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Singh, Sati. "Speech acts and world-world relationship : a phenomenological perspective." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1260.
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Wiebe, Linda Marie. "Connection in the therapeutic relationship, sharing a subjective world." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ63578.pdf.
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Maruyama, Takao. "The EU-Japan relationship in the World Trade Organisation." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1400.
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At the time when Japan was experiencing robust economic growth and Europe was accelerating its integration, a number of researchers noticed the importance of investing in their bilateral economic relationship, which was formerly obscured by their respective „special‟ relationships with the United States. When their trade frictions came to the surface, their trade relationship began to attract more attention. In the meantime, world trade entered a new phase with the creation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 1995. As the successor of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the WTO became a new arena for member countries to make trade agreements and solve trade frictions with their trade partners. In this thesis, we will investigate the relationship between the EU and Japan in the WTO. The thesis will look closely at social forces and investigate how various social forces have influenced the position of the EU and Japan, as well as the WTO. On top of that, we will also analyse how the function of the WTO has influenced the EU and Japan, and their relationship in the multilateral trading system. Trade conflicts have often been seen as trade tensions between national states. In fact, the WTO deals only with member countries (with the exception of the EU). However, trade tensions may well break out not between national states but between individual sectors, such as agriculture and steel, which sectoral interests then turn to their national states for support. This indicates that even trade friction is not simply antagonism between national states, but between national and transnational fractions of classes. States have been utilised by transnationally oriented dominant groups which intend to integrate their countries into emergent global capitalist structures. This thesis therefore raises questions about liberal trade theory concerning its serious gap between theory and actual practices, and suggests an alternative approach to structural issues of the state-centric approach to world politics. While we consult neo-liberal institutionalist theory to investigate the role of the WTO and its influence upon the EU-Japan relationship, we will analyse the interaction of various social forces within the EU and Japan from a neo-Gramscian perspective. In this way, we will try to direct attention to relations between social interests in the struggle for consensual leadership rather than concentrating solely on state dominance. Focusing on the role of international organisations and social forces, the aim of this thesis is to investigate how the EU and Japan have developed „coordinated action‟ and „joint negotiating stances‟ on particular trade issues, notably on agriculture and steel trade. Furthermore, as our central research iii questions, this thesis investigates what has been the overall effect of the WTO on the development of the EU-Japan trade relationship, as well as how the WTO has provided an impetus to promote certain patterns in EU-Japan relations. Through this thesis, I aim to contribute to the understanding of the roles of social forces in the interaction in international organisations.
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Kim, Jung Woong. "Third World mission-church relationship : a Korean-Thai model /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.
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Sin, Kam Fan. "Banker and customer : incidents of their relationship in a changing financial world /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1989. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38906831.
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Sin, Kam Fan, and 單錦帆. "Banker and customer: incidents of their relationship in a changing financial world." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38906831.
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Issaravit, Piyanan. "Guided entity relationship modelling within a simulation of a real world context." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2006. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/362/.
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This thesis examines the contribution of a guided discovery learning approach within a simulated real world context to learning. In order to consider the potential of this approach, a database design task is chosen (Storey & Goldstein, 1993) which requires the learner to capture the semantics of the domain application in a real world situation and then translate this into a data model for the database management system. This approach to learning has advantages since simulating a real world system in a classroom can be a very difficult and time-consuming activity. The aims of the thesis is, therefore, to investigate the possibility of simulating real world situation for gathering database requirements and a teaching strategy that is suitable for this real world situation context. In order to reach the research goal, two main research questions need to be answered. Firstly, to what extent can a simulation of a real world situation improve the quality of learning in the database design area? Secondly, the extent to which a guided discovery teaching strategy can enhance the learning of database design within such a (simulated) real world context? A framework for simulating the real world situation and guided discovery strategies had been designed in order to implement four versions of a prototype systems called GERM for evaluation in order to answer the research questions. The main results obtained from a small group of learners and lecturers indicates that the potential of guided discovery learning within a real world context can improve the quality of learning in database design - in particular entity relationship modelling. Amongst other advantages, it can help students to change their basic misconceptions. Furthermore, it also can improve students' skills in a real world situation. The promising results suggest further lines of research.
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Castles, Duncan Lorimer. "Post-conflict behaviour and relationship quality of cercopithecine primates." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15099.
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This thesis investigates the nature of post-conflict behaviour and relationships among individuals in two captive groups of pigtail macaques, Macaca nemestrina, and one wild troop of olive baboons, Papio anubis. Data were collected during periods of seven and twelve months respectively. In both pigtail groups, conflicts were more frequently reconciled between opponents with strong affiliative ties. However, reconciliation was twice as common in the well-established group where individuals' social networks were more compact. It is argued that the more intense ties produced by restricted networks increased the likelihood of reconciliation. Reconciliation was demonstrated among wild olive baboons, occurring at a rate consistent with a relatively intolerant dominance style. Opponents who were close kin or of similar rank reconciled relatively frequently, but reconciliation rarely followed conflicts associated with food. Olive baboons did not 'console' each other, consistent with the hypothesis that consolation requires an ability to empathise with victim distress. Initiation of post-conflict attacks on third parties was not elevated in victims of aggression. Among the baboons, both victims and initiators of aggression exhibited elevated rates of post-conflict self-directed behaviour (a combined measure of scratching, autogrooming, body-shaking and yawning). Reconciliation reduced both SDB and the incidence of further aggression. However, reconciliation only reduced SDB among individuals involved in conflicts in which they had both received and delivered aggression. Female baboons showed significantly higher rates of SDB when their nearest neighbour (within 5 m) was a dominant conspecific than when he or she was a subordinate individual, supporting the hypothesis that SDB indexes stress in primates. This result suggests that SDB can be used to index relationship security in primates.
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Gustavsson, Ann-Sofie, Nasir Arij Suleman, and Sarvinoz Ishonova. "Towards a world of influencers: Exploring the relationship building dimensions of Influencer Marketing." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-39701.
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Background The emergence of the Internet, and in particular social network sites, has led to the appearance of new powerful actors, i.e. Social Media Influencers, with the power to persuade their audience. This introduced a middleman in the company-consumer relationship and a new stakeholder to build relationships with. Small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) marketing activities differ from traditional practices. SMEs need to be more creative when engaging in Influencer Marketing given their resource constraints. The presence of a relationship can help SMEs to increase and improve their brand image, support the launch of new products and most essentially avoid large investments of Influencer Marketing. Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the methods Swedish SMEs use in their relationship building activities with influencers, as well as the underlying dimensions related to those methods. Method An inductive research approach is utilized, with the aim to extend the current knowledge available about relationship building with influencers. The use of a qualitative approach with semi-structured interviews allowed the exploration of how SMEs build relationships with influencers from a management perspective. Conclusion This thesis indicates that Swedish SMEs’ relationship building activities are influenced by certain underlying dimensions. These are adherence to brand values, timeline of the collaboration, nature of the product, paid and earned forms of collaborations and the types of relationships SMEs establish: formal and informal. The means used by SMEs when building relationship with influencers were identified as communication, events, feedback and gifts. Further, resource constraints did not appear to influence how SMEs build relationships with influencers but instead the type and number of influencers they work with.
