Aim: The aim of this thesis is to evaluate patients’ satisfaction with prosthetic device and service on lower limb amputations in Danang, Vietnam and to implement comparisons between the subgroups gender, living area, amputation cause and level. Method: A cross-sectional study design was conducted using the Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with assistive Technology (QUEST) 2.0 questionnaire to measure patients’ satisfaction. Fifty patients were recruited through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the data collection was performed in the patients own homes with an interpreter. The collected data was statistically analyzed with suitable tests using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Result: The patients were quite satisfied with their prosthetic devices (mean 4.16 SD ± 0.561) and more or less satisfied with their given services (mean 2.83 SD ± 1.213). Significant differences were found between genders regarding the patients’ satisfaction with prosthetic device. There were no significant differences between the remaining subgroups; living area, amputation cause and amputation level. Conclusion: This thesis demonstrates that the patients in Danang appear to be quite satisfied with their prosthetic device, even though they reported problems with the durability of the device. Furthermore, the patients were more or less satisfied with their prosthetic services. The findings in this thesis also reveals that women were less satisfied compared to men regarding the prosthetic device. These conclusions should however be taken with caution, since the reliability and validity was lower than desired and it’s difficult to generalize the results to the population. / Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att evaluera patienters nöjdhet med deras utgivna protes och service på nedre extremitetsamputerade i Danang, Vietnam och att implementera jämförelser mellan subgrupperna kön, bostadsområde, amputations- orsak och nivå. Metod: En cross-sectional studiedesign blev utförd genom användning av Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with assistive Technology (QUEST) 2.0 enkäten för att mäta patienters nöjdhet. Femtio patienter blev rekryterade genom International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) och datainsamlingen blev utförd i patienternas egna hushåll med en tolk. Den insamlade datan blev statistiskt analyserad med lämpliga tester genom användning av Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Resultat: Patienterna var ganska nöjda med deras utgivna proteser (medelvärde 4,16 SD ± 0,561) och mer eller mindre nöjda med deras utgivna service (medelvärde 2,83 SD ± 1,213). Signifikanta skillnader hittades mellan kön gällande patienters nöjdhet med deras utgivna protes. Det fanns inga signifikanta skillnader mellan de resterande subgrupperna; bostadsområde, amputationsorsak och amputationsnivå. Slutsats: Den här studien demonstrerar att patienterna i Danang verkar vara ganska nöjda med deras utgivna proteser, fastän de rapporterade problem med protesens hållbarhet. Dessutom var patienterna mer eller mindre nöjda med deras utgivna service. Fynden i denna studie påvisar också att kvinnorna var mindre nöjda gällande protesen jämfört med männen. Dessa slutsatser skall dock tas med aktsamhet, eftersom reliabiliteten och validiteten blev lägre än önskat och det var svårt att generalisera resultaten till populationen.

Denna uppsats undersöker virtuella verklighetsvarningar i relation till fördjupning. Fördjupning är det engagemanget en spelare känner utifrån att spela ett spel och kan karakteriseras som graden eller nivån av engagemanget som spelaren har med olika aspekter av spelet. Det är viktigt fenomen att undersöka eftersom spelare kan bli skadade om varningarna inte fungerar som de ska. Uppsatsen har undersökt för- och nackdelar med varningar som Quest 2 ger ut till spelarna av Beat Saber, Blade & Sorcery och Gorilla Tag i relation till fördjupning. För att undersöka vilka för- och nackdelar det finns med de varningar som Quest 2 ger ut till spelarna av Beat Saber, Blade & Sorcery och Gorilla Tag genomfördes det en heuristisk utvärdering för att identifiera problem som sedan undersöktes vidare med en enkätundersökning och intervjuer. Data från den heuristiska utvärderingen, enkätundersökning och intervjuer triangulerades för att hitta för- och nackdelar med varningarna utifrån ett säkerhetsperspektiv. Utifrån undersökningen blev det tydligt att nuvarande varningar hjälper spelarna. Dock finns det möjligheter till förbättring. Utifrån resultaten skapades designriktlinjer för VR-varningar. Det är tänkt att dessa designriktlinjer ska användas som hjälpmedel när VR-varningar designas. Om designriktlinjerna används är det sannolikt att risken för användarskada minskas. Dock behövs det testas ytterligare. / This essay examines virtual reality warnings in relation to immersion. Immersion is the engagement a player feels from playing a game and can be characterized as the degree or level of engagement the