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Reimegård, Johan. "Making Sense of Antisense." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Mikrobiologi, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-131168.
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RNA is a highly versatile molecule with functions that span from being a messenger in the transfer from DNA to protein, a catalytic molecule important for key processes in the cell to a regulator of gene expression. The post-genomic era and the use of new techniques to sequence RNAs have dramatically increased the number of regulatory RNAs during the last decade. Many of these are antisense RNAs, as for example the miRNA in eukaryotes and most sRNAs in bacteria. Antisense RNAs bind to specific targets by basepairing and thereby regulate their expression. A major step towards an understanding of the biological role of a miRNA or an sRNA is taken when one identifies which target it regulates. We have used RNA libraries to study the RNA interference pathway during development in the unicellular model organism Dictyostelium discoideum. We have also, by combining computational and experimental methods, discovered the first miRNAs in this organism and shown that they have different expression profiles during development. In parallel, we have developed a novel approach to predict targets for sRNAs in bacteria and used it to discover sRNA/target RNA interactions in the model organism Escherichia coli. We have found evidence for, and further characterized, three of these predicted sRNA/target interactions. For instance, the sRNA MicA is important for regulation of the outer membrane protein OmpA, the sRNAs OmrA and OmrB regulate the transcription factor CsgD, which is important in the sessile lifestyle of E. coli, and MicF regulates its own expression in a feed forward loop via the regulatory protein Lrp. In conclusion, we have discovered novel antisense RNAs, e.g. miRNAs in D. discoideum, developed an approach to identify targets for antisense RNAs, i.e. a target prediction program for sRNAs in bacteria, and verified and characterized some of the predicted antisense RNA interactions.
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Hiruta, Kei. "Making sense of pluralism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.568563.
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Political theorists in the last few decades have developed three distinct kinds of pluralism, as they attempt to imagine a political life appropriate for an increasingly complex world characterised by the excessively unifying forces of globalisation and the potentially divisive forces of mass migration and multiculturalisation. 'Value pluralism' theorises the inherently conflicting nature of human value, providing us with a way of approaching moral, cultural, and political conflict; 'democratic pluralism' considers the nature of intermediate groups in civil society and their role to viable democratic politics; and 'agonistic pluralism' commends an ideal of democratic life where citizens actively and expressively engage in political activities to acquire a sense of identity and solidarity. Contemporary debates over value, democratic and agonistic pluralisms have taken place largely in isolation with each other; this thesis challenges the convention and offers a first comprehensive analysis of the contemporary pluralist ideas and their simultaneous emergence in the mid-twentieth century. The first part of the thesis discusses the pioneering formulations of value, democratic and agonistic pluralisms in the works of Isaiah Berlin, Robert Dahl, and Hannah Arendt, and analyses how those works have shaped the post- ,;.. 1980s debates. The second part considers why multiple kinds of pluralism emerged as they did in the 1950s and 1960s. It argues that Berlin, Dahl and Arendt all appealed to the idea of 'the plural' as they attempted to propose antidotes to multi dimensionally monist totalitarianism, and that they formulated different pluralist antidotes because they theorised the nature and role of political theory differently and accordingly focused on different aspects oftotalitarianism. The lesson to be learnt from the mid-twentieth century is that real-world changes pose complex monist challenges to multiple aspects of life, so that those who care about pluralism must overcome today's fragmentation of pluralist discourses and become acquainted with diverse vocabularies to mobilise multiple pluralist ideas.
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Horlick-Jones, Tom. "Making sense of risk." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429922.
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Jolly, Clare. "Making sense of parenthood." Thesis, City University London, 2014. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/12305/.
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Research into parents’ experiences of becoming parents is widespread. However research regarding therapy for parents, and how that may impact on the meanings parents give to parenthood is rare. In response to this lack of knowledge, this study explores parents’ experiences of counselling at SureStart children’s centres and how that experience affects their perceptions of themselves as parents, and their on-going experience of parenthood. The study was conducted using phenomenological methodology. Data was collected via four semi-structured interviews. Participants were parents who had received counselling at a local children’s centre. They had between two and four children each, aged between eight months and four years. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Three superordinate themes are evidenced – i. Who am I?, ii. Feeling out of Control and iii. Parenthood and Counselling. Parents’ sense of a parental identity and sense of agency changed when they became parents and over time, and therapy was used to explore these differences in experience. Despite accessing therapy, participants did not identify with people whom they thought of as needing mental health services. It is suggested that children’s centre counselling services could become a “gateway” to other parenting support as the parent learns to experience a therapeutic relationship, gains a better sense of agency, and trusts that the professionals are not judging them. The findings are examined in the light of the extant literature which suggests, for example, that parents may experience dissonance between their concept of “parent” and their concept of “client.” They may also find parenthood harder if their thinking is not “principle led”. The research findings indicate that there is still much to learn about this participant group, and suggestions are made for further research in this area.
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Hernández, Violeta Erendira. "Making sense of nonsense." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3175.
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The project focuses on the creation of supplemental teaching materials that can be used to support reading and writing activities in the science content curriculum taught in a bilingual fifth grade classroom. Mediated structures are used to link the curriculum in the language arts with science materials. They are also used to provide depth and complexity to the materials offered by textbooks adopted by the school district. The mediated structures discussed and developed in the project are included.
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Ward, Bryan. "Making sense of functional explanation." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/698.
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Wood, Becca. "Making sense of no body." AUT University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/945.
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This Masters in Art and Design investigates a performance strategy for the deterritorialization of the body, mind and space as they intersect the digital screen image. The reconfiguration of the sensing system as the body encounters the digital image deterritorializes the body’s everyday modes of proprioception and spatial orientation. The assumption here is the increasing 'instability' of the body in a contemporary world where the digital screen image mediates and renegotiates our physical encounters. In prioritizing the body in these screen environments, there is potential for rethinking a body politic for performance and somatic practice. My strategy is to reconfigure the multi-modal processing where the screen dominates the visual faculties in the mind/body/screen relationship. Using wireless cameras attached to the body and improvisational structures for performance, divergent spaces are connected and collected through the body, screen and the camera. As the body and screen intersect, the corporeal and the image converge and manifest through the imagination and screen. This investigation into the screen/body opens up new possibilities for the spatial and corporeal, as the body and the screen fold into a mesh of multiplicity and 'in-between-ness'.
