Master's Degree Thesis Research Articles

Consultoria empresarial de Serviço Social: expressões da precarização e da terceirização profissional

O presente artigo é resultado da minha dissertação de mestrado que teve por finalidade apreender a consultoria empresarial de Serviço Social em face da reestruturação produtiva e da expansão da precarização das relações de trabalho, cuja terceirização é uma de suas expressões. Assim, utilizo cinco eixos de análise para identificar expressões de precarização a partir da terceirização ocorrida nesse espaço sócio-ocupacional do Serviço Social.

A arquitetônica de Luna Clara e Apolo Onze: uma reflexão metalinguística

Este artigo propõe uma reflexão metalinguística acerca do percurso metodológico de que resultou a pesquisa de mestrado intitulada Luna Clara e Apolo Onze: uma organização criativa de vozes, que descreve a arquitetônica autoral da obra. Mais especificamente, pretende-se mostrar como, a partir dos princípios da análise dialógica do discurso, e de um exame preliminar do corpus - o livro de Adriana Falcão, Luna Clara e Apolo Onze, a pesquisadora desenvolveu uma maneira específica de descrever a arquitetônica deste que é um texto verbal que integra recursos visuais. Pretende ainda refletir acerca de como, no âmbito da concepção dialógica, se pode construir um objeto de estudo, e uma maneira de estudá-lo, partindo da observação de um fenômeno como um livro e de seu exame mediante conceitos compatíveis com esse objeto, em vez de aplicar categorias prontas.

Qualidade de Vida Relacionada à Saúde de Pacientes Oncológicos sob Cuidados Paliativos

This paperwork discusses the main results of the Health Psychology Master Degree Dissertation of Universidade Católica Dom Bosco (UCDB) concluded in 2012, which aimed to assess the health quality of life of cancer patients under palliative care. This is a quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study, approved by the Ethics Research Department of (UCDB) in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul. The sample consisted of 70 participants who underwent palliative monitoring care at the Cancer Hospital in Dourados/MS. Two instruments were applied to collect data: a Social Demographic Occupational Questionnaire and a specific instrument to assess the health quality of life in Oncology the EORTC QLQ – C30. The results showed that a target identification of domains, when related to Social Demographic Occupational variability, may favor the assistance interventions that the multidisciplinary team offers to cope with the disease and side effects of cancer treatment in order to improve those individuals health quality of life.

Studies on Evaluation Methods of Medium-Term Inspection about Master Degree Thesis with Interval Number's Sorting Way

In the work of medium-term inspection evaluation about master degree thesis in colleges and universities, its only grade but no superior difference. In response to this situation, this paper uses bounded closed interval numbers geometric mean sorting method make pros and cons sorting to be in the same professional degree thesis, which can break out the bound of grade and make the work of medium-term inspection of master degree thesis become more perfect, fair and justice.

Studies on Evaluation Methods of Medium-Term Inspection about Master Degree Thesis with Interval Number's Sorting Way

In the work of medium-term inspection evaluation about master degree thesis in colleges and universities, its only grade but no superior difference. In response to this situation, this paper uses bounded closed interval numbers geometric mean sorting method make pros and cons sorting to be in the same professional degree thesis, which can break out the bound of grade and make the work of medium-term inspection of master degree thesis become more perfect, fair and justice.

Improvement on Property Resolution of Reduction Arithmetic and Application

This paper is based on my master's degree thesis, here we use the optimal algorithm for attribute reduction -- improvement on Property resolution of Reduction Arithmetic, this algorithm is applying to complete and incomplete information system.

Why bother about writing a Masters dissertation? Assumptions of faculty and Masters students in an Iranian setting

This article reports the results of a mixed methodology analysis of the assumptions of academic staff and Masters students in an Iranian university regarding various aspects of the assessment of the Masters degree thesis, including the main objective for writing the thesis, the role of the students, supervisors and advisors in writing the proposal, conducting the project, writing the thesis, and asking/answering questions in the viva. Assuming that the Masters degree oral exams are important historical moments to investigate these issues, qualitative observations were made of 32 Masters vivas in an Iranian university, leading to 18 core categories. These were then drawn upon to develop two questionnaires, which were completed by 57 academic staff and 101 Masters students in various disciplines in the same institution. The results indicate lack of consistency and transparency with regard to roles, responsibilities, and obligations of various stakeholders in handling various aspects of the Masters thesis.

