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The role of educative thought in the life and work of Antonio Gramsci
No full textMany philosophers have propounded a vision of an improved society, what distinguishes Antonio Gramsci is his continuous effort to make it happen by understanding the process in order to put into practice. Gramsci's conviction about the importance of educative development came from both theory and experience. While there has been considerable examination of Gramsci's work in relation to the Prison Notebooks, this study will seek to address a lacuna in Gramsci scholarship. Using Gramsci's philological method, I analyse Gramsci's pre-prison activity; his pre-prison articles and letters, which, together with his letters from prison, formed part of his educative mission. This educative process was necessary, in order to construct a new party which would develop a collective will, collaboratively, with the masses.In this study therefore, I explore the contexts and formative experiences of the first part of his life together with the intellectual sources from which Gramsci developed his later theories, making central hitherto underemphasised connections between them which informed his writing and ideas. I intend to illustrate that Gramsci's underlying purpose in his writing, and political activity, was not only practical, on how to create a new socialist ruling class, but also educative in forming the mindset and values of his comrades. So that in addition to outlining his vision of a new order, he implicitly guided or explicitly explained the processes by which the necessary changes in social relations and moral climate could be made in order to achieve it. Each person had to engage with the values of the new order so that each could contribute to the construction of a new robust state. It was essential to build a hegemony at the most profound level, one which was dependent on collective understandings and a collective will
Memórias dos profissionais de enfermagem do Hospital Nereu Ramos em época de aids (1986 - 1996)
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem.Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa com abordagem histórica, cujo objetivo foi historicizar as memórias dos profissionais de enfermagem acerca do surgimento da aids e sua evolução no Hospital Nereu Ramos (HNR) de Florianópolis/Santa Catarina (SC), no período compreendido entre 1986 e 1996. A escolha do período de tempo deve-se ao fato de, em 1986, terem sido notificados os três primeiros casos de aids em Florianópolis e, em 1996, o Ministério da Saúde ter instituído a política de acesso universal à terapia anti-retroviral no Brasil. Foram realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas com três enfermeiros, dois técnicos de enfermagem e dois auxiliares de enfermagem, recorrendo à história oral como método-fonte-técnica e à memória como referencial. A pesquisa respeitou as Diretrizes e Normas Regulamentadoras da Pesquisa envolvendo Seres Humanos recomendadas pela Resolução nº 196/96 e foi aprovada pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da UFSC, com o parecer nº 0336/06. Para a análise e interpretação dos dados utilizou-se a análise de conteúdo temática, do qual surgiram as seguintes categorias e subcategorias: a memória sobre os enfrentamentos dos profissionais de enfermagem em época de aids # os enfrentamentos face à aids, às pessoas que viviam com HIV no HNR, ao risco de infecção pelo HIV, frente à família, amigos, sociedade, profissionais e instituições de saúde; do estigma ao reconhecimento do HNR como modelo de referência no tratamento da aids em SC; recordar o passado como espaço fortalecedor/vivificador do conceito de identidade e satisfação profissional na enfermagem. A discussão dos resultados permitiu constatar que a aids provocou mudanças expressivas no HNR como um todo e no comportamento dos profissionais de enfermagem que lá atuaram. O advento da aids e suas repercussões levaram a que os profissionais se mobilizassem no sentido de enfrentarem a doença, de se capacitarem para o cuidado de pessoas que vivem com HIV e para a melhoria dos cuidados e das condições de trabalho dentro da instituição. Isto tudo fez com que o HNR passasse de um hospital esquecido pela sociedade, para um hospital respeitado e reconhecido no tratamento da aids em SC. É possível concluir também, que passados mais de vinte anos do seu surgimento, a aids continua a representar um grande desafio para quem trabalha nessa área, e também para a sociedade, devido ao seu caráter estigmatizante e discriminatório. This is a qualitative research with a historical approach, that aimed to historicize the memories of the nursing professionals about the appearance and development of AIDS at the Nereu Ramos Hospital (HNR) of Florianópolis/Santa Catarina (SC), between 1986 and 1996. The selection of this period of time is due to the fact that, in 1986, were declared the 3 first cases of AIDS in Florianópolis, and in 1996, the Ministry of Health established the policy of universal access to antiretroviral therapy in Brazil. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three nurses, two nursing technicians and two nursing assistants, using verbal history as a method-source-technique and memory as referential. The research followed the ethical principles recommended by Resolution 196/96 and it was approved by the Research Ethics Board of the UFSC, under the protocol nº 0336/06. Thematic content analysis was used for the study and interpretation of data, from which the following categories and sub-categories emerged: the memory of the nursing professionals coping with AIDS # coping with AIDS, with people who lived with HIV at the HNR, with the risk of HIV infection, with family, friends, society, professionals and institutions; from stigma to the recognition of the HNR as a model of reference in the treatment of AIDS in SC; recalling the past as a strengthening space of the identity concept and professional satisfaction in nursing. The analysis of the results allows us to conclude that AIDS caused significant changes in HNR and in the behavior of the nursing professionals who worked there. The advent of AIDS and its consequences led professionals to develop efforts against the disease, conceive training programmes to take care of people living with HIV, and to improve care and working conditions within the institution. All this changed the HNR from a forgotten hospital by society into a respected and recognized hospital in the treatment of AIDS in SC. It is also possible to conclude that, more than twenty years after its appearance, AIDS still represents a major challenge for those who work in this area, and also for society, because of its stigmatizing and discriminating characte
Replication Data for Banco de dados com informações de 190 países sobre Regime político e Pib per capita no período entre 1960-2008. Fonte: ddrevisited e Banco Mundial.
No full textBanco de dados com informações de 190 países sobre Regime político e Pib per capita no período entre 1960-2008. Fonte: ddrevisited e Banco Mundial
Replication Data for Banco de dados com informações de 190 países sobre Regime político e Pib per capita no período entre 1960-2008. Fonte: ddrevisited e Banco Mundial.
No full textBanco de dados com informações de 190 países sobre Regime político e Pib per capita no período entre 1960-2008. Fonte: ddrevisited e Banco Mundial
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Opportunities and costs of portfolio diversification in sadc's smallest equity markets
No full textThis paper contrasts the performance of three time series models, a simple stochastic drift, GARCH, and a time varying parameter CAPM for three of SADC's smallest equity markets: Namibia, Swaziland and Mozambique. Analysis of the portfolio characteristics for each reveals the level of integration with South Africa using optimised portfolio frontiers. In addition, the implications of adopting a minimum investment retention levy by the smaller states is examined. Namibia is found to exhibit the greatest degree of integration with South Africa, followed to a much lesser extent by Swaziland with Mozambique. The evidence suggests that investors in the smaller markets would face considerable additional costs should such a policy be adopted. © 2008 The Author. Journal compilation © 2008 The Economic Society of South Africa.Articl
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
A reassessment of stock market integration in SADC: the case of Namibia
No full textA major feature of development policy modelled on neoclassical notions of financial market integration is that a wide array of smaller markets can benefit from integration by pooling resources and attracting foreign capital to supplement otherwise low levels of domestic investment. However, evidence from Namibia and South Africa suggest that the smaller markets become regulatory price-takers and to maintain the benefits from integration, face prohibitively high costs. We find evidence that the current policy initiatives of regional integration impose costs on smaller, less developed exchanges, which are ultimately borne by local firms seeking cost-effective sustainable external finance.</p
The influence of institutions in Founder-CEO retention: IPO Firms in a developing country context
No full textWhile there are considerable advantages for firms in the early stages of their lifecycles in having their entrepreneurial founders in leading CEO position these change during the initial primary offering (IPO) process and attraction of new minority outsider investors. As such the new firm-level corporate governance mechanisms as well as larger state-level institutional characteristics exert considerable influence in governance, incentive alignment and reduction of agency between entrepreneurial founder CEO and new outsider shareholders. Using a unique hand-collected sample of 97 IPO firms from across 18 Sub Saharan African (SSA) stock markets we find evidence that IPO firms are more likely to have founders as CEO with boards characterised by fewer foreign directors, fewer nonexecutives and greater proportions of these being independent and less ownership by nonexecutives. Additionally lower government effectiveness and weaker rule of law are associated with founding entrepreneur being retained as CEO while the opposite is true of informational environment quality, including corruption control and unrestricted media
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