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Vettori, Stella. "Alternative means to regulate the employment relationship in the changing world of work." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11082005-142503/.
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Thesis, LLD--University of Pretoria, 2005."Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Laws (LLD) in the Department of Mercantile Law, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria." Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Atchison, Thomas. "The relationship between a Christian world view and a Christian view of work." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
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Bin, An. "The twentieth centuary woodblock print in China and it's relationship to world practice." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516461.
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Park, Dong-Sik. "The God-World Relationship Between Joseph Bracken, Philip Clayton, and the Open Theism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/43.
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This dissertation investigates the God-world relationship between Joseph Bracken as a process theologian, Philip Clayton as a panentheist, and the open theism. They have affinities and differences as conversational partners in their multilayered relations. Their common question must be as follows: “What does it mean to believe in God today?” In this dissertation I compare their respectively theological perspectives and explore their affinities and differences. Many scholars have already noted more affinities than untenable differences among Bracken’s theology, Clayton’s panentheism, and the open theism. On the one hand, even though theological perspectives of Bracken and Clayton are obviously different from each other, they are both influenced in specific ways by Whitehead. On the other hand, open theism is a movement that emphasizes “the openness of God,” from within evangelical theism. The fact that there is even within classical theism the pursuit of new models of God such as revised classical theism or modified classical theism might suggest the need for contemporary models of God in philosophical theology.
This dissertation will thus explore philosophical theologies that are proper both to the biblical faith and intellectual earnestness, that is, 居敬窮理 (geo (to live) kyeong (piety) kung (to acknowledge) li (reason)) in Eastern philosophy, which means distinctions but not separation between piety and intelligence, and that stand between classical theism and “orthodox” process theism. If there is no consistency among biblical, rational and existential descriptions of God, how can we establish philosophical theologies? Our theological task is to frame a new constructive theology whose primary aspect must synthesize both classical theism and process theology in the hermeneutical circle. For example, this new theism admits an infinitely qualitative difference between God and the world, as well as a really radical relation between God and the world. Aspects and domains do not encroach upon each other.
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Inman, Anne Elizabeth. "Evidence and transcendence : contrasting accounts of the God-World relationship in modern theologies." Thesis, Heythrop College (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397665.
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Berry, Roger W. (Roger William). "An Investigation of the Relationship Between World-Class Quality System Components and Performance." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277953/.
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Within the past two decades U.S. companies have experienced increased competition from foreign companies. In an effort to combat this competition many U.S. companies focused on quality as a solution to the problem. Researchers agree this emphasis on quality systems has changed the way many managers conduct business. Yet, no studies have identified which components of world-class quality systems, if any, contribute most to changes in performance.
The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate three research questions pertaining to world-class quality systems: (1) What are the components of world-class quality systems? (2) Does a relationship exist between world-class quality system components and improved organizational performance? (3) Which world-class quality system components contribute most to changes in performance? The theoretical foundation for investigating these relationships is developed from Galbraith's (1977) information processing model of organization design.
An extensive literature review resulted in the identification of seven components common to world-class quality systems: management involvement, customer involvement, employee involvement, supplier involvement, product/service design, process management, and continuous improvement. The literature suggests implementation of these components leads to changes in performance in such areas as productivity, throughput time, and quality output.
A cross-sectional field study was used to gather data to answer the research questions. In this study, each component of world-class quality systems is measured as an independent variable. Change in productivity, throughput time, and quality output are measured as dependent variables. Factor analyses, correlation analyses, and hierarchical regression analyses are used to test the relationships. The target population was ISO 9000 certified companies located in the United States.
The results indicated that management's involvement and employees' involvement are positively correlated with change in performance. The results also show that a positive relationship exits between the use of world-class quality system components and change in performance.
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Vettori, Maria-Stella. "Alternative means to regulate the employment relationship in the changing world of work." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29308.
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Advancing technology has caused rapid and dramatic changes in the world of work. Labour law systems grounded in the industrial era, with their emphasis on collective bargaining, are not suitable in today’s world of work. Throughout the world, the ‘atypical employee’ is replacing the standard or typical employee whose terms and conditions of employment were generally regulated by collective agreements. Atypical employee’s terms and conditions of employment generally are not regulated by collective agreements. World– wide trends in the decentralisation of collective bargaining, decollectivisation and individualisation of the employment relationship have contributed to a decline in trade union power and influence. Consequently the number of workers covered by collective agreements has decreased. Collective bargaining has been rendered less effective because of the changing the world of work. The South African labour law system places a huge emphasis on collective bargaining, particularly at industry level, for the protection of employee interests. Given these trends in the changing world of work, the appropriateness of this emphasis on industry or central level collective bargaining is questioned. The vacuum left by the inadequacy and inability of trade unions to protect employee interests in a comprehensive manner by means of collective bargaining, needs to be addressed. The following alternative means of protecting employee interests are considered: (i) The socialisation of the law of contract; (ii) the interpretation given to the constitutional right to fair labour practices; and (iii) the role of good corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. These alternative means of addressing legitimate employee interests could play a role in filling the vacuum created by trade union decline. The South African law of contract is capable of bridging the gap between law and justice by the application of the concepts of good faith and public policy, so that employment contracts may take cognisance of employee interests despite the imbalance of power between employer and employee. The protection of worker interests by means of the constitutional right to fair labour practices depends on the judge’s interpretation of what is fair. Implementation of good corporate governance codes can be influential in protecting and promoting employee interests.Thesis (LLD (Mercantile Law))--University of Pretoria, 2006.
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McClain, Lauren. "Explaining the Relationship Between the World Trade Organization and Women's Rights, 1981-2010." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/17913.
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There is general agreement that the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization (GATT/WTO) has increased the volume and the ease of flow of international trade and, by way of comparison, sparked considerable debate regarding the effects of membership in the GATT/WTO on women's rights. Normatively, this is an important question. How does the increasing and pervasive reality of openness and increasing trade affect the lives and opportunities of women? Using three original theories and the results of four fixed-effects models, I find that membership in this institution has no significant effect on women's rights. My conclusion is that membership and the subsequent effects on international trade result in very mixed outcomes for women.
