Dodatki in izbris vrst s seznama muh trepetavk (Diptera: Syrphidae) Slovenije

The changes in the checklist of hoverflies of Slovenia are presented. Fifteen species are recorded as new for the fauna of Slovenia: Brachyopa panzeri, Brachypalpus laphriformis, Callicera aenea, Chamaesyrphus scaevoides, Chalcosyrphus valgus, Melangyna lasiophthalma, Meligramma guttata, Merodon aberrans, Parhelophilus frutetorum, Orthonevra intermedia, Platycheirus occultus, Rhingia borealis, Spazigaster ambulans, Sphaerophoria chongjini and Sphaerophoria fatarum. From the species complex of Merodon aeneus, both M. aeneus species A/B and M. aeneus C were recorded. One species, Xylota caeruliventris, was omitted from the checklist because of misidentification. Information on habitat characteristics, range and conservation status is givenfor every new species.Predstavljene so spremembe v seznamu muh trepetavk Slovenije. Petnajst vrst jeprvič zabeleženih v slovenski favni: Brachyopa panzeri, Brachypalpus laphriformis, Callicera aenea, Chamaesyrphus scaevoides, Chalcosyrphus valgus,Melangyna lasiophthalma, Meligramma guttata, Merodon aberrans, Parhelophilus frutetorum, Orthonevra intermedia, Platycheirus occultus, Rhingia borealis, Spazigaster ambulans, Sphaerophoria chongjini in Sphaerophoria fatarum. Iz kompleksa vrst Merodon aeneus sta bili najdeni tako M. aeneus vrsta A/B kot tudi M. aeneus C. Ena vrsta, Xylota caeruliventris, jeumaknjena s seznama zaradi napačne določitve. Podani so podatki o značilnostih habitata, razširjenosti in varovalnem statusu vseh novih vrst

Tanzania: HIV/AIDS

Tanzania has a lot of issues going on in the community, but HIV/AIDS is the number one issue they are facing. Over 5% of their population has the HIV/Aids virus. There are many interventions that have been tried in Tanzania. In the last year there have been over 50,000 new cases of HIV/Aids in Tanzania. The goal is to main those numbers go down dramatically in the coming years. The two most common interventions are trying to educate this subject at a young age and provide condoms to the population. They tried giving condoms out to the people of Tanzania because sexual intercourse is the number one way it is transmitted in Tanzania. Two interventions that I thought of that would help slow the spread of HIV/Aids where the they could make it a requirement that kids get tested for the virus before they go to school and secondly, I thought that the police could educate and crack down on prostitution and how it spreads the virus

Implementing tuple space on transputer meshes

Research Report submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, towards a partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science Johannesburg 1991This report describes and evaluates an implementation of the Linda tuple space abstraction on Transputer networks. There is evidence that suggests a need for a new programming methodology to support Transputer-based applications, and Linda, as an attractive and elegant alternative to existing methodologies, has great potential for this role. The research focuses on the implementation of a particular tuple space model, intermediate uniform distribution, on Transputer meshes. The objective of the research is to ascertain the extent of the communication overheads inherent in the implementation and hence evaluate the feasibility of the approach. The overheads are measured relative to message passing performance on native Transputer networks, and are shown to be significant. It is concluded that although the specific tuple space model is not ideally suited to Transputer-based systems and the implementation, as it stands, is too inefficient to be of practical use, the approach requires further exploration in order to exhaust its full research potential.MT201

Die representasie van Kwasi/Aquasi : 'n ondersoek na die voortsetting al dan nie van die koloniale diskoers in De zwarte met het witte hart deur Arthur Japin

