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Fidler, Margaret. "Human-animal relationships : perception, attitudes and ethics." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395880.
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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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Durao, M. J. "Colour and space : an analysis of the relationships between colour meaning expression and the perception of space." Thesis, University of Salford, 2000. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26645/.
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This thesis examines the phenomenon of colour as a means of expression of meaning in spatial contexts. The nature of the underpinning project involved paintings and their integration with an architectural setting. Judgements made-in-situ by users of the building and an expert focus group (architects, designers and fine artists) were comparatively analysed for variance in interpretations of meaning, taking into consideration their experience with colour as a medium of expression. Commonalities and differences in the responses of colour amongst and between the various groups were also analysed. To achieve this a combination of questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and focus group meetings were used as data sources. The researcher used her experience as a painter to create two large paintings (11.5m x 2m each), which were installed in the public space of the Manchester Bridgewater Concert Hall over a period of four months. One painting was predominantly blue and green, the other was predominantly yellow and red. The installation had two phases, in which the respective paintings were each installed separately and accompanied by a corresponding lighting scheme. Colours were separated into two temperature groups - warm and cold. However, previous research findings had indicated that responses to these two groups of colour differ along other dimensions also. What had not been established by previous research, and was examined in this project, was whether these indicative differences would apply when colour is approached as part of an holistic environmental meaning rather than in isolation. The integration of paintings and colour into the architectural setting made it possible for multiple layers of experience to be examined. Meaning was extracted from the relationship between colour and the perception of two dimensions of space - pictorial space depicted in the paintings and the architectural space. The relationship between both was also explored which allowed the confirmation of previous findings and the analysis of the variables which need to be addressed when dealing with colour for paintings in real architectural environments. The thesis describes the author's conceptual model based on a combination of this empirical evidence and theoretical framework developed from the existing interdisciplinary body of knowledge on colour. The thesis also discusses how relationships between the aesthetic and psychological categories were established. It contributes to the field by demonstrating how the subjectivity of the perceptual experience can be translated into the expression of meaning along cognitive and affective dimensions within the context of a real-life application of colour in space. Additional to the written thesis a short audiovisual provided in both video and CD Rom, was created to show both the making of the paintings and their installation at the Bridgewater Concert Hall.
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Hilbelink, Amy JoAnne. "The effectiveness and user perception of 3-dimensional digital human anatomy in an online undergraduate anatomy laboratory." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001876.
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Chen, Chien-Lin Clinical School St George Hospital Faculty of Medicine UNSW. "Relationships among afferent neural processing, peristalsis and bolus clearance in the human oesophagus: implications for symptom perception and dysphagia." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Clinical School - St George Hospital, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/41847.
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In this thesis, the relationships among oesophageal motility, bolus clearance and sensory perception of oesophageal stimuli in patients with several dysphagia syndromes were investigated. The work is divided into the following major sections: 1) Current advances in the application of impedance and its utility in distinguishing clearance characteristics between primary and secondary peristalsis; 2) The advances in our understanding of peristaltic motor characteristics, oesophageal bolus clearance and symptom perception in dysphagia syndromes; 3) Peristaltic dysfunction, impaired bolus clearance and symptom perception in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) and in patients with globus; 4) TRPV1 expression in oesophageal mucosa in patients with GORD. The main findings from this work are: 1) Secondary peristalsis is less effective as primary peristalsis regarding esophageal transit and clearance of a liquid bolus. 2) In patients with non-obstructive dysphagia (NOD), bolus clearance by both morphologically normal and aberrant secondary peristaltic sequences is impaired. 3) Although, when compared with healthy controls, patients with NOD have a higher prevalence of non-specifically abnormal motor patterns, there is a poor correlation between dysphagia and oesophageal dysmotility. 4) Whereas manometry identified motility abnormalities in one quarter of patients with GORD, impedance demonstrated that the majority of these patients, as well as some patients with normal manometry, had defective bolus clearance. 5) Although patients with erosive GORD have delayed oesophageal bolus clearance, manometric characteristics in these patients are comparable to those seen in non-erosive reflux disease (NERD). These findings are compatible with the hypothesis that abnormal oesophageal bolus clearance may reflect a continuum of dysfunction secondary to increasing oesophageal mucosal damage. 6) Patients with globus are characterized by oesophageal visceral hypersensitivity and aberrant viscerosomatic referral of mechanical and electrical stimuli to the oesophagus. These findings support the hypothesis that oesophageal hypersensitivity with associated viscerosomatic referral patterns are an important pathogenetic mechanism for globus. 7) Patients with erosive GORD exhibit greater gene expression of TRPV1 in oesophageal mucosa when compared with NERD or healthy controls. These findings support the hypothesis that chronic inflammation may lead to the release of mediators which may modulate function of primary sensory neurons.
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Hornstein, Daniel L. (Daniel Lather). "Relationships Between Selected Musical Aural Discrimination Skills and a Multivariate Measure of Intellectual Skills." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331803/.
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This study attempted to explore the strength and nature of relationships between specific intellectual information processing skills included in a multi-dimensional model conceived by Guilford, and measured by Meeker's Structure of Intellect - Learning Abilities Test, and specific musical aural discrimination skills as measured by Gordon's Musical Aptitude Profile. Three research questions were posed, which involved determining the strength and the nature of the relationship between MAP melodic, rhythmic, and aesthetic discrimination abilities and the intellectual information processing skills comprising the SOI - LA. Both instruments were administered to 387 fourth, fifth, and sixth graders from schools in the Dallas area. After a pilot study established the feasibility of the study and reliability estimates of the test instruments, multiple regression analysis determined that 10% to 15% of the variance between intellectual information-processing skills and the individual musical aural discrimination abilities was in common (r = +.32 to r = +.39). It was further determined that only six specific SOI intellectual dimensions, all involving the skills of "Cognition" and "Evaluation", were significantly related to the musical aural discrimination abilities. Through the use of the Coefficient of Partial Correlation, the strength of each individual information-processing skill's unique contribution to that covariance was determined. The study indicated that "Semantic" mental information processing skills, involving the ability to recall an abstract meaning or procedure given an external stimulus, play an extremely important part within this relationship. Skills of a "Figural" nature, which involve comprehending either a physical object or an non-physical idea and separating it from other impinging stimuli also enter into the relationship, although not to so high an extent. Finally, it was observed that the dimensions involving an understanding of "Systems", those mental skills which deal with groupings of figures, symbols, or semantic relationships, also was important to the relationship.
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Mogano, Lydia Lehlogonolo. "Unearthing the essence of nature and the perception of the natural landscape among the amaXhosa in the Eastern Cape : an exploratory study." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007742.
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The recognition of the close link between the lifestyles of 'indigenous' and 'local' people and biodiversity is widely acknowledged as crucial, not only for the survival of biological diversity but also for the protection of cultural diversity. Most discussions centre on the argument that cultural diversity can, through a wide variety of uses and practices, sustain and conserve biodiversity, particularly in many developing countries. However, local people's relationship with natural landscapes and the extent to which they value biodiversity has not been fully explored and is in most cases misunderstood, which in fact undermines the bio-cultural diversity link. This misunderstanding exists primarily because the majority of environmental or ecological research conducted so far has been oriented towards economic valuation, in quantifying the estimated value of plants and fauna utilised by local people. As a result, biodiversity is primarily treated as a commodity, with wild harvested plant products being classified as either having subsistence, or commercial and medicinal value. This approach is narrow and conceals the critical, profound noneconomic values of biodiversity among local communities in everyday life. Literature indicates that biodiversity and natural landscapes also include less tangible values such as spiritual, cultural, psychological and social values (e.g., sense of place, place attachment, and psychologically restorative effects) which are crucial to human well-being. This suggests that human-nature interaction is complex, and that the meanings and values that people ascribe to natural landscapes cannot be solely reduced to economic values. Nevertheless, to date, studies investigating these less tangible values have received little attention in South Africa. As a result, we have very little understanding of what local and indigenous communities value or appreciate with regard to natural landscapes, beyond their general economic significance. This study seeks to address this particular limitation by exploring non-economic values of natural landscapes and their significances to local people while illuminating the complexities inherent in human-nature interactions. I argue that the purely economic valuation of natural resources is simplistic and biased, and therefore does not represent the complete meaning and significance that natural resources may hold for local communities and households. Therefore, this study takes an innovative psychological approach to explore in detail the everyday lived experiences of the amaXhosa in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It seeks to investigate the cultural, spiritual, and psychological values that ordinary people attach to natural landscapes in the peri-urban and urban communities of Ndlambe Village l and Grahamstown respectively. This research also aims to study the general perceptions of and meanings ascribed to the natural landscape (referred to by the amaXhosa as ihlathi lesiXhosa). In addition, it carefully integrates the Phenomenological and Transactional approaches to investigate how the amaXhosa engage, interact, and find meaning within the natural landscape. Furthermore, the study explores the impact of such landscape experiences on local people's spiritual and psychological well-being, demonstrating it link to bio-cultural diversity and conservation. The major findings in this study reflect that ihlathi lesiXhosa provides a place for peace and tranquillity to enhance psychological restoration. Moreover, ihlathi contributes towards redefining and strengthening personal and cultural identity; and provides spiritual satisfaction in everyday life. Overall, the findings of this study indicate that i!liathi lesiXhosa plays a profound role in both the personal and social lives of many amaXhosa in the Eastern Cape in that it appears to improve their lives. Therefore, the evidence in this study suggests that, among the amaXhosa, biodiversity and natural landscape management processes should not aim to address and promote ecologicallbiological and economic values in a compartmentalized manner independent of other social, cultural, psychological, and more specifically the spiritual values of these features. An increased understanding of these more intangible values and local people's value system of biodiversity could help towards implementing improved biodiversity conservation and landscape management strategies in South Africa. These insights would not only help us to address the challenges of the previous conservation framework but would also encourage a more inclusive, mutual benefiting process that respects local people's values and needs.
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Roberts, Kristopher. "your little voice: An autoethnographic narrative on philosophy, technology, relationships, and the arts." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1525293031814062.
