Early identification of emotional and behavioral disorders is critical in ensuring that students receive the interventions and supports necessary for school success. While externalizing and internalizing behaviors often occur comorbidly, more research is needed to understand how different subtypes of these behaviors may manifest, especially in the early elementary school years. Further, as schools increase their emphasis on universal, evidence-based interventions as tools for preventing the development of later social-emotional and behavior challenges, it is important to understand how different groups of students respond to such interventions. In the present study, I explored the behavioral and emotional profiles of 470 second-grade students using latent profile analysis. I also examined how students transitioned between profiles over the course of one school year (i.e., fall to spring) within the context of a social-emotional intervention (Social Skills Improvement System-Classwide Intervention Program, SSIS-CIP; Elliott & Gresham, 2007). Additionally, I used multinomial logistic regression analyses to examine if child race, gender, teacher-student relationship, and treatment condition (intervention vs. control) predicted profile membership and transition over the course of a school year. I used five behavioral composites from the Social Skills Improvement System Rating Scales-Teacher Form (SSIS-RST; Gresham & Elliott, 2008) to create the student profiles. Three profiles of students emerged in the present study. The first profile (normative) was characterized by the lowest levels of all five externalizing and internalizing behaviors. The second profile (at-risk) demonstrated elevated levels of impulsive behaviors, conduct problems, and emotion dysregulation, with less elevated levels of bullying. The third profile (comorbid) demonstrated elevated levels of all five externalizing and internalizing behaviors. From fall to spring, students in the normative profile exhibited a 93% probability of remaining in the normative profile. Students in the at-risk profile demonstrated a similarly high likelihood of remaining in the at-risk profile over time (72%), while students in the comorbid profile experienced a 57% chance of remaining in the comorbid profile over time. Teachers’ observed emotional support, child race, child gender, and participation in the SSIS-CIP intervention were all predictors of profile movement, however, the associations varied across the different profiles. Results of the present study suggest the SSIS-CIP may function as a preventative tool for students identified within the normative group as well as an effective intervention for those students with the most severe behavioral presentations. Consistent with previous research, teachers rated males and students of color higher on measures of externalizing behaviors. Notably, while female students were less likely to be identified in the comorbid profile in the fall, they were more likely to remain in that profile over time compared to male students who were identified in the comorbid profile in the fall. Surprisingly, teacher emotional support was negatively associated with movement from the at-risk group to the normative group. Future research should continue to explore the ways in which externalizing and internalizing behaviors manifest in young children as well as the intersection between gender and race as it relates to teachers’ ratings of students’ behaviors. / School Psychology

Improvement systems are being used with greater frequency in recent decades in order to increase market competitiveness. The intention to focus the study on a system -based improvements in performance assessment meets proposes a measurement of the action plans of this system. For making improvements in a process involves not only concepts and tools, but also the measurement methodology to diagnose the actions taken during the project implementation. The study was conducted in the industry CVI Refrigerants Ltd, franked by The Coca - Cola Company and Heineken Brazil with factory in Santa Maria and distribution centers in Passo Fundo Santa Cruz and South To implement an evaluation model on a plan improvements that is being proposed, we used the fourth step of the model proposed by Siluk (2007 ) - Performance , characterized by continuous improvement , personal and organizational process. In order to quantify this tool we used models of correlation and linear regression - time series, proposing a model of organizational improvement system for two quality attributes in a soft drink industry - carbonation and torque. The expectation is that the improvements implemented in each area will yield results for any company or other franchised Coca Cola System. The main results were obtaining first place in the attribute of torque and second place in the ranking attribute carbonation Coca Cola Brazil. / Sistemas de melhorias vêm sendo utilizado com uma maior freqüência nas últimas décadas com a finalidade de aumentar a competitividade no mercado. A intenção de focar o estudo em um sistema de melhorias baseado na avaliação de desempenho vai ao encontro de propor uma mensuração dos planos de ações deste sistema. Pois, realizar melhorias em um processo envolve não apenas conceitos e ferramentas, mas também a metodologia de mensuração para diagnosticar as ações adotadas durante a implantação do projeto. O estudo foi realizado na indústria CVI Refrigerantes Ltda, franqueada pela The Coca-Cola Company e Heineken Brasil, com fábrica em Santa Maria e Centros de Distribuição em Passo Fundo e Santa Cruz do Sul. Para implementação de um modelo de avaliação em um plano de melhorias que esta sendo proposto, utilizou-se o quarto passo do modelo proposto por Siluk (2007) Performance, caracterizado pelo processo de melhoria contínua, pessoal e organizacional. Com a finalidade de quantificar esta ferramenta empregou-se modelos de correlação e regressão linear - séries temporais, propondo uma modelagem do sistema de melhorias organizacional para dois atributos da qualidade em uma indústria de refrigerantes carbonatação e torque. A expectativa é que, as melhorias implementadas em cada área trará resultados para toda a companhia ou para as demais franqueadas do Sistema Coca Cola. Os principais resultados foram a obtenção de primeiro lugar no atributo de torque e segundo lugar no atributo de carbonatação no ranking Coca Cola Brasil.

