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Seymour, Ciara K. "Reciprocal Capacities and Adaptive Space." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306500559.
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Jeffrey, Erica R. "Dance in peacebuilding: Space, relationships, and embodied interactions." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/112504/1/Erica_Jeffrey_Thesis.pdf.
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This study contributes to the scope of arts-based peacebuilding research through practice-based field research focusing on dance in peacebuilding in the Asia–Pacific region. It argues that through embodied ways of knowing, dance activates multiple ways to understand space, dialogue, and relationality and contributes diverse approaches and knowledge expanding the range and diversity of peacebuilding practice and research. This thesis investigates the experiences of local facilitators, participants, and the researcher as both a reflective practitioner and practitioner-researcher in Fiji and the Philippines. The qualitative research methods employed include strategies of the reflective practitioner, participant semi-structured interviews, and sensory ethnography.
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McConaghy, Nicholas Ralph. "Exploring environmental space through sound – compositional relationships across external location, internal structure and environmentally mediated spaces." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25026.
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This thesis demonstrates an approach to composing with environmental sound that uses spatial concepts and techniques to bridge the aesthetic divide between reductive and relative compositional philosophies. It responds to the complex issues of contextual integration and separation through a detailed compositional approach, which uses the spatial medium of acousmatic music to translate aspects of acoustic ecology, biomimetics, soundscape and ecoacoustics into the domain of contemporary composition.
This research makes claims to new knowledge by examining how compositional activities inform the development of novel techniques for environmental sound composition. It takes a practice-based approach to research, which uses the creative practices of field recording, fixed-media composition and software programming to highlight and respond to the issues implicit to the production of environmentally mediated spaces through sound. Furthermore, it provides new theoretical perspectives on the relations between musical form and the external environment.
Central to this research is a body of creative work, which presents a portfolio of compositions and the custom software tools integral to its production as research outcomes. As the activities of practice and the insights gained through practice are as crucial to the practice-based research paradigm as its outcomes, this thesis uses a self-reflective approach to document how the knowledge generated during the composition process shaped the outcomes of the creative artefacts.
An engagement with spatial concepts characterises the reflective discourse. The non-linear and iterative ways of shaping and applying these ideas in practice underpin the discussion of each composition and the algorithmic realisation of these concepts using the SuperCollider programming language.
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Lambert, Tania. "Young adults' experiences of romantic love relationships in virtual space." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/7577.
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The arena for finding an intimate partner has changed significantly in the 21st century with online love relationships becoming more prevalent. Research indicates that individuals do experience meaningful online romantic love relationships and that these relationships often lead to face to face (FTF) relationships. However, limited research has been done on exploring the experiences of those who are/were involved in online romantic love relationships. Furthermore, research conducted on online love romantic relationships generally fails to investigate how people experience passion online, hereby ignoring this integral component of romantic love. The primary aim of the research study was to explore young adults’ experiences of romantic love relationships in virtual space. More specifically, the study explored how young adults experienced intimacy and passion as elements of romantic love online. The study was viewed from an interpretative paradigm and made use of a qualitative approach. The researcher conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with seven participants which were transcribed, and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Four superordinate themes were identified, namely, Online Intimacy, Online Romance and Passion, Online Love, and Social Exchange Online. The participants experienced romantic love online and reported that these relationships were very significant, real and impacted on their psychological well-being. The study created a heuristic base that will provide impetus for this emerging field in research.
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Lynch, Paul A. "Conceptual relationships between hospitality and space in the homestay sector." Thesis, Queen Margaret University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272704.
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Romich, Peter. "Hybrid space counter-strategies: Rebalancing our relationships with networked technologies." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22897.
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Our increasing dependency on the internet has had a significant social, behavioural and psychological impact on us all, and not entirely positive. Networked technologies provide an endlessly-renewing refuge of digital information from the uncertainties of life in the physical world, a potentially addictive and ultimately unfulfilling emotional sanctuary. A compulsive craving for constant connectivity has been normalized by broader trends in public life, including a celebration of hypermediated workaholism, unsustainable consumerism, and a corporatist agenda for commodifying personal data and social conformity.Habitual use of networked digital media is crucial in order to socially and professionally thrive in contemporary society, so exposure cannot be completely curtailed and must be voluntarily monitored and managed at a personal level. Informed by an analysis of related socio-theoretical phenomena and historical counter-strategies, as well as expert interviews and interaction design theory, we explore how this could potentially happen through re-sensitizing the ‘smartness’ and ‘responsiveness’ of the technology itself, to appropriately curb its own misuse.These issues are addressed by a design concept developed through two artifacts: the first, a web-based application; and the second, a semi-functional technology probe and conjectural video prototype. Design is enlisted to explore how rethinking the implementation of digital experiences could potentially re- empower an individual to achieve a temporary liberation from (or at least an increased self-awareness of) their splintered psychological predicament, in the hopes of ultimately guiding them towards a healthier, more balanced relationship with networked media technologies.
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Burgess, Kristen. "The formulation of relationships." PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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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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Björkquist, Tova, and Elisabet Jonsved. "Invisible aesthetics : art as a catalyst for dialogue." Thesis, Konstfack, Institutionen för Bildpedagogik (BI), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-523.
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Through an exchange partnership between Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design and Wits University we had the opportunity to stay in Johannesburg from July to October 2007. We arrived in this city with a prior interest in questions relating to public space and the politics of access to these spaces. In a city which continues to be segregated and in many ways difficult to access, these questions felt even more relevant. Through artistic research and the theories of Michel Foucault and Rosalyn Deutsche we address the question: How can art negotiatespace in order to alter power relationships? Our research is based on artistic practices, namely our own experiments and interviews with the two members of the Trinity Session, Stephen Hobbs and Marcus Neustetter, in which we interrogate an aspect of one of their projects. We have analysed these artistic practices through three keywords: public space, power relationships and embodied experience. Deutsche stresses the notion of public space being based in and on conflict. Foucault describes power as something we always produce through our actions. Embodied experience can be seen as a kind of lasting knowledge in the span between unspoken experience and outspoken knowledge. Some contemporary art projects have the capacity to offer people an embodied experience and through this, disturb the production of power because these mechanisms are working on the same level. Given Foucault’s argument that power is not one big entity but rather a series of small practices, these disturbances can be seen as the embryo for something new. To put it simply: micro power can be fought by micro actions. In the longer term we envisage these process-based art practices as having possibilities for the kind of work taking place in schools. We propose that this kind of contemporary art practice can make the art education of today more vivid. We also argue that the notion of embodied experience enriches pedagogical possibilities in school. A CD is attached to this paper which includes documentation from our artistic research and from the final exhibition we installed at Konstfack. We didn’t want to exhibit a representation of our work but rather attempted to produce an experience for people to demonstrate the notion of embodied experience. The form in which we had to work didn’t allow us to initiate a happening. Therefore our exhibition became a necessary reconfiguration where we used similar strategies and artefacts to the ones we have described in the paper but we also encouraged people to participate by sending pictures to a cell phone exhibited in the gallery. In this way our exhibition was interactive at the same time as it showed strategies we have been working with in our exam thesis.BI/Konst
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Hawick, Lorraine. "Understanding the relationships between curriculum reform, space and place in medical education." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2018. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=239182.