player has with various aspects of the game. This area is important to research because players of virtual reality games can be hurt if the warnings do not work as intended. This essay has examined the pros and cons of the warnings that Quest 2 gives to the players of Beat Saber, Blade & Sorcery and Gorilla Tag in relation to immersion. Toresearch the pros and cons of warnings issued by Quest 2 to Beat Saber, Blade & Sorcery and Gorilla Tag players, a heuristic evaluation was conducted to identify issues which were then further investigated with a survey and interviews. Data from the heuristic evaluation, survey and interviews were triangulated to find pros and cons of the warnings from a security perspective. Based on the research, it became clear that current warnings help the players, however, there are opportunities for improvement. Based on the results, design guidelines for VR warnings were created. It is intended that these design guidelines should be used as aid when designing VR warnings. If the design guidelines are used, it is more likely that the risk of user injury is reduced, however, further testing is required.

The purpose of this case study is to understand how management and leadership ideas that were present in Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky influenced management and leadership practices adopted by Scott County Public Schools during 2002-2011. Data for the study were collected during the summer of 2011, using individual and focus group interviews including teachers, administrators, community and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky employees; on-site participant observations, and documents. This study examined Scott County Public Schools implementation of the Quest for Useful Employment Skills for Tomorrow, the formation of The Center for Quality People and Organizations, changes in Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) curriculum, a shift to a global perspective, continuous improvement, and increased cooperation with business and community partners. Themes that emerged from the data includes: (a) the need to establish a continuous improvement model; (b) the creation and implementation of a continuous improvement model; (c) global perspectives; and (d) the pivotal role of school district leadership in developing corporate relationships and changing management and leadership practices. Findings suggest that a confluence of social, economic and political events contributed to situating a major, multinational corporation in a small Kentucky community that espoused a singular organizational and leadership philosophy to Scott County, positive public support for school improvement, and internal commitment of staff and administrators laid a foundation for the establishment of a continuous improvement model. This model created change that enhanced the professional practice of SCPS. This continuous improvement model or any model being successfully implemented in public schools comes down to the leadership of the Board of Education, district office staff, principals, and teachers-- but most importantly, the superintendent. “Success or failure of public schools has been directly linked to the influence of the district superintendent” (Bjork, 1993, p. 249).

This study examined the relationship between the religious orientation quest and well-being using the 1998 General Social Survey. In addition to the religious orientation quest the extrinsic and intrinsic religious orientations were also investigated. Analysis of the data indicated that there was a slight negative association between quest and general well-being, while also demonstrating a strong positive association between quest and inner peace. These results underscore the supposition that quest is an orientation that is complex and ultimately deserves further attention.

The author joins the Peace Corps in the hopes that he will discover who he really is yet he only finds frustration. Upon returning to the States he has a daughter and finds peace. Within this peace, as he types up the life history of a friend, he finally makes a breakthrough, yet the answer he finds is not to his liking.

The Medieval English dream vision evidence influences from a variety of earlier vision literature, notably the apocalyptic vision and narrative dream. Philosophical visions by Plato, Cicero and Boethius, and Christian revelations of John and Paul contain traits that found their way into the dream poems by Langland, the Pearl poet and Chaucer. The Norwegian ballad Draumkvedet exhibits features that mirror these English visions. Notable characteristics pertaining to the character of the dreamer, the interplay between dreamer and dream, imagery of the vision, and structure, point to a common set of generic influences. Comparing Draumkvedet with its English counterparts demonstrates that they stem from the same tradition. Draumkvedet bares special resemblance to the Dream of the Rood, Piers Plowman and Pearl in its exploration of Christian doctrine and its appeal to the audience.

