Peer reviewed literature currently provides little knowledge of how to recruit and train Doping Control Officers (DCOs) for Mega Sport Events. This study adds to the existing body of literature on creating knowledge transfer and legacy for future Mega Event Organizing Committees. A phenomenological designed study was conducted through the use of a qualitative on-line survey during the 2015 Toronto Pan American Games. A survey response rate of 58% was achieved. Survey responses by DCOs were analyzed using inductive coding to identify four main themes; i) DCO motivations, ii) training program design, iii) engagement and support, and iv) barriers to participation in the results. Recommendations include using mixed methods for future studies, provide DCOs with training and evaluation opportunities prior to the Mega Sport Event, and developing mentorship opportunities during games operations. Additional research is needed to create greater understanding of DCO motivations and perceptions beyond this study.

Indiana University--Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The purpose of this thesis is to discuss and explain the commitment to arts and culture in Indianapolis from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1980s by focusing on the origins, activities, and legacy of an extraordinary event in the history of Indianapolis’ arts community: the 1986-1987 Pan American Arts Festival. Early efforts by the City Committee, a local growth coalition comprised of several civic leaders, focused on the physical revitalization of downtown Indianapolis’ cultural landscape. The group’s work in this area, which was part of a larger downtown revitalization project, played an important role in the creation of the Pan American Arts Festival. Ultimately, the planning and administration of this festival had a significant impact on the city’s arts community as it shifted the arts and culture commitment from Indianapolis’ physical structures to the actual livelihood of the organizations housed within them.

This thesis is about the prospect of change in the Peruvian mental health services system as seen through the lens of public psychiatry. It is based on the depiction of the work of psychiatrists in two of Lima's mental hospitals -Hospital Valdizán and Instituto Noguchi- and the projects of mental health services reform that I found in both of these institutions and an advocacy group sponsored by the Pan American Health Organisation. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted from April 2012 to July 2013. I portray the current paradigm of care that dominates the public psychiatric sphere by describing the practice of specialists in outpatient consultations and hospitalisation wards. What I call the empirical model of psychiatry is an objectivistic, pharmaceuticalized, and top-down practice that finds its most augmented version in the wards. It loses sight of such therapeutic mandates as cultivating rapport, giving voice, and providing social support, elements that can be encountered in alternative paradigms of care that hold a marginal position in today's mental health system, such as the community mental health model that was developed in the 1980s at Instituto Noguchi and has progressively faded into near oblivion. The multiple inadequacies of treatment reviewed in this thesis, which are fuelled by a historical relegation of mental health policy in the country, speak of a psychiatry that is far from effectively improving the lives of service users. This was the greatest blind spot revealed by the mental health reform agenda; the need to improve psychiatry as a therapeutic practice was largely absent from reform discourse. Another important issue encountered was the failure of initiatives focused on training primary healthcare professionals in detecting and treating mental health problems (task-sharing). I argue that sustainable task-sharing strategies, added to comprehensive and locally-sensitive models of mental health services, should be explored. Finally, there is a paradox to be solved in relation to mental health governance in Peru. Psychiatry has hegemony; it owns the national institute of mental health and presides over the national mental health direction at the Ministry of Health. However, as a profession it has remained alienated from public health matters, absorbed in the daily practice of public hospitals and private practices. Mental health governance, then, needs to be balanced with the contribution of other professions and this is where the social route of the mental health system gains significance: anthropology has great potential to help develop a richer understanding of people's mental health and craft effective services in socially unequal and multicultural societies.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

