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Enright, Walter Ian Brooke. "Themes in insurance law." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33899.
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1. There are two major pieces of work (the Code Review and Sutton) and a number of themes that are the subject matter for this submission. The Insurance Council of Australia appointed me as the Independent Reviewer of the General Insurance Code of Practice, under the Code and the Terms of Reference, on 3 May 2012. 2. The Code Review work took about two years and involved the Code Issues Paper in October 2012 of 111 pages and the Code Review Report in May 2013 of 205 pages. The majority of my recommendations were accepted and the report has made a contribution to the rethinking of self-regulation and the place of voluntary codes in financial services. By then I was writing, with Professor Robert Merkin QC Sutton on Insurance Law for its 4th Edition. It is two volumes, 24 chapters and about 2100 pages excluding tables and index; my contribution was 12 chapters totalling about 960 pages. 3. The Code Review work, particularly on government agency regulation and self-regulation, influenced the pervasive material in Sutton on regulation. It was the subject of the AIDA Rome paper in 2014 on Principles for Self-Regulation; the paper was published by AIDA. 4. Sutton was published in 2015. Its themes are set out below. Those themes are in turn influences in the other work for this submission. There are seven main themes in the publications which I present in this submission. 5. The historical influences in relation to my Code Review and the historical contextual material in Sutton stimulated my interest in the wider influences on the development of commerce, insurance and law, with a central interest in the ethical foundations of the law and regulation. This aspect was also developed in the Masel Lecture and the article William Murray, Lord Mansfield: His Life, Times and Legacy – Good Faith and Good Works. 6. There had been a number of issues raised in my Code Review about mental illness, insurance and discrimination. I spoke at AIDA in Rome 2014 on Insurance Discrimination Law and the paper was published by AIDA. Then in 2016, the Australian Centre for Financial Studies commissioned me to write the ACFS MID Paper on the use by insurers of mental illness data. The historical perspective and the regulatory framework were important features of both papers. 7. A number of the Sutton themes were first opened out in my Professional Indemnity Insurance Law. The main themes were, in decreasing order of connection with Professional Indemnity Insurance Law, as follows. The first theme is the identification, development and application of the indemnity principle. The second is the adaptation and application of the analysis of contracts by primary and secondary obligations. This theme is in Sutton on the main concepts in insurance as well as liability insurance issues. The Liability Disputes Chapter condenses this thinking and account. The third theme was a renovation of how life insurance issues should be analysed and presented. This life insurance material was then adapted and infused with practical guidance on the decision making process on some issues for the FOS Life Insurance Manual. I developed an aspect of life insurance in the TPD Article. Each of these themes are in my submission original in concept and execution. Each has influenced the development of the law by legisation and the courts.
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Grodent, Michel O. L. "De nostos à xenitia: recherches sur la nostalgie de l'exil dans la littérature grecque ancienne et byzantine." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211694.
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Gilchrist, Phyllis Margaret. "Themes in adult self-esteem." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25411.
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This exploratory study, using the Critical Incident Technique (Flanagan, 1954), examined what enhances or detracts from adult self-esteem. A sample of 13 females and 7 males, ages 24 - 49, from a small urban church were selected as a study group from a normal adult population. Critical Incident interviews, lasting one and a half hours, resulted in 113 incidents. Subjects also completed a form recording age, sex, marital status and also completed the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. These data were used to compare subject characteristics to categories formed from the critical incidents. From the incidents, five basic categories were formed: Confirmation by Others, Overcoming Deficits, Acceptance by Others, Sense of Mutuality and Sense of Achievement. Categories contained 16 to 27 incidents each and each category was contributed to by at least 50% of the subjects. These categories demonstrated an acceptable level of interjudge reliability. Comparison between the investigator and a colleague in categorizing 50 incidents resulted in 92% agreement. Secondary examination between subject characteristics and categories indicated that the majority of data came from 30 to 36 year-olds and that no low self-esteem subjects were represented in the study.Education, Faculty of
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Bruno, Vincent. "Central themes of Mark's Gospel." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Lovell, Steven Jon James. "Philosophical themes from C.S. Lewis." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2003. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6054/.
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C. S. Lewis was perhaps the most popular and influential Christian apologist of the 20th Century, and his work is full of philosophical themes and arguments. Despite this, the main body of Lewis' work has received only scant attention from academic philosophers. Although countless books and articles have been written about C.S. Lewis and his writings, we are without a balanced and sustained evaluation of the philosophical themes and arguments to be found in his works. This is unfortunate for, in the words of James Patrick, the philosophical aspects of Lewis' work "constitute the very texture of his apologetic". It is hoped that this dissertation goes some way towards changing the situation. The dissertation contains five mam chapters, addressing four issues in the philosophy of religion through the writings of C.S. Lewis. Those issues are: the Euthyphro dilemma, the philosophical status of miracles, the Freudian critique of religious belief, and an argument from Lewis that has been dubbed 'the argument from desire'. While disagreeing with Lewis in some of the details, the dissertation defends a broadly Lewisian (and therefore broadly Christian) approach to each of these issues. Indeed, these Lewisian positions are defended with refurbished versions of Lewis' own arguments. In addition to a summary of some of the philosophical themes and arguments from C.S. Lewis that are not addressed in this dissertation, the work also includes two appendices. Appendix A is a short biography of C.S. Lewis. Appendix B offers a few thoughts on Lewis' general stance on the relation between faith and reason.