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The term 'representation' is often used to refer to the possibility of a link between literature and reality. The word also suggests the reiteration of an event and is used in literary studies to indicate that a representation should be read as the author's interpretation of events and thus as a mediated rendition thereof. This study focuses on the representation of a black character who lived in the 19th Century by a white author from the zo" Century, Arthur Japin, in his novel, De zwarte met het witte hart (1997). This novel, based on historical events, is a rendering of the lives of two Ashanti princes who were taken to the Netherlands in 1837 as guarantee to an agreement between the king of the Ashanti and the Netherlands. This study therefore looks at the way in which Japin interpreted and represented the available information in his novel. This study furthermore focuses on ways in which this novel, written in what may be termed a postcolonial era could be read as a continuation of the colonial discourse in the 21st Century. This is demonstrated by identifying and examining the characteristics of colonial discourse, postcolonial discourse, the historic novel and the didactic novel, as well as ways in which these genres deal with representation. The study refers to the work of literary and social theoreticians such as Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Linda Hutcheon and Maaike Meijer. The study indicates that this novel can partially be read as a continuation of the colonial discourse. The results of this study also indicates that an uncritical reading of the novel De zwarte met het witte hart could lead to a continuation of the colonial discourse in the 21st Century. The role and responsibility of the reader in the interpretation and the subversion of the colonial discourse could therefore be further investigated.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die term 'representasie' word dikwels gebruik om die moontlikheid van 'n verband tussen die letterkunde en die werklikheid aan te dui. Die woord suggereer die herhaling van 'n gegewe en word in die letterkunde gebruik om aan te dui dat die representasie wat gelees word, die outeur se interpretasie en dus bemiddelde weergawe van gebeure is. Hierdie ondersoek fokus op die representasie van 'n swart hoofkarakter uit die 19de eeu deur 'n blanke outeur in die 20ste eeu soos dit in die roman, De zwarte met het witte hart (1997) deur Arthur Japin, weergegee word. Hierdie roman, gebaseer op historiese gegewens, handeloor die lewens van twee Ashanti prinse wat in 1837 as onderpand vir 'n ooreenkoms tussen Nederland en die Ashantynse koning na Nederland geneem is en die gevolge wat dit vir hulle ingehou het. Daar word dus in dié ondersoek gekyk na die manier waarop Japin die gegewens tot sy beskikking geïnterpreteer en in die roman weergegee het. Verder fokus die ondersoek op die manier waarop hierdie roman, geskryf in wat as 'n postkoloniale era gesien kan word, moontlik as 'n voortsetting van die koloniale diskoers in die 21ste eeu gelees kan word. Dit word gedoen deur kenmerke van die koloniale diskoers, die postkoloniale diskoers, die historiese roman en die tendensroman te identifiseer en ondersoek, saam met die wyses waarop hierdie genres met representasie omgaan. Daar word verwys na die werk van letterkundige en sosiale teoretici soos Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Linda Hutcheon en Maaike Meijer. Uit die ondersoek blyk dat hierdie roman gedeeltelik as 'n voortsetting van die koloniale diskoers gelees kan word. Die resultate van hierdie ondersoek dui ook aan dat 'n onkritiese lees van die roman De zwarte met het witte hart kan lei tot die voortsetting van die koloniale diskoers in die 21ste eeu. Die rol en die verantwoordelikheid van die leser in die interpretasie en ondermyning van die koloniale diskoers kan dus verder ondersoek word

Management's perception of customers' service feedback in an ICT company : an explorative study

The purpose of this research was to explore how management explains the difference between the overall service quality ratings of staff at Company X versus the overall service quality ratings of Company X. The organisation conducts customer service measurements on a regular basis to monitor their customers overall service experience regarding the staff and the organisation. The results of the research identified a discrepancy regarding customer perceptions of the service they receive from the staff versus the service Company X is providing. Management was the focus of the study due to management having a direct or indirect influence on service gaps in the organisation. The SERVQUAL model, together with systems theory, was applied as a framework to explore management perceptions as to why a service quality gap exists. In-depth face-to-face interviews were conducted with management staff of Company X who are responsible for customer service. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the interviews and through content analysis six main themes were identified with various subthemes. The theoretical and empirical objectives were addressed and it was concluded that inconsistent practices within the organisation specifically the lack of consistent performance management can create an inconsistent service experience. The findings also revealed that Company X have various focus areas to improve the overall customer experience of the organisation.M.A. (Psychology (Research consultation))Psycholog

Corpos hipotecados: o dispositivo da dívida em sua articulação com microcrédito produtivo e financiamento estudantil