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Undergraduate medical curricula are required to change and evolve in order to reflect the evolving and changing needs of contemporary medical practice. Making substantial changes to the form and delivery of medical education is challenging. While there is a growing body of research that focuses on curriculum change, relatively little attention is given to the notion of curriculum reform as a process rather than an outcome. In addition, the buildings and learning spaces where curriculum reform and undergraduate medical education are enacted contribute to people's experiences of these spaces. However, this aspect of context is currently neglected in the medical education literature. This thesis investigates the influences, vision, intentions and unintended consequences associated with an undergraduate medical curriculum reform and how the learning place and space of the medical school (where a curriculum is translated) is understood and experienced by key stakeholders (e.g., building designers, teaching faculty and students). Ontologically and epistemologically grounded within the social constructivist paradigm, the overall thesis aim was achieved through four overlapping empirical studies. Using a qualitative exploratory case study approach, data were gathered from document analysis, interviews and focus groups, and enriched by different theoretical concepts. Findings demonstrated that both (re)designing a medical curriculum and the learning space and place where reform is enacted and where teaching and learning occur is extremely complex, multifactorial and shaped and impacted by a myriad of influences and external and internal drivers for change; influenced by numerous voices and differing opinions and perspectives, different values systems, local traditions, history, geographical location and overall context. Finally, as a contribution to scholarship, the collective findings in this thesis advances our understanding of the complexities and unintended consequences associated with curriculum reform and the space and place of learning.
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Krystalli, Anna. "Abundance-occupancy relationships in North Sea copepods : ventures into time and space." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13831/.
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Abundance-occupancy relationships (AORs), namely the generally positive relationship between species’ mean local abundance and regional distribution represent the most ubiquitous macroecological pattern found in nature. Their importance lies in that they link local population processes to larger scale population structure. However, they exhibit much variability in shape and form and attempts to untangle the variety of processes proposed to underlie them indicates that interpretation of AORs is highly context specific and dependent on the temporal and spatial scales of both data and analyses. The overarching theme of this thesis was to examine the cross-scale temporal behaviour of AORs, by using long-term copepod time-series and varying the extents and resolutions of analyses through space and time. To increase the spatial resolution of the data, I used a species distribution modeling approach to interpolation, incorporating satellite data, including measures of hydrographic structure, an important driver of plankton spatial distributions. The resulting high-resolution maps of copepod abundance distribution are an important output with wide ranging application. I found significant heterogeneities in the relationship on decadal, inter-annual and seasonal scales, with higher-level dynamics often masking highly contrasting dynamics at lower levels. Patterns of temporal heterogeneity varied interspecifically and, consistent with theory, appear to be linked to life-history characteristics related to colonization ability. Identifying time periods or scales most relevant to species’ population dynamics allowed a better understanding of how life-history traits interact with various scales of environmental variability to generate interspecific differences in AORs. Identification of heterogeneities is thus an important step in linking macroecological pattern to process and leads to an appreciation of the hierarchical nature of the relationship. I also demonstrated that AORs provide an excellent framework for examining the response of species’ regional population dynamics to environmental change.
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Dias, Claire. "Under his roof : father-daughter relationships under renovation." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82700.
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My thesis is a collection of non-fiction and fictional narratives focused on domestic space and its impact on father-daughter relationships and vice versa. In all of the narratives the notion of a house under renovation serves as a vehicle for the figurative tension between members of the family and family space. The narratives offer no internal markers to indicate whether they are fiction or non-fiction, which demonstrates my conviction that only factors external to the text---relation to fact or to imagination---can determine a narrative's status as fiction or non-fiction.The required afterword to my narratives discusses the theoretical problem of the distinction between fiction and non-fiction as well as the living nature of material culture and space as reflections and mediators of father-daughter relationships.
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Klopf, Patricia, and Phillip C. Nell. "How "space" and "place" influence subsidiary host country political embeddedness." Elsevier, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2017.06.004.
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As a part of multinational corporations (MNCs), subsidiaries operate in distinct host countries
and have to deal with their external context. Host country political embeddedness, in particular,
helps subsidiaries to obtain knowledge and understanding of the regulatory and political
context, and to get access to local networks. Moreover, they get some guidance and support
from their headquarters. Distance between MNC home and host countries, however, alienates
subsidiaries from the MNC and influences the extent of subsidiary host country political embeddedness.
We suggest that the host country political and regulatory context moderates the effect of distance on subsidiary host country political embeddedness by reducing the need
and/or value of headquarters support. Using a sample of 124 European manufacturing subsidiaries, we find that distance (space) and context (place) matter jointly: the impact of distance is stronger for subsidiaries that operate in host countries with low governance quality and low
political stability in place.
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Stegenga, Paul William. "Postsurgical recovery care : spatial organization and social relationships." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22979.
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Dumbleton, Steven Philip Holt. "Social privacy : perceptions of veillance, relationships, and space with online social networking services." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/621845.
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This research seeks to examine the experience of social privacy around online social networking services. In particular, it examines how individuals experience social privacy through the perception of veillance, relationships and space. It highlights that individuals need varying types of veillance and relationships in order to experience the social privacy they desire. It also highlights that individuals used the perception of space to indicate acceptable convention within that space; seeking spaces, both real and metaphorical, that they perceived to afford them the experience of social privacy. Through the application of phenomenological methods drawn from ethnography this study explores how the experience of social privacy is perceived. It does this through examining the perception of veillance, relationships and space in separation, though notes that the individual perceives all three simultaneously. It argues that the varying conditions of these perceptions afford the individuals the experience of social privacy. Social privacy is, therefore, perceived as a socially afforded emotional experience.
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Merolla, Andrew J. "Relational dynamics across time and space modeling the relational continuity of interpersonal relationships /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1176761101.
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Yang, Xiaohui. "Relationships Between Jewellery and Body: Investigating Personal and Interpersonal Body Space with Jewellery." Thesis, Griffith University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/385547.
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This paper outlines studio research developed in response to the question: How can jewellery be used to detect and interrupt both personal and interpersonal body space? I aim to promote dynamic responses from both the viewer and the potential wearer. I have created objects that deliberately fall between the defining borders of jewellery and sculpture and jewellery and installation art. My research focuses on the relationship between jewellery and body space. By drawing on the connection between objects and wearers, I have created visible, touchable, measurable, and expressible circumstances of sensory experience to prove that the body and object interaction and mutual shaping, is a two-way record. At the beginning of this research I was particularly concerned about how the objects I make would trigger cross-cultural understanding and awareness; however, it became apparent that cultural interest forms one part of a more extensive investigation of how the objects I make are activated by those who engage with their form and materials.Thesis (Professional Doctorate)
Doctor of Visual Arts (DVA)
Queensland College of Art
Arts, Education and Law
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梁錦萍 and Kam-ping Kathy Leung. "In search of their personal space: stories offive not married women." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31226292.
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Shelton, Brett E. "How augmented reality helps students learn dynamic spatial relationships /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7668.
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Bentz, Misty C. "Black hole scaling relationships new results from reverberation mapping and Hubble Space Telescope imaging /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1180453426.
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White, Emma Sally. "Contrived relationships and the construction of meaning." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2005. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28978.
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a) Description of Studio Work
My work as presented for examination consists of an installation comprising
photographic and Video elements, exhibited at Sydney College of the Arts,
December 6-17 2005.
b) Abstract of Research Paper/ Dissertation
My research addresses the construction of meaning in artistic texts. This paper
explores the structural basis of the various narrative and aesthetic devices used by
artists to simultaneously articulate and mystify works, and signposts the pretexts
established by artists to enable artistic production. My research contends that meaning
resides in the dialectical space between rational relations and irresoluble sequences,
and in the audience’s construction of an idea of purposefulness in the reading of a
text. It contends that conventionality is essential to meaning (if only to provide a
framework for asserting deviance), and that meaning is always subject to revision. My
research contends that art is not only an aesthetic and discursive activity, but also a
kind of game where the rules keep changing.
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Wright, Alexander. "Epistemic Topographies: Quotidian Relationships between Landscapes and Knowledge in Fifteenth Century Italy." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29334.
