Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2017-11-29T15:15:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MAYLLE ALVES BENÍCIO - DISSERTAÇÃO 2015 PPGCS..pdf: 596618 bytes, checksum: 40d1b52f7b65c7ae5eb7e502682fa499 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-29T15:15:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MAYLLE ALVES BENÍCIO - DISSERTAÇÃO 2015 PPGCS..pdf: 596618 bytes, checksum: 40d1b52f7b65c7ae5eb7e502682fa499 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / CNPq / A presente dissertação teve como objetivos norteadores a identificação do perfil sociodemográfico dos adeptos ao Movimento Hare Krishna em Campina Grande-PB e a descrição dos processos que compõem esse modelo de conversão, com o intuito mais amplo de testar empiricamente a hipótese weberiana da associação entre estratificação social e afiliação religiosa , bem como sua hipótese mais geral da influência da vinculação dos indivíduos a éticas religiosas e suas ressonâncias na significação de suas práticas cotidianas. Nossa metodologia consistiu da realização de observação participante nas reuniões e cotidiano da Comunidade Hare Krishna de Campina Grande-PB; no levantamento de dados sobre trajetórias dos conversos; na aplicação de 39 questionários com componentes das famílias residentes no condomínio Naimisharanya e com estudantes do Instituto Jaladuta durante o ano letivo de 2014; e na realização de 14 entrevistas semiestruturadas com uma amostra não aleatória de conversos, constituída por indivíduos-tipo. / This dissertation aimed to identify social and demographic profiles of converts to Hare Krishna Moviment in the city of Camina Grande-CG, moreover to describe the processes that compound this model of conversion, with the major objective to putting into question the Weberian hypothesis of association between social stratification and religious affiliation, besides his more generalist hiphothesis about the inflluence of the linking to religious ethics and its resonance on the meaning of daily practices of converts. Our methodology consisted of participant observation in the meetings and daily at the Hare Krishna Community in Campina Grande-PB; in data on trajectories of converts; the application of 39 questionnaires with components of households in Naimisharanya Houses Complex and with students of the Jaladuta Institute during the academic year 2014. We also carryied out 14 semi-structured interviews with a non-random sample of converts, composed of individuals-type.

The overall objective of this study is, to understand how the prehistoric individual experienced her “being in the world”. This is done by examining the spatial relationships of prehistoric remains in order to understand hierarchies. The foundation of the thesis is constructed by using data from the prehistoric settlement of Letolo in Samoa (Independent State of Samoa) in West-Polynesia and Hanga Ho´onu on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in East-Polynesia. These data are stored and analysed in a Geographical Information System (GIS). In the Samoan case the intention is to make previously unpublished surveys available. An aim is to develop a method to interpret social information from the spatial relations of built structures. It is questioned if it is possible to interpret the degree of hierarchy in a prehistoric society only from the spatial relations of features. It is concluded that such an inquiry needs to be paired with preunderstanding and analogies, such as ethnohistorical data, since it otherwise is problematic to ascribe meaning to different built structures. The thesis uses ethnohistory for preunderstanding and analogy. The thesis further examines the worldviews and structures that are shown in the repeated practice of groups in the two settlements. / Det övergripande syftet med föreliggande studie är att komma närmare den förhistoriska människans upplevelse av varat, att komma närmare hennes upplevelse av att finnas till i världen. Detta görs genom att undersöka fornlämningars spatiala relationer för att förstå  hierarkier. I uppsatsen redovisas två databaser och Geografiska Informationssystem som har konstruerats utifrån fornlämningsdata från förhistoriska bosättningar på Samoa i västpolynesien och Rapa Nui i östpolynesien. På Samoa är det Letolodalen på ön Savai´i som undersöks, och på Rapa Nui är det Hanga Ho´onu vid La Pérouse-bukten som undersöks. Uppsatsen ämnar tillgängliggöra opublicerade inventeringar av Letolo på Samoa. En intention är att utarbeta specifika kriterier för att utläsa social information från den spatiala utbredningen av fornlämningar. Arbetet ifrågasätter om det är möjligt att läsa ut graden av hierarki i ett förhistoriskt samhälle utifrån de spatiala relationerna mellan fornlämningar. Svaret är att det går om analogier och förförståelse används då det annars är problematiskt att tillskriva mening till fornlämningar. Eftersom Polynesien är väl dokumenterat utifrån ett etnohistoriskt perspektiv används analogier och förförståelse från dessa berättelser. I uppsatsen undersöks vidare mentala världar och strukturer som visar sig i gruppers upprepade praktiker i de två bosättningarna.

