Thesis (D. Min.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2002. / Vita. Includes abstract. Appendix: A ritual of group grieving -- Kairos: a ritual honoring common ground -- Rite for completion of reconciliation of groups -- Rite of reconciliation: a day of atonement -- Reconciliation rite for impasse -- Rituals of transition: a week of farewell for parish closure -- Rite of leavetaking of a church -- Rites for inauguration of a newly consolidated parish -- Rites of reception and memorial of the closed parish with a blessing of the foundation stone ... Includes bibliographical references (leaves 323-337).

In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission made their final recommendations for Canadian society to address cultural genocide: by affirming stories of survivors, taking personal and professional inventory of their practices and making concrete steps to meet the Calls to Action. In particular, the TRC recognized damage done by museums and art galleries to perpetuate colonialism and yet, believed that these institutions could be sites of justice, particularly in relation to arts and artists The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, an institution steeped in colonialism and under pressure to create accountable relationships with Indigenous communities, began to act by revamping their education program for school age children entitled the Gallery in the Schools art program. My study asked Indigenous artists and educators to contribute their ideas for a new art program. I used a blended research of community based and decolonizing research models, contextualized within decolonizing and critical theoretical frameworks. Overall, research findings suggest that process is as important as the end product in the context of reconciliation and decolonization. Significantly, relationships were esteemed over the concept of reconciliation. These finding further imply that a successful art program would ground pedagogical content within a critical historical framework, be informed by a fluid understanding of identity and search out possibilities of hope. The theoretical implications of this study support increased contributions by Indigenous artists as key policy makers, who will challenge the deeply embedded power structures of institutions and offer alternative ways to share power and support Indigenous envisioned futures. / Graduate

The status of women on the labour market and motherhood The main objective of this thesis is to analyse the position of women in the labour market in selected countries representing different models of family policy. The analysed countries are the Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. As first step, there are introduced conditions for the reconciliation of work and family life in selected countries and in the context of legislative of European Union. As second step, there are analyzed the level of fertility and the position of women in the labour market. There are also examined impacts of reconciliation of work and family not only on reducing the impact of parenthood on women's employment, but also on the level of fertility. The last part of this thesis deals with the evaluation of the respondent's opinions from International Social Survey Programme 2012 by average scores and binary logistic regression. Topics of analysed questions are the employment of mothers with young children and the division of roles in the family. The results confirmed that in countries with better conditions for the reconciliation of work and family there are smaller impacts of parenthood on women's employment also there are higher fertility rates. In the Czech Republic, there are most...

When violence towards fellow humans deteriorates to the extent of setting fire on others, it becomes a matter of grievous concern and a subject of empirical research. This study therefore inquires into xenophobic violence in South Africa of 2008 and tries to understand the victims‟ plight in the light of their conception of the image of God. To achieve this, a questionnaire survey among migrant victims from other African countries was conducted, analysed and critiqued. The findings established a deep feeling of animosity from a section of a South Africans with consequent loss of property, physical harm and death, as well as emotional trauma. The study deduces that such hostile treatment by hosts results from a loss of African humanity, Ubuntu. Going forward a theology of the image of God is critical for human relations in South Africa and essential for reconciliation between migrants and locals. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Missiology)

Process data from wastewater treatment plants are often corrupted by errors. These data provide a basis for operating the plant, therefore effort should be made to improve the data quality. Currently, Stockholm Vatten och Avfall uses a method where they quantitatively verify water flow measurement data by comparing it to water level measurements. In this thesis, an alternative approach based on mass balancing to detect errors was evaluated. The aim was to find, implement and evaluate a mass balance based method to detect and locate errors. The objective was to use this method to corroborate the flow verification method used by Stockholm Vatten och Avfall, and to improve flow data from Bromma Wastewater treatment plant. The chosen method consisted of two major steps, gross error detection and data reconciliation. A case study was performed where the method was tested on both simulated data with known added errors, real process data and finally a case where the suggested method was compared to the flow verification method. The results showed that this method was efficient in detecting a gross error when only one flow measurement was erroneous and that the estimation of the error magnitude was good. However, the suggested method was not useful for corroboration of the flow verification method. With the flow verification method, the flow in one filter basin at the time was examined. The suggested method required the combined flow in all 24 filter basins, which made it difficult to compare the two methods. The method has potential to be valuable for error detection in wastewater treatment plants, and to be used as a live tool to detect gross errors.

