This study uses qualitative research consisting of six semi-structural interviews of treatment workers who, in various capacities, have worked with men who use violence against their female partners. The purpose has been to show what the treatment counselor understand to be the reasons behind the men’s violence, what kind of backgrounds and problems they believe these abusers have and, lastly, how they view the male abusers as clients. The empirical data was analyzed through four perspectives and explanatory models derived from the past thirty years of Scandinavian research on the reasons behind men’s violence against women. Connell’s theory of masculinity was used as a filter along with the four theoretical perspectives when interpreting the data. The study revealed that the respondents found no consistent group of men who abuse. The respondents brought up reasons such as possible earlier exposure to violence, fear of abandonment, jealousy, feelings of powerlessness, and failed expectations of gender roles to be some consistent causes behind the violence. In general, according to the treatment workers, the male abusers they encounter tend to struggle with their self-image and how they fulfill perceived male ideals.

Ce travail de recherche est dédié à l’analyse des décisions de financement des Très Petites Entreprises (TPE)françaises. Le premier chapitre de cette thèse décrit le cadre de l’étude, à savoir les TPE. Le second chapitre revisite les principales théories de la structure financière à la lumière des spécificités des TPE, et motive l’utilisation du cadre théorique du financement hiérarchique. Le troisième chapitre propose un test de la théorie du financement hiérarchique sur un large échantillon de TPE françaises. Le quatrième chapitre propose d’adapter ce modèle aux choix et aux contraintes de financement de la TPE, notamment en y intégrant une hiérarchie infra dettes.Ce chapitre propose également un test empirique portant sur l’arbitrage entre dettes financières et comptes courants d’associés. La principale contribution de cette thèse est certainement la généralisation de la théorie du financement hiérarchique aux TPE françaises. Ces firmes préfèrent le financement interne au financement externe, et la dette à l’émission d’actions. Néanmoins, les firmes en excédent de financement ne cherchent pas à se désendetter rapidement, ce qui peut se traduire par l’anticipation de déficits de financement futurs, d’autant plus difficiles à combler que ces entreprises sont soumises au rationnement de crédit. La théorie du financement hiérarchique ne permet cependant pas d’expliquer la préférence des dirigeants de TPE pour les dettes financières, par rapport aux comptes courants d’associés. Les TPE étant généralement détenues et dirigées par la même personne, il est possible d’analyser ce comportement sous l’angle de la théorie de la diversification.Les actionnaires-dirigeants privilégient la diversification de leur patrimoine personnel à la minimisation des coûts d’asymétrie d’information / This research work is devoted to the analysis of financing decisions of French Very Small Businesses (VSB).The first chapter of this thesis describes the object of the study, namely the VSB. The second chapter revisits the main theories of capital structure in the light of the specificities of VSBs, and motivates the use of the theoretical framework proposed by the Pecking Order Theory. The third chapter tests the Pecking Order Theory on a large sample of French VSBs. The fourth chapter suggests adapting this theory to the evidence of financing choicesand financial constraints of VSBs, particularly by incorporating an infra-debt hierarchy. This chapter also provides an empirical test of the trade off between financial debts and partners' current accounts. The main contribution of this work is certainly the generalization of the Pecking Order Theory to the French VSB universe. These firms prefer internal financing to external financing, and debt to issuing shares. However, firms with excess of financing do not try to reduce debt quickly, which can be translated by the anticipation of future financing deficits, which become even more severe as these businesses are subject to credit rationing.Nevertheless, the Pecking Order Theory still does not provide any explanation for the preference of the VSBs’ managers for financial debt, compared to partners' current accounts. The fact that VSBs are generally owned and managed by the same person makes it possible to analyze their financial behavior under the diversification theory. Share holder-managers prefer diversifying their personal wealth rather than minimizing costs of information asymmetry

