Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2017-07-31T13:31:37Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Dissertação Anderson Queiroz Jogando bola, Fazendo História.pdf: 1654889 bytes, checksum: e18d3da73c68e7804488b3094b8130f0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-31T13:31:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Dissertação Anderson Queiroz Jogando bola, Fazendo História.pdf: 1654889 bytes, checksum: e18d3da73c68e7804488b3094b8130f0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-13 / Este estudo procurou refletir e analisar o processo social e histórico da elaboração e implantação do Projeto Sócio Esportivo Formando o Amanhã, localizado no bairro dos Coelhos, bairro periférico da cidade do Recife-PE, entre os anos de 2008 e 2012. Seu objetivo geral consiste em analisar, historicamente, as contribuições dos indivíduos e do grupo da sociedade civil participante desta intervenção para o processo civilizador dos moradores e moradoras deste bairro. Selecionamos como fundamentação teórica central a teoria do Processo Civilizador, desenvolvida pelo sociólogo alemão Norbert Elias (1993, 1994a, 1994b e 2001), a qual procuramos estabelecer um diálogo com o método pedagógico proposto por Paulo Freire (1996 e 2011) e os conceitos da educação não formal defendidos por Maria da Glória Gohn (2010 e 2012). A pesquisa foi desenvolvida na perspectiva de analisar o processo histórico vivenciado pelos atores da intervenção, e para tanto, julgamos mais apropriado basear nossa estratégia de coleta de dados nos procedimentos metodológico apontados pela História Oral, do tipo História Temática (LE GOFF, 1990 e THOMPSON, 1992), os atores selecionados para este trabalho participaram de uma entrevista semiestruturada, onde eles e elas puderam relatar suas memórias e impressões do processo ora em análise. Para a análise dos dados coletados optamos pela teoria da Análise de Discurso, nos baseando na obra de Eni Orlandi (1999 e 2008). Buscamos neste trabalho analisar que influência pode exercer o espaço, em suas múltiplas dimensões, no processo civilizatório; qual a importância do método (no caso em estudo, o futebol) para uma intervenção que visa promover transformações sociais; sobre quais fenômenos da vida em sociedade os indivíduos precisam se apropriarem para desenvolver uma leitura crítica da realidade e poderem assim terem uma ação mais protagonista nas suas vidas; e, por fim, analisamos o papel do Projeto Sócio Esportivo Formando o Amanhã neste processo. Este trabalho foi realizado a fim de testar a hipótese de que apesar de todos os condicionamentos que cada realidade social impõe aos indivíduos, sempre será possível sua transformação, mesmo levando em conta a estrutura social atualmente vigente. Os resultados obtidos apontam que os fenômenos presentes dentro da configuração do bairro dos Coelhos atuam no sentido de impor dificuldades e limitações para os moradores e moradoras daquele bairro. Dentro desta perspectiva, concluímos que o Projeto Sócio Esportivo Formando o Amanhã se constituiu como um centro indicador de alternativas, lócus de resistência a lógica do individualismo e base potencializadora de projetos de vida. / This study sought to reflect and analyze the social and historical process of development and implementation of the Socio-sports Project Forming Tomorrow, located in the neighborhood of Coelhos, suburb of Recife-PE, between the years 2008 and 2012. Its general objective is to analyze historically the contributions of individuals and civil society group, participant of this intervention for the civilizing process for local residents. Selected as a central theoretical foundation, the theory of the Civilizing Process, developed by the German sociologist Norbert Elias (1993, 1994a, 1994b and 2001), with which we seek to establish a dialogue with the teaching method proposed by Paulo Freire (1996 and 2011) and concepts of non-formal education defended by Maria da Glória Gohn (2010 and 2012). The research was developed with a view to analyze the historical process experienced by the actors of the intervention, and for that, the decision was that it would be more appropriate to base our data collection strategy in methodological procedures set out by the Oral History, like the Thematic History (LE GOFF, 1990 and Thompson, 1992), the actors selected for this work took part in a semi-structured interview, where they were able to relate their memories and impressions of the process now under examination. For data analysis, we chose the theory of discourse analysis, based on the work of Eni Orlandi (1999 and 2008). We seek in this paper to analyze what influence the space can exercise, in its multiple dimensions, in the civilizing process; how important is the method (in our case, football) for an intervention that intends to promote social change; on which phenomena of social life the individuals need to appropriate to develop a critical reading of reality and may thus have a more protagonist action in their lives; and finally, we analyze the role of the Socio-sports Project Forming Tomorrow in this process. This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that despite all the constraints that each social reality imposes on individuals, you can always processing, even taking into account the currently prevailing social structure. The results suggest that the phenomena present in the neighborhood configuration of Coelhos act to impose difficulties and limitations to the residents there. Within this perspective, we conclude that the Socio-sports Project Forming Tomorrow constituted as a pointer center of alternatives, an individualism logic resistance locus, and a potentiating base of life projects.