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Decentralizavus pedagogų kvalifikacijos tobulinimo sistemą kvalifikacijos tobulinimo paslaugos tapo labiau prieinamos regionuose. Šiuo metu veikiančios teisinės normos sudaro sąlygas vertinti ir stebėti kvalifikacijos tobulinimo renginių kokybę, tačiau taip pat labai svarbu analizuoti, kokius pokyčius pastebi kvalifikacijos renginių dalyviai, kaip jiems pavyksta pritaikyti praktikoje įgytas žinias ar gebėjimus, kur ir kokias žinias, gebėjimus norėtų tobulinti bei kokias kompetencijas plėtoti, ar ir kokią įtaką kvalifikacijos tobulinimas daro ugdymo proceso kaitai bei mokyklos veiklos tobulinimui. Todėl labai svarbu išsiaiškinti kvalifikacijos tobulinimo renginių kokybę ir įtaką kasdieniniam mokytojų, mokyklų vadovų darbui. Todėl svarbiausia šio tyrimo problema – išsiaiškinti, kokie įvyko pokyčiai nuo decentralizacijos pradžios iki šiol, kaip decentralizuota pedagogų kvalifikacijos tobulinimo sistema įtakoja kvalifikacijos tobulinimo efektyvumą. Šio darbo objektas – pedagogų kvalifikacijos tobulinimas decentralizacijos sąlygomis. Darbo tikslas yra ištirti, kaip pakito pedagogų kvalifikacijos tobulinimas decentralizacijos sąlygomis. Darbe atskleidžiama pedagogų kvalifikacijos tobulinimo decentralizacijos sąlygomis samprata, aptariami teisiniai dokumentai, reglamentuojantys pedagogų kvalifikacijos tobulinimą, nagrinėjama pedagogų kvalifikacijos tobulinimo organizavimo patirtis Vakarų Europos šalyse. Darbe naudoti šie tyrimo metodai: literatūros analizė, kiekybinis tyrimo... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Having decentralized the teachers’ qualification improvement system, the qualification improvement service has become more accessible in regions. It is very important to analyze the changes the participants of the qualification events distinguish, how the new knowledge and skills are applied, where and what they would like to improve, what competences they would like to develop and what influence it has on the education process. Thus, the main problem of the research is to find out what has changed since the beginning of the decentralization and how the decentralized teachers’ qualification improvement system influences the effectiveness of the qualification improvement. The object is teachers’ qualification improvement under decentralized conditions. The aim is to find out how the teachers’ qualification improvement has changed under decentralized conditions. The concept of qualification improvement is analyzed; legal documents regulating the qualification improvement are discussed and experience in Western Europe is analyzed. The following methods were used: the analysis of literature, quantitative research method and questionnaire. The research was carried out using the method of questionnaire among the school managers and teachers of Anyksciai district chosen accidentally. The total number of the respondents is 217 (196 teachers and 21 school managers). To sum up, it can be stated that the respondents are positive about the decentralization – the evaluation of 57% of... [to full text]

Le développement durable est la conceptualisation de la transition imposée de la Société humaine vers un modede développement soutenable pour la planète, pour trouver une solution de sortie à la crise de l’Environnement. Acet égard, l’écoconception est l’une des solutions que le monde industriel et entrepreneurial se propose de mettreen application. Elle consiste à prendre en compte les impacts environnementaux sur l’ensemble du cycle de vied’un produit (bien ou service) lors de la conception de celui-ci. L’intégration de la dimension Environnementsoulève une triple complexité : (i) celle liée à la nature multicritère de la dimension Environnement, (ii) celle liéeà la compréhension de la dimension Environnement par les acteurs de la conception de produits dont la résistancepeut être un frein à une bonne intégration, et (iii) celle liée au processus de conception et d’innovation d’un produit,spécialement dans le cas des produits complexes. Or malgré la multitude d’outils d’écoconception qui a étédéveloppée, peu de sujets de recherche s’intéressent à la prise en compte à la fois des aspects techniques etorganisationnels, lors de l’intégration de la dimension Environnement en phase d’innovation d’un produitcomplexe. Cette thèse vise donc à expérimenter, chez un constructeur d’automobiles, une stratégie d’intégrationde l’évaluation environnementale d’innovations incrémentales nommée E3PICS (Methodology of an Evolutiveintegration of the Evaluation of the Environmental Performances of Innovative Complex Sub-systems). Mise enforme par des contraintes à la fois techniques et organisationnelles, la stratégie E3PICS emploie une