Dissertations / Theses: 'Vital and personal anthropology'

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Muranicova, Zuzana. "Personal anthropology." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1399902963.

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Przybyl, Veronica Ashley. "Eating Disorder Narratives: Personal Experiences of Anorexia and Bulimia." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/anthro_theses/42.

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The following paper explores the ways in which we currently understand eating disorders, examining the current theory and literature as well as providing the stories of three women and one man with first-hand experience with eating disorders. Through the use of formal interviews, the paper focuses not only on the ways in which an eating disorder affects an individual’s life but also on the ways in which an individual’s life affects the manifestation of his or her eating disorder.

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Quinn, Colin Patrick. "Vital signs : costly signaling and personal adornment in the near eastern early neolithic." Online access for everyone, 2006. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2006/c_quinn_121106.pdf.

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Lyons, Kristina Marie. "Soil Practitioners and Vital Spaces| Agricultural Ethics and Life Processes in the Colombian Amazon." Thesis, University of California, Davis, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3596917.

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This dissertation is an ethnography of human-soil relations that examines the cultural, scientific, political-economic, and ethical stakes of alternative agricultural practices and life processes that resist military-led, growth-oriented development. Moving across laboratories, greenhouses, forests and farms, it weaves together a symmetrical analysis of two kinds of local-practitioners—soil scientists in the capital city of Bogotá and small farmers in the southwestern frontier department of Putumayo—to track how soils emerge with political importance in the construction of what I call agro-life proposals for peace in the Colombian Amazon. Theoretically, it interrogates concepts of "sustainability" emerging among scientists and farmers, suggesting they imply a complex reframing of liberal notions of property, health, wellbeing, labor and autonomy. These observations reimagine the interface between political economy and ecology and science and technology studies that can account for new ecological notions of territoriality linked to practices of economic 'degrowth', and the alternative agricultural life-worlds I encountered in southwestern Colombia.

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Atkins, John L. "Personal anthropological observations." Virtual Press, 1987. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/724963.

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The creative project dealt with the artist creating a vocabulary of images derived from past and present cultures in order to create a series of highly personalized anthropological narratives. The artist intended the narrative drawings to invoke archaic moods rather than summon literal responses.The accomplishments of this creative project were further development of the artist's personal imagist style, success in relating personal anthropological observations through narratives, and progress in media experimentation. By creating more contrast between forms, by varying value against value and deep space against shallow space, the artist was able to achieve superior compositional studies.
Department of Art

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Farago, Anna. "The making and placing of a personal view : Questions of place." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2019. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/169886.

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The Making and Placing of a Personal View: Questions of Place uses various making methods to explore both the artist’s and others personal connection to place. The research investigates the intersection of memory, identity, and place. Memory is what informs personal history and collective futures. Identity, for the artist is as daughter, sister, mother, wife, friend, crafter, artist, woman and now widow. For others involved in the research, it is as Indigenous Elders, rangers and locals connected to specific sites. Place as which grounds and locates memories and landscapes that preoccupy the creative works. Memory and identity is explored materially through making, connecting art to place using craft’s historical connection with domestic and natural environments. Using the postmodern feminist geography of Doreen Massey, place is a site of flow and routes, rather than origins and roots. The relation between art and Massey’s notion of place is investigated as sympathetic to craft as a feminine epistemology. The creative work created comprises of four large textile patchworks, a series of small embroideries, and a pair of gouache paintings. The making of three large patchwork banner works were informed by conversational interviews conducted with Indigenous and non-Indigenous rangers. The banner works were installed for the duration of a weekend in Darebin Parklands in Alphington, Victoria in 2016 and at Pigeon House Mountain Didthul, Morton National Park, NSW in 2017. Performative and documentation photographs and videos were created in response to these installations. In addition a hand-stitched patchwork was slowly constructed over a year of grief and then used as a cloak and protective cloth in directed performative photos shot in the garden and on the roof of the artist’s home.
Masters by Research

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Zwolinski, Mary. "Displays of Culture: Personal Museums in Wisconsin." TopSCHOLAR®, 1988. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2958.

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Fieldwork was undertaken in the state of Wisconsin to document and interpret privately owned and displayed collections. Collections were comprised of various types of objects, most commonly artworks created and/or collected by the collection owners. These collections often take on an environmental scope, occupying private spheres such as collection owners' homes or outbuildings. An examination of environmental type collections that are housed in bars was also undertaken. Collections of this specific type are culturally and locally significant. The objects in the collections and the collection owners address and provide important information on such local or regional subjects as history, local storytelling practices, and local aesthetics. These collections also serve as natural repositories for the objects of various folkgroups relevant to the region. In this thesis that region is defined as the state of Wisconsin, and those folkgroups examined include occupational, recreational, and ethnic communities. Personal museums are one way that members of these communities preserve, display, interpret, and reaffirm their personal involvements in those groups. Collectors preserve and display tangible evidence of the significance of these communities and their affiliations with those groups. In this thesis I advocate a closer examination of personal museums by teachers, anthropologists, folklorists, and others interested in artifacts of culture.

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Donald, Colin. "Reflective space : A personal journey towards a re-envisioning of the Australian landscape." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2008. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/69161.

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Whilst the notion of the ‘Reflective Space’ could arguably encompass many conceptual positions and propositions, for the purposes of this research investigation the ‘Reflective Space’ referred to in the title of this exegesis will focus upon what I consider as an emerging and growing consciousness of the natural world. As a theoretical and conceptual construct, the investigation considers how this growing consciousness can be seen to be expressed through the medium of representations of the Australian landscape. This work considers a number of contemporary theoretical positions and a number of relevant social and political questions; it also acknowledges that within such spheres of reflection, the issue of being sustainable in relation to our interactions and perceptions of this natural world looms as perhaps one of the most pressing of our time. While it will be acknowledged that the depiction of landscape enjoys a long-standing tradition within the Australian cultural mind, the suggestion will be made that certain aspects of these visualisations can be seen to be ‘reflective’ of a visual, cultural and physical degradation, and indeed even an apprehension of the physical ‘space’ that is represented as landscape. The investigation considers and reflects upon what can be observed as contentious and ambivalent attitudes expressed towards landscape perceived through works of art. Strategies for adopting a perceptual visual ethic grounded within the concepts and principles of sustainability will be presented for consideration. By applying such modes of interpretation to perceptions of land and landscape depiction, new appreciations for the cultural ‘space’ that is landscape will be developed. Such understandings will consider and reflect upon the temporal nature of our natural world. The thesis is this: that to be able to think and act in a sustainable fashion in relation to our environment, our perceptions and interpretations of visualisations of landscape must include a recognition that the land is a ‘temporal’ space, in which past and possible futures are immanent in the present.
PhD (Visual Arts)

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Crebbin, Wendy. "Between the public and personal voices : discourses and meanings of quality teaching in higher." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 1999. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/164961.

