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Vaidergorin, Daniel Lange. "Entrepreneurship failure: is culture to blame?" reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/11287.
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Although entrepreneurship and culture are topics with extensive research on Management Studies, there is still relatively few research on the influence of Culture has on Entrepreneurship. The main objective of this work is to investigate the influence of culture on entrepreneurship rate of failure. Using a correlational approach, 40 countries out of Hofstede (2001) IBM employees database and the Entrepreneurship Data present on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) database. The analysis results suggest that the dimension Individualism vs. Collectivism as the only significant cultural dimension when discussing affecting entrepreneurship rate of failure.
Apesar de Empreendedorismo e Cultura serem tópicos com extensa literatura na área de estudos de Administração de Empresas, existe relativamente pouca pesquisa na influencia que a Cultura exerce no Empreendedorismo. O principal objetivo deste trabalho é investigar a influencia da cultura no índice de fracasso do empreendedorismo. Através de uma abordagem de correlação, utilizando 40 países da database do Hofstede (2001) de trabalhadores da IBM e dados presentes na database do Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). Os resultados desta análise sugerem que Individualismo VS. Coletivismo é a única dimensão cultural significativa quando se discute os efeitos da cultura no índice de fracasso do Empreendedorismo.
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Bive, Rolf, and Bo Enbom. "Patient Safety Improvement with Crew Resource Management : transformation from a blame culture to a learning culture." Thesis, Sophiahemmet Högskola, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:shh:diva-2604.
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Background Being able to learn from mistakes is a vital aspect of nurse’s professionalism and increasing patient safety. With Crew Resource Management methodologies, aviation and other High Risk Organisations have succeeded in enabling learning cultures that should be applicable also to healthcare. Purpose The purpose was to describe how Crew Resource Management and the inherent learning culture could improve nurse’s professionalism and patient safety within the healthcare system. Method A literature overview based on database searches in CINAHL, PubMed and a manual search, resulting in 25 scientific articles analysed using an integrated analysis method and quality review. Results Crew Resource Management implementations have a positive effect on the nurse’s professional role and patient safety but have still not reached the full potential. Incident reporting is a key factor in providing feedback but still encounters barriers as a basis for pre-emptive learning. Identified barriers are not using Crew Resource Management components as a whole, a lack of feedback and an insufficient learning culture. Feedback is connected to nurse’s perception and situational awareness strengthening morale and professionalism. Conclusion Nurses professionalism and patient safety is dependent on being able to learn from mistakes which is a key aspect of Crew Resource Management. Learning is enabled by the reporting of mistakes in incident reporting systems without the fear of being punished. Improvements to both systems and the reporting culture are seen as needed, as-well as changes to the education system promoting reporting as part of an overall safety and learning culture.
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New, Elizabeth J. "CONSTRUCTING INEQUALITY IN THREE KENTUCKY COMMUNITIES: DISCOURSES OF BLAME AND RESPONSIBILTY." UKnowledge, 2010. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/61.
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This thesis focuses on the social determinants of health in Appalachia. Using anthropological ethnographic field methods, this thesis explores the ways in which public assistance programs and exchanges between health care practitioners and clients result in discourses of blame and responsibly. Also included is a discussion of the role that health insurance plays in granting or denying individuals living in poverty the opportunity for treatment and care. The narratives collected for this project then become the bases for a critical examination of the public discourse surrounding health care reform in the United States in 2009 and 2010.
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尹咏雅 and Wing-Nga Wendy Wan. "Judging the wrongdoing: blame assignment and responsibility attribution from a cross-cultural perspective." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31243691.
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Wan, Wing-Nga Wendy. "Judging the wrongdoing : blame assignment and responsibility attribution from a cross-cultural perspective /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25205833.
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Triplett, Laura. "Fattributions: Exploring a female target-driven communication strategy for reducing blame in a fatist culture." Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1222%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.
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Waring, Sara. "An examination of the impact of accountability and blame culture on police judgments and decisions in critical incident contexts." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2011. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/5275/.
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The following thesis examines the impact of accountability on police judgments and decisions within critical incident contexts. Previous accountability research has often failed to balance experimental control with naturalistic context, thereby preventing the development of an integrated socio-cognitive model. Despite the increase in police accountability over the last few decades (Punch, 2009), there has also been a lack of systematic focus on the influence this evaluation mechanism has on policing. Level of risk posed to public safety in critical incidents and the potential for police actions to increase as well as decrease this risk heightens the importance of identifying and understanding factors that influence police judgments and decisions (Ask & Granhag, 2005). Overall, the thesis seeks to both advance theoretic development and highlight practical implications for policing using a combination of experimental and naturalistic methods and theories from traditional, organisational and naturalistic decision paradigms. Research conducted therefore acknowledges the complexity of policing contexts whilst distinguishing the influence of accountability from other factors. In total, five data chapters are presented that comprise of both qualitative and quantitative data. Qualitative data consists of transcripts from electronic focus groups, debriefs and questionnaires that are analysed using thematic analysis. Quantitative data consists of police responses to a vignette and a simulation. Findings indicate that accountability may influence police judgments and decisions by altering emotions, motivational goals and attention focus. The influence of this social mechanism may depend on police perceptions of the organisational culture driving the form accountability takes. This thesis will highlight that accountability is most likely to encourage optimal performance when police view the organisation to provide a supportive environment with legitimate and fair appraisal mechanisms. This is in contrast to an unfair, illegitimate environment driven by a culture of blame. Within a supportive environment, police are more likely to be motivated by accuracy than self-preservation. A supportive environment also encourages attention to remain focussed on providing judgments and decisions suitable for the situation rather than becoming distracted by anxiety over the potential to be blamed and punished.
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Nordgren, Johan Alexander. "The Conjunction Fallacy from a Safety Culture Perspective - An Experimental Study." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Psykologiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-133791.
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Heuristic estimates of probabilities may be an obstacle to decision making within High Reliability Organizations. Accident reports have found that two from each other separate phenomenon, Blame Culture and Type 1 processing constitutes a particularily serious threat to decision making. The present study (N = 70) investigated if a perceived risk of negative feedback and cognitive load would lead to more heuristic estimates on the Conjunction Fallacy. Three experiment conditions were included in the study: Negative feedback, cognitive load and control. The results were non-significant for both negative feedback and cognitive load. Furthermore, the estimated negative affect was higher when violations to the Conjunction Rule was made. Previous studies showing that high scores on the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) indicate less sensitivity to conjunction fallacies, were replicated. The present study concluded that the CRT may be a strong predictor of the Conjunction Fallacy.
