published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Sciences

Reward-related learning occurs when previously neutral stimuli acquires an enhanced ability to elicit approach and other responses. Studies in the past have shown that dopamine receptor-mediated 3’,5’-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent intracellular signalling is important for reward-related learning. Until recently, cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) was the only known signalling molecule that was activated by cAMP. However, it has been discovered that another enzyme, exchange protein directly activated by cAMP (Epac), is also activated by cAMP. Thus, it is possible that cAMP mediates reward-related learning by an Epac-dependent signalling pathway. The present study used a conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm to investigate whether Epac is involved in the acquisition of reward-related learning. Bilateral injections of amphetamine (20 µg/0.5μl/side) into the nucleus accumbens (NAc) have been shown in previous studies to reliably produce a CPP. Thus, amphetamine (20 µg) and Sp-adenosine 3’,5’-cyclic monophosphorothioate triethylamanine (Sp-cAMPS) (0.1, 1.0, 10, 15, 20 µg), an agent that activates both PKA and Epac, or amphetamine (20 µg) and 8-(4-chlorophenylthio)-2’-O-methyladenosine-3’,5’-cyclic monophosphate (8-pCPT) (0.73, 1.27, 1.45, 2.89, 5.78, 11.56 µg), an agent that selectively activates Epac, were co-injected into NAc to determine their effects on the acquisition of CPP. Results showed that 8-pCPT (1.45 µg), but not lower or higher doses, inhibited CPP. Sp-cAMPS (0.1, 15, 20 µg) also inhibited CPP, replicating the results of previous studies. The results implicate Epac in the acquisition of reward-related learning. / Thesis (Master, Neuroscience Studies) -- Queen's University, 2008-04-25 13:29:37.857

The purpose of the Historic Structures Report on the Caspar Woods one-room schoolhouse is to document the structure and provide information for its preservation and restoration. Built in 1915 by the Caspar Lumber Company, it is an excellent example of a one-room schoolhouse. Constructed during a period of reform in the education movement the Caspar Woods schoolhouse exemplifies the movements ideal of a standardized school building. This schoolhouse also has a unique feature of having been built on a support structure of skids and beams. This allowed i t to be moved i n three sections to different logging camps.The Historic Structure report looks at the history of this one-room schoolhouse, the Caspar Lumber Company and local factors that influenced the building if this school. The report also documents the existing condition of the building and provides suggestions for its preservation and restoration. / Department of Architecture

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En 1988, le Bassin du fleuve Sénégal au Mali a vu la mise en service d’un barrage par l’Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du fleuve Sénégal (OMVS). L’objectif principale est la production d’énergie électrique partagée entre : le Mali (52%), le Sénégal (33%) et la Mauritanie (15%). Mais l’apparition de cet ouvrage constitue une perturbation profonde dans l’organisation et le fonctionnement des espaces riverains. Les territoires autour du Bafing, affluent où se localise le barrage, se trouvent ainsi cloisonnés en une partie amont et aval du lac de retenue. Ce dernier a insufflé une nouvelle dynamique spatiale avec l’installation récente de 25 campements de pêche.Cette nouvelle économie constitue un facteur d’attraction de pêcheurs professionnels venus des régions du Centre du Mali, particulièrement de Mopti et de Ségou. Le lac devient ainsi une immense réserve de poissons avec des tailles plus importantes par rapport à ceux capturés dans les affluents du Bafing, du Bakoye, ou même du fleuve Sénégal. En amont du barrage, la pêche devient la première activité économique poussant des jeunes