Graduation date: 1978

Current newspaper articles, professional journals and legislation reflect increased concern and attention in the area of child abuse. The frequency of reports of children physically and mentally abused, some fatally, makes abundantly clear the need to identify the children in jeopardy. As an outgrowth of experience as a caseworker in Protective Services in Santa Barbara, California, the author developed a personal interest in learning more about characteristics of families with identified abused children. Associated with this personal interest is the possibility of identifying common elements of characteristics which might prove predictive and therefore potentially preventative in the area of child abuse. To consider family characteristics, the author examined materials gathered by CALM (Child Abuse Listening Media of Santa Barbara) and by others working in Protective Services in Santa Barbara. For the purpose of this study, all cases of physical child abuse from the records of Santa Barbara County Protective services over an eight month period were reviewed and compared with a control group which consisted of a random sample of all cases referred to protective services over the same period.

Orientador: Luci Hidalgo Nunes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociencias / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T02:48:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Candido_DanielHenrique_M.pdf: 6153243 bytes, checksum: 76a2dd11ff90b5cc8c98989641861344 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: As estratégias preventivas envolvendo preparação, alerta e recuperação aos hazards meteorológicos, como o caso das inundações, são essenciais para o atendimento correto a população em risco. No entanto, para serem realmente efetivos, esses planos devem ser elaborados com base no conhecimento dos atributos físicos e socioeconômicos da área em questão e serem também avaliados por meio de uma perspectiva histórica. Nesse sentido, este estudo foi elaborado com base em dados obtidos através de pesquisas em jornais pretéritos, dados meteorológicos e geomorfológicos. O trabalho, foi realizado mediante uso de técnicas de geoprocessamento e análises teóricas dos aspectos existentes no município de Santa Bárbara d¿Oeste, localizado no interior do estado de São Paulo, podendo assim contribuir com a concepção de planos preventivos para a cidade. Como um número cada vez maior de pessoas habitam essas áreas, os impactos das inundações acabam se intensificando de modo considerável. O registro de eventos de inundação nessa área está intrinsecamente ligado aos seus aspectos físicos, como características da precipitação (concentração no período de verão, com intensos e constantes eventos convectivos), geomorfologia e padrões de ocupação do território, com expansão da mancha urbana em direção às planícies de inundação. Como conseqüência, a municipalidade tem testemunhado aumento na freqüência e intensidade das inundações, sobretudo nas áreas habitadas pelas populações economicamente menos favorecidas, localizadas nas áreas mais baixas da bacia do Ribeirão dos Toledos ¿ canal que cruza o município no sentido Norte-Sul, passando por sua área central. A análise, de caráter geográfico, avaliou aspectos físicos e socioeconômicos das inundações ocorridas em um período de 50 anos, compreendido entre 1953 a 2002. Um levantamento das precipitações registradas em Santa Bárbara d¿ Oeste mostra maior concentração dos eventos extremos de precipitação nos anos recentes. Como exemplo pode-se citar os episódios ocorridos entre 01 e 02 de janeiro de 1990, totalizando 120 mm de precipitação; 27 de janeiro de 1994, com 120 mm; 08 de janeiro de 1997, com 131 mm; 15 de fevereiro de 1998, com 131 mm e 110 mm em 28 de março de 2000. Mapas foram elaborados com uso de softwares de SIG, exibindo a variação espaço-temporal das ocorrências, denotando que algumas obras executadas com intuito de reduzir os efeitos das inundações foram mais efetivas, enquanto outras não surtiram o efeito esperado. Dentre as ações mais bem sucedidas destaca-se a construção de lagos e represas e a realização de dragagem do canal / Abstract: Preventive strategies involving preparedness, warning, and recovery to meteorological hazardous events such as floods, are essential to correctly assist the population at risk. However, effective plans must be based upon the knowledge of the area, considering both the physical and the socioeconomic attributes, evaluated in a historical perspective. This study aims to contribute to the design of preventive