Over past decades, the face of Australian early childhood education and care (ECEC)has changed substantially. It has been shaped by two dominant policy discourses: the discourse of market theory, and, more recently, the discourse of parent and community participation. The intertwining of these two seemingly opposing discourses has led to the positioning of parents both as consumers of ECEC and as participants in ECEC. Each of these perspectives promotes a particular way of fulfilling the role of parent in ECEC. Reflecting general marketing principles, the primary role of parent as consumer is seen as selecting the right service for their child and family. In contrast, while arguably more ambiguous in meaning, the role of parent as participant promotes a partnership approach, and, increasingly, parental involvement in decision making at both service and public policy levels. Each of these roles has been constructed for parents by governments and policymakers, with little reference to the views and experiences of parents using ECEC. Seeking to address this gap in the ECEC knowledge base, the present study investigated the qualitatively different ways in which parents constitute their role in Australian ECEC. The study focused on two related aspects of the role of parents: (1) the role of parents in using ECEC services; and (2) the role of parents in shaping ECEC public policy. To describe these roles, as viewed and experienced by parents, and to reveal possible variation therein, the study engaged a phenomenographic research approach (Bowden & Walsh, 2000; Marton & Booth, 1997). Twenty-six parents participated in the study. Data were gathered through semistructured interviews with individual parents and subjected to a rigorous process of phenomenographic analysis. The study results are presented in two parts. With respect to the role of parents using ECEC, the study led to the construction of five categories of description, denoting five distinctly different ways of seeing and experiencing this role. The role of parents was seen as: (1) selecting and using the best service for their child (the service user conception); (2) knowing what's happening for their child in the service (the informed user conception); (3) paying for a service, and, thereby, enacting certain consumer rights (the consumer conception); (4) supporting their selected service and having some say in what happens for their child at the service (the partnership conception); and (5) working as a member of the service community for the benefit of all concerned, which includes participating in decision making (the member of a service community conception). Taking a broader perspective, the study again revealed variation in how parents constituted their role in shaping ECEC policy, leading to the construction of four categories of description. The role of parents was seen as: (1) no role in shaping ECEC public policy (the no role conception); (2) being informed about policy that affects their child and family, raising any concerns and/or seeking a change to current or proposed policy (the raising concerns conception); (3) having some say in policy matters that affect their child and family (the having some say conception); and (4) participating in policy decision making, particularly where this is likely to affect their child and family (the participating in policy decision making conception). The study highlights variation in how these roles are constituted by parents, inclusive of the basic concepts of parent as consumer and parent as participant. In addition, the study offers an insider perspective on these two "dominant common-sense understandings" (Vincent & Martin, 2000, p. 2) of the role of parents, prompting questions about their future in ECEC policy. As an example of "developmental phenomenography" (Bowden, 2000b, p. 3), the study also identifies factors perceived by parents as influencing their participation at various levels, and discusses implications for both policy and practice. Finally, the study extends the general phenomenographic area of interest, from education to public policy research. Within this area, phenomenography is seen to offer a useful and pragmatic research tool, facilitating the identification and consideration of different constituent views and experiences, and, thereby, signifying more possible options for action.

