A promoção da saúde (PS) na escola visa colaborar para a construção da autonomia de alunos e professores, de forma a gerar microtransformações na comunidade local, nos aspectos que tangem à saúde. O objetivo geral deste estudo foi analisar os sentidos atribuídos por crianças e adolescentes às atividades de PS na escola, e os objetivos específicos foram identificar os sentidos atribuídos pelas crianças e adolescentes às atividades de (PS) na escola e analisar relações que fazem sobre saúde em seu cotidiano. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, ancorada na abordagem histórico-cultural de Lev Vigotski e colaboradores, em que se empregou a análise temática de Braun e Clarke como ferramenta para a análise de dados. Foram realizados 4 grupos focais de alunos com idades entre 11 e 14 anos, que vivenciaram atividades de PS em uma escola pública de Ribeirão Preto. Esses participantes produziram ainda, por escrito e ao final do grupo focal, impressões sobre as atividades de PS. Foram também obtidas informações de documentos escolares e de registros de observações da pesquisadora. Os resultados levaram à constituição dos seguintes temas: Temas apresentados pelos alunos - com contextualização das dinâmicas das atividades realizadas pelas coordenadoras das atividades de PS (estagiárias de enfermagem) na escola; Aspectos constitutivos da aprendizagem em saúde - apontam a apropriação dos conceitos científicos feitas pelos alunos, e a presença do vínculo e do acolhimento na relação que se estabeleceu entre coordenadoras das atividades de PS e os alunos; Repercussão das aprendizagens no cotidiano - destacaram-se situações vivenciadas na escola levadas para o dia a dia dos participantes, gerando pequenas transformações no contexto familiar e escolar, mostrando que o aprendizado compreende a tomada de consciência para a mudança de atitude e passa a fazer parte das atividades dos alunos no cotidiano; Princípios da Promoção da Saúde - definidos pela OMS, destacaram-se: Ações Multiestratégicas - metodologias ativas nas atividades de PS; Concepção Holística da Saúde - a relação do bullying com a saúde mental (depressão) e com a responsabilidade pelo bem-estar dos demais, considerando que podem levar à morte (suicídio) ou salvar vidas; Intersetorialidade -relação entre educação (professores) e saúde (coordenadoras das atividades de PS); Sustentabilidade - continuidade necessária das atividades para que ocorram as transformações no cotidiano e no ambiente escolar; Participação Social - pequenas atitudes podem causar consequências importantes para as pessoas que estão próximas e no contexto local; Empoderamento - pequenas transformações adotadas pelos participantes demonstraram a potencialidade de se tornarem atividades que colaboram para a ressignificação da saúde e para transformações na sociedade; Equidade - importância do respeito para a construção de uma boa convivência escolar; por fim o tema: Sugestões dos alunos para as atividades de Promoção da Saúde - sugestão de autoestima e saúde bucal como temas e visita à USP para atividades de PS na escola. Os sentidos atribuídos pelos alunos às experiências vivenciadas nas atividades de PS apontaram aprendizagem e transformações no cotidiano, que contribuem para a vivência mais saudável e comunitária, indicando a importância do trabalho de PS nas escolas / Promotion of health (PS) in school aims to collaborate for the construction of the autonomy of students and teachers, in order to generate micro transformations in the local community, in aspects that affect health. The general objective of this study was to analyze the meanings attributed by children and adolescents to PS activities at school, and the specific objectives were to identify the meanings attributed by children and adolescents to the activities of (PS) at school and analyze relationships that they make about health in your daily life. This is a qualitative research, anchored in the historical-cultural approach of Lev Vigotski et al., in which the thematic analysis of Braun and Clarke was used as a tool for data analysis. Four focus groups were carried out on students aged 11 to 14 years, who experienced PS activities in a public school in Ribeirão Preto. These participants also produced, in writing and at the end of the focus group, impressions on PS activities. Information was also obtained from school documents and records of the researcher observations. The results led to the constitution of the following themes: Topics presented by the students - with contextualization of the dynamics of the activities carried out by the coordinators of the PS activities (nursing trainees) in the school; Constitutive aspects of health learning - point out the appropriation of the scientific concepts made by the students, and the presence of the bond and the reception in the relationship that was established between coordinators of the PS activities and the students; Repercussion of learning in the daily life - highlighted situations experienced in the school taken to the daily life of the participants, generating small transformations in the family and school context, showing that the learning comprises the awareness for the change of attitude and becomes part of student daily activities; Principles of Health Promotion - defined by the WHO, were highlighted: Multi-strategic actions - active methodologies in the activities of PS; Holistic Health Conception - the relationship of bullying to mental health (depression) and responsibility for the well-being of others, considering that they can lead to death (suicide) or save lives; Intersectoriality - relationship between education (teachers) and health (coordinators of PS activities); Sustainability - necessary continuity of activities in order to bring changes in the daily life and in the school environment; Social Participation - small attitudes can have important consequences for people who are close and in the local context; Empowerment - small transformations adopted by the participants demonstrated the potential of becoming activities that contribute to the re-signification of health and to changes in society; Equity - importance of respect for the construction of a good school life; Finally, the theme: Suggestions of the students for the activities of Health Promotion - suggestion of self-esteem and oral health as themes and visit to USP for PS activities in school. The senses attributed by the students to the experiences lived in the activities of PS pointed to learning and transformations in the daily life, which contribute to a healthier and more communal life, indicating the importance of PS work in schools

