Tesis sobre el tema "Crises and panics"

The thesis addresses the instabilities in stock markets in the USA. There are many factors that may increase the price volatility, or even cause a panic. During these turbulent times investors can seek shelter in investment safe havens that allow protecting their portfolio against significant financial losses. The focus is put on identifying the situations where it is appropriate to use the safe havens and how to properly time all transactions. Historical insight, events study and investigating economic cycles are the integral part of the work.

This research is examines the nuclear arms race that dominated the 20th century, during which the United States manufactured and stockpiled a large number of strategic weapons. Using moral panic theory, the roles of the President of the United States and the media are examined in facilitating public interest in the manufacture of these weapons from 1955-1990. The project uses both time series and historical analyses to determine the extent to which the strategic nuclear weapons crisis was a moral panic created to insure public acceptance of such this massive defense sector expenditure. The time series analysis reveals that the President does have the ability to influence the public via the State of the Union Address, but that influence does not extend strongly to the media. However, what influence the President does have appears to be correlated to the use of substantive rhetoric, and the percentage of the speech dedicated to the issue. Finally, the historical analysis demonstrates that the moral panic moves through three phases. The first phase is characterized by grassroots concern over the technical gap represented by Sputnik 1's launch was utilized by interested actors to accomplish their goals. During the second phase, this concern transformed into an institutional technique utilized for deflecting institutional challenges when the moral panic moved into an interest group model. The final phase occurs during the rise of the "security state", when elites begin using the moral panic to achieve their own ends.
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Les patients psychosomatiques et ceux souffrant d’attaque de panique, ont de manifestations corporelles et de plus ils présentent une intense souffrance psychique. L’association libre se trouve interférée à cause de vécus traumatiques durant la période précoce de la constitution psychique.Phase 1A rétrospectiveLe groupe contrôle a été sélectionné à partir de 417 patients asthmatiques en cabinets extérieurs de la Division de Pneumologie de l’Hôpital des Cliniques « J. de San Martín ». A pu être établi l’association entre type d’asthme et type d’accomplissement (X2=53.42 significatif à 1 %). Pour tous les types d’asthme la probabilité la plus faible de s’améliorer correspondait aux patients discontinuant ≥ 3 jours et modifiant les doses de leur médicament. Les patients accomplissant correctement leur traitement ont 87% de probabilité d’améliorer leur trouble.Phase 1B Prospective. Patients asthmatiques en groupe de parole.Phase prospective. 33 patients asthmatiques sévères et presque fatals ont été évalués cliniquement sur un an dans un programme qui incluait le groupe de parole. Au début du groupe thérapeutique tous les patients présentaient un mauvais niveau d’observance du traitement. A la fin de l’année la proportion de patients n’accomplissant pas correctement leur traitement est descendue à 10%. L’asthme nocturne s’est vu associé aux variables de compliance et statistiquement significatif (p<0.001). L’association directe entre amélioration du spiromètre et des variables de compliance est significative (p<0.001).Phase II prospective. Patients asthmatiques en groupe Photolangage®.Dans cette phase j’ai incorporé une technique de médiation par des photos dans des groupes (dans l´Institute d´ Investigations Médicales Prof. A. Lanari) pour favoriser l’association libre, la croissance du préconscient et la symbolisation. L’approche psychologique en groupe Photolangage® pour un traitement intégral de patients asthmatiques est une variable capable d’influencer favorablement l’évolution et le pronostique de la maladie. Les patients n’ont pas eu recours aux services d’urgence ni à des hospitalisations. La souffrance psychique du patient psychosomatique est archaïque. Ils ont subi les effets d’une