Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:22:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Renan Amauri Guaranha Rinaldi.pdf: 5019609 bytes, checksum: 6777801213f438ccb3f67ed4e7802152 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-14 / In 1549, after the approval of Jesus? Society in Rome, the P. Manuel da N?brega, left Lisbon with the armed Tom? de Souza to conduct the West Portuguese missions. In 1553, after forming the first Brazilian missions Ba?a de Todos os Santos where they landed, he continued to the Captainship of S?o Vicente where he covered the south coast of colonial Brazil. After that, going up through Serra do Mar, N?brega lead the foundation of Aldeia de Piratininga and its school, Col?gio de S?o Paulo, and posteriorly, he enabled the beginning of new entries to the interior of the continent. The implementation of these schools originated the villages or urban areas such as Vila de S?o Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Vit?ria, afterwards becoming centers of irradiation of colonial expansion forming small network localities. The sites related to these schools and Jesuit? churches and settlements designed to reduce Indian population formed the architectonic sites of the settlements, while the organization of the lodges focused to give support to evangelization and the introduction of Indians to Portuguese life system. This work intends to analyze the acting of Jesus? Society according to the purpose of Portuguese colonizers during the XVI century until half of XVII century, before the pombal political expulsion, and the logic of expansion in the Captainships in the south of Brazilian territory in the colonial period, focusing on territorial expansion accomplished after the influence of Col?gio de S?o Paulo, and Vila de S?o Jos? dos Campos in Vale do Parna?ba and Fazenda de Botucatu in the west side of the Captainship as being the last two stronghold of Jesuit? presence in the territory of colonial period. To accomplish that there will be a support on historiography and analysis of Jesuits letters besides other studies about the rise and expansion of the settlements based on antique and contemporary cartographies demonstrating the presence of Jesuits in the mentioned territory. / Em 1549, logo ap?s a aprova??o da Companhia de Jesus em Roma, o P. Manuel da N?brega partiu de Lisboa na armada de Tom? de Souza juntamente de cinco companheiros para conduzir as Miss?es Portuguesas do Ocidente. Em 1553, ap?s formar as primeiras miss?es brasileiras na Ba?a de Todos os Santos, onde primeiramente aportou, seguiu em dire??o ? Capitania de S?o Vicente onde percorreu o litoral sul do Brasil colonial. Em seguida, subindo a Serra do Mar, N?brega liderou a funda??o da Aldeia de Piratininga e nela implantou o Col?gio de S?o Paulo possibilitando o in?cio das entradas para o interior do continente. As implanta??es destes col?gios por vezes deram origem a n?cleos urbanos, como nos casos das Vilas de S?o Paulo, Rio de Janeiro e Vit?ria, que se tornaram posteriormente centros de irradia??o da expans?o colonial formando redes de pequenas localidades. Os p?tios e terreiros associados a esses col?gios, bem como as igrejas jesu?ticas e os aldeamentos destinados ? redu??o ind?gena formavam os conjuntos arquitet?nicos dos aldeamentos enquanto a organiza??o do espa?o das resid?ncias visava dar suporte ? evangeliza??o e a introdu??o do ?ndio ao sistema de vida portugu?s. Este trabalho tem como prop?sito analisar a atua??o da Companhia de Jesus perante os prop?sitos dos colonizadores portugueses durante o s?culo XVI at? primeira metade do s?culo XVIII, antes da pol?tica pombalina de expuls?o, e a l?gica de expans?o nas Capitanias ao sul do territ?rio brasileiro no per?odo colonial, concentrando o olhar na expans?o territorial realizada a partir da influ?ncia do Col?gio de S?o Paulo, sendo a Vila de S?o Jos? dos Campos no Vale do Para?ba e a Fazenda de Botucatu no oeste da Capitania, os dois ?ltimos redutos da presen?a jesu?tica no territ?rio do per?odo colonial. Para tal, nos apoiaremos na historiografia e na an?lise de cartas jesu?ticas, al?m de estudos sobre os fluxos e expans?o dos assentamentos tendo como base as cartografias antiga e contempor?nea, demonstrando a presen?a dos jesu?tas no territ?rio em quest?o.

