The thesis deals with Autistic Spectrum Disorders in terms of their ethology and diagnostic criteria. The theoretical part further describes development of terminology of these disorders and historical concept of care of individuals with Autism. Included are also categories of disabilities and their symptoms. Another chapter discusses the specifics of self-help skills of children with Autism and characterizes motor development of preschool children with an emphasis on motor imitation, as one of the sub-kinetic abilities. The aim of the research work is to analyse the degree of influence of motor imitation on the development of self-help skills of children with Autism. It focuses on evaluation of the developmental level of the respondent's self-help skills and its development influenced by intensive imitation training. Determination of the actual developmental level allows easier orientation within self-help skills that can be practiced with the child. Their list is located in the attachments. Further research clarifies what techniques were the most successful during motor imitation training. KEYWORD Autism spectrum disorders, pervasive developmental disorder, triad of impairments, motor development, motor imitation, self-help skills.

Située dans la partie occidentale de la République Centrafricaine, la zone d’étude (Fig.1 et 18), correspond à trois domaines géotectoniques : le domaine NW et SE, le domaine central et le domaine méridional. Le domaine NW et SE ou la nappe panafricaine des Gbayas (640 Ma), est caractérisé par une succession d’activités magmatiques et de granulites. Le mouvement tectonique affectant ce domaine est principalement latéral ( vers le S et SW). Le domaine central, constitué d’un socle éburnéen (2400-2200 Ma) et de sa couverture paléoprotérozoïque métasédimentaire à métavolcanite (1800 Ma environs), est dominé par des mouvements verticaux.Le dernier domaine comporte, une triade de roches (métatillite, cipolin, métasilexite) néoprotérozoïques, associées au dépôts du bassin de Bangui, est coiffée par une formation sédimentaire. S’agirait-il de deux domaines paléogéographiques (central et méridional) juxtaposés ? La lithologie et la lithostratigraphie de ces deux précédentes zones posent toujours des problèmes d’âges.). Les métatillites situés à la partie basale des dépôts du bassin de Bangui (domaine méridional), nous ont poussé à vérifier les traces de l’événement mondial qui est la glaciation néoprotérozoïque, en réalisant des analyses géochimiques au ∂18O et ∂13C. Ces trois domaines portent les empreintes de quatre à trois phases de déformation panafricaine. Des fortes valeurs d’aimentation (≤ 5 A/m ) mesurées sur certaines roches issues de cette zone pourraient être associées à la grande anomalie magnétique observée mondialement (satellitaire et au sol ) en République Centrafrique. / Located in the western part of the Central African Republic, the study area (Fig. 1 and 18), corresponding to three geotectonic areas: NW and SE area, central area and the southern area. The NW and SE domain or Pan Gbayas of water (640 Ma) is characterized by a succession of magmatic activity and granulites. The tectonic movement affecting this area is mainly lateral (to the S and SW). The central domain consists of a Eburnean basement (2400-2200 Ma) and its Paleoproterozoic metasedimentary to metavolcanic coverage (around 1800 Ma) is dominated by vertical movements.The latter area includes a triad of rocks (métatillite, cipolin, métasilexite) Neoproterozoic, associated with basin deposits Bangui, is capped by a Stack. Would it two paleogeographic domains (central and southern) side by side? Lithology and lithostratigraphy of the two previous areas still pose problems for ages.). The métatillites located at the basal part of Bangui Basin (southern area) deposits, we drove to check the traces of the global event that is Neoproterozoic glaciation, conducting geochemical analyzes ∂ 18O and ∂ 13C. These three areas are the fingerprints of four three-phase deformation of Pan. Strong values of magnetization (≤ 5 A / m) measured on some rocks from this area may be associated with high magnetic anomaly observed worldwide (satellite and ground) in the Central African Republic.

