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Powell, Felicity Isabel. "Social issues in regional planning." Thesis, University of Hull, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441684.
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Ackerman, Catherine. ""Because social issues should be addressed" /." Online version of thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/10916.
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Zhao, Xiaoping. "Investigating Shareholder Social Activism From an Issue-Selling Perspective—Issues, Strategies, and Success." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23887.
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Building on the logic of issue selling, my dissertation explores the micro-processes of shareholder social activism through which shareholders interact with targeted firms and also addresses which micro-processes could affect the effectiveness and the success of shareholder social activism. To do this, my dissertation develops a theory with respect to the approaches of linguistically framing the contents of and of presenting shareholder social activism. Based on a qualitative (descriptive) analysis on 1,612 shareholder social proposals, my dissertation identifies six packaging strategies that are used by the proponents to linguistically frame the contents of their proposals and two selling strategies used by the proponents to present their proposals. Subsequently, a quantitative analysis demonstrates that the effectiveness of shareholder social proposals would be largely determined by the joint effects of opportunity framing, threat framing, coalition building, and repeated submitting and that other packaging strategies would have little unique contribution to the effectiveness and the success of shareholder social activism. I argue that my dissertation would make contributions to the understanding of shareholder social activism and also offer some theoretical considerations for future studies on issue selling, although my dissertation might not directly contribute to the body of work of issue selling.Ph. D.
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Pacholczyk, Anna. "Ethical issues in moral and social enhancement." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/ethical-issues-in-moral-and-social-enhancement(a32f7974-eb67-4e5d-88c6-d6cfe247a8c3).html.
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Recent developments in social neuroscience have stirred up increased interest within the bioethical debate (for a review see: Specker et al. 2014). Moral enhancement is a concept that directly embodies the idea of making brain science work for the social and moral good. In recent ethical discussions about biomedical means of moral enhancement, scholars have focused on so called ‘direct means of moral enhancement,’ discussing the ethical permissibility of modifying the emotional underpinnings of moral behaviour (Douglas, 2008; 2013; Persson and Savulescu, 2008; Savulescu and Persson, 2012). However, critics have argued that such modification only seems like moral enhancement, that behavioural modification is not ‘true’ moral enhancement, for the reason that it changes behaviours without making agents better moral agents. Critics have also noted that it can undermine freedom (e.g. Harris, 2011; see also: Douglas, 2014). This thesis addresses the ethical issues relating to enhancement. In the first part of this work I consider conceptual issues surrounding the concept of moral enhancement and argue that moral enhancement is plausible if we adjust our expectations to match those we have of cognitive enhancement. I examine the difference between pro-sociality and morality, and argue that an increase in empathy and reduction in anger cannot be seen as straightforward moral enhancements. The second part examines the objections related to moral disagreement, medicalization and narrative identity. The third part of this work focuses of the issues related to freedom and agency. I argue that voluntary direct emotion modulation, if embedded in appropriate reflection, is a prima facie desirable way of moral enhancement.
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Jaskilka, Michael Carl. "How to preach on controversial social issues." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.
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Chen, Hsinchun, and Andrea L. Houston. "Digital Libraries: Social Issues and Technological Advances." Academic Press, Inc, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105653.
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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of ArizonaThis chapter will focus on digital libraries, starting with a discussion of the historical visionaries, definitions, driving forces and enabling technologies and some key research issues. Also discussed will be some of the US and international digital library projects and research initiatives. Some of the emerging techniques for building large-scale digital libraries, including semantic interoperability, will be described. Finally, the conclusion will offer some future directions for digital libraries.
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Pont, Boix Judit. "Older people and collective action : social psychological determinants." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2001. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/842725/.
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This thesis examines the social psychological processes and factors involved in willingness to participate in collective action among older people. This work is framed within two social psychological theories, i.e. Identity Process Theory (Break well, 1986) and Social Representations Theory (Moscovici, 1984). The research used the construct of barriers to collective action. The barriers were conceptualised at different levels of analysis and were considered to embody both identity and representational aspects. The research comprised three studies. Study 1 used a questionnaire among 277 older people in order to establish the extent to which older people participate in different types of collective action. Two types of participation were identified, i.e. 'active' and 'passive'. Disability in specific areas and non-participation in a group were related to lower involvement in collective action. Study 2 was designed to explore the social issues older people are concerned about, to identify the types of collective action they are likely to take, and to examine perceived barriers to engaging in collective action. Thirteen focus groups were run (n= 59) and the data was content analysed. Findings showed that older people perceive a need for social change for a wide variety of social issues and the importance of several aspects of identity and belief systems as either facilitators or barriers to engaging in collective action was revealed. Collective action was defined in terms of type of action (from individual to group action) and type of goal (from collective expression to collective change). Different social psychological factors accounting for willingness to engage in collective action were identified. These were investigated in the following study. Study 3 (n= 345) investigated the relationships between certain social psychological factors and collective action. Differences in perceptions of barriers according to five levels (intraindividual, interpersonal, intragroup, intergroup, societal) were shown. These were related to the way they give meaning to older people's identity structure and social beliefs. A model of collective action was tested. Willingness to participate in collective action was directly predicted by political trust, previous experience of collective action, perceived effectiveness of collective action and perceived barriers. Identity and ideology factors acted indirectly through previous experience, perceived effectiveness and perceived barriers. This work has implications for future research on the study of processes involved in explaining the generation of collective action and for the study of the socio-cognitive processes affecting ageing.
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Krahé, Barbara. "Social psychological issues in the study of rape." Universität Potsdam, 1991. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/3390/.
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The chapter presents a social psychological approach to the study of rape and sexual assault. Two issues are at the core of this approach: identifying the critical variables that affect attributions of responsibility to victims of rape. and exploring people's subjective definitions of rape, which may differ markedly from legal definitions. Following a review of the American evidence, a series of studies conductcd in two European countries is presented to address these issues.
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Rohitratana, Kaewta. "MRP implementation in Thailand : social and cultural issues." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266806.