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The landscapes of fifteenth century Italy are a rich archive of cultural and social life. Examining the way space impinged on, and was produced in, a wide range of fifteenth century texts, this thesis demonstrates how cultural meaning, social reality and various forms of knowledge manifested themselves in the premodern landscape. I characterise the capacity for landscapes to store, process and communicate knowledge about neighbours, antiquity, politics, property ownership and personal identity as ‘epistemic topography’. By treating all sources, including works of humanist erudition, family management and epistolary collections, as joint participants in a cultural moment, this thesis reconstructs a view of the practice of life in the fifteenth century. This capacity of space to store knowledge meant that it could also serve as a gestural, rhetorical medium of communication. These intellectual operations drew on the everyday forms and patterns of experience in the fifteenth century and so preserve an impression of social reality. Aspects of gendered experience contained in the epistemic topographies of fifteenth century texts show how classes of people could manipulate space and so exercise their agency. By recovering processes by which people invested their landscape with meaning, this thesis reveals the cognate relationships and dialectical interconnections between several elements of premodern Italian culture.
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Heintzelman, Emily. "Understanding the Relationships in Community Space: A Study of the Villages of Mariemont and Fairfax." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1258467477.
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Thesis (Master of Community Planning)--University of Cincinnati, 2009.Advisor: Mayhar Arefi. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Feb. 24, 2010). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Wright, Christopher James. "The Saugeen Ojibway Nation and Canada : historical relationships, settler colonialism, and stories of a shared space." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2017. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-saugeen-ojibway-nation-and-canada(a820c2b4-af1e-4676-b219-6368a459ffcc).html.
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This dissertation is a study of the relations of Saugeen Ojibway Nation in Southwestern Ontario with British and other European settlers, the British colonial state and Canadian nation. It is committed to an illumination of the experience of Indigenous peoples as waves of migrants surrounded and enclosed them in new ways of life. The dissertation draws partially on unpublished sources, and some material culture, in particular wampum, but is principally based on published primary sources including government letters, documents, and reports; settler diaries; newspaper articles; school texts books; and Indigenous created records, testimonials, and collections of interviews. The Anishinaabe ways of living made them appear to be an obstacle to the aims of settlers, the British Crown, and later Canadian government. The sections of the dissertation examine key episodes: initial engagements between the Saugeen Ojibway Nation and early settlers (1830s-1880s), pre-confederation land treaties and the discontent they engendered (1836-1861), and the tragedy of the Residential Schools (1830s-1960s), seeking to map a the evolution of relationships between Canada and the Saugeen Ojibway Nation as Canada increasingly sought to remove Indigenous peoples by way of either assimilation or extermination. But there was also, from the outset, an alternative experience of peaceful and respectful coexistence, and the dissertation attempts, in all these sections, to make this visible. Today, the population within Canadian borders is comprised of sovereign Indigenous peoples, the descendants of settlers, and newcomers. The thesis is intended to be a contribution to a new history of Canada as a shared space.
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Kayastha, Shilva. "New methods of multiscale chemical space analysis : visualization of structure-activity relationships and structural pattern extraction." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017STRAF042/document.
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Cette thèse est dédiée à l’analyse systématique de l’espace chimique, et des relations structure-activité (SAR) en particulier. L’ouvrage présente des nouveaux protocoles d’analyse combinant des méthodes classiques et originales, dans le but d’analyser les SAR à l’échelle globale ainsi que locale. L’analyse globale des espaces chimiques repose sur la recherche des motifs structuraux privilégiés par cartographie topographique générative (GTM), ainsi que par analyse classique des « châssis » moléculaires. La cartographie a été ensuite couplée avec l’analyse de réseaux chimiques (CSN), permettant une transition de la vue globale vers l’analyse locale de SAR. L’optimisation mutiobjectif des propriétés de potentiels médicaments a été adressé par la méthode « star coordinates ». L’analyse locale des SAR inclut des nouvelles stratégies pour prédire les discontinuités dans le paysage structure-activité biologique, et une étude de l’impact de la structure sur l’ionisation des molécules. Des matrices SAR ont servi pour monitorer le progrès dans l’optimisation de nouveaux principes actifsThis thesis presents studies devoted to aid in systematic analysis of chemical spaces, focusing on mining and visualization of structure-activity relationships (SARs). It reports some new analysis protocols, combining both existing and on-purpose developed novel methodology to address both large-scale and local SAR analysis. Large-scale analysis featured both generative topographic mapping (GTM)-based extraction of privileged structural motifs and scaffold analysis. GTM was combined with chemical space network (CSN) to develop a visualization tool providing global-local views of SAR in large data sets. We also introduce star coordinates (STC) to visualize multi-property space and prioritize drug-like subspaces. Local SAR monitoring includes new strategies to predict activity cliffs using support vector machine models and a study of structural modifications on ionization state of compounds. The SAR matrix methodology was applied to objectively evaluate SAR progression during lead optimization
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Владимирова, С. В., and S. V. Vladimirova. "Взаимосвязь профиля отношений и суверенности психологического пространства у Instagram-блогеров : магистерская диссертация." Master's thesis, б. и, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/100006.
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Объектом исследования стал профиль отношений и суверенность психологического пространства у блогеров социальной сети Instagram. Предметом исследования стала связь между профилем отношений и суверенностью психологического пространства у Instagram-блогеров. Магистерская диссертация состоит из введения, двух глав, заключения, списка литературы (67 источников) и приложения, включающего в себя бланки применявшихся методик. Объем магистерской диссертации 105 страница, на которых размещены 16 рисунков и 13 таблиц. Во введении раскрывается актуальность проблемы исследования, разработанность проблематики, ставятся цель и задачи исследования, определяются объект и предмет исследования, формулируются основная и дополнительные гипотезы, указываются методы и эмпирическая база, а также этапы проведения исследования, научная новизна, теоретическая и практическая значимость работы. Первая глава включает в себя обзор иностранной и отечественной литературы по теме профиль отношений и суверенность психологического пространства. Представлен раздел, посвященный обзору социальной сети Instagram. Выводы по первой главе представляют собой итоги по изучению теоретического материала. Вторая глава посвящена эмпирической части исследования. В ней представлено описание организации и методов проведенного исследования и результатов, полученных по всем использованным методикам: опроснику «Суверенность психологического пространства-2010» (СПП) С.К. Нартовой-Бочавер; методике «Психологические границы личности» Э. Хартманна; тесту профиля отношений (Relationship Profile Test) Р. Борнстейна (Robert F. Bornstein); авторской анкете с вопросами о взаимодействии блогера с аудиторией. Также в главе представлен корреляционный и факторный анализ результатов исследования. Выводы по главе 2 включают в себя основные результаты эмпирического исследования. В заключении в обобщенном виде изложены результаты теоретической и эмпирической частей работы, а также выводы по выдвинутым гипотезам, обоснована практическая значимость исследования и описаны возможные перспективы дальнейшей разработки данной проблематики.The object matter of the study is the the profile of relationships and the sovereignty of the psychological space of Instagram bloggers. The subject of the study is the interrelation between the the profile of relationships and the sovereignty of the psychological space of Instagram bloggers. The master's thesis consists of an introduction, two chapters, a conclusion, a list of literature (67sources) and an appendix, which includes the forms of the applied methodologies. The volume of the master's thesis is 105 pages, on which are placed 16 figures and 13 tables. The introduction reveals the relevance of the research problem, the development of the problematics, the purpose and objectives of the research are set, the object and the subject of research are determined, the basic and additional hypotheses are formulated, the methods and the empirical base are specified, as well as the stages of the research, the scientific novelty, the theoretical and practical significance of the work. The first chapter includes an overview of the domestic and foreign literature on the subject of profile of relationships and the sovereignty of the psychological space. A section dedicated to the overview of the social network Instagram is presented. Conclusions on the first chapter are the results of the study of theoretical material. The second chapter is devoted to the empirical part of the study. It provides a description of the organization and methods of the study and the results obtained using all the methods used: the test (questionnaire) "Sovereignty of psychological space-2010" (SPP) S.K. Nartovoy-Bochaver; the methodology "Psychological boundaries of personality" E. Hartmann; the Relationship Profile Test by Robert F. Bornstein; author's questionnaire with questions about interaction. Also, the chapter presents a comparative, correlation and factor analysis of the results of the study. The findings of Chapter 2 are the main results of the empirical study. In conclusion, brief results of the theoretical and empirical parts of the work are presented, as well as conclusions on the hypotheses. The practical significance of the study is substantiated and possible prospects for further development of the problematics are described.