The School Based Youth Health Nurse Program was established in 1999 by the Queensland Government to fund school nurse positions in Queensland state high schools. Schools were required to apply for a School Based Youth Health Nurse during a five-phase recruitment process, managed by the health districts, and rolled out over four years. The only mandatory selection criterion for the position of School Based Youth Health Nurse was registration as a General Nurse and most School Based Youth Health Nurses are allocated to two state high schools. Currently, there are approximately 115 Full Time Equivalent School Based Youth Health Nurse positions across all Queensland state high schools. The literature review revealed an abundance of information about school nursing. Most of the literature came from the United Kingdom and the United States, who have a different model of school nursing to school based youth health nursing. However, there is literature to suggest school nursing is gradually moving from a disease-focused approach to a social view of health. The noticeable number of articles about, for example, drug and alcohol, mental health, and contemporary sexual health issues, is evidence of this change. Additionally, there is a significant the volume of literature about partnerships and collaboration, much of which is about health education, team teaching and how school nurses and schools do health business together. The surfacing of this literature is a good indication that school nursing is aligning with the broader national health priority areas. More particularly, the literature exposed a small but relevant and current body of research, predominantly from Queensland, about school based youth health nursing. However, there remain significant gaps in the knowledge about school based youth health nursing. In particular, there is a deficit about how School Based Youth Heath Nurses understand the experience of school based youth health nursing. This research aimed to reveal the meaning of the experience of school based youth health nursing. The research question was How do School Based Youth Health Nurses’ understand the experience of school based youth health nursing? This enquiry was instigated because the researcher, who had a positive experience of school based youth health nursing, considered it important to validate other School Based Youth Health Nurses’ experiences. Consequently, a comprehensive use of qualitative research was considered the most appropriate manner to explore this research question. Within this qualitative paradigm, the research framework consists of the epistemology of social constructionism, the theoretical perspective of interpretivism and the approach of phenomenography. After ethical approval was gained, purposeful and snowball sampling was used to recruit a sample of 16 participants. In-depth interviews, which were voluntary, confidential and anonymous, were mostly conducted in public venues and lasted from 40-75 minutes. The researcher also kept a researchers journal as another form of data collection. Data analysis was guided by Dahlgren and Fallsbergs’ (1991, p. 152) seven phases of data analysis which includes familiarization, condensation, comparison, grouping, articulating, labelling and contrasting. The most important finding in this research is the outcome space, which represents the entirety of the experience of school based youth health nursing. The outcome space consists of two components: inside the school environment and outside the school environment. Metaphorically and considered as whole-in-themselves, these two components are not discreet but intertwined with each other. The outcome space consists of eight categories. Each category of description is comprised of several sub-categories of description but as a whole, is a conception of school based youth health nursing. The eight conceptions of school based youth health nursing are: 1. The conception of school based youth health nursing as out there all by yourself. 2. The conception of school based youth health nursing as no real backup. 3. The conception of school based youth health nursing as confronted by many barriers. 4. The conception of school based youth health nursing as hectic and full-on. 5. The conception of school based youth health nursing as working together. 6. The conception of school based youth health nursing as belonging to school. 7. The conception of school based youth health nursing as treated the same as others. 8. The conception of school based youth health nursing as the reason it’s all worthwhile. These eight conceptions of school based youth health nursing are logically related and form a staged hierarchical relationship because they are not equally dependent on each other. The conceptions of school based youth health nursing are grouped according to negative, negative and positive and positive conceptions of school based youth health nursing. The conceptions of school based youth health nursing build on each other, from the bottom upwards, to reach the authorized, or the most desired, conception of school based youth health nursing. This research adds to the knowledge about school nursing in general but especially about school based youth health nursing specifically. Furthermore, this research