Este estudo tem como foco central experiências vividas por jovens moradores do ABC paulista em interações com ações públicas de natureza artístico-cultural, implementadas por executivos municipais. Em Santo André, o trabalho voltou-se para experiências de jovens que vivenciam atividades formativas na área de teatro, organizadas pela Escola Municipal de Iniciação Artística (EMIA), vinculada à Secretaria de Cultura e Esportes. Em São Bernardo do Campo, a investigação incidiu sobre experiências juvenis em processos formativos da oficina de artes circenses, oferecida pelo Programa Juventude Cidadã, sob a responsabilidade da Secretaria de Governo. O trabalho empírico foi dividido em três grupos de atividades: visitas aos equipamentos culturais, nos quais as ações públicas selecionadas se concretizam, visando ao estabelecimento de contatos com gestores, profissionais responsáveis e jovens freqüentadores das ações; observação sistemática das atividades, que permitiu conhecer a rotina empreendida pelos jovens e as relações estabelecidas; aplicação de questionário com questões fechadas, com a finalidade de produzir um perfil dos sujeitos estudados. Por fim, a partir dos diálogos estabelecidos, foram realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas com 12 jovens: 5 participantes da oficina de teatro e 7 que integram a oficina de artes circenses...

Este trabalho tem o objetivo de entender e analisar o processo de alinhamento da estratégia de negócio e a gestão de pessoas para obtenção de vantagem competitiva nas organizações. A gestão das pessoas tornou-se um desafio estratégico de muitas organizações na atualidade, em decorrência das mudanças importantes que acontecem no cenário competitivo. A gestão das pessoas é um processo complexo, que deve ser arquitetado com estratégias, políticas e práticas e uma estrutura de Recursos Humanos que contribua na capacitação dos gestores organizacionais no exercício desse papel. Muitos trabalhos acadêmicos, a partir do fim do século XX, se concentram em estudar estratégias, políticas e práticas de gestão de pessoas que contribuem para a melhoria dos resultados organizacionais ou, em analisar modelos de Recursos Humanos que mais colaboram para a implementação das estratégias organizacionais; direcionando achados considerados universais, por meio de abordagens quantitativas. Aspectos como os impactos das demandas do ambiente de negócio, a relação com a estratégia organizacional, o alinhamento entre estratégia, políticas e práticas de gestão de pessoas e a transição da estrutura de Recursos Humanos como área de suporte ao modelo de gestão escolhido...

Introdução - A população de jovens gays apresenta particular vulnerabilidade à infecção pelo HIV/aids. Segundo tendência observada em pesquisas, nos últimos dez anos observouse aumento estatisticamente significativo da taxa de detecção do vírus em homens gays com idades entre 18 e 29 anos. Para aqueles que recebem o diagnóstico de HIV/aids, a nova realidade se encontra envolvida por fatores como a auto aceitação da orientação sexual, estigmas anteriores ao diagnóstico, suporte familiar e social, crenças sobre o vírus e restabelecimento de vínculos e comportamentos. Contudo, são escassos estudos que foquem nas vivências das relações afetivas e sexuais de jovens gays após o diagnóstico. Objetivo - Estabeleceu-se como objetivo geral desta pesquisa compreender as implicações e significados do diagnóstico do HIV nas relações afetivo sexuais de jovens gays. Método - O estudo proposto baseia-se na pesquisa qualitativa, como forma de privilegiar os discursos dos sujeitos como fonte de informação. Foram realizadas entrevistas semi dirigidas com 10 jovens, com idades entre 18 e 24 anos, portadores do HIV e infectados por via sexual, acompanhados no ambulatório do Instituto de Infectologia Emílio Ribas. Os dados foram transcritos...

