I denna studie undersöks vad som sker i intensivundervisning där en SUM-elev, elev med särskilda utbildningsbehov i matematik, erbjuds multisensorisk undervisning. Vilken utveckling som sker vad gäller elevens taluppfattning, samt olika uttryck för lärande i undervisningsprocessen är också något som studeras. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats och har genomförts som en fallstudie med en SUM-elev i årskurs ett. Fallstudien innehåller en intervention med matematiktester vilka genomförts före och efter en intensivundervisning i grundläggande taluppfattning. Deltagande observationer av undervisningssekvensen har genomförts, vilka också har filmats. Till analysen används Bruners teori om representationer tillsammans med Vygotskijs teori om lärande ur ett sociokulturellt perspektiv. Representationerna i Bruners teori beskrivs som den enaktiva som är handlingsbaserad, den ikoniska som är bildbaserad och den symboliska som är språkbaserad. Resultatet visar i detta fall att en intensivundervisning med multisensorisk approach påverkar elevens taluppfattning positivt och elevens lösningsfrekvens mellan för- och eftertest tredubblats. En utveckling av bland annat matematiska förmågor var synlig. Eleven utvecklade lärande i de olika representationerna där inledningsvis den enaktiva representationen användes och succesivt även den ikoniska- och symboliska representationen. Resultatet visar en positiv påverkan på elevens självförtroende i matematiska situationer, främst gällande symbolhantering. / This study examines what happens in the situation of intense, multi-sensory instruction for a SEN-student in the subject of mathematics, a student with special education needs in mathematics. What kind of development is happening in terms of the student's number sense, as well as various forms of learning in the teaching process is also something that is studied. The study has a qualitative approach and was implemented as a case study with a SEN-student in the subject of mathematics in year one. The case study includes an intervention with math tests which were taken before and after an intensive teaching of basic number sense. Participant observation of the teaching sequence has been implemented, which also have been filmed. For the analysis Bruner's theory of representations along with Vygotsky's theory of learning from a sociocultural perspective is used. The representations in Bruner's theory is described as the enactive that is action-based, the iconic that is image based and the symbolic which is language-based.  The result in this case shows that an intensive instruction with a multi-sensory approach affects the student's number sense in a positive way. The pupils solution frequency between pre- and posttest tripled. The Pupil developed learning in the different representations where initially the enactive representation was used and gradually even the iconic- and symbolic representation. A development including mathematical competences were visible. The results show a positive impact on the pupil self-confidence in mathematical situations, primarily in situations for symbol processing.

The aim of this study was to describe and analyse the perceptions that ten 12-15 yearold pupils with special educational need, who had been assigned a personal computer, have about Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the learning process. Data was collected by personal interviews and observations. Sociocultural perspective and phenomenographic research approach were used as theoretical and methodological frameworks in analyzing and understanding the result. The major conclusions were that most respondents perceived the computer as beneficial assistive technology for learning, but some felt singled out by having a computer to assist in learning. Students had various opportunities to succeed in using their tool depending on e.g. knowledge, accessibility and infrastructure around the ICT tool.To identify each pupil’s most successful way of learning with ICT, communication between pupil and teacher were essential.