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Brooks, Cindy Lee. "Sense-making and organizational change." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq24576.pdf.
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Escher, Alexandre Dorothée Marie Adrienne Charlotte. "Making sense of psychotic experiences." [Maastricht : Maastricht : Universiteit Maastricht] ; University Library, Maastricht University [Host], 2005. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=6049.
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Rylander, Anna. "Making sense of knowledge work." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Skolan för teknik och hälsa, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-620.
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Busck, Gundersen Eline. "Making sense of response-dependence." Thesis, St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/211.
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Hodgson, Kim Andree. "Making sense of (from) catastrophe." Thesis, Brunel University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246148.
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Shravat, Aneesh. "Making sense of ill health." Thesis, City University London, 2011. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/1175/.
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All the work in this portfolio is concerned with making sense of ill health. In particular it primarily focuses on person centred approaches to working with people that have either been affected directly or indirectly by ill health. The research focuses on person centred therapists’ subjective experiences of working with older adults who have cancer. The aim is to draw the focus to Counselling Psychologists and other mental health professionals to the experiences of person centred therapists of working with older adults with cancer, as no research has been undertaken in this area previously. It is hoped that the research can illuminate an area in which little research has been undertaken previously. The Critical Literature Review focuses on the literature, which evaluates the effectiveness of psychological interventions for older adults with chronic illness. In particular it outlines the paucity that exists in this research and the possible reasons for this. It is hoped that this can focus mental health professionals on the need for more research to inform future interventions and indeed future debate on the effectiveness of different psychotherapeutic models in order provide clarity for professionals working with this client group. The Case Study provides an example of using a person centred approach with a client whose father has cancer. It provides an insight in to how the focus of the therapeutic relationship can help a client focus on underlying feelings and help see his situation with more clarity. It also provides an example of seeing a client’s lived experience descriptively as opposed to being seen as an expert trying to explain or analyse these experiences.
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Sykes, Sarah. "Making Sense of Beauty Vlogging." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2014. http://repository.cmu.edu/theses/75.
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Phoenix, Joanna. "Making sense of prostitution today." Thesis, University of Bath, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389945.
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Hodges, Jennefer Anne. "Making sense of biological naturalism." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/13889.
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Searle’s theory of Biological Naturalism has been largely ignored in the philosophical literature and Searle’s commentators are confused by his seemingly contradictory views. In this dissertation I attempt to make sense of Biological Naturalism. In chapter 2 I will ascertain which concerns prevent Searle’s readers from understanding his position. The remaining chapters aim to dissolve the tensions and dispel any confusion. Chapter 3 considers Searle’s notion of first-person ontology, finding that it expresses a belief that experiences are essentially subjective and qualitative. In chapter 4 I consider the notions of levels of description, causal reduction and what Searle means by causation and realisation. Chapter 5 turns to the question of how to categorise Searle’s position. Many of his critics charge him with being a property dualist. By highlighting the difference between the meaning of irreducibility intended by the property dualist and Searle I show that there is sufficient difference in their use of the term so as to reject an interpretation of Biological Naturalism as a form of property dualism. Chapter 6 is where I turn to the other end of the physicalism/dualism spectrum and assess whether Searle should be seen as holding a form of identity theory. I first argue for a neutral form of identity that I call real identity, which does not include the inherent reductive privileging of standard identity. I then argue that Searle should be seen as advocating a form of real identity theory; a form of token identity theory which does not privilege the physical over the mental. In chapter 7 I return to the main barriers to making sense of Biological Naturalism which I identified in chapter 2 and lay out my response to each. I conclude with a coherent interpretation of Searle’s position.
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Langsmo, Linus, Niklas Malmgren, and Pascal Nisan. "Strategi - Making sense of strategy." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-55949.
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Hoyte, Cherisse Asha Shinelle. "Making sense of entrepreneurial opportunities." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28826/.
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This thesis explores how entrepreneurial actors make sense of the entrepreneurial process as they transition from idea to enterprise. To explore this process, the thesis analyses the sensemaking and sensegiving processes experienced by prospective student entrepreneurs in a university incubator. Through addressing the following research question: “How do early-stage entrepreneurial actors make sense of the entrepreneurial process as they transition from having an idea to deciding to exploit it?”, this study explains how entrepreneurial actors transition from idea conceptualization to entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation and delineates their transition paths. Using an interpretive multiple-case research design (Yin, 2009; Eisenhardt, 1989), the sensemaking and sensegiving processes involved in the transition from idea conceptualization to opportunity exploitation is investigated by following ten early-stage entrepreneurial actors in the process of shaping and developing opportunity ideas into entrepreneurial opportunities. Methods of analysis include case studies of each venture idea, field observations, direct interviews, construction of time-lines and inductive development of theory through a combination of the sensemaking framework and stages of the entrepreneurial process. In this thesis, two important theoretical contributions are made; first, the sensemaking perspective is established as a theoretical approach for understanding how the entrepreneurial process unfolds over time and second, new insight is offered concerning the ‘black box’ that exists between idea conceptualization and opportunity exploitation. This is demonstrated through the identification and explanation of the mechanisms that enable entrepreneurial actors to make sense of opportunities as they transition from idea to exploitation. There are also practical contributions for academic managers charged with improving entrepreneurship education and those involved with the commercialization of research generated within a university setting.
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Blomsma, Fenna. "Making sense of circular economy." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/47907.
