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Yavorsky, William Christian. "Addiction : disturbing fixity and mobilising ambiguity." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271272.
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Liyanapathiranage, Kanchana Nilmini. "Mobilising gig workers for better working conditions." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/235729/1/Kanchana_Liyanapathiranage_Finalthesis.docx_7th%2BOct.pdf.
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This doctoral research examines the approaches that gig workers in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland have taken to improve their working conditions by working together. The research focuses on three types of gig workers: rideshare drivers, food delivery riders, and on-demand in-home manual workers. The thesis argues that gig workers show varying levels of interest in working collectively to take action to improve their working conditions. The differences are partly explained by the ways in which they variously interpret and respond to the signals that push them to act with others.
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Mahoudeau, Alex. "The cables and the power : mobilising space, mobilising for space in the Palestinian Refugee Camps of Beirut, Lebanon (2014-2017)." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-cables-and-the-power-mobilising-space-mobilising-for-space-in-the-palestinian-refugee-camps-of-beirut-lebanon-20142017(29949d02-7374-4ee6-8042-1cc1f400ef8e).html.
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Politics in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon have been studied through a number of perspective, mostly focusing on the relation to national liberation and collective memory. The politics of materiality in the camps, and especially the urban issues, have also received some interest from research, especially after the Lebanese Civil War, but little has been said around the forms of mobilisations surrounding these issues. Relying on an interdisciplinary work situated between human geography and social movement theory, this thesis proposes to look at these questions to explore the ways in which the politics of the refugee camps have evolved in the post-Civil War period. The thesis explores the spatial structuration of the camps, defining the camps’ space as a dimension of the social, with effects on it. Drawing on the pragmatic turn in sociology, the thesis proposes a pluralist model to interaction in the camps, describing several spatially-located grammars of interactions the camp-dweller the camp-dwellers can mobilise in public interactions. These grammars of interaction structure activities of framing social problems and situations in the camps, and explain disputes on a category of spatialised social problems, the “problems of the camps”. For local activists, politicising around these problems is a way to approach politics in other ways than the “partisan” framework. With attention to their spatial anchoring, the thesis then described a number of organisations, paying attention to the resources, discourses, and modes of proof they rely on to make their actions in the camps acceptable and impose their social representations. The situations of conflict with the alleged authorities in the camps and the mundane work of these organisations are described. Finally, the effects of these phenomena on space are seen, showing how space is imbued with new meanings as these mobilisations unfold. Space is therefore seen as a factor as much as a result of social interaction.
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Umney, Charles Riou. "Managerial and mobilising internationalism in British trade unions." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.577509.
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This thesis seeks to develop a theoretical understanding of the ways in which British trade unions have sought to operate internationally as a response to political and economic globallsatton. A two-staged research process is elaborated, based initially on wide-ranging exploratory interviews and then on comparative case studies conducted in the docks and maritime sector. Through this research, two distinct types of international activity are identified, termed 'managerial internationalism' and 'mobilising internationalism'. In the former case, a distinct layer of full-time officials is tasked with administering international strategies. These strategies are generally divined from membership priorities and therefore follow highly visible political, regulatory or normative concerns. In the latter case, union leaders seek to establish member-led international networks that can mobilise against multinational employers. Managerial internationalism is argued to arise where unions possess a relatively high degree of marketplace power. Mobilising internationalism, by contrast, is more likely to arise where marketplace power is under threat. In the latter case, particular 'moments of tension' may emerge- for example where a multinational employer seeks to use its mobility to whipsaw concessions from local workplaces- which union leaders can then seek to frame as demanding an international, rather than local, response. Mobilising internationalism is therefore argued to be dependent on leader agency as well as material labour market conditions. Because it is generated by such materially-conditioned 'moments of tensions', mobilising internationalism is held to be constrained by temporal and spatial limitations. It is dependent on the emergence of specific and finite grievances to galvanise member support for mobilisation. This analysis represents a dialectical understanding of international trade unionism, in that qualitative transformations in union strategy are held to reflect shifts in the underlying balance of class power between worker and employer.
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Sobotka, Eva. "Mobilising international norms : issue-actors, Roma, and the state." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.420161.
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Snicker, Jonathan. "Cymru am byth? : mobilising Welsh identity 1979- c.1994." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3b0e9171-e3cd-4507-b65f-b189dd7677ac.
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This thesis is an attempt to document and explain the manifest changes that have been taking place in Welsh identity since 1979, and the political consequences thereof. It is presupposed that before any autonomist outbursts and other, related political changes take place in a sub-national region such as Wales, some sort of identive change has to occur. This 'identive change' is posited to take place in two stages - identity transformation followed by identity mobilisation. Central chapters deal with this process in two, non-exclusive, dimensions - institutions and individual agents. Alongside institution-building, certain policy areas are deemed to be of crucial importance in relation to the maintenance and dissemination of Welsh identity, namely education and broadcasting. In addition, the relationship between endogenous and exogenous forces affecting Welsh identity is considered in the context of civil society, political praxis, the economy and the European Union. These events are charted and analysed by means of primarily qualitative techniques which emphasise the importance of the positional and strategic confluence of individual 'gatekeepers', who are able to influence policy and, perhaps more importantly, affect the perception and reception of new ideologies and institutional exigencies.
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Taylor, Myfanwy Mary. "Contested urban economies : representing and mobilising London's diverse economy." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2017. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10040423/.
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This thesis builds on the growing interest in the diversity of urban economies as a starting point for more inclusive approaches to urban economic development by exploring the mobilisation of diverse economic actors. Its central innovation is to use the notion of economic performativity and Gibson-Graham’s notion of economic politics to open up the politics of diverse urban economies. By combining activism with research, this thesis not only reveals and explores but also contributes to and strengthens some of London’s emerging economic alliances at metropolitan level and in Tottenham and the London Legacy Development Corporation area, located within two of the ‘Opportunity Areas’ earmarked to play a special role in accommodating London’s growth. The thesis finds that the global city growth model embedded in London’s metropolitan governance arrangements was stretched to its limits under Boris Johnson’s Mayoralty. It suggests that Johnson’s use of London’s low-cost workspace as a release valve for London’s escalating housing crisis accelerated its extension into a workspace crisis. The thesis argues that while the growing pressure on workspace poses a threat to the diversity of London’s economy, it has also mobilised small businesses, industrial firms, migrant and ethnic retailers, market traders and community enterprises and their allies to challenge and develop alternatives to plans and development proposals that ignore, marginalise or threaten to displace them. Through a collaborative action research method inspired by Gibson-Graham’s work, the thesis explores the generative and unfolding process through which diverse economic actors built common ground and solidarity, shared their knowledge and experience and developed visions and propositions for alternative, more inclusive approaches to urban economic development. It reveals that the economic evidence underpinning London’s metropolitan and local plans not only plays a role in supporting dominant approaches but has also become a terrain of contestation and struggle for alternatives.
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Grobler, Rikus. "Mobilising innovation as an organisational competence in selected Namibian companies." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4388.
