Introdução: Programas de exercícios para pacientes lombálgicos tem sido amplamente descritos na literatura; contudo a efetividade de programas de exercícios para esta condição clínica ainda encontra-se controversa. Objetivo: Avaliar a efetividade de um programa de exercícios baseado em abordagem postural e funcional sobre a capacidade funcional e a qualidade de vida de pacientes com lombalgia crônica. Desenho Experimental: Randomized Controlled Trial. Amostra: 30 pacientes do sexo feminino com lombalgia crônica não-específica. Instrumentos de Análise: Capacidade Funcional (Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire), Qualidade de Vida (SF-36) e intensidade de dor (Escala Numérica de Dor). Métodos: As pacientes foram divididas em Grupo Controle (GC) e Grupo Experimental (GE). Pacientes em ambos os grupos foram submetidas a três avaliações durante seis semanas, em intervalos de três semanas envolvendo o preenchimento dos questionários Roland-Morris, SF-36 e Escala Numérica de Dor. O grupo experimental foi submetido a um programa de exercícios durante seis semanas objetivando a melhora do recrutamento muscular para melhor manutenção postural e treino de funcionalidade. O grupo controle, após o período de observação, recebeu intervenção idêntica à recebida pelo grupo experimental. Grupos controle e experimental foram comparados através do teste t – student. Resultados: O grupo experimental apresentou melhora significativa na capacidade funcional (p= 0,0), qualidade de vida (SF 36;escalas variando com p = 0,0 até 0,02) e intensidade de dor (p= 0,0) ao ser comparado com o grupo controle. Após a intervenção em ambos os grupos, a melhora manteve-se significativa. Conclusão: O programa de exercícios baseado em abordagem postural e funcional mostrou-se eficiente na melhora da dor, capacidade funcional e qualidade de vida de pacientes com lombalgia crônica. / Background: Exercise programs for low back pain have been largely studied; however its effectiveness on this clinical condition is still controversial. Purpose: To assess the effects of a postural and functional approach-based exercise program on functional capacity, quality of life and pain condition of subjects with chronic low back pain (CLBP). Study Design: Randomized Controlled Trial. Patient Sample: 30 women with nonspecific CLBP. Outcome Measures: functional capacity (RMQ, Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire), quality of life (SF-36 subscales) and pain condition (NRS, Numerical Rating Scale). Methods: Patients were randomly assigned to control (CG) and treatment groups (TG). Patients from both groups were submitted to a three-week interval evaluation involving the completion of RMQ, SF-36 and NRS. TG was submitted to a six-week program of treatment addressing improvement of muscular recruitment for better postural maintenance and functional training. The CG was submitted to the same intervention program, after six weeks of no intervention. CG and TG were compared by applying t student test to the variables. Results: TG showed significant improvement in functional capacity (p= 0.0), quality of life (SF 36 subscales with p ~ 0.0 to 0.02) and pain condition (p= 0.0) compared to CG. The refferences remained significant when the results of intervention in the control group were added to the treatment group and compared to the control group baseline. Conclusions: The postural and functional approach-based exercise program showed efficient in improving the functional capacity, quality of life and pain condition of CLBP patients.

Introdução: Programas de exercícios para pacientes lombálgicos tem sido amplamente descritos na literatura; contudo a efetividade de programas de exercícios para esta condição clínica ainda encontra-se controversa. Objetivo: Avaliar a efetividade de um programa de exercícios baseado em abordagem postural e funcional sobre a capacidade funcional e a qualidade de vida de pacientes com lombalgia crônica. Desenho Experimental: Randomized Controlled Trial. Amostra: 30 pacientes do sexo feminino com lombalgia crônica não-específica. Instrumentos de Análise: Capacidade Funcional (Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire), Qualidade de Vida (SF-36) e intensidade de dor (Escala Numérica de Dor). Métodos: As pacientes foram divididas em Grupo Controle (GC) e Grupo Experimental (GE). Pacientes em ambos os grupos foram submetidas a três avaliações durante seis semanas, em intervalos de três semanas envolvendo o preenchimento dos questionários Roland-Morris, SF-36 e Escala Numérica de Dor. O grupo experimental foi submetido a um programa de exercícios durante seis semanas objetivando a melhora do recrutamento muscular para melhor manutenção postural e treino de funcionalidade. O grupo controle, após o período de observação, recebeu intervenção idêntica à recebida pelo grupo experimental. Grupos controle e experimental foram comparados através do teste t – student. Resultados: O grupo experimental apresentou melhora significativa na capacidade funcional (p= 0,0), qualidade de vida (SF 36;escalas variando com p = 0,0 até 0,02) e intensidade de dor (p= 0,0) ao ser comparado com o grupo controle. Após a intervenção em ambos os grupos, a melhora manteve-se significativa. Conclusão: O programa de exercícios baseado em abordagem postural e funcional mostrou-se eficiente na melhora da dor, capacidade funcional e qualidade de vida de pacientes com lombalgia crônica. / Background: Exercise programs for low back pain have been largely studied; however its effectiveness on this clinical condition is still controversial. Purpose: To assess the effects of a postural and functional approach-based exercise program on functional capacity, quality of life and pain condition of subjects with chronic low back pain (CLBP). Study Design: Randomized Controlled Trial. Patient Sample: 30 women with nonspecific CLBP. Outcome Measures: functional capacity (RMQ, Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire), quality of life (SF-36 subscales) and pain condition (NRS, Numerical Rating Scale). Methods: Patients were randomly assigned to control (CG) and treatment groups (TG). Patients from both groups were submitted to a three-week interval evaluation involving the completion of RMQ, SF-36 and NRS. TG was submitted to a six-week program of treatment addressing improvement of muscular recruitment for better postural maintenance and functional training. The CG was submitted to the same intervention program, after six weeks of no intervention. CG and TG were compared by applying t student test to the variables. Results: TG showed significant improvement in functional capacity (p= 0.0), quality of life (SF 36 subscales with p ~ 0.0 to 0.02) and pain condition (p= 0.0) compared to CG. The refferences remained significant when the results of intervention in the control group were added to the treatment group and compared to the control group baseline. Conclusions: The postural and functional approach-based exercise program showed efficient in improving the functional capacity, quality of life and pain condition of CLBP patients.