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A ipseidade na ética argumentativa de Paul Ricoeur é a referência básica da hermenêutica do si ao qual sempre retorna. Ela estabelece a constante mediação reflexiva em oposição à pretensa posição imediata do sujeito. A mesmidade do si tem como contrapartida o outro. Na comparação, a mesmidade é sinônimo de identidade-idem em oposição à ipseidade-ipse que inclui a alteridade. Esta inclusão questiona a capacidade do si construtivo da ética e, portanto, responsável jurídica e moralmente nas várias injunções do outro. O projeto ético de Ricoeur é compreensível a partir e dentro de sua peculiar metodologia que ele denomina de dialética entre a ética teleológica e a moral deontológica. Esta dialética se fundamenta na tríade do desejo, do dever e da sabedoria prática em recíproca atividade, privilegiando a dimensão teleológica do desejo da vida boa com o outro e para o outro em instituições justas. A ética argumentativa tem a função de dar conteúdo as duas dialéticas pela inclusão do outro no si mesmo sem o qual a reflexão sobre a ipseidade perderia o sentido. A sabedoria prática da ética e do julgamento moral em situação inclui a discussão porque o conflito é insuperável e determina o argumento para o consenso eventual. Nossa tese é a afirmação da capacidade do si mesmo atuar ações construtivas. Além da critica à ideologia e à utopia, Ricoeur fundamenta a dialética entre o princípio-esperança e o princípio de responsabilidade mediante a via utópica do futuro e a via realista da preocupação com o presente diante dos casos inéditos em que a vida e o ecossistema se associam. A imputação pessoal e coletiva desde o passado, no presente para o futuro é devida à responsabilidade. A ipseidade constrói o futuro no presente através de decisões éticas. / The ipseity in ethics argumentative of Paul Ricoeur is the basic reference of the hermeneutic of the selfhood that he always returns. She settles the constant reflexive mediation in the opposition supposed immediate position of the subject. The sameness of the selfhood has like counterpoint the other. In the comparison, it is a synonym of identity-ditto an opposition ipseity-ipse that it includes the others. This inclusion questions the capacity of the self to be ethical and, ergo responsible juridical and morals in the various junction of the other. The ethical project of Ricoeur is comprehensible from and inside his peculiar methodology that he nominates dialectics between the teleological ethics and the deontological moral. This dialectics settles the triad of desire, obligation and practical wisdom in reciprocal activity, privileging the teleological dimension of the desire goods life with the other and for other in fair institutions. The ethics argumentative has the function to give contents the two triads, through the inclusion of the other in selfhood without the reflection about ipseity would lose sense. The practical wisdom of the ethical and moral judgement in situation includes discussion because the conflict is insuperable and it determines the best argument for the eventual consensus. Our thesis is the affirmation capacitys of selfhood to actuate constructive actions. By critique on ideology and utopia Ricoeur bases the dialectics between the principlehope and the principle of responsibility through utopian way of future and realistic way of preoccupation with the present in front of the hard cases that life and the ecosystem are associated. The personal and collective ascription on the past, in the present towards the future is due to the moral responsibility. The selfhood constructs the future in the present by your ethics decisions. It deals about ethical capacity of selfhood.

This diploma thesis focuses on the topic of problematic behaviour of pupils with autism and medium mental retardation in an educational process. The main aim of this work is to learn about and describe teaching staff's experience with the occurrence and ways of handling problematic behaviour of these pupils. The theoretical part describes the basic terms related to autism, mental retardation and it also outlines a historical context of autism, etilogy, its classification and characteristic symptoms. The thesis also focuses on the diagnostic process in the psychological and pedagogical diagnostics, an overview of basic obligatory diagnostic tools is provided. It deals with the legislative framework of the education of pupils with autism and medium mental retardation, it describes the most common educational methods and therapeutic approaches in special schools. Next chapter defines the term problematic behaviour, outlines the diagnostic evaluations and some specific approaches to correcting such behaviour. The practical research part is based on the qualitatively-oriented methodology and it works with data gained from 11 semi-structured interviews with the school deputy directors, special pedagogues - teachers, assistant teachers - educators from three elementary schools separately established for...