As an expressive language, fashion design has an innate capacity to engage a full gamut of sensorial responses. This research explores the contribution of synaesthesia to fashion design in an effort to highlight the positive aesthetic and intellectual impact of this integration. Such research advances my creative practice. The method of realising garments which address synaesthetic principles is an extension of personal interest in synaesthesia, driven from both an experiential perspective and a desire to gain a greater understanding into theories in relation to challenging the senses in a contemporary fashion world. If fashion includes novelty as a crucial and desirable aspect, and can be defined as an ever evolving and self rejuvenating art form, then the energy and frivolity of these components in association with multiple sensory stimuli and response will expose the consequence of the study through design-work. Recognition of the importance of sensory cross-overs in fashion design will reveal the quintessence of how humans position themselves and respond to a specific environment. If realisation of the senses is with regard to surroundings, and fashion becomes the surrounding which elicits multiple involuntary responses from stimuli, a conscious recognition has begun. Traditional theories on the organisation of sense modalities speculate that humans perceive their world with five senses, the most dominant generally being sight. The combined effect of these senses creates the environment in which we inhabit. The visual and tactile senses have long been the focus of the fashion product but, of all the senses, touch is most key to our species (Ackerman, 1990). Sound, taste and smell have been under-recognised as providers of ceaseless information about our environment. The investigation into the notion that fashion and other sensory systems are not separate entities assists with establishing the links between sensory integration and fashion design. The emergence of the synaesthetic paradigm has highlighted a unity between the senses rather than the traditional hierarchy of favouring the visual. The research on synaesthesia relative to fashion design occupies a parallel position to neurological theory and allows synaesthetic investigation to be a pivotal determining factor towards my outcome. I have engaged in critical self-reflection of my design process and production as a means of elucidating stimuli associated with multi-sensory perception.

In a honey bee colony, the queen uses queen mandibular pheromone (QMP) to induce young worker bees to feed and groom her. Among its many behavioural and physiological effects, QMP reduces dopamine levels in the brains of young worker bees. Dopamine is a biogenic monoamine involved in numerous functions including motor control and aversive learning. This study investigates the effects of QMP on motor activities and aversive learning behaviour and the potential link between QMP and dopamine levels in the brain of young bees. In young bees under the age of 15-days, QMP dramatically reduced locomotor activity and inhibited aversive learning behaviour. Interestingly in older bees these behaviours were not affected by pheromone. Treating young bees with the dopamine precursor, L-dopa (3.25 [mu]g/mI), partially rescued the levels of locomotor activity in QMP-treated bees, and reduced QMP�s effects on aversive learning. This suggests that blocking effects of QMP on both locomotor activity and aversive learning result at least in part from QMP-induced changes in brain dopamine levels. Two components of the QMP blend, 4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenylethanol (HVA) and methyl p-hydroxybenzoate (HOB) were examined more closely. Both HVA and HOB are structurally similar to dopamine. HVA was found to mimic the effects of the full QMP blend on aversive learning. Treating bees with HVA reduced aversive learning in young bees. In contrast, treatment with HOB did not affect learning ability. This strongly suggests that HVA is one of the key components that mediates the actions of QMP on aversive learning. The final section of this thesis investigates why it might be advantageous to honey bee queens to block aversive learning and reduce locomotor activity in young worker bees. The study reveals age-related differences in behaviours that individual worker bees display towards QMP. Young bees reared with QMP or collected from a queenright hive showed attraction to QMP. Conversely, older bees displayed avoidance behaviour towards QMP. By blocking the establishment of aversive memories, young bees may be prevented from forming an association between QMP and any unpleasant side effects induced by this pheromone. This may confer significant benefit to the queen by increasing the likelihood of young workers remaining in her attendance.

