Queixadas (Tayassu pecari) são mamíferos ungulados sociais que vivem em bandos que facilmente ultrapassam 100 indivíduos. Os objetivos do presente estudo foram: 1) avaliar se há relação entre o parentesco e a estrutura social das queixadas e 2) re-analisar se há diferenciação genética entre queixadas de duas localidades do Pantanal do Mato Grosso do Sul, utilizando maior amostragem de indivíduos e de marcadores microssatélites. Foram genotipadas 184 amostras de queixadas (53 da Fazendo Rio Negro, RN e 131 da Fazenda Santa Emília, SE) para 15 microssatélites. O número de alelos encontrados variou de 2 a 12, com média de 4,60 em RN e 5,07 em SE. Embora o número de alelos médio foi significativamente maior em SE do que em RN (p < 0,05), a riqueza alélica média (4,59 na RN e 4,69 na SE) e as heterozigosidades médias observada e esperada (0,50 e 0,53 na RN e 0,55 e 0,55 na SE, respectivamente) foram similares em ambas as localidades, (p > 0,05). A mediana do coeficiente de parentesco em ambas as localidades foi significativamente maior entre os indivíduos de mesmo grupo de coleta do que entre os indivíduos de grupos de coleta diferentes, tanto para a análise incluindo todos os indivíduos como para a análise sem os indivíduos jovens. Isso sugere que tal resultado não é influenciado por possível captura de um jovem com seu progenitor. De forma similar, a mediana do coeficiente de parentesco considerando o sexo dos indivíduos (macho/macho, macho/fêmea e fêmea/fêmea) dentro e entre os grupos de coleta foi significativamente maior entre as categorias dentro dos grupos de coleta do que entre os grupos de coleta, tanto com os indivíduos jovens como sem os indivíduos jovens. Tais resultados sugerem que o parentesco possui influência na formação dos grupos sociais. O valor de FST encontrado entre as localidades foi de 0,017 e significativamente diferente de zero e o valor de DEST foi de 0,015. A análise Bayesiana, assumindo o modelo de mistura entre as populações e frequências alélicas correlacionadas, apontou o valor de K=1 como sendo o mais provável. Quando a localidade de coleta foi informada, o valor de K mais provável foi de 2 e os agrupamentos corresponderam exatamente às localidades amostradas. Esses resultados indicam que as queixadas das duas localidades estudadas compõem duas populações com alto fluxo gênico entre elas / White-lipped peccaries (Tayassu pecari) are social ungulates that live in herds of usually more than 100 individuals. The aims of the present study were: 1) to evaluate whether there is any correlation between relatedness and social structure of white-lipped peccaries and 2) to re-examine whether there is significant genetic differentiation in white-lipped peccaries from two adjacent locations of the Brazilian Pantanal, based on a larger sample of individuals and of microsatellite markers. In total, 184 peccaries (53 from Fazenda Rio Negro, RN and 131 from Fazenda Santa Emilia, SE) were genotyped for 15 microsatellites. The number of alleles observed per microsatellite varied from 2 to 12, with a mean of 4.60 in RN and 5.07 in SE. Although the mean number of alleles was significantly higher in SE than in RN (p < 0.05), the mean allelic richness (4.59 in RN and 4.69 in SE) and mean observed and expected heterozygosities (0.50 and 0.53 in RN and 0.55 and 0.55 in SE, respectively) were similar in both locations (p > 0,05). The median of the coefficient of relatedness in both locations was significantly higher between individuals captured together than between individuals from different capture groups, both for the analyses including all individuals as for the analyses without the youngsters. This suggests that this result is not influenced by the possible capture of a young with its parent. Similarly, the median of the coefficient of relatedness according to gender (male vs. male, male vs. female, and female vs. female) was significantly higher within than among capture groups, including or excluding young individuals. Those results suggest that relatedness has some importance in the social structure of white-lipped peccaries. The FST between the locations was 0.017 and significantly different from zero and the DEST was 0.015. The Bayesian analysis, assuming the model of population mixture and correlated allele frequencies, showed that the most likely K was 1. When the collection site was included in the analysis, the most likely value of K was 2 and the clusters corresponded exactly to the locations of origin of the samples. Those results suggest that the white-lipped peccaries of the two sites studied comprise two populations with high levels of gene flow between them