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Boyd, Lauren. "“When he’s up there he’s just happy and content”: parents’ perceptions of therapeutic horseback riding." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96745.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015ENGLISH ABSTRACT : The present research set out to explore parents‟ perceptions of therapeutic horseback riding as an activity for their children with multiple disabilities. It was designed to explore their vicarious experiences of the activity as well as their perceptions of their children‟s experiences of the activity. In order to achieve this, a semi-structured interview was set up with 12 parents whose children participate in therapeutic horseback riding at the South African Riding for the Disabled Association (SARDA) in Constantia, Cape Town. The children ranged in age from 6-17 years and had a range of disabilities including physical and intellectual disabilities. Upon completion of the interviews, the data was transcribed by the researcher and analysed using thematic analysis. Following thematic analysis, three themes emerged: the effects of therapeutic horseback riding on the children, parents‟ personal experiences of therapeutic horseback riding and SARDA, and parents‟ perceived reasons for the improvements in their children. These results are supported by results in existing literature. The results however also address a gap in the existing literature regarding parents‟ perceptions of therapeutic horseback riding and their children‟s experiences of the activity. Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING : Die huidige navorsing het ten doel om ouers se persepsie ten opsigte van terapeutiese perdry as aktiwiteit vir hul kinders met verskillende vorms van gestremdheid te ondersoek. Daar is gepoog om sowel die ouers as die kinders se ondervinding van die aktiwiteit te bepaal. Ten einde die doelwit te bereik is semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude gereël met twaalf ouers wie se kinders aan die terapeutiese perdry by die South African Riding for the Disabled Association (SARDA) in Constantia, Kaapstad deelneem. Die kinders se ouderdomme het gewissel tussen 6 en 17 jaar en hulle het 'n verskeidenheid van gestremdhede gehad wat beide fisiese en intellektuele gestremdhede ingesluit het. Na afhandeling van die onderhoude, is die data opgeteken deur die navorser en verwerk deur gebruik te maak van tematiese analise. Uit die tematiese analise het die volgende drie patrone duidelik geword: Die effek van terapeutiese perdry op die kinders, ouers se persoonlike ondervinding van terapeutiese perdry en SARDA en ouers se persepsie van die redes vir verbetering in hul kinders. Hierdie resultate word ondersteun deur bestaande literatuur. Die resultate vul ook „n gaping in bestaande literatuur aan ten opsigte van die ouers se persepsie van terapeutiese perdry en ook ouers en hul kinders se ervaring van die aktiwiteit.
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Qiao, Si. "The relationship between three dimensional human cephalic animation, audiences perception and emotional response." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2016. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-relationship-between-three-dimensional-human-cephalic-animation-audiences-perception-and-emotional-response(bf3afa91-2d05-4db0-a64b-9b48c1e2a104).html.
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The creation of realistic and believable Three-Dimensional (3D) human characters continues to be an important goal for many modern 3D animators. However, the relationship between quality of 3D human animation and the way in which the audience responds is not yet understood. Since the audience's subjective judgement has implications for their perception and emotional response, it is important to find ways to address whether these are reported similarly by audiences. Moreover, the Uncanny Valley model, which describes a drop in believability as human-like characters become more realistic, assumes that the audience's perception would be affected by their emotional response. Therefore many 3D animators try to improve realism and believability so their 3D human animations cross over the Uncanny Valley. This thesis explore a number of components of 3D human characters and proposes a new model. for better understanding the interplay between 3D human animation and the audience. A review of the literature established that the audience's subjective feeling and emotional response are different aspects of audience perception, although both relate to their prior experience. This new model establishes that 3D human character's Appearance and Movement properties could influence the audience's perception of visual realism, but they also interact with the Contextual properties, which may not match the audience's expectations. These Contextual properties, including emotional expressions, are becoming increasingly important, especially when the 3D human characters are performing in a realistic context. Therefore this thesis investigated a number of factors influencing cephalic animation and perception of cephalic animation in 3D human characters. Empirical studies demonstrated that a dynamic displayed 3D human cephalic animation with speech can significantly affect the audience's subjective judgement, in terms of Eeriness, Believability and Actual Visual Realism. Further investigation demonstrated that there is a range of subcomponents of movements, which affect the audience's subjective judgement.Neck auxiliary, gaze behaviour and eye region all contributed to the audience perception and emotional response in different ways. This thesis adds to this understanding and will facilitate 3D animators to create 3D human characters which can better influence the audience's subjective judgement. Moreover, this thesis suggests that there is more to understanding animated display than simply the display itself or the sum of its component parts.
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Piebalga, Alise. "How do developments in hybrid art affect the perception of the human-technology relationship?" Thesis, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10369/9185.
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Debates in science and technology studies suggest that our understanding of the human–technology relationship is in crisis. There are those who argue that developments in prosthetics and human augmentation will benefit humanity. While others argue that such developments will lead us into technological oblivion. These discussions are not confined to the fields of science and technology. Artists make works that address the human–technology relationship, claiming that their artworks affect how audiences perceive it. But little research has been conducted into how such artworks affect the audience’s perceptions of the human–technology relationship. This research project focuses on ‘hybrid art’, which is defined by its transdisciplinary approach to making art that addresses the human–technology relationship. It surveys several notable hybrid artworks and describes the reported impact they have had on their audiences’ perceptions of the human–technology relationship. Many of these reports suggest that the audiences of these works experienced a blurring of the perceived boundary between the virtual and the real. This phenomenon has been further investigated in this research by studying audience responses to hybrid artworks created by the author. These artworks provided a case study for gathering and evaluating empirical data to test the hypothesis that hybrid artworks affect audience’s perceptions of the human–technology relationship. The data was gathered using a technique, which takes snapshots of an audience’s perceptions of the human–technology relationship before and after viewing a hybrid art installation. The study showed that in an overwhelming number of cases the artworks had affected the audience’s perceptions of the human–technology relationship. By revealing that hybrid artworks affect viewers’ perceptions of the human– technology relationship, the research suggests that artworks can play a significant role in shaping our understanding of the human–technology relationship, and perhaps what it means to be human.
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Langeni, Delile Gertrude. "Self-Disclosure of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Status in Personal Relationships: Perceptions of South Africans Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4798.
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Despite enormous research on the experience of living with HIV, many questions remain regarding self-disclosure of HIV status to sexual partners by people living with HIV (PLWHIV), which is essential to reducing further infection. In this study, a phenomenological approach captured the experience of self-disclosure among South Africans living with HIV in Louwsburg, South Africa. The health belief model served as a theoretical framework, and in-depth interviews were conducted with 12 PLWHIV (8 women, 4 men) who self-disclosed their HIV status to their sexual partners. Their experiences were explored, discovering their illness, motives for self-disclosure, feelings regarding disclosing, responses of their sexual partners, their emotional reaction, and about their medical care. The themes rose from interviews showed that (a) many PLWHIV are reluctant to self-disclose until they actively experienced health issues; (b) motives for disclosure include the wish to ensure fairness; support and to empower other PLWHIV to prevent further infection; (c) feelings of disclosure are primarily relief and liberation, even though risks remain, especially for families separated by labor migration laws; (d) the response of sexual partners to disclosure varies widely; some are motivated to get tested and use condoms, decline and respond only with anger, blame, even abandonment; and (e) after accessing medical care, most PLWHIV reported support and appearing less sick, which reduces social stigma. The women were more open, forthcoming, and transparent about disclosing than men participants. Findings will assist with the creation of future health education programs aimed at creating safe environments to disclose HIV status, which may reduce community risk of contracting the virus.
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Baloi, Votumi Arone. "Community perceptions and attitudes towards integrated wildlife/livestock land-uses : the case of Greater-Giyani rural communities, Limpopo, Province." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1515.
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Thesis (M. Sc. (Agricultural Economics)) -- University of Limpopo, 2016Livestock production in communal areas is faced by a myriad of challenges such as environmental degradation, poor markets, stock theft and disease. This has drawn interest towards wildlife-based land-use practices as an alternative or complement to livestock production. Wildlife-based land-uses have potential to generate incomes and create employment in wildlife rich areas. On the other hand, several problems such as human-wildlife conflict have been identified in wildlife rich areas. This study investigated perceptions of rural households in areas adjacent to the Kruger National Park (KNP) regarding integrated wildlife/livestock land-use practices. Data were collected from 130 households in nine villages alongside KNP in Giyani. Respondents were stratified into cattle owning households and non-cattle owning households, to determine differences in perception towards wildlife. Chi-square and Cramer`s V tests were used to test if there is an association and relationship between the households` opinion and cattle ownership. For empirical analysis, factor analysis and multinomial logistic regression models were run with SPSS. Attitudes and perceptions were analysed by the Likert-scale numbered from 1 to 4. High scores (i.e. 3 and 4) indicated negative attitudes and low scores (i.e. 1 and 2) indicated positive attitudes. The factor analysis managed to reduce the number of attitude variables fitted into the model from 29 to 9 factors (components), that were used in the multinomial logit model analysis. Results from the multinomial regression indicated that demographic factors such as age, gender, education, occupation, marital status, monthly income and cattle ownership had a significant impact in distinguishing between pairs of groups and the contribution which they make to change the odds of being in one dependent variable group rather than the other. Results from factor analysis (component variables or factors) also had a significant impact on the dependent variables when applied to multinomial logit regression. About 59% of the sampled households showed positive attitudes towards integrated wildlife-based land-use practices, and indicated willingness to participate in it. Those who had negative attitudes and were not likely to participate were 13%; and those who were uncertain on whether or not to participate were 28%. Looking at the results of the empirical analysis derived from regression analysis through multinomial logit, several factors were found to have influenced whether or not households were likely to participate in the integrated wildlife/livestock land-uses. Variables: damages caused by wild animals on crops and vegetables; giving land and stopping farming to allow for wildlife conservation; roles and opportunities of wildlife in the community; roles and opportunities of livestock in the community; age of household head; occupation of household head; gender of household head; cattle ownership; Access to market, income earned from sale of livestock, and state of grazing area, were found to be significant (at different significant levels 1%, 5% and 10%) in determining whether or not households were likely to participate in the integrated wildlife/livestock land-uses. However, variables: Government support and the number of people benefiting from livestock, Interest in wildlife protection, Relationship between wildlife, human and domestic animals and land ownership were found to be insignificant in determining whether or not households were likely to participate in the integrated wildlife/livestock land-uses. Most of the households showed interest in participating in wildlife-based land-uses irrespective of whether or not they own cattle. Some households indicated dislike of the proposed land-use practice, mainly those who practiced cattle and crop production, as they perceived wild animals as a high risk to their stock. However, this negative attitude can be managed if benefits to households and community are clearly defined and compensation for loses from wildlife are made a priority. Cooperation of all stakeholders (for example, community, government, conservationists and foreign donor’ agencies) is recommended for implementation of wildlife-based land-uses.
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Etter, Nicole M. "The Relationship of Somatosensory Perception and Fine-Force Control in the Adult Human Orofacial System." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/rehabsci_etds/19.
