Jordan is a developing country which is taking measures to make the situation in the society more equal between males and females. Former research has showed that it, worldwide, sometimes is great differences between the genders in the health care. This thesis illuminates how it is to work in an intensive care unit and if there are differences between male and female intensive care nurses influencing on the provided care. Twenty intensive care nurses from four intensive care units at Jordan University Hospital were included in the study. Both field notes and an observation schedule were used to gather data. The field notes captured the overall experience of working in the intensive care area and were analyzed by thematic content analyze. The observation schedule concentrated on how long time was spent and which activities were performed bedside. Data from the schedule was compared between the units and between male and female intensive care nurses caring for male and female intensive care patients. The field notes showed that even if the units were busy and crowed the silence and calmness were present. Cooperation was essential and trust and knowledge were spread. Often a warm and comfortable feeling surrounded the personnel and they seemed to like it at work. The observation schedule showed that in the medical and surgical intensive care units the intensive care nurses spent more time and performed a greater number of bedside activities compared to the pediatric and main intensive care units. Female intensive care nurses who cared for male intensive care patients performed less bedside activities and when they cared for a female intensive care patient they spent less time bedside compared to the other groups. In all the units and all the groups the most frequent performed activity was to have a look at the equipment, followed by have a look at the patient. The results can however be questioned since it is a small study accomplished by a single researcher, in some few intensive care units at one hospital. / Program: Specialistsjuksköterskeutbildning med inriktning mot intensivvård

Malaria is a big problem and a major cause of death and illness among children and adults in tropical countries (World Health Organization, 2010). It is the biggest threat for children in Kenya and leads to death in approximately 36,000 children (<5 yrs) every year. When infected with malaria; the patient ends up with some kind of self-care deficit and need access to health care.Research about how nurses can support self-care in patients with malaria is lacking. If no plan for how to take care of a patient with malaria exits, treatment can differ, which in turn can result in poorer outcome for the patient. The aim of the study was to investigate how the nurses at Moi District Hospital in Voi support self-care in patients diagnosed with malaria. The study was carried out with five qualitative semi-structured interviews. Data was analyzed with a deductive content analysis. The result showed that nurses teached and encouraged patients to perform self-care; they identified patient status, they acted for the patient, guided him or her and tried to provide a developmental environment. Teaching was the most common way to support self-care, probably because of lack of recourses. / Program: Sjuksköterskeutbildning

Esta tese propõe uma experiência de escrita a partir do percurso do pesquisador atravessado pelo encontro com os Malucos de BR. Tal experiência baseia-se nas discussões realizadas por Deleuze e Guattari sobre literatura menor. Nesse sentido, experimenta-se a produção de um romance permeado pela influência dos estilos de Kafka e de Dostoievski, na tentativa de trazer para o espaço de produção acadêmica a potência em termos de agenciamento e devir-outro possibilitado pela escrita literária. Utiliza-se da literatura, da música, de filmes e da produção acadêmica para constituir o desenho de seu mapa no acompanhar os malucos. O texto-tese nasce cindido em metades, como no romance O visconde, partido ao meio, de Ítalo Calvino. Uma das grandes metades seria composta pelo escrito de cartas e novelas, e a outra metade, pelo que se chama de romance. Escreve-se sob a inspiração da estrutura textual dos trabalhos de Kafka: cartas, novelas e romances. Inicia-se com as cartas, que funcionam como um fora-texto, um explicativo que não compõe o texto principal, mas é reunido ao seu lado, como uma legenda; após as cartas, o leitor vai encontrar o que se chama de novelas. Nelas, os textos estão com ares de acabados; é possível ver início, meio e fim. Também são os textos mais acadêmicos e duros. A última parte é a experimentação mais potente, no sentido de se permitir fazer uma escrita de um romance. Como um sempre inacabado. Nele, encontra-se o percurso de um personagem conceitual, o corpo, que opera polifonicamente, de modo singular, convocando um agenciamento coletivo. Investe em uma escrita polifônica, feita por diversos atores que se agenciam a personagens de histórias literárias, conduzindo-os a novas vidas. Toma-se a experiência da escrita do romance como um ponto de chegada, mesmo que inacabado, mas um ponto onde se faz necessário um corte na rede rizomática pela qual se anda. / This thesis proposes a writing experience from the researcher’s trajectory in its intersection with ‘Malucos de BR’. Such experience was founded on discussions about minor literature carried out by Deleuze and Guattari. In this sense, the production of a novel was experienced, influenced by Kafka and Dostoyevsky’s styles, in an attempt to bring to the setting of academic production the potency in terms of both agency and becoming-other enabled by literary writing. Literature, music, movies and academic production were used to draw a map along the path with ‘malucos’. The thesis-text was born divided in halves, like the novel The Viscount, by Italo Calvino. One of the big halves comprises letters and short stories, and the other consists of what has been called a novel. Writing was inspired by the textual framework of Kafka’s works: letters, short stories and novels. At the beginning, the letters function as an outside text, an explanation that is not part of the main text, but it is positioned on its side, as a subtitle; following the letters, the reader finds what has been called short stories. The texts have a finished look; it is possible to notice its beginning, middle and end. These are the most academic and hardest texts. The last part is the most potent experimentation, in the sense of allowing oneself to write a novel. Like something always unfinished. The trajectory of a conceptual character is found in it - the body, which operates polyphonically, in a singular way, calling for collective agency. It invests in a polyphonic writing performed by several authors in agency with characters from literary stories, thus leading them to new lives. The experience of writing a novel is taken as a point of arrival; despite being unfinished, it is a point in which it is necessary to cut the rhizomatic network on which one has roamed.