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Granlund, Johan, and Carl Persson. "Jaha, kommer du idag? : En kartläggning av sjöingenjörsstudenters upplevelse av den organisatoriska och sociala arbetsmiljön ombord under sin fartygsförlagda praktik." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Sjöfartshögskolan (SJÖ), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-95275.
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Syftet med denna undersökning var att kartlägga sjöingenjörsstudenters upplevelse av den organisatoriska och sociala arbetsmiljön ombord under deras fartygsförlagda praktiker, och i vilken utsträckning det påverkat deras framtida vilja att arbeta till sjöss. Undersökningen genomfördes med en kvalitativ forskningsansats där datainsamlingen skedde genom två fokusgruppsintervjuer och tio individuella intervjuer. Totalt har 18 sjöingenjörsstudenter från Sveriges sjöfartshögskolor ingått i undersökningen. Intervjuerna analyserades och tolkades genom hermeneutisk och semantisk metod, som presenterades i ett tematiskt resultat. De mest framträdande resultaten av undersökningen är att även om studenterna fick en förtrogenhetsutbildning, gavs den inte alltid innan de sattes i arbete. Majoriteten av studenterna arbetade betydligt fler timmar än vad som överenskommits i det så kallade elevavtalet. Studenterna upplever även att det förekommer ett bristande ledarskap hos vissa av handledarna, där några av studenterna har utsatts för kränkande särbehandling och dåligt beteende. Trots brister inom onboardingen och den organisatoriska och social arbetsmiljön, var det inga övergripande orsaker till att studenterna inte ville fortsätta arbeta till sjöss. Det var dock en minoritet som inte ville fortsätta att arbeta till sjöss. För dessa var orsaken bristande ledarskap och jargongen ombord.The purpose of the work presented in this student thesis was to identify how marine engineer students have experienced the organisational and social work environment onboard during their internships, and if their experiences have affected their future career choices. A qualitative research approach was adopted. Data collection was performed through two semi-structured focus group interviews and ten semi-structured individual in-depth interviews. The data analysis was interpreted hermeneutic and semantic, and the result was presented thematic. The participating students shared many experiences. Most of the students were given the mandatory familiarization training onboard, but in many cases this was not completed until after the students first work task onboard the ship. Almost all the students worked more hours than stipulated in the student agreement. Some of the students experienced bad behaviour and were treated badly by their supervisor. Even though students experienced shortcomings in the organisational and social work environment, most of the students were still willing to pursue a career at sea. A small part of the students did not want to work at sea due to their experiences of poor social work environment and lack of leadership onboard.
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Turgeon, Brianna Marie. "Poor Women, Poor Workers, Poor Mothers: Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Examine Welfare-to-Work Program Managers’ Expectations and Evaluations of their Clients’ Mothering." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1396815783.
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Robinson, Katherine Reilly. "Negotiating Identity: Culturally Situated Epideictic in the Victorian Travel Narratives of Isabella Bird." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3213.pdf.
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Gettu, Nikita. "Cross Cultural Predictors of Blame Attribution in Marital and Non- Marital Rape." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/445.
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Victim blaming is one of the most prevalent obstacles in the recovery of sexual assault victims, especially in cases of marital rape. Given the media coverage of the Delhi rape case of December 2012, there has been an increase in international discourse regarding the impact of ethnic differences on rape culture, victim blaming, and gender equality. Indians, Indian Americans, and European Americans completed an online questionnaire that aimed to identify the potential effect of ethnicity and several other predictors on the attribution of blame in cases of marital and non- marital rape. Indian Americans were studied in order to investigate the possible effect of bicultural identity on blame attribution in rape cases. As hypothesized, Indian Americans scored between Indians and European Americans in almost all predictors of perpetrator, victim, and circumstance blame. Also consistent with study hypotheses, there were ethnic differences in blame attribution such that Indians blamed the victim and circumstance the most and blamed the perpetrator the least. There were no significant differences in blame behavior between Indian Americans and European Americans except for in cases of victim blame. As hypothesized, individualism, collectivism, rape myth acceptance, and system justification were significant predictors of victim, perpetrator, and circumstance blame. Additionally, there were significant correlations between types of blame, rape myth acceptance (RMA), and sexism. Also consistent with the hypothesis, perpetrators were blamed more in cases of non- marital rape than in cases of marital rape.
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Page, Samantha. "'Narratives of blame' : HIV/AIDS and harmful cultural practices in Malawi : implications for policies and programmes." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2014. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/narratives-of-blame-hivaids-and-harmful-cultural-practices-in-malawi(a0030126-31c8-4695-8299-d201595c3d33).html.
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The aim of this research is to examine the fisi practice and HIV/AIDS in a high HIV prevalence country and to highlight implications for HIV/AIDS policies and programmes. Five objectives were identified to meet this aim. First, it assesses the extent to which the Malawian elites (educated Malawians working on HIV/AIDS) are reframing the AIDS epidemic to further their goals and self interests. Second, it investigates whether the debates on HIV prevention in Malawi are facilitated or constrained by international donors (bi and multilateral agencies). Third, it explores whether or not HIV/AIDS is being represented as an exceptional circumstance, justifying policies that would not normally be applied to other public health crises, for example to other Sexually Transmitted Infections. Fourth, it ascertains and examines the extent to which international frameworks, agendas and paradigms are influencing and impacting on traditional cultural practices, resulting in changes to legislation to ban such practices. And finally, it assesses the implications of the findings for the conceptualisation and provision of current and future HIV/AIDS policies and programmes in Malawi. In-depth interviews (n=60) were carried out to foreground stakeholders’ own views and to understand how constructions of narratives linking HIV/AIDS and harmful cultural practices came about. These data are also supported with interview data (n=28) I collected during a consultancy for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, interviews I conducted in a village in Lunzu (n=45), newspaper articles, policy documents and field notes. Findings demonstrate that due to the epidemiology of HIV the fisi practice does not contribute significantly to the spread of HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Instead, I argue that the way that harmful cultural practices have been linked to the spread of HIV/AIDS is a distortion of the reality and what becomes lost is a critical understanding of how harmful cultural practices impact negatively on women’s lives and feed into patriarchal values.
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Hubert, Johannes. "Blaue Bäume unter grünem Himmel?" Master's thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-143442.