This thesis analyses the role of the Euromarket, an offshore market for Eurodollars or expatriate US dollars, in the re-emergence of global finance during the 1960s and 1970s. It charts not only its Cold War origins and the development of various markets for Eurodollars, but also institutions and policies that shaped them from the return to convertibility in 1958 to the ill-fated efforts to regulate the nascent market by international financial institutions. By examining the nature of Eurodollars as both a US and global currency, the thesis sheds light on the changing features of the governance of global finance and its relationship with the economic sovereignty of nation-states. It argues that the Euromarket underwent repeated contestations as politicians, bankers, and economists vested their political ambitions and cultural assumptions in it. The popular, academic, and policy debates challenged the speculative nature of Eurodollars which would destabilise the domestic as well as the international monetary system of the Bretton Woods system. Without a single monetary authority, the tendency of the Euromarket to transcend the order of capitalist nation-states constrained national governments’ capacity to control capital flows and the autonomy of domestic monetary policy. However, nation-states were not impotent but deliberately sought to exploit the liquid pool of capital in Eurodollars. It was not merely the US government that benefited from the seigniorage of Eurodollars and the City of London which was reborn as the international financial centre in the Euromarket. Continental European countries that were hesitant about European economic integration, the UK Labour government, developing countries in the Global South, and even the Communist bloc, resorted to the Euromarket for their national interests. The ambivalent attitudes of national governments and their conflict of interests resulted in the failure of coordinated efforts to introduce the rules of the game but facilitated the transnational network of finance in Eurodollars.

Many poor households in South Africa rely on social grants for their survival, forcing the government to spend on the programme, to the detriment of other socioeconomic programmes necessary for poverty alleviation and economy growth. This study investigated the impact of the South African social assistance policies and programmes on the human capacity development of beneficiaries, especially households affected by HIV/AIDS, residing in informal settlements. Following a qualitative approach, exploratory and case study techniques were used to collect and analyse data. In-depth interviews and observations at research sites uncovered rich data elucidated by social capital theory and the capability approach. The thesis commenced with social assistance as implemented in OECD and BRICS countries, including South Africa. The notion of human capacity development, as linked to social assistance, poverty alleviation and economic growth, was presented. Conditional social programmes directed at human capacity development via educational assistance were contrasted with universal social assistance systems. Findings revealed that South Africa, despite its low level of economic growth, has a welldeveloped, selective social assistance system. Social grants assist beneficiaries to meet urgent needs, such as food and transport to hospital and for job seeking. It is insufficient to meet other basic needs, including capacity development. There is a shortage of educational facilities and training programmes in poor communities, which sometimes exclude adult men and youth without Grade 12. There is no guarantee of a job or business opportunities for graduates from skills development centres. Many who have completed their training are placed in entry-level jobs that earn salaries below the social grant exit requirements. Recommendations to increase the array of social grant instruments and to introduce conditional grants for vulnerable adults were made. In particular, the provision of scholarships to needy youths and adults was recommended, augmented by more educational facilities in poor communities, more training programmes, and the establishment of structures that will provide decent job placement and business opportunities for graduates. Urgent provision of decent housing for the poor and improvements in public health infrastructure, roads, water and electricity, in order to facilitate the human development of needy people is further needed. / Development Studies / Ph. D. (Development Studies)

