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1	Museums, Communities and Participatory Projects Wills, J Unknown Date (has links) No description available.
2	After-school time and the social construction of childhood Cottam, Paul January 2005 (has links) The after-school period of older primary school-aged children was used to examine how the social construct of childhood is being shaped and how it changes over time. With studies on childhood still relatively new academic terrain, this research makes a contribution by identifying some key structural and social forces impacting upon childhood. This research investigated firstly how children spend their time in the after-school period, secondly the reasons why they do so, and thirdly parental and child understandings and opinions on this subject. Childhood was found to be differentially constructed by socioeconomic backgrounds, and mediated by employment status. Results suggest that increasing parental employment accompanied concerns over safety for children and the need to protect them. This meant that there was a tendency for families to mediate between the child and wider society through increased surveillance of children. For one-parent families this took the form of supervision of children through after-school programmes. Two-parent families, who were more able to organise their work arrangements so that one parent was home after-school, monitored their children's activities within localised areas based around the home. Parental 'risk anxiety' was seen to be shaping the lives of children in terms of defining safe places and spaces for them. Children themselves tended to prefer informal, unstructured activities within these contexts, and did not seem too concerned about safety issues. childhood children time after-school employment safety
3	Impacto do Programa Nacional de Melhoria do Acesso e da Qualidade nas ações de rastreamento do câncer de colo uterino em Alagoas DIAS, Mariana Fragoso de Melo 01 March 2016 (has links) Submitted by Rafael Santana (rafael.silvasantana@ufpe.br) on 2017-04-11T17:51:30Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO PPGGES MARIANA FRAGOSO - BIBLIOT. (1).pdf: 1525984 bytes, checksum: 4b14ff8ab52533beac252ef888d0461a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-11T17:51:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO PPGGES MARIANA FRAGOSO - BIBLIOT. (1).pdf: 1525984 bytes, checksum: 4b14ff8ab52533beac252ef888d0461a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-22 / O Programa Nacional de Melhoria do Acesso e da Qualidade é um programa de âmbito nacional que traz a proposta de promover a melhoria da qualidade assistencial nos serviços públicos de saúde e o acesso oportuno, representa um novo paradigma na qualificação assistencial da principal porta de entrada do Sistema Único de Saúde. Este programa é formado por 47 indicadores de saúde, contudo, impulsionou-se a avaliação do impacto da política a um dos indicadores de desempenho da área da saúde da mulher, o qual referencia ao rastreamento precoce do Câncer de Colo do Útero. Pois, sabe-se que a maioria dos estudos realizados sobre a temática da cobertura do exame citopatológico focaliza-se nas grandes cidades das Regiões Sul e Sudeste. Assim, justificou-se que a incorporação de práticas avaliativas de impacto de programas nacionais aos serviços de saúde pública é uma necessidade que se afigura nas políticas públicas. Para tal, o estudo teve o objetivo de avaliar o impacto desta política sobre o indicador de rastreamento precoce do câncer do colo do útero no estado de Alagoas, no período de 2011 a 2014. Para mensurar este efeito utilizou o método estatístico chamado Diferenças em Diferenças e as análises estatísticas foram realizadas através do Software STATA versão 12.0 Special Edition. Aos resultados encontrados mediante as estimações das equações divididas em três modelos de regressão linear, o Modelo (1) apresentou um impacto positivo e estatisticamente significante a 1%, esse sinal positivo mostra o efeito entre o quantitativo de exames realizados pelas mulheres dos municípios participantes do programa foi de 5.410 exames a mais que as não participantes, um aumento médio percentual de 52% da Razão. Ao Modelo (2), a este foram incluídas as variáveis de controle socioeconômicas e demográficas, o efeito do programa captado no coeficiente estimador foi de 5.227 e a despeito da significância estatística mostrou-se a 1%, apresentando um aumento de 51% da Razão. Por fim, o Modelo (3), este foram incluídos os principais desfechos como variáveis independentes, o efeito encontrado foi de 5.049 e estatisticamente significante a 1%, verificou-se que o programa conseguiu assegurar aos usuários a garantia da melhoria do acesso oportuno ao rastreamento precoce e manteve o aumento médio percentual em media