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O'Connell, Erin K. "Senses of Place." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276954023.
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Stearns, Adrienne M. "Production and Perception of Place of Articulation Errors." Scholar Commons, 2006. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3891.
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Speech errors have been utilized since the beginning of the last century to learn
more about how speech is produced, both physically and cognitively. Collection of
speech errors has progressed from writing down naturally occurring speech errors to
recording experimentally induced speech errors to current studies, which are using
instrumentation to record acoustic and kinematic information about experimentally
induced speech errors. One type of instrumentation being used in articulatory research is
ultrasound. Ultrasound is gaining popularity for use by those interested in learning how
speech is physically produced because of its portability and noninvasiveness. Ultrasound
of the tongue during speech provides visual access to the articulatory movements of the
tongue.
This study utilizes ultrasound recordings of speech errors in two ways. In
Experiment 1, ultrasound images of participants’ tongues were recorded while they read
tongue twisters designed to elicit speech errors. The tongue twisters were CVC words or
CV syllables with onset velar or alveolar stops. Within the ultrasound video, the angle of
the tongue blade and elevation of the tongue dorsum were measured during the onset stop
closure. Measurements of tongue twisters were compared to baseline production
measures to examine the ways in which erroneous productions differ from normal
productions. It was found that an error could create normal productions of the other
category (i.e., categorical errors) or abnormal productions that fell outside the normal
categories (i.e., gradient errors).
Consonant productions extracted from ultrasound video were presented auditory
only to naïve listeners in Experiment 2. Listeners heard a variety of normal, gradient
error, and categorical error productions. Participants were asked to judge what they
heard as the onset sound. Overwhelmingly, the participants heard normal productions as
well as gradient error productions as the target sound. Categorical error productions were
judged to be different from the target (e.g., velar for alveolar). The only effect of
erroneous production appears to be a slight increase in reaction time to respond with a
choice of percept, which may suggest that error tokens are abnormal in some way not
measured in this study.
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Green, Raymond James. "Community perception of town character : a case study." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1997.
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James, David. "The spatial imaginary of contemporary British fiction : place, perception, poetics." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426265.
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Peng, Shu-hui. "Phonetic Implementation and Perception of Place Coarticulation and Tone Sandhi." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1384525774.
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Petrescu, Doina. ""Taking place", "donner lieu" : pratiques féminines de l'espace." Paris 8, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA082283.
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Cette thèse propose une lecture des manières de penser et de faire des pratiques féminines de l'espace à partir d'une logique et d'une réthorique du don. Entre "taking place" et "donner lieu", c'est dans l'espace d'oscillation entre ces deux gestes, deux langues et deux perspectives culturelles que se situe "l'objet de la thèse". Les pratiques féminines qui constituent le "corpus" de cette thèse sont "nourries" par des textes, des travaux individuels ou collectifs de sujets investissant politiquement, poétiquement, libidinalement l'espace à partir de pratiques d'architecture, d'art contemporain ou de public art, d'écriture, d'action politique. Ce sont les pratiques qui sont féminines et non forcément leurs auteurs. Elles amènent un questionnement croisé sur l'art, l'architecture et l'écriture comme modes d'interrogation des contextes socio-politiques, sur les activités de résistance et le rôle des agents poi͏̈étiques dans la production de la réalité sociale. Cette thèse est un travail en cours qui essaye d'inventer son propre idiome. . .
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King, Victoria School of Art History & Theory UNSW. "Art of place and displacement: embodied perception and the haptic ground." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Art History and Theory, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/22495.
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This thesis examines the relationship between art and place, and challenges conventional readings of the paintings of the late Aboriginal Anmatyerr elder Emily Kame Kngwarray of Australia and Canadian/American modernist artist Agnes Martin. In the case of Kngwarray, connections between body, ground and canvas are extensively explored through stories told to the author by Emily???s countrywomen at Utopia in the Northern Territory. In the case of Agnes Martin, these relationships are explored through personal interview with the artist in Taos, New Mexico, and by phenomenological readings of her paintings. The methodology is based on analysis of narrative, interview material, existing critical literature and the artists??? paintings. The haptic and embodiment emerge as strong themes, but the artists??? use of repetition provides fertile ground to question wholly aesthetic or cultural readings of their paintings. The thesis demonstrates the significance of historical and psychological denial and erasure, as well as transgenerational legacies in the artists??? work. A close examination is made of the artists??? use of surface shimmer in their paintings and the effects of it on the beholder. The implications of being mesmerized by shimmer, especially in the case of Aboriginal paintings, bring up ethical questions about cultural difference and the shadow side of art in its capacity for complicity, denial, appropriation and commodification. This thesis challenges the ocularcentric tradition of seeing the land and art, and examines what occurs when a painting is viewed on the walls of a gallery. It addresses Eurocentric readings of Aboriginal art and looks at the power of the aesthetic gaze that eliminates cultural difference. Differences between space and place are explored through an investigation of the phenomenology of perception, the haptic, embodiment and ???presentness???. Place affiliation and the effects of displacement are examined to discover what is often taken for granted: the ground beneath our feet. Art can express belonging and relationship with far-reaching cultural, political, psychological and environmental implications, but only if denial and loss of place are acknowledged.
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McCutcheon, Cary. "A process for describing the perception of a sense of place." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/101244.
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The research hypothesis of this study states that when individuals are asked to rank order certain places (environments) in terms of preference, then relationships can be measured between that rank ordering and relevant contextual adjective descriptors that indicate a person's perception of those places. These adjectives include beauty, excitement, distinction, naturalness, security, mystery, tradition, complexity, and familiarity (Canter, 1977; Ganmore, 1975; Ley, 1983; Lynch, 1981; Steele, 1981).
After critical sites had been identified in a sketch map study, a sample of community members of the town of Blacksburg, Virginia were asked to respond to the sites along adjective dimensions that represent a sense of place.
It was found that positive linear relationships existed in varying degrees of strength between the adjectives and place preference. Statistical significant relationships were found, in descending order of strength, between preference and beauty, excitement, distinction, naturalism, security, and mystery. No linear relationships were found between preference and tradition, complexity and familiarity.
It has been concluded that places are perceived on other criteria beside just aesthetic appreciation. Furthermore, this thesis supports the argument that places are experienced on a symbolic and emotional level. Places are not merely a composition of physical elements. This deeper experience is the basis for the concept of a sense of place.M.L. Arch.
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Lévêque, Yohana. "Le lien perception-production en voix chantée : place des représentations motrices." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012AIXM3089.