O presente estudo investigou a relação entre as metas de socialização maternas e os estilos de interação mãe-bebê, no primeiro e segundo ano de vida da criança, bem como eventuais mudanças longitudinais neste período. Além disto, investigou-se a relação entre características maternas (ex. idade e escolaridade) e do bebê (ex. sexo e desenvolvimento infantil) e as metas de socialização e os estilos de interação mãe-bebê, durante o mesmo período. Participaram 25 mães (M=33,2 anos; DP=5,73) e seus filhos, que no início do estudo estavam no primeiro ano de vida (M=6,7 meses; DP=1,74). As mães responderam a uma entrevista sobre suas metas de socialização e as díades foram observadas durante interação livre visando examinar seus estilos de interação. O desenvolvimento dos bebês foi avaliado através das Escalas Bayley III. No segundo ano de vida dos bebês, esses procedimentos de coleta de dados foram repetidos. Os resultados apoiaram parcialmente a hipótese inicial de que, independente da idade do bebê, metas de socialização que enfatizam a autonomia estariam relacionadas a um estilo de interação focalizado na autonomia do bebê; e metas de socialização que enfatizam a “relação” estariam relacionadas a um estilo de interação focalizado no direcionamento materno. Somente no primeiro ano do bebê, correlações significativas entre metas de socialização e estilos de interação mãe-bebê foram na direção esperada. Por outro lado, os resultados corroboraram a hipótese de que características maternas e do bebê estariam mais relacionadas aos estilos de interação mãe-bebê do que às metas de socialização, tendo em vista que estas últimas representam valores culturais mais amplos, enquanto os estilos de interação são mais dependentes de fatores contextuais e individuais envolvendo a própria díade mãe-bebê. O sexo do bebê foi a única variável que se relacionou às metas de socialização, mas só no primeiro ano. Por sua vez, diversas características da mãe e do bebê relacionaram-se aos estilos de interação, tanto no primeiro quanto no segundo ano do bebê. Juntos, os resultados do presente estudo ressaltam as limitações de pressupostos lineares e unidirecionais sobre a relação entre metas e estilos de interação, que ainda são destacados na literatura, mas precisam ser superados. Como foi evidenciado, diversos fatores possivelmente permeiam esta relação, com destaque para características da díade mãe-bebê ao longo do processo de desenvolvimento. / The present study investigated the relationship between maternal socialization goals and mother-infant interaction styles in the first and second year of the child's life, as well as possible longitudinal changes in this period. Furthermore, I studied the relations among maternal (eg. age and education) and infant (eg. gender and child development) characteristics and socialization goals and mother-infant interaction styles during the same period. Twenty five mothers (M=33,2 anos; SD=5,73) and their children participated in the study; the latter, at the beginning of study, were in their first year of life (M=6,7 meses; DP=1,74). Mothers were interviewed about their socialization goals and the dyads were observed during free interaction with the aim of examining their interaction styles. The infants’ development was assessed by Bayley Scales III. In the second year of the infants’ life, these data collecting procedures were repeated. The results partially supported the initial hypothesis that, regardless of the infant’s age, socialization goals that emphasize autonomy would be related to an interaction style focused on his or her autonomy, and socialization goals that emphasize relatedness would be are related to an interaction style focused on maternal directives. In the infant’s first year (although not the second) significant correlations between socialization goals and mother-infant interaction styles were in the expected direction. Moreover, the results supported the hypothesis that maternal and infant characteristics would be more related to mother-infant interaction styles than to the socialization goals, considering that the latter represent broader cultural values, whereas interaction styles are more dependent on contextual and individual factors involving the mother-infant dyad. The infant's gender was the only variable that was related to the socialization goals, but only in the first year. By contrast, several characteristics of the mother and infant were related to interaction styles, either in the first or second year of the infant. Together, the results of the present study highlight the limitations of linear and unidirectional assumptions about the relationship between goals and interaction styles, which are still emphasized in the literature, but need to be overcome. As evidenced, several factors probably underlie this relationship, especially characteristics of the mother-infant dyad throughout the development process.

