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Kim, Stephanie B. „Postcolonial Literature: Dualities in the God of Small Things“. Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/659.
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This thesis delves into the postcolonial genre, examining the novel, The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, and how it highlights the duality in gender roles, social class, and postcolonial society through the narrative style and language.
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Edwards, James Lee. „Connections : things that matter to teachers in small colleges /“. The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148733154170888.
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Philippe, Anne. „Interactions between shorebirds and benthic macrofauna : making small things bigger“. Thesis, La Rochelle, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LAROS012/document.
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Les vasières intertidales sont des environnements complexes et changeants, qui abritent des invertébrés enfouis dans le sédiment (la macrofaune benthique) et sont visités de manière saisonnière par de grands migrateurs : les oiseaux limicoles. Ce travail de recherche s’intéresse aux relations proie-prédateur entre les oiseaux limicoles et leur ressource alimentaire : la macrofaune benthique. La thèse est articulée en 8 chapitres qui présentent des études à différentes échelles spatio-temporelles : des saisons à la décennie, et de la baie à la route migratoire. Ces études sont basées sur un échantillonnage régulier des vasières intertidales du Golfe de Gascogne (France) ainsi que d’échantillonnages en mer des Wadden (Pays-Bas) et au Banc d’Arguin (Mauritanie). Les données de macrofaune (qualité, taille, densité, biomasse) sont couplées aux données de comptages de leurs prédateurs ainsi qu’à leur comportement alimentaire (reconstruction du régime alimentaire d’après les isotopes, les fécès, la modélisation ou l’observation de vidéos). Ces huit études apportent un éclairage sur l’écologie de leurs interactions (en intégrant des variables environnementales telles que le temps d’inondation, la granulométrie, la température, la production primaire, ou encore la latitude). Une attention particulière est portée à la variabilité des proies et du comportement alimentaire de leurs prédateurs, dans l’espace et le temps. Des encarts viennent illustrer pour l’un les techniques de reconstruction du régime alimentaire, pour l’autre les défenses développées par les mollusques marins, ou encore la relation entre énergie à disposition et sélection du site pour les limicolesIntertidal mudflats are complex ecosystems undergoing constant changes, home to infaunal invertebrates (benthic macrofauna), and migratory sites for particular birds : shorebirds. This research focuses on predator-prey interactions between shorebirds and their macrobenthic prey. The present thesis is composed of 8 chapters which illustrate different spatio-temporal scales : from seasons to the decade, and from the bay to the migratory flyway. These studies are based on regular benthic sampling of intertidal flats along the Bay of Biscay (France), as well as sampling data from the Dutch Wadden Sea and the Mauritanian Banc d’Arguin. Macrobenthic data (quality, sizes, densities, biomass) are linked with shorebird counts and data about their feeding behaviour (diet reconstruction from isotopes, faeces, modeling and video observations). These eight studies shed light on particular relationships between some prey and their predators, and the ecology of these interactions (including environmental variables such as inundation time, grain size, temperature, primary production, or even latitude). Particular attention is given to the variability of prey and predator behaviour in time and space. Inserts are included in between chapters to illustrate for instance different diet reconstruction techniques, anti-predation traits in marine molluscs, or relation between energy available and site selection in shorebirds
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Hofstra, Susanne Ursula. „Small things considered: The finds from LH IIIB Pylos in context /“. Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3004288.
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Stewart, Heather Jane. „From Little Things Big Things Grow: Exploring Small to Medium Enterprises’ Continual and Collaborative Learning of Sustainable Management Practices“. Thesis, Griffith University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367696.
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Underpinned by theoretical concepts of collaboration, sustainable mangement practices (SMP), government and continual learning, this research investigated the contribution of continual learning of SMP in the small to medium enterprise (SME) context. An extensive review of continual learning, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and SME literature was conducted. Building on existing research, this thesis establishes a novel approach to the role of learning in the development of sustainable actions and behaviours through SME exemplars of SMP.
Gapp and Fisher’s (2008) model (GFM) provided a lens for the normative re-educative framework that promotes transformation through continual learning including reflection and feedback (Gapp & Fisher, 2007, 2008). Continual learning stimulates organisational development through collaboration and reflection to help build and maintain a competitive advantage in CSR within the SME setting. Existing research on sustainability and CSR in the SME sector is primarily based on northern hemisphere views and corporate contexts. This dissertation provides a general background on CSR and sustainability, and then outlines contemporary views that define CSR through the five dimensions of economic, stakeholder, environmental, voluntariness, and social aspects (Dahlsrud, 2008). SMEs lack connectivity with the term CSR because of the ‘corporate’ element (Baden & Harwood, 2012), and therefore the term sustainable management practices (SMP) has been adopted and interchanged with CSR as a more appropriate fit for the SME context (Stewart & Gapp, 2014).Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Piart, Louisa. „Making Things Fit, Making Ends Meet : small Entrepreneurs in Istanbul’s Garment Industry“. Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH009.
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Dans l’industrie du vêtement d’Istanbul, les carrières sont courtes et le taux de renouvellement des ouvriers est élevé. La combinaison entre production flexible et accords de sous-traitance dans un environnement urbain informel amène un nombre croissant d’ouvriers à assumer des fonctions entrepreneuriales équivoques. Ces acteurs sont au cœur de cette thèse de doctorat. Pour maintenir leurs positions ces ouvriers temporaires sont souvent contraints de devenir de petits intermédiaires précaires qui redéfinissent les distinctions entre production et distribution. Basée sur des données empiriques recueillies grâce à un travail de terrain en profondeur à Istanbul, mon travail doctoral questionne sous un angle anthropologique les dynamiques changeantes de l’industrie du vêtement d’Istanbul à différentes échelles et le rôle des petits entrepreneurs dans la formation de ces dynamiques à travers leurs pratiques et leurs innovations. Alors que les petits entrepreneurs sont essentiels, ils sont rarement irremplaçables. Pour explorer ces questions, cette recherche trace les liens entre les différents débouchés de l’industrie du vêtement d’Istanbul et examine comment leurs processus de valuation respectifs sont entremêlés. Durant les dernières décennies, dans l’ombre des exports officiels vers l’Europe occidentale, le « commerce à la valise » vers des pays voisins, ainsi que le marché domestique se sont développés. En « joignant les deux bouts », les petits entrepreneurs de l’industrie du vêtement d’Istanbul sont des courroies de transmission entre ces marchés aux échelles transnationale et locale. Les étudier offre de nouvelles perspectives sur les contextes industriels modernes et le fonctionnement des marchés globauxIn Istanbul’s garment industry, careers are short and worker turnover is high. The combination of flexible production and subcontracting agreements in an informal urban environment propel an increasing number of workers to assume equivocal entrepreneurial functions. These actors are at the core of this dissertation. In order to maintain their positions, irregular workers are often forced to become precariously positioned small brokers who reshuffle the distinctions between production and distribution. Based on empirical material gathered through in-depth fieldwork in Istanbul, my dissertation questions from an anthropological perspective the shifting dynamics of Istanbul’s clothing industry at different scales and the role of small entrepreneurs in shaping these dynamics through their skillful practices and innovations. While small entrepreneurs are essential, they are rarely irreplaceable. In order to explore these issues, this dissertation traces the connections between the various outlets of Istanbul’s garment industry and scrutinizes how their respective valuation processes are intertwined. Over the last decades, in the shadow of official exports to Western Europe, the so-called suitcase trade to neighboring countries as well as the domestic market have flourished. By “making things fit” and “making ends meet,” Istanbul’s small entrepreneurs are conveyor belts between these markets at both the transnational and local scales. Studying them offers new insights into modern industrial settings and the workings of global markets
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Longworth, Sarah Young. „Trauma and the ethical dilemma in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things /“. Electronic version (PDF), 2006. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2006/longworths/sarahlongworth.pdf.