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Fontana, Erica Lynn. "Virtual worlds, real subjectivities media anthropology at the personal/public interface /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p1463872.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed June 16, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-66).

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Brown, Julia. "Making Health Agency: Clozapine, Schizophrenia, and Personal Power." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148757.

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This thesis demonstrates how experiences of agency and health persist in spite of confining social and biological circumstances. I take the case of clozapine-treated schizophrenia, where patients are presented with both renewed hope for an independent life at the same time as undertaking an intensive physiological monitoring regimen that prioritises their life in the most immediate sense only. Clozapine patients face a high risk of chronic multi-morbidities that significantly lower their life expectancy, and they are not quite ‘cured’ of their mental disturbances pertaining to chronic schizophrenia. I demonstrate, though, how patients are able to experience a sense of what I term health agency, where we might otherwise imagine their well-being to be significantly compromised. Health agency is a feeling of control over one’s well-being, where well-being is defined in one’s own terms. It was remarkable to find it in the clinical contexts in which I was working, where very narrowly constituted definitions of health were ostensibly endorsed and imposed. But in the thick of life in the clozapine clinic, patients and institution did not occupy strict polar positions. My fine grained ethnographic work revealed how patients worked creatively with the clinical circuitries, biomedical imaginaries and temporal underpinnings of clozapine treatment to personalise their experiences and to exert subtle, personal power over their health and future prospects. My fieldwork was based in the UK and Australia over an 18-month period (2015-2016) between two clozapine clinics. Research participants included 43 people diagnosed with schizophrenia (termed patients, hereafter) and 16 clinical staff at the clozapine clinics (termed clinical caregivers, hereafter). I conducted participant observation and 130 interviews. Drawing on my ethnographic data, this thesis explicates how health agency was available to patients in four central ways. First, health agency was part of a hopeful, personal persistence for holistic health in spite of the ‘physical,’ ‘mental,’ and ‘social’ aspects of health appearing irreconcilable in terms of clinical definitions. Second, patients were able to creatively manipulate and complement the goals of clozapine clinic blood monitoring to actively participate in the aspect of their treatment that is otherwise the furthest from patient control. Third, patients drew on the ambiguities of clozapine and other ‘health’ consumptions or behaviours to negotiate how clozapine impacted their minds and bodies. Fourth, patients utilised the temporalities of clozapine and clinical suspending of non-biological concerns to abundantly “live in the present” and harness focused energies that kept their futures open, while ephemerally suspending clinical symptoms and clozapine side effects. I suggest that patients’ self and social labour, and their quiet everyday efficacies in making their own health, problematise some previous anthropological and clinical conceptions about living with chronic schizophrenia under biomedical treatment models. I make the case for further ethnographic consideration for quiet expressions of agency within highly structured conditions.

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Gregory, Raeleene. "Too close for comfort? : personal and professional role boundaries in rural health and welfare practice." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2006. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/33661.

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"'Too close for comfort?' explores the challenges of working and living in Australian rural communities for a group of health and welfare professionals. Personal and professional role overlap is a key concern particularly as it has implications for ethical practice. This project [...] used a qualitative grounded theory approach to develop a theory about the adoption and management of professional role boundaries within ethical service delivery. "
Doctor of Philosophy

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Donald, Colin University of Ballarat. "Reflective space: A personal journey towards a re-envisioning of the Australian landscape." University of Ballarat, 2008. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/12731.

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Whilst the notion of the ‘Reflective Space’ could arguably encompass many conceptual positions and propositions, for the purposes of this research investigation the ‘Reflective Space’ referred to in the title of this exegesis will focus upon what I consider as an emerging and growing consciousness of the natural world. As a theoretical and conceptual construct, the investigation considers how this growing consciousness can be seen to be expressed through the medium of representations of the Australian landscape. This work considers a number of contemporary theoretical positions and a number of relevant social and political questions; it also acknowledges that within such spheres of reflection, the issue of being sustainable in relation to our interactions and perceptions of this natural world looms as perhaps one of the most pressing of our time. While it will be acknowledged that the depiction of landscape enjoys a long-standing tradition within the Australian cultural mind, the suggestion will be made that certain aspects of these visualisations can be seen to be ‘reflective’ of a visual, cultural and physical degradation, and indeed even an apprehension of the physical ‘space’ that is represented as landscape. The investigation considers and reflects upon what can be observed as contentious and ambivalent attitudes expressed towards landscape perceived through works of art. Strategies for adopting a perceptual visual ethic grounded within the concepts and principles of sustainability will be presented for consideration. By applying such modes of interpretation to perceptions of land and landscape depiction, new appreciations for the cultural ‘space’ that is landscape will be developed. Such understandings will consider and reflect upon the temporal nature of our natural world. The thesis is this: that to be able to think and act in a sustainable fashion in relation to our environment, our perceptions and interpretations of visualisations of landscape must include a recognition that the land is a ‘temporal’ space, in which past and possible futures are immanent in the present.
PhD (Visual Arts)

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Donald, Colin. "Reflective space: A personal journey towards a re-envisioning of the Australian landscape." University of Ballarat, 2008. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/14623.