Neste estudo, de vertente qualitativa,a pesquisa vincula-se à Linha de pesquisa Cuidado de enfermagem na saúde da mulher, criança, adolescente e família e ao Grupo de Estudos do Cuidado à Saúde nas Etapas da Vida (CEVIDA) do Programa de Pós-Graduação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. O objetivo foi entender de que modo a violência é compreendida pelos jovens em seu vivido e as repercussões desse fenômeno em sua corporeidade, na perspectiva da vulnerabilidade; conhecer as vivências que os jovens universitários do Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem possuem e quais suas expectativas enquanto futuros cuidadores frente à violência. Os participantes foram 21 jovens, com idade entre 17 e 23 anos, acadêmicos de enfermagem de uma Universidade localizada em um município do Oeste Catarinense. Para a produção das informações foram utilizadas duas estratégias: construção do Genograma e Ecomapa, componentes do Modelo Calgary de Avaliação da Família de cada jovem e realização de Dinâmicas de Criatividade e Sensibilidade (DCS), preconizadas pelo Método Criativo e Sensível. A Pesquisa foi aprovada pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul CAAE: 02870012.8.0000.5347. As informações foram interpretadas à luz da hermenêutica proposta por Paul Ricoeur...

There are well documented links between close relationships and physical health, such that those who have supportive close relationships have lower rates of morbidity and mortality compared to those who do not. Inflammation is one mechanism that may help to explain this link. Chronically high levels of inflammation predict disease. Across the lifespan, people who have supportive close relationships have lower levels of systemic inflammation compared to people who have cold, unsupportive, conflict-ridden relationships. Not only are current relationships associated with inflammation, but past relationships are as well. In this article, we will first review the literature linking current close relationships across the lifespan to inflammation. We will then explore recent work showing troubled past relationships also have lasting consequence on people’s inflammatory levels. Finally, we will explore developmental pathways that may explain these findings.

Stress and depression consistently elevate inflammation. Stress and depression are often experienced simultaneously, which is exemplified by people in troubled relationships. Troubled relationships also elevate inflammation, which may be partially explained by their ability to engender high levels of stress and depression. People who are stressed, depressed, or in troubled relationships are also at greater risk for health problems than their less distressed counterparts. Inflammation, a risk factor for a variety of age-related diseases including cardiovascular disease, Type II diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and frailty, may be one key mechanistic pathway linking distress to poor health. Obesity may further broaden the health implications of stress and depression; people who are stressed or depressed are often overweight, and adipose tissue is a major source of proinflammatory cytokines. Stress, depression, and troubled relationships may have synergistic inflammatory effects; loneliness, subclinical depression, and major depression enhance inflammatory responses to an acute stressful event. The relationship between distress and inflammation is bi-directional; depression enhances inflammation and inflammation promotes depression. Interesting questions emerge from this literature. For instance...

Scatterplots are the most common way for statisticians, scientists, and the public to visually detect relationships between measured variables. At the same time, and despite widely publicized controversy, P-values remain the most commonly used measure to statistically justify relationships identified between variables. Here we measure the ability to detect statistically significant relationships from scatterplots in a randomized trial of 2,039 students in a statistics massive open online course (MOOC). Each subject was shown a random set of scatterplots and asked to visually determine if the underlying relationships were statistically significant at the P < 0.05 level. Subjects correctly classified only 47.4% (95% CI [45.1%–49.7%]) of statistically significant relationships, and 74.6% (95% CI [72.5%–76.6%]) of non-significant relationships. Adding visual aids such as a best fit line or scatterplot smooth increased the probability a relationship was called significant, regardless of whether the relationship was actually significant. Classification of statistically significant relationships improved on repeat attempts of the survey, although classification of non-significant relationships did not. Our results suggest: (1) that evidence-based data analysis can be used to identify weaknesses in theoretical procedures in the hands of average users...

What kinds of social relationships can people have with computers? Are there activities that computers can engage in that actively draw people into relationships with them? What are the potential benefits to the people who participate in these human-computer relationships? To address these questions this work introduces a theory of Relational Agents, which are computational artifacts designed to build and maintain long-term, social-emotional relationships with their users. These can be purely software humanoid animated agents--as developed in this work--but they can also be non-humanoid or embodied in various physical forms, from robots, to pets, to jewelry, clothing, hand-helds, and other interactive devices. Central to the notion of relationship is that it is a persistent construct, spanning multiple interactions; thus, Relational Agents are explicitly designed to remember past history and manage future expectations in their interactions with users. Finally, relationships are fundamentally social and emotional, and detailed knowledge of human social psychology--with a particular emphasis on the role of affect--must be incorporated into these agents if they are to effectively leverage the mechanisms of human social cognition in order to build relationships in the most natural manner possible. People build relationships primarily through the use of language...