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Lucio, Silva Ludmilla. „Internet of Things : Pros and cons of CoAP protocol solution for small devices“. Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för informations- och kommunikationssystem, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-27677.
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The growing number and integration of sensors and smart objects to the Internet is pushing the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and with it the need for standardized applications protocols for the Web that is also suited to the constrained devices joining it. The IETF Constrained RESTful Environment (CoRE) working group has been working on the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) an application protocol that is aimed at machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. The main objective of this thesis is to evaluate this protocol solution for constrained nodes, observing its key features and functionalities and the way that those can improve the performance of nodes in IoT environments. The CoAP protocol will also be compared and analysed to other existing web protocols operating in similar conditions.
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Olsson, Angelika. „Arundhati Roy : Reclaiming Voices on the Margin in The God of Small Things“. Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-8366.
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The aim of this essay is to critically consider Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things from a postcolonial feminist perspective, with a special focus on how she models different representations of women, taking as a background the discussions within postcolonial feminism about subalternity and the representations of women from the so-called Third World in theory and literature, as well as the concept of agency from Cultural Studies. This purpose is reached by studying and comparing three main female characters in the novel: Mammachi, Baby Kochamma and Ammu, centering on their different ways of relating to the male hero of the novel, Velutha, an Untouchable in the lingering caste system of India. The essay argues that Roy has contributed with diverse representations of subaltern women in the ‘Third World’ who—despite their oppressed and marginalized status—display agency and are portrayed as responsible for their own actions.
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Thornberry, Courtney. „Internet of things-enabled servitization for small to medium sized enterprises : innovation report“. Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/93666/.
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Servitization has been a recognized business phenomenon since the late 1980s to innovate a business’s capabilities and processes to create value for their customer through service. Recent technological advances, particularly in the capabilities being developed by the Internet of Things (IoT) could be an enabler for a servitzation transition at an organization. Servitization, enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT), has not been considered in the context of Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Due to the traits of SMEs, the potential opportunities from effectively servitizing their business models and the accessibility and affordability of IoT sensors, equipment and tools, there is a gap to be explored. This research provides an understanding of the many challenges SMEs face to remain competitive. Additionally, the research develops a framework that can help to overcome some of these challenges through the utilization of a Servitization business model and IoT technology and capability. The investigation and development of IoT-enabled Servitization for SMEs could potentially lead to new knowledge and innovation. Initially, main traits of SMEs were identified and then aspects of IoT and servitization were ascertained to find those that best align with the SME unique traits. From this understanding, a framework was developed that will allow Small to Medium sized Enterprises to utilise the technology and capabilities from the IoT in order to develop servitization within their business. This framework was then further developed through a longitudinal case study with an SME and validated by a range of industry stakeholders. The outcome resulted in a conceptual framework, based on academic literature, evolved in a real-world case study, and validated by professionals and stakeholders. This validation was conducted through the dissemination of the material on a professional program MSc module, presentation of the research at international conferences, and an event held with regional SMEs to gain insight on the final version of the framework. The framework can be used by SMEs or those consulting SMEs to help them develop strategy that creates value added services in their business that are enabled by the IoT.
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Mekouar, Merouan. „Why small things matter? The micro-dynamics of informational cascades in North Africa“. Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119446.
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Why do some symbolic acts of protest trigger mass mobilization while others do not? Why did riots following the public suicide of a young street vendor humiliated by local authorities in the Tunisian city of Monastir in March 2010 fail to escalate into mass mobilization while a quasi-identical event in the neighboring city of Sidi-Bouzid helped precipitate a successful revolution only few months later? This study examines four cases of successful and failed instances of social mobilization in Tunisia and Algeria in order to present two complementary arguments. Using the signaling logic of informational cascade theory, this study first argues that successful mobilization needs the early involvement of respected local intermediate actors who identify an opportunity for political mobilization and use their prestige and networks to encourage other people to join mobilization. Second, this work shows that successful social mobilization is the result of a surprise factor, which is fueled by the presence of moderate/prestigious actors during the early acts of protest, regime violence, and unusual media coverage. These factors create a perception of exceptionality, which breaks the locally available cognitive heuristic originally in favor of the regime, and allows for successful informational cascades to occur.Pourquoi est-ce que certains actes de contestation provoquent une mobilisation de masse alors que d'autres actes similaires n'ont pas le même effet? Pourquoi est-ce que les émeutes faisant suite au suicide d'un jeune vendeur ambulant humilié par les autorités locales dans la ville tunisienne de Monastir ont-elles échouées à se transformer en mouvement de masse alors qu'un évènement quasi-identique dans la ville de Sidi-Bouzid a réussi à précipiter une révolution quelques mois plus tard seulement? Ce travail examine quatre cas de mobilisation sociale en Tunisie et en Algérie et propose deux explications complémentaires. En se basant sur la logique de signalisation développée dans la théorie des cascades informationnelles, ce travail affirme d'abord qu'une mobilisation sociale réussie requiert la présence en amont d'acteurs intermédiaires respectés qui identifient une opportunité de mobilisation politique et utilisent leur prestige et leurs réseaux pour encourager le reste de la population à se mobiliser. Deuxièmement, ce travail démontre qu'une mobilisation sociale réussie est le résultat d'un facteur de surprise alimenté par la présence d'acteurs intermédiaires/prestigieux durant les premiers actes de contestation, par la violence des autorités et par une couverture médiatique inusitée. Ces facteurs mènent au développement d'un sentiment d'exceptionnalité qui casse les raccourcis cognitifs en faveur du régime partagés par la population et permet de la formation d'une cascade informationnelle réussie.
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CHAN, Wing Yi Monica. „A stylistic approach to the God of Small Things written by Arundhati Roy“. Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2007. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/eng_etd/2.
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This thesis presents a creative-analytical hybrid production in relation to the stylistic distinctiveness in The God of Small Things, the debut novel of Arundhati Roy. Roy’s text drew the world’s gaze after winning the Booker Prize in 1997. Many studies have been written on diverse aspects of the book, and much has been said regarding the writer’s style. However, those studies rarely focus on the minutiae of Roy’s writing and this thesis provides a greater degree of detailed analysis. The objective is to achieve a deeper understanding of the relationship between style and literary aesthetics in The God of Small Things by studying the stylistic patterns behind Roy’s resonating poetic prose.
The stylistic study is carried out adopting two approaches: the corpus-based approach (Part A) and the empirical-creative approach (Part B). The first section provides a stylistic analysis concentrating on the most significant stylistic features of the novel. The study is based on the list of style markers rendered by Leech and Short, Style in Fiction (1981) and elaborated according to the following key aspects that were extracted from the repertoire using my intuitive observation of the novel. These chosen style markers taken together represent key aspects of Roy’s style: (1) Lexis—Roy’s very frequent and particular utilization of adjectives; (2) Grammar—the high concentration of minor sentences and the listing of noun phrases in the text; (3) Figures of Speech— repetition and neologism. The second section presents a self-written pastiche which aims at imitating Roy’s style in literary prose and adapting its approach to a Chinese context. The creative process serves as an experiment on taking pastiche writing as an “experiential” approach to stylistics. In addition, since the resemblance of the pastiche to Roy’s style should not be the only value of the piece, some key themes in the original text are also reproduced.
