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Sabater, Musa Luis E. "Thermal Delight in Santo Domingo." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1490702057428385.
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Estill, Alexander Clayton. "Vitruvian delight customization within the speculative model /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1129233879.
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Avin, Ittamar Johanan. "Bliss Delight and Pleasure in Paradise Lost." University of Sydney. English, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/484.
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There have been many studies of keywords in Paradise Lost. Over the last fifty or so years words such as �wander�, �lapse�, �error�, �fruit�, �balmy�, �fall�, �hands�, among others, have attracted critics� attention. The present enquiry brings under scrutiny three linked keywords which have up to now escaped notice. These are the words �bliss�, �delight�, and �pleasure�. The fundamental proposition of the thesis is that Milton does not use these words haphazardly or interchangeably in his epic poem (though in other of his poetic productions he is by no means as fastidious). On the contrary, he self-consciously distinguishes among the three terms, assigning to each its own particular �theatre of operations�. Meant by this is that each keyword is selectively referred to a separate structural division of the epic, thus, �bliss� has reference specifically to Heaven (or to the earthly paradise viewed as a simulacrum of Heaven), �delight� to the earthly paradise in Eden and to the prelapsarian condition nourished by it; while �pleasure�, whose signification is ambiguous, refers in its favourable sense (which is but little removed from �delight�) to the Garden and the sensations associated with it, and in its unfavourable one to postlapsarian sensations and to the fallen characters. Insofar as the three structural divisions taken into account (Hell is not) are hierarchically organized in the epic, so too are the three keywords that answer to them. Moreover, in relating keywords to considerations of structure, the thesis breaks new ground in Paradise Lost studies.
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Keenan, Adeline. "Michael Innes/J.I.M. Stewart : "A don's delight" /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ark259.pdf.
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Arvin, Ittamar Johanan. "Bliss, delight and pleasure in Paradise lost /." Connect to full text, 2001. http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/adt/public_html/adt-NU/public/adt-NU20030129.094154/index.html.
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ESTILL, ALEXANDER CLAYTON. "VITRUVIAN DELIGHT: CUSTOMIZATION WITHIN THE SPECULATIVE MODEL." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1129233879.
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Chakravarty, Rupak, and Sukhwinder Randhawa. "ACADEMIC SEARCH ENGINES: LIBRARIAN'S FRIEND,RESEARCHER'S DELIGHT." INFLIBNET Centre, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105232.
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Search engines are about excitement, optimism, hope and enrichment. Search engines are also about despair and disappointment. A researcher while using search engines for resource discovery might have experienced one or the other sentiments. One may say that user satisfaction depends much upon the search strategies deployed by the user. But at the same time its also depends upon the quality of search engine used for information retrieval. Today, there are many search engines used for resource discovery. They display the results of the searches made in readily-comprehensible manner with lots of customization possibilities including refining and sorting. This paper is an attempt to analyze qualitatively and quantitatively the three most used and popular search engines for academic resource discovery: Google Scholar, Scirus and Windows Live Academic.
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Carter, Deborah Joy. "‘Incite, then delight’ : investigating needed cooperative informative technology experiences (incite), then developing experiential learning in guided holistic teamwork (delight)." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27727.
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This research began from an educational technology lab coordinator’s personal curiosity and professional endeavour. In the lab, adult learners demonstrated three resistant actions deemed detrimental to learning: constrained social/co-presence, resistance to new technologies, and external loci of focus to learning. The intent was to investigate what cooperative information technology was used by adult learners in an Elementary Teacher Education Program (ETEP) throughout their course and what holistic approach would then guide group learning. Thus, the thesis is titled: INCITE (Investigating Needed Cooperative Information Technology Experiences), then DELIGHT (Developing Experiential Learning In Guided Holistic Teamwork). Based on social learning theories, the research hypothesis stated the chaos and complexity within ETEP activated constrained social interactions, caused performance reduction, and increased the possibility of members dropping out, either physically or spiritually. The research design collected data with a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods. Rovai’s (2002a) Classroom Community Scale (CCS), Hammer’s (2009) Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), descriptive statistics, and semi-structured interviews tested the hypothesis. ETEP participants’ responses texturally described the structural descriptions of Aoki (2000), Pinar (2009), and Wenger (1998) where curriculum emerged as both “curriculum-as-plan and curriculum-as-live(d)” (Aoki, 2000), sustainable teaching-learning solutions answered Pinar’s (2009) “key curricular question — what knowledge is of most worth?” when ETEP adult learners developed praxes and collaborative reflective practices, and curriculum design required individual and collaborative activities with assessments that are flexible, fast, and fluid to “learn a practice” (Wenger, 1998).
The hypothesis was proven partially incorrect. The interviews revealed the resistant actions to be coping mechanisms for, rather than detrimental to, the teaching-learning environment. The data collection suggested a greater emphasis on face-to-face activities rather than technology-based activities. As a result, the INCITE of ETEP participants’ responses and then the DELIGHT of this study offers a community of practice to support online learning activities, guide ETEP adult learners’ self- directed priorities, enhance community relations, and assist the transformations from adult learners to pre-service teachers. Future enhancements to this research design include intercultural training and extending the population and time-lines to provide additional data collection and periods when adult learners are on-campus.
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Cauley, Alexandra M. "Delight in Possibility: Female Community and Elizabeth Gaskell." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/446.
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This thesis defines and traces female community across Elizabeth Gaskell's novels Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters. Gaskell utilizes the fictionality of these communities to explore different ways of being for women. Here women control not only the plot, but their own lives.
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Angjeli, Anila. "Contented Architecture - In Search of Delight for All Senses." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9664.
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Contented Architecture : In search of delight for all senses is an attempt to discover and capture the delightful sensory experiences of the users in the architectural space. Architectural space is seen as an artistic space, that appeals to different senses.
The project is a Bike Hotel in Old Town, Alexandria. The situation and orientation of the building on site, the program and the features altogether make it possible for bikers to experience
the space through different senses. This assembly among other pleasant experiences offers those sensory experiences that counteract the bikers daily exhaustive activities. Their bodies and minds feel relaxed, revitalized and encouraged to achieve their next goals.Master of Architecture
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Engle, Cynthia Lanham. "I delight in your law : a study of Psalm 119." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272126.
