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Esta dissertação é resultado de uma pesquisa que objetivou descrever e analisar como se constitui a estratégia de inventar a vida de taxista no exercício do trabalho imaterial, considerando o medo característico da sociedade líquido-moderna. Para tanto, em termos teóricos e com o objetivo de sustentar a dissertação, trabalhou-se com conceitos de vida líquida, sociedade líquido-moderna, medo e estilo de vida apoiados especialmente em Bauman (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007a, 2007b, 2008, 2009), Gaulejac (2007), Sennett (2012a), Giddens (2002), Deleuze (1992, 1998); de trabalho imaterial amparado em autores tais como Grisci (2008), Mansano (2009b), Gorz (2005), Lazzarato e Negri (2001). Foram entrevistados quinze taxistas, bem como um representante sindical e um instrutor do curso de formação profissional para taxistas. As entrevistas semiestruturadas foram realizadas em diversos pontos da cidade de Porto Alegre. Foi feita observação participante no curso de formação profissional para taxistas totalizando quarenta e sete horas e trinta minutos de observação participante. Foi realizado um grupo focal com seis participantes do curso de formação profissional para taxistas. A análise dos dados foi realizada de maneira qualitativa e seguiu as orientações propostas por Minayo (2001). Os resultados da pesquisa indicaram que os medos característicos do trabalho de taxista, tem relação com os medos da sociedade líquido-moderna, sendo relativos ao sustento próprio e de terceiros; à circulação pela cidade, e ao transporte de passageiros. Em relação a estratégia de inventar a vida de taxista, os resultados apontaram que ela está pautada em elementos de afirmação e negação. / This dissertation is the result from a research that aimed to describe and analyze the strategy to invent the life of taxi drivers in the exercise of immaterial work, considering the fear characteristics of liquid-modern society. In order to do so, the theoretical basis of the present dissertation the use the following concepts: liquid life, liquid-modern society, fear and lifestyle especially supported in Bauman (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007a, 2007b, 2008, 2009), Gaulejac (2007), Sennett (2012a), Giddens (2002), Deleuze (1992, 1998); immaterial work supported in authors such as Grisci (2008), Mansano (2009b), Gorz (2005), Lazzarato and Negri (2001). The interviews were conducted with fifteen taxi drivers, one syndicate representative and one instructor from a professional training course for taxi drivers. The semi-structured interviews were conducted at various points in the city of Porto Alegre. A participant observation was also conducted in the professional training course for taxi drivers, summing up to forty-seven hours and thirty minutes of participant observation. Additionally, a focus group was carried with six participants from the taxi driver training course. The collected data were analyzed in a qualitative way following the guidelines proposed by Minayo (2001). The results indicated that the characteristic fear of taxi driver worker relates with fears of liquid-modern society, it is related to the support of themselves and others, driving in the city and the transport of passengers. About the strategy to invent the life of taxi driver, the results showed that it is guided by elements of affirmation and negation.

