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This report examines Porphyry’s De antro nympharum and its eclectic mixture of philosophy, allegory, and mysticism in the form of a Homeric commentary. The paper situates Porphyry’s commentary in the broader tradition of Homeric interpretation with special attention to Stoic exegesis and Platonic views on poetry and myth. It also contextualizes Porphyry’s philosophy in terms of the mystery cults, particularly Mithraism, that had grown very popular by Porphyry’s time. The paper argues that Porphyry devised a practice of reading intended to promote a level of philosophical contemplation beyond the level of rational discourse, in keeping with the Neoplatonic philosophy of his teacher, Plotinus, and that this practice is especially evident in the De antro nympharum. / text

Osteoporosis, a major public health problem, likely has its origins in childhood. During periods of rapid skeletal growth, diet may influence accrual of bone mineral density (BMD) and adult bone health. This study used novel approaches in bone imaging to further characterize optimal skeletal development and enhance our understanding of key dietary components that influence attainment of peak bone mass (PBM) and contribute to determinants of peak bone strength in peri-pubertal females. The use of a validated food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) enabled the influence of usual dietary intake on bone parameters to be examined.This study examined the relationship of dietary intake of micronutrients and bone macro-architectural structure in peri-pubertal girls. This study suggested that vitamin C and zinc intake are associated with objective measures of bone status in 4th, but not 6th grade girls. This indicates potential differences in micronutrient and bone associations at various age-associated stages of bone maturation.The impact of dietary fat on peri-pubertal skeletal growth is not well characterized. This study examined relationships of select dietary fatty acid (FA) intakes and measures of bone status in peri-pubertal girls. This study suggested that MUFA, total PUFA, n-6 and linoleic acid (LA) are inversely associated with bone status prior to menarche, but composition of dietary fat may be more important during the early-pubertal years. Decreased intakes of n-6 PUFA may benefit bone health in young girls.The impact of a dietary protein on volumetric bone mineral density (vBMD), bone mineral content (BMC) and bone strength throughout maturation remains controversial. Given evidence of both anabolic and catabolic affects of protein on bone health, this study examined relations of dietary protein from different sources with bone parameters in peri-pubertal girls. This study showed that dietary protein intake is related to higher trabecular but not cortical vBMD, BMC and BSI, and accounts for 2-4% of their variability in peri-pubertal girls. The relationship seems to vary by the source of dietary protein and calcium intake. However, a negative impact of animal protein on bone health is not supported. Large scale observational and intervention studies are needed to establish causality.

A presente análise pretende entender os aspectos jurídicos e sociológicos envolvidos na produção do espaço urbano de Ribeirão Preto. O enfoque se dá em torno da lei de perímetro urbano, que tem o poder de definir o que é e o que não é cidade, moldando os destinos da geografia local e, principalmente, alterando o valor do solo sobre o qual regula. Justamente por conta dessas possibilidades, a lei é alvo de disputas das mais diversas naturezas, que por ventura desviam o instrumento de seu papel originário. Enquanto instrumento de política urbana, o perímetro urbano é previsto na Lei 10. 257 de 2001 (Estatuto da Cidade) como agente racionalizante da expansão urbana, quando essa se faz necessária. No entanto, a cidade de Ribeirão Preto presencia uma verdadeira corrida pelo ouro em sua zona rural, com \"tentáculos\" de grandes empreendimentos imobiliários dispersos pelo território. Isso gera a inquietação de querer descobrir se, talvez, as regras do mercado estejam prevalecendo sobre o poder normativo da lei de perímetro. É o que se pretende descrever. / The present analysis intends to understand the legal and sociological aspects involved in the production of the urban space of Ribeirão Preto. The focus is on the law of urban perimeter, which has the power to define what is and what is not a city, shaping the destinies of