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Robson, Catherine. "Seizure clinic encounters : third party references and accompanying others." Thesis, University of York, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6733/.
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There are two different types of seizures, epileptic and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) - the seizures can look the same and have the same features. Despite the impressive increase in our biomedical knowledge it is difficult for neurologists to differentiate between these seizure conditions; and many of the tests used cannot, on their own, confirm a diagnosis. However, it is crucial to get the diagnosis right because the choice of treatment critically depends on the cause and nature of the seizures. Consequently, history-taking and the interaction between patient and doctor remains key to the investigation and correct and effective treatment of epilepsy and PNES. Recent research indicates that the close examination of doctor-patient encounters not only enables us to identify linguistic and interactional features that help with the diagnosis of epilepsy and PNES, but also yields helpful psychological insights into how people with seizures experience their disorder. Previous work has alerted researchers (and neurologists) to the important role that references to others not present during consultations (third parties) can play. However, previous studies have not examined or described the use of these third party references in detail. This thesis investigates the use of third party references and seizure witness accounts by participants experiencing refractory seizure disorders using secondary data collected during 20 one-to-one doctor-patient consultations. Moreover, patients are routinely invited to bring seizure witnesses and companions along to their first as well as to subsequent visits to seizure clinics. Despite the important diagnostic roles companions are thought to play in these encounters, no previous studies have focussed specifically on their contribution to the interaction between patients and health professionals. To help advance what is known about accompanied interactions in the seizure clinic, 50 patients attending a specialist outpatient seizure clinic consented to participate in an observational study. Findings from this research, funded by the charity Epilepsy Action, help inform existing models of interactional criteria that distinguish between the linguistic and communicative features of PNES and epilepsy patient seizure descriptions. The findings suggest that doctors utilising the differential interactive, linguistic and topical features of seizure patient talk need to carefully consider how they conduct and structure these consultations, and recommendations are offered in this respect. Finally, avenues of future research are discussed.
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Bridwell, Barry D. "The Multi-percussion Writing of William Kraft in his Encounters Series With Three Recitals of Selected Works of Erb, Ptaszynska, Redel, Serry, and Others." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278294/.
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The paper is divided into six chapters. The first two provide a brief summary of the evolution of multiple percussion and biographical information about Kraft. The remaining chapters are an examination of the origin, sound sources, compositional style, and performance problems of the ten Encounters pieces. The paper concludes with several appendices, including a chronological listing of Kraft's compositions which use percussion, a list of percussion equipment and notational symbols used in the Encounters pieces, and a discography of Kraft's music.
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Reitsma, Lizette. "Dynamics of respectful design in co-creative and co-reflective encounters with indigenous communities." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2015. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/31613/.
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This research focuses on designing with indigenous communities. The use of design raises concerns in this context. Because of the aim to ‘improve’ lives and the emphasis on innovation, design approaches have the probability to colonise. As designers, we have to find ways to deal with such concerns. Approaches that do this within the context of indigenous communities are Sheehan’s respectful design and Tunstall’s culture-based innovation. Both approaches acknowledge that the community should benefit from projects. In this, the role of the designer becomes to spark the resourcefulness of the community members to find such benefit. However, neither approach states in pragmatic terms how such a space can be reached. Therefore, this research aims to: explore the dynamics of a respectful design space in co-creative and co-reflective encounters with indigenous communities; and to provide recommendations to reach such a space. The explorations were performed by introducing co-creative design methods during a case study with three indigenous communities. Some co-creative processes led to respectful design spaces, others did not. All processes were analytically studied by combining annotated portfolios and content analysis in timelines. The aim was to find patterns of dynamics essential for respectful design. The dynamics that arose were: 1) ownership through the type of design participation, 2) indicators of ownership, 3) the type of novel expressions made and 4) the type of material culture introduced. This led to contributions of this research being, firstly, a framework of a respectful design space and recommendations of how to reach such a space. Secondly, the concept of constellations of design initiatives, to understand respectful design in situ. Thirdly, the importance of inclusion of the community’s own material culture to facilitate dialogical spaces, and, finally, the analytical approach used to find the dynamics.
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Grimes, Peter J. "Toadman and Other Encounters." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1313427174.
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Hayward, Eva. "Envisioning invertebrates and other aquatic encounters /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Hirst, Angela. "Eating the other : Levinas's ethical encounter /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18679.pdf.
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Crossett, Laura Elizabeth. "Encounters with dead white men and other excursions." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2003. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4551.
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Birks, Ying. "Encounters with Westerners: Understanding the Chinese Construction of the Western Other." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23112.
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In this study we seek to understand how ordinary Chinese people perceive Westerners as the Other through examining their intercultural experiences. In contrast to the numerous studies of social elites’ Occidentalism, this study shifts the attention to ordinary people’s perceptions in a fast changing Chinese society. From an interpretive perspective, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 16 participants living in a coastal city in Mainland China. The key findings suggest that the Chinese public has its own way of perceiving and presenting the Western Other. Also, this Other, being defined in an on-going process of intercultural interaction, connotes a wider meaning – a unity of opposition and complementarity, exclusion and inclusion. Thus this study has deepened our understanding of the Chinese construction of the Western Other. The findings can be used in developing intercultural communication training programs to facilitate deeper contact and better dialogue between the Chinese and Westerners.
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Tarulli, Donato. "Encounters with the other, toward a dialogical conception of the self." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ60571.pdf.
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Kanarinka. "Engineering serendipity : Terra Incognita and other strange encounters with global news." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95597.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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There is a significant body of research that shows that people tend to congregate with others like them and favor information that confirms their existing views. With declining global news coverage and the rise of personalized news feeds and social media, there is concern that our forms of information consumption do not support encountering sufficient information about other cultures and places to make us effective citizens of the world. This thesis reviews these arguments and proposes a design intervention called "Terra Incognita: 1000 Cities of the World" to help address the geographic dimension of information diversity. Terra Incognita brings together aspects of serendipitous information discovery, personal informatics and "nudge" applications to provide users with multiple daily opportunities to explore faraway cities by reading global news recommendations. This study shows that while Terra Incognita did not shift user behavior in aggregate towards reading about more diverse places, it did make them curious about new places, prompted them to reflect and broadened their horizons. The final chapter offers guidance for designers who might aspire to create applications at the intersection of personal behavior change and news media.
by Catherine D'Ignazio.
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Li, Darryl Chi-Yee. "Jihad and Other Universalisms: Arab-Bosnian Encounters in the U.S. World Order." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10627.
