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Phipps, Lauren F. "“A Give and A Take”: Lived Experiences in a Real Sharing Economy." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/61.
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This thesis contrasts a “real” sharing economy with the commonly held understanding of this new mode of exchange. By examining the lived experiences within a successful example of sharing, we can see its true value and acknowledge where other businesses fall short. Based on in-depth interviews with users of freecycle.org, this thesis illustrates the importance of motivation within a real sharing economy, highlighting the existence of generalized reciprocity, the value of community, and altruism between members of this gifting platform.
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Smith, Jeff Smith Bernard. "Lived Religion: An Examination of "Pass the Salt" Luncheons." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2097.
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This study used a case study approach to examine how religious culture, such as theologies and doctrines, is lived or practiced by "Pass the Salt" luncheon participants. "Pass the Salt" participants are taught the teachings of Harvest Evangelism, an interdenominational Para-church organization; these teachings are evidenced through their cultural toolkit. It was expected that the luncheon participants would practice Harvest Evangelism's religious culture in the workplace. Participant observation and personal interviews were conducted to examine participants' application of the cultural toolkit to their everyday lives, specifically in the workplace. Findings indicated that the leader of the "Pass the Salt" luncheon was more likely to practice or live the religious doctrines provided by Harvest Evangelism, while others lived religion in a different way.
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England, Teresa Potter. "Feeling Overwhelmed: The Lived Experience of Nurse Managers." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1911.
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Multiple studies have addressed registered nurse turnover in recent years. There is little research specifically addressing nurse manager turnover. The nurse manager is addressed in current research as being in a pivotal position to affect nurse retention. Research has focused on the skills necessary for nurse managers to affect turnover; however, there is little research addressing the pressure placed upon the nurse manager as he or she struggles to maintain the nursing workforce. This qualitative study explored the lived experience of feeling overwhelmed by 6 nurse managers currently working in an inpatient hospital environment. Interviews were analyzed using a modified version of the descriptive-interpretive phenomenological method as described by van Manen. Four essential themes were identified: there is nobody there, caught in the middle, feeling that you are a failure, and the inability to do. One paradigm case exhibited all of the essential themes. The essence of the nurse manager's lived experience of feeling overwhelmed is helplessness evidenced by constant unresolved conflicts in a complex, chaotic organization with changing expectations, unmet personal fulfillment, and constant turbulence. It is personal conflict related to the desire to impact positive patient and staff outcomes--to make a difference, while feeling that they fall short of the organization's and their own personal expectations. Theoretical implications related to Quantum theory, Emotional Intelligence, and Roger's Science of Unitary Human Beings are discussed in order to highlight current theoretical literature pertinent to the nurse manager's experience of feeling overwhelmed. Implications for research, practice, and education are discussed as facility leadership considers the experiences of this group of nurse managers. This study will better inform hospital administrators, nursing leadership, and staff nurses of the lived experience of this group of nurse managers.
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Lefranc, Elisabeth. "Le management de l'experience client : au-delà des enquêtes satisfaction, la mesure de l'expérience vécue." Phd thesis, Conservatoire national des arts et metiers - CNAM, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00880325.
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L'objet de cette thèse est d'apporter une contribution à la fois théorique et opérationnelle concernant la mesure de l'expérience vécue comme élément clé d'un véritable management de l'expérience client.Partant de la pratique, la démarche prend appui sur des recherches provenant de différents champs disciplinaires : économie et gestion des services, qualité, stratégie, marketing, management de la performance et apprentissage organisationnel.Nous proposons un modèle du management de l'expérience client comportant quatre dimensions en interaction : l'expérience voulue (par les dirigeants), l'expérience attendue (par les clients), l'expérience proposée (par l'entreprise), l'expérience vécue (par les clients).Nos propositions de recherche s'intéressent à la mesure des écarts entre l'expérience vécue et les autres dimensions. L'enjeu ne réside pas uniquement dans une description des écarts pouvant exister entre les objectifs fixés renvoyant à la théorie professée en matière d'expérience client (e.g. quelle expérience souhaite-t-on faire vivre aux clients ?) et la perception par les clients des réalisations renvoyant à la théorie d'usage de l'entreprise (e.g. quelle est l'expérience réellement proposée et comment celle-ci est-elle perçue par les clients ?). Il s'agit aussi d'analyser comment les entreprises peuvent réduire les écarts en s'engageant dans une démarche d'apprentissage organisationnel conduisant à un management de l'expérience client réussi.
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Preibisch, Kerry. "Rural livelihoods, gender and economic restructuring in Mexico : lived realities of neoliberalism (1988-2000)." Thesis, University of Reading, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343170.
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Young, Tracey Anne. "Measuring uncertainty in economic evaluations : a case study in liver transplantation." Thesis, Brunel University, 2006. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4822.
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It is important to account for all sources of uncertainty when evaluating the clinical or cost-effectiveness of health care technologies. Therefore, this thesis takes as its basis a cost-effectiveness study in liver transplantation and identifies two previously unexplored issues that can arise in clinical and cost-effectiveness studies. A literature review of studies evaluating the effectiveness, costs or cost-effectiveness of solid organ transplantation confirmed that these issues were important and relevant to other transplantation studies. The first issue concerns the selection of an appropriate method for estimating mean study costs in the presence of incomplete (censored) data. Twelve techniques were identified and their accuracy was compared across artificially created mechanisms and levels of censoring. Lin's method with known cost histories and short interval lengths is recommended for accurately estimating mean costs and their uncertainty. It is assumed that these findings are generalisable to any solid organ transplant study where censoring is an issue. The second issue explored in this thesis relates to methods for measuring uncertainty around survival, HRQL and cost estimates derived from prognostic models in the absence of observed data. Probabilistic sensitivity analysis is recommended for measuring prognostic model parameter uncertainty and estimating individual patient outcomes and their uncertainties, as it is able to incorporate the additional uncertainty from using prognostic models to estimate control group outcomes. This thesis shows the quantitative importance of these issues and the methodological guidance offered should enable decision makers to have more confidence in clinical and cost-effectiveness estimates. Providing decision makers with a fuller estimate of the uncertainty around clinical and cost effectiveness estimates will aid them in decisions about the necessity of conducting further research in to the clinical or cost-effectiveness of health care technologies.
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Soeiro, Susana Teixeira. "The determinants of attendance in live football: the Portuguese League." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/10816.
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Mestrado em EconomiaO declínio das assistências em jogos da Liga Portuguesa de Futebol, tornou-se recentemente o foco de muita preocupação. Uma análise econométrica da procura para o futebol é apresentada, usando dados das assistências médias por jogo e jornada para as épocas 2006 até 2012 e 2006 até 2011, respectivamente. Verifica-se que o rendimento tem um efeito positivo. Entre outras variáveis de importância que explicam a procura estão o derby, os derbies regionais e a incerteza do resultado. O cálculo da elasticidade rendimento da procura mostrando que o futebol português é um bem de luxo.
Declining attendance at Portuguese Football League match recently have become the focus of much concern. An econometric analysis of the demand for football is presented, using average attendance per match and per fixture data for the seasons 2006 to 2012 and 2006 to 2011, respectively. It is found that increases in real income a positive impact. Amongst other variables of importance in explaining demand are the derby, the regional derby and uncertainty of outcome. Elasticity of demand are calculates and it is shown that Portuguese Football is a luxury good.
