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Uncertainties in Building Energy Certification: Two Case Studies Pertaining to Zoning
Authors: Berger Christiane , Teufl Helene , Pont Ulrich , Mahdavi Ardeshir
Published: January 2019

Building energy certification is stipulated by law in the majority of the European countries. The intention of these regulations is to offer key performance indicators (KPIs) to relevant and interested stakeholders. Another motivation for implementing these calculation schemes was to compare the energy performance of different buildings. However, existing guidelines for building energy evaluation do not comprehensively outline the input data collection process and the derivation of substantial KPIs. Furthermore, practitioners do not share a common understanding of the approach to energy certificates, resulting in different practical methods and different interpretations of the calculation guidelines. As a result, the envisioned comparability between buildings is not ensured, as a number of studies illustrated in the past.This contribution focuses on a specific uncertainty in building energy evaluation input data, pertaining to zoning and usage assumptions. Toward this end, two case studies are presented. A number of existing buildings (typical Viennese building stock) were subjected to the Austrian normative energy certification calculation. Thereby, different scenarios regarding the zoning and usage profiles of the buildings were developed. On the one hand, the calculated performance of individual (residential) units was compared with the calculated performance of the whole building. On the other hand, calculations considering different usage assumptions in different zones within the building (detailed calculation) were compared to results based on generalized assumptions for the whole building. The evaluation of the case study buildings showed significant differences in KPIs, given different input data (depending on the case study, heating demand showed deviations up to 50%). The results emphasize the importance of a clear documentation of input data assumptions for building-related energy assessment.
Simulation Study of Dry Floor Heating Systems
Authors: Horká Lucie , Hirs Jiri
Published: January 2019

This case study is aimed at simulation of dry floor heating system. Heating pipes are inserted in system boards made of thermal insulation. These boards should be supplemented with spreader plates which are installed under the heating pipes. Impact of different thermal conductivity of spreader plates on useful heat flux and uniformity of temperature field is examined. Heat losses are also investigated. These simulations are performed using software CalA with time steady-state boundary conditions. The results show that the dry floor heating system without spreader plates has very low useful heat flux caused by positioning of heating pipes in the insulation material. On the other hand, use of spreader plates causes significant increase of useful heat flux of this system. The higher heat conductivity of spreader plates is, the higher useful heat flux is. The floor surface temperature is also more uniform and the thermal comfort is better. The minimal thickness of additional heat insulation is determined in order that heat losses are lower than ten percent of total heat flux.
A Guideline for the Implementation of an Energy Management System in Facility Management Organisations
Authors: Hoffmann Kara , Menzel Karsten
Published: January 2019

Organisations are becoming more intensively conscious about energy related-topics. The overall societal recognition, changing legal requirements and cost reduction pressure results in increasing interests in holistic energy management activities well embedded into the overall facilities and asset management context.This paper aims to specify the information requirements for setting-up energy management system. Such a system aims to ensure that owners, tenants and operators of buildings can deliver facility and energy management services in compliance to the relevant legislative, technical and environmental standards. Initial information requirements for such a system were developed over the past nine months and are presented in this paper.
Assessing Energy Profiles of Urban Neighborhoods: A Streamlined GIS-Based Approach
Authors: Pont Ulrich , Latzer Daniel , Giffinger Rudolf , Mahdavi Ardeshir
Published: January 2019

The present contribution illustrates recent developments within the research project E_Profil. This project targets the development of a toolbox for the exploration of neighborhood profiles in terms of socio-cultural, urban development and energy-related aspects. Thereby, the major goal is to facilitate an energy and resource efficient and environmentally responsible mid-and long-term development of Austrian cities. The specific contribution described in this paper illustrates a simple methodology for the efficient use of GIS-data toward the derivation of urban development strategies in view of energy usage. In a first step, the geometry data of one (or multiple) specific urban neighborhoods is semantically enriched by additional information (building period, energy status of the buildings, etc.). Such data can be usually found in different archives of the corresponding city or can be collected in-situ. Subsequently, this enriched database must be further processed to form input data bundles, which can be used to derive key performance indicators of individual buildings, selected subsets of the total building stock of the neighborhood or the overall building stock. Based on these procedures, impact analysis of different mid-and long-term transformation policies regarding the energy performance of the neighborhood (s) can be performed in a convenient fashion. This contribution illustrates the approach and delivers a proof of concept based on two urban districts of the city of Linz, Austria.
LCA-Based Design Support for a Senior Citizens’ Residence
Authors: Di Noi Claudia , Mahdavi Ardeshir , Dalprà Michela , Frattari Antonio , Costantini Maurizio , Pont Ulrich
Published: January 2019