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OLIVEIRA, Maxwell Guimarães de. "Ontology-driven urban issues identification from social media." Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, 2016. http://dspace.sti.ufcg.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/riufcg/884.
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As cidades em todo o mundo enfrentam muitos problemas diretamente relacionados ao espaço urbano, especialmente nos aspectos de infraestrutura. A maioria desses problemas urbanos geralmente afeta a vida de residentes e visitantes. Por exemplo, as pessoas podem relatar um carro estacionado em uma calçada que está forçando os pedestres a andar na via, ou um enorme buraco que está causando congestionamento. Além de estarem relacionados com o espaço urbano, os problemas urbanos geralmente demandam ações das autoridades municipais. Existem diversas Redes Sociais Baseadas em Localização (LBSN, em inglês) no domínio das cidades inteligentes em todo o mundo, onde as pessoas relatam problemas urbanos de forma estruturada e as autoridades locais tomam conhecimento para então solucioná-los. Com o advento das redes sociais como Facebook e Twitter, as pessoas tendem a reclamar de forma não estruturada, esparsa e imprevisível, sendo difícil identificar problemas urbanos eventualmente relatados. Dados de mídia social, especialmente mensagens do Twitter, fotos e check-ins, tem desempenhado um papel importante nas cidades inteligentes. Um problema chave é o desafio de identificar conversas específicas e relevantes ao processar dados crowdsourcing ruidosos. Neste contexto, esta pesquisa investiga métodos computacionais a fim de fornecer uma identificação automatizada de problemas urbanos compartilhados em mídias sociais. A maioria dos trabalhos relacionados depende de classificadores baseados em técnicas de aprendizado de máquina, como SVM, Naïve Bayes e Árvores de Decisão; e enfrentam problemas relacionados à representação do conhecimento semântico, legibilidade humana e capacidade de inferência. Com o objetivo de superar essa lacuna semântica, esta pesquisa investiga a Extração de Informação baseada em ontologias, a partir da perspectiva de problemas urbanos, uma vez que tais problemas podem ser semanticamente interligados em plataformas LBSN. Dessa forma, este trabalho propõe uma ontologia no domínio de Problemas Urbanos (UIDO) para viabilizar a identificação e classificação dos problemas urbanos em uma abordagem automatizada que foca principalmente nas facetas temática e geográfica. Uma avaliação experimental demonstra que o desempenho da abordagem proposta é competitivo com os algoritmos de aprendizado de máquina mais utilizados, quando aplicados a este domínio em particular.
The cities worldwide face with many issues directly related to the urban space, especially in the infrastructure aspects. Most of these urban issues generally affect the life of both resident and visitant people. For example, people can report a car parked on a footpath which is forcing pedestrians to walk on the road or a huge pothole that is causing traffic congestion. Besides being related to the urban space, urban issues generally demand actions from city authorities. There are many Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN) in the smart cities domain worldwide where people complain about urban issues in a structured way and local authorities are aware to fix them. With the advent of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, people tend to complain in an unstructured, sparse and unpredictable way, being difficult to identify urban issues eventually reported. Social media data, especially Twitter messages, photos, and check-ins, have played an important role in the smart cities. A key problem is the challenge in identifying specific and relevant conversations on processing the noisy crowdsourced data. In this context, this research investigates computational methods in order to provide automated identification of urban issues shared in social media streams. Most related work rely on classifiers based on machine learning techniques such as Support Vector Machines (SVM), Naïve Bayes and Decision Trees; and face problems concerning semantic knowledge representation, human readability and inference capability. Aiming at overcoming this semantic gap, this research investigates the ontology-driven Information Extraction (IE) from the perspective of urban issues; as such issues can be semantically linked in LBSN platforms. Therefore, this work proposes an Urban Issues Domain Ontology (UIDO) to enable the identification and classification of urban issues in an automated approach that focuses mainly on the thematic and geographical facets. Experimental evaluation demonstrates the proposed approach performance is competitive with most commonly used machine learning algorithms applied for that particular domain.
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Mousavi, Sameh Seyedeh Mahboubeh. "Suborbital flights: selected legal issues." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119761.
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We will soon be confronted with regular operation of suborbital vehicles. These vehicles constitute a technological novelty for which there is not yet a specific legal framework. Taking into consideration the ambiguity which exits in international law, suborbital flights have fostered lengthy debates over defining the appropriate legal regime to govern the various legal aspects of these flights. Traffic management and environmental protection issues of suborbital flight are among the areas which need to be regulated. The present research tries to give an overview of the legal issues associated with the regulation of suborbital flights and to advance the discussion in the light of possible regulatory scenarios on the environmental and traffic management aspects of these flights. The present study suggests that further clarification and development of the existing legal frameworks for aviation and space activities, careful study of the different aspects of suborbital flights and the foreseeable impacts they might have on different areas including environment and traffic management concerns, as well as possible inclusion of such flights under ICAO's regulatory system are among the considerations which need to be taken into account in relation to regulating suborbital flights.Nous serons bientôt confrontés à trafic régulier de véhicules suborbitaux. Ces véhicules constituent une nouveauté technologique pour laquelle il n'existe pas encore de cadre juridique particulier. Tenant compte de ce vide juridique en droit international, les vols suborbitaux ont suscité de longs débats portant sur la nature du régime juridique requis pour régir les différents aspects juridiques de ces vols. La gestion du trafic des vols suborbitaux ainsi quel a protection de l'environnement comptent parmi les secteurs ayant besoin de réglementation. La présente recherche a pour objectif de fournir un survol des questions juridiques liées à la réglementation des vols suborbitaux et de faire avancer les discussions sur les scénari de réglementation par rapport aux aspects environnementaux et de circulation de ces vols. La présente étude propose la clarification et le développent des cadres juridiques existantes en matière d'aviation et activités spatiales. De plus, elle aborde soigneusement les différents aspects des vols suborbitaux et leurs impacts éventuels sur divers secours, dont l'environnement, et la gestion du trafic. Par ailleurs, l'adoption éventuelle des vols suborbitaux sous le système de réglementation l'OACI représente quelques'un des éléments qui nécessitent une réflexion relative a la réglementation de ces vols suborbitaux.