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Henriksson, Christopher. "PrePresentia : An appealing way to turn stage fright into stage delight." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-35046.
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Vi har alla varit nervösa inför en muntlig presentation. Detta gäller allt från korta grupparbeten i grundskolan till Examensarbeten på Högskolan, eller ännu större i arbetslivet. Att vara måttligt nervös är önskvärt, då vi människor presterar bäst när vi är lite spända. Var går gränsen från måttligt nervös till rent obehag och talångest? Detta är olika för oss alla, men problemet ökar med kraven. Talångesten kan leda till depression, vilket höjer risken att gå in i väggen. Detta är ett område som jag har haft problem med i stort sett hela livet, därför väljer jag det som examensarbete! PrePresentia är en applikation för Apples smartphones och surfplattor. Applikationen kombinerar funktioner för talövning med analys av ljud och puls. Användaren kopplar upp pulsmätaren (Apple Watch) mot applikationen och kan på så vis avgöra skillnaden mellan vilopuls innan presentation och den aktiva pulsen efteråt. Applikationen ska hjälpa till, likt idrottarna som analyserar puls och prestation för att förbättra sig. Utöver detta analyseras även talet och en tipslista/guide finns med i applikationen. Övning ger efterallt färdighet! /Christopher Henriksson
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Burns, Andrew Douglas. "The phenomenology of customer delight : a case study of product evaluation." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2003. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/4146.
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This thesis presents a phenomenological case study of customer delight during product evaluation. The literature presents two existing 'theories' of customer delight. The first, from the field of Consumer Research, presents a cognitive model of post-purchase customer delight as the affective result of expectation disconfirmation. The second, from the Manufacturing literature, proposes that customers are delighted when products contain unexpected features or levels of qualities that exceed expectations. This research was motivated by the fact that our current understanding of this commercially important phenomenon is confined by expectation-based thinking. Furthermore, both streams of research have neglected to study the naturalistic occurrence of delight from the customer's perspective. The aim of this research was to generate an integrated understanding of the affective, behavioural, and cognitive nature of customer delight and its product basis. A case study methodology, incorporating interview, self-report and observational methods, was adopted to generate a triangulated understanding of productbased customer delight. The naturalistic product evaluations of 918 customers were observed and self-reported delight reactions were collected from 66 research participants. In total 414 customer delight reactions were analysed in detail. This approach aimed to generate new theory, rather than test the existing models, and this new integrative understanding of customer delight is the primary contribution of this thesis. A new model of product-based customer delight is presented, and the existing Manufacturing model is extended to incorporate the empirical findings of the case study. Whilst the findings of this research support concepts contained within the existing theories of customer delight, they also demonstrate their limitations. The cognitive and affective diversity of customer delight reactions, previously unaccounted for in the literature, was uncovered and five product-based routes to delight were identified. The emergent theory successfully integrates the two previously separate concepts of delight and builds upon them by identifying the behaviours associated with customer delight resulting from both attribute-based and holistic product appraisals.
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Starzynski, Tomas, and Alex Ristic. "Customer delight genom informationsspridning av juridiska kunskaper : En fallstudie av en hemelektronikbutik." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Business Studies, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-479.
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Denna kandidatuppsats är skriven i syfte att analysera hur väl företaget ONOFF i Södertälje informerar sina kunder om deras konsumentköprättigheter och hur missnöje vid okunskap kan förebyggas. Uppsatsens problemformulering är därmed hur väl informerar företag sina kunder och hur de kan klara av diskussionen med kunder om deras rättigheter enligt konsumentköplagen.
Genom enkätundersökning mättes kundernas kunskaper om konsumentköplagen samtidigt som ONOFFs chef intervjuades för att få information om hur ONOFF informerar sina kunder om deras rättigheter. Dessutom undersöktes informationskällor från ONOFF som broschyrer och deras hemsida.
Genom undersökningen har det framkommit att kunder inte alls är speciellt medvetna om vilka rättigheter de har. Personalen utbildas för att kunna informera korrekt men informationskällorna är inte fullständiga och kunder verkar inte angelägna att vilja ta emot juridiska kunskaper. Genom bland annat använda sig av teorier om Word of mouth och Customer delight kan ONOFF eventuellt minska missnöje.
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Richmond, Jonathan E. D. "Transport of delight--the mythical conception of rail transit in Los Angeles." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13397.
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Welham, Deborah. "Delight and instruction : women's political engagement in the works of Penelope Aubin." Thesis, University of Winchester, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.515813.
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This research presents a literary and political biography for Penelope Aubin. Aubin, the natural daughter of Sir Richard Temple and Anne Charleton (who was the daughter of Walter Charleton, Royal physician and natural philosopher), was a poet, novelist, translator, Orator and playwright. Penelope Charleton married clandestinely and young, like the heroines of her novels. On her marriage Penelope Aubin joined a family of merchants trading from Jersey and the City of London, and with family members in Barbados and Jamaica. Within five years of entering the mercantile world Aubin's expertise of trading ventures was being sought by investors, and she was called to give evidence to the Board of Trade. Aubin's early poetry is a statement of her Royalist and Anglican heritage, but her novels of the early 1720s are a reflection of her knowledge of trade, the threat of piracy and of the natural disasters that occur at sea. However, by the later 1720s Aubin's works were more obviously politically engaged, reflecting the changing hopes of the Tory party and its supporters under a Hanoverian monarchy. Then, in 1729, when she opened her Lady's Oratory, intending from the outset to discuss ':Ministers of State' and how they behave in office, Aubin very publicly added her voice to the wave of political opposition to Robert Walpole.
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Monteiro, Alain dos Santos. "Delight. Vending como facilitador da socialização e adaptação de hábitos alimentares saudáveis." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Arquitectura de Lisboa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/5456.
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Escobar, Rivera Dalilis. "Identifying factors for the customer delight in tourism industry: model and measurement scale." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667402.
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The objective of the present dissertation is to empirically identify customer delight in customer’s most memorable experiences in the context of tourism services. Specifically, the aim of the present dissertation is to explain to what extent customers achieve to a delighted state and what factors influence it them, grouping available statements in the literature by developing a research model and measurement scale.