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Thesis (MBA (Business Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Innovasie is een van die sinvolste strategiese benaderings wat ’n organisasie kan ontgin om ’n mededingende voordeel te bekom. Ondanks wye belangstelling en volop literatuur, verstaan baie organisasies ongelukkig nog nie hoe om innoverend te wees nie. Innovasie is ‘n ingewikkelde konsep wat nie altyd behoorlik verstaan word of toegepas word nie. Hierdie navorsing verken die benutting van innovasie vir mededingende voordele deur dit ’n kernbevoegdheid van die organisasie te maak. Hierdie studie is op ‘n gevallestudie-strategie gegrond, en gebruik semigestruktureerde en ongestruktureerde individuele onderhoude, waarneming en dokumentêre ontledings om data in te samel. Drie gevallestudie-organisasies is doelspesifiek gekies uit organisasies wat in Namibië gebaseer is, en onderhoude is met twaalf mense oor die hiërargie van elke organisasie gevoer. Hierdie mense is op grond van doelgerigte en kriterium-gebaseerde steekproefneming gekies. ‘n Literatuurstudie is onderneem om vorige navorsing oor innovasie in konteks te plaas, en om ’n oorsig te kry van die huidige stand van innovasie-verwante navorsing. Literatuur oor die onderwerp van kernbevoegdhede met spesifieke verwysing na die verwantskap tussen kernbevoegdhede en strategie, en gevolglik ook innovasie as ‘n kernbevoegdheid van ‘n organisasie, is ook bestudeer. ‘n Spesifieke model vir die benutting van innovasie as ‘n organisatoriese bevoegdheid is deur die literatuurstudie geïdentifiseer. Hierdie model sluit ‘n raamwerk van sewe elemente in wat as tersaaklik beskou word vir die vestiging van ’n innovasievermoë in ‘n organisasie. Die toepaslikheid van die model ten opsigte van die gebruik daarvan om innovasie as ’n kernbevoegdheid van ’n organisasie te vestig en die tersaaklikheid van die sewe elemente vir die model is getoets teen die inligting wat in die gevallestudie-organisasies ingesamel is. Die bevindinge dui daarop dat die pragmatiese formulering en belyning van 'n organisasie se strategie, kernbevoegdhede en innoveringspraktyke tot groter mededingendheid kan lei. Daar is ook bevind dat die voorgestelde innovasievermoëmodel meriete het om innovasie as ’n kernbevoegdheid van die organisasie te vestig. Dit blyk ook dat die grootte van ‘n organisasie nie ‘n determinant is vir die toepaslikheid van die model nie. Dit kom ook voor of al sewe elemente van die raamwerk tot ’n mate tersaaklik is vir die aanwending van die innovasievermoëmodel. Die kombinasie van die elemente kan egter verskil. Daarby kan die tersaaklikheid en toepaslikheid van die elemente ook van mekaar verskil. Dit is egter noodsaaklik dat ‘n organisasie verstaan hoe die innovasievermoëmodel werk en ook dat die model by ‘n organisasie se strategie inkorporeer word om sodoende die praktyke en prosesse in plek te stel wat die elemente van die raamwerk vereis. Alle organisasies is inherent innoverend. Hierdie innoveringsvermoë moet net op die korrekte wyse benut en bestuur word – deur die innovasievermoëmodel te gebruik – om sodoende die innoveringsvermoë aan te wend tot die volle potensiaal daarvan. Organisasies moet ook in ag neem dat die doelwit om innovasie as ‘n kernbevoegdheid te vestig, is nie ‘n korttermyn ambisie nie, die organisasie moet die voldoende wil hê om innovasie ’n kernbevoegdheid van die organisasie te maak, en die hele organisasie moet hierby betrek word. Omdat hierdie studie op ‘n gevallestudie-ontwerp gegrond is, word die veralgemeenbaarheid van die bevindinge tot die drie gevallestudie-organisasies beperk. Hierdie navorsingstudie is hoogstens verkennend van aard omdat dit van beperkte steekproewe gebruik gemaak het. Verdere navorsing is nodig om dieper insig te verkry in die konsepte wat in hierdie studie behandel is, om ’n model of raamwerk te ontwikkel vir die belyning van strategie, kernbevoegdhede en innovasie, en ook om ’n praktiese en betroubare manier te vind om innovasievermoë te meet.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Abstract Innovation is one of the most significant strategic approaches an organisation can exploit to gain a competitive advantage. Unfortunately, despite broad interest and a vast literature, understanding of innovative behaviour in organisations remains relatively undeveloped. Innovation is a complicated concept that is not always well understood or applied. This study explores how innovation can be exploited for competitive benefits by making it a core competence of the organisation. This study made use of a case study strategy, utilising semi-structured and unstructured individual interviews, observation and documentary analysis to collect data. Three case study organisations were purposefully selected from Namibian-based organisations, and twelve people across the hierarchy of each organisation were interviewed, selected on the basis of purposeful and criterion-based sampling. A literature review was also conducted in order to put the past research done on innovation into context and to review the current state of affairs of innovation-related research. The literature on the topic of core competencies, with a specific focus on the connection between core competencies and strategy, and subsequently innovation as a core competence of an organisation, was also reviewed. Through the literature review a specific model for utilising innovation as an organisational competence was identified. This model included a framework of seven elements that were found to be relevant for establishing an innovation capability (IC) within an organisation. The applicability of the model in terms of utilising it to establish innovation as a core competence of an organisation, and the relevance of the seven elements to the model, were then tested against the information collected in the case study organisations. The findings suggest that the formulation and alignment of an organisation’s strategy, core competencies and innovation practices in a pragmatic way can enable an organisation to become more competitive. The proposed innovation capability model was also found to have merit in terms of utilising this model to establish innovation as a core competence of an organisation and all seven elements of the framework seemed to be relevant to some extent with regards to the deployment of the innovation capability model. The size of an organisation was found not be a determinant in order for the model to be applicable. The combination of elements can be different and the relevance and applicability of the elements can differ from each other as well. It is also imperative that an organisation properly understands how the innovation capability model works and to incorporate the model into the organisation’s strategy in order to establish the practices and processes that the elements of the model require. All organisations are inherently innovative, this innovativeness just needs to be fostered and managed in the proper manner – through the innovation capability model – in order to exploit innovation to its fullest potential. Organisations must also realise that the pursuit of establishing innovation as a core competence is not a short-term ambition and the organisation need to have the proper intent to establish innovation as a core competence and this intent must be shared by the whole organisation. As the study employed a case study design, the generalisability of the findings is limited to the three case study organisations. This research study is, at best, an explorative one, as it used limited samples. Further research is necessary to gain more in-depth insights on the concepts discussed in the research study in order to develop a model or framework for aligning strategy, core competence and innovation and also to find a practical and reliable way of measuring innovation capability.
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Sanders, Paul Michael. "Mechanism of action of a tumour derived lipid mobilising factor." Thesis, Aston University, 2003. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/11005/.
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Cancer cachexia comprises unintentional and debilitating weight loss associated with certain tumour types. Fat loss in cachexia is mediated by a 43kDa Lipid Mobilising Factor (LMF) sharing homology with endogenous Zinc-a2-Glycoprotein (ZAG). LMF and ZAG induced significant lipolysis in isolated epidydimal adipose tissue. This is attenuated by co-incubation with 10mM of antagonist SR59230A and partially attenuated by 25mM PD098059 (indicating b3-AR and MAPK involvement respectively). LMF/ZAG induced in vitro lipid depletion in differentiated 3T3-L1 adipocytes that seen to comprise a significant increase in lipolysis (p<0.01), with only a modest decrease in lipid synthesis (p=0.09). ZAG significantly increased in vitro protein synthesis (p<0.01) in C2C12 myotubes (without an effect on protein degradation). This increase was activated at transcription and attenuated by co-incubation with 10mM SR59230A. Proteolytic digestion of ZAG and LMF followed by sephadex G50 chromatography yielded active fragments of 6-15kDa, indication the entire molecule was not required for bioactivity. Cachexigenic MAC16 cells demonstrated significant in vitro ZAG expression over non-cachexigenic MAC13 (p<0.001). WAT and BAT excised from MAC16 mice of varying weight loss demonstrated increased ZAG expression compared to controls. Dosing of NMRI mice with s/c ZAG failed to reproduce this up-regulation, thus another cachectic factor is responsible. 0.58nM LMF conferred significant protection against hydrogen peroxide, paraquat and bleomycin-induced oxidative stress in the non-cachexigenic MAC13 cell line. This protection was attenuated by 10mM SR59230A indicating a b3-AR mediated effect. In addition, 0.58nM LMF significantly up regulated UCP2 expression (p<0.001), (a mitochondrial protein implicated in the detoxification of ROS) implying this to be the mechanism by which survival was achieved. In vitro, LMF caused significant up-regulation of UCP1 in BAT and UCP2 and 3 in C2C12 myotubes. This increase in uncoupling protein expression further potentiates the negative energy balance and wasting observed in cachexia.
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Datta, Pradip Kumar. "Mobilising the basic resources in a set of labour surplus villages." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/214.
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Darbyshire, Christopher. "Governing the conduct of conduct : mobilising student subjects in nurse education." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413657.
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Brown, Richard Stephen. "Chemical tools to study NAADP, a novel calcium mobilising intracellular messenger." Thesis, University of Bath, 2004. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.425872.
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FARKAS, Lilla. "Mobilising for racial equality in Europe : Roma rights and transnational justice." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/66916.
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Defence date: 20 April 2020 (Online)Examining Board: Professor Claire Kilpatrick (EUI), Professor Bruno de Witte (EUI), Professor Colm O'Cinnedie (University College London), Professor Scott L. Cummings (University of California Los Angeles)
The thesis provides a transnational account of Roma rights activism over the last thirty years with a focus on five Central and Eastern European countries, where the majority of the European Union’s Roma live. It contributes to scholarly debate by (i) mapping ethnic/racial justice related legal opportunities; (ii) taking stock of legally focused non-governmental organisations; (iii) charting legal mobilisation in courts and enforcement agencies; (iv) presenting an alternative account of the transplantation of public interest litigation, and (v) ‘mapping the middle’ between dominant and critical narratives about the Open Society Foundations and white Europeans in the Roma rights field. Finding that international advocacy and litigation alone have been insufficient to generate social change, the thesis highlights the salience of indigenous practices. It points to the shortcomings of the elitist conception of legal mobilisation characterised by top-down, planned legal action and a focus of international NGOs. The thesis proposes to shift the limelight to the financial resources of strategic litigation, to a broad conception of collective legal action, and the necessity of investigating the role private individuals, NGOs, as well as public agencies play in promoting racial equality in general and Roma rights in particular in a transnational field. By scrutinising the ethno-political critique of Roma rights activism and pointing to its conflation with the critique of litigation - that resonates on both sides of the Atlantic - the thesis navigates between liberal internationalism and ethno-nationalism by acknowledging and celebrating organic cross-border cooperation, in other words “good transnationalism.”
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O'Sullivan, Bernard. "The new European regionalism : mobilising identity for development at the meso level." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244293.
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Lennox, Corinne. "Mobilising for group-specific norms : reshaping the international protection regime for minorities." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2009. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2191/.
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This thesis examines the agency of minority groups and their international allies in reshaping the international protection regime for national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities to include new group-specific norms. The practices of "norm entrepreneurship" by two groups, Dalits and Afro-descendants, are considered in detail and contrasted with the experiences of similar norm entrepreneurship by indigenous peoples and Roma. Dalit and Afro-descendant activists have pursued norm emergence to establish group-specific recognition, standards and mechanisms at the international level. This thesis examines three key factors that have been instrumental to this group- specific norm emergence: the establishment of strategic frames and stronger forms of transnational mobilisation by each group; the supportive engagement of international actors; and the emergence of new political opportunity structures at the international level, in particular the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR). The findings of the thesis provide insight into macro-level changes to international minority protection. By concentrating on the agency of minority groups, the thesis adds to the largely state-centred literature on minority protection. By critically assessing the role of international actors in aiding this norm entrepreneurship, the thesis helps to uncover their limitations, interests and ideational commitments. The findings contribute to norm entrepreneurship studies by considering a unique kind of transnational non-state actor, one that possesses the latent capacity for statehood. The capacity of weak nonstate actors to achieve norm emergence even without state support is demonstrated but the deep challenges they face in securing group-specific norms are exposed. On a normative level, the findings give a glimpse of how emerging norms for transnational minority groups could alter conventions of representation in international society, creating post-Westphalian forms of political community. On a policy level, the findings provide some useful inputs on how to strengthen these new forms of political community and how to enable adherence to emerging group-specific norms.
