El objetivo del estudio fue examinar la relación entre la adaptación cultural y la resiliencia en los migrantes venezolanos en Perú. La muestra estuvo conformada por 300 migrantes venezolanos (183 hombres y 117 mujeres), con una estadía mínima de 3 meses en Perú y una edad de 18 a 55. La muestra se dividió en cinco grupos según el grado de instrucción: primaria (n=12), secundaria (n=86), superior básica (técnica) (n=64), superior universitaria (n=122), y maestría y/o doctorado (n=16). Se administró la escala de Adaptación Cultural – IAC (Castro-Solano, 2011), y la escala de Resiliencia (Wagnild & Young, 1993) adaptada por (Castilla, Coronel, Bonilla, Mendoza & Barboza, 2016). Los resultados revelan que existe una mínima relación entre competencia con autonomía (r=.27) y apertura (r=.26); mientras que aceptación con autonomía (r=.10), y apertura (r=.13) una pequeña relación, siendo todas estadísticamente significativas (p< 0,001). Concluyendo que existe una relación mínima entre variables. / The objective of the study was to examine the relationship between cultural adaptation and resilience in Venezuelan migrants in Peru. The sample was made up of 300 Venezuelan migrants (183 men and 117 women), with a minimum stay of 3 months in Peru, with an age between 18 to 55 years old. The sample was divided into five groups according to the education degree: primary (n=12), secondary (n=86), basic superior (technique) (n=64), university superior (n=122), and master's degree and/or doctorate (n=16). The Cultural Adaptation scale - IAC (Castro-Solano, 2011), and the Resilience scale (Wagnild & Young, 1993) adapted by (Castilla, Coronel, Bonilla, Mendoza & Barboza, 2016) were administered. The results reveal that there is a minimal relationship between competition with autonomy (r=.27) and openness (r=.26); while acceptance with autonomy (r=.10), and openness (r=.13) a small relationship, all being statistically significant (p<0.001). Concluding that there is a minimum relationship between variables. / Tesis

Ninety Merino ewes, divided into three equal groups, were kept on natural highveld grazing for 42 weeks. Group M received a mineral supplement continuously, averaging 28 g per day. The other groups received commercial protein supplements, group RDP a mainly rumen degradable supplement and group RUP, a mainly rumen undegradable supplement. These supplements had crude protein (CP) levels of 29% and 28% respectively and were supplied at strategic times during the reproductive cycle, at 250 g per ewe per day for 14 days before mating, at 350 g per ewe per day for 42 days, starting 21 days before lambing and at 500 g per ewe per day for 56 days, starting 21 days after lambing. Grazing was randomized to minimize differences in nutrition and parasite challenge, and had an average CP of 8.8%. Lambing rates were: RUP 96%, RDP 89% and M 76%. Lamb survival rates at 11 and 17 weeks post lambing were 75%&63% for RUP, 64%&57% for RDP and 55% and 48% for M respectively (P< 0.05). Wool production parameters were similar for all groups, as were mean faecal egg counts: 685 (RUP), 371 (RDP) and 465 (M). Body weights, body condition scores and FAMACHA scores were also similar for all three groups. Income per ewe, calculated at 11 and 17 weeks post lambing, was highest for RUP at R147.80&R132.87, lowest for M at R117.86&R111.13, and in between for RDP (R129.85&R121.38). However, the gross margin was the highest for M at both points (R114.35&R107.77) compared to RUP (R70.43&R54.93 – P < 0.03&P < 0.008 respectively), as well as RDP (R82.96&R74.12). Strategic supplementation with protein improved performance but the additional income was not sufficient to cover feed costs under prevailing conditions and neither supplement could therefore be economically justified. / Dissertation (MMedVet)--University of Pretoria, 2002. / Production Animal Studies / unrestricted