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Undurraga, Riesco Raimundo. "The economic lives of the slums in Latin America : a first approach." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2010. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/144636.
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Thesis for the Degree of Master in Public PolicyThe high level of informality of slum dwellers puts them in a “black box”, where policy makers cannot access with certainty information about the effectiveness of their actions. This paper examines the economic lives of slum dwellers in Latin America. Using case studies of El Salvador, Chile and Uruguay, we inspect the socioeconomic characteristics and opportunities of slum dwellers in comparison with the situations of the poor in each country. We found that while slum dwellers on average present poorer housing conditions than the poor, they are richer and have better job opportunities. However, the slum heterogeneity presented in terms of poverty and informality is a challenge for a more comprehensive, targeted and coordinated public policy for social inclusion.
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Klaiber, Julia Beth. "Affordable live/work housing for artists in urban economic development planning." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1413371285.
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Kozlowska, Olga. "The lived experience of economic migration in the narratives of migrants from post-communist Poland to Britain." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/122520.
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This thesis examines the lived experience of economic migration of young and degree level educated migrants from Poland to Britain. The main aim is to explore how the participants of economic migration within the borders of the European Union experience migrating. The special feature of this migration is the fact that they leave a postcommunist country and come to a country with a well established capitalist economy and long-standing democracy. The particular questions are: how these migrants construct their experience of migrating, are they faced with any problems while doing it, and if so - how do they resolve them? The data comes from twenty-two semi-structured interviews with migrants educated to degree level who were residents and worked in one of the regions of England at a professional level or below their qualifications (manual or simple clerical work). The research utilises the critical discourse analysis perspective; the data is approached with analysis focused on linguistic choices (lexical and grammatical) evident in the respondents’ statements. This kind of analysis enables observation and in-depth interpretation of the way experiences of migrating are constructed. The migrants’ narratives were full of discursive struggle while constructing their experience of migrating. Firstly, the interviewees made an effort to present their migration as rational. Secondly, they were trying to rationalise their financial needs to refute accusations of greed for money. Thirdly, the underemployed migrants justified their employment choices by distancing themselves from work below that which they were qualified for. Fourthly, the interviewees were making an attempt to withdraw from a multicultural community by constructing the negative Other. Exploring lived experience of living and working abroad reveals competitive discourses and ways of coping with ambivalence. Understanding these discursive practices requires knowledge of their beliefs and values that underpin the discourses available in the Polish postcommunist society. Overall, the narratives overflowed with dilemmas that showed this migration as more complicated on an individual level than the official discourse of free movement of people in the EU suggests. This thesis captures the migrants’ lived experience within one year after the EU enlargement; it reflects on the narratives being shaped when migrants were given the opportunity to introduce the new discourses on migration or re-think the old ones as a result of new macro-processes in the European Union. This research complements other studies exploring migrants’ voices in search of insight into what their experiences were and how they made sense out of them. However, with the methodology used, it focuses more on uncovering the struggle over arguments available to build their stories. It offers explanation to their discursive practices by analysing them against the discourses as being products of postcommunism. The study’s results may shed more light on recent processes within this group of migrants and also inform institutional policy and practice about problems affecting members of this group, reported in this thesis.
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Urbi, Berzenn D. "The lived experience of Filipino registered nurses seeking to migrate overseas." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/118572/1/Berzenn_Urbi_Thesis.pdf.
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This research engaged in a phenomenological exploration of the experiences and motivations of Filipino nurses working in the Philippines who were seeking overseas employment. The major driver for migration was associated with living out Filipino socio-cultural values that give emphasis to reciprocal relations with families. Although participants expressed their hopes for better remuneration, their desire to support family and social affiliations remained the primary focus of their intent. The study findings may inform policy makers and workforce planning and suggest a re-visiting of policy to investigate socio-cultural drivers often neglected in the discussions of Filipino nurse migration.
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Wu, Shuang. "Workers' everyday lives and the transformation of China's post-reform state-owned enterprises." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2020. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/753.
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The interweaving of China's "reform and opening-up" policy of 1978 with globalisation has shifted the landscape of Chinese economic geographies (CEGs). With influential economic, social, and ideological functions, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) vividly illustrate the multiple political economic, geographic, and socio-cultural dimensions of these changes. Regions with concentrations of SOEs have been particularly impacted. This includes North East (NE) China, which historically held the highest proportion of employment in SOEs and has witnessed the closure of many SOEs and regional decline. Explanations of these changes emphasise the structural and institutional mechanisms of reform under globalisation. I argue this extensive literature regards workers as passive factors of production and limits discussions of space and time. Drawing on scholarship on Global Production Networks (GPNs) and Assemblages, I propose a new conceptual framework that positions the everyday life of each worker at the heart of SOE transformation. My central research question is: "how are workers" everyday lives implicated in SOE transformation?" I explore this by re-reading transformation as the coming together of reform under globalisation with the lived experiences, practices, and affective encounters of workers' everyday lives. The novelty of this framework leads me to sketch three general research propositions rather than setting formal hypotheses. I address the research question and demonstrate my framework by using qualitative research methods and building grounded theory. To explore the differentiated ways in which SOEs are transforming, I studied 13 SOEs from three major cities of NE (Harbin, Changchun, and Shenyang). A three-phase research design was deployed. I completed 62 individual and 8 group interviews. To increase the reliability and replicability of the results, I triangulated data by considering in-depth interviews, public policy documents, internet forums, movies and magazines, and on-site field observation. The empirical findings are presented in three chapters which depict, respectively, the lived experiences, practices, and affective encounters of everyday life. First, I explore workers' lived experiences of social relations in the context of reform and their link to specific spatial arrangements. I characterise interdependent social relations and spatial arrangements constitute the socio-spatial formations. The next chapter further explores workers' mobile and immobile practices and the changing meanings of time and space of SOE socio-spatial formation. Third, I describe how encounters and affects give rise to intensity of feelings which reproduces practice and impacts the SOE socio-spatial formation. In a nutshell, understanding SOEs as socio-spatial formations implies that transformation is not "meted out" by a state or abstract market force but an "always already present"process of mutual constitution of lived experiences, practices, and affective encounters in everyday life. Overall, my thesis expands economic geographic knowledge by highlighting the ongoing and processual nature of space and time and, more specifically, by valorising worker agency. I reflect on implications for CEG to combine with cultural and social geographies. I conclude by calling for an ontological shift of focusing on the emergence and contingency of CEGs.
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Shuaibi, Abdulaziz Mohamed 1960. "PUT OPTIONS ON LIVE CATTLE FUTURES CONTRACTS AND ALTERNATIVE MARKETING STRATEGIES." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276487.
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The main objective of this study was to evaluate alternative marketing strategies involving options on live cattle futures contracts during the period of 1966-85. To predict the option premiums that would have occurred at various points in this period of time, the study did research on market premiums of options on live cattle futures contracts from October 30, 1984, to November 22, 1985. The research showed that actual premiums conform closely to the premiums estimated by the Black model of option pricing. The generalized stochastic dominance with absolute risk aversion function intervals is demonstrated in the study in order to make the evaluation. The results showed that under different risk preferences, the commodity options provide the dominant alternative for cattle producers. Options provided protection from losses resulting from falling cash price and in some cases raised average income of hedgers.
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Fowler, Christopher S. "From lived experience to economic models : a mixed methods analysis of competitive policies in Gioia Tauro and Genoa, Italy /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5622.