agriculteurs et éleveurs «autochtones» à une reconversion professionnelle pas toujours aboutie. Les campements de pêcheurs occupent un ancien site des villages déplacés lors de la construction du barrage. Trente-trois villages sont actuellement réinstallés en aval du barrage dans le finage d’autres hameaux préexistants. Cette cohabitation bouleverse l’occupation de l’espace et entraine des tensions foncières. Certains sites comme Manantali à 5 km du barrage en sont les grands bénéficiaires. Ce village s’est transformé en un véritable « centre-rural », en accueillant les cadres et les ouvriers qualifiés et toute la main d’œuvre venus du Mali voire de l’étranger. Cet afflux d’habitants urbanisés a profondément changé la configuration du site et l’a surtout fortement ségrégué. Les bureaux de la société d’exploitation au pied du barrage, le vieux village de Manantali, les cités des ouvriers et celle des cadres sont autant de témoins d’un espace urbain en devenir, fonctionnel et très inégalitaire. Le principal objet de cette étude est l’étude des impacts du barrage de Manantali sur l’organisation socio-spatiale et physique des territoires riverains. L’entrée par une lecture des représentations sociales, consensuelles comme conflictuelles, par les habitants et les différents acteurs, est privilégiée. L’analyse des données quantitatives et des différents discours identifie les expressions tant des effets environnementaux physiques que socioéconomiques suscités par l’ouvrage. Le concept de représentations sociales est posé de la façon suivante: «les représentations forment des codes mémorisés par le cerveau, mobilisables de façon consciente et se prêtant à de multiples utilisations mentales. Ces codes servent en particulier à décrypter notre environnement géographique, mais aussi à communiquer avec autrui, à rêver, imaginer, planifier et orienter nos conduites ou nos pratiques les plus diverses» (DI MEO, 2008). Cette étude d’impact se positionne donc le domaine de la géographie sociale.Au cœur de cette étude se trouvent les acteurs, les responsables politiques à différentes échelles, et surtout l’habitant ordinaire qui vit à l’ombre du barrage de Manantali. Cette notion d’ombre doit être comprise dans la polysémie des impacts de l’ouvrage, tout autant néfastes que bénéfique, et par rapport à son aire d’influence. Les principales zones d’étude considérées se situent à « l’ombre proche » de l’ouvrage, ou à l’échelle locale, dans un rayon de 50 kilomètres autour du barrage. Il s’agit de 8 villages déplacés et anciens. Mais également des 25 campements de pêche autour du lac de retenue. / In 1988 the Senegal River basin in Mali has witnessed the building of a dam by the Organization for the Development of the Senegal River (OMVS) in French. The main objective is the production of electric power shared between: Mali (52%), Senegal (33%) and Mauritania (15%). But the birth of this dam has deeply disrupted the organization and functioning of all the waterside’s areas. The territories around the Bafing, the river where the dam is localized, are now strictlydivided by the reservoir between an upstream and downstream portions. This artificial lake has created new types of spatial organization with the recent settlements of 25 fishing camps.This new economy has created a pull factor for professional fishermen coming from the central regions of Mali, particularly Mopti and Segou. The lake hence becomes a huge fish reserve with larger sizes compared to those caught in the Bafing, the Bakoye or even in the Senegal River. In the upstream areas of the dam, fishing has become the first business activityencouraging local young farmers and herdsmen towards an unlikely professional retraining.Fishermen settlements occupy former site of displaced villages due to the dam construction. Thirty-three villages have been relocated downstream of the dam in the lands of existing hamlets. This cohabitation disruptstraditional land use and leads to social strains.

