A importância da presença do acompanhante no trabalho de parto e parto é amplamente reconhecida, porém sua aceitação como prática de rotina ainda vem sendo discutida. Este estudo teve como objetivo analisar as relações estabelecidas pelos acompanhantes e parturientes entre o espaço institucional do parto e nascimento e a experiência de ser e ter um acompanhante. Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa, utilizando entrevistas semiestruturadas para coleta de dados. A população deste estudo compreendeu parturientes em início do trabalho de parto e seus respectivos acompanhantes/pai, totalizando 11 casais. A análise de conteúdo de Bardin, possibilitou a identificação de duas unidades temáticas: revelando os atributos da pessoa escolhida como acompanhante; e revelando o significado de ser acompanhante no processo de nascimento de seu filho. Com a hospitalização do nascimento emergem algumas necessidades como a inserção do acompanhante no processo de parturição, na tentativa de suprir a estranheza e solidão do ambiente hospitalar. A escolha da parturiente pelo acompanhante/pai está relacionada ao fortalecimento dos laços familiares e à afirmação da paternidade. O “novo pai” que está surgindo agora é um homem que procura se preparar emocionalmente para assumir, tanto quanto a mulher, um papel ativo neste momento. As expectativas da mulher em relação ao papel do acompanhante/pai neste estudo limitam-se ao apoio emocional e, na visão do casal, a participação do mesmo no trabalho de parto e parto está diretamente ligada ao sentimento de segurança e tranqüilidade. A experiência de ser e ter um acompanhante no contexto institucional poderá se dar de forma positiva, dependendo da aceitação e respeito aos direitos da mulher e seu parceiro no processo de nascimento. / The importance of having a companion present during labor and delivery has been widely recognized. Nevertheless, its acceptance as routine practice is still discussed and negotiated with women at many public and private hospitals. This study had as goal to analyse the relationships established between the companions and parturients between the institutional space of delivery and birth and the experience of being and having a companion. This qualitative research used semi-structured interviews for data collection. The study population included parturients in the initial stage of labor and their respective companions/fathers, totaling 11 couples. Bardin’s content analysis allowed us to identify two thematic units: Revealing the attributes of the person chosen as companion; revealing the meaning of being a companion in the delivery process of her child. Some needs come up as a result of the hospitalization for birth, such as inserting the companion in the delivery process, in an attempt to compensate for the strangeness and loneliness of the hospital environment. The parturient’s choice of her companion/father is related to strengthening family bonds and affirming paternity. The “new father” who is appearing now is a man who tries to become emotionally prepared to assume, to the same extent as the woman, an active role at this moment. The woman’s expectations about the role of the companion/father at this study are limited to emotional support and, from the couple’s perspective, his participation during labor and delivery is directly related to the feeling of safety and tranquility. The experience of being and having a companion in the institutional context can happen in a positive way, depending on the acceptance and respect to the woman’s and her partner’s rights in the delivery process.

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A few studies have demonstrated differences in various personality attributes and creative abilities in children with imaginary companions. This study examined how recalled childhood engagement with an imaginary companion correlates with adult personality and creativity measures. It was hypothesized that creation of childhood imaginary companions would be positively correlated with adult creativity, but that this relationship would be mediated by certain personality attributes such as openness to experiences and extraversion. Other details of the imaginary companion experiences were also investigated. Two hundred and forty-six participants were recruited online to answer questions related to their personality and creativity, as well as any remembered imaginary companion experiences. Results indicated that the presence of a childhood imaginary companion was related to an individual’s openness to experience, but that the roles an imaginary companion played for its creator related to adult personality attributes more. These results suggest that further analyses of different roles and types of imaginary companions can help further explore why certain types of imaginary companions are created, and how their presence may impact developmental processes that influence their creators’ personality and creativity in adulthood.

in English This MA thesis focuses on the analysis of picaresque elements and traces of the picaresque genre in chosen novels of Angela Carter, namely her two most picaresque novels: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) and Nights at the Circus (1984). However, as I have strived to prove throughout the analysis, Carter's earlier novels from the sixties, The Magic Toyshop (1967), and Heroes and Villains (1969) are also rich in picaresque themes and motives of the journey and therefore deserve to have their place in the analysis too. In the introduction the dissertation traces the history of the picaresque from its sixteenth-century Spanish roots until its more modern and postmodern development. It also stresses that in relation to Carter's work it is important to take into account her intertextuality. In describing it Linden Peach borrows Julia Kristeva's quotation from Semiotike, Recherches pour un Semanalyse where she observes that: "Every text builds itself as a mosaic of quotations, every text is absorption and transformation of another text."1 For Carter this is especially valid - her novels are hybrid, multi-layered mosaics which use and at the same time subvert mythology, the Bible, European and English literary works, Renaissance drama (Shakespeare), fairy-stories and folk...

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Experiments were performed to determine the nature of maize influence on bean disease in additive-type intercrops. Overall effects of intercrops on angular leaf spot (caused by Phaeoisariopsis griseola) in Kenya indicated >23% reductions (P<0.05) in area under the disease progress curve (AUDPC) in two of three season-site combinations. Fertilization tended to increase disease (135-205%, P<0.10), but changes in bean density or planting pattern had no effect. Intercrops reduced temperature and wind velocity, but increased relative humidity. A 27% AUDPC reduction (P=0.07) in bean rust (caused by Uromyces appendiculatus) due to intercropping was observed in Oregon in 1989 and 1990 in two of three locations. Mechanisms of maize influence on rust were also assessed in Oregon. Intercropping, and competition of maize with beans alone, consistently steepened dispersal gradients (P<0.10). Interference of maize with dispersal alone tended to flatten gradients. Spore retention in plots was increased in mid-season, then decreased late in the season, due to competition in both years (P<0.05). Intercropping reduced infection by 96% late in 1989 (P<0.05), probably due to microclimatic influence of maize. The data from these experiments were used as inputs for computer simulation to evaluate effects of specific mechanisms on disease dynamics. Combination of all mechanisms (= intercrop) reduced AUDPC to 32% of monocrop, using 1989 data. Infection efficiency reductions, and to a lesser extent dispersal effects, were responsible for these changes. Intercrop effects declined as pathogen multiplication rate (DMFR) increased. No intercrop effect occurred at any DMFR using 1990 data, although interference and competition effects of maize alone both increased AUDPC at low DMFR. Partitioning dispersal effects into those due to gradient slope changes and spore retention indicate that the latter accounts almost entirely for disease alteration. / Graduation date: 1992