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Nawaz, Sajida. "Understanding the lives and labours of lone-mother students." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2016. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/4533/.
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This study has explored the experiences of lone mothers and their labours as lone- mother students in Higher Education and en route to accessing Higher Education. The main aim of the study was to investigate barriers and constraints in provision of support for lone mothers wishing to study in Higher Education. The importance of education for lone parents has been well documented (Fryer, 1997; Scottish Office,1998; Powney et al., 2000), and there has been a plethora of research undertaken on Higher Education. However, the connection between the lone mother and education has not received much attention; little is known about the support that is offered to lone mothers whilst accessing Higher Education. Research by the National Union of Students (NUS) (2009) has shown that in many ways the responsibilities of mothering and mothers have not been considered by educational institutions as many courses operate in a climate of assumption that most students are free from family obligations of providing care. Due to lack of empirical research undertaken in this area, this study adopted a qualitative ethnographic approach to investigate the lives of lone-mother students. Furthermore, the study was conducted by an international student from Pakistan who is a lone mother herself and whose experiences also form a part of this research. An ethnographic approach was adopted and developed, to enable a holistic understanding of the lone mothers’ experience in Higher Education and specifically in relation to their cultural background. Hence, in-depth, semi-structured interviews were opted for to collect data. The research revealed in-depth knowledge about the relationships that the lone mothers share with their children, extended family, friends and with studies. The data suggested the need for socio - economic support for lone mothers in Higher Education. The qualitative inquiry method used in this study allowed for an examination of the phenomenon of ‘lone motherhood’. The depth, range and longitudinal nature of the data allowed to see contradictions or contrasts in the data (e.g. extrinsic/intrinsic motivations), as well as changes and developments over time (anxiety/self-esteem). The iterative approach also enabled emerging theories and concepts to develop and to be tested over time (e.g. ‘modelling’, ‘utopian’ narratives). Thus, the ethnographic approach enriched the possibilities of ‘grounded’ theorising, and also improved the possibilities of extending previous studies. Thus it indicates that lone-mother students’experiences of education are complex and therefore it is argued that the study of lone- mother students should be extended to conduct further research into different aspects of lone mother students in Higher Education.
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McLennan, David. "The lived experience of inequality in post-apartheid South Africa : measuring exposure to socio-economic inequality at small area level." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:eede1ec4-62d2-4dd3-8175-29c81cb301ca.
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South Africa has undergone a remarkable political transformation since the birth of democracy in 1994, yet it remains plagued by extremely high levels of socio-economic inequality, violent crime and social unrest. Although inequality is often regarded as a major driver of many social problems, the evidence base concerning inequality in South Africa is relatively limited, consisting primarily of national level Gini coefficients or General Entropy measures based upon household income, expenditure or consumption data. In this thesis I argue that these broad national level measures say little about people's actual day-to-day lived experiences of inequality and how these individual experiences of inequality may be shaped by the local geographical areas in which people live and go about their daily lives. I construct a series of empirical measures of exposure to socio-economic inequality which reflect the socio-spatial environments in which people live. I argue that these new measures can be used as explanatory factors in the study of other social outcomes, both at an individual level (for example, individuals' attitudes) and at an area level (for example, rates of violent crime). Exposure to inequality is measured both from the perspective of the 'poor' population and the perspective of the 'non-poor' population and the measures are constructed and presented at small area level using the Datazone statistical geography. I analyse the spatial distribution of exposure to inequality and find that exposure to inequality is typically highest in urban neighbourhoods, particularly in the major metropolitan areas. I develop a measure of intensity of exposure in order to highlight areas with both high exposure and high levels of deprivation. I also present one example of how my new measures can be used to explore associations with other outcomes, specifically looking at the relationship between people's lived experience of inequality and their attitudes towards inequality and redress.
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Rengers, Merijn. "Economic lives of artists studies into careers and the labour market in the cultural sector /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2002-0729-094948/inhoud.htm.
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Byer, Gallo Beverly. "Uncle Sam doesn't live here anymore : local economic development planning for military base reuse." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64885.
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Kiely, Daniel F. "The economic lives of immigrants in Ireland : evidence from the Census of Population of Ireland, 2006." Thesis, Ulster University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.629074.
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This study addresses critical questions in relation to the factors affecting the economic lives, performance and assimilation of immigrants in Ireland. Data from the Census of Population of Ireland, 2006, is used. Three key themes are addressed: the labour market outcomes and performance of immigrants in Ireland; immigrant and gender equality in the Irish labour market; and the housing outcomes of immigrants in Ireland. Preliminary statistics show that immigrants in Ireland have favourable labour market characteristics. Utilising econometric estimation techniques, it is reported that, ceteris paribus, immigrants from NI, GB, EU 13 and USA are more likely, relative to the native population, of having occupational success (being employed in Professional, Managerial or Technical (PMT) jobs). Other immigrants report a very different labour market experience, where, positive labour market characteristics do not translate into occupational success. Others experience a structural disadvantage in the Irish labour market. All immigrants are less likely to be in self-employment, relative to natives. Education and subjects studied play a key role for immigrants' labour market integration and success. Employing equality adjusted proportions, it is reported that immigrants experience greater within group inequality than natives. This study paints the gender dimension of immigration in Ireland in a favourable light. Female immigrants do not appear to suffer from a double disadvantage in the Irish labour market.
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Collantes, Christianne France. "Gender, global economic development and intimate lives : exploring reproductive dilemmas in Metro Manila and Cavite, Philippines." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2016. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29806/.
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Galvan, Brigido. "Partially-automated live performance by Latin American musicians in two Canadian cities: Musical identity and authenticity in a globalized cultural economy." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9563.
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This ethnographic study examines the roles digital technologies (sequencers, drum machines, synthesizers, samplers, and computers) play in the musical practices of nine Latin American musicians participating in the local live music scenes of Ottawa and Montreal in the 1990s. Music has historically played a fundamental role in the construction of collective identities for Latin American musicians in the diaspora. A declining local musical economy combined with prevalent aesthetic value systems have made the use of automation in live performance an attractive and/or necessary alternative for some local Latin American musicians. The use of digital technologies, and in particular the use of automation, has particular implications for established notions of musical competence, creativity and ultimately of musical and cultural authenticity. This study looks at the notion of musical authenticity and its indelible connection with cultural, political, social and economic issues. It investigates the effects technology has on the ability of Latin American musicians to assert individual and collective identities in two of Canada's highly multicultural urban environments. As a site of social, economic and cultural struggle, exchange and interaction, the live performances of Latin American musicians are historically situated within the global/local cultural economic nexus of Canada's late twentieth-century.
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Salgado-Gálvez, M. A. "Probabilistic assessment of earthquake losses at diferent scales considering lost economic production due to premature loss of lives." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/398400.
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Muduma, Gorden. "Clinical and economic impact of immunosuppressive therapy in the treatment and management of adult renal and liver transplantation." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/621185/.
