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Chow, Samson Sik Yan. "Living with the dead : is it necessarily to be so? why not NIMBY, sense of place and spatial justice : a case study of locating funeral business in Hung Hom /." View abstract or full-text, 2010. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?SOSC%202010%20CHOW.

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Akçali, F. Özge. "Occupationism : occupational discrimination in relation to funeral directors." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26116.

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Occupationism recently has been introduced and defined as discrimination on the basis of one's occupation (Carson, 1992; Krumboltz, 1991, 1992). In this qualitative study, the existence of occupationism is investigated through the examination of the results of interviews with six funeral directors. The statements of the participants describing occupationist acts (either positive or negative) were classified into a number of categories at both fine-grained and more superordinate levels. Implications of the results for the proposed occupationism construct and suggestions for future research and career interventions are discussed.
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Schafer, Cyril Timo, and n/a. "Post-mortem personalisation : an ethnographic study of funeral directors in New Zealand." University of Otago. Department of Anthropoplogy, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070427.115528.

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This thesis examines the personalisation of Pakeha (European) post-mortem practices in New Zealand. While much of the discourse surrounding funerary and disposal processes maintains that contemporary practices demonstrate a �denial� of death and funeral director esurience, funeral directors themselves have argued that the austere Anglophone approach to death has been superseded by personalised practices. This transformation has become particularly evident in the last two decades and emphasises a historic shift to funeral services that encompass the heterogeneity of late-modern individuals. The aim of this thesis, however, is not to recapitulate funeral director rhetoric or reiterate the criticisms levelled at the industry, but to critically examine the implications and manifestations of personalisation, and explore the funeral directors� role in the provision of contemporary funeral services. In addition to archival research, this ethnographic endeavour includes in-depth interviews with funeral directors (and related occupational groups) and an extended period of participant observation. The theoretical issues explored in this thesis are grounded in this ethnographic data. This study reveals that personalisation is integrally linked to constructions of grief, the pastoral role of funeral directors, and Foucault�s concept of bio-power. Funeral director participants asseverated that funeral practices had �evolved� to effect the �healthy� resolution of grief. Personalised funerals represented a re-alignment of �natural� human needs and cultural practices, and funeral director rhetoric amalgamated essentialist interpretations of grief with personalised memories and continuing bonds (Klass and Walter 2001). Funeral directors explicitly linked personalisation to secularisation, emphasising the perceived lack of �guidance� and �care� in contemporary society. Although �impersonal� religious funerals provided funeral specialists with an important point of departure, many funeral directors emphasised the pastoral dimension of contemporary funeral directing. This dimension constitutes a key component of the funeral directors� role and permeated all facets of funeral service - particularly the increasing range of after-care funeral options. Although the funeral director rhetoric emphasises the democratisation of funeral practices and the primacy of individuality, an examination of the discourse reveals that this personalisation also demonstrates the normalising technologies integral to Foucault�s concept of �pastoral power�. I argue that funeral directors play a significant role in articulating the boundaries of �appropriate� funeral behaviour by accentuating the importance of �authenticity�, �dignity� and �healthy grief�. These concepts underline the expertise of funeral directors, define the acceptable parameters of post-mortem practices, and reify the integral involvement of funeral directors in the construction process. The specific subjectivity promoted by funeral directors constitute individuals that are not only �honest� and �real�, but recognise the �need� for a funeral service, emotional expression, and memorialisation. These individuals similarly realise the importance of integrating the deceased into their own biographies, while acknowledging the significance of guidance and control. This subjectivity clearly legitimises the role of the contemporary New Zealand funeral director. This thesis illustrates, therefore, that funeral directors play a salient role in articulating bio-power within New Zealand society, and that this endeavour is integrally linked to the occupations� continuing pursuit of professional identity.
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Rugg, Julie. "The rise of cemetery companies in Britain, 1820-53." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2017.

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Cemetery companies were the principal agency of the transition from a traditional reliance on graveyards to the use of modern extra-mural cemeteries. The thesis comprises a study of the 113 cemetery companies established from 1820 to 1853, a period which saw the origin of this type of enterprise and its spreading throughout Britain. The companies are not analysed as economic entities, but rather as representations of a range of attitudes towards the problems associated with intramural interment. To facilitate discerning different trends relating to the public perceptions of the burial problem, the companies have been classified according to type. This is an exercise which relies on textual analysis of company documents to understand the principal motivation of each group of directors. Three different types of company are examined in the thesis. Directors of enterprises within the first group to emerge saw the burial problem as a religious-political issue, and used cemetery companies as a means of providing extended space for burial which was independent of the Established Church. The new cemeteries had unconsecrated ground, and offered the freedom for Dissenters to adopt any burial service they wished. The increased enthusiasm for all joint-stock enterprise in the mid-1830s saw the advent of the speculative cemetery company, which saw in the burial issue the potential to make profits in one of three ways: by tapping a specific territorial market, a particular class market, or by buying and selling the scrip of grand and impractical necropolitan schemes. A third type of company dominated the 1840s, and its main concern was the provision of extra-mural cemeteries as a sanitary measure. In addition to studies of these three groups of companies, the thesis presents analysis of two additional themes essential to the progress of burial reform: fears concerning the integrity of the corpse; and the cultural significance thought to attach to cemetery foundation. The thesis demonstrates, by studying these companies, that the reasons for taking action to found cemetery companies could vary considerably, and that perception of the burial issue altered a number of times.
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Muniz, Jeremy P. "Dueling with death Christian funeral preaching as dialogue /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2009.

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Sievert, Sheree L. "Preserving bodies, preserving buildings : funeral homes in east-central Indiana." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1133728.

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Traditionally, funeral homes have been family-owned small businesses which pride themselves on their personal, caring service. Many are located in historic houses worthy of preservation. In the past few decades, however, many family-owned funeral homes have been bought out by large, national corporations in search of big profits. The future of oldhouse funeral homes is uncertain. An inventory of funeral homes was conducted in a ninecounty area of east-central Indiana, including Blackford, Delaware, Grant, Hancock, Henry, Jay, Madison, Randolph, and Wayne Counties. Findings show that a majority (59%) of the funeral homes in the nine-county area of east-central Indiana inventoried are located in former residences built before 1950, with varying degree of modification. While some have had minimal or moderate alterations, a large percentage (54%) of these have been extensively altered over the years. Case studies of four pre-1950 funeral homes in the inventory area revealed that alterations, many of which reflect the needs of the funeral business, have affected not only their integrity but also their ratings in the Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory. Recommendations include greater communication between the funeral industry and preservationists, and the establishment of guidelines for sensitive additions that are addressed specifically to the needs of the funeral industry.
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DREWSEN, VICTORIA, and SOPHIE LÖÖB. "Corporate social responsibility in risk assessment processes undertaken in Swedish export transactions." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-224160.

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Balmer, John Martin Thomas. "The nature of corporate identity : an explanatory study undertaken within BBC Scotland." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1996. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23779.

