Dissertations / Theses: 'Theory, 1578'

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Mabhudhu, Mark. "A comparative analysis of leadership and management at Jwaneng Diamond Mine." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1578.

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Thesis (MPhil (Information Science))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.
The functions of management and leadership are not new to the business fraternity. Whilst these functions are as pervasive and ubiquitous as the corporate organizations themselves, the same cannot be said of the organizational successes emanating from these functions. These functions have been cited throughout literature as pivotal in the successful running of businesses. By the same token, they have also been cited as the major causes of failed businesses within the corporate landscape. This has been established throughout small and big organizations alike. This unfortunate phenomenon has continued to attract significant academic and business research over the years with an overall intent of establishing why it is the case. Whilst there are varied reasons for the successes and failures of most organizations, the quality of both functions of leadership and management seem to take the larger portion of the praise and/or blame. These functions are regarded as key determinants of organizational success and survival into the future. Subsequently, this has culminated in myriad theories, frameworks and approaches around management and leadership as significantly different functions which yield different results in business organizations. At the core of the debate has been that management and leadership functions are different and depending on whether an organization is managed or led determines its future success and overall sustainability. It is therefore the intention of this study to comparatively analyze both functions of management and leadership in as far as they impact organizational sustainability and success. A case study of Jwaneng Diamond Mine in Botswana is used to do this comparative study of the two functions of management and leadership within the Executive team to try and affirm some of the key factors as alluded to within the business landscape. In this comparative study it is noted that whilst management and leadership are two different functions, they are however symbiotic in nature and successful organizations tap into both functions as they develop and build sustainable businesses for the future. The Jwaneng Mine case study showed that in an executive team, it is vital to have a balance between managers (those who provide management capabilities) and leaders (those that provide leadership) if the organization is to be successful going into the future.

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Boman, Anna, and Jonas Larsson. "Patent Valuation in Theory and Practice." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-1578.

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Background: Today, an increased need to value patents is expressed in several different situations. For example, banks more frequently accept patents as collateral for loans and patents are being exchanged more often between companies. It is argued that a hindrance for the recognition of the value of patents, and other assets lacking physical form, is that the current methods of valuation are not developed for this type of assets.

Purpose: Our objective is to investigate the practical relevance of four theoretical valuation approaches in the context of patent valuation and to point out crucial factors affecting the choice of valuation approach.

Procedure: Interviews were conducted with professionals working in the field of corporate finance and with an expert in the field of patents and intellectual property rights.

Results: The respondents are not of the same opinion whether relevant approaches for patent valuation exist at all. Among the respondents who find it possible to value patents, the income approach is the dominating approach. The theoretical correctness of this approach, derived from the definition of value, is stressed as the primary argument for the use of it. Methods such as Decision Tree Analysis, within the income approach, and Relief from Royalty, a hybrid of the market- and income approach, are used as complements.

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Securato, Denis. "Governança corporativa e criação de valor no setor de construção civil no período de 2010 a 2013." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2014. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1578.

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The main goal of this paper is to analyze the Corporate Governance practices on the market value ratios of non-financial companies in the Construction industry, which are listed in the stock market of São Paulo BM&F BOVESPA, within the period of 2010 and 2013. It verifies whether or not companies that adopted differentiated level of Corporate Governance of Bovespa standards have reached higher levels of value creation to the shareholder, in other words, if the shareholders are willing to pay more for the shares of these companies based on the outcomes reached and consequently expected in the future. According to Silveira (2002: 02) the common sense indicates that companies with adequate structure of Corporate Governance practices recommended by Market agents have obtained better results and evaluation in the market for their share prices than companies with inadequate Corporate Governance structure, ceteris paribus . To Ross (2002: 46) adding to financial indexes: the financial statements are not capable to bring an answer to ( ) performance areas ( ). However, the business administration must continuing assesses the company s performance and the financial statements provide useful information . The financial statements and indexes were removed from the already calculated Economatica system, with exception of Tobin s Q Index, which was calculated by the author. It uses the statistic method of logic regression to verify if the variables (value creation indexes) can distinguish the companies listed in the special layer of Corporate Governance New Market. Hence, if the companies are listed in the special layer of Corporate Governance New Market, can add more value to the shareholders. As a result we can distinguish the companies in the New Market by significant variables P/E, P/B, P/Sales and P/EBITDA. Where the lower the P/E and P/B are, the higher is the chance for a company to meet the New Market level of 95% of trustworthiness rate, additionally the higher the P/Sales and P/EBITDA are, higher is the chance of a company in real estate industry been in the New Market layer of 95% of trustworthiness rate. It is concluded from this study that, for the companies that joined the differentiated levels of corporate governance practices and therefore are classified in the New Market, there was a higher value creation as it relates to the share price with EBITDA and the share price with sales. So there is evidence that investors focused their attention to value creation in operational indicators such as EBITDA and Sales
O objetivo principal deste trabalho é avaliar o reflexo das práticas de Governança Corporativa sobre os indicadores de valor de mercado das empresas não financeiras do setor de Construção com ações negociadas na Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo BM&F BOVESPA, no período de 2010 à 2013. Verifica-se se as empresas que aderiram aos níveis diferenciados de governança corporativa da Bovespa atingiram maiores níveis de criação de valor para o acionista, ou seja, se os investidores estão dispostos a pagar mais pelas ações destas empresas em função de resultados atingidos e consequentemente esperados para o futuro. Segundo Silveira (2002: 02) o senso comum indica que empresas com uma estrutura de governança corporativa mais adequada às práticas recomendadas pelos agentes de mercado obtenham melhores resultados e também sejam melhor avaliadas pelo mercado no preço de suas ações do que empresas com uma estrutura de governança não tão adequada, ceteris paribus . Já para Ross (2002: 46) complementa sobre índices financeiros: as demonstrações financeiras não são capazes de dar respostas para (...) áreas de desempenho (...). Entretanto, a administração precisa avaliar continuamente o desempenho da empresa, e as demonstrações financeiras fornecem informações úteis . As demonstrações financeiras e os índices foram retirados do sistema economática já calculados, com exceção do índice Q de Tobin que foi calculado pelo autor. Utiliza-se o método estatístico da regressão logística para verificar se as variáveis (índices de criação de valor) podem discriminar as empresas listadas no segmento especial de governança corporativa Novo Mercado. Ou seja, se as empresas listadas no segmento especial de governança corporativa Novo Mercado, podem agregar maior valor para seus acionistas. Como resultado temos que pode-se discriminar as empresas que estão no Novo Mercado pelas variáveis significativas P/L, P/VP, P/Vendas e P/EBITDA. Onde quanto menor o P/L e o P/VP, maior é a chance de uma empresa se encontrar no novo Mercado ao nível de 95% de confiança e quanto maior o P/Vendas e o P/EBITDA maior é a chance de uma empresa do setor imobiliário estar no novo Mercado com 95% de confiança. Conclui-se neste estudo que, para as empresas que aderiram a níveis diferenciados de práticas de governança corporativa e que por isso estão classificadas no Novo Mercado, houve maior criação de valor quando se relaciona o preço da ação com EBITDA e o preço da ação com as vendas. Portanto existem evidências de que os investidores concentraram sua atenção para criação de valor em indicadores operacionais como EBITDA e Vendas

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Snyder, J. Lauren. "A critical theory of peace practice : discourse ethics and facilitated conflict resolution." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2000. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1575/.

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This thesis argues for the need to answer the question how can we use critical theory to rethink the meta-theoretical foundations of facilitated conflict resolution. It draws on Jurgen Habermas' discourse ethics-based framework and a methodology of communicative rationality to articulate the foundations of a Critical Theory of Peace Practice. An illustrative example of the Oslo Channel, which led to the Declaration of Principles and Letters of Mutual Recognition between Israel and the PLO with the third- party facilitative assistance of Norwegians in 1993, sets the stage for exploring the extent to which facilitated conflict resolution approaches can contribute to peace practices. John Burton's ideas are critically and carefully examined as he has most extensively articulated the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of such an approach. It is contended that although he identifies practices that differ from traditional mediation approaches, theoretically he remains committed to a behavioural-oriented human needs theory and is reliant on instrumental rationality in which success in the problem-solving setting is prioritised. Other scholars and practitioners who have attempted to expand and refine the Burtonian perspective are studied. It is argued that although each offers modifications to either the theory or the practice, all fail to fundamentally move beyond instrumental rationality and human needs theory. A communicative rationality methodology and a meta-theoretical foundation of Habermas' discourse ethics is proposed for grounding a theory of peace practice. By shifting the emphasis from needs to communication, this suggested framework is intended not only to impact the facilitation process, but the broader public sphere in which the legitimacy of any reached agreements must be accepted for establishing and sustaining peace. The most promising intimations of the praxeological dimensions of such an approach can be found in the realm of conflict transformation and peace-building with their associated desire to effect changes in socio-political arrangements.

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Saull, Richard Gary. "Rethinking theory and history in the Cold War : the state, military power and social revolution." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1999. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1528/.

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This thesis provides a critique of existing understandings of the Cold War in International Relations theory, and offers an alternative position. It rejects the conventional conceptual and temporal understanding of the Cold War, which assumes that the Cold War was, essentially, a political-military conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that originated in the collapse of the wartime alliance after 1945. Using a method derived from historical materialism, in particular the parcellization of political power into the spheres of 'politics' and 'economics' that characterises capitalist modernity, the thesis develops an alternative understanding of the Cold War through an emphasis on the historical and thus conceptual uniqueness of it. After the literature survey, Part One interrogates the conceptual areas of the state, military power and social revolution and offers alternative conceptualisations. This is followed in Part Two with a more historically orientated argument that analyses Soviet and American responses to the Cuban and Vietnamese revolutions. The main conclusions of the thesis consist of the following. First, the thesis suggests that the form of politics in the USSR (and other 'revolutionary' states) was qualitatively different to that of capitalist states. This derived from the relationship between the form of political rule and the social relations of material production. Secondly, this conflict was not reducible to the 'superpowers' but rather, was conditioned by a dynamic associated with the expansion and penetration of capitalist social relations, and the contestation of those political forms that evolved from them. Finally, the relationship between capitalist expansion and the 'superpowers' rested on the distinctive forms of international relations of each superpower over how each related to the international system and responded to revolution.