En nuestro país, considerando la falta de objetividad y las dificultades existentes en la actualidad en torno a la evaluación del grado de peligrosidad y la presencia de rasgos psicopáticos en los reclusos, se consideró necesaria la adaptación de un instrumento que posibilitara unificar criterios para el diagnóstico de este tipo de personalidades. Frente a dicha problemática, el presente estudio estuvo orientado a adaptar la Escala de Calificación de la Psicopatía Revisada (PCL-R) creada por Robert D. Hare, la cual permite evaluar con alta confiabilidad diagnóstica y pronóstica la psicopatía. Para este propósito, se sometió la versión española del cuestionario del PCL-R al criterio de jueces expertos, de modo de obtener una versión chilena. Esta fue administrada, primero, en una Aplicación Piloto, para verificar que las modificaciones propuestas por los jueces fueran comprensibles para los sujetos en estudio, que previamente se habían separado en dos grupos –los que presentaban rasgos psicopáticos y los que no– en función de evaluaciones realizadas por los profesionales del Área Técnica del C.D.P. San Miguel. Posteriormente, se realizó la Aplicación Experimental, a partir de la cual se llevó a cabo un análisis estadístico de los hallazgos, que permitió obtener evidencias de validez y confiabilidad del instrumento. También, en la muestra estudiada fue posible establecer relaciones entre la psicopatía y la Reincidencia Legal, por un lado, y los Tipos de Delito, por el otro.

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Naturreservatet Hållö, i Sotenäs kommun har bibehållit en rik hävdgynnad flora, med bland annat mandelblomma, darrgräs och rödklint, trots flera decennier utan utmarksbete eller annan hävd. Kan den rika förekomsten av mohare Lepus timidus sylvaticus, som dokumenterats på Hållö i äldre litteratur, haft en gynnsam inverkan på de hävdgynnade arterna och den biologiska mångfald som dokumenterats på ön i tidigare kärlväxtinventeringar? Att få förståelse för vår svenska mohares roll i naturliga betesmarker kan hjälpa förvaltare att bättre och mer effektivt arbeta med naturvårdsinsatser i skyddade områden. Att kartlägga hararnas roll i skärgårdens ekologi är viktigt ur bevarandesynpunkt, då moharen är på stark tillbakagång på fastlandet på grund av konkurrens från fältharen Lepus europaeus och av hybridisering med denna. Ökad kunskap om hararnas betespåverkan kan motivera att fler öar kan fungera som refuger för att säkra artens fortlevnad i Sverige. För att studera moharens betespåverkan gjordes dels inventeringar av förekomsten av hävdgynnade växter samt en mätning av tillväxten av vegetationen. Tillväxten studerades med hjälp av provrutor där betet förhindrades genom att ytan stängslades in och jämfördes med tillväxten i ostängslade kontrollytor. En uppskattning av antal moharar gjordes genom linjeinventering med avståndsanalys. Resultaten visar att många av de hävdgynnade arterna som tidigare funnits på Hållö inte återfinns idag och att flera karaktäristiska igenväxningsarter som älggräs, brännässla och knylhavre förekommer rikligt. Vidare kan konstateras att den historiskt täta populationen av mohare på 150–250 individer idag är reducerad till en population på omkring 20 harar, och att årets föryngring verkar ha uteblivit. Att introducera moharar från en annan population till beståndet på Hållö skulle sannolikt gynna både moharar och vegetationen på ön. / The aim of this study is to find out if the Heath Hare Lepus timidus sylvaticus have had a positive effect on the culturally favored flora on the island of Hållö, on the Swedish west coast. Even though the island has been unmanaged and un grazed by livestock for decades, there are records of typical meadow plants like Briza media, Centaurea jacea and Saxifraga granulata as far into the 20th century as 1990. Could the abundant presence of the Heath Hare Lepus timidus sylvaticus, as documented in older literature, have had a beneficial impact on the indicator species and biological diversity recorded at Hållö in previous vascular plant inventories? A better understanding of the role of the Swedish heath hare and its role in natural grazing areas can assist managers in working more effectively and efficiently with conservation efforts in protected areas. The heath hare is experiencing a significant decline on the mainland due to competition from the European hare Lepus europaeus due to hybridization and competition. Using isolated islands as refuges to secure the species’ survival in Sweden might be a valid solution. In order to study the impacts of grazing by the heath hare, three field studies were conducted. Inventories were conducted to assess the occurrence of plants favored by grazing. The vegetation growth was then examined using sample plots where grazing was prevented by fencing the area, and the results were compared with the growth in unfenced control areas. To estimate the number of heath hares on Hållö, an inventory by distance sampling was made. The findings of this study indicate that many of the indicator species that were previously present on Hållö are not found today, and several characteristic species associated with overgrowth, such as Filipendula ulmaria, Urtica dioica, and Arrhenatherum elatius, are abundant. Furthermore, it can be observed that the historically dense population of mountain hares, numbering 150–250 individuals, has now been reduced to a population of around 20 individuals, and this year's reproduction appears to have been unsuccessful. An introduction of heath hare from another island population into the Hållö polulation would probably benefit both the heath hares as well as the local flora.

