Bakgrund: Kardiovaskulär sjukdom är vida spridd över världen. Många riskfaktorer för sjukdomen bör kontrolleras med hjälp av hälsopreventiva insatser och kompletteras med läkemedelsbehandling. Syfte: Syftet var att undersöka vilka preventiva insatser som studerats för patienter med vaskulära sjukdomar, och effekterna av dessa. Metod: Designen var en litteraturstudie. Tillvägagångssättet var att söka artiklar med randomiserad kontrollstudie (RCT) design. 20 artiklar inkluderades och kvalitetsgranskades enligt checklista för RCT, och kvalitetsbedömning av RCT. Artikelsökningen gjordes i universitetets databaser: Pubmed/Medline, SKOPUS och CINAHL. En artikelsyntes skapades med utgångspunkt från PICO-modellen, (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome), där fokus blev att jämföra interventioner och dess eventuella effekter. Som teoretiskt ramverk används Antonovsky’s känsla av sammanhang (KASAM). Begreppen begriplighet, hanterbarhet och meningsfullhet diskuteras. Resultat: De vanligaste sätten att bedriva prevention var via utbildningsinsatser och/eller rådgivande insatser. Dessa kan vara i möte eller via distans. De vanligaste effektmåtten kunde delas in i kategorierna: laboratorieprover, antropometriska mått, levnadsvanor, blodtryckskontroll, förändringar i riskprofil och följsamhet, upplevd livskvalitet, med flera. Bäst effekt enligt denna studie hade prevention inriktad mot utfallsmåtten blodtryck, blodfetter, blodglukos, samt följsamhet rörande vård och läkemedel.  Slutsats: Utbildning och rådgivning var bra preventiva metoder i samband med intervention mot kardiovaskulär sjukdom eller risk för sådan sjukdom. Det gällde oavsett om det gällde primär- eller sekundärprevention. Interventionerna var oftast inriktade mot livsstil. Effekterna var heterogena och varierande. Resultatet visar att blodtrycksreglering och reglering av blodfetter och blodsocker nivåer är möjliga, framförallt om följsamheten ökar. / Background: Cardiovascular disease is widely spread throughout the world. Many risk factors for the disease should be controlled by means of health preventive measures and supplemented with drug treatment. Purpose: The purpose was to investigate which preventive measures were studied for patients with vascular diseases, and the effects of these. Methods: The design was a literature study. The approach was to search for articles with randomized control trial (RCT) design. 20 articles were included and quality checked according to checklist for RCT, and quality assessment of RCT. The article search was done in the university's databases: Pubmed/Medline, SKOPUS and CINAHL. An article synthesis was created from the PICO model, (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome). There, focus was on comparing interventions and its possible effects. As theoretical framework, Antonovsky’s Sense of Coherence (SOC) was used. The concepts of comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness are discussed. Results: The most common ways of conducting prevention were through training initiatives and/or advisory initiatives. These can be in personal meetings or remotely. The most common measures of effectiveness could be divided into categories: laboratory samples, anthropometric measures, lifestyle habits, blood pressure control, changes in risk profile and compliance, perceived quality of life, and more. The best effect according to this study was prevention aimed at the outcome measures blood pressure, blood lipids, blood glucose, and adherence to care and medication. Conclusion: Education and counseling were good preventative methods in connection with intervention against cardiovascular disease or the risk of such disease. It applied irrespective of the use of primary or secondary prevention. The interventions were usually focused on lifestyle. The effects were heterogeneous and varied. The result shows that blood pressure regulation and regulation of blood lipids and blood sugar levels are possible, especially if compliance is increasing.