This master thesis investigates how Chinese construction equipment firms internationalize (i.e. how they enter new markets and how they are driven to exit their own). For this, the institutions of China and Brazil are comparatively analyzed, Porter’s five forces model is used to analyze the Chinese construction equipment industry, while distinct resources, capabilities and key success factors are defined and analyzed for Sany and Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group (XCMG). After careful analysis, the authors bring to light various take-off drivers, patterns and strategies of Chinese construction equipment firms when internationalizing or venturing abroad. Chinese construction equipment firms are beginning to follow their Western counterparts, focusing their efforts on product quality and extensive customer service. Warranties, parts centers, aftermarket service and strategically placed research and development facilities are becoming more greatly utilized, expanding the quality and offerings of Chinese firms, while adding to the customers perception of overall value.    These key insights expand the knowledge base associated with Chinese construction equipment firms in developing markets, while unlocking new theoretical perspectives for supplementary research.

Denna studie ämnar belysa de två företagen Match och Victoria Milans TV-reklamfilmer. Det primära syftet är att undersöka vilka retoriska grepp Match och Victoria Milan använder sig av i reklamfilmerna för att värva nya betalande medlemmar till webbplatserna. Genom retorisk analys granskas respektive reklamfilm. De retoriska teorier som används är ethos, pathos, logos -triaden och de semiotiska aspekterna denotation och konnotation. I mitt arbete analyserar jag även videoproduktionstekniken för att belysa kameravinklar. Med hermeneutik som vetenskaplig ansats tolkas reklamfilmerna med hjälp av den hermeneutiska cirkeln som tillvägagångssätt. Det sekundära syftet med detta arbete är att jämföra likheter och skillnader mellan reklamfilmerna. De frågor jag ställer är 1) vilka likheter och skillnader finns i reklamfilmerna och 2) hur skiljer sig könsmönstret åt mellan reklamfilmerna. För att synligöra de strukturer som finns kommer jag att använda mig av strukturalistisk teori. Victoria Milan har fram till idag enbart producerat en reklamfilm som analyseras. Match har däremot producerat flera reklamfilmer och jag har därför valt att granska den senaste av dessa reklamfilmer. Analysen visar att båda reklamfilmernas styrka och persuasiva effekt ligger i att de förenar rationella och emotionella apeller – att den tänkta mottagaren både känner igen sig i reklamfilmerna och att de innehåller argument. Reklamfilmerna vilar på strukturalistiska binära motsatspar som ligger till grund för hur mannen och kvinnans roll i reklamfilmerna framställs/upplevs olika. I Matchs reklamfilm är det mannen som styr. I Victoria Milans reklamfilm är det kvinnan som är aktiv. En slutsats som dras är att två undermedvetna frågor väcks hos mottagaren, ”det kan bli verklighet” (Match) och ”det kan bli bättre” (Victoria Milan). Genom denna emotionella påverkan ingjuts hopp i det undermedvetna hos de tänkta målgrupperna. Hoppet mottagaren känner är ett starkt retoriskt grepp som båda företagen använder sig av. Att hitta en ursäkt till ett dåligt beteende blir dock Victoria Milans främsta retoriska grepp. Nyckelord: ethos, pathos,logos- triaden, visuell retorik, TV-reklamfilm, hermeneutik, binärt motsatsförhållande, dejting, internet, Barthes, Lévi-Strauss / This study aims to highlight the two firms Match and Victoria Milan's television commercials. The primary purpose is to explore the rhetorical strategies Match and Victoria Milan use in the commercials to attract new paying members to the sites. Each advertisement is examined through rhetorical analysis. The rhetorical theories used are the triad of ethos, pathos, logos and the semiotic aspects of denotation and connotation. In my work I also analyze video production technology to illuminate the camera angles. With hermeneutics as a scientific approach I will interpret the commercials by using the hermeneutic circle approach.The secondary objective of this work is to compare the similarities and differences between the commercials. The questions I ask are 1) the similarities and differences in the commercials and 2) how different gender patterns differ between the commercials. To visualize the structures that exist, I will use structuralist theory. Victoria Milan has until today only produced one television commercial that is analyzed. Match, however, produced several commercials and I have therefore chosen to examine the most recent of these commercials. The analysis shows that both advertising films strength and persuasive power lies in that they combine the rational and emotional Apelles – the intended recipient both recognize themselves in the commercials and that the commercials contain arguments. The Promotional Films are based on structuralist binary opposites that form the basis of how man and woman's role in advertising films are produced / perceived differently. In the Match commercial the man is in control. In the Victoria Milan commercial the woman is the one who is active. One conclusion is that two sub-conscious issues are raised by the recipient, "it can become areality" (Match), and "it could be better" (Victoria Milan). This emotional influence instilles hope in the subconscious of the intended target groups. The hope they feel is a strong rhetorical approach that both companies use. Finding an excuse for bad behavior, however, is Victoria Milan's main rhetorical strategy. Keywords: triad of ethos, pathos, logos, visual rhetoric, television commercials, binary opposition, dating, internet, Barthes, Lévi-Strauss

Dans les centres d’hébergement et de soins de longue durée (CHSLD), jusqu’à 80 % des personnes admises vivent avec une démence (Conseil des aînés, 2007). Parmi ces personnes âgées, plusieurs crient. Ce comportement a fait l’objet de quelques études, mais ces études ne fournissent pas une compréhension des sens de ces cris qui pourrait orienter le choix d’interventions face à ces personnes et leur entourage. À l’aide de la perspective infirmière de Leininger (2001) et de la théorie de la communication et des interactions à l’intérieur de triades d’Adams et Gardiner (2005), le but de cette étude était de décrire les sens des cris de personnes âgées vivant avec une démence et les facteurs les influençant en tenant compte de la perspective des personnes âgées, de leurs aidants familiaux et de leurs soignants. Pour atteindre ce but, l’ethnographie critique a été choisie comme méthode. L’étude s’est découlée dans un CHSLD au sein duquel sept triades, composées de personnes âgées vivant avec une démence qui crient, d’aidants familiaux principaux et de soignants, ont été recrutées selon un échantillonnage théorique. Diverses méthodes de collecte des données ont été utilisées dont l’observation des personnes âgées et du milieu et des entrevues semi-dirigées auprès des aidants et soignants. L’analyse des données a été effectuée à l’aide des quatre approches proposées par Spradley (1979) soit l’analyse : des domaines, taxonomique, componentielle et thématique. Les résultats ont permis d’identifier des thèmes sur les sens des cris et sur les facteurs influençant ceux-ci. Les cris peuvent avoir pour sens la vulnérabilité, la souffrance et la perte de sens vécues par la personne âgée. Ce comportement peut aussi indiquer diverses finalités, par exemple l’expression d’insatisfactions ou d’émotions. Ces finalités peuvent être distinguées à partir de critères de modulation tels que la prévisibilité des cris ou un faciès émotif. Par ailleurs, divers aspects rendent les sens des cris singuliers. La stabilité et la flexibilité dans la façon d’organiser les soins ainsi que l’effet réciproque entre les personnes âgées qui crient et les autres personnes dans le CHSLD se sont dégagées comme étant des facteurs qui influencent les sens des cris. Il s’est aussi révélé que les cris de chaque personne âgée peuvent être considérés comme un langage unique que les aidants et les soignants sont en mesure d’apprendre et qui influence l’interprétation des sens des cris. L’accompagnement de la personne âgée, en tenant compte de ses volontés, ses besoins et de sa personnalité, les fluctuations dans les relations de pouvoir au sein des triades personnes âgées-aidants-soignants et les sentiments d’impuissance et de culpabilité des aidants et des soignants sont d’autres facteurs qui influencent les cris. Les connaissances découlant de cette étude augmentent la compréhension sur les sens des cris des personnes âgées vivant avec une démence. Elles ont des implications pour les divers champs d’activités des infirmières et qui pourront contribuer à offrir des soins culturellement cohérents et caring pour les personnes âgées vivant avec une démence et leur entourage. / Eighty percent of people admitted in nursing homes live with dementia (Conseil des aînés, 2007). Many of these elderly persons scream. Research on this population does not provide a useful basis for understanding this behavior which would enable to guide the choice of appropriate interventions to help the elderly and the people who hear them. The purpose of this research was to describe –with the help of elderly persons, their family and their professional caregivers– the meanings of screams in the elderly with dementia and their influencing factors, using Leininger’s (2001) nursing perspective and Adams and Gardiner’s (2005) theory of communication and interaction within dementia care triads. Critical ethnography was selected as the