Text in Afrikaans / Summaries in English and Afrikaans / In die veertigerjare het Robert Gordis aanhalings in die boek Prediker uitgewys. Diethelm Michel en Norman Whybray het die aanhalingshipotese ondersteun, terwyl Michael Fox nie ten gunste daarvan was nie. Whybray het kriteria saarngestel op grond waarvan hy aanhalings uit ouer wysheidsmateriaal kon onderskei. Fox kon op grond van sy eie kriteria geen aanhalings identifiseer nie. Om vas te st el of die Prediker we! uit ouer wysheidsmateriaal aanhaal, word eerstens gekyk na hoe die wysheid in Israel ontstaan het en wat die boek Prediker se verhouding tot ander wysheidsgeskrifte is. Hie ma word die histories-kritiese bestudering van die boek onder die loep geneem alvorens die navorsingsgeskiedenis van aanhalings nagegaan word. Prediker 9-11 word ondersoek om te bepaal of die Prediker we! uit vroeere wysheidsmateriaal aanhaal. Ten slotte word die vraag gevra of Bybelvertalings aanhalings moet uitlig ten einde die teks beter verstaanbaar te maak. / In the forties, Robert Gordis pointed out that quotations do occur in the book Ecclesiastes. Diethelm Michel and Norman Whybray endorsed this hypothesis of quotations, while Michael Fox has taken a stance against it. Whybray compiled criteria to distinguish older wisdom sayings in the book Ecclesiastes. Fox applied his own criteria and could not find any quotations. To determine if the author (Qohelet) does quote from older wisdom material, we take a look how the wisdom developed in Israel and what the book's relation was to other wisdom books. Then the contribution of the historical-critical methods to the understanding of the book is surveyed before die research history of quotations is discussed. Ecclesiastes 9-11 is examined to determine if Qohelet really quotes from older wisdom material. Finally, we ask the question whether quotations should be highlighted in Bible translations in order to improve understanding of the text. / Biblical and Ancient studies / M.A.(Biblical Studies)

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:33:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-04-04Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:05:04Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 evangelista_ism_dr_rcla.pdf: 1941499 bytes, checksum: a2ad8a066bcfce2f6faa2907b1965475 (MD5) / Esse estudo realiza uma leitura sobre a transformação socioespacial no bairro Praia de Iracema, situado na cidade de Fortaleza, capital do Estado do Ceará-Brasil, a partir da representação dos seus moradores e amigos. Este bairro, espaço de referência e tradição da cidade de Fortaleza, foi palco da cultura, boemia e arte da cidade durante décadas. Na busca por um caminho teórico-metodológico, o estudo apresenta considerações de diferentes autores a respeito das representações sociais como instrumento de análise da realidade geográfica. De início, apresenta um breve histórico do bairro Praia de Iracema, lugar considerado o berço da história e de efervescência cultural de Fortaleza, frequentado por intelectuais, músicos e toda sociedade fortalezense. Depois, faz ponderações sobre a abordagem cultural na Geografia, quando estabelece diálogo entre cultura e espaço, e demonstra as consequências advindas das transformações espaciais ocorridas, ao longo do tempo, naquele ambiente urbano. Tece considerações a respeito das representações sociais na Praia de Iracema, pontuando autores que já desenvolveram trabalho nessa linha teórico-metodológica, e discorre sobre projetos de requalificações, executados e em implantação no bairro, com o intuito de transformar a Praia de Iracema em principal polo de turismo e lazer da cidade. Situa as estratégias de apropriação do espaço da Praia de Iracema pelo poder público e o resultado da análise discursiva da pesquisa empírica, de inspiração fenomenológica, portanto, predominantemente qualitativa. Esse estudo demonstra que as transformações socioespaciais verificadas na Praia de Iracema foram impulsionadas por força da política econômica, que nem sempre reflete os interesses dos moradores do lugar. Tal fato corrobora a tese de que, dentre as representações... / This study performs a reading on the socio-spatial transformation in the neighborhood Praia de Iracema, located in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará State capital- Brazil, from the