La corruption au travail est une problématique importante, présente au niveau mondial, qui touche à la fois les organisations privées et publiques. Elle est reconnue comme un phénomène coûteux aux conséquences négatives sur divers aspects du développement économique et humain. Étant donné que les actes et le comportement des individus corrompus au travail est un sujet qui n’est pas facile à appréhender pour les gestionnaires, ce travail de recherche vise à explorer le concept de corruption organisationnelle. Dans ce travail, un certain nombre d’éléments ont été pris en compte pouvant prévenir et de contrôler les actes et les comportements des individus corrompus au travail. Nous nous sommes appuyés sur la théorie de la conservation des ressources (COR) de Hobfoll (1989) pour construire la recherche. La motivation de la corruption est théorisée à travers le modèle COR. Ce cadre propose une corruption au travail appréhendée comme une stratégie de prévention de perte des valeurs de motivation des salariés. Cette recherche étudie l’impact direct de l’impuissance, du sentiment de maîtrise et de justice procédurale et distributive sur la corruption. Dans cette relation est analysé en plus l’effet modérateur de la transparence et du climat d’entraide. Pour cette recherche 575 salariés dans des organisations internationales ont été interrogés. Les résultats démontrent que l'impuissance affecte positivement la corruption et la déviance au travail. Cependant, la justice distributive affecte négativement la corruption au travail. Le sentiment de la maîtrise et la justice procédurale affectent négativement la corruption et la déviance au travail. Cependant, la justice distributive impacte négativement la corruption au travail. Les résultats obtenus valident la plupart de nos principales hypothèses, mais ils suggèrent que l'importance de la nature de la corruption du type de corruption par rapport aux variables de ressources. / Workplace corruption is a global issue for private and public organizations. It has beenrecognized as a costly phenomenon having negative consequences in various aspects ofeconomic and human development. Since corrupt acts and behaviors of individuals atworkplace are a challenging subject for managers, this doctoral dissertation seeks to exploreorganizational corruption and also to emphasize the importance of organizational corruptionstudy from a managerial perspective. This study provides elements to better understand howto prevent and to control corrupt acts and behaviors at work. The research model isconstructed on the basis of conservation of resources (COR) theory of Hobfoll (1989).Corruption motivation is theorized through COR theory and within this framework, itproposes corruption as a strategy to prevent the perceived loss of valued motivationalresources. Specially, this research investigates the direct impact of powerlessness, sense ofmastery, distributive and procedural justice on workplace corruption. Furthermore, it studiesthe moderating effect of transparency and caring climate on the relationship betweenpowerlessness, sense of mastery, procedural justice, distributive justice, and workplacecorruption. Sample consists of 575 employees from international organizations havecontributed to this research. Results highlight that powerlessness positively, sense of masteryand procedural justice negatively impact on workplace corruption and deviance. However,distributive justice only negatively impacts on workplace corruption. Results mostly validateour principal hypotheses but suggest that the nature of corruption relates to the type ofresources felt threatened.

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For the past twenty years, drawing on the Industrial Network Approach, Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group researchers have been trying to get a better understanding of organisational networks related issues. Researchers frequently highlight that whatever the researched phenomena, it is important to consider actors’ subjective views of the world. The concept of Network Pictures as introduced in the IMP (Industrial Marketing and Purchasing) body of literature by Ford et al. (2002b), refers to those subjective views and despite its recognised importance no in-depth research had been conducted so far on the concept which has thus remained blurred. Ford et al. (2002b) brought in this concept to emphasise that the network is in fact a varying thing depending on what people see. The question is whether this can be translated into a research device, so that researchers may see in a structured and analytical way what an actor’s picture is. This is what this research project is about. The concept’s theoretical foundations are uncovered by reviewing some principles from Sense-Making Theory. This review results most importantly in the identification of a close association between actors’ views of the world and the outcome of those actors’ sense making processes or frameworks. The relevance of actors’ views to obtain a clearer understanding of organisational networks is highlighted when the relation that is believed to exist between those views and action in organisational networks is addressed. With the aim of developing Network Pictures as research tool a two-stage method is put forward and carried out. The method consisted of operationalising the construct of Network Pictures and then testing it in two different network contexts to see if it was usable and useful for carrying out research in organisational networks. The results point to the usability and usefulness of the developed device: not only does it allow for capturing what is believed to be individuals’ views of the world in a rich and comprehensive way, as it also shows diversity between individuals in different contexts. Also and interestingly, some of the identified ‘practitioner theories’ were found to be not coherent with some IMP theoretical cornerstones.

This research explores the role of co-learning in addressing water issues, being both context sensitive and responsive to the needs, lived experiences and symbolic representations of people at the local level in the case of the West Bank. Water is essential to the wellbeing of all societies, not only due to the necessity of water for life, but because it connects us to stories about place, beliefs and norms, identity and others, through the meanings that it invariably comes to embody. This research critically examines the significance for learning of freshwater: as a physical necessity; as a metaphor; and, as a source of meaning in the context of community-based water interventions. The dominance of particular narratives around water in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are discussed, as these have resulted in the acceptance of specific understandings about the problems and solutions to the water shortages that are experienced across the West Bank in differentiated ways. The effects of these narratives on water intervention processes and outcomes are observed, being most adverse in relation to local ownership, agency and identity as well as sustainability. A meaning-based framework is proposed based on an understanding of sense of place and a socio-political perspective of water shortages, as a way to reconnect the discourse with Palestinians' own accounts of water and place, and to provide opportunities to explore NGO engagement with divergent knowledges, perspectives, and priorities during interventions. It is argued that water interventions can be understood as a social learning process, which NGOs may be ideally situated to mediate. A model of learning and sustainable development is revisited and revised in order to consider the relationship between participation, agency and sustainability in relation to community-based water interventions.