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Ilett, Rosemary Catherine. "Outstanding issues : gender, feminisms and librarianship." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4072/.
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This thesis employs a third wave feminist perspective to consider the regular crises experienced by British librarianship concerning professional status and issues of theory and practice. It proposes that librarianship, particularly within the public library, is being contested by a range of external and internal forces with immense significance, and that such processes have occurred at other periods of major change, notably the late nineteenth century and the late 1960’s and early 1970s. It explores the gendered roots of such manifestations, and reviews the critiques and other possibilities offered by earlier feminist waves, with those of second wave feminism seen as of particular significance, but limited to their ability to offer satisfactory insights. Contemporary librarianship is identified as vulnerable because of its difficulty in accepting the gendered nature of its nineteenth-century construction, when the activities of American librarians like Melvil Dewey has profound effects on its ongoing form, components and practitioners. Ongoing debates about librarianship’s professional status are viewed, using second and third wave feminist insights from sociology and other theoretical positions including queer theory, as outcomes of late Victorian notions of gender roles that have embedded structures, framework and behaviours within librarianship that still continue. It is argued that the librarianship ratified by the professional library associations resists ideological challenges to its construction and maintenance, with feminism the pivotal example under consideration, and that relevant activity taking place in settings outside the mainstream is frequently invisible. This is proposed as limiting the possibilities of librarianship and the work of librarians, within what is defined as a feminised occupation. A twenty-first century interpretation of librarianship informed by feminism is proposed, and considered through the utilisation of an original concept, gendertopia, derived from Foucault’s heterotopia, that describes the transformative potential of libraries and aspects of librarianship. To undertake this investigation the experience and actions of women librarians within mainstream British libraries were explored through field-work, along with the activities of three contemporary British women’s libraries that operate outside the mainstream and which derived form different periods of twentieth century feminisms. The author has been actively involved in some of the activities described, and to reflect this and feminist research methodologies, the development of which are described, an explicit theoretical position is taken that integrates autobiographical and fictional material.
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Vandermensbrugghe, Joelle, and n/a. "Press coverage of social issues : am international comparative analysis." University of Canberra. Communication & Education, 2001. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061109.164209.
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This thesis offers an analysis of the reporting on unemployment, social welfare and
the environment in the quality press in Australia, Belgium, France and the United
Kingdom. The findings of this research are based on news about these issues
provided in a sample of two constructed weeks in 1998. The quality papers chosen
for analysis are: The Age and The Australian (Australia), De Standaard and Le Soir
(Belgium), Le Figaro and Le Monde (France), The Guardian and The Times
(England).
This thesis starts by examining the history and the principles governing the press in
the countries analysed, underlining the differences between the Anglo-Saxon and the
Continental press, mainly in terms of relations between the press and the State. It
questions the importance attributed to freedom of expression in a climate where the
concept is still analysed in terms of freedom from government intervention, while the
role played by business is generally accepted as unavoidable.
This research found that quality newspapers overall present social issues as primarily
economic issues, often neglecting their more social aspects. The world promoted is
one which is best run by business, while the role of governments as possible
managers of the environment and unemployment, and to some extent social welfare,
is largely dismissed. The press analysed does this with varying degrees, depending
on general attitudes held within countries and on the 'culture' of each newspaper.
This research clearly shows the existence of particular newspaper 'cultures'. Each
newspaper has its own priorities and news is generally framed according to those
priorities. Generally speaking, the emphasis placed by journalists on certain aspects
of news is in line with the 'culture' of the newspaper they are working for. The
choice of sources of information used to provide news also fits within existing
newspapers' 'cultures'.
The dominant economic emphasis put on information is systematically endorsed by
Le Figaro, The Australian, The Times and De Standaard. Only Le Monde and The
Guardian, Le Soir and The Age at times offer alternative views, while endorsing the
dominant economic frame. Le Monde and The Guardian, which are also the only two
newspapers of the sample that are not part of a big media consortium, regularly stress
the social aspect of unemployment and social welfare. These are also the only two
newspapers which consider the environment as a long-term quality of life issue,
reflecting that it is more than just an economic issue. Le Soir and The Age, which are
the two newspapers in our sample with a more local emphasis, also defend the local
environment against larger economic interests, and explore local social problems
related to unemployment and poverty.
In the case of The Age, this fits into a frame very common in the Australian press:
that of an uncaring government. Australian papers are very critical and even cynical
towards government and politicians. This cynicism is not found in the European
papers.
The findings of this research are based upon an analysis of the sources of information
used by the newspapers, as well as upon an analysis of the frames adopted. This
research has put a particular emphasis on sources of information, seen here as the
promoters of news frames. General professional practices, together with the
'cultures' held by particular newspapers, account for the lack of representation of
private citizens and lobby groups challenging economic interests. In turn their lack of
representation can be held responsible for the small amount of information
conflicting with dominant framing and dominant themes provided in the news.
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Moran, Renee Rice. "Examining Social Justice Issues in Eight Children’s Picture Books." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3611.
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Samy, Sylvia H. "SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE OF VETERANS’ NEEDS AND ISSUES." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/42.
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The veteran population is under-served. Due to the current circumstances of increased deployment and the rate of returning soldiers from current wars (Iraq and Afghanistan); there is an increased demand for competent social workers to provide them with services. Furthermore, the Department of Veteran Affairs is the number one employer of social workers. Hence, measuring the knowledge of social work students is essential to explore their competence of working with the veteran population. The study presents an exploratory research method, using a quantitative approach. Further, students’ knowledge was measured in ten domains: Benefits and Services, Service Related Disabilities, PTSD/Trauma, Childcare, Homelessness/Housing, Military Sexual Trauma, Healthcare, Employment/Unemployment, Education, and General Knowledge. In addition, the sample was compromised of social work students throughout different Southern California Universities. An online survey was administered to participants through Qualtrics website; and statistical analysis conducted by using SPSS version 21. Findings suggest that MSW students have a higher level of knowledge than BASW students in most of the domains. In addition, older participants presented a greater amount of knowledge than younger participants. Due to the results of the study, future research should measure a larger amount of participants that are evenly distributed among all demographics. Further, the study should encompass all universities that offer social work programs.