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Die Arbeit prüft, inwieweit die Übersetzungstheorien von Otto Kade et al., Werner Koller und die Skopostheorie das Problem der kulturgebundenen Farbwortvielfalt bei der Übersetzung zu lösen versuchen. Im ersten Teil wird hierfür der Grundstein gelegt, indem interdisziplinäres Wissen auf die Bildung von Farbbezeichnungen, ihrer Herkunft und ihrer biologischen und physikalischen Grundsätze angewendet wird. In diesem Zusammenhang wird auch die Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese diskutiert. Die Etymologie bestehender Farbbezeichnungen verschiedenster Sprachen bildet dabei das Zentrum, sowohl für die Erklärung der Farbwahrnehmung und die Kulturgebundenheit ihrer Bezeichnungen als auch der Neuschöpfung von Farbbezeichnungen in den Übersetzungssituationen. Anhand fiktiver Übersetzungssituationen aus dem Alltag wird der Übersetzungsprozess für jede Übersetzungstheorie simuliert und aus ihrer Sicht verfolgt. Im Abschluss werden die Ergebnisse gegenübergestellt und diskutiert.
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Peres, Simone Oliveira Vieira. "Os Simpsons e o Brasil : imagens de um olhar estrangeiro em “Blame it on Lisa”." Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, 2013. http://ri.ufmt.br/handle/1/568.
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Tendo como objeto de análise o episódio “Blame it on Lisa” do seriado norte-americano “Os Simpsons”, o presente estudo discute o processo de construção de imagens sobre o Brasil, a partir do olhar estrangeiro e das relações de identidade e alteridade, identificações e estranhamentos. A escolha por este episódio reside no fato de descrever a visita da família Simpsons ao Brasil e, assim, construir uma narrativa baseada em críticas e estereótipos sobre os personagens brasileiros e a cultura do país. Lançado em 2002, o episódio causou bastante polêmica entre os telespectadores e o próprio governo brasileiro. O desenvolvimento desta pesquisa será pautado principalmente nos Estudos Culturais, através da análise do episódio, a partir de pesquisa bibliográfica e de outros conteúdos (filmes, livros, jornais, revistas, etc) que nos forneçam indícios para entendermos a forma como as imagens sobre o país, sob uma perspectiva “estrangeira”, construiu-se marcada por estereótipos. Partindo da inquietação causada pelas imagens do país reproduzidas nos filmes estrangeiros tentamos discutir de que maneira esse olhar é direcionado a “nós”, qual o processo de construção desse retrato brasileiro e a dimensão do diálogo entre o olhar do “outro” e o do nativo, tendo em vista as identidades do brasileiro e do Brasil forjadas por “nós”.
With the object of analysis the episode "Blame it on Lisa" series of U.S. "The Simpsons", this study discusses the process of images construction on Brazil, from view and foreign relations of identity and otherness, strangeness and identifications. The choice this episode lies in the fact describes the Simpsons family visit to Brazil and thus constructs a narrative based on criticisms and stereotypes about the characters and the Brazilian culture. Launched in 2002, the episode caused quite a stir among viewers and Brazilian government. The development of this research will be guided mainly in Cultural Studies, through analysis of the episode, from literature and other content (movies, books, newspapers, magazines, etc.) that give us clues to understanding how images on the country, from one perspective "foreign", built up marked by stereotypes. Starting from the unrest caused by the images reproduced in the country foreign films, we discuss how this gaze is directed to “ourselves", how the process of constructing this Brazil‟s portrait and the size of the dialogue between the gaze of the "other" and the native, having in view of the identities of Brazil and Brazilian forged by "ourselves."
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Meckes, Jessica L. "Telling My Truth: A Frame Analysis of Blame in Prisoner Accounts." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1250953955.
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Banerjee, Mili. "Subordinate Perception of Leadership Style and Power: A Cross-Cultural Investigation." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1253769052.
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Trevizam, Raquel. "Análises histológicas e bioquímicas em calos de Eucalyptus urophylla S.T. Blake cultivados in vitro sob interação nutricional de boro e cálcio." Universidade de São Paulo, 2005. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/11/11150/tde-03062005-141807/.
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O boro e o cálcio são nutrientes essenciais para o desenvolvimento das plantas, entretanto existem poucos registros da atuação destes dois nutrientes de forma conjunta em organismos vegetais. Buscando identificar e quantificar as possíveis implicações do micro e macronutriente no desenvolvimento morfogenético de Eucalyptus urophylla, calos foram cultivados in vitro com diferentes concentrações de boro (0, 25, 50, 100 e 200 µM.L-1) e cálcio (0; 3,75; 7,50; 11,25 e 15 mM.L-1) sendo avaliados posteriormente quanto a morfologia externa, morfologia interna, tamanho, conteúdo de massa fresca e seca e variação das respostas bioquímicas para o teor de prolina, carboidratos não estruturais solúveis totais, proteína solúveis totais e eletroforese em gel de poliacrilamida. De maneira geral, pode-se verificar que nos dois períodos avaliados as concentrações combinadas de boro e cálcio interferiram em aspectos da morfologia interna que ocasionaram respostas diretas em aspectos visuais das estruturas calogênicas. Da mesma forma, os parâmetros bioquímicos avaliados sofreram a ação das interações nutricionais testadas, determinando a importância desta interação em mecanismos metabólicos, celulares e bioquímicos.Boron and calcium are essential nutrients in a plant development, but there are few registers of the common action of these two nutrients in a vegetal organisms. In order to identify and to quantify the possible implications of the micro and macronutrient in the morphogenetic development of Eucalyptus urophylla, calluses were cultivated in vitro with different concentrations of boron (0, 25, 50, 100 and 200 µM.L-1) and calcium (0; 3,75; 7,50; 11,25 and 15 mM.L-1) and evaluated in relation to external and internal morphology, morphology, size, fresh and oven dry weight, and the variation of biochemical responses to proline, total non-structural soluble carbohydrates, total soluble proteins and eletrophoresys in poliacrilamida gel. In general, it could be verified that in two evaluation periods the combined concentrations of boron and calcium had intervened in aspects of the internal morphology that had caused direct answers in visual impact in visual aspects of the calluses. Similarly, the biochemical parameters evaluated had suffered action from the tested nutritional interactions, determining the importance of this interactions in metabolic, cellular and biochemical mechanisms.
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Besozzi, Michael T. ""To Blaze Forever in a Blazing World": Queer Reconstruction and Cultural Memory in the Works of Alan Moore." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/79.