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Hall, Robert Anthony. "The relationship between Aborigines, Islanders and armed forces in the Second World War." Phd thesis, University of New South Wales, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/267261.
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Smith, Matthew Stuart. "The relationship between Australians and the overseas graves of the First World War." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/38655/1/Matthew_Smith_Thesis.pdf.
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The purpose of this thesis is to outline the relationship that existed in the past and exists in the present, between Australians and the War Graves and Memorials to the Missing. commemorations of Australians who died during the First World War. Their final resting places are scattered all over the world and provide a tangible record of the sacrifice of men and women in the war, and represent the final result by Official Agencies such as the Imperial, and later, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and its agency representative, the Office of Australian War Graves, of an attempt to appropriately commemorate them. The study follows the path of history from the event of death of an individual in the First World War, through their burial; temporary grave or memorial commemoration; the permanent commemoration; the family and public reaction to the deaths; how the Official Agencies of related Commonwealth Governments dealt with the dead; and finally, how the Australian dead are represented on the battlefields of the world in the 21st century. Australia.s war dead of the First World War are scattered around the globe in more than 40 countries and are represented in war cemeteries and civil cemeteries; and listed on large „Memorials to the Missing., which commemorate the individuals devoid of a known graves or final resting place.
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Oliveri, Gianmaria <1994>. "Changes in the professional world and the relationship between urban and peripheral areas." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18357.
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Il lavoro svolto punta ad analizzare come l'evoluzione del lavoro negli ultimi 100 anni, dall'avvento del Fordismo in poi, abbiamo modificato le relazioni tra aree urbane e periferiche, quali aree si siano avvantaggiate di tali modifiche e quali no. Inoltre si analizza come sia possibile rilanciare le aree economicamente depresse, inserendole come soggetti attivi nel sistema economico moderno, considerando anche lo shock causato dal fattore esogeno del virus Covid-19, e quali potrebbero essere le evoluzioni a cui aree urbane e periferiche saranno sottoposte nel futuro prossimo.
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Southwick, Robert C. "'Machines in the art of war' : the Anglo-American industrial relationship 1914-1917." Thesis, Keele University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287973.
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Davis, Kayla. "On Experiencing Illness in the Western Biomedical World: A Push for more Comprehensive Healthcare in America." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/460.
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The purpose of this thesis is to identify common themes presented in several illness narratives with specific attention paid to the relationship between patients and their physicians and patients and their families. Only illness narratives written in America and Western Europe were used for this thesis so the topic could be narrowed to the experience within the western biomedical field. While most research on illness narratives focuses on defining illness and illustrating the importance of introspective work, this thesis identifies patterns in a way that can shape the future treatment of chronically ill patients. This thesis also allows me to creatively explore a personal illness narrative, reinforcing these themes and contributing to the discussion of what physicians and families can do to make the illness experience more bearable for the patient.
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Brelage, Christian S. "Web information system development : conceptual modelling of navigation for satisfying information needs /." Berlin : Logos-Verl, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=014831687&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Sonego, Daniel. "Marianne and Columbia in Arms: The Franco-American Relationship During the First World War." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32873.
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The First World War was the United States’ first significant foray into European conflict and their first war as part of a major international coalition. The inadequacy of the US Army for the conflict forced them to rely on extensive support from its allies to successfully prosecute the war. For most members of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF), the ally with which they most closely associated with was France who provided substantial amounts of equipment, training, and guidance. Most work on bilateral Franco-American relations during the period focus on high level diplomatic and military relations between the leaders of both nations and casts the state of relations as being antagonistic. This paper examines the more mundane experiences of AEF members with French soldiers and civilians and how those experiences shaped American views of themselves and their allies. By examining the American relationship with the French on and off the battlefield, it provides a view of the alliance outside of the staterooms and war rooms and re-examines previous characterisations of the relationship. The first chapter examines American relations with French civilians in port towns, in billets, and on leave through the opinions and behaviour of members of the AEF. The second and third chapter focus on the relationship with the French military not only through American opinions about the military competence of their ally but also examines the development of an American military identity apart from and in opposition to the French. American experience in the war allowed Americans not only to form stronger relationships than generally acknowledged with the French but also allowed them to develop a stronger sense of their own identity as a people and a country.
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Probst, Florian [Verfasser], and Hans Ulrich [Akademischer Betreuer] Buhl. "Customer Relationship Management in a Digitally Connected World / Florian Probst. Betreuer: Hans Ulrich Buhl." Augsburg : Universität Augsburg, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1077705255/34.
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Ashby, Linda. "The Biocentric Landscape Architect: Designing the Public Landscape, Benefiting the Natural World." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31745.
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Owing to the authorâ s interest in and concern for earthâ s processes, healthy ecosystems, and environmental decline and devastation, this thesis examines the human â nature relationship, as it relates to landscape architecture, through spiritual, mathematical, geometrical, historical, economical, ecological, philosophical and ethical perspectives. Sustainable design and eco-revelatory design methods are also explored in order to aid in the development of a personal design ethic that defines and produces ecologically responsible works of landscape architecture. The goal is to establish a personal framework for design that results in built landscapes that are ecologically more benign, holistically more functional, and culturally more significant than standard practices.
Research methodologies include literature review, case study analysis, project site analysis, and personal interviews. Findings suggest that despite a longstanding and growing call for a more harmonious relationship between nature and anthropogenic changes on the land, the green movement remains a loosely defined alternative undercurrent. The field of landscape architecture is uniquely poised to be a leader in the sustainable revolution; this is especially true when its practitioners, researchers and theorists are dedicated to ideals and activities that bring about true ecological value. For the individual designer, the experience of developing and committing to a personal design ethic can be empowering, and can produce work that has more mettle, veracity and purpose than the designer has previously known.
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Green, Julie Kaye. "The worldly church : the relationship between church and culture as perichoretic necessity with particular reference to the theology of Colin Gunton." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=225934.
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The aim of this research is to propose a relationship between church and culture based on the Trinitarian concept of perichoresis, particularly as found in the theology of Colin Gunton. Chapter 1 offers a survey of the historical understandings of perichoresis, from its initial use in Christology, to Trinitarian ontology to the renewed interest in the doctrine of the Trinity (and perichoresis) in the twentieth century, which, in some cases, includes applying the concept to issues of human relating. From this survey, five characteristics of the concept of perichoresis are identified: mutual constitution, particularity, coinherence, dynamism, and perfection. Chapter 2 offers an overview of the relationship between church and culture, giving consideration to various definitions of culture. It makes a clear distinction between the concepts of creation, culture, and world, and goes on to consider some historical relationships between church and culture. Chapter 3 looks at three historical methods of ecclesiological enquiry: the marks of the church, being one, holy, catholic, and apostolic, found in the early creeds; models of the church, which offer a means of categorising the church; and practices, a method that has arisen as a reaction against models-based ecclesiologies. Chapter 4 takes the characteristics of perichoresis, established at the beginning of the thesis, and considers them in terms of the way in which these might apply to the relationship between church and culture, before proposing four features of a church in perichoretic relationship with culture, suggesting that church and culture engage in mutual communication, that the church relinquishes its desire for central power and instead seeks an interpenetrative relationship between the centre and periphery, that the church is constituted by the other, and, finally, that the church is the community for creation.
