Regulação das responsabilidades parentais e resistência às visitas : caracterização de processos de avaliação periciais

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Psicologia (área de especialização em Psicologia da Justiça e Comunitária)O presente estudo teve como objetivo caracterizar os processos de avaliação periciais, no âmbito da regulação das responsabilidades parentais (RRP) e, mais especificamente, das famílias onde a resistência às visitas ocorre por parte do menor(es) (estudo I). Para além disso, efetuou-se uma caracterização das variáveis que impulsionam e mantêm a resistência às visitas por parte do menor (estudo II). A amostra em ambos os estudos foi constituída por 43 processos de RRP, disponibilizados pela Unidade de Psicologia da Justiça e Comunitária do Serviço de Psicologia da Universidade do Minho. A informação foi recolhida através da consulta e análise documental dos processos de RRP e alvo de testes descritivos e inferências para o tratamento da informação com recurso ao programa Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Os resultados do estudo I – características dos processos e das famílias - demonstraram um maior número de processos de RRP, em que as crianças apresentavam resistência às visitas face a um dos progenitores, nos anos de 2008 e 2009. Os quesitos não especificados eram os mais frequentes, sendo que os alvos da avaliação eram sobretudo a criança e ambos os progenitores. Para além disso, as guardas provisórias primavam pela guarda única, maioritariamente a cargo da progenitora. Quanto à caracterização das famílias verificámos que na maioria dos casos o progenitor rejeitado pelo menor era também o progenitor não custódio, mais especificamente o pai, havendo nos processos um número considerável de alegações de violência doméstica por parte da progenitora. Para além disso, se por um lado, podemos concluir que no geral os progenitores, a partir do seu auto-relato, revelaram lidar de forma adaptativa com o processo de separação e divórcio (IGS < 1), por outro, as crianças revelaram mais dificuldades no ajustamento, revelando poucas estratégias de coping. Quanto ao estudo II – fatores impulsionadores e de manutenção da resistência às visitas – os resultados demonstram que a resistência às visitas pelos menores pode resultar de vários fatores, necessitando de ser analisada a partir de um contexto mais amplo. De facto, os resultados demonstram que a resistência do menor em contactar com o progenitor rejeitado não se deve única e exclusivamente à manipulação de um dos progenitores, nem às características da criança, mas a um conjunto de variáveis, tais como as expectativas da criança e dos progenitores quanto à guarda e visitas, a presença de sugestionabilidade, as alegações de violência doméstica, a influência dos progenitores e dos familiares na resistência às visitas e a sintomatologia do próprio menor.The present study aimed to characterize the processes of expert assessment, under the regulation of parental responsibilities (RPR) and, more specifically, families where resistance to visits occurs by the minor (s) (Study I). In addition, a characterization of the variables that drive and maintain resistance to visits by the minor was performed (Study II). The sample in both studies consisted of 43 cases of RPR, made available by the Justice and Community Unit of the Psychology Department of the University of Minho. The information was gathered through consultation and document analysis of RPR processes and subject to descriptive tests and inferences to the information processing using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) program. The results of the study I - the processes and families characteristics - demonstrated a greater number of cases of RPR in children who demonstrated resistance to face visits of one of the parents, in the years 2008 and 2009. The items not specified were the most frequent, being the targets of evaluation mainly the child and both parents. In addition, the temporary child custody excelled only by a single custody, mostly in charge of the mother. Regarding the characterization of families we have found that in most cases the parent rejected by the minor was also the non custodial parent, specifically the father, with a considerable number of allegations of domestic violence by the mother. Furthermore, if on one hand it can be concluded that in general the progenitors from their self-report revealed adaptively cope with the process of separation and divorce (IGS <1), on the other children demonstrated more difficulties in adjustment, revealing few coping strategies. Regarding the study II - factors that promote and maintain the resistance to visits - the results show that resistance to visits by minors can result from several factors that need to be analyzed from a broader context. In fact, the results show that the minor’s resistance to contact with the rejected parent should not be solely to manipulation of a parent or to the child's characteristics, but a set of variables such as the expectations of the child and the parents as to custody and visits, the presence of suggestibility, allegations of domestic violence, the influence of parents and family in the visits resistance and symptoms of the child itself