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This thesis is a queer analysis of two graphic novels by writer Alan Moore: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series (art by Kevin O’Neill, 1999-Present) and Lost Girls (art by Melinda Gebbie, 1992-3). These two works re-contextualize familiar characters such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mina Murray, and Alice to uncover both the liberating desires and the sexist, homophobic, and imperialistic anxieties underlining historically popular fiction. Focusing on three characters utilized in Moore’s work, this thesis argues that the ideological associations with those chosen characters and the reconstructions of queerness in their narratives offer contemporary subjects resistance to limiting cultural tendencies and create an alternative space that call attention to phobic societal constructs. Both Lost Girls and the League series redefine discursively constituted identities and offer the potential to re-write normative codes of sex and sexuality.
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Nunes, Mario Santos. "Comparação de métodos via solo e via demanda evaporativa para manejo de irrigação da cultura da soja safrinha." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2014. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/3622.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorIrrigation must function adequately meet the water demands of crops so that they express their full productive potential. However, there are variations with the soil-plant-atmosphere relationship, interfering to determine the differences in crop yields, therefore, the use of technology and equipment is essential for good irrigation management. Techniques involving the use of agricultural instrumentation to determine irrigation depths are of great importance to scientific research. Regardless of the technique used, by soil or weather, is important an irrigation depth accurately determined and preferably easy. In order to compare methods of irrigation management, trying to verify the performance and sensitivity of these methods, from data retention curve of soil water, an experiment was installed in Fazenda Liberdade ,Santiago city (RS) in a Cruz Alta map unit, Haplustox, typical clay horizons A and B. Therefore, it was installed in an area of 88.64 ha , under a fixed central pivot, Watermark sensors to the method of handling the soil , such as humidity sensors , data collections with TDR and collection of soil samples for determination of gravimetric moisture by the electric furnace method. TDR data from the present study as a standard data depths of 7.6 , 10, 12, 20, 30 and 40 cm , and considering were analyzed . For management methods via weather a Irrigameter were installed along with a tank class A , methods via climate as Hargreaves & Samani , Thorthwaite , Camargo were also tested - 71 and Penman - Montheith . The results obtained with crude blade Watermark humidity sensors showed a very close to that obtained by TDR behavior compared to the class methods via climate Camargo and The Tank - 71 underestimated or overestimated results when compared to other methods . The results obtained by the methods of managing the soil are of greater precision than the methods via climate.
A irrigação tem a função de suprir adequadamente as demandas hídricas das culturas, para que estas expressem seu máximo potencial produtivo. Porém ocorrem variações no que diz respeito à relação solo, planta, atmosfera, que inferem de maneira a determinar diferenças nas produções das culturas, portanto, a utilização de tecnologias e equipamentos é fundamental para um bom manejo da irrigação. Técnicas que envolvem a utilização da instrumentação agronômica com vistas em determinar lâminas brutas para manejo de irrigação são de grande importância para a pesquisa científica. Independentemente da técnica utilizada, tanto via solo quanto via clima é importante que, na determinação da lâmina bruta seja determinada de forma precisa e, de preferência, que haja facilidade na sua obtenção. Com o objetivo de comparar métodos de manejo de irrigação, buscando verificar o desempenho e sensibilidade destes métodos, a partir dos dados da curva de retenção de água no solo, foi instalado um experimento na Fazenda Liberdade no município de Santiago (RS), em um Latossolo Vermelho distrófico típico, unidade de mapeamento Cruz Alta com textura argilosa nos horizontes A e B. Para tanto, foi instalado numa área de 88,64 ha, este sob um pivô central fixo, sensores Watermark para o método de manejo via solo, como sensores de umidade, coletas de dados com o TDR e coletas de amostras de solo para determinação da umidade gravimétrica pelo método do forno elétrico. Foram analisadas as profundidades de 7,6, 10, 12, 20, 30 e 40 cm e considerando, os dados do TDR no presente estudo, como dados-padrão. Para os métodos de manejo via clima foram instalados um irrigâmetro juntamente com um tanque classe A, também foram testados os métodos via clima como Hargreaves & Samani, Thorthwaite, Camargo 71 e Penman - Montheith. Os resultados de lâmina bruta obtidos com sensores de umidade Watermark apresentou um comportamento muito próximo ao obtido pelo TDR, quando comparado aos métodos via clima o tanque classe A e Camargo 71 subestimou ou superestimou os resultados quando comparados aos outros métodos. Os resultados obtidos pelos métodos de manejo via solo são de maior precisão do que os métodos via clima.
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Mccawley, Nichola Lee. "Re-sounding radicalism : echo in William Blake and the chartist poets Ernest Jones and Gerald Massey." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/resounding-radicalism-echo-in-william-blake-and-the-chartist-poets-ernest-jones-and-gerald-massey(c8cc6dbf-b0c2-4b1a-9e9e-a0b284e0ff73).html.
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This thesis argues that William Blake’s poetry creates meaning through internal poetic echoes, and that these Blakean echoes re-sound in Ernest Jones and Gerald Massey’s Poetry. There is no demonstrable link between Blake and Chartism; this raises the question of how to account for poetic echoes that occur in the absence of a direct link. The thesis uses two complementary methodological strategies. The significance of the Blakean echoes in Jones and Massey’s work will be demonstrated through extensive close textual analysis. This is accompanied by the historically focused argument that the Blakean echoes in Chartist poetry can be explained by a shared underlying cultural matrix of radical politics and radical Christianity. Chapter 1 opens by presenting the evidence against a demonstrable link between Blake and the Chartists. It outlines how the lack of a direct link impacts upon our understanding of the Blakean echoes in Chartist poetry. Existing theories of influence insufficiently describe these textual effects; this chapter draws upon aspects of Intertextuality and New Historicist theory to propose that Blake, Jones and Massey’s poetry is best considered in terms of echo, re-sounding and correspondence. Chapter 2 addresses the question of how Blakean echoes can occur in the absence of a direct link. Using recent Blake scholarship as a methodological model, this chapter outlines the ‘cultural matrix’ theory, suggesting that Blake and the Chartists engaged with many of the same radical historical ‘threads’. Chapter 3 explores key examples of Shelleyan influence in Jones and Massey’s poetry. This chapter highlights the direct intertextual link between Shelley and the Chartists and demonstrates how Chartist poetry might be discussed in terms of influence and allusion. Chapter 4 outlines the most notable Blakean echoes in the poetry of Jones. Jones’ poetry resonates with images of Priestcraft and Kingcraft, as well as chains and binding; similar images play a central role in Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. The chapter contains significant engagement with Blake studies; it presents Blake’s imagery as echoingly interconnected both within and across poems and collections. Chapter 5 extends this close textual exploration to the work of Massey. Massey’s poetry contains many of the key Blakean images identified in the work of Jones. However, ‘The Three Voices’ contains an uncanny resonance of Blake; echo occurs as mis-hearing and trace. ‘Echo’ is not being used as a simple substitute for ‘allusion’, ‘influence’ or ‘intertext’, but here denotes an entirely different textual effect that must be judged in new terms. The conclusion summarises the thesis and asks whether the radical nature of Blake, Jones and Massey’s shared culture may have affected not only their vocabulary of imagery, but also the way in which these images were deployed.