O "match do século" e a "história esportiva" do xadrez: uma interpretação sociológica

O presente artigo configura uma síntese da dissertação de mestrado defendida por um dos autores com o título "O xadrez em xeque: uma análise sociológica da história esportiva da modalidade" (SOUZA, 2010). O problema de pesquisa que esteve em tela na dissertação consistiu na possibilidade de recuperar e compreender as transformações conjunturais e mercadológicas potencializadas no subcampo esportivo do xadrez, em nível de oferta e demanda da prática enxadrística, pela ocasião da final do campeonato mundial de 1972 e, em seguida, avaliar o que essas transformações representaram ou significaram no processo de construção da "história esportiva" da modalidade. Como hipótese de trabalho sustentou-se que durante o contexto histórico-social do chamado "match do século", a modalidade de xadrez conheceu a "fase de ouro" de sua "história esportiva", condição que, a partir da articulação empírico-teórica levada a efeito ao longo do estudo, se demonstrou comprovada.

Advancing practice: from staff nurse to nurse consultant. Part 9: conferences

541 T his series is designed to help you advance your nursing practice. Previous articles have explored publication, problem-solving, leadership, setting objectives, clinical supervision and the motivation to advance practice. This article explores the world of nursing conferences and their relevance to advancing nursing practice. There are two main types of nursing conference: ■ Those that cover a broad variety of nursing topics including topical subjects such as the Francis Report, pay and conditions, advancing practice, the future of nursing and many other similar issues that relate to all specialties of nursing ■ Those that focus on an area of specialty such as research, education, management, wound care, critical care, community nursing, orthopaedic nursing, mental health, children’s nursing, learning disability, renal care and many more. Whatever the speciality, there is almost certainly going to be a conference covering the topic. Conferences can also be local, national or international. You can find out more about the different conferences available by scanning the adverts in various nursing journals or typing the topic into a search engine. If you have worked in your speciality for more than 1 or 2 years, then you will probably already know which ones relate to your area of practice. The benefits of attending a conference are that it allows you to mix with, talk to and build up professional connections with other nurses who are interested in your area of practice. By attending the various talks, discussions and displays you are able to review the latest ideas and developments in your specialty. Depending on your area of practice there are normally exhibitions of equipment and various resources that you can examine and discuss with the various producers. Conferences normally last two or three days attend a conference would need to be built into your annual developmental review with objectives that relate to the development of your clinical area. If you have already attended a conference then the next step is to think about presenting an area of your speciality either as a poster presentation or as one of the optional themes or concurrent sessions. These is usually a 15-minute talk followed by 10 minutes of questions, rather nerve racking, but useful for your own development. Most nurses start with a presentation of their masters degree dissertation or the development of an unusual or new method of patient management. Think through and discuss with your colleagues an area that you could present at a conference next year. Conferences are a combination of fun and hard work. They are a tremendous way to meet and network with other people working in similar situations to yourself. They can lift you up to view your speciality from a new perspective, a view that is difficult to appreciate when you are engrossed in day-today routines. BJN John Fowler

Prevention of sexually transmitted disease in the Health Care in Schools Program: evaluative study

Aims: This is a master degree dissertation project of Post-Graduation Program in Nursing of Ceara Federal University, and has as an aim to evaluate the work of nurses in relation to the prevention of STD/AIDS with adolescents in the Health Care in Schools Program. Method: An evaluative research that started in May 2013, with a quality approach. The subjects of the study will be nurses who work for the Health Care in Schools Program in Fortaleza, state of Ceara. For the data gathering, a semi-structured interview and the checklist that supports the interview will be used. For the organization and analysis of the data, the Method of Senses Interpretation will be taken as reference and the descriptive statistics analysis will use the Excel software. This research project was sent to the Ethics in Research Committee of Ceara Federal University and approved under nr 209.337 on 02/28/2013.

