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Introduction: Numerous studies have examined caregiver burden and stress, yet few represent the perspective from the sibling caregiver of a person with a neurodevelopmental disorder within the context of occupational therapy practice. Therefore, this scoping review provides a review of current evidence. Aim: The aim of the study is to review current literature to find sibling caregiver perspectives on their roles as caregivers to an individual with a neurodevelopmental disorder and whether their perspectives can influence improvements to the occupational therapy practice. Method: A scoping review methodology was chosen to map out the available literature and summarise the findings. The author conducted this review using guidance from the Joanna Briggs Institute. Results: The review resulted in 11 articles and reviewed the perspectives of 1181 sibling participants. The findings resulted in five main themes: (1) Need for education and training opportunities in relation to caregiving; (2) Policy and guideline changes in relation to sibling caregiver involvement; (3) Sibling caregiver inclusion into the care pathway; (4) Need for improvements in service coordination; and (5) Sibling caregivers' lack of knowledge in guardianship matters. Conclusions: Both positive experiences and negative challenges were reported from sibling experiences when accessing healthcare services. Ideas and strategies were discussed by sibling caregivers in how to improve services. Significance:  This review identified practical strategies which can be used in occupational therapy practice to support and improve services in relation to working with sibling caregivers.

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In the suicide capital of the world, an antisocial corpse cleaner must harvest his boss's organs to pay back his and his brother's immense debt, but in doing so, he miraculously discovers empathy toward others.

The family is a miniature society, where a child is afforded the opportunity to develop, form relationships and create his/her own identity. The child's development does not always take place without certain challenges. Different internal and external factors influence a child's development. Certain external factors, for instance a child with disabilities, can have a negative or positive influence on the child. The aim of this study is to determine the influence of the child with Cerebral Palsy on the social and emotional development of siblings. The research will be done using the idiographic method. The results show that the child with Cerebral Palsy does have an influence on the emotional and social development of siblings. / Educational Studies / M.Ed. (Inclusive Education)

The mission of the Gareganze's Brothers in Christ Church facing the chaos of the socio-political situation in DRC resulting mostly from the question of the Congolese nationality is to dynamise the christian mission and to protect the poor, set free the captives, because God is always at their side. The DRC, though, has enormous natural resources and the competent human resources capabilities. The national institutions seem to be unable to handle this situation because of the lack of political culture, mismanagement and moral untidiness. The successive Congolese crises mostly are the same, the common denominator resides in the causes that brought them about. The main objectives of the antagonist groups are political leadership and material wealth. The findings of our analysis will help the Church of Christ in Congo, to fulfill the prophetic mission and the vision of God, for the positive transformation of the Congolese society. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Div. (Missiology)

Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus drei Kapiteln über die Investmentfonds. Das erste Kapitel befasst sich mit der Rolle der Fondsmanager in der Bilanzverschönerung. Auf Basis der Analyse der Karrierewege von amerikanischen Fondsmanagern werden signifikante zusammenwirkende Manager-Fixed-Effects identifiziert, die nach der Kontrolle der endogenen Matching-Probleme immer noch robust sind. Die geschätzten Manager-Fixed-Effects haben signifikante Einflüsse auf die Out-of-Sample-Vorhersagen. Außerdem wird festgestellt, dass die Verriegelungen der Investmentfonds, die von gemeinsamen Managern verwaltet wurden, wichtige Kanäle für die Bilanzverschönerung verursachen. Das zweite Kapitel beschäftigt sich mit den Investmentstrategien der Fonds im Hinblick auf die Nutzung von Credit Default Swaps (CDS). Die Zuordnung der CDS-Positionen der Investmentfonds zu ihrem Bestandportfolio bietet eine neue Methodik zur Identifizierung der CDS-Strategien und kompensiert somit die Analysen der existierenden Literatur auf der Makroebene. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Anreize zur Risikoreduzierung die Spekulationsanreize dominieren, insbesondere, wenn die Kreditexposition durch ungedeckte Leerverkäufe der CDS-Verträge erhöht wird. Die erfahrenen Fondsmanager tendieren dazu, mehr Kreditrisiko in Kauf zu nehmen, während es für die Fondsmanagerinnen wahrscheinlicher als für ihre männlichen Kollegen ist, gegen das bestehende Risiko abzusichern. Der letzte Teil nimmt die Pleite von Lehman Brothers unter die Lupe, um sich mit der daraus resultierenden unerwarteten Schließung der CDS-Positionen als einem natürlichen Experiment auseinanderzusetzten. Diese Studie dient zur Untersuchung der Risiko- und Leistungsimplikationen der CDS-Investments der Fonds. Die Investmentfonds besitzen bei ihren CDS-Transaktionen im Durchschnitt einen beachtlichen Teil Extremrisiko. Während die CDS-Nutzer von guten Gesamtmarktlagen profitieren, erleiden sie unter Verlusten bei geclusterten Ausfällen. / This dissertation comprises of three chapters on mutual funds. The first chapter establishes the role of managers in the deceptive practice of window dressing. Employing comprehensive career history of U.S. mutual fund managers, I find strong jointly significant manager fixed effects, which are robust after addressing endogenous matching concerns. The estimated manager fixed effects are significant in making out-of-sample predictions. Further I establish that mutual fund interlocks through common managers are important channels that spread window dressing. The second chapter studies the investment strategies of mutual funds regarding their use of credit default swaps (CDS). Matches between mutual funds’ CDS positions and their underlying portfolio in the holdings facilitate a new approach in identifying CDS strategies that complements the “macro” level analyses in the existing literature. I find risk reducing incentives are dominated by speculative incentives, especially those to increase credit exposure via naked short CDS contracts. Experienced fund managers tend to take on more credit risk, while female managers are more likely to hedge comparing with their male peers. The third chapter employs the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the resulting sudden closures of CDS positions as a natural experiment to examine the risk and performance implications of mutual funds’ CDS investments. Funds on average load up on a significant amount of tail risk by trading CDS. While CDS users benefit when market conditions are favorable, they suffer during periods of clustered defaults.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-12-05T11:46:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 André Luiz Siqueira Alencar.pdf: 1311128 bytes, checksum: 58ccfea26fa0387f8f6b78d02f0ca957 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-05T11:46:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 André Luiz Siqueira Alencar.pdf: 1311128 bytes, checksum: 58ccfea26fa0387f8f6b78d02f0ca957 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-10-23 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The objective of this dissertation is the critical analysis of the representation made by the media regarding the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, one of the largest banking institutions in the world, as well as the actors involved. There are always different ways of saying the same thing, and these modes are not accidental alternatives. Differences in expression bring ideological distinctions, and thus differences of representation. In the decade of 2008, the world went through an economic recession triggered by US mortgage lending, which led to bank failures, unemployment and rising poverty. Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy is considered one of the most important milestones of the 21st century, equated only with the terrorist attacks of September 11. The analysis will be made in editorials of two newspapers: Folha de S.Paulo and The New York Times, with basic support of the Systemic-Functional Grammar (SFG). The SFG’s theoretical-methodological proposal makes it possible to relate the lexicographic choices of the text microstructure to the macro structure of ideology and force relations, establishing a link between social and individual, macro and micro, social and cognitive typology. This type of approach is especially useful in examining the discourse of different groups with specific ideological characteristics. For SFG, language has the function of constructing three meanings – or metafunctions: ideational (information), interpersonal (interaction) and textual (linguistic organization of metafunctions). SFG also involves Critical Linguistics, to which any aspect of the linguistic structure carries ideological significance – lexical selection, syntactic choice, etc. The research should answer the following questions: (a) How can ideational metafunction, through transitivity, construct the representation concerning Lehman Brothers bankruptcy? (b) What role do interpersonal metafunctions have, through modality and evaluativeness, in this process? The results show that the Brazilian editorial “Cada vez pior” describes and narrates the negative aspects of the crisis, however, without positioning against or in favor of the issue, while the American editorial “Wall Street Casualties” also describes and narrates, but suggests positive aspects of the collapse / O objetivo desta dissertação é a análise crítica da representação feita pela mídia com referência à falência do Lehman Brothers, uma das maiores instituições bancárias do mundo, bem como aos atores envolvidos. Há sempre modos diferentes de dizer a mesma coisa, e esses modos não são alternativas acidentais. Diferenças em expressão trazem distinções ideológicas, e assim diferenças de representação. Na década de 2008, o mundo passou por uma recessão econômica desencadeada pelos empréstimos hipotecários americanos, que acarretaram falências bancárias, desemprego e aumento da pobreza. A falência do Lehman Brothers é considerada como um dos marcos mais importantes do século XXI, igualado somente aos ataques terroristas de 11 de setembro. A análise será feita em editoriais de dois jornais: a Folha de S.Paulo e o The New York Times, com apoio básico da Gramática Sistêmico-Funcional (GSF). A proposta teórico-metodológica da GSF possibilita relacionar as escolhas léxicogramaticais da microestrutura do texto com a estrutura macro da ideologia e das relações de força, estabelecendo um elo entre o social e o individual, o macro e o micro, o social e o cognitivo. Esse tipo de abordagem é especialmente útil no exame do discurso de diferentes grupos com características ideológicas específicas. Para a GSF, a língua tem a função de construir três significados – ou metafunções: ideacional (informação), interpessoal (interação) e textual (organização linguísticas das referidas metafunções). A GSF envolve também a Linguística Crítica, para a qual qualquer aspecto da estrutura linguística carrega significação ideológica – seleção lexical, opção sintática, etc. A pesquisa deve responder às seguintes perguntas: (a) Como a metafunção ideacional, por meio da transitividade, pode construir a representação referente à falência do Lehman Brothers? (b) Que papel têm a metafunção interpessoal, por meio da modalidade e da avaliatividade nesse processo? Os resultados mostram que o editorial brasileiro “Cada vez pior” descreve e narra os aspectos negativos da crise, embora sem se posicionar contra ou a favor da questão, ao passo que editorial americano “Wall Street Casualties”, ao descrever e narrar, sugere aspectos positivos da derrocada