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This dissertation uses the experiences of Arab Islamist fighters in the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) to rethink prevailing notions of world order. These actors are frequently glossed as “foreign fighters”: rootless, unaccountable extremists attempting to impose rigid forms of Islam on local “moderate” Muslim populations, be it in BiH, Afghanistan, Chechnya, or other sites of conflict with non-Muslim powers. By illuminating some of the many diasporic and imperial circuits linking BiH with other parts of the world, this dissertation provides a richer historical and sociological context in which transnational activist movements no longer seem so aberrational. This study argues that the mobilization to join the “jihad” alongside Bosnian Muslims can be usefully understood as a universalist project: an attempt to incarnate a worldwide Muslim community (umma) theoretically open to all of humanity, in which activists struggle through the experience of racial, cultural, and doctrinal difference vis-à-vis Bosnian and other Muslims. This approach opens up two broad avenues of inquiry. First, it allows an analysis of how Muslims of different backgrounds interacted in contexts of fighting, intermarriage, and doctrinal disputation. Second, it helps analytically situate the jihad in relation to other forms of armed intervention also acting in the name of humanity, most importantly UN peacekeeping and the U.S.-led “Global War on Terror.” This study is based on approximately 12 months of fieldwork in BiH between 2006 and 2012, mostly in Sarajevo, Zenica, Tuzla, and Bugojno. Open-ended life-history interviews were conducted in Arabic and English with Arab residents of BiH and their Bosnian comrades, kin, and critics. Additional interviews took place in Yemen, France, and Egypt. The study also draws extensively on archival materials culled from various sources, including Bosnian army and intelligence documents gathered by the UN war crimes tribunal, U.S. State Department cables disclosed by Wikileaks, and extensive printed and online materials by participants in and supporters of the jihad written in Arabic, the language formerly known as Serbo-Croatian, and Urdu.
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Marlatt, Cameo Rae-Ann. "Letters for a Newfoundland Dog and other encounters with nonhuman animals ; Bird's Work." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30584/.
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This project encompasses a collection of lyric essays and a collection of poetry engaging with the topic of zoopoetics, which as a field is interested in the way that attentiveness to the poiesis of nonhuman animals can shape human creative forms. The lyric essays, which form my critical component, are each centered on what Donna Haraway would refer to as a ‘companion species,’ a term that extends beyond companion animals such as pets to include any animals we share our lives with. Looking at frogs, dogs, whales, cats, bats, and parrots, I explore my personal history with specific animals of these species, and also analyze their representation in literature, art, and popular culture. Within a zoopoetic framework, the essays engage with scholarship around anthropomorphism, animals and gender, animal captivity, and animal history. The poetry collection, which forms my creative component, explores various ways of writing nonhuman animals. Writing with curiosity and attentiveness towards non-human animals, I aim for my poems to embody the shared animal-human poiesis at the heart of zoopoetics.
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Avellino, Marie. "The Maltese gift : tourist encounters with the self and the other in later life." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2016. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/1111/.
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This thesis takes a case study approach of the tourist-host encounter in the Maltese Islands, an ex-British Colony and older British tourists (OBTs). OBTs are an important source market for tourism as this is set to grow in volume and propensity. The research investigates how OBTs negotiate identity and memory through their narratives. It does so by examining what is being transacted at a social, cultural and symbolic level between the Maltese and the OBT. It then enquires as to the extent the previous colonial relationship is influencing the present ex-colonial and neocolonial Anglo-Maltese tourist encounter. The ethnographic study employs a two-pronged strategy. The first interrogates the terms under which spatial and temporal dimensions of the cultural production of the post colony, and the ongoing representations of specific spaces and experiences, are circulated and interpreted by these tourists. The second examines the relationship through the ‘exchange lens' which is manifested along social and cultural lines within the Maltese tourism landscape context. The research indicates that older adult British visitors have a ‘love’ for the island, which is reciprocated by the Maltese Anglophiles, in spite of some tensions between the two nations in the past. The relationship extends beyond a simple economic transaction but is based on more of a social, symbolic and cultural exchange. This research is one of the first to examine the phenomenon of non-economic capital and gift exchange and the role exchange plays in building relationships at the tourist-host interface. The study concludes that the value, which is placed on the gifts, or capital which are generated or exchanged through the tourist encounter, encourages further visits to the island. Much of this value is based on the significance of Empire to the OBTs who re-discover lost traces of Britishness in Malta through experiencing Anglo-Maltese cultural hybridity. It also advances the view that tourism is really about the self rather than the other - or, at least, that the other is in some senses a mirror of the self.
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Crone, Bridget. "The sensible stage : an encounter with bodies, images and other sensate materials." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2013. http://research.gold.ac.uk/9698/.
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The thesis unfolds around the twin dynamics suggested by its title. “Sensible” refers to the bodily operations at the heart of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophical project. “Stage” evokes the delineation inherent in Alain Badiou’s reference to the mathematical or “stellar” paradigm of sets as well as his writings on theatre. It is in this way that the thesis attempts to think the matheme and patheme together as vertical (and therefore striated) and horizontal (and so, smooth) movements. This is what the sensible stage offers to us: on the one hand, a thinking through an encounter with bodies in the face of the void, and on the other, the movements of bodies as gaseous image-material. We will begin with the problem of horizontality as a flat ontology that is not only bodily but also machinic, so that we find ourselves suspended in a delirium of images and bodies. Here, the vitalist paradigm of “becoming animal” is replaced with a state of delirious suspension in which the continuous production or becoming of bodies and images results in their stasis or suspension. We will then turn to the bounded space of the stage, which we will explore through the concepts of time and encounter. The stage produces time that is discontinuous, and realised in layers, regions, platforms, stages rather than the continuous movement and experience of bodies. Thinking about time, in this way, produces a discontinuity and a separation: a gesture that moves us outside of the horizontal. The Sensible Stage addresses a range of contemporary art works in the fields of moving image and contemporary art performance in order to consider the way in which the acts of staging, projection and encounter produce bodies (or images or image-bodies) that are differentiated from the field of accelerated circuits, gaseous and undifferentiated materials…
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Cardellio, Kristin. "Situated Directives in Italian L2 Service-Learning Encounters." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6070.