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Menon, Chitra Lekha. "Holocaust themes in Israeli art." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313818.
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Hansen, Stig Børsen. "Religious language : some Tractarian themes." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426805.
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Jerga, Agoston. "Current themes in supramolecular chemistry /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3115558.
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Rossetto, Eurídes. "Nietzschean themes in O'Neill's plays." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2013. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/106089.
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Kamolnick, Paul. "Foreword: Islamic Insurgent Macro-Themes." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://amzn.com/1543478824.
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Book Summary: This work is the fourth Small Wars Journal anthology focusing on radical Sunni Islamic terrorists and insurgent groups. It covers this professional journals writings for 2016 and is a compliment to the earlier Global Radical Islamist Insurgency anthologies that were produced as Vol. I: 2007-2011 (published in 2015) and Vol. II: 2012-2014 (published in 2016) and Jihadi Terrorism, Insurgency, and the Islamic State spanning 2015 (published in 2017). This anthology, which offers well over 900 pages of focused analysis, follows the same general conceptual breakdown as the earlier works and is divided into two major thematic sectionsone focusing on Al Qaeda and Islamic state activities in 2016 and the other focusing on US-Allied policies and counterinsurgent strategies.
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Lassalle, Rémi. "Inversibilité stochastique et thèmes afférents." Thesis, Paris, ENST, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012ENST0030/document.
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Un morphisme d’espaces de probabilité vers l’espace de Wiener, qui est de plus adapté, peut être associé canoniquement à certaines lois d’équations différentielles stchastiques, une de ses propriétés essentielles étant qu’il est un isomorphisme d’espaces de probabilité si et seulement si l’équation différentielle stochastique associée admet une unique solution forte. Puisqu’on peut le voir comme un mouvement Brownien canoniquement associé à une loi, on lui donnera le nom de transformée Brownienne de la loi, et il s’agira de s’intéresser à son inversibilité. Comme on le verra en la présentant, cette notion, qui s’enracine autour de résultats déjà employés par Fölmer il y a fort longtemps, prolonge naturellement la notion d’inversibilité des dérives adaptées qui a été développée ces dernières années dans les travaux d’Üstünel et de Zakai où elle se trouve déjà en germes, et ouvre naturellement à un large éventail d’applications très concrètes. On sera naturellement amené à envisager des problèmes issus de la théorie du filtrage, de la physique statistique, du contrôle stochastique, du transport optimal, ainsi que la théorie de l’information. En particulier, on donnera un résultat d’unicité trajectorielle très général pour la représentation stochastique de la mécanique quantique en temps Euclidien, et on étendra l’inégalité de Shannon aux espaces de Wiener absraits, cette dernière recevant au passage une jolie interprétation en termes de perte d’information dans un canal Gaussien. On transportera ensuite cette notion d’inversibilité dans des cadres plus géométriques tels que l’espace des chemins à valeurs dans un groupe de LieI this work we investigate a notion of stochastic invertibility on Wiener space. Rougghly speaking a morphism of probability spaces with values on the Wiener space, which is further adapted, can be canonically associated to the laws of the solutions to some stochastic differential equations. One of the main properties of this morphism is to be invertible (i.e. to be an isomorphism of probability spaces) if and only if the underlying stochastic differential equation has a unique strong solution. Since it may be seen as a Brownian motion, we cal it the Brownian transform of the associated law, and we will study the invertibility of this Brownan transform. We will see that this notion, whose origins may be found in earlier results related to stochastic mechanics, extends and enlightens the notion of invertibility of adapted shifts on Wiener space which was investigated by Üstünel and Zakai in their recent papers, where this notion already appears clearly between the lines. Moreover, from the origin many problems arising in various fields are deeply related to this notion. This opens to a wide spectrum of applications, some of them being very concrete. We will investigate problems of various origins such as statistical physics, information theory, filtering, but also stochastic control and optimal transport. For instance, we will prove a very general result of pathwise uniqueness for the stochastic picture of euclidean quantum mechanics, and we will extend Shannon’s inequality to any abstract Wiener spaces. We also show how this notion of invertivility fits naturally in stochastic differencial geometry
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Lassalle, Rémi. "Inversibilité stochastique et thèmes afférents." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris, ENST, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012ENST0030.
