Background: Breastfeeding confers health and social benefits on both mother and baby and is thus a key global public health priority, with exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months recommended. A variety of factors can influence a woman’s decision to initiate breastfeeding but a short duration of breastfeeding appears to be common in developed countries. In the UK, promotion of breastfeeding has been government policy since 1974 and gradually the incidence has increased. In Scotland in 2010 the incidence was 74% but by one week 17% of women had given up. A minority of women find that their babies attach easily at birth and more than half report problems at this time. The prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding falls sharply in the first few weeks and the introduction of formula is associated with a shorter duration. It is therefore crucial to understand what happens at this time to enable women to continue breastfeeding effectively. Study Aim: To use Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) to explore and help explain the expectations, knowledge and experiences of women and midwives with regard to breastfeeding initiation. Methods: A systematic review of qualitative studies synthesised using thematic analysis and SCT was conducted and afforded insight into what had been known before and highlighted further aspects that needed to be explored with a qualitative study. The qualitative study was comprised of five focus groups with ten antenatal women, eight postnatal women and eighteen midwives. Photographs included in a leaflet “Feeding cues at birth”, and the chart of “Feeding cues after the first few hours” were developed and used as focussing exercises during the focus groups and interviews. The focus groups and interviews were recorded, transcribed and analysed using a hybrid process of inductive and deductive thematic analysis which integrated data driven codes with theory driven codes based on SCT. Results: Twenty one studies were included in the systematic review and identified clear differences in the experiences of women when breastfeeding was going well as compared to when it was going wrong at the start. There were also differences in the midwives’ knowledge, experience and confidence when breastfeeding was going well in contrast to when it was going wrong. The synthesis did not identify any qualitative studies relevant to initiation which explored skin contact, instinctive behaviour or strategies to resolve failure to attach in the first few days after birth, from the perspectives of mothers and midwives. These topics were therefore explored in detail in the qualitative study. Few mothers recruited to my study experienced instinctive behaviour and successful attachment (in SCT enactive behaviour) at birth. The majority of mothers did not experience attachment at birth and struggled to persist and maintain their motivation to enable breastfeeding initiation in an unfamiliar environment. Midwives’ social expectations and environmental circumstances made women centred care difficult. Midwives considered that sleepy babies who were unable to feed were normal, but women were unprepared for this, compounding the difficulties in initiating breastfeeding. The triangulation of the findings from the systematic review and the qualitative study provide a more complete picture of contributory factors to understanding of difficulties in breastfeeding initiation. Conclusion: It is recognised that behaviour interacts with emotions, perceived abilities and the environment, as in triadic reciprocal causation, which affects peoples’ decisions, experiences and abilities to enable the successful initiation of breastfeeding. Social Cognitive Theory could be used as a framework to develop strategies and materials to enhance women’s confidence both antenatally and in the postnatal period. In a minority of women, breastfeeding goes well and is more likely when the baby is an active participant and the midwife a knowledgeable and confident supporter. This is not the case for the majority of women and babies or their midwives. There is a need to consider strategies to develop appropriate skills and environmental changes that would in turn lead to changes in behaviour and successful interventions. More emphasis should be made clinically on facilitating instinctive behaviour. The current position where babies’ sleepy behaviour is considered normal in this particular environment could be challenged. Social Cognitive Theory could be utilised in research to develop strategies to increase women’s and midwives’ confidence specifically in initiation.

The subject matter of this diploma thesis is linguistic modality in German with focus on certain problems in translating modal verbs structures from German to Czech. In the theoretical part, the concept of modality as well as the differentiation of modal field is elucidated. Besides the usually used classification of subjective and objective modality, a more precise structure is applied, which is that of epistemic and non-epistemic modality. In addition, in the field of non-epistemic modality, two other sub-types are distinguished according to whether a speaker s evaluation is present or not. The practical part methodologically relies on concrete data such as modal verbs used with perfect infinitive or modal verbs in past perfect tense (Plusquamperfekt) and their translations from German to Czech. Based on selected examples, the aim of this thesis is to emphasize the main differences between Czech and German modality and to underline their essential significance to the translation accuracy.

This diploma thesis deals with grammatical structures expressing future, which are presented in series of English language textbooks. This thesis is divided into two parts a theoretical and an empirical one. Emphasis is given on the empirical part. There is defined grammar and particular types of grammar are also described in theoretical part. There is focus especially on the linguistic and pedagogical grammar. Particular attention is paid to the conception of grammatical structures expressing future which is presented in the linguistic and pedagogical grammars. This part functions as theoretical basis for empirical part. The objective of the empirical part is to present research of chosen series of English language textbooks. The heart of the empirical part comprises an in-depth analysis and comparative study of grammatical structures expressing future which are presented in chosen series of English language textbooks. The aim of the analysis and comparison is to find out, which grammatical structures expressing future are presented in the series, what order they are presented in, what thematic context they are presented in, if there is paid attention to typical mistakes in these structures in the series, if the conception of grammatical structures expressing future which is presented in the linguistic grammars matches the presentation of these structures in the series. The aim is also to find out whether there are presented the same grammatical structures expressing future in similar orders and analogous thematic contexts in the chosen series of textbooks.