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Napsiyah, Siti. "Understanding aging issues in Indonesia." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99167.
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This study used combined methods of observations, interviews and document analysis to understand issues related to aging in Indonesia. The study describes relevant policy and practices for older persons in Indonesia, and discusses major social issues of poverty, the need for social security, and ambivalent views of older people in Indonesian society. While the Social Department Affair (Depsos) has pioneered in providing initiatives for older persons, the benefits of these supports are often limited (e.g., formal sector, urban areas). Complexities of the emphasis on family caregiving, constrained government budgets, and social stigma (e.g., "the last priority") mean that older people do not necessarily receive appropriate support from government and society. The role of religion, culture and gender in shaping aging issues are specifically discussed. It would seem that improving the lives of older people in Indonesia requires a social work approach drawing on outside examples while maintaining local tradition.
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Wong, Yu-cheung. "Gender issues in marital satisfaction." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19469962.
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Corrêa, Deborah Cristina. "O debate ambiental no serviço social: construindo novos caminhos ou reatualizando velhos paradigmas?" Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2010. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/2637.
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A temática ambiental configura-se em uma arena de conflitos e também de consensos. Um campo repleto de heterogeneidades cuja diversidade de concepções e interesses que comporta o torna um desafiante e instigante campo de conhecimento e de atuação profissional. Com a emergência dessa temática no cenário mundial, cujas agências internacionais em muito contribuíram para sua disseminação, há um crescente aumento de interesse pelo tema, que suscita variadas discussões dentre as quais se destaca o debate sobre a sustentabilidade ambiental cuja proposta seria capaz de unir crescimento econômico, preservação ambiental e desenvolvimento social. Entretanto, tal proposta mostra-se inconsistente e incoerente face ao modelo de desenvolvimento instituído e engendrado pela sociedade capitalista, em que as formas de exploração e dominação predatória impõem à natureza e ao homem uma relação de desigualdade tanto ambiental quanto social. Intimamente relacionada, condicionada e determinada pelas relações de produção e reprodução próprias do sistema econômico e social capitalista, a questão ambiental possui nexos estreitos com a questão social, configurando-se até mesmo como uma refração desta. Como profissional que atua nas manifestações da Questão Social, o Assistente Social vem absorvendo conhecimentos sobre a temática ambiental correlacionados com sua área de conhecimento e de atuação, e ambos, sua intervenção e seu entendimento sobre esta problemática se tornarão tanto mais qualificados quanto o forem as discussões estabelecidas sobre o tema. A presente pesquisa buscou conhecer como a discussão sobre a questão ambiental se inseriu no campo de interesse do serviço social, identificando os principais eixos temáticos, as instituições onde este debate se mostrou mais presente e as influências teóricas absorvidas. Pretende-se com este estudo proporcionar uma reflexão sobre os caminhos que vem sendo percorridos e traçados no seio da profissão sobre tal questão.
The environmental theme is configured in an arena of conflict and consensus as well. An area full of heterogeneities whose diversity of ideas and interests makes it a challenging and exciting field of knowledge and professional performance. With the emergency of this theme in the global scenario, that international agencies greatly contributed to its spread, there is an increasing interest in the subject, which raises various discussions among which stands the debate on environmental sustainability which proposal would be able to combine growth economic, environmental preservation and social development. However, this proposal appears to be inconsistent and incoherent with the development model established and engendered by the capitalist society, in which the forms of exploitation and predatory domination imposed to the nature and to the men a relation of inequality both social and environmental. Closely related, conditioned and determined by the relations of production and reproduction proper by the characteristic of capitalist economic and social system, the environmental theme has close links with social issues, becoming even as a refraction of this. As a professional who works in the manifestations of Social Issues, the Social Worker is absorbing knowledge on environmental issues related to their field of knowledge and action, and both his remarks and his understanding on this problematic will become even more skilled as they are the established discussions on the subject. This research aimed to know how the discussion on the environmental issue was inserted in the field of interest of social services, identifying key themes, the institutions where this debate was more present and theoretical influences absorbed. The aim of this study was to provide a reflection on the ways that has been traversed and paths within the profession about this issue.
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Lundblad, Ida. "Issues of Students' Absence." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-30836.
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Alla lärare kommer förr eller senare att konfronteras med situationer som uppstår till följd av att elever är frånvarande. Denna studie undersöker hur lärares dagliga arbete påverkas när elever inte är närvarande.Fyra lärare på en gymnasieskola blev intervjuade om sina erfarenheter och syn på frånvaro och skolk. De blev också ombedda att beskriva hur de hanterade detta i sina dagliga rutiner.Resultaten visar att de intervjuade lärarna tyckte att frånvaro och skolk var ett allvarligt problem. De tyckte också att detta påverkade deras arbetsbörda, fram för allt om de var klassföreståndare i en klass med hög frånvaro. Lärarnas strategier för att hålla skolk nere baserades bland annat på att skapa ett gott arbetsklimat i klassrummet och att upprätthålla rättvisa och likvärdighet i klassen.All teachers will inevitably be confronted with issues related to students’ absence. This study sets out to investigate how language teachers’ daily work is affected when students are absent.Four language teachers at an upper secondary school were interviewed about their experiences of and their views on students’ non-attendance. They were also asked to describe how they handle absence as a part of their daily routines. All the informants thought that absence is a serious problem. Form teachers’ workload is especially affected if their class has many students with high absence. Their strategies for handling absence were based on their aim to keep their workload down and to obtain fairness and equivalence.
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Lewis, Susan D. "Treatment issues in forensic social work : a comparative case study." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=78187.