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Calls have been voiced to change economic and industrial systems such that they align with sustainable development. One concept, circular economy, has emerged recently as a way to rethink waste and resource management. Within this research circular economy is defined as an umbrella concept that centres on the phenomenon of assessing a collection of resource life-extending strategies. This research explored how practitioners interpret the circular economy concept and how this influenced the enactment of waste and resource management, by use of a tool termed the Circularity Compass that was constructed for this purpose. A qualitative case study approach was followed, where 15 participants were interviewed, covering 23 innovation projects for 19 focal companies. The following seven insights stand out. Participants considered 1) materials and products and in particular parts or modules as playing important roles in establishing what resource life-extending strategies are possible; 2) other flows besides those directly related to the manufacturing of a product, such as material flows co-used with the product as well as energy and information flows, and frequently directed their attention at the infrastructure that facilitates these flows; 3) those strategies that allow for the flexible use of product capacity as valid interpretations of what constitutes a resource life-extending strategy; 4) resource life-extending strategies in sets of two or more, where they were frequently thought of as intimately related to each other; 5) addressing one or more barriers seen as inhibiting appropriate waste and resource management directly, whilst other barriers were subject to assumptions not further explored, or not acted upon in a number of cases; 6) various resource life-extending strategies as possibilities of a proposed intervention, without the need to completely resolve targeted routes; and, lastly, 7) participants experienced difficulties progressing the proposed solutions due to an inability to generate financial and political support.
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Carranza, Maxera Maria. "Making sense of common sense : female sterilisation in Costa Rica." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619857.
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Rode, Benjamin Paul. "Making sense of common sense : learning, fallibilism, and automated reasoning /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3004366.
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Ilstedt, Hjelm Sara. "Making sense : design for well-being." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Numerisk analys och datalogi, NADA, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3719.
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The theme of this dissertation is the design of IT artefactsfor increased well-being in the home. The goal has been toprovide a better understanding of the coupling between designand health, and to give examples of how to design for increasedwell-being. The context for the investigation has been thehome, and various research initiatives in smart homes andIT-supported care. We create our reality in the form of material structuressuch as buildings, products, workplaces and homes. Theseartefacts are a reflection of ourselves, we have created themand we understand ourselves through them. Together withimmaterial artefacts like political systems, educationalsystems and healthcare, they constitute our society. Thetotality of these material and immaterial artefacts forms theconditions of our everyday life. This investigation points at anew way to look at artefacts as social actors in an interactiveworld. In this perspective, use becomes a dialogue andcooperation with the artefact. Design work becomes a carefulcreative practice in which the focus is the interplay betweenthe artefact and its social environment. Stress and ill-healthis an indication that there is an unbalance in the interplay.Well-being on the other hand means that there is a balancebetween the artificial world and the individual. Designpractitioners, and others that create our world, have animportant task in designing new artefacts that do not reproduceobsolete or dysfunctional behaviour. Inspired by coping theories, a salutogenic approach todesign aims at identifying and strengthening the aspects ofartefacts that help us handle adversities. This means to createartefacts that form a world, which is comprehensible,manageable and meaningful. People that live in environmentswhere they cannot influence decisions, with high demands andlow control, are likely to become ill. But people that haveenvironments, in which they receive feedback, support and cancontrol their own situation stay well. With new, complextechnology such as ubiquitous computing, it becomes even moreimportant to support recognition and routines. And it becomesessential in domestic use and in IT-support for the disabledand elderly. The empirical work reported here consists of four casestudies related to IT artefacts for well-being. The casestudies include field studies, critical analysis, designconcepts, prototype building and evaluation. Based on thefindings in these studies, four considerations for design ofinteractive systems for the home are suggested: design forunderstanding, for detecting and managing of errors, fordisabling and for alternative coping. Finally it is suggested that if research is to concernitself not only with evaluations and general laws, but alsowith ideas and practical examples of a better future lifethen design knowledge becomes an essential element inresearch. In this endeavour we need more cooperation betweenpractitioners from the social and technical sciences, thehumanities and design.QC 20100618
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Hegarty, Rachael Maureen. "Making sense and sound of Finglas." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2017. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.726841.
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Rennie, Bryan Stephenson. "Mircea Eliade : making sense of religion." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27260.
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This work argues that an interpretation of Eliade's thought as systematic, coherent, and finally rational is fully consistent with his writings. His thought is systematic in that the terms it utilises are inter-definable, although their relations are never explicitly clarified. Within this interpretation his thought is coherent and defensible. Particularly, it does not make unwarranted ontological assumptions but, through his a priori, taxonomic identification of the sacred with that which is apprehended as the real, defers to actual religious phenomena. That said, Eliade's method cannot be assimilated to phenomenology in any strict philosophical sense. The resultant understanding of religion is well-defined and eminently practical for the study and teaching of the varied religious beliefs of our contemporary world. It makes sense of religion in three ways; firstly it presents as coherent religious expressions of the human existential situation; secondly it seeks to increase the (recognition of) Meaning, significance, and relevance of such expressions; and thirdly it attempts to provide direction (Fr. sens) for scholars of religion in our efforts to interpret the data of religious phenomena. Part one provides a concept-by-concept analysis of the terms of Eliade's understanding of religion, concluding with some observations on the implications of that understanding for the study of implicitly religious behaviour. Part two inspects and attempts to defend against the various criticisms which have been leveled against Eliade by other scholars in the field of the academic study of religion. It concludes with some observations on the significance of this interpretation for methodology in that study of a human phenomenon.
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Mankowitz, Poppy Rebecca Mary. "Making sense of metaphysical modal claims." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2014. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/making-sense-of-metaphysical-modal-claims(17346d15-f8d2-4399-a821-f0d2c2c83700).html.