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World wide the number of people living with renal or liver transplants is growing due to the increase in prevalence of end stage renal disease and end stage liver disease which neccesitate transplantation. Life long immunosuppression is needed for transplant recipients to prevent graft rejection and or death. Whilst the immunosuppression can significantly improve patient and graft survival it comes at a cost to the healthcare services. It is therefore, important that the immunosuppression used in clinical practice is supported by both clinical and cost effectiveness evidence. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the clinical and economic impact of immunosuppression therapy in the treatment and management of adult renal and liver transplant recipients based on author's published research. Healthcare systems across the world are now placing greater importance on optimising their finite resources in demonstrating clinical and cost effectiveness of treatments. A number of health authorities such as the United Kingdom(UK), National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have implemented methodologies guiding resource allocation decisions through formal health technology assessment (HTA). Clinical and economic evidence generation and synthesis reflecting current clinical practice can help to inform HTA decisions which impacts patients access to medicines. This thesis presents and critically appraise eight peer reviewed publications to demonstrate the clinical and economic impact of immunosuppression therapy in adult renal and liver transplant recipients. Each publication updated and or contributed to new knowledge in the field. The thesis highlights how the eight publications formed a cohesive body of evidence which can be used by policy makers to inform the development and or updating of clinical and reimbursemsent guidelines which ultimately impact product adoption and patient accesss to immunosuppressive medicines. The clinical effectiveness of immunosuppression was explored through systematic literature reviews, meta-analysis and indirect treatment comparison to establish the efficacy and safety of the different interventions used in post renal and liver transplant. The outputs from the clinical effectiveness together with relevant data from other sources was used to develop economic models to assess the cost effectiveness of immunosuppression. An assessment of the budget impact of immunosuppression in post renal transplant was also examined. Based on this research prolonged release tacrolimus was shown to be clinically and economically more effective than immediate release tacrolimus the current standard of care. The thesis concluded that tacrolimus remains the cornerstone of renal and liver post transplant immunosuppression while also highlighting the strengths and limitations of the current research and making recommendations for future studies.
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Yazdanpanah, Soheyla. "Att upprätthålla livet : Om lågavlönade ensamstående mödrars försörjning i Sverige." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7762.
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This dissertation is about the experiences of low-paid single mothers in sustaining their families in Sweden in the early 2000. The investigation builds upon interviews with twenty low-paid single mothers living and working in Stockholm. Ten of the women are Swedish-born and the other ten are Iranian-born but have been residing in Sweden for several years. A majority of the Swedish-born women belong to the working class, while most of the Iranian-born mothers are from a middle class background. This study is based on an extended definition of sustenance that encompasses support for livelihood and meeting the family needs that conform to socially accepted norms. Sustenance requires incomes to cover expenses and care work. The informants sustain their families mostly from wage work. However, they also seek allowances from the social security system to buy goods and services that they combine with care work to sustain the family. The care work for younger children demands much time and physical work, while caring for older children requires more mental and emotional work. Sustenance for these mothers implies fulfilling all these demands and also to ensure that the children’s’ needs are met. Several factors influence the mothers’ sustenance. Low wages and the single responsibility for children means less money and more time devoted to care work. Few fathers take significant responsibility for their children’s sustenance. The mothers get support from their social networks, often from other women and from the welfare system. Ethnic background negatively affects sustenance for the Iranian-born mothers mostly in the form of reduced cultural and social capital. Children are the highest priority among all the families. However, the priorities may differ among the families and are connected to the mothers’ class, ethnic background and their access to cultural capital.
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Jurey, Nathan W. D. "The live-work-play district: from vision to implementation." Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13731.
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Master of Regional and Community PlanningDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Jae Hong-Kim
The concept of Live-Work-Play has grown in popularity in the field of planning, as various strands of the planning literature increasingly have highlighted the potential benefits of providing places to live, work, and play in close proximity. This study explores the theoretical foundations of the Live-Work-Play concept and discusses its effectiveness as a strategy for creating vibrant urban areas by reforming the spatial arrangement of the built environments. More specifically, the present study empirically examines how the segregation or the mixture of places to live, work, and play may create differences in terms of growth, inequality, education, the built environment, and transportation by analyzing the Boston metropolitan region as an example. The empirical analysis with the use of census tract level socio-economic data shows that the Live-Work-Play mixes can encourage more desirable travel patterns, while the mixes may not significantly promote growth in small areas. However, the analysis also revealed racial and income inequalities exist in the provision of the mixes in the Boston region. These findings suggest planners carefully should consider the equity issues when adopting the Live-Work-Play concept and providing its potential benefits.
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Knutsson, Douglas, and Jonathan Herlitz. "Med livet framför sig : En studie om hur åldern vid brottsdebuten påverkar framtidsutsikter." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-317543.
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Denna studie undersöker förhållandet mellan unga brottslingars ålder vid den första lagföringenoch deras livsutfall. Genom att använda oss av unika data från The Stockholm Birth Cohort Study(SBC) kan vi följa individerna upp till 27 års ålder i administrativa register. Detta gör det möjligtför oss att observera kriminellt beteende både för individer över och understraffmyndighetsåldern. Vi finner att personer som begår brott i tidig ålder har en signifikanthögre risk att återfalla i brott jämfört med personer där brottsdebuten sker relativt sent; såledeskan åldern vid brottsdebuten påverka individers framtidsutsikter både direkt och indirekt.This study examines the correlation between the age of individuals’ first appearance in policerecords and their outcomes in life. By using unique data from The Stockholm Birth Cohort Study(SBC) we are able to follow individuals up to the age of 27 in administrative registers. Thisenables us to observe criminal behavior for individuals both above and below the age of criminalresponsibility. We find that people engaging in crime in early ages have a significantly higherrisk of relapsing into crime compared to people with a relatively late criminal debut, thus the ageof a criminal debut directly and indirectly may affect the prospects of individuals.
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Niklewicz, Milena Sofia. "Social impact bond feasibility study APAC Portugal: enhancing ex-offenders’ lives." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/15189.
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The present study analyses whether a Social Impact Bond is a suitable tool to fund APAC Portugal’s intervention model aiming to enhance the life of former offenders and reduce recidivism rates through helping them reinsert into society upon release. While the costs of running a prison will be borne by the public sector just as any other prison, the innovative intervention model has to find another way of financing. The suitability of using a Social Impact Bond to fund this innovative intervention was tested through the building of a robust excel model representing the investment mechanism in order to test the profitability of such a measure. The results show that a Social Impact Bond could indeed fund APAC Portugal’s intervention model efficiently.
Este estudo é uma análise à eficácia de um Social Impact Bond como como instrumento financeiro no modelo de intervenção da APAC Portugal. O objetivo é o de melhorar a vida de ex-criminosos e reduzir os índices de reincidência de modo a apoiar a sua reinserção na sociedade após a libertação. Enquanto os custos de funcionamento de um estabelecimento prisional forem suportados pelo sector público, como é de lei, o modelo inovador de intervenção terá de encontrar um meio alternativo de financiamento. Sendo assim, testámos a rentabilidade de um Social Impact Bond através de um bem estruturado modelo Excel que simula o mecanismo de investimento, tendo os resultados demonstrado que um Social Impact Bond pode, de facto, financiar o modelo de intervenção da APAC Portugal de forma eficaz.
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Ramsberg, Joakim. "Are all lives of equal value? : studies on the economics of risk regulation." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Centrum för Riskforskning (CFR), 1999. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-1766.
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Barberato, Joselaine do Amaral. "Matriz nutricional da enzima fitase e a suplementação mineral e vitamínica para frangos de corte na fase final /." Ilha Solteira, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/181645.