contenance maternelle brusquement changeante. Ils ont pu construire une identité plus autonome et dépasser les batailles de l’ambivalence.Phase III prospective. Patients atteints de crise de panique en groupePhotolangage®L’approche psychologique en groupes Photolangage® pour un traitement intégral de patients aux crises de panique a favorisée l’évolution et le pronostique de la maladie.Ces patients ont subi des châtiments, humiliations, et douleurs psychiques alors que l’appareil psychique était déjà formé et avait atteint un certain niveau de symbolisation. Ils ont pu construire un plus grand nombre de représentations préconscientes et bloquer, dépasser ou amoindrir le quantum d’angoisse insupportable. Ils ont pu établir la différence entre une situation particulière à caractéristiques mortifères et les autres, entre l’avant et le maintenant.Le groupe de Photolangage® établi la distance nécessaire pour créer les liaisons et représentations préconscientes qui favorisent la capacité de penser facilitant les processus de transcription à deux niveaux simultanés celui du groupe et celui de l’individu. Ce travail permet rencontrer le sens fondateur du symptôme. Ils ont pu construire une plus grande autonomie et ont accédé à certains niveaux d’altérité par des identifications vitales et un degré d’idéalisation possible
Psychosomatic patients and those suffering from panic disorder have a history of medical treatments for their body ailments and they have also an intense psychological distress. This research is divided in three phases:Phase 1A retrospectiveA control group was selected from 417 asthmatic patients of the Hospital de Clinicas J. de San Martin (Buenos Aires, Argentine). It was established an association between asthma degree and type of compliance (X 2 = 53.42 significant at 1%). It was found that in all kinds of asthma, lower probability of improvement corresponds to patients who discontinued ≥ 3 days and/or or changed the dose of medication. Patients with good compliance have 87% of chance to improve and those with poor compliance only 38%.Prospective Phase 1B asthmatic word groups33 patients were evaluated with severe and almost fatal asthma for 1 year in a program that included word group. At the beginning of the therapeutic word group all patients had a bad compliance. At the end of the year, the proportion of patients who did not fulfil their treatment correctly was 10%. Nocturnal asthma is associated with compliance variables and is statistically significant (p <0.001).The direct association between improvement in spirometer and compliance variables is significant (p <0.001).Phase II prospective asthmatics patients in Photolanguage® groups.Psychological approach in Photolanguage® groups for asthma treatment is a variable able to influence favourably the evolution and prognosis of these patients as it improves compliance and favours free association, expanding preconscious and symbolization.Also they could turn a more complex psychic apparatus, and showed no emergencies or hospitalizations. The psychosomatic patient's psychic suffering began in archaic time and his mother´s continence was abruptly changing. Patients could built a more autonomous identity after many ambivalence battles.Phase III prospective. Patients with panic attack in Photolanguage® groups.The psychological approach to patients with panic disorder in Photolanguage® groups is a useful tool for the evolution and better prognosis, in addition to the necessary pharmacological indications. These patients have a history of punishment, humiliation and psychic pain, which occurred when their psychic apparatus had some level of symbolization. They showed no subsequent panic attacks without medication, unbearable anguish decreased. They could differentiate characteristics about deadly situations from those that are not and also between time before and now. A Photolanguage® group creates the necessary distance needed to create links favouring preconscious thinking ability and transcription processes. Psychic work isdone simultaneously over the group level and over their effects on the individual level.Number of preconscious representations increased, patients could build autonomy and certain otherness levels, with vital and possible identifications. Photolanguage ®produces personal work awareness (foundation sense) allowing each think and connect with their own history