Data for this study were obtained through a survey applied to tourists face-to-face and by online channels in Spain and Portugal summarizing 519 responses. Data are analyzed and showing delighted, most than satisfied and satisfied customers through the application of the scale regarding the effect of cognitive-affective antecedents. This is a relevant statement for the sustainability of the tourism industry in future, focusing to increase competitive advances by managing the happiness ideal of customers and customizing servicesL’objectiu de la present tesi doctoral és identificar empíricament el grau de delit que tenen els clients basant-nos en experiències viscudes en l’àmbit de la indústria turística en serveis que per ells recorden com excel·lents. Específicament, l’objectiu és explicar com els clients arriben a un estat de delit i quins factors són els que més influencien per aconseguir-ho. Aquest fet, ens permet desenvolupar un model teòric i una escala de mesura del delit. Les dades emprades en aquesta tesi van ser obtingudes a través d'una enquesta contestada online i auto-administrada per turistes que es trobaven a Espanya i Portugal, arribant a un total de 519 casos. Les dades analitzades mostren tres possibles comportaments: clients delectats, més que satisfets i satisfets els qual es mesuren mitjançant l'aplicació de l'escala en relació a l'efecte d'antecedents cognitiu-afectius. Aquest tema s’enfoca a incrementar els avantatges competitius manejant l'ideal de felicitat dels clients
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David, Robert G. "A region of beauty and delight : British imagination and the Arctic 1818-1914." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242817.
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Keyes, Samuel N. "Here for Medicine, There for Delight: The Ecclesial Mysteries of the Victorine Speculum." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108087.
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Thesis advisor: Boyd T. CoolmanThe anonymous Speculum de mysteriis ecclesiae from the 12th century abbey of St. Victor has often been associated with the tradition of medieval liturgical commentaries, but this dissertation proposes reading it primarily as a general treatise on the spiritual life. Its unique Victorine emphasis on the combination of intellect and affect suggests a particular theology of the sign: the real ontological status of the sign relying not on Dionysian hierarchy but on ecclesial contemplation. Through the newly developed sacramental understanding of res et sacramentum, the Speculum suggests that signs have enduring value as signs that goes beyond their function as signifiers. The attainment of the signified, in other words, is only part of their gift. Their “sweetness” is found in an appreciation of their mode of signification — a signification that, the Speculum suggests, endures somehow even in heaven as a non-necessary gracious source of delight. That is, external and visible things in the Church have value not merely because they point us to particular invisible things (what the signs “mean”) but because they teach us the Church’s economy of grace. The Church, then, and her sacramental economy, are central not just to the practical life of individual salvation, but to the meaningfulness of all creation
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
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Whitney, Patricia M. (Patricia Mary) Carleton University Dissertation English. "Darkness and delight: a portrait of the life and work of John Glassco." Ottawa, 1988.
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Moore, Ryan V. "Turning delight into sacrifice : beauty, gift, metaphor and the recovery of pastoral ministry." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15552.
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By many accounts North American Protestant pastors are in crisis. Some would suggest that this crisis is due to the increasing hardships brought about by the end of Christendom in the West. However, placing pastors in a narrative of mounting marginalization and victimization does not explain the vibrant and dynamic nature of pastoral ministry in other times and in other global contexts that are less than optimal. Instead, this project argues that pastoral identity suffers, at the hands of modern metaphors for ministry, because those metaphors fail to cultivate the pastor's ability to behold Beauty. To say this is to make the bold claim that the crisis facing pastoral identity is at its heart a crisis of aesthetics; buy which h I mean, the ability of pastors to apprehend, thorough the senses, the beauty of God and God's world revealed supremely in the person and work of Jesus Christ This project is organized in three parts: Beauty, Gift, and Metaphor. The first section traces the loss of Beauty in the world and in the parish. It explores what difference this has made to pastoral ministry as it relates to the pursuit of the two other transcendentals, Truth and Goodness. Second, with the lost ability to behold the Beauty of the Lord comes an anemic understanding of pastoral ministry as charism or Gift. The result is a loss of joy (Nehemiah 8:10). Lastly, the third section argues that recovery of a vigorous pastoral identity and ministry requires (1) an honest evaluation of the modern metaphors exerting influence on clergy, (2) a grounding back in the ancient biblical and extra-biblical metaphors that have sustained pastors, and (3) the exploration of new metaphors for ministry that can aid the renewal of the pastor's ability to behold the beauty of the Lord.
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Rozell, Caroline. "Women and the framed-novelle sequence in eighteenth-century England : clothing instruction with delight." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b92d7d4f-5c93-4b16-bca5-80bfb6bc2827.
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English women writers of the eighteenth century manifested enthusiasm for a form best described as a framed-novelle sequence, that is, a form in which conversations between characters/narrators are interspersed with embedded narratives. This thesis argues that the framed-novelle, with its distinctive juxtaposition of narrative and critical conversation facilitated feminine intervention in the period’s political, social, and literary debates. It demonstrates that Delarivier Manley, Jane Barker, Eliza Haywood, Sarah Scott, Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier used the framed-novelle sequence to develop a feminine but nonetheless authoritative socio-critical voice which allowed them not only to intervene in contemporary literary debates about the risks and rewards of reading fictions (especially with regards to the wider significance of the feminocentric and apparently trivial matter of amatory, romantic tales)but also to construct timely argument about the effect of fictional exemplarity on readers. Consideration of the literary and cultural contexts of the framed-novelle’s production, specifically its relation to other forms of narrative sequences such as the oriental tale and the fairy tale collection and to the period’s ideals of sociable conversation and critical practice also allows this thesis to identify the framed-novelle’s importance within the larger field of eighteenth-century literary development. Through close readings in each main chapter of an earlier and later framed-novelle by each author, this thesis explores the distinctiveness and internal cohesion of the framed-novelle as a subgenre, while also recognizing the particularity of each writer’s protofeminist perspective on their accumulation of feminocentric tales.
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Gransden, Clay Alex Stanley. "Perceptions of consumer delight in the UK hospitality sector : cultural history, presumptions and assumptions." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722153.
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Holmlund, Eric Richard. "Caretakers of the Garden of Delight and Discontent: Adirondack Narrative, Conflict, and Environmental Virtue." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1282137895.
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Tuerk, Cynthia M. ""Harmless delight but useful and instructive" : the woman's voice in Restoration adaptations of Shakespeare." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14895.