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Fox, Andrew. "Communities, institutions and flood risk : mobilising social capital to enhance community resilience." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3214.
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Over recent years, community resilience has been increasing in popularity as a topic for detailed study. During that time, academic researchers have been working to untangle the complex network of social relationships that define the concept. In parallel, some institutions have set the achievement of enhanced community resilience as a policy goal. This research has sought to assist in both areas: first, by contributing to the academic debate and second, to build a clearer understanding of how institutions can tailor policies to ensure success in their goal of enhancing community resilience. A case study approach was adopted for the research, centring on three communities in the Teign Estuary of South Devon (Newton Abbot, Teignmouth and Shaldon). All three communities were vulnerable to tidal flooding and links between the communities and institutions responsible for managing flood risk (FRM framework) were analysed. In the analysis, a specific form of social capital was studied: social capital derived from community-institution links (CISC). CISC was found to be effective in revealing links with the greatest potential to enhance the resilience of communities against flood risks. To assess resilience at the individual and community level, a maturity based model was used. The assessment found disparities between how resilience matures at the community level compared to the individual level. Specifically, resilience maturity in communities was revealed as a less linear process. As such, the case study communities were able to exhibit traits associated with low resilience maturity at the same time as exhibiting traits associated with high resilience maturity. This research concluded that the UK FRM policy framework was robust, aligning well with academic theory. However, the FRM system was revealed as being dominated by expert elites. These elites are mainly public sector based and were judged to be stifling the engagement of the private sector at the local level. To enhance their resilience, this study determined that communities need to investment in CISC, but that investment must not just be targeted at public sector FRM institutions alone, it also needs to target private sector FRM institutions.
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Abubasheer, Ayah. "The politics of mobilising piety : Islam and women in the Gaza Strip." Phd thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2021. https://doi.org/10.26199/acu.8x445.
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Despite extensive social science research on Palestine, the literature on the religious life of Palestinians is still modest, especially with respect to contemporary female piety. On 25 January 2006, the Islamic party Hamas won a decisive majority of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council. This landslide victory has drawn most media and scholarly attention to the political Islamisation programmes of Hamas. Remarkably, little research has investigated the wider diversity and more complex nature of grassroots religious activism in society. For example, no previous study, so far, has examined the growing female da’wa (piety) movement, which has become a dominant feature in the Gaza Strip.
The study presented here is the first investigation focusing specifically on the female subjects of the piety movement—the da’iyat. These are pious women activists who carry out an extensive array of Islamic da’wa classes among women who seek religious education, guidance, and advice. The main aim of this study is to explore four questions: how female pious conviction is understood and produced, how the formation of the da’iyat’s agency is facilitated and restricted, how pious agentic tensions and da’wa (un)intended consequences exist within the local socio-political power structures, and to what extent dialogical perspectives on the question of women can be achieved between pious women and secular feminists.
The literature review on Muslim women’s agency reveals a polarisation that reduces women’s agency to resistance to or compliance with male domination and Islamic traditions. My research suggests that women’s agency and the subject formation (at the level of the individual and collective) constitute a much more complex process and that the pious/feminist polarity constricts the enhancement of women’s agency, women’s rights, and gender justice. Based on an in-depth remote ethnography (a survey and mobile calls over the internet) in the Gaza Strip, this thesis provides a contextualised analysis of three agentic manifestations of women’s pious agency. In particular, this thesis goes beyond Saba Mahmood’s (2005) model of the pious subject in the Cairene women’s piety movement. It offers a detailed analysis of the multiple and contradictory aspects of the subject’s pious agency in the Gazan women’s piety movement. It also provides an important opportunity to investigate the relevance of Rachel Rinaldo’s (2013) model of pious critical agency among some Indonesian Muslim women and the scholarship of Islamic feminism to Gazan Muslim women. Significantly, the final research question situates women’s pious agency within the broader pious/feminist relationship.
Firstly, in terms of the construction of pious conviction, I argue that the da’iyat’s meanings of piety are reflected in two interconnected terms: religious duty and self-realisation. These pious meanings are shaped by various structures, institutions, and relationships at the micro, meso, and macro levels of social systems. Secondly, I present three distinct, though sometimes overlapping, models of agency for pious women: moral, political, and interpersonal. Thirdly, this research provides a detailed discussion of the data that highlight sites of tension in these three pious modes of agentic expressions. Drawing together key findings from pious and secular feminist narratives, the analysis also offers a deeper insight into the da’wa’s (un)intended consequences on reinforcing hegemonic gender norms. Finally, this project shines a light on the importance of understanding these agentic positions and consequences within the larger context of the relationship between pious women and secular feminists. The case of the Gaza Strip shows a lack of exposure or attention to the possibility of developing pious feminist, or “pious critical agency” to use Rinaldo’s words, and key obstacles to go beyond the pious/secular divide.
Overall, the analysis of the da’iyat’s subjective formation, models of female pious agency, and women’s relationships in the Gaza Strip helps not only expand our understanding and theorising of Islamic female piety, but also demonstrates more possibilities, visions, and challenges for pious/feminist women to collaborate and act upon shared interests.
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Nkrumah, Bright. "Mobilising for the realisation of the right to food in South Africa." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64629.
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The realisation of the right to food in South Africa is characterised by some stark realities. While there is social security structure and large productive agriculture sector ensuring national food security, more than 14 million South Africans are chronically hungry. Given that access to food is an important legal and political issue in South Africa, it is important to understand the various factors, which enable or hinder the state‘s effort to eradicate chronic hunger.
A major problem identified is the incoherence in government‘s policies, which on the one hand, supports the promotion of the right to food, yet, act to undermine it at the same time. This problem can be grouped under two headings. First, inadequate and fragmented food security polices, and poor implementation of these policies. Second, the exclusion of large sections of low-income groups from government‘s social protection programmes, which has negative implications for many women, men, and children who have an insufficient supply of calories. The impact of chronic hunger and malnutrition on these individuals include heightened vulnerability to illness, stunted growth among children, serious mental and physical effects among children, and in some cases death.
This thesis explores the factors that explain the limited mobilisation around the realisation of the right to food in South Africa despite widespread chronic hunger. It considered various strategies to achieve a change in policy and legislation including lobbying and litigation. The thesis further explored why South Africa, which is riddled with numerous social protests rarely experiences food protests. Social protest, as used here, consists of struggles or resistance against government actions or inactions. The thesis identified various factors that have contributed to and acted as a hindrance against food protest in various jurisdictions and examined how these factors have prevented widespread food protest in South Africa.Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Kay, Nina. "Mobilising Youth: A study of school learner mobility in Claremont, Cape Town." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7526.
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South African cities have been shaped by the country's colonial rule, followed by the era of Apartheid. During Apartheid the majority of South Africans were forced to live on the periphery of cities far away from opportunities that were found in city centres, causing stark social, economic and spatial polarisation. Since the end of Apartheid many, including planners, have been attempting to address these imbalances across the country. One of these imbalances includes access to educational opportunities. There is a clear lack of research on learner transportation within South African cities and receives very little attention in legislation and policy. Learner mobility is therefore the focus of this study and the research aims to identify barriers to learner mobility and ways in which spatial planning can respond to these barriers. Objectives of the study therefore include identifying barriers and exploring learner mobility patterns and travel experiences. To conduct the study, surveys, field observations and a spatial analysis was undertaken within a local precinct in Cape Town, namely Claremont. Surveys were distributed to learners within the area in order to gather data on learner mobility patterns. The guiding spatial plan for Claremont, the Southern District Plan was critiqued and analysed along with the findings from the surveys to identify the barriers to learner mobility and the ways in which spatial planning can respond. The research revealed that the dominance of the private motor vehicle, the inability to integrate land use and transport planning, safety while travelling and the lack of youth participation in planning are the four critical issues that need to be addressed to improve access to education across Cape Town and overcome the barriers to learner mobility. If the interface between land use and transport planning could be implemented correctly and for the right reasons, with safety and youth participation in mind, social equity, spatial equity and increased accessibility to education can become a reality. It is hoped that this research be a useful contribution to begin the shift of the South African city to one that is more inclusive of its children through the use of spatial planning and can increase learner mobility and access to education.
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Russell, Steven T. "The mode of action of a lipid mobilising factor in cancer cachexia." Thesis, Aston University, 2002. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10996/.
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Cachexia is characterised by a progressive weight loss due to depletion of both skeletal muscle and adipose tissue. The loss of adipose tissue is due to the production of a tumour-derived lipid mobilising factor (LMF), which has been shown to directly induce lipolysis in isolated epididymal murine white adipocytes. The administration of LMF to a non-tumour bearing mice produced a rapid weight loss, with a specific reduction in carcass lipid with also some redistribution of lipid with the accumulation of lipid in the liver. There was also up-regulation of uncoupling protein-1 and -2 mRNA and protein expression in brown adipose tissue, suggesting that an adaptive process occurs due to increased energy mobilisation. There was also up-regulation of UCP-2 in the livers of LMF treated mice, suggesting a protective mechanism to the build up of lipid in the livers, which would produce free radical by-products. LMF was also shown to stimulate cyclic AMP production in CHO-K1 cells transfected with human -3 adrenergic receptors and inhibited by the -3 antagonist SR59230A. LMF binding was also inhibited by SR59230A in isolated receptors. This suggests that LMF mediates its effects through a 3 adrenergic receptor. There were also changes in glucose and fatty acid uptake in LMF treated mice, which suggests metabolic changes are occurring. The study suggests that a tumour derived lipolytic factor acts through the 3 adrenoceptor producing effects on lipid mobilisation, energy expenditure and glucose metabolism.
