Os atuais e persistentes cenários de enchentes da Região Metropolitana de São Paulo, e suas consequências em seu espaço e cotidiano, evidenciam a complexidade dessa problemática. A recorrência das enchentes sugere que, mesmo diante da adoção de medidas de controle, combate e mitigação, tais ações demonstraram-se insuficientes, estando associadas a limitações das metodologias e dos modelos a serem abordados. Este estudo relaciona-se a esta última proposição, testando e aplicando formas de integração das abordagens geomorfológicas, às abordagens oriundas da hidrologia e da hidráulica. O objetivo foi analisar as variabilidades temporal e espacial dos resultados de simulações hidrológicas e hidráulicas e compará-los aos mapeamentos obtidos pela Geomorfologia Antropogênica a partir da cartografia geomorfológica evolutiva na bacia hidrográfica do córrego Três Pontes (SP), de modo a identificar potenciais de complementariedade e integração dessas metodologias. Primeiramente, realizou-se a fotointerpretação e reconstituição das morfologias originais (1962) e das formas antropogênicas (2011), gerando cartografias de perturbação que assumiram diferentes graus de susceptibilidades às inundações e ao escoamento superficial concentrado. Em seguida, modelos hidrológicos (Ven Te Chow SCS e Hidrograma Unitário SCS, pelo ABC6) e hidráulico (pelo HECRAS) foram aplicados nos cenários reconstituídos anteriormente, determinando o aumento da vazão de pico e das áreas inundadas entre os anos estudados para tormentas de diferentes tempos de retornos. Os resultados das modelagens hidrológicas e hidráulicas demonstraram aumento significativo da vazão de pico e uma ampliação expressiva da área inundada na BHTP entre 1962 e 2011. Comparados os limites de áreas inundadas obtidos pela modelagem hidráulica à cartografia de vulnerabilidade à inundação, constatou-se uma compatibilidade de resultados. Por um lado, foram identificadas e discutidas limitações relacionadas aos pressupostos, parâmetros e coeficientes de ambas as metodologias; por outro lado, foram assinalados potenciais de integração entre elas. De modo geral, pode-se afirmar que os resultados obtidos contribuem ao conhecimento hidrológico e geomorfológico urbanos, em especial à área de estudo, e constitui um esforço interdisciplinar de aproximar duas especialidades fundamentais ao planejamento territorial urbano. / The current and persistent flooding scenarios in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, and their consequences on its space and life, point out to the complexity of this issue. The recurrence of flooding suggests that, even though policies of control, ordering and mitigation were adopted, its measures demonstrated not to be enough, associated with limitations of the methodologies and hydrological and hydraulic forecast models. This research is related to this last proposition, testing and applying ways in which the approaches of geomorphology, hydrology and hydraulics, can be integrated. Therefore, the study aims to analyze the temporal and spatial variability of hydrologic and hydraulic simulations results and to compare them with the mappings obtained by Anthropogenic Geomorphology from evolutionary geomorphological mapping at the stream Três Pontes basin, in order to identify the dialogues and potentials of integration between these methodologies. Firstly, airphotos and satellite images were interpreted and the original morphologies (1962) and anthropogenic forms (2011) reconstructed and mapped, from which disturbance maps were produced considering different susceptibilities to flooding and concentration of discharges. Afterwards, hydrological models (Ven Te Chow-SCS and Unit Hydrograph-SCS using ABC6 ) and hydraulic models (using HEC-RAS ) were applied considering the same scenarios previously reconstituted and, as a result, the increase on peak discharge and of flooding areas, between 1962 e 2011, were determined for different recurrence intervals. When compared, the boundaries of flooded areas obtained through the hydraulic modeling and the flood susceptibility cartography, demonstrated the compatibilities between the results. Limitations of some parameters, coefficients and assumptions related to both methodologies were identified and discussed, as well as, the potential of integration between the two. As a whole, the obtained results contribute to the urban hydrological and geomorphological knowledge, especially in the studied area, and constitute an interdisciplinary effort to approximate two fundamental territorial planning fields.