La transcription, la maturation d’ARN, et le remodelage de la chromatine sont tous des processus centraux dans l'interprétation de l'information contenue dans l’ADN. Bien que beaucoup de complexes de protéines formant la machinerie cellulaire de transcription aient été étudiés, plusieurs restent encore à identifier et caractériser. En utilisant une approche protéomique, notre laboratoire a purifié plusieurs composantes de la machinerie de transcription de l’ARNPII humaine par double chromatographie d’affinité "TAP". Cette procédure permet l'isolement de complexes protéiques comme ils existent vraisemblablement in vivo dans les cellules mammifères, et l'identification de partenaires d'interactions par spectrométrie de masse. Les interactions protéiques qui sont validées bioinformatiquement, sont choisies et utilisées pour cartographier un réseau connectant plusieurs composantes de la machinerie transcriptionnelle. En appliquant cette procédure, notre laboratoire a identifié, pour la première fois, un groupe de protéines, qui interagit physiquement et fonctionnellement avec l’ARNPII humaine. Les propriétés de ces protéines suggèrent un rôle dans l'assemblage de complexes à plusieurs sous-unités, comme les protéines d'échafaudage et chaperonnes. L'objectif de mon projet était de continuer la caractérisation du réseau de complexes protéiques impliquant les facteurs de transcription. Huit nouveaux partenaires de l’ARNPII (PIH1D1, GPN3, WDR92, PFDN2, KIAA0406, PDRG1, CCT4 et CCT5) ont été purifiés par la méthode TAP, et la spectrométrie de masse a permis d’identifier de nouvelles interactions. Au cours des années, l’analyse par notre laboratoire des mécanismes de la transcription a contribué à apporter de nouvelles connaissances et à mieux comprendre son fonctionnement. Cette connaissance est essentielle au développement de médicaments qui cibleront les mécanismes de la transcription. / Genomes encode most of the functions necessary for cell growth and differentiation. Gene transcription, RNA processing, and chromatin remodeling are central processes in the interpretation of the information contained in genomic DNA. Although many protein complexes forming the cellular machinery that interprets mammalian genomes have been studied, a number of additional complexes remain to be identified and characterized. Using proteomic approaches, Dr. Benoit Coulombe’s laboratory purified many components of the RNAPII transcription machinery using tandem affinity purification (TAP), a procedure that allows the isolation of protein complexes as they likely exist in live mammalian cells, and the identification of interaction partners using mass spectrometry. High confidence interactions were selected computationally and used to draw the map of a network connecting many components of the mRNA transcriptional machinery. By applying this procedure, our lab has identified, for the first time, a group of proteins, that interacts both physically and functionally with human RNAPII, and whose properties suggest a role in the assembly of multi-subunit complexes, acting as RNAPII-specific scaffolding proteins and chaperones. The aim of my project was to continue the characterization of the network of protein complexes involving transcription factors, and thus, further pursuing our survey of protein complexes in whole cell extracts. Eight novel RNAPII interaction partners (PIH1D1, GPN3, WDR92, PFDN2, KIAA0406, PDRG1, CCT4 and CCT5) were purified using the tandem affinity purification (TAP) method, and their interaction partners were identified by mass spectrometry. Over the years, our lab’s analysis of transcriptional regulation and mechanisms has contributed novel and important knowledge that provided better understanding of mRNA synthesis. This knowledge is paramount to the development of therapeutics that will target transcriptional mechanisms.

Les couples mariés qui ont des convictions religieuses fortes doivent respecter deux ordres juridiques parallèles: l’ordre étatique et l’ordre religieux. Des conflits peuvent surgir entre ces deux ordres, notamment lors du divorce des parties. Une brève présentation du droit québécois du mariage et du divorce ainsi que des droits religieux catholique, musulman et juif permet d’effectuer des comparaisons entre ces droits et d’identifier un certain nombre de points de jonctions normatifs. Des voies permettant d’harmoniser les deux univers normatifs sont explorées, dans une perspective de droit préventif: l’adaptation du contrat de mariage civil et du processus de la médiation familiale et la rédaction des ententes entre conjoints. / Married couples with strong religious beliefs must respect two parallel legal orders : the state order and the religious order. Conflicts can arise between these two orders, in particular when the parties divorce. A brief presentation of Quebec’s marriage and divorce laws and catholic, muslim and jewish religious law allows comparison between these systems of law and reveal some normative jonction points. In a preventive law perspective, ways to harmonize these two normative universes are explored : arrangement of the civil marriage contract, of the family mediation’s processus and of the writing of the agreements between partners.