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Wythe, Helena Fleur. "Meeting food hygiene challenges in older people : mobilising health assets for health promotion." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2016. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/25538/.
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Background: Listeriosis is a serious foodborne infection with significant rates of morbidity and mortality in the older population. The majority of food safety research has focused on food behaviour, practices and perceptions of 'risk'; isolating actions from their social and health context and historical significance. The alternative, positive and novel approach presented in this dissertation is to identify the accumulated resources, or health 'assets', that older people draw upon in daily life at home to protect themselves against foodborne illness informing future health promotion interventions. This research will also further the theoretical development of the 'asset model' and its contribution to health promotion theory and practice. Methods: There were three chronological phases to the study. Phase I: Sought to gather contextual information about the older people recruited in Phase II through the collection of socio-demographic, health and summary current food hygiene asset related data collected through a researcher completed questionnaire at i) five AgeUK lunch clubs ii) one County Council-run lunch club and iii) via a 'University of the Third Age' webpage advert across Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. Fifty respondents were recruited via self-selection (20 men, 30 women, mean age of 78.98 years (SD 8.82) mean Visual Analogue Scale of subjective health, 6.89 cm/10cm). Quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS. Phase II: Fifteen semi-structured interviews with older people selected via purposive sampling from the questionnaire cohort to seek their accounts of how food is acquired, stored and cooked and the historical events and influences that shaped these practices (7 men and 8 women, mean age 77.87 (SD 8.06) years, mean Visual Analogue Scale of subjective health, 6.62cm/10cm). Phase III: Three semi-structured interviews with sheltered housing staff in Buckinghamshire recruited via snow-ball sampling. Qualitative data were analyzed using a Grounded Theory approach with NVivo software. Results and Discussion: All of the data indicated that older people have a multiplicity of external food hygiene assets through which to acquire 'safe' and 'fresh' food. Differences in the frequency and type of external asset utilisation were identified between men and women and those reporting severe restrictions in activities of daily living recorded by the EQ5D Quality of Life tool from the questionnaire employed in Phase I. The qualitative data from Phases II and III indicated that food hygiene assets were contextdependent, many being accumulated through the life course and fulfilling non-food related purposes. A number of historically formed internal assets were also identified which served to either facilitate or hinder access to the external food hygiene assets. Members of the social network, specifically the family, were identified as being the principal food hygiene asset throughout the life course from all data sources, fulfilling the newly conceptualised role of 'foodcarers' in the lives of (older) people in a context-dependent manner. Conclusions: The cause of foodborne infections in the older population may be influenced by complex historical factors beyond specific food hygiene knowledge and practice. Current competing or allied concerns in daily life may also serve to motivate or demotivate the employment of 'safe' food hygiene practice. Strategies aimed to reduce the incidence of foodborne illness in the older population could be addressed by placing health promotion within the home setting through the mobilisation of the social network. The contextdependent nature of asset mobilisation has called in to question the validity of some sections of the asset model for use in negotiated small-scale health promotion initiatives and whether the model can serve as a coherent whole.
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Andriotis, Vasilios M. E. "Seed dormancy alleviation in Corylus avellana L. : phosphate pool and phosphate-mobilising enzymes." Thesis, University of Reading, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250719.
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Schönberger, Bianca. "Mobilising 'Etappenhelferinnen' for service with the military : gender regimes in First World War Germany." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395307.
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Whitworth, Paul. "Functional studies of the effect of lithium on calcium-mobilising receptors in the brain." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253053.
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Waldock, Victoria. "Mobilising stone : investigating relations of materiality, movement and corporality in Holocene Saharan rock-art." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:330c820b-c468-4b3b-afb2-65209cf7c8ce.
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This project investigates Saharan pastoralist rock-art (7500-3000BP), with a particular focus on the engravings of the Messak Plateau in southwest Libya. Taking an anthropological approach, the art is examined within the context of the lives of its creators - transhumant cattle-herders who occupied the plateau seasonally. Drawing from fieldwork in Libya together with data from multiple expeditions in the Sahara, the study addresses a major lacuna in Saharan research by focusing on materially constituted, as-lived dimensions at the micro scale. A fundamental but archaeologically elusive aspect of lived experience is a consideration of 'movement', both physical and esoteric. Its incorporation is central to this project, forming a multi-aspected theoretical framework and a methodological tool. Augmented by input from specialists in geomorphology, pastoralism, stone sculpting and animal behaviour, this movement-driven focus has produced a more developed picture of the Messak herder lives, advancing our understanding of these particular non-text, somatic societies. A singular contribution is the creation of a hypothetical model for small-scale, quotidian pastoralist practices, which expands upon the archaeological evidence, fleshing out details of a well-systematised form of dairy pastoralism involving controlled breeding and the processing of milk products. At the same time it is proposed that the herders' relationship with their cattle was one of partnership rather than ownership, involving trans-species empathy and a valuation of animal personhood. This viewpoint is part of a broader set of animal-human relations reflecting a cosmological order that diverges from modern, Western ontological constructs. Other significant findings include detailed information on the role and identity of the image-maker, revisionist data on the amount of effort and skill expended in carving processes, and an examination of the ways in which rock-art was used to manifest social emotional concerns. These were expressed via animal emotions portrayed in the rock-art, and also through performative, gestural markings associated with the imagery. Such expressions include apotropaic, supplicatory or other interactions involving communication with unseen powers.
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Venegas, Tatiana Rein. "Mobilising against domestic violence: women's movements in the domestic and international context of Latin America." Thesis, University of Essex, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601464.
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Women's movements are key actors for adding domestic violence against women to the public agenda and for influencing the adoption of policies that deal with it. The aim of this thesis is to determine what strategies women's movements use to obtain policies and legislation on domestic violence against women, and how they adapt these strategies according to specific political actors that are proposed to be more helpful to women's movements' attempts. It proposes that women's movements direct their mechanisms towards social, international and especially domestic political spheres. Two actors pertaining to the political sphere, women in the nationallegislarure and the women's policy agency, influence the strategies that women's movements use, the movements' chances of success, and the extent to which the movements need to interact with the other twO spherc=s. social and international. I use a '1ualirativc= small-N comparison of t four SQuth-American countries, namely Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay. The main data collection is through personal face-to-face interviews with members of women's organisations as well as '1uc=scionnaires sent to them. The findings suppon the relevance of the twO actors of the political sphere and suggest that women's movement vary their strategies according to the variant characteristics of these actors, i.e. percentage of 1 women legislators and status of women's policy agengy. It also finds that women's movements always direct mechanisms towards the society, but they increase the interaction with 'the latter, again according to the aforementioned variation. Finally, it finds that strategies directed towards the international sphere, although relevant, are used less frequently by women's organisations. The theory can be extended further to other women's issues if it incorporates some additional political and social actors, as well as to other areas beyond South America. ,
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Pankaj, Vibha. "Mobilising knowledge in public health : analysis of the functioning of the Scottish Public Health Network." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9440.
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The extent to which the knowledge mobilisation potential of public health networks is actually achieved in their functioning has not been previously studied. There are prescriptions from policy documents and from research literature as to the form networks in health should take and the way they should operate. However, there has been little research connecting the nature of the networks and the manner in which they function to their knowledge mobilising ability. Constituted in 2006, the Scottish Public Health Network (ScotPHN), which is the primary vehicle in Scotland for mobilising public health knowledge and informing policy and practice, constitutes the location for this study investigating this knowledge mobilisation and how networks function in public health. Feedback from the consultation conducted prior to the formation of ScotPHN was obtained. Interviews were conducted with the members of the ScotPHN steering group, a project group and the stakeholder group. Two ScotPHN steering group meetings were also attended by the author as an observer. The consultation feedback, transcripts of the interviews and those of steering group meetings were analysed using the constructivist version of the grounded theory approach. The process involved coding and abstracting codes to categories and themes. The emerging themes were reviewed in the light of existing literature on networks and knowledge mobilisation. These themes were then used to develop a model to understand how the network operates and consequently mobilises knowledge. The study shows that prior to its formation ScotPHN was expected to address the fragmentation of the public health workforce; significantly enhance links amongst existing public health networks; support ground level knowledge exchange amongst practitioners and significantly enhance multisectorial working. None of these expectations appear to have been met. ScotPHN has, however, managed to fill the gap left by the demise of the Scottish Needs Assessment Programme (SNAP). ScotPHN’s structure and the manner in which it is controlled lead to it being akin to a policy community rather than an issue network. The generic public health concerns of the steering group and the selective nature of the project group prevent it from functioning as an issue network. The dominance of people from the medical profession also causes a social closedness in the ScotPHN steering group. The limited multisectorial participation in its activities results in: a lack of constructionist learning; limited inclusion of the social context of knowledge; and a deficit of Mode 2 knowledge mobilisation. In the context of knowledge conversion there is some evidence of externalisation but no socialisation. ScotPHN is not a network that can be classed as a community of practice. This study highlights how health policies, which have advocated the establishment of networks, could derive considerable guidance from research into how networks actually function. With respect to the knowledge mobilisation activity of these networks the study finds that top-down and prescribed structures are unable to capture the transdisciplinarity and diverse intellectual frameworks that contribute to public health knowledge. It is seen that the hierarchical network structures can undermine the engagement of actors from the less represented sectors. Additionally the study finds that the established patterns of professional power and control further hinder multisectorial engagement.
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Nichols, Andrew. "Using organisational learning theory as a means of mobilising knowledge resources in the control of infection." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2001.
