The Portuguese New Testament in the light of modern research: its translation and text.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston Universit

Poverty is not being reduced in Mozambique

The paper presents a wide range of data on Mozambique and examines what this shows about changes to poverty and income levels over the past decade. The authors point to the lack of changes in farming practice which is contributing to the persistence of poverty and consider cash income and the poverty trap in Mozambique. The paper goes on to discuss the failure of donor-led development models and looks at Mozambique and other countries for alternative policies that might reduce poverty and raise agricultural production. Finally, the paper considers the arguments for and against a change of policy in the future

Self-similar solutions to the mean curvature flow in R3\mathbb{R}^{3}

In this paper we make an analysis of self-similar solutions for the mean curvature flow (MCF) by surfaces of revolution and ruled surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$. We prove that self-similar solutions of the MCF by non-cylindrival surfaces and conical surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ are trivial. Moreover, we characterize the self-similar solutions of the MCF by surfaces of revolutions under a homothetic helicoidal motion in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ in terms of the curvature of the generating curve. Finally, we characterize the self-similar solutions for the MCF by cylindrical surfaces under a homothetic helicoidal motion in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Explicit families of exact solutions for the MCF by cylindrical surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ are also given

Evaluating urban freight transport policies within complex urban environments

Urban Freight Transport (UFT) entails significant advantages for the economic growth of cities, but can also hamper population quality of life, obstructing vehicles and people movements while exacerbating environmental problems. Many initiatives have been engaged by many city administrators in order to efficiently manage UFT, evaluating different policies at a global scale. From the perspective of operators, most works analyze a limited set of policies or only focus on the benefits of companies. In this work, a decisionmaking process is used to evaluate a large set of UFT policies, through different attributes representing the advantages and limitations of each policy over promoter companies and the society. To do so, an ex-ante procedure in five steps is proposed to classify the policies: (1) attributes definition, (2) attributes weighting, (3) policy-attribute assessment, (4) policy ranking, and (5) feasibility threshold satisfaction. The whole process is supported on consultations to 26 experts regarding shop supply and restocking activities within complex urban environments. Results show a classification of the analyzed policies, according to their suitability for implementation ; which could be extended (directly or with small adjustments) to other contexts, given the flexibility of the decision-making procedure developed.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Exciton Dynamics and Charge Carrier Generation in Organic Semiconductors

The ever-increasing demand for cleaner sources of energy calls for inexpensive and highly efficient solar cells. Solution- and vacuum-processable organic solar cells have gained significant attention as an attractive source of energy owing to their continuously rising power conversion efficiency, low cost, thin device structure, and mechanical flexibility. The absorption of light in organic solar cells generates a strongly bound electron-hole pair called an exciton. To efficiently dissociate the exciton into charges, a heterojunction composed of electron donating and accepting materials with suitable energy levels is typically used to provide the driving force needed to overcome the Coulomb attraction between the electron-hole pair. The photon-to-charge conversion in organic solar cells is a complex process that is subject to losses; hence, it is critical to carefully monitor every step from photon-to-charge conversion, such as exciton photogeneration, exciton diffusion towards the donor-acceptor interface, and exciton dissociation into charges. This thesis sheds light on the photon-to-charge conversion process in organic photovoltaics using a multi-disciplinary approach that combines results from steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopy, and Monte Carlo simulations

The Morality of Revolution: Urban Cleanup Campaigns, Reeducation Camps, and Citizenship in Socialist Mozambique (1974-1988)

Between 1974 and 1988, the revolutionary ruling party of Mozambique, Frelimo, launched several campaigns to cleanse the cities of residents it deemed antisocial and antithetical to the socialist revolution in Mozambique. The party established over twenty internment camps in remote locations throughout the country. Officially called ‘reeducation centers’, these camps were meant to rehabilitate wayward members of society through forced labor, political education, and moral regeneration. This study offers a critical historical examination of the cleanup campaigns and reeducation camps in socialist Mozambique. It explores the ideological and material infrastructure in which Frelimo devised and implemented its program of moral reform. Building on a new set of archival materials and interviews, the study foregrounds the contradictions of Frelimo’s ambitions and the gap between the ideals of social reform and the reality of the internment regimen. The examination of the campaigns, the empirical documentation of the organic functioning of the camps and the everyday life of internment shed light on the inner workings of authority and power, social control, and the carceral regime in contexts of austerity and national political transition. The study argues that the party’s incapacity to transmute the salvationist ideas of social reform into planned action produced spaces of social neglect and castigation that affected both the inmates and the personnel tasked to discipline and re-educate them. The conditions of austerity in which Frelimo implemented its reformist project produced a particular mode of a carceral regime that was not dictated by technologies of disciplinary surveillance. Camp supervisors and detainees themselves defined the kind of internment regimen that prevailed in the camps in ways that subverted the disciplinary aspirations of political leaders. While the party leaders envisioned the camps as sites of disciplinary pedagogy for the making of the new man and the new woman, in fact, the camps were spaces of social abandonment.PHDHistoryUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/145971/1/benma_1.pd