This article examines the role of intergroup trust and recognition of past sufferings onintergroup attitudes. We conducted an experiment among Dutch-speaking students in which we manipulated the degree of importance that French-speakers gave to historical episodes of past victimizations in order to test its impact on the attitudes towards the French-speakers. Results show that intergroup attitudes were most favorable among the high-trusting Dutch-speaking participants when they were led to believe that the French- speakers judged important the events where both communities were considered as victims, compared to the conditions where only French-speaking or only Dutch-speaking sufferings were considered important. This suggests some level of intergroup trust is a condition forthe positive effect of shared memories of victimization on attitudes. / Este artículo examina el rol de la confianza intergrupal y el reconocimiento del sufrimiento pasado en las relaciones intergrupales. Un experimento con estudiantes belgas flamencos manipuló la importancia que belgas francófonos otorgaban a episodios del pasado de victimización para contrastar su impacto en las actitudes hacia los francófonos. Los resultado smostraron que las actitudes intergrupales eran más favorables en los belgas flamencos con alta confianza intergrupal cuando se les presentaba información que los francófonos juzgaban como importantes los sufrimientos de ambos comunidades, en comparación cuando la información solo enfatizaba el sufrimiento de los flamencos o de los francófonos. Estosugiere que un nivel de confianza intergrupo es necesario para que memorias compartidas de sufrimiento mejoren las actitudes.

CNPQ / The medication reconciliation process (RIM) have great impact in preventing adverse events and errors related to drugs and is a formal process of obtaining a complete and accurate listing of household medication that is compared to the hospital prescription list. The discrepancies found during this process can cause harm to patients. This becomes more serious when polymedicated patients, using three or more medications at home, undergo surgical procedure of urgency. OBJECTIVE. Evaluate occurrence of discrepancies in the pharmacotherapy of surgical patients at a hospital in the state of Sergipe. METHODOLOGY. This was an observational study of descriptive exploratory, cross-sectional study between August and November 2014, to assess the occurrence of discrepancies in the pharmacotherapy of patients admitted to the surgical hospital admission. Polymedicated patients were considered those who used three or more drugs. In the initial interview we consider as sources of information the patient himself, the companion, the domestic use of drugs led to hospitalization and consultation of the record. Discrepancies were classified as unintentional variation among the drugs used before admission and the prescribed medication list after surgery may be: failure of drugs, differences in dose, differences in the frequency / schedule of administration, duplicity therapy and interaction between medications. The data were tabulated and analyzed. RESULTS. No período do estudo 422 pacientes foram admitidos no internamento pós-cirúrgico. Desses, 80 (19%) atenderam ao critério de inclusão, composto por 43 (53,8%) mulheres e 37 (46,3%) homens, com média de idade 64,14 anos ± 17,0. O motivo de internação mais prevalente foi amputação de membro inferior ou superior 33 (41,3%); a média de medicamentos do domicílio foi 4,7 ± 1,9. Foi encontrado um total de 444 discrepâncias, com uma média por paciente de 5,5 ± 2,78, as mais prevalentes foram interação, que representou mais da metade de todas as discrepâncias identificadas, 53,4% (n=237) e a omissão que constituiu 25,7% (n=114). Foram realizadas 106 intervenções e apenas n=15 (14,2%) foram aceitas. CONCLUSION. Polymedicated patients undergoing surgery require special care since they are under the care of medical specialists focused on meeting the reason for his hospitalization. The study suggests that the discrepancies found may represent high risk for safety of these patients, a more effective process of identification of home therapy is necessary when the patient is subjected to hospitalization; some comorbidities are related to the large number of medications. Thus, actions to promote patient safety in hospital admission and reduce medication errors should be practiced. / O processo de reconciliação de medicamentos (RM) tem grande impacto na prevenção de eventos adversos e erros relacionados a medicamentos e consiste num processo formal de obtenção de uma lista completa e precisa dos medicamentos do domicílio que é comparada com a lista de prescrição hospitalar. As discrepâncias encontradas durante esse processo podem causar danos aos pacientes. Isso se torna mais grave quando pacientes polimedicados, em