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VANUTELLI, MARIA ELIDE. "SHARING EMOTIONS IN SOCIAL LIFE: NEW PERSPECTIVES FROM INTERACTIVE NEUROSCIENCE." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/17223.
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Il tema delle emozioni è sempre stato considerato marginale rispetto allo studio della cognizione umana, nonostante la ricerca sull’argomento sia sempre stata circondata da grande interesse. Tuttavia negli ultimi 30 anni si è affacciata una nuova prospettiva che descrive le emozioni come cause, mediatori o conseguenze di altri processi psicologici, ma soprattutto delle relazioni interpersonali.
Il primo studio della presente Tesi di Dottorato è stato concepito come un paradigma di induzione emotiva allo scopo di individuare alcuni marcatori biologici legati all’esperienza soggettiva, all’interno di una prospettiva multimetodologica.
In seguito, nel tentativo di considerare anche una dimensione sociale della condivisione emotiva, è stato condotto il secondo studio proponendo stimoli che rappresentassero interazioni reali tra due soggetti interagenti. Questi potevano variare anche in base alla vicinanza filogenetica, ipotizzando che, grazie a meccanismi di mirroring e simulazione, la percezione delle emozioni altrui possa essere più immediata quando l’altro soggetto viene percepito come simile.
Infine, l’idea che alcune variabili legate all’interlocutore sociale siano in grado di modulare la capacità di entrare in risonanza con le emozioni altrui è stata approfondita con il terzo studio: un compito sociale reale con pradigma hyperscanning. L’obiettivo era quello di esplorare la presenza di pattern di sincronizzazione durante il compito eseguito in modo cooperativo.
In conclusione, i tre studi sono stati condotti seguendo un livello di complessità crescente, da una prospettiva su singolo soggetto ad un approccio diadico, tramite l’utilizzo di stimoli emotivi standard, interattivi e dinamici applicati a contesti semplici, complessi e iper-complessi.Despite the great interest addressed to the topic of emotions, it has always been treated as a marginal issue if compared to cognition. Nonetheless in the last 30 years a new perspective suggested that emotions are effectively the causes, mediators, or consequences of other psychological processes, and, above all, of interpersonal relations. The first study of the present Doctoral Thesis was conceived as an emotion induction paradigm in the attempt to identify some biological markers of the subjective emotional experience within a multi-method perspective. Then, in the attempt to move a step forward in describing the social dimension of the emotional sharing, the second study was designed by creating emotional stimuli that represented real interactions between two inter-agents. They could also vary for phylogenetic closeness following the hypothesis that, thanks to mirroring and simulation processes, emotion perception is easier when the other agent is perceived as similar. Finally, the idea that some variables related to the social encounter are able to modulate the capacity to resonate with others’ emotions was better explored in the last study: a real social cooperative task in the form of a hyperscanning paradigm. The aim was to explore the presence of synchronized patterns during the joint action. To conclude, the three studies have been designed according to an increased level of complexity, from a single-subject perspective towards a two-person approach, with simple, interactive, and dynamic emotional cues during simple, complex, and hyper-complex emotional contexts.
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Baron, Jacqueline Marie. "Autobiographical memory sharing in everyday life who tells better stories? /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0014603.
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MIZZELLA, STEFANO. "Life sharing. Identità e relazione nel web in tempo reale." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/10312.
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Anagramma del più tradizionale file sharing, life sharing può essere interpretato come metafora evolutiva di una nuova forma di digital storytelling. Lo scambio di file e informazioni si evolve nella condivisione quotidiana di tracce del proprio vissuto. Condividere la propria vita online, come pubblici connessi, significa relazionarsi con altri utenti non attraverso un medium ma all’interno di ambienti conversazionali e spazi relazionali. A questi spazi, e alle dinamiche identitarie e sociali in essi veicolate, è dedicato il mio lavoro di ricerca.
Il rapporto sempre più stretto tra web e vita quotidiana ha contribuito a generare un information overloading difficile da gestire, simbolo di un processo evolutivo in cui il life sharing ha un ruolo chiave: la mole vertiginosa di micro-storie personali pubblicate e condivise attimo dopo attimo è alla base di una rivoluzione definibile nei termini di “Real-Time Web”. Il web in tempo reale si basa su un flusso indiscriminato di aggiornamenti personali riguardanti qualsiasi tipo di argomento: pensieri astratti, azioni quotidiane, stati d’animo. Se le piattaforme di social network rappresentano nel web 2.0 gli spazi privilegiati per interagire con altri utenti, lo status updating (l’aggiornamento del proprio stato) si configura come l’azione più dirompente e pervasiva del web in tempo reale. Facebook e Twitter esemplificano un desiderio diffuso di condividere la propria vita, in tempo reale, attraverso brevissimi messaggi di testo. Ma quali sono le motivazioni, personali e sociali, alla base di un simile desiderio, che in alcuni casi si configura come vera e propria necessità? Nel tentativo di rispondere a questa domanda ho deciso di analizzare un campione composto da giovani adulti che, per età e per abitudini di consumo mediale, possono rientrare nella categoria dei cosiddetti “nativi digitali”. Con quest’ultimo termine sempre più spesso vengono definite le nuove generazioni di ragazzi nati e cresciuti in un ambiente digitalizzato e in una cultura in cui il digitale influenza le tradizionali dinamiche di relazione e di apprendimento. Ho scelto di osservare le attività online di studenti universitari italiani che hanno vissuto le prime influenze della cultura digitale in fase adolescenziale e che si apprestano ad entrare nell’età adulta sperimentando, nell’esperienza online, nuove modalità di esprimersi e di relazionarsi con gli altri.
Le piattaforme racchiuse sotto il termine social media non sono spazi neutri bensì ambienti fortemente caratterizzati in cui tecnologia e socialità appaiono come forze complementari. L’impatto dei media sociali sui processi di costruzione identitaria e di relazione tra pari ha le sembianze di un cambiamento di paradigma più complesso e radicato di quella che potrebbe sembrare una banale moda adolescenziale. In base a quest’ultimo assunto, le ipotesi principali formulate all’interno della mia analisi possono essere racchiuse entro tre assi teorici distinti. Su ogni asse sono collocate coppie di concetti che rappresentano il continuum teorico di riferimento: a) identità - relazione; b) pubblico - privato; c) reale - virtuale.
La presenza all’interno di una piattaforma di social network non è dettata soltanto da una banale curiosità ma, in modo più profondo, risponde alla volontà di soddisfare un preciso bisogno identitario e relazionale. Si è su Facebook e su Twitter per comunicare con altri utenti ma anche per esprimere se stessi, spesso senza tener conto del giudizio altrui.
I nativi digitali hanno realmente perso il valore della privacy nelle proprie attività online? Nell’era di Facebook il concetto di privacy non viene meno, ma assume una forma più "liquida" rispetto a quella riscontrabile nelle generazioni più adulte. Comunicare all’interno di una piattaforma di social network non equivale alla perdita totale della privacy e del controllo sulle proprie informazioni. Al contrario, la presenza all’interno dei nuovi spazi conversazionali del web necessita di essere modellata intorno a una diversa concezione della privacy, legata a un diverso modo di intendere il valore, anche a medio e lungo termine, di ciò che viene pubblicato e condiviso.
Lo spazio in rete è stato spesso descritto e analizzato come una sorta di dimensione parallela rispetto al più concreto piano del reale. Virtualità e realtà come due piani distinti e antagonisti, dunque. Ma cosa accade quando ciò che viene fatto, o detto, sul web, finisce per avere ripercussioni anche nel piano del reale? Davvero i milioni di giovani utenti che trascorrono sempre più tempo all’interno delle piattaforme di social network credono che il web sia qualcosa di altro e distaccato rispetto alla propria vita quotidiana? Quanto sono reali le loro amicizie online? E quanto, invece, sono virtuali le idee, le opinioni che condividono quotidianamente in rete con i propri contatti? Appare lecito e opportuno parlare non di virtualità contrapposta alla realtà, ma di una nuova forma di “socialità aumentata” nella quale le tracce di vita digitale altro non sono se non appendici di ciò che siamo soliti definire vita “reale”.
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Guyon, Olivier. "Methodology for the Life Cycle Assessment of a Car-sharing Service." Thesis, KTH, Fordonsdynamik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-223330.