has operational and strategic implications, highlighted in the negative conceptions of school based youth health nursing, for the School Based Youth Health Nurse Program. The researcher suggests the School Based Youth Health Nurse Program, as a priority, address the operational issues The researcher recommends a range of actions to tackle issues and problems associated with accommodation and information, consultations and referral pathways, confidentiality, health promotion and education, professional development, line management and School Based Youth Health Nurse Program support and school management and community. Strategically, the researcher proposes a variety of actions to address strategic issues, such as the School Based Youth Health Nurse Program vision, model and policy and practice framework, recruitment and retention rates and evaluation. Additionally, the researcher believes the findings of this research have the capacity to spawn a myriad of future research projects. The researcher has identified the most important areas for future research as confidentiality, information, qualifications and health outcomes.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T11:07:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SIMONE RAMES ABRAHAO BASILIO DA COSTA.pdf: 680734 bytes, checksum: e6ea33c4837819850ebcfb09eef61707 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-11-10 / This research had as main objective to analyze children's literature in the Mannerist aesthetic approach, involving the Mannerist s theme and discursive categories as artificiality, puzzles, metamorphosis, monstrous, mythical, analog metaphors, hieroglyphics, fantastic, wonderful, and others. The works chosen are between the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. They were part of the corpus for the analysis of the tales of Brothers Grimm: Little Brother and Little Sister, The Adventures of Pinocchio of Collodi and the most modern, of Maria de Fátima de Oliveira Lima, The Castle of Snow White. The goal was reached, beyond the expected, because was found in all this epistemic route realized, that the Mannerist is, too, possible to be analyzed as a form of aesthetic expression of art, not only as a period style, as happens in most of literary critics studies, because in every period of each studied children's story, there were more than one category of Mannerism, predicted by the theoretical Gustav Rene Hocke, the theoretical basis of this research. The studies of A. Schaff, second Izidoro Blikstein were used as a methodology, starting from the graph that was constructed in an attempt to discover how occurs the extra-linguistic referent in a work, titled The Making of Reality. The whole process of the critic analyze was supported by the deconstruction of this graph that provided a better understanding of the junction of Mannerism to the child literature, especially in Pinocchio, from the linguistic reference, which is the text itself. In other fairy tales was used the praxis that involves the perception of each reader at the moment of reception of each text, as explained in Chapter Three of this work, in the exposure and understanding of the second graph, the model proposed by the researcher, always deconstructing the traditional structural form, entitled The deconstruction of classical analysis. / Esta pesquisa teve como principal objetivo analisar obras de Literatura Infantil sob abordagem da estética maneirista, no que envolvia as categorias temáticas e discursivas do Maneirismo como artificialismo, enigmas, metamorfose, monstruoso, mítico, metáforas alógicas, hieróglifos, fantástico, maravilhoso, e outros. As obras escolhidas estão compreendidas entre os séculos XVII ao XXI. Fizeram parte do corpus para as análises os contos dos irmãos Grimm Irmãozinho e Irmãzinha O gamozinho encantado; de Collodi As aventuras de Pinóquio e o mais moderno, de Maria de Fátima de Oliveira Lima, O Castelo de Branca de Neve. O objetivo foi alcançado, indo além do esperado, pois se detectou em todo este percurso epistêmico realizado que o Maneirismo é, também, possível ser analisado como forma de expressão estética da arte, não somente como um estilo de época, como se dá na maioria dos estudos críticos literários, porque em toda época de cada conto infantil estudado, lá estavam mais de uma categoria do Maneirismo, postuladas pelo teórico Gustav Rène Hocke, base teórica desta pesquisa. Foram utilizados como metodologia, os estudos de A. Schaff, segundo Izidoro Blikstein, partindo do gráfico que se construiu numa tentativa de descobrir como se dá o referente extralingüístico numa obra, cujo título é A Fabricação da Realidade. O processo de toda análise crítica foi sustentado pela desconstrução deste gráfico que nos proporcionou uma melhor compreensão da junção do Maneirismo à Literatura Infantil, especialmente em Pinóquio, a partir do referencial linguístico, que é o próprio texto. Nos demais contos infantis recorremos à práxis que envolve a percepção de cada leitor, no momento da recepção de cada texto, como explica no Capítulo terceiro desta obra, na exposição e compreensão do segundo gráfico, modelo pela pesquisadora proposto, sempre desconstruindo a forma estrutural tradicional, cujo título é A desconstrução da análise clássica.

