Zugl.: Wien, Univ., Diplomarbeit, 2004 u.d.T.: Alker, Stefan: Entronnensein - internationale Orte in der österreichischen Gegenwartsliteratur

Amber has been a recurring luxury around the Mediterranean Sea for thousands of years in various cultures. This study treats the first two centuries AD in the Roman Empire. The early centuries of the Empire saw a brief period of relative calm in which Baltic amber became a fashion in Rome. The purpose of this investigation is to explain how and why amber journeyed from the northern oceans of Germania into Rome, and how it expressed itself in the Empire. The Amber Road between the Baltic Sea and Rome is well trodden by modern researchers, but very little has been written about why amber arrived in various contexts. The questions are on the topics of the amber’s origin, how it was consumed and by whom. Throughout the study, the agency of amber is considered in order to approach the source material from a new angle. The first chapter investigates what effect the geographical origin and trade had on the agency of amber. The first part of the second chapter discusses amber in material culture as well as examples of amber items in ancient texts. The second part of the second chapter analyses perfume vessels made from amber. The last chapter is on the topic of amber as a luxury. The discussion and conclusion argues that rich women were major consumers of amber in Rome.

Children who grow up in dysfunctional families where they do not have required educational care and model are nowadays focused as frequented. The number of reasons why is a child on the edge of parents´ interests is increasing. Those children are exposed to risky factors much more than the others, because they lack of protection and an educational model. Society´s reaction to this situation is building Low Threshold Institutions which offer ambulatory or filed services to children or youngsters who are endangered by social exclusion. In a theoretical part, there is a comprehensive introduction of issues connected with these building Low Threshold Institutions for children and youngsters (NZDM further). These issues are clearly arranged into chapters which represent legislative fixing of NZDM, its rules and standards. A history of NZDM which has been developed in the Czech Republic dynamically since the 90s to a present form is a part of another chapter. Principles of NZDM, inner rules of provided services, employees and their personal dispositions, education and ethical norms are also describes, as well as services and activities of NZDM which are mainly of advisory and preventive character. The last chapter deals with a target group, which is affected by inner factors primarily developmental psychology of potential clients and outer factors which are socialization ones. A research is based on a qualitative approach where a point of view of the target group on NZDM Srdíčko Jiloro was found out with the aid of data fixing. Another points of interest was employees´ point of view, their professional perception of provided services. Last but not least, subjective view of NZDM from some clients´ parents was put into the research, too. The first aim of the thesis was to find out whether and which relevance the services of NZDM Srdíčko Jiloro have got for the clients. The second one was to identify how the work with clients is going on (e.g. contact work, work with educational situations, motivational dialogues and work with drug themes). Under the terms of an empirical thesis part are introduced data which were gathered into following results NZDM Srdíčko Jiloro has got its own irreplaceable role in the area of Okružní, but the clients are not aware of the fact that NZDM has got any influence on them. They do not use any other alternatives for spending their free time. There are 40 clients and only 2 social workers every day. Clients do not talk about their problems, they say they do not need help. Advantages are that social workers learn with them, help them with their homework, etc. They are also aware of using of leisure time activities and workshops. Social workers and information in files and records of services and activities prove that clients have got problems. These are mostly very grave and that is another reason why Okružní has got its important role. Social workers provide especially consulting, information and situational service, preventive and educational programmes, work with close relatives, etc. Professionals in NZDM and Rehabilitation and Activation Service Sasanka work with whole families and they try to offer complex support and help. Social workers guide clients through their childhood and maturing, they are becoming their guides and mentors, they lead them to positive changes and have got mainly socialization and educative effect. Work with the clients in Okružní is more hectic than in other NZDMs. I think it is primarily because the social workers want to offer services to a maximal number of clients but with the lack of employees and time. Leisure time activities are going on in an ordinary way, but work with children and youngsters in a social unacceptable area needs specific professional and human attitudes and approaches. Because of poor personal sources are social workers forced to a negative trend provide services rather in a quantitative than in a qualitative way.

