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Evans, Brad D. "Gatekeepers at the table a biblical, historical and contemporary study of the minister's role in fencing the Lord's Table in the Westminster tradition /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p030-0179.
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Layton, Christopher R. "LDS Life Tables: A Comparison of Long-Lived Populations." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2000. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTGM,23522.
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Hamlin, Thomas E. "Coming to the table revitalizing community in a starving congregation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Foltz, Lindsey Marie 1981. "Food for Local Tables: Willamette Valley Farmers Re-embedding Agriculture into Local Community, Environment, and Economy." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11501.
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xiii, 161 p. : ill.This study investigates the motivations, influences, techniques, challenges, and perceived opportunities of 11 food producers who are participating in an evolving localized food system near Eugene, Oregon. These producers are resisting the distanced anonymity and negative externalities of mainstream global food production. Interviews reveal participation in a move towards production and distribution that are not only geographically traceable, economically satisfying and ecologically sustainable but that also emphasize reflexive communication between the producer and consumer. Through initial surveying and in-depth interviews, producers identified that producing food for the local market allows them to pursue a meaningful livelihood, respond appropriately to the local environment, and engage more deeply in community. In short their practices and attitudes closely follow the "Civic Agriculture" model. Particularly their focus on local production for the local market, as opposed to a more distanced quality oriented supply chain audit model.
Committee in charge: Stephen Wooten, Chairperson; Galen Martin, Member; Harper Keeler, Member
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Rametta, Corrado. "On Location-Awareness in P2P Wireless Mesh Community Networks." Doctoral thesis, Università di Catania, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/1093.
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Peer-to-Peer networks, due to their capacity of providing a good substrate for large scale contents-resources sharing and distribution applications, represent an interesting and promiscuous research area of the ICT and could play a key role in the diffusion of the mesh networking paradigm, meeting the growing need of communication and resource sharing among people anywhere and anytime. Extending the P2P paradigm to wireless networks presents several difficulties due to their dynamic, multi hop and often power and computational constrained nature. We provide some fundamental guidelines in designing P2P overlay schemes for WMCNs, reaching the conclusion that a hierarchical, structured, and distributed-hash-table (DHT) based architecture, exploiting location-awareness, could represent a suitable solution able to guarantee high resilience, fault tolerance, flexibility and scalability, at the cost of supporting a moderate overhead for overlay and nodes' churning management. We studied and evaluated a location-aware DHT-based P2P scheme, called Georoy. We also introduced some improvements allowing its applicability to wireless mesh networks and opportunistic rural scenarios.
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Rask, Sara. "Elitidrottande elevers syn på ämnet idrott och hälsa : En kvalitativ studie om hur elever som läst vid riksidrottsgymnasiet med inriktning bordtennis upplevde ämnet idrott och hälsa." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap (ID), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-49812.
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The purpose of this study is to describe and analyse how elite sport students who studied at the National Sport Upper Secondary Schools with specialization on table tennis, experienced the aim and content of the subject Physical Education related to the learning of the subject, learning of the Specialized Physical Education, as well as their own elite investment. The theoretical perspective used in the study is Lave and Wengers (1991) theoretical concept the Community of practice. Where the focus is based on how the students like a community fulfills the criteria who used to characterize the Community of practice and also the aspect of "learning as participate" in the Community of practice. The results showed that the students did not experience a specific aim with the subject Physical Education. The biggest difference was in how the students experienced the learning of the subject Specialized Physical Education towards Physical Education. All of the students exemplify the meaning of studying at the National Sport Upper Secondary Schools with the aim of becoming an elite athlete. Therefore the subject Physical Education was seen by the students more as a subject of amusing character than a subject with knowledge, unlike what they experienced with the subject Specialized Physical Education. In relation to their own elite investment it became obvious that the students considered that they could not use the practical skills which were supposed to be developed in the subject of Physical Education. However two of the students emphasized that the theoretical knowledge was important elements in relation to their elite investment.
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Mundy, Dean E. Boynton Lois A. "A place at the table the process of personal and community LGBT engagement in the gay movement /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,257.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication." Discipline: Journalism and Mass Communication; Department/School: Journalism and Mass Communication, School of.
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White, Jamie Szittai. "Spiritual Formation Revealed Around the Table: An Impact Study of Food and Faith." Ashland Theological Seminary / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=atssem1605432187526995.
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Troilo, Angeline M. "AT THE TABLE; AN INVESTIGATION OF HOW GROWING, COOKING, AND SHARING FOOD TOGETHER CAN BRING A WEALTH OF BENEFITS." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5844.
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MOTIVATION: The value of family mealtime has been well documented by decades of academic research. Children from families, (regardless of race, class or income), that routinely sit down to a meal together, suffer less depression, obesity and substance abuse. They also stay healthier and do better in school (Benefits 2018). There are nutrition, health, social, and mental benefits to eating with others. Research has shown that people eat more fruits and vegetables and other nutrient-rich foods when they share a meal with others. They also drink less soda and eat less fried foods (Benefits 2018). Eating meals together teaches children better communication skills and the opportunity to learn more words (Benefits 2018).
PROBLEM: In environments that have limited fresh fruits and vegetables, yet numerous sweet and salty snack food, food insufficiency, and infrequent family meals have been found to be associated with poor dietary intake and/or obesity. (Mason 2014). People and families may make decisions based on their environment or community. For example, a person may choose not to walk or bike to the store or to work because of a lack of sidewalks or safe bike trails. Community, home, child care, school, health care, and workplace settings can all influence people’s daily behaviors. Therefore, it is important to create environments in these locations that make it easier to engage in physical activity and eat a healthy diet (Adult 2018). If we know that eating nutritious meals together at home equals can reduce stress, obesity, and depression, and lead to a happier life, why do people still make other choices? Lack of food education? Resources? Time?
METHODS: Direct observational and objective data was collected through a survey to better understand the choices that people make. Research through articles, books, and documentaries will support my findings on the benefits of community kitchens and gardens. Precedents include Shalom Farms, Feed More, and other community kitchens in the country
RESULTS: Despite intense nationwide efforts to improve healthy eating, progress has plateaued, and health biases remain (Berge 2017). Community kitchens have been associated with enhanced food skills, improved community food security, and improved social interactions (Iacovou 2013). Studies of community kitchen-based nutrition and cooking instruction program for parents and children suggests increased enjoyment of cooking and decreased consumption of meals away from home (Iacovou 2013).
REFLECTIONS & CONCLUSIONS: How might a community cooking school, garden, and table where members share knowledge, resources, and labor to prepare, cook, and consume food improve the member’s health? A kitchen-based nutrition and cooking instruction program for parents and children would bring food freedom, or the right to food, implying that sufficient food is available, that people have the means to access it, and that it adequately meets the individual’s dietary needs and an environment to learn basic cooking techniques and food gardening. This community cooking school and garden will highlight healthful eating, incorporating young children into growing their own produce, cooking, and emphasizing the emotional and social benefits of family meal time. In this space, a variety of programs for all experience and income levels would be available year round. Every class would end with a meal around the table, because eating together is as important as what’s on the plate.
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Turner, Jennifer. "The View from the Table: An Analysis of Participant Reactions to Community-Based Dialogues on Food and Justice." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1092.