representation of its residents and friends. This neighborhood, reference space and tradition of the city of Fortaleza, hosted the culture, art and bohemian city for decades. In the search for a theoretical methodological way, the study presents considerations of different authors about social representations as a tool for analysis of geographic reality. At first presents a brief history of the neighborhood Praia de Iracema, place considered the cradle of history and cultural effervescence of Fortaleza, frequented by intellectuals, musicians and by the rest of Fortaleza’s society. Then, do weights on the cultural approach in geography when establishes dialogue between culture and space, and demonstrates the consequences resulting from the ocurred spatial transformations over time on the urban environment. Presents considerations regarding the social representations on Praia de Iracema, punctuating authors who have developed work in this line theory and method, and discusses retraining projects, implemented and under implementation in the neighborhood, in order to transform the Praia de Iracema into main hub of tourism and leisure city. Situates strategies of space appropriation of Praia de Iracema by the government and the result of discursive analysis of the empirical research, the phenomenological therefore largely qualitative. This study demonstrates that the socio-spatial transformations observed in Praia de Iracema were driven by force of economic policy, which does not always reflect the interests of the residents of the place. This corroborates the thesis that among the identified social representations, those derived from the ideology that... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:45:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissLRM.pdf: 809342 bytes, checksum: 08c7249a2e9d28edb8ba36c0d9a2d26d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-09-30 / Com a proposta de uma educação infantil inclusiva, são necessários mecanismos para avaliar a qualidade da educação infantil para crianças com necessidades educacionais especiais incluídas. Em busca da promoção da qualidade de ambientes coletivos de educação infantil, foi desenvolvida a escala Infant/ Toddler Environment Rating Scale Revised Edition (2003) ITERS-R, que propõe avaliar a qualidade de ambientes coletivos de educação infantil sob diferentes aspectos como ambiente físico, interação, atividade e atendimento às crianças com necessidades especiais. Na ausência de instrumentos brasileiros que cumpram esta tarefa, estudos estão investigando a viabilidade da ITERS-R para este contexto. Na direção destes estudos, a pesquisa teve como objetivo verificar a compreensão dos termos e a pertinência do conteúdo dos itens da ITERS-R relacionados a pessoas com deficiência. Foram identificados e traduzidos 12 itens da escala que se referem às necessidades educacionais especiais, os itens 1, 2, 4, 9, 12, 15, 16, 20, 24, 26, 32 e 34 e foram submetidos à análise de conteúdo por 7 juízas especialistas em educação infantil e educação especial, para que avaliassem a pertinência dos itens, e à análise semântica por 7 alunos do curso de psicologia da UFSCar para que avaliassem a clareza e a compreensão dos itens, em ambos os casos por meio de registro em protocolos de respostas. Os dados foram transcritos e analisados de maneira quantitativa e qualitativa. Os resultados indicaram que os itens são parcialmente pertinentes e parcialmente compreensíveis e apontam caminhos para tornar os itens pertinentes e compreensíveis para estudos futuros. Os resultados da análise semântica indicaram que nenhum item foi considerado Não Compreensível; os itens 1, 4, 9 e 15 foram considerados como Parcialmente Compreensível por todos os sujeitos; o item em que houve predomínio de respostas Compreensível foi o 34. Como resultados na análise de conteúdo, observou-se que nenhum item foi indicado para exclusão; os itens foram considerados como Parcialmente Pertinentes e Pertinentes numa proporção de 0,55 para 0,44 respectivamente; os itens que mais receberam respostas Pertinente foram o 34 e o 26. Concluiu-se que os itens da escala analisados podem contribuir para a promoção e avaliação da qualidade em creches, em relação às pessoas com deficiência, mas para isso há que aprimorar a pertinência do conteúdo e a clareza semântica dos itens.

