Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T18:47:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paulo Henrique Montenegro Lopes Ferreira.pdf: 10526611 bytes, checksum: 4646615b1aaa20763ce0780680b15765 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-25 / In his theoretical framework, we seek to address content that may do better understanding, the concept, the characterization and the aging process. Besides the importance of physical activity, sociability and Gerovolei, volleyball for seniors. The subjects are a group of 10 elderly women and 09 men aged between 55 and 72 years. The group participates in Gerovolei classes in the city of Santos and belong to the NGO - Energy Institute, the institution develops physical activity programs for the elderly. The theoretical framework supported by thematic reflections on Functional Capacity, Activity of Daily Living, Active Aging, Adapted Sports, Sociability and old age are elements that support the field research, carried out by procedures consistent with the qualitative approach, using observation and interviews structured, as instruments of data collection. Just as the Functional Assessment Tests, support the quantitative part of the research. The results of this research we observed the important role of gerovolei activity, influencing the activity of daily living of the elderly, and the benefits of functional capacity, motor and sociability of the participants. Our conclusion contains advice and stories of the elderly about the importance of gerovolei effect on their lives and the social aspects of quality of life and affective. The survey also outlines the profile of the elderly participating in this group and see whether there are differences in perception in aging men and women. Besides knowing the relationship between the personal life of this elderly person and Gerovolei. With the assimilation of a new concept of sports, many values, prejudices and sporting traditions have changed, generating sometimes conflicts during the activity and the elderly who do not participate in group activity / No seu referencial teórico, busca-se abordar conteúdos que tornem mais compreensíveis conceito, caracterização e processo de envelhecimento, além da importância da atividade física, sociabilidade e gerovôlei, o voleibol para a terceira idade. Os sujeitos da pesquisa são um grupo de 10 mulheres idosas e 9 homens, com idade de 55 anos a 72 anos. O grupo participa de aulas de gerovôlei na cidade de Santos e pertencem à ONG Instituto Energia, que desenvolve programas de atividade física para a pessoa idosa. O marco teórico, sustentado por reflexões temáticas sobre Capacidade Funcional, Atividade de Vida Diária, Envelhecimento Ativo, Esporte Adaptado, Sociabilidade e Velhice, é constituído de elementos que fundamentam a pesquisa de campo, implementada por meio de procedimentos condizentes com a abordagem qualitativa, utilizando a observação e entrevistas semiestruturadas como instrumentos de coleta de dados, assim como os Testes de Avaliação Funcional fundamentam a parte quantitativa da pesquisa. Com os resultados desta pesquisa constataram-se o importante papel da atividade gerovôlei, influenciando a atividade de vida diária do idoso, e os benefícios na capacidade funcional, motora e de sociabilidade dos participantes. A conclusão deste estudo contém parecer e relatos dos idosos sobre a importância do gerovôlei e o efeito sobre sua vida nos aspectos sociais, qualidade de vida e afetivos. A pesquisa também traça o perfil dos idosos que participam desse grupo e averigua se há diferenças na percepção no envelhecimento entre homens e mulheres, além de conhecer a relação existente entre a vida pessoal dessa pessoa idosa e o gerovôlei. Com a assimilação de uma nova concepção de esportes, muitos valores, preconceitos e tradições desportivas foram mudados, gerando, por vezes, conflitos durante a atividade e entre idosos que não participam da atividade do grupo

Doctor of philosophy (PhD) / Abstract As one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world, Australia has a high proportion of minority communities. However, its ageing population, particularly within these ethnic minorities, faces a range of barriers or difficulties in gaining access to and using health and aged care services. This study aims to identify the acculturation factors that affect the health status of Iranian-born elderly immigrants to Australia and their utilisation of health and community aged care services. The results of this study will be of value to Iranian elders, their families, and Australian aged health care service providers. The findings could also contribute towards enriched multicultural policy and improved social fairness, access to services, and equity for the aged from different ethnic backgrounds. 302 Iranian migrants aged 65 years who had lived in the Sydney Metropolitan area for at least six months were surveyed via a written questionnaire, face-to-face interviews, and telephone interviews. The results were analysed using SPSS and then compared to the findings from a 1999 survey of NSW elderly. The results indicate that Iranian migrants suffer higher levels of psychological distress and are more limited in their physical functioning than the general population of older Australians. They are in greater need of assistance with activities of daily living, have a lower sense of wellbeing, and are far less likely to utilise aged care services. Iranian migrant who do not speak English at home experience these disadvantages to an even greater extent English language proficiency was the only acculturation factor found to affect whether Iranian elderly utilised health and community aged care services, while ability to engage in activities of daily living (ADL) was the only health variable associated with their utilisation of community supportive aged care services. This variable did not predict the use of community aged care services in the broader sample of NSW respondents. Since limited proficiency in English placed elderly Iranian migrants at greater health risk and impeded their access to necessary assistance, the findings suggest that they would clearly benefit from English classes and from access to health and community care services and information regarding these services in the Farsi language.