The topic of the diploma thesis is speech therapy and intervention of pupils with elective mutism. The thesis is structured into four chapters. The theoretical framework is presented in three chapters, the fourth one is an empirical part of the thesis. The first theoretical chapter describes the concept of communication and the definitions of basic terms, such as speech communication, speech, language, language levels of speech, socialization and social interaction. There are also listed terminological definition of elective mutism, etiology, classification and symptomatology. The second theoretical chapter is based on the issues of speech therapy and intervention and its system in the Czech Republic in terms of diagnostics, differential diagnostics, the process of therapy, prevention and prognosis. The third chapter describes the multidisciplinary approaches and support of the pupils with elective mutism in terms of family and school education. The role of the teacher is also described and at the end of the chapter indicated the help to the pupil in basic education. The fourth empirical chapter deals with qualitative research, realized by case studies, which were supplemented by other research techniques. The main objective of the research was to analyze speech therapy and intervention in pupils...

Malgré les difficultés que recèle la démarche visant à ériger un cadre juridique pour les pratiques liées à la bioéthique, à l’internet ou aux produits dangereux, les décideurs publics ont été contraints d’intervenir pour réguler ces pratiques. Ils n’ont d’ailleurs pas renoncé à élaborer des dispositions juridiques spécifiques. Mais l’étude systématique de ces dernières montre que pour parvenir à encadrer le développement de la technoscience les autorités publiques françaises comme les autorités publiques internationales ont opéré depuis les années 1970 des transformations nombreuses et parfois radicales des mécanismes juridiques qui constituent le soubassement des processus d’élaboration du droit.Il fut d’abord nécessaire de transformer l’organisation et le fonctionnement des instances publiques consultatives, de sorte de leur garantir une plus grande indépendance, d’étendre leur influence sur les groupes sociaux concernés et d’accroître leur capacité à coopérer. Il fallut également redéfinir la place de la rationalité scientifique dans les processus d’élaboration des textes juridiques et renforcer parallèlement l’exigence de prise en considération des opinions émanant des citoyens. Enfin, on dut accepter que les normes juridiques elles mêmes n’émergent des textes ainsi adoptés qu’à la faveur de recoupements et d’interprétations dépendants d’acteurs institutionnels relevant de différents ordres juridiques et étant plus ou moins libres de collaborer.Au total, même s’il est possible de rationaliser certaines étapes des processus décisionnels publics, l’émergence de la norme juridique demeure trop incertaine pour que l’on puisse y voir un bien comme les autres. / In spite of the difficulties inherent in trying to establish a legal framework for the practices linked to bioethics, the internet and dangerous substances, decision-makers have had to step in to regulate these practices. Indeed, they are continuing to devise specific legal measures. However, a systematic study of the said measures shows that to control techno scientific development, French and international authorities alike have, since the nineteen seventies, made numerous changes, sometimes extreme, to the legal mechanisms that constitute the foundations of the law-making process. First of all it was necessary to modify the organisation and workings of advisory bodies so as to guarantee more independence, greater their influence on the social groups concerned and increase their level of cooperation. Another crucial change was to redefine the status of scientific rationality in the elaboration of legal documents and at the same time reiterate the need to embrace citizens’ viewpoints. Finally, it had to be accepted that the legal norms themselves would reflect the interpretations of institutional parties from different legal systems with limited room for collaboration. All in all, even if it is possible to rationalise certain stages of the law-making process, the uncertainty surrounding the emergence of the legal norm is such that it cannot be likened to an end-product in the manufacturing process.

There is a growing global recognition as to the importance of outlawing malicious computer related acts in a timely manner, yet few organisations have the legal and technical resources necessary to address the complexities of adapting criminal statutes to cyberspace. Literature reviewed in this study suggests that a coordinated, public-private partnership to produce a model approach can help reduce potential dangers arising from the inadvertent creation of cybercrime havens. It is against this backdrop that the study seeks to develop a digital forensic readiness model (DFRM) using a coordinated, multidisciplinary approach, involving both the public and private sectors, thus enabling organisations to reduce potential dangers arising from the inadvertent destruction and negating of evidentiary data which, in turn, results in the non-prosecution of digital crimes. The thesis makes use of 10 hypotheses to address the five research objectives, which are aimed at investigating the problem statement. This study constitutes qualitative research and adopts the post-modernist approach. The study begins by investigating each of the 10 hypotheses, utilising a systematic literature review and interviews, followed by a triangulation of findings in order to identify and explore common themes and strengthen grounded theory results. The output from the latter process is used as a theoretical foundation towards the development of a DFRM model which is then validated and verified against actual case law. Findings show that a multidisciplinary approach to digital forensic readiness can aid in preserving the integrity of evidentiary data within an organisation. The study identifies three key domains and their critical components. The research then demonstrates how the interdependencies between the domains and their respective components can enable organisations to identify and manage vulnerabilities which may contribute to the inadvertent destruction and negating of evidentiary data. The Multidisciplinary Digital Forensic Readiness Model (M-DiFoRe) provides a proactive approach to creating and improving organizational digital forensic readiness. This study contributes to the greater body of knowledge in digital forensics in that it reduces complexities associated with achieving digital forensic readiness and streamlines the handling of digital evidence within an organisation. / Information Science / Ph.D. (Information Systems)

