Šis darbas skirtas Lietuvos spaudos turinio etnine tematika analizei. Atliekamo Lietuvos spaudos turinio tyrimo tikslas - atskleisti, kokiomis problemomis, temomis, problemų įvardijamais sukėlėjais, bei jų priežastingumu ir kokiomis apraiškų formomis Lietuvos spaudos turinyje yra konstruojamas etninis nepakantumas. Darbo problema - etninio nepakantumo sąvokos įvertinimas ir etninio nepakantumo matavimas spaudos tekstuose. Pagrindinį darbo empirinių duomenų masyvą sudaro spaudos kokybinio tyrimo (spaudos ir interneto dienraščių tekstų turinio ir kokybinio ekspertų tyrimo) duomenys. Etninio nepakantumo Lietuvos žiniasklaidoje tyrimo duomenų analizė leidžia teigti, kad: Lietuvos spaudoje tarpetninių santykių problematika dažniausiai siejama su ekonominiais ir politiniais, mažiau – su kultūriniais ir psichologiniais priežastingumo aspektais. Kiekviena etninė, religinė grupė - romai, žydai, lenkai, rusai, musulmonai ir imigrantai - Lietuvos žiniasklaidoje siejama su specifine problematika. Lietuvos spaudos turinyje nėra vartojamos agresyvios etninio nepakantumo formos – kurstymas diskriminuoti, smurtauti ir fiziškai susidoroti. Dažniausiai sutinkamos etninio nepakantumo formos: etninės neapykantos kurstymas; Įžeidinėjimas (užgauliojimai, tyčiojimasis, niekinimas); Subtilios (paslėptos) nuostatos ir stereotipai; ,,Tylos diskursas“. Etninių grupių problematikos suvokimas visuomenėje ir jos pateikimas Lietuvos spaudoje sudaro uždarą cirkuliacinį ratą: ekspertų įvardijamos problemos... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The aim of this research is to analyze ethnic topics of Lithuanian press. The objective of the research is to examine in what forms and how ethnic intolerance is constructed in printed and Internet media texts through representation of topics, problems, named causers of the problems and their causality (i.e. by introducing/presenting explanations of causes of the problems). Therefore, the main problem of this study is the assessment of the concept of ethnic intolerance and measurement of ethnic intolerance in media discourse. The main body of empirical data was collected during the qualitative research of printed and Internet media, which consisted of two parts: (1) media content analysis and (2) structured interviews with experts (politicians, officials, representatives of ethnic minorities, and journalists). The findings of the research of ethnic intolerance content in Lithuanian media reveals that topics (problems) of interethnic relations in Lithuanian press are mostly interrelated with economical and political issues and less with cultural and psychological causality aspects. Each ethnic or religious group – Roma, Jews, Polish, Russians, Muslims and immigrants – is associated with specific problems in the Lithuanian press. No aggressive forms of ethnic intolerance (incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence) were found in the content of Lithuanian press. The most common manifestations of ethnic intolerance in Lithuanian press were hate speech, harassment, subtle... [to full text]

Various models of simulated weightlessness and resulting cardiovascular effects have been researched in the last 50 years of space exploration. Examples of such models are the Alter-G (Alt-G) treadmill used for body unweighting and head-up-tilt (HUT) model each providing similar cardiovascular effects, but differing in their stimulation of vestibular centers . Advantages of using the Alt-G include: use of lower body positive pressure (LBPP) to simulate hypogravity, it acts as a countermeasure to alleviate negative cardiovascular effects of standing and provides a constant vestibular stimulus. In addition, the Alt-G shorts themselves may be providing a certain degree of LBPP, acting as a compression garment. Therefore the purpose of this study was to determine the cardiovascular effects of Alt-G shorts and how effective they are as countermeasure to deconditioning effects of space flight. This study tested cardiovascular changes in 12 men and women at 0 and 80 degrees head-up-tilt (HUT0 / HUT80) with and without Alt-G shorts using 5-lead ECG, 10-lead impedance, heart rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure measurements at finger and arm. The tilt-induced increase in mean heart rate (HR) was significantly smaller when subjects wore the Alt-G shorts. Shorts ended up reducing HR by 2.3 bpm in supine control and by 6.7 bpm at HUT80 (p0.05. Other cardiovascular variables did not show any significant effect from shorts. In conclusion, this study was in line with results from other studies that used compression garments to determine cardiovascular effects of LBPP.