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Hodges, Elizabeth Violet. "An exploration of sight, and its relationship with reality, in literature from both world wars." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:de3c749e-b7b2-49bc-a25e-4c3f28eea47d.
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Writers from both world wars, concerned with the representation of war, wrestled with the predicament of partial sight. Their work reveals the problematic dichotomy that exists between the individual’s selective range of vision and the immense scale of conflict. Central to this authorial dilemma is the question of the visual frame: how do you contain – within the written word – sight that resists containment and expression? The scale of the two world wars accentuated the representative problem of warfare. This thesis, by examining a wide range of World War One and World War Two literature, explores the varied literary responses to the topical relationship between sight and reality in wartime. It examines the war poetry of Wilfred Owen, Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy Parade’s End, The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day, and Virginia Woolf’s novels Mrs Dalloway and Between the Acts alongside less well-known works such as David Jones’s prose-poem In Parenthesis, the two short stories ‘The Soldier Looks for His Family’ by John Prebble and ‘The Blind Man’ by D.H. Lawrence, as well as William Sansom’s collection of short stories Fireman Flower, and Louis Simpson’s war poetry. This thesis, by focussing on the inherent difficulties of reconciling perception and representation in war, interrogates the boundaries of sight and the limits of representation. The changing place of sight in writing from the two world wars is examined and the extent to which discourses of vision were shaped and developed, in the early decades of the twentieth century, by war experience is explored. The critical containment and categorisation of sight that often dominates readings of sight in texts from both world wars is questioned suggesting the need for a more flexible understanding of, and approach towards, sight.
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Stuart, Jill. "Exploring the relationship between outer space and world politics : English School and regime theory perspectives." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2008. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2979/.
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This thesis uses regime theory and the English School of International Relations (and particularly the social constructivist reformulation by Buzan in From International to World Society: English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalisation 2004) to address the question: Why have actors decided to cooperate on outer space issues, and what does that cooperation tell us about wider international politics and international society. Rational actors have at times determined that it is in their interest to coordinate activity for outer space. This coordination has led (either intentionally or unintentionally) to the creation of international regimes, and those regimes have conversely come to exert influence over actors' interests and behavior over time. Processes within international society (such as the rise, evolution, and decline of international society institutions, and shifts between pluralism and solidarism) also influence - and are influenced by - outer space politics. The thesis focuses on five case studies: geosynchronous orbit, the International Space Station, Global Navigational Satellite Systems, the company Sea Launch, and comets and asteroids. Pre-existing outer space treaties ("diffuse regimes") have established basic understandings between states about governance over outer space, and implicit or explicit regimes have also evolved to facilitate coordination amongst actors on the specific issue-areas of each case study. The tools used by regime theorists help explain the development of these various regimes and the relationship between them; however, because of regime theory's relatively narrow focus (on actors' rational interests in specific issue-areas) it provides few insights into how outer space politics are embedded in wider world politics and international society. An English School approach expands the analysis and puts into perspective how the Space Race was mutually constitutive of Cold War pluralist international society, and how space cooperation and commercialization over time also reflected and reinforced globalization and cooperative international society. However it is extremely difficult to operationalize the English School in order to draw more specific explanatory conclusions about individual case studies. It is necessary to use both approaches together to develop a thorough explanation of actors' behavior with regards to outer space politics, as well as an understanding of how outer space politics relate to wider world politics.
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Landau, Virginia Ilene 1943. "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DOMINANCE AND THE USE OF SPACE IN NEW WORLD MONKEYS (SAIMIRI SCIUREUS)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/275501.
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Barbis, Andrea M. "Sexism, Just-World Beliefs, and Defensive Attribution: Relationship to Online Discourse and Child Sexual Abuse." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5974.
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Research has shown that individuals' willingness to believe a disclosure of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is related to just-world beliefs, ambivalent sexism, and defensive attribution. However, researchers do not know whether these variables relate to posts made in response to online articles describing CSA. Negative or disbelieving posts may impact not only the author, but also readers who view these comments via hindrance of disclosures, increased self-blame, and avoidance of help seeking. In this quantitative study, just-world, ambivalent sexism, and defensive attribution theories provided the theoretical basis used to determine whether just-world beliefs, ambivalent sexism, and defensive attribution influenced comments made in response to an online article about CSA disclosure. Eight-hundred twenty participants read the article where the author discloses she was sexually abused as a child. Response comments were coded negative, neutral, or positive. Participants also completed demographic questions, the Global Belief in a Just World Scale, the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, and questions regarding their similarity to the offender and victim. Multinomial logistic regression analysis showed relationships between negative posts and hostile sexism, perceived similarity to the perpetrator, frequent involvement in online discourse, and, to a lesser extent, belief in a just world. Parenthood and perceived similarity to the author increased one's odds of posting positively. Responses of CSA survivors resulted in unexpected findings. Study findings may be used to challenge stereotypes and vitriol often used to silence survivors in public discourse, for thought challenging in psychotherapeutic settings, and for future public education and research to increase support for CSA survivors.
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Mills, Thomas. "Anglo-American relations in south America during the second world war and post-war economic planning." Thesis, Brunel University, 2010. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4493.
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This thesis examines relations between the United States and Great Britain in South America between 1939 and 1945. It does so in the broader context of the economic planning for the post-war world undertaken by the US and Britain during the Second World War. Traditional interpretations of Anglo-American post-war economic planning have tended to focus on a process whereby the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration advocated a multilateral system, based on equality of access to markets and raw materials. Doubting Britain’s ability to compete successfully in such a system, the British government baulked at the US proposal and clung to its autarkic structures constructed during the interwar years. This thesis argues that relations between the US and Britain in South America followed a different and more complex pattern. In this region it was in fact Britain that eventually took the lead in advocating multilateralism. This policy was adopted following a lengthy evaluation of British policy in Latin America, which concluded that multilateralism represented the surest means of protecting British interests in South America. The US, on the other hand, demonstrated exclusionary tendencies in its policy toward Latin America, which threatened the successful implementation of a global economic system based on multilateralism. In explaining this divergence from multilateralism in the Roosevelt administration’s post-war economic planning, this thesis pays particular attention to the influence of different factions, both within the administration and in the broader US political and business establishment. By exploring Anglo-American relations in this previously neglected region, this thesis contributes toward a greater understanding of the broader process of post-war economic planning that took place between the US and Britain during the Second World War.