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Lee, Cheongho. "CREATIVITY, POSSIBILITY AND INTERPRETATION: THEORY OF DETERMINATION OF PEIRCE AND NEVILLE." OpenSIUC, 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1576.

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The central argument of this project is that meaningful and intelligible experience is conditioned by the determinate relationship between realms of reality, and that our humanity is grounded on the semiotic process of symbolic references, which is manifest in Charles S. Peirce’s and Robert C. Neville’s theories of determination. However they are contained by the past such processes of determination can be extended to the future through transformative effort. My investigation ranges over multiple paths that lead toward determinate processes, by suggesting that the problem of interpretation and of the intelligibility of experience can be solved only in reference to the full purview of determinate features of experience. In his theory of determination, Peirce considered two processes of determination, the semiotic process and epistemology. The semiotic process is an extensional process from object to interpretant that consists of an infinite chain of references that can be spatially reversible. The epistemological process of determination is temporal and irreversible, where the idea grows into the individual mind, as the universe is unfolded by the agency of mind. Peirce’s study of the logic of individuals of Duns Scotus is to find answers for the problem of individuality. For Peirce, God is individualized in the course of determination and at the same time determines all possible determinations. Due to his adopting the Scotian sense of necessity, Neville also adopts Duns Scotus’s logic of individuals to his theory of determination and valuation. As revealed in his theory of determination, in the ontological act of creation God becomes individual as a creator, an individual as the determiner of all possible determinations. In his theory of determination, Neville proposes modes of determination at the ontological level, as well as a collection of cosmological determinations. Neville works “inter-cosmologically” in order to account for the fundamental conditions of our knowing that brings ontological and cosmological determinations together. In their theory of interpretation, Peirce and Neville suggest a triadic system of semiotic network. Among other things, Neville provides a more sophisticated version of theory of interpretation, which involves realms of intelligibility. Both Peirce and Neville symbolism allows for the pragmatic semiotics based upon a brokenness of signs, which opens for further interpretation.

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Harris, Kira Jade. "Leaving ideological social groups behind: A Grounded theory of psychological disengagement." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2015. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1587.

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Much of the current disengagement literature focuses on the causes of an individual leaving a radical social group with the intention of countering fundamentalism and violent extremism. However, the link between the cause and the decision to disengage is unclear as one cause may facilitate disengagement for one member and not another. Minimal empirical research exists on the individual’s psychological experience of disengagement and the studies that have been done tend to focus on sole ideologies or group types. What is lacking in the field of disengagement is a broader understanding of the core psychological experience across a broad range of ideological social group types. The current research addressed this gap by including participants from a diverse range of ideological social groups, where the criterion that defined these social groups was the member’s identification. The strength of identification to the group was to be sufficiently strong so that members were willing to jeopardise their wellbeing, or that of others, for the benefit of the group’s objectives. The current research sought to further the understanding of psychological disengagement and to construct a theory drawn from the experiences of those who have left ideological social groups. In-depth interviews were conducted with 27 former members of social groups with high levels of entitativity, such as one percent motorcycle clubs, military special operations forces, cults, white supremacy, and fundamental religious or political groups. Utilising a grounded theory methodology and analysis, the discrepancy between group membership and the self-concept was identified as the core theme in the disengagement experience. The grounded theory of psychological disengagement details the process of experiencing a threat relating to the self, identifying a self-concept discrepancy and subsequent methods to reduce this discrepancy, achieving physical disengagement and developing a post-exit identity. The findings demonstrate that participants followed a consistent pattern of moving towards membership reappraisal and disengagement. This process began with a personal threat that was related to, or derived from, the social group, and ended with the reformation of the self as a former member. The group was perceived as inconsistent with the self-concept held by the participant in four domains; (1) competence, (2) virtue, (3) power and (4) significance. The inconsistency and the psychological identification with such a group conflicted with personally held goals and values, and threatened the participants’ psychological integrity. For the participants in the current study, this self-discrepancy was resolved by employing four self-concept management strategies to restore psychological integrity; (1) the forming of an atypical identity, (2) utilising adaptive preferences (3) using justifications and rationalisations, and (4) the making of amends. These self-concept strategies, applied in isolation or in combination, contributed to participants psychologically, as well as physically, disengaging from the group as a means of restoring consistency between their self-concept and social identity. The physical disengagement led to initial feelings of relief over the decision-making process and freedom over the removal of lifestyle restrictions. These positive emotions gave way to feelings of grief over the loss of positive in-group aspects and concerns for the future. A post exit identity was adopted when the group experience was embraced and personal reflections followed a more positive approach. Implications for policy and specific areas where members may benefit from additional support are identified. This research contributes to the current understanding of disengagement, as well as group dependency and ideological attachment from a unique perspective. Directions for future research and implementations of the findings of the current research are discussed.

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Pianov, Dmitrii. "Allocation Mechanisms in Partially Linked Secondary Spectrum Markets: A Theory And Experiment." OpenSIUC, 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1518.

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We analyze dynamic equilibria of a multiple markets model with sparsely allocated participants. An example of such a market is the secondary radio spectrum market. In the first chapter a general model is represented by an allocation of a good from sellers to buyers where purchases can only occur if a buyer and seller are linked or if a buyer is located in the seller's coverage area. First, we study the static part of the model and show an optimal auction design for price efficiency. Second, we assume a dynamic structure where buyers can reallocate and show sufficient conditions to reach equilibrium. Finally, we consider the speed of convergence to an equilibrium and prove the equilibrium is allocation efficient. The second chapter expands the idea of a location based market. We consider a mechanism of allocating a differentiated good. To capture this, we use the idea of a Generalized Second Price Auction that is used extensively in online search auctions. Buyers in this market are competing for various goods that are ranked based on their quality (known as the click-through rate in online advertisement). Network formation is also assumed to capture different accessibility of participants to the market. In terms of secondary spectrum auctions, this mechanism can be thought of as competition of various wireless devices (such as cognitive radio) over broadcast priority from the base station. We provide the conditions and subset of networks that will lead to an equilibrium in this market. We also show how different constraints, such as transaction costs and interference, have an impact on this equilibrium. In the third chapter, we study two mechanisms of secondary allocation for trading spectrum in a dynamic setting. The two models considered are the "exclusive-use" model, where spectrum is traded on the open market, and the "commons-use" model, where spectrum is available freely in a non-coordinated way. We show that firms have more incentive to innovate and to acquire higher capital in the "exclusive-use" case, which results in higher welfare. We test these results with both numerical simulations and with a laboratory experiment to simulate the conditions of such markets and show that the theoretical results hold true.

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Haldar, Ipsita. "Gandhi and modern republican theory of freedom or non-domination: a study." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1579.

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Jones, Bo. "A New Approximation Scheme for Monte Carlo Applications." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1579.

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Approximation algorithms employing Monte Carlo methods, across application domains, often require as a subroutine the estimation of the mean of a random variable with support on [0,1]. One wishes to estimate this mean to within a user-specified error, using as few samples from the simulated distribution as possible. In the case that the mean being estimated is small, one is then interested in controlling the relative error of the estimate. We introduce a new (epsilon, delta) relative error approximation scheme for [0,1] random variables and provide a comparison of this algorithm's performance to that of an existing approximation scheme, both establishing theoretical bounds on the expected number of samples required by the two algorithms and empirically comparing the samples used when the algorithms are employed for a particular application.

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Green, Hannah Mary. "Exploring teachers' constructs of mental health and their reported responses to young people experiencing mental health problems : a grounded theory approach." Thesis, University of East London, 2012. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/1518/.

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The current research used a grounded theory approach (Charmaz, 2006) to explore the ways in which a small group of teachers working in mainstream schools constructed the term ‘mental health’ and how they responded to young people who may be experiencing ‘mental health’ problems. The findings indicated that four conceptual categories emerged from the data. One of the conceptual categories indicated that the teachers had two constructs of mental health, with one construct suggesting teachers felt mental health language was limiting for young people. Conversely, it was also found that mental health language could have a motivating effect on the teachers in being able to know how to respond to young people with mental health problems. In addition, it was found that the teachers lacked confidence in sharing ownership of the term ‘mental health’. The research findings also highlighted two further conceptual categories with regards to the teachers’ responses to young people with mental health problems. The teachers were active in engaging in a collective responsibility with their teaching colleagues when responding to mental health problems. The teachers also used their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to develop relationships with young people in the hope that this will help them to regulate and contain their emotions.

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Devantier, Line. "Exploring the processes of change in individual cognitive behavioural therapy for bulimia nervosa from the patients' perspectives : a grounded theory study." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2018. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/1558/.

