UMA ESCOLA QUE SE TORNOU IGREJA: O METODISMO BOLIVIANO DIANTE DOS DESAFIOS DA URBANIDADE

A sociedade boliviana está marcada pela ostensiva presença dos estratos étnicos culturais indígenas originários. Como consequência do passado colonial ainda se vincula o status de camponês à pertença a uma etnia indígena. Nesta realidade sociocultural, a Igreja Evangélica Metodista da Bolívia (IEMB), desde sua implantação no princípio do século 20, ganhou legitimidade e espaço na sociedade boliviana pelos seus aportes à sociedade com suas obras de serviço (educativo, saúde, desenvolvimento rural). Atualmente a IEMB se configura como uma Igreja rural, sendo que a população boliviana é eminentemente urbana. Assim a urbanidade é o desafio para a ação eclesial e pastoral, se a IEMB pretende manter sua relevância na sociedade boliviana. Tenta-se, nesta pesquisa, apontar na tradição teológica eclesial wesleyana alicerces para uma relevante presença eclesial e pastoral nas particularidades da realidade urbana boliviana.

UMA ANÁLISE DOS CÂNTICOS ENTOADOS PELA COMUNIDADE CARISMA E SUAS INFLUÊNCIAS, NO INDIVIDUAL E NO COLETIVO, DIANTE DA TRANSFORMAÇÃO SOCIAL

A curiosidade do que acontece com os cânticos entoados pela comunidade carisma e a maneira com que toca as pessoas, no âmbito individual e no coletivo foi o que gerou essa pesquisa. A associação do significado das letras dos cânticos relacionado à transformação social que acontece dentro do trabalho e missão social urbana da Comunidade Carisma acabou sendo o foco desse trabalho. Sabe-se que a música tem um poder imenso de atuar na área emocional e nas experiências do ser humano, atuando tanto no individual, quanto no coletivo da pessoa. Então, até que ponto, música não é uma alienação, mas sim um instrumento de despertar individual e coletivamente - para a transformação e a aplicabilidade de todo este envolvimento social que a Comunidade Carisma vive? Dentro do que é a base teológica da comunidade, a ordem do culto e toda a sua liturgia, foi feito um levantamento de toda estrutura da mesma. E como se processa o louvor e o significado das letras dos cânticos compostos por membros deste ministério, com a ação que começa no individual, reporta-se ao coletivo e que gera transformação social dentro e fora da comunidade.(AU)

O PAPEL DA IDENTIDADE NO ENCONTRO DA CULTURA COM A TECNOLOGIA Um estudo sobre o site Omelete e seus projetos

Identidade, cultura e tecnologia são os temas centrais desta dissertação. Quando esses três elementos se encontram, diversas oportunidades e possibilidades são oferecidas aos indivíduos. O site Omelete, objeto de pesquisa escolhido, é resultado de um projeto elaborado por amigos, fãs de histórias em quadrinhos e games, que não encontravam informações suficientes sobre seus temas favoritos e decidiram criar um blog para compartilhar conteúdos sobre cultura pop e satisfazer suas curiosidades e vontades. Hoje, o que nasceu como blog é considerado o maior veículo online sobre cultura pop do Brasil. O objetivo da dissertação foi verificar as características do objeto e do contexto em que se encontra e quais fatores o colocaram em sua posição atual. Para isso, primeiro fizemos uma revisão de literatura para estabelecer as bases teóricas da dissertação. Depois, categorizamos o conteúdo publicado no site sobre a Comic-Con International: San Diego durante um período determinado e analisamos os dados obtidos. Por último, descrevemos o evento Comic Con Experience, organizado pelo Omelete e pela Chiaroscuro, e averiguamos as informações colhidas desde a revisão de literatura até a experiência pessoal na convenção. A sociedade na qual vivemos permite o surgimento, o desenvolvimento e a manutenção de tribos e culturas variadas. É uma sociedade em que a tecnologia oferece ferramentas para as pessoas poderem se comunicar, compartilhar informações e interagir com internautas com interesses semelhantes, como o consumo dos mesmos produtos culturais. Essas ações são responsáveis pela formação da identidade dos indivíduos e dos grupos a que pertencem. De forma participativa, os grupos constroem conhecimento e fortalecem a inteligência coletiva.

