Este trabalho visa fornecer um panorama de diferentes visões sobre a Vila Maria Zélia, localizada em São Paulo, importante vila operária do início do século XX, considerada um marco no binômio indústria ? operário paulistas da época. Tida como exemplo de instituição não somente no Brasil, mas em algumas partes do mundo. Foi idealizada por Jorge Street , visto de diversas maneiras, que vão da crítica ao elogio. Procuraremos fazer uma explanação sobre as diversas visões dessa vila operária, passando pela ótica da imprensa, do poder público, da medicina e de uma de suas moradoras / This job must provide a view of different visions about Vila Maria Zélia located in São Paulo, of the XX century beginning, which is very considerated in the São Paulo ´s worker industry by the time. Like a model of institution not only in Brazil but in some parts of the world it was idealized for the founder Jorge Street and it has been seen for different ways from bad to good. We will look forward to explain of the different visions of this worker´s village going through the press untill the government power from medical and one person who lives in there

Esta pesquisa é o resultado das observações de caráter etnográfico sobre um recorte proposto para um quadro específico de circulação migratória transnacional. A partir da abordagem de um caso específico, a emigração é tomada de diversas escalas de análise, mas com ênfase sobre os modos pelos quais ela é produzida e significada na esfera lo-cal. O quadro enfocado remete aos movimentos sazonais de afastamento e retorno dos emigrantes da aldeia de Vilas Boas, no interior nordeste de Portugal. Procurei seguir os agentes pelos seus deslocamentos entre o contexto de partida e os contextos de destino para os quais rumaram, sem por isso perder de vista a aldeia como foco de seu interesse e da participação social. A maior parte do trabalho de campo, no entanto, se deu no con-texto de retorno massivo dos emigrantes para a aldeia para a ocasião de celebração da festa religiosa local. Nesse contexto são observadas as diferentes maneiras pelas quais as o contingente emigrante se relaciona com o grupo que reside na aldeia, bem como os modos pelos quais constroem sua participação na festa e na vida social local. Trata-se, portanto, de uma reflexão sobre práticas que sustentam transnacionalmente relações sociais e as atualizam no reencontro ocasionado pelo retorno. / This research is the result of ethnographic observations about a proposed cut to a partic-ular frame of transnational migratory movement. From the approach of a specific case, emigration is taken from different scales of analysis, but with emphasis on the ways in which it is produced and meant at the local level. The frame refers to the seasonal movements focused on departure and return of emigrants from the village of Vilas Bo-as, northeast of Portugal. I seek to follow the agents for their displacements between the context of departure and destination contexts for which they headed, without losing the perspective of the village as the focus of interest in social participation of agents. Most of the field work, however, occurred in the context of massive return of migrants to the village for the celebration of a religious festival site. In this context are observed the different ways in which the emigrant group relates to the people residing in the village as well as the ways in which their participation in making the party and the local social life. It is, therefore, a reflection on practices that sustain social relations transnationally and update the reunion caused by return.

La thèse est intitulée :« Justice politique et démocratie chez John Rawls. Repères pour une rationalité politique africaine contemporaine ». Notre objectif est d’utiliser les contenus essentiels de la conception politique de la justice de John Rawls pour proposer une voie qui serait la meilleure en vue de venir à bout des crises et de l’instabilité politique en Afrique noire en général et en République Démocratique du Congo en particulier. Dans l'introduction, nous avons réaménagé la problématique en allant dans le sens de plus de précision sans trop nous écarter de la question principale. Nous avons précisé l’hypothèse et l’objet de la thèse. Nous avons ainsi nettoyé l’introduction en écartant tous les aspects qui pouvaient poser problème.Pour ce qui concerne le corps du texte, nous avons commencé par une brève présentation du principal auteur de référence. Nous avons ainsi présenté brièvement J. Rawls, ses principaux ouvrages ainsi que les principaux précurseurs de sa pensée. Ensuite, nous avons analysé la conception de la justice politique de l’auteur avec une attention particulière en faveur de son volet domestique. Nous avons montré que cette conception de la justice politique a été élaborée comme une réaction aux défis de la crise de la justice politique dans les démocraties occidentales. Elle y a soulevé néanmoins certains enthousiasmes et certaines inquiétudes. Mais malgré cela, ses contenus essentiels pourraient être utilisés pour élaborer des réaménagements des processus politiques face aux déficits de la justice politique en Afrique. A cet effet, nous avons décrit la manière dont se présente la crise de la justice politique en Afrique et nous l’avons illustré par un cas concret de la crise de la justice politique en rd Congo. Nous avons analysé quelques élaborations théoriques de quelques philosophes africains en réaction à cette crise. Et nous avons montré que pour venir à bout de l’instabilité politique due à la crise de la justice politique en Afrique, il faut construire chaque Etat africain suivant le modèle d’un système équitable de coopération. Mais pour ce faire, il faut inverser le sens de la pyramide et prendre comme socle d'émergence de la justice politique le village, c’est-à-dire les institutions de la justice politique à la base :construire chaque village africain, en général, et chaque village rd congolais, en particulier, comme un système équitable de coopération ouvert à la liberté, à l’égalité de chances et à l’amélioration des conditions existentielles des citoyens les plus défavorisés. On harmonisera ainsi le système démocratique du sommet (les institutions nationales) à la base (les institutions villageoises). / Doctorat en Philosophie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Masters in Public Administration - MPA / This research report examined the implementation of villager self-governance in China, of which the election of village leader is the most distinct feature. Unlike previous studies of village self-governance, which focused on policy intentions of the Chinese leadership or the speculation of scholars about what may happen, this study attempted to examine whether or not the elections are competitive and what the consequences of self-governance are. / South Africa