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Un nombre croissant d'études révèle combien les processus cérébraux de production et de perception de l'action sont intriqués. En particulier, on sait maintenant que la perception de la parole induit l'activation de représentations motrices articulatoires chez l'auditeur. Dans ce travail, nous explorons la perception de la voix chantée, une action vocale non-linguistique. L'écoute d'une voix chantée provoque-t-elle une activation du système moteur ? Cette activité motrice est-elle plus forte pour la voix que pour un son musical non-biologique ? Ces questions sont abordées en utilisant de façon complémentaire deux protocoles comportementaux, une technique de lésion virtuelle par stimulation magnétique transcrâniale, l'étude des oscillations en EEG et celle de la variabilité métabolique en IRMf. Nos résultats montrent que la perception d'une voix chantée est effectivement associée à une activité du cortex sensorimoteur dans des tâches de répétition et de discrimination. De façon intéressante, les plus mauvais chanteurs ont montré la plus forte résonance motrice. Le système moteur pourrait, par la génération de modèles internes, faciliter le traitement des stimuli ou la préparation de la réponse vocale quand le traitement acoustique seul est insuffisant. L'ensemble des résultats présentés ici suggère que les interactions audiomotrices en perception de la voix humaine sont modulées par la dimension biologique du son et par le niveau d'expertise vocale des auditeursA growing body of research reveals that action production and action perception interact. In particular, it has been shown that speech perception entails articulatory motor representations in the listener. In the present work, we investigate the perception of a singing voice, a stimulus that is not primarily linked to articulatory processes. Does listening to a singing voice induce activity in the motor system? Is this motor activity stronger for a voice than for a non-biological musical sound? Two behavioral tasks, a og virtual lesionfg{} paradigm using TMS, the study of brain oscillations with EEG and an fMRI experiment carried out during my PhD have shed some light on these questions. Our results show that the perception of a singing voice is indeed associated with sensorimotor activity in repetition and discrimination tasks. Interestingly, the poorer singers displayed the stronger motor resonance. The motor system could facilitate the processing of sound or the preparation of the vocal response by internal model generation when the acoustic processing is not effective enough. The set of studies presented here thus suggests that audiomotor interactions in human voice perception are modulated by two factors: the biological dimension of sound and the listeners' vocal expertise. These results suggest new perspectives on our understanding of the auditory-vocal loop in speech and of sound perception in general
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seim, kelly. "A Place to Rest (Dwelling, Shelter, Homelessness and Meaning)." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306503359.
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Chapman, David Malcolm. "Microphones in a landscape : sound, place and the ecological model of perception." Thesis, University of East London, 2014. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3969/.
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This doctoral research aims to advance critical understanding of the ways in which the developing and expanding field of sound-based art engages with the particularities of place and environment. Through a theoretical contextualisation of both my own sound-based work and installations and the work of other practitioners, I investigate the ways in which sitespecific sonic art is capable of interrogating established notions of place and of developing new knowledge about it. One of the objectives of both contextualisation and investigation is to contribute critically and originally to a politics of location, place and environment. Although these areas are in a constant state of flux, they are now made more vulnerable by the increasing pressures of globalisation and the acceleration of technological and economic development. Today sonic art tends to be discussed on the basis of two paradigms, each of which was formulated in relation to specific aesthetic and philosophical traditions: the visual arts and, more particularly, art-critical perspectives on conceptualism; and the phenomenology of audition. I argue that these approaches leave much ground uncovered. Central to my investigation is thus an exploration of the perceptual mechanisms by which an audience engages with sound-based work. For this I draw on the ecological theory of perception to propose a new methodology. Within ecological models of perception an individual can be regarded as a ‘perceptual system’: a mobile organism that seeks information from a coherent environment. In my thesis I relate this concept to notions of the spatial address of sound installations in order to explore (a) how the human perceptual apparatus relates to the technology of sound diffusion and (b) how this impacts on individuals’ engagement with sound-based work and on their ability to experience such work as complex sonic ‘environments’. The focus on installations also opens up questions of ‘site-specificity’, a term that enables me to examine the ways in which recent sonic art practice has engaged with the particularities and politics of place. This review leads me to the questions this thesis seeks to address: can sound-based work promote critical engagement with the historical specificity, the knowledge and the politics of place? Can the ecological theory of perception aid the understanding of how the listener engages with sound installations? In proposing answers to these questions, my thesis intends to formulate and advance a coherent analytical framework that may lead us to a more systematic grasp of the ways in which individuals, through the relatively new category and practice of sonic art, engage aesthetically with space and environment.
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Legg, Beth. "Materiality of place : an investigation into the makers' approach to material and process as a reflection of place within Northern European contemporary jewellery practice." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7868.
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This practice-led research project takes the form of a written thesis, a body of new work and a public exhibition, which are designed to be reciprocally illuminating. Collectively they articulate a response to the central question; „How do contemporary jewellery makers transfer the sensory experience of place into a tangible object?‟ Fundamental to this enquiry is „The Topophilia Project‟ - a creative participatory research method where the resulting artefacts serve both as data and represent data. This project involved a group of 16 contemporary makers creating new work to brief for an exhibition entitled „A Sense of Place; New Jewellery from Northern Lands‟. The exhibition was held in the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh from May to September 2012 and formed the primary vehicle with which to both present and explore research into the contemporary jewellery of Northern Europe. The new artifacts and first person accounts produced as a result of this research method enabled an investigation into the maker‟s approach to material and process. These highly valuable resources allowed for a reading and deciphering of the methods used by the artists when gathering information from their surrounding environments. Multifaceted methods of practice are distilled within the project outcomes allowing for a broadened terminology to unfold in reference to these practices. This Northern study, rooted in phenomenological understanding and investigated through the creative process, contributes knowledge to the field from an alternative perspective to the dominant position of Central European jewellery output. As a geographically focused inquiry it also adds a necessary alternative outlook to studies focusing on multi-cultural migration. The resulting body of research outlines an arena of practice and theory in which the work of these makers can be debated, analysed, and criticised within the broader field, contributing to the cross-disciplinary discourse on contemporary theories of place of benefit to those interested in the significance of environmental influence on the creative process.
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Chancan, Leon Marvin Aldo. "The role of motion-and-visual perception in robot place learning and navigation." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/229769/8/Marvin%20Aldo_Chancan%20Leon_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis was a step forward in developing new robot learning-based localisation and navigation systems using real world data and simulation environments. Three new methods were proposed to provide new insights on the role of joint motion-and-vision-based end-to-end robot learning in both place recognition and navigation tasks, within modern reinforcement learning and deep learning frameworks. Inspired by biological neural circuits underlying these complex tasks in insect and rat mammalian brains, these methods were shown to be orders of magnitude faster than classical techniques, while setting new state-of-the-art performance standards in terms of accuracy, throughput and latency.
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Fukuda, Kaoru. "The place of animals in British moral discourse : a field study from the Scottish Borders." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320930.
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Sutton, Michael. "Measuring environmental perceptions and sense of place in Franklin County, Florida." Muncie, Ind. : Ball State University, 2009. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/445.
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Owers, Stanley Charles. "The place and perception of technology in the curriculum : historical developments up to 1997." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369385.
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Roze, Candice. "The banyan tree : perception of place, kinship and church in Tasiriki, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=227822.
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Zhou, Ning. "Lexical Tone Development, Music Perception and Speech Perception in Noise with Cochlear Implants: The Effects of Spectral Resolution and Spectral Mismatch." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1273202461.