In recent years ICT has gotten sustained interest in which it’s seen as a tool for development andsocial transformation. There have been a rise of ICT4D (ICT for development) initiatives in theinternational arena. The Philippine organization Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) isworking with the intersection of ICT and women’s empowerment to advocate women’s rights andissues in the online space as well as increasing women’s strategic use of ICT. This paper is aMinor Field Study conducted in Quezon City, the Philippines, which explores FMA’s Gender andICT program. The aim of the study is to examine the strategies and practices for womenempowerment through ICT as well as mapping the major challenges in their work. The study wasconducted through observations and interviews with the members of FMA as well as women froman assisted urban poor community. The result outlines the main practices taken in the program toreach an understanding of the work done for women’s empowerment. Furthermore, the studyportrays that the full potential of the practices can’t be fulfilled due to the current environmentFMA are operating in. The experienced challenges in their work have been characterized into fivecommon areas; funding, the political environment, the cooperation, the unsafe online space andlastly the socioeconomical divide in the society.

Submitted by MATEUS VITÓRIA MEDEIROS null (mateusvmedeiros@hotmail.com) on 2017-03-28T13:49:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese versao final Mateus Medeiros.pdf: 2421674 bytes, checksum: 96105d11005bdfb2ec4655cc49aa8b6a (MD5) / Rejected by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com), reason: Solicitamos que realize uma nova submissão seguindo a orientação abaixo: O arquivo submetido não contém o certificado de aprovação. O arquivo submetido está sem a ficha catalográfica. A versão submetida por você é considerada a versão final da dissertação/tese, portanto não poderá ocorrer qualquer alteração em seu conteúdo após a aprovação. Corrija estas informações e realize uma nova submissão com o arquivo correto. Agradecemos a compreensão. on 2017-03-29T20:41:42Z (GMT) / Submitted by MATEUS VITÓRIA MEDEIROS null (mateusvmedeiros@hotmail.com) on 2017-03-30T13:49:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese versao final Mateus Medeiros 1.pdf: 2938563 bytes, checksum: 54e47db93a38593af9eb2dfe37f653e3 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com) on 2017-03-30T16:44:13Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 medeiros_mv_dr_jabo.pdf: 2938563 bytes, checksum: 54e47db93a38593af9eb2dfe37f653e3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-30T16:44:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 medeiros_mv_dr_jabo.pdf: 2938563 bytes, checksum: 54e47db93a38593af9eb2dfe37f653e3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / O desenvolvimento sustentável da aquicultura na perspectiva ambiental inclui entre diversos tópicos, a utilização de espécies nativas, o melhor aproveitamento da ração através de sistemas mais eficientes e a redução da poluição via descarte de efluentes. Este estudo foi dividido em três etapas. Na primeira etapa foram avaliadas as características limnológicas de quatro sistemas de cultivo em viveiros escavados, dois policultivos e dois monocultivos. As espécies utilizadas são nativas da fauna brasileira, o tambaqui Colossoma macropomum e camarão-da-amazônia Macrobrachium amazonicum. Na segunda etapa, o efluente final originado dos viveiros (etapa anterior) foi tratado com duas macrófitas flutuantes Eichhornia crassipes e Lemna minor por sete dias. Na última etapa, foram determinados os impactos ambientais da primeira etapa através da metodologia da análise do ciclo de vida (ACV). A eutrofização da água, na primeira etapa, apresentou valores semelhantes nos quatros sistemas testados. Os sistemas de tratamentos de efluentes foram eficientes na redução da concentração dos nutrientes para ambas macrófitas, com resultados satisfatórios no período de 48 horas. Já os resultados da ACV mostraram diferenças entre os quatros sistemas testados (na primeira etapa), no qual um dos sistemas de policultivo apresentou melhores resultados seguido pelo monocultivo de C. macropomum. O presente estudo demonstrou que soluções simples e sem necessidade de tecnologias modernas e de alto custo, como a utilização de policultivo e de tratamento de efluente podem reduzir os impactos da aquicultura brasileira. / The sustainable development of aquaculture in the environmental viewpoint includes within many topics the use of native species, better use of the feed through more efficient rearing systems and reduction in pollution by discharged effluents. This study is divided in three stages. In the first stage, we analyzed the limnological characteristics in four rearing systems in earthen ponds, two polycultures and two monocultures. The species used are native from Brazil, the tambaqui fish Colossoma macropomum and the Amazon river prawn Macrobrachium amazonicum. In the second stage, the final portion of the pond effluent (previous stage) was treated using two floating macrophytes Eichhornia crassipes e Lemna minor for seven days. In the last stage, we evaluated the environmental impacts through the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. The water eutrophication, in the first stage, showed similar development in the four tested systems. The effluent treatment systems were efficient in reducing the nutrient concentration for both macrophytes, reaching satisfactory results within 48 hours. The LCA results showed differences among the four tested systems (in the first stage), in which one of the polyculture systems had the best performance followed by the monoculture of C. macropomum. This study demonstrates that simple solutions, without modern and expensive technologies, such as adding more species to monoculture system and an effluent treatment can reduce the impacts of the Brazilian aquaculture. / FAPESP: 2010/51271-6