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Interaction with local speakers of a second language (L2) in a naturalistic setting during study abroad is beneficial to language learning in many respects; particularly in the development of pragmatic competence, or the awareness and ability to use the appropriate language for a specific social context (Kinginger, 2011; Magnan & Back, 2007; Schauer, 2009; Shively, 2011). Service-learning - volunteering in the local community combined with an academic pursuit - during study abroad provides the opportunity for meaningful interaction between language learners and local speakers of the L2 in authentic and collaborative settings (Overfield, 2007). This study examines the interactions of Italian L2 users and local speakers of Italian while engaged in service-learning in Italy. A sociopragmatic framework revealed emergent trends and linguistic norms in this context. Using a discourse analytic approach, this study offers a detailed description of directive use of the L2 learners and the local Italian speakers (Blum-Kulka, et al, 1989; Ervin-Tripp, 1976; Nuzzo, 2007). The study also examines (mis)understandings and relational work (Locher & Watts, 2008) that occur in the interactions. Primary data consists of audio recordings of the naturally-occurring interactions at three service-learning sites during a short-term summer study abroad program in Italy. Secondary data consists of interviews with the L2 users and their interlocutors. The data reveal that the majority of directives came from the local Italian speakers, not the L2 users, likely due to the clear power dynamic and the nature of the activities at each site. The directives were most commonly in the imperative with little or no mitigation for purposes of clarity or urgency of the tasks. Misunderstandings expressed by the L2 users were primarily linguistic, although there were also instances of pragmatic misunderstanding. Relational work emerged in the interactions, yet clear, explicit direction took precedent over face-work and rapport building among interactants. Findings from this study can be used to inform foreign language pedagogical practice in myriad ways; from developing practical applications for situated language use, to using actual transcripts from the data in pre-departure language and cultural activities in U.S. Italian language classrooms. Findings also provide community partners with data regarding the challenges, linguistic and otherwise, that L2 user/volunteers face during service-learning in Italy, and suggest areas for further research.
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Lee, Linda. "Customer-to-customer roles and impacts in service encounters." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-186294.
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This thesis investigates customer-to-customer roles and impacts in the context of service encounters. This topic is studied from two angles: customer interactions during group service encounters and customer perceptions post service encounters. The first angle is a focus on group service encounters that addresses the lack of research on customer-to-customer interactions that occur in customer-to-customer interaction-intensive contexts. These are contexts where the interactions between customers are not peripheral to the service, where there can be an expectation to interact with the other customers, and are common in tourism and hospitality, recreation, and education. The second angle is a focus on service outcomes after the service encounter, including satisfaction, intention to recommend, and online word-of-mouth. Paper 1 explores how firms view and manage customer-to-customer interactions during group service encounters. It finds that the differences in attitude and conduct of firms create four possible stances toward customer-to-customer interaction. Paper 2 delves deeper into how customer-to-customer interactions impact the design and delivery of group service encounters, develops a typology of customer cohort climates (CCCs), and identifies how each CCC can be created through four elements of group service encounters. Paper 3 investigates how positive and negative customer-to-customer interactions impact service outcomes and finds that customer-to-customer interaction is a dissatisfier. Paper 4 examines how customers produce online hotel reviews and finds that content analysis of online reviews yields similar findings to more traditional quantitative research methods. This thesis advances research on the impact of customers on each other and provides evidence that other customers can and should be managed to achieve desired service outcomes. It further proposes how these interactions can be managed to further enhance service firm offerings.QC 20160516
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Yoon, Gil Soo. "Discipleship ministry as power encounter in Thailand." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Taupo, Katrina Phoebe Tamara. "Close Encounters of the Genetic Testing Kind: Negotiating the interfaces between Matauranga Māori and other knowledge systems." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Sociology and Anthropology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/938.
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Since the decoding of the human genome project concluded in 2003, rapid technological advances in the area of human genetics including genetic testing and bio banking have accelerated. Public discussion of genetic testing and biobanking are the focus of this thesis. Genetic profiling and predictive tests aim to establish the causal conditions for disorders such as Fragile X, cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease. Biobanking involves the storage of genetic material for genetic research and can also include genealogical research. The complex and varied relationships that Maori (indigenous peoples of New Zealand) in different social locations have with western science (and human genetics in particular) is at the heart of this thesis. The thesis explores the responses of three differently located Maori social groups to the challenges posed by genetic testing and biobanking. Focus/contact group discussion with Maori members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a group of rongoa or traditional Maori health practitioners, and a group of Maori lawyers illustrate both diversity in the ways in which Maori respond to the issues posed by human genetics, and connections among them as they draw on Maori ontologies and epistemologies. In the analyses of these discussions which constitute the core of this thesis, Maori can be seen juggling alternative frames of reference and negotiating between knowledge systems. The thesis does not purport to provide an overview of Maori responses to genetic testing. Instead it uses discussion among three groups of research participants to illustrate the relevance of temporal and relational knowledge in local situations. A range of social science and Te Ao Maori conceptual tools are used to analyse conversations among research participants. These tools include discussion of power/knowledge and governmentality, actor network theory, sociological discussions of agency as well as concepts of whakapapa, kaitiaki, mauri, and mana motuhake. My goal is to illustrate both connection and heterogeneity in Maori responses to the challenges posed by genetic testing and bio banking.
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Bader, Christopher D., F. Carsen Mencken, and Joseph O. Baker. "Paranormal America (second edition): Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://www.amazon.com/B06WRN7WY7.
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The untold account of the countless Americans who believe in, or personally experience, paranormal phenomena such as ghosts, Bigfoot, UFOs and psychics
Given the popularity of television shows such as Finding Bigfoot, Ghost Hunters, Supernatural, and American Horror Story, there seems to be an insatiable public hunger for mystical happenings. But who believes in the paranormal? Based on extensive research and their own unique personal experiences, Christopher Bader, Joseph Baker and Carson Mencken reveal that a significant number of Americans hold these beliefs, and that for better or worse, we undoubtedly live in a paranormal America.
Readers will join the authors as they participate in psychic and palm readings, and have their auras photographed, join a Bigfoot hunt, follow a group of celebrity ghost hunters as they investigate claims of a haunted classroom, and visit a support group for alien abductees.
The second edition includes new and updated research based on findings from the Baylor Religion survey regarding America’s relationship with the paranormal. Drawing on these diverse and compelling sources of data, the book offers an engaging account of the social, personal, and statistical stories of American paranormal beliefs and experiences. It examines topics such as the popularity of paranormal beliefs in the United States, the ways in which these beliefs relate to each other, whether paranormal beliefs will give rise to a new religion, and how believers in the paranormal differ from “average” Americans.
Brimming with fascinating anecdotes and provocative new findings, Paranormal America offers an entertaining yet authoritative examination of a growing segment of American religious culture.https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1125/thumbnail.jpg
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Al-Malik, Ahmed Mukhtar Tweirsh. "The image of the other : representations of East-West encounters in Anglo-American and Arabic novels (1991-2001)." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17839.