The Westsaharian women are a civic group that during their soon to be thirty years as refugees in the Westsaharian camps in south western Algeria have become empowered as citizens and advanced strongly in political representation. In theory, empowerment of women’s democratic citizenship has been described as a complex phenomenon. To gain an understanding about this in this study, I have described the women’s perceived access to resources and attitudes, and in what way these factors play a role for their active citizenship. This has been done by the use of Axel Hadenius’ theory about the democratic citizenship and Jo Rowlands’ theory about which resources that are to be considered as essential for women’s empowerment. To be able to perform the study, a case study was performed in the Westsaharian refugee camps during April-May 2004, followed up by a second during October-November 2004. The study shows that there are resources and attitudes within both human and social capital that the women perceive to play a significant role for their active citizenship. These factors make the women take part in societal activities, strive to reach higher political positions, and work for a common civic development as women and as Westsaharian citizens. The result of the study further shows that there are contextual inhibiting and encouraging factors that the women perceive to affect their resources and attitudes that play a significant role for their active citizenship.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The land reform is an instigate theme that because it is not a bygone fact in the Brazilian history and persists in the academicals debates, for this reason this theme is the object of studying in this project. The agrarian reality in Sergipe is marked by an historic concentrations of land and by the contest of the social movements in the fields are analyzed in his project with the purpose of checking the results of the land reform that has being carrying out and the implications in the quality of life of the families that were settled. So we choose the conjugation of the key elements that in an articulated form makes possible better analyses of the public policy above mention. The trajectory of the contest for land, its dilemma and sceneries; the context of the land and their strategies for survive and the fundiary strategies; the quality of life of the settled families and their relationship with the land reform. The methodological proposal ha ve combined the techniques and the instruments ,quantitative and qualitative ,a way to get the data that could show the reality in the conception of the people involved and at the same time make possible an interference in the public policy of land reform. The results we got reveals that the contest for land have been the main reason for carrying out the land reform at Sergipe, it has not unconcentrated the land due to the minifundiarização by the distribution of lots that compromise the viability of the assessment. The families who are living on the assessments are all satisfied with the present quality of life when compared to the life they had before the land reform. The limitations are noticed ,indicating that the land reform has not been able yet to attend the demand for land, it have to invest in the quality of life at the assessment , what compromise the forces and the dispute of power. The land reform at Sergipe is a political problem and just for this it walks in very slow paces. In case if it were a political policy which the process of evaluation and continuous checking could provide the necessary redirections to the efficiency and efficacy, certainly the agrarian question wouldn t continue as one of the serious Brazilian problems. / A reforma agrária é um tema instigante que, por ser uma página ainda não virada na história brasileira, persiste nos debates acadêmicos, sendo, portanto, objeto de estudo neste trabalho. A realidade agrária de Sergipe, marcada pela concentração histórica de terras e pela luta dos movimentos sociais no campo, é aqui analisada com o intuito de verificar quais os resultados da reforma agrária realizada e suas implicações sobre a qualidade de vida das famílias assentadas, num recorte histórico e global, do acampamento ao assentamento. Neste sentido, optou-se pela conjugação de elementos-chave que pudessem, de forma articulada, permitir a melhor análise desta política pública, quais sejam: a trajetória de luta pela terra, seus cenários e dilemas; o contexto da reforma agrária realizada da década de 1980 até 2009; a demanda e os demandatários de terra, suas estratégias de sobrevivência e seu perfil; a estrutura fundiária; e a qualidade de vida das famílias assentadas e sua relação com a reforma agrária. A proposta metodológica combinou técnicas e instrumentos quantitativos e qualitativos, de forma a obter dados que pudessem retratar a realidade na concepção dos envolvidos e, ao mesmo tempo, permitir inferências sobre a política pública de reforma agrária. Os resultados revelam que a luta pela terra tem sido o motor propulsor para a realização da reforma agrária em Sergipe. Esta não desconcentrou a terra, mas provocou a sua minifundiarização, devido à distribuição de lotes que comprometem a viabilidade dos assentamentos. As famílias assentadas estão satisfeitas com a qualidade de vida atual, comparada à vida anterior à reforma agrária. Entretanto as limitações são percebidas, o que indica que a reforma agrária ainda não foi capaz de atender à demanda por terra, sendo necessário investir na qualidade dos assentamentos, via promoção da autonomia dos assentados, relações de forças e disputas pelo poder. Enfim, a reforma agrária em Sergipe é um problema político, e justamente por isso é que caminha a passos lentos. Caso fosse uma política pública, cujos processos de avaliação e monitoramento contínuo proporcionassem os redirecionamentos necessários à sua eficiência e eficácia, certamente a questão agrária não continuaria sendo um dos graves problemas brasileiros.