Cette thèse porte sur la représentation du Liban dans l’œuvre de Richard Millet, à travers deux processus différents et complémentaires : la mémoire et l’imagination. Partant du constat que l’œuvre de cet écrivain s’avère étroitement liée à son expérience personnelle, nous travaillons sur une matière littéraire combinant le réel et le fictionnel, l’écriture de soi et le roman. Pour accompagner fidèlement cette expérience du sujet, il est d’abord question de l’espace libanais, dans une perspective qui dépasse la simple description pour atteindre les interactions entre l’individu et son environnement. De même est évoqué le rapport entre l’écriture et l’espace, dans la mesure où ce dernier participe au développement de la trame narrative. Le sujet et l’espace, ainsi que la majorité des éléments qui composent l’œuvre de Millet, sont soumis à un ordre commun, celui du Temps. Le retour obsédant du passé, et tout particulièrement de l’enfance libanaise, engendre un mouvement de ressassement général. Tous ces éléments participent à un projet harmonieux, celui d’une quête identitaire qui part d’une expérience personnelle pour atteindre une dimension universelle. / This thesis focuses on the representation of Lebanon in the work of Richard Millet, through two different and complementary processes: memory and imagination. Noting that the work of this writer has been closely linked to personal experience, we are working on a literary material combining the real and the fictional, the writing itself and the novel. To faithfully accompany the experience of the subject, it is first issue of the Lebanese space in a perspective that goes beyond description to achieve the interactions between the individual and his environment. Also discussed is the relationship between writing and space, to the extent that it contributes to the development of the narrative. The subject and space, and most of the elements that make up the work of Millet, are subject to a common order, the Time. The haunting return of the past, especially of Lebanese children, causes a movement of general rehashing. All these elements contribute to a harmonious project, that of a search for identity that share a personal experience to achieve universal dimension.

Submitted by Caroline Xavier (caroline.xavier@pucrs.br) on 2017-07-04T18:10:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TES_SAUL_ESTEVAM_FERNANDES_COMPLETO.pdf: 3375408 bytes, checksum: 27f32bc3a1409a358307936c83c75258 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-04T18:10:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TES_SAUL_ESTEVAM_FERNANDES_COMPLETO.pdf: 3375408 bytes, checksum: 27f32bc3a1409a358307936c83c75258 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-23 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico - CNPq / The present study discusses how the mechanisms for resolving interstate boundary issues were metamorphosed during the First Republic through debates in various institutions, such as the National Congress, the Senate, the Federal Supreme Court (STF), among others. We have noticed that, in the beginning, thought from the subordinations of the state interests to a greater interest, the national, the resolution devices of the interstates boundaries issues have been dissolved throughout the politics. However, the gaps found in the elaboration of the constitution of 1891 were of fundamental importance for the judicialization of those devices. We also have noticed that the process of judicialization started at the STF ended up metamorphosed in other ways, because of the long legal proceedings of brazilian justice, giving subterfuges on recognizing and strenghtening of the arbitral tribunals, as well as in the importance attributed to the national executive through the intermediary of the President of the Republic or emissaries linked to it. / O presente estudo discute como os dispositivos de resolu??o das quest?es de limites interestaduais foram se metamorfoseando durante a Primeira Rep?blica atrav?s dos debates em diversas institui??es, como Congresso Nacional, Senado Federal, Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), dentre outras. Perceberemos que, inicialmente, a partir da subordina??o dos interesses estaduais pelo interesse maior, o nacional, as resolu??es das quest?es de limites foram pensadas para serem dirimidas atrav?s da pol?tica. Contudo, as brechas dispostas na produ??o da Constitui??o de 1891 foram de fundamental import?ncia para que houvesse a judicializa??o dos dispositivos. Ainda perceberemos que o processo de judicializa??o iniciado no STF acabou se metamorfoseando em outro meio, pois os demorados tr?mites da justi?a brasileira acabaram dando subterf?gios no reconhecimento e fortalecimento dos Tribunais Arbitrais, assim como na import?ncia atribu?da ao Executivo Nacional por meio da intermedia??o do Presidente da Rep?blica ou de emiss?rios vinculados ao mesmo.