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The Second Gulf War (1990-1991) brought about huge transformations in the relationships between the Western and Arab world. The invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 and deployment of American-led Western troops in Saudi Arabia brought the Arab world to the top of the Western agenda. The presence of mostly non-Muslim Western troops in Saudi Arabia, which is home to the holy sites of Islamic people, triggered mixed reactions among Arab people and polarised their relationships with the West. These developments left a huge impact on literature and the shaping of the imagery of the Other in fiction. This thesis began as an attempt to study the impact of the Second Gulf War on the depiction the Image of the Other. The research rests on conducting an analysis of how the West-Arab encounters are being perceived in Anglo-American and Arabic fiction (1991-2001). The study considers six fictional works from the Anglo-American world: Friends, Lovers, Enemies (1991) by Barbara Victor, Innocent Blood (1997) by Christopher Dickey, I Know Many Songs But I Cannot Sing (1996) by Brian Kiteley, Hideous Kinky (1992) by Esther Freud, Virgins of Paradise (1993) by Barbara Wood, and Falling for the Sheikh by Carole Grace (2001). The study also focuses on six works from the Arab world: Bahãa Ţãhir’s (Ңubb fi-l-manfã) Love in Exile (1995), Ibrãhīm Ãḥmad’s (Ţufl al-CNN) The CNN Child (1996), Yūsuf al-‘Īlah’s (Ghazal al-dhãkirah) The Memory Spinning (2000), Ãḥmad Ibrãhîm Al-Faqīh’s (al-Thulãthiya) Gardens of the Night (1995), and Ңanãn al-Shaykh’s (Innahã London Yã ‘Azīzī) Only in London (2001) and Bahãa al-Dīn al-Ţawd’s (al-Ba‘īdūn) Those Who Are Far Away. These writers have been studied in the belief that they demonstrate the shaping of the East-West encounters. Writers from both cultures place their cultural concerns within a national framework that they constantly negotiate. Nevertheless, the thesis challenge is to pinpoint the complex web of factors that characterised each culture. Hence, this study seeks to contribute in showing how these writers are engaged in the process of reconstructing, adjusting and even transcending the stereotypes of their cultures.
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Bertin, Tor G. "Eternal enemies, or incidental encounters? Structure and patterns of interspecific killing in Carnivora." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/6064.
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Lethal interactions between carnivorans (interspecific killing) may influence their population dynamics, behavior, and other important aspects of their ecology. In this study, I expand upon previous research on the broad-scale patterns of interspecific killing in Carnivora (Palomares & Caro 1999, Donadio & Buskirk 2006) with a greatly expanded dataset (inclusion of scat and stomach data and more intensive sampling of the literature), and suggest avenues for future research. While like previous studies, I found a positive effect of relative body size between killer species and killed species on the likelihood of forming a killing interaction, I failed to find evidence that this effect had a body size ratio threshold above which interactions become less common, suggesting a greater role of non-competitive killing than previously believed. I also found evidence for a positive influence of range overlap and dietary overlap on species interactions, but found mixed effects of phylogeny. This study suggests that our previous understanding of the broad-scale dynamics interspecific killing in Carnivora was, due to limited sampling, incomplete in scope. Incidental killing, whereby killing interactions occur as a byproduct of opportunistic lethal encounters caused by the hyperpredatory behavior of carnivorans, has a number of interesting implications for our understanding of interspecies aggression, including research on intraguild predation and its effects.
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Williams, Claire Elizabeth. "Coming to terms with the Other : encounter, creation, consumption and destruction in the works of Clarice Lispector." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.624237.
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Airey, John. "Physics Students' Experiences of the Disciplinary Discourse Encountered in Lectures in English and Swedish." Licentiate thesis, Uppsala universitet, Fysikundervisningen didaktik, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-86471.
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Compton, Joel D. "Christianity and contextualization toward a theological understanding of the encounter with unbelief /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p086-0046.
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Hilmo, Michael S. "The Effect of Repeated Textual Encounters and Pictorial Glosses upon Acquiring Additional Word Senses." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1215.pdf.
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Hussain, Nora. "Giving the other a human face : a counselling psychology perspective on the potential benefit of an intergroup encounter intervention between Israelis and Palestinians in Cyprus." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2018. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/Giving-the-other-a-human-face(d957946d-0a84-413c-bc52-38f235e078b3).html.
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The need for intergroup reconciliation programmes emerges within the prevailing narrative of cultural conflict. However, failing attempts to resolve conflict at the macro (political) level of society have called for a unique approach that seeks to address these issues creatively at the first point of contact. Therefore, the last twenty years have seen a proliferation of non-profit group workshops and interventions aimed at engaging groups in a diversity of dialogue. To date there have been very few of these interventions that have addressed conflict therapeutically at the micro level of society– at which communities interact directly with another. The aim of this research was to conduct an explorative mixed method study into how an intergroup encounter intervention between Palestinians and Israelis could encourage participants to understand each other as human beings with shared fears, hopes and rights that may surpass assumptions of the other as ‘the enemy’, thereby encouraging participants to ‘give the other a human face’. Conducted with a mixed group of twenty-eight participants, a pre-to-post survey measure analysed behavioural change, while a six-month follow-up interview with four participants explored the impact of participating in the acquaintance seminar on participants lived experiences. Final analysis indicated that while there was a trend towards behavioural change, the outcome was statistically non-significant. Meanwhile interpretive phenomenological analysis produced five key master themes that highlighted the impact of change and the contextual challenges of living with conflict. Managing new relationships and cultural barriers highlighted the key contextual challenges that participants were faced with. This highlights a need for investing resources and training into group conflict programmes that are promoted by key counselling psychology principles of practice. Overall, working with conflict is considered a relevant and unique opportunity for counselling psychologists and group facilitators, most of whom have no formal training or resources for working with conflict resolution in minority groups.
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Akram, Muhammad Verfasser], Jamal [Gutachter] [Malik, and Jörg [Gutachter] Rüpke. "The Other Within and the Self Without : encounters of Muslim and Western traditions in the study of religion / Muhammad Akram ; Gutachter: Jamal Malik, Jörg Rüpke." Erfurt : Universität Erfurt, 2013. http://d-nb.info/121597857X/34.
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Eklund, Joakim, and Fred Isaksson. "Identifying & Evaluating SystemComponents for Cognitive Trustin AI-Automated Service Encounters : Trusting a Study- & Vocational Chatbot." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för systemteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-386044.
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The intensifying idea that AI soon will be a part of our everyday life allows for dreams about the complex relationship we one day could have with non-biological social intelligence. However, establishing societal and individual acceptance of AI-powered autonomy in disciplines built upon to the reliance to human competence raises a number of pressing challenges. One of them being, what system components will engender respectively counteract cognitive trust in socially oriented AI-automated processes? This masters thesis tackles the seemingly ambiguous concept of trust in automation by identifying and evaluating system components that affect trust in a confined and contextualised setting. Practically, we design, construct and test an AI-powered chatbot, Ava, that contains socially oriented questions and feedback about study- and vocational guidance. Through a comparative study of different system versions, including both quantitative and qualitative data, we contribute to the framework for identifying and evaluating human trust in AI-Automated service encounters. We show how targeted alterations to design choices constituting the system components transparency, unbiasses and system performance, identified to affect trust, has consequences on the perception of the cognitive trust concepts integrity, benevolence and ability. Our results display a way of conduct for practitioners looking to prioritise and develop trustworthy autonomy. More specifically, we account for how cognitive trust is decreased when system opacity is increased. Moreover, we display even more concerning effects on trust due to micking contextual bias in the conversation agent.
