京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第25483号 / 理博第5064号 / 新制||理||1722(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科生物科学専攻 / (主査)教授 渡辺 勝敏, 教授 森 哲, 教授 高橋 淑子 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DGAM

The focus of this thesis is on describing and analysing recently graduated physicians’ and engineers’ experiences of the relationship between the professional education programs and the respective professional practices. The aim is to explore the professionals’ reasons for their educational and career choices, what they learn in professional education, the demands they encounter in the workplace, and the perceived needs and opportunities for learning and further development in their professional practices. This study is based on a comparative design and the empirical data have been collected in interviews with physicians and master’s level engineers in information technology. The theoretical framework is structured around three parts, consisting of theories of professionalisation, theories concerned with the functions of higher education, and theories concerned with the concepts of knowledge, competence and qualifications. There is a close relationship between the process of professionalisation, the authority of the professions, the legitimacy of professional knowledge, and the higher education institutions. The results indicate that theory and practice are intimately integrated in the physicians’ professional education, whereas the engineers’ experiences of the educational program are characterised by little overlap between theory and practice. Furthermore, the physicians emphasise the importance of theoretical specialist knowledge and socio-communicative competence while the engineers instead stress the importance of generalist competence. The educational knowledge base is relatively static for both physicians and engineers. However, whereas there is a correspondence between the educational and the professional knowledge base in the case of the physicians they are only a loosely coupled in the case of the engineers. This can be attributed to the changing nature of the engineers’ professional knowledge base, which is characterised by constant change. The physicians regard their professional education as a rational preparation for the world of work. Although education does provide a general foundation for further professional development and learning, the engineers associate their professional education more with a symbolic ritual. For physicians, the formal credentials are a legal requirement to practise the profession. Education is regarded as constituting an important credential also for the engineers as it increases individual employability. The physicians tend to emphasise the use value of the educational program, while the engineers instead stress the exchange value of their educational program.

The aim of this investigation was to understand the relationship between educational practices in music education developed by generalist teachers in school and their musical preparation in the context of a Bachelor of Education (Pedagogia) at Federal University of Santa Maria. The qualitative approach was adopted as the methodological choice because such approach allows the accomplishment of an interpretation of reality according to several data interconnected in a complex whole. The semi-structured interview was the main data collection instrument. Twenty generalist teachers were interviewed, and the transcriptions were analyzed constituting the main source of data presented and discussed in the final report. The study is divided into four chapters. The first chapter presents an overview about generalist teachers and their relationship with music education. In the second chapter, the focus is on the music preparation offered in the Bachelor of Education at Federal University of Santa Maria. The third chapter presents the educational practices in music education reported by the participant teachers. In the fourth chapter, some ideas from the two last chapters are articulated in a way to understand the relationship between preparation and practice. As a conclusion, there is an evident articulation between those two processes. However, it is perceived that the educational practices in music education are permeated not only by the knowledge built up since the initial preparation, but also by a series of factors, such as: the functional and organizational school structure, the school subjects historically considered more important than others, the parent s and the students demand considering their life history, anxiety and objectives of the teachers. / A presente investigação buscou compreender a relação existente entre as práticas educativas em educação musical, desenvolvidas pelo professor não especialista em música, na escola, e sua formação musical no contexto da Pedagogia UFSM. A abordagem qualitativa foi adotada como opção metodológica por entender-se que a mesma permite realizar uma interpretação da realidade de acordo com vários dados que se interconectam para a compreensão do todo. A entrevista semi-estruturada constituiu-se no instrumento de coleta de informações, sendo que sua efetivação aconteceu através da gravação das falas de vinte professores, em fitas cassete que posteriormente foram transcritas na íntegra, textualizadas e analisadas de modo a constituírem-se em fontes de dados para a escrita do relatório de pesquisa. O estudo está dividido em quatro capítulos. Inicialmente, é traçado um panorama sobre quem são os professores unidocentes e qual sua relação com a educação musical. Em um segundo momento é enfocada a formação musical dos professores unidocentes oriundos da UFSM. O terceiro capítulo trata das práticas educativas em educação musical narradas pelos professores participantes da pesquisa, sendo que no quarto articulam-se as idéias destes dois últimos de modo a se compreender a relação formação práticas. Como conclusão do trabalho, aponta-se a existência de uma articulação entre estes dois processos. Contudo percebe-se que as práticas educativas em educação musical encontram-se permeadas não só pelos conhecimentos construídos a partir da formação inicial, mas por uma série de fatores como as relações que se estabelecem na estruturação de uma instituição de ensino, as disciplinas consideradas historicamente mais importantes do que as demais, a demanda dos pais e dos próprios alunos, assim como as próprias histórias de vida, anseios e buscas dos professores.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / In this work, we investigate the pattern formation of a reaction-diffusion generalist predator-prey system with constant alternative food source and a Holling type III functional response. The local model can exhibit up to six equilibria, bistability, limit cyles and several bifurcations. We analyse diffusive instability conditions and verify the spatial distribution of preys and predators in a two-dimensional habitat with reflective zero-flux boundary conditions. We investigate the spatial behavior for three parameters combinations: Case 1: single coexistence equilibrium; Case 2: bistability; and Case 3: bistability and limit cycle. This work is divided as follows: nn Chapter 1, we present the stability analysis of the local model; in Chapter 2, we consider the movement by diffusion and find diffusive instability conditions; lastly, in Chapter 3 we perform extensive numerical simulations in order to investigate the spatial distribution of preys and predators. / Neste trabalho, investigamos a formação de padrões em um modelo de reação-difusão presa-predador generalista com fonte de alimento alternativa constante e resposta funcional Holling tipo III. O modelo local pode apresentar até seis equilíbrios, biestabilidade, ciclos limite e diversas bifurcações. Analisamos as condições de instabilidade difusiva e verificamos a distribuição espacial de presas e predadores em um habitat bidimensional com fronteira reflexiva. Investigamos o comportamento espacial para três combinações de parâmetros: Caso 1: equilíbrio de coexistência único; Caso 2: biestabilidade; e Caso 3: biestabilidade e ciclo limite. O trabalho está dividido da seguinte forma: no Capítulo 1, apresentamos a análise de estabilidade do modelo local; no Capítulo 2, inserimos a difusão no modelo e encontramos as condições de instabilidade difusiva; por fim, no Capítulo 3, realizamos diversas simulações numéricas a fim de investigar a distribuição espacial de presas e predadores.

