The purpose of this study was to investigate how well adjusted the support is for young people that have been diagnosed with ADHD, while attending the gymnasium. Analysis and result are based on a sociocultural perspective and have their take-off in literaturestudies and qualitative interviews with two students with the diagnosis and one special needs teacher. The interviews were based on themes that had their starting point in school policy documents and related literature. The interviews were semi-structured with the aim of letting the interviewees speak as freely as possible. One of the themes included the individual strategies developed by the interviewees, such as using mobile-apps to help structure and plan for everyday life. Results show that the available support is not well adapted and that how great impact the ADHD-diagnosis has on how well the person do in school is greatly affected by in what social context and what kind of support he or she has outside of school, for example by family. The study shows that there is great need for further research and development within the research area. / Syftet med den här studien var att undersöka hur väl anpassat stödet i gymnasieskolan är för elever med ADHD-diagnos. Analys och resultat är bearbetade utifrån ett sociokulturellt perspektiv och baseras på litteraturstudier och kvalitativa intervjuer med två gymnasieelever med ADHD-diagnos samt en specialpedagog/speciallärare. Intervjuerna berörde teman med utgångspunkt i styrdokumenten samt i relaterad litteratur och var halvstrukturerade, med syftet att låta intervjupersonerna tala så fritt som möjligt. Ett av temana berörde de egna strategier som intervjupersonerna utarbetat, så som att använda appar i mobilen för att skapa struktur och planera vardagen. Resultatet visar att stödet i gymnasieskolan inte är väl anpassat utan att hur väl en person med ADHD-diagnos klarar sig i skolan snarare beror på de omgivande förutsättningarna utanför skolan, exempelvis vilket stöd hen får från sin familj. Studien visar att det finns stor utvecklingspotential inom området och att det behövs ytterligare forskning på hur man kan omforma skolans sociokulturella struktur och se till att anpassningarna blir just anpassningar och inte ytterligare krav.

Thesis "A professional care of children with school delay" is focused on the analysis of intervention for children with the recommended postponement of school attendance. in pre-school and preparatory classes in primary schools. The thesis also includes a scheme of a Special Education reeducational aids, which can be used for possible developmental disorders which limit children entrance into the compulsory school attendance in the prescribed age.

Advances in medication and support services in high schools have influenced the growing number of students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) enrolling in colleges and universities. Unfortunately, their lower graduation rates and extended time to graduation creates multiple challenges to themselves, their institution’s, and their communities. Limited information is available regarding how disability services impact graduation rates for students with ADHD in higher education. More information is needed about how the practices instituted by disability support center leaders in post-secondary institution’s impact the graduation rates of students with ADHD. Retention, a financial and ethical concern for universities, is pushed to the forefront by lawmakers who demand an increased return on their state’s educational investment. Disability resource directors, school registrar officials, and disability resource center websites were data sources. Information was gathered about the number of students with ADHD that have graduated from each institution over the past three years. A non-experimental quantitative design (correlation) was used that provided a process for gathering information about use of disability services, which was then correlated and compared to the overall graduation rate of college students with ADHD over a three-year period. Qualitative information regarding types of services highlighted commonly used services and responses from directors were discussed regarding collaborative partnerships and training for faculty and staff. A positive correlation between use of services and graduation rate was found from examining one school that submitted complete data. Overall, the response rate was low, particularly for the colleges, which impacted the ability to respond to some of the research questions. Some directors noted a preference for the social theory of retention in support of why they don’t collect data on specific groups of students with disabilities, while others chose to not participate at all due to a lack of data tracking. Because funding for programming and targeted services depend on knowledge gained from data tracking, these findings may have implications for policy and practice. Educational leaders may be able to utilize the results of this study to shape future institutional policies and practices that impact the success of their students.