The analysis in Part A illustrates patterns of Roy’s stylistic choices. On the use of adjectives, Roy tends to arrange adjectival elements in sequence, construct a fixed “like” sentence structure, and adopt combining word forms and affective adjectives. On minor sentences, Roy chooses to separate adverbial phrases, sentence fragments starting with “like”, “as though”, and clauses beginning with “that”, “which”, “and”, “but”, “or”. As for repetitions, there is repeated use of set phrases, sentence patterns and recurrent appearance of certain lines and images. Lastly, on neologisms, Roy’s patterns of creating new words include hyphenation, direct merging, and prefix/suffix building.
The pastiche is entitled Hong Kong Locust Stand I. By juxtaposing with the original, it is found that many stylistic features in The God of Small Things, are present in the pastiche, though with variation. While stylistic elements cannot totally be independent from the theme, the atmosphere, character and plot of the pastiche also demonstrate qualities representing those in Roy’s novel. The pastiche presents an innovative and respectful way to come to terms with Roy’s style through selective imitation and creative adaptation.
In conclusion, it is hoped that this study opens the way for further hybrid studies of style that incorporate both analytical and creative approaches.
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Camargo, Luciana Moura Colucci de [UNESP]. „The god of small things: uma voz poética entre o Oriente e o Ocidente“. Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/102416.
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camargo_lmc_dr_arafcl.pdf: 4212129 bytes, checksum: 50fa4f58f8d18fc6016ee1ed375a6bc2 (MD5)Este estudo apresenta uma análise da obra The God of Small Things, da escritora indiana Arundhati Roy (1961), na qual ficção e episódios históricos, relativos às conseqüências da colonização inglesa na Índia, mesclam-se em um espaço e tempo míticos, favorecendo uma análise baseada na Teoria da Narrativa Poética, conforme a formulação de Jean-Yves Tadié (1978). Com esse enfoque, são examinados vários aspectos ligados à narrativa como personagem, narrador, espaço, tempo, mito, estrutura e estilo, buscando compreender as vozes lírica e social da obra, que ecoam em seu universo híbrido, composto de elementos da cultura oriental e da ocidental.
This dissertation presents an analysis of the book written by the Indian writer Arundhaty Roy (1961), entitled The God of Small Things, in which, fiction and historical facts related to the consequences of the British colonization in India are brought together in a mythical setting that favors an analysis based on the theory of the lyrical novel, as presented by Jean-Yves Tadié (1978). With this approach, aspects related to the narrative genre, such as, character, narrator, setting, myth, structure and style are explored in order to reveal the lyrical and social voices that eco in its hybrid universe that mingles eastern and western cultural traits.
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Tasel, Linda. „Patriarchal Society : Three Generations of Oppression in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things“. Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Language and Culture, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-225.
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menon, priya. „Liminal Resistances: Local Subjections in my Story, Vidheyan, and the God of Small Things“. Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/62.
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This project investigates various ways in which resistance is explored by Kamala Das, Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Arundhati Roy in My Story, Vidheyan, and The God of Small Things respec-tively. “Liminal Resistances: Local Subjections in My Story, Vidheyan, and The God of Small Things” aims to examine the workings and creative subversions of hegemonic discourses of caste, class, gender and color within the local milieu of Kerala, India. By exploring the theoreti-cal apparatuses employed in three diverse texts set in Kerala, this project identifies: firstly, Das’s subversion of Nair Kerala’s sense of gendered and casted normativity in My Story; secondly, Adoor’s depiction of the notion of home that enables self-recognition between the exploited and tyrant ensuring both suppression and libratory self-formation for classed subjects in Vidheyan; and finally, Roy’s portrayal of the conceptual category of whiteness within Kerala as being nei-ther uniformly subservient nor stable as depicted in The God of Small Things. It is hoped that by identifying and exploring the theoretical nuances of resistances in these generically diverse texts—autobiography, film, and fiction-- all set within the local realms of Kerala, this project will contribute a new scholarship in postcolonial studies that will recognize and problematize local instances of subversions and their representations within the Indian subcontinent.
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Johansson, Emma. „Rahel : A Study of Self-Image in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things“. Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-12627.
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Camargo, Luciana Moura Colucci de. „The god of small things : uma voz poética entre o Oriente e o Ocidente /“. Araraquara : [s.n.], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/102416.
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Resumo: Este estudo apresenta uma análise da obra The God of Small Things, da escritora indiana Arundhati Roy (1961), na qual ficção e episódios históricos, relativos às conseqüências da colonização inglesa na Índia, mesclam-se em um espaço e tempo míticos, favorecendo uma análise baseada na Teoria da Narrativa Poética, conforme a formulação de Jean-Yves Tadié (1978). Com esse enfoque, são examinados vários aspectos ligados à narrativa como personagem, narrador, espaço, tempo, mito, estrutura e estilo, buscando compreender as vozes lírica e social da obra, que ecoam em seu universo híbrido, composto de elementos da cultura oriental e da ocidental.
Abstract: This dissertation presents an analysis of the book written by the Indian writer Arundhaty Roy (1961), entitled The God of Small Things, in which, fiction and historical facts related to the consequences of the British colonization in India are brought together in a mythical setting that favors an analysis based on the theory of the lyrical novel, as presented by Jean-Yves Tadié (1978). With this approach, aspects related to the narrative genre, such as, character, narrator, setting, myth, structure and style are explored in order to reveal the lyrical and social voices that eco in its hybrid universe that mingles eastern and western cultural traits.
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Stockdale, Emily. „Language and the creation of characters in Arundhati Roy's The God of small things“. View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-1/stockdalee/emilystockdale.pdf.
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Jeyasingham, Dharman John. „Geographers of small things : a study of the production of space in children's social work“. Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6224/.
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This study explores children's social workers' experiences of and practices in space. It is based on ethnographic research with social workers in two sites and examines data from observations, interviews with social workers, photographs and other images of the spaces in which social workers practised. The study draws on the work of Henri Lefebvre, concerned with how space is produced through spatial practices, conceptions of space and moments of lived space, which occur beyond these conventions and escape complete articulation. The study uses this analytical frame in order to explore how social workers produce certain kinds of spaces as significant in their practice. It identifies a small number of affect-heavy spaces which hold great importance for children's social work: social work offices, children's and practitioners' bodies, families' homes as they are experienced by practitioners during home visits, the wider neighbourhoods which social workers associate with service users. In particular, it identifies social workers' attention to small things and micro-scales in their practice. This enables social workers to present their work as sensitive to that which is imperceptible to others but also leads to a restricted focus and limited engagement with the social and political contexts of service users' lives.
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Shakely, Naz. „Crossing Lines : The Theme of Transgressing Social Boundaries in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things“. Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Language and Culture, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-368.
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Hera, Culda Lucia. „"...life had been lived" : Gender performance and woman objectification in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things“. Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-80346.