uso de três ou mais medicamentos no domicílio, são submetidos a procedimento cirúrgico de urgência. OBJETIVO. Avaliar ocorrência de discrepâncias na farmacoterapia de pacientes cirúrgicos em um hospital do Estado de Sergipe. METODOLOGIA. Foi realizado um estudo observacional do tipo exploratório descritivo, de delineamento transversal entre Agosto e Novembro de 2014, para avaliação da ocorrência de discrepâncias na farmacoterapia de pacientes admitidos no internamento cirúrgico do hospital. Foram considerados pacientes polimedicados, aqueles que faziam uso de três ou mais medicamentos. Na entrevista inicial consideramos como fontes de informação o próprio paciente, o acompanhante, os medicamentos de uso domiciliar levados a internação e a consulta ao prontuário. As discrepâncias foram classificadas como qualquer variação não intencional entre os medicamentos utilizados antes da admissão e a lista de medicamentos prescrita após a intervenção cirúrgica podendo ser: omissão de medicamentos, diferenças na dose, diferenças na frequência/horário de administração, duplicidade terapêutica e interação entre medicamentos. Os dados obtidos foram tabulados e analisados. RESULTADOS. No período do estudo 422 pacientes foram admitidos no internamento pós-cirúrgico. Desses, 80 (19%) atenderam ao critério de inclusão, composto por 43 (53,8%) mulheres e 37 (46,3%) homens, com média de idade 64,14 anos ± 17,0. O motivo de internação mais prevalente foi amputação de membro inferior ou superior 33 (41,3%); a média de medicamentos do domicílio foi 4,7 ± 1,9. Foi encontrado um total de 444 discrepâncias, com uma média por paciente de 5,5 ± 2,78, as mais prevalentes foram interação, que representou mais da metade de todas as discrepâncias identificadas, 53,4% (n=237) e a omissão que constituiu 25,7% (n=114). Foram realizadas 106 intervenções e apenas n=15 (14,2%) foram aceitas. CONCLUSÃO. Os pacientes polimedicados submetidos a cirurgia requerem cuidados especiais uma vez que estão sob cuidados de médicos especialistas focados no atendimento do motivo do seu internamento. O estudo sugere que as discrepâncias encontradas podem representar alto risco para segurança desses pacientes, sendo necessário um processo mais efetivo de identificação da terapia domiciliar quando o paciente é submetido a internação; algumas comorbidades estão relacionadas ao elevado número de medicamentos em uso. Assim, ações que promovam a segurança do paciente na admissão hospitalar e reduzam os erros de medicamentos devem ser praticadas.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Introduction. Medication reconciliation is a process designed to promote communication and teamwork to prevent medication errors at transition of care points. In Brazil studies on the medication reconciliation are still incipient. Aim. To analyze the medication reconciliation under aspects related to risk factors for unintentional discrepancies, documentation of the practice and development of instrument to evaluate the medication reconciliation. Methods. The study was conducted in three stages. The first one was a prospective, case-control study with the aim of identifying the potential risk factors for unintentional medication discrepancies (UMD) at hospital admission. In addition, another study was carried out bringing reflections on the quality of documentation of the history of use of medicines in hospitals and the need for improvements in this process. The second step consisted of a cross-sectional study conducted in a teaching hospital. The clinical notes of nurses, pharmacists and physicians were evaluated to characterize the records on medication use, additionally analysis of communication failures was carried out in all medical records. The last step corresponded to a methodological development study to elaborate and validate the content of a survey questionnaire on the accomplishment of the medication reconciliation in Brazilian hospitals. Results. The findings of the first stage showed that patients submitted to admission procedures after transfers between hospitals were three times more likely to have an UMD compared to patients who were admitted directly from home. In the second stage, it was evidenced that the inefficient communication among the care teams may have been the primary cause of the findings of the previous study. Regarding the evaluation of written documentation, there were no reports of allergies and adverse drug reactions in 44 (21.9%) of nurses, 8 (22.9%) of pharmacists and 54 (26.8%) of physician’s clinical notes. In addition, 1,588 changes in prescriptions were identified in the data collection period, where only 390 (24.5%) of these changes were justified. Furthermore, it was possible to identify 485 communication failures on medications in 65.3% (n = 132) of the evolutions evaluated. In relation to the development