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Tsuji, Karl Sei. "Lead-lag relationships among precious metals prices and economic determinants of capital flows: A state-space analysis." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187508.
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Lead-lag relationships among precious-metals prices and their early-warning potential of shifts in exchange rates and inflation is debated. By examining a suite of precious-metals prices by multivariate State-Space analysis, this research goes beyond previous studies that focus upon gold, and avoids ad-hoc lag-length specification that plagues other methods. Precious-metals prices and structural economic variables are selected in accord with economic theory from a reduced-form model that recognizes both stock and flow components of precious-metals markets. Structure of the ARMA equations corresponding to the resulting State-Space models allows for testing lead-lag relationships among the variables. With monthly first-differenced real price and rate data, current prices of gold, silver, and platinum are sensitive to not only the interest-rate component of the cost of carry but also to expected future own-prices. But among these precious metals, only gold prices lead platinum prices, which suggests precious-metals are traded in more separable markets and are less substitutable as assets in a monthly time-frame than commonly perceived and that speculative activity from the gold market spills over into silver before platinum. Precious-metals prices do not lead exchange rates but exchange rates do lead platinum prices which suggests that exchange-rate disequilibria impacts gold and silver more quickly than the less-liquid platinum market. Furthermore, gold prices, with monthly first-differenced data in both nominal and real terms, do not lead interest rates, exchange rates, or inflation, and hypotheses that gold prices exhibit leading relationships to these structural economic variables are rejected. Likewise, the potential of precious-metals prices as early-warning indicators of shifts in economic determinants of capital flows is questioned.
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Kirkland, Tabitha. "Relationships Between Positive and Negative Affect in Happiness and Hypomania Risk." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1435925962.
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Nilsson, Wilda. "Spatiality of Livelihood Strategies : the Reciprocal Relationships between Space and Livelihoods in the Tibetan Exile Community in India." Thesis, Högskolan på Gotland, Institutionen för kultur, energi och miljö, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-1365.
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Research on livelihoods has been conducted across various fields but there has been less focus upon detection and analyzing of the interconnected relationships between space and livelihoods. This study investigates these relationships from a place-specific point of view utilizing the Tibetan exile community in India as a case study. The qualitative method of semi-structured, in-depth interviews has been employed in order to gather primary data. Theoretically, this thesis draws it framework mainly from the human geography perspective on space and place combined with the conceptual Sustainable Livelihood framework. This thesis argues that it is possible to distinguish four examples of reciprocal relationships between space and livelihoods in the places studied. These are spatial congregation into an ethnic enclave, the altering of place specific time-space relations which in turn alters livelihood possibilities over time, migration and spatial dispersion of livelihoods. These results are case specific and not generalizable.Forskning kring försörjningsmöjligheter har utförts inom en rad vetenskapliga fält men få har fokuserat på att finna och analysera ömsesidiga relationer mellan space och försörjningsstrategier. Denna studie undersöker dessa relationer med en plats-specifik utgångspunkt och använder det tibetanska exilsamhället i Indien som fallstudie. Den kvalitativa metoden semi-strukturerade djupintervjuer har använts för att samla in primärdata. Uppsatsen drar sitt teoretiska ramverk från det samhällsgeografiska perspektiven på space och place i kombination med det konceptuella ramverket Sustainable Livelihood framework. Uppsatsen menar att det är möjligt att särskilja fyra exempel på de ömsesidiga relationerna mellan space och försörjningsstrategier. Dessa är rumslig ansamling i en etniska enklav, förändringar i platsspecifika tid-rum relationer vilket påverkar försörjningsmöjligheter över tid, migration och rumslig spridning av försörjning. Dessa resultat anses vara fallspecifika och därför inte möjliga att generalisera.
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Roberts, Simon John. "Monitoring the semi-natural vegetation of Crete from space : relationships between landscape and the normalised difference vegetation index." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611704.
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Van, Vliet Liisa Darnell. "Exploring the derivatisation space of polyethyleneimines to reveal reagent-activity relationships and requirements for efficient, non-viral, gene delivery." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614109.
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Rudd, Betty. "Cross-cultural inter-personal space in assumed counselling relationships with same and opposite sex pairs, and counsellors' perspectives on proxemics." Thesis, City University London, 2000. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/8213/.
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Regardingt he main title of this project, the term "inter-personal" refers to the inter-active relationship between people, as in: a psychotherapeutic counselling encounter. Deliberations with relatives, friends and colleagues who disclosed that they had been through similar situations as my own concerning inter-personal experiences with regard to proxemics, fired my aspiration to bring into relief the thread of proximity when relating inter-personally. It also fuelled my wondering about which factors led to healthy inter-personal relating, and whether proxemics played a role in this. The dimension I therefore explore in the current research is the non-verbal one of distance. Within the scope of this project, human relating is investigated while focusing on proxernics. When we know what emotion we are experiencing at a moment in time, we relate with ourselves on an intrapersonal level, which has various other dimensions. I have experienced this while listening to my own self. When we engage in a dialogue with another human being, we relate on an inter-personal level, which also has other dimensions. I have experienced this myself while communicating with another person. When we experience being an integral part of what we experience as our world, we transcend our immediate situation and sense a connection to a greater whole; we relate on a transpersonal level. Personally, I have experienced this, for example: while walking with my family. I mention the three different types of relating here (intra, inter and trans-personal relating) in order to put this research project on inter-personal relating regarding proxemics, into a certain perspective. In this work I have endeavoured to entwine three threads from my life: Firstly, the thread of my professional experiences with the second thread of my studies and the final thread of my teaching work, in the hope of offering a key to psychological therapists for facilitating the unlocking of some positive potential in their clients. I aspire to interface research with practical ways of puffing theory into practice, without preaching a particular psychotherapeutic model. I have yearned to produce a project like this for over a decade, and I am thrilled to be doing it. Many aspects of my life have facilitated the process of this work. Firstly, my cultural transplant from the Mediterranean to England when I was five years old. This experience gave me a sense of having a front row seat in the new culture and perhaps lay the foundation for my search concerning the understanding of cultural influences. Also, when I entered junior school after my seventh birthday, a teacher read to my class for ten minutes near the end of each school day, and this sparked my enthusiasm for reading. Before the age of twelve I went to what was purported to be the first comprehensive school built in London. That school's library seemed well-stocked and I read every book on psychology that I could find, during my teen years. This is how my love for psychology was born. When I left school, I trained to act professionally, later I qualified to be a teacher and later still I studied to be a mime artist. A passion for understanding the meaning of non-verbal communication has thrived within me for thirty years. After acting professionally for some years I ran a theatre school in London. It was there that my practical therapeutic work unwittingly started, initially with children, when the local Social Services department paid for the "difficult" children in their care, to attend my drama school. I remember with warmth, not only the dedicated hard work which thrived there, but also the fun which my students and I had. Yet my heart and mind yearned towards training to be a psychologist. So I did, when the opportunity came, taking my first psychology degree as a mature student with the Open University. The eventual combination of post-graduate studies, clinical work, experience within the performing arts, teaching and the passion within me, provided me with the necessary equipment for the present project. Now that I have gleaned a certain amount of knowledge for interfacing my leaming of psychology, dramatic art and teaching, I have undertaken to produce this work. The text that follows is a research project investigating distance within counselling relationships. It is not only an empirical exploration of factors within purported counselling relationships which may influence proxemics, between counsellors and their clients, but also a qualitative exploration. The chief aims of the research are seven-fold: Firstly, to offer a ground-work of data on proxemics regarding counselling relationships with English speaking adult natives from England, Gibraltar and the USA, from which further research may grow from. Secondly, to add to the area of understanding non-verbal communication (NVC) between individuals who make up the members of counselling