Cette thèse consiste en une étude comparée de La Montagne de l’âme de Gao Xingjian et Sur la route de Jack Kerouac ayant « la quête » comme problématique centrale. Bien qu’à première vue les deux œuvres apparaissent fort différentes, selon l’esprit de la littérature comparée, elles méritent une confrontation minutieuse et nous estimons qu’elles possèdent quantité de points communs : Premièrement, il s’agit de deux romans foisonnants qui englobent bon nombre de genres romanesques et semblant relever simultanément de plusieurs catégories : roman autobiographique, roman-géographe, roman de pèlerinage, roman picaresque, roman de mœurs, roman de méditation, et enfin roman « froid » et « sans-isme ». Par leurs différents aspects, ces deux œuvres peuvent satisfaire aux attentes de divers lecteurs. Deuxièmement, au plan stylistique, La Montagne de l’âme et Sur la route sont deux romans insolites. L’innovation de La Montagne de l’âme se manifeste par la pratique d’un mode de narration inédit, la particularité linguistique, la singularité dans la structure, l’hétérogénéité du matériau romanesque, bref par une grande originalité formelle. Quant à Sur la route, sa nouveauté se manifeste d’abord par sa création fondamentale, à savoir la prose spontanée. Elle s’exprime aussi par la particularité de la construction romanesque, l’originalité de l’écriture et la singularité du contenu. Troisième parenté fondamentale : La Montagne de l’âme et Sur la route se présentent comme deux quêtes de l’espace. Montagne, chemin et maison sont trois motifs récurrents communs à ces deux romans qui sont également deux odes aux grands espaces. Les protagonistes relatent les itinéraires parcourus en Amérique et en Chine et l’on peut voir dans ces livres deux odes aux cultures nées dans les grands espaces. À l’intérieur de ces deux œuvres, les paysages romanesques se recommandent par leur caractère pictural et polysensoriel. L’espace typographique du texte est également aménagé avec art : les deux romans sont à la fois découpés et cousus. Enfin, considérés sous l’angle de la spiritualité, La Montagne de l’âme et Sur la route peuvent être dits romans de l’âme : de nombreuses questions spirituelles y sont intégrées, posées et approfondies. L’un et l’autre traitent la quête du sens de la vie, plus précisément, la quête de l’ego (identité, soi), la quête d’un mode de vie (fondé sur le présent, la liberté) et la quête métaphysique (destin, mort, croyance). Ces quatre similitudes correspondent à quatre quêtes que les deux oeuvres déploient à leur façon : la recherche d’un genre romanesque, d’une stylistique originale, d’un espace romanesque et enfin d’un sens de la vie. / The thesis is about the comparative analysis which concern about the main concept of quest where from soul mountain of Gao Xingjian and On the Road of Jack Kerouac. Although these two books seem quite unlike, by the spiritual of comparative literature, they totally worth to be comparative studied carefully, and we think they have quite much in common.First, these two novels are both rich in connotation, they cover many of the novel categories, such as autobiographical novel, geographical novel, pilgrimage novel, picaresque novel, novel of manners, novel of meditation, the “cold” novel and non socialist novel. In different aspects, these two works can meet the needs of different readers.Secondly, in the stylistics, the soul mountain and on the road are two unusual novels. The innovation of the soul mountain is the practice of singularity of narration, the singularity of language characteristic, the singularity of structure, the heterogeneity of the material, the singularity of the form. As for on the road, the creativity of the novel based on many aspects, namely the spontaneous prose, also the singularity of characteristic of the construction, the way of writing, and the uniqueness of content.The third, the soul mountain and on the road two novels both relate as they quest the idea of space. Mountain, road and house are three common recurrent motifs which show up in these two novels, which are also odes of wide open spaces. The protagonists narrate the travel through America and China. We can discover from the two books both contain odes which point to the cultures cultivated from the spaces. In these two works, the narrations about landscapes are both pictorial and also polysensoriel. Spaces typographic of the two novels are also rearranged with art: both cut and sewn. Finally, from the perspective of the spiritual, the soul mountain and on the road can be regarded as novels of the soul: many spiritual questions are quested and thoroughly researched. The two novels both deal with the quest for the sense of life, and more specifically, the pursuit of the ego, (identity, soi), the quest for the way of life (present, liberty), the quest for the metaphysical (destiny, death, religion).These four similarities are corresponding to the four quests of these two novels: the quest of novel categories, stylistics, space, sense of life.