of the questionnaire, three preliminary versions were elaborated. The third version was submitted to the content validation process through Delphi resulting in the final version of the questionnaire with 17 questions. Conclusion. Inefficient communication, especially on medication, among the various actors in the care team can greatly influence the achievement of drug reconciliation and hence patient safety in the care transition. / Introdução. A conciliação de medicamentos é um processo delineado para promover a comunicação da equipe de saúde, visando prevenir erros de medicação nos pontos de transição de cuidados. No Brasil, estudos sobre este tema, bem como sobre a importância da comunicação escrita para sua completa execução ainda são incipientes. Objetivo. Analisar a conciliação de medicamentos sob aspectos relacionados a fatores de risco para discrepâncias não intencionais, documentação da prática e desenvolvimento de instrumento para avaliação da conciliação de medicamentos. Metodologia. O estudo foi realizado em três etapas. A primeira correspondeu a um estudo prospectivo, do tipo caso-controle para identificar fatores de risco potenciais para discrepâncias não intencionais da farmacoterapia (DNIF) na admissão hospitalar. Adicionalmente outro trabalho foi realizado trazendo reflexões sobre a qualidade da documentação do histórico de uso de medicamentos nos hospitais e a necessidade de melhoras neste processo. A segunda etapa consistiu em um estudo transversal realizado nos prontuários dos pacientes admitidos em um hospital ensino entre dezembro de 2016 e fevereiro de 2017. As evoluções de enfermeiros, farmacêuticos e médicos foram avaliadas para caracterizar o registro de informações sobre o uso de medicamentos em todos os prontuários. A última etapa correspondeu a um estudo de desenvolvimento metodológico para elaborar e validar o conteúdo de um questionário para survey sobre a realização da conciliação de medicamentos em hospitais do Brasil. Resultados. Os achados da primeira etapa evidenciaram que pacientes submetidos a processos de admissão após as transferências entre hospitais tiveram três vezes mais chances de ter uma DNIF em comparação a pacientes que foram admitidos diretamente de casa. Na segunda etapa ficou evidenciada que a comunicação ineficiente entre as equipes de cuidado pode ter sido a causa primária dos achados da primeira etapa. Quanto à avaliação da comunicação escrita, foram identificadas 1.588 alterações nas prescrições durante a coleta de dados eapenas 390 (24,5%) destas alterações foram justificadas. Ainda, foi possível identificar 485 falhas de comunicação sobre medicamentos em 65,3% (n=132) das evoluções avaliadas. Em relação ao desenvolvimento do questionário, três versões preliminares foram elaboradas. A terceira versão foi submetida ao processo de validação de conteúdo por meio do Delphi resultando na versão final do questionário com 17 questões. Conclusão. A comunicação ineficiente, especialmente sobre medicamentos, entre os vários atores da equipe de cuidados pode influenciar sobremaneira a realização da conciliação de medicamentos e, por conseguinte, a segurança de pacientes na transição de cuidados. / Aracaju

Orientador: Rubens Maciel Filho / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Quimica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T21:51:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Barbosa_AgremisGuinho_M.pdf: 1501070 bytes, checksum: c20fd373ba5e239e2b783608aebbc7f2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 / Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é o desenvolvimento de rotinas computacionais para o condicionamento de dados provenientes de um processo químico, de modo que estes sejam consistentes para a representação do comportamento do processo. A descrição adequada do comportamento de um processo é a base fundamental de qualquer sistema de controle e/ou otimização, uma vez que será em resposta às medições deste processo (sua descrição) que os referidos sistemas atuarão. Desta forma o tratamento e correção dos erros de medição, especificamente, e a estimativa de parâmetros, de um modo mais geral, constituem uma etapa que não deve ser negligenciada no controle e otimização de processos. O condicionamento de dados estudado neste trabalho é a reconciliação de dados, que tem como característica principal o uso de um modelo de restrições para condicionar a informação. Geralmente os modelos de restrição são balanços de massa e energia e os somatórios das frações mássicas e molares, mas outros modelos também podem ser usados. Matematicamente, a reconciliação de dados é um problema de otimização sujeito a restrições. Neste trabalho, a formulação do problema de reconciliação é a dos mínimos quadrados ponderados sujeito a restrições e a abordagem para a sua solução é a fatoração QR. Objetiva-se também