This paper reports on a project for a senior citizens’ residence in the vicinity of Trento, Italy. The project constitutes the major part of a Master’s thesis in Architectural Engineering, developed at the University of Trento in Italy and at TU Vienna in Austria. The work entails a full account of environmental impacts during the life cycle of the building through LCA (Life Cycle Assessment). Furthermore, as buildings' end of life scenarios are insufficiently considered in most conventional LCA studies, the present contribution attempts to pursue a “cradle to cradle” approach (exploring a closed-loop flow of materials, energy, and resources) and to emphasize that the consequences of the choices made at the early stage of the design phase are critical for the subsequent stages of construction, use, maintenance, and end of life.The work consists of two parts. The first part relating to the architectural project involves careful consideration of the local characteristics of the site according to bioclimatic studies. In the second part, a comparative LCA study of different timber constructions and energy system options is presented, followed by a global LCA of the project. This aims at the estimation of the impacts of construction and end of life. Thereby, different possibilities are explored for reusing and recycling materials, such that disposal and incineration could be reduced as much as possible. Thus, the relative significance of different stages of the building construction, operation, and decommissioning can be explored.In conclusion, the paper offers a number of theoretical reflections on uncertainty analysis in LCA, addressing input assumptions (availability and quality of data) as well those regarding normalization and weighting factors. Thereby, the aim is to contribute to efforts toward a more pervasive application of the LCA methodology in the building design and delivery process.
Hybrid Multi-Functional Buildings for Sustainable Development of Rural Areas
Authors: Babenko Maryna , Savytskyi Mykola , Schmidt Michael , Vilčeková Silvia , Kridlova-Burdova Eva
Published: January 2019

Actuality. Last years the central Ukraine territories have been faced the new challenge such as the need to provide energy efficient housing and jobs (employment) for displaced people from Donbas regions. In the same time in the state level, the economic development of rural areas, as the agrarian sector is leading today. That is only the multi-disciplinary approach may provide the complex solution for rural support and sustainable development. In the context of circular economy the combination of building and agrarian sectors is logical as the building sector may propose the rational way of agriculture waste recycling and the rural infrastructure development together with new activities providing. The purpose. To develop a scientifically sound model of rural area planning development based in the integration of hybrid multi-functional building structures, taking into account the main principles of sustainable development and circular economy. Methodology. The model is based on a review of scientific work on the problem and the analysis of statistical data. It uses the methods of field research to study the features of sustainable development and energy-efficient structure systems in the rural areas. Findings. A new approach to design and structural solutions of the rural area is proposed, using the innovative hybrid system, which supports the balanced energy and information flows. In this model, the symbiosis of agricultural, administrative, and blocked individual buildings is key to the rural area agrarian building cluster unit, which is energy-efficient and autonomous (independent). The combination of environmental building technologies with modern bio-agricultural technologies can solve many of the socio-economic problems of the modern village - providing affordable quality housing, safe and useful work with green farming technologies, in tourism, and in scientific spheres. The proposed solution integrates rural area cultural and material heritage conservation as a socially important element. The research focuses on environmentally clean and renewable local materials: straw, flax, reed, hemp, earth-concrete, and others. Ideally, the proposal will achieve nearly 100% utilization, or recycling, of the construction and shell building materials in the end of building life cycle. It will also design solutions for nearly zero waste during exploitation. Scientific novelty and practical value. The spatial planning model of the region meets the basic criteria of sustainable development: economic and energy efficiency, social orientation, environmental friendliness, preservation of cultural heritage. The implementation of the proposed new planning model and building construction will facilitate balanced development and renaissance of the rural area.
Utilization of Waste Packaging Glass as Progressive Filler in Polymer Anchor Material Based on Epoxy Resin
Authors: Žlebek Tomáš , Hodul Jakub , Drochytka Rostislav
Published: January 2019

The work deals with the use of waste glass to the polymer anchor material based on epoxy resin, primarily for anchoring to a high strength concrete (HSC). The main aim was to use the largest possible amount of the waste packaging glass by reducing the amount of epoxy resin, which is an expensive material and its production has a negative impact on the environment. Within the experimental verification, the influence of waste packaging glass fraction 0–0.63 mm on the final properties of the polymer anchoring material was observed. To determine the optimal formulation compressive strength, flexural strength, chemical resistance, shrinkage and pull-out test were performed. Based on the evaluation of the results the optimal percentage of filling was determined, when the polymer anchor material showed high strengths, minimal shrinkage, good chemical resistance, optimal consistency for anchoring into the HSC and high anchor bolt pull-out strength.
Investigating Night Flushing Potential in a Multi-Storey, Open-Plan Office in Germany Using TRNLizard with TRNSYS 18
Authors: Hoang Vu , Reisi Elmira , Frenzel Christian
Published: January 2019

