This study encompasses an anthropological investigation of healing practices in the Zion Christian Church with reference to the Marabastad congregation in Pretoria (Tshwane), South Africa. The Zion Christian Church functions as an extremely successful healing ministry, and can thus be characterised as a spirit-type African Initiated Church, a type known to attract members through healing activities. The concepts of ill-health, health, healing and curing are crucial to understanding the church’s role, as all activities at the Zion Christian Church revolve around the attainment of absolute health. The embedded nature of healing in the church is explored through an analysis of the spatial and material aspects of the church’s healing practices, including codes of conduct, roles of participants, religious services, and intangible and tangible instruments of healing. The study is further contextualised against the broader history of the emergence and growth of African Initiated Churches from the late 19th century onwards / Anthropology & Archaeology / M.A. (Anthropology)

Background: The South Africa’s reproductive health policy put more emphasis on dual methods in preventing unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) transmission. Regardless of such policies, the uptake of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) services remains a personal choice. Aim: The purpose of the study was to determine the accessibility, acceptance and utilisation of VCT services by women on hormonal contraceptives. Methods: About 134 women obtaining hormonal contraceptives were interviewed in a cross-sectional study. Descriptive and logistic regression analysis was applied to analyse the study data. Results: Respondents displayed positive attitudes towards Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) testing. Unavailability and poor access to in-house VCT services was found to be a barrier for use of these services. Conclusion: There’s a need for provider initiated counselling and testing (PICT) strengthening and integration of VCT services into family planning. / Health Studies / M (Public Health) / 362.104256

German text / Die vorliegende wissenschaftliche Arbeit befasst sich mit den amaZioni, die den größten Teil der südafrikanischen AIC-Bewegung („African Independent/Indigenous/Initiated Churches“) ausmachen. Für die meisten Theologen stellen die amaZioni eine synkretistische christliche Kirchenbewegung dar, die in ihren Ritualen und Gottesdienstformen starke Einflüsse von traditionellen afrikanischen Religionen (ATR) aufweist. Nicht desto trotz öffnen sich viele der amaZioni-Kirchen gegenüber biblischer Lehre durch Missionare. Um eine solide Grundlage für die Missionsarbeit zu schaffen, befasst sich die vorgeschlagene Arbeit damit, wichtige Bedürfnisse der amaZioni zu erforschen, so dass diese als Anknüpfungspunkte für die weitere Evangeliumsverkündigung genutzt werden können. / The proposed research examines the needs of the amaZioni, who are part of the South African AIC-movement. The amaZioni, as one of the largest religious groups in South Africa, are viewed by most theologicans as syncretistic christian churches. It is obvious that their common believe system as well as their rituals show a strong influence of african traditional religions (ATR). But nevertheless, many of the members of the Zion-churches are opening up for bible teaching provided by missionaries. In order to establish a solid base for the future mission work the proposed research focuses on finding out the amaZioni's needs, so that this needs can be used as reference points in the endeavour of proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the missionaries. / Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology / M. Th. (Missiology)

This study encompasses an anthropological investigation of healing practices in the Zion Christian Church with reference to the Marabastad congregation in Pretoria (Tshwane), South Africa. The Zion Christian Church functions as an extremely successful healing ministry, and can thus be characterised as a spirit-type African Initiated Church, a type known to attract members through healing activities. The concepts of ill-health, health, healing and curing are crucial to understanding the church’s role, as all activities at the Zion Christian Church revolve around the attainment of absolute health. The embedded nature of healing in the church is explored through an analysis of the spatial and material aspects of the church’s healing practices, including codes of conduct, roles of participants, religious services, and intangible and tangible instruments of healing. The study is further contextualised against the broader history of the emergence and growth of African Initiated Churches from the late 19th century onwards / Anthropology and Archaeology / M. A. (Anthropology)