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Un morphisme d’espaces de probabilité vers l’espace de Wiener, qui est de plus adapté, peut être associé canoniquement à certaines lois d’équations différentielles stchastiques, une de ses propriétés essentielles étant qu’il est un isomorphisme d’espaces de probabilité si et seulement si l’équation différentielle stochastique associée admet une unique solution forte. Puisqu’on peut le voir comme un mouvement Brownien canoniquement associé à une loi, on lui donnera le nom de transformée Brownienne de la loi, et il s’agira de s’intéresser à son inversibilité. Comme on le verra en la présentant, cette notion, qui s’enracine autour de résultats déjà employés par Fölmer il y a fort longtemps, prolonge naturellement la notion d’inversibilité des dérives adaptées qui a été développée ces dernières années dans les travaux d’Üstünel et de Zakai où elle se trouve déjà en germes, et ouvre naturellement à un large éventail d’applications très concrètes. On sera naturellement amené à envisager des problèmes issus de la théorie du filtrage, de la physique statistique, du contrôle stochastique, du transport optimal, ainsi que la théorie de l’information. En particulier, on donnera un résultat d’unicité trajectorielle très général pour la représentation stochastique de la mécanique quantique en temps Euclidien, et on étendra l’inégalité de Shannon aux espaces de Wiener absraits, cette dernière recevant au passage une jolie interprétation en termes de perte d’information dans un canal Gaussien. On transportera ensuite cette notion d’inversibilité dans des cadres plus géométriques tels que l’espace des chemins à valeurs dans un groupe de LieI this work we investigate a notion of stochastic invertibility on Wiener space. Rougghly speaking a morphism of probability spaces with values on the Wiener space, which is further adapted, can be canonically associated to the laws of the solutions to some stochastic differential equations. One of the main properties of this morphism is to be invertible (i.e. to be an isomorphism of probability spaces) if and only if the underlying stochastic differential equation has a unique strong solution. Since it may be seen as a Brownian motion, we cal it the Brownian transform of the associated law, and we will study the invertibility of this Brownan transform. We will see that this notion, whose origins may be found in earlier results related to stochastic mechanics, extends and enlightens the notion of invertibility of adapted shifts on Wiener space which was investigated by Üstünel and Zakai in their recent papers, where this notion already appears clearly between the lines. Moreover, from the origin many problems arising in various fields are deeply related to this notion. This opens to a wide spectrum of applications, some of them being very concrete. We will investigate problems of various origins such as statistical physics, information theory, filtering, but also stochastic control and optimal transport. For instance, we will prove a very general result of pathwise uniqueness for the stochastic picture of euclidean quantum mechanics, and we will extend Shannon’s inequality to any abstract Wiener spaces. We also show how this notion of invertivility fits naturally in stochastic differencial geometry
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Österdahl, Fredrik, and Ilias Hendo. "Themes in Totara : Creating and cloning." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för matematik och datavetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-47678.
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The purpose of this paper is to give the reader an insight into the graphical interface of a Learning Management system, the theme, how it functions and its importance. The main point is how the creation of new themes can be done, and two different approaches are examined and compared.The use of learning management systems have been growing rapidly over the past years. Modern learning, be it basic school, higher education or professional training, is almost always supported by some learning management system where both instructors and participators share learning material, assignments, discussion, among other things.The theme of a learning management system is of great importance and can have a substantial impact on the efficiency of the actual learning process. Themes might also differ in their purpose, thus depending on the target audience, creating a specific theme might be desirable.The work done in this paper examines the structure and function of themes in the web based Totara learning management system, and looks at two different approaches to creating new themes. These approaches involve creating something from scratch, and cloning an already existing theme.The conclusion drawn from the work done in this paper is that the most efficient way of creating a new theme, is through cloning an already existing theme. Only when time and experience is plentiful, and a full control over the theme structure is desirable, is creating a theme from scratch a viable option.
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Harrison, David Christopher James. "Ancestral subject catalogue of chapbook themes." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1996. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/844333/.
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This thesis seeks to offer a substantial bibliographical resource for the study of chapbook literature in the early-modern period. It lists all titles known to have been published in the 'prestructure' (or format) of the chapbook before 1700. Furthermore it details the development of titles and themes from their earliest cultural origins (whether in the form of folk-plays, or printed literature). The inclusion of items associated by theme and subject allows the texts themselves to be shown in the context of other printed productions of the time that relate to them. There is no hard and fast rule here. Some texts are associated by title similarity, some by subject similarity, and some by the use of the same theme. As well as including associated texts for each title, they are often given for groups of titles (ie. gender, medical, cookery, anti-Welsh). These are not comprehensive lists. In each case the basis for the selection will be given. The section numbers will correspond with those of the relevant sections of a forthcoming comprehensive study of the origin and development of chapbook literature to 1700. The basic layout runs from Tales (early romances - popular legends - rogues and jests - apprentice literature) through didactic texts (incl. gender), and fables to conduct texts that use narrative, and then those which don't (complement books). Next come other 'how-to' guides. Then garlands, 'useful' information, riddles and trivia. The work continues with miscellanies, and concludes with texts relating to the production and distribution of cheap print. The general movements within sections or within the whole are from fiction to non-fiction, and from texts with earlier origins to those with later, complementing the prose study. The main titles in each section are ordered alphabetically by keywords and preceded by an index. Each entry is chronologically ordered.
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Smail, Zahia. "Themes in the Francophone Algerian novel." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293608.
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Karatzoglou, Parthena. "Recurrent themes in the Atreid family." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.420873.
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Meyer, John Clifford. "The animal themes in Horace's Epodes." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86343.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis focused on the animal themes while attempting to make a comprehensive analysis of such themes as they were portrayed in the Epodes of Horace. A close analysis of each poem that contains animals was made. The aim of such an analysis was twofold, firstly to arrive at a possible interpretation of said themes in each specific poem; secondly to indicate how Horace used these animal themes to enhance the meaning of the Epodes. To support this second aim the various animal themes were arranged according to a list of five functions associated with the themes, namely invective, irony and humour, exempla, metaphor and colouring or setting. Finally the investigation aimed at achieving not only a better understanding of the animal themes per se but also an enhanced appreciation of the entire collection.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die diere temas is die fokuspunt van hierdie tesis terwyl daar gepoog word om ‘n omvattende ontleding van die temas soos uitgebeeld deur die Epodes van Horatius, uit te voer. ‘n Deeglike ontleding van die diere temas soos gevind in die verskillende gedigte, is gemaak. Die doel van hierdie ontledings was tweeledig, eerstens om die moontlike interpretasie van die temas vir elke spesifieke gedig te verstaan; en tweedens om aan te dui hoe Horatius die diere temas aangewend het om die Epodes ruimer uit te beeld. Ter ondersteuning van die tweede doel is die verskillende diere temas volgens ‘n lys van vyf funksies wat met die temas vereenselwig kan word, ge-orden naamlik oordrewe kritiek, ironie, humor, exempla, metafoor en voorkoms of aanbieding. Ten slotte poog die ondersoek om nie net ‘n beter begrip van die diere temas te bevorder nie maar ook om waardering vir die totale versameling van die gedigte te bevorder.