Studies of the shellside performance of shell-and-tube heat exchangers

Accurate prediction of shellside pressure drop in a baffled shell-and-tube heat exchanger is very difficult because of the complicated shellside geometry. Ideally, all the shellside fluid should be alternately deflected across the tube bundle as it traverses from inlet to outlet. In practice, up to 60% of the shellside fluid may bypass the tube bundle or leak through the baffles. This short-circuiting of the main flow reduces the efficiency of the exchanger. Of the various shellside methods, it is shown that only the multi-stream methods, which attempt to obtain the shellside flow distribution, predict the pressure drop with any degree of accuracy, the various predictions ranging from -30% to +70%, generally overpredicting. It is shown that the inaccuracies are mainly due to the manner in which baffle leakage is modelled. The present multi-stream methods do not allow for interactions of the various flowstreams, and yet it is shown that three main effects are identified, a) there is a strong interaction between the main cross flow and the baffle leakage streams, enhancing the crossflow pressure drop, b) there is a further short-circuit not considered previously i.e. leakage in the window, and c) the crossflow does not penetrate as far, on average, as previously supposed. Models are developed for each of these three effects, along with a new windowflow pressure drop model, and it is shown that the effect of baffle leakage in the window is the most significant. These models developed to allow for various interactions, lead to an improved multi-stream method, named the "STREAM-INTERACTION" method. The overall method is shown to be consistently more accurate than previous methods, with virtually all the available shellside data being predicted to within ±30% and over 60% being within ±20%. The method is, thus, strongly recommended for use as a design method.

A quantitative application of symbolic interactionism to advance directive completion by older adults

This study examined contextual and situational influences on older adults' decision to complete advance directives by means of a conceptual framework derived from symbolic interactionist theory and a cross-sectional, correlational research design. It was hypothesized that completion of advance directives among older adults would be associated with visiting or participating in the care of a terminally ill or permanently incompetent individual sustained by technology. Using a 53-item questionnaire, computer assisted telephone interviews (CATI) were conducted with 398 community dwelling adults between September and October 2003. Respondents were contacted using random-select dialing from a listed sample of 99% of household telephone numbers in one South Florida census tract. Over 90% of households in this tract include an individual age 65 or older. ^ The results revealed that contrary to most reports in the literature a substantial proportion of older adults (82%) had completed advance directives and that the link between older adults and document completion was mainly through attorneys and not mandated agents, health care professionals. Further, more than one third of older adults reported that religion/spirituality was not an important part of their life, suggesting that the recommended practice of offering religious/spiritual counseling to all those approaching death be reexamined. The hypothesis was not supported (p > .05) and is explained by the situational emphasis on the variables rather than on structural influences. In logistic regression analysis, only increasing age (p = .001) and higher education (p = < .001) were significant but explained only 10% of the variance in document completion. ^ Based on the findings, increased interdisciplinary collaboration is suggested with regard to the advance directive agenda. Since attorneys play a key role in document completion, other professions should seek their expertise and collaboration. In addition, the inclusion of a religious/spiritual preference section in all living wills should be considered as an essential part of a holistic and individually appropriate document. Implications for social work education, practice, and advocacy are discussed as well as suggestions for further research. ^

The men behind the market: Merchants, the Atlantic slave trade, and the shaping of South Carolina plantation society, 1700–1756

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the role played by merchants in the shaping of South Carolina plantation society in its early stages of development. In 1700 South Carolina was on the fringes of the British Empire. By mid-century the colony had become an integral part of the British Atlantic system. This dissertation addresses merchants' activity in the shaping of plantation society through their involvement in the Atlantic slave trade. Records of the British and South Carolina governments, and petitions from merchants on both sides of the Atlantic have been extremely valuable in understanding the complex and rapidly changing political affiliations of merchants on both sides of the Atlantic. These sources are valuable to this study since they illustrate the merchants' strategy of utilizing government policies to acquire the absolute best terms of trade. Records such as wills and inventories yielded valuable information on merchants' economic portfolios and provided valuable insight into their personal lives. The data shows that the integration of Colonial South Carolina into the global economy can be attributed to its merchant class, who actively sought out business opportunities in the global economy while working within the framework of British mercantilism.