L’étude de l’ébullition transitoire est un enjeu important pour la sureté nucléaire. Un tel phénomène peut se produire lors d’un accident de type RIA (Reactivity Initiated Accident)dans un réacteur nucléaire où le pic de puissance au niveau d’un crayon de combustible peut déclencher une ébullition transitoire conduisant à une forte augmentation de la température de la gaine et à un risque de rupture. Plusieurs études en conditions réacteurs ont permis d’obtenir des courbes d’ébullition transitoires mais la modélisation qui en découle manque encore de fiabilité. Dans le cadre d’une collaboration avec l’Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), une expérience modèle a été construite à l’Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT). Elle génère un écoulement de réfrigérant HFE7000 dans un canal de section semi-annulaire, simulant l’écoulement autour d’un crayon de combustible, dont la partie intérieure, composée d’une feuille de métal, est chauffée rapidement par effet Joule, simulant l’échauffement de la gaine du crayon. La thermographie infra-rouge permet de mesurer la température de la paroi externe du métal. L’application d’une peinture noire sur le métal augmente son émissivité mais aussi la résistance thermique de la paroi. La précision de la mesure de la température d’intérêt a été optimisée en fonction de l’épaisseur de peinture et une correction sur le bilan d’énergie prend en compte ce paramètre. Ces mesures sont couplées avec une caméra rapide qui permet de visualiser les régimes d’ébullition et d’obtenir des tailles de bulles à l’aide de la mise en place d’algorithmes de traitement d’image. On représente sur un diagramme flux-température les transferts thermiques lors des différents régimes en stationnaire et en transitoire. Chaque régime d’ébullition, en conditions stationnaire ou transitoire, est alors passé en revue : la convection, le déclenchement de l’ébullition, l’ébullition nucléée, la crise d’ébullition, l’ébullition en film et le remouillage. Les régimes stationnaires sont correctement modélisés par des corrélations usuelles. La convection transitoire est caractérisée sur toute la paroi et son évolution se rapproche de la solution quasistationnaire. Il est montré que les transferts thermiques lors du passage vers l’ébullition nucléée sont dépendants de la formation d’une importante poche de vapeur qui se propage sur la paroi. Une étude locale de cette propagation est alors nécessaire. Afin de simuler des transitoires de température durant l’ébullition nucléée, un système d’asservissement de type P.I.D. permet d’imposer des créneaux ou des rampes de températures (de 5 à 500 K.s 1 ). Les résultats en ébullition nucléée sont conformes avec ceux de la littérature, tant en conditions stationnaire que transitoire. L’expérience permet d’étudier le transfert de chaleur lorsqu’un film de vapeur se forme et isole la paroi. Ce régime d’ébullition en film, pendant la chauffe ou le refroidissement de la paroi peut ainsi être stabilisée pendant plusieurs secondes avec ce système. On caractérise ainsi les conditions de déclenchement de l’ébullition en film, la dynamique de sa propagation et les transferts une fois établi. Enfin, l’implémentation des caractéristiques physiques de notre expérience dans le code SCANAIR de l’IRSN, permet de commencer à calculer et comparer nos résultats expérimentaux avec les simulations numériques. Des calculs de conduction instationnaire sont notamment considérés en imposant la température mesurée pour analyser nos résultats lors du régime de convection et après le déclenchement de l’ébullition. / The study of rapid transient boiling is an important issue in the nuclear safety. Such a phenomenon may occur in the case of a RIA (Reactivity Initiated Accident) in the core of a nuclear reactor powerplant, where a power excursion can trigger the formation of a vapour film around the fuel rod, leading to an important rise of the rod temperature and a risk of failure. Some studies in reactor conditions provided transient boiling curves but the modeling lacks of reliability. In collaboration with the IRSN (Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire), an experiment model was built at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics of Toulouse. It generates the flow of a refrigerant, HFE7000, in a semi-annular section channel, whose inner wall is made of a metal foil rapidly heated by Joule effect, simulating the heating of a fuel rod. Infrared thermography is used to measure the temperature of the metal foil, painted with a black paint to increase its emissivity, causing also an increase of the wall thermal resistance. The measurement accuracy of the interest temperature has been optimized according to the paint thickness and a correction on the energy balance takes account this parameter. These measurements are coupled with a high-speed camera that allows visualizing the boiling regimes and get bubble sizes using image processing algorithms. On a flux-temperature diagram, the heat