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Meier, Lori T. "Episode 2: Exploring the 10 Themes." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/social-studies-education-oer/2.
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In this episode, we explore the national curriculum standards and organizing strands of the NCSS “10 Themes” and review the various, related disciplinary content areas that contribute broadly to the whole social studies curriculum in the K-12 classroom.https://dc.etsu.edu/social-studies-education-oer/1001/thumbnail.jpg
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Garcia, Juan R., and Thomas Gelsinon. "Emerging Themes in Mexican American Research." Mexican American Studies & Research Center, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624851.
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Ihas, Joann E. "Recurrent themes in William Steig's picturebooks." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0011760.
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Ko, Kyung Nim. "Twentieth century variations on borrowed themes." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9767.
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Thesis (D.M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: Music. Title from t.p. of PDF. Marylandia and Rare Books Dept., University of Maryland, College Park, Md. Audio available on compact disc;
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Nees, Mary Barton. "Markers: Key Themes for Soul Survival." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://www.amzn.com/1945975369/.
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This seven-chapter book, highlighted like a trail guide with Markers, will ease you into most basic, repeated themes found in the ancient texts. What is called the Old and New Testaments is a remarkable collection. It is intimidating for sure, but wise, prophetic, thorough and particular, with echoes that repeat into every culture. Through story and turn-arounds you will see how some very different individuals, in different times found their way into God’s real and sustaining peace. They listened to and reckoned with what God offers for soul survival. There’s hope here if you'll take it.https://dc.etsu.edu/alumni_books/1033/thumbnail.jpg
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Stemerdink, Chris. "A numerical model of post-Anglian longitudinal profile development of the river Thames in the Upper Thames basin." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443110.
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Knoll, Karen [Verfasser], and Hans-Thies [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gutachter] Lehmann. "Unordnung im Sinnlichen : zum politischen Theater René Polleschs / Karen Knoll. Betreuer: Hans-Thies Lehmann. Gutachter: Hans-Thies Lehmann." Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1107182824/34.
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Grodniewicz, Jędrzej Piotr. "Themes in linguistic understanding. Cognition and epistemology." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670332.
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In this thesis, I have presented and defended a series of claims regarding the nature and epistemic role of linguistic understanding. Firstly, I have argued that, besides the state- and disposition-sense of “linguistic under- standing,” quite commonly discussed in the philosophical debate, there is yet another, often overlooked, process-sense. I have argued that characterizing linguistic understanding as a process is not only justified from the philosophical point of view (linguistic understanding, just like other processes, unfolds over time) but also is very much in line with the current state of the art in empirical language sciences.
Secondly, I have outlined a novel model of the representational structure of linguistic understanding. I have argued that this structure consists of at least three types of interdependent representations generated by a dual-stream process. The model I have offered establishes a middle ground between two popular accounts of the relation between comprehension and acceptance: Cartesian, on which we are free to either accept or reject comprehended information, and Spinozan, on which we automatically accept everything we comprehend. On my account, we automatically accept everything that passes the content-oriented filter (so-called validation ), i.e., everything that is not in obvious tension with our easily accessible background knowledge.
Thirdly, I discussed the justification of comprehension-based beliefs, i.e., the beliefs about what other people say. I have argued that this justification is non-inferential, i.e., that it does not depend on the justification of other beliefs, such as the beliefs about what words the speaker uttered or what sounds they produced. Instead of defending the most common version of non-inferentialism about the justification of comprehension-based beliefs, i.e., a view on which these beliefs are prima facie justified by seemings that the speaker said so and so, I have offered a competitive account. On my account, which I call teleological comprehension-process reliabilism : (i) beliefs are prima facie justified if they are produced by a process that has forming true beliefs reliably as a function, and (ii) language comprehension is a process that has forming true comprehension-based beliefs reliably as a function.
Fourthly, I have argued that despite what is assumed by many participants in the debate, we are not equipped with a mechanism that allows us to react discriminately to particular instances of untrustworthy testimony, i.e., to prevent the formation of beliefs based on such testimony. However, the fact that all, at least all adult members of our linguistic community are vigilant towards the signs of untrustworthiness, and that liars meet social retribution, brings the long-term benefit of decreasing the number of falsehoods and lies we encounter. This account of the psychosocial mechanisms involved in filtering of the comprehended content provides support for the strong anti-reductionism about testimonial entitlement, i.e., the view that we are prima facie entitled to believe whatever we are being told.