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an extremely prevalent and concerning social issue, with limited current intervention and prevention strategies. Batterer intervention programs (BIPs) have demonstrated some small effects of programs in reducing offender recidivism, however there is a growing understanding that not all offenders respond similarly to batterer intervention and the problem of IPV persists. Restorative justice programs including impact panels may be an important addition to BIPs, but research is extremely limited on impact panel effectiveness and whether panels are appropriate for IPV or pose additional safety risks to survivors. The current study consists of a naturalistic mixed-methods evaluation of the use of IPV impact panels in the context of batterer intervention. Data collection methods include an ethnographic inquiry of the program setting and participant experiences, archival data analysis of offender responses to the panel (N = 287), and focus groups (k = 4) with survivors, offenders, and BIP providers to investigate the panel's impact on survivors and offenders and generate potential indicators of panel outcomes for survivors and offenders. Findings suggest that panel impacts on survivors include reaching new understandings, healing, and empowerment; panel impacts on offenders include connection with survivor speakers, reaching new understandings, and healing. Implications, limitations, and future aims of this program of research are discussed.

Cette thèse analyse les conséquences et les implications des annonces de dividendes sur le marché boursier français dans un contexte de crise financière. Elle comporte quatre chapitres dont un premier, théorique qui trace les orientations des trois études empiriques réalisées. À l’issue de ce chapitre, il est proposé un cadre d’analyse de l’impact de la crise sur la politique de dividendes. Le deuxième chapitre traite de l’impact de la crise sur les réactions du marché. Il a testé et validé l’hypothèse d’une réaction différenciée des investisseurs aux annonces de dividendes en fonction du contexte économique. De surcroît, il met en évidence des réactions asymétriques des investisseurs en période de crise. Le troisième chapitre fournit une nouvelle explication à ces réactions asymétriques à travers la théorie de l’ambiguïté. L’hypothèse selon laquelle la nature et le degré d’incertitude de l’environnement macroéconomique auraient un impact sur la manière dont les investisseurs réagissent suite aux annonces de dividendes a été testée et validée. Le quatrième chapitre analyse la prévision des bénéfices comptables par les dividendes en période de crise, au regard de la théorie du signal. Nos résultats valident globalement les théories du signal et de l’ambiguïté. Même si la crise a affecté les réactions du marché français, elle n’a pas eu d’impact sur la relation significative qui existe entre les changements de dividendes et les variations de bénéfices futurs. Cette thèse analyse les conséquences et les implications des annonces de dividendes sur le marché boursier français dans un contexte de crise financière. Elle comporte quatre chapitres dont un premier, théorique qui trace les orientations des trois études empiriques réalisées. À l’issue de ce chapitre, il est proposé un cadre d’analyse de l’impact de la crise sur la politique de dividendes. Le deuxième chapitre traite de l’impact de la crise sur les réactions du marché. Il a testé et validé l’hypothèse d’une réaction différenciée des investisseurs aux annonces de dividendes en fonction du contexte économique. De surcroît, il met en évidence des réactions asymétriques des investisseurs en période de crise. Le troisième chapitre fournit une nouvelle explication à ces réactions asymétriques à travers la théorie de l’ambiguïté. L’hypothèse selon laquelle la nature et le degré d’incertitude de l’environnement macroéconomique auraient un impact sur la manière dont les investisseurs réagissent suite aux annonces de dividendes a été testée et validée. Le quatrième chapitre analyse la prévision des bénéfices comptables par les dividendes en période de crise, au regard de la théorie du signal. Nos résultats valident globalement les théories du signal et de l’ambiguïté. Même si la crise a affecté les réactions du marché français, elle n’a pas eu d’impact sur la relation significative qui existe entre les changements de dividendes et les variations de bénéfices futurs
This dissertation investigates the consequences and implications of dividend announcements on French stock market in a context of financial crisis. It consists of four chapters including a first theoretical chapter that draws directions of the three empirical studies we realised. After this chapter, we provide an analysis framework of the impact of the crisis on the dividend policy. The second chapter discusses the impact of the financial crisis on french market reactions following dividend announcements. It tested and validated the hypothesis of a differentiated reaction of investors to dividend announcements based on the economic environment. Furthermore, it highlights asymmetric reactions of investors in times of crisis. The third chapter provides a new explanation for these asymmetric reactions through the ambiguity theory. The hypothesis according to which the nature and the degree of uncertainty of the macroeconomic environment has an impact on the way in which capital market prices react to dividend announcements was tested and validated. The fourth chapter analyses earnings forecast by dividends in times of crisis, according to the signaling theory. Our findings generally support the signaling and ambiguity theories. But, although the crisis affected the French market reactions to dividend announcements, it has no impact on the significant relationship between dividends changes and future earnings variations

