Stress, burn-out, dépression ou encore « risques psychosociaux », sont autant de catégories qui servent aujourd'hui à désigner les multiples formes de souffrances psychiques liées à l’activité professionnelle. Les maux de l’esprit ne sont toutefois pas un phénomène récent. Ils ont au contraire pris des formes et des significations variables selon les époques. Ils ont fait l’objet de traitements hétérogènes.Qu’en est-il alors du travail ? À partir de quand, dans quelles circonstances et pour quelles raisons a-t-il pu être appréhendé comme une source de souffrance psychique ? Comment ces souffrances ont-elles été dénoncées ? À l’inverse, comment rendre compte de l’invisibilité sociale des effets du travail sur la santé mentale des travailleurs ? Quel rôle les syndicats, chargés de représenter et de défendre les salariés et leur santé, ont-ils pu jouer dans cette histoire ? On a aujourd’hui peu de réponses à ces questions. C’est cette histoire que cette thèse souhaite retracer à partir d’une attention particulière aux organisations syndicales. Les syndicalistes, en tant que représentants des travailleurs, sont en effet appelés à jouer un rôle de premier plan dans la préservation de leur santé et l’amélioration de leurs conditions de travail. Notre recherche se centre pour cela sur l’activité de deux confédérations syndicales, la CGT et la CFDT, aux origines, à l’histoire et au positionnement politique et dans le champ syndical différents. Nous prêtons plus particulièrement attention au rôle joué par les conseillers confédéraux, ces acteurs de l’ombre chargés de décliner les politiques confédérales.La CFDT comme la CGT, n’ont jamais abandonné le terrain des conditions de travail, sur lequel des permanents ont toujours été en responsabilité. Cependant, ce sujet, souvent porté par des militants aux trajectoires et au profil atypiques dans l’espace syndical, n’a que rarement constitué une priorité politique. Par ailleurs, le thème de la santé psychique a été pris en charge dès 1954 à la CGT et dès sa création par la CFDT, dix ans plus tard. Néanmoins, il a fait l’objet d’une prise en charge intermittente jusqu’au tournant des années 2000. Cette thèse éclaire ainsi les ressorts et les dynamiques de prise en charge et d’occultation des enjeux de santé psychique, qui tiennent à la fois aux modalités d’organisation et de division du travail au sein des confédérations syndicales, aux parcours et à la socialisation des militants en responsabilité et à leur inscription dans des réseaux militants et scientifiques. Elle resitue les pratiques des responsables confédéraux dans les évolutions des savoirs et du cadre juridique de la santé en analysant leur rôle dans la visibilité sociale des souffrances psychiques et dans leur prise en charge syndicale. / Stress, burn-out, depression or even "psychosocial risks" are all categories which today serve to designate the multiple forms of psychological suffering linked to professional activity. The ills of the mind, however, are not a recent phenomenon. On the contrary, they have taken on forms and meanings that vary throughout history.So what about work? From when, under what circumstances and for what reasons could he be apprehended as a source of psychological suffering? How were these sufferings denounced? On the contrary, how can we explain the social invisibility of the effects of work on workers' mental health? What role did the trade unions, responsible for representing and defending employees and their health, play in this story? Today, we have few answers to these questions. It is this history that this thesis wishes to trace from a particular attention to trade union organizations. Trade unionists, as workers' representatives, are called upon to play a leading role in safeguarding their health and improving their working conditions. Our research focuses on the activity of two trade union confederations, the CGT and the CFDT, with different origins, history and political positioning and in the trade union field. We pay particular attention to the role played by the confederal counselors, the actors in charge of implementing confederal policies.Both the CFDT and the CGT have never abandoned the field of working conditions, on which permanent staff have always been in charge. However, this subject, often carried by militants with atypical trajectories and profiles in the trade union space, has only rarely been a political priority. In addition, the theme of mental health was taken up by the CGT in 1954 and by the CFDT ten years later. Nevertheless, it was the subject of intermittent management until the turn of the 2000s. This thesis thus sheds light on the dynamics and dynamics of taking charge of and concealing the stakes of psychological health, which are linked both to the methods of organisation and division of labour within the trade union confederations, to the careers and socialisation of activists in responsibility and to their inclusion in militant and scientific networks. It situates the practices of confederal officials in the evolution of knowledge and the legal framework of health by analysing their role in the social visibility of psychological suffering and in their trade union care.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(農学) / 甲第19198号 / 農博第2137号 / 新制||農||1034(附属図書館) / 学位論文||H27||N4944(農学部図書室) / 32190 / 京都大学大学院農学研究科地域環境科学専攻 / (主査)教授 北山 兼弘, 教授 北島 宣, 教授 神﨑 護 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Agricultural Science / Kyoto University / DGAM