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:39:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MariaGSGC_DISSERT.pdf: 2555739 bytes, checksum: 0efa18c9d47df1166ff7932c946b8297 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-14 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / The lack of studies aimed at the mental health of the rural population, the social, economic, familial and emotional impact that mental disorders produce and the vulnerability that women have in this context, lead us to believe in the need to investigate the mental health demands of female rural workers, in order to subsidize the development of more effective and culturally sensitive public health programs and policies that take into account the specificities of this population. The present study aims to investigate the prevalence of common mental disorders (CMD) and the possible factors associated with the emergence of such disorders among women living in a rural settlement in Rio Grande do Norte. This survey has a quantitative and qualitative character with an ethnographic approach. As methodological strategies, we made use of an adapted version of the socio-demographic and environmental questionnaire prepared by The Department of Geology/UFRN s Strategic Analysis Laboratory to evaluate the quality of life of the families from the rural settlement and the mental health screening test Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) to identify the prevalence of CMD in adult women from the community. Complementing the role of methodological tools, we use the participant observation and semi-structured interviews with women who presented positive hypothesis of CMD attempting to comprehend the crossings that build the subjective experience of being a woman in this context. The results point to the high prevalence of CMD (43.6%) and suggest the link between poverty, lack of social support, unequal gender relations and the occurrence of CMD. We also verified that the settled women do not access the health network to address issues relating to mental health and that the only recourse of care offered by primary health care is the prescription of anxiolytic medication. In this context, the religiosity and the work are the most important strategies for mental health support among women / A car?ncia de estudos voltados ? sa?de mental da popula??o rural, o impacto socioecon?mico, familiar e afetivo que os transtornos mentais produzem e o lugar de vulnerabilidade que as mulheres ocupam nas ?reas rurais, imp?em a necessidade de investigar a realidade de mulheres assentadas e trabalhadoras rurais, visando subsidiar a elabora??o de programas e pol?ticas p?blicas de sa?de mais eficazes e culturalmente sens?veis que levem em conta as especificidades dessa popula??o. Diante disso, o presente estudo tem como objetivo investigar a preval?ncia de transtornos mentais comuns (TMC) e os poss?veis fatores associados ? emerg?ncia de tais transtornos entre mulheres residentes de um assentamento rural do RN. Metodologicamente, trata-se de uma pesquisa que parte de uma abordagem quantitativa e qualitativa de inspira??o etnogr?fica. Inicialmente aplicamos uma vers?o adaptada do question?rio s?cio-demogr?fico-ambiental elaborado pelo Laborat?rio de An?lises Estrat?gicas da UFRN/Departamento de Geologia para avaliar a qualidade de vida das fam?lias do assentamento e o instrumento de rastreamento em sa?de mental Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) para identificar a preval?ncia de TMC nas mulheres adultas da comunidade. Complementando o rol de ferramentas, nos valemos da observa??o participante do cotidiano do assentamento e entrevistas semiestruturadas com as mulheres que apresentaram hip?tese positiva de TMC buscando apreender os atravessamentos que constroem a experi?ncia subjetiva de ser mulher nesse contexto. Os resultados apontam a alta preval?ncia de TMC (43,6%) e sugerem a articula??o entre pobreza, falta de redes de apoio social e comunit?ria, rela??es desiguais de g?nero e a ocorr?ncia de TMC. Constatamos ainda que as assentadas n?o acessam a rede de sa?de para tratar de quest?es relativas ? sa?de mental e que o ?nico recurso de cuidado ofertado pela aten??o prim?ria ? prescri??o de medica??o ansiol?tica, destacando-se a religiosidade e o trabalho como os mais importantes fatores de suporte ? sa?de mental entre as mulheres no contexto do assentamento rural

En Languedoc oriental, durant la fin du Néolithique final, on assiste à un accroissement important des occupations préhistoriques, en particulier au Néolithique final 3 (culture de Fontbouisse). Ce territoire a fait l’objet d’un découpage en faciès culturels, essentiellement sur la base des productions céramiques (Gutherz, 1975 ; 1990). La recherche s’est majoritairement concentrée sur les villages en pierre sèche des garrigues depuis les années 1950 jusqu’au début des années 1990. En effet, à partir de ces années-là, les investigations archéologiques se concentrèrent en plaine, sur des occupations à systèmes de fossés s’étendant sur plusieurs hectares. Le mobilier céramique, abondant, méritait une analyse plus poussée. Le travail présenté se penchera sur plusieurs séries céramiques des plaines datées du Néolithique final 3. La quantité massive de mobilier servira à vérifier si des régularités dans les productions céramiques peuvent être observées ou non. L’intérêt de ce travail est double : préciser les tendances stylistiques se dégageant des ensembles étudiés ; utiliser le contexte des successions de comblements stratigraphiques en vue d’affiner la chronologie de la production céramique et son évolution durant le Néolithique final 3. / In eastern Languedoc, during the late Neolithic, there has been a significant increase in prehistoric settlements, especially in the late Neolithic 3 (Fontbouisse culture). This area has been divided in cultural facies, mainly on the basis of ceramic production (Gutherz, 1975; 1990). Research has mostly focused on the garrigue’s dry stone villages from the 1950s to the early 1990s. Indeed, from those years, archaeological surveys have focused in plain, on ditch system settlements over several hectares. The abundant ceramicware deserved further analysis. This work will focus on several plain ceramic series dated to late Neolithic 3. The massive amount of ceramicware will make it possible to assess whether patterns in ceramic production can be observed. The value of this work is twofold: outline stylistic trends emerging from the sets studied, use the context of stratigraphic successions of fillings to refine the chronology of ceramic production and its evolution during late Neolithic 3.