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In my thesis, I will consider the topic of metaphysical modal claims. The problem with metaphysical modal claims is that it is not entirely clear how one goes about interpreting and assigning truth-values to some of them. It shall be argued that a exible, reductive account of the way in which speakers issue and interpret modal claims would address this sense of confusion. I will therefore motivate, develop and defend a reductive, linguistic er- satzer account in a deliberately simplied language of modal predicate logic. This account will construe possible worlds as maximal-consistent sets of sen- tences, dening these structures in such a way that modal notions are not employed. The idea of assumption-relative modal operators and accessibility relations will then be dened, in order to accommodate the fact that most modal claims do not concern broad logical possibility. Finally, a means of incorporating essentialist claims into assumption-sets shall be developed, in order to handle metaphysical modal claims in particular. An essentialist predicate must be construed non-modally in order to avoid compromising the reductive account. The developed account will also be assessed. I will argue that it is indeed reductive, that Lewis's criticism of reductive linguistic ersatzer accounts do not apply in this case, and that no other means of constructing possible worlds has the potential to give a similar reductive account. However, the commitment to a primitive essentialist predicate undermines the motivation for the proposal qua reductive account. I will consider this objection, in addition to others, and reiterate the theoretical benets of the account.
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Robinson, Nicole M. "Cancer rumor effects on sense making /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/7643.
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Cummer, Clementine Douglas. "Seeing things : making sense of life." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34102.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-145).
This thesis is a reflection on the ideas and process involved in making a body of art work which deals with singular experiences of looking and personal efforts to grasp meaning through vision. These projects grew from my understanding that vision is subjective and always mediated, both by technologies and by other bodies. Experientially, the theoretically clear distinction between subject and object is confusing: the viewer is always part of the picture, always implicated in the process of making sense. As a contemporary medium that claims to offer direct records of the living world, digital video is both a compelling, but inadequate, simulacra of the real thing and fabulous realization of our dreams of visual acuity. Neither the written nor the visual work included here is intended to illustrate or explain the other. Language and image work best in conversation with one another; both are powerful and satisfying ways of playing with ideas and finding new knowledge. In Chapter 2, I explore a number of different theories that have contributed to my thinking and to my making. This theoretical work is not an explanation of the visual work. It is, rather, another way of thinking through some of the same concerns.
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Wiese, Eliane. "Toward Sense Making with Grounded Feedback." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2015. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/628.
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In STEM domains, robust learning includes not only fluency with procedures, but also recognition and application of the conceptual principles that underlie them. Grounded feedback is one instructional approach proposed to help students integrate conceptual knowledge into their learning of procedures. Grounded feedback functions primarily by having students take an action in the target domain (often symbolic) and receiving feedback in a representation that is easier to reason with. This thesis defines grounded feedback and evaluates its effectiveness. I define grounded feedback with four characteristics: (1) The feedback reflects students’ inputs according to rules that are inherent to the topic of study. For example, an inputted equation with two variables may be shown as a graph. (2) The feedback facilitates selfevaluation - by examining the feedback, students can evaluate for themselves if their answers are correct or not. (3) Students do not directly manipulate the feedback representation. Instead, the inputs are in a format that matches the domain learning goals. (4) The feedback conveys information about the nature of errors, not just that a particular action was incorrect. For example, the feedback may indicate the direction or magnitude of the error. Some prior experiments on systems with the four characteristics of grounded feedback found greater learning of target procedures (Nathan 1998) and greater transfer (Mathan & Koedinger 20015), relative to robust controls. Over four studies with 4th and 5th graders, this thesis explores three tutor designs for fraction addition that incorporate visualizations of magnitude, including grounded feedback. Two studies of grounded feedback show effects of robust learning relative to correctness feedback, including greater future learning (in study 2) and transfer (in study 3). Another study found little difference between grounded feedback with and without correctness. In the last study, relative to correctness feedback, two implementations of dynamically linked concrete representations (variations on grounded feedback) showed greater robust learning (pre-test to delayed test). The correctness feedback tutor, used in three of these studies, is a high-bar control, including immediate step-level correctness feedback and adaptive on-demand hints. Indications of more robust learning with the grounded feedback tutor are promising, though not conclusive. Grounded feedback is intended to leverage concrete representations to elicit students’ prior knowledge of relevant concepts. Over two Difficulty Factor Assessments, 5th graders demonstrated difficulty incorporating magnitude information when evaluating fraction addition equations. In particular, students could generally evaluate an equation correctly when it was represented with fraction bars. However, including symbols with the bars interfered with students’ evaluations by triggering incorrect transfer from whole-number addition. Students also did not fully grasp that when two positive fractions are added, the resulting sum is bigger than each addend alone. These findings may help explain why the benefits of grounded feedback are not as strong as proponents of concrete representations might hope. Namely, the target population may not be able to take full advantage of the magnitude visualization because they lack pre-requisite knowledge of how fraction addition involves magnitude.
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Drevin, Lynette. "Making sense of information systems failures." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2014. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/14410/.
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Information systems (IS) are used almost everywhere around us and we cannot even conceive of a world without computerised systems. IS support essential functions in most areas and levels of society. These include education, business, leisure, and medical and scientific areas. Moreover, IS add to the competitiveness of companies and support the continuous change that takes place in business and its environment. Literature frequently reports on Information systems that fail or are abandoned in many domains and in many countries. Often IS are seen by users as underperforming, failing to meet expectations and not delivering value to customers. In order to reduce IS failures numerous studies have been conducted resulting in solutions being offered to improve the situation. Post-project reviews are often used to learn from mistakes. Social sciences regularly use narrative analysis methods to analyse stories to understand the experiences of people in settings such as psychology and education. This study borrows from the social sciences and proposes the use of narrative analysis in investigating IS failure research. A case history was identified in which IS stakeholders were asked to share their experiences regarding the development and use of the IS. Three narrative analysis approaches were applied in this study to analyse the accounts of the stakeholders taking into account the perspectives of multiple user groups. This was done in order to study the thesis statement: narrative analysis methods can be useful to make sense of Information systems’ failures. A multi-perspective framework for analysing IS stakeholders’ accounts was constructed, during the study, which could be used by developers to gain insight from the users of previous systems in order to learn from mistakes for subsequent systems. It is shown in this qualitative study, where narrative approaches were followed to gather, analyse and interpret the rich, multi-voiced and incoherent stories of IS stakeholders, that each approach helps to make sense from the accounts of stakeholders in different ways and highlight important elements. It is shown that narrative analysis methods that were used in this study can produce deeper insights into the experience of involved stakeholders. The insights obtained from applying narrative methods can be used for internal learning within organisations as well as externally within the discipline. It is shown in this study that all voices must be heard; the small stories of stakeholders should also be taken into account when listening to users. Reading between the lines reveals information that cannot be ignored if IS are to be developed to the satisfaction of all stakeholders. Indeed, systems become alive and take on a character of their own when the accounts are analysed on a deeper level and systems can therefore be designed in new ways that enable developers to address a wider set of constraints representing multiple groups of stakeholders. The contribution of this work is on more than one level. Information systems development practice can be influenced and enriched by gaining deeper insights that address the concerns of the diverse groups of stakeholders. The research methodology field of IS has also been impacted upon by the successful importing of methods from another domain and has thereby also given back to the discipline it has borrowed from. Narrative practice and theory can make use of the new insights gained in a new area of application, namely IS failures. The conclusion of this study is that narrative approaches and storytelling can be useful and applicable when investigating IS failures and improves the understanding of IS development and users’ concerns taking into account multiple perspectives of stakeholders.
