Les programmes éducatifs de jardinage alimentaire avec les jeunes offrent l’opportunité d’agir sur leurs connaissances nutritionnelles, préférences pour des légumes, sentiment d'efficacité personnelle à consommer des fruits et légumes, envie d'y goûter et leur consommation. Dans ces activités, certains obstacles peuvent freiner l'éducation alimentaire et nutritionnelle faite par des animateurs qui ne sont pas professionnels de la nutrition ou de la santé. Le présent projet consistait à développer un volet alimentaire et nutritionnel éducatif pour les "Jardins-jeunes" (JJ), un camp d'été en jardinage du Jardin botanique de Montréal, à offrir une courte formation en nutrition à ses animatrices, puis à évaluer leurs niveaux d'intérêt et de confiance personnelle à intégrer ce volet à l'édition 2013. Les méthodes d'évaluation auprès des animatrices comprenaient des entrevues de groupe, des questionnaires et une observation-terrain. La taille d'échantillon permettait uniquement une analyse qualitative des résultats. La formation semble avoir maintenu ou élevé les niveaux de confiance et de connaissances des animatrices sur plusieurs sujets alimentaires et nutritionnels. Les animatrices évoquent que les trois activités de trente minutes en alimentation et nutrition, intégrées aux JJ 2013, auraient favorisé l'éducation nutritionnelle, qui par ailleurs, fut limitée par manque de temps. Elles rapportent avoir perçu des effets positifs du programme sur les connaissances, attitudes et comportements alimentaires des jeunes. Nos résultats suggèrent qu'un volet d’éducation alimentaire et nutritionnelle peut être intégré à un programme de jardinage par des animateurs non spécialisés dans ces domaines, outillés et encadrés pour se sentir motivés et confiants dans leur rôle. / Food garden curricula for children provide opportunities to work on their nutritional knowledge, vegetables preferences, self-efficacy to consume fruits and vegetables, willingness to taste them and their consumption. In such programs, certain obstacles can restrain the implementation or use of a food and nutrition curriculum by summer camp monitor/animator who are not nutrition or health professionals. This project consisted in developing and adding a food and nutrition educational component to "Jardins-jeunes", a gardening summer camp offered by Jardin Botanique de Montréal. A brief nutrition training was given to the camp’s monitors. Their level of interest and self-efficacy to implement this component trough the 2013 edition were evaluated. Evaluating methods included group interviews, questionnaires and a field observation. Qualitative analysis was conducted due to the small sample size. The nutrition training appears to have maintained or enhanced monitors' interests and knowledge on food and nutrition related subjects. They reported that the thirty minute food and nutrition activities integrated in the 2013 program presented opportunities to offer nutrition education, although limited by a lack of time. They report perceiving positive effects on children's knowledge, attitudes and behaviors on their food after their participation to the program. Our results suggest that a food and nutrition curriculum can be implemented in a garden program by summer camp monitor/animator who are not specialists in those fields, but who are provided with the adequate tools and support to be confident and interested in this task.

This diploma thesis deals with behaviour and relationships on summer integrational camp, where children raised in family and children raised in residential care meet with each other. The aim of this thesis is to describe the difference between these groups from the viewpoint of unit counsellors (in the area of behaviour at the camp, relationship with the authority of counsellor and relationships between children) and explore mutual relationships in units, primarily ascertain the position of the children who were raised in residential care. The thesis is divided into theoretical and empirical part. In the first chapter of the theoretical part potential differences between children raised in family and children raised in residential care are analysed. The second chapter deals with summer camps and which aspects have influence on children's stay at camp. In the empirical part the qualitative research itself is presented, with the questionnaires for counsellors as the main data source. These questionnaires provide the information about observed areas regarding all the children on the camp, who are participants of the research. Mutual relationships between children and position of the children raised in residential care inside units are examined using sociometry. The information obtained about both...

