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Ao longo do século XIX ocorreu um expressivo crescimento econômico e demográfico no vale do Paraíba. A expansão da cafeicultura teve um papel fundamental neste fato, pois abriu novas oportunidades aos moradores da região e aos oriundos de fora. Neste contexto, procuramos entender essas transformações e as formas de acumulação dos indivíduos que viveram nesta economia. Selecionamos para estudo a localidade de Lorena (SP) nessa época. Inicialmente a expansão da cana-de-açúcar marcou a economia da região durante o final do século XVIII e início do XIX. Posteriormente, o plantio da rubiácea figurou como a principal atividade dos habitantes. As fontes documentais utilizadas consistiram basicamente nas listas nominativas de habitantes e dos inventários. Na primeira parte da tese apresentamos um panorama geral da localidade como um todo em seus aspectos demográficos e econômicos de 1778 a 1829, destacando três contingentes: os escravistas, seus escravos e os chefes de domicílio não-proprietários de cativos. Na outra parte centramos a análise numa amostra dos moradores em 1829, para os quais localizamos os seus inventários. A partir destes 187 indivíduos selecionados realizamos a discussão do acúmulo de escravos entre os dois momentos (1829 e o período dos inventários 1830/79). Alguns condicionantes mostraram-se importantes, como, por exemplo, a atividade desenvolvida, a propriedade de terras e as idades dessas pessoas. A mobilidade entre as diferentes faixas de tamanho de plantéis revelou-se maior para os pequenos escravistas. Além da propriedade escrava, pudemos estudar o conjunto da riqueza inventariada das pessoas da amostra: os cafeicultores, lojistas de fazenda seca, usurários e produtores de derivados de cana mantinham a quase totalidade da riqueza, inclusive dos escravos. O procedimento de acompanhar os indivíduos no tempo permitiu o exame das mudanças de suas ocupações. A continuidade da cafeicultura garantiu um patrimônio médio superior ao dos que abandonaram esta atividade. Entretanto, um número significativo de pessoas da amostra passou a atuar na faina canavieira, em alguns casos abandonando até a produção de café. Os fornecedores locais de crédito tiveram um papel atuante na expansão da cafeicultura e alcançaram as maiores fortunas. Não encontramos evidências de relações de dependência financeira entre a região e a praça do Rio de Janeiro. Assim, a economia cafeeira possibilitou a continuidade de atividades pretéritas moldadas à nova realidade e à abertura de novas opções de inversão especialmente para os detentores de grandes recursos. Estes últimos mantiveram-se no topo da hierarquia econômica da região ao longo do tempo. / The economic and demographic growth in vale do Paraíba was substantial in the course of the nineteenth century. The expansion of coffee planting played a fundamental role in that growth, opening new opportunities to the inhabitants and to people coming from other regions. Within this context we tried to understand the forms of accumulation of the individuals in that economy. We selected for study the locality of Lorena (São Paulo) in that period. The expansion of sugar cane dominated the region\'s economy by the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. Coffee planting became the main occupation of the inhabitants afterwards. The documental sources we used were basically manuscript censures and inventories. The first part of the thesis is an outlook on the locality as a whole in its demographic and economic aspects from 1778 to 1829, focusing on three groups: slaveowners, their slaves, and households heads that were not slaveowners. The other part of the thesis centers its analysis on a sample of the inhabitants in 1829 whose inventories we located. The 187 individuals selected were used as a basis for discussion on the accumulation, ownership of land, and age of the individuals. The owners of small slaveholdings showed higher mobility along different categories of slaveholding sizes. In addition to slave ownership, we can study the whole wealth of the individuals whose inventories figured in the sample. Almost all the wealth, including the slaves, was held by coffee planters, dry goods merchants, usurers, and producers of sugar cane by-products. The procedure of following each individual along the time made it possible to examine their occupation changes. Those who remained in coffee planting guaranteed for themselves an average wealth higher than those who quit this activity. However, a significant number of the individuals in the sample turned to activities related to sugar cane, some of them even quitting coffee planting. Local credit suppliers played an expressive role in the expansion of coffee planting and obtained the largest fortunes. Evidence of financial dependence relations between the region and the financial market of Rio de Janeiro was not found. Thus, the coffee economy made it possible the continuity of past activities, shaped by the new reality and by new investment options opened mainly to large resource owners. The latter remained at the top of the region\'s economic hierarchy all along the time.