dos 50% da Razão. Neste sentido, o estudo apontou boas perspectivas para o fortalecimento da atenção básica através desta nova estratégia consolidadora e atribuiu ao programa os movimentos quantitativos positivos identificados, de forma que o programa potencializou as mudanças no processo de rastreio precoce e que puderam contribuir para a melhoria do acesso e da assistência. Com isso, o Ministério da Saúde espera que as taxas de incidência e mortalidade desta patologia venham diminuir, ocorrendo uma queda das estimativas local, regional e até mesmo nacional para o biênio 2016/2017. / The National Program of access improvement and health basic attention has as the purpose promoting the enhancement of access and care quality in the public health services. Also, this Program represents a new model in providing the better care of the main entrance of health unique system. It is formed by 47 health indicators, although, Although, boosted to assess the impact of policy to one of the performance indicators in the area of women's health, which it refers to early screening of cervical cancer. Therefore, it is known that the majority of studies on the issue of coverage of cervical cancer screening focuses in large cities of the South and Southeast. Thus, it is appropriate that the incorporation of assessment practices impact of national programs for public health services is a necessity which appears in public policy. For such, this research aimed to evaluate the impact of this policy about the early detection of cervical cancer in Alagoas, since 2011 to 2014. To measure this effect, the research used the statistical method called ‘Differences in Differences’ and the statistical analysis were made through the Software ‘STATA version 12.0 Special Edition’. The results found by the estimates of equations divided into three linear regression models, the model (1) had a positive impact and statistically significant at 1%, the positive sign shows the effect of the quantitative tests performed by the women of the participating municipalities program was 5,410 tests more than non-participants, increase average percentage of 52% of Reason. The model (2), this was included socioeconomic and demographic control variables, the effect of the captured program in estimator coefficient was 5.227 and despite the statistical significance was found to be 1%, with a 51% increase of Reason. While the model (3), this the main outcomes as independent variables were included, the effect of the program was found to be 5.049 and statistically significant at 1%, it was found that the program could provide users with the assurance of improving timely access to early screening and kept the average percentage increase in average 50% of Reason. Based on this, the study reveals important perspectives to the improvement of health basic attention through this new strategy in health unique system and gives the program the positive quantitative movements identified, so that the program leveraged changes in the early screening process and that could contribute to the improvement of access and assistance. Thus, the Ministry of Health expects incidence rates and mortality of this disease will decrease, causing a drop in place estimates, regional and even national for the biennium 2016/2017.
4	How effective capacity building allows monitoring and evaluation to improve the delivery of sustainable urban mobility projects: Experience and lessons from the EU Metamorphosis project Glock, J.P., Apeldoorn, N. van, Dazzo, L., Wong, A. 01 February 2021 (has links) Sustainable urban mobility is an established target of policy making and planning in Europe. It is associated with, among others, better air quality, less noise disturbance, increased safety and quality of public space. In this regard, one of the EU Commission’s main tools to reach sustainable urban mobility, Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP), require the explicit integration of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). Yet, European cities face common barriers when it comes to materialising M&E in practice. To avoid or overcome these barriers, this paper argues for integrating capacity building (CB). We draw this conclusion on the basis of experiences made during the M&E of the Horizon 2020 Project ‘Metamorphosis’. We report our experiences, rating different monitoring indicators used for the evaluation of measures transforming car-oriented neighbourhoods into children-friendly neighbourhoods in seven European cities. We then give advice on how to design and integrate CB for a feasible M&E scheme. info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/380 ddc:380
5	Shame on who? : experiential and theoretical accounts of the constitution of women's shame within abusive intimate relationships : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology at Massey University Jury, Angela Jean January 2009 (has links) This feminist project explores the experiential accounts of twenty-five women who have lived through abuse within their intimate relationships. Their stories, gathered through a series of semi-structured face-to-face interviews intended to elicit accounts of resilience were saturated with emotion-talk, especially shame-talk. To address questions of the relationship between these accounts and theoretical accounts of abuse, and shame the women’s texts were engaged in an analytic dialogue with feminist knowledges of abuse against women, Erving Goffman’s sociological understandings of shame, stigma and mortification of the self, Thomas Scheff’s sociological theory of shame and social bonds, and feminist poststructuralist understandings around the constitution of human subjectivity. These conversations enabled development of a conceptual representation of the special and highly specific form of social bonding experienced by victims of abuse within intimate relationships. This bonding begins with processes of mortification of the self, the gradual erosion of a sense of self through the systematic imposition of various shaming and shameful actions. These processes take place within a specific social context created through the constitutive power of dominant discourses of gender, heterosexual coupledom, matrimony and motherhood which work to shape the lives of individual women. Because of the specific ways in which these discourses currently operate within Aotearoa New Zealand they result in the constitution of a narrow range of tightly prescribed subject positions available to victims of intimate partner abuse. This analysis leads to an argument that women’s inability to ‘do’ motherhood or intimate partnership in line with dominant discourses of mothering and relationships (because these simply cannot be achieved within an abusive context), opens them to the debilitating effects of shame. Shame, both actual and threatened, promotes silence, isolation and dangerous private spaces as women seek to protect themselves from its painful experience. I argue that it is therefore crucial to promote the availability of discursive positioning for women living through abuse which offers non-shaming and realistic choices. abused women intimate partner abuse New Zealand shame stigma
6	VALORAÇÃO ECONÔMICA E AMBIENTAL PELO USO DA ÁGUA COMO INSTRUMENTO DE GESTÃO DE RECURSOS HÍDRICOS / ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMICAL TO VALUE FOR THE USE OF THE WATER AS INSTRUMENT OF ADMINISTRATION OF HYDRICS RESOURCES Kurtz, Fabio Charão 07 December 2004 (has links) Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In spite of your social and economical importance, the farming of rice has been a lot sought, mainly on the environmental impact caused in the resources hydrics. However this problem, doesn't give to classify it as big or small, without data research concretes. This work had as objective creates a methodology for the environmental and economical to value for the use of the watw in the The Arroio Grande's Hydrographic Sub-basin, (RS), through the quantifications ofthe Environmental Liability and of the Head ofiice of Intemctions (Head office of LeopoldIRocha). Analyzing the results in 17 researched properties, with Area of Influente of 12.790,05 there is. it was vefted that was from 47,58% to Deterioration Medium of the Environmental Liabilii. The sum of all the areas of irrigated farmings of the researched properties is of 394,5 there is helshe was 3,08% of the extension in the wlculation ofthe magnitude of the impact, and up to 10% weight 1 1s valued, the areas were analyzed like this jointly for eifect of Evaluation of the Environmental Impact. The medium total deteriorations of all the farmings of imgated nce, considering the 88 crossings of the actions proposed with all the environmental factors they were from 6,31% to the magnitude and 14,52% for the importance of the environmental impacts. The considered enterprise, farming of irrigated rice, just as her finds it is períectly viable. Being considered the total medium values that are below 5,O (infiection value for the electric outlet of contrary decisions or impeded the implantation of the farming of irrigated rice), that they were 1,57 and 2,31, respectively, for magnitude and importance and the deteriorations for Magnitude (12,54%) and Importance (18,45%) placing a little above 10% (tolerable environmental value, I globally accept for environmental entities), what means that are indispensable "some measured mitigatory and mmpensatory". In severa1 literatures it was the value to be collected for irrigation I sfill from R$ 0,02 to R$0,192 1 m3, through the used methodology was arrived at the most R$0,072/m with deterioration of 52,8% for DPAP and of 10.41% for DLR. As it is recommended that the deteriorations avera es for DPAP and DLR to be of 10%, the value to be collected Y for irrigation would be in R$ 0,023lm , therefore a very close value of the reality of the disposition that the users would be, probably, disposed to pay for the consumption of the irrigation when of your reception. The applied methodology for the quantiication of a mathematical model for the collection for the use of the water in farmings of rice irrigated in the Arroio Grande's Hydrographic Sub-basin it constitutes a starting point for a deeper and including debate, serving from platform to the creation of consents and futures studies that come to be accomplished. As well as, it serves as incentive to the users of the referred hydrographic sub-basin they reduce it to deterioration of the environment, through a production of rice irrigated with the smallest possible environmental impact. / Apesar de sua importância social e econômica, a lavoura arrozeira tem sido muito visada, principalmente sobre o impacto ambiental causado nos recursos hídricos. No entanto este problema, não dá para ciassificá-to como grande ou pequeno, sem dados concretos de pesquisa. Este trabalho teve como objetivo aiar uma metoddogia para a Valoração Econômica e Arnbiental pelo Uso da na Subbaaa Hidrográfica Arroio Grande (RS), através das quantificaçôes do Passivo Arnbiental e da M z de Intemções (Matriz de Leopold/Rocha). Analisando os resultados, em 17 propriedades ! amosbadas. com Área de Influência de 12.790.05 ha. verificou-se que a Deterioraçêo Média do Passivo Ambieotal foi de 47,5896. A soma de todas as áreas de lavouras irrigadas das propriedades amostradas é de 394.5 ha encontrou-se 3.08% da extenso no cálculo da magninide do impacto, sendo que até 10% é valorado peso 1. assim as áreas foram analisadas conjuntamente para efeito de Avaliação do Impacto Arnbiental. As deterioraçóes totais médios de todas as lavouras de arroz irrigado, considerando os 88 cruzamentos das ações propostas com todos os fatores ambientais foram de 6.31% para a magnitude e 14.52% para a importância dos impactos ambientais. O empreendimento considerado, lavoura de arroz irrigado, tal como se encontra é perfeitamente viável. Considerando-se os valores médios totais que se encontram abaixo de 5,O (valor de inflexáo para a tomada de decisóes contrárias ou impeditivas a implantação da lavoura de arroz irrigado), que foram 1,57 e 2,31, respectivamente, para magnitude e importância e as deterioraçóes para Magnitude (12.54%) e Importância (18,45%) situando um pouco acima de 10% (valor ambiental tolerável, mundialmente aceito por entidades ambientais), o que significa que são indispensáveis "algumas medidas mitigadoras e compensatórias". Em diversas literaturas encontrou-se o valor a ser cobrado para irrigação entorno de R$ 0,02 a R$ 0.192/ m3, através da metodologia usada chegou-se no máximo a R$ 0,072/m3 com deterioração de 52,8% para a DPAP e de 10,41% para o DLR. Como se recomenda que as deteriorações médias para DPAP e DLR sejam de 10%, o valor a ser cobrado para irrigação ficaria em R$ 0,023/m3, portanto um valor muito próximo da realidade da disposição que os usuários estariam, provavelmente, dispostos a pagar pelo consumo da irrigação quando da sua captação. A metodologia aplicada para a quantificação de um modelo matemático para a cobrança I pelo uso da água em lavouras de arroz irrigado na Sub-bacia Hidrcgráfica Arroio Grande constitui um 1 ponto de partida para um debate mais profundo e abrangente, servindo de plataforma a criação de consensos e a futuros estudos que venham a ser realizados. Assim como, serve de incentivo aos usuários da referida sub-bacia hidrográfica a reduzirem a deterioração do meio ambiente, através de uma produção de arroz irrigado com o menor impacto ambiental possível. 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7	Microfinance Consumer Research : Diaries, Surveys and Experiments / Etudes de consommateurs en microfinance : journaux, enquêtes, et expériences Alia, Hayyan 26 May 2015 (has links) La thèse comporte sept chapitres. Nous présentons, dans le premier chapitre, une étude qui montre les traits particuliers des pauvres et la façon dont ils perçoivent leur propre pauvreté. Le second chapitre est consacré à une revue de la littérature sur l'utilisation d'agenda de gestion du temps comme outil de collecte de données en recherche qualitative. Le troisième chapitre propose une version modifiée du "modèle de portefeuille économique du ménage” (HEP) de Chen et Dunn (1996). Le modèle modifié (M-HEP) permet une évaluation non expérimentale de 1’impact de la microfinance. Nous l’avons mis en place via la collecte d’informations simples auto-déclarées sur 1’utilisation quotidienne du temps et de l’argent auprès d'un échantillon de femmes pauvres du Caire (Egypte). Le quatrième chapitre propose une étude testant ce modèle (M-HEP) auprès de personnes en situation de handicap. Le cinquième chapitre s'attache à une étude qui souligne une limite des journaux combinés "non stylisés" ou "non-directifs". Le sixième chapitre expose l’utilisation de jeux expérimentaux sur un échantillon de population du Caire en comparant le comportement des clients de la microfinance à celui de non-clients. Le dernier chapitre expose une étude d’évaluation d’impact de la microfinance sur le genre au Mali, utilisant une méthode quasi-expérimentale. Enfin, en guise de conclusion, nous préconisons 1’utilisation du modèle M-HEP dans l’étude de l’évaluation de I’impact de la microfinance. Nous avons effectué’ une étude comparative des trois méthodes utilisées dans la thèse à savoir la méthode qualitative non-expérimentale et les méthodes quantitatives expérimentales et quasi-expérimentales. / The thesis is built on seven chapters. In chapter 1, we explore the views on poverty of a sample of poor women. In chapter 2, we review the literature on the use of time-diary in research. Chapter 3 develops and investigates the diary method as a qualitative non-experimental impact evaluation tool. For this objective, we study "the household economic portfolio model (HEP)“ a comprehensive impact evaluation model designed by Chen and Dunn (1996) that overcomes the obstacle of fungibility of money. We propose a modified version (M-HEP), a simplified framework for non- experimental evaluation of impact with clear assessment units and efficient measurement tools. The collection of simple self-reported information on the daily use of time and money is suggested for implementing the model. We test our proposition with a case study from Cairo. In chapter 4, we provide another test of the combined diaries through a case study on two poor single mothers one of whom is handicapped. In chapter 5, we present a fina1 example on the combined diary of a poor woman. The study highlights one limitation in the non-stylized combined diary approach. In chapter 6, we use experimental games in Cairo to study two aspects of behavioral microfinance by comparing microfinance clients to non-clients. In chapter 7, we present an impact evaluation study on microfinance in Mali, using the quasi-experimental statistical technique. Finally, we conclude the thesis suggesting applications of the M-HEP, and comparing the three methods used in the thesis. This comparisons aims to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of each of the methods when used for evaluating microfinance impact. Microfinance Pauvreté Evaluation de l'impact Méthodes non-expérimentales Méthodes expérimentales Méthodes quasi-expérimentales Journaux financiers Journaux de temps Microfinance Poverty Evaluation of the impact Non-experimental methods Experimental methods Quasi-experimental methods Financial newspapers Newspapers of time 330
8	Does Mississippi school principals’ age, race, gender, educational attainment, work experience in education, or evaluation scores influence accountability points? Stowe, Braxton Dywayne 08 December 2023 (has links) (PDF) Traditional research agrees that only effective school principals can fully influence student achievement, and school leaders are pivotal to the success of schools in America. Researchers have linked positive student outcomes to further illustrate the point, including student achievement, to high-quality school leadership. The purpose of this study is to assist state and district education leaders in Mississippi in having a more profound knowledge of which principal demographics and characteristics are more directly correlated with the improvement of accountability scores or student achievement. The results of the correlational and regression analysis to determine the relationship between principal variables and the number of points a school grew when comparing the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 school year total accountability points earned. Limitations, implications, and recommendations for both school district leaders and future research are also discussed. principal impact on student achievement Mississippi accountability points Educational Leadership
9	The Social Construction of Economic Man: The Genesis, Spread, Impact and Institutionalisation of Economic Ideas Mackinnon, Lauchlan A. K. Unknown Date (has links) The present thesis is concerned with the genesis, diffusion, impact and institutionalisation of economic ideas. Despite Keynes's oft-cited comments to the effect that 'the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood'(Keynes 1936: 383), and the highly visible impact of economic ideas (for example Keynesian economics, Monetarism, or economic ideas regarding deregulation and antitrust issues) on the economic system, economists have done little to systematically explore the spread and impact of economic ideas. In fact, with only a few notable exceptions, the majority of scholarly work concerning the spread and impact of economic ideas has been developed outside of the economics literature, for example in the political institutionalist literature in the social sciences. The present thesis addresses the current lack of attention to the spread and impact of economic ideas by economists by drawing on the political institutionalist, sociological, and psychology of creativity literatures to develop a framework in which the genesis, spread, impact and institutionalisation of economic ideas may be understood. To articulate the dissemination and impact of economic ideas within economics, I consider as a case study the evolution of economists' conception of the economic agent - "homo oeconomicus." I argue that the intellectual milieu or paradigm of economics is 'socially constructed' in a specific sense, namely: (i) economic ideas are created or modified by particular individuals; (ii) economic ideas are disseminated (iii) certain economic ideas are accepted by economists and (iv) economic ideas become institutionalised into the paradigm or milieu of economics. Economic ideas are, of course, disseminated not only within economics to fellow economists, but are also disseminated externally to economic policy makers and business leaders who can - and often do - take economic ideas into account when formulating policy and building economic institutions. Important economic institutions are thereby socially constructed, in the general sense proposed by Berger and Luckmann (1966). But how exactly do economic ideas enter into this process of social construction of economic institutions? Drawing from and building on structure/agency theory (e.g. Berger and Luckmann 1966; Bourdieu 1977; Bhaskar 1979/1998, 1989; Bourdieu 1990; Lawson 1997, 2003) in the wider social sciences, I provide a framework for understanding how economic ideas enter into the process of social construction of economic institutions. Finally, I take up a methodological question: if economic ideas are disseminated, and if economic ideas have a real and constitutive impact on the economic system being modelled, does 'economic science' then accurately and objectively model an independently existing economic reality, unchanged by economic theory, or does economic theory have an interdependent and 'reflexive' relationship with economic reality, as economic reality co-exists with, is shaped by, and also shapes economic theory? I argue the latter, and consider the implications for evaluating in what sense economic science is, in fact, a science in the classical sense. The thesis makes original contributions to understanding the genesis of economic ideas in the psychological creative work processes of economists; understanding the ontological location of economic ideas in the economic system; articulating the social construction of economic ideas; and highlighting the importance of the spread of economic ideas to economic practice and economic methodology. 410401 Design Theory 349901 Political Economy 370000 Studies in Human Society 340302 History of Economic Thought 349900 Other Economics 410402 Design Innovation 360201 Public Policy 360000 Policy and Political Science 380100 Psychology 360100 Political Science 360200 Policy and Administration 370101 Social Theory 370102 Social Policy and Planning 340100 Economic Theory genesis spread diffusion impact institutionalisation economic ideas idea ideation psychology of creativity Wallas Wertheimer stage model productive thinking creative creativity process economic economics sociology social methodology methodological self-altering self-fulfilling self-denying prophecy belief reflexive reflexivity institution institutionalise institutionalised social construction Berger Luckmann Bhaskar critical realism Lawson Bordieu habitus field spread impact ideation ideational structure social structure action creativity creative economists sociology philosophy of science homo economicus homo oeconomicus economic man economic agent rational economic man man lucas critique Goodhart's law Keynes Marx Mill Hayek Hicks Samuelson Walras Jevons Arrow Debreu Samuelson Merton sociology of economics sociology of scientific knowledge SSK Holton prediction control reflexive prediction reflexivity Whitley Mackie canonization Henshel Grunberg Modigliani Morgenstern Lucas Muth Simon Blyth Hall Sikkink Hira Hood institutionalize institutionalized socialise socialisation internalise internalisation internalization socialization behaviour behavior Thomas theorem expectations stage model productive thinking evolution

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