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Forensic social work is defined as the specialty that focuses on the interface between the legal system and the human service system. Forensic psychiatric social work is a subspecialty of forensic social work. Treatment issues arise in forensic social work due to the nature of working within the two systems, but some are specific to forensic psychiatric social work due to the nature of balancing the needs of the patient with the protection of society. Issues that are relevant to forensic psychiatric social work are, applying psychosocial rehabilitation strategies in a forensic setting, the paradox of custody vs. caring, issues surrounding confidentiality and the use of authority, bargaining and persuasion as tools for social work practice. The author identified these issues as each of them was raised during a specific case that the author was actively involved with. The focus of the study is to explore the issues by discussing them in relation to this case. The literature is reviewed and suggestions are made as to how the management of the case could have been improved. Recommendations are also made for the field of social work, specifically in the field of forensic psychiatry.
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Laffan, Kate. "Issues relating to behaviour, wellbeing and the environment." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3709/.
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As issues of environmental degradation intensify, the interdependency between humans and the natural environment is coming more and more into focus. In particular, questions about the importance of environmental quality for human wellbeing and about how to mitigate the serious negative impacts humans are having on the environment are of ever-increasing significance. The current work addresses these issues in four empirical papers, split into two separate parts. The first section focuses on the first question, exploring the links between air quality and individual wellbeing. Paper 1 presents a spatially detailed analysis of the relationship between air pollution and a range of measures of subjective wellbeing (SWB), providing a rich picture of how the air pollution individuals are exposed to relates to how they feel. Paper 2 uses mediation analysis to investigate the behavioural production process which converts air pollution into ill-being, providing insights into the role of physical activity and visits to the outdoors play as mediators. The second part of this thesis addresses the second question. Paper 3 investigates the relationship between proenvironmental behaviour (PEB) and a range of SWB measures, shedding light on the wellbeing consequences of PEB for the individual undertaking it and providing insights into strategies to encourage it. Paper 4 tests two interventions which target electricity consumption in a hall of residence in London, providing evidence of an effective approach to reduce individuals’ environmental impact. Taken together, the results of the papers present evidence of psychological and environmental win-wins which can arise from living in and helping to create a better natural environment.
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Shihab, Shahad. "Traversing Privacy Issues on Social Networking Sites Among Kuwaiti Females." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7087.
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This qualitative descriptive study explores privacy issues on social networking sites among young Kuwaiti females and their behavior when protecting their information. In this study, two of the most prominent social networking sites in Kuwait were selected to investigate Kuwaiti females’ privacy concerns. These platforms are Instagram and Twitter. The research was guided by two questions: What information do Kuwaiti females disclose on Instagram and Twitter? How do Instagram and Twitter differ in managing privacy?
Participants of this research are 15 young Kuwait females studying at Kuwait university in different educational fields. The data collection method used was semi-structured, face-to-face interviews. This method helped gaining a deeper understanding of their privacy views and SNS use. The findings revealed many issues voiced by young Kuwaiti females, such as the type of information shared on both platforms, their privacy concerns, cultural beliefs, and other influences that shaped their Instagram and Twitter use.
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Conner, Lindsey Norma 1957. "Learning about social and ethical issues in a biology class." Monash University, Faculty of Education, 2002. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8187.
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Hemming, Heather Evelyn Smith. "The teacher's role in facilitating critical thinking about social issues." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq24746.pdf.
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Turner, Charlotte. "Exploring Social Issues and Value Systems in Contemporary Art Education." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/16.
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The purpose of the study was to field test a unit of lessons in which students explore how a variety of social issues and value systems impact the meaning expressed in their artwork. By exposing students to different systems of belief, their historical contexts, and providing opportunities for students to discuss, research and symbolically express meaning I hope to develop critical thinking skills; promote increase in the social conscience of teenagers; help students develop critical thinking skills; promote student active involvement in their community at large; encourage social activism; and help students become part of the larger global community. The study utilized pre and post written tests, student artwork, student written responses and an auto-ethnographic approach to document student outcomes. Although evidence of progress was observed there is a need for additional research about ways art education might be used to assist students in the development of a social conscience and awareness of the global community.
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Shoiry, Nancy. "Social mix and quality of life issues in residential environments." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61305.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the possible relationship between social mix and the quality of life in housing. Quality of life is measured by levels of satisfaction, social integration, mobility and freedom of choice, etc. This study has identified some factors which may have an effect on the quality of life in socially mixed housing projects. This study has formulated general observations from these factors which could influence the way the built environment is shaped, especially ways in which residents, can or cannot, appreciate and tolerate social mix. The evidence indicates that design, quality of construction, good management, and the overall environment are much more important for the acceptance and satisfaction of the residents than the question of social mix. Even so, the findings indicate that some of the positive and negative quality of life aspects derive from social mix.
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Green, P. A. "Social and scientific issues in the acceptibility of radiation risks." Thesis, Aston University, 1990. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10841/.
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Ionising radiation hazards are perhaps the most documented and regulated occupational and environmental hazard. In the radiological protection field a single expert advisory organisation has had an unusually large influence on the international standard setting process. This is the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). Two common, and opposing views, exist over the formulation of protection recommendations by the ICRP. The first, and most widely accepted, is that its recommendations are scientifically determined. The second view, is that its recommendations are politically or socially determined. Neither of these analyses adequately accounts for the complex process in which protection recommendations are formulated. A third view, provided by studies of the origins of scientific controversy, suggests that both science and social factors are important in the assessment and limitation of risk. The aim of this thesis is not simply to examine the origin of controversy. Issues of equal, if not more, importance are the resolution of controversy, the formation of consensus and the maintenance of expert authority and influence. These issues form the central focus of this thesis. The aim is to assess the process through which the ICRP formulates its radiological protection recommendations and comment on the extent that these are influenced by the affiliations of its members. This thesis concludes that the ICRP's recommendations have been shaped by a complex relationship of scientific and social considerations, in which a socio-technical commitment to nuclear energy has played a key role. The Commission has responded to new scientific data by making complex changes to its philosophy and methods of describing risk. It has reduced the value of its dose limits less frequently. Reductions in its dose limits have been accompanied by practical measures designed to limit the impact of the change by providing greater flexibility in their application. The Commission's aim has been to provide stability and continuity in its successive recommendations.
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Chang, Wei. "Security and Privacy Issues in Social Information-Assisted Application Design." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/406720.