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The orofacial area stands apart from other body systems in that it possesses a unique performance anatomy whereby oral musculature inserts directly into the underlying cutaneous skin, allowing for the generation of complex three-dimensional deformations of the orofacial system. This anatomical substrate provides for the tight temporal synchrony between self-generated cutaneous somatosensation and oromotor control during functional behaviors in this region and provides the necessary feedback needed to learn and maintain skilled orofacial behaviors.
The Directions into Velocity of Articulators (DIVA) model highlights the importance of the bidirectional relationship between sensation and production in the orofacial region in children learning speech. This relationship has not been as well-established in the adult orofacial system. The purpose of this observational study was to begin assessing the perception-action relationship in healthy adults and to describe how this relationship may be altered as a function of healthy aging. This study was designed to determine the correspondence between orofacial cutaneous perception using vibrotactile detection thresholds (VDT) and low-level static and dynamic force control tasks in three representative age cohorts. Correlational relationships among measures of somatosensory capacity and low-level skilled orofacial force control were determined for 60 adults (19-84 years).
Significant correlational relationships were identified using non-parametric Spearman’s correlations with an alpha at 0.1 between the 5 Hz test probe and several 0.5 N low-level force control assessments in the static and slow ramp-and-hold condition. These findings indicate that as vibrotactile detection thresholds increase (labial sensation decreases), ability to maintain a low-level force endpoint decreases. Group data was analyzed using non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis tests and identified significant differences between the 5 Hz test frequency probe and various 0.5 N skilled force assessments for group variables such as age, pure tone hearing assessments, sex, speech usage and smoking history. Future studies will begin the processing of modeling this complex multivariate relationship in healthy individuals before moving to a disordered population.
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Aly, Amir. "Towards an Interactive Human-Robot Relationship : Developing a Customized Robot's Behaviour to Human's Profile." Palaiseau, École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées, 2014. https://pastel.hal.science/tel-01128923.
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L'importance de considérer l'émotion dans l'interaction homme-robot comme base pour le comportement généré du robot, est la nature floue de l'émotion. Cela peut entraîner le robot à générer un comportement inapproprié au contexte de l'interaction en méconnaissant une émotion observée. Cela ouvre la porte vers une nouvelle méthodologie floue à base pour détecter l'émotion plus précisément. Cette méthodologie décide si l'émotion observée a besoin d'un nouveau comportement à synthétiser au cas où elle constitue une nouvelle classe non apprise auparavant, ou si elle peut être attribuée à un comportement existant dans la mémoire d'action du robot. D'autre part, l'effet à long terme de la personnalité sur le comportement verbal et non verbal de l’homme, le rend fiable pour être considéré comme un facteur déterminant pour le comportement multimodal synthétisé du robot. Par conséquent, l'adaptation du comportement généré verbal et non verbal du robot à la personnalité de l'homme comme étant introverti ou extraverti, pourrait bien améliorer l'attraction de l'homme au robot. Le processus de génération du comportement multimodal synchronisé du robot à travers la parole, les gestes, et les expressions faciales en fonction du profil de l'homme, subit un modèle cognitif de calcul. Ce modèle simule les fonctionnalités cognitives de l'homme, qui apprennent l'objectif et le mécanisme des actions multimodales effectuées par des hommes dans le milieu environnant. Par conséquent, lors d'une interaction, le robot devient capable de synthétiser par lui-même, un comportement multimodal basé sur le profil de l'homme, le contexte de l'interaction, et les expériences enregistrées dans sa mémoire d'actionRobots become more and more omnipresent in our life and society, and many challenges arise when we try to use them in a social context. This thesis focuses on how to generate an adapted robot’s behavior to human’s profile so as to enhance the human-robot relationship. This research addresses a wide range of complex problems varying from analyzing and understanding human’s emotion and personality to synthesizing a complete synchronized multimodal behavior that combines gestures, speech, and facial expressions. Our methodologies have been examined experimentally with NAO robot from Aldebaran Robotics and ALICE robot from Hanson Robotics. The first part of this thesis focuses on emotion analysis and discusses its evolutionary nature. The fuzzy nature of emotions imposes a big obstacle in front of defining precise membership criteria for each emotion class. Therefore, fuzzy logic looks appropriate for modeling these complex data sets, as it imitates human logic by using a descriptive and imprecise language in order to cope with fuzzy data. The variation of emotion expressivity through cultures and the difficulty of including many emotion categories inside one database, makes the need for an online recognition system of emotion as a critical issue. A new online fuzzy-based emotion recognition system through prosodic cues was developed in order to detect whether the expressed emotion confirms one of the previously learned emotion clusters, or it constitutes a new cluster (not learned before) that requires a new verbal and/or nonverbal action to be synthesized. On the other hand, the second part of this thesis focuses on personality traits, which play a major role in human social interaction. Different researches studied the long term effect of the extraversion-introversion personality trait on human’s generated multimodal behavior. This trait can, therefore, be used to characterize the combined verbal and nonverbal behavior of a human interacting with a robot so as to allow the robot to adapt its generated multimodal behavior to the interacting human’s personality. This behavior adaptation could follow either the similarity attraction principle (i. E. , individuals are more attracted by others who have similar personality traits) or the complementarity attraction principle (i. E. , individuals are more attracted by others whose personalities are complementary to their own personalities) according to the context of interaction. In this thesis, we examine the effects of the multimodality and unimodality of the generated behavior on interaction, in addition to the similarity attraction principle as it considers the effect of the initial interaction between human and robot on the developing relationship (e. G. , friendship), which makes it more appropriate for our interaction context. The detection of human’s personality trait as being introverted or extraverted is based on a psycholinguistic analysis of human’s speech, upon which the characteristics of the generated robot’s speech and gestures are defined. Last but not least, the third part of this thesis focuses on gesture synthesis. The generation of appropriate head-arm metaphoric gestures does not follow a specific linguistic analysis. It is mainly based on the prosodic cues of human’s speech, which correlate firmly with emotion and the dynamic characteristics of metaphoric gestures. The proposed system uses the Coupled Hidden Markov Models (CHMM) that contain two chains for modeling the characteristic curves of the segmented speech and gestures. When a speech-test signal is present to the trained CHMM, a corresponding set of adapted metaphoric gestures will be synthesized. An experimental study (in which the robot adapts the emotional content of its generated multimodal behavior to the context of interaction) is set for examining the emotional content of the generated robot’s metaphoric gestures by human’s feedback di- rectly. Besides, we examine the effects of both the generated facial expressions using the expressive face of ALICE robot, and the synthesized emotional speech using the text to speech toolkit (Mary-TTS) on enhancing the expressivity of the robot, in addition to comparing between the effects of the multimodal interaction and the interaction that employs less affective cues on human. Generally, the research on understanding human’s profile and generating an adapted robot’s behavior opens the door to other topics that need to be addressed in an elaborate way. These topics include, but not limited to: developing a computational cognitive architecture that can simulate the functionalities of the human brain areas that allow understanding and generating speech and physical actions appropriately to the context of interaction, which constitutes a future research scope for this thesis
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Sheffield, Rachel. "Dating in Midlife: A Dyadic Approach Examining Partner Perceptions on Relationship Quality." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1578.
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Using a matched-partner dataset of 660 midlife couples, this study examined dating relationships at midlife from the perspective of both male and female partners. It also explored ways various life course factors such as marital history, children, cohabitation, relationship length, and social approval related to partners' perceptions of one another and to subsequent relationship quality. Findings indicated heterogeneity in midlife dating experiences. Actor and partner effects of enhancement were most often linked with greater satisfaction and fewer problems for never-married couples, yet enhancement was not related to relationship stability for them. For couples where only one partner had been previously married, partner enhancement was linked to stability but not to other relationship outcomes. Life course factors played an important role in midlife dating relationships. Further research is needed to examine longitudinal trends.
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Rini, Nancy Connolly. "The relationship of behavioral intent, efficacy expectancies, teacher preparation, and delivery of fourth and fifth grade health instruction /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487266362336894.
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Underwood, Mair. "Living in bodies, living as bodies : the relationship between body and self at different ages /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19369.pdf.
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Odoardi, Gianluca. "The relationship of perceived human resources management practices and innovative work behavior." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BORD0040/document.
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Dans l'économie mondiale actuelle l'innovation est largement reconnue comme l'un des processus clés qui peuvent permettre le développement d'organisations. Cette thèse concentre l'attention sur le comportement innovateur des employés (IWB) et ses liens avec la perception de la gestion des ressources humaines (HRM). Plus précisément, les modèles de recherche explorent deux pratiques de HRM correspondant à l'apprentissage individuel et collectif et la participation à la prise de décision (PDM). Le choix de mettre l'accent sur deux pratiques est en lien avec les efforts des chercheurs dédiés à la perspective contingente. Par conséquent, l'expérimentation de plusieurs variables médiatrices a permis une meilleure compréhension de la relation entre les processus examinés. Cette thèse est également orientée à comprendre les facteurs psychosociaux mentionnés dans un contexte organisationnel assez inexplorés correspondant aux petites et moyennes entreprises. La première recherche explore la relation entre la perception des pratiques de HRM de l'apprentissage individuel et collectif, l'IWB et le rôle médiateur des normes et le climat propice à l'innovation. La seconde étude suppose que la perception de la pratique décisionnelle, conjointement avec le leadership participatif, est liée à l'IWB ; la relation indirecte est testée à travers le rôle de médiateur du climat psychologique pour l'innovation et le soutien de ses collègues. Ces résultats aident les chercheurs à diriger de nouveaux efforts dans la recherche sur le HRM. En plus, ils soutiennent l'optimisation des ressources investies dans l'innovation à travers la promotion de l'apprentissage et la PDMIn the globalized economies the innovation is widely recognized as one of the key processes that can allow the development of organizations. This thesis focuses the attention on the Innovative Work Behavior (IWB) and its links with the perception of Human Resources Management (HRM). More specifically, the research models explore two HRM practices corresponding to individual and team learning and the participation to decision-making (PDM). The choice to emphasize only two practices is in line with scholars’ efforts dedicated to contingent perspective. Therefore, the experimentation of multiple mediating variables has allowed the better understanding of the relationship among the examined processes. This thesis is also oriented to understand the mentioned psychosocial factors in a quite unexplored organizational contexts corresponding to the small and medium enterprises. The first research explores the relationship among the perception of individual and team learning HRM practices, IWB and the mediating role of norms and supportive climate for innovation. The second study assumes that the perception of decision-making practice, conjointly with participative leadership, is related to IWB; moreover also the indirect relationship is tested through the mediating role of psychological climate for innovation and co-workers’ support. These findings help scholars to direct new endeavors in HRM research. Moreover they support managers to optimize resources invested in innovation through the promotion of learning and PDM
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Bonatti, Reginaldo Antolin. "A fisioterapia em dupla mão: a percepção do fisioterapeuta sobre o corpo humano." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2011. http://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/2270.