The theme of this thesis is the history of two transports, transports Dl and Dm dispatched september 6 1943 from ghetto Terezín to Auschwitz. It is possible to find a lot of information in many publications, but this thesis introduces this subject throught testimonies of eyewitnesses. Starting with the family background, continuing with deportation to Theresienstadt from where the transports were dispatched. Concerning the transport to Auschwitz, I elaborated its characteristics looking at the age and sex of the transported inmates. Due to the witness's testimonies, I tried to concentrate on the history of two day's journey to the biggest extermination camp during the second world war. And the eyewitness's testimonies are illustrating all the welcoming ceremony, the desinfection, tattoo and dormitory allocation. In my thesis, I would like to describe the Terezin inmates' biannual stay in family camp B IIb, tragical death of 3 792 of them at night of 8 to 9 March 1944, seeking to recreate the Dr. Mengele's list of medical personnel and twins. Finally, I would like to emphasise the fate of 41 survivors of those transports.

Formulated as a feminist project, written as a pulp fiction, Architectural Flirtations: A Love Storey begins with our claim that the architectural discipline is centered around a culture of critique, which is based in what bell hooks calls “a system of imperialist, white supremacist, heterosexist, capitalist, patriarchy,” and that the values instilled by this culture not only begin with, but are reinforced and reproduced by, the education of young architects. Sounds serious. Right? In a move toward a more vulnerable, ethical and empowering culture of architecture, the project aims to displace the culture of critique, by questioning and undermining relationships of power and privilege through practices that are explicitly critical, queer feminist, and Campy. In other words, it takes seriously, in an uncertain, improper and playful way, what is usually deemed unserious within the architectural discipline, in order to undermine the usual order of things. All of the (love) storeys take place on March 21st, the spring equinox, in and around a 1977 collaborative row house project called Case Unifamiliari in Mozzo, Italy, designed by Aldo Rossi and Attilio Pizzigoni. Beda Ring, PhD researcher, constructs a Campy renovation of one of these row houses, full of theatricality, humor, and significant otherness; while architectural pedagogue, Brady Burroughs, guides a student group from KTH in an Architecture and Gender course; and Henri T. Beall, practicing architect, attends to the details upstairs. / <p>QC 20161025</p>

This diploma thesis deals with the development of computational and algorithmic thinking in a non-formal education setting, specifically in the conditions of a summer camp activity, which is one of the forms of non-formal education. The thesis verifies by the pedagogical experiment whether it is possible to develop the computational thinking of camp participants, when unplugged activities are included in the programme content. The theoretical part defines the concepts of computational and algorithmic thinking. It also includes property of unplugged methodology. The practical part evaluates the pedagogical field experiment for which 3 sets of unplugged activities and 2 sets of test tools were created. The experiment took place during two summer camp for children from 9 to 18 years old, who were divided into two age groups for testing purposes. In pursuance of the experiment it was found out that the conditions of summer camp activity allow the inclusion of unplugged activities, which represent a method enabling the development of the computational thinking of the camp participants. Though it emerged that these activities have a bearing only on the participants who are more active during these activities and who are more interested in them. KEYWORDS unplugged activities, computational thinking,...

