Master's Degree Thesis Research Articles

A Contribuição da Igreja Católica para o Pensamento Comunicacional Brasileiro

In its master's degree dissertation, defended in the Methodist University of Sao Paulo, in 2001, the author inventoried the dissertations and thesis generated in the Brazilian programs of postgraduation in Social Communication, on the catholic ecclesiastic communication. Passing by the works produced since 1974, when the first one appeared, until the end of 2000, he carried through a descriptive analysis of the set to, after that, linger in the explanatory analysis of the thesis. This article's main objective is to show, from the studied thesis, some topics that can be considered essential in an analysis of the of the Catholic Church's contribution for the Brazilian communicational thought.

As pesquisas denominadas "estado da arte"

Nos últimos quinze anos, no Brasil e em outros países, tem se produzido um conjunto significativo de pesquisas conhecidas pela denominação "estado da arte" ou "estado do conhecimento". Definidas como de caráter bibliográfico, elas parecem trazer em comum o desafio de mapear e de discutir uma certa produção acadêmica em diferentes campos do conhecimento, tentando responder que aspectos e dimensões vêm sendo destacados e privilegiados em diferentes épocas e lugares, de que formas e em que condições têm sido produzidas certas dissertações de mestrado, teses de doutorado, publicações em periódicos e comunicações em anais de congressos e de seminários. Neste artigo levanto e tento responder as seguintes questões: seria possível fazer um esforço de interrogar a história a produção acadêmica sobre determinada área do conhecimento, optando por ler apenas dados bibliográficos e resumos dos trabalhos? O que significa ler esse lugar (catálogos), instituição de divulgação dos trabalhos, tomando-o como fonte documental para um mapeamento da produção acadêmica, em pesquisas denominadas "estado da arte"?

Families with chronically ill children.

Debra D. Meleski is a pediatric nurse practitioner at Torrington-Winsted Pediatric Associates in Torrington and Winsted, CT. This article builds upon the author's master's-degree thesis; she acknowledges Margaret Grey, DrPH, CPNP, FAAN, and Lynne Schilling, PhD, RN, of the Yale University School of Nursing, her thesis advisers. Contact author: [email protected].

The concept of transcultural nursing: the analysis of its development in a Master degree dissertation

This is an analytic-bibliographic study which analyzes the concept of nursing in Leininger's Theory and the conceptual development of Nursing presented in the master's degree dissertation chosen for this study. Barnum's model for the analysis and evaluation of theories (Barnum 1998) was used, in relation to the clarity and consistency of the concept, together with questions about Nursing. The group of statements presented in Leininger's transcultural nursing concept and in the dissertation shows what is the focus of nursing and the intrinsic relation to the process of looking after somebody, which must be developed coherently with culture. It also demonstrates that Nursing has a body of specific professional knowledge which guides the care for the client, valuing one's individuality, subjectivity and way of seeing the world. The study made it possible to validate concepts taken from the Theory of Universality and Cultural Diversity of caring and their use in the research according to the analyzed criteria.

ALGUNS ASPECTOS DA REORGANIZAÇÃO DO MOVIMENTO DOS PROFESSORES PÚBLICOS DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO (1977-1980)

O trabalho trata do movimento dos professores públicos conduzido pelo Centro Estadual de Profissionais de Ensino do Rio de Janeiro, entre 1977 e 1980. Resgatar a história da Entidade por meio de seus registros e documentos e investigar a possibilidade de as organizações docentes se configurarem como "educadoras do educador", inaugurando uma nova etapa na profissionalização do magistério, foram os objetivos da Dissertação de Mestrado que deu origem ao presente texto. Do confronto entre os documentos de partidos políticos (analisando o movimento) e as entrevistas com diversos participantes do movimento, foi reconstruída a história dos primeiros anos da entidade. O papel do sindicato como Aparelho de Hegemonia (no sentido gramsciano, organizador político para além de defensor dos interesses econômico-corporativos) é posto em dúvida diante dos resultados atingidos.

