Ben & Jerry’s: Case study on children’s social awareness and its impact on corporate strategy

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Portuguese Ministers, 1851-1999: Social Background and Paths to Power

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Social capital : Social capital and psychological sense of community in the neighborhood - Predicting and preventing

Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada ao ISPA - Instituto Universitário

Impact of alcohol intoxication and withdrawal syndrome on social phobia and panic disorder in alcoholic inpatients

PURPOSE: To investigate the impact of alcohol intoxication and withdrawal on the course of social phobia and panic disorder. METHOD: A group of 41 alcoholic inpatients undergoing detoxification therapy were interviewed using the SCID-I (DSM-IV) and questions to detect fluctuations in the course of social phobia and panic disorder as a function of the different phases in alcohol dependence (intoxication, withdrawal, and lucid interval). RESULTS: Only 1 (2.4%) patient presented panic disorder throughout life, and 9 (21.9%) had panic attacks during alcohol intoxication or during the withdrawal syndrome. Sixteen (39%) alcoholic patients showed social phobia with onset prior to drug use. However, drinking eventually became unable to alleviate social phobia symptoms or worsened such symptoms in 31.2% of social-phobic patients. While patients with social phobia reported a significant improvement in psychiatric symptoms during alcohol intoxication, patients experiencing panic attacks worsened significantly during intoxication. In the withdrawal phase, patients with social phobia tended to have more and more intense phobic symptoms. CONCLUSION: Our findings indicate that the impact of alcohol intoxication is different for social phobia as compared to panic disorder, at first decreasing the social-phobic symptoms but later aggravating them. In panic disorder, the impact of intoxication by alcohol is more harmful, at least in the short term.

Understanding impact readiness in Portugal’s social sector and designing a framework for capacity-building for social impact

This project is based on the theme of capacity-building in social organisations to improve their impact readiness, which is the predictability of delivering intended outcomes. All organisations which have a social mission, non-profit or for-profit, will be considered to fall within the social sector for the purpose of this work. The thesis will look at (i) what is impact readiness and what are the considerations for building impact readiness in social organisations, (ii) what is the international benchmark in measuring and building impact readiness, (iii) understand the impact readiness of Portuguese social organisations and the supply of capacity building for social impact in Portugal currently, and (iv) provide recommendations on the design of a framework for capacity building for impact readiness adapted to the Portuguese context. This work is of particular relevance to the Social Investment Laboratory, which is a sponsor of this project, in its policy work as part of the Portuguese Social Investment Taskforce (the “Taskforce”). This in turn will inform its contribution to the set-up of Portugal Inovação Social, a wholesaler catalyst entity of social innovation and social investment in the country, launched in early 2015. Whilst the output of this work will be set a recommendations for wider application for capacity-building programmes in Portugal, Portugal Inovação Social will also clearly have a role in coordinating the efforts of market players – foundations, corporations, public sector and social organisations – in implementing these recommendations. In addition, the findings of this report could have relevance to other countries seeking to design capacity building frameworks in their local markets and to any impact-driven organisations with an interest in enhancing the delivery of impact within their work.

The role of social cognition and motor imagery in gesture processing: a patients' study

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Psicologia

OPM3® Portugal project: information systems and technologies organizations: outcome analysis

Increasing the maturity in Project Management (PM) has become a goal for many organizations, leading them to adopt maturity models to assess the current state of its PM practices and compare them with the best practices in the industry where the organization is inserted. One of the main PM maturity models is the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®), developed by the Project Management Institute. This paper presents the Information Systems and Technologies organizations outcome analysis, of the assesses made by the OPM3® Portugal Project, identifying the PM processes that are “best” implemented in this particular industry and those in which it is urgent to improve. Additionally, a comparison between the different organizations’ size analyzed is presented.

The Portuguese language version of social phobia and Anxiety Inventory: analysis of items and internal consistency in a Brazilian sample of 1,014 undergraduate students

OBJECTIVE: Theoretical and empirical analysis of items and internal consistency of the Portuguese-language version of Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (SPAI-Portuguese). METHODS: Social phobia experts conducted a 45-item content analysis of the SPAI-Portuguese administered to a sample of 1,014 university students. Item discrimination was evaluated by Student's t test; interitem, mean and item-to-total correlations, by Pearson coefficient; reliability was estimated by Cronbach's alpha. RESULTS: There was 100% agreement among experts concerning the 45 items. On the SPAI-Portuguese 43 items were discriminative (p < 0.05). A few inter-item correlations between both subscales were below 0.2. The mean inter-item correlations were: 0.41 on social phobia subscale; 0.32 on agoraphobia subscale and 0.32 on the SPAI-Portuguese. Item-to-total correlations were all higher then 0.3 (p < 0.001). Cronbach's alphas were: 0.95 on the SPAI-Portuguese; 0.96 on social phobia subscale; 0.85 on agoraphobia subscale. CONCLUSION: The 45-item content analysis revealed appropriateness concerning the underlying construct of the SPAI-Portuguese (social phobia, agoraphobia) with good discriminative capacity on 43 items. The mean inter-item correlations and reliability coefficients demonstrated the SPAI-Portuguese and subscales internal consistency and multidimensionality. No item was suppressed in the SPAI-Portuguese but the authors suggest that a shortened SPAI, in its different versions, could be an even more useful tool for research settings in social phobia.