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The aim of this study is to explore how individuals with bulimia nervosa (BN) understand processes of change in individual cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). The treatment of individuals with BN remains a major challenge and research suggests that treatment only helps a modest number of individuals. The rationale for this investigation is to learn more about the factors that influence change, which might contribute to or shed further light on the body of research that already exists in this area. A qualitative research method is chosen and used from a critical realist framework. The in-depth interviews of eight participants’ experiences of change in CBT for BN are analysed using a grounded theory methodology. The data analysis includes initial open coding, categorisation and linking the categories to construct a theory that is grounded in the data. The findings indicate that healing from BN is a complex and painful continual process of personal transition, which involves ‘a journey towards de-fusion of the sense of self and the BN’. Participants described how BN gradually became part of self and how bodily sensations and attributes affected cognitions and emotions. The overall finding demonstrates an immediate connection between the participants’ physical and psychological realities. This symbolic communication via the body, however, was not experienced as metaphors but rather as actual reality, which affected the change processes in several ways. The processes of de-fusion of the sense of self and therapeutic change in the BN seemed to have an interactional relationship that was central to the experiences of change at all stages of CBT for BN. The main findings are linked to the wider context and the possible implications are discussed. A critical evaluation of the study is offered followed by recommendations for future research and practice in the field of counselling psychology and beyond. In particular, mentalization-based therapy is explored as a possible framework for conceptualising BN, which might help grasp some basic limitations and difficulties in psychotherapy and treatment in general.

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Gesme, Janet Leigh. "Martin Luther's "Two Kingdoms Theory": An Analysis through the Lens of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1508.

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The following work is an analysis of Martin Luther's Two Kingdoms Theory. This influential and controversial theory was introduced in his 1523 treatise, Von weltlicher Obrigkeit--Secular Authority. Although this document was written almost 500 years ago and takes its cue from the writings of St. Augustine and the Bible, it continued to have a significant effect on German society in both the political and religious realm well into the present day. Based on an analysis of the text and on the culture and literature that led Luther to write Von weltlicher Obrigkeit, this thesis evaluates various interpretations and applications of the Two Kingdoms Theory. The specific effects of Luther's teaching during the Nazi era are examined politically and theologically. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionsloses Christentum--Religionless Christianity and Martin Luther's Zwei-Reiche-Lehre--Two Kingdoms Theory will be compared to demonstrate that they illuminate the same truth from different vantage points: neither people nor their rules are viable substitutes for God. A brief introduction explains the means of analysis used in this thesis, which is based on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's call for a new religionless language as described in letters written during his imprisonment by the Nazi regime.

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Portides, Demetris Panayiotis. "Representation models as devices for scientific theory applications vs. the semantic view of scientific theories : the case of models of the nuclear structure." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2000. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1572/.

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Analyses of the nature and structure of scientific theories have predominantly focused on formalisation. The Received View of scientific theories considers theories as axiomatised sets of sentences. In Hilbert-style formalisation theories are considered formal axiomatic calculi to which interpretation is supplied by a set of correspondence rules. The Received View has long been abandoned. The Semantic View of scientific theories also considers theories as formal systems. In the Semantic conception, a theory is identified with the class of intended models of the formal language, if the theory were to be given such linguistic form. The proponents of the Semantic View, however, hold that this class of models can be directly defined without recourse to a formal language. Just like its predecessor, the Semantic View is also not free of untenable implications. The uniting feature of the arguments m this work is the topic of theoretical representation of phenomena. The Semantic View implies that theoretical representation conies about by the use of some model, which belongs to the class that constitutes the theory. However, this is not what we see when we scrutinise the features of actual representation models in physics. In this work particular emphasis is given to how representation models are constructed in Classical Mechanics and Nuclear Physics and what conceptual resources are used in their construction. The characteristics that these models demonstrate instruct us that to regard them as families of theoretical models, as the Semantic View purports, is to obscure how they are constructed, what is used for their construction, how they function and how they relate to the theory. For instance, representation models are devices that frequently postulate physical mechanisms for which the theory does not provide explanations. Thus it seems more appropriate to claim that these representation devices mediate between theory and experiment, and at the same time possess a partial independence from theory. Furthermore, when we focus our attention to the ways by which representation models are constructed we discern that they are the result of the processes of abstraction and concretisation. These processes are operative in theoretical representation and they demand our attention if we are to explicate how theories represent phenomena in their domains.

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Elliott, Lindsey. "What makes a non-professional video go viral: a case study of “I’m farming and I grow it”." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15780.

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Master of Science
Department of Journalism and Mass Communications
Louise Benjamin
In 2013, creating a 57-second video can lead to more than $150,000 in profit for the creator and the creator can be anyone. This money-making opportunity comes from a recent popular trend known as a “viral video,” defined as a phenomenon of a video becoming highly popular through rapid, user-led distribution via the internet. However, research has not determined a clear model for creating a non-professional viral video. Interviews and YouTube analytics revealed how the video “I’m Farming and I Grow It,” a non-professional video created by three Kansas boys, was spread. Using the theories Uses and Gratifications and Two-Step Flow, this case study then analyzed the comments posted on the viral video and a content analysis of the comments identified the key factors mentioned by users, which contributed to the videos’ millions of views. The results conclude the key components for making a non-professional video go viral are “opinion leaders” spreading the message and video content that elicits positive feelings such as joy, humor, or praise. This study also provides a model to help a non-professional video go viral based on previous research and this case study.

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Grenzer, Marina. "Photoinduced material transport in amorphous azobenzene polymer films." Thesis, kostenfrei, 2007. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1577/.

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Dyer, Brian Jay. "How Does Student Understanding of a Concept Change Throughout a Unit of Instruction? Support Toward the Theory of Learning Progressions." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1528.

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This study documented the changes in understanding a class of eighth grade high school-level biology students experienced through a biology unit introducing genetics. Learning profiles for 55 students were created using concept maps and interviews as qualitative and quantitative instruments. The study provides additional support to the theory of learning progressions called for by experts in the field. The students' learning profiles were assessed to determine the alignment with a researcher-developed learning profile. The researcher-developed learning profile incorporated the learning progressions published in the Next Generation Science Standards, as well as current research in learning progressions for 5-10th grade students studying genetics. Students were found to obtain understanding of the content in a manner that was nonlinear, even circuitous. This opposes the prevailing interpretation of learning progressions, that knowledge is ascertained in escalating levels of complexity. Learning progressions have implications in teaching sequence, assessment, education research, and policy. Tracking student understanding of other populations of students would augment the body of research and enhance generalizability.

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Pearsall, Sam Alfred. "The Cantor set." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1528.

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Jiang, Xuan. "Vocabulary Learning through Use of the Picture-Word Inductive Model for Young English Learners in China: A Mixed Methods Examination Using Cognitive Load Theory." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1528.

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English has been taught as a core and compulsory subject in China for decades. Recently, the demand for English in China has increased dramatically. China now has the world’s largest English-learning population. The traditional English-teaching method cannot continue to be the only approach because it merely focuses on reading, grammar and translation, which cannot meet English learners and users’ needs (i.e., communicative competence and skills in speaking and writing). This study was conducted to investigate if the Picture-Word Inductive Model (PWIM), a new pedagogical method using pictures and inductive thinking, would benefit English learners in China in terms of potential higher output in speaking and writing. With the gauge of Cognitive Load Theory (CLT), specifically, its redundancy effect, I investigated whether processing words and a picture concurrently would present a cognitive overload for English learners in China. I conducted a mixed methods research study. A quasi-experiment (pretest, intervention for seven weeks, and posttest) was conducted using 234 students in four groups in Lianyungang, China (58 fourth graders and 57 seventh graders as an experimental group with PWIM and 59 fourth graders and 60 seventh graders as a control group with the traditional method). No significant difference in the effects of PWIM was found on vocabulary acquisition based on grade levels. Observations, questionnaires with open-ended questions, and interviews were deployed to answer the three remaining research questions. A few students felt cognitively overloaded when they encountered too many writing samples, too many new words at one time, repeated words, mismatches between words and pictures, and so on. Many students listed and exemplified numerous strengths of PWIM, but a few mentioned weaknesses of PWIM. The students expressed the idea that PWIM had a positive effect on their English teaching. As integrated inferences, qualitative findings were used to explain the quantitative results that there were no significant differences of the effects of the PWIM between the experimental and control groups in both grade levels, from four contextual aspects: time constraints on PWIM implementation, teachers’ resistance, how to use PWIM and PWIM implemented in a classroom over 55 students.

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Straker, John Oldfield. "A case study of international student participation in an undergraduate module in management in a UK Business School using the lens of activity theory." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15078.

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This case study of international student participation in an undergraduate module in Management in a UK Business School arose from concerns that international students do not always meet institutional expectations of full participation. In the literature, the issues of language and culture have dominated discussion, while education theory has not been prominent. Using a post-Vygotskian framework (Activity Theory), the study set out to understand international student participation from the students’ perspective, taking account of the different elements of activity. It offers a holistic approach, placing the dominant themes in a broader context. The research was undertaken in two phases over a 12-month period using focus groups as the research instrument. Classroom observation, impromptu and planned interviews and correspondence with lecturers, as well as module documentation, contributed to a broader understanding of the context. The focus groups included both international and home students. Phase 1 enabled the conceptual framework to be assessed and refined for use as a coding frame. Following initial coding in Phase 2, the research focus was redefined as participants’ understandings of object-motive, and an in-depth analysis of this element was undertaken. Four module objects were identified: collaboration in diverse groups, task, academic study, and professional practice. In addition, participants identified some more personal objects. The impact of English language level and cultural background were quite extensively discussed, but not to the exclusion of other factors. The analysis indicated that focus group members’ experiences and understanding of participation in international classrooms were shaped by the objects they held in view. Thus, while the study identified the factors which participants understood as impacting on international students’ participation, the analysis of object-motive offered an explanatory framework for understanding the importance they assigned to these. The study highlights the prominence of task-based group work in the module, and questions the extent students were prepared for this type of pedagogy. It notes that home students in particular might benefit from opportunities to increase their intercultural awareness. Participants’ apparent concern for the language and academic levels of some international students may reflect the English language and academic levels of international students at entry into the institution, and serve as a reminder of the importance of well-considered entry decisions.