research design. Seven triads –composed of elderly persons with dementia that scream, primary family caregivers, and formal caregivers– were recruited from a nursing home according to a theoretical sampling procedure. Various data collection methods were used, particularly, the observation of elderly persons and their environment as well as semi-structured interviews with their family and formal caregivers. Spradley’s (1979) four types of ethnographic analysis: domains, taxonomic, componential and themes analysis were used. The results lead to emergent themes on the meanings of screams and on their influencing factors. The meanings of screams can be related to the vulnerability, suffering, and loss of meaning experienced by the elderly. This behavior can also represent various final outcomes, for example, the expression of dissatisfaction or of emotions. These outcomes can be differentiated by modulation criteria such as predictability of screams or emotional facial expressions. Various aspects of the meanings of screams make them singular. Some factors that influence the meanings of screams are the stability and flexibility of nursing care and the effect that the elderly who scream and the persons in the nursing home surrounding them have on each other. The screams of each person also prove to be a unique language that can be learned by family and formal caregivers which can in turn change the interpretation of the screams. Other influencing factors are the respect of the wishes, needs, and personality of the elderly person, fluctuations in power relations within the elderly-family-caregivers triads and feelings of powerlessness and guilt in family and formal caregivers. Knowledge generated by this study increases our understanding on the meanings of screams in elderly persons with dementia. It has implications for research, education, clinical practice and management that could contribute to caring and culturally congruent care for elderly persons with dementia and the people around them.

In this dissertation a collaboration project in Swedish youth care is analysed. The aim of the project was to enhance coordination between the Social Services and the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care in order to make the efforts more efficient. The project also employed a number of coordinators. The overall purpose of this dissertation is to analyse conflicts, alliances and comparisons identifiable in interviews and observations. The analytic findings are put into an overall “collaboration context” represented by earlier research on the social phenomenon of “collaboration”. In this way the dissertation tries to contribute to a sociological understanding of a contemporary widespread phenomenon. The empirical materials of the study consist of recorded conversational interviews with 147 project participants (youngsters, parents and various professional categories) as well as observations of meetings, informal get-togethers and visits to institutions, Social Services offices, the head office of the National Board of Institutional Care and coordinators. The material was analysed using the analytic perspectives of Georg Simmel (1950/1964), Theodore Caplow (1968) and Erving Goffman (1959/2004). The analysis shows that the project manifested and led to struggles between organizations involving representatives from the Social Services, the National Board of Institutional Care and the project, as well as to several interpersonal conflicts between representatives from various categories of involved professionals, and the youngsters and their parents. The study also shows that the client, in such human service organizations, faces a significant risk of being marginalized. Professionals who appreciated the collaboration often drew their conclusions based on their interaction with other professionals, but the collaboration did not guarantee a successful treatment of the client. Conflicts concerning the roles of the coordinators and their written documents (“the agreements”) emerged and were actualized through the creation of the project. The coordinators and their “agreements” can be seen as the project’s most visible representatives and symbols, which during the project become both themes for conflict and actualize already established conflict patterns. The youngsters and their parents appreciated the projects’ coordinators who appeared as personally involved and able to make concrete changes. However, many of youngsters and their parents criticized the coordinators and even portrayed a victim identity in relation to the project. The coordinator’s relationship with the youngsters and their parents was mostly characterized by passivity. This is clearly apparent in the analysis of the administrative and/or passive coordinator. Different alliance constellations became visible in these presentations. When