Diabetes mellitus is a complex disease that requires constant patient compliance to diet, life style, glucose level monitoring and medication. Non-compliance to medication can be associated with the development of complications, avoidable hospitalization, disease progression, premature disability and death. Noncompliance is also very costly and therefore compliance to medication regimens is very important. A promising, yet under-explored approach to compliance is self-regulation. Selfregulation refers to the process of goal setting and striving. Self-regulation has specifically been associated with success in reaching one’s goals. The key selfregulation processes include goal establishment, planning, striving towards a goal and revising it. Although a large number of studies have been conducted on compliance related to diabetes, there is a lack of research findings from a selfregulation perspective. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between self-regulation and patient compliance to type I and type II medication. Specific aims are (a) to determine whether there is a significant difference in the mean self-regulation scores for participants high and low in compliance and (b) to determine whether there are significant differences in the mean self-regulation scores between compliant and non-compliant participants within different gender and age groups. The participants consisted of an availability sample of 50 (31 female and 19 male) type I and type II diabetes patients collecting their medication at the Clicks Pharmacy in Potchefstroom and Trans 50 retirement villages in Pretoria, Bloemfontein and Kimberley. The ages of the participants ranged between 20 and 87 years. Compliance was measured by investigating the participants’ repeat scripts as well as the Clicks Medication Therapy Management Questionnaire (MTM-Q), developed in 2009 by pharmacists at Clicks to measure patients’ self-report of compliance. Selfregulation was measured with the Shortened Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SSRQ) (Carey, Neal, & Collins, 2004). The study used the factor structure proposed by Potgieter and Botha (2009), based on a factor analysis of the SSRQ in the South- African context. Data capturing and analysis was done in consultation with the Statistical Consultation Services of the North-West University. A total number of 28 (56%) participants in this study were classified as compliant, which is lower than compliance figures reported in most international studies. Differences between compliant and non-compliant participants were primarily noted with regard to Mindful Awareness, Monitoring and Decision making. No differences were noted between any of the groups regarding Learning from mistakes, Perseverance, or Self-evaluation. Compliant participants in the total, female and older groups scored higher on Mindful Awareness than non-compliant participants. For older participants, this difference was practically significant. Compliant participants in the female and older group also obtained higher scores on Monitoring, with the difference in the female group practically significant. Surprisingly, noncompliant female participants scored higher on Decision Making than compliant female participants. Compliant and non-compliant male and younger participants, however, did not differ on any of the self-regulation factors. The study emphasizes the fact that diabetes is perceived as a significant challenge to the current goals of the patient. Subsequently, this study confirms, to a large extent, the importance of self-regulation in compliance to type I and type II diabetes medication, providing support for international studies that emphasise the importance of behavioural factors in diabetes. Mindfulness and Monitoring emerged as important factors in this study, and was explained in relation to compliance as a challenge to one’s perceptual awareness and ability to continuously generate feedback regarding one’s health status. The reason for gender and age related differences in the relationship between compliance and self-regulation, however, is not totally clear and needs to be explored in further research. An important limitation of the study is the small sample size that was used. Future research should explore the trends emerging from this study in larger, random samples. / MA (Research Psychology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

Diabetes mellitus is a complex disease that requires constant patient compliance to diet, life style, glucose level monitoring and medication. Non-compliance to medication can be associated with the development of complications, avoidable hospitalization, disease progression, premature disability and death. Noncompliance is also very costly and therefore compliance to medication regimens is very important. A promising, yet under-explored approach to compliance is self-regulation. Selfregulation refers to the process of goal setting and striving. Self-regulation has specifically been associated with success in reaching one’s goals. The key selfregulation processes include goal establishment, planning, striving towards a goal and revising it. Although a large number of studies have been conducted on compliance related to diabetes, there is a lack of research findings from a selfregulation perspective. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between self-regulation and patient compliance to type I and type II medication. Specific aims are (a) to determine whether there is a significant difference in the mean self-regulation scores for participants high and low in compliance and (b) to determine whether there are significant differences in the mean self-regulation scores between compliant and non-compliant participants within different gender and age groups. The participants consisted of an availability sample of 50 (31 female and 19 male) type I and type II diabetes patients collecting their medication at the Clicks Pharmacy in Potchefstroom and Trans 50 retirement villages in Pretoria, Bloemfontein and Kimberley. The ages of the participants ranged between 20 and 87 years. Compliance was measured by investigating the participants’ repeat scripts as well as the Clicks Medication Therapy Management Questionnaire (MTM-Q), developed in 2009 by pharmacists at Clicks to measure patients’ self-report of compliance. Selfregulation was measured with the Shortened Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SSRQ) (Carey, Neal, & Collins, 2004). The study used the factor structure proposed by Potgieter