Дисертації з теми "Life"

This doctoral thesis describes, critically evaluates and reflects on the development and evaluation of an innovative approach to supporting individuals after a stroke. This approach consists of; a once-weekly, twelve week, stroke self-management programme consisting of interactive information provision, rehabilitation and exercise in an environment of peer and caregiver support called ‘ASPIRE’ – an acronym for Acute stroke, Self-management support, secondary Prevention, Information, Rehabilitation and Exercise. The development of the ASPIRE programme was influenced by interviews with those involved in the ASPIRE programme and the process and results of a primary research evaluation using mixed methods. The aim of this two phase evaluation was to 1) identify participants’ views as to the outcomes of attending the ASPIRE programme, using a grounded theory approach and 2) identify whether those outcomes could be assessed using currently existing standardised validated tools. Three key themes were identified; A life I like – the confidence to do the everyday activities important to a person after a stroke; Changing hearts and minds – the confidence, knowledge and health behaviour change to reduce vascular risk after stroke and In the same boat – the benefits of peer support for stroke survivors and caregivers. These themes were used to select relevant standardised validated tools; the Stroke Knowledge Test (SKT), Stroke Self Efficacy Questionnaire (SSEQ), Cerebrovascular Attitudes and Beliefs Scale (CABS-R), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and Caregiver Strain Index (CSI). Statistically significant gains were identified in the SKT and HADS – depression score. The tools were useful and sensitive to change; however, the SSEQ had a ceiling effect with this cohort and the CABS-R was found difficult to use. Although existing outcome tools may not adequately measure new multi-factorial post-stroke interventions such as the ASPIRE programme, the unique contributions of this doctoral thesis to the body of knowledge are that; • An enabling culture, that includes peer support for stroke survivors and caregivers, helps individuals to move forward after stroke. • Support for self-generated goal planning, based on a ‘life-thread’ approach, may improve outcomes from stroke survivors’ perspectives. • Supporting individuals to develop the confidence, knowledge and health behaviours to reduce vascular risk can be an integral and complementary part of rehabilitation after stroke. A multi-factorial programme to enable life after stroke should therefore include both rehabilitation “A life I like” and secondary prevention “A life to live”. • Individually tailored exercise programmes to support rehabilitation and secondary prevention can be used with groups of stroke survivors with a wide range of deficits.

This thesis is based on collaborative research conducted over ten years with three elders of Athapaskan/Tlingit ancestry, in the southern Yukon Territory, Canada Mrs. Angela Sidney, Mrs. Kitty Smith and Mrs. Annie Ned are also authors of this document because their oral accounts of their lives are central to the discussion. One volume examines issues of method and ethnographic writing involved in such research and analyses the accounts provided by these women; a second volume presents their accounts, in their own words, in three appendices. The thesis advanced here is that life history offers two distinct contributions to anthropology. As a method, it provides a model based on collaboration between participants rather than research 'by' an anthropologist 'on' the community. As ethnography, it shows how individuals may use the traditional dimension of culture as a resource to talk about their lives, and explores the extent to which it is possible f or anthropologists to write ethnography grounded in the perceptions and experiences of people whose lives they describe. Narrators provide complex explanations for their experiences and decisions in metaphoric language, raising questions about whether anthropological categories like 'individual', 'society' and 'culture' are uniquely bounded units. The analysis focusses on how these women attach central importance to traditional stories (particularly those with female protagonists), to named landscape features, to accounts of travel, and to inclusion of incidents from the lives of others in their narrated 'life histories'. Procedures associated with both life history analysis and the analysis of oral tradition are used to consider the dynamics of narration. Particular attention is paid to how these women use oral tradition both to talk about the past and to continue to teach younger people appropriate behavior in the present. The persistence of oral tradition as a system of communication and information in the north when so much else has changed suggests that expressive forms like story telling contribute to strategies for adapting to social, economic and cultural change.
Arts, Faculty of
Anthropology, Department of
Graduate