Title: Comparison of the effectiveness of manual therapy and therapy using exercises in muscle postural strings for painful neck syndromes. Objective: The main aim of this work is to compare the effect of active and passive approaches, combinations thereof, used in normal physiotherapy practice for painful neck syndromes. Active physiotherapy techniques represent the concept of Dr. Raševa, exercises in open and closed kinematic strings and elements of developmental kinesiology. Passive physiotherapy techniques are soft tissue techniques, mobilization and manipulation. The combination of these techniques is the application of active and passive techniques, i.e. the concept of Dr. Rašev, exercises in open and closed kinematic strings, elements of developmental kinesiology and soft tissue techniques, mobilization and manipulation. Methods: The study involved a total of 30 probands with chronic neck pain, randomly divided into three groups of 10. The first group (LTV - health exercise) included active treatment approaches, i.e. the concept of Dr. Raševa, exercises in open and closed kinematic strings and elements of developmental kinesiology. In the second group (TMT - soft tissue techniques) the contents were passive therapeutic approaches, i.e. soft tissue techniques, mobilization and manipulation....

Accessibility and use of social services by the Romany minority in Prachatice is a very topical issue. All social services provided are specified in the Social Services Act. The main mission of the aforesaid Act is to protect the rights and legitimate interests of individuals who are disadvantaged in the enforcement of their interests for various reasons. These reasons may include age, race, health handicap, critical life situation, insufficiently stimulating social environment, etc. The objective was to map social services used by the Romany minority in Prachatice. In order to fulfil the objective of the thesis, the following three research questions were put. RQ 1: What are the problems concerning which the Romany minority contacts social services organizations? RQ 2: Do the social services offered in Prachatice reflect the issues of the Romany population? RQ 3: What social needs of the Romany people in Prachatice remain unsatisfied? For the research part a qualitative methodology was used, which allowed to depict the dynamics of opinions and attitudes of all informants. The data were collected by means of a semi-structured interview technique. The research examined both the views of Romany citizens of Prachatice and the views of social workers from the local social services organizations. The data were collected from 17 informants in total. The obtained data were processed while using the grounded theory. As an important finding that resulted from my research, I deem the fact that the Romany population in Prachatice knows only nine social services organizations and uses only five of them (Most naděje, Céčko, Coolna, Lungo Drom, Phénix). Moreover, they use the social services of these organizations only sporadically or not at all. The social services used by the Romany people include leisure time activities, social consultancy, visits at schools, provision and arrangement of meals, provision of accommodation, individual planning, crisis intervention, safekeeping of valuables, financial assistance, outreach work, exchange program, indicative testing, pre-school preparation and catch-up lessons. The Romany people would welcome greater interest of social services organizations and their responsiveness. They would also appreciate more leisure time activities in their quarters, better facilities of the quarters and their surroundings, more culture for Romany people and a Romany club led by a Romany social worker. They would also welcome a Romany social worker in some other social services and at the Municipal Police of Prachatice. Informants lack contact with the majority society and better time availability of the urban mass transport and, last but not least, would welcome changes in the municipal government. Social workers would welcome a social service in Prachatice with a psychologist and psychiatrist available for children and adults, higher frequency of visits of the citizens' association Fokus České Budějovice, establishment of social accommodation facilities and a day-care centre for homeless people, social service for children up to three years, strengthening of the ground social work, and a social service aimed at hiring Romany people for temporary jobs. Based on the results derived from the interviews performed and from the data obtained, it is possible to formulate the following three hypotheses. H1: The service most used by the Romany population is social consultancy. H2: Organizations providing social services respond to the Romany issues. H3: Prachatice needs to strengthen ground social work. The findings revealed by this thesis may be used by the social services organizations in Prachatice as feedback from the Romany minority concerning the given issues. Thus the organizations can respond to the need of particular services, which may result in more frequent use of social services in Prachatice.