A shortage of academic literature exists on North American backyard chicken (BYC) keeping. This is particularly apparent when we ask why people keep backyard chickens in North American cities. This thesis examines individuals’ motivations and lived experiences with raising non-permitted BYC within the City of Winnipeg, using a phenomenological approach and Hanisch’s (2006) the Personal is Political theoretical perspective. Participants were motivated to keep BYC for food production, learning opportunities, leisure and companionship. Motivations were personal and often partly political. Sources of satisfaction derived from keeping BYC included food products, by-products and production, increased sense of connection, enjoyment, leisure, entertainment and companionship, learning opportunities, and doing what felt right. Fear of being found out, isolation and negative stereotypes were challenges experienced. Should the existing bylaw change, permitting BYC on residential Winnipeg properties, participants recommended imposing BYC-specific regulations and public education as a way of addressing concerns and mitigating potential issues. / October 2015

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Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2016-08-19T19:47:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo da Silva3.pdf: 2883474 bytes, checksum: c861eea2e205a63e3e47d931ca6ffa32 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-19T19:47:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo da Silva3.pdf: 2883474 bytes, checksum: c861eea2e205a63e3e47d931ca6ffa32 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-03 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The expansion of the virtual social networks; the improvement of information techniques; the penetrability of the competitive capitalism; and the fragmented postmodern subject, beside the consumer society; they constitute the pillarsof this thesis. Our central hypothesis is that the internet’s social networks: magnify spacesof participation, sharing, collaboration, and consumer’s disappointment manifestation, but do not decrease discontinuations, misunderstanding, and disrespect resultant of relations and consumption practices, that might, many times, accelerate conflicts. The openness to dialogue, the subject incitement to seize power, and the exchange multiplication between companies and consumers, they represent the opportunity and the challenge we have to value the communication’s normative conception, admitting the cross-comprehension difficulties, the cohabitation urgency, and the reality of lack of communication. We resort to the French branch of discourseanalysis (DA) as the theoretical-methodological field to analyze the modern consumer speech that is subscribed on the Reclame Aqui platform, and to build a critique to the contemporary corporative communication from the concepts of scenography, ethos, and enunciation schematization. We verify how ideology works on the inside of the consumption enunciation scenes, creating an order unique to the disappointed claimant. This analysis ratifies the theoretical discussion we carried out supporting the problematization, and the debate of the seven scenographies displayed by/through the subject/consumer’s speech: respect/disrespect; threat, promise and frustration; bad service and unresolved problem; negotiation; new versus old clients; and deceived client. The overlap of our corpus and the theoretical framework puts on stage the need for organizational communication driven by the practical sense of otherness that transcends exchanges strictly focused on the market; and at the same time it sheds light upon the urgency of more solidarity, compassion, listening skills, comprehension and cohabitation for the corporations that works on a society guided by the frenzy of the ethics of the competition, and consumptionidolatry. This thesis puts forth that the performance of consumers, and organizations in the on-line world represent more than a circumstantial evidence of mutual (in) tolerance, but it also delineates a shared fate that might lead to an otherness solidarity, as well as accepting the alterity experience, failure risk, and hope in the confidence and respect that communication can conceive. / A expansão das redes sociais virtuais, o aperfeiçoamento das técnicas de informação, a penetrabilidade do capitalismo de concorrência e o fragmentado sujeito pós-moderno constituem, ao lado da sociedade de consumo, os pilares desta tese. Nossa hipótese central é que as redes sociais da Internet ampliam os espaços de participação, compartilhamento, colaboração e manifestação das decepções do consumidor, mas não diminuem as descontinuidades, a incompreensão e o desrespeito oriundos das relações e práticas de consumo, podendo, muitas vezes, aceleraremasconflitualidades. A abertura para o diálogo, o incitamento à tomada de poder do sujeito e a multiplicação das trocas entre empresas e consumidores representam a oportunidade e o desafio de valorizarmos a concepção normativa da comunicação, admitindo as dificuldades da intercompreensão, a urgência da coabitação e a realidade da incomunicação. Recorremos à Análise de Discurso de tradição francesa (AD) como campo teórico-metodológico para analisar o discurso do consumidor inscrito na plataforma Reclame AQUI e construir uma crítica à comunicação corporativa contemporânea; a partir dos conceitos de cenografia, ethos e esquematização enunciativa, verificamos como a ideologia opera no interior das cenas daenunciação do consumo, constituindo uma ordem própria ao discurso do reclamante decepcionado. Esta análise ratificou as discussões teóricas que levamos a cabo, servindo de suporte para a problematização e o debate das sete cenografias que se evidenciaram no/pelo discurso do sujeito/consumidor: respeito/desrespeito, ameaça, promessa e frustração, mau atendimento e problema não resolvido, negociação, clientes novos x antigos e consumidor enganado; a imbricação do nosso corpuse o arcabouço teórico coloca na ribalta a necessidade de políticas de comunicação organizacional norteadas pelo senso prático de outridade, transcendendo as relações puramente mercadológicas; ao mesmo tempo, lança luz sobre apremência de mais solidariedade, compaixão, capacidade de escuta, compreensão e coabitação para as corporações que funcionam em uma sociedade guiada pelo frenesi da ética da concorrência e da consumolatria. Esta tese evidencia que a atuação dos consumidores e das empresas no mundo on-line representa mais que um elemento circunstancial de (in) tolerância mútua; desenha um destino comum que pode ter como rumo a outridade solidária do próximo, aceitando a experiência da alteridade, o risco do fracasso e a esperança da confiança e do respeito que a comunicação pode conceber.