Services that rely on the semantic computations of users’ natural linguistic inputs are becoming more frequent. Computing semantic relatedness between texts is problematic due to the inherit ambiguity of natural language. The purpose of this thesis was to show how a sentence could be compared to a predefined semantic Definite Clause Grammar (DCG). Furthermore, it should show how a DCG-based system could benefit from such capabilities. Our approach combines openly available specialized NLP frameworks for statistical parsing, part-of-speech tagging and word-sense disambiguation. We compute the semantic relatedness using a large lexical and conceptual-semantic thesaurus. Also, we extend an existing programming language for multimodal interfaces, which uses static predefined DCGs: COactive Language Definition (COLD). That is, every word that should be acceptable by COLD needs to be explicitly defined. By applying our solution, we show how our approach can remove dependencies on word definitions and improve grammar definitions in DCG-based systems.

När efterträdaren till Sveriges mest kända och folkkära reklamroll skulle avslöjas satt svenska folket bänkade framför tv:n och väntade ivrigt på vem som skulle bli den nya ICA-Stig. Filmernas omtyckta karaktärer och skådespelare har kommit och gått i snart tjugo år och ändå lyckas reklamfilmerna bevara tittarnas intresse. Reklamfilmerna från ICA har med sina humoristiska sketcher visat upp mängder med produkter. Kan denna presentationsmetod medföra att kampanjvarorna inte uppmärksammas och hamnar i skymundan på grund av all komik? Finns det en risk att mottagare inte lägger märke till deras produkter, trots att leverantörerna investerar höga belopp för att deras produkter ska synas i reklamsåpan? Med detta i åtanke skapades denna studie som har som syfte att undersöka hur effektivt kampanjvarorna projiceras i ICA:s reklamfilmer och hur det skiljer sig jämfört med andra reklamfilmer i samma bransch, dessutom tas det även upp hur humor påverkar innehållet i reklamfilmer. Sex respondenter har intervjuats och en jämförande analys har utförts för att undersöka deras uppfattningar och åsikter. Under intervjun fick respondenterna utvärdera sju olika reklamfilmer som varierar i innehåll och utformning. En viktig grundpelare i denna studie är att undersöka kampanjvarornas recall, för att studera hur väl reklamfilmernas produkter uppmärksammas och ihågkoms. Andra teorier som seriepositionseffekten, storytelling, kodning och avkodning samt ethos, pathos och logos används för att diskutera resultatet. Resultatet visade att det finns faktorer som påverkade kampanjvarorna och reklamfilmerna positivt, bland annat vart i reklamfilmen produkten är placerad och om komiken är relaterade till produkten. Det fanns inga starka bevis att storytelling och humor bidrog till att kampanjer uppmärksammades mer. / When the successor to Sweden's most famous and popular advertising role was to be revealed, the Swedish people sat in front of the TV and eagerly waited for who would be the new ICA-Stig. The films 'popular characters and actors have come and gone for almost twenty years and yet the commercials manage to preserve the viewers' interest. The commercials from ICA have with their humorous sketches shown lots of products. Can this presentation method mean that the products are not noticed and end up in the shadows due to all the comedy? Is there a risk that the audience will not notice their products, even though suppliers invest large sums to make their products visible in the commercial? With this in mind, this study was created with the intention to investigate how effectively the products are projected in ICA's commercials and how it differs compared to other commercials in the same industry, in addition it also addresses how humour affects the content of commercials. Six respondents were interviewed, and a comparative analysis was performed to examine their perceptions and opinions. During the interview, the respondents had to evaluate seven different commercials that vary in content and design. An important keystone in this study is to examine the product-recall, to study how well the commercials' products are noticed and remembered. Other theories such as the serial position effect, storytelling, encoding and decoding as well as ethos, pathos and logos are used to discuss the result. The results showed that there are factors that had a positive effect on the products and commercials, for instance where in the commercial the product is located and whether the jokes are related to the product. There was no strong evidence that storytelling and humor helped to draw more attention to product. / <p>Examensarbetet är utfört vid Institutionen för teknik och naturvetenskap (ITN) vid Tekniska fakulteten, Linköpings universitet</p>