transfers are represented both for steady and transient regimes. Each boiling regime is then reviewed : convection, onset of nucleate boiling, nucleate boiling, boiling crisis, film boiling and rewetting. Steady regimes are correctly modeled by usual correlations. Transient convection is characterized over the whole wall and its evolution is closed to the quasi-steady solution. It is shown that heat transfer during the transition to nucleate boiling are strongly related to the formation of a large vapor phase that spreads on the wall. A local study of this propagation is then necessary. In order to simulate and control transient temperature during nucleate boiling, a P.I.D. is implemented to impose a steady or ramps temperature (from 5 to 500 K.s 1 ). The results in nucleate boiling make it possible to recover the results of the literature in both steady and transient conditions. The experiment allows to study the heat transfer when a vapor film is formed and insulates the wall. The film boiling regime during heating or the cooling of the wall can thus be stabilized for several seconds with this system. The conditions for triggering of film boiling are thus characterized, as its spread dynamic and its transfers once established. Finally, the implementation of the physical characteristics of our experience in IRSN’s SCANAIR code allows us to begin to calculate and compare our experimental results with numerical simulations. Unsteady conduction calculations are applied to the measured temperature to analyze our results during the convection regime and after the onset of boiling.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-07-25T11:50:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Karen Ambra.pdf: 3522031 bytes, checksum: 2af655ed53277c5da95825cc304ed5b1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-25T11:50:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Karen Ambra.pdf: 3522031 bytes, checksum: 2af655ed53277c5da95825cc304ed5b1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-05-22 / Fundação São Paulo - FUNDASP / ChIPPA, on the play of “make-believe”, are perceived as pedagogically relevant to Early Childhood Education. For this purpose, twelve children, attending this level of education, participated in the study, as well as four teachers who worked there, in this level of education, and one primary school literacy teacher, all of them from a private school, located in the south of São Paulo (SP), Brazil. The literature review showed that play is a difficult concept to define, still seen in the daily school life as a natural phenomenon. It has also been demonstrated that, on the contrary, it has a social character, which is why it should be understood as a child right and, thus, intentionally implemented in schools too. The theoretical perspective adopted was Socio-historical Psychology, especially the Vygotskian concepts that deal with the relations of learning and development, of language and thought, of meanings and significance, of mediation and zone of proximal development, and the role of play in the child development. The method consisted in the application of the Children's Initiated Assessment Tool (ChiPPA) to the participating children and the use of two questionnaires, addressed to the teachers: one focused on their initial ideas about playing and their presence in the daily life of the Early Childhood Education, and another, after having made available the information on the ways of playing of each child, to verify if this data could guide the teaching planning and improve the educational practices. The results show that the ChIPPA can guide the elaboration of pedagogical objectives, since they indicate the different levels of abilities of the children in “make-believe” play. In addition, the teaching discourses that initially defended the play, but did not implement it in the quantity and quality expected in the daily school life, pointed out that, knowing the children's abilities in the games proposed, new pedagogical perspectives were unveiled, that is, the need to extend the frequency of play and its duration; to propose situations of “make-believe” play and symbolic play, and also to analyze carefully the play to, based on this, propose better planned pedagogical interventions. It was suggested that ChIPPA is an important tool for teachers in the service of learning and child development / Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar se (e como) os dados oferecidos pelo ChIPPA, sobre a brincadeira de faz de conta da criança, são percebidos como pedagogicamente relevantes para a Educação Infantil. Para tanto, participaram do estudo doze crianças que frequentavam este nível de ensino, quatro professoras que nele atuavam e uma alfabetizadora do 1º ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola particular, situada na zona sul da cidade de São Paulo (SP), Brasil. A revisão de literatura mostrou que a brincadeira é um