Ce travail porte sur les justices seigneuriales des environs de Paris entre le règne personnel de Louis XIV, moment de réforme des ressorts des justices à l’intérieur de la capitale, de la création de la Lieutenance générale de Police et de l’Ordonnance criminelle de 1670, jusqu’à leur suppression au début de la Révolution française. Grâce aux documents seigneuriaux, des institutions monarchiques, des notaires et aux documents produits dans les tribunaux locaux, j’étudie les prérogatives de ces justices, leur organisation matérielle, leur personnel, leurs rapports avec les justiciables pour l’enregistrement et l’instruction des crimes, et ce que les crimes nous apprennent sur les relations entre les hommes autour de Paris. / This PhD deals with seigneurial justices around Paris between the personal reign of Louis XIV, moment of reform in administration of Paris and in criminal procedure, and the beginning of the French Revolution. Numerous types of documents have been used: documents from seigneurial papers, royal institutions, notaries and seigneurial justices. I oriented my researches on the way these justices worked, the links between the judges and the people, and how crimes’ features can inform us about the society.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi examinar a prática adotada para disponibilização de leitos para internação pelos hospitais públicos da cidade de Taubaté - SP. Os hospitais-foco desse estudo foram escolhidos por acessibilidade não probabilística e os entrevistados selecionados por interesse dentro do perfil de caráter Público. O estudo possibilitou identificar eventuais lacunas e oportunidades de melhoria na gestão pública hospitalar, observar fatores e variáveis socioeconômicos e demográficos como, por exemplo, receitas Estaduais e Municipais, renda per capita, taxas Estaduais e Municipais e Dados Territoriais, além do número de internações por especialidades. O método utilizado foi a pesquisa de natureza exploratório-descritiva e documental. Foi utilizada uma entrevista semi-estruturada junto aos gestores dos hospitais pesquisados. Após a coleta, por meio de documentos fornecidos por órgãos reguladores e entrevistas com os respectivos gestores, os dados foram examinados e comparados com os parâmetros da Portaria MS n 1101/GM. Diante dos resultados encontrados concluiu-se que os hospitais públicos dessa cidade atendem parcialmente aos parâmetros estabelecidos pela Portaria 1101/GM. Em particular, no que diz respeito às internações por especialidades médicas, há um cenário de muitas oportunidades para os gestores hospitalares, a começar pela expertise na gestão pública profissionalizada, arraigada no processo de melhoria contínua na qual há a necessidade de mudanças no sistema de administração hospitalar, devido à complexidade dessa organização. Enfim, é imprescindível que haja a inter-relação dos saberes interdisciplinares eivados na busca do conhecimento do todo da organização hospitalar e também em partes devido à pluralidade de profissionais de diferentes formações e de serviços. Há oportunidades na gestão da saúde por meio de ações preventivas, não tardias ou dispendiosas, com diagnósticos precisos e tratamento multidisciplinar. Essa mudança seria um alvo a ser atingido. / The aim of this paper is to examine the practice adopted for the provision of beds for public hospitals by the city of Taubaté - SP. The hospitals focused on this study were chosen for non-probabilistic accessibility, and the interviewees selected by interest in the public character profile. The study enabled to identify possible gaps and opportunities for improvement in public hospital management, observe socioeconomic factors and demographic variables such as, for example, state and local income, per capita income, state and local taxes, territorial data, besides the number of hospitalizations for specialties. The method used was the exploratory-descriptive and documentary research. Data were collected through a semi-structured interviews with the managers of the hospitals surveyed and through the documents provided by regulatory agency. Afterwards, the corpora were examined and compared with the parameters of Ordinance No. 1101 G / M MS. Considering the results, it was concluded that public hospitals in this city partially meet the parameters established by this ordinance. Consequently, regarding the admissions to medical specialties, there are many opportunities for hospital managers, starting with expertise in professionalized public administration ingrained in the process of continuous improvement, which there is a need for changes in the hospital administration system, due the complexity of the organization. Finally, it is crucial that the interrelationship of interdisciplinary knowledge riddled in the pursuit of knowledge of the whole hospital organization, and also the parts, due to the plurality of different backgrounds and professional services. In short, there are opportunities in health management through preventive actions, not late or expensive, with precise diagnosis and multidisciplinary treatment, in other words, a change to be conquered.

