The master thesis deals with life values of ecologically living people. It is divided into a theoretical and practical part. In its theoretical part it focuses on terms used in ecology, lifestyle and the description of values linked to the protection of environment. It deals with the concept of sustainable development and describes ecological farming. The practical part of the thesis analyses the qualitative research which was done in the form of semi-structured interviews with ecological farmers. The thesis focuses on values, opinions and sentiments of ecological farmers and whether these have undergone any change during their farming. Key Words: ecology, sustainable development, lifestyle, values, ecological farming, ecological farmers

O estudo teve por objetivo avaliar as relações entre o uso de drogas, atos infracionais e papéis ocupacionais entre adolescentes. Trata-se de um estudo transversal realizado com 150 adolescentes que estavam cumprindo medida socioeducativa (MSE) em Liberdade Assistida (LA). O Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-20), o Teen Addiction Severity Index (T-ASI) e a Lista de Identificação de Papéis Ocupacionais (LIPO) foram utilizados. Os adolescentes eram de ambos os sexos, raça negra, evangélicos, baixo nível de escolaridade, família monoparental com cinco ou mais pessoas na família, envolvimento no tráfico de drogas e desconhecimento da renda familiar. As drogas mais usadas foram a maconha e o álcool (últimos 30 dias). O uso recente de tabaco, inalantes e paiero predominou com nível de problema moderado de drogas. Diferenciaram-se por consumirem álcool (últimos 30 dias) e concomitante com drogas, gasto com o uso de bebidas alcoólicas. Observou-se ainda o uso recente de maconha (63%), paiero (30%) e inalantes (42%) na vida. O papel ocupacional mais desempenhado no passado foi amigo (90,7%), no presente (89,3%); e para o futuro (98%), a família. O mais prejudicado foi o de estudante, já que os índices de abandono escolar são elevados (86,4% no Ensino Médio), com uso de inalantes (69,4%) e problema médio/moderado de drogas (68,3%). Os papéis ocupacionais de continuidade foram serviços domésticos, relações com amigos, membros da família, religiosos (evangélicos 47,1%) e atividades de passatempo (mulheres 81,4%). Todavia, pretendiam mudanças em atividades voluntárias, religiosas, tráfico de drogas e participação em organizações. Os resultados podem contribuir para a elaboração de propostas de trabalhos preventivos perante o uso de drogas entre os adolescentes em MSE na LA. Principalmente, em relação ao papel ocupacional de estudante, uma vez que limita que o adolescente exerça de forma produtiva os papéis ocupacionais socialmente esperados nessa etapa do ciclo de vida / This study was aimed to evaluate the relationships among drug use, infractions and occupational roles among adolescents. This is a cross-sectional study performed with 150 adolescents serving social-educational measures (SEM) in Assisted Freedom (AF). We used the Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-20), the Teen Addiction Severity Index (T-ASI) and the Lista de Identificação de Papéis Ocupacionais (LIPO). Adolescents were males and females, black race, evangelicals, with low schooling level, single-parent family with five or more people in the household, engagement in drug trafficking and unknown family income. The most commonly used drugs were marijuana and alcohol (last 30 days). The recent use of tobacco, inhalants and straw cigarette has predominated with moderate level of drug problem. They were differentiated by consuming alcohol (last 30 days) concomitantly with illegal drugs, spent with the use of alcoholic beverages. Moreover, we have observed the recent use of marijuana (63%), straw cigarette (30%) and inhalants (42%) in their lives. The most performed occupational role in the past was friend (90.7%), in the present (89.3%); and for the future (98%), the family. The most undermined was student, since school dropout rates are high (86.4% in High School), with the use of inhalants (69.4%) and medium/moderate drug problem (68.3%). The occupational roles of continuity were domestic services, relationships with friends, family members, religious (evangelicals 47.1%) and hobby activities (women 81.4%). However, they longed to achieve changes in voluntary and religious activities, drug trafficking and participation in organizations. The results may contribute to the elaboration of proposals for preventive works concerning the use of drugs among adolescents undergoing SEM in AF. Especially, in relation to the occupational role of student, since it hinders the adolescent from exercising productively the socially expected occupational roles in this stage of the life cycle

Bibliography: leaves 107-119.

