Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: Ann K. Mullis, Florida State University, College of Human Sciences, Dept. of Family and Child Sciences. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 7, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 122 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-115).

Ce travail porte sur les rapports esthétiques entre Lester Young, saxophoniste ténor de jazz, et ses successeurs, sur la période 1935-1955. Il s’agit, en analysant les différents processus, procédés et figures qui déterminent Lester Young comme archétype, de définir comment celui-ci a agi sur ses contemporains et sur les courants du jazz. S’interrogeant sur les notions d’influence et de modélisation, l’ouvrage se veut aussi une réflexion plus générale sur les processus de continuité et de retour dans l’histoire esthétique. / This study is about the aesthetic links between jazz tenor saxophonist Lester Young and his successors, from 1935 to 1955. By analysing the different processes, ways and figures which determine Lester Young as an archetype, this work attempts to define which effects Young had upon his contemporaries and the various jazz movements. By focusing on the notions of influence and modelling, this thesis is also more generally a reflection about the processes of continuity and return in aesthetic history.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The ability to manipulate materials at the atomic scale turn it possible to look for materials at the nanoscale that can supersede the performance of their bulk counterparts in specific tasks. Nanowires, due to their unique structural characteristics, are natural candidates for electric or heat conducting devices. When these nanowires take part of a circuit, they can subjected to an external stress that can change their intrinsic properties. In this work, we will be studying the mechanical and electronic behavior of narrow InAs nanowires, with different diameters, when subjected to extreme external stress. Our calculations use the Density Functional Theory, and the local density approximation to the exchange and correlation potential, as implemented in the VASP code. Our results reveal that the InAs nanowires exhibit a mechanical behavior which depends on the external stress and the nanowire diameter. For the narrowest diameter, it shows an elastic behavior followed by the rupture of the wire. As the nanowires turn thicker, different responses to the external stress take place. When the first chemical bonds are broken, the nanowire changes between elastic behaviors with different Young modulus. When more and more chemical bonds are broken (for the thicker nanowires), the nanowires show a plastic behavior, before the rupture. For each of these mechanical regimes, the electronic band structure of the nanowires is also analysed. / Nanofios, devido às suas caracteristícas estruturais únicas, são candidatos naturais para dispositivos condutores de eletricidade e calor. Quando estes nanofios formam parte de um dispositivo, podem estar sujeitos a tensões externas que podem alterar as suas propriedades intrínsecas. Neste trabalho estudaremos o comportamento mecânico e eletrônico de nanofios de InAs com diferentes diâmetros quando sujeitos a tensões externas extremas. Nossos cálculos usam a Teoria do Funcional da Densidade dentro da aproximação da densidade local para o funcional de exchange e correlação, como implementado no código computacional VASP. Nossos resultados revelam que os nanofios de InAs exibem um comportamento mecânico que depende da tensão externa e do diâmetro do nanofio. Para o nanofio mais estreito, observa-se um comportamento elástico da curva de tensão vs elongação ( stress vs strain ), seguido de ruptura do fio. Quando os nanofios tornam-se mais espessos, diferentes respostas às tensões extremas são observadas. Quando as primeiras ligações químicas são quebradas, os nanofios mudam de regime elástico para outro, com diferentes valores de módulo de Young. Quando mais e mais ligações químicas são quebradas, sempre do centro para as bordas, os nanofios apresentam um comportamento plástico antes da ruptura. Para cada um destes regimes mecânicos estrutura de bandas dos nanofios é também analisada.

abstract: Young women ages 18-29 are the highest users of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the United States. As a group, they curate and create more online content than any other adult user group (Duggan, 2014). Throughout the research literature, scholars claim that the high rate of technology use among young people is related to their developmental stage (boyd, 2014; Kuper & Mustaki, 2014; Subrahmanyam & Greenfield, 2008; Turkle, 2010). The primary developmental tasks of young adults include forming an adult identity, and sustaining intimate relationships. Developmental psychologists and sociologist hypothesize that ICT’s influence developmental trajectories and outcomes (Jensen & Arnett, 2012). Given the breadth of discussion in the literature about development, and ICT use, there is relatively little research focusing on how young women interpret and internalize these experiences. The primary purpose of this study was to understand the interaction between young adults frequent online use and developmental tasks — identity formation and intimate relationships. Interviews were conducted with young women (18-29) who qualified as high users (N=22). Participants’ were interviewed twice; the initial interview used a structured schedule, providing uniformity across participants. The second interview was an informal conversation personalized to the participant’s’ interests, experiences, and opinions about the topic. Participants were recruited from across the country, and the diversity in the sample mirrors the heterogeneous nature of the emerging adult population. Two forms of qualitative analysis were used, open thematic coding and narrative analysis. Findings demonstrated the shift of the networked culture creates a highly individualized life trajectory for young people. Identity and intimacy are still the salient developmental tasks for young adults, but continue evolve throughout the life course. . Narrative analyses were used to show strengths of the critical realism theory, especially the reflexive modes, by using case examples. Lastly, the role of ICT are discussed using four primary themes— augmented relationships, disruptive networks, defining moments, and driven agency. Ultimately, this research study helps provide evidence that online spaces are relational and the interactions a part of sociality. For social workers ability to understand development experiences and other facets of social life, further research is needed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Social Work 2016

