Avec la mise en place de la nouvelle limite maximale de 400 000 cellules somatiques par millilitres de lait (c/mL) au réservoir, le mois d’août 2012 a marqué une étape importante en termes de qualité du lait pour les producteurs de bovins laitiers du Canada. L’objectif de cette étude consistait en l’établissement d’un modèle de prédiction de la violation de cette limite au réservoir à l’aide des données individuelles et mensuelles de comptages en cellules somatiques (CCS) obtenues au contrôle laitier des mois précédents. Une banque de donnée DSA comprenant 924 troupeaux de laitiers québécois, en 2008, a été utilisée pour construire un modèle de régression logistique, adapté pour les mesures répétées, de la probabilité d’excéder 400 000 c/mL au réservoir. Le modèle final comprend 6 variables : le pointage linéaire moyen au test précédent, la proportion de CCS > 500 000 c/mL au test précédent, la production annuelle moyenne de lait par vache par jour, le nombre de jours en lait moyen (JEL) au test précédent ainsi que les proportions de vaches saines et de vaches infectées de manière chronique au test précédant. Le modèle montre une excellente discrimination entre les troupeaux qui excèdent ou n’excèdent pas la limite lors d’un test et pourrait être aisément utilisé comme outil supplémentaire de gestion de la santé mammaire à la ferme. / August 2012 represents an in important step in terms of milk quality for the Canadian bovine dairy producers because the upper tolerance limit for bulk tank somatic cell count (BTSCC) was lowered to 400 000 somatic cells per millilitre (c/mL). The objective of this study was to develop a predictive model of exceeding the BTSCC limit based on monthly individuals somatic cell count (SCC) measures obtained in the previous months. A database including DHI data from the year 2008 of 924 dairy herds in Québec, Canada was used. A logistic regression model for repeated measures was constructed. The final model included 6 variables related to monthly individual cow somatic cell count: mean individual linear score at the previous test, proportion of cows over 500 000 cells/mL at the previous test, mean herd annual daily milk production per cow, average days in milk at the previous test, proportion of healthy cows at previous test, proportion of chronic cows at previous test. The model has excellent discrimination between herd that exceeded and herd that did not exceed 400 000 cells/mL and can be use to advise dairy producers of impending risks of exceeding the BTSCC limit.

In a norm game, under certain conditions, there exist Nash equilibria of mutual cooperation. Experimental work demonstrates that even in one-shot situations the level and proportion of cooperative behavior increases if an punishment option is available to the players of a public goods game. It is therefore important to analyze conditions such that this is consistent with a rational choice approach. The paper is meant as a first step toward this task. The main result will be that nonstandard assumptions about human motivations or preferences can explain norms with sanctions even in one-shot situations. This is shown by an analysis of the norm game with two well-known recent models of fairness from behavioral game theory.

Moje diplomová práce se věnuje tomu, jakým způsobem přistupují vyučující na druhém stupni základních škol k dívkám a chlapcům, kteří jsou genderově atypičtí. Tedy k dětem, kteří nesplňují představu "správné" dívky či "správného" chlapce z hlediska genderového řádu společnosti a nějakým způsobem se těmto představám vymykají (v rovině osobnostní, vzhledové či behaviorální). Ve výzkumu se zajímám o zkušenost vyučujících s těmito dětmi, o charakteristiky, jenž jsou podle nich genderově atypické, jak tyto děti podle nich přijímá kolektiv či učitelský sbor, apod., avšak podstatou mého zkoumání je zjistit, jaký postoj vůči těmto dětem učitelé a učitelky zaujímají a co jej ovlivňuje. Z výsledků výzkumu pak vyplývá, že existuje určitá typologie postojů vyučujících k genderově atypickým dětem, přičemž jednotlivé postoje vyučujících jsou ovlivňovány mnoha faktory. Faktor, který se ukázal jako nejdůležitější, protože významně ovlivňuje to, zda se bude jedna spíše o pozitivní či negativní přijetí dítěte, je to, zda projevy atypického dítěte narušují či znesnadňují vyučování a práci vyučujícího, nikoliv pouhá skutečnost, že je dítě genderově atypické. Tato práce je tvořena dvěma částmi: teoretickou a empirickou. V teoretické části se zabývám informacemi, které jsou základem pro můj výzkum a v rámci celé práce z...

The topic of my thesis is the analysis of two selected reasons for notice of termination given by an employer to an employee as stated by the Labour Code. The first reason (according to Sec. 52 (g) of the Labour Code) consists in violation of employee's duties and obligation ensuing from the legal regulation applying on the work performed by the employee. The second reason (according to Sec. 52 (h) of the Labour Code), which was implemented into the Labour Code with its effectiveness as of 1 January 2012, introduces a so-called "other duty of an employee" consisting in violation of the regime of an employee who is temporarily unfit to perform work for the employer due to his/her sickness or injury as set by the Act on Sickness Insurance. The analysis will be based primarily on the case law of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic which, in the long term, tends to shape the legal regulation of the analyzed issue. Although not being a formal source of law, the case law of the Supreme Court is of a great importance in the area of termination of employment relationships in the Czech labour law in practice.

Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / This study will examine the statistical effects of varsity athletics on Naval Academy Midshipman performance. Academic performance averages, military performance averages, conduct grade, and honor violation are analyzed with respect to Midshipmen participating in varsity athletics versus non-varsity athletics. Using hierarchical regression analysis, the expectation is that varsity athletes make up the upper-echelon of the Brigade of Midshipmen than non-varsity athletes. In the analysis however, no statistical significance is discovered with respect to varsity athletics, and that, consequently, varsity athletes perform to the same degree as non-varsity athletes. The results further outline the need for better prediction measures of Midshipman Performance. / Lieutenant, United States Naval Reserve

The master's thesis is dedicated to studying the propagation of ultra-high energy proton cosmic rays under a hypothesis of Lorentz invariance violation. For this purpose, numerical methods were used. Our calculations indicated that the ef- fective horizon of ultra-high energy cosmic protons is significantly extended when Lorentz invariance violation is assumed. Further, we investigated the effects of Lo- rentz invariance violation on the Cosmic ray spectrum. We learned that measured cosmic ray spectra are a suitable tool for constraining the coefficients describing Lorentz invariance violation and we estimated an interval where the upper bound on the pion Lorentz invariance violating coefficient lies. Moreover, a correlation between free parameters of the analytical model of cosmic ray spectrum and coefficients, that describes Lorentz invariance violation, was found.

Name of the thesis: Termination of employment relationship for violation of labour law obligations in the Czech Republic and Germany The thesis deals with the comparison of legal regulations of the Czech Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany on the termination of employment relationship for violation of employment obligations. Its main objective is to describe this legislation so that a critical analysis of certain conclusions of supreme courts of both countries can be carried with regard to terms of employee protection as well as the flexibility of employment, i.e. the basic principles of labour law. The thesis can be divided into four parts. In the first (introductory) part, the labour law of the Czech Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany are generally described. This chapter is followed by a description of the current legislation on the termination of employment in both the countries with emphasis on termination and immediate cancellation in case of the Czech Republic. In the case of the Federal Republic of Germany, the description of the applicable legal provisions relating to ordinary and extraordinary denunciations is emphasised. In the final part of the thesis, the findings obtained from previous chapters are compared to each other. From this comparison, conclusions are...

La prolifération des traités bilatéraux d'investissement a contribué, ces dernières années, à l'augmentation des litiges portés devant les tribunaux d'arbitrage du Centre International pour le Règlement des Différends relatifs aux Investissements (CIRDI). En effet, les clauses de règlement des différends contenus dans ces traités ont permis aux investisseurs étrangers de saisir directement les tribunaux CIRDI en cas de violation par l'État d'accueil de l'investissement des dispositions protectrices ou de traitement prévues dans ces traités. La présence de l'État au contentieux CIRDI fait que les litiges soumis aux tribunaux arbitraux portent par nature sur des questions de responsabilité. Dès lors, l'invocation par les arbitres des règles coutumières du droit de la responsabilité de l'État, telles que codifiées par la Commission du droit international, est quasi systématique. Au regard de la pratique arbitrale, cette thèse se veut un essai sur les interactions entre le droit de la responsabilité de l'État et l'arbitrage CIRDI sur le fondement des traités de protection, l'objectif final étant de parvenir à une conclusion sur l'existence ou non d'un sous-système de responsabilité de l' État sur le fondement des traités de protection des investissements. Pour ce faire, suivant la démarche de codification de la Commission du droit International, elle met l'accent sur l'influence des règles coutumières d'engagement de la responsabilité de l'État sur la pratique des tribunaux d'arbitrage du CIRDI fondée sur les traités de protection ; et, sous l'angle de la mise en œuvre et du contenu de la responsabilité étatique, elle aborde, à la lumière du droit international général, les aspects de compétence des tribunaux d'arbitrage du CIRDI, les éléments de recevabilité des réclamations des investisseurs étrangers, et les questions liées à la réparation du préjudice causé par l'État. / With the proliferation of Bilateral Investment Treaties, many disputes have in the recent years been brought before arbitral tribunals under the auspices of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). By virtue of dispute settlement clauses of such treaties, foreign investors are able to directly call upon the jurisdiction of ICSID in case of breach by the host State of its treaty-based protection and treatment obligations. Because of the State's involvement, ICSID disputes raise, by nature, issues of Sate Responsibility. Therefore, it is not surprising that ICSID arbitrators systematically rely on customary rules on State Responsibility as codified by the International Law Commission to form and motivate their opinions. The current thesis aims at assessing, in light of the arbitral practice, the interactions between the Law of State Responsibility and ICSID's treaty-based arbitration, with the objective to determine whether State responsibility under treaties is a self-contained regime. We have adopted the International Law Commission's codification approach to highlight, on one side, the influence of customary rules on engagement of State Responsibility on the practice of ICSID arbitral tribunals; and, on the other side, with regards to invocation and content of the State's responsibility, the relationships between general international law and salient aspects of the jurisdiction of ICSID tribunals, the admissibility of claims and the reparation of injury caused to the investor by the State.