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Bisbey, Tiffany. "Toward a Theory of Practical Drift in Teams." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1574.

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Practical drift is defined as the unintentional adaptation of routine behaviors from written procedure. The occurrence of practical drift can result in catastrophic disaster in high-reliability organizations (e.g. the military, emergency medicine, space exploration). Given the lack of empirical research on practical drift, this research sought to develop a better understanding by investigating ways to assess and stop the process in high-reliability organizations. An introductory literature review was conducted to investigate the variables that play a role in the occurrence of practical drift in teams. Research was guided by the input-throughput-output model of team adaptation posed by Burke, Stagl, Salas, Pierce, and Kendall (2006). It demonstrates relationships supported by the results of the literature review and the Burke and colleagues (2006) model denoting potential indicators of practical drift in teams. Research centralized on the core processes and emergent states of the adaptive cycle; namely, shared mental models, team situation awareness, and coordination. The resulting model shows the relationship of procedure—practice coupling demands misfit and maladaptive violations of procedure being mediated by shared mental models, team situation awareness, and coordination. Shared mental models also lead to team situation awareness, and both depict a mutual, positive relationship with coordination. The cycle restarts when an error caused by maladaptive violations of procedure creates a greater misfit between procedural demands and practical demands. This movement toward a theory of practical drift in teams provides a conceptual framework and testable propositions for future research to build from, giving practical avenues to predict and prevent accidents resulting from drift in high-reliability organizations. Suggestions for future research are also discussed, including possible directions to explore. By examining the relationships reflected in the new model, steps can be taken to counteract organizational failures in the process of practical drift in teams.
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Parker, Jaime K. "Factors Associated with Play Therapists' Use of Family-Systems Play Therapy Interventions." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1548.

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Four hundred fifty-six (456) members of the Association for Play Therapy responded to the researcher-developed survey, the Play Therapists' Decision-Making Inventory-Revised (PTDI-R). The instrument assessed play therapists’ perceptions of the role of attachment in the treatment process, the frequency with which play therapists feel competent to use family-systems play therapy, and the frequency with which they utilize these interventions. Items from the PTDI-R were analyzed using a principal component analysis to assess the underlying structure of six items that addressed participants’ frequency of use of FSPTI relative to their understanding of the attachment relationship. This factor accounted for 45% of the variance between the 6 survey items. These items from the PTDI-R were combined into one variable for use in the analysis of the remaining research questions. Using this enhanced dependent variable representing frequency of use of FSPTI by play therapists, three multiple regression models were built. Of these, the third model had the most power, explaining 65% of the variance in the dependent variable. When examining the relationships between play therapists’ demographic variables, beliefs about attachment, and play therapy practice patterns, significant relationships were identified among all but one set of variables. The results of this study supported the need for required play therapy education that applies family systems approaches to address attachment dysfunction in the caregiver-child relationship. Findings resulted in training and education recommendations to play therapists, counselor education programs, and the play therapy credentialing body.

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Nestor, Sara E. "Medical theory and Medici symbolism in Giorgio Vasari's "Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori ed architettori"." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12053.

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When Giorgio Vasari wrote the 'Vite de'piu eccellenti pittori, scultori ed architettori', the intended audience of his text not only included the artists of his own time, but also involved his Medici patrons. Indeed, the book was dedicated to Cosimo I de'Medici. The 'Vite' were thus intended as a guide for artists and as a means of paying homage to Vasari's patron. The quest for artistic perfection, through knowledge, was united with courtly principles and iconography, resulting in the raising of the status of the arts above the level of the mechanical. This was most resolutely achieved through the analysis of medicine, and in particular, the theory of the four humours, which not only governed medical practice, but also were of astrological and philosophical significance. While Vasari's vocabulary drew upon the symbolism of the Medici, who were born under the planet of Saturn, which also governed the melancholy humour, his discussion of the diseases suffered by artists was based upon the sciences of Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen and Avicenna and were mainly caused by melancholy. Vasari's text also provided the melancholic with his cure, most notably at the Company of the Cazzuola. Here, the artists and their Medici patrons could find repose and amusement. Entertainments were based upon those of the court and included theatrical performances and banqueting. However, medical knowledge was also of practical significance to the painter and the sculptor. It provided a guide to the internal workings of man and thus, the external appearance of disease in the human body. The alteration in human appearance, as a symptom of disease was fully noted by Vasari in his physiognomic descriptions of the artists' appearances caused by temperament, character and disease and finally, found inclusion in the teachings of the Accademia del Disegno of which Giorgio Vasari had been a founding member.

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Lees, Helen Elizabeth. "The gateless gate of home education discovery : what happens to the self of adults upon discovery of the possibility and possibilities of an educational alternative?" Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1570/.

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This thesis investigates the moment of discovery of educational alternatives and in particular contemporary discovery of elective home education by parents and other adults in England. The discussion highlights an empirical and theoretical context for this discovery. Questions involve whether there is a moment of ontological conversion in the self of people discovering another way of educating from mainstream authoritarian schooling. The research data presented suggests that a moment of ‘gestalt switch’ conversion exists between what can be called different ‘worlds’ of education, following Thomas S. Kuhn’s framework of scientific discovery. By finding the existence of such a moment, the data indicates that education hegemonically conflated with mainstream authoritarian schooling is illegitimate: education is a paradigmatic field wherein all differing paradigms of educational theory and practice have equal legitimacy, irrespective of resources and participants. The moment of discovery investigated is characterised by surprising elements. Discovery of an alternative way of educating children seems to have a strong positive impact on both the adults and the children involved. The study shows that parents want information on various educational modalities to be widely available and provided by the government in the process of choosing education for their children.

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Tejay, Gurvirender. "Shaping Strategic Information Systems Security Initiatives in Organizations." VCU Scholars Compass, 2008. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1576.

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Strategic information systems security initiatives have seldom been successful. The increasing complexity of the business environment in which organizational security must be operationalized presents challenges. There has also been a problem with understanding the patterns of interactions among stakeholders that lead to instituting such an initiative. The overall aim of this research is to enhance understanding of the issues and concerns in shaping strategic information systems security initiative. To be successful, a proper undertaking of the content, context and process of the formulation and institutionalization of a security initiative is essential. It is also important to align the interconnections between these three key components. In conducting the argument, this dissertation analyzes information systems security initiatives in two large government organizations – Information Technology Agency and Department of Transportation. The research methodology adopts an interpretive approach of inquiry. Findings from the case studies show that the strategic security initiative should be harmonious with the cultural continuity of an organization rather than significantly changing the existing opportunity and constraint structures. The development of security cultural resources like security policy may be used as a tool for propagating a secure view of the social world. For secure organizational transformation, one must consider the organizational security structure, knowledgeability of agents in perceiving secure organizational posture, and global security catalysts (such as establishing trust relations and security related institutional reflexivity). The inquiry indicates that strategic security change would be successful in an organization if developed and implemented in a brief yet quantum leap adopting an emergent security strategy in congruence with organizational security values.

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de, Greeff Joachim. "Interactive concept acquisition for embodied artificial agents." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1587.

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An important capacity that is still lacking in intelligent systems such as robots, is the ability to use concepts in a human-like manner. Indeed, the use of concepts has been recognised as being fundamental to a wide range of cognitive skills, including classification, reasoning and memory. Intricately intertwined with language, concepts are at the core of human cognition; but despite a large body or research, their functioning is as of yet not well understood. Nevertheless it remains clear that if intelligent systems are to achieve a level of cognition comparable to humans, they will have to posses the ability to deal with the fundamental role that concepts play in cognition. A promising manner in which conceptual knowledge can be acquired by an intelligent system is through ongoing, incremental development. In this view, a system is situated in the world and gradually acquires skills and knowledge through interaction with its social and physical environment. Important in this regard is the notion that cognition is embodied. As such, both the physical body and the environment shape the manner in which cognition, including the learning and use of concepts, operates. Through active partaking in the interaction, an intelligent system might influence its learning experience as to be more effective. This work presents experiments which illustrate how these notions of interaction and embodiment can influence the learning process of artificial systems. It shows how an artificial agent can benefit from interactive learning. Rather than passively absorbing knowledge, the system actively partakes in its learning experience, yielding improved learning. Next, the influence of embodiment on perception is further explored in a case study concerning colour perception, which results in an alternative explanation for the question of why human colour experience is very similar amongst individuals despite physiological differences. Finally experiments, in which an artificial agent is embodied in a novel robot that is tailored for human-robot interaction, illustrate how active strategies are also beneficial in an HRI setting in which the robot learns from a human teacher.

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Tidwell, Wylie Jason. "Stigmas Associated With Black American Incarceration Through an Afrocentric Lens." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1577.

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Although extensive quantitative research has been conducted on Black American incarceration rates, to date, there has not been a study from an Afrocentric (Black American) perspective in the field of public policy. Using Dillard's conceptualization of Afrocentric theory, this study added to the field of public policy by examining how the stigmas associated with mass incarceration have reduced political and economic opportunities for Black Americans born 1965 - 1984. The purpose of this ethnographic study was to provide an Afrocentric voice by which the members of the Black American community are the center of the data collection on the stigmas associated with incarceration as a product of the new Jim Crow (mass incarceration) for those born between 1965 -1984 (the hip-hop generation where the music is the center of the culture) in the United States. Data were collected through semistructured interviews with selected informants based on their background work, experience, and cultural orientation within the Black American community; these data were analyzed via a summative content analysis, which revealed new perspectives on the stigmas associated with incarceration. The new perspective that was gained asked for the structure of the Black American church to be reexamined due to the rise in the mega-church, an improved culturally sensitive K-12 public educational system, and the overall reconnection and strengthening of the Black American family structure. These findings suggest that social change can only occur when researchers of color are allowed to provide their perspectives on issues that affect those they represent. Hence, the social change implications for this study ask that political leaders work directly with the hip-hop generation and the Black American community as a whole to make changes in legislation through political liberalism.

