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Fabian, Bobbi, and bobbi@bobbifabian com. "Road trip home." RMIT University. Creative Media, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080110.092848.
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The more we search outside of ourselves for answers, the less likely we are to be satisfied. Often, however, the external journey brings us closer to who we are as we experience the peaks and troughs of human existence. Ultimately, it is happiness that we seek. The idea and pursuit of happiness is a universal theme and I believe this search for happiness is also a search for home. Whether it is a physical or spiritual place, many of us search for that centre but the answer lies in the journey, not the destination. Using the road trip as the vehicle for this search, I set out across the USA to connect with others who were on the same journey. I photographed people (who had moved from their birthplace for reasons such as love and better opportunities), and landscapes that evoke both home and the journey. The road trip can be an escape from home but also a search for it and so the resulting project became two distinct sections that weave and overlap.
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Dawn, Karalee. "Searching for home the establishment of the National Theatre of Scotland /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7807.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Theatre. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Lynch, Elizabeth. "Belonging in a safe place : searching for a home in Christian community after childhood sexual abuse." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2011. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=203752.
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This thesis presents an exploration of the possibility of women's past experiences of childhood sexual abuse having the status of belonging in Christian communities. This is the result of the observation that in literature and in practice, these experiences are regarded and treated in a way that distances and alienates them from the core values and practices of these places. The thesis is both critical and constructive in exploring how past experiences of childhood sexual abuse can be understood and articulated in ways that facilitate their exclusion from or their belonging in Christian communities. Prioritising the perspectives of women who have been sexually abused as children, and recognising the vulnerability of these perspectives when placed alongside more dominant views, I situate the study among feminist theologies that allow the topic to be explored in such a way that allocates a place of significance to voices and perspectives that are not heard or respected in other locations. Having outlined the roots of the questions I am asking, I set out the features of my location and approach and discuss my choice and interpretation of sources (chapter one). Following a critique and rejection of the dominant discourse of psychiatry as a vocabulary in which the significance of childhood sexual abuse is commonly understood (chapter two), I allow space for a detailed reading of three autobiographical accounts of experiences of childhood sexual abuse (chapter three). From here I develop two theologically significant ideas emerging from these accounts, to show the possibility of articulating and understanding these experiences in terms that belong in Christian communities (chapter four). I then turn to look at how the issue of childhood sexual abuse has been treated in Christian communities (chapter five), exploring the long silences of churches on this subject, and explaining how this impedes the extent to which women who have been sexually abused might be able to belong in these communities. I argue for the importance of hearing these women's voices alongside those of others so that they can belong in Christian communities alongside those who are more commonly heard. From this perspective of considering how these experiences belong in Christian community, I turn to look at the way that the question of forgiveness is understood and approached in relation to childhood sexual abuse (chapter six). I argue that although speaking of forgiveness is in theory a way of speaking about childhood sexual abuse that connects this experience with a theological concept that is meaningful in Christian communities, unless the specifics of the language of forgiveness are carefully and thoughtfully presented, in fact speaking of forgiveness may result in further alienation rather than belonging. I conclude (chapter seven) by suggesting that currently it is problematic to suppose that the formally structured churches are places in which experiences of childhood sexual abuse could safely belong. Finally, I point to the real possibility of these experiences finding a home in Christian community outside formal churches; that in spite of the churches' failures and slow responses, it is possible for women's past experiences of childhood sexual abuse to belong safely in Christian community.
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Stefan, Marius F. "In searching for Belonging-Almost at home abroad : A qualitative study on the way refugees developfeelings of home and belonging in the Romanian citiesof Bucharest and Timisoara." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-158983.