While data mining techniques such as frequent itemset and sequence mining are well established as powerful pattern discovery tools in domains from science, medicine to business, a detriment is the lack of support for interactive exploration of high numbers of patterns generated with diverse parameter settings and the relationships among the mined patterns. To enhance the user experience, real-time query turnaround times and improved support for interactive mining are desired. There is also an increasing interest in applying data mining solutions for mobile data. Patterns mined over mobile data may enable context-aware applications ranging from automating frequently repeated tasks to providing personalized recommendations. Overall, this dissertation addresses three problems that limit the utility of data mining, namely, (a.) lack of interactive exploration tools for mined patterns, (b.) insufficient support for mining localized patterns, and (c.) high computational mining requirements prohibiting mining of patterns on smaller compute units such as a smartphone. This dissertation develops interactive frameworks for the guided exploration of mined patterns and their relationships. Contributions include the PARAS pre- processing and indexing framework; enabling analysts to gain key insights into rule relationships in a parameter space view due to the compact storage of rules that enables query-time reconstruction of complete rulesets. Contributions also include the visual rule exploration framework FIRE that presents an interactive dual view of the parameter space and the rule space, that together enable enhanced sense-making of rule relationships. This dissertation also supports the online mining of localized association rules computed on data subsets by selectively deploying alternative execution strategies that leverage multidimensional itemset-based data partitioning index. Finally, we designed OLAPH, an on-device context-aware service that learns phone usage patterns over mobile context data such as app usage, location, call and SMS logs to provide device intelligence. Concepts introduced for modeling mobile data as sequences include compressing context logs to intervaled context events, adding generalized time features, and identifying meaningful sequences via filter expressions.

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T18:10:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 1 / Nenhuma / Este estudo tem por objetivo identificar que imagens da Instituição e do destinatário podem ser apreendidas em slogans de três campanhas publicitárias da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, situada na Grande Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. A proposta teórica fundamenta-se na enunciação, enfatizando a concepção polifônica de Ducrot que, aliada a conceitos oriundos da análise de discurso de Pêcheux, permite descrever os fatos de língua, perceptíveis no fio do discurso, e desenvolver a compreensão dos efeitos de sentido, produzidos pelo cruzamento entre o intradiscurso e o interdiscurso que se faz presente na seqüência lingüística, através do trabalho da memória. A análise compreende dois níveis. No primeiro, fazemos a descrição das marcas lingüísticas, que permitem identificar o locutor e os enunciadores com seus pontos de vista, estruturados no jogo polifônico da enunciação. No segundo, empreendemos a interpretação dos efeitos de sentido que se instituem no ponto de encontro entre a rede de sentidos impl / This study intends to identify which images of the Institution and of the addressee can be noticiable from the slogans of three advertising campaings of Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, located at the Metropolitan area of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. It is based on the enunciation, emphasizing the polyphonic conception of Ducrot and the concepts of Pêcheux’s discourse analysis. This theoretic base allows to describe the facts of the language that are perceivable in the thread of the speech and it also allows to develop the comprehension of the sense effects that are taken by the intersection of the intradiscourse and the interdiscourse that is present in the linguistics sequency, throught memory action. The analysis includes two levels. First, the linguistics tracks, which allows to identify the speaker, and the announcer with their point of views structured in the polyphonic game of enunciation are described. Secondly, the sense effects that are established at the meeting point among the sense

