Background: Health care is a strange place for the patient. To make this enviroment as good as possible, would the patient be well informed. The patient has right to know if it is a bad mews and often he/she needs caring after the information. Nurse´s basic responsibility is caring, for her/him it´s important to prevent the shock for the patient that can appear.  Aim: Describe the nursing staff responses to the patient, using the patient´s perspective in relation to bad news.  Method: A litterture review has been made with nine articles. Current research materials that meet the study´s purpose has been applied in databases and analyzed. Four themes and nine subthemes was emerged.  Results: Nurse should allow patient to talk, when bad news had been given. Conversation is important for the patient, because they want information to be able to participate in care. Good communication skills are important for the nurse in connection with bad news. Patient wants information in an honest, peaceful and transparent manner. Time is often in short supply in this conversation. To have the family in care is a good support for the patient, but not all patients want the family to participate.  Conclusion: Patients desire individually aids at handover of bad news. It gives them a safety. The most common mould of aids according to patients where that the nurse shows that she/he has time for them.

In this study / gas production by depressurization method from a hydrate reservoir containing free gas zone below the hydrate zone is numerically modeled through 3 dimensional, 3 phase, non-isothermal reservoir simulation. The endothermic nature of hydrate decomposition requires modeling to be non-isothermal / hence energy balance equations must be employed in the simulation process. TOUGH-Fx, the successor of the well known multipurpose reservoir simulator TOUGH2 (Pruess [24]) and its very first module TOUGH-Fx/Hydrate, both developed by Moridis et.al [23] at LBNL, are utilized to model production from a theoretical hydrate reservoir, which is first studied by Holder [11] and then by Moridis [22], for comparison purposes. The study involves 2 different reservoir models, one with 30% gas in the hydrate zone (case 1) and other one with 30% water in the hydrate zone (case 2). These models are further investigated for the effect of well-bore heating. The prominent results of the modeling study are: &amp / #8226 / In case 1, second dissociation front develops at the top of hydrate zone and most substantial methane release from the hydrate occurs there. &amp / #8226 / In case 2 (hydrate-water in the hydrate zone), because a second dissociation front at the top of hydrate zone could not fully develop due to high capillary pressure acting on liquid phase, a structure similar to ice lens formation is observed. &amp / #8226 / Initial cumulative replenishment (first 5 years) and the replenishment rate (first 3.5 years) are higher for case 2 because, production pressure drop is felt all over the reservoir due to low compressibility of water and more hydrate is decomposed. Compared to previous works of Holder [11] and Moridis [22], amount of released gas contribution within the first 3 years of production is significantly low which is primarily attributed to the specified high capillary pressure function.

Le jeu de Harvey Keitel et de Rod Steiger réinventent les modèles de masculinité traditionnelle et les rôles de tough guys dans le cinéma américain. Ils permettent la déconstruction des notions-types du genre par l’ouverture de leur interprétation aux émotions, l’harmonie psycho-physique et la concentration sur les intentions et les circonstances. Keitel, acteur-icône du cinéma indépendant et découvreur de talents, se démarque dans un jeu marqué par l’intensité et l’exploration des aspects les plus sombres de l’humanité. Steiger excelle par la figuration de la solitude, de l’ambiguïté et de l’ambivalence, et figure des personnages tels que Napoléon, Mussolini ou Al Capone. Tous deux passés par l’interprétation américaine de la Méthode de Stanislavski, Keitel et Steiger s’affirment comme des acteurs-personnages, davantage que comme des stars. En effet, peu soucieux de leur image d’acteur, ils s’immergent dans la création de leurs personnages et figurent la relation complexe entre Moi social et Moi créateur. A travers l’analyse détaillée de leurs performances dans des genres différents, il semble que la comédie et les drames sentimentaux permettent aux acteurs de créer des performances adoucies, et de libérer leur imaginaire d’acteur-auteur. / Harvey Keitel and Rod Steiger’s performances reinvent the models of traditional masculinity and shed a new light on tough-guy roles in American film. Their emotional performances, their psycho-physical approach and their focus on objectives and circumstances open up new perspectives on gender and genre and lead to a deconstruction of the standard notions of genre. Keitel has become an iconic actor of independent cinema, by helping new directors and actors; and stands out with intense performances, which explore the darkest sides of humanity. Steiger excels in showing solitude, ambiguity and ambivalence, and acts various parts, such as Napoleon, Mussolini or Al Capone. Both actors study the American interpretation of Stanislavsky’s Method, and choose to become character-actors, rather than stars. Indeed, their inner acting primarily relies on the creation of a character, keeping in mind the complex relationship between Moi social and Moi créateur, and leaving aside their concern for their own image as actors. Through the detailed analysis of their performances in different genre movies, it comes to light that comedy, romance and drama allow the actors to free their performance from masculine stereotypes and to express their imagination as auteurs.

