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The purpose of this study is to explore the processes of family resilience within a grandmother-headed household, caring for orphaned grandchildren, in a low socio-economic South African community. To do so, the researcher posed questions relating to the existing family processes, resources and how those are utilised to grow from adverse situations. A qualitative methodological design was followed to allow the accounts of the sample to emerge. A single grandmother-headed household was chosen to take part in a focus group. The transcriptions from the focus group was analysed using an in-depth inductive thematic analyses in order to induce themes that emerged from their experiences. These themes were then analysed in relation to the current literature on family resilience in grandmother-headed households. This study forms part of a larger longitudinal project headed by Dr R. Mampane, namely: Building resilience in families: The role of care workers in mitigating family risk factors. The themes that emerged as a result of the inductive thematic analysis were: spirituality; family resilience processes (communication, problem solving, roles and role reversal, emotional attachment, involvement, managing behaviour, and knowledge and respect of the individual); resources (inter-familial resources and external resources); the family’s perceptions (definition of the family and definition of adversity); and finally adversities (males, physical impairments, and inter- and intra-familial conflict, amongst others less pronounced). These findings answered questions regarding the process and support structures utilised by a grandmother-headed household to overcome and grow from their adversities. A conceptual model for family resilience was suggested. A better understanding of how a grandmother-headed household engages in resilient processes could assist various professionals and community healthcare workers identify processes of strength and the lack thereof in grandmotherheaded household who look after their orphaned grandchildren. / Mini-dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / tm2015 / Educational Psychology / MEd / Unrestricted

Energy cooperatives have become an important player in the German energy transition. After two legal amendments in the Renewable Energy Act in 2012 and 2014 the number of new foundations dropped sig-nificantly. Several studies have investigated potential barriers and opportunities for energy cooperatives to expand their business model beyond energy production and adapt to the legal changes. This study aims to identify relevant factors that lead energy cooperatives to have a high or a low level of diversification. To this end, I interviewed board members of eight energy cooperatives and complemented the findings by the assessment of firm documents and newspaper articles. While no single factor seems to be decisive, the founding initiative, in particular a clear vision and concrete business goals correlate with the level of di-versification. Important is, that a high level of internal resources or strong support from the local govern-ment alone cannot explain a high level of diversification. Instead, I identified two important aspects, in-teractive effects and threshold effects, that help to understand why energy cooperatives have a high or low level of diversification. Interactive effects mean, that a negative performance in one factor, such as a low level of internal resources, can be outbalanced by a very positive performance in another factor, such as external resources or local political environment. Threshold effects mean, that apparently a certain perfor-mance of a factor might be sufficient to achieve a high level of diversification, whereas a high performance of all factors, also leads to a very high level of diversification, as was shown with one cooperative, that serves as best practice example and corresponds to the theoretical model as forecasted. That means future research should deal with the complex nature of energy cooperatives, as diversification and probably de-velopment in general cannot be explained by looking at single factors, such as the level of internal re-sources. The findings also suggest, that for some energy cooperatives the plan to adopt new business mod-els was already laid at the foundation and did not spontaneously emerge as response to the legal changes. A future study should investigate, whether that applies to energy cooperatives more generally, or was just found  to be  true  for the eight cases  studied  here. The role of external resources  to adopt  new  business models has to be emphasized and calls for more cooperation among energy cooperatives and with external partners, to continuously be important players for the energy transition.

The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the relations between support, academic self-efficacy, and stress during the transition into middle school. Research suggests that early adolescents experience an increase in stress across the middle school transition (e.g., Chung, et al., 1998), due to a mismatch between the individuals' developmental needs and the environment (Eccles et al., 1993). Stress has been found to be a risk factor for mental health disorders among adolescents (Grant et al., 2003). The current study examined if teacher and classmate support and academic self-efficacy served as external and internal resources for buffering stress by analyzing data from 142 young adolescents from an economically and racially diverse longitudinal sample. The current study examined: (a) the relations between support from teachers and classmates, academic self-efficacy, and stress; (b) patterns of change across the middle school transition; (c) the extent to which support from teachers and classmates is associated with stress in fifth and sixth grades; (d) the extent to which academic self-efficacy moderated the relation between support and stress, and (e) whether there were group differences (i.e., gender, race, and/or gender x race). Teacher support was negatively associated with perceived stress during sixth grade, while classmate support was a not significant correlate. There was not significant change over time in any of the key variables (i.e., teacher and classmate support, academic self-efficacy, and perceived stress). Regression results indicated that teacher and classmate support served different roles as academic self-efficacy moderated the relations between classroom support and perceived stress among fifth grade students. Teacher support was negatively related to perceived stress among sixth grade students. The only group difference found was that female sixth grade students reported higher levels of teacher support than male students did. Implications for school psychologists and future directions for research are also addressed.

