Competències i factors clau per a l’èxit educatiu des de la perspectiva dels estudiants universitaris fills/es dels immigrants

L’estudi realitzat ha abordat quines són les competències i els factors clau que estudiants universitaris d’origen immigrant consideren que han estat claus per arribar a la universitat, assolint així l’èxit educatiu. S’han escollit estudiants que haguessin fet l’escolaritat obligatòria total o parcialment a Catalunya.Per dur a terme la recerca s’ha treballat amb relats de vida (un total de 13 escrits) i narracions audiovisuals (amb un total de 4 produccions), essent finalment 17 les evidències vàlides. Finalment, s’ha elaborat, administrat i processat un qüestionari d’opinió que s’ha remès a 2472 estudiants de la Universitat de Barcelona, dels quals hem aconseguit 128 respostes considerades vàlides. Els relats s’han analitzat amb un procediment inductiu, procedint a una lectura exhaustiva de les paraules dels participants i anant identificant quines són les competències i els factors clau que ells consideraven que els havien ajudat a arribar a la universitat o que, tot i no ser ells conscients, nosaltres identificàvem com a tals. Pel que fa a les narracions audiovisuals, es va dur a terme una anàlisi tant del contingut, tenint com a referència els resultats obtinguts als relats escrits, com d’aspectes més tècnics, centrats en la imatge i el so. Per acabar, els qüestionaris s’han analitzat a partir de processos bàsics d’estadística descriptiva. Pel que fa als resultats obtinguts, respecte a l’eix de competències, la més destacada és la d’autonomia i iniciativa personals, lligada a la responsabilitat i autoexigència. Respecte a l’eix d’èxit educatiu, destaca el paper del professorat, tant pel suport que els ofereixen com per les expectatives que dipositen en ells. I, per acabar, respecte a l’eix d’inclusió social, els aspectes que l’afavoreixen es centren sobretot en el recolzament de la família, en l’entorn més immediat i en el fet d’entendre la possibilitat de viure amb altres cultures com un enriquiment.

Assimilation process in a psychotherapy with a client presenting schizoid personality disorder

The assimilation of problematic experiences has been studied as change processes in psychotherapies of different client populations. Several theory-building case studies using the assimilation model have shown how important a meaning bridge is in such change processes. In a client presenting schizoid personality disorder the creation of meaning as an affect-evoking process may be a particularly important stage in the change process. The present case study aims to apply the assimilation model to a psychotherapy process with a highly disturbed client and focuses on the creation of a meaning bridge in the process. Moreover, the assimilation analysis focuses on the effect of an external person, i.e. the partner or the therapist, when responding to the client's unassimilated problematic experiences. Their effects on the client's assimilation processes are discussed.

Yhden kuvantamisyksikön henkilöstön työtyytyväisyys ja työssä vaikuttamisen mahdollisuudet

Työtyytyväisyys syntyy siitä, että työntekijä kokee työnsä vastaavan niitä vaatimuksia, joita hän on asettanut sen suhteen, eli se on onnistuneen toiminnan tulos (Pöyhönen 1987: 127-128). Työntekijöiden tyytyväisyys työhön vaikuttaa terveydenhuollossa myös asiakkaan kohtaamiseen ja palvelun laatuun, puhumattakaan työntekijän työmotivaatiosta ja siitä, onko töissä mukava olla. Työtyytyväisyyden tutkiminen onkin erityisen tärkeää, jotta mahdolliset ongelmat työyhteisön sisällä tiedostettaisiin ja niihin voitaisiin puuttua ja etsiä ratkaisuja. Yhden kuvantamisyksikön henkilöstö osallistui henkilöstökyselyyn, joka liittyy työn organisointi ja työnjako röntgenosastoilla -hankkeeseen. Työn tarkoituksena oli analysoida kuvantamisyksikön henkilöstön työtyytyväisyyttä sekä työssä vaikuttamisen mahdollisuuksia käsitelleet kyselyn osat sekä kuvata, miten ikä ja työkokemus terveysalalla ovat yhteydessä niihin. Kyselyn aineisto kerättiin keväällä 2005 webbikyselynä (Grönroos 2006). Kuvantamisyksikön henkilöstö oli erittäin tyytyväinen työnsä sisältöön. Työntekijät kokivat, että he olivat kehittyneet ja kasvaneet työssään ja he olivat saavuttaneet jotakin merkittävää. He kokivat myös, että heillä oli mahdollisuuksia ajatella ja toimia haasteellisessa työympäristössä. He olivat erittäin tyytyväisiä työhönsä, eikä moni ollut harkinnut eroavansa työstään. Nuoremmat työntekijät tuntuivat suhtautuvan hieman kriittisemmin työhönsä kuin vanhemmat työntekijät, jotka olivat tyytyväisempiä työhönsä. Työntekijät tunsivat, että heillä on vain vähän mahdollisuuksia vaikuttaa työpaikkansa asioihin. Niukka enemmistö henkilöstöstä uskoi voivansa vaikuttaa paljon ainoastaan työmenetelmiinsä. Työntekijät tunsivat, että he voivat vaikuttaa työtehtäviinsä tai niiden tekojärjestykseen, työtahtiinsa, työnjakoon ja työtovereihin liittyviin asioihin vain vähän. Työntekijät tunsivat voivansa vaikuttaa vain vähän laitehankintoihin, henkilöstökoulutuksen sisältöön ja siihen, kuka koulutukseen osallistuu. Vanhemmat työntekijät tunsivat voivansa vaikuttaa jonkin verran enemmän asioihin työpaikalla kuin nuoremmat. Kuvantamisyksikössä tulisi lisätä työssä vaikuttamisen mahdollisuuksia. Vaihtoehtoisten työskentelytapojen etsimiseen ja löytämiseen tulisi rohkaista. Uusia työntekijöitä tulisi mahdollisuuksien mukaan palkata.

The Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation provisional criteria for the evaluation of response to therapy in juvenile dermatomyositis.

OBJECTIVE: To develop a provisional definition for the evaluation of response to therapy in juvenile dermatomyositis (DM) based on the Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation juvenile DM core set of variables. METHODS: Thirty-seven experienced pediatric rheumatologists from 27 countries achieved consensus on 128 difficult patient profiles as clinically improved or not improved using a stepwise approach (patient's rating, statistical analysis, definition selection). Using the physicians' consensus ratings as the "gold standard measure," chi-square, sensitivity, specificity, false-positive and-negative rates, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, and kappa agreement for candidate definitions of improvement were calculated. Definitions with kappa values >0.8 were multiplied by the face validity score to select the top definitions. RESULTS: The top definition of improvement was at least 20% improvement from baseline in 3 of 6 core set variables with no more than 1 of the remaining worsening by more than 30%, which cannot be muscle strength. The second-highest scoring definition was at least 20% improvement from baseline in 3 of 6 core set variables with no more than 2 of the remaining worsening by more than 25%, which cannot be muscle strength (definition P1 selected by the International Myositis Assessment and Clinical Studies group). The third is similar to the second with the maximum amount of worsening set to 30%. This indicates convergent validity of the process. CONCLUSION: We propose a provisional data-driven definition of improvement that reflects well the consensus rating of experienced clinicians, which incorporates clinically meaningful change in core set variables in a composite end point for the evaluation of global response to therapy in juvenile DM.

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Professori Göran von Bonsdorff 14/12 1972

Kirje 14.12.1972

CONSTRUÇÃO COM A PAISAGEM

A paisagem como comunicação entre o natural e o construído, ao longo do tempo tem vindo a sofrer alterações no seu sentido conotativo. Pela associação a um meio natural, selvagem, puro da Natureza, este conceito foi-se transformando para um sistema artificial, um fenómeno pensado e criado pelo Homem. Este processo aconteceu desde que o Homem começou a criar o seu habitat, ocupando a superfície terrestre. A paisagem como um sistema operativo do território, sendo a sua existência comprometida pela interpretação e entendimento de um conjunto de elementos como paisagem. O Homem como factor para a existência de paisagem. Com o surgir das cidades e a expansão destas pelo território, a Natureza começou a perder dimensão e a dissipar-se. O planeamento e desenho urbano trataram de integrar o sistema natural e o edificado como uma continuidade de desenho urbano, na procura e estudo de uma unidade paisagística. Contudo, a procura de uma aproximação à Natureza, a partir da integração de espaços verdes, como parques e jardins na malha urbana, não os tornaram como Natureza, existente antes de nós. O resultado desta procura foi a criação de uma Natureza artificial, surgida da acção de desenho e construtiva do Homem, uma Natureza Sintética. Uma paisagem humanizada, característica de um sistema contemporâneo, que contempla o desenho da cidade em unidade com a realidade natural. O redescobrir de uma harmonia e conforto junto de uma entidade, que desde os primórdios nos tem servido para nossa sobrevivência, no desejo que este organismo esteja quotidianamente presente no espaço em que vivemos. Neste sentido, ao encontrarmo-nos num meio construído, coexistindo porém com espaços de um domínio natural, leva-nos a ter a ilusão que nos encontramos no campo, remetendo para uma sensação de isolamento de toda a agressão da cidade, para um sentido de protecção. A partir da realização dos exercícios desenvolvidos na disciplina de Projecto III, e dos exemplos arquitectónicos e plásticos estudados, pretende-se estabelecer uma ponte de relação, entre o projecto de arquitectura como complemento ou criador de uma paisagem. O desenho arquitectónico, como gestor de uma unidade paisagística e construtor da mesma.

