Organisms relevant for nature conservation dont follow administrative borders. Because of this there is a need for a landscape perspective within conservation and planning, and a need for the species of interest to have legal protection. Network analysis adapted for ecological purposes has grown to become a powerful tool for studying and communicating the relationships between species dispersion and access to habitat. In this study the following question is posed: How is the Osmoderma eremita and the Pernis apivorus dispersal possibilities in the small scale cultivated landscape of Borås affected by exploitation in respect to a) dispersal ability, b) habitat quality, c) position of habitat patches in a network? The analysis were based on municipal and regional nature conservation data, which in due to confidentiality is not accounted for in the report by maps, coordinates, etc. Several networks were established for both species to indicate how habitat patches are distributed today and how the species dispersal changes depending on which patches are excluded – this was done to imitate how exploitation can affect the species future survival and dispersion. The results showed that the O.e. is mainly inhibited by its poor dispersal abilities, followed by patch position, while the P.a. is the most affected by degrading habitat quality. The most important conclusions of the study were that the O.e. natural dispersal may be restricted but can be improved by linking small network components together and by maintaining the largest components. As for the P.a. it was concluded that a different type of analysis, focusing on its behaviour and need for different patches for different purposes, would generate more interesting results. / Eftersom skyddsvärda organismer inte följer administrativa gränser behövs ett landskapsperspektiv i naturvårds- och planarbete, och de arter som studeras behöver ha juridiska belägg för att skyddas. Nätverksanalyser anpassade för ekologi har vuxit fram som ett kraftfullt verktyg för att studera och kommunicera sambanden mellan arters spridning över större områden. I denna rapport ställs därför frågan: hur läderbaggens (Osmoderma eremita) respektive bivråkens (Pernis apivorus) spridningsmöjligheter i odlingslandskapet i Borås kommun påverkas vid exploatering, med avseende på a)spridningsförmåga, b) habitatkvalitet c) habitatpatchers position i ett nätverk? Analyserna baserades på kommunal och regional naturvårdsdata, som p.g.a. sekretess inte redovisas med kartmaterial, koordinater eller liknande. Flera nätverk etablerades för varje art för att indikera hur nätverken av patcher ser ut idag och hur arternas spridning förändras beroende på vilka patcher som utesluts – detta för att imitera hur exploatering kan påverka arternas fortsatta överlevnad och spridning. Resultaten visade att läderbaggens största begränsning är dess dåliga spridningsförmåga, tätt följd av patchernas position, medan bivråken påverkas mer av habitatkvalitet. De viktigaste slutsatserna som kunde dras var att läderbaggens naturliga spridning må vara begränsad men kan förbättras genom att länka samman små nätverkskomponenter och fortsätta sköta de som är störst idag. För bivråkens del skulle en annan typ av analys med mer fokus på artens beteende och behov av olika patcher för olika aktiviteter ge ett bättre underlag.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka framträdande arbetsrelaterade värderingar hos generation Y. Urvalet bestod av tio yrkesverksamma respondenter födda mellan 1984 – 1994 utvalda via bekvämlighetsurval. En kvalitativ design tillämpades med semistrukturerade intervjuer. Insamlade data analyserades genom tematisk analys och författarna fann tre huvudteman som kan förklara värderingar hos generation Y: arbetets centralitet, sociala värderingar och kommunikation samt motivation. Framträdande arbetsvärderingar för respondenterna var balans i livet, utvecklingsmöjligheter och möjligheten att skräddarsy sitt arbete. / The purpose of this study was to investigate prominent work values of generation Y. Ten working respondents born between 1984 – 1994 participated by convenience sampling. A qualitative research design was used together with semi structured interviews. Collected data were analysed with thematic analysis and the authors found three main themes that could explain values within generation Y: work centrality, social values and communication and motivation. Prominent work values for respondents consisted of: work life balance, development opportunities, and the ability to customize their work.