Essa pesquisa almeja explicitar a influência de Lívia e de Agripina Menor, muitas vezes absolutamente política, no período entre 38 a.C. a 59 d.C.; destacando neste processo o uso das mulheres na criação da domus Augusta e na propaganda de Augusto e de outros imperadores da dinastia Júlio-Claudiana. Para isto, serão analisados excertos das fontes primárias, especialmente Tácito e Suetônio, nos quais podemos identificar a relevância destas mulheres dentro da família imperial e na sociedade romana. / This research aims to make explicit the influence of Livia and Agrippina Minor, an influence very often absolutely political, in the period from 38 BC to 59 AD; emphasizing in this process the use of women in the creation of the domus Augusta and in the propaganda of Augustus and other emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. For this, excerpts from primary sources will be analyzed, particularly Tacitus and Suetonius, in which we identify the relevance of these women within the Imperial family and in Roman society.

O Genocídio Armênio (1914-1916), reconhecido por alguns estudiosos como o protótipo do genocídio moderno, é negado até hoje pelo governo turco, apesar dos protestos da comunidade armênia dispersa em todo o mundo. Oficialmente, a Turquia reconhece que ocorreram muitas mortes, mas nega a intenção estatal do ato genocida. Na mesma época ou até mesmo um pouco antes, os gregos a outra grande minoria cristã do Império Otomano também sofreram massacres e perseguições, com um saldo de centenas de milhares de mortos, vivenciando situações semelhantes às sofridas pelos armênios. Sob este mesmo viés, movimentos nacionalistas e imperialistas europeus levaram à perda significativa de territórios do Império Otomano, forçando, em consequência, a mobilização de centenas de milhares de muçulmanos que, fugindo do domínio cristão, instalaram-se na Anatólia, fortalecendo as questões etno-religiosas. Hoje, essas histórias seguem sendo motivo de questionamento, ainda que esquecidas ou silenciadas por alguns grupos. O objetivo deste estudo é contribuir para a elucidação desta polêmica, reunindo um conjunto de informações que permita uma compreensão mais ampla do assunto. Com base na historiografia especializada no tema, procuramos inventariar e comparar as versões de diversos autores, cujos discursos são complementares ou mesmo antagônicos, bem como a posição oficial do governo turco, postada no site do Ministério das Relações Internacionais da Turquia. Somam-se aqui os testemunhos de sobreviventes e as declarações de diplomatas e missionários estrangeiros que presenciaram os acontecimentos. / The Armenian Genocide (1914-1916), recognized by some scholars as the prototipe of the modern genocide, is denied by the turkish government even today, despite the protests of the armenian community around the world. Officially, Turkey recognizes that many people died in the period, but denies the genocidal intent. At the same time or little before. The greeks the other major minority of the Ottoman Empire also suffered with massacres and persecutions, resulting in hundreds of thousands dead, experiencing similar situations as those suffered by the Armenians. In the same period, nationalist and imperialist movements led to great losses of territory of the Ottoman Empire, forcing, as a result, the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of muslims, escaping from the Christian rule, who settled at Anatólia, stressing the etno-religious conflicts. Today, those stories are still a reason to argue, even if forgotten or silenced by some groups. The intention of this work is help on the elucidation of the polemica, collecting a set of informations that may allow a wider understanding of the subject. Using the specialized historiography, we tried to catalogue and compare the many opinions of authors, whose speeches are complementary or even opposing, as well as the official version of the Turkish government, posted at the Ministery of Foreign Affairs website. Here is added the voices of the survivors and the statements of foreign missionaries and diplomats, who witnessed the events.