Buried voices: Genres and types of female authorship during the Spanish American colonial period (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries)

This dissertation analyzes various types of non-canonical texts authorized by women from a wide spectrum of classes and races in the Spanish colonies. The female voice, generally absent from official colonial documents of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteen centuries, left a gap in the complex subject of women's history and social participation. Through the study of personal letters, autobiographies, journals, court documents, inquisitorial transcripts, wills and testaments, edicts, orders, proclamations and posters, that voice is recovered. Thus, the Indigenous, Spaniards and African women and their descendants who lived during this period left their written legacy and proof of participation. Beginning with a thorough history of the native woman's interest in writing, this study focuses on how women of all social levels utilized the few means of writing available at their disposal to display a testimonial, critical and sometimes fictional narrative of their surroundings. ^ This investigation concludes that it is necessary to change the traditional image of the passive women of the colonies, subjected to a patriarchal authority and unable to speak or grow on their own. The documents under study, introduced women who were able to self represent themselves as followers of the tradition while at the same time their writings were denying that very same statement. They passed from the private arena to the public one with discourses that confessed their innermost feelings and concerns, challenged the authority of the Inquisitor or the Governor, exposed their sexual freedom and transvestite narratives, successfully developed stratagems that challenged the official ideology of the oppressive religious environment and established their own authority reaching at last the freedom of their souls. ^

O PAPEL DA IDENTIDADE NO ENCONTRO DA CULTURA COM A TECNOLOGIA Um estudo sobre o site Omelete e seus projetos

Identidade, cultura e tecnologia são os temas centrais desta dissertação. Quando esses três elementos se encontram, diversas oportunidades e possibilidades são oferecidas aos indivíduos. O site Omelete, objeto de pesquisa escolhido, é resultado de um projeto elaborado por amigos, fãs de histórias em quadrinhos e games, que não encontravam informações suficientes sobre seus temas favoritos e decidiram criar um blog para compartilhar conteúdos sobre cultura pop e satisfazer suas curiosidades e vontades. Hoje, o que nasceu como blog é considerado o maior veículo online sobre cultura pop do Brasil. O objetivo da dissertação foi verificar as características do objeto e do contexto em que se encontra e quais fatores o colocaram em sua posição atual. Para isso, primeiro fizemos uma revisão de literatura para estabelecer as bases teóricas da dissertação. Depois, categorizamos o conteúdo publicado no site sobre a Comic-Con International: San Diego durante um período determinado e analisamos os dados obtidos. Por último, descrevemos o evento Comic Con Experience, organizado pelo Omelete e pela Chiaroscuro, e averiguamos as informações colhidas desde a revisão de literatura até a experiência pessoal na convenção. A sociedade na qual vivemos permite o surgimento, o desenvolvimento e a manutenção de tribos e culturas variadas. É uma sociedade em que a tecnologia oferece ferramentas para as pessoas poderem se comunicar, compartilhar informações e interagir com internautas com interesses semelhantes, como o consumo dos mesmos produtos culturais. Essas ações são responsáveis pela formação da identidade dos indivíduos e dos grupos a que pertencem. De forma participativa, os grupos constroem conhecimento e fortalecem a inteligência coletiva.