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Aravena, Sánchez Rossana, Hein Gina Campos, and Cortés Alejandro Matamala. "Adaptación, validación y aplicación del instrumento de diagnóstico de cultura de equipos de trabajo de R. Blake, J. Mouton y R. Allen, al medio organizacional nacional." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 1996. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/135273.
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Okofo-Boansi, Ezekiel. "An evaluation of marriage-divorce-remarriage issues among Ghanaian Christian migrants as blamed on the radical impact of western and African cultural clashes in the UK." Thesis, Bangor University, 2014. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/an-evaluation-of-marriagedivorceremarriage-issues-among-ghanaian-christian-migrants-as-blamed-on-the-radical-impact-of-western-and-african-cultural-clashes-in-the-uk(d1221734-af1c-43d9-8e86-29e537cf5fe7).html.
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This study critically analyses an assumption that Ghanaian marriages, while in Britain, become difficult and that many do not survive. This is blamed on, the Impact of Britain's Western culture. Many migrant marriages apparently endure stressful deterioration that often leads to separation, abusive loveless co-habiting and sometimes divorce whilst resident in Britain. It consequently evaluates and discusses some practical issues facing Pastoral Ministry and counselling concerns of marital relationships especially of the Ghanaian Adventist migrants. It also discusses participant views on the Ghanaian migrant Seventh-day Adventist Churches' leadership approach and their implication on members' marriages including ethical issues regarding offenders' active participation in the church. This research was limited to a cross-section of the Ghanaian Seventh-day Adventist Christians in Britain for manageability and focus. It is anticipated that patterns found could be repeatable where Ghanaians are found elsewhere in the Western civilisation. This project objectively explored the above assumption to question, investigate and determine possible causative factors to help move from assumption to referable data and thereby inform and improve pastoral care ministries. The study concludes that Ghanaian Adventist Christian Migrant marriages actually endure occasional multifaceted destructive problems of unrealistic expectations from a community of relatives, friends, in -laws and the church as well as the couples themselves.
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Albukhodaah, Abdulrahman Abdullah. "Barriers and perceptions to medication administration error reporting among nurses in Saudi Arabia." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/103929.
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Background: Medication administration errors (MAEs) are considered as a global problem
which influences the safety of patients. Due to some factors MAEs are still underreported.
However, MAEs have been under-researched in Saudi health settings. The reporting barriers
of fear, perception of nurses towards reporting MAEs, and the process of reporting
significantly contribute to failure to report. Understanding of factors that may inhibit
reporting MAEs among nurses in Saudi Arabia is a primary step to improve the safety culture
of hospitals. Furthermore, understanding nurses’ perception toward MAEs reporting is the
initial step to increasing the reporting rate.
Aims: (1) To identify factors from the literature that facilitate or hinder the reporting of
medication administration errors among nurses and (2) to identify factors that nurses perceive
as major contributors in the culture of reporting medication administration errors in Saudi
Arabia hospitals.
Methods: a questionnaire was developed consisting of four pages to examine the nurses’
perceptions and the potential barriers to the reporting of medication administration errors and
an open-ended question to seek more understanding of this topic among nurses in Saudi
Arabia. The questionnaire items included: demographics and background, nurses’ perceptions
of reporting medication administration errors and potential barriers to reporting MAEs.
Participants for this study were nurses from three hospitals in Saudi Arabia. The Statistical
Package for the Social Sciences Software the IBM (SPSS) Statistics was used to analyses the
quantitative data and content analysis was used to analyses the qualitative data.
Results: A total of 366 nurses participated in the study with response rate 63.3%. Nurses’
perception and awareness towards the importance of medication administration error
reporting were positive. The major perceived barrier was fear of the consequences after
reporting. This study found only 28.6% of nurses always reported MAEs when it occurs.
Nursing administration (Head Nurse, Nursing Supervisor and/or Nursing Director) was the
biggest concern affecting nurses’ willingness to report MAEs. Making the work environment,
a non-blame environment may encourage a greater reporting of MAEs.
Conclusions: Most nurses in Saudi Arabia’s hospitals believed that MAEs must be reported.
However, fear of blame or the possibility of legal action and administration factors lead to
underreporting.
Implications for nursing management: Nursing administration should work towards
establishing a blame free culture and support the safety culture to encourage reporting.Thesis (M.Nurs.Sc.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Nursing, 2016
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Singh, Kamalendra. "Tissue culture studies in Baliospermum axillare Blume." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/2115.
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Chueh, Chiao-mei, and 闕巧梅. "Tissue Culture of Purple Spathoglottis (Spathoglottis plicata Blume)." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97156369484193435246.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
園藝學研究所
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Protocorm explants of S. plicata Blume were cultured on 1/2-MS medium containing 0-30 mg/l 2,4-D and 0-5 mg/l TDZ. The plain basal medium (devoid any hormones additive) were found as the best medium for shoot bud formation and the media supplemented with 2,4-D were effective to induce callus. Shoot buds derived from the epidermal cells of the protocorm explants without intermediate callus formation. The method is useful for mass propagation of S. plicata Blume. The protocorm-derived callus of S. plicata Blume formed protocorm-like bodies, and regenerated plant resulted by cultured on the 1/2 MS medium without growth regulators under illumination. Eight kind of callus were sub cultured, the best proliferation (8.08) was found the callus subcultured on the medium containing 2 mg/l picloram and1 mg/l TDZ. In callus proliferation, sucrose was component, fructose and glucose instead and charcoal effect the callus morphogenesis. Root tips of S. plicata Blume formed callus on the 1/2-MS medium containing 2,4-D or 2,4-D and TDZ in 60 days. The callus maintaining on a medium containing 3 mg/l 2,4-D were failed to produce plant on the medium containing TDZ and NAA in light. The intact leaf explants of Spathoglottis plicata Blume formed shoots or buds from leaf base on the 1/2 MS medium without growth regulators or supplemented with TDZ alone within 70 days. And the high percentage (66.8﹪)of callus inducing were found on a medium supplemented with 3 mg/l 2,4-D. These buds formed from leaf base developed into normal plantlets. Shoot buds directly derived from stem explants of S. plicata Blume were cultured on 1/2 MS medium alone in darkness. And shoot buds develop normal plants by transplant under light. Stem explants were brown easily when cultured under light. On the medium without growth regulators or plus TDZ alone, stems form shoots, protocom-like body and buds. On the medium plus 2,4-D, stem was easy to callusing.