Despite growing interest in sustainable office buildings and technological advancements, often either comfort or energy is sacrificed at the expense of the other in the conventional approach. Designers and architects tend to lean towards fully glazed buildings in a multi-floor office building due to its light structure, transparency and more access to daylight compared to traditional buildings. However, their energy efficiency and impact on occupant comfort – thermal, glare and visual – are questioned. Some practitioners, therefore, prefer a fully sealed façade with a low glazing ratio to reduce energy consumption. This paper argues that wellness and energy savings are not contradictory aspects of design. It is shown that measures to create an exceptional, healthy environment for occupants drive conservation and energy efficiency. Such design needs special considerations at the early stages that significantly affect decisions regarding passive strategies. To help drive first decisions, an accurate and fast simulation tool that considers dynamic thermal, daylight and airflow models is required. However, some passive measures such as natural ventilation are more difficult to simulate and validate due to the complex, non-linear relationship between wind forces and thermal buoyancy. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the use of TRNLizard, an integrated thermal, daylight and airflow simulation tool based on Rhinoceros 5, Grasshopper, TRNSYS18, DaySIM and TRNFlow to develop and validate the concept for an energy efficient office building with a healthy, comfortable environment. The office building is located in Germany with a highly glazed façade and night ventilation for passive cooling. It is shown that night flushing reduces annual end-use cooling energy and peak cooling load of mechanical air conditioning systems by 55% and 15%, respectively.
A Simulation and Monitoring Based Case Study Regarding the Dynamic Thermal Conditions in Non-Used Attic Space
Authors: Ponechal Radoslav , Korenková Renáta , Štaffenová Daniela
Published: January 2019

This study solves a problem of the dynamic thermal performance of the residential attic space in moderate climatic zone. Heat loss into the attic space is difficult to be accurately determined by the quasi-stationary method. It depends on the thermal resistance of the ceiling, thermal resistance of the roof, ventilation characteristics and other details, such as the solar absorption of the roofing material or roof orientation. The paper presents results of some parametric simulative calculations, which were calibrated with measurements of air temperature in the attic space during the summer, winter and transitional season. It compares the mean air temperature in the ventilated and non-ventilated attics. The difference between the use of bright and dark color of the roof cover is also compared. An alternative with half thickness of thermal insulation was also simulated. Based on measurements and then the simulation the adjustment factor adjustment factor for heat transfer coefficient was quantified..
Evaluation of Indoor Climate in Big Lecture Hall
Authors: Budiaková Mária
Published: January 2019

The paper is oriented on the evaluation of the indoor climate in the big lecture hall. Providing the optimal parameters of the thermal comfort and the CO2 concentration is immensely important for the students in the interiors of a university. Meeting these parameters is inevitable not only from physiological point of view but also for achieving the desirable students' performance. The high CO2 concentration is related to incorrect and insufficient ventilation in the lecture hall and causes distractibility and feeling of tiredness of students. Experimental measurements were carried out in the winter season in 2016 in the big lecture hall in order to evaluate the thermal comfort and the CO2 concentration. The device Testo 480 was used for the measurements. Obtained values of air temperature, air relative humidity, air velocity, CO2 concentration are presented in the charts. Mechanical ventilation system and operation system of the big university lecture hall were evaluated on the basis of the parameters of the thermal comfort and on the basis of the CO2 concentration. Based on the findings, design recommendations for new big university lecture halls are derived. Furthermore, there are presented recommendations how to operate the existing big university lecture halls.
Suitability Evaluation of Visual Indicators on Glass Walls and Doors for Visually Impaired People
Authors: Maringer Magdalena , Hauck Nico , Mahdavi Ardeshir
Published: January 2019

This contribution focuses on the marking of glass with high contrasting indicators in view of the special requirements of people with visual impairment. Such people may have difficulties in identification of glass surfaces as obstacles. This can lead to accidents and injuries. This circumstance can be alleviated by applying appropriate visual indicators on glass surfaces that would be otherwise difficult to detect. Toward this end, guidelines and regulations exist in respective standards for barrier-free construction. However, designers appear to be reluctant in implementing such measures. Moreover, the range of preferences and options with regard to the design and positioning of such markers are not fully understood. This circumstance motivated the research presented in this paper. In an original experimental set-up, people with impaired vision evaluated various design solutions for such visual indicators, regarding their visibility and perceptibility. Thereby, the following aspects of the indicators were investigated: design of signs (uninterrupted versus interrupted, arrangement, color), vertical placement, and opening signage. The results (both objective measurements of visibility and subjective feedback from the participants) facilitate the identification of preferable design solutions for visual indicators. As such, they are not only valuable toward accommodation of the special requirements of sight impaired persons, but can also support fully sighted people in inauspicious situations (e.g. under sub-optimal lighting situations, stress or distraction).
Characterization of Noise in Eating Establishments Based on Psychoacoustic Parameters
Authors: Çakir Onurcan , Sevinç Zeynep , İlal Mustafa Emre
Published: January 2019