This thesis addresses the idea of purpose and meaning in life and how it can be intentionally fostered across the lifespan. Purpose and meaning in life, as it relates to well-being, is considered by some scholars to be the highest-level construct from which all other lower-level constructs of well-being flow (Kashdan & McKnight, 2009). As this thesis will demonstrate, purpose is highly correlated with many other desirable outcomes that are vital for living a life of flourishing, thriving and wellness. Given the importance of purpose in life as it relates to wellness, health and psychological wellbeing, this thesis is concerned with whether purpose in life can be intentionally fostered within the human condition, especially for those who have a deficit of it. To achieve this, my thesis contains three studies: I. A psychometric study that seeks to validate well-known purpose in life instruments and then create a new purpose in life instrument that is a common core that covers areas of the construct of purpose/meaning in life that exist in disparate meaning and purpose scales. II. Test a purpose in life fostering intervention in a youth/ school based sample using a quasi-experimental design. III. Test a purpose in life fostering instrument in an adult sample of people fifty years old and above using a randomized control trial. Considering this my thesis seeks to satisfy the following four aims: 1. To arrive at a well-founded theoretical definition of the construct of meaning and purpose in life. 2. To find a way that purpose in life and meaning in life can be adequately and empirically measured. 3. To test whether purpose in life can be fostered in youth using an evidence based purpose-fostering coaching curriculum within a high school setting. 4. To study whether, using an evidence based intervention, purpose in life can be intentionally fostered in an adult sample. The first two aims, a) establishing a definition for the construct of interest and b) establishing a valid instrument with which the construct of interest can be measured, were prerequisites for being able to test whether purpose in life could be intentionally fostered. Aims three and four used the first two aims as a predicate to test the main hypothesis of whether purpose in life can be intentionally fostered in the human condition across the lifespan. To accomplish these goals, the literature, as it relates to the definition of purpose in life, was analyzed and a novel approach to defining purpose was suggested. This approach takes meaning and purpose into consideration and argues that meaning and purpose are two elements that are intrinsic to the domain space of meaning in life and purpose in life. As I argue in the thesis from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, meaning and purpose are, in fact, two inseparable aspects of one construct. One cannot have meaning without purpose and one cannot have purpose without meaning. To test the efficacy of any treatment on a dependent variable, it is vital to have valid instruments that can measure any potential change in the construct of interest. To accomplish this, data were collected to carry out a full scale psychometric evaluation of four well-known purpose in life survey instruments. I discovered that some of the instruments performed better than others. In addition, since youth were a primary population of interest in these studies, it was important to know whether instruments created for adults would work well on a youth sample. Thus, psychometric analysis was carried out on data that were collected from a youth sample. Out of the four instruments that were analyzed, I was able to extract a number of items that together had solid psychometric properties, and, as a group, represented a common core of construct of purpose in life found in the individual instruments analyzed. The resulting measure is apparently the first purpose in life instrument created for, and tested on, a youth population. In addition, this new instrument apparently is the first short-form purpose in life survey designed specifically to cover full conceptual space of the domain space that makes up the construct of purpose in life. To test whether purpose in life can be fostered across the lifespan, a specially created and internet-based purpose-fostering treatment was formulated and tested. One version of this purpose-fostering treatment was created for youth and another was created for adults. Both treatments were similar to each other in key ways. Studies to test the efficacy of this purpose-fostering intervention were then carried out with both youth populations in schools and with adults ages 50+. For the youth study, a three group quasi-experimental, pretest/posttest design was conducted in two high achieving secondary schools in Sydney, Australia. This study was able to test my hypothesis that a purpose in life intervention can intentionally foster purpose in youth within a high school educational environment. The results of the study supported this hypothesis. For the adult study, a full randomized controlled trial with adults over 50 years of age was conducted to assess whether purpose in life can be intentionally fostered in an adult sample. The adult study had three data collection points: pretest, posttest, and long-term follow-up, which occurred twelve weeks following the conclusion of the treatment. Key to my hypothesis was that there would be an Aptitude Treatment Interaction (ATI), where those who started lower on the construct of purpose in life would gain more from the treatment than those who already tested high on purpose in life at baseline. This hypothesis was supported in both studies. In the adult study, however, even those who started high on purpose in life benefitted from the treatment. In addition, I hypothesized that participants would gain in other areas of well-being as they gained in purpose in life. This hypothesis was supported amongst participants in the adult study but, surprisingly, was weakly supported in the youth study. Results of the adult study similarly supported the hypothesis that purpose in life can be intentionally fostered in adults using a purpose in life treatment. In addition, it demonstrated that those who started lower on the construct of purpose in life benefited more than those who started off higher. The longitudinal nature of the data collection also allowed me to demonstrate that the treatment effect lasted well beyond the end of the treatment and was still discernable three months post-treatment. The implications of this research from both a theoretical and practical point of view are far-ranging and impactful. From a theoretical perspective, I have shown that meaning and purpose in life are actually one construct. This finding adds weight to the argument that for one to have purpose, one must also have a sense of coherence and meaning in life. From a practical perspective, this finding will inform the work of policy makers, practitioners and educators who want to create measures to test for purpose in life. It should also inform the work of those creating interventions, workshops and treatments to foster purpose in life within the human condition. In addition, the finding that an intervention can be used to foster purpose in life, especially within those who are low on purpose, will have significant implications for educators, mental health workers and policy makers. The knowledge that an evidence based intervention can intentionally foster purpose in those who lack it should lead to the creation and implementation of purpose interventions in schools, senior centers and in mental healthcare workers’ offices and practices the world over. Given the huge deficits associated with not having purpose in life, this finding has the potential of making a practical difference in the field of mental health and positive psychology.

When thinking about architecture, I cannot help but think about my life and the things that have affected my life. How does the environment around us effect the daily decisions we make? How do the experiences throughout our life impact who we are and who we become? The people and surroundings we choose will ultimately decide the type of people we become. When we select our surroundings we are in turn selecting our ideal community. Everyone is trying to achieve community in some sense, from individuals to city planners. Council members, politicians, city officials... make decisions everyday based on their idea of what community is to them and their citizens.

