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Purpose: The aim of this study is to get a better understanding on how employees within the restaurant and accountant business view different types of  ”fun” at the workplace. The aim is to clarify what effects the different types of fun have to the work performance from a managers point of view.  The study is also intended to explore what similarities and differences there are between employees and managers view of workplace fun, but also to see if the restaurant and accountant businesses distinguish from each other. Theory: In the beginning there will be statements from employees and managers point of view of workplace fun. Thereafter, the theoretical reference framework will be described based on employees and managers-controlled activities where previous research presents concepts to clarify and emphasize these activities. At last the effects that contribute to work performance as a result from having fun at the workplace will be described. Theoretical reference framework emphasizes the different businesses impact on having fun. Method: A qualitative method with a deductive approach has been used based on theoretical research and this was implemented in practicality through semi-structured interviews that later were collected as data. The people that got interviewed were both employees and managers within the restaurant and accountant business. The study applies a comfort selection. Conclusion: The conclusion of the study shows that both managers and employees consider having fun at the workplace to be important and that employee-controlled activities are more appreciated. The manager-controlled activities were more preferred amongst employees within the restaurant business rather than employees from the accountant business. However, it was shown that managers from both businesses consider the opposite regarding managers-controlled activities. / Syfte: Det övergripande syftet med denna studie är att få en djupare förståelse för hur anställda inom restaurang- och revisionsbranschen upplever olika typer av “kul” på arbetsplatsen. Till syftet hör att klargöra vilka effekter dessa olika typer av kul har till arbetet ur chefernas perspektiv. Studien ämnar även att undersöka vilka likheter och olikheter som finns mellan anställda och chefer i dessa avseenden samt hur detta skiljer sig åt mellan restaurang- och revisionsbranschen. Teoretisk referensram: Till en början följer en redogörelse över de anställdas respektive chefernas ställning till att ha kul på arbetsplatsen. Därefter redogör den teoretiska referensramen för en uppdelning på medarbetarstyrda samt chefsstyrda aktiviteter där tidigare forskning presenterar begrepp för att tydliggöra och belysa dessa aktiviteter. Vidare redogörs det även för effekter till arbetet som ett resultat av att ha kul på arbetet. Den teoretiska referensramen belyser även de olika branschernas påverkan på att ha kul.  Metod: En kvalitativ metod med en deduktiv ansats har tillämpats i denna studie och primärdata samlades in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. Respondenterna var både anställda och chefer inom restaurang- samt revisionsbranschen. Studien tillämpar ett bekvämlighetsurval. Slutsatser: Studiens slutsatser visar att både chefer och anställda anser kul på arbetsplatsen vara viktigt där de medarbetarstyrda aktiviteterna var de som uppskattades till större del. De chefsstyrda aktiviteterna föredrogs till större del bland anställda inom restaurangbranschen än vad de gjorde i revisionsbranschen. Dock framkom det att cheferna inom respektive bransch ansåg det motsatta om de chefsstyrda aktiviteterna.

Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-02T00:16:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_2684_Propriedade_Antifungica_de_Extrato_Proteico_de_Folhas_de_A_.pdf: 333204 bytes, checksum: c8470651733fbc302c529a75ccf9cc32 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-06-12 / 11 RESUMO O abacaxizeiro (Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.) é uma fruteira de grande importância econômica para o Brasil, possuindo como principais limitações à sua expansão as doenças, principalmente as de origem fúngica. Desta forma foi avaliado e selecionado pelo INCAPER um genótipo resistente a fusariose (EC-099), não sendo conhecido ainda, qual o mecanismo de resistência desta planta. Sendo assim, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo extrair proteínas dos tecidos clorofilados da folha do abacaxizeiro e testar suas atividades contra fungos de interesse econômico. Procedeu-se a extração protéica dos tecidos clorofilados das folhas, seguida da separação por peso molecular através da precipitação com sulfato de amônio, resultando em frações 0-20% (F1), 20- 50% (F2) e de 50-75% (F3) p/v. A atividade antifúngica foi avaliada durante 4 dias através da leitura em espectofotômetro por determinação do crescimento dos fungos Aspergillus niger, Beauveria bassiana, Colletotrichum gloesporioides, C. musae, C. paradoxa, Cladosporium sp., Fusarium subglutinanas f. sp. ananas (E-261), este em isolados com e sem resistência ao fungicida benomil, Penicilium sp. e Trichophyton rubrum em meio líquido de batata dextrose (BD), inoculados com 1,5x106 esporos/ml. Foram avaliadas concentrações protéicas de 0; 0,05, 0,1; 0,2; 0,3; 0,4 e 0,5 mg/ml de cada fração. A F1 inibiu o crescimento de todos os fungos testados, obtendo as menores médias e diferindo estatisticamente das outras frações quando testados contra os fungos A. niger, C. gloesporioides, C. musae, Cladosporium sp., F. subglutinanas f. sp. ananas, Penicilium sp. e Trichophyton rubrum. O desenvolvimento de C. paradoxa foi inibido pelas três frações, em cerca de 30%, não apresentando diferença significativa entre elas. As frações F2 e F3 apresentaram uma maior especificidade, para os fungos A. niger e Cladosporium sp. No entanto, F2 e F3 não foram eficientes para inibir o crescimento F. subglutinans f. sp. ananas em percentagens superiores a 20%. A F3 também inibiu o crescimento fúngico de A. niger em até 42,9%. Pela análise de regressão observou-se a melhor linearidade de inibição pela F1, obtendo os maiores valores do coeficiente de correlação linear, quando comparada com F2 e F3, exceto para os fungos B. bassiana e C. paradoxa. Os resultados obtidos nos testes demonstraram a existência de proteínas com ação antifúngica no genótipo do abacaxizeiro (EC-099) resistente a fusariose, sendo que a F1 apresentou a maior eficiência na inibição fúngica. Portanto, podemos inferir que estas proteínas podem estar associadas à resistência deste genótipo a fusariose. A existência de proteínas com um amplo espectro de ação contra fungos, indica o potencial da continuidade das pesquisas para a indústria farmacológica. Palavras chaves: Ananas comosus, Proteínas antifúngicas, Fungos.

Submitted by Carla Santos (biblioteca.cp2.carla@bahiana.edu.br) on 2018-10-19T17:54:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta????o vers??o FINAL Marina Ferraz (3).pdf: 1502315 bytes, checksum: e98dc9fa59178eb9cbf8525fb6e678e7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by JOELMA MAIA (ebmsp-bibliotecacp2@bahiana.edu.br) on 2018-10-19T19:08:14Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta????o vers??o FINAL Marina Ferraz (3).pdf: 1502315 bytes, checksum: e98dc9fa59178eb9cbf8525fb6e678e7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-19T19:08:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta????o vers??o FINAL Marina Ferraz (3).pdf: 1502315 bytes, checksum: e98dc9fa59178eb9cbf8525fb6e678e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-10-30 / este estudo objetiva avaliar a fun????o da m??o em pacientes com Mucopolissacaridose (MPS). M??todos: estudo anal??tico cross-seccional em dois grupos com idades de 8 e 21 anos: pacientes com MPS e indiv??duos sem MPS. Dados cl??nicos e demogr??ficos foram coletados de 15 indiv??duos com MPS e de 44 participantes sem MPS. A avalia????o da fun????o da m??o foi baseada na vers??o brasileira do MHQ. Para avaliar essa fun????o, foram apresentadas a pontua????o global, assim como as pontua????es de cada dom??nio, considerando os grupos. Resultados: a m??dia de idade do grupo MPS foi de 11,73 (4,39) e a idade do grupo comparativo foi 12,80 (3,96). Todos os indiv??duos avaliados foram capazes de completar o question??rio MHQ. O grupo sem MPS teve suas principais caracter??sticas sociodemogr??ficas semelhantes ao grupo sem MPS. O grupo com MPS demonstrou comprometimento importante da fun????o da m??o. O dom??nio Fun????o da m??o direita de 66,00 ?? 23,05 (versus 93,18 ??11,46); Fun????o da m??o esquerda 62,33 ?? 20,86 (versus 83,91 ?? 17,58); AVD conjunto 45,60 ?? 29,88 (versus 95,78 ?? 8,49); Escola 56,00 ?? 32,68 (versus 95,68 ?? 11,08); Dor 20,67 ?? 30,87 (versus 98,77 ?? 3,58); Apar??ncia m??o direita 77,80 ?? 11,16 (versus 71,59 ?? 21,37); Apar??ncia m??o esquerda 77,80 ?? 11,16 (versus 71,51 ?? 20,92); Satisfa????o m??o direita 74,47 ?? 27,12 (versus 94,21 ?? 14,94); Satisfa????o m??o esquerda 74,67 ?? 27,24 (versus 98,77 ?? 3,59). Conclus??o: indiv??duos afetados pela MPS apresentam pontua????es mais baixas na avalia????o da fun????o da m??o, atividades da vida di??ria, atividades escolares e dor. Apenas nos dom??nios de Est??tica e Apar??ncia os grupos possu??ram resultados similares. Trata-se de uma avalia????o de m??o com um question??rio subjetivo de aplicabilidade ampla, validado para portadores de MPS e com grupo compara????o usando popula????o an??loga.