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Nowadays, circular economy is becoming more relevant in society. In the context of the automotive industry, we no longer simply work on emissions emitted during the vehicle use phase but rather on the environmental impacts induced during all phases of the vehicle's life cycle (manufacturing, logistics, use, maintenance and end of life). For this purpose, many automakers, including the Group PSA, use life cycle assessment (LCA) to determine these environmental impacts. Also, the economy of sharing is gradually established and follows innovative uses of the car. New mobility systems emerge and compete with the classical system of sales of vehicles. These new uses of the automobile mainly take the form of car-sharing. In the future, it will become essential to evaluate these services from an environmental point of view.Some studies of the use of car-sharing already demonstrate important consequences such as reductions in the number of vehicles and in the number of kilometers traveled but also an increase in the use of other means of transport. However, to my knowledge, there is no LCA-based method to quantify the environmental benefit of the use of a car-sharing service in relation to the use of vehicles for exclusive use by the owner but also which would eco-design these services and the vehicles intended for these services.As part of this six-month project, a LCA approach was implemented to a PSA B2C (business-to-consumers) car-sharing service called “Emov” with a fleet of 500 Citroën C-Zero electric vehicles. The goal was to compare the use of Emov in Madrid, Spain with the urban use of a private Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicle and a battery electric vehicle for one user characterized by its frequency, its average time and its average distance of use over a defined period. Thanks to a modeling of the service on the LCA software Gabi and by controlling over the input parameters related to the Emov service and the parameters related to the user's use of the service (variable parameters), it was therefore possible to show the influence of these parameters on the final results. Furthermore, it was possible to show also in which scenario it was more environmentally beneficial to use the service rather than a private vehicle. For the study, six impact indicators were chosen: the potentials for global warming, photochemical oxidation, air acidification, water eutrophication, resource depletion and primary energy demand.Using Emov’s big data to inform the service parameters and then varying the service user's usage parameters, it was possible to conclude that whatever the user's urban mobility needs, it is more beneficial to use the service than a private ICE vehicle for five of the six impact indicators. Only the acidification potential indicator (SO2 equivalent) is worse when using the service, which can be explained by the manufacture of the batteries of the Emov vehicles.
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Harrison, Michael Robert. "Sharing in the life of God : a study in participation in Christian thought." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1997. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/sharing-in-the-life-of-god--a-study-in-participation-in-christian-thought(7b06b47f-5890-4c83-b126-0639d6e2fcad).html.
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Participation is a notion found frequently in contemporary (especially ecumenical) theology and while some attention has been given to the notion in terms of its scriptural grounding in terms such as koinonia, little work has been done recently on the theological and historical development of the concept in the Christian tradition. Because the term predates Christian theology in a philosophically significant way, discussion has often turned on the issue of how far the term has been applied appropriately to the Christian context, what degree of originality the term carries within the context of Christian doctrine and what dangers there are in reverting to its usages in Classical philosophy. This thesis seeks to move this discussion on, tracing the development of the notion of 'participation' from Plato to the present-day, not by way of an exhaustive historical survey, but by way of particular theologians whose (not always fully conscious) use of the term participation develops and clarifies an understanding of that term and which flags up some of the theological strengths and weaknesses of using such a notion. Consideration of participation demands that a whole host of inter-related theological issues are addressed and this leads in the course of this study to reflection on a number of key issues in Christian theology such as otherness, relationship, freedom, causality and 'sharing in the life of God'. While a definitive, problem-free account of participation remains to be realised, the thesis explores an understanding of participation in terms of an entering into the relations of the Trinitarian persons in a manner appropriate to human creatureliness. Some of the main challenges which confront those theologians seeking to formulate a doctrine of participation in the late twentieth century in this way are illustrated and tentative proposals for ways forward are offered.
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Reddy, Kothi Abhilash. "The impact of replenishment parameters and information sharing on bullwhip effect for short life cycle products." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2007. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.
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Romero, Mas Montse. "Virtual Communities of Practice for Family Caregivers of People with Alzheimer's: Knowledge sharing and quality of life." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671646.
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L’atenció a una persona amb Alzheimer suposa una càrrega per les persones cuidadores havent-t’hi una forta correlació negativa entre aquesta càrrega i la seva qualitat de vida. L’objectiu d’aquesta investigació és proporcionar recursos, concretament les comunitats virtuals de pràctica, per ajudar aquestes persones cuidadores a afrontar el seu rol. Aquest estudi es va dur a terme mitjançant una intervenció que va consistir en establir dues comunitats virtuals de pràctica per a cuidadors: una moderada per un cuidador expert i l’altra per professionals de la salut. Les comunitats virtuals de pràctica van contribuir a millorar la qualitat de vida dels cuidadors, sobretot si incloïen professionals de la salut. L’edat i la relació amb la persona amb Alzheimer van ser variables moderadores. El coneixement social i el suport social eren prioritats per les persones cuidadores. Aquest estudi mostra que el benefici de les comunitats virtuals de pràctica rau en la interacció social.Caring for a person with Alzheimer’s places a burden on family caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s and there is a strong negative correlation between this burden and their quality of life. The aim of this research is to provide resources, specifically Virtual Communities of Practice, to help family caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s cope with their role. This study was undertaken through an intervention which consisted of establishing two virtual communities of practice for caregivers: one moderated by an expert caregiver and the other by health professionals. Virtual communities of practice helped to improve the quality of life of family caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s, particularly if they included health professionals. Age and the relationship with the person with Alzheimer’s were moderator variables. Social knowledge and social support were priorities for the family caregivers. This study shows the benefit of virtual communities of practice lies in the ongoing social interaction.
Programa de Doctorat: Cures Integrals i Serveis de Salut
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Garcia, Hidalgo Baltazar. "Sharing the life of the triune God church unity and mission in the thought of Bishop Lesslie Newbigin /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.
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Rydén, Patrik. "Statistical analysis and simulation methods related to load-sharing models." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Matematisk statistik, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-46772.
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We consider the problem of estimating the reliability of bundles constructed of several fibres, given a particular kind of censored data. The bundles consist of several fibres which have their own independent identically dis-tributed failure stresses (i.e.the forces that destroy the fibres). The force applied to a bundle is distributed between the fibres in the bundle, accord-ing to a load-sharing model. A bundle with these properties is an example of a load-sharing system. Ropes constructed of twisted threads, compos-ite materials constructed of parallel carbon fibres, and suspension cables constructed of steel wires are all examples of load-sharing systems. In par-ticular, we consider bundles where load-sharing is described by either the Equal load-sharing model or the more general Local load-sharing model. In order to estimate the cumulative distribution function of failure stresses of bundles, we need some observed data. This data is obtained either by testing bundles or by testing individual fibres. In this thesis, we develop several theoretical testing methods for both fibres and bundles, and related methods of statistical inference. Non-parametric and parametric estimators of the cumulative distribu-tion functions of failure stresses of fibres and bundles are obtained from different kinds of observed data. It is proved that most of these estimators are consistent, and that some are strongly consistent estimators. We show that resampling, in this case random sampling with replacement from sta-tistically independent portions of data, can be used to assess the accuracy of these estimators. Several numerical examples illustrate the behavior of the obtained estimators. These examples suggest that the obtained estimators usually perform well when the number of observations is moderate.
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Henderson, David W. "Bringing truth to life communicating biblical truth to a changing world : a practical handbook for preaching, teaching and sharing faith /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Sekulova, Filka. "On the Economics of Happiness and Climate Change." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/120213.
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The present study bridges the field of happiness economics with the economics of climate change, based on two research questions. One is related to the effects of (extreme) climate events on individual happiness and their qualitative measurement. The empirical method to analyze this relation includes the identification of proxies of extreme climate events and studying their relationships with well-being for the impacted population. Here floods, and to some extent forest fires, are taken as an approximation of extreme climate events. The second research question concerns the way happiness studies can inform climate policy and how stringent climate policy would affect well-being. Assuming that effective climate abatement implies a reduction in the rate of economic (income) growth and carbon intensive consumption, I look at how income decline influences subjective well-being in the context of the economic crisis in Spain. To explore the happiness effect of a wider range of climate change mitigation strategies, including ones which are not solely policy-oriented, the sharing of goods is also taken as a case of a community-based initiative resulting in a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Louws, Margie. "Electronic Multi-agency Collaboration. A Model for Sharing Children¿s Personal Information Among Organisations." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5694.
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The sharing of personal information among health and social service organisations is a complex issue and problematic process in present-day England. Organisations which provide services to children face enormous challenges on many fronts. Internal ways of working, evolving best practice, data protection applications, government mandates and new government agencies, rapid changes in technology, and increasing costs are but a few of the challenges with which organisations must contend in order to provide services to children while keeping in step with change.
This thesis is an exploration into the process of sharing personal information in the context of public sector reforms. Because there is an increasing emphasis of multi-agency collaboration, this thesis examines the information sharing processes both within and among organisations, particularly those providing services to children. From the broad principles which comprise a socio-technical approach of information sharing, distinct critical factors for successful information sharing and best practices are identified. These critical success factors are then used to evaluate the emerging national database, ContactPoint, highlighting particular areas of concern. In addition, data protection and related issues in the information sharing process are addressed.
It is argued that one of the main factors which would support effective information sharing is to add a timeline to the life of a dataset containing personal information, after which the shared information would dissolve. Therefore, this thesis introduces Dynamic Multi-Agency Collaboration (DMAC), a theoretical model of effective information sharing using a limited-life dataset. The limited life of the DMAC dataset gives more control to information providers, encouraging effective information sharing within the parameters of the Data Protection Act 1998.
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Louws, Margie. "Electronic multi-agency collaboration : a model for sharing children's personal information among organisations." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5694.