Under de senare åren har det gjorts stora framsteg inom neurologin vad gäller koppling hjärna – inlärning. Tidigare ansågs intelligens vara något bestämt och oföränderligt, men nu hävdar neurologerna att människan själv sätter gränsen för sin intelligens. Alla människor har förmågan att förbättra och utveckla sin intelligens. För att lyckas med detta bör främst två väsentliga faktorer beaktas i skolan: dels att alla är unika och har olika sätt att inhämta information, dels att det är avgörande om människan befinner sig i en stimulerande miljö eller inte. Det är alltså av stor vikt hur skolmiljön ser ut för våra elever för bästa möjliga inlärning. Jag vill med detta arbete visa att genom att förstå vilka principer som styr hjärnans funktioner kan vi lärare bli bättre på att lära våra elever att lära. Studien belyser dels hjärnans uppbyggnad och vad den har för koppling till och betydelse för inlärningen, dels belyser jag tre olika inlärningsteorier och ger praktisk/pedagogiska exempel på hur de kan användas i en klassrumssituation.

<p>Against the dominant contemporary options of usefulness and disinterestedness, this dissertation attempts to display that beauty is better--more fully, richly, generatively--described with the categories of fittingness and gratuity. By working through texts by Gregory of Nyssa, this dissertation fills out what fittingness and gratuity entail--what, that is, they <italic>do</italic> for beauty-seekers and beauty-talkers. After the historical set-up of the first chapter, chapter 2 considers fittingness and gratuity through Gregory's doctrine of God because Beauty, for Gregory, is a name for God. That God is radically transcendent transforms (radicalizes) fittingness and gratuity away from a strictly Platonic vision of how they might function. Chapter 3 extends such radicalization by considering beauty in light of Christology and particularly in light of the Christological claims to invisibility, poverty, and suffering. In a time when beauty is wending its way back from an academic exile enforced by its associations with the `bourgeois,' such considerations re-present beauty as deeply intertwined with ugliness and horror. Chapter 4 asks how it is a person might perceive such beauty, which calls for pneumatological and anthropological reflections on Gregory's doctrine of the spiritual senses. The person who sees beauty rightly, for Gregory, is the person who is wounded by love.</p> / Dissertation

Odor signals mediate a variety of behaviors in animals across a diversity of taxa. Despite dramatic morphological differences between animals from different taxa, several important features of olfactory system organization and processing are similar across animals. Because of this similarity, a number of different organisms including mammals, insects, and decapod crustaceans serve as valuable model systems for understanding general principles of olfactory processing. As in other organisms, including both vertebrates and insects, the chemosensory system of decapod crustaceans is organized into multiple anatomically distinct neuronal pathways. The two main pathways (the aesthetasc/ olfactory lobe pathway and non-aesthetasc/ lateral antennular neuropil pathway) originate in different populations of antennular sensilla and project to different neuropils in the brain. The functional significance of this parallel organization is not well understood in crustaceans or in many other species. Although in some insect species the functions of parallel pathways are clearly delineated by the types of odors processed by each, functional differences between parallel pathways in other organisms are much less distinct. A critical step towards understanding the functional significance of the multiple chemosensory pathways is to identify the specific behaviors that are driven by each pathway. Using spiny lobsters and crayfish as model organisms, the importance of each pathway was examined in three different behavioral contexts: (1) orientation to a distant food odor, (2) shelter selection in response to conspecific chemical signals, and (3) determination of conspecific social status. In each study, selective ablations of specific populations of antennular sensilla were performed, and the behavior of ablated animals was compared to that of intact controls. Results show that either the aesthetasc or non-aesthetasc pathway is capable of driving orientation to food odors, suggesting functional redundancy between the pathways in this behavior. In contrast social odors are processed preferentially by the aesthetasc pathway rather than the non-aesthetasc pathway, suggesting a unique role for the aesthetasc pathway in this context. As in other organisms possessing multiple chemosensory pathways, the dual antennular pathways in crustaceans display both unique and overlapping functions depending on the chemicals examined, and the behavioral context in which the signal is presented.