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While Portland, Oregon's sustainable food movement wins accolades for explicitly situating itself in opposition to the industrialized global food system, it often fails to address systems of oppression that are reproduced within the alternative agri-food movement itself. This demonstrated aversion towards the messy, complex, contingent nature of the social world reflects larger processes of "de-politicization" of the overall sustainability agenda, which leads to the favoring of technological and/or spatial solutions that may undermine the social equity and justice dimensions of the "triple bottom line." This thesis focuses on an action research project involving a series of community dialogues that provided participants with a common language and understanding necessary to interrogate issues of race and class in Portland's sustainable food movement while developing visions for possible futures. Dialogue participants may find new ways to communicate, learn, identify common goals and best practices, and potentially network, collaborate and/or co-produce transformative anti-oppression strategies that integrate into the sustainable food movement. By asking those vested in the sustainable food movement to interrogate dimensions of anti-oppression consciousness, the movement becomes fortified with voices better equipped to envision sustainability within a more political and contingent reality that recognizes conflicts of power, and less resembling an idyllic, utopian, and ultimately impossible sustainability. This thesis delivers some preliminary outcomes following the dialogue series by describing and reflecting on the series' implementation and processes, and reflecting on its impact on participants' anti-oppression consciousness in the context of food and sustainability, while discussing possibilities for future scholarship.
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Pierce, Sharon. ""TAKING OUR SEAT AT THE TABLE": A NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF THE EXPERIENCES OF SEVEN LATINA ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/553.
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Currently, Latinas are the fastest growing population in the United States and comprise one-fifth of the female population (Roach, 2015). It is estimated that by the year 2060 Latinas will make up one-third of the females in the US (Roach, 2015). Gandara (2015) suggests there are several potential barriers that are holding back Latinas from academic and professional success. There are several critical factors that could explain why Latinas are underachieving: family obligations, work obligations, affordability, systemic barriers, lack of information and lack of role models and mentors (Espinoza, 2015, Gandara, 2008; Nunez & Murakami-Ramalho, 2012). This narrative inquiry examined the personal and professional lived experiences of Latina administrative leaders in higher education to gain a deeper understanding of how they navigated their educational and leadership trajectories. The primary conclusion of this study is the need to continue diversifying leadership roles in higher education. The participants in this study support previous findings that suggest that their firsthand experience and their support networks serve as catalysts along their educational and leadership trajectories (Espinoza, 2015; Gándara, 2015; González, 2007). In addition, their stories can provide critical information to not only serve the Latina student population and other under-served students in higher education, but can also help propel and influence women in non-leadership roles to new heights.
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Ruthruff, Ronald A. "Welcoming kids to the table of community New Horizon Ministries, as a model of service to homeless runaway adolescents /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Brunke, Michael A., Patrick Broxton, Jon Pelletier, David Gochis, Pieter Hazenberg, David M. Lawrence, L. Ruby Leung, Guo-Yue Niu, Peter A. Troch, and Xubin Zeng. "Implementing and Evaluating Variable Soil Thickness in the Community Land Model, Version 4.5 (CLM4.5)." AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/612995.
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One of the recognized weaknesses of land surface models as used in weather and climate models is the assumption of constant soil thickness because of the lack of global estimates of bedrock depth. Using a 30-arc-s global dataset for the thickness of relatively porous, unconsolidated sediments over bedrock, spatial variation in soil thickness is included here in version 4.5 of the Community Land Model (CLM4.5). The number of soil layers for each grid cell is determined from the average soil depth for each 0.9 degrees latitude x 1.25 degrees longitude grid cell. The greatest changes in the simulation with variable soil thickness are to baseflow, with the annual minimum generally occurring earlier. Smaller changes are seen in latent heat flux and surface runoff primarily as a result of an increase in the annual cycle amplitude. These changes are related to soil moisture changes that are most substantial in locations with shallow bedrock. Total water storage (TWS) anomalies are not strongly affected over most river basins since most basins contain mostly deep soils, but TWS anomalies are substantially different for a river basin with more mountainous terrain. Additionally, the annual cycle in soil temperature is partially affected by including realistic soil thicknesses resulting from changes in the vertical profile of heat capacity and thermal conductivity. However, the largest changes to soil temperature are introduced by the soil moisture changes in the variable soil thickness simulation. This implementation of variable soil thickness represents a step forward in land surface model development.
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Clements, Andrea D., Natalie A. Cyphers, and Lawrence D. Childress. "Is Experimentally Increasing Religiosity Taboo?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7258.
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An abundance of evidence supports that high stress levels often predict poor health, and high levels of religiosity, broadly defined, predict good health. It is possible that one mechanism by which religiosity positively impacts health is by preventing or reducing stress response. Studies measuring Surrender (Surrender to God from a Christian Religious Tradition) have shown that religiosity measured in this way is consistently negatively related to stress levels in college samples and community samples of pregnant women. The next step toward investigating a possible causal mechanism of religiosity on stress level is to experimentally manipulate religiosity. If it is found that it is possible to experimentally increase religiosity, the stage is then set to endeavor to change health and influences on health, such as stress, by such an increase. Specifically religiosity could be manipulated to determine whether changes in religiosity actually affect stress levels. Although this is the normal progression when investigating the efficacy of medical treatments, there has been significant opposition to the manipulation of religiosity. It is understandable that attempting to reduce religiosity would be unethical, but if there are potential health benefits to increasing religiosity, this field of research would seem to be worthy of investigation. The research community has been resistant to fund or even to approve such studies. Even more surprisingly, the medical community, while embracing the use of pharmacological substances to improve health or reduce disease (even for pregnant patients), remains reluctant to even investigate the efficacy of prescribed increases in religiosity, which would represent less physiological risk. Why is there this specific prejudice against religiosity as an intervention? Is it due to the lack of an observable mechanism? There are medications for which the true mechanism of effect is unclear, yet they are used because of the value of the effect. Is it because of the potentially reduced need for medical or pharmacologic intervention? Is it because it is poorly understood by many health care providers? If the ethics regarding human subjects research are embraced, a study should illustrate the potential benefits for both participants and others that outweighs any potential harm to the participants. It seems that on that basis, such experimental studies of the effects of increased religiosity on health should be considered.
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Sabela, Sibusiso Wellington. "An evaluation of the most prevalent budgeting practice in the South African business community." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31857.
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This study is based on a combination of existing theoretical knowledge and recently conducted empirical research. The analysis of knowledge that has come from the academic world has resulted in an extensive review of budgeting. The review starts at the inception of budgets in the nineteenth century, where it was just a tool to manage cost and cash flows. The study follows the trajectory of the evolution of budgeting from Traditional Budgeting practices that lasted for decades to, what is known today as, Better Budgeting.
The evolution of budgeting has been driven by the desire of organisations to mitigate business challenges which result from the economic volatilities of the day as well as to remain competitive. This desire to mitigate business challenges remains relevant today and demands that organisations be equipped with best practice management tools, systems and business processes.
In order to manage organisations effectively and efficiently, Management Accounting as a discipline is in a state of constant development. Over the years, a number of new innovations have been introduced in the field of Management Accounting. These include (but are not limited to) concepts such as Activity Based Costing (ABC), Activity Based Management (ABM), Activity Based Budgeting (ABB), Target Costing, Strategic Cost Management and Economic Value Added (Budgeting)(EVA™), Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB), Rolling Budgets and Forecasting (RBF), Balanced-Score Card (BSC) and Beyond Budgeting. These innovations aim to provide business managers with practical value adding solutions for a better understanding of the organisation’s product or service costing and planning strategies. The focus of this study is on innovations relating to the planning strategies of the organisation. Innovations that relate to planning include: Activity Based Budgeting, Zero Based Budgeting and Rolling Budgeting and Forecasting.