Finally, together with the coauthors of Chapter 5: J. Adam Carter and Emma C. Gordon, I have argued that understanding a proposition, commonly identified with linguistic understanding, is a distinct phenomenon. More specifically, it is a type of objectual understanding, which is gradable, consistent with epistemic luck, and based on a subject’s grasping of the coherence-making relation between the elements of a given subject matter. Nevertheless, both linguistic understanding and understanding a proposition play an important role in our everyday communication. In typical cases of successful linguistic communication, we understand communicated thought, i.e., we understand both what proposition has been expressed by the use of a given utterance (linguistic understanding), and this proposition itself.
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Madrid, Samara Dawn. "Emotional themes in preschool children's play narratives." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1189731683.
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Thies, Thorsten [Verfasser]. "Isoperimetrische Ungleichungen in symmetrischen Räumen / Thorsten Thies." Karlsruhe : KIT-Bibliothek, 2002. http://d-nb.info/1013897099/34.
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McEwen, Ian David. "Philosophy and mathematics : some themes from Wittgenstein." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385595.
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Hutchings, Alison Jayne. "Phytoplankton distribution in the River Thames, England." Thesis, Durham University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362137.
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Morton, Luise H. "Philosophical themes in works of Stanislaw Lem." Virtual Press, 1985. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/424560.
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The purpose of this thesis was to examine two works of science fiction by the Polish writer and satirist, Stanislaw Lem, which exemplify two broad philosophical themes central to his writings; viz., cosmology and personhood. In "The New Cosmogony," Lem focuses on the central problem of the philosophy of scientific cosmology, namely, what kind of explanation is-applicable to that science. Lem synthesizes religious and scientific views of the creation of the universe in his model of the cosmos as a Game of Civilizations with advanced technologies. Central to this work is the philosophical notion of intentionality. In "The Mask," Lem raises questions about personhood, consciousness, freedom, determinism, and responsibility by embedding them in the autobiographical narrative of a conscious, female machine. Lem's views on cosmology and his views on personhood both involve intentionality - the intentions of civilizations, on the one hand, and the intentions of a King and of the machine he created, on the other. Both works challenge all preconceptions about philosophy through the use of paradox, irony, and sometimes ridicule. Lem provides no answers, however. He is interested in setting up futuristic technological situations that are capable of undermining our basic assumptions about the world.
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Mitchell, Michael. "Hidden mutualities : Faustian themes in the postcolonial." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4522/.
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Hidden mutualities link the work of major postcolonial writers with Marlowe's drama of the Faustian pact - the manipulation of the material world in exchange for the soul - written as the 'scientific' world view was emerging which accompanied the imperial expansion of Europe and has determined the economic and social structures of the colonial and post-colonial world. This comparative study brings together researches in widely different fields to show how Doctor Faustus reflects a Gnostic / Hermetic tradition marginalized within the dominant European power structures. It shows initially how these ideas were crystallized by Ficino and Pico from the available texts of the Corpus Hermeticum, and how they relate to what has become known about Gnosticism and Simon Magus. Combined with the alchemical and cabalistic traditions they form a basis for the study of Renaissance 'Magus' figures such as Trithemius, Reuchlin, Agrippa, Paracelsus or Dee, who are reflected in Faust and in Shakespeare's Prospero in The Tempest. The second part investigates the dual legacy of the Magus. A counterpoint between a law-governed objective material world and an occult visionary pursuit of the divine potential of the human imagination, in which the Gnostic / Hermetic tradition ironically became marginalized by the technological science it had inspired, is traced through the examples of Kepler, Fludd, Newton, Blake, Kipling, Crowley, Yeats, Pauli and Jung. In the third part, textual analysis reveals how attention to these Faustian themes opens new critical perspectives in appreciating the works of postcolonial writers, in particular Dimetos by Athol Fugard, Disappearance by David Dabydeen, Omeros by Derek Walcott, and the novels of Wilson Harris, all of which stress the importance of the creative imagination over mimesis.
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Hichberger, Joan Winifred Martin. "Military themes in British painting 1815-1914." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1985. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1318047/.
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This thesis examines the treatment of the British Army and military themes, in painting, during the period 1815- 1914. All the works discussed were exhibited at the Royal Academy, which, although it underwent modifications in status, remained the nearest equivalent to a State Institution for Art in Britain. All the paintings shown there were painted with the knowledge that they were to be seen by the controllers of the Academy and the dominant classes of society. It will be inferred then, that the paintings shown there may be taken to have been acceptable to ruling class ideologies, and are therefore instructive of 'official' attitudes to military art. Representations of the contemporary Army, in this period, fell into two main catagories - battle paintings and genre depictions of soldiers. Chapters one to three survey battle paintings; studying the relation of this genre to the Academy; the relative popularity of the genre and the career patterns of its practioners. The critical reception of battle pictures at the Academy and certain important public competitions will be noted and considered in the context of contemporary ideologies about art and about the Army and its men. Chapter four discusses the vital concept of 'heroism' and its treatment in English military art. In particular, the reasons for the popularity of certain military figures above their peers, in academic art, will be explored. It will be argued that the process of 'hero-making' in art was not determined by professional success alone, but was often the result of the intervention of patrons, publicists and pressure groups. It will be shown that contemporary ideologies of heroism and art-historical convention precluded innovation in representation to correspond with technological developments in warfare. Battle paintings of heroes remained rooted in the conventions of 'chivalry' until the end of the First World War. Chapters five and six study genre representations of the soldier. Paintings of the 'recruit', the 'veteran' and the soldier and the family are discussed in relation to contemporary ideologies of the soldier held by the dominant classes. This thesis seeks to show that the military genre pictures, exhibited at the Royal Academy, are significantly related to developments in ideas about the Army and society, and that the uncertain status of battle painting was reflective of the equivocal attitude towards the Army and the Empire in this period.