Graduation date: 1992

This study elevates the importance of experience, the senses and tacit knowledge in relation to archaeology with a focus on music. With this I take up a thread drawing on theoretical aspects of Polanyi’s ‘Tacit Dimension’ and ‘Ingold’s Lines’.  I review paradigms in experimental archaeology and music archaeology, and the subject of reconstruction in both.  My case study is of four individuals, whose reconstruction models are connected to artefacts perceived as flutes in the archaeological record and/or notions of prehistoric flutes.  Combining the way in which we learn by understanding others’ experiences through gesture and experience as data, my work examines these ideas in relation to wanting to find out about these flute-making people, and how their work is related to the canon of archaeology to which one might expect that it belongs, and if we can call this a tradition.  What I found was that the praxis is complex and far reaching and stretches into various ontologies through philosophy, religion, emotionalism, intellectualism, symbolism, music, tradition, imagination, experience, sensation and identity, where interrelations of the past, present and future are very evident.  I finally consider archaeology as an art which reveals parallels between archaeology itself and music.  Paradigms in archaeologies in 2013 do not effectively support this praxis of flute making despite contextual experimentation showing welcoming promise for future change.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva och analysera hur utvalda fine dining-restauranger arbetar med att skapa helhetsupplevelser för gästen. Vidare vill vi om möjlighet ges, även ge rekommendationer till hur andra företag i andra branscher kan arbeta för att tillämpa ett likande framgångsrecept. Uppsatsens syfte har uppfyllts genom tillämpning av en kvalitativ forskningsmetod och användning av en abduktiv ansats, för att kunna förstå och tolka empirin. Vår teoretiska referensram har bestått av grundläggande delar som vi antagit hör till en helhetsupplevelse och som vi kommit fram till att fine dining- restauranger tillämpar. Vi har inom den teoretiska referensramen haft helhetsupplevelsen i fokus och utgått från att delarna utgör den helhet som blir upplevelsen för gästen. Produkten, servicen, rummet och organisationen är de delarna vi har tagit fram teorier kring och som utgjort grunden för vårt analysarbete. Vi har intervjuat tre restaurangchefer, en köksmästare, två sommelierer och en kökschef fördelade på fine dining- restauranger i Borgholm, Göteborg, Stockholm och Växjö. Vi har även intervjuat en projektansvarig som jobbar med konceptutveckling för bland annat restauranger. Denna variation i empiriskt material är för att vi vill kunna se hur personer på olika poster på restaurangerna uppfattar samma problematisering. Den företeelse vi utläser från våra respondenters svar är att alla på en fine dinig- restaurang arbetar för att ge gästen en helhetsupplevelse och att maten är en viktig del, men det krävs enligt restaurangerna någonting mer för att skapa en helhetsupplevelse för gästen. Vi rekommenderar att andra branscher har ett mer serviceinriktat fokus, både internt och externt. Intern service kan resultera i en bättre sammanhållning mellan personalen och externt kan det skapa långsiktiga relationer som grund för lönsamhet. / The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze how chosen fine dining- restaurants work with holistic experiences. Through this, we want to find out how other companies in other industries can work to apply a similar formula for success. Method of use in this study has been met by the application of a qualitative research and the use of an abductive approach, in order to understand and interpret empirical data. Our theoretical framework consisted of the basic elements that we have assumed consists in a holistic experience and that these basic elements are applied by fine dining restaurants. We have within the theoretical framework had the holistic experience in focus and assumed that the parts make up the whole experience for the guest. The product, the service, the room and the organization are the parts we have developed theories which formed the basis for our analysis. We interviewed three restaurant managers, two chefs and two sommeliers in Borgholm, Gothenburg, Stockholm and Växjö. We also interviewed a project manager who works with developing concepts including restaurants. This variation in the empirical material is because we want to see how people in different positions at restaurants perceive the same problematization. The phenomenon we deduce from our respondents' answers is that everyone in a fine dining- restaurant works to give guests a holistic experience and the food is an important part, but to achieve a holistic experience for the guest, more is required. We recommend that other sectors have a more service-oriented focus, both internally and externally. Internal service can result in a better cohesion between staff and externally it can create long-term relationships as the basis of profitability.

Adult neurogenesis of olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) occurs in diverse organisms including in decapod crustaceans. This dissertation describes the molecular, cellular, and physiological changes that occur during adult neurogenesis of ORNs in the antennular lateral flagellum (LF) of the spiny lobster Panulirus argus. Examination of the role of splash (spiny lobster achaete scute homolog) in adult neurogenesis and regeneration using in situ hybridization showed splash was not closely associated with the formation of sensory neurons under normal physiological conditions. Damage to the LF, which induces regeneration, enhanced splash expression, suggesting an association between splash with regeneration and repair. This study suggests that splash plays multiple roles in the olfactory organ of adult spiny lobsters. Examination of extracellular and intracellular Ca2+ in mediating spontaneous and odor-induced responses of ORNs, using calcium imaging showed that odor-induced Ca2+ transient responses and spontaneous Ca2+ oscillations in ORN somata are primarily mediated by an influx of extracellular Ca2+ through Co2+ -sensitive Ca2+ channels, but that intracellular Ca2+stores also have some contribution. These responses are independent of TTX-sensitive Na+ channels, suggesting that these Ca2+ responses may reflect receptor potentials. Examination of changes in odor specificity, sensitivity, and temporal responses in adult-born ORNs showed an increase in the percentage of odorant-responsive ORNs as they age from newly-born cells to mature, and a decrease in odorant-responsive ORNs as they senesce. As adult-born ORNs age, there was a decrease in the percentage of ORNs that undergo spontaneous Ca2+ oscillations and an increase in the amplitude of oscillation. ORNs became more broadly tuned as they senesce, and their response profile, defined by the most effective odorant, changed. Odor sensitivity changed with age. This study demonstrated that the physiological response properties of adult-born ORNs changed with functional maturation. Taken together, this dissertation reveals molecular, cellular and physiological changes in adult born ORNs and elucidates mechanisms of adult neurogenesis.