Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-22T20:49:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-04-28. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2015-08-11T03:25:41Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 Publico-089.pdf: 1411799 bytes, checksum: 00b458e5d4643492340a4a819aea276e (MD5) / A prática da psicomotricidade favorece e potencializa a adaptação harmônica do indivíduo ao meio e suas relações com os outros com o espaço e o tempo, elementos indispensáveis para o sucesso na aprendizagem escolar. Esta pesquisa avaliou a influência de um programa educativo sobre psicomotricidade aplicado a professores no seu conhecimento sobre o tema e no desempenho motor de seus alunos em um estudo do tipo experimental, diagnóstico de caráter longitudinal, com uma abordagem quali-quantitativa. Foi realizada em cinco Escolas da rede pública da cidade de Maceió, AL, divididas em dois grupos: controle (GC) e experimental (GE). No GE, os professores participaram de um programa educativo sobre psicomotricidade, organizado a partir dos dados obtidos em entrevista semi-estruturada que explorou conceitos e práticas sobre o tema. Participaram da pesquisa 27 professores, sendo 14 do GC e 13 do GE e 140 alunos do 1º e 2º ano do ensino fundamental (70 em cada grupo). Todos os alunos foram avaliados com a Escala de Desenvolvimento Motor de Rosa Neto (2002), apresentando um atraso de um ano e cinco meses na média das idades motoras gerais em relação às idades cronológicas e em 4 dos 6 elementos psicomotores (motricidade fina, esquema corporal, organização espacial e temporal). Quanto ao desempenho psicomotor 49% dos alunos apresentavam um perfil variando do normal baixo ao muito inferior. O conhecimento dos professores sobre psicomotricidade antes da intervenção educativa foi muito elementar, chegando, em alguns casos ao desconhecimento, demonstrando a necessidade de orientações específicas para o diagnóstico precoce das deficiências de seus alunos e organização de seus planejamentos diários. Após a participação no programa educativo, os relatos de desconhecimento desapareceram, ocorrendo melhor entendimento do tema. Isto repercutiu de forma positiva na melhora das habilidades psicomotoras do GE, com idade motora geral superando em 1 mês a idade cronológica e melhora do perfil psicomotor em praticamente todos os elementos. A psicomotricidade deficiente, apesar de comprovada como causa de atraso da aprendizagem, não tem sido totalmente difundida entre os docentes do ensino fundamental. A utilização de Práticas Educativas em Saúde nas escolas sobre este tema mostra-se como uma forma de detecção precoce de possíveis atrasos nas crianças através da orientação de atividades adequadas aos professores com vistas na otimização do desenvolvimento motor e cognitivo do aluno. / The psychomotor practice promotes and enhances the individual's harmonious adaptation to the environment and their relationships with others with space and time, essential elements for success in school learning. This study investigated the influence of an educational program on psychomotor applied to teachers in their knowledge about the subject and the motor performance of their students in an experimental study, diagnosis of a longitudinal, with a qualitative and quantitative approach. Was held on 5 Public Schools of the city of Maceió, AL, divided into two groups: control (CG) and experimental (GE). At GE, the teachers participated in an educational program on psychomotor, organized from data obtained in semi - structured interview that explored concepts and practices on the subject. 27 teachers participated in the survey, 14 CG and 13 GE and 140 students from 1st and 2nd year of primary school (70 in each group). All students were assessed with the Scale of Motor Development of Rosa Neto (2002), with a delay of one year and five months in the average age of general motor for the chronological ages of 4 and 6 elements psychomotor (fine motor, scheme bodily, spatial and temporal organization). 49% of students had a profile of normal psychomotor ranging down to the very bottom. The teachers' knowledge of psychomotor before the interv iews were very elementary, reaching in some cases of ignorance, demonstrating the need for specific guidelines for the early diagnosis of the weaknesses of their students and organizing their daily schedules. After participating in the educational program, reports of lack disappeared, occurring better understanding of the subject. This reflected positively in the improvement of psychomotor skills of GE, with motor age usually exceeding 1 month in chronological age and improves psychomotor profile in virtual ly all elements. The psychomotor impaired, although proven as a cause of delay in learning, has not been fully disseminated among elementary school teachers. The use of health education in schools on the subject shows up as a form of early detection of pos sible delays in children through the guidance of appropriate activities for teachers in order to optimize the motor and cognitive development of students. / TEDE / BV UNIFESP: Teses e dissertações

