The aims of this research were to investigate the condition of the psychological well being of learners affected or orphaned by HIV/AIDS; investigate the way in which these learners perform at schools, investigate the nature and extent of social support these learners get from their families, community and society; investigate the condition of the physical well being of these learners; and make recommendations for their psychosocial support in order to enhance and strengthen their psychological well being. Findings from the literature review revealed that when HIV infected parents fall ill and die as a result of AIDS, usually a child or adolescent's life also often falls apart. This is an indication that with HIV and AIDS effects, the hardships hit well before children and adolescents are orphaned. This is to say, first a parent or breadwinner becomes ill with HIV or AIDS, and is unable to work. Then the entire family feels the economic impact - for example, children especially girls, must often drop out of school to go to work so that they can provide food for the family, care for their ill parents and look after their siblings. Such a phenomenon leads to the following psycho social problems in the lives of these children and adolescents: experience of grief and bereavement among children and adolescents affected by HIV/AIDS; introduction of major social change which may involve moving from a middle or upper -class urban home to a poor rural relative's home. It may involve separation from siblings, which is often done arbitrarily when orphaned children are divided among relatives without due considerations of their needs; increase in new labour responsibilities and instances of labour and work responsibility being given to children as young as five. Responsibilities and work in the household also include domestic chores, subsistence agriculture and provision of care giving to very young, old and ill members of the household. Work outside of the home may involve a variety of formal and informal labour, including farm work and begging for food and supplies in both community and beyond; a phenomenon of irregular school attendance and absconding from school; suffering from malnutrition and may not have access to available health services; vulnerability to HIV infection. Their risk for infection arises from the early onset of sexual activity, commercial sex and sexual abuse, all of which may me precipitated by economic need, peer pressure, lack of supervision, exploitation and rape; likelihood that as the ratio of the dependent children increases as a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, so will the chances of children being lured into trafficking and sexual exploitation; and manifestations of negative emotional responses such as fear, anger, depression, anxiety, feelings of dependency and so on. Findings from the empirical research revealed that learners who formed the population sample of this research are unhappy and sad to see their family members, that is, their parents and breadwinners, being ill, and as a result their health is also psycho socially affected; they do not have and cannot afford school uniform and there are no people or relatives who can help them with money to buy school uniform; and their mental health is not in good condition and that they had been ill, suffering from stress in the last six months. Recommendations with psycho-educational implications were made in the last chapter. / Thesis (M.Ed.)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2006.

abstract: In My Dreams is a song cycle for mezzo-soprano, narrator, and piano, based on the poetry of survivors of childhood sex trafficking. It was created to raise awareness of trafficking through music and poetry through the expression of individual dreams and voices. In My Dreams recounts the devastating loss of childhood and celebrates empowering words of survival. The poetry was collected in poetry workshops held in Calcutta and Delhi India in January 2009. After the poems were selected, translated, and edited, composer Dr. Gerard Yun set them to music. This document outlines the process of creating and performing this unique humanitarian cycle. It also includes the full score, poetry, and composer's notes. Topics discussed include: experiences in finding and collecting poetry; collaboration with the composer, Dr. Gerard Yun; form and structure of the cycle; how each piece was molded to give voice to its inspired poem. Every song is analyzed from both a musical and performance perspective to give an account of the challenges and triumphs of the work and the process of undertaking it, as well as a better understanding of the background leading to its composition. / Dissertation/Thesis / Prologue / My Special Place / In My Dreams / Sometimes in the Night / I Thought I Wore the Watch Last Night / It's 2pm / I Can Hear Them / Create Another Earth for Me / In My Dreams II / Postlude / D.M.A. Music 2010