abstract: Neighborhoods are important aspects of the adolescent and family ecology. Cultural developmental perspectives posit that neighborhood environments contain both promoting and inhibiting characteristics for ethnic-racial minoritized populations (García Coll et al., 1996). Historically, neighborhood researchers have approached Latino neighborhoods from a deficit perspective. Thus, there is limited research about how Latino neighborhoods support Latino youth development and family processes. In my dissertation, I examine both the promoting and inhibiting aspects of Latino identified neighborhoods for adolescent development. In study 1, I prospectively examined a model in which Mexican-origin parents’ perceptions of social and cultural resources in neighborhoods may support parents to engage in higher levels of cultural socialization and, in turn, promote adolescents’ ethnic-racial identity (ERI). Findings suggest neighborhood social and cultural cohesion in late childhood promoted middle adolescents’ ERI affirmation via intermediate increases in maternal cultural socialization. Similar patterns were observed for ERI resolution, but only for adolescents whose mothers were born in the United States. Findings have critical implications for how neighborhoods support parents’ cultural socialization practices and adolescents’ ERI. In study 2, I used a convergent mixed methods research design to compare and contrast researchers’ neighborhood assessments collected using systematic social observations (e.g., physical disorder, sociocultural symbols) with adolescents’ qualitative neighborhood assessments collected by semi-structured interviews with Mexican-origin adolescents. Using quantitative methods, I found that researchers observed varying degrees of physical disorder, physical decay, street safety, and sociocultural symbols across adolescents’ neighborhood environments. Using qualitative methods, I found that adolescents observed these same neighborhood features about half the time, but also that they often layered additional meaning on top of distinct neighborhood features. Using mixed methods I found that, in the context of high spatial concordance, there was a high degree of overlap between researchers and adolescents in terms of agreement on the presence of physical disorder, physical decay, street safety, and sociocultural symbols. Lastly, adolescents often expanded upon these neighborhood environmental features, especially with references to positive and negative affect and resources. Overall, findings from study 2 underscore the importance using mixed methods to address the shared and unique aspects of researchers’ objectivity and adolescents’ phenomenology. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Family and Human Development 2020

Youth crime is a current topic in the news and seems to be a serious challenge for several municipalities in Sweden. Therefore, this study investigated the increasing youth crime in Växjö municipality, especially the Teleborg centrum area. The study focused on the role that sense of place plays in relation to youth crime. The selected research method is a qualitative method and semi-structured interviews. Thirteen interviews were conducted and categorized into three categories: one youths who lives near the area Teleborg center, two residents in the area and three Växjö municipality workers, and other relevant individuals. The collected material was analyzed with the help of the concept of sense of place presented in the literature review and the idea of neighborhood decay, as well as Travis Hirschi's theory of social bonds. This study's findings show youth who live near Teleborg center have strong bonds concerning the family, school, and society in general. Therefore, youths who live near Teleborg center are not prone to develop criminal character. The result also shows that sense of place is weak and impacts youths' behaviors, contributing to insecurity and anti-social behaviors in Teleborg Center. Further, the results show the area Teleborg center lacks a strong community that promotes collective action to tackle instability concerns in the area. However, it is important to acknowledge that the results cannot be generalized to the entire population.