Les enjeux liés aux politiques éducatives ont considérablement changé au cours des dernières décennies. Ces changements sont liés, entre autres, à l’accroissement de l’imputabilité et de la reddition de compte qui est devenue une caractéristique importante des réformes curriculaires et pédagogiques. Les politiques à enjeux élevés exercent une pression énorme sur les districts et les écoles états-unienne afin qu’ils augmentent le rendement des élèves en utilisant des systèmes de conséquences (Hall & Ryan, 2011; Loeb & Strunk, 2007). Ces politiques envoient de puissants messages sur l'importance de certaines matières scolaires au détriment d'autres - circonscrivant les exigences en termes de compétences et de connaissances. La langue maternelle d’enseignement et les mathématiques sont devenues des mesures centrales sur lesquelles reposent l’évaluation et le degré de performance des districts et des écoles. Conséquemment, les administrateurs de districts et les directions d’écoles ont souvent recours à des réformes curriculaires et pédagogiques comme moyen d'augmenter le rendement des élèves dans les matières scolaires visées par ces politiques. Les politiques contraignent les acteurs scolaires de concentrer les ressources sur les programmes curriculaires et les évaluations, le développement professionnel, et la prise de décision pilotée par les données (Anagnostopoulos & Ruthledge, 2007; Honig & Hatch, 2004; Spillane, Diamond, et al., 2002; Weitz White & Rosenbaum, 2008). Cette thèse examine la manière dont les politiques à enjeux élevés opèrent quotidiennement dans les interactions et les pratiques au sein des écoles. Nous analysons plus particulièrement les différents messages provenant de la politique transmis aux acteurs scolaires sur les manières d'apporter des changements substantiels dans le curriculum et l'enseignement. Nous élargissons l’analyse en prenant en compte le rôle des administrateurs de district ainsi que des partenaires universitaires qui façonnent également la manière dont certains aspects des messages provenant des politiques sont transmis, négociés et/ou débattus et d’autres sont ignorés (Coburn & Woulfin, 2012). En utilisant l’analyse de discours, nous examinons le rôle du langage comme constituant et médiateur des interactions sociales entre les acteurs scolaires et d’autres parties prenantes. De telles analyses impliquent une investigation approfondie d’un nombre d’étude de cas limité. Les données utilisées dans cette thèse ont été colligées dans une école primaire états-unienne du mid-West. Cette étude de cas fait partie d’une étude longitudinale de quatre ans qui comprenait huit écoles dans les milieux urbains entre 1999 et 2003 (Distributed Leadership Studies, http://www.distributedleadership.org). La base de données analysée inclut des observations de réunions formelles et des entrevues auprès des administrateurs du district, des partenaires universitaires, de la direction d’école et des enseignants. En plus de l’introduction et de la problématique (chapitre 1) et de discussion et conclusion (chapitre 5), cette thèse comprend un ensemble de trois articles interdépendants. Dans le premier article (chapitre 2), nous effectuons une recension des écrits portant sur le domaine de l’implantation de politiques (policy implementation) et la complexité des relations locales, nationales et internationales dans les systèmes éducatifs. Pour démystifier cette complexité, nous portons une attention particulière à la construction de sens des acteurs scolaires comme étant une dimension clé du processus de mise en œuvre des réformes. Dans le deuxième article (chapitre 3), nous cherchons à comprendre les processus sociaux qui façonnent les réponses stratégiques des acteurs scolaires à l’égard des politiques du district et de l’état et en lien avec la mise en œuvre d’un curriculum prescrit en mathématiques. Plus particulièrement, nous explorons les différentes situations dans lesquelles les acteurs scolaires argumentent au sujet des changements curriculaires et pédagogiques proposés par les administrateurs de district et des partenaires universitaires afin d’augmenter les résultats scolaires en mathématiques dans une école à faible performance. Dans le troisième article (chapitre 4), nous cherchons à démystifier les complexités liées à l’amélioration de l’enseignement dans un environnement de politiques à enjeux élevés. Pour ce faire, nous utilisons l'interaction entre les notions d'agentivité et la structure afin d'analyser la manière dont les conceptions d’imputabilité et les idées qui découlent de l'environnement politique et les activités quotidiennes jouent dans les interactions entre les acteurs scolaires concernant sur l’enseignement de la langue maternelle. Nous explorons trois objectifs spécifiques : 1) la manière dont les politiques à enjeux élevés façonnent les éléments de l’enseignement qui sont reproduits et ceux qui sont transformés au fil du temps ; 2) la manière dont la compréhension des leaders de l’imputabilité façonne les aspects des messages politiques que les acteurs scolaires remarquent à travers les interactions et les conversations et 3) la manière les acteurs scolaires portent une attention particulière à certaines messages au détriment d’autres. Dans le dernier chapitre de cette thèse, nous discutons les forces et les limites de l’analyse secondaire de données qualitatives, les implications des résultats pour le domaine d’études de l’implantation de politiques et les pistes futures de recherches. / Issues related to instructional policy have significantly shifted in recent decades, as increased accountability has become a prominent feature of curricular reforms. High stakes policies exert tremendous pressure on districts and schools to improve student performance through incentive systems (Hall & Ryan, 2011; Loeb & Strunk, 2007). These policies send powerful messages about the importance of some subject matters over others – circumscribing skill and knowledge requirements. Literacy and mathematics, in particular, have become central measures by which districts and schools are assessed for their performance level. As a result, district officials and school leaders often employ curricular reform initiatives as a means to raise students’ performance in the subject matters targeted by such policies. Policy thus compels school actors to focus resources on curriculum and assessments, professional development, and data-driven decision-making (Anagnostopoulos & Ruthledge, 2007; Honig & Hatch, 2004; Spillane, Diamond, et al., 2002; Weitz White & Rosenbaum, 2008). This dissertation examines how high stakes policy operates in everyday interactions and practices in schools. More specifically, I analyze the different policy messages conveyed to school leaders and teachers about the ways to bring about substantial changes in curriculum and instruction. I expand the analysis by taking into account the role of district leaders and university partners in shaping which aspects of policy messages are being conveyed, negotiated and/or debated, and the ones that are ignored (Coburn & Woulfin, 2012). Using discourse analysis, I investigate the role of language as constitutive and a medium of school leaders’ and teachers’ social interactions with different stakeholders. Such analyses imply an in-depth investigation of a limited number of cases. The data for this dissertation were gathered in one elementary school in a mid-West state of the USA, as part of a larger four year longitudinal study that was carried out from 1999 to 2003 (Distributed Leadership Studies, http://www.distributedleadership.org). The dataset I analyzed includes observations of formal meetings –faculty meetings, professional development activities– as well as interviews with district administrators, university partners, school leaders and teachers. In addition to the introduction/problem statement (chapter 1) and the discussion/conclusion chapter, this dissertation comprises a set of three interrelated, yet independent articles. In the first article (chapter 2), I provide a theoretical and empirical framework on policy implementation and the complexity of local, national, and global interrelationships at play in educational systems. To disentangle this complexity, I pay close attention to school actors’ sense-making as one key dimension of the implementation process of reform initiatives. In the second article (chapter 3), I aim to better understand the social processes that shape school actors’ strategic responses to high stake state and district policies in regards to a mandated curriculum and instruction in mathematics. More specifically, I explore different situations where school leaders and teachers argued about the instructional changes proposed by district leaders and university partners in order to raise test scores in mathematics in a low-performing school. In the third article (chapter 4), to disentangle the complexities of instructional improvement in a high stakes policy environment, I use the interplay of agency and structure to analyze how accountability assumptions and ideas from the policy environment and the day-to-day activities play out in interactions among school leaders and teachers about reading instruction. I explore 1) how high stakes policy shapes which elements of instruction are reproduced and which ones are transformed over time; and 2) how leaders’ understandings of accountability shape which aspects of policy school actors notice through interactions and conversations and how they attend to some policy messages while ignoring others. In the last chapter of the dissertation, I discuss the strengths and limitations of secondary analysis of qualitative data, the implications of the findings for the policy implementation field and future research avenues.

Maintenance between spouses, maintenance between former spouses, maintenance between civil partners Abstract The diploma thesis deals with maintenance between spouses during marriage and after divorce and maintenance between civil partners. The maintenance duty and right for maintenance is recently a discussed topic, particularly due to high divorce rate. It is not a novelty that a divorce of a marriage or termination of a civil partnership strongly influences all of the partaking not only emotionally, but also economically. Exactly in these cases, the law provides a protection to the economically weak members of a family in a form of maintenance institutes. The biggest attention is usually dedicated to the maintenance and support of a minor. The other kinds of maintenance are not mentioned very often. The aim of this work is to analyse current legal regulation of the above mentioned institutes in the Czech legal order and compare it to the already repealed Family Act. After the recent Civil Law recodification, most of the relevant provisions were integrated to The Civil Code. Nevertheless, its content was not fundamentally changed. The thesis is basically divided into four main parts. The first and the most important part deals with the substantive regulations of all the above mentioned institutes. It...