La détection de gènes est une étape importante dans la compréhension des effets de l'information génétique d'un individu sur ses caractères phénotypiques. Durant mon doctorat, j'ai étudié les méthodes statistiques pour conduire les analyses de génétique d'association, avec les hybrides de maïs comme modèle d'application. Je me suis tout d'abord intéressé à l'estimation des paramètres d'apparentement entre individus à partir de données de marqueurs bialléliques. Cette estimation est réalisée dans le cadre d'un modèle de mélange paramétrique. J'ai étudié l'identifiabilité de ce modèle dans un cadre général mais aussi dans un cadre plus spécifique où les individus étudiés étaient issus de croisements entre lignées, cadre représentatif des plans de croisement classiquement utilisés en génétique végétale. Je me suis ensuite intéressé à l'estimation des paramètres des modèles mixtes à plusieurs composantes de variance et plus particulièrement à la performance des algorithmes pour tester l'effet de très nombreux marqueurs. J'ai comparé pour cela des logiciels existants et optimisé un algorithme Min-Max. La pertinence des différentes méthodes développées a finalement été illustrée dans le cadre de la détection de QTL à travers une analyse d'association réalisée sur un panel d'hybrides de maïs. / The detection of genes is a first step to understand the impact of the genetic information of individuals on their phenotypes. During my PhD, I studied statistical methods to perform genome-wide association studies, with maize hybrids as an application case. Firstly, I studied the inference of relatedness coefficients between individuals from biallelic marker data. This estimation is based on a parametric mixture model. I studied the identifiability of this model in the generic case but also in the specific case of mating design where observed individuals are obtained by crossing lines, a representative case of classical mating design in plant genetics. Then I studied inference of variance component mixed model parameters and particularly the performance of algorithms to test effects of numerous markers. I compared existing programs and I optimized a Min-Max algorithm. Relevance of developed methods had been illustrated for the detection of QTLs through a genome-wide association analysis in a maize hybrids panel.

The purpose of this study is to explore the possibility of interpreting the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) in constructivist terms. This research project involved a qualitative approach, focusing on abductive discovery and phenomenological critique. From constructivist theory, the core ordering processes of reality, identity, power, value, and relatedness were used to interpret a subject's TAT narratives. The author of the study chose one subject from the three with which he worked to present a case study. Chapter One of the research project reviews the literature of both TAT studies and constructivist theory. The author first discussed reliability and validity studies involving the TAT. Second, the author discussed constructivist theory, focusing on its philosophical antecedents and its theoretical framework. Chapter Two of the project establishes the methods and procedures utilized during the project. The core ordering processes as taken from constructivist theory are defined and discussed in detail. Chapter Three represents the bulk of the study, presenting the results and discussion of the results. Following a discussion of the results, the author critiqued the results, and based on the critique discussed procedural changes and implications for future research.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka om nyttjandet av flexibel arbetstid predicerar inrearbetsmotivation. En webbaserad enkätundersökning innehållande 28 frågor skickades ut till152 tjänstemän i en offentlig organisation, totalt deltog 80 respondenter i undersökningen. Föratt mäta inre arbetsmotivation användes Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction at Work (BPNS-W) skalan som mäter autonomi, kompetens och samhörighet och är baserad på self-determination theory (SDT). Resultatet visade att nyttjandet av flexibel arbetstid signifikant predicerar dimensionerna autonomi, kompetens och samhörighet som leder till inrearbetsmotivation. Studiens slutsats vara att nyttjandet av flexibel arbetstid kan predicera inrearbetsmotivation i viss grad. / The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the use of flexible working hourspredicts intrinsic work motivation. A web-based survey containing 28 questions was sent to152 officials in a public organization, a total of 80 respondents participated in the survey. Tomeasure intrinsic work motivation, the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction at Work(BPNS-W) scale was used. It contains measures of autonomy, competence and relatednessand is based on self-determination theory (SDT). The results showed that the use of flexibleworking hours significantly predicts the dimensions of autonomy, competence and relatednessthat lead to intrinsic work motivation. The conclusion of the study was that the use of flexibleworking hours can predict intrinsic work motivation to some extent.