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This research investigates learning and infection control knowledge within hospitals in the United Kingdom (UK). Fundamental infection control practices are not always carried out by clinical staff caring for patients, as a result infections are transmitted (Pittet et al 2000). Failure to carry out infection control practices may reflect a division between the espoused and actual practice of clinicians (Huzzard and Ostergren 2002). This division may be contributed to by infection control teams and educationalists relying on classroom based, pedagogic teaching and failing to investigate the value of other learning theories (Courtney 1998). This study is based upon an investigation of the utility of situated learning within clinical infection control practice. The situated learning is based upon a combination of underpinning learning theories including community of practice and knowledge creation theory. The investigation consists of a discussion of the background of infection control in UK hospitals followed by a review of the literature concerning individual and organisational learning theory and learning in clinical practice. This review results in the production of a research model which combines learning theories, providing a guide for subsequent empirical research phases. A mixed methods, pluralist research methodology is produced employing qualitative and quantitative research methods. The first empiric phase of the research reveals evidence of a division between espoused and actual infection control practice, of tacit learning in practice, and of existing knowledge structures and relationships that could be further developed to facilitate and guide situated learning in practice. This evidence is used in conjunction with individual and organisational learning theory in the second empiric phase of the research in which an educational intervention employing situated learning in practice takes place. Results of this intervention study reveal improvements in infection control knowledge and practice amongst research participants indicating that situated learning, when harnessed and guided in clinical practice is able to offer a resilient means of contributing to the creation and application of knowledge within challenging learning environments.
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Pampetelalo, Jacques Kamba. "Mobilising savings for poverty alleviation in Kinshasa, Dr Congo: a case study of “Kobuakisa Karte practice’’." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4156.
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Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS)This study explores the informal saving institutions, with a particular focus on the Kobuakisa Carte practice, which is an informal financial institution that mobilizes savings for poverty reduction among low-income people in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The research investigates the extent to which the Kobuakisa Carte serves the purpose of mobilizing savings for poverty alleviation. It is hypothesized that Kobuakisa Carte influences informal savings, enables the poor to satisfy their basic material needs, reduces poverty and consequently leads to individual empowerment and development. This study integrated the case study methodology in its research design. It applied both qualitative and quantitative methods. The qualitative research data comprised document analysis, interviews with Kobuakisa Carte’s clients and officers. In addition, a questionnaire was utilized to gather quantitative research information from 50 informal traders. The findings of the study reveals that Kobuakisa Carte has not have a positive impact towards poverty reduction. Informal savings were incapable of helping the poor to increase their income because they were small in amount and were mainly used for fulfilling basic needs rather than financing income-generating activities. Savings from Kobuakisa Carte were used for survival rather than for poverty reduction. The majority of the poor favor Kobuakisa Carte due to its flexibility and adaptation to local culture and values. The study finds that the most positive impact of the scheme on the welfare of the poor was in the areas of education, health, food and housing. The scheme has the potential to empower the poor and to develop local finance system in following bottom up approach. This study recommends the partial integration of Kobuakisa Carte into formal financing channels and should be given proper recognition and adequate consideration in the nation’s financial system. The study concludes that Kobuakisa Carte is an active and dynamic saving scheme. It has demonstrated the potential to alleviate poverty. It needs to be studied and requires support in order to make it more effective.
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Wee, Constance Wei-Ling Languages & Linguistics Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "Mobilising action through management email texts: the negotiation of evaluative stance through choices in discourse and grammar." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Languages & Linguistics, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43514.
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This thesis is concerned with explicating the role of language in mobilising action through management emails. Situated within the context of organisational change in a globalised manufacturing business, the project is framed by behavioural observations from management scholars Palmer and Hardy (2000) of mobilisation strategies that utilise linguistic resources since they: (a) involve a sense of obligation or inclination in directives; (b) show how co-operation will produce mutual benefits; (c) construct desired actions as legitimate, beneficial or inevitable; and (d) use past or anticipated meanings, for or against certain actions. Systemic Functional Linguistics is the underlying framework employed to provide a theoretically principled account of the intuitively derived observations from Palmer and Hardy (2000) which are applied to a sample of twenty-seven email texts, through corpus- and text-based analysis. A major finding is that the representation of action is enacted interpersonally through the verbal group. This view complements experientially dominated accounts of the verbal group which focus on the tense system. Further, action is found to be motivated through the negotiation of evaluative stance. By relating the grammar of the verbal group as well as other resources to the discourse semantics of Appraisal, modulation (of obligation or inclination) is found to be enabled by both negative as well as positive judgements of capacity. Specifically, judgements of capacity are re-interpreted as invocations of high obligation as managers seek to mobilise (further) positive performance. The analysis demonstrates that elements in the verbal group (complex) and Appraisal co-opt action through enabling positioning of the writer, in terms of assessing and grading categorical meanings, manipulating interpersonal time, or foregrounding solidarity. A significant contribution to the thesis is an extension of the system of GRADUATION: FOCUS (Hood, 2004a) through the demonstration of how resources of the verbal group negotiate expectations of appearances and achievements. This study has also extended the resources of GRADUATION: FORCE by applying it to the management context. The practical contribution of the study is that these insights may more explicitly inform management training and enable managers to participate more effectively within their community of practice.
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Scorgie, Fiona. "Mobilising 'tradition' in the post-apartheid era : amasiko, AIDS and cultural rights in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.615912.
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Tolamo, Tutuge Joseph. "Mobilising youth participation in agriculture using Participatory Extension Approach (PEA) : A case study of ga-Mothiba village." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1351.
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Brown, Kayla. "Grounding Density: Mobilising the economic and spatial potential of low-income housing along the Delft South main road." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22982.
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This dissertation comprises five chapters. The first chapter explores issues of housing and density. Case studies are used to examine the relationship between agency and housing as well as the trade-offs of efficiency of circulation systems in dense housing. The second chapter locates the research within the context of Delft South and, more specifically, along the main road. The idea of "Home as Economic Generator" is explored through studying housing and retail patterns. The third chapter moves towards a design outcome by choosing and analysing Sibanye Square as a site within Delft. Chapter four explores a variety of technical considerations that could develop into an architectural language by studying how people are currently building in Delft. Finally, chapter five proposes an architectural outcome that explores three typologically different housing developments located on and around Sibanye Square.
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Craig, Mitchell Bruce. "The role of networks in mobilising capital in different ethnic groups in South Africa: A mixed embeddedness approach to entrepreneurship." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/129155.
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El objetivo principal de la investigación es analizar cómo y por qué diferentes grupos étnicos utilizan las redes relacionales de forma distinta para adquirir y organizar el capital en el proceso emprendedor, en el contexto socio-económico e institucional específico de Sudáfrica, como país en desarrollo en vías de transición.
Con el desmantelamiento oficial del apartheid en 1990 y el establecimiento de un gobierno elegido democráticamente en 1994, en Sudáfrica se han producido cambios sin precedentes tanto en el ámbito político como en el económico y social. Como consecuencia, el número de empresarios sudafricanos ha aumentado de forma significativa en diversos sectores de la economía, sectores en los cuáles habían sido excluidos en décadas anteriores, tanto por cuestiones culturales como legislativas. Sin embargo, aún persisten en la actualidad ciertas restricciones para el desarrollo de la actividad emprendedora por parte de empresarios de raza negra, como por ejemplo el sesgo institucional en favor de las grandes empresas, la desconfianza de los resquicios del apartheid, una excesiva dependencia de las organizaciones no gubernamentales, y en algunos casos, el carácter exclusivamente racial de las redes de relaciones entre empresas.
Los tres grupos étnicos seleccionados para este estudio contribuirán a una mayor comprensión de cómo se lleva a cabo la generación y desarrollo de redes entre los empresarios para movilizar el capital social, humano y financiero, en el contexto de Sudáfrica. La muestra constó de 325 empresarios de la provincia KwaZulu-Natal de Sudáfrica, de los cuales había 111 africanos, 121 indios y 90 empresarios europeos.
En cuanto a la metodología, varios métodos de análisis de datos cuantitativos se utilizaron en la investigación empírica. Chi-cuadrado y análisis de varianza para analizar las diferencias estadísticamente significativas entre los tres grupos étnicos considerados. Análisis de factores con el fin de identificar los constructos subyacentes del estudio y análisis de regresión múltiple para estudiar las relaciones entre las variables relativas a las redes y otras variables relevantes, así como análisis discriminante para medir si las escalas clasifican a los empresarios en sus grupos étnicos.
El estudio contribuye tanto desde la perspectiva teórica (avanzando en la literatura sobre redes en el ámbito del emprendimiento en un contexto geográfico y cultural específico) como desde la práctica (para el diseño de políticas gubernamentales de apoyo a grupos étnicos en el proceso de creación de empresas, poniendo énfasis en el papel de las redes relacionales en Sudáfrica).The purpose of the study is to make intelligible how and why different ethnic groups use networking in different ways to acquire and organise capital, within the specific socio-economic and institutional context of South Africa as a developing country in a state of transition. Presently, South Africa, with the official dismantling of apartheid in 1990 and the establishment of a democratically elected government in 1994 has resulted in unprecedented changes in the political, economic and social arenas. One aspect of this change is the growing number of African entrepreneurs in various sectors of the economy, sectors from which they were previously excluded by law and social conventions. However, it is imperative to realise black entrepreneurs face certain unique constraints, such as institutional bias in favour of the larger firms, distrust of carryover apartheid-institutions, an over reliance on non-governmental organisations, and the racially exclusive character of the culture of business networks. The three ethnic groups chosen for this study will contribute more to the understanding of how networking in entrepreneurs is conducted within a developing country. It will take a mixed embeddedness approach, in that groups’ use of networking to mobilise social, human and financial capital will be the focal point. The sample consisted of 325 entrepreneurs from the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, of which there were 111 African, 121 Indian and 90 European entrepreneurs in the sample. Various quantitative data analysis methods were used in the study. Chi-square and Analysis of Variance was conducted on the data to test for significant differences between the three groups. In addition, factor analysis was conducted in order to identify the underlying constructs in the data. Furthermore multiple regression analysis was used to test for relationships between network variables and other relevant variables. Discriminant analysis was conducted to measure whether the scales are able to classify the entrepreneurs into their ethnic groups, based on various characteristics. This study has advanced the literature by comparing a number of ethnic groups within the same unique context, by taking a mixed embeddedness approach. It has focussed on a country in transition, and acknowledging the unique history of the country, and the impact that it has had on its people. It has also heeded the call to conduct entrepreneurial research in the developing world, and Africa in particular. Furthermore, recommendations were made for supporting and developing entrepreneurship in the South African context.
