Este artigo objetiva identificar os efeitos da desigualdade econômica no exercício de direitos políticos da cidadania. Este é um estudo observacional que articula dois conjuntos de literatura que parecem evoluir seus debates em espaços desconectados: a teoria da cidadania, a partir da dimensão de cidadania como titularidade de direitos políticos, e o estudo do financiamento eleitoral, especialmente a partir de sua dimensão de doações privadas. São identificados e organizados os efeitos da variável econômica no sistema político, partidário e eleitoral, associando-os aos efeitos sobre o nível individual dos direitos cidadãos. A partir da definição basilar de direitos políticos como direitos de votar e ser votado, sintetizam-se os efeitos em, respectivamente: desproporcionalidade na representação de interesses e distorção na competição dos candidatos. Doações privadas vultosas aparecem como mecanismos com duplo efeito ao distorcerem ambos os direitos. O contexto brasileiro é ilustrado a partir de dados de financiamento eleitoral de 2014, os quais corroboram os argumentos delineados na literatura. A legislação brasileira alterada em 2015 inclui proibição de doações empresariais e limites aos gastos eleitorais, e parece caminhar no sentido de controlar distorções identificadas. Contudo, a avaliação dos efeitos da mudança carece de tempo e de ocorrência de pleito sob as novas regras. / This study aims to identity the effects of economic inequality in the exercise of political rights of citizenship. This is an observational study that articulates twos sets of literature which seem to evolve their debates on disconnected spaces: the theory of citizenship, from the dimension of citizenship as rights, and the study of electoral finance, specifically from its dimension of private donations. We identity and organize the effects of the economic variable on the political, party, and electoral system, in order to associate them with the effects on the individual level of citizen entitlements. From the definition of political rights as the right to vote and be voted, the effects are synthetized in, respectively: disproportionate representation of interests and distortion of candidate competition. Bulky sums of private donations stand out for their potential double effect, considering they distort both rights. The Brazilian context is illustrated from legislation and data of 2014 electoral finance, which corroborates the arguments previously identified through the literature. The Brazilian legislation, that has been altered in 2015, now incorporates the prohibition on corporate donations and limits on spending and donations, and for that matter, it seems to walk in the direction of controlling such distortions. However, an evaluation of the effects of this change still needs time and the occurrence of elections by this law.

abstract: The effects of iron and chromium blood concentrations have been linked to blood glucose control in diabetics. It is suggested that iron causes oxidative stress in the beta cells of the pancreas and adipocytes creating insulin insufficiency and resistance. Chromium is believed to increase the action of insulin through its biologically active molecule chromodulin. Both of these mechanisms are not clear. This 20 week case study tests the feasibility of combining iron depletion therapy followed by chromium supplementation to improve insulin sensitivity. This single case study followed a protocol of two blood donations separated by eight weeks followed by chromium supplementation of 250 µg of chromium picolinate once a day four weeks after the second blood donation. Fasting blood draws were taken at baseline, post blood draws and pre and post chromium supplementation. Results were not promising for the first hypothesis of lowering HbA1c, but the results were promising for the second hypothesis of improving insulin sensitivity by lowering the HOMA score. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Nutrition 2015