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Langlois, Elizabeth. "Factors that Shape Environmental Perceptions: the Role of Health and Place." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1595.
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Risk perception is the judgment people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk. Numerous theories and models exist which have identified the factors that influence risk perception. Among these factors, location, health status, and demographic characteristics are known to shape risk perception. To measure the influence of these factors on environmental perception, a series of surveys conducted in four Louisiana communities between 2004 and 2005 describe community perceptions about environmental issues and health status. The objective of the study was to characterize and compare environmental concerns relative to location, health status, and demographic characteristics. Results indicate that location has a strong influence in framing an individual’s concerns about environmental issues, particularly those living close to industry. Concern for general environmental and natural preservation issues were comparable among the communities indicating that concern for these issues is independent of residential location.
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Askari, Vahid. "Creativity as a place-making tool for redevelopment of Christchurch: A case study of international students’ perceptions of city or place." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2017. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2037.
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This work on the concept of creative cities is a response to my search, as a student of urban design, for innovative new strategies for redevelopment in worn out and distressed urban textures. This thesis comes from my own desire to apply creative development strategies with place-making practices to achieve a sustainable solution for Christchurch after the earthquake. Today, one of the approaches to achieving sustainable development of worn out city fabrics is to place emphasis on activities that are reflective of “creativity”. Richards and Raymond (2000) describe creativity as a form of tourism that offers the opportunity to develop creative potential for visitors through actively participating in varying discourses and learning experiences. For example, creativity, as a place-making tool, explicitly provides international students visiting these destinations with opportunities to engage with the domestic cultural heritage and lifestyle, in order to have a unique experience. Accordingly, creativity here is defined as a process of spill-over effects and interactions between varying regenerative planning and design paradigms, with a focus on various creative industry land uses and activities. The aim of this research is to focus on exploring how creative development strategies can be used to introduce new place-making tools for urban redevelopment in Christchurch. The city was struck by two of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded globally in an urban area, in 2010 and 2011. The quakes destroyed or severely damaged thousands of homes and businesses (Scott Miles., Dana Brechwald. et al. 2014). Consequently, the main economic casualties of the Christchurch earthquakes were the reduced numbers of international students, the reduction in tourism and hospitality, and chaos in the visual, urban design and functional aspects of the city.
In this research, I will focus on the perceptions of international students concerning placemaking. The reasons for this are twofold. Firstly, international students bring diverse cultural stances when evaluating their environment. Secondly, while being a class of tourist, they will spend enough time in the environment to experience more than the iconic sites familiar to shortterm tourists, and will consider longer term issues such as place-making. A positive place-making process would contribute to the processes of creating meaning, and open new dimensions for international students. If a Creative City is an equitable city, a placemaking strategy to achieve this would be one that recognises that cities are made up of many v different meanings and, consequently, differing interpretations, and that they require many different kinds of places for their expression.
Since the subject is an interdisciplinary field of research, the methodology will be a combination of qualitative, quantitative and case study methods including field observation; a survey questionnaire; and interviews with stakeholders, key professionals, and international students in three cities: Christchurch (The University of Canterbury), Perth (Edith Cowan University – Mount Lawley and Joondalup campuses) and Newcastle (University of Newcastle- Callaghan and Ourimbah campuses). Normally, an important technique for certifying the validity of case study research is triangulation. Denzin (1970) argued that data collection methods are generally triangulated (many methods are joined), but also, theory and data sources might also be triangulated. In this research, data triangulation will be implemented in both the literature review section and the theoretical framework section presented in the conclusion, comparing the differences and similarities of the case studies. According to the analyses of the collected data and the literature review, a theoretical framework will be provided, to be implemented in the Christchurch redevelopment process after the earthquakes. This case study methodology will form the basis of a place-making design strategy for the city.
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Sinclair, Donna Lynn. "Contested Visions of Place: People, Power, and Perception on the Columbia's North Shore, 1805-1913." PDXScholar, 2004. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3068.
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This is a narrative of place, of intersections between people, power, and perception of landscape. The environs of the Columbia River Gorge create a very distinct sense of place. Where once a series of three rapids - the Cascades of the Columbia - blocked industrial upriver transport, now Bonneville Dam and Locks allows smooth passage. To the north the vast 1.3 million acre Gifford Pinchot National Forest dominates the landscape. On the Columbia's banks lies the town of Stevenson, Washington, with Carson a few miles away, in a transitory ecological zone between east and west, at the forest's edge. There, community development has been manifestly influenced by human relationships to the landscape.
Contested visions of place during the nineteenth century resulted in violent conflict and framed debates over place.Examining struggles over who would control access, first to the Cascades of the Columbia, and then to the timber of the Wind River Valley, provides a venue for examining power - of nature, ideas, and changing human cultures as overlapping groups imposed their views of the good life onto the landscape. As each successive group gained power, the relationships of humans to the land, and to one another, changed.
By examining historic connections between river and forest, and between human communities to each, this study identifies multiple meanings of the same environment for different groups. I use a bioregional approach, exploring relationships between land, people and resources on the Columbia's north bank between 1805 and 1913. Power relations at the Cascades and in the forest were determined through conflict, negotiation, and the federal government, with the human relationship to nature influencing outcomes. Conflict often resulted from struggles over access to place, while human groups negotiated their place within the landscape. Nature privileged one group over another through disease, fire, and human perception, while the United States government co-opted place through public land laws, Indian removal, and by measuring and bounding the landscape. Who gained access to the river and forest of the Columbia's north shore, and how they did it, is the focus of this story.
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Alexander, Laura A. "Meaning of place : exploring long-term resident's attachment to the physical environment in northern New Hampshire /." [Yellow Springs, Ohio] : Antioch University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc_num=antioch1219972881.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Antioch University New England, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 24, 2008). "A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England (2008)."--The title page. Advisor: Thomas Webler, Ph. D. Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-159).
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Tsui, Yee-han Ida. "Perception of aspiration and place of articulation of initial stops by normal and sensorineural hearing-impaired listeners." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36209326.
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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 1996."A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, April 29, 1996." Also available in print.
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Madi, Banyana Cecilia. "Women's decision-making and factors affecting their choice of place of delivery : systematic review and qualitative study." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2001. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/856/.
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The aim of the thesis is to explore pregnant women's decision-making and major influences on their preferences for a place of delivery. The study was prompted by the UK government's policy of a woman centred maternity service (Department of Health 1993b), and the observation that studies had concentrated on professionals' rather than women's views about the place of delivery. Two factors were considered to have potential influence in decision making, one being the individual woman's risk perception related to the process of childbirth, and the other, knowledge about available options for place of birth. First, a systematic review was conducted, looking at available studies on women's views about the place of delivery. Only 9 studies were found, suggesting a need for more studies. Secondly, a primary study was conducted using in-depth interviews with 20 women planning a hospital birth, and 13 planning a home birth to explore factors that led to their respective choices. Results from the primary study indicate that women were not offered information about the availability of home birth. Consequently, 90% of those planning a hospital birth did not give thought to where they were going to have their babies, but assumed they were going to go to hospital. On the other hand, those planning a home birth found information privately and discussed the options with their husbands before making a decision. Additionally, results exposed differences in perception of safety concerning childbirth for subsequent deliveries according to planned place of delivery. Control of the birth process and environment was also found to be important for women planning a home birth. Risk perception and information about available options were found to influence decision-making about the place of birth, thus supporting the hypotheses of the thesis.