INTRODUÇÃO: No Brasil, os doadores de sangue são submetidos à triagem clinica antes da doação através de um questionário padronizado que segue recomendações do Ministério da Saúde. Apesar de não ser obrigatório, os serviços de hemoterapia brasileiros costumam perguntar aos candidatos sobre o número de parceiros sexuais nos doze meses que precederam aquela doação de sangue. Os candidatos que referem um número de parceiros acima do limite permitido em cada hemocentro são recusados na triagem clínica pré-doação. Este estudo analisa as características demográficas, o número de parceiros heterossexuais e marcadores sorológicos em 689.868 doações de três hemocentros brasileiros, participantes do REDS-II, entre 1 de julho de 2007 a 31 de dezembro de 2009. MÉTODOS: Os doadores foram classificados de acordo com o número máximo declarado de parceiros sexuais nos últimos doze meses permitidos em cada hemocentro. Os valores de corte para Belo Horizonte, Recife e São Paulo são dois, três e seis parceiros, respectivamente. Foram realizados os testes de qui-quadrado e regressão logística a fim de examinar associações entre características demográficas, número de parceiros sexuais em doze meses e taxas de marcadores sorológicos individuais e globais positivas para o vírus da imunodeficiência adquirida (HIV), vírus linfotrópico humano (HTLV) tipo 1 e 2, hepatite B, hepatite C e sífilis. RESULTADOS: Doadores de primeira vez, jovens e com maior nível educacional foram associados a maior número de parceiros sexuais recentes, assim como o gênero em São Paulo e Recife (p < 0, 001). Marcadores sorológicos globais, para HIV e sífilis foram associados com maior número de parceiros em São Paulo e Recife (p < 0, 001), mas não em Belo Horizonte. Na análise de regressão logística, o número de parceiros sexuais foi associado com marcadores sorológicos positivos [razão de chance ajustada (AOR) 1,2-1,5], especialmente no HIV (AOR 1,9-4,4). Em conclusão, o número de parceiros sexuais nos doze meses antes da doação de sangue, foi associado com positividade para HIV e taxas globais de marcadores sorológicos para doenças transmissíveis por transfusão. A associação não foi consistente entre os centros, tornando difícil definir um valor de corte uniforme para todos os hemocentros brasileiros. Estes achados corroboram que o uso da informação dos contatos heterossexuais recentes é um importante critério de inaptidão e de melhora na segurança transfusional no Brasil / INTRODUCTION: In Brazil, blood donors undergo medical screening before donation through a standardized questionnaire that follows recommendations from the Ministry of Health. Although not required, most of the Brazilian blood centers routinely ask candidates about the number of sexual partners in the twelve months preceding that blood donation. Candidates who refer a number of partners over the limit allowed in each blood center are refused at the predonation clinic screening. This study analyzes the demographic characteristics, the number of heterosexual partners and serological markers in 689,868 donations from three Brazilian blood center, participants in the REDS-II, from 1 July 2007 to December 31, 2009. METHODS: Donors were classified according to the stated maximum of the number of sexual partners in the last twelve months, allowed at each blood center. The cutoff values for Belo Horizonte, Recife and Sao Paulo are two, three and six partners, respectively. We conducted the chi-square and logistic regression to examine associations between demographic characteristics, number of sexual partners in twelve months and rates of individual and global serological markers positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), human lymphotropic virus (HTLV) type 1 and 2, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and syphilis. RESULTS: First time donors, young and better educated were associated with increased number of recent sexual partners, as well as gender in São Paulo and Recife (p < 0.001). Global serological markers for HIV and syphilis were associated with greater number of partners in Sao Paulo and Recife (p < 0.001), but not in Belo Horizonte. In logistic regression analysis, the number of sexual partners was associated with positive serological markers [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 1.2 to 1.5], especially HIV (AOR 1.9 to 4.4). In conclusion, the number of sexual partners in the twelve months before blood donation was associated with HIV positivity and overall rates of serologic markers for transfusion-transmissible diseases. The association was not consistent among the Brazilian blood centers, making it difficult to set a uniform cut off value for all blood banks in Brazil. These findings confirm that, the use of information from recent heterosexual contacts is an important criterion of disability and improvement in transfusion safety in Brazil

Análise de custo-benefício (CBA) é um instrumento de avaliação de políticas que auxilia na tomada de decisão, empregada principalmente por gestores públicos. A CBA foi utilizada com o intuito de alcançar o objetivo principal desse estudo: verificar se a exportação de água virtual - água incorporada em um produto durante seu processo produtivo - embutida em 10 produtos do setor agropecuário brasileiro, no período de 2002 a 2016, está sendo benéfica ao Brasil. Os produtos estudados foram agrupados em 5 grupos, Açúcar, Café, Milho, Soja e Boi que, somados, desde o ano de 2012 têm representado mais de 20% do total das exportações brasileiras, em termos monetários, US$. Para qualquer análise custo-benefício é necessário que todos os impactos (custos e benefícios) sejam monetizados para se apurar o benefício líquido (BL), que é alcançado diminuindo-se os custos (C) dos benefícios (B), (BL=B-C). O estudo admitiu como custo os custos de produção, dos produtos estudados; a tarifa de armazenagem portuária; e, o valor da água virtual exportada pelo Brasil. Como benefício está sendo considerado o valor recebido com a exportação desses produtos, convertido em moeda nacional. Dessa forma, para alcançar o objetivo principal do estudo, foi necessário precificar a água virtual, um dos objetivos específicos do estudo. Ademais, o estudo apresenta ainda os principais parceiros importadores do Brasil, com relação aos produtos estudados; a importância brasileira como país exportador para esses parceiros importadores; a diferença no volume de água utilizado para produção, tanto no Brasil quanto nesses importadores; e, o volume e o valor total da água virtual exportada no período analisado. A hipótese central que norteou esse trabalho é que o Brasil obteve mais benefícios do que custos ao exportar água