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-12-29T15:47:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 RebekaCarocaSeixas_TESE.pdf: 3019371 bytes, checksum: 3d7f704e0d4e50eccec9a9564c1c0632 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-12-29T20:36:16Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 RebekaCarocaSeixas_TESE.pdf: 3019371 bytes, checksum: 3d7f704e0d4e50eccec9a9564c1c0632 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-29T20:36:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RebekaCarocaSeixas_TESE.pdf: 3019371 bytes, checksum: 3d7f704e0d4e50eccec9a9564c1c0632 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-29 / Esta pesquisa ? produto de uma reflex?o te?rica sobre a obra dramat?rgica do escritor russo Nikolai G?gol e os modos pelos quais as suas experi?ncias iniciais e o contexto hist?rico foram determinantes, n?o apenas para constru??o de uma identidade no seu trabalho como autor, mas tamb?m, para as diferentes formas de concep??o e constru??o da obra dram?tica que surgem no contexto do teatro moderno. O trabalho se det?m ? an?lise da trilogia metadramat?rgica gogoliana que compreende as seguintes pe?as: O inspetor geral (1836), ? sa?da do teatro depois da representa??o de uma nova com?dia (1842) e Desenlace de O inspetor geral (1846). Dessa forma, s?o de interesse particular para esse trabalho, os conceitos de metadramaturgia e escrita perform?tica, os quais ser?o basilares para a an?lise da obra do dramaturgo. O estudo sobre a metadramaturgia ser? trabalhado a partir da an?lise da metalinguagem e do metateatro para que, assim, possamos compreender como se estrutura a ideia de metadramaturgia e como esse conceito pode ser utilizado na an?lise de obras dramat?rgicas. O conceito de escrita perform?tica compreende o estudo da obra a partir do vi?s performativo, ao entender o autor e o leitor/espectador como protagonistas desta rela??o. A partir dos estudos desses dois conceitos, de metadramaturgia e de escrita perform?tica, poder-se-? compreender, mais profundamente, os diferentes aspectos da obra do autor, principalmente, no que se refere ? atualidade de sua escrita. / This research is a result of a theoretical reflection about on the work of Russian writer dramaturgical Nikolai G?gol and the ways in which his initial experiments were crucial not only on what concerns the building of own work identity, but also the construction of the various forms of conception and creation of work dramaturgical and the way they have influenced modern theatre. The work holds the analysis of gogoliana metadramaturgical trilogy and comprising the following plays: The inspector general (1836), Leaving the theater after the performance of a new comedy (1842) and Denouement of The inspector general (1846). As such, are of particular interest to this work, the concepts of metadramaturgy and writing performatic are fundamental to the analysis of the playwright's work. The study on metadramaturgy will be worked from the analysis of de metalanguage and metatheatre so that we can understand how to structure the idea of metadramaturgy and how this concept can be used in the analysis of dramaturgical works. The idea of writing performatic includes the study of the work from the performative bias, to understand the author and the reader/viewer as protagonists of this relationship. From the studies of these two concepts, metadramaturgy and writing performatic, shall be able to understand more deeply the different aspects of the author's work, particularly in terms of past the relevance of his writing.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-04-17T21:15:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 RummeniggeMedeirosDeAraujo_TESE.pdf: 5497601 bytes, checksum: 39721853850dd72b415b468e09280d21 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-04-18T20:01:05Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 RummeniggeMedeirosDeAraujo_TESE.pdf: 5497601 bytes, checksum: 39721853850dd72b415b468e09280d21 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-18T20:01:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RummeniggeMedeirosDeAraujo_TESE.pdf: 5497601 bytes, checksum: 39721853850dd72b415b468e09280d21 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-26 / Esta pesquisa ? o resultado de uma reflex?o te?rico-anal?tica sobre a obra dramat?rgica da escritora inglesa Sarah Kane. Na maneira como ela estrutura e articula um incessante di?logo, em sua escritura, com os mortos (a tradi??o dramat?rgica), sobre os mortos (as diferentes ideias e no??es de morte na vida urbana) e para os que v?o morrer, nesse caso, a sua pr?pria pessoa em forma de registro autobiogr?fico. O trabalho se det?m, especificamente, na an?lise dos seus tr?s ?ltimos trabalhos: Cleansed (Purificados, 1998), Crave (?nsia, 1998) e 4.48 Psychosis (Psicose 4:48, 2000). Levando em considera??o o desenvolvimento dos elementos e no??es que constroem o conceito de Tanatopo?tica. Dessa maneira, s?o de interesse particular para esse trabalho as no??es de escritura e escrita perform?tica para an?lise e contextualiza??o da obra da dramaturga na hist?ria teatral, uma vez que essas no??es permitem compreender e abordar a obra a partir do vi?s performativo. Este trabalho identifica, constr?i e investe ainda, na no??o de personagem golem como um dispositivo de duplo ou sombra para discutir e inscrever quest?es do universo ?ntimo de sua autora. Para a discuss?o dessas no??es foram fundamentais as ideias de Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Alex Beigui, Diana Klinger e Gershom Scholem. O estudo sobre a morte e a fenomenologia tanatol?gica foi conduzido a partir da an?lise das escrituras, na sua abordagem direta ao tema, ou por meio das refer?ncias, cita??es e met?foras utilizadas pela autora