and Botha (2009), based on a factor analysis of the SSRQ in the South- African context. Data capturing and analysis was done in consultation with the Statistical Consultation Services of the North-West University. A total number of 28 (56%) participants in this study were classified as compliant, which is lower than compliance figures reported in most international studies. Differences between compliant and non-compliant participants were primarily noted with regard to Mindful Awareness, Monitoring and Decision making. No differences were noted between any of the groups regarding Learning from mistakes, Perseverance, or Self-evaluation. Compliant participants in the total, female and older groups scored higher on Mindful Awareness than non-compliant participants. For older participants, this difference was practically significant. Compliant participants in the female and older group also obtained higher scores on Monitoring, with the difference in the female group practically significant. Surprisingly, noncompliant female participants scored higher on Decision Making than compliant female participants. Compliant and non-compliant male and younger participants, however, did not differ on any of the self-regulation factors. The study emphasizes the fact that diabetes is perceived as a significant challenge to the current goals of the patient. Subsequently, this study confirms, to a large extent, the importance of self-regulation in compliance to type I and type II diabetes medication, providing support for international studies that emphasise the importance of behavioural factors in diabetes. Mindfulness and Monitoring emerged as important factors in this study, and was explained in relation to compliance as a challenge to one’s perceptual awareness and ability to continuously generate feedback regarding one’s health status. The reason for gender and age related differences in the relationship between compliance and self-regulation, however, is not totally clear and needs to be explored in further research. An important limitation of the study is the small sample size that was used. Future research should explore the trends emerging from this study in larger, random samples. / MA (Research Psychology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

This text is partial record and narrative of the process and productions of Orphans by Lyle Kessler that opened on March 29th 2007 for a four day run ending on April 1st, The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh that opened October 28th 2007 for a three day run ending on October 30th, and Terra Nova by Ted Tally that opened on February 21st 2008 for a four day run ending on February 24th. The majority of the text follows the three shows from Spring 2007, Fall 2007, to Spring 2008, focusing on the process of direction of each production. Incorporated in the writing are the experiences, lessons, and complications that arose while directing the three shows. The text contains several notes on directing, acting, collaboration, choreography, casting, rehearsal and different perspectives on the creative process of the productions: all combined create an aesthetic inherent in the author's three years of study at the Virginia Commonwealth University Theatre Pedagogy Program with an emphasis in Acting and Directing.

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

[pt] Um cenário comum atualmente é o de aplicações desenvolvidas usando duas linguagens de programação a fim de otimizar partes onde o desempenho é crítico e permitir extensibilidade através de scripts escritos pelo usuário. Há várias formas de se obter esse tipo de interoperabilidade; idealmente, entretanto, uma linguagem deve prover uma interface de acesso externo (foreign language interface, FLI) que permita ao programador receber e enviar tanto chamadas como dados para outra linguagem. Este trabalho discute as principais questões envolvendo o projeto de APIs para integração de ambientes de execução de linguagens em aplicações C. Apresentamos os principais problemas enfrentados na interação entre código executando em um ambiente com características inerentemente dinâmicas como o de uma linguagem de script com código C. Comparamos aqui as abordagens empregadas por cinco linguagens no tratamento da comunicação entre os espaços de dados de C e do ambiente de execução embutido e as conseqüências destas abordagens no gerenciamento de memória, bem como no compartilhamento de código entre a aplicação C e o da linguagem de script. Ilustramos as diferenças das APIs destas linguagens e o impacto destas no código resultante de uma aplicação C através de um estudo de caso. Diferentes linguagens de script são embutidas como plugins de uma mesma biblioteca, que por sua vez expõe a aplicações clientes uma API genérica de scripting. Assim, o código de cada plugin permite observar de forma clara e isolada os procedimentos adotados em cada linguagem para chamada de funções, registro de funçoes C e conversão de dados entre os ambientes. / [en] Applications written in two programming languages, in order to optimize parts where performance is critical or to obtain extensibility through userwritten scripts, are commonplace nowadays. There are several ways to obtain this kind of interoperability; ideally, however, a language should provide a foreign language interface (FLI), allowing the programmer to send and receive both data and function calls to the external language. This work discusses the main issues involving the design of APIs for the integration of language environments within C applications. We present the main problems faced in the interaction between code executed in an environment with inherently dynamic characteristics such as a scripting language and C code. We compare the approaches employed by five languages when handling communication between the data spaces of C and the embedded runtime environment and the consequences of these approaches in memory management, as well as sharing of code between the C application and that from the scripting language. We illustrate the differences of the APIs of those languages and their impact in the resulting code of a C application through a case study. Different scripting languages were embedded as plugins for a library, which on its turn exposes to client applications a generic scripting API. This way, the code of each plugin allows us to observe in a clear and isolated way the procedures adopted by each language for function calls, registration of C functions and conversion of data between the environments.