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In recent years, social networks and their related theories and applications attract widespread attentions in computer science. Many applications are designed by exploring the social information among users, such as social peer-to-peer systems, mobile cloud, and online recommendation systems. Most of the existing works only focus on how to use social information but ignore the fact that social information itself may cause severe security and privacy problems. In this dissertation, we first present some social information-assisted application systems that we have designed, and then, we present several social information-involved privacy and security risks and their countermeasures. Generally speaking, the design procedure of any social information-assisted application involves three tasks: publishing, accessing, and using social information. However, all of these tasks contain privacy and security issues. Social information can be published from a centralized system or a distributed one. For the centralized scheme, the social information is directly published from online social networking systems, such as Facebook or Twitter. However, we found that the data of a social network essentially is a time-evolving graph. Most of the existing approaches fail to preserve users' identity privacy once a malicious attacker has the external knowledge about the victim's time-varying behaviors. For avoiding the new privacy issue, we propose a time-based anonymization scheme. For the distributed social information-sharing scheme, each user's information is propagated from friend to friend's friends, and so on. We design a new scheme to gradually enhance the privacy protection along a propagation path, in the meanwhile, maximally preserve the overall utility of the user's data. From a data accessing aspect, social information can be used by malicious users for launching new attacks. In this dissertation, we find a friendship-based privacy disclosure attack, and a corresponding defense approach is designed. Location-based service has been widely adopted. In order to preserve location privacy, users usually turn off the corresponding applications when visiting sensitive locations. However, once social relationships are known, attackers are able to infer these hidden locations, which disclose users' location privacy. For preserving the location privacy, we design a fake location-based approach, which efficiently disorders the social-geographic relationships among users. From the data usage aspect, social information and its related data may come from users. A system may lose functioning if some malicious users inject plenty of fake information. Mobile clouds and Friend Locator are two typical systems, which are vulnerable to the fake information-related attacks. Mobile clouds explore the idle computing resources of surrounding devices by recruiting nearby friends to participate in the same task. However, malicious users may inject wrong friendships information to mess up the system. When visiting a new place, Friend Locator provides navigation services for participators by creating a map based their trajectories. The functioning of the system is based on the trust among participators. Once a user's device is controlled by attackers, all other users may receive wrong navigation. For defending these attacks, we provide different countermeasure.
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Bayer, Betty M. (Betty Marie) Carleton University Dissertation Psychology. "Small groups, social influence, and issues of peace and security." Ottawa, 1989.
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Chavira, Denise April. "The relationship between shyness and social phobia : issues in validity /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9952667.
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Liang, Alayna Chuan-yu. "Censorship and Human Rights: Social Issues in the Digital Age." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/321793.
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Baltsa, Sofiola <1988>. "Corporate Social Responsibility and ethical issues. Case study: Banca Etica." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/7739.
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Robertson, Caroline June. "Current issues in the treatment of sexual offenders." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/857/.
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This thesis investigates the debate around sex offender treatment efficacy. Numerous methods are utilised to explore this topic, including a meta-analysis (N =15,931), empirical research (N =322) and a single case study. Chapter 1 reviews the efficacy of sex offender treatment in relation to study design, treatment type, and treatment setting. Results indicate a positive effect of treatment in reducing both sexual and general recidivism for treated versus untreated offenders. However, treatment effects varied greatly according to the study design used, with no significant effect of treatment found for randomised controlled trials. Within Chapter 2, survival analysis and logistic regression are used to examine the impact of treatment dose (‘Risk Principle’) on reconviction and within-treatment change. Results indicate that whilst controlling for Risk Matrix 2000 (Thornton, Mann, Webster, Blud, Travers, Friendship & Erikson, 2003) classification, treatment dose does not influence treatment outcome. The results are discussed in light of the need to consider the way that sexual offenders interact with the amount of treatment received. Chapter 3 uses a single case design to explore assessment and low-dose intervention with an internet offender. The case study explores practice based issues, including the difficulty in applying pre-existing knowledge of contact sexual offenders to internet offenders. Chapter 4 provides a critique of Risk Matrix 2000 (Thornton et al., 2003). Chapter 5 discusses the practical and theoretical implications of this thesis, explores limitations of the thesis, and provides recommendations for future research.
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Canda, Edward R. "A conceptualization of spirituality for social work : its issues and implications." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1239808378.
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Diaz, Yadira. "Multidimensional and persistent poverty : methodological approaches to measurement issues." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/17562/.
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Multidimensional deprivation and persistent poverty are important research areas within the poverty measurement literature. Still, both encompass measurement issues for which methodological solutions are yet to be analysed. The thesis that I present here analyses three specific measurement issues, identified as relevant within these research areas, and proposes methodological approaches to tackle each of them. First, it evaluates the effect of different demographic population structures on societal multidimensional deprivation incidence comparisons. The results of this evaluation demonstrate that societal multidimensional comparisons reflect not only differences in relative deprivation but also differences in the demographic composition of the societies to be compared. These differences in the demographic structure of the population, thus, confound societal multidimensional deprivation comparisons. To tackle this comparability problem, the application of direct and indirect standardisation methods is proposed and analysed in this context. Second, it studies the effect of differences in need, exhibited across individuals from different demographic population subgroups or households of different sizes and compositions, on multidimensional deprivation incidence profiles. To address differences in needs and enhance individual or household comparability, I propose a family of multidimensional deprivation indices that describes how much deprivation two demographically heterogeneous units with different needs must exhibit to be catalogued as equivalently deprived. The obtained empirical results demonstrate that neglecting differences in needs yields biased multidimensional deprivation incidence profiles. The results also shed light on the ability of my proposed family of measures to capture these differences in need effectively. Third, this thesis analyses the reliability of persistent poverty measures in the presence of survey non-response. The obtained empirical results indicate that persistent poverty measures based on balanced panel estimates that do not account for the relationship between survey non-response and the socioeconomic status of the household provide a significantly biased picture of the intertemporal phenomenon. The methodologies that I present in this thesis are meant foremost to be easy to implement and understand by policymakers. As such, they are proposed as methodological tools to improve the measurement and analysis of poverty in the policy context.