Le développement des nouveaux paradigmes et technologies comme le Web sémantique, le calcul sur grille et les services Web ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives et défis pour la conception d'une nouvelle génération d'applications. Cette nouvelle génération peut être conçue comme des systèmes multi-agents opérant sur les grilles de calcul tout en s'appuyant sur les services offerts par les services Web sémantiques. D'une part, les avancées dans la standardisation des langages et technologies des services Web ont permis un déploiement rapide d'applications fondées sur l'invocation dynamique de services découverts à la volée. Ainsi, grâce aux services Web, les applications peuvent être vues comme un ensemble de services logiciels, explicitement décrits, découverts et invoqués à l'aide des standards internationaux définis par le W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). D'autre part, le Web sémantique vise à rendre le contenu des ressources du Web accessible et utilisable par les agents logiciels, grâce à un système de métadonnées. Ces métadonnées sont notamment exprimées à l'aide d'ontologies définies en OWL – Web Ontology Language, un langage standardisé par le W3C. L'extension du Web sémantique aux services Web donne ainsi lieu à des services Web sémantiques. Le Web sémantique est également à la base des grilles sémantiques fournissant une infrastructure virtuelle constituée d'un ensemble de ressources potentiellement partagées, distribuées, hétérogènes, délocalisées et autonomes. Ces ressources sont abstraites en tant que services grille. La conjonction des services Web et des systèmes multi-agents déployés sur les grilles sémantiques donne naissance aux grilles sémantiques autonomes. Dans cette vision, des agents logiciels exploitent les services des grilles de calcul mais également utilisent des services Web au-delà de la grille, permettant un usage à très large échelle. Ces systèmes multi-agents sont construits en se reposant souvent sur les standards IEEE de la FIPA (Foundation of Intelligent Physical Agents). Néanmoins, un problème se pose : celui de l'interopérabilité des agents logiciels, de nature sémantique, avec les services Web sémantiques, tout en respectant les standards définis par la FIPA et le W3C. Cette thèse s'attaque à cette problématique. L'approche développée dans la thèse est fondée sur la conception d'un intergiciel permettant l'interopérabilité entre agents logiciels et services Web de manière transparente tout en s'appuyant sur les standards actuels promus par la FIPA pour les systèmes multi-agents et pour le W3C pour les services Web sémantiques. Elle définit l'architecture logicielle et implémente en intergiciel pour la médiation entre agents logiciels et services Web sémantiques, en prenant en compte la dimension ontologique. La solution proposée est validée par des études de cas et utilise π-ADL, un langage formel basé sur le π-calcul, pour spécifier l'application des mécanismes développés.

Le travail présenté dans cette thèse s'inscrit dans le cadre des architectures logicielles à base de composants. Une architecture logicielle offre une description d'un système à un niveau d'abstraction élevé en terme de composants et d'interactions entre ces composants. La problématique abordée relève de l'évolution structurelle dans les architectures logicielles à base de composants. L'évolution est une nécessité importante dans le monde du logiciel et des systèmes informatiques. Elle permet, dans le cadre des architectures logicielles, d'éviter que celles-ci ne restent figées et soient obsolètes par rapport aux besoins en perpétuels changements. Un autre objectif essentiel est la possibilité de pouvoir élargir les architectures logicielles et d'appliquer le passage à l'échelle, pour prendre en compte de nouveaux besoins ou des fonctionnalités plus complexes. Une architecture doit donc pouvoir être modifiée pour rester utilisable, réutilisable et disponible pour ses utilisateurs, et cela tout au long du cycle de vie du système. Notre contribution à cette problématique se scinde en trois axes : Le premier axe consiste en la proposition d'un modèle d'évolution dénommé SAEV (Software Architecture EVolution model) permettant l'abstraction, la spécification et la gestion de l'évolution des architectures logi- cielles. SAEV se veut un modèle générique, uniforme et indépendant de tout langage de description d'archi- tectures logicielles. Le deuxième axe s'appuie sur deux constats : le premier constat est que les architectures logicielles ne véhi- culent pas assez d'informations sur le degré de corrélation entre leurs éléments constitutifs, qui permettraient de déterminer et de propager automatiquement les impacts d'une évolution. Le deuxième constat est que les connecteurs, de par leur position d'intermédiaires entre les éléments architecturaux sont des supports idéaux pour véhiculer les changements entre ces éléments. C'est ainsi que nous proposons d'enrichir les connecteurs par des propriétés sémantiques qui exprimeraient alors la corrélation entre les éléments d'une architecture logicielle qu'ils relient. Le troisième axe illustre la prise en compte des propriétés sémantiques proposées dans le cadre de l'ADL COSA (Component-Object based Software Architecture). COSA est un ADL hybride qui réifie les concepts communément admis par la majorité des langages de description d'architectures logicielles. Cet axe montre aussi l'application du modèle SAEV sur des architectures logicielles décrites en COSA et en tenant compte des propriétés sémantiques définies.