Submitted by Eduarda Figueiredo (eduarda.ffigueiredo@ufpe.br) on 2015-03-06T12:27:59Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Olavo 26-03-2012 - REVISÃO FINAL (5).pdf: 2139104 bytes, checksum: 5d5d82cf7ae2681ee0390a3a78c1799b (MD5) license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-06T12:27:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Olavo 26-03-2012 - REVISÃO FINAL (5).pdf: 2139104 bytes, checksum: 5d5d82cf7ae2681ee0390a3a78c1799b (MD5) license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-24 / Este trabalho foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de aprimorar o processo de seleção de portfólio de projetos, empregado em uma Empresa Industrial do setor Químico/Têxtil. O Modelo utiliza os principais indicadores de desempenho da empresa associados a indicadores financeiros, como critérios de avaliação dos benefícios propostos pelos projetos. Com a aplicação do Método Multicritério SMARTER é obtida a pontuação geral de cada projeto por meio de agregação aditiva. A seleção do conjunto de projetos que compõem o portfólio é efetuada com o uso de Programação linear inteira 0-1. A análise de sensibilidade da solução utiliza o Método Monte Carlo. A seleção e a Análise de sensibilidade são efetuadas por um aplicativo desenvolvido em MATLAB, que caracteriza um sistema de apoio à decisão, disponibilizado para uso do Analista e do Decisor do processo de seleção.

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Inledning Sedan 2005 har antalet kommuner som erbjuder dygnet-runt-förskola fördubblats och antalet barn som behöver omsorg på obekväma tider på dygnet ökar (Skolverket 2017). Många barn som är inskrivna på dygnet-runt-förskolor tillbringar långa dagar och ibland flera dygn utan att komma hem emellan och frågan är om de påverkas av så långa vistelsetider på förskolan. Den teori som har legat till grund i studien är John Bowlbys anknytningsteori som säger att små barn är i behov av sina primära anknytningspersoner och ej bör separeras från dessa under längre tidsperioder. Studien undersöker vilka faktorer som påverkar 0–3 åriga barns anknytning på dygnet-runt-förskolor. Syfte Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka ett antal förskollärares erfarenheter och upplevelser av barn som sover på en dygnet-runt-förskola. Fokus kommer att ligga på de barn som sover nätter på förskolan och på vilket sätt förskollärarna anser att deras anknytning påverkas. Metod En kvalitativ metod har använts där fyra semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts. Förskollärare på två olika dygnet-runt-förskolor har deltagit där alla har minst tre års erfarenhet från att arbeta på dygnet-runt-förskola. Resultat Resultatet visar att de förskollärare som intervjuats anser att de barn som sover flera dygn på förskolan utan att komma hem till sina primära anknytningspersoner mår sämre och visar tecken på ett undvikande anknytningsmönster. Barn som sover sällan på förskolan upplevs antingen sova sämre och vara ledsnare eller klara det bra vilket tyder på att det inte finns någon färdig mall som fungerar för alla barn. Barn som regelbundet sover två till tre nätter i veckan anser förskollärarna mår bra, har lättare att anpassa sig till situationen och tenderar att ha ett tryggt anknytningsmönster. Vidare är det bättre att lämna barn över två år på dygnet-runt-förskola då barn under två år anses vara för små och kan inte verbalt påverka sin situation. Undersökningen visar också att de stora personalgrupperna som arbetar med barnen upplevs påverka några av de yngsta barnen negativt men att det går bra för de flesta barnen. Även barnens hemsituation påverkar barnens trygghet på förskolan och barn med trygga hemsituationer tenderar att ha det lättare och vara trygga individer även på förskolan. Barn med otrygga hemsituationer upplever förskollärarna sover sämre och är otrygga barn även på förskolan.