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Dans les agroécosystèmes, la biodiversité fonctionnelle et la biodiversité associée fournissent de nombreux services à l'homme dont la pollinisation, la régulation biologique et le cycle des nutriments. L'association des cultures est une pratique agricole qui augmente la diversité des plantes dans les agroécosystèmes, fournit des ressources alimentaires alternatives et structure les communautés des arthropodes. Elle favorise les prédateurs généralistes pour la régulation biologique des ravageurs. Cette étude vise à comprendre comment la diversité des plantes, à l'échelle de la parcelle, structure les réseaux trophiques des arthropodes et peut participer à améliorer la régulation biologique des ravageurs. Tout d'abord, une méta-analyse a été réalisée afin de rechercher la relation générale liant la diversité végétale considérée à l'échelle locale et le contrôle des insectes ravageurs par les prédateurs généralistes. Ensuite, sur un réseau de 20 parcelles paysannes de la région de Njombé au Cameroun, nous avons étudié l'effet de la diversité des plantes cultivées sur la structure du réseau trophique des arthropodes. Les résultats ont montré que l'abondance des prédateurs était positivement corrélée avec la diversité des plantes alors que celle des herbivores était négativement corrélée avec la diversité des plantes. L'effet inverse de la diversité des plantes sur les abondances des prédateurs et des herbivores suggère que des effets top-down structurent la communauté des arthropodes dans les parcelles de plantain. Enfin, l'effet de trois cultures couramment associées au plantain (maïs Zea mays, macabo Xanthosoma sagittifolium, et pistache Lagenaria siceraria) sur i) la structure de la communauté des fourmis et ii) les dégâts de Cosmopolites sordidus ont été étudiés dans un essai réalisé en station expérimentale. Les trois cultures associées ont eu un effet significatif sur l'abondance de tous les taxa de fourmis collectés mais le sens et la magnitude de cet effet ont varié selon les taxa. Cela montre le levier que constituent les cultures associées pour structurer la communauté des prédateurs généralistes de l'agroécosystème. Les abondances de tous les taxa de fourmis étaient également corrélées avec les dégâts de C. sordidus. Les abondances de Camponotus spp., Monomorium spp., Paratrechina longicornis et Tetramorium sp. étaient négativement corrélées avec les dégâts de C. sordidus montrant leur potentiel de régulation de ce ravageur. Cette étude à l'échelle de la communauté de l'agroécosystème suggère qu'il est nécessaire de prendre en compte les effets de la diversité végétale à tous les niveaux trophiques pour espérer maximiser le service de régulation des ravageurs.Mots clés : Diversité des plantes, cultures associées, réseaux trophiques, arthropodes, fourmis, structure de la communauté / Functional diversity and associated biodiversity in agroecosystems provide and promote important services to human society such as pollination, biological control, and nutrient cycling. Intercropping is a practical way to increase plant diversity in agroecosystems and participates to provide alternative foods and to structure arthropod communities, including generalist predators involved in pest control. To better understand how plant diversity structures the arthropod food web and how the control of pest may be optimized, we first made one meta-analysis to understand the mechanisms linking plant diversity to pest control by generalist predators at local scale. We second studied the effect of plant diversity on the arthropod community in contrasted plantain fields. We showed that predator abundance was positively correlated with plant diversity while herbivore abundance was negatively correlated with plant diversity. This strong and inverse effect of plant diversity on herbivore and predator abundance suggests that top-down forces structure the arthropod community in plantain fields and that it should be possible to structure the predator community to better control herbivores including pests. In a third step, we measured the effect of combinations of three associated crops maize Zea mays, cocoyam Xanthosoma sagittifolium and gourd Lagenaria siceraria as intercrops on ant community structure and then the effect relation between ant abundances with Cosmopolites sordidus damages. The three associated plants had a significant effect on abundance of all ant species but in different magnitudes and with either negative or positive effect showing that the selection of plant species that are intercropped is an efficient way to structure the ant community. The abundances of all species of ants were positively or negatively correlated with the damages of C. sordidus larvae. The abundances of Camponotus spp., Monomorium spp., Paratrechina longicornis and Tetramorium sp. were negatively correlated to C. sordidus damage. These ants appear to be the best candidates for C. sordidus control. These findings will help in the design of plantain agroecosystems that enhance pest control services.Keywords: Plant diversity, intercropping, arthropod food webs, ants, interspecific interactions, habitat structure