para elaborar a sua po?tica da morte, ou tanatopo?tica. Para isso levaram-se em considera??o as ideias de Edgar Morin, Emmanuel Levinas, Martin Heidegger, Arthur Schopenhauer, Heiner M?ller, Vladimir Safatle, entre outros. Kane aparece neste trabalho como autora que se mostra tribut?ria ? linhagem hist?rica do Teatro do Absurdo, sem reconhecer ou assumir oficialmente sua filia??o, mas transcendendo a ela na supera??o daquele que foi o seu maior intento; a recusa ao nome, a aniquila??o e a fuga da linguagem teatral. / This research is the outcome of a theoretical-analytical consideration about the dramaturgical works of the british playwright Sarah Kane. About the way she structures and articulate an unceasing dialogue in her writings with the dead (the dramaturgical tradition); about the dead (the different ideas and notions about death in the urban life); and with the ones that are going to die, i.e. herself in autobiographical registers. The work focuses, specifically, at the analysis of her three last plays: Cleansed (1998), Crave (1998), and 4.48 Psychosis (2000), taking into consideration the development of the notions and elements that build the Thanatopoetic concept. The particular interests of this work are the notions of writing and performative writing applied to the analysis and contextualization of Kane?s work at the theatre history, since those notions allow the comprehension and approach of the plays through a performative bias. This work also identifies, develops and invests the notion of the ?Golem? character as a dual or shadow device, to discuss and enroll matters from the playwright?s intimate universe. For the discussion of these notions, the author uses ideas from Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Alex Beigui, Diana Klinger and Gershom Scholem. The study about death and the thanatological phenomenology will be conducted with the analysis of the writings, in its direct theme approach, or through references, quotations and metaphors used by the playwright to elaborate her ?Death poetic?, or Thanatopoetic. For that, the author takes into consideration the works of Edgar Morin, Emmanuel Levinas, Martin Heidegger, Arthur Schopenhauer, Heiner M?ller, Vladimir Safatle, among others. This work also identifies in Kane an author that pays tribute to the historical lineage of the Absurd theatre, without officially recognizing or assuming such affiliation, but instead transcending it with the overcoming of what was her biggest intent; the annihilation of and escape from the theatrical language.

Mental health struggles and suicide rates in athletic populations have been on the rise for the past two decades, with an even bigger increase since the pandemic. Disorders such as stress, depression, and anxiety have been the main causes for these struggles and fatalities. The growing rates of mental health disorders and suicide within this population indicate that athletes do not have the adequate resources to restore and improve their mental health. In some instances of presenting their troubles to coaches, staff, or teammates, their only advice is to seek help with on-campus resources or resources at home. Although this can be sound advice in some cases, this can also create the sense that there is no escape from what may be the cause of these mental obstacles. The purpose of this thesis is to create a mental health retreat for collegiate, professional, olympic, and retired athletes. Tucked away at the edge of Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., in between existing amenities such as the Carter Barron Amphitheatre and the William Fitzgerald Tennis Center, the retreat allows for the continual use of existing amenities along with other resources and practices provided on-site. This retreat aims to provide spaces and resources at a location that teams or individuals can visit to allow for healing and education about these mental health disorders. This serene space in the middle of a chaotic big city will provide space for resting, performing, healing, and overall restoring which begins to break the barriers between what can be overcome in the feelings that may seem indomitable. / Master of Architecture / Mental health struggles and rising suicide rates among athletes have become increasingly concerning over the past two decades, with a significant spike since the pandemic. Stress, depression, and anxiety are the primary issues affecting this population, and current resources appear inadequate to address their needs. Often, athletes are advised to seek help from on-campus or home resources, which may not always be effective and can sometimes exacerbate feelings of entrapment. This thesis proposes the creation of a mental health retreat for collegiate, professional, Olympic, and retired athletes. Located at the edge of Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., near amenities like the Carter Barron Amphitheatre and the William Fitzgerald Tennis Center, this retreat offers a peaceful environment for healing and education. By utilizing existing amenities and providing additional on-site resources and practices, the retreat aims to support athletes in their mental health journeys. This serene space in the heart of a bustling city will offer opportunities for rest, performance, healing, and overall restoration, helping athletes overcome mental health challenges.

