cuidados relacionados ao abuso e à dependência de drogas no cotidiano de uma equipe do Programa Saúde da Família (PSF). Reconhecendo a gravidade dos problemas relaciona-dos ao abuso e à dependência de drogas e suas implicações para o indivíduo, a família e a comunidade, que refletem no processo de formação e na prática dos profissionais, tivemos como objetivo desenvolver com os membros de uma equipe do PSF uma ação-reflexão sobre essa prática, visando contribuir para a superação de problemas e contradições enfrentados pela equipe no cotidiano de trabalho. Realizamos uma investigação com abordagem qualitativa, na mo-dalidade de pesquisa-ação, fundamentada pelo materialismo histórico-dialético como parte intrínseca da visão de mundo vinculada à práxis. O cenário da pes-quisa foi a área geopolítica de atuação de uma equipe do Programa no municí-pio de Contagem, Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil. A pesquisa de campo foi realizada no período de setembro de 2000 a julho de 2001 e teve como sujeitos os integrantes da equipe (um médico, uma enfermeira, uma auxiliar de enfer-magem e quatro agentes comunitários de saúde). Os resultados da pesquisa confirmaram a tese inicial sobre a importância do PSF para a prática de cuida-dos relacionados ao abuso e à dependência de drogas. Os resultados eviden-ciaram fragilidades e potencialidades técnicas (práticas e políticas) do Progra-ma para enfrentar esse desafio, além de apontar possibilidades de superação mediante investimento na capacitação da equipe e na criação de um projeto de ação comunitária. A pesquisa contribuiu com subsídio para formulação de polí-ticas de saúde, voltadas para o desafio de desenvolver cuidados relacionados ao abuso e à dependência de drogas na prática do PSF, bem como de outros serviços de saúde que venham valer-se dessa experiência para aplicá-la em condições semelhantes. / This study has as object the practice of cares related to the abuse and to the dependence of drugs in the daily of a team of the Program Health of the Family (PHF). Recognizing the gravity of the problems related to the abuse and to the dependence of drugs and their implications for the individual, the family and the community, that reflect in the formation process and in practice of the professionals, we had as objective develops with the members of a team of PHF an action-reflection on that practice, seeking to contribute to overcome the problems and contradictions faced by the team in the daily of work. We accom-plished an investigation with qualitative approach, in the research-action modal-ity, based by the materialism historical-dialectic as intrinsic part of the world vi-sion linked to the praxis. The scenery of the research was the area geopolitics of performance of a team of the Program in the municipal district of Contagem, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The field research was accomplished in the pe-riod from September of 2000 to July of 2001 and had as subjects the members of the team (a doctor, a nurse, a nursing auxiliary and four community agents of health). The results of the research confirmed the initial theses about the impor-tance of PHF for the practice of cares related to the abuse and to the depend-ence of drugs. The results evidenced fragilities and technical potentialities (practices and politics) of the Program to face that challenge, besides pointing possibilities to overcome that by investment in the training of the team and in the creation of a project of community action. The research contributed with subsidy to articulate politics of health, come back for the challenge from devel-oping cares related to the abuse and to the dependence of drugs in practice of the PHF, as well as of other services of health that come to be worth of that ex-perience to apply it in similar conditions.

This thesis seeks to investigate the various forces that have shaped modern Persianate children‘s literature - history, revolution, political climate, government, institutions, writers, education, and so on. The historical origins of tales popular in modern times, and of themes recurrent in stories from past times to present are analyzed, along with other factors which have shaped Persianate children‘s literature. The thesis begins with a historical and theoretical overview relating to change and continuity in Persianate children‘s literature. It examines the influence of ancient texts on modern Persianate children‘s stories. The cultural development reflected in the organizational infrastructure of institutions is also examined, as well as other contemporary influences, both social and political, in order to assess how these have affected modern Persianate children‘s literature. The contents of children‘s books are analyzed from different aspects, including their representation of social values. Concerns of children themselves are shown in examples of their own work; in addition, works of illustrators of children‘s books, and examples from the extended body of Persianate children‘s literature in Tajikistan are analyzed. Modern children‘s literature is the product of a number of influences and while differences can be perceived between historical periods, underlying similarities can also be seen which show a continuity of socio-political purpose, either supporting the status quo or challenging it. The thesis is concerned with this interplay between the recurring uses of children‘s literature; moralistic, didactic, the political agenda of its authors, criticism of the status quo, etc. and the surface changes which attract attention and which create an appearance of change in its underlying purpose. Fashions and styles may change, but children still read, firstly in order to learn to read, and then for information and amusement. The author contends that, in reality a limited number of changes are possible in the purpose of children‘s literature, and the age-old arguments likewise continue about what those are: entertainment or preparation for the harsh realities of life, retreat into fantasy and acceptance of one‘s place or incitement to rebel and change the world. / Information Science / D.Litt. et Phil.