The budget evolution is not short of academic value; researchers have conducted empirical surveys and have provided a theoretical perspective on the subject matter with fruitful findings. There appears to be a consensus regarding a total overhaul of Traditional Budgeting with the clear intention to move towards Better Budgeting. In the midst of this continued research work, there has been an emergence of a radical view about budgeting. This radical view concerns pursuing an agenda that suggests that organisations must stop preparing budgets. The gist of this radical development can be summed up as the limitations presented by budgeting in organisations. This recent concept has been coined as Beyond Budgeting.
To remain globally competitive, South African organisations must keep abreast with the latest developments in management practices. This study therefore provides a good platform for South African organisations to obtain knowledge in what other countries are already doing around the subject of budgeting.
The study has a two-pronged problem statement. Firstly, do organisations still budget? Secondly, what do organisations feel is the future for budgeting? Are they keeping with Traditional Budgeting, moving towards Better Budgeting or rather going further and looking Beyond Budgeting? The South African business community is no exception to this global budget debate about Traditional Budgeting, Better Budgeting and Beyond Budgeting.
To gather evidence, the study made use of an online survey questionnaire that is attached as Appendix 2. An email invite containing an Internet hyperlink was sent to respondents. Respondents were expected to click on the hyperlink to gain access the pre-designed online survey questionnaire.
Upon the analysis of the results, it was concluded that the South African business community still relies on budgeting, with 90% of the respondents saying that budgeting is indispensable, as their organisations will not manage without budgeting. Furthermore, there was a clear-cut move from Traditional Budgeting towards Better Budgeting. The study also concluded that the move towards Better Budgeting is supported by the inability of Traditional Budgeting to keep up with the rapid changes in macro and micro-economic factors. Also interesting to note is the revelation that 0% of the respondents indicated that they had adopted and implemented Beyond Budgeting. This resistance by the South African business community to the adoption of Beyond Budgeting and the resulting slower pace of this new practice's implementation is actually similar to the pace at which global organisations have received this radical budgeting practice.Dissertation (MCom) University of Pretoria, 2012
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Chung, Alexander Quoc Huy. "Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning: A Value-Based Approach to Preparing Coastal Communities for Sea Level Rise." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31446.
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Extreme weather events have become a common occurrence and coastal communities are adversely affected by it. Studies have shown that the changing climate has increased the frequency and severity of storms, surging sea levels, and floods, as was seen with Hurricane Sandy (2012) and Typhoon Haiyan (2013). The need to be proactive in preparing for these events, as a means of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, is evident. This study focuses on the formal definition, measurement and simulation of coastal community preparedness and response to severe storm events. Preparedness and response requires resources, emergency plans, informed decision making and the ability to cope with unexpected events. A suite of preparedness indicators is developed using a three level hierarchical framework in the construction of a coastal community preparedness index to evaluate resources and plans. Informed decision making for emergency management personnel in the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) is evaluated through a table-top exercise using a five-phase approach. Lastly, decision making with risk is introduced with a storm decision making simulation model. This study is applied to the case of the breakwater failure in the coastal community of Little Anse, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
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Popescu, Alina-Georgiana. "Les films étaient en couleur mais la réalité était grise… : la censure dans la cinématographie roumaine sous Nicolae Ceaușescu (1965-1989)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA100070.
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Ce projet de thèse est centré sur l’étude de la censure en tant que processus socio-politique, révélateur des logiques individuelles et institutionnelles qui se conjuguent dans la réalisation d’un film. Cette recherche est axée sur la période 1965-1989, « l’époque Nicolae Ceaușescu », remarquable par la quantité de films censurés. Pour ce faire, nous avons consacré la première partie du travail à l’analyse de l’organisation de la cinématographie roumaine, considérée dans le contexte politique, social et économique d’après la 2de Guerre Mondiale et jusqu’à la chute du régime. Une attention particulière est accordée ici à l’évolution des institutions de contrôle de la culture ainsi qu’aux discours qui façonnent les normes de la création cinématographique. Pour comprendre les différentes formes que peut revêtir la censure, nous nous situons ensuite à un niveau intermédiaire d’analyse, celui des institutions. Nous avons ainsi identifié et analysé plusieurs structures, comme les studios de production, l’Association des Cinéastes, la Radio Europe Libre, la Securitate, dont les fonctions censoriales vont du guidage à la répression. Dans la dernière partie de cette analyse, nous nous penchons sur des cinéastes et des films importants de la période. Nous avons fait le choix d’analyser les trajectoires des réalisateurs les plus représentatifs de la période, par le prisme de leurs dossiers de surveillance établis par la police politique. La Securitate les surveille parce qu’ils ont en commun une vision « non-conforme » de la réalité socialiste ; ce faisant, celle-ci révèle ce qui était (in)désirable dans la réalité socialiste. Enfin, pour illustrer comment la censure affecte la matière des films, nous proposons l’analyse de quelques cas notoires de film interdits, mais aussi de films qui permettent d’exemplifier en détail différents tabous, diverses formes d’intervention ou les réactions des réalisateurs à toute sorte de pressions. Le fait de choisir la censure comme un angle d’analyse privilégié est utile pour comprendre les contraintes, les servitudes et les espaces de liberté des cinéastes, les contradictions, les dits, et les non-dits du régimeThis PhD project focuses on the study of censorship as a socio-political process, revealing the individual and institutional logics that conjugate in the process of filmmaking. The research analyzes the period 1965-1989, which is the "Nicolae Ceauşescu era", remarkable for the amount of censored films.In conducting my research, I dedicated the first part of the work to the analysis of the Romanian cinematography organization, considered in the political, social and economic context, from the 2nd World War until the fall of the Communist regime. Particular attention is paid here to the evolution of culture control institutions and to the discourses, especially those of the Communist Party leaders, which shape the standards of the film production. In order to understand various possible forms of censorship, I then approached an intermediate level of analysis, that of institutions. Thus, I identified and analyzed several structures such as production studios, the Filmmakers’ Association, Radio Free Europe and the political police, whose censorial functions varied from guidance to repression.In the last part of this work, I looked into filmmakers’ biographies and important films of the period. I chose to analyze the trajectories of the period’s most representative filmmakers through the lenses of their surveillance files made by the political police. The Securitate monitored them because they shared a "non-compliant" vision of the socialist reality; while doing so, the political police revealed what was acceptable or undesirable in that reality. Finally, in order to illustrate how censorship affects films, I propose the analysis of some notorious cases of banned film, but also of films that exemplify various taboos, detailed forms of intervention or reactions of the filmmakers to any kind of pressure. Choosing censorship as a main angle of analysis is useful for the comprehension of the filmmakers’ constraints, servitudes and liberties, but also the understanding of contradictions, of what is made visible or kept silently hidden by the regime
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Konig, Claudio Roberto. "Redução de danos e teologia: protagonizando novas compreensões de vida e cuidado a partir da epidemia de HIV/AIDS." Faculdades EST, 2013. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=439.