Partendo dalla constatazione che il principio di disgiunzione regna tra i diversi ambiti del sapere, facendo perdere di vista l’unità del fatto umano, si propone, di rimando, una visione sistemica e complessa dell’uomo stesso, che può essere gestita adeguatamente soltanto tramite un approccio multidisciplinare alla questione. Indagando il metodo complesso proposto da Morin e mettendone in luce anche punti critici, si osserva come esso possa essere applicato alla filosofia, intesa come consulenza filosofica, trovando in essa un significativo approccio agli interrogativi esistenziali che caratterizzano l’uomo contemporaneo. Le considerazioni di Achenbach vengono lette, poi, infatti, alla luce dell’esperienza professionale dell’autrice. Si giunge così a concludere che la filosofia, se intesa come esercizio libero e costante del pensiero complesso, può costituire un valido strumento di dialogo e di ricerca della verità. / Starting from the observation that the principle of disjunction reigning among the different fields of knowledge loses sight of the unity of the human fact, proposed, in return, is a systemic and complex vision of man himself, which can be properly handled only by a multidisciplinary approach to the issue. Investigating the complex method proposed by Morin and also highlighting critical points, we observe how it can be applied to philosophy, understood as a philosophical counseling, finding in it a significant approach to existential questions that characterize the contemporary man. Achenbach's considerations are read, then, in fact, in the light of the professional experience of the author. This leads to the conclusion that philosophy, if understood as an unhindered and free exercise away from the complex thought, may be a valuable tool for dialogue and the search for truth.

This thesis deals with a multidisciplinary approach to clients suffering from schizophrenia. The main aim is to reflex the multidisciplinary approach to schizophrenic clients, appealing to social work and having respect to ethical principles of participating branches. The work includes chapters that are necessarily coherent to this topic. These are mainly the social work in the context of schizophrenia, specifics of schizophrenia, the structure of the multidisciplinary team, team work and all ethical aspects arising out of team work and individual experts' work. This thesis tries to link up theoretical and practical knowledge, mainly by means of casuistry and practical observations.

Currently a need for auditory processing test material for the identification of auditory processing disorders in children exists in the South African context. The purpose of this study was the Afrikaans translation and cultural adaptation of the SCAN-C: Test for Auditory Processing Disorders in Children-Revised (Keith, 2000a) and to determine the appropriateness thereof for preschool children. To achieve the objective of this study the research was performed in three phases and quantitative-descriptive research was utilized, with different methods for each of the phases. In Phase I the SCAN-C (Keith, 2000a) was translated and culturally adapted into Afrikaans for learners in Grade R. In Phase II the Siftingstoets vir Ouditiewe Prosesseringsafwykings (STOPA) was reviewed by speech-language therapists and/or audiologists as well as Grade R teachers (n = 11) by means of a customized questionnaire to determine appropriateness of the STOPA. A pilot study was conducted on Grade R learners (n = 10) before the STOPA was finalized and recorded. In Phase III the STOPA was performed on Grade R learners identified with normal auditory processing (n = 16) as well as Grade R learners identified with an auditory processing disorder (n = 14) to determine the validity and accuracy of the STOPA. The results indicated that the STOPA is age and culturally appropriate but that the validity and accuracy of the STOPA could not yet be proved. Clinical implications for identification, diagnosis and intervention for children with auditory processing disorders were discussed in order to provide the audiologist and speech-language therapist with evidence-based principles for clinical practice. Implications for further research include refining the STOPA during which normative data should be obtained. This study can therefore be viewed as the first step to standardize the STOPA, as well as to develop test material for other language and culture groups for the early identification of auditory processing disorders in children. / Dissertation (M (Communication Pathology))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology / Unrestricted