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The changes and upheaval in English society and in English ideas which took place during the seventeenth century had a profound effect upon public and private perceptions of women and of women's various roles in society. A study of the drama of this period provides the means to examine the development of these new views through the popular medium of the stage. In particular, the study of adaptations of early drama offer the opportunity to compare the stage perceptions of women which were prevalent during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century with attitudes towards women which emerged during the Restoration and early eighteenth century; such an examination of these differing perceptions of women has not yet been undertaken. The adaptation of Shakespearean plays provide the most profitable study in this area; Shakespeare was not only a highly influential playwright, but was also one of the most adapted of all the early dramatists during the years of the Restoration. In order to facilitate this survey, I have selected plays which span the entire Restoration era, beginning with William Davenant's The Law Against Lovers and Macbeth as well as John Lacy's Sauny the Scot from the 1660's, through the late 1670's and early 1680's with Edward Ravenscroft's Titus Andronicus and Nahum Tate's The Ingratitude of a Common-Wealth, and finally into the reign of Anne Stuart with William Burnaby's Love Betray'd. The study of these plays offers the best opportunity for the examination, through the medium of the theatre, of the changes which occurred in the perception of women and their changing identity with the rapidly evolving society of Renaissance and Restoration English society.
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Appelqvist, Oscar, and Sara Klåvus. "Omvärldsanalys delight : En studie av hur små till medelstora företag kan få igång ett omvärldsanalysarbete." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, fysik och matematik, DFM, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-13613.
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Syftet med uppsatsen är att kunna erbjuda små till medelstora företag förslag på lämpliga modeller och IT-stöd att använda till omvärldsanalys. Genom att föreslå modeller och IT-stöd samt hur de används kan företag upprätta ett omvärldsanalysarbete utan att hyra in extern hjälp. Större företag har ofta en större budget och även resurser som aktivt arbetar med att bevaka omvärlden. Den sortens resurser finns inte i mindre företag eftersom kostnaden att hyra in konsulter för hjälp med omvärldsanalysarbete är för hög. Det i kombination med att kunskap saknas om hur ett omvärldsanalysarbete kan genomföras resulterar i att det ofta inte blir av. Fyra omvärldsanalysmodeller valdes ut och testades vid workshoppar på två olika företag. Vid sidan av det har kompletterande intervjuer genomförts på tre företag samt att en studie av lämpliga IT-stöd för omvärldsbevakning upprättats. Undersökningen visade att en manual är den mest lämpliga presentationsformen för hur små till medelstora företag kan använda sig av utvalda modeller och IT-stöd vilket skulle bidra till att de inte behöver hyra in extern hjälp för att starta ett omvärldsanalysarbete. I manualen framgår också vilka omvärldsanalysmodeller och IT-stöd som funnits mest lämpliga för små till medelstora företag.The purpose of this thesis is to offer models and IT-supportive tools for external business intelligence for smaller to medium sized businesses. Larger businesses often have more funds and resources that continuously work to monitor the surrounding environment. However, due to the fact that small businesses lack the time and knowledge to investigate external business intelligence sufficiently, and lack appropriate funds to hire a consultant, as they are too expensive, smaller businesses rarely ever have access to these resources. Four models for external business intelligence were chosen and tested in workshops with two different companies, three different companies were approached and participated in interviews, and a study on useful IT-supporting tools for external business intelligence was conducted. The study has shown that the most suitable way to display models and IT-supportive tools is with a manual that would assist smaller to medium sized businesses with external business intelligence without the need to hire external assistance.
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Hunt, Stuart H. "The Poet and the "Temple of Delight": Allegory in "Ode on Melancholy" and Blake's "Songs"." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_hontheses/8.
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In the final stanza of John Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy,” there are capitalized emotions such as “Joy” that are characters within the poem. William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience” include personified emotions in much the same way. In this paper I will define allegory as using a “radical dispersonification” in which personified objects within the poem point to something abstract that exists on its own, outside the context of the poem. Given the similarity of Keats’s poem and Blake’s “Songs,” there is the possibility that as Romantics, Blake influenced Keats. In the sense that Blake’s “Songs” are ultimately a religious or political allegory, which Blake manifests as states of “Innocence” and “Experience,” and Keats’s poem is allegorical in the sense that it is about an abstract state called “Melancholy” that he has experienced as a poet.
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Radford, Peter. "“Drinking Deeply with Delight”: An Investigation of Transformative Images in Isaiah 1 and 65-66." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/386339.
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This project examines the images used in the beginning and ending chapters of Isaiah. The purpose of this project is to trace the transformation of specific images from their introduction in Isaiah 1 to their re-interpretation in Isaiah 65-66. While this analysis uses the verbal parallels (shared vocabulary) as a starting point, the present project seeks to move beyond the analysis of verbal parallels. The discovery and analysis of these transformed images forges a deeper connection between the first and last chapters of Isaiah. The three images are as follows: The first image occurs in Isaiah 1:2-4 where YHWH is described as a spurned parent. This image is transformed and reinterpreted in Isaiah 66:13 where YHWH is described as a comforting mother. The second image occurs in Isaiah 1:15 which pictures YHWH as an unresponsive deity. This image is transformed in Isaiah 65:24 where YHWH is presented as an attentive god. The third image occurs in 1:21 where Zion is pictured as a prostitute. This image is transformed in 66:10-11 where Jerusalem is presented as a birthing and nursing mother. On this basis the present project proposes a rhetorical and literary purpose behind the repetition/transformation of images in Isaiah 65-66. These purposes are explored in conjunction with the analysis of each image. In addition, this project identifies effective reading strategies for the book as a whole and contributes to a growing trend that sees Isaiah as a literary unity.
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Lindström, Alexandra, and Andreas Flygare. "Co-Creation : Ett smörgåsbord av möjligheter." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-56652.