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Quirke, Viviane. "'Experiments in collaboration' : the changing relationship between scientists and pharmaceutical companies in Britain and in France, 1935-1965." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322968.
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Ruganci, Neslihan Ruhsar. "The Relationship Among Attachment Style, Affect Regulation, Psychological Distress And Mental Construction Of The Relational World." Phd thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12609315/index.pdf.
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z February 2008, 271 pages In this study interpersonal world of the individual was tried to be conceived with its cognitive and affective domain. Two Studies were carried out. In the first study, adaptation of the Difficulty of Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) developed by Gratz &
Roemer (2004), into Turkish was carried out. Additionally, the relation of secure (Ss), dismissing (Ds), preoccupied (Ps), fearful (Fs) and mixed insecure attachment styles with emotion regulation, and the mediator role of the emotion regulation in the association between each attachment style and psychological distress were analyzed, the results of which were also expected to serve for the strength of the validity of Turkish version . As a result of Study I, Turkish version of DERS was established with considerable reliability regarding alpha coefficient, test-retest and split-half reliabilities. Aapproximately similar factor structure with the original version indicating Construct Validity , as an indication of Concurrent Validity DERS and its subscales displayed significant relation with psychological symptoms, and DERS differentiated high and low distress level regarding Criterion Validity. Additionally, Ss were displayed significantly better emotion regulation in general compared to three insecure categories (i.e., except Ds but including Ps, Fs, Mixed insecures), and Ss significantly differed from total insecures in terms of every strategy of emotion regulation as well . Furthermore, psychological distress and Ss, Ps, Fs, (but not Ds) relationship were mediated by emotion regulation. These results were providing additional support for the validity of the Turkish version of DERS. In the second study, possible Clinical and Control Group differences were investigated through comparing the secure, insecure attachment styles of the participants in relation to emotion regulation, psychological distress and their personal construct system regarding the internal representation of self and significant others. Again, mediation of emotion regulation in the association between attachment style and psychological distress were examined both in Clinical and Control Group. Results revealed that Clinical Group had more difficulty to regulate their emotions, except awareness skill and had more psychological distress compared to Control Group. The strength of Ss was displayed with better emotion regulation and less psychological distress even in Clinical Group compared to insecure attachment styles. Effective emotion regulation, as a mediator was associated to low level of psychological distress for Ss, while problem in emotion regulation as a mediator was associated to high level of psychological distress for insecure attachment style both in Clinical and Control Group. Additionally, Ss seemed to integrate the &
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Saucier, Mélanie. "Worldly and Other-Worldly Ethics: The Nonhuman and Its Relationship to the Meaningful World of Jains." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20563.
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This thesis examines the intersection between religion and environmental ethics in Jainism. Religious traditions, as they confront the challenges of modernity, are redefining their traditional mores and narratives in ways that appear, and are, contemporary and relevant. One of the most striking ways in which Jains are accomplishing this, is through their self-presentation as inherently “ecological” through their use of “Western” animal rights discourse in tandem with traditional Jain doctrine. This essay seeks to explore the ways in which this is accomplished, and how these new understandings are being established and understood by members of this “living” community.
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Jain, Anurag. "The relationship between Ford, Kipling, Conan Doyle, Wells and British propaganda of the First World War." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2009. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1528.
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This thesis resituates the war-writing of Ford Madox Ford, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells in relation to official British propaganda produced during the First World War. Examining these authors' institutional connections with propaganda that was authorised by the British government locates some of their texts within a network of materials that were deployed to justify Britain's involvenlent in the war. The British government, via the War Propaganda Bureau, approached major literary figures to assist in its plan to compete vigorously with Germany to win American support. Positioning Ford's condemnation of Prussian culture within this institutional context reveals that his officially commissioned books functioned as a part of the larger yet-covert government project to influence American intellectual opinion. Although wary that Kipling's chauvinism might offend some readers, the British government reprinted and distributed his denunciations of the 'Hun'. Kipling was given access to censored letters from Indian soldiers in order to assist him in depicting the Imperial forces as united. The result, The Eyes of Asia (1918), was a set of fictional texts by Indian soldiers celebrating French and English civilisation in contrast to German barbarism. In addition to official propaganda, these authors produced pro-war stories, poems, and articles independent of direct government commission. Conan Doyle's formal call for men to volunteer to defend their country, and his public denunciations of German atrocities, were followed by his recruitment of Sherlock Holmes to repel a possible German invasion ("His Last Bow" (1917)). Adding to his support for the war in his journalism and war-time fiction, Wells was appointed the Head of Enemy Propaganda for the newly formed Ministry of Information. He resigned almost immediately following disagreements over government strategy. This project situates historically and examines critically these authors' differing roles in relation to British propaganda efforts during the First World War.
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Casale, Laura Elizabeth. "The impact of the antenatal class "Baby World" on the caregiver-infant relationship : a pilot study." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/12532.
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Research suggests that the relationship between caregivers and their infants has a significant effect on development and well-being across the lifespan. There is a significant body of research into psychological interventions which focus on this relationship. However, there is only limited research into the impact of antenatal interventions which aim to promote the caregiver-foetus relationship, thus preventing later difficulties in the caregiver-infant relationship. Findings so far suggest that such interventions could be effective, and recommendations have been made for further studies exploring the effect antenatal interventions on the caregiver-foetus relationship. This pilot study explored the impact of a newly developed psychoeducational intervention entitled “Baby World” on the caregiver-foetal relationship. Seventy-nine females and 26 males who were expecting their first child were recruited from an NHS midwife service in London. They were randomly allocated to experimental or control groups. All participants completed questionnaires measuring antenatal attachment, mental health and childhood experiences of caregiving at baseline. Those in the experimental group then attended the Baby World class. All participants then completed the questionnaires for a second time, and then attended the standard antenatal classes. Following attendance at these classes, participants completed the questionnaires for a third time and gave anonymous responses to qualitative questions. Statistical analyses of the quantitative data indicated that the intervention did not have an impact on antenatal attachment. Results did show that antenatal attachment increased over time, whilst anxiety decreased. A significant correlation was found between recollections of maternal caring and antenatal attachment. Qualitative analysis suggested that the intervention did have an impact on aspects of the relationship. In the qualitative responses, the majority of participants wrote that the class had been a positive experience for them, and that it had increased their confidence about being a caregiver. Many of the responses indicated that the class had positively affected their skills in reflective functioning, caregiver sensitivity and attunement, and changed their perspective on how to interact with their infant. The results add to the literature regarding the impact of antenatal interventions on the caregiver-foetus relationship. Further research is needed to explore the impact of the intervention on the relationship more closely, in particular to understand which aspects of the relationship may be affected. There are several limitations of the study, in particular the small sample size and the limited number of expectant fathers who participated. Reasons for these limitations are discussed.
