Cette thèse s’intéresse à l’étude de la relation entre l’ouverture financière et politique et la croissance économique dans les pays en voie de développement. En effet, réformes politiques et libéralisation économique étaient le mot d’ordre des instances financières internationales qui conditionnaient l’octroi des aides financières à l’application de certaines réformes en faveur de la démocratie, du respect des droits de l’Homme et de l’intégration à la sphère financière mondiale. Notre investigation empirique porte sur un échantillon de 108 pays en voie de développement entre 1984 et 2008 et fait appel aux techniques d’estimation de panel statiques et dynamiques et les nouveaux tests de causalité en panel hétérogène. Nos résultats, démontrent que la libéralisation financière en plus de son impact direct sur la croissance, agit positivement sur l’investissement, le commerce extérieur ainsi que la stabilité macroéconomique à travers une réduction de l’inflation. L’intégration financière favorise, aussi, le développement du secteur financier et du capital humain. Ailleurs, la démocratie, même si elle n’a pas d’impact direct significatif sur la croissance, semble influer positivement sur celle-ci de manière indirecte à travers le canal du commerce extérieur mais aussi du développement financier et la promotion du capital humain. Ailleurs, l’instabilité politique affecte négativement le développement économique de manière directe mais aussi de manière indirecte en diminuant les investissements et le commerce avec l’extérieur et en augmentant l’inflation. Finalement, nos résultats suggèrent l’existence d’une relation de causalité bidirectionnelle entre l’intégration financière et la démocratie. Cependant, la relation entre ouverture financière et stabilité politique est plus spécifique et dépend des caractéristiques régionales des pays. / The purpose of this thesis is to study the relationship between financial integration, political openness and growth in developing countries. In fact, political reforms and economic liberalization was the slogan of the international financial institutions which conditioned the granting of financial aid to the implementation of certain reforms in favor of democracy and more respect of human rights in addition to more financial integration. Our empirical investigation covers a sample of 108 developing countries between 1984 and 2008 and uses both static and dynamic panel data estimation in addition to the new causality test in heterogeneous panel. Our results show that financial liberalization positively impact growth directly and through indirect channel like Investment, trade and macroeconomic stability. It also favors financial development and promotes human capital. Even though, democracy doesn’t directly influence growth, it has an indirect positive effect on it through favoring international trade in addition to financial and human capital development. Otherwise, political instability negatively affects growth directly but also indirectly through decreasing investment and increasing inflation. Finally, our results suggest the existence of a bidirectional relationship between financial integration and democracy. In the other side, the relationship between financial integration and political stability is more specific and depend upon regionals characteristics of the country.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:32:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_roberto_miguel_jamal.pdf: 1467263 bytes, checksum: c9e7bc4e925e7b2993633bcec76e0081 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-10-15 / This work seeks to investigate some of the signs about what is expected from the students knowledge of Algebra by the end of their high school term. It intends to contribute for the reflection about the teaching of Algebra during the basic education in Brazil. This work analyses and compares guidelines and new curricular proposals, questions of some university admitance exams and the National Examination for High School (ENEM), which orient teaching projects in schools. Through a bibliographic and documental research, this work aims to identify permanent guidelines in official documents for the teaching of Algebra, syllabuses of Algebra present in examinations as FUVEST, VUNESP, UNICAMP and also ENEM (the abbreviations stand for Brazilian public universities). We have studied items of these examinations from 2001 to 2003, highlighting the most valuable aspects / O presente trabalho procura investigar algumas das sinalizações do que se espera que devem saber os alunos sobre Álgebra, ao final do Ensino Médio, pretendendo assim contribuir para a reflexão sobre o ensino de Álgebra na Educação Básica. Analisa e compara orientações de novas propostas curriculares, questões de alguns vestibulares e do Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio - ENEM, que orientam projetos de ensino nas escolas de nível médio. Por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, busca identificar orientações constantes em documentos oficiais para o ensino da Álgebra, programas de Álgebra presentes em vestibulares como a FUVEST, VUNESP, a UNICAMP e também do ENEM. Estudamos questões dessas avaliações, nas edições de 2001 a 2003, destacando os aspectos mais valorizados