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A bacia hidrográfica pode ser entendida como um sistema integrado entre todos os seus elementos constituintes, solo, água, vegetação e fauna, onde toda perturbação natural ou antrópica provoca reações na dinâmica natural da bacia, forçando-a a adaptar-se a este novo ambiente. As ações antrópicas estão relacionadas a atividades socioeconômicas, que diante de um planejamento e gestão ambiental inadequados, se dissociam dos aspectos ambientais entrando em conflito com a capacidade de suporte do ecossistema. Diante deste panorama, vários países têm buscado reequilibrar a dinâmica integrada das bacias hidrográficas, incorporando princípios e normas para a gestão e planejamento de recursos hídricos, utilizando a bacia hidrográfica como unidade de gestão e planejamento, além de monitorar os efeitos oriundos do desequilíbrio do sistema. O projeto e planejamento de recursos hídricos, necessita de informações que permitam a avaliação do comportamento hidrológico da bacia. Para isso, é necessário quantificar todas as características morfométricas das bacias, pois, ao se estabelecerem relações e comparações entre tais características e os dados hidrológicos conhecidos, pode-se determinar indiretamente os valores hidrológicos em locais nos quais faltem dados. Comumente, para se iniciar uma análise hidrológica ou ambiental, preliminarmente procede-se a delimitação da bacia hidrográfica, que em até pouco tempo era realizada através de métodos analógicos. Com o advento dos softwares SIG e da representação digital do relevo a partir de técnicas de sensoriamento remoto, tornou-se possível automatizar esta tarefa. A partir disso, buscou-se com este trabalho elaborar uma ferramenta computacional, utilizando a linguagem computacional R, para delimitação e caracterização morfométrica de bacias hidrográficas a partir de Modelos Digitais de Elevação (MDE) globais, de forma automática, que permita fornecer rapidamente os parâmetros morfométricos, proporcionando ao usuário concluir também pelo modelo que mais se adeque a sua necessidade. Buscou-se avaliar a ferramenta elaborada com um estudo de caso comparativo em quatro sub-bacias hidrográficas do estado do Tocantins, com características de relevo distintas, apresentando uma alternativa para validação hidrológica de modelos digitais de elevação a partir de dados altimétricos do SIGEF (Sistema de Gestão Fundiária). Com o estudo de caso, concluiu-se que a ferramenta proposta funciona satisfatoriamente para o que se propõe. Quando comparada com o programa r.basin.py a partir do software Grass GIS, a ferramenta apresentou resultados similares em relação aos valores da maioria dos parâmetros morfométricos; apresentando, contudo, um detalhamento inferior da rede de drenagem, associado a diferenças no algoritmo de preenchimento de dados espúrios, no entanto este problema pode ser contornado ajustando os valores das configurações iniciais do threshold. / The watershed can be understood as an integrated system among all its constituent elements, soil, water, vegetation and fauna, where every natural or anthropic disturbance causes reactions in the natural dynamics of the basin, forcing it to adapt to this new environment. Anthropic actions are related to socio -economic activities, that in the face of inadequate environmental planning and management, dissociate from environmental aspects getting to conflict with the ecosystem's capacity to support. Facing this panorama, several countries have sought to rebalance the integrated dynamics of watersheds, incorporating principles and norms for the management and planning the effects deriving of the unbalance of the system. The project and planning of hydric resources need information that allows the evaluation of the hydrological behavior of the basin. For this, it is necessary to quantify all the