dyads. Thirdly, to add to the field of literature on NVC, the specific dimension of proxemics, an aspect which has been under represented. Fourthly, to develop ideas on facilitating awareness in NVC, especially proxernics for people involved with counselling. Fifthly, to ascertain areas of awareness concerning NVC with regard to at least proxemics, in psychological counselling practitioners. Sixthly, to offer a few new ideas to not only psychological counsellors but also perhaps individuals that teach who may need to use counselling skills in order to support their work. These new ideas take the form of balancing proximity with the factors of culture, familiarity and gender (see study 1 in the main body of the text); and whatever themes emerge (see study 2 in the main body of the text). Finally, I aspire to bring more fun and heart to join the head of the body of my profession. Indeed, during the first international conference on counselling psychology in 1997, the chair of the division, Professor Mary Wafts, during her closing address, said that what the British Psychological Society's (BPS) Division of Counselling Psychology needed was more fun and heart to join the head. It is important to note that although this research spotlights proxemics, the investigation initially deliberates on the wider aspect of non-verbal communication, due to not only the fact that proxernics is part of NVC, but also because of the meagre amount of investigations found which mainly focus on proxemics. This research involved visiting three English speaking countries and using a tape measure to see how far away purported clients chose to sit from me, the assumed counsellor; as well as interviewing individuals who practise counselling in order to ascertain their awareness regarding proxernics. In this way, the research focuses on proxernics. Within this work, the term "it" or "one" is used when referring to an objective reality, such as external criteria used as a yardstick. For instance, the measurement in inches (which would be constant, who-ever measures the same place). The term "we" or "our" is used when there is a shared understanding between people, such as the language used between members of a counselling dyad (unless an interpreter is used). And the term "I" or "my" is used when I deliberate on my personal experience. Wilber (1998) has a similar usage of the terms "it", "we" and "I". My experience with working on this project is multi-faceted. It has been both very challenging and extremely rewarding. At times I have cried over this project: for instance when my computer crashed so my doctorate work in it, vanished. At other times I have had fun and laughter: for instance while sifting and deliberating on the research, during a meal, with my counselling psychologist friend Anne. It is not the intention of this work to investigate the meanings behind the words "counsellor", "psycho-therapist", "psychological practitioner"," counselling psychological and "psychological counsellor"; although these words are used interchangeably throughout the text. The past, present and future tenses are used to illustrate: a situation that has happened in the past such as a clinical experience (past tense); a situation which is current such as a piece of literature (present tense) or a situation which may be possible (future tense).
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Christian, Warren J. "Using Geospatial Technologies to Characterize Relationships between Travel Behavior, Food Availability, and Health." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/4.
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Epidemic obesity in the U.S. has prompted exploration of causal factors related to the built environment. Recent research has noted statistical associations between the spatial accessibility of retail food sources, such as supermarkets, convenience stores, and restaurants, and individual characteristics such as weight, socioeconomic status, and race/ethnicity. These studies typically use residential proximity or neighborhood density to food sources as the measure of accessibility. Assessing food environments in this manner, however, is very limiting. Since most people travel outside of their neighborhood on a daily basis, the retail food sources available to individuals residing in the same area could vary widely.
This research developed new techniques for describing food accessibility or food environments based upon individuals’ activity and travel patterns, or their activity spaces. Researchers have previously used travel diaries to study activity and travel behavior, but these are burdensome for participants, and are prone to recall error and other inaccuracies. This study explored use of global positioning system (GPS) to identify participants' activity spaces, and employed a geographic information system (GIS) to assess the retail food sources located within these spaces. This produced ‘activity-based’ measures of individual retail food accessibility that do not rely on areal units, nor require travel diaries.
Participants included 121 residents of a census tract in Lexington, Kentucky who agreed to carry GPS trackers for three workdays, and complete surveys regarding weight, socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, and diet and food purchasing habits. The types and relative frequencies of food locations within their activity spaces were compared to those within close proximity to the census tract. Dietary and food purchasing habits were subsequently analyzed in relation to activity-based food environment measures.
The results of this study demonstrate substantial potential for misclassification bias in food accessibility research based on residential proximity or neighborhood density. Furthermore, this study observed statistically significant relationships between the new activity-based food accessibility measures and some personal characteristics and food-related behaviors. Despite some limitations, the techniques developed in this research show great potential for future research, which should be explored further in a variety of contexts.
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Gibbons, Robin. "Altar, pulpit, chair : a study of some contemporary attempts to solve the problem of their relationships within a single worship space." Thesis, Heythrop College (University of London), 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367928.
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Goold, Lachlan A. "Space, time, creativity, and the changing character of the recording studio: Spatiotemporal attitudes toward 'DIY' recording." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/116473/1/Lachlan_Goold_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis investigates new spatial relationships in music production triggered by the proliferation of low-cost digital music production tools and how they have changed factors of time and creativity for the record producer and recording artist. Research methods combine creative practice with participant observation through a comparative set of music production projects that compare recordings done in large-format recording studios with those done in DIY contexts, and with a hybrid approach combining both. The findings indicate a new recording paradigm in which DIY spaces have become a domesticated form of a once industrialised production process.
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Burger, Johann Richards Vivian. "How do school leaders negotiate space in order to motivate teachers." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/79935.
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This is an exploratory study of how school leaders can negotiate the various spaces in their schools in order to promote teacher motivation and, by implication, learner achievement. This research focuses on how three principals in the Western Cape Province have produced or re-appropriated spaces to create new, productive learning environments which positively engage the users of these spaces. According to section 4 of the Employment of Educators Act 76 of 1998 (PAM), all school leaders are expected to create a learning space that is conducive to teaching and learning. In order to know what such a leadership responsibility may entail, this study tries to capture the dynamic interplay between physical (perceived) and mental (conceived) spaces as embodied in social (lived) spaces in a school. It uses Lefebvre‟s spatial triad as its theoretical lens. Linked to the study‟s aim to investigate what the interplay is between the various Lefebvrean spaces in schools, is an examination of how school leaders can manage to negotiate the production of these spaces. For lived school spaces to have embodied meaning that is conducive to teaching and learning, they must be co-produced and co-owned by the users of that space. To illuminate the way in which school leaders can achieve this, the study draws on a model of transformational leadership. The qualitative study uses a focus group, individual interviews and observations of three schools that have all achieved recognition as schools with excellent learner achievement: a public primary school, a public high school and an independent high school. The main research findings are that each of the three school leaders instinctively followed a transformational leadership style, and produced spaces that encouraged professional interaction amongst their teachers as well as strong collegial support for their spatial changes. The staffrooms have been modernised and equipped with lush furniture, flat screen TV‟s, appealing decorations and stimulating pictures, all with the purpose of lifting the spirits and energy levels of the staff. In addition, teachers‟ professional meeting rooms and confidential workspaces have been established. Classrooms have been changed into inviting and functional 21st century ICT learning spaces, with flexible use of furniture and stimulating visuals. Outdoor learning spaces and safe “emotional zones” have been constructed At all three schools the entrances and receptions areas have been made into welcoming spaces in which learners can gather for meetings, and the schools‟ symbols and achievements are showcased. Clear signposting makes the visitor feel engaged. Braai areas for teacher and parent functions ensure that the school keeps parents involved. The main findings about the embodied spaces in the school are that the three school leaders have changed the physical spaces at their schools into new mental spaces which influence the perception, mood and motivation of the users of that space.