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Hassan, Mohammad. « Islamic legal thought and practices of seventeenth century Aceh : treating the others ». Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=123059.
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This study examines the legal thought and practices of Aceh at its arguably golden age, namely the seventeenth century. It does not only analyze the legal texts, but more importantly it attempts to elucidate its founding worldview, underlying philosophy, and the guiding ethical, moral and cultural system, that better inform readers of the legal thought and practices of the Malayo-Aceh. The study draws its elucidation primarily from the indigenous sources, which are recorded in the oral and written traditions. In a society that prized orality, Aceh recorded its history and traditions in ways unique to such a nature—the many hikayats, folk-tales, proverbs, poems, and the other kinds of expression within the literature genre. It also examines the indigenous historical sources, published and unpublished, as well as European and other sources. Such an approach provides an enriched understanding of the purported tension and conflict between Sharī'ah and Adat, the Adat Worldview of the Malayo-Aceh, and its ethical system. Understanding the political and economic context of the seventeenth century Aceh provides a spatial and temporal background to the study, as well as an idea of power and Otherness. In examining the legal texts, two primary texts are studied—Adat Aceh of the royal decrees (sarakata) type, and Mir'āt al-Ṭullāb by al-Sinkīlī of the Islamic legal (fiqhī) type, compared with another two texts of the same types. And in examining these legal texts, the study focuses on the treating of the Others—the foreign and indigenous Others. In sum, the above investigations inform us of the idea of Power, Authority and the Others to the Acehnese of the seventeenth century, and the idea of diversity and plurality that is integral to the Malayo-Islamic worldview of Aceh.Cette étude examine la pensée et les pratiques juridiques d'Aceh, à ce qui est considéré son âge d'or, c'est-à-dire au XVIIe siècle. Elle n'analysera pas seulement les textes légaux mais, surtout, elle tentera de préciser sa vision du monde fondatrice, fondement de la philosophie, et le système de référence éthique, moral et culturel, qui informeront davantage les lecteurs sur la pensée et les pratiques juridiques du monde malayo-acehais. L'étude tire ses enseignements essentiellement des sources indigènes qui proviennent des traditions orales et écrites. Dans une société qui privilégia l'oral, Aceh a enregistré son histoire et ses traditions de différentes façons dont la nature est unique – beaucoup d'hikayats, de contes populaires, de proverbes, de poèmes et tous les autres moyens d'expressions littéraires. Elle examine également les sources historiques indigènes, publiées ou pas, et les sources européennes ou autres. Une telle approche propose une compréhension enrichie des prétendus tension et conflit entre la charia et l'adat, la vision de monde de l'adat malayo-acehais, et son système éthique. La compréhension du contexte politique et économique du XVIIe siècle à Aceh fournit un cadre spatial et temporel à l'étude ainsi qu'une idée du pouvoir et de l'Autre. Parmi les textes passés au crible, deux fondamentaux ont été étudiés – Adat Aceh, sorte de décrêts royaux (sarakata), et Mir'āt al-Ṭullāb d'al-Sinkīlī, qui se rapporte à la loi islamique (fiqhī) – en comparaison avec deux autres textes du même type. En examinant ces textes légaux, l'étude se penche sur le traitement des Autres : les étrangers et les autres indigènes. En résumé, les enquêtes décrites ci-dessus nous informe sur l'idée de Pouvoir, l'Autorité et les Autres pour les Acehais du XVIIe siècle, ainsi que sur l'idée de diversité et de pluralité qui fait partie intégrante de la vision du monde malayo-islamique à Aceh.
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Ozkan, Yagmur. « Europe And Its Others : Immigrants And New Racism In Europe ». Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608478/index.pdf.
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There is no doubt about the fact that Europe has become home for millions of ex-colonails, guest-workers, refugees, asylum-seekers. However, these new Europeans are not acknowledged to be Europeans but instead they are mostly perceived as not belonging. Being deprived of political and social rights and exposed to economic exploitation make them the European "apartheid"
. Within this present conjunture, this thesis aims at a modest discussion on ever-rising racism in Europe. It focuses on European racism and in particular the new racism in Europe which has been on the rise since the 1970s and 1980s. It examines European new racism via three exemplary cases (France, Britain and Germany). Out of different histories, economies and out of different racisms, this thesis searches for similarities. In fact, it claims that Europe has a traditional racism which is claimed to be one of the outcomes of the European self-construction process. Therefore, the other point of focus that this thesis engages in is the process through which Europe constructs its identity. It intends to discuss what Europe is and how Europe constructs itself via its Others. It claims that Europe identifies itself on the negation of its Others. Hence, this thesis attempts to discuss the connection between racism in Europe and European self-construction/self-identification process. In other words, this thesis intends to clarify that the self-construction/self-identification of Europe, which has depended mostly on the negation of its Others, has resulted in racist-thinking and racism which has always existent in Europe despite the changes in different peroids and different contexts forming a racist tradition in Europe.
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Coombs, Rosemary Prince. « Educational needs expressed by presurgery and postdischarge coronary artery bypass graft patients and their significant others a problem solving approach ». Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5412.
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Childs, Richardo. « Fetal gene therapy : balancing ethical theory, scientific progress and the rights of others ». Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/46405/.
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This thesis examines the relationship between rights and duties in the field of fetal gene therapy and assesses if the current regulatory position within England and Wales is compatible with the intergenerational aspects of scientific progress within fetal gene therapy (FGT). Within the field of genomics, the fetal junction has become a site where gene therapists are developing a range of medical techniques, such as fetal gene therapy and in utero stem cell therapy. Utilising such techniques raises questions about the intergenerational aspects of scientific progress and how intergenerational rights can reshape regulation. The thesis focuses upon these key questions: Are the intergenerational issues of FGT taken into account by both direct and indirect stakeholders? Can intergenerational issues override the reproductive rights of the mother? Have intergenerational issues impacted upon the clinical applications implicit and manifest in this work? Addressing such questions is important because the conflict between the rights of the mother, fetus, clinical researchers and society have the potential to delay progress in FGT. In addressing these questions the thesis utilised thematic analysis of relevant regulatory institutional documents, from international declarations to regulatory guidelines; and semi structured interviews of identified FGT practitioners to identify areas of potential conflict. Following the data collection and analysis, the field data identified five key areas of potential conflict, which were then assessed using the Principle of Generic Consistency (PGC) as proposed by Alan Gewirth (1978) and later altered by Beyleveld and Brownsword (2001). The thesis will argue that the field data shows that established regulatory principles such as human dignity are of limited value in relation to FGT. In other areas such as informed choice, autonomy and intergenerational equity the PGC is applied to define and partially resolve the outstanding areas necessary for consistent ethical and regulatory guidance in FGT
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Weibel, David T. « A Loving-Kindness Intervention : Boosting Compassion for Self and Others ». Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1190652251.
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Long, Derry Stace. « Succeeding in empowering others : social factors that assist in creating and sustaining empowering organizational environments ». Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3826/.
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This research rises out of the perceived gap between rhetoric and reality in the congregational life of the church in the United States. Using the research tools of autoethnography and case study, it investigates the life settings of the researcher and the interior organizational dynamics of three cases, a for-profit, a nonprofit and a church organization. The research considers how organizational pre-conditions and traits and processes, leadership behavior and perspectives and the perceived benefits of an empowering environment, impacts the ability of the organization to implement and sustain an empowering environment. Three pre-conditions, namely, a flexibility in organizational behaviours, the total commitment of the primary leader, and a particular view of people were found to be essential. Four relational traits of voice, trust, authentication, and connectivity were discovered to generate a relational environment that was conducive to an empowering culture. No particular leadership style was found to be essential, only that the style could embrace the elements enumerated above. Personal and organizational benefits were outside the normative expectations of profit or other numerical measurements and closer to aspects of relationally and energy. There appeasers to be no significant difference between church and other organizational types in how empowerment functions. I conclude by reflecting on practical aspects and how the research journey impacted the researcher.
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Gorman, Holly R. « Captivity and conflict| A study of gender, genre, and religious others ». Thesis, Temple University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3702995.
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This project considers questions of religious othering in the contemporary United States through the lens of popular post-religious narratives. These narratives salaciously depict mistreated women in order to demarcate certain religions as deviant; authors and pundits then use these narratives in order to justify outside intervention in specific religious communities. By closely analyzing a selection of contemporary narratives written about women from Muslim and fundamentalist Mormon communities with special attention to both the feminist enactments and tropes of captivity which permeate these texts, this project challenges simplistic portrayals of religious Others. In doing so, the analysis draws the reader's attention to the uncanny imitations in many of these texts: in arguing that certain religions "capture" their female adherents, authors of contemporary captivity narratives silence the voices of women whose stories they seek to illuminate. The dissertation also explores the ambivalent content of many of these narratives. When read against the grain, captivity literature offers surprising opportunities for nuanced explorations of religion, gender and agency.