Esta dissertação é resultado de uma pesquisa que objetivou descrever e analisar como se constitui a estratégia de inventar a vida de taxista no exercício do trabalho imaterial, considerando o medo característico da sociedade líquido-moderna. Para tanto, em termos teóricos e com o objetivo de sustentar a dissertação, trabalhou-se com conceitos de vida líquida, sociedade líquido-moderna, medo e estilo de vida apoiados especialmente em Bauman (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007a, 2007b, 2008, 2009), Gaulejac (2007), Sennett (2012a), Giddens (2002), Deleuze (1992, 1998); de trabalho imaterial amparado em autores tais como Grisci (2008), Mansano (2009b), Gorz (2005), Lazzarato e Negri (2001). Foram entrevistados quinze taxistas, bem como um representante sindical e um instrutor do curso de formação profissional para taxistas. As entrevistas semiestruturadas foram realizadas em diversos pontos da cidade de Porto Alegre. Foi feita observação participante no curso de formação profissional para taxistas totalizando quarenta e sete horas e trinta minutos de observação participante. Foi realizado um grupo focal com seis participantes do curso de formação profissional para taxistas. A análise dos dados foi realizada de maneira qualitativa e seguiu as orientações propostas por Minayo (2001). Os resultados da pesquisa indicaram que os medos característicos do trabalho de taxista, tem relação com os medos da sociedade líquido-moderna, sendo relativos ao sustento próprio e de terceiros; à circulação pela cidade, e ao transporte de passageiros. Em relação a estratégia de inventar a vida de taxista, os resultados apontaram que ela está pautada em elementos de afirmação e negação. / This dissertation is the result from a research that aimed to describe and analyze the strategy to invent the life of taxi drivers in the exercise of immaterial work, considering the fear characteristics of liquid-modern society. In order to do so, the theoretical basis of the present dissertation the use the following concepts: liquid life, liquid-modern society, fear and lifestyle especially supported in Bauman (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007a, 2007b, 2008, 2009), Gaulejac (2007), Sennett (2012a), Giddens (2002), Deleuze (1992, 1998); immaterial work supported in authors such as Grisci (2008), Mansano (2009b), Gorz (2005), Lazzarato and Negri (2001). The interviews were conducted with fifteen taxi drivers, one syndicate representative and one instructor from a professional training course for taxi drivers. The semi-structured interviews were conducted at various points in the city of Porto Alegre. A participant observation was also conducted in the professional training course for taxi drivers, summing up to forty-seven hours and thirty minutes of participant observation. Additionally, a focus group was carried with six participants from the taxi driver training course. The collected data were analyzed in a qualitative way following the guidelines proposed by Minayo (2001). The results indicated that the characteristic fear of taxi driver worker relates with fears of liquid-modern society, it is related to the support of themselves and others, driving in the city and the transport of passengers. About the strategy to invent the life of taxi driver, the results showed that it is guided by elements of affirmation and negation.

Esta dissertação é resultado de uma pesquisa que objetivou descrever e analisar como se constitui a estratégia de inventar a vida de taxista no exercício do trabalho imaterial, considerando o medo característico da sociedade líquido-moderna. Para tanto, em termos teóricos e com o objetivo de sustentar a dissertação, trabalhou-se com conceitos de vida líquida, sociedade líquido-moderna, medo e estilo de vida apoiados especialmente em Bauman (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007a, 2007b, 2008, 2009), Gaulejac (2007), Sennett (2012a), Giddens (2002), Deleuze (1992, 1998); de trabalho imaterial amparado em autores tais como Grisci (2008), Mansano (2009b), Gorz (2005), Lazzarato e Negri (2001). Foram entrevistados quinze taxistas, bem como um representante sindical e um instrutor do curso de formação profissional para taxistas. As entrevistas semiestruturadas foram realizadas em diversos pontos da cidade de Porto Alegre. Foi feita observação participante no curso de formação profissional para taxistas totalizando quarenta e sete horas e trinta minutos de observação participante. Foi realizado um grupo focal com seis participantes do curso de formação profissional para taxistas. A análise dos dados foi realizada de maneira qualitativa e seguiu as orientações propostas por Minayo (2001). Os resultados da pesquisa indicaram que os medos característicos do trabalho de taxista, tem relação com os medos da sociedade líquido-moderna, sendo relativos ao sustento próprio e de terceiros; à circulação pela cidade, e ao transporte de passageiros. Em relação a estratégia de inventar a vida de taxista, os resultados apontaram que ela está pautada em elementos de afirmação e negação. / This dissertation is the result from a research that aimed to describe and analyze the strategy to invent the life of taxi drivers in the exercise of immaterial work, considering the fear characteristics of liquid-modern society. In order to do so, the theoretical basis of the present dissertation the use the following concepts: liquid life, liquid-modern society, fear and lifestyle especially supported in Bauman (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007a, 2007b, 2008, 2009), Gaulejac (2007), Sennett (2012a), Giddens (2002), Deleuze (1992, 1998); immaterial work supported in authors such as Grisci (2008), Mansano (2009b), Gorz (2005), Lazzarato and Negri (2001). The interviews were conducted with fifteen taxi drivers, one syndicate representative and one instructor from a professional training course for taxi drivers. The semi-structured interviews were conducted at various points in the city of Porto Alegre. A participant observation was also conducted in the professional training course for taxi drivers, summing up to forty-seven hours and thirty minutes of participant observation. Additionally, a focus group was carried with six participants from the taxi driver training course. The collected data were analyzed in a qualitative way following the guidelines proposed by Minayo (2001). The results indicated that the characteristic fear of taxi driver worker relates with fears of liquid-modern society, it is related to the support of themselves and others, driving in the city and the transport of passengers. About the strategy to invent the life of taxi driver, the results showed that it is guided by elements of affirmation and negation.