Ces dernières décennies, le monde a vécu des épisodes de forte instabilité financière globale, allantde pair avec un mouvement important de capitaux internationaux. Ce paradoxe remet en question lebien-fondé d’une politique de libéralisation financière internationale et soulève de nombreusescontroverses dont l’issue est à ce jour ambigu. L'objectif de cette thèse est d’apporter une contributionà ce débat actuel. Notre démarche s'articule autour de trois grandes parties. D'abord, nous analysonsl'impact de la globalisation financière sur la croissance économique dans les pays en développement(PED). Ensuite, dans la deuxième partie, nous étudions le rôle que pourrait jouer la libre circulationdes capitaux internationaux comme un déterminant du déclenchement des crises bancaires dans lesPED. Ceci nous amène dans la troisième partie à analyser les réformes réglementaires proposéespour pallier à ce risque de crises bancaires et tirer profit de la globalisation financière (GF).Les principaux résultats de la thèse peuvent être résumés comme suit : (1) La GF agit positivementsur la croissance économique et la stabilité du secteur bancaire, ces effets étant conditionnés par lanature des flux de capitaux échangés. (2) Les pays en développement peuvent bénéficier de lalibéralisation des mouvements de capitaux s’ils ont atteint un certain seuil de développementinstitutionnel. (3) Le contrôle des capitaux permet aux pays en développement d’assurer un niveau destabilité financière soutenu. Les implications de politiques économiques sont : (a) Les PED ont intérêtà améliorer leurs cadres institutionnels pour tirer profit de la globalisation financière. (b) Les pays endéveloppement doivent renforcer leur cadre règlementaire et mettre en place une politique de contrôledes capitaux qui ciblerait ceux à l’origine de l’instabilité économique et financière. (c) Un tel contrôlene doit pas se faire seulement sur les engagements envers l’étranger mais aussi sur les avoirs
Over the last few decades, the world has experienced episodes of global financial instability combinedwith significant shifts of international capital movements. This paradox questions the merits of theinternational financial liberalization and raises many controversies whose outcome is inconclusive todate. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to this current debate. The approach is structured aroundthree main parts. First, the impact of the financial globalization (FG) on the economic growth isanalyzed for developing countries. Then, in the second part, we examine the potential role of freemovement of international capital as a major factor responsible for the onset of banking crisis indeveloping countries. This analysis leads us to the third part in which we analyze the regulatoryreforms, proposed to mitigate the risk of banking crisis and to benefit from financial globalization.The main outcomes are summarized as follows: (1)The financial globalization acts positively oneconomic growth and the stability of the banking sector. Furthermore, these effects are conditioned bythe nature of capital flows. (2) The developing countries can benefit from the liberalization ofinternational capital flows, if they have reached a certain threshold level of institutional development.(3) The capital controls allow the developing countries to ensure a sustainable level of financialstability. The economic policy implications are: (a) The developing countries may find it beneficial todevelop their institutional framework to benefit from financial liberalization. (b) the developing countriesmust strengthen their regulatory framework and set up a capital control policy that will target theorigins of economic and financial instability. (c) Such a control should not only be exercised on foreignliabilities but also on domestic assets

Ces dernières décennies, le monde a vécu des épisodes de forte instabilité financière globale, allantde pair avec un mouvement important de capitaux internationaux. Ce paradoxe remet en question lebien-fondé d’une politique de libéralisation financière internationale et soulève de nombreusescontroverses dont l’issue est à ce jour ambigu. L'objectif de cette thèse est d’apporter une contributionà ce débat actuel. Notre démarche s'articule autour de trois grandes parties. D'abord, nous analysonsl'impact de la globalisation financière sur la croissance économique dans les pays en développement(PED). Ensuite, dans la deuxième partie, nous étudions le rôle que pourrait jouer la libre circulationdes capitaux internationaux comme un déterminant du déclenchement des crises bancaires dans lesPED. Ceci nous amène dans la troisième partie à analyser les réformes réglementaires proposéespour pallier à ce risque de crises bancaires et tirer profit de la globalisation financière (GF).Les principaux résultats de la thèse peuvent être résumés comme suit : (1) La GF agit positivementsur la croissance économique et la stabilité du secteur bancaire, ces effets étant conditionnés par lanature des flux de capitaux échangés. (2) Les pays en développement peuvent bénéficier de lalibéralisation des mouvements de capitaux s’ils ont atteint un certain seuil de développementinstitutionnel. (3) Le contrôle des capitaux permet aux pays en développement d’assurer un niveau destabilité financière soutenu. Les implications de politiques économiques sont : (a) Les PED ont intérêtà améliorer leurs cadres institutionnels pour tirer profit de la globalisation financière. (b) Les pays endéveloppement doivent renforcer leur cadre règlementaire et mettre en place une politique de contrôledes capitaux qui ciblerait ceux à l’origine de l’instabilité économique et financière. (c) Un tel contrôlene doit pas se faire seulement sur les engagements envers l’étranger mais aussi sur les avoirs
Over the last few decades, the world has experienced episodes of global financial instability combinedwith significant shifts of international capital movements. This paradox questions the merits of theinternational financial liberalization and raises many controversies whose outcome is inconclusive todate. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to this current debate. The approach is structured aroundthree main parts. First, the impact of the financial globalization (FG) on the economic growth isanalyzed for developing countries. Then, in the second part, we examine the potential role of freemovement of international capital as a major factor responsible for the onset of banking crisis indeveloping countries. This analysis leads us to the third part in which we analyze the regulatoryreforms, proposed to mitigate the risk of banking crisis and to benefit from financial globalization.The main outcomes are summarized as follows: (1)The financial globalization acts positively oneconomic growth and the stability of the banking sector. Furthermore, these effects are conditioned bythe nature of capital flows. (2) The developing countries can benefit from the liberalization ofinternational capital flows, if they have reached a certain threshold level of institutional development.(3) The capital controls allow the developing countries to ensure a sustainable level of financialstability. The economic policy implications are: (a) The developing countries may find it beneficial todevelop their institutional framework to benefit from financial liberalization. (b) the developing countriesmust strengthen their regulatory framework and set up a capital control policy that will target theorigins of economic and financial instability. (c) Such a control should not only be exercised on foreignliabilities but also on domestic assets