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Tang, Xuan. « Polarisation shift keying modulated free-space optical communication systems ». Thesis, Northumbria University, 2012. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/8190/.
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Hamit, Meltem. « Turkish Cypriots And Their Others : An Analysis Of Narratives About Greek Cypriots And Turkiyeliler ». Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609727/index.pdf.
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This thesis explores popular perception of 'Turkish Cypriotness'
in relation to Greek Cypriots and Tü
rkiyeliler in the framework of struggling political discourses proposing conflicting identities to the population in the northern part of Cyprus. Purpose of the study is to understand dominant elements in self-representations of '
native'
Turkish Cypriots in the context of relatively new reality, namely, the partition of the island and immigration from Turkey. In other words, this study focuses on images of '
Turkish Cypriots'
and of their '
Others'
- Greek Cypriots and Tü
rkiyeliler- in popular discourse. For the purpose of understanding the self-perception of identity among '
native'
Turkish Cypriots, in-depth interviews were conducted in different cities of the northern part of the island. As a result of analyses of these narratives, the relational and precarious nature of identificatory practice is pointed. Moreover, problems relating to dominant perception of '
Turkish Cypriotness'
marked with hierarchical exclusion of Tü
rkiyeliler is stressed. It is concluded that popular perception of '
Turkish Cypriotness'
signals the fact that, more than opening space for a transnational attachment, Cyprus-centered identity fosters exclusivist approach towards Tü
rkiyeli '
Other'
.
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Ozgun, Kaska Aysegul. « European Identity And Its Others : A Comparative Analysis Of The Russian And The Turkish Cases ». Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12608175/index.pdf.
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This thesis analyzes the European identity and its others with a special focus on two Eastern &ldquoOthers&rdquo
: the Russian and the Turk. In this context firstly the notion of identity, the role of difference in the formation of identity and the role of identity in international relations will be explored. Thereby the significance of identity in shaping the international relations will be shown. Then the development of Europe and European identity and its various others will be examined with a historical perspective. In the light of this exploration, the emergence of the East-West divide, the historical evolution of relations with the Russian and the Turk in relation with the changing connotations of the European identity will be studied. Finally the Russian and Turkish cases will be examined in a comparative way. In this way the converging and diverging points between the two cases in terms of their relationship with Europe and their place vis à
vis Europe will be analyzed.
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Walsh, Ryan Nicholas. « The Agency and Empathy of Non-Human Others : How Non-Human Agency Anticipates the Anthropocene in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? » Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-37606.
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Verill, Joanne. « Management in practice : analysing the impact of policy change on managers and doctors in general medical practice ». Thesis, Northumbria University, 2005. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/1976/.
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This thesis explores the impact of changes in health policy introduced by Conservative administrations in the period 1987 to 1995 on the definition, management and control of professional work within general medical practice. The research underpinning this work combined secondary analysis, large-scale primary fieldwork and qualitative research with clinicians and managers. The first stage of primary fieldwork was conducted during the period September 1994 to June 1995 and consisted of a postal survey of 750 practices across England and Wales. This was followed up with a second phase of research involving depth interviews with managers and clinicians, delivered in the period July to November 1995. This pluralist methodology sought to connect micro and macro levels of analysis in exploring the relationship between the state, professions and managers in primary care. The research explores the extent to which a number of professional freedoms have been challenged by policy change including political, economic and technical autonomy and the extent to which this had changed the position and rewards of managers in general practice. Employing a multi-dimensional approach to the analysis of power this thesis suggests that prevailing theories of a decline in professional power, based primarily on economic relations at the macro level cannot account for the complexity of relations found in UK general practice. Further, studies focusing at the collective level of bargaining between the state and the medical profession in the UK have over-estimated the impact of policy change due to a neglect of study at the micro level. Rather this study has revealed a complex picture of both continuity and change in which general practitioners have lost, retained and in some cases extended their power as a result of policy initiatives. Whilst professional freedoms have remained relatively intact, the impact of policy change on the occupation of Practice Management has been more significant, with prevailing discourses of `managerialism' creating gendered struggles over the definition and meaning of management in primary care. This work therefore calls for a multi-dimensional account of social life which can explain the complex interaction of differing sites of power, within which a wide range of power resources are deployed. Further this work would endorse a dynamic concept of power in which 'patterns of interaction' (Bradley 1999) are fluid and changeable rather than fixed and self-sustaining systems. It is argued here that constraints on social action are created by the history of past agency, embedded in institutions and social practices that both shape, and are shaped by the agency of individuals.
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Oberweis, Sacha. « Development of a small scale CHP biomass system for the Luxembourgish market ». Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2011. http://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/111/.
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Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Rising ambient temperatures and deterioration of weather patterns are anticipated to result from increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases caused in part by the use of fossil fuels for electricity generation and domestic heating purposes. The possibility of a global temperature rise of between 1 degree C and 4.5 degree Celsius has led to considerable research efforts into the effects of changes in temperature and other climatic variables. The increasing use of private capital in the energy industry has altered the focus from the provision of a service to the need to make profits from the production and sale of a commodity. Additionally, with respect to Luxembourg, the dependency on imported energy is an important risk factor. This thesis presents biomass as an essential alternative to substitute for some of the fossil fuels in the domain of heat, cooling and power generation. The results presented show an increase in energy utilisation and thus energy efficiency and reduction in emissions when used in combined generation modes as opposed to single generation. These results are gathered through meticulous analytical models, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and laboratory testing of real life biomass systems. The technologies and analysis investigated here are targeted at those involved in climate change research, providing them with valuable data on the energy analysis of biomass and its associated emissions, highlighting the potential for reduction in pollutions when biomass is used instead of fossil fuels; in energy policy making; investors; engineers; and all others involved in the biomass design and operation of combined generation of biomass applications.
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Williams, Sian. « "If you're kind to me, I'll be kind to you" : compassion to self and others as a dynamic and relational process among young people who have engaged in harmful sexual behaviour : a grounded theory ». Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/21587/.
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The past decade has seen increasing research interest in compassion to self and others, both as a construct and a likely precipitant of psychological wellbeing. A growing literature base suggests that psychotherapeutic interventions aimed at increasing self-compassion can help to alleviate negative effects often associated with shame and self-criticism. Compassion-focused interventions have subsequently been proposed for populations likely to experience heightened shame. Despite the interest in this area, only limited research has attempted to explore how compassion is understood and experienced among varying populations. Research that has been undertaken has tended to adopt quantitative approaches, utilising self-report measures validated with well-educated, often academic, populations. There is clearly a need for the construct of compassion to be explored with other populations, particularly those who may be disadvantaged and/or at risk of heightened levels of shame. One such population is young people who have come to the attention of services for engaging in harmful sexual behaviour (HSB). This research therefore intended to fill this gap and extend the existing literature base on compassion by employing a qualitative approach. Nine young people (8 males, 1 female) aged 14-18, who were receiving input from youth offending services for HSB, were recruited for this research. Each participant took part in a one-off interview where they were asked about their understanding and experiences of compassion to and from self and others. Adopting a Constructivist Grounded Theory methodology, data were analysed through an iterative process of constant comparison, leading to the construction of a substantive theoretical model grounded in the data. The resultant model explicates the dynamic and relational process of compassion to self and others experienced by young people who have engaged in HSB. The model is considered in relation to existing literature and implications for clinical practice are discussed, along with directions for future research.
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Nicholson, Elizabeth A. J. « The changing face of the local government of education in the 21st century : living with the private sector in selected local authorities as seen by their chief officers and others ». Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/541/.
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The implementation of the Education Reform Act (DES 1988) saw fundamental changes in the structure of education in England; in the relationship between schools and local education authorities and in the establishment of the private sector as a competitor to local education authorities in delivering services. Further legislation introduced by both the then Conservative Government and after 1997 by a Labour Government saw these changes further embedded. This research seeks through a review of literature to find out why those legislative changes were implemented and by investigating four local education authorities review how those changes impacted on their performance. This is a qualitative study that gathered data through the use of semi-structured interviews to create four case studies. Against a background of successive governments seeing the use of the market place, competition and the private sector as a means of delivering their aim of improving public sector performance this research provides an insight into how four local authorities worked with the private sector following their Ofsted inspections.
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Zelef, Mustafa Haluk. « A Research On The Representation Of Turkish National Identity : Buildings Abroad ». Phd thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/924522/index.pdf.
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This thesis is the result of an attempt to record, classify and develop an
understanding of the motivations and dynamics in the design and realization of the
buildings that explicitly or implicitly represent the Turkish identity abroad. In the
meantime it is aimed to reflect on and identify the function of architecture and
buildings in the formulation and representation of national identity. Besides the
analysis of the meanings assigned to the architectural forms, one underlying
intention was to clarify how different aspects of architecture and building processes
could play roles in the construction and representation of national identity within
the context of the embassies, monuments, exhibition pavilions and centers for
cultural and religious purposes.