Understandings of transnational families in debates on Migration and development

International migration sets in motion a range of significant transnational processes that connect countries and people. How migration interacts with development and how policies might promote and enhance such interactions have, since the turn of the millennium, gained attention on the international agenda. The recognition that transnational practices connect migrants and their families across sending and receiving societies forms part of this debate. The ways in which policy debate employs and understands transnational family ties nevertheless remain underexplored. This article sets out to discern the understandings of the family in two (often intermingled) debates concerned with transnational interactions: The largely state and policydriven discourse on the potential benefits of migration on economic development, and the largely academic transnational family literature focusing on issues of care and the micro-politics of gender and generation. Emphasizing the relation between diverse migration-development dynamics and specific family positions, we ask whether an analytical point of departure in respective transnational motherhood, fatherhood or childhood is linked to emphasizing certain outcomes. We conclude by sketching important strands of inclusions and exclusions of family matters in policy discourse and suggest ways to better integrate a transnational family perspective in global migration-development policy.

Rightful Resistance in the Colombian conflict. A theoretical reflection based on a Peace Community

This article considers the opportunities of civilians to peacefully resist violent conflicts or civil wars. The argument developed here is based on a field-based research on the peace community San José de Apartadó in Colombia. The analytical and theoretical framework, which delimits the use of the term ‘resistance’ in this article, builds on the conceptual considerations of Hollander and Einwohner (2004) and on the theoretical concept of ‘rightful resistance’ developed by O’Brien (1996). Beginning with a conflict-analytical classification of the case study, we will describe the long-term socio-historical processes and the organizational experiences of the civilian population, which favoured the emergence of this resistance initiative. The analytical approach to the dimensions and aims of the resistance of this peace community leads to the differentiation of O`Brian’s concept of ‘rightful resistance’.

Effet de l’environnement alimentaire bâti autour des écoles sur les comportements d’achat alimentaire des jeunes du secondaire