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The sharing of personal information among health and social service organisations is a complex issue and problematic process in present-day England. Organisations which provide services to children face enormous challenges on many fronts. Internal ways of working, evolving best practice, data protection applications, government mandates and new government agencies, rapid changes in technology, and increasing costs are but a few of the challenges with which organisations must contend in order to provide services to children while keeping in step with change. This thesis is an exploration into the process of sharing personal information in the context of public sector reforms. Because there is an increasing emphasis of multi-agency collaboration, this thesis examines the information sharing processes both within and among organisations, particularly those providing services to children. From the broad principles which comprise a socio-technical approach of information sharing, distinct critical factors for successful information sharing and best practices are identified. These critical success factors are then used to evaluate the emerging national database, ContactPoint, highlighting particular areas of concern. In addition, data protection and related issues in the information sharing process are addressed. It is argued that one of the main factors which would support effective information sharing is to add a timeline to the life of a dataset containing personal information, after which the shared information would dissolve. Therefore, this thesis introduces Dynamic Multi-Agency Collaboration (DMAC), a theoretical model of effective information sharing using a limited-life dataset. The limited life of the DMAC dataset gives more control to information providers, encouraging effective information sharing within the parameters of the Data Protection Act 1998.
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Kinser, Amber E. "The Cost of an Education: Exploring the Extended Reach of Academe in Family Life." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1243.
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Excerpt: Contributors detail what it means to be an academic mother and to think about academic motherhood, while also exploring both the personal and specific institutional challenges academic women face, the multifaceted strategies different academic women are implementing to manage those challenges, and investigating different theoretical possibilities for how we think about academic motherhood.
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Mantaye, Adam. "Essays on insurance economics." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/10996.
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Is the relationship between insurance consumption and its determinants spurious? Is general insurance a luxury service? Do bequest motives matter for life insurance consumption? Is private credit important for the development of life insurance? Do socioeconomic development and informal risk sharing institutions matter for formal insurance consumption? This thesis investigates these and other related issues using international datasets and relatively new panel data method, namely the Common Correlated Effects Pooled (CCEP) estimator. A novelty of the CCEP is that it takes into account the impacts of unobserved common factors. The thesis consists of an introduction, three empirical chapters and conclusions. Chapter 2 studies the relationship between nonlife insurance consumption and income/wealth per capita. Estimation results suggest that income elasticity is below unity and that nonlife insurance is positively related to GDP per capita, the law, risk aversion, infrastructural development, and negatively related to socioeconomic development. Chapter 3 explores life insurance consumption driven by bequest motives. We found that life insurance consumption is positively related to GDP per capita, old age dependency ratio, infrastructural development, and social security and welfare; and negatively related to the extended family institution, savings, inflation, and risk aversion. Estimation results suggest the presence of altruistic, and bequest as exchange old age security motives. Chapter 4 investigates the long run relationship and causality direction between private credit consumption and life insurance development. Life insurance development may be explained by GDP per capita, formal and informal credit consumption, infrastructural development, life expectancy, institutional quality, inflation, and Islam, and Orthodox being the dominant religions. Cointegration test results suggest that life and nonlife insurance consumption and its determinants exhibit a long run relationship; and that there is a long run bi-directional causality relationship between life insurance development and private credit consumption. The thesis concludes that insurance development requires institutional and infrastructural development-in particular- telecommunications infrastructure, to facilitate cost effective insurance supply.
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Rydén, Patrik. "Estimation of the reliability of systems described by the Daniels Load-Sharing Model." Licentiate thesis, Umeå universitet, Matematisk statistik, 1999. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-46724.
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We consider the problem of estimating the failure stresses of bundles (i.e. the tensile forces that destroy the bundles), constructed of several statisti-cally similar fibres, given a particular kind of censored data. Each bundle consists of several fibres which have their own independent identically dis-tributed failure stresses, and where the force applied on a bundle at any moment is distributed equally between the unbroken fibres in the bundle. A bundle with these properties is an example of an equal load-sharing sys-tem, often referred to as the Daniels failure model. The testing of several bundles generates a special kind of censored data, which is complexly struc-tured. Strongly consistent non-parametric estimators of the distribution laws of bundles are obtained by applying the theory of martingales, and by using the observed data. It is proved that random sampling, with replace-ment from the statistical data related to each tested bundle, can be used to obtain asymptotically correct estimators for the distribution functions of deviations of non-parametric estimators from true values. In the case when the failure stresses of the fibres are described by a Weibull distribution, we obtain strongly consistent parametric maximum likelihood estimators of the distribution functions of failure stresses of bundles, by using the complexly structured data. Numerical examples illustrate the behavior of the obtained estimators.
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au, watsone@iinet net, and Jacinth Ann Watson. "Women's experiences, social support and adapting to the offshore lifestyle : my life, my house, my bed..., not my life, shared house, shared bed, shared..., to get yourself back into sharing, because it takes a bit to work out the two." Murdoch University, 2008. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20090527.105256.
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In the past two decades the growth of the offshore oil and gas industry of Western Australia has resulted in an increased number of families experiencing the intermittent absence of a partner/parent. The gendered nature of the offshore oil and gas industry means workers tend to be male and the partner left at home tends to be female. This was the case for the participants in this study. For two/three weeks the family experience the absence of the male 'breadwinner', creating a gap within the family as the women and children experiences the loss of the partner/parent. Two/three weeks later the male worker returns home for his rest period and he reengages in his roles and the family is reunited. When the worker is absent the partner at home takes on the worker's gendered roles, tasks and responsibilities; upon his return she surrenders (sometimes willingly) his gendered roles, tasks and responsibilities.
Solheim (1988) state families of offshore oil and gas workers experience three social realities; his life at work, her 'single' life when he is at work, and their couple life when the worker arrives home. The families can develop a range of methods to adjust to the flux that occurs within families due to the work schedule (Forsyth and Gramling 1989). The repeated cyclical patterns of parting and reunion, weaving and balancing their three lives, and renegotiation of family work contribute to the stressors and strains the partners of offshore workers experience.
This study investigated how the offshore lifestyle impacts the at home partner of offshore workers and in addition, how at home partners use their social networks as means to help adapt to the offshore work schedule, and makes two major findings. Firstly, the at home partners of offshore workers participate in exchanging, at various levels, social support with family, friends and neighbours, although the most important form of support which helps the at home partner adapt to the offshore lifestyle is the support they receive from the offshore worker. Secondly, adapting to the offshore lifestyle is highly influenced by a process consisting of four reactions. The reactions are: the beginning; normalising his presence; normalising his absence; and balancing two lives. The identification of the four reactions can provide a greater understanding of how the offshore oil and gas industry impacts on the daily lives of partners of offshore workers as it helps make visible the day-to-day lives of partners of offshore oil and gas workers.
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Watson, Jacinth Ann. "Women's experiences, social support and adapting to the offshore lifestyle: my life, my house, my bed..., not my life, shared house, shared bed, shared..., to get yourself back into sharing, because it takes a bit to work out the two." Thesis, Watson, Jacinth Ann (2008) Women's experiences, social support and adapting to the offshore lifestyle: my life, my house, my bed..., not my life, shared house, shared bed, shared..., to get yourself back into sharing, because it takes a bit to work out the two. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2008. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/679/.
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In the past two decades the growth of the offshore oil and gas industry of Western Australia has resulted in an increased number of families experiencing the intermittent absence of a partner/parent. The gendered nature of the offshore oil and gas industry means workers tend to be male and the partner left at home tends to be female. This was the case for the participants in this study. For two/three weeks the family experience the absence of the male 'breadwinner', creating a gap within the family as the women and children experiences the loss of the partner/parent. Two/three weeks later the male worker returns home for his rest period and he reengages in his roles and the family is reunited. When the worker is absent the partner at home takes on the worker's gendered roles, tasks and responsibilities; upon his return she surrenders (sometimes willingly) his gendered roles, tasks and responsibilities.
Solheim (1988) state families of offshore oil and gas workers experience three social realities; his life at work, her 'single' life when he is at work, and their couple life when the worker arrives home. The families can develop a range of methods to adjust to the flux that occurs within families due to the work schedule (Forsyth and Gramling 1989). The repeated cyclical patterns of parting and reunion, weaving and balancing their three lives, and renegotiation of family work contribute to the stressors and strains the partners of offshore workers experience.
This study investigated how the offshore lifestyle impacts the at home partner of offshore workers and in addition, how at home partners use their social networks as means to help adapt to the offshore work schedule, and makes two major findings. Firstly, the at home partners of offshore workers participate in exchanging, at various levels, social support with family, friends and neighbours, although the most important form of support which helps the at home partner adapt to the offshore lifestyle is the support they receive from the offshore worker. Secondly, adapting to the offshore lifestyle is highly influenced by a process consisting of four reactions. The reactions are: the beginning; normalising his presence; normalising his absence; and balancing two lives. The identification of the four reactions can provide a greater understanding of how the offshore oil and gas industry impacts on the daily lives of partners of offshore workers as it helps make visible the day-to-day lives of partners of offshore oil and gas workers.
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Watson, Jacinth Ann. "Women's experiences, social support and adapting to the offshore lifestyle: my life, my house, my bed..., not my life, shared house, shared bed, shared..., to get yourself back into sharing, because it takes a bit to work out the two." Watson, Jacinth Ann (2008) Women's experiences, social support and adapting to the offshore lifestyle: my life, my house, my bed..., not my life, shared house, shared bed, shared..., to get yourself back into sharing, because it takes a bit to work out the two. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2008. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/679/.