From a public health perspective pain from low back and/or pelvis was studied in relation to pregnancy. Two interventions, water gymnastics or Friskis and Svettis ́ gymnastics for pregnant women, were evaluated regarding effects on symptoms and need for sick leave due to low back or pelvic pain. In an intervention study with 390 randomised women, 266 participated in physical activity during 60 minutes once a week during just about half their pregnancies. No one was sick-listed due to low back pain in the water gymnastic group compared to 6 women in the land-based exercise group (p=0.03). Some doubts may be raised regarding recommendations to pregnant women with a history of low back pain to participate in gymnastics. On the contrary, water gymnastics seems to be beneficial regarding low back pain. Methods to prevent pelvic pain in relation to pregnancy are not known. Furthermore, a possible relation between longstanding pelvic pain after pregnancy was investigated. Such a relation has never been described before. Fifteen subjects, women with defined posterior pelvic pain during and after pregnancy and as many controls without anamnesis of such pain were tested for lactose intolerance, using the BH2-test. A correlation was found, p=0.05 but results need to be confirmed in larger studies. The possible link towards explaining such a relation goes through the fact that lactose intolerance and “irritable bowel syndrome”, IBS, often overlap and lactose intolerance test is recommended to be included in investigation of IBS. Can low back/pelvic pain in relation to pregnancy sometimes be correlated to lactose intolerance? / Med utgångspunkt från ett folkhälsoperspektiv studerades smärta från ländrygg och eller bäcken hos gravida kvinnor. Två interventioner, vattengymnastik respektive Friskis och Svettis ́ Vänta-barn-gympa, utvärderades avseende symtom på smärta från ländrygg och bäcken samt sjukskrivning härför i samband med graviditet. I en interventionsstudie med 390 randomiserade kvinnor deltog 266 kvinnor i fysisk aktivitet under en timma per vecka under drygt halva graviditeten. Ingen var sjukskriven för ländryggsmärta i vattengymnastikgruppen jämfört med 6 kvinnor i gymnastikgruppen (p=0.03). Viss försiktighet föreslås när det gäller att rekommendera vanlig gymnastik till kvinnor med anamnes på ryggsmärta under graviditet medan vattengymnastik förefaller ha god effekt för just ländryggsmärta. Någon metod för att förebygga bäckensmärta finns inte beskriven. Vidare studeras ett eventuellt samband mellan laktosintolerans och kvarstående bäckensmärta, något som inte tidigare undersökts. När det gäller sambandet graviditet – laktosintolerans gjordes en pilotstudie med 15 deltagare och lika många kontroller. Ett visst samband kunde konstateras, p=0.05, men resultaten måste verifieras i större studier. Den tänkbara förklaringsmekanismen bakom sambandet med laktosintolerans går via ”irritable bowel syndrome”, IBS. Symtom från IBS och från laktosintolerans överlappar varandra och det rekommenderas att laktosbelastning skall ingå i utredning av oklara buksmärtor. Kan även bäckensmärtor i samband med graviditet i vissa fall ha samband med laktosintolernas?

