The objective of this work focused on the construction of a decentralized model of solid waste management in Escola Agrotécnica Federal de Uberlândia (EAF-Udi) in order to contribute to the fulfilment of the seventh Millennium Development Goal - Ensure Environmental Sustainability - translated it into local actions. Reports specifically to one of the indicators of this goal, the tenth one, which is to reduce by half until 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to drinking water and sanitation, through the adoption of policies and environmental programs. The specific issue to be addressed is contained in part of sanitation concerns and decentralized management of solid waste from School Agrotécnica Federal de Uberlândia, involving the entire school community through environmental health education projects with actions to reduce of waste and to change the destination of it, improving quality of life of every body involved. For the construction of an effective managerial model began with the Differentiated Collection of solid waste generated in the institution, separating them into dry and wet. Later it was made the recovery of dry and wet, giving them the correct destination. The dried were separated by categories (cardboard, PET bootle, cans and plastics) and were sent to reverse logistics. The wet ones, which consisted of organic stuff were reused to their composting in a place of the school. With the effective participation of the community, it was possible to get a significant reduction in the amount of waste brought to the landfill site, guaranteeing a sustainable management. This work contributes for the improvement of life of people. It could be imitated by education institutions similar to the search imitated by other municipalities. / O objetivo deste trabalho foi a construção de um modelo de gestão descentralizada de resíduos sólidos na Escola Agrotécnica Federal de Uberlândia (EAF-Udi), em 2007, a fim de contribuir para o cumprimento da sétima Meta de Desenvolvimento do Milênio Garantir a Sustentabilidade Ambiental - traduzindo-a em ações locais. A pesquisa reporta especificamente a um dos indicadores desta meta, o décimo, que é o de reduzir pela metade, até 2015, a proporção da população sem acesso permanente e sustentável à água potável e a serviços de saneamento, por meio da adoção de políticas e programas ambientais. A questão específica que se aborda está contida em uma das vertentes do saneamento e diz respeito à gestão descentralizada de resíduos sólidos da Escola Agrotécnica Federal de Uberlândia, a qual envolveu toda a comunidade escolar por meio de projetos de educação sanitária e ambiental, com ações para redução do desperdício e para a mudança na destinação dos resíduos, promovendo assim a melhoria da qualidade de vida de todos os envolvidos. Para a construção de um efetivo modelo gerencial iniciou-se com a Coleta Diferenciada dos resíduos sólidos gerados na Instituição, separando-os em secos e molhados, dando-lhes um destino correto Os secos foram separados por categorias (papelão, PET, latas e plásticos) e submetidos à logística reversa. Os molhados, que constaram de material putrescível, foram reaproveitados para a compostagem em um local na própria escola e o composto formado foi utilizado no setor de horticultura e no viveiro da Instituição. Com a efetiva participação da comunidade, obteve-se, como conseqüência, uma redução significativa na quantidade de resíduos levados ao aterro sanitário local, garantindo uma gestão sustentável. Este trabalho contribui efetivamente para a qualidade de vida das pessoas envolvidas e pode ser adotado tanto por instituições de educação similares à pesquisada quanto por outros municípios. / Mestre em Engenharia Civil