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My thesis occupies with the influence of home preparation for successfulness of pupils with specific learning disturbances and behaviour in basic school. The theoretical part there are explained terms of specific evolutional disturbances of school skills. This part deals with etiology and diagnosis. There are legislative alterations of education and it includes complete reeducational school care which points on importance of teacher's personality and on forming of positive climate in the class. It describes family and its role in connection with all risk factors which influence it. The point of preparation determines learning and behaviour by way of concrete forms and methods of work with pupils with specific disturbances. The empirical part of thesis is compiled by method of qualitative research and it's a result of research investigation which is connected to detailed analysis of acquired data. The main methods of investigation were long-lasting structured pupils' observation, analysis of file documentation and analysis of professional advice. These all together and interviews made complete picture of individual case studies.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Orison Marden Bandeira de Melo Junior.pdf: 5418428 bytes, checksum: 84bf1841112fead6609a0f0bd2716b78 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In general, the teaching of literature written in foreign languages at Brazilian universities faces a big challenge: Letras freshmen with limited knowledge of the foreign language find it difficult to analyze literary works in the original texts. Therefore, this research is justified by the need to discursively and pragmatically help students better analyze literature works. In order to do that, the theoretical discussion was based upon the works of the Bakhtin Circle [Bakhtin (2002, 2003, 2010), Bakhtin/Volochínov (2010), Voloshinov/Bajtin (1997), Voloshinov (1983), Medviédev (2012)] and of the pragmaticist Jacob Mey (2000, 2001, 2007). 68 Letras undergraduate students from a private university in the Eastern area of São Paulo were invited to participate in the research, which was approved by the Ethics Committee of PUC-SP under protocol number 054/2011 and whose data were generated in three different phases: The first one was related to literary analyses based on concepts from Pragmatics, such as from Micropragmatics (reference, verb tenses, presuppositions, implicatures and speech acts), from Macropragmatics (pragmatic presuppositions and pragmatic acts) and from Literary Pragmatics (speech and voice); the second phase involved literary analyses based on concepts from the Dialogical Discourse Analysis (DDA), such as utterance, genre, text, understanding, and dialogism; in the the third and last phase students did literary analyses based on the concepts from Pragmatics and DDA. The research corpus comprised three sets: (1) Letras DCN (National Curriculum Guidelines); (2) literary analysis activities done throughout the three phases, and (3) students stimulated recall reports. As to the literary works analyzed, they were nine short stories by Alice Walker. They were chosen by the researcher, who was also the students professor, due to their short length, their social role, and the dialogic relations there could be established between them. Based on the notion that texts are not autonomous, the only literary activities analyzed were the ones done by the students who had done the stimulated recall reports. Based on the understanding that the contextualized meanings produced by the students could not go beyond the fixity of meaning of the utterances, it was necessary to verify if students answers were potencially coherent with the plots and with the discourses that penetrate them. Moreover, as the research focused on students with limited knowledge of the target language, i.e., English, only the results of basic and intermediate level students were verified. It was possible to find that in the first phase, basic and intermediate students were able to coherently answer one fourth of the questions of the literary activities and, in the second phase, one third. However, in the third phase, this number significantly increased to two thirds. It was possible to conclude, thus, that the study of Pragmatics as the first step to the study of the concepts from DDA helped students with a limited knowledge of the English language to better understand and analyze literary works written in English and, consequently, to develop their linguistic skills / O ensino de literatura em língua estrangeira (LE) em universidades brasileiras, em geral, tem enfrentado um grande desafio: alunos ingressantes no curso de Letras com conhecimento limitado de LE, o que dificulta a execução de análises de objetos literários na língua original. Essa pesquisa justifica-se, portanto, pela necessidade de auxiliar o aluno a analisar textos literários discursiva e pragmaticamente. Para tal, buscamos, nos estudos do Círculo [Bakhtin (2002, 2003, 2010), Bakhtin/Volochínov (2010), Voloshinov/Bajtin (1997), Voloshinov (1983), Medviédev (2012)] e do pragmaticista Jacob Mey (2000, 2001, 2007), uma discussão teórica referente à linguagem e ao discurso. Para participar da pesquisa, foram convidados, em diferentes momentos, 68 alunos do curso de Letras de uma universidade particular na zona leste de São Paulo. A geração de dados da pesquisa, aprovada pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da PUC-SP, sob o número de protocolo 054/2011, compreendeu