Economic History and Development of Port Harcourt, 1912-2003: An Analysis

This study is an analysis of origin and establishment of Port Harcourt, how land was acquired and how a small Port Harcourt settlement developed into a flourishing urban centre. The process by which this transformation took place was analysed, using theoretical framework of some relevant theories of development and growth models enunciated by different scholars, whose studies were also reviewed. We made a critique of underdevelopment and growth paradigms; and also problems we encountered in course of this study. Our findings revealed that companies were either colonially created or that its operations or activities were dependent on advanced countries with its main links for inputs, markets, management, finance and technology. The study concludes that positive forces of development were favourable to Port Harcourt and today city is the goose that lays golden egg for Nigeria and it is popularly known as Treasure base of Nigeria, with Nigeria's discovery of oil and gas in 1956. I. Introduction This study examines establishment, economic development and growth of Port Harcourt city, fro m 1912 to 2003. The role of government in economic development of City, and assessment of degree of its economic develop ment vis -a-vis objective of its creation, will also be analysed. Additionally, it is hoped that understanding of above thematic studies would help to explain reason behind domination of Economic Sector o f Port Harcourt by non -indigenes. It was ease with which non-indigenous inhabitants acquired land and dominated various economic activ ities in City that made them to assert that Port Harcourt was a no man's land. As this study is an exposition of economic develop ment of Port Harcourt from its creation in 1912- 2003, it will add to knowledge about Nigerian co mmunit ies generally and Port Harcourt in particular. Also, enlightenment of this study is likely to attract attention of further studies by scholars and academicians in field of economic h istory of Port Harcourt. We have chosen period 1912 - 2003 because Port Harcourt was created in 1912 and 2003 marked end of civilian admin istration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo's first tenure in office as President and Co mmander-in-Chief of Armed Forces of Federal Republic o f Nigeria. Statement Of The Problem Scholars have not paid attention to Economic History of Port Harcourt, despite fact that this city was a deliberate creation of colonial government as a Sea Port terminal. The first work on Economic History of Port Harcourt was researcher's Master degree thesis titled: An Economic History of Port Harcourt 1912- 1975. It is appalling to note that this aspect of history has been neglected. Most research work on Port Harcourt was written by geographers, economists, sociologists and political scientists. None has documented in any depth economic history of Port Harcourt. This is in contrast to (Harald, Hagemann and George Erber, p.12) view, that economic factor is a major factor worth consideration in any historical interpretation. Also (U. O. A. Esse p. 3) emphasized that economic factors and offered exp lanations for most of decisions and actions of rulers. The challenge of this study will unravel fo llo wing problems: (a) To ascertain rate of economic develop ment and growth of Port Harcourt between 1912 and 2003; As our study itself is an analysis of economic history of Port Harcourt, it is our hope that it will add to existing historical knowledge of Nigerian communities and cities; (b) The rate and pattern of economic development of City we have analyzed, should guide scholars in their assessment of impact of colonialis m and operations of mult inational corporations

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An analysis of the DNA sequence from three species of Heliconius butterflies and several subspecies reveals that those with the same color patterns have the same versions of key genes, holdovers from extensive hybridization within the genus. A recent master's degree thesis at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) in Germany is generating waves—though not the "time waves" the student was looking for. And this week's numbers quantify deaths of children under 5 caused by preventable infectious diseases, U.S. adults who sleepwalk, and pages in the Encyclopedia of Life.

Talk about the Focus about Continental Architecture Sector's Attention on the Theory of Building Skin

The theory of building skin is a topic of great concern in domestic architectural theory community in recent years. In this paper, through to retrieve the keywords from the Chinese journal full-text database, China Ph.D. Thesis full text data, China's excellent master's degree thesis full-text database and WANFANG DATA(ten thousand party database), analysis and deduced that architecture ontology, architecture techniques, architecture arts and culture are the top three themes that the architect concerned about in the domestic, and the skin space, ecological skin and skin culture are the hot spots in these three themes, and they can supply scientific data.for further in-depth study of building skin theory.

LA SOSTENIBILIDAD AMBIENTAL REGIONAL: UNA PROPUESTA METODOLÓGICA PARA SU ESTUDIO MÁS ALLÁ DE LA ECOLOGÍA URBANA

The territorial system at a regional scale has a greater capacity to allow dissipation and assimilation of different environmental impacts produced in the urban system. Urban spaces, considered as the main promoters of serious environmental impacts, should be analyzed as interdependent systems of other territories, establishing this way the conformation of regional systems of great importance for analyzing the environmental sustainability capacity. The method of study of such capacity is the aim of this article (phase four of the methodology), which product is one of the results of the research conducted within the framework of the Master's Degree thesis requirement of one of the authors. The selection of Twenty-two strategic environmental variables resulting from the analysis of two groups of environmental variables studied within this research become the main determinants that will determine the degree of success of environmental sustainability of an area set up as a region.

Improvisieren mit demenziell erkrankten alten Menschen

Summary This article adresses the question whether and under what circumstances improvising (besides the singing of songs) is applicable and appropriate in music therapy with elderly dementia patients. This question is controversially discussed among music therapists. A master's degree thesis entitled «Improvising in music therapy treatment of elderly dementia patients" centres on this question, which is researched on the basis of an empirical study.