Climate change temperatures expected to rise and extreme heat events (HW) canbe intensified. The influence of climate change on the built environment willbecame more apparent over the coming years. For example, there would be ashift in the risk of overheating in buildings, as well as the cooling and heatingneeds.Studies found that design strategies used to optimize buildings for winter like:good thermal insulation, high airtightness, and extra heat gains increase the riskof overheating. Thus, because of climate change, there is a need for checking thebuildings for summer conditions even in heating dominated countries.This study aims to investigate the potential of two main passive design strategiesto mitigate indoor overheating: ventilation and shading. The main focus of thisstudy is on single-family homes within the Swedish context. Bysjöstrand EkobyAssociation’s Bysjöstrand eco-village project is used as case study. 30 singlefamilyhomes are simulated using Honeybee to run EnergyPlus for calculatingindoor mean air temperature values, extracting the number of hour andpercentages of overheating for each building.Six alternative scenarios were used to evaluate the eco-village. The firststructures were assessed to determine the hours and percentage of time spentoverheating in the present and future situations. The second scenarios, whichinvolved utilizing natural ventilation, was tested to determine if and to what extentit can help to reduce the overheating risk in present and future.A combination of natural ventilation and shading was used for the last scenariosboth for current and future climate.According to the findings, natural ventilation has the greatest influence in reducingoverheating. Combining these two strategies in 2020 and 2070 can lower theaverage percentages of overheating from 17.5 % to 0.6 % and 52.8 % to 12.4%,respectively.The majority of the overheating risk may be addressed using passive strategies,based on the results. More detailed building design is likely be able to eliminateoverheating in single family homes, however, as this study showed it is importantto consider passive strategies from the early stage on the design process.

Neighborhood in Minsk built for the workers of the tractor plant became a site of creation of soviet man. Architecture of socialist realism itself played a positive role: it played in tune with postwar longing for peaceful life in privacy, with family with comfortable structure of enclosed blocks, and at the same time created a background and scenery of life that elevated man through classicist image. Village youth came to the site driven by the postwar hunger and need to reconstruct their lives together with the country. They became workers, appropriated shop floor practice and were life-long recipients of the soviet distribution system that included housing as the main resource. People learned to live and work for future, "when communism arrives", withdrawing to privacy from the slogans, not paying attention to the latter but in that very moment rejecting the sphere of public life its real power, denying possibility to change.

This thesis introduces a Large Neighborhood Search (LNS) method to solve a multi-processor avionics scheduling problem. In a typical scheduling problem, tasks are scheduled with exact starting times. In this thesis however, tasks will instead be assigned to disjoint time segments, called buckets. For an assignment to be feasible, precedence relations and capacity constraints related to network and computing resources need to be fulfilled. The introduced LNS method relies on solving Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP)-models. To make progress in the search for a feasible assignment, we construct a MIP-model that allows violation of the problem constraints at a cost of increased objective value. The LNS method uses two operators, a destroy operator that chooses a set of tasks that are allowed to change buckets, and a repair operator that through solving the MIP-model creates a new schedule. This thesis develops 11 types of destroy operators and 30 (concrete) variants of them. The MIP-based LNS is evaluated on a set of 60 instances with up to 84 000 tasks and 21 processors. The instances belongs to six categories of varying difficulty. The MIP-based LNS solves 50 instances within our time limit, and the largest instance solved has 77 757 tasks. This is significantly better than solving the complete MIP-model in a single step. With this approach only 36 instances can be solved within our time limit and the largest instance solved has 48554 tasks.

Thesis advisor: Rebekah L. Coley / Recent decades have witnessed the increasing spatial concentration of poverty and affluence in the United States (Biscoff & Reardon, 2013). Given well-documented links between neighborhood economic contexts and wellbeing (Chow et al., 2005), this has the potential to exacerbate disparities in health, particularly for people with limited neighborhood choice. However, limited research has systematically examined the neighborhood features underlying these links. A more nuanced understanding of why neighborhood poverty matters is essential for promoting equitable neighborhood development. Using rigorous analytic techniques that account for the dynamic nature of neighborhoods and help adjust for selection bias, I considered two complementary questions: 1) do observed neighborhood resources and stressors mediate associations between neighborhood poverty and wellbeing within and between individuals; and 2) how do observed versus perceived changes in neighborhood features mediate links between neighborhood poverty and wellbeing? I combined individual-level longitudinal data from the Post-Katrina Study of Resilience and Recovery with administrative neighborhood data drawn from the Census Bureau, FBI, and EPA. Analyses focused on a sample of 606 participants – primarily young Black mothers with low levels of income – who were affected by Hurricane Katrina, most of whom experienced some period of forced relocation. Participants were surveyed once before (2003/04) and twice after (2006/07; 2009) the hurricane. Results paint a complex picture. Contrasting with prior research, total effects of neighborhood poverty on wellbeing were limited. However, changes in neighborhood poverty were linked to wellbeing indirectly through intermediary neighborhood features, with results pointing to benefits and detriments of rising neighborhood poverty. Results were driven by those who changed neighborhoods over the course of the study. For participants that lived in the same New Orleans neighborhood across waves, changes in neighborhood poverty proved less consequential. Overall, results suggest that rather than treating neighborhood poverty as uniformly problematic for wellbeing, efforts to promote health equity should identify and build upon existing assets of neighborhoods, like affordability and amenity access, while also reducing stressors. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2021. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology.