The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples was estalished on 26 August 1991 by Order in Council P.C. 1991-1597 with the following mandate: "The Commission of Inquiry should investigate the evolution of the relationship among aboriginal peoples (Indian, Inuit and Métis), the Canadian government, and Canadian society as a whole. It should propose specific solutions, rooted in domestic and international experience, to the problems which have plagued those relationships and which confront aboriginal peoples today. The Commission should examine all issues which it deems to be relevant to any or all of the aboriginal peoples of Canada..." (P.C. 1991-1597); This webpage was downloaded and saved in PDF format from ABoriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100014597/1100100014637) January 7, 2013.; Paper copy - CA1 Z1 91A02 Stauffer Library - Documents

peer-reviewed; This thesis documents the results of a research project investigating the relationship between interpersonal relationship factors and shared memory. Although shared memory and the factors that influence it have been researched more in recent years, there has been limited research which has measured the specific influence of interpersonal factors such as familiarity, trust, confidence, and memory esteem on memory distortion, specifically memory conformity and false memory. The research presented in this thesis sought to fill the void in the shared memory literature and also proposed new use of image recording technology for assessing the impact of dyadic memory conformity on memory recognition. There are four empirical chapters (2-5) in this thesis. Within these four chapters are four separate and related studies, which examine the influence of familiarity, trust, confidence, and memory esteem on memory distortion for ordinary events and for flashbulb memory of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, along with the use of image recording technology (SenseCam TM) as an objective measure of memory distortion between dyadic members. In Chapter 2, it was hypothesised that familiarity and trust would interact with reminiscence type (discussion vs. revision) between dyadic members and would result in an increase in memory conformity (both corrective and distortive) and false memory. The findings were consistent with the hypothesis. Chapter 3 followed on from investigating interpersonal constructs on ordinary events...

The objective of the study reported in this book was to understand how societal dynamics can be mobilized toward a convergence across groups in society and thus toward greater social cohesion overall. The team began with an extensive consultation phase to identify some key societal dynamics that seemed important in understanding fragility. The German Development Cooperation (GIZ) was a key partner in the study, providing support to the analytical phase in the form of a background paper, and technical advice throughout the preparation of the report. The team continued to consult with these experts throughout the fieldwork and the writing of the book. This book reports a study about societal relationships in fragile situations. Drawing on relevant literature and fieldwork in five countries, it suggests that fragility, violent conflict, and state failure are functions not only of state inability or unwillingness to perform core tasks, but also of dysfunctional relationships in society that do not permit a state to be formed or sustained. The present chapter has introduced the problem of fragility and suggested that seeing fragility as a problem of relationships in society can lead to more effective interventions in fragile situations. Chapter two turns to a key area of societal relations...

RESUMEN: En la actualidad y cada día más las redes sociales son cada vez más importantes para la sociedad. Tanto personas como empresas necesitan estas herramientas de internet para llevar a cabo su vida y relacionarse o darse a conocer, al mundo. En el caso de las personas, estas las utilizan para las relaciones interpersonales, plasmando sus vivencias y experiencias en forma de fotos, comentarios, etcétera. Mientras que en el caso de las empresas, estas lo ven como una idea de negocio, una posibilidad de ganar dinero y de darse a conocer. Es interesante también, citar la situación que estamos viviendo desde hace unos años hasta el día de hoy, en la que cada vez es más sonado el crecimiento de la tasa de desempleo, debido a la situación de crisis en la que se encuentra el país. Este proyecto ha sido realizado dentro de ese ámbito, consiguiendo que personas, por un lado y empresas por otro, se relacionen con el objetivo de crear, de esta manera vínculos profesionales. De esta manera la idea es acercar a las personas, gracias a su trayectoria tanto personal como profesional, a las empresas para facilitarles la difícil tarea de buscar y, por qué no, encontrar trabajo. Para ello se han utilizado técnicas de asignación. Es decir...