morphometric characteristics of the basins, because, when establishing relationships and comparisons among such characteristics and the known hydrological data, one can indirectly determine the hydrological values in places where data are missing. Commonly, to initiate a hydrological or environment al analysis, preliminarily the delimitation of the watershed is proceeded, which until recently it softwares and the digital representation of relief from remote sense techniques, it became possible to automate this task. From this, it sought with this work to elaborate a computational tool, using R computational language, for the delimitation and morphometric characterization of watershads from global Digital Elevation Models (DEM), in automatic way, that permits provide quickly the morphometric parameters, offering to the user also to conclude by the model that best suit it need. The objective of this study is to evaluate the elaborated tool with a study of comparative in four river sub - basins in the state of Tocantins, with different relief characteristics, presentingan alternative for hydrological validation of digital elevation models from the SIGEF (Portuguese abreviation of System of Land Management) altimetric data. With the case study, it was concluded that the proposed tool works satisfactorily for what is propcompared with the r.basin.py program from the Grass GIS software, the tool presented similar results in relation to the values of most of the morphometric parameters; however, a lower drainage network detail, associated with differences in the spurious data filling algorithm, though, this problem can be circumvented by adjusting the initial threshold values configurations.

This thesis aimed to extend the existing psychological and neural basis of social processing in Major Depressive Disorder. This investigation was an attempt to resolve current conflicts and gaps in the social affective neuroscience literature regarding social functioning in depression. Chapter 1 consisted of a general introduction to the current evidence-base and theoretical frameworks surrounding social processing more generally, and in depression more specifically. ‎Chapter 2 provided an exploration of the systemic behavioural biases in in those with depression compared to mentally healthy individuals using a range of social, affective and process measures implemented across the remaining chapters. Then followed a behavioural and neural investigation into self-relevant social processing in depression. Chapter 3 described the process of memory generation implemented across ‎ Chapter 4-6 using a script-driven paradigm. It further discussed the ecological validity of this paradigm using social autobiographical memories. Chapter 4 investigated the neural and behavioural responses to self-relevant autobiographical memories of social rejection and social inclusion in individuals with depression and in healthy controls. The next two chapters discussed the behavioural and neural basis of social processing in depression in response to others’ memories of social rejection and inclusion, using traditional and novel fMRI analysis methodologies in ‎Chapter 5 and ‎‎Chapter 6, respectively. The latter applied a novel intersubject correlation analysis to the same population of depressed and healthy controls as in Chapter 5. Then, Chapter 7 presented a future application of the script-driven imagery paradigm by investigating the effectiveness of different emotion regulation strategies in response to socially salient autobiographical memories in a population of healthy controls. Finally, Chapter 8 provided a general discussion bringing together behavioural and neural findings to provide a clearer understanding of social processing in Major Depressive Disorder. Current theoretical frameworks were used to guide the interpretation of these findings.

