Previous research regarding the European debt crisis has mostly focused on the purely economic aspects of the crisis. However, there is a strong “Protestant-Catholic” dimension in Europe, where historically Protestant countries are more prosperous than their Catholic and Orthodox counterparts. This has especially been a fact since early 2010, when several countries within the European Union had their credit ratings downgraded. Is this phenomenon merely a coincidence? Or could the roots of the recent troubles in Europe have a basis in historic religions? To tackle this question, Max Webers ́s 110 year old study The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is brought back into light and used as a tool for analysis of the crisis. The results show that not only are Protestant countries in general more prosperous, but they also have lower corruption and their citizens have a higher level of trust towards the government. These results are in line with what Weber called the “bureaucratization” and the “rationalization” of the society from a traditional one into a rationalized one. According to Weber, the “protestant work ethic” had certain features that helped create propitious preconditions for rationalization, which were extremely benign for the rise of capitalism in the Western world. Furthermore, the results in this studies show that the historic religions have had a lasting impact on national politics within Europe and that they remain a driving force behind european culture. Historically Protestant countries are therefore in less risk of getting in debt and capitalism still have a better chance of success in these countries.

RWTH, Diss.--Aachen, 2006.

Dissertation--Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, 2008 / Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-214).

Diss.--Berlin. / Includes bibliographical references.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:28:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-07-31Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:37:39Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 hory_ri_me_bauru.pdf: 729119 bytes, checksum: fa7152da19b0e1547930801afa66761b (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A síndrome de Sturge-Weber é uma síndrome de rara incidência e sua manifestação completa consiste na associação de três aspectos: anomalias cerebrais, oculares e cutâneas. As anomalias cerebrais podem ser identificadas pela presença de epilepsias, calcificações e atrofias cerebrais localizadas, causando déficits cognitivos e outros distúrbios funcionais. As anomalias oculares caracterizam-se pela presença de glaucomas, assim como as anomalias cutâneas se manifestam através de hemangiomas faciais, que muitas vezes acabam estigmatizando seus portadores. Pesquisas sobre esta síndrome, concentram-se na área biomédica, destacando-se a neurologia, odontologia e a dermatologia, havendo defasagem de estudo na área da psicologia, em especial na área psico-educacional. Deste modo, este estudo se propõe a descrever os aspectos cognitivos, sociais e educacionais de uma adolescente de 15 anos, portadora da Síndrome de Sturge-Weber, que frequenta a 7ª série do ensino regular e apresenta dificuldades significativas em aprender conteúdos acadêmicos. Foram utilizados como instrumentos de coleta de dados: entrevistas, observações e a aplicação de testes. Os resultados apontam que a adolescente possui déficits cognitivos, acadêmicos, motores e de linguagem que interferem principalmente no desenvolvimento da sua aprendizagem acadêmica, como também nas suas interações sociais. Esses achados contribuem para formação acadêmica de especialistas no ensino a pessoas com deficiência, como também ampliam o universo de conhecimentos científicos sobre a síndrome, sobretudo nas áreas da psicologia e da educação. / The Sturge-Weber Syndrome is a syndrome of rare incidence and its complete manifestation is consisted of three aspects in association: cerebral, ocular and cutaneous anomalies. The cerebral anomalies can be identified by the presence of epilepsies, calcifications and cerebral located atrophies, causing cognitive deficits and other functional disorders. The ocular anomalies are characterized by the presence of glaucomas and also the cutaneous ones are manifested through facial hamangiomas, which most of the times appear to stigmatize their victims. Researches on this syndrome are concentrated on the biomedical area, standing out neurology, dentistry and dermatology with a difference in phase in the psychology area, particularly in rhw psycho-educational one. Thus, this study aims to describe the cognitive, social and educational aspects of a 15-year-old adolescent girl who attends the 7th grade of the regular education system and presents significant difficulties in learning the academic contents. Interviews, observations and the application of tests were used as instruments of data collection. The results point out that the adolescent has cognitive, academic, motor and language deficits, which mainly interfere in her academic learning development as well as in her social interactions. These findings not only contribute to the academic formation of education the syndrome, especially in the psychology and education areas.