The fieldwork on which this dissertation is based was done in Sri Lanka from 1984 to 1986 when the critique of the of the anthropologist as 'Knower of the Other' was surfacing in the literature (Fabian, 1983, Clifford and Marcus, 1986, Marcus and Fisher 1986). When I returned from the field most works of this genre were generally unknown in Adelaide. However, I began by writing with the insights of Bakhtin who himself had inspired central dimensions of the burgeoning critique of anthropological practice. Like Bakhtin's work, the debates about ethnographic authority continue to invite us to reflect upon the methods employed in the production of any text which claims to define the world of others. It therefore seems appropriate for me to preface this dissertation by highlighting relevant features of the processes which have culminated in this work, Cosmic Horizons and Social Voices. The nature of my fieldwork was distinctive. I did not work in a spatially constrained community. Rather my work was anchored by the work of specialist ritual practitioners, both deity priests and performers. Because the practitioners themselves not only live in dispersed locations but are also highly mobile in relation to the work that they do, my work entailed extensive travel in and between urban centres and rural areas across several provincial divisions. In the course of eighteen months of this kind of fieldwork...

Public diplomacy is normally understood as government's aim to positively influence overseas public opinion regarding its image. However, this essay instead explores public diplomacy through people-to people relationships as a process of engagement and mutual understanding while maintaining governmental objectives as well. The emphasis of Australia's conduct of public diplomacy is explored through two main organizations - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and National Gallery of Australia - in promoting cultural understanding with China and Japan. The locus on the effect of cultural diplomacy within this research paper is about fostering deeper relations and understanding with two of Australia's prominent Asian neighbours. Australia's geographical position is such that Asia is understood to be an important neighbour in the Asia-Pacific region. As such, the highlight of its relations with Japan and Australia is about the strong ties that the nation and subsequently, the community have fostered throughout many years of co-operations. This people-to-people links through public diplomacy provides a more intimate and nongovernmental intrusive mode of communication to better understand a culture that is so different than that of Australia's Western one. Thus...

Australia and Indonesia have an important history of relations spanning just over 60 years. These relations have predominantly been tumultuous and have experienced many fluctuations due to political interactions. As is illustrated by Australia's involvement in the independence of East Timor in 1998 when then relationship was at its most hostile. Since the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998 Indonesia has been working towards reforming their government processes and establishing a more democratic system. However despite these reforms there remain many differences between the governments of Australia and Indonesia which consequently contribute to strained relations. Political differences are not . the only contributors to this tense relationship; the countries are also vastly different in terms of culture, religion, history and economics and as a result it has been difficult to find any common ground on which to build positive relations. However after research was conducted it was found that in order for positive relations to be formed there needed to be a promotion of people-to-people contact rather than contact solely through corporate and government bodies. The reason being that relations built on foundations derived from personal contact are more likely to be stable and withstand the fluctuations in political activities. Education is the most viable and effective way for people of both countries to interact and form relationships that transcend the boundaries that have historically hindered these relations. Education in terms of both formal school teaching and cultural community events are both effective means of creating a better understanding of our neighbouring country. However...

The relationship between Australia and Indonesia has fluctuated sharply over the decades, since Indonesia first declared independence in 1945. After Suharto took power in 1966, aid began to flow to the country, after the new Indonesian leader transformed Indonesia's outlook to be proWest and anti-Communist. Events such as the annexation of East Timor in 1975 soured relations for a time, however the two nations had essentially converging interests up until the Asian financial crisis of 1997. Indonesia was heavily hit by the crisis, and the secession of East Timar in 1999, with heavy Australian involvement meant relations were at a new low. However, the tsunami disaster of 2004 marked a turning point, with a strong Australian aid response helping significantly in putting relations back on track. Despite this, people-to-people links in Australia are still weak, and there are high levels of mistrust and misunderstanding between the public in both nations. Culturally, the two nations could not be more different, although geographically they are close. Indonesian language programs are also falling away in Australia, as well as public diplomacy funding. From an economic standpoint, business links are weak also. However, the one positive in this regard are the strong elite and government-to-government relations that the two countries share. The relationship with Indonesia can be seen as one of Australia's most important relationships. Primarily...