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Oliveira, Helen de Souza. "Vida cotidiana e ambiente na beira-rio de Educandos, Manaus-AM." Universidade Federal do Amazonas, 2007. http://tede.ufam.edu.br/handle/tede/2571.
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This study approaches the question of the perception and appropriation of space in a small settlement constructed on the banks of the Negro river at the port of the Educandos neighborhood, one of the few places in the city of Manaus where we can still identify, by way of spatial/geographic objects, traces of a riparian life that resists and exposes the contradiction of the project for modernity in Manaus. Our analysis understands the objective aspects portrayed in the landscape as well as, fundamentally, the subjective aspects that orient the people s relationship to the place, those which go beyond appearance and return to man/means interaction, whose space is lived, the practical-sensitive relationship that permeates daily life. For this reading whose objective was to identify social values and connections to place through the life experiences of the residents of this fragment of urban life, in addition to creating an interface with other fields of knowledge the theoreticmethodological contribution of the Geography of Perception, whose analysis of environmental experience is based on sentiments called topophilic and topophobic, was sought. A qualitative approach was used to deal with the perceptions and values; a quantitative approach was used for the register of indicators or observable trends. The analysis of field data collected through forms and semi-structured interviews revealed, in terms of the aspects connected with topophobia, the predominance of feelings of indignation and fear in relation to, respectively, the degradation of the environment and the growth in marginality, a result of drug trafficking in the area. In relation to the topophilic aspects, we identified feelings of attachment to the lived environment, provider of material (subsistence) and social resources as well as those that are symbolic of existence. The environmental issue on which we focus here was an opportune theme for deepening reflection on the possibility of implementing diverse alternatives for democratic participation in the process of urban planning. We point out the importance of involving different levels of intervention in social space and of recognizing people s links to the lived space, seeing that the place embodies personal experiences and aspirations and this reality must be understood from the perspective of those who give it meaning.
Esta pesquisa aborda a questão da percepção e da apropriação do espaço em um pequeno assentamento construído às margens do rio Negro na orla portuária do bairro de Educandos, um dos poucos lugares na cidade de Manaus em que ainda podemos identificar por meio de objetos espacial-geográficos traços de uma vida ribeirinha que resiste e expõe o contraditório ao projeto de modernidade manauense. Nossa análise compreende tanto os aspectos objetivos retratados na paisagem como, e fundamentalmente, os aspectos subjetivos que orientam a relação das pessoas com o lugar, aqueles que estão para além da aparência e que ressaltam a interação homem/meio, cujo âmbito é o vivido, a relação prático-sensível que permeia o cotidiano. Para essa leitura, cujo objetivo foi identificar os valores sociais e afetivos consolidados pelas experiências e vivências dos moradores deste fragmento da vida urbana, além de realizar uma interface com outros campos dos saberes buscou-se o aporte teórico-metodológico da Geografia da Percepção, cuja análise da experiência ambiental se dá a partir de sentimentos denominados topofílicos e topofóbicos. Trabalhou-se com a abordagem qualitativa, onde lidamos com as percepções e valores, assim como com a abordagem quantitativa para o registro de indicadores ou tendências observáveis. A análise dos dados de campo coletados por meio de formulários e entrevistas semi-estruturadas revelou, quanto aos aspectos ligados à topofobia, a predominância de sentimentos de indignação e medo relacionados, respectivamente, à degradação do ambiente e ao aumento da marginalidade, conseqüência do tráfico de drogas na área. Em relação aos aspectos topofílicos identificamos sentimentos de apego pelo ambiente vivido, provedor dos recursos materiais (subsistência), sociais e simbólicos da existência. A problemática ambiental aqui enfocada representou um tema propício para aprofundar a reflexão em torno da possibilidade de implementar alternativas diversificadas de democracia participativa no processo de planejamento urbano. Apontamos para a importância de envolver diferentes níveis de intervenção sobre o espaço social e de reconhecer os vínculos das pessoas para com o espaço vivido, visto que o lugar encarna as experiências e as aspirações pessoais e esta realidade deve ser compreendida da perspectiva dos que lhe dão significado.
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Whittle, Joanne K. "'Your place and mine' : heritage management and a sense of place." Lincoln University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1701.
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This study presents an analysis of human encounter with place. It examines the personal and cultural importance of an attachment to place, focusing on the reciprocal relationship between cultural heritage and a sense of place. Place is constructed out of mutual meanings between people and their environment. The study begins with an indepth look at the theory of place. In a series of heritage management case studies, the theory is applied in order to illustrate how meanings of place may be expressed. Place as a normative concept provides a role for resource managers in finding the meanings people associate with places, and in nurturing and enhancing these meanings. This involves the recognition of different values and 'stories' that are associated with place. Recognising these differences helps shift resource management away from the simplicity of grand narratives and totalizing discourses, towards a respect for intangible and multiple meanings in place. To a certain extent an understanding of place is already informing both natural and cultural management decisions in New Zealand, although this may not be explicitly recognised. To approach cultural heritage management from the perspective of place, however, challenges the current directions that heritage management is taking in this country. The study proposes a way of taking up that challenge, and concludes that the importance of place should not be overlooked.
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Roberts, Jason L. "Place Perception, Cognitive Maps, and Mass Media: The Interrelationship Between Visual Popular Culture and Regional Mental Mapping." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33020.
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There can be little dispute that todayâ s society makes extensive use of mass media. Movies, television, and radio are far more prominent today than ten years ago, both locally and globally. We rely on these forms of communication for news and information and entertainment and recreation. New technologies increase our access and our dependence on mass media. In fact, in the U.S. the average person spends 40 percent of their time attending to television at some level (Adams, 1992). Adams then goes on to say that culture and television are clearly involved in reciprocal relations: television affects culture, but culture also affects television (Adams, 1992). It should come as no surprise, therefore, that generational differences in recreation are far more prominent today than they were twenty years ago. Indeed, we are a passive society dependent upon technology and the creativity of others for pleasure. The Internet and television of today have replaced the bicycle and board games of yesterday in terms of babysitting the young for hours on end. Almost all major types of entertainment come from the viewing of some sort of screen or monitor, with children spending vast amounts of time engaging in these passive activities. By the age of sixteen, a contemporary child has probably spent more time watching television than he/she has attending school or doing chores.
However, entertainment is only one use for mass media. For example, the term â Information Ageâ refers to much more than recreation. Large quantities of information can be acquired through these forms of transmission. Unfortunately, false representations are sometimes the goal of those who produce these data media.