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Due to an increased flow of refugees, migration has become an important issue that hasraised a lot of concern during the past years. During 2015 alone European member statesreported almost two million migrants crossing their external borders. This study aims tobring into light how the refugees that arrived in Romania starting with late 2014 till present,after being granted asylum or subsidiary protection manage to accommodate themselveswithin the communities they choose to settle. It does so by exploring the way these refugeesconstruct and develop feelings of home and belonging abroad. This study research questionsare first: how do refugees experience local communities and establish feelings of home andbelonging? and second: how does the life course perspective help the refugees getaccommodated to their new urban environment? The empirical research to answer thesequestions is qualitative, relying on in depth, semi structured life history interviews held withrefugees that have been granted asylum or subsidiary protection by the Romanian statestarting with the late 2014 until present. The findings pointed out: 1) the effect of the lifecourse: (e.g. the events of being uprooted and relocated into a foreign land brought lifealtering changes in an individuals’ life course). 2) The individuals interviewed showedintimate emotions about their new home and feelings of belonging. 3) The informantsperceived their experience as a perceptual process of negotiation with themselves and thelocal community from which they belong.
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Stoltz, Peter. "Searching for the meaning of support in nursing : a study on support in family care of frail aged persons with examples from palliative care at home /." Mamö : Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2043/2366.
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Davidsson, Matilda. "Grieving the Ungrievable: Searching for Home through Nonhuman Becoming in Hiromi Itō’s Wild Grass on the Riverbank and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s The Grassling." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-104195.
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This thesis aims to examine non-human agency in Elizabeth Jane Burnett’s The Grassling and Hiromi Itō’s Wild Grass on the Riverbank. Using a theoretical framework based on material ecocriticism, queer ecology and affect theory, the thesis explores how Burnett’s and Itō’s poetic narratives reconfigure the relationship between human and nonhuman in non-anthropocentric ways with the help of the irreal. The thesis discusses how the texts reimagine desire, moving from a Freudian view in which desire is repressed, to an understanding of desire as becoming as expressed by Deleuze. In the stories, humans metamorphose into plants, showing the interconnectedness of all matter and the importance of care exceeding species. These strands of the narratives contest anthropocentrism, and by extension also the heteropatriarchy to which it is related. Grief over traumatic experiences like family loss and migration in the stories are shown to be related to the loss of a planetary home as a result of climate change.
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Ip, Siu-ming. "Searching for an appropriate mode of service delivery : the contracting out of residential aged care in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22053323.
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Ip, Siu-ming, and 葉小明. "Searching for an appropriate mode of service delivery: the contracting out of residential aged care in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31966196.
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Matsuda, Sandra J. "Information-seeking activity of rural health practitioners /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9946278.
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Uys, Martha-Marie. "Towards the development of a coping model for the well-being of patients with transverse myelitis." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32047.
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Transverse myelitis (TM) is a rare auto-immune inflammatory disease in which the patient’s immune system attacks their spinal cord resulting in an unpredictable degree of neurologic disability, ranging from complete recovery to quadriplegia. TM patients often experience insufficient assistance towards understanding causes of the illness and have little to depend on in trying to deal with it. This study explores psychological strengths and coping strategies used by TM patients in coping with the illness.
A theoretical framework of positive psychology with a strong focus on seven constructs, namely positive coping, searching for meaning, benefit finding, hope, sense of humour, resilience, as well as religion and spirituality is presented. The main data collection strategy for this study was the gathering of stories as a form of conversation. These were subjected to thematic analysis by interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) focused on identifiable themes and patterns of living and behaviour.
The emerging patterns and identified fortigenic qualities were then considered, analysed and argued in relation to corresponding coping strategies. A model for the psychological coping and well-being of TM patients, based on emphasising the positive and constructive and considering existing models and strategies for the well-being of patients, was developed. The strategic and therapeutic model is presented in easily understandable language for the benefit of any care-giver (e.g. family member, friend or nurse) or the patient him/herself.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Hsia, :. Mei-Ling, and 夏美玲. "Home for Me：A Self-Narrative of Searching forAutonomy." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/kz3yma.