During the analysis of these architectural works, basic mechanisms of the concept
of identity and its repercussions in relation to physical milieus -i.e. its
comparative nature, its reception by the others- are tried to be elaborated. Cases
other than the Turkish case are referred to when necessary. Viewpoints of variety
of actors in the realization of these works -i.e. architects, diplomats, statesmen and
contractors- are analyzed to elucidate the similarities and differences of
approaches.
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Besides the role of international relations, the dominant social, political and
economic characteristics in different historical periods of Turkey and their
implications on the buildings abroad are exposed by this study. Reactions of the
architectural discourse in Turkey to those characteristics concerning the national
identity, i.e. foreign architects, globalization, and promotion of architects by the
state, are elaborated. While some themes are perennial at the discursive and formal
level, variations of attitudes regarding the host context are observed in the study.
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Bouchon, Marika. « 'Nexial-topology' situation modelling : health ecology and other general perspectives ». Thesis, View thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:3698.
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ABSTRACT: This research generated a formal method for global ‘situation modelling’ of near-critical and critical phenomena. The new paradigms and the construction of mental reality or social spaces do not explain the damaged world we leave to our children and the degeneration of health. The ‘physical’ was explored experimentally through the reputed imperfection of the body in daily living and the ecology of its health. An ‘integral’ methodology allowed combining this with a study of general perspectives in many fields. This theoretical and empirical study was framed according to a third-order logic: (1) The variety and inconsistency of perspectives on the unclear notion of ‘health’ required a generalist (meta-)classification or organising principle applicable in particular to health. The method of ‘perspectival analysis’ is based on the field- and domain-specific vocabularies, number of categories, and image types used in formulating explanation/ experience in each framework, in both scientific and human domains. This theoretical study was (2) grounded in a ‘radical empirical’ study of the effects of nutrition and healing techniques on a low-grade chronic syndrome (not life threatening but connected to stress, inflammation, swelling, tissues wasting). A ‘local-case’ experimental research design (representative of an aspect of health), and new topographic ‘gauging’ techniques were devised to observe small spatial changes (positioning, distortion, distribution). The results and concrete/ practice models led to the same conclusion as the abstract study: all our perspectives on health, body and space, have some underlying systemic form, and have in common two unifying frames – duality and polarisation –, characteristic also of point-set theory derived frameworks. Using them allows ‘circumnavigating’ the essential of all possible perspectives, without becoming lost in their details. However, they leave non-local effects, anomalies (or ’bad behaviour’) and periodical instability unexplained. (3) These were investigated by studying behaviour (irrespective of whether internal or external), and ‘not well understood’ induced health manifestations, and by mapping their topologic properties of small deformation through (a) a ‘local’ cognitive consideration of experience construction, the research process itself, and the intellectual skill of model-making, (b) etymologic studies to track forward semantic developments and perspectival shifts and inversions, (c) a graphic study of the universal symbolic forms in models, traditions, and dreams, tracing them back to ‘world-origin’ models (appearance/occurrence), and shape-icons (mental, cultural), such as tree, ladder, mountain or vortex-vertex spiral.
This thesis examines health disturbance, physical distortions and cultural deformations, their usual descriptions as timed changes, and shows how two fundamental parameters of direction and motion (or movement, energy, 'Wind') define geometries of binding, or directional activation (or active projection). These culturo-mental geometries produce generic images of locally induced phenomena, and represent boundary phenomena globally as 'natural' in the spatial-physical world, and as 'hidden' or latent in the human world. Their downside is to introduce systematic instability in our expressions, models of culture/civilisation, as well as in health manifestations. All these are found to be rooted in modelling styles derived from the 'local' geometry of observing – framing – a field in 'perspective', mostly based on vision, audition, and skin surface (touch). These geo-Metries are used to explain and justify in particular the instability and recurrent crises of health in chronic syndromes and ageing, and the ‘badly behaved’ health of childhood and adult females (eg consequences of pregnancy). The conclusion imposed itself that the ‘physical world of humans’ is shaped through critical response and boundaries, and it appears that physical integrity, including sound health, sanity and even safety, cannot be preserved but by conscious alert attention or voluntary practice or effort (eg ‘workout’). Some experiences recounted in this work (some from the literature) led to an opposite presupposition. Three possible logics rule deployments of perspective into flat, spherical, and hyperbolic geometries (a known basis of mathematics). Which is used depends on the ‘local’ state of criticality (sense of urgency, emergency, pressure) of the observing body-brain-‘system’. It correlates with this universally assumed vertical axis, with the exclusive use [instruments too] of the senses of the head and of ‘skin-encapsulated’ derived systemic definitions of ‘the world’ and ‘the observer’ (self or body). These allow localising and attributing properties to one or the other or their combination. However, they can also be considered as undifferentiated properties, ‘non-local’ but governing, of the ‘physical world of humans’ as it is apprehended in daily living, manifesting in a surface-related sense of swelling and gravity. A simple form of geometric topology ‘without hole’ (without discontinuity), here introduced through two cognitive experiments, animations, and images, can describe this. The method of ‘nexial-topology’ produces an ‘animated imaging’ that can be used to model (but not ‘represent’ in word, number, or realistic/ naturalistic images) the situation reaching ‘critical boundary’. It then shows auto-reinforcing self-organisation and auto-destruction in ‘passing’ it. Yet, it can also be used as a ‘native gauging’ expressed in gesture or body posture, related to intuition, instinct, and the rare ‘thinking in image’. As such, it describes approaching ‘critical boundary’ (versus ‘reaching’) as auto-limiting. A crucial finding is that ‘spontaneous’ behaviours (non-induced, non-intended) can ensure the integrity of health under operation in most conditions, and stop extremes. Yet, they are usually deemed meaningless, random or useless, and are systematically suppressed by enculturation and prevented by civilised lifestyles. ‘Nexial-topology’ gives a clear meaning to them, and can model the ‘ease’ of health and of daily living. It gives access to more basic options, with wider effects, more immediate than all our solutions, often ignored because too obvious. For example, ‘global warming’ could be addressed as a non-local property and a deployment into crises to ‘stop’, rather than separate problems of water, resources, heated behaviour, inflammatory and ‘water diseases’.
KEYWORDS: Interdisciplinary research, cross-disciplinary methodologies, modal logic, fundamental problem, general relativity, localisation, physicalism, geometric quantization, occurrence, appearance, extension, projection, attribution, distributed, anthropic principle, anthropomorphism, unified, unbounded, left, right, spiral, viral, genetic drift, natural, life, human nature, human pressure, limit, extreme, threshold, validity, value, critical decision making, apperception, child cognition, sense, semantic drift, Four Elements, symbolic inversion.
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Bouchon, Marika. « 'Nexial-topology' situation modelling health ecology and other general perspectives / ». View thesis, 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/28676.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2008.A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, Centre for Social Ecology Research in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Social ecology). Includes bibliographical references.
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Williams, Paul. « Optical and other methods for the assessment of arterial and venous insufficiency ». Thesis, Cardiff University, 2011. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/18167/.
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There are a number of different techniques used to diagnose vascular insufficiency ranging from expensive hospital based equipment to less expensive devices used in primary care centres. Currently, some of these devices are unsuitable for use on patients with diabetes or DVI and have poor sensitivity for detecting moderate PAD patients. Additionally, some of the tests, particularly for DVI, require tourniquets or the patient to perform postural changes which some may find difficult. This may extend testing time. The study investigated 2 groups of patients, one with PAD and the other with DVI. The arterial group consisted of 46 controls and 57 patients. PPG probes were placed on the index finger and great toe. The venous group consisted of 24 controls and 25 patients and PPG probes were placed behind the knee and 10 cm above the medial malleolus. Duplex ultrasound was used as the gold standard to assess the arteries and veins in the lower limbs. The aim was to investigate whether signals acquired from patients at rest using Photoplethysmography (PPG) could be used as a screening tool. Pulse wave transit time (PWTT) and shape analysis techniques were used on the pulses from the patients with PAD, while time base and spectral analysis techniques were used on the waveforms of patients with DVI. PWTT and shape analysis techniques achieved sensitivities and specificities of 82% and 84% respectively. Accuracy dropped to 70% for detecting patients with moderate PAD. Spectral analysis techniques gave the best results for detecting patients with DVI achieving sensitivities and specificities of 69% and 80% respectively. In conclusion, reducing the signal acquisition time on patients with PAD did not significantly reduce the sensitivity and specificity. Without any patient movement it was difficult to separate patients with DVI from healthy normals.
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Marcil, Jacinthe. « Political awakening, identity formation and the other's survival : Bihar's internal re-organization ». Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28297.