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-09-26T12:34:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Edilson Rodrigues Palhares.pdf: 59440788 bytes, checksum: a75864ad01d5bb035310f45c7760cb12 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-26T12:34:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Edilson Rodrigues Palhares.pdf: 59440788 bytes, checksum: a75864ad01d5bb035310f45c7760cb12 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-20 / This research presents reflections from an anthropological perspective about scientific, social and ethical questions, inherent to what, in popular conception, is by convention the beginning and the end of the civilizatory process. It is used as a system of references, in the first place, the collective imaginary about prehistoric man and, in second place, the uncertainness during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union in the last century. Thus, the selected research objects are science fiction movies (even if at first glance they do not seem to be part of this genre) that permit observing the ambiguous potentialities in the use of fire – the main character of this thesis. Those movies are “Quest for Fire”, from 1981, and “The Day After”, from 1983, being considered the suggestion, implicit in the first movie, that the production of fire in the Paleolithic Period was a significant mark for the separation of the ambits of “culture” and “nature” in man. In this way, “Quest for Fire” is the primary research object. This thesis aims to demonstrate that this movie, though it presents some mistaken conceptions about prehistory, can contribute to science education and publicizing, provided that, to didactic ends, its art is distinguished from science. In this proposition, the second movie is used as reinforcement, due to its historical importance and contemporary set of themes. In the theoretical basis are included Edgar Morin, regarding cinema and Anthropology; Darko Suyin, about science fiction (besides the directors of the two movies); and Gaston Bachelard, about the ambiguity of fire. It must be said that, unexpectedly, the life and work of J.-H. Rosny aîné, author of the novel from which “Quest for Fire” took its argument, became of great value to show how much the science fiction movies, usually underrated as works of intellectual content, can contribute to a better and perennial society / A presente pesquisa apresenta reflexões de cunho antropológico sobre questões científicas, sociais e éticas inerentes ao que se convencionou ser, na concepção popular, o início e o fim do processo civilizatório. Tem-se como referencial, em primeiro plano, o imaginário coletivo sobre o homem pré-histórico e, em segundo, as incertezas durante a Guerra Fria entre Estados Unidos e União Soviética no século passado. Para isso, os objetos de pesquisa selecionados são filmes de cinema do gênero ficção científica (mesmo que à primeira vista não o pareçam) que permitem o recorte sobre as potencialidades ambíguas do uso do fogo – o grande personagem desta tese. No caso, "A Guerra do Fogo", de 1981, e "O Dia Seguinte”, de 1983, levando-se em conta a sugestão, implícita no primeiro, de que a produção do fogo no Paleolítico foi um marco significativo para o distanciamento dos domínios “cultura” e “natureza” no homem. Dessa forma, “A Guerra do Fogo” é o objeto de pesquisa primário. Enseja-se demonstrar que essa produção, apesar de apresentar certas concepções equivocadas sobre a Pré-história, tem a contribuir para a divulgação e educação científica, desde que se diferencie, para fins didáticos, sua arte da ciência. Dentro dessa proposta, o segundo filme é usado como reforço, pela importância histórica e temática contemporânea. Na sustentação teórica, destacam-se Edgar Morin, quanto ao cinema e Antropologia; Darko Suvin, na ficção científica (além dos diretores de ambos os filmes); e Gaston Bachelard, na ambiguidade do fogo. Há de se considerar que, inesperadamente, a vida e a obra de J.-H. Rosny aîné, autor do romance de onde “A Guerra do Fogo” extraiu seu argumento, mostrou-se de grande valor para mostrar o quanto os filmes de ficção científica, normalmente desprezados como obras de conteúdo intelectual, têm a contribuir para uma sociedade melhor, e perene