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This essay investigates women’s situation at home and in society, in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, from a gender performance perspective. The essay also explores the pedagogical implications of using the novel in the EFL classroom. The gender performance perspective is explored through the analysis of three female characters, Ammu, Mammachi and Baby Kochamma, whose lives reflect women’s struggle to escape traditional caste values, patriarchy and colonial power. The pedagogical perspective focuses on existing trends in literature and language teaching and the possibilities that postcolonial literary texts have to offer in the EFL classroom.
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Wang, Shuangyu. „Internet of Things : A ready-to-use IoT system for Instant Deployment for Startups and Small Companies“. Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för informationssystem och –teknologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-36581.
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Nowadays, a growing number of startups, who used to produce non- intelligent devices, are seeking transformation and hope to achieve their Internet of Things (IoT) deployment. In other words, they begin to focus on producing smarter devices to meet user’s needs. At present, various IoT cloud platforms are emerging one after another, but using these resources can be costly for small companies. Since the entire IoT system is complex, it involves many links, the purpose of this project is to create a suitable IoT platform for small companies. The system applies JavaWeb technology with the framework of Spring MVC + Spring + Hibernate (SSH), uses open source User Interface (UI) solution and MySQL database management system (DBMS). At the same time, the system adopts Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) as the communication protocol to complete the data transmission between devices and the platform. Finally, the system is deployed in the server built on the Raspberry Pi. The system is measured from multiple aspects on the established scenario. The results show that companies and users can use the platform as expected, and companies can expand the system to further realize their IoT deployment in the future.
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Wild, Jonathan. „The day of inconceivably small things : representations of the office clerk in English literature from 1880 to 1939“. Thesis, University of Kent, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.392711.
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Soobarah, Agnihotri Jeeveeta. „La construction et la revendication du sujet féminin dans "The God of small things", "Mitro Marjani" et "Pagli"“. Bordeaux 3, 2008. https://extranet.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/memoires/diffusion.php?nnt=2008BOR30092.
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Cette étude comparatiste et interdisciplinaire se situe au point de convergence de trois aires littéraires : la littérature mauricienne francophone et les littératures indiennes d’expression anglaise et hindi. Elle examine la place du sujet littéraire féminin dans des romans d’Ananda Devi, d’Arundhati Roy et de Krishna Sobti, où le sujet est en crise dans une société phallogocentrique. L’écriture féminine met ici en relief la valeur du corps : la sexualité féminine, considérée comme l’élément précipitant la chute de la femme du modèle au contre-modèle, est redoutée. La négociation de la paradoxalite�� du statut de la femme (à la fois objet et sujet du discours), à travers la langue et la société du regard, détermine sa construction et la revendication d’une identité propre passant par la révolte et la prise de parole ainsi que par la gestion de l’espace, mettant de ce fait en péril les frontières des interdits. En s’appuyant sur les études culturelles et les gender studies, on s’efforce ainsi de problématiser la subalternatité dans des contextes postcoloniaux et patriarcauxAt the meeting point of three literatures: Mauritian Francophone and Indian literature in English and Hindi, the focus is placed on the construction of female agency in the Indiaoceanic narrative space. Ananda Devi, Arundhati Roy and Krishna Sobti depict female protagonists, defined through their personal crisis, in a social structure dominated by the male logos. Their écriture feminine exposes the terror felt vis-à-vis the female body and female sexuality, seen as the operating cause of the fall of the woman, from model to counter-model. Furthermore, the subject/object dialectics motivated by power, is so fragile that very often the negotiation of this fine line determines the construction of the female protagonist, as well as her claiming of an identity of her own. Cultural studies and gender studies used as theoretical and aesthetic tools help us understand the problematic subalternity of the female character in both postcolonial and patriarchal contexts. Her emergence as subject of discourse takes place via revolt and through the reappropriation of language against “the gaze”, she thus redefines space in a way that destabilizes borders
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Hetherington, Donna Marie. „Sociology of small things : Olive Schreiner, Eleanor Marx, Amy Levy and the intertextualities of feminist cultural politics in 1880s London“. Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9854.
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This thesis investigates the cultural politics of a small group of women through their writing and other activities in 1880s London. Focussed on Olive Schreiner, Eleanor Marx and Amy Levy and the connections they had to one another and to other women, such as Henrietta Frances Lord, Clementina Black and Henrietta Müller, it explores key events in their everyday lives, the writings and texts they produced. It analyses a wide selection of textual sources, re-reading these for small details, intertextual connections and points of disjuncture, to allow for different ways of understanding the mechanics of feminist cultural politics as produced and performed by these interconnected women. Small things in texts can be revealing about such women’s everyday lives and connectedly the cultural politics which underpinned their actions, thus contributing to knowledge about how writing was used strategically and imaginatively to challenge, side-step and overcome oppression and inequality, in these years in London and after. Using the term ‘writing’ in a broad sense to include letters and diaries and other archival sources such as newspaper articles, reviews and manuscript drafts, as well as some selected published work and biographies, the thesis is anchored around four event-driven investigations: Olive Schreiner being accosted by a policeman; the first public performance of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House; the writing of a letter mentioning Eleanor Marx; and, the death of Amy Levy. Relatedly, there are discussions concerning working with historical documents, documenting and archiving the past, researching and representing the past in the present. These investigations allow for the operationalization of a research approach framed by ideas concerning micro, small-scale, everyday life and its qualitative aspects, which together contribute to a re-conceptualisation of a ‘sociology of small things.’ Specifically, it is argued that close and small-scale studies of women’s writing, whether undertaken alone or connected to others, sheds light on the importance of relationship dynamics in connection with writing output, on what writing was produced and what role each text played in larger scale political agendas. Concepts such as palimpsest, liminality and bricolage are interrogated with respect to researching and representing the spatial and temporal interconnectedness of the selected authors and textual sources. And contributions are made to contemporary thinking about epistolarity and social networks, focussing on reciprocity, gift-giving and receiving and notions of ‘letterness,’ along with the defining of boundaries, and the value of determining the nature of ties between women. The thesis also argues that the relationships between intimacy and distance, interiority and exteriority, public and private, are frayed with complicated overlaps.
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Hollis, Victoria Caroline Bolton Jonathan W. „Ambassadors of community the history and complicity of the family community in Midnight's Children and the God of Small Things /“. Auburn, Ala, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1668.
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Schneider-Krzys, Emily. „"For practical purposes in a hopelessly practical world ..." towards a new postcolonial resistance in Arundhati Roy's The God of small things /“. Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2005. http://thesis.haverford.edu/136/01/2005Schneider-KrzysE.pdf.
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Russell, Brian Dale. „Complexity of Establishing Industrial Connectivity for Small and Medium Manufacturers with and Without Use of Industrial Innovation Platforms“. BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7409.
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The manufacturing industry is continuously evolving as new practices and technology are adopted to improve productivity and remain competitive. There have been three well established manufacturing revolutions in recent history and some say that the fourth is occurring currently by the name of Smart Manufacturing, Indusrie 4.0, and others. This latest manufacturing revolution is highly dependent on industrial connectivity. This research aims to gage the ability of Industrial Innovation Platforms (IIPs) to reduce complexity of implementing base-line industrial connectivity for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The results of this study would be especially relevant to decision makers in industrial SMEs who are considering implementing industrial connectivity as well as providing insights into approaches for establishing base-line industrial connectivity. The research methodology consists of three main steps: 1) creation of IIP and non-IIP connectivity solutions that enable connectivity of the vast amount of industrial equipment, 2) Gathering measures from solutions in accordance with metrics identified for complexity evaluation, 3) discussion and interpretation of data To have a more complete analysis, quantitative and qualitative data was used and evaluated to address the varying elements of the broad task of establishing industrial connectivity. The research showed that IIPs can reduce complexity for select industrial equipment. Some industrial equipment have robust and streamlined connectivity solutions provided by the IIP. In these cases, the IIP almost certainly will reduce the complexity of establishing connectivity. Other industrial equipment have a solution provided by the IIP which requires piecing together and some component modifications. In these cases, the IIPs reduce complexity of establishing connectivity dependent on circumstances. Lastly, when no form of solution is available through the IIP for the industrial equipment, the IIP's has no ability to reduce complexity other than hosting the server used in connectivity. These findings open additional avenues of research which could improve the understanding of benefits IIPs may provide to SMEs.
