This thesis is a comparative study of the teachings of a number of Eastern sages and a representative of modern Western depth psychology in connection with the problem of abstraction versus experience (or, thinking about instead of experiencing}. This problem is considered by the writer as the central cause in the suffering of mankind everywhere. The introductory chapter will present the problem being investigated, why and how it is considered significant, and how it will be dealt with in this study. The second chapter will contain a presentation of the various sages to be considered here, how and why they were selected, and some biographical and historical data about each. In the succeeding chapters the discussion will include what each of these sages claims to be the nature of: A. The human soul. B. God and the. universe. C. The problems of mankind (how they developed, what man can do about them; how he can do it .) Following the Bibliography is an appendix which contains comparative statements from each of the sages about a variety of universal themes.

This thesis deals with residential real estate market in the Great Britain and its development. The thesis describes all evalution methods used in the Great Britain, it also describes the current state of the property market, expert work and in the end are described in detail the methods used for the valuation of the house. In thesis attachment is an exemplar of the evalution report for a house in the Great Britain according to the standards and the methodologies used by the evaluation experts in the United Kingdom.

This project is devoted to using of agile methodologies in the process of the web development. First, the most widely used traditional and agile methodologies of the software development are theoretically examined. Based on the identified procedures are chosen those that solve the biggest problems associated with the project management of the web development. From the findings is given a rough design of the system with usage of agile procedures. In the final part of the project is mentioned design implemented as the system prototype.

Orientador: Messias Borges Silva / Resumo: O mundo está mudando rapidamente e a maneira como as relações humanas acontecem também estão se alterando como nunca visto. O advento da indústria 4.0 com seus pilares de sustentação mostram que viver nas próximas décadas será completamente disruptivo ao que existe hoje, desde carros movidos a energias renováveis e não poluentes até à transformação da indústria pela demanda em tempo real, desde a necessidade do usuário até a extração da matéria-prima na natureza, reciclado ou não, em um sistema fechado ou aberto. Adaptar-se ao novo e aprender a aprender são as palavras de ordem devido à necessidade de adaptação do indivíduo face às novas profissões que surgem a cada dia e totalmente inovadoras. A proposta desta dissertação é a aplicação da metodologia ativa Aprendizagem Baseada em Projetos com ciclos de pesquisa-ação aplicados em onze salas dos cursos de engenharia mecânica, elétrica e civil durante cinco anos em uma instituição de ensino superior particular paulista. O trabalho remeteu a adaptar e aplicar o modelo ativo em sala de aula, diferente do tradicional, e buscando desenvolver competências e habilidades necessárias à preparação do aluno de engenharia para a nova realidade do mercado de trabalho, que ano após ano tem exigido das instituições uma abordagem para que torne seus egressos mais bem preparados. Neste contexto, o projeto remete ainda a como planejar toda uma disciplina sustentada pela aprendizagem baseada em projetos, como organizar a formação integral do alu... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The world is changing rapidly and the way human relationships take place is also changing like never before. The advent of industry 4.0 with its supporting pillars shows that living in the coming decades will be completely disruptive to what exists today, from cars powered by renewable and non-polluting energies to the industry transformation by real-time demand, from user needs to the extraction of raw material in nature, recycled or not, in a closed or open system. Adapting new and learning to learn are watchwords due to the individual's need adapting to new professions appear every day and totally innovative. The purpose of this dissertation is implement active methodology Project Based Learning with action research cycles applied in eleven rooms of mechanical, electrical and construction engineering courses during five years at a private higher education institution in São Paulo state. The work led adapting and applying active model in the classroom, different from traditional one, and seeking for develop competencies and skills necessary to prepare engineering students for new labor market reality, which year after year has required institutions to approach making your graduates better prepared. Also, in this context the project refers how to plan an entire discipline supported by project-based learning, how to organize the student's comprehensive training and how to systematize formative assessment process. The use of active methodologies as tools for this purpose exerc... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