Le nombre de jeunes avec un surplus de poids est en hausse au Canada (Roberts, Shields, de Groh, Aziz et Gilbert, 2012). Les conséquences négatives de cette condition sont multiples pour le jeune, actuellement et pour son avenir. La recherche visant à comprendre les raisons de cette augmentation cible, entre autres, les environnements alimentaires dont le paysage scolaire. Des restaurants rapides et des dépanneurs sont dénombrés dans l’environnement alimentaire bâti en milieu scolaire (Lalonde et Robitaille, 2014). La présence et la concentration de commerces alimentaires dans le voisinage des écoles favorisent l’achat d’aliments et de boissons par les jeunes (He, Tucker, Gilliland, Irwin, Larsen, et Hess, 2012a; Robitaille, Paquette, Cutumisu, Lalonde, Cazale, Traoré et Camirand, 2015; Seliske, Pickett, Rosu et Janssen, 2013; Virtanen, Kivimäki, Ervasti, Oksanen, Pentti, Kouvonen, Halonen, Kivimäki, Vahtera, 2015). Pourtant, le lien causal entre le paysage alimentaire scolaire et les achats des jeunes n’est pas soutenu par la littérature scientifique actuelle. À Sherbrooke, un changement dans l’environnement alimentaire bâti est survenu en 2012 suite à l’implantation de commerces alimentaires en périphérie d’une école secondaire. Ce projet était une occasion exceptionnelle de valider si la modification naturelle de la densité alimentaire autour d’une école avait un effet sur les comportements d’achat des jeunes dans cet environnement. L’objectif de ce travail de maîtrise était de mesurer le lien entre les comportements d’achat des jeunes du secondaire dans l’environnement alimentaire bâti en milieu scolaire et la densité de certains commerces alimentaires circonscrite autour de leur école. L’hypothèse émise était que les jeunes dont l’école était entourée d’une densité plus élevée de commerces alimentaires étaient plus nombreux à acheter des aliments et des boissons dans ces commerces que les autres adolescents. Pour ce faire, un questionnaire auto-administré a été rempli en classe par des élèves de trois écoles secondaires sherbrookoises. Les données obtenues ont permis de documenter les comportements d’achat de près de 3 000 jeunes en 2013. Ces comportements d’achat ont été comparés à ceux collectés dans le Portrait des jeunes sherbrookois de 4 à 17 ans en matière d’alimentation et d’activité physique et sportive réalisé en 2008 (n = 3 867) (Morin et al., 2009a). Parallèlement, une cartographie des environnements alimentaires autour de chaque école participante à chaque temps a permis de décrire les densités alimentaires scolaires. Au regard de l’environnement alimentaire bâti en milieu scolaire, peu de liens existent entre la prévalence d’acheteurs le midi et la densité de restaurants rapides autour des écoles, selon nos résultats. Seul l’effet défavorable d’une très forte concentration en restaurants rapides (soit plus d’une douzaine) a émergé de nos résultats. De plus, aucune tendance n’a été décelée entre l’évolution du paysage alimentaire autour des écoles entre les deux temps et les changements dans les prévalences d’acheteurs. Ainsi, les efforts fournis pour diminuer la densité alimentaire en périphérie des écoles doivent être remis en question considérant le faible effet mesuré sur les comportements d’achat des jeunes dans notre étude. En ce qui trait aux comportements d’achat des jeunes, nos résultats ont montré que seule une faible proportion de jeunes était des consommateurs dans les environnements alimentaires scolaires. En effet, moins d’un jeune sur dix a acheté un aliment ou une boisson sur l’heure du midi dans un restaurant rapide dans la semaine sondée. Cette pratique ne semblait donc pas caractériser le régime alimentaire global des jeunes et ainsi, son influence réelle sur la hausse des taux d’obésité est incertaine (Macdiarmid, Wills, Masson, Craig, Bromley et McNeill, 2015). De plus, selon nos résultats, la prévalence des acheteurs au restaurant rapide durant une semaine typique a diminué entre les deux temps. D’un autre côté, la qualité nutritive des achats dans ces commerces durant une semaine s’était améliorée entre les deux temps. Cependant, les choix moins nutritifs étaient toujours achetés par plus de jeunes que les aliments et les boissons nutritifs. Les quantités achetées à chaque visite dans un restaurant rapide étant inconnues dans notre étude, il était difficile de statuer sur l’effet réel des achats sur les prévalences d’obésité. En conclusion, il demeure essentiel d’améliorer les habitudes alimentaires des jeunes, entre autres, dans les restaurants rapides lors d’une journée scolaire (Macdiarmid et al., 2015). Par conséquent, l’offre alimentaire dans l’environnement alimentaire bâti en milieu scolaire doit être bonifiée, par exemple en collaborant avec les commerçants alimentaires déjà établis. Il faut également maintenir les efforts déployés pour améliorer l’environnement alimentaire dans l’école et élaborer des stratégies pour que les jeunes mangent à la cafétéria de l’école.

Une analyse des limites inhérentes au nouveau régime des directives médicales anticipées face à l'essor du droit à l'autonomie décisionnelle du patient

Résumé : La Loi concernant les soins de fin de vie ainsi que la mise en place du régime des directives médicales anticipées sont le résultat d’une profonde transformation sociétale, guidée par l’importance grandissante du respect de l’autonomie décisionnelle des personnes et à leur droit à l’autodétermination. Au regard de ce contexte, cet essai décrit en première partie l’état du droit actuel en matière de volontés exprimées de manière anticipée, il analyse les enjeux qui s’y rapportent tout en soulevant les pistes de réflexion déjà amorcées en droit québécois. Il existe effectivement de nombreux outils qui permettent à un individu d’exprimer ses volontés en prévision de son inaptitude, mais les directives médicales anticipées se distinguent d’une façon bien précise : elles possèdent un caractère contraignant qui reconnaît la primauté des volontés relatives aux soins. Or, parallèlement à cela, le régime des directives médicales anticipées impose des limites à ce droit. Dans ce contexte d’essor du droit à l’autonomie, cet essai étudie, en seconde partie, les limites inhérentes au régime des directives médicales anticipées puis propose une analyse critique des défis liés à l’opérationnalisation clinique de ces directives.