Aim: The increasing importance of employee retention and talent acquisition have necessitated the need for a deeper understanding of employee psychology influencing these factors. As such, the current study examines the relationship between individual organizational attachment and work-nonwork conflict and work-nonwork enrichment.  Further interest was paid to possible moderating influences of work centrality, gender, number of dependents and number of contract hours. Design: Data was collected through online surveys. Participants were contacted through internet portals and selected business contacts at private companies. The study followed a cross-sectional design. The contributing sample consisted of 94 participants. Results: Organizational attachment styles contribute to differences in experienced work-nonwork conflict and work-nonwork enrichment. Anxious and avoidant organizational attachment exhibit a positive relationship with work-nonwork conflict and a negative relationship with work-nonwork enrichment. The relationship between organizational attachment anxiety and work-nonwork conflict is partially moderated by gender. No empirical support was found for the moderating influences of work centrality, number of dependents and number of contract hours. Implications: The results indicate that patterns of organizational attachment shape adult lives inside and outside of the workplace. Knowledge of how individuals experience work and nonwork depending on their organizational attachment allows for a sensitization towards individuality in the workplace. Catering to employees’ attachment needs could feasibly contribute to organizational viability and success. Novelty: Previous research has mostly examined attachment at work in terms of interpersonal attachment, while disregarding the role the organization can play as an attachment figure. While existing studies have examined the connection between (romantic) attachment and work-family or work-life conflict and enrichment, this study offers insights into how employees’ attachment relationships to the organization connects to the experience of work-nonwork conflict and enrichment.

A região central da cidade de São Paulo, a partir da flexibilização econômica dos anos 1990, tornou-se espaço de conflitos entre o desejo de permanência da população de menor renda e os interesses por uma nova frente de valorização imobiliária. Os reveses sentidos pelos movimentos sociais organizados e o recente afluxo de recursos internacionais no mercado imobiliário parecem negar qualquer possibilidade de atuação de sujeitos políticos, enquanto consolida a hegemonia do pensamento neoliberal de que não há alternativas além da ordem já colocada. Do mesmo modo as análises sociais urbanas produzidas a partir da mobilização social dos anos 1980, marcadas por uma visão industrial, se muito avançou na compreensão dos processos sociais de produção do urbano, pouco permite visualizar quanto aos nexos que contribuam para a superação de um quadro crescente de fragmentação social. Apesar desta conjuntura urbana, as contradições dessa mesma produção social permitem a permanência do uso da centralidade urbana do Glicério pelos catadores de materiais recicláveis. Esse que parece existir somente como mero produto social residual, junto à interpretação de Lefebvre sobre a produção do espaço como parte da reprodução das relações sociais de produção, mostra-se como uma experiência que tem reformulado representações centrais do fetiche da mercadoria. Permite-nos assim ampliar o olhar para além da visão industrial e das relações de produção da mais-valia, bem como dos determinantes da institucionalização do Estado. Pelo olhar urbano, uma coesão social diferencial mostra-se possível como práxis urbana, reabrindo o horizonte dos possíveis, na prática e na teoria. / Since the 1990s, economic flexibility has transformed the central region of the city of São Paulo in an area of conflict. On one side there is low-income residents desire for permanence, on the other side there are real estate market interests in a new valorization frontier. Setbacks experienced by organized social movements and the recent influx of international capital in the housing market seem to deny any possibility of action for political subjects. These factors also seem to consolidate the hegemony of neoliberal thinking as subjects are left with no alternative to the order already in place. Marked by an industrial view, current and increasing urban social analysis on the social mobilization processes of the 1980s allow us a clear understanding of the social production of the city. Nevertheless, these accounts do not contribute to overcoming the increasing social fragmentation perceived in the city. Despite these factors, the contradictions of the social production of this urban space enable collectors of recyclable materials the permanent use of the urban centrality of the Glicério area. This use seems to exist only as a mere residual social product. Nevertheless, in Lefebvres account on the production of space as part of the reproduction of social relations of production, the use of Glicério by collectors shows up as an experience that has reshaped the central representations of the commodity fetish. This perspective on the use of this urban space allows us to view beyond industrial relations and the production of surplus value, as well as the determinants of state institutionalization. Through this urban point of view, a differential social cohesion shows up as a possible urban praxis, reopening the horizon of the possible, in practice and theory.