Physical activity guidelines encouraging activity among healthy pregnant women have been issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, yet Latina women remain more sedentary than non-Latina white women. Latina women are also at higher risk for gestational diabetes mellitus and, among Latina women, Puerto Rican women have the highest rates of low birth weight and preterm-related infant death. This dissertation utilized data from the Latina GDM study, a prospective cohort study of 1,231 Latina women recruited early in pregnancy and followed through delivery. Participants were interviewed in early and mid pregnancy for assessment of sociodemographics, acculturation, medical, and behavioral factors, in addition to administration of the Kaiser Physical Activity Survey for assessment of physical activity and sedentary behaviors. Birth outcomes were abstracted from medical records following delivery. In the first chapter, we assessed the prevalence of three health behaviors (meeting physical activity guidelines, meeting fruit/vegetable consumption guidelines, and cigarette smoking) in early and mid pregnancy and identified multiple factors associated with meeting health behavior guidelines in pregnancy. In the second chapter, we examined participation in sedentary behaviors, such as time spent TV watching, sitting at work, and low levels of sports and exercise, in pre, early and mid pregnancy in relation to maternal glucose intolerance and gestational diabetes mellitus. In the final chapter, we analyzed four types of physical activity (sports/exercise, household/caregiving, occupational, and active transportation) as well as total activity in relation to risk of preterm birth and small-for-gestational age. Findings represent the first study of physical activity and maternal/fetal outcomes conducted exclusively among Latina women, a group largely understudied in epidemiologic research. Results will guide culturally specific intervention programs in this high risk population.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karolinska institutet, 2006. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-12T20:34:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claudia Mary Mayresumo.pdf: 112419 bytes, checksum: bf67fa5c221d1c46b9a1e3dca256db47 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-12-03 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The following work is a conceiting research about bibliography studies of intolerance in education, and it also includes studies about it through out interviews. The main aspects are about the intolerance in education: ways of comprehension and human sensibility. It is a reflection of bad behaviors in education places, where violence, exclusion and disharmony do not accept individual feelings and acts. That s also a broken up of social structures that concern to education. The main idea is to look for solutions of intolerance in education, finding measurement between them. The research intends to contribute for the limits among the tolerance that exist in the relationship of ME and the OTHER , and the idea of exercising tolerance to reach and conquer wisdom in manifestations and behaviors of human relationship / O presente trabalho relata o resultado de uma pesquisa conceitual sobre o fenômeno da intolerância na educação. Meu estudo parte de uma reflexão sobre as práticas sociais e pedagógicas nocivas ao desenvolvimento de ambientes propícios na educação, os quais geram a violência, a exclusão e a discórdia. Dentre as práticas, analisa-se as relações de alteridade e a compreensão da mesma, no que diz respeito à aceitação das diferenças individuais. E conseqüentemente, identifica-se a existência de práticas de simulacros na educação que estariam em conflito com o papel humanizador e crítico das estruturas sociais que a educação teria. O trabalho também faz referência à idéia de mediação como busca de solução para o fenômeno da intolerância na educação. Esta pesquisa pretende contribuir para o esclarecimento dos limites da tolerância existentes nas relações do "Eu" com o "Outro" e na idéia de que a tolerância é um exercício que busca conquistar a sabedoria testada nas práticas e manifestações das relações humanas

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When violence towards fellow humans deteriorates to the extent of setting fire on others, it becomes a matter of grievous concern and a subject of empirical research. This study therefore inquires into xenophobic violence in South Africa of 2008 and tries to understand the victims‟ plight in the light of their conception of the image of God. To achieve this, a questionnaire survey among migrant victims from other African countries was conducted, analysed and critiqued. The findings established a deep feeling of animosity from a section of a South Africans with consequent loss of property, physical harm and death, as well as emotional trauma. The study deduces that such hostile treatment by hosts results from a loss of African humanity, Ubuntu. Going forward a theology of the image of God is critical for human relations in South Africa and essential for reconciliation between migrants and locals. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Missiology)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:21:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Valdelice Conceicao.pdf: 2877883 bytes, checksum: 105518dbe0045cd7fb1763e5106d5a9c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This thesis is a discourse analysis of the book Edir Macedo Orixás, Caboclos e Guias. Deuses ou Demônios? Our study is the discourse and rhetoric that M and the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God used to talk about the african-Brazilian religions and mediums in this book.We chose this book as an object of study because of the constant presence of this theme in the discourse and practices of the Universal Church, the success of the publication, with over four million copies sold, according to the controversy caused by the discourse of religion demonized african-brazilian and abilities. We tried to analyze the speech of Macedo and his Church the light of the impacts and predicaments caused by them in the religious landscape of Brazil. We list the discourse and rhetoric of to success and the creation of an identity of his Church. Our study differs from other investigations already published relating to the creation of religious identity and the use of accusatory mechanisms as an effective tool to convince and convey ideologies that promote the expansion of the Universal Church. We seek to bring to the academic discussion that the analysis of discourse of a religious literature can be a reference to study a religious institution, its mechanisms of identity, legitimacy and development in the religious landscape.(AU) / Esta dissertação é uma análise do discurso de Edir Macedo no livro Orixás, Caboclos e Guias. Deuses ou Demônios? Nosso estudo trata do discurso e retórica que Macedo e a Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus utilizam para falarem a respeito das religiões afro-brasileiras e mediúnicas nesse livro. Elegemos este livro como objeto de estudo por causa da presença constante desse tema no discurso e nas práticas da Igreja Universal; pelo sucesso dessa publicação, com mais de quatro milhões de exemplares vendidos; em função da polêmica provocada pelo discurso demonizador das religiões afro-brasileiras e mediúnicas. Procuramos analisar o discurso de Macedo e de sua Igreja a luz dos impactos e impasses causados por eles no cenário religioso brasileiro. Relacionamos o discurso e a retórica de Macedo ao sucesso e a criação de uma identidade própria de sua Igreja. Nosso estudo diferencia-se das demais investigações já publicadas ao relacionar a criação de identidade religiosa e o uso de mecanismos acusatórios como instrumento eficaz para convencer e transmitir ideologias que favoreçam a expansão da Igreja Universal. Procuramos também, trazer para a discussão acadêmica que a análise de discurso de uma literatura religiosa pode ser uma referência para se estudar uma instituição religiosa, seus mecanismos de construção identitaria, legitimação e expansão no cenário religioso.(AU)

L’existence d’une relation entre les troubles cardio-métaboliques composant le syndrome métabolique et une hyperactivité sympathique est bien admise dans la littérature sans que la relation causale entre ces deux entités soit clairement définie. Nos travaux sur un modèle murin d’hyperactivité sympathique constitutive (délétion partielle et/ou complète du transporteur de recapture de la noradrénaline) ont permis de mettre en évidence le rôle de celle-ci dans le développement de troubles glucidiques : 1) Une augmentation de l’activité sympathique est un facteur suffisant pour le développement de troubles glucidiques précoces associant une intolérance au glucose à une hyperinsulinémie basale sans hyperglycémie. 2) Ces désordres seraient dus à un retard de sécrétion d’insuline en réponse au glucose, probablement consécutif à une sous-expression du transporteur GLUT2. Ces résultats montrent que l’hyperactivité sympathique chronique pourrait constituer un facteur pronostic permettant le diagnostic précoce de patients à risque de développer des troubles de l’homéostasie glucidique et ouvre des perspectives dans le traitement du diabète de type 2. / Several studies have established an association between cardiometabolic disorders composing the metabolic syndrome and sympathetic hyperactivity. The causal relationship is however not clearly defined. Our work on a murine model of constitutive sympathetic hyperactivity (partial and / or complete deletion of the norepinephrine reuptake transporter) highlights its role in the development of carbohydrate disorders: 1) An increase in the sympathetic activity is a sufficient factor for early carbohydrate disorders associating glucose intolerance with basal hyperinsulinemia without hyperglycemia. 2) These disorder are thought to be due to a delay in insulin secretion in response to glucose stimulation, probably consecutive to a decreased expression of the GLUT2 transporter. These results show that chronic sympathetic hyperactivity may constitute a prognostic factor allowing the early diagnosis of patients at risk to develop glucose homeostasis disorders and opens perspectives in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus.