The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of adult disability caused by Forestier disease among skeletal material in monastic burial grounds and to compare it with the frequency of the lay cemeteries. Five cemeteries of the High Middle Ages to the early modern period, were divided into groups according to age and sex. Also, we evaluated the radiographs, investigated the frequency of adult disability caused by Forestier disease in the population. It was found that the disease in skeletal and X-ray material occurred more frequently among men than women, and did not occure until the age of 40. Furthermore, we found that the higher occurence was among monastic funerals. And since there is an increase Forestier disease in the present population. The question is, whether the external conditions, hence increasing obesity in the population, have an impact on the occurrence of Forestier disease.

Orientador: Arlete de Jesus Brito / Resumo: Na década de 1970, foi implantado o Projeto Logos II em alguns estados do Brasil, com objetivo de formar professores não habilitados que estavam atuando em sala de aula nas quatro primeiras séries do 1º Grau. Em regime emergencial, esse programa habilitava em nível de segundo grau e magistério, trabalhava com o ensino a distância no sistema modular. Em Rondônia, estudos apontam que o Projeto foi desenvolvido de 1976 a 1994, mas, apesar de sua importância para a educação, uma vez que foi um dos primeiros no estado e representou uma possível via de entrada de propostas educacionais, não há pesquisas que tratem especificamente da formação dos cursistas do Logos II. Assim, a pesquisa aqui delineada, tem como objetivo elaborar uma interpretação histórica a partir dos materiais didáticos do Logos II, estabelecendo relações com os depoimentos dos professores rondonienses que abordam o cotidiano escolar da época em que cursaram o referido projeto (1976 a 1994). Como fontes, foram considerados os módulos, as legislações, as fichas de matrículas, os históricos escolares, os diplomas e outros documentos dos cursistas referentes ao Logos II, além disso, analisamos também as entrevistas que foram realizadas com professores-cursistas nas cidades de Ariquemes, Pimenta Bueno e Vilhena, amostras de locais onde o projeto funcionou. Como aportes teórico-metodológicos, têm-se, principalmente, o paradigma indiciário de Ginzburg (1989; 2002; 2008), o conceito de documento como citado por Le Goff (... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: In the 1970s, the Logos II Project was implemented in some states of Brazil, aiming to train unqualified teachers who were working in the classroom in the first four grades of the first et school. In an situation, this program enabled at the second level and teaching, it mas developed with distance learning in modular system. In Rondônia, studies indicate that the Project was developed from 1976 to 1994, but despite its importance for education, since it was one of the first in the state and represented a possible way of disseminate educational proposals, there is no research about specifically training of the students of Logos II. The purpose of this research is to elaborate a historical interpretation based on the Logos II didactic material, establishing relations with the testimonies of the Rondonians teachers who approach the school daily life of the period in which they studied the project (1976 to 1994). As sources, we considered the modules, legislation, enrollment forms, school records, diplomas and other documents of the trainees referring to Logos II, in addition, we also analyzed the interviews that were carried out with teachers-students in the cities of Ariquemes , Pimenta Bueno and Vilhena, samples of places where the project worked. As a theoretical-methodological contribution, the Ginzburg (1989, 2002; 2008) paradigm, the concept of a document as quoted by Le Goff (2003), the critique of Bloch's paper (2001), the triangulation of data of Mathison (1988), Peter... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

O estudo da religião e da religiosidade é fundamental para a compreensão da formação da cultura brasileira suas práticas e representações. No aprofundamento da análise sobre a questão da construção de novas identidades pelos africanos e seus descendentes forjadas no contexto da escravidão na colônia portuguesa na América , as irmandades leigas de negros podem ser tomadas como espaços de devoção e sociabilidade. Portanto, a presente pesquisa teve como objeto de estudo as irmandades leigas de negros na cidade de São Paulo, durante a segunda metade do século XVIII e o século XIX. Partindo de aportes teóricometodológicos oferecidos pela história cultural, o estudo teve como objetivo apreender o cotidiano no interior destas associações e, a partir dele, o encontro das culturas africanas e européias que ali ocorreram, bem como compreender as alianças forjadas e os laços de solidariedade criados na intercessão dessas diversas relações sociais e culturais. Acredito que a análise das fontes e da bibliografia selecionada possibilitou compreender um pouco mais o universo social e cultural dos africanos e seus descendentes na cidade de São Paulo, bem como os códigos culturais compartilhados entre as culturas africanas e a européia, no decorrer dos séculos XVIII e XIX. / The study of the religiosity is fundamental to the understanding of the Brazilian culture constitution - its practices and representations. To a deeper analysis about the construction of new identities by the Africans and theirs descendents forged in the context of slavery in the American Portuguese colony the lay brotherhoods of blacks can be taken as spaces of devotion and sociability. With that in mind,. this research had as object the Black lay brotherhoods in the city of Sao Paulo during the second half of the XVIIIth century and the XIXth century, and as a theoretical departure the principles of the cultural history. In that way, the study aim to apprehend the daily life of these associations, the encounter of African and European cultures present in it, and the partnerships and the links of solidarity created by t he intercession of the many cultural and social relations that happened there. l believe that the analysis of the documentation and of the selected bibliography took to a better understanding of the cultural and social world of Africans and their descendents living in the city of São Paulo, as well as the cultural codes shared by Brazilian and European cultures through XVIIth and XlXth centuries.

A era do downsizing (CALDAS, 2000) se alastra sobre o jornalismo brasileiro. De forma cíclica e ininterrupta desde 2012, jornalistas são expulsos dos empregos e do mercado de trabalho na área – seja em reduções cirúrgicas de gastos ou em demissões coletivas, conhecidas no jargão de classe como “passaralhos”. O grande êxodo das redações, fenômeno que atinge todo o mundo (REINARDY, 2016) e levou à demissão milhares de profissionais da imprensa no país, é uma das evidências de um setor que tenta se adaptar às transformações do cenário instável da era informacional (CASTELLS, 2011), com alterações profundas na produção e no consumo de notícias. Falências, fusões e enxugamento organizacional se incorporam à rotina da imprensa e mudam as vidas tanto dos que são demitidos quanto dos que continuam em atuação, com insegura e sobrecarga de trabalho. As escolhas da imprensa são mudar ou morrer (TANDOC, 2014), em um processo cada vez mais evidente, para os trabalhadores, de destruição e reconstrução de saberes, práticas e valores de ofício. Apesar de o jornalismo estar em uma espiral da morte (MCCHESNEY, 2016) e seu fenômeno lembrar o desmonte do trabalho bancário (OLTRAMARI, 2010), é irrisória a produção acadêmica brasileira sobre a situação desse contingente ocupacional expulso de sua atividade. Em busca do entendimento dessas mudanças, esta dissertação investiga como a era do downsizing impacta a percepção dos jornalistas em relação a sua profissão, a seu trabalho e a seus planos de continuar na atividade. Para tanto, este estudo qualitativo básico, de natureza exploratória e interpretativa, realizou investigação empírica por meio de três grupos focais (MORGAN, 1996, 1997) na cidade de Porto Alegre. Selecionados por meio da técnica de snowball, foram ouvidos 18 jornalistas que foram vítimas ou sobreviventes da demissão coletiva. Em atenção à necessidade de conciliar informações multiníveis ao estudar ocupações e estruturas de trabalho em conflito (ABBOTT, 1993), são abordados os níveis macrocontextual, do sistema produtivo e do mundo do trabalho na pós-modernidade (FARIA, 2003, 2009; HARVEY, 1998); mesocontextual, da indústria e da profissão jornalística (FONSECA, 2005; MARCONDES FILHO, 2000; NEVEU, 2006; SCHUDSON, 1978; WAISBORD, 2013), e microcontextual, a respeito dos efeito do downsizing sobre os indivíduos (GREENHALGH; ROSENBLATT, 2010; NOER, 2009). Em consonância com a literatura adotada e a análise de conteúdo dos grupos focais (BARDIN, 2011), identificou-se que a vivência do downsizing provoca nos jornalistas a percepção de que as relações de trabalho foram intensificadamente precarizadas; há uma desesperança em relação às organizações empregadoras; tem-se a sensação de destruição e reconstrução de valores e práticas do ofício; e o exercício laboral causa exaustão e insatisfação. O downsizing é percebido como expressão de um declínio organizacional irreversível, no qual a demissão parece ser irremediável. As condições no presente levam os trabalhadores a projetarem o futuro em duas direções: a desistência, a partir da evasão da profissão; e a resistência, por meio da retomada de valores basilares, com a reafirmação da função social e da credibilidade; ou pela adaptação ao mercado em mutação, adquirindo novas qualificações e reinventando como fazer e “vender” o trabalho. / The era of downsizing (CALDAS, 2000) is spreading over Brazilian journalism. Cyclically and uninterrupted since 2012, journalists are expelled from jobs and from their professional area - whether in surgical spending cuts or collective layoffs, known in the class jargon as "passaralho." The great exodus of newsrooms is a worldwide phenomenon (REINARDY, 2016) and it has forced thousands of media professionals to resign, as the industry tries to adapt to the transformations of the unstable scenario of the information age (CASTELLS, 2011) when the changes in news production and consumption are profound. Bankruptcies, mergers and organizational downsizing are commonplace into the press routine and change the lives of both those who are fired and those who continue to work with insecure and overworked conditions. The choices of the press are to change or die (TANDOC, 2014), in an increasingly evident process for the workers of destruction and reconstruction of knowledge, practices and values of office. Although journalism is in a spiral of death (MCCHESNEY, 2016) and its phenomenon reminds the dismantling of banking work (OLTRAMARI, 2010), the is no relevant Brazilian academic production about the journalists who are expelled from their jobs and profession. In order to understand these changes, this dissertation investigates how the era of downsizing impacts the perception of journalists in relation to their profession, their work and their plans to continue in the activity. For this purpose, this basic qualitative study, of an exploratory and interpretative nature, carried out empirical research through three focus groups (MORGAN, 1996, 1997) in Porto Alegre city. Selected by snowball technique, were heard 18 journalists victims or survivors of layoff. It was analyzed the macro-contextual, productive and labor-based levels of postmodernity (FARIA, 2003, 2009, HARVEY, 1998); (1998), and in the literature on the effects of downsizing on individuals (GREENHALGH and ROSENBLATT, 2010; NOER, 2009). Interpreted from the content analysis (BARDIN, 2011), the results showed that the layoff experience made journalists perceive intensely precarious working relationships, and they feel hopeless that the employers' organizations succeed. They also feel there are destruction and reconstruction of values and practices of the craft, and the workload causes exhaustion and dissatisfaction. Downsizing is seen as proof of an irreversible organizational decline, in which being dismissed will be inevitable one day. The present leads the workers to project the future in two directions: leaving journalism; or resist, either through the recovery of basic values, such as social function and credibility; either by adapting to the changing market, acquiring new skills and reinventing how to do and "sell" the work.

O estudo da religião e da religiosidade é fundamental para a compreensão da formação da cultura brasileira suas práticas e representações. No aprofundamento da análise sobre a questão da construção de novas identidades pelos africanos e seus descendentes forjadas no contexto da escravidão na colônia portuguesa na América , as irmandades leigas de negros podem ser tomadas como espaços de devoção e sociabilidade. Portanto, a presente pesquisa teve como objeto de estudo as irmandades leigas de negros na cidade de São Paulo, durante a segunda metade do século XVIII e o século XIX. Partindo de aportes teóricometodológicos oferecidos pela história cultural, o estudo teve como objetivo apreender o cotidiano no interior destas associações e, a partir dele, o encontro das culturas africanas e européias que ali ocorreram, bem como compreender as alianças forjadas e os laços de solidariedade criados na intercessão dessas diversas relações sociais e culturais. Acredito que a análise das fontes e da bibliografia selecionada possibilitou compreender um pouco mais o universo social e cultural dos africanos e seus descendentes na cidade de São Paulo, bem como os códigos culturais compartilhados entre as culturas africanas e a européia, no decorrer dos séculos XVIII e XIX. / The study of the religiosity is fundamental to the understanding of the Brazilian culture constitution - its practices and representations. To a deeper analysis about the construction of new identities by the Africans and theirs descendents forged in the context of slavery in the American Portuguese colony the lay brotherhoods of blacks can be taken as spaces of devotion and sociability. With that in mind,. this research had as object the Black lay brotherhoods in the city of Sao Paulo during the second half of the XVIIIth century and the XIXth century, and as a theoretical departure the principles of the cultural history. In that way, the study aim to apprehend the daily life of these associations, the encounter of African and European cultures present in it, and the partnerships and the links of solidarity created by t he intercession of the many cultural and social relations that happened there. l believe that the analysis of the documentation and of the selected bibliography took to a better understanding of the cultural and social world of Africans and their descendents living in the city of São Paulo, as well as the cultural codes shared by Brazilian and European cultures through XVIIth and XlXth centuries.