O objetivo desta pesquisa é examinar e compreender as concepções de corpo na Assíria do fim do século VIII e do século VII AEC, a partir da análise de fontes palacianas imagéticas e textuais. As primeiras são compostas pelos relevos dos palácios dos reis Senaqueribe (704- 681) e Assurbanipal II (669-627) em Nínive (no atual nordeste do Iraque). As segundas são Inscrições Reais, Tratados e Juramentos, Cartas e textos literários, sendo que todos esses gêneros têm como eixo de produção os palácios assírios. Os relevos são placas de pedra com esculturas em baixo relevo, que foram utilizadas nas paredes dos palácios assírios a partir do final do segundo milênio AEC. Esse uso foi continuado por todo o período denominado Neoassírio ou Tardo Assírio (934-610 AEC), expondo imagens de pessoas, animais, plantas, paisagens e arquiteturas. A configuração desses elementos figurativos expressa cenas de narrativas espaciais por meio de imagens. A disposição orquestrada dos relevos nas paredes dos palácios evidencia potenciais modos de percepção das imagens pela movimentação nos ambientes palacianos. A recorrência da expressão do corpo nos relevos suscita uma perspectiva atenta à materialidade, à relação entre as imagens do corpo e aos modos de percepção e contato com esses objetos no período. A presença constante de expressões corporais em textos neoassírios também constitui um tratamento ao corpo através da linguagem. Considerando a complementaridade entre fontes imagéticas e escritas no período e o fato de as concepções de corpo poderem estar expressas em textos e imagens, qual é o lugar e o uso do corpo neste período? Como o corpo aparece nos relevos e textos palacianos? Quais aspectos materiais dos relevos constituem os indícios da concepção de corpo? Como as imagens do corpo e as expressões corporais escritas indicam suas concepções? / The aim of this research is to examine and comprehend the conceptions of the body in Assyria at the end of the 8th and 7th centuries BCE, from the analysis of palatial images and texts. The visual sources are composed by the reliefs of the kings of Sennacherib (704-681) and Assurbanipal II (669-627) in Nineveh (present-day northern of Iraq). The written sources are Royal Inscriptions, Treaties and Oaths, Letters and literary texts. All these texts had the Assyrian royal palaces as production axis. The reliefs are stone plaques with bas-relief sculptures, which were used on the walls of the Assyrian palaces from the end of the second millennium BCE. This use was continued throughout the period called Neo-Assyrian or Late Assyrian (934-610 BCE), exposing images of people, animals, plants, landscapes and architectures. The configuration of these figurative elements expresses scenes of spatial narratives through images. The orchestrated arrangement of the reliefs on the walls of the palaces shows potential ways of perception of the images by the movement in the palatial environments. The recurrence of the body expression in the reliefs evokes an attentive threefold perspective: on the materiality, the images of the body and the modes of perception and contact with these objects in that period. The constant presence of body expressions in Neo-Assyrian texts also constitutes a way to treat body through language. Considering the complementarity between visual and written sources in the Neo-Assyrian period and the fact that body conceptions can be expressed in texts and images, what is the status and use of the body in this period? How does the body appear in the reliefs and palatial texts? What are the material aspects of the reliefs? How do body images and written body expressions indicate their conceptions?

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L’espace provençal du 3ème millénaire av. n. è. laisse entrevoir un certain nombre d’éléments qui mettent en scène la complexité archéologique de la transition Néolithique final / Âge du Bronze ancien. En Provence, si le travail de J. Cauliez a ouvert la voie à un cadre chrono-culturel plus robuste et tissé une trame plus diversifiée des composantes céramiques de la fin du Néolithique, il n’en demeure pas moins que l’imbrication de l’évènement Campaniforme avec les différentes traditions locales se pose toujours comme un problème majeur, notamment en termes stratigraphiques, dans la compréhension des gisements domestiques de cette période. L’analyse des différents types de vestiges archéologiques liés à ces contextes requiert à notre sens une étude complémentaire fondée sur les logiques d’implantation des sites d’habitat dans le paysage afin de mieux saisir l’ensemble des mécanismes socio-culturels émergeants à l’aube de l’Âge du Bronze. Grâce à la mise en place d’une base de données relationnelle couplée à un Système d’Information Géographique, il a été possible de générer de nouvelles informations spatiales sur les sites géo-référencés de notre corpus. Ainsi, après des analyses statistiques multivariées exploratoires sur les données archéologiques issues de la littérature et les nouvelles données spatiales, il a été possible de caractériser finement les implantations de chacun des gisements étudiés à l’échelle de la Provence (426 sites) puis à l’échelle du Luberon (analyse territoriale basée sur 70 sites) et de dégager des tendances principales dans les choix d’installation de ces populations au cours du 3ème millénaire av. n. è. / The archaeological complexity of the transition between Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age can be characterized by a certain amount of elements found in the Provence area in the 3rd millennium BCE. Despite the fact that the work done by J. Cauliez in Provence provided a more structured chrono-cultural framework and a more diversified background concerning ceramic components in the Late Neolithic, the Bell Beaker event overlapping the various local traditions still appears as a crucial issue. It specifically relates to the understanding of domestic deposits in this period in terms of stratigraphic studies. Following the analysis of these different types of archaeological remains in these dwellings, we believed that an in-depth study on settlement patterns in the landscape must be carried out to better comprehend the emerging social and cultural mechanisms at the dawn of Bronze Age. Due to the set up of a relational database integrated with a Geographic Information System (GIS), new spatial items were generated on the georeferenced sites listed in our corpus. Finally, after the use of statistical multivariate and exploratory analysis based on archaeological data from bibliographic references and on new spatial data, a precise implantation’s characterization of each investigated deposits has been possible, first in Provence (426 establishments), then in Luberon (territorial analysis involving 70 sites) as well as an identification of significant trends regarding dwelling choices by the populations living in the 3rd millennium BCE.

