Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:17:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTACAO RILDO SOUZA.pdf: 1952505 bytes, checksum: ad327f49629593fafd39e17375b6dc7d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-26 / The Asylum St. Vincent de Paul was established in 1909 in the city of Goiás, built at the initiative of the confreres in the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, which was created in France in the first half of the nineteenth century by Frederick Ozanam in. His goal was to create conferences Charity aimed at material and spiritual assistance to the poor. In Goiás, the ideal found fertile soil, and since 1885 held a number of charities, its members visited the jail and the hospital must provide food, clothing and living several poor who crowded the streets, alleys and villages of the former Vila Boa. To optimize the work, the Vincentians founded asylum, built in hygienic and pleasant place on the outskirts of the city. With the intention to house the indigent, poor, destitute, disabled, abandoned and sick of all sorts, asylum soon became the embodiment of the ideal of charity planted by Ozanam, and showcase for its members. Under the direction of internal Dominican Sisters, asylum has become a sacred space. Over time, several people who did not fit the profile of the inmates, aspired to enter the institution, where those who would watch. Donation of houses, money and aid from the influential people were found loopholes to achieve this intention. Our goal is to understand what accounted for the asylum for the three groups directly involved with it, namely, the Vincentians, the Handicapped, and the Dominican Sisters. Restricting the analysis to areas for these groups, we will analyze the real interests that are behind the construction of the asylum St. Vincent de Paul / O Asilo São Vicente de Paulo foi inaugurado em 1909, na Cidade de Goiás, construído por iniciativa dos confrades da Sociedade São Vicente de Paulo, a qual foi criada na França na primeira metade do século XIX, por Frederico de Ozanam. Seu objetivo consistia em criar Conferências de Caridade visando o auxilio material e espiritual aos pobres. Em Goiás, este ideal encontrou terreno fértil, e desde 1885, realizou diversas obras de caridade; seus membros visitavam a cadeia e o hospital, devam de comer, de vestir e de morar a diversos pobres que se amontoavam nas ruas, becos e vilas da antiga Vila Boa. Para otimizar o trabalho, os Vicentinos fundaram o asilo, construído em lugar higiênico e aprazível, nos arredores da cidade. Com a intenção de abrigar indigentes, pobres, desvalidos, inválidos, abandonados e doentes de todos os tipos, o asilo logo se tornaria a materialização do ideal de caridade plantado por Ozanam, e vitrine para os seus membros. Sob a direção interna das Irmãs Dominicanas, o asilo se tornou um espaço sagrado. Com o tempo, diversas pessoas que não se enquadravam no perfil dos internos, almejaram entrar na instituição, onde teriam quem os assistissem. Doação de casas, dinheiro e auxílio junto a pessoas influentes foram os subterfúgios encontrados para conseguir tal intento. Nosso objetivo é compreender o que representou o asilo para os três grupos diretamente envolvidos a ele, a saber: os Vicentinos, os Desvalidos e as Irmãs Dominicanas. Restringindo a análise aos espaços destinados a esses grupos, pretende-se analisar os reais interesses que estão por detrás da construção do Asilo São Vicente de Paulo

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This thesis seeks to answer the following question: What was the legacy of the Sisters of Charity in the history of philanthropy, women’s history, medicine and nursing? The Sisters of Charity was a Catholic religious order that provided volunteer nurses, and became highly visible, during the American Civil War. Several hundred Catholic sister nurses served; they supported both the Union and Confederacy by caring for soldiers from both armies. The sisters’ story is important because of the religious and gender biases they overcame. As nurses, the Sisters of Charity interacted with different people: they cared for soldiers, worked at the direction of surgeons and alongside lay relief workers. The war propelled them into public view, and the sisters acted as agents of change. Their philanthropy eroded some of the antebellum cultural proscriptions that previously confined Catholics, women and nurses. This thesis argues the Sisters of Charity created and implemented an antebellum philanthropic model, key aspects of which the majority, non-Catholic culture emulated after the war. The Sisters of Charity were agents of social change: they broke down religious, social and gender barriers, and developed a prototype for a healthcare model that the secular world emulated. Many women responded to the unprecedented suffering and cataclysmic conditions of the Civil War in a multitude of ways, and philanthropy was forever changed as a result. Wartime benevolence provided templates for large-scale voluntary organizations, illuminated the issue of payment for charity workers, moved the practice of philanthropy from individual to institutional, and led to the development of nursing as a profession. Female voluntarism shifted into the front and center of the public sphere. Charitable work moved along the continuum from individual to institutional, from volunteer to professional. Questions regarding the respective roles of payment to charitable workers developed. Nursing gained recognition as a profession, and formal training began. The Sisters of Charity were leaders in all these areas, and their orders served as models for the future of philanthropy. Yet they are often absent from analyses of the trajectory of nineteenth-century philanthropy, and this thesis delivers them to the discussion.

