Thesis Univ. College London, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This research was aimed at the development, implementation and evaluation of an empowerment programme for parents with children in their middle childhood, focused on temperament analysis. The motivation for this study stemmed from the absence of relevant programmes in the field of social work concerning different temperaments and needs of children that parents does not understand or meet. Intervention research was applied. A two-phase research approach was undertaken. In phase 1, a qualitative research was used to do a need assessment. The need assessment was done by means of two focus group discussions with ten parents in each group. The following research question was formulated for this phase: What is the needs of parents related to a programme that focus on temperament analysis for children in there middle childhood. This data complemented the literature study which was undertaken and provided information that established the contents of the empowerment programme. The research question could therefore be answered. The qualitative approach was used in phase 2 as the single-system design. The following research hypothesis was formulated for this phase: If an empowerment programme that includes a temperament analysis is attempted with parents, a significant change in their knowledge in handling and understanding of their children should realise. The empowerment programme for parents with children in their middle childhood consisted of six sessions and was implemented over a period of two weeks. Four parents and one single parent undertook the empowerment programme. A group assessment was undertaken with the five children of the parents who attended the empowerment programme. The focus of the group assessment was to determine a tendency to respond. The self-designed questionnaire was completed prior to the empowerment programme and thereafter. This instrument of measurement confirmed the hypothesis. Conclusions and recommendations for the utilization of the programme in future research were formulated as a result of the research study. / Thesis (PhD (Human Movement Science))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Social Work and Criminology / unrestricted

This volume brings together twenty-eight papers from an International conference on attitudes towards the past and the creating of identities in Antiquity. The volume addresses many different approaches to these issues, spanning over many centuries, ranging in time from the Prehistoric periods to the Late Antiquity, and covering large areas, from Britain to Greece and Italy and to Asia Minor and Cyprus. The papers deal with several important problems, such as the use of tradition and memory in shaping an individual or a collective identity, continuity and/or change and the efforts to connect the past with the present. Among the topics discussed are the interpretation of literary texts, e.g. a play by Plautus, the Aeneid, a speech by Lykurgos, poems by Claudian and Prudentius, and of historical texts and inscriptions, e.g. funerary epigrams, and the analysis of the iconography of Roman coins, Etruscan reliefs, Pompeian and Etruscan frescoes and Cypriote sculpture, and of architectural remains of houses, tombs and temples. Other topics are religious festivals, such as the Lupercalia, foundation myths, the image of the emperor on coins and in literature, the significance of intra-urban burials, forgeries connected with the Trojan War, Hippocrates and Roman martyrs.