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Billings, J. "Making sense of first episode psychosis." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1446413/.
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This paper addresses whether the concept of illness perceptions, which has been developed in the arena of chronic physical illness, can be applied to an acute mental illness such as first episode psychosis. Literature related to first episode psychosis and illness perceptions is reviewed and the potential benefits and problems of using the illness perceptions framework when trying to understand how people make sense of a first episode of psychosis are discussed. Finally, areas warranting exploration in further research are highlighted.
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Örtenblad, Anders. "Making sense of vague management ideas /." Halmstad : Göteborg : Anders Örtenblad : Halmstad University ; University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics and Law, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/18367.
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Mathias, Megan Jane. "Making sense of leadership-in-government." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/11978.
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This thesis explores the phenomenon of leadership by senior public servants in Westminster system governments. Despite the important constitutional position held by senior public servants (SPS), we know relatively little about what they do day-to-day – in particular what their ‘leadership’ looks like, or how and why it occurs. To address this gap in knowledge, I use an inductive lens to study individual SPS leadership practices in response to strategic challenges they face, and the sensemaking pathways that lead them to engage in those practices. My approach in this study draws upon a critical realist application of the Gioia Methodology, a systematic approach to the development of new concepts designed to bring qualitative rigour into the process and presentation of inductive research (Gioia, Corley, Kevin and Hamilton, 2013). I examine SPS leadership and sensemaking in two sites of Westminster system government – New Zealand and Wales – and draw upon qualitative interview data to forge narratives and a conceptual model to explain how SPS leadership is accomplished. The findings reveal that SPS are not neutral, impartial bureaucrats, but are individuals whose identities and preferences shape their leadership on strategic challenges. Their preferences can align them to their minister’s agenda (agenda leadership), or lead them to try to alter an agenda, by engaging in practices to reframe the challenge and/or proposed government response (steward leadership). The model maps two distinct sensemaking pathways underpinning agenda and steward –leadership respectively, revealing how key extrinsic and intrinsic factors combine to shape each. The model, and its component freshly-instantiated concepts, afford new empirical evidence to the debate on the appropriate role of SPS in Westminster system governments, which to date has been dominated by theoretical and normative contributions. Drawing upon this new evidence, I argue that both agenda leadership and steward leadership by SPS are demanded to supplement the bounded leadership of elected ministers; and recommend updating socialisation, scrutiny and accountability routines to recognise the reality of SPS as independent, human sensemakers and leaders in government.
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Byun, Kunjoon. "Bayesian Mind: Making Sense of Probability-Based Decision Making Strategies." W&M ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1477068454.
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Bayesian probability problems are notoriously difficult for people to solve accurately. Base rate neglect refers to the hypothesis that people ignore base rate information in preference for individuating information when making these probability judgments (Kahneman & Tversky, 1973). Correct answers to base rate neglect problems often require complex Bayesian calculations involving probability information embedded within realistic event descriptions. The past research emphasis on base rate neglect responses for such problems has overlooked the fact that responses can actually vary widely across participants and within participants from one problem to the next. The verbal protocol analyses of participants’ decision making processes found in the current study revealed that participants use a variety of cognitive strategies to solve such problems. The between-participant and within-participant variability can result from simple miscalculations to difficulties with translating probability statements into numerical calculations. This translation process can be further complicated by idiosyncratic subjective interpretations of the event descriptions and a basic misunderstanding of objective probability information. The results of the current study highlight that improving an individual’s Bayesian reasoning requires the instructional procedure to be tailored to their sources of difficulties, and that individual protocol analyses could help define these instructional procedures.
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Rodriguez, Steven. "Making sense of divergent career test scores." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2709.
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Lao, Un Loi. "Sense-making process in higher educational organizations." Thesis, University of Macau, 2006. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1637048.
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Pernu, E. (Elina). "MNC making sense of global customer relationships." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2013. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526202006.