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Since Independence in 1947, India has been internally reorganized several times, and new states have been carved out of old ones for various reasons. The latest stage of reorganization occurred in 2000 when the states of Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh came into being from the remodelling of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh respectively. The three new states have their under-development in common as well as their sense of injustice about regional exploitation. This research focuses on the case study of Bihar and Jharkhand, situated in the Eastern part of India's Northern Hindi-speaking belt. Two distinct threads are followed: a top-down approach which asks why the central government decided to split Bihar; and a bottom-up approach wondering how the local population -- specifically the tribal one -- managed, throughout the years, to gain political power and to obtain their long-wanted -- yet truncated -- autonomous state within the Indian federation.
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Callaghan, Kathleen Suzanne Noëlle. « Factors that influence General Practitioner diagnostic decision-making and a comparison with other stakeholders ». Thesis, University of Auckland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/1907.
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Abstract Background An analysis of Accident Compensation Corporation claims shows “inconsistent and inadequate diagnoses” by health care providers. Diagnostic performance is a result of two independent parameters, namely discrimination (accuracy) and decision (bias). Bias is related to the medical practitioner’s perception of the costs and benefits of making one choice over another. Bias may be statistical, sociological, political, biological or psychological in nature. This study investigated the factors that potentially bias diagnostic decision-making by general practitioners and the subjective value placed on these factors by different stakeholder groups in society. Methods Phase 1 of the study used focus groups of standard setters for general practitioners to identify factors that influenced diagnostic decision-making in general practice. These factors were evaluated for importance and desirability using standard Delphi methodology and Rasch analysis. Phase 2 of the study evaluated the importance and desirability of the factors identified in Phase 1 for influencing decision making as judged by significant health care stakeholder groups in New Zealand. Participant response was via questionnaire analysed by the Rasch Model. Results Thirty-nine factors were identified that potentially biased diagnostic decision-making in general practice. The measurements of, particularly, desirability have high reproducibility across stakeholder groups and high positive loading for the first principal component consistent with construct validity. No stakeholder group identifies factors consistent with Bayes’ theorem of diagnostic reasoning as being the only desirable influence on diagnosis. There is considerable categorical homogeneity between the stakeholder groups GP, GPACC, P, RACCSLT and RACCSST. Conclusions The findings of this and other studies challenge the current biomedical paradigm, indicating a less than Bayesian approach to medical decision-making. A social constructivist model, incorporating non-Bayesian factors into the definition of “illness” versus “disease”, may be more representative of reality. A social constructivist model of medicine is incompatible with the current legislatory and administrative framework within which the Accident Compensation Corporation and a number of other medical organisations operate.Accident Compensation Corporation of New Zealand
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Haynes, William M. « Drinking and driving in Canada an evaluation of legal policy and other countermeasures ». Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4614.
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Robert, Laurian S. « The expression of seed storage proteins in oat, other cereals and in legumes ». Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4615.
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Chénier, J. V. Robert. « Host selection by Monochamus scutellatus (Say) (Coleoptera : Cerambycidae) and other conifer-feeding beetles ». Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5054.
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Reiling, Forrest freiling. « Toward General Purpose 3D User Interfaces : Extending Windowing Systems to Three Dimensions ». DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2014. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1227.
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Recent growth in the commercial availability of consumer grade 3D user interface devices like the Microsoft Kinect and the Oculus Rift, coupled with the broad availability of high performance 3D graphics hardware, has put high quality 3D user interfaces firmly within the reach of consumer markets for the first time ever. However, these devices require custom integration with every application which wishes to use them, seriously limiting application support, and there is no established mechanism for multiple applications to use the same 3D interface hardware simultaneously. This thesis proposes that these problems can be solved in the same way that the same problems were solved for 2D interfaces: by abstracting the input hardware behind input primitives provided by the windowing system and compositing the output of applications within the windowing system before displaying it. To demonstrate the feasibility of this approach this thesis also presents a novel Wayland compositor which allows clients to create 3D interface contexts within a 3D interface space in the same way that traditional windowing systems allow applications to create 2D interface contexts (windows) within a 2D interface space (the desktop), as well as allowing unmodified 2D Wayland clients to window into the same 3D interface space and receive standard 2D input events. This implementation demonstrates the ability of consumer 3D interface hardware to support a 3D windowing system, the ability of this 3D windowing system to support applications with compelling 3D interfaces, the ability of this style of windowing system to be built on top of existing hardware accelerated graphics and windowing infrastructure, and the ability of such a windowing system to support unmodified 2D interface applications windowing into the same 3D windowing space as the 3D interface applications. This means that application developers could create compelling 3D interfaces with no knowledge of the hardware that supports them, that new hardware could be introduced without needing to integrate it with individual applications, and that users could mix whatever 2D and 3D applications they wish in an immersive 3D interface space regardless of the details of the underlying hardware.
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Hosseyndoust, Foomany Farbod. « Analysis of voiceprint and other biometrics for criminological and security applications ». Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2010. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/9635/.
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This Thesis examines the role and limitations of voice biometrics in the contexts of security and for crime reduction. The main thrust of the Thesis is that despite the technical and non-technical hurdles that this research has identified and sought to overcome, voice can be an effective and sustainable biometric if used in the manner proposed here. It is contended that focused and continuous evaluation of the strength of systems within a solid framework is essential to the development and application of voice biometrics and that special attention needs to be paid to human dimensions in system design and prior to deployment. Through an interdisciplinary approach towards the theme reflected in the title several scenarios are presented of the use of voice in security / crime reduction, crime investigation, forensics and surveillance contexts together with issues surrounding their development and implementation. With a greater emphasis on security-oriented voice verification (due to the diversity of the usage scenarios and prospect of use) a new framework is presented for analysis of the reliability and security of voice verification. This research calls not only for a standard evaluation scheme and analytical framework but also takes active steps to evaluate the prototype system within the framework under various conditions. Spoof attacks, noises, coding, distance and channel effects are among the factors that are studied. Moreover, an additional under-researched area, the detection of counterfeit signals, is also explored. While numerous technical and design contributions made in this project are summarised in chapter 2, the research mainly aims to provide solid answers to the high-level strategic questions. The Thesis culminates in a synthesis chapter in which realistic expectations, design requirements and technical limitations of the use of voice for criminological and security applications are outlined and areas for further research are defined.
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Montague, Samantha J. « Platelet activation in trauma and other inflammatory conditions ». Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7147/.
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Platelets play critical roles in thrombosis, inflammation, and wound healing, which are essential in response to trauma. These processes are primarily driven through the immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM)-containing receptors, glycoprotein VI (GPVI) and C-type lectin-like receptor 2 (CLEC-2). This study aimed to investigate; (i) the effects of Alarmins released following trauma on platelet reactivity and the mechanisms involved; (ii) establish whether soluble GPVI (sGPVI), a platelet activation marker is elevated in trauma and other inflammatory conditions; (iii) determine whether the CLEC-2 ligand, podoplanin, is elevated in inflammatory conditions and (iv) establishing the role of GPVI and platelets in cutaneous wound healing. The nuclear-related Alarmin, histones, induced robust platelet activation both in vitro and in vivo. Histone-induced platelet activation was mediated through GPVI in vitro However, this pathway was found not to underlie histone-induced lowering of platelet count in vivo and is most likely to result from mediators released following vascular damage. GPVI shedding was shown to be induced following activation by thrombin, through a pathway dependent on fibrin generation. sGPVI was found to be a marker for platelet activation during a variety of inflammatory disorders, notably in association with sepsis. Furthermore, GPVI shedding reflects platelet activation by collagen and potentially thrombin-induced fibrin generation.
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Johnson, Penelope. « Translation and the image of the other : The English translations of Pablo Neruda's Canto general ». Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.512148.
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Cummergen, Paul A. « Preaching and other verbal performance in a United Church of Canada congregation : Speaking of experience ». Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9815.
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This is a study of the ritual of Sunday worship in a United Church of Canada congregation. Its seeks to provide a contextual analysis of the preaching and other verbal performances which are the most significant ritual elements. The work of Pierre Bourdieu is critically assessed. On this basis, an account of preaching as symbolic labour is developed. Samples of preaching collected through participant-observation of the services are analysed to show the ways in which preaching serves to provide a discursive resource for the (re)production of communal individual conceptions of the "self" among members of the congregation. Age and gender are identified as key variables among this urban, middle-class population. A particular group of upwardly mobile, female adults is identified as especially responsive to the way in which the verbal performances of the minister provide a model and the linguistic resources for the production and transformation of self-description and self-understanding. In these ways, some account of the persistence of this example of mainstream, conventional Christianity is given.
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Karaplis, Andy C. « The role of prostaglandin E2 and other eicosanoids in catecholamine secretion from adrenal chromaffin cells / ». Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75418.