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Kowert, Rachel V. "Gaming in a social world : examining the relationship between social competence and online video game involvement." Thesis, University of York, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5284/.
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The proliferation of affordable and accessible Internet connectivity has changed the way video games are played by allowing individuals to connect worldwide in shared gaming spaces. These highly social environments allow players to connect, interact with, and learn from each other. However, there is a growing concern that these social environments also have the potential to displace real-world connections and interactions, contributing to a variety of losses in ‘offline’ sociability (Chiu, Lee, & Huang, 2004; Cole & Griffiths, 2007; Kim, Namkoong, Ku, & Kim, 2008; Peters & Malesky, 2008; Shen & Williams, 2010). While the association between online video game play and social incompetence remains widespread, so much so that it has evolved into a core component of the cultural perceptions of those who participate within online games (Kowert, Griffiths, & Oldmeadow, 2012; Kowert & Oldmeadow, 2012), empirical evidence illustrating this relationship has been conflicting and the potential mechanisms underlying these associations remain unclear. The work contained within this thesis aims to clarify the veracity of previously drawn conclusions, and evaluate social differences amongst adult video game players to uncover if, and how, online video game involvement supports, or undermines, the development and maintenance of traditional social skills. To this end, three, large-scale survey studies were conducted. While the results indicated that more involved online players display some variation in social outcomes as compared to other game playing groups, a general lack of unique or magnified relationships between Involvement and social outcomes within online players largely discredits the contention that increased online video game involvement inevitably coincides with severe social consequences. However, the emergence of inverse, linear relationships between video game involvement, the importance and likelihood of achieving offline social goals, and social expressivity, and a positive linear relationship with emotional sensitivity, both off- and online, does suggest that video game play may be a socially displacing activity and that users of this medium could be experiencing some social changes due to use. Taken together, it can be concluded that there are consistent links between video game involvement and social skills, which are likely attributable to social displacement effects. However, these relationships are not unique to, or substantially magnified within, online communities.
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Zilio, Federico. "The Problems of Consciousness and its Relationship with the World: An Investigation between Philosophy and Neuroscience." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3424671.
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The main subject of this dissertation is the relationship of consciousness with the world. Consciousness is extremely familiar and mysterious at the same time, and it is considered one of the most complex phenomena to describe and explain. Recently, cognitive science and neuroscience have assumed a significant role in the search for the fundamental structures of consciousness, investigating the neuronal basis that allows the emergence of our experience. For this reason, the present work is not only aimed at philosophical and phenomenological analysis but also at the latest results of neuroscience on the relationship between consciousness and brain.
The first chapter outlines the main topics of contemporary consciousness studies (first-, second-, third-person perspective, the nature of qualia, phenomenal contents, the hard problem and the meta-problem of consciousness, etc.). After presenting a provisional model for the phenomenological (Sartre) and logical (Kripke) structure of consciousness, represented by intentionality, phenomenality and self-awareness (Chapter 2), I will critically discuss reductive approaches that are influential both in neuroscience and in philosophy of mind. Some of them support the possibility to conceptually and ontologically reduce experience to brain activity (neuro-centrism; Chapter 3), while others perform the hypostatization of numerous mental states within the mind/brain (mento-centrism; Chapter 4).
In this regard, it is possible to identify a common paradigm, that is, the distinction between reality and appearance that occurred especially during modern philosophy (in particular Descartes) and after the modern scientific revolution (in particular Galilei). This has led to the reduction of experience to a mind- or brain-related quality/property, as we can see nowadays (Chapter 4). Given the perspectival, multifaceted structure of experience and following the analysis of several non-reductive approaches, I will argue for an ontologically and epistemologically pluralist account of consciousness, that it can be developed only through an interdisciplinary approach, by philosophy, phenomenology and neuroscience together (Chapter 5).
This will allow me to address the issue of consciousness from the so-called non-reductive neurophilosophical approach, through which I will analyse the way we experience the world from both a phenomenological and a neuroscientific perspective. Supported by Sartre's phenomenological analyses of consciousness in relation to world and body, I argue that experience is not given without the embodied-being-in-the-world condition, a condition that will then be connected to the neuroscientific concept of environment-body-brain alignment (adapted from Northoff’s world-brain relation), that is, a necessary predisposition for the maintenance of consciousness (Chapter 6).
In conclusion, the concept of consciousness-in-the-world will be tested through neurophilosophical experiments regarding the Locked-in syndrome and the dreaming state, suggesting the need to reconsider consciousness not merely in terms of brain- or mind-relation, but intrinsically as world-related.
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Campbell, D. Grant. "A phenomenological framework for the relationship between the semantic web and user-centered tagging systems." dLIST, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105357.
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This paper uses Husserlâ s theory of phenomenology to provide a model for the relationship between user-centered tagging systems, such as del.icio.us, and the more highly structured systems of the Semantic Web. Using three aspects of phenomenological theoryâ the movement of the mind out towards an entity and then back in an act of reflection, multiplicities within unity, and the sharing of intentionalities within a communityâ the discussion suggests that both tagging systems and the Semantic Web foster an intersubjective domain for the sharing and use of information resources. The Semantic Web, however, resembles traditional library systems, in that it relies for this intersubjective domain on the conscious implementation of domain-centered standards which are then encoded for machine processing, while tagging systems work on implied principles of emergence.
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Smith, Philip. "The relationship between management accounting, profitability and operations in an uncertain world : evidence from literature and practice." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1826/2833.
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At the heart of many core Management Accounting (MA) practices there is a potential
mismatch between the assumption of a materially predictable future operating
environment, and the reality of an uncertain and unpredictable world. Practices such as
budgets, product costing, investment appraisal and financial projections, aimed at
facilitating the achievement of profitability goals, are based on the assumption that the
future is sufficiently stable and predictable to benefit from analytical calculation.
However, we live in a world where the future can be uncertain, unstable and
unpredictable. Does this mean that when operating conditions become unstable,
unpredictable and uncertain many MA practices lose their core modus operandi?
This thesis addresses this issue through an interwoven mix of a longitudinal case study
and literature reviews spread over three projects. The case study was longitudinal and
based on in depth participant observation. The firm involved was a £38m UK logistics
company. The study benefited from totally unrestricted access to all strategic, financial
and operational activities and data, because of the author’s senior role in the firm. The
literature review was conducted using a targeted systematic review (Tranfield and
Denyer, 2003) supported by additional narrative reviews. This synoptic paper provides
a reflective synthesis of the findings and the contribution of the three projects which
together constitute the research.