This study examined the outcomes for young adults in Extended Foster Care. Extended Foster Care is a relatively new program within the Child Welfare system, which provides services for former foster youth between the ages of 18 and 21 to become more successful, independent young adults. Before the implementation of Extended Foster Care in 2012, most of the foster children were left to fend for themselves after they turned 18, which resulted in negative outcomes. Extended Foster Care is a seemingly helpful program; however, due to its new existence there has been very limited research regarding the outcomes of these young adults in Extended Foster Care. This study used secondary data from the San Bernardino County Legislative, Research and Quality Support Services Unit. After data retrieval, independent t-tests and chi-squared tests were conducted using SPSS version 21. The independent variable of days spent in Extended Foster Care was compared to the following dependent variables: disability status, education status, housing status, and employment status and its barriers. The results of this study showed that the longer a young adults stays in Extended Foster Care, the higher their likelihood is of positive housing, employment, and education status. This study suggests it is critical to continue to provide Extended Foster Care services and further research needs to be conducted to ensure program quality and to continue to improve the services to this vulnerable, young adult population.

The purpose of this study is to explore methods of intervention for domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST). Due to the secretive nature of the DMST industry, victims are not only difficult to identify, but are also difficult to gain access to in order to provide effective intervention. This study seeks to overcome these barriers by gaining the perspectives of DMST survivors. This study has a qualitative design, in which 8 survivors of DMST, who are now adults, were interviewed to determine appropriate methods of intervention for child welfare social workers. In doing so, intervention was broken down into three categories; prevention, intervention, and recovery. The findings of this study indicated the need for an interagency approach to victim identification. Furthermore, the findings of this study highlighted the need for services that incorporated spirituality and a network of support; such as mentorship, life coaching, and support groups.

Recent baseball scholarship has drawn attention to U.S. professional baseball’s complex twentieth century labor dynamics and expanding global presence. From debates around desegregation to discussions about the sport’s increasingly multicultural identity and global presence, the cultural politics of U.S. professional baseball is connected to the problem of baseball labor. However, most scholars address these topics by focusing on Major League Baseball (MLB), ignoring other teams and leagues—Minor League Baseball (MiLB)—that develop players for Major League teams. Considering Minor League Baseball is critical to understanding the professional game in the United States, since players who populate Major League rosters constitute a fraction of U.S. professional baseball’s entire labor force. As a digital humanities dissertation on baseball labor and globalization, this project uses digital humanities approaches and tools to analyze and visualize a quantitative data set, exploring how Minor League Baseball relates to and complicates MLB-dominated narratives around globalization and diversity in U.S. professional baseball labor. This project addresses how MiLB demographics and global dimensions shifted over time, as well as how the timeline and movement of foreign-born players through the Minor Leagues differs from their U.S.-born counterparts. This project emphasizes the centrality and necessity of including MiLB data in studies of baseball’s labor and ideological significance or cultural meaning, making that argument by drawing on data analysis, visualization, and mapping to address how MiLB labor complicates or supplements existing understandings of the relationship between U.S. professional baseball’s global reach and “national pastime” claims.