La presente tesis posee un enfoque cuantitativo no experimental de diseño correlacional cuyo objetivo general es determinar si la metodología ágil Scrum se relaciona con la satisfacción del cliente de aplicativos móviles de las principales entidades bancarias declaradas transformadoras digitales en la sección de banca minorista en Lima Metropolitana en el 2019. La metodología ágil Scrum y la satisfacción del cliente son temas de gran impacto, los cuales se desarrollan de manera constante en diversas industrias en el mundo, encontrando zonas inexploradas en cuanto al conocimiento de la relación de ambas variables. En consecuencia, podrían mejorar las metodologías de trabajo en el mundo laboral, así como la experiencia del cliente o usuario final. La investigación se realizó sobre una población de 2,371,542 personas, representados por una muestra de 383 personas, de quienes se recolectó información a través de una encuesta conformada por dos apartados, el primero se enfoca en la variable metodología ágil Scrum, estuvo compuesto por 17 preguntas y se adaptó del artículo “The Impact of Scrum on Costumer Satisfaction An Empirical Study; respecto al segundo apartado, se focalizó en la variable satisfacción del cliente, constituido por 27 preguntas y adaptadas, principalmente, de la herramienta de medición SERVQUAL. De esta manera, ambos apartados de la encuesta fueron llevados al contexto del rubro financiero y validados por jueces expertos, obteniéndose, finalmente un total de 44 preguntas de tipo Likert. Para la relación entre variables se utilizó la aplicación de la estadística no paramétrica, haciendo uso del estadístico Chi-cuadrado y la prueba estadística Rho de Spearman. Los resultados presentan r = 0,68 comprobándose que existe una relación directamente proporcional entre las variables. Asimismo, a un nivel de significancia α=0,05 se obtuvo un p = 0,000 (< 0,05) menor al nivel de significancia, demostrando la existencia significativa de una relación media entre la metodología ágil Scrum y la satisfacción del cliente, sugiriendo a los actores claves de los escenarios afines tomar en cuenta que las modificaciones de aplicaciones móviles desarrolladas con la metodología ágil Scrum impacta en la experiencia del usuario. / This thesis has a non-experimental quantitative approach of correlational design whose general objective is to determine if the Scrum methodology is related to customer satisfaction of mobile applications of the main banking entities declared digital transformers in the retail banking section in Metropolitan Lima in 2019. The Scrum methodology and customer satisfaction are high-impact topics, which are constantly being developed in various industries around the world finding unexplored areas regarding the knowledge of the relationship of both variables. Consequently, they could improve work methodologies in the world of work, as well as the client or end user experience. The research was conducted on a population of 2,371,542 people, represented by a sample of 383 people; this information was collected through a survey composed of two sections, the first one focuses on the Scrum methodology variable, it was composed of 17 questions and was adapted from the article “The Impact of Scrum on Costumer Satisfaction An Empirical Study”; regarding the second section, it focused on the client satisfaction variable, composed of 27 questions and adapted, mainly, from SERVQUAL. In this way, both sections of the survey were taken to the context of the financial sector and validated by expert judges, finally obtaining a total of 44 Likert-type questions. The application of non-parametric statistics was used for the relationship between variables making use of the Chi-square statistic and the Spearman's Rho statistical test. The results show r = 0.68 verifying that there is a directly proportional relationship between the variables. Also, the results show that for a level of significance α = 0.05, it is p = 0.000 (<0.05) lower than the significance level was obtained demonstrating the significant existence of an average relationship between the Scrum methodology and customer satisfaction, suggesting to the key actors of the related scenarios take into account that the modifications of mobile applications developed with the Scrum methodology impact the user experience. / Tesis

The diploma thesis is focused on the problem of risk behavior and its prevention in primary schools of selected Central Bohemian micro-region. The work evaluates and compares the individual programs of primary prevention of schools. In connection with these findings, interviews with school prevention methodologies are analyzed and information is supplemented. The aim of this thesis is to find out how primary prevention programs of selected schools are implemented and to compare the content of programs with the actual implementation. Another aim of the thesis is to find out and recommend good practice, based on the experience of these schools. The whole work is divided into two basic parts, which are theoretical basis and practical part including research. The theoretical part introduces the current terminology in this area. The practical part describes the research, which took place in two stages. First, the primary prevention programs were analyzed from the content and these findings were subsequently supplemented by interviews with school prevention methodologies of schools in the selected Central Bohemian micro-region. The output of the work is a summary of findings of content analysis in comparison with interviews with school prevention methodologies and a summary of recommendations in the...