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>Magister Scientiae - MSc / Measuring the evolution of the abundance of galaxy clusters puts constraints on cosmological parameters like the cosmological density parameter m, σ8 and the dark energy equation of state parameter, w. Current observations that promise to give large cluster counts and their properties are those that rely on the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZE) from clusters. We study the contamination of the SZ signals from galaxy clusters by cluster infrared (IR) galaxies and particularly faint IR galaxies. We use the Millennium simulation database to extract galaxy clusters and deduce contaminant IR fluxes using the star formation rate - IR luminosity relations. We use the IR spectral energy distribution(SED) to obtain the monochromatic fluxes at 145 GHz, 217 GHz and 265 GHz, which are the observation frequencies of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). Taking ACT as a case study, we selected all clusters with Mvir ≥ 2 × 1014 M⊙, and consider all galaxies in a cluster with star formation rate sfr ≥ 0.2 M⊙yr−1 as IR galaxies. From the fluxes of these selected sources, we compute their contribution to the SZE temperature fluctuations.We find that the galaxies in clusters have a non-neglible contribution to the SZ signals.In massive and rich clusters the contribution can be as high as 100 μK at z = 0.36,which is substantial when compared to the thermal SZE of & 270μK for such clusters.This effect can be reduced significantly if proper modelling of IR sources is done to pick out the point sources within clusters. We also find that irrespective of the mass range,the average contaminant temperature fluctuation T can be modelled as a power-law: T = Czm, where z is the redshift, m = 1.8 ± 0.07 and C takes on a range of values(0.008 to 0.9) depending on the cluster mass and the observation frequency respectively.We also study some properties of simulated galaxy clusters like substructures in clusters,2D projected distributions and number density profiles, which are all discussed in the results.

Magister Philosophiae - MPhil / Background: Professional health assistance is a significant indicator in monitoring progress towards Millennium Development Goal five to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters and child mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. It is also significant that mothers deliver their babies in an appropriate setting, where life saving equipment and hygiene can also help reduce the risk of complications that may cause death or illness to mother and child. But in developing countries access to health services is still an issue. Objective: From a fundamental research view point, this study aims to investigate the determinants of place of delivery and professional health providers by analysing the factors that are likely to influence young mothers’ accessibility and use of prenatal facilities in the developing world. Specifically in Kenya, Ethiopia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Guyana and Haiti. Methodology: Univariet and bivariet analysis were performed to determine a relation or association between dependent and independent variables. Using secondary data from Demographic and Health Survey secondary data requested from the DHS selected between 2005 and 2010, the analysis was performed by means of SPSS software. Bringing together the demographic variables and access and the use of health services related variables, the study captures the differences and similarities across these countries. Results: The study has identified the main factors influencing the use of professional health providers and health facilities according to the variables examined from the DHS. The finding showed the use health facilities for delivery, professional health providers were influenced by economic status of young mothers, level of education, place of residence, religion, marital status, in all six countries. Access to health facilities was much influence availability of transport, the presence of health providers at facilities and availability of drugs at facilities. Family members’ knowledge about the importance of delivering a baby at health facilities was found to be the strongest predictors of use of health facilities for delivery in all six countries. These findings suggest that these factors cited are associated with access and use of professional health providers and health facilities, and should be the target of interventions aimed to increase the use of prenatal facilities and professional health providers among young women in these countries in order to improve maternal and child health in accordance with Millennium Development Goals four and five.