In this diploma project I´m designing golf cart for transportation two persons . At the side of design I wanted to achieve an innovate feature and diferentiate from today´s production. Through my conception I want to offer a wider possibility of usage and increase use value of golf cart. Herewith I mean for example an integration to the traffic after urgent modification. I dont want to design the golf cart like a vision to the future, but I endeavour for complying with current trends at the producing.

Though mental health issues are prevalent amongst college students, pre-college environment and experiences are largely overlooked as potential factors in scientific literature. The current study examined the association of neighborhood disorganization, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and mental health outcomes in a sample of college students. Utilizing the ecological model of human development and risk-resilience framework, I examined co-parenting quality as a plausible protective factor against the negative effects of adverse childhood experiences and neighborhood disorder. Self-report measures of ACEs, co-parenting quality, neighborhood disorder, anxiety, and depression were completed by a sample of college students (N = 259; mean age = 19.2 years). Simultaneous multiple regressions indicated that more ACEs predicted more depression and anxiety symptoms. However, neighborhood disorder did not predict anxiety or depression, and co-parenting quality did not moderate the association between neighborhood and mental health or ACEs and mental health outcomes. Results highlight future researchers should investigate pre-college environment to better understand college student mental health.

The U.S.-American foreclosure crisis and related economic crises have had severe and wide-reaching effects for the global economy, homeowners, and municipalities alike. These negative changes led to federal, state, regional, and local responses intended to prevent and mitigate foreclosures. As of yet, no research has examined the community- and neighborhood-level impacts of local foreclosure responses. This research seeks to determine the economic, physical, social, and political changes that resulted from these responses. A mixed methods case study of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, home to Cleveland, was used to identify local level foreclosure responses—i.e. those carried out at the county level and below—and their effects. The qualitative component was comprised of semi-structured stakeholder interviews, including local governmental representatives, advocacy groups, and neighborhood representatives. Two community subcases were investigated in depth to further examine the mechanisms and effects of foreclosure responses. The quantitative component supplements the qualitative component by means of a quantile regression model that examines relationships between foreclosure responses and changes in property value at the Census tract level, used to approximate communities. The model integrates data for the entire county and estimates coefficients at various quantiles of the dependent variable, which uncovers variations in the associations between the variables along the dependent variable’s distribution. That is, with quantile regression it is possible to determine whether foreclosure responses have different effects depending on community conditions. The results indicate that the national and local context are of particular importance when responding to the foreclosure crisis. Lackluster national level responses necessitated creative and innovative responses at the local level. The Cleveland region is characterized a weak housing market and its concomitant vacancy and abandonment problems. Thus, post-foreclosure responses that deal with blighted property are essential. A wide variety of foreclosure responses took place in Cuyahoga County, in the form of systems reform, foreclosure prevention, targeting, property acquisition and control, legal efforts, and community- and neighborhood-level efforts. Several strategies used in these responses emerged as themes: targeting, addressing blight, strengthening the social fabric, planning for the future, building institutions and organizational capacity, and advocacy. Physical and economic impacts are closely linked and are brought about especially by responses using targeting and blight reduction strategies. Social impacts, such as increased identification with, investment in, and commitment to the community occurred as the result of responses that used the strategies of strengthening the social fabric and planning a shared future for the community. Finally, the strategies of building institutions and organizational capacity and advocacy resulted in increased political power in the form of more local control and additional resources for neighborhoods and communities. These results provide deeper insight into the effects of the foreclosure crisis and local responses to it on neighborhoods and communities. This case study identifies the importance of targeting, blight removal, strengthening social bonds, planning for a shared future, increasing organizational capacity, and advocacy in addressing the foreclosure crisis on the community and neighborhood levels, especially in weak housing market cities where need far outstrips the available resources.