Este artigo objetiva identificar os efeitos da desigualdade econômica no exercício de direitos políticos da cidadania. Este é um estudo observacional que articula dois conjuntos de literatura que parecem evoluir seus debates em espaços desconectados: a teoria da cidadania, a partir da dimensão de cidadania como titularidade de direitos políticos, e o estudo do financiamento eleitoral, especialmente a partir de sua dimensão de doações privadas. São identificados e organizados os efeitos da variável econômica no sistema político, partidário e eleitoral, associando-os aos efeitos sobre o nível individual dos direitos cidadãos. A partir da definição basilar de direitos políticos como direitos de votar e ser votado, sintetizam-se os efeitos em, respectivamente: desproporcionalidade na representação de interesses e distorção na competição dos candidatos. Doações privadas vultosas aparecem como mecanismos com duplo efeito ao distorcerem ambos os direitos. O contexto brasileiro é ilustrado a partir de dados de financiamento eleitoral de 2014, os quais corroboram os argumentos delineados na literatura. A legislação brasileira alterada em 2015 inclui proibição de doações empresariais e limites aos gastos eleitorais, e parece caminhar no sentido de controlar distorções identificadas. Contudo, a avaliação dos efeitos da mudança carece de tempo e de ocorrência de pleito sob as novas regras. / This study aims to identity the effects of economic inequality in the exercise of political rights of citizenship. This is an observational study that articulates twos sets of literature which seem to evolve their debates on disconnected spaces: the theory of citizenship, from the dimension of citizenship as rights, and the study of electoral finance, specifically from its dimension of private donations. We identity and organize the effects of the economic variable on the political, party, and electoral system, in order to associate them with the effects on the individual level of citizen entitlements. From the definition of political rights as the right to vote and be voted, the effects are synthetized in, respectively: disproportionate representation of interests and distortion of candidate competition. Bulky sums of private donations stand out for their potential double effect, considering they distort both rights. The Brazilian context is illustrated from legislation and data of 2014 electoral finance, which corroborates the arguments previously identified through the literature. The Brazilian legislation, that has been altered in 2015, now incorporates the prohibition on corporate donations and limits on spending and donations, and for that matter, it seems to walk in the direction of controlling such distortions. However, an evaluation of the effects of this change still needs time and the occurrence of elections by this law.

Este trabalho visa contribuir para a compreensão dos incentivos que permeiam os agentes envolvidos no financiamento de campanhas eleitorais. Por meio de evidências empíricas reunidas a partir do contexto do financiamento de campanhas brasileiras, a compra de ações de empresas de capital aberto por parte do governo é analisada como possível mecanismo de compensação do financiamento de campanhas eleitorais. A análise é feita comparando a participação do governo no capital de sociedades anônimas doadoras e não doadoras de recursos para financiamento de campanhas usando o método de Diferenças em Diferenças. Por meio dessa metodologia, identificou-se, particularmente na eleição de 2010, um efeito positivo do financiamento eleitoral sobre o investimento do governo em ações de empresas financiadoras. / This study aims to contribute to the literature by investigating the incentives that pervade agents involved in electoral campaign funding. By means of empirical evidence gathered from the Brazilian electoral financing context, government investment in stocks is analyzed as a possible compensation mechanism for electoral campaign financing. The study investigates government investments in stocks comparing corporations that have supported electoral campaigns and those that have not, by applying the Differences-in-Differences method. By this method, a positive effect of electoral financing on government investment in companies stocks was identified in the 2010 electoral cycle. However, the empirical tests suggest no effect in 2002 and 2006 elections.

By examining the donations by the local nobility to the local church, this thesis aims to study the church as a public room. By analyzing the donations of the nobility in relation to Habermas concept of the public sphere and the concept of conspicuous consumption the donations to the churches can be viewed as manifestations of power. This thesis studies all donations to the churches that leaves material and visual remnants in the church room. The results shows that there was a conscious strategy for the nobility to use the church for manifestation and representation of power. The nobility used their donations to manifest their power and to represent the power towards the people. This was done by filling the church with their names and coats of arms. By donating liturgical objects, church silver, chapels and coats of arms used for funerals the nobility was able to symbolically place themselves in the religious rituals. The church as a room was a symbolically and hierarchical place, and by connecting themselves with this room by donations the nobility could manifest their position in society, both locally and nationally.

<div><b>The Internet is a technology that has been one that has been transformed American society. </b><b>The role of the Internet had become apparent in the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 in light of shutdowns and quarantines by the government. </b><b>As a result, the technologies surrounding the Internet have created a space where there are inequalities in which the Internet is accessed. </b><b>As a result, these inequalities affect not only socioeconomic factors, but political behaviors as well. </b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>This dissertation also seeks to explain the political behaviors that are enabled by Internet access quality.</b></div><div><b>I argue that a person's level of Internet access can affect their ideological and partisan identity, as well as political engagement, especially in behaviors such as political giving. I use data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Survey and the 2010 U.S. Decennial Census to test these theories. </b><b>By using a measure I develop called the Quality of Internet Access (QoIA), I find evidence that Internet access has affects on ideological and partisan identity. </b><b>I also find that QoIA affects political engagement positively, specifically in how donations are given to, and solicited by political campaigns. </b><b>I conclude that the QoIA measurement should be flexibly used and research in taking account for Internet access quality should continue as the inequalities of the digital divide still exist. </b></div>