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Almutawa, Fajer. "Negotiating life themes through brand symbolism synthesis." Thesis, University of Bath, 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.558847.
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Cherkaoui, Driss. "Le roman de antar : themes et personnages." Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA030117.
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Cette these de 471 pages est consacree a l'un des plus importants romans populaires arabes, sirat antar. Ce roman s'inscrit dans le cadre d'une litterature intermediaire entre la litterature savante et le folklore. L'histoire est preislamique. La these demontre que ce roman est digne d'etre qualifie de litterature. La premiere partie qui traite l'aspect historique est consacree a une comparaison des donnees historiques entre le roman de antar et les sources savantes arabes. Cette partie examine trois guerres historiquement verifiables, et l'usage fait par le conteur des personnages historiques. A travers cette comparaison nous comprenons comment le conteur utilise le fonds historique. La deuxieme partie qui est une etude litteraire traite du caractere fictionnel du roman et de sa place dans l'ensemble des oeuvres de la litterature intermediaire. Cette etude compare le role des personnages dans le roman de antar avec d'autres romans populaires arabes ou persans. La partie la plus importante de cette comparaison est celle qui concerne les triades heroiques et ennemies. Ensuite ont ete etudies le role du roi zuhayr et de ses fils ainsi que le role de la femme. La troisieme partie de la these est une "sequence type" suivie de son analyse. Cette sequence est basee sur celles que l'on trouve dans le roman. Cette demarche facilite la comprehension de l'infrastructure de l'oeuvre. Comme annexe se trouvent un resume de 80 pages, une bibliographie, trois cartes representant les tribus et les relations politiques entre les puissances de l'epoque, ainsi que la table de transcription arabe utiliseeThis thesis is a 471 page study in french of the arabic popular epic, sirat antar. The popular epic falls midway between a purely oral tradition and the "learned" written arabic tradition. The thesis demonstrates that this pre-islamic work qualifies as literature, despite the scorn with which such popular epics were regarded until recently. Two approaches were used to show that the work qualifies as literature : a study of the incorporation of historical facts in the work, and a literary analysis of characters and themes. These two approaches provide the first two sections of the main body of the thesis. In the first part, major historically verifiable wars and historically verifiable characters are shown to be reflected, in whole or in part, within the epic's framework. The epic's depiction of daily life during the pre-islamic era is also considered. The second part studies, from a literary standpoint, the roles of the heroic triad, the triad of enemies, the king and his sons, and the role of women in the epic. In this part, major themes are noted. This literary analysis is not limited to the epic itself but includes pertinent comparisons with other popular works from approximately the same historical period. The third part of the thesis is a creative work, based on the epic. It is not a translation of a given sequence, but a synthesis of many of the epic's major sequences. It is meant to represent a "typical sequence", making the style of the original's six-thousand pages accesible even to a reader who does not know arabic. This sequence is followed by a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis explaining the choice of points it incorporates from the epic. Following the main body of the thesis is a summary of the entire epic and a bibliography. The annex includes 3 maps showing tribes, zones of influence and political relations in the pre-islamic middle east and a table of the transcription used for arabic words
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Meier, Lori T. "Episode 6: The Five Themes of Geography." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/social-studies-education-oer/6.
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In this episode, we explore the five themes of geography: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions and consider how they are connected to the development of young geographers in the K-5 classroom.https://dc.etsu.edu/social-studies-education-oer/1005/thumbnail.jpg
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Owens, Tim. "Postmodern echoes of early church ecclesiological themes." Dallas, TX : Dallas Theological Seminary, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.001-1248.
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Aholt, Erin C. Carney Jamie S. "Cognitive processing themes for smoking among lesbians." Auburn, Ala., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1552.
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Nguyen, Le Hoang Anh. "Quelques thèmes en l'analyse variationnelle et optimisation." Thesis, Dijon, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014DIJOS009/document.
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Dans cette thèse, j’étudie d’abord la théorie des [gamma]-limites. En dehors de quelques propriétés fondamentales des [gamma]-limites, les expressions de [gamma]-limites séquentielles généralisant des résultats de Greco sont présentées. En outre, ces limites nous donnent aussi une idée d’une classification unifiée de la tangence et la différentiation généralisée. Ensuite, je développe une approche des théories de la différentiation généralisée. Cela permet de traiter plusieurs dérivées généralisées des multi-applications définies directement dans l’espace primal, tels que des ensembles variationnels,des ensembles radiaux, des dérivées radiales, des dérivées de Studniarski. Finalement, j’étudie les règles de calcul de ces dérivées et les applications liées aux conditions d’optimalité et à l’analyse de sensibilitéIn this thesis, we first study the theory of [gamma]-limits. Besides some basic properties of [gamma]-limits,expressions of sequential [gamma]-limits generalizing classical results of Greco are presented. These limits also give us a clue to a unified classification of derivatives and tangent cones. Next, we develop an approach to generalized differentiation theory. This allows us to deal with several generalized derivatives of set-valued maps defined directly in primal spaces, such as variational sets, radial sets, radial derivatives, Studniarski derivatives. Finally, we study calculus rules of these derivatives and applications related to optimality conditions and sensitivity analysis
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Hamlett, Laura E. "Common Psycholinguistic Themes in Mass Murderer Manifestos." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3493.