La confrontation des soldats marocains avec la violence est un phénomène qui s’inscrit dans le temps. Elle a pris des formes multiples alors que les soldats marocains combattaient sous le drapeau français et les questions liées aux traumatismes de guerre sont devenues assez récemment un réel enjeu de société. Or de ce point de vue les soldats marocains sous domination française (protectorat) offrent un terrain d’enquête jusqu’à présent peu traité au Maroc et en France. Pourtant, de 1914 à 1954, ces soldats marocains, notamment très présents en Indochine, ont subi les conséquences de l’expérience de la violence de guerre sur leur psyché. Nous avons cherché à saisir et interpréter leur comportement en insistant sur la période de l’après Deuxième Guerre Mondiale.Pour comprendre les tensions vécues en Indochine par les combattants marocains, il fut nécessaire de situer tout d’abord le combattant dans sa conjoncture socioculturelle et dans la série des expériences militaires vécues avant la guerre d’Indochine (Grande Guerre et la Seconde Guerre mondiale) sur la base des sources d’archives (militaires, diplomatiques, médicales) et de l’évaluation des approches psychiatriques et médicales de l’époque. Pour l’après-1945 le travail est enrichi par une collecte triple (témoignages, récits de vie, et sémiologie post-traumatique) auprès de quelques anciens combattants. Ainsi l’impact psychologique lié à violence de guerre sur quarante ans d’expérience au sein de l’armée d’Afrique (1914-1954) a pu être cerné de façon nouvelle puisqu’une partie des observations permises par la confrontation à des anciens combattants a une portée certaine pour l’époque antérieure à leur engagement.Tout ce qui relève de pathologies psychologiques ou psychiatriques, notamment durant la guerre d’Indochine, a été analysé et a permis de réévaluer les voies suivies par ces soldats, qui vont jusqu’à la désertion et le passage à l’ennemi vietnamien ou encore des coups de folie meurtriers ou suicidaires, et d’éclairer le rapport au politique de ces hommes pris entre des causes qui n’étaient pas les leurs. Pour le cas de l’Indochine, certains d’entre eux ont vécu cette guerre comme l’expérience d’un lieu d’affirmations idéologiques. L’exil du roi Mohamed V les amena parfois à rejoindre la résistance indochinoise. D’autres soldats, faits prisonniers par le Viet-Minh, ont été bouleversés par l’expérience de la captivité.Cette thèse éclaire ainsi le rapport à l’engagement dans l’armée coloniale, le rapport aux violences subies et données, et offre une interprétation des comportements constatés qui montre le fonctionnement discontinu du rapport au religieux, l’impact des traumas sur la capacité de remémoration et de tissage des rapports sociaux après les guerres. Ceci éclaire sous un nouvel angle les sources d’archive disponibles sur ces soldats marocains de l’Armée d’Afrique et la façon dont les violences ont pesé sur eux. Cette recherche amène à penser que la mise à l’écart des dimensions traumatiques — au profit de l’héroïsme le plus souvent — dans les décennies qui ont suivi l’ère du protectorat a produit un effacement qui a faussé en partie la perception de l’histoire vécue par ces combattants / The confrontation of the Moroccan soldiers with violence is a phenomenon that inscribes itself in the time. It took many forms as Moroccan soldiers fought under the French flag, and issues related to war trauma became a real social issue quite recently. From this point of view, Moroccan soldiers under French rule (protectorate) offer a field of investigation hitherto little treated in Morocco and France. However, from 1914 to 1954, these Moroccan soldiers, particularly present in Indochina, suffered from the consequences of the experience of war violence on their psyche. We sought to interpret their behaviour.To understand the tensions experienced in Indochina by the Moroccan fighters, it was necessary to first, locate the fighter in his socio-cultural situation and in the series of military experiences lived before the Indochina war (Great War and World War II) based on archival sources (military, diplomatic, medical) and the evaluation of psychiatric and medical approaches of the time. For post-1945, work is enriched by a triple collection (testimonials, life stories, and post-traumatic semiology) with some veterans. Thus, the psychological impact linked to wartime violence over forty years of experience in the African army (1914-1954) could be identified in a new way.All that pertains to psychological or psychiatric pathologies, especially during the Indochina war, was analysed and allowed to re-evaluate the tracks followed by these soldiers, who go as far as desertion and the passage to the Vietnamese enemy or murderous or suicidal feats of madness, and to enlighten the relation to politics of these men caught between causes which were not theirs. In the case of Indochina, some of them experienced this war as the experience of a place of ideological affirmations. The exile of King Mohamed V sometimes led them to join the Indochinese resistance. Other soldiers, taken prisoner by the Viet-Minh, were upset by the experience of captivity.This thesis emphasises the relation to the commitment in the colonial army, the relation to the violence suffered and given, and offers an interpretation of the observed behaviours, which shows the discontinuous functioning of the relation with the religious, the impact of the traumas on the ability to remembrance and weaving of social relationships after wars. This sheds new light on the available archive sources of these Moroccan soldiers of the Army of Africa and the way the violence has weighed on them. This research suggests that sidelining this dimension in the decades following the protectorate era has produced an erosion that has partially distorted the perception of the story of these fighters