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Previous issue date: 2011-10-05The human construction process is related to social issues and takes place in relationship with others through the body. So too is the relationship of therapist and patient. This study was aimed at seeking physical therapists' perceptions about the human body and how these perceptions affect the therapeutic process. As a working method, we used qualitative research and data collection through semi-structured interview. We interviewed 12 physical therapists in clinics and hospitals. The inclusion criteria considered legally qualified professionals and that performed their activities in hospitals and/or clinics. After transcribing the interviews, data analysis was performed using the analytical categories. The study allowed to find the following insights: the proposed theme is not subject to the usual reflection of professionals; age, gender, time of training and performing are not differentiating factors for the perception of the physical therapist; the area of operation interferes with the perception, professionals working in hospitals and intensive care units have a more perception focused on Cartesian and mechanistic concepts; there is a two way in the perception of the body and the individual: the primary vision is focused on physical and physiological issues, but there is a merger of view on issues mental, emotional and social, thus the need for humanistic and comprehensive vision in dealing with the patient also was noted; the physical therapist realizes that he is not fully prepared to work the changes that occur with the patient as a result of the therapeutic process and point to the need for better training at the university
O processo da construção humana está relacionado ao social e se realiza na relação com os outros por meio do corpo. Assim também é a relação de terapeuta e paciente. O presente estudo teve como objetivo buscar a percepção dos fisioterapeutas sobre o corpo humano e como estas percepções interferem no processo terapêutico. Como método de trabalho, utilizou-se a pesquisa qualitativa e a coleta de dados por intermédio de entrevista semi estruturada. Foram entrevistados 12 fisioterapeutas em clínicas e hospitais. O critério de inclusão considerou profissionais devidamente habilitados e que exerciam suas atividades em hospitais e/ou clínicas. Após a degravação das entrevistas, a análise de dados foi realizada por meio de categorias analíticas. O estudo permitiu encontrar as seguintes percepções: o tema proposto não é objeto de reflexão usual dos profissionais; a idade, gênero, tempo de formação e atuação não são fatores diferenciais para a percepção do fisioterapeuta; a área de atuação interfere na percepção, os profissionais que trabalham em hospitais e em Unidades de Terapia Intensiva apresentam uma percepção mais centrada nos conceitos mecanicistas e cartesianos; existe uma dupla mão na percepção do corpo e do indivíduo: a visão primária os considera na forma física e fisiológica, porém há a incorporação da visão mental, emocional e social, desta forma a necessidade da visão mais humanizada e integral no tratamento com o paciente também foi percebida; o fisioterapeuta percebe que não está totalmente preparado para trabalhar as transformações que ocorrem com o paciente em conseqüência do processo terapêutico e apontam para a necessidade de uma melhor formação na graduação
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Tsai, Kuen-Ying. "Kindergarten teachers' perceptions of developmental delay in Taiwan : the concept, prevalence and relationships between teacher identification, screening tests and classroom behaviour." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10021970/.
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The term 'developmental delay' has been introduced in Taiwan Early Childhood Special Education to refer to young children with difficulties in learning and development. The purpose of this research is to describe kindergarten teachers' perceptions of this term, the prevalence and characteristics of children with developmental delay in kindergartens in Taiwan, and the relationships between teacher identifications, screening tests and children's classroom behaviours. A three stage study was conducted. Stage One investigated teachers' understandings of 'developmental delay'. The methods employed included individual interviews with 52 teachers and a characteristics rating scale completed by the teachers. Stage Two consisted of a prevalence survey and individual interviews with teachers about current and future special provision for children with developmental delay and teachers' experiences in coping with such children. Prevalence was established using teachers' nominations of children. Stage Three concentrated on the classroom experiences of the children and the relationships between teacher identifications, screening tests and classroom behaviours. Fifty children (half regarded by teachers as having developmental delay and the other half not) in eleven classes took part in this stage. The Chinese version of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) was adopted for the screening tests. The main findings suggest that the teachers tended to perceive developmental delay from within-child perspectives, with preference for the normative and developmental models. Of the kindergarten children, 9.2% were regarded by teachers as having developmental delay, with most having multiple domains of delay. Current special provision for these children was limited, but more provision from inside or outside the kindergarten was seen to be needed. There were distinctive differences in classroom behaviour patterns between children regarded as having developmental delay and other children in class. Where there was a certain degree of mismatch between the teacher and test identifications (using DDST results) these discrepancies can be accounted for in terms of the classroom behaviour patterns. The findings, both theoretical and practical, and the research implications of this thesis are discussed.
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Thneibat, Motasem M. M. "The Relationship between HRM Practices and Innovation: Perceptions of Employees in the Telecommunications Industry in Jordan." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17141.
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The purpose of this research is to provide a better understanding of the relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and innovation. This research responds to calls in the literature on HRM and innovation to consider a wider number of HRM practices that have previously been neglected and are likely to produce a positive impact on innovation awareness and commitment (Shipton et al., 2006; Zhao et al., 2012). Therefore, the research is concerned with a wide number of HRM practices and their impact on innovation awareness and commitment. The underpinning rationale is that while previous studies have revealed that HRM practices can be significant for innovation, these studies are not inclusive, and the research is still scant and in its early stages as there has been a lack of consideration of a comprehensive range of HRM practices (Shipton et al., 2006). In simple terms, previous studies have looked at the relationship between HRM practices and innovation based on a limited number of practices and at the macro or inter-organisational level. Therefore, the fundamental contribution of this thesis is the shift in perspective. While previous research has looked at a limited number of HRM practices that largely appear to be borrowed from high-performance work systems (HPWs), this thesis considers a wider range of practices that can impact on innovation at the intra-organisational level – more specifically, to study employees’ perceptions of HRM practices that may promote innovation awareness and commitment. Innovation awareness and commitment refers to the extent to which the organisation is engaged in innovation. Degree of innovativeness and the open innovation approach are studied in this research, to determine whether HRM practices can impact on radical or incremental open innovation. Additionally, departmental differences are considered in this thesis: that is whether employees in different departments have different perceptions of the extent to which HRM practices promote innovation’. To this end, the data set was obtained from two research phases. A quantitative survey was distributed to 280 employees in a Jordanian telecommunications company. Findings from the first phase of the research indicated a number of new HRM practices that were not recognised by previous studies. This research found a positive impact of HRM practices in promoting innovation, as perceived by employees. HPWs, HRM hygiene factors, motivation and communication were perceived by employees to promote innovation in their organisation. The results show that the relationship between HRM practices and innovation is perceived by employees to promote the origins of innovation, specifically open innovation and radical innovation. No support was found for expectations and sharing information to promote innovation. Phase two of the research consisted of semi-structured interviews conducted with senior managers and employees in the same company that participated in phase one. In phase two of the research, the interviews provided better insights and explanations of the results and findings from the survey questionnaire. The results from phase two confirmed the findings from the statistical analysis, and a distinctive finding was the differences between managers’ and employees’ perceptions of HRM practices. Employees identified or perceived practices that are related to their performance and that enable them to develop their levels of motivation and commitment. Managers identified practices that work in the favour of the organisation, with less focus on employee needs. This was clear when comparing which practices and indications were mentioned by managers and employees.
It is worth mentioning here that, given the relatively close conceptualisation in the literature that innovation is a form of organisational performance, this thesis does not intend to rebrand ‘performance’ as ‘innovation’ per se. This is especially in this research as it seeks to understand the relationship between HRM practices and innovation by looking at employees’ perceptions of HRM practices that may promote innovation and cause their company to be perceived as an innovative workplace.
This research is probably the first attempt to study the role of a comprehensive list of HRM practices in influencing innovation by considering employees’ perceptions of HRM practices that may promote innovation. Moreover, the intra-organisational level was considered, along with departments, degree of innovativeness (radical-incremental innovation) and types of innovation approach (open vs closed).
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Lin, Yi-chun. "The perceptions of human resource development professionals in Taiwan regarding their working relationships with subject matter experts (SMEs) during the training design process." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1147888139.
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Chang, Joohee. "The Relationships Among Participants’ Characteristics, Perceptions, Nature of Involvement, and Outcomes in Strategic Community of Practice Programs in a Large Electric Utility Company." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1281028675.
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Bullock, Angela Nicole. "Organizational change within human service organizations: A study on the relationship between Public Housing Authority employee's perceptions on readiness, climate, and process change and employee status." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2013. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/750.
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This study examines public housing authority employees' perceptions of readiness, climate and process of change and employee status. Sixty-six (66) survey participants were selected for this study utilizing convenience sampling. The survey participants were current public housing authority employees who underwent organizational change. The survey in this study, Organizational Change Questionnaire- Climate of Change, Processes and Readiness (OCQ-CPR), utilized a four-point continuum Likert scale. Frequency distribution, cross tabulations and the statistical test of chi-square were used to analyze the relationship between the variables. The findings of the study indicated that there was no statistical relationship between the variables.
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Colléony, Agathe. "Evaluating the potential of zoos in reconnecting people with nature and conservation issues." Thesis, Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016MNHN0024/document.