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Prostaglandins E$ sb1$ and E$ sb1$ are bound with high affinity and specificity to particulate fractions from bovine, ovine and human adrenal medulla. An identical fraction from fetal bovine and ovine adrenals binds PGEs with similar kinetic properties and specificities. The ${ rm lbrack sp3H rbrack}$PGE$ sb2$-binding site complex dissociates in a biphasic manner, suggesting the presence of both a low and high affinity form of the complex. Gpp(NH)p, a stable GTP analogue, inhibits PGE$ sb2$ binding by promoting the conversion of the high affinity form of the complex to the lower affinity state. In subcellular fractionation studies, PGE$ sb2$ binding sites co-purity with acetylcholinesterase and Ca$ sp{2+}$-ATPase activities (marker enzymes for the chromaffin cell plasma membrane). Bovine adrenal medullary cells in culture, prelabeled with ${ rm lbrack sp3H rbrack}$arachidonic acid, metabolize the precursor fatty acid to PGE$ sb2,$ 6-oxoPGF$ sb{1 alpha}$ and other unidentified products, when stimulated with the calcium-ionophore A23187. PGE$ sb2$ (10$ sp{-9}$ M) inhibits both nicotine and high K$ sp+$-induced catecholamine secretion from chromaffin cells by a mechanism unrelated to alterations in intracellular levels of cyclic nucleotides. LTC$ sb4$ and LTB$ sb4$ stimulate spontaneous catecholamine release but this effect is not always reproducible. NDGA attenuates nicotine-induced secretion, while indomethacin has no effect. These data suggest that the inhibitory effect of PGE$ sp2$ on chromaffin cell secretion is initiated by the release of the prostaglandin during cellular activation, followed by the binding of PGE$ sb2$ to its receptor and the subsequent interaction of this complex with a guanine nucleotide-binding protein.
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Salmi, Katya. « Exploring the mechanisms for challenging racial discrimination in relation to French political culture : a race critical approach ». Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38593/.
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This thesis questions the effectiveness of anti-racial discrimination mechanisms in France, particularly in relation to the national political culture. Considering the overall import of republican ideology in France, which emphasizes values of universalism, colour-blindness, and laïcité, there are significant implications for how institutional, legal and civil society actors have traditionally approached issues of racism in France. From primary data, gathered through fieldwork in France (consisting of a series of semi-structured interviews with key antiracist and anti-racial discrimination actors), this thesis highlights the ways in which the political culture impacts the anti-racial discrimination agenda. By taking into account the various levels of antiracism in France, this thesis constitutes a unique, holistic and race critical analysis whereby legal, civil society, institutional and non-conventional mechanisms are considered in conjunction with each other, instead of separately. Using “race” as an analytical tool for understanding the French context, this thesis offers a critical re-reading of French history, linking an ethnicized and racialized formation of national identity throughout key historical moments to contemporary forms of racism. This research thus argues that certain antiracist approaches based on republican ideology result in a limited understanding of racialized processes, which appears to constrain actors from producing effective mechanisms for challenging racism and racial discrimination.
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Peddle, Laurence. « The problem of induction and the problem of other minds : a proposed solution ». Thesis, Cardiff University, 2011. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/13540/.
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Summary In chapter one I reject the thesis that a relation of partial entailment holds between probability evidence and conclusion, as also the claim that the propositions of applied geometry are synthetic a priori. By way of balance, I suggest that there may be a sense in which necessary conditions of discourse transcend the distinction between a priori and empirical. In chapter two I reject the claim that logical relations in the form of intrinsic probability enter into the no-miracles argument, which I suggest is frequency-connected in its more systematic applications, so that it belongs within a system. I begin chapter three with a critique of an attempted formal probability solution to Hume’s problem, and I now suggest that inductive inference has application only within a system in which its validity is pre-supposed in its premises, a concomitant of which is that the sceptic about induction cannot stop short of global scepticism. Since my aim is to show that global scepticism is self-refuting, given that intentionality may be analysed in terms of a system, I now develop that analysis by devoting chapter four to an examination of Wittgenstein on meaning and understanding. In chapter five I reject his thesis equating meaning and understanding with use, arguing instead that they are irreducible and subject to dispositionality conditions, and in furtherance of that argument I try to solve the problem of the authoritativeness of belief avowals by showing again that there are necessary conditions of discourse. These are such that selfascribing belief, crediting oneself with understanding and with being suitably disposed, are inherent in reasoning. In chapter six I weave the threads of the previous discussion into a solution by arguing that the sceptic about induction, who is committed to global scepticism, necessarily refutes himself. In chapter seven, on the problem of other minds, I attempt a solution by modifying the arguments used against inductive scepticism.
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Draman, Mohd Shazli. « The role of endocrine and other factors in the remodelling underpinning Graves' orbitopathy ». Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/100130/.
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In Graves’ orbitopathy (GO) tissue remodelling by increased proliferation, excess adipogenesis and hyaluronan overproduction, cause exophthalmos. My initial work followed reports by others of enophthalmos in some glaucoma patients treated with Bimatoprost (prostaglandin F2α, PGF2α) eye drops. I hypothesized that this could be due to reduced proliferation or adipogenesis and/or increased lipolysis; any of which could improve GO. In vitro models used to investigate possible mechanisms demonstrated that PGF2α reduced proliferation by prolongation of G2/M (flow cytometry) and adipogenesis (evaluated morphologically, by oil red O staining and QPCR measurement of adipogenesis markers) of 3T3-L1 and human orbital fibroblasts (OF). These effects were reversible upon drug withdrawal. GO OFs proliferated significantly more rapidly and also displayed higher adipogenic potential than non-GO. There was no effect of PGF2α, on basal or norepinephrine-induced lipolysis in 3T3-L1 or human OFs, either GO or non-GO. The data helped us secure NISCHR funding for a clinical trial ‘Prostaglandin F2-alpha eye drops (Bimatoprost) in thyroid eye disease: a randomised controlled double blind crossover trial’. Following informed consent, 31 clinically inactive (late phase) GO patients were randomised to receive Bimatoprost or placebo eye drops daily for three months followed by a two-month drug washout period before switching to the opposite treatment for three months. I concluded that 3 months Bimatoprost treatment is not effective in reducing proptosis in late phase GO patients. Mysubsequent work investigated truncated TSHR variants (TSHR_v2) and thyrostimulin. The former could act as TSH/TRAB binding proteins whilst the latter could bind to and activate the TSHR and contribute to GO pathogenesis. I found no evidence of a role for thyrostimulin in GO. TSHR_v2 transcripts and protein are more abundant than full length TSHR in OF and during adipogenesis are significantly higher in GO than non-GO. TSHR_v2 may be secreted and provide a binding protein for TSHR ligands and thus alter intracellular TSHR signalling. GD patients lose weight during active disease but gain more following treatment. Our group reported that TSHR activation leads to a ‘browning’ of fat from various depots. I performed ex vivo analysis on neck fat for brown, beige and white adipose tissue markers. The samples were GD patients (previously hyperthyroid/positive TSAB), toxic goitre (previously hyperthyroid/no TSAB) and euthyroid. I found no difference in expression of UCP1 and PGC1α. There were general reductions in ZIC1, CITED1, HOXC9 and LEPTIN markers in GD which may explain the altered body composition in these patients.
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Malloki, I. A. « The separation technique for nonlinear partial differential equations : General results and its connection with other methods ». Thesis, Keele University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380173.
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Blackburn, Patrick Rowan. « Nominal tense logic and other sorted intensional frameworks ». Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6588.
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This thesis introduces of a system of tense logic called nominal tense logic (NTL), and several extensions. Its primary aim is to establish that these systems are logically interesting, and can provide useful models of natural language tense, temporal reference, and their interaction. Languages of nominal tense logic are a simple augmentation of Priorean tense logic. They add to the familiar Priorean languages a new sort of atomic symbol, nominals. Like propositional variables, nominals are atomic sentences and may be freely combined with other wffs using the usual connectives. When interpreting these languages we handle the Priorean components standardly, but insist that nominals must be true at one and only one time. We can think of nominals as naming this time. Logically, the change increases the expressive power of tensed languages. There are certain intuitions about the flow of time, such as irreflexivity, that cannot be expressed in Priorean languages; with nominals they can. The effects of this increase in expressive power on the usual model theoretic results for tensed languages discussed, and completeness and decidability results for several temporally interesting classes of frames are given. Various extensions of the basic system are also investigated and similar results are proved. In the final chapter a brief treatment of similarly referential interval based logics is presented. As far as natural language semantics is concerned, the change is an important one. A familiar criticism of Priorean tense logic is that as it lacks any mechanism for temporal reference, it cannot provide realistic models of natural language temporal usage. Natural language tense is at least partly about referring to times, and nowadays the deictic and anaphoric properties of tense are a focus of research. The thesis presents a uniform treatment of certain temporally referring expressions such as indexicals, and simple discourse phenomena.