Magister Artium - MA / According to Professor Muhammed Yunus, Nobel Prize winner in 2006 and the founder of the internationally acclaimed Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, microfinance is a viable solution to poverty alleviation among the poorest people residing in rural areas. Microfinance programs have led to poverty alleviation and empowerment of especially rural based women of developing societies, as they enable the poor to manage their finances and cope with unpredictable shocks and emergencies (Yunus, 2007). This research evaluated the developmental impact of microfinance on poverty alleviation and women empowerment. It assessed the impact of the existing microfinance programmes among the members of the three microfinance Savings and Credit Associations (SCAs) in the rural areas of the Caprivi region of Namibia. This study explored whether microfinance programs have helped their members to minimize financial vulnerability through diversification of income sources and accumulation of assets. The research employed both qualitative and quantitative research designs. Data were collected through different qualitative and quantitative techniques (in-depth individual interviews, faceto- face interviews, questionnaire and questionnaire schedule). Summary findings indicate that the SCAs has positively contributed to the socio-economic improvement in the living standards (contribution to livelihood – increased income, enhanced health, and food status), improved education/healthcare, women empowerment through micro enterprise training and skill development. However, SCAs are still struggling with challenges, such as lack of income, high default rates and unprofitable micro enterprises. This research makes several recommendations, including: MFIs should concentrate on women’s economic empowerment as their main aim, incentives should be provided to the MFIs to encourage savings and investment amongst the poor, and if microfinance is to be used as a promotional tool for credit and saving services for the poor, then the socio-economic consequences of micro-credit lending have to be re-investigated, especially when they negatively impact on poverty reduction.

Magister Scientiae Dentium - MSc(Dent) / BACKGROUND: The scourge of HIV and AIDS on the people of Lesotho is a huge public health problem faced by the country’s Ministry of Health and in 2005 the national adult HIV prevalence rate was 23% (WHO, 2009). It is estimated the one in every four adults in the country is HIV positive and in 2012, new HIV infection per year was estimated to be 18,000 (MoH Lesotho, 2014). The 2014 health reform by the Ministry of Health, Lesotho plans to capacitate village health workers (VHWs) to play an important role in addressing Lesotho's most urgent health crises which are: to reduce child mortality, to improve maternal health, to combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases. This is because VHWs and primary health care nurses (PHC nurses) are in vital positions to identify, manage or refer such patients for appropriate care. Studies have shown that between 74.4% - 90% of HIV infected people present with at least one oral lesions in the course of the disease. Health care workers need to have adequate knowledge of these conditions for effective management thereof. AIM: To determine the knowledge, attitudes and practices of nurses and VHW in Butha-Buthe district with respect to oral HIV/AIDS manifestations. METHODOLOGY: A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted on one hundred and forty-one Village health workers and nurses in Butha-Buthe district of Lesotho. A self– administered questionnaire was used to gather information on demographic characteristics of the participants and their knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding the management of oral lesions associated with HIV. Analysis was done using the SPSS statistical software package. Descriptive statistics such as frequency distributions and cross tabulations was generated and the results were summarized in tables and figures. RESULTS: The ages of the participants ranged between 21 and over 50 years. There majority were female (83.7%). And two thirds had a secondary school education. The healthcare providers that had ten years or less of service accounted for 59.6% of the respondents and 0.7% had more than 30 years of service. Most of the respondents (97.9%) had previous knowledge on oral lesions related to HIV/AIDS but only (8.2 %) reported having received knowledge through training institutions. The majority (79.3%) identified oral candidiasis (OC) as the most common lesion found in people living with HIV/AIDS while lesions of NOMA, aphthous ulceration, Kaposi’s sarcoma and herpes zoster were the least identified lesions by the respondents. The findings showed that 67.4% of the participants washed their hands routinely with water only whereas 66.7% routinely washed their hands with antiseptics. However, a majority of them (96.5%) said that they washed their hands with water and soap routinely. CONCLUSION: There are however gaps in the knowledge, attitude and practices of nurses and VHWs in Butha-Buthe district to oral HIV/AIDS manifestations. Improvement in the knowledge and ability of these cadres of health care providers to recognize and manage such lesions can be done through an introduction of such training in their school curriculum. It may also be necessary to continuously have seminars aimed at training and retraining these cadres of health workers on this topic. It is also worrisome that a high number of the participants indicated they didn’t strictly adhere to standard precautions as stipulated by WHO. It may be necessary to conduct studies to assess reasons for their infection control practices.