Le but de cette thèse est de présenter des analyses théoriques et empiriques sur le mécanisme de transmission du risque souverain entre les pays. En particulier, j'analyse les effets de contagion de la crise de la dette européenne sur les économies émergentes et sur le système bancaire en Europe. La thèse comprend quatre chapitres dans lesquels les mécanismes de transmission sont analysés sous différents angles. Le chapitre 1 et le chapitre 2 présentent des modèles théoriques pour étudier le risque de contagion dû à la dette souveraine et le risque de défaut souverain sur la base de la littérature des « global games ». Le chapitre 3 analyse empiriquement le rôle des flux bancaires internationaux dans la propagation de la crise de la dette en Europe aux économies émergentes. Enfin, le chapitre 4 présente un modèle stochastique d'équilibre général dynamique (DSGE) pour examiner l'impact du risque de défaut souverain sur le système interbancaire et le rôle des banques en tant qu'intermédiaires financiers dans la transmission des chocs à l'économie réelle
The goal of this thesis is to present theoretical and empirical investigations of mechanisms through which sovereign crises propagate across countries. In particular, I analyze the spillover effects of the European debt cri sis on emerging economies and on the banking system in Europe. The thesis includes four chapters in which the transmission mechanisms are analyzed from different angles. Chapter 1 and chapter \2 present theoretical models of sovereign contagion risk and sovereign default risk based on the literature of global games. Chapter 3 analyses empirically the role of international banking flows in propagating the Euro debt crisis t emerging economies. Finally, chapter 4 presents a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium mod (DSGE) to examine the impact of sovereign default risk on the banking system and the role of banks as financial intermediaries in transmitting shocks to the real economy

In the debate surrounding performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sport, academic investigation has focused mainly on why some individual athletes use PEDs while other actors refrain from doing so. In this thesis I adopt a broader social perspective and argue that the debate can be usefully reframed by considering how sports governing bodies (SGBs) maintain legitimacy and moral authority over their sporting communities. This highlights how various drug-related controversies and reports are associated with a crisis of legitimacy for SGBs. The thesis adopts a social constructionist perspective, using a modified'moral panic' framework based on the work of Goode and Ben-Yehuda. Situating legitimacy within this moral panic model reveals the'multifaceted' nature of legitimacy and the way doping debate reflects the interests of elite SGBs. At the same time, elite SGBs affected by the debate can use the media to resist other elite SGBs and impose their own interpretation of reality upon the situation. Using a grounded theoretical model, I examine whether the anti-doping debate is an example of a 'moral panic,' involving PED-using 'folk devils.' In the first part of this thesis I present a socio-historical examination of anti-doping policies and interactions between the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the Australian Football League (AFL). Multiple methods were used, including a review of media coverage, an online survey and follow-up interview with sporting participants. This multi-layered approach revealed how the creation of PED-using 'folk devils' challenges SGBs legitimacy, while also providing opportunities to restore perceptions of legitimacy. A quantitative e-Survey and follow-up interviews revealed that grassroots sporting participants in Australia accepted there was a crisis of legitimacy for SGBs, even if the perceived causes of this crisis varied. Using this multi-dimensional approach, I conclude that the debate surrounding PEDs provides an example of a moral panic engineered by elite SGBs, and particularly WADA, based on a concern with maintaining the moral authority and legitimacy to control the ever-widening global sporting community.

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銘傳大學
風險管理與保險學系碩士班
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Taiwan is a small open economy. The 2008 US Financial Crisis and 2011 European Debt Crisis had affected world economy and financial situations, which might have also some significant impacts on Taiwan. Shou-Hsiang Liu and Jo-Tzu Yu(2012), in “The discussion of the effect on Taiwan’s money demand function caused by European debt crisis,” only study the effect of panic index on Taiwan’s money demand function during European debt crisis. It did not study the effect of panic index on Taiwan’s money function during 2008 US Financial Crisis. To improve our understanding on Taiwan’s money demand, this paper we will use panic index to analyze their effects on these periods.