plans to flood hazards in the city of Santa Barbara d'Oeste, located in Sao Paulo State, Southeastern Brazil. Because more people are living on floodplains, the impacts related to floods are increasing considerably. The register of flood events in the area is intrinsical1y connected to its physical attributes such as the characteristics of precipitation (concentrated during summer, with regular and strong convective events), the landscape's geomorphology, and the settlement patterns in the territory. The latter have recently been characterized by a fast spread of the city onto the floodplains. As a consequence, the municipality has been witnessing an increasing frequency of intense floodings of poor residential areas in the Toledos River Basin, a small river that crosses Santa Barbara's downtown. The geographic analyses evaluated both the physical and the socioeconomic aspects of floods in the area. A survey of floods registered in Santa Barbara d'Oeste shows an increase of events in recent years. As examples ofthe concentration ofrainfall episodes, one can quote: 120mm on 01 and 02 January, 1990; 120 mm on January 27,1994; 131 mm on January 8,1997; 131 mm on February 15, 1998 and 110 mm on march 28, 2000. Some maps generated using GIS softares showed some variation on spatial distribution of floods events on area. The patterns changed over the time evidencing that some works developed aiming the reduction of floods was more successful than others, overall the deepening ofthe rivers and the implementation ofsome lakes and dams / Mestrado / Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial / Mestre em Geografia

The first high resolution record of dinoflagellate cysts ~110-155 kyr over Termination II and the last interglacial in the Santa Barbara Basin, California from ODP Hole 893A details a complex paleoceanographic history. Changes in cyst abundances, concentrations, diversity, and assemblages reflect climatic and ocean circulation changes, and are successfully used to make quantitative reconstructions of past sea surface temperatures and annual primary productivity with the modern analogue technique based on a dinoflagellate cyst database from the northeast Pacific. The dominance of heterotrophic dinoflagellate cyst taxa Brigantedinium spp. throughout most of the section indicates coastal upwelling is an important influence on the basin. Based on the dinoflagellate cyst assemblages, five cyst zones are identified and approximately correspond to the marine isotope stage boundaries and their associated changes in sea surface temperatures and sea level. Cooler intervals, MIS 6 and MIS 5d, are characterized by cold-water indicator species Selenopemphix undulata whereas thermophyllic taxon Spiniferites mirabilis characterizes MIS 5e. In contrast to other studies in the Pacific, the data shows a one to two-thousand-year cooling event ~129 kyr that correlates to the Termination II sea level still-stand of the two-step deglaciation. A significant increase in cyst concentrations of heterotrophic and autotrophic taxa in the latest MIS 5e implies enhanced primary productivity as a result of increased seasonal upwelling and the warm, nutrient rich waters entering the basin after sea level stabilizes near modern levels. The hydrological evolution and cyst signal of the last interglacial is similar to the development of the Holocene in the Santa Barbara Basin, but the sustained presence of Spiniferites mirabilis across MIS 5e indicates sea surface temperatures were higher than modern conditions. The quantitative reconstructions appear to be less reliable, and show wide sea surface temperature changes across MIS 6 to 5d (~6.2-10.7°C in February; ~12.6-20.3°C in August) similar to modern ranges, while annual primary productivity was confined to a higher narrower range (~456-586 g C m-2 yr-1). / Graduate / 2020-04-18

The present study aims to predict which individual factors may influence strategy-choices in wayfinding situations, specifically when participants are faced with ambiguous instructions in unfamiliar environments. Individual differences were measured with self-report forms of the Big Five personality traits and the Santa Barbara sense of direction scale (SBSOD). The study was conducted in a web-based survey format with a n=104 (65 female, and 39 male). A regression analysis concluded that the trait conscientiousness was the only factor that had predictive value in determining choice of strategy. SBSOD had some predictive values towards strategy-choice, but needs further investigation before any general conclusion can be drawn. Future