virtual, embutida na cesta de produtos agropecuários escolhida. Inclusive, essa hipótese pôde ser confirmada, uma vez que se identificou, por meio da CBA, benefícios totais líquidos positivos, no período de 2002 a 2016, isto é, os benefícios (valor das exportações) superaram os custos (custo de produção, tarifa portuária e valor da água virtual). No que tange aos benefícios líquidos por grupo de produto estudado, os mesmos apresentaram resultado negativo em alguns anos do período analisado. Como exemplo, para o grupo Milho, nos anos de 2005, 2006 e 2009 os benefícios líquidos foram negativos. Quanto aos benefícios totais líquidos, os mesmos foram de R$ 216.342.482.411,98 no período de 2002 a 2016. Em relação ao volume total de água virtual exportada, incorporada nos produtos abordados pelo estudo, no período analisado, o mesmo foi de 2.514.850,651 milhões de m3 de água. Em termos de valor monetário, o total apurado para esse volume de água foi de R$ 27.166.366.824,47. / Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a policy evaluation tool that assists in decision-making, used primarily by public managers. CBA was used in order to reach the main objective of this study: to verify if the export of virtual water - water contained in a product during its production process - embedded in 10 products of the Brazilian agricultural sector, from 2002 to 2016, is being beneficial to Brazil. The products studied were grouped into 5 groups: Sugar, Coffee, Corn, Soybean and Bovine, which, since the year of 2012, represented more than 20% of total Brazilian exports, in monetary terms, US$. For any cost-benefit analysis it is necessary that all impacts (costs and benefits) are monetized to determine the net benefit (NB), which is achieved by decreasing the costs (C) of the benefits (B), (NB = B-C). The study admitted as cost the costs of production, of the products studied; the port storage tariff; and, the value of virtual water exported by Brazil. As a benefit is being considered the value received with the export of these products, converted into national currency. Thus, to reach the main objective of the study, it was necessary to value the virtual water, one of the main objectives of the study. In addition, the study also analyses the main importing partners of Brazil, in relation to the products studied; the importance of Brazil as a leading agricultural exporting country for these importing partners; the difference in the volume of water used for production, both in Brazil and in the importing partners; and, the volume and total value of the virtual water exported in the analyzed period. The central hypothesis that guided this work is that Brazil obtained more benefits than costs when exporting virtual water embedded in the chosen basket of agricultural products. This hypothesis could even be confirmed, since the CBA identified positive total net benefits from 2002 to 2016, i.e., benefits (value of exports) exceeded costs (production cost, tariff port value and virtual water value). Regarding the net benefits per product group studied, they presented negative results in some years of the analyzed period, for example, for the Corn group, in the years 2005, 2006 and 2009 the net benefits were negative. As for the total net benefits, they were R$ 216,342,482,411.98 in the period from 2002 to 2016. In relation to the total volume of virtual exported water, incorporated in the products addressed by the study, during the analyzed period, it was 2,514,850,651 million m3 of water. In terms of monetary value, the total amount for this volume of water was R$ 27,166,366,824.47.

INTRODUÇÃO: Pacientes com diagnóstico de parafilias e de transtornos relacionados às parafilias ocupam a atenção pública e clínica por se tratarem de indivíduos potencialmente inconvenientes, causadores de problemas à sociedade e a si próprios. Caracteristicamente, apresentam padrões invulgares de comportamento sexual e distinguem-se pela escolha de parcerias ou de contextos sexuais incomuns. JUSTIFICATIVA: O tratamento atual leva em consideração comportamentos, fantasias e necessidades sexuais parafílicas e procura modificá-los por meio de psicoterapia cognitivocomportamental, medicação antidepressiva e antiandrogênica. Apenas a supressão destes comportamentos tem se mostrado insatisfatória e ainda apresenta altas taxas de reincidência. Não há resultados publicados sobre a efetividade de um novo tratamento psicoterapêutico, cujo foco esteja voltado para a identificação e a reestruturação da identidade sexual e cujo principal objetivo seja o de promover maior contato destes pacientes com parcerias sexuais convencionais. MÉTODO: A intervenção foi testada por meio de ensaio clínico de tratamento, randomizado, placebo controlado e unicego, realizado com dois grupos paralelos: experimental (N=6) e controle (N=8). Todos os pacientes apresentavam diagnóstico de parafilias e foram medicados com inibidores seletivos da recaptação de serotonina. As intervenções psicoterapêuticas duraram dezesseis semanas com frequência de uma sessão por semana. As mudanças comportamentais foram monitoradas por meio de um diário e as comorbidades psiquiátricas, a qualidade de vida e a adequação social foram avaliadas por meio de escalas psicométricas, nos três períodos do estudo: início, término e seguimento pósintervenção. RESULTADOS: Não houve melhora estatisticamente significante dos escores de depressão, qualidade de vida e adequação social para ambos os grupos. O grupo experimental apresentou tendência de melhor resposta para depressão ao se tomar esta variável de forma categorial. Ambos os grupos apresentaram: maior incapacidade de adequação social (comparados a populações não clínicas); tendência de aumento do estado de ansiedade; melhora clínica global e redução dos índices de gravidade das parafilias. Houve diferenças estatisticamente significantes entre os grupos. Para o grupo experimental: aumento de fantasias e