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Orientador: Antonio Carlos de LaurentizResumo: O estudo foi realizado na UNESP – Faculdade de Engenharia – Campus de Ilha Solteira, Setor de Avicultura, tendo como objetivo analisar a retirada do suplemento mineral e vitamínico e a valorização da matriz nutricional da enzima fitase na última semana de criação de frangos de corte (42 a 49 dias), avaliando características de desempenho zootécnico (consumo de ração, ganho de peso e conversão alimentar), peso relativo do fígado e do pâncreas, parâmetros sanguíneos e análise da viabilidade econômica. Foram utilizadas 400 aves da linhagem Coob® (lote sexado - machos) criados de 42 a 49 dias, distribuídas em um delineamento inteiramente casualizado, em um esquema fatorial 2x2 (com e sem suplemento mineral e vitamínico e com e sem a inclusão de enzima fitase), totalizando quatro tratamentos com cinco repetições de 20 aves por tratamento. Nas rações formuladas com a inclusão da enzima fitase (1000 FTU), sua matriz nutricional estimada foi considerada. Os dados foram submetidos à análise de variância e quando ocorreu efeito significativo para os valores avariados as médias foram comparadas pelo teste SNK a 5% de probabilidade. Baseado nos resultados de desempenho zootécnico, pode-se recomendar a retirada do suplemento e a valorização da matriz nutricional da enzima fitase.
Abstract: The objective of this study was to analyze the withdrawal of the mineral and vitamin supplement and the valorization of the nutritional matrix of the enzyme phytase in the last week of broiler breeding (UNESP - Faculdade de Engenharia - Campus de Ilha Solteira, Poultry Sector). 42 to 49 days), evaluating characteristics of zootechnical performance (feed intake, weight gain and feed conversion), relative liver and pancreatic weight, blood parameters and economic viability analysis. A total of 400 birds of the Coob ® lineage (male - batch) were harvested from 42 to 49 days, distributed in a completely randomized design, in a 2x2 factorial scheme (with and without mineral and vitamin supplementation and with and without the inclusion of phytase enzyme ), totaling four treatments with five replicates of 20 birds per treatment. In the diets formulated with the inclusion of the enzyme phytase (1000 FTU), its estimated nutritional matrix was considered. The data were submitted to analysis of variance and when there was a significant effect for the faulty values the means were compared by the SNK test at 5% probability. Based on the results of zootechnical performance, we can recommend the withdrawal of the supplement and the valorization of the nutritional matrix of the enzyme phytase.
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Good, Shirley A. "A consciousness of their own? : class, 'race' and gender in the lives of white working-class women in post-war Birmingham (1945-1990)." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341694.
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Majumdar, Adrian. "An economic analysis of three live issues in competition policy : waterbed effects, benign fidelity rebates, and harmful vertical mergers." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539373.
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Mowery, Molly Anne. "Wildfire and development : why stronger links to land-use planning are needed to save lives, protect property, and minimize economic risk." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44338.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-50).
Exploding growth along the Colorado Front Range has expanded the wildland-urban interface-the area where homes and vegetation mix. This area, known as the WUI, is at high risk of wildfires. Wildfire risk is based on both natural conditions, such as invasive species and climate change, and human development decisions that allow continued growth in fire-prone areas. This thesis examines the approaches to wildfire risk mitigation taken by six counties along the Front Range. I argue that these mitigation approaches are effective but do not tackle important aspects of the wildfire problem, including who pays and how risks continue to increase. Counties should minimize development in the WUI by adopting strong policies that incorporate the full costs of fire protection into local jurisdictional budgets and address growth management in the WUI. This requires a greater incorporation of the land-use planning process into decisions that put people and property at risk to wildfire.
by Molly Anne Mowery.
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Nisa, Claudia F., Jocelyn J. Bélanger, Daiane G. Faller, Nicholas R. Buttrick, Jochen O. Mierau, Maura M. K. Austin, Birga M. Schumpe, et al. "Lives versus Livelihoods? Perceived economic risk has a stronger association with support for COVID-19 preventive measures than perceived health risk." Nature Research, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/657340.
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This paper examines whether compliance with COVID-19 mitigation measures is motivated by wanting to save lives or save the economy (or both), and which implications this carries to fight the pandemic. National representative samples were collected from 24 countries (N = 25,435). The main predictors were (1) perceived risk to contract coronavirus, (2) perceived risk to suffer economic losses due to coronavirus, and (3) their interaction effect. Individual and country-level variables were added as covariates in multilevel regression models. We examined compliance with various preventive health behaviors and support for strict containment policies. Results show that perceived economic risk consistently predicted mitigation behavior and policy support—and its effects were positive. Perceived health risk had mixed effects. Only two significant interactions between health and economic risk were identified—both positive.New York University Abu Dhabi
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Anderson, Helen O. "Migration and economic integration : the impact of the implementation of Canada's Federal Skilled Worker's Program on the lived experiences of highly skilled visible minority : rhetoric and realities." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/91078/.
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In this study, I utilise a race-based methodology through the lens of critical race theory, to interrogate the lived experiences of highly skilled visible minorities who are recently "landed"1 immigrants to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I also employ critical discourse analysis to scrutinise the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) 2001 in its many guises to expose and challenge the hidden ideology behind its language, and text. This study highlights the interface of skilled immigration, racialisation, foreign education and economic integration. The argument is made that systematic discrimination rooted in historical and structural perception of visible minorities2 as the “Other”, and the normativation of racialisation (past and present), is a contributory factor in employers’, institutions and licensing associations’ devaluation of foreign credential and international work experiences. During this qualitative race based research, I undertook several in-depth semi structured interviews of highly skilled visible minority immigrants. A combined narrative/life history inquiry approach shaped the resultant data gathering and enables the voices of the participants to be heard. The life history approach allowed the study participants to discuss not only themselves, and their lives, but also the social, economic and political spaces that they inhabit, thus communicate how structure and agency intersect to produce the circumstances of their lives. This study uses life history narratives to map their migratory and immigration process before, during and after their arrival in Canada. The Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP) of Canada is based on the embodied human capital of migrants. Canada actively recruits immigrants with the rhetoric that Canada needs their skills. Over half of Canada’s annual immigrants enter as Highly Skilled through the Economic Classes Part Six Regulation of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act 2001. Many immigrants, particularly visible minorities, find their skills, education and prior professional experiences undervalued. Upon arrival, these immigrants encounter a variety of credential assessments and qualifying examinations; these are varied depending on the province they have chosen to call their new home. Frequently, these skilled immigrants find that access to professions and trades are barred through unregulated licensing and registration requirement, institutional biases, perceived fluency of language as well as the subjective and oft requested but elusive, ‘Canadian experience’. The work documents and examines the institutional, political, ideological, social and economic obstacles encountered by the research participants through the implementation of the Federal Skilled Workers program, and how they have had to adapt to the circumstance they find themselves in. The study agrees with Gillborn, (2005), that " the most dangerous form of 'white supremacy' is not the obvious and extreme fascistic posturing of small neo-Nazi groups, but rather the implicit routine privileging of white interests that goes unremarked in the political mainstream" (p.485). This research also makes uses of critical discourse analysis to dissect policy rhetoric and jargon. Its aim is to discover the truth behind Canada’s expansive, supposedly colour-blind, meritocratic skilled immigration policy, bolstered by participants’ own words as spoken. The study offers a number of suggestions to overcome/mitigate these barriers in general and for visible minorities in particular.
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Dureau, Christine May. "Mixed blessings Christianity and history in women's lives on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/71278.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Macquarie University, School of Behavioural Sciences, 1994.Bibliography: leaves 357-378.