studies should focus on a more goal-oriented task with more realistic stimulus. / Föreliggande studie har undersökt vilka individuella faktorer som kan påverka val av strategi i olika navigations-scenarion, specifikt när deltagare möts av oklara instruktioner i obekanta miljöer. Individuella skillnader mättes med själv-utvärdering av Big Five personlighetsdrag och Santa Barbara sense of direction scale (SBSOD). Studien utfördes i ett web-baserat enkätformat med ett deltagarantal på totalt 104 (65 kvinnor och 39 män). En regressionsanalys fastslog att personlighetsdraget samvetsgrannhet var den enda faktorn som kunde predicera strategival. SBSOD hade viss produktionskraft mot strategival, med detta behöver utforskas mer innan några generella slutsatser kan dras. Framtida studier bör fokusera på en mer målinriktad uppgift med mer naturtrogna stimuli.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2000. / Vita. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 266-286). / Phosphorus, an essential nutrient, is removed from the oceans only through burial with marine sediments. Organic phosphorus (Prog) constitutes an important fraction (ca. 25%) of total-P in marine sediments. However, given the inherent lability of primary Prog biochemicals, it is a puzzle that any Porg is preserved in marine sediments. The goal of this thesis was to address this apparent paradox by linking bulk and molecular-level Porg information. A newly-developed sequential extraction method, which isolates sedimentary Pol reservoirs based on solubility, was used in concert with Prog nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (31P-NMR) to quantify Prog functional group concentrations. The coupled extraction/ 31P-NMR method was applied to three sediment cores from the Santa Barbara Basin, and the first-ever high-resolution depth profiles of molecular-level Porg distribution during diagenesis were generated. These depth profiles were used to consider regulation of Prog distribution by biomass abundance, chemical structure, and physical protection mechanisms. Biomass cannot account for more than a few percent of sedimentary Prog. No evidence for direct structural control on remineralization of Porg was found. Instead, sorptive protection appears to be an important mechanism for Prog preservation, and structure may act as a secondary control due to preferential sorption of specific Porg compound classes. / by Kirsten Lynn Laarkamp. / Ph.D.

Carbonyl sulfide (OCS) is emitted to the atmosphere through the outgassing of ocean surface waters. OCS is also the primary source of sulfur-containing compounds in the stratosphere and contributes to the formation of the stratospheric sulfate layer, an essential controller of the radiative balance of the atmosphere. During the 2016 Student Airborne Research Program (SARP), 15 whole air samples were collected on the NASA DC-8 aircraft over the Santa Barbara Channel. Five additional surface samples were taken at various locations along the Santa Barbara Channel. The samples were analyzed using gas chromatography in the Rowland-Blake lab at UC Irvine, and compounds associated with ocean emissions including OCS, dimethyl sulfide (DMS), carbon disulfide (CS2), bromoform (CHBr3), and methyl iodide (CH3I) were examined. Excluding OCS, the vertical distribution of marine tracers that were analyzed showed dilution with increasing altitude. For OCS, the surface samples all exhibited elevated concentrations of OCS in comparison to samples taken from the aircraft, with an average of 666 ± 26 pptv, whereas the average concentration of OCS in the aircraft samples was 581 ± 9 pptv. 2016 Surface samples were compared to surface samples from SARP campaigns between 2009-2015 taken near or within the 2016 study region. The 2009-2015 samples exhibited an average OCS concentration of 526 ± 8 pptv. It is evident that the 2016 surface samples measured higher concentrations of OCS than ever recorded during previous SARP campaigns and in comparison to global averages: 525 ± 17 pptv in the Northern hemisphere and 482 ± 13 pptv in the Southern hemisphere (Sturges et al., 2001). OCS emissions should be measured using surface samples if emission estimates from the ocean are to be evaluated since measurements from the aircraft (500 ft) are not sufficiently capturing surface concentrations. Additionally, OCS enhancements seen in 2016 had never before been detected by surface samples, revealing a potential phenomenon at work causing the elevation during this year’s campaign.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 411-440).