local geography and also changing the value of the land over it regulates. Due to these potentialities, the law is subject of unfair disputes of various motivation, which, may distort the urban instrument from its original role. As an tool of urban policy, the urban perimeter is provided by the 10 257-2001 bill (The \"City Statute\") as rationalizing agent of urban expansion, when it becomes necessary. However, the city of Ribeirão Preto witnesses a gold rush in its rural area, with \"tentacles\" of large real estate developments scattered throughout its territory.. This raises the concern that, perhaps, market rules are prevailing over the normative power of perimeter law. This is what we want to describe.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-14T14:52:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 437118.pdf: 1810013 bytes, checksum: 80cf27556031120483224b5ecd4c1090 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-01-16 / In a context of growing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in organizations, has grown the need for adoption of technology also on governments to improve administrative procedures, the provision of public services and the social participation through e-governance practices. The use of IT in public institutions enables the promotion of transparency in government actions, improving the relationship between citizens and government through a broader interaction between them, besides to expands and improves the quality in service delivery. The institutional perspective was used under theoretical lens. The present study seeks to answer the following research question: How do institutional factors influence the governance of IT organizations to implement e-governance practices? To answer it, a conceptual model that seeks to identify the influence of coercive pressures, mimetic and normative practices in implementing e-governance was proposed through research propositions. A qualitative research approach was used, with the method of single case study in a public e-service provider organization (CAPES Journals Portal). The finding results corroborate the propositions of the conceptual model of this research, suggesting that there is influence of institutional factors in the form of coercive, normative and mimetic mechanisms in the governance structure of the IT organization, characterized as a business monarchy regarding IT decisions to implementation of a public e-service. The work allowed to identified that the public organization is dependent on several factors of the field in which it is inserted, as dependence on resources, the need to supply a demand from the scientific community, the federal government encouragement, the need to expand the service`s reach and cost reduction and the existence of similar successful models, under isomorphic pressure from other organizations and the environment itself. Furthermore, the present study identifies that the environment, through institutional factors, determines the organizational behavior to implementing e-governance practices. / Em um contexto de crescimento das Tecnologias de Informa??o e Comunica??o (TIC) nas organiza??es surgiu a necessidade de ado??o de tecnologia tamb?m nos governos, para a melhoria dos processos administrativos, da presta??o de servi?os p?blicos e da participa??o social, atrav?s de pr?ticas de governan?a eletr?nica. O uso de TIC nas institui??es p?blicas permite a promo??o de transpar?ncia nas a??es do governo, a melhoria do relacionamento entre cidad?o e governo atrav?s de uma maior intera??o dos mesmos, al?m da amplia??o e aumento da qualidade na presta??o de servi?os. Como lente te?rica da investiga??o foi utilizada a perspectiva institucional. Este estudo busca responder a seguinte quest?o de pesquisa: Como os fatores institucionais influenciam na Governan?a de TI (Tecnologia de Informa??o) das organiza??es para implementa??o de pr?ticas de governan?a eletr?nica? Para respond?