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Due to rapid urbanization agricultural lands in metropolitan areas are shrinking.  As a result our cities are getting more dependent on distant places for food, which is making the food system vulnerable. In the context of rapid urbanization and climate change a resilient agricultural system of Dhaka could be one of the key to ensure a sustainable future. To investigatethe impact of urbanization and climate change on the resilience of the agricultural system of Dhaka a resilience assessment of agricultural system of Dhaka has been done. The study followed the resilience assessment wordbook for practitioner as method of assessment. As methods to collect and analyze data field studies, interview, GIS analysis, policy analysis were conducted. This study shows that, urbanization is directly responsible for changes in both quality and quantity of the agricultural land of Dhaka whereas climate change does not affect directly. Even with this rapid urbanization there is still scope to take measures to make agricultural system resilient by preserving land within Dhaka metropolitan area. Therefore two Strategies have been proposed. First one is; increasing local food production without administrative reformation and the second; reducing the future demand by administrative and economic decentralization of Dhaka. Both of the strategies will require strong political will along with recognition of importance of agricultural land within the city boundary.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the WhyTry program in enhancing adolescent resilience. Ninety-four adolescents in grades seven–nine had been screened for Tier two intervention at the local junior high. The school assigned these students to either a WhyTry treatment group or an alternative treatment group. The students were all from economically disadvantaged situations and were predominantly Hispanic. The treatment group participated in the WhyTry program, led by a trained facilitator at the school. Students in the treatment and comparison groups completed a pre-test and post-test using the Social Emotional Assets and Resilience Scales (SEARS). Split plot ANOVA were used to test differential change over time according to group membership, the main effect for time, and the main effect for group. Results indicated that there was no significant interaction term, main effect for time, or main effect for group. Based on these findings it appeared that the WhyTry program as administered by the school personnel was not effective in promoting differential change in resilience over time as measured by the SEARS test. Ideas for future research may include a greater focus on internal validity, as well as a larger variety of locations for the control and treatment groups.

Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS) / Food security is a challenge for most developing countries (Yahaya, 2018). In South Africa, poverty continues to be a stumbling block to food security for most of the population. Due to the socio-economic challenges plaguing the country, a large proportion of the population struggles to access sufficient food which meets dietary needs. Poverty and unemployment are the key contributory factors of food insecurity in South Africa. Against this backdrop, this study sought to investigate the perceived impact of urban agriculture on food insecurity in Khayelitsha. As a survival strategy, urban agriculture has been advocated to improve food security in most developing countries. Moya Wekhaya Peace Gardens is the study organization of this thesis. The aim of the research is (1) To investigate the extent of food insecurity in Khayelitsha; (2) To investigate the coping strategies adopted by households to be more food secure (3) To investigate the perceived impact of urban food gardens on household food security and (4) To identify challenges faced by urban farmers in Khayelitsha.

Thesis advisor: Summer S. Hawkins / Thesis advisor: David Takeuchi / Adolescence is a critical developmental stage where the health behaviors and choices that adolescents make have the potential to affect their long-term health and well-being (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). This dissertation contributes three distinct studies on the contextual influences that shape adolescents' health behaviors. The first study, "The Role of Psychosocial Conditions on Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Risk among U.S. Young Adults," grounded in life course and syndemics theory, utilized logistic regressions to examine the role of co-occurring psychosocial conditions (childhood sexual abuse and physical abuse; depression and illicit drug use in adolescence) on STI infection (chlamydia and trichomoniasis) and sexual risk behaviors among U.S. young adults. Multiple co-occurring psychosocial conditions had an additive effect on sexual risk behaviors but no effect was observed on STIs. The second study, "Sexually Transmitted Infections and Neighborhood Poverty: The Role of Individual Resilience and Social Connectedness," utilized resilience and ecological systems theory, and logistic regressions to test if individual resilience and social connectedness (maternal, peer, and school) moderate the association between concentrated neighborhood poverty and STIs (chlamydia and trichomoniasis) among U.S. young adults. The study's main finding is that youth who reported more school connectedness and lived in high concentrated poverty in adolescence were less likely to test positive for chlamydia but were more likely to test positive for trichomoniasis. Utilizing a similar framework, "Sleeping in a Digital World: The Role of Excessive Media Use on Sleep Inadequacy Among U.S. Adolescents," examined family and neighborhood determinants that shape adolescent sleep behaviors. Grounded in the ecological systems theory and social learning theory, logistic regressions, stratified by age (aged 10-12 vs. 13-17), were used to examine the associations between excessive media use and sleep inadequacy. The study found that among older adolescents, sleep inadequacy was associated with excessive computer use. Older adolescents who watched television excessively and had media present in the bedroom were more likely to be sleep inadequate. Together, these three studies shed light on the different contextual environments in which adolescents experience health risks and resilience and will help to inform interventions that promote adolescent health and well-being. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Social Work. / Discipline: Social Work.