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Tjänstekonsumtionen har numera gått om produktkonsumtionen och svarar därför nu för en större del av Sveriges BNP. Om tjänstekonsumtionen ökar bör rimligtvis även antalet tjänsteföretag öka och ett sätt för dessa företag att öka sin konkurrenskraft är att ändra kundens roll i processen. I branscher som definieras av att varje kund och varje uppdrag ser olika ut (om än med vissa återkommande inslag) är det svårt att som företag använda sig av standardisering och utformning av styrdokument för kvalitetssäkring. Det är därför av stor vikt att företagen vet hur kunden upplever samarbetet, då det är kunden som värderar kvaliteten på en tjänst. Vår problemformulering lyder således Hur kan små kompetensbaserade företag arbeta med co-creation i en kompetensstyrd bransch för att förbättra kundens upplevelse av samarbetet? Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka om det finns några skillnader och likheter i upplevelsen av samarbetet mellan tjänsteleverantören och kunden där fokus ligger på själva processen mellan företag och kund. Om vi upptäcker några sådana skillnader vill vi ge förslag på hur dessa kan överbryggas genom användandet av co-creation för att förbättra kundens upplevelse av samarbetet. Som resultat av den valda problemformuleringen genomfördes studien tillsammans med ett studieobjekt. Studien skedde i två delar för att komma åt både de anställdas och kundernas del i processen. Vi valde det hermeneutiska perspektivet med dess fokus på tolkningar och människans subjektiva bild av verkligheten som paradigm (Johansson Lindfors, 1993, s. 41-42, 44). Angreppssättet för uppsatsen var abduktivt, som innebär en växelverkan mellan teori och empiri. En kvalitativ datainsamlings- och analysmetod användes för att försöka besvara problemformuleringen där det empiriska materialet kodades med hjälp av Grundad teori. Vår teoretiska referensram är grundad på teorier som är kopplade till ämnet co-creation. Andra inslag är sådant som framkommit under de två intervjuomgångarna eftersom vi kunnat återgå till teorin efter datainsamlingen på grund av det abduktiva angreppssättet. Våra slutsatser av studien är att begreppen kvalitet och värde är subjektiva och att kvalitetssäkring inte kan ske på ett standardiserat sätt inom undersökt område. Vi ser dock några gemensamma nämnare mellan studieobjektet och dess kunder och lämnar slutligen rekommendationer till hur det fortsätta arbetet med kunden bör utvecklas. För att lyckas utveckla ett samarbete med hjälp av co-creation krävs en bra dialog både internt och externt.
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Clavier, Mark Forbes Moreton. "Eloquent wisdom : the role of rhetoric and delight in the theology of Saint Augustine of Hippo." Thesis, Durham University, 2011. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/601/.
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This study examines Augustine’s conception of the role of delight (delectatio) in the divine acts of creation and redemption. In the first part of the dissertation, I argue that Augustine, who was trained as a rhetor and taught rhetoric before his conversion, came to conceive of theology as the fulfilment of Cicero’s conviction that wisdom and eloquence ought to be united. His approach to Cicero’s rhetorical theory as found in De inventione, De oratore, and Orator shares many similarities with that of Late Antique rhetors (especially Marius Victorinus) in whose works the orator functions less as a statesman than as a physician of the soul. Accordingly, an orator’s role is not to sway the senate or deliberate in law courts (as in Cicero’s thought) but to inform and persuade people towards a fruitful return to the divine. In the second part of the dissertation, I demonstrate how this approach influenced Augustine’s understanding of redemption. He conceives of God as Cicero’s ideal orator, in whom wisdom and eloquence are perfectly united. God engages in a rhetorical contest with the devil whom Augustine portrays in terms of the false orators in Cicero’s De inventione. The devil’s rhetoric comprises an illicit delight in actual sin and an inordinate delight in created goods, both of which exert their power over the human will through suggestion, delight and persuasion and result in a bondage to sin and death. By contrast, God ‘utters’ creation as a delightful song and opposes death’s nihilistic rhetoric by pouring his own delight into the hearts of the faithful; this delight persuades the will to move towards a joyful participation in the divine that is the happy life for which all people long. Ultimately, Augustine identifies this spiritual delight most closely with the Holy Spirit who functions as God’s eternal eloquence.
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Robinson, Gary J. "Delight, Satisfaction, and Behavioral Intentions in a Hospital Setting: The Role of Environmental and Interpersonal Services." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1330029995.
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Widlarz, Jörn. "Kundenbegeisterung : Theoretische Bezüge und Managementimplikationen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Emotion Überraschung /." München : FGM-Verl, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2654104&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Beck, Kimberly Jean. "Music as a delight of god and men : absolutism, genre, and instrumental music in seventeenth-century Salzburg." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/53925.
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The seventeenth century was an age of absolutist ideology during which many European princes took upon themselves trappings of both religious and secular authority. Composers in the service of absolutist patrons were compelled to provide music that could move easily between sacred and secular venues and represent both facets of the prince’s power. Contemporary conceptions of musical classification exhibit this porous threshold between religious and profane genres and performance spaces. In this dissertation, I show how a flexible conception of musical genre—one in which traditionally sacred and secular idioms were blended in diverse ways—illustrated the dual nature of the authority of Salzburg’s absolutist Prince Archbishop. The diverse oeuvre of Salzburg’s composers calls into question the very definition of musical genre in the period. While a modern conception of fixed musical genres is manifest in theoretical treatises of the time, musical evidence suggests that well-defined genre classifications did not practically exist in the seventeenth century. Rather, composers took a malleable approach to genre, often blending different texts, musical forms, and styles to craft musical compositions latent with meanings that encompass several genres. In the first chapter, I consider genre as described in contemporary treatises and argue that modern literary genre theory provides a useful lens for the study of genre in the period. Chapter 2 turns to the sacred repertoire of Salzburg, which in its variety of centonized texts, timbres, and instrumentations deviates from the stylistic norms of liturgical genres. In Chapter 3 I explore the representational capabilities of the large-scale works performed during spectacles that were symbolic of the power and piety of Salzburg’s Prince Archbishop. Salzburg’s instrumental ensemble sonatas, explored in Chapter 4, reveal two particular uses for the term “sonata” and point to the genre as a site of both representation and innovation. The final chapter considers the solo sonata as a devotional aid in the context of cyclic spiritual exercises in Salzburg, where music transcended the limitations of genre to move between notionally sacred and secular performance spaces to represent the piety and power of the Prince Archbishop.Arts, Faculty of
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Kernan, Sarah Peters. "“For al them that delight in Cookery”: The Production and Use of Cookery Books in England, 1300–1600." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1462569208.
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Mills, Ralph. "Objects of delight : an investigation of miniaturisation focusing on nineteenth century mass-produced miniature objects in working class contexts." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2017. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/618222/.