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Whilst the notion of the ‘Reflective Space’ could arguably encompass many conceptual positions and propositions, for the purposes of this research investigation the ‘Reflective Space’ referred to in the title of this exegesis will focus upon what I consider as an emerging and growing consciousness of the natural world. As a theoretical and conceptual construct, the investigation considers how this growing consciousness can be seen to be expressed through the medium of representations of the Australian landscape. This work considers a number of contemporary theoretical positions and a number of relevant social and political questions; it also acknowledges that within such spheres of reflection, the issue of being sustainable in relation to our interactions and perceptions of this natural world looms as perhaps one of the most pressing of our time. While it will be acknowledged that the depiction of landscape enjoys a long-standing tradition within the Australian cultural mind, the suggestion will be made that certain aspects of these visualisations can be seen to be ‘reflective’ of a visual, cultural and physical degradation, and indeed even an apprehension of the physical ‘space’ that is represented as landscape. The investigation considers and reflects upon what can be observed as contentious and ambivalent attitudes expressed towards landscape perceived through works of art. Strategies for adopting a perceptual visual ethic grounded within the concepts and principles of sustainability will be presented for consideration. By applying such modes of interpretation to perceptions of land and landscape depiction, new appreciations for the cultural ‘space’ that is landscape will be developed. Such understandings will consider and reflect upon the temporal nature of our natural world. The thesis is this: that to be able to think and act in a sustainable fashion in relation to our environment, our perceptions and interpretations of visualisations of landscape must include a recognition that the land is a ‘temporal’ space, in which past and possible futures are immanent in the present.
PhD (Visual Arts)

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Ureta, i. Buxeda Xavier. "Vers la identitat del pedagog: una construcció vital i professional." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/132283.

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La pedagogia ha quedat com desplaçada de les escoles. Si bé des del segle XVIII s’ han reconegut les aportacions fetes per grans pensadors i personalitats acreditades com a pedagogs, els posseïdors d'un títol en pedagogia no han acabat de tenir cabuda a les institucions educatives, ni tan sols a partir d’un reconeixement específic oficial. En aquest treball, després de fer una anàlisi inicial sobre aquestes qüestions, a partir de la mirada fenomenològica hermenèutica del relat de la seva història de vida, l’autor tracta de fonamentar la necessitat de la incorporació a les institucions educatives de la figura del pedagog professional. En el seu relat, la part central de la tesi descriu la seva experiència professional de gairebé quaranta anys a diverses escoles i institucions, dels quals trenta ha ocupat diversos càrrecs de responsabilitat. Al llarg de la narració d’aquesta experiència s’hi troben situacions i vivències personals que, a partir de la seva lectura, poden evocar en el lector espais de reflexió pedagògica sobre temes relacionats en quatre àmbits: el de les persones, el de les institucions, l’escolar, i el cívico-polític. A mode de conclusions, se suggereixen pistes de reflexió pedagògica i línies d’acció conduents a la definició i els requisits que ha de reunir un pedagog professional expert.

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Shultz, Sarah T. "Nightmares in the Kitchen: Personal Experience Narratives About Cooking and Food." TopSCHOLAR®, 2017. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1956.

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This thesis explores personal experience narratives about making mistakes in the preparation and serving of food. In order to understand when these narratives, referred to in the text as “kitchen nightmares,” are told, to whom, in what form, and why, one-onone and group ethnographic interviews were conducted. In total, 13 interviews were conducted with 25 individuals (men and women) ranging in age from 19 to 70. Six major themes of kitchen nightmare narratives are identified in Chapter One. Chapter Two explores one of these themes, resistance, in the context of the kitchen nightmare stories of heterosexual married women. Chapter Three illustrates how individuals use kitchen nightmare stories to perform aspects of their identity for one another in group interviews, as well as how group members collaborate to tell these stories and negotiate what matters most about them during their telling.

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Kopp, Christian. "Structural analysis of Online Romance Scams by applying the transtheoretical model in conjunction with the theory of personal love stories." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2016. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/158439.

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The internet has become an important communications platform which people choose for personal interactions. One of the most popular manifestations is the creation and maintenance of social relationships using social and dating websites. Unscrupulous operators have identified its potential for reaching vulnerable people and have started using it as platform for their criminal activity in the form of so-called Online Romance Scams. Quickly, this cybercrime has become very successful and thus an increasing threat in the social networking environment. The Online Romance Scam causes considerable financial and emotional damage to the victims. In this research we introduce a theory which helps to explain the success of this scam. In a similar way to the “The Nigerian Letter”, we propose that the scam techniques appeal to strong emotions, which are clearly involved in Romantic relationships. We also assume that the same success factors of normal relationships contribute to the success of the Romance Scam. Previous research into normal relationships has identified personal “love stories” as an important factor for the development of relationships. We have suggested that these personal love stories will have a key role in fraudulent relationships. The aim of this research is to explore Online Romance Scams as a type of ‘virtual love’ which initially creates happiness for the victim in a virtual romantic relationship, but tragically then causes the victim to be separated from his or her savings. Using narrative research methodology, this research will establish a model of the Romance Scam structure and its variations regarding human romantic attitudes. During the research program, the analysis of publicly available data from the internet were used, and as a consequence of this, appropriate ethical usage of research data is discussed. Findings of this research will contribute to the knowledge of the Online Romance Scam as significant crime, and provide information about the structure and the development of the modus operandi which can be used to identify an online relationship as a scam at an early phase in order to prevent significant harm to the victim.
Doctor of Philosophy

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Gregory, Raeleene. "Too close for comfort? : personal and professional role boundaries in rural health and welfare practice." University of Ballarat, 2006. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/14614.

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"'Too close for comfort?' explores the challenges of working and living in Australian rural communities for a group of health and welfare professionals. Personal and professional role overlap is a key concern particularly as it has implications for ethical practice. This project [...] used a qualitative grounded theory approach to develop a theory about the adoption and management of professional role boundaries within ethical service delivery. "
Doctor of Philosophy

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Lee, Y. D. (Young-Dong). "Wireless vital signs monitoring system for ubiquitous healthcare with practical tests and reliability analysis." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2010. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514263880.

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Abstract The main objective of this thesis project is to implement a wireless vital signs monitoring system for measuring the ECG of a patient in the home environment. The research focuses on two specific research objectives: 1) the development of a distributed healthcare system for vital signs monitoring using wireless sensor network devices and 2) a practical test and performance evaluation for the reliability for such low-rate wireless technology in ubiquitous health monitoring applications. The first section of the thesis describes the design and implementation of a ubiquitous healthcare system constructed from tiny components for the home healthcare of elderly persons. The system comprises a smart shirt with ECG electrodes and acceleration sensors, a wireless sensor network node, a base station and a server computer for the continuous monitoring of ECG signals. ECG data is a commonly used vital sign in clinical and trauma care. The ECG data is displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) by transferring it to a PDA or a terminal PC. The smart shirt is a wearable T-shirt designed to collect ECG and acceleration signals from the human body in the course of daily life. In the second section, a performance evaluation of the reliability of IEEE 802.15.4 low-rate wireless ubiquitous health monitoring is presented. Three scenarios of performance studies are applied through practical tests: 1) the effects of the distance between sensor nodes and base-station, 2) the deployment of the number of sensor nodes in a network and 3) data transmission using different time intervals. These factors were measured to analyse the reliability of the developed technology in low-rate wireless ubiquitous health monitoring applications. The results showed how the relationship between the bit-error-rate (BER) and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) was affected when varying the distance between sensor node and base-station, through the deployment of the number of sensor nodes in a network and through data transmission using different time intervals.

