The phenomenon of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Zambia is a consequence of the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Many of these children are orphaned at a critical developmental stage of their lives when parental care and nurture is most needed. In the African world view, children’s opinions in matters concerning them including care are rarely sort or heard. The main aim of this research was to gain a holistic understanding of the silent voices of children affected and/or infected by the HIV and AIDS, and specifically about their experiences of care and/or lack of it. The other aims were: 1) to research alternative means of getting the silent stories of the marginalized children heard by the Zambian society; and 2) to disseminate the research findings to policy makers. Ten children orphaned by AIDS and vulnerable children, who are the core-searchers, drawn from three Lusaka urban based NGOs participated in the study. The research process and experience was reflected upon by the researcher, co-researchers and the care givers. The research was carried out from a Practical Theology perspective and the narrative approach within the postmodern social-constructionist paradigm. The ABDCE model for fiction writing as a metaphor for doing narrative research was used. This approach enabled the researcher to carry out the research in a systematic manner. It also allowed the researcher and the co-researchers to begin and work together throughout the research process, as the researcher listened to the co-researchers’ stories and experiences of care and/or lack of it and was drawn into them. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Practical Theology / unrestricted

La fibrillation atriale (FA) est une complication fréquente de la phase aiguë de l’infarctus (IDM) avec un moins bon pronostic des patients. Sa forme silencieuse pourrait être fréquente après un IDM. Cependant, toutes les études ayant porté sur la FA se sont focalisées sur les formes symptomatique, paroxystique ou persistante. De plus, la réduction de la biodisponibilité du •NO et la dysfonction endothéliale peuvent altérer le pronostic des patients en FA. Or, l’asymétrique diméthylarginine (ADMA) en inhibant de façon endogène l’action des NO synthases peut conduire à une dysfonction endothéliale, une inflammation ou encore à un stress oxydatif, qui sont impliqués dans de nombreuses pathologies cardiovasculaires. Cependant, au-cune étude n’a évalué la relation potentielle entre le taux plasmatique d’ADMA et la survenue d’une FA après un IDM.Notre objectif a été d’évaluer dans le cadre d’une étude prospective le pronos-tic hospitalier et à un an des patients présentant de la FA silencieuse en phase ai-guë d’IDM, et évaluer le lien potentiel entre les dimethylarginines et l’apparition d’une FA. Notre première étude prospective montre pour la première fois que la FA si-lencieuse est plus fréquente que la FA symptomatique et est associée à un moins bon pronostic après un IDM.Notre second travail, démontre que l’impact négatif de la FA silencieuse sur le pronostic des patients se maintient à un an après l’IDM.Notre troisième travail montre également, que l’ADMA est associée de ma-nière indépendante à la survenue d’une FA symptomatique après un IDM. Ces données suggèrent qu’un dépistage et qu’une prise en charge spécifiques de la FA après un IDM pourraient améliorer le pronostic des patients. L’ADMA pourrait ainsi être utilisée comme un marqueur de risque de passage en FA après un IDM. / Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a frequent complication of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) with a poorer prognosis. Silent atrial fibrillation has been suggested to be frequent after AMI. However, most part of the studies has targeted only paroxysmal or persistent AF. Thus, Reduced Nitric Oxide availability and endothelial dysfunction has been recently recognized as a possible contributor to altered prognosis in AF. Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) can inhibit nitric oxide synthase and leads to endothelial dysfunction, inflammation and oxidative stress in multiple cardiovascular diseases. However, any study has addressed the relationship between ADMA levels and the occurrence of AF in AMI.We aimed to assess in-hospital and 1-year prognosis in patients experiencing silent AF in AMI and evaluate the potential relationship between dimethylarginines plasma levels and the occurrence AF after acute myocardial infarction.Our first prospective study shows for the first time that silent AF is more frequent than symptomatic AF after AMI and is associated with a worse prognosis.Our second work confirms the impact of silent AF on prognosis, with a prognosis that remains worse one year after the acute phase of MI. Our third work proved that ADMA is independently associated with symptomatic AF after AMI and strengthen the capacity to estimate symptomatic AF occurrence. In conclusion our studies highlight that AF is not a negligible event after AMI, in particular silent AF. That suggests that systematic screening and specific management should be investigated in order to improve outcomes of patients. ADMA appears to be a potential predictor of AF after AMI, because of its significant association.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:12:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_luiz_justino.pdf: 4505153 bytes, checksum: 5c3882868aa930200db283626a7e1a58 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-11-04 / Any human experience can become sacred and even go continuing going externally continue in its profane expression. This sacred character comes out to it human experience from the mystery touch that it the above mentioned human experience hides within itself. This mystery can enclose beauty or ugliness, goodness or wickedness, safety or sin, angles or devils, temples or street. The sacred one produces, accomplishes a certain transformation in the worldly things, turning them into a reality wholly different from an analyzing, departing from an anthropological perspective, the hidden hierophany, contacted and reworked out from Noite dos Tambores Silenciosos i. e: Night of the Silent Drums in great attempt of understanding and developing this process. / Qualquer experiência humana pode ser sacralizada, continuando na sua superfície profana . O caráter sagrado lhe vem da atribuição do mistério que oculta. Este mistério pode ser de beleza ou de feiúra, de bondade ou de maldade, de segurança ou de pecado, de anjo ou de demônio, no templo ou na rua. O sagrado opera uma transformação nas coisas do mundo tornando uma realidade inteiramente diferente das realidades naturais. O presente trabalho se propõe analisar numa perspectiva antropológica a hierofonia construída e reelaborada na Noite dos Tambores Silenciosos, numa tentativa de compreender o desenvolver deste processo.