In the following pages I will design a community and put in place the elements for it to prosper and grow...
Master of Architecture

This thesis provides a critical examination of the concepts of experience and life in the work of Theodor W. Adorno and Giorgio Agamben. The shared context of their thought consists in an examination of damaged life which reaches its apotheosis in "Auschwitz", an account of the destruction of experience in modernity, and an emphasis that the path to a form of life beyond damaged life can only be constructed immanently, through damaged life itself. The philosophical problem that this thesis addresses is the question of the possibility of a life beyond damaged life. Given the destruction of experience encapsulated in an idea of a life that does not live, how can a critical subjectivity found the possibility of a path beyond such a reified context ? Both Agamben and Adorno delineate such a path through a dissolution of subjectivity which can open itself to the possibility of a different experience of life. It is argued that Adorno's concept of negative dialectics gives the grounding for the possibility of a critical subjectivity that can found itself within its own dissolution through an experience of possibility produced by a deepening of the contradictions of damaged life. The first two chapters critically examine the accounts of bare life and damaged life through Adorno and Agamben's writings on Auschwitz and life as survival.C hapterst hree and four clarify the philosophical antecedents to the concept of life in Adorno's work and argue that a path beyond damaged life cannot be configured in terms of a re-enchantment of nature. Chapter five provides a bridge in the thesis between the analysis of concepts of life and experience, through a critical examination of the account of the decay of experience given in Agamben and Adorno's work. It is argued that both their accounts are too undifferentiated, as they miss the possibilities that arise in the decay of experience. However, Adorno's emphasis on dialectical experience rather than an authoritative concept of experience, gives his philosophy a resource with which to think the possibility of another form of life, even amidst the destruction of experience. In the final three chapters, I reconstruct three central and related concepts of experience beyond damaged life that Adorno outlines throughout his work; a concept of interpretation, a concept of a negative redemptive breakthrough, and finally the metaphysical experience of reconciliation. These experiences relate to a concept of life in terms of an embodied thought, but not as an experience of a naturalistic, unchangeable ground. The possibility of an experience of life remains in the experience of a dissolution of subjectivity that does not turn into total destruction.