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Выпускная квалификационная работа на тему «Метафорика эмоций в лирике М. Ю.Лермонтова и Дж. Г. Байрона» выполнена на 96 страницах, содержит 8 таблиц и 10 рисунков. Объектом исследования являются метафора как особый художественный прием, используемый в русской и английской поэзии. Предметом – те метафоры в стихотворениях М. Ю. Лермонтова и Дж. Г. Байрона, которые раскрывают чувства и эмоции лирического героя. Целью данной выпускной работы является сопоставительный анализ метафорики двух поэтов-романтиков начала XIX века (русско- и англоязычного). / The final qualifying work on the topic "Metaphorics of emotions in the lyrics of M. Yu. Lermontov and J. G. Byron" is made on 96 pages, contains 8 tables and 10 figures. The object of the study is metaphor as a special artistic technique used in Russian and English poetry. The subject is those metaphors in the poems of M. Yu Lermontov and J. G. Byron, which reveal the feelings and emotions of the lyrical hero. The purpose of this graduation paper is a comparative analysis of the metaphorics of two romantic poets of the early XIX century (Russian and English).

La plasticité synaptique activité-dépendante forme la base physiologique de l’apprentissage et de la mémoire dépendants de l’hippocampe. Le rôle joué par les différents sous-types d’interneurones dans l’apprentissage et la mémoire hippocampiques reste inconnu, mais repose probablement sur des mécanismes de la plasticité spécifique aux synapses de certains sous-types d’interneurones. Les synapses excitatrices établies sur les interneurones de l’oriens-alveus dans l’aire CA1 exhibent une forme persistante de potentialisation à long terme induite par la stimulation chimique des récepteurs métabotropiques du glutamate de type 1 (mGluR1) [mGluR1-mediated chemical late long-term potentiation (cL-LTPmGluR1)]. Le présent projet de recherche avait pour objectifs d’identifier les sous-types d’interneurones de l’oriens-alveus exprimant la cL-LTPmGluR1 et d’examiner les mécanismes d’induction et d’expression de celle-ci. Nous avons déterminé que la stimulation répétée des mGluR1 induit de la cL-LTPmGluR1 aux synapses excitatrices établies sur le sous-type d’interneurones exprimant le peptide somatostatine (SOM-INs). Des enregistrements électrophysiologiques couplés à des inhibiteurs pharmacologiques et à un knock-out fonctionnel de mammalian target of rapamycin complexe 1 (mTORC1) ont montré que l’induction de la cL-LTPmGluR1 (qui consiste en trois applications de l’agoniste des mGluR1/5, le (S)-3,5-dihydroxyphénylglycine (DHPG) en présence de l’antagoniste des récepteurs métabotropiques du glutamate de type 5 (mGluR5), le 2-méthyl-6-(phényléthynyl)-pyridine (MPEP)) des SOM-INs requiert les voies de signalisation des mGluR1, de extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase (ERK) et de mTORC1. L’ensemble de nos résultats montre qu’une forme persistante de plasticité synaptique sous-tendue par mTORC1 est induite par la stimulation répétée des mGluR1 dans les interneurones hippocampiques exprimant le peptide somatostatine. La connaissance des mécanismes sous-tendant la cL-LTPmGluR1, couplée à l’utilisation de modèles animal in vivo, rendront maintenant possible le blocage de la cL-LTPmGluR1 dans les SOM-INs et l’examen de son rôle dans l’apprentissage et la mémoire dépendants de l’hippocampe. / Hippocampus-dependent learning and memory are mediated by activity-dependent synaptic plasticity. The role that different subtypes of interneurons play in hippocampal learning and memory remains largely unknown, but likely relies on cell type-specific plasticity mechanisms at interneuron synapses. Excitatory synapses onto CA1 oriens-alveus interneurons show persistent long-term potentiation induced by chemical stimulation of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 (mGluR1) [mGluR1-mediated chemical late long-term potentiation (cL-LTPmGluR1)]. The objectives of this project were to identify the oriens-alveus interneuron subtypes expressing cL-LTPmGluR1 and examine its induction and expression mechanisms. We determined that repeated mGluR1 stimulation induces cL-LTPmGluR1 at excitatory synapses onto the somatostatin-expressing interneuron subtype (SOM-INs). Electrophysiological recordings coupled to pharmacological inhibitors and a functional knock-out of mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) showed that SOM-INs cL-LTPmGluR1 induction (which consisted of three applications of the mGluR1/5 agonist (S)-3,5-dihydroxyphenylglycine (DHPG) in the presence of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) antagonist 2-methyl-6-(phenylethynyl)-pyridine (MPEP)) requires mGluR1, extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase (ERK) and mTORC1 signaling pathways. Collectively, our results show that persistent synaptic plasticity mediated by mTORC1 is induced by repeated mGluR1 stimulation in somatostatin-expressing hippocampal interneurons. Knowledge of cL-LTPmGluR1’s underlying mechanisms, coupled to in vivo models, will now make it possible to interfere with SOM-INs cL-LTPmGluR1 and examine its role in hippocampal-dependent learning and memory.