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Mass murder in the United States is increasing, yet understanding of mass murderers is still relatively limited. Many perpetrators compose manifestos, which include journals, blogs, letters, videos, and other writings. Previous research has indicated that personal messages are of great social and psychological importance; however, there remains an important gap in the current literature regarding studies specific to these manifestos. As such, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to provide greater understanding of mass murderers' motives and mindsets through psycholinguistic analysis of their recorded words. The constructivist conceptual framework enabled gathering, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting thematic language from a purposeful sample of 12 American mass murderer manifestos, all of which were freely available online. The 6 research questions aligned with 6 psycholinguistic themes: ego survival and revenge; pseudocommando mindset: persecution, envy, obliteration; envy; nihilism; entitlement; and heroic revenge fantasy. Descriptive and analytical coding allowed for the identification of sentences and passages representative of each theme. Findings revealed a high degree of support for nihilism and ego survival and revenge, moderate support for heroic revenge fantasy and pseudocommando mindset, and limited support for entitlement and envy. These findings contribute to the existing literature, enhancing social change initiatives through increased understanding of mass murderers' communications and prompting further needed research. With greater awareness comes the potential for early identification and intervention, which may favorably impact psychology and law enforcement professionals and at-risk individuals.
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McDonald, Brian Jay. "Themes of corporatism in the postwar American novel." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ54936.pdf.
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Attar, Karen. "Treachery and Christianity : two themes in the Riddarasögur." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318323.
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Thomson, Gregory Peter Kerr. "Evaluating PRP : a case study of Thames Water." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2004. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2898/.
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Performance Related Pay (PRP) explicitly links the level of pay an employee receives to that employee's performance. Intuitively, it would appear likely that employees would increase their work effort in order to maximise their earnings from PRP. However, there is now a substantial body of research evidence, which suggests that PRP is not particularly effective in increasing employee motivation in practice. Despite this research evidence, PRP continues to remain popular as a payment system amongst firms. This Thesis uses a case study of Thames Water, a large utility company, to examine the paradox between the continuing popularity of PRP and its apparent ineffectiveness as a tool for increasing employee motivation. Evidence from an employee survey and interviews with key managers, together with information from internal company documentation, is brought together to explore five related questions: 1. Why did Thames Water use PRP. 2 How effective has PRP been in Thames Water as a motivator for employees. 3. Why was PRP not more effective as a motivator for employees. 4. How effective was PRP in delivering the other objectives it was originally intended to achieve. 5. Why does Thames Water continue to use PRP. The analytical approach adopted, using three theories of motivation as a framework against which to examine the motivational effectiveness of PRP, provides a new way of looking at the possible limitations on the motivational effect of PRP. This thesis touches on the question of whether and how PRP brings about cultural change; this in turn raises complex questions of causation, which call into question the effectiveness of PRP as a mechanism for bringing about cultural change.
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Thies, Katharina [Verfasser]. "Risikofaktoren des Vorhofflimmerns nach herzchirurgischen Eingriffen / Katharina Thies." Köln : Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1021269352/34.
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Boyer, Ann. "Monique Lange (1926-1996) : life, themes and techniques." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249428.
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Shirazi, Z. A.-M. A. "Eastern themes in the fiction of D.H. Lawrence." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383609.
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Porter, William Connor. "Gnostic themes in the fiction of Michael Tournier." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241680.
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Noack, Thies [Verfasser]. "In-vivo Abformgenauigkeit von A-Silikonen / Thies Noack." Gießen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1064702686/34.
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Thies, Andreas [Verfasser]. "Constraintbasierte Refaktorisierung von Deklarationen in JAVA / Andreas Thies." Hagen : Fernuniversität Hagen, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1069634425/34.
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Beetge, Lijahne. "Themes related to children living with HIV/AIDS." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/21549.