Life Design approach represents a new paradigm for career counseling and development in the 21st century augmenting 20th-century Person-Environment (P-E) fit and developmental models by focusing on making meaning through work. Life Design emerged from work by an international group of scholars and practitioners in seven countries to better account the complexities of work and careers brought about by today’s economic conditions, globalization, and the digital revolution (Savickas et al., 2009; Nota & Rossier, 2015). People today experience a new social arrangement of work that moves from permanent to more temporary jobs, from linear to dynamic career trajectories, and from specific career knowledge to lifelong learning. Moreover, it emphasizes the need to support people to become expert in co-construction and Life Design processes, to anticipate and deal with career transitions, and to consider the hope for a foreseeable future, optimism, future orientation, and resilience, useful to individual’s future planning and behavior, and career adaptability, that is a modern world workers’ essential resource to manage frequent career and life transitions. According to Life Design approach, the research project is articulated in three phases. The first phase was aimed at the validation and development of instruments to assess the variables above described. In this respect two questionnaires were developed: ‘Vision about future’, to assess hope, optimism and negative view towards the future and ‘Design My Future’, to assess the Youth resilience and future orientation. . Explorative and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) were used to analyze factor structure, evaluated convergent and discriminant validity. Multi-group Confirmatory Factor Analysis procedures was conducted to verify the factorial structural across gender. The second phase was finalized to investigate the relationships between career adaptability, positive variable, that is, hope, optimism, future orientation, resilience and life satisfaction. This phase was characterized by the development of different research projects, aiming to test the positive variables mediating role inside the adaptability and life satisfaction report. 1. In the first study, a cross cultural work, in collaboration with the University of Lausanne, 537 young Swiss adolescents and 727 young Italian adolescents were involved in order to assess the mediating role of hope and optimism in the relationship between career adaptability and life satisfaction relatively to both Countries. The conceptual model across countries was also verified. 2. In the second study 120 adults with disability were involved in order to investigate the mediating role of hope in the relationship between career adaptability and life satisfaction. 3. In the third study 152 (62 fathers and 90 mothers) parents of children with intellectual disabilities were involved to investigate the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between career adaptability and life satisfaction. Structural Equation Models (SEM) were conducted for the studies to test the models indicated above and to define the structure of the relationships between the considered different variables. The third phase of the project was focused on the development and implementation of an online method based on the Life Design's theoretical principles. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention, a study was conducted with 200 middle school students: 100 of the participants were assigned to the traditional intervention group and 100 were assigned to the on-line intervention group aiming to increase their level of career adaptability and life satisfaction. A variance analysis with repeated measures was carried out to evaluate pre- and post-test differences between the two intervention groups on levels of adaptability, life satisfaction, and wishes toward the future. Results indicated that students in the on-line intervention group showed higher levels of concern, control, curiosity and life satisfaction than those in the traditional intervention group. Also, they suggested that intervention increased students’ narratives wishes, richer in aspects useful for a career design more in tune with our times. Overall, the results underline the importance of preventive career education activities focusing on strengthening career adaptability, which in turn can sustain the development of positive expectations towards future and life satisfaction concerning both adolescents and adults.
L’approccio Life Design rappresenta un nuovo paradigma per il career counseling nel 21° secolo, volto al superamento dei modelli teorici del 20° secolo, fondati sulla ‘corrispondenze persona – ambiente’. Esso si sviluppa dal lavoro di un gruppo internazionale di studiosi, al fine di spiegare la complessità del lavoro e delle carriere professionali, considerando il contesto socio economico attuale caratterizzato da crisi, globalizzazione e rivoluzione digitale (Savickas et al., 2009; Nota & Rossier 2015). In considerazione di ciò, le recenti riflessioni in materia di progettazione professionale, enfatizzano che non si può più pensare che il futuro sia anticipabile, prevedibile e ricco di possibilità e promesse come si credeva in passato. Sono più frequenti cambiamenti, transizioni e forme di lavoro a tempo determinato (Savickas, Nota, Rossier, et al., 2009). Inoltre, l’approccio Life Design, pone l’accento sulla necessità di supportare le persone nel diventare esperte nei processi di co-costruzione e progettazione della vita, di anticipare e gestire le transizioni professionali, e di considerare la speranza, l'ottimismo, l'orientamento futuro, e la resilienza, quali variabili importanti alla pianificazione dei comportamenti futuri dell’individuo e, l’adaptability, quale risorsa essenziale per gestire le frequenti transizioni di carriera e di vita. All’interno dell’approccio teorico del Life Design si sviluppa il presente progetto di ricerca che si articola in tre fasi. Durante la prima fase si è proceduto alla validazione e allo sviluppo di strumenti al fine di valutare le variabili sopra descritte. A questo riguardo sono stati sviluppati due questionari:’Vision about Future’, per valutare la speranza, e l'ottimismo verso il e ‘Design My Future’, per valutare la resilienza e l'orientamento al futuro in un gruppo di giovani preadolescenti. Analisi esplorative e confermative (EFA e CFA) sono state utilizzate al fine di analizzarne la struttura fattoriale e la validità convergente e discriminante degli strumenti. Analisi multi-gruppo sono state inoltre condotte al fine di verificare la struttura fattoriale nel genere. La seconda fase del progetto è stata finalizzata all’analisi dei rapporti tra career adaptability, variabili positive (speranza, ottimismo, orientamento futuro, e resilienza) e soddisfazione di vita. Durante questa fase sono stati sviluppati diversi progetti di ricerca al fine di testare il ruolo di mediazione delle variabili positive considerate nel rapporto tra adaptability e soddisfazione di vita. 1. Nel primo studio, un lavoro interculturale, in collaborazione con l'Università di Losanna, 537 giovani adolescenti svizzeri e 727 giovani adolescenti italiani sono stati coinvolti, al fine di valutare il ruolo di mediazione della speranza e dell’ottimismo nel rapporto tra career adaptability e soddisfazione di vita nei due paesi. 2. Nel secondo studio sono stati coinvolti 120 adulti con disabilità al fine di indagare il ruolo di mediazione della speranza nella relazione tra career adaptability e soddisfazione di vita. 3. Un altro studio è stato sviluppato al fine di studiare il ruolo di mediazione della resilienza nella relazione tra career adaptability e la soddisfazione di vita in un gruppo di 152 genitori (62 padri e 90 madri) con figli con disabilità. Modelli di equazioni strutturali (SEM) sono stati condotti nei diversi studi per testare i modelli sopra descritti e per definire la struttura delle relazioni tra le diverse variabili considerate. Nella terza fase del progetto è stato messo a punto un intervento online fondato sui principi teorici del Life Design. L'efficacia dell’intervento è stata valutata attraverso uno studio condotto con 200 studenti delle scuole medie: 100 dei partecipanti sono stati assegnati al gruppo di intervento tradizionale e 100 sono stati assegnati al gruppo di intervento on-line volto ad incrementare i loro livelli di adaptability e soddisfazione di vita. Un'analisi della varianza a misure ripetute è stata effettuata al fine di valutare le differenze pre e post-test tra i due gruppi di intervento sui livelli di adaptability, soddisfazione di vita e desideri verso il futuro. I risultati hanno messo in evidenza che gli studenti che hanno preso parte al gruppo di intervento on-line hanno mostrato livelli più elevati di preoccupazione, controllo, curiosità e soddisfazione di vita rispetto agli studenti che hanno preso parte all’intervento ‘più tradizionale’ di vocational guidance. In generale i risultati ottenuti dal presente progetto di ricerca hanno messo in evidenza l’importanza di mettere a punto degli interventi di career guidance che possano rafforzare l’adaptability delle persone, la quale a sua volta può sostenere lo sviluppo di aspettative positive verso il futuro e aumentare i livelli di soddisfazione di vita di giovani e adulti.