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Avec l’actuelle crise de la biodiversité, nos modes de vie de plus en plus urbains diminuent nos opportunités d’expériences de nature. Cependant, une relation intime avec la nature a de nombreux bénéfices, que ce soit pour le bien être individuel, la santé ou la restauration de l’attention, mais aussi les enjeux environnementaux. De nombreuses recherches ont exploré le degré auquel les citoyens se sentent faire partie du monde naturel, et se sont ainsi intéressées plus récemment à l’importance de reconnecter les citoyens – en particulier urbains – à la nature et aux enjeux de conservation, à travers les expériences de nature. Au travers de ce travail de thèse, nous avons exploré si les zoos pourraient participer à une telle reconnexion. Pour cela, une approche interdisciplinaire a été adoptée, avec des concepts et méthodes issus de la biologie de la conservation, de l’anthropologie, de la psychologie sociale et psychologie de la conservation, de la psycho acoustique, et de l’économie environnementale. Nous avons tout d’abord exploré si les zoos étaient considérés comme des espaces de nature. Puis, nous nous sommes intéressés plus particulièrement à la perception de la nature dans le zoo, d’un point de vue visuel et sonore. L’analyse comparative entre des visiteurs de zoos et des utilisateurs de parcs urbains nous a permis d’explorer l’impact de la visite au zoo sur le sentiment de connexion à la nature et sur les attitudes envers la conservation. Enfin, nous nous sommes intéressés aux comportements pro-conservation au zoo, au travers de l’analyse du choix de l’animal et du montant de la donation chez des participants à un programme de parrainage d’un animal au zoo.Ce travail démontre que même si le zoo est considéré et utilisé comme un espace de nature, il n’affecte pas le sentiment de connexion à la nature des visiteurs. Cependant, en comparaison à une visite d’un parc urbain, la visite au zoo a le potentiel de promouvoir les attitudes envers la conservation, au travers de la connexion à la nature. De plus, même au zoo, si l’accent est largement mis sur les espèces captives, exotiques, les visiteurs semblent aussi percevoir la biodiversité urbaine. Néanmoins, à l’inverse des attitudes pour la conservation, il reste incertain que le zoo promulgue les comportements pro-conservation. Pour conclure, ce projet de thèse a mis en évidence que dans le processus de reconnexion des citoyens à la nature et aux enjeux de conservation, les zoos offrent indubitablement un type d’expérience de nature aux citoyens urbains, qui devrait être pris en considération au même titre que d’autres types d’expériences de nature (e.g. forêts), notamment puisque les zoos sont des institutions qui accueillent une très large et diverse proportion de la population dans le mondeWith the on-going biodiversity crisis, growing urban lifestyles decrease opportunities to experience nature. However, an intimate relationship with nature has various benefits, for individual well-being, health or attention restoration, but also for environmental issues. Much research effort explored the extent to which people feel being part of the natural world, and thus focused more recently on the importance of reconnecting people – especially urban dwellers – with nature and conservation issues, through experiences of nature. In this work, we investigated whether zoos could participate in such reconnection. We used an interdisciplinary approach, with concepts and methods from conservation biology, anthropology, social and conservation psychology, psychoacoustics, and ecological economics. We first explored whether zoos were considered as natural places. Then, we looked more closely at people’s perception of nature at the zoo, from both visual and auditory perspectives. Comparative analysis between zoo visitors and urban park users allowed us investigate the impact of the zoo visit on sense of connection to nature and conservation attitudes. Finally, we focused on pro-conservation behaviors at the zoo through the analysis of animal choice and amount of donations of participants to an animal adoption program at the zoo. This work demonstrates that although the zoo is considered and used as a natural place, it does not affect sense of connection to nature. However, compared to a visit to an urban green park, the zoo visit has the potential to raise conservation attitudes, through connectedness to nature. Additionally, despite an emphasis on captive, exotic species at the zoo, visitors also seemed to perceive urban wildlife. Nevertheless, unlike conservation attitudes, the contribution of the zoo in enhancing pro-conservation behaviors remains doubtful. To conclude, this PhD project highlighted that in the process of reconnecting people to nature and conservation issues, zoos undoubtedly provide one type of experience of nature to urban dwellers, that should be considered along with other types of experiences of nature, e.g. woodlands, especially because zoos are institutions that target a very large and diverse part of the population, worldwide
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Majeed, Masnoon. "Environmental Consciousness in Joachim du Bellay's Divers jeux rustiques and 'Au fleuve de Loire'." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1533077251523474.
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Swersky, Liz. "Developing Skills for Successful Learning." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-83124.
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Po-HsuanChuang and 莊帛軒. "Perception - Investigation of Symbiotic Relationships between Human and Natural Environment by Air Exchange." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/xjb9a2.
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Since the global atmosphere's composition has drastically changed because of the excess carbon dioxide, it has become clear that “air” is omnipresent and extremely important for our survival. However, the colorless, tasteless, and odorless nature of the air makes it difficult to detect. In addition, human have been living in complex urban environments for a long time. Because of this, most of us are aware of our planet's environmental problems; for example sometimes we cannot even feel that we are breathing. Our “perception ability” to detect air is decreasing. Humans use scientific and technological research and development, to try to reduce the impact of carbon dioxide on the environment, but we all overlook the fact that plants are “carbon recyclers” in the natural carbon cycle, while humans are “carbon producers”; the two are complementary. We should use this fact to explore our fundamental mutual relationship by examining our “air exchange”. This paper is a study of the “air-exchange system”of building. Take high altitude forest like Chilai Mountains as a research and design base, and use double-layer curtain wall structure consists of ETFE membrane and air separation membrane to create space. It uses special environmental space experience to strengthen people’s ability to perceive air, and to investigate the new symbiotic relationship between human and natural environment.
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Marciano, Zachary. "Relationships Between Personality Type and Cognitive Ability in Marmoset Monkeys (Callithrix jacchus)." 2019. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/845.
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Personality refers to multiple traits that are thought to be stable over time and across situations. It is recognized that personality has a neural basis and is associated with health outcomes. Whether personality is also associated with cognitive ability, however, is still a matter of intense debate. One way to examine these potential relationships is to use a nonhuman primate model for which complexities present in humans can be minimized. Recent research into the varying personality types of marmoset monkeys suggests that there are predominantly three to five core primary domains that most marmosets and other primates can be categorized into, such as dominance, sociability, and neuroticism. The aim of the proposed study was to categorize a small colony of marmosets into respective personality domains, and to examine correlations between the monkeys’ personalities and their cognitive ability. This study was be conducted on 27 marmoset monkeys (14 male, 13 female) housed in the Lacreuse lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A personality survey based on Koski (2015) containing 55 personality traits was utilized by 8 human judges, all of whom have been working with these monkeys daily for at least one year. Each judge rated each individual monkey on each individual trait on a 1 to 7-point scale; 1 indicating total absence of a trait and 7 indicating extreme presence of a trait. Once the survey data was compiled, a principal component analysis (PCA) was conducted to condense the myriad of ratings into smaller distinguishable personality domains. Three personality types were identified in this population, consistent with other non-human primate species. An ICC(2) was performed to ensure the interrater reliabilities of the 8 judges were consistent enough to be considered. Lastly, a linear regression was conducted to reveal possible correlations between the observed personality domains and cognitive performance achieved in a reversal learning task. The results of this experiment showed no statistically significant relationships between any of the three personality domains: Assertiveness, Neuroticism, and Inquisitiveness with the reversal learning cognitive scores. Although these findings suggest that personality and cognitive flexibility are independent in marmosets, we cannot rule out that personality may influence other cognitive domains. Additional studies are needed to examine this possibility.
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Fourie, Hendrina Magdalena 1948. "Aggressiwiteit : 'n fundamenteel-andragogiese perspektief op selfbeeldvorming." Diss., 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16802.
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Text in AfrikaansTeen die agtergrond van toenemende gewelddadige gedrag binne die konteks van verskillende bevolkingsgroepe en gemeenskappe, is reeds ·heelwat navorsing ten opsigte van die aard en oorsake van aggressiewe gedrag onderneem. Aggressiwiteit as vorm van afwykende gedrag is nog nooit deur die onderskeie gemeenskappe in die Republiek van Suid-Afrika aanvaar nie. Die oorsake van aggressiwiteit word deur verskillende navorsers vanuit wydverspreide ooghoeke benader. Hoewel fisiologiese oorsake van aggressiewe gedrag nie deur die skrywer ontken word nie, word in hierdie studie die volwasse mens as verantwoordelike en verantwoordbare wese se motivering vir aggressiewe gedrag van naderby beskou. 'n Weldeurdagte literatuurstudie oor aggressiwiteit sowel as die basiese hunkeringe van die mens in die kontemporer-moderne wereld, het aan die lig gebring dat mense verskillend optree al sou hulle aan dieselfde samelewingseise blootgestel word. Ervaringsreste, veral ten opsigte van pedagogiese verhoudings, blyk 'n groat rol in die vorming van die selfbeeld sowel as belewing en hantering van krisissituasies te speel. Die mens staan nooit alleen in die wereld nie, maar is voortdurend in 'n verhouding betrokke. Die noodwendigheid van verhoudings raak horn as sosiale wese, en is ten nouste gekoppel aan belewing en beagting van die self. Defhalwe word die ervaring van verhoudings uit veral die kinderdae, of te wel pedagogiese verhoudings, as van deurslaggewende belang by die vorming van die selfbeeld beskou. Die bevindinge van hierdie studie is geverifieer by wyse van 'n idiografiese ondersoek. Gevangenes wat aggressiewe misdade gepleeg het, is op vrywillige basis by die navorsing betrek. Na aanleiding van genoemde bevindings is dit nodig geag om 'n gestandaardiseerde vraelys vir die meting van elkeen se selfbeeldstand in te skakel. Aanbevelings is geformuleer nadat insig uit navorsingsresultate ten aansien van die interafhanklikheid van pedagogiese verhoudings, selfbeeldvorming en aggressiwiteit, verkry is. Hierdie aanbevelings is veral gerig op steungewende, terapeutiese begeleiding van die aggressiewe oortreder sodat hy vaardighede kan aanleer waar~olgens hy lewenskrisisse kan begryp en hanteer.
Extensive research has already been undertaken in respect of the nature of aggression against the background of increasingly violent behaviour within different population groups and communities. Aggression as a form of deviant behaviour has never been accepted by the various communities in the Republic of South Africa. Researchers have investigated the causes of aggression from a wide range of perspectives. Although the author does not deny the existence of physiological causes of aggressive behaviour, this research focuses on the motivation for aggressive behaviour in the adult as responsible and accountable being. A thorough study of the literature concerning aggression as well as, the basic yearnings of man in the contemporary modern world, revealed a diversity in human behaviour even when people were confronted with the identical demands of society. Past experience, especially in connection with pedagogic relations, appears to have an important impact on not only the formation of the self-image but also how people experience and cope with crisis situations. Man is never in the world in isolation but is continuously involved in relationships. This essentiality of relationships affects him as a social being and is intimately a,ssociated with the experiencing and evaluation of the self. Experiences with relationships, especially in childhood, that is pedagogic relationships, are therefore, of cardinal importance in self-image formation. The findings of this research were verified by means of ideographic studies. Prisoners who had perpetrated violent crimes were included in this research on a voluntary basis. In accordance with the findings it was considered necessary to incorporate a standardized questionnaire to measure the state of the self-image of each prisoner. Recommendations were formulated after obtaining insight arising from research findings which focussed on the interdependence of pedagogic relationships, self-image formation and aggression. These recommendations are mainly directed at the supportive therapeutic guidance of the aggressive transgressor in order that he may acquire skills to understand and cope with the crises of life.
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Wilder, John D. "A relationship between human shape categorization and the statistics of natural shapes." 2009. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000051082.