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Spencer, Beth. "The Body as Fiction / Fiction as a Way of Thinking: On Writing A Short (Personal) History of the Bra and its Contents." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2006. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/62487.

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This thesis uses fiction as a research technology for investigating and thinking about issues to do with bodies and knowledge at the cusp of the 20th and 21st centuries. It includes sample material from a novel in progress -- A Short (Personal) History of the Bra and its Contents -- to illustrate some of the unique outcomes of this approach to exploring cultural history and writing cultural criticism. One of the advantages of fiction is that it allows me to create a discursive field in which it is possible for the very wide range of issues raised by my topic to coexist, work off each other and cross-fertilise. These include ideas regarding gender, sexuality, nurture and subjectivity; issues to do with the implants controversy, the cancer industry and the corporatisation of medicine (and hence various current debates within science and medicine); as well as movements in fashion history and popular culture -- all of which contribute to making up the datasphere in which and through which we continually reproduce ourselves as subjects. [...]
Doctor of Philosophy

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lopez, Kimber. "Natural Medicine: Personal Responsibility and Self-Empowerment." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2009. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/113.

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Although most “alternative” medical practices have existed far longer than conventional healthcare, modern allopathic continues to be the dominant system of medicine used in the United States. Herbal medicine is one of the oldest healing practices known to humankind and continues to be practiced today despite the numerous challenges modern society poses. As Julie Stone and Joan Mathews illuminate in Complimentary Medicine and the Law, “Plant-based remedies have been the principal source of medicines in healing traditions around the world and, as the World health Organization is at pains to remind us, 80 percent of the world’s population still depends primarily on plant medicine." Another statistic cited by Larry Dossey in Reinventing Medicine illustrates, “…researchers have found that adverse reactions to drugs kill over 100,000 people a year in US hospitals. That is the equivalent of a passenger jet crashing everyday. If this level of death were seen in any other field, it would probably be considered a national scandal." These facts reveal that American citizens have come to believe in a form of healthcare that is not widely accepted by the rest of the world, and that has some surprisingly dangerous characteristics hidden within. The question thus arises as to why biomedicine continues to be the standard form of healthcare in the US, and why alternative forms of medicine are devalued and failed to be justifiably recognized and incorporated into treatment strategies.

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Chambers, Stephen. "An investigation into the professional competencies required by Australian HRM practitioners." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2006. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/32132.

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"The role of human resource management (HRM), or simply human resource (HR), practitioners has changed dramatically, especially in the last 10 years. As a result of this change in role, as detailed in the literature review, HRM practitioners require appropriate competencies to maintain effectiveness and enhance the value of their contribution to their organisation..." --p. 1.
Master of Business

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Wilhelm, Laura Michele. ""It's not a Collective; It's a Personal Experience that Happens to be Shared"| How Philosophical Systems of Individualism are sustained through Masonic Collaboration." Thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10161329.

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This dissertation examines the experience of Freemasonry, as practiced in the United States, Colombia, and through Masonic literature, from an anthropological perspective. The Freemasons are a fraternal society with a global presence. In this work, the experience of Freemasonry, as both an individual/personal journey and a shared/collective activity is discussed. The work utilizes a number of methods and theoretical bases, including, but not limited to, a reliance on both primary and secondary textual sources which enhance both an understanding of Freemasonry from Masonic perspectives as well as presents anthropological and interdisciplinary context and analyses. Theoretical discussions include, but are not limited to, a reconsideration of what constitutes a field site, how scholarship on secrecy can enhance the study of a society which generally does not consider itself a true secret society, and how texts can act both as reference and as a set of participants. The core inquiries of this project discuss how philosophical systems of individualism can be sustained through specific forms of collaboration, and how the simultaneity of the shared and the individual experience of Masonry constitutes a culture in its own right. Contributing to work done within the anthropology of Freemasonry, along with a range and combination of disciplinary and interdisciplinary orientations, such as an “activity-based approach”, and including elements of variation and consensus, this project provides a dialogue on themes of belonging, individualism, knowledge production, access, “activity”, and experience.

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Spencer, Beth University of Ballarat. "The Body as Fiction / Fiction as a Way of Thinking: On Writing A Short (Personal) History of the Bra and its Contents." University of Ballarat, 2006. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/12813.

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This thesis uses fiction as a research technology for investigating and thinking about issues to do with bodies and knowledge at the cusp of the 20th and 21st centuries. It includes sample material from a novel in progress -- A Short (Personal) History of the Bra and its Contents -- to illustrate some of the unique outcomes of this approach to exploring cultural history and writing cultural criticism. One of the advantages of fiction is that it allows me to create a discursive field in which it is possible for the very wide range of issues raised by my topic to coexist, work off each other and cross-fertilise. These include ideas regarding gender, sexuality, nurture and subjectivity; issues to do with the implants controversy, the cancer industry and the corporatisation of medicine (and hence various current debates within science and medicine); as well as movements in fashion history and popular culture -- all of which contribute to making up the datasphere in which and through which we continually reproduce ourselves as subjects. [...]
Doctor of Philosophy

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Spencer, Beth. "The Body as Fiction / Fiction as a Way of Thinking: On Writing A Short (Personal) History of the Bra and its Contents." University of Ballarat, 2006. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/15469.

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This thesis uses fiction as a research technology for investigating and thinking about issues to do with bodies and knowledge at the cusp of the 20th and 21st centuries. It includes sample material from a novel in progress -- A Short (Personal) History of the Bra and its Contents -- to illustrate some of the unique outcomes of this approach to exploring cultural history and writing cultural criticism. One of the advantages of fiction is that it allows me to create a discursive field in which it is possible for the very wide range of issues raised by my topic to coexist, work off each other and cross-fertilise. These include ideas regarding gender, sexuality, nurture and subjectivity; issues to do with the implants controversy, the cancer industry and the corporatisation of medicine (and hence various current debates within science and medicine); as well as movements in fashion history and popular culture -- all of which contribute to making up the datasphere in which and through which we continually reproduce ourselves as subjects. [...]
Doctor of Philosophy

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Jena, Farai. "The empirical analysis of the determinants of migration and remittances in Kenya and the impact on household expenditure patterns." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/54016/.