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Abbott, Paul Joseph. « The gospel of something or other ; Critical mass ». Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7328/.
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This thesis is comprised of two components: a creative work of fiction and a critical analysis of the fiction through a discussion of craft and creative influence. The creative section, the novel The Gospel of Something or Other, is a formally experimental work that explores authenticity - of both narrative and voice - authorial identity, the performativity of grief and sincerity, and the aesthetic function of narratalogical failure. The critical section of the thesis, Critical Mass, analyses the work of David Foster Wallace and James Wood in relation to the aforementioned fiction, discussing aspects of craft most relevant to the novel: the function of comedy and the function of manipulation. The critical piece investigates the extent to which influence can be identified in the creative process and the unstable relationship between critical interpretation and authorial intent.
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Tarhan, Hakan. « Public Perceptions of ‘the Other’s’ Heritage : Ottoman Heritage in Greece and Byzantine Heritage in Turkey ». Thesis, IMT Alti Studi Lucca, 2022. http://e-theses.imtlucca.it/360/1/Tarhan_phdthesis.pdf.
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The relationship between cultural heritage and identity has long been acknowledged. Due to this relevance, utilizing past and its material remains for political purposes has been a common practice for the states; a phenomenon that has its roots in antiquity and is still actively used. Modern states have been active agents in this process by defining
what constitutes their ‘national identity’ and ‘national heritage’. This selection brings together the exclusion of the pasts and their remains that are ’dissonant’ with the national historiography, thus resulting in the deliberate and non-deliberate destruction of ‘the Other’s’ heritage.
Due to their attachment to public memory, historical monuments are the most affected subjects of this process.
This study investigates the historical and contemporary effects of ‘exclusion’ of cultural heritage from the national narratives by focusing on the Ottoman heritage in Greece and the Byzantine heritage in Turkey. The research focuses on the two particular aspects of ‘public’:
the state and the people. It critically analyses cultural heritage laws in Greece and Turkey and the states’ contemporary cultural policies with regards to ‘the Other’s’ heritage. People’s perceptions of heritage are investigated through public opinion surveys conducted in two case
studies from the two countries. The research deals with a topical subject, ‘heritage and identity’, which
is of high relevance to contemporary societies and the heritage literature. Its originality lies in its scope, ‘the Other’s’ heritages in Greece and Turkey, and the novel results it produces. In summary, the research shows that people’s and states' perceptions of ‘the Other’s’ heritage are interrelated and mostly governed by the states’ policies. The inclusion of the Ottoman heritage in the cultural heritage management in Greece has positively influenced the people’s perceptions. In Turkey, the ‘otherness’ of the Byzantine heritage is still felt by the people, but the potential benefits of their utilization enhance their protection by the public.
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Updegrove, R. L. « Refusing to be the other| Barbara Deming's experiments with nonviolence ». Thesis, Northern Arizona University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3633678.
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Barbara Deming was active in the U.S. nonviolent movement from 1960 until her death from cancer in 1984 at age sixty-seven. A complex understanding of the intersections between gender, sexuality, feminism, and nonviolence can be gleaned by following her pilgrimage through nuclear disarmament activities, the African American Freedom Movement, the efforts to end the war in Viet Nam, Women's Liberation Movement actions, and her involvement in the Gay Liberation Movement. Deming had become well-known by the mid-1960s as a journalist for The Nation, an associate editor of the pacifist magazine Liberation, and the author of Prison Notes (1966), the first of her eight books. Despite her name recognition at the time and the leadership roles she often took in these social movements, she has nearly disappeared from the historical record.
Deming's story has been both preserved and erased because of her focus on integrating nonviolence with feminism, lesbianism, and androgyny in the 1970s and 80s. Deming identified as a lesbian as a teenager, but being white and upper-class shielded her from some oppression. By the 1970s she came to see her gender and sexuality as central to her involvement in the nonviolent movement. As she began living openly as a lesbian and writing about the connections she saw between feminism and nonviolence, she gained a new audience, primarily women, while losing the wider readership she had cultivated in the 1960s. Some men in the nonviolent movement continued to support her work, but it was pacifist women and those in the Women's and Gay Liberation Movements who helped archive her papers at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute.
Understanding Deming's activism helps to explain the oppressive role of heterosexism in the United States and highlights the possibilities and limitations of merging feminism and nonviolence, a strategy that has been neglected by historians of peace and feminism. Reclaiming Barbara Deming's perspective expressed in a quarter-century of writing about nonviolence, and investigating the continuity and change of her arguments, reveals a hidden history of the Women's Liberation Movement and the broader nonviolent movement.
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Van, Dam Hendrika. « Making it right ? : writing the other in postcolonial neo-Victorianism ». Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/97579/.
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This thesis examines the representation of ‘otherness’ in postcolonial neo-Victorian fiction. It analyses a selection of novels that not only engage critically with the Victorian past but specifically with the legacy of Victorian Britain’s empire. By looking at the ways in which neo-Victorian novels depict the (de)construction of their characters’ identities, this thesis investigates whether these representations are able to provide insight in present-day constructions of who is seen as being at home in British or Western European society and who is defined as ‘other’. Otherness, these novels show, is not limited to a binary of the Western ‘self’ and the stereotyped, non-Western ‘other’. Rather, many of the novels’ characters are made to discover the other(ness) within themselves. The introductory chapter considers neo-Victorianism’s postmodern background and the way it relates to postcolonial theories of race and sexuality. Chapter One focuses on two novels: Julian Barnes’ Arthur & George (2005) and Belinda Starling’s The Journal of Dora Damage (2007). Both novels are set in Britain and engage with the figure of the other coming (too) close to home. The chapter employs a potentially multidirectional ‘looking relation’ to study how postcolonial neo-Victorian fiction constructs the other against which the British characters define their own identities. Moving away from Britain, Chapter Two looks at the notion of the journey, specifically sea voyages between metropole and colony. Using Gail Jones’ Sixty Lights (2004) and Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea (2002), this chapter studies how the liminal experience of travel can function as an othering device. Chapter Three, finally, examines how Daniel Mason’s The Piano Tuner (2002) and David Rocklin’s The Luminist (2011) describe British society in the colonies. Away from the imperial mother country, making stable distinctions between self and other becomes increasingly difficult for the novels’ characters. Ultimately, this thesis questions whether postcolonial neo-Victorianism maintains a binary between the Western self and a stereotyped figure of the other, or if it can play a role in changing readers’ views of those people seen as ‘other’ in Western society.
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James, Elizabeth Claire. « "We're telling each other stories all the time" : narrative and working-class women's writing ». Thesis, University of Warwick, 1993. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3650/.
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The written word is one important way through which people come to think about themselves and the world they live in. Reading and writing are experiences which are both personal and political. They are closely connected to the development of a sense of self. In order to explore the specific ways in which this development takes place, and the possibilities offered by particular literary genres, I interviewed four working-class women writers about their reading and writing histories from childhood onwards. I use these interviews to construct a series of case studies, each of which allows me to focus on a different genre or area of concern, expressed by the writer herself, and examine in detail the specific identifications and pleasures it offers. In doing so I use a reformulated reader-response criticism to analyse the ways in which these women use reading and writing to make sense of the world and of themselves, and to create meaning. I argue that the value of reader-based criticism lies in its ability to account for the uses made of texts by individual, historically-situated readers.
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Carman, Martha A. « Effects of dietary (n-3) fatty acids on erythrocytes and other haematological parameters in cynomolgus monkeys, Macaca fascicularis ». Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5160.
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Barozzi, Giovanni Sebastiano. « Combined convection and other effects in heat transfer in horizontal flows ». Thesis, City, University of London, 1993. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/16971/.
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For many internal flow situations the effect of buoyancy is to cause significant modifications of the internal flow field and heat transfer rate. The present study focuses on combined forced and free convection under laminar flow conditions in horizontal cylindrical ducts. There, the superposition of secondary, buoyancy induced circulations to the basic forced flow, and the presence of peripheral and axial conduction in the duct wall, give rise to a three-dimensional conjugate heat transfer problem. Such a combined convection feature had not been investigated previously. A novel parallel predictive and experimental study of combined convection for laminar flow in cylindrical ducts is carried out here. The finite volume code FLOW3D from Harwell is used to treat the fully elliptic three-dimensional thermal-flow problem. The choice derives from a complete and detailed survey of the numerical techniques used in the context of combined convection. The predictive work relates specifically to a new experimental study, which has the object of obtaining fresh data for combined convection in horizontal duct flow. A 3 m long, 16 mm I.D. copper pipe is used, with uniform peripheral electrical heating. Wall temperature measurements are taken at twelve axial positions. The experiment covers the range of stable mixed convection and strictly laminar flow conditions, with the Reynolds number ranging from 500 to 1000, and the modified Rayleigh number, Raq, from 1x10⁵ to 5x10⁶. The scope of the experiment is to provide data for comparison with numerical predictions. These, in turn, are designed to model the experimental conditions very accurately, including, in particular, the effects of peripheral and axial wall conduction. The study is complemented with various analyses intended to understanding properly both pure forced and natural convection modes. These are investigated separately in the first part of the work. Overall, this work provides fresh experimental and predictive evidence on various features relevant to the onset and the development of buoyancy induced secondary flows in round ducts under heating conditions. More specifically, the effects, of conduction in the duct wall are highlighted, and demonstrated to have a definite influence on wall temperature, and Nusselt number distributions, even in the case of long, thin-walled ducts.