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From the late eighteenth century onwards, people of limited means in industrialising countries were likely to spend a proportion of their disposable income on “useless” non-utilitarian decorative objects. Miniature representations of a wide range of real or imaginary originals, many of these were displayed in the domestic context on mantelpieces. To fill a gap in both archaeological and historical research into the recent past, this study examines the importance of miniaturisation and what these small-scale objects can tell us about everyday life in the nineteenth century. My research reveals that the panoply of figures on the mantelpiece would often include plaster of Paris “images,” a class of decorative miniature three-dimensional object that, because of its low value and fragility, has not generally survived in the present. By archaeologically “excavating” a contemporary record of a mid-nineteenth century mantelpiece and identifying and interrogating the artefacts on it, I explore for the first time the complex global network of creativity, trade and consumption with which these objects link, and which demonstrates the knowledge, intellectual lives, tastes and interests of those who desired and delighted in them.
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Haswell, Jennifer Isobel. ""Joy and delight to the minds of the wise" : the nature and function of narrative in the Dhammapada Commentary." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/21292.
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This work is intended as an exploration and development in a Buddhist context of a previously neglected area in the study of sacred texts, identified by William Graham as "the sensual dimension", or the response of a community to its sacred texts. The focus of the study is the Dhammapada Commentary, a Pli narrative text. As a genre of religious literature, narrative has either been over-emphasised or disregarded by scholars in the study of sacred texts. The thesis presented is that the Dhammapada Commentary can be examined, utilising a narrative theory formulated by Ian Reid, which involves the analysis of the way texts are framed by readers. Four areas are explored, including the form of text's presentation, the particular preoccupations revealed in the text and brought to the text, the structure of text as commentary and how the text is seen in relation to other texts. Of particular significance are the preoccupations displayed in the text and the emphasis in the text on evoking a particular response to the text, through which the text is aligned intertextually with an already established mode of response. The implications of this, particularly for the nature of the relationship between canon and commentary, are also considered.
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Wesemael, Pieter van. "Architecture of instruction and delight : a socio-historical analysis of world exhibitions as a didactic phenomenon (1798-1851-1970) /." Rotterdam : 010 Publishers, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb377125625.
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Da, Silva Talita. "From Attract to Delight: A Qualitative Study Investigating the Relationship Between Inbound Strategies and Business Growth : A B2B Centric Approach." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-38522.
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This thesis was written as part of a Master of Science Degree in Strategic Entrepreneurship for International Growth and International Marketing. Aligned with the nature of the degree, this study aims to share useful insights to managers and marketers whom are looking into innovating their business by adopting an inbound strategy. This thesis researches a modern topic within business: inbound marketing. It aims to comprehend how the implementation of an effective inbound strategy drives sales growth, by understanding the effects that inbound has over the B2B buying and selling process. The study considers the newly presented changes within the European general data protection regulation and emphasizes the relevance of an inbound strategy. An in-depth study of existing theories and exploratory primary data was conducted in order to attain these objectives. Due to restricted existence of scientific theories within the topic, this study developed an original cohesive relationship model integrating inbound marketing to the B2B buying and selling process. This model served as a theoretical framework for the conduction of this research. The exploratory research was characterized by interviewing a number of experts within the field. Those experts provided indispensable insights regarding the phenomenon in focus, which in combination with the theoretical framework allowed for the completion of this study’s analysis. The focus was to understand the impact that the implementation of an inbound strategy had over business and how such impact led to an increase in sales. The results indicate that when effectively implemented by suitable companies, an inbound marketing strategy is relevant in acquiring potential customers at the right stage of the buyer’s journey and therefore driving a noticeable increase in sales.
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Jirsak, Stefanie. "Shedding light on the minds of delighted customers : an investigation into the effect of the intrinsic processing on the magnitude and endurance of customer delight in hedonic and utilitarian consumption settings using dual-processing theory." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/shedding-light-on-the-minds-of-delighted-customers(f59295cf-0ee5-41b1-80f5-6e2f33fbf950).html.
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Customer delight is as an emotion that results from unexpectedly surprising and joyful experiences, and has been well-researched in the marketing literature. However, little is known about how customers intrinsically process delightful experiences, and how this affects customer delight and behavioural intentions. An investigation into customers’ intrinsic processing during delightful experiences may provide some indication whether triggering a certain form of processing increases the magnitude and endurance of customers’ delight and behavioural intentions, i.e. intention to revisit, engage in positive word of mouth, commit, and pay more. This thesis addresses this gap by applying dual-processing theory. Data were collected in a two-part online experiment (n = 304 US residents). The results show that analytical processing, as opposed to affective processing, leads to stronger customer delight and, in turn, to stronger behavioural intentions in a hedonic consumption setting, but not in a utilitarian setting. There is no significant effect of processing on the endurance of customer delight or behavioural intentions. The results further suggest that the consumption setting is not a moderator. This thesis makes several important contributions. It contributes to the customer delight literature by shedding light on how customers intrinsically process delightful experiences. Understanding this allows an insight into how processing affects the magnitude and endurance of customer delight, and how it impacts on consumers’ behavioural intentions. By finding that customer delight results from analytical processing, this thesis contributes to the extant knowledge by suggesting that customer delight may not only be an emotion, but also a judgement. This constitutes a new understanding of customer delight and how to increase its magnitude and endurance. This thesis further contributes to the dual-processing theory literature by intertwining the theory with customer delight as a well-known marketing concept. This highlights the theory’s importance to marketing to explain how the magnitude and endurance of marketing concepts may be increased. This thesis further contributes to the extant knowledge by applying the theory in hedonic and utilitarian consumption settings, which generates insights into the form of processing to be triggered in each of these settings. This thesis also contributes to marketing practice. Practitioners are advised to trigger customers’ analytical processing during delightful experiences, in hedonic settings. This helps create stronger customer delight and behavioural intentions.
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Chapman, Patricia Ann. "Two Laureates and a Whore Debate Decorum and Delight: Dryden, Shadwell, and Behn in a Decade of Comedy A-la-Mode." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11202006-050335/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.Title from title screen. Malinda Snow, committee chair; Tanya Caldwell, Paul Schmidt, committee members. Electronic text (81 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May 8, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-81).