This Master's thesis deals with construction design suspension of tractor's cabin. At the very beginning there is an overview of different possibilities suspension from others producers. Afterwards there is my constructional working from selection variant of suspension to final project with all details. The another part of my thesis is strain-stress analysis of significant parts of construction and suggestion of comparing the method with the previous variant of suspension.

Cette thèse étudie les rapports entre l’expression d’attitudes agressives contrôlées et la perception de la dominance, à partir d’extraits de séances télévisées du conseil Municipal de Montreuil (93100) durant l’année 2013, période marquée par un climat politique vif et hostile. Un corpus a été constitué à partir d’extraits de parole spontanée de la Maire, Dominique Voynet, et de quatre de ses opposants. Les cinq locuteurs ont participé à l’enregistrement d’une relecture neutre du corpus de leurs propres extraits de parole (25 stimuli par locuteur) ainsi qu’à l’auto-évaluation perceptive de leurs stimuli (profils émotionnels), dont les résultats ont été comparés à l’évaluation perceptive des extraits par des auditeurs naïfs. Tous les locuteurs ont été perçus comme légèrement hostiles, légèrement mécontents et légèrement dominants malgré des profils émotionnels auto-évalués variables. Les extraits originaux et relus ont été comparés au niveau de leur structuration prosodico-syntaxique et de leurs caractéristiques temporelles et mélodiques. Les résultats montrent que 1) certains locuteurs semblent plus s’appuyer sur des paramètres mélodiques et d’autres sur des paramètres temporels ; 2) on peut néanmoins dégager les tendances générales concernant les corrélats dans la parole de l’hostilité et de la dominance dans notre corpus : a) des écarts entre structuration syntaxique et prosodique des extraits, b) la réduction ou l’absence d’allongements syllabiques finaux pré-pausaux, c) de fortes variations de plage de variation de F0 de part et d’autre des pauses silencieuses. / This dissertation studies the relationship between the expression of controlled aggressive attitudes and the perception of dominance, based on extracts from televised sessions of the Municipal Council of Montreuil during 2013; a period marked by a lively and hostile political climate. We constituted a corpus of spontaneous speech extracts from the Mayor, Dominique Voynet, and four of her opponents. During subsequent recording sessions, the five speakers were asked to read transcriptions of their own speech extracts in a neutral tone (25 stimuli per speaker). They also participated in a self-evaluation questionnaire that focused on the perception of emotional profiles in their own stimuli. The results of the speakers’ perceptive evaluations were compared to those of a control group of naïve listeners. All speakers were perceived as slightly hostile, discontent and dominant, despite the variability observed in the self-evaluated profiles. The original and re-read extracts were compared in their prosodic- syntactic structure as well as their temporal and melodic characteristics. We show that: 1) some speakers seem to rely mostly on melodic parameters whereas others primarily use temporal parameters, 2) nevertheless, general trends emerge regarding the speech correlates of hostility and dominance in our corpus, notably: a) discrepancies between the syntactic and the prosodic structure of the extracts, b) reduction or absence of pre-pausal final syllabic lengthening, c) large variations in F0 range on both sides of silent pauses.