In Canada, we regularly incarcerate accused persons while they are still legally innocent. By the turn of the century, the growing number of accused held in pre-sentence custody had become a concern for provincial/territorial governments, and, by extension, the federal government. In an effort to address the problem, Bill C-25 - ‘The Truth in Sentencing Act’ - was passed into law. Adopting a quantitative as well as qualitative methodology, this study uses a randomly selected sample of 110 cases to examine the implementation of Bill C-25 as a case study of how Canadian judges respond to legislation which likely created friction between the political and judicial social spheres. Analyses suggest that there is strong evidence to support the notion that judges did not fully implement the legislation as intended by the federal government. Instead, it appears that judges may have been motivated to resist the implementation of Bill C-25 in order to protect fundamental principles of justice that were ignored in the drafting of the new law.

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Throughout the 1980s, the Citizens’ Advisory Committee (CAC), a grassroots group of “prison neighbors,” organized for tighter security at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas (SCID), a medium security prison in northeast Pennsylvania. Motivated primarily by their fear of prisoner escapes, the CAC used the local media to raise awareness about security concerns and cooperated with the SCID administration to acquire state funding for projects at the prison that they believed would improve security. Their work coincided with the widespread proliferation of “tough on crime” rhetoric and policies, and the inauguration of the most intensive buildup of prisons ever witnessed in the United States. This phenomenon, now known as mass incarceration, has disproportionately impacted urban communities of color, due principally to the highly racialized nature of the War on Drugs, while the majority of prisons have been located in white rural communities. By imagining themselves as a population under threat, conceptualizing prisoners as potentially dangerous regardless of the nature of the crimes of which they had been convicted, and positioning the prison administration as a potential ally that needed constant supervision, the CAC contributed in complex ways to the solidification of a racially- and economically-skewed, intensely punitive criminal justice system. The CAC’s organizing helps expose an aspect of mass incarceration that has remained relatively unexplored thus far: the role rural communities that surround prisons played in the historical processes that moved the practice of punishment from the relative periphery of U.S. society to its present position as a central apparatus for political, economic, and social organization.

Thesis advisor: Michael Glass / This thesis explores intellectual debates over the relationship between crime and poverty with a focus on Chicago's public housing projects as a case study. During the late twentieth century, Americans' understanding of crime and poverty underwent a fundamental shift from the ideas of the "sociological reformers" to the "tough on crime consensus." Influenced by emerging criminological research, politicians and policymakers altered their crime control and public safety strategies. Once believing that crime could be prevented by eradicating poverty and investing in social programs, in the early 1970s, their focus shifted to retribution, deterrence, and incapacitation. Chicago, however, had a different - yet hightly important - trajectory in regards to public safety. Using its public housing projects as testing grounds for crime control and practices, the city largely defined what it meant to be "tough on crime" in the late twentieth century. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2024. / Submitted to: Boston College. Morrissey School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: History. / Discipline: Scholar of the College.