Die vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der antiken hippokratischen Schrift über innere Krankheiten De internis affectionibus (Int.). Empirisch gesammeltes Fachwissen findet sich hier in Form eines praxisorientierten Lehrtextes wieder. Int. ist im Zusammenhang mit den etwa 60 Schriften überliefert, die als Corpus Hippocraticum (CH) zusammengefasst werden. Diese Dissertation fokussiert mit ihren Studien zu Int. sowohl auf philologische Fragestellungen als auch auf medizinhistorische Sachverhalte und untersucht diese bisher kaum erforschte Schrift bezüglich ihres Inhalts und ihrer Strukturierung näher. Die Dissertation arbeitet auf der Textbasis der Int.-Edition mit englischer Übersetzung von P. Potter (1988) und zieht die Teil-Edition von J. Jouanna (2009) in Betracht. Die Dissertation betrachtet die Schrift Int. zunächst aus der Perspektive der Krankheitsgruppen. Die im Rahmen der Studien zu Int. genauer betrachteten Krankheitsgruppen sind: Int. 1-9 Lungenkrankheiten, 14-17 Nierenerkrankungen, 44-46 Ileus, 47-50 Dicke Krankheiten und 52-54 Tetanus. Die Auswahl dieser Gruppen begründet sich einerseits in der Absicht, zusammengehörige Krankheiten einer Gruppe zu betrachten und andererseits, möglichst unterschiedliche Krankheitsgruppen zu untersuchen, um ein Verständnis des Gesamtkonzepts von Int. zu erlangen. Die Dissertation nähert sich dabei den einzelnen Krankheitsgruppen mit unterschiedlichen Methoden, um möglichst verschiedene Blickwinkel zu ermöglichen. Für die erste Krankheitsgruppe, die Lungenkrankheiten, Int. 1-9, erarbeitet die Dissertation exemplarisch eine Übersicht mit den inhaltlichen Hauptlinien. Bereits hier sind typische Charakteristika der Schrift Int. erkennbar. Um ein Gefühl für die prinzipielle inhaltliche Strukturierung von Krankheitsgruppen in Int. zu vermitteln, bietet die Dissertation für die Gruppen 10-12, 13, 18-19, 20-21 und 22-26 eine kurze tabellarische Übersicht. Während für die Gruppen Nierenkrankheiten, Ileus und Tetanus ein medizinhistorischer Kommentar zu ausgewählten Passagen linear am griechischen Text entlang erarbeitet wird, sollen in der Gruppe der Dicken Krankheiten Zusammenhänge und Konzepte in Form eines Essays aufgezeigt werden. Im Anschluss an Studien zu den einzelnen Krankheitsgruppen untersucht die Dissertation übergreifende Aspekte der Schrift Int., wie etwa die allgemeinen medizinischen Vorstellungen und Herangehensweisen des Autors, die Art der Informationssammlung, sprachliche Charakteristika, Ziel der Schrift, geographische Region, Patienten-Zielgruppe, Beziehung zu anderen antiken medizinischen Texten, Datierung u.v.m. Die Dissertation möchte auf Fragen der aktuellen Forschung eingehen, einen neuen Blick auf die Schrift Int. und ein besseres Verständnis ihres Gesamtkonzepts ermöglichen. / This dissertation deals with the ancient Hippocratic treatise on internal diseases De internis affectionibus (Int.). Empirically collected knowledge is gathered here in the form of a practice oriented teaching text, which has been tradited in connection with the about 60 writings that are summarized as the Corpus Hippocraticum (CH). The dissertation on Int. includes studies with focus on philological and medical-historical questions and examines this treatise in terms of its content and structure. The thesis works on the text basis of the Int. Edition with English translation by P. Potter (1988) and considers the partial edition by J. Jouanna (2009). The treatise Int. is researched initially from the perspective of disease groups: Int. 1 9 lung diseases, 14-17 kidney diseases, 44-46 ileus, 47-50 thick diseases and 52-54 tetanus. The selection of these groups is based both on the intention of looking at different diseases that are put together in one group and, on examining as many different groups of diseases as possible in order to gain an understanding of the overall concept of Int. The dissertation approaches the individual groups of diseases using different methods in order to get as many different perspectives as possible. For the first group of diseases, the lung diseases Int. 1-9, the dissertation works out an overview on the main lines of content. Typical characteristics of Int. can already be seen here. In order to get a feeling for the content-related structuring of a disease group in Int., the dissertation offers a short tabular overview for the disease groups 10-12, 13, 18-19, 20 21 and 22-26. While for the groups of kidney diseases, ileus and tetanus, a medical-historical commentary on selected passages is worked out linearly along the greek text, in the group of thick diseases, connections and concepts are to be shown in the form of an essay. Subsequently after individual disease groups, the dissertation examines comprehensive aspects of the treatise Int., such as the author's general medical ideas and approaches, the way of collecting informations, linguistic characteristics, purpose of the treatise, geographical region, patient-target group, relationship to other ancient medical texts, dating of the treatise and more. This dissertation deals with questions of current research and aims to get a new perspective on purpose and concepts of Int.

This thesis examines the water resource management in two Greek colonies in Magna Graecia, Akragas and Metaponto, and the relationship between resource management and political regimes. It asks how similar ancient urban theory was to the practical reality, and if different forms of government made different provisions for water management. Chapter 1 outlines urban and health theories found in the works of ancient theorists. It debunks the idea that Hippodamos was the inventor of grid planning, while introducing the concept of ‘total’ city planning. The focus of Classical scholarship on Athens necessitates discussions of several Athenian water systems and how resource management changed (or continued) through different governments in Athens as a point of comparison for Akragas and Metaponto. This chapter focuses on literary analysis and introduces the controversial Southeast Fountain House, with an in-depth consideration of the fountain’s naming and dating problems. Chapter 2 contains the case studies of Akragas and Metaponto and an exploration of the hydrogeology at the two sites, with an introduction to the hydrological phenomenon of karst activity. A discussion of their unique water features—the kolymbethra at Akragas and the canals in the chora of Metaponto—connects the deliberate planning that occurred in both cities to Hippodamos and the urban theorists. Chapter 3 more fully explores the role of tyrants and democracies in water management. Regardless of authorship, water resource management and water systems are necessary for any city, and so most tyrannical water infrastructure continued to be used and expanded and improved upon even under different governments. Even under tyranny water management is a provision of the state and is engaged with and managed by the citizens of the city. Water management is an essential part of siting and establishing a city, so that it is inseparable from urban planning. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)