Years ago, my mother choreographed a dance entitled "Seven Dreams in Color", a seven-act dance wherein each act relayed a memory of her childhood. These memories were colored by her individual experience and often seemed warped to her, as if having been filtered through a dream. I seek to recontextualize these dreams through my own lens as a way of honoring my mother's history and my own memories. Each work functions, through color and composition, as a separate act and embodies a non-linear memory. I utilize painting, drawing and printmaking to harness dichotomous visual elements in order to convey scenes as tumultuous as both the world around me and my own shifting moods. Abrupt changes of atmosphere are of particular interest to me. I portray this shift through the visual disruptions of cropping imagery, color or medium shifts, and scale changes. Graphic schisms take my work to an unpredictable conclusion while confounding the viewer. My work reveals my desperation and need to translate all of the conflict, battles and resolutions that I observe.

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Somehow I’m Alive is a collection of short stories that deal with the strange reality of being human. Also included are four chapters from the novel Mount Fang.

Creating a fun working environment has garnered a lot of attention in recent years from both researchers and managers. By creating a workplace that is perceived by employees as fun, managers hope to increase the employee’s motivation and in doing so increase the creativity and lower the turnover rate. The way managers try to create a fun working environment is by introducing fun events. Previous studies have emphasized the its potential benefits, leaving potential harmful effects of it an under researched topic. Thus, this research study focuses on exploring if and why supposedly fun events in the work environment have the opposite effect. In order to so the following research question was formulated: “What are the causes and consequences of Swedish employee’s negative perception of a fun working environment?” The theoretical framework examined the Affective Events Theory to help identify relevant concepts and theory to build a solid theoretical foundation for this research study. The insights from the Affective Events Theory model served as an inspiration for the theoretical synthesis of this research study. The model helps understand the empirical data and the analytical process by demonstrating how the different aspects intersect and interact with one another to form an outcome. The qualitative data collection and analysis revealed that there are several factors which cause a negative perception of employees on a fun working environment, including the work environment, fun work events, personal predispositions and leadership.