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:40:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carolina Palma Pimenta Furlan.pdf: 1336228 bytes, checksum: 0e211203f57a4ebf656390682932eb68 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-04 / The advent of Internet enabled various means of communication among people and among them there are the social networking platforms, becoming a new form of relationship. Explore this new environment has become increasingly appreciated for researchers as well as for managers in a way in general. This environment provided the formation of communities and through them it is possible to identify the formation of groups through their interests. Most visualization algorithms for social networks are represented in graphs. The environment of this research consists in the subgroup Tocantins digital social of network Facebook, which has more than 10.000 members. In this paper the k-means algorithm for clustering of data represented by the five groups as the best solution found, and also the centrality measure of intermediation which revealed the existence of three most influential members in your posts, and four products or services was applied most Viewed within the subgroup. / O advento da Internet possibilitou vários meios de comunicação entre as pessoas e dentre elas destacam-se as plataformas de redes sociais, tornando-se uma nova forma de relacionamento. Explorar esse novo ambiente tornou-se cada vez mais apreciado para os pesquisadores, tanto quanto para os gestores de um modo em geral. Esse ambiente proporciona a formação de comunidades e através delas é possível a identificação de formação de grupos através dos seus interesses. A maioria dos algoritmos de visualização de redes sociais são representados em grafos. O ambiente dessa pesquisa consiste no subgrupo Tocantins digital da rede social Facebook, o qual possui mais de 10.000 membros. Neste ambiente utilizou-se a ferramenta API, na qual foi possível desenvolver aplicações para se coletar informações das postagens dos membros do grupo pesquisado. Neste trabalho foi aplicado o algoritmo k-médias para o agrupamento de dados representados pelos cinco grupos como a melhor solução encontrada, e também a medida centralidade de intermediação onde revelou a existência de três membros com maior influência em suas postagens, e quatro produtos ou serviços mais visualizados dentro do subgrupo.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-08-10T18:29:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 REGINA DUARTE RIBEIRO MELO.pdf: 4787890 bytes, checksum: f1e4799a54a2be2090102e3ea15abdda (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T18:29:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 REGINA DUARTE RIBEIRO MELO.pdf: 4787890 bytes, checksum: f1e4799a54a2be2090102e3ea15abdda (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-06 / This paper presents the application of Complex Networks Theory and Analysis of Social Networks (ARS) to evaluate the scientific production of the Academic Postgraduate Programs in Production Engineering. The data were collected in the Sucupira Platform (PS) for the period from 2013 to 2015, part of the current evaluation quadrennium (2013 to 2016). The database was arranged in Excel spreadsheets with the variables acquired from the PS. The data were transformed from the extension xlsx to csv, when compatibilizing them for use of software R, version 3.1.1 and environment RStudio 0.99.891. The developed scripts used the Igraph, Network, Bipartite and Ggraph packages that were suitable for bipartite network analysis. The study of the demographic patterns of collaboration between programs indicates that these are stronger among programs from the same region. The production patterns of the CAPES 3 programs indicated the production of the 1437 articles in the period, most of which are from strata B5 and lower production in upper strata (A1, A2 and B1), in which 5002 employees participated, Of external participants. When analyzing the standards of all the programs, it was noticed that the CAPES concepts of the programs obtained in the triennium 2010-2012 did not imply in the higher productions in the upper strata. The most wanted journals for publications in A1 (Journal of Cleaner Production, with 18.51%), for A2 (Energy Policy with 8.11%) and B1 (International Journal, Advanced Manufacturing Technology with 6.44%). The ARS corroborated in the exploration of the data in bipartite network evidencing its potential of analysis and visualization. / Este trabalho apresenta a aplicação da Teoria de Redes Complexas e Análise de Redes Sociais (ARS) para avaliação da produção científica dos Programas de Pós-graduação Acadêmicos em Engenharia de Produção. Os dados foram coletados na Plataforma Sucupira (PS) para o período de 2013 a 2015, parte do quadriênio de avaliação atual (2013 a 2016). A base de dados foi disposta em planilhas do Excel com as variáveis adquiridas da PS. Os dados foram transformados da extensão xlsx para csv, ao compatibilizá-los para utilização do software R, versão 3.1.1 e ambiente RStudio 0.99.891. Os scripts desenvolvidos utilizaram os pacotes Igraph, Network, Bipartite e Ggraph que foram adequados para as análises das redes bipartidas. O estudo dos padrões demográficos de colaboração entre os programas aponta que estes são mais fortes entre programas de mesma região. Os padrões de produção dos programas conceito CAPES 3 indicaram a produção dos 1437 artigos no período, em que a maioria são do estrato B5 e menor produção em estratos superiores (A1, A2 e B1), nos quais participaram 5002 colaboradores, que são em maioria de participantes externos. Quando analisados os padrões de todos os programas notou-se que os conceitos CAPES dos programas obtidos no triênio 2010-2012 não implicaram nas maiores produções nos estratos superiores. Os periódicos mais procurados para publicações em A1 (Journal of Cleaner Production, com 18,51%), para A2 (Energy Policy, com 8,11%) e B1 (International Journal, Advanced Manufacturing Technology, com 6,44%). A ARS corroborou na exploração dos dados em rede bipartida evidenciando seu potencial de análise e visualização.