by Jackelyn Marcus. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2012. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Vários estudos clínicos demonstram que existem fatores adicionais ao efeito reforçador primário das drogas que determinam por que alguns indivíduos permanecem usuários ocasionais, enquanto outros progridem para a farmacodependência. Evidências clínicas apontam o estresse como uma variável importante na iniciação, manutenção e recaída ao uso da cocaína ou morfina. Em roedores, a cocaína induz a sensibilização comportamental que se caracteriza pelo aumento progressivo da atividade motora no decorrer do seu uso prolongado. Esse fenômeno é um dos eventos que emergem no decurso temporal das adaptações que levam à farmacodependência. Recentemente foi sugerido que a sensibilização é a gênese do uso compulsivo de drogas. Muitos estudos revelam que o estresse induz a sensibilização comportamental cruzada com os psicostimulantes. O objetivo desse trabalho foi avaliar a sensibilização cruzada entre o estresse e a cocaína, bem como os mecanismos neurais subjacentes. Para tanto foram avaliados as concentrações plasmáticas da corticosterona, a atividade locomotora basal e a induzida por cocaína, e a atividade da PKA nos animais expostos aos estresses agudo ou crônico, previsível ou imprevisível. A exposição ao estresse crônico previsível (EP) aumentou a atividade locomotora basal e a induzida por cocaína. A exposição ao EP aumentou as concentrações basais da corticosterona mas não alterou a atividade da PKA no núcleo acumbens e no corpo estriado. Assim, podemos concluir que a exposição a EP induziu sensibilização comportamental cruzada à cocaína, sendo que esse efeito não se correlacionou com as alterações na atividade da PKA. / A potential etiologic factor in substance abuse is stress, and it is possible that chronic exposure to stressful life’s events is related to the development of drug dependence and relapse. Behavioral sensitization is defined as an augmentation of a response to a drug during repeated drug exposure. Behavioral sensitization has been shown to occur to the locomotor and reinforcing effects of cocaine, amphetamine and other drugs of abuse. It has been suggested that sensitization is the genesis of compulsive drug use. Converging evidence suggests that exposure to stress induces behavioral sensitization to psychostimulant drugs. The present study investigates behavioral and molecular aspects of the cross-sensitization between stress and cocaine. We evaluated the basal and cocaine-induced locomotor activity, corticosterone plasma levels and protein kinase cAMP-dependent (PKA) activity in animals exposed to acute or chronic predictable and unpredictable stress. Increased basal and cocaine-induced locomotor activity was observed in animals exposed to chronic predictable stress. Chronic predictable stress increased basal corticosterone levels but did not change protein kinase A activity in both accumbens and striatum. In conclusion, predictable stress produced sensitization to locomotor effects of cocaine but this effect did not correlate with changes in PKA activity.

A stanniocalcina-1 (STC1) é uma glicoproteína caracterizada como um fator endócrino com ação anti-hipercalcêmica/hipocalcêmica originalmente descoberta em peixes. Em mamíferos, esse hormônio está expresso em praticamente todos os tecidos, regula diversas funções biológicas e atua como um fator autócrino/ parácrino. Diversas evidências demonstram o envolvimento da STC1 no desenvolvimento ósseo. Durante a embriogênese, a STC1 é expressa nos primeiros estágios de condensação mesenquimal e, posteriormente, se mantém restrita a preosteoblastos e osteoblastos maduros. Além disso, a STC1 estimula a mineralização óssea através do aumento da expressão de transportadores de fosfato e da osteopontina, uma sialoglicoproteína que atua na mineralização óssea. Células-tronco adultas simbolizam atualmente a fonte mais acessível de células progenitoras utilizadas em terapias celulares e engenharia de tecidos. O tecido adiposo contém uma população de células biológica e clinicamente interessantes denominada células tronco adiposo derivadas (CTADs). Atualmente as CTADs são a melhor fonte de células tronco adultas podendo ser obtidas através de procedimentos minimamente invasivos. Um grande número de estudos têm demonstrado o potencial osteogênico dessas células, no entanto, ainda é um desafio a compreensão dos mecanismos envolvidos na diferenciação osteogênica a partir das CTADs. Neste estudo, foi demonstrado que sete dias de indução osteogênica das CTADs na presença de 50 ng/mL de STC1 aumentaram significativamente a expressão gênica e proteica dos marcadores osteogênicos: fosfatase alcalina (FA), runt related gene 2 (RUNX2) e osteopontina (OPN) O aumento na atividade da enzima FAS foi relacionado diretamente com a maior expressão gênica e proteica. Além disso, a STC1 modula a via de sinalização pAKt/pGSK3-β/βcatenina em preosteoblastos de 7 dias sugerindo que seus efeitos sobre a osteogênese sejam mediados por essa via de sinalização. O peptídeo neuroendócrino CGRP (peptídeo relacionado ao gene da calcitonina) possui similaridades com STC1 e desempenha um importante papel nas fases iniciais da diferenciação dos osteoblastos. O CGRP ativa o receptor CALCRL, formando um dímero com a proteína transmembrana acessória RAMP1. Para elucidar o envolvimento da STC1 nas vias de sinalização relacionadas a receptores de calcitonina foi investigado o efeito desse hormônio na modulação 8 do receptor do CGRP e receptor de calcitonina (CTR) em CTADs diferenciadas para preosteoblastos e células Hek 293 superexpressoras de CALCRL/RAMP1 e CTR. A STC1 não alterou a expressão dos genes CALCRL e ramp1 durante a osteoblastogênese mas provocou alterações na distribuição espacial do complexo CALCRL/RAMP1 na membrana plasmática de preosteoblastos, induzindo a formação de clusters Além do efeito sobre a sinalização do CGRP a STC1 demonstrou inibir a sinalização da calcitonina diminuindo a produção de cAMP em células transfectadas com CTR. A STC1 não alterou os níveis intracelulares de cálcio e ATP. Esses resultados indicam que, embora não atue diretamente via os receptores CALCRL/RAMP1 e CTR, a STC1 modula a sinalização dos peptídeos CGRP e CT. Estudos mais detalhados sobre os efeitos da STC1 nas diferentes vias de sinalização são necessários para desvendar completamente os mecanismos de diferenciação osteogênicos das CTADs estimuladas por esse hormônio. / The stanniocalcin-1 (STC1) is a glycoprotein characterized as an endocrine factor with anti-hypercalcemic / hypocalcemic action, originally identified in fish. The hormone in mammals is expressed in virtually all tissues and regulates diverse biological functions, acting as an autocrine / paracrine factor. Many evidences demonstrate that STC1 is able to regulate bone development. During embryogenesis the STC1 is expressed in early stages of mesenchymal condensation and thereafter remains restricted to preosteoblast and mature osteoblast. Furthermore, STC1 stimulates bone mineralization by increasing the phosphate transporter expression and osteopontin, a sialoglycoprotein involved in bone mineralization. Adult stem cells currently symbolize the most accessible source of stem cells used in cell therapy and tissue engineering. Adipose tissue contains a population of biological cells clinically interesting called adipose derived stem cells (ASC). Currently, the ASCs are the best source of adult stem cells and can be harvested using minimally invasive procedures. A large number of studies had shown osteogenic potential of these cells, however, it is still a challenge to understand the mechanisms involved in osteogenic differentiation from ASCs This study demonstrated that 7-day preosteoblast in the presence of 50 ng / ml STC1 significantly increased gene and protein expression of osteogenic markers: alkaline phosphatase (ALP), runt related gene 2 (RUNX2), and osteopontin (OPN ). Also, there was an increase in the enzymatic activity of the ALP, possibly related to both gene and protein expression. Furthermore, STC1 modulates pAkt / pGSK3-β / βcatenina signaling in 7-day preosteoblast, suggesting that the STC1 effects on the osteogenesis is mediated by this pathway. The neuroendocrine peptide CGRP (calcitonin gene related peptide) has similarities to STC1 and plays an important role in the early stages of osteoblast differentiation. The active CGRP receptor form a dimer with the receptor activity-modifying protein 1 (RAMP1). To elucidate the involvement of STC1 in signaling pathways related to calcitonin receptors, it was investigated the STC1 effect on peptide receptor modulating the calcitonin gene related peptide (CGRP) and the calcitonin receptor (CTR) in 7-day preosteoblast, and in Hek 293 cells transfected with CALCRL / RAMP1 and CTR The STC1 did not change the expression of genes CALCRL and ramp1 during osteoblastogenesis but modified the plasma membrane spatial distribution of 10 CALCRL/RAMP1 in preosteoblast. Besides the effect on CGRP signaling, STC1 inhibited the calcitonin signaling by decreasing cAMP production in cells transfected with CTR. The STC1 did not alter intracellular calcium levels and ATP. These results indicated that STC1 does not act on the same receptors for calcitonin and CGRP, but modulates the action of these peptides. Studies on the effects of STC1 in different signaling pathways are necessary for understanding the mechanisms underlying the STC1 ability in enhancing osteoblastogenesis from hASCs.