Dada sua definição e a forma como opera na atualidade, o refúgio pode ser caracterizado por dois momentos: o anterior à determinação do status de refugiado - o qual congrega as condições de vida que levam à fuga e legitimam o reconhecimento como refugiado -; e o posterior - o qual consiste das condições de vida no país de acolhida (a chamada fase de proteção). O instituto do refúgio vincula dois âmbitos que visam garantir a proteção internacional do indivíduo: o regime internacional dos direitos humanos e o regime internacional dos refugiados. Atualmente, tem-se reconhecido a relação entre essas duas esferas, principalmente no que se refere à aproximação histórica e filosófica, contudo, ainda há posicionamentos que defendem a não-existência de tal vinculação. Esse trabalho visa desenvolver uma análise sobre a relação existente entre direitos humanos e refúgio nos momentos anterior e posterior à determinação do status de refugiado. Em relação ao primeiro, visando demonstrar a impossibilidade de desvinculação entre a concepção contemporânea da proteção internacional dos refugiados e o reconhecimento e a garantia dos direitos humanos, argumenta-se, a partir de uma revisão bibliográfica, que a violação de direitos humanos é sempre o motivo que leva à determinação da condição de refugiado. No que concerne ao segundo, visamos analisar como o ACNUR, principal organismo para o trato da questão, tem se manifestado em relação aos direitos humanos dos refugiados nos países de acolhida - partindo do exame de algumas de suas publicações e apontando como a política internacional tem se configurado como fator central para a forma como o ACNUR se expressa em relação à violação desses direitos nos países de refúgio. / Given its definition and the way it operates in the present, the refuge can be characterized by two moments: the one before the refugee status determination process - which comprises the life conditions that lead to the flight and justify the admission of a refugee in another country -; and the one after this process - which consists of the life conditions in the asylum country (the so-called protection phase). The refuge bonds two domains which aim to assure the international protection: the human rights international regime and the refugee international regime. Presently, it has been recognized that there is a fundamental tie between these two spheres, mainly in relation to the historical and philosophical approximation, nevertheless, there still are opinions which advocates against such linking. This research aims to develop an analysis about the relation that exists between human rights and refuge in the moments before and after the refugee status determination. In respect to the first, aiming to demonstrate the impossibility of disconnecting the contemporaneous concept of international protection and the recognition and guarantee of human rights, starting from a bibliographic review, it is argued that the human rights violation is always the reason that yields to the refugee status determination. Regarding the second one, we aim to analyze how the UNHCR, main organization for dealing with the issue, has manifested its opinions about the refugee human rights in the asylum countries - using as parameter some of its publications and revealing how the world politics has been a key factor to the way this agency expresses itself respecting to the rights violations in the asylum countries.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:24:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Blanco Garcia Guimaraes Fleury.pdf: 1343341 bytes, checksum: 7fe6474c605c38190ffb1fa5a6253c19 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-10 / It is intended, through this work, investigate administrative violations and sanctions provides in Laws 8.666/93, 10.520/02, 12.462/11 e 12.846/13, applicable to bids and contracts. To achieve this purpose, first we analyze the defining elements of the legal and administrative violation and sanctions, studying its structure, contents and implementation. That done, we studied the aspects and topics related to them of the administrative violations and sanctions. At the end, set these premises, we fixed the content, scope and application of the administrative violations and sanctions provided in these laws, from the interpretation of the rules that form part of its legal system / Pretende-se, por meio deste trabalho, investigar as infrações e sanções administrativas previstas nas Leis 8.666/93, 10.520/02, 12.462/11 e 12.846/13, aplicáveis às licitações e contratos administrativos. Para tanto, primeiramente nos debruçamos sobre os elementos definidores das infrações e sanções jurídicas e administrativas, estudando a sua estrutura, o seu conteúdo e sua aplicação. E, ao assim proceder, aprofundamos o estudo dos ilícitos e penalidades administrativas, enfrentando cada um dos seus aspectos e os temas a eles correlatos. Por fim, com amparo nestas balizas, gizamos o conteúdo, alcance e aplicação das infrações e sanções administrativas em espécie, previstas nas Leis de Licitação; do Pregão; do RDC; e de Anticorrupção, a partir da interpretação das normas que integram o seu regime jurídico