masturbações normofílicas; maior procura por contatos eróticos normofílicos e diminuição de fantasias parafílicas. Porém, houve diminuição de contatos íntimos normofílicos (beijos, abraços e carícias) para este grupo. Houve diferenças estatisticamente significantes intragrupos. Para o grupo experimental: redução de contatos íntimos parafílicos e totais (parafílicos e normofílicos). Para o grupo placebo: aumento de relações sexuais parafílicas e da totalidade das fantasias sexuais (parafílicas e normofílicas). CONCLUSÕES: Os defechos favoráveis observados no grupo de intervenção evidenciaram a importância em se identificar e trabalhar psicoterapeuticamente o impedimento que os parafílicos apresentam de se relacionar com parcerias sexuais normofílicas, uma vez que para o grupo experimental as mudanças positivas observadas no comportamento, fantasias e necessidades sexuais caminharam em direção a padrões convencionais / INTRODUCTION: Patients diagnosed with paraphilia and paraphilia-related disorders have public and medical attention drawn to them because they are potentially disturbing individuals who cause problems to society and to themselves. Typically, they show unusual patterns of sexual behavior and make unusual choices related to sexual partners or sexual contexts. RATIONALE: Current treatment considers paraphilic behaviors, fantasies, and urges, trying to change these symptoms using cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, antidepressants, and anti-androgen medication. The elimination of these behaviors has proved unsatisfactory and still has high recurrence rates. We could not find in the literature any studies on the effectiveness of a new psychotherapeutic treatment focused on identifying and restructuring the patients\' sexual identity to allow for the promotion of contact between these patients and conventional sexual partners. METHOD: We conducted a randomized, placebo-controlled, single-blind clinical trial with two groups: experimental (N = 6) and control (N = 8). All patients were diagnosed with paraphilia and were treated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. The psychotherapeutic interventions lasted sixteen weeks, and its frequency was one session a week. Behavioral changes were monitored using a diary, whereas psychiatric comorbidities, quality of life, and social adequacy were assessed using psychometric scales in the three study periods: baseline, end, and post-intervention follow-up. RESULTS: There was no significant improvement of depression, quality of life, and social adequacy scores for both groups. The experimental group showed a trend toward better response to depression when we considered this as categorical variable. Both groups showed higher inability of social adequacy (when compared with non-clinical populations); tendency of increased state of anxiety; improvement of overall clinical status, and reduced levels of paraphilia severity. There were statistically significant differences between the groups. The experimental group showed increased frequency of normophilic fantasies and masturbation; increased demand for normophilic erotic contact, and decreased paraphilic fantasies. However, there was a decrease in normophilic intimate contact (kisses, hugs, and caresses) in this group. There were statistically significant intragroup differences. The experimental group had reduced paraphilic and total (paraphilic and normophilic) intimate contact. The placebo group had increased paraphilic sexual intercourse and higher frequency of sexual fantasies (paraphilic and normophilic). CONCLUSIONS: The positive outcomes found in the intervention group showed the importance of psychotherapy in identifying and treating the paraphilic patients\' impediments that prevent them from having relationships with normophilic sexual partners. This was reinforced by the finding that the experimental group showed positive changes in terms of sexual behaviors, fantasies, and urges, which were closer to conventional standards

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:25:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Erika Camozzi.pdf: 1181517 bytes, checksum: 129f42316c7ee484cb8e4c3d95114204 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-06-06 / The present study has as its objective to analyze the responsibility limitation of the partners, the managers and the administrators for the company liabilities of the private limited companies regarding the Social Security. It will be analyzed the debtor of the tax liability, its concept and choosing way, differentiating taxpayers and responsible persons for the Social Security credit, against the company, within the aspects as outlined by the National Tax Code. The personality of the corporate body will be analyzed in order to point out its main attribution: the patrimonial autonomy, an attribution that is of the essence for the correct ascribing of responsibility to the individuals regarding the fiscal debts as assumed. The autonomy of the corporate body is of utmost importance for the economic development as it limits the investor s responsibility. Consequently, the theme of the partners responsibility will also be approached, under an economic prism, through the analysis of the relationship between the limitation of the partners responsibility and the economic efficiency, taking into account the fact that the rule, that establishes the partners limited responsibility for the company liabilities, is focused on enhancing and fomenting the economic activities, becoming an instrument that results from the capitalist structure. The controversy of the subject matter is shown very clearly when we take a quick look at the scenery of the status of companies in the country, being pressed by a growing increase in the taxation burden and by the successive economic plans that do not promote, be directly or indirectly, the development of the economy. It is not without