Submitted by Maria Medeiros (maria.dilva1@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-06-14T15:05:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ANDRÉ AIRES DE FARIAS - TESE (PPGRN) 2016.pdf: 5737610 bytes, checksum: 24b094da2cef8f2db3a8552a03764f80 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-14T15:05:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ANDRÉ AIRES DE FARIAS - TESE (PPGRN) 2016.pdf: 5737610 bytes, checksum: 24b094da2cef8f2db3a8552a03764f80 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-26 / Capes / Objetivou-se identificar e analisar os períodos de secas na sub-bacia hidrográfica do Rio Taperoá (SBHRT) e os impactos sociais, econômicos e ambientais e ações de convivência com a seca de 2012-2014 no município de Taperoá - PB. Dados pluviométricos, série 19632014, foram utilizados para analisar o regime de precipitação da sub-bacia; e a severidade dos anos secos, por meio do Índice padronizado de precipitação. A identificação dos impactos foi realizada utilizando-se o método de listagem descritiva check-list, questionários, dados bibliográficos e documentais. Para analisar as variáveis socioeconômicas e as ações de convivência foram utilizados os mesmos materiais dos impactos, exceto o check-list. O período chuvoso dos municípios da sub-bacia ocorre de janeiro a maio, precipitações menores do que a média nesses meses causaram graves impactos. Verificou-se que a maioria das secas que ocorreram na SBHRT se enquadram na categoria moderada, seguido por severa e extrema. A SBHRT foi atingida por secas severas e extremas durante todas as décadas analisadas, no entanto, o maior número delas ocorreu nas décadas de 1980, 1990, 2000 e 2010. A seca mais grave foi a de 1998-2000, seguido pela de 1979-1985. A seca de 20122014 não foi a mais grave porque a precipitação foi acima da ocorrida no período de 19982000 e 1979-1985, houve também maior investimento em ações de convivência com as secas e programas sociais implantados pelos governos. Os impactos sociais, econômicos e ambientais da seca de 2012-2014 no município de Taperoá-PB foram: problemas de saúde relativos à baixa disponibilidade hídrica, desigualdade na distribuição de recursos durante a seca, desgaste mental, reduções na alimentação da população, conflitos entre usuários de água, aumento da pobreza, migrações populacionais, redução da pecuária e da produção de culturas, aumento do desemprego, elevação dos custos para transportar água, indisponibilidade de alimentos para animais, perturbação dos ciclos de reprodução, redução de recreação e turismo, prejuízos à flora, à fauna e às espécies piscícolas, e redução da qualidade da água. Os impactos continuaram porque faltou recursos financeiros para implantar programas e as políticas públicas de convivência não foram efetivas, só aparecendo com maior intensidade quando a região estava prejudicada pela seca. Para redução dos impactos é necessário aumentar o número de cisternas, principalmente a calçadão. É necessário também perfurar poços e construir açudes, além de fazer manutenção nos que estejam com capacidade reduzida ou desativados, construir barragens subterrâneas e tanques naturais, terminar e colocar em funcionamento a Transposição do Rio São Francisco, incentivar a gestão dos recursos hídricos, criar programas que visem o fortalecimento da agricultura familiar, incentivando a fenação, silagem, meliponicultura, apicultura, criação de animais e plantas adaptados à região, dentre muitos outros. / This study aimed to identify and analyze the periods of droughts in sub-basin hydrographic of the Taperoá River (SBHTR) and the social, economic and environmental impacts and living actions with drought from 2012-2014 in the municipality of Taperoá - PB. Rainfall data, serie 1963-2014, were used to analyze the sub-basin rainfall regime; and the severity of the dry years, through the Standardized Precipitation Index. The identification of social, economic and environmental impacts was performed using the method of descriptive listing check-list, questionnaires, bibliographic and documentary data. To analyze the socioeconomic variables and of actions of living together were used same materials of the impacts, except the checklist. The rainy period in the municipalities of the sub-basin occurs from january to may, precipitations lower than average in these months caused severe impacts. It was found that most of droughts in SBHRT occurred into the category moderate, following by severe and extreme. The SBHRT was hit by severe and extreme dried for all analyzed decades, however, as many of them occurred in the decades of 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010. The most severe drought was the from 1998-2000, followed by 1979-1985. The drought of 2012-2014 was not the more serious because the precipitation was above occurred in 1998-2000 and 1979-1985 period, there was also greater investment in coexistence actions with droughts and social programs implemented by governments. The social, economic and environmental impacts of the drought of 2012-2014 in the municipality of Taperoá-PB were: health problems of low flow, unequal distribution of resources during the drought, mental strain, reductions in food supply, conflicts water users, increasing poverty, population migration, reduction of livestock and crop production, rising unemployment, higher costs for transporting water, unavailability of feed, disruption of reproductive cycles, reduction of recreation and tourism, losses in flora, fauna and fish species, and reduced water quality. The impacts continued because they lack financial resources to implement programs and public coexistence policies were not effective, only appearing with greater intensity when the region was hampered by drought. To reduce the impacts is to increase the number of cisterns, especially the boardwalk. You also need to drill wells and build dams, in addition to maintenance on that are with reduced or deactivated capacity, building underground dams and natural ponds, finished and put into operation the Transposition of the São Francisco River, encourage the management of water resources, create programs aimed at strengthening family farming, encouraging haymaking, silage, beekeeping, meliponiculture, husbandry of animals and plants adapted to the region, among many others.