Lna santé - the home care pioneer in France

Begun operating in 1992 and today is ready to be bought and to grow massively in the upcoming years .LNA Santé, the fifth French player in the long-term care market ,will be acquired in 2019 in a Private Equity deal and will improve its operations in Europe. This deal is expected to return 3.1 x the money invested by the fund and an internal rate of return of almost 26% with an exit in five years(2023). This successful exit is possible due to an ageing population that is set to in crease demand for dependent care which is reflected in the number of nursing home beds forecasted to double. By the time of exit, the firm will amount €828 Mofre venues and €94 Mof EBITD As treaming from consolidation of operations in the current operating countries–France and Belgium–and an internationalization bet in the Netherlands. It is presumed that this paper will inform how a deal in Private Equity -term care market in Europe is conducted

Reuma.pt/vasculitis - the Portuguese vasculitis registry

BACKGROUND: The vasculitides are a group of rare diseases with different manifestations and outcomes. New therapeutic options have led to the need for long-term registries. The Rheumatic Diseases Portuguese Register, Reuma.pt, is a web-based electronic clinical record, created in 2008, which currently includes specific modules for 12 diseases and > 20,000 patients registered from 79 rheumatology centres. On October 2014, a dedicated module for vasculitis was created as part of the European Vasculitis Society collaborative network, enabling prospective collection and central storage of encrypted data from patients with this condition. All Portuguese rheumatology centres were invited to participate. Data regarding demographics, diagnosis, classification criteria, assessment tools, and treatment were collected. We aim to describe the structure of Reuma.pt/vasculitis and characterize the patients registered since its development. RESULTS: A total of 687 patients, with 1945 visits, from 13 centres were registered; mean age was 53.4 ± 19.3 years at last visit and 68.7% were females. The most common diagnoses were Behçet's disease (BD) (42.5%) and giant cell arteritis (GCA) (17.8%). Patients with BD met the International Study Group criteria and the International Criteria for BD in 85.3 and 97.2% of cases, respectively. Within the most common small- and medium-vessel vasculitides registered, median [interquartile range] Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score (BVAS) at first visit was highest in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) (17.0 [12.0]); there were no differences in the proportion of patients with AAV or polyarteritis nodosa who relapsed (BVAS≥1) or had a major relapse (≥1 major BVAS item) during prospective assessment (p = 1.00, p = 0.479). Biologic treatment was prescribed in 0.8% of patients with GCA, 26.7% of patients with AAV, and 7.6% of patients with BD. There were 34 (4.9%) deaths reported. CONCLUSIONS: Reuma.pt/vasculitis is a bespoke web-based registry adapted for routine care of patients with this form of rare and complex diseases, allowing an efficient data-repository at a national level with the potential to link with other international databases. It facilitates research, trials recruitment, service planning and benchmarking.publishersversionpublishe

MAMMALS IN PORTUGAL : A data set of terrestrial, volant, and marine mammal occurrences in P ortugal

Mammals are threatened worldwide, with 26% of all species being includedin the IUCN threatened categories. This overall pattern is primarily associatedwith habitat loss or degradation, and human persecution for terrestrial mam-mals, and pollution, open net fishing, climate change, and prey depletion formarine mammals. Mammals play a key role in maintaining ecosystems func-tionality and resilience, and therefore information on their distribution is cru-cial to delineate and support conservation actions. MAMMALS INPORTUGAL is a publicly available data set compiling unpublishedgeoreferenced occurrence records of 92 terrestrial, volant, and marine mam-mals in mainland Portugal and archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira thatincludes 105,026 data entries between 1873 and 2021 (72% of the data occur-ring in 2000 and 2021). The methods used to collect the data were: live obser-vations/captures (43%), sign surveys (35%), camera trapping (16%),bioacoustics surveys (4%) and radiotracking, and inquiries that represent lessthan 1% of the records. The data set includes 13 types of records: (1) burrowsjsoil moundsjtunnel, (2) capture, (3) colony, (4) dead animaljhairjskullsjjaws, (5) genetic confirmation, (6) inquiries, (7) observation of live animal (8),observation in shelters, (9) photo trappingjvideo, (10) predators dietjpelletsjpine cones/nuts, (11) scatjtrackjditch, (12) telemetry and (13) vocalizationjecholocation. The spatial uncertainty of most records ranges between 0 and100 m (76%). Rodentia (n=31,573) has the highest number of records followedby Chiroptera (n=18,857), Carnivora (n=18,594), Lagomorpha (n=17,496),Cetartiodactyla (n=11,568) and Eulipotyphla (n=7008). The data setincludes records of species classified by the IUCN as threatened(e.g.,Oryctolagus cuniculus[n=12,159],Monachus monachus[n=1,512],andLynx pardinus[n=197]). We believe that this data set may stimulate thepublication of other European countries data sets that would certainly contrib-ute to ecology and conservation-related research, and therefore assisting onthe development of more accurate and tailored conservation managementstrategies for each species. There are no copyright restrictions; please cite thisdata paper when the data are used in publications.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country, preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 countries) tested hypotheses concerning generalizable positive and negative outcomes of social distancing messages that promoted personal agency and reflective choices (i.e., an autonomy-supportive message) or were restrictive and shaming (i.e., a controlling message) compared with no message at all. Results partially supported experimental hypotheses in that the controlling message increased controlled motivation (a poorly internalized form of motivation relying on shame, guilt, and fear of social consequences) relative to no message. On the other hand, the autonomy-supportive message lowered feelings of defiance compared with the controlling message, but the controlling message did not differ from receiving no message at all. Unexpectedly, messages did not influence autonomous motivation (a highly internalized form of motivation relying on one’s core values) or behavioral intentions. Results supported hypothesized associations between people’s existing autonomous and controlled motivations and self-reported behavioral intentions to engage in social distancing. Controlled motivation was associated with more defiance and less long-term behavioral intention to engage in social distancing, whereas autonomous motivation was associated with less defiance and more short- and long-term intentions to social distance. Overall, this work highlights the potential harm of using shaming and pressuring language in public health communication, with implications for the current and future global health challenges