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This doctoral thesis is concerned with the management phenomenon of corporate identity. In brief, the writer's pre-understanding of corporate identity is that it refers to what an organisation 'is', i. e. its innate character. Data for this thesis was collected within a subsidiary of a high profile, internationally known, highly secretive and quintessentially British institution: the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The objectives of this thesis are (a) to explain the nature of the social psychological process involved in corporate identity formation and (b) to explain the basic social structural process involved in acquiring and sustaining a corporate identity. This thesis is felt to be distinctive in three regards in that (a) the doctorate focuses on the identity of a subsidiary and in particular its sub brands, i. e. BBC Scotland (the subsidiary) and its relationship with BBC Radio Orkney and BBC Radio Shetland, (b) the writer appears to be the first management academic to have negotiated access within the BBC in order to undertake an extensive period of research, (c) this is thought to be the first PhD on corporate identity where the researcher has relied exclusively on in-depth qualitative methods of data collection within the research paradigm of naturalism. As such this thesis does not seek to establish universal laws regarding corporate identity but aims to contribute to an understanding of the phenomenon. In the tradition of naturalism the findings are in effect hypotheses since they only refer to the organisation under study. However, such findings potentially have real value in that the writer has to demonstrate connoisseurship of the institution under study and authenticity with regard to the data collected. The writer believes that he has met these requirements through revealing the distinct ideologies present within BBC Radio Orkney, BBC Radio Shetland as well as some of the ideologies within BBC Scotland. The findings of this doctorate revealed that (a) the basic social psychological process underpinning corporate identity was one of affinity. The data revealed that in both stations personnel has an affinity with at least six ideologies based on affection, alliance, closeness, attachment, nostalgia etc. The data not only demonstrated the importance of affinity to the basic social psychological process of corporate identity formation but also revealed that personnel had an affinity with different categories of ideology, i. e. corporate, professional and cultural. Thus the basic social psychological process of corporate identity can be described as being both multi-layered and complex. This has led the writer to give the following definition of corporate identity. "A corporate identity refers to what an organisation "is", e. g. its innate character. It is underpinned by a unique mix of ideologies (e. g. organisational, professional, etc) to which personnel have an affinity. An organisation's identity is experie nced through everything an organisation says, makes or does, e. g. is experienced through total corporate communications. All identity may be good, bad, negative, unwanted etc". With regard to explaining the basic social structural process of corporate identity the synthesis of the data suggests that senior managers should undertake four activities (a) define the corporate mission and philosophy; (b) be sensitive to the multiple ideologies present within the organisation; (c) evaluate the ideologies vis a vis the corporate mission and philosophy and (d) nurture those ideologies which support the mission and philosophy. In light of the findings this doctorate provides policy advice to senior managers of BBC Scotland and the BBC; to the Secretary of State for National Heritage; to senior managers generally and to management academics.
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Ali, Mahdi Mohamed Abdulsamad. "A framework for enhancing the success of construction projects undertaken in Libya." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2011. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19242/.

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The construction industry is a key player in the development of the Libyan economy. It contributes for about 5.2% of the Libyan Gross domestic Product (GDP) and employs around 3.2% of the total workforce, which include Libyan and other nationalities. Construction projects successes are the public face of the construction industry. However, with the increasing number of project delays and/or failure facing the development of the construction sector, it is important to determine the factors affecting construction projects success and develop appropriate solutions to such problems. View studies have been carried out which concentrated on specific factors including projects' success, but these were very limited in the range of the study, and organisations are still struggling with how to complete projects successfully. Preliminary literature review and pilot study identified that the major cause of construction projects failure are management methodologies, selection of project team members, external factors and the procurement methods. Findings from the literature review, questionnaire survey and interviews were used to develop a framework to improve the success of construction projects, which was validated by experienced and professionals in the Libyan construction industry. The findings which are drawn from this research include establishment and evaluation of the factors that affects projects success including external factors (economic and political), contractual system and the selection of the project team members. The framework is considered to be a major contribution to knowledge and is recommended for use to ensure successful construction project implementation in both the public and private sectors. The framework provides very important criteria for the selection of the project team in order to ensure that appropriate persons are selected. The findings also provide solutions and methodologies for organisations to use to ensure that project will be successfully completed. The framework will contribute to construction projects' success and hence enhance and promote the development the construction sector in Libya.
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Mbatha, Martha Senzangani. "A case study of development projects undertaken in developing countries : successes and failures." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75974.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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Bibliography: leaves [46]-[47].
by Martha Senzangani Mbatha.
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Morad, Abadi Omid. "The role of rankings in the marketing undertaken by universities through their institutional websites." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/458691.

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Los rankings de universidades se han popularizado y representan un tema de estudio emergente (Hazelkorn, 2011; Dill, 2005; Albach, 2012; Tomàs Folch & Castro,2015). Por ello este estudio trata de estudiar el papel de los rankings en la estrategia de marketing de cuatro universidades catalanas metropolitanas y cómo las universidades implementan su posición internacional a través de su página web para responder a las preguntas: • ¿De qué manera las universidades utilizan su posición en los rankings en las estrategias de marketing para competir mejor? • ¿De qué manera las cuatro universidades catalanas ponen de relieve sus posiciones en los rankings a través de su página web oficial? El objetivo general de este estudio es averiguar el papel de su posición en los rankings a través de su sitio web oficial para destacar sus imágenes entre otras universidades, como los instrumentos principales para competir en los mercados globales. La metodología de este estudio es mixta: una combinación de estudio cualitativo y cuantitativo. Se trata de estudiar el papel de los rankings en la estrategia de marketing de la universidad catalana y cómo las universidades implementan su posición internacional. Para ello se han elaborado tres instrumentos: una pauta de análisis de la web, una entrevista semiestructurada a agentes implicados en la gestión de marketing de las cuatro universidades catalanas y un cuestionario dirigido a 558 estudiantes de terceros ciclo: Máster y Doctorado. Los resultados muestran que la mayoría de los estudiantes han seleccionado su universidad en función de la posición del ranking de cada una de ellas. Como consecuencia las universidades que tienen mejor posición en los rankings podrían atraer los mejores estudiantes. Además, las universidades que tienen la página web con mejor diseño y más visibilidad de los rankings podrían atraer y conseguir más estudiantes e investigadores que otras universidades con peor posición en los rankings. Sin embargo se observan diferencias entre la importancia que le dan los estudiantes de Máster y los de Doctorado siendo estos últimos los que le dan mayor importancia a la posición de los rankings a la hora de elegir su universidad. En síntesis se ha llegado a la conclusión que actualmente el ranking tiene un papel muy importante en las universidades y ello implica mayor competencia entre ellas. El ranking proporciona información al público, los estudiantes, investigadores y usuarios en general. Por ello las estrategias de marketing tales como el diseño e inclusión de la posición del ranking de una universidad en su página web cobran un papel importantísimo en la gestión universitaria.
University rankings have become more popular and represents an emergent topic (Hazelkorn, 2011; Dill, 2005; Albach, 2012; Tomàs Folch & Castro,2015) .Consequently, this research study the role of rankings in the marketing strategy four metropolitan Catalan universities and how this universities apply their international positions through their official webpage for answering this questions: • How do these Catalan universities use their rankings positions in their marketing strategies for better competing? • What are the outcomes for the 4 mentioned Catalan universities, by highlighting their rankings positions through their official website? General objective of this study is to analyze, the role of rankings and to describe how effectively the website indicators such as: technical, marketing and rankings have been applied by those mentioned Catalan universities in their official website for burnishing their images among others as the main instruments for competing in the global markets. The methodology of this study is a mixed combination of both qualitative and quantitative methods. It is about studying the role of rankings in the marketing strategy of the mentioned Catalan university and how universities implement their international ranking position through their website for better presentation and manifestation. To do this, three instruments will be applied: a web analysis guideline, interviews with communication and promotion department of each Catalan universities and a questionnaire of 558 PhD and master students. The responses of majority of students show that most of the students have made their selection of their university, based on the rankings position. Universities with a better rankings position could attract more elite students. In addition, universities that have the web page with the best design and more notifications of rankings could attract and get more students and researchers than other universities. However, it is observable that the PhD students regarded the importance of rankings more than the Master students. Finally, according to the responses and interviews, it has been reached to this conclusion that now a day; rankings play a very important role between the universities. The ranking provides and manifest information to the public, students, elites, researchers. Therefore, the marketing strategies is involved with the design and rankings positions of the universities in their webpage which play a very important role in the university management.
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Bellamy, Alan Maurice. "Doctor of Counselling Psychology : research undertaken for the award of Doctor of Counselling Psychology." Thesis, City University London, 1998. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7709/.