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In the past two decades the growth of the offshore oil and gas industry of Western Australia has resulted in an increased number of families experiencing the intermittent absence of a partner/parent. The gendered nature of the offshore oil and gas industry means workers tend to be male and the partner left at home tends to be female. This was the case for the participants in this study. For two/three weeks the family experience the absence of the male 'breadwinner', creating a gap within the family as the women and children experiences the loss of the partner/parent. Two/three weeks later the male worker returns home for his rest period and he reengages in his roles and the family is reunited. When the worker is absent the partner at home takes on the worker's gendered roles, tasks and responsibilities; upon his return she surrenders (sometimes willingly) his gendered roles, tasks and responsibilities.
Solheim (1988) state families of offshore oil and gas workers experience three social realities; his life at work, her 'single' life when he is at work, and their couple life when the worker arrives home. The families can develop a range of methods to adjust to the flux that occurs within families due to the work schedule (Forsyth and Gramling 1989). The repeated cyclical patterns of parting and reunion, weaving and balancing their three lives, and renegotiation of family work contribute to the stressors and strains the partners of offshore workers experience.
This study investigated how the offshore lifestyle impacts the at home partner of offshore workers and in addition, how at home partners use their social networks as means to help adapt to the offshore work schedule, and makes two major findings. Firstly, the at home partners of offshore workers participate in exchanging, at various levels, social support with family, friends and neighbours, although the most important form of support which helps the at home partner adapt to the offshore lifestyle is the support they receive from the offshore worker. Secondly, adapting to the offshore lifestyle is highly influenced by a process consisting of four reactions. The reactions are: the beginning; normalising his presence; normalising his absence; and balancing two lives. The identification of the four reactions can provide a greater understanding of how the offshore oil and gas industry impacts on the daily lives of partners of offshore workers as it helps make visible the day-to-day lives of partners of offshore oil and gas workers.
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Matos, Rui Francisco Matias da Silva. "A importância da gestão do conhecimento em contractos de outsourcing." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/10353.
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Mestrado em Gestão de Sistemas de InformaçãoEste trabalho apresenta-se com um propósito exploratório, numa primeira abordagem pretende-se definir qual ou quais os pontos de maior tensão entre os intervenientes num contrato de serviço, e numa segunda fase como a Gestão do Conhecimento pode ser um forte aliado, para um aliviar de tensão e aumento de valor, dando origem a um crescimento cultural e organizacional, através de reposicionamentos estratégicos, em torno do conhecimento. A proposta vai no sentido de perceber quais os impedimentos maiores sentidos, tanto na primeira abordagem como na segunda. E tentar definir uma mudança no paradigma cultural e organizacional.
This work presents itself with an exploratory purpose, in a first approach there is the need to know which major tension points between Outsourcing agents are, and in a second phase, how can Knowledge Management be their stronger ally, in an attempt to relieve that tension, and increase valor, giving origin to a strategy shift, through cultural and organizational grow, leveraging that trough knowledge. The investigation tries to determine which are the major contrarieties felled by the interviewers, in the first approach, and in the second. And try to determine dimensions to define new shifts in the cultural and organizational paradigm.
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Nolte, Björn. "Variabilität des Reviergesangs des Buchfinken (Fringilla coelebs) zur Raum-Zeit-Beschreibung von Metapopulationen." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2003. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2005/95/.
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Der Buchfinkengesang wurde in Potsdam in zwei Hauptpopulationen über drei Jahre aufgenommen. Jedes Individuum wurde eindeutig am individuellen Strophentypenrepertoire identifiziert. Ein weiterer Punkt der die individuelle Wiedererkennung bestätigt ist die hohe Standorttreue der adulten Männchen. Die beschriebene Methode eignet sich für die Untersuchung von gesamten Populationen, um den Wandel des Gesangs von Populationen in Raum und Zeit zu beschreiben.Die Haupterkenntnisse der Arbeit sind:
- Die Gesamtanzahl der Grundstrophentypen innerhalb einer Population bleibt über Jahre konstant.
- Die relative Häufigkeit jedes einzelnen Strophentyps variiert von Jahr zu Jahr und von Population zu Population.
- Gesangslernen erfolgt exakt mit einem Korrektheitsgrad von mindestens 96%.
- Das Song-Sharing ist innerhalb der Population hoch.
Die diskutierten Mechanismen für das Song-Sharing sind: Die Lebenserwartung, das Zugverhalten, das Lernverhalten, die Etabliertheit von Strophentypen, Weibchenpräferenzen und die Reaktionen der territorialen Männchen.
- Weiterhin wurde ein Modell zur kulturellen Evolution des Buchfinkengesangs programmiert, um die Rolle der Einflussfaktoren, wie Fehlerquote, Abwanderungsrate und Laufzeit zu ermitteln.
Der Wandel des Dialektes erfolgt graduell in Raum und Zeit. Daher sind keine scharfen Dialektgrenzen anzutreffen. Trotz dieser Tatsache markieren die etablierten Strophentypen die Population.
50 % der Juvenilen siedeln am Geburtsort, auf diese Weise bleibt der Dialekt erhalten und Inzest wird vermieden.
-Analysiert man das Repertoire benachbarten Männchen bei isolierten Alleen, so entspricht die Gesangsangleichung in etwa dem Zufall.
-Intraindividuelle Vergleiche der quantitativen Parameter des jeweiligen Strophentyps wurden saisonal und annuell durchgeführt.
Saisonal konnten für einen Strophentyp ein Trend ermittelt werden. Bei jährlichen Vergleichen konnten intraindividuell ausschließlich nicht signifikante Ergebnisse ermittelt werden, wohingegen die interindividuelle Variation in zwei Fällen signifikant war. In einem Fall bestand ein Trend und in einem weiteren Fall war die Variationsunterschiede nicht signifikant.
- Der Verlauf der Brutsaison lässt sich an der jährlichen Gesangsaktivität nachvollziehen.
Chaffinch song was recorded in Potsdam in two major populations of chaffinches over a period of three years. Each male was identified unambiguously because of their individual song type repertoires. These are usually easy to distinguish from sonagrams as the variation is discontinuous. A further point for individual recognition is the fixed territorial behaviour of adult males. The described method is employed to examine whole populations and to observe changes with space and time in the song of a population.
The major findings of the study are:
- The total amount of basic song types in each population is constant over years.
- The quantity of each basic song type is different and varies from year to year and from population to population.
- Song copying is extremely accurate on at least 96% of occasions.
- Song-type sharing is high within populations. Discussed mechanisms for song neighbourhoods are: expectation of life, semi-migratory behaviour, learning skills, establishment of song types, female choice and male vs male interaction. Furthermore a model of cultural evolution of chaffinch song was programmed to determine the role of factors like error rate, rate of emigration and running time. The changes are gradual in space and time. Hence the dialect borders are smooth. Despite this fact established song types mark the population. As every second juvenile bird settles in the population of his birth inbreeding is avoided and the dialect structure is retained.
- Analysing the repertoires of neighbouring males (“next door neighbours”) in isolated avenues to examine mutual influences suggests that these have the same amount of song types in common than would be expected by chance.
- Within intraindividual comparisons the quantitative parameters of the same song types remain seasonal and annual constant, whereas interindividual variations within the same song tip are statistically significant.
- The breeding biology of the chaffinch can be observed by seasonal singing activity during the breeding cycle.
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Holmsten, Jonathan, and Joakim Arnåsen. "Att sadla om och styra mot hållbar mobilitet : Användares perspektiv på hållbarhetsinitiativet LinBike - Linköpings elcykelpool." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema teknik och social förändring, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-165798.
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Linköpings kommun invigde hösten 2019 en elcykelpool kallad LinBike i syfte att bidra till stadens utveckling och nå klimatmålen. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka användarna av LinBike för att förstå varför den används och huruvida den kan bidra till fler hållbara resor. Genom kvalitativa gatuintervjuer med 24 användare har fem olika mobilitetstyper identifierats som sammanfattar användarnas förhållningssätt till systemet. Analys av resultatet visar att elcyklarna främst används tack vare tjänstens bekvämlighet och prisvärdhet. LinBike bidrar till att användarna i många fall kan genomföra sina vardagliga resor enklare än innan. Förbättringsåtgärder föreslås som anses nödvändiga för att tjänsten ska behålla användare och bidra till en mer hållbar mobilitet. Studiens slutsatser är bland annat att klimatsmarta mobilitetstjänster bör fokusera på att vara smidiga och lättillgängliga för att locka användare. LinBike som färdmedel ersätter idag främst andra hållbara transportmedel och därför kan det inte konstateras att tjänsten bidrar till en mer hållbar mobilitet.Linköpings municipality has during the autumn of 2019 established an electric bike-sharing system called LinBike with the purpose to contribute to the city’s development and reach its climate goals. The scope of this thesis is to study the users of LinBike to understand why it is used and whether it contributes to a sustainable mobility or not. Through qualitative street interviews with 24 users, five types of mobility users have been identified which summarize the users attitude towards the system. Analysis of the results demonstrate that the E-bikes are used mainly because of the convenience and the price of the service. LinBike helps make everyday travel easier than before. Improvement measures are proposed which are considered necessary for the service to maintain users and contribute to a more sustainable mobility. Conclusions are that climate-smart mobility services should focus on being comfortable and accessible to attract users. LinBike users usually replace other sustainable modes of transportation and thus it cannot be concluded that the service contributes to a more sustainable mobility.
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LeBaron, Ashley Brooks. "The Socialization of Financial Giving: A Multigenerational Exploration." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6763.