User experience (UX) is a multi-dimensional user-product interaction involving positive and emotional usage. Fun experience is a component of UX which maintains distinctive dimensions. In this study these dimensions of the fun concept, namely the nature of the experience, the qualities of products that take place in the experience, and the emotional content of the fun experiences are investigated. The thesis is supported by arguments collected from the literature and the data from two empirical studies.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-03-20T19:18:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseleJuliaoLaurentino_DISSERT.pdf: 2014015 bytes, checksum: add8ae5fd54e36e8c0f64a6c5def2a5a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-03-21T21:25:32Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseleJuliaoLaurentino_DISSERT.pdf: 2014015 bytes, checksum: add8ae5fd54e36e8c0f64a6c5def2a5a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-21T21:25:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseleJuliaoLaurentino_DISSERT.pdf: 2014015 bytes, checksum: add8ae5fd54e36e8c0f64a6c5def2a5a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-29 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / Esta disserta??o consiste em um estudo, baseado no funcionalismo lingu?stico norte-americano (GIV?N, 1981, 1995, 2001; HOPPER, 1991), que investiga os usos do item lingu?stico TIPO em fun??es morfossint?ticas e discursivas na fala de jovens natalenses. Para tanto, o corpus utilizado ? composto de quatro entrevistas sociolingu?sticas, integrantes do Banco de Dados FALA-Natal (TAVARES; MARTINS, 2014), realizadas com falantes de idades entre 15 a 21 anos, das quais coletamos 194 dados de ocorr?ncia do nosso objeto de estudo. O principal objetivo desta pesquisa ? mapear e descrever fun??es morfossint?ticas e discursivas que o item sob enfoque tem desempenhado no portugu?s brasileiro (PB) falado em Natal/RN, sobretudo quanto ?s propriedades sem?ntico-pragm?ticas e estruturais caracterizadoras de cada uma dessas fun??es, tomando como fonte de dados a fala do grupo et?rio jovem, em que o TIPO ocorre com maior frequ?ncia. Este trabalho, somando-se a outros como Lima-Hernandes (2005), Rodrigues (2009), Castelano e Ladeira (2010), Thompson (2013) e D?ria e Alves (2014), contribui para a descri??o do PB, bem como fornece conhecimentos que sirvam de base para um ensino reflexivo, abrangente e prof?cuo de l?ngua no n?vel b?sico, j? que tratamos de fen?menos lingu?sticos presentes em situa??es comunicativas reais, mostrando que o TIPO desempenha pap?is importantes na gram?tica. Al?m dos trabalhos supracitados, servem-nos como fundamento, ainda, as propostas de D?Arcy (2005) e de Levey (2006), que investigaram, no ingl?s, os usos do LIKE, elemento que se comporta pragm?tica e estruturalmente de forma bastante similar ao elemento aqui estudado, pois intentamos contribuir tamb?m com estudos funcionalistas de natureza tipol?gica, tra?ando uma breve compara??o entre fun??es desempenhadas pelo TIPO no PB e pelo LIKE no ingl?s, e trazendo fundamenta??o, assim, para futuros estudos comparativos mais sistematizados entre amostras de fala do PB e do ingl?s, em suas diferentes variedades. Do cotejamento feito entre usos do TIPO e usos do LIKE tamb?m derivam conhecimentos ?teis para o ensino de portugu?s e de ingl?s como l?nguas estrangeiras. Nossos resultados apontam doze fun??es desempenhadas pelo TIPO, sendo quatro fun??es classificadas como morfossint?ticas, em que o item exerce pap?is mais textuais, quais sejam: exemplifica??o, compara??o, explica??o e conclus?o; e, oito fun??es classificadas como discursivas, em que exerce pap?is mais interacionais, a saber: introdu??o f?tica, introdu??o de di?logo interno, marca??o de imprecis?o informacional, marca??o de elabora??o, marca??o de reelabora??o, marca??o de ?nfase, marca??o de sequencia??o e delimita??o aproximativa. A fun??o morfossint?tica que apresentou maior n?mero de ocorr?ncias do item foi a de exemplifica??o, provavelmente pelo fato de ser aquela em que o elemento est? atuando por mais tempo. Em contrapartida, a que apresentou menor n?mero foi a de conclus?o, talvez por ser a mais inovadora. Em rela??o ?s fun??es discursivas, a que apresentou maior taxa de uso, inclusive no quadro geral das fun??es controladas, foi a de marca??o de elabora??o. Nesse caso, a grande quantidade pode estar relacionada ? situa??o comunicativa da entrevista sociolingu?stica e ? faixa et?ria dos usu?rios, tendo em vista que os empregos mais interacionais s?o os mais inovadores, conforme j? diagnosticado em pesquisas anteriores de natureza sincr?nica e diacr?nica (cf. LIMA-HERNANDES, 2005; THOMPSON, 2013), o que nos leva a crer que TIPO tem seguido um percurso de gramaticaliza??o no qual se estende funcionalmente do campo ideacional em dire??o ao campo interpessoal/interacional (cf. TRAUGOTT, 1982; ROMAINE; LANGE, 1991). Em termos estruturais, TIPO mostrou