démarcheprogressive d’intégration d’un référentiel évolutif d’écoconception dans les processus d’ingénierie avancéed’éléments innovants qui seront raccordés à des projets de développement des véhicules. La première étape estcelle de la conception itérative du référentiel évolutif d’écoconception avec l’équipe écoconception (au sein duservice Environnement) et les pilotes d’innovations, permettant ainsi un apprentissage croisé. La deuxième étapeest celle de l’accompagnement de l’ensemble des pilotes d’innovations dans l’utilisation systématique duréférentiel d’écoconception. La troisième étape consiste à développer un outil analytique d’évaluation de l’impactd’innovations sur la recyclabilité en fin de vie des véhicules. Elle nécessite la création de modèles de véhiculesafin de contourner le manque de données sur le système complet en cours de conception et de faire une projectioncet impact. La quatrième et dernière étape concerne le développement d’un deuxième outil analytique pourl’évaluation de l’impact d’innovations sur la performance environnementale sur le cycle de vie des véhicules. Dela même manière, cet outil nécessite une méthode de développement de modèles environnementaux de véhicules ;cependant, pour les impacts environnementaux calculés sur le cycle de vie, contrairement à la recyclabilité qui estcalculée sur le véhicule en fin de vie, ces modèles sont basés sur le traitement par classification ascendantehiérarchique de résultats d’analyse de cycle de vie de véhicules. Les expérimentations ont été réalisées chez PSAPeugeot Citroën. La stratégie E3PICS a permis d’intégrer dans les processus d’innovation, l’utilisation duréférentiel d’écoconception et de systématiser son utilisation, dans l’optique d’une amélioration continue pérennedes véhicules du constructeur. / Sustainable development is the conceptualization of transition imposed from human society towards a sustainableway of development for the world to find a solution to the crisis of the Environment. In this regard, ecodesign isone of the solutions that the industrial and business world proposes to implement. It consists of taking into accountthe environmental impacts throughout the life cycle of a product (good or service) in the design of it. Integratingthe Environment dimension raises a triple complexity: (i) the one related to the multi-criteria nature of theEnvironment dimension, (ii) the one related to understanding the Environment dimension by actors designingproducts who may resist and be a barrier to successful integration, and (iii) the one related to process design andinnovation of a product, especially in the case of complex products. But despite the multitude of ecodesign toolsthat has been developed, few research topics are interested in taking into account both technical and organizationalaspects, while integrating environment in the innovation phase of a complex product. Therefore this thesis aims toexperiment, by a car manufacturer, an integration strategy of the environmental evaluation of incrementalinnovations, named E3PICS (Methodology of an Evolutive integration of the Evaluation of the EnvironmentalPerformances of Innovative Complex Sub-systems). Framed by constraints on the technical and organizationalconstraints, E3PICS strategy employs a progressive approach to integrate a scalable ecodesign repository inadvanced process engineering of innovative features that are connected to development projects vehicles. The firststep is the iterative design of the scalable ecodesign repository with the ecodesign team (in the EnvironmentDepartment) and innovation leaders, allowing cross learning. The second step is to accompany all the innovationleaders in the systematic use of the ecodesign repository. The third step is to develop an analytical tool for assessingthe impact of innovations on the recycling end of life vehicles. It requires the creation of models of vehicles tobypass the lack of data on the complete system under design and project impact. The fourth and final step is thedevelopment of a second analytical tool for assessing the impact of innovations on environmental performanceover the life cycle of vehicles. Similarly, the tool requires a method of developing environmental models ofvehicles; however, for environmental impacts calculated on the life cycle, unlike recyclability which is calculatedon the vehicle end of life, these models are based on the treatment by hierarchical clustering of vehicle life cycleassessment results . The experiments were performed at PSA Peugeot Citroen. The E3PICS strategy has helped tointegrate the processes of innovation using the eco-design repository and systematize its use in the context of asustainable continuous improvement of vehicle manufacturer.