In addition to the deliberate distortion of truths, those who consume mass media obtain many falsities inadvertently. A perfect example of this is stereotyping. All too often, oneâ s only exposure to certain regions and/or peoples is obtained through television and movies. Instead of becoming familiar with specific facts about cultures, conclusions are drawn based upon viewing and hearing popular culture material.
Stereotypes of cultural groups create myths about their respective geographic regions and vice-versa. We are well aware of these myths (for example, the idea that all Southerners are dumb) but what is their link to place perception? How are mental constructs of regions related to cultural stereotypes? How have popular culture and mass media affected stereotypes?Master of Science
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Hilaire, Maryline. "La place et la perception de l'école hollandaise dans le Musée français et le Musée royal /." Nogent-sur-Marne (36 bd Gambetta, 94130) : M. Hilaire, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39076947n.
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Craggs, R. "Tourism and urban regeneration : an analysis of visitor perception, behaviour and experience at the quays in Salford." Thesis, University of Salford, 2008. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/14889/.
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Following the loss of heavy, manufacturing industry in many industrial areas in the 1970s and 1980s, tourism has featured extensively in urban and wateriront regeneration policy because of its ability to generate substantial economic benefits to destination communities. There is now an extensive literature covering urban tourism and dockland regeneration, but visitors' perceptions of urban waterfront destinations and their on-site behaviour and d experience remain largely unexplored. Additionally, whilst there is now a substantial body of literature relating to tourism's economic impact at the macro level, less is known about tourism expenditure at destination and sub-destination levels.
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Youssef, Lyndl Thorsen. "Architecture, A Public Engagement with: Purpose, Poetry, Place, Prospect, Program, Principle, Process." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35089.
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The purpose of the Times Square Civic Center is to deal with the street as a living, breathing member of the community just as the street was treated in the Old Town of the 18th Century. The Times Square Civic Center demonstrates ways in which architecture engages its public by allowing visitors to take part in its identification, function and composition as it takes on the aspect of a gentleman.Master of Architecture
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Messa, Sebastian. "From Fish to Fission : Changing sense of place and risk perception in a power plant host community." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-133921.
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Prior studies suggest that proximity to nuclear power plants do not affect concerns regarding perceived risks of nuclear power. This thesis applies and compare Swedish plant Ringhals with prior studies but with the added intent of addressing the relationship between plant and population. The host community Bua is positive towards Ringhals and the changes it has brought. To some degree more so than results of prior studies with a higher than national average percent of study respondents being in favor of nuclear power. When Ringhals was established, Bua was small and had little power to impact the decision. Today, the population is bigger and have a better chance to affect future pathways for their community. While positive towards nuclear power the population expresses concerns over possible future changes. A large scale change like the construction of a power plant is less likely to happen again.
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Herrmann, James B. "Tension of Connection: The Stitching of the Deindustrialized Inner City." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1342716023.
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Ganis, Mary. "Serial vision is a significant element in the cognitive and affective experience of the perception of place." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1998.
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Olstad, Tyra A. "Zen of the plains: discovering space, place and self." Diss., Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13520.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of Geography
Kevin Blake
With their windswept ridges and wind-rent skies, prairies and plains have often been denigrated as nothing but nothing—empty, meaningless, valueless space. Mountains and forests, oceans and deserts have been praised and protected while vast expanses of undulating grasslands have been plowed under, grazed over, used, abused, maligned. Once the largest ecosystem on the North American continent, wild prairies now persist mainly in overlooked or unwanted fragments. In part, it’s a matter of psychology; some people see plains as visually unpleasing (too big, too boring) or physically alienating (too dry, too exposed). It’s also part economics; prairies seem more productive, more valuable as anything but tangles of grass and sage. But at heart, it’s a matter of sociocultural and individual biases; people seeking bucolic or sublime landscapes find “empty,” treeless skyscapes flat and dull, forgettable. Scientific, social, and especially aesthetic appreciation for plains requires a different perspective—a pause in place—an exploration of the horizon as well as an examination of the minutiae, few people have strived to understand and appreciate undifferentiated, untrammeled space. This research seeks to change that by example, using conscientious, systematic reflection on first-hand experience to explore questions fundamental to phenomenology and geography—how do people experience the world? How do we shape places and how do places shape us?—in the context of plains landscapes. Written and illustrated from the perspective of a newcomer, a scholar, a National Park Service ranger, a walker, a watcher, a person wholly and unabashedly in love with wild places, the creative non-fiction narratives, photoessays, and hand-drawn maps address themes of landscape aesthetics, sense of place, and place-identity by tracing the natural, cultural, and managerial histories of and personal relationships with Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park, South Dakota’s Badlands National Park, Kansas’s Konza Prairie Long-Term Ecological Research Station, and Wyoming’s Fossil Butte National Monument. Prosaic and photographic meditations on wildness and wilderness, travel and tourism, preservation and conservation, days and seasons, expectations and acceptance, even dreams and reality intertwine to evoke and illuminate the inspiring aesthetic of spacious places—Zen of the plains.
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Vigne, Patricia. "Activité sportive, conflit et personnalisation à l'adolescence : place de l'autre dans la gestion stratégique en natation et en judo." Toulouse 2, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999TOU20108.
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Les aspects socio-culturel, pluri-dimensionnel du sport, sa logique également constituent des conditions d'expression et d'affirmation de soi. Ces conditions, référées au cadre qu'elles imposent, peuvent se révéler plus particulièrement constructives chez un sujet qui traverse une période conflictuelle telle que l'adolescence. En effet, cette rencontre est d'autant plus apte à favoriser, par les conflits qu'elle suscite, la mise en jeu de processus psychologiques en termes de stratégies de personnalisation. Ces processus sont différenciés dans la pratique de deux activités sportives, la natation et le judo, dont les définitions respectives ont permis de mettre en évidence un rapport spécifique à l'autre dans la pratique même. Notre hypothèse est que l'adolescent sportif fait référence, dans l'évaluation de lui-même, à des représentations concernant l'estime de soi, le locus of control, les compétences sociales et les stratégies de coping, différentes de celles de l'adolescent "tout venant" ; elles sont, de plus, différenciées selon l'activité sportive pratiquée qui implique, en natation et en judo, un rapport spécifique à autrui. La population de cette recherche est constituée de 140 adolescents sportifs, dont 70 nageurs et 70 judoka, et de 82 adolescents"tout venant". Les effets de la pratique sportive sont, en terme d'évaluation de soi, appréhendés à travers des questionnaires sur l'estime de soi, le locus of control, les compétences sociales et les stratégies de coping. Globalement, un adolescent engagé dans une pratique sportive témoigne de représentations positives à l'égard de lui-même, aptes à soutenir son processus de personnalisation. En ce qui concerne la natation et le judo, il convient de prendre en compte la différenciation de ces représentations, mais surtout la nature de leurs interactions.