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Abstract The present study develops the knowledge of industrial customer relationships by examining how multinational corporations (MNCs) make sense of global customer relationships. This study also discusses how individuals make sense of global customer relationships inside of MNC networks. Sensemaking is thus viewed as both an individual action and an organizational-level action. In this research, individual sensemaking views are combined into organizational-level understanding to offer a multilevel approach to both relationships and networks. The empirical study is a qualitative single-case study that focuses on three global customer relationships of an MNC. This research describes the sensemade views of the selected customer relationships and explores how these views are created. The discussed customer relationships are global by nature, they cross national borders, and they involve the episodic and discontinuous project level as well as global customer relationships that are managed at a more continuous organizational level, and these relationships are intertwined over time. The sensemaking of customer relationships is intertwined with relationship development. This research creates an understanding of sensemaking and operationalizes the concept by showing the different types of sensemaking and exploring how individuals make sense. This research also identifies primary sensemakers whose acting and sensemaking have contributed to developing the MNC view of global customer relationships and connected the multiple different views. This research shows that within a single corporation, multiple different understandings of the customer as well as of the type and status of customer relationship can exist. This research describes how the sensemaking process inside of a network functions and how the MNC sensemade views of the customer relationship are formed from multiple individual views. In addition, the definition of an MNC is widened in this research, and an MNC is defined as an internal network that is formed around its customer relationships. Customers constitute a key driving force of internal cooperation and create the environment in which individuals strive to make sense of their own network and of the customers with whom they are operatingTiivistelmä Tässä väitöskirjassa keskitytään teollisiin asiakassuhteisiin tutkimalla, miten monikansallinen yritys luo ymmärrystä globaaleista asiakassuhteistaan. Lisäksi työssä keskitytään siihen, miten yrityksen sisäisessä verkostossa työskentelevät yksilöt luovat omaa ymmärrystään globaaleista asiakassuhteista. Ymmärryksen luomista tutkitaan siis sekä yksilö- että organisaatiotason toimintana. Monikansallisessa yrityksessä eri yksilöiden näkemykset yhdistyvät organisaatiotason ymmärrykseksi asiakkaasta, minkä vuoksi suhteita ja verkostoja tutkitaan usealla analyysitasolla. Tutkimuksen empiirinen osuus toteutetaan laadullisena, yhden tapauksen tapaustutkimuksena, joka keskittyy monikansallisen yrityksen kolmeen asiakassuhteeseen. Nämä asiakassuhteet ovat luonteeltaan globaaleja ja ylittävät maantieteelliset rajat. Organisaatiotason asiakassuhde toimittajan ja asiakkaan välillä voidaan kuvata jatkuvaksi, vaikka asiakassuhde käytännössä koostuukin useista epäjatkuvista projekteista eri maantieteellisten ja teknologisten yksiköiden välillä. Organisaatio- ja projektitason suhteet kietoutuvat toisiinsa suhteen kehittyessä. Ymmärryksen luominen asiakkaasta on jatkuva prosessi ja se tapahtuu samanaikaisesti asiakassuhteen kehittymisen kanssa. Tässä tutkimuksessa kuvataan, kuinka asiakkaista luodaan ymmärrystä organisaatio- ja yksilötasolla. Tutkimuksessa tunnistetaan keskeisiä henkilöitä, joiden toiminta rakentaa monikansallisen yrityksen ymmärrystä globaaleista asiakassuhteista ja yhdistää eri yksilöiden näkemyksiä. Tutkimuksessa havaitaan, että yhden organisaation sisällä voi olla lukuisia eri ymmärryksiä asiakassuhteesta ja sen tilasta. Tutkimus kuvaakin, kuinka ymmärrystä luodaan organisaation sisäisessä verkostossa ja miten organisaatiotason ymmärrys globaaleista asiakassuhteista muodostuu useiden eri yksilöiden käsityksistä. Lisäksi tässä tutkimuksessa monikansallisen yrityksen määritelmää laajennetaan kuvaamalla se sisäiseksi verkostoksi, joka rakentuu asiakassuhteiden ympärille. Asiakas on tärkein ohjaava voima sisäisessä yhteistyössä. Toimiessaan yrityksen sisäisessä verkostossa, yksilöt pyrkivät luomaan ymmärrystä omasta ympäröivästä verkostostaan sekä asiakkaista, joiden kanssa he toimivat
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Lunkka, N. (Nina). "Making sense of hospital change project actuality." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2018. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526219134.
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Abstract The purpose of this dissertation is to describe and increase understanding of hospital change project actuality. Project actuality means various level social processes that go on in hospital change projects and through which people in project perceive reality. A way to capture hospital change project actuality is to focus on little-studied project participants’ lived experiences, i.e., reflexive actors’ situational thinking. Approaching hospital change project participants’ lived experiences through a Weickian sensemaking perspective, this dissertation investigates hospital change project actuality in one university hospital in Finland. Sensemaking means a process through which people generate meanings for their experiences and it provides a well-grounded perspective to focus on lived experiences in hospital change projects. The study is a qualitative case study consisting of three sub-studies, which consist of four interrelated articles. The first sub-study explores hospital change projects as a context for sensemaking from mid-level nurse managers’ viewpoint. The second sub-study investigates the role of emotions in the process of nurse managers’ sensemaking of change in a hospital project. The third sub-study examines different project participants’ discursive sensemaking of their lived project work experiences in hospital and introduces a discursive sensemaking perspective as a conceptual framework to study lived experiences through discourses. The primary data consist of 37 interviews, which were analyzed deploying different qualitative analysis methods, so deductive content analysis, discourse analysis and narrative analysis. The first sub-study shows that hospital projects provide a reasonable context for sensemaking of change, however, hierarchy between different professions may obscure it. The second sub-study indicates that poorly experienced change facilitation maintains negative emotions influencing also plausibility of the organizational change in hospital project. The third sub-study suggests that high expectations regarding project-based work seem not to realize in practice in hospital. All in all, the study shows that hospital change projects actualize as paradoxal processes that are characterized by tensions between collaboration, competition and controlTiivistelmä Väitöskirjan tarkoituksena on kuvailla ja lisätä ymmärrystä sairaalan muutosprojektien aktuaalisuudesta. Aktuaalisuudella tarkoitetaan eritasoisia sosiaalisia prosesseja, joiden kautta sairaalan muutosprojektien toimijat hahmottavat todellisuutta ympärillään. Sitä voidaan tarkastella projektiin osallistuvien ihmisten kokemuksellisuuden