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:19:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissLHB.pdf: 2237464 bytes, checksum: a9f2e45dc713b4d16aefdcfdf7b78613 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-02-28 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / The relation between flexibility alterations and muscular torque posstretching is not so exploited in literature. There are many stretching techniques and posture used in clinics and sportive activities. The technique of eccentric active stretching in a standing posture, with weight unloading in the stretched limb, is one of them. Thus, a better knowledge of the alterations caused after its application will provide scientific support for its usage. Objective: To evaluate the effects of an eccentric active stretching program of the knee flexor muscles in the standing posture on the evaluated limb on: knee extension ROM, passive torque of knee flexor muscles and isometric and isokinetic concentric and eccentric torque of flexor and extensor muscles of the knee. Methodology: 34 healthy and sedentary volunteers, both genders (34,42 ± 9,3 years) were evaluated. All of them had 20° or more knee flexor muscles shortening. The stretching program was performed twice a week, for four weeks and consisted of 7 consecutive repetitions of 1 min each one with a 30s rest between them. Knee ROM and knee torque were evaluated using an Isokinetic Dynamometer before and after four weeks of intervention. The passive torque and knee ROM were measured passively, while the isometric, concentric and eccentric torque of the flexor and extensor of the knee were measured through maximal voluntary contractions (speeds 30°/s, 60°/s). Results: There was an increase in the knee extensor ROM from 53,7 ± 13° to 30,1 ± 16° (p = 0,0001). No alteration occurred in the passive torque (from 11,2 ± 3N to 10,6 ± 3N; p = 0,09). The isometric extensor and flexor torque increased from 68 ± 67,8N to 187,58 ± 73,5N (p = 0,006) and from 89,68 ± 32,62N to 93,87 ± 33,12N (p = 0,01), respectively. There was a gain of knee extensor concentric torque at 60°/s from 144,44 ± 51,6N to 151,57 ± 58,2N (p = 0,02) and knee extensor eccentric torque at 30°/s from 175,4 ± 71,6N to 189,9 ± 73,8N (p = 0,01). There was an improvement in the flexor eccentric and concentric torque at 30º /s (from 100,3 ± 34,2N to 105,63 ± 35N; p = 0,02 and from 90,7 ± 31,7N to 96,7 ± 31,8N; p = 0,001, respectively). Conclusions: The eccentric active stretching program of the knee flexor muscles in a standing posture was effective to increase knee extension ROM, improving flexibility in the knee flexor muscles, although there was no change in the passive torque. It also improved the isometric and isokinetic peak torque from the muscle group submitted to the stretching and its antagonist group. / A relação entre alterações na flexibilidade e torque muscular pósalongamentos tem sido pouco explorada pela literatura. São inúmeras as técnicas e posturas de alongamento sendo utilizadas tanto nas clínicas quanto em atividades esportivas. A técnica de alongamento ativo excêntrico realizada na postura em pé, com descarga de peso no membro alongado, estão entre elas. Sendo assim, o maior conhecimento das alterações geradas após sua aplicação, dará suporte para que sejam executadas mediante evidências científicas que comprovem sua eficácia. Objetivo: foi avaliar o efeito de um programa de alongamento ativo excêntrico dos músculos flexores do joelho na postura em pé com descarga de peso no membro avaliado, sobre as variáveis: Amplitude de movimento (AM) de extensão do joelho, torque passivo dos músculos flexores do joelho e torque isométrico e isocinético dos músculos extensores e flexores do joelho. Metodologia: foram selecionados 34 voluntários, de ambos os sexos, com idade de 34,42 ± 9,3 anos, sedentários, saudáveis e com, no mínimo, 20º de encurtamento dos músculos flexores do joelho. Todas as variáveis estudadas foram avaliadas pré e pós-programa de alongamento, em um Dinamômetro Isocinético (Biodex Multi-joint System 3). O programa de alongamento dos músculos flexores do joelho foi realizado duas vezes por semana durante quatro semanas. Cada sessão de alongamento consistiu de sete repetições de 1min de alongamento intercaladas com 30 s de repouso. A avaliação da Amplitude de movimento e do torque passivo foram realizados passivamente. O toque isométrico e isocinético concêntrico e excêntrico dos músculos extensores e flexores do joelho, foram testados por meio de contrações voluntárias máximas Contração Voluntária Máxima (CVM) nas velocidades a 30º/s e 60º/s. Resultados: demonstraram aumento na amplitude de movimento de extensão do joelho de 53,7 ± 13° para 30,1 ± 16° (p = 0,0001). O valor do torque passivo não alterou significativamente (11,2 ± 3N para 10,6 ± 3N; p = 0,09). O torque isométrico extensor aumentou de 178,68 ± 67,8N para 187,58 ± 73,5N (p = 0,006) e o flexor de 89,68 ± 32,62N para 93,87 ± 33,12N (p = 0,01). O torque isocinético concêntrico dos músculos extensores aumentou a 60°/s de 144,44 ± 51,6 N para 151,57 ± 58,2N; (p = 0,02) e o excêntrico a 30°/s de 175,4 ± 71,6 N para 189,9 ± 73,8 N; (p = 0,01). O torque isocinético tanto excêntrico quanto concêntrico dos músculos flexores do joelho aumentou a 30°/s (de 100,3 ± 34,2 N para 105,63 ± 35 N; p = 0,01 e de 90,7 ± 31,7 N para 96,7 ± 31,8 N; p = 0,001, respectivamente). Conclusão: o programa de alongamento ativo excêntrico dos músculos flexores do joelho, realizado na postura em pé, foi efetivo em aumentar a amplitude de movimento de extensão do joelho, sendo assim aumentou a flexibilidade dos flexores do joelho, embora não tenha constatado alteração no torque passivo. Também se mostrou eficaz em aumentar o pico de torque isométrico e isocinético tanto do grupo muscular submetido ao alongamento quanto do seu antagonista.