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Aim: To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of a counselling psychology service in primary care. Method: Comparison of SCL-90R and HAD scores of a group of clients in treatment with those of a control group receiving GP-only care, at four points in time; and with scores while waiting for treatment. The design combines elements of an open trial with elements of a randomised controlled trial, although full randomisation was not possible in practice. The results are expressed in terms of numbers of cases and effect size, as well as in terms of test scores, in an attempt to indicate levels of clinical as well as statistical significance. Comparison of number of visits made to general practitioners by participants in each group during the six months before and after treatment. Results: The results indicate that the service was clinically effective: clients improved significantly after treatment on the scales used, the numbers of 'casee decreased significantly, and the number of visits to the general practitioners also dropped. Compared to the control condition, the treated clients did better on all these indicators, but the difference between the two groups was not great enough to show statistical significance at the 0.1% level required by the use of multiple planned tests, or on MANOVA, although on the major indicators (SCL-90R GSI and HAD Depression and Anxiety) significance was reached at the 5% level. The overall effect size was coculated to be 0.32. As it was 15 greater than zero, it indicates that the service's interventions were more effective than GP-care, but the magnitude of the effect was in the small to medium range. Conclusions: The results of the research demonstrate that the counselling psychology service under study was clinically effective. On all indicators used, clients of the service improved over the period of treatment, and did so to a greater extent than patients in the control condition. However the advantage over the control group was not sufficient for statistical significance at the level required, and this is reflected in the relatively moderate effect size.
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Potts, W. H. C., of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University, Faculty of Agriculture and Rural Development, and School of Horticulture. "A systems analysis undertaken to improve employer awareness of and career opportunities for Hawkesbury agriculturalists." THESIS_FARD_HOR_Potts_W.xml, 1993. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/422.

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Beginning in 1978, the learning paradigm of the Faculty of Agriculture at the (now) University of Western Sydney - Hawkesbury was progressivly altered from the classical didactic approach to, by 1985, a student self-directed, experiential learning environment. This entailed shifting from a faculty-perceived narrow agricultural production perspective to one of a multi-discplinary rural development focus. The focus of this systems inquiry is that of a marketer examining a well-established faculty task (function), with the objective of determining how well that task is being performed, and what (if any) remedial action is indicated. The inquiry indicates that there has been a failure to maximise potential in the faculty subsystem that is responsible for communication with concerned publics. The failure is general, in that it was not confined just to communication with employers of faculty outputs. All publics were involved; the faculty's separate messages were not being sensibly delivered to employers, prospective students, undergraduates, academic peers, and government. Analysis of the issues led to the development of a marketing (information) strategy that recognises the need to re-order the faculty's information-formulation and delivery subsystem. A series of proposals is advanced for consideration and debate by the Action Research Team as to which of these several actions should be considered as desirable and feasible for implementation. The estimated costs of implementation of the plan are presented on an item by item basis.
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Vinall-Collier, Karen Annette. "A nationwide study of the processes of care undertaken in Rheumatology clinics throughout the UK." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616474.

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Rheumatology Out-patient clinics throughout the UK. A particular aim was to identify the contribution of Consultant Rheumatologist, Clinical Nurse Specialist and patient by comparing and contrasting physician-led and nurse-led clinics. A total of 107 direct observations from audio recordings of clinic consultations were analysed with the Roter's Interactional Analysis System (RIAS). This produced a patient centeredness score for each consultation as well as classification of interaction as either task focussed or socio-emotional. 'Patient initiated question asking' (not prompted.by the practitioner through questions) was of particular interest but is not distinguished under the RIAS. Hence, 10 cases (patient and practitioner matched consultation transcripts and interviews) were selected for further exploration of patient initiations to offer greater insight into the patients' meaning making. Thirty semi-structured interviews were undertaken with practitioners (N::;16) and patients (N=15) within 24hrs following their consultation and analysed using thematic analysis. The purpose of the analysis was to explore both practitioner and patient perceptions of the clinic visit to inform the interaction analysis undertaken using the RIAS. This research has enhanced understanding of Clinical Nurse Specialist consultations in Rheumatology, in particular the role of communication in the interaction and potential means to enhance patient participation as a precursor to shared clinical decision making. It is concluded that identifying processes of care and communication behaviours that are patient-centred help to activate patients. The contribution of a theoretical framework of Context-Mechanism-Outcome illuminates that processes do not occur in a vacuum and that contextual characteristics are especially important when comparing across practitioner groups .
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Potts, W. H. C. "A systems analysis undertaken to improve employer awareness of and career opportunities for Hawkesbury agriculturalists." Thesis, View thesis, 1993. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/422.

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Beginning in 1978, the learning paradigm of the Faculty of Agriculture at the (now) University of Western Sydney - Hawkesbury was progressivly altered from the classical didactic approach to, by 1985, a student self-directed, experiential learning environment. This entailed shifting from a faculty-perceived narrow agricultural production perspective to one of a multi-discplinary rural development focus. The focus of this systems inquiry is that of a marketer examining a well-established faculty task (function), with the objective of determining how well that task is being performed, and what (if any) remedial action is indicated. The inquiry indicates that there has been a failure to maximise potential in the faculty subsystem that is responsible for communication with concerned publics. The failure is general, in that it was not confined just to communication with employers of faculty outputs. All publics were involved; the faculty's separate messages were not being sensibly delivered to employers, prospective students, undergraduates, academic peers, and government. Analysis of the issues led to the development of a marketing (information) strategy that recognises the need to re-order the faculty's information-formulation and delivery subsystem. A series of proposals is advanced for consideration and debate by the Action Research Team as to which of these several actions should be considered as desirable and feasible for implementation. The estimated costs of implementation of the plan are presented on an item by item basis.
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Potts, W. H. C. "A systems analysis undertaken to improve employer awareness of and career opportunities for Hawkesbury agriculturalists /." View thesis, 1993. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20031128.141720/index.html.

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Shepherd, Ian. "The impact of a child's death : an interpretative phenomenological analysis undertaken with five head teachers." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4051/.

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This research explores with five head teachers their views and experiences of a period when a child was terminally ill and subsequently died when in their school community. The participants were selected purposively from Derbyshire head teachers who had experienced the death of a pupil in their school community. After interviewing the participants using a semi-structured interview schedule the transcribed interviews provided the data for the research. The interviews were analysed, using the methodology of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, to explore the experiences of each of the participants. Three superordinate themes were identified which were; Emotions and their management Interactions with the bereaved family Interaction with the school community Additionally, an overarching theme of Elevation was identified. Each theme is presented and illustrated with abstracts taken from the original data. This is accompanied by interpretation which is also discussed and compared with knowledge from the existing literature. The research has illustrated the complications that exist for head teachers in managing their emotions and the possibility of these emotions intruding on their personal and family life. It has illustrated the way in which the relationship between the head teacher and the bereaved family changes and how it changes their interactions within the school community. This research led to the consideration of the influence of the cultural expectation enshrined in the saying, 'De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est' (Of the dead, nothing unless good). Also considered is the behavioural derivative of this saying and how it shapes the responses that head teachers make when managing a school community when a child has died. It also led to the consideration of the implications of the research findings for an support professionals who help schools.
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Ayre, Tracey Jane. "How effectively can a best value review be undertaken within a local authority emergency management service?" Thesis, Northumbria University, 2004. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/1847/.

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The legal duty of Best Value requires local authorities to fundamentally review all services in order to achieve continuous improvement. They must challenge how services are delivered, compare performance with those of others, consult the local community to assess whether needs are being met and explore the potential use of competition in future delivery. 'Challenge', 'compare', 'consult' and 'compete' are referred to as the 'Four Cs' and underpin the legislative Best Value framework. This research aims to explore how effectively Best Value can be applied to the provision of Emergency Management services by U.K. local authorities. Five key factors were identified as influencing the way Emergency Management services are provided: level of funding; legislative base; service monitoring; culture and public awareness. A census of service stakeholders within all mainland U.K. local authorities was conducted. Analysis of data collected revealed a range of associations between the five key factors and stakeholder perceptions relating to Best Value implementation. This data was also used to identify and critically evaluate the application of several existing quality management models in assisting local authorities achieving the 'Four Cs' within Emergency Management. This evaluation revealed usage of these models, either in isolation or combination, exclusively within the service would not achieve the effective measurement of the 'Four Cs', nor address the perceived drivers and barriers to Best Value implementation. Using primary data and literature review findings, a specific support model applying Best Value principles to Emergency Management was developed. This support model is regarded by practitioners as having the potential to assist local authorities in achieving implementation of rigorous and comprehensive Best Value Reviews within Emergency Management.
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Mabirizi, David. "Determinants of maternal delivery at rural health facilities a study undertaken in the Mpigi District of Uganda." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11285.