the coordinator roles were altered in the description, the alliance constellations change. It is a common strategy for clients in human service organizations to try to enter into alliances with professionals involved in their cases and, in so doing, try to alter the situation to their own advantage. The fact that these alliances are often sought by the client indicates, among other things, the client’s will to fight against the situation in which he/she finds him/herself. I believe that this can be seen as something productive rather than problematic. / I denna avhandling analyseras ett samverkansprojekt i den så kallade ungdomsvården i Sverige. Projektet hade som mål att förbättra samordningen mellan socialtjänsten och Statens institutionsstyrelse för att kunna effektivisera insatserna för samhällsomhändertagna ungdomar och deras familjer. I projektet var också ett antal samordnare anställda. Det övergripande syftet i avhandlingen är att analysera beskrivna och observerade konflikter, allianser och förklarande jämförelser som kan identifieras i intervjuer och observationer. Analytiska upptäckter sätts avslutningsvis i en mer övergripande ”samverkanskontext” som representeras av tidigare forskning om samhällsfenomenet ”samverkan”. På så vis försöker avhandlingen bidra till en sociologisk förståelse av ett samtida välspritt fenomen.Studiens empiriska material är inspelade samtalsintervjuer med 147 projektdeltagare (institutionsplacerade ungdomar, deras föräldrar och olika yrkeskategorier inom socialtjänsten, Statens institutionsstyrelse och projektet) samt observationer av organiserade möten, informella träffar före och efter intervjuer eller möten, samt vid besök på institutioner, socialtjänstkontor, Statens institutionsstyrelses huvudkontor och samordnarnas kontor. Materialet analyserades vidare med analytiska utgångspunkter från Georg Simmel (1950/1964), Theodore Caplow (1968) och Erving Goffman (1959/2004).Analysen visar att projektet manifesterade och medförde mellanorganisatoriska kamper mellan socialtjänsten, Statens institutionsstyrelse och projektet samt en rad interpersonella konflikter mellan representanter för olika professionella yrkeskategorier, ungdomar och föräldrar. Studien visar också att klienten i människovårdande organisationer löper en betydande risk att hamna utanför nya samarbeten. De myndighetspersoner som upplever ett bra samarbete drar ofta sina slutsatser utifrån interaktionen med andra professionella men det upplevda samarbetet behöver inte bli någon garanti för framgångsrik behandling av klienten. Konflikter om samordnarnas sätt att agera (samordnarroller) och samordnarnas skriftliga dokument, ”överenskommelsen”, har aktualiserats med projektets tillkomst. Samordnarna och deras ”överenskommelse” kan ses som projektets synligaste representanter och symboler, som under projektets gång blir både ämnen för konflikter och aktualiserar redan etablerade konfliktmönster. Ungdomarna och föräldrarna förkastar emellanåt myndighetspersonernas ageranden som moraliskt felaktiga, gestaltar sin offeridentitet samt försöker vända situationen till att bli fördelaktig för dem själva. Samordnarnas relation till ungdomar och föräldrar präglas mestadels av passivitet. Detta framträder tydligt i analysen av en administrativ och/eller passiv samordnarroll. I dessa framställningar är även olika allianskonstellationer synliga. När samordnarroller förändras i beskrivningen, förändras även allianskonstellationer.Att klienten i människovårdande organisationer söker ingå allianser med myndighetspersoner är en vanlig strategi för att försöka vända situationen till sin fördel. Att dessa allianser söks ofta av klienten indikerar bland annat klientens vilja till fortsatt kamp – mot den situationen i vilken klienten befinner sig. Jag menar att detta kan ses som något produktivt snarare än problematiskt.

The main ideas behind this thesis include introducing the characteristics of the disorder known as Asperger syndrome, searching for help for individuals with this disability, looking at their engagement in society, and also helping teachers prevent and deal with existing conflicts. After a short introduction of pervasive developmental disorders, I focused on Asperger syndrome. I concentrated on the issue of communication, its abnormalities, and the concept and modes of communication in the disabled. At the same time, I tried to indicate possible ways to educate people with Asperger's. The thesis also looks at inclusion, its conditions and forms. At the end of this part, I outline ways to organize education and chart the education of teaching staff in the field of pervasive developmental disorders. The empirical part looks into teachers' awareness of the disorder, describes education of individuals with Asperger's in practice, and suggests ways to organize education of people with the syndrome.