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Williams, Patrick. "Becoming (an)other : an intergenerational exploration of storied encounters of migrations, processes of otherisation and identity (re)negotiations for post-war Jamaican families in Manchester, England." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2018. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/125268/.
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The emergence of Britain’s black population is often attributed to the arrival of the MV Empire Windrush into Tilbury Docks, London, England on 22nd June 1948. This event is now marked as the genesis of Britain’s multi-cultural character, along with the emergent social problems of racism(s), discriminations and racialized inequalities. Yet, whilst oft told, the story is imprecise, inextricably bound up within the development of a pathological and ‘dangerous’ sociology (Bourne and Sivanandan 1980). The sociology of race relations has served to produce, impose and maintain pathological constructions of the black immigrant as ‘economic migrant’, being those who were pushed away from the poverty of the Caribbean and pulled towards the prosperity afforded by the post-war British economy. Furthermore, the post-war black immigrant becomes imbue with an unassimilable culture that impedes their absorption into British society. Today, the subtext of the ‘Windrush story’ endures, still serviced by a ‘race relations’ industry but also accompanied by pathological Criminologies, astute in the production of objects, its knowledge base is episodically evoked by politicians and policy-makers to arouse the (social, economic and cultural) problems attributed to unchecked immigration. Within this context research conversations capture the stories of ten families who migrated from Jamaica to Manchester in England, UK. Drawing upon Narrative Identity Theory (McAdams 1993, Maruna 2001), self- (and contested) identities emerged inductively as central to the families’ experiences. Further, family stories reveal the self through recollections of (social) interactions with a generalised British other. Critically, particular encounters emerged as significant events, attributed with arousing that sensation of difference, a consciousness of an otherness. It is within such ‘disruptive encounters’ that otherisation occurs, necessitating a (re)negotiation of imposed and imagined definitions and identities. In defiance of and in resisting the imposition of negative (culturally maladjusted and criminally endowed) constructions of Jamaican identity, a Britishness is produced and claimed by the family’s which marks their perpetual migration toward the (British) Other.
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Viana, Maria Alves. "Encontro com Jesus: caminho do Reino de Deus." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2017. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19798.
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The encounter with Jesus, the way of the Kingdom, is the object of the present work. Starting from the anthropological point of view, to leave oneself in order to meet with oneself and the otherness is brought up as a sine qua non condition for this encounter takes place, and for the ontological dimension of being a person can be constituted. The configuration of the identity of being a person is a prerequisite for the encounter with Jesus and his Kingdom. This experience is decisive so that the person can adhere to the ethos that gives legitimacy to the praxis of the Kingdom, breaking up with the subjectivism and the individualism that characterize the current society. To meet Jesus is to put oneself on the horizon of the Kingdom. Without this perspective the encounter with Jesus could not be affirmed. To enter into the perspective of the Kingdom means to humanize oneself and to construct substantially new relationships, translated into attention, closeness, tenderness and care for others and with the Common House. It is about engaging in the transformation of the structures of a system that rules out the poor and the most vulnerable people in society under the light of the practice of Jesus of Nazareth. The culture of the meeting emerges as a way for the overcoming and the resignification of life and human relations in the search for peace
O encontro com Jesus, caminho do Reino, é o objeto do presente trabalho. Partindo da vertente antropológica, o sair de si para encontrar-se consigo mesmo e a alteridade é abordado como condição sine qua non para que haja esse encontro e para que a dimensão ontológica do ser pessoa seja constituída. A configuração da identidade do ser pessoa é pré-requisito para o encontro com Jesus e o seu Reino. Essa experiência é determinante para que a pessoa possa aderir ao éthos próprio que dá legitimidade à práxis do Reino, rompendo com o subjetivismo e o individualismo que caracterizam a sociedade atual. Encontrar-se com Jesus é colocar-se no horizonte do Reino. Sem essa perspectiva não se pode afirmar o encontro com Jesus. Entrar na perspectiva do Reino significa humanizar-se e construir relações substancialmente novas, traduzidas na atenção, na proximidade, na ternura e no cuidado com os outros e com a Casa Comum. Trata-se de engajar-se na transformação das estruturas de um sistema que descarta os pobres e os mais vulneráveis da sociedade à luz da prática de Jesus de Nazaré. A cultura do encontro desponta como um caminho para a superação e a ressignificação da vida e das relações humanas na busca da paz
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Thompson, Geoffrey James. "'... As open to the world as any theologian could be'? : Karl Barth's account of extra-ecclesial truth and its value to Christianity's encounter with other religious traditions." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/271963.
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Cooper, Maxwell John Francis. "Migrants' health beliefs and their impact on general practice encounters : an in-depth interview study of French- and Swahili-speaking Africans and general practitioners working with migrant patients." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5087/.