três fases: a primeira envolveu análises literárias a partir do estudo dos conceitos da Pragmática, como os da Micropragmática (referência, tempos verbais, pressupostos, subentendidos e atos de fala), da Macropragmática (pressupostos pragmáticos e atos pragmáticos) e da Pragmática Literária (discurso e voz); a segunda, análises literárias a partir do estudo dos conceitos da Análise Dialógica do Discurso (ADD), como enunciado, gênero, texto, compreensão e dialogismo; a terceira, por fim, análises literárias a partir do estudo dos conceitos da Pragmática e da ADD. O corpus da pesquisa é formado de três conjuntos: (1) as Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais de Letras, (2) exercícios de análise literária (exercícios AL) feitos durante as três fases da pesquisa e (3) relatos escritos finais (stimulated recall). Quanto aos textos literários analisados pelos alunos, nove contos da autora afro-americana Alice Walker foram escolhidos pelo pesquisador, que também era professor dos alunos pesquisados, devido à sua pequena extensão, ao seu papel social e às relações dialógicas que pudessem ser estabelecidas entre eles. Diante da concepção de texto como não autônomo adotada nesta pesquisa, somente os exercícios AL dos alunos que fizeram o relato final foram analisados. A partir do entendimento de que os sentidos construídos pelos alunos nas suas respostas não poderiam extrapolar a estabilidade de significação dos enunciados sob análise, buscamos determinar se as respostas dadas nos exercícios AL eram potencialmente coerentes com os enredos dos contos e com os discursos que os perpassam. Ademais, por ser o foco da pesquisa alunos com conhecimento limitado da língua-alvo, i.e., a Língua Inglesa, atentamos para os resultados dos alunos em nível básico e intermediário. Percebemos que, na primeira fase, os alunos em nível básico e intermediário conseguiram responder a cerca de um quarto das perguntas e na segunta fase, a um terço. No entanto, na terceira fase, esse número aumentou substancialmente, já que os alunos nesses níveis responderam a cerca de dois terços de todas as perguntas. É possível concluir, portanto, que o estudo dos conceitos da Pragmática como um primeiro passo para os da ADD possibilitou uma melhor compreensão e análise de textos literários escritos em Língua Inglesa por alunos com conhecimento limitado dessa língua estrangeira e, consequentemente, o desenvolvimento de seu conhecimento do idioma

Submitted by Maicon Juliano Schmidt (maicons) on 2015-07-08T14:19:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dirlene Regina da Silva.pdf: 2228750 bytes, checksum: 477240910689f09080ef240e5001a113 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-08T14:19:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dirlene Regina da Silva.pdf: 2228750 bytes, checksum: 477240910689f09080ef240e5001a113 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-28 / Nenhuma / O presente estudo tem como temática o modelo de consultoria interna de recursos humanos. O objetivo principal é analisar as contribuições deste modelo para o alinhamento entre as pessoas e a estratégia da empresa. O estudo é uma pesquisa qualitativa, representada por um estudo de caso único, realizado em duas etapas: exploratória e descritiva. A etapa exploratória visa explorar o tema e contempla a visão que os especialistas em gestão de pessoas têm sobre o modelo de consultoria interna de recursos humanos. A etapa descritiva apresenta o estudo de caso realizado na Empresa Artecola. Os dados foram coletados através de entrevistas semi-estruturadas e de documentos e, foram analisados através da técnica de análise de conteúdo. O referencial teórico utilizado para este estudo foram os autores: Mancia (1997, 2010), Alberton, Mancia e Borba (2009), Orlickas (2012), Gil (2011), Leite at al. (2009), Teixeira et al. (2005), Marras (2011) entre outros. Os principais resultados encontrados demonstram que o modelo de consultoria interna de recursos humanos associado às políticas e práticas de gestão de pessoas contribui para o alinhamento entre as pessoas e a estratégia da empresa, pois aproxima as pessoas, facilita a comunicação entre elas e, desta forma, flexibiliza a estrutura da empresa assegurando uma gestão de pessoas estratégica. / The present study has as its theme the model of internal human resources consulting. The main objective is to analyze the contributions of this model for the alignment between people and business strategy. The study is a qualitative research, represented by a single case study, conducted in two stages: exploratory and descriptive. The exploratory stage aims to explore the topic and contemplates the view that management experts people have about the model of internal human resources consulting. The stage descriptive presents the case study realized in the Artecola Company. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and documents, and were analyzed using the technique of content analysis. The theoretical framework used for this study were the authors: Mancia (1997, 2010), Alberton, Mancia and Borba (2009), Orlickas (2012), Gil (2011), Leite et al. (2009) Teixeira et al. (2005), Marras (2011), among others. The main results show that the model of internal human resource consulting associated with policies and practices the management of people contributes to the alignment between people and business strategy, since the model brings people together, facilitates communication between them and thus relaxes the structure of the company and ensures strategic management of people.