Dostoyevsky and epilepsy: between science and mystique

This article, the result of a research project presented as a Master's degree dissertation in the graduate program of 'Teaching of Health Education' at UNIFESP, seeks to highlight the pertinence of analyzing epilepsy and especially, the paradoxical experience of the epileptic individual through literary narrative. Using as its object the novel, The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, it seeks to discuss the relationship between epilepsy and the mystic experience, bearing in mind the context of the scientific and humanistic perspectives of the 19th century and today.

O cuidado autêntico ao ser com pé diabético sob o enfoque heideggeriano

This research had the purpose to present one of the emerged spheres of the master's degree dissertation, the “Being-here” and the authentic care. Heidegger’s existential phenomenology foregrounds the understanding of the lives of such people. Eight persons from the northern region of Paraná State/Brazil, were interviewed at their homes between February and August 2007. The following guiding question was asked: For you, what is living with a Diabetes mellitus-caused foot condition? At the end of each interview, the main feelings in the person’s discourse were underlined. The following existential theme emerged: “Being-here and authentic care”. Results reveal that for people with such foot conditions care must express a harmonic living in which each being shares his/her thoughts and feelings in a mutual process and in which speaking and listening are the real type of care. Through the discourse used, it may be understood that the family reveals itself to be the authentic caretaker, sharing with the patients the facticity of the treatment, and seeking ways to relieve their sufferings. In the context of the possibility of losing a part of their body, the patients are touched by the affection given to them by their family.

Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da Escola de Enfermagem da USP: experiência dos primeiros seis anos

O objetivo do estudo foi conhecer a experiência do Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da Escola de Enfermagem da USP (CEP-EEUSP), nos seus primeiros seis anos. O estudo exploratório, descritivo, retrospectivo e de abordagem quantitativa foi realizado pelo levantamento dos registros do CEP-EEUSP e dos 401 protocolos de pesquisa submetidos à apreciação, no período de 31 de agosto de 1998 a 17 de setembro de 2004. Os resultados evidenciaram que 98,7% dos projetos submetidos eram de pesquisadores da EEUSP; 31,4% eram de dissertações de mestrado e 29,1% de iniciação científica. Quanto ao método, 43,8% propunham a utilização do método qualitativo. Além disso, 99,2% dos projetos pertenciam à área temática do Grupo III; 58,8% previam a utilização de instituições públicas e 31,7% tinham profissionais, principalmente enfermeiros, como sujeitos das pesquisas. O Termo de Consentimento Livre e Esclarecido foi responsável por 56,4% das pendências. A experiência do CEP-EEUSP mostra sua progressiva consolidação.

Um perfil da pesquisa em ensino de Astronomia no Brasil a partir da análise de periódicos de ensino de ciências

The article is the result of my master's degree dissertation that is todescribe the profile of the research in Astronomy Teaching in Brazil,through the newspapers of Science Teaching analysis that havebeen published in the last twenty years. The work is divided in twoparts, a quantitative one, in which the data were collected by theanalysis of 1772 articles published in newspapers of nationalcirculation, and a second part that corresponds to an interpretationof a 38 published articles in the Caderno Brasileiro de Ensinode Fisica, where we tried to understand how it is describedby researchers. As a theoretical referential, we used theLaurence Bardin’s Content Analysis, and as a technique of dataanalysis/collect in the first part and yet the Chevallard’s DidacticTransposition Concept in the second part as a way to evaluate thepatterns found in the texts of these newspapers that allowed us torecognize the author’s view of the analyzed area. What we havefound was an area that is still been built, but with very definedcharacteristics when the issue are the problems that were found,the way they are spread and the researcher’s concern intransforming the Astronomy Teaching in a potential didacticresource.

GLOBALIZATION AND STRATEGIES FOR THE WINE PRODUCTION SECTOR IN BRAZIL: THE EMERGING VALE DO SÃO FRANCISCO POLE <BR> DOI: 10.5585/riae.v8i1.1623

The wine production sector is going through a transition state all over the world. It is breaking up national boundaries and resulting in the adherence to a economic, strategic and political transnationality (globalization). Facing a surplus, the industry reconfigures itself. This article, which is the result of research work that led to a Master degree dissertation, focuses on this reconfiguration. Its specific objectives are: (i) to reflect on the business competitiveness of the local (Vale do So Francisco) and national wine production sector in a global market, focusing the analysis on the identification and discussion of adjustments that are being implemented, (ii) proposing additional lines of strategic action, (iii) analyzing prospects of success in the new global competitive environment. The research adopted the comparative multiple case study method. The results highlight the existence of a strategic and competitive potential that can be translated (if the proper conditions are created business structures and operational management aspects) into the establishment of a "competitive geographic concentration in line with the Michael Porter's clusters for competitiveness.