Neste trabalho estuda-se a interação solo-estrutura de grupo de edifícios com fundações superficiais, em maciço de solos de argila mole. O comportamento ao longo do tempo da argila mole é analisado com o modelo reológico de Kelvin. Os parâmetros do modelo são determinados através do ajuste entre as curvas recalque – tempo do modelo e as curvas medidas em três prédios, construídos simultaneamente, na cidade de Santos/SP - Brasil. O estudo da interação solo–estrutura entre os edifícios do grupo e o maciço de solos utilizou a metodologia de CHAMECKI (1956), onde a superestrutura é modelada como pórtico espacial elástico linear e, o solo é modelado como meio elástico estratificado conforme AOKI e LOPES (1975). Estudos paramétricos demonstram a influência da rigidez da estrutura, do efeito de grupo entre as fundações superficiais, do processo construtivo e das construções vizinhas, na configuração final dos recalques / This work presents a methodology for the soil-estructure interaction analysis of a group of buildings on shallow foundations in soft clay soils. The long term behavior of clay is modeled by Kelvin’s rheological model. Model parameters is evaluated by back-analysis of measured settlement – time curves. The soil–estructure interaction is based on CHAMECKI (1956) model, where the superstructure is modeled is a spatial elastic linear frame and, the soil is modeled is an elastic linear stratified half space according to AOKI & LOPES (1975). Parametric studies shows the influence of the superstructure stiffness, the interaction among buildings foundations, and the effect construction steps in the final settlements configuration

Submitted by Sandra Pereira (srpereira@ufrrj.br) on 2017-01-24T15:22:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015 - Melquisedeque de Oliveira Fernandes.pdf: 1330146 bytes, checksum: 17d72060102273b283c533dc7ab97cd5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-24T15:22:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015 - Melquisedeque de Oliveira Fernandes.pdf: 1330146 bytes, checksum: 17d72060102273b283c533dc7ab97cd5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-09-14 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / This paper proposes to reflect over family farmers? productive organization, regarding their access to public policies, in two land reform settlements of Rio Grande do Norte state ? Brazil. Several studies have systematically pointed out that the conflict is inherent in the settlements organization. If on one hand the associative rationality is based on the convergence of personal interests, on the other, the heterogeneity of their trajectories of life and labor corroborates in the opposite direction. Emerges as issue the way they compose forms of reciprocity and mutual commitment, not necessarily fitted in terms of rights and duties of associative action. The factional dynamics takes place in this gap, articulating social networks, settled on their own conflict relationships. This happens, mainly, when some groups mobilize several moral constraints, creating the groups boundaries, when supporting or attacking one another. They reinforce, therefore, selective affinities of friendship, neighborhood, militancy and religion, which are linked to the contractual reciprocities, supporting common actions. The goal of this thesis is to offer an alternative approach of productive organization in the settlements, different from contractual arrangements or the "collectivism" present in the mediators actions / Este trabalho se prop?e a pensar a organiza??o produtiva de fam?lias assentadas no contato com pol?ticas p?blicas para agricultura familiar, em dois assentamentos rurais do Rio Grande do Norte. Diversos estudos t?m sistematicamente pautado a quest?o do conflito como um dado inerente ? organiza??o nos assentamentos. A esse respeito, h? um vazio entre os princ?pios de uma racionalidade associativa, introduzida como dispositivo comum de gest?o da terra, e a maneira como as fam?lias comp?em formas de reciprocidade e comprometimento. Se a racionalidade associativa se baseia na converg?ncia dos interesses dos sujeitos, a heterogeneidade de suas trajet?rias de vida e trabalho aponta na dire??o contraria. Emerge enquanto problem?tica a maneira como os sujeitos se organizam diante do contato com pol?ticas publicas. ? no vazio das reciprocidades contratuais que a din?mica faccional toma lugar, articulando tecidos sociais que se estabelecem nas pr?prias rela??es de conflito. Isso ocorre, sobremaneira, quando come?a a surgir no interior dos assentamentos grupos que cerram fileiras contra outros, passando a mobilizar uma serie de constrangimentos morais, enquanto criam as fronteiras dos grupos com base em discursos de suporte ou desqualifica??o da a??o do outro. Refor?am, desse modo, afinidades seletivas de amizade, vizinhan?a, milit?ncia e religi?o, que se articulam com as reciprocidades contratuais do associativismo, oferecendo organicidade para a??es comuns. A contribui??o deste trabalho materializa o intuito de oferecer uma interpreta??o ? organiza??o produtiva nos assentamentos, como alternativa aos preceitos contratuais do associativismo ou ao ?coletivismo? presente nas a??es dos mediadores