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Absher, Anita Glee. "Divorced grandparents' perceptions of the nature of their relationship with grandchildren." 2005. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/etd/umi-okstate-1420.pdf.
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Mansour, Yasser Mohamed. "The relationship between residential density and human activity." 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/27490.
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Lin, Fan-yun, and 林凡筠. "The Relationship between Perceptions of Human Resource Management Practices and Employee Performance: The Mediation of Human Capital." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19991206868773948673.
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Human capital have been paid attention in recent years. Companies can enhance competitive advantage through human capital. High performance work system had been confirmed can increase employee’s human capital. However, human resource management can been divided into human capital enhancing-oriented and economic exchange-oriented. Studying the effect of human resource management on human capital based on these two separate viewpoint is rare. Hence, this study will investigate the effect of human capital enhancing practices and economic exchange practices on human capital separately. Also study the effect of human capital on employee performance. Thus this study’s framework is based on the prior human capital studies and expectancy theory. This study considered, manufacturing’s first line as the population and the questionnaire was delivered through mails and personally and investigate through correlation analysis and regression analysis. The finding are as below: 1. Both the effect of human capital enhancing practice and economic incentive practice on human capital is insignificant separately. 3. There is significant negative effect on human capital if the company implement human capital enhancing practice and economic incentive practice together. 4. Human capital is positive-related employee performance. Thus, if the company complements both practices together, they should consider the aspect of group-oriented performance indicator to avoid the decreasing knowledge sharing between colleagues as the economic incentive practice. So they can eliminate the negative of economic incentive practice on the human capital.
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WU, XIN-HUA, and 吳欣樺. "Justice Perceptions, Human Capital as Moderators of the Relationships betweenPersonality and Emotional Well-Being." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00949124550037341592.
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企業管理學系
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In recent years, under the workplace with intense competition, workers are experiencing higher psychological pressure than ever. It therefore becomes a significant issue to maintain the psychological health of the workers. For this reason, this study conducts a series of researches so as to study the relationships between the personality and emotionalwell-being of workers. In addition, the moderating effects of justice perceptions and human capital to personality and emotional well-being are studied. To do these, this study adopts convenience sampling, and collected 276 valid questionnaires from the workers in nine companies in total. After that, the hierarchical linear model is employed to analyze the collected data. The obtained results show that the openness to experience is significantly positive correlated to the emotional well-being. By the way, while the justice perception is not significantly related to emotional well-being, it indeed has non-negligible effects on the relationships among agreeableness, emotional stability, and emotional well-being. Moreover, human capital is positively related to emotional well-being, and moderated the relationships between conscientiousness and emotional well-being. Finally, based on the obtained results, we suggest that company managers should enhance the investment on human capitals and select proper human power, so as to ameliorate the emotional well-being of workers.
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Song-Huei, Yeh, and 葉松輝. "The Relationship of Human Resource Practitioners’s Role Perception, Perceived Organization Support, Professional Commitment, and Career Satisfaction." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47508840461547209380.
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碩士國立高雄應用科技大學
人力資源發展系
97
The purpose of this study is to explore the extent of role stress perception and perceived organization support and its impact on professional commitment and career satisfaction that human resource practitioners in Taiwan could face while advancing diverse human resource activities. This study collected data from human resource practitioners in Taiwan’s enterprises through convenience sampling. Of the returned questionnaires, 270 were usable. The results via empirical analysis indicate: 1. Role conflict has significant and negative influence on affective commitment and continuous commitment. Role ambiguity has significant and negative influence on affective commitment. 2. Perceived organization support has significant and positive influence on affective commitment and normative commitment of professional commitment. 3. Role ambiguity has significant and negative influence on career satisfaction. 4. Perceived organization support has significant and positive influence on career satisfaction. 5. Affective commitment and normative commitment have significant and positive influence on career satisfaction. 6. Professional commitment has no mediating effects on the relationship between role perception and career satisfaction, and the relationship between perceived organization support and career satisfaction. According to the study results, this study provides suggestions for enterprises and human resource practitioners: First, reposition human resource practitioners’ role to improve their professional commitment. Second, increase professional commitment and career satisfaction via setting up specific goals, providing learning opportunities, and creating good working atmosphere. Third, develop the strategic partner role of human resource practitioners to increase their career satisfaction. Fourth, continuously learning to improve human resource practitioners’ role and responsibilities. Fifth, increase self-expertise to acquire organizational support and resources.
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Yu, Chu-Ching, and 余竺靜. "The Relationship of Employee's Human Capital with Perceptions of Gender Discrimination — Moderating Effects of Gender." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28243629682616745289.
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碩士國立嘉義大學
企業管理學系
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Based on the human capital perspective, employees are the most important capital for business organizations. Yet, few studies have focused on the impact of employees’ human capital on the perception of sexual discrimination in organizations. Therefore, this paper aims to examine the relationships between the afore-mentioned two constructs, and further investigates the moderating effects of gender and gender-role attitudes. Via convenient sampling method, this study obtained 240 valid questionnaires, representing the valid response rate of 80%. Results of statistical analyses support three of the five hypotheses which are developed by the current study. The conclusions are following: 1. The human capital is negatively related to the perception of sexual discrimination. Regarding to the relationships between dimensions, while competence capital is negatively related to staffing, base salary, salary hike, promotion, and training discrimination, educational capital is negatively related to training discrimination only. 2. Male respondents perceive significantly lower overall discrimination and its five dimensions (staffing, base salary, salary hike, promotion, and training) than those of female respondents. 3. Gender does not moderate the relationships between human capital and the perception of sexual discrimination. 4. While masculinity is negatively related the overall discrimination and its five dimensions (staffing, base salary, salary hike, promotion, and training), feminity does not show any significant relationships with the outcome variables. 5. Gender-role attitude does not moderate the relationships between human capital and the perception of sexual discrimination. Based on the study results, the current work provides practical recommendations to business organizations in terms of establishing a more sexual equity working environment, better managing workforce diversity, and so on. Key Words: Human Capital, Gender-Role Attitude, Physical Sex, Perceptions of Gender Discrimination
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Lin, Ya-Chien, and 林亞蒨. "The Relationship among Human Resource Management Practices, Employee’s Perception of HRM Practices, Work Motivation and Organizational Commitment." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92271336078348658759.
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碩士國立中央大學
人力資源管理研究所
99
The main purpose of this study is to discuss about the relationship among human resource management practices, employee’s perception of HRM practices, work motivation and organizational commitment. We collected data from Top 1000 manufacturing industry, Top 500 service industry and Top 100 financial industry reported by CommonWealth Magazine in 2009. We use questionnaire to inquire how much the company emphasize on HRM practices and what employees think about their job. We finally got 37 company data completed by senior HR managers and 589 valid questionnaires completed by employees, resulting a return rate of 46.81% and 39.85% respectively. Data were analyzed via hierarchical regression and the results are as following: First, we found that employee’s positive perception of staffing practices have mediating effect on the relationship between staffing practices and organizational commitment. Second, we also found that employee’s perception of training practices and organizational commitment were positively moderated by intrinsic work motivation; employee’s perception of compensation practices and organizational commitment were negatively moderated by intrinsic work motivation and positively moderated by extrinsic work motivation. At the end, we discussed theoretical and practical implications of these results for future application.
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Chen, Ai I., and 陳愛一. "The relationship among human resource management, leadership style and organizational citizenship behavior:the medisting effect of job perception." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70226250710999684844.
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Hsu, Ya-Hsiu, and 許雅綉. "The Relationship between Employee Perceptions of Organizational Change, Human Resource Management System, Organizational Support and Organizational Commitment." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27344431161771031038.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
科技應用與人力資源發展學系人力資源碩士在職進修專班
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The success of organizational change depends on organizational members’ recognition, support and commitment to their organization. The contributions of human resources management system（HRMS） to enterprise development have also been increasingly valued. Thus, how to effectively leverage HRMS measures to attract, retain and motivate talents to have competent employees and enhance organizational competitive advantage has been also increasingly claimed in the service industry. Previous studies indicate that sound HRMS measures positively affect employees’ organizational commitment. The purposes of this study were to adopt Hotel A as an example to investigate the relationship between employees’ Perceptions of Organizational Change (POC), Human Resources Management System (HRMS), Perceived Organizational Support (POS), and Organizational Commitment (OC), as well as to examine the mediating effect of POS on the relationship between POC and OC. A questionnaire survey was conducted in Hotel A to solicit the responses of in-service employees who were conveniently selected. In total, 360 questionnaires were distributed by person and/or mail, and the valid response rate was 85%. Consequently, the results of this study are as follows: (1) POC is positively associated with POS; (2) POS is positively related to OC; (3) HRMS is positively related to OC; (4) POC is positively related to OC; and (5) POS has partial mediating effect on the relationship between POC and OC.
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Riley, G. A., G. Fisher, B. F. Hagger, A. Elliott, Serve H. Le, and Jan R. Oyebode. "The Birmingham Relationship Continuity Measure: the development and evaluation of a measure of the perceived continuity of spousal relationships in dementia." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/7003.
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BACKGROUND: Qualitative research has suggested that spousal carers of someone with dementia differ in terms of whether they perceive their relationship with that person as continuous with the premorbid relationship or as radically different, and that a perception of continuity may be associated with more person-centered care and the experience of fewer of the negative emotions associated with caring. The aim of the study was to develop and evaluate a quantitative measure of the extent to which spousal carers perceive the relationship to be continuous. METHODS: An initial pool of 42 questionnaire items was generated on the basis of the qualitative research about relationship continuity. These were completed by 51 spousal carers and item analysis was used to reduce the pool to 23 items. The retained items, comprising five subscales, were then administered to a second sample of 84 spousal carers, and the questionnaire's reliability, discriminative power, and validity were evaluated. RESULTS: The questionnaire showed good reliability: Cronbach's alpha for the full scale was 0.947, and test-retest reliability was 0.932. Ferguson's delta was 0.987, indicating good discriminative power. Evidence of construct validity was provided by predicted patterns of subscale correlations with the Closeness and Conflict Scale and the Marwit-Meuser Caregiver Grief Inventory. CONCLUSION: Initial psychometric evaluation of the measure was encouraging. The measure provides a quantitative means of investigating ideas from qualitative research about the role of relationship continuity in influencing how spousal carers provide care and how they react emotionally to their caring role.
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Chang, Wen-Zhao, and 張文昭. "A Study for the Relationship of Alliance Partner Perception, Human Resource Planning and Alliance Performance between the Strategic Alliance Businesses." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88752228726911461034.