Este trabalho tem como foco a análise da função da oralidade e do registro coloquial em treze contos do ciclo El Laberinto mágico, do escritor espanhol Max Aub, que se ocupam da vida nos campos de concentração franceses criados ao final da Guerra Civil Espanhola para internar a massa de vencidos que então cruzou os Pirineus. O corpus é composto pelos seguintes textos: Vernet, 1940, Una historia cualquiera, Historia de Vidal, Los creyentes, Un traidor, Manuel el de la Font, El limpiabotas del Padre Eterno, Yo no invento nada, Ruptura, El cementerio de Djelfa, Manuscrito cuervo: historia de Jacobo, Playa en invierno e Ese olor. A análise pauta-se no exame dos seguintes elementos: léxico, sintaxe, formas de tratamento, registros de fala, presença de frases feitas, uso de provérbios e nível sociocultural e lingüístico do narrador e dos personagens. / This paper focuses on the analysis of the function of orality and the colloquial register observed in thirteen short stories written by the Spanish writer Max Aub, in the cycle El Laberinto mágico. These short stories are about life in the concentration camps the French created in France at the end of the Spanish Civil War in order to hold the defeated and broken men and women that crossed the Pyrenees and then became inmates of such camps. The corpus encompasses the following stories: Vernet, 1940, Una historia cualquiera, Historia de Vidal, Los creyentes, Un traidor, Manuel el de la Font, El limpiabotas del Padre Eterno, Yo no invento nada, Ruptura, El cementerio de Djelfa, Manuscrito cuervo: historia de Jacobo, Playa en invierno and Ese olor. The analysis is based on the study of the following elements: lexicon, syntax, forms of address, records of spoken language, occurrence of idioms, use of proverbs, as well as the socio-cultural and linguistic level of the narrator and the characters.

Orientador: Carmen Lúcia Soares / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T20:22:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dalben_Andre_D.pdf: 69401915 bytes, checksum: c1622c6f46b17e83bd4234ee6a6b295b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: As colônias de férias escolares tiveram como maior suporte teórico antigos conhecimentos advindos da medicina que priorizavam uma vida ao ar livre, distante dos centros urbanos, para a recuperação e o fortalecimento corporal. Ao oferecerem uma substanciosa alimentação e práticas corporais realizadas junto à natureza às crianças de classes populares no decorrer das férias escolares, tiveram por objetivo principal, inicialmente prevenir o contágio de doenças, sobretudo a tuberculose, que debilitavam a saúde de muitos moradores de grandes cidades. Por meio de congressos, as colônias de férias foram divulgadas entre a comunidade científica internacional a partir de 1882, sendo frequentemente recomendadas como uma inovadora medida de assistência infantil que diversos países poderiam adotar para proteger a saúde de suas crianças. Ao tomar como fontes principais os anais dos Congressos Internacionais de Higiene e Demografia, dos Congressos Pan-Americanos da Criança e, ainda, revistas especializadas em saúde, educação e educação física, muitas publicadas por instâncias administrativas oficiais, a pesquisa centralizou-se em investigar as principais políticas de implementação de colônias de férias para as crianças de quatro dos maiores centros urbanos sul-americanos das primeiras décadas do século XX: Buenos Aires, Montevidéu, Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo. O recorte temporal foi definido de 1882, quando as colônias de férias começaram a ser debatidas no cenário internacional, até meados da década de 1950, momento no qual os primeiros medicamentos alopáticos para o tratamento da tuberculose passaram a ser empregados de modo mais efetivo no controle da doença, alterando as políticas de saúde pública de muitos países, que deixariam de adotar os recursos da vida ao ar livre para preservar a saúde de suas populações, e destituindo as colônias de férias do seu principal objetivo médico. A pesquisa procurou expandir os estudos realizados pela História da Educação e pela História da Educação Física, uma vez que as colônias de férias apresentam-se na atualidade como um objeto de estudos ainda pouco explorado pela ciência sul-americana, mas que, no entanto, nos narram processos históricos bastante inovadores ao se estabelecerem como uma instituição concomitantemente próxima e distinta da escola, onde foram gestadas e aplicadas novas práticas e modelos pedagógicos e onde conteúdos antes excluídos das pedagogias mais tradicionais encontraram a oportunidade de serem incorporados enquanto possibilidade educativa. Ao adotar a história cultural como principal referencial teórico para a análise das fontes, foram priorizadas as transformações das mentalidades e sensibilidades que deslocaram a vida ao ar livre de seus preceitos médicos para concebê-la como uma educação do corpo passível de ser sistematizada e institucionalizada pelas colônias de férias. Durante o período abordado pela pesquisa, foi possível concluir que as colônias de férias não se limitaram tão somente a uma medida de saúde pública, uma vez que organizaram em seu interior uma série de procedimentos que transformariam definitivamente as férias escolares em uma aventura