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Background. The growing population of migrants (including sub-Saharan Africans) in the United Kingdom poses challenges to British general practice. First, migrants tend to seek health care at times of crisis rather than for preventive measures. This is despite being at increased risk of certain chronic conditions compared with the indigenous population. For sub-Saharan Africans this includes hypertension-related diseases and some cancers. Little has been published about Africans’ awareness of this risk or their knowledge of associated causative factors. Second, discordant health beliefs and healthcare expectations between migrants and doctors in the UK have been found to undermine trust during consultations with general practitioners and to lead to poor patient satisfaction. Little is known about the health behaviours of African migrants whose expectations are not met by primary care in the UK. A related area where health beliefs and practices differ between African migrants and their GPs is in the use of traditional medicines. A final challenge lies in considering the wider issues that GPs must address when consulting with migrant patients, including time pressures, organisational factors and the complex nature of problems presented by migrant patients. These issues are the focus of this study. Aims. To examine African migrants’ perceptions of chronic disease and their experience of seeking primary health care in the UK. To explore the impact upon GPs of caring for migrants. Objectives. To explore: 1) perceptions of chronic disease risk facing African migrants and their underlying explanatory models; 2) experiences of consultations about antibiotic prescriptions; 3) traditional African medicine use in the UK; and (4) to consider the effect of workload and work patterns on GP consultations with migrants. Design. In-depth interviews were conducted with 19 Africans from French- or Swahili- speaking countries, one African key informant and 13 GPs working with migrants. African participant recruitment was from community organisations and GPs were approached via an informal network of doctors. Interviews were transcribed and ten were translated by the principal investigator (three Swahili and seven French). Data analysis was undertaken following the approach of applied thematic analysis using the Nvivo software package. Data collection and analyses were underpinned by the following theoretical frameworks: Kleinman’s explanatory models of illness and of cultural health care systems and Lipsky’s street-level bureaucracy. Results. Narratives suggested low awareness of chronic disease risk amongst Africans. Infectious diseases were considered the dominant health threat for African migrants, mainly HIV but also tuberculosis and ‘flu’. Chronic diseases were sometimes described by Africans as contagious. Explanatory models of chronic disease included bodily/dietary imbalance, stress/exertion, heredity/predisposition and food contamination. Cancer was feared but not considered a major threat. Cancer was considered more common in Europe than in Africa and was attributed by Africans to chemical contamination from fertilizers, food preservatives and industrial pollution. Evidence cited for these chemicals was rapid livestock/vegetable production, large size of farmed products (e.g. fish), softness of meat and flavourless food. Chemicals were reported to circulate silently inside the body and cancer to develop in the part where they deposit, sometimes years later. Africans’ belief in infective explanations of disease extended to minor illnesses and was manifested in an expectation of antibiotics from GPs for problems such as a sore throat. This arose from participants’ experience in Africa, witnessing life-threatening infectious diseases and experience of unregulated access to antibiotics. Africans described various alternative measures to fulfil their unmet expectations, including approaching other National Health Service doctors, importing medication, and using private healthcare services in London, francophone Europe and east Africa. A further option was the use of traditional African medicine, reported by one quarter of African participants. Traditional African herbal medicine use was based upon a perception of its purity and natural origin in African soil and a deep belief in its efficacy. Consulting traditional African healers in the UK was reported to be undertaken in secret. Some GPs and Africans described consultations in terms of pressure, processing and conflict. Migrants were reported to present with complex health problems that were frequently compounded by language barriers. GPs described a need to remain in control of consultations and this included some use of personal discretion to render their tasks easier to complete. The most common example was accepting patients’ family and friends as informal interpreters – a choice that ran contrary to formal policy of only using professional interpreters. Burnout was reported to be one consequence of excessive workload for patient-centred GPs working with vulnerable groups like asylum seekers. Conclusions. There is a need to improve health literacy amongst African migrants in order to promote preventive behaviours for chronic disease and alternatives to antibiotics for minor illnesses. As part of this, further research is required into the use and properties of traditional African medicine. Interventions should be built upon participants’ existing knowledge of disease causation, their self-reliance in the pursuit of a healthy lifestyle and desire to retain cultural practices. One challenge to improving migrant health lies in the service dilemmas facing GPs, including excessive workload, the complex nature of migrants’ presenting problems and professional dilemmas. GPs who act as advocates for vulnerable migrant patients may be at increased risk of burnout and greater consideration should be given to providing them with appropriate support.
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W, Andersson Joakim, and Pontus Hassis. "Barriers To Entry For New PlayersIn First-Person Games : The issues that new players encounter and possible ways to solve them." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för speldesign, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-323545.
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This paper studies how new players approach first-person games using a controller. By observingthe behaviour of five mostly inexperienced individuals as they play through the first few levelsof the game Portal 2 , the following patterns for barriers to entry can be observed:The game presumes common knowledge of its player that new players lack.Uninitiated have a hard time using buttons and sticks simultaneously for complicatedmaneuvers.New players primarily use the buttons that they can see with a casual glance, causingsome buttons to be less used.Misunderstanding due to not clearly have been shown possibilities in the gameworld.New players are unaware of the Options menu.Players find navigation and orientation difficult when lacking all the senses of a physicalbody.The fear of not being good enough causes distress.Players find it a waste of time to redo previously conquered challenges or not makingprogress fast enough.The paper then discusses possible solutions to these problems.Denna rapport studerar hur nya spelare närmar sig förstapersonsspel som kontrolleras medhandkontroll. Genom att observera beteendet hos fem till mestadels oerfarna individer medan despelar igenom några av de första få banorna i spelet Portal 2 kan följande mönster som hindrardem från att börja spela urskiljas:Spelet förutsätter att dess spelare har en gemensam allmän kunskap. Kunskap som nyaspelare saknar.Oinvigda har svårt att använda både knappar och spakar simultant för att utförakomplicerade manövrar.Nya spelare använder primärt knapparna som de kan se vid en flyktig blick, vilketorsakar att vissa knappar blir mindre frekvent använda än andra.Missförstånd på grund av att icke klart och tydligt blivit meddelade spelvärldenmöjligheter.Nya spelare är omedvetna om Options-menyn.Spelare finner att röra sig i spelvärlden är svårt när de inte har tillgång till alla sinnen enfysisk kropp har.Rädslan för att inte vara bra nog orsakar oro.Spelare finner att det är slöseri med tid att göra om tidigare erövrade utmaningar eller attinte göra framsteg i tillräckligt hög fart.Denna rapport diskuterar möjliga lösningar på dessa problem.
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Woo, Chimi. "Cross-Cultural Encounter And The Novel: Nation, Identity, And Genre In Nineteenth-Century British Literature." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1204725332.
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Staats, Wesley A. "USE OF LIDAR-DERIVED TERRAIN AND VEGETATION INFORMATION IN A DECIDUOUS FOREST IN KENTUCKY." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/forestry_etds/24.
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The use of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) information is gaining popularity, however its use has been limited in deciduous forests. This thesis describes two studies using LiDAR data in an Eastern Kentucky deciduous forest. The first study quantifies vertical error of LiDAR derived digital elevation models (DEMs) which describe the forests terrain. The study uses a new method which eliminates Global Positioning System (GPS) error. The study found that slope and slope variability both significantly affect DEM error and should be taken in to account when using LiDAR derived DEMs. The second study uses LiDAR derived forest vegetation and terrain metrics to predict terrestrial Plethodontid salamander abundance across the forest. This study used night time visual encounter surveys coupled with zero-inflation modeling to predict salamander abundance based on environmental covariates. We focused on two salamander species, Plethodon glutinosus and Plethodon kentucki. Our methods produced two different best fit models for the two species. Plethodon glutinosus included vegetation height standard deviation and water flow accumulation covariates, while Plethodon kentucki included only canopy cover as a covariate. These methods are applicable to many different species and can be very useful for focusing management efforts and understanding species distributions across the landscape.
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Stellittano, Sabine. "Alchimie picturale des vies ordinaires, du récit de vie à l'hystérie du tableau." Thesis, Paris 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA01H309/document.