Development and evaluation of an evolutionary tool for obtaining the crystallization rate constant of semicrystalline polymers (HDPE case) as a function of temperature

This paper presents a methodology based upon genetic algorithms, which is intended to find from a set of data, the parameters of an approximating function consisting of radial basis functions. The aim is to obtain a smooth, continuous and integrable approximating function, capable of satisfactorily expressing the relationship between temperature and the kinetic crystallization constant K( T) used in the different models of non-isothermal crystallization. The proposed methodology was tested over HDPE crystallization data at different cooling velocities (5 and 20 °C/min). Additionally, a different evolutionary methodology, previously developed [Master degree thesis, Postgrado de Investigación de Operaciones, Facultad de Ingenierı́a, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1998], was also tested over the same data. The results show that both of the methodologies tested are capable of finding good approximations to the kinetic crystallization constant K( T).

Teams and the marginalization of midwifery knowledge

This paper is the third in a four-part series drawn from the findings of a masters degree dissertation which looked at midwives' experiences of becoming integrated within teams in a district general hospital in the north of England. This discussion will centre on midwifery knowledge and how it would appear that despite the rhetoric, midwifery knowledge continues to be marginalized. Regardless of the proposed moves towards more care in the community, the prevailing authoritative knowledge around birth remains confined to the techno-medical model, which confines midwives to a practice that is not the art and science of midwifery.

Considerações acerca das formas tradicionais e recursos computacionais para a representação do projeto

O objetivo desse trabalho é aprofundar as discussões acerca de reflexões decorrentes da dissertação de mestrado de um dos seus autores (Borges, 1998). Tais reflexões estão relacionadas à utilização da linguagem gráfica como instrumento fundamental nos processos de criação e de tradução de soluções de projeto. A principal contribuição está relacionada à estruturação de um quadro de referência que articula as formas de concepção e representação do projeto arquitetônico com as etapas de sua progressão. Como conseqüência dos estudos realizados, são apresentadas as diretrizes para continuidade da pesquisa, algumas experiências já em andamento e os reflexos verificados nos processos de ensino e aprendizagem de disciplinas relacionadas à representação gráfica na Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF).

Psychosocial and Lifestyle Factors Associated with Insufficient and Excessive Maternal Weight gain during Pregnancy

Helping women attain recommended weight gain during pregnancy is an important challenge for clinicians. It is well documented that both insufficient and excessive maternal weight gain are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes ( (1) Subcommittee on the Nutritional Status and Weight Gain During Pregnancy, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. Nutrition During Pregnancy, Weight Gain, Nutrient Supplements. National Academy Press, Washington, DC1990 Google Scholar , (2) Johnson J.W. Yancey M.K. A critical review of the new recommendations for weight gain in pregnancy. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1996; 174: 254-258 Google Scholar , (3) The Federal-Provincial Subcommittee on Nutrition.Nutrition in Pregnancy. Minister of National Health and Welfare, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada1987 Google Scholar , (4) Bianco A.T. Smilen S.W. Davis Y. Lopez S. Lapinski R. Lockwood C.J. Pregnancy outcome and weight gain recommendations for the morbidly obese woman. Obstet Gynecol. 1998; 91: 97-102 Google Scholar , (5) Edwards L.E. Hellerstedt W.L. Alton I.R. Story M. Himes J.H. Pregnancy complications and birth outcomes in obese and normal-weight women effects of gestational weight change. Obstet Gynecol. 1996; 87: 389-394 Google Scholar , (6) Abrams B. Carmichael S. Selvin A. Factors associated with the pattern of maternal weight gain during pregnancy. Obstet Gynecol. 1995; 86: 170-176 Google Scholar , (7) Abrams B. Selvin S. Maternal weight gain patterns and birth weight. Obstet Gynecol. 1995; 86: 163-169 Google Scholar , (8) Seiga-Riz A.M. Adair L.S. Hobel C.J. Institute of Medicine maternal weight gain recommendations and pregnancy outcome in a predominantly Hispanic population. Obstet Gynecol. 1994; 84: 565-573 Google Scholar , (9) Shepard M.J. Hellenbrand K.G. Bracken M.B. Proportional weight gain and complications of pregnancy, labor, and delivery in healthy women of normal weight prepregnancy stature. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1986; 155: 947-954 Google Scholar , (10) Garbaciak J.A. Richter M. Miller S. Barton J.J. Maternal weight gain and pregnancy complications. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1985; 1525: 238-245 Google Scholar , (11) Brown J.E. Jacobson N.H. Askue L.H. Peick M.G. Influences of pregnancy weight gain on the size of infants born to underweight women. Obstet Gynecol. 1981; 57: 13-17 Google Scholar , (12) Abrams B. Laros R.K. Prepregnancy weight, weight gain and birth weight. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1979; 154: 503-509 Google Scholar , (13) Edwards L.E. Alton I.R. Barrada I.M. Hakanson E.Y. Pregnancy in the underweight woman. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1979; 135: 297-301 Google Scholar , (14) Naeye R.L. Weight gain and the outcome of pregnancy. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1979; 135: 39 Google Scholar ). Insufficient gain is linked to low infant birth weight and perinatal mortality, whereas excessive gain is associated with high infant birth weight and mortality, cesarean section, and prolonged second stage of labor. This work was supported by the Fonds de Développement of the University of Montreal, the Interdisciplinary Health Research Group of the University of Montreal, the Fonds de recherche en sauté du Québec, and the Research Center of the Centre Hospitalier de I’Université de Montréal, Notre-Dame Hospital. Part of this work was the topic of C. Chabot's master's degree thesis at the University of Montreal.