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Emanuel, Louise Coralie. "An investigation of visitor and resident place perceptions of Mid Wales, and an evaluation of the potential of such perceptions to shape economic development in the area." Thesis, Open University, 1997. http://oro.open.ac.uk/57683/.
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The research investigates visitor and resident place perceptions of Mid Wales and evaluates the potential of such perceptions to shape economic development in the area. A review of literature indicated a need for an holistic approach to place. It was suggested that a starting point towards achieving this is to envisage place as three components - the real, the expected and the perceived. The real place is described using secondary statistical information and maps of the area. the expected place is described using topographical writing and guide books. The perceived place is examined through a combination of questionnaires and interviews with residents and visitors. These investigate perceptions of the landscape and economy of Mid Wales. The 'perceived places' of residents and visitors are described. A number of agencies based in Mid Wales were also interviewed to examine i) their perceptions of Mid Wales' ii) the way in which visitor and resident perceptions are incorporated into the policy development process, and, iii) their responses to some of the preliminary outcomes of the research. The research concluded that both residents and visitors have well defined, but different place perceptions of Mid Wales. Visitor perceptions are more affected by the expected place than the real, whilst resident perceptions are more affected by the real place than the expected. There are currently few mechanisms by which place perceptions are directly incorporated into the development process. However, the place perceptions of agencies were found to be close to those of the groups they represented; it is suggested that place perceptions are fundamental truths shared by groups, which are so strong as to actually subconsciously drive the policy development process. Policy implications are suggested, as are ideas for future research.
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Edstorp, Jessica. "Cooperation in Weal and Woe : Place perception, sense of self and project participation among women in rural Tanzania." Thesis, Örebro University, Department of Social and Political Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-1191.
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Background: Tanzania is a country which faces several development challenges. The villages in this essay are located in a rural part of central Tanzania. The area experiences severe environmental conditions in addition to poverty and other related problems. Therefore, there are attempts to improve the situation by forming groups on local level. The two projects studied aim to improve the environment and the members’ economy by planting and selling trees. The participants are women only, except the supervisors who are men in both projects.
Purpose and Question at Issue: The purpose is to examine if the project which the women participate in is affected by their sense of place. This is perceived through the examination of problems and possibilities faced by the women in their daily lives as well as in the project, and how these are managed and dealt with. The aim is to see if there is a correspondence between how different situations are dealt with by the individual and if this too can be related to the sense of place.
Method: The majority of the material was gathered through field studies but additional information was achieved through literature studies, earlier research, observations in field and informal conversations. Interviews were carried out with participating women in the studied projects. The method followed the guidelines of grounded theory and the interviews were designed with Dolbeare’s and Schuman’s three-interview series in mind. A minor quantitative study was also carried out by handing out a questionnaire to the women in the projects.
Theory: The theoretical framework builds on Tuan’s development of the meaning of sense of place, which is made up of people’s feelings, experiences and relations to a certain place. Closely related to sense of place is Bourdieu’s structural theory of habitus, why this is also considered a part of the theoretical framework.
Analysis: The material gathered through the field studies is analyzed in relation to the purpose and question at issue. Sense of place is defined by using various categories of the concept, which aim to encompass several aspects and therefore give a more nuanced picture of the meaning of place for the individual. The women were found to relate the place first and foremost to their family, social bonds and daily chores and to a lesser extent with the environment.
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Oktay, Makbule. "Place attachment and perception of home under the impact of internal displacement in rural settlements of northern Cyprus." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2013. https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/f32c7925-e86d-4a3e-bc64-dffb5e0e9f1c/1.
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Home, which is accepted as a centre for human life, can hold diverse significance and bear various meanings for each person depending on a variety of issues, such as personal characteristics and experiences that have been collected throughout a lifetime. The bond between a person and a home and the meaning of home can be transformed over time and as a result of the various events to which the person has been subjected. In this study, internal displacement is identified as an event which has a major impact on the key attitudes and feelings towards home attachment and perception. The aim of this research is to critically examine the impact of displacement on one’s attachment towards one’s former and current places of residence and one’s perception of home. The study takes Cyprus, in particular its northern part, as a case study. Therefore, the study contributes to the fields of home, place attachment and internal displacement studies in general, as well as to the context of Cyprus in particular. The study has investigated using qualitative and quantitative research approaches within a case study methodology. As a part of this, fieldwork research was conducted in four rural settlements located in northern Cyprus. The primary data was gathered during the fieldwork and constitutes the core of the study. Qualitative content analysis, including coding and categorisation, was used for analysing the qualitative data, while descriptive statistics, cross tabulation and the chi-square test were conducted for quantitative data analysis. The study focuses on two groups: locals and internally displaced persons (IDPs). Locals are identified as people who have always lived in northern Cyprus, while IDPs are defined as people who were displaced from southern Cyprus as an outcome of the conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. The study has identified the nature of local Turkish Cypriots’ attachment to their homes and villages, as well as the nature of internally displaced Turkish Cypriots’ attachment to their former and current houses and villages. In addition to this, perceptions of home for both locals and IDPs have been investigated in order to examine the extent to which IDPs have been affected by the displacement. The findings of the study show that displacement has a strong impact on the place attachment of IDPs. At the end of longstanding displacement they developed multiple attachments: attachment to the places where they used to live before displacement, as well as attachment to the places where they lived after displacement. However, compared to people who have not experienced displacement, IDPs have relatively low attachments; as a result, it may be argued that they are lost between two worlds. The study also shows that low attachment does not fully impact the meaning of home for IDPs in a long-term displacement situation. The study indicates that IDPs may feel attached to a place and give similar meanings to home as non-displaced people, but this does not mean that they completely perceive the houses where they live as their homes even after they have lived there for a long time. Length of displacement, political uncertainty and ownership issues which are directly related with perception of a house as one’s home, emerge as key determinants for attachment to and perception of home.
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Michaels, Jennifer M. (Jennifer Marie). "Licensing stop place before laterals : a study of acoustic cues relevant to the perception of stop-lateral sequences." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68518.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-185).
In phonological analyses of both adult and child language, a *dl constraint has frequently been used as a shorthand to indicate that coronal stops are dispreferred before laterals (Dinnsen et al. 2001). This dispreference has frequently been attributed to the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP), which prohibits sequences of adjacent identical elements (McCarthy 1979). However, this type of analysis misses the generalization that what languages really seem to lack is the contrast between TL-KL (Flemming 2002). The neutralization of TL-KL contrasts is argued to occur because acoustic cues for coronal and velar stop place are insufficiently distinct in prelateral contexts (Flemming 2002, 2007; Bradley 2006). In this dissertation I address the question of which perceptual dimensions are indistinct for surface contrasts of TL-KL. I capture the perceptual indistinctness of TL-KL contrasts by formalizing constraints that penalize stop place contrasts that crucially lack sufficiently distinct cues for place in both their release transitions and their stop burst properties (Flemming 2007), and show how coronal and velar place contrasts are predicted to be maintained in environments in which (1) at least one of the two cues is available (e.g. before vowels/rhotics) or (2) when other contextual cues are available to license the place contrast. As the threshold of distinctiveness for place contrasts that rules out TL-KL contrasts in a language is predicted to rule out any place contrast that is less distinct for the same cues, the formalization of these constraints make testable predictions about place contrasts in languages more generally, some of which are explored in this dissertation. Another puzzle that arises from adopting a contrast-based analysis for the coronal-stop lateral dispreference involves the outcome of TL-KL contrast neutralization. Why, in languages that show a neutralization of the contrast, is the outcome generally a KL sequence (Flemming 2007)? In my dissertation, I argue that the direction of the neutralization of indistinct surface contrasts, such as TL-KL, is conditioned by the avoidance of other indistinct contrasts. In addition to an indistinct pre-lateral stop place contrast (TL-KL), there are indistinct contrasts involving stop presence (TL-L) that play a role in determining the outcome of neutralizations.