reunir as rotinas desenvolvidas em uma única ferramenta computacional para a descrição, resolução e análise dos resultados do problema de reconciliação de dados, constituindo-se em um software de fácil utilização e que tenha ainda um mecanismo de comunicação com banco de dados, conferindo-lhe interatividade em tempo real com sistemas de aquisição de dados de processo / Abstract: The purpose of this work is the development of computational routines for conditioning chemical process data in order to represent the process behavior as reliable as possible. Reliable process description is fundamental for any control or optimization system development, since they respond to the process measurements (its description). Thus, data conditioning and correction of process measurement errors, and parameter estimation are a step that should not be neglected in process control and optimization. The data conditioning considered in this work is data reconciliation which has as the main characteristic the use of a constraint model. In general constraint models are mass and energy balances and mass and molar fraction summation, but other models may be used. Under a mathematical point of view, data reconciliation is an optimization subject to constraints. In this work, it is used the formulation of weighed least squares subject to constraints and QR factorization approach to solve the problem. The additional objective of this work is to accommodate the developed routines in such a way to build up an integrated computational tool characterized by its easy to use structure, capability to solve and perform data reconciliation. Its structure takes into account the interaction with data bank, giving it real time interactiveness with process data acquisition systems / Mestrado / Desenvolvimento de Processos Químicos / Mestre em Engenharia Química

Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Administration – Peace Studies, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017. / Zimbabwe is in dire need of wholesale reform. Gross human rights violations which date back to the pre-colonial period could have been abated in 1980 when the magnanimous policy of national reconciliation promised a new start. The watershed opportunity was, however, lost mainly because no deliberate efforts were made to account for the wrongs of the past in order to start afresh. The result was that Zimbabwe won the independence, but peace remained elusive. This is evidenced in the continued instability, insecurity and uncertainty. The non-retributive pledge had inherent weaknesses; it lacked inclusive participation, hence, no broad ownership. Simply drawing a line between the wounded past and the present, meant burying the past without the prerequisite rituals bent on ensuring non-recurrence. The futility of this blanket amnesty is evident in the sustained legacy of gross human rights abuses and impunity. Political violence has been institutionalised through politicisation of all aspects of life. This research is guided by Lederach’s reconciliation theory which uses Psalms 85:10 to emphasise the importance of commitment in converging the seemingly divergent aspects of truth, peace, justice and mercy into a ‘meeting place’ called reconciliation. Using a mixed methods approach, this research established that the invariably top-bottom approaches massage the symptoms rather than address the root causes of conflicts. The victims’ agitations for revenge and retribution prompted me to design action research processes aimed at engaging the research participants in interactive activities. The action research component aimed at sensitising participants to the merits of letting go of the burdens of the past, and to use scars as reminders of hope and not victimhood. The issues of forgiveness without apology, compensation or even remorse were contentious. However, through give-and-take concessions, the dialogue intervention yielded invaluable by-products such as maximisation of indigenous knowledge systems. Building on the participants’ input, sustainable healing and reconciliation can be achieved through deliberate truth-recovery, the right to justice, reparation, forgiveness and non-recurrence assurances. The research outcomes show that Zimbabwe urgently needs a ‘hybrid’ transitional justice framework based on inclusive participation. Inclusivity is critical because politicians are not necessarily experts in peacebuilding. The yet to be implemented National Peace and Reconciliation Commission can be used as a tool to seek public opinion on how to overcome the entrenched ‘fearology and militarism’ (Oberg 2016) ahead of the watershed 2018 general elections. Uncensored national debates can be used to gather information on the way forward. The multiple merits of Information Communication and Technology should be fully maximised in peacebuilding. / D