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ABSTRACT Context: in recent years, studies have sought to analyze how intelligence and knowledge management processes are understood and applied in the context of public management, environments in which processes appear as a point to be explored to enhance decision-making quality. Objective: to analyze how public managers apply intelligence and knowledge management aiming at a higher decision quality. Method: based on a defined and validated research protocol, interviews were conducted with seventeen public managers in southern Brazil. For the analysis, the qualitative comparative analysis technique using fuzzy sets was applied. Results: the results suggest the importance of effective data, information, and knowledge management for the decision-making quality of public managers, demonstrating that the absence of decision-making quality is directly related to the absence or little use of knowledge management and intelligence elements in the public management. Conclusion: in addition to analyzing conditions and proposing ways to lead to greater quality in decision making by public managers, it was possible to contribute to the theme of knowledge management and intelligence in public management, as well as to benefit the government with paths to be consolidated and better explored.

ABSTRACT Objective: To assess the current level of oral health knowledge and identify information sources among adolescents in Bhubaneswar, India. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional examination was conducted among 1330 adolescents aged 13 to 15 years enrolled in 24 randomly selected government and private schools in Bhubaneswar. A specially designed self-administered questionnaire was used to collect the responses. Chi-square test with a level of significance set at 5% was used for statistical analysis. Results: Parents (55%) followed by media (18%) were the major sources of oral health information among the study population, which was statistically not significant in relation to gender and school type. Many subjects (95.3%) perceived sweets could cause tooth decay; however, this was statistically significant only among school type (p<0.05). Around (45%) knew about fluoride and only 36% properly identified fluoride's action as preventing cavities. This was statistically significant among both gender and school type (p<0.05). Seventy-five percent of students effectively distinguished gum disease symptoms, which was significant only with gender (p<0.05). Around 55% identified that oral habits have an influence on oral health, which showed significance among gender (p<0.05). Conclusion: Children oral health knowledge was not satisfactory, highlighting the need to utilize parents, schoolteachers and media to provide oral health education. It's essential for designing and implementing a person-centered care model in dentistry.

APPROVED ; This dissertation focuses on a number of major influences on Conor Cruise O'Brien's writing. It consequently explores how various pressures — literary, emotional and political — shaped the imaginary of this major figure in modern Irish history. An exploration of the impact of certain writers, and intellectuals, such as Owen Sheehy-Skeffington, Sean O'Faolain, Albert Camus, W.B. Yeats and Simone Weil, who were attractive to O'Brien, in terms of satisfying, or sometimes mirroring, different demands, will to some extent lead to a greater understanding of O'Brien's development as a writer. It will also shed light on the complicated literary and emotional mood of mid-twentieth-century Ireland. Roy Foster has acknowledged the literary complexity of the period following the Civil War, a period when writing often became a struggle to come to terms with sides taken; a society left questioning 'Did we do that? How did it happen? How did we end up here?' The pattern of thought that emerged from O'Briens' literary engagements illuminated a complex literary inheritance that infiltrated his writing. O'Brien's life, and the polemical nature of his work, provide a rich opportunity for exploring the counter-currents of Irish emotional and intellectual history 'an area that merits deeper exploration', according to the historian Tom Garvin. Any attempt to understand O'Brien's political and ethical maturation without tracing the formative, and formidable, influence of Owen Sheehy-Skeffington on him is unsatisfactory. This thesis explores that influence, and the related influence of Sean O'Faolain. O'Brien always maintained that he had been consistent in his thinking despite many claims to the contrary, and if he is approached at the level of imaginative influence, this assertion is credible.

This literature review examines the potential of collaborative art making as a tool to foster a sense of belonging in today's gender and sexual minority youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ). Living with a unique layer of minority stress, LGBTQ youth are at high risk for developing mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation due to ostracization and rejection from their families and communities. By reviewing the implementation of collaborative art making to bring together other marginalized groups across cultural backgrounds as well as the use of art making with LGBTQ youth for purposes such as political activism, community outreach and self advocacy, it is concluded that collaborative art making could be a useful method to combat thwarted belongingness and diminish resulting mental health issues. The author is a queer white millenial woman living in north eastern United States of America.