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Walker, Judith Elaine. "'To amaze the people with pleasure and delight' : an analysis of the horsemanship manuals of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle (1593-1676)." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2005. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5920/.
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'To Amaze the People with Pleasure and Delight': an analysis of the horsemanship manuals of William Cavendish, the first Duke of Newcastle (1593-1676). William Cavendish published two horsemanship manuals in 1658 and 1667, setting out his method for the noble art of the riding house. This thesis argues that within the canon of Newcastle's writing, his horsemanship manuals are key texts, offering insights into his writing practice, personal philosophy and motivation. To understand the importance of the manuals in their cultural context, Newcastle's contribution to the development of riding as an art is considered, with particular reference to the way in which his attitude towards other authors influenced each manual. A detailed examination of the technical aspects of the manuals illustrates that to ignore the method in favour of the historical and political material is to overlook a vital element. Newcastle's understanding of the horse's mind is a key to his approach, therefore this study argues that his royalist ideologies are supported and paralleled through his treatment and expectation of his horses. The engraved plates that illustrate the first manual are analysed as multi-layered images, offering a notional journey through his estates. The thesis will conclude with consideration of near-contemporary responses to Newcastle's work and argue that the manuals' importance to his own self actualisation and emotional security is written as much into the practicalities of the method as the theatricalities of its presentation.
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Westblom, Johan, and Jens Ellström. "Motivation till att sprida eWOM : förtjust av hotellupplevelsen." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Handels- och IT-högskolan, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-17838.
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Syfte: Studien syftar till att öka kunskapen om vilka faktorer som motiverar människor attsprida eWOM då kundförtjusning upplevts. Studien syftar, i synnerhet till att få en ökadteoretisk förståelse, i termer av servicekvalitet, kopplat till denna motivation.Design/metod: Studien kombinerar en induktiv och deduktiv ansats där empiri har prövatsmot befintlig teori. Undersökningen har genomförts i form av en kvalitativ innehållsanalys,med en kvalitativ ansats, där söktermer för hotellrecensioner på Tripadvisor.com, kopplat tillkundförtjusning, har använts. Ett befintligt kod-schema från tidigare forskning inom områdetför kundförtjusning har använts som utgångspunkt för kategorisering av analyserad text.Emellertid har vi haft ett öppet sinne för att kunna se eventuella nya kategorier växa fram urdatamaterialet. Kategorier har även kvantifierats för att få en bättre förståelse av resultatet.Resultat: Analysen av hotellrecensioner indikerar att det framförallt är kundservice, i form avöverraskningar, varm/välkomnande-, vänlig-, hjälpsam och uppmärksam personal sommotiverar människor att sprida eWOM då man upplever kundförtjusning. Emellertid ärpåtagliga aspekter såsom, renlighet samt inredning- och storlek av gästrum också vitala fördenna motivation. Gällande servicekvalitetsdimensioner från teorin: SERVQUAL, är detframförallt, empathy, assurance, responsiveness och tangibles som motiverar människor attsprida eWOM, där empathy tycks vara den viktigaste dimensionen.Originalitet/värde: Studiens resultat adderar kunskap till tidigare studier som berörmänniskors motivation till att sprida WOM, i synnerhet forskning relaterad till servicekvalitet.Det finns begränsat med forskning kring fenomenet eWOM i relation tillservicekvalitetsdimensioner, och studien reducerar gapet mellan traditionell WOM ocheWOM i termer av motivation till att sprida dito. Studien bekräftar även tidigare forskninggällande de faktorer av hotellupplevelser som bidrar till kundförtjusning, och jämför även tvåolika definitioner av kundförtjusning. Vidare, ger studien insikt till management inomhotellbranschen, i synnerhet hotell belägna i Storbritannien, kring de faktorer som har enpositiv inverkan på fördelaktig ryktesspridning.Program: Civilekonomprogrammet
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Swanson, Michael David. ""The Vehicle of Delight and Morality": Humor and Sentiment in the Plays of John O'Keeffe as a Reflection of Late Eighteenth-Century English Theatrical Comedy." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1382014382.
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Hilton, Michael. "Improving WebIDE through Delightful Design and Gamification." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2013. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/931.
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WebIDE is a web-based online learning environment. WebIDE has been used
successfully to teach CS0 and CS1 students Java and C concepts and software
engineering best practices, specically Test Driven Development. Previous Web-
IDE development has concentrated on developing functionality. The main goal
of this eort is to improve two non-functional aspects of WebIDE. The rst is to
design a more delightful user interface. The second is to add a scoring mecha-
nism that encourages students to develop best practices. The scoring mechanism
rewards students who answer the question correctly on the rst attempt, dis-
couraging them from spamming the answer button. Our objective is to motivate
the students to think before answering. The innovations are evaluated through
a semi-controlled experiment that was conducted during the Fall quarter of 2012
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Shaffer, Marcus. "Rise Tectonic Machines!: The Revitalization of the Relationship Between Architects and Machines as a Means of Restoring Intimacy, Immediacy, and Delight to the Act of Building." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34283.
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Architectural form is both an expression of human desire and built edifice directly related to construction methods. It follows that the responsibilities of the architect seeking new form must extend to the instrumentation of tectonic machines and devices, which are also appropriately new. This thesis proposes a revitalization of the relationship between the architect and machines as a means of restoring intimacy, immediacy, and delight to the act of building. What follows is a presentation of images, photographs, and models related to the design and development of an architecture machine, and related constructions.Master of Architecture
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Abu, Snieneh Wafa' A. J. "An integrated model for the measurement of online customer experience. An empirical international study." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4245.
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With the emergence of the internet as a new business channel and its impact on the overall role of today¿s customers, existing models for the measurement of perceived quality, satisfaction and loyalty are worth revisiting. This is specifically important in light of the prominent progress of some of the new business concepts, particularly customer experience management, and the rising emphasis on customers¿ hedonic and emotional needs.
This study attempts to bridge the gap in existing literature by examining the online customer experience in its entirety, attending within the study to both the utilitarian and hedonic needs of online customers and giving special attention to emerging aspects in the online environment, such as customer engagement in self-driven experiences. Therefore, the study includes a comprehensive review of a large body of knowledge, both in consumer behaviour and marketing literature as well as quality management literature, in addition to a scrutiny of 50 studies for different evaluation models in the online environment. This is in order to identify a list of attributes and factors that impact customer evaluations of online experiences.