Component based software engineering has been perceived to have immense reuse potential. This area has evoked wide interest and has led to considerable investment in research and development efforts. Most of these investigations have explored internal characteristics of software components such as correctness, reliability, modularity, interoperability, understandability, maintainability, readability, portability and generality for promoting reuse. But experience over the past decade and a half has demonstrated that the usefulness of a component depends as much on the context into which it fits as it does on the internal characteristics of the component. Software architecture descriptions that take into account the requirements of the domain can be used to serve as this context. While the Perry, Wolf definition of software architecture has been widely acknowledged, a number of architectural description languages (ADL) have emerged that aim to capture various facets of a software, using varying degrees of formalism. There is currently no agreement towards a standard approach for documenting software architectures which would help define the vocabulary for architectural semantics. In spite of lack of any specification standards for components, Software Product Lines (SPL) and Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) components do provide a rich supporting base for creating software architectures and promise significant improvements in the quality of software configurations that can be composed from pre-built components. However, further research is needed for evaluation of architectural merits of such component based configurations. In this research, we identify the key aspects of software that need to be specified to enable useful analysis at an architectural level. We also propose a set of metrics that enable objective evaluation of reusability potential. Architectural research has established that software architectural styles provide a way for achieving a desired coherence for component-based architectures. Different architectural styles enforce different quality attributes for a system. Thus, if the architectural style of an emergent system could be predicted, a person playing the role of a system integrator could make necessary changes to ensure that the quality attributes dictated by the system requirements were satisfied before the actual system is built and deployed, thus somewhat mitigating project risks. As part of this research, we propose a model for predicting architectural styles based on use cases that need to be satisfied by a system configuration and demonstrate how our approach can be used to determine stylistic conformance. We also propose objective methods for assessing architectural divergence, erosion and drift during system evolution and maintenance. / text

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Doctor of philosophy (PhD) / Abstract As one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world, Australia has a high proportion of minority communities. However, its ageing population, particularly within these ethnic minorities, faces a range of barriers or difficulties in gaining access to and using health and aged care services. This study aims to identify the acculturation factors that affect the health status of Iranian-born elderly immigrants to Australia and their utilisation of health and community aged care services. The results of this study will be of value to Iranian elders, their families, and Australian aged health care service providers. The findings could also contribute towards enriched multicultural policy and improved social fairness, access to services, and equity for the aged from different ethnic backgrounds. 302 Iranian migrants aged 65 years who had lived in the Sydney Metropolitan area for at least six months were surveyed via a written questionnaire, face-to-face interviews, and telephone interviews. The results were analysed using SPSS and then compared to the findings from a 1999 survey of NSW elderly. The results indicate that Iranian migrants suffer higher levels of psychological distress and are more limited in their physical functioning than the general population of older Australians. They are in greater need of assistance with activities of daily living, have a lower sense of wellbeing, and are far less likely to utilise aged care services. Iranian migrant who do not speak English at home experience these disadvantages to an even greater extent English language proficiency was the only acculturation factor found to affect whether Iranian elderly utilised health and community aged care services, while ability to engage in activities of daily living (ADL) was the only health variable associated with their utilisation of community supportive aged care services. This variable did not predict the use of community aged care services in the broader sample of NSW respondents. Since limited proficiency in English placed elderly Iranian migrants at greater health risk and impeded their access to necessary assistance, the findings suggest that they would clearly benefit from English classes and from access to health and community care services and information regarding these services in the Farsi language.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karol. inst., 2003. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karolinska institutet, 2006. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

This diploma thesis deals with the analysis of the birth rate and fertility rate in dependence on the economic conditions of the Czech Republic. The aim of this thesis is to analyze relations between selected socio-economic indicators and total fertility rate on the basis of available data and to evaluate changes related to birth and fertility in the Czech Republic, which occurred in the period 1993-2015. The thesis is divided into two main parts - theoretical and analytical. In the theoretical part are described the basic methods of calculating the characteristics for the analysis of the level of birthrate and fertility, as well as the development of selected socio-economic indicators. An important part of the first part of the diploma thesis is specification of used methods within time series. The second part is practically focused on cointegration analysis and subsequent assembly of single-row models from which error correction models were obtained by transformation. These can be used to describe short and long term relationships between time series. Explained variables are aggregate fertility in all assembled models, the explanatory variables are GDP, average gross monthly wage, final consumption expenditure for households, child allowances, parental allowance and household loans per capita.