M.Tech. (Architectural Technology) / This dissertation is rooted within the process of analysing and understanding the dynamics of the context, from which principles can be drawn. The project is founded with the aim to address the harsh edges between Kliptown informal settlement and Kliptown CBD, which are physically separated by railway tracks. This dissertation identifies the context as the ‘bank’ of design informants. Thus it forces the author to undergo a critical analysis of the context. The proposed site (Kliptown) forms a comprehensive layer of history, which has over time influenced both physical development and movement of the site. The project propose a physical intervention in a form of a bridge over the railway tracks in attempt to connect the two areas. The author engaged with the context to establish program for the architectural intervention. The education gap was established within the informal settlement, which was then used to establish the program for the intervention. The average shack size of 15 square meters is never enough for learners to do they school work after schooling hours, thus the proposed programme of the physical bridge forms part of the bridging concept. The program is more about bridging the educational gap within the context.

Friedrich Armand Strubberg’s semi-autobiographical novel Friedrichsburg, published in Germany in 1867, is a fountain of information about the German settlements in the Hill Country of Texas established in the years 1844-1848 by a corporation of German noblemen. The noblemen safely ensconced in their comfortable estates in Germany attempted to live up to their responsibilities and supply the settlers with basic needs, but their efforts fell woefully short. In consequence, the immigrants often were thrown upon their own devices and compelled to live from what they could learn to grow or hunt in a new land with unfamiliar climate, plants, and animals. Many hundreds perished from disease, exposure, and malnutrition. But after a painful period, the German settlements took root and began to prosper; lending a Germanic stamp to the Hill Country area of Texas that persists to the present day. In Friedrichsburg, the reader encounters many dramatic stories attendant to the foundation years of Fredericksburg, Texas, 1846/1847 when Friedrich Armand Strubberg, under the assumed name Dr. Schubbert, served as the first colonial director of the town. The situations are presented vividly and entertainingly, and although the book offers a romanticized and, in this sense, a sanitized version of the immigrants’ travails, I maintain that it contains historically accurate depictions of people and events that have been largely overlooked in other accounts of the period. The dissertation offers the first complete translation of the novel. An introduction provides an overview of German immigration in Texas, a short biography of Friedrich Armand Strubberg, and a discussion of his place in literature about Texas published in Germany in the nineteenth century. Extensive endnotes document names and episodes as they appear in the text and distinguish between what is fact and what is fiction in the novel. A bibliography of works published about Texas in the nineteenth century is supplied as an appendix. / text

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.T.R.P.)-University of Natal, 2002.