conceito de difícil definição, visto ainda no cotidiano escolar como um fenômeno natural. Foi também demonstrado que, ao contrário, ela possui caráter social, razão pela qual deve ser entendida como um direito infantil e, deste modo, implementada intencionalmente também nas escolas. A perspectiva teórica adotada foi a Psicologia Sócio-histórica, em especial os conceitos vigotskianos que tratam das relações da aprendizagem com o desenvolvimento, da linguagem com o pensamento, de sentidos e significados, de mediação e zona de desenvolvimento proximal e o papel da brincadeira no desenvolvimento infantil. O método consistiu na aplicação do Instrumento de Avaliação do Faz de Conta Iniciado pela Criança (ChiPPA) junto às crianças participantes e no emprego de dois questionários, dirigidos às professoras: um voltado às suas ideias iniciais sobre o brincar e a presença dele no cotidiano da Educação Infantil e, outro, após ter disponibilizado as informações sobre as formas de brincar de cada criança, para verificar se estes dados poderiam orientar o planejamento docente e aprimorar as práticas educativas. Os resultados mostram que o ChIPPA pode orientar a elaboração de objetivos pedagógicos, por indicarem os diferentes níveis de habilidades das crianças no brincar de faz de conta. Adicionalmente, os discursos docentes que defendiam inicialmente o brincar, mas sem o implementar na quantidade e qualidade esperada no cotidiano escolar, apontaram que, conhecidas as habilidades das crianças nas brincadeiras propostas, novas perspectivas pedagógicas foram descortinadas, ou seja, a necessidade de ampliar a frequência das brincadeiras e seu tempo de duração; de propor situações de faz de conta em torno do brincar convencional e do brincar simbólico e, também, de analisar criteriosamente a brincadeira para, com base nisso, propor intervenções pedagógicas mais bem planejadas. Sugeriu-se, portanto, que o ChIPPA constitui uma importante ferramenta para as professoras, a serviço da aprendizagem e do desenvolvimento infantil

Les missions internationales en entreprise ne parviennent plus à retenir les talents alors même que leur coût reste très élevé. La délocalisation de l’individu apparaît donc comme une nouvelle forme d'expatriation à mi-chemin entre expatriation auto-initiée et mission internationale en entreprise. Cependant, celle-ci résonne comme une violation du contrat psychologique liant l’individu à son entreprise. En effet, le diplôme ne semble plus protéger l’employé contre la délocalisation de son poste vers des pays à coût plus bas. Cette étude de cas a aidé à identifier les facteurs influençant les talents à accepter une relocalisation sous contrat local dans un pays à moindre coût. De ce fait, cette thèse fournit aux entreprises des éléments contributifs à la gestion globale des talents dans un contexte de délocalisation. / Individual offshoring emerges as a new form of organizational-initiated expatriation which bridges self-initiated-expatriation and international assignment. The failure of IA to retain talented individuals (talent) and a growing pressure on costs leave no choice to companies but to dramatically reconsider how expatriation can develop talent globally in a different but still sustainable way.However, this new form of expatriation resonates as a breach of the psychological contract. If talent no longer expect to remain in the same company for a large part of their career, they still hold an expectation that white collar activities associated to higher degrees would protect their jobs from moving abroad. This thesis was a case study of a company offshoring some of its global talent to lower cost locations. The purpose was to understand what factors talent consider in accepting to relocate to a lower cost location under a local contract. This research contributes to talent retention and sustained talent management while offshoring ac-tivities to lower cost countries.

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The Zionist type of churches under the African Independent Churches have proven to be a force to be reckoned with against the more organized ecclesiastical movements (in particular the Mission Churches). This can be seen in their emphasis around matters related to culture and its methods of healing. As s result this led to the migration of people from the mission churches to these churches and threatened their existence in Botswana. The mission churches have been experiencing the decline in their membership to the Zionist churches because of the lack of openness to the cultural and the value systems of Batswana in Botswana. Mission churches were left with an option of doing introspection and finally acknowledging their failures to contextualise their theology and Christianity among the people they serving. Mission churches ended up opening their doors to the needs of their members. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M.Th. (Church History)