Bakgrund: Diabetes typ 1 är en autoimmun sjukdom som främst drabbar barn. Det är en av Sveriges vanligaste folksjukdomar och innebär att ungefär 700 barn i åldrarna 0–15 år, drabbas årligen. Orsaken till diabetes typ 1, är ännu idag okänd.Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka familjens påverkan av att ha ett barn (0–18 år) med typ 1 diabetes samt att beskriva undersökningsgrupperna i artiklarna.Metod: En litteraturstudie med en deskriptiv design. Sökningarna av artiklarna som användes genomfördes i Cinahl där författarna hittade 11 artiklar; nio med en kvalitativ ansats och två med kvantitativ ansats. Båda författarna granskade artiklarna objektivt.Huvudresultat: I resultatet framkom det att föräldrarna påverkades negativt av barnets sjukdom, diabetes typ 1. Föräldrarna drabbades av stor oro och rädsla över barnets mående. Det var främst mammorna som drabbades av en stor oro medan fadern inte kände av samma oro. Mammorna led av fysiskt, psykiskt, emotionellt, socialt och kognitivt negativa känslor. Syskonen till barnet kände sig utanför och bortglömda av föräldrarna.Slutsats: Alla familjemedlemmar påverkades av att en familjemedlem insjuknade i diabetes typ 1. Både positiva och negativa känslor kunde uppkomma inom familjen. De vanligaste känslorna som föräldrarna upplevde när barnet fått diabetes typ 1 var stress och oro. Medans syskonen till barnen kände sig bortglömda och ensamma. / Background: Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that primarily affects children. It is one of Sweden's most commonly occurring diseases. Which means that approximately 700 children between the ages of 0–15 years are affected annually. The cause of type 1 diabetes is still unknown to this date.Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the family's impact of having a child (0–18 years) with type 1 diabetes as well as describing the groups in the articles.Method: A literature study with a descriptive design. The search for articles that were used were conducted in Cinahl where the authors found 11 articles; nine with a qualitative approach and two with a quantitative approach. Both authors reviewed the articles objectively.Main result: The results showed that the parents were adversely affected by the child's disease. The parents had a great concern of the child's misery. It was mainly the mothers who suffered, while the father was not aware at the same level. The mothers suffered from physical, mental, emotional, social and cognitive negative feelings. The siblings of the affected child felt outside and forgotten by the parents.Conclusion: All family members are affected by a family member having diabetes type 1. Both positive and negative feelings can occur within the family. The most common feelings that the parents experienced when the child is given type 1 diabetes is stress and anxiety. While the siblings of the children felt forgotten and lonely.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Biology / Keith B. Gido / A large scale habitat manipulation was conducted to assess the effects of establishing an emergent macrophyte, American water willow Justicia americana, on littoral reservoir communities. Coves in three large (>1,800 ha) Kansas impoundments were chosen and half planted with water willow. Sampling was conducted during the summer from 2001 to 2004. I found that water willow coves had more complex habitat as well as higher abundance and diversity of fishes, macroinvertebrates, and zooplankton than control coves. However, strong temporal variation in water levels influenced the amount of inundated water willow available in these systems. The effects of water willow on density, growth, condition, and diet of age-0 largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides were assessed. Significantly higher densities of age-0 largemouth bass were found in water willow coves, but growth, condition, and diet did not differ between water willow and control coves. Therefore, water willow was able to support higher abundances of age-0 largemouth bass than control coves without affecting growth, condition, or diet. Characteristics of age-0 largemouth bass from the water willow coves were compared to those from two small impoundments (<80 ha) with abundant macrophyte and healthy largemouth bass populations. Small impoundments had higher densities of age-0 largemouth bass than water willow coves in the three large impoundments, but individuals on average also had lower growth, condition, and fewer fish in their diet. Thus, largemouth bass populations in small impoundments may be more regulated by density dependent factors than populations in large impoundments. Overall, water willow is beneficial to littoral areas, supporting an increase in both abundance and diversity of assemblages. Finally, I used a field experiment to test the inundation and desiccation tolerance of water willow for different depths and durations. Water willow was susceptible to inundation, but resistant to desiccation. My findings provide information that can be used to select candidate reservoirs for water willow establishment based on expected water-level fluctuations.