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Jane Lino Barbosa de Sousa - 2016.pdf: 1996379 bytes, checksum: 806a8e25041b460289313aed24daa8d9 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-31 / This dissertation is a research on the training of teachers who worked with teaching music in elementary education in a course named Training in Art Education - FAE, offered by the Federal University of the South and Southeast of Pará. The research is Qualitative, a Case Study, with data collection made in class with a group who finished the course FAE / Music, via semi-structured interviews (PÁDUA, 2000). It was interviewed one (01) coordinator, four (04) teachers and seventeen (17) students. The interviews recorded in audio, were fully transcribed. Also constituted the data, FAE original documents provided by NAESSP. The objective was to discuss the theme and the laws that regulate the teaching of music in Brazil, based on the theoretical framework of the area. It was assumed that the music in school should be studied, with specific content of language; and that the music teacher must have adequate training in the Law of Guidelines and Bases, indicated by the governing national education’s rules. The research aimed to bring contributions to the formative process of training teachers in public and private institutions, raising the debate of its practices through discussions of music studies at school. The analysis of the data resulted from the presentation of Excerpts resulting from interviews conducted, followed by Partial Analyzes that led to the Final Analysis. The profile of students formed by FAE course as well as the musical training of students, were presented. It is argued, in concluding remarks, the unfolding of educational practice and the results arising from realized and observed pedagogical action. It was concluded that it is necessary to defend the practice and teaching of music in primary schools and the democratization of this teaching. It is indicated from the results that one can not conform to the precarious context of music education conducted by non music professionals. It is recommended to fight and defend the regional training of music teachers, in each context, since the demand for these professionals is very high. The history of subsequent events studied, the FAE / PA course, resulted in a happy alternative Pará found to implement the training of their teachers in Arts; but it is not adequate training for the practice of a music teacher. It is understood that in places where there is no such option, the improvisations are more aggravating and tend to repeat themselves, by necessity, in the school of Arts. We recommend the implementation of undergraduate degrees in music teaching capable of resolving the basic training problems. It is expected that the commitment to music education is accompanied by responsibility to solve contextual problems, incorporating the undergraduate degrees by the system of higher education. / Trata-se esta dissertação de uma pesquisa sobre a formação de professores que atuaram ensinando música na educação básica, no curso elementar de Formação em Arte Educação – FAE, ofertado pela Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará. A pesquisa é Qualitativa, um Estudo de Caso, com coleta de dados feita na turma concluinte do curso FAE/Música, via entrevistas semi-estruturadas (PÁDUA, 2000). Foram entrevistados um (01) coordenador, quatro (04) professores e dezessete (17) alunos. As entrevistas gravadas em áudio e foram transcritas. Também constituíram os dados, os documentos do curso FAE, disponibilizados pelo Núcleo de Arte Educação do Sul e Sudeste do Pará - NAESSP. Objetivou-se discutir o tema e as leis que regulam o ensino de música no Brasil, com base no referencial teórico da área. Pressupôs-se que a música na escola deve ser objeto de estudo, com conteúdo específico da linguagem; o professor de música deve ter formação adequada segundo a Lei de Diretrizes e Bases, que rege a educação nacional. A pesquisa pretendeu trazer contribuições para os processos formativos de professores das instituições públicas e privadas, suscitando o debate de suas práticas através das discussões dos estudos de música na escola. As análises dos dados resultaram da apresentação dos Excertos das entrevistas conduzidas, seguidas das Análises Parciais que levaram às Análises Finais. O perfil dos alunos formados pelo curso FAE, bem como a formação musical dos alunos, foram apresentados. Apresentou-se, nas Considerações Finais, o desdobramento da prática educativa e os resultados decorrentes da ação pedagógica realizada e observada. Concluiu-se que é preciso defender a prática e ensino da música na escola básica e a democratização deste ensino. Indica-se, a partir dos resultados, que não se pode conformar com o quadro precário de ensino de música feito por profissionais não licenciados em música. Recomenda-se lutar e defender a formação regional de professores de música, em cada contexto, pois a demanda por estes profissionais é muito alta. A história dos subsequentes fatos estudada, a do curso FAE/PA, resultou numa feliz alternativa que paraenses encontraram para implementar a formação de seus professores em Artes; mas não se trata de afirmar que a formação foi adequada para o exercício do docente músico. Entende-se que em lugares onde não há essa opção, os improvisos são mais agravantes e se observa que se repetem, por necessidade, no ensino das Artes. Defende-se a oferta das Licenciaturas Plenas que possam sanar os problemas de preparação formal do professor de música. Espera-se que o compromisso com a educação musical venha acompanhado da responsabilidade de solucionar os problemas contextuais, com a incorporação do ensino de licenciatura plena pelas IES (ensino superior).

FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Cearà / Recentemente, tem surgido um novo debate sobre o âpossÃvel ponto de estrangulamentoâ que poderia ser alcanÃado pela atividade agropecuÃria e industrial no Brasil. Esse fato à representado pelos altos nÃveis de utilizaÃÃo da capacidade industrial instalada e pela busca por novas Ãreas para a atividade agrÃcola. Esta saturaÃÃo da capacidade instalada e de Ãreas para plantio poderia levar a uma pressÃo sobre o nÃvel de preÃos. Nesse contexto, observa-se que o setor primÃrio, apesar de sua importÃncia na estrutura da economia como um todo, ainda à negligenciado. O recente perÃodo à marcado por uma trajetÃria de crescimento da economia brasileira, mas a nÃveis menores que outros paÃses latino-americanos com idÃntica estrutura produtiva, sinalizando a falta de impulso frente a economias competitivas de paÃses emergentes. Este fato pode ser resultado de uma possÃvel saturaÃÃo dos setores industrial e agrÃcola, reforÃando a necessidade de estudar o comportamento e os determinantes da produÃÃo brasileira do setor primÃrio, elemento fundamental da estrutura produtiva nacional. O estudo utiliza tÃcnicas economÃtricas e modelos de sÃries temporais e variÃveis determinantes da produÃÃo agrÃcola brasileira, como: investimentos, taxa de juros, taxa de cÃmbio, preÃos externos e tendÃncia da atividade do setor primÃrio nacional. O trabalho permitiu constatar uma mudanÃa nos ciclos de produÃÃo agropecuÃria nacional devida, provavelmente, a mudanÃas nas tÃcnicas de produÃÃo. TambÃm, se verifica que a sustentabilidade do crescimento do setor primÃrio, indicada pela cointegraÃÃo entre produto e investimento, os investimentos do setor tÃm acompanhado a produÃÃo, evitando, portanto, uma eventual saturaÃÃo e pressÃo inflacionÃria nos preÃos dos produtos agropecuÃrios / The impact on the Gross National Product of investments, interest rates, exchange rates and prices of agricultural exported products are unknown in time to permit previous evaluation of economic activity of Brazilian primary sector. The present work has the objective to preview Brazilian economic activity trend. Econometric techniques and temporal series will be used besides of variables as investments, interest rates, and trend of national primary sector activity. The present work permits to know changes in production techniques. Also, permits verify a sustainable growth of primary sector as indicated by cointegration between products and investments, showing that investments of primary sector has been accompanied the production, avoiding, then, eventual saturation and inflationary press on prices of agricultural products

This study develops an instrument for evaluating the effectiveness of educational administrative performance in Korea. The purposes of this study are to determine the attitudes of 272 respondent Korean school administrators (elementary, middle, and high school principals and vice principals) toward the purposes of administrative evaluation, the elements of an administrative evaluation system, and the competencies that are needed for successful administrative performance. The survey instrument used is a two-part questionnaire that addresses the purposes and elements of administrative evaluation and administrative competencies. Four research questions are answered both by comparing the responses of position and school groups (utilizing a two-way analysis of variance) and rank ordering each item within each category by position and school groups.