The topic of this dissertation is the phemomenon of the dream, dreamy picture and their projection into the creation of surrealist artworks. The disertation tries to connect the basic knowledge of psychoanalysis and the history of art. The thesis attepmts to solve the questions of how the dream imagination is different from the imaginative art of the previous centuries and how the dream topics are involved in the artworks. One of the most important resources for the art work of surrealism was in the psychoanalysis and the knowledge of the work of Sigmund Freud. That is the reason why the first part of this thesis is dedicated to Freud?s The Interpretation of Dreams and the dream symbolism ? its origin, knowledge resources and reflection in the fine arts. The closing chapter uses the previously undiscovered knowledge to present the work of Jindřich Štýrský and tries to indicate how the dream imagination was projected to the artwork of this signifiant surrealist painter.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-03-07T18:19:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 CaioVasconcelosPinheiroDaCosta_DISSERT.pdf: 3451357 bytes, checksum: e54c55afe01cf7feb106c7ed5857980e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-03-07T18:44:49Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 CaioVasconcelosPinheiroDaCosta_DISSERT.pdf: 3451357 bytes, checksum: e54c55afe01cf7feb106c7ed5857980e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-07T18:44:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CaioVasconcelosPinheiroDaCosta_DISSERT.pdf: 3451357 bytes, checksum: e54c55afe01cf7feb106c7ed5857980e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-15 / Este trabalho realizou um estudo a partir de um conjunto de dados meteorol?gicos coletados na cidade de Natal/RN e adjac?ncias, identificando evid?ncias de altera??es no seu clima urbano no per?odo de 1970 a 2010. As vari?veis utilizadas foram: temperatura m?dia, temperatura m?nima e umidade relativa. Os dados foram obtidos a partir das esta??es meteorol?gicas localizada no Campus Central da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), que faz parte da rede de observa??es do Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INMET), e do Centro de Lan?amento da Barreira do Inferno (CLBI), localizadas dentro de uma ?rea urbana e de uma ?rea de prote??o permanente (APP), respectivamente. Foi realizada uma an?lise sobre a varia??o sazonal das vari?veis meteorol?gicas.Al?m disso, foram avaliadas as tend?nciasnas s?ries temporais,utilizando para isso o template MAKESENS, que aplica o teste de Mann-Kendall e o m?todo de estimativa de inclina??es de Sen sobre o conjunto de dados. Para a temperatura m?dia, na UFRN/INMET, houve tend?ncia de crescimento nos meses de maio, julho e setembro, nos n?veis de signific?ncia de 10%, 5% e 10%, respectivamente. No CLBI, s? houve tend?ncia de crescimento da temperatura m?dia no m?s de fevereiro, no n?vel de signific?ncia de 10%. Em rela??o ? temperatura m?nima, houve tend?ncia de crescimento com signific?ncia estat?stica em quatro s?ries (janeiro, novembro, dezembro e m?dia anual) na UFRN/INMET, nos n?veis de 10%, 10%, 5% e 5%, respectivamente, e apenas em uma no CLBI, no m?s de setembro, no n?vel de signific?ncia de 10%. Em rela??o ? umidade relativa, os resultados foram extremamente discrepantes. Para a UFRN/INMET, houve tend?ncia de decrescimento com signific?ncia estat?stica em 7 das 13 s?ries, sendo elas janeiro, mar?o, abril, maio, outubro, novembro e m?dia anual, nos n?veis de 5%, 1%, 0,1%, 10%, 5%, 5% e 0,1%, respectivamente, enquanto que no CLBI houve uma tend?ncia predominante de crescimento, com signific?ncia de 1% em junho e de 5% em agosto.Essas tend?ncias s?o mais evidentes na ?rea urbana em rela??o ?ssuas adjac?ncias, evidenciando algumas caracter?sticas t?picas das Ilhas de Calor Urbanas. / This work conducted a study from a set of meteorological data collected in the city of Natal / RN and surroundings, identifying evidence of changes in its urban climate during the period from 1970 to 2010. The variables used were: average temperature, minimum temperature and relative humidity. Data were obtained from the meteorological stations located in the Central Campus of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) that is part of the network of observations from the National Institute of Meteorology (INMET) and from Barreira do Inferno Launch Center (CLBI), located inside an urban area and inside a permanent protection area (APP), respectively. An analysis of the seasonal variation of the meteorological variables was performed. In addition, the trends were evaluated in time series, using for this the template MAKESENS, that applies the Mann-Kendall test and Sen's slopes estimates with the data set. For the average temperature in UFRN/INMET, there was growth trend in May, July and September, at the significance levels of 10%, 5% and 10%, respectively. In CLBI, there was only upward trend in average temperature in February, at the 10% significance level. Regarding the minimum temperature, there was growth trend with statistical significance in four series (January, November, December and annual average) in UFRN/INMET, at the levels of 10%, 10%, 5% and 5%, respectively, and just one in CLBI, in September, at the 10% significance level. In relation to the relative humidity, the results were extremely disparate. To UFRN/INMET, there was decreasing trend with statistically significance in 7 of the 13 series, these being January, March, April, May, October, November and annual average, at the levels of 5%, 1%, 0.1%, 10%, 5%, 5% and 0.1%, respectively, while in CLBI there was a prevailing trend of growth, with a significance of 1% in June and 5% in August.These trends are more pronounced in urban areas compared to surrounding area, showing some typical characteristics of Urban Heat Islands.

Tidigare forskning inriktad på adoptivföräldrars upplevelser av föräldraskapet eller support och stöd från samhälleliga instanser är inte omfattande, speciellt inte i svensk forskning. Syftet med den här studien var att undersöka adoptivföräldrars upplevelse av stödfunktioner och samhällsservice under de första fem åren efter hemkomst med adoptivbarnet eftersom det är viktigt att få ett perspektiv på stödet från samhället under de tidiga åren då det adopterade barnet knyter ann till familjen. Studien utfördes genom intervjuer med fyra adoptivföräldrapar plus den ena föräldern till ett adoptivbarn. Intervjuerna utforskade hur de upplevt sitt handlingsutrymme i förhållande till deras tillgänglighet av samhälleliga resursinstanser under det tidiga föräldraskapet. Resultaten analyserades utifrån Amartya Sens teoretiska perspektiv capability approach som mäter hälsa genom att accentuera individens behov och frihet att själv välja vad som uppfattas som nödvändigt och viktigt.  Resultaten visade att adoptivföräldrarna överlag var nöjda med relationen de haft med skola, barnhälsovård, socialtjänst och övriga resursinstanser. En viktig del av handlingsutrymmet för familjerna var även privata relationer med andra adoptivföräldrar och adoptivbarn. Även internet nätverk eller grupper för adoptivfamiljer var dem till viss mån behjälpliga. Trots det menade föräldrarna att förståelsen för deras adopterade barns behov i alla samhälleliga instanser behövde förbättras, både överlag för adopterade barn, men även att de individuella behoven för adopterade barn behövde uppmärksammas mer.