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Toute cette recherche se concentre sur le portrait en peinture comme possibilité de la rencontre, de moments d’amitié. Il s’agit d’en analyser les enjeux en utilisant la philosophie et la psychanalyse comme outils théoriques. Comprendre combien cette pratique de corps-à-corps, de présence à présence s’inscrit dans le temps, le déploie, le relate. La rencontre, tout comme ma pratique, a pour origine le désir de l’Autre. Chacune de mes peintures est une réponse à cette demande : «Comment désires-tu être peint ?». Mes pinceaux, guidés par les paroles livrées dans mon atelier, tentent de s’approcher au plus près de ce qui est dit : quête impossible !... tant le langage implique une perte, nous divise. Nous nous percevons comme uniques car nous sommes séparés de l’autre, nous sommes entourés de vide. L’autre et le vide ne sont pas seulement extériorités, ils sont en nous, et pour la psychanalyse c’est par l’imaginaire que nous trouvons notre unité. La psychanalyse, la méditation, l’alchimie et la peinture ont ceci de commun qu’elles sont toutes des disciplines construites à partir de la pratique et chacune d’entre elles aborde l’introspection à sa manière, qui peuvent s’enrichir les unes les autresThe present research work focuses on the painted portrait and the opportunity it offers to meet people and exchange moments of friendship. It aims at analyzing what is at stakes in this process by means of theoretical tools such as psychology and psychoanalysis. It is also concerned with the understanding of how this «hand to hand» and «presence to presence» practice gets its anchorage in time and how it unfolds it and refers to it. The get together process, as well as my own practice, are the expression of desire – desire of the Other. Each of my paintings is an attempt to answer this single question: «How would the person posing for me like to be painted?». Then, as if guided by his or her wish, my brushes enter into action in order to fulfill it to the best of my abilities – the task is of course impossible, because language implies a loss and gets us apart from one another. Each of us sees oneself as unique, for we are separated from each other: we are indeed surrounded by emptiness. The Other and emptiness don’t belong to the outside, they are part of ourselves. In the field of psychoanalysis, we manage to find our unity through imagination. Psychoanalysis, meditation, alchemy and painting have all in common to be based on practice. Each of these disciplines deals with insight in its own way: in the end they all benefit from each other
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Åsa, Back. "SINNLIG (sensuous) in Beijing : towards an Artistic Ethnography." Thesis, Stockholms konstnärliga högskola, Institutionen för skådespeleri, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uniarts:diva-312.
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Projektet bygger på åtta veckors fältarbete på en oberoende teater i Peking våren 2017,baserat på antropologisk och konstnärlig metod. Det är ett försök att utveckla begreppet konstnärlig etnografi, samt tillämpa det praktiskt. I detta är konsten inte huvudsakligen en produkt eller en presentationsform, utan ett sätt att tänka, att förhålla sig till världen. Materialet består av fältanteckningar, video, foto, rörelsematerial, personliga berättelser, minnen av dofter, ljud och smaker och någonting så vagt som stämning – stadens tempo, känslan i en repsituation… Hur kan scenen förmedla en plats och dess människor? Kan jag levandegöra mina upplevelser så att de blir angelägna för någon annan än mig själv? Det praktiska arbetet utgör ett försök att besvara dessa frågor. Vilka bilder har vi, och vad ser vi när vi speglar oss i varandra? Vad betyder det att våra världar redan är sammanflätade? Spegeln som bild och lek, träder fram både som tema och metod. Begrepp som exotism, representation och mötet med den andre diskuteras, liksom växlingen mellan identifikation och främmandegörande (”othering”) som en grund för förståelse. Hur påverkas människors liv av Kinas snabba samhällsförändringar, balansgången mellan socialism och kapitalism? Och vilken roll har scenkonsten i detta? Här diskuteras frågor om yttrandefrihet, liksom relationen mellan politik och spelstil, så kallad ”fejk realism”. Frågorna knyts samman genom en diskussion om autenticitet, följd av en betraktelse om utanförskap, för att slutligen återvända till det personliga mötet, till en berättelse om kontaktsökande – om vänskap.This project is based on eight weeks of fieldwork at an independent theatre in Beijing in the spring of 2017, based on anthropological and artistic methods. It is an attempt to develop the concept artistic ethnography, and apply it practically. In this, art is seen not mainly as a product or a form of presentation, but as a way of thinking, of relating to the world. The material consists of field notes, video, pictures, movement material, personal stories, the memories of smells, sounds and tastes and of something as vague as atmosphere – the pace of the city, the feeling of a rehearsal situation... How can the stage render a place and its people? Can I bring my experiences to life, making them relevant for anybody else? The practical artistic work with an exposition is an attempt to answer these questions. What images do we have, and what do we see when we mirror each other? What does it mean that our worlds are already intertwined? The mirror as image and play appear both as a theme and a method. Concepts like exoticism, representation and the encounter with the other are discussed, as well as the movement between identification and othering, contributing to understanding. How are people’s lives affected by China’s rapid social changes, balancing between socialism and capitalism? What role do the performing arts have in this? Questions about freedom of expression are discussed, along with the relation between politics and styles of acting, the so called “fake realism”. The research questions are tied together in a discussion of authenticity, to finally return to the personal encounter and a story of seeking contact, of friendship.
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Hellkvist, Maja, and Beatrice Nordgård. "Translocal experiences of indigenous migrant students in Monterrey, Mexico." Thesis, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-53428.
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Rural-urban migration has been increasing and is commonly seen in northern cities of Mexico. Indigenous students do not always have opportunities to receive higher education in their communities, and therefore migrate to urban areas. After migrating they can face certain challenges navigating the urban lifestyle. With the help of the translocality concept, this study employed a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews to explore the reason behind five indigenous students' migration and their experiences of different translocal circumstances. The results and analysis indicated that the students had both similar and different experiences in the various translocal arenas. The analysis showed the reasons behind the students’ migration were often linked to educational opportunities, but they also expressed different aspirations and plans for the future Further, adjusting to their new city environment proved to be challenging. They experienced both a negative and positive sense of place in Monterrey, but Mision del Nayar, the university and other indigenous students helped them feel a sense of belonging. The experiences the students had in the different translocal arenas shaped their narrative, and hence, impacted their sense of place and sense of belonging. Lastly, the students experienced translocal identities on a daily basis.Migration från landsbygd till städer har ökat och har blivit vanligare i norra städer i Mexiko. Studenter från ursprungsbefolkningar har inte alltid tillgång till högre utbildning i sina samhällen och migrerar därför till stadsområden. Efter migrationen kan de genomgå vissa utmaningar med att navigera sig i den urbana livsstilen. Med hjälp av translokalitetskonceptet tillämpade denna studie ett frågeformulär och semistrukturerade intervjuer för att undersöka orsakerna till fem inhemska studenters migration och deras erfarenheter av olika translokala omständigheter. Resultatet och analysen tydde på att studenterna hade både liknande och olika upplevelser i de olika translokala arenorna. Analysen visade att anledningarna till studenternas migration ofta var kopplade till utbildningsmöjligheter, men de uttryckte också olika ambitioner och planer inför framtiden. Vidare visade sig anpassningen till deras nya stadsmiljö vara utmanande. De upplevde både en negativ och positiv känsla av plats i Monterrey, men Mision del Nayar, universitetet och andra inhemska studenter hjälpte dem också att känna tillhörighet. De erfarenheter som studenterna hade av de olika translokala arenorna formade deras berättelse och påverkade därmed deras känsla av plats och känsla av tillhörighet. Avslutningsvis påvisade studien att studenterna dagligen upplevde translokala identiteter.