South Africa has been going through a transformation process and mental health is no exception. As this process of transformation unfolds, the psychological service rendering is being redressed following the criticism on the previous mental health care system. Psychological services were only available in the white suburban areas, therefore they were not meeting the needs of the majority of South Africans. In the new political dispensation there is a demand for more psychological services to be made available to the historically disadvantaged communities. There is a need to explore the knowledge about and attitudes towards psychological services by black communities in rural areas. The study is aimed at exploring these aspects, as it is essential in establishing appropriate community-based psychological services rendering. In-depth interviews were carried out on a randomly selected sample of 10 participants from a rural village in Hebron. The study indicated that there was a reasonable knowledge about psychological services. The main sources of knowledge possessed by the people are mainly from the media, studying psychology and having had an exposure to the psychologists previously. The attitude towards psychological services depends on whether the people personally or their loved ones had a positive experience with a psychologist. Educational level was found to be playing a major role, as people with higher level of education had positive attitude towards psychological services. The level of the actual use of psychological services was very low due to lack of such services in the area. The participants expressed the needs for the psychologists to work in collaboration with the communities. There was a need for the psychological services to be made available in the community and that there should be awareness talks regarding these services. The results and implications are discussed and there are suggestions for research. / Dissertation (MA (Clinical Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Psychology / unrestricted

In southeastern North America, the Woodland period (ca. 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1050) was arguably witness to the first early village societies, and Kolomoki—located in southwestern Georgia—is among the largest villages during this interval. Though archaeologists recognize these communities as seminal developments in the course of human history, little attention has been paid to how they develop and vary internally. This thesis seeks to address these issues by focusing on the development and social construction of the early village community at Kolomoki. The results of an excavation program carried out within Kolomoki’s South Village affords a clearer picture of this understudied area, and provides supplemental collections to previous work at the site. New radiocarbon dates suggest a dynamic developmental sequence of Kolomoki’s village, starting as a relatively compact village sometime around the second century A.D., and growing to a massive scale around the seventh or eighth century A.D. Comparisons of various classes of material cultural provide evidence for contrasts between occupation along Kolomoki’s northern and southern enclosures, interpreted as differing uses of space by an internally differentiated community.

This diploma thesis evaluates the present standing of the wind energy in the Czech republic and in the world. It targets the results of new installed wind power stations to the economy. It ilustrates the preparation procedure. It shows the reasons why to invest to the wind energy. It is concerned with the question, if the building-up of wind power plant has the perspective of economic efficiency. It points out the effect on the environment and health.

This thesis has been focused on the widely discussed - development tendencies in the domain of small settlements in the Czech Republic. The objective of this work is to appraise significance of the main factors influencing situation of these settlements in the developing of habitation system and their economic possibilities with regard to the present and future economic environment. The analysis has been aimed.at the main local factors having impact on this development, above all employment, mobility and territorial utility systems. The general knowledge will be applied to the chosen territorial units in the administrative region Central Bohemia Region, above all to the district Benešov. Methods used in the work: SWOT analysis, research in the explored area, based on interview and also usual methods of statistical analysis, methods used for comparing microregions -- rate of diversification, growth indicators etc.