This thesis reports the development, testing, and application of computer programs for simulating Lagrangian-Stochastic particle dispersion in coastal seas, with particular application to tide and storm induced dispersion in South Australian seas. The three-dimensional tidal equations are briefly discussed for the two types of surge models used, and finite-difference methods for numerically solving these equations are considered. Different methods of simulating flows at open sea boundaries are investigated. The method of particle tracking and the development of the particle tracking model is also described. Various tests are conducted to investigate both the advective and diffusive aspects of dispersion, and a number of scenarios for the simulation of open (ocean) and closed (coastal) boundaries are considered. Various aspects of the particle tracking routine are given specific characteristics according to the nature of the particle being considered. Application of the tide and storm surge model to the Great Australian Bight is described. This uses spherical polar co-ordinates to account for the curvature of the earth, and an oblique boundary element to increase accuracy of the coastline representation. The effect of a low pressure system moving from west to east across the Bight and the resulting significant observed surge at Thevenard during the storm of April 1996 is simulated. This storm resulted in a significant number of deaths in aquaculture farms containing southern bluefin tuna (Thunnas maccoyii) within the Boston Bay region to the extreme east of the Bight due to the agitation of almost neutrally buoyant organic sediments at the sea floor. The effects of this storm are further considered using a Cartesian co-ordinate fine-grid local model of Boston Bay, in Spencer Gulf, South Australia, where both tidal and storm (wind and outside surge) induced flows are simulated. The dispersion of suspended neutrally buoyant sediment throughout the region is considered, and compared with the mortalities of tuna at various farms within the region. Tidal and storm induced currents in the Gulf St. Vincent region, South Australia, have also been modelled using Cartesian co-ordinates. Detailed consideration has been given to the modelling of tides, winds, atmospheric pressures and outside surges from the two open boundaries in Investigator Strait and Backstairs Passage. The information obtained has enabled the modelling of a number of storm surge scenarios. Further to this, various simulations of the dispersion of the larvae of the western king prawn (Penaeus latisulcatus) have been driven using the storm surge model developed. These incorporate currents near the surface and the sea floor, as well as the consideration of changes in behaviour during the life history of the larvae. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, 2000.

This thesis reports the development, testing, and application of computer programs for simulating Lagrangian-Stochastic particle dispersion in coastal seas, with particular application to tide and storm induced dispersion in South Australian seas. The three-dimensional tidal equations are briefly discussed for the two types of surge models used, and finite-difference methods for numerically solving these equations are considered. Different methods of simulating flows at open sea boundaries are investigated. The method of particle tracking and the development of the particle tracking model is also described. Various tests are conducted to investigate both the advective and diffusive aspects of dispersion, and a number of scenarios for the simulation of open (ocean) and closed (coastal) boundaries are considered. Various aspects of the particle tracking routine are given specific characteristics according to the nature of the particle being considered. Application of the tide and storm surge model to the Great Australian Bight is described. This uses spherical polar co-ordinates to account for the curvature of the earth, and an oblique boundary element to increase accuracy of the coastline representation. The effect of a low pressure system moving from west to east across the Bight and the resulting significant observed surge at Thevenard during the storm of April 1996 is simulated. This storm resulted in a significant number of deaths in aquaculture farms containing southern bluefin tuna (Thunnas maccoyii) within the Boston Bay region to the extreme east of the Bight due to the agitation of almost neutrally buoyant organic sediments at the sea floor. The effects of this storm are further considered using a Cartesian co-ordinate fine-grid local model of Boston Bay, in Spencer Gulf, South Australia, where both tidal and storm (wind and outside surge) induced flows are simulated. The dispersion of suspended neutrally buoyant sediment throughout the region is considered, and compared with the mortalities of tuna at various farms within the region. Tidal and storm induced currents in the Gulf St. Vincent region, South Australia, have also been modelled using Cartesian co-ordinates. Detailed consideration has been given to the modelling of tides, winds, atmospheric pressures and outside surges from the two open boundaries in Investigator Strait and Backstairs Passage. The information obtained has enabled the modelling of a number of storm surge scenarios. Further to this, various simulations of the dispersion of the larvae of the western king prawn (Penaeus latisulcatus) have been driven using the storm surge model developed. These incorporate currents near the surface and the sea floor, as well as the consideration of changes in behaviour during the life history of the larvae. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, 2000.