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Walker-Fernandez, Jackeline. "Laicite, the Headscarf, and Assimilation Issues in France." Thesis, The American University of Paris (France), 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13871620.
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Greschbach, Benjamin. "Privacy Issues in Decentralized Online Social Networks and other Decentralized Systems." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Teoretisk datalogi, TCS, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-196118.
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Popular Online Social Networks (OSNs), such as Facebook or Twitter, are logically centralized systems. The massive information aggregation of sensitive personal data at the central providers of these services is an inherent threat to the privacy of the users. Leakages of these data collections happen regularly – both intentionally, for example by selling of user data to third parties and unintentionally, for example when outsiders successfully attack a provider. Motivated by this insight, the concept of Decentralized Online Social Networks (DOSNs) has emerged. In these proposed systems, no single, central provider keeps a data collection of all users. Instead, the data is spread out across multiple servers or is distributed completely among user devices that form a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. Encryption is used to enforce access rights of shared content and communication partners ideally connect directly to each other. DOSNs solve one of the biggest privacy concerns of centralized OSNs in a quite forthright way – by getting rid of the central provider. Furthermore, these decentralized systems can be designed to be more immune to censorship than centralized services. But when decentralizing OSNs, two main challenges have to be met: to provide user privacy under a significantly different threat model, and to implement equal usability and functionality without centralized components. In this work we analyze the general privacy-problems in DOSNs, especially those arising from the more exposed metadata in these systems. Furthermore, we suggest three privacy-preserving implementations of standard OSN features, i.e. user authentication via password-login, user search via a knowledge threshold and an event invitation system with fine-grained privacy-settings. These implementations do not rely on a trusted, central provider and are therefore applicable in a DOSN scenario but can be applied in other P2P or low-trust environments as well. Finally, we analyze a concrete attack on a specific decentralized system, the Tor anonymization network, and suggest improvements for mitigating the identified threats.Populära sociala nätverkstjänster som Facebook och Instagram bygger på en logiskt centraliserad systemarkitektur. Tjänsteleverantörerna har därför tillgång till omfattande ansamlingar av känsliga personuppgifter,vilket innebär en oundviklig risk för integritetskränkningar. Med jämna mellanrum läcks dessa informationsansamlingar till tredje part – antingen när tjänsteleverantören själv säljer eller ger dem tillexterna aktörer, eller när obehöriga får åtkomst till tjänsteleverantörens datasystem. Decentraliserade sociala nätverkstjänster (eng. Decentralized Online Social Networks, DOSNs) är en lovande utveckling för att minska denna risk och för att skydda användarnas personliga information såväl från tjänsteleverantören som från tredje part. Ett vanligt sätt att implementera ett DOSN är genom en icke-hierarkisk nätverksarkitektur (eng. peer-to-peer network) för att undvika att känsliga personuppgifter samlas på ett ställe som är under tjänsteleverantörens kontroll. Kryptering används för att skydda kommunikationen och för att realisera åtkomstkontrollen av information som ska delas med andra användare. Att inte längre ha en tjänsteleverantör som har tillgång till all data innebär att den största riskfaktorn for integritetskränkningar tas bort. Men genom att ersätta den centrala tjänsteleverantören med ett decentraliserat system tar vi även bort ett visst integritetsskydd. Integritetsskyddet var en konsekvens av att förmedlingen av all användarkommunikation skedde genom tjänsteleverantörens servrar. När ansvaret för lagring av innehållet, hantering av behörigheterna, åtkomst och andra administrativa uppgifter övergår till användarna själva, blir det en utmaning att skydda metadata för objekt och informationsflöden, även om innehållet är krypterat. I ett centraliserat system är dessa metadata faktiskt skyddade av tjänsteleverantören – avsiktligt eller som en sidoeffekt. För att implementera de olika funktioner som ska finnas i ett integritetsskyddande DOSN, är det nödvändigt både att lösa dessa generella utmaningar och att hantera frånvaron av en betrodd tjänsteleverantör som har full tillgång till all data. Användarautentiseringen borde till exempel ha samma användbarhet som i centraliserade system. Det vill säga att det är lätt att ändra lösenordet, upphäva rättigheterna för en stulen klientenhet eller återställa ett glömt lösenord med hjälp av e-post eller säkerhetsfrågor – allt utan att förlita sig på en betrodd tredje part. Ett annat exempel är funktionen att kunna söka efter andra användare. Utmaningen där är att skydda användarinformationen samtidigt som det måste vara möjligt att hitta användare baserad på just denna informationen. En implementation av en sådan funktion i ett DOSN måste klara sig utan en betrodd tjänsteleverantör som med tillgång till alla användardata kan upprätthålla ett globalt sökindex. I den här avhandlingen analyserar vi de generella risker för integritetskränkningar som finns i DOSN, särskilt de som orsakas av metadata. Därutöver föreslår vi tre integritetsskyddande implementationer av vanliga funktioner i en social nätverkstjänst: lösenordsbaserad användarautentisering, en användarsökfunktion med en kunskapströskel och en inbjudningsfunktion för evenemang med detaljerade sekretessinställningar. Alla tre implementationerna är lämpliga för DOSN-scenarier eftersom de klarar sig helt utan en betrodd, central tjänsteleverantör, och kan därför även användas i andra sammanhang såsom icke-hierarkiska nätverk eller andra system som måste klara sig utan en betrodd tredje part. Slutligen analyserar vi en attack på ett specifikt decentraliserat system, anonymitetstjänsten Tor, och diskuterar hur systemet kan skyddas mot de analyserade sårbarheterna.
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Wong, Yu-cheung, and 黃於唱. "Gender issues in marital satisfaction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31977984.
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Wong, Hoi-woon Amy. "A social worker's reflection on handling infidelity issues with violent couples." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36783079.
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Deveau-Brock, Michelle. "Engagement with structural social work : issues and dilemmas in dialectical praxis." Thesis, Laurentian University of Sudbury, 2013. https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/dspace/handle/10219/2068.