Noise in eating establishments has been studied in architectural acoustics literature. For evaluating acoustics in these spaces, researchers predominantly investigate sound pressure levels and reverberation times. Yet, noise in eating spaces originate from a wide variety of sources and is hard to describe and evaluate with only sound pressure levels and reverberation times. Better metrics for acoustics in closed public spaces are needed. Psychoacoustic parameters of loudness, sharpness, fluctuation strength and roughness are promising metrics that have been used by many recent studies evaluating noise annoyance. However, unlike the established metrics such as reverberation time, no set of recommended values exist for these parameters, yet. The aim of this study is to investigate noise in eating establishments through psychoacoustic parameters and understand both the noise characteristics and the metrics themselves. This paper presents a set of sound recordings during lunch hours in two eating spaces in Izmir Institute of Technology. The entry and egress of occupants have been tracked manually, while sound levels have been measured and the noise has been recorded for psychoacoustics analysis. The relationship between the number of occupants and psychoacoustic parameters has been investigated through these objective measurements. The relationship between the number of occupants and sound levels is discussed in the light of the Lombard effect.
Monitoring the Effective Ambient and Sky Temperature Based on Infrared Sensor for Advanced Thermal Calculations
Authors: Slávik Richard , Čekon Miroslav
Published: January 2019

Building performance simulations and advanced thermal analysis are becoming the basis for a well-established practice of a building sector. This approach requires many input data which are typically not available on site. Apart from already well-practiced climate variable quantities, such as ambient temperature, solar radiation and parameters of wind, more complex data are needed for advanced building thermal analysis. One of those is based on longwave radiation level. A pyrgeometer is a device that measures longwave radiation part of whole thermal radiation phenomena. This can be determined based on sky or effective ambient temperature monitoring. Secondly, both variables might be approximated by infrared sensors as an applicable option in the calculation of longwave radiation heat exchange between the external surface and the ambient building environment. The paper presents data obtained both by pyrgeometer and infrared sensor corresponding to their mutual comparison to demonstrate its application when longwave radiation exchange needs to be calculated or analyzed in advanced. Integrating of the infrared sensor with aim to monitor the effective ambient and/or sky temperature enables its applicability as an alternative, integrated and less cost consuming method towards the monitoring by commercial pyrgeometer.
Application of a Low-Cost Strain Monitoring System Based on Internet of Things to the Structural Analysis of Physical Models
Authors: Gil Enrique , Gómez Fernando , Mas Ángeles , Vercher Jose , Lerma Carlos , Lopez Jorge
Published: January 2019

A reasonably accurate, low-cost system for the monitoring of strains in simple physical models within the field of Structural Engineering, based on Internet of Things, is presented, calibrated and discussed. The system only requires average, economic devices as Arduino microcontroller and strain gauges. Several tests on a case study of a scaled-cantilevered aluminium beam with different loading are conducted. Governing parameters are calibrated aimed at an optimization when benchmarked against theoretical and experimental results obtained with a reference device. Results show great accuracy; however, the need of setting of the parameters campaign-by-campaign, especially aimed at dealing with thermal drift, becomes a shortcoming. Still, its minimum cost and user-friendly management makes it a suitable solution for different applications.
Case Study on Comparison of Joint Sealant Adhesive Properties Tested in Laboratory and In Situ
Authors: Nečasová Barbora , Liška Pavel , Šlanhof Jiří
Published: January 2019

The main objective of this case study is to compare whether standardized test methods are able reliably prognosticate the performance of joint sealants and adhesives after installation in a construction. The authors of presented study believe that existing testing procedures intended for testing of bonded and sealed joints do not fully reflect the weather changes exterior surfaces have to withstand. Based on previous experiences a unique geometry of testing sample was used for this purpose allowing the testing of a so-called real joint. A group of test samples was subjected to two normalized test procedures that may influence the resulting behavior of the joint in the exterior. The second group of test samples was exposed to the external environment for a particular period. The obtained results of tests show that the standardized methods are able to simulate an outdoor environment, however, only to a certain level. Unfortunately, these methods do not consider the possibility that the sealed or bonded joint might be damaged already during the application itself. While laboratory environment is clean and often dust free, it is not possible to ensure the same conditions in situ. Moreover, in some cases it was monitored that some of the selected sealants tested in an external environment aged rapidly compared to the ones cured and stored in the laboratory. In some cases, the difference between monitored failure modes for indoor and outdoor environment was substantial. The predominant type of sealant failure observed in-situ was adhesive while mainly cohesive failure was monitored in laboratory.
Synthesis and Characterization of Multi-Angular Branched ZnO Microstructures and Peculiar Nanopushpins Obtained by Thermal Treatment from Compacted ZnS Powder
Authors: Mora J.R. , Flores-Carrasco Gregorio , Pacio Mauricio , Díaz-Rodríguez T.G. , Juárez Hector
Published: January 2019

Multi-angular branched ZnO microstructures with rods-shaped tips and nanopushpins with hexagonal cap on top have been synthesized by a simple thermal treatment process of compacted ZnS powder used as starting material and substrate. The structures have been grown at different temperatures (800, 900 and 1000 °C) for 60 min, in a constant nitrogen environment at atmospheric pressure via a catalyst-free process. XRD results of the as-grown products from ZnS powder show a significant reduction in the cubic zincblende phase to the hexagonal wurtzite phase with the increase of treatment temperature, as compared to the bulk value. Post-anneal analyses indicated that the transformation of morphologies of the as-grown structures also depends strongly on the treatment temperature. The proposed method represents an easy and economical way to grow complex structures of ZnO, with a relatively short time, furthermore, without the neediness of use an external substrate to grow. These new and interesting nanostructures have potential in applications such as optoelectronics.
Metafisica dello zigote / Embryo’s metaphysics
Authors: Tambone Vittoradolfo , Ghilardi Giampaolo
Published: January 2019