This diploma thesis will be dealing with the process of emigration from the former Hungarian Kingdom to the USA (specifically via the ports of the state of New York) in the period from 1867 to 1880. Its aim will be to capture the economic and social situation of the immigrants after their arrival to the USA, their association with each other in the early organizations and ethnic determination. Based on primary sources, it will produce statistics. It will deal with their perception by the local inhabitants as well and it will attempt to answer the question, to what extent did they manage to fulfill "the American dream". The characteristics of the observed period will be the outcome, together with the attempt to confirm the hypothesis that this period was the preparation stage for the economic migration beginning in the 1880s. Key words: emigration, Hungary, United States of America, american dream, economic migration, immigration, ethnicity

Magister Educationis - MEd / This study provides educators with an opportunity to share their commitments and biases, their beliefs about what these learners need and what, as educators, they have to offer them. The study focuses specifically on what curriculum educators believe should be offered to the youth in these centres. It is important to note that the focus of the thesis is on the educational debates and challenges within SYCECs, and not on the overall goals and role to be played by these institutions in rehabilitating youth. This piece of work acknowledges the systemic issues that impact on learning and development of youth, but foregrounds what learners in SYCECs should be taught and why. This is its main contribution. / South Africa

Thesis Abstract The thesis examines manifestations of transgression in Robert Coover's The Public Burning (1977), Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1971), William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch (1959) and The Nova Trilogy (1961-1967), and Kathy Acker's Empire of the Senseless (1988) on a structural and thematic level. Georges Bataille's theory of escalated excess and Michel Foucault's theory of the transgression-limit power dynamics, outlined in Chapter One, provide the theoretical framework through which the texts are analyzed, as through concepts of the spectacle, the carnival, taboo, and the Situationist détournement practice. The nature of the American Dream Machine is explored in regards to its chief components of control; the American war on abstractions, American exceptionalism, and the American Dream, examined through their contradictory connotations and historical relevance. The thesis proposes that despite their anti- systemic drive, the selected texts are complicit with and dependent on the American Dream Machine in perpetuating their power play. In Chapter Two, the hyperbolization of American Cold War propaganda rhetoric is analyzed in Coover's The Public Burning. Chapter Three details Thompson's gonzo writing against the...

This study explores the concepts of vulnerability, agency, and actors with relation to the capability development and deprivation of women with physical disabilities in Lusaka, Zambia. Based in the human development paradigm and Sen and Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach, it seeks to critically explore what impact being born, raised, and living as a woman with a physical disability in a developing country has on the development of capabilities. It also seeks to identify and analyze the involved processes, actors, and environmental factors. A main finding is that capability deprivation for women with physical disabilities is not simply caused by disability, or by gender, but by a multitude of factors. These include: the environment, social contexts, and relative poverty in which the women live; the particular cultural repertoires that surround them; and the actors with whom they interact. However, disability can, and often does, exacerbate the complex life situations in which the women find themselves.

In the continuous casting of steel, the Submerged Entry Nozzle (SEN), in particular the SEN geometry, has a primary influence on the flow pattern: the SEN controls the speed, direction and other characteristics of the jet entering the mould. The SEN is however relatively inexpensive to change (in comparison with other continuous casting equipment). Thus; there is a feasible incentive to exactly understand and predict the flow of molten steel through the SEN and into the mould, in order to maximise the quality of the steel by altering the design of the SEN. By changing the SEN geometry and SEN design, the flow pattern in the mould will also change: it is thus possible to obtain an optimum SEN design if (or when) the desired flow patterns and/or certain predetermined temperature distributions are achieved. Expensive and risky plant trials were traditionally utilised to “perfect” continuous casting processes. As opposed to the plant trials, this dissertation is concerned with the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling of the SEN and mould, which, when used in conjunction with the Mathematical Optimiser LS-OPT, will enable the optimisation of the SEN design to achieve desired results. The CFD models are experimentally verified and validated using 40%-scaled (designed and built in-house) and full-scale water model tests. This dissertation proves that the CFD modelling of the SEN and mould can be quite useful for optimisation and parametric studies, especially when automated model generation (geometry, mesh and solution procedures) is utilised. The importance of obtaining reliable and physically correct CFD results is also emphasised; hence the need for CFD model verification using water modelling. / Dissertation (MEng (Mechanical Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering / unrestricted