Orientador: Lúcia Pereira Leite / Banca: Simone Ghedini Costa Milanez / Banca: Olga Maria Piazentim Rolim Rodrigues / Resumo: A síndrome de Sturge-Weber é uma síndrome de rara incidência e sua manifestação completa consiste na associação de três aspectos: anomalias cerebrais, oculares e cutâneas. As anomalias cerebrais podem ser identificadas pela presença de epilepsias, calcificações e atrofias cerebrais localizadas, causando déficits cognitivos e outros distúrbios funcionais. As anomalias oculares caracterizam-se pela presença de glaucomas, assim como as anomalias cutâneas se manifestam através de hemangiomas faciais, que muitas vezes acabam estigmatizando seus portadores. Pesquisas sobre esta síndrome, concentram-se na área biomédica, destacando-se a neurologia, odontologia e a dermatologia, havendo defasagem de estudo na área da psicologia, em especial na área psico-educacional. Deste modo, este estudo se propõe a descrever os aspectos cognitivos, sociais e educacionais de uma adolescente de 15 anos, portadora da Síndrome de Sturge-Weber, que frequenta a 7ª série do ensino regular e apresenta dificuldades significativas em aprender conteúdos acadêmicos. Foram utilizados como instrumentos de coleta de dados: entrevistas, observações e a aplicação de testes. Os resultados apontam que a adolescente possui déficits cognitivos, acadêmicos, motores e de linguagem que interferem principalmente no desenvolvimento da sua aprendizagem acadêmica, como também nas suas interações sociais. Esses achados contribuem para formação acadêmica de especialistas no ensino a pessoas com deficiência, como também ampliam o universo de conhecimentos científicos sobre a síndrome, sobretudo nas áreas da psicologia e da educação. / Abstract: The Sturge-Weber Syndrome is a syndrome of rare incidence and its complete manifestation is consisted of three aspects in association: cerebral, ocular and cutaneous anomalies. The cerebral anomalies can be identified by the presence of epilepsies, calcifications and cerebral located atrophies, causing cognitive deficits and other functional disorders. The ocular anomalies are characterized by the presence of glaucomas and also the cutaneous ones are manifested through facial hamangiomas, which most of the times appear to stigmatize their victims. Researches on this syndrome are concentrated on the biomedical area, standing out neurology, dentistry and dermatology with a difference in phase in the psychology area, particularly in rhw psycho-educational one. Thus, this study aims to describe the cognitive, social and educational aspects of a 15-year-old adolescent girl who attends the 7th grade of the regular education system and presents significant difficulties in learning the academic contents. Interviews, observations and the application of tests were used as instruments of data collection. The results point out that the adolescent has cognitive, academic, motor and language deficits, which mainly interfere in her academic learning development as well as in her social interactions. These findings not only contribute to the academic formation of education the syndrome, especially in the psychology and education areas. / Mestre

abstract: Facility location models are usually employed to assist decision processes in urban and regional planning. The focus of this research is extensions of a classic location problem, the Weber problem, to address continuously distributed demand as well as multiple facilities. Addressing continuous demand and multi-facilities represents major challenges. Given advances in geographic information systems (GIS), computational science and associated technologies, spatial optimization provides a possibility for improved problem solution. Essential here is how to represent facilities and demand in geographic space. In one respect, spatial abstraction as discrete points is generally assumed as it simplifies model formulation and reduces computational complexity. However, errors in derived solutions are likely not negligible, especially when demand varies continuously across a region. In another respect, although mathematical functions describing continuous distributions can be employed, such theoretical surfaces are generally approximated in practice using finite spatial samples due to a lack of complete information. To this end, the dissertation first investigates the implications of continuous surface approximation and explicitly shows errors in solutions obtained from fitted demand surfaces through empirical applications. The dissertation then presents a method to improve spatial representation of continuous demand. This is based on infill asymptotic theory, which indicates that errors in fitted surfaces tend to zero as the number of sample points increases to infinity. The implication for facility location modeling is that a solution to the discrete problem with greater demand point density will approach the theoretical optimum for the continuous counterpart. Therefore, in this research discrete points are used to represent continuous demand to explore this theoretical convergence, which is less restrictive and less problem altering compared to existing alternatives. The proposed continuous representation method is further extended to develop heuristics to solve the continuous Weber and multi-Weber problems, where one or more facilities can be sited anywhere in continuous space to best serve continuously distributed demand. Two spatial optimization approaches are proposed for the two extensions of the Weber problem, respectively. The special characteristics of those approaches are that they integrate optimization techniques and GIS functionality. Empirical results highlight the advantages of the developed approaches and the importance of solution integration within GIS. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Geography 2012