Il lavoro prende in considerazione gli aspetti teologici e filosofici dello statuto metafisico dell’embrione umano. Dapprima si analizzano le fonti magisteriali e teologiche del tema, cercando di dare risposta alla domanda sull’origine morale della questione. Si delinea quindi il profilo epistemologico del problema, analizzando l’aspetto ontologico del tema e volendo dare risposta alla domanda cosa/chi sia l’embrione. Per fare questo si sviluppano due vie investigative parallele: si valutano gli impliciti filosofico-teoretici che hanno determinato la storia del dibattito; si analizzano le caratteristiche biologiche dell’embrione inerenti alla sua trasformazione seguendo tre direttrici. I “Lo zigote si trasforma”; II “segue indicazioni interne (che dà a se stesso); III “l’appartenenza alla specie parentale”. Si studiano dunque i principi metafisici del mutamento di cui lo zigote è protagonista; l’entelechia che viene oggi riscontrata a mezzo delle nuove conoscenze biologiche disponibili in letteratura; il profilo genetico che ci permette di sviluppare nuove considerazioni sull’appartenenza di specie oltre a quelle sull’individualità. ---------- This work takes into account the theological and philosophical perspectives related to the Embryo’s Metaphysics. Therefore, we firstly outline the magisterial sources of the theme, aiming to give an answer to the issue on the moral origin of the question. We outline then the epistemological side of the problem, analyzing the ontology of embryo and therefore trying to answer the question: what/who is the embryo. In order to achieve this goal, we follow two pathways: we look at the theoretical and philosophical roots of the debate on the embryo’s status; we study embryo’s biology inherent her transformation along three main directions. I) Embryo transforms herself; II) Embryo follows internal directions she gives herself; III) Embryo performs this task according to her species. In the end, we study the metaphysical principles of movement according to the kinematic nature of the embryo together with her entelechy and the genetic profile, which allow us to shed new light on embryo’s species and individuality.
Re-envisioning Tangintebu Theological College in the context of climate change: An emerging model of coconut theological education and ministerial formation
Authors: Timon Tioti , Kaunda Chammah J. , Hewitt Roderick R.
Published: January 2019

This article engages through an interdisciplinary approach to re-envision Tangintebu Theological College’s (TTC) model of theological education in the context of climate change in Kiribati. It utilises the anthropological theory of symbolic interactionism within missiological, cultural and, theological studies of climate change. It argues for the coconut tree as an appropriate cultural conceptual metaphorical idiom for translating and understanding Christian faith and shaping a theological pedagogy within the Kiribati context of climate change. The coconut image is an indigenous, holistic way of knowing and learning informed by Kiribati cosmology embedded within people’s experiences and understanding of the coconut tree. Its life-centeredness has the potential to contextualise the theological curriculum and teaching methodology to assist in equipping theological students with climate change-sensitive approaches. The qualitative method was utilised to allow participants to reflect on their experiences of climate change in relation to the mission of the church. The data that informs this article was generated through unstructured interviews and focus group discussions with members of the Kiribati Uniting Church (KUC). The data was analysed using symbolic interactionism. The results suggest that the Kiribati people symbolically interact with God through their understanding of the coconut tree, which is conceived as the embodiment of God’s presence. It became clear that while this world view informs the faith of members of the KUC, the TTC curriculum has sidelined it, resulting in miseducation of pastors because this omission means they are not equipped to engage with the challenge of climate change. The participants argued that there is an urgent need to understand theological education and ministerial formation within the indigenous framework of Kiribati coconut imagination that is embedded in the promotion of justice and equitable society not only for human beings but for all of God’s creation through symbolic interaction with the presence of God in the coconut.
A heretical tale about heresy or when words do matter
Authors: Vanhoutte Kristof
Published: January 2019

What came first, heresy or orthodoxy? Walter Bauer’s book Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, published in 1934, seems to have unleashed the demons of scholars of early Christianity. Partisanship has, however, starkly coloured the still ongoing discussion. Denominational and scholarly belonging, as the work of Bart Ehrman and of his opponents like Andreas Köstenberger and Darrell Bock has widely shown, has so taken the upwind and signed this discussion that a full investigation into the meaning and the history of the concepts at hand has been ‘forgotten’. The customary and common understanding of the concepts of orthodoxy and, in particular, heresy, are, however, completely inadequate for this discussion. Ignoring the enormous cultural heritage of the concept of heresy (αἵρεσις) – which we intend to unveil in this article – has made for the word-bullets in this historical battle to turn out to be little more than blanks in a sham-war. Time has come to end this battle, which is the scope of this article.
Impacto de um programa de tratamento em pacientes com alterações na coluna
Authors: Trindade Ana Paula Nassif Tondato da , Borges Ritta de Cássia Canedo Oliveira , Bittar Cléria Maria Lobo
Published: January 2019