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:57:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alessandra Tereza Cecchi Cervera.pdf: 13374036 bytes, checksum: a313c2adbe1340cfc9078bcaf91df7d6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-21 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / There has been a constant concern about the improvement of reading and writing skills among secondary school students in the continuous teachertraining programmes run by the São Paulo State school network in recent years. This study seeks to make a contribution to this debate by undertaking research into the question of the effects of these programmes (called the Secondary Education network in training Secondary School teachers of Portuguese). By assessing the standard of the texts written by students whose teachers took part in the programme, the study sought to determine how much what had been learnt in the area of gender discourse and, in particular the ideas expressed in articles, had become a part of the students´ everyday classroom activities and had helped them to produce texts of their own. To achieve this aim, four teachers were invited from four different schools in the east of São Paulo to select 35 students to write articles expressing opinions. These were marked on the basis of the criteria laid down by the Secondary School Network. The analysis of the results showed that the students had still not mastered the ability to produce written texts of this kind. Thus, although the teachers had taken part in the official programme, they had not managed to teach their students the basic skills required to become competent readers and writers in this area. This finding leads us to reflect on teacher-training courses and the public policies implemented in recent years by the Secretary for Education in the State of São Paulo / A preocupação com o desenvolvimento da compreensão leitora e escritora dos alunos do ensino médio tem sido um tema constante nos programas de formação continuada oferecidos aos professores da rede estadual paulista nos últimos anos. Com o intuito de contribuir com a discussão desta temática, esta pesquisa avaliou o impacto de um destes programas, intitulado Ensino Médio em Rede na formação do professor de Língua Portuguesa do Ensino Médio. Utilizando-se da avaliação de textos de alunos cujos professores foram cursistas certificados no referido programa, pretendeu-se saber quanto do que havia sido desenvolvido no que tange ao trabalho com gêneros do discurso, mais especificamente o artigo de opinião, havia passado a fazer parte de sua prática diária de sala de aula contribuindo na produção de textos dos alunos. Foram convidados 4 professores de escolas diferentes, de uma diretoria da zona leste da capital paulista, que indicaram 35 alunos para produzirem um artigo de opinião, que foi corrigido segundo os critérios propostos pelo programa Ensino Médio em Rede. A análise dos resultados demonstrou que os alunos ainda não dominam a produção escrita deste gênero e apesar do professor ter sido cursista certificado pelo programa, não conseguiu desenvolver com seus alunos as competências básicas para torná-los leitores e escritores competentes no que se refere a este gênero. Tal constatação nos leva a uma reflexão dos cursos de formação de professores e das políticas públicas implantadas nos últimos anos pela Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo

This thesis aimed to investigate generational differences in the frequency and importance of meaningful work in employees based on the 7 facets of the Map of Meaning. Hypotheses were tested through Analysis of Variance of secondary data. 395 participants self-reported levels of meaningful work on the Comprehensive Meaningful Work Scale. Results indicated that Generation Y had significantly lower levels of meaningful work. Generation Y had significantly lower levels of Unity (importance), Serving (frequency and importance), Expressing full potential (frequency), Reality (frequency and importance) and Inspiration (frequency). Significant differences occurred mainly between Generation Y and Baby boomers, with some significant differences between Generation Y and Generation X and no significant differences between Generation X and Baby boomers. Results showed that overall frequency and importance levels were significantly lower for Generation Y. Overall frequency levels were lower than overall importance levels, which suggests that employees’ desire for meaningful work may not be satisfied. In light of this evidence, it is suggested that to improve organisational outcomes such as engagement, retention and performance, managers should provide opportunities for employees to engage in meaningful work with particular focus on Generation Y. Employees themselves should take responsibility to find meaning in their own work and life because engagement in meaningful activities can lead to satisfaction, belonging, fulfilment and a better understanding of one’s purpose in life.