Pearly layers in seashells, also known as nacreous layers, are reported to be three orders of magnitude tougher than their primary constituent, aragonite. Their high toughness is attributed to a particular structure of alternating layers of natural ceramic and polymer materials. This work tries to emulate it using engineering materials. The thickness, strength, and stiffness of the ceramic layer; the thickness, stiffness, strength, and toughness of the polymer interface layer; and the number of layers are the factors that contribute to different degrees. Furthermore, understanding the relative contribution of different toughening mechanisms in nacre would enable identification of key parameters to design tough engineered ceramics. As a step towards that, in this thesis, layered ceramic beams replicating nacre were studied analytically, computationally, and experimentally. The insights and findings from these studies were then used to develop a new method to make tough layered ceramics mimicking nacre. Subsequently, the use of layered ceramics for armour applications was evaluated. Based on analytical numerical and experimental studies, we observed that the strength of the layers is a key factor to replicate the high toughness of nacre in engineered ceramics. We also demonstrated that, crack deflection and bridging observed in nacre in studies elsewhere, occur due to the high strength of platelets. Based on these findings, the new method developed in this study uses green alumina-based ceramic tapes stacked with screen printed stripes of graphite. During sintering, graphite oxidizes leaving empty channels in the stack. These channels were filled with tough interface materials afterwards. As a result, a ceramic- polymer composite with more than 2-fold increase in toughness was developed. Subsequently, we evaluated layered ceramics for armour applications based on numerical analysis validated with experiments. Consistent to the trends in literature, we observed that layers degrade the resistance to ballistic impact. However, improved energy absorption is demonstrated in layered ceramics. These conflicting dual trends were not presented and quantified in any earlier studies conducted elsewhere. Another new observation not documented earlier is the effect of interface strength. Using an interface material of sufficient strength, penetration resistance of layered ceramics can be improved beyond monolithic ceramics. Using these findings, new layered ceramic armour can be designed that is cost- effective and better performing than monolithic ceramics.

[pt] As denominadas construções tough (tough constructions - TCs), como John is easy to please, apresentam o formato superficial [SD COPULA Adj VInf], tendo como característica distintiva o fato de que o SD (sintagma determinante), sujeito do predicado, é interpretado como objeto lógico do verbo no infinitivo. Muitos estudos teóricos examinaram a sintaxe dessa estrutura e as relações semânticas tecidas a partir dela, mas até o momento nenhuma teoria explica de forma satisfatória as TCs e estruturas relacionadas, com objeto lacunado, como pretty predicates, gapped degree phrases e ready predicates. Os objetivos desta dissertação são: (a) discutir, à luz dos dados, as diferentes propostas teóricas para TCs e construções relacionadas, buscando sistematizar nosso conhecimento atual sobre a gramática dessas construções em inglês e em algumas línguas românicas, como o francês, o espanhol, e o romeno; (b) apresentar uma nova abordagem teórica, construída a partir da negação das premissas adotadas em estudos anteriores, sugerindo que, em TCs e estruturas relacionadas, a formação do predicado envolva nominalização e adjunção de projeções máximas, resultando em estruturas simétricas. Na análise proposta, o elo semântico entre o sujeito sintático do predicado e o objeto lógico do verbo no infinitivo se realiza na Forma Lógica, em função da estrutura argumental do verbo nominalizado e da categoria do adjetivo concatenado simetricamente. A modelagem teórica apresentada permite unificar TCs, pretty predicates, gapped degree phrases e ready predicates, propondo que essas construções compartilham os processos de nominalização e de adjunção de projeções máximas, diferenciando-se nas relações semânticas entre seus elementos. Permite também uma explicação mais adequada para o comportamento de for phrases e para o fato de que apenas as TCs (e algumas gapped degree phrases) aparecem em posição prenominal, com uso atributivo. / [en] Superficially, tough constructions (TCs) like John is easy to please present the format [DP COPULA A VINF], but their distinctive characteristic is that the subject DP is interpreted as the logical object of the verb in the infinitive. Many theoretical studies have examined the syntactic structure of TCs and the semantic relations supported by that structure, but to date no theory provides a good explanatory description for TCs and related object-gap constructions like pretty predicates, gapped degree phrases, and ready predicates. The objectives of this thesis are (a) to discuss, in light of the data, the different theoretical proposals on TCs and related constructions, providing a systematic overview of current knowledge on the grammar of these constructions in English and a number of Romance languages, such as French, Spanish and Romanian, and (b) to present a new theoretical approach, starting from a contrarian position on the premises adopted in earlier studies. Under the proposed analysis, formation of the predicate in TCs and related constructions involves nominalization of the verb in the infinitive and adjunction of maximal projections, resulting in a symmetrical structure. In this symmetrical structure, the semantic link between syntactic subject and logical object is established at Logical Form, in function of the nominalized verb s argument structure and the category of the concatenated adjective. The theoretical model presented in this thesis unifies TCs, pretty predicates, gapped degree phrases and ready predicates, suggesting that these constructions share the processes of nominalization and adjunction of maximal projections, and differ in the semantic relationships between their elements. It also offers a principled explanation for the behavior of for-phrases in these object-gap constructions and for the fact that only TCs (and some gapped degree phrases) appear prenominally, in attributive use.