Improved homotopy iteration method and applied to the nine-point path synthesis problem for four-bar linkages

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DESCRITORES EM CIÊNCIAS DA SAÚDE NAS TESES E DISSERTAÇÕES DE MESTRADO, NA ÁREA DE DOENÇAS RESPIRATÓRIAS

O processo de indexação consiste em duas fases: primeira, identificar e representar o conteúdo intelectual de um documento; segunda, traduzir a análise do assunto para uma linguagem específica, utilizando descritores. Na biblioteca do Instituto de Doenças do Tórax da UFRJ, a indexação de periódicos biomédicos e teses era realizada por meio de um vocabulário controlado - DeCS (Descritores em Ciências da Saúde). O objetivo desta pesquisa era identificar se os autores das teses de Mestrado em doenças respiratórias estavam usando o DeCS para indexar. Os descritores de 29 teses de Mestrado de Tisiologia e Pneumologia, de 1990 a 1996, foram estudados. A coleta de dados evidenciou que 29 autores empregaram 101 descritores (3,48 descritores/autor). Quatro (14%) dos autores utilizaram adequadamente os descritores do DeCS. Em conclusão: catorze por cento dos autores de teses de Mestrado empregaram corretamente os descritores.

A gestão da informação em um hospital universitário: o processo de definição do Patient Core Record

Este trabalho relata o desenvolvimento e os resultados preliminares de um projeto de pesquisa que está sendo executado no Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), hospital-escola da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, como dissertação de mestrado no PPGA/UFRGS. O projeto tem por objetivo definir o conteúdo essencial (Core Record) do Prontuário de Pacientes (PP), com a ativa e fundamental participação de todos os usuários envolvidos (médicos, enfermeiros, administradores, professores, pesquisadores e assessoria jurídica). Esta definição e a participação dos usuários são fundamentais para que o processo de informatização do PP seja concebido e implantado com sucesso. Esta pesquisa caracteriza-se como estudo exploratório e se orienta por métodos qualitativos de estudo de caso e de focus group (Morgan, 1988), envolvendo os diversos grupos de atores envolvidos no processo de registro, armazenamento e recuperação de informações do prontuário de pacientes. As conclusões dos grupos de discussão (focus group) permitiram definir os requisitos de informações do Patient Core Record, atendendo às necessidades dos diferentes usuários. A validação deste protótipo nos dará a definição do conteúdo das informações do futuro Prontuário Eletrônico do HCPA. A participação ativa das diferentes categorias de usuários envolvidos com o uso dos PP, será fundamental para garantir o acerto das modificações que estão sendo propostas.

Reflections on Some Early Events Related to Behavior Analysis of Child Development

A series of events related to the early application of behavioral principles to child behavior and development is described. The events began in the 1930s at Columbia University with a solicited letter from John B. Watson suggesting a master's degree thesis problem, and continued through the 1950s and 1960s at the University of Washington. Specifically, these happenings resulted in (a) research demonstrating that Skinner's laboratory method for studying nonhuman organisms could be profitably applied to the laboratory study of young normal children; (b) a demonstration that by successive approximations, a normal child can be operantly conditioned to respond to an arbitrary situation; (c) research showing that the effects of simple schedules of reinforcement obtained with nonhuman organisms could be duplicated in young normal and retarded children; (d) the demonstration that Skinner's operant laboratory method could be adapted to study young children in field situations; (e) research showing that operant principles can be successfully applied to the treatment of a young autistic boy with a serious visual handicap; (f) laboratory studies showing that mothers can be trained to treat their own young children who have behavior problems; (g) an in-home study demonstrating that a mother can treat her own child who has behavior problems; (h) a demonstration that operant principles can be applied effectively to teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic to children with retardation; and (i) publication of a book, Child Development: A Systematic and Empirical Theory, in collaboration with Donald M. Baer, by Prentice Hall in their Century Psychological Series.