South Africa is a developing country and children in South Africa are at a high risk for developing communication disorders with more than 10% of children under three likely to have communication disorders. The ideal is to prevent as many of these communication disorders as possible. This requires the identification of factors within specific communities which may increase the risk for or resilience against developing communication disorders. Providing information on communication development is a form of primary prevention which has proven to be highly successful. There is a continuum of communities in the South African context that range from the developing to the developed and at each level parents have specific requirements regarding the need for information on communication development. Considering the large number of South African infants who are at risk for developing communication disorders and in recognition of the many different communities in the South African context, the need for prevention tools which are developed to meet the needs of specific communities, becomes apparent. This study aimed to develop a tool for parents of a specific South African community, identified as Pretoria East, for the stimulation of communication skills in infants that is valid in terms of content and is judged by parents to be practical and empowering. In order to achieve this aim three phases of research were planned. Phase one aimed to identify the needs of parents and professionals in terms of the informational content and format of a tool for the stimulation of communication in infants. Phase two aimed to develop a tool for the stimulation of communication in infants based on the needs and preferences expressed by parents and professionals, the active involvement of parents from the community in focus group discussions as well as on sound theoretical underpinnings of infant development. Phase three aimed to validate the tool by determining whether the tool fulfilled the needs of parents in terms of informational content and format. The results of this research indicated that a need was identified in parents and professionals alike for a tool for parents on the stimulation of communication skills in infants. A video was indicated as the most popular choice of format. The content of the stimulation tool which was developed in phase two reflected the needs and preferences of the community and included the following topics, namely: discussions and demonstrations on the normal development of communication skills in infants, techniques that would facilitate normal development, risk factors and resilience factors which may influence communication development as well as information on locating a professional. In phase three parents from the community evaluated the video tool as practical and empowering, therefore achieving the main objective of the research. This research highlighted the need within a specific community for information on the facilitation of communication development in young children, implying the need for further research in order to determine the needs of other South African communities. Recommendations were also made regarding the need for speech-language therapists to increase their involvement in prevention initiatives and community work. / Thesis (PhD (Communication Pathology))--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology / unrestricted

L’étude de la décroissance β est un outil fantastique pour approfondir notreconnaissance de l’interaction faible décrite par le Modèle Standard. Ce modèle et laphysique au-delà peuvent être testés par des mesures précises de paramètres caractérisantces décroissances. Parmi ces tests, la vérification de l’hypothèse de la conservation ducourant vectoriel (CVC) et de l’unitarité de la matrice de mélange des quarks de Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) sont d’un grand intérêt. Pour cela, les paramètres caractérisantles transitions β doivent être déterminés très précisément. Les meilleures précisions ont étéobtenues pour les transitions super-permises de Fermi de type 0+ → 0+. Cependant, il existed’autres types de décroissances pour réaliser ces tests, par exemple, les décroissances βmiroir. À ce jour, elles ne permettent pas d’atteindre les précisions obtenues avec lestransitions de type 0+ → 0+. Pour améliorer cela, de nouvelles mesures très précises desparamètres expérimentaux caractérisant ces transitions, comme la demi-vie et le rapportd’embranchement, sont nécessaires. C’est pourquoi une expérience a été réalisée àl’université de Jyväskylä en Finlande, afin d’étudier la décroissance β des noyaux miroir 23Mget 27Si et de mesurer ces paramètres. Les valeurs des demi-vies obtenues pour ces deuxnoyaux sont respectivement dix fois et sept fois plus précises que les moyennes de lalittérature. La valeur obtenue pour le rapport d’embranchement de 23Mg est trois fois plusprécise que la moyenne de la littérature, celui de 27Si étant déjà connu avec une très grandeprécision (0,02%), n’a pas été déterminé avec une meilleure précision. / Beta decays are a fantastic tool to study the weak interaction described by theStandard Model. This model and the physics beyond can be tested by precisemeasurements of nuclear β decays. Among these tests, the conserved vector current (CVC)hypothesis and the unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) quark-mixing matrixare of great interest. For these, the parameters of β transitions must be precisely determined.The highest precisions have been obtained with superallowed 0+ → 0+ Fermi β decays.However, there are other possibilities to make these tests, for example mirror β decays. Fornow, they do not allow to achieve the precision of the 0+ → 0+ transitions. To improve this,new accurate measurements of experimental parameters characterizing these transitions,such as the half-life and the branching ratio, are needed. For this purpose, an experimenthas been carried out at the University of Jyväskylä to study the mirror β decays of 23Mg and27Si and to measure these parameters. The half-life values obtained for these two nuclei are,respectively, ten times and seven times more precise than the literature averages. The valueof the branching ratio obtained for 23Mg is three times more precise than the literatureaverage; the one of 27Si has not been improved as it is already precisely known (0.02%).