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碩士樹德科技大學
兒童與家庭服務系
102
I never reasoned that my mother was important even if I was almost forty years old when mother passed away. At that time, mother was as a portion torn off me and subsequently I lived like a zombie with wounds. One afternoon, four years after my mother passed away, I suddenly felt heartbroken and extremely wanted to cry when my colleagues were talking about mothers. It was that year that I attended a learning group for life education and perhaps which was the cause that made me feel the existence of the wound that my mother was not still alive. And then I thought such a wound healed. But oppositely it was torn again in self-narration class in 2010 when I studied in graduate school for master degree. At the age of almost fifty, I reviewed my life comprehensively: What kind of family had shaped such a mother-daughter relationship? Why had my life been for my mother only? From the first day after my son was born, I always ridiculously regarded that I would need to depart from my son after he grew up. And I thought that taking care was love and that I did not have the ability to love. The contradiction between “would like to love” and “cannot love” was explored through the learning process in self-narration class during the graduate school life for four years. Consequently, I found that there in my inner self lived a child, who refused to grow up and still waited to be loved by mother. Additionally, I observed that I did my best to take care of this family for my son owing to being afraid of losing him, which resulted that we could not be close to each other. How bitter it was during the pursuit in my life! The sense of sadness appeared last year frequently, which I disliked. All the way, I always avoided to set up emotion links with others, but finally found that I was so far away from myself. Through self-narration, I talked about my life story from my point of view repeatedly, which was like an onion that made my eyes water; however, I was more close to myself. Life begins from the moment of fertilization; nevertheless, I never really understood what life was until I was almost fifty years old. Subsequently, I observed that life education was found everywhere and then I began to talk to my life.
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Rieh, Soo Young. "On the web at home: Information seeking and web searching in the home environment." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105080.
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This is a preprint of an article published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,
55, pp. 743-753. Abstract: The objective of this study was to characterize the home as an information use environment and to identify a range of information seeking and Web search behaviors at home. The data were analyzed on four levels: home environment, information seeking goals, information retrieval interaction, and search query. Findings indicated that the home, indeed, provided a distinct information use environment beyond physical setting alone in which the subjects used the Web for diverse purposes and interests.
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"Searching for home: the theme of migration in contemporary art." 2015. http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-1291404.
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Lai, Ming Chu.Thesis M.F.A. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2015.
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Abstracts also in Chinese.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on 29, September, 2016).
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Chen, Chi-Ming, and 陳啓銘. "New Home-Buyers’ Web Information Searching Behavior on the Purchasing Intention." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11504816628470167777.
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碩士崑山科技大學
房地產開發與管理研究所
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Internet information has become an important source of information for home searchers and the real estate industry. Due to the convenience, low cost and popularity of the internet, more and more home searchers usually search for information on the internet before buying. With the popularity and innovation of the internet, the business model today is significantly different from that in the past. The real estate industry must pay more attention to information dissemination on the internet in order to facilitate the sale of real estate. In this study, we compared the differences among the new-house purchase sites after an analysis of data on the internet. Through the questionnaire survey of potential home buyers, we collected information about what triggers home searchers’ demand on new house websites, and surveyed the users’ satisfaction with the websites and their follow-up behavior intention on the home purchasing. Through descriptive statistics, cross analysis and regression analysis we explored the impact of home searchers’ new-house-website search behavior on their purchase intention. The results of the study show that both new house websites and new house advertisements alongside the street will trigger consumers’ purchase demand. Therefore, both of them are very important. Secondly, home searchers will add new house websites to their favorites after their visits, repeatedly visit them, contact the sales agents on the phone, and will then be prompted to visit the sales agents’ reception centers. From the results of the empirical study, it is found that after the home searcher's visit to a new house website, he/she not only directly goes to the sales agents’ reception center but also possibly revisiting the new house website and then contact the sales agents’ reception centers. This indicates that the sales agents have to develop a long-term relationship with the home searcher and build an interactive mechanism on the internet, so as to increase the contact possibility to the sales agents’ reception center. The results of this study can serve as a reference for new-house-website operators, real estate developers and sales agents. It is expected that the real estate industry can understand the needs of buyers, improve their platforms, interact with consumers on new house websites, and introduce consumers into the physical sales center, so that buyers can find suitable new houses more quickly.
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Hu, Shao-Wen, and 胡紹雯. "Searching the Way to Home─Reconstruction of Feminine Subjectivity through Self-Narration." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76145034293305546218.