Crisis management after natural and non-natural disasters is a matter of serious concern for governments. Every year, due to catastrophes worldwide, millions of people have to be accommodated in temporary housing. In the USA alone, such disasters happen over 60 times per year. Rapid assembly building therefore, play a key role in post disaster housing projects. There are several types of rapidly assembled structures. Among them, the use of panelised systems, especially lightweight foam filled sandwich panels, is becoming very popular, because of their improved efficiency, good performance and their ability to reduce construction time and cost. A vast majority of the recent studies in the literature on the performance of structural panels are mainly focused on the panels made by rigid formwork. The structural application of the flexible formwork systems and their capabilities and potentials for rapid assembly building in crises management has not been adequately studies in the literature. In fact, a large portion of the recent research studies regarding the application of the flexible formwork is mainly limited to the architectural concepts. There is a significant gap in the knowledge of application of light weight sandwich panels, and application of flexible formwork systems for rapid assembly housing for crises management. This research study aims to introduce a novel foam-filled structural panelised system by pneumatic fabric formwork for rapid assembly building and study its structural performance and constructional considerations.

Between 1971 and 1999, ParticipACTION, Canada’s Health Promotion agency, reached into Canadian homes, schools, and places of work to “educate, motivate, and mobilize” the public about the perceived need to become physically fit. This dissertation discusses how the agency employed a variety of professional marketing approaches to create compelling prescriptive literature concerning physical fitness to advance a nation-building agenda based in the state directive of individual accountability for the Canadian body. As a result of ParticipACTION's sustained and pervasive influence, Canadians not only remember this prolific brand, but its underlying messaging has become a part of how Canadians view physical fitness and citizenship. ParticipACTION was a project of healthism fostered in an environment of anxiety. The threat of the Cold War, the constructed menace of the Obesity Crisis, and the fear of Quebec Separatism were all used to bolster the message at this semi-public agency over its thirty years of national social marketing. How individual Canadians experienced ParticipACTION varied significantly based on their body type, socio-economic status, gender, language, ethnicity, and region. Through the use of Historical GIS mapping, oral interviews, and archival records, this dissertation offers a history from creation to closure of this national agency and its place in Canada’s social history.

The term crisis of journalism is widely discussed nowadays. This paper examines whether journalism is in crisis, or whether it is a development caused by changes in the digital world. It also examines possible causes of this crisis and transformation in the digital world. One of the main causes of this is a perceived loss of credibility of the information given to the public. Therefore, there is a deeper interpretation of what trust and trustworthiness is and what can dis/trust cause in the society. In the context of the changes which journalism faces today, it describes the transformation of the role of the audience to active self-editor and outlines how the audience must orientate in the news itself. Otherwise, the media focused on earnings will continue to thrive on sensationalism and moral panics that will negatively effect social reality. In the empirical part this paper deals with the case of Břeclav in 2012, which is an exemplary example of moral panic with consequences.

As a social worker practising in long-term residential care for people living with dementia, I am alarmed by discourses in the media and health policy that construct persons living with dementia and their health care needs as a threatening “rising tide” or crisis. I am particularly concerned about the material effects such dominant discourses, and the values they uphold, might have on the collective provision of care and support for our elderly citizens in the present neoliberal economic and political context of health care. To better understand how dominant discourses about dementia work at this time when Canada’s population is aging and the number of persons living with dementia is anticipated to increase, I have rooted my thesis in poststructural methodology. My research method is a discourse analysis, which draws on Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical concepts, to examine two contemporary health policy documents related to dementia care – one national and one provincial. I also incorporate some poetic representation – or found poetry – to write up my findings. While deconstructing and disrupting taken for granted dominant crisis discourses on dementia in health policy, my research also makes space for alternative constructions to support discursive and health policy possibilities in solidarity with persons living with dementia so that they may thrive.
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macsuz@shaw.ca