do corpo que possibilitava que muitos desejos infantis se tornassem realidade e que demarcava novas possibilidades educativas voltadas especialmente à crianças que não tinham, até então, seus direitos à saúde, à educação e ao brincar integralmente respeitados / Abstract: The summer camps (vacation colonies) had the most theoretical support in ancient knowledge derived from the medicine which prioritized the outdoor life, far from the urban centers, for recovery and strengthening the body. By offering healthy food and bodily practices performed within the nature for the children of the working classes during their vacation, the summer camps had initially as their main objective the prevention of the spread of diseases, especially tuberculosis, which contagiated many residents of large cities. The summer camps were published in the international scientific community since 1882 through conferences and were often recommended as an innovative measure of children care that many countries could adopt to protect their children's health. Taking as the main sources for the research the annals of International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, the Pan American Child Congress and also magazines specialized in health, education and physical education, many of them published by official departments, the propose of this research is to investigate the policies to implement the summer camps for children in the four largest urban centers of South America at the first decades of the twentieth century: Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The time bias is defined from 1882, when the summer camps began to be debated in the international arena, until the mid-1950s, when the first allopathic medice to treat the tuberculosis began to be used more effectively to control the disease, changing the public health policy in many countries, which would not take the resources to maintain the outdoor life to preserve the health of their populations, and unseating the summer camps of their major medical goal. The research sought to expand the studies conducted by the History of Education and the History of Physical Education, since the summer camps are object of study unexplored by the South American science, even though they narrate the innovative hitorical perspective when they are established as an institution concurrently next and distinct from school, creating and implementing new practices and educational models and pedagical contents, when more traditional pedagogies previously excluded found the opportunity to be incorporated as an educational opportunity. Adopting the cultural history as the theoretical framework for the analysis of the sources this research focus on the changing of the mentalities and sensibilities that shifted the outdoor life from the medical precepts to conceive it as an education body capable of being systematized and institutionalized by the summer camps. During the period covered by the survey, it concludes that the summer camps were not limited only as a public health measure, once they staged a series of educational procedures that would definitely transform the school holidays in an adventure of the body that allowed many children's wishes come true and that marked new educational opportunities geared especially to children who had not hitherto their rights to health , education and play fully respected / Doutorado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Doutor em Educação

Camping and caravanning is practiced by a segment of the population in South Africa. Various articles in the caravan and outdoor life magazine published in South Africa have indicated that municipal caravan parks are not providing the same facilities and service as was provided in the past .With this background the hypothesis was established as being, the facilities at municipal caravan parks such as Hendon Park are deteriorating due to lack of government commitment and funds. The objectives of this research was determined as being whether (1) it is economically viable for the municipality to continue to utilise the existing land as a caravan park or, (2) it is more beneficial to the taxpayer for the municipality to sell the prime land to a developer or, (3) it is in the best interest of the municipality and /or the community to sell the property to a private company for upgrading the facilities to meet campers requirements The scope of the investigation was determined and includes questionnaires to campers, as well as interview’s with various stakeholders. The researcher also considered various management strategies suggested by strategist David, Fry, Lambert and Stock and Massey that could be used by Hendon Park management to enhance the operation of the Caravan Park under their control and thus a suggested management strategy was compiled. A specific window period to gather the information was decided as being the Easter Holiday period as this was the period that all caravan parks in Cape Town are at full capacity and thus this was the best opportunity to gather the information as the target (campers) would be camping in great numbers. Finally the results was analysed and a conclusion was drawn. Specific recommendations were then proposed by the researcher to be implemented by the staff of Hendon caravan park.