This thesis examines the current methodological approaches to digital access and dissemination of eugenics archives. It looks in-depth at four institutions from around the world which provide some means of digital access to a specific eugenics collection that they control: the Wellcome Collection within the Wellcome Library in London, the Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement founded in part by the Cold Springs Laboratory in New York, the Canadian Eugenics Archive, and the State Institute for Race Biology at the Uppsala University Library Special Collections in Sweden. The complexity of archival methodology and thought has evolved over the course of the past few decades, with more and more institutions recognizing the historical bias of their collections and many working towards combating these biases to bridge knowledge gaps and provide more detailed and nuanced understanding of their materials. With the development of the internet, and the pressure for heritage institutions to turn towards more digital methods of dissemination of their collections, there has been fierce debate as to good practices towards implementing these digital means of access and dissemination. Collections which contain historically problematic materials, such as eugenics collections, can make digitization and digital methodologies particularly difficult. This thesis serves as a groundwork for the development of good institutional methodologies in terms of digitization of eugenics-related materials by comparing the available methodologies employed by four institutions holding materials which were particularly significant during the period of legally applied eugenics on their respective populations.

The aim of this thesis is to improve the reliability and quality of new requested functionality, and existing modules, at Fortum HR System Solutions. This was conducted through an evaluation of the test processes by implementing principles of Software Testing and Test Management. For the study to successfully improve the testing performed at HR System Solutions, existing test processes were analyzed. The analysis was conducted by evaluating the current test processes using theoretical test evaluation styles called maturity models. The methodology of choice was the Testing Maturity Model (TMM), which was adapted to the nature of HR System Solutions requirements, experience and needs. The evaluation used qualitative methods together with pedagogical principles to conduct interviews and workshops to consolidate the theoretical evaluation. Interviews and workshops were conducted within the team of HR System Solutions, where all members of them team contributed to the thesis at some point. An external interview also took place for comparative study. Results of the evaluation, interviews and workshop were compiled and analyzed accordingly. With the analyzed results in place, flaws in the testing processes were apparent. A generalization of the flaws led to the conclusion in the form of a suggestion. The conclusive suggestion was for Fortum HR System Solutions to establish a test committee/group role within the team. Considering the current economical and organizational situation this job role would be a divided job role appointed to current members of the HR System Solutions team. The research creates a walkthrough on a potential method on understanding inefficiencies within testing processes of a company and providing a cause-based solution. / Undersökningen är inriktad på att förbättra tillförlitligheten och kvalitén på ny begärd funktionalitet, och befintliga moduler, på Fortum HR System Solutions. Detta genomfördes genom en utvärdering av testprocesser genom implementation av principer inom Software Testing samt Test Management. För att förbättra testningen som utförs på HR System Solutions var det nödvändigt att analysera de befintliga testprocesserna. Analysen genomfördes genom att utvärdera de nuvarande testprocesserna med hjälp av teoretiska utvärderingsmetoder som kallas Maturity Models. Den valda metoden var Testing Maturity Model (TMM) som tillämpades med avseende på HR System Solutions förutsättningar, erfarenheter och behov. Utvärderingen använder sig av kvalitativa metoder samt pedagogiska principer för att genomföra intervjuer och workshops stärka den teoretiska utvärderingen från TMM. Intervjuer och workshops genomfördes inom HR System Solutions arbetslag, där alla medlemmar bidrog till examensarbetet. Även en extern intervju gjordes i jämförande syfte. Resultatet av utvärderingen sammanställdes och analyserades i enlighet med de förnämnda teoretiska ramvärken. Med hjälp av analyserna visade sig bristerna hos HR System Solutions testprocesser. En generalisering av bristerna gjordes, vilket ledde till slutsatsen i form av ett förslag. Det slutliga förslaget innebar att Fortum HR System Solutions behöver upprätta en testkommitté/grupp inom arbetslaget. Undersökningen visar en potentiell metod för att förstå ineffektiviteten inom testprocesser i ett företag, och tillhandahålla en orsaks-baserad lösning.