Copper cable theft (CCT) has a devastating effect on the South African economy, and essential services such as TELKOM, ESKOM AND TRANSNET have been seriously disrupted, due to CCT. This dissertation focuses on the value of the cell phone record as a source of intelligence during (CCT) investigations. The cell phone industry is growing each year, and millions of people worldwide possess a cell phone. Some of these people are involved in criminal activities – which mean that cell phones, with their advanced capabilities, hold evidence which relates to crime. The activation of cell phone activity is contained on a cell phone record, and, when analysed, such information becomes intelligence which has a positive impact on CCT investigations. The purpose of this study is to assist and give guidance to investigators, in order to analyse the cell phone record(s) of CCT thieves. / Criminology and Security Science / M. Tech. (Forensic Investigation)

The poor state and failure of the basic education system in South Africa gave rise to this research. The wave of knowledge loss experienced in the last two decades is expected to carry on and will continue to deplete the basic education system’s knowledge base, severely affecting the already poor quality of education as well as the future economic growth and sustainability in South Africa. The main research objective was to establish whether future growth and sustainability in the basic education system in South Africa is achievable; which factors it is influenced by; and how knowledge continuity could impact on future growth and sustainability. A multidisciplinary approach focusing on organisational performance, knowledge management, individual and organisational behaviour and organisational development was followed. The nature of growth and sustainability and knowledge continuity in organisations was explored by following a contextualisation theory-building process. The main objective of the empirical research study was to determine by means of quantitative research the degree to which the influencing factors would enhance or impede growth and sustainability in an organisation. A quantitative survey method was followed. A questionnaire was developed and the survey was performed in 6 primary and secondary schools of the basic education system in South Africa. The questionnaire was found to be reliable with a Cronbach’s alpha of .8060. In the descriptive factor analysis process, principal component factor analysis was conducted, which described the five constructs that would influence growth and sustainability. These constructs’ dimensions produced significant intercorrelations which indicate that the dimensions are for the most part intercorrelated with each other in contributing to growth and sustainability. The multiple regression analysis indicated that knowledge loss would have an exceptionally strong impact on knowledge; and that knowledge, information and performance would significantly predict growth and sustainability. Organisations should change the focus for growth from physical assets to the development of intellectual capital, and knowledge continuity should form part of an organisations’ business strategy and mission. Knowledge continuity will only be successful if a culture conducive of trust and knowledge sharing and transfer exist, and are supported by effective and appropriate human resource practices and incentives. A structural equation model development strategy produced a knowledge continuity model aimed at enabling future growth and sustainability, based on the constructs confirmed in the factor analysis. The model indicated that there is a direct causal relationship between knowledge, information and performance with growth and sustainability. The regression analysis showed that most of the intercorrelations are significant, thus confirming the theory. The newly developed questionnaire and structural equation model should enable organisations to measure the degree to which the enhancing individual and organisational behavioural factors of growth and sustainability are in place and provide the measurement outcomes that would identify the factors that need to be focused on to improve and enable future growth and sustainability in an organisation. / Thesis (MBA)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.