L'apparition des dernières applications de l'internet à haut débit engendre une augmentation importante des échanges d'informations à travers le monde. Pour éviter une saturation inexorable du réseau de télécommunications, les liaisons par fibre optique avec multiplexage en longueur d'onde (DWDM) se généralisent pour permettre la transmission de données avec un débit actuel maximum de 1Tbit/s. L'aiguillage en longueur d'onde des signaux entre les différentes boucles de ce type de réseau est réalisé à l'aide de Multiplexeurs Insertion- Extraction (MIE). Ce mémoire est consacré à l'étude et à la réalisation de deux MIE réalisés par photoinscription de réseaux de Bragg (=filtres sélectifs en longueur d'onde photoinscrits par un champ d'interférence de lumière laser UV) dans des guides optiques à coeur dopé en germanium. Le premier MIE étudié lors de cette thèse est réalisé sur la base d'un coupleur directif en optique intégrée SiO2/Si dans la zone de couplage duquel deux réseaux de Bragg ont été photoinscrits. Le travail a consisté à améliorer à la fois la fabrication des guides optiques (diminution de leur biréfringence) ainsi que leur photoinscription (meilleure apodisation de la réponse spectrale du spectre réfléchi). La conception et la réalisation de premiers prototypes permettant l'extraction de canaux espacés de 200 GHz ont alors pu être effectuées. La deuxième étude se concentre, quant à elle, sur l'optimisation d'un MIE plus mature basé sur un interféromètre de Mach-Zehnder à réseaux de Bragg réalisé en fibre bicoeur. L'influence néfaste du déphasage engendré par les réseaux de Bragg sur la réponse spectrale de l'interféromètre a été discutée et minimisée. La reconstruction de la dispersion chromatique de ces réseaux via la réponse spectrale de l'interféromètre a aussi été étudiée. Des composants industrialisables pour réseaux d'espacements intercanaux de 100 GHz et 50 GHz ont alors pu être réalisés.

This thesis is an investigation of the subject of extra dimensions in particle physics. In recent years, there has been a large interest in this subject. In particular, a number of models have been suggested that provide solutions to some of the problem with the current Standard Model of particle physics. These models typically give rise to experimental signatures around the TeV energy scale, which means that they could be tested in the next generation of high-energy experiments, such as the LHC. Among the most important of these models are the universal extra dimensions model, the large extra dimensions model by Arkani-Hamed, Dimopolous, and Dvali, and models where right-handed neutrinos propagate in the extra dimensions. In the thesis, we study phenomenological aspects of these models, or simple modifications of them. In particular, we focus on Kaluza–Klein dark matter in universal extra dimensions models, different aspects of neutrino physics in higher dimensions, and collider phenomenology of extra dimensions. In addition, we consider consequences of the enhanced renormalization group running of physical parameters in higher-dimensional models. / QC 20120427