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An important issue, but outside the mainstream of International Relations, is paradiplomacy, which has ancient roots and is gaining new proportions nowadays, through international cooperation processes decentralized, a phenomenon emphasizing systems of government with political decentralization of power, that provide greater or lesser degree of openness to international foray of the Non-Central Governments (NCG). This dissertation seeks to address foreign affairs of municipal governments in Brazil, focusing on the concept of Local International Management, but also highlights the financial cooperation through external funding. In this process, we observe the construction of an agenda of local municipal interests on the international level, putting into perspective Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco, which has an International Relations Coordination, and the Capibaribe Melhor Project, highlighting for external funding, in this case, with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development - IBRD. This study aims to show empirically the treatment of international integration of federal Brazilian Federal Government and paradiplomacy in Northeastern Brazil, a heterogeneous process of projection international of the cities, but which strengthens the perception of an endogenous local development. To meet this goal, the theoretical dimension have contributions from researchers in the area and a discussion around the federalist and sociological vision, the first of which provides a more concerted contribution to the existence of the conceptual term paradiplomacy and its influence on classical diplomacy and second examines a reflexive debate over the role of cities internationally. As a result, research shows that both Local International Management and financial cooperation lead time and contribute to a process that is permeated by the political will of the actor involved in the dynamics. In Recife was no different, with their respective International Relations Coordination which in turn shows up as a channel for international cooperation, administering therefore international relations of the municipality. Another equally important result is the external funding, in which the interference of the Brazilian government, the will of the subnational entity in realizing local development and financial cooperation, the international actor of making resources available to the municipality, which contributed to a normalization of international financial cooperation in the country and the responsibility of commitments to the international financial institution, by the federalist entity. Finally, All this explanation, may corroborate to give more emphasize to the municipal paradiplomacy in the country, by the example of the city of Recife. / As Relações Internacionais contemporâneas concentram meios e processos que partem do atual curso da globalização, como: a revolução técnico-científica, a domesticação das relações internacionais, a participação crescente, em âmbito internacional, de governos subnacionais (regiões, estados, cidades, municípios, províncias, governos locais no geral), com a perceptível descentralização fiscal e política de poder dos Estados-Nações. Um tema importante, mas fora do mainstream das Relações Internacionais, é a paradiplomacia, que tem raízes antigas e ganha novas proporções nos dias atuais, através de processos de cooperação internacional descentralizados, um fenômeno, no qual destaque é dado aos sistemas de governo com descentralização política de poder, que proporcionam maior ou menor grau de abertura à incursão internacional dos Governos Não Centrais (GNCs). Esta dissertação procura abordar às relações exteriores dos governos municipais brasileiros, com foco no conceito de gestão internacional local, como também destacar a cooperação financeira, através da captação de recursos externos. Neste processo, observar a construção de uma agenda de interesses municipais locais em âmbito internacional, colocando Recife em perspectiva, capital do estado de Pernambuco, que possui uma Coordenadoria de Relações Internacionais, e o Projeto Capibaribe Melhor, dando destaque para a captação de recursos externos, no caso, com o Banco Internacional para Reconstrução e Desenvolvimento - BIRD. Este estudo visa mostrar empiricamente o tratamento da inserção internacional dos entes federativos pelo Governo Federal Brasileiro e a paradiplomacia na Região Nordeste do Brasil, um processo heterógeno de projeção internacional das cidades, mas que fortalece a percepção de um desenvolvimento local endógeno. Para cumprir essa meta, a dimensão teórica tem contribuições de pesquisadores na área, como Soldatos (1990), Duchacek (1990), Lecours (2008), Ribeiro (2009), Bessa Maia (2012), com a contribuição do debate em torno da visão federalista e sociológica, sendo que a primeira proporciona uma contribuição mais concertada sobre a existência conceitual do termo paradiplomacia e sua influência na diplomacia clássica e a segunda aprofunda um debate mais reflexivista da atuação das cidades internacionalmente. Como resultado, a pesquisa mostra que tanto a gestão internacional local quanto à cooperação financeira delongam tempo e contribuem para um processo que é permeado pela vontade política do ator envolvido na dinâmica. Em Recife não foi diferente, com a sua respectiva Coordenadoria de Relações Internacionais, que por seu turno mostra-se como um canal para cooperação internacional, administrando, portanto, às relações internacionais do município. Outro resultado igualmente importante é a captação de recursos externos, na qual a interferência do Governo brasileiro, a vontade do ente subnacional em realizar o desenvolvimento local, com cooperação financeira e, o ator internacional de dispor recursos para o município, contribuiu para uma normatização da cooperação financeira internacional no país e a responsabilidade dos compromissos assumidos com a instituição financeira internacional, por parte do ente federativo. Finalmente, toda essa explicação, pode corroborar para dar ênfase a paradiplomacia municipal no país, pelo exemplo da cidade do Recife.