TESIS PARA OPTAR AL GRADO DE MAGÍSTER EN ADMINISTRACIÓN
Tomás Chávarri Salazar [Parte I], Francisco Pérez Kenchington [Parte II]
Esta nueva empresa se caracteriza por su orientación al servicio tecnológico de gestión de capital humano aportando a otras compañías a mejorar su rentabilidad en relación a dos aspectos: 1) Gestión de la información en tiempo real; y 2) búsqueda constante de una adecuada experiencia al cliente. Con ello se pretende consolidar el área de los recursos humanos como un agente importante en el manejo administrativo que permita agregar valor a las empresas. Estas intenciones surgen de la necesidad que hoy tienen las empresas, las cua-les cada vez más invierten en RRHH, se estima que casi el 60% de las empresas ha aumentado su presupuesto en esta línea en los últimos 12 meses (Fuente: Tendencias Globales en Capital Humano 2015, Deloitte University). Y que la adopción de la tecnolo-gía es cada vez más rápida, lo cual permite estar más al tanto de las situaciones y con-textos requeridos un mundo cada vez más conectado. Para poder hacer frente a estos desafíos es que Employee Life busca por medio de su plataforma web de gestión un aliado para las empresas en donde podrán gestionar todo el ambiente de recursos humanos de una simple y mejor manera. Potenciándose como una herramienta social, sacando provecho de sus modelos predictivos, la bús-queda constante de co-creación con el cliente, buscando constantemente la satisfacción del cliente por medio de un buen trabajo de post venta y alta gestión de la información en tiempo real. Esta esta idea se desarrollará por intermedio de dos fuentes de financiamiento: 1) Licenciamiento y 2) Reportería Business Intelligence, buscando apalancar el mo-delo de negocios. Dentro del análisis, tanto de oportunidad de negocios como financiero, se podrá observar la factibilidad del desarrollo tecnológico con un VAN positivo del modelo, utili-zando una TIR de 39,28% (desprendida de Damodaran), evaluado a 6 años. Se pretende ofrecer al nuevo socio inversionista el 48% de la sociedad invirtiendo la suma de 2.523,96 UF, para efectos de equipos y etapa de pre-operación, lo cual eva-luado a 6 año se proyecta una rentabilidad promedio anual de un 37%, lo cual se espe-rará un Future Value de la empresa de un 38.379 UF al final del periodo. Implicando una gran oportunidad de negocios para cualquier inversor.

Resumo: O estudo da cosmovisão de Hughes, inspirada em Lawrence e remontando a Bergson, abre novas perspectivas não exploradas pelos críticos, evidenciando aspectos inéditos em sua poesia. Da mesma maneira que Lawrence, Hughes procura ir alem das aparências exteriores, revelando o próprio processo vital, que e captado somente em raros momentos de percepção intuitiva. 0 objetivo principal de sua poesia e salientar como real idades 'outras ' as criaturas do mundo rião-humano, destacando-as como receptáculos da poderosa força vital existente no uni verso. Insiste em celebrar a vitalidade dos pássaros, animais e plantas, porque considera o homem demasiadamente auto matizado,fato que o impede de viver. Os indícios de degeneração que vê no homem moderno, Hughes os atribui a excessiva mecanização, que reduziu o homem a um autômato, interrompendo o contacto vital com as outras criaturas vivas. Estas ideias, que Lawrence expõe nas obras em prosa, i .e., ensaios, cartas, relatos de viagens, especulações filosóficas, romances e contos são retomadas por Hughes em sua poesia, constituindo não apenas a principal fonte de inspiração, como também a base de sua visão do mundo. Na primeira parte desta dissertação e colocada em relevo a filosofia de Bergson, que foi assimiladas reinterpretada por Lawrence e Hughes, servindo de fundamentação metafísica para a obra de ambos. Na segunda parte traçamos o paralelo existente entre o simbolismo animal de ambos os autores, demonstrando que as metáforas animais de Lawrence, que representam forças instintivas e intuitivas, estão também aparentes em Hughes, evidenciando sua habi1 idade em dar nova forma ao material em que se inspirou, bem como provando que maior compreensão do pensamento de Lawrence possibilita novos enfoques na poemática de Hughes.

Projektet är en stad som ligger mellan Umeå och Vasa (Finland), det är den smalaste delen av Bottniska viken med bara ca 60 km öppet hav. Jag ville undersöka vad det fanns för möjligheter med en stad som utnyttjar sitt läge. Så jag planerade en offshore hamnstad som bygger sig själv och sprider sig. Varför? 60-talets men även samtida megastrukturer planerades ofta för att ge en teknisk lösning på ett visst problem. De här problemen vare sig det är bostadsbrist eller klimatförändring är fortfarande aktuella och lösningarna likaså. Därför ville jag använda min struktur som ett redskap för att testa och reflektera kring dessa idéer för boende. En jurymedlem jämförde mig kritiskt vid en skata som plockat silvret från mina referenser, men det han inte förstod var att jag plockade silvret just för att i min fiktiva värld analysera det. Analysen gjorde jag genom att hitta på invånare som med sinne och själ fick reflektera kring livet i en modul och etc.
The project is a city located between Umeå and Vasa, it is the most narrow part of the Gulf of Bothnia with only 60 km of open waters. I wanted to investigate existing possibilities with a city that exploits its location. So I designed an offshore port city that builds itself and grows. Why? The megastructures of the 60’s but also contemporary ones were often planned to give a technical solution to a certain problem. These problems whether it’s housing shortage or climate change are still current and the solutions as well. This is why I wanted to use my structure as a tool to test and reflect about these concepts of living. A member of the jury critically compared me to a magpie that had picked the silver of my references, but what he didn’t understand was that I had picked the silver to analyze it in my fictional world. I made the analysis by imagining inhabitants that through their mind and soul reflected on life in a module and etc.