Magistro darbo tema – Sutarties pakeitimo dėl iš esmės pasikeitusių sutarties vykdymo apinkybių galimybės ir Lietuvos teismų praktika. Darbe analizuojamos galimybės pateisinti sutarties nevykdymą dėl pasikeitusių aplinkybių įtakos remiantis skirtingose teisės sistemose įtvirtintu reglamentavimu. Tyrime analizei pasirinktos tų valstybių nacionalinės teisės sistemos, kuriose įtvirtintas reglamentavimo modelis buvo pavyzdžiu kitoms valstybėms. Darbe analizuojamos Prancūzijos, Vokietijos, Anglijos ir Jungtinių Amerikos Valstijų teisėje įtvirtintos sutarties vykdymo pasikeitus aplinkybėms instituto reglamentavimo variacijos. Taip pat darbe analizuojami skirtinguose tarptautiniuose teisės aktuose įtvirtinti pasikeitusių aplinkybių instituto reglamentavimo modeliai, analizei buvo pasirinkti šie tarptautiniai teisės aktai: Vienos konvencija Dėl tarptautinių sutarčių teisės, UNIDROIT Tarptautinių komercinių sutarčių principai, Europos sutarčių teisės principai ir Jungtinių tautų konvencija Dėl tarptautinio prekių pirkimo – pardavimo sutarčių. Ketvirtąjame darbo skyriuje yra analizuojamos sutarties vykdymo pasikeitus aplikybėms instituto taikymo sąlygos, atskleidžiamas jų turinys ir išskiriami reikalavimų tenkinimo vertinimo kriterijai. Prieinama išvados, kad esminiu gali būti pripažintas tik toks sutarties vykdymo suvaržymas, kuris ne tik iš esmės padidina sutarties įvykdymo kainą arba sumažina gaunamą įvykdymą, bet ir itin komplikuoja suvaržymą patiriančios šalies galimybes toliau... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Thesis of the paper – Probability to adjust the contract terms regarding to changed circumstances and the analysis of Lithuanian courts practice. The paper analyzes the justification for the failure to perform on the basis of changed circumstances. The study selected for analysis the national legal systems, which maintained regulatory model has been followed by other countries. The paper examines French, German, British and United States law of contract and the variety of regulatory variations regarding changed circumstances. It also analyzes the regulatory models of hardship established in different international legal instruments. For the analysis were selected following international instruments: the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, the Principles of European Contract Law and United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The fourth chapter analyzes the requirements for the situation in order to claim hardship. This chapter revealed the content of requirements and identifies the assessment criteria for declaring the fulfilment of the conditions. Analysis leads to the conclusion, that the substantial restriction of the contract can be recognized only in cases, which not only substantially increases the price of the performance or reduce the resulting performance, but also substantially complicates and burdens the possibilities of affected contractor to continue performing... [to full text]

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:00:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FredericoN_DISSERT.pdf: 2022028 bytes, checksum: 1bab8c5920acff310991e54ecc05714c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-26 / The issue of creating productions of hybrid matrices has demanded, for more than three decades, the attention of several theater theorists (COHEN: 1995; LEHMANN: 2007). The study of philosophers (DELEUZE & GUATTARI: 1995) has contributed for new concepts of the scene. These artistic practices, depending on the context, have been generating, more and more, new ways of staging. I will discuss the contamination caused by Antonin Artaud in contemporary theater, and the theater s infection by the performance, based on the thought of Barbara Browning (1995), from its capacity to penetrate and invade territories, and installs a new system. I affirm that the Totem Group (Recife PE) was contaminated by the performance and analyze two performative plays of the group, their points of convergence and separation. The first one is Ita, the search for the origin, the animal devir; the second is Caosmopolita, the body as a reflex of urbanity / A quest?o da cria??o de encena??es de matrizes h?bridas tem demandado, h? mais de tr?s d?cadas, a aten??o de diversos te?ricos teatrais (COHEN: 1995; LEHMANN: 2007). O estudo de fil?sofos (DELEUZE & GUATTARI: 1995) tem contribu?do para novas conceitua??es da cena. S?o pr?ticas art?sticas, que dependendo do contexto, v?m gerando cada vez mais, novas formas de encena??o. Abordarei a contamina??o causada por Antonin Artaud no teatro contempor?neo, e a quest?o da infec??o do teatro pela performance, tomando como base o pensamento de Barbara Browning (1995), a partir da sua capacidade de penetrar e de invadir territ?rios, e instalar um novo sistema. Afirmo que o Grupo Totem (Recife PE) foi contaminado pela performance e analisarei duas encena??es perform?ticas do grupo, seus pontos de converg?ncia e distanciamento. A primeira ? Ita, a busca da origem, o devir animal; a segunda ? Caosmopolita, o corpo como reflexo da urbanidade