Ce travail offre une nouvelle perspective sur l’analyse de l’imperfectivité dans la presse espagnole. Le point de départ pour cette analyse est la catégorie sémantico-fonctionnelle de l’aspectualité qui peut être exprimée en espagnol par l’aspect, aktionsart, des adverbes, des périphrases verbales, etc. Sur la base de l’imperfectivité comme une catégorie sémantico-fonctionnelle, qui comprend tous les moyens possibles pour exprimer l’indétermination sémantique comme l’imparfait(cantaba), le présent (canta), ESTAR+GERUNDIO, etc., il est possible d’établir un lien sémantique avec d’autres catégories sémantiques comme la temporalité, la modalité et l’évidentialité où le point central de ce chevauchement est constitué par la perspective du locuteur, à partir de laquelle il formule son énoncé, ce qui est associé à sa subjectivité dans le choix, par exemple, d’une forme verbale imperfective(cantaba) dans des contextes où devrait apparaître une forme verbale perfective(cantó) : El valor total […] ascendía a unos 5.950 euros.Bien que, dans certains contextes, cette décision puisse être expliquée de façon grammaticale, dans d’autres contextes (textes journalistiques) cela ne semble pas être le cas parce que le locuteur se sert de l’indétermination sémantique exprimée par le pretérito imperfecto pour exprimer ses énoncés avec une intention,par exemple, pour signaler une distanciation, une reprise d’énoncés, etc.À cause de son indétermination sémantique, l’imperfectivité se rapproche d’autres fonctions sémantiques comme la modalité épistémique et l’évidentialité indirecte qui permettent de donner à une situation un caractère ‘ouvert’ ou ‘indéterminé’ pour exprimer par exemple une supposition, la reprise d’une citation ou la distanciation du locuteur face à ce qui a dit. / The aim of this study is to analyse the use of imperfectivity in the Spanishpress. The point of departure for this analysis is the semantic-functional category ofaspectuality which can be expressed in Spanish by diverse linguistic means likegrammatical aspect, Aktionsarten, adverbs, verbal periphrases, etc. By consideringimperfectivity as a semantic-functional category, which comprises all the possiblelinguistic means to express semantic indeterminacy like the Spanish imperfecto(cantaba), presente (canta), ESTAR+GERUNDIO, etc., a semantic relation to othercategories such as temporality, modality and evidentiality can be made. Thesecategories interplay with the speaker’s stance in expressing an utterance, which isassociated with subjectivity. For example, an imperfective verb form (cantaba) maybe chosen in contexts where the perfective verb form (cantó) is expected to appear:El valor total […] ascendía a unos 5.950 euros (‘The total value […] rose (imperfecto)to some 5.950 euros’).Although in some contexts the use of the imperfective verb form isgrammatically motivated, there are other contexts where this is not the case, e.g. injournalistic texts. The speaker takes advantage of the semantic indeterminacy of theSpanish imperfecto cantaba with a specific intention like showing distance from theutterance or reproducing an utterance made by third parties, etc.Thus imperfectivity, due to its semantic indeterminacy, relates to othersemantic functions like epistemic modality and indirect evidentiality by which asituation is presented as open and undetermined, e.g. the expression of asupposition, or a quotation, or a speaker’s distance from his utterance.