Estudo sobre os determinantes dos projetos financiados por crowdfunding: o caso do PPL Crowdfunding

Dissertação de mestrado em Economia Social

Producción y Reproducción social durante el primer Milenio en el Valle de Tafí (Tucumán, Argentina). Social Production and reproduction in the First Millenium in Tafí Valley (Tucumán, Argentina).

El Valle de Tafí fue uno de los primeros espacios del Noroeste Argentino habitados por comunidades sedentarias, entre el 200 a.C. y el 900 d.C. Éstas establecieron asentamientos aldeanos de varias hectáreas de superficie, alterando sensiblemente el paisaje mediante la construcción de numerosos conjuntos residenciales, canales de manejo del agua, montículos de limpieza de campos de cultivo y muros de contención del suelo. Los procesos históricos desarrollados en ese milenio fueron explicados desde perspectivas teóricas culturalistas (González y Núñez 1960) y sistémicas (Berberián y Nielsen 1988a), las cuales permitieron establecer una estructura cronológica inicial y las principales estrategias adaptativas para el proceso. Este proyecto intenta abordar el modo en que las estrategias de reproducción doméstica se relacionaron con la estructuración del contexto social más amplio. Interesa particularmente analizar las maneras en que la cultura material (arquitectura residencial, campos agrícolas, entierros, alfarería y bienes de prestigio) fue utilizada en la construcción de la sociedad, enfocándonos en la agencia y la identidad. Es de particular importancia establecer la escala real de acción social involucrada en los procesos y la identidad de los grupos que tuvieron una participación activa en ellos. Los trabajos de campo realizados en el Valle de Tafí han provisto de una gran cantidad de datos que evidencian el desarrollo de una sociedad compleja en el primer milenio d.C.: producción agrícola intensiva, demografía creciente, objetos de prestigio en contextos funerarios e intercambio a larga distancia (González y Núñez 1960, Berberián y Nielsen 1988a y 1988b). Sin embargo las unidades sociales implicadas no parecen haber superado a las relaciones propias de unidades domésticas extendidas. Las excavaciones realizadas por nuestro equipo han mostrado fuertes conexiones entre las estrategias de reproducción social doméstica, producción agrícola fragmentada y rituales a los ancestros, materializados no sólo en contextos funerarios ("cistas") y monumentos monolíticos ("menhires-huancas"), sino también en la arquitectura doméstica. Esta relación fue interpretada como un aspecto central en el desarrollo de las sociedades agrícolas tempranas de sur andino, siendo la base de grupos de parentesco competitivos en luchas sociales y negociaciones políticas permanentes. Esta lógica social permitiría explicar la variabilidad registrada en la materialidad arqueológica. La realización de prospecciones, relevamientos y mapeos de sitios, excavaciones sistemáticas, dataciones absolutas, análisis paleopatológicos sobre restos humanos, estudios cerámicos, líticos y de química de suelos, es esencial no sólo para el incremento del corpus de datos que de luz a estos problemas, sino también para la toma de conciencia social acerca del valor del patrimonio cultural prehispánico, que en el presente se encuentra en riesgo.La concreción de los objetivos de este proyecto aportarán a esclarecer hasta qué punto la materialidad doméstica fue un elemento reproductor de predisposiciones subjetivas de la acción (habitus), cómo se relacionaron las viviendas a los sectores de cultivo, en qué forma los emplazamientos productivos modificaron el paisaje y esto repercutió en la propiedad de los medios productivos. Considerando que Tafí fue uno de los primeros valles intermontanos del Noroeste Argentino habitado por comunidades agricultoras, y que este ámbito geográfico significa un lugar de paso obligado entre las yungas orientales y los valles semiáridos y la puna, un profundo estudio de su arqueología podría proveer una mirada sobre la historia del desarrollo cultural surandino. Esta área geográfica es una clave para entender no sólo la historia de los grupos locales sino también el desarrollo y la interacción en un área mayor que se extiende más allá de lo Andes, en Chile.

Social intelligence and auditory intelligence : useful constructs?

Social intelligence, auditory intelligence, diagnostics, emotional intelligence, musical abilities, performance test, social perception, social memory, social understanding, voice, emotions research, social competences

Objectives of social entrepreneurs and federal lending programs, and the optimal allocation of external funds

Magdeburg, Univ., Fak. für Wirtschaftswiss., Diss., 2010

Social intelligence and auditory intelligence : useful constructs?

Social intelligence, auditory intelligence, diagnostics, emotional intelligence, musical abilities, performance test, social perception, social memory, social understanding, voice, emotions research, social competences

Issues of information support for the process of scientific enterprise's management in the universities and research organizations

This article describes the problem of commercializing of scientific researches in universities. Management tasks are reduced to subtasks and combined formal algorithm. The overall control problem is reduced to a set of formal subtasks combined into a single algorithm. Here the necessity of joint control of all commercialization projects as well as the use of information systems for the successful implementation of the existing commercialpotential is shown.

The co-evolution of social behavior and cranial morphology in sheep and goats (Bovidae, caprini) [by] William M. Schaffer and Charles A. Reed.

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