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Kramkov, Dimitrij O., and Walter Schachermayer. "Necessary and sufficient conditions in the problem of optimal investment in incomplete markets." SFB Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2001. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1568/1/document.pdf.

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Following [10] we continue the study of the problem of expected utility maximization in incomplete markets. Our goal is to find minimal conditions on a model and a utility function for the validity of several key assertions of the theory to hold true. In [10] we proved that a minimal condition on the utility function alone, i.e. a minimal market independent condition, is that the asymptotic elasticity of the utility function is strictly less than 1. In this paper we show that a necessary and sufficient condition on both, the utility function and the model, is that the value function of the dual problem is finite. (authors' abstract)
Series: Working Papers SFB "Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science"

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Rogão, Márcia. "Determinantes da estrutura de capitais das empresas Cotadas Portuguesas: evidência empírica usando modelos de dados em painel." Master's thesis, Universidade da Beira Interior, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10198/1570.

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O artigo de Modigliani e Miller (1958) referente à irrelevância da estrutura de capitais sobre o valor da empresa originou o surgimento de diversos modelos teóricos e empíricos, nomeadamente a teoria do Trade-off, da Pecking Order e do Market Timing. Assim, o presente estudo tem como objectivo identificar as teorias predominantes nas decisões da estrutura de capitais das empresas cotadas portuguesas, utilizando como metodologia de investigação os modelos estáticos de painel e os estimadores dinâmicos, recorrendo a uma amostra de 41 empresas não financeiras, durante um período de análise entre 1991 e 2004. Na análise dos factores determinantes da estrutura de capitais utilizamos como variáveis a tangibilidade dos activos, a dimensão, a rendibilidade e o rácio Market-to-Book das empresas cotadas portuguesas. Além disso, introduziu-se a estimação do modelo de ajustamento parcial para analisar o comportamento do endividamento real das empresas face ao nível seu óptimo. Os resultados obtidos indicam que a estrutura de capitais das empresas cotadas portuguesas reflecte o comportamento previsto pela teoria do Trade-off e pela teoria da Pecking Order, uma vez que, por um lado reflectem a existência de uma relação significativa entre o endividamento das empresas e as variáveis tangibilidade dos activos, dimensão e rendibilidade. E por outro lado, os resultados obtidos também evidenciam a existência de um comportamento de ajustamento do nível de endividamento real das empresas face ao seu nível óptimo. Quanto à teoria do Market Timing os resultados obtidos não foram significativos, pelo que não podemos concluir pela sua predominância sobre a estrutura de capitais das empresas cotadas portuguesas. Porém, considerando uma relação não linear entre o rácio Market-to-Book e o endividamento, as empresas com baixos e elevados níveis de oportunidades de crescimento apresentam uma relação positivamente significativa, enquanto que as empresas com níveis intermédios de oportunidades de crescimento apresentaram uma relação negativamente significativa. Modigliani and Miller’s article (1958) referring to the irrelevance of capital structure on the company’s value originated the emergence of diverse theoretical and empirical models: the theory of the Trade-off, the Pecking Order and the Market Timing. Thus, the present study has the objective of identifying the predominant theories behind the decisions of the capital structure of publicly traded Portuguese companies, using as methodology the static models of panel and the dynamic estimators, recurring to a sample of 41 non financial companies, during the period of analysis between 1991 and 2004. In the analysis of the determinative factors of capital structure we use as variable the tangibility of assets, the size, the profitability and the ratio Market-to-Book of publicly traded Portuguese companies. Moreover, it was introduced the estimation of the partial adjustment model to analyze the behaviour of current leverage of the companies toward target leverage. The results indicate that the capital structure of the quoted Portuguese companies reflected the behaviour foreseen by the theory of the Trade-off and the theory of the Pecking Order as, in one hand, they reflected the existence of a significant relation between companies’ leverage and the variable assets’ tangibility, size and profitability. On the other hand, the results also evidence the existence of adjustment behaviour on the level of current leverage of companies toward target leverage. In what concerns to the theory of the Market Timing, the obtained results were not significant, but we cannot conclude for its predominance on the capital structure of publicly traded Portuguese companies. However, considering a non linear relation between the ratio Market-to-Book and the leverage, companies with low and high growth opportunities present a positively significant relation, whereas companies with intermediate levels of growth opportunities present a negative significant relation.

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Villa, Andres Eduardo. "Autonomous Formation Flying and Proximity Operations Using Differential Drag on the Mars Atmosphere." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2016. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1571.

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Due to mass and volume constraints on planetary missions, the development of control techniques that do not require fuel are of big interest. For those planets that have a dense enough atmosphere, aerodynamic drag can play an important role. The use of atmospheric differential drag for formation keeping was first proposed by Carolina L. Leonard in 1986, and has been proven to work in Earth atmosphere by many missions. Moreover, atmospheric drag has been used in the Mars atmosphere as aerobraking technique to decelerate landing vehicles, and to circularize the orbit of the spacecraft. Still, no literature was available related to formation flying on Mars. To analyze the use of differential drag on the Mars atmosphere, the researcher accessed the two high resolution models available: NASA’s Mars-GRAM and ESA’s Mars Climate Database. These models allowed the simulation of conditions that a spacecraft would experience while in orbit around the planet. To explore the feasibility, the researcher first conducted a study where Mars atmosphere density was compared to Earth atmosphere, determining its applicability. Then, a simulation using MATLAB® was conducted, using a Keplerian two-body problem including the effects of Mars zonal harmonics (i.e. J2) and drag perturbations. Two 6U CubeSat were used in the simulation with deployable drag plates of different sizes, giving the possibility of having five differential drag scenarios as means of formation control. The conclusions showed that, although with some limitations, the use of differential drag as means of autonomous formation flying and proximity operations control is feasible using proven techniques previously validated in Low Earth Orbit. Lyapunov control was selected as the control strategy, where three different methods were evaluated and compared.

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Stack, Sue. "Integrating science and soul in education: the lived experience of a science educator bringing holistic and integral perspectives to the transformation of science teaching." Thesis, Curtin University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1587.

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This is an auto-ethnographic study into the lived experience of a science teacher as she attempts to transform her science teaching practice and the practice of other science teachers over a period of 15 years. In exploring what it means to be a holistic educator she is faced with disorienting dilemmas which cause her to question underpinning assumptions, values and curriculum frameworks which inform traditional science teaching practice and culture. In trying to reconcile science and soul in the pedagogical space of a physics classroom her journey requires a deep investigation of self in various cultures – science culture, educational culture, modernist and postmodernist cultures.Part 1 of the study introduces the key referents of Integral Theory, Holistic Education and Spirituality which she used to inform her changing education practice. Part 2 reflects on her journey from a traditional constructivist classroom, into ones which explore meaning, questioning, significance, discourse, ethics and enabling frameworks.Part 3 concludes with an attempt to integrate science and soul into a vision for science educators. This includes a model which suggests that science has various development stages or cultures and that science teaching can be strategically aligned to facilitate the growth of human consciousness.

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Williamson, Graham Scott, and n/a. "A Hobbesian theory of primitive state formation." University of Otago. Department of Philosophy, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070117.155354.

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This thesis examines the question of how primitive states form. The first part of the thesis defines a state. I then analyse Hobbes�s Theory of the Commonwealth by Acquisition (TCA), expounded in Leviathan. I conclude that this theory fails as an answer to the question of how primitive states form as it suffers from at least five major flaws. I go on to explain, modify and correct Hobbes�s TCA through techniques that have been used in modern critiques of Hobbes�s Theory of the Commonwealth by Institution. The result is the strongest possible answer that Hobbes can give to the question of how primitive states form. I conclude that his attempt fails as even if the technical aspects of his theory can be fixed, the overall problem of empirical falsification occurs. I then put forward my own theory, based on the modified Hobbesian theory. The major innovation is the replacement of individuals with groups in the Hobbesian State of Nature. This move answers the problem of empirical falsification, at least initially. The theory also helps to explain several of the more technical problems with Hobbes�s theory. The resulting theory is a Hobbesian theory of primitive state formation. The next step in the thesis is to match the Hobbesian theory of primitive state formation to the empirical evidence of primitive state formation, represented by anthropology. I analyse the anthropological literature and put forward that at least one recent research program in anthropology matches my Hobbesian theory of primitive state formation. I conclude that Hobbesian theory, based on the TCA can be successfully modernised into a plausible answer to the question of how primitive states formed.

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Medina, Yvania. ""Fittja är vår" : En studie om identitetsskapande faktorer bland nyanlända invandrarelever i en mångkulturell högstadieskola." Thesis, Södertörn University College, Lärarutbildningen, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1576.

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TÃvora, AntÃnio Duarte Fernandes. "ConstruÃÃo de um conceito de suporte: a matÃria, a forma e a funÃÃo interativa na atualizaÃÃo de gÃneros textuais." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2008. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1548.