Bakgrund:  Compassion fatigue hos sjuksköterskor beskrivs som en minskad förmåga att känna empati till följd av att ha levt sig in i andra människors trauman, samtidigt ses empati som en av kärnorna i omvårdnaden. Många sjuksköterskor saknar kunskap i ämnet men drabbade sjuksköterskor beskriver det som en överväldigande känsla av att något är fel. Detta kan leda till att många sjuksköterskor funderar på att lämna yrket. Syfte: Syftet var att kartlägga faktorer till uppkomsten av compassion fatigue hos sjuksköterskor. Metod: En litteraturöversikt enligt Fribergs metod som baserades på elva kvantitativa och en kvalitativ artikel. Resultat: Resultatet presenterades utifrån fyra teman: empati, skuldkänslor och moralisk stress, personliga och sociala faktorer, arbetsrelaterade och organisatoriska faktorer samt ålder, arbetslivserfarenhet och professionalism. Några faktorer som orsakar compassion fatigue var hög grad av empatisk förmåga och hanteringsstrategier. Diskussion: Watsons teori om mänsklig omsorg och Conti O´Hares theory of the nurse as a wounded healer användes som teoretiska referensramar. Watson beskriver empati som en av kärnorna i hennes teori. Samtidigt som litteraturöversiktens resultat visade att högre grad av empati hos sjuksköterskan ger större risk att drabbas av compassion fatigue. Detta kan ses som motsägelsefullt då empati är en förutsättning för god omsorg. Conti O´Hares teori och resultatet stämmer överens i det avseende att om trauman hanteras på ett negativt sätt leder det till ohälsa. / Background: Compassion fatigue among nurses is described as a reduced ability to feel empathy due to being exposed to other peoples trauma, at the same time empathy is seen as one of the core values in nursing. Many nurses lack knowledge about the subject but affected nurses describes it as an overwhelmingly feeling that something is wrong. This may lead to a lot of nurses thinking about leaving the profession. Aim: The purpose was to identify the factors that lead to compassion fatigue in nurses. Method: A literature review according to Friberg´s method that is based on eleven quantitative articles and one qualitative article. Results: The results were presented on the basis of four themes: empathy, feelings of guilt and morol distress, personal and social factors, work related and organizational factors and also age, work experience and professionalism. Some of the factors that cause compassion fatigue were degree of empathetic ability and personal coping strategies. Discussion: Watson´s theory of human caring and Conti O´Hare´s theory of the nurse as a wounded healer was used as theoretical frame of reference. Watson describes empathy as one of the core values in her theory of human caring, at the same time the results of the literature review showed that nurses with a higher degree of empathy were at higher risk to develop compassion fatigue. This can be seen as contradictory when empathy is a condition in caring. Conti O´Hare´s theory and the result agree in the regard that if trauma is not handled in a positive way it may lead to illness.