El presente proyecto tiene como objetivo diseñar y analizar la idea de negocio BEAUTIFUL LIFE, una plataforma web y aplicación que permitirá a los centros estéticos brindar los servicios de belleza a los usuarios según la ubicación más cercana en el menor tiempo posible. Nuestro objetivo es satisfacer las necesidades de frustración e incomodidad de los traslados por el alto nivel de congestión vehicular, tiempos de espera, la poca privacidad de los establecimientos de belleza, poca flexibilidad de horarios y las actividades imprevistas o no programadas generando urgencias de último momento. Según la investigación cualitativa realizada en Lima Metropolitana, los principales servicios utilizados son corte de cabello, depilación, laceado, manicure y pedicure se cubrirá la demanda con nuestra principal ventaja competitiva ser una red interactiva entre los socios estratégicos que conectarán directamente con los usuarios, no tendrán que movilizarse al salón de belleza ni hacer largas colas de espera. El servicio se brindará en la comodidad de tu hogar, oficina u otros lugares apropiados a conveniencia.
The objective of this project is to design and analyze the business idea BEAUTIFUL LIFE, a web platform and application that will allow aesthetic centers to offer beauty services to users according to the closest location in the shortest possible time. Our principal objective is to satisfy the needs of frustration and discomfort of the transfers due to the high level of traffic congestion, waiting times, poor privacy of beauty establishments, little flexibility of schedules and unforeseen or unscheduled activities, generating last-minute urgencies moment. According to the qualitative research conducted in Metropolitan Lima, the main services used are hair cutting, waxing, ironing of hair, manicure and pedicure. The demand will be covered with our main competitive advantage being an interactive network between the strategic partners that will connect directly with the users dont move to the beauty salon or make long waiting lines. The service will be provided in the comfort of your home, office or other appropriate places at your convenience.
Tesis

Life Forms is an examination of organic shapes in textile material and garments. The clothes deals with questions of tactile and emotional attraction in fashion, while the project as a whole is an attempt to constantly let creativity and curiosity be a part of the process.By using a method of letting go of the control and see what chance and the properties of the material might lead to, this work has become a growing organism of its own.The end result is a group of unique pieces, all in different materials and colour shades. They’re held together by concept as well as relations in tone and cuts. The collection could be viewed as a visual statement or worn with lots of care and love.
Program: Modedesignutbildningen

During this time of interest and uncertainty in immigration, a foreigner seeking an education, home, and career wonders how welcoming America really is. This documentary film focuses on how the organization known as World Life is involved in helping international students in terms of language, accommodation, and religion. It follows an organization that is willing to open up and welcome them into the community.

Life Organic es una propuesta de negocio con sentido ético ya que contribuye con la buena alimentación de las personas ofreciendo un portal digital móvil y web donde el target pueda obtener información transparente para adquirir alimentos orgánicos de una manera rápida, fácil y confiable; esta aplicación está dirigida para todas las personas que deseen llevar una vida saludable a través del consumo orgánico.
Life Organic is a business proposal with ethical sense given that it contributes to the good nutrition of people by offering a mobile and web digital portal where the target can obtain transparent information to acquire organic food in a fast, easy and reliable way; this application is aimed at all people who wish to lead a healthy life through organic consumption.
Trabajo de investigación

Using a diagram, glossary, anecdotes, and first-person narrative histories, I explain how I use sculptural installation, image making, and serendipity to exploit the illogical to the point of being meaningful.

When someone walks into an insurance company and wants to purchase life insurance, the insurance company has to consider an important question: How long will this client live? His date of death is not exactly predictable, so the insurer does not know exactly when the life insurance benefits will be payable. However, the insurer can use a model that can calculate human mortality. With this mortality model, probabilities of deaths at particular ages can be calculated. Rather than trying to figure out when a client dies, the convention in actuarial science is to phrase things in terms of survival models. There are popular survival functions that enable insurers to perform this calculation. With these functions, insurers are able to efficiently provide this service and ensure that life insurance will continue to be a thriving field of work. After we define basic notation and terms, we look at standard survival models. Then we consider a recently proposed model by Chi Heem Wong and Albert K. Tsui.