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Halvorsen, Maren Elizabeth. „"The day of small things" : the Quaker understanding of conversion and the inner light in the writings of Isaac Penington the Younger /“. Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10518.
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Kaiser, Byron W. „Spiritlunking biblical caves| Probing the depths of context for narraphors that support transformation and the practice of doing small things with great love“. Thesis, Drew University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3700832.
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The purpose of this study was to identify a group of twenty-something adults to help guide and develop a sermon series to transition a congregation through the grief of losing a primary staff member. The study was originally focused on using the advisory group to develop a preaching style effective for the age group from which the advisory committee emerged. During the course of the study, the church experienced traumatic loss. The study shifted focus to support the collective grief of the congregation and transition to a new person to replace the absent staff member. The advisory group met face-to-face as well as through video conferencing, which was a new experience for the advisory group. The congregation overall successfully transitioned to a new staff member, yet a small though significant group of leaders could not adequately deal with loss, causing additional trauma in the context of the congregation, that, by the end of the project, continued unresolved.
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Kannan, Sitara. „Unmournable Bodies: Gothic Postcolonialism and The Spectre of Loss in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Anuradha Roy's Sleeping on Jupiter“. Digital Commons @ Butler University, 2019. https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/grtheses/515.
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"My thesis compares Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Anuradha Roy’s Sleeping on Jupiter in order to demonstrate how a) each text is a product of its moment and a reflection of corresponding critical thought and b) how an inversion of gothic tropes in Sleeping reflects a changed world dynamic, a melancholic exploration of epistemological and traumatic loss that can be seen not only as a recognition of the continued power of oppressive systems but a reflection on the failure of cosmopolitanism to “rescue” the global subject from her own isolation and recolonization. I claim that this is not only demonstrated by a change in form and how gothic tropes are presented, but in how homosexuality and deviant sexuality in particular is treated, a reminder that even in texts that attempt to condemn and reject colonizing tendencies, the political moment and its theoretical appendages continue to haunt postcolonial discourse, enabling recolonization and restratifying spaces of resistance. I claim that this recognition need not be totalizing or nihilistic, but that in the recognition itself lies the possibility for resistance, an act of rebellion that must be constantly re-enacted in order to deterritorialize what has been captured and displaced, a fluid and imaginative negotiation that, much like literature, is limitless in interpretation and offers readers constant and multiplicitous possibilities for agency in the face of equally fluid oppressive systems."--Provided by the author.
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Engström, Roxendal Patrick, und Sara Westlund. „Increasing transparency in the supply chain with blockchain technology : A case study of small and medium sized South African wine producers“. Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa, natur- och teknikvetenskap (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-74506.
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The world is facing new challenges caused by global warming and is puttingpressure on governments, companies and the civil society to act fast. Like all industries, the wine industry is affected by climate change and wine producers are simultaneously struggling to stay viable while competing on a global market. To become sustainable, transparency is needed in the supply chain so that stakeholders and consumers can influence it. In this study, blockchain technology is investigated as a possible technology that can increase sustainability, transparency and over-all efficiency in the supply chain. The study is a case study and takes place in South Africa. The study takes the perspective of small and medium sized enterprises because they are a big part of the market and has not been researched in this area. Empirical data was collected through interviews, observations and secondary data and it was analyzed through thematic analysis. The results show that there is a lot of administrative work in the industry where compliance and certifications take a lot of time and effort. The smaller wineries, that often want to focus on making good wine, have a harder time with the administrative work since the same person might have several roles or functions in the business. The current traceability system is also one of the best in the world but is largely paper based. In the discussion it is shown that the industry has some elements that would be good for a blockchain system but the smaller producers would probably not dare to invest in such a system since they need improvements in quality or efficiency to stay viable and the technology required is expensive. The thesis concludes that the industry has some structures in place that would be a good base for a blockchain system. This could add an extra level of security and trust to the system. The implementation for the small-scale producers seems far away since the technological requirements are expensive.De rådande klimatförändringarna ställer nya krav på företag att ta ansvar för sina utsläpp och miljöpåverkningar. Därför blir det allt mer vanligt för företag att medvetet öka hållbarheten i sina värdekedjor eftersom det också blir allt viktigare för stakeholders och konsumenter. För att kunna sätta press på företag krävs dock transparens och med komplexa värdekedjor kan detta vara svårt att skapa. Därför krävs nya teknologier som kan hjälpa företag att öka transparens, effektivitet och integritet. Blockchain-teknologi är en relativt ny teknologi som med sina decentraliserade egenskaper har potential att användas i värdekedjan för att öka hållbarhet och transparens. Denna studie undersöker just det genom en fältstudie i den Sydafrikanska vinindustrin. Det är in riktadpå främst små- och medelstora företag och inkluderar också industriorganisationer för att bidra med en holistisk bild av värdekedjan för vin. Genom intervjuer, observationer och sekundärdata samlades empirisk data in och analyserades med tematisk data-analys. Resultaten visade att små-och medelstora vinproducenter fäktas med mycket administrativt arbete och har svårt att vara ekonomiskt hållbara på en global marknad. Spårbarheten i Sydafrika fungerar utmärkt och därför finns det redan viss infrastruktur på plats i landet som skulle kunna vara en grund till att utveckla ett blockchain-baserat system för att öka säkerheten, transparensen och minska administrativa kostnader för de mindre företagen. Ifall ett blockchain-system skulle implementeras skulle det troligtvis inte drivas av de små företagen även fast de hade gynnats mest, utan av större företag med finansiell kapacitet.
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Kari, Tim, und Wesley Kleinreesink. „Internet-of-Things and cloud computing adoption in manufacturing among small to medium sized enterprises in Sweden : A multiple case study on current IoT and cloud computing technology adoption within Swedish SMEs“. Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-95952.