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Mpigi District is a rural district in Uganda with high maternal morbidity and mortality. While most pregnant women in Uganda attend antenatal clinics, few ultimately deliver their babies in a health facility. Interventions have not achieved increased utilisation of maternal services. A review of maternal determinants and factors associated with health facility delivery is the focus of this study. To determine the reasons why women deliver in health facilities; to identify the maternal determinants or factors associated with health facility delivery; and to determine the socio-demographic characteristics of women who deliver in health facilities. This quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study of 257 women who delivered in the Mpigi District in 2008/2009 used face-to-face interviews at which a questionnaire was administered. Women delivered in health facilities because they expected a safe delivery. Ten factors were found to be significantly associated with a higher possibility of health facility delivery: eight or more years of education (P=0.002); previous health facility delivery (P<0.0001); first delivery in a health facility (P<0.0001); no history of a non-health facility delivery (P <0.0001); more than 50% of deliveries in a health facility (P=0.007); three or more antenatal care visits (P=0.031); above-average socio-economic status (P=0.016); living in a household of three or fewer individuals (P=0.028); living within 30 minutes? travel time of a health facility (P=0.007); and history of contraceptive use (P=0.046). These are the maternal determinants of health facility delivery in this rural setting. The mothers that delivered in health facilities were 15 and 29 years old (85.2%), either married or cohabiting (77.5%), had completed eight years or more of formal education (53.5%), lived within a radius of up to 30 minutes? journey from a health facility (67.2%) and lived in a household of four or more individuals (76.0%). This study shows that there are specific maternal characteristics (sociodemographic descriptors) that are associated with increased possibility of health facility delivery.
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De, Bruyn Christoffel Wilhelmus. "A comparative analysis of the projects undertaken in the development of a taxation framework in the digital economy." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20795.

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The objective of this comparative paper is to analyse and compare the work undertaken by the OECD's TFDE and the DTC on the taxation of the digital economy in light of the overarching project on BEPS, with a view of analysing the possible application of the proposed options to address the tax challenges of the digital economy in the South African taxation framework.
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Schlagintweit, Elizabeth. "The fiscal implications of land use decisions : an analysis of three municipal expenditure-revenue analyses undertaken in Greater Vancouver." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26914.

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This thesis explores the theory and practice of incorporating a financial perspective into land use planning. Although it is well known that land use changes have definite consequences on municipal finances, there is little empirical information to guide municipal planners in analyzing and understanding the fiscal consequences of their decisions. In this thesis the role of municipal expenditure-revenue analysis in land use planning is analyzed. Municipal expenditure-revenue analysis represents a methodology used to quantify the net cost to a municipal government of providing services to specified land use categories. The nature and historical development of municipal expenditure-revenue analysis is described, and criteria for the evaluation of such analyses are developed. On the basis of these criteria, three municipal expenditure-revenue studies, undertaken in metropolitan Vancouver, are analyzed and evaluated in order to highlight current field practice and key issues in this area of analysis. The evaluation of the three case studies illustrates that despite considerable efforts on behalf of the analysts involved, the results of the studies have little direct application in planning and policy formulation. All three studies were found to have shortcomings which place in question the reliability and validity of the results. Despite these shortcomings, it is concluded that the process of undertaking expenditure-revenue analysis is valuable in that it provides an explicit framework in which planners and other municipal officials can consider the financial implications of land use decisions. On the basis of the analysis and evaluation undertaken in this thesis five recommendations are developed which will help analysts to improve the reliability of both the process and results of future expenditure-revenue analysis. This, in turn, will increase the potential of the direct application of these studies' results in planning and policy formulation. The recommendations made in the concluding chapter of this thesis are listed below: (1 ) Municipal expenditure-revenue analysis should be undertaken under objective circumstances; (2) The resources available to municipal expenditure-revenue studies should allow a thorough and in-depth analysis of the expenditure and revenue associated with the specified land use categories;' (3) The study methodology should combine the range of approaches discussed in Chapter 2 of this thesis; (4) Municipal expenditure-revenue analysis should be computerized; and (5) All aspects of an expenditure-revenue analysis should be clearly documented.
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Weldesellassie, K. Isaac. "An investigation and analysis of IGAD as an international organisation and its functions undertaken so far in making peace." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.502407.

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The creation of an international (intergovernmental) organisation such as IGAD is the realisation that problems faced by States can only resolve or can be best resolved through cooperation. The advantages of cooperation and the costs of non-cooperation are increasingly understood and even characterised by many States particularly in the post-Cold War era. Within the international system, mainly as adjuncts of the State system, international organisations become an indispensable forum for debating problems, whether by consultation or negotiation, adopting and developing international rules on matters of common interest (for instance, providing a mechanism for dispute resolution and prevention). On other occasions, international organisations can and have to compete with those very States created them. For years, the IGAD countries have been better known for wars and rivalries rather than cooperation under international rules. Against this background, the Heads of State and Government of the East African sub-region decided to establish a forum for their expanded cooperation that embraces socio-economic and political fields. The establishment of IGAD and its priority mission in sustainable development, peace, stability and security (inter- and intra-State conflict resolution and prevention) in itself presented an era of dialogue and hope for the sub-region. The creation of IGAD by the Member States was brought about by the recognition of their collective political will and common interest. The will and determination to cooperate and consequently lay down basic international rules and frameworks of cooperation itself was a prerequisite for the creation of and granting with powers and/or functions to IGAD as an organisation. This was the basic foundation and rationale for establishing IGAD. The challenge then becomes, as the hitherto experience has shown, the commitment to such international cooperation from each IGAD Member in accordance with the Agreement Establishing IGAD. The logical corollary to the will to establish IGAD is the need to take certain measures by IGAD's Member States on the basis of the establishing agreement in order to achieve the objectives for which it was created. In fact, the conclusion of the treaty by which IGAD was created is the beginning, not the end, of commitment whether internationally or nationally through the principle ofpact sunt servanda. The uncertainty in law and practical nature relating to IGAD is that if Member States do not want to cooperate and grant a power to the Organisation they created, then the Organisation cannot work properly. Moreover, the likely impact of the political commitment and genuine cooperation of the Member States of IGAD remains open to question. The creation of IGAD as an international organisation and its law and functions are made for a purpose, which is the achievement of the common goal and interest of the Member States (prosperity and peace). This purpose for which IGAD was created ought to be facilitated for its fulfilment. IGAD Member States, however, tend to pay and have paid little attention to the Organisation and its purposes after they created it in terms of their behaviour towards IGAD's principles and objectives and their compatible synergetic system from the domestic aspect of the national governance. Thus, I have chosento investigate these factors that have influenced the IGAD's creation vis-a-vis its status as an international organisation and its efforts in peace, stability and security missions.
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Smith, Stephen W. "BECOMING : an analysis of narratives describing the experiences of nurses who have undertaken training in solution focused brief therapy." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1220.

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This thesis is a study of the experiences of nurses who have undertaken training in Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT). While the clinical outcomes of using SFBT, and other psychological therapies, to treat clients have been the subject of much research, the outcomes of training therapists to use SFBT has been relatively unexplored. It is, therefore, my intention to address, in part, this uncharted area of practice. Utilising a mixed methodology, the study is divided into two Stages. In Stage I, an original Solution Focused (SF) methodology is developed and used to conduct individual interviews with twenty participants. Interviews are transcribed and treated as narrative texts, and are then subjected to multi-factored analysis enabling the synthesis of a ‘group narrative’ and the construction of a typology of experience. In Stage II, I conduct further in-depth interviews with three of the original participants and utilise a hermeneutic methodology, drawing on the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, to engage with the texts generated from these interviews. The texts are explored thematically, and through the nursing metaparadigm of Jacqueline Fawcett, and are compared with a metaparadigm of SF practice. The research suggests that training is SFBT can have a profound effect on the clinical practice, and professional identity, of nurses, and that this is related to the paradigm of nursing which informs their practice. Where the nursing paradigm is of the dominant ‘assessment and delivery of care needs’ modality, SFBT training has little to offer the nurse; however, where the nursing paradigm reflects an ‘interpersonal, dynamic’ modality based on shared relationships, training in SFBT can be a transformative experience for the nurse. This research makes an original contribution to the field of SFBT and to our understanding of the relationship between SFBT and nursing. Building on the work of earlier scholars, it argues that SFBT is congruent with some nursing paradigms, and not all nursing paradigms as previously suggested. It also advances our understanding of how the scope and field of SF practice may be delineated.
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Brophy, Christina Suzanne. "Internship in school counselling undertaken at a St. John's high school with a research component studying an adolescent relationships group." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ36100.pdf.