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O presente estudo tem como objeto de pesquisa, discutir, a partir da experiência adquirida com o Programa Redução de Danos, novas compreensões de vida e cuidado a partir da epidemia HIV/Aids. A partir disso, propõe na interface com a teologia, alternativas de ação pastoral que resgatem e promovam o respeito à dignidade humana não somente das pessoas que vivem e/ou convivem com HIV/Aids, mas todas aquelas que por uma razão ou outra encontram-se vulneráveis e/ou privadas dos seus direitos, independente da esfera em que se encontram na sociedade. São objetivos dessa pesquisa, apresentar a proposta do Programa de Redução de Danos, bem como perceber como se deu a construção de dignidade humana a partir dessa proposta juntamente com a teologia e ação pastoral para os/as ministros/as da Igreja Evangélica de Confissão Luterana no Brasil (IECLB) que atuaram no programa de Redução de Danos. Após socializar as experiências dos/as obreiros/as, apresenta-se e reflete-se sobre uma experiência de comunhão de mesa no modelo de Jesus Cristo, a partir de uma pessoa com Aids atendida pelo programa Redução de Danos. Por fim, são construídos e propostos subsídios como resultado da proposta de Redução de Danos em diálogo com a Teologia, contribuindo para a construção de novas compreensões de vida e cuidado a partir da epidemia de HIV/Aids. Como metodologia, a pesquisa ocorreu em dois momentos. A primeira bibliográfica, que perpassa obras que discutem os problemas das drogas na relação com a epidemia da Aids e descreve o contexto em que surge a redução de danos, obras que trazem para a discussão as comunhões de mesas contemporâneas, a prática do cuidado, e a discussão sobre uma possível Teologia da Aids. Num segundo momento, foi realizada pesquisa de campo, apresentando entrevistas realizadas com quatro pastores/as da IECLB para entender os significados que a proposta de redução de danos lhes proporcionou, tanto para sua vida particular, como para a atividade pastoral realizada em suas comunidades. Concluindo, são apresentadas, a partir do conhecimento empírico da redução de danos frente ao tema do HIV/Aids, novas propostas de vida e cuidado para que as igrejas contemporâneas possam, a partir da realidade de suas comunidades, promover a vida e a dignidade humana.The present study‟s research object is to discuss, from the experience acquired with the Harm Reduction Program, new understandings of life and care from the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Starting with this, it proposes in the interface with Theology, pastoral action alternatives that rescue and promote respect for human dignity not only for people living with HIV/AIDS and/or living together with people living with HIV/AIDS, but all who for one reason or another are vulnerable and/or have their rights violated, no matter which sphere of society they are part of. The goals of this research are to present the proposals of the Harm Reduction Program, as well as see the way it constructed the concept of human dignity from this proposals together with Theology and pastoral work by ministers of the Igreja Evangélica de Confissão Luterana no Brasil (IECLB) who worked in the Harm Reduction Program. After presenting the experiences of those ministers, an experience of table communion in the model of Jesus Christ, with a person with Aids attended by the Harm Reduction Program is presented and reflected upon. At last, contributions are constructed and proposed as a result of the Harm Reduction Program in dialogue with Theology, contributing to the construction of new understandings of life and care from the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Concerning methodology, the research took place in two moments. The first one is bibliographic, dealing with works that discuss the issues of drugs in relation to the Aids epidemic and describe the context in which the Harm Reduction emerges, works that discuss contemporary table communions, works that discuss a possible Theology of Aids. In a second moment, a field research was accomplished, presenting interviews with four pastors from the IECLB to understand the meanings the harm reduction proposals offered them, for their private lives as well as for the pastoral work accomplished in their congregations. In conclusion, from the empirical knowledge of harm reduction in face of the theme of HIV/AIDS, new proposals for life and care are presented so that contemporary churches may, from the reality of their congregations, promote life and human dignity.
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Pfanstiel, Jörn, Christine Keller, Alexandra Funke, Tristan Heinig, and Thomas Schlegel. "Mobile Reisebegleitung mit NFC-Unterstützung." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-101011.
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Die zunehmende Nutzung [1] persönlicher mobiler Geräte durch immer mehr Fahrgäste des öffentlichen Personenverkehrs (ÖPV) begünstigt die Entwicklung neuer Applikationen, die den allgegenwärtigen Zugriff auf domänenspezifische Inhalte und Echtzeitdaten über variable Schnittstellen und Informationskanäle realisieren. Near Field Communication (NFC) gilt in diesem Zusammenhang als eine vielversprechende Technologie, die neben kontaktloser Datenübertragung auch Bezahlvorgänge direkt über das mobile Endgerät ermöglicht. Mit Blick auf die unterschiedlichen Einsatzmöglichkeiten von NFC in der mobilen Reisebegleitung wird in diesem Beitrag eine ikonografische Klassifikation für die visualisierte Analyse von Anwendungsszenarien vorgestellt, welche zur Planung ubiquitärer Applikationen im ÖPV eingesetzt werden kann.
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Tengö, Maria. "Management Practices for Dealing with Uncertainty and Change : Social-Ecological Systems in Tanzania and Madagascar." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för systemekologi, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-309.
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The development of human societies rests on functioning ecosystems. This thesis builds on integrated theories of linked social-ecological systems and complex adaptive systems to increase the understanding of how to strengthen the capacity of ecosystems to generate services that sustain human well-being. In this work, I analyze such capacity in human-dominated production ecosystems in Tanzania and Madagascar, and how this capacity is related to local management practices. Resilience of social-ecological systems refers to the capacity to buffer change, to re-organize following disruption, and for adaptation and learning. In Papers I and II, qualitative interview methods are used for mapping and analyses of management practices in the agroecosystem of the Mbulu highlands, Northern Tanzania. Practices such as soil and water conservation, maintenance of habitats for pollinators and predators of pests, intercropping, and landscape diversification, act to buffer food production in a variable environment and sustain underlying ecological processes. The practices are embedded in a decentralized but nested system of institutions, such as communal land rights and social networks, that can buffer for localized disturbances such as temporary droughts. Paper II compares these findings with practices in a farming system in Sweden, and suggests that similar mechanisms for dealing with uncertainty and change can exist in spite of different biophysical conditions. In Papers III and IV, interviews are combined with GIS tools and vegetation sampling to study characteristics and dynamics of the dry forests of Androy, southern Madagascar. Paper III reports on a previously underestimated capacity of the dry forest of southern Madagascar to regenerate, showing areas of regeneration roughly equal areas of degenerated forest (18 700 ha). The pattern of forest regeneration, degradation, and stable cover during the period 1986-2000 was related to the enforcement of customary property rights (Paper III). Paper IV reports on a network of locally protected forest patches in Androy that is embedded in a landscape managed for agricultural or livestock production and contributes to the generation of ecosystem services and ecosystem resilience at a landscape scale. Forest protection is secured by local taboos that provide a well-functioning and legitimate sanctioning system related to religious beliefs. In Paper V, two spatial modeling tools are used to assess the generation of two services, crop pollination and seed dispersal, by the protected forest patches in southern Androy. The functioning of these services is dependent on the spatial configuration of protected patches in the fragmented landscape and can be highly vulnerable to even small changes in landscape forest cover. In conclusion, many of the identified practices are found to make ecological sense in the context of complex systems and contribute to the resilience of social-ecological systems. The thesis illustrates that the capacity of human-dominated production ecosystems to sustain a flow of desired ecosystem services is strongly associated with local management practices and the governance system that they are embedded in, and that, contrary to what is often assumed, local management can and does add resilience for desired ecosystem services. These findings have substantial policy implications, as insufficient recognition of the dynamics of social-ecological interactions is likely to lead to failure of schemes for human development and biodiversity conservation.
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Lotz, Sarah Jennifer. "Using the stage model of collaboration theory to guide the establishment and operations of community round tables : a case study of the Howe Sound Round Table." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/4312.