This thesis examines the importance Kentucky's religious denominations played in the development and transformation of early Kentucky (1770's to 1830). This thesis will show that though federal and regional governments may have created the laws that established newly opened territories, it was often the denominations that played an important role in the creation of that community and stability of the wider societies. Beginning with camp meetings this thesis will argue that denominations began the process of creating community by actively placing these meetings outside the bounds of early congregations and into the backcountry. In doing so denominations brought outsiders, in many cases for the first time, into direct contact with the denominations. This thesis will also argue that denominations developed a new form of worship that was more inclusive and more communal, allowing for wider participation by settlers, especially by women, children, or slaves at these meetings. This thesis will then turn its attention towards the ideas and concepts of the local congregation. This thesis will argue that the local congregation was ideally situated to reinforce the beginnings of community which were established with camp meetings. Through activities such as the calling of ministers as well as the election of elders, deacons, and other lay positions in their local congregation, settlers became active members of the local congregation and entered into a deeper connection with the community. The local congregation offered settlers access to an institution that was both local and communal. Finally this thesis will turn towards a study of physical church buildings arguing that such buildings expressed and reinforced concepts of community and stability. This thesis will argue that over time those congregations that had access to a church often found stability and security. This thesis will also focus on the layout of churches arguing that denominations strengthened already established and shared ideas of community within their congregations through these layouts. By understanding how denominations created community within Kentucky this thesis will argue that the denominations played an important role within newly established territories and that only through a study of these denominations can one begin to understand how the process of western expansion was able to succeed.

Submitted by Ricardo Cedraz Duque Moliterno (ricardo.moliterno@uefs.br) on 2015-09-15T00:26:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??oFlaviaAmorim.pdf: 3062148 bytes, checksum: ad70eb92444f286ab2d535c13f9c4541 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-15T00:26:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??oFlaviaAmorim.pdf: 3062148 bytes, checksum: ad70eb92444f286ab2d535c13f9c4541 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-20 / Funda??o de Amparo ? Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia - FAPEB / This work has as its goal the study of Francisco Pinto's political journey as a member of the so-called group Aut?nticos do Movimento Democr?tico Brasileiro (MDB) in Brazilian National Congress, in his taking of a contrary posture to the civilian/military dictatorship, in his actuation in Brazilian political field in the period between 1971 and 1982. This time corresponds to the period in which Francisco Pinto was a federal congressist: his first term in 1971-74, impeachet in 1974, and second, 1979-82. We investigated how the congressman and his Aut?nticos group built an opposite force to the dictatorship. For that, we used sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's method, of political camp, so we can understand the strategies and possibilities of making institutional politics. The sources consulted were: congressman Francisco Pinto speeches in Brazilian National Congress and Movimento newspaper. / Este trabalho tem por objetivo o estudo da trajet?ria pol?tica de Francisco Pinto enquanto membro do chamado grupo Aut?ntico do Movimento Democr?tico Brasileiro (MDB) no Congresso Nacional, na tomada de posi??o contr?ria ? ditadura civil/militar, na atua??o no campo pol?tico brasileiro no per?odo entre 1971 e 1982. Essa temporalidade corresponde ao per?odo em que Francisco Pinto foi deputado federal: o primeiro mandato em 1971-74, cassado em 1974, e o segundo, 1979-82. Investigamos como o deputado e o grupo dos Aut?nticos constru?ram e aplicaram sua estrat?gia de oposi??o ao regime ditatorial. Para tanto, trabalhamos com a metodologia do soci?logo Pierre Bourdieu, especialmente com o conceito de campo pol?tico, com o qual problematizamos as estrat?gias e possibilidades de se fazer pol?tica institucional. As fontes consultadas foram: os discursos pronunciados pelo deputado Francisco Pinto no Congresso Nacional e o jornal Movimento.