Da posição de vanguarda intelectual orientalista se eximiram, em parte, aqueles intelectuais na modernidade ocidental que de fato ficaram profundamente envolvidos com a filosofia oriental (em especial, indiana), inegavelmente com maior ênfase entre os alemães. Tal olhar filosófico manteve-se quase que absolutamente à parte das justificativas exploratórias imperialistas, tão atraentes às mentes inglesas e francesas, os orientalistas de Said, e tão exploradas pelos ditames literários e orientalistas apresentados por ele. Assim sendo, confirmamos e discordamos ao mesmo tempo do autor de Orientalismo em um ponto fundamental: a Alemanha possui orientalismos opostos. Um, calcado especificamente nos vasos comunicantes de ingleses e franceses, que confirma a tese do Said; outro, sob o olhar particular de Nietzsche e Weber, dentre outros, contrapõe-se ao orientalismo imperialista. Diante desta premissa, tratamos do pioneirismo de nações movidas pela estratégia de conhecer para invadir ou decifrar para dominar, eis a Inglaterra e a França, e em seguida buscamos a ocorrência de um entendimento intelectual frutífero e amplo, no tocante ao contato ou transmissão de ideias ocorridas no século XIX e início do XX, entre os assim chamados Oriente indiano e o Ocidente alemão. / Those intellectuals who, in Western modernity, were able to escape from the Orientalist intellectual vanguard position are the ones that were actually profoundly involved with Eastern philosophy (specially the Indian one), and undoubtedly that was emphasized among the Germans. . This philosophical apprehension remained almost entirely apart from the exploratory imperialist justifications, so attractive to the English and French minds, to Saids orientalists, and so exploited by the literary and Orientalist determinations indicated by him. Therefore, we confirm and disagree simultaneously with the author of Orientalism when it comes to a fundamental point: Germany has contrasting Orientalisms one, rooted specifically on the communicating veins from the English and the French, which confirms Saids thesis; the other, under the gaze of Nietzsche and Weber, among others, opposes to the imperialist Orientalism. From this premise, we have treated the pioneerism of nations moved by the strategy to know in order to invade or codify to dominate: that is England and France. Then, we searched for the occurrence of a fruitful and broad intellectual understanding in terms of the contact and transmission of ideas that took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, among the so-called Indian East and Western Germany.

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Cette étude affirme que la grande majorité des musulmans européens promeut une laïcité harmonieuse, laquelle ne cherche pas à hiérarchiser les croyances religieuses et séculières dans les sociétés et les états démocratiques. cette étude interroge ce qui distingue les musulmans exprimant un soutien à une laïcité harmonieuse de leurs homologues européens, musulmans et non musulmans qui ne s’y reconnaissent pas. L’hypothèse principale avancée dans cette étude pose que les musulmans européens soutenant la laïcité harmonieuse ont connu un processus de transformation religieuse au cours duquel l’islam a été « ethnicisé » et conceptualisé devenant une source de valeurs pluralistes démocratiques largement partagées dans la société. cette étude définit cette constellation plurielle des valeurs socio religieuses comme étant l'éthique civile musulmane. Cet islam civil ethnicisé en plein essor permet d’expliquer l’approche particulière des musulmans quant à la laïcité harmonieuse. pour donner de la profondeur au cadre théorique ambitieux de notre étude et à l’hypothèse qui y est développée, nous sommes revenus à une analyse historique, l’hypothèse explorée étant, au final, validée par le travail de terrain quantitatif et qualitatif. Pour tester l’hypothèse selon laquelle un islam civil reformulé engendre un soutien des musulmans à une laïcité harmonieuse, cette étude a mené en France et aux Pays-Bas quatre-vingt-dix-sept entretiens avec des musulmans et a administré deux cents huit questionnaires avec des musulmans et des non musulmans. Ces pays constituent des cas d'étude intéressants dans une optique comparative. les preuves empiriques valident le cadre théorique et vérifient les relations entre adhésion à un islam civil reformulé et soutien à une laïcité harmonieuse. Ainsi, les résultats de cette étude montrent la pertinence de la méta théorie de la religion développée par weber ; ils révèlent son efficacité théorique et méthodologique pour explorer les relations entre religions éthiques et vie socio politique, en particulier pour analyser l’islam civil qui se développe actuellement en Europe et sa relation au concept de laïcité harmonieuse. / This study asserts that the vast majority of European Muslims endorse a concerted secularism, a concept pertaining to a non-hierarchic approach to religious and secular reason in democratic societies and states. This study asks what distinguishes these Muslims that show support for a concerted secularism from their European Muslim and non-Muslim counterparts that present different approaches to secularism. the primary hypothesis advanced in this study is that European Muslims that advocate concerted secularism have undergone a process of religious transformation in which Islam was ‘ethicized’ and conceptualized as a source for pluralistically fashioned familial and democratic values. This study refers to this pluralist constellation of social values as the Muslim civil ethic. This emerging ethicized civil Islam, it is argued, serves to explain Muslims’ distinct approach of concerted secularism. A scholarly review and historical analysis substantiates this study’s ambitious theoretical framework and ensuing working hypothesis, although the salience of the explored hypothesis is ultimately affirmed through the quantitative and qualitative fieldwork. to test the premise that a reformatted civil Islam engenders Muslims’ support for a concerted secularism, this study conducted 97 interviews with Muslims and 208 surveys with Muslims and non-Muslims in France and the Netherlands. These countries present compelling cases for a comparative research. the empirical evidence validates the theoretical framework and verifies the hypothesized relations between the reformatted civil Islam and the endorsement of concerted secularism. the findings of this study substantiate the germaneness and authority of weber’s meta-theory of religion and reveals its theoretical and methodological efficacy for general explorations into the relations between ethical religions and sociopolitical life, and in particular, the burgeoning civil Islam in present day Europe and its relation to the notion of concerted secularism.