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Alvarez, Maribel. « Made in Mexico : Souvenirs, artisans, shoppers and the meanings of other "border-type-things" ». Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280342.
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In spite of their ubiquitous presence, the artisans who make serialized souvenirs for the tourist markets in the US-Mexico border and the people who buy these objects are invisible to the academic communities on both sides of the national divide. Simultaneously ignored by the Mexican folk arts canon; borderlands studies; Mexican historiography; and the anthropological literature interested in signs and symbolism, these allegedly low-grade and marginalized objects and people are nonetheless integral to the development of capitalism in Mexico. This work is an ethnography of the system of objects known as "Mexican curios" from the point of view of those who make the objects and those who consume them. It focuses specifically on one family of artisans that makes plaster figurines in Nogales, Sonora and shoppers at a Flea Market in Tucson, Arizona. The ethnography seeks to answer the questions: "Why is the most visible invisible?" and "How does invisibility become socially-installed and contested?" The study argues that instead of considering Mexican curios as the degenerate rear-guard to standards of good taste, or, as affronts to state-sanctioned ideas about folk art, these objects and the meanings attributed to them by makers and consumers must be read "in reverse." That is, as subtexts of fragmented projects of nationalism and social distinction. Curios distort by negation and playful inter-cultural negotiations dominant intellectual ideas about national patrimony and "worthiness." Plaster curio artisans and shoppers invent their own narratives to counter perceptions about their value as human beings and citizens. They appropriate, exppropriate, transform, and invent discourses about aesthetics, work, class, gender, and historical memory to invest meaning into their practices and their identities. The study stresses the importance of vernacular social histories as a mean through which subordinated people can regain a sense of empowerment when they interact with structures of power over which they have no control. In addition, the ethnography attempts to open a dialogue about the limits and the opportunities afforded by the disciplines of Folklore and Anthropology when they are wielded by research participants for their own goals.
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Schiano, Lomoriello Arianna. « Reading others' emotions : Evidence from event-related potentials ». Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3426338.
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This Thesis aimed at investigating, by using the event-related potentials (ERPs) technique, some relevant aspects involved in human ability to read others’ emotions and in empathizing with others’ affective states. Social and affective neuroscience has largely studied faces and facial expressions since they represent relevant “pieces of information” in guiding individuals during interaction. Their importance is strictly related to the fact that they provide unique information about identity, gender, age, trustworthiness, and attractiveness, but they also convey emotions.
In Chapter 1, I have introduced the reader to the contents of this Thesis, in particular the ability to “read” others’ facial expressions and to empathize with others’ affective states.
In Chapter 2, I have offered an overview of knowledge available today on how humans process faces in general and facial expressions in particular. I have proposed a theoretical excursus starting from Bruce and Young’s cognitive model (1986) to a recent simulative model of recognition of emotional facial expressions by Wood and colleagues (2016), which considers facial mimicry helpful in discriminating between subtle emotions.
In Chapter 3 and 4, I have presented two different studies (Experiments 1 and 2, respectively) strongly related to each other, since they aimed both at testing a functional link between the visual system and facial mimicry/sensorimotor simulation during the processing of facial expressions of emotions. I have described two different studies in which ERPs, by virtue of its high temporal resolution, allowed to track the time-course of the hypothesized influence of mimicry/simulation on the stages of visual analysis of facial expressions. The aim of Experiment 1 was to explore the potential connection between facial mimicry and the early stage of the construction of visual percepts of facial expressions; while the Experiment 2 investigated whether and how facial mimicry could
interact with later stages of visual processing focusing on the construction of visual working memory representations of facial expressions of emotions, by also monitoring whether this process could depend on the degree of the observers’ empathy. For both studies, the results strongly suggest that mimicry may influence early and later stages of visual processing of faces and facial expressions.
In the second part of my Thesis, I introduced the reader to the construct of empathy, dealing with its multifaceted nature and the role of different factors in the modulation of an empathic response, especially to others’ pain (Chapter 5).
In Chapter 6 and 7, I have discussed two ERP studies (Experiments 3 and 4a) with one behavioral study included as a control study (Experiment 4b) to investigate the empathic reaction to others’ pain as a function of different variables that could play a role in daily life. Experiment 3 investigated the role of prosodic information in neural empathic responses to others’ pain. Results from this study demonstrated that prosodic information can enhance human ability to share others’ pain by acting transversely on the two main empathy components, the experience sharing and the mentalizing. The aim of Experiment 4a was to study whether the physical distance between an observer and an individual in a particular affective state, induced by a painful stimulation, is a critical factor in modulating the magnitude of an empathic neural reaction in the observer. Thus, by manipulating the perceived physical distance of face stimuli, I observed a moderating effect on empathic ERP reactions as a function of the perceived physical distance of faces. Results of Experiment 4b clarified that the critical factor triggering differential empathic reactions in the two groups in Experiment 4a was not related to the likelihood of identifying the faces of the two sizes but to the perceived physical distance.
Finally, in Chapter 8, a general discussion highlights the main findings presented in this Thesis, by also providing future suggestions to extend the research on this topics debated in the previous Chapters.Questo elaborato ha l’obiettivo di indagare, tramite l’utilizzo della tecnica dei potenziali evento-relati (ERPs, Event-Related Potentials), alcuni aspetti che caratterizzano e guidano l’interazione sociale umana, come l’abilità di leggere e comprendere le emozioni altrui. Le neuroscienze sociali hanno studiato nel dettaglio volti ed espressioni facciali, in quanto stimoli che, oltre a fornire informazioni uniche circa l’identità, il genere, l’età, l’affidabilità, l’attrattività e la direzione dello sguardo, tramettono indicazioni circa gli stati emotivi dell’altro. Il Capitolo 1 fornisce una panoramica teorica, primum, rispetto al processamento dei volti e delle espressioni facciali, deinde, sull’empatia, in particolare al dolore, intesa come capacità umana di comprendere l’altrui stato affettivo. Nel Capitolo 2 è proposto un excursus teorico sul processamento dei volti e delle emozioni da essi veicolate, partendo dal modello cognitivo di Bruce e Young (1986) ai recenti modelli simulativi, fino a quello più attuale di Wood e colleghi (2016), che considera il ruolo della mimica facciale nella discriminazione di emozioni sottili. Nei Capitoli 3 e 4, sono presentati due studi strettamente interconnessi (rispettivamente, Esperimento 1 e 2). Entrambi hanno come obiettivo lo studio di un collegamento funzionale tra il sistema visivo e la mimica facciale/simulazione senso-motoria, nel processamento di emozioni tramite l’osservazione di espressioni facciali. Nei due studi è stata utilizzata la tecnica degli ERPs che, data la sua alta risoluzione temporale, ha permesso di tracciare una dinamica temporale chiarendo il ruolo della mimica/simulazione sugli stadi di analisi visiva coinvolti nell’elaborazione di espressioni facciali. L’obiettivo dell’Esperimento 1 era di indagare una possibile connessione tra la mimica facciale e uno dei primi stadi di costruzione del percetto visivo del volto; mentre l’Esperimento 2, indagava se e come la mimica facciale interagisse con uno stadio più tardivo legato alla costruzione di una rappresentazione in memoria di lavoro visiva e se questo processo dipendesse dal grado di empatia dell’osservatore. I risultati dei due Esperimenti suggeriscono come la mimica facciale influenzi sia gli stadi precoci che tardivi del processamento di emozioni tramite l’osservazione di espressioni facciali. Nella seconda parte della Tesi, viene affrontato il tema dell’empatia, con particolare riferimento alla sua natura sfaccettata e al come variabili diverse possano modulare la risposta empatica stessa, specialmente al dolore altrui (Capitolo 5). All’interno dei Capitoli 6 e 7 sono presentati due studi ERPs (Esperimento 3 e 4a) e un’indagine comportamentale (Esperimento 4b) con l’obiettivo di indagare la risposta empatica, elicitata nell’osservatore, quando si trova di fronte a qualcuno che sta provando dolore. L’esperimento 3 vuole studiare il ruolo della prosodia nel modulare la risposta neurale empatica nell’osservatore. I risultati dimostrano che l’informazione prosodica può aumentare la risposta empatica, agendo trasversalmente sulle due grandi componenti dell’empatia, experience sharing e mentalizing. Nell’Esperimento 4a, l’obiettivo era di comprendere se la distanza fisica tra l’osservatore e un individuo in una situazione dolorosa, potesse rappresentare un fattore importante nel modulare la grandezza della risposta empatica. Questo studio, attraverso la manipolazione della distanza fisica percepita di volti, ha mostrato una riduzione della risposta empatica rilevata nell’osservatore, in funzione della distanza fisica percepita. Il risultato dell’Esperimento 4b, invece, ha chiarito che il fattore critico nella generazione della risposta empatica (studio 4a) fosse la distanza fisica percepita e non quanto fossero discriminabili i volti tra loro. In conclusione, nel Capitolo 8, è fornita una discussione generale che integri i risultati più importanti ottenuti negli studi descritti, cercando di delineare risvolti e prospettive future.