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Yagi, Chiemi. "Tourist encounters with other tourists /." 2003. http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/84.
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Miao, Li Mount Daniel J. "Consumers' emotional responses to service encounters the influence of other consumers /." 2008. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-2798/index.html.
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Abraham, Renu Elizabeth. "History Writing and Global Encounters in Sixteenth-Century Kerala." Tese, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/132240.
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Abraham, Renu Elizabeth. "History Writing and Global Encounters in Sixteenth-Century Kerala." Doctoral thesis, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/132240.
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Marques, Pimentel Sarah-Leah. "Two encounters with the cultural other: Paulo Coelho's A Bruxa de Portobello and its English translation." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/7336.
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This study recognises the need for greater cultural interaction in a globalised world in which cultural identities are no longer contained within national borders. The aim of this dissertation is, therefore, to address concerns arising from the role played by literary translation as a cultural mediator within contemporary societies. The theoretical framework is drawn from the concept of an “in-between space” in the work of the post-colonial theorist, Homi Bhabha (1990, 2005), and Emmanuel Levinas‟s (1991, 1993) understanding of the relationship between the self (the Same) and an external other (the Other). The relevance of these theoretical concepts to the field of translation studies is explored and these are then practically applied to A Bruxa de Portobello (2006), a novel written by a contemporary Brazilian author, Paulo Coelho, and its English translation (2007). The analysis of the two novels considers the ways in which otherness is presented in both texts, from which conclusions are drawn showing that literary translation can be used as an instrument to promote greater cultural understanding.
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Yeh, Chin-Fu, and 葉金福. "Lessons from other’s failure: Difficulties Local Community Hospitals Encounter to result in Strategy Practical Failure." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55136370315464508573.
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Medical industry is facing embarrassed situation, that environment, policies and regulations are capricious. Under the changeable surrounding, it's not easy to operate and develop business in medical industry. During recent year, the society environment and population structure are rapidly changing, so the traditional business way of medical industry is not adopted anymore. It’s necessarily to search for more complementary out-sources and reform inner organization. Therefore, in order to aim to increase operation performance, medical organizations would adjust their structures when necessary to correspond to new service model, in the other hand, they would cooperate with companies either in the same or different industry, and work for consortium cooperation in order to share and complement sources. By doing this, companies could not only strengthen their advantages but also decrease their costs efficaciously in the new and fiercely competition. All the enterprises aim to pursue a long term business, but do company owners really understand or find out what problems they encounter to? The research questions in this study will investigate when local community hospitals face environmental competition, do they execute every development plan efficaciously, and correspond to marketing strategy. “A hospital” which is located in Wu-Jia area in Kaohsiung, is the case study object. We practically observed in every department and organization in the hospital, moreover, we also discuss with staffs there and we found out the key problems in every department. And then we interview supervisors such as vice president or who is in higher position, to discuss the problems we induced. Therefore, we adopted inductive research of qualitative in this study, and we conclude five findings: 1. Non-review policy and system is rigid. 2. The conflict between communication and execution. 3. The employees work cozily and refuse to change. 4. The leader worries about who will take over the position. 5. Overlapping in niche market. This study is practically useful for hospitals encounter environmental changing and it provides ideas in organizational innovation and external creation.
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Noguerol, Maria Cristina Pascual. "The buried screams of tenochtitlan. A reconstruction of the acoustics of a cultural encounter." Tese, 2016. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/91756.
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Noguerol, Maria Cristina Pascual. "The buried screams of tenochtitlan. A reconstruction of the acoustics of a cultural encounter." Doctoral thesis, 2016. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/91756.
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Domingues, Paulo Jorge Fontes. "Guerrilla marketing and serendipitous encounters with science: Exploring innovative communication strategies for public engagement." Tese, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/128467.
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Domingues, Paulo Jorge Fontes. "Guerrilla marketing and serendipitous encounters with science: Exploring innovative communication strategies for public engagement." Doctoral thesis, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/128467.
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Akintola, Daniel Oyebode. "Towards new approaches in missiological encounters with Muslims in Northern Nigeria." Diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24904.
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This study has as purpose to verify the best possible strategies that can be used both in encounter and evangelization of Muslims in order to avoid persecution of Christians and destruction of their property in Africa, especially in Northern Nigeria. This Twenty first Century has witnessed numerous violent attacks against Christians which resulted in vandalization and looting of their property. Many lives of Christian men and women have been sacrificed amidst the violence. As a result, some Christians decided to flee the affected areas, abandoning in the process mission work to Muslims in order to safeguard their lives. This study proposes as research method the use of the pastoral cycle to arrive at these methods. From the study, it was discovered that several factors were responsible for the Islamic attacks against Christians in Northern Nigeria. Many negative effects had been noted as a result, mostly serious negative emotional scars left in the heart of the Christians believers and missionaries living and working in Northern Nigeria. Based on the findings of this study, new approaches towards coexistence and especially for the evangelisation of the Muslims in Northern Nigeria, especially in view of reduced bloody encounters.Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
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Bai, Yi-Shuang, and 白儀霜. "Investigation on Gaming Emotion in Service Encounter – the Impact of Physical Attractiveness of Service Providers and Other Customers." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09321255297452111767.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
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This study investigates gaming emotion in service encounter. Study 1 examines how the physical attractiveness of service providers affects customers’ emotional reactions. The study 2 is to investigate fellow customer of relationship closeness and emotion express that how to effect customer emotional express and emotion contagion. Study 1 uses the physical attractiveness of service providers (highly attractive or moderately attractive) as an independent variable and compares this against a control group. The findings indicate that the physical attractiveness of service providers affects customers’ emotional reactions. Specifically, customers have reduced levels of anger when interacting with highly attractive service providers compared to moderately attractive ones. The study is a 2x2 experimental design, with fellow customer of close/remote relationships and who exhibit different emotions (angry/not angry) as independent variables, compared to a control group. The findings show that customers experienced a greater degree of anger when a fellow customer with whom they had a close relationship exhibited anger, compared to when a fellow customer with whom they had only a remote relationship did the same. Also, customers demonstrated a higher level of anger when fellow customers became angry versus when they did not. Confirmed the phenomenon of emotional contagion in the fellow customers. Regarding the extent of customers’ emotional shift, relationship closeness has a greater effect than relationship remoteness. Moreover, customers experience a higher level of emotional change when a fellow customer has shown an emotional reaction.