Objetivo: Avaliar o impacto de um programa de tratamento fisioterápico em pacientes com alterações na coluna. Métodos: Trata-se de um estudo experimental, longitudinal, quantitativo, realizado no município de Araxá. Participaram 81 pacientes do projeto Escola da Coluna, entre os meses de maio 2016 a abril de 2017. Eles deveriam apresentar alguma patologia de coluna, com encaminhamento médico específico e concordar em participar do projeto. Os participantes foram submetidos ao Pilates ou a Reeducação Postural Global, duas vezes por semana durante três meses de tratamento, em grupo, com duração média de 50 minutos. Foi realizada avaliação inicial e final dos distúrbios osteomusculares pelo questionário Nórdico de Sintomas Osteomusculares e avaliação do nível de incapacidade de pelo índice de Owestry. Ao final do programa os pacientes responderam um questionário para avaliar a satisfação com os resultados obtidos. Resultados: Tinham idade média de 49,7±12,34 anos. A média obtida com o questionário Owestry foi de 16,65±8,08 antes da intervenção e 11,63±7,89 após a intervenção. Houve maior proporção de dor incapacitante moderada (50,6%, n=41) antes do tratamento passando para 100% de dor incapacitante leve. Em relação aos resultados obtidos pelo questionário Nórdico de Sintomas Osteomusculares a maioria (76,5%, n=62) apresentou dor na região lombar, seguido pelo pescoço e região dorsal ambas com 49,4%, n=40. Conclusão: O programa de tratamento fisioterápico, por meio da Escola de Coluna, propiciou melhora geral no quadro clínico dos pacientes, principalmente na funcionalidade, limitação e dor.
Atuação do psicológo no hospital geral com pacientes de tentativa de suicídio: estudo fenomenológico
Authors: Melo Anna Karynne , Brasil Christina César Praça , Fiqueiredo Ivina Alencar de , Catunda Maisse Leoncio , Carioca Sarenne Pacheco Barbosa
Published: January 2019

Objetivo: Identificar a importância que os psicólogos atribuem à sua atuação em um hospital geral junto a pacientes com tentativas de suicídio. Métodos: Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa de cunho fenomenológico, em que foram realizadas entrevistas a partir de uma pergunta disparadora, com o intuito de reconhecer como se dá a prática desse profissional com esse perfil de paciente. Resultados: Um dos dados obtidos reflete sobre a importância da inserção do profissional de psicologia no hospital geral, pois ele é capaz de atuar em um meio multidisciplinar de modo a trazer reflexões para os outros profissionais e de promover uma escuta atenta, uma postura empática e compreensiva com um paciente que agiu contra a própria vida. Além disso, foi possibilitada uma reflexão acerca do papel do psicólogo no processo de humanização dentro do ambiente hospitalar. Conclusão: A atuação do psicólogo hospitalar com a tríada paciente-família-equipe é essencial no processo de humanização, sendo esse profissional quem vai intermediar essa relação.
Relação entre ocorrência de endometriose e sofrimento psiquíco
Authors: Oliveira Luis Adriano Freitas , Brilhante Aline Veras Morais , Lourinho Lidia Andrade
Published: January 2019

Objetivo: Compreender a relação existente entre a ocorrência de endometriose e o sofrimento psíquico presente nas mulheres. Métodos: Estudo qualitativo com 11 mulheres com endometrioseno seu primeiro atendimento no ambulatório de endometriose da Maternidade Escola Assis Chateubriand (MEAC), de setembro de 2016 a janeiro de 2017. A coleta de dados ocorreu pelas entrevistas narrativas. Após leitura e transcrição minuciosa das entrevistas, extraiu-se uma categoria para análise. Resultados: A busca incessante pelos serviços de saúde no tratamento das dores incapacitantes são condições que contribuem para a alteração do humor da mulher. A demora no diagnóstico e intervenção leva à mulher a frustração e, frequentemente, a reação estressante. Mesmo após o diagnóstico e a instituição do tratamento, os fatores psicológicos que fazem parte da síndrome dolorosa, como a mudança no humor e a ansiedade, contribuem diretamente para melhorar ou piorar o estado de saúde da mulher. E ainda necessitam de uma abordagem holística para visibilidade dos sintomas, precisando de um suporte emocional para lidar com a doença. Conclusão: A qualidade de vida, valor atribuído à duração da vida quando esta é transformada pela percepção de limitações físicas, psicológicas, funções sociais e oportunidades motivadas pela doença, tratamento e outros agravos, deve ser um aspecto observado no tratamento de pacientes com endometriose, sobretudo quando se consideram a influência dos aspectos psíquicos no tratamento da doença biológica. Em concordância com este sentido sobre a percepção da saúde, as funções sociais, psicológicas e físicas das mulheres com endometriose necessitam ser repensadas e reconfiguradas.
Competências em promoção da saúde: o domínio parceria na residência multiprofissional em saúde
Authors: Machado Maria De Fátima Antero Sousa , Machado Lucas Dias Soares , Xavier Samyra Paula Lustoza , Lima Lucas Alves , Moreira Maria Rosilene Cândido , Ferreira Heraldo Simões
Published: January 2019