Bibliography: leaves 107-119 / viii, 149 leaves : / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (M.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Community Medicine, 1987

<p><strong>Bakgrund- </strong>Prostatacancer är en av de vanligaste cancerformerna i Sverige och nästan 34 % av alla fall av cancer hos män är prostatacancer. Radikal prostatektomi är en behandling som innebär att hela prostatan och intilliggande körtlar tas bort. Prostatektomi kan ha negativ påverkan på livskvaliteten p.g.a. ingreppets komplikationer.</p><p><strong>Syfte- </strong>att belysa hur män upplever sin livskvalitet efter att ha genomgått en prostatektomi.</p><p><strong>Metod- </strong>En systematisk litteraturstudie. Artiklar har sökts fram i elektroniska databaser. Tio artiklar har granskats enligt kriterier för kvalitetsgranskning där nio kvalificerats och används i resultatet. Inspireras av kvalitativ analys och identifierat olika teman i texten. Vi kom fram till fyra kategorier som vi redovisar resultaten ifrån: fysiska, psykiska, sociala och omvårdnadsaspekter.</p><p><strong>Resultat- </strong>Sexualitet, relationer, männens upplevelse av självkänsla och kontroll över sin kropp samt informationsbrist var de viktigaste områdena där livskvaliteten påverkades negativt.</p><p><strong>Slutsats</strong>- Radikal prostatektomi innebar en stor förändrig för männens livskvalitet och deras liv. Vi tror att mer forskning behövs inom ämnesområdet för att få en djupare förståelse för hur männen upplever sin livskvalitet efter operationen.</p>

Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005. / Evidence suggests that routine screening of primary care patients for exposure to traumatic life events, and particularly assaultive trauma, may yield both clinical and cost benefits for healthcare systems (e.g., Green, Epstein, Krupnick, & Rowland, 1997; Lecrubier, 2004). However, although advocated by authorities, such screening has yet to be widely adopted. A sample of female university healthcare patients (N = 339) was assessed for exposure to trauma in order to examine several unaddressed issues that may diminish the clinical utility of screening for trauma in primary care patients. First, because the length of the traditional trauma history assessment makes it less acceptable for use in time-pressured primary care settings, the discriminative validity of a brief, self-administered screening question about exposure to trauma, the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) module's screening question (First, Spitzer, Williams & Gibbon, 1997) was compared to a longer, inventory method of assessment, the Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire (TLEQ, Kubany et al., 2000). Second, because it is unclear whether patients who have experienced assaultive trauma will disclose these experiences when asked in a primary care setting, the relative predictive efficacy of informing respondents that their responses would, or would not be, disclosed to health center personnel was evaluated. Two versions of the brief screening question were assessed across two instructional sets regarding disclosure, to determine each condition's relative classification accuracy for identifying respondents who reported experiences of sexual or physical assault, and/or symptoms of PTSD. The brief screen identified more than three-quarters of the survivors of traumatic assault; and more importantly, identified almost all of the women who reported significant PTSD symptomatology: the inventory method identified only 2 additional women of the 47 who met criteria for PTSD. Although survivors of sexual assault were significantly less likely to disclose their history to their provider, no differences were found for those assault survivors who also reported symptoms of PTSD. Results suggest that a brief screening question about traumatic life events may be an acceptable option in settings where more time-consuming assessment procedures are not practical. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-98). / Electronic reproduction. / Also available by subscription via World Wide Web / x, 98 leaves, bound 29 cm