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie verken hoe skoolleiers die verskillende ruimtes in hul skole kan aanwend ten einde onderwysermotivering, en gevolglik ook leerderprestasie, te bevorder. Die navorsing konsentreer op hoe drie skoolhoofde in die Wes-Kaapse provinsie ruimtes geskep of heringerig het om nuwe, produktiewe leeromgewings teweeg te bring wat die gebruikers van hierdie ruimtes op 'n positiewe manier by onderrig betrek. Ingevolge artikel 4 van die Wet op Indiensneming van Opvoeders, Wet 76 van 1998 (PAM), moet alle skoolhoofde 'n bevorderlike ruimte vir onderrig en leer skep. Ten einde vas te stel wat sodanige leierskapsverantwoordelikheid behels, probeer hierdie studie die dinamiese wisselwerking tussen fisiese of waargenome (“perceived space”) en voorgestelde of veronderstelde (“conceived space”) ruimtes beskryf soos dit in die sosiale of belewingsruimtes (“lived spaces”) in 'n skool vergestalt word. Die navorsing gebruik Lefebvre se ruimtelike triade as teoretiese lens. Benewens die studiedoelwit om ondersoek in te stel na watter wisselwerking daar tussen Lefebvre se verskillende ruimtes in skole plaasvind, val die soeklig ook op hoe skoolleiers die skepping van hierdie ruimtes kan hanteer. Belewingsruimtes in skole sal slegs oor die nodige vergestalte betekenis beskik om onderrig en leer te bevorder indien die gebruikers van daardie ruimtes dit help skep en as hul eie aanvaar. Die studie put uit 'n model van transformasionele leierskap om lig te werp op hoe skoolleiers dít kan bereik. Hierdie kwalitatiewe studie gebruik 'n fokusgroep, individuele onderhoude sowel as waarnemings in drie skole wat bekend is vir hul uitnemende leerderprestasie: 'n openbare laerskool, 'n openbare hoërskool en 'n onafhanklike hoërskool. Die hoofbevindinge is dat elk van die drie skoolleiers instinktief 'n transformasionele leierskapstyl volg en ruimtes geskep het wat professionele wisselwerking tussen hul onderwysers sowel as sterk kollegiale steun vir hul ruimtelike veranderinge aanmoedig. Die personeelkamers is modern ingerig met gemaklike meubels, platskermtelevisies, aantreklike versierings en stimulerende prente, wat alles ten doel het om personeel se geesdrif en energievlakke te verhoog. Voorts is professionele vergaderlokale en vertroulike werkruimtes vir onderwysers tot stand gebring. Klaskamers is omskep in aantreklike en funksionele, 21ste-eeuse IKT-leerruimtes, met buigsame gebruik van meubels en stimulerende visuele elemente. Buitelugleerruimtes en veilige "emosionele sones" is ook geskep. By ál drie skole is die ingange en ontvangslokale in aanloklike ruimtes verander waar leerders vir vergaderings kan byeenkom en die skole se simbole en prestasies ten toon gestel word. Duidelike aanwysings betrek besoekers onmiddellik by die skoolomgewing. Braaigeriewe vir onderwyser-en-ouergeleenthede verseker ook voortdurende skakeling tussen die skool en ouers. Die hoofbevinding oor die belewingsruimtes in die skole is dat die drie skoolleiers die fisiese ruimtes by hul skole in nuwe geestesruimtes omskep het, wat die opvattings, gemoed en motivering van die gebruikers van daardie ruimtes beïnvloed.
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Guiterman, Christopher Henry. "The Influences of Conventional and Low Density Thinning on Leaf Area, Growth, and Growing Space Relationships of Eastern White Pine (Pinus Strobus L.)." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2009. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/GuitermanCH2009.pdf.
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Lange, Jelena Verfasser], Martin [Gutachter] [Wilmking, and Achim [Gutachter] Bräuning. "Drivers of unstable climate-tree growth relationships in the circumpolar boreal forest in time and space / Jelena Lange ; Gutachter: Martin Wilmking, Achim Bräuning." Greifswald : Universität Greifswald, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1218687037/34.
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Lange, Jelena [Verfasser], Martin [Gutachter] Wilmking, and Achim [Gutachter] Bräuning. "Drivers of unstable climate-tree growth relationships in the circumpolar boreal forest in time and space / Jelena Lange ; Gutachter: Martin Wilmking, Achim Bräuning." Greifswald : Universität Greifswald, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1218687037/34.
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Ristiniemi, Michaela. "Loyalty Club : An Online Brand Relation Management Project." Thesis, Uppsala University, Media and Communication, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-8387.
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Title: Loyalty Club. An Online Brand Relations Management Project
Amount of pages: 46 (61 including abstract, references and annexes)
Author: Michaela Ristiniemi
Tutor: Peder Hård af Segerstad
Course: Media- and communication D
Period: Spring 2007
University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala University
Object: To research how an interactive relation online could be created between a brand such as Matrix and their customers, on the Swedish market.
Method: Qualitative interview
Material: Interviews with Matrix product manager and hairdressers
Main results: A relation online works the same way that a relation does offline; that even if the Internet as medium works fast and effectively, the relation is built over time. It is a communication process which requires much attention, where it is the consumer that to a large extent runs the relations company. This sort of relation can be very valuable for the hairdressers since it can save time and trouble where it is needed and develop them as professionals, and for the brand it can give loyal customers when they themselves become loyal to the customer. The online space, or “loyalty club”, should be simple and contain only information that the hairdressers are interested in, and what that is, is found through the dialogue with them. This is a new development and it meets skepticism as does most of the new occurrences, but much points to that it is the future of communication and more so for the generation that was brought up with the Internet and thus interacts with it naturally. The core question of In ernet is that it is used to organize timespace, with the freedom to act independently.
Key notions: Communication, time-space, interactivity, dialogue, relationships and loyalty.
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Kyritsi, Krystallia. "Creativity in primary schools : exploring perspectives on creativity within a Scottish primary school classroom." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31518.
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This thesis explores children's and teachers' perspectives on creativity, and its implementation, within one primary school classroom in Scotland. The data collection phase of the research employed an ethnographic approach, involving four and a half months of fieldwork in the primary school classroom. Data were generated from participant observation/informal conversations with children and teachers and one round of semi-structured interviews with twenty-five children (aged eleven to twelve) and two teachers. Creativity within primary education has been mainly studied through psychological research, which is mainly based on theories of developmental psychology. Such theories view creativity solely as an individual trait. Despite recognition of the importance of sociocultural issues to the flourishing of children's creativity, the study of their collaborative creativity has been neglected - particularly in relation to socio-cultural power dynamics. This thesis specifically analyses the balance between individual and collective creativity in the primary classroom, examines how collaborative creativity can acknowledge childhood diversity, and poses questions about how we include children with differing and complex identities in creative processes. Furthermore, this research has been carried out in Scotland, within the context of a fairly new curriculum, the Curriculum for Excellence. This curriculum has been viewed by some as a progressive, modern and motivating curriculum that enables children's autonomy, and by others as one that has been highly influenced by accountability and performativity regimes, which leave limited space for children's and teachers' autonomy. This thesis examines how the Curriculum for Excellence is interpreted in everyday practice and the extent to which it enables the cultivation of children's creativity. The thesis does so by shedding light on the practical interconnections between children's and teachers' agency, structural enablers/barriers, and cultural processes. The findings of this study show that children perceive, perform and embody creativity not only as an individual trait, but also as a collaborative process. However, the findings also show that collaborative creativity entails many complexities and that cultural barriers to creativity may emerge when power among people (children and teachers) operates in ways that create cultures of exclusion. The thesis concludes that the multiple identities of the Curriculum for Excellence, its multiple interpretations, and lack of coherence regarding what is expected of teachers, leads to a blurred landscape of implementation. The thesis argues that lack of a clear plan, strategy and framework for enabling creativity inhibits the founding principles of the Curriculum for Excellence from being achieved. The thesis also argues that environmental and structural barriers within the research setting inhibit the flourishing of children's creativity, but that the structural barriers can sometimes be overcome through the construction of enabling cultures. The thesis is able to define enabling cultures as cultures that value diversity, promote inclusion, and view space not as static, but as a dynamic process. In so doing, the findings of this study emphasise the interconnected importance of: viewing creativity as an individual trait; perceiving creativity as a collaborative process; and thinking in spatial terms, for example, in ways that create the space for children to perceive, perform and embody creativity in their diverse, but equally valuable ways. This finding enables this study to argue that there is a need for future policies and curricula which promote and encourage greater flexibility in teaching and learning practices, in order to enhance children's and teachers' agency and thus allow them to collaboratively create the types of enabling environments, originally envisaged by the Curriculum for Excellence, that will allow children's creativity to flourish.