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碩士國立花蓮教育大學
多元文化研究所
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“Returning home” is everyone’s pursuit and desire of life. “Home” is not merely the signification of dwelling, but where the heart is. It could be a smell, an atmosphere, or even a place where one’s emotions belong and could recall one’s unforgettable thinking and hopes. All of these are the feelings of searching “way to home.” Once, I was a person who, at every second, yearned to run away from home and escape from the principles, the controls, and the expectations of family. While, in my journey of leaving home, I faced people’s questions that I didn’t fit in with the traditional feminine image of gentleness and grace. Through the process of self-narration, I not only gradually clarified and realized my doubts about woman’s role and my intolerance toward others, but also developed different perspectives of what I used to perceived. During the inquiry process, although I constantly faced the issues of ethics that made me involve in the dilemma of betraying families, my mother and I learnt to understand and respect each other by our sincere interaction and communication. The baptism of graduate program opened my eyes to see the ideology which hides in campuses and subvert my past learning experiences of being accustomed to obey. In the series of self-criticism and practical feedback, it generated positive values and energy that helped my action; besides, I could also feel the restrictions and the compromises of the structure. To put these experiences back to my family and life, it opened the conversation between my families and me. From the isolation to the close, I knew other persons’ experiences of growth and their limitation and also realized that the voice-out must be based on the understanding of conditions. The construction of subject is a sort of communicating, understanding, opening, and transcending; between the dialectics of deconstruction and construction, it reconstructs another new view that points me “the way to home.”
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Chen, Pin-Yu, and 陳品宇. "Searching for Home-based Child Care Providersby Parents of Infants and Toddlers." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20596571147261070001.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
幼兒與家庭教育學系碩士班
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The aim of this study is to explore the problems and struggles experienced by parents of young children during the process of recruiting home-based child care providers. A qualitative research was designed to conduct interviews with parents and child-care providers. The participants included six parents in need of home-based child care services when their children were under 3 years old. Two home-based child care workers referred by these parents were also interviewed. The findings are summarized as below: 1. Mothers tended to seek for family assistance once they decided to return to work. If family resources were unavailable, mothers turned to home-based child care services as the first alternative. 2. Parents had the intention to seek for home-based child care providers using the community childcare provider online system. However, the biggest challenge for the parents was not being able to trust child care providers they were not familiar with. Ultimately, parents tend to choose one through word of mouth. If parents’ perception and expectation the child care services used were balanced, parents might face the dilemma of choosing between keeping the home-based child care provider or not. On the other hand, when parents’ perceived service quality was higher than what expected, they would keep using the service. However, if the perceived quality was lower than the expectations, parents would terminate the employment relationship. The results have several practical and research implications: 1. Parents can be more open to interview potential service providers and learn more about their characters and services for further decision. 2. In order to let parents have clear understanding of child’s condition, the child care provider can be more active in sharing information about child’s daily life to parents. This strategy may help to strengthen the relationship between parents and their service providers. 3. The function and quality of the community child care provider online system has been improved and well-regulated by the government. More efforts are required on promoting this system for parents in need of child care services. 4. In order to reduce the barriers to finding a proper child care provider, the community childcare provider online system can be tailored to be more user-friendly such as efficient updates of information and upload of photos of the child care environment.
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Berle, David. "Lost in America : searching for the entrance to the residential home in the post-modern landscape." 2001. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/berle%5Fdavid%5Fc%5F200112%5Fmla.
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Hsu, Shih-Chang, and 徐世璋. "Multimedia Streaming and Searching Service with Cousin-Fair Bandwidth Allocation Strategy in Intelligent Digital Home Networks." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68448190814314816852.