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This thesis conducts empirical analysis on the determinants of migration and remittance sending decisions in Kenya and the impact on the expenditure patterns of households using cross-sectional household survey data. The first empirical chapter explores the factors that influence the subsequent migration decisions of Kenyan siblings using binary logit models. The findings reveal that preceding sibling migrants have a strong negative effect on the probability of migration for other siblings. Evidence in support of migration as a joint household level decision is obtained as preceding sibling and non-sibling migrants are found to exhibit similar effects. Conditional on migrating, siblings are shown to utilize existing sibling networks by moving to the same internal or external destination as preceding migrants. Discrete failure time models are also employed so as to account for any neglected heterogeneity at the household level. Controlling for neglected heterogeneity, the overall effect of preceding sibling migrants is found to be statistically insignificant. However, non-sibling migrants are found to decrease the probability of migrating. The second empirical chapter examines the remittance behaviour of multiple compared to sole sibling migrants, and the motivations of Kenyan siblings in sending remittances to their household of origin. No evidence of selection bias in the decision to remit is detected when a Heckman selection model is estimated. Using probit and OLS models, the presence of other siblings is found to decrease the probability of remitting but to have no effect on the amount of remittances sent. The amount of remittances sent by other siblings is also found to have no statistically significant effect on the remittances sent by a sibling using IV regression methods. In the third empirical chapter, the expenditure patterns of Kenyan households are investigated according to whether the household is a migrant or non-migrant household, and whether a migrant household is in receipt of remittances or not using an Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) approach. The analysis reveals that remitters who are spouses and siblings of the household have higher bargaining power towards the allocation of remittances to physical investments and durable goods, respectively. The expenditure patterns also show that remittances are not pooled together with general income when allocating the household budget towards durable goods and physical investments. In addition, the findings reveal that the reported uses of remittances by Kenyan households contrast with their actual uses. In the fourth chapter, the uses of remittances for the acquisition of physical investments and durable goods are analysed in more detail using IV and bivariate probit models. Remittances are found to be exogenous for the durable goods category but endogenous for physical investments. The evidence obtained is supportive of remittances being used by households to purchase these categories of commodities.

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Chambers, Stephen University of Ballarat. "An investigation into the professional competencies required by Australian HRM practitioners." University of Ballarat, 2006. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/12765.

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"The role of human resource management (HRM), or simply human resource (HR), practitioners has changed dramatically, especially in the last 10 years. As a result of this change in role, as detailed in the literature review, HRM practitioners require appropriate competencies to maintain effectiveness and enhance the value of their contribution to their organisation..." --p. 1.
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Chambers, Stephen. "An investigation into the professional competencies required by Australian HRM practitioners." University of Ballarat, 2006. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/14600.

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"The role of human resource management (HRM), or simply human resource (HR), practitioners has changed dramatically, especially in the last 10 years. As a result of this change in role, as detailed in the literature review, HRM practitioners require appropriate competencies to maintain effectiveness and enhance the value of their contribution to their organisation..." --p. 1.
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Feather, Andrew. "The Emergence of Hip Hop in West Virginia| One Man's Reflection on Personal Music Taste vs. Regional Identity." Thesis, Dartmouth College, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10145502.

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In my thesis I set out to investigate and understand my personal relationship with hip-hop music and the part it played in my development. In addition to my personal story, I sought to understand the status of hip-hop in a rural state like West Virginia. I utilized a memoir style of writing that relied heavily on self- reflection. I then fact checked my memories by incorporating hard data which allowed me to gain a greater understanding of how media spreads, and is consumed in West Virginia. I could then compare this data to the media consumption of the United States. These statistics showed that West Virginia is cut off from much of the media that is enjoyed by the majority of the country. The reasons were more varied and complex that I imagined, and ultimately my thesis changed course as I learned about my home state. In conclusion, my personal experience with hip hop was not typical of most adolescents in West Virginia. The trend in West Virginia is to maintain the status quo and reject new ideas. Most likely this will continue to be the trend as college educated youth continue to leave for more forward thinking surroundings. Media is simply a microcosm of the greater lack of any change in the social or political climate of the state.

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Hester, ElizaBeth. "Vadie Williams, Folk Artist: Drawnwork as a Reflection of Personal Identity in Rural Kentucky." TopSCHOLAR®, 1989. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2491.

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This study focuses on Vadie Conner Williams, an individual folk artist, and the drawnwork she has created throughout her lifetime. Included is a description of her rural farm background, her needlework skills and her creative process. The study also examines the significance of drawnwork to Williams and determines how she has adapted her work to satisfy her personal needs as well as the needs of her customers. Based on tape recorded interviews and a close examination of her work, the study concludes that drawnwork is an integral part of Williams's everyday life; it is an indicator of her beliefs and a source of identity within her community.

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Wahlgren, Liselotte. "Arbete på en flexibel arbetsmarknad : En studie om fastanställd personal som arbetar tillsammans med inhyrd personal." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96916.

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In recent years, the labor market has become increasingly flexible, and companies need to relate to an increasingly globalized market to survive and thrive. To meet the needs of this new environment, more and more companies are relying on temporary workers, mainly with the help of staffing agencies. Consequently, they can handle work stoppages as well as secure the employment of permanent staff when the workload decreases. When temporary staff arrive at a workplace, two different groups meet, the temporary worker and the permanent staff. There are some differences between the two groups mainly that the permanent workers have easier access to resources, higher level of job security as well as more opportunities for further training. The meeting between these two groups give rise to a range of different reactions, both at the individual and group level. The purpose of the current study is to investigate how permanent staff is affected by working together with temporary workers. The study is conducted using semi-structured interviews. In order to analyze the material, the following theoretical frameworks have been used: To illustrate how the individual is affected, Nilsson's (2009) theories about social identity, and the individual and the group are used. This is supplemented by Kazemi et al. (2009) theory of group and change. By using Lindqvist et al. (2014) theory of organizational culture and change, it is also possible to scrutinize what is happening at the organizational level and how it affects the individual and the group. The results of the current study show that the staff is indeed affected by working together with temporary workers.The biggest effect is in the field of employee turnover. The turnover is often a result of the organization attempting to meet the needs of the flexible market, which creates periods with more workload due to higher demand. The employee turnover have an effect on the wellbeing of the permanent staff.