O presente trabalho dedica-se ao estudo da economia e da demografia da escravidão na cidade de Batatais (SP) no decorrer da segunda metade do século XIX. A pesquisa teve como fonte principal os inventários post-mortem datados de 1851 a 1887 e utilizou, de forma complementar, as escrituras de transações envolvendo escravos, registradas na localidade entre 1861 e 1887, e a Lista de Qualificação de Votantes, de 1874. De início, avançou-se à análise do evolver demográfico e econômico do Sertão do Rio Pardo, e, mais especificamente, de Batatais, durante os séculos XVIII a XX. Em seguida procedeu-se ao exame das formas, distribuição e dinâmica dos recursos possuídos pelos batataenses em uma economia essencialmente pecuarista e agricultora de subsistência, que assistiu, nas últimas décadas do século XIX, ao avanço da cultura cafeeira e à substituição do trabalho compulsório pelo livre. Outrossim, com o auxílio das fontes secundárias, realizou-se uma análise demográfica e de estrutura de posse do contingente escravo ali residente, examinando as principais características dos cativos e dos senhores batataenses, além de acompanhar o impacto exercido pelas modificações ocorridas no sistema escravista brasileiro. Por fim, ocupou-se do exame das relações familiares estabelecidas entre os cativos e ingênuos inventariados e comercializados, delineando seu perfil e investigando sua estabilidade frente à partilha dos bens inventariados / This research analyzes the economy and slave demography of the city of Batatais (SP) during the second half of the 19th century. The study has, as the main source, the post mortem inventories from 1851 to 1887 and, as secondary sources, the transfer of ownership documents related to slaves - registered between 1861 and 1887 - and the Vote Qualifying List (1874). The work begins with the analysis of the economic and demographic characteristics of Sertão do Rio Pardo and, more specifically, Batatais, from the 18th to the 20th centuries, followed by the analysis of the allocation, accumulation and dynamics of the wealth held by the local inhabitants. At that time, economy was dedicated to cattle and subsistence agriculture and, in the late decades of the 19th century, gave place to the advance of coffee plantation and the shift of slavery work to free work. Hence, this study analyzed the local slaves, concerning demographics and possessions, and observed the main characteristics of the slaves and their owners, related to the changes occurred to the Brazilian slavery. Finally, the structure and demographic characteristics of slave families were analyzed through the information obtained in the inventories and ownership documents, with further investigations of their stability during the division of the inventoried assets

This study compared the differential influence of reframing, self-control, and neutral counselor interventions on high and low trait-anxious subjects' self -descriptions as measured by the Adjective Check List. Reframing was predicted to be superior to self-control and neutral interventions in eliciting more favorable self-descriptions. An interaction was also predicted between counselor intervention and trait anxiety such that, in the reframing condition, low trait-anxious subjects would describe themselves more positively than high trait-anxious subjects.

Please read the abstract in section 11summary (pp 246-251) of this document / Dissertation (MSc (Wildlife Management))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Centre for Wildlife Management / unrestricted

PAPER COPY ACCOMPANIED BY A DVD OF CHILDREN'S PARTICIPATION IN THE WORKSHOPS. This research project investigated the potential of African drumming to enhance the emotional and social well-being of children in residential care. Sixteen children from the Epworth Children’s Village in South Africa were purposively selected to participate in the study. The majority of participants had been exposed to some form of neglect and/or abuse and displayed high levels of anger, anxiety, depression and/or disruptive behaviour. Mixed in terms of gender and ethnicity, they fell within the middle childhood stage of development. The participants attended weekly sessions of African djembe drumming over a period of four months. Principles and practices of indigenous African music making formed the foundation of the drum circle facilitation approach used. Gestalt theory, as applied in Gestalt play therapy, provided the theoretical framework from which the therapeutic dimensions of African drumming were explored. A mixed methods approach, using both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and analysis, was employed. For the quantitative component, participants completed the Beck Youth Inventories, measuring self-concept, anxiety, depression, anger and disruptive behaviour, before and after the project. Concerning the qualitative aspects, focused observations were conducted wherein all video-recorded workshops were regularly and systematically analysed to assess the children’s emotional and social functioning. Furthermore, semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted with relevant staff members and children, respectively, in an attempt to explore the value and feasibility of presenting such a programme within the residential care setting. According to the Inventories’ pre- and post-test results, the intervention did not appear to significantly impact upon the participants’ self-concept or levels of depression, anger or disruptive behaviour. Anxiety, on the other hand, increased. Qualitative findings nevertheless suggest that the workshops substantially enhanced the children’s emotional and social functioning, albeit only for the duration of the sessions. The workshops markedly improved participants’ self-esteem and self-confidence, pro-social behaviour, enjoyment, concentration and manifestation of musical capacity (aspects which reflect Gestalt concepts of awareness, contact, self-regulation, self-expression and mastery). Reasons for the failure of these improvements to transfer to the children’s everyday functioning may involve the severity of their socio-emotional difficulties as well as limitations within the drumming intervention itself. / Thesis (DMus)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Music / unrestricted