Since their original introduction, strongly complementary observables have been a fundamental ingredient of the ZX calculus, one of the most successful fragments of Categorical Quantum Mechanics (CQM). In this thesis, we show that strong complementarity plays a vastly greater role in quantum theory. Firstly, we use strong complementarity to introduce dynamics and symmetries within the framework of CQM, which we also extend to infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert spaces: these were long-missing features, which open the way to a wealth of new applications. The coherent treatment presented in this work also provides a variety of novel insights into the dynamics and symmetries of quantum systems: examples include the extremely simple characterisation of symmetry-observable duality, the connection of strong complementarity with the Weyl Canonical Commutation Relations, the generalisations of Feynman's clock construction, the existence of time observables and the emergence of quantum clocks. Secondly, we show that strong complementarity is a key resource for quantum algorithms and protocols. We provide the first fully diagrammatic, theory-independent proof of correctness for the quantum algorithm solving the Hidden Subgroup Problem, and show that strong complementarity is the feature providing the quantum advantage. In quantum foundations, we use strong complementarity to derive the exact conditions relating non-locality to the structure of phase groups, within the context of Mermin-type non-locality arguments. Our non-locality results find further application to quantum cryptography, where we use them to define a quantum-classical secret sharing scheme with provable device-independent security guarantees. All in all, we argue that strong complementarity is a truly powerful and versatile building block for quantum theory and its applications, and one that should draw a lot more attention in the future.

Resumo: A despeito da eficácia de vários programas de intervenção com cuidadoras ter sio divulgada na literatura, supõe-se que conhecer os procedimentos e resultados não seja suficiente para esclarecer quais comportamentos do terapeuta determinam as mudanças. Pesquisadores propõem que o entendimento do processo de mudança que ocorre em terapia, possa partir da análise da interação terapêutica. A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo, descrever a interação terapêutica estabelecida entre terapeuta e clientes, ou seja, investigar como terapeuta e clientes comportam-se em uma intervenção de grupo e analisar a influência exercida entre ambos. Participaram da pesquisa, uma Terapeuta Comportamental com experiência de três anos, duas mães e uma avó. Foram designadas para a análise, cinco de de treze sessões filmada, num total de 10 horas. Para a análise dos dados, foi utilizado o software The Observer XT, capaz de selecionar imagens, quantificar dados e realizar análises sequenciais. Os dados foram organizados em termos de frequencia e duração das categorias de comportamentos dos participantes e também foram realizadas análises de correlação e sequenciais. Resultados principais: a) as categorias do terapeuta apresentadas com percentuais de ocorrência e duração elevados foram: Aprovação, Recomendação, Interpretação, Informação e Solicitação de relato; b) constatou-se que as categorias Recomendação, Informação e Solicitação de reflexão foram apresentadas com frequencia maior em relação ao grupo de clientes, já as demais, Aprovação, Interpretação, Solicitação de relato, Reprovação e Empatia, foram apresentadas com frequencia maior às clientes individualmente; c) as categorias dos clientes: Relato, Concordância, Estabelece relações e Oposição, representaram as categorias com maiores percentuais de ocorrência e duração para as três clientes; d) as análises de correlação revelaram a existência. / Abstract: In spite of the efficiency of many interventional programs, it is believed that believed that knowing the procedures and results of such programs is not enough to clarify which attitudes performed by the therapist leaded to the actual results. Researchers propose that the understanding of the changing process originates from the analysis of the interaction established between therapist and client. The present study thus has the purpose of describing the therapeutic interaction established among therapist and clients, specifically to investigate how they behave in a group intervention analyzing therfore the influence that one has on the other. The participants were a Behavioral Therapist, two mothers and one grandmother. Five of thirteen taped sessions were randolmly designated for analysis. The software The Observer XT was designated for the data analysis. They were organized in categories classified by frequency and duration of the participants' behavior, as well as undergone to