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Mills, Shaylene. "Exploring narratives of women who survive intimate partner violence and the process of their moving on to non-abusive relationships." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27563.
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The aim of this dissertation is to explore the stories of women who have been trapped in abusive relationships (victims of intimate partner violence (IPV)) and the process of how they moved on from these relationships to non-abusive relationships, thereby becoming survivors. The primary research question guiding the study is; How do the women describe their experiences of the processes that they underwent in leaving an abusive relationship and entering into a new, non-abusive, relationship? The study generates a rich description of their experiences, exploring what it is that makes these women unique in changing their identities from victim of abuse to survivor. This is done by taking an in-depth look at each participant’s story and uncovering the personal meanings that they ascribed to these experiences. Literature from past studies is also explored as various authors describe IPV, factors related to IPV and how their illustrations coincide or differ from the findings of this study. A narrative research approach is used in this study. Narrative research falls under the umbrella of postmodernism and is conducted with a social constructionist outlook. The narrative approach views knowledge as generated by exploring subjective experience and how the individual makes meaning with emphasis on context. This study, therefore, focuses on how the participant’s identities are constructed over time as a result of making meaning from their experiences, through self-exploration, social processes and through interactions with others. Data was gathered by means of semi-structured interviews. The tool used for analysis of the stories was the Three-Dimensional Space Approach, the specific tools being; analysis of situation, interaction and continuity. This approach allows for the data to be analysed, not as a given truth but rather, as meaning is generated from the unique perspective of each individual participant in the context, as well as how it was interpreted by myself, the researcher. The results explore this process through the themes of a message from each participant: commitment as it preceded the abuse, identity, control and manipulation at the hands of the perpetrator, and everyone needs someone to help. These themes were then integrated with the literature.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Mark, Joseph F. "A prototype multi-media data base for tracking interface relationships and performing cost tradeoffs for the Sea Launch and Recovery (SEALAR) Space Launch System." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/28477.
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Brown, Alexa. "A historical perspective on wind data: time, space and vector relationships between ship log data and Cape Royal Astronomical Observatory wind data between 1834 and 1854." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24453.
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This dissertation assesses the extent to which data from the Climatological Database for the World's Oceans (CLIWOC) reflect newly digitized historical wind data captured at the Royal Astronomical Observatory (RAO) in Cape Town, South Africa from 1834-1854. This follows the historical precipitation reconstructions for Southern Africa by Hannaford et al. (2015), using wind data from the CLIWOC database. This project also forms part of a bigger project that is recovering and digitising historical instrumental meteorological data for Southern Africa that have never been analysed before. For Southern Africa, the opportunity to compare historical instrumental data seldom arises due to the paucity of reliable data. However, there is an opportunity to analyse and compare two different wind data sources for a twenty-one year cross over period for south western Africa. Wind, as an indicator of atmospheric conditions, has not been assessed extensively in South African, therefore this project fills an academic gap in historical climatology for the region, and provides newly digitised historical data. Digitisation and pre-processing steps ensure that the RAO dataset is comparable to the CLIWOC dataset. This is done by replicating wind direction and speed measurement conversions and formatting (Garcia-Herrera et al., 2005), and by mirroring the available time steps of data in each dataset (eliminating data were the other dataset has erroneous or missing data). Spatially scattered data recorded over the sea compared to data recorded at a fixed position introduces inherent limitations, error and noise into the data comparison. Therefore, to eliminate as many uncertainties as possible and minimise the noise in the data, the CLIWOC data are refined further by a) a single observation per day, b) separating three regions of differing seasonal synoptic air flow regimes (west coast, south west peninsula and south coast) and c) all analyses based on seasonally grouped data. Temporal, spatial and vector relationships are established for each season using scatter plot graphs and Pearson correlations. The different relationships between the data are derived from corresponding wind data (i.e. data of the same day and time), in each dataset for wind speed and wind direction separately. No significant correlation (all p values>0.05) or signal is evident over time, or as the difference in distance changes. However, seasonality is represented consistently in the wind vector distribution heat maps. Significant findings include the observations of anomalous north westerly winds in summer at the RAO, where the CLIWOC data did not pick up similar data for the corresponding region on the west coast. Historical wind data used herein prove to be reliable by the expected seasonal synoptic flow patterns and characteristics seen in each study region. There is no correlation between the datasets over time and space and the data do not present any clear signals or return events over time. Although corresponding data do not show any correlations, there are typical synoptic flow regimes in each study region which prove that wind data was recorded correctly. Therefore, the datasets are mutually exclusive, but accurate in their intrinsic value. It is only the anomalous summer north westerlies at the RAO which question the reliability of the data, as the same wind regimes were not identifiable in the corresponding CLIWOC data. This anomaly was noted but not studied further. This project highlights the major inconsistencies and limitations in the CLIWOC data. Researchers in the future should use CLIWOC data appropriately to suit the research question and be aware of the inconsistencies that may introduce noise.
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Cassella, Christine M. "Relationships Among Captive Orangutan Diets, Undesirable Behaviors, and Activity: Implications for Health and Welfare." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1333656271.
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Becker, Stephan [Verfasser]. "Reservoir quality in the A2C-stringer interval of the late neoproterozoic Ara-Group of the South Oman Salt Basin : diagenetic relationships in space and time / Stephan Becker." Aachen : Hochschulbibliothek der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule Aachen, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1041606567/34.
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Beniz, Beatriz Gomes Magalhaes. "Embaçamento de fronteiras: o rural e o urbano encontram-se no espaço escolar." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2009. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/2948.
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A “Escola Lagoa” é o lugar de encontro de diferentes alunos e trajetórias. Localizada no perímetro urbano de Juiz de Fora, atende à região conhecida como “Cidade Alta” e muitos outros alunos oriundos de diferentes comunidades rurais e proximidades de uma rodovia federal. Tal localização propicia o entrecruzamento de percursos realizados por alunos de diferentes origens. Aqui, os alunos migrantes são representados por adolescentes de doze a dezenove anos, residentes em áreas rurais, que estabelecem migrações pendulares para cursar o Ensino Fundamental. Este trabalho aborda os deslocamentos, as narrativas e representações destes alunos a partir do espaço escolar e, tem como referência, os agenciamentos teóricos instituídos por filósofos de pensamento nômade: Nietzsche, Foucault, Larrosa, Veiga-Neto, entre outros interlocutores. A temática do espaço e a relação urbanorural atravessam vários aspectos da investigação, entretanto, são apresentadas com a perspectiva de autores não hegemônicos a fim de perseguir o emaranhado de forças que criam caminhos provisórios de investigação. Assim, a pesquisa etnográfica interpretativa é fluida e constitui uma grande preparação ao longo do processo investigativo. As entrevistas, observações e conversas informais constituem os principais procedimentos da pesquisa de campo. O texto foi sistematizado em três movimentos: Composição - apresentação da questão e elaboração de agenciamentos com diferentes autores; Arquitetura abrange textos produzidos a partir das primeiras incursões ao campo; e Teceduras, movimento elaborado a partir das entrevistas semi-estruturadas individuais, procedimento que permitiu a criação de outras narrativas. Desse modo a descrição do espaço escolar foi atravessada por histórias cotidianas criadas pela experiência compartilhada entre os alunos e a pesquisadora.