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Following the release of Our Common Future (1987), a National Task Force created by
the Canadian Council of Resource and Environment Ministers (CCREM), recommended the
establishment of National and Provincial Round Tables. Shortly thereafter, local round tables
emerged across Canada as an important community response to the promotion of sustainable
development. Local round tables are typically multi-stakeholder groups that operate by
consensus and work towards a sustainability goal. Many of these local organizations were
formed in a rather ad hoc manner with very little attention focussed on relevant organizational
theories, and to this date are still struggling to come to grips with their establishment and
operations. Thus there is an urgent need to understand how these community processes work and
to discover how they can operate most effectively. The goal of this thesis is to test the use of the
stage model of collaboration theory in guiding the establishment and operations of local round
tables and for assessing their strengths and weaknesses in these phases. The Howe Sound Round
Table (HSRT) was chosen as suitable case study.
Collaboration theory has been well researched by McCann (1983), Gray (1989),
Waddock (1989) and others. It also offers an effective strategy for defining the issues, building
partnerships, and solving problems with other groups in a manner that enables them to work
constructively towards common goals. Thus, its application to local round table processes is
very appropriate. Nevertheless, current collaboration models cannot be applied in their existing
form, but must first be adapted to the needs of local round tables. A five stage collaboration
framework is proposed. These stages are as follows: environmental context/issue crystallization,
problem setting, direction setting, relationship building and monitoring. This proposed
framework is then used to guide both the data collection and the analysis. The results include a comprehensive analysis of the establishment and operational phases
of the HSRT and a detailed list of recommendations for this group. These recommendations may
be grouped into six major categories or objectives that may be beneficial to the HSRT as well as
to other community groups. Based on the validity of the results and recommendations, it is
concluded that collaboration theory can be used as a suitable guide. Further, since local round
tables (such as the HSRT) are just one type of consensus-based, multi-stakeholder process it
follows that collaboration theory may also successfully be applied to a wide variety of other such
processes. Nevertheless, while collaboration is proven to be an effective tool, it does have some
limitations. In addition, it should not be used as a replacement, but rather as a supplement to the
more practical round table and community stewardship guides that are currently available.
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"Setting a Resilient Urban Table: Planning for Community Food Systems." Doctoral diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.25001.
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abstract: Research indicates that projected increases in global urban populations are not adequately addressed by current food production and planning. In the U.S., insufficient access to food, or the inability to access enough food for an active, healthy life affects nearly 15% of the population. In the face of these challenges, how are urban planners and other food system professionals planning for more resilient food systems? The purpose of this qualitative case study is to understand the planning and policy resources and food system approaches that might have the ability to strengthen food systems, and ultimately, urban resiliency. It proposes that by understanding food system planning in this context, planning approaches can be developed to strengthen urban food systems. The study uses the conceptual framework of urban planning for food, new community food systems, urban resiliency, and the theory of Panarchy as a model for urban planning and creation of new community food systems. Panarchy theory proposes that entrenched, non-diverse systems can change and adapt, and this study proposes that some U.S. cities are doing just that by planning for new community food systems. It studied 16 U.S. cities considered to be leaders in sustainability practices, and conducted semi-structured interviews with professionals in three of those cities: Portland, OR; San Francisco, CA; and Seattle, WA. The study found that these cities are using innovative methods in food system work, with professionals from many different departments and disciplines bringing interdisciplinary approaches to food planning and policy. Supported by strong executive leadership, these cities are creating progressive urban agriculture zoning policies and other food system initiatives, and using innovative educational programs and events to engage citizens at all socio-economic levels. Food system departments are relatively new, plans and policies among the cities are not consistent, and they are faced with limited resources to adequately track food system-related data. However they are still moving forward with programming to increase food access and improve their food systems. Food-system resiliency is recognized as an important goal, but cities are in varying stages of development for resiliency planning.Dissertation/Thesis
Ph.D. Environmental Design and Planning 2014
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Spence, Kerry. "A mixed-methods case study evaluation of a community-based food literacy program in the north end of Winnipeg: Community Tables." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/30752.
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A substantial number of community members access food in community-based organizations in the Winnipeg's North End. However, many staff and volunteers in these organizations do not have adequate nutrition knowledge and food skills, nor are there healthy food policies to guide food programs. Food Matters Manitoba developed a food and nutrition education program, Community Tables. The purpose of this study was to evaluate Community Tables for its effectiveness in increasing staff/volunteer basic nutrition knowledge and food skills, and facilitating the adoption of healthy food policies by participating organizations. Data collection included questionnaires to determine knowledge acquisition and participant satisfaction, and in-depth follow-up interviews to determine each participant’s experience with developing/implementing a healthy food policy. Results suggest that the program was moderately successful in increasing participant food and nutrition knowledge; and while three organizations were able to implement policies to some degree, others faced challenges, which prevented full implementation.October 2015
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Elliott, Shannon Brooke. "Landscape, Kitchen, Table: Compressing the Food Axis to Serve a Food Desert." 2010. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/793.
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In the past, cities and their food system were spatially interwoven. However, rapid urbanization and the creation of industrialized agriculture have physically isolated and psychologically disconnected urban residents from the landscape that sustains them. Cities can no longer feed themselves and must rely on a global hinterland. Vital growing, preserving, and cooking knowledge has been lost, while negative health, economic, and environmental effects continue to develop from this separation. Low-income neighborhoods have significantly been affected where a lack of income and mobility pose barriers to adequate food access. Architects have addressed food issues individually, but have yet to take an integrative approach that meaningfully engages urban citizens with all processes of the food system. Urban planners have recently taken a holistic design approach to food issues through the development of the community food system concept. By applying this idea to an architectural program I have designed a Community Food Center for the Five Points Neighborhood in East Knoxville, TN. Spatially compressing and layering food activity spaces preserves the majority of the landscape on site for food production. The kitchen, dining room, market, and garden increase access to healthy food while serving as community gathering spaces, and the business incubator kitchens provide economic opportunities. The whole facility acts to educate and engage people in the growing, harvesting, preserving, cooking, sharing, and composting of food. Cities cannot sustain themselves by only providing spaces for consumption. Architects must challenge the accepted relationships between food system spaces and strive to reincorporate productive landscapes and spaces dedicated to transforming raw ingredients into a variety of architectural programs. Although the Five Points Community Food Center is site specific, the concept of integrating multiple food activities into a single architectural entity can be used as a tool for place making by expressing a local identity through food culture while improving the social and economic fabric.
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Howell, Jordan P. "Community supported agriculture as revitalization : reconnecting the farm and the dinner table /." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10288/456.
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Harenda, Mary G. "Evaluation of techniques of monitor wetland hydrology and macroinvertebrate community characteristics." Thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/37134.
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The lack of cost-effective, reliable sampling methods for many wetland
characteristics hinders efforts to describe the structural and functional
properties of wetlands. This study evaluated techniques for sampling the
subsurface hydrology and invertebrates of freshwater wetlands. The depth of
rusting on mild steel rods was compared with water well measurements to
determine the reliability of rust depth as a predictor of subsurface water levels.
An emergence trap and a benthic coring device were compared to determine
the utility of each for sampling the invertebrate fauna of a wetland.