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Bryant, Gerdina, and n/a. "Employee Perceptions of stress and organisational change." University of Canberra. Education, 1995. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060619.154654.
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This study explored employees' perceptions of organisational change as a stressor
within a public sector work place undergoing significant change. A number of
major stress-producing factors in that environment were examined and data
collected of employees' perceptions of the nature of stress, changes in health status
and data gathered of stress-related compensation claims. Data was also collected
of employees' perceptions of effective strategies for coping with change from an
individual and organisational perspective.
The research design was a case study with embedded units of analysis
incorporating elements of quantitative analysis. The method was chosen to flesh
out the limited choices offered by many standard questionnaires.
A case study approach and various categories of stress-related factors were
selected measures to evaluate the perceived effects of work place change on stress
levels. The eight females and three males, aged 27�50 were each interviewed for
an hour for their perceptions of stress and reports of stress related illness,
relationship changes and other reported changes�diet, sleep, heart disease,
asthma, anxiety and headaches. Workplace changes to the Division were
analysed, Departmental claims officers were interviewed and Comcare data
analysed.
Results show participants appeared to feel or experience "stress" in a way which
they distinguished as different from feelings or experiences which were nonstressful
states and they appeared able to separate these states and ascribe to each
particular qualities. They also seemed able to identify that the stressful state
occurred in response to some form of demands. Some subjects (36%) reported
developing strategies for managing their stress.
The majority of subjects (82%) believed work place change was inevitable and a
number of subjects (45%) reported they believed implementation of change to be
poorly managed, while some subjects (36%) perceived change impacting
negatively on the work place.
On the basis of the results, it would appear that a human resource management
framework may enable more successful implementation of change in public sector
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Schreyer, Nadine B. "Space, Place, and Self: The Art of How Environment Shapes Us." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1228821690.
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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Kent State University, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan. 21, 2010). Advisor: Isabel Farnsworth. Keywords: Cognitive mapping; self and place; sculpture and geography; sculpture; geography. Includes bibliographical references (p. 20-21).
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Gudmundsson, Magdalena. "Aging-in-place with ICT : A qualitative study of senior citizen users’ perception and acceptance towards Smart home technology." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-67074.
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This is a qualitative, interpretive research study of how six senior citizens’ aged 70-85 describe their use and need of Smart home technology for their independent living and welfare. Data was collected through technology probing and interviews. Data analysis was done using a thematic method. The research was underpinned by the theoretical model Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2). The research setting was senior citizens’ living in Care housing rented out by the municipality owned company. The findings show that technology is perceived by the senior citizens’ to be something must be taught and takes effort. Senior housing need to be better designed for its senior tenants. It was also found that if technology is used to ensure safety, fall detection for instance, trust and sufficient support is crucial. The findings suggest it could be difficult to assess your own need and to realize when assistance technology is needed. It also found that the use of technology was perceived as being individual and as something that cannot be treated collectively. It was suggested that health professionals do have some influence on the senior citizen and their use of technology. The findings of this study was compared to previous studies and how it relates to the determinants and moderating factors suggested by the theoretical model UTAUT2.
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Munkler, Anna. "Seeking their place in the sun : A case study on the self-perception of German tourists in postcolonial Namibia." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-42810.
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Tourism has various effects on society. Not only economic but also immaterial effects on destinations as well as on tourists themselves. Especially regarding tourism between the Global North and South, it is arguable if tourism is a social force influencing societies in a positive way or if it rather reinforces stereotypes and colonial structures. Postcolonial approaches help to narrow down this topic and to complement classical tourism studies. This paper focuses on the situation of German tourists in a former German colony: Namibia. It examines how the tourists perceive themselves within the system of tourism in a postcolonial context, how they perceive the Other and colonial heritage during their trips. Interviews were conducted with eight German tourists who had travelled to Namibia during the last years on their experiences and thoughts to complement existing studies and broaden the picture. The interviews show that stereotypes and notions of white superiority still exist within tourism whilst the sensitivity for history, colonial times and postcolonial structures is rather weak amongst German tourists. At the same time, the tourists wish for more equality and encounters at eye level. It is reinforced that tourism scholarship as well as the tourism industry itself should have postcolonial issues in mind, as well as the non-economic effects of tourism which are in dire need to be considered stronger. The tourists showed that they are ready for a closer engagement with history if colonial heritage is presented and interpreted more intensively. If this interpretation is elaborated in communicative processes respecting all stakeholders, especially the local populations, tourism can not only impact economic development, it can also be a strong social force which ultimately would create a better understanding and experience for both stakeholders, the tourists, and locals respectively.
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Winters, Stephen James. "Empirical investigations into the perceptual and articulatory origins of cross-linguistic asymmetries in place assimilation." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1054756426.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xx, 351 p.; also includes graphics Includes bibliographical references (leaves 344-351). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Brand-Arpon, Véronique. "Mise en place de la famille des gènes des récepteurs olfactifs chez l'homme. Caractérisation d'une duplication sur le chromosome 3." Montpellier 2, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999MON20014.
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Ce travail de these porte sur l'organisation et la mise en place de la famille multigenique des genes or (olfactory receptors). La premiere partie montre que les genes or sont organises en clusters dans un grand nombre de sites repartis sur la plupart des chromosomes. Nous avons ensuite caracterise en detail en 3p13 une region contenant un de ces clusters et un gene de la mylk (myosin light chain kinase) et pu mettre en evidence la duplication de cette region en 3q13-21. Enfin, dans la derniere partie de ce travail, nous avons montre que les clusters de genes or etaient distribues dans un grand nombre de regions paralogues, dans l'ensemble du genome. Ces elements combines avec l'observation de ces regions chez d'autres primates, indiquent que la mise en place et la diversification de la famille des genes or se seraient produites au cours de l'evolution par l'intermedaire de duplications successives impliquant de larges regions genomiques.
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Avanzini, Cedric. "Élaboration et mise en place d’une méthodologie de conception collaborative sur la qualité perçue en intégrant l’analyse de perception sensorielle." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris, HESAM, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020HESAE051.