This thesis reports an insider case study conducted by an active participant in the setting which is the UHI Millennium Institute. UHI is a federal, collegial partnership of 13 academic partner colleges. This partnership is made up of Further Education Colleges and smaller and specialised institutions. The case study focuses on one programme team, the BA Social Sciences team and at its role in the implementation of the institutional learning and teaching policy and its related strategies. The case study uses literature on policy implementation and of Further/Higher Education links. It makes use of social practice theory and the notion of the teaching and learning regime to analyse the cultural characteristics of the team and a typolgy of responses to change, to review the response of the team to policy objectives. In doing so the case study is a response to calls for more 'close-up' research at the meso-level of analysis. The study reviews the response of the team over a 10-year trajectory from the initial validation of the programme to 2009. The study takes an interpretive, participant-obervation based approach to examine the cultural characteristics and response of the programme team. The methods used to gather data include examination of comprehensive documentation relating to the programme over this time frame and semi-structured interviews with team members. The findings are that the cultural character of the team is dominated by its origins in Further Education and by the social relationships involved in a team which spans three colleges and deals with three sets of college managers and UHI. The response of the team to institutional policy is to embrace its objectives but also to reconstruct policy in ways possible within constraints. The team can make certain choices but is also constrained by policy from 'the top'. The study discusses implications for the notion of the teaching and learning regime and for the typology of responses used and proposes ways in which these might be modified. Proposals for further research in this field are made, particularly involving the implications for policy making of the relationship between college management and UHI.

The year 2015 is a big milestone in the history of United Nations development projects. The Millennium Development Goals, which were agreed on by United Nations member states in 2000, are followed by the Sustainable Development Goals. This thesis, using development projects of the United Nations and more specifically the indicator of extreme poverty, analyses the Chinese economy and discusses it´s persistent negative factors affecting progress towards sustainable development. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first part focuses on the historical background of the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals. The second chapter then in particular studies extreme poverty, which is the fundamental component of the first target of the Millennium Development Goals. The third chapter provides an analysis of four thematic areas of the Chinese economy, which negatively affect economic development and which should become a government priority when speaking of further reduction of extreme poverty. The last part builds on the previous findings and presents specific sub-areas of the Sustainable Development Goals that address the defined problematics.

The Global Village Playground (GVP) was a capstone learning experience designed to address institutional assessment needs while providing an integrated, contextualized, and authentic learning experience for students. In the GVP, students work on simulated and real-world problems as a design team tasked with developing an alternate reality game that makes an impact on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the design of the GVP as a capstone experience. The research design follows a qualitative case study approach to gather and analyze data collected from the instructors and students participating in the pilot implementation of the GVP. Results of the study show predominantly favorable reactions to various aspects of the course and its design. Students reported to have learned the most through interactions with peers and through applying and integrating knowledge in developing the alternate reality game that was the central problem scenario for the course. What students demonstrated to have learned included knowledge construction, social responsibility, open-mindedness, big picture thinking, and an understanding of their relationship to the larger society and world in which they live. Challenges that resulted from the design included the amount of necessary to build consensus and then develop an overarching game concept, the tension between guided and directed instruction, and the need to foster greater interdependence among students while encouraging them to become more self-directed.