BME-based uncertainty assessment of the Chernobyl fallout

The vast territories that have been radioactively contaminated during the 1986 Chernobyl accident provide a substantial data set of radioactive monitoring data, which can be used for the verification and testing of the different spatial estimation (prediction) methods involved in risk assessment studies. Using the Chernobyl data set for such a purpose is motivated by its heterogeneous spatial structure (the data are characterized by large-scale correlations, short-scale variability, spotty features, etc.). The present work is concerned with the application of the Bayesian Maximum Entropy (BME) method to estimate the extent and the magnitude of the radioactive soil contamination by 137Cs due to the Chernobyl fallout. The powerful BME method allows rigorous incorporation of a wide variety of knowledge bases into the spatial estimation procedure leading to informative contamination maps. Exact measurements (?hard? data) are combined with secondary information on local uncertainties (treated as ?soft? data) to generate science-based uncertainty assessment of soil contamination estimates at unsampled locations. BME describes uncertainty in terms of the posterior probability distributions generated across space, whereas no assumption about the underlying distribution is made and non-linear estimators are automatically incorporated. Traditional estimation variances based on the assumption of an underlying Gaussian distribution (analogous, e.g., to the kriging variance) can be derived as a special case of the BME uncertainty analysis. The BME estimates obtained using hard and soft data are compared with the BME estimates obtained using only hard data. The comparison involves both the accuracy of the estimation maps using the exact data and the assessment of the associated uncertainty using repeated measurements. Furthermore, a comparison of the spatial estimation accuracy obtained by the two methods was carried out using a validation data set of hard data. Finally, a separate uncertainty analysis was conducted that evaluated the ability of the posterior probabilities to reproduce the distribution of the raw repeated measurements available in certain populated sites. The analysis provides an illustration of the improvement in mapping accuracy obtained by adding soft data to the existing hard data and, in general, demonstrates that the BME method performs well both in terms of estimation accuracy as well as in terms estimation error assessment, which are both useful features for the Chernobyl fallout study.

Oxidative-nitrosative stress and systemic vascular function in highlanders with and without exaggerated hypoxemia.

BACKGROUND: Acute exposure to high altitude stimulates free radical formation in lowlanders, yet whether this persists during chronic exposure in healthy, well-adapted and maladapted highlanders suffering from chronic mountain sickness (CMS) remains to be established. METHODS: Oxidative-nitrosative stress (as determined by the presence of the biomarkers ascorbate radical [A •- ], via electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, and nitrite [NO 2 2 ], via ozone-based chemiluminescence) was assessed in venous blood of 25 male highlanders in Bolivia living at 3,600 m with CMS (n 5 13, CMS 1 ) and without CMS (n 5 12, CMS 2 ). Twelve age- and activity-matched, healthy, male lowlanders were examined at sea level and during acute hypoxia. We also measured fl ow-mediated dilatation (FMD), arterial stiffness defined by augmentation index normalized for a heart rate of 75 beats/min (AIx-75), and carotid intima-media thickness (IMT). RESULTS: Compared with normoxic lowlanders, oxidative-nitrosative stress was moderately increased in the CMS 2 group ( P , .05), as indicated by elevated A •- (3,191 457 arbitrary units [AU] vs 2,640 445 AU) and lower NO 2 2 (206 55 nM vs 420 128 nM), whereas vascular function remained preserved. This was comparable to that observed during acute hypoxia in lowlanders in whom vascular dysfunction is typically observed. In contrast, this response was markedly exaggerated in CMS 1 group (A •- , 3,765 429 AU; NO 2 2 , 148 50 nM) compared with both the CMS 2 group and lowlanders ( P , .05). This was associated with systemic vascular dysfunction as indicated by lower ( P , .05 vs CMS 2 ) FMD (4.2% 0.7% vs 7.6% 1.7%) and increased AIx-75 (23% 8% vs 12% 7%) and carotid IMT (714 127 m M vs 588 94 m M). CONCLUSIONS: Healthy highlanders display a moderate, sustained elevation in oxidative-nitrosative stress that, unlike the equivalent increase evoked by acute hypoxia in healthy lowlanders, failed to affect vascular function. Its more marked elevation in patients with CMS may contribute to systemic vascular dysfunction.

VOLUMES RELIES du Cabinet des titres : recherches de noblesse, armoriaux, preuves, histoires généalogiques. Preuves de noblesse diverses et généalogie de la maison de Noailles.

Preuves de noblesse de Charles de Montsaunin (1), — et de dom François de Calvo (4 et 6), pour les Ordres du roi ; — de Marie-Jeanne-Françoise d'Alesso d'Eragni (8), — des demoiselles Marie et Louise Lois de Boussens (10), — d'Anne Raimond de Villogon (12), — Marie-Françoise de Saint-Martin (16), — Barbe de Limosin d'Alheim (18), — Marie-Louise de Houlei (20), pour Saint-Cyr ; — de Charles Acary de La Suze (22), — Pierre de Brie (24), — Joseph-Emmanuel d'Orillac (27), — François-Jacques Petit de La Borde (29). — Jean-Joseph de Rastel de Rocheblave (33), — Charles de Fautereau (39), — Pierre de Baud du Castelet (41), pour l'École militaire. — Parchemin. — Blasons peints. Épreuves de gravure des « Statuts de l'Ordre du St-Esprit. De l'Imprimerie royale, 1703 » (fol. 43). « Généalogie de la maison de Noailles » (fol. 56), avec nombreux dessins, blasons et encadrements, au crayon.