Orientador: Jose Ricardo Barbosa Gonçalves / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T04:02:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_CelioAntonioAlcantara_M.pdf: 51875897 bytes, checksum: 9b8fbd68102c0a13862607c10a52bfed (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Este estudo teve por objetivo compreender os motivos pelos quais centenas de sulistas emigraram dos EUA para o Brasil a partir do final da Guerra de Secessão, em especial a partir da Reconstrução, em 1867. Argumentamos que o principal fator para a escolha do Brasil como destino incluía a existência de uma estrutura social hierarquizada cuja base residia na escravidão. Entre os principais líderes estavam militares confederados bem como políticos pró-escravidão e seus filhos. Os insucessos e infortúnios nas diferentes colônias confederadas estiveram associados às dificuldades em restabelecer a ligação que possuíam com o circuito mercantil-escravista. A única colônia que prosperou foi aquela localizada em uma região com um dos principais mercados de cativos do Brasil imperial: a colônia de Santa Bárbara, na região de Campinas. Não obstante a historiografia ter negado o papel da escravidão para a constituição da colônia, a análise documental mais detalhada revela-nos a altíssima relevância das relações dos confederados com o circuito mercantil escravista. Enquanto estiveram a ele ligados, as forças centrípetas da colônia eram suficientemente fortes para evitar a dispersão do grupo. É a partir de fins do século XIX, com a abolição da escravidão e a decadência progressiva da agricultura algodoeira que a colônia começa a se desintegrar. Apesar da maioria dos imigrantes e seus descendentes realizarem esforços na substituição do algodão por outro gênero comercial, a cana-de-açúcar, aos poucos a área das fazendas se reduz em função da queda na rentabilidade e das divisões destas quando da partilha da herança. A atividade agrícola dos confederados e descendentes passa então a tender à subsistência, e os membros da colônia se integram de maneira mais efetiva ao meio social circundante. Anos mais tarde, os casamentos entre membros da colônia tornam-se raros. Ao período de integração social segue-se o de dispersão geográfica dos confederados, culminando com sua diluição em meio à população de Santa Bárbara e Americana, cada vez mais marcadas pela presença do imigrante italiano / Abstract: The objective of this study is to understand the reasons for which hundreds of southemers emigrated from USA to Brazil at the end of the American Civil War, especially after the Reconstruction, in 1867. We argued that the main factor for the choice of Brazil as their destiny included the existence of a hierarchical social structure based on slavery. Among their main leaders there were military confederates as well as proslavery politicians and their sons. The failures and misfortunes among the confederate colonies were associated to the difficulties in reestablishing the connection that they possessed with the agrarian slave market circuit. The only colony that prospered was that located within an area with one of the main markets of slaves of imperial Brazil: Santa Bárbara colony, near Campinas. In spite of the denial from the historiography of the role of the slavery for the constitution of the colony, a detailed documental analysis reveals us the high relevance of the confederates' relationships with the agrarian slave market circuit. While they were linked, the cohesive forces of the colony were sufficiently strong to avoid the dispersion of the group. After the end of nineteenth century, with the abolition of the slavery and the progressive decadence of the cotton agriculture, the colony begins dissolving. In spite of most of the immigrants and their descendants to accomplish efforts in the substitution of the cotton for other commercial gender, mostly sugarcane, the area of the farms was reduced in function of the fali in the profitability and divisions of these because of the sharing of inheritances. The agricultural activity of the confederates' and their descendants tended to subsistence, and the members of the colony were effectively integrated to their surrounding social atmosphere. Years later, the marriages among colony members become rare. After this period of social integration, the confederates dispersed geographically, culminating with their dilution amid Americana and Santa Bárbara's population, more and more marked by the presence of the Italian immigrant / Mestrado / Historia Economica / Mestre em Desenvolvimento Econômico