Educomunicação e suas áreas de intervenção: Novos paradigmas para o diálogo intercultural

oai:omp.abpeducom.org.br:publicationFormat/1O material aqui divulgado representa, em essência, a contribuição do VII Encontro Brasileiro de Educomunicação ao V Global MIL Week, da UNESCO, ocorrido na ECA/USP, entre 3&nbsp;e 5 de novembro de 2016. Estamos diante de um conjunto de 104 papers executivos, com uma média de entre 7 e 10 páginas, cada um. Com este rico e abundante material, chegamos ao sétimo e-book publicado pela ABPEducom, em seus seis primeiros anos de existência. A especificidade desta obra é a de trazer as “Áreas de Intervenção” do campo da Educomunicação, colocando-as a serviço de uma meta essencial ao agir educomunicativo: o diálogo intercultural, trabalhado na linha do tema geral do evento internacional: Media and Information Literacy: New Paradigms for Intercultural Dialogue

Mammals in Portugal: a data set of terrestrial, volant, and marine mammal occurrences in Portugal

Mammals are threatened worldwide, with ~26% of all species being included in the IUCN threatened categories. This overall pattern is primarily associated with habitat loss or degradation, and human persecution for terrestrial mammals, and pollution, open net fishing, climate change, and prey depletion for marine mammals. Mammals play a key role in maintaining ecosystems functionality and resilience, and therefore information on their distribution is crucial to delineate and support conservation actions. MAMMALS IN PORTUGAL is a publicly available data set compiling unpublished georeferenced occurrence records of 92 terrestrial, volant, and marine mammals in mainland Portugal and archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira that includes 105,026 data entries between 1873 and 2021 (72% of the data occurring in 2000 and 2021). The methods used to collect the data were: live observations/captures (43%), sign surveys (35%), camera trapping (16%), bioacoustics surveys (4%) and radiotracking, and inquiries that represent less than 1% of the records. The data set includes 13 types of records: (1) burrows | soil mounds | tunnel, (2) capture, (3) colony, (4) dead animal | hair | skulls | jaws, (5) genetic confirmation, (6) inquiries, (7) observation of live animal (8), observation in shelters, (9) photo trapping | video, (10) predators diet | pellets | pine cones/nuts, (11) scat | track | ditch, (12) telemetry and (13) vocalization | echolocation. The spatial uncertainty of most records ranges between 0 and 100 m (76%). Rodentia (n =31,573) has the highest number of records followed by Chiroptera (n = 18,857), Carnivora (n = 18,594), Lagomorpha (n = 17,496), Cetartiodactyla (n = 11,568) and Eulipotyphla (n = 7008). The data set includes records of species classified by the IUCN as threatened (e.g., Oryctolagus cuniculus [n = 12,159], Monachus monachus [n = 1,512], and Lynx pardinus [n = 197]). We believe that this data set may stimulate the publication of other European countries data sets that would certainly contribute to ecology and conservation-related research, and therefore assisting on the development of more accurate and tailored conservation management strategies for each species. There are no copyright restrictions; please cite this data paper when the data are used in publications

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5,6,7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8,9,10,11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world's most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepresented in biodiversity databases.13,14,15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may eliminate pieces of the Amazon's biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological communities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple organism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region's vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most neglected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lost