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Previous research has found that family socialization influences financial giving behaviors and that financial giving predicts personal wellbeing. However, little research since the early 1980s has explored this phenomenon, and virtually none of the research has been qualitative in nature. As part of the Whats and Hows of Family Financial $ocialization project, this study employs a diverse, multi-site, multigenerational sample (N = 115) to qualitatively explore the following research question: how do children learn about financial giving from their parents? In other words, how is financial giving transmitted across generations? From interviews of emerging adults and their parents and grandparents, three core themes emerged: "Charitable Donations," "Acts of Kindness," and "Investments in Family." Various topics, processes, methods, and meanings involved in this socialization are presented, along with implications and potential directions for future research.
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Othman, Mazliza. "Load sharing as a power management strategy for mobile computers." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325034.
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Leavitt, Chelom Eastwood. "Parenting Dimensions and Adolescent Sharing and Concealment." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2574.
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Given potential risk factors in the lives of adolescents, parents are usually motivated to monitor and protect their adolescents. There is a need to better understand what combinations of parental dimensions and practice best influence an adolescent's propensity to disclose or conceal personal information with their parents. This paper examines how parenting dimensions (warmth, psychological control, and harsh punishment) and the parenting practice of solicitation influence an adolescent's propensity to disclose or conceal information. Adolescents in 106 families (53 females; predominantly Caucasian) reported on their mothers' and fathers' parenting dimensions as well as their parents' effort to solicit information. Factor analysis was conducted on the measure typically used for disclosure to test whether the items measured only disclosure or if two distinct adolescent outcomes of disclosure and concealment were more appropriate. Results supported our contention that disclosure and concealment might be considered separately. Other results indicated a positive association between adolescents' disclosure and the positive parenting dimension warmth and parental solicitation. There was a negative association between disclosure and harsh punishment in the father-son dyad. Psychological control was positively associated with concealment for both adolescent boys and girls. With a few exceptions, same gendered dyads (father-son, mother-daughter) showed the most associations between parenting dimensions and practices and disclosure or concealment.
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Bellamy, Robyn Lyle, and robyn bellamy@flinders edu au. "LIFE HISTORY AND CHEMOSENSORY COMMUNICATION IN THE SOCIAL AUSTRALIAN LIZARD, EGERNIA WHITII." Flinders University. Biological Sciences, 2007. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070514.163902.
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Social relationships, habitat utilisation and life history characteristics provide a framework which enables the survival of populations in fluctuating ecological conditions. An understanding of behavioural ecology is critical to the implementation of Natural Resource Management strategies if they are to succeed in their conservation efforts during the emergence of climate change. Egernia whitii from Wedge Island in the Spencer Gulf of South Australia were used as a model system to investigate the interaction of life history traits, scat piling behaviour and chemosensory communication in social lizards.
Juveniles typically took ¡Ý 3 years to reach sexual maturity and the results of skeletochronological studies suggested longevity of ¡Ý 13 years. Combined with a mean litter size of 2.2, a pregnancy rate estimated at 75% of eligible females during short-term studies, and highly stable groups, this information suggests several life history features.
Prolonged juvenile development and adult longevity may be prerequisite to the development of parental care. Parental care may, in turn, be the determining factor that facilitates the formation of small family groups. In E. whitii parental care takes the form of foetal and neonatal provisioning and tolerance of juveniles by small family or social groups within established resource areas. Presumably, resident juveniles also benefit from adult territorialism. Research on birds suggests that low adult mortality predisposes cooperative breeding or social grouping in birds, and life history traits and ecological factors appear to act together to facilitate cooperative systems.
E. whitii practice scat piling both individually and in small groups. Social benefits arising from signalling could confer both cooperative and competitive benefits. Permanent territorial markers have the potential to benefit conspecifics, congenerics and other species. The high incidence of a skink species (E. whitii) refuging with a gecko species (N. milii) on Wedge Island provides an example of interspecific cooperation. The diurnal refuge of the nocturnal gecko is a useful transient shelter for the diurnal skink. Scat piling may release a species ¡®signature¡¯ for each group that allows mutual recognition.
Scat piling also facilitates intraspecific scent marking by individual members, which has the potential to indicate relatedness, or social or sexual status within the group. The discovery of cloacal scent marking activity is new to the Egernia genus. E. Whitii differentiate between
their own scats, and conspecific and congeneric scats. They scent mark at the site of conspecific scats, and males and females differ in their response to scent cues over time. Scat piling has the potential to make information concerning the social environment available to dispersing transient and potential immigrant conspecifics, enabling settlement choices to be made.
This thesis explores some of the behavioural strategies employed by E. whitii to reduce risks to individuals within groups and between groups. Scents eliciting a range of behavioural responses relevant to the formation of adaptive social groupings, reproductive activity, and juvenile protection until maturity and dispersal are likely to be present in this species. Tests confirming chemosensory cues that differentiate sex, kin and age would be an interesting addition to current knowledge. The interaction of delayed maturity, parental care, sociality, chemosensory communication and scat piling highlights the sophistication of this species¡¯ behaviour.
An alternative method for permanently marking lizards was developed. Persistence, reliability and individual discrimination were demonstrated using photographic identification and the method was shown to be reliable for broad-scale application by researchers. Naturally occurring toe loss in the field provided a context against which to examine this alternative identification method and revealed the need to further investigate the consequences of routine toe clipping, as this practice appears to diminish survivorship.
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Warrick, Crawford David. "Has Instagram Created Wanderlust: How Experiential Sharing Is Influencing Happiness." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1558922656657414.
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Forrester, Margaret Vivienne. "Communities of practice for end of life care workplace settings : a case study." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/620644.
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Communities of practice have been used as a way of sharing practice and developing knowledge. The End of Life Care Education Consortium was formed by three hospice education departments in the West Midlands, United Kingdom, with the support of the Strategic Health Authority, to provide education programmes for healthcare professionals in palliative care. As the Consortium worked collaboratively, I wanted to explore whether there was potential for it to evolve into a community of practice and whether there was scope for communities of practice being utilised in end of life care settings to share and develop practice. The literature review revealed there were no articles written on communities of practice in palliative care settings and demonstrated that the workplace is an important area for learning as new staff learn from more experienced members of the workforce. Communities of practice can be used for experienced staff to learn from each other and share practice with others from outside the community. Case study research was used to explore whether the Consortium had the potential to evolve into a community of practice and if its members learnt from each other. Members of the Consortium were interviewed using semi-structured interviews, documents including my research diary, reports and notes from meetings were also used as data. Although the findings showed that the Consortium was not functioning as a community of practice it did have the key characteristics of one and there is potential for hospices to form communities of practice to enable staff to share practice and support each other. The findings demonstrated that for a community of practice to be successful it requires the support of management to allow staff to take part in community activities, seen as an important part of the organisation’s culture and there needs to be leadership to enable the community to develop. Journal clubs, clinical supervision and multidisciplinary meetings are already in place and these could be ways of healthcare professionals sharing knowledge and learning together. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (2015) state that all nurses and midwives are required to revalidate every three years to enable them to practise as registered nurses; one of my recommendations is that communities of practice could be used to keep staff updated. Inviting healthcare professionals from outside the hospice to take part in community activities would enable knowledge to flow in and out therefore enhancing patient care.
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Zitzman, Spencer T. "Couples Sharing Recovery from a Husband's Addiction to Pornography: A Qualitative Study." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd448.22.
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Jones, Stephen David. "Sharing the recurrent costs of rural water supply in Mali : the role of WaterAid in promoting sustainable service delivery." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2013. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/acfbf66d-4512-4fdd-9afe-0195aeaa0c46/1/.
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This thesis analyses how and why the recurrent costs of water services are shared between different actors in the rural local government areas in Mali which are supported by the international NGO WaterAid. This analysis of the financing arrangements for rural water services is used to critically assess theory, policy and practice in three areas: the community-based management approach to service delivery, the role of decentralised local governments in supporting community management, and the ability of external organisations to influence institutional change. Empirical evidence is presented for the period 2008-2011, drawing on research fieldwork undertaken in collaboration with WaterAid and its partners in 2010 and 2011, as the organisation introduced its own Sustainability Framework to help understand and address the challenges to delivering sustainable rural water services. The thesis argues that approaches to understanding local institutions for natural resource management based on ‘critical institutionalism' (Cleaver 2012), which emphasises the importance of improvisation and adaptation across different scales, should be placed within broader political economy analysis frameworks for assessing challenges in public services delivery from national to local levels. The use of such a framework shows how WaterAid and its partners adopt a ‘critical institutionalist' perspective at community levels to support users in developing ways of raising funds for water services which draw on both traditional practices and NGO influences. However at local government and national levels their approach is based on ideas of ‘best practice' rather than ‘best fit' (Booth 2012): although the costs of local government support to communities under the model promoted by WaterAid lie within international benchmarks, it is unclear over what timescale this approach could be scaled up in Mali without donor support. This demonstrates the limited ability of local governments to ensure the delivery of decentralised public services without additional external resources and support themselves.
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Almehmadi, Fatmah M. S. "Interaction with information in work and everyday life contexts : a qualitative study of the information behaviour of Saudi female academics." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2016. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/20040.