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碩士長榮大學
經營管理研究所
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In recent years, strategic alliance emerges with the trend of the time. Via strategic alliance, the enterprises construct the relationship of alliance and partnership which allow them to upgrade their competitiveness and create competition advantage that is actually the tendency of many industries at present. However, when participating in strategic alliance, in order to comply with the business and demands of the alliance and adjust the organizational structure of the enterprises, the said enterprises must re-distribute the human resources which will further affect the performance of the companies and the alliance. Therefore, this research started from the strategy of human resources of the enterprises of the strategic alliance and explored the relationship among alliance partner perception, human resource planning and alliance performance. This research focused upon the enterprises which have participated in strategic alliance in Taiwan. There were 105 effective samples. The statistical analysis includes the methods of Multiple Regression, LISREL and ANOVA and further verified the following hypothesis of this research, the findings are shown as follows: 1. The alliance partner perception can influence human resource planning strategy and alliance performance. 2. The human resource planning can influence the alliance performance. 3. Both of alliance partner perception and human resource planning have direct positive effect on the alliance performance. In addition, the alliance partner perception can influence the alliance performance through the intermediary affect of the human resource planning. 4. As to the characteristics of the enterprises: the enterprises with different annual business volumes, the number of employees, years of establishment and types of alliance reveal prominent difference with respect to alliance partner perception, human resource planning and alliance performance.
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Chen, Ping-Hung, and 陳柄宏. "The Relationship between Employees’ Perceptions on Human Resources Management, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Job Performance under the Worldwide Economic Depression." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38217888664694226300.
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碩士國立中央大學
人力資源管理研究所
98
Many researches in the past decade years have approved that Human resource management can create values for the companies, but those researches are focus on how the Human Resource Management(HRM) can directed effect on employees’ or companies’ performance, however ,they ignored what is the mechanism between HRM and performance. Furthermore, many researches pointed out that employees’ perceptions on the HRM can effect on their Job Satisfaction, Organizational commitment and job performance, so in this research we infer that HRM should first through the employees’ percept on those HRM practices, and then employees’ perceptions on HRM will first effect on their work attitudes, and then their attitudes will effect on their job performance. It is means that employee’s attitude is the most important mediate mechanism between the HRM and job performance. We do this research in the year 2009 which is the timing that worldwide economic depression most seriously. Finally, we collected 350 samples which are from the Top 1000 companies surveyed by Common Wealth magazine. The purpose of this research is to understand the relationship between employees’ perceptions on the HRM, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Job Performance. The results show that: employees’ perceptions on the HRM have positive correlation between Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Job Performance. Moreover, by the regression analysis show that, employees’ perceptions on the HRM can positively effect on the employees’ Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Job Performance, Finally, the employee’s perceptions on HRM should have indirect effect on the job performance through employees’ Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment.
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Huang, Jen-hao, and 黃仁豪. "Research of relationships among perceptions of human resource management practice, organizational climate, role adjustment and working attitude - take THSRC employees as study object." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4mynw9.
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碩士國立中山大學
人力資源管理研究所
96
As the tendency of globalizes and regionalization of enterprise management develops, enterprises in the world have to face an extremely important subject of multiple human resource management. Whether the enterprise is classified as globalize, cross-nation or regionalization, it should face and plan the strategy of its human resource management more appropriately, which is the core part and the foundation of an enterprise. The range and object of this research is based on Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation and its employees. The company, THSRC, is one of the largest BOT projects in the world. Employees of THSRC with their profession in construction management, operation management at railway area, were recruited from many different countries. The research of investigating the manage method and organization climate of THSRC, can surely provide a great reference to some regional enterprises during the process of transit to globalized enterprises. The purpose of this research is trying to examine the relationships among the perceptions of human resource management practice, organizational climate, role adjustment, and working attitude. Also, this research intends to investigate the affection of differenct personalities to human resource management practice, organizational climate, role adjustment, and working attitude. The questionnaire survey of this research was implemented on April 2008. 300 questionnaires were sent out, and 272 were replied, in which 256 are valid. Through a statistical analysis, we conclude the research result as follows: 1.The human resource management practice has a positive affection on working attitude. 2.The human resource management practice has a negative affection on role adjustment. 3.The organizational climate has a negative affection on role adjustment. 4.The role adjustment has a negative affection on working attitude.
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Chen, Ruey-Yu, and 陳瑞鈺. "A Study of the Relationship Between the Expatriate''s Perception of Human Resource Practices in Foreign MNCs and Turnover Tendencies—In Psychological Contract View." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24884369521916349299.
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碩士淡江大學
國際貿易學系
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There are many ways by which employers have broad influence on employees. All these influence change the fulfillment of psychological contract of employees. Psychological contract is defined in terms of unwritten expectations held by employers and employees about the nature of their exchange. Also, psychological contract is highly subjective , is defined by the individual, and is to be understood from the employee''s perspective. We investigated expatriate''s turnover tendencies of foreign MNCs in Taiwan as a function of its perception of human resource practices(HRPs). Furthermore, we analyzed the mediating role the psychological contract.The research tries to attain the following goals:1. To understand the relationship between expatriate''s perception of HRPs and the fulfillment of its psychological contract.2. To understand the relationship between the fulfillment of expatriate''s psychological contract and its turnover tendencies.Each of the 340 expatriates of foreign subsidiary or branch of U.S. and Japan electronics MNCs in Taiwan from statistics on Foreign Investment was mailed a survey. Of these, 81 responded. The results are summarized as follows:1. The relationship between expatriate''s perception of HRPs and the fulfillment of its psychological contract is significant and positive. The influence of expatriate''s perception of HRPs on the fulfillment of its psychological contract is significant and positive, except the training programs. The positive relationship between expatriate''s perception of HRPs and the fulfillment of its psychological contract is different in the U.S. and Japanese firms in Taiwan.2. The relationship between the fulfillment of expatriate''s psychological contract and its turnover tendencies is significant and negative, except the intention to leave the location. The influence of the fulfillment of expatriate''s psychological contract on its turnover tendencies is significant and negative. The negative relationship between the fulfillment of expatriate''s psychological contract and its turnover tendencies only exists in the Japanese firms in Taiwan.
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Collett, Joan Elizabeth. "Of human bondage : investigating the relationship anorexia nervosa/ bulimia, spirituality and the body-self alliance." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5089.
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A growing body of research recognizes spirituality as a key element in well-being, but the
agency of individual spirituality remains unclear. This study explores the role of embodied
knowledge in reality construction and its effect on illness by considering how spirituality as
embodied existence shapes reality. Spirituality, as a form of embodied knowing, is shown to
reach deeply into the fundamental relatedness of existence. The study argues for a mindbody-
spirit unity, making no distinction between self and spirit, emotions and subjective
experiences situated in the spirit. As the medium between body and self, spirituality gives
form to the felt reality of embodied knowledge and meaning, shaping language, cognition,
thought and action towards lived reality.
New ways of thinking about eating disorders were stimulated by innovative discoveries
through investigating the lived reality of the illness within an epistemology that included
subjective experiences as part of reality. While acknowledging the influence of social
discourse, the study calls for a recognition of vulnerability in the human condition giving rise
to the embodiment of a wounded self or disenabling spirituality, manifested in the
development of an eating disorder. It uncovers the anti-spiritual properties involved in the
lived reality of people struggling with anorexia/bulimia, evident in social withdrawal and/or
self-injury. Behavioural patterns of obsession and repetition underscore similarities to
addiction and ritual.
The study synthesised pastoral therapy and research. A postmodern approach to illness and
a qualitative design with interpretive phenomenology were used. Three young women
struggling with anorexia/bulimia participated in semi-structured research interviews. Their
narrative accounts provided a chronology of developing, living with and healing from
anorexia /bulimia. Emphasis shifted from an approach aimed at fixing the body to focusing on
individual experiences of the illness; what she brought to the encounter in her own resources
and potential to heal. Healing is envisaged as the ongoing development of a renewed sense
of self, an inherently spiritual process orchestrated from within. Previous disassociation of
body and self is replaced with reconnection between body, self and other, care of the spirit
became care of the body, expressed in harmony and wholeness of being.Practical Theology
D.Div. (Pastoral therapy)
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Hsu, Cheng-Ping, and 徐正屏. "The study on the relationship of the staff perception to the human resource management system in the privatization of state-run business and organizational commitment — taking the CTHS as an example." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96063547246753499862.
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碩士國立中山大學
人力資源管理研究所
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【Abstract】 The widespread wave of the liberalization in telecommunications followed the industrial country of England, America and Japan. The privatization of state-run business that liberalize the whole world market of telecommunications is popular in the world now. Lashed by the liberalization in telecommunications and the privatization of state-run business, our country passed the three major laws of telecommunications（the Telecommunication Act, the DGT Organizational Statutes, the Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. Statutes）, after three reading in The Legislative Yuan in 1996. The Directorate General of Telecommunications transform to Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. to provide telecommunications services in July 1st 1996. Closuring the double role of The Directorate General of Telecommunications in both sectors of peremptory services providing and administrator. Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd in order to turn their innovation into competitive acting in the industry tide of rapid development of computer and communication, and bruising competitive market, creating “the system of human resource management in the privatization of state-run business by Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd “, to attract and retain their knowledge worker, to lift the staff’s job satisfaction, to carry the organization through, and built a brand new successful paragon. Further, this study also discusses about the problem in role cognitive conflict of staff diversity expectation by the company in the process of the privatization, for promoting the competitive ability of the company. If this role cognitive conflict problem will affect the organizational commitment made by staff to the company. Therefore, this study has taken Southern Branch of Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd as study interview, used probability proportionate to size, released 983 sets of questionnaires, got 587 sets of valid questionnaires, analyzed by statistics methods of t-test analysis of independence, analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson’s product-moment correlation, and multiple regression. The result confirms several important discoveries as following: 1. As the staff perception in the system of human resource management in the privatization of state-run business, job satisfaction and organizational commitment, we can see that: (1). The higher perception in the system of human resource management in the privatization of state-run business staffs have, the more job satisfaction they will have. (2). The higher job satisfaction they have, the higher organizational commitment they will have to the company. (3). The higher perception in the system of human resource management in the privatization of state-run business staffs have, the higher organizational commitment they will have to the company. 2. There is a positive correlation in the staff perception in motivation by the system of human resource management in the privatization of state-run business and organizational commitment, and it also has high prediction. 3. Both well-paid and suitable working conditions and prospective promotion of job satisfaction have positive correlation and reached the level of significance. Thereamong, the former variable has major affection. 4. Job satisfaction has mediating effect between the staff perception to the human resource management system after the privatization of state-run business and organizational commitment. 5. Role cognitive conflict has no moderating effect between the staff perception to the human resource management system after the privatization of state-run business and organizational commitment. 6. According to the moderating effect of role cognitive conflict between the relationships of job satisfaction and organizational commitment in the study, the results are as following: (1). If the company can anticipate staff’s need in the sectors of satisfied task autonomy, well-paid and suitable working conditions and prospective promotion, then the person who with higher role cognitive conflict in work to organizational commitment has higher identification of value than those who with lower role cognitive conflict in work to organizational commitment, and the people who with higher role cognitive conflict in labor relationship to the organizational commitment has higher identification of value and company than those who with lower role cognitive conflict in labor relationship to the organizational commitment. (2). To generalize the moderating effect of role cognitive conflict between the relationships of job satisfaction and organizational commitment, as long as applying the well management in the hope of pursuing elite success, role cognitive conflict could be positive and beneficent. Key words: human resource management, perception, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, role cognitive conflict.