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Li, Ji. « A study of the solid particle erosion performance of automative and other novel low carbon steels ». Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2007. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/8534/.
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Albert, Eliot. « Towards a schizogenealogy of heretical materialism : between Bruno and Spinoza, Nietzsche, Deleuze and other philosophical recluses ». Thesis, University of Warwick, 1999. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4002/.
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The central problematic of this thesis is the formation of a philosophy of creative matter, a philosophical materialism, deriving from the work of Gilles Deleuze Fdlix and Guattari, and based substantially upon an examination of the consequences of their engagement with the philosophical tradition. I have supplemented the writers used by Deleuze and Guattari with the resources of Giordano Bruno's philosophy, as well as numerous examples and arguments from the natural sciences. Bruno is particularly important here, in that in his work and life, materialism is most tightly bound up with monism. Philosophical materialist monism can be crystallised as a sustained meditation upon one problem: that of the overcoming of dualism; and in this sense to speak of materialism is to speak of the problem of hylomorphism. The hylomorphic model, formalised by Aristotle, and operative in both philosophy and science, implies both a transcendent form that organises matter, and a dead matter, passively moulded by the imposition of that form. These ontological and epistemological assumptions have clear political and theological ramifications, contributing to an abstract diagram of State power. The critique of this model calls for a philosophy of active, self-organising matter- a necessarily heretical, materialist thought, constitutionally opposed to all transcendent powers. I In this chapter I produce a performative diagram of DeleuzeGuattari's understanding of the heterogenetic nature of the concept by examining those of drive, assemblage, multiplicity. The case used here is the linked complex of problems associated with death and entropy. These issues are posed throughout as means of indicating Deleuze and Guattari's challenge to dominant modes of philosophising. II Here I offer an elaboration of Deleuze and Guattari's relationship with cybernetics, through an outline of the work of Gilbert Simondon. The principal concepts developed here, are individuation and becoming. This is followed by extensive critiques of hylomorphism and autopoiesis. The categories of minor or nomad, and major or State, sciences, are introduced along with the related concepts of following and reproducing. III This chapter explores the oppositions between consistency and organisation; immanence and transcendence. Here I read two of Deleuze and Guattari's key concepts- intensity and incorporeal transformation- in terms of Spinoza and Schelling respectively. Symbiosis and morphogenesis are examined as examples of the minor sciences introduced in the previous chapter. The minor then poses the questions of invention and pragmatics in philosophy. IV This chapter is devoted to a critique of Manuel De Landa's reading of Deleuze and Guattari that aims to demonstrate, against his claims, the centrality of Marx to their philosophy. The chapter also elaborates upon the concepts of Geophilosophy, the machinic phylum, and machinic surplus value. V This chapter offers a set of elaborations upon the nature of the materialism produced by bringing the thought of Giordano Bruno into contact with that of Deleuze, thereby transforming both. Inverted vitalism is posed as a key marker of Deleuze's genealogy. I show the identity of metaphysics and politics, and its role in an account of materialist heresy. VI The final chapter consists of a critique of Kant's claim to being `Copernican', and Copernicus' claim to being revolutionary. It demonstrates the extent of Bruno's cosmological revolution. I use Nietzsche's `perfect nihilist' to further the ideas of invention and heresy advanced earlier, to end with a demonstration of philosophy's ever present becomings hybrid, as opposed to dominant ideas of its being in a permanent state of mourning.
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Staikou, Elina Theodorou. « Metaphors of travel and writing : deconstruction of the "at-home" and the promise of the other ». Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3047/.
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The purpose of the thesis is to consider travel relations with regard to their onto-phenomenological and semantic of possibility and to raise the question of a possible ethics of travel. In turning the notion of travel back upon its signifying conditions, a connection is established with the notion of metaphor. The metaphysical polarity between proper and metaphorical meaning is furthered onto a problematic of the couple Oikos (house, home in Greek and generally everything that constitutes a sense of the-at-home) and travel with the purpose of complicating their mutual determination and to deconstructively challenge the derivational and recuperative logic that permeates their intra-metaphysical designation. The reconsideration of the conceptual presuppositions of “travel” is carried out through the critique of what is called its hermeneutic premise, formulated here largely drawing on Paul Ricoeur. It is maintained that “travel” in its Western European conceputalisation participates in the traditions of the metaphysics if presence and logocentrism and it is on this level that deconstructive thinking takes effect. Questions related to the theme of travel, such as space, time, boundary, itinerary, event, encounter, as well as to travel writing, such as generic delimination, representation, constative reference and performative engagement, testimonial value, and the antinomy of fact and fiction, are addressed and relocated through the preoccupation with their phenomenological and tropological motifs and in particular with their generalised metaphorical and allegorical conditions, as these are designated by Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, respectively. The association of the notion of travel with metaphor, and, by extension, that between Oikos and properness, will show that senses of home and away, rather than being pregiven, emerge from a scriptural condition - a structural of difference and deferral- that interrupts their reductive, totalising, monistic formulations as well as dialectical conceptualisations.
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Porcheret, Mark Ernest Paul. « The management of osteoarthritis in general practice : development and implementation of a model consultation ». Thesis, Keele University, 2016. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/2364/.
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Background People with osteoarthritis (OA) frequently consult general practitioners (GPs) for the problem but the care they receive in these consultations is often sub-optimal. The aim of the studies described in this thesis was to enhance GP clinical practice for OA by developing and implementing a model OA consultation for the initial contact between a GP and an older patient presenting with peripheral joint pain. Methods A consensus exercise was undertaken to develop the model OA consultation. This was followed by the development, and delivery in a series of workshops, of a behaviour change intervention to implement the model in practice. Impact of workshops was assessed by before-and-after methods on directly observed GP use of the model OA consultation in video-recorded consultations with simulated patients, and by self-report measures (at baseline, and one and five months after). Learner reactions and delivery in day-to-day practice were assessed. Results The model OA consultation consisted of 25 tasks for assessment and initial management. A four workshop series was developed and delivered to 24 GPs and included didactic, interactive and skills training (with simulated patients) sessions. The workshops addressed barriers and facilitators for change identified in the development of the behaviour change intervention. GP use of the model OA consultation, by 15 GPs whose video-recorded consultations were assessed, was enhanced after workshops compared with before, evidenced by increased use of 14 tasks from a median of 7 tasks before to 11 after. Impact on self-report measures was inconclusive. Learner reactions were positive but delivery in day-to-day practice was limited. Conclusion A before and after study has demonstrated that GP use of a model OA consultation in a simulated setting can be enhanced. Further research and quality improvement initiatives will be needed to enhance use of the model OA consultation in day-to-day practice.
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Wong, Chen H. « Effects of chromium, managanese and other metals on growth and metabolic activities of the acidophilic bacteria, Thiobacillus ferroxidans and Thiobacillus thiooxidans ». Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5192.
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More, Kristin. « Teaching Debit Card Skills Using General Case Programming ». Scholar Commons, 2018. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7198.
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Independent living skills are extremely important for individuals with developmental disabilities as these skills aide in autonomy, lessen the burden on caregivers, and assist with integration into the community. An important skill that should be targeted is purchasing skills. Teaching purchasing skills can bring individuals into contact with new environments and access to items that would not have been available for them to access independently before learning the skill. Traditional purchasing skills often target teaching money and math skills. However, as technology advances, these skills are not only hard to teach to various individuals but may be outdated. There have been a few studies that targeted teaching purchasing skills to individuals using forms other than cash. This study taught debit card purchasing skills using a multiple baseline across participants design to individuals with developmental disabilities and evaluated the effects of using multiple exemplar training on generalization to novel settings. All three study participants showed improved performance after training by demonstrating 87% or more of the steps accurately in the natural setting during post-training generalization probes to the trained stores (average across the three participants and three stores was 90%). Two out of three participants generalized the skill to a novel store with at least 90% accuracy. The third participant generalized the skill to a novel store with 83% accuracy. Maintenance probes were conducted for two of the three participants and those two participants were able to maintain the skill well above baseline accuracy.