eli refleksiivisten toimijoiden tilanteisen ajattelun kautta. Väitöskirjassa tutkitaan sairaalan muutosprojektien aktuaalisuutta Weickiläisen merkityksellistämisen näkökulman kautta yhden yliopistosairaalan kontekstissa Suomessa. Merkityksellistäminen tarkoittaa prosessia, jonka kautta toimijat kehittävät merkityksiä kokemuksilleen voidakseen toimia mielekkäästi. Se tarjoaa perustellun näkökulman sairaalan muutosprojektien aktuaalisuuden tarkasteluun. Tutkimus on laadullinen tapaustutkimus koostuen kolmesta osatutkimuksesta, jotka puolestaan koostuvat neljästä artikkelista. Ensimmäinen osatutkimus tarkastelee sairaalan projekteja merkityksellistämisen kontekstina ylihoitajien näkökulmasta. Toinen osatutkimus tutkii osastonhoitajien tunteiden roolia muutoksen merkityksellistämisen prosessissa sairaalan projektissa. Kolmas osastutkimus tarkastelee sairaalan muutosprojektiin osallistuvien eri toimijoiden projektityön kokemuksellisuutta esitellen diskursiivisen merkityksellistämisen konseptuaalisena viitekehyksenä, jonka avulla voidaan tarkastella kokemuksellisuuden merkityksellistämistä diskursseihin yhdistettynä. Väitöskirjan pääaineisto koostuu 37 haastattelusta, joita on analysoitu kvalitatiivisilla analyysimenetelmillä, kuten teorialähtöistä sisällönanalyysiä, diskurssianalyysiä sekä narratiivista analyysiä, hyödyntäen. Väitöskirjan ensimmäinen osastutkimus osoittaa, että sairaalan projektit tarjoavat mielekkään kontekstin muutoksen merkityksellistämiselle, joskin eri ammattikuntien hierarkkisuus saattaa haitata sitä. Toinen osatutkimus viittaa siihen, että heikkona koettu muutosprosessin tukeminen ylläpitää negatiivisia tunteita vaikuttaen myös negatiivisesti organisaatiomuutoksen uskottavuuteen sairaalan projektin kontekstissa. Kolmas osatutkimus viittaa siihen, että korkeat odotukset projektityötä kohtaan eivät usein todennu käytännössä. Kaiken kaikiaan väitöskirja osoittaa, että sairaalan muutosprojektit aktualisoituvat paradoksaalisina prosesseina, joita luonnehtii jännitteisyys yhteistyön, kilpailun ja kontrollin välillä
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Niessen, Theodorus Johannes Hubertus. "Emerging epistemologies :making sense of teaching practice." [Maastricht : Maastricht : Universiteit Maastricht] ; University Library, Universiteit Maastricht [host], 2007. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=11066.
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McYebuah, Marilyn. "Making sense of how people navigate websites /." Leeds : University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies, 2008. http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/fyproj/reports/0708/Mcyebuah.pdf.
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Castro, Angela Federica. "Making sense of curriculum change : teachers' perspectives." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13102.
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This piece of research describes an exploratory case study designed to investigate the perceptions and attitudes of a group of thirteen English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers towards the implementation of a new Communicative English Language Curriculum at a university in the Dominican Republic (D.R.). This exploration focused on teachers’ experiences of the proposed change, the kinds of meanings they construe as they teach and learn, and the personal ways in which they interpret the worlds in which they live (Connelly & Clandinin, 1988). Three constructs were particularly relevant for the present study, namely: teachers’ understandings of curricular change, teachers’ attitudes towards curricular change, and the training and professional development opportunities required to support teachers throughout the implementation phase in a curricular change. Data were gathered through focus groups and individual semi-structured interviews. Analyses of the data were done in such a way as to capture the common themes across individuals, as well as comments that were unique to individual participants (Lasky, 2005). Additionally, constant comparison of the data and member validation were used to confirm or adjust my own interpretations. The results indicate that to explore teachers’ perceptions of a change process is both important and necessary, especially because the exploration of a particular need for a change is an influential factor in the success of any educational change (Iemjinda, 2007). They also indicate the importance of acknowledging that curriculum change is a multi-faceted and highly complex process (Carl, 2009) that, as such, takes time and that teachers understand this process and adopt it at different paces, as well as that some might never succeed in adopting the demands required by the change. Although these results provide no definite solutions to implementation problems, they do help clarify some of the critical issues and the many constraints that possibly limit curriculum development, which must be addressed in resolving those problems (Guskey, 1988; Kelly, 2009). Recommendations for curricular change implementation are offered and areas for future research are suggested.
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Sánchez, Ortiz Varinia Cecilia. "Injustice : surviving and making sense of it." Thesis, City University London, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594180.
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Convicting and incarcerating innocent people has damaging consequences for individuals that can last a lifetime (Grounds, 2004; Konvisser, 2010; Cutler, 2012). Research in this area from a psychological perspective is in its infancy and there is a need to expand this. Currently no research has been conducted in this area from the perspective of counselling psychology. Therefore. this study aims to contribute towards the current body of literature of wrongful incarceration from this perspective. This study takes a qualitative approach to the exploration of the phenomenon of wrongful incarceration. Seven Mexican men with an indigenous background, who claimed to have been wrongfully incarcerated in Mexico City, took part in semi-structured interviews, which were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Three superordinate themes and subsequent subthemes were identified . These themes related to the mechanisms of survival employed by participants to cope with their incarceration; to their real and inner relations with others; and to their perception of and the changes and losses following the experience. Results show that participants manifested a number of defense mechanisms and developed coping strategies to cope with the experience. Participants spoke about the importance of external family support and t heir mental internal resources for surviving the experience. They also discussed the impact of the experience in their self-concept and on t heir life post incarceration. Implications for clinical practice and for settings working with people undergoing a similar experience are discussed. Moreover, routes for future research are considered
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Huws, Jacqueline C. "Making sense of autism: A component analysis." Thesis, Bangor University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516446.
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Horgan, Pelagia. "Nabokov's Details: Making Sense of Irrational Standards." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10106.