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Title: Internet of things and cloud computing adoption within manufacturing among small to medium sized enterprises in Sweden. Authors: Tim Kari and Wesley Kleinreesink Background & Problem discussion: Industries in Europe are facing economic challenges related to global societal and technological developments. The adoption of industry 4.0 technologies such as IoT and cloud computing within manufacturing can be used as a solution to these challenges. SMEs form the backbone of the Swedish economy, making up a large amount of the employment and added value within the country, making them important in this context. Little is known about the maturity levels of IoT and cloud computing and the challenges encountered during adoption of of these technologies by Swedish SMEs. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate maturity levels of IoT and cloud computing adoptions and the associated adoption challenges by looking at Swedish SMEs in the manufacturing industry that are adopting or are interested in adopting IoT and cloud computing technologies within their manufacturing. By addressing the maturity levels and adoption challenges found among the cases and providing more insight into the context in which these are occurring. These insights can then be used for the purposes of addressing maturity levels as practitioner and contributing to current literature regarding maturity levels and adoption challenges found. Method: Following an exploratory research strategy, qualitative data has been gathered both in the form of a literature review as well as a multiple case study through semi-structured interviews. The data has then been analyzed by conducting a conceptual analysis, a cross-case synthesis and pattern matching Findings & Conclusion: The findings indicate that the levels of maturity vary highly between categories and cases, with only a few examples of reaching higher (integrated) levels of maturity. Adoption challenges found were mainly centered around organizational and human challenges as opposed to technical ones, indicating that further focus needs to be put on organizational change management. Furthermore, an apparent lack of knowledge among the case companies may explain both the narrow and simple implementations of IoT and cloud computing as well as the lack of drivers for further adoption. The implications of this means that managers need a larger focus on change management and more comprehensive implementation plans. There is also the need to consider the need for digitalization and to do it in an efficient and useful manner. Further research is needed on these topics, with possible avenues being a focus on smaller companies, a study with a larger sample size or a focus on industries with a higher volume of production as the ones presented in this study were all relatively low-volume.
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Moura, Taís Leite de. „Transgressões em O Deus das Pequenas Coisas, de Arundhati Roy: níveis e motivações em contraponto“. Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-03102018-134348/.
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No romance O Deus das Pequenas Coisas (1997) de Arundhati Roy, as transgressões são atitudes que se configuram como abundantes na narrativa, sendo realizadas em sua maioria pelos personagens marginalizados. A fim de obter uma compreensão mais profunda das razões que impulsionam tanto a narrativa quanto os personagens a cometer estas infrações, elas foram divididas em três níveis neste trabalho: pós-colonial, sociopolítico e afetivo. São aqui analisadas as transgressões dos personagens Velutha, Ammu, Estha, Rahel e Sophie. Os níveis das transgressões, suas motivações e os conceitos de trauma individual e cultural são colocados em contraponto para aprofundar a análise da narrativa do romance. No nível pós- colonial, são empregados conceitos de Panikkar (1969), Festino (2007), Forter (2014) e Outka (2011), enquanto Sztompka (2000, 2004), Alexander (2000) e Joseph (2010) permeiam o nível sociopolítico, finalizando o nível afetivo com Caruth (1995), Bose (1998) e Almeida (2002). A hipótese deste trabalho é de que Roy foca nas transgressões para, em primeiro lugar, criticar determinados elementos da sociedade indiana, e para provocar reações em seus leitores. Esta é sustentada através da citação de seus ensaios e discursos na análise do romance.In The God of Small Things (1997), from Arundhati Roy, the transgressions are substantial throughout the narrative, as the majority of them are performed by marginalized characters. In order to comprehend more deeply the reasons which propel the narrative and the characters to such violations, they were divided into three levels in this work: post-colonial, socio-political and affective. The transgressions analyzed here are the ones performed by the characters Velutha, Ammu, Estha, Rahel and Sophie. The levels of the transgressions, their motivations and the concepts of individual and cultural trauma are all correlated so that the intentions of the narrative are elucidated. In the post-colonial level, the concepts of Panikkar (1969), Festino (2007), Forter (2014) and Outka (2011) are applied, whereas Sztompka (2000, 2004), Alexander (2000) and Joseph (2010) are used for the socio-political level; the affective level is observed with notions from Caruth (1995), Bose (1998) and Almeida (2002). The hypothesis of this work is that Roy focuses on the transgressions of minor characters not only to criticize particular elements from the Indian society but also to trigger the reaction of the readers. This is supported by her essays and speeches quoted along the analysis of the novel.
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Guerin, Annette Patricia. „It's the small things that count : making sense of working in a partnership to support the inclusion of a child with autism spectrum disorder : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Teaching and Learning in the University of Canterbury /“. Thesis, University of Canterbury. Educational Studies and Human Development, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1847.
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Since the passing of the Education Act (1989) special education policies and documents have promoted partnership as a key component of establishing relevant and inclusive school practices. Professionals and families have been encouraged to work together to resolve issues for children with disabilities. However, little information is available to families and professionals about how to negotiate and achieve authentic partnerships. This thesis makes an important contribution to current knowledge about partnerships by investigating how a group of people (a parent, teacher, paraprofessional and teacher/researcher) make sense of working together to support the inclusion of a student with ASD in his regular school. It is hoped that our descriptions of how we have worked together may help other professionals and families in similar situations. In saying this, the lessons we have learned are ours and are peculiar to the context in which we worked. In New Zealand partnership between professionals and families of children with disabilities is usually enacted through the Individual Education Plan (IEP) process. This study utilises an alternative partnership model, the Quality Learning Circle (QLC). The participants’ learning journeys are described and the experience of partnership for the participants is discussed. Data are drawn from a range of sources to identify those strategies that support, and barriers that hinder, the development of authentic partnerships. Findings identify those conditions that were essential for the partnership in this study to work effectively. Within this research I contrast the key dimensions of the IEP and QLC, showing the IEP process to be wanting. I suggest a partnership model that embraces a dual focus on both the student and those supporting him/her is a more effective tool for supporting the inclusion of children with disabilities. It is argued that there is a lack of recognition in current funding criteria for the difference an effective partnership can make in supporting the inclusion of students ii with severe behavioural challenges. Consideration needs to be given to the costs and issues of ineffective partnerships, with a particular focus on current Ministry of Education practices.
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Ganta, Sathvik. „A Framework to Incorporate Industry 4.0 into SME to Enhance Resource Planning“. Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Innovation och produktrealisering, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-47421.
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Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) have grown steadily in recent years. SMEs generate 59.7 % of value-added and 65.5 % of employment in the ‘non-financial business economy’ in Sweden. It's important for the success of SMEs to be ready to provide high product availability to customers at minimal operation costs. The challenges faced by SMEs are tougher in global competition. There is a rapid growth in the industrial revolution to deal with the challenges as well as competition. This work mainly focuses on implementing resource planning (RP) and adapting to the latest technologies of Industry 4.0 into SMEs to face the challenges. But incorporating Industry 4.0 in a major struggle in the SMEs. The thesis provides a view of Resource Planning implementation. The authors describe the resource planning implementation techniques and define the requirements for its successful implementation. Resource Planning (RP) adoption factors have been studied quite extensively over the years. However, this master thesis tries to investigate the less explored area of resource planning. Relatively a smaller amount of research has been conducted, when it comes to implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies especially in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Industry 4.0 provides new paradigms for the industrial management of SMEs. Supported by a growing number of new technologies, this concept appears more flexible and less expensive than traditional enterprise information systems. This paper presents a literature review of existing applied research covering different Industry 4.0 issues about SMEs. Furthermore, the analysis is done to understand the correlation between the identified factors of Industry 4.0 technologies. The research findings indicate that the use of IoT and Cloud computing are major advantages for resource planning in an SME. The results from the analysis are presented in a framework designed for the future adaptation of these technologies. Despite the research limitations, the findings show a high advantage. Finally, the author suggests a future scope of research.
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Kasprzak, Scott Edward. „Small-scale polymer structures enabled by thiol-ene copolymer systems“. Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28109.
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Thesis (M. S.)--Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009.Committee Chair: Gall, Ken; Committee Member: Graham, Samuel; Committee Member: Jacob, Karl; Committee Member: Perry, Joe; Committee Member: Pierron, Olivier.