Thesis (MA (English))—University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / In this thesis, I examine the way in which Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver can be read as a critical investigation of post-World War II American masculinity. Drawing on Susan Faludi’s arguments regarding the post-World War II American ‘masculinity crisis’, I highlight specifically how Taxi Driver addresses American masculinity in the context of ideals of heroism, of the myth of the Wild West, of the Vietnam era, and of the increasingly influential role that the popular media play in shaping conceptions of masculinity. In the process I indicate that Taxi Driver exposes, and critiques, an association in modern American society between masculinity and what analysts have termed the ‘myth of regeneration through violence’.

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The aim of this work is to introduce a couple of new exposure scenariosof interest when personnel, family members and general public are externally irradiated from patients treated with Iodine-131. A series of modied ORNL matematical phantoms were used in Monte-Carlo simulations in PENELOPE-2011 to determine dose rates to: a cab driver where thepatient sits in the back seat at opposite side, a newborn child held by an adult patient, a doctor giving treatment to a patient while leaning over the hospital bed and collective effective dose to bus passengers if the patient travels home by bus. The cost to order taxi instead of a public transport ticket for the patient is put in relation to the lowered collective effective dose to general public and compared with other companies price per lowered manSv. Dose rate measurements and the effective half-life of I-131 are used to determine the retained whole body activity at different times post administration. This in combination with the simulations are used to estimate effective doses to the cab driver, bus passengers, newborn and personnel. Whole body-, abdominal- and thyroid source distributions were considered in the patients during simulations. Dose rates within 99.7 % condence intervals were up to: 23.7 ± 0.4, 62.7 ± 0.3, 530 ± 71, 96.8 ± 0.5 µSv/h/GBq, for the cab driver, closest bus passenger, newborn and physician respectively. Collective effective dose to bus passengers is estimated to 291 ± 2 µmanSv/h/GBq. A patient specic tool for estimating more reasonable restriction times on how long to avoid small children is developed, taking into account retained body activity and the home situation for the patient. Effective dose estimations suggest that dose constraints are very unlikely exceeded for the taxi driver, and public transport should be a considered option for thyrotoxicosis patients of lower administered activities and some cancer patients. It is also estimated that hospitals in Sweden are paying 7.6 - 31 MSEK per lowered collective effective dose of 1 manSv by sending patients by taxi instead of bus.