-la, foi proposto um modelo conceitual que busca identificar a influ?ncia de press?es coercitivas, normativas e mim?ticas na implementa??o de pr?ticas de governan?a eletr?nica, atrav?s de proposi??es de pesquisa. Utilizou-se uma abordagem qualitativa de pesquisa, tendo como m?todo o estudo de caso ?nico em uma organiza??o prestadora de um e-servi?o p?blico, sendo este o Portal de Peri?dicos da CAPES. Os resultados encontrados corroboram as proposi??es do modelo conceitual da pesquisa, sugerindo que existe influ?ncia de fatores institucionais, na forma de mecanismos coercitivos, normativos e mim?ticos, na estrutura de Governan?a de TI da organiza??o, caracterizada como uma monarquia de neg?cios com rela??o ?s decis?es de TI, para implementa??o do e-servi?o p?blico. O trabalho permitiu identificar que a organiza??o p?blica ? dependente de fatores do campo em que est? inserida como a depend?ncia de recursos, a necessidade de atendimento de uma demanda da comunidade cient?fica, o incentivo do governo federal, a necessidade de amplia??o do alcance do servi?o e da redu??o de custos e a exist?ncia de modelos semelhantes de sucesso, sofrendo press?es isom?rficas de outras organiza??es e do pr?prio ambiente. Al?m disso, permitiu identificar que o ambiente, atrav?s de fatores institucionais, condiciona o comportamento organizacional para implementa??o de pr?ticas de governan?a eletr?nica.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:36:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Renatha James Diogenes Pinheiro.pdf: 1801099 bytes, checksum: a0bfee7ab7fdf79d8b0e46fe995f7260 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-17 / Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas / The study discusses the question of the concept information applied in TransInforma??o journal online (TRANS) e Perspectivas em Ci?ncia da Informa??o journal online (PCI). The general objective of this research is to identify the aspects of the term information, in articles of the TRANS and PCI, from 1996 to 2006, with the purpose to supply scientific indicators to a better understanding of the object of study of the Information Science. The specific objectives are: to chart, in articles selected, the concepts of the term information; to point the authors most quoted when the perspective is to define this term; to mark the statistic aspects, frequency of the concept attributed to term in analysis; and to check its concept changes. This work presents a theoric board of the references in Information Science, focusing the historical process and the characteristics. It discusses the problems that rule the indefinition of the term information. It reviews the specific literature about the cycle of the information, giving emphasis to the scientific journals and its functions. It uses the bibliometric method to production of the results. The research s main results are: big presence of the word information, the opposite of what happens with the discussion of the concept information; absence of a theoric board of the references to subsidize the studies interested in this subject; Barreto (1994, 1996, 1999) and Buckland (1991) are the authors most quoted; and the presence of the physical paradigm, cognitive paradigm and paradigm social in concepts of information checked. In short, the elements common to these concepts are related. / O estudo possui como panorama a quest?o da an?lise do conceito de informa??o aplicado nos artigos dos peri?dicos: TransInforma??o (TRANS) e Perspectivas em Ci?ncia da Informa??o (PCI). O objetivo geral da pesquisa ? identificar os tra?os conceituais desse termo, nos artigos da TRANS e PCI publicados de 1996 a 2006, visando diagnosticar os autores mais impactantes na ?rea de Ci?ncia da Informa??o, no tocante a tem?tica em an?lise, e apontar vis?es paradigm?ticas relacionadas a esse conceito. Objetiva-se especificamente: mapear, nos artigos selecionados, o conceito de informa??o; destacar os autores mais citados quando a perspectiva ? definir esse termo; apontar os aspectos estat?sticos, frequ?ncia do conceito atribu?do ao termo em an?lise; e assinalar suas altera??es conceituais. O trabalho apresenta um quadro te?rico de refer?ncias da Ci?ncia da Informa??o, enfocando seu processo hist?rico e suas caracter?sticas. Discute a problem?tica que rege a indefini??o de seu objeto de estudo. Revisa a literatura espec?fica sobre o ciclo da informa??o, enfatizando os peri?dicos cient?ficos e suas fun??es. Utiliza o m?todo documental e o bibliom?trico para obten??o dos resultados. A partir dos resultados, infere-se que h? uma grande ocorr?ncia da palavra informa??o, o contr?rio do que acontece com a discuss?o deste termo enquanto conceito. Nota-se: a aus?ncia de um quadro de refer?ncia para subsidiar os estudos interessados nesse assunto; que Barreto (1994, 1996, 1999) e Buckland (1991) despontam como os autores mais citados; e a presen?a dos paradigmas f?sico, cognitivo e social nos conceitos de informa??o verificados. Por fim, relacionam-se os elementos comuns a esses conceitos.