This study investigated selective pressures associated with encephalization in mammals and discussed broader implications. Relative brain size as measured by EQ (Encephalization Quotient) was compared between ecological categories. Omnivores had higher average EQ than ecological specialists. Since specialists are disproportionately affected by extinction events, selection for ecological generalism is proposed as encephalization mechanism. This mechanism may reinforce the more widely known Cognitive Buffer Hypothesis (CBH)—the idea that possessing relatively large brains has buffered lineages against environmental change. CBH is tested here by comparing EQs in Procyon lotor (raccoon) in urban and rural environments. CBH predicts that raccoons in the most radically altered environment, the city, experience the strongest selection for encephalization. Urban raccoons studied here exhibit a higher EQ. Although results are preliminary, data suggest that encephalization is accelerated during abrupt periods of environmental change. Finally, implications for the evolution of biological complexity more generally are discussed.

Plant feeding insects comprise about 25% of all animal species on earth and play an important role in all ecosystems. Although we understand that their association with plants is a key-factor driving the diversification in this group, we still have large gaps in our knowledge of the underlying processes of this relationship. Female choice of host plant is an important event in the insect life-cycle, as it is a major determinant of the larval food plant. In this Thesis I studied different aspects of insect host plant choice and used butterflies from the family Nymphalidae as my study system. I found that butterflies have a well developed olfactory system and that they use odors when searching for food or host plants. However, the information obtained from the odor of host plants does not seem to be sufficient for the studied species to make a distinction between plants of different qualities. Interestingly, even when in full contact with the leaf they do not make optimal decisions. I show for example that a sub-optimal female choice may be mitigated by larval ability to cope with unfavorable situations. Moreover, species that utilize a broader set of host plants may not be very well adapted to all the hosts they use, but at the same time they may survive in areas where there is only a subset of the plants available. Lastly, differences in the evolution of life-history traits between species can account for differences in how each species realizes its lifestyle. Thus, by incorporating findings on mechanisms of host plant choice with the ecological and evolutionary context of a species, our ability to explain the dynamics of host plant choice and insect-plant interactions can be improved. / <p>At the time of the doctoral defense, the following paper was unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 4: Manuscript.</p>