1 sheet ([1] p.). ; Contains wood-cut initial. ; "From Saynte James the xxii. of December 1556." ; "Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum." ; Reproduction of original in: Society of Antiquaries.

[10], 66, [8] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; A translation of: De re militari. ; With four final leaves of woodcuts and four contents leaves. ; Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

[56] p. ; Drawn up by a group of puritans, but the actual writing quite possibly by John Fielde and Thomas Wilcox. ; Includes letters from Rudolf Gwalther and Théodore de Bèze. ; Title from caption title, A2r; A1r commences with preface "To the godly readers, grace, and peace from God. &c.". ; Imprint from STC. ; Signatures: A-C D⁴. ; Reproduction of the original in Yale University. Library.

[8], 78, 81-368 p., [7] folded woodcut plates : ill. ; Editor's dedication signed: Thomas Garrard. ; "Charlewood pr[inted]. quires A and Nn to the end; Howe app[arently]. did the rest"--STC. ; L4 is cancelled, with a corresponding gap in pagination; text is continuous. ; With an added errata leaf (not included in collation above). ; Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

[8], 94, [2] p. ; The "protestation offered to the Parliament . 1 Iulij 1606" was written by Patrick Simson (DNB). ; Identification of printer from STC. ; The first leaf and the last leaf are blank. ; Sheets A-D and F are in two different settings, indiscriminately mixed. ; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

[168] p. ; Place of publication conjectured by STC. ; Dated at end: MDCXI. ; Signatures: A-K L⁴. ; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

In public relations research, the concept of engagement is often theorized but seldom observed in practice. This research focuses on what public leaders learn when they undertake actions centered on learning by listening to society to implement governmental citizen engagement programs. Taking an inductive grounded approach to data analysis which draws on tools and methods of grounded theory as well as including a review of key concepts from public relations literature, a reflexive analysis of an action learning intervention involving the members of a provincial government was conducted. Results show that, when reflecting on interaction with stakeholders of the program, government members: increase their knowledge about both sides of the public organization-society relationship; become more sensitive to what listening is and implies, and, hence, more supportive of two-way communication; are challenged about the authenticity of the motivations behind their listening; become more aware of ways in which they work to build social capital; and, subsequently, increase their willingness to act together with society. This paper shows that reflection on the real implementation of engagement programs gives policy makers a better understanding of normative assumptions, and hence it instantiates public relations theories and concepts about engagement. By identifying acting-by-listening as integral to citizen engagement, it presents implications for the study and practice of public relations in public sector organizations.

[30], 393, [5] p. ; Translator's dedication signed: I.D., i.e. John Dee?. ; The first leaf and the last leaf are blank. ; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

[88] p. ; Signatures: A-L⁴. ; "A kalender containing the square roote of any number from 100. to 10000" has divisional title page; register is continuous. ; Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

[32] p. ; Variously attributed to Dudley Fenner and to William Stoughton; sometimes also attributed to Henry Jacob. In the preface (A2 verso) the author speaks of himself as distinct from the author of the, likewise anonymous, book which it supports ("A counter-poyson, modestly written for the time, to make aunswere to the objections and reproches, wherewith the aunswerer to the Abstract, would disgrace the holy discipline of Christ" (STC 10770)), which is also variously attributed to Fenner, Stoughton and Jacob. ; Place of publication and printer's name from STC. ; Signatures: A-B. ; Reproduction of the original in the Yale University. Library.

[12], 246, [42] p. ; A reply to "An admonition to the Parliament", which was produced by a group of Puritans but probably drafted by John Fielde and Thomas Wilcox. ; Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.