Studiens syfte har varit att undersöka hur brottsutsattheten hos taxiförare i Örnsköldsvik, Sundsvall, Hudiksvall och Gävle ser ut, att undersöka om situationella åtgärder kan tänkas minska risken för brottsutsatthet samt att få en inblick i taxiförarnas egna tankar kring hur risken för brottsutsatthet kan minskas. Detta har gjorts genom en enkätundersökning och materialet har analyserats genom univariat analys och innehållsanalys. Resultatet visar att brottsutsattheten skiljer sig mellan taxiförarna kopplat till ålder, kön, etnicitet och yrkeserfarenhet, att larm och kamera kan tänkas minska risken för brottsutsatthet samt att taxiförarna föreslår brottsförebyggande åtgärder såsom att installera övervakningskamera och att få utbildning i kundbemötande. De viktigaste slutsatserna som har dragits är att brottsutsatthet hos taxiförare fortfarande är ett problem och att säkerhetsåtgärder i form av larm och övervakningskamera samt utbildning i kundbemötande är önskvärt. / The purpose of this study has been to examine how the crime victimization among taxi drivers in Örnsköldsvik, Sundsvall, Hudiksvall and Gävle looks, to examine if situational measures conceivably reduce the risk of crime victimization and to get insight in what the taxi drives themselves think about how to reduce the risk of crime victimization. This has been examined through a questionnaire survey and the data has been analyzed through univariate analysis and content analysis. The results show that the crime victimization differs between the taxi drivers regarding age, sex, ethnicity and professional experience, that alarms and surveillance cameras conceivably reduce the risk of crime victimization, and that the taxi drivers suggest crime prevention measures such as installing surveillance cameras and education in customer service. The most important conclusions that have been drawn are that crime victimization among taxi drivers is still a problem and that safety measures in terms of alarms and surveillance cameras as well as education in customer service are desirable.

本研究以警察廣播電臺台北臺為例，探討身為交通專業電台的警察廣播電台，在面對電視與其他廣播媒體，紛紛加入路況資訊提供的競爭下，是否仍具有其優勢？以因工作需要而必需長時間使用道路的計程車駕駛人為研究對象，探討大台北地區計程車駕駛人收聽警廣節目的主要目的為何？在什麼情況下容易轉台？節目內容與傳播設備等因素，是否也會影響計程車駕駛人的轉台意願？ 研究發現，收聽警廣台北臺節目的計程車駕駛人，只有兩種類型，一種為「計劃型」收聽，另一種則採取「再評估模式」。計程車駕駛人因警廣路況報導正確而收聽，但卻也會因為資訊不夠即時而轉台；收聽時間大多集中在上、下班的尖峰時間。最欣賞的節目主持人，則以「路況報得好、報得專業」最獲青睞，甚至有六成以上的計程車駕駛人會因為喜歡某個節目主持人，而固定收聽其節目；另外，聲音悅耳、節目多元豐富與音樂好聽與否，也是吸引計程車駕駛人是否繼續收聽的重要因素。除了路況資訊的獲得外，計程車駕駛人對於生活資訊的需求，遠高於新聞氣象、綜藝音樂及公共事務。至於車上有無其他音響設備，亦將影響計程車駕駛人的轉台行為。 / The purpose of this study is to determine whether the Police Radio Station (PRS), specifically the one in Taipei, is still necessary since television and many other forms of media provide the same service of traffic broadcasting. The research subjects for this study are Taipei taxi drivers who spend long hours on the road each day. Four questions form the basis of this study: 1. What is the main reason that taxi drivers listen to PRS? 2. Under what circumstances do they switch channels? 3. Does the content of the program affect their listening choices? 4. Does the type of broadcasting equipment affect their listening choices? The results indicate that there are two kinds of taxi drivers who listen to the programs of the PRS in Taipei. The first kind follows the "planning strategy" and the other kind follows the "re-evaluation strategy." Drivers listen to the PRS for its accuracy of traffic information; however, they will switch to another channel when there is a lack of substantial information being broadcast. Their listening time usually occurs during the rush hours, when they are getting on or getting off work. Drivers primarily prefer anchors whose information is "not only great but also professional." More than 60 percent of the drivers in this study report that they will continuously listen to one program if it is hosted by the anchor whom they favor. In addition, three other factors affect the drivers' listening habits: (1) the voice of the anchor, (2) the richness of the program content, and (3) the quality of the music being played. Besides traffic information, taxi drivers also need or desire to listen to information about other aspects of daily life, than (1) news and weather, (2) entertainment, and (3) public affairs. Finally, one other factor affects the listening behavior of taxi drivers: whether or not there is more than one form of listening device inside the car.