Four core interlinked findings emerged from the study, based on the assumption that the
achievement of profitability goals is the primary goal of the organisation.
First, building on the proposals of (Otley, 1999) a framework showing the relationship
between MA, profitability, operations and uncertainty is proposed. It demonstrates how
MA financialises operations by creating a parallel financial space to the operational
space; how profitability outcomes result from the financial consequences of operational
actions; how the role of MA is to inform and control operational actions in a manner
that achieves profitability goals; and how uncertainty has a critical impact on MA
functionality.
Second, the differing dimensions and implications of uncertainty are distinguished. The
principal distinction is between external and internal uncertainty. External uncertainties
arise from unanticipated changes from customers, suppliers and the market and thus
affect the predictability of the future on which plans and targets are based. The data
gathered during the course of this research suggests that external uncertainty tends to be
typified by pockets of instability oscillating with periods of relative stability. Internal
uncertainties occur in relation to management effectiveness, reporting validity and
choice of appropriate accounting perspective (five are identified - Product, Customer,
Throughout, Process, Financial Accounting). The external uncertainties magnify the
impact of the internal uncertainties by potentially changing and thus de-stabilising the
requirements of management, the validity of reporting and the appropriateness of the
accounting perspective used.
Third, Management Accounting Systems (MAS) respond to external uncertainties, and
the aspirations of external financial stakeholders for increased profitability, by operating in two differing modes – the first is fixed/control (Fixed), the second is inform/flex
(Flex). Fixed is the default mode and assumes conditions of relative certainty; the role is
to control the achievement of agreed plans and targets. Flex is intermittently initiated
when, signalled by feedback, the impact of external uncertainties or profit pressures
trigger the need to change original plans and targets. Calculative analysis informs
revised operational plans aimed at maintaining the achievement of profitability goals;
targets are flexed to reflect the changes. The intent is to develop a revised position of
relative stability in which the achievement of profitability plans and targets can be
controlled via reverting back to Fixed. The process is therefore continual, but appears to
be typified by an uneven series of oscillations between the two modes.
Four, the Financial Accounting (FA) profitability measure, with the goal derived from
external financial stakeholders, provides partial responses to the three internal
uncertainties by introducing for each an element of certainty. For management
effectiveness uncertainty, the profitability goal provides a relatively certain external
referent which can be cascaded down the organisational structure, and against which
performance can be evaluated. For reporting validity uncertainty, FA standards provide
an authoritatively accepted definition of profitability, so that reported profitability is
treated as if it were ‘true and fair’. For multiple accounting perspectives uncertainty,
four perspectives (Product, Customer, Throughout, Process) make up a range of MA
tools for developing actions to achieve target profitability levels, and the fifth (FA)
provides the definition of profitability; all five are complementary and compatible as
their differing aggregations are composed of the same underlying financial transactions.
These responses, however, are only partial as the aspirations of external financial
stakeholders are in themselves substantially self referential and liable to change, and the
underlying uncertainty of FA reporting validity still exists, even if treated as if it does
not.
The study contributes to the further development of MA theory. It extends the Otley
(1999) framework towards linking operations and profitability through parallel
operational and financial spaces, and incorporating the central role of uncertainty. It
adds to the debate in MA research on uncertainty by providing a classification of its
dimensions, and its impact on triggering a requirement for differing MA modes. It
highlights the central role of profitability in providing a stable certainty of purpose as a
counterbalance to inherent internal and external uncertainties. It provides a clear
identification of the differences and complementarities between MA and FA, FA
defining the quantum of profitability achieved, MA facilitating the achievement of
profitability goal. Finally the study inputs to a wide range of issues addressed by MA
research which at their heart reflect the impact of uncertainty (Budgeting, Accounting
Representation, Costing Perspectives).
The study contributes to practice by proposing a set of ten tenets designed to provide
guidelines for MAS development, implementation and evaluation. These are drawn
from a cross sectional deconstruction of the four findings, viewed as a whole, aimed at
identifying the specific factors that have direct implications for practice. The intent is
that these tenets provide a bridge between theory and practice, based on the premise
that, since MA theory was drawn from practice, the test of MA theory development is
its applicability and relevance to practice.
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Johnson, Lauren. "The Relationship between Mock Jurors' Locus of Control, Belief in a Just World, and an NGRI Verdict." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10271095.
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Previous research has demonstrated mixed results that locus of control and belief in a just world impact juror’s verdicts for defendants, however previous research is lacking on how these factors influence juror’s likelihood of rendering a Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity verdict for a mentally ill defendant. The current study examined whether mock juror’s belief in a just world influenced the relationship between locus of control and an NGRI verdict. Seventy-nine students completed an online survey that included locus of control and belief in just world scales and rendering a verdict for a mentally ill defendant charged with First-Degree Murder. While belief in a just world did not impact the relationship between locus of control and the likelihood of rendering an NGRI verdict, both belief in a just world and locus of control were statistically significantly correlated to an NGRI verdict.
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Gilhar, Lihie. "A comparative exploration of the internal object relations world of anorexic and bulimic patients." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08152008-132051.
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Savernini, Maira Q. M. "An Econometric Analysis of the Relationship among the U.S. Ethanol, Corn and Soybean Sectors, and World Oil Prices." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1236980228.
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Brown, Autumn Darty Linda. "Combining Ceramics and Metalwork to Explore the Relationship Between the Industrial and Humanistic Elements of the Modern World." [Greenville, N.C.] : East Carolina University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/2671.
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Newman, Daniel Carl. "Access to justice and the practitioner-client relationship : an ethnographic investigation into the world of criminal legal aid." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.544338.
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Marlow, Kailani Poloika. "A phenomenological investigation of the lived experience of wellness through significant experiences of nature, in natural world contexts." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/127158/1/Kailani%20Poloika_Marlow_Thesis.pdf.
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Human-nature connection is essential to wellness and especially important in the built environment context. This research investigates the lived experience of significant nature experiences in remote natural landscapes to unveil essential elements that can be integrated into biophilic urban design philosophy. In-depth interviews and phenomenological analysis explored the lived experiences of people in programs conducted in remote natural landscapes. Three emergent themes characterized significant nature experiences: attuning to interconnectedness with nature, moving through changing human perspectives, and experiencing restoration through attuning with nature. The findings are relevant to urban planning because to some degree human health is dependent on sensory input that features elements of the natural world.
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Brelage, Christian S. "Web information system development conceptual modelling of navigation for satisfying information needs." Berlin Logos-Verl, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2793065&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Esteves, Paulo Sérgio Filipe Mena. "Social CRM adoption in a higher education institution." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/10395.