Anorexia as a nosological category has developed in a western context and is now being applied to people around the world. In order for researchers to know they are asking the right questions about AN as knowledge expands, it is important to understand what meanings Anorexia carries and how those meanings manifest locally. The present study to aid in that understanding by employing a mixed methods (survey and in-depth interviewing) research approach in answering the following question: In what ways are Taiwanese students' explanatory models of anorexia nervosa (AN) congruent with or different from professional understandings derived from the western Bio-medical perspective? In answering this question, this study first addresses the current state of research on anorexia as well as the recent findings from studies done in Asia. Subsequently, the findings of the present research address what are young, Taiwanese adults' notions of the causality of AN. In particular, the present research found that student explanations of AN are focused predominantly on two causal forces; namely, the desire to be thin or the inability to eat as a result of psychosocial pressure arising from some interpersonal interactions. Additionally, Taiwanese students also maintain that AN can be explained by other less common factors. For instance, significantly more males than females believed that AN could be explained by some physiological dysfunction in the anorectic person. This study seeks to contribute to the literature by examining how college-age Taiwanese understand and conceptualize AN; which in turn may help towards understanding how other research conducted among Chinese populations has produced findings that are incongruent with the expectations suggested by the western, biomedical model of anorexia nervosa. There is further need for cross-cultural research on AN including lay understandings. This should focus not only on the "accurateness" of lay models as has been the case with the majority of research on lay models of AN in the past, but future research should consider the appropriateness of current research and public health models that influence both research and policy.

Thesis (M.Dev.) --University of Limpopo, 2015 / In preparation for the launch of the Flemish Interuniversity Council-Institutional Cooperation (VLIR-IUC) in 2010, the Development Facilitation and Training Institute (DevFTI), University of Limpopo, conducted a scoping exercise with community members in villages within Dikgale in the Limpopo Province. The purpose of the exercise was to identify both the assets within the community — as well as the challenges being experienced in the area. During discussions with leaders of the Community Based Organisations (CBOs) it became apparent that mental health related issues were an emerging issue of concern — with special emphasis placed on the levels of stigma that existed towards mental illness in the area. It is against this backdrop that the researcher was motivated to conduct a study with the aim of finding out the opinions and knowledge of the lay people about mental illness in Dikgopheng community, situated within the broader Dikgale area, in Polokwane Local Municipality in the Limpopo Province. The study used a quantitative descriptive survey research design in which participants answered questions administered through questionnaires. A random sampling strategy was used to secure a representative sample size of 249 respondents out of the total population of 700. IBM’s Statistical Package for Social Sciences for Windows (SPSS version 20) was used to analyse the descriptive statistics. Inconclusive results were found about formal knowledge of the psychosocial risk factors associated with the onset of mental illness. In contradistinction, patterns of cultural associations linked to the onset of mental illness were significant. Furthermore, an overwhelming majority of the community (75.1%) of the community members were found to have ‘stigmatisation’ opinions about people with mental illness. Due to the lack of the psychosocial knowledge about risk factors and the onset of mental illness, it is recommended (i) that there is a need for education and training to raise awareness about risk factors associated with the onset of mental illness and (ii) that further qualitative research be undertaken to explore issues relating to mental illness and stigma in more depth in the area that specifically focuses on ameliorative measures that address stigma that could be implemented within the community.

This thesis examines policy and service delivery issues in the development of health and support for families at risk. The research focuses on families with children less than 7 years of age living in some of the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods of metropolitan Adelaide. The thesis draws on evidence of (a) barriers to service support perceived by these families and (b) their strengths and resources in order to identify and develop arguments related to key issues of policy and service delivery.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-152).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-128).