Este estudo propõe a análise de paradigmas que se contextualizam a partir dos limites dos conceitos tradicionais de design industrial. O objetivo é situar formas alternativas de design, abrindo uma reflexão sobre o seu significado e suas contribuições no que se refere a questões socioeconômicas e ambientais. O termo gambiarra - visto como uma \"técnica\" ou procedimento alternativo - é escolhido aqui para representar essas diversas práticas usadas parar configurar artefatos improvisados, porém relacionando-as à realidade brasileira. Esta idéia, quando vinculada a conceitos e proposições no que concerne ao design, provoca uma série de reflexões e questionamentos em torno da constituição destes artefatos no universo da cultura material brasileira. / This research proposes the overview of the paradigms that comes from the limits of the traditional concepts of industrial design. The objective is to study alternative types of design, introducing reflections about the meaning and their contributions to social and environment subjects. Gambiarra, a Brazilian original term, usually translated to the expression ?make do?, and seen as an alternative procedure, is used to represent those practices that provide improved artifacts, however relating them to the Brazilian reality. This idea, when related to propositions and concepts of design, contributes with a range of reflections about the constitution of these artifacts on the universe of the Brazilian material culture.

Este estudo propõe a análise de paradigmas que se contextualizam a partir dos limites dos conceitos tradicionais de design industrial. O objetivo é situar formas alternativas de design, abrindo uma reflexão sobre o seu significado e suas contribuições no que se refere a questões socioeconômicas e ambientais. O termo gambiarra - visto como uma \"técnica\" ou procedimento alternativo - é escolhido aqui para representar essas diversas práticas usadas parar configurar artefatos improvisados, porém relacionando-as à realidade brasileira. Esta idéia, quando vinculada a conceitos e proposições no que concerne ao design, provoca uma série de reflexões e questionamentos em torno da constituição destes artefatos no universo da cultura material brasileira. / This research proposes the overview of the paradigms that comes from the limits of the traditional concepts of industrial design. The objective is to study alternative types of design, introducing reflections about the meaning and their contributions to social and environment subjects. Gambiarra, a Brazilian original term, usually translated to the expression ?make do?, and seen as an alternative procedure, is used to represent those practices that provide improved artifacts, however relating them to the Brazilian reality. This idea, when related to propositions and concepts of design, contributes with a range of reflections about the constitution of these artifacts on the universe of the Brazilian material culture.

I takt med ett allt hårdare klimat på arbetsmarknaden och ett ökat tryck på individen i arbetslivet har forskningen börjat titta närmare på positiva och hälsofrämjande effekter av kultur- och fritidsrelaterade effekter kopplat till arbetet. Föreliggande kvalitativa studie undersöker upplevelser och erfarenheter av kulturaktiviteter ur ett medarbetarperspektiv inom två större organisationer, samt försöker synliggöra effekter av kultur kopplat till arbetet både för individen och organisationen. Resultatet pekar dels på sociala effekter som känslan av samhörighet och trivsel samt god arbetsmiljö och välbefinnande, kopplade till att delta i kulturaktiviteter tillsammans med sina kolleger och arbetskamrater. Vidare beskrivs effekter genererade mer direkt av själva innehållet i kulturaktiviteter, med betoning på konstnärliga uttrycksformer, som fördjupade tankar och reflektioner, avslappning, kreativitet och ett innovativt klimat. Utifrån både sociala och innehållsmässiga upplevelser och erfarenheter av kultur uppstår olika former av samtal och kommunikation på arbetsplatsen. Kommunikation som kommer att utgöra en central del i de värdeskapande processer som genereras av kultur kopplat till arbetet både för den enskilde individen och organisationen som helhet. Tid framstår också som en avgörande faktor för hur kulturaktiviteter förmedlas och når ut till den enskilde medarbetaren inom organisationen. Här pekar resultatet på värdet av att organisationen erbjuder ett brett spektrum av kulturrelaterade aktiviteter, både enkla och mer utmanande, i syfte att fånga så många medarbetare som möjligt. / Along with increased strain on the individual in many of today´s work settings the positive impact of cultural activities on health and well-being at work has achieved increased attention among scholars. The present qualitative study focus on experiences from cultural activities from a co-worker´s perspective within two major organizations. It also aims at pointing at effects from culture activities at work both from an individual and organizational perspective. The result indicates social effects such as cohesiveness, positive work environment and well-being from taking part in cultural activities together with colleagues. Furthermore the result points at the mere content of culture activities related to fine arts, as something that generates reflections, detachment, creativity and an innovative approach within the organizational body. As an effect of these two categories of experiences from cultural activities various forms of communication emerge at work. This communication appears to be a central part of the processes that generate different kinds of value from culture for the individual as well as the organization. Time resources also turn out to be crucial to the way employees take part in culture activities related to work. The result emphasizes the value and importance of a broad spectra of cultural-related activities distributed within the organization in order to reach out to everyone of its employees.

This work deals with valuable consideration when changes of ownership of equity securities occur in connection with corporate changes in joint-stock company, especially with unwilling changes -- rise of registered capital with excluding the priority subscription right (§ 204a/5 of the Commercial Code), unwilling transfer of shares on the major shareholder (§ 354 of the "Act on the changes of commercial companies and associations") and squeeze out (§ 183i of the Commercial Code). Valuable consideration defines relatively in detail the Takeover Bid Act. This framework could be to certain extent analogically used for valuable consideration in unwilling transaction. However, its definition itself offers a considerable room for interpretation, so is also seized as the independent secondary topic (chapter 1). The main topic concerns two basic aspects. The first is a company evaluation. In this aspect we will take a look only at the dependence of the expert providing the evaluation on major shareholder (chapter 5). Work aims at the second problematic aspect of unwilling transaction - a premium over the valuable consideration for the infringement of right (chapter 2, especially section 2.4.). The work also deals with unevaluated risks of minority shareholders in the period beginning the day to which the company was evaluated to time of the pay out of ownership (chapter 4).

Efterfrågan på bostadsrätter i Stockholm har under de senaste åren varit hög och priserna svänger ständigt. Idag är många överens om att ‘läget’ är en av de viktigaste parametrarna i värderingen av en bostadsrätt men vad ‘läget’ egentligen innebär är inte lika självklart. Denna studie har syftet att undersöka potentiella samband mellan ett läges attraktivitet och antal Points of Interest i en bostadsrätts närområde. Studien avser att besvara vilka parametrar som har stärst inverkan på ett bostadsområdes attraktionskraft. Points of Interest utgörs av bland annat postnummer, antal restauranger och antal hotell inom en kilometers radie från respektive bostadsrätt. Studiens utförande baseras på antagandet att försäljningspriser kan representera betalningsviljan och därigenom attraktionskraften. Utförandet baseras på maskininlärning, där modellen Random Forest Regression implementeras för att utföra en kvantitativ dataanalys på sålda bostadsrätter i Stockholm. Modellen kan estimera försäljningspris med en noggrannhet på 85,1% och resultatet redovisar Points of Interest påverkan på det estimerade försäljningspris, i förhållande till varandra. Den parameter som har störst inverkan på försäljningspriset var postnumret. Postnumret följs av kommunikationer och uteliv. Detta utfall diskuteras bero på att postnumret indirekt representerar icke-kvantitativa parametrar som allmän uppfattning om området. Kommunikationer och uteliv skapar ett ’levande’ område. Utifrån studiens resultat drogs slutsatsen att den största påverkande faktorn för ett läges attraktionskraft är den allmänna uppfattningen om närområdet, snarare än tillgänglighet till Points of Interest. / The demand on co-operative apartments in Stockholm have during the latest years been high and the prices are continuously fluctuating. Today, many agree on that the ‘location’ is one of the most important aspects in valuation of co-operative apartments but what ‘location’ actually means is not as obvious. This thesis has the purpose of exploring potential connections between a location’s attractiveness and the amount of Points of Interest in a co-operative apartment’s close proximity. The study seeks to explain which features that affects a community’s attractiveness the most. Points of Interest includes, among others, postal code, number of restaurants and number of hotels within a radius of one kilometer from each individual cooperative apartment. The study’s performance is based on the presumption that sales prices can represent willingness to pay and thereby represent attractiveness. The performance is based on machine learning, where the model Random Forest Regression is implemented to perform a quantitative data analysis on sold co-operative apartments in Stockholm. The model can estimate sales prices with an accuracy of 85.1% and the result presents the Points of Interests’ effect on the estimated sales prices, in relation to each other. The feature which was shown to have the highest effect on the estimated sales price was the postal code. It is discussed that this outcome is due to the postal code indirectly represent non-quantitative features such as the general perception of the area. The second and third most important features is showed to be public transport and nightlife. From the study it was concluded that the most important feature for the attractiveness of a location is the general perception of that area rather than the accessibility to Points of Interest.

The thesis deals with health beliefs of adults exercising tai chi chuan. The theoretical part defines basic concepts of the subject and in the practical part with the help of case studies characteristics of respondents and episodic individual interviews explores whether exercise TCC improves quality of the life and health of the respondents in their health beliefs according to my proposed theoretical models of the process of realizing health. The substance of this pilot study is to discover whether long-term exercise TCC helps exercisers respondents to change their attitude to health and lifestyle. And what changes they are experiencing.

It`s blameful to do nothing. You should catch the day and its possibilities. Every second, minute and day, you have the potential to be constantly productive. Do not lose a second of time that you can use to create an imprint of your existence. Do not waste your time when you have the opportunity to create something measurably valuable. Soon you are gone and the competition is great. Doing nothing is a task that fewer and fewer are devoted to, to a lesser extent. We are expected to always be accessible and keep up to date with what is happening around us. There is a constant occupation of our sense of mind, thoughtfulness and rest is unprioritized. We try to maximize the part of our time when we are productive and active to absurdity. The goal seems to make as big imprint of our existence as possible. Fast and more is applauded until the day we burn ourselves out. In my work, I investigate passivity as backlash in a faster world, in a world where focus is on production, efficiency and results. A world where everything worth valuing is measurable. What is really a desired result and is it always possible to measure? Who really gets that gain from our fast life? Can passivity and slowness act as an activist act? Can one passively create something measurable? Is burning time perhaps our time´s most provocative act? With my work, I want to question my constant bad conscience about being insufficient and my feeling of not doing enough. If I can´t do enough, I do nothing instead. / Det är skuldbelagt att göra ingenting. Du bör fånga dagen och dess möjligheter. Varje sekund, minut och dag har du potential att vara konstant produktiv. Förlora inte en sekund av tid som du kan använda till att skapa ett avtryck av din existens. Slösa inte med din tid när du har möjlighet att skapa något mätbart värdefullt. Snart är du borta och konkurrensen är stor. Att göra ingenting är en syssla som allt färre ägnar sig åt. Vi förväntas alltid vara tillgängliga och hålla oss uppdaterade om vad som händer runt oss. Det sker ständigt en ockupation av våra sinnesintryck. Eftertänksamhet och vila prioriteras bort. Vi försöker att maximera den del av vår tid då vi är produktiva och aktiva till absurditet. Målet verkar vara att hinna sätta ett så stort avtryck av vår existens som möjligt. Snabbare och mer applåderas till den dagen då vi bränner ut oss. I mitt arbete undersöker jag passivitet som motreaktion till en snabbare värld, i en värld där fokus ligger på produktion, effektivitet och resultat. I en värld där endast det som är mätbart ges ett värde. Vad är egentligen ett önskat resultat och är det alltid möjligt att mäta? Vem är det egentligen som får vinsten av vårt snabba liv? Kan passivitet och långsamhet fungera som en aktivistisk handling? Kan man passivt skapa något mätbart? Är ”att bränna tid”  kanske vår tids mest provokativa handling? Med mitt arbete vill jag ifrågasätta mitt konstanta dåliga samvete om att vara otillräcklig och min känsla av att jag inte gör tillräckligt. Om jag inte kan göra nog så gör jag istället ingenting.

vi Abstract Continental subspecies of the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis) is the Czech Republic's most important fish-eating predator. It causes damage to production fish, as well as sport fishermen and even after its removal from the Czech list of endangered species in 2013, it did not disappear from the spotlight of both local fishermen and researchers. This thesis evaluates the qualitative and quantitative composition of the cormorant's diet during winter 2011/2012 at two selected locations: the Žehuň pond (Kolín district) and Berounka river in the natural reserve Zábělá near Pilsen. This work studies the main components of cormorant's diet in the selected locations and evaluates potential fluctuations and changes in its composition during winter. The study also conducted the analysis of the proportion of commercially harvested valuable fish in cormorant's diet and studied its diversity of the species spectrum. The resulting data for the two sites were compared with each other and with relevant literature. Regurgitated pellets analysis, as well as analysis of diagnostic bones and fish remains located at the sleeping roosts (night roosts) were used for the diet analysis. It was found that at both sites roach was the most caught fish, but from the point of view of total biomass, it was...