bastante mobilidade quanto ? posi??o ocupada na ora??o, seja em pap?is mais textuais, seja em pap?is mais interacionais, corroborando a ideia de gramaticaliza??o por expans?o sint?tica, proposta por Traugott (2010; 2014). Quanto ? compara??o entre TIPO e LIKE do ingl?s, observamos que eles desempenham fun??es em comum (exemplifica??o, compara??o, delimita??o aproximativa e marca??o de elabora??o) e ocupam posi??es similares nas ora??es, possivelmente devido a press?es cognitivas e pragm?ticas similares no que diz respeito aos percursos de gramaticaliza??o seguidos pelos dois elementos. / This dissertation, based on the American linguistic functionalism (GIV?N, 1981, 1995, 2001; HOPPER, 1991), investigates the usages of the linguistic item TIPO in morphosyntactic and discursive functions in the speech of the youth from Natal. For that, the analyzed corpus is compounded by four sociolinguistic interviews which come from the database named Banco de Dados FALA-Natal (TAVARES; MARTINS, 2014). In these interviews, which were conducted with speakers between 15 and 21 years old, I collected 194 occurrences of the subject of study. The main goal of the research is mapping and describing the morphosyntactic and discursive functions that the item in focus has been playing in the Brazilian Portuguese (BP) spoken in Natal/RN, mostly considering the structural and semantic-pragmatic properties categorized from each of those functions, having as data source the speech of the younger age group, in which TIPO occurs more frequently. This work, adding to others like Lima-Hernandes (2005), Rodrigues (2009), Castelano and Ladeira (2010), Thompson (2013) and D?ria and Alves (2014), contributes to the description of the BP as well as it provides knowledge which may base a reflexive, embracing and useful language teaching in the basic level, since I deal with a linguistic phenomenon which is very common in real communicative situations and which plays important roles within grammar. Besides the abovementioned works, I also base this one on D?Arcy (2005) and Levey (2006), who investigated, in English, the usage of LIKE ? element quite similar in behavior to the one here studied, pragmatically and structurally speaking ? because I intend to contribute to the functionalist studies of typological nature, briefly comparing the functions performed by the element TIPO in the BP and by the element LIKE in English. This comparison may also bring theoretical foundation to more systematized comparative studies between speech samples from BP and English and their different varieties. The comparison between the usages of TIPO and the usages of LIKE leads to useful knowledge for the Portuguese and English teaching as foreign languages. The results obtained indicate twelve functions performed by TIPO. Four of these functions were classified as morphosyntactic ? in which TIPO plays more textual roles like: exemplification, comparison, explanation and conclusion; and eight functions were classified as discursive ones, in which TIPO plays more interactional roles, namely: factual introduction, introduction of internal dialogue, informational inaccuracy marking, elaboration marking, reworking marking, emphasis marking, sequencing marking and approximate delimitation. The morphosyntactic function that has presented a major number of occurrences of the item was the exemplification one, probably because for being that one in which the element has been longer working. In contrast, conclusion has been the one with the lesser number of occurrences, perhaps for being the most innovative function. Regarding the discursive functions, the one with a bigger average of usage was the elaborating marking, including within the general framework of the controlled functions. In this case, the greater quantity may be related to the communicative situation given by the sociolinguistic interview and to the age group of the language users, bearing in mind that the most interactional usages are the most innovative ones, as it has already been diagnosed in previous diachronic and synchronic researches (cf. LIMA-HERNANDES, 2005; THOMPSON, 2013). This fact makes me believe that TIPO has been following a trajectory of grammaticalization in which it functionally goes from ideational field towards the interactional/interpersonal field (cf. TRAUGOTT, 1982; ROMAINE; LANGE, 1991). In structural terms, TIPO has showed highly mobility concerning its position in the sentence, whether in more textual or interactional roles, corroborating the idea of grammaticalization by syntactic expansion proposed by Traugott (2010; 2014). Regarding the comparison between TIPO and LIKE, we observed that they perform functions in common (exemplification, comparison, approximative delimitation and marking of elaboration) and have similar clause positions, possibly because of similar cognitive and pragmatic pressures regarding the trajectories of grammaticalization followed by the two elements.