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This paper explores a Master of Social Work (MSW) student's experiences in engagement with structural social work during an advanced practicum with a perinatal mental health project in Northeastern Ontario. The goals of the advanced practicum were to: (a) improve reflexive practice, (b) improve understanding of structural social work, specific to social justice, and (c) improve understanding of the role of structural social workers within inter-organizational collaborations. Deconstruction of the engagement with each of the goals and the challenges in facilitation of the objectives are reviewed. Though there are issues and dilemmas facing those who wish to engage in structural social work, this advanced practicum experience was successful in improving the student's engagement with structural social work praxis.
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Reader, Simon Matthew. "Social learning and innovation : individual differences, diffusion dynamics and evolutionary issues." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.344085.
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Molutsi, Patrick Dibera Peace. "Social stratification and inequality in Botswana : issues in development 1950-1985." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327964.
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Wong, Hoi-woon Amy, and 黃海媛. "A social worker's reflection on handling infidelity issues with violent couples." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43895426.
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Jones, Janet. "Issues in leprosy and social isolation : a case study from Nepal." Thesis, University of Derby, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10545/297119.
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Armsby, Pauline M. "An intelligent pedestrian device : social, psychological and other issues of feasibility." Thesis, Middlesex University, 1996. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/9847/.
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An Intelligent Pedestrian Device (IPD) is a new concept in pedestrian safety. It is defined as a microprocessor based information device which detects the approach of oncoming vehicles and informs the pedestrian whether or not it is safe to cross. IPDs could be portable or fixed to a roadside station. They could help reduce pedestrian accidents, which cost £2681 million in the UK in 1994. This study aims to assess whether the concept is socially acceptable and what the design criteria might be. A study of social acceptance involved group interviews of 5-10 participants with 84 pedestrians in five categories: adults aged 18-60, elderly aged 65+, visually restricted, parents of children aged 5-9 and children aged 10-14. The results suggest that vulnerable pedestrians are more positive about the device than the more able-bodied. Theories that may help explain this are discussed and it is concluded that, with education and marketing, the IPD could gain a degree of social acceptance. Observation of more than 900 pedestrian crossing movements at four different sites showed a range of behaviours, and that people often take risks in order to reduce delay. IPDs will require pedestrians to change some of their behaviours, especially those that are risky. Legal acceptance will demand high levels of costly product research and development, and a portable device will not be technologically feasible until well into the next century. However, the wider social benefits of IPDs may be worth the costs. An outline of design criteria for basic and sophisticated portable IPDs is given, and alternative functions are suggested. It is recommended that further work concentrate on developing software and hardware for fixed modes of IPD. It is concluded that, ultimately, acceptance will probably depend on whether Government decides that the IPD has a place in the road environment of the future.
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Maguire, Nick. "Paranoia : the consideration of cognitive, evolutionary, social and self-constructive issues." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299410.
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Afsahi, Afshan. "Social Networking Dilemmas for Psychologists: Privacy, Professionalism, Boundary Issues, and Policies." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1418128099.
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Macleod, Catriona, and Simon Howell. "Reflecting on South African psychology: published research, ‘relevance’ and social issues." SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006277.
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As South Africa prepared to host the 30th International Congress of Psychology in 2012, a call was made to reflect on the strengths of and challenges facing contemporary South African Psychology. This paper presents our response to our brief to focus on social issues by presenting the results of a situational analysis of South African Psychology over the last five years and comparing this corpus of data to a similar analysis reported in Macleod (2004). Articles appearing in the South African Journal of Psychology (SAJP) and abstracts in PsycINFO with the keyword ‘South Africa’ over a 5½ year period were analysed. The content of 243 SAJP articles and 1986 PsycINFO abstracts were analysed using the codes developed by Macleod (2004). Results indicate: an increase in the number of articles, a reduction in the percentage of articles using quantitative methodologies and ‘hard’ science theoretical frameworks (particularly in the SAJP), and an increase in qualitative, theoretical, and methodological papers, and papers using systems-oriented theory (particularly in the SAJP). Traditional topics of assessment, stress and psychopathology continue to dominate, with social issues such as housing, land reform, development programmes, water resources and socio-economic inequities being largely ignored. Most research continues to be conducted in Gauteng, KwaZulu/Natal and the Western Cape, predominantly with adult, urban-based, middle-class participants, sourced mainly from universities, hospitals or clinics and schools. Collaborations or comparisons with other African, Asian, South American and Middle East countries have decreased. While the analysis presented in this paper is limited by its exclusion of books, theses, research reports and monographs, it shows that in published research there are some positive trends and some disappointments. The limited number of social issues featuring in published research, the under-representation of certain sectors of the population as participants, and the decrease in collaboration with, or comparison to, countries from the global ‘South’ represent challenges that require systematic attention.
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Samhouri, Annie Mohsen. "Service Provider and Beneficiary Perceptions of Collectivist Domestic Violence Social Issues." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4277.
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In this research I have focused on beneficiary and service providers' perceptions toward Arab social obstacles to help-seeking, appropriate intervention methods and obstacles to reintegration into the community after seeking assistance. Through semi-structured interviews and content analysis of local policies, laws and specific service offerings, I sought to contribute to the limited literature that explores how formal institutions that originate from a Western context are adapted to meet the unique needs of Arab victims of domestic violence. I found that the main social obstacles to help-seeking were attributed to a dearth of knowledge about existing services, a lack of confidence in formal institutions such as non-governmental and government agencies, a fear of rejection or punishment from their families and communities, concerns about laws that might increase a woman's vulnerability and limited economic resources.
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Liu, Shanshan. "Visual Social Media and Vernacular Responses to Environmental Issues in China." Thesis, Curtin University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79905.
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This thesis investigates the role of visual social media in providing ordinary Chinese with an alternative space to articulate their opinions on environmental issues. By studying three notable environmental cases, this thesis explores how ordinary Chinese adopt visual social media practices as a response to environmental issues, and to aid in the fight for environmental justice. This thesis provides a new perspective to understand China’s visual social media practices and its networked civic engagement.