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Ismail, Salma. "The Langa enrichment programme : a study of students' perceptions of the performance of the programme, undertaken to improve its functioning." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17360.

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This study focuses on the Langa Enrichment Programme an educational support programme for black students studying under the Department of Education and Training in the Cape Peninsula. The study aimed to determine students' reasons for attending the programme, their perceptions of its strengths and weaknesses and their recommendations for improvements. Student expectations of the programme and reasons for the high dropout rate especially amongst Standard Nine and female students were explored. To contextualise the study and to give further insights into student views a brief summary of the apartheid education crisis is given. Educational support programmes are reviewed as is liberalism's response to the crisis in education and the history and culture of the South African Institute of Race Relations. The methodology used was two-fold: self-administered questionnaires to 126 Standard 10 Mathematics students and a series of focus group interviews with small groups of students. The findings may be summed up as follows. Students were generally positive towards the teachers, teaching methods and administration of the programme. They requested that teachers should teach and complete the syllabus, emphasizing exam questions, revision and scientific experiments, and explore alternative small group teaching with critical discussions. Students also requested a comprehensive career guidance programme, bursary information and increased financial assistance. Students expressed a reluctance to pay fees and this, coupled with increasing requests for financial and educational supp01t, raises the issue of welfarism on the programme. Reasons for the high dropout rate amongst Standard Nines included that they write an internal examination. Social pressures from boyfriends and peer groups and regarding clothes were given as reasons for female students dropping out of the programme. The students appear to determine the direction of the school in that as a result of their demands the programme has changed from an enrichment programme to a compensatory one. Recommendations in the concluding chapter of this study are that the Enrichment Programme should draw up clearer policy guidelines in conjunction with staff and students; liaison with DET secondary schools, tertiary institutions and other enrichment programmes should be improved; career guidance programmes linked to bursary information should be implemented; bursaries and other incentives should be linked to attendance and academic performance on the programme; a full time co-ordinator should be employed.
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Hails, Euan. "Development and delivery of cognitive behavioural therapy training in New South Wales, Australia : project undertaken in the spirit of action research." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/37090/.

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This study set out to investigate the understanding of psychological interventions and their place in practice (psychological mindedness) at an Australian mental health service and whether or not it was possible to train clinicians to introduce cognitive behavioural therapy to practice. The study investigated if, after training, clinicians' self-efficacy and readiness to use learnt skills is increased as they begin to deliver cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to patients. To do this a methodological approach was adopted, developed and delivered in the spirit of action research and conducted utilising a practice development model, that employed skills based education and experiential learning methods. A staff scoping survey was conducted to ascertain the psychological mindedness of clinical staff and to gain a picture of the availability of talking therapies across the health service. Following this survey an eight-day CBT training course was developed and delivered. A pre- and post- course questionnaire was applied to gain data on participant’s readiness to use skills and an increase in their self-efficacy pertinent to CBT that they learnt during the course. The results of the scoping survey showed that there was use of talking therapies by clinicians and that these clinicians desired training in CBT. The results of the CBT course questionnaire showed that it is possible to increase clinician’s self-efficacy and readiness to introduce skills to practice post attendance on an eight-day CBT training course. The delivery of focused talking therapy training across a mental health service can over time and with adequate levels of support and supervision, enable the delivery of CBT to service users. Principles of action research, practice development and the use of skills based education and experiential learning methods if implemented and supported actively can increase patient’s access to psychological therapies and train staff in the application of the same.
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Crone, Robert. "A case study of a research and development programme undertaken by one Northern Ireland co-educational secondary (intermediate) school 1981-1985." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252794.

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Woodhead, Roy M. "The influence of paradigms and perspectives on the decision to build undertaken by large experienced clients of the UK construction industry." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21081/.

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This thesis explains how paradigms and perspectives influence both the process and content of the decision to build undertaken by large experienced clients of the UK construction industry. The level of client experience is drawn from a sample with a collective value of around £300-350 million, which are in turn taken from a group of clients who spend around £1 billion per year on construction industry projects. The thesis moves from a "messy" (Ackoff, 1979) view of the research problem and client dissatisfaction (Latham, 1994 and Egan, 1998) to arrive at a clear understanding of how the decision to build is made. Its scope begins by considering the intial stimulus that triggers the decision-making process and finishes when the developing proposal receives a firm commitment in the form of budgetary sanctioning. This thesis argues that it is the allocation of funds which marks the boundary between a proposal and project stage and so names the proposal's evolution phase the "Pre-Project Stage". The overarching aim of the thesis is to prepare the way for improved client satisfaction and it achieves this goal by explaining the following: • The process of the decision to build and its structure is determined by the expectations of paradigms and perspectives. • The content of the decision to build process and the conversations within it are influenced by other competing paradigms and perspectives that seek to impose 'their' criteria by which their definition of 'good' decisions can be recognised. • The internal and external influences on the decision to build's process and content stem from the complex interrelationships that influence the dominance of perspectives within individual paradigms that are at the same time in competition to determine how success is recognised. • How the decision to build can be improved is explained as a corollary of the realisation that contrasting views of what is a 'good' decision can exist at different levels within the same client organisation. The use of grounded theory (Glasser and Strauss, 1967) with a multiple case study research methodology (Yin, 1994), built around thirteen core questions, led to a detailed explanation and conclusions which satisfied the research aims and Qbjectives. Central to this detailed explanation is the consequence of dividing the process of decision-making between constituent groups within the client organisation; these groups are decision approvers, decision takers and decision shapers. The explanation articulates the decision to build as a paradigm in its own right and reveals that the people involved in the decision making process are ,in reality a co-ordinated-collection of smaller groups. This division of decision making lacks consonance as the various groups push different process and content agenda in an attempt to arrive at a successful decision. It is paradigms and perspectives that guide logic as they provide a means of objectifying decisions and also link the decision to build to a wider society. The thesis highlights that conflict can exist between the decision approvers',' takers' and shapers' view of effectiveness and III efficiency. Essentially the property department, who are the decision shapers, see their role as delivering projects and so it is through their paradigms and erspectives that they attempt to justify subjective aims as objective decisions. Shapers see their primary role as driving potential-projects through the approval process to achieve budgetary sanctioning and are often in competition with other shapers from different parts of the same organisation. Decision shapers see the approval process not as a mechanism to improve decision quality, but as a series of obstacles in the way of the project's delivery. Should anything stifle the shapers drive to get a proposal through the pre-project stage, then they will make modifications and adapt their approach in an attempt to ensure that the proposal becomes a project. The unifying theme is that all the actors seek to realise 'good' decisions and that for shapers 'good' decisions result in the successful delivery of a building. The construction industry's interpretation of 'client' can now be redefined as a small group of property related professionals working in a much larger organisation which has a core business that is tangential to the decision to build. Validity is achieved by establishing agreement with subjects during data collection, by selecting experienced subjects who want to be seen as using best practice, by using cross-sectional corroboration within the case studies and literature, by using grounded theory and its inherent ability to confirm theory as it emerges out of data, by providing an audit traIl from explanation to the data, and by verifying its findings in a validating workshop.
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Sethuraman, Kavita. "A study to determine the effects of the status of women on child growth undertaken in the Mysore region of Karnataka, India." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407075.

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Hunter, Billie. "Emotion work in midwifery : an ethnographic study of the emotional work undertaken by a sample of student and qualified midwives in Wales." Thesis, Swansea University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.588081.