Introduction -- MANDEGUSU -- Totoso kame rane - time long ago -- Totoso rodomo - time of darkness -- EDDYSTONE ISLAND -- Tataviti bule - pacification -- Totoso taqalo - time of light/cleanliness -- SIMBO -- Tinoa - lives -- Koburu - child -- Tinana - mother -- Vinarialava - marriage -- Rereko iviva - significant woman -- Qoele, tomate - aged woman, ancestor.
This thesis considers the ethnographic history of Simbo, a small island in the western Solomon Islands. The particular focus is upon the significance of conversion to Christianity and subsequent Christian practice, in shaping social and cultural issues and practices in the 1990s. Women's lives, in particular those aspects concerned with kinship, are the lens through which historical changes are viewed. By juxtaposing the structures suggested by indigenous lifecycle categories and the differentiation inherent in individual biographical material, I try to reflect the regularities and continuities within Simbo society as well as the variability and unpredictability of sociality at any given moment. At the same time, the mutability of structure is reflected in the transformed significance of institutions and ostensibly similar practices. -- The period under scrutiny is that between c. 1900-1990, which covers social practices and events from immediately prior to pacification and the Methodist Mission's establishment in the New Georgia Group in 1902 up until the present. I argue that since pacification, the progressive development of indigenous Christianity has been the major determinant of Simbo responses to the world system. This is not to argue that pacification represented the first intrusion of Europe or the beginning of social transformations. Constructions of indigenous societies as having been static entities before contact with Europe are critiqued. Pacification, after more than a century of contact with Europe, had revolutionary implications because of its significance from local worldviews, as much as for its demonstration of British political "legitimacy". -- Christianity, then, cannot be divorced from the reality of political and economic subordination throughout the twentieth century. Nor, however, can it be simpHstically treated as merely the ideological face of expanding capitalism. Following J. Comaroff and J.L. Comaroff, I treat the non-material aspects of social life as being as significant as the material. From its earliest days, the Methodist Mission both facilitated and hampered the interests of government and traders. But it is not only mission personnel who are important here. Simbo people have consistently shaped and deployed their own Christian frameworks. If they never resisted it, they have certainly transformed what was imposed on them ninety years ago from ideology to lived hegemony.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Becovic, Ana, and Kerstin Olsson. ""Livet är för mjukt för att stämma med tarifferna..." : En studie av hur ungdomar och barnfamiljer med ekonomiskt bistånd upplever sin situation." Thesis, University of Kalmar, University of Kalmar, University of Kalmar, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-1325.
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Title: The life is too soft to accord in to tariffs: an essay about youth and families with children who are recipients of economic support, their experience of their financial situation and the reception towards the social welfare.
Author: Ana Becovic & Kerstin Olsson Supervisor: Erik Wesser
Institution: Humanvetenskapliga institutionen, Högskolan i Kalmar
Type of Essay: Degree project, 15 ECTS Date: December 2008
The aim for our study has been to examine how youth and families who are recipients of economic support on long term basis experience their contact with social welfare. The starting point for the question at issue has been the client's experience of their financial situation the reception and expectations towards the social welfare.
In our B-level study we carried out qualitative interviews with social welfare officers to find out how they applied the "child perspective" in granting financial support and to what extent they felt that they succeeded in meeting the need of the client. The conclusion was that there is still room for improvement in this field and particularly a wish to focus more on the child's situation and development. The officers told us that they tried to pay closer attention to the child's situation through asking about the children and by visiting the families at home.
They expressed awareness of the importance to a child's well being the financial situation of their family. They also expressed the need for the child to be able to take part in leisure time activities and having an active social life.
In this study our research method is based on qualitative interviews. Our questionnaires where handed out to social welfare officers and workers in an organization aiming their work at vulnerable youth. The target group is the parents of younger/older children and young adults between 18 - 25 years. The result of our interviews has been analyzed in relation to earlier research and relevant theories. Final conclusion; the target group expresses a positive experience of their contact with social services. It became clear that the experience varied depending on which handling officer one met. An interesting point is how different the youngsters and their parents reason around needs and expectations.
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Mason, Nicholas Scott. "The asset lives of plastic pipes : technical and economic factors affecting the in-service life of pressurised polymer pipes in the water industry." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/8218.
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Chrysochou, Polina. "The impact of the economic crisis in Greece on the professional lives and teaching practices of primary school teachers : a critical pedagogy approach." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2018. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/703814/.
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This study presents a discussion of the ramifications of the economic crisis ravaging Greece since 2009 on the professional lives and the teaching practices of Greek primary school teachers. Placed in the general framework of a global attempt to reform education by making it comply with neoconservative and neoliberal directions, my thesis discusses the particular case of Greece and investigates the possibility of an international educational paradigm seeking to impose a market reasoning on school culture and create a disciplined privatised educational sector in pursuit of profit. The issue is approached through the Critical Pedagogy Approach and thus, uses Marxist analytical tools and places the whole thinking within the philosophical framework of dialectical materialism. This is an attempt to fully understand and interpret the causes and nature of the crisis, along with its impact. For this reason, a holistic approach is employed based on both empirical evidence and a coherent theoretical and philosophical framework that examines schools and education in an economic, social, political and ideological context. The analysis of the data shows that all aspects relevant to the educational process have been severely affected in terms of infrastructure, relationships, personal development and quality of teaching and learning. Due to the nature of their profession, teachers proved a rich source of data regarding all aspects of the crisis and its repercussions on themselves, their students and Greek society as a whole. The findings confirmed the initial assumption that was formulated at the beginning of this thesis, that a critical and radical approach of the crisis is needed in order to fully comprehend its real causes and unmask the attempts to implement the complete neoliberal transformation of education.
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Chrysochou, Polina. "The impact of the economic crisis in Greece on the professional lives and teaching practices of primary school teachers: A critical pedagogy approach." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2018. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/703814/1/Chrysochou_2018.pdf.
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This study presents a discussion of the ramifications of the economic crisis ravaging
Greece since 2009 on the professional lives and the teaching practices of Greek primary
school teachers. Placed in the general framework of a global attempt to reform education
by making it comply with neoconservative and neoliberal directions, my thesis discusses
the particular case of Greece and investigates the possibility of an international
educational paradigm seeking to impose a market reasoning on school culture and create
a disciplined privatised educational sector in pursuit of profit.
The issue is approached through the Critical Pedagogy Approach and thus, uses Marxist
analytical tools and places the whole thinking within the philosophical framework of
dialectical materialism. This is an attempt to fully understand and interpret the causes
and nature of the crisis, along with its impact. For this reason, a holistic approach is
employed based on both empirical evidence and a coherent theoretical and philosophical
framework that examines schools and education in an economic, social, political and
ideological context.
The analysis of the data shows that all aspects relevant to the educational process have
been severely affected in terms of infrastructure, relationships, personal development
and quality of teaching and learning. Due to the nature of their profession, teachers
proved a rich source of data regarding all aspects of the crisis and its repercussions on
themselves, their students and Greek society as a whole.
The findings confirmed the initial assumption that was formulated at the beginning of
this thesis, that a critical and radical approach of the crisis is needed in order to fully
comprehend its real causes and unmask the attempts to implement the complete
neoliberal transformation of education.
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Jones, Terence Edward. "Economically beneficial drug interactions with cyclosporin and tacroliumus : clinical studies in recipients of kidney and liver transplants." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phj79.pdf.