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Österberg, Maria. "Hur HVB personal upplever sitt arbete : "Kontrollera ditt engagemang"." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-55211.

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Mukhopadhyay, Maitrayee. "#Brother, there are only two Jatis - men and women' : construction of gender identity; women, the state and personal laws in India." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260834.

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Faull, Andrew Gordon. "Personal identity and the police occupation in South Africa." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bc950730-26ff-4eea-af09-b54f980b398c.

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This thesis explores the question, 'Who do South African police officers think they are and how does this shape police practice?' Based on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork in Cape Town and the Eastern Cape province of South Africa in 2012/13, it is an exploration of the deep-seated perceptions, stories and imaginings that South African Police Service (SAPS) officers have of themselves, their occupation and their country, in the early twenty-first century. It unpacks how officers’ individual narratives shape, and are shaped by organisational narratives and forces, and how this interplay influences police practice in an unequal and violent young democracy. The thesis suggests that a job in the SAPS is primarily just that, a job. It is a means to strive and survive in a country saturated in vulnerability and risk. Most officers join the organisation after other dreams have slipped out of reach. Once recruited they re-write their self-narratives to accommodate their new circumstances. Recruited from lineages long-oppressed, the meaning and income the job brings to their lives is usually more important to them than the work they carry out. As a result, they seek first to please their institutional overseers and ease the pressure of the job. This is achieved by enacting institutional performances that promote the idea that the SAPS is a rational, effective, evidence-based and rule-bound organisation made of up well trained officers performing common-sense crime prevention tasks, while hiding the darker side of police work. Using carefully choreographed performances, the SAPS and its officers present a strategically crafted façade behind which individual officers strive to secure their sense of self. When the façade is challenged, some resort to violence in an attempt to garner the respect they seek.

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Fleming, Lauren M. "Faux Amis? Intercultural and Interpersonal Relations Between Americans and the French." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1240870038.

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Evangelou, Alexandros. "Demographic and socio-economic characteristics of immigrant population in Greece (1991-2011) : Comparisons from census data and vital statistics." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-171457.

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Immigrant flows in Greece after 1990 transformed Greece from a country of outwards migration to an inwards migration state. The contribution of immigrants in a globalized world of migration with sub-replacement fertility levels found in developed countries is a particularly interesting topic in demographic studies. The primary aim of this thesis is to discuss the changes of the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of immigrant population in Greece focusing on Albanian and Bulgarian immigrants. In order to answer these research questions, data from the last three national population census of 1991, 2001 and 2011 as well as vital statistics for European and non-European immigrants’ fertility in Greece have been used. The analysis is based on descriptive statistics for the differential age structure of Greek population and immigrant groups. Reasons for immigration to Greece, educational attainment of immigrants, rates of unemployment and employment status of immigrant population have been used to approach the research questions. The results indicated a younger age structure of Albanian and Bulgarian immigrant population. Meanwhile, immigrant population appears to have higher unemployment rates compared to native Greek population. Finally, a substantial decline of general fertility rates for non-European immigrant women in Greece compared to native Greek women has been observed within the years of the economic recession.

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Edgington, Thomas J. "An evaluation of the motivational constructs of the human heart and a defense of the concept of the "personal circle" /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Mohler, Sarah Lynn. "The Bones of the Horse: A Personal and Cultural History." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1587401648900525.

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Wisemore, Jack. "God, humanity, and the form of the personal : the philosophical contribution of John Macmurray, with particular reference to issues in contemporary theology." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13236.

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Recent trends in theology have created an environment where the thought of John Macmurray, a twentieth-century Scottish thinker and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, is increasingly relevant. In particular the reemergence of a robust trinitarianism has raised issues surrounding relational concepts of person and the nature of the relationship between human and divine persons. Macmurray's philosophy is cited as a contemporary example of persons in relation which parallels certain Cappadocian and Athanasian notions of the Trinity. The relationship between Macmurray's anthropology and his theology, however, is largely unexplored, due in part to confusion over the exact nature of his doctrine of God as well as the lack of a thorough exposition of his thought as a whole. Because of the highly integrated nature of Macmurray's work one cannot properly understand the philosophical, anthropological, or theological dimensions in isolation from each other. Therefore this thesis considers these three dimensions of Macmurray's thought, providing a systematization and clarification of his philosophy, anthropology, and theology. Through the interaction between the philosophical, anthropological, and theological aspects of Macmurray's thought the ontological and epistemological relationship between God and humanity surfaces. Ontologically Macmurray clearly differentiates between God and humanity. Yet epistemologically there is a necessary relation because all human knowing and reflection is conditioned and limited by human reality. Since Macmurray believes humans experience God, he believes all human knowledge of God must be expressed within the terms of human reality. This does not necessarily lead to anthropomorphism as long as one realizes one is speaking in a limited and theoretical fashion about God who is at least personal. Macmurray's thought is then used to critically engage the theology of Moltmann, Gunton, Torrance, Cunningham, and Lampe particularly with respect to their understandings of the divine-human relationship.

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Nsengiyumva, Ladislas. "Supporting a Human Rights Agenda: A Three-Pillar Virtue-Based Personal and Social Anthropology of Public Health Policy for Sub-Saharan Africa." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107471.

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Thesis advisor: James F. Keenan
Thesis advisor: Andrea Vicini
Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the worst health care systems in the world. Besides, underdeveloped economies paired with political instability do not offer much hope for improvement. In fact, despite many efforts by local, international organizations and governments to help in this field, the majority of the populations in this region do not have access to basic health care. With this in mind, the aim of this research project is to develop a personal and social anthropology of the human rights language read through the lens of the common good in order to contribute to creating and developing sustainable healthcare systems. While agreeing that many efforts have been made using different frameworks in the sphere of public health ethics in the past two decades and aware of the possibility that other underlying causes may have contributed to the failure of health systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, we will choose to address the human rights language as the main interlocutor for future contribution. This choice is motivated by the influence of human rights on public health policies that affect the lives of people in general
Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2016
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
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Fidler, Rachel L. "Holocaust Memorialization: Perceptions of the Workplace, Translation of Memory, and Personal Experiences of Museum Staff and Volunteers." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/492.