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This study aims to investigate Saudi female academics' information behaviour (IB) within their work and everyday life contexts. A qualitative research approach was adopted to investigate the range of information behaviour that the research participants engaged in. The data for this study were collected via in-depth semi-structured interviews and diaries. Participants' accounts were then subject to a rigorous thematic data analysis process. The research findings indicated that female academics who participated in this study engaged in three main categories of information behaviour: information acquisition, information avoidance, and information sharing. The motivations and the strategies associated with each category have been depicted in a taxonomy of information behaviour. In addition, a detailed analysis of participants' IB as an action-oriented process has been presented visually, leading to the development of a model that depicts IB as a contextual process.
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Fitzpatrick, Katherine. "Foraging and menstruation in the Hadza of Tanzania." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275062.
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The Hadza, residing near Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania, represent one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer populations. Inhabiting the same area as our hominin ancestors and exploiting very similar resources, the Hadza maintain a foraging lifestyle characterised by a sexual division of labour. Studies of their foraging and food sharing habits serve as the foundation to numerous hypotheses of human behaviour and evolution. Data from the Hadza have featured heavily in debates on the sexual division of labour. These debates focus predominantly on men’s foraging, including how and why men provision. Women’s provisioning, on the other hand, is seldom explicitly examined and is often presumed to be constrained by reproduction. This thesis contributes to debates on the sexual division of labour by investigating how a woman’s reproductive status affects her foraging behaviours. Observational data on women’s foraging are investigated from 263 person/day follows (1,307 hours total) across 10 camps between 2004 and 2006. These data present the first quantitative documentation of forager women’s eating and sharing outside of camp. Interview data on women’s reproductive timeline are also analysed from in-depth interviews with 58 women from 9 camps in 2015. Spanning from menarche to menopause, these data offer the first quantitative and qualitative documentation of forager women’s menstruation. The results demonstrate that Hadza women eat and share over 800 kilocalories outside of camp per person/day. They regularly give and receive food, including gifts of honey from men. Breastfeeding women are more likely to give gifts and give more gifts than non-breastfeeding women. When they bring nurslings with them outside of camp, they forage less kilocalories per hour. Post-menopausal women eat less relative to what they forage, are less likely to receive gifts, rest less and forage more than pre-menopausal women. Although Hadza women describe their foraging workload as most difficult during late pregnancy, no significant differences in eating, sharing, resting or foraging are observed for pregnant women. Menstrual data from the Hadza reveal that menstruation is not only culturally relevant to the sexual division of labour, but it is also biologically relevant to current understandings of fertility. The majority (60%) of Hadza women report not doing their normal work during menstruation. They also report menstruation-related taboos for berry picking. The thesis presents an in-depth review of women’s menstruation, from the duration of menses to the menstrual cleaning process.
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Thornton, Laura, and Rosanna Sjöö. "A matter of External or Internal Network Usage? : A study of the network environment of GE Healthcare Life Sciences Uppsala." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-168951.
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Current research has pointed out that a subsidiary ́s external network, constituted by its suppliers and customers at the local market, is very important for the corporation as a whole. In this study we seek to explore if this is the case for a certain Multinational corporation through exploring the usage of its networks. More specifically how the knowledge within its networks sharing contribute to the company’s innovation development process. A number of interviews have been conducted with personnel at a Multinational corporation, General Electric Healthcare Life Sciences in Uppsala. The results have been analyzed using a theoretical frame of reference covering network theory and a subsidiary’s part in it. Our findings show that even though the external network may play a necessary part, the internal network of a large Multinational corporation is an important resource and should not be ignored.
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Šašek, Ondřej. "Elementární architektura / Škola architektury pro generaci Z." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-451228.
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In my diploma thesis am focusing on a concept of novel sutdent housing, as current dormitories do not respect recuirements of young adults. That is why I have decided to bring up the issue, and to propose a possible solution.
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Gonçalves, Daniel Guedes. "Biodiversidade e conhecimentos tradicionais associados: um estudo da realidade Kaingang e Guarani da reserva indígena da Guarita-Redentora-RS." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2010. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/620.
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O objeto do presente trabalho é conhecer a realidade fática das etnias Kaingang e Guarani da reserva/área indígena da Guarita no município de Redentora-RS nos aspectos da preservação ou perda da biodiversidade e dos conhecimentos tradicionais associados. Colher dados sobre suas culturas (material e imaterial), sobre as influências benéficas ou não decorrentes de contatos com não índios, seus modos de vida, seus domínios dos conhecimentos da medicina tradicional. Objetiva tal pesquisa analisar as informações colhidas e verificar se a legislação brasileira é dotada de efetividade na proteção e conservação dos patrimônios naturais e culturais dessas duas comunidades tradicionais indígenas locais e, ainda, analisar possíveis medidas jurídicas que possam ser aplicadas para a inclusão sócio-econômica das mesmas através da justa repartição dos benefícios decorrentes do acesso ao patrimônio genético e aos conhecimentos tradicionais associados. O conhecimento da realidade fática, do modo de vida, dos costumes, dos hábitos, das crenças, das influências benéficas ou não de outras culturas, do sentido da natureza e sua importância da mesma para cada indivíduo é imprescindível na efetivação dos objetivos do trabalho de pesquisa realizado. Para se obter tais resultados, realizaram-se nos meses de julho e agosto de 2009, na etnia Kaingang, e em razão das condições climáticas no mês de janeiro de 2010 na etnia Guarani, entrevistas, tanto individuais como coletivas, na área/reserva indígena da Guarita com alguns componentes dessas duas etnias. Propôs-se neste trabalho uma técnica de interação, conversas, observações para poder compreender como vivem, o que produzem, o que conservam de suas origens culturais, como se relacionam com o meio ambiente que os cerca, o que sabem sobre Direito, Cidadania, seus Direitos, se transmitem entre os seus o conhecimento tradicional associado de que são detentores e também se comercializam ou não espécimes da medicina tradicional existentes em seus territórios. Conclui-se, ao final, da urgente necessidade em se regulamentar através de uma norma específica tanto o acesso como a repartição justa dos benefícios decorrentes da exploração dos recursos da biodiversidade, do patrimônio genético nacional e principalmente dos conhecimentos tradicionais. Em razão do vácuo legislativo do país, propôs-se hipoteticamente a construção da uma norma para servir como norte a fim de regulamentar essas questões em todo o território nacional.Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-06-05T17:22:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Daniel Guedes Goncalves.pdf: 4995091 bytes, checksum: 15ff2fa1405409566e9d232aea36d331 (MD5)
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Kaingang reservation / Indian area in the municipality of Guarita Redentora-RS aspects of the preservation or loss of biodiversity and associated traditional knowledge. Collect data about their culture (material and immaterial), the beneficial influences on whether or not arising from contacts with outsiders, their lifestyles, their domains of knowledge of traditional medicine. This research aims to analyze the information collected and see if Brazilian law is endowed with effectiveness in the protection and conservation of natural and cultural heritage of these two traditional local indigenous communities and also review possible legal measures that can be applied to the socio-economic inclusion the same through the fair distribution of benefits derived from access to genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge. The knowledge of the factual reality, the way of life, customs, habits, beliefs, or not beneficial influences of other cultures, the sense of nature and its importance for the same individual is indispensable for the realization of the goals of work research conducted. To get such results, were held in July and August 2009, at Kaingang ethnicity, and because of the weather in January 2010 in the Guarani race, interviews, both individual and collective, in the area / Indian reservation Guarita with some components of these two ethnic groups. It was proposed in this paper a technique for interaction, conversations, observations in order to understand how they live, what they produce, which retain their cultural backgrounds, how they relate to the environment that surrounds them, they know about law, Citizenship, their rights, transferring them between their associated traditional knowledge holders and they are also selling or not specimens of traditional medicine into their existing territories. Concludes, after all, the urgent necessity to regulate by a particular standard so access as the fair distribution of benefits from exploitation of biodiversity, genetic heritage and traditional knowledge mainly. Because of the legislative vacuum in the country, it was proposed hypothetically the construction of a standard to serve as the north in order to regulate these issues across the country.
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Botha, Antonie Christoffel. "A new framework for a technological perspective of knowledge management." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06262008-123525/.
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Klaebe, Helen Grace. "Sharing stories : problems and potentials of oral history and digital storytelling and the writer/producer's role in constructing a public place." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16364/1/Helen_Klaebe_Thesis.pdf.
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The Kelvin Grove Urban Village (KGUV) is a 16-hectare urban renewal redevelopment project of the Queensland Department of Housing and the
Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Over the last century, the land has housed military and educational institutions that have shaped Brisbane and Queensland. These groups each have their own history. Collectively their stories represented an opportunity to build a multi-art form public history project, consisting of a creative non-fiction historical manuscript and a collection of digital stories (employing oral history and digital storytelling techniques in particular) to construct a personal sense of place, identity and history. This exegesis examines the processes used and difficulties faced by the writer/producer of the public history; including consideration of the artistic selection involved, and consequent assembly of the material. The research findings clearly show that: giving contributors access to the technology required to produce their own digital stories in a public history does not automatically equate to total participatory inclusion; the writer/producer can work with the public as an active, collaborative team to produce shared historically significant works for the public they represent; and the role of the public historian is that of a valuable broker--in actively seeking to maximize inclusiveness of vulnerable members of the community and by producing a selection of multi-art form works with the public that includes new media.