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Larsson, Dennis, und Andreas Persson. „CSR - Think small : En studie kring att förena vinstmaximering med hållbarhet“. Thesis, Linnaeus University, Linnaeus School of Business and Economics, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-6810.
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Att arbeta med CSR i sin organisation innebär en hel del kostnader som ofta inte kan matchas med några intäkter, korrelationen mellan CSR-engagemang och lönsamhet är inte bevisad. Likväl engagerar sig företag i CSR, något som vi tycker är mycket intressant. Syftet med vår studie är att bidra med en djupare förståelse för hur arbetet i verksamheterna ser ut kring att förena de korta vinstmaximeringsmålen med de långsiktiga hållbarhetsmålen, med underfrågan varför företag väljer att arbeta med CSR. Ämnet är mycket aktuellt och det råder ständiga debatter kring vilket ansvar det enskilda företaget bör ta gentemot sin omgivning. Vi är av uppfattningen att företagens ansvarstagande gentemot sin omgivning är nödvändig i arbetet att försöka ändra individers attityd till hur vi påverkar vårt samhälle ur ett ekonomiskt, socialt, etiskt och inte minst miljömässigt perspektiv.
För att genomföra studien på bästa möjliga sätt har vi använt oss av ett abduktivt angreppssätt, där vi både innan och efter intervjutillfällena har studerat olika teorier för att öka vår kunskapsbas inför intervjuer och vidare analys av den insamlade empirin. Intervjuerna har genomförts med en kvalitativ utgångspunkt, där det unika hos varje respondent har givits möjligheten att träda fram.
Utan att kunna dra några generella slutsatser från vårt resultat har vi i vår studie kunnat fastslå att de respondenter vi intervjuat har en relativt samlad bild av hur de arbetar med CSR och lönsamhet. Organisationerna arbetar med olika aspekter av CSR, men är inte branschspecifika som vi trodde till en början. De verkar istället skilja sig individuellt och kan möjligtvis förklaras med företagsledarens personliga engagemang. Motivet till att arbeta med CSR är främst en vilja av att vilja vara med och påverka omgivningen, men även att CSR anses vara en värdeskapande faktor. Man är även rörande eniga om att kommunikationen av CSR är en viktig del av arbetet, men att man måste bli bättre i denna fas. Man är införstådd med betydelsen och försöker i möjligaste mån att arbeta med ett proaktivt förhållningssätt till CSR. En annan viktig aspekt av ett lönsamt CSR-arbete är att finna de gemensamma värden som kan delas mellan samhälle och företag, samt att man lyckas engagera sina medarbetare till att vilja vara med och påverka och fatta beslut.
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Patchay, Sheenadevi. „"The struggle of memory against forgetting" contemporary fictions and rewriting of histories“. Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002253.
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This thesis argues that a prominent concern among contemporary writers of fiction is the recuperation of lost or occluded histories. Increasingly, contemporary writers, especially postcolonial writers, are using the medium of fiction to explore those areas of political and cultural history that have been written over or unwritten by the dominant narrative of “official” History. The act of excavating these past histories is simultaneously both traumatic and liberating – which is not to suggest that liberation itself is without pain and trauma. The retelling of traumatic pasts can lead, as is portrayed in The God of Small Things (1997), to further trauma and pain. Postcolonial writers (and much of the world today can be construed as postcolonial in one way or another) are seeking to bring to the fore stories of the past which break down the rigid binaries upon which colonialism built its various empires, literal and ideological. Such writing has in a sense been enabled by the collapse, in postcolonial and postmodernist discourse, of the Grand Narrative of History, and its fragmentation into a plurality of competing discourses and histories. The associated collapse of the boundary between history and fiction is recognized in the useful generic marker “historiographic metafiction,” coined by Linda Hutcheon. The texts examined in this study are all variants of this emerging contemporary genre. What they also have in common is a concern with the consequences of exile or diaspora. This study thus explores some of the representations of how the exilic experience impinges on the development of identity in the postcolonial world. The identities of “displaced” people must undergo constant change in order to adjust to the new spaces into which they move, both literal and metaphorical, and yet critical to this adjustment is the cultural continuity provided by psychologically satisfying stories about the past. The study shows that what the chosen texts share at bottom is their mutual need to retell the lost pasts of their characters, the trauma that such retelling evokes and the new histories to which they give birth. These texts generate new histories which subvert, enrich, and pre-empt formal closure for the narratives of history which determine the identities of nations.
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Antonsson, Roger, und Lena Petterson. „Think big : for small - infusing confidence, security and trustworthiness for mobile services“. Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för för interaktion och systemdesign, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3535.
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The use of mobile telephony has over the past years increased and consequently has the development of services over the mobile phone also increased. This semester we have taken part in a large system development project, our contributions have been designing the graphical user interfaces. In doing that we found the problem with how to mediate trust to a user through a graphical user interface interesting. In this thesis we are focusing on how to develop graphical user interfaces for a mobile phone service that radiate and infuse confidence, security and trustworthiness. In order to attain the purpose, we have used the combination of literature studies and to some extent user involvement with Mock-ups and a Think-aloud technique. We are also describing the importance of taking as well usability and usability goals as the needs for the end users into consideration. We have found that more research on how to radiate and infuse trust through a graphical user interface is needed. This thesis is concluded with some aspects on that subject that we think is important to have in mind. It is of great importance to never leave the user in a state of uncertainty and therefore is clear, sincere and informative feedback necessary throughout the service. Also central in designing graphical user interfaces is to make sure that there is no mismatch in the security of the system and the radiated security.Användningen av mobiltelefoner har de senaste åren ökat, det har även utvecklingen av tjänsterna till mobiltelefoner. Under denna termin har vi deltagit i ett större systemutvecklingsprojekt och vår del har varit att designa det grafiska användargränssnittet. Under projektets gång har vi intresserat oss för problemet, hur tillit kan förmedlas till användaren genom det grafiska användargränssnittet. I den här rapporten fokuserar vi på hur man utvecklar grafiska användargränssnitt för en mobiltelefonservice som utstrålar och ingjuter förtroende, säkerhet och trovärdighet. För att uppnå vårt syfte har vi använt en kombination av litteraturstudier och till viss utsträckning användarmedverkan med Mock-uper och en Tänka-högt teknik. Vi beskriver även vikten av tänka på såväl använbarhet som använbarhetsmål som användarnas behov. Vi har funnit att det behövs mer forskning om hur man utstrålar och ingjuter tillit genom ett grafiskt användargränssnitt. Uppsatsen avslutas med några av våra synpunkter på vad som är viktiga att ha i åtanke. Det är av stor betydelse att aldrig låta en användare sväva i ovisshet och därför är det nödvändigt med tydlig, korrekt och informativ återkoppling genom hela tjänsten. Centralt vid design av grafiska användargränssnitt är också att förvissa sig om att det inte är någon skillnad mellan säkerheten i systemet och säkerheten som utstrålas.
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HUANG, Weiming. „Think big and small : who is better at financing a green future?“ Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/74791.