The thesis deals with the issue of inventories in a company with business activities. The aim of the thesis is at first theoretically to introduce the accounting of inventories and then to demonstrate the accounting activities on a real company. The practical part of the thesis focuses on a company that sells medical devices. Due to the choice of company and its business activities this thesis highlights the general and specific information about business with medical devices and the areas connected to this.

The objective and main aim of this Master´s Thesis is to analyze the working capital and its management in the company Siemens, s.r.o. as a member of concern Siemens and eventually to propose the appropriate arrangements to improve the procedures and reduce the shortcomings detected. Financial statements and annual reports are to be subject to horizontal and vertical analyses, as well as financial ratios. Furthermore, each separate component within the working capital will be reviewed; receivables, inventories, cash and current liabilities. In conclusion, the results of analyses will be explicated a possible influence on company´s or concern´s performance revealed.

Orientador: Arício Xavier Linhares / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Biologia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T11:27:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paseto_MariaLigia_M.pdf: 4097139 bytes, checksum: 636aa898d010e0e0ee7e144b712662a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Os insetos associados a cadáveres podem fornecer informações relevantes como tempo, local e modo da morte, identificação de autor ou da vítima de um crime contra a pessoa, detecção de drogas que tenham ocasionado o óbito e constatação de maus tratos e negligências de incapazes. Ao longo do processo de decomposição de um corpo ocorrem visitas e colonizações de espécies necrófagas. Condições meteorológicas, características do ambiente, o estágio de decomposição, o peso e tamanho da carcaça interferem na diversidade desta fauna visitante e colonizadora. No Brasil há registros de alta diversidade de sarcofagídeos atraídos por carcaças, mas poucos são os estudos sobre a sua riqueza no bioma Cerrado. Em relação às borboletas, não há uma importância direta para a Entomologia Forense, mas um estudo com esta abordagem pode contribuir para o conhecimento de bioindicadores e da riqueza destes insetos na região de interesse. O presente trabalho teve como objetivo determinar a fauna de Sarcophagidae e Lepidoptera associada ao processo de decomposição de carcaças de Sus scrofa L., bem como sua diversidade e abundância, em duas estações do ano e em dois ambientes da Fazenda Experimental do Glória, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brasil / Abstract: The insects associated with corpses can provide relevant information, such as time, place and mode of death, identification of the authors and victims of violent crimes, detection of drugs, that may be the cause of death, and findings related to abuse and neglect of the incapable. Throughout the process of decomposition of a body visits and colonizations necrophagous species occur. Meteorological conditions, characteristics of the environment, the stage of decomposition, the weight and size of a carcass influence the diversity of visitors and colonizing fauna. In Brazil, there are records of high diversity of Sarcophagidae attracted to carcasses, but there are few studies on its richness in the "Cerrado" biome. The species of Lepidoptera, found in experiments associated with decomposing carcasses, are generally considered unimportant to forensic entomology, but a study with this approach can contribute to the knowledge of biomarkers and wealth of these insects in the region of interest. This study aimed to determine the fauna of Sarcophagidae and Lepidoptera associated with the process of decomposition of Sus scrofa L., as well as your diversity and abundance, in two seasons and two different areas at the Experimental Farm of Glória, Federal University of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil / Mestrado / Biodiversidade Animal / Mestra em Biologia Animal