Este trabalho procura avaliar a relação existente entre a expansão espacial do povoamento ocorrida no Brasil na primeira metade do século XX e o processo de formação territorial do país, trazendo a lume a importância das relações sociais que ocorriam na fronteira para a composição de uma explicação geográfica sobre o fenômeno do pioneirismo. Tomando como ponto de partida a análise da noção de frente pioneira explicitada na obra do geógrafo francês Pierre Monbeig entre as décadas de 1930 e 1950, busca-se apontar de que maneira a descrição explicativa das áreas de movimentação de fronteiras dinamizadas pela expansão espacial da colonização, que impulsionou a fundação de cidades, o desmatamento de florestas e a abertura de campos de cultivo e pastos, comporta uma análise sobre o processo de construção dos sistemas de engenharia que conseguiram consolidar nexos de solidariedade entre distintos lugares, garantindo maior fluidez e integração a um território que modificava sua organização espacial para se adequar às novas necessidades surgidas com a expansão do capitalismo no Brasil. Figura de destaque no ensino e pesquisa em geografia desenvolvidos no Brasil nas décadas de 1930 e 1940, especialmente na Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras da Universidade de São Paulo, onde foi um dos fundadores do curso de Geografia e História, Pierre Monbeig é um dos protagonistas da institucionalização acadêmica do campo geográfico no país, influenciando diretamente a formação da primeira geração de geógrafos brasileiros saídos dos bancos universitários. Assim sendo, este trabalho colocou como objetivo específico rastrear a influência do enquadramento oferecido por Monbeig em seus trabalhos sobre o pioneirismo nas pesquisas de autores como Ary França, José Ribeiro de Araújo Filho, Renato da Silveira Mendes, Nice Lecocq Müller e Pasquale Petrone, discípulos do francês que assumiram uma posição institucional de relevo no cenário da geografia brasileira a partir da década de 1950, tornando-se os continuadores do curso de Geografia da FFCL/USP. / The aim of this work is to analyze the relation between the spatial expansion of Brazilian settlement occurred in the first half of the twentieth century and the process of territorial formation, with a focus on the role of the frontiers social relations in the construction of a geographic approach for the pioneering phenomena. Based upon the analysis of the pioneer fringe as it is expounded in the work of French geographer Pierre Monbeig between the 1930s and the 1950s, we intend to point out in what ways the descriptive explanation of the moving frontier, which impelled, for its turn, the foundation of cities, the deforestation and the formation of agriculture fields and pastures, reveals an interpretation about the construction of engineering systems planned to consolidate spatial relations among different places in the Brazilian territory, ensuring the territorial integration necessary for the expansion of capitalism in Brazil. Pierre Monbeig is a distinguish figure of the Brazilian geographic movement, fulfilling an important role in the institutionalization of the geographic scientific field as one of the greatest scholar figures that ever worked in this country. The analysis of the influence brought together with his activities as a teacher and researcher developed in the Department of Geography of the São Paulo University during the 1930s and the 1940s, which he helped to organize and establish, can be taken in consideration as a demonstration of the reach of his works for the generation of students that came after him in the University. Thus, this work seeks to examine the influence of the explicative frame held in Monbeigs studies of the pioneer fringe on the research developed by authors like Ary França, José Ribeiro de Araújo Filho, Renato da Silveira Mendes, Nice Lecocq Müller and Pasquale Petrone, all of them future teachers in the same Department of Geography in São Paulo.