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碩士國立成功大學
資訊工程學系碩博士班
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This paper implements a multimedia streaming and searching system in home networks. The system includes both embedded media player and media server. To minimize the installation process and obtain the most user preferable content among home network devices, UPnP and MPEG-7 are applied. Based on this system, this paper also presents a cousin-fair bandwidth allocation strategy for home networks that focus on the application of multimedia streaming, especially for movies. Bandwidth allocation for search entities (i.e., movies) is base on a bandwidth allocation weight (Ф), and then the contained server can choose a corresponding quality of movies (i.e., high, medium and low) for streaming service. The bandwidth allocation weight (Ф) is determined by both user preference and server hardware capability. As the bandwidth allocation of a search entity is either over the server loading or exceeding the bandwidth needed for high quality movie, it is called bandwidth over-allocation. To share the over-allocated bandwidth among search entities, two sharing strategies are presented. One is called sibling-fair, i.e., as the bandwidth sharing can only be performed among the search entities from the same requestor (i.e., media player). The other one is called cousin-fair which is a bandwidth sharing strategy that shares the redundant bandwidth of some search entity to other search entities from all the requestors. Although the bandwidth allocation with cousin-fair can achieve both complete fairness among search entities and high bandwidth utilization, the throughput is unable to maximize. Therefore, bandwidth allocation of a search entity is needed to escape from over-allocating. Two improved methods, e.g., (soft/hard) gated-service and re-provision, have been employed to take advantage of the over-allocation bandwidth. Gated-service defines an upper bound of the bandwidth allocation and can be categorized into soft gated-service and hard gated-service according to the fairness degree of bandwidth allocation. As the bandwidth allocation of a search entity is lower than the bandwidth needed for low quality movie, it is called bandwidth under-allocation. Re-provision is a method that re-allocates the gathered bandwidth of under-allocated search entities by erasing the SE with lowest Φ until the gathered bandwidth is insufficient for the low quality movie. By using the proposed bandwidth-based multi-quality streaming mechanism, both high bandwidth utilization and throughput maximization are achieved in the UPnP-based home networks.
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WEN, CHU LI, and 朱立文. "A Study of Yamada Eimi ： Searching for a place between home and school where teenagers belong to." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04701356112155616743.
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碩士輔仁大學
日本語文學系
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Previous Researchers generally divided Amy Yamada’s works into two main categories; one is works centered on romance between the sexes and about sex, the other is works mainly about young boys and girls during puberty. This paper discusses the relation between “school”, “family” and “individual” in the works of Amy Yamada, focusing in on a smaller area of research, using Classroom for the Abandoned Dead, Afterschool Music and I Can't Study, three works categorized in the second category, as reference. In addition, when deeply analyzing the works, it is not difficult to realize that the two categories have many things in common; the consistent nature of writing and the unique charm of the work of Amy Yamada can be seen in the element of the works. Therefore, to highlight the difference between Amy Yamada and other writers, the first chapter gives a brief introduction to the life of Amy Yamada, her relations with other writers and some foundation ideas derived from many magazine interviews, to compare with the works and begin elaboration. The second chapter uses the work Classroom for the Abandoned Dead as reference text. It first analyzes the disposition of each main character, and then discusses how when the unique “individual” enters into “public” environments, such as “school”, they are easily left out due to group behavior. Lastly it organizes the concepts in the work which the author may want to convey about family education. The third chapter is based on the work Afterschool Music. Apart from the classic character disposition and psychology that appears in chapter three, this chapter dissects deeply the psychological structure of the “individual” who is suppressed among the group, pointing out the ideal parent-child relationship that Amy Yamada embraces. The fourth chapter is based on the work I Can't Study. Through analysis of the work, it is not difficult to realize that Amy Yamada is very unhappy with the traditional authority of school education, and promotes that student-teacher relationships should be ideally similar to parent-child relationships or friendships. Combining the above statements we can discover that what Amy Yamada was constantly pursuing was simply the most uncomplicated kind of burden-less relationship between people. The conclusion therefore uses the previous chapters to organize the characteristics of Yamada literature, also mentioning contrasting comments from readers. Some feel the work of Yamada has a strong subjective element, but I believe that it is exactly this trait of the criticism behind the work that makes the works of Yamada so unique! Lastly the direction and shortcomings of future research are provided for researcher reference.
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Chin-Jung, Wu, and 吳金融. "Research on Consumer Response Hierarchy Model and Searching Behavior - A Case Study of Take home cleaning company." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tngkzu.