Orientador: Carlos Kenichi Suzuki / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-31T14:50:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sekiya_EdsonHaruhico_D.pdf: 10677198 bytes, checksum: cae4461929410b2836eccdf5d42891e8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2001 / Resumo: Em 1996, teve início no LIQCIFEMlUNICAMP, o projeto "Desenvolvimento de Preforma de Fibra Óptica pelo Método V AD", com o objetivo de desenvolver o processo V AD, por ser considerado um dos mais avançados em termos de eficiência e custos de produção da fibra óptica, e também pela possibilidade de implementar inovações tecnológicas. Inserido neste contexto, no presente trabalho foi despendido um grande esforço tanto no estudo fundamental, quanto em tecnologia industrial relacionado ao processo V AD, principalmente nas etapas de consolidação e desidratação. Na consolidação, estudou-se os mecanismos de densificação e colapsamento das bolhas, fundamentais para se obter uma preforma totalmente transparente. As influências do fluxo de cloro e da temperatura na desidratação são cruciais na remoção das hidroxilas, alcançando-se concentrações inferiores a 0,05 ppm. O efeito da desidratação na remoção e na "moldagem" do perfil de germânia na preforma também foi estudada. Desta forma obteve-se sucesso em entender os mecanismos para a produção de uma preforma totalmente transparente, com baixa concentração de hidroxilas e um perfil adequado de dopagem, fundamentais para produzir fibras ópticas com baixa atenuação óptica e baixa dispersão moda! / Abstract: The V AD - vapor phase axial deposition program in Brazil started in 1996 through the initiative of the Laboratory of Integrated Quartz Cyc1e, of The State University of Campinas, FEMIDEMA. Besides the establishment of this advanced technology in Brazil, the main objective of this program is to understand the fundamental properties of V AD made silicagermania and their correlation to the processing parameters. Therefore, a great effort has been developed in the present research in terms of technological innovations and basic understanding related to V AD processo In this sense, all phases of consolidation evolution from the preform densification, through the elimination of bubbles, until the totally transparent perforrn have been studied. Hydroxyl concentration smaller than 50 ppb has been obtained by dehydration procedure conducted under the chlorine atmosphere. The effect of temperature and chlorine flow rate as a function hydroxyl content was studied. The influence of dehydration treatment to shape the germanium profile in the preform has also been studied. The present research work was very successful to establish the fundamental knowledge to obtain a low OH, and a suitable doping profile silica-germania preform for optical fiber / Doutorado / Materiais e Processos de Fabricação / Doutor em Engenharia Mecânica

The subject of the thesis is an analysis of the insolvent administrator of the Institute in accordance with current legislation. The work is divided into 6 chapters: The first chapter with the name of the Institute of the insolvent person/Administrator- discussed sources of legislation and the conditions for the exercise of the functions of the insolvency administrator. The second chapter discussed of the performance of the insolvency administrator, primarily focuses on the provisions of the function. The third chapter defines the concepts of preliminary, separate the insolvent the administrator and guest. The core of the work - the fourth chapter is devoted to the rights and obligations of the insolvent the administrator in the performance of the function, first, in General, then, according to a specific solution. The fifth chapter is named the responsibility of the administrator, which is discussed in the chapter. The final, the sixth chapter is devoted to the remuneration and reimbursement of expenses of the insolvency administrator finished. In the focus is also on the comparison of the new legislation with the regulations referred to in ZKV.

PERFORMANCE-BASED ANALYSIS OF A REINFORCED CONCRETE SHEAR WALL BUILDING Garrett Richard Hagen In this thesis, a special reinforced concrete shear wall building was designed per ASCE 7-05, and then the performance was investigated using the four analysis procedures outlined in ASCE 41-06. The proposed building was planned as a 6-story office building in San Francisco, CA. The structural system consisted of a two-way flat plate and reinforced concrete columns for gravity loads and slender structural walls for seismic loads. The mathematical building models utilized recommendations from ASCE 41-06 and first-principle mechanics. Moment-curvature analysis and fiber cross-section elements were used in developing the computer models for the nonlinear procedures. The results for the analysis procedures showed that the building met the Basic Safety Objective as defined in ASCE 41-06. The performance levels for the nonlinear procedures showed better building performance than for the linear procedures. This paper addresses previously found data for similar studies which used steel special moment frames, special concentric braced frames, and buckling restrained braced frames for their primary lateral systems. The results showcase expected seismic performance levels for a commercial office building designed in a high seismicity region with varying structural systems and when using different analysis procedures. Keywords: reinforced concrete structural walls, shear walls, performance-based analysis, ETABS, Perform-3D, flat plate, two-way slab.