Em tempos de globalização e neoliberalismo, as relações entre o global e o local e entre o capital especulativo e o Estado têm gerado alterações no setor público e nas formas de regulação da conduta da vida privada. Esse jogo tem influenciado diretamente os cursos de Licenciatura e traz consequências para a educação. Se, por um lado, ela está presa aos ditames da grade econômica, por outro ela pode promover uma formação engajada com a afirmação da diferença e com a superação da desigualdade social. Essa luta acena para a necessidade de abordar a universidade e o currículo como formas de política cultural que incidem na constituição de identidades e marcação da diferença. Afinal, o que está em jogo é a identidade do sujeito-docente que formará as futuras gerações do país. Esta pesquisa problematiza como a maquinaria discursiva e a não discursiva presentes em um currículo de Licenciatura em Educação Física, pode subjetivar sujeitos e operar representações em meio aos discursos da cultura empresarial, como eficiência, flexibilidade, mérito, e caros à educação, como justiça social, reconhecimento e cidadania. Como referência, utilizo as contribuições que os Estudos Culturais têm proporcionado às investigações acerca do currículo e a escrita contundente de Stuart Hall a respeito da centralidade da cultura. A esse quadro discursivo acrescento a noção de governamentalidade formulada por Michel Foucault e as análises de Stephen Ball acerca das políticas curriculares, entre outros. Realizei um estudo de cunho etnográfico em uma IES privada no transcorrer de dois anos em tempos e espaços diferenciados: no âmbito da sala de aula, interessou-me a posição de sujeito assumida pelos discentes frente às situações didáticas e os conflitos decorrentes; com base no projeto pedagógico do curso de Educação Física, extraí os regimes de verdade das disciplinas e suas estratégias de negociação; e a partir do cotidiano da instituição inferi os modos de regulação da educação pelo mercado, que tencionam governar os sujeitos para adequarem-se à ordem econômica mundial. O resultado dessa maquinaria tem sido a formulação do Frankenstein (o currículo-criador) e a de suas criaturas (os alunos monstros-heróis), futuros docentes. Por objetivar os diferentes sentidos da intervenção do egresso em campos tão diversos quanto distintos, o currículo-criador hibridiza os discursos oficiais, as tendências pedagógicas, a história do componente, as transformações da educação e as do setor público. Por conta disso, seus sujeitos tornamse múltiplos, fragmentados e contraditórios que, ora ajustam-se à ordem do empreendimento pessoal e transformam-se em commodities a fim de atuarem em acordo com as normas do mercado, ora são perturbações da máquina que os criou, promovendo simultaneamente a crítica à formação docente inicial e novas estratégias para a sua captura. / In times of globalization and neoliberalism, the relationship between the local and global and between speculative capital and the state has created changes in the public sector and in the ways of regulating the conduct of the private life. This fixture has directly influenced the license courses and has implications for education. If, in one hand, it is trapped to the dictates of the economic frame, on the other, it can promote training engaged with the affirmation of the difference and with the defeat of social inequality. This battle waves to the need for addressing the university and the curriculum as a way of cultural politics that affect the construction of identities, highlighting the difference. After all, what is in evidence is the identity of the personadocent who will form future generations of the country. This research discusses how the discursive and non discursive apparatus present in the curriculum of the License in Physical Education can form individuals and operate representations among the corporative culture discourse such as efficiency, flexibility, performance, merit and, sensibility towards education such as social justice, recognition and citizenship. As a reference, it was used the contributions provided by the cultural studies towards the investigations about the curriculum and the incisive writing of Stuart Hall about the centrality of culture. To this discursive framework it was added the notion of governmentality formulated by Michel Foucault and the analysis of Stephen Ball on curricular policies, among others. An ethnographic study was conducted in a private higher education institution in the course of two years in different times and places: in the classroom, we were interested in the subject position taken by students facing didactic situations and conflicts arising from the pedagogical project based in the Physical Education course, the true parameters and the strategies of negotiation were extract from the disciplines; and from the daily life of the institution it was inferred modes of regulation of the marketing education which intend to operate individuals to adapt to the world economic order. The result of this machinery has been the formulation of Frankenstein (curriculum-creator) and its creatures (monsters, heroes students), future teachers. To object the different meanings of the intervention of egress in fields so diverse and distinct, the curriculum-creator hybridizes official speeches, educational tendencies, the history of the component, the transformation of education and the public sector. For this reason, individuals become multiple, fragmented and contradictory, that sometimes adjust to the order of personal project and turn into commodities to act in accordance with the rules of the market, and other times are the disruptions created by the same mechanism, promoting simultaneously the criticism to the initial teacher training and new strategies for their capture.