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Huang, Yu-ting, and 黃郁婷. "William Blake''s Social Vision and the Culture of Sensibility." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09491607353322867850.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
外國語文學研究所
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This thesis sets out to demonstrate that Blake’s social vision in the 1790s was deeply intertwined with the eighteenth-century language and concept of sensibility. The dominant eighteenth-century culture of sensibility served the interests of the mainstream ideologies of the upper-middle class. They promote moral virtue, rational Christianity, charity movements, refinement, and consumerism, each of which consolidated the existing social hierarchy and social order. Blake’s social view diverges from the mainstream society in terms of class, artistic vision, and political stance. However, Blake’s poetry does not negate the cultural emphasis on sensibility, individual emotion, and social affections. On the contrary, he wishes to rid emotional energies of the many regulations from morality, rationalism, and hierarchical ideologies, propagating higher reverence for individual feelings and communal affections. I argue that Blake objects to the hierarchy and individualism inherent to the middle-class culture of sensibility with a freer and equalizing understanding of sensibility which is more in line with his antinomian and artisan background. My study seeks to demonstrate that Blake insists on the freedom of personal feeling from the bourgeois ideas of moral virtue and maintains the necessity of selfless and productive labors in the formation of sympathetic communities.
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Park, Chi Hyun Watkins S. Craig Downing John. "Orientalism in U.S. cyberpunk cinema from Blade runner to the Matrix." 2004. http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/2159/parkch042.pdf.
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Silver, Cassandra Leona. "Theatrical multilingualism and the translation of culture." Master's thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10048/1203.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2010.Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on July 8, 2010). " A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Department of Drama, University of Alberta." Includes bibliographical references.
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Makgalemele, Ntebaleng Beatrice. "An exploration of language and identity among young black middle class South African women." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/22800.
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Thesis (M.A (Psychology))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, 2016.The purpose of the research was to explore issues of identity amongst young, English speaking black middle class women focusing on belonging and alienation. Qualitative research using narrative interviews was conducted with 10 middle class women, aged between 20 and 35 years, who were among the first cohort of black children to attend model C schools at the end of the apartheid era and be taught in English. Several themes and findings were identified, starting with the multigenerational influence on the journey into being assimilated into the English language and culture. Grandmothers and parents experienced tensions between loss of indigenous languages and gaining class mobility for their daughters. Participants also unpacked their journeys of being assimilated into the English language and whiteness and the traumatic experiences they went through as their childhoods were racialised and they became positioned as inferior black people. These traumatic experiences of race continued into their adulthood and intersected with gender, class and language, as the women were positioned as ‘cultural clones’ in the workplace. Language also influenced the women’s intimate relationships as they positioned English speaking male partners as providers and therefore potential life partners. Issues of hair and skin colour were also found to be significant identity markers through insertion into western culture through language, and blackness is actively redefined, resisted and reclaimed. This shows how our identities are fragmented and fluid, allowing the women to experience multiple identities and make them work. The women experience tensions between the loss of their mother tongue and culture, and the positive gains of class mobility that they attribute almost solely to their adoption of the English language as their primary (or only) language of communication. They are alienated from their communities because of their immersion into English and western culture but they are actively generating a new sense of belonging and identity within a new imagined community of English speaking black middle class women
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Park, Chi Hyun. "Orientalism in U.S. cyberpunk cinema from Blade runner to the Matrix." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2159.
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Davies, Sally. "Blame it on Barbie: body figure preferences and disordered eating amongst adolescent South African females, a cross cultural study." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/21632.
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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Masters of Arts,
(Clinical Psychology)
Johannesburg, 1995.In recent years there has been great interest in studying the energy-restrictive eating disorders within sociocultural contexts. Patterns of change in the incidence and prevalence of these disorders appear to reflect social processes involving gender issues and shared cultural values around the female body, South African society is experiencing rapid sociocultural changes, and this raises questions about disordered eating and values our own society. This study investigated body figure preferences and attitudes and behaviours related to eating and body weight. The sample consisted of 125 White pupils and 61 Black pupils in three high schools in urban and periurban areas of Gauteng, South Africa. The schools represent different socioeconomic Environments. One is a private school and one is state school with partial provincial subsidy in an affluent suburb, and one is a community school which is subsidised mainly by donor funding and serves a periurban Community. Black and White pupils reported similar body ideals and levels of discrepancy between their reported actual body figures and their ideal figures, but Black pupils showed significantly greater tolerance of different body figures. both thin and fat. Despite this increased tolerance. However, their scores on the Eating Disorders Inventory were similar to those of the White pupils and exceeded White pupils on perfectionism and maturity fears measures, Amongst Black pupils in the three schools. EDI scores were similar but State school pupils showed more body dissatisfaction and Community school pupils showed more perfectionism; and maturity fear, This suggests that pupils in more disadvantaged school environments are weight-concerned and could still be at risk of disordered eating, the finding is contrary to expectations that private school pupils would show the most disordered eating and weight concern. EDI scores were closely related to body figure preferences, and especially to real-ideal discrepancy which was shown to be a simple but effective measure, A high-scoring subgroup was isolated and this was found to include 14 Black pupils and 22 White pupils, The findings have implications for preventive efforts and for further research,
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Mondim, Cristina Vicente. "Os desafios de tradução na literatura infanto-juvenil : are you there, God? : It's me, Margaret de Judy Blume." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/13723.
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Nas sociedades contemporâneas, nas quais os jovens têm à sua disposição tecnologia
avançada que é educativa e lhes serve para ocupar os tempos livres (telemóveis,
computadores portáteis, internet, Playstation, X-box e Wii), procura-se incentivá-los para a
leitura, não só porque esta contribui para o seu desenvolvimento, ao nível da aquisição de
conhecimentos linguísticos e cognitivos mas também ao nível do desenvolvimento pessoal
e social. Embora tenhamos autores portugueses de literatura infanto-juvenil, existe no
mercado muita literatura traduzida que, por sua vez, também assume um papel decisivo na
formação desta faixa etária e também contribui para promover a interculturalidade porque
através da leitura o jovem poderá conhecer uma cultura diferente da sua.