In this thesis research in Authentic Leadership and its relationship to life events and self-knowledge is continued. Through a quantitative analysis of data from over 150 leaders, a relationship was found between leaders with many life events and the strength of their authentic leadership. Additionally, there was evidence supporting the positive impact of recalling life events prior to reporting on authentic leadership. Consequently, a potential process for authentic leadership enhancement has been uncovered through this study.

Almost 40% of the Canadian workforce shows signs of progressive burnout. For a variety of reasons, stress within the workplace appears to be increasing. The popular press and academic journals suggest that chronic job stres, burnout, will be most significant workplace issue in the new millennium. Although both men and women suffer from stress and burnout, it appears that women are at a greater risk than men. Unfortunately, research on the relationship between women's stress and their heatlh has not kept pace with the popularization of the problem. We could understand this relationship better if we had more information about women, their health history (including phases of development over the life span), and occupational history. Relatedly, as the baby-boomer generation ages to mid-life, there appears to be a sea change on the horizon: one in which women are demanding answers and knowledge about the process of menopause and its effect on their lives, inside and outside the home. To fill this void, the proposed research will address the life change of women, and specifically, how their stages of development and occupational and health histories relate to the experience of burnout.
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碩士
東海大學
美術學系
104
It has been a long time to feel that creation is the way to communicate between people and inner space . No matter drawing or writing words , for me , both of them are indispensable . So I try to use this essay to record and express , about those moment or maybe something eternal . Except collecting information of those chaptors in books , I learn many things from those classics , and how to verificate . I think we can express our inner views by words and we need to be in perceptual situation . So I also use prose to express myself . This touching words in my chapter is collected from many places like notebooks , graffiti and sketches . Use those sentences to create beautiful article. It presents all my thoughts and creativity . I use proses and notes since I am a junior high . Now the feeling is different from teenager , I need to restart all of reading and writing and having more different experience . Creating and writing , researching and touching words , all of them work together has been a tough time to me . But our human being can always conbine perceptual and rationality together . Reading can help us clarify our mind , writing can help us to record all of our thoughts and feeling make us more proceed to myself and my creation .

Power line function is to transfer electrical power. Power lines represent a major component in the transport process of electricity and they are subjected to various types of failures. Causes of failure include wind-induced oscillations or Aeolian vibrations. Wind causes transmission line conductors to undergo oscillatory motions which cause failure. To mitigate oscillations of line conductors, Stockbridge dampers are used. It has been observed that dampers are subjected to the same undesirable and destructive effects from vibrations as the conductors they are meant to protect. In the case of a damper, the cyclic bending as well as the friction between its wire cables are caused by vibrations leading to failure. The mathematical model describing the bending stress of the symmetrical Stockbridge damper’s messenger cable near the clamped end is analyzed. The reliability of the mathematical model is assessed using experimental data obtained from the forced response test conducted at the VRTC laboratory at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. Data from the experiment has been compared with the MatLab model established by the researcher. Due to friction between the wires of the messenger cable, variation of temperature is observed in the messenger cable during operation. Change of temperature of the messenger cable was investigated, as a function of time, at constant velocity and constant displacement. Experimental data were generated during dynamic characteristic tests on Stockbridge dampers and thereafter the prediction of the variation temperature was undertaken. There are various mechanical characteristics of a damper that can be affected with time. To reach the aim of this study, three types of vibration test were conducted on the Stockbridge damper: the fatigue test, the forced vibrations test and the free vibrations test. Tests were conducted on a shaker machine with new and used Stockbridge dampers to determine the remaining life of those dampers by looking at their different mechanical properties. The frequency domain and time spectrum were used to display the results. The fatigue test investigated one of the commonest types of Stockbridge damper failure, namely, loss of the small mass because of sustained high frequency resonance. Ultimately, data correlated well and two mathematical models were developed: one for predicting damage in the life of a Stockbridge damper (based on the highest resonance frequency of the damper), and one for predicting the temperature of the messenger cable.
Thesis (M.Sc.Eng.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2012.