It is currently understood that diseases are typically not caused by rogue errors in genetics but have both molecular and environmental causes from myriad overlapping interactions within an interactome. Genetic errors, such as that seen by a single-nucleotide polymorphism can lead to a dysfunctional cell, which in turn can lead to systemic disruptions that result in disease phenotypes. Perturbations within the interactome, as can be caused by many such errors, can be organized into a pathophenotype, or “disease module”. Disease modules are sets of correlated variables that can represent many of a disease’s activities with subgraphs of nodes and edges. Many methods for inferring disease modules are available today, but the results each one yields is not only variable between methods but also across datasets and trial attempts. In this study, several such inference methods for deriving disease modules are evaluated by combining them to create “consensus” modules. The method of focus is Double-Specific Betweenness (S2B), which uses betweenness centrality across separate diseases to derive new modules. This study, however, uses S2B to combine the results of independent inference methods rather than separate diseases to derive new modules. Pre-processed asthma and arthritis data are compared using various combinations of inference methods. The performance of each result is validated using Pathway Scoring Algorithm. The results of this study suggest that combining methods of inference using MODifieR or S2B may be beneficial for deriving meaningful disease modules.

Pretendeu-se investigar, nesta dissertação, as transformações espaciais ocorridas no Rio de Janeiro no período em que a cidade foi morada da família real portuguesa (1808- 1821), a partir de diferentes escalas. Primeiramente, a escala da cidade, centrando a análise nas adaptações e ajustes necessários para transformar uma cidade colonial em cidade de corte. Em seguida investiga-se a configuração da região polarizada pelo Rio de Janeiro, observando-se os mecanismos de ocupação do território e exploração dos sertões, através do estreitamento de interesses entre a elite local e os emigrados da corte. Por fim, analisa-se a cidade na escala de suas relações intercontinentais: tanto como a capital de um Reino espalhado por quatro continentes, quanto como um porto dinâmico, que se consolida como centro de uma vasta rede articulando fluxos continentais e marítimos. Esta experiência de quase inversão de papéis, ao transformar-se a antiga capital colonial em sede da monarquia portuguesa e de um grande Império, teve consequências consideráveis para o processo de independência do Brasil, que vislumbrou na vastidão e potencialidade do território um de seus alicerces principais. / This research tries to investigate the spatial changes that took place in the city of Rio de Janeiro during the stay of the Royal family, after escaping from Napoleon. The scale of the city itself is the subject of the first chapiter that focus on the adaptations and adjusts needed to transform the colonial city into a court city. On the following chapiter, the mechanisms of occupation of the region polarized by the city in analyzed, including the exploitation of the borders (sertões). Finally, we go back to the scale of the city, but now to think of it as an intercontinental port that articulates terrestrial and maritime fluxes, and also as the capital of a vast kingdom. This experience of changing roles between colony and metropolis had some important consequences to the process of independence developed in Brazil. A political process that considered the territory as one of its most valuable basis.

A graph is a mathematical structure for modelling the pairwise relations between objects. This thesis studies two types of graphs, namely, similarity-based graphs and evolving graphs. We look at ways to traverse an evolving graph. In particular, we examine the influence of temporal information on node centrality. In the process, we develop EvolvingGraphs.jl, a software package for analyzing time-dependent networks. We develop Etymo, a search system for discovering interesting research papers. Etymo utilizes both similarity-based graphs and evolving graphs to build a knowledge graph of research articles in order to help users to track the development of ideas. We construct content similarity-based graphs using the full text of research papers. And we extract key concepts from research papers and exploit the temporal information in research papers to construct a concepts evolving graph.