Since its inception in the early 2000s, social media has quickly become a meaningful source of online community for people across the globe. The use of promotional advertising on social media has brought both helpful and potentially harmful exposure to a wide variety of information. This dissertation aims to uncover certain underlying physiological mechanisms, specifically, neural mechanisms, that drive donation behavior in online contexts involving a mediated form of communication. Understanding donation behavior online is vital to make more effective campaigns that reach mass audiences to solve world problems. Focusing on donation behavior as a primary online prosocial action, this dissertation explores the following research question and associated hypotheses, “How do our physiological processes influence donation decision making in varying online contexts, and what types of information influence those decisions?” Although much is known about factors that influence donation behavior, less is known about what physiological processes are correlated with prosocial behaviors, especially in online situations. This approach is taken in an effort to connect psychophysiology with a common, ecologically-valid modern media experience to help understand why people decide to act on social media posts or keep scrolling. Chapter one reviews psychophysiological responses to media and their traditional place in the literature, connecting the seemingly dissimilar fields of psychophysiology and communication. A secondary goal of this review is to establish the importance of measuring physiological responses in communication studies. Next, the history of research on prosocial behavior is discussed, including the operationalization of prosocial behavior to create context for the main study that connects physiological responses to online donation behavior. The second half of the dissertation describes a pilot study (N=155) focusing on social media post characteristics that contribute to online donation behavior. In the 3 x 2 x 2 pilot study, image emotional valence (positive, negative, neutral), popularity (low or high number of likes), and source intentions (label of an advertisement) were manipulated to examine their relationship to online donation behavior. In the main study, a revised design based on the pilot results is presented with the addition of neural fMRI data collection. The ultimate goals of this dissertation are to (1) investigate the physiological correlates of online donation behavior (through emotional appeals and other features of social media posts) and (2) contribute to the literature connecting the communication and neuroscience disciplines. The pilot study revealed that negative emotional appeals influenced people to donate more to causes than neutral and positively-valenced images. Additionally, other features influenced whether people acted on posts, such as the number of likes or a label as an advertisement (source intention). The dissertation involves combining this design with an fMRI study to investigate the neural responses to this facet of decision making online. The results of the studies described in this dissertation are the following: across multiple studies, participants donated the most money to negatively-valenced posts compared to neutral or positively-valenced posts. Other factors, such as the number of likes on a post, or whether the post was labeled as sponsored or unsponsored, presented mixed results (in terms of statistical significance and visual patterns). Additionally, the neural patterns seen when people were viewing negative, positive, and neutral posts, varied by region, with the high emotional posts (positive and negative) showing different activation patterns compared to the neutral posts. Neural patterns mirrored behavioral changes to provide additional support for the observed behavior. Applying a physiological lens to online behavior remains an area that is underserved in the literature, and this is a gap this dissertation seeks to fill. Combining neural data with behavioral findings is performed to reveal that people may be physiologically regulating their responses to the campaigns, and in turn, may take action based on their physical reactions. Ideally, the results will be applied to policy-making and lead to cause marketing efforts to help solve world problems with more effective messaging to the public. / Media & Communication