Work motivation has been a topic of significance for a very long time, however, since there has been a recent shift towards remote work, traditional motivational theories might need to be reconsidered and applied to the new way of working. The self-determination theory (SDT) is one of many motivational theories, which says that once the three basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness are reached, individuals will experience high amounts of motivation. In order to dive deeper into the topic of motivation in remote work, the purpose of our study is therefore to explore this area of research by examining how managerial support measures could be aimed at ensuring the feeling of autonomy, competence and relatedness, and in turn manage to possibly sustain motivation among remote workers.  With the aim of reaching and fulfilling the purpose of this study, in-depth interviews were conducted with five remote workers working in start-ups or SMEs within the IT sectors, or within companies with a digital focus. The data which we collected through interviews was then thematically analysed by careful coding and put into a variety of themes. Following the presentation of our findings was a meticulous analysis of the generated data, which was the base for our final conclusions drawn on the subject.  From the findings, we were able to conclude that autonomy achieved high scores in remote work, and was without exceptions fulfilled for all of our interview subjects. Within competence, the most challenges were detected, however the right supporting measures, like facilitating information sharing, would be able to work against these issues. Lastly, relatedness is oftentimes severely lacking within remote work due to the implied distance, however due to conscious choices to work remotely, individuals will be aware of decreasing relatedness when they start their journey of working remotely. Nonetheless, supporting measures like organising social gatherings or workshops, can limit the lack of feeling relatedness in the remote workplace.  This study can assist future researchers that are conducting studies within the growing remote work environment. Furthermore, it can help managers in the workplace to gain an updated view on motivation in remote working, and shift perspective to remotely adapted supporting measures.

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Background: Participation in physical activities (PA) is vital for the well-being of children and young adults with disabilities, yet barriers hinder their engagement. With the United Nations reporting 150 million children with disabilities, understanding the self-determination theory (SDT) role in promoting PA participation is essential for improving their health and well-being. It aimed to explore how intervention based on SDT facilitates the possible determinants for PA participation in children and young adults with disabilities (CAYAWD). Methods: A systematic review approach was employed. Databases like PubMed, PsycINFO, and CINAHL were searched for studies published between 2006 and 2022. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied, and the quality of the selected studies was assessed using relevant checklists from SBU, 2018. Data synthesis included intervention, description, participant characteristics, and quality evaluation. Results: This review analyzes seven studies on interventions for physical activity in CAYAWD based on SDT. Participants totalled 341 (mean age 12.6 years) with various conditions. Studies used motivational climates or basic psychological needs (BPN) in designing the interventions to enhance autonomous (intrinsic) motivation and improve needs satisfaction to increase PA. Significant effects included improved PA, need satisfaction and autonomous motivation. The measurement instruments had acceptable validity and internal consistency. Qualities of the included studies were moderate to high. The overall strength of the evidence was moderate.  Conclusion: It emphasized that intrinsic motivation and need-satisfaction act as possible determinants for participation in PA among CAYAWD. It provides valuable insights into the importance of motivational climates in PA settings. The limited number of studies urges the need for interventional studies based on SDT among CAYAWD.