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O objetivo desta pesquisa Ã construir uma proposta para o conceito de suporte de gÃneros textuais de modo a tornÃ-lo operacional para analisar e relaÃÃo suporte/gÃnero. Para efetivar a construÃÃo teÃrica elaborada nesta tese, retomamos noÃÃes teÃricas que antecedem o conceito de suporte no intuito de demonstrar a inadequaÃÃo de mobilizar certos conceitos para se estabelecer uma abordagem adequada. A construÃÃo teÃrica do suporte Ã precedida pela fundamentaÃÃo de autores que se detiveram sobre o suporte, como Maingueneau (2001), Marcuschi (2003) e Bonini (2002, 2003, 2005). Partindo da contribuiÃÃo desses autores, elaboramos trÃs categorias responsÃveis pela racionalizaÃÃo do objeto. MatÃria, forma e interaÃÃo sÃo subcategorias teÃrico-metodolÃgicas construÃdas para delimitar o conceito de suporte teoricamente e permitir futuras aplicaÃÃes na anÃlise de gÃneros. A natureza teÃrica permitiu que realizÃssemos um movimento indutivo de reversÃo: dos construtos elaborados aos suportes como entidades empÃricas e vice versa, o que possibilitou chegar Ã conclusÃo de que a materialidade promove contribuiÃÃes Ã atualizaÃÃo de gÃneros do mesmo modo que a forma. Foi possÃvel ainda demonstrar como a noÃÃo de interaÃÃo subsume o conceito de suporte, aspecto central para compreensÃo do suporte como objeto teÃrico na anÃlise de gÃneros

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Langer, Markus E., and Aloisia Schön. "Enhancing corporate sustainability. A framework based evaluation tool for sustainable development." Forschungsschwerpunkt Nachhaltigkeit und Umweltmanagement, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2003. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1576/1/document.pdf.

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Corporate sustainable development is placed between simplified interpretations and an overabundance of complexity and requirements that hampers implementation. Stakeholder Relations Management is one approach for the operationalization of sustainable development on the corporate level, which enables the inclusion of aspects of sustainability into corporate decision-making in a pragmatic way. However, stakeholder pressure and economic constraints lead companies to adopt only a small segment of the concept of sustainable development. Therefore, a referential framework is needed in order to regard corporate initiatives within the wider context of sustainable development on the theoretical level. The framework of sustainable development presented here, which was developed during a research project funded by the "Austrian Science Fund", takes the wide range of notions of sustainable development into account. Like a map, the framework depicts approaches to sustainable development and provides an overview of the aspects of sustainable development (scope) as well as the different levels of complexity that are associated therewith (depth). This framework is conceived as a tool to classify approaches to sustainable development in a wider context. (author's abstract)
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Duczynski, Guy A. "To what extent can knowledge management systems build and reinforce consensus around initiatives for change?: A self-reflective analysis of professional practice." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2001. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1518.

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This thesis reports on my attempts to 're-align' the purpose, behaviour and underlying culture of a large military organisation through heuristic, self reflective enquiry - to 'find its future' - with and through its people. I use the word re-align with great care as I recognised that change would have been too ambitious and would (probably have) result(ed) in failure. Whilst I cannot claim total success, I have made new and valuable discoveries in knowledge elicitation and methods of integrating the views of a large number of people to 'build and reinforce consensus around initiatives for change'. In the process of completing this research I developed a novel approach to strategic planning/policy making that advances the ends, ways and means construct of decision-making into a purer and more refined approach. One that anchors these elements firmly to the organisation and its environment simultaneously through a knowledge management system, enabling the strengths and weaknesses within the organisation to be drawn into sharp focus - an effects based planning approach. I have also fused together the more systematic and disciplined approaches embodied within a knowledge management system with existing and more creative scenario planning/future focussed methods. Thus allowing organisations to undertake 'self-constructed' audits that have an immediate interest or are situated well into their future, doubling its value as a planning device. As I report, the methods have been presented at the highest levels of Defence, attracting interest from the Australian Minister of Defence. The New Zealand Defence Force, Naval Warfare Development Command of the United States Navy and Australia's Chief of Air Force have also expressed an interest in the potential of an effects-based orientation to planning and policy-making. Whether the concepts and underpinning ideas become established, leading to the discovery of a post-modem military is uncertain. What is clear is that there is a definite move away from a pre-occupation with the means, or the things that are done, towards a more comprehensive understanding of what are we trying to make happen as a guiding principle. This is certainly of value within military 'organisations and has potential for others involved in complex problem-solving in social settings. A heuristic, self-reflective approach has enriched this search for focussed and 'change-finding' knowledge, allowing a more purposeful, complete and forthright account of the involvement of others.

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Meyer, Rüdiger. "Peter Paul Rubens and colour theory : an assessment of the evidence." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28850.

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Peter Paul Rubens' creative genius, as expressed with consummate mastery in his paintings, is but one of the many elements that have compounded to establish his fame. He is also renowned as a man of immense erudition. Indeed, his reputation is such that it is taken for granted that his great learning informed all aspects of his art in a fundamental way.
In accordance with this kind of thinking, current scholarship on Rubens accepts, as a matter of course, that the artist, whilst creating his painted works, followed the dictates of a colour theory, as we would know it today. In fact, on the basis of circumstantial evidence, it has been accepted that Rubens invented a colour theory that may be seen as innovative for his time.
This thesis assesses the evidence which has led researchers to formulate such a conclusion. As a consequence, it investigates the circumstances of Rubens association with Francois de Aguilon during the final stages of the latter's publication of his book on optics, the Opticorum libri sex. ... As well, the artist's correspondence with his friend, Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc, which contains allusions to an autograph manuscript purported to contain Rubens' thoughts on colour, is re-examined. Indeed, this very correspondence reveals that Rubens did not consider himself particularly knowledgeable about the theoretical aspects colour.
On the basis of a thorough review of these existing documents; an investigation into relevant biographical circumstances; and an examination of the artist's technique, it is here proposed that Rubens did not consciously apply theoretical principles to his craft, but rather, that any of the discernable elements of what is considered to be modern colour theory are in the paintings only because the demands of the painter's craft serendipitously parallel art historians' theoretical hindsight.

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Minaee, Simon Guive. "The effect of shared leadership on workgroup creativity." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2014. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1576.

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Research on leadership typically assumes a single leader who has managerial authority over the group, unit or organisation. Shared leadership is an emerging concept of leadership as a group-level phenomenon. It builds on antecedents such as democratic leadership, semi-autonomous and self-managed work groups, participative decision-making and co-leadership that are typically studied as variations of leadership by a single leader. Shared leadership is seen as more distributed, informal and emergent than these. Recent empirical research shows shared leadership can have beneficial effects on a variety of group process and outcome variables. However, so far its effects on creativity have not been empirically examined. This is surprising, since creativity is an important response to increased competition and rapid change in the business environment. Much creativity research identifies important pre-requisites that are more likely to be found in shared than hierarchical leadership. Improved creativity may be one of the most valuable benefits of shared leadership. This study provides empirical evidence on this relationship from a naturalistic experiment in which student groups were allowed to self-manage over a three-month creative project. In assessing shared leadership, two methodological innovations were introduced. First, previous studies have either used aggregated measures of group performance, or more recently the measures of group ‘degree centrality’ (degree of hierarchy) or ‘density’ (degree of sharing) developed in Social Network Analysis research. However, none of these measures by themselves adequately captures the distinction between hierarchical and shared leadership, although the SNA measures are potentially more precise. Following recommendations of previous authors, this study explored the combined use of centrality and density to better reflect the underlying construct. A second refinement was to use a general construct of leadership based on Bass and Bass’s (2008) extensive literature review, rather than constructs such as transformational leadership that have a narrower theoretical base and tend to assume a hierarchical context. Results from items measuring sharing of Bass and Bass’s five ‘leadership functions’ were compared with a ‘global’ measure of leadership sharing. Creativity was assessed by a panel of judges who rated the groups’ creative outputs (movies), rather than the more common method of rating creativity in the work process. The results provide evidence for the hypothesised link between shared leadership and creativity that, although qualified by aspects of the study design, suggests further research is worthwhile. Implications for future research on both leadership and creativity are explored, along with consequences for the practice of management. The issues of how to best measure shared vs. hierarchical leadership, and how much a construct can reflect both forms of leadership, are of particular relevance to the future development of this field. In summary, this study offers the first evidence directly linking shared leadership to work group creativity, and suggests improvements to current methods for measuring the extent of leadership sharing in a group.

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Lopez, Kathryn T. "Promoting and enhancing the graduate student transition experience : an exploratory study of Kansas State University." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15789.

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Master of Science
Department of Journalism and Mass Communications
William Adams
This is an exploratory study on the existing transition efforts of the Kansas State University Graduate School for master’s degree students. There are a variety of graduate students at Kansas State University with many different graduate program experiences. This study identifies the current status of incoming master’s degree students outreach and details experiences of transitioning graduate students to make suggestions on future strategies. It is vital to identify if, and which, programs are catering to the different needs of these students during their socialization into their graduate program. The study has three main objectives: (1) determine the level of personal contact and emphasis on relationship-building during a master’s degree student’s transition, (2) identify the general efforts and practices of specific master’s degree programs and the Kansas State University Graduate School, and (3) to document the needs of students as they transition into graduate school at Kansas State University. The research was conducted through use of confidential one-on-one in-depth interviews with nine Kansas State University graduate program directors and two Graduate School administrators. Ten newly admitted to the Kansas State University graduate program in the spring of 2013 were interviewed. The qualitative approach to this study enabled the researcher to get detailed testimonials and experience-based knowledge from all of these key stakeholders. Overall, the study revealed that graduate students value face-to-face and personal interaction and showed that student-to-student contact is a preferred component to a successful socialization of graduate students. The needs of transitioning graduate students included assistance with course scheduling, assistantship responsibilities, advisor selection, and an overall understanding that graduate school is different from undergraduate school. Future graduate program strategies that would assist in the successful socialization of graduate students include: orientations, meeting with graduate program directors, social and networking opportunities, and workshops. Involvement in student organizations and utilization of on-campus resources are also a part of most of the graduate programs, and graduate school transition outreach. Based on the findings of this study, the researcher offers suggestions to the Graduate School, graduate programs, and incoming students in order to help enhance the transition experience of master’s degree students into graduate school at Kansas State University.