Por este motivo, o presente projeto centrou-se na temática de tradução de literatura
infanto-juvenil, nomeadamente com o objetivo de descobrir quais os fatores que poderão
influenciar as escolhas do tradutor e que poderão estar na origem da seleção de um texto
para ser traduzido. Refleti sobre as especificidades que distinguem este tipo de texto da
literatura geral, especificamente as características do público-alvo, a comunicação
assimétrica, os intermediários no processo e finalmente as funções que a literatura infanto-
-juvenil poderá desempenhar.
Pretendi investigar a posição que a tradução e a literatura para os mais jovens
ocupam nos sistemas cultural e literário e como estes poderão determinar as estratégias de
tradução adotadas pelo tradutor. Como a tradução de uma obra surge num contexto
sociocultural diferente do da cultura de partida, tentei compreender as exigências da
cultura de chegada que poderão ter influência no processo tradutório. Por fim, tentei saber
qual é o leitor da tradução e refletir brevemente sobre as vozes no texto narrativo
traduzido.
Apresentei um excerto da tradução da obra Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret,
da escritora Judy Blume, argumentando a sua importância e mais-valia para o mercado
português da literatura infanto-juvenil, nomeadamente como proposta de leitura extensiva
no âmbito do ensino da educação sexual nas escolas, justificando as opções tradutórias e as
estratégias adotadas na tradução.In modern societies, where youth have advanced technology at their disposal for educational purposes and also to occupy their leisure time (mobile phones, laptops, the Internet, PlayStation, X-box and Wii), we wish to motivate them to read. Reading not only contributes to their linguistic and cognitive development but it also contributes to their personal and social growth. Although there are Portuguese children’s book authors, there is also much translated literature, which in turn also plays a decisive role in educating this age group, as well as contributing to the promotion of interculturalism because through reading young people can get to know different cultures other than their own. For these reasons, this project focuses on the translation of children’s literature, mainly with the aim of unveiling which factors influence the translator’s choices and can be at the heart of the selection of a text to be translated. I reflected about the characteristics that make this type of literature different from the rest, specifically the characteristics of the target audience, the asymmetrical communication, the intermediaries in the process and finally the functions of children’s books. Another aim was to investigate which position translation and children’s literature occupy in the cultural and literary systems and how they can determine the translation practices adopted by the translator. Since a translation of a book emerges in a different sociocultural context than that of the source culture, I endeavoured to understand the demands of the target culture that can influence the translation process. Finally, I tried to find out who the reader of the translation is and reflect briefly about the voices heard in the translated narrative text. I presented an excerpt of the translation of Judy Blume´s Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret and argued that this book could be of value in the Portuguese market of children’s literature, mainly as a recommendation for extensive reading in the scope of sex education in schools. I also presented an analysis and justification of the translation choices and global strategies.
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Skoting, Joel. "Versioner av en berättelse : En narratologisk analys av Blade Runner." Thesis, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-77713.
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The purpose of this essay is to describe and examine the different versions of the 1982 movie Blade Runner. How these versions vary in question of narrative, theme, tone and message is a focal point of this essay. Of special interest is how these relate to our reality regarding political or philosphical views. The conclusion of this study is that the same core ideas and messages remain throughout the different versions of Blade Runner. However, the ways in which these ideas are presented vary, as does the tone of certain scenes. Through some censoring and editing, some themes are affected and are not as easily identified in all versions of the film. Some of these relate to symbolism through symbolic violence and how humans affect their environment. Other central themes relate to discrimination towards minorities and existential themes and questions. In conclusion: Blade Runner is a complex and topical movie which shifts in tone and theme depending on which version you view.
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Robillard, Benita de. "Brides, really fake virgins, Caster, 'Kwezi", The blade runner and 100% Zulu boy : reading the sexuality of post/apartheid cultural politics." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/15418.
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This
thesis
throws
into
relief
the
nomadic
meshings
of
sexualities
with
post/apartheid
cultural
politics.
It
explores
how,
why
and
with
what
effects
sexualities
and
post/apartheid
nationhood
have
been
imbricated
in
signal
events
and
phenomena.
Terms
used
to
construct
the
thesis’
title
each
allude
to
significant
events
and
processes
through
which
assemblages
of
nationhood,
sexualities,
gender
and
race
are
worked
on/with
in
particular
ways.
I
propose
that
these
events
form
a
prism
through
which
we
are
able
to
see
refracted
how
a
race-‐gender-‐sexuality
complex
becomes
a
pivotal
mechanism
through
which
post/apartheid
subjectivities,
embodiments,
nationhood
and
sovereignty
are
being
constructed
and
contested.
I
conclude
that
the
events
under
discussion
index
how
sexuality
is
both
a
site
of
political
contestation;
and,
a
central
and
crucial
component
of
post/apartheid
nationhood.
That
it
is
a
‘machinic
assemblage’,
which
conditions
and
constitutes
a
particular
field
of
the
political
including
a
popular
consciousness
of
the
post/apartheid
body
politic
and
sovereignty.
Presenting
qualitative
analysis
that
reflects
on
the
rhetorical
structures
evident
within
the
nationscapes
under
discussion,
I
analyse
and
make
reference
to
a
substantial
sample
of
media
representations
of,
and
discourses
about,
each
of
the
scenes
evaluated
across
the
thesis.
To
this
end,
I
focalise
what
Lauren
Berlant
has
termed,
the
‘National
Symbolic’;
an
imaginary,
chimerical
and
affect-‐laden
screen
projection
through
which
citizens
venture
to
‘grasp
the
nation
in
its
totality’.
This
interdisciplinary
project
both
draws
on
and
expands
the
South
African,
Feminist
and
Queer
Studies
Fields
and
is
influenced
by
what
Judith
Butler
calls
the
‘New
Gender
Politics’.
I
achieve
this
by
bringing
diverse
critical
perspectives
into
a
discursive
exchange
with
emerging
bodies
of
scholarship
concerned
with
questions
of
gender,
sexualities,
dis/ability
and
race
in
the
South
African
context.
I
introduce
novel,
or
previously
untapped,
theoretical
repertoires
to
pursue
unexplored
interpretive
horizons
that
generate
new
discourses
about
post/apartheid
sexuality
and
politics.
In
doing
so,
I
analyse
a
range
of
topics
including:
the
state’s
management
of
contemporary
virginity
practices
and
its
abstinence
messaging;
popular
anti-‐polygamy
discourse;
and,
critical
intersex
and
dis/ability
politics,
which
the
available
scholarship
has
not
addressed.
Although
President
Jacob
Zuma
is
not
the
subject
of
this
inquiry,
each
chapter
examines
events
and
developments
that
are
both
explicitly,
and
more
implicitly,
associated
with
his
presidency.