This thesis describes and analyzes the symbolist artist Tyra Kleen’s life as a student and professional artist in late 1900th- and early 2000th-century, using biography as methodology, in combination with Pierre Bourdieu’s theories on Cultural Fields, and Feministic theory. A few of her Symbolistic art works will be analyzed using Ragnar Josephson’s theories on the Making of Art. The years in between 1892 – 1908 are in focus of the thesis, when the artist mainly lived, studied and worked abroad; in Germany, Paris and Rome.  Tyra Kleen (1874-1951) was born in Sweden, but lived for many years in Europe. She saw herself more as a European or a Cosmopolitan, than a Swedish person. She went to several art schools in Europe; in Dresden, Karlsruhe, Munich, Paris and Rome. She lived in Paris during the years of ”the fine de siècle”, and then moved to Rome where she lived and worked for almost ten years. During her years abroad, with influences from artists as Böcklin and Puvis de Chavannes, authors as Charles Boudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe, and from Theosophy, she picked up a continental Symbolistic style, that is unique, and is not to be found in any other Swedish artists’ styles. The thesis gives a new piece to the puzzle regarding Swedish late 1900th-early 2000th-century Art History.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:20:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 VergasVAS.pdf: 346048 bytes, checksum: ff36ecd8cd1debb1611fd02d05c352ea (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-31 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / Romantic love constitutes a central value in the social imaginary of modern societies and with reflexes in today s society. This is because the romantic expectation of realization of love appears, in the majority of cases, as a guarantee of completeness and happiness of individuals. However, the ideal of romantic love imposes a series of demands and character roles that are not easy, in modern age, to be brought about into practice by the ones in love. And, it is in this sense that possible conflicts appear between the romantic proposition and the practical reality of contemporary love. Consequently, the possibility of suffering from love emerges because of these propositions. Initiating from these presumptions, this paper aims to study the contemporary forms of representation and expression of love and of the suffering because of love, through the course of love in the life of some men and women, residents of Natal/RN, that live and/or have lived emotional-sexual relationships, observing the relationship that can be established between suffering from love and the ideal romantic love / O amor rom?ntico constituiu-se num valor central no imagin?rio social das sociedades modernas, tendo seus reflexos, at? hoje, nas sociedades contempor?neas. Isso porque a expectativa rom?ntica de realiza??o amorosa surge, em boa medida, como garantidora dos sentimentos de completude e felicidade dos indiv?duos. O ideal de amor rom?ntico, contudo, imp?e uma s?rie de exig?ncias e o cumprimento de pap?is que, na atualidade, n?o s?o t?o f?ceis de serem efetivados, em sua pr?tica, pelos sujeitos amorosos. ? nesse sentido que podem surgir conflitos entre a proposi??o rom?ntica e as pr?ticas amorosas contempor?neas. Tais conflitos, por sua vez, podem engendrar o sofrimento amoroso. Partindo desses pressupostos, este trabalho visa a estudar as formas contempor?neas de representa??o e de express?o do amor e do sofrimento amoroso, atrav?s da trajet?ria de vida amorosa de alguns homens e de algumas mulheres, residentes em Natal/RN, que vivenciam e/ou vivenciaram relacionamentos afetivo-sexuais, observando a rela??o que se pode estabelecer entre sofrimento amoroso e o ideal de amor rom?ntico