the correlational and sequential analyses. The duration and frequency were: Approval, Recommendation, Interpretation, Information and Report Solicitation; b) it was observed that the therapist's categories such as Recommendation, Information, and Thinking Request were presented in a higher frequency in relation to the clients group, yet the others such as Approval, Interpretation, Report Request, Criticism and Empathty were presented in a higher degree to the clients individually c) the categories of the clients such as Report, Concordance, Establish Relations and Opposition, represented the categories with higher percentages of requency and duration for the three clients that participated in the research; d) the correlation analysis revealed the existence of correlations among the therapist's categories, for example, Approval and Information; therapist and client's such as Interpretation... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Orientador: Alessandra Turini Bolsoni-Silva / Coorientador: Sonia Beatriz Meyer / Banca: Denis Roberto Zamignani / Banca: Olga Maria P. Rolim Rodrigues / Mestre

O presente trabalho é uma reflexão sobre os aspectos técnicos e estéticos do processo de criação de um portfolio de composições. Esta reflexão está fundamentada nos trabalhos de Leonard B. Meyer (1973), Étienne Souriau (1999) e Ilza Nogueira (2003). Os aspectos técnicos estão ligados aos procedimentos composicionais “paródia” e “relações de correspondência” e os aspectos estéticos referem-se às categorias estéticas “bizarro”, “cômico”, “fantástico” e “insólito”. Em todas as composições deste portfolio ocorrem esses procedimentos composicionais e categorias estéticas, em algumas composições mais, em outras menos. São realizadas reflexões sobre o processo composicional de cada uma das peças, individualmente, e, em seguida, considerações sobre como a “paródia”, as “relações de correspondência” e as categorias estéticas atuam em cada uma das composições. / This work is a discussion on the technical and aesthetic aspects of the composition of a group of pieces. The discussion is based on works by Leonard B. Meyer (1973), Étienne Souriau (1999) and Ilza Nogueira (2003). The technical aspects of the composition are related to the compositional procedures "parody" and "conformant relationships"; its aesthetic aspects are related to the aesthetic categories to it "bizarre", "comical", "fantastic" and "uncommon". Such procedures and aesthetic categories occur in the entire group of pieces, to various degrees of importance. A discussion is made on the composicional process of each individual piece followed by considerations on how "parody", "the conformant relationships" and aesthetical categories are integrated throughout the group of pieces.

Within the UK, space heating accounts for 66% of the total domestic energy used. New heating controls may offer a means to reduce this figure and help meet the UK s target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. However these technologies will only save energy if occupants are able to use them effectively. Currently, little is known about how occupants interact with their heating systems, in particular how they use the heating within their home and the reasons behind why it is used a specific way. To investigate further, this thesis presents research which used both qualitative and quantitative methods over two separate studies to uncover why and how households heat their homes and how people use their heating system following the installation of new heating controls. The results identify key drivers which impact how people heat their homes and highlight numerous issues preventing them from using their heating how they wish to. A taxonomy of heating use is presented based on the factors influencing heating use in homes and how those factors impact the use and control of the heating system. Occupants use of new heating controls over a ten month period is presented. Manual interaction with controls is separated from programmed heating schedules showing increased manual use over winter and a reliance on heating schedules during shoulder months. The analysis of measured heating use showed similar findings to larger scale studies, however the demanded set-point temperatures were varied and occupants regularly changed heating schedules throughout winter, indicating some of this complexity may be lost by studies inferring heating use patterns from internal temperature measurements alone. The research presented within this thesis is novel, in developing heating characters based on the factors which influence occupants heating behaviours, by presenting measured heating use, which included measured set-point temperatures, heating schedules and heating use duration. The thesis also presented the complexity of heating use within homes uncovered through use of mixed methods.