These
events
have
unfolded
during
a
later
period
of
the
post/apartheid
dispensation;
sometimes
called
the
post
post/apartheid
period.
I
have
written
about
a
time
that
marked
a
conservative
twist
in
the
transition,
which
is
not
imagined
as
a
teleological
process.
This
is
a
perplexing
time
of
uneven
shifts
where
old
things
seem
to
be
hardening
even
as
they
are
simultaneously
thinning
or
leaking
away
while
new
things
are
emerging
in
unpredictable
rhythms
and
forms.
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Engelbrecht, Gerhardina Cornelia. "Cognitive dissonance in trauma: the conflict between belief, autobiographical memory and overt behaviour." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19956.
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Text in EnglishThis research was aimed at giving a voice to three women, who are constructed as having had a traumatic event recalled from their autobiographical memory. To achieve this objective an epistemological framework of social constructionism was used to investigate autobiographical memory recall of trauma. Three in-depth interviews were conducted with participants who constructed themselves as having had a traumatic event. A case study approach was used to gain access to the information and to compare themes. The research explored the way in which dissociation, voluntary thought suppression, minimisation and outright denial enabled the three participants to alter unbearable memories through the use of recurring themes. To interpret these stories the content of the themes was analysed using thematic content analysis. The participants represented different cultures, languages and religions. In sharing their symptoms this did not necessarily mean they attached the same meaning to a specific theme, as individual meaning-making corresponded to the individual‟s background and history and their perception of the trauma. The stories related by the three participants revealed a shattered worldview that brought them into opposition with community norms and standards, which the narrators experienced as silencing and judgemental. In this regard the researcher‟s aim was to generate information from the participants themselves. This inquiry into the personal trauma stories and meanings suited a qualitative research approach, a form of methodology that allowed personal insight into the meanings the three participants attributed to their trauma and the autobiographical recall of trauma. At the same time it allowed a co-constructed reality to take shape between the researcher‟s reality and the participant‟s reality, always acknowledging the importance of their being the expert of their own individual trauma memory. This is in contrast to a quantitative approach which focuses on numbers to quantify the results; a qualitative approach on the other hand is a personal, rich information-gathering tool that takes into account the emotions and meaning-making of each individual story without any intention to generalise the information gathered to a larger population It is hoped that through this research there is a realisation that although trauma victims share symptoms, the meaning-making of the individual attached to this trauma is influenced by their society and history within their respective environments.
Psychology
M.A. (Psychology)
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Hubert, Johannes. "Blaue Bäume unter grünem Himmel?: Über Wahrnehmung und Benennung von Grundfarben und den übersetzungstheoretischen Umgang mit ihren Bezeichnungen." Master's thesis, 2013. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A12461.
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Die Arbeit prüft, inwieweit die Übersetzungstheorien von Otto Kade et al., Werner Koller und die Skopostheorie das Problem der kulturgebundenen Farbwortvielfalt bei der Übersetzung zu lösen versuchen. Im ersten Teil wird hierfür der Grundstein gelegt, indem interdisziplinäres Wissen auf die Bildung von Farbbezeichnungen, ihrer Herkunft und ihrer biologischen und physikalischen Grundsätze angewendet wird. In diesem Zusammenhang wird auch die Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese diskutiert. Die Etymologie bestehender Farbbezeichnungen verschiedenster Sprachen bildet dabei das Zentrum, sowohl für die Erklärung der Farbwahrnehmung und die Kulturgebundenheit ihrer Bezeichnungen als auch der Neuschöpfung von Farbbezeichnungen in den Übersetzungssituationen. Anhand fiktiver Übersetzungssituationen aus dem Alltag wird der Übersetzungsprozess für jede Übersetzungstheorie simuliert und aus ihrer Sicht verfolgt. Im Abschluss werden die Ergebnisse gegenübergestellt und diskutiert.:Inhaltsverzeichnis
I Abkürzungsverzeichnis 4
1 Einleitung 5
2 Farben: Wahrnehmung und Benennung 8
2.1 Sinnesorgane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.2 Auge und „Farbensehen“ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.2.1 Warum Farbe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.2.2 Farbwahrnehmung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.2.3 Farbwahrnehmung versus Sprache und Denken . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.3 Farbe und Kultur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.3.1 Grundfarbwörter – Berlin und Kay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.3.2 Etymologie der Grundfarbbezeichnungen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2.3.3 Farbbezeichnungen als Metonymie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2.3.4 Grundfarbwörter diachron betrachtet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2.4 Zusammenfassung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3 Zur Übersetzung von Grundfarbwörtern 51
3.1 Einordnung und Begriffsklärung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
3.1.1 Übersetzbarkeit, Übersetzungsschwierigkeit oder
Übersetzungsproblem? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
3.1.2 Übersetzungssituationen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.1.3 Übersetzungseinheit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
3.1.4 Zwei Übersetzungsfälle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
3.2 Leipziger Schule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3.3 Äquivalenzkonzept nach Werner Koller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
3.4 Skopostheorie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
3.5 Vergleich und Diskussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
4 Schluss 98
5 Literaturverzeichnis 100
A Abbildungen 106
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"Bestiality, animality, and humanity a study of the animal poems by D. H. Lawrence and Ted Hughes in their historical and cultural contexts (William Blake)." 2003. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6073518.
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"June 2003."Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-301).
Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
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Jinnah, NAILA. "Racking Up The Twitter Points: How Professional Hockey Player Identities Are Affected By Twitter Usage." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/12121.
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In this thesis, I examine the use of Twitter by NHL athletes to determine how and in what ways professional hockey players’ personal and professional identities are shaped by their use of this medium. I explore the current cultural moment surrounding the lives of NHL athletes, focusing on the increasingly blurred line between their private and professional identities. By grounding my analysis of their Twitter use in a new labour context that is academically situated betwixt the literatures on media studies, celebrity culture and identity presentation, I show that participation in this medium allows both athletes and fans to actively reshape their own and each others’ identities, constructing a new set of standards for professional hockey players that takes into consideration the heightened demand for access to the behind-the-scenes of their lives. The ability of professional hockey players to interact with fans and media on Twitter is also creating new types relationships and producing new discourses for the typical hockey player identity, and the labour this career involves. Finally, through interviews with NHL players, I draw out their motives for using Twitter, their understanding of the impact of their interaction with fans on the perceptions those fans have of their professional identity, and their desire for work-life balance as their professional and personal identities seemingly merge on Twitter in a postmodern labour context fuelled by heightened celebrity culture.Thesis (Master, Kinesiology & Health Studies) -- Queen's University, 2014-04-27 14:50:32.902