Orientador: Patricia Borba Marchetto / Resumo: A bioética envolve questões que acontecem em um mundo multidisciplinar, interdisciplinar ou transdisciplinar, o que pode sugerir uma grande lacuna do direito, favorecendo ou até promovendo violações contra a humanidade, como também aos sistemas internacionais de direitos humanos e aos direitos fundamentais, estes inseridos no cenário constitucional brasileiro. Neste caso, a ciência e a tecnologia invadem o mundo do Direito, limitadas pelos institutos do direito à vida e da dignidade da pessoa humana, os quais são premissas constitucionais de formação do Estado para a construção e o fortalecimento do ordenamento jurídico composto por regras nacionais e por fontes internacionais, cenário permeado por questões éticas e morais que trazem interpretação tanto ao Direito quanto à Bioética e suas peculiaridades. A relevância do tema deve ser observada não somente pelo viés dos interesses econômicos que envolvem as pesquisas científicas ou a manutenção dos sistemas de saúde pública, mas, principalmente, para obtenção de respostas aos dilemas que envolvem a ciência e a saúde e suas sensíveis e possíveis violações aos princípios mencionados. Através de um caso concreto, ainda em trânsito no sistema de justiça brasileiro, abordando o direito de uma paciente submetida à lista de espera por um transplante de medula, a pesquisa se desenvolve no sentido de discutir a relação entre direitos humanos, bioética, preservação da vida, evolução científica e seus desafios modernos e, especialmente, ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Bioethics involves issues that happens in a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary world, which can suggest a wide gap of the Law studies, favoring or even promoting violations against humanity, but also to international systems of human and fundamental rights, these inserted into Brazilian constitutional scenario. In this case, the science and technology invades the world of law, limited by the institutes of the right to life and human dignity, which are constitutional premises of formation of the State for the construction and strengthening of the legal system composed of national rules and international fonts, scenery permeated by ethical and moral issues that bring interpretation both to the Law regarding Bioethics and its peculiarities. The relevance of the theme should be observed not only by the bias of economic interests that involve scientific research or the maintenance of public health systems, but mainly for obtaining answers to dilemmas that involve science and health and his sensitive and possible violations to the principles mentioned. Through a concrete case, still in transit in the Brazilian justice system, addressing the right of a patient subject to the waiting list for a bone marrow transplant, the research develops in order to discuss the relationship between human rights, bioethics, preservation of life, scientific progress and its modern challenges and, especially, to reach an analysis as to the application of national legislation con... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