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An important issue, but outside the mainstream of International Relations, is paradiplomacy, which has ancient roots and is gaining new proportions nowadays, through international cooperation processes decentralized, a phenomenon emphasizing systems of government with political decentralization of power, that provide greater or lesser degree of openness to international foray of the Non-Central Governments (NCG). This dissertation seeks to address foreign affairs of municipal governments in Brazil, focusing on the concept of Local International Management, but also highlights the financial cooperation through external funding. In this process, we observe the construction of an agenda of local municipal interests on the international level, putting into perspective Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco, which has an International Relations Coordination, and the Capibaribe Melhor Project, highlighting for external funding, in this case, with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development - IBRD. This study aims to show empirically the treatment of international integration of federal Brazilian Federal Government and paradiplomacy in Northeastern Brazil, a heterogeneous process of projection international of the cities, but which strengthens the perception of an endogenous local development. To meet this goal, the theoretical dimension have contributions from researchers in the area and a discussion around the federalist and sociological vision, the first of which provides a more concerted contribution to the existence of the conceptual term paradiplomacy and its influence on classical diplomacy and second examines a reflexive debate over the role of cities internationally. As a result, research shows that both Local International Management and financial cooperation lead time and contribute to a process that is permeated by the political will of the actor involved in the dynamics. In Recife was no different, with their respective International Relations Coordination which in turn shows up as a channel for international cooperation, administering therefore international relations of the municipality. Another equally important result is the external funding, in which the interference of the Brazilian government, the will of the subnational entity in realizing local development and financial cooperation, the international actor of making resources available to the municipality, which contributed to a normalization of international financial cooperation in the country and the responsibility of commitments to the international financial institution, by the federalist entity. Finally, All this explanation, may corroborate to give more emphasize to the municipal paradiplomacy in the country, by the example of the city of Recife. / As Relações Internacionais contemporâneas concentram meios e processos que partem do atual curso da globalização, como: a revolução técnico-científica, a domesticação das relações internacionais, a participação crescente, em âmbito internacional, de governos subnacionais (regiões, estados, cidades, municípios, províncias, governos locais no geral), com a perceptível descentralização fiscal e política de poder dos Estados-Nações. Um tema importante, mas fora do mainstream das Relações Internacionais, é a paradiplomacia, que tem raízes antigas e ganha novas proporções nos dias atuais, através de processos de cooperação internacional descentralizados, um fenômeno, no qual destaque é dado aos sistemas de governo com descentralização política de poder, que proporcionam maior ou menor grau de abertura à incursão internacional dos Governos Não Centrais (GNCs). Esta dissertação procura abordar às relações exteriores dos governos municipais brasileiros, com foco no conceito de gestão internacional local, como também destacar a cooperação financeira, através da captação de recursos externos. Neste processo, observar a construção de uma agenda de interesses municipais locais em âmbito internacional, colocando Recife em perspectiva, capital do estado de Pernambuco, que possui uma Coordenadoria de Relações Internacionais, e o Projeto Capibaribe Melhor, dando destaque para a captação de recursos externos, no caso, com o Banco Internacional para Reconstrução e Desenvolvimento - BIRD. Este estudo visa mostrar empiricamente o tratamento da inserção internacional dos entes federativos pelo Governo Federal Brasileiro e a paradiplomacia na Região Nordeste do Brasil, um processo heterógeno de projeção internacional das cidades, mas que fortalece a percepção de um desenvolvimento local endógeno. Para cumprir essa meta, a dimensão teórica tem contribuições de pesquisadores na área, como Soldatos (1990), Duchacek (1990), Lecours (2008), Ribeiro (2009), Bessa Maia (2012), com a contribuição do debate em torno da visão federalista e sociológica, sendo que a primeira proporciona uma contribuição mais concertada sobre a existência conceitual do termo paradiplomacia e sua influência na diplomacia clássica e a segunda aprofunda um debate mais reflexivista da atuação das cidades internacionalmente. Como resultado, a pesquisa mostra que tanto a gestão internacional local quanto à cooperação financeira delongam tempo e contribuem para um processo que é permeado pela vontade política do ator envolvido na dinâmica. Em Recife não foi diferente, com a sua respectiva Coordenadoria de Relações Internacionais, que por seu turno mostra-se como um canal para cooperação internacional, administrando, portanto, às relações internacionais do município. Outro resultado igualmente importante é a captação de recursos externos, na qual a interferência do Governo brasileiro, a vontade do ente subnacional em realizar o desenvolvimento local, com cooperação financeira e, o ator internacional de dispor recursos para o município, contribuiu para uma normatização da cooperação financeira internacional no país e a responsabilidade dos compromissos assumidos com a instituição financeira internacional, por parte do ente federativo. Finalmente, toda essa explicação, pode corroborar para dar ênfase a paradiplomacia municipal no país, pelo exemplo da cidade do Recife.

The diploma thesis deals with the problems of external financing company LAZAM CZ s. r. o. The first, theoretical, part contains general discussion about the possibilities of external financing of the company, mainly through credit drawing one of the banks operating in the Czech Republic. The method is literature review. Second, analytic, part then solves selection of company and it’s product, which is suitable for company LAZAM CZ s. r. o. It is used several methods of evaluating the situation of the company and it’s surroundings. The analysis and used methods are aimed to fulfill the main goal set thesis.

Les études portant sur le capital social dans le champ de l’entrepreneuriat ont largement mis en exergue son rôle dans la réussite des projets entrepreneuriaux de création. Néanmoins, les préalables qui sont susceptibles d’agir sur sa formation et son développement afin d’en favoriser l’accès aux ressources externes ont été peu explorés. Dans cette perspective, les recherches réalisées en contexte TIC (des Technologies d’Information et de Communication), et plus spécifiquement durant la phase de survie-développement des entreprises nouvelles, sont encore moins nombreuses. Dans ce cadre, cette thèse tente de comprendre le processus par lequel les compétences sociales de l’entrepreneur TIC permettent d’enrichir son capital social, et par là même de faciliter son accès aux ressources externes clés. Pour atteindre cet objectif, un modèle conceptuel a été développé à partir d’une revue de la littérature. Pour tester ce modèle et les hypothèses qui s’y rattachent, nous avons procédé à une collecte des données en deux principaux temps. Dans un premier temps, nous avons mené une étude exploratoire auprès de dix entrepreneurs TIC, quatre banquiers et cinq capitalistes de risque. Cette étude nous a permis, au moyen d’une analyse de contenu, de mieux contextualiser la recherche, ainsi que de cerner les compétences et ressources essentielles pour le développement des nouveaux projets de création. Dans un deuxième temps, nous avons conduit des entretiens semi-directifs auprès de 120 entrepreneurs TIC tunisiens. Les donnés recueillies ont fait l’objet de traitements statistiques via les logiciels UCINET-VI, SPSS (version 18) et SMART-PLS (version 2.0). Les résultats ont démontré que trois types de compétences sociales, à savoir la persuasion sociale, les bonnes grâces et l’intelligence émotionnelle de soi, sont susceptibles d’agir en contexte de création TIC. Le capital social de l’entrepreneur joue un rôle médiateur entre ses compétences sociales et son accès aux ressources externes clés, alors que l’incertitude environnementale de marché exerce un effet modérateur. A partir des résultats obtenus, nous pouvons déduire les principales contributions et limites de cette recherche afin de proposer des perspectives de développement futures. / Research concerning social capital within the field of Entrepreneurship has largely put forward its role in the success of venture creation projects. Nevertheless, the prerequisites which are likely to act on its formation and its development in order to support their access to external resources were rarely explored. In this perspective, researches carried out in the ICT context (of Information and Communication Technologies), and more specifically during the survival-development stage of new companies, are