Diss. (sammanfattning) Linköping : Univ., 2004. / Härtill 6 uppsatser.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Linköping : Linköpings universitet, 2007. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Thesis (MPhil )--Stellenbosch University, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is interested in discourses of displacement in which migrants articulate the experience of seeking improved life chances in a community considerably removed from their place of origin. Not only physical and environmental distance, but also distance related to cultural, linguistic and religious differences distinguish the (im)migrants from the local indigenous population, which is already a culturally and linguistically diverse community. This study investigates how histories of displacement and experiences of alienation or integration may be discursively managed among a group of young Somali males aged between 15 and 35 who entered South Africa in their late teens or early twenties. Specifically, this thesis considers how young Somali men who relocated to a rural Western Cape town and make a living through trading, present themselves in English-language narratives elicited during informal interviews. The study was conducted in Vredenburg, the administrative centre and economic hub of the Saldanha Bay Municipal area on the West Coast of South Africa. The data for the study was collected by means of audio recorded interviews. To supplement this data and gain more perspective on the situatedness of the discourses, the researcher further relied on field notes as well as additional informal conversations with the participants. The data was collected over a period of five months in 2007. To analyse the data, the researcher draws on the theoretical frameworks of Labov's structural analysis of narratives and Wodak and Reisigl's (2001) discourse-historical approach, and Bamberg's (1997) narrative constructivist perspective. The research aims to determine (i) how the narrators construct themselves in their narratives, and (ii) how speakers position themselves towards the content of their narratives, and towards their actual and imagined audiences. This study shows that displacement brings about new contexts characterised by uncertainty, conflict and inequalities, and this influences the way narrators orient themselves. The Somali narrators, in interviews conducted in English with a community outsider, position themselves as displaced and marginalised. During their narratives, the participants used several linguistic strategies to present themselves in various ways to actual or imagined audiences, which lead to negative otherpresentation and positive self-presentation and construction of in-group and out-group membership. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie fokus op diskoerse van ontworteling waarin migrante hul ervaring verwoord van ’n soeke na beter lewensgeleenthede in ’n gemeenskap ver verwyderd van hul plek van herkoms. Buiten vir die fisiese en omgewingsafstand, is daar ook afstand daargestel deur kulturele, linguistiese en godsdiensverskille, wat die (im)migrante onderskei van die plaaslike bevolking – op sigself ’n kultureel en linguisties diverse gemeenskap. Hierdie studie doen ondersoek na hoe geskiedenisverhale oor ontworteling en ervarings van vervreemding of integrasie diskursief bestuur kan word binne ’n groep jong Somaliese mans van 15 tot 35 jaar wat Suid-Afrika in hul laat tienerjare of vroeë twintigerjare binnegekom het. Die tesis fokus spesifiek op hoe jong Somaliese mans wat na ’n plattelandse Wes-Kaapse dorp migreer het en ’n handelsbestaan voer, hulself voorstel in Engelstalige narratiewe wat ontlok is tydens informele onderhoude. Die studie is gedoen in Vredenburg, die administratiewe en ekonomiese kern van die Saldanhabaai Munisipale Area aan die Weskus van Suid-Afrika. Die data vir die studie is ingesamel deur middel van klankopnames van onderhoude. Ten einde dié data aan te vul en meer perspektief te verkry ten opsigte van die plasing van die diskoerse, het die navorser verder gesteun op veldnotas sowel as bykomende informele gesprekke met die deelnemers. Die data is oor ’n tydperk van vyf maande in 2007 versamel. In die ontleding van die data maak die navorser gebruik van die teoretiese raamwerke van Labov se strukturele analise van narratiewe en Wodak en Reisigl (2001) se diskoers-historiese benadering, asook Bamberg (1997) se narratief-konstruktivistiese perspektief. Die navorsing het ten doel om vas te stel (i) hoe die vertellers hulself in hul narratiewe konstrueer, en (ii) hoe sprekers hulself posisioneer ten opsigte van die inhoud van hul narratiewe en ten opsigte van hul werklike en denkbeeldige gehore. Hierdie studie toon dat ontworteling nuwe kontekste skep wat gekenmerk word deur onsekerheid, konflik en ongelykhede en ’n invloed het op die wyse waarop vertellers hulself orienteer. Tydens onderhoude met ’n gemeenskapsbuitestaander, uitgevoer in Engels, posisioneer die Somaliese vertellers hulself as ontwortel en gemarginaliseer. In hul narratiewe gebruik hulle verskeie linguistiese strategieë om hulself op verskillende maniere voor te stel aan werklike en denkbeeldige gehore wat lei tot ’n negatiewe voorstelling van die Ander, ’n positiewe voorstelling van die Self en die daarstelling van binne- en buite-groep lidmaatskap.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to show to pupils in primary education, on the base of an example study of Šumava region, a topic from the didactic point of view. A paThe aim of this diploma thesis is to show to pupils in primary education, on the base of an example study of Šumava region, a topic from the didactic point of view. A part of the example study is a time-space comparison of chosen villages in the region, from the demographic point of view, form the point of view of landscape changes, way of life and other aspects. The problematics is set into a wider context. The result of the didactic topic application in the second part is creating of materials for project teaching and for concrete topics for primary education. rt of the example study is a time-space comparison of chosen villages in the region, from the demographic point of view, form the point of view of landscape changes, way of life and other aspects. The problematics is set into a wider context. The result of the didactic topic application in the second part is creating of materials for project teaching and for concrete topics for primary education.