A Operação Pan-Americana (OPA) é uma medida de política externa tradicionalmente considerada de menor importância. Ampliando o debate acerca desta medida, este trabalho procurou analisar as variáveis internas e externas do processo de tomada de decisões presidencial, considerando a sua repercussão na opinião pública da época. Neste sentido, foram consideradas duas variáveis de análise, correspondentes cada uma a um âmbito de ação da política externa: o âmbito internacional e o âmbito doméstico. No âmbito internacional, a dissertação procura apresentar o quadro geral do sistema bipolar da Guerra Fria, no mundo e na América Latina, e a sua influência sobre o processo de estruturação da OPA; já no âmbito interno, busca analisar os agentes sociais e políticos que efetivamente foram levados em conta neste processo. Por fim, a pesquisa procurou analisar a posição da opinião pública acerca do tema, entendendo-a como uma das inúmeras variáveis que compõem as políticas interna e externa dos Estados. / The Pan-American Operation (PAO) is a foreign policy measure, which is traditionally considered less important. When broadening the debate over this measure, this paper intended to analyze variables - inside and outside - in the presidential decision-making process, considering its repercussion in the public opinion at that time. Thus, two variables of analysis were considered, each one corresponding to a field of action in the foreign policy: the international and the domestic fields. In the international field, the thesis intended to present a general picture of the bipolar system during the Cold War, in the world and in Latin America, and its influence under the process of structuring the PAO. In the domestic field, it intended to analyze the social agents and politicians that were effectively taken into account in this process. In the end, the research intended to analyze the public opinion position over the subject, as it is understood as one of the many variables that compose the domestic and the foreign policy of the States.

A Operação Pan-Americana (OPA) é uma medida de política externa tradicionalmente considerada de menor importância. Ampliando o debate acerca desta medida, este trabalho procurou analisar as variáveis internas e externas do processo de tomada de decisões presidencial, considerando a sua repercussão na opinião pública da época. Neste sentido, foram consideradas duas variáveis de análise, correspondentes cada uma a um âmbito de ação da política externa: o âmbito internacional e o âmbito doméstico. No âmbito internacional, a dissertação procura apresentar o quadro geral do sistema bipolar da Guerra Fria, no mundo e na América Latina, e a sua influência sobre o processo de estruturação da OPA; já no âmbito interno, busca analisar os agentes sociais e políticos que efetivamente foram levados em conta neste processo. Por fim, a pesquisa procurou analisar a posição da opinião pública acerca do tema, entendendo-a como uma das inúmeras variáveis que compõem as políticas interna e externa dos Estados. / The Pan-American Operation (PAO) is a foreign policy measure, which is traditionally considered less important. When broadening the debate over this measure, this paper intended to analyze variables - inside and outside - in the presidential decision-making process, considering its repercussion in the public opinion at that time. Thus, two variables of analysis were considered, each one corresponding to a field of action in the foreign policy: the international and the domestic fields. In the international field, the thesis intended to present a general picture of the bipolar system during the Cold War, in the world and in Latin America, and its influence under the process of structuring the PAO. In the domestic field, it intended to analyze the social agents and politicians that were effectively taken into account in this process. In the end, the research intended to analyze the public opinion position over the subject, as it is understood as one of the many variables that compose the domestic and the foreign policy of the States.

El trabajo de investigación se basa en modelos económicos utilizados por distintos autores para medir el impacto económico que le generaría realizar juegos olímpicos al país anfitrión. Este modelo de mínimos cuadrados ordinarios es replicado en el escenario de juegos panamericanos. Los estudios existentes sugieren que juegos de esta magnitud pueden generar un aumento del empleo; sin embargo, alcanzan poco consenso sobre la magnitud o duración de ese impacto. El propósito de este estudio es determinar si el hecho de ser sede de un juego panamericano impacta positivamente en el PBI per cápita y la tasa de desempleo del país anfitrión. Para evaluar el impacto económico, las naciones anfitrionas no solo serán analizadas en sí mismas, sino que también se las comparará con las naciones que quedaron en el proceso de licitación. / The research work is based on economic models used by different authors to measure the economic impact that the Olympic Games would generate for the host country. This model of ordinary least squares is replicated in the Pan American Games stage. Existing studies suggest that the Olympics may lead to increased employment, but they reach little consensus on the size or length of that impact. The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of hosting the Pan American Games through GDP and unemployment. To assess the economic impact, host nations will not only be analyzed in and of itself, but will also be compared to runner-up nations in the bidding process. / Tesis