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Bayfield, Hannah. "Mobilising Manchester through the Manchester International Festival : whose city, whose culture? : an exploration of the representation of cities through cultural events." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13539/.
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In times of ongoing austerity, local authorities are under increasing pressure to enforce a wide range of budget cuts. Culture is one area often under threat yet, despite this, there are areas of the UK that continue to support the kind of large-scale culture-led regeneration that has been prominent since the late 20th Century. Despite the multi-faceted benefits that culture can have for cities, urban regeneration literature has a tendency to focus on evaluative studies based on outcome rather than process, and studies of cultural policy focus heavily upon economic imperatives. In response to this, the work presented here aims to examine the practices involved within the production and promotion of cultural events. Through exploring the motivations of those involved in these processes and incorporating an understanding of culture’s diverse nature an understanding of the value placed upon culture is developed. Using a mixed methodology incorporating qualitative methods of observation, interviewing and document analysis, this thesis uses a grounding in cultural studies to explore the way one recurring cultural event illuminates processes of culture-led regeneration within a contemporary urban context. Themes of capital and power are drawn on throughout in order to examine the everyday practices that lead to the dominance of particular representations of the city through its culture. This approach allows for the problematisation of processes of culture-led regeneration, and the exploration of themes of city identity within this context. The research places culture as a key factor in the (re)production of city identity, highlighting how those in positions of relative power play a distinct role in the development and articulation of this identity. The ethnographic methodology adds weight to the field of culture-led regeneration by exploring cultural value through everyday practices, offering a different angle to both academic and policy-driven research in this area.
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Barton, Huw James. "Mobilising lithic studies : an application of evolutionary ecology to understanding prehistoric patterns of human behaviour in the simpson Desert, far western Queensland." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2746.
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Boyd, Jemima. "Haemodynamic Tolerance of Patients Following Cardiac Surgery Receiving Vasoactive Medication in Upright Positioning." Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/381673.
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Introduction: Patients undergoing cardiac surgery require post-operative management in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Mobilising patients in the ICU has been shown to have many beneficial effects such as increasing muscle strength and increasing health-related quality of life. As a part of routine management, patients following cardiac surgery are mobilised in ICU if they are considered haemodynamically stable.
However, haemodynamic compromise is common after cardiac surgery, often manifesting as hypotension and reduced cardiac output. As a result these patients may require administration of vasoactive medication while they remain in ICU. Therefore, it can be difficult to know when it may be safe to mobilise patients following cardiac surgery who are receiving vasoactive medication. There is no consensus among ICU experts regarding when it is safe to commence exercise with patients who are receiving vasoactive medication. Concerns may exist about haemodynamic instability that could potentially be exacerbated with upright positioning or mobility.
Objectives: The primary aim of this study was to measure the effect of exercise in upright positioning on haemodynamic parameters of patients following cardiac surgery receiving vasoactive therapy. The secondary aims were to clarify what level of vasoactive medication may allow safe exercise, and determine the incidence of adverse events. Haemodynamic parameters that were measured included heart rate (HR), respiratory rate (RR), mean arterial pressure (MAP), systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP), cardiac output (CO), cardiac index (CI), stroke volume (SV), and peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2).
Methods: This was a prospective, single-centre, cohort study conducted in an adult ICU of a tertiary, cardiothoracic university-affiliated hospital in Australia. Ethical clearance and site-specific approval from the Prince Charles Hospital was obtained prior to data collection (HREC 17/QPCH/31). Ethical clearance was also obtained from Griffith University (GU Ref No: 2917/186). Eligible participants were recruited from August 2017 to May 2018. The Flotrac-Vigileo™ system was used to obtain haemodynamic measurements. Subjects were positioned from supine, high sitting, sitting on the edge of the bed, standing, marching on the
spot and then returned to supine where they remained for 5 minutes. Subjects remained in these positions for one minute. A between-within repeated measures ANOVA was conducted to compare haemodynamic variables over various positions and interactions with positions*dose of low versus medium to high levels of vasoactive medication.
Results: Twenty participants were recruited; 16 (80%) male; mean age of 65.9 (10.6) years, with 6 (30%) receiving low dose vasoactive medication and 14 (70%) receiving a moderate to high dose. Upright positioning caused statistically significant increases in MAP (p=0.018), diastolic BP (p=0.008), and RR (p=0.049). At an individual level, clinically significant changes in CO, CI, SV, systolic BP, HR and SpO2 were observed. There was no significant interaction between position and dose of vasoactive medication. One minor adverse event occurred in a participant on low dose Dopamine. This was a transient decrease in MAP, and led to no clinically significant consequences.
Conclusions: Upright positioning led to no clinically significant consequences in this study population. The findings suggest that vasoactive medication alone should not be considered a contraindication to upright positioning in patients following cardiac surgery, and should be explored with a larger sample size.Thesis (Masters)
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Sabai, Daniel. "Mobilising processes of abstraction, experiential learning and representation of traditional ecological knowledge in participatory monitoring of mangroves and fisheries : an approach towards enhancing social learning processes on the eastern coast of Tanzania." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013060.
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This study addresses a core problem that was uncovered in records from coastal management monitoring initiatives on the eastern coast of Tanzania associated with the application and use of coastal monitoring indicators developed by external development partners for the coastal zone. These records suggest that local communities, who are key actors in participatory monitoring of coastal and marine resources, face many challenges associated with adapting and applying the said frameworks of indicators and monitoring plans. These indicators tend to be scientifically abstracted and methodologically reified; given prevailing contextual and socio‐cultural realities amongst them. The research project addresses the following key research question: How can processes of abstraction, conceptualisation, and representation of TEK contribute to the development of coastal management indicators that are less reified, more contextually and culturally congruent, and which may potentially be used by resource users in the wider social learning process of detecting trends, threats, changes and conditions of mangrove and fisheries resources? In response to the contextual problem and the research question, the study employs processes of abstraction and experiential learning techniques to unlock knowledge that local communities have, as an input for underlabouring existing scientific indicators on the Eastern coast of Tanzania. The research is constituted as critical realist case study research, involving two communities on the eastern coast of Tanzania, namely the Moa and the Boma communities (in Mkinga coastal district). Overall, the study involved 37 participants in a series of interviews, focus group discussions, and experiential learning processes using visualised data, and an experiential learning intervention workshop, and follow‐ups over a period of 3 years. The study worked with mangroves and fisheries to provide focus to the case study research and to allow for in‐depth engagement with the assumptions and processes associated with indicators development and use. Through the above mentioned data generation processes, critical realist analysis, and experiential learning processes involving abstraction and representation of traditional ecological knowledge held by mangrove restorers and fishers in the study areas, the study uncovers possible challenges of adapting and applying scientific indicators in participatory monitoring of a mangrove ecosystem. Using ampliative modes of inference for data analysis (induction, abduction and retroduction) and a critical realist scientific explanatory framework known as DRRREI(C) (Resolution, Re‐description, Retrodiction, Elimination, Identification, & Correction) the study suggests a new approach that may lead to the development of a framework of indicators that are less reified, more congruent to users (coastal communities), and likely to attract a wider context‐based social learning which favours epistemological access between scientific institutions (universities inclusive), and local communities. It attempts to establish an interface between knowledge that scientific institutions produce and the potential knowledge that exists in local contexts (traditional ecological knowledge), and seeks to widen and improve knowledge sharing and experiential learning practices that may potentially benefit coastal and marine resources in the study area. As mentioned above, the knowledge and abstraction processes related to the indicators development focussed on the mangrove ecosystem and associated fisheries, as engaged in the two participating communities in the eastern coast of Tanzania. The specific findings are therefore limited by the case boundaries, but the methodological process could be replicated and used elsewhere. The study’s contributions are theoretical and methodological, but also social and practice‐centred. The study brings into view the need to consider the contextual relevance of adapted knowledge, the capacity or ability of beneficiaries to adapt and apply scientific models, frameworks or tools, and the potential of local knowledge as an input for enhancing or improving monitoring of mangroves and mangrove‐based fisheries. Finally, the study comes up with a framework of indicators which is regarded by the coastal communities involved in the study as being less reified, more contextually and culturally congruent, and which may potentially be used in detecting environmental trends, threats, changes and conditions of mangrove and fisheries resources, and attract wider social learning processes.
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Aus, Karin, and Eva Bengtsson. "Tidig mobilisering av intensivvårdspatienten : Hinder och implementering." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för vård, arbetsliv och välfärd, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-14696.