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O'Reilly, Louise. "La signification de l’expérience d’« être avec » la personne soignée et sa contribution à la réadaptation : la perception d’infirmières." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/2342.
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De multiples auteurs de la discipline infirmière réclament la valeur inestimable de la relation de caring et de ses bienfaits pour la clientèle nécessitant des soins et services de réadaptation. En dépit de cette importance, la recherche concernant les bienfaits thérapeutiques de la relation de caring pour la clientèle de réadaptation demeure encore un domaine peu exploité. Actuellement, aucune étude scientifique québécoise, canadienne ou internationale, issue de la discipline infirmière, ne porte sur la compréhension de l’expérience d’« être avec » la personne soignée dans un contexte de réadaptation, aspect qui s’avère central à la relation de caring selon Watson.
Au cœur même de la philosophie du Human Caring de Watson, la présente étude vise à explorer, par des entrevues qualitatives auprès de 17 infirmières oeuvrant en contexte de réadaptation, la signification de l’expérience d « être avec » la personne soignée, de même que leur perception de la contribution de cette expérience à la réadaptation de la personne soignée. Cinquante et une entrevues, c’est-à-dire trois entrevues réalisées pour chaque participant de recherche, ont été analysées à l’aide de la méthode phénoménologique intitulée « Relational Caring Inquiry » développée par Cara (1997). Le processus de recrutement des participants a impliqué la direction des soins infirmiers des deux centres de réadaptation ciblés par l’étude. Une attention particulière a été mise afin de favoriser une diversité de participants (par exemple : genre, niveau éducationnel, quart de travail, unité de soins).
Le processus d’analyse des données a permis la découverte de cinq eidos-thèmes. Parmi ces eidos-thèmes, quatre se rapportent à la signification de l’expérience d’«être avec» la personne soignée (première question de recherche), à savoir : (a) l’importance des valeurs humanistes au centre du soin, (b) l’investissement de l’infirmière et de la personne soignée, (c) les dimensions réciproque et relationnelle du soin et, finalement, (d) l’expérience de soin irremplaçable d’une complexité contextuelle. De façon plus détaillée, le premier eidos-thème dévoile les fondements humanistes à la base de l’expérience d’« être avec » la personne soignée. Le deuxième manifeste l’implication substantielle de l’infirmière et de la personne soignée. Le troisième eidos-thème met en lumière la réciprocité et la dimension relationnelle comme étant des éléments centraux à l’expérience d’« être avec » la personne soignée. Le quatrième eidos-thème documente les natures fondamentale et complexe de cette expérience de soin unique, de même que les conditions contextuelles qui la facilitent et la contraignent. Le cinquième et dernier eidos-thème ayant émergé de la présente étude, « rehaussement de l’harmonie corps-âme-esprit chez la personne soignée et l’infirmière », illustre la perception des participantes quant à la contribution thérapeutique de l’expérience d’« être avec » la personne soignée à la réadaptation de cette dernière (deuxième question de recherche). Cette contribution se situe en termes de répondre aux besoins du patient, d’optimiser les progrès de réadaptation de la personne soignée, de promouvoir le niveau de bien-être de la personne soignée et de l’infirmière et, finalement, de hausser la croissance intérieure des personnes engagées dans cette expérience de soin extraordinaire. La reconnaissance des cinq eidos-thèmes a favorisé l’émergence de l’essence universelle du phénomène à l’étude qui s’intitule « la rencontre humaine profonde, thérapeutique et transformatrice ».
La présente étude contribue de façon novatrice au développement des connaissances, notamment en permettant une meilleure compréhension de ce que signifie l’expérience d’« être avec » la personne soignée, pour des infirmières en réadaptation et en proposant une multitude de résultats probants pouvant servir de guide à la promulgation de soins infirmiers en contexte de réadaptation. En déterminant la signification ontologique de cette expérience de soin, la présente étude permet de préciser la place du phénomène d’« être avec » la personne soignée au centre de la théorie du caring. Ces résultats qui découlent de la deuxième question de recherche participent au développement initial d’un corpus de connaissances. Ces résultats probants serviront de guide au renouvellement de la pratique infirmière en contexte de réadaptation. De plus, en identifiant les bienfaits de cette expérience de soin, la présente étude reconnaît l’élément au cœur de la relation transpersonnelle de caring, qui contribue à rehausser l’harmonie corps-âme-esprit chez la personne soignée et l’infirmière. En plus de la clinique, des recommandations au niveau de la formation et de la recherche en sciences infirmières découlent de la présente étude.Several nursing authors acknowledge the essential value of the caring relationship and its benefits for the rehabilitation clientele. In spite of this importance, the therapeutic benefits of the caring relationship for this clientele remain an unexamined area. Currently, no Quebec, Canadian or international scientific nursing study is concerned with understanding the experience to « be with » the person being cared for in a rehabilitation context, which is central to the caring relationship according to Watson. Inspired by Watson’s Human Caring philosophy, this study aims to investigate, by qualitative interviews with seventeen rehabilitation nurses, the meaning of the experience to « be with » the person being cared for, as well as their perception of the contribution of this experience to the person’s rehabilitation. Fifty one interviews, therefore three interviews for every research participant, were analyzed using the « phenomenological » method entitled « Relational Caring Inquiry » developed by Cara (1997). The process of participant recruitment involved the nursing management team of both rehabilitation centres targeted by the study. A variety of participants was favoured (e.g.: gender, educational level, shift worked, and patient care unit). The process of data analysis allowed the discovery of five eidos-themes. Among these eidos-themes, four refer to the meaning of the experience to « be with » the person cared for (first research question), namely: (a) the importance of humanistic values at the core of the care, (b) the investment of the nurse and the person cared for, (c) the reciprocal and relational care dimensions and finally, (d) the irreplaceable care experience of contextual complexity. In more detail, the first eidos-theme reveals the humanistic basis of the experience to « be with » the cared person. The second expresses the substantial implication of the nurse and the person cared for. The third eidos-theme clarifies the reciprocity and relational dimension as being central elements of the experience to « be with » the person cared for. The fourth eidos-theme documents fundamental and complex origins of this unique care experience, as well as the contextual conditions which facilitate and impede it. The fifth and last eidos-theme emerging from this study, « strengthening the mind-body-spirit harmony of the person cared for and the nurse », illustrates the participants’ perception regarding the therapeutic contribution of the experience to « be with » the person cared (second research question). This contribution meets the patient’s needs, optimizes the rehabilitation progress of the person cared for, promotes the level of well being of the person cared for and the nurse and finally, raises the inner growth of the people engaged in this extraordinary care experience. The recognition of these five eidos-themes supports the emergence of the universal essence of the phenomenon being studied which is entitled « the profound, therapeutic, and transformative human relationship ». The present study contributes, in an innovative way, to knowledge development, in particular by allowing a better understanding of the meaning of rehabilitation nurses’ experience to « be with » the patient, and advancing evidence-based results to be used as a guide for the development of nursing care in the context of rehabilitation. By determining the ontological meaning of this care experience, the present study makes it possible to specify the place of the phenomenon to « be with » the patient as being central to the caring theory. The results arising from the second research question contribute to the development of a body of knowledge. These evidence-based results will be used to guide the renewal of nursing practice in the context of rehabilitation. Moreover, by identifying the benefits of this care experience, the present study recognizes the element at the heart of transpersonal caring relationship, which contributes to mind-body-spirit harmony for both, the person cared for and the nurse. This study also proposes recommendations for education and research in nursing sciences.
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Chiu, Pai-chih, and 邱百志. "The study on the relationship of the staff perception to the human resource management system in setting up factories of China for business、job satisfaction and staff morale – taking the YAGEO Dashe Factory as an example." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81291905685994909959.
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碩士義守大學
管理研究所碩士班
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After Mainland China carried on reform of marketing opening in 1978, the marketing economy has developed rapidly and, at the same time, that has raised the vigor of competition between enterprises. Also, the pattern of consumption behavior between the public has become mature day after day. Then that even makes whole world’s capital pour into China. In recent years, China, where now is known as” world factory,” has become a hot spot of world investment. Since the mid 1970s, Taiwan has faced appreciation of NT dollars, higher labor and land cost, as well as the rise of environmental protection consciousness. As a result of this reason, enterprises seek for the way to save cost and expand markets. Under the circumstances that every country’s factories choose to invest in China, more and more Taiwan businessmen go to China to set up factories in order to maintain and raise their competitiveness. Whether they supply their products to nearby upstream and downstream firms or compete with their opponents to earn more preference and profit, so far, there haven’t been any other factors that are strong enough to change this tendency of putting investment in China. Therefore, this study has taken Dashe Branch of Yageo Co. as study interview, used questionnaires to do investigation generally, released 760 sets of questionnaires, got 279 sets of valid questionnaires, analyzed by statistics methods of analysis of variance, Pearson’s product-moment correlation, and multiple regression. The result confirms several important discoveries as following: For the staff perception in the system of human resource management in the factories enterprises setting up in China, as well as the relation between job satisfaction and workers’ morale, we can see that: (1) The higher perception in the system of human resource management in the factories enterprises setting up in China staffs have, the more job satisfaction they will get. (2) The higher job satisfaction they get the higher morale they will have in the company. (3) The higher perception in the system of human resource management in the factories enterprises setting up in China staffs have, the higher morale they will have. (4) Both satisfied task autonomy and satisfied supervision from superiors of job satisfaction have remarkably positive correlation on workers’ morale. (5) Job satisfaction has mediating effect between the staff perception to the human resource management system after the enterprises set up factories in China and workers’ morale.