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Freitas, Felipe Corral de. "Uma comparação entre os discursos das reformas da Previdência dos governos Cardoso e Lula." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2013. http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br/handle/ri/1538.

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The aim of this study was to analyze the discourse of deputies of the PT and the PSDB, performed during the Great Expedient Section of Congress, dealing with security reforms undertaken in Cardoso and Lula. For this analysis we used the theoretical and methodological aspects of discoursetheory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, in order to identify the significations and the meanings generated by those deputies to refer the reforms. In this sense,you see the discursive relationship between parliamentarians from both parties and, in addition, will be demonstrated variation of parliamentary discourse in relation tothe two reforms, other words, how they positioned themselves in relation to reforms -highlighting the position in that political parties were, now in the situation, sometimes in opposition. The main hypothesis guiding this dissertation is that there is no so clear ideological differentiation between parliamentarians of the PT and the PSDB, being marked by an antagonistic separation between government and opposition
O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar ocomportamento discursivo dos deputados federais do PT e do PSDB, realizados durante a Seção do Grande Expediente da Câmara Federal, tratando das reformasda Previdência realizadas nos governos Cardoso e Lula. Para tal análise foramutilizados os aspectos teóricos e metodológicos da teoria do discurso de Ernesto Laclau e Chantal Mouffe, com o intuito de identificar as significações e os sentidos gerados por tais deputados ao se referirem as reformas em questão. Neste sentido, será apresentada a relação discursiva entre os parlamentares de ambos os partidos e, além disso, será demonstrada a variação discursiva dos parlamentaresem relação às duas reformas, ou seja, como os mesmos se posicionaram em relação às reformas destacando a posição em que os partidos se encontravam, ora na situação, ora na oposição. A hipótese principal que guia esta dissertação é de que não há uma diferenciação ideológica tão clara entre os parlamentares do PT edo PSDB, ficando marcada por uma separação antagônica entre situação e oposição

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Ekholm, Erika. "(O)motiverad Invandrarpolitik : en studie om motiven att frångå invandrarpolitik och införa integrationspolitik." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Social Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1571.

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An effective Integration policy is important in Sweden while our government has decided and committed to be a country where everybody will be given the same opportunities. There is a greater awareness in today’s society of integration policy goals such as equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities for all. In a number of areas, however, the disparities between immigrants and Swedish-born citizens are still too large.

The Swedish Riksdag decided on integration policy in 1997. The main task for this thesis will be to examine the motive behind the Government's decision to revoke immigrations policy and introduce integration policy. This task will be completed with two questions at issue;

• Which were the obvious pronounced and underlying, extern- and intern sectorial motives and which immigrant policies could be identified during the three periods; 1, 2 and 3?

• In what way have the extern- and intern sectorial motives, that where expressed in 1997, affected the douting in 2006 years integrationspolicy?

The questions will be examined by using Lindbloms muddling through theory and Dahlströms “eigth faces of immigration politics” and for identifying motives a model inspired by Hadenius will be used.

The empirical material has brought forward that the decision to introduce integrationpolicy was based on the central motive that earlier immigration policy produced assimilationpolitics. Which futher on caused the “perverse effect” – segregationpolitics.

The adjustments have been clarifying of words sooner than improvement of concrete measures. The Swedish government has applied seven different immigrationpolitics during the periods 1, 2 and 3. Becides Dahlströms “eight faces of immigration politics” two more have been identified; “demanding politics and condition politics”. Seven of the ten different types have been noticed; assimilation-, segregation-, diversity-, demanding, condition-, residual-, universial politics.

The motives that where observed during period 2 didn´t improve the conditions for the immigrant which were discriminated in society especially on the labourmarket. The motives from period 2 have therefore affected the motives for period 3. The recently appointed government will during it´s runningperiod try to leave the muddling through theory by the motives in creating conditions for a “self earned living” and participation. By doing this the esscense of diversity and integration policy will hopefully be reached.

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Dodman, Hilary Frances. "Can PRUs work? : a search for an answer from within a lived experience." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/15278.

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This study draws on theories of punishment (Cavadino and Dignan 2007), leadership (West-Burnham 2013), social rules, (Burns and Machado 2014) and resilience (Fredrikson and Branigan 2005) to develop an understanding of Pupil Referral Units (PRUs). PRUs came into being through statute in 1993. They were set up to provide formal educational settings for young people who had been excluded from school. LEAs have responsibility for the education and welfare of all children in their catchment areas, irrespective of which school they attend. If an exclusion occurs, the LEA is obliged to assume responsibility, under section 19(1) of the 1996 Education Act, for the child's education by whatever means seems appropriate to its designated officers. Placement in a Pupil Referral Unit is a course of action they may pursue. This study sets out to discover through a series of narrative interviews conducted within a Key Stage 4 PRU, whether the multiple purposes of the PRU can be achieved, given the issues that present themselves in the isolated setting of the Unit, the resources available and the complex needs of the young people concerned. Fifteen interviews were conducted within a PRU in the academic year 2011-2012. Four were held with the Head; 11 further interviews involved 12 people; 8 members of staff and 4 pupils. A study of the evidence they provided led to a qualified positive response to the research question; i.e. that PRUs can' work' given a number of factors that are listed in the conclusion.

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Nilsson, Eleonor, and Oscar Svensson. "The Sandwich Life : Paradoxes and dilemmas that middle management handle within higher education." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-15784.

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The field of critical theory within organizational theory discusses different specific situations in a middle manager´s work life. The focus often lies within the private sector and a gap can be found in research in the public sector. Universities are among the most complex environments in the public sector, and the middle manager position, the prefect, becomes even more complex than in other organizations. The purpose of this paper is to look at the dilemmas and paradoxes that middle managers in higher education, handle as prefects. We aim to uncover the conflict between interests, values and ideas that creates organizational hypocrisy. The research has an emancipatory philosophy with an inductive approach, which has led to ten interviews with prefects in the south of Sweden. The findings indicate that there are dilemmas in working as a collegial leader and that a paradoxical situation arises between what people see as valuable attributes in a prefect and what they want and need. There is also a paradoxical relationship between the feelings about a decoupled organization depending on who in the hierarchy is exploiting it. There are also findings that support the fact that the extensive amount of administrative duties for prefects generates hypocrisy. The research also found dilemmas concerning individualistic employees. Since the combination of organizational hypocrisy, paradoxes, dilemmas and prefects has not been researched before, this can be an interesting insight in how these may coexist.

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Franklin, Donna. "Meaningful Encounters: Creating a multi-method site for interacting with nonhuman life through bioarts praxis." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2014. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1574.

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This research advocates a multi-method approach to bioarts praxis, reflexively and critically questioning the contemporary contexts that frame our engagement with nonhuman life. In doing so, the research aims to generate further community engagement with nonhuman life and the environment, and engender critical discourse on the implications of developing biotechnologies. Hegemonic institutions influence the way culture is produced and how information is constructed and understood. Habermas (1987) suggests that these institutions will inevitably influence the individual’s lifeworld as they shape lived experience through the process of systemic colonisation. I assert that this process also shapes how individuals engage with or understand nonhuman life. Through the implementation of three major projects the research aims to develop the capacity of bioarts in challenging such institutions by providing the opportunity for hands-on life science activities and real-time interactions with nonhuman life. The research by employing such methods aims to counter-act the impact of urbanised living and indifference to environmental conservation. Each aspect of the creative praxis provides a reflexive case study to establish the research aims and answer the research agenda. This includes my creative bioartworks, an art-science secondary educational course and a curated group exhibition, symposium and workshop. This research provides an alternative communicative approach to hegemonic institutions such as the mass media, scientific biotechnological industries and traditional gallery spaces (Shanken, 2011).

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Andlauer, Nicolas. "La théorie rythmique de Francisco Salinas (De musica libri septem, 1577) et sa réception française jusqu'en 1640." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018TOU20004/document.

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Le traité de rythmique de Francisco Salinas, seconde partie de son De Musica Libri Septem de 1577, est révélateur de tendances communes à l’ensemble du mouvement humaniste européen du XVIe siècle. En restituant une modélisation « à l’antique » du rythme musical, Salinas prétend résoudre les contradictions du système mensural en vigueur, dans l’économie des agencements de durées sonores organisées par une battue proportionnelle, et suit un impératif de simplification qui concerne également les autres sciences du nombre. Cette entreprise de recadrage épistémologique se double d’une valorisation esthétique de la simplicité du « mètre », en vertu de son pouvoir sur les esprits, et au nom d’objectifs extra-musicaux partagés par tous les courants réformateurs. Le traité sert parallèlement des ambitions pédagogiques et missionnaires, et s’inscrit dans des « politiques du mètre » visant à la maîtrise des outils de contrafacture, comme à la création de « cantiques nouveaux ». Les savoirs-faire dont il promeut l’exercice, et qui culminent dans l’art de faire des vers musicaux et de construire des formes strophiques élaborées, révèlent ses parentés avec les recherches des élites culturelles françaises à la même époque, qui formaient un horizon d’attente particulièrement favorable à ces théories. L’impact du texte de Salinas sur les évolutions des conceptions rythmiques entre la Renaissance et l’âge baroque affecte aussi bien les typologies que les notations des nouveaux langages musicaux, ainsi que les diverses expressions d’une « crise de la conscience rythmique » apparaissant dans les sources théoriques françaises de 1581 à 1640
Francisco Salinas' treatise on rhythm, the second part of his De Musica Libri Septem of 1577, is indicative of trends common to the entire European humanist movement of the sixteenth century. By restoring an "antique" model of musical rhythm, Salinas claims to solve the contradictions of the current mensural system, in the economy of arrangements of sound durations organized by a proportional beat, and follows a simplification imperative which also concerns the other sciences of the number. This epistemological reframing enterprise doubles as an aesthetic valuation of the simplicity of the "meter", by virtue of its power over the spirits, and in the name of extra-musical objectives shared by all reformist currents. The treatise also serves pedagogical and missionary ambitions, and is part of "meter policies" aimed at mastering tools of contrafacture, as at the creation of "new canticles". The know-how he promotes, and which culminates in the art of making musical verses and building up elaborate strophic forms, reveals his kinship with the research of French cultural elites at the same time, which formed a particularly favorable horizon for these theories. The impact that Salinas' text has had on the evolutions of the rhythmic conceptions between the Renaissance and the Baroque age affects both the typologies and notations of new musical languages, as well as the various expressions of a "crisis of rhythmic consciousness" appearing in French theoretical sources from 1581 to 1640

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Sidekerskienė, Tatjana. "Ekstremumų asimptotinė analizė, kai imties didumo skirstinys yra neigiamas binominis." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2006. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060605_203102-15780.