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Wisconsin's Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) was implemented in 2010 to improve quality of care for young children enrolled in childcare programs. Due to the recent initiation of the state's QRIS, empirical evidence on the effectiveness of the initiative to improve quality care for young children is limited. This qualitative case study explores childcare stakeholders' perceptions on the effectiveness of Wisconsin's QRIS as a quality improvement program. Bronfenbrenner theorized that exosystems such as state governments impact early childhood environments and the development of young children through initiation of programs. The research questions address the efficiency of the state's QRIS and the effects of the program on children, parents, and providers. Data sources included interviews exploring stakeholders' perceptions (n = 8), analysis of documents, and observations of childcare teachers (n = 2) for substantiation of effects. Using NVivo to aid in coding and theme development, the data showed that childcare stakeholders had positive and negative viewpoints on the expectations and effectiveness of the QRIS. Stakeholders acknowledged that the initiative enhanced the quality of programming for young children. Due to increased formal education requirements for caregivers and classroom expectations, the participants responded negatively about the effects of the QRIS on childcare staff. To improve the state's QRIS, stakeholders suggested that all state licensed childcare providers be mandated to participate, formal raters assess the quality in accredited and city certified childcare programs, and frequent communications between officials to eliminate misinformation. The recommendations may help the initiative operate more efficiently and effectively, thereby improving the quality in childcare programs and enhancing the development of young children.

Esta Tesis de investigación estudia la propuesta de aplicación de un sistema de mejoramiento de suelos para un proyecto inmobiliario de nueve niveles que se proyecta ejecutar en el distrito de San Juan Bautista, en la región Loreto, la cual colinda con el distrito de Iquitos. Bajo esta premisa, se desarrolla la idea de cómo introducir un sistema de mejoramiento para suelos de baja resistencia, el cual reemplazará el sistema de cimentaciones profundas propuesto inicialmente, en el terreno del proyecto se realizó el estudio de suelos y se concluyó que las capas superficiales son de material orgánico, en la capa intermedia con alta potencia se clasifico a las arenas y finalmente se encontró arcilla dura a una profundidad promedio de 8 a 9 metros. A continuación se procedió a estudiar conceptualmente los diferentes tipos de cimentación profunda y sistemas de reforzamiento de suelos. Finalmente nos centramos en el sistema de Pilas de grava compactada, la cual ya registra eficientes antecedentes en diversos proyectos realizados en la ciudad de Lima, y en el norte del país. Es así, que debido a las características desfavorables de los suelos de la ciudad de San Juan Bautista, se optó a dar inicio con la realización del diseño, luego a la evaluación del proceso constructivo, el análisis de los recursos a emplear; siendo la etapa de exploración de canteras, el proceso más determinante para el inicio de la viabilidad del sistema en términos de diseño, costo y tiempo de ejecución. Finalmente se concluye que el sistema de Pilas de grava compactada tiene la capacidad de incrementar la presión admisible del suelo, y disminuir los costos de construcción de la cimentación. / This Research Thesis studies the proposal for the application of a soil improvement system for a nine-level real estate project that is planned to be executed in the San Juan Bautista district, in the Loreto region, which borders the Iquitos district. Under this premise, the idea of how to introduce an improvement system for highly compressible soils is developed, which will replace the system of deep foundations initially proposed, in the field of the project the soil study was carried out and it was concluded that the surface layers are of organic material, in the intermediate layer with high power the sands were classified and finally hard clay was found at an average depth of 8 to 9 meters. Next, the different types of deep foundations and soil reinforcement systems were conceptually studied. Finally, we focus on the system of Piles of compacted gravel, which already records efficient records in various projects carried out in the city of Lima, and in the north of the country. Thus, due to the unfavorable characteristics of the soils of the city of San Juan Bautista, it was decided to begin with the realization of the design, then to the evaluation of the construction process, the analysis of the resources to be used; being the quarry exploration stage, the most decisive process for the beginning of the viability of the system in terms of design, cost and execution time. Finally, it is concluded that the system of compacted gravel piles has the capacity to increase the admissible pressure of the soil, and decrease the construction costs of the foundation / Tesis