Accuracy of the rods in estimating different water table measurements
(average, lowest, most recent) and comparability of rod data (within sets of
five rods) were investigated for different reference points on the rods,
residence times, and wetland soils. The effect of the presence of vegetation in
a soil low in organic matter on rod accuracy also was evaluated. The depth of
lowest formation of a rust band on the rods predicted average and most recent
water table depths in peat soil (r² for regressions of rust band depth on water
table depth ranged from 0.71-0.95). Estimates of average water table depths
were most precise for peat soil. Accuracy and precision were considerably
lower in sand and clay soils, but significant relationships (P < 0.10) between
depth of rust band formation and water table depth were found for all soils (r²
values for sand and clay ranged from 0.13-0.55). The presence of vegetation
had no effect on rod accuracy in the sand soil. Differences in rod
performance between residence times were not apparent. However, a rod
residence time of 4-6 weeks is recommended to balance the time necessary for
adequate rust formation on the rods and to minimize the chance of exposure
to large changes in water levels. A decrease in water table depth of
approximately 40 cm in one month in the clay wetland caused a month lag
time in rust formation. Differences in depth of rust band formation between
the five rods within replicate sets were greatest for rods from clay (mean SD
= ±7.9 cm). Variability of rust band measurements within replicate sets was
lower in peat (mean SD = ±2.3 cm) and sand (mean SD = ±2.6 cm). The
results indicated that the rusty rod technique has serious limitations and should
be applied only in situations where the use of standard methods must be
restricted.
Emergence traps and a benthic coring device were used to sample the
invertebrates of a freshwater, emergent wetland during late spring and
summer, 1989. The fauna captured by each technique, disparities between the
techniques in sampling certain taxa, and factors potentially affecting abundance
estimates were examined. In addition, the efficiency of each technique,
expressed as the number of samples required to achieve a desired level of
precision, in estimating mean abundances of the dominant invertebrate group,
the Chironomidae, was evaluated.
Total and monthly estimates of insect family richness were higher for
continuous sampling of emergence than for monthly core samples of the
benthos. Emergence traps also caught a greater variety of the insect taxa
inhabiting the wetland. The precision and efficiency of each technique in
estimating abundances of the dominant group, the Chironomidae, varied
between months and habitats (open water; vegetation). The variation was
most likely due to the natural spatial and temporal variations inherent in
invertebrate populations. The number of samples required (n[subscript r]) to estimate
mean Chironomidae abundances for the entire summer, June-September, to a
precision of D= 0.20 (equivalent to a standard error equal to 20% of the
mean), varied between techniques. Fewer sampling stations would have been
required to estimate mean adult abundances using emergence traps than would
have been required for estimates of larval abundances using benthic core
samples. Large numbers of benthic cores (27-208 individual cores per habitat)
would have generally been required for both monthly and seasonal estimates of
non-insect invertebrate abundances. Labor costs for processing emergence
samples were about 30% of those for benthic samples. Subsampling of
dominant groups in the emergence samples would have further reduced costs.
Frequent sampling throughout a season, with several different techniques,
is required to completely characterize the invertebrate community of a
wetland. This study compared two quantitative techniques for sampling
wetland insects. Continuous sampling with emergence traps provided higher
estimates of insect family richness and more precise estimates of Chironomidae
abundances at a lower cost per sample than monthly core samples of the
benthos.Graduation date: 1992
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Boyle, Bettina Helth Arnum. "Online Tables & Tablecloths: Facilitating Space for Online Learning & Collaboration." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/18115.
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This thesis describes the researcher’s journey as an online facilitator and reflective organization development (OD) practitioner as she explores how to nurture and cultivate space for learning and collaboration in an online community of practice. The research setting is a small group of mostly volunteers in a national health charity. The researcher adopts a reflective practitioner research approach engaging in a continuous process of story-telling throughout the thesis. She struggles with questions such as her own dynamic role as an outside facilitator, the role of technology, dilemmas of emergence versus design and discovery of purpose. Rather than arriving at a to-do-list for potential online facilitators, she discovers that hosting café style conversations, setting the online tables and enabling space for learning, collaboration and aliveness is more a matter of the facilitator’s capacity to listen, to be authentically present and to relinquish control.
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Davis, Louisa Leila. "Around the table in Christ : the church as a community of moral discernment on abortion /." 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/9824303.
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Chuang, Hsin-ta, and 莊欣達. "The Study of the Tainan City Wennan Community Table Tennis Association Development Experience (1998-2013)." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51172951115596231823.
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It is difficult to find a spacious sports space in Taiwan due to the dense population. However it is easier to find a table tennis venue, and it costs less but bring about high efficiency, which makes it the perfect sport to promote in Taiwan. Nowadays, table tennis is a popular sport among people in Tainan, You can see table tennis association everywhere. Among them, Wennan Community table tennis association is the largest one. The purpose of this study is researching the origin and the development of Wennan Community Table Tennis Association. This study employs the field study as the main research method, including participant observation and interview while collecting the data. The conclusion is: 1. The president of the association, Wu Sen-Tian leads a group of table-tennis-loving people working together to start the well-established association. The club was first a Jinhua community table tennis association. The president and members plan and work together to establish Wennan Community table tennis association. 2. The association is developed from easy to complicated, and it now tends to be steady: the location and other equipments were added by two steps. Due to the geographical factor and friends’ recommendation, the members of the association once reached to 270, It is now around 220. Members have to pay each season for the expense of the member competition, Wennan invitational competition, points competition. The association has the ability to train the grassroots players; nevertheless, due to the limitation of budget, the achievement results is mainly from the south area. The six characteristics include its good fame, sufficient equipment, professional coach, diversified member, humanized management, and its unique way to connect people. However, it is weak in terms of the number of members it owns, the sultry condition of the indoor field, and the neglect of the rights of the members. The planning before Wennan community table tennis association was established and the operation and promotion after it was established corresponds with the spirit of community empowerment such as "bottom-up", "resident participation", "community empowerment", "sustainable development", those ideas called the self-reliant model of community empowerment.
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KUO, YEN-CHUNG, and 郭彥君. "The Leisure Activities of the Community Elderly Introduced withthe Service Design of Reality Table Games." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/nfumgt.
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In view of the upcoming elderly society, this study is mainly purposed to explore the appropriate participation in leisure activities and interpersonal interaction. It is helpful for both physical and psychological health of the elderly to develop the new types of models and design for reality table games. This study is divided into three major phases, "preliminary research", "building reality table games and amendments" and "experiment and interview". In the first stage, through literature discussion and the surveys on current situation, we can understand the needs and expectations for the leisure gaming activities in communities. With the assistance from stakeholders, this study is conducted through semi-structured interview to summarize the needs of leisure activities. The types of table games recommended by experts are used to establish a participatory workshop leading the elderly for experiencing games. The semi-structured interview is conducted to understand the preferences, needs and inductions of the elderly. Also, health tourism questionnaire are served as the basic data survey to design games. Semi-structured interviews are summarized and analyzed into three typical role models with the preferences of leisure game activities and service gaps determined. Eight guidelines for the design of elderly table games are proposed. The second phase focuses on user-centered reality table games. It is divided into three topics: (1) planning process and mechanism, (2) game elements and props design, and (3) introducing digital media technology for instructional videos and manuals. In the third phase, reality games are introduced into the courses for community leisure activities to hold a participatory workshop and explore the differences between the positive emotions and the interpersonal interactions of the elderly. After weekly courses are finished, the usability scales of table games, the scales of leisure satisfaction and semi-structured interviews are conducted for analysis. Finally, helped by community managers, semi-structured interviews are conducted to compile the modes of reality table games suitable for the elderly. It is available to provide the elderly with the diverse selections of community activities to successfully promote health but prevent from aging. Research results prove that reality table games are introduced into the leisure activities of the elderly. Gaming methods are helpful to learn knowledge. The introduction of digital media technology can reduce painful learning experience but increase efficiency. It is available to enhance positive emotions (including self-confidence, sense of accomplishment), interpersonal interaction and social skills. After three real-life table games are re-examined, the preference difference between men and women is found. Also, the design suggestions for the elderly reality table games are summarized. Finally, according to the service processes summarized in this study with the service design further improved, it is available for the reference made by researchers and stakeholders in relevant fields.