Donating to charity is a phenomenon found in cultures and religions worldwide. Studies have examined how to attract donors, get them to engage, and eventually make a donation. But what happens after? The post-donation part of the process is less explored and often lacking in transparency toward the donor; where did the donation go, and how can the donors make sure it reaches the intended beneficiaries? This study investigated how post-donation transparency can enhance the user experience of donating money by identifying the donor’s needs and desires post-donation and fulfilling them in a design proposal. The Double Diamond model of design and its four phases were chosen to achieve this. In the first two phases, Discover and Define, the problem space was explored and defined through a literature study and initial interviews. The interview data was analyzed through the Affinity Diagram method resulting in two ”How might we”-questions. The needs and desires of users were also identified at this stage. A brainstorming session based on the ”How might we”-questions initiated the following, and last phases Develop and Deliver. Prototypes of different levels of fidelity were then created and tested on both users and experts before finally landing in a design proposal. Results showed that the elements added for creating post-donation transparency were appreciated by users and experts alike. A high score from a UMUX-LITE usability test suggested that the prototype was usable, elements in the prototype were pointed out for achieving transparency, and all participants expressed positive feelings after using the prototype. Therefore, the prototype was concluded to have achieved post-donation transparency within the frames of this study. Further studies are recommended as the final prototype was never tested on users. The hope is that more tests would give a better understanding of how user needs and desires could be achieved post-donation. / Att donera till välgörenhet är ett fenomen som hittas i kulturer och religioner över hela världen. Studier har undersökt hur man kan rekrytera donatorer, få dem att engagera sig och så småningom göra en donation. Men vad händer sen? Tiden efter donation är mindre utforskad och saknar ofta transparens gentemotgivaren; vart tog donationen vägen och hur kan givarna ta reda på om pengarna når fram? Denna studie har undersökt hur transparens i processen efter genomförd donation kan förbättra användarupplevelsen av att donera pengar genom att identifiera givares behov och önskemål och uppfylla dem i ett designförslag. Metoden Double Diamond med dess fyra faser valdes för att uppnå detta. I de två första faserna Discover och Define utforskades och definierades problemområdet genom en litteraturstudie och intervjuer. Intervjudatan analyserades med Affinity Diagram-metoden vilket slutligen landade i två ”How might we”-frågor. Användarnas behov och önskemål identifierades också i det här stadiet. En brainstorming-session baserad på ”How might we”-frågorna initierade de två sista faserna Develop och Deliver. Prototyper med olika detaljnivå skapades sedan och testades på både användare och experter innan ett designförslag slutligen kunde tas fram. Resultaten visade att de element som adderats för att skapa transparens efter donation uppskattades av både användare och experter. En hög poäng från ett UMUX-LITE användbarhetstest antydde att prototypen var användbar, element i prototypen pekades ut för att inge en känsla av transparens och alla deltagare uttryckte positiva känslor efter att ha använt prototypen. Därför ansågs prototypen att ha uppnått transparens efter genomförd donation inom ramarna för denna studie. Ytterligare studier bör genomföras då den slutliga prototypen aldrig testades på användare. Förhoppningarna är att fler tester skulle ge en bättre förståelse för hur användarnas behov och önskemål skulle kunna förverkligas i processen efter en genomförd donation.

The purpose of this research is to analyze characteristics and motivators among alumni of the Community Involvement Program (CIP) for donating to the University of the Pacific. The research questions were: (1) what are the characteristics and motivators of CIP alumni for donating to the University of the Pacific? (2) do the characteristics and motivators influencing decisions to donate vary across minority ethnic groups? This research was conducted using a quantitative method to learn the challenges and motivators for alumni of a special program for minority students to donate to their alma mater, a private university. CIP was established in the late 1960s to answer the call of educating minority and other non-traditional university students from the local community. CIP supports non-traditional, first generation, and low-income students at the university through scholarships, academic support and social activities. This study opened a discussion about differences in ethnicities for alumni donations, finding that African Americans are more likely than other minorities to contribute. It also discovered that CIP alumni are very connected to their university and that there is a positive relationship between communications and contributing. In particular, there was a positive significant relationship between receiving a phone call from Pacific asking for donations and motivations to contribute. On the other hand, this population is balancing the expense of paying back loans, raising children and contributing to other community groups with their ability to contribute to Pacific. These findings point to new financial partners for Pacific and for CIP, as well as important ways to connect with these alumni. However, in the current economic (2009) conditions and for a group who is likely to fall squarely within the middle class, Pacific will need to balance its own efforts to gain addition contributions from CIP alumni with the community's needs for these same dollars. Pacific is likely to find that long-term projects, in which all departments collaborate to enhance the connections of alumni with all aspects of the campus, are likely to return the greatest value on those investments.