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The development of Holocaust museums in the United States has created employment opportunities in Holocaust education. Paid staff and volunteers at Holocaust museums represent a distinct niche of professionals in these fields. This thesis explored personal perspectives and backgrounds of staff and volunteers, motivations for pursuing Holocaust education careers, translation of Holocaust information to visitors and student groups, and the role staff in different departments play alongside museum content. Employees and volunteers at two Holocaust museums participated in semi-structured interviews and open-ended survey questionnaires. The results from subsequently coded interviews and survey responses indicate that personal connections, through family, academic study, or other job positions, feelings of fulfillment at work, and passion for active translation and participation within the surrounding community were demonstrated by most employees and volunteers, especially those with high visitor interaction and engagement. Furthermore, perceptions of Holocaust museums as spaces of heaviness and solemnity, framed by the deaths of millions, were accepted but generally not related to the personal experience of Holocaust museum staff; thought Holocaust museums were created out of an event of mass death and destruction, the museums are spaces of life. Staff and volunteers at my research sites expressed feeling very fulfilled and inspired by the work they do as Holocaust educators.

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Godfrey, Wood Rachel. "An ethnographic study of the relationship between the Renta Dignidad and wellbeing in the Bolivian Altiplano." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/65088/.

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The objective of this thesis is to study the impacts of Bolivia's non-contributory pension, the Renta Dignidad, on the wellbeing of older peasants and their families. Literature on social protection has had a tendency to propose social protection policies as contributing to a broad range of objectives, and non-contributory pensions are no exception. Studies have found them to contribute not only to ‘obvious' needs such as increased consumption and income security but also to investments in productivity, social relationships, health, increased access to credit and savings, while it has become common to claim that they contribute to intangible goals such as dignity and citizenship. Moreover, because they do not impose conditionalities on recipients and are often relatively broader in their coverage than other social protection policies, social pensions have generally avoided critiques that have been aimed at conditional cash transfers and public works programmes. The danger of this literature is that it assumes that wellbeing is heavily responsive to monetary wealth, rather than other areas. To study this, an ethnographic methodology, based on participant observation and semi-structured interviews was employed in two rural communities located in the La Paz department in the highland Altiplano region of Bolivia close to Lake Titicaca. My analysis shows that older persons' wellbeing depends heavily on a combination of elements, going beyond material wellbeing into areas such as their relationships with their spouses, children, grandchildren, and the other people in the rural communities in which they live, their ability to contribute their labour and maintain their daily (agricultural) work, to participate in collective social political and religious activities, and to maintain good health. For example, older people work hard for as late in life as possible largely because it is meaningful for them to work the land and produce food. This means that health problems, which are often exacerbated by hard work, are particularly damaging to wellbeing because they inhibit older persons' ability to do this. Meanwhile, ideas and values about how older people should live are continually being negotiated and contested between older people and with their younger family members, often leading to disputes. These are not driven solely by material interests, but concern the ways in which people should live and seek cultural, social and spiritual fulfilment. This is not due to a particular conception of wellbeing held by these people because they are indigenous, as might be inferred through the romantic lens of the vivir bien concept, but because human wellbeing more generally needs to be understood in relational terms, rather than exclusively in terms of peoples' capacity to satisfy their basic needs. While the Renta Dignidad increases older persons' ability to consume, maintain livelihood security, and in some case to participate in exchanges of food and gifts with other family members, it does not respond significantly to these other areas of wellbeing, contributing little to healthcare for example. The policy implications of this are that a more integral approach needs to be adopted to older persons' wellbeing, going beyond cash transfers to greater efforts to bring healthcare services to older people in remote rural areas.

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Lindström, Isak, and Johan Arvas. "Risken med kontroll : En studie av enskilda och offentliga utförares användning av belastningsregistretet vid rekrytering av personal inom äldreomsorgen." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-351937.

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I denna studie undersöks användningen av belastningsregister vid anställning av ny personal inom äldreomsorgen i Uppsala och Stockholms län. Fokus för undersökningen ligger i att jämföra användandet av belastningsregister mellan enskilda och offentliga utförare. Den teoretiska utgångspunkten för undersökningen handlar om risk och riskbedömning. Syftet med undersökningen är att ta reda på om en arbetsgivares användning av belastningsregistret påverkas av vilken regiform verksamheten drivs i, vilket i sin tur säger något om en utförares riskbedömning. Studien bygger på egeninsamlade enkätsvar från enhets och verksamhetschefer inom hemtjänst och äldreboenden. Resultatet visade att enskilda utförare av äldreomsorg i högre utsträckning begär utdrag från belastningsregistret vid anställning av ny personal och att det främst beror på att de enskilda utförarna har en policy om registerkontroll. Det betyder att en utförares regiform påverkar bedömningen av vilken risk en person med anteckning i belastningsregistret utgör för verksamheten.

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Ryan, Bernadene J. "Life Change Narratives: When The Road Diverges." DigitalCommons@USU, 2013. http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1505.

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Transformation events can be a change in a person's work, a change in philosophy, a sudden insight, or a break in a relationship. According to David Hufford and Marilyn Motz, narrating these experiences are ways in which people perform, construct, and communicate belief systems. The narrators within the context of this thesis experience their transformation through a career transformation. The narrators rediscover their initial passion and transform that desire into actions that results in a shift of career. Sometimes seen as inexplicable, nevertheless the narrators provide analysis and reflection on the influences that led to their change. Some of the actions or thoughts that the narrators incorporate in their stories demonstrate not only the progression of events but also the alterations narrators experience in their worldviews. The context in which these changes occur is essential to interpreting and understanding the experience. Narrative components are filtered through an interpretive process that includes personal meaning, contrast with social norms and cultural beliefs and the impact on the receiver to enable narrators to justify their experience. It is the reflection on these experiences through which people gain insight and establish relevance to events that seem sometimes beyond their control. Stories from pop culture to ordinary citizens who change their lives daily demonstrate the pervasiveness of the transformational effect of states of crisis through which people journey. People's lives are turned upside-down through these experiences which place the narrator out of their normal element. There are two levels to these story types: external and internal transformation. At a superficial level there is the journey to change careers but at another level there is a relationship to opening up cultural expectations or acting generatively, as role-models. Narrators are effecting change through their positive attitudes and acceptance of the trials they encounter during their transitions. Narrators discuss specific actions that create transformative life changes or philosophical shifts. My investigation studies how individuals are involved in transitional events in which they experience a disengagement from a previous life, spending some time in liminal space where they transition or regenerate into a new place in society. Part of my approach to this subject matter used theories introduced by Victor Turner (pilgrimages) and by Arnold Van Gennep (rites of passage). Regina Holloman proposes that rites of passage can occur not just as physical/material transformation but can occur psychically as well. Some of the narrative patterns that narrators use to construct these tales are identified within the context of folk belief and folklore scholarship.