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Bibliography: leaves 234-257. Three separate clinical studies in organ transplant recipients are presented. The aims are to examine fundamental questions regarding the clinically and economically important pharmokinetic interaction between diltiazem and cyclosporin, an interaction widely utilised in organ transplantation. The data contained should assist the development of soundly based policies that will ensure a benefit exists before a sparing agent is coprescribed, and that the lowest effective dose of sparing agent is used.
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Smallwood, Amy Lynn. "Shore Wives: The Lives of British Naval Officers’ Wives and Widows, 1750-1815." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1216915735.
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O'Driscoll, Catherine T. "A study to determine the quality of life and experiences for liver and kidney transplant recipients and living kidney donors in Western Australia : the economic implications." University of Western Australia. School of Surgery, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0077.
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The use of quality-of-life as an outcome measure provides detailed information about the effectiveness of medical treatments than morbidity or mortality rates alone. The use of quality-of-life data in the clinical setting can inform patients regarding treatment options, treatment benefits and costs. In competing health care markets, outcome measurement is regarded as important as it is concerned with the impact of health care practice and affects health policy decisions. Doessel (1978) conducted the first Australian study on the cost-effectiveness analysis of renal replacement therapies. The study was based on Klarman, Francis & Rosenthal's (1968) the study, where the output was measured in terms of the number of life years gained from kidney transplantation, and a twenty-five percent weight was allocated in an attempt to capture quality-of-life from kidney transplantation. Doessel (1978) used two sources of data: Australian data (Disney 1974) and European data (Gurland et al. 1973; Shiel et al. 1974). The study measured life years gained, and agreed with the Klarman et al. (1974) findings that transplantation is the most effective way to increase life expectancy of persons with chronic renal disease (Butler & Doessel 1989). The outputs of the alternative treatments were not reported in monetary terms; the study focused on life years gained as the output measure. Hence the importance of this current study, which includes a cost-effectiveness analysis for cadaver liver, and living kidney transplantation for end-stage liver and kidney disease patients. Calls to respect patient autonomy and to produce patient-centered outcomes have recently brought the patients point of view back into the center of clinical medicine (Sullivan 2003). Survival rates indicate one measure of outcome however they do not reflect patients perceptions of health benefit or experiences. Noting that patients psychosocial effect on functioning is of more concern to them than their physical Thesis Preamble iii ability, that more accurate knowledge of patients conditions be measured prior to transplantation (Tarter et al. 1991). Recently researchers advocated investigating transplant patients' states of health to assess the social benefit of these expensive health care services from their perspective (Joralemon & Fujinaga 1997). The current study's mixed method, bridges the gaps in treatment outcome measurements, as the mixed method applied (Creswell 1994; Sim & Sharp 1998) prospectively measured quality-oflife, determined health utility, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs). The study reported the living donors experience of the donation process, described their needs; expressed using a new psychosocial model supporting future living kidney donor's during the donation process.
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Rolle-Cargill, Darlene. "An exploratory study on the impact of social and economic risk factors on the lives of persons living and working with HIV/AIDS in the Bahamas." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2009. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/77.
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This mixed method study explored the social and economic risk factors for 70 persons living and working with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) (PLWHAs) in The Bahamas. The study examined the impact of stigma, unemployment, and family interactions on the lives of PLWHAs. A 66-item questionnaire and five structured interviews capture PLWHAs perceptions of their experiences as persons living with HIV/AIDS in The Bahamas. The study utilized thematic, content analysis and descriptive statistics to analysis the data. The study results are as followed: perceived stigma negatively affects disclosure in the work place; PLWHAs experienced economic changes due to unemployment; the effectiveness of PANCAP workplace policies were undetermined base on the study results; families of PLWHAs are struggling to remain intact; and HIV/AIDS education was not successful in changing their sexual behaviors. The implications for policies, social work practice, curriculum, and HIV education was defined based on the study on the study results. Subsequently, recommendations were made for a culturally appropriate approach to the training of practitioners and HIV preventative messages. Finally, it promotes the development of holistic programs that are effective and empowering to women. The programs must be grounded in a broad social context that embraces both genders.
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Campbell, Robert. "Understanding and disrupting institutional settings : using networks of conversations to re-imagine future farming lives." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2013. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/603.
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Farmers in Australia and elsewhere face the challenge of remaining profitable whilst dealing with adverse structural arrangements and public expectations to better manage environmental degradation. This thesis draws on arguments that dominant paradigms in agricultural science and environmental management have often been ineffective in addressing these apparently competing demands and appear poorly suited to ‘messy’ situations characterized by uncertainty and complexity, and in which diverse stakeholders are motivated by varying goals and values. Engaging with such situations requires a philosophy and methodology that accepts a multiplicity of perspectives and which seeks to learn about and reflect upon novel ways of thinking and acting. Among the underlying ideas that have shaped this project is the importance of recognising the assumptions and commitments that researchers bring to their practice in order that traditions are not uncritically reproduced and that the products of our thinking are not reified. Regarding farming as less a set of technical practices and more as a human activity taking place within broader economic, social, cultural and ecological contexts, I sought to engage a group of farmers in southern Western Australia in a process of taking action to address an issue of common concern that would help them to live and farm well in their district. My role as both researcher and facilitator of conversations was driven by a commitment to dialogue as a process of meaning making and relationship building. Together we explored some of the broader contexts within which the narrower conceptions of economic and ecological problems are often uncritically placed. Taking concrete action together however proved beyond the scope of my research. The challenge of feeding ourselves while better caring for the land and each other will require imaginative as well as technical resources. To this end I have also sought to sketch out some of the creative possibilities contained within the health metaphor as it is applied to soil, arguing that its use as a proxy for quality or condition fails to utilize its disruptive potential.
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Rufino, Leonardo Lopes. "PHARMACIES LIVE : The context of the use of medicinal plants and herbal medicines through social actors in Fortaleza." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2015. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=15189.
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nÃo hÃThe practice of Living Pharmacies (FVs) in Fortaleza precedes Phytotherapy Deployment Policy in Public Health in the state of CearÃ, Decree No. 30016 of December 30, 2009. Conceived by Professor Francisco Josà Matos, the FVs make up the practices complementary integrative, anchored in the Municipal Public Policy and National Medicinal Plants and Herbal medicines. To understand how this municipal public policy within living pharmacy emerged and structure, and social actors see this public policy, there was the use of historical methods of the timeline, an analysis of questionnaires given to social actors managers FVs and another questionnaire for implementers of public policy. As the questionnaires analytical tool, we used descriptive statistics and an approach of discourse analysis. Was obtained, so that two timelines Public Policy of Medicinal Plants and Herbal medicines: one at the state level and the other nacional. Uma type of medicinal and herbal plant production system for FVs the city of Fortaleza showing steps production and its social actors involved for each PV. And the perception of social actors involved in FVs, as to feel motivated, pelapolÃtica benefit of FV in Fortaleza. Thus, the timelines of public policy in question showed that there is a cause and effect relationship in the emergence of a public policy; whereas the types of FVs allowed to observe how each one works before the public policy and its adaptations. Finally, there was sea perception of social actors as sesentirem be motivated, beneficiadospela FV policy in Fortaleza, which showed satisfactory levels.
