Violence: Its Interpretations and Representations

Sustainability and its Economic Interpretations

compactifications and representations of transformation semigroups

this thesis deals essentially (but not from all aspects) with the extension of the notion of semigroup compactification and the construction of a general theory of semitopological nonaffine (affine) transformation semigroup compactifications. it determines those compactification which are universal with respect to some algebric or topological properties. as an application of the theory, it is i...

Social representations of family and violence.

The idea of family alludes to relations of protection. Generally, the thought and idealized family connotes hegemony. In Brazil, adopting the idea of families would be more appropriate considering the ethnic and cultural multiplicity. However, it is in this refuge that generally involves relations between adults, youth and children, that domestic violence occurs, which is a social phenomenon of...

Violence and its variants in nurses: A review article

Background and Purpose: Violence is defined as unnecessary hostile behavior in clinical environments, which may lead to psychological abuse by colleagues. This systematic review aimed to evaluate violence and its associated factors among nurses. Methods: In this study, we searched for articles and patented documentations published until December 2014 via databases such as PubMed, Medline, Sc...

Approaching hysteria: disease and its interpretations

the particular social configuration of the psychological experiment will apply beyond its boundaries. Partially for these reasons, the generation of stable knowledge claims with broad-scale implications, Danziger suggests, has proven extraordinarily problematic for psychology as a discipline. In addition to historicizing and contextualizing the notion of the subject, two other features of Const...