Objetivo: Conhecer como o domínio parceria manifesta-se nas ações de promoção da saúde realizadas na Residência Multiprofissional em Saúde da Família. Métodos: Pesquisa qualitativa, de caráter exploratório, baseada no manual Competências Principais em Promoção da Saúde do projeto “Desenvolvendo competências e padrões profissionais para a construção de capacidades e do fortalecimento institucional em promoção da saúde na Europa (CompHP)”. Ocorreu de janeiro a março de 2016, e teve como cenário um programa de residência multiprofissional em saúde do estado do Ceará, Brasil, com foco em seu componente comunitário. Participaram do estudo 16 residentes e obtiveram-se os dados através de entrevista semiestruturada, com base nas seguintes perguntas condutoras: Quais as competências necessárias para desenvolver ações de promoção da saúde? Como a parceria manifesta-se nas ações de promoção da saúde desenvolvidas na residência multiprofissional em saúde? Os dados foram organizados e avaliados por meio da análise de conteúdo. Resultados: Os discursos elucidam fortes parcerias na residência para construção de redes de trabalho que contribuem com a efetivação dos princípios da promoção da saúde. A intersetorialidade representa o desejo de concretude enquanto manifestação efetiva de parcerias entre setores e serviços afins para alcance de objetivos conjuntos. As ações que promovem a integração ensino-serviço-comunidade possibilitam a constituição de espaços dialógicos entre universidades/instituições formadoras, instituições de saúde e comunidade. Nesse contexto, os preceptores da residência multiprofissional são fundamentais na constituição de parcerias e no fortalecimento das ações. Conclusão: A residência multiprofissional mostra-se como espaço favorável ao desenvolvimento da parceria enquanto competência para a realização de ações promotoras de saúde.
Um retrato da primeira infância em situação de pobreza
Authors: Brito Raissa Freitas Gomes , Pontes Herika Paiva , Frota Mirna Albuquerque
Published: January 2019

Objetivo: Conhecer o perfil da primeira infância em situação de pobreza no estado do Ceará. Métodos: Trata-se de estudo descritivo, de natureza quantitativa, realizado com crianças de zero a seis anos em situação de pobreza no estado do Ceará. Os dados foram coletados na plataforma Tabulador de Informações do Cadastro Único do Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social, no período de junho de 2017, quando o mesmo contava com 5.385.085 pessoas cadastradas, das quais 581.336 tinham de zero a seis anos, definindo a amostra da pesquisa. As variáveis coletadas foram: sexo, etnia, renda, habitação, educação, saúde e violação dos direitos, para serem analisadas descritivamente. Resultados: Com relação à renda, são 552.921 famílias (95,11%) consideradas de baixa renda, das quais 73,18% (425.441) vivem em situação de extrema pobreza. Apesar de a maioria (388.325; 66,79%) morar em domicílios situados em zonas urbanas, em casas predominantemente de alvenaria (548.871; 94,41%), 281.726 (41,02%) residem em domicílio sem nenhum tipo de calçamento em frente à residência e 427.906 (63,31), sem rede coletora de esgoto. Na dimensão educação, 395.776 crianças (68,08%) não frequentam a escola e menos de 1% (70) vive em situação de rua e trabalho infantil. Foram, predominante, crianças do sexo masculino (297.786; 51,22%) e consideradas, por seus responsáveis, pardas (479.769; 82,53%). Conclusão: A maioria das crianças de até 6 anos e em situação de pobreza no Ceará são do sexo masculino, de cor parda, residindo em domicílios com precárias condições de saneamento básico e ainda sem acesso à educação infantil.
El movimiento de universidades promotoras de la salud
Authors: Arroyo Hiram V.
Published: January 2019

Las Universidades Promotoras de la Salud (UPS) tienen la responsabilidad de generar una cultura de Promoción de la Salud en el campus y en el ambiente social y comunitario externo. Las UPS se comprometen a impulsar el marco operacional de la Promoción de la Salud contenido en la Carta de Ottawa y ratificado en documentos declaratorios de salud posteriores a nivel internacional. También las UPS tienen la misión de la abogacía en salud utilizando como marco conceptual/operacional los postulados de los Determinantes Sociales de la Salud (DSS) y los Objetivos del Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS). En el Cuadro 1 se presenta un resumen de los componentes de la definición de UPS.
Introduction
Authors: Elizabeth Mary , Chopas Basile
Published: January 2019