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Concerns have been expressed regarding low morale and problems with recruitment and retention in UK midwifery. Evidence suggests that integrated midwifery practice may exacerbate these difficulties and impact on the emotional aspects of work. This thesis explored how a range of midwives experienced emotion at work. focusing on sources of emotion and how emotions were managed. The study was conducted in three phases, with the data obtained informing and complementing each other. A multi-method ethnographic approach was utilised, using focus groups, interviews and observations. In Phase One, focus groups were conducted with student midwives on both eighteen month and three year programmes (n = 27). Themes generated were then explored further with qualified midwives in Phase Two (n = 11) and Phase Three (n = 29). Qualified midwives represented a broad range of clinical locations, length of clinical experience and occupational status. Thematic data analysis indicates that community and hospital environments present midwives with fundamentally different work settings that have diverse values and perspectives. The result is two primary occupational identities and ideologies, which are in conflict. Hospital midwifery is dominated by meeting service needs, via a universalistic and medicalised approach to care; the ideology is, by necessity, 'with institution'. Community-based midwifery is more able to provide an individualised, natural model of childbirth reflecting a 'with woman' ideology. This ideology is officially supported, professionally and academically. However, there is no clear match between ideology and context, and this impacts on occupational identity. Managing these conflicting ideologies requires emotion work. Emotion work strategies, learned during socialisation, reflected 'affectively neutral' or 'affectively aware' approaches. A theoretical framework is proposed, which identifies interrelationships between context, occupational identity, occupational ideology and emotion management. The dilemmas created by conflicting occupational ideologies need to be understood in order for low morale in midwifery to be addressed
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Mansaray, Peter Sorie. "Combating corruption in Sierra Leone a review and an assessment of strategies undertaken by past governments to curb corruption in Sierra Leone." Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2003. http://d-nb.info/99573416X/04.

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Okello, Francis Xavier. "The beginnings of evangelization in Eastern Uganda : 1895-1924 : an effort undertaken by the missionaries of St. Joseph's society, London - the Mill Hill missionaries /." Roma, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb413382901.

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Griffiths, Clark. "A description of the projects undertaken by the first Kansas City Design Center Urban Design Studio and recommendations on how to improve the student experience." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/3854.

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Byrne, Delma V. "The influence of early work experiences undertaken before leaving second level education on the socio-economic outcomes of school leavers in the Republic of Ireland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24010.

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Young people increasingly engage in work opportunities while still in second level education, and these ‘early work experiences’ can be acquired through part time job holdings or as school organised work experiences as part of a wider programme of studies. This dissertation examines the characteristics of a representative sample of second level education school leavers who participate (or not) in early work experiences in terms of gender, and an array of socio-economic family and parental background factors as well as a measure of socio-economic disadvantage in the area in which they live. The influence of early work experiences on socio-economic outcomes relating to participation in further/higher education and participation in the labour market are then examined. Two main approaches are considered: human capital and social capital. The first approach emphasises the role of early work experiences as a source of human capital that adds to the productivity of young people and which would be recognised in the labour market. The second approach emphasises the role of factors such as family background, school type attended and regional both in determining participation in and outcomes of early work experiences. Based on this theoretical framework, a number of hypotheses are tested. The dominant statistical methodologies used to analyse the data from the 2003 School Leaver Survey were formations of generalised linear models. The results indicate that both human and social capital approaches are useful for examining the influence of early work experience on later outcomes, but that selection into these types of early work experience have the greatest influence on socio-economic outcomes.
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Darke, Nicola Susan. "Afrikaner Nationalism and the Production of a White Cultural Heritage: An analysis of selected works undertaken by Dirk Visser and Gabriel Fagan from 1967-1993." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13640.

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This dissertation entitled The Afrikaner Nationalism and the Production of a White Cultural Heritage: An analysis of selected works undertaken by Dirk Visser and Gabriel Fagan from 1967-1993 examines the construct of a white settler heritage as promoted and implemented through various restorations and reconstructions of DutchNOC buildings. The primary rationale of this study is to critically assess the actions of the main protagonists in the creation of this heritage, that is, the Department of Public Works, the National Monuments Council, Anton Rupert (and his Historic Homes of South Africa), the Simon van der Stel Foundation, the Institute of South African Architects and the provincial institutes. Directly related to this issue is the assessment as to whether the isolationist nature of the South Africa contributed to the plethora of stylistic restoration and reconstructions undertaken during the apartheid era. This study comprises two sections: first, the examination of the intellectual theoretical texts of Foucault, Nora and others pertaining to power, ideology, history and memory, as well as the seminal texts of Jokilehto and Choay which discuss the stylistic and historicist conservation theories of Viollet-le-Duc; and second, the analysis of selected case studies undertaken by Fagan on behalf of the state (The Castle of Good Hope and De Tuynhuys) and Visser on behalf of Rupert and Historic Homes of South Africa (Drostdy of Graaff-Reinet).
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Tolley, Clare Louise. "An investigation of healthcare professionals' experiences of training and using electronic prescribing systems : four literature reviews and two qualitative studies undertaken in the UK hospital context." Thesis, Durham University, 2018. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12845/.

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Electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) is the process of ordering medicines electronically for a patient and has been associated with reduced medication errors and improved patient safety. However, these systems have also been associated with unintended adverse consequences. There is a lack of published research about users’ experiences of these systems in UK hospitals. The aim of this research was therefore to firstly describe the literature pertaining to the recent developments and persisting issues with ePrescribing and clinical decision support systems (CDS) (chapter 2). Two further systematic literature reviews (chapters 3 and 4) were then conducted to understand the unintended consequences of ePrescribing and clinical decision support (CDS) systems across both adult and paediatric patients. These revealed a taxonomy of factors, which have contributed to errors during use of these systems e.g., the screen layout, default settings and inappropriate drug-dosage support. The researcher then conducted a qualitative study (chapters 7-10) to explore users’ experiences of using and being trained to use ePrescribing systems. This study involved conducting semi-structured interviews and observations, which revealed key challenges facing users, including issues with using the ‘Medication List’ and how information was presented. Users experienced benefits and challenges when customising the system, including the screen display; however, the process was sometimes overly complex. Users also described the benefits and challenges associated with different forms of interruptive and passive CDS. Order sets, for instance, encouraged more efficient prescribing, yet users often found them difficult to find within the system. A lack of training resulted in users failing to use all features of the ePrescribing system and left some healthcare staff feeling underprepared for using the system in their role. A further literature review (chapter 5) was then performed to complement emerging themes relating to how users were trained to use ePrescribing systems, which were generated as part of a qualitative study. This review revealed the range of approaches used to train users and the need for further research in this area. The literature review and qualitative study-based findings led to a follow-on study (chapter 10), whereby the researcher conducted semi-structured interviews to examine how users were trained to use ePrescribing systems across four NHS Hospital Trusts. A range of approaches were used to train users; tailored training, using clinically specific scenarios or matching the user’s profession to that of the trainer were preferred over lectures and e-learning may offer an efficient way of training large numbers of staff. However, further research is needed to investigate this and whether alternative approaches such as the use of students as trainers could be useful. This programme of work revealed the importance of human factors and user involvement in the design and ongoing development of ePrescribing systems. Training also played a role in users’ experiences of using the system and hospitals should carefully consider the training approaches used. This thesis provides recommendations gathered from the literature and primary data collection that can help inform organisations, system developers and further research in this area.
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Batty, Craig. "When what you want is not what you need : an exploration of the physical and emotional journeys undertaken by a protagonist in a mainstream feature film." Thesis, Bangor University, 2009. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/when-what-you-want-is-not-what-you-need(41a2284f-a538-4085-bd65-3cd4331ff9fa).html.

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Films are not only visual, they are visceral; they allow an audience to feel the unfolding drama, and psychologically connect with the characters. Even for the screenwriter, the experience of writing a film can be deeply moving, where a range of character emotions are assimilated and then poured back into the narrative. The most important thing to remember, for both the audience and the screenwriter, is this: something can only be felt outside of the text if enough work has been done within the text. As such, this PhD explores the idea that the narrative journey undertaken by a protagonist is also one that the audience is invited to take. More specifically, a protagonist undertakes a journey that is comprised of two individual yet interwoven threads, the physical journey and the emotional journey, and it is the complete narrative experience generated by the two that invites an audience to feel. The screenplay for this PhD explores the idea of the physical and emotional journey by offering a narrative that follows one man's struggle to form a gay football team. Although he appears to be following a physical path to achieve this physical want, what becomes clear is that he is also following an emotional path to embrace his emotional need. The critical commentary for this PhD explores the fabric, form and function of a protagonist's physical and emotional journey, and the relationship that they share. Using the specific model of the Hero's Journey, the critical commentary also offers a framework that aims to define and map-out the physical and emotional journey, which can then be used as a basis for writing or deconstructing a screenplay. Like a protagonist, this PhD takes a journey; a journey to improve both a skill in and an understanding of screenwriting. It enhances creative and critical awareness of screenwriting: a creative artefact with a critical commentary; a creative artefact informed by critical reading; a critical commentary informed by creative writing.
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Lokhande, Kushal, and Maheshwaran Gopalakrishnan. "Analysis of impact of process complexity on unbalanced work in assembly process and methods to reduce it : Project undertaken in Electrolux AB Mariestad, under guidance of SWEREA IVF AB." Thesis, KTH, Industriell produktion, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-118679.