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Tidig mobilisering av patienter som vårdas på intensivvårdsavdelning (IVA) har visat sig minska risken för komplikationer under och efter vårdtiden samt förkorta tiden i respirator. Trots påvisad god effekt har det visat sig vara svårt att få genomslag för denna behandlingsåtgärd. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att studera vilka hinder/barriärer som finns mot införandet av tidig mobilisering och vad som gjorts för att implementera denna förändring av IVA-vården på andra kliniker. Studien är en litteraturstudie baserad på artiklar utvalda enligt förutbestämda kriterier ur databaserna Cinahl och Medline. Resultaten summerades i två huvudteman ”Hinder för tidig mobilisering” respektive ”Implementering av tidig mobilisering”. Resultaten visade att hinder för tidig mobiliseringen ofta berodde på en kombination av följande faktorer: okunskap, kulturen på avdelningen, bristande samarbete, resursbrist och patientrelaterade faktorer. Okunskap gäller både brist på kunskap om varför tidig mobilisering är bra, men även om hur och när mobilisering kan genomföras. Om det inte fanns någon kultur för tvärprofessionellt samarbete så upplevdes detta som ett stort hinder på vägen. Implementering av tidig mobilisering gick mycket ut på att överbrygga de barriärer som definierats. Utbildning för att möta bristen på kunskap, organisatoriska förändringar såsom prioriterade samarbete mellan olika yrkesgrupper och tydliggörande av var och ens roll i processen samt ett väl genomarbetat protokoll för hur tidig mobilisering skulle genomföras, utgjorde grundstenarna för en lyckad implementering. För att öka tillämpningen av tidig mobilisering inom svensk intensivvård föreslår författarna en strukturerad plan enligt ovan.
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Andersson, Max, and Elin Olsson. "Hinder vad beträffar patienters mobilisering efter höftfrakturer." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-26526.
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Bakgrund: Höftfrakturer är den vanligaste typen av fraktur för personer över 80 år, förekomsten är över 18 000 per år i Sverige. Flertalet studier visar brister i mobiliseringen postoperativt och att patienter därmed är stillasittande i flertalet av dygnets timmar. Äldre personer med en höftfraktur tenderar att vara i beroendeställning till andra, t.ex. vårdpersonal varpå ett bra samspel måste finnas för att gemensamt arbeta med patientens fortsatta rehabilitering. Syfte: Syftet var att belysa vad som hindrar patienters mobilisering efter en höftfraktur. Metod: En litteraturstudie med kvalitativ design baserad på tio studier. Resultat: Det identifierades tre huvudteman; patienten själv som motgång, att vara i beroende av andra samt miljöfaktorn. Det finns ett flertal aspekter på hur mobilisering hindras. Patienten själv ansåg oftast att de hade egna fysiska och psykiska problem, såsom brist på motivation, trötthet och smärta. Patienterna uttryckte oro och ångest över att de var i beroende av andra för att kunna göra förflyttningar. Miljön de befann sig i uppgavs som en stor betydelse, då det fanns stora variationer av t.ex. utrymme att röra sig på samt vilket utbud av hjälpmedel som fanns. Konklusion: Det är identifierat att mobilisering kan försenas eller utebli på grund av flera bidragande faktorer. Brist på att ge information, motivera patienten, ge adekvat smärtlindring och samordna med andra yrkeskategorier brister i arbetet med patientens mobilisering. Sjuksköterskan måste kunna se patienten ur ett holistiskt synsätt för att främja dennes hälsa på bästa möjliga sätt. Nyckelord: Patient, höftfraktur, mobilisering, hinder, litteraturstudieBackground: Hip fractures are one of the most common fractures for adults over 80 years. In Sweden, the incidence is over 18 000 each year. Multiple studies show that there exist obstacles when patients shall mobilize and are therefore sedentary most of the day. Older adult´s tend to be more dependent of others after a hip fracture i.e. healthcare staff. There must be a good cooperation between the nurse, patient and other healthcare professionals. Aim: To illustrate which obstacles that can occur when mobilizing after a hip fracture. Aim: A literature review based on 10 qualitative studies. Result: There was identified 3 main categories; the patients experience, the dependent of others and the environment. There were several aspects that prevented mobilization. The patients themselves often stated that they had physical and psychological problems such as lack of motivation, fatigue and pain. The patients expressed anxiety because the feeling of not being independent. The environment was an aspect that was stated because of the limited area to mobilize in and the limitation of walking-aids. Conclusion: It´s been identified that mobilization can be delayed or be absent because of several aspects. Lack of information, lack of giving motivation to the patient and provide a good pain management is described. Also, lack of cooperation between other healthcare professionals is badly. The nurse must see the patient from a holistic perspective to promote as good care as possible. Keywords: Patient, hip fracture, mobilization, obstacle, litterateur review
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Berggren, Jan. "Engelskundervisning i gymnasieskolan för mobilisering av ungdomars livschanser." Doctoral thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för pedagogik (PED), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-30773.
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Berggren, Jan (2013). Engelskundervisning i gymnasieskolan för mobilisering av ungdomars livschanser. (English teaching in upper secondary school and mobilization of young people's life chances). Linnaeus University Dissertations No 156/2013, ISBN: 978-91-87427-64-0. Written in Swedish with a summary in English. English is a school subject which every Swedish upper secondary student is required to take. The selection and dissemination of knowledge among students attending upper secondary programmes carries the intention of social integration as well as specialization. The aim of this dissertation is then to show how perspectives on education in English elicited from teachers’ and students’ responses in interviews as well as Swedish education policy (SOU, directives, propositions) contribute to the conditions for the selection of knowledge and teaching, on and between programmes. Inspired by Basil Bernstein’s theories of educational sociology (1990, 2000) and Fairclough och Chouliaraki’s critical discourse analysis, CDA (1999), albeit adjusted to the aim of this study in pedagogics, the focus is on teachers’ and students’ views on teaching and knowledge in English classes on four vocational and academic programmes, establishing varying discourse practices on the different programmes. Moreover, perspectives on upper secondary teaching in Swedish education policy texts are analysed following the same methodology. Results indicate that education policy texts at the time of the interviews strive for adjustment of course content in English teaching to the programme (termed ‘infärgning’ in Swedish). Reflecting this trend in education policy, teachers and students on programmes speak of aspirations for English teaching as being either adapted for mainly academic purposes, or vocational and everyday-life purposes. On the basis of these aspirations it is argued that teachers and students establish either academically oriented discourse or vocational and everyday-life oriented discourse as the dominant pedagogical discourse on the individual programme. Thus, education policy as well as teachers and students reflect each other in striving for knowledge to be adapted for the programme. The two discourses contribute to a movement in favour of differences between programmes, though some of the vocational students complain on not being offered possibilities to analyse and discuss current problems in society. This is to say they complain that they do not receive an education in line with the academically oriented discourse, which is offered to students on academic programmes. At the same time, vocational students are dissatisfied in not gaining adequate knowledge in vocational English. Finally, these perspectives indicate discursive conditions for the selection of knowledge and the organization of teaching in English classes on different programmes. In the last chapter of the dissertation these varying perspectives on programmes concerning the selection of knowledge are analysed but now with a focus on the relationship between programmes. Consequences of the varying dominant pedagogical discourses on the programmes are discussed with regard to how they can be understood to mobilize life chances of young people differently, creating conditions for social integration and differentiation. Keywords: Selection of knowledge, upper secondary education, English, education policy, critical discourse analysis, sociology of education, social integration, social differentiation
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Rolands, Oliver. "Skillnader i kommunalt valdeltagande : Resurser, mobilisering och attityder." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Statsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-34657.
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Denna studie tar sin utgångspunkt i de lokala skillnader som finns i valdeltagandet i Sverige. Syftet är att undersöka varför valdeltagandet i val till kommunfullmäktige skiljer sig åt mellan olika svenska kommuner. För att uppnå detta syfte används tre förklaringsperspektiv, nämligen resurser, mobilisering och attityder. Studiens övergripande frågeställning är därmed hur sambandet ser ut mellan kommuninvånarnas resurser, mobilisering och attityder samt valdeltagandet i valet till kommunfullmäktige 2018. De tre förklaringsperspektiven tilldelas fyra operationella indikatorer vardera. Information om dessa hämtas framför allt från webbtjänsten Kolada. Med hjälp av statistiska analyser undersöks sambanden mellan de operationella indikatorerna och valdeltagandet. Resultatet visar att det finns tydliga samband mellan dessa och att förklaringsperspektiven i hög grad kan förklara de lokala skillnaderna i valdeltagandet. Vidare visar resultatet att mobilisering är det förklaringsperspektiv som har störst förklaringskraft.
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Rundt, Dennis. "Munsalaradikalismen : en studie i politisk mobilisering och etablering /." Åbo : Åbo Akademis Förlag, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37159577p.
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Johansson, Max, and Joakim Häggblom. "Livskvalitet efter artroplastik och betydelsen av tidig mobilisering." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-389554.
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Sammanfattning Bakgrund Medelåldern för befolkningen i Sverige blir högre. Det kommer leda till att antalet höft- och knäoperationer ökar. Således krävs det mer forskning för att optimera omhändertagandet av patienterna i denna patientgrupp. Syfte Primärt var syftet är att undersöka effekten av tidig mobilisering vid knä- och höftledsoperation relaterat till vårdtid (Length of Stay). Sekundärt var målet att undersöka effekten av sagd operation på patientrapporterad livskvalitet (Quality of Life). Metod För att besvara frågeställningarna genomfördes en allmän litteraturstudie av artiklar med kvantitativ metod. Resultat Patienter som genomförde höft-och knäledsoperation skattade sin postoperativa livskvalitet EuroQol 5-dimensions (EQ-5D) högre än innan operation, värdet närmar sig det för populationen i stort normala. Ökningen är mest påtaglig under de tre första månaderna efter operation och kvarstår i upp till två år. Att påbörja mobilisering av patienten under samma dag som operationen kan ge stor utdelning relaterat till förkortad vårdtid, i vissa fall en minskning med 6,45 dagar. Slutsats Tidig mobilisering förkortar vårdtiden. Höft- och knäledsoperation leder i de flesta fall till förbättrad livskvalité. Nyckelord: Tidig mobilisering, Artroplastik, Vårdtid Livskvalitet, Patienthälsa
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Larsson, Lina. "Att mobilisera för framtiden : Anestesiläkares överrapporteringssamtal." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema teknik och social förändring, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-56479.