A prÃtica das FarmÃcias Vivas (FVs) no MunicÃpio de Fortaleza precede a PolÃtica de ImplantaÃÃo da Fitoterapia em SaÃde PÃblica no Estado do CearÃ, Decreto N 30.016 de 30 de dezembro de 2009. Idealizada pelo professor Francisco Josà Matos, as FVs compÃem as praticas integrativas complementares, ancoradas na PolÃtica PÃblica Municipal e Nacional de Plantas Medicinais e FitoterÃpicos. Para compreender como essa polÃtica pÃblica municipal no Ãmbito farmÃcia viva surgiu e se estrutura, e como os atores sociais veem essa polÃtica pÃblica, fez-se do uso de metodologias histÃricas da linha do tempo, uma analise dos questionÃrios aplicados aos atores sociais gestores das FVs e outro questionÃrio destinado aos executores da polÃtica pÃblica. Como instrumento de anÃlise dos questionÃrios,empregou-se a estatÃstica descritiva e uma aproximaÃÃo da anÃlise do discurso. Obteve-se, assim, duas linhas do tempo da PolÃtica PÃblica de Plantas Medicinais e FitoterÃpicos: uma em Ãmbito estadual e a outra nacional.Uma tipologia de sistema de produÃÃo de plantas medicinal e fitoterÃpica para as FVs do MunicÃpio de Fortaleza mostrando as etapas de produÃÃo e seus atores sociais envolvidos para cada FV. E a percepÃÃo dos atores sociais envolvidos nas FVs, quanto a se sentirem-se motivados, beneficiados pelapolÃtica da FV em Fortaleza. Dessa forma, as linhas de tempo da polÃtica pÃblica em questÃo demonstraram que hà uma relaÃÃo de causa e efeito no surgimento de uma polÃtica pÃblica; ao passo que as tipologias das FVs permitiu observar como cada uma funciona perante à polÃtica pÃblica e suas adaptaÃÃes. Por ultimo,observou-sea percepÃÃo dos atores sociais quanto a sesentirem-se motivados, beneficiadospela polÃtica da FV em Fortaleza, que apresentou Ãndices satisfatÃrios.
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Banse, Frauke [Verfasser]. "Wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing? : Gewerkschaften in Ghana und Benin, die Förderung der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung und die Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) / Frauke Banse." Kassel : Kassel University Press, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1188345095/34.
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Babu, Theodore Duncan. "Marketing to the emerging black middle class in South Africa : an in-depth exploration of the lives of young black professional women." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97301.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The emerging black middle class in South Africa provides immense opportunity for marketers who wish to capture this segment of the market. However, in order to be relevant, a deep understanding of this ever-evolving segment is absolutely necessary. Characterised by complexity, the black middle class is heterogeneous and evolves at rapid speed. Studies by the Unilever Institute of Strategic Marketing highlighted the immense value of black middle class women, coined Black Diamond™ women. The primary objective of this research was to gain insights into the life of young black professional women and, secondly, to understand the driving forces behind their decision-making. This was achieved through an in-depth exploratory study. The first step in this study was to conduct a literature review on the black middle class in various African countries and the black middle class in South Africa. A review of literature on marketing communication provided the basis for reasoning on the appropriateness of different marketing communication tools. Literature also revealed the emergence of a possible new consumer type, the hybrid consumer. The literature review provided the framework for designing the interview schedules used in the expert interviews and interviews with the Black Diamond™ women. The findings of this research assignment were that the modern black middle class women face many complexities in their daily lives. Brands can, therefore, be significant to them by supporting them in their lives. Brands should customise their offerings, meet the black middle class women in innovative ways at different touch points, and bring meaning in their lives. Brands should also know that culture is prominent in all areas of their lives, which presents unique challenges.
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Stone, Meredith K. "Decor-racial: Defining and Understanding Street Art as it Relates to Racial Justice in Baltimore, Maryland." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1493746701891506.
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van, der Burgt Danielle. ""Där man bor tycker man det är bra" : Barns geografier i en segregerad stadsmiljö." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Social and Economic Geography, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7414.
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Because of the socioeconomic and ethnic segregation in many Swedish towns, residents with different social backgrounds are often living in separate neighbourhoods. This thesis focuses on children aged between 11 and 14 and explores the spatial extent of their social networks, their spatial mobility and spatial representations. By studying these aspects of children’s daily lives the study attempts to contribute to a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms behind neighbourhood effects.
The spatial extension of the daily lives of children in seven adjacent neighbourhoods in a medium sized Swedish town is mapped. By using children’s activity diaries, surveys with parents and children’s maps the study explores to which extent children with different personal characteristics and from different neighbourhoods have friends outside their own neighbourhoods, where they spend time and what kind of activities they engage in and with whom. The study shows that the possibility to get their own direct experience of other neighbourhoods differs between groups of children, much depending on the geographical extension of their social networks, which in turn appears mainly to be a consequence of school reception areas and, indirectly, school popularity.
By using children’s maps and group interviews children’s perspectives of their own and other neighbourhoods are analysed. The thesis illustrates how children feel about and discuss their own neighbourhoods and other neighbourhoods in town. The children in the study emphasize their own neighbourhood as a good and quiet neighbourhood, irrespective of the neighbourhood’s character and status. One of the neighbourhoods is stigmatised in the public discourse. Among the children there is a living debate in relation to this neighbourhood. In group interviews the children sometimes confirm, sometimes critically question the rumours about this neighbourhood. The children which live in this neighbourhood are aware of the bad reputation and also act and react upon it
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Tsarwe, Stanley Zvinaiye. ""Too tired to speak?": investigating the reception of Radio Grahamstown's Lunchtime Live show as a means of linking local communities to power." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002943.
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This study sets out to investigate Lunchtime Live, a twice-weekly, one-hour long current affairs show broadcast on a small community radio station, Radio Grahamstown, to understand its role in the local public sphere, and its value in helping civil society’s understanding of and involvement in the power structures and political activities in Grahamstown. Lunchtime Live seeks to cultivate a collective identity and promote public participation in the public affairs of Grahamstown. As a key avenue of investigation, this study seeks to test theory against practice, by evaluating Lunchtime Live’s aspirations against the audiences’ perception of it. This investigation uses qualitative content analysis of selected episodes of recorded transcripts of the shows that aired between August 2010 and March 2011, together with the audiences’ verbalised experiences of this programme through focus group discussions. The study principally uses qualitative research informed by reception theory. The research reveals three key findings. First, that resonance rather than resistance is the more dominant ‘stance’ or ‘attitude’ towards the content of Lunchtime Live. Residents interviewed agreed that the programme is able to give a “realistic” representation of their worldview, and thus is able to articulate issues that affect their lives. Second, that whilst the programme is helping establish links between members of the civil society as well as between civil society and their political representatives, residents feel that local democracy is failing to bring qualitative improvements to their everyday lives and that more ‘participation’ is unlikely to change this. Most respondents blame this on a lack of political will, incompetence, corruption and populist rhetoric by politicians who fail to deliver on the mantra of ‘a better life for all’ in the socioeconomic sphere. The study finds a scepticism and even cynicism that participatory media seems to be able to do little to dilute. Thirdly, in spite of the largely positive view about Lunchtime Live’s capacity to be a platform for public engagement, its participatory potential is structurally constrained by the material privations of most of its listeners. Given that in order to participate in talk shows and discussions audience members have to phone in, economic deprivation often precludes this. It is clear from this research that despite shows such as Lunchtime Live that are exploring new techniques of popular involvement, the voice of the ordinary people still struggles to be heard.