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Rowland, Janice. "The impact of a single brief intervention versus multiple contact lifestyle intervention on change in body weight and modifiable cardiovascular risk factors in adults who have undertaken cardiovascular risk screening." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2016. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/ef8c63c9-630b-4eb4-baa9-9bf2b40541f7.

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Obesity is an increasing cause of poor health in Scotland and contributes to many premature deaths. There are a range of preventable conditions for which causal links with obesity have been suggested including; type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipideamia (which is a major risk factor for ischemic heart disease), cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and certain cancers. CVD relates strongly to lifestyles, and risk factor modifications have been shown to reduce mortality and morbidity. It has become clear that the major contributors to poor cardiovascular health are related to adverse health behaviours namely excess body weight, diet, physical activity and smoking, and that risk assessment and primary prevention of CVD should remain a priority for the Public Health Agenda. Participants of the TASCFORCE study screening healthy adults over 40yrs for CVD risk were invited to participate in the HF2 randomised comparison study. All participants received the brief intervention at screening, baseline measurements of body mass index (BMI) and lipids. Participants with BMI ≥25kg/m² were eligible for HF2. Questionnaires were mailed after screening to assess general health, diet and activity. On return of the questionnaires participants were randomised to multiple-contact intervention or follow-up only. For 16-weeks the multiple-contact group received monthly information packs and telephone consultations with lifestyle counsellors to help achieve weight-loss goals. Participants were then re-assessed for changes in weight, cardiovascular risk, diet, activity and general health. The novel components in the HF2 investigation were; a cohort consisting of a middle aged population having undergone CVD risk screening, a fully powered randomised controlled trial of 16 weeks duration with the primary outcome of change in body weight and secondary outcomes to evaluate change in CVD risk factors, using the telephone as the primary mode of delivery. Per Protocol data indicated the multiple-contact group lost significantly more weight than the brief single contact group (between group difference 1.1kg, CI 0.1563 – 2.0585, p=0.023), however, when adjusted using imputed data, the ITT data showed weight loss was no longer significant (between group difference 0.9kg, CI-0.1420 – 1.9180, p=0.090). Although the HF2 intervention was not successful in achieving statistically significant weight loss, there were many positive outcomes. There were significant improvements in anthropometric modifiable risk factors shown in the intervention group notably a reduction in waist circumference, total cholesterol and low density lipoproteins. Both groups were successful in achieving weight loss and significantly improving a number of CVD risk factors, indicating that the HF2 intervention and the brief (usual care) advice were effective at initiating behaviour change. The study was shown to be acceptable with good participation satisfaction feedback for both intervention and control groups, with 94.5% in the intervention group rating the program as “worthwhile or excellent”. This study demonstrates it is feasible to use the screening setting as an opportunity to recruit participants for a lifestyle intervention.
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Kamaras, Antonis. "How does corporate internationalisation, undertaken from the economies of nation-states at the European and global periphery, ameliorate their long-standing strategic rivalries? : the case of the Greek strategic rivalry with Turkey." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2010. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2198/.

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This thesis aims to examine the impact of internationalising corporations of peripheral nationstates on their strategic rivalries. Although corporations from an increasing number of peripheral countries have internationalised their operations in the last fifteen years, the implications of this process for their interstate relations and -in particular- their relations with their strategic rivals, have yet to be systematically addressed. The thesis's hypothesis is that in the context of such corporate internationalisation for a state in the semi-periphery, the large-scale acquisition by a domestic firm of a foreign enterprise, reconfigures conceptions of economic nationalism. This is especially the case where the enterprise acquired is located in a state with which there is a longterm and significant foreign policy rivalry. The interests and strategies of key domestic socioeconomic actors are reconfigured within the new nationalism, with incentives to support and sustain such corporate internationalization. This thesis will review the scholarship on New Economic Nationalism which provides the most suitable analytical perspective to evaluate the impact of corporate internationalisation on strategic rivalries. It will also identify the corporate internationalisation process and those of its features that are particular to peripheral countries. It will also examine the challenges posed to its hypothesis by the scholarly debates which liberal institutionalism, realism and Europeanization, have generated. The thesis's hypothesis will be tested through the country case of Greece, and its strategic rivalry with Turkey. The thesis will examine the wider role of Greek corporations prior to their internationalisation in Southeastern Europe, and at the height of Greece's strategic rivalry with Turkey. It will then access the prominence that Greek corporations achieved due to their internationalisation and the conflation, by Greek policy makers and governing parties, of the corporate internationalisation process with national prestige and prowess. By scrutinising a particular FDI transaction, the acquisition of a major Turkish bank by Greece's leading bank, the thesis will evaluate whether corporate internationalisation, by redefining economic nationalism, can indeed have an significant impact on Greece's strategic rivalry with Turkey.
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Bourgeois, Roy. "La commercialisation de la mort à Moncton, 1856-1914." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0017/NQ47557.pdf.

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White, John William. "A search for the pathophysiology of the non-specific occupational overuse syndrome (RSI) : a research project undertaken in the Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Department of Surgery, University of Adelaide /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phw5853.pdf.

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Blakey, Heather. "Participation¿why bother?: The views of Black and Minority Ethnic mental health service users on participation in the NHS in Bradford. Report of a community research process undertaken by the International Centre for Participation Studies, University of Bradford and Sharing Voices (Bradford)." International Centre for Participation Studies, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3798.

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The International Centre for Participation Studies and Sharing Voices Bradford (for information on these organisations, see Appendices 3 and 4) maintain that participation is an important part of a healthy democracy, with benefits for all. However, participation can be anything from empowering to tokenistic, and must be critically examined if we are to understand how to use it effectively. This paper considers the contribution of participation to improved service delivery in the health service. For beneficiaries, participation can be about ownership and responsibility for the services we use, as well as rights and the chance to express what we want from them. For service providers, participation is widely recognised as an effective way of tailoring services to the needs of the different communities they serve. The NHS and other service providers have made great strides in developing mechanisms for participation by service users. However, these do not always reach all sections of the community. Many individuals feel sceptical about getting involved, unconvinced that their contribution could make a real difference. Through the Participation ¿ Why Bother? workshops, we set out to explore these feelings, to reflect on perceived barriers and identify changes that might help overcome them. The aim was not to look at the substance of service delivery issues, but to try and work out how the process of involving people in decision-making in the NHS could be improved, to make it easier for voices from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities to be heard.
Bradford District Care Trust; South and West PCT; City tPCT
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"Entering the new age of death care--: what else can a funeral home offer?" 1998. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5889403.