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Perfection technique, fonctionnelle, ergonomique et esthétique : le luxe est dans une perpétuelle recherche de l’excellence afin d’être le plus désirable possible. Satisfaire ces aspects soulève un défi particulier car cela relève de critères subjectifs. Ainsi, la qualité perçue d’un produit, et a fortiori d’un produit de luxe, possède un caractère multidimensionnel complexe et non prédictible. Il ne suffit pas dans notre cas d’augmenter, en quantité ou en qualité, les fonctions proposées pour rendre le produit plus attrayant et contribuer à son succès. Il s’agit plutôt de maitriser les sensations ressenties par un client qui entre en contact avec le produit. On parlera de maitrise de la perception sensorielle de celui-ci. A travers cette recherche, nous avons souhaité démontrer que nous pouvions intégrer l’analyse de perception sensorielle en conception tout en prenant en compte les contraintes du marché du luxe. Pour la subjectivité des ressentis, nous avons mis en place une démarche d’identification, d’objectivation et d’intégration en conception de différents critères qui composent la qualité perçue d’un produit de luxe. Cette méthodologie fait appel à plusieurs outils d’évaluation de la perception sensorielle mais en crée aussi de nouveaux. Tous ces outils ont pu être testés dans plusieurs entreprises d’horlogerie et de joaillerie de luxe afin d’en évaluer la pertinence. Nous proposons donc une recherche appliquée dans plusieurs entreprises ayant aussi bien un impact scientifique, méthodologique et industrielTechnical, functional, ergonomic and aesthetic perfection: luxury is in a perpetual search for excellence in order to be as desirable as possible. Satisfying these aspects raises a particular challenge because it is based on subjective criteria. Thus, the perceived quality of a product, let alone a luxury product, has a complex and unpredictable multidimensional character. In our case, it is not enough to simply increase the quantity or quality of the functions offered to make the product more attractive and contribute to its success. Rather, it is a question of mastering the sensations felt by a customer who comes into contact with the product. We will talk about mastering the sensory perception of the product. Through this research, we wanted to demonstrate that we could integrate the analysis of sensory perception in design while considering the constraints of the luxury market. For the subjectivity of feelings, we set up a process of identification, objectification and integration in design of different criteria that make up the perceived quality of a luxury product. This methodology makes use of several evaluation tools for sensory perception but also creates new ones. All these tools have been tested different luxury watch and jewelry companies in order to evaluate their relevance. We therefore propose applied research in several companies with a scientific, methodological and industrial impact
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Kelly, Sarah Frances. "Who's Jackson? : construction of sense of place in the era of globalisation : a case study /." View thesis, 2000. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030701.095654/index.html.
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Thesis (M.Sc.) (Honours) -- University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 2000.A masters thesis submitted in fulfilmant of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science (Honours) at the University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, August, 2000. Bibliography : leaves 147-160.
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McMillan, Sage M. "PERCEPTION OF RISK AND BENEFITS OF URBAN NATURAL GAS AND OIL WELLS: A CASE STUDY OF BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, OHIO." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1398444696.
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Lamb, Whitney Chelsea. "End Use Packaging: A Survey of Customer Perception of Recycling and Environmental Impact of Packaging Materials." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1431.
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Studies have shown that traditional food packaging for the fast food industry leach toxic chemicals into the food products. Some of these toxins are known endocrine disruptors, which results in reproductive issues as well as hormone imbalances. Alternatives to traditional food packaging have been addressed with special attention to bioactive, biopolymers, and biodegradable packaging in addition to active and intelligent packaging. The hypothesis states that customers will have high demand for more environmentally sustainable fast food packaging, while the alternative hypothesis states that demand will not be high enough to financially support the costly introduction of more environmental packaging products. The data attained suggest that the hypothesis will not be rejected. However, there are not conclusive results in terms of the alternative hypothesis, as further studies that address economical concerns must be completed. In terms of consumer demand, 94.92% preferred environmentally sustainable packaging over traditional packaging materials.
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Roux, Jeanne-Marie. "Les degrés du silence : de la juste place du sens dans le langage et dans la perception chez Austin et Merleau-Ponty." Thesis, Paris 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA010533.
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Nous comparons deux manières de refuser le « problème de la perception » – la perception permet-elle de connaître la réalité dès lors qu’existent l’illusion et l’hallucination ? Austin et Merleau-Ponty critiquant le présupposé qui pense la perception comme étant vraie ou fausse, et affirmant la différence de la perception et de la pensée, parviennent-ils à penser une authentique vérité ? La thèse d’un « silence » des sens pour Austin, ou son insertion dans le sensible pour Merleau-Ponty sont-elles sceptiques ? Nous montrons : 1/ Qu’Austin pense une objectivité du vrai, qu’il soutient en reconsidérant le langage – en mettant l’accent sur l’acte que réalise la parole –, la signification – dépendante, mais non remplacée, par la valeur de cet acte –, et la vérité – ni une correspondance pré- donnée ni un accord intersubjectif contingent. 2/ Que, de manière similaire, Merleau-Ponty se concentre sur la parole et critique l’idéal d’adéquation, mais que, soucieux de « l’origine de la vérité », il conserve l’idée d’une signification originaire du perçu (et donc d’un silence qui n’est que de degré) et engage une réforme pour intégrer le sens à l’être, mais ne réussit pas, in fine, à rendre compte de la vérité dont il cherchait la source. 3/ Que ces réussites diverses peuvent être rapportées à l’entente que ces auteurs se font des conventions linguistiques : là où le couple de l’échantillon et du modèle permet à Austin de penser un rapport souple, mais non ambigu, entre le langage et le monde, Merleau-Ponty conserve de l’idéalisme une conception rigide du langage, où la sédimentation du sens est une dévitalisationWe compare two ways of refusing the “problem of perception” – given the possibility of illusion and hallucination, does perception allow us to know reality? While both Austin and Merleau-Ponty reject the presupposition that perception can be true or false, and assert the difference between perception and thought, do they still manage to conceive a proper idea of truth? Are the austinian thesis of a “silence of the senses” and the insertion of silence in the senses by Merleau-Ponty sceptical thesis? We show: 1/ That Austin does believe in the objectivity of truth, which he shows by reconsidering language – focusing on the act of speech –, meaning – dependent on, but not replaced by, the value of this act –, and truth – neither a pre-given correspondence, nor a contingent intersubjective agreement. 2/ That, similarly, Merleau-Ponty focuses on speech and criticizes the ideal of adequacy, but that he also cares about the “origin of truth” and for that reason maintains the idea of an “originary meaning” of perception (and thus of a silence which is only relative) and reforms ontology in order to integrate meaning into being in such a way that he does not succeed finally in accounting for the truth he was looking for. 3/ That these different results should be linked to the way both philosophers understand linguistic conventions: whereas the couple of pattern and sample allows Austin to think a flexible and vivid, but non ambiguous, relationship between language and world, Merleau-Ponty inherits from idealism a rigid conception of language, for which the sedimentation of meaning is always a devitalization