Motivated by the need to understand how crises affect human development in diverse segments of the population, this book explores how individuals and households cope with the changes and stresses induced by economic crises. It examines how these impacts and coping mechanisms differ across cultural and institutional contexts and looks at how best to protect the most vulnerable from lasting harm and the degradation of human capital. Financial crises, at both the global and the national level, are ubiquitous. Reinhart and Rogoff (2009) provide the invaluable lesson that over the past 800 years a major crisis has happened roughly once every 20 years. This pattern raises concern about the human impacts of crises, especially among more vulnerable people in developing countries. During the most recent global financial crisis, international organizations, bilateral development agencies, and civil society organizations all expressed concern about the ongoing 'human crisis.' The global community has become alarmed that the crisis could reverse recent progress in poverty reduction and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Human development is at the core of economic development. Human capital accumulation at all stages from the antenatal environment through early childhood and adolescence helps facilitate the transition to a healthy and productive adulthood and break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Shortfalls or setbacks at any stage of the life course may have severe consequences for individual development as well as for the growth and development of successful communities. The work presented in this volume deepens our understanding of how shocks affect children and youth in two ways. First...

This study aimed to gain more insight into young Rwandans’ perceptions on sex and relationships, which is essential for formulating effective sexual and reproductive health (SRH) promotion interventions. Using a ‘mailbox technique’, this paper studies the spontaneous thoughts of Rwandan young people on sexuality. Mailboxes were installed in five secondary schools in the Bugesera district and students were invited to write about their ideas, secrets, wishes, desires and fears on sexuality and relationships. Of the 186 letters collected, 154 addressed SRH topics. The letters were analysed in NVivo 9 using a theoretical model on vulnerability. Two stereotypical sexual interactions co-exist: experimental sex, taking place unprepared, driven by desire among young people of the same age, and transactional sex, occurring after negotiation between older men/women and younger girls/boys in exchange for money or goods. Both types expose young people to poor, though different, SRH outcomes. Young people have little capacity to manage their vulnerability in these relationships: they have limited knowledge on SRH topics, lack adult guidance or support and have difficult access to condoms. They apply seemingly contradictory norms and behaviours concerning sexuality. In conclusion...

Scatterplots are the most common way for statisticians, scientists, and the public to visually detect relationships between measured variables. At the same time, and despite widely publicized controversy, P-values remain the most commonly used measure to statistically justify relationships identified between variables. Here we measure the ability to detect statistically significant relationships from scatterplots in a randomized trial of 2,039 students in a statistics massive open online course (MOOC). Each subject was shown a random set of scatterplots and asked to visually determine if the underlying relationships were statistically significant at the P < 0.05 level. Subjects correctly classified only 47.4% (95% CI: 45.1%-49.7%) of statistically significant relationships, and 74.6% (95% CI: 72.5%-76.6%) of non-significant relationships. Adding visual aids such as a best fit line or scatterplot smooth increased the probability a relationship was called significant, regardless of whether the relationship was actually significant. Classification of statistically significant relationships improved on repeat attempts of the survey, although classification of non-significant relationships did not. Our results suggest: (1) that evidence-based data analysis can be used to identify weaknesses in theoretical procedures in the hands of average users...

People are the key resources in organizations seeking greater competitiveness and market value. The objective of this study is to analyze the relations between the policies and practices of personnel management, sense of justice and absenteeism in the production area, in a scenario of constant search for quality of life. The method covered the primary data collection through survey applied to 90 employees in operational and administrative areas of a medium sized company in the city of São Paulo and were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results showed that people management policies applied in the studied organization as jobs and wages, benefits and training had no significant influence on the reduction of absenteeism in the organization. We conclude that the reduction of absenteeism is more influenced by the sense of justice and demonstrates that praise by the upper and enhancement of professional and positive feedback are critical for employees wish to remain in the organization.; ; ; ; Pessoas são recursos-chave nas organizações que buscam mais competitividade e valor de mercado. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar as relações entre as políticas e práticas de gestão de pessoas, o senso de justiça e o absenteísmo na área da produção...