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Award date: 17 June 2022. Supervisor: Professor Georgios Papakonstantinou, European University InstituteThis thesis was an attempted to decipher and contextualize the evolution of the Chinese green finance policy domain from 1995 to 2021. By constructing a customized analytical toolkit incorporating both temporal and institutional axis, upstream and downstream venues, the thesis traced epistemic debates from both scholars and politicians, institutional arrangements, other reputable materials from government websites, and complemented with a Contentanalysis of 51 cases from the Green Finance Pilot Zones (2017-2020). This thesis found that the green finance policy domain was predominantly constructed by the macroeconomic policy domain and only recently leaned toward the environmental one. Moreover, the found coherence between upstream vision and downstream practice was a result of both implicit guidance by the state and spontaneous participation by the locals. This explorative analysis provided rewarding insights and hence this thesis advocates a policy domain approach for future research agenda.
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Deomano, Edgar Dela Cruz. „Mechanism of Flake Drying and Its Correlation to Quality“. Diss., Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28452.
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This research focuses on experimental investigations of the drying and bending properties of wood flakes. Three species (southern yellow pine, sweetgum, and yellow-poplar) were tested. Experiments on flake drying and effect of flake properties (cutting direction and dimension) and an external factor (temperature) were used to evaluate the flake drying process. Drying experiments were conducted using a convection oven. Bending properties of dried flakes were also measured. Modulus of elasticity (MOE), modulus of rupture (MOR), and strength at proportional limit (SPL) of flakes were measured based on Methods of Testing Small Clear Specimens of Timber (ASTM D143-94) using a miniature material tester.
The drying curve was characterized by a second-order/quadratic equation. This equation was then differentiated to get the drying rate curve. Observation on drying and drying rate curves revealed that the rate of moisture loss consists of two falling rate periods; no constant rate drying period was observed. First falling rate drying period is controlled by convective heat transfer. Bound water diffusion controls the second falling rate drying period.
Species, cutting direction, dimension, and temperature were found to have significant effect on drying rate of wood flakes. Southern yellow pine has the fastest drying rate followed by sweetgum then yellow-poplar. Differences in drying rate between species were attributed to differences in specific gravity and other factors. Radially-cut specimens have a slower drying rate than tangentially-cut specimens. There were also significant differences in drying rate between the four different flake dimensions. Thickness was found to be the more sensitive parameter in terms of dimensions. As expected, drying temperature also had highly significant effect on drying rate. An increasing trend in drying rate was observed as drying temperature increased.
Simulation of flake drying using a numerical model yielded a different result. Simulated flake drying has two drying periods: a constant rate and falling rate. Moisture of the flake decreases constantly and surface temperature increases rapidly to boiling point and remains there in the constant rate drying period. During the falling rate period, rate of moisture transport is limited by the ability of water to diffuse through wood and flake temperature starts to rise.
Bending properties were found to vary between and within the three species. Southern yellow pine had the lowest bending stiffness and strength followed by sweetgum while yellow-poplar had the highest bending properties. Radially-cut specimens were found to have lower MOE, MOR, and SPL than tangentially-cut specimens. Drying temperature was also found to have a significant effect on bending stiffness and strength. A decreasing trend in bending properties was observed when drying temperature was increased.Ph. D.
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Bain, Stephen. „Kelvin force microscopy of polymer and small molecule thin-film transistors“. Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/341044/.
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By their nature, scanning probe microscopy (SPM) measurements are ideally suited to the study of organic thin-film transistors (TFTs). In Chapter 3 surface potential measurements are made on TFTs made from the polymer pBTTT. The modification of the surface morphology by annealing into the liquid crystalline phase is examined and the separation between crystalline layers is found to be in agreement with the literature. Kelvin force gradient microscopy (KFGM) measurements provide a very detailed picture of the local potential within the channel of the TFT, allowing for the separation of the device and �film mobilities in both the linear and saturation regimes. Once the effects of the contacts are removed, the linear mobility is found to be four times higher than the saturation mobility, although the model that best fits the data assumes a constant mobility. Short channel effects are studied in saturation and an upper bound placed on the magnitude of the channel-length modulation. The contacts are also studied in more detail and it is found that a broad region of the pBTTT film near the contacts shows increased resistance, modulated by the gate voltage. In Chapter 4, KFGM is applied to TFTs produces with zone-cast TIPS pentacene as the active material. The seemingly uniform linear crystallites are found to exhibit a wide range of different behaviours, resulting in device characteristics based on statistical averages of many crystallites. The AFM is used to define a single-crystal device and this is found to contain two distinct regions of widely divergent mobility. The highest mobility regions imply that the maximum theoretical mobility is much higher than is achieved with zone-casting. Greater control over the crystallisation of the film could result in significant increases in device performance. Scanned gate microscopy measurements are also performed and susceptibility to local gating is linked to the conductivity of the film.
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Ingwersen, Thies Frieder [Verfasser]. „Using small chemical compounds to inhibit polymerization of neuroserpin in FENIB / Thies Frieder Ingwersen“. Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky, 2020. http://d-nb.info/122853778X/34.
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Broodbank, Cyprian. „This small world the great : an island archaeology of the early Cyclades“. Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/271997.
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Critchley, Katherine. „Process analysis software for draw bending of small diameter thin walled tubes“. Thesis, Coventry University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393986.
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Hartl, Hugo M. „Modification of small-molecule organic thin films using energetic beams and plasma“. Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/129526/9/Hugo%20Hartl%20Thesis.pdf.
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This project investigated directed energy techniques for modifying organic films. These techniques show great promise for creating materials with unique, tailored properties. In this work, ion and electron beams were used to fabricate spatially-defined polymer features in nanometre-scale film of small molecules. An alternative pathway to the direct on-surface fabrication of polymer surface coatings was also investigated and showed that a room temperature, atmospheric pressure plasma can facilitate coupling of small molecules at a catalytic surface. In all cases, it was possible to control the optical properties, chemistry, solubility and hardness of the polymer films by varying the processing parameters.
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Chen, Ya-Yun. „Trainee Translators' Autonomous and Reflective Learning - Using Diary, Think-Aloud and Small Group Discussion Activities“. Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.512216.
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Witushynsky, Tim C. „Experimental Investigation into the Aerodynamics of Small Air Vehicles with Thin Flexible Wings“. Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1212714988.
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Vikström, Magnus. „To Actually Be Able to Say Something Is That Small, Small Thing Which Matters -Teachers’ Experiences and Perceptions of Learner Foreign Language Speech Anxiety in a Swedish Upper Secondary School Classroom Context“. Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-76302.
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Using a foreign or second language in class can be a harrowing experience for some students. They may fear negative evaluation from teachers and peers, doubting their own ability to successfully communicate their intended meaning in a language less familiar than their mother tongue, and consequently resort to using less risky vocabulary and grammatical constructions in their output – or simply remain silent. If debilitating language anxiety causes students to hold back in discussion, their motivation could be at risk, possibly adversely affecting their attitudes towards language and learning as well as their notions of themselves as potentially successful learners. The purpose of this qualitative field study was to explore teachers’ perceptions and experiences of Foreign language anxiety, FLA, among students participating in oral discussion activities in the Swedish upper-secondary school subject of English, and how they adapt their teaching to help reduce the perceived anxiety among their students. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with two teachers from one school. The results indicated that speaking alone in front of the class is considered the most anxiety-provoking situation to students, and that classroom interactions with teachers and peers could plausibly either increase or reduce FLA, depending on their characteristics. Furthermore, getting students used to talking in a supportive and friendly atmosphere may help students relax and reduce their levels of FLA in the classroom. Finally, this study suggests that an increased awareness of FLA is needed, since it appears to be hard to notice in class and rarely discussed among teachers.