AWAKENING NURSE MANAGERS’ SPIRIT OF SELF-CARE WITHIN

Ph.D

Requests in Brazilian Portuguese : new theoretical and methodological approaches in interlanguage pragmatics

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The social forest : landowners, development conflict and the state in Solomon Islands

This work develops an historically substantiated anthropological thesis about non-state local governance and its relations with the State in Solomon Islandsover time. Set in the context of the coup and subsequent crisis of the State in Solomon Islands, the thesis takes as an example Kolombangara, a forest resource rich Western Province island. The thesis argues that the consequences of successive local negotiations of world influences from early contact times through colonialism and on to the post Independence period are embedded in present-day social structures and political events at the local level. This process of local negotiation draws on cultural resources held within the local society but in so doing repositions actors in relation to those resources, creating social tensions that further drive politics at the local level. The form of these negotiations is specific to any one place in Solomon Islands. Nevertheless, the logic applied by actors in any one place is informative of processes more widespread across the country. For Kolombangara these processes begin with a reorganisation of frontier period (late C19) maritime exchange oriented 'house groups' into landoriented descent groups as a response to early colonialism. A process of social mobility follows this as the State is nationalised, resulting in stratification of local society (the 'Honiara elite'). This articulates with a fractionation of loca] society into groups competing for 'large scale' or 'small scale' forest resource development. The crosscutting social differentiation drives conflict between 'entrepreneurial landowners' and ' raditionalist smallholders' over forest resources and generates competing island-level political associations. Such island-level dynamics drive the Western Province 'statehood' agenda for control of resource management and revenue distribution. This development pathway competes at the national level against the interests of resource-poor provinces. The result has been one of the major political dynamics involved in the recent crisis of the State in Solomon Islands

MOQA: Meaning-Oriented Question-Answering

The paper describes a system which uses a fact repository (FR) consisting of instances of ontological concepts to answer sequences of questions. The fact repository is populated automatically by analyzing texts to produce complex text meaning structures. These are then mapped to fact repository instances and stored in a relational database. The documents used by the system are news articles in English, Arabic, and Farsi. The FR, the ontology and the lexicons for the three languages, together with the working memory that includes the intermediate results of the system operation, are the major static knowledge sources in the system. A multimedia interface allows queries to the system to be posed in a variety of ways including natural language. The user interacts with the system through input text, tables, generated text, maps, and relationship diagrams. The results of a query session are stored and can be reviewed and used to generate reports or to restart the session at any point in its history.

State, class and the organic elite: the formation of an entrepreneurial order in Brazil 1961-1965

This thesis is about the organization for action of a power bloc of multinational and associated interests, their policy of disruption of the Brazilian regime which took place from 1961 to 1964, and their subsequent take-over of the State. The thesis does not attempt to present a historical reconstruction of the period. Rather, it aims to bring new evidence to bear on the little known activity of individuals and organizations which were crucial in shaping the period in question and its aftermath. Chapter I outlines the formation of the populist polity, since the fall of the oligarchic state in 1930. Chapter II describes the economic ascendancy gained by multinational and associated interests throughout the 1950s under the political aegis of an industrial-oligarchic populist polity. Chapter III describes the corporate-political power structure of multinational and associated interests. The chapter examines the social and political agents who over a period of ten years shaped an incipient bloc of modernizing-conservative interests. The chapter also describes the different political means and administrative channels whereby the multinational and associated bloc was able to press its interests within the populist polity. Chapter IV describes the crisis of populism brought about by the political mobilization of the working classes and the militant action of the multinational and associated interests through their own political organizations. Chapter V examines the recruitment pattern, decision-making structure and organization for action of the organic elite of the multinational and associated interests, organized in IPES/IBAD. Chapter VI describes the ideological campaign of the organic elite against the regime and the working classes, and its attempts to indoctrinate the general public and in particular the dominant classes and the military. Chapter VII examines the political campaign of the organic elite among students, the female population, the middle classes, the peasantry, the industrial working classes, and the political parties. Chapter VIII describes the political campaign of the organic elite among the military and focuses upon the civilian-military movement which brought about the downfall of Goulart. Chapter IX describes the occupation of the state's key agencies of policy-formation and decision-making by the organic elite of IPES/IBAD. The thesis attempts to demonstrate how entrepreneurs and techno-entrepreneurs representing multinational and associated interests were an active force in Brazilian politics before and after the downfall of Goulart in 1964