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s first call to action is to reduce the number of Indigenous children and youth in care, including keeping young people in culturally appropriate environments. While we work towards this goal, culturally appropriate resources are needed to support children and youth as evidence shows that when Indigenous youth have access to cultural teachings, they have improved physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health outcomes. Our project focused on the protective qualities of Indigenous coming of age teachings. Together with our community partner Surrounded by Cedar Child and Family Services, we worked to develop resources that inform and advocate for a culturally-centered coming of age for urban Indigenous youth living in foster care in Victoria, British Columbia on Lekwungen Territory. This dissertation begins with a literature review to provide the social and historical context surrounding urban Indigenous youth-in-care’s access to coming of age teachings. This is followed by a description of the Indigenous research paradigm that guided our work, what it meant for us to do this project in a good way, and the methods that we used to develop three visual storytelling knowledge sharing tools. Three manuscripts are presented, two published and one submitted, that reflect a strength-based vision of coming of age shared by knowledge holders who participated in our community events. The first manuscript retells the events of the knowledge holder’s dinner, where community members shared their perspectives on four questions related to community engagement and youth support. An analysis of the event’s transcripts revealed key themes including the responsibility of creating safe-spaces for youth, that coming of age is a community effort, and the importance of youth self-determining their journey. A graphic recording and short story are used to illustrate and narrate the relationship between key themes and related signifiers. This manuscript highlights the willingness of the community to collectively support youth in their journeys to adulthood. The second manuscript focuses on our two youth workshops that had the objective of understanding what rites of passage youth in SCCFS’s care engage with and how they learn what cultural teachings were most important to them. The findings suggest that when youth experience environments of belonging, and know they are ‘part of something bigger’, qualities like self-determination, self-awareness, and empowerment are strengthened. The third manuscript focuses on how we translated our project findings into different storytelling modalities using an Indigenist arts-based methodological approach. The project findings provided the inspiration and content for a fictional story called Becoming Wolf, which was adapted into a graphic novel, and a watercolour infographic. These knowledge sharing media present our project findings in accessible and meaningful ways that maintain the context and essences of our learnings. This research illustrates how Indigenous coming of age is an experience of interdependent teachings, events, and milestones, that contribute to the wellness of the body, mind, heart, and spirit of youth and the Indigenous community more broadly. Through our efforts, we hope to create a shared awareness about the cultural supports available to urban Indigenous youth that can contribute to lifelong wellness. / Graduate

Preservice training programs offered in a city in the Pacific Northwest have not been assessed to determine whether they adequately prepare therapeutic foster parents (TFPs). This phenomenological study identified factors that influenced the impact of preservice training on parents' preparation to manage their foster children's behavior, foster parent attrition, and multiple moves of the foster children. Chamberlain, Rork, McNeil, and Christenson's work linking training programs with the success of foster children was used to frame this study. Data were generated from semistructured interviews of 12 certified local TFPs who had completed preservice training and had at least one child placed in their home for at least a weekend. NVivo 10 qualitative analysis software was used to manage the data, which were analyzed via an inductive process. Findings indicated that TFPs felt the training was effective and the information provided was useful in real life situations. Suggestions for improvement included adding additional examples of behavioral issues and personal stories from trainers and facilitating increased interaction among foster parents. TFPs reported that their intrinsic motivations for fostering had more impact on decisions to continue with foster children in their home than did the preservice training. The project generated from the study was a policy recommendation addressed to program stakeholders that could have a significant social impact in developing training to better address behavioral challenges, prevent multiple moves, and promote cultural sensitivity while reinforcing parents' motivation for fostering.