Diabetes prevalence is increasing in our ageing and increasingly obese society. Diabetes is a heterogeneous condition, and challenges remain in all aspects of its management - from diagnosis through to optimising treatment, to managing complications. Increasing age brings altered physiological responses to disease, treatments and complications - and there may be more wide-ranging considerations such as dietary, mobility, dependency or cognition, to name just a few. Hypoglycaemia is one of the most important potential side-effects of insulin-therapy, and elderly adults are at particular risk from its consequences. Insulin-treated patients may have long-standing Type 1 diabetes, or have Type 2 diabetes which has progressed to requiring insulin treatment, due to progressive beta cell deficiency. Even within this group of patients, there is heterogeneity, and assessment of risks can be challenging. Endogenous insulin levels can be assessed by measuring C-peptide. Recent advances in this has meant this is much more practical, enabling assessment of endogenous levels in large numbers of patients more feasible, and hence allowing important questions to be addressed. In the context of older patients, particularly interesting questions are whether patients with long-standing Type 2 diabetes can develop severe insulin deficiency, and whether absolute/severe endogenous insulin levels have an impact on treatment or complications of diabetes within insulin-treated cohorts – such as hypoglycaemia. This may thence raise the question of whether C-peptide measurement could potentially be used as an extra clinical tool for risk assessment in a patient population which can be tricky to manage at times. The aim of this thesis is thus to explore some of the issues around management of diabetes in the elderly: in particular hypoglycaemia, and use of C-peptide to more fully assess patients and consider a possible role for it in routine clinical care of some patients. Chapter 1 puts the thesis in context, firstly reviewing hypoglycaemia in the elderly in general, and then considering aspects of endogenous insulin levels and C-peptide measurement. Chapter 2 addresses the problem of recognition of hypoglycaemia in an elderly population, using primary care records and documented symptoms at consultations. Are we missing hypoglycaemia in this population? Accurate diagnosis of diabetes is crucial for getting people on the right treatment guidelines, and can be challenging. Chapter 3 uses a spot urine measure of C-peptide to test for the first time the accuracy of the UK Practical Classification Guidelines (published by the Royal College of General Practitioners and NHS Diabetes). Progressive insulin deficiency in Type 2 diabetes is the main reason people with long-standing Type 2 diabetes may eventually require insulin treatment. Chapter 4 uses the spot urine measure of C-peptide as a screening tool to assess if insulin-treated people with a clinical diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes may develop absolute insulin deficiency. Even more practical than a spot urine test to measure C-peptide, could be a random non-fasting blood measure of C-peptide, which could thus be measured when patients have their routine blood tests done in the community or outpatient appointments. Chapter 5 looks at how such a measure correlates with the gold-standard mixed meal tolerance test C-peptide measure. Severe insulin deficiency in Type 1 diabetes has been correlated with increased complications including hypoglycaemia, but the impact of endogenous insulin levels has not been assessed greatly in Type 2 diabetes. Chapter 6 reports a study looking into this possible relationship, using hypoglycaemia questionnaire responses from a large number of community-dwelling insulin-treated adults (of both diagnoses), in the context of their clinical diabetes diagnosis and their random non-fasted blood C-peptide levels. Chapter 7 assesses in more detail the rates of hypoglycaemia in a small group of insulin-treated patients with a clinical diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes, selected on the basis of their endogenous C-peptide levels. As well as subjective assessment of their hypoglycaemia experience using questionnaires, continuous glucose monitoring was used to objectively assess their rates of hypoglycaemia and glucose variability. Chapter 8 pulls all the above chapters together, summarising them in the context of other research, discussing their limitations and possible areas for future research, and their implications for now for clinical practice.

This research focuses on frequency control ancillary services in large interconnected systems. It analyses and assesses possible alternatives for optimal and innovative solutions of major frequency control issues in large interconnected systems within liberalised electricity markets. Possible improvements in the performance of frequency control are identified. A framework of frequency control ancillary services in large interconnected systems by including loads and wind generation is also proposed.The research has been motivated by the paucity of research in power system dynamics focusing on large interconnected systems such as the European synchronous system and the Eastern interconnection which experience important frequency control challenges. These challenges include:- Decline in frequency response in the Eastern interconnection - Deterministic frequency deviations observed at the top of the hours in the European synchronous systemFrequency control issues became critical when electricity markets were deregulated and frequency control became an ancillary service with a decidedly commercial focus. This commercial focus has spawned a lot of work on frequency control markets and economics whereas not much research has been devoted to dynamic simulation of large interconnected systems. Apart from this commercial focus, frequency control in large interconnected systems is still based on historical practices mainly because changes suggested in the literature can be barely applied in large interconnected systems. This is essentially because dynamic simulation studies are uncorrelated with frequency control markets and economics. More specifically, dynamic studies do not take into account the characteristics of each reserve activated and also the way the reserve is activated. With the deregulation of the electricity market, reserve is considered as a product and not necessarily a response provided by a unit. The main objectives of this research therefore are to solve critical frequency control issues in large interconnected deregulated electricity systems, which may present potential economic benefits. To achieve these objectives, frequency control in large interconnected systems is studied by considering on one hand frequency control theory and on the other hand its implementation in practice taking account of frequency control ancillary service markets as well as the economics and practical consequences of frequency control. This approach is necessary to accommodate the future evolution of frequency control in large interconnected systems. The proposed approach is illustrated through a model of frequency control in the European synchronous system, where practices are better known, are clearly standardised and also where frequency data has been obtained.