With racism driving perinatal health disparities, antiracist tools and trainings are necessary for WIC nutrition professionals who serve as frontline providers for Black and Indigenous families of color. Black families, in particular, are the most likely to experience harms from discrimination in health care and health services, even from well-intentioned providers in caring professions. This thesis investigates the role of racism, both interpersonal and structural, and how it may influence WIC enrollment, participation and culture of care. After providing a basic overview about WIC including recent participation and demographic statistics and trends, I share my own ethnographic observations and reflections on my positionality in the WIC clinic setting. I review research on the most commonly identified barriers to and benefits from WIC participation, including how those benefits intersect with contributing factors in the crisis in Black perinatal health in the United States, and make the case for including experiences of bias and racism as an overlooked barrier. With a focus on improving the client experience, I use an urban bioethics lens to inform strategies (including antiracism training for WIC staff) to increase and sustain WIC participation and the concomitant benefits participation can incur, particularly for Black mothers and birthing people and their families. I review the literature that informed our training, describe key components of the training, and summarize the findings from the evaluation and assessment of the WIC nutrition professionals who attended. Lastly, I posit how the convergence of COVID-19 and the racial justice uprisings of 2020, both accelerated the acceptance of the need for innovations in how WIC is implemented, and created the conditions to facilitate rapid changes towards more equitable policies and procedures at both the local and federal level. Many of these changes were previously thought to be desirable but unattainable, and I reflect on the need to seize this opportunity to intentionally build upon that progress by applying a racial equity framework to envision a post-pandemic WIC. / Urban Bioethics

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Current study demonstrated the impact of heat therapy on skeletal muscle function in a model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The aim of this study was to: (1) examine the impact of treatment temperature on the skeletal muscle adaptation in DBA/2J mice; and (2) determine the impact of repeated HT for 3 consecutive weeks on body composition and skeletal muscle function in D2.mdx, a model of DMD. From study 1, we revealed that HT at 39℃ for 3 weeks significantly promoted relative muscle mass of both EDL and soleus muscle in DBA/2J mice. However, from study 2, HT at 39℃ for 3 weeks does not improve muscle function or increase muscle mass in a mouse model of DMD.

<p> The vegetational colonization and development preceding the establishment of lichen-heath was examined on a Hudson Bay coastal raised-beach system. A continuous and directional developmental sequence of approximately 200 years was quantified on both a coastal intraridge sample sequence and on an inland interridge sample sequence. Increasing gradients of elevation, soil peat thickness and soil organic matter coincide with the vegetational development, however no appreciable changes in soil pH or concentrations of available nutrients were detected and it is concluded that these parameters have little influence on the development of lichen-heath at this site. Community composition over the ridge profile forms a second major vegetational gradient which appears to be affected primarily by environmental factors related to ridge morphology and orientation. The interactions of environmental factors in the development of lichen-heath are discussed.</p> / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

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The aim of my thesis was to collect, compare and evaluate body size, body composition, vital lung capacity, dynamometry and a level of motor performance of men aged from 18 to 25 years of two target groups - men who are professional swimmers or floorball players, and males of a common population. Using standard somatometric methods, a group of 39 swimmers, a group of 39 floorball players, and a group of 39 non-sportsmen of a common population were examined. The examined body parametres were body length, body weight, bustline, arm line, contracted-arm line, forearm line, thigh line, calf line; width of epiphysis of humerus and femur, wrist, ankle, biacromial and bicristal breadth, breadth of the transverse and sagittal section of chest; skin folds. The ascertained data were compared with the results of previous researches. The thesis also includes the results of motor tests, dynamometry and vital lung capacity.

Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT : The standard-Heath–Jarrow–Morton (HJM) framework is well-known for its application to pricing and hedging interest rate derivatives. This study implemented the extended HJM framework introduced by Eberlein and Raible (1999), in which a Brownian motion (BM) is replaced by a wide class of processes with jumps. In particular, the HJM driven by the generalised hyperbolic processes was studied. This approach was motivated by empirical evidence proving that models driven by a Brownian motion have several shortcomings, such as inability to incorporate jumps and leptokurticity into the price dynamics. Non-homogeneous Lévy processes and the change of measure techniques necessary for simplification and derivation of pricing formulae were also investigated. For robustness in numerical valuation, several transform methods were investigated and compared in terms of speed and accuracy. The models were calibrated to liquid South African data (ATM) interest rate caps using two methods of optimisation, namely the simulated annealing and secant-Levenberg–Marquardt methods. Two numerical valuation approaches had been implemented in this study, the COS method and the fractional fast Fourier transform (FrFT), and were compared to the existing methods in the context. Our numerical results showed that these two methods are quite efficient and very competitive. We have chose the COS method for calibration due to its rapidly speed and we have suggested a suitable approach for truncating the integration range to address the problems it has with short-maturity options. Our calibration results provided a nearly perfect fit, such that it was difficult to decide which model has a better fit to the current market state. Finally, all the implementations were done in MATLAB and the codes included in appendices. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING : Die standaard-Heath–Jarrow–Morton-raamwerk (kortom die HJM-raamwerk) is daarvoor bekend dat dit op die prysbepaling en verskansing van afgeleide finansiële instrumente vir rentekoerse toegepas kan word. Hierdie studie het die uitgebreide HJM-raamwerk geïmplementeer wat deur Eberlein en Raible (1999) bekendgestel is en waarin ’n Brown-beweging deur ’n breë klas prosesse met spronge vervang word. In die besonder is die HJM wat deur veralgemeende hiperboliese prosesse gedryf word ondersoek. Hierdie benadering is gemotiveer deur empiriese bewyse dat modelle wat deur ’n Brown-beweging gedryf word verskeie tekortkominge het, soos die onvermoë om spronge en leptokurtose in prysdinamika te inkorporeer. Nie-homogene Lévy-prosesse en die maatveranderingstegnieke wat vir die vereenvoudiging en afleiding van prysbepalingsformules nodig is, is ook ondersoek. Vir robuustheid in numeriese waardasie is verskeie transformmetodes ondersoek en ten opsigte van spoed en akkuraatheid vergelyk. Die modelle is vir likiede Suid-Afrikaanse data vir boperke van rentekoerse sonder intrinsieke waarde gekalibreer deur twee optimiseringsmetodes te gebruik, naamlik die gesimuleerde uitgloeimetode en die sekans-Levenberg–Marquardt-metode. Twee benaderings tot numeriese waardasie is in hierdie studie gebruik, naamlik die kosinusmetode en die fraksionele vinnige Fourier-transform, en met bestaande metodes in die konteks vergelyk. Die numeriese resultate het getoon dat hierdie twee metodes redelik doeltreffend en uiters mededingend is. Ons het op grond van die motiveringspoed van die kosinus-metode daardie metode vir kalibrering gekies en ’n geskikte benadering tot die trunkering van die integrasiereeks voorgestel ten einde die probleem ten opsigte van opsies met kort uitkeringstermyne op te los. Die kalibreringsresultate het ’n byna perfekte passing gelewer, sodat dit moeilik was om te besluit watter model die huidige marksituasie die beste pas. Ten slotte is alle implementerings in MATLAB gedoen en die kodes in bylaes ingesluit.

The aim of this thesis is to summarize all the possible obligations from the social security system for which a person with a long-term unfavourable heath condition is entitled, simultaneously taking the perspective of palliative care into focus. In the introductory chapters this issue is set into the domestic and international legislative frame. Obligations within particular subsystems of social security are described in chapter four, five and six. The last chapter is focused on palliative care. In the first chapter the term social security is investigated and basic terminology taken from Czech legislation related to this topic is defined. The second chapter offers an overview of the historical development of social care and of rights of persons with disabilities. In the third chapter influence of significant international organizations on the issue of social security is reviewed. Chapter four deals with the system of sickness insurance. In its six subchapters the thesis provides a general characterization of sickness insurance, sickness insurance participation, sickness benefits entitlement, reimbursement, support period, the amount of sickness benefits and work capacity assessment. Chapter five defines pension insurance, pension insurance participation, entitlement and reimbursement, the amount...