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Vladimir Nabokov's passion for detail is well-known, central to our very idea of the "Nabokovian." Yet Nabokov's most important claims for detail pose a challenge for the reader who would take them seriously. Startlingly extreme and deliberately counterintuitive -- Nabokov called them his "irrational standards" -- these claims push the very limits of reason and belief. Nabokov's critics have tended to treat his more extravagant claims for detail -- including his assertion that the "capacity to wonder at trifles" is the highest form of consciousness there is -- as just a manner of speaking, a form of italics, a bit of wishful thinking, a mandarin's glib performance, or an aesthete's flight of fancy. This dissertation, by contrast, asserts that Nabokov meant what he said, and sets out to understand what he meant. Nabokov's passion for detail, I argue, represents more than a stylistic preference or prescription for good noticing. Rather, it reflects and advocates for a special way of being in the world, of disposing or orienting oneself to things, and for this reason is best understood as part of a broad program of detailphilic habits, attitudes, practices and attunements Nabokov adhered to throughout his life. In making this argument, I draw on the work of a wide array of thinkers, including Descartes, Heidegger, Richard Rorty, Clifford Geertz, and Philip Fisher, and focus on three of Nabokov's texts in particular: Speak, Memory, Lolita, and "The Art of Literature and Commonsense." Making sense of Nabokov's irrational standards, I argue, helps us to make sense of a number of other critical puzzles as well, from what, exactly, Nabokov means by the word "reality" to what a cruel noticer like Humbert Humbert implies about the moral meaning of passionate attention.
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Holmkvist, Jesper, and Victor Almerfors. "Making sense of the brand extension decision." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-450151.
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The purpose of this study is to utilize the sensemaking perspective to increase the understanding of what makes managers consider brand extensions, and how the decision is formed throughout the sensemaking process. The study aims to add to the existing literature by providing knowledge about the largely unexamined domain of managerial practice related to brand extensions. Furthermore, this study is designed as a qualitative multiple case study on four Swedish distilleries. The data was gathered primarily through semi-structured interviews and processed using a thematic method of analysis. This study found that brand extension decisions are influenced by managers subjective interpretive frameworks and previous organizational identity constructions. Contextual factors affects managers perceived need of brand extensions following the attention to one or more cues.
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Williams, Alexander Richard. "Making sense of the public-private divide." Thesis, Durham University, 2013. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7308/.
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This thesis explores the public-private divide. Its primary focus is on two distinct but interlinked contexts: the amenability of bodies to judicial review in domestic law and the notion of ‘public authority’ under s 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA). It also focuses secondarily on the notion of the governmental organisation in Strasbourg. The aim is to re-order the law in all three areas, providing an account of the law that is both doctrinally accurate and normatively defensible. The core argument is that, in both of the primary contexts, at the root of the public-private distinction lies an approach that defines ‘public’ activity as the exercise of legally-authorised coercive power. This is called the ‘LACPA’ for short. The LACPA is functional in outlook and sufficiently flexible to bring private bodies performing delegated public functions within the purview of public law. As such, this thesis challenges the orthodox view that the courts’ approach to the public-private divide is ill-equipped to deal with trends in modern governance and needs a major overhaul. Instead, fine-tuning and a better judicial appreciation of the existing law are all that is required.
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Robinson, Emma-Jane. "Making sense of place identity : characterisation approaches." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020567/.
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Whiteley, Chris G. "Alzheimer’s disease: making sense of the stress." SM Online Publishers LLC, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67072.
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publisher versionTo facilitate a deep understanding of the mechanisms involved in neurodegeneration and Alzheimer’s disease fundamental knowledge is required about the action and function of enzymes in the brain that not only metabolise arginine (neuronal nitric oxide synthase) but are closely associated with oxidative (superoxide dismutase; catalase; glutathione peroxidase) and/or nitrosative stress. In particular the focus extends towards enzymes that contribute to amyloid peptide aggregation and senile plaquedeposits (fibrillogenesis). Of special importance are the glycine zipper regions within these amyloid peptides, especially Aβ25-29 and Aβ29-33 (that contains two isoleucine residues) and the pentapeptide Aβ17-21 (that contains two phenylalanines), each generated by enzymatic cleavage of the intramembrane amyloid precursor protein. Use of antisense-sense technology has identified regions in each enzyme that are capable of binding with the amyloid peptides. After an initial inhibition of each enzyme there is an oligomerisation into soluble fibrils which accumulate and eventually precipitate. The use of nanoparticles do not just prevent but reverse the formation of these fibrils either by disrupting the binary adduct – enzyme-Aβ-peptide- or by reaction with, and therefore deplete, Aβ-monomers in solution and so block potential aggregation sites on the enzyme itself. Future therapy towards Alzheimer’s disease should target the C-terminal region of the amyloid precursor protein and substitute hydrophobic residues for the glycine amino acids within the glycine zipper region.
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Lensch, Carol. "Making Sense of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29308.
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In recent years there has been a notable increase in the
number of students being identified with Attention
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) in American schools.
Although there is a tremendous amount of research being done in
the area of AD/HD, parents, educators and individuals with AD/HD
are ill-equipped to deal with the demands of the disorder. Only
through extensive research and a better understanding of what
AD/HD is can we expect to develop more effective means of dealing
with AD/HD on a daily basis at home and in school.The primary purpose of this book is to bridge the gap between research knowledge and the knowledge in use by educators on AD/HD. The book is a review and interpretation of selected studies on the causes, co-occurrence with other disorders, diagnosis, and treatments of AD/HD. It provides the reader with the opportunity to gain an understanding of AD/HD for making mindful, informed decisions on approaches best suited to meet the challenges presented by this disorder.
Five misconceptions are identified and refuted by research presented in chapters two through five. The findings of these studies lend support to: (a) a genetic and environmental basis for AD/HD; (b) a comorbid and hetergeneous nature to the disorder; (c) a need for educators to approach AD/HD from an educational perspective; (d) the need to consider a variety of interventions in addition to medication for the treatment of AD/HD; and (e) the unique response to interventions by individuals with AD/HD.
In conclusion, educators are seeking information on this disorder because they are faced with an ever-increasing number of students with AD/HD, and they want to effectively meet the needs of this growing population of children. The emphasis in chapter six is on using a collaborative team approach, involving all persons who have an impact on the life of the student with AD/HD. Only through knowledge, understanding, and collaboration can educators be empowered to do the job that so desperately needs to be done.
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White, Alan K. "Men making sense of their chest pain." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2000. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.603497.
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Stelmach, Aleksandra. "Field-making and sense-making : foetal programming, risk and human reproduction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52697/.
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