Studiens syfte är att undersöka och få inblick i elevers inställning till läsning under lässtunderna i skolan. Den fokuserar på mångkulturella skolor med inriktning på flerspråkiga elever i årskurs 3. Som teoretisk utgångspunkt använder sig studien av det hermeneutiska perspektivet vid tolkning av material och analys. Materialet utgörs av intervjuer, enkäter och observationer som har genomförs på tre olika skolor. Studien visar att elevernas inställning till lässtunden varierar beroende på vilken inställning de har till läsning i allmänhet. Dessutom visar studien att eleverna motiveras till att läsa på det språket som de känner sig säkrast på. Denna studie kan göra pedagoger medvetna om vilka verktyg som ska användas för att påverka elevernas läsmotivation och inställning till läsningen under lässtunderna.

Background: Cerebral complications of coronary catheterizations are transient ischemic attack (TIA) and stroke. Silent stroke (SCI) does not cause acute neurological dysfunction. It might cause many disorders including dementia. Sonolysis is therapeutic method. Sonolysis should be the method for reducing the risk of symptomatic and asymptomatic brain ischemic lesions in patients undergoing elective coronary angioplasty or stenting. Aims: To analyse patients with cardiac disease indicated for elective coronary catheterization: 1) Assess the incidence of acute/subacute SCI on brain magnetic resonance (MR) imaging; 2) Investigate factors influencing the frequency and type of microembolic signals (MES) detected using transcranial Doppler (TCD) in patients undergoing elective coronary intervention, and to correlate the frequency and type of MES with detection of new brain ischemic lesions using MR. Examine changes in cognitive function at 30 days post procedure in relation to pretreatment scores; 3) Test the clinical efficacy and safety of perioperative sonolysis in patients undergoing elective coronary catheterization. Methods: 1) 144 patients were enrolled to the study. Brain MR was performed before cardiac intervention. The presence of acute and subacute SCI was evaluated, SCI volume was measured and risk...

The diploma thesis focuses on the employment of persons with hearing impairments. In the theoretical part, the introductory chapters pay attention to the terminological definition from the perspective of surdopaedia, classification of hearing impairments and the possibility of communication of persons with hearing impairments. Furthermore, the theoretical part is devoted to approaches to education and education systems for persons with hearing impairments. The thesis also describes the situation of employing persons with hearing impairment not only in the Czech Republic, but also in Germany, Slovakia and Great Britain. In the practical part, the situation of work of persons with hearing impairments is analyzed by means of a research survey, which has the character of mixed research. A structured interview for clients of the organization Silent world and a semi-structured questionnaire were used for the research investigation. The main aim of this thesis is to analyze the situation of work of persons with hearing impairment and possibilities of work of persons with hearing impairments in the Czech Republic, this goal is achieved by research investigation. KEYWORDS Job opportunities, persons with hearing impairments, deaf, Silent world, professional counseling

The History of Horn Playing in Los Angeles from 1920 to 1970 begins with the horn players who played in the silent film orchestras and the Alfred Brain's tenure with the Los Angeles Philharmonc. This study details the introduction of sound tracks, the early studio orchestras, the contact studio orchestras, the musician union's role in structuring the work environment, the horn players who played in both the Los Angeles Philharmonicand the studios, major figures from the subsequent freelance perios such as Vincent de Rosa, and the local and international influence of the Los Angeles Horn Club.

Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur lärare i årskurs 3 ser på bänkboken och dentysta, fria läsningen i klassrummet. Även deras syn på elevers möjlighet till attfinna sin läslust och kunna utveckla sin läsning undersöks. Resultatet som presenteras i studien bygger på kvalitativa intervjuer med 10 verksamma lärarefrån olika skolor. Undersökningen visar att elevers läslust kan väckas på olikasätt och att läsningen kan påverkas av olika faktorer. Genom att aktivt jobbamed elevers intressen, läsmiljöer i klassrummet och att anpassa läsningen tillelevers nivå, kan läsförmågan gynnas. Även läsande förebilder kan påverkaelevers läsintresse, både hemma och i skolan. Att som lärare vara läsande förebild betecknades som svårt, då tiden sällan finns för att läsa när eleverna läser.Lärarna lyfte även vikten av att behålla läsningen i klassrummet samtidigt somen önskan finns att fler elever läser i hemmet. Genom egen läsning hemma kanelevers avkodningsförmåga och läsflyt öka. Bänkboken är enligt lärarna gynnsam för elevernas läsning, då de får rutiner i klassrummet och möjlighet attfinna ett nytt intresse.