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Mestrado em Gestão de Sistemas de InformaçãoNeste estudo foi adoptada a definição proposta por Choy, et al. (2003) e Shaw (1999) onde o Customer Relationship Management é definido como o processo pelo qual uma empresa envereda por uma estratégia de procura de maximização da informação sobre os seus clientes num esforço para aumentar a sua lealdade e pronlogar a relação comercial. A Web 2.0 é o termo geralmente usado para descrever a chamada segunda geração da World Wide Web e está intimamente relacionado com o fenómeno da interacção e partilha de informação online (Barsky & Purdon, 2006). Com a evolução das tecnologias e da Web 2.0 começaram a haver mudanças no comportamento dos consumidores e na sua adopção a estas novas tecnologias tais como redes sociais, foruns, wikis, blogs, entre outros, tendo a Internet como base. Isto é importante, pois permite ás empresas juntar os seus dados sociais, ás informações já existentes nos seus sistemas de CRM, a isto chama-se CRM Social. Define-se como uma filosofia e uma estratégia de negócio, suportada por uma plataforma tecnológica, regras de negócio e caracteristicas sociais, desenhada de forma a empreender conversas colaborativas com os seus clientes (Greenberg, 2010). Neste estudo discute-se a adopção de uma instituição de ensino superior ao CRM Social. Para desenvolver este estudo foi efectuado um método de case study para perceber quais os grandes objectivos inerentes à sua adopção, e se estão de acordo com o estudado por (Greenberg, 2010).
In this study, we adopted the definition proposed by Choy, et al (2003) and Shaw (1999) where Customer Relationship Management is defined has the process which a company decides to invest in a strategy to maximize the information search about their customers in order to increase customer loyalty and to prolong their commercial relationship. Web 2.0 is the term generally used to describe the second generation from the World Wide Web and it is related to the phenomenon of interacting and sharing information online (Barsky & Purdon, 2006). With the evolution of technologies and the Web 2.0, there were changes in customer behavior and people?s adoption to these new technologies, such as social networks, forums, wikis, blogs and others having the internet as its base. This is important for companies to understand in order to add their social information to their CRM information, this is called Social CRM. It is defined as a philosophy and a business strategy, supported by technology platform, business rules, processes and social characteristics, designed to engage customers in collaborative conversations (Greenberg, 2010). This study discusses the adoption of a higher education institution to Social CRM. To develop this study, a case study method was adopted to investigate what were the main objectives behind this adoption and if they are aligned with the definitions studied by (Greenberg, 2010).
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Fellenor, John. "Particular experiences : a psychosocial exploration of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and its relationship with self, environment and the material world." Thesis, University of Bath, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665427.
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Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also referred to as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is a symptomatically defined and debilitating condition that presents as a range of physiological and psychological effects. Post-exertional fatigue and ongoing low energy levels are cardinal features. Whilst ME-like conditions have been recognised for at least two hundred years, they have been characterised over recent decades by a fiercely contested debate as to whether aetiology is primarily psychological or physiological. ME sufferers experience profound changes to their self-perception, ability to maintain daily routines and activities and how they are perceived in terms of their capacity to carry out social roles, including illness-status. The contested aetiology results in-part from a climate of dualistic thought and the biomedical model upon which ME is treated and theorised. Whilst the effects of ME on self experience have been investigated from various qualitative and quantitative perspectives, the primary purpose of this thesis is to develop a psychosocial framework from which to explore previously neglected dimensions of the effect of ME on self experience. Developing a psychosocial understanding of ME is in keeping with a turn towards post-Cartesian and non-dualistic thinking. The second interconnected purpose of this thesis is to address the role played by the material environment and objects and to conceptualise their importance and relation to self and how it is affected by ME. This is currently absent in the literature on ME. Developing a psychosocial framework suitable for this purpose rested on a synthesis of Actor Network Theory (ANT) and a psychoanalytically influenced use of metaphor and metonymy. At the heart of this synthesis are the notions of relational ontology (Latour, 1997; DeLanda, 2002) and assemblage (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987; DeLanda, 2002; Hodder, 2012). A relational ontology focuses on the relations between disparate objects such as material artefacts, humans, other organisms and concepts and avoids prioritising any one ‘thing’ as more important than another. The notion of assemblage has emerged alongside ideas concerning complexity, chaos and indeterminacy and informs a vocabulary addressing the problem of causality, determination and the stability of social and psychological phenomena (Venn, 2006). As part of a psychoanalytically informed psychosocial framework these concepts enable an exploration of ME by bringing together disparate aspects such as everyday objects, experiences, symptoms and environments in a non-causal, non-dualistic and processual manner. The psychoanalytic element also enables an exploration of the unconscious and irrational aspects of experience, which is most pertinent with regards to the effects of ME. Thus, the premise of this research was to establish a psychosocial methodology and theoretical basis from which to explore the effects of ME on self experience. Moreover, this methodology was designed to engage with the complex, coincident and entangled nature of the symptoms, discourses, objects, material artefacts, environments and non-human organisms that ME appears to be comprised of. Methods were developed which enabled the researcher to be with and explore the day-to-day life and routines of eight ME sufferers in their everyday environments over a six month period. This involved working with the ME sufferers taking part primarily in their own homes and spaces around their home which they frequented, such as shopping malls and even a cemetery; in itself novel in terms of qualitative research into ME. Of these eight sufferers, three were male [age range 49 – 65; earliest formal diagnosis of ME occurring in 2005] and five females [age range 25 – 63; earliest diagnosis 2002]. Two sufferers were in paid employment, one was retired and five were unable to work due to their ME. Due to the extensive nature of the data, only 3 case studies, two male and three female, were selected for in-depth analysis. Cases selected were those that most clearly illustrated central analytic themes. Data comprised talk, audio-visual material and the affective responses of the researcher. Analytic methods were devised which initially adopted a thematic approach before metaphoric and metonymic equivalences were drawn between what ME sufferers discussed and aspects of the routines, objects and environments they were engaged with. This informed descriptions of how these things became networked, in an ANT sense, and how self experience was implicated. A key finding which emerged is the notion of debilitating spaces. This term captures the manner in which, for certain sufferers, the experience and hence the maintenance of ME was intrinsically enmeshed with their immediate physical environment. Further findings discussed include the way in which seemingly everyday objects such as food blenders can be co-opted by sufferers as a means of enhancing their self-experience in light of ME. Overall, the findings of this PhD are discussed in terms of the success and applicability of that premise and its contribution to the field of psychosocial approaches. The key assertion is that the methodology enhances an understanding of ME and its effects, highlighting the variable yet particular nature of ME and its effect on self experience and in incorporating the hitherto unconsidered range of objects outlined above.