Essa tese tem como objeto de estudo a história do Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil entre 1920 e 1970, buscando compreender o lugar que a entidade ocupou no meio profissional brasileiro e as redes institucionais de diálogo que teceu em âmbito nacional e internacional ao longo do período. Com isso, pretende discutir seu papel para a construção coletiva de uma nova sociabilidade profissional, para o estabelecimento de laços efetivos de troca e para a elaboração, afirmação e difusão de ideários e práticas arquitetônicas e urbanísticas. A narrativa foi organizada em três capítulos, sobrepostos em seu recorte cronológico, que buscam pensar essas tramas institucionais costuradas pelo IAB em seus distintos alcances: nacional, americano e global, respectivamente. / This thesis aims to study the history of the Institute of Architects of Brazil between 1920 and 1970, trying to understand the place that the entity occupied in the Brazilian professional circles and the institutional networks of dialogue that developed at national and international level throughout the period. It intends to discuss the Institute\'s role for the collective construction of a new professional network, for the establishment of effective communication ties and for the creation, assertion and diffusion of architectonic and urbanistic ideas and practices. The narrative was organized in three chapters with a common chronological boundary, striving to analyze these networks built by the IAB in their different scopes: national, American and global, respectively.

Essa tese tem como objeto de estudo a história do Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil entre 1920 e 1970, buscando compreender o lugar que a entidade ocupou no meio profissional brasileiro e as redes institucionais de diálogo que teceu em âmbito nacional e internacional ao longo do período. Com isso, pretende discutir seu papel para a construção coletiva de uma nova sociabilidade profissional, para o estabelecimento de laços efetivos de troca e para a elaboração, afirmação e difusão de ideários e práticas arquitetônicas e urbanísticas. A narrativa foi organizada em três capítulos, sobrepostos em seu recorte cronológico, que buscam pensar essas tramas institucionais costuradas pelo IAB em seus distintos alcances: nacional, americano e global, respectivamente. / This thesis aims to study the history of the Institute of Architects of Brazil between 1920 and 1970, trying to understand the place that the entity occupied in the Brazilian professional circles and the institutional networks of dialogue that developed at national and international level throughout the period. It intends to discuss the Institute\'s role for the collective construction of a new professional network, for the establishment of effective communication ties and for the creation, assertion and diffusion of architectonic and urbanistic ideas and practices. The narrative was organized in three chapters with a common chronological boundary, striving to analyze these networks built by the IAB in their different scopes: national, American and global, respectively.

The number of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) is on the rise. Research suggests that institutions designated as HSIs graduate over fifty percent of Latinos enrolled in college (Santiago, 2006). However, few studies have examined the campus climate of HSIs and how such climate may influence the degree attainment of first-generation, Mexican American students. Considering the instrumental role HSIs have had in advancing the number of Latinos in postsecondary education, this study investigates the campus climate of an HSI along the U.S.-Mexico Border. By utilizing the theoretical frameworks of funds of knowledge (Moll, Amanti, Neff & Gonzalez, 1992) and organizational habitus (McDonough, 1997) this qualitative study involved first-generation, Mexican American students, faculty, and administrators from the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA). Data collection methods included: student focus groups, individual interviews, observations, reflective notes and a review of relevant documents. Instrumentation used for this study incorporated a student questionnaire as well as pre-established interview questions. Findings revealed students’ perceptions of a Border HSIs, the experiences they describe as helpful in allowing them to obtain a degree; and the institutional characteristics faculty and administrators found critical in allowing first-generation, Mexican American students to persist. This study builds upon a pilot conducted in 2009-2010, that assessed Latino students’ perceptions of HSIs. The goal of this study is 1) to contribute to the literature on first-generation, Mexican American student success and 2) to further enrich our knowledge about the campus climate of Border HSIs and their role in degree attainment of Latinos. / text