A disseminação das ciências naturais em espaços de educação não formal tem sido tema de discussões na área de ensino de ciências na busca de elementos que possibilitem a compreensão das suas potencialidades e dos seus desafios. Investigações atuais têm buscando compreender o potencial dos museus de promover o processo de Alfabetização Científica de seus visitantes por meio de ações educativas. Dentre os elementos na educação em museus estão os materiais educativos e, inseridos neste conjunto, temos os roteiros de visita a exposições. Nesta perspectiva, o objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar o processo de Alfabetização Científica em visitas de famílias à Trilha da Nascente do Jardim Botânico de São Paulo a partir do uso de um roteiro elaborado sob a perspectiva da Alfabetização Científica. Também foi intenção da pesquisa compreender o papel deste roteiro - tanto seu processo de elaboração quanto seus efeitos e potenciais - como estratégia para a promoção do processo de Alfabetização Científica junto a famílias que visitam este local. A confecção do roteiro teve por base literatura e a experiência profissional das pesquisadoras envolvidas, tendo passado por um processo de validação envolvendo, diferentes atores, especialistas e o próprio público. A versão final do roteiro, fornecido como parte de um kit com outros objetos como monóculo e lupa, foi aplicado e avaliado na visita de uma família. Do ponto de vista metodológico, a investigação proposta se enquadra como uma pesquisa qualitativa, tendo por foco a perspectiva dos participantes na busca de responder os potenciais e limitações das visitas roteirizadas e seus possíveis impactos nos visitantes do Jardim Botânico em São Paulo. Os dados em categorias pré-estabelecidas - indicadores de Alfabetização Científica e habilidades investigativas -, se constituíram como a base para o estudo da fala dos sujeitos na interação com o roteiro durante a vista a Trilha da Nascente. Esse procedimento nos revelou evidências de que a Alfabetização Científica está em processo para os integrantes da família. Desse modo, apontamos que a produção e o uso de roteiros em visitas a museus podem promover a reflexão e auxiliar o desenvolvimento das atividades dos setores educativos de museus. / The spread of natural sciences in non-formal education has been subject of discussions in the area of science education in search for elements that allow the understanding of their potential and their challenges. Current investigations are seeking to understand the potential of museums to promote scientific literacy process of their visitors by means of educational activities that develop. Among the elements in education in museums are educational materials and included in this set, we have the visit scripts to exhibitions. In this perspective, the objective of this study was to analyze the scientific literacy process in family visits to the \"Trilha da Nascente\" of Botanical Garden of São Paulo from the use of a developed script from the perspective of the Scientific literacy. It was also the intention of the research to understand the role of this script as a strategy for the promotion of the process of Scientific Literacy with the families who visit this site. The potential of the material was investigated as an educational resource for the promotion of Scientific Literacy, analyzing both the process of elaboration of the material and its effects when applied to a visiting family of \"Trilha da Nascente\" . The preparation of the script was based on literature and professional experience of the involved researchers, having passed through a validation process involving different actors, experts and the public itself. The final version of the script provided as part of a kit with other objects such as monocular and magnifying glass, was applied and evaluated on a family visit. From a methodological point of view, the proposed research fits into the perspective of qualitative research, with the focus on the perspective of the participants in the quest to answer the potential and limitations of scripted visits and their possible impacts on Botanical Garden visitors in São Paulo. The data in predetermined categories - scientific literacy indicators and investigative skills-, constituted as the basis for the study of the subjects\' speeches in the interaction with the script during the visit to the \"Trilha da Nascente\". This procedure revealed us evidence that the Scientific Literacy is in process for the family members. Thereby, we point out that the production and use of scripts in visits to museums can promote reflection and assist the development of the activities of educational museums sectors.

Este trabalho apresenta o roteiro do longa-metragem Uma Bicicleta, Minha Mãe e Dois Cinemas, que aborda o cotidiano de uma família que mora e trabalha em um cinema de bairro em Curitiba. Paralelamente ao roteiro, foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa sobre a história dos cinemas de rua de Curitiba, privilegiando depoimentos de profissionais que trabalharam na atividade exibidora. Os relatos influenciaram o formato final da dramaturgia, fornecendo indicações para a criação de personagens e situações, delimitando ainda as épocas onde acontece a estória. O roteiro resulta, portanto, em um tratamento ficcional dos testemunhos obtidos, à medida do possível o mais próximo dos relatos obtidos. A dramaturgia é aplicada na transposição do relato para o universo ficcional. / This paper presents the script of the Uma Bicicleta, Minha Mãe e Dois Cinemas, which addresses the life of a family who lives and works in a cinema district in Curitiba. Parallel to the script, it was developed a research on the history of movie theaters of Curitiba, favoring testimony from professionals who worked in the exhibitor business. The reports influenced the final form of the drama, providing directions for creating characters and situations, limiting even the times where the story happens. The script is, therefore, a fictional treatment of the evidence obtained, the closest to the reports obtained. Dramaturgy is applied in the transposition of the report to the fictional universe.