Based on the gradual growth of debt and indebtedness relationships, this research intends to analyze the power relations and the struggles that involves debt. Beyond purely economic relationships debt concept allows us to identify the intricate dispute, oppositions and subjectivities that organize the debt system. As a dispositif it does not appear as an abstract concept, but as particular empirical realities. Debt is understood as a dispositif deeply linked to labor relations, as it is a promise of future work that may or may not be done. Hence the student debt is analyzed in its articulation with knowledge and practices of anatomo-political and biopolitical technologies of power. Student debt makes the indebted person to promise future work as a manner to repay creditor. Debt acts over bodies, conforming their future to present and reducing future possibilities to present determinations. As productive microcredit debt provides real possibilities for efectuate informal labour based on indebtedness. Microcredit debt allows informal workers to become “microentrepreneurs”, which will be monitored by the financial market and must meet the income expectations that creditors aim to extract. Conducting informal workers as the entrepreneurial man of neoliberal governmentality (entrepreneur of the self) to the rhythms of production and productivity required by the financial market. It also analyzes how debt promotes the mixing of relationships, causing a juxtaposition of previously separated spheres of life. By reducing family and community relationships to debt based relationship and expanding competition between subjects, debt produces a sociability of individual blame and punishment for those in debt.Partindo do crescimento paulatino das relações de dívida e endividamento, esta pesquisa pretende analisar as relações de poder e os jogos de força que envolvem a dívida. Para além das relações puramente econômicas, esse conceito permite identificar a intricada trama de disputas, embates e subjetividades que organizam o dispositivo de dívida. Esse dispositivo não aparece como forma abstrata, mas enquanto realidades empíricas particulares. Entende-se a dívida como um dispositivo profundamente atrelado as relações de trabalho, por tratar-se de uma promessa de trabalho futuro que poderá, ou não, ser realizado. Para isso, analisa-se a dívida estudantil em sua articulação aos saberes e práticas das tecnologias anátomo-políticas e biopolíticas do poder. As formas da dívida estudantil fazem o endividado prometer à realização de um trabalho futuro com o qual reembolsará o credor. A dívida age sobre os corpos conformando-os no presente à realização de uma atividade futura, reduzindo as possibilidades do porvir às determinações imediatas do presente. Na forma do microcrédito produtivo a dívida agencia as possibilidades efetivas de realização de trabalho, principalmente informal, a partir do endividamento. Essa forma de dívida para o trabalho permite aos trabalhadores informais fundarem “microempreendimentos” próprios, que serão agora vigiados pelo mercado financeiro e deverão corresponder às expectativas de rendas que os credores almejam extrair. Submetendo o trabalhador informal, agora aparecendo como o sujeito-empresa da governamentalidade neoliberal (empresário de si mesmo) aos ritmos de produção e de produtividade exigidos pelo mercado financeiro. Analisa-se também como a dívida promove o embaralhamento das relações, causando uma justaposição de esferas da vida, antes separadas. Reduzindo as relações familiares e comunitárias a relações fundadas na dívida e na concorrência generalizada entre os sujeitos, a dívida produz uma sociabilidade própria de culpabilização individual e de punição aos endividados.CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superio

Metakognition im Kindergartenalter. Vorschulkinder machen sich auf den Lernweg oder „Warte, ich bin grad am Denken!“ Eine explorative Studie -Eine explorative Studie-

Die Intention dieser explorativen Studie ist die Entwicklung und Evaluation einer kindgerechten Testbatterie, die Wissens- und Basiskompetenzen im Vorschulalter überprüft. Die Studie weist eine Niveaudifferenzierung für die Altersstufen der Drei- bis Sechsjährigen auf, erfüllt die Minimalanforderungen für eigenständig entwickelte Tests (Bortz & Döring, 2006, S. 222), verfügt über einen hohen Aufforderungscharakter und macht die Ableitung von Förder- und Forderaspekten möglich. Die dafür entwickelte Testbatterie GETOMETA mit 224 Items für Kinder ab drei Jahren dient hierzu als Grundlage, weitgehend unbekannte Zusammenhänge von verschiedenen Entwicklungskategorien, besonders in Verbindung mit den Entwicklungsbereichen Theory of Mind und Metakognition, zu untersuchen. Sie setzt sich aus drei Subtests zusammen: Großer Entwicklungs-Test (GET) mit den Entwicklungsbereichen Motorik, Wahrnehmung, Auditive Wahrnehmung / Gedächtnis, Lautsprache, Leseschriftsprache und Mathematik, Theory of Mind (TOM) und Metakognition (META). Zur Beantwortung der Fragestellungen wurde explorative Studie mit 50 Kindergartenkindern im Alter von drei bis sechs Jahren durchgeführt. GETOMETA erfüllt die folgenden Testkriterien: Itemhomogenität, hohe Streuung des Schwierigkeitsindizes, hohe Itemtrennschärfe, hohe Testobjektivität, hohe Testreliabilität und hohe Validität. Auch die Checkliste der Testgütekriterien (Bühner, 2011) mit den Aspekten: Theoretischer Hintergrund, Messtheorie, Durchführung und statistische Analysen zu Reliabilität und Validität konnte vom GETOMETA für die vorliegende Stichprobe erfüllt werden. Bei allen Kindern konnten bereits ab drei Jahren metakognitive Kompetenzen nachgewiesen werden. Ebenso zeigten sich vielfältige Beziehungen zwischen den Entwicklungsbereichen