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碩士樹德科技大學
經營管理研究所
107
With the changes in social patterns and demographics, such as aging, declining trends and the rise of women''s power, the demand for family services has gradually increased, which has led to an increase in household cleaning demand. Home cleaning has turned from a traditional industry to a burgeoning industry. The service is conservative in Taiwan. It is estimated that there are more than 10 billion markets (the website of the Executive Yuan''s website). In addition to the scale of the market, and the entry threshold is not high, the home cleaning market is hot and fiercely competitive. How does Home Cleaning A company do a good job in search marketing to improve visibility and business opportunities on search engines? The study explores whether there is a corresponding relationship between consumer response level and information search behavior. Consumers search for specific keywords and click into the website. Which types of keyword types are in the information search behavior, pointing to search orientation, information search guidance or transaction search. Orientation, do these types of different types of keywords affect post-click behavior, such as which types will stay longer? What is the higher target conversion rate after clicking? In the consumer response hierarchy, if the page shared via the community is longer than the search page, will the page stay longer? Will the willingness to fill out the form be higher? From the perspective of corporate marketing, Google analytics is used as an analysis tool to explore the impact of variables, to gain insight into each search result, to make the entire customer profile clearer and to meet potential business opportunities!
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HSU, CHING-YU, and 許青瑜. "A Research and Implementation on Real-time Target Searching Technology - Using Zenbo to Search Pet in Home as an Example." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6bm4cz.
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碩士國立高雄應用科技大學
資訊工程系
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In recent years, deep learning has quickly become popularly and solving many before could not solve questions. From popular subject, Google developed Alpha Go, Facebook face recognition and Apple Siri voice recognition etc. Using deep learning to develop emerging products and gradually become an indispensable to solving problems. In the image processing has a breakthrough that makes us deserves to exploring. The research explore the increasing proportion of keep a pet. Companionship with pet can Effective relieve psychological stress and taking care of like family. All working have creating new markets with the demand brought by pet. Therefore, the paper propose on real-time target searching system based on deep learning. Using the image processing of deep learning. Based on YOLOv2 network to training the new weights. Users can be operating immediately and effectively to detecting pet of location with system robot.
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Fischer, Ian C. "Searching for Meaning in Life: The Moderating Roles of Hope and Optimism." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/17385.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)While research links the presence of meaning in life to better psychological well-being, the relationship between the search for meaning and psychological well-being is less clear. The search for meaning is generally thought to be psychologically distressing, but there is evidence that this process is moderated by the presence of meaning in life. Because the search for meaning in life can be considered a goal pursuit, goal-related personality traits may also moderate the relationship between the search for meaning and psychological well-being. The first aim of this cross-sectional study was to replicate the moderating effect of the presence of meaning on the relationship between the search for meaning and psychological well-being in a sample of undergraduates (N = 246). The second aim was to examine the potential moderating effects of hope and optimism on these relationships. As an exploratory third aim, this study examined whether there was a unique combination of the presence of meaning, the search for meaning, and hope or optimism that differentially predicted psychological well-being. Results suggest that optimism and the presence of meaning, but not hope, are significant moderators of the relationship between the search for meaning and psychological well-being. Implications and limitations of these findings are discussed.
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(5931044), Ian Fischer. "Searching for Meaning in Life: The Moderating Roles of Hope and Optimism." Thesis, 2019.
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While research links the presence of meaning in life to better psychological well-being, the relationship between the search for meaning and psychological well-being is less clear. The search for meaning is generally thought to be psychologically distressing, but there is evidence that this process is moderated by the presence of meaning in life. Because the search for meaning in life can be considered a goal pursuit, goal-related personality traits may also moderate the relationship between the search for meaning and psychological well-being. The first aim of this
cross-sectional study was to replicate the moderating effect of the presence of meaning on the relationship between the search for meaning and psychological well-being in a sample of undergraduates (N = 246). The second aim was to examine the potential moderating effects of hope and optimism on these relationships. As an exploratory third aim, this study examined whether there was a unique combination of the presence of meaning, the search for meaning, and hope or optimism that differentially predicted psychological well-being. Results suggest that optimism and the presence of meaning, but not hope, are significant moderators of the relationship between the search for meaning and psychological well-being. Implications and limitations of these findings are discussed.