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In this work were considered the maxima and minima structures. Where number of value is random and is distributed by negative binomial distribution. There were theorems that were improved in this work, that helped to find the limit distribute function of this standard structures. These theorems generalize propositions, when set size is geometric random number. Also, there was the concrete distribution analysis done and such distributions were chosen: exponential, general logistic and uniform.

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Boqvist, Sofia, and Hagebratt Therese Woo. "Men jag då? : En kvalitativ studie om informella vårdgivare till personer med psykisk ohälsa." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-15178.

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Det är vida känt att psykisk ohälsa är ett aktuellt och ökande problem. Däremot finns det en grupp människor som är starkt knutna till detta fenomen, men som inte uppmärksammas - de anhöriga. Denna kvalitativa och fenomenologiska studie ämnar att skildra hur det är att vara anhörig/informell vårdgivare till någon med psykisk ohälsa, vilka förväntningar de har på sig, samt hur de upplever samhällets stöd. Utifrån teorin om roller och stigma intervjuades tio anhöriga runt om i Sverige för att besvara studiens syfte och frågeställningar. Under analysen uppstod sju teman: upplevelse av vardag, att stötta den närstående, påverkan på den anhörige, roll, eget stöd, omgivningens bemötande och nöjdhet med stöd. Resultatet åskådliggjorde att deras vardag begränsas och att de kunde uppleva oro, skam/skuld, utmattning och bristande aptit. Vidare tar de mycket ansvar och stöttar sina närstående genom samtal och fysisk närvaro. Bemötandet från omgivningen var mestadels positivt, men även negativt. De anhöriga hade också flera självhjälpsstrategier, varav några fick stöd från vänner och/eller sökte hjälp av vården. Det samhälleliga stödet var både bra och dåligt. Slutsatsen är att det är mycket jobbigt att vara anhörig och vården behöver göra mer för dem än vad de gör nu.
It is widely known that mental illness is a current and growing problem. There is however a group of people who are strongly connected to this phenomenon that do not receive enough attention - the relatives. This qualitative and phenomenological study aims to describe what it is like to be a relative/informal caregiver to someone with a mental illness, which expectations they have on them and how they perceive the support from society. Ten relatives from Sweden were interviewed to answer the purpose of the study and the research questions. During the analysis seven themes emerged: experience of the situation, to support the dependant, impact on the relative, role, own support, the treatment from others and satisfaction with the support. The result revealed that the relatives’ every-day life becomes restricted and that they could experience worry, shame/guilt, exhaustion and a loss of appetite. They also take a lot of responsibility and support their dependants through dialogues and being there. The treatment from others is mostly positive but it can also be negative. The relatives also have several self-help strategies, where some get support from friends and/or seeks help from the health care. The social support is both satisfactory and dissatisfactory. The conclusion is that it is very burdensome to be a relative, and that the healthcare should do more for them than they are currently doing.

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Gustavsson, Laila. "Att bli bättre lärare : Hur undervisningsinnehållets behandling blir till samtalsämne lärare emellan." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för svenska och samhällsvetenskapliga ämnen, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1576.

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This thesis reports results from a study that focuses on teachers’ professional development during an in-service training period. The aim is to analyse and describe how the teachers talk about and handle lesson content. The first question concerns changes in relation to a specific object of learning. The second question concerns how they relate to a theoretical framework and the third question concerns differences in the students’ learning outcome and if it can be understood in relation to the teachers’ development. The variation theory is the theoretical framework that is used for lesson planning as well as when analysing results. The basis of the study is that learning always is the learning of something and that the teachers’ activity as well as the students’ activity constitutes the space of variation that decides what is possible to learn concerning a delimited object of learning, i.e. the enacted object of learning. The object of learning is seen as a capability and it can be defined by its critical features. The constitution of the meaning aimed for the critical features of the object must be discerned. The intentional object of learning describes the teachers’ intention with the lesson, and the lived object of learning is what the students really discerned. The theoretical assumption is that learning always assumes an experienced variation where learning is seen as a change in the learners’ possibility to experience the world in a certain way. You have to have experienced a phenomenon’s variation to understand its meaning, i.e. what we experience is how something differs from something else. The method is Learning study and it can be described as a hybrid of the Japanese Lesson study and Design experiment. A Learning study is theoretically grounded and the primary focus is on an object of learning. The learning study group consisted of three teachers and most often two researchers. Each member had equal status in the group. The object of learning seen from the teachers’ perspective was the variation theory that was gradually introduced by the researchers. The empirical material was generated from audio-taped discussions and from videotaped lessons. The findings should be seen as a contribution to the discussion about teachers’ professional development. The teachers participated in a collective construction of pro-fessional knowledge and it can be stated that the teachers had no problem changing their discussions to focus on a specific object of learning when the theoretical framework was used in relation to their own practices. Another finding is that the change in how the teachers handled the object of learning influenced the students’ learning in a positive way although the results were subtle.

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Pötzelberger, Klaus. "The General Quantization Problem for Distributions with Regular Support." Department of Statistics and Mathematics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 1999. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1508/1/document.pdf.

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We study the asymptotic behavior of the quantization error for general information functions and prove results for distributions P with regular support. We characterize the information functions for which the uniform distribution on the set of prototypes converges weakly to P. (author's abstract)
Series: Forschungsberichte / Institut für Statistik

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Karlsson, Anders. "Egenvård vid bipolär sjukdom - en balansakt : Metaetnografisk studie." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avdelningen för omvårdnad - avancerad nivå, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-15758.

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Bakgrund: Bipolär sjukdom orsakar ett stor lidande för individen med återkommande återfall i depression eller hypomani/mani. Omvårdnad som stödjer individen till att aktivt bedriva egenvård kan stärka individen till att bli mer självständig och aktiv i behandlingen av bipolär sjukdom. Det saknas en systematisk översikt över kvalitativa studier om individers erfarenheter av att genomföra egenvård vid bipolär sjukdom. Syfte: Belysa individers erfarenheter av att genomföra egenvård relaterat till bipolär sjukdom. Metod: Den kvalitativa metoden metaetnografi användes vid studien. Sökning i databaser resulterade i 22 kvalitativa artiklar. Syntetisering av artiklarna resulterade i tre metaforer med en modell över hur metaforerna är sammanlänkade. Resultat: Studiens resultat består av metaforerna "Egenvård som balansakt", "Sjukvårdens erbjudande av en balanspinne" samt "Risker för fall av linan". Slutsats: Resultatets tre metaforer skapar tillsammans en metaforisk modell som visar att egenvård vid bipolär sjukdom kan ses som att individen behöver "balansera på en lina" för att inte "falla ner från linan" i depression eller mani. Den metaforiska modellen åskådliggör att egenvård vid bipolär sjukdom är ett komplext fenomen som sträcker sig längre än utförandet av egenvård. Specialistsjuksköterskan inom psykiatrin bör aktivt uppmuntra individer med bipolär sjukdom till att aktivt bedriva egenvård för att stärka deras självständighet och inge en ökad möjlighet att erhålla en förbättrad hälsa och välbefinnande. Studiens resultat stärks av att det går teoretisk anknytas till Orems egenvårdsteori.
Background: Bipolar disorder causes a great deal of suffering for the individual with recurrent depression or hypomania/mania. Nursing that supports the individual to actively pursue selfcare can strengthen the individual to become more independent and active in the treatment of bipolar disorder. There is no systematic review of qualitative studies on individuals' experiences of performing self-care in bipolar disorder Aim: Highlight individuals' experiences of conducting self-care related to bipolar disorder. Method: The qualitative method of meta-ethnography was used in the study. Searching databases resulted in 22 qualitative articles. Synthesizing the articles resulted in three metaphors with a model of how the metaphors are interconnected Results: The study's results consist of the metaphors "Self-care as a balancing act", "Health care's offering of a balancing stick" and "Risks for falls of the line". Conclusion: The three metaphors of the result together create a metaphorical model that shows that self-care in bipolar disorder can be seen as the individual having to "balance on a line" so as not to "fall off the line" in depression or mania. The metaphorical model illustrates that self-care in bipolar disorder is a complex phenomenon that goes beyond self-care. The specialist nurse in psychiatry should actively encourage individuals with bipolar disorder to actively pursue self-care to strengthen their independence and to provide an increased opportunity to grant improved health and well-being. The study's results are strengthened by the fact that it is theoretically linked to Orem's self-care theory.

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