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by Cheung Chi-Wing, Julian, Lo Chi-Yun.
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-56).
ABSTRACT --- p.ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.vi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.vii
Chapter
Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1
Terminology --- p.2
Scope of the Study --- p.4
Literature Review --- p.5
Methodology --- p.6
Chapter II. --- CONSUMER ANALYSIS --- p.8
Who will be the Customers --- p.8
Death Care Goods and Services: A High Involvement Purchase --- p.9
Complex Decision Making Process --- p.10
Two Underlying Factors Affecting the Chinese in Purchasing Decision of Death Care Services --- p.12
Confucian Values --- p.12
"Superstition and""Feng Shui""" --- p.13
Four Main Types of Consumer --- p.16
Chapter III. --- ANALYSIS OF DEATH CARE INDUSTRY --- p.19
Death Care Products (Goods and Services) in Hong Kong --- p.19
Existing Players --- p.22
Current Practices of Industry Players --- p.23
Demand for Death Care Goods and Services --- p.25
Analysis of the Performance of Funeral Homes of Hong Kong --- p.26
The Perception of Death Care Providers --- p.29
Deficiency in Existing Service --- p.31
Chapter IV. --- PROPOSAL FOR INTRODUCING FREE GRIEF COUNSELING SERVICE IN FUNERAL HOMES --- p.34
Bereavement Counseling in Hong Kong --- p.34
The Jessie and Thomas Tam Centre --- p.34
The Market Potential of the Service --- p.36
Problems and Constraints of the Centre --- p.37
Reasons behind Our Proposal --- p.37
Contents of the Proposal --- p.39
Setting up a Grief Counseling Division --- p.39
Enhancing Communications with Other Bereavement Counseling Service Providers --- p.41
Promotion of the Service --- p.42
Actual Delivery of the Service --- p.42
Pros and Cons for Funeral Homes as Counseling Service Providers --- p.44
Chapter V. --- CONCLUSION --- p.48
APPENDIX --- p.50
BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.54
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Milandri, Laura Elise. "Bridging death: grief and liminality in the Johannesburg mortuary." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/23029.

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Thesis is submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of Master of Architecture (Professional) to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2017
Every society must accommodate death. For this reason, the mortuary provides a vital service in the twenty-first century city, as it caters for the effects of unexpected death on individuals and society. In Johannesburg, South Africa, the city’s main mortuary currently functions in outdated and insufficient facilities, even though this urban centre has one of the highest death rates on the continent. An exploration of the Johannesburg Mortuary’s physical context and urban history reveals that this area remains fundamental to Johannesburg City’s health infrastructure and understanding of unnatural death. In addition, a theory study explores the influential ideas surrounding the mortuary typology at large. Here, three aspects are considered: the institutional role, the emotional role, and the spiritual role of the mortuary. Although the important medical and legal needs of state are acknowledged, this paper argues that the mortuary must also cater for the emotions of mourners and mortuary employees. In addition, the mortuary must seek to address death’s spiritual significance through an architectural expression of “liminality,” a concept that represents the transitional moment of death. Equipped with an understanding of the Johannesburg Mortuary’s physical, historic and theoretical contexts, this paper pursues an architectural response. The project’s final design represents the findings of this paper’s theory investigation, as applied to the chosen study site in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. Instead of perceiving the mortuary as an institutional barrier, the mortuary is designed as a bridge; the living are linked to the dead while they are held in a state of transition.
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Nel, Elsie Petronella. "Stories of life and death: undertakers' perspectives." Diss., 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/610.

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Like death, the defining human reality underlying our relationships and views of life's meaning, the experiences and activities of undertakers, remains an uncommon subject for psychological research. Existential anxiety roots a society-wide denial of the fundamental nature of death. which necessitates the development of institutions to take responsibility for the dying and dead. As the image and service of the stigmatised funeral industry improves, society's experience of death should become more meaningful. The overview of the research into these topics noted the need for further studies. Within a holistic, ecosystemic epistemology, this study adopted a qualitative approach and case study method, which provided descriptions of the ecology, contexts, and relationships characteristic .of the undertaker's vocation by focussing on patterned expressions of views and attitudes. The aim was to gain insight into the undertaker's experience of the many faces of death, with a genuine interest and deep respect for their world.
Psychology
M.A. (Clinical Psychology)
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Abdulla, Naila. "Stakeholder Perspectives on how Tourism Development is undertaken in Waterloo Region." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7512.

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Serious academic enquiry for the tourism sector may appear inconsequential, but the business of tourism is complex and fragmented. Tourism is a multi-disciplinary phenomenon facilitating research from a number of different angles and providing many services requiring partnership between public and private collaboration towards delivering an effective tourism sector. Waterloo Regional Council declared its aspiration for Waterloo Region to be a destination of choice. However, there has been no research conducted to understand the viability of this aspiration. Thus, this research understands from a stakeholder perspective how tourism development is being undertaken in the Region. This will provide a preliminary understanding on tourism development in the context of economic, social and environmental dimensions of development. The joint use of two theoretical frameworks helped to identify and manage divergent perspectives of sixteen stakeholders who provided the primary data for this research. The data revealed three major themes through a changing lens that first considers the role of tourism as an effective vehicle of development. This meets with change due to limitations and uncertainties due to constraints that lead to conflicts between stakeholders responsible for its development. Findings reveal that stakeholders confront numerous fundamental challenges, which provide constraints and bottlenecks for tourism development in the Region. This research understands the need for leadership, strategy and effective collaboration between all stakeholders as vital for tourism development.
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侯宛璇. "A Study on the Labor Education Undertaken by Corporate Unions in Taiwan." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05651085651085065192.

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CHEN, CHWEN-YAN, and 陳淳炎. "A study for the risk factors of reverse mortgages be undertaken on financial institutions." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48724945412352817379.

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會計資訊與法律數位學習碩士在職專班
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Many social issues in Taiwan and most partly other countries worldwide are Largely derived for low birth rate and the increase in the proportion of the elderly in the population With the retirement of baby-boomers. For the elderly who own the realty but are cash poor , reverse mortgages loan , a means where they can leave the realty as a mortgage with the financial institutions instead of moving out just like equity release products allow retirees to convert their housing wealth into liquid assets while staying in their home, is an option to get cash flow that they needed every day to cover basic needs. The Modified Delphi Method expert questionnaire is used in this study discussing the importance of factors of risks in relation to reverse mortgages loan that financial institutions take charge of. Exports consider the collateral was choicest and the value of the collateral is the most important of all factors of risks, followed by the liquidity of realty by public sold, expected return of the realty to increase or decrease、morality and fraud are tied for third. According logical deduction, the graph shows how financial institutions make reverse mortgages loan work and how estimated value of collaterals is related to Maximum Claimed Amount the risks that financial institutions have to afford.Estimated value of collaterals comes from Maximum Claimed Amount and the risks that financial institutions take. The risks that financial institutions afford involve costs and profits. That estimated value of collateral times the β of risks is the risks that financial institutions afford. Reverse mortgages loan is nothing of boost in income for elderly older who own the house–rich but cash–poor.It is not a bad idea to get a leg up on the house–purchasing though mortgage when we are young. By the time we don`t have a nest egg to retire on, putting Housing Endowment might be a financial means to live a comfortable in the golden years.
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Hu, Yuwei, and 胡育瑋. "Research on Derivatives Hedge Transactions undertaken by Taiwan Electronic Enterprise during Global Financial Crisis." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22668828942292189318.

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The research was targeted at the period from January 2007 to December 2010, which was further separated into 8 periods, six months each, to aim at the time of finan-cial tsunami during second half of 2008 to second half of 2009. The focus of this re-search is to explore major financial factors which influenced derivatives hedge transac-tions undertaken by listed electronics companies in Taiwan, and the relation between major financial factors and various risks & hedge tools. Observing from studies in the past, the incentives for companies to undertake de-rivatives hedge consist of company size, risk exposure, financial cost, and expansionary investment opportunities. The main finding in this paper is that, the major risk being hedged was fluctuation of currency exchange rates, and the major hedge instrument was forward contract for Taiwanese listed companies. Moreover, this paper used independ-ent samples for t-test, Logistic regression analysis and Multinomial Logistic regression analysis, to explore the incentives & purposes undertaking derivatives hedge and hedge instruments chosen by Taiwanese listed electronic companies, which can be reference to companies for efficient derivatives hedge. The empirical results of this study by independent sample t-test results showed that hedgers have higher turnover, export ratios, debt ratios, revenue growth rates, research expenses; and lower interest coverage ratios as well as gross margins. The empirical re-sults of this study by Logistic regression analysis showed that for electronic companies during the selected period, the higher the turnover, export ratios, and debt ratios, the more possible to hedge by derivatives. This also indicated that the larger the company sizes and risk exposure, the more incentives for companies to hedge. The empirical results of this study by Multinomial Logistic regression analysis showed that company size, risk exposure and financial cost are main factors to lead hedge decisions against various risks. The higher the turnover sizes, export ratios and debt ratios, the more likely that companies may choose option and swap contracts as hedge instruments. Furthermore, the higher the turnover sizes and export ratios, the more likely that companies may choose forward (future) and other contracts for hedge.
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