This thesis seeks to investigate the various forces that have shaped modern Persianate children‘s literature - history, revolution, political climate, government, institutions, writers, education, and so on. The historical origins of tales popular in modern times, and of themes recurrent in stories from past times to present are analyzed, along with other factors which have shaped Persianate children‘s literature. The thesis begins with a historical and theoretical overview relating to change and continuity in Persianate children‘s literature. It examines the influence of ancient texts on modern Persianate children‘s stories. The cultural development reflected in the organizational infrastructure of institutions is also examined, as well as other contemporary influences, both social and political, in order to assess how these have affected modern Persianate children‘s literature. The contents of children‘s books are analyzed from different aspects, including their representation of social values. Concerns of children themselves are shown in examples of their own work; in addition, works of illustrators of children‘s books, and examples from the extended body of Persianate children‘s literature in Tajikistan are analyzed. Modern children‘s literature is the product of a number of influences and while differences can be perceived between historical periods, underlying similarities can also be seen which show a continuity of socio-political purpose, either supporting the status quo or challenging it. The thesis is concerned with this interplay between the recurring uses of children‘s literature; moralistic, didactic, the political agenda of its authors, criticism of the status quo, etc. and the surface changes which attract attention and which create an appearance of change in its underlying purpose. Fashions and styles may change, but children still read, firstly in order to learn to read, and then for information and amusement. The author contends that, in reality a limited number of changes are possible in the purpose of children‘s literature, and the age-old arguments likewise continue about what those are: entertainment or preparation for the harsh realities of life, retreat into fantasy and acceptance of one‘s place or incitement to rebel and change the world. / Information Science / D.Litt. et Phil.

Den Anlass der Dissertation lieferte das nach 1990 festgestellte Mobilitätsverhalten von Industriearbeitern eines Braunkohlenveredelungsbetriebes, die obwohl "Produkt" der modernen, also mobilen Gesellschaft und trotz der offensichtlich bestehenden Perspektivlosigkeit der Situation in der Wirtschaft bzw. in der Region insgesamt nur in geringem Maße zu räumlichen und beruflichen Veränderungen bereit waren. Dieses Phänomen des "Verharrens" stellte den Ausgangspunkt für die Arbeit dar. Die Frage nach den strukturellen Gründen und individuellen Motiven der Besonderheiten im Mobilitätsverhalten der Kohlearbeiter, mündete in der Frage nach dessen Ursprüngen. Das Ziel der Arbeit bestand darin, die räumliche und soziale Immobilität der Bevölkerung nach 1990 zu erklären. Die Arbeit geht von der These aus, dass die in der Region bestehende Struktur der Bevölkerung und der Erwerbstätigen das Resultat umfangreicher Wanderungsprozesse und damit einhergehender sozialer Umschichtungen sind, wobei das gesellschaftliche Ereignis "Industrialisierung" die Mobilitätsprozesse auf besondere Weise prägte. Das spezifische Verhaltens der Industriearbeiter wird in die Darstellung der Entstehung und Entwicklung des Wirtschaftsraumes eingebettet, denn es ist auf das vergangene Wirtschaftsmuster und insbesondere, auf die dort wirkenden Anreizstrukturen und Verhaltensmuster zurückzuführen. Die Arbeit befasst sich, indem sie die Frage der regionalen (Massen)Mobilität selbst, ihre Gründe und Auswirkungen problematisiert, mit einem Defizit bisheriger Untersuchungen zur Mobilität in Industriegesellschaften, denn die sozialen (Spät-)Folgen der hohen Bevölkerungsmobilität während der fordistischen Industrialisierungsphase hat die Forschung bisher kaum wahrgenommen. In diesem Kontext betrachtet, wurde die Wanderung einzelner sozialer Gruppen, obwohl sie zu dieser Zeit bestehende Probleme löste (Ausgleichsfunktion), zu einem neue Probleme schaffendem, sozialem Phänomen. / The occasion for this thesis gave the behave of mobility of coal-workers after the social changes in 1990. Although the workers have been a "product" of the modern society, which is a mobile one, and in spite of the obvious existing lack of perspectives in economy respectively in this region, only some of them were willing to local and professional changes. This phenomenon, I called it "behaviour of waiting", was the starting point of the thesis. The question for the structural reasons and individual motives for the special mobility behaviour of coal-workers lead to the question for its origins. The aim of the thesis is to explain the local and social immobility of people after 1990 ?? The thesis bases on the theory that the structure of population and employed persons in this region is the result of extensive processes of mobility and shifts in social structure connected with it. The social event "industrialization" influenced the mobility processes in a special way. The specific behaviour of industrial workers is embedded in the description of the development of the economic area, because it leads back to the former economic pattern and especially to the stimulating structures and behavioural patterns working there. Discussing the question of regional mobility, its reasons and consequences the thesis deals with a deficit of previous studies concerning mobility and industrial societies. Up to now social (late)consequences of the strong population mobility during the industrialization process weren't hardly realized in the field of research. Considering this context the mobility of individual social groups became a social phenomenon which caused new problems, although it solved problems existing at this time.