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:28:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-06-19Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:57:27Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 pereira_kaf_me_mar.pdf: 557517 bytes, checksum: 9375f717a35bb11f3f5fcabf6129c900 (MD5) / O presente trabalho objetiva verificar contradições e ambigüidades na definição do protagonismo juvenil e o uso desse conceito forma de adaptação dos jovens à excludente ordem social capitalista atual. As diretrizes educacionais, como a Reforma do Ensino Médio, explicitam o culto ao Protagonismo como via promissora para dar conta tanto de uma urgência social quanto das angústias pessoais dos jovens, de forma a transferir a responsabilidade de superação de tais questões aos próprios jovens, por esforços individuais, potencialização da resiliência e realização de ações sociais solidárias. Nessa perspectiva, o conceito adquire um valor político-ideológico voltado para a despolitização da juventude em relação às causas macro sociais da pobreza. A conceituação de Protagonismo Juvenil é um grande desafio para a produção científica, visto as divergências e ambigüidades que o permeiam, tais como perspectivas diferenciadas de cidadania, participação, responsabilidade social, entre outras. A metodologia do trabalho consiste em pesquisa bibliográfica e pesquisa de campo, com uso de questionários e grupos de diálogos, compostos por alunos do ensino médio de uma escola do município de Umuarama-PR. Sua análise revelou que ambigüidades conceituais, sendo que os jovens em muitas falas associam o protagonismo juvenil à ações de caráter social e voluntário. No entanto, revela, também, a expressão de uma busca de autonomia e a necessidade de ser concebido como sujeito social. O resultado desta pesquisa sugere que o protagonismo juvenil seja desvelado pelos pesquisadores de forma crítica, principalmente no que se refere à sua ambiguidade conceitual. / This work aims to very contradictions and ambiguities in the definition of Young leadership and use this concept means to adapt to the exclusion of Young social order today. The educational guidelines, and the Reformo f Secundary Education, explain the Cult of prominence as a promissing way to account for both na urgent social and the personal anguish of Young people in order to shift responsibilityfor overcoming this issues to Young people themselves, by individual efforts, enhancement of the resilience and anchievement of social solidary actions. This perspective the concepto f education is a political and ideological toward the politicization of youth in relation to macro social cause of peverity. The concepto f Prominence Youthis a great challenge that permeat such as different perspectives of citizenship, participation, social responsability, among others. The metodology of the work is in literature and Field research, using questionnaries and dialogue groups, composed of high school students at a school in the city of Umuarama – PR. Their analysis revealedthat conceptual ambiguities, and the Young people in many lines associated with youth involvement in social activities and volunteer. However, italso reveals the expression of a quest for autonomy and need to be designed as a social subject. The resulto f this research suggests that youth involvementis unveiled by researchers in a critical way, speccially with regard to its conceptual ambiguity.

The aim of this diploma thesis called Three significant trends in young adult literature is to analyse this literary category in the Czech Republic; to describe the publishing houses focusing on this type of literature and to determine, if there are any trends - and if so to describe them. The first chapter states different definitions of so called YA literature and its understanding abroad and in the Czech Republic among the publishers. In the next chapter I characterise the main trends in YA literature that already exist and also those that could emerge, according to literary agents and publishers. In the next part of this thesis I describe three chosen genres: urban fantasy, fairy tale retellings and dystopian novels and I analyse four series determined as typical for respective genres: The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Divergent by Veronica Roth. Each analysis is followed by the description of media response to the chosen series. The thesis also includes the interviews with editors from chosen publishing houses focusing on YA literature: Tereza Pecáková from CooBoo, Jakub Šedivý from Fragment, Lucie Kučová from Egmont and Eva Sedláčková and Jiří Štěpán from Host. This practical part is preceded by a theoretical...

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M.A. / Most of the unemployed juvenile delinquents used in this study come from single parent families or from families where both or either of the parents are deceased or have deserted. The majority of families used were found to consist of parents who were either unemployed, deserted or deceased. Most of the unemployed juveniles were, as a result, forced to leave school due to financial problems. The majority of them left school before they reached Standard 6. As a result of this, a high percentage of the unemployed juveniles involved in this study do not qualify for admission to the two identified institutions.

This study is motivated out of a concern for the declining church attendance of young adults. The goal of this study is the identification of the needs of young adults in relation to the church service and the measurement of the success of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa (A.F.M. hereafter) in meeting these needs. The reseach is done through an exploratory-descriptive literature study and an empirical study within certain A.F.M. congregations. In the literature study the developmental tasks, context and needs of young adults are identified and these needs are explained within the framework of several need-models from psychology and other sciences. The context of young adults is explained by the generation gaps as described by Codrington (1999). The identified needs of Carroll (1991), a sense of meaning, belonging and empowerment, forms the focus of this study. In the literature study the church service, within the context of the A.F.M. Church is explored, as well as how the liturgical elements are able to meet the needs of Carroll. The needs of young adults in relation to the church service and how the A.F.M. Church succeeds in meeting these needs, are explored through the use of self-administered questionnaires. The most important finding of the empirical study, is that young adults do agree with the needs identified by Carroll. A surprising result in contradiction with the literature, is that young adults do have a strong sense of social responsibility and want to be empowered to make a difference in the world. The four participating A.F.M. congregations, Goodwood, Strandfontein, Doxa Deo Langeberg and the Paarl Protea Worship Centre, were positively evaluated by respondents in terms of meeting the needs of Carroll. There was however, a significant statistical difference between the respondents’ evaluation of Carroll’s needs and the success of the participating churches’ success in meeting these needs. The study is concluded with recommendations for the planning of church services within the context of the A.F.M. as well as follow-up studies. The conclusion of this study is that the true character of the church service must be reflected in the planning of the liturgical elements. Enough freedom for the functioning of the Holy Spirit must also be created in such a way that the needs of young adults can be met. The planning of the church service must be focussed on the worshipping of God, the preaching of the gospel in such a way that people can find new meaning in their lives, the facilitating of a meeting between congregation and God, the creating of a loving community and the empowerment of people to make a difference in the world. In this way, the commands of God and the needs of young adults are kept in balance. / Prof. W.J. Hatting