Third-party funding (TPF) has grown to be a popular phenomenon in the past two decades with a large global market (billions of USD). This success came with new complications regarding conflicts of interest that threaten the impartiality and independence of arbitrators who may have common-interests with funders. Disclosure of funding has been proposed as a solution and ordered in many cases. However, it was not always approached in systematic ways. Similar TPF cases may have inconsistent decisions. The thesis tackles disclosure in arbitrations to arrive to conclusions on whether it is needed, if all funding-information should be disclosed, and if legal-bases grant tribunals the powers to order such disclosures.  Disclosure opponents raise several objections, which are discussed in the thesis. One objection touches upon the root of many problems namely, TPF definitions. Opponents argue that available-definitions do not circumscribe many funding-models i.e., they are biased against an array of investors that should not be considered as funders. Due to the muddy waters that tribunals have been walking to decide issues on TPF-disclosure, there are inclinations to regulate disclosure. Lately, two national-legislations that include disclosure-regulations have been enforced in Hong Kong and Singapore. Few arbitral-institutions have addressed TPF disclosure (inter alia 2021 ICC Arbitration Rules). In jurisdictions and institutions without such regulations and rules, the soft-law IBA-Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration have been used but with different interpretations depending on arbitrators’ views and case-circumstances. The respective definitions do not address modern economic-realities in secondary-markets of claims. This causes dilemmas in deciding if investors in such markets are considered as funders per se. The thesis assesses TPF-disclosure in international commercial arbitration and analyses its applications in primary and secondary markets. The aim is to draw the attention to disclosure challenges in both markets, propound recommendations, and show that solving such challenges calls for: (i) revising existent-definitions to accommodate evolving funding-models, (ii) differentiating between disclosure-requirements in primary and secondary markets, and (iii) regulating TPF of arbitrations. One result is a proposed definition for ‘TPF of arbitration’ that encompasses unattended issues in existent-definitions. Other results show the need for mandatory-disclosure of funders’ identities (leaving funding-arrangements to tribunals on a case-by-case basis). Such results help to strike a balance between avoiding conflicts of interests and funders’ non-disclosure interests i.e., balancing between TPF transparency and confidentiality.

In this essay, the novel Beloved, by Toni Morrison is observed using a working psychoanalytical approach. Story is observed as an important factor in engaging the reader on a personal level with the experience of trauma. By surveying Morrison’s use of imagery and language, this essay will examine how Morrison employs literary methods that imitate the psychological processes regarding how trauma is communicated to the waking state from the unconscious. The resulting testimony of the novel that arises as the result of these processes is also observed. This essay concludes that Morrison’s use of these literary methods functions to obligate the reader to involve themselves in the process of trauma and its resolution.

Title: Chemistry - Physics Relatives in the Science Education Department: Department of Teaching and Didactics of Chemistry Abstract (in English): Within the master's degree thesis was conducted a literary research. Overview of interdisciplinary relatives in science education was done based on this research. The interdisciplinary relatives are described in the work as well as a historical development of integrated science education in the Czech Republic and in Europe. Three teaching tasks were created for use in science lessons with the following topics: The universe evolution and formation of elements, Luminescence, and The substance composition. Teaching tasks can be used during the class work or as a material for talented students and have both theoretical and practical parts. The teaching tasks were evaluated by teachers who used them during their chemistry lessons. The final part of the master thesis is a survey, in which teachers answered the questions concerning the establishing of new conference called "Chemistry Teachers' Inventions Fair" for secondary school and high school teachers. Keywords: interdisciplinary relatives, physics, chemistry, science eduaction, integrated teaching

A statewide mail survey of primary and secondary wood product manufacturers was undertaken to quantify the production and consumption of wood residues in Virginia. Two hundred and sixty-six wood product manufacturers responded to the study and they provided information on the production, consumption, markets, income or disposal costs, and disposal methods of wood residues. Hardwood and pine sawmills produce approximately 66 percent of Virginia's wood residues. Virginia's wood product manufacturers produce three primary residues: chips, bark, and sawdust. These three residues comprised nearly 83 percent of Virginia's total residue production in 1996. Approximately 200,000 tons or 6 percent of Virginia's wood residues appear not to have adequate markets. A second survey was directed to all municipal waste, construction and demolition, and "other" waste facilities in Virginia. The focus of this survey was to quantify the volume of solid wood residues received at the facilities. In addition, the study was conducted to ascertain tipping fees, did the landfill(s) actively market wood residues, were wood residues recycled, were wood residues restricted from being landfilled, and disposal methods for wood residues. Additionally, the survey was conducted to determine the type of waste facility operated, the quantity of all wastes directed to each landfill, and tipping fees. Seventy-five respondents provided information on the total and solid wood waste volumes received at their respective facilities, recycling efforts, and disposal practices. Approximately 689,000 tons of solid wood, or 8 percent of all wastes, was received at Virginia's landfills in 1996. Virginia's waste facilities reported processing or recycling approximately 406,000 tons or 59 percent of the solid wood received in 1996. / Master of Science