Transitional land uses produced through urbanisation continue to change the landscape and fragment ecological structures including green spaces across Europe (Nilsson et al., 2013). Green spaces offer significant benefits to humans, contributing to wellbeing and life satisfaction (Taylor, 2002). The understanding of how these unique green spaces spaces function and provide benefits to humans, and how landscape change in peri-urban contexts affects their performance, is important. The scope of this research is to contribute to an understanding of landscape fragmentation within some of Europe's polycentric urban regions, their peri-urban green spaces, and the associated impacts upon human quality of life. Two urban regional case studies, Paisley near Glasgow, Scotland, and Vantaa, near Helsinki, Finland were analysed and compared. The results indicate that humans interacting with more physically or ecologically fragmented peri-urban green spaces have higher self-reported life satisfaction levels. Though no statistically significant characteristics were apparent between life satisfaction and fragmented green space characteristics, this research was able to identify those specific structural attributes and physical characteristics of interstitial peri-urban green spaces within a polycentric region in a fragmented state that contribute to the physical, social, and psychological aspects of human wellbeing. The statistically significant eco-spatial characteristics of polycentric peri-urban interstitial green spaces that are reported to impact human wellbeing are the size, proximity, maintenance and management, and the level of greenness within its vegetation composition and setting. Overall, a spatially diverse, fragmented, peri-urban landscape whose green spaces are extensively sized, naturalistically shaped with horizontal vegetation and normal sized edges, most often parks or woodlands or forests which are integrated and physically connected to another green space which is moderately clean and somewhat safe as well as being located close to or adjacent to a heavy-trafficked road provide the most human wellbeing benefits.

A presente análise pretende entender os aspectos jurídicos e sociológicos envolvidos na produção do espaço urbano de Ribeirão Preto. O enfoque se dá em torno da lei de perímetro urbano, que tem o poder de definir o que é e o que não é cidade, moldando os destinos da geografia local e, principalmente, alterando o valor do solo sobre o qual regula. Justamente por conta dessas possibilidades, a lei é alvo de disputas das mais diversas naturezas, que por ventura desviam o instrumento de seu papel originário. Enquanto instrumento de política urbana, o perímetro urbano é previsto na Lei 10. 257 de 2001 (Estatuto da Cidade) como agente racionalizante da expansão urbana, quando essa se faz necessária. No entanto, a cidade de Ribeirão Preto presencia uma verdadeira corrida pelo ouro em sua zona rural, com \"tentáculos\" de grandes empreendimentos imobiliários dispersos pelo território. Isso gera a inquietação de querer descobrir se, talvez, as regras do mercado estejam prevalecendo sobre o poder normativo da lei de perímetro. É o que se pretende descrever. / The present analysis intends to understand the legal and sociological aspects involved in the production of the urban space of Ribeirão Preto. The focus is on the law of urban perimeter, which has the power to define what is and what is not a city, shaping the destinies of local geography and also changing the value of the land over it regulates. Due to these potentialities, the law is subject of unfair disputes of various motivation, which, may distort the urban instrument from its original role. As an tool of urban policy, the urban perimeter is provided by the 10 257-2001 bill (The \"City Statute\") as rationalizing agent of urban expansion, when it becomes necessary. However, the city of Ribeirão Preto witnesses a gold rush in its rural area, with \"tentacles\" of large real estate developments scattered throughout its territory.. This raises the concern that, perhaps, market rules are prevailing over the normative power of perimeter law. This is what we want to describe.