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Hur skapar man en framtid för en patient som befinner sig i en mycket utsatt situation, medvetslös och uppkopplad till maskiner? Detta är något som iscensätts när anestesiläkare talar med varandra om patienter vid rapporteringen till och från jouren på en intensivvårdsavdelning. Avhandlingen visar hur anestesiläkarna arbetar med att skapa bilder av patienten genom numeriska värden, social information och sin egen kunskap om och erfarenhet av hur andra patienter utvecklats. I överrapporteringssamtalen framkommer anestesiläkarnas arbete med patienters vård och framtid. Dessa samtal analyseras i avhandlingen som rutinmässiga, arbetsinriktade samtal som iscensätter relationer till patienten, till vården, till anestiläkarnas kollegor och till den egna professionella identiteten. Samtalen karaktäriseras av en professionell riktadhet, där patienten handskas med som en representation, ett kunskapsobjekt och ett behandlingsprojekt. Avhandlingen bygger på fältarbete bland anestesiläkare vid ett större sjukhus samt på analys av sjutton bandinspelade överrapporteringssamtal. Studien är tvärvetenskaplig, med inspiration från medicinsk sociologi, kommunikationsstudier och teknik och vetenskapsstudier. I studiens första empiriska del analyseras samtalens inramning som en kommunikativ verksamhet, dess karaktär och relationer till anestesiläkarnas övriga arbete. I den andra delen fokuseras hur läkarna talar om patienterna och vården. Centrala begrepp för att förstå läkarnas samtal kring de svårt sjuka patienternas diagnoser och framtida utveckling är ’mobiliseringsvärde’ och’ livsapparat’.How does one create a future for severely ill patients, who are in a vulnerable condition, unconscious and connected to machines? This is a situation that is staged when anaesthetists talk to each other about patients when one work shift ends and a new one goes on duty in an intensive care unit. The thesis shows how the anaesthetists create images of the patient by means of numerical values, social information and their own knowledge and experience of other patients and their development. In the study, the talk is analysed as characterized by a professional orientation, where the patient is dealt with as a representation, an object of knowledge, and a project for care. The study is based on field work among anaesthetists in a major hospital and on an analysis of seventeen hand-over talks. It is interdisciplinary, with inspiration from medical sociology, communication studies, and social studies of technology. The first empirical part of the thesis discusses the framing of the talk as a communicative activity, its character and its relationship to the anaesthetists’ work outside of the meeting room. The second empirical part focuses on how anaesthetists construct the patient and their tasks in the talk. Excerpts from different talks are used to analyse how the doctors interpret different aspects of the patients’ past situation and care, present medical status, and possible future developments. Key concepts used are ‘mobilising worth’ and ‘life device’.
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Ekberg, Jennie. "Invasivt ventilatorbehandlade intensivvårdspatienter : Effekter av tidig mobilisering - en systematisklitteraturstudie." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-25566.
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Patienter som läggs in på intensivvårdsavdelningar blir ofta sängliggande en längre period. Invasivt ventilatorbehandlade patienter blir inte alltid mobiliserade som de borde. Immobiliseringen hos patienterna har en rad negativa effekter på kroppen, men att låta mobiliseringen bli en prioriterad åtgärd kan vara utmanande för intensivvårdssjuksköterskan och teamet kring patienten. Syftet med denna studie är att beskriva effekter av tidig mobilisering för invasivt ventilatorbehandlade intensivvårdspatienter. Metoden som valts för att genomföra studien är litteraturstudie. Det visade sig att tidig mobilisering kan genomföras på ett bra och säkert sätt. Tidig mobilisering hade goda effekter på respiration och ventilation som förbättrad lungkapacitet och förbättrad saturation när patienten mobiliserades på sängkanten eller ur sängen. Den tidiga mobiliseringen hade också goda effekter på cirkulationen. Hos de patienter som mobiliserades tidigt förbättrades bland annat medelartärtrycket. De patienter som mobiliserades tidigt hade färre dagar i ventilator behandling och tiden för den totala sjukhusvistelsen blev också kortare för de patienterna som mobiliserades tidigt. De patienter som genomförde lättare fysiskt aktivitet tidigt hade fler positiva effekter än de patienter som utsattes för lite hårdare aktivitet. Kanske beror detta på att patienterna som deltog i studierna hade allvarliga grund sjukdomar sedan tidigare som gjorde det svårare att utföra den hårdare fysiska aktiviteten.
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Forssberg, Anna Maria. "Att hålla folket på gott humör : informationsspridning, krigspropaganda och mobilisering i Sverige 1655-1680 /." Stockholm : Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis : Almqvist & Wiksell International [distributör], 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-481.
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Johansson, Ida, and Sara Pettersson. "Postoperativ mobilisering vid nedre bukkirurgi : hjälpmedel och deras möjliga förbättringar." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för teknik och hälsa (STH), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-63795.
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Bjelkenbrant, Pernilla. "ANC-galan i Götegorg 1985 : En analys av sången Soweto som politisk mobilisering." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1229.
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Bjelkenbrant, Pernilla, 2006: ANC-galan i Göteborg 1985: en analys av sången Soweto som politisk mobilisering (The ANC gala in Gothenburg in 1985: an analysis of the song Soweto as a means of political mobilisation)
The political scientists Abdul Karim Bangura, Ove Nordenmark and Tor Sellström, all believe that there, during the 1980s, existed a strong and unified “Swedish” attitude against the South African apartheid system, and Sellström points out that this position had a strong anchorage in the ANC gala in Gothenburg in 1985. Over the past few years, singing has been identified as playing a crucial role in the struggle against apartheid. The aim of this study is twofold: firstly it presents a comprehensive discussion on how song is generally considered a tool of political mobilisation, secondly it discusses how that process can be applied to the ANC-gala. Consequently, the theoretical discussion constitutes the initial part of the study. The purpose of this study is to explore how Mikael Wiehe’s lyrics Soweto, as a representative of the songs that were performed during the gala, mobilised support for the ANC within as well as outside the Swedish solidarity movement, and how Soweto contributed to creating and consolidating a unified attitude towards apartheid – an attitude that went beyond those different opinions on apartheid that existed in the Swedish debate.
Starting out from the work of the historians Kim Salomon and Håkan Thörn, as well as the political scientist Immanuel Wallerstein, the study shows how the ANC-gala relates to the Swedish solidarity movement and the African National Congress (ANC). Explaining the gala as an area of definition processes and social interaction within which there are constantly created or defined more or less embracing identities, and thereby regarding the gala a collective sympathiser with the potential to strengthen the opinion for the Swedish solidarity work against apartheid, it is possible, when adding the political scientist Mark Mattern’s study, Acting in Concert: Music, Community, and Political Action, to create the theoretical framework needed to accomplish the second part of the study.
In the initial study it is stated that song mobilises politically by telling stories about the past. Song works as a communicator and creator of identity as the author of a song integrates in it common experiences. To explore Soweto from that point of view there are developed a few questions that together provides us with the answers to what history Soweto presents, and how that history is being presented.
In the latter part of the study it is stated that it is possible for a number of groups to identify with the past that is being presented in Soweto, and even though it appears how the song has the capacity to split common identities – that it debates divergent interests – it also becomes evident how it brings those same groups together in their various strives for an existence in peace. The reason for this seems to be the fact that Soweto presents universal concepts that everybody, no matter what affiliation or extent of knowledge in the apartheid issue, can relate to. This way, Soweto appeals to advocates as well as opponents of apartheid, in South Africa as well as in Sweden.
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Rönnqvist, Elina, and Rebecca Berggren. "Tidig mobilisering av patienter inom intensivvård : Intensivvårdspersonalens upplevelser av påverkande faktorer." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Omvårdnad, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-69390.
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BAKGRUND: Betydelsen av tidig mobilisering har genom åren blivit allt mer uppmärksammat, då det visat sig ha positiva effekter både för patienten och samhället. Trots de många fördelarna med tidig mobilisering mobiliseras inte intensivvårdspatienter i den utsträckning de har möjlighet till. SYFTE: Att studera intensivvårdspersonalens upplevelser av faktorer som påverkar tidig mobilisering av intensivvårdspatienter. METOD: Denna studie är gjord med en kvalitativ ansats. Fokusgruppsintervjuer med en semistrukturerad intervjuguide har använts. Fokusgruppsintervjuerna har skett på ett sjukhus i Sverige vid två olika tillfällen och involverat totalt två läkare, fyra sjuksköterskor och fyra undersköterskor. Datainsamlingen har analyserats enligt kvalitativ innehållsanalys beskriven av Bengtsson (2016). RESULTAT: Data resulterade i fem kategorier som innefattade; Definiera och initiera tidig mobilisering, Organisatoriska förutsättningar, Rädsla för komplikationer, Patientrelaterade förutsättningar och Teamsamverkan och ansvarsfördelningar. Resultatet visar på en progression av medvetenheten kring tidig mobilisering hos studiedeltagarna vilket belyser vikten av reflektion. SLUTSATS: Tidig mobilisering av intensivvårdspatienter är i dagsläget inte prioriterat i det dagliga omvårdnadsarbetet men ses ändå som en självklar del av omvårdnaden. Teamarbetet är bristande vilket delvis förklaras av otydlig ansvarsfördelning. Detta ansvar bör tas av specialistsjuksköterskan. Mer forskning behövs på området där definitionen av tidig mobilisering bör prioriteras för att få överförbara resultat och validerade hjälpmedel.