Submitted by Mariana Dornelles Vargas (marianadv) on 2015-03-20T17:45:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 acontecimentos_cinema.pdf: 11549078 bytes, checksum: 72a6c9850f3a619ad1069417c3e54fec (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-20T17:45:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 acontecimentos_cinema.pdf: 11549078 bytes, checksum: 72a6c9850f3a619ad1069417c3e54fec (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-21 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta pesquisa tem como premissa que todos os objetos engendrados em meios audiovisuais são construções; criações de uma mente que os imagina e os faz nascer a partir de um conjunto de procedimentos técnicos. Em nossa perspectiva teórico-metodológica, chamamos esses objetos de ethicidades audiovisuais. O Cinema nacional, em seu amplo território de significações, oferta uma multiplicidade de sentidos identitários, que comparecem para formar a moldura?ethicidade Cinema Brasileiro. Ao trazer filmes do cinema nacional para o campo das análises, busquei demonstrar como foram agenciados certos sentidos a partir das molduras e molduracões praticadas pelos diretores. O corpus da pesquisa é constituído por três obras contemporâneas: Amarelo Manga (Cláudio Assis/2003), Carandiru (Hector Babenco/2003), e Última Parada 174 (Bruno Barreto/2008). Estes filmes, para além de classificações, introduzem sentidos no mundo, comunicam pensamentos inseparáveis da ambiência em que são produzidos, e alimentam o imaginário através da realidade conceituada. Assumo a perspectiva de pensar estes sentidos como o próprio acontecimento cinematográfico. / It is assumed in this research the principal that all objects situated within the audiovisual are manufactured; they are imaginary creations in which are formed from an aggregation of technical procedures. These objects are called, in this research, of audiovisual ethicities. Considering its vast territory, the national cinema presents a variety of identities, which are merged to form the Brazilian Cinema. While analyzing the national cinema, I hoped to demonstrate how certain senses were framed from practices executed by the directors. The research's empirical object is constituted of three contemporary pieces: Amarelo Manga (Cláudio Assis/2003), Carandiru (Hector Babenco/2003), and Última Parada 174 (Bruno Barreto/2008). These films, independently of classifications, introduce senses to the world, are able to communicate indivisible thoughts about the ambience in which they were produced, and nourish the imaginary through its conceptual reality. I recognize such senses as the cinematographic events.

Submitted by Fabricia Fialho Reginato (fabriciar) on 2015-06-27T01:35:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 GuilhermeFeldens.pdf: 1528101 bytes, checksum: a23634d266eb33989f293ebba6206ac6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-06-27T01:35:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GuilhermeFeldens.pdf: 1528101 bytes, checksum: a23634d266eb33989f293ebba6206ac6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-11 / Nenhuma / O senso de justiça é um dos elementos essenciais para a criação de uma comunidade justa e democrática nos moldes apresentados em A theory of justice. A virada política de Rawls, centrada na análise da estabilidade social e da legitimidade do poder diante a pluralidade de concepções morais presentes nas sociedades atuais, não eliminou totalmente a importância do senso de justiça na justificação pública proposta em Political liberalism. Nesse sentido, afirma-se que a moralidade em Rawls tem uma função social, pois visa defender o indivíduo frente à sociedade sem ter a coerção externa como principal fonte de motivação para cumprir seus preceitos. A partir desse quadro, o presente trabalho objetiva demonstrar que Rawls apresenta uma concepção de Direito embasada em princípios de justiça expressos no acordo Constitucional. Rawls garante um modelo de sistema jurídico afastado do positivismo jurídico e do utilitarismo, capaz de garantir um sentido democrático diferente, afastado da mera tentativa de legitimação da autoridade política através de um discurso normativo. Por fim, conclui-se que tal modelo garante uma atividade jurisdicional caracterizada pela responsabilidade de manter os princípios de justiça aceitos por todos os cidadãos no acordo constitucional. Dessa forma, as decisões relativas às questões sociais essenciais não serão influenciadas por interesses de maiorias transitórias, nem pelas concepções morais individuais dos julgadores, respeitando a coerência de um sistema de justiça construído a partir de juízos democráticos. / The sense of justice is one of the essential elements for the creation of a fair and democratic community as presented in A theory of justice. Rawls's political shift, focusing on the analysis of social stability and legitimacy of power before the plural moral concepts present in current societies, has not totally eliminated the relevance of the sense of justice in the public justification proposed in Political liberalism. In this sense, it is said that morality in Rawls has a social function, once it aims at defending the individual before society without external coercion as a main source of motivation to fulfill its precepts. Based on this picture, the purpose of this study is to show that Rawls presents a concept of Law based on principles of justice expressed in the constitutional settlement. Rawls establishes a model for the legal system distant from legal positivism and utilitarianism, one that is capable of assuring a different democratic sense, distant from the mere attempt to legitimize political authority through a normative discourse. Finally, it is concluded that such model assures a jurisdictional activity characterized by the responsibility to make all citizens in the constitutional settlement accept the justice criteria. Thus, decisions regarding essential social issues shall not be influenced by interests of the transient majorities, nor by the individual moral conceptions of the judges, this way respecting the coherence of a legal system built on democratic judgments.