“Lagoon School” is a meeting place for different students and backgrounds. Located in the urban area of Juiz de Fora, it serves an area known as “High City”, as well as many other students who come from different rural communities and areas close to a federal highway. Its location facilitates the intersection of trajectories of students from different origins. Here, the migrant students are represented by teenagers, ranging in ages from twelve to nineteen years, who live in rural areas and commute to attend Primary School. This paper addresses the commutation, the narratives and representations of those students, starting from the school environment. It makes reference to the theoretical assemblages established by nomad thought philosophers, such as Nietzsche, Foucault, Larrosa, and Veiga-Neto, among others. The topics of space and urban-rural relationship are present in various aspects of the investigation; however, they are presented under the perspective of non-hegemonic authors in order to follow the great number of forces that generate temporary paths of investigation. Hence, the interpretative and ethnographic research can proceed well, involving great preparation during the investigation process. Field research mainly included interviews, observations and informal conversations. The text was divided into three parts: Constitution – an introduction to the topic and the development of assemblages from different authors; Architecture (Process) – refers to the work produced after the first incursions into the field; and Combination – based on the semi-structured individual interviews, a procedure which allowed for the creation of other narratives. Therefore, the description of the school environment was transcended by every-day stories created from experiences shared between the students and the researcher.
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Moras, Delphine. "L'évidente toilette, gestes de soin(s) face aux troubles de la maladie d'Alzheimer." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE2080/document.
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À partir de deux enquêtes au sein d’établissements pour personnes âgées dépendantes, une ethnographie de la relation soignant-soigné tente de décrypter la cinétique relationnelle durant l’acte de la toilette. Loin de l’évidence, le refus exprimé parfois violemment par des personnes atteintes de maladie d’Alzheimer, est ressenti par les équipes comme une offense à l’aide proposée. Pourtant ce geste quotidien de bien-être et de confort, par sa fonction de modelage et d’apprivoisement corporel devient un espace de communication sensible permettant de renouer un lien identitaire en cours d’amoindrissement. La présente recherche propose une analyse sur les formes de contractualisation relationnelle des intimes en situation de maladie et d’accompagnement. Dégageant les influences sécuritaires d’une organisation médico-sociale, le temps de la toilette devient un soin protégé relevant d’un espace transitionnel. L’étude particulière d’un soin de toilette permettra de comprendre les processus relationnels dans le temps et l’espace à partir du travail des émotions. L’intime s’intersubjective dans des présences jusqu’au bout de la vie, interrogeant des interactions de reconnaissances mutuelles en mouvement.La méthodologique adoptée traduit ce parcours aux frontières des intimes d’un sujet et d’une démarche dans un contexte de configuration gérontologiqueFrom two surveys in institutions for the elderly, an ethnography of the doctor-patient relationship attempts to decipher the relational dynamic during the act of personal hygiene for the patient. Not at all obvious, the sometimes violent refusal from people with Alzheimer's disease, is interpreted as offensive to the proposed care. Yet this daily gesture of care-giving and comfort by the creation of familiarity and trust becomes a moment of communication that can strengthen a weakening bond.This research presents an analysis of the types of relationships in the personal context of the disease and of accompaniment. Setting aside the safety imperatives of a medico-social organization, the moment of personal hygiene is a priviledged transistional act. This particular approach to care-giving in personal hygiene can, over time, identify the relational processes from an emotional perspective. The intimate inter-subjectivity lasting until the end of life creating a dialogue of mutual respect and acknowledgement.An appropriate methodology traces this journey to the beginnings of intimacy, a topic and an approach in a context of a gerontological structure
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Shah, Rinkle. "A phenomenological study of contemplative experiences : implications for interior design." Queensland University of Technology, 2009. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/30132/.
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This research reports on a project concerned with the relationship between the person and the environment in the context of achieving a contemplative or existential state – a state which can be experienced either consciously or subconsciously. The need for such a study originated with the desire to contribute to the design of multicultural spaces which could be used for a range of activities within the public and the personal arena, activities including contemplation, meditation and prayer. The concept of ‘sacred’ is explored in the literature review and in primary interviews with the participants of this study. Given that the word ‘sacred’ is highly value-laden and potentially alienating for some people, it was decided to use the more accessible term ‘contemplative’. The outcomes of the study inform the practice of interior design and architecture which tends currently to neglect the potential for all spaces to be existentially meaningful. Informed by phenomenological methodology, data were collected from a diverse group of people, using photo-elicitation and interviews. The technique of photo-elicitation proved to be highly effective in helping people reveal their everyday lived experience of contemplative spaces. Reflective analysis (Van Manen 2000) was used to explore the data collected. The initial stage of analysis produced three categories of data: varying conceptions of contemplation, aspects of the person involved in the contemplation, and aspects of environment involved in contemplation. From this, it was found that achieving a state of contemplation involves both the person and the environment in a dialectic process of unfolding. The unfolding has various physical, psycho-social, and existential dimensions or qualities which operate sequentially and simultaneously. Two concepts emerged as being central to unfolding: ‘Cleansing’ and ‘Nothingness’. Unfolding is found to comprise the Core; Distinction; Manifestation; Cleansing; Creation; and Sharing. This has a parallel with Mircea Eliade’s (1959) definition of sacred as something that manifests itself as different from the profane. The power of design, re-contextualization through utility and purpose, and the existential engagements between the person and environment are used as a basis for establishing the potential contribution of the study to interior design. In this way, the study makes a contribution to our understanding of how space and its elements inspire, support and sustain person environment interaction – particularly at the existential level – as well as to our understanding of the multi-dimensional and holistic nature of this interaction. In addition, it points to the need for a phenomenological re-conceptualisation of the design/client relationship. In summary, the contributions of this research are: the exploration of contemplative experience as sacred experience; an understanding of the design of space as creating engagement between person and environment; a rationale for the introduction of a phenomenological approach to the relationship between designer and clients; and raising awareness of the spiritual in a holistic approach to design.
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Carneiro, Aline Cunha de Paula. "Representações em movimento: jovens estudantes do batatal, entre o urbano e o rural." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2011. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/2661.
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Essa dissertação é resultado de uma pesquisa acerca das relações urbanas e rurais vividas pelos jovens estudantes volantes, filhos de trabalhadores rurais, moradores do bairro Batatal, localizado em Lima Duarte – MG. Portanto, o foco da investigação voltou-se para oito jovens estudantes, com idades entre 14 e 17 anos, que, para darem continuidade ao estudo, necessitam se deslocar do bairro para uma escola que fica no centro da cidade. Para tanto, utilizo uma metodologia de cunho qualitativo, onde as entrevistas semi-estruturadas com o apoio das fotografias buscam compreender como os estudantes representam suas histórias de vida permeadas pela relação urbana-rural. O suporte teórico-metodológico está alicerçado em Doreen Massey, Yi-Fu Tuan, Raymond Williams, Milton Santos, Valmir Stropasolas, José de Souza Martins e Oliveira Jr. As fotografias realizadas pelos jovens estudantes expressam significados pelos quais se definem e se constroem o espaço. Os comentários sobre as imagens produzidas expressam a maneira como eles vivenciam seus deslocamentos, construindo um ambiente em que o urbano e o rural não aparecem dissociados.
This paper is the result of a research experienced by urban and rural young flywheel students, rural workers children, Batatal residents, located in Lima Duarte - MG. Therefore, the focus of research turned to eight young students, aged from 14 to 17 years, which, to continue the study, need to travel from their neighborhood to a school in the town. For that, I use a qualitative methodology, where the semistructured interviews, supported by photographs, seek to understand how students represent their life stories, permeated by the urban-rural relationship. The theoreticalmethodological support is grounded in Doreen Massey, Yi-Fu Tuan, Raymond Williams, Milton Santos, Ana Fani, Valmir Stropasolas, José de Souza Martins and Oliveira Jr. The photographs taken by young students express means by which the pictures define and build themselves The comments about the images produced express how they experience their movements, building an environment in which urban and rural do not appear separated.