Ainda que o cultivo de alimentos em meio urbano seja uma atividade milenar, foi na segunda metade da década de 1990 que a chamada agricultura urbana e periurbana (AUP) adquiriu destaque no cenário nacional e mundial, afirmando-se como um instrumento de integração nos processos de desenvolvimento sustentável. Alinhada aos princípios do direito humano à alimentação e da soberania alimentar, a implantação de uma Política Nacional de Agricultura Urbana constitui uma das metas do Plano Nacional de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional para o período 2012- 2015. Como uma temática ainda pouco estudada pela academia, cabe investigar mais profundamente, no âmbito da saúde pública, as conexões entre a Agricultura Urbana e Periurbana e a Promoção da Saúde. Com o objetivo geral de compreender a importância, os desafios e as possibilidades da prática da AUP, a partir da experiência do município do Embu das Artes/SP, localizado na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo, o estudo se propôs a identificar os projetos de AUP no município; identificar os valores e significados atribuídos às experiências pelos participantes, membros de conselhos, técnicos e profissionais das Unidades Básicas de Saúde; explorar as conexões da agricultura urbana com as dimensões dos Serviços de Saúde no nível da Atenção Primária, do Abastecimento e do Planejamento Territorial; pesquisar as interfaces entre a agricultura urbana e as diretrizes da Promoção da Saúde. Os dados foram coletados por meio de questionário sócio-demográfico junto aos participantes dos projetos, entrevistas individuais e grupos focais. Para complementar as informações, realizou-se análise documental de materiais produzidos pelo governo e pela sociedade civil. A sistematização dos dados seguiu os parâmetros da perspectiva dialética, que destaca a importância da compreensão das contradições na análise das estruturas e do caráter histórico e dinâmico das ações. Os resultados apontam uma estreita ligação entre a prática das hortas e as diretrizes da Promoção da Saúde. Foi possível identificar significados e valores, tanto no nível individual como no coletivo, convergentes com o ideário da Promoção da Saúde, associados aos seus diferentes campos e princípios, como a criação de ambientes saudáveis, o reforço da ação comunitária, o desenvolvimento de habilidades pessoais, o resgate de práticas e hábitos tradicionais, o estímulo à autonomia e ao empoderamento e demandas por reorientação dos serviços. A partir do componente da multifuncionalidade da Agricultura Urbana e Periurbana aqui estudada com ênfase em suas conexões com a Atenção Básica da Saúde, com o campo do Abastecimento Alimentar e do Planejamento Territorial, um aspecto a ser aprofundado diz respeito à necessidade de definição de estratégias intra e inter setoriais, para viabilizar maior integração junto às secretarias que realizam interfaces com o tema, de forma a efetivar o comprometimento do conjunto da gestão, em parceria com as organizações sociais e referenciada no território. / Although the growing of food in urban areas is an ancient activity, it was in the second half of the 1990s that the so-called urban and peri-urban agriculture (PUA) acquired prominence in the national and world stage, asserting itself as an integration tool in sustainable development processes. Aligned with the principles of the human right to food and food sovereignty, the establishment of a National Agricultural Urban Policy is one of the goals of the National Food Security and Nutrition Plan for the period of 2012-2015. As a thematic still not appropriate by the academy, there is room for further investigation,within the public health system, to understand the connections between PUA and Health Promotion. With the overall goal to understand the importance, challenges and possibilities of the practice of PUA, from the experience of the city Embu das Artes / SP, located in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, this study aimed to identify the PUA projects in the municipality; identify the values and meanings attributed to the experiences by the participants, board members, technicians and professionals of the Basic Health Units; explore the connections of urban agriculture with the dimensions of Health Primary Care, Supply and Urban Planning; research interfaces between urban agriculture and health promotion guidelines. Data were collected by using a socio-demographic questionnaire with the participants of the projects, individual interviews and focus groups. To complement the information, a documentary analysis of materials, produced by the government and civil society, was performed. The systematization of the data followed the parameters placed by the dialectical perspective that highlights the importance of understanding the contradictions in the analysis of structures and the historic and dynamic character of the actions. The results show a close link between the practice of gardens and Health Promotion guidelines. It was possible to identify meanings and values, both individually and collectively, convergent with the ideas of Health Promotion, associated with their different fields and principles such as the creation of healthy environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, the rescue of traditional practices and habits, the encouragement of autonomy and empowerment and demands for reorientation of services. From the multifunctional component of Peri-Urban Agriculture, studied here, with emphasis on its connections to Primary Health, with the field of Food Supply and Urban Planning, an aspect, which deserves deeper study, concerns the need to clearly define intra- and inter-sector strategies, to enable a greater integration within the departments that perform interfaces with this theme, in order to carry out the commitment of the entire management, in partnership with social and referenced in territory organizations.

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