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Assignment (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This review examines themes related to children, especially children under the age of fifteen, living with HIV/Aids. For review purposes themes include defining children living with HIV/Aids as a vulnerable population, the psychological impact of HIV/Aids on children, children’s coping with and perceptions of HIV/Aids. The global HIV/Aids pandemic has caused major worldwide social change. The impact, especially the psychological impact of HIV/Aids on children appears to be vast and at times disastrous in nature. HIV/Aids is estimated to affect the lives of several generations of children and the impact of the pandemic will therefore characterize their communities for decades to come as the numbers of affected and infected children are on the increase. It has been noted by research done that children living with HIV/Aids become impoverished, their insecurities worsen and their psychosocial and psychological problems increase. In addition their educational and work opportunities decline, their nurturing and support systems disintegrate, and child mortality rates rise. The necessity of psychological support for children affected and infected by HIV/Aids is directly linked to the rights of children listed in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the South African Constitution. Research reviewed points out that a child’s physical and psychological health is intertwined and therefore a child cannot be physically healthy without also being psychologically secure. Research reviewed also points out that it is of the utmost importance that the voices of children who live with HIV/Aids are heard, their involvement in decision making and planning related to HIV/Aids is allowed and that their needs are met, especially their psychological needs in relation to the pandemic. Overall the literature reviewed in the past four years (2003-2006) highlights the significantly under-investigated, under-researched themes such as psychological aspects related to children living with HIV/Aids, both in South Africa and internationally. These aspects surrounding HIV/Aids, as previously mentioned, also seem to be the least tangible and the most difficult for adults to address or comprehend fully and yet they impinge on all aspects of developing children - hence the identified need in this area for adequate research and psychological support, such as program implementation.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie literatuuroorsig bied ’n ondersoek na die wêreldwye sosiale verandering en uitwerking wat die globale HIV/vigs-pandemie tot gevolg het. Daar word veral gelet op temas wat verwantskap hou met kinders, veral kinders vyftien jaar oud en jonger wat leef met HIV/vigs. Temas sluit in die definiëring van kinders as weerloos, kinders se hantering van HIV/vigs, hulle persepsies van HIV/vigs en hulle sielkundige behoeftes en ander aspekte met betrekking tot HIV/vigs. Die trefkrag van HIV/vigs blyk omvattend en by tye rampspoedig te wees. Na beraming beïnvloed HIV/vigs verskeie geslagte van kinders en die uitwerking van die pandemie sal dus dekades lank nog deel vorm van hulle gemeenskappe soos die aantal kinders wat geïnfekteer en geaffekteer is, toeneem. Navorsing toon dat kinders wat met HIV/vigs leef, verarm. Verder vererger hulle onsekerhede en hulle psigososiale en sielkundige probleme neem toe. Ook neem die kinders se opvoedkundige en werkgeleenthede af, hulle versorgings- en ondersteuningsnetwerke disintegreer en sterftesyfers neem toe. Die noodsaaklikheid van sielkundige ondersteuning vir kinders wat deur HIV/vigs geïnfekteer en geaffekteer is, word direk in verband gebring met die regte van kinders soos gelys in die Verenigde Nasies se Konvensie oor die Regte van die Kind en die Suid-Afrikaanse Grondwet. Die literatuuroorsig toon dat ‘n kind se fisieke en sielkundige gesondheid ten nouste met mekaar verband hou en daarom kan ’n kind nie fisiek gesond wees sonder om ook sielkundig geborge te wees nie. Verder dui navorsing ook op die kardinale belang daarvan dat kinders wat leef met HIV/vigs se stemme gehoor word, hulle betrokkenheid by besluitneming en beplanning verseker word en al hulle behoeftes bevredig word, veral hulle sielkundige behoeftes wat met die pandemie verband hou. Oor die algemeen beklemtoon die literatuuroorsig wat oor die afgelope vier jaar strek (2003-2006) dat daar nie voldoende navorsing gedoen is met betrekking tot temas wat verwantskap hou met kinders en HIV/vigs nie, nie alleen in Suid-Afrika nie, maar ook internasionaal. Hierdie bevindings is kommerwekkend veral omdat Suid-Afrika ‘n land is met onrusbarende groot getalle kinders wat deur HIV/vigs geïnfekteer is. Dit wil ook voorkom of hierdie aspekte wat te make het met kinders en HIV/vigs nie baie duidelik is vir volwassenes nie en ook die moeilikste is om te hanteer of ten volle te verstaan, hoewel dit alle aspekte van die kind se ontwikkeling raak. Vandaar die behoefte op hierdie gebied aan voldoende navorsing en sielkundige ondersteuning, soos program implementering.
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Huzar, Timothy. "Themes of visibility in Rancière, Butler and Cavarero." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2018. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/8dc1def0-5a7a-4c26-89c3-847f54f0e7e5.
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This thesis explores themes of visibility in the work of Jacques Rancière, Judith Butler and Adriana Cavarero. It argues that visibility is important for each author: for Rancière the making visible of particular existents; for Butler the making visible of violences; and for Cavarero the making visible of another’s uniqueness. However, these commitments to visibility reach a limit when confronted with those who exist in indifference to visibility, for example, the fugitive politics of the enslaved as detailed by Saidiya Hartman. In these instances there is a danger that a fugitive politics is overlooked if visibility is one’s primary frame of analysis. This thesis is interdisciplinary, bringing each author into conversation with the others but not attempting to synthesise their thought into a whole, nor to resolve the tensions in their work by privileging one author over the others. Instead, and following Rancière, it reads each author for their aesthetic contribution to making sense of the world with the aim of identifying the forms of existence that are opened up in their work, but also those that are closed down. The first chapter identifies themes of visibility in Rancière’s account of politics, arguing that there is an ambivalence in Rancière’s politics but that in either case politics is linked to the making visible of forms of existence that are otherwise rendered insensitive. The second and third chapters identify themes of visibility in Butler’s account of violence, arguing that Butler’s reflections on violence’s visibility are overlooked in her consideration of nonviolence. The fourth and fifth chapters identify themes of visibility in Cavarero’s work, arguing that her insistence on making another’s uniqueness visible is made urgent because of scenes of violence. The sixth chapter argues that Butler and Cavarero’s work should be understood as an insurrectionary humanism centred on the paraontology of vulnerability. The seventh chapter reads Rancière, Butler and Cavarero in relation to Hannah Arendt, arguing that it is Arendt’s proximity to each author that enables a politics of fugitivity to become tangible in their work. The eighth chapter reads Rancière, Butler and Cavarero against Saidiya Hartman’s account of the Middle Passage, plantation slavery and its legacies to demonstrate the limits of their commitment to visibility and to further manifest a sense of a fugitive politics indifferent to visibility.