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Windle, Amanda. "Territorial violence and design, 1950-2010 : a human-computer study of personal space and chatbot interaction." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2011. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/2785/.

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Personal space is a human’s imaginary system of precaution and an important concept for exploring territoriality, but between humans and technology because machinic agencies transfer, relocate, enact and reenact territorially. Literatures of territoriality, violence and affect are uniquely brought together, with chatbots as the research object to argue that their ongoing development as artificial agents, and the ambiguity of violence they can engender, have broader ramifications for a socio-technical research programme. These literatures help to understand the interrelation of virtual and actual spatiality relevant to research involving chatrooms and internet forums, automated systems and processes, as well as human and machine agencies; because all of these spaces, methods and agencies involve the personal sphere. The thesis is an ethical tale of cruel techno-science that is performed through conceptualisations from the creative arts, constituting a PhD by practice. This thesis chronicles four chatbots, taking into account interventions made in fine art, design, fiction and film that are omitted from a history of agent technology. The thesis re-interprets Edward Hall’s work on proxemics, personal space and territoriality, using techniques of the bricoleur and rudiments (an undeveloped and speculative method of practice), to understand chatbot techniques such as the pick-up, their entrapment logics, their repetitions of hateful speech, their nonsense talk (including how they disorientate spatial metaphors), as well as how developers switch on and off their learning functionality. Semi-structured interviews and online forum postings with chatbot developers were used to expand and reflect on the rudimentary method. To urge that this project is timely is itself a statement of anxiety. Chatbots can manipulate, exceed, and exhaust a human understanding of both space and time. Violence between humans and machines in online and offline spaces is explored as an interweaving of agency and spatiality. A series of rudiments were used to probe empirical experiments such as the Prisoner’s Dilemma (Tucker, 1950). The spatial metaphors of confinement as a parable of entrapment, are revealed within that logic and that of chatbots. The ‘Obedience to Authority’ experiments (Milgram, 1961) were used to reflect on the roles played by machines which are then reflected into a discussion of chatbots and the experiments done in and around them. The agency of the experimenter was revealed in the machine as evidenced with chatbots which has ethical ramifications. The argument of personal space is widened to include the ways machinic territoriality and its violence impacts on our ways of living together both in the private spheres of our computers and homes, as well as in state-regulated conditions (Directive-3, 2003). The misanthropic aspects of chatbot design are reflected through the methodology of designing out of fear. I argue that personal spaces create misanthropic design imperatives, methods and ways of living. Furthermore, the technological agencies of personal spaces have a confining impact on the transient spaces of the non-places in a wider discussion of the lift, chatroom and car. The violent origins of the chatbot are linked to various imaginings of impending disaster through visualisations, supported by case studies in fiction to look at the resonance of how anxiety transformed into terror when considering the affects of violence.

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Leger, Travis. "A Spectre in Polished Obsidian." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/126.

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The author joins the Peace Corps in the hopes that he will discover who he really is yet he only finds frustration. Upon returning to the States he has a daughter and finds peace. Within this peace, as he types up the life history of a friend, he finally makes a breakthrough, yet the answer he finds is not to his liking.

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CASTOLDI, ELISA. "ANALYSIS OF MARKERS OF DISEASE AND HEALTH STATUS ON HUMAN SKELETONS." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/547155.

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One of the main aims of the forensic anthropological practice regards the proper identification of human remains. Years of studies and research provided many instruments for the reconstruction of the so-called “biological profile” (e.g. age at death, sex, stature, race); nevertheless, and despite the numerous information that it can provide, the pathological investigation of skeletons still displays many uncertainties. The identification of pathological signs from bones can in fact narrow the field of research in case of the recovery of unknown human remains, and can provide valuable data for the definition of a possible cause of death. However, the difficulties encountered when analyzing skeletal remains, due to taphonomic and environmental variables, non-specificity of the bone reaction and the monotony of bone tissue manifestation to stimuli, make pathological identification of diseases one of the most difficult fields of forensic anthropology. The aim of this research project is that of trying to narrow and clarify some aspects of skeletal pathology and forensic anthropology, by analyzing skeletons from three cemeteries of Milan, which are part of the Milano Cemetery Skeletal Collection. The main feature of this collection regards the availability, for many of its individuals, of ISTAT death certificates that make the observers aware of the main cause of death and related pathological conditions of such subjects. After collecting this information the attention then focused on the macroscopic investigation of specific pathologies, those that were more widespread in the available sample, to include: cancer metastases, diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) related to drug abuse. The skeletons of this research were selected and cleaned in a proper way; subsequently, the specific pathologic investigation was carried on after an accurate literature search, aimed at finding the most characteristic features that permit the correct identification of the pathology from bones. The analyses performed allowed the demonstration of the difficulties encountered in unequivocally describe and identify such diseases, despite the previous studies conducted, mainly due to the aspecific and often altered structures acquired by the stimulated areas on bones. The modifications caused by taphonomy, together with the subjectivity of the responses and the paucity of available reference data made the investigation quite difficult. However, the available causes of death permitted a baseline to better understand the observations in identifying and describing pathologic-related skeletal lesions, and to set the basis for a more detailed and comprehensive macroscopic pathologic investigation. Such macroscopic investigation, however, has it limits, as it can not go over a certain level of certainty; for this reason, additional investigation methods (such as x-rays, biochemistry, histology and so on) or additional antemortem data are necessary for increasing the amount of information we can gain from the examination of bare skeleton.

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Hammarström, Amalia, and Sebastian Meglic. "Krigsplacering av skol- och barnomsorgspersonal. Var skulle barnen annars ta vägen? : En kvalitativ studie av hur personal inom skola och förskola föreställer sig sin yrkesutövning i en situation av höjd beredskap." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för samhällsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-33792.

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De, Wet Annari. "Identifying personal and environmental assets to enrich pre-school learning within a culture of poverty : an ethnographic study." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03152005-133610.

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Walter, Kaitlin Elizabeth. "A Bird With Two Homes." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1291154551.

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