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Lien, Hsiu-Min, and 連秀敏. "Esthetics Meets The Fortune on The Tablea Case Study of Esthetic Course at a Community College." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48855471922796183797.
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This study aims at developing students in a community women’s college wherestudents in a free and openatmosphere were inspired by soul beauty in pursuitofhappiness.Students learned self-understanding, autonomy, and lifelonglearning. Theresearcher, based on "life aesthetics" and educational theories, developed a series of"Life Aesthetics" courses. The courses included the content of floral and culinary aesthetics. The researcher adopted action research methods and explored curriculumdesign, pedagogy, and effective teaching strategies to achieve the set goal. Participants of this study were 28 students of community women’s college inKaohsiung. The data collection included observation, interviews, documents(reflection journals and feedback sheets), and focus groups and other records. The action research went through one year and two months. In the process, curriculumplans, teaching proposals, teaching action, reflection, modifying strategies, re-action,and solving problems proceeded subsequently. The conclusions are as follows: First, in curriculum design, the learner-centered curriculum involves both socialand technology-oriented curriculum design. The curriculum also contains the objectives, content, organization, evaluation, etc. Second, in teaching strategies, the teacher needs to master students previousknowledge, motivation and lesson preparation. Teaching strategies may includedividing groups, demonstrations, multimedia, operation and practice, individualguidance, presentations, incentives and multi-assessments to achieve teachingobjectives. Through the study results, it is desirable to allow more adult education instructorsto participate in life aesthetics curriculum development, and to stimulate more lively and interesting adult education activities.
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Carpinelli, Lisa Maria. "Table work negotiating and discussing discourses and practices of professionalism among Madison-area community theatre directors /." 1995. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/32921048.html.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1995.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-73).
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Deysel, Valencia. "The social sustainability of the Table Mountain cableway." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13384.
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Social sustainability provides a meaningful approach for industry practitioners wishing to establish a platform to engage communities within enterprise development. It can be said that sustainability requires much more than environmental and fiscal achievements and, with an increased awareness of issues such as equity and power sharing, more corporates are incorporating their strategies in line with social responsibility values. This study therefore takes a closer look at how the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company, integrates this important concept of social sustainability in its business practices.
The tourism industry has in fact grown to such an extent that global economists estimate the progress of international growth at between three and six percent annually. However, this growth can only be measured when businesses take social responsibility factors into consideration.
According to the UNWTO (2011, p 1) UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, opened the Fourth UN Conference on Least Developed Countries stating that the majority of: “…least developed countries (LDCs) are rich in resources. All have young and vibrant populations. These men and women need decent jobs, education, training, so they can make the most of their country’s assets - minerals and other commodities, farmland, rich stores of biodiversity and tourism potential”.
This study therefore focuses on current and future issues pertaining to socially sustainable tourism at the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company in Cape Town, South Africa. In addition, it presents solutions for reducing the negative impacts of tourism, whilst at the same time embracing the benefits of tourism for the area and its local communities.
The outcome of the study found that the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company added little value to social responsibility objectives. The company has made a significant effort in marketing their product through the mass media.
However, there is an overall corporate responsibility barrier. Much still needs to be done to ensure accountability for social responsibility issues, not just within this particular company, but also throughout the tourism industry.Environmental Sciences
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Belle-Isle, Lynne. "At the table with people who use drugs: transforming power inequities." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7199.
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Background: People who use illegal drugs are disproportionately affected by HIV and hepatitis C, stigmatization and social exclusion. Health inequities are worsened by drug policy of criminalization, which thwarts health promotion efforts and hinders access to services. To address these inequities, people who use drugs are increasingly included in decisions that affect them by sitting on policy, service delivery and research committees. This study addressed a gap in understanding how power inequities are transformed in committees where people who use drugs are at the table. Methods: In partnership with the Drug Users Advocacy League and the Society of Living Illicit Drugs Users, this participatory critical emancipatory inquiry explored power relations in four committees in Ontario and BC. Data were collected in 2013 through meeting observations, interviews, demographics surveys and document reviews. Data analysis was guided by theoretical frameworks grounded in critical theory and transformative learning theory. Results: Findings confirmed striking socioeconomic inequities between people who use drugs and others at the table. Inconsistent measures were taken by committees to alleviate barriers to inclusion. Despite openness to inclusion, committee members tended to underestimate people who use drugs. The presence of local organizations of people who use drugs ensured a more democratic selection of their representatives to sit on committees. Once at the table, creating a safe space entailed building trust, authentic relationships, relational and reflective dialogue, and skilled facilitation. Democratic practices of negotiated relationships and consensus-based decision-making enhanced meaningful inclusion. A structural environment in which drug policy criminalizes people who use illegal drugs hindered capacity to transform power inequities by feeding stigma, which worsens health and social inequities. Committees were committed to inclusion of people who use drugs though capacity to do so varied due to budgetary and human resources constraints. Study limitations, practice implications and future research directions are offered.Graduate
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Naude, Dean Charles. "Impact of the Turn Table Trust Working for Water Project on fuelwood supply and household income of the rural Bulwer community." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/4706.
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In the context of the post-apartheid era and under the new Government of National Unity, the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) was initiated in 1994. To assist in the realisation of the goals of this programme the macro-economic strategy, Growth, Employment and Redistribution (GEAR), was implemented in 1996. It was within these frameworks that the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) launched its Working for Water (WFW) programme in October 1995. This programme was based on three pillars, namely: enhancing water supply and water security; creating jobs, building communities and improving quality of life and; conserving ecological functioning and biological diversity. Since October 1995 the Working for Water Programme has created 42 059 jobs, 220 884 hectares have been cleared with follow-up clearing in 55 731 hectares as part of the programme strategy to enhance water supply. Investment has been made in 240 projects, with a budget of R365 147 259 as at 31 March 1998. The impact of the Turn Table Trust WFW Project, a sub-project of the Central
Umkomaas WFW Project, was examined in terms of fuelwood supply and household income of three small rural communities, namely: Xosheyakhe, Intabamakhaba and Mkhohlwa, referred to in this dissertation as the Rural Bulwer community. The research was carried out by means of questionnaire interviews and a workshop held at the Pholela Tribal court.
The results of this study indicate that the Bulwer community depend on four energy types, in order of importance; wood, paraffin, dung and electricity. Many of the households perceive that, since the Turn Table Trust WFW Project began in the area in November 1995, there is less wood available and trees which are used for fuelwood are being cleared. Certain areas have felt the impacts of the clearingprogramme. People who have access to electricity still rely on fuelwood as they can not afford to use electricity exclusively. Indigenous forests are important as a source of fuelwood and for the harvesting of medicinal plants. The indigenous forests could be put under severe stress if wattle becomes unavailable forfuelwood purposes. The impact of the Turn Table Trust WFW Project on the fuelwood supply of the Bulwer community is small at present, but likely to increase. Households that have members employed by the Project, rely on this income to cover most household expenses. These households struggle to survive if or when employment by the Turn Table Trust WFW Project is periodically terminated. The businesses in Bulwer have also come to rely on the income earned by those employed by the Project. The Working for Water programme has far reaching implications for a local
community and its surrounds and these need to be taken into account when both beginning and, importantly, ending a project in an area.Thesis (M.Env.Dev.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1999.
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Breger, Benjamin. "Understanding Agrihoods: An Exploration into the Growing Trend of Farm-to-Table Communities Across the United States." 2020. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/934.