As to differentiating between different nationalities … ​there is a difference; that many of our old Italian people who came here years ago and who worked and raised families, and who have been law-abiding citizens, have very little, if any, respect for their native land and which would in no way interfere with their loyalty. Moreover, conditions in European countries are such that many Italian people here today feel that the only solution for their problem over there is for the United States to win this war. These people, naturally, are going to be loyal to us. Locally, a very great percent of our young men who are joining the Army are of Italian parentage, and before any action should be taken to move their parents away from their homes, I believe we should consider seriously the result that that may have upon them as soldiers....
Men of Mobtown
Authors: Malka Adam
Published: January 2019

What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system’s liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Malka raises this disturbing possibility through a gripping look at the origins of modern policing in the influential hub of Baltimore during and after slavery’s final decades. He argues that America’s new professional police forces and prisons were developed to expand, not curb, the reach of white vigilantes, and are best understood as a uniformed wing of the gangs that controlled free black people by branding them—and treating them—as criminals. The post–Civil War triumph of liberal ideals thus also marked a triumph of an institutionalized belief in black criminality. Mass incarceration may be a recent phenomenon, but the problems that undergird the “new Jim Crow” are very, very old. As Malka makes clear, a real reckoning with this national calamity requires not easy reforms but a deeper, more radical effort to overcome the racial legacies encoded into the very DNA of our police institutions.
Introduction
Authors: Malka Adam
Published: January 2019

The opening chapter introduces the broader story that the next seven chapters will tell, and makes clear that this is a study of policing which culminates in the mass black incarceration of late 1860s Baltimore. The book has two primary arguments: first, that Baltimore’s police institutions were from the onset shaped by a liberal order that assumed criminality as the essence of black freedom; and second, that the criminalization of black freedom in turn encouraged white police power. The introduction also defines three concepts central to these arguments – police, property, and manhood – while situating the book in existing historiography, especially that of 19th century criminal justice and American liberalism. Finally, it suggests that this history of the nineteenth-century is an antecedent to today’s stories of racialized police brutality and mass black incarceration.
Policemen and Prisons
Authors: Malka Adam
Published: January 2019

This chapter chronicles the development of police reform in Baltimore during the middle decades of the nineteenth century – the development, that is, of both a professional municipal police force and a reformative state-run penal system. Police reform grew state power in the name of liberal freedom. Reformers established the police force to protect the rights of individuals, particularly their property rights, and built prisons to remake inmates into individuals capable of possessing such rights in the first place. But this liberalism had far-reaching implications for a wide range of free Baltimoreans, particularly the white workingmen who made up the rank and file of the city’s political order. As “property holders” of wages and dependents, white workingmen deployed real power under the new system.
Securing the Workplace
Authors: Malka Adam
Published: January 2019

This chapter, along with the next two, interrogates the ways that police reform amplified ordinary white men’s power to police free black Baltimoreans. One site of such racial policing was the workplace. By the late 1850s, Chapter 3 shows, white workingmen were commonly engaging in job busting – i.e. chasing skilled black workingmen from the docks and rail yards with the police’s complicity. This was because the law did not treat all workers equally, even in an industrializing city where employers held much of the leverage and the vast majority of the people of color were free. Black workers were prolific in Baltimore, and the wages black Baltimoreans earned were meaningful evidence of their freedom, but the legal and institutional discrimination they confronted put them at a severe disadvantage when facing white violence in the workplace. More times than not, professional policemen confirmed the disparity.
Protecting the Household
Authors: Malka Adam
Published: January 2019

Antebellum racial policing also extended to the household, as Chapter 4 demonstrates. Police reform was implemented in the name of property, and in a patriarchal world, households often counted as male property. Thus the new policemen were supposed to protect good householders. And they often did. But free black households fit into this system uncomfortably. Beliefs in black household disorder, and subsequent police regulations targeted at black families, combined with the prohibition of black testimony against white people both to undermine black men’s household autonomy and heighten white male power over black households. When a white person entered a black home, there was not much a policeman could do, even if he wanted to. As a result, free black Baltimoreans’ home lives were uniquely susceptible to white violence. Once again, policemen confirmed the disparity.
A Government without Citizens
Authors: Mathisen Erik
Published: January 2019

From the early nineteenth century until the Civil War, Americans were at odds over a fundamental concept: what does it mean to be an American citizen? Political change, sectional tensions, the development of abolitionism and reform movements and more, all forced Americans to confront the notion that while the relationship between themselves and the states of their birth were well-established, the connection between citizens and the nation-state was hazy at best. This chapter surveys the period between the 1830s and the 1860s and focuses attention on the contradictory ways that Americans defined themselves as American citizens.
The Rise and Fall of a Slaveholder’s Republic
Authors: Mathisen Erik
Published: January 2019

When southern states seceded from the United States, a fiery argument held that white southerners’ love of their home state would translate without trouble into love for a new southern nation. As a consequence of a Confederate nation that grew in size and power to fight a modern war, however, a southern nation would in time swallow southern states whole. This chapter focuses on Mississippi, where Governor John Pettus imagined a state government that would maintain its sovereignty and the loyalty of the populace. As he would discover, however, a combination of Union incursions into the state and the development of the Confederate nation, would together sap Pettus’ government of its power.