Analytic ethics often neglects the exploration and appreciation of morality as it is actually practised on a day-to-day basis. But by looking at how, in a practical sense, we are able to interact with others in a morally appropriate way we can construct a compelling picture of what some of our most pervasive obligations are. This thesis takes such an approach through the concept of understanding – understanding essentially taken here to involve those processes involved in detecting and correctly responding to beings typically possessing inherent moral significance. In the first two chapters ‘understanding' and the understanding approach are themselves explicated, and placed in the context of several other related approaches in the English-speaking tradition – Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, Nel Noddings' ethics of care and Richard Hare's preference utilitarianism. This approach is then used to provide us with an alternative idea about what our moral reasoning suggests to be of fundamental ethical significance, and of what kinds of activity morality recommends to us. The activity explored in most detail here is that of engaging with fiction – or more broadly, fictive imaginings. While understanding shows us that fictional characters and events themselves cannot have an inherent moral valence or significance, it also shows us when and how it is possible and appropriate to ethically assess fictive engagement, be it as creator or consumer. This is seen after exploring how and in what ways our moral understanding can be appropriately applied to and exercised by fictions at all, and why fiction should be of particular interest to the understanding agent, looking at the work of Martha Nussbaum, Jenefer Robinson, Peter Lamarque and others on aesthetic cognitivism. Ultimately this leads us to discern a minimal ethical constraint on our interpretation of fiction and art in general, further proving understanding's usefulness.

Thesis (Ph. D. (Education))--Rhodes University, 2005.

Snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) are a critically important prey species for Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis). Determination of snowshoe hare distribution and abundance is needed in western Wyoming for lynx conservation. We used linear regression to examine the correlations between snowshoe hare density, as determined by mark-recapture estimates, and fecal pellet plot counts on both uncleared and annually cleared plots on the Bridger-Teton National Forest, western Wyoming. We found significant correlations between hare density estimates and fecal pellet counts for both uncleared and annually cleared pellet counts; however the relationship was much stronger for annually cleared pellet counts. Adjusting the buffer size by omitting hard habitat edges (not used by hares) around the trapping grids improved correlations between hare density and fecal pellet counts further. We recommend pellet counts from annually cleared plots be used when precise estimates of snowshoe hare abundance are required. Though precision is sacrificed when using uncleared plots, they are useful as a coarse index of habitat use by hares. The derived regression equations should be used to identify foraging habitat for lynx in western Wyoming. In addition to snowshoe hares, in western Wyoming red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) and grouse (Bonasa umbellus and Dendragapus obscurus) are used by Canada lynx. Whether young forests or older multi-storied forests contain more snowshoe hares, red squirrels, and grouse in western Wyoming is currently unknown. We estimated snowshoe hare density, and indexed red squirrel and forest grouse abundance in 3 classes of 30-70-year-old lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) and 4 classes of mature multi-storied forest with a spruce (Picea engelmannii)-fir (Abies lasiocarpa) component. We recorded landscape and forest structure characteristics to understand how these influence lynx prey abundance. Overall, snowshoe hares, red squirrels, and forest grouse were more abundant in multi-storied forests than young forests. Forest attributes that predicted prey abundance were often more prevalent in multi-storied forests. Results from this study suggest that multi-storied forests with a spruce-fir component were disproportionately important to snowshoe hares, red squirrels, and forest grouse in western Wyoming. Canada lynx conservation efforts should focus on maintaining, enhancing, and promoting multi-storied forests in this region.

This paper revisits one of the more frequented stops at the crossroads of politics and morality in contemporary ethical theory, Michael Walzer’s essay “Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands.” The aim is to provide a fresh assessment of Walzer’s project, and to evaluate the tenability of its core notion of “dirty hands.” In pursuit of this aim, the effort is made to reopen the paths which take Walzer to his celebrated impasse, from two directions. The first of these resituates Walzer’s analysis in the context of the debate within Anglo-American ethical theory in which it is originally expounded. The second route seeks to recapture the trail of thinkers who guide Walzer to his conclusions from more remote locations in intellectual history, in order to determine the reliability of his intriguing constellation of Machiavelli, Weber and Camus as lodestars. Writing thirty years later, one of Walzer’s friendliest interpreters, Jean Elshtain, in the midst of her enthusiasm for ‘dirty hands,’ renews doubts about his recommendation of “casuistry.” Hints from throughout Walzer’s essay, incompletely elaborated there, are parceled together into closing suggestions as to an alternative approach to so-called ‘dirty hands’ situations. / text