In recent years, the energy shortage has become a barrier to social development as there is a shortage of resources, especially non-renewable resources. In order to improve the current situation of human settlement for future generations, a series of environmental protection activities and rational utilizations of natural resources have been carried out at a global level on the theme of "Sustainable Development". Along with the quantitative growth of Chinese public buildings, especially the Large-Scale Public Buildings, the levels of energy consumption are rising and this phenomenon has been seen as a key point of energy management from a national view. This paper discusses the realities of energy consumption and the energy-saving policies of public buildings in the world’s major developed countries, and sums up the current condition of Chinese energy consumption in relation to public buildings. With regard to these factors, this paper tries to find approaches for solving the existing problems in each construction section. Less developed construction technology in China leads to a waste of materials and labor force. There is a lack of professional personnel to handle the operational management and a lack of consideration for energy efficiency in the designing process. There is not a suitable framework for compiling statistics and data on energy consumption. There are still many management problems such as inadequate policy standards in operability or implementation, unclear positioning in governmental management, ineffective incentive or punitive mechanisms, and a defective state system which results directly in an undeveloped service system for energy efficiency. Based on all of the problems listed above, this paper suggests solutions in four areas, namely Policy, Energy Statistics, Management and Education, in order to give academic support for the overhaul of Large-Scale Public Buildings towards greater energy efficiency in China.

In recent years, the energy shortage has become a barrier to social development as there is a shortage of resources, especially non-renewable resources. In order to improve the current situation of human settlement for future generations, a series of environmental protection activities and rational utilizations of natural resources have been carried out at a global level on the theme of "Sustainable Development". Along with the quantitative growth of Chinese public buildings, especially the Large-Scale Public Buildings, the levels of energy consumption are rising and this phenomenon has been seen as a key point of energy management from a national view. This paper discusses the realities of energy consumption and the energy-saving policies of public buildings in the world’s major developed countries, and sums up the current condition of Chinese energy consumption in relation to public buildings. With regard to these factors, this paper tries to find approaches for solving the existing problems in each construction section. Less developed construction technology in China leads to a waste of materials and labor force. There is a lack of professional personnel to handle the operational management and a lack of consideration for energy efficiency in the designing process. There is not a suitable framework for compiling statistics and data on energy consumption. There are still many management problems such as inadequate policy standards in operability or implementation, unclear positioning in governmental management, ineffective incentive or punitive mechanisms, and a defective state system which results directly in an undeveloped service system for energy efficiency. Based on all of the problems listed above, this paper suggests solutions in four areas, namely Policy, Energy Statistics, Management and Education, in order to give academic support for the overhaul of Large-Scale Public Buildings towards greater energy efficiency in China. / www.ima.kth.se

Planning departments are besieged with temporal/historical information. While for many institutions historical information can be relegated to archives, planning departments have a constant need to access and query their historical information, particularly their historical spatial information such as zoning. This can be a cumbersome process fraught with inaccuracies due to the changing organizational methods and the extended historical legacies of most municipalities. Geographic Information Systems can be a tool to provide a solution to the difficulties in querying spatio-temporal planning data. Using a data model designed specifically to facilitate the querying of historical zoning information, queries can be performed to answer basic zoning questions such as "what is the zoning history for a specific parcel of land?" This work outlines this zoning data model, its implementation, and its testing using queries basic to the needs of planning departments.

William Watters was American Methodism's first itinerant preacher born in America. Although raised in an Anglican home, Watters was converted under the preaching and influence of Methodist preachers and soon became a class leader. At the invitation of Robert Williams, one of John Wesley's earliest workers in America, Watters embarked on his first itinerant preaching journey to the southeastern region of Virginia in October 1772. Watters quickly rose to prominence in the budding Methodist movement as a preacher and leader and was appointed to his first circuit at the 1773 Conference. As the Revolutionary War against Britain grew more intense Wesley's missionaries left the country or went into hiding. As a result Watters became a significant leader of Methodism, which included becoming the first American Methodist to chair a Methodist Conference in 1778. In the late 1770's the growing problem of limited access to the ordinances of baptism and communion came to a head with Methodists in Virginia and North Carolina ordaining themselves so that they could administer the ordinances. This created a split in American Methodism since preachers north of Virginia disagreed with these actions. In 1779 and 1780 the split was even more evident, with two separate annual conferences meeting. William Watters was the only preacher determined not to allow American Methodism to suffer irreparable damage from the schism. His proactive peacemaking efforts resulted in the reunification of the movement that met in a united Conference in 1781. Watters gave America Methodism fifty years of distinguished service as an itinerant preacher, a local pastor, trustee and benefactor. Health took William Watters off the punishing circuits but it could never keep him from serving the Lord through American Methodism. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D.Th.(Church History)