Upon the synthesis of the list of attributes and factors that impact customer evaluations of online experiences, an online blog was created as an environment for asynchronous focus groups. The online blog was beneficial in creating a deeper understanding of what online customers want and what impacts their experiences. Following, an online questionnaire was administered in two stages, once for measure purification purposes which received 90 pilot responses and once for mass data collection purposes which received 366 responses.
As a result of this study, an integrated model for the measurement of online customer experience that emphasises the significance of the emotional component was proposed. The model consists of three components, each serve a specific measurement purpose. The XQual construct which consists of 7 attributes and 30 factors, is a performance measure of the experience in relation to specific aspects that address customers¿ utilitarian and hedonic needs. The satisfaction continuum consists of four factors and is an output measure for each experience or transaction with the online firm. The loyalty continuum consists of four factors and is an outcome measure that indicates customers¿ attitudinal commitment towards the online firm.
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Snieneh, Wafa' Abdel Jalil Abu. "An integrated model for the measurement of online customer experience : an empirical international study." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4245.
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With the emergence of the internet as a new business channel and its impact on the overall role of today's customers, existing models for the measurement of perceived quality, satisfaction and loyalty are worth revisiting. This is specifically important in light of the prominent progress of some of the new business concepts, particularly customer experience management, and the rising emphasis on customers' hedonic and emotional needs. This study attempts to bridge the gap in existing literature by examining the online customer experience in its entirety, attending within the study to both the utilitarian and hedonic needs of online customers and giving special attention to emerging aspects in the online environment, such as customer engagement in self-driven experiences. Therefore, the study includes a comprehensive review of a large body of knowledge, both in consumer behaviour and marketing literature as well as quality management literature, in addition to a scrutiny of 50 studies for different evaluation models in the online environment. This is in order to identify a list of attributes and factors that impact customer evaluations of online experiences. Upon the synthesis of the list of attributes and factors that impact customer evaluations of online experiences, an online blog was created as an environment for asynchronous focus groups. The online blog was beneficial in creating a deeper understanding of what online customers want and what impacts their experiences. Following, an online questionnaire was administered in two stages, once for measure purification purposes which received 90 pilot responses and once for mass data collection purposes which received 366 responses. As a result of this study, an integrated model for the measurement of online customer experience that emphasises the significance of the emotional component was proposed. The model consists of three components, each serve a specific measurement purpose. The XQual construct which consists of 7 attributes and 30 factors, is a performance measure of the experience in relation to specific aspects that address customers' utilitarian and hedonic needs. The satisfaction continuum consists of four factors and is an output measure for each experience or transaction with the online firm. The loyalty continuum consists of four factors and is an outcome measure that indicates customers' attitudinal commitment towards the online firm.
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Schlüter, Annika [Verfasser], and Eberhard [Akademischer Betreuer] Windler. "Untersuchung von Essmustern in Bezug auf das gezügelte Essverhalten hinsichtlich der langfristigen Gewichtsreduktion im Sinne einer Prävention des Diabetes mellitus Typ 2 : DELIGHT-Studie / Annika Schlüter. Betreuer: Eberhard Windler." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1074642848/34.
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Jemmali, Fellah Habiba. "Les oeuvres de Hélé Beji, d'Ahmadou Kourouma et de Patrick Chamoiseau : Entre désaveu et ébranlement." Thesis, Paris 8, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA080073/document.
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Ahmadou Kourouma, Hélé Béji et Patrick Chamoiseau constituent le matériau à partir duquel nous avons conduit notre aventure analytique en vue de démontrer le double visage d’une Afrique mythique qui n’a pas fini de révéler ses mystères. Les trois écrivains ont su piloter l’identité africaine avec beaucoup d’éclat et de sensibilité, dans des couleurs scripturales polymorphes qui s’accordent cependant toutes harmonieusement entre elles, car elles se donnent à voir comme fortement allégoriques et grandement engagées. Ainsi leurs plumes semblent-elles disposer les lignes comme autant de repères d’une traversée oscillant souvent entre réalité et fiction. La quête identitaire qui transcende les écrits étudiés est particulièrement emblématique, visant à traduire le dilemme que vit l’Afrique décolonisée, toujours prisonnière d’un passé affligeant contre lequel elle se bat vaillamment, en tâchant de panser ses maux et d’avancer sans fléchir sur le chemin de la démocratie. Ce chemin vers la délivrance est parsemé d’embûches interminables, car la volonté de libération est fatalement entravée par les déboires que causent les régimes dictatoriaux en gestation. Ainsi l’Afrique croule-t-elle, à son insu, sous le poids du désenchantement face aux dérives coloniales, affrontant une incommensurable désillusion liée aux leurres des Indépendances.À travers les pérégrinations de ses personnages, chacun des trois auteurs a essayé de partager le fardeau de son peuple, en tentant d’exprimer sa conscience. Dès lors, chacun s’est employé à l’éloigner du spectre du désespoir et à le détourner des tribulations de la vie quotidienneAhmadou Kourouma, Hélé Béji and Patrick Chamoiseau constitute the material from which we conducted our analytical adventure with a view to showing the dualistic nature of a mythical Africa which is still in the process of revealing its mysteries. The three writers have successfully managed to get hold of African identity, vividly and sensitively, in polymorphic written colours which, however, work wonderfully together because they are visibly allegorical and highly committed. So the writers' pens seem to lay lines as waypoints in a crossing that fluctuates between reality and fiction.The quest for identity which transcends the works we have studied is particularly emblematic, as it means to convey the reality of the dilemma experienced by decolonized Africa which is still the prisoner of a distressing past it bravely grapples with, trying to heal its wounds and to move forward relentlessly on the road to democracy. This way to deliverance is filled with unending challenges because the desire to be free is inevitably hindered by the setbacks caused by dictatorships in the making. As a result, Africa is collapsing under the weight of disenchantment caused by colonial excesses, without even being aware of it, struggling against an unfathomable disillusion resulting from the snares of Independence.Through their characters' peregrinations, the three writers have endeavoured to share the burden of their own peoples, each in their own way, by trying to be and express their conscience. Indeed, they applied themselves to taking their peoples away from the spectre of despair and to diverting them from the trials and tribulations of daily life