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:20:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 VergasVAS_TESE.pdf: 3797183 bytes, checksum: a230fe58f7c325737569d93a5fe23553 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-25 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / This research aims to acknowledge the virtual dating phenomenon. The research deals with this phenomenon in Orkut, a social networking website. Thus, it considers debates and forums that were present in a Brazilian Orkut online community called Conheci meu amor pela internet (I met my love through the Internet). As a staring point the research dealt with issues such as: what are the debates about? How can we deal with practices that question their own dating process? According to the initial hypothesis, these debates reveal different contemporary social aspects: 1) they emerge as a response to demands on behalf of a society that is rather reflexive. This reflexive element is fundamental for the constitution of the self 2) these debates work as support elements in social relations that are built upon this sphere. In this context, individuals write about themselves and constitute themselves as real individuals that acquire a sense as subjects; and 3) people discuss online dating as form reconstructing former experiences. Empirical analysis demonstrates that these forums and polls present themselves as a social phenomenon that allows a particular form of self presentation on the internet. In order for these subjects to present themselves they built their own self narratives. What is possible to acknowledge considering these narratives is that there is a predominance of the element of intrigue that is further solved and demonstrate a satisfactory result. These narrators then choose online dating situation that present happy endings and happiness that are associated to romantic ideals that are worthwhile being shown. The contents present in these narratives are dealt with by the research. Thus, this work defends the thesis that the online dating narratives are a mixture of facts and fiction once all experiences deal with romantic imaginary as well as personal dating experience. Thus, the research is an attempt to understand what goes on the forums and debates that deal with the fictionalized and dramatized daily experiences in the performances that are similar to games. This is possible due to the fact that there is use of romantic fables and concrete experiences realized by online dating / A pesquisa se prop?e a estudar o fen?meno do namoro virtual atrav?s da observa??o do Orkut, rede social on-line. Para tanto, analisa os debates travados em f?runs e enquetes de uma de suas comunidades virtuais, chamada Conheci meu amor pela internet. Como ponto de partida, colocam-se as seguintes quest?es: em que se revestem tais debates? O que subjaz ?s pr?ticas que visam interrogar os pr?prios namoros? Conforme as hip?teses iniciais, tais debates desvelam diferentes aspectos sociais contempor?neos: 1) eles emergem para responder ?s demandas de uma sociedade que toma a reflexividade como elemento fundamental para a constitui??o do eu; 2) convertem-se em suportes, na medida em que as rela??es sociais, tecidas nesses espa?os, aparecem investidas por uma escrita de si que indiv?duos lan?am m?o para se constitu?rem enquanto sujeitos de sentido; por fim, 3) discutem-se namoros virtuais com vistas a reconstruir de outra maneira aquilo que foi vivido. A an?lise emp?rica demonstra que esses f?runs e enquetes apresentam-se enquanto um fen?meno social que d? origem a uma forma particular de apresenta??o do eu na internet. No ensejo por apresentarem-se, os mesmos atores acabam por construir narrativas de si. O que se observa nessas narrativas de namoros virtuais ? a predomin?ncia de uma intriga, cujo desfecho revela-se exitoso, de resultado satisfat?rio, feliz. Os narradores elegem casos de namoros virtuais que se desenrolam sob a forma de uma felicidade amorosa associada a ideais rom?nticos como dignos de serem retratados. O teor dessas narrativas ? desses aspectos tribut?rio. Portanto, a partir dessas formula??es, defende-se neste trabalho a tese segundo a qual as narrativas de namoros virtuais s?o um misto de fato e fic??o, na medida em que s?o narrativas tecidas com empr?stimo tanto do imagin?rio rom?ntico quanto da pr?pria experi?ncia amorosa vivida nos namoros. Em resumo, esta pesquisa esfor?a-se por compreender f?runs e enquetes cujo cotidiano amoroso ? ficcionalizado e dramatizado atrav?s de jogos perform?ticos compostos pela fabula??o rom?ntica e pela experi?ncia de concretude dos namoros virtuais

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