A presente tese iniciou-se com um objectivo: traçar o percurso biográfico e a caracterização estilística, técnico e material da produção de Francisco Correia, um pintor quinhentista da cidade do Porto. Todavia, no decorrer da análise documental efectuada, surgiram diversas in-congruências que remeteram para a possibilidade de terem existido, na mesma época, dois pintores com o mesmo nome, provenientes da mesma cidade, mas com actividade assinalada em anos diferentes: um activo entre 1568 e cerca de 1580 e o outro a partir da década de noventa. Este facto, aliado às dissemelhanças estilísticas entre as obras, de autoria documentalmente comprovada, associadas ao que se pensava ser um único pintor, reforçou ainda mais esta hipótese. Assim, a actividade documentada, entre 1568 e 1613, daquele que se julgava tradicionalmente ser o único artista quinhentista denominado Francisco Correia, passou a estar dividida em dois períodos, o primeiro referente a Francisco Correia I, autor dos painéis de Santo Estêvão de Valença, entre outras obras atribuídas, e o segundo respeitante a Francisco Correia II, que participou na execução das bandeiras processionais da Misericórdia do Porto, dedicadas ao tema da Paixão de Cristo. Tendo em conta que a análise estilística das obras evidencia diferenças que sugerem a possibilidade de haver dois artistas envolvidos, pretendeu-se igualmente encontrar algumas expressões dessas diferenças nos materiais e técnicas empregues, com recurso a diferentes registos fotográficos, bem como à análise físico-química dos materiais, realizada através da microscopia óptica (MO), fluorescência de raios X dis-persiva de energia (EDXRF), microscopia electrónica de varrimento com espectrome-tria de raios x dispersiva de energia (SEM-EDS) e espectroscopia de infravermelhos com transformada de Fourier (micro-FTIR), que possibilitou reconhecer algumas ca-racterísticas da técnica pictórica de Francisco Correia I, que difere da técnica pictórica das obras atribuídas a Francisco Correia II. A conjugação de todos os elementos obtidos no decurso desta investigação per-mitiram uma caracterização da obra de Francisco Correia I, confirmando atribuição de obras que lhe já estavam atribuídas e reconhecendo algumas obras como não sendo da sua autoria. Relativamente ao Francisco Correia II, constatou-se que todas as obras que lhe estavam atribuídas não são da sua autoria e, da sua produção, apenas foi pos-sível caracterizar técnica e materialmente as bandeiras processionais da Paixão de Cristo, trabalho realizado com mais três artistas, nas quais foram utilizados os mesmos materiais. Visto que não existiu, também, qualquer diferença na forma como esses materiais foram aplicados, não foi possível reconhecer alguma particularidade própria, em relação aos outros artistas que trabalharam nas bandeiras processionais com Fran-cisco Correia II.
The objective of this thesis was to trace the biographical information and the stylistic, technical and material characterization of Francisco Correia’s production, a 16th century painter from Oporto. However, during the documentary analysis developed, some inconsistencies concerning some biographical aspects arose, which raises the possibility that two painters with the same name have lived at the same time and in the same city, but with activity in different years: one between 1568 and c. 1580 and the other from the 90s on. This fact, together with the stylistic dissimilarities between the work whose au-thorship is documentally identified has, connected to what previously thought to be a single painter, further strengthened this idea. Thus, the documented activity, between 1568 and 1613, of who traditionally was thought to be the only 16th century painter called Francisco Correia, is now divided into two periods of time, the first refers to Francisco Correia I, author of the panels of Santo Estêvão de Valença, among other pieces of work attributed to him, and the second is concerned with Francisco Correia II, who took part in the production of the processional flags of Misericórdia do Porto, celebrating the passion of Christ. Bearing in mind that the stylistic analysis of the pieces of work reveals differ-ences which arise the possibility of the existence of two artists involved, we also tried to find some expression of those differences in the material and techniques used, by using different photographic records, as well as the physics and chemical analysis of the materials, through the use of optical microscopy (OM), energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) , scanning electron microscopy - energy dispersive X-ray spec-trometry (SEM-EDS) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (micro-FTIR), which allow to recognize some characteristics of the pictorial technique of Francisco Correia I, that differs from the pictorial technique of the work assigned to Francisco Correia II. The combination of all the elements gathered through this investigation allow the characterization of the work of Francisco Correia I, confirming the attribution of some pieces of work that were already attributed to him and recognizing some pieces of work as not being from his authorship. Concerning Francisco II, it was found that all the work attributed to him didn’t belong to him, and from his production, it was only possible to characterize technically and materially the processional flags of the passion of Christ, work produced together with other three artists, using the same ma-terials, and also there has been no difference in the way those materials were used, so it was not been possible to recognize any own particularity, compared to the other artists who worked in the processional banners with Francisco Correia II.