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Klaebe, Helen Grace. "Sharing stories : problems and potentials of oral history and digital storytelling and the writer/producer's role in constructing a public place." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16364/.
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The Kelvin Grove Urban Village (KGUV) is a 16-hectare urban renewal redevelopment project of the Queensland Department of Housing and the
Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Over the last century, the land has housed military and educational institutions that have shaped Brisbane and Queensland. These groups each have their own history. Collectively their stories represented an opportunity to build a multi-art form public history project, consisting of a creative non-fiction historical manuscript and a collection of digital stories (employing oral history and digital storytelling techniques in particular) to construct a personal sense of place, identity and history. This exegesis examines the processes used and difficulties faced by the writer/producer of the public history; including consideration of the artistic selection involved, and consequent assembly of the material. The research findings clearly show that: giving contributors access to the technology required to produce their own digital stories in a public history does not automatically equate to total participatory inclusion; the writer/producer can work with the public as an active, collaborative team to produce shared historically significant works for the public they represent; and the role of the public historian is that of a valuable broker--in actively seeking to maximize inclusiveness of vulnerable members of the community and by producing a selection of multi-art form works with the public that includes new media.
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Liang, Hung-Hsi, and 梁宏圻. "Digital Life Time Sharing Platform - Server Implementation." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24521980068316277465.
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碩士元智大學
資訊管理學系
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The variety of technology products will no longer be limited by their functionality because of significant improvements in network and digital media. Besides, technology products become more convenient and have more mobility through Internet. The concept of digital home is also against this background environment. It’s a breakthrough development. In addition to changes in technology products, Internet style and shape of changes in network services are created under this phenomenon. Web Album websites, blogs and other platforms have emerged radically. They quickly became the best channel to express feelings and share personal experiences of life. However, the space of Web Album is limited. When a user stores more albums, the management will become complicated and more difficult to search. Also, the non-network family cannot enjoy the fun of Internet. The purpose of this study is to develop a system called UrLife by applying innovative business models. It is also combined with great market potential in the current wireless digital photo frame. Through the visual presentation of Life Timeline, users can record their lives more easily. In addition, users can share their memories in lives with friends and families directly. In the future, the system is expected to integrate other industries to create more extensive applications and services.
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Tsai, MingFeng, and 蔡銘峯. "Digital Life: Smart Monitoring and Multimedia Sharing." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02989685370245195324.
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碩士國立中正大學
電機工程研究所
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With the rapid development of network and digital home, a television tends to have the capability of a network connection. It could also be linked with multimedia devices to extend various supportable functions. Nowadays, a television is not only a watching device but also an entertainment center at home. On current markets, an IPCAM is used to majorly act as a camera for surveillance, but compared with a WebCAM, it has much more flexible and multi-purpose functions. Generally, a user must keep on watching the monitor to perceive abnormal events. However, such an operation is not efficient. Therefore, the first topic of this work is based on an embedded platform associated with an internet TV to develop an intelligent monitoring system that can support real-time monitoring, video recording, event tracking, event detecting and IPCAM device management to attain surveillance more smartly and efficiently. Furthermore, smart phones and tablets are going to become more popular and powerful. However, due to the demands of convenience, smart phones and tablets are only have small panels for video watching or photo displaying. They are not as comfortable as televisions which have big screens. Hence, the second topic of this work is based on an embedded platform associated with an internet TV to develop a multimedia sharing system which establishs a sharing environment between internet televisions and personal computers, notebooks, smart phones, tablets and some mobile devices, to display audio-visual multimedia from the other devices, and then to reach the concept of digital home.
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Huang, Tze-Han, and 黃思翰. "Digital Life Time Sharing Platform Design and Implementation." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21383069827974299225.
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碩士元智大學
資訊管理學系
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Due to the great improvements in technology, the popularization of digital cameras brings us a digital camera in hand nowadays; therefore, the usages of film cameras have gradually declined. This phenomenon indicates digital pictures have replaced traditional pictures, and people are accustomed to preserve the image data as digital information instead of developing a film. The integrity and security of image data preservation have considerably benefited from digitization. The rapid development of the internet technology, web albums market has gradually become saturated. To be different from the conservative web albums, this study provides many innovation functions such as digital life timeline, wireless digital photo frame transmission, personal analyst and so on. We hope to achieve market segmentation from web albums and create uncontested market space. Based on these innovative ideas, this research investigated the substantiation of the development program into share space. The entire system construction consists of three parts: (1) the application (2) the server (3) digital photo frame simulator. In this research, the real work was carried out in the application to discuss the functions on the application should have. We used WPF technique which was new releases of MS to develop the visual interface and expect the users find everything new and fresh.
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Yu, Ling, and 游翎. "Reunion - Sharing your life in inner city of Taichung." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/pg73q9.
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碩士東海大學
建築學系
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In Chinese, people thought that eating is a kind of social activities. They care about communication, sentiment and spectacle. It a circle table culture. In the past, Chinese hold a banquet with many celebrations. Everyone may sit with strangers and sharing your eating or chatting life to they in the banquet. It’s a special Chinese culture in the world. There have many street foods but lack of open space in Zhong-Hua night market in inner city of Taichung. I tried to create a open space near Zhong-Hua night market with the concept of circle table. And used the red table which symbolize urban surplus to be cut and reuse to make the other way to let people have a reunion. When people cooperate to let more piece of table together, the light box under the red table will become more redder which symbolize good news in Chinese. People can take a rest and memory the lively culture of banquet here. Hope they will feel more close and share their life in this open space.
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Chang, Chih-Hao, and 張智豪. "Digital Life Time Sharing Platform – Digital Photo Frame Simulator." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96886454135262124447.
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碩士元智大學
資訊管理學系
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Digital photo frame in modern life is gradually replacing the traditional photo frame and album. Due to the widely use of the Internet and the rapid development of hardware technology, the digital photo frame manufacturers must increase the number of innovative features so as to attract consumers. One of the most critical functions is to provide a wireless digital photo frame with sharing features. In this study, a digital photo frame simulator was implemented on the Digital Life Time Sharing Platform (DLTSP). The DLTSP is divided into three main parts: the application, digital photo frame simulator and the server. The simulator applies the WPF''s technology in Windows systems to create a visual interface and provides functions include basic photo browsing and music player.
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梁譽昭. "Foodie’s Life: Exploring Food Captures Sharing on Instagram in Hong Kong." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/x9jk2j.
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碩士國立政治大學
國際傳播英語碩士學位學程(IMICS)
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The “camera eats first” phenomenon has become a worldwide popular culture which affects our everyday life. The study is committed to look at the foodie behavior on Instagram in Hong Kong, a renowned gourmet paradise. Through a qualitative study of five Instagram foodies, it aims to explore and add an academic dimension of understanding of the culture from the foodie’s perspective and their online behaviors of running a public profile about daily food consumption on Instagram. The results suggested that some foodies see their profiles as the extension of themselves, a space to showcase their works and preferences; but they do not see their profile as a future business opportunity. Even though the foodies on Instagram are mostly amateur instead of professionally trained food photographers, they keep enhancing their skills by learning from their peers and constant practices, for the sake of producing attractive photos. Flat-lay is one of the most popular styles of photography on Instagram which is appreciated by the foodies, as well as the audience. Attractive food visual content and skillful labeling hashtags have made Instagram a platform to satisfy intense desire for food consumption. A foodie’s interaction with audience further enhances the consumer’s desire by offering personal comments. The findings imply that there is a wide scale of foodies with different attitudes towards their practice of posting food images on Instagram. It is crucial for food marketers to understand their attitudes and preferences for better communication. Future research can be conducted on a broader scale of foodies to examine foodies and their influence on social class, giving marketers more ideas of effective positioning and segmentation.
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Chen, Mei-fang, and 陳美芳. "The Impact of Life Insurance Agents’Personality on Knowledge Sharing ─ The Mediating Effect of Trust." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60334718451866566408.
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碩士朝陽科技大學
保險金融管理系碩士班
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The era of knowledge economy and the advent of financial integration trends are coming. It is important to enhance the capacity and expertise for life insurance agents. Organizations must understand the factors that influence knowledge sharing. And the supervisors have to promote knowledge sharing that can create effective to enterprise in the competitive environment. We find the personality and trust are more common on the impact of knowledge sharing at the individual level factors. So this study discusses the impact of life insurance agents’ personality on trust. And the impact of life insurance agents’ personality and trust on knowledge sharing. In addition we discuss the mediating effect of trust. 494 samples are surveyed through the questionnaires. Our results could be summarized as follow, the first, life insurance agents’ personality of extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness had significant positive effects on trust. The second, trust had significant positive effects on knowledge sharing. The third, life insurance agents’ personality of extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness had significant effects on knowledge sharing. The fourth, the partial mediating effect of trust is between personality and knowledge sharing.
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Wu, Ming-Yi, and 吳明益. "The Impact of Personality Traits of Life Insurance Salesperson on Organizational Commitment and Knowledge Sharing." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/pryvh7.