even fewer. Within this framework, this thesis tries to understand the process by which the entrepreneur's social skills enable him to enrich his social capital and consequently, to facilitate his access to key external resources. To achieve this goal, a conceptual model was developed from a literature review. To test this model and the hypotheses which are related, we proceed to a data-gathering in two principal times. Initially, we undertook an exploratory study with ten ICT entrepreneurs, four bankers and five investors. This study allowed us, by a content analysis, to better contextualize this research, and by the way, to emphasize the skills and resources which are essential for the development of new projects' creation. In the second time, we conducted semi-directed interviews with 120 Tunisian ICT entrepreneurs. The collected data were subject to statistical treatments via UCINET-VI, SPSS (version 18) and SMART-PLS (version 2.0) softwares.The results demonstrated that three types of social skills, namely the social persuasion, the ingratiation and the self emotional intelligence, are likely to act in the context of ICT creation. The entrepreneur's social capital plays a mediator role between his social skills and his access to key external resources, whereas the market's environmental uncertainty exerts a moderating effect. Building from the obtained results, we can deduct the principal contributions and limits of this research in order to propose future perspectives of development.

Syftet med denna studie är att bidra med kunskap om lärarassistenters första tid i Uppsala kommuns pilotprojekt. Med utgångspunkt i vad som kallas resursteori har två forskningsfrågor ställts; 1) På vilket sätt har interna och externa resurser bidragit till lärarassistenternas socialisationsprocess? 2) Vilka konsekvenser får lärarassistenternas socialisationsprocess när den sker inom ramen för ett pilotprojekt? Genom semistrukturerade intervjuer studeras specifikt hur åtta projektanställda lärarassistenter i Uppsala kommun upplevt den första tiden som anställda och vilka resurser som varit betydande för deras socialisation. Resultatet visar att den första tiden i projektet varit försiktig och trevande, något som beskrivs som både positivt och negativt i form av mjukstart och trögstart. Å ena sidan främjas relationsutveckling av mjukstarten men å andra sidan hämmar trögstarten anpassningen till arbetet. Den negativa sidan visar dels hur viktigt det är att arbetsverktyg är klara och redo att användas när den nyanställde introduceras till det nya arbetet då det annars kan skapa negativa upplevelser och bidra till oro. Resultaten visar även en ömsesidighet i pilotprojektet där ingen riktigt visste vad lärarassistentrollen skulle innehålla, och därmed blev det en ny situation för samtliga parter att förhålla sig till. Det övergripande resultatet visade, genom ovan nämnda teman, att pilotprojektet utifrån ett socialisationsperspektiv präglades av en dubbel socialisation. / The purpose of this paper is to study the teacher assistants initial period in the pilot project of municipality of Uppsala. Based on resources theory as a theoretical framework two research questions were asked; 1) In what way have internal and external resources contributed to the socialization process of teacher assistants? and 2) What consequences does the pilot project have on the teacher assistants socialization process? Semistructured interviews were used to ask eight teacher assistants employed in the pilot project about how they experienced the first time in the new workplace and what resources were important for their socialization. The result shows that the initial period of the employment was cautious and tentative, which was described as both positive and negative in terms of a soft start or a tardy start. On one hand the soft start promotes relationship development, but on the other hand the tardy start inhibits adaptation to work. The negative side shows how important it is that work tools are ready to be used when the new employee is introduced to the new work, otherwise it can create negative experiences. The results also show that the pilot project was characterized by a reciprocity where nobody really knew what the teacher assistant role would contain, and thus it became a new situation for all parties to relate to. Through these themes, the overall results shows that the pilot project from a socialization perspective was characterized by a double socialization.

Master’s thesis critizes long-term resources financial of investment including their advantages and disadvantages. It contains a proposal of an optimal financing resource to equipment purchase for the SAVARY, s. r. o. company and expenses payback period to engineering construction diagnostics.