a reason that there is tax default, being presently shown, in the massive majority of cases, the impossibility by the corporate bodies to cover the existing debts with their assets, giving an opportunity to the Tax Bureau to involve the partners and other individuals in the tax foreclosures, having a purpose more intimidating than efficacious. The theory of the corporate entity disregard will be approached with the objective of outlining criteria for its correct application, considering that the Article 50 of the 2002 Civil Code was an advance in order to guide the correct application of the theory as it brought the necessary effectiveness to the Law professionals. The concern, that was pointed out by the doctrine on an on-going basis, was how the theory of the corporate entity disregard has been utilized by our Courts, in order that it is not indiscriminately applied, being kept the principle of the corporate body autonomy, to be disregarded only in exceptional cases. The issue of the responsibility of the partners and other individuals rotates around the Article 135, item III of the National Tax Code. In accordance with such provision, the administrators of limited companies become personally liable for the fiscal debts of the company as from the time they start taking action with excessive powers or with violation to the law. It will be analyzed the hypothesis in which the partner is liable for obligations that, in theory, should belong to the company, that is, 10 the hypothesis as established on the Article 13 of the Law 8,212/93. Therefore, it is necessary the joint analysis of the Articles 124, 128 and 135 of the National Tax Code with the Article 13 of the Law 8,212/91. It will still be approached the question of the unconstitutionality of this specific Article 13 which, due to the fact of legislating as regards to general rules of Tax Law, violates what is established by our Constitution, on Article 146, item III, subitem b , requiring a complementary law to the Constitution in order to legislate about the matter. And, finally, at a practical level, it will be analyzed the question related to the necessary inclusion of the name of partners, managers and administrators on the executive document of the Tax Bureau, under penalty of nullity of the registration and consequent collection action / O presente trabalho tem por objetivo examinar a limitação da responsabilidade dos sócios, gerentes e administradores pelas obrigações sociais das sociedades limitadas perante a Previdência Social. Será analisado o sujeito passivo da obrigação tributária, seu conceito e forma de eleição, diferenciando-se contribuintes e responsáveis pelo crédito previdenciário, dentro dos aspectos delineados pelo Código Tributário Nacional. Será analisada a personalidade da pessoa jurídica a fim de se destacar sua principal atribuição: a autonomia patrimonial, atribuição fundamental para a correta responsabilização das pessoas físicas pelas dívidas fiscais contraídas. A autonomia da pessoa jurídica é de suma importância para o desenvolvimento econômico, uma vez que limita a responsabilidade do investidor. Assim, o tema da responsabilidade dos sócios também é analisado sob um prisma econômico, através da análise da relação da limitação da responsabilidade dos sócios e da eficiência econômica, considerando-se o fato de que a norma que prescreve a responsabilidade limitada dos sócios pelas obrigações sociais destina-se a acentuar e fomentar as atividades econômicas, constituindo instrumento resultante da estrutura capitalista. A controvérsia do tema mostra-se evidente quando vislumbramos o panorama em que se encontram as empresas no país, pressionadas por um crescente aumento da carga tributária e pelos sucessivos planos econômicos que não favorecem, seja direta ou indiretamente, o desenvolvimento da economia. 7 Não é sem razão que há inadimplência de tributos, mostrando-se presente na maciça maioria dos casos a impossibilidade das pessoas jurídicas arcarem com seus bens os débitos existentes, ensejando a provocação pela Fazenda Pública dos sócios e demais pessoas físicas nas execuções fiscais, com intuito muitas vezes mais intimidador do que eficaz. Será abordada a teoria da desconsideração da personalidade jurídica, com o objetivo de traçar critérios para a sua correta aplicação, considerando-se que o artigo 50 do Código Civil de 2002 representou um avanço para nortear a correta aplicação da teoria, pois trouxe aos operadores do Direito a efetividade necessária. A preocupação constantemente destacada pela doutrina é como a teoria da desconsideração da personalidade jurídica tem sido utilizada pelos nossosossos Tribunais, a fim de que não seja aplicada indiscriminadamente, mantendo-se o princípio da autonomia da pessoa jurídica para, somente em casos excepcionais, desconsiderá-la. A questão da responsabilidade dos sócios e demais pessoas físicas gira em torno do artigo 135, III do CTN. De acordo com tal dispositivo, os administradores de sociedades por quotas passam a ser pessoalmente responsáveis pelos débitos fiscais da empresa, a partir do momento em que agem com excesso de poderes ou com infração à lei. Será examinada a hipótese em que o sócio responde por obrigações que, em tese, deveriam caber à sociedade, qual seja, a hipótese prevista no artigo 13 da Lei 8.212/93. Assim, necessária a análise conjunta dos artigos 124, 128 e 135, do CTN, com o artigo 13 da Lei 8.212/91. Será abordada, ainda, a questão da inconstitucionalidade deste mesmo artigo 13, que, pelo fato de dispor a respeito de normas gerais sobre Direito Tributário, 8 viola o quanto determinado pela nossa Carga Magna, no artigo 146, III, b , exigindo lei complementar para o trato da matéria. E, por fim, numa esfera prática, será tratada a questão da necessária inclusão do nome dos sócios, gerentes e administradores no título executivo da Fazenda Pública, sob pena de nulidade da inscrição e conseqüente ação de cobrança