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碩士南華大學
財務金融學系財務管理碩士班
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The insurance industry has been very great importance to the exchange of knowledge, whether it is a new product knowledge, knowledge of laws and regulations and other changes, will depend on knowledge sharing among insurance practitioners, knowledge sharing willingness higher insurance practitioners to absorb new knowledge, the more helpful; while Team organizational commitment to business development team is also very important, the identity of the organization, for organizational development and expansion of the more favorable. This study used regression analysis, issued 450 valid questionnaires for insurance companies and insurance brokers company insurance salespersons , 422 valid questionnaires a questionnaire sample survey, designed to investigate the relationship between different traits for organizational commitment and knowledge sharing between via. The empirical results show personality traits of Conscientiousness, Extraversion and Agreeableness for organizational commitment is correlated positively and reached significant levels in the organization promised better performance. Conscientiousness, Extraversion and Openness to Experience of the knowledge sharing and influence are positively correlated reached significant level, also refers to the diligent care insurance practitioners, extraversion personality traits and experience sharing in the higher, the higher the willingness to share knowledge.
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Beltiukov, Ilia. "Surveillance in social networks: How can sharing your personal data online change your offline life?" Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/23837.
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People use Facebook for different purposes. This use and usefulness also allows for something else to happen: peer surveillance, which might directly affect Facebook users’ lives online, as well as offline. Family members, friends, exes, colleagues, and even people you have never met before, have many possibilities to collect your personal data using social media features. But how do people perceive and behave in Facebook regarding peer surveillance? How can users surveil one another in Facebook? What might be consequences of it? How to feel safe and avoid being tracked by anyone else?
The main goal of the dissertation is to gather and articulate theoretical and empirical knowledge through the analysis of answers provided during selected interviews of Facebook users to contribute to population’s awareness about how to use a social medium ‘with care’.As pessoas usam o Facebook para diferentes fins. Esse uso e utilidade também permite que outras coisas aconteçam: vigilância por pares, que pode afetar diretamente a vida dos usuários do Facebook online, bem como offline. Membros da família, amigos, ex-namorados, colegas e até pessoas que você nunca conheceu têm muitas possibilidades de recolher os seus dados pessoais usando recursos de media sociais. Mas como vêem e se comportam as pessoas no Facebook em relação à vigilância por pares? Como podem os usuários vigiar-se uns aos outros no Facebook? Quais podem as consequências disso ser? Como sentir-se seguro e evitar ser rastreado por outra pessoa? O principal objetivo da dissertação é reunir e articular o conhecimento teórico e empírico através da análise das respostas fornecidas durante entrevistas selecionadas de usuários do Facebook para contribuir para a conscientização da população sobre como usar um meio social ‘com cuidado’.
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Yang, Ya-Ting, and 楊雅婷. "Study on the relations of elderly people on sharing food, well-being and life style." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bwk764.
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碩士台南應用科技大學
生活服務產業系生活應用科學碩士班
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This study aimed at two community Caring Centers in Chiayi City, they served lunch for elders. Purpose of this study is to research the current situation of participants'' lifestyles and well-being, the factors that affected this eating pattern, and the strategies for improving the life quality of co-eaters. Research method of this study was used for analyses of mean, standard deviation, t test, one-way ANOVA, Regression analysis, and In-Depth Interviews. In this study，259 elders over 65 years old were surveyed. Be aware that the Communicator participates in the questionnaire, collects their basic data, the dining situation and the happiness scale, supplemented by the in-depth interview of qualitative research. Most elders in this study were between 65-70 years old, they were able to come and join the co-meal service. The current status of life styles and well-being of the elders in the community, and the reliability and validity of the questionnaires in the study were explained through experts'' and scholars'' checks and factor analysis reliability tests, with "cognitive evaluation", "individual resources or restrictions", "social resources support Systems" and "environmental incidents" could explained the total variance of 67.9%, of which the economic conditions and the frequency of co-meals had the most significant differences in the four aspects of happiness for the two items (p<0.5). There were significant differences in the three dimensions of well-being for those suffering from chronic diseases. Elders eating together, interacting with others, would increase their happiness. There are individualized differences in happiness. Therefore, for self-contained commensal food groups, data collected through in-depth interviews and analysis by grounded theory could be divided into four propositions. The results showed our body functions couldn’t follow the daily life. Elders couldn’t fit in living alone, leading to degeneration of the body and psychological loneliness. Besides, Elders who participate in co-meal would not change their physical behavior obviously, they still need more social support systems. Therefore, the results of this study showed that implementation of meal should be started from the community. Elders chose their own way of eating, could improve their social support , help to maintain their physical conditions.To promote co-meal would successfully achieve "locally and healthy aging” policy in the future.
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(6617804), Hao Luo. "ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND IMPROVED DESIGN OF BIKE SHARING SYSTEMS FROM THE LIFE CYCLE PERSPECTIVE." Thesis, 2019.
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Bike sharing system (BSS) is growing worldwide. Although bike sharing is viewed as a sustainable transportation mode, it still has environmental footprints from its operation (e.g., bike rebalancing using automobiles) and upstream impacts (e.g., bike and docking station manufacturing). Thus, evaluating the environmental impacts of a BSS from the life cycle perspective is vital to inform decision making for the system design and operation. In this study, we conducted a comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) of station-based and dock-less BSS in the U.S. The results show that dock-less BSS has a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions factor of 118 g CO2-eq/bike-km in the base scenario, which is 82% higher than the station-based system. Bike rebalancing is the main source of GHG emissions, accounting for 36% and 73% of the station-based and dock-less systems, respectively. However, station-based BSS has 54% higher total normalized environmental impacts (TNEI), compared to dock-less BSS. The dock manufacturing dominants the TNEI (61%) of station-based BSS and the bike manufacturing contributes 52% of TNEI in dock-less BSS. BSS can also bring environmental benefits through substituting different transportation modes. Car trip replacement rate is the most important factor. The results suggest four key approaches to improve BSS environmental performance: 1) optimizing the bike distribution and rebalancing route or repositioning bikes using more sustainable approaches, 2) incentivizing more private car users to switch to using BSSs, 3) prolonging lifespans of docking infrastructure to significantly reduce the TNEI of station-based systems, and 4) increasing the bike utilization efficiency to improve the environmental performance of dock-less systems.
To improve the design of current BSS from the life cycle perspective, we first proposed a simulation framework to find the minimal fleet size and their layout of the system. Then we did a tradeoff analysis between bike fleet size and the rebalancing frequency to investigate the GHG emission if we rebalance once, twice and three times a day. The optimal BSS design and operation strategies that can minimize system GHG emission are identified for a dock-less system in Xiamen, China. The results show that at most 15% and 13% of the existing fleet size is required to serve all the trip demand on weekday and weekend, if we have a well-designed bike layout. The tradeoff analysis shows that the GHG emission may increase if we continue to reduce the fleet size through more frequent rebalancing work. Rebalancing once a day during the night is the optimal strategy in the base scenario. We also tested the impacts of other key factors (e.g., rebalancing vehicle fleet size, vehicle capacity and multiple depots) on results. The analysis results showed that using fewer vehicles with larger capacity could help to further reduce the GHG emission of rebalancing work. Besides, setting 3 depots in the system can help to reduce 30% of the GHG emission compared with 1-depot case, which benefits from the decrease of the commuting trip distance between depot and the serve region.
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TSAI, KO-HUI, and 蔡可卉. "A Teaching Experiment of Life Education: A Research on the Effectiveness of Implementing Narrative Sharing of Teacher's Life Experiences and Teaching with Films." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/qtsw6k.
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碩士南華大學
傳播學系
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This study aims to explore the implementation effectiveness of using narrative sharing of teacher's life experiences and teaching with films in an immersive life education course. The research method adopted an experimental design, taking Eighth Grade students of a junior high school in Chiayi as the research object, and randomly assigning a class to be Experiment Group A. The lessons adopted an immersive life education course including a narrative sharing of teacher's life experience. One class is appointed Experiment Group B, adopting an immersive life education course where narrative sharing of life experiences and teaching with films was introduced. The other class is the Experiment Group C, where they carry out an immersive life education course with the incorporation of teaching with films. The last class was the control group. It did not adopt any experimental processing and maintained the original curriculum content of the integrated activity learning guidance course. These four groups of students carried out a "My Life Scale" test one week before and after the experiment. The scores were separately tested in pairs to test how different teaching methods will impact students' life attitude and of the teaching effectiveness. In addition, after the completion of the course, experimental groups also completed the "Course Learning Feedback Form" compiled by the researcher to further understand students' learning effect and achievements through analysis of the feedback. The conclusions of this study are as follows: 1. "Immersive life education curriculum incorporating a narrative sharing of teacher's life experience" can effectively enhance students' attitudes such as "pleasantness", "efficiency" and "positive life" and can effectively reduce attitudes such as "disturbing" and "negative life". 2. "Immersive life education curriculum incorporating narrative sharing of teacher's life experience and teaching with films" can effectively enhance students' attitudes of "pleasure", "proactive" and "positive life" and effectively reduce the attitudes of "disturbing", "disappointment" and "negative life". 3. "Immersive life education curriculum incorporating teaching with films" can effectively enhance students' attitudes of "efficiency", "in control" and "positive life". 4. Students gave a high positive evaluation and approval about the use of narrative sharing of life experiences and teaching with films for life education curriculum. They also indicated that they have grown mentally and gained inspiration during the learning process. Finally, the paper put forward relevant suggestions based on the results of the research, and provided teachers a reference for future implementation of immersive life education teaching and related research.