Thesis (M.A.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-63).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-63). Also available via the Internet.

Il presente programma di ricerca approfondisce l’uso dell’Expressive Writing (EW) con gli adolescenti a partire da tre studi, organizzati in modo sequenziale. Lo Studio 1 indaga l’efficacia e i fattori di moderazione dell’EW con gli adolescenti tramite meta-analisi. In particolare, è stata eseguita una review quantitativa degli studi sull’EW con partecipanti in età adolescenziale, attraverso i seguenti passaggi: ricerca sistematica e codifica degli studi; calcolo degli effect size; analisi dei moderatori. Lo Studio 2 confronta sperimentalmente sugli adolescenti gli effetti a breve e lungo termine di due tipi di istruzioni di scrittura, una convenzionale (EW) e l’altra orientata cognitivamente (CEW), elaborata sulla base dei risultati della meta-analisi. Le analisi sono state finalizzate a testare gli effetti della modificazione delle consegne di scrittura sul funzionamento emotivo e sociale degli adolescenti. Lo Studio 3 consiste in un’analisi secondaria dello Studio 2 ed esplora l’esito dell’intervento in funzione delle traiettorie di cambiamento dei meccanismi cognitivi (“Self-distancing”) rilevati negli scritti, tramite Group-Based Trajectory Modeling. I risultati degli studi sono discussi in funzione delle loro implicazioni teoriche e pratiche. / The present research program aims at evaluating the use of Expressive Writing (EW) with adolescents through three studies, organized in a progressive fashion. Study 1 investigates the efficacy and moderators of EW with adolescents through a meta-analysis. The study performed a quantitative review of the EW interventions with adolescent samples, according to the following steps: systematic literature search and coding of the studies; calculation of the effect size; analysis of the moderators. Study 2 experimentally compares the short- and long-term effects of the traditional writing condition (EW) to a cognitively-oriented EW condition (CEW) on a sample of adolescents. The analyses had the objective to test the effects of altering the writing instructions on social and emotional adjustment of participants. Study 3 consists in a secondary analysis of the written essays collected in Study 2 with the intent of examining the effects of the intervention as a function of the cognitive processes (“Self-distancing”) observed during the writing sessions by means of the Group-Based Trajectory Modeling. The findings are discussed on the basis of their theoretical and practical implications.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The worry with the maintenance of the health and the prevention of certain illnesses has been associated to an adequate consumption of fiber feed on the part of the professionals of the area of the health. It suggests itself that the use of grains of you will cultivate of barley, so much in the human food as animal, can cause distinct beneficial effects about the metabolism and the so much, biological answers by the amplitude of variation in the individual contents of the soluble and insoluble fractions of the fiber, in this last mainly by the contents of as well as, by the proportions of these fractions regarding the contents of fiber. The work had like objective decide to chemical composition of grains of different you will cultivate of barley, in the integral form and peeled and relate the effects of the addition of integral grains as spring of fiber in the diet. After determination of the chemical composition of 16 you will cultivate of barley is able to be observed that the integral grain I possessed peculiar quality that can be utilized in the human nutrition. For evaluation of the physiological effects were utilized male mice Wistar, fed with feeds formulated with grains of integral barley, presented similar levels of total, but contrasting fiber in soluble and insoluble fiber and a feed control, formulated according to the AIN-93. The animals were submitted to 5 days of adaptation and 37 days of experimental period, where were collected samples for the determination of the consumption of dry matter, profit of weight, output of dry and humid excrements, pH of the excrements, fecal excretion of nitrogen, total fiber and insoluble fiber. The favorable biological effects to the barley grains job, as spring of fiber feed, were the increase in the content of humidity and nitrogen in the excrements, with increase in the fecal volume, with smaller values of pH, which can be attributed to the elevated digestibilidade of the fiber feed and to the presence of soluble fiber in the diets. It is able to be perceived that the barley changed the profile lipid of the mice, having reduction of the total cholesterol and triglyceride, improvement in the levels of albumin and total proteins. The results obtained are going to substantiate the use of different you will cultivate of barley for specific ends in the human nutrition. / A preocupação com a manutenção da saúde e a prevenção de certas doenças tem sido associada a uma ingestão adequada de fibra alimentar por parte dos profissionais da área da saúde. Sugere-se que o uso de grãos de cultivares de cevada, tanto na alimentação humana como animal, possa causar efeitos benéficos distintos sobre o metabolismo e as respostas biológicas, tanto pela amplitude de variação nos teores individuais das frações insolúvel e solúvel da fibra, nesta última principalmente pelos teores de β-glucanas, assim como, pelas proporções destas frações em relação aos teores de fibra total. O trabalho teve como objetivo determinar a composição química de grãos de diferentes cultivares de cevada, na forma integral e descascada e relacionar os efeitos da adição de grãos integrais como fonte de fibra na dieta. Após a determinação da composição química de 16 cultivares de cevada observou-se que grãos integrais possuem qualidades peculiares que podem ser utilizadas na nutrição humana. Para avaliação dos efeitos biológicos foram utilizados ratos machos Wistar, alimentados com rações formuladas com grãos de cevada integral, apresentado níveis semelhantes de fibra total, mas contrastantes em fibra insolúvel e solúvel e uma ração controle, formulada de acordo com o AIN-93. Os animais foram submetidos a 5 dias de adaptação e 37 dias de período experimental, onde foram coletadas amostras para a determinação do consumo de matéria seca, ganho de peso, produção de fezes úmidas e secas, pH das fezes, excreção fecal de nitrogênio, fibra total e fibra insolúvel. Os efeitos biológicos favoráveis ao emprego de grãos de cevada, como fonte de fibra alimentar, foram o aumento no teor de umidade e nitrogênio nas fezes, aumento do volume fecal, menores valores de pH, que podem ser atribuídos à elevada digestibilidade da fibra alimentar e à presença de fibra solúvel nas dietas. Pode-se perceber que a cevada mudou o perfil lipídico dos ratos, havendo redução do colesterol total e triglicerídeos, melhora nos níveis de albumina e proteínas totais. Os resultados obtidos permitem fundamentar o uso de diferentes cultivares de cevada para fins específicos na nutrição humana.

Diploma thesis Fashion blogs and research on the phenomenon discusses a relatively new phenomenon of personal blogs with a focus on fashion and style. It presents fashion blogs in all their complexity, including the definition, classification, origin and evolution. The second section compares the descriptive way fashion blogs with thematically related fashion magazines and from various perspectives: formal characteristics, work organization, text, picture and graphic elements, audiences, the use of advertising and PR and representation of reality. The practical part is focused on qualitative research fashion blog - by a focus group interview with fashion bloggers and subsequently grounded theory method of analysis examines the various relationships, especially causal, which operate under the studied phenomenon. Through reveals further aspects of the fashion blogging such as motivation, fears, needs, dreams and ambitions of bloggers. The goal is to answer the question of how fashion blogs with its distinctive style and authors presentation define the fashion magazines and propose a basic theory of operation of the medium as yet not explored.

This diploma thesis deals with the financial analysis of a group of companies that are subject of consolidated financial statements. The thesis describes the theoretical background of the consolidated financial statements of the group of companies and the possibilities of financial analysis of the consolidated group. In the practical part, a financial analysis of the selected group of companies is carried out. The development of the financial position of the group of companies is also evaluated taking into account the current situation in the business sector that these companies primarily deal with. Based on this, a proposal for the future development of the company is presented.