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Agrihoods are a recent trend in real estate development that integrate agricultural amenities - such as working farms, orchards, or community gardens - into residential or mixed-use communities. As an emergent trend, agrihoods have the potential to enhance farmland preservation and local and regional food systems, making them a ripe area for research. However, very little scholarly research has been carried out to characterize, contextualize or evaluate agrihood developments. Thus far, the development model has primarily been detailed in popular media sources. This thesis serves as a baseline study that seeks to understand how neighborhood food systems operate within agrihood developments and how residents engage with their agricultural amenities.
A mixed-methods approach utilized an online survey for agrihood residents and interviews with developers and farm managers to describe a subset of agrihoods as case studies. Seventy-eight agrihoods were identified; six were selected for case study analysis, three of which provided results for the resident survey (n=388). Survey results indicate that the character of the community was a more important motivator for agrihood residents to move to their community compared to the agricultural amenities. While all vi case study agrihoods sell produce directly to consumers through a CSA, farm store, or both, few survey respondents indicated they were CSA members or regularly shopped at the neighborhood farm store, with cost and convenience identified as the biggest barriers.
While resident engagement with the neighborhood farm may be limited, charging an annual resident fee to support the farm – an approach taken by four out six case study communities – may provide a guaranteed revenue source to the farm amidst low levels of resident engagement with the agrihoods’ sales outlets. Interviewees provided insight into the nuances of operating agrihood farms, enhancing resident engagement, and the spatial design of communities. The results of this thesis can help agrihood developers and managers, and land-use regulators to further understand this new development model. Furthermore, the findings in this thesis provide avenues for future research on how agrihoods contribute to farmland preservation and local and regional food systems.
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Simão, João Daniel Nunes. "Internship Report and Monograph entitled "Development of bilayer tablets by Quality by Design: Focus on Manufacturing parameters"." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/99136.
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Relatório de Estágio do Mestrado Integrado em Ciências Farmacêuticas apresentado à Faculdade de FarmáciaO presente documento é constituído pelo Relatório de Estágio em Farmácia Comunitária e pela Monografia intitulada "Desenvolvimento de comprimidos de dupla camada através duma estratégia de Qualidade Programada: foco nos parâmetros de fabrico"Sendo parte do plano curricular do último semestre do Mestrado Integrado em Ciências Farmacêuticas, o Estágio em Farmácia Comunitária decorreu na Farmácia Estádio, em Coimbra, entre janeiro e setembro de 2021 e é apresentado sob a forma de uma análise SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats), onde é feita uma avaliação global das forças, fraquezas, oportunidades e ameaças sentidas ao longo destes meses de Estágio. Além disso, são apresentados 3 casos clínicos resolvidos durante este período e termina, em tom de conclusão, com uma análise pessoal do meu trajeto enquanto estagiário e da importância do Farmacêutico na comunidade. Relativamente à Monografia, as associações de fármacos em terapia combinada, onde se incluem os comprimidos de dupla camada, têm vindo a conquistar mercado e a confiança dos investidores nos últimos anos devido à sua capacidade de solucionar problemas como a falta de adesão à medicação por doentes que tomam um elevado número de comprimidos diariamente e a presença de interações entre princípios ativos. No entanto, o seu correto fabrico está dependente de um conjunto de parâmetros e processos que devem ser monitorizados de forma a obtermos a forma farmacêutica final com as melhores características físicas e químicas. A otimização da formulação e dos processos de fabrico durante etapas críticas da sua produção, como a compressão e a ejeção, vai evitar problemas como a delaminação, que são muito frequentes na produção deste tipo de forma farmacêutica.Este artigo de revisão, além de evidenciar as vantagens deste tipo de forma farmacêutica, aborda alguns dos mais importantes fatores que afetam o seu fabrico, focando-se na delaminação através duma estratégia de Qualidade programada. As propriedades dos materiais, a elasticidade e a recuperação plástica, a pré-compressão e compressão, a humidade e a forma dos punções são alguns dos parâmetros abordados neste artigo. Finalmente, é sumariamente explicada a metodologia da Qualidade Programada e abordada a sua aplicabilidade, com exemplos, na tecnologia dos comprimidos de dupla camada.
This document comprises the Internship Report in Community Pharmacy and the Monograph entitled "Development of bilayer tablets by Quality by Design: Focus on Manufacturing parameters". As an integral part of the last semester of the Integrated Master´s in Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Internship in Community Pharmacy took place at Farmácia Estádio, in Coimbra, between January and September 2021 and is presented in the form of a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats), where an overall assessment of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats felt during these months of Internship is made. In addition, 3 clinical cases solved during this period are presented and it ends with a personal analysis about my Internship and the importance of the Pharmacist in the community.Regarding the Monograph, Fixed-dose combinations, where bilayer tablets are included, have gained market and investor confidence in recent years due to their ability to solve problems. Examples of these problems are the lack of medication adherence by people who take a high number of pills daily and possible interactions between active pharmaceutical ingredients. However, bilayer tablets manufacture depends on a set of parameters and processes that must be monitored in order to obtain the final pharmaceutical form with the best physical and chemical characteristics. The optimization of formulation and manufacturing processes during critical stages of its production, such as compression and ejection, will avoid problems such as delamination which are very frequent in the production of this type of pharmaceutical form.This review article, in addition to the discrimination of bilayer tablets’ advantages, addresses some of the most important factors affecting their manufacture, with focus on delamination by using Quality by Design as a strategy. The role of material properties, elasticity and plastic recovery, pre-compression and main compression, moisture and punch shape on tablets properties is covered in this article. Finally, the Quality by Design methodology, more precisely its applicability is discussed with examples in double-layer tablet technology.
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LIN, CHIH-LUNG, and 林志龍. "A Study on the Relationship between the Acceptance of Table Games Learning and Participation Behaviors by Seniors in Community Care Centers in Kaohsiung City." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6jyxa7.
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Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the acceptance of table games learning and participation behavior among the elderly in community care centers in Kaohsiung City. The researchers conducted a questionnaire survey using 600 elderly community care centers in Kaohsiung as research samples. The measured variables include personal background variables (gender, age, education, family type, health status), learning acceptance (environment and safety, administration and teaching, learning change, teacher quality and moving service) and participation behavior (friends) Accompanied, integrated into learning, experience sharing, and participation in emotional pleasure. After the questionnaire was collected, the data were analyzed by SPSS for descriptive statistics, t-test, single-factor variance analysis, Pearson product difference correlation and two-factor variance analysis. The important results are as follows: 1. The Kaohsiung City Community Care Centers with different background variables have significant differences in the acceptance of table games. 2. Kaohsiung City Community Care Center The elders in the table game "learning acceptance" are highly consistent. 3. People of different genders have significant differences in the perception of "administration and teaching". 4. Kaohsiung City Community Care Center The elders in the table game "participation behavior" are highly consistent. 5. Subjects of different ages have significant differences in the understanding of "environment and safety", "administration and teaching", "teacher quality and moving service" and "learning acceptance as a whole". 6. Subjects with different academic qualifications have significant differences in their understanding of “administration and teaching”. 7. There is a significant difference in the perceptions of "administration and teaching", "environment and safety", "learning change", "teacher quality and moving service" and "learning acceptance as a whole" in different family types. . Finally, based on the research results, the researchers made recommendations to the Kaohsiung City Social Affairs Bureau, community care bases or development associations, entrusted agencies or units and follow-up researchers. Keywords: community care base elders, table games, learning acceptance, participation behavior