<p>Within the United States, infertility diagnoses are becoming increasingly commonplace, yet treatment often remains shrouded in stigma and silence. Consequently, for the women going through it, infertility is an isolating experience. Infertility is frequently conceived through notions of medicalization, which prompts a disembodied, scientific, ‘never give up’ discourse that often leaves women feeling disempowered and further alone. This study considers how individual narratives of infertility contributes to the organizing of a social identity of infertility, one which abuts and diverges from medicalized notions. In adopting theories related to narrative organizing, tenuous identity/identification, resilience, and social support this project engages a feminist-interpretivist framework. In doing so, this study draws upon a three-phase methodological engagement of (1) online ethnographic observations and auto-ethnographic reflections, (2) in-depth interviewing of participants narratives and networks related to (in)fertility, and (3) text mining and semantic network analysis of public discourses related to (in)fertility.</p><p>Findings from this project reveal how infertility is discursively-materiality organized to both embrace and disengage from medicalized logics. First, analysis of personal and organizational narratives illustrate how infertility is construed through competing tensions of loss, empowerment, and support. Second, identities were shown to be communicated as potentially tenuous, liminal, and/or challenged during the process of infertility as women cope with an ambiguous future; however, so too can identities be considered a source of strength and hope. Third, through conceptualizing resilience as a communicatively constructed process, this study showcases the embodied nature of resilience as it ebbs and flows throughout treatment. And fourth, in analyzing social and semantic networks this project interrogates individual and organizational discourses, building a more holistic, yet still thoroughly partial, understanding of effective supportive communication during treatment. Through this process, this study reveals how online support groups re-center the women’s body and emotions as central to the (in)fertility experience, while noting the disembodiment that occurs within health clinics. This study advances knowledge on emergent, embodied organizing and the communicative construction of resilience through considering the intrapersonal and embodied aspects of resilience. Through conceptualizing embodied organizing and embodied resilience, this project advances theories of antenarrative, emergent organizing, and self-persuasive rhetoric. Methodologically, this study contributes to qualitative inquiry by linking crystallization methodologies with network science. Additionally, this project offers recommendations for family members, friends, and medical professionals on how to promote resilience within women receiving infertility treatment.<b> </b></p><p><b> </b></p><div><br></div>

<div>Cities face significant challenges in developing urban infrastructure systems in an inclusive, resilient, and sustainable manner, with rapid urbanization and increasing frequency of shocks (e.g., climate hazards, epidemics). The complex and dynamic interdependencies among urban social, technical, institutional, and natural components could cause disruptions to cascade across systems, and lead to heterogeneous recovery outcomes across communities and regions. Large scale data collected from mobile devices, including mobile phone GPS data, web search data, and social media data, allow us to observe urban dynamics before, during, and after disaster events in an unprecedented spatial-temporal granularity and scale. Despite these opportunities, we lack data-driven methods to understand the underlying mechanisms that govern the recovery and resilience of cities to shocks.</div><div>Such dynamical models, in contrast to static index based metrics of resilience, will allow us to test the effects of policies on the heterogeneous post-disaster recovery trajectories across space and time. </div><div><br></div><div>In this dissertation, I studied the recovery dynamics and resilience of urban systems to disasters using a large-scale human-centered data-driven modeling approach, with particular emphasis on the complex interdependencies among social, economic, and infrastructure systems. First, statistical analysis of large-scale human mobility data collected from over 1 million mobile phone devices in five major disaster events across the globe, revealed universal population recovery processes across regions and disasters, including disproportionate disaster effects based on income inequalities and urban-rural divide. Second, human mobility data are used to infer the recovery of various socio-economic systems after disasters. Using Bayesian causal inference models, regional and business sectoral inequalities in disaster recovery are quantified. Finally, the analysis on social, economic, and physical recovery were integrated into a dynamical model of coupled urban systems, which captures the bi-directional interdependencies among socio-economic and physical infrastructure systems during disaster recovery. Using the model and data collected from Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria, a trade-off relationship in urban development is revealed, where developed cities with robust centralized infrastructure systems have higher recovery efficiency of critical services, however, have socio-economic networks with lower self-reliance during crises, which lead to loss of community resilience. Managing and balancing the socio-economic self-reliance alongside physical infrastructure robustness is key to resilience. </div><div><br></div><div>The proposed models and results presented in this dissertation lay the scientific foundations of urban complexity and resilience, encouraging us to move towards dynamical and complex systems modeling approaches, from conventional static index-based resilience metrics. Big data-driven, dynamical complex systems modeling approaches enable quantitative understanding of the underlying disaster recovery process (e.g., interdependencies, feedbacks, cascading effects) across large spatial and temporal time scales. The approach is capable of proposing community-based policies for urban resilience via cross-regional comparisons and counterfactual scenario testing of various policy levers. </div>

Co-neighbouring is a design exploration that aims to examine the possibilities of resident’s engagement and collaboration in a rented apartment building in Sweden. In an apartment building for rent, where resident’s agency is limited to their private apartment, I invited my neighbors to become active designers of our closest environment together. This project uncovers the power relation visible between the landlord and tenants and some tensions that arise from this project’s will to give residents more agency. It also aims to highlight the importance of collaborative processes in apartment buildings and explores what kind of innovations become possible when residents get the chance to contribute to the development of the building they live in.