碩士
國立屏東大學
社會發展學系碩士班
105
The purpose of the research talked about the first African-American, Barack Obama, won the US presidential election in 2009 compared to his counterpart, Soong Mei-ling, was the most influential woman in modern Chinese history. The research has been proceeded by qualitative research, used document analysis, historical approach to classify, summarize and analyze all the collected data. It referred to four perspectives. 1. Youth foundation 2. New education concept 3. Social attitudes 4. Personal traits to study their religious views, practice of love and practice of showing life limitations. In order to view Obama and Soong’s life testimonies, the research was based on the theoretical thinking of their real life testimonies, emphasized on reviewing the related past researches therefore, to know about their religious views, love and practice of showing life limitations. The conclusions are as follows: First, on the religious views, Obama’s faith was to call for all human beings in the world to take the calls to love and dedicate together, appealing people love and understand one other to give the people around us courtesy and respect for a short life time. Second, the practice of love, Obama dedicated himself from serving the underprivileged black community until he participated politics. In his office as the US president, he promoted health insurance, showed consideration to the underpriced ones, he governed the country with love, not because of mercy or sympathy for them, but put himself in others’ places. On the other hand, Soong is full of enthusiasm and patriotism about her motherland who had a strong will to do something for country. One thing different between them was China always under unstable situation that made it impossible to carry out through all china by one order, one policy, all that she could do was to extend her work from a point or a line, to ministry people with love. She would dedicate herself for the country, to treat whatever known or unknown people with kindness, fairness, and justice. Third, Obama started from grassroots, devoted to reform, he’s no long pray negatively, but to become an active positive black Christian who fight the freedom for the black people and all humans dignity. For the sake of God gives freedom to the United States and found a state on the basis of Christianity belief , to make the country keep moving forward. Soong Mei-ling, a unusual lady who crossed three generations, influenced Chiang Kai-shek and modern China deeply, not only to win the personal image, but also to get the United States to assist the suffering China, went across the history, experienced rights and wrongs, had successes and failures, she always enriched her life by completing short-term tasks. Fourth, Obama and Soong Mei-ling have something in common, as for religious view, the two leaders are Christians, show in the external, life, thinking, behavior, are truly good examples of the witness of life: the practice of love, they both started from the individual, Obama was from the corners in Chicago, Soong Mei-ling was from the underprivileged areas in the society. Trying to help people in some corners of the world; Last but not least, the practice of showing life limitations, Obama and Soong Mei-ling’s good models have been leading us ahead, emulate us , try to rearrange the order of desire, hope, expectation, make plans to put them into practice.

碩士
國立臺東大學
進修部暑期諮商心理碩士專班
98
The major objective of this study was to investigate the effects of services experiences of life-line volunteers on their own life progresses. The main method was in-depth interview with qualitative analysis. The participants of this study were three volunteers from Taitung Life-Line which is one of the major crisis intervention service organizations in Taiwan. After four hour long individual interviews verbatim transcripts were produced, and the transcripts were sent back to the participants for verification. Then, interview data were analyzed to draw out the ideas of volunteers about the volunteer service works and the effects of these volunteer service experiences on them. Findings from the study include the following

This study provides an in-depth analysis of 14 low-income, female, single parents living in low-income areas in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Through the use of open-ended interviews, this study explored how these women perceived their shelter environments and financial resources. Based on the participants' perceptions of their circumstances, a typology of single mothers was generated. Generally, two polar views were held by participants, either they accepted their circumstances or they did not and sought to change them. Four groups of single mothers were developed using one of these two views as the common link. Other factors that influenced these groups included such factors as personal characteristics, history, and plans for the future. The needs of each group varied considerably in the typology. This typology would be very useful for direct client service as well as program development. There are numerous implications of the findings in this study.

This dissertation examines the work of artists Vija Celmins, Beryl Korot, and Lee Lozano. I illustrate how these underrepresented artists, working from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, used new technologies to develop the relationships between media and what I call the ordinary--elements of daily experience that form more of a chronicle than a narrative. In an effort to move away from the emotionalism of abstract expressionism and the rigidity of formalist painting, these artists experimented with photography, drawing, performance, and video art. New approaches to various media allowed artists to use facts, evidence, and data as an artistic refiguration of the experience of life. In Chapter 1, I study the early work of Vija Celmins to argue that her paintings and drawings engage data, a type of information that is verifiable and understandable in and of itself. Celmins depicts images through a translation of media, from the photograph to the carefully mapped out graphite drawing. Instead of producing meaning through narrative, Celmins engages the facts of our ordinary world by provoking the act of looking. In Chapter 2, I discuss the video installation Dachau 1974 by Beryl Korot. This multichannel video presents a concentration camp as an everyday tourist site, devoid of emotion. By reading Dachau 1974 alongside cybernetic theories by writers such as Norbert Weiner and Marshall McLuhan and by discussing the media of video at its earliest incarnation, I contend that this work approaches information directly as process. It is in the accumulation of imagery through the twenty-two minutes of the video that the viewer is able to discern the structure of the work and experience history in time. In Chapter 3, I examine the journals and art-life pieces of Lee Lozano. I argue that once data (Celmins) and processing (Korot) occur in information systems, so too does change. Lozano harnesses change in the embodiment of her life as work and in the creation of her constantly shifting identity as an artist. In my conclusion, I contend that while information may work within the realm of the everyday, ordinary life, its very existence allows for illumination. That is, the facts of the world rendered through information processing can be another artistic experience.
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This thesis focuses on the concept of cultural national identity during the Third Reich and how the Nazis attempted to shape an image of Germany to their liking. By specifically examining musical culture and restrictions, this thesis investigates the methods the Nazis used to define Germany through music by determining what aspects of Germany’s culture were not “traditionally” German—namely those of the Jewish minority in Germany. Therefore, this study follows the Nazi restrictions on the German population who participated in the creation and performance of music and is then contrasted with those imposed upon the corresponding Jewish population. The resulting conclusion is that the Nazis created a place for exclusion and oppression, but managed to, ironically, create a place of refuge for Jewish musicians in the Third Reich. Music was, in the end, an unstoppable force which the Nazis could not control or fully regulate.