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Su, Tsann-Juu, and 蘇燦煮. "The process of searching for pregnant hope ─Lived experience, situational context, meaning of life and anxiety level of women receiving in vitro fertilization treatment." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16318893780189970754.
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博士國立臺灣大學
護理學研究所
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Abstract Hope is a vital life force in human; it is fragile, robust and dynamic. The focus of hope may change throughout the lifespan development or the course of an illness. Infertile women live a life of hope-despair circulation. Their hope changes overtime. When they received the first treatment of in vitro fertilization (IVF), it may inspire their hope again. They made their effort to search for the hope. But, if the IVF treatment fails, the hope would be destroyed. They must reconstruct their hope. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experience and situational context during the process of searching for pregnant hope and its influence on the meaning of life and the anxiety status of the women who receive IVF treatment. The setting was in one of the medical centers in Northern Taiwan that performs 400 cases of IVF annually. The study was under integration of qualitative and quantitative research. Using cross-sectional design, the subjects consisted of 69 women receiving IVF treatment, and 80 women suffering from the failure of IVF treatment one year later. Data were collected by using interview and questionnaire. As a nurse consultant of the IVF women, the researcher took care of the patient, and collected the interview data. The Purpose in Life Test (Crumbaugh & Maholick, 1969) was used to measure the meaning of life, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Spielberg et al., 1970) was used to measure the level of anxiety. The qualitative data were analyzed based on the interpretive research strategies of phenomenology. Analysis of the quantitative data involving percentage, means, t-test, Chi-Square test, Fisher Exact test, ANOVA, Factor Analysis, Linear regression, ANCOVA, and Discriminate analysis were performed by using SPSS version 8.0 for Windows (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL, USA). The results indicated that the process of searching for pregnant hope was divided into 4 stages: creating hope, fulfilling hope, reconstructing hope and giving up hope. (1) The theme of lived experience in the four stages was bracing for high technology but uncertainty in the stage of creating hope, getting rid of pass and enacting maternal role in the stage of actualizing hope, holding on the chance but doubting in the stage of reconstructing hope, and transforming hopeless into other hopes and searching for one’s own living in the stage of giving up hope. The situational context consisted of the specific factors of individual, family and environment in each stage. There was high level of anxiety in both stages of creating hope and reconstructing hope. (2) There was higher level of state-anxiety in the stages of creating and reconstructing hope. Even, there was higher level of trait-anxiety in the stage of reconstructing hope. However, there was lower level confronting of life in the stage of reconstructing hope, higher level self controlling and preparing of the lived in the stage of giving up hope. (3) Age, times of IVF treatment, duration of IVF treatment and education were the influence factors. Age and state-anxiety were the two predictors about the IVF failure women who decided to whether terminate the infertile treatment or not. According to the result, we suggest proving holistic and long term medical care for the IVF women based on different stage of hope, situational context, age, time of IVF treatment, duration of IVF treatment, education, and anxiety.
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Fortuin, Philene. "Re-performing trauma making use of outsider witnessing : a pastoral narrative approach." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/7040.
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The study focuses on women’s experiences of abuse resulting in trauma. This research performance was conducted within a practical theology framework guided by a de-centred participatory action research process. The study was conducted against a postmodern background and was informed by social construction discourse. Its aim was to explore whether and how narrative pastoral counselling using outsider witnessing could be helpful in finding new preferred ways of living, resulting in healing, resilience and hope for women who had experienced abuse and trauma. The outsider witness group explored practical ways of listening, observing and responding to the pain and suffering of others, resulting in a new performance of the self as valuable, competent, and enabling those who are witnessed to believe that they are survivors that have lived through and beyond the limited life span of abuse and trauma. The research report ends with a play, New Seasons, which is to be performed in front of live audiences in the course of 2012.Practical Theology
M. Th. (Practical Theology with specialisation in Pastoral Therapy)