The study of fracture properties in birefringent materials with improved method of caustics

Fracture properties in birefringent materials are studied by the improved method of caustics. A new method for determining stress intensity factors in birefringent materials is found. As examples, the stress intensity factors of epoxy and polycarbonate of plates with different cracks and loadings are determined. By comparison, the results of the paper are more precise than those of Zhang [Master's degree thesis, Northwestern Polytechnical University (1990)].

Coloration de la grotte-perte du Camp de l'Ubac (Gorges de la Jonte, Lozère, France)

Within the framework of a master's degree dissertation on the Jonte basin, in the French département of Lozère, experiments were carried out in the highest sinkhole known of the underground course of this river. The result of the injection of the fluorescent dye into the Puits du Regard stream (Camp de l'Ubac , -13 m) on May 2nd 1990 confirmed that this stream belongs to the subterranean network of the Jonte river. After travelling approximately 9 km, the dye re-ermerged 43 hours later in the different resurgences of the Les Douzes spring. The experiment showed that the zoater travelled at a high speed : 2 00 m/h. This high speed means that the sinkhole at le Camp de l'Ubac is near the main underground collector and that the streams are neither hindered by vast reservoirs nor held by narrow passages.

Technological Innovation: Capital and Labour

Two case histories are provided as accounts of technological innovation in a particular industry, i.e. bulk cargo handling and containerisation in the Port Industry. The geographical setting is the Pacific Coast of Northern California, more precisely at Sacramento and at San Francisco. The information was gathered during October and November 1975, from local sources through personal interviews, with key people and literature relating directly to the two ports. An additional source was the unpublished Masters Degree thesis of Andrea Mohn, ‘Economic Impact of the Port of Sacramento: Its Sources and Results’, of California State University, Sacramento. The report as a whole identifies certain key motifs:

The old masters art collage: An art therapy technique for heuristic self-discovery

The first part of the above statement suggests basic Freudian theory underlying traditional art therapy: what an individual creates from the deepest recesses of the unconscious can provide clues to unknown psychic material. The second part of ·the statement suggests the possibility of a different sort of art therapy: art created by the artist has power to elicit emotional reactions buried deep within another person who has no real connection with the artist. Coming into the world of therapeutic healing from a background of art history rather than the creative arts, I chose for my Master's Degree thesis in Counseling to do an �rt therapy research project, working with Old Masters art rather than client­ created art. This paper describes an

Modification of the Classroom Behavior of a “Disadvantaged” Kindergarten Boy by Social Reinforcement and Isolation

This 1967 Master's degree thesis, by Martha Schatt Abbott, has been abridged by me, in order to conserve space. Secondary analysis and findings not vital to the understanding of the main hypothesis being tested, the discussion of background literature and experimental methodology of classical and operant conditioning, tables and figures portraying daily means and standard deviations, percentages of change in daily behavior of the subject under various experimental conditions, and mean frequency and length of teacher interaction by experimental condition, have been either omitted or abridged. The results of the study have important implications relative to methodology and demonstrate that systematic use of social reinforcement in the classroom can change a child's behavior. Acknowledgement and grateful appreciation is given to Dr. fames J. Gallagher, Director of the Education Improvement Program, Duke University, whose direction and collaboration made the study possible and to others who contributed their-time and effort at Durham where the data was collected. The complete thesis is available in Boston University's Mugar Library.

Field telegraph lines: Being an abstract from a master's degree thesis on electricity in modern warefare

Field telegraph lines: Being an abstract from a master's degree thesis on electricity in modern warefare

Field telegraph lines: Being an abstract from a master's degree thesis on electricity in modern warefare

Field telegraph lines: Being an abstract from a master's degree thesis on electricity in modern warefare