Objetivos: O objetivo principal deste trabalho foi avaliar a contribuição do conhecimento, da religiosidade, do medo, da qualidade de vida, dos grupos de referência e de variáveis sociodemográficas e comportamentais na prática da doação de sangue em uma amostra representativa da população de usuários de atenção primária à saúde do município de Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo. Como objetivos específicos, propôs-se uma versão em português da Blood or Injection Fear Scale e desenvolveu-se um instrumento para a avaliação do conhecimento sobre a doação de sangue na população brasileira denominado Blood Donation Knowledge Questionnaire (BDK-Brazil). As propriedades métricas desses instrumentos também foram avaliadas. Métodos: Tratou-se de estudo transversal com amostragem aleatória estratificada. As 41 unidades básicas de saúde do município foram agrupadas em 12 estratos, de acordo com a área geográfica e o Índice Paulista de Vulnerabilidade Social (IPVS). O tamanho amostral calculado para o estudo foi de 1,054 entrevistas. Os participantes responderam perguntas sobre a prática da doação de, conhecimento sobre a doação, religiosidade, medo, qualidade de vida e variáveis sociodemográficas e comportamentais. Para responder ao objetivo principal do estudo os dados foram incluídos em um modelo de equações estruturais e a prática da doação foi considerada a variável dependente (construto central). O modelo estrutural foi avaliado por meio de matriz de correlações policóricas. O ajuste do modelo foi analisado considerando-se os índices de qualidade do ajustamento e a significância dos caminhos causais (?), avaliados pelos testes z, considerando um nível de significância de 5%. Resultados: a doação de sangue foi mais frequente no sexo masculino e entre indivíduos maior nível socioeconômico e educacional. Entre os que nunca doaram sangue, maiores frequências de participantes do sexo feminino, mais jovens, de menor nível socioeconômico, solteiros e sem religião foram detectadas. No modelo estrutural, as variáveis medo, conhecimento e as variáveis sociodemogáficas idade, sexo, nível econômico e educacional foram significativas. Conclusão: Os8 resultados do nosso estudo sugerem associação da prática da doação de sangue com o medo de sangue, injeções e reações vasovagais, com o conhecimento e com variáveis sociodemogáficas como sexo, idade, nível econômico e escolaridade. O medo foi considerado uma barreira relevante para a decisão de doar sangue, bem como a falta de conhecimento sobre o processo da doação. Além disso, há evidências que entre os usuários de atenção primária à saúde, o grupo menos propenso a doar sangue é formado pelas mulheres, os mais jovens e com menor nível socioeconômico e educacional / Objectives: The main objective of this study was to evaluate the contribution of knowledge, religiosity, fear, quality of life, blood donation of peers and sociodemographic and behavioral variables in the practice of blood donation in a representative sample of the population of primary healthcare users in the city of Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo. As specific objectives, a Portuguese version of the Blood or Injection Fear Scale (BIFS) was proposed and an instrument for the evaluation of knowledge about blood donation in the Brazilian population denominated Blood Donation Knowledge Questionnaire (BDK-Brazil) was developed. The metric properties of these instruments were also evaluated. Methods: This was a crosssectional study with randomized stratified sampling. The 41 healthcare facilities of the municipality were grouped into 12 strata, according to the geographic area and the Paulista Social Vulnerability Index. The sample size calculated for the study was 1,054 interviews. Participants answered questions about the blood donation practice, knowledge about donation, religiosity, fear, quality of life and sociodemographic and behavioral variables. To address the main objective of the study the data were included in a structural equation model and the blood donation practice was considered the dependent variable (central construct). The structural model was evaluated through polychoric correlation matrix. The fit of the model was analyzed considering the goodness of fit indices and the significance of the causal paths (?), evaluated by the z-tests, considering a level of significance of 5%. Results: Blood donation was more frequent in males and among individuals with higher socioeconomic and educational level. Among those who never donated blood, higher frequencies of female participants, younger, lower socioeconomic level, single and non-religious were detected. In the structural model, the variables fear, knowledge and sociodemographic variables age, sex, socioeeconomic and educational level were significant. Conclusion: The results of our study suggest the association of the blood donation practice with fear of blood, injections and vasovagal reactions, knowledge and10 sociodemographic variables such as gender, age, socioeconomic and educational level. Fear was considered a relevant barrier to the decision to donate blood as well as lack of knowledge about the donation process. In addition, there is evidence that women, the youngers participants and those with lower socioeconomic and educational level are less likely to donate blood among primary healthcare users.