This thesis focuses on the emergence of the teenaged consumer as a market segment in Canada during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. It challenges the notion that teenagers were of little interest to retailers until economics and demographics shaped the more numerous and prosperous post-war teenagers of the Baby Boom generation. Using evidence from corporate records and analysis of mail order catalogues, the study examines how department store retailer, the T. Eaton Company, Limited, began to cultivate a distinct and lucrative teenaged consumer in the 1930s, and thereby began shaping the teenaged consumer. The thesis contextualizes the case study of Eaton’s by exploring the varied expectations that adults had of young people at the time, using census records and magazines (Chatelaine, Canadian Home Journal and Mayfair) to explore concerns about young people’s transition to adulthood. It then focuses on how Eaton’s made a concerted and sustained effort to attract teenager customers to its catalogue and stores. Analysis of its semi-annual catalogue highlights the emergence of specialized clothing size ranges and styles, revealing that Eaton’s increasingly viewed the teenaged years as an important in-between life stage. Eaton’s also instituted teenage advisory councils to both glean market trends and provide a venue for what it considered education for novice consumers. Eaton’s presented consumption as a way to prepare young people for adult roles, legitimizing teenaged participation in the consumer marketplace and contributing to wider debates about when and how teenaged Canadians should reach maturity.

This thesis focuses on the emergence of the teenaged consumer as a market segment in Canada during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. It challenges the notion that teenagers were of little interest to retailers until economics and demographics shaped the more numerous and prosperous post-war teenagers of the Baby Boom generation. Using evidence from corporate records and analysis of mail order catalogues, the study examines how department store retailer, the T. Eaton Company, Limited, began to cultivate a distinct and lucrative teenaged consumer in the 1930s, and thereby began shaping the teenaged consumer. The thesis contextualizes the case study of Eaton’s by exploring the varied expectations that adults had of young people at the time, using census records and magazines (Chatelaine, Canadian Home Journal and Mayfair) to explore concerns about young people’s transition to adulthood. It then focuses on how Eaton’s made a concerted and sustained effort to attract teenager customers to its catalogue and stores. Analysis of its semi-annual catalogue highlights the emergence of specialized clothing size ranges and styles, revealing that Eaton’s increasingly viewed the teenaged years as an important in-between life stage. Eaton’s also instituted teenage advisory councils to both glean market trends and provide a venue for what it considered education for novice consumers. Eaton’s presented consumption as a way to prepare young people for adult roles, legitimizing teenaged participation in the consumer marketplace and contributing to wider debates about when and how teenaged Canadians should reach maturity.

La loi du 31 décembre 1975 sur l’autodétermination des Comores organise deux consultations à Mayotte pour demander aux Mahorais s’ils confirment le maintien de leur Île dans la France et la seconde les invitant à déterminer le statut de Mayotte. La loi du 24 décembre 1976 tire les conséquences de ce choix et crée une collectivité territoriale au statut provisoire sur le fondement de l'article 72 de la Constitution. La loi du 11 juillet 2001 qui réaffirme l’ancrage de Mayotte dans la République, martèle d’une part que celle-ci ne peut quitter la France sans le consentement des Mahorais et modifie d’autre part le statut sui generis pour établir celui de la Collectivité Départementale (CDM). Consultée le 29 mars 2009, les électeurs mahorais se prononcent largement pour ériger Mayotte en un département d’outre-mer avec les perspectives de sa rupéisation. Sur le plan institutionnel, Mayotte se retrouve à un moment décisif de son histoire puisqu’ au lendemain des lois du 7 décembre 2010 qui créent le statut de département, Mayotte affronte les défis de la départementalisation outre-mer dont les enjeux nécessitent une plus grande synergie entre pouvoirs publics et des Mahorais toujours vigilants à l’évolution de leur propre statut. Et cette transformation statutaire engendre une autre mutation subséquente du statut européen de PTOM vers celui de région ultrapériphérique de l’Union européenne à l’horizon 2014. Comment ce dogme va-t-il évoluer ? Tel est l’objet de la présente thèse. / The law of 31 December 1975 on self determination of Comores organises two consultations in Mayotte to ask its residents to declare maintenance in France and the second inviting mahorais to determine the status of Mayotte within the Republic. Mahorais confirm their donating and the law of 23 December 1976 create local authority to the provisional status on the basis of Article 72 of the constitution. The law of 11 July 2001 changes that status to establish « collectivité territoriale of Mayotte » by specifying the local system to enfoncement of laws and regulations by reducing the legal context of legislative specialty rule. This resolution is immediatly followed by a consultation of population of Mayotte the 29 March 2009 that must decide on the future of the island’s status. In the institutional plan, Mayotte find it self in a decisive moment from it hitory to next day of laws of 7 December 2010 that create the department status, Mayotte face to the overseas administration department’s challenges whose the aims need biggest collaboration between public powers and the Mahorais who are always vigilant to the evolution of their status. And this statutory transformation cause an other subsequent transfer of european status of PTOMVERS the one of an ultra-perpheral regional of the European Union in the horizon 2014. How does this dogma evolue ? That is the goal of this thesis.