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Suelem Martini Assmann - 2016.pdf: 3866760 bytes, checksum: ca76b11f1bc1b7e011b8779d07190fb7 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The Forest Code is a measure created in order to establish balance between nature exploitation and conservation. Since the first Brazilian Forest Codes (BFCs), the efficiency of the regulation has been discussed, for it established measures that preserved the minimum of each biome. Among the three BFCs which were created, the New Forest Code (NFC), Law no 12651, of May 25, 2012, is the one which least fulfills its role. The NFC has proved to be a result of needs of capital in a distorted perspective of the sustainability school of thought, which is dealt in this thesis. Regarding such a line of thought, one may understand the reasons for the controversial code amendments and which techniques determine them. In this thesis, we analyzed the NFC consequences in the Cerrado landscape by the means of a case study in the Paraíso creek sub-basin, in Jataí-GO, where several alterations were observed. Our results showed that the total area quantity, which was said to be protected by the forest code, decreased by 38% after the NFC. Areas of this study which suffered most from the code changes were: firstly, the wetlands PPAs (permanent preservation areas), which were decreased by 100%; secondly, the headwaters PPAs, which were decreased by 91%; and, thirdly, lake PPAs, which were decrease by 70% on their permanent area. It was also found, by means of other studies on Cerrado and on other biomes, that such landscape alterations can be noted in the entire ecosystem, causing complications to plants, insects, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes and mammals. Such alterations are caused mainly due to habitat changes, shortening a vast diversity of species into some merely generalist species. Besides that, the effects on quality and quantity of water in rivers and rainfall in the region, on physical, chemical and biological quality of the soil and on atmospheric temperature were also found. By using landscape projection maps, before and after the NFC, we were able to understand with this study that the code alterations are much greater to practice than the law alterations which were made. / O Código Florestal é a medida criada para estabelecer um equilíbrio entre a exploração e a preservação da natureza. Desde os primeiros Códigos Florestais Brasileiros (CFBs), já se discutia a eficiência da norma, pois estipulavam medidas que preservavam o mínimo de cada bioma. Entre os três CFBs criados, o Novo Código Florestal (NCF), lei nº 12.651 de 25 de maio de 2012, é o que menos cumpre seu papel. O NCF demonstra ser reflexo dos anseios do capital em uma ótica um tanto deturpada da corrente sustentabilista tratada neste trabalho. Perante este modelo de pensamento, percebe-se o porquê das polêmicas alterações deste código e quais práticas as definem. Neste trabalho, analisaram-se as consequências do NCF na paisagem do Cerrado por meio de um estudo de caso na sub-bacia do Ribeirão Paraíso, no município de Jataí-GO, onde se puderam constatar diversas alterações. Nos resultados, observou-se que a quantidade total de área, antes dita protegida pelo código florestal, diminuiu em 38% no NCF. As áreas deste estudo que mais sofreram com as alterações do código foram: em primeiro lugar, as APPs de alagados, que sofreram uma diminuição de 100%; em segundo lugar, as APPs de nascentes, sofrendo uma diminuição de 91%; e, em terceiro lugar, a APP de lago, sofrendo uma diminuição de 70% da área permanente. Observaram-se, por meio de outros estudos do Cerrado e em outros biomas, que essas alterações na paisagem refletem em todo o ecossistema, apresentando complicações para espécies de plantas, insetos, aves, répteis, anfíbios, peixes e mamíferos. Alterações estas dadas, principalmente, pela mudança de habitats, resumindo uma vasta diversidade de espécies em apenas algumas generalistas